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Barry Warsaw65475fd2008-03-01 17:11:41 +00007What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 2?
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10*Release date: XX-XXX-2008*
11
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd21fb4c2008-03-05 01:50:33 +000012Core and builtins
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Georg Brandl80055f62008-03-25 07:56:27 +000014
Georg Brandl91e0cda2008-03-29 01:50:06 +000015- Patch #1442: properly report exceptions when the PYTHONSTARTUP file
16 cannot be executed.
17
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc69b747b2008-03-28 20:30:50 +000018- The compilation of a class nested in another class used to leak one
19 reference on the outer class name.
20
Georg Brandlfc8eef32008-03-28 12:11:56 +000021- Patch #1810: compile() can now compile _ast trees as returned by
22 compile(..., PyCF_ONLY_AST).
23
Gregory P. Smithb9803422008-03-28 08:32:09 +000024- Patch #2426: Added sqlite3.Connection.iterdump method to allow easy dumping
25 of databases. Contributed by Paul Kippes at PyCon 2008.
26
Georg Brandldeaf2ca2008-03-27 13:27:31 +000027- Patch #2477: Added from __future__ import unicode_literals.
Christian Heimes3c608332008-03-26 22:01:37 +000028
Christian Heimes8c78cc32008-03-26 12:53:58 +000029- Added backport of bytearray type.
30
Georg Brandl80055f62008-03-25 07:56:27 +000031- Issue #2355: add Py3k warning for buffer().
32
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc9a0d3462008-03-23 09:55:29 +000033- Issue #1477: With narrow Unicode builds, the unicode escape sequence
34 \Uxxxxxxxx did not accept values outside the Basic Multilingual Plane. This
35 affected raw unicode literals and the 'raw-unicode-escape' codec. Now
36 UTF-16 surrogates are generated in this case, like normal unicode literals
37 and the 'unicode-escape' codec.
38
Georg Brandl65bb42d2008-03-21 20:38:24 +000039- Issue #2348: add Py3k warning for file.softspace.
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Georg Brandl07e56812008-03-21 20:21:46 +000041- Issue #2346/#2347: add Py3k warnings for __methods__ and __members__.
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Georg Brandl5a444242008-03-21 20:11:46 +000043- Issue #2358: Add a Py3k warning on sys.exc_clear() usage.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd21fb4c2008-03-05 01:50:33 +000044
Martin v. Löwisa4d77892008-03-19 04:39:13 +000045- Issue #2400: Allow relative imports to "import *".
46
Eric Smith7c478942008-03-18 23:45:49 +000047- Issue 1745. Backport print function with:
48 from __future__ import print_function
49
Neal Norwitzb1d3d962008-03-18 04:46:00 +000050- Issue 2332: add new attribute names for instance method objects.
51 The two changes are: im_self -> __self__ and im_func -> __func__
52
Guido van Rossum6d91be32008-03-18 04:42:22 +000053- Issue 2379: Raise a Py3K warning for __getitem__ or __getslice__ on
54 exception instances.
55
Guido van Rossum04edb522008-03-18 02:49:46 +000056- Issue #2371: Add a Py3k warning when catching an exception that
Guido van Rossum504153d2008-03-18 04:26:48 +000057 doesn't derive from BaseException. Issue #2341: Add a Py3k warning
58 when raising an exception that doesn't derive from BaseException.
Guido van Rossum04edb522008-03-18 02:49:46 +000059
Neal Norwitz419fd492008-03-17 20:22:43 +000060- Issue #2321: use pymalloc for unicode object string data to reduce
61 memory usage in some circumstances.
62
Eric Smith0aed07a2008-03-17 19:43:40 +000063- PEP 3127: octal literals now start with "0o". Old-style octal literals
64 are still valid. There are binary literals with a prefix of "0b".
65 This also affects int(x, 0).
66
Georg Brandl1e7c3752008-03-25 08:37:23 +000067- Issue #2359: Adding deprecation warnings for array.{read,write}.
68
Jeffrey Yasskin1b4e45b2008-03-17 14:40:53 +000069- Issue #1779871: Gnu gcc can now build Python on OS X because the
70 flags -Wno-long-double, -no-cpp-precomp, and -mno-fused-madd are no
71 longer passed.
72
Neal Norwitz400aeda2008-03-15 22:03:18 +000073- Add a warning when asserting a non-empty tuple which is always true.
74
Nick Coghlan7af53be2008-03-07 14:13:28 +000075- Issue #2179: speed up with statement execution by storing the exit method
76 on the stack instead of in a temporary variable (patch by Jeffrey Yaskin)
77
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd21fb4c2008-03-05 01:50:33 +000078- Issue #2238: Some syntax errors in *args and **kwargs expressions could give
79 bogus error messages.
80
Sean Reifscheider68fa8e62008-03-20 00:50:07 +000081- Issue #2143: Fix embedded readline() hang on SSL socket EOF.
82
Martin v. Löwisaef18b12008-03-24 13:31:16 +000083Extensions Modules
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85
86- Patch #2240: Implement signal.setitimer and signal.getitimer.
87
Thomas Heller78b8f442008-03-05 14:53:39 +000088Library
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Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +000091- Issue #2315: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now accounts for
92 daylight savings time in calculating the next rollover.
93
94- Issue #2316: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now calculates
95 rollovers correctly even when nothing is logged for a while.
96
97- Issue #2317: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now uses improved
98 logic for removing old files.
99
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcda0c0252008-03-27 23:23:54 +0000100- Issue #2495: tokenize.untokenize now inserts a space between two consecutive
101 string literals; previously, ["" ""] was rendered as [""""], which is
102 incorrect python code.
103
Georg Brandldeaf2ca2008-03-27 13:27:31 +0000104- Issue #2248: return the result of the QUIT command. from SMTP.quit().
105
Christian Heimes8c78cc32008-03-26 12:53:58 +0000106- Backport of Python 3.0's io module.
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Mark Dickinson8e85ffa2008-03-25 18:47:59 +0000108- Issue #2482: Make sure that the coefficient of a Decimal is always
109 stored as a str instance, not as a unicode instance. This ensures
110 that str(Decimal) is always an instance of str.
111
Mark Dickinson3b24ccb2008-03-25 14:33:23 +0000112- Issue #2478: fix failure of decimal.Decimal(0).sqrt()
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Georg Brandl77354cf2008-03-21 20:01:51 +0000114- Issue #2432: give DictReader the dialect and line_num attributes
115 advertised in the docs.
116
Raymond Hettingerb72233c2008-03-24 08:17:39 +0000117- Issue #2460: Make Ellipsis object copyable.
118
Raymond Hettingerbbc50ea2008-03-23 13:32:32 +0000119- Issue #1681432: Add triangular distribution to the random module
120
Georg Brandl33124322008-03-21 19:54:00 +0000121- Issue #2136: urllib2's auth handler now allows single-quoted realms in the
122 WWW-Authenticate header.
123
Marc-André Lemburga1867752008-03-20 18:08:00 +0000124- Issue #2434: Enhanced platform.win32_ver() to also work on Python
125 installation which do not have the win32all package installed.
126
127- Added support to platform.uname() to also report the machine
128 and processor information on Windows XP and later. As a result,
129 platform.machine() and platform.processor() will report this
130 information as well.
131
Martin v. Löwis5e37bae2008-03-19 04:43:46 +0000132- The library implementing the 2to3 conversion, lib2to3, was added
133 to the standard distribution.
134
Gregory P. Smith37f3f432008-03-18 20:40:01 +0000135- Issue #1747858: Fix chown to work with large uid's and gid's on 64-bit
136 platforms.
137
Gregory P. Smithf48f9d32008-03-17 18:48:05 +0000138- Issue #1202: zlib.crc32 and zlib.adler32 no longer return different values
139 on 32-bit vs. 64-bit python interpreters. Both were correct, but they now
140 both return a signed integer object for consistency.
141
Skip Montanaro32ed8c22008-03-15 16:07:11 +0000142- Issue #1158: add %f format (fractions of a second represented as
143 microseconds) to datetime objects. Understood by both strptime and
144 strftime.
145
Mark Dickinsonc23b8a72008-03-14 14:23:37 +0000146- Issue #705836: struct.pack(">f", x) now raises OverflowError on all
147 platforms when x is too large to fit into an IEEE 754 float; previously
148 it only raised OverflowError on non IEEE 754 platforms.
149
Facundo Batistac54aec12008-03-08 16:50:27 +0000150- Issue #1106316: pdb.post_mortem()'s parameter, "traceback", is now
151 optional: it defaults to the traceback of the exception that is currently
152 being handled (is mandatory to be in the middle of an exception, otherwise
153 it raises ValueError).
154
Jeffrey Yasskine75f59a2008-03-07 06:22:15 +0000155- Issue #1193577: A .shutdown() method has been added to SocketServers
156 which terminates the .serve_forever() loop.
157
Georg Brandl98aa8052008-03-06 07:45:52 +0000158- Bug #2220: handle rlcompleter attribute match failure more gracefully.
159
Georg Brandla7bd27f2008-03-06 07:41:16 +0000160- Issue #2225: py_compile, when executed as a script, now returns a non-
161 zero status code if not all files could be compiled successfully.
162
Georg Brandl810ea292008-03-06 07:34:52 +0000163- Bug #1725737: In distutil's sdist, exclude RCS, CVS etc. also in the
164 root directory, and also exclude .hg, .git, .bzr, and _darcs.
165
Thomas Hellerf3c05592008-03-05 15:34:29 +0000166- Issue #1872: The struct module typecode for _Bool has been changed
167 from 't' to '?'.
168
Thomas Heller78b8f442008-03-05 14:53:39 +0000169- The bundled libffi copy is now in sync with the recently released
170 libffi3.0.4 version, apart from some small changes to
171 Modules/_ctypes/libffi/configure.ac.
172 On OS X, preconfigured libffi files are used.
173 On all linux systems the --with-system-ffi configure option defaults
174 to "yes".
175
Sean Reifscheider493894c2008-03-18 17:24:12 +0000176- Issue 1577: shutil.move() now calls os.rename() if the destination is a
177 directory instead of copying-then-remove-source.
178
Martin v. Löwisd2bbe522008-03-06 06:55:22 +0000179Tests
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Brett Cannon7919d982008-03-19 16:50:13 +0000182- test_nis no longer fails when test.test_support.verbose is true and NIS is
183 not set up on the testing machine.
184
Brett Cannona5573b32008-03-18 04:16:06 +0000185- Output comparison tests are no longer supported.
186
Brett Cannonb7ec8e52008-03-18 03:46:22 +0000187- Rewrite test_errno to use unittest and no longer be a no-op.
188
Brett Cannon0bb79502008-03-18 01:58:56 +0000189- GHOP 234: Convert test_extcall to doctest.
190
Brett Cannonba17cfc2008-03-18 01:50:25 +0000191- GHOP 290: Convert test_dbm and test_dummy_threading to unittest.
192
Brett Cannon6eeaddc2008-03-18 01:00:07 +0000193- GHOP 293: Convert test_strftime, test_getargs, and test_pep247 to unittest.
194
Brett Cannon1f5182b2008-03-13 21:09:28 +0000195- Issue #2055: Convert test_fcntl to unittest.
196
Brett Cannon4a6e8d62008-03-13 21:02:16 +0000197- Issue 1960: Convert test_gdbm to unittest.
198
Brett Cannon2e0f9f32008-03-13 20:47:41 +0000199- GHOP 294: Convert test_contains, test_crypt, and test_select to unittest.
200
Brett Cannonb8d37352008-03-13 20:33:10 +0000201- GHOP 238: Convert test_tokenize to use doctest.
202
Brett Cannon66865d22008-03-13 20:27:00 +0000203- GHOP 237: Rewrite test_thread using unittest.
204
Martin v. Löwisd2bbe522008-03-06 06:55:22 +0000205- Patch #2232: os.tmpfile might fail on Windows if the user has no
206 permission to create files in the root directory.
207
Martin v. Löwisbf7b0b72008-03-14 13:56:09 +0000208Build
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210
Martin v. Löwiscdbc9772008-03-24 12:57:53 +0000211- A new script 2to3 is now installed, to run the 2.x to 3.x converter.
212
Brett Cannonaa5778d2008-03-18 04:09:00 +0000213- Python/memmove.c and Python/strerror.c have been removed; both functions are
214 in the C89 standard library.
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Martin v. Löwisbf7b0b72008-03-14 13:56:09 +0000216- Patch #2284: Add -x64 option to rt.bat.
Barry Warsaw65475fd2008-03-01 17:11:41 +0000217
Christian Heimes3c608332008-03-26 22:01:37 +0000218C API
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220
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +0000221- Patch #2477: Added PyParser_ParseFileFlagsEx() and
Christian Heimes3c608332008-03-26 22:01:37 +0000222 PyParser_ParseStringFlagsFilenameEx()
223
Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +0000224What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 1?
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Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +0000226
Barry Warsaw7c075232008-03-01 02:53:36 +0000227*Release date: 29-Feb-2008*
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +0000228
229Core and builtins
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231
Fred Drakea8ee94b2008-03-01 02:45:07 +0000232- Issue #2051: pyc and pyo files are no longer created with permission
Barry Warsaw52973612008-03-01 02:23:38 +0000233 644. The mode is now inherited from the py file.
Christian Heimes40346852008-02-23 17:52:07 +0000234
Georg Brandlad61bc82008-02-23 15:11:18 +0000235- Issue #2067: file.__exit__() now calls subclasses' close() method.
236
237- Patch #1759: Backport of PEP 3129 class decorators.
Christian Heimes5224d282008-02-23 15:01:05 +0000238
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +0000239- Issue #1881: An internal parser limit has been increased. Also see
Facundo Batistafc2d0102008-02-23 12:01:13 +0000240 issue 215555 for a discussion.
241
Eric Smitha73fbe72008-02-23 03:09:44 +0000242- Added the future_builtins module, which contains hex() and oct().
243 These are the PEP 3127 version of these functions, designed to be
244 compatible with the hex() and oct() builtins from Python 3.0. They
245 differ slightly in their output formats from the existing, unchanged
246 Python 2.6 builtins. The expected usage of the future_builtins
247 module is:
248 from future_builtins import hex, oct
249
Eric Smith7ef40bf2008-02-20 23:34:22 +0000250- Issue #1600: Modifed PyOS_ascii_formatd to use at most 2 digit
251 exponents for exponents with absolute value < 100. Follows C99
252 standard. This is a change on Windows, which would use 3 digits.
253 Also, added 'n' to the formats that PyOS_ascii_formatd understands,
254 so that any alterations it does to the resulting string will be
255 available in stringlib/formatter.h (for float.__format__).
256
Eric Smith5a3c1352008-02-19 13:21:56 +0000257- Implemented PEP 3101, Advanced String Formatting. This adds a new
258 builtin format(); a format() method for str and unicode; a
259 __format__() method to object, str, unicode, int, long, float, and
260 datetime; the class string.Formatter; and the C API
261 PyObject_Format().
262
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc632fad32008-02-16 20:55:24 +0000263- Fixed several potential crashes, all caused by specially crafted __del__
264 methods exploiting objects in temporarily inconsistent state.
265
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +0000266- Issue #2115: Important speedup in setting __slot__ attributes. Also
267 prevent a possible crash: an Abstract Base Class would try to access a slot
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc60d6c7f2008-02-15 21:22:45 +0000268 on a registered virtual subclass.
269
Christian Heimes2f0da532008-02-15 06:57:08 +0000270- Fixed repr() and str() of complex numbers with infinity or nan as real or
271 imaginary part.
272
Andrew M. Kuchlingc6511a82008-03-04 01:48:26 +0000273- Clear all free lists during a gc.collect() of the highest generation in order
Christian Heimes3b718a72008-02-14 12:47:33 +0000274 to allow pymalloc to free more arenas. Python may give back memory to the
275 OS earlier.
276
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcb01aa432008-02-08 00:56:02 +0000277- Issue #2045: Fix an infinite recursion triggered when printing a subclass of
278 collections.defaultdict, if its default_factory is set to a bound method.
279
Christian Heimesf75dbef2008-02-08 00:11:31 +0000280- Fixed a minor memory leak in dictobject.c. The content of the free
281 list was not freed on interpreter shutdown.
282
Christian Heimes6075a822008-02-06 12:44:34 +0000283- Limit free list of method and builtin function objects to 256 entries
284 each.
285
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc578a8ca2008-02-04 20:53:14 +0000286- Patch #1953: Added ``sys._compact_freelists()`` and the C API functions
287 ``PyInt_CompactFreeList`` and ``PyFloat_CompactFreeList``
Christian Heimes422051a2008-02-04 18:00:12 +0000288 to compact the internal free lists of pre-allocted ints and floats.
289
Christian Heimes951cc0f2008-01-31 23:08:23 +0000290- Bug #1983: Fixed return type of fork(), fork1() and forkpty() calls.
291 Python expected the return type int but the fork familie returns pi_t.
292
Mark Dickinson105be772008-01-31 22:17:37 +0000293- Issue #1678380: Fix a bug that identifies 0j and -0j when they appear
294 in the same code unit.
295
Raymond Hettinger5b07ebc2008-02-07 00:54:20 +0000296- Issue #2025 : Add tuple.count() and tuple.index() methods to comply with
297 the collections.Sequence API.
298
Christian Heimes4d4f2702008-01-30 11:32:37 +0000299- Patch #1970 by Antoine Pitrou: Speedup unicode whitespace and linebreak
300 detection
301
Christian Heimes422051a2008-02-04 18:00:12 +0000302- Added ``PyType_ClearCache()`` and ``sys._clear_type_cache`` to clear the
Christian Heimes908caac2008-01-27 23:34:59 +0000303 internal lookup cache for ref leak tests.
304
Georg Brandl0cdf9a32008-01-26 14:14:20 +0000305- Patch #1473257: generator objects gain a gi_code attribute. This is the
306 same object as the func_code attribute of the function that produced the
307 generator.
308
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc31eaafe2008-01-24 22:59:25 +0000309- Issue #1920: "while 0" statements were completely removed by the compiler,
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +0000310 even in the presence of an "else" clause, which is supposed to be run when
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc31eaafe2008-01-24 22:59:25 +0000311 the condition is false. Now the compiler correctly emits bytecode for the
312 "else" suite.
313
Guido van Rossumeead05f2008-01-24 18:21:02 +0000314- A few crashers fixed: weakref_in_del.py (issue #1377858);
315 loosing_dict_ref.py (issue #1303614, test67.py);
316 borrowed_ref_[34].py (not in tracker).
317
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +0000318- Issue #1069410: The "can't load dll" message box on Windows is
Christian Heimesb2302ba2008-01-23 17:15:06 +0000319 suppressed while an extension is loaded by calling SetErrorMode in
320 dynload_win.c. The error is still reported properly.
321
Christian Heimes082c9b02008-01-23 14:20:50 +0000322- Bug #1915: Python compiles with --enable-unicode=no again. However
323 several extension methods and modules do not work without unicode
324 support.
325
Georg Brandl26543b12008-01-21 18:36:51 +0000326- Issue #1882: when compiling code from a string, encoding cookies in the
327 second line of code were not always recognized correctly.
328
Georg Brandl14404b62008-01-19 19:27:05 +0000329- Issue #1679: "0x" was taken as a valid integer literal.
330
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +0000331- Issue #1865: ``bytes`` as an alias for ``str`` and b"" as an alias "" were
Christian Heimes288e89a2008-01-18 18:24:07 +0000332 added.
333
Christian Heimesc94e2b52008-01-14 04:13:37 +0000334- sys.float_info / PyFloat_GetInfo: The floating point information
335 object was converted from a dict to a specialized structseq object.
336
Christian Heimesf31b69f2008-01-14 03:42:48 +0000337- Patch #1816: Added sys.flags structseq. It exposes the status of most
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +0000338 command line arguments and PYTHON* environment variables.
Christian Heimesf31b69f2008-01-14 03:42:48 +0000339
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +0000340- Objects/structseq.c: Implemented new structseq representation. The patch
Christian Heimesf31b69f2008-01-14 03:42:48 +0000341 makes structseqs (e.g. the return value of os.stat) more readable.
Christian Heimes9c201962008-01-14 03:33:52 +0000342
Amaury Forgeot d'Arce4c270c2008-01-14 00:29:41 +0000343- Patch #1700288: added a type attribute cache that caches method accesses,
344 resulting in speedups in heavily object-oriented code.
345
Neal Norwitz3fc15b82008-01-10 05:42:58 +0000346- Bug #1776: __import__() no longer accepts filenames on any platform.
347 The first parameter to __import__() must be a valid module name.
Christian Heimes3403f152008-01-09 19:56:33 +0000348
Georg Brandlaed6c662008-01-07 17:25:53 +0000349- Patch #1668: renamed THREADDEBUG envvar to PYTHONTHREADDEBUG.
350
Georg Brandl2da0fce2008-01-07 17:09:35 +0000351- Patch #602345: Add -B command line option, PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE envvar
352 and sys.dont_write_bytecode attribute. All these can be set to forbid Python
353 to attempt to write compiled bytecode files.
354
Amaury Forgeot d'Arce0b76952008-01-04 02:04:15 +0000355- Improve some exception messages when Windows fails to load an extension
356 module. Now we get for example '%1 is not a valid Win32 application' instead
357 of 'error code 193'.
358
Christian Heimes8267d1d2008-01-04 00:37:34 +0000359- Bug #1481296: Fixed long(float('nan'))!=0L.
360
Christian Heimeseebb79c2008-01-03 22:32:26 +0000361- Issue #1640: Added math.isinf(x), math.isnan(x) and math.copysign(x, y)
362 functions.
Christian Heimese2ca4242008-01-03 20:23:15 +0000363
Christian Heimes0a8143f2007-12-18 23:22:54 +0000364- Issue #1635: Platform independent creation and representation of NaN
365 and INF. float("nan"), float("inf") and float("-inf") now work on every
366 platform with IEEE 754 semantics.
367
Raymond Hettingerfd7ed402007-12-18 21:24:09 +0000368- Compiler now generates simpler and faster code for dictionary literals.
369 The oparg for BUILD_MAP now indicates an estimated dictionary size.
370 There is a new opcode, STORE_MAP, for adding entries to the dictionary.
371
Christian Heimesdb3d6cb2007-12-16 21:39:43 +0000372- Issue #1638: %zd configure test fails on Linux
373
Christian Heimes90e10e72007-12-14 02:35:23 +0000374- Issue #1620: New property decorator syntax was modifying the decorator
375 in place instead of creating a new decorator object.
376
Skip Montanaro26015492007-12-08 15:33:24 +0000377- Issue #1538: Avoid copying string in split/rsplit if the split
378 char is not found.
379
Andrew M. Kuchling395fe442007-12-05 13:27:20 +0000380- Issue #1553: An erroneous __length_hint__ can make list() raise a
Christian Heimes7cc1c6f2007-12-05 12:52:34 +0000381 SystemError.
382
Nick Coghlanef01d822007-12-03 12:55:17 +0000383- PEP 366: Allow explicit relative imports when executing modules
384 inside packages with the -m switch via a new module level
385 __package__ attribute.
386
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbe49a902007-11-30 20:37:22 +0000387- Issue #1402: Fix a crash on exit, when another thread is still running, and
388 if the deallocation of its frames somehow calls the PyGILState_Ensure() /
389 PyGILState_Release() functions.
390
Christian Heimes28104c52007-11-27 23:16:44 +0000391- Expose the Py_Py3kWarningFlag as sys.py3kwarning.
392
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +0000393- Issue #1445: Fix a SystemError when accessing the ``cell_contents``
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcce7d10c2007-11-24 13:44:17 +0000394 attribute of an empty cell object.
395
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcf57375a2007-11-21 01:38:26 +0000396- Issue #1460: The utf-7 incremental decoder did not accept truncated input.
397 It now correctly saves its state between chunks of data.
398
Nick Coghlan327a39b2007-11-18 11:56:28 +0000399- Patch #1739468: Directories and zipfiles containing a __main__.py file can
400 now be directly executed by passing their name to the interpreter. The
401 directory/zipfile is automatically inserted as the first entry in sys.path.
402
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc0d75f092007-11-13 21:54:28 +0000403- Issue #1265: Fix a problem with sys.settrace, if the tracing function uses a
404 generator expression when at the same time the executed code is closing a
405 paused generator.
406
Raymond Hettinger1760c8a2007-11-08 02:52:43 +0000407- sets and frozensets now have an isdisjoint() method.
408
Raymond Hettinger3f8caa32007-10-24 01:28:33 +0000409- optimize the performance of builtin.sum().
410
Neal Norwitz44f326e2007-10-05 05:29:17 +0000411- Fix warnings found by the new version of the Coverity checker.
412
Raymond Hettinger8f669372007-10-03 21:18:11 +0000413- The enumerate() builtin function is no longer bounded to sequences smaller
414 than LONG_MAX. Formerly, it raised an OverflowError. Now, automatically
415 shifts from ints to longs.
416
Brett Cannon0b14f242007-09-30 19:45:10 +0000417- Issue #1686386: Tuple's tp_repr did not take into account the possibility of
418 having a self-referential tuple, which is possible from C code. Nor did
419 object's tp_str consider that a type's tp_str could do something that could
420 lead to an inifinite recursion. Py_ReprEnter() and Py_EnterRecursiveCall(),
421 respectively, fixed the issues.
422
Brett Cannon01531592007-09-17 03:28:34 +0000423- Issue #1164: It was possible to trigger deadlock when using the 'print'
424 statement to write to a file since the GIL was not released as needed. Now
425 PyObject_Print() does the right thing along with various tp_print
426 implementations of the built-in types and those in the collections module.
427
Brett Cannon4c20bc42007-09-11 21:02:28 +0000428- Issue #1147: Exceptions were directly allowing string exceptions in their
429 throw() method even though string exceptions no longer allowed.
430
Brett Cannona0c05512007-09-10 21:38:27 +0000431- Issue #1096: Prevent a segfault from getting the repr of a very deeply nested
432 list by using the recursion counter.
433
Brett Cannon1e534b52007-09-07 04:18:30 +0000434- Issue #1202533: Fix infinite recursion calls triggered by calls to
435 PyObject_Call() never calling back out to Python code to trigger recursion
436 depth updates/checks. Required the creation of a static RuntimeError
437 instance in case normalizing an exception put the recursion check value past
438 its limit. Fixes crashers infinite_rec_(1|2|4|5).py.
439
Martin v. Löwisa5136192007-09-04 14:19:28 +0000440- Patch #1031213: Decode source line in SyntaxErrors back to its original source
441 encoding.
442
Georg Brandl7c3b50d2007-07-12 08:38:00 +0000443- Patch #1673759: add a missing overflow check when formatting floats
444 with %G.
445
Neal Norwitzdb2b1b32007-06-11 07:36:24 +0000446- Prevent expandtabs() on string and unicode objects from causing a segfault
447 when a large width is passed on 32-bit platforms.
Neal Norwitz7dbd2a32007-06-09 03:36:34 +0000448
Martin v. Löwisda587ab2007-06-08 17:29:20 +0000449- Bug #1733488: Fix compilation of bufferobject.c on AIX.
450
Georg Brandl25497a12007-06-01 19:20:27 +0000451- Bug #1722485: remove docstrings again when running with -OO.
Georg Brandla5ea6892007-06-01 11:33:33 +0000452
Neal Norwitz0ac60192007-05-27 04:08:54 +0000453- Add new attribute names for function objects. All the func_* become
454 __*__ attributes. (Some already existed, e.g., __doc__ and __name__.)
455
Neal Norwitz8b2bfbc2007-05-23 06:35:32 +0000456- Add -3 option to the interpreter to warn about features that are
457 deprecated and will be changed/removed in Python 3.0.
458
Georg Brandl2134e752007-05-21 20:34:16 +0000459- Patch #1686487: you can now pass any mapping after '**' in function
460 calls.
461
Collin Winter62903052007-05-18 23:11:24 +0000462- except clauses may now be spelled either "except E, target:" or
463 "except E as target:". This is to provide forwards compatibility with
464 Python 3.0.
465
Brett Cannon229cee22007-05-05 01:34:02 +0000466- Deprecate BaseException.message as per PEP 352.
467
Armin Rigo9790a272007-05-02 19:23:31 +0000468- Bug #1303614: don't expose object's __dict__ when the dict is
469 inherited from a builtin base.
470
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +0000471- When __slots__ are set to a unicode string, make it work the same as
Neal Norwitzcbd9ee62007-04-14 05:25:50 +0000472 setting a plain string, ie don't expand to single letter identifiers.
473
Raymond Hettinger13936692007-04-11 18:40:58 +0000474- Request #1191699: Slices can now be pickled.
475
Raymond Hettinger4db5fe92007-04-12 04:10:00 +0000476- Request #1193128: str.translate() now allows a None argument for
477 translations that only remove characters without re-mapping the
478 remaining characters.
479
Georg Brandl5cb76c12007-03-21 09:00:39 +0000480- Patch #1682205: a TypeError while unpacking an iterable is no longer
481 masked by a generic one with the message "unpack non-sequence".
482
Neal Norwitzaa754b72007-03-21 06:39:48 +0000483- Remove unused file Python/fmod.c.
484
Guido van Rossum143b5642007-03-23 04:58:42 +0000485- Bug #1683368: The object.__init__() and object.__new__() methods are
486 now stricter in rejecting excess arguments. The only time when
487 either allows excess arguments is when it is not overridden and the
488 other one is. For backwards compatibility, when both are
489 overridden, it is a deprecation warning (for now; maybe a Py3k
Guido van Rossum234b1ff2007-03-23 19:39:01 +0000490 warning later). Also, type.__init__() insists on the same signature
491 as supported by type.__new__().
Guido van Rossum143b5642007-03-23 04:58:42 +0000492
Georg Brandl2b869942007-03-17 16:08:45 +0000493- Patch #1675423: PyComplex_AsCComplex() now tries to convert an object
494 to complex using its __complex__() method before falling back to the
495 __float__() method. Therefore, the functions in the cmath module now
496 can operate on objects that define a __complex__() method.
497
Žiga Seilnacht6f2d09c2007-03-16 11:59:38 +0000498- Patch #1623563: allow __class__ assignment for classes with __slots__.
499 The old and the new class are still required to have the same slot names.
500
Collin Winter77c67bd2007-03-16 04:11:30 +0000501- Patch #1642547: Fix an error/crash when encountering syntax errors in
502 complex if statements.
503
Žiga Seilnacht20f43d32007-03-15 11:44:55 +0000504- Patch #1462488: Python no longer segfaults when ``object.__reduce_ex__()``
505 is called with an object that is faking its type.
506
Žiga Seilnacht71436f02007-03-14 12:24:09 +0000507- Patch #1680015: Don't modify __slots__ tuple if it contains an unicode
508 name.
509
Georg Brandl5240d742007-03-13 20:46:32 +0000510- Patch #1444529: the builtin compile() now accepts keyword arguments.
511
Georg Brandl7b9c5552007-03-12 14:30:05 +0000512- Bug #1678647: write a newline after printing an exception in any
513 case, even when converting the value to a string failed.
514
Georg Brandl871f1bc2007-03-12 13:17:36 +0000515- The dir() function has been extended to call the __dir__() method on
516 its argument, if it exists. If not, it will work like before. This allows
517 customizing the output of dir() in the presence of a __getattr__().
518
Collin Winter276887b2007-03-12 16:11:39 +0000519- Patch #922167: Python no longer segfaults when faced with infinitely
520 self-recursive reload() calls (as reported by bug #742342).
521
Žiga Seilnacht89032082007-03-11 15:54:54 +0000522- Patch #1675981: remove unreachable code from ``type.__new__()`` method.
523
Collin Wintere38051d2007-03-09 20:33:07 +0000524- Patch #1491866: change the complex() constructor to allow parthensized
525 forms. This means complex(repr(x)) now works instead of raising a
526 ValueError.
527
Georg Brandlaa2321b2007-03-07 00:40:28 +0000528- Patch #703779: unset __file__ in __main__ after running a file. This
529 makes the filenames the warning module prints much more sensible when
530 a PYTHONSTARTUP file is used.
531
Georg Brandl49aafc92007-03-07 00:34:46 +0000532- Variant of patch #697613: don't exit the interpreter on a SystemExit
533 exception if the -i command line option or PYTHONINSPECT environment
534 variable is given, but break into the interactive interpreter just like
535 on other exceptions or normal program exit.
536
Georg Brandl00cd8182007-03-06 18:41:12 +0000537- Patch #1638879: don't accept strings with embedded NUL bytes in long().
538
Georg Brandl098cd692007-03-06 12:17:50 +0000539- Bug #1674503: close the file opened by execfile() in an error condition.
540
Georg Brandl0fca97a2007-03-05 22:28:08 +0000541- Patch #1674228: when assigning a slice (old-style), check for the
542 sq_ass_slice instead of the sq_slice slot.
543
Neal Norwitz88516a62007-02-26 22:41:45 +0000544- When printing an unraisable error, don't print exceptions. before the name.
545 This duplicates the behavior whening normally printing exceptions.
546
Martin v. Löwisfd963262007-02-09 12:19:32 +0000547- Bug #1653736: Properly discard third argument to slot_nb_inplace_power.
548
Brett Cannon129bd522007-01-30 21:34:36 +0000549- PEP 352: Raising a string exception now triggers a TypeError. Attempting to
550 catch a string exception raises DeprecationWarning.
551
Brett Cannonf5bee302007-01-23 23:21:22 +0000552- Bug #1377858: Fix the segfaulting of the interpreter when an object created
553 a weakref on itself during a __del__ call for new-style classes (classic
554 classes still have the bug).
555
Martin v. Löwis6c5c5022007-01-23 21:11:47 +0000556- Bug #1579370: Make PyTraceBack_Here use the current thread, not the
557 frame's thread state.
558
Thomas Wouters6ed19652007-01-23 13:50:49 +0000559- patch #1630975: Fix crash when replacing sys.stdout in sitecustomize.py
560
Neal Norwitz72cd02c2007-01-05 05:25:22 +0000561- Prevent seg fault on shutdown which could occur if an object
562 raised a warning.
563
Martin v. Löwis7b7c9d42007-01-04 21:06:12 +0000564- Bug #1566280: Explicitly invoke threading._shutdown from Py_Main,
565 to avoid relying on atexit.
566
Raymond Hettinger94547f72006-12-20 06:42:06 +0000567- Bug #1590891: random.randrange don't return correct value for big number
568
Georg Brandl283a1352006-11-19 08:48:30 +0000569- Patch #1586791: Better exception messages for some operations on strings,
570 tuples and lists.
571
Martin v. Löwis056dac12006-11-12 18:24:26 +0000572- Bug #1067760: Deprecate passing floats to file.seek.
573
Martin v. Löwisa346c092006-11-08 06:48:36 +0000574- Bug #1591996: Correctly forward exception in instance_contains().
575
Neal Norwitz85dbec62006-11-04 19:25:22 +0000576- Bug #1588287: fix invalid assertion for `1,2` in debug builds.
577
Georg Brandlb9f4ad32006-10-29 18:31:42 +0000578- Bug #1576657: when setting a KeyError for a tuple key, make sure that
579 the tuple isn't used as the "exception arguments tuple".
580
Neal Norwitz21997af2006-10-28 21:19:07 +0000581- Bug #1565514, SystemError not raised on too many nested blocks.
582
Thomas Hellerdf08f0b2006-10-27 18:31:36 +0000583- Bug #1576174: WindowsError now displays the windows error code
584 again, no longer the posix error code.
585
Martin v. Löwisb5bc5372006-10-27 06:16:31 +0000586- Patch #1549049: Support long values in structmember, issue warnings
587 if the assigned value for structmember fields gets truncated.
588
Neal Norwitzcbeb6872006-10-14 21:33:38 +0000589- Update the peephole optimizer to remove more dead code (jumps after returns)
590 and inline unconditional jumps to returns.
591
Georg Brandl2c1375c2006-10-12 11:27:59 +0000592- Bug #1545497: when given an explicit base, int() did ignore NULs
593 embedded in the string to convert.
594
Georg Brandl846f73a2006-10-08 07:11:54 +0000595- Bug #1569998: break inside a try statement (outside a loop) is now
596 recognized and rejected.
597
Armin Rigo7ccbca92006-10-04 12:17:45 +0000598- list.pop(x) accepts any object x following the __index__ protocol.
599
Armin Rigo7ccbca92006-10-04 12:17:45 +0000600- A number of places, including integer negation and absolute value,
601 were fixed to not rely on undefined behaviour of the C compiler
602 anymore.
Martin v. Löwis820d6ac2006-10-04 05:47:34 +0000603
Georg Brandl3267d282006-09-30 09:03:42 +0000604- Bug #1566800: make sure that EnvironmentError can be called with any
605 number of arguments, as was the case in Python 2.4.
606
Georg Brandl5d59c092006-09-30 08:43:30 +0000607- Patch #1567691: super() and new.instancemethod() now don't accept
608 keyword arguments any more (previously they accepted them, but didn't
609 use them).
610
Georg Brandla10d3af2006-09-24 12:35:36 +0000611- Fix a bug in the parser's future statement handling that led to "with"
612 not being recognized as a keyword after, e.g., this statement:
613 from __future__ import division, with_statement
614
Neal Norwitz3a230172006-09-22 08:18:10 +0000615- Bug #1557232: fix seg fault with def f((((x)))) and def f(((x),)).
616
Neal Norwitz4a8fbdb2006-09-22 08:16:26 +0000617- Fix %zd string formatting on Mac OS X so it prints negative numbers.
618
Brett Cannonf6aa86e2006-09-20 18:43:13 +0000619- Allow exception instances to be directly sliced again.
620
Brett Cannon9adeab72006-09-20 18:34:28 +0000621- Bug #1551432: Exceptions do not define an explicit __unicode__ method. This
622 allows calling unicode() on exceptions classes directly to succeed.
623
Georg Brandl4e933132006-09-06 20:05:58 +0000624- Bug #1542051: Exceptions now correctly call PyObject_GC_UnTrack.
625 Also make sure that every exception class has __module__ set to
626 'exceptions'.
627
Georg Brandl98775df2006-09-06 06:09:31 +0000628- Bug #1550983: emit better error messages for erroneous relative
629 imports (if not in package and if beyond toplevel package).
630
Tim Petersc10c9d02006-09-05 02:18:09 +0000631- Overflow checking code in integer division ran afoul of new gcc
632 optimizations. Changed to be more standard-conforming.
633
Neal Norwitz4f096d92006-08-21 19:47:08 +0000634- Patch #1542451: disallow continue anywhere under a finally.
635
Neal Norwitza22975f2006-09-05 02:24:03 +0000636- Patch #1546288: fix seg fault in dict_equal due to ref counting bug.
637
Neal Norwitzd34e4272006-09-05 02:36:20 +0000638- The return tuple from str.rpartition(sep) is (tail, sep, head) where
639 head is the original string if sep was not found.
640
Neal Norwitzdac090d2006-09-05 03:53:08 +0000641- Bug #1520864: unpacking singleton tuples in list comprehensions and
642 generator expressions (x for x, in ... ) works again. Fixing this problem
643 required changing the .pyc magic number. This means that .pyc files
644 generated before 2.5c2 will be regenerated.
645
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +0000646- ``with`` and ``as`` are now keywords.
Neal Norwitzca460d92006-09-06 06:28:06 +0000647
Jeremy Hyltonc5ceb252007-02-25 15:57:45 +0000648- Bug #1664966: Fix crash in exec if Unicode filename can't be decoded.
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +0000649
Guido van Rossumcad37242008-01-15 17:59:29 +0000650- Issue #1537: Changed GeneratorExit's base class from Exception to
651 BaseException.
Christian Heimes44eeaec2007-12-03 20:01:02 +0000652
Gregory P. Smith95cd5c02008-01-22 01:20:42 +0000653- Fix Issue #1703448: A joined thread could show up in the
654 threading.enumerate() list after the join() for a brief period until
655 it actually exited.
656
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +0000657
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +0000658Library
659-------
660
Raymond Hettinger53bdf092008-03-13 19:03:51 +0000661- #2274 Add heapq.heappushpop().
662
Christian Heimes608c1d82008-03-03 18:28:04 +0000663- Add inspect.isabstract(object) to fix bug #2223
664
Mark Dickinson1ddf1d82008-02-29 02:16:37 +0000665- Add a __format__ method to Decimal, to support PEP 3101.
666
Neal Norwitzca376612008-02-26 08:21:28 +0000667- Add a timing parameter when using trace.Trace to print out timestamps.
668
Georg Brandl8c460d52008-02-24 00:14:24 +0000669- #1627: httplib now ignores negative Content-Length headers.
670
Georg Brandl23635032008-02-24 00:03:22 +0000671- #900744: If an invalid chunked-encoding header is sent by a server,
672 httplib will now raise IncompleteRead and close the connection instead
673 of raising ValueError.
674
Georg Brandl16479232008-02-23 15:02:28 +0000675- #1492: The content type of BaseHTTPServer error messages can now be
676 overridden.
677
Facundo Batistab12f0b52008-02-23 12:46:10 +0000678- Issue 1781: ConfigParser now does not let you add the "default" section
679 (ignore-case)
680
Guido van Rossum8bc09652008-02-21 18:18:37 +0000681- Removed uses of dict.has_key() from distutils, and uses of
682 callable() from copy_reg.py, so the interpreter now starts up
683 without warnings when '-3' is given. More work like this needs to
684 be done in the rest of the stdlib.
685
Facundo Batista759bfc62008-02-18 03:43:43 +0000686- Issue #1916. Added isgenerator() and isgeneratorfunction() to inspect.py.
687
Facundo Batistad14600e2008-02-18 12:48:43 +0000688- #1224: Fixed bad url parsing when path begins with double slash.
689
Thomas Hellera06a1a82008-02-13 20:21:53 +0000690- ctypes instances that are not or do not contain pointers can now be
691 pickled.
692
Martin v. Löwisdad88dc2008-02-12 18:47:34 +0000693- Patch #1966: Break infinite loop in httplib when the servers
694 implements the chunked encoding incorrectly.
695
Mark Dickinsond058cd22008-02-10 21:29:51 +0000696- Rename rational.py to fractions.py and the rational.Rational class
697 to fractions.Fraction, to avoid the name clash with the abstract
698 base class numbers.Rational. See discussion in issue #1682.
699
Raymond Hettingerda614dc2008-02-10 20:35:16 +0000700- The pickletools module now provides an optimize() function
701 that eliminates unused PUT opcodes from a pickle string.
702
Nick Coghlanac094dc2008-02-10 07:32:52 +0000703- #2021: Allow tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile and SpooledTemporaryFile
704 to be used in with statements by correctly supporting the context
705 management protocol.
706
Mark Dickinson2fc92632008-02-06 22:10:50 +0000707- #1979: Add rich comparisons to Decimal, and make Decimal comparisons
708 involving a NaN follow the IEEE 754 standard.
709
Lars Gustäbel0192e432008-02-05 11:51:40 +0000710- #2004: tarfile.py: Use mode 0700 for temporary directories and default
711 permissions for missing directories.
712
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc6fd03bb2008-02-04 21:45:05 +0000713- #175006: The debugger used to skip the condition of a "while" statement
714 after the first iteration. Now it correctly steps on the expression, and
715 breakpoints on the "while" statement are honored on each loop.
716
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +0000717- #1765140: add an optional delay argument to FileHandler and its
718 subclasses. Defaults to false (existing behaviour), but if true,
719 defers opening the file until the first call to emit().
720
Raymond Hettingerc226c312008-01-23 00:04:40 +0000721- The pprint module now supports sets and frozensets.
722
Gregory P. Smithc64386b2008-01-22 00:19:41 +0000723- #1221598: add optional callbacks to ftplib.FTP's storbinary() and
724 storlines() methods. (Contributed by Phil Schwartz)
725
Georg Brandlf2dae0e2008-01-21 21:05:49 +0000726- #1715: include sub-extension modules in pydoc's text output.
727
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +0000728- #1836: fix an off-by-one bug in TimedRotatingHandler's rollover
729 time calculation.
730
731- #1021: fix a bug to allow basicConfig to accept NOTSET as a level.
732
733- #932563: add LoggerAdapter convenience class to make it easier to add
734 contextual information in logging output.
735
736- #1760556: fix a bug to avoid FileHandler throwing an exception in
737 flush().
738
Georg Brandl50160152008-01-21 17:42:40 +0000739- Bug #1530959: distutils' build command now uses different build directory
740 when building extension modules against versions of Python compiled
741 with ``--with-pydebug``.
742
Georg Brandl864de822008-01-21 16:34:07 +0000743- #1555501: move plistlib from plat-mac directory to general library.
744
Georg Brandl66e73632008-01-21 10:24:59 +0000745- #1269: fix a bug in pstats.add_callers() and add a unit test file for
746 pstats.
747
Georg Brandl52353982008-01-20 14:17:42 +0000748- #1669: don't allow shutil.rmtree() to be called on a symlink to a
749 directory.
750
Georg Brandld5e6cf22008-01-20 12:18:17 +0000751- #1664522: in urllib, don't read non-existing directories in ftp mode,
752 returning a 0-byte file -- raise an IOError instead.
753
Georg Brandl22350112008-01-20 12:05:43 +0000754- #856047: respect the ``no_proxy`` environment variable when using the
755 ``http_proxy`` etc. environment variables in urllib.
756
Georg Brandl9b0d46d2008-01-20 11:43:03 +0000757- #1178141: add a getcode() method to the addinfourls that urllib.open()
758 returns so that you can retrieve the HTTP status code.
759
Gregory P. Smithf25680a2008-01-20 01:26:04 +0000760- Issue #1003: Fix zipfile decryption check, it would fail zip files
761 with extended local headers.
762
Gregory P. Smith350d03b2008-01-19 23:10:52 +0000763- #1189216: Fix the zipfile module to work on archives with headers
764 past the 2**31 byte boundary.
765
Gregory P. Smithb9ba0752008-01-19 21:00:37 +0000766- #1336: fix a race condition in subprocess.Popen if the garbage
767 collector kicked in at the wrong time that would cause the process
768 to hang when the child wrote to stderr.
769
Georg Brandlc6fde722008-01-19 19:48:19 +0000770- #1146: fix how textwrap breaks a long word that would start in the
771 last column of a line.
772
Skip Montanaro562133b2008-01-19 18:47:24 +0000773- #1693149: trace.py --ignore-module - accept multiple comma-separated
774 modules to be given.
775
Facundo Batista2b1b1952008-01-19 12:32:27 +0000776- #1822: MIMEMultipart.is_multipart() behaves correctly for a just-created
777 (and empty) instance. Thanks Jonathan Share.
778
Raymond Hettinger44bd6c02008-01-17 19:31:38 +0000779- #1861: Added an attribute to the sched module which returns an ordered
780 list of upcoming events (displayed as named tuples).
781
Raymond Hettinger3ad2acc82008-01-16 23:49:35 +0000782- #1837: The queue module now also supports a LIFO queue and a priority queue.
783
Andrew M. Kuchling4a2762d2008-01-20 00:00:38 +0000784- Patch #1048820: Add insert-mode editing to curses.textpad.Textbox
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +0000785 (patch by Stefan Wehr). Also, fix an off-by-one bug in
Andrew M. Kuchling4a2762d2008-01-20 00:00:38 +0000786 Textbox.gather().
787
Thomas Heller02ec2892008-01-16 19:37:33 +0000788- Issue #1831: ctypes now raises a TypeError if conflicting positional
789 and named arguments are passed to a Structure or Union initializer.
Thomas Heller415c1e32008-01-16 19:45:51 +0000790 When too many positional arguments are passed, also a TypeError is
791 raised instead of a ValueError.
Thomas Heller02ec2892008-01-16 19:37:33 +0000792
Thomas Heller902d3072008-01-16 19:16:27 +0000793- Convert the internal ctypes array type cache to a WeakValueDict so
794 that array types do not live longer than needed.
795
Guido van Rossumcad37242008-01-15 17:59:29 +0000796- Issue #1786: pdb should use its own stdin/stdout around an exec call
797 and when creating a recursive instance.
798
Raymond Hettinger351e1a32008-01-14 22:58:05 +0000799- Issue #1698398 Zipfile.printdir() crashed because the format string
800 expected a tuple type of length six instead of time.struct_time object.
801
Mark Dickinson59bc20b2008-01-12 01:56:00 +0000802- Issue #1780: The Decimal constructor now accepts arbitrary leading
803 and trailing whitespace when constructing from a string.
804 Context.create_decimal no longer accepts trailing newlines.
805
Georg Brandl2f32c392008-01-11 09:20:58 +0000806- Decimal.as_tuple(), difflib.find_longest_match() and inspect functions
807 that returned a tuple now return a named tuple.
808
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +0000809- Doctest now returns results as a named tuple for readability:
Raymond Hettingerfff4e6e2008-01-11 01:25:54 +0000810 (0, 7) --> TestResults(failed=0, attempted=7)
811
Facundo Batista4473d222008-01-08 21:10:12 +0000812- Issue #846388. re.match is interruptible now, which is particularly
813 good for long regular expression matches.
814
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +0000815- pyexpat, patch #1137: allow setting buffer_size attribute
Andrew M. Kuchlinge0a49b62008-01-08 14:30:55 +0000816 on Parser objects to set the character data buffer size.
817
Facundo Batista52b25792008-01-08 12:25:20 +0000818- Issue #1757: The hash of a Decimal instance is no longer affected by
819 the current context.
820
Georg Brandl62416bc2008-01-07 18:47:44 +0000821- Patch #467924: add ZipFile.extract() and ZipFile.extractall() in the
822 zipfile module.
823
Christian Heimesfb2d25a2008-01-07 16:12:44 +0000824- Issue #1646: Make socket support the TIPC protocol.
825
Georg Brandl183a0842008-01-06 14:27:15 +0000826- Bug #1742: return os.curdir from os.path.relpath() if both arguments are
827 equal instead of raising an exception.
828
Guido van Rossumc6a04c22008-01-05 22:19:06 +0000829- Patch #1637: fix urlparse for URLs like 'http://x.com?arg=/foo'.
830
Guido van Rossumced4eb02008-01-05 01:21:57 +0000831- Patch #1698: allow '@' in username parsed by urlparse.py.
832
Lars Gustäbel2ee1c762008-01-04 14:00:33 +0000833- Issue #1735: TarFile.extractall() now correctly sets directory permissions
834 and times.
835
Christian Heimes06875612008-01-04 13:21:07 +0000836- Bug #1713: posixpath.ismount() claims symlink to a mountpoint is a mountpoint.
837
Christian Heimes06131882008-01-04 00:04:52 +0000838- Bug #1687: Fxed plistlib.py restricts <integer> to Python int when writing
839
Guido van Rossumae04c332008-01-03 19:12:44 +0000840- Issue #1700: Regular expression inline flags incorrectly handle certain
841 unicode characters.
842
Jeffrey Yasskin2f3c16b2008-01-03 02:21:52 +0000843- Issue #1689: PEP 3141, numeric abstract base classes.
844
Martin v. Löwis84b9aab2008-01-01 21:09:07 +0000845- Tk issue #1851526: Return results from Python callbacks to Tcl as
846 Tcl objects.
847
Thomas Heller153038e2007-12-18 19:00:34 +0000848- Issue #1642: Fix segfault in ctypes when trying to delete attributes.
849
Martin v. Löwis6b449f42007-12-03 19:20:02 +0000850- Issue #1727780: Support loading pickles of random.Random objects created
851 on 32-bit systems on 64-bit systems, and vice versa. As a consequence
852 of the change, Random pickles created by Python 2.6 cannot be loaded
853 in Python 2.5.
854
Christian Heimesc654fc22007-12-03 13:55:16 +0000855- Issue #1455: The distutils package now supports VS 2005 and VS 2008 for
856 both the msvccompiler and cygwincompiler.
857
Lars Gustäbel77b2d632007-12-01 21:02:12 +0000858- Issue #1531: tarfile.py: Read fileobj from the current offset, do not
859 seek to the start.
860
Christian Heimesdfdfaab2007-12-01 11:20:10 +0000861- Issue #1534: Added a dictionary sys.float_info with information about the
862 internal floating point type to the sys module.
863
Skip Montanaro58a6f442007-11-24 14:30:47 +0000864- Issue 1429818: patch for trace and doctest modules so they play nicely
865 together.
866
Brett Cannon43e53f82007-11-21 00:47:36 +0000867- doctest made a bad assumption that a package's __loader__.get_data()
868 method used universal newlines.
869
Nick Coghlan90b858e2007-11-07 11:57:51 +0000870- Issue #1705170: contextlib.contextmanager was still swallowing
871 StopIteration in some cases. This should no longer happen.
872
Thomas Heller486b1b02007-11-02 19:10:24 +0000873- Issue #1292: On alpha, arm, ppc, and s390 linux systems the
874 --with-system-ffi configure option defaults to "yes".
875
Hye-Shik Changa838a802007-10-28 11:19:02 +0000876- IN module for FreeBSD 8 is added and preexisting FreeBSD 6 and 7
877 files are updated.
878
Georg Brandl1a94ec22007-10-24 21:40:38 +0000879- Issues #1181, #1287: unsetenv() is now called when the os.environ.pop()
880 and os.environ.clear() methods are used.
881
Thomas Heller91ac4222007-10-19 18:11:41 +0000882- ctypes will now work correctly on 32-bit systems when Python is
883 configured with --with-system-ffi.
884
Thomas Heller7fee6dd2007-10-11 19:51:32 +0000885- Patch #1203: ctypes now does work on OS X when Python is built with
Georg Brandl1a94ec22007-10-24 21:40:38 +0000886 --disable-toolbox-glue.
Thomas Heller7fee6dd2007-10-11 19:51:32 +0000887
Raymond Hettingera7fc4b12007-10-05 02:47:07 +0000888- collections.deque() now supports a "maxlen" argument.
889
Raymond Hettinger50e90e22007-10-04 00:20:27 +0000890- itertools.count() is no longer bounded to LONG_MAX. Formerly, it raised
891 an OverflowError. Now, automatically shifts from ints to longs.
892
Raymond Hettingerc5705a82008-02-22 19:50:06 +0000893- Added itertools.product() which forms the Cartesian product of
894 the input iterables.
895
Raymond Hettinger66f91ea2008-03-05 20:59:58 +0000896- Added itertools.combinations() and itertools.permutations().
Raymond Hettinger93e804d2008-02-26 23:40:50 +0000897
Georg Brandlaff85e22007-09-20 16:06:07 +0000898- Patch #1541463: optimize performance of cgi.FieldStorage operations.
899
Facundo Batistab67da232007-09-17 16:26:50 +0000900- Decimal is fully updated to the latest Decimal Specification (v1.66).
901
Georg Brandl8fd3ecf2007-09-12 19:00:07 +0000902- Bug #1153: repr.repr() now doesn't require set and dictionary items
903 to be orderable to properly represent them.
904
Thomas Heller2825b2e2007-09-07 06:32:17 +0000905- A 'c_longdouble' type was added to the ctypes module.
906
Martin v. Löwis7dcb83c2007-08-30 19:04:09 +0000907- Bug #1709599: Run test_1565150 only if the file system is NTFS.
908
Skip Montanaro3e275362007-08-29 01:33:45 +0000909- When encountering a password-protected robots.txt file the RobotFileParser
910 no longer prompts interactively for a username and password (bug 813986).
911
Lars Gustäbel0f4a14b2007-08-28 12:31:09 +0000912- TarFile.__init__() no longer fails if no name argument is passed and
913 the fileobj argument has no usable name attribute (e.g. StringIO).
914
Guido van Rossum95f1a1b2007-08-27 20:52:10 +0000915- The functools module now provides 'reduce', for forward compatibility
916 with Python 3000.
917
Guido van Rossum4f2c3dd2007-08-25 15:08:43 +0000918- Server-side SSL support and cert verification added, by Bill Janssen.
919
Bill Janssenf413fb02007-08-30 18:08:06 +0000920- socket.ssl deprecated; use new ssl module instead.
921
Georg Brandl8ec57542007-08-24 06:10:01 +0000922- uuid creation is now threadsafe.
923
Hye-Shik Chang23901042007-08-20 06:49:18 +0000924- EUC-KR codec now handles the cheot-ga-keut composed make-up hangul
925 syllables.
926
Hye-Shik Changf3e93a02007-08-04 04:10:18 +0000927- GB18030 codec now can encode additional two-byte characters that
928 are missing in GBK.
929
Walter Dörwald6e390802007-08-17 16:41:28 +0000930- Add new codecs for UTF-32, UTF-32-LE and UTF-32-BE.
931
Martin v. Löwisf1e0b3f2007-07-28 07:03:05 +0000932- Bug #1704793: Return UTF-16 pair if unicodedata.lookup cannot
933 represent the result in a single character.
934
Martin v. Löwisf25e35b2007-07-27 18:28:22 +0000935- Bug #978833: Close https sockets by releasing the _ssl object.
936
Martin v. Löwis254b8f92007-07-25 16:24:23 +0000937- Change location of the package index to pypi.python.org/pypi
938
Thomas Hellerfa704c62007-07-13 17:12:23 +0000939- Bug #1701409: Fix a segfault in printing ctypes.c_char_p and
940 ctypes.c_wchar_p when they point to an invalid location. As a
941 sideeffect the representation of these instances has changed.
942
Lars Gustäbel104490e2007-06-18 11:42:11 +0000943- tarfile.py: Added "exclude" keyword argument to TarFile.add().
944
Neal Norwitzc161cb92007-06-11 07:29:43 +0000945- Bug #1734723: Fix repr.Repr() so it doesn't ignore the maxtuple attribute.
946
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +0000947- The urlopen function of urllib2 now has an optional timeout parameter (note
Facundo Batista10951d52007-06-06 17:15:23 +0000948 that it actually works with HTTP, HTTPS, FTP and FTPS connections).
949
Facundo Batista92493122007-06-06 15:13:37 +0000950- In ftplib, the FTP.ntransfercmd method, when in passive mode, now uses
951 the socket.create_connection function, using the timeout specified at
952 connection time.
953
Hye-Shik Chang9b541402007-06-05 18:58:51 +0000954- Bug #1728403: Fix a bug that CJKCodecs StreamReader hangs when it
955 reads a file that ends with incomplete sequence and sizehint argument
956 for .read() is specified.
957
Brett Cannonf7188ce2007-06-03 23:13:41 +0000958- Bug #1730389: Change time.strptime() to use ``\s+`` instead of ``\s*`` when
959 matching spaces in the specified format argument.
960
Neal Norwitz4a700bb2007-06-01 07:29:12 +0000961- SF 1668596/1720897: distutils now copies data files
962 even if package_dir is empty.
963
Brett Cannonc2aa09a2007-05-31 19:20:00 +0000964- sha now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
965
Brett Cannon7eec2172007-05-30 22:24:28 +0000966- md5 now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
967
Gregory P. Smithe1ac4f12007-11-06 00:19:03 +0000968- Issue1385: The hmac module now computes the correct hmac when using hashes
969 with a block size other than 64 bytes (such as sha384 and sha512).
970
Brett Cannonc249bda2007-05-30 21:48:58 +0000971- mimify now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
972
Brett Cannon90134c92007-05-30 20:46:26 +0000973- MimeWriter now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
974
Lars Gustäbela0fcb932007-05-27 19:49:30 +0000975- tarfile.py: Improved unicode support. Unicode input names are now
976 officially supported. Added "errors" argument to the TarFile class.
977
Facundo Batista711a54e2007-05-24 17:50:54 +0000978- urllib.ftpwrapper class now accepts an optional timeout.
979
Georg Brandlc90bc752007-05-24 16:49:29 +0000980- shlex.split() now has an optional "posix" parameter.
981
Brett Cannon41bf2fa2007-05-20 23:57:38 +0000982- The posixfile module now raises a DeprecationWarning.
983
Brett Cannond75f0432007-05-16 22:42:29 +0000984- Remove the gopherlib module. This also leads to the removal of gopher
985 support in urllib/urllib2.
986
Neal Norwitzb1a9b372007-05-16 20:05:11 +0000987- Fix bug in marshal where bad data would cause a segfault due to
988 lack of an infinite recursion check.
989
Neal Norwitze0e70a42007-05-16 05:06:33 +0000990- Removed plat-freebsd2 and plat-freebsd3 directories (and IN.py in
991 the directories).
992
Georg Brandla09a96a2007-05-15 20:19:34 +0000993- HTML-escape the plain traceback in cgitb's HTML output, to prevent
994 the traceback inadvertently or maliciously closing the comment and
995 injecting HTML into the error page.
996
Neal Norwitz42dd86b2007-05-11 06:57:33 +0000997- The popen2 module and os.popen* are deprecated. Use the subprocess module.
998
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +0000999- Added an optional credentials argument to SMTPHandler, for use with SMTP
1000 servers which require authentication.
1001
1002- Patch #1695948: Added optional timeout parameter to SocketHandler.
1003
1004- Bug #1652788: Minor fix for currentframe.
1005
1006- Patch #1598415: Added WatchedFileHandler to better support external
1007 log file rotation using e.g. newsyslog or logrotate. This handler is
1008 only useful in Unix/Linux environments.
1009
Georg Brandlfb4b3b72007-04-24 15:27:13 +00001010- Bug #1706381: Specifying the SWIG option "-c++" in the setup.py file
1011 (as opposed to the command line) will now write file names ending in
1012 ".cpp" too.
1013
Facundo Batistad918a652007-04-24 13:54:38 +00001014- As specified in RFC 2616, an HTTP response like 2xx indicates that
1015 the client's request was successfully received, understood, and accepted.
Facundo Batista673debf2007-09-19 14:02:03 +00001016 Now in these cases no error is raised in urllib (issue #1177) and urllib2.
Facundo Batistad918a652007-04-24 13:54:38 +00001017
Brett Cannonc6906652007-04-01 18:47:27 +00001018- Bug #1290505: time.strptime's internal cache of locale information is now
1019 properly recreated when the locale is changed.
1020
Neal Norwitz8f35f442007-04-01 18:24:22 +00001021- Patch #1685563: remove (don't add) duplicate paths in distutils.MSVCCompiler.
1022
Facundo Batistab6a5c9d2007-03-29 18:22:35 +00001023- Added a timeout parameter to the constructor of other protocols
1024 (telnetlib, ftplib, smtplib and poplib). This is second part of the
1025 work started with create_connection() and timeout in httplib, and
1026 closes patch #723312.
1027
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00001028- Patch #1676823: Added create_connection() to socket.py, which may be
1029 called with a timeout, and use it from httplib (whose HTTPConnection
Facundo Batista70f996b2007-05-21 17:32:32 +00001030 and HTTPSConnection now accept an optional timeout).
Facundo Batista07c78be2007-03-23 18:54:07 +00001031
Martin v. Löwis0af33882007-03-23 13:27:15 +00001032- Bug #978833: Revert r50844, as it broke _socketobject.dup.
1033
Žiga Seilnacht7492e422007-03-21 20:07:56 +00001034- Bug #1675967: re patterns pickled with Python 2.4 and earlier can
1035 now be unpickled with Python 2.5 and newer.
1036
Collin Wintera8785cc2007-03-19 18:52:08 +00001037- Patch #1630118: add a SpooledTemporaryFile class to tempfile.py.
1038
Georg Brandlcae9f3d2007-03-21 09:10:29 +00001039- Patch #1273829: os.walk() now has a "followlinks" parameter. If set to
1040 True (which is not the default), it visits symlinks pointing to
1041 directories.
1042
Georg Brandl8f06d022007-03-16 07:55:09 +00001043- Bug #1681228: the webbrowser module now correctly uses the default
1044 GNOME or KDE browser, depending on whether there is a session of one
1045 of those present. Also, it tries the Windows default browser before
1046 trying Mozilla variants.
1047
Collin Winter6f187742007-03-16 22:16:08 +00001048- Patch #1339796: add a relpath() function to os.path.
1049
Georg Brandlab1f4672007-03-15 07:41:30 +00001050- Patch #1681153: the wave module now closes a file object it opened if
1051 initialization failed.
1052
Georg Brandlf66b6032007-03-14 08:27:52 +00001053- Bug #767111: fix long-standing bug in urllib which caused an
1054 AttributeError instead of an IOError when the server's response didn't
1055 contain a valid HTTP status line.
1056
Georg Brandl03b90d82007-03-13 22:07:36 +00001057- Patch #957650: "%var%" environment variable references are now properly
1058 expanded in ntpath.expandvars(), also "~user" home directory references
1059 are recognized and handled on Windows.
1060
Georg Brandlb6ae6aa2007-03-13 21:58:44 +00001061- Patch #1429539: pdb now correctly initializes the __main__ module for
1062 the debugged script, which means that imports from __main__ work
1063 correctly now.
1064
Georg Brandlbad6f192007-03-13 21:32:56 +00001065- The nonobvious commands.getstatus() function is now deprecated.
1066
Georg Brandl8e84c652007-03-13 21:08:15 +00001067- Patch #1393667: pdb now has a "run" command which restarts the debugged
1068 Python program, optionally with different arguments.
1069
Thomas Heller5dc4fe02007-03-13 20:42:52 +00001070- Patch #1649190: Adding support for _Bool to ctypes as c_bool.
1071
Georg Brandl8441f152007-03-13 20:02:57 +00001072- Patch #1530482: add pydoc.render_doc() which returns the documentation
1073 for a thing instead of paging it to stdout, which pydoc.doc() does.
1074
Georg Brandld9bef352007-03-13 19:32:21 +00001075- Patch #1533909: the timeit module now accepts callables in addition to
1076 strings for the code to time and the setup code. Also added two
1077 convenience functions for instantiating a Timer and calling its methods.
1078
Georg Brandl35ef9c12007-03-13 18:31:49 +00001079- Patch #1537850: tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile now has a "delete" parameter
1080 which can be set to False to prevent the default delete-on-close
1081 behavior.
1082
Georg Brandl9e6b4702007-03-13 18:15:41 +00001083- Patch #1581073: add a flag to textwrap that prevents the dropping of
1084 whitespace while wrapping.
1085
Georg Brandl92a6bae2007-03-13 17:43:32 +00001086- Patch #1603688: ConfigParser.SafeConfigParser now checks values that
1087 are set for invalid interpolation sequences that would lead to errors
1088 on reading back those values.
1089
Lars Gustäbelc64e4022007-03-13 10:47:19 +00001090- Added support for the POSIX.1-2001 (pax) format to tarfile.py. Extended
1091 and cleaned up the test suite. Added a new testtar.tar.
1092
Martin v. Löwisbdd0f392007-03-13 10:24:00 +00001093- Patch #1449244: Support Unicode strings in
1094 email.message.Message.{set_charset,get_content_charset}.
1095
Georg Brandlb6a87542007-03-13 10:06:48 +00001096- Patch #1542681: add entries for "with", "as" and "CONTEXTMANAGERS" to
1097 pydoc's help keywords.
1098
Georg Brandl4ffc8f52007-03-13 09:41:31 +00001099- Patch #1555098: use str.join() instead of repeated string
1100 concatenation in robotparser.
1101
Georg Brandl94fe3f52007-03-13 09:32:11 +00001102- Patch #1635454: the csv.DictWriter class now includes the offending
1103 field names in its exception message if you try to write a record with
1104 a dictionary containing fields not in the CSV field names list.
1105
Georg Brandlceede5c2007-03-13 08:14:27 +00001106- Patch #1668100: urllib2 now correctly raises URLError instead of
1107 OSError if accessing a local file via the file:// protocol fails.
1108
Martin v. Löwis2681beb2007-03-12 11:01:10 +00001109- Patch #1677862: Require a space or tab after import in .pth files.
1110
Collin Winter2faa9e12007-03-11 16:00:20 +00001111- Patch #1192590: Fix pdb's "ignore" and "condition" commands so they trap
1112 the IndexError caused by passing in an invalid breakpoint number.
1113
Collin Winterae041062007-03-10 14:41:48 +00001114- Patch #1599845: Add an option to disable the implicit calls to server_bind()
1115 and server_activate() in the constructors for TCPServer, SimpleXMLRPCServer
1116 and DocXMLRPCServer.
1117
Collin Winter22c42ba2007-03-10 02:51:26 +00001118- Bug #1531963: Make SocketServer.TCPServer's server_address always
Collin Winterfaaa2042007-03-10 03:35:34 +00001119 be equal to calling getsockname() on the server's socket. Fixed by
1120 patch #1545011.
Collin Winter22c42ba2007-03-10 02:51:26 +00001121
Andrew M. Kuchlinge45a77a2008-01-19 16:26:13 +00001122- Patch #742598: Add .timeout attribute to SocketServer that calls
1123 .handle_timeout() when no requests are received.
1124
Thomas Heller2456a3c2007-03-09 20:39:22 +00001125- Bug #1651235: When a tuple was passed to a ctypes function call,
1126 Python would crash instead of raising an error.
1127
Thomas Hellerc2f77252007-03-09 19:21:28 +00001128- Bug #1646630: ctypes.string_at(buf, 0) and ctypes.wstring_at(buf, 0)
1129 returned string up to the first NUL character.
1130
Martin v. Löwis1190a382007-03-09 15:35:55 +00001131- Patch #957003: Implement smtplib.LMTP.
1132
Collin Winterfb728de2007-03-09 03:26:32 +00001133- Patch #1481079: add support for HTTP_REFERER to CGIHTTPServer.
1134
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00001135- Patch #1675424: Added tests for uncovered code in the zipfile module.
1136 The KeyError raised by Zipfile.getinfo for nonexistent names now has
Georg Brandl4b3ab6f2007-07-12 09:59:22 +00001137 a descriptive message.
1138
Martin v. Löwis05c075d2007-03-07 11:04:33 +00001139- Bug #1115886: os.path.splitext('.cshrc') gives now ('.cshrc', '').
1140
Georg Brandl9caadf82007-03-08 18:37:31 +00001141- unittest now verifies more of its assumptions. In particular, TestCase
1142 and TestSuite subclasses (not instances) are no longer accepted in
1143 TestSuite.addTest(). This should cause no incompatibility since it
1144 never made sense with ordinary subclasses -- the failure just occurred
1145 later, with a more cumbersome exception.
1146
Georg Brandld0a96252007-03-07 09:21:06 +00001147- Patch #787789: allow to pass custom TestRunner instances to unittest's
1148 main() function.
1149
Georg Brandl15c5ce92007-03-07 09:09:40 +00001150- Patches #1550273, #1550272: fix a few bugs in unittest and add a
1151 comprehensive test suite for the module.
1152
Georg Brandl71ff6462007-03-07 08:31:51 +00001153- Patch #1001604: glob.glob() now returns unicode filenames if it was
1154 given a unicode argument and os.listdir() returns unicode filenames.
1155
Skip Montanarod1287322007-03-06 15:41:38 +00001156- Patch #1673619: setup.py identifies extension modules it doesn't know how
1157 to build and those it knows how to build but that fail to build.
1158
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00001159- Patch #912410: Replace HTML entity references for attribute values
Martin v. Löwisab8a6bb2007-03-06 14:43:00 +00001160 in HTMLParser.
1161
Georg Brandlff432e62007-03-06 13:37:45 +00001162- Patch #1663234: you can now run doctest on test files and modules
1163 using "python -m doctest [-v] filename ...".
1164
Martin v. Löwis3eb76482007-03-06 10:41:24 +00001165- Patch #1121142: Implement ZipFile.open.
1166
Skip Montanarof694b1b2007-03-04 20:54:12 +00001167- Taught setup.py how to locate Berkeley DB on Macs using MacPorts.
1168
Raymond Hettinger00166c52007-02-19 04:08:43 +00001169- Added heapq.merge() for merging sorted input streams.
1170
Raymond Hettingercd3c1082007-10-23 21:23:07 +00001171- Added collections.namedtuple() for assigning field names to tuples.
Raymond Hettingerc37e5e02007-03-01 06:16:43 +00001172
Raymond Hettingerd36862c2007-02-21 05:20:38 +00001173- Added itertools.izip_longest().
1174
Brett Cannon971a0122007-02-15 22:54:39 +00001175- Have the encoding package's search function dynamically import using absolute
1176 import semantics.
1177
Lars Gustäbel5b1a7852007-02-13 16:09:24 +00001178- Patch #1647484: Renamed GzipFile's filename attribute to name.
1179
Martin v. Löwis84f6de92007-02-13 10:10:39 +00001180- Patch #1517891: Mode 'a' for ZipFile now creates the file if it
1181 doesn't exist.
1182
Martin v. Löwisc6d626e2007-02-13 09:49:38 +00001183- Patch #698833: Support file decryption in zipfile.
1184
Martin v. Löwis07aa3ed2007-02-13 08:34:45 +00001185- Patch #685268: Consider a package's __path__ in imputil.
1186
Martin v. Löwis2bad58f2007-02-12 12:21:10 +00001187- Patch 1463026: Support default namespace in XMLGenerator.
1188
Skip Montanaro691acf22007-02-11 18:24:37 +00001189- Patch 1571379: Make trace's --ignore-dir facility work in the face of
1190 relative directory names.
1191
Neal Norwitz72d9eec2007-03-15 04:41:20 +00001192- Bug #1600860: Search for shared python library in LIBDIR,
1193 not lib/python/config, on "linux" and "gnu" systems.
Martin v. Löwis0a203262007-02-09 12:36:48 +00001194
Lars Gustäbel3f8aca12007-02-06 18:38:13 +00001195- Patch #1652681: tarfile.py: create nonexistent files in append mode and
1196 allow appending to empty files.
1197
Peter Astrand5f9c6ae2007-02-06 15:37:50 +00001198- Bug #1124861: Automatically create pipes if GetStdHandle fails in
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00001199 subprocess.
Peter Astrand5f9c6ae2007-02-06 15:37:50 +00001200
Georg Brandl4ba9e5b2007-01-27 17:59:42 +00001201- Patch #1634778: add missing encoding aliases for iso8859_15 and
1202 iso8859_16.
1203
Georg Brandlab496842007-01-27 17:43:02 +00001204- Patch #1638243: the compiler package is now able to correctly compile
1205 a with statement; previously, executing code containing a with statement
1206 compiled by the compiler package crashed the interpreter.
1207
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00001208- Bug #1643943: Fix time.strptime's support for the %U directive.
1209
Lars Gustäbel0713a682007-02-19 09:54:47 +00001210- Patch #1507247: tarfile.py: use current umask for intermediate
1211 directories.
1212
Georg Brandldd7b0522007-01-21 10:35:10 +00001213- Patch #1627441: close sockets properly in urllib2.
1214
Sjoerd Mullender33a0a062007-01-16 16:42:38 +00001215- Bug #494589: make ntpath.expandvars behave according to its docstring.
1216
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00001217- Changed platform module API python_version_tuple() to actually
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00001218 return a tuple (it used to return a list).
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00001219
1220- Added new platform module APIs python_branch(), python_revision(),
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00001221 python_implementation() and linux_distribution().
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00001222
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00001223- Added support for IronPython and Jython to the platform module.
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00001224
Brett Cannon093b6702007-01-13 00:29:49 +00001225- The sets module has been deprecated. Use the built-in set/frozenset types
1226 instead.
1227
Thomas Heller6fd45492007-01-12 20:21:53 +00001228- Bug #1610795: make ctypes.util.find_library work on BSD systems.
1229
Thomas Heller8138c262007-01-11 21:18:56 +00001230- Fixes for 64-bit Windows: In ctypes.wintypes, correct the
1231 definitions of HANDLE, WPARAM, LPARAM data types. Make
1232 parameterless foreign function calls work.
1233
Thomas Hellerfb9d7872007-01-10 20:12:13 +00001234- The version number of the ctypes package changed to "1.1.0".
1235
Vinay Sajipab41c102007-01-09 14:51:36 +00001236- Bug #1627575: logging: Added _open() method to FileHandler which can
1237 be used to reopen files. The FileHandler instance now saves the
1238 encoding (which can be None) in an attribute called "encoding".
1239
Vinay Sajipc9137262007-01-08 18:52:36 +00001240- Bug #411881: logging.handlers: bare except clause removed from
1241 SMTPHandler.emit. Now, only ImportError is trapped.
1242
1243- Bug #411881: logging.handlers: bare except clause removed from
1244 SocketHandler.createSocket. Now, only socket.error is trapped.
1245
1246- Bug #411881: logging: bare except clause removed from LogRecord.__init__.
1247 Now, only ValueError, TypeError and AttributeError are trapped.
1248
Lars Gustäbela7ba6fc2006-12-27 10:30:46 +00001249- Patch #1504073: Fix tarfile.open() for mode "r" with a fileobj argument.
1250
Andrew M. Kuchling71662322006-12-27 03:31:24 +00001251- Patch #1182394 from Shane Holloway: speed up HMAC.hexdigest.
1252
Lars Gustäbela4b23812006-12-23 17:57:23 +00001253- Patch #1262036: Prevent TarFiles from being added to themselves under
1254 certain conditions.
1255
Lars Gustäbel6baa5022006-12-23 16:40:13 +00001256- Patch #1230446: tarfile.py: fix ExFileObject so that read() and tell()
1257 work correctly together with readline().
1258
Georg Brandlebbeed72006-12-19 22:06:46 +00001259- Patch #1484695: The tarfile module now raises a HeaderError exception
1260 if a buffer given to frombuf() is invalid.
1261
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00001262- Bug #1503765: Fix a problem in logging.config with spaces in comma-
1263 separated lists read from logging config files.
1264
1265- Patch #1604907: Fix problems in logging.handlers caused at logging shutdown
1266 when syslog handlers fail to initialize because of syslogd problems.
1267
Neal Norwitz72d9eec2007-03-15 04:41:20 +00001268- Patch #1608267: fix a race condition in os.makedirs() if the directory
Georg Brandlb1307432006-12-09 09:08:29 +00001269 to be created is already there.
1270
Georg Brandl87fa5592006-12-06 22:21:18 +00001271- Patch #1610437: fix a tarfile bug with long filename headers.
1272
Martin v. Löwisa00bcac2006-12-03 12:01:53 +00001273- Patch #1371075: Make ConfigParser accept optional dict type
1274 for ordering, sorting, etc.
1275
Thomas Helleref583a42006-11-28 20:21:54 +00001276- Bug #1563807: _ctypes built on AIX fails with ld ffi error.
1277
Thomas Heller25d208b2006-11-24 18:45:39 +00001278- Bug #1598620: A ctypes Structure cannot contain itself.
1279
Martin v. Löwis07529352006-11-19 18:51:54 +00001280- Patch #1070046: Marshal new-style objects like InstanceType
1281 in xmlrpclib.
1282
Martin v. Löwiscffcc8b2006-11-19 10:41:41 +00001283- cStringIO.truncate(-1) now raises an IOError, like StringIO and
1284 regular files.
1285
Martin v. Löwisbba003e2006-11-18 18:42:11 +00001286- Patch #1472877: Fix Tix subwidget name resolution.
1287
Martin v. Löwisef5fd3e2006-11-18 18:05:35 +00001288- Patch #1594554: Always close a tkSimpleDialog on ok(), even
1289 if an exception occurs.
1290
Martin v. Löwisc73a4a42006-11-18 18:00:23 +00001291- Patch #1538878: Don't make tkSimpleDialog dialogs transient if
1292 the parent window is withdrawn.
1293
Georg Brandl54082112006-11-16 16:50:59 +00001294- Bug #1597824: return the registered function from atexit.register()
1295 to facilitate usage as a decorator.
1296
Martin v. Löwis45cd4ff2006-11-12 18:56:03 +00001297- Patch #1360200: Use unmangled_version RPM spec field to deal with
1298 file name mangling.
1299
Martin v. Löwis36cbc082006-11-12 18:48:13 +00001300- Patch #1359217: Process 2xx response in an ftplib transfer
1301 that precedes an 1xx response.
1302
Martin v. Löwis065f0c82006-11-12 10:41:39 +00001303- Patch #1355023: support whence argument for GzipFile.seek.
1304
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00001305- Patch #1065257: Support passing open files as body in
Martin v. Löwis040a9272006-11-12 10:32:47 +00001306 HTTPConnection.request().
1307
Andrew M. Kuchlinga3e5d372006-11-09 13:27:07 +00001308- Bug #1569790: mailbox.py: Maildir.get_folder() and MH.get_folder()
1309 weren't passing the message factory on to newly created Maildir/MH
1310 objects.
1311
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00001312- Patch #1514543: mailbox.py: In the Maildir class, report errors if there's
Andrew M. Kuchling77c7ac22006-11-10 13:14:01 +00001313 a filename clash instead of possibly losing a message. (Patch by David
Andrew M. Kuchling978d8282006-11-09 21:16:46 +00001314 Watson.)
1315
Andrew M. Kuchlingb5686da2006-11-09 13:51:14 +00001316- Patch #1514544: Try to ensure that messages/indexes have been physically
1317 written to disk after calling .flush() or .close(). (Patch by David
1318 Watson.)
1319
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00001320- Patch #1592250: Add elide argument to Tkinter.Text.search.
Martin v. Löwis038cad72006-11-09 11:27:32 +00001321
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00001322- Patch #838546: Make terminal become controlling in pty.fork().
Martin v. Löwisb2bba732006-11-09 11:06:03 +00001323
Martin v. Löwis5361e9a2006-11-08 07:35:55 +00001324- Patch #1351744: Add askyesnocancel helper for tkMessageBox.
1325
Martin v. Löwis5310e502006-11-04 18:14:06 +00001326- Patch #1060577: Extract list of RPM files from spec file in
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00001327 bdist_rpm.
Martin v. Löwis5310e502006-11-04 18:14:06 +00001328
Georg Brandl2c9838e2006-10-29 14:39:09 +00001329- Bug #1586613: fix zlib and bz2 codecs' incremental en/decoders.
1330
Georg Brandl3354f282006-10-29 09:16:12 +00001331- Patch #1583880: fix tarfile's problems with long names and posix/
1332 GNU modes.
1333
Georg Brandl5addf702006-10-29 08:53:06 +00001334- Bug #1586448: the compiler module now emits the same bytecode for
1335 list comprehensions as the builtin compiler, using the LIST_APPEND
1336 opcode.
1337
Georg Brandl8f99f812006-10-29 08:39:22 +00001338- Fix codecs.EncodedFile which did not use file_encoding in 2.5.0, and
1339 fix all codecs file wrappers to work correctly with the "with"
1340 statement (bug #1586513).
1341
Thomas Heller112d1a62006-10-27 19:05:53 +00001342- Lib/modulefinder.py now handles absolute and relative imports
1343 correctly.
1344
Martin v. Löwisee82c0e2006-10-27 07:13:28 +00001345- Patch #1567274: Support SMTP over TLS.
1346
Martin v. Löwis1b2f6272006-10-22 10:55:15 +00001347- Patch #1560695: Add .note.GNU-stack to ctypes' sysv.S so that
1348 ctypes isn't considered as requiring executable stacks.
1349
Thomas Hellerd2ea4a22006-10-17 19:30:48 +00001350- ctypes callback functions only support 'fundamental' data types as
1351 result type. Raise an error when something else is used. This is a
1352 partial fix for Bug #1574584.
1353
Brett Cannond80e0c82006-10-16 03:09:52 +00001354- Fix turtle so that time.sleep is imported for the entire library. Allows
1355 the demo2 function to be executed on its own instead of only when the
1356 module is run as a script.
1357
Georg Brandld0761532006-10-12 07:57:21 +00001358- Bug #813342: Start the IDLE subprocess with -Qnew if the parent
1359 is started with that option.
1360
Martin v. Löwisf43893a2006-10-09 20:44:25 +00001361- Bug #1565150: Fix subsecond processing for os.utime on Windows.
1362
Martin v. Löwis8b274262006-10-04 15:25:28 +00001363- Support for MSVC 8 was added to bdist_wininst.
1364
Georg Brandla92979a2006-09-30 11:22:28 +00001365- Bug #1446043: correctly raise a LookupError if an encoding name given
1366 to encodings.search_function() contains a dot.
1367
Georg Brandl154324a2006-09-30 11:06:47 +00001368- Bug #1560617: in pyclbr, return full module name not only for classes,
1369 but also for functions.
1370
Georg Brandl05b3c452006-09-30 10:58:01 +00001371- Bug #1457823: cgi.(Sv)FormContentDict's constructor now takes
1372 keep_blank_values and strict_parsing keyword arguments.
1373
Georg Brandl8d1e5bf2006-09-30 09:13:21 +00001374- Bug #1566602: correct failure of posixpath unittest when $HOME ends
1375 with a slash.
1376
Georg Brandl8c667452006-09-30 07:31:57 +00001377- Bug #1565661: in webbrowser, split() the command for the default
1378 GNOME browser in case it is a command with args.
1379
Brett Cannon11b35352006-09-26 23:38:24 +00001380- Made the error message for time.strptime when the data data and format do
1381 match be more clear.
1382
Georg Brandlc7986ce2006-09-24 12:50:24 +00001383- Fix a bug in traceback.format_exception_only() that led to an error
1384 being raised when print_exc() was called without an exception set.
1385 In version 2.4, this printed "None", restored that behavior.
1386
Georg Brandl2c94bf72006-09-24 10:36:01 +00001387- Make webbrowser.BackgroundBrowser usable in Windows (it wasn't because
1388 the close_fds arg to subprocess.Popen is not supported).
1389
Neal Norwitzbcc119a2006-09-11 04:24:09 +00001390- Reverted patch #1504333 to sgmllib because it introduced an infinite loop.
1391
Nick Coghlanb3c18f82006-09-08 10:04:38 +00001392- Patch #1553314: Fix the inspect.py slowdown that was hurting IPython & SAGE
1393 by adding smarter caching in inspect.getmodule()
1394
Georg Brandl4e933132006-09-06 20:05:58 +00001395- Fix missing import of the types module in logging.config.
1396
Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +00001397- Patch #1550886: Fix decimal module context management implementation
Neal Norwitza22975f2006-09-05 02:24:03 +00001398 to match the localcontext() example from PEP 343.
Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +00001399
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00001400- Bug #1545341: The 'classifier' keyword argument to the Distutils setup()
Andrew M. Kuchling99994792006-10-09 17:10:12 +00001401 function now accepts tuples as well as lists.
1402
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00001403- Bug #1541863: uuid.uuid1 failed to generate unique identifiers
1404 on systems with low clock resolution.
1405
Gustavo Niemeyerc36bede2006-09-07 00:48:33 +00001406- Bug #1531862: Do not close standard file descriptors in subprocess.
1407
Matthias Klosea398e2d2007-01-11 11:44:04 +00001408- idle: Honor the "Cancel" action in the save dialog (Debian bug #299092).
1409
Walter Dörwald42348272007-04-12 10:35:00 +00001410- Fix utf-8-sig incremental decoder, which didn't recognise a BOM when the
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00001411 first chunk fed to the decoder started with a BOM, but was longer than 3
1412 bytes.
Georg Brandl27562782006-10-27 20:39:43 +00001413
Walter Dörwald84a3efe2007-06-13 16:57:12 +00001414- The implementation of UnicodeError objects has been simplified (start and end
1415 attributes are now stored directly as Py_ssize_t members).
1416
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00001417- Issue829951: In the smtplib module, SMTP.starttls() now complies with
Gregory P. Smith2b3ba582008-01-17 08:03:17 +00001418 RFC 3207 and forgets any knowledge obtained from the server not obtained
1419 from the TLS negotiation itself. Patch contributed by Bill Fenner.
1420
Gregory P. Smithbde4ae42008-01-17 08:35:49 +00001421- Issue1339: The smtplib.SMTP class has been refactored a bit such
1422 that the SMTP.starttls() caller no longer needs to call ehlo()
1423 beforehand. SMTP.starttls() now raises an exception of the server
1424 does not claim to support starttls. Adds the SMTP.ehlo_or_helo_if_needed()
1425 method. Patch contributed by Bill Fenner.
1426
Facundo Batista7e251e82008-02-23 15:07:35 +00001427- Patch #1089358: Add signal.siginterrupt, a wrapper around siginterrupt(3).
Georg Brandl29604a12008-01-26 14:03:47 +00001428
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00001429Extension Modules
1430-----------------
1431
Christian Heimes0e9ab5f2008-03-21 23:49:44 +00001432- Patch #1657: added select.epoll and select.kqueue
1433
Georg Brandlebcfd112008-02-23 23:04:35 +00001434- Patch #1506171: added operator.methodcaller().
1435
Georg Brandle2065c62008-02-23 23:02:23 +00001436- Patch #1826: operator.attrgetter() now supports dotted attribute paths.
1437
Christian Heimesf0476e82008-02-23 17:42:31 +00001438- Patch #1957: syslogmodule: Release GIL when calling syslog(3)
1439
Facundo Batistae1396882008-02-17 18:59:29 +00001440- #2112: mmap.error is now a subclass of EnvironmentError and not a
1441 direct EnvironmentError
1442
Christian Heimes7adfad82008-02-15 08:20:11 +00001443- Bug #2111: mmap segfaults when trying to write a block opened with PROT_READ
1444
Georg Brandl0a40ffb2008-02-13 07:20:22 +00001445- #2063: correct order of utime and stime in os.times() result on Windows.
1446
Martin v. Löwise0d30ef2008-02-12 13:47:26 +00001447- Patch #1736: Fix file name handling of _msi.FCICreate.
1448
Hye-Shik Chang01612e72008-02-08 17:10:20 +00001449- Updated ``big5hkscs`` codec to the HKSCS revision of 2004.
1450
Georg Brandl29604a12008-01-26 14:03:47 +00001451- #1940: make it possible to use curses.filter() before curses.initscr()
1452 as the documentation says.
1453
Christian Heimes7f39c9f2008-01-25 12:18:43 +00001454- Backport of _fileio module from Python 3.0.
1455
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00001456- #1087741: mmap.mmap is now a class, not a factory function. It is also
Georg Brandl5ca3fd82008-01-21 14:18:14 +00001457 subclassable now.
1458
Georg Brandl56112892008-01-20 13:59:46 +00001459- Patch #1648: added ``sys.getprofile()`` and ``sys.gettrace()``.
1460
Georg Brandl309501a2008-01-19 20:22:13 +00001461- Patch #1663329: added ``os.closerange()`` function to quickly close a range
1462 of file descriptors without considering errors.
1463
Andrew M. Kuchling5c60bfc2008-01-19 18:18:41 +00001464- Patch 976880: ``mmap`` objects now have an ``rfind`` method that
1465 works as expected. ``mmap.find`` also takes an optional ``end``
1466 parameter.
1467
Fred Draked4e56132008-01-09 03:11:28 +00001468- _winreg's HKEY object has gained __enter__ and __exit__ methods to support
1469 the context manager protocol. The _winreg module also gained a new function
Christian Heimesb39a7562008-01-08 15:46:10 +00001470 ``ExpandEnvironmentStrings`` to expand REG_EXPAND_SZ keys.
1471
Raymond Hettinger47317092008-01-17 03:02:14 +00001472- itertools.starmap() now accepts any iterable input. Previously, it required
1473 the function inputs to be tuples.
1474
Andrew M. Kuchling91ae0c92008-03-04 00:40:32 +00001475- itertools.chain() now has an alternate constructor, chain.from_iterable().
Raymond Hettingerb4cbc982008-02-28 22:46:41 +00001476
Christian Heimesfb2d25a2008-01-07 16:12:44 +00001477- Issue #1646: Make socket support TIPC. The socket module now has support
1478 for TIPC under Linux, see http://tipc.sf.net/ for more information.
1479
Christian Heimes04ae9162008-01-04 15:23:30 +00001480- Added interface for Windows' WSAIoctl to socket object and added an example
1481 for a simple network sniffer.
1482
Guido van Rossum076d9ee2008-01-03 23:54:04 +00001483- Bug #1301: Bad assert in _tkinter fixed.
1484
Christian Heimescdaa2cb2007-12-31 14:47:07 +00001485- Added bdist_wininst executable for VS 2008.
1486
Raymond Hettingeradf9ffd2007-12-13 00:08:37 +00001487- Bug #1604: collections.deque.__init__(iterable) now clears any prior contents
1488 before adding elements from the iterable. This fix brings the behavior into
1489 line with that for list.__init__().
1490
Christian Heimes7c7f6af2007-12-10 15:12:41 +00001491- Added wide char functions to msvcrt module: getwch, getwche, putwch and
1492 ungetwch. The functions accept or return unicode.
1493
Martin v. Löwis69233e82007-12-04 08:39:16 +00001494- os.access now returns True on Windows for any existing directory.
1495
Christian Heimes28104c52007-11-27 23:16:44 +00001496- Added warnpy3k function to the warnings module.
1497
Raymond Hettinger12e94202007-11-07 01:13:09 +00001498- Marshal.dumps() now expects exact type matches for int, long, float, complex,
1499 tuple, list, dict, set, and frozenset. Formerly, it would silently miscode
1500 subclasses of those types. Now, it raises a ValueError instead.
1501
Martin v. Löwis58bd49f2007-09-04 13:13:14 +00001502- Patch #1388440: Add set_completion_display_matches_hook and
1503 get_completion_type to readline.
1504
Thomas Helleref4fff32007-07-13 17:46:54 +00001505- Bug #1649098: Avoid declaration of zero-sized array declaration in
1506 structure.
1507
Brett Cannondc48b742007-05-20 07:09:50 +00001508- Removed the rgbimg module; been deprecated since Python 2.5.
1509
Neal Norwitz59f58aa2007-05-19 03:48:47 +00001510- Bug #1721309: prevent bsddb module from freeing random memory.
1511
Gregory P. Smith82eafe62007-10-18 17:17:57 +00001512- Bug #1233: fix bsddb.dbshelve.DBShelf append method to work as
1513 intended for RECNO databases.
1514
Gregory P. Smithec10a4a2007-11-05 02:32:26 +00001515- pybsddb.sf.net Bug #477182: Load the database flags at database open
1516 time so that opening a database previously created with the DB_DUP or
1517 DB_DUPSORT flag set will keep the proper behavior on subsequent opens.
1518 Specifically: dictionary assignment to a DB object will replace all
1519 values for a given key when the database allows duplicate values.
1520 DB users should use DB.put(k, v) when they want to store duplicates; not
1521 DB[k] = v.
1522
Gregory P. Smithac11e022007-11-05 02:56:31 +00001523- Add the bsddb.db.DBEnv.lock_id_free method.
1524
Martin v. Löwis3bf573f2007-04-04 18:30:36 +00001525- Bug #1686475: Support stat'ing open files on Windows again.
1526
Georg Brandl4aef7272007-03-13 22:49:43 +00001527- Patch #1185447: binascii.b2a_qp() now correctly quotes binary characters
1528 with ASCII value less than 32. Also, it correctly quotes dots only if
1529 they occur on a single line, as opposed to the previous behavior of
1530 quoting dots if they are the second character of any line.
1531
Georg Brandla47337f2007-03-13 12:34:25 +00001532- Bug #1622896: fix a rare corner case where the bz2 module raised an
1533 error in spite of a succesful compression.
1534
Georg Brandl40c62612007-03-06 18:59:11 +00001535- Patch #1654417: make operator.{get,set,del}slice use the full range
1536 of Py_ssize_t.
1537
Guido van Rossum2054ee92007-03-06 15:50:01 +00001538- Patch #1646728: datetime.fromtimestamp fails with negative
1539 fractional times. With unittest.
1540
Martin v. Löwis382abef2007-02-19 10:55:19 +00001541- Patch #1490190: posixmodule now includes os.chflags() and os.lchflags()
1542 functions on platforms where the underlying system calls are available.
1543
Georg Brandl983d1002007-02-15 11:29:04 +00001544- Patch #1494140: Add documentation for the new struct.Struct object.
1545
Martin v. Löwis45423a72007-02-14 10:07:37 +00001546- Patch #1432399: Support the HCI protocol for bluetooth sockets
1547
Martin v. Löwisb1cc1d42007-02-13 12:14:19 +00001548- Patch #1657276: Make NETLINK_DNRTMSG conditional.
1549
Martin v. Löwis4c11a922007-02-08 09:13:36 +00001550- Bug #1653736: Complain about keyword arguments to time.isoformat.
1551
Georg Brandlb84c1372007-01-21 10:28:43 +00001552- Bug #1486663: don't reject keyword arguments for subclasses of builtin
1553 types.
1554
Martin v. Löwisaef4c6b2007-01-21 09:33:07 +00001555- Patch #1610575: The struct module now supports the 't' code, for
1556 C99 _Bool.
1557
Guido van Rossumbb2cc692007-01-14 17:03:32 +00001558- Patch #1635058: ensure that htonl and friends never accept or
1559 return negative numbers, per the underlying C implementation.
1560
Martin v. Löwis046c4d12006-12-03 11:23:45 +00001561- Patch #1544279: Improve thread-safety of the socket module by moving
1562 the sock_addr_t storage out of the socket object.
1563
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00001564- Patch #1019808: fix bug that causes an incorrect error to be returned
Andrew M. Kuchling060e6852008-01-19 20:47:59 +00001565 when a socket timeout is set and a connection attempt fails.
1566
Neal Norwitz45e230a2006-11-19 21:26:53 +00001567- Speed up function calls into the math module.
1568
Georg Brandl25aabf42006-11-16 17:08:45 +00001569- Bug #1588217: don't parse "= " as a soft line break in binascii's
1570 a2b_qp() function, instead leave it in the string as quopri.decode()
1571 does.
1572
Neal Norwitz4fe44232006-11-21 05:26:22 +00001573- Bug #1599782: Fix segfault on bsddb.db.DB().type().
1574
Martin v. Löwis012bc722006-10-15 09:43:39 +00001575- Bug #1567666: Emulate GetFileAttributesExA for Win95.
1576
Martin v. Löwis18aaa562006-10-15 08:43:33 +00001577- Patch #1576166: Support os.utime for directories on Windows NT+.
1578
Georg Brandl412a9ea2006-10-09 19:03:06 +00001579- Patch #1572724: fix typo ('=' instead of '==') in _msi.c.
1580
Hye-Shik Changb7883462006-10-08 13:48:34 +00001581- Bug #1572832: fix a bug in ISO-2022 codecs which may cause segfault
1582 when encoding non-BMP unicode characters.
1583
Georg Brandl4ddfcd32006-09-30 11:17:34 +00001584- Bug #1556784: allow format strings longer than 127 characters in
1585 datetime's strftime function.
1586
Jack Diederichd10a0f72006-09-21 20:34:49 +00001587- Fix itertools.count(n) to work with negative numbers again.
1588
Martin v. Löwis43fd99c2006-09-16 17:36:37 +00001589- RLIMIT_SBSIZE was added to the resource module where available.
1590
Georg Brandl74bb7832006-09-06 06:03:59 +00001591- Bug #1551427: fix a wrong NULL pointer check in the win32 version
1592 of os.urandom().
1593
Neal Norwitz6aefa912006-09-02 02:50:35 +00001594- Bug #1548092: fix curses.tparm seg fault on invalid input.
1595
Andrew M. Kuchling62182c82008-01-08 14:56:02 +00001596- Patch #1114: fix curses module compilation on 64-bit AIX, & possibly
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00001597 other 64-bit LP64 platforms where attr_t is not the same size as a long.
Andrew M. Kuchling62182c82008-01-08 14:56:02 +00001598 (Contributed by Luke Mewburn.)
1599
Neal Norwitz69e88972006-09-02 02:58:13 +00001600- Bug #1550714: fix SystemError from itertools.tee on negative value for n.
1601
Hye-Shik Chang199f1db2006-09-05 12:07:09 +00001602- Fixed a few bugs on cjkcodecs:
1603 - gbk and gb18030 codec now handle U+30FB KATAKANA MIDDLE DOT correctly.
1604 - iso2022_jp_2 codec now encodes into G0 for KS X 1001, GB2312
1605 codepoints to conform the standard.
Hye-Shik Chang2cad3e92006-09-05 12:14:57 +00001606 - iso2022_jp_3 and iso2022_jp_2004 codec can encode JIS X 0213:2
Hye-Shik Chang199f1db2006-09-05 12:07:09 +00001607 codepoints now.
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00001608
Andrew M. Kuchling43889c02006-09-27 16:37:30 +00001609- Bug #1552726: in readline.c, avoid repeatedly polling in interactive
1610 mode by only placing a timeout on the select() if an input hook has
1611 been defined. This prevents an interactive Python from waking up 10
1612 times per second. Patch by Richard Boulton.
1613
Gregory P. Smithf09c6262007-03-17 22:33:35 +00001614- fixed a bug with bsddb.DB.stat: the flags and txn keyword arguments
1615 were transposed.
1616
Matthias Klose691632f2007-09-03 23:33:04 +00001617- Added support for linking the bsddb module against BerkeleyDB 4.5.x
1618 and 4.6.x.
Gregory P. Smith8b96a352007-01-05 01:59:42 +00001619
Walter Dörwald8537c302007-03-06 21:15:24 +00001620- Bug #1633621: if curses.resizeterm() or curses.resize_term() is called,
1621 update _curses.LINES, _curses.COLS, curses.LINES and curses.COLS.
Andrew M. Kuchling43889c02006-09-27 16:37:30 +00001622
Matthias Klosee19e0c22007-04-03 04:35:59 +00001623- Fix an off-by-one bug in locale.strxfrm().
1624
Matthias Klose38336402007-09-04 20:46:02 +00001625- Fix libffi configure for hppa*-*-linux* | parisc*-*-linux*.
1626
Matthias Klose9afb9852007-10-24 20:00:44 +00001627- Build using system ffi library on arm*-linux*.
1628
Christian Heimes3f065a42007-11-21 01:17:28 +00001629- Bug #1372: zlibmodule.c: int overflow in PyZlib_decompress
Matthias Klosee19e0c22007-04-03 04:35:59 +00001630
Gregory P. Smitheeed5b72008-02-03 07:20:53 +00001631- bsddb module: Fix memory leak when using database cursors on
1632 databases without a DBEnv.
1633
Gerhard Häring11ab8072008-03-02 13:12:27 +00001634- The sqlite3 module was updated to pysqlite 2.4.1.
1635
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00001636Tests
1637-----
1638
Brett Cannon56c4deb2008-03-03 00:38:58 +00001639- Refactor test_logging to use unittest.
Brett Cannonf9db8a32008-02-17 01:59:18 +00001640
Georg Brandlb7090772008-02-05 19:58:17 +00001641- Refactor test_profile and test_cprofile to use the same code to profile.
1642
Brett Cannondbed7a72007-08-23 14:53:17 +00001643- Make test_runpy reentrant by fixing _check_module to clear out any module
1644 being tested. Was causing an error by __import__ doing a reload on the
1645 second run and thus suppressing bytecode recreation.
1646
Brett Cannonea2835a2007-03-14 21:44:15 +00001647- Capture socket connection resets and timeouts in test_socket_ssl and
1648 test_urllib2net and raise test.test_support.ResourceDenied.
Brett Cannoned001842007-03-14 21:40:13 +00001649
Martin v. Löwiscd1210a2007-03-14 20:02:31 +00001650- Patch #1559413: Fix test_cmd_line if sys.executable contains a space.
1651
Brett Cannona30fcb42007-03-08 23:58:11 +00001652- Added test.test_support.TransientResource which is a context manager to
1653 surround calls to resources that are not guaranteed to work even if
1654 test.test_support.requires says that the resource should exist.
1655
Brett Cannone05e6b02007-01-29 04:41:44 +00001656- Added a test for slicing of an exception.
1657
Brett Cannon92d54d52007-01-04 00:23:49 +00001658- Added test.test_support.EnvironmentVarGuard. It's a class that provides a
1659 context manager so that one can temporarily set or unset environment
1660 variables.
1661
Thomas Heller112d1a62006-10-27 19:05:53 +00001662- Added some tests for modulefinder.
1663
Brett Cannon373d90b2006-10-03 23:23:14 +00001664- Converted test_imp to use unittest.
1665
Neal Norwitz919d5cc2006-09-05 02:35:08 +00001666- Fix bsddb test_basics.test06_Transactions to check the version
1667 number properly.
1668
Walter Dörwalde6dae6c2007-04-03 18:33:29 +00001669- test.test_support.catch_warning is a new context manager that can be used
1670 to catch the warnings issued by the warning framework.
1671
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00001672
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00001673Tools
1674-----
1675
Facundo Batistaf88a0772008-02-17 16:21:13 +00001676- Tools/scripts/reindent.py now creates the backup file using shutil.copy
1677 to preserve user/group and permissions. Added also a --nobackup option
1678 to not create the backup if the user is concerned regarding this. Check
1679 issue 1050828 for more details.
1680
Christian Heimesbd865db2008-01-18 11:58:50 +00001681- Tools/scripts/win_add2path.py was added. The simple script modifes the
1682 PATH environment var of the HKCU tree and adds the python bin and script
1683 directory.
1684
Skip Montanaro3e275362007-08-29 01:33:45 +00001685- Tools/18n/pygettext.py was added to the list of scripts installed by
1686 Tools/scripts/setup.py (tracker item 642309).
1687
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00001688- Added IronPython and Jython support to pybench (part of which
1689 was patch #1563844)
1690
1691- Made some minor changes to pybench output to allow the user
1692 to see which Python version is running pybench
1693
1694- Added support for the new platform module feature
1695 platform.python_implementation(); this will now be saved
1696 in the benchmark pickle
1697
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00001698
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00001699Documentation
1700-------------
1701
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +00001702- RFE #1765140: Updated documentation on FileHandler and subclasses to
1703 include new optional delay argument.
1704
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00001705- Bug #932563: Added section on getting contextual information into logging
1706 output, and added documentation for the new LoggerAdapter class.
1707
1708- Bug #1295: Added information about caching of formatted exception
1709 information in the LogRecord by Formatter.format().
1710
Georg Brandl9467bc52007-07-12 09:37:49 +00001711- Bug #1637365: add subsection about "__name__ == __main__" to the
1712 Python tutorial.
1713
Georg Brandl3dc6e902007-04-25 06:24:59 +00001714- Patch #1698768: updated the "using Python on the Mac" intro.
1715
Brett Cannon55a18642007-04-08 04:29:32 +00001716- Bug #1569057: Document that calling file.next() when the file is open for
1717 writing is undefined.
1718
Žiga Seilnachtc64ad482007-03-24 14:24:26 +00001719- Patch #1489771: the syntax rules in Python Reference Manual were
1720 updated to reflect the current Python syntax.
1721
Martin v. Löwis2f401d72007-03-23 10:35:49 +00001722- Patch #1686451: Fix return type for
1723 PySequence_{Count,Index,Fast_GET_SIZE}.
1724
Georg Brandl0692a262007-03-13 07:50:57 +00001725- Patch #1679379: add documentation for fnmatch.translate().
1726
Collin Winterb7b2b4e2007-03-09 18:09:10 +00001727- Bug #1629566: clarify the docs on the return values of parsedate()
1728 and parsedate_tz() in email.utils and rfc822.
1729
Georg Brandld28b9fc2007-03-06 10:02:47 +00001730- Patch #1671450: add a section about subclassing builtin types to the
1731 "extending and embedding" tutorial.
1732
Georg Brandlb26b1c62007-01-17 21:19:58 +00001733- Bug #1629125: fix wrong data type (int -> Py_ssize_t) in PyDict_Next
1734 docs.
1735
Georg Brandla4c8e322006-10-12 08:22:53 +00001736- Bug #1565919: document set types in the Language Reference.
1737
Georg Brandl44a7b3a2006-09-30 12:02:57 +00001738- Bug #1546052: clarify that PyString_FromString(AndSize) copies the
1739 string pointed to by its parameter.
1740
Georg Brandlfb257732006-09-30 09:06:45 +00001741- Bug #1566663: remove obsolete example from datetime docs.
1742
Georg Brandl648c1102006-08-18 07:27:59 +00001743- Bug #1541682: Fix example in the "Refcount details" API docs.
1744 Additionally, remove a faulty example showing PySequence_SetItem applied
1745 to a newly created list object and add notes that this isn't a good idea.
1746
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00001747
Georg Brandl27562782006-10-27 20:39:43 +00001748Tools/Demos
1749-----------
1750
1751- Patch #1552024: add decorator support to unparse.py demo script.
Marc-André Lemburg96148682006-09-06 20:40:22 +00001752
Brett Cannonc8939d22006-09-20 19:28:35 +00001753- Make auto-generated python.vim file list built-ins and exceptions in
1754 alphatbetical order. Makes output more deterministic and easier to tell if
1755 the file is stale or not.
1756
Marc-André Lemburg96148682006-09-06 20:40:22 +00001757- Bug #1546372: Fixed small bugglet in pybench that caused a missing
1758 file not to get reported properly.
1759
1760
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00001761Build
1762-----
1763
Brett Cannon70c0c022008-02-03 09:59:21 +00001764- Have the search path for building extensions follow the declared order in
1765 $CPPFLAGS and $LDFLAGS when adding directories from those environment
1766 variables.
1767
Christian Heimes951cc0f2008-01-31 23:08:23 +00001768- Bug #1983: Added a check to pyport to verify that sizeof(pid_t) is
1769 smaller or equal sizeof(long).
1770
Christian Heimescba36bb2008-01-30 22:54:18 +00001771- Bug #1234: Fixed semaphore errors on AIX 5.2
1772
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00001773- Issue #1726: Remove Python/atof.c from PCBuild/pythoncore.vcproj
1774
1775- Removed PCbuild8/ directory and added a new build directory for VS 2005
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00001776 based on the VS 2008 build directory to PC/VS8.0. The script
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00001777 PCbuild/vs8to9.py was added to sync changes from PCbuild to PC/VS8.0.
1778
1779- Moved PCbuild/ directory for VS 2003 to PC/VS7.1 and renamed PCBuild9/
1780 directory to PCBuild/.
1781
Martin v. Löwiscb78de62007-12-29 18:49:21 +00001782- Bug #1699: Define _BSD_SOURCE only on OpenBSD.
1783
Guido van Rossum7c862f82007-12-13 20:50:10 +00001784- Bug #1608: use -fwrapv when GCC supports it. This is important,
1785 newer GCC versions may optimize away overflow buffer overflow checks
1786 without this option!
1787
Martin v. Löwis63bf1492007-11-12 05:14:05 +00001788- Patch #1418: Make the AC_REPLACE_FUNCS object files actually work.
1789
Raymond Hettingerdc1d1ba2007-11-07 02:45:46 +00001790- Add a FAST_LOOPS build option that speeds-up looping by trading away
1791 periodic threadstate and signal checking in tight loops. By default,
1792 this option is turned-off. It should only be enabled in debugged,
1793 performance critical applications.
1794
Martin v. Löwisd44a4e92007-09-05 11:47:34 +00001795- Patch #786737: Allow building in a tree of symlinks pointing to
1796 a readonly source.
1797
Martin v. Löwis8bc77e42007-09-01 06:36:03 +00001798- Bug #1737210: Change Manufacturer of Windows installer to PSF.
1799
Martin v. Löwis75c23bd2007-08-30 18:25:47 +00001800- Bug #1746880: Correctly install DLLs into system32 folder on Win64.
1801
Martin v. Löwis76760b02007-07-31 19:57:56 +00001802- Define _BSD_SOURCE, to get access to POSIX extensions on OpenBSD 4.1+.
1803
Brett Cannon19fab762007-06-02 03:02:29 +00001804- Stop supporting AtheOS and cause a build error in configure for the platform.
1805
Georg Brandldb846032007-03-31 18:56:11 +00001806- Bug #1655392: don't add -L/usr/lib/pythonX.Y/config to the LDFLAGS
1807 returned by python-config if Python was built with --enable-shared
1808 because that prevented the shared library from being used.
1809
Georg Brandl18c47f62007-03-13 10:19:22 +00001810- Patch #1569798: fix a bug in distutils when building Python from a
1811 directory within sys.exec_prefix.
1812
Martin v. Löwiseb623572007-03-12 10:50:39 +00001813- Bug #1675511: Use -Kpic instead of -xcode=pic32 on Solaris/x86.
1814
Martin v. Löwis4d542ec2006-11-25 15:39:19 +00001815- Disable _XOPEN_SOURCE on NetBSD 1.x.
1816
Martin v. Löwisaac13162006-10-19 10:58:46 +00001817- configure now checks whether gcc supports the PyArg_ParseTuple format
1818 attribute.
1819
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00001820- Bug #1578513: Cross compilation was broken by a change to configure.
Martin v. Löwisfefbc202006-10-17 18:59:23 +00001821 Repair so that it's back to how it was in 2.4.3.
1822
Martin v. Löwisc9e82f62006-10-15 07:54:40 +00001823- Patch #1576954: Update VC6 build directory; remove redundant
1824 files in VC7.
1825
Martin v. Löwisebe26702006-10-02 14:55:51 +00001826- Bug #1568842: Fix test for uintptr_t.
1827
Neal Norwitz4bc2c092006-09-05 02:57:01 +00001828- Patch #1540470, for OpenBSD 4.0.
1829
Matthias Klosed149d0c2006-12-03 17:16:41 +00001830- Fix build failure on kfreebsd and on the hurd.
1831
Matthias Kloseebde1492006-12-09 12:15:27 +00001832- Fix the build of the library reference in info format.
1833
Matthias Kloseeb8ff672007-08-02 21:33:13 +00001834- Allow Emacs 22 for building the documentation in info format.
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00001835
Matthias Klose642ac852007-09-04 18:17:36 +00001836- Makefile.pre.in(buildbottest): Run an optional script pybuildbot.identify
1837 to include some information about the build environment.
1838
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00001839
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00001840C API
1841-----
1842
Christian Heimes5b970ad2008-02-06 13:33:44 +00001843- Unified naming convention for free lists and their limits. All free lists
1844 in Object/ are named ``free_list``, the counter ``numfree`` and the upper
1845 limit is a macro ``PyName_MAXFREELIST`` inside an #ifndef block.
1846
Amaury Forgeot d'Arccab3d982008-02-03 22:51:43 +00001847- ``PySet_Add()`` can now modify a newly created frozenset. Similarly to
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00001848 ``PyTuple_SetItem``, it can be used to populate a brand new frozenset; but
Amaury Forgeot d'Arccab3d982008-02-03 22:51:43 +00001849 it does not steal a reference to the added item.
1850
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00001851- Added ``PySet_Check()`` and ``PyFrozenSet_Check()`` to the set API.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arccab3d982008-02-03 22:51:43 +00001852
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00001853- Backport of PyUnicode_FromString(), _FromStringAndSize(), _Format and
1854 _FormatV from Python 3.0. Made PyLong_AsSsize_t and PyLong_FromSsize_t
1855 public functions.
1856
1857- Patch #1720595: add T_BOOL to the range of structmember types.
1858
1859- Issue #1534: Added ``PyFloat_GetMax()``, ``PyFloat_GetMin()`` and
1860 ``PyFloat_GetInfo()`` to the float API.
1861
1862- Issue #1521: On 64bit platforms, using PyArgs_ParseTuple with the t# of w#
1863 format code incorrectly truncated the length to an int, even when
1864 PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN is set. The str.decode method used to return incorrect
1865 results with huge strings.
1866
1867- Issue #1629: Renamed Py_Size, Py_Type and Py_Refcnt to Py_SIZE, Py_TYPE
1868 and Py_REFCNT.
1869
1870- PEP 3123: Provide forward compatibility with Python 3.0, while keeping
1871 backwards compatibility. Add Py_Refcnt, Py_Type, Py_Size, and
1872 PyVarObject_HEAD_INIT.
1873
1874- Py_ssize_t fields work in structmember when HAVE_LONG_LONG is not defined.
1875
1876- Patch #1733960: Allow T_LONGLONG to accept ints.
1877
1878- T_PYSSIZET can now be used in PyMemberDef lists for Py_ssize_t members.
1879
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00001880- Added a new API function ``PyImport_ImportModuleNoBlock``.
1881
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00001882- Bug #1637022: Prefix AST symbols with _Py_.
1883
1884- Fix some leftovers from the conversion from int to Py_ssize_t
1885 (relevant to strings and sequences of more than 2**31 items).
1886
1887- Make _PyGILState_NoteThreadState() static, it was not used anywhere
1888 outside of pystate.c and should not be necessary.
1889
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00001890- ``PyImport_Import`` and ``PyImport_ImportModule`` now always do absolute
1891 imports. In earlier versions they might have used relative imports under
1892 some conditions.
1893
Andrew M. Kuchlingadc60ab2008-01-04 02:26:00 +00001894- Added case insensitive comparison methods ``PyOS_stricmp(char*, char*)``
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00001895 and ``PyOS_strnicmp(char*, char*, Py_ssize_t)``.
1896
Neal Norwitz8a267062006-08-19 04:25:29 +00001897- Bug #1542693: remove semi-colon at end of PyImport_ImportModuleEx macro
1898 so it can be used as an expression.
1899
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00001900
Martin v. Löwis2607e6c2006-11-21 18:20:25 +00001901Windows
1902-------
1903
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00001904- Patch #1706: Drop support for Win9x, WinME and NT4. Python now requires
Christian Heimes95d64472008-02-09 19:55:22 +00001905 Windows 2000 or greater. The _WINVER and NTDDI_VERSION macros are set to
1906 Win2k for x86/32bit builds and WinXP for AMD64 builds.
1907
Martin v. Löwis2607e6c2006-11-21 18:20:25 +00001908- Conditionalize definition of _CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE
1909 and _CRT_NONSTDC_NO_DEPRECATE.
1910
Martin v. Löwisd476a402007-10-12 08:56:52 +00001911- Bug #1216: Restore support for Visual Studio 2002.
1912
Martin v. Löwis2607e6c2006-11-21 18:20:25 +00001913
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00001914Mac
1915---
1916
Brett Cannonf0cb1d72007-05-31 20:01:11 +00001917- cfmfile now raises a DeprecationWarning.
1918
Brett Cannon791d56f2007-05-31 19:40:42 +00001919- buildtools now raises a DeprecationWarning.
1920
Brett Cannon5e263512007-05-20 23:17:38 +00001921- Removed the macfs module. It had been deprecated since Python 2.5. This
1922 lead to the deprecation of macostools.touched() as it relied solely on macfs
1923 and was a no-op under OS X.
1924
Skip Montanaroe5d7f7f2002-09-20 14:16:59 +00001925----
1926
1927**(For information about older versions, consult the HISTORY file.)**