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Skip Montanaroe5d7f7f2002-09-20 14:16:59 +00002Python News
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Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00007What's New in Python 2.6 beta 3?
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9
10*Release date: XX-Aug-2008*
11
12Core and Builtins
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14
Martin v. Löwisf91d46a2008-08-12 14:49:50 +000015- Issue #3139: Make buffer-interface thread-safe wrt. PyArg_ParseTuple,
16 by denying s# to parse objects that have a releasebuffer procedure,
17 and introducing s*.
18
Georg Brandl1e13ea92008-08-11 09:07:59 +000019- Issue #3537: Fix an assertion failure when an empty but presized dict
20 object was stored in the freelist.
21
Mark Dickinsonb6467572008-08-04 21:30:09 +000022- Issue #1481296: Make long(float('nan')) and int(float('nan')) raise
23 ValueError consistently across platforms.
24
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc39fd6722008-07-31 21:28:03 +000025- Issue #3479: On platforms where sizeof(int) is smaller than sizeof(long)
26 (64bit Unix, for example), unichr() would truncate its argument and return
27 u'\x00' for unichr(2**32). Now it properly raises an OverflowError.
28
Neal Norwitze7d8be82008-07-31 17:17:14 +000029- Apply security patches from Apple.
30
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc246daed2008-07-31 00:42:16 +000031- Issue #2542: Now that issubclass() may call arbitrary code, ensure that
32 PyErr_ExceptionMatches returns 0 when an exception occurs there.
33
Antoine Pitrou92f82162008-07-25 22:22:08 +000034- Issue #1819: function calls with several named parameters are now on
35 average 35% faster (as measured by pybench).
36
Amaury Forgeot d'Arce4921fe2008-07-21 22:00:38 +000037- Issue #2378: An unexpected UnboundLocalError or NameError could appear when
38 the python debugger steps into a class statement: the free variables (local
39 variables defined in an outer scope) would be deleted from the outer scope.
40
Gregory P. Smith0470bab2008-07-22 04:46:32 +000041- Issue #2620: Overflow checking when allocating or reallocating memory
42 was not always being done properly in some python types and extension
43 modules. PyMem_MALLOC, PyMem_REALLOC, PyMem_NEW and PyMem_RESIZE have
44 all been updated to perform better checks and places in the code that
45 would previously leak memory on the error path when such an allocation
46 failed have been fixed.
47
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +000048Library
49-------
50
Antoine Pitroub90a8be2008-08-15 21:03:21 +000051- Issue #2676: in the email package, content-type parsing was hanging on
52 pathological input because of quadratic or exponential behaviour of a
53 regular expression.
54
Antoine Pitrou11ec65d2008-08-14 21:04:30 +000055- Issue #3476: binary buffered reading through the new "io" library is now
56 thread-safe.
57
Brett Cannonbf3157b2008-08-14 05:00:03 +000058- Silence the DeprecationWarning of rfc822 when it is imported by mimetools
59 since mimetools itself is deprecated. Because modules are cached, all
60 subsequent imports of rfc822 will not raise a visible DeprecationWarning.
61
Antoine Pitrou9fcd4b32008-08-11 17:21:36 +000062- Issue #3134: shutil referenced undefined WindowsError symbol.
63
Robert Schuppenies14646332008-08-10 11:01:53 +000064- Issue #1342811: Fix leak in Tkinter.Menu.delete. Commands associated to
65 menu entries were not deleted.
66
Brett Cannon83e81842008-08-09 23:30:55 +000067- Copied the implementation of reduce() to _functools.reduce() to have a
68 version that did not raise a DeprecationWarning under -3.
69
Antoine Pitrou76b8bee2008-08-09 17:27:23 +000070- Issue #3205: When iterating over a BZ2File fails allocating memory, raise
71 a MemoryError rather than silently stop the iteration.
72
Guido van Rossum59ce9012008-08-09 14:55:34 +000073- Issue #3487: sre "bytecode" validator. Passing invalid "re-bytecode"
74 to _sre.compile() will now be rejected. This should not affect anybody
75 since the re.compile() function never generates invalid re-bytecode.
76
Skip Montanaroa032bf42008-08-08 22:52:51 +000077- Issue #3436: Make csv.DictReader's fieldnames attribute a property so that
78 upon first access it can be automatically initialized from the csv file if
79 it wasn't initialized during instantiation.
80
Brett Cannon3aa2a492008-08-06 22:28:09 +000081- Issue #2338: Create imp.reload() to help with transitioning to Python 3.0 as
82 the reload() built-in has been removed.
83
Brett Cannon7e30b672008-08-04 21:52:25 +000084- Changed code in the following modules/packages to remove warnings raised
Brett Cannonc1b76e42008-08-09 23:06:16 +000085 while running under the ``-3`` flag: aifc, asynchat, asyncore, bdb, bsddb,
Brett Cannon9fc56312008-08-09 23:39:11 +000086 ConfigParser, cookielib, csv, difflib, DocXMLRPCServer, email, filecmp,
87 fileinput, inspect, logging, modulefinder, pdb, pickle, profile, pstats,
88 pydoc, re, rlcompleter, SimpleXMLRPCServer, shelve, socket, subprocess,
89 sqlite3, tarfile, Tkinter, test.test_support, textwrap, threading, tokenize,
Brett Cannon46265862008-08-09 23:34:11 +000090 traceback, urlparse, wsgiref, xml, xmlrpclib.
Brett Cannon7e30b672008-08-04 21:52:25 +000091
Lars Gustäbel727bd0b2008-08-02 11:26:39 +000092- Issue #3039: Fix tarfile.TarFileCompat.writestr() which always
93 raised an AttributeError.
94
Benjamin Peterson01a24322008-07-28 23:35:27 +000095- Issue #2523: Fix quadratic behaviour when read()ing a binary file without
Antoine Pitroude781a42008-08-09 12:43:23 +000096 asking for a specific length. This problem only affected files opened
97 using the new "io" module, not the built-in open() function.
Benjamin Peterson01a24322008-07-28 23:35:27 +000098
Mark Dickinsonfe84cce2008-07-27 06:39:07 +000099- Issue #3449: Update decimal module to use most recent specification
100 (v. 1.68) and tests (v. 2.58) from IBM.
101
Skip Montanarof9ac43f2008-07-27 00:50:41 +0000102- Issue 3437: Bug fix in robotparser parsing of Allow: lines.
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Raymond Hettinger8c664e82008-07-25 18:43:33 +0000104- Issue 1592: Improve error reporting when operations are attempted
105 on a closed shelf.
106
Georg Brandlf9efabb2008-07-23 15:16:45 +0000107- Deprecate the "ast" parser function aliases.
108
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +0000109- Issue #3120: On 64-bit Windows the subprocess module was truncating handles.
110
111- Issue #3303: Fix a crash in locale.strcoll() when calling it with
112 invalid arguments.
113
114- Issue #3302: Fix several crashes when calling locale's gettext functions
115 with None arguments.
116
117- Issue #3389: Allow resolving dotted names for handlers in logging
118 configuration files.
119
120- Deprecate the sunaudio module for removal in Python 3.0.
121
Antoine Pitrou5fdfa3e2008-07-25 19:42:26 +0000122- Issue #3394: zipfile.writestr sets external attributes when passed a
123 file name rather than a ZipInfo instance, so files are extracted with
124 mode 0600 rather than 000 under Unix.
125
Gregory P. Smitha36f8fe2008-08-04 00:13:29 +0000126- Issue #1857: subprocess.Popen.poll gained an additional _deadstate keyword
127 argument in python 2.5, this broke code that subclassed Popen to include its
128 own poll method. Fixed my moving _deadstate to an _internal_poll method.
129
Martin v. Löwis8dbf3642008-08-01 14:10:26 +0000130Build
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132
133- Generate the PatternGrammar pickle during "make install".
134
Nick Coghlan2a0c2b12008-08-04 12:47:17 +0000135Documentation
136-------------
137
138- Issue #643841: The language reference now provides more detailed
139 coverage of the lookup process for special methods. The disclaimers
140 regarding lack of coverage of new-style classes have also been
141 removed, since the coverage is now fairly reasonable.
142
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +0000143
Raymond Hettingere3ae6552008-06-20 04:18:15 +0000144What's New in Python 2.6 beta 2?
145================================
146
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +0000147*Release date: 17-Jul-2008*
148
Raymond Hettingere3ae6552008-06-20 04:18:15 +0000149Core and Builtins
150-----------------
151
Georg Brandl3e483f62008-07-16 22:57:41 +0000152- Issue #3156: Fix inconsistent behavior of the bytearray type: all
153 its methods now allow for items objects that can be converted to
154 an integer using operator.index().
155
Mark Dickinson64b7e502008-07-16 09:40:03 +0000156- Issue #3360: Fix incorrect parsing of '020000000000.0', which
157 produced a ValueError instead of giving the correct float.
158
Eric Smitha5fa5a22008-07-16 00:11:49 +0000159- Issue #3083: Add alternate (#) formatting for bin, oct, hex output
160 for str.format(). This adds the prefix 0b, 0o, or 0x, respectively.
161
Mark Dickinson7103aa42008-07-15 19:08:33 +0000162- Issue #3008: the float type has a new instance method 'float.hex'
163 and a new class method 'float.fromhex' to convert floating-point
164 numbers to and from hexadecimal strings, respectively.
165
Nick Coghlan6d6bd442008-07-15 15:40:22 +0000166- Issue #2235: __hash__ is once again inherited by default. To allow
167 collections.Hashable to remain meaningful in the presence of the
168 default hash implementation (object.__hash__), it is now possible
169 to explicit block inheritance of hash by setting __hash__=None at
170 the Python level, or tp_hash=PyObject_HashNotImplemented at the C
171 level.
172
Nick Coghlanb028f502008-07-13 14:52:36 +0000173- Issue #3221: Issue a RuntimeWarning instead of raising SystemError if
174 the parent module cannot be found while performing an absolute import.
175 This means that an incorrectly defined __package__ attribute will
176 now only prevent relative imports in that module rather than causing
177 all imports from that module to fail.
178
Nick Coghlan14ff9942008-07-08 14:21:42 +0000179- Issue #2517: Allow unicode messages in Exceptions again by correctly
180 bypassing the instance dictionary when looking up __unicode__ on
181 new-style classes.
182
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbdd941f2008-07-01 20:38:04 +0000183- Issue #3242: Fix a crash inside the print statement, if sys.stdout is
184 set to a custom object whose write() method happens to install
185 another file in sys.stdout.
186
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc1f40c8a2008-06-30 22:42:40 +0000187- Issue #3088: Corrected a race condition in classes derived from
188 threading.local: the first member set by a thread could be saved in
189 another thread's dictionary.
190
Mark Dickinson1ec2fcd2008-06-20 14:53:43 +0000191- Issue #3004: Minor change to slice.indices(): the start and stop
192 arguments are now treated identically, making the behaviour easier
193 to describe and understand. For example, slice(None, -10,
194 1).indices(9) now returns (0, 0, 1) instead of (0, -1, 1), and
195 slice(None, 10, -1).indices(10) returns (9, 9, -1) instead of (9,
196 10, -1).
197
Georg Brandl278fc502008-07-19 12:46:12 +0000198- Issue #3219: Calling a function with repeated keyword arguments,
199 f(a=2, a=23), would not cause a syntax error. This was a regression
200 from 2.4 caused by the switch to the new compiler.
Benjamin Peterson175e4d92008-07-01 19:34:52 +0000201
Georg Brandl278fc502008-07-19 12:46:12 +0000202- Issue #2862: Make int and float freelist management consistent with
203 other freelists. Changes their CompactFreeList apis into
204 ClearFreeList apis and calls them via gc.collect().
Gregory P. Smith2fe77062008-07-06 03:35:58 +0000205
Brett Cannon8bb8fa52008-07-02 01:57:08 +0000206Library
207-------
208
Thomas Heller57adf222008-08-14 19:10:48 +0000209- Issue #3554: ctypes.string_at and ctypes.wstring_at did call Python
210 api functions without holding the GIL, which could lead to a fatal
211 error when they failed.
212
Martin v. Löwisaabf4042008-08-02 07:20:25 +0000213- Issue #799428: Fix Tkinter.Misc._nametowidget to unwrap Tcl command objects.
214
Jesse Noller7fb96402008-07-17 21:01:05 +0000215- Issue #3395: fix reference in test_multiprocessing to old debugInfo method
216
Georg Brandla24869a2008-07-16 22:33:18 +0000217- Issue #3312: Fix two crashes in sqlite3.
218
Georg Brandl86cbf812008-07-16 21:31:41 +0000219- Issue #1608818: Fix misbehavior in os.listdir() if readdir() fails.
220
Jesse Noller13e9d582008-07-16 14:32:36 +0000221- Issue #3125: Remove copy_reg in multiprocessing and replace it with
222 ForkingPickler.register() to resolve conflict with ctypes.
223
Vinay Sajip51e65192008-07-18 09:01:10 +0000224- Issue #3090: Fixed ARCHFLAGS parsing on OS/X
Jesse Noller13e9d582008-07-16 14:32:36 +0000225
Thomas Heller880f5292008-07-15 19:39:38 +0000226- Issue #3313: Fixed a crash when a failed dlopen() call does not set
227 a valid dlerror() message.
228
Thomas Heller2bad6572008-07-15 17:19:50 +0000229- Issue #3258: Fixed a crash when a ctypes POINTER type to an
230 incomplete structure was created.
231
Brett Cannon3d0b9f02008-07-13 01:15:07 +0000232- Issue #3339: dummy_thread.acquire() should not return None.
233
Raymond Hettingerb01713e2008-07-10 14:34:57 +0000234- Issue #3285: Fractions from_float() and from_decimal() accept Integral arguments.
235
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +0000236- Issue #3301: Bisect module behaved badly when lo was negative.
Raymond Hettinger3cd1e422008-07-10 14:03:19 +0000237
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc0f7cddc2008-07-06 21:34:39 +0000238- Issue #839496: SimpleHTTPServer used to open text files in text mode. This is
239 both unnecessary (HTTP allows text content to be sent in several forms) and
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +0000240 wrong because the actual transmitted size could differ from the
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc0f7cddc2008-07-06 21:34:39 +0000241 content-length. The problem had been corrected in the 2.4 branch, but never
242 merged into trunk.
243
Georg Brandle78fbcc2008-07-05 10:13:36 +0000244- Issue #2663: add filtering capability to shutil.copytree().
245
Martin v. Löwis8c436412008-07-03 12:51:14 +0000246- Issue #1622: Correct interpretation of various ZIP header fields.
247
248- Issue #1526: Allow more than 64k files to be added to Zip64 file.
249
250- Issue #1746: Correct handling of zipfile archive comments (previously
251 archives with comments over 4k were flagged as invalid). Allow writing
Vinay Sajip51e65192008-07-18 09:01:10 +0000252 Zip files with archives by setting the 'comment' attribute of a ZipFile.
Martin v. Löwis8c436412008-07-03 12:51:14 +0000253
Vinay Sajip51e65192008-07-18 09:01:10 +0000254- Issue #449227: The rlcompleter module now adds "(" to callable objects
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +0000255 when completed.
Facundo Batista66c52772008-07-02 16:52:55 +0000256
Nick Coghlanc060b0e2008-07-02 13:09:19 +0000257- Issue #3190: Pydoc now hides the automatic module attribute __package__ (the
258 handling is now the same as that of other special attributes like __name__).
259
Brett Cannon8bb8fa52008-07-02 01:57:08 +0000260- Issue #2885 (partial): The urllib.urlopen() function has been deprecated for
261 removal in Python 3.0 in favor of urllib2.urlopen().
262
Gregory P. Smithf4140642008-07-06 07:16:40 +0000263- Issue #2113: Fix error in subprocess.Popen if the select system call is
264 interrupted by a signal.
265
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +0000266- Issue #3309: Fix bz2.BZFile iterator to release its internal lock
Gregory P. Smith3b1e6b22008-07-07 04:31:58 +0000267 properly when raising an exception due to the bz2file being closed.
268 Prevents a deadlock.
269
Gregory P. Smithc4691ec2008-07-07 05:09:12 +0000270- Issue #3094: httplib.HTTPSConnection Host: headers no longer include the
271 redundant ":443" port number designation when the connection is using the
272 default https port (443).
273
Gregory P. Smithdb3409c2008-07-17 03:13:05 +0000274- Issue #874900: after an os.fork() call the threading module state is cleaned
275 up in the child process to prevent deadlock and report proper thread counts
276 if the new process uses the threading module.
277
Nick Coghlan38469e22008-07-13 12:23:47 +0000278Tests
279-----
280
281- test.test_support.catch_warning now keeps track of all warnings it sees
282 and is now better documented. Explicit unit tests for this context manager
283 have been added to test_warnings.
284
Martin v. Löwisd84fd952008-06-30 06:57:39 +0000285Build
286-----
287
288- Issue #3215: Build sqlite3 as sqlite3.dll, not sqlite3.pyd.
289
Brett Cannon8bb8fa52008-07-02 01:57:08 +0000290
Brett Cannon97aa1ae2008-07-11 00:12:52 +0000291Documentation
292-------------
293
Brett Cannonfeef51d2008-07-11 00:50:01 +0000294- Document that robotparser has been renamed to urllib.robotparser in
Brett Cannon963ffdb2008-07-11 00:48:57 +0000295 Python 3.0.
296
Brett Cannonf6afa332008-07-11 00:16:30 +0000297- Document that urlparse has been renamed to urllib.parse in Python 3.0.
298
Brett Cannon97aa1ae2008-07-11 00:12:52 +0000299- Document that urllib2 is split across multiple modules and renamed in
300 Python 3.0.
301
302- Document that urllib is split across multiple modules and renamed in
303 Python 3.0.
304
305
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +0000306What's New in Python 2.6 beta 1?
307================================
308
Barry Warsawb5d17402008-06-19 01:48:07 +0000309*Release date: 18-June-2008*
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +0000310
311Core and Builtins
312-----------------
313
Brett Cannondea1b562008-06-27 00:31:13 +0000314- Issue #3211: warnings.warn_explicit() did not guard against its 'registry'
315 argument being anything other than a dict or None. Also fixed a bug in error
316 handling when 'message' and 'category' were both set to None, triggering a
317 bus error.
318
Amaury Forgeot d'Arca8919fe2008-06-16 19:12:42 +0000319- Issue #3100: Corrected a crash on deallocation of a subclassed weakref which
320 holds the last (strong) reference to its referent.
321
Georg Brandl89f48872008-06-11 18:55:38 +0000322- Add future_builtins.ascii().
323
Raymond Hettinger5c4d3d02008-06-09 13:07:27 +0000324- Several set methods now accept multiple arguments: update(), union(),
Raymond Hettinger4267be62008-06-11 10:30:54 +0000325 intersection(), intersection_update(), difference(), and difference_update().
Raymond Hettingeree4bcad2008-06-09 08:33:37 +0000326
Robert Schuppenies51df0642008-06-01 16:16:17 +0000327- Issue #2898: Added sys.getsizeof() to retrieve size of objects in bytes.
328
Martin v. Löwis99815892008-06-01 07:20:46 +0000329- New environment variable PYTHONIOENCODING.
330
Martin v. Löwis4dd019f2008-05-20 08:11:19 +0000331- Patch #2488: Add sys.maxsize.
332
Georg Brandla9916b52008-05-17 22:11:54 +0000333- Issue #2353: file.xreadlines() now emits a Py3k warning.
334
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000335- Issue #2863: generators now have a ``gen.__name__`` attribute that
336 equals ``gen.gi_code.co_name``, like ``func.__name___`` that equals
337 ``func.func_code.co_name``. The repr() of a generator now also
338 contains this name.
Georg Brandlc91210c2008-05-15 15:08:32 +0000339
Georg Brandlbd85eb12008-05-14 06:34:15 +0000340- Issue #2831: enumerate() now has a ``start`` argument.
341
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000342- Issue #2801: fix bug in the float.is_integer method where a
343 ValueError was sometimes incorrectly raised.
Mark Dickinsone81c3762008-05-09 16:14:15 +0000344
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000345- Issue #2790: sys.flags was not properly exposing its bytes_warning
346 attribute.
Brett Cannon3c1d50a2008-05-08 20:23:54 +0000347
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000348- Issue #2196: hasattr() now lets exceptions which do not inherit
349 Exception (KeyboardInterrupt, and SystemExit) propagate instead of
350 ignoring them.
Benjamin Petersonb9030f42008-05-12 00:41:23 +0000351
Gregory P. Smith9d534572008-06-11 07:41:16 +0000352- Added checks for integer overflows, contributed by Google. Some are
353 only available if asserts are left in the code, in cases where they
354 can't be triggered from Python code.
355
356
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +0000357Extension Modules
358-----------------
359
Raymond Hettinger305480c2008-06-16 01:42:40 +0000360- Issue #3116: marshal.dumps() had quadratic behavior for strings > 32Mb.
361
Andrew M. Kuchling2126bab2008-06-22 13:39:11 +0000362- Issue #2138: Add factorial() to the math module.
Raymond Hettingerecbdd2e2008-06-09 06:54:45 +0000363
Raymond Hettinger6d7702e2008-05-31 03:24:31 +0000364- The heapq module does comparisons using LT instead of LE. This
365 makes its implementation match that used by list.sort().
366
Mark Dickinson99dfe922008-05-23 01:35:30 +0000367- Issue #2819: add full-precision summation function to math module,
368 based on Hettinger's ASPN Python Cookbook recipe.
369
Georg Brandl88659b02008-05-20 08:40:43 +0000370- Issue #2592: delegate nb_index and the floor/truediv slots in
371 weakref.proxy.
372
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000373- Support os.O_ASYNC and fcntl.FASYNC if the constants exist on the
374 platform.
Georg Brandl5049a852008-05-16 13:10:15 +0000375
Brett Cannon044616a2008-05-15 02:33:55 +0000376- Support for Windows 9x has been removed from the winsound module.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcf9b54c22008-05-12 21:30:24 +0000377
Jesus Ceaca3939c2008-05-22 15:27:38 +0000378- bsddb module updated to version 4.7.0.
379 http://www.jcea.es/programacion/pybsddb.htm#bsddb3-4.7.0
Jesus Ceaef9764f2008-05-13 18:45:46 +0000380
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000381- Issue #2858: Fix potential memory corruption when
382 bsddb.db.DBEnv.lock_get and other bsddb.db object constructors
383 raised an exception.
Gregory P. Smith664782e2008-05-17 06:12:02 +0000384
Gregory P. Smith5d7d6c32008-05-25 08:32:04 +0000385- Issue #2669: bsddb/__init__.py iteration no longer silently fails when
386 the database has changed size during iteration. It now raises a
387 RuntimeError in the same manner as a dictionary.
388
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000389- Issue #2870: cmathmodule.c compile error.
Christian Heimes0bd23c02008-05-16 10:23:31 +0000390
Gregory P. Smith8856dda2008-06-01 23:48:47 +0000391- Added a threading.Thread.getIdent() method.
392
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +0000393Library
394-------
395
Vinay Sajip1e022682008-06-29 21:27:15 +0000396- logging.config: Removed out-of-date comment in _install_handlers and
397 used issubclass in place of equality comparison of classes.
398
Facundo Batista5596b0c2008-06-22 13:36:20 +0000399- Issue #2722: Now the os.getcwd() supports very long path names.
400
Facundo Batista2da91c32008-06-21 17:43:56 +0000401- Issue #2888: Fixed the behaviour of pprint when working with nested
402 structures, to match the behaviour of 2.5 and 3.0 (now follows the common
403 sense).
404
Facundo Batistaa6a4d502008-06-21 18:58:04 +0000405- Issue #1817: cgi now correctly handles the querystring on POST requests
406
Vinay Sajip8dc20fd2008-06-19 22:41:08 +0000407- Issue #3136: fileConfig()'s disabling of old loggers is now conditional via
408 an optional disable_existing_loggers parameter, but the default value is
409 such that the old behaviour is preserved. Thanks to Leandro Lucarella for
410 the patch.
411
Vinay Sajip9828b7e2008-06-17 11:04:02 +0000412- Issue #3126: StreamHandler and FileHandler check before calling "flush" and
413 "close" that the stream object has these, using hasattr (thanks to bobf for
414 the patch).
415
Benjamin Peterson5c0be322008-06-13 15:11:50 +0000416- Issue #2912: platform.uname now tries to determine unknown information even if
417 os.uname exists.
418
Benjamin Peterson26305a02008-06-12 22:33:06 +0000419- The rfc822 module has been deprecated for removal in 3.0.
420
Benjamin Petersona03722f2008-06-12 14:23:49 +0000421- The mimetools module has been deprecated for removal in 3.0.
422
Thomas Heller1cec7aa2008-06-10 14:07:12 +0000423- The ctypes.byref function now takes an optional second parameter
424 which allows to specify an offset in bytes for the constructed
425 pointer-like object.
426
Georg Brandl8509db52008-06-10 07:45:28 +0000427- Added the ast module.
428
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +0000429- Added the multiprocessing module, PEP 371.
Benjamin Peterson6f7ae692008-06-11 20:04:30 +0000430
Georg Brandl7be19aa2008-06-07 15:59:10 +0000431- Factored out the indentation cleaning from inspect.getdoc() into
432 inspect.cleandoc() to ease standalone use.
433
Thomas Hellerfbb9c0b2008-06-06 08:33:46 +0000434- Issue #1798: Add ctypes calling convention that allows safe access
435 to errno.
436
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +0000437- Issue #2404: ctypes objects support the new pep3118 buffer interface.
Thomas Heller59475e92008-06-05 17:52:59 +0000438
Vinay Sajip9828b7e2008-06-17 11:04:02 +0000439- Patch #2125: Add GetInteger and GetString methods for
Martin v. Löwisffe62ed2008-06-02 08:40:06 +0000440 msilib.Record objects.
441
Gregory P. Smith137d8242008-06-02 04:05:52 +0000442- Issue #2782: The datetime module's strftime methods now accept
443 unicode format strings just as time.strftime always has.
444
Georg Brandlac19d852008-06-01 21:19:14 +0000445- The sgmllib and htmllib modules have been deprecated for removal
446 in Python 3.0.
447
448- Issue #3011: locale module alias table was updated to the latest
449 version from the X.org locale.alias file.
Marc-André Lemburgadff65b2008-05-30 20:52:18 +0000450
Thomas Heller9287acf2008-05-29 19:42:34 +0000451- Issue #1797 (partial fix): ctypes NULL function pointers have a
452 False boolean value now.
453
Georg Brandld0b592f2008-05-29 07:45:26 +0000454- Issue #2985: Allow 64-bit integer responses (``<i8>``) in XMLRPC
455 transfers.
456
457- Issue #2877: The UserString.MutableString class has been removed in
458 Python 3.0.
Brett Cannonabb34fe2008-05-29 05:08:50 +0000459
Lars Gustäbelb1a54a32008-05-27 12:39:23 +0000460- Do not close external file objects passed to tarfile.open(mode='w:bz2')
461 when the TarFile is closed.
462
Georg Brandle08e3d02008-05-25 08:07:37 +0000463- Issue #2959: For consistency with other file-like objects, gzip's
464 GzipFile.close() can now be called multiple times without raising
465 an exception.
466
Martin v. Löwis27e4a172008-05-23 15:18:28 +0000467- Issue #1390: Raise ValueError in toxml when an invalid comment would
468 otherwise be produced.
469
Vinay Sajipc0128832008-05-20 15:37:22 +0000470- Issue #2914: TimedRotatingFileHandler now takes an optional keyword
471 argument "utc" to use UTC time rather than local time.
472
473- Issue #2929: TimedRotatingFileHandler was using the wrong path when
474 deleting old log files (filename only instead of full path).
475
Georg Brandl112aa502008-05-20 08:25:48 +0000476- Issue #1775025: You can now specify zipfile members to open(),
477 read() or extract() via a ZipInfo instance. This allows handling
478 duplicate filenames in zipfiles.
479
Georg Brandl28fdfa92008-05-17 17:57:01 +0000480- Issue #961805: Fix Text.edit_modified() in Tkinter.
481
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000482- Issue #1793: Function ctypes.util.find_msvcrt() added that returns
Thomas Heller95ba13f2008-05-16 20:06:31 +0000483 the name of the C runtime library that Python uses.
484 ctypes.util.find_library(name) now call this function when name is
485 'm' or 'c'.
486
Brett Cannonfa40bbf2008-05-16 00:50:02 +0000487- The statvfs module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
488
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000489- The sunaudiodev and SUNAUDIODEV modules have been deprecated for
490 removal in Python 3.0.
491
492- The WAIT module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
493 3.0.
494
495- The torgb module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
496 3.0.
497
498- The SV module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
499 3.0.
500
501- The readcd module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
Brett Cannon22248172008-05-16 00:10:24 +0000502 Python 3.0.
503
Brett Cannon11ae6e72008-05-15 03:49:00 +0000504- The panelparser module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
505 Python 3.0.
506
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000507- The panel module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
508 3.0.
Brett Cannon7e375862008-05-15 03:46:27 +0000509
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000510- The jpeg module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
511 3.0.
Brett Cannon89f5d9c2008-05-15 03:44:00 +0000512
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000513- The IOCTL module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
514 3.0.
Brett Cannond8c41ec2008-05-15 03:41:55 +0000515
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000516- The IN module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
517 3.0.
Brett Cannon6328b292008-05-15 03:36:13 +0000518
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000519- The imgfile module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
Brett Cannon178582e2008-05-15 03:20:36 +0000520 Python 3.0.
521
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000522- The GLWS module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
523 3.0.
Brett Cannon72ccc402008-05-15 03:17:24 +0000524
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000525- The GET module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
526 3.0.
Brett Cannon2773b6f2008-05-15 03:14:57 +0000527
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000528- The fm module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
529 3.0.
530
531- The FL, flp, and fl modules from IRIX have been deprecated for
532 removal in Python 3.0.
533
534- The FILE module on IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
535 3.0.
536
537- The ERRNO module on IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
538 3.0.
539
540- The DEVICE, GL, gl, and cgen modules (which indirectly includes
541 cgensupport) have been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
Brett Cannon044616a2008-05-15 02:33:55 +0000542
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000543- The CL, CL_old, and cl modules for IRIX have been deprecated for
544 removal in Python 3.0.
545
546- The cdplayer module for IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
Brett Cannon650f5162008-05-14 21:12:12 +0000547 Python 3.0.
548
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000549- The cddb module for IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
550 3.0.
Brett Cannon9eebe492008-05-14 20:34:22 +0000551
Brett Cannonddf949f2008-05-14 20:31:38 +0000552- The cd and CD modules for IRIX have been deprecated for removal in
553 Python 3.0.
554
Brett Cannon34721d52008-05-14 01:08:21 +0000555- The al and AL modules for IRIX have been deprecated for removal in
556 Python 3.0.
557
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000558- Issue #1713041: fix pprint's handling of maximum depth.
Georg Brandl23da6e62008-05-12 16:26:52 +0000559
Brett Cannonbb141bb2008-05-12 03:47:47 +0000560- The timing module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
561
Brett Cannonac861b52008-05-12 03:45:59 +0000562- The sv module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
563
Brett Cannon43e5ef42008-05-12 03:19:20 +0000564- The multifile module has been deprecated as per PEP 4.
565
Brett Cannon42bfa902008-05-12 00:08:34 +0000566- The imageop module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
567
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000568- Issue #2250: Exceptions raised during evaluation of names in
569 rlcompleter's ``Completer.complete()`` method are now caught and
570 ignored.
Georg Brandl627a6662008-05-11 21:03:42 +0000571
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000572- Issue #2659: Added ``break_on_hyphens`` option to textwrap
573 TextWrapper class.
Georg Brandl6f95ae52008-05-11 10:42:28 +0000574
Brett Cannon2a869132008-05-11 03:01:47 +0000575- The mhlib module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
576
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000577- The linuxaudiodev module has been deprecated for removal in Python
578 3.0.
Brett Cannondf0a7172008-05-11 00:50:51 +0000579
Brett Cannon27508d42008-05-10 22:45:07 +0000580- The ihooks module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
581
Brett Cannonfe598512008-05-10 22:11:45 +0000582- The fpformat module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
583
Brett Cannone35a3a12008-05-10 21:22:43 +0000584- The dl module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
585
Brett Cannond5a09852008-05-10 03:14:32 +0000586- The Canvas module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
587
Brett Cannon6192df12008-05-10 02:58:26 +0000588- The compiler package has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
589
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000590- The Bastion and rexec modules have been deprecated for removal in
591 Python 3.0.
Brett Cannoncda73a42008-05-10 02:53:46 +0000592
Brett Cannon768d44f2008-05-10 02:47:54 +0000593- The bsddb185 module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
594
Brett Cannon9ac39742008-05-09 22:51:58 +0000595- The pure module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
596
Mark Dickinsonf8476c12008-05-09 17:54:23 +0000597- Issue #2487: change the semantics of math.ldexp(x, n) when n is too
598 large to fit in a C long. ldexp(x, n) now returns a zero (with
599 suitable sign) if n is large and negative; previously, it raised
600 OverflowError.
601
Brett Cannonfa24d9a2008-05-09 05:32:42 +0000602- The toaiff module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
603
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000604- The test.testall module has been deprecated for removal in Python
605 3.0.
Brett Cannon3c759142008-05-09 05:25:37 +0000606
Brett Cannond7265d62008-05-09 05:18:40 +0000607- The new module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
608
Brett Cannone3b19402008-05-08 20:36:09 +0000609- The user module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
610
Brett Cannon6071cc82008-05-08 19:52:45 +0000611- The stringold module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
612
613- The mutex module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
Brett Cannon9d441822008-05-08 19:26:08 +0000614
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +0000615- The imputil module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
616
Brett Cannoncae4f5f2008-05-08 20:24:43 +0000617- test.test_support.catch_warning() gained a 'record' argument.
618
Benjamin Peterson0893a0a2008-05-09 00:27:01 +0000619- os.path.walk is deprecated in favor of os.walk.
620
Georg Brandl9020ff82008-05-11 14:17:13 +0000621- pdb gained the "until" command.
Benjamin Peterson98353942008-05-11 14:13:25 +0000622
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000623- The Mac Modules (including Carbon) have been deprecated for removal
624 in Python 3.0.
Benjamin Peterson23681932008-05-12 21:42:13 +0000625
Vinay Sajip9828b7e2008-06-17 11:04:02 +0000626- Library: on MacOS X you can now set ``ARCHFLAGS`` in the shell
Ronald Oussoren5640ce22008-06-05 12:58:24 +0000627 environment to control the '-arch' flags that are used to build
628 an extension. This was added for compatibility with Apple's build
629 of Python.
630
631- The bundled OSX-specific copy of libbffi is now in sync with the version
632 shipped with PyObjC 2.0 and includes support for x86_64 and ppc64 platforms.
633
Benjamin Petersonf4395602008-06-11 17:50:00 +0000634- The threading module gained alias for names that are removed in 3.x.
Benjamin Peterson0fbcf692008-06-11 17:27:50 +0000635
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +0000636Build
637-----
638
Martin v. Löwiscc0f2b22008-06-13 18:12:51 +0000639- The Windows installer now includes Tk 8.5, bzip2 1.0.5, and SQLite 3.5.9.
Martin v. Löwis76307312008-06-12 18:52:00 +0000640
Martin v. Löwis8c255e42008-05-23 15:06:50 +0000641- Patch #1722225: Support QNX 6.
642
Brett Cannonb61d8012008-05-11 23:39:04 +0000643- ``Lib/lib-old`` is now added to sys.path.
644
Ronald Oussoren5640ce22008-06-05 12:58:24 +0000645- On MacOS X it is now possible to install the framework in 64-bit
646 mode or even as a 4-way universal binary (that is, PPC, i386,
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +0000647 PPC64 and x86_64 support in one binary).
Ronald Oussoren5640ce22008-06-05 12:58:24 +0000648
649 This is controlled by the configure argument ``--with-universal-archs``:
650
651 - ``--with-universal-archs=all``: install 4-way universal
652
653 - ``--with-universal-archs=32-bit``: install 2-way universal, 32-bit (the default)
654
655 - ``--with-universal-archs=64-bit``: install 2-way universal, 64-bit
656
657 This option should be used in combination with ``--enable-universalsdk=``.
658
659 NOTE: 64-bit and 4-way builds are only suppported on Mac OS X 10.5 (or later).
660
661
Christian Heimes7a990612008-05-26 13:15:11 +0000662C API
663-----
664
Georg Brandl74a1dea2008-05-28 11:21:39 +0000665- Add ``PyType_Modified()`` as a public API to clear the type cache.
666
667- The PyBytes functions have been renamed to PyByteArray.
Christian Heimes7a990612008-05-26 13:15:11 +0000668
669- The PyString functions have been renamed to PyBytes. A batch of
670 defines were added so that the linker still sees the original
671 PyString names.
672
Georg Brandl5e7b1c02008-05-16 17:40:23 +0000673
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +0000674What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 3?
Barry Warsaw65475fd2008-03-01 17:11:41 +0000675=================================
676
Barry Warsaw6cc79402008-05-08 13:16:19 +0000677*Release date: 08-May-2008*
Barry Warsaw65475fd2008-03-01 17:11:41 +0000678
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd21fb4c2008-03-05 01:50:33 +0000679Core and builtins
680-----------------
Georg Brandl80055f62008-03-25 07:56:27 +0000681
Georg Brandl28e08732008-04-30 19:47:09 +0000682- Issue #2719: backported the ``next()`` builtin from Python 3.
683
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000684- Issue #2681: The octal literal ``0o8`` was incorrecly acctepted. Now
685 it properly raises a SyntaxError.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc52167212008-04-24 18:07:05 +0000686
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000687- Issue #2617: Reserved -J and -X arguments for Jython, IronPython and
688 other implementations of Python.
Christian Heimes7a98d272008-04-12 13:03:03 +0000689
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000690- Implemented PEP 370: Per user site-packages directory.
Christian Heimesaf748c32008-05-06 22:41:46 +0000691
Andrew M. Kuchling46d6b682008-04-30 16:19:55 +0000692Extension Modules
693-----------------
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +0000694
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000695- Issue #2670: Fix a failure in urllib2.build_opener(), when passed
696 two handlers that derive the same default base class.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc96865852008-04-22 21:14:41 +0000697
Christian Heimese74c8f22008-04-19 02:23:57 +0000698- Added kill, terminate and send_signal(sig) to subprocess.Popen.
699
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000700- Added phase(z) -> phi, polar(z) -> r, phi and rect(r, phi) -> z to
701 the cmath module.
Christian Heimes6f341092008-04-18 23:13:07 +0000702
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000703- Four new methods were added to the math and cmath modules: acosh,
704 asinh, atanh and log1p.
Christian Heimes6f341092008-04-18 23:13:07 +0000705
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000706- zlib.decompressobj().flush(value) no longer crashes the interpreter
707 when passed a value less than or equal to zero.
Gregory P. Smith671c5d92008-04-09 18:18:43 +0000708
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000709- Issue #1631171: Re-implement the 'warnings' module in C (the
710 original Python code has been kept as backup). This will allow for
711 using the 'warning's machinery in such places as the parser where
712 use of pure Python code is not possible. Both the ``showarning()``
713 and ``formatwarning()`` gain an optional 'line' argument which is
714 not called by default for backwards-compatibility reasons. Setting
715 ``warnings.showwarning()`` to an implementation that lacks support
716 for the ``line`` argument will raise a DeprecationWarning.
Brett Cannone9746892008-04-12 23:44:07 +0000717
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +0000718Library
719-------
720
Brett Cannonf8436822008-05-06 23:41:32 +0000721- The audiodev module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
722
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000723- Issue #2750: Add the 'json' package. Based on simplejson 1.9 and
724 contributed by Bob Ippolito.
Brett Cannon4b964f92008-05-05 20:21:38 +0000725
Martin v. Löwis471617d2008-05-05 17:16:58 +0000726- Issue #1734346: Support Unicode file names for zipfiles.
727
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000728- Issue #2581: distutils: Vista UAC/elevation support for
729 bdist_wininst.
Mark Hammond7c5c8e62008-05-02 12:48:15 +0000730
Mark Dickinsonfe536f52008-04-25 16:59:09 +0000731- Issue #2635: Fix bug in 'fix_sentence_endings' textwrap.fill option,
732 where an extra space was added after a word containing (but not
733 ending in) '.', '!' or '?'.
734
Thomas Heller6ad5fbb2008-04-25 15:44:16 +0000735- Add from_buffer() and from_buffer_copy() class methods to ctypes
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +0000736 data types.
Thomas Heller6ad5fbb2008-04-25 15:44:16 +0000737
Neal Norwitz2b0bea52008-04-25 03:40:17 +0000738- Issue #2682: ctypes callback functions no longer contain a cyclic
Thomas Hellerbf027c42008-04-24 18:14:19 +0000739 reference to themselves.
740
Gregory P. Smithd59fefb2008-04-22 08:11:33 +0000741- The getpass module has been improved on Unix. It now uses /dev/tty
742 by default and uses stderr instead of stdout. A GetPassWarning is
743 issued when input echo cannot be controlled.
Gregory P. Smith41e30182008-04-21 21:31:08 +0000744
Skip Montanarob131f042008-04-18 20:35:46 +0000745- Issue #2014: Allow XML-RPC datetime objects to have dates before
746 1900-01-01.
747
Nick Coghlan106fc482008-04-15 10:25:31 +0000748- Issue #2439: Added new function pkgutil.get_data(), which is a
749 convenience wrapper for the PEP 302 get_data() API.
750
Thomas Heller046e6a42008-04-14 16:10:07 +0000751- Issue #2616: The ctypes.pointer() and ctypes.POINTER() functions are
752 now implemented in C for better performance.
753
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000754- Issue #2408: The ``_types`` module, which was used as in
755 implementation detail of the public ``types`` module, has been
756 removed and replaced by pure python code.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc02f33b42008-04-08 23:10:07 +0000757
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000758- Issue #2513: distutils on Windows is now capable of cross-compiling
Mark Hammond495cf992008-04-07 01:53:39 +0000759 extension modules between 32 and 64 bit platforms. See the distutls
760 build documentation for more information.
761
Gregory P. Smithaa63d0d2008-04-06 23:11:17 +0000762- Issue #815646: Individual file objects may now be used from multiple
763 threads at once without fear of crashing the Python interpreter. If
764 file.close() is called while an object is in use by another thread
765 an IOError exception will be raised and the file will not be closed.
766
Thomas Hellerf7906482008-04-04 19:43:25 +0000767- The bundled libffi copy is now in sync with the recently released
768 libffi3.0.5 version, apart from some small changes to
769 Modules/_ctypes/libffi/configure.ac.
770
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000771- Issue #2385: distutils.core.run_script() makes __file__ available,
772 so the controlled environment will more closely mirror the typical
773 script environment. This supports setup.py scripts that refer to
774 data files.
Fred Drake46c58c12008-04-04 05:41:30 +0000775
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +0000776Tests
777-----
Trent Nelsone41b0062008-04-08 23:47:30 +0000778
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000779- Issue #2550: The approach used by client/server code for obtaining
780 ports to listen on in network-oriented tests has been refined in an
781 effort to facilitate running multiple instances of the entire
782 regression test suite in parallel without issue.
783 test_support.bind_port() has been fixed such that it will always
784 return a unique port -- which wasn't always the case with the
785 previous implementation, especially if socket options had been set
786 that affected address reuse (i.e. SO_REUSEADDR, SO_REUSEPORT). The
787 new implementation of bind_port() will actually raise an exception
788 if it is passed an AF_INET/SOCK_STREAM socket with either the
789 SO_REUSEADDR or SO_REUSEPORT socket option set. Furthermore, if
790 available, bind_port() will set the SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE option on
791 the socket it's been passed. This currently only applies to
792 Windows. This option prevents any other sockets from binding to the
793 host/port we've bound to, thus removing the possibility of the
794 'non-deterministic' behaviour, as Microsoft puts it, that occurs
795 when a second SOCK_STREAM socket binds and accepts to a host/port
796 that's already been bound by another socket. The optional preferred
797 port parameter to bind_port() has been removed. Under no
798 circumstances should tests be hard coding ports!
799
800 test_support.find_unused_port() has also been introduced, which will
801 pass a temporary socket object to bind_port() in order to obtain an
802 unused port. The temporary socket object is then closed and
803 deleted, and the port is returned. This method should only be used
804 for obtaining an unused port in order to pass to an external program
805 (i.e. the -accept [port] argument to openssl's s_server mode) or as
806 a parameter to a server-oriented class that doesn't give you direct
807 access to the underlying socket used.
808
809 Finally, test_support.HOST has been introduced, which should be used
810 for the host argument of any relevant socket calls (i.e. bind and
811 connect).
Trent Nelsone41b0062008-04-08 23:47:30 +0000812
813 The following tests were updated to following the new conventions:
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000814 test_socket, test_smtplib, test_asyncore, test_ssl, test_httplib,
Trent Nelsone41b0062008-04-08 23:47:30 +0000815 test_poplib, test_ftplib, test_telnetlib, test_socketserver,
816 test_asynchat and test_socket_ssl.
817
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000818 It is now possible for multiple instances of the regression test
819 suite to run in parallel without issue.
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +0000820
821Build
822-----
823
Mark Dickinson65134662008-04-25 16:11:04 +0000824- Issue #1496032: On alpha, use -mieee when gcc is the compiler.
825
Thomas Hellerdc96a772008-04-04 10:07:55 +0000826- Issue #2544: On HP-UX systems, use 'gcc -shared' for linking when
827 gcc is used as compiler.
828
Ronald Oussoren580c7fe2008-05-02 19:45:11 +0000829- Issue #2573: On MacOS X it is now possible to install the framework
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000830 with a different name using --with-framework-name=NAME.
Ronald Oussoren580c7fe2008-05-02 19:45:11 +0000831
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +0000832C API
833-----
834
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000835- Added implementation of copysign, acosh, asinh, atanh and log1p to
836 the new files Include/pymath.h and Python/pymath.h for platforms
837 which provide the functions through their libm. The files also
838 contains several helpers and constants for math.
Christian Heimes6f341092008-04-18 23:13:07 +0000839
Benjamin Petersondacde0d2008-05-26 17:43:53 +0000840- Added a new convenience macro, PyErr_WarnPy3k, for issuing Py3k warnings.
Benjamin Petersona692c4d2008-04-27 02:28:02 +0000841
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +0000842
843What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 2?
844=================================
845
846*Release date: 02-Apr-2008*
847
848Core and builtins
849-----------------
850
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000851- Issue #1733757: The interpreter would hang on shutdown if the
852 tracing function set by sys.settrace is still active and happens to
853 call threading.currentThread().
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd7a26512008-04-03 23:07:55 +0000854
Georg Brandl91e0cda2008-03-29 01:50:06 +0000855- Patch #1442: properly report exceptions when the PYTHONSTARTUP file
856 cannot be executed.
857
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc69b747b2008-03-28 20:30:50 +0000858- The compilation of a class nested in another class used to leak one
859 reference on the outer class name.
860
Georg Brandlfc8eef32008-03-28 12:11:56 +0000861- Patch #1810: compile() can now compile _ast trees as returned by
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000862 ``compile(..., PyCF_ONLY_AST)``.
Georg Brandlfc8eef32008-03-28 12:11:56 +0000863
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000864- Patch #2426: Added sqlite3.Connection.iterdump method to allow easy
865 dumping of databases. Contributed by Paul Kippes at PyCon 2008.
Gregory P. Smithb9803422008-03-28 08:32:09 +0000866
Georg Brandldeaf2ca2008-03-27 13:27:31 +0000867- Patch #2477: Added from __future__ import unicode_literals.
Christian Heimes3c608332008-03-26 22:01:37 +0000868
Christian Heimes8c78cc32008-03-26 12:53:58 +0000869- Added backport of bytearray type.
870
Georg Brandl80055f62008-03-25 07:56:27 +0000871- Issue #2355: add Py3k warning for buffer().
872
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc9a0d3462008-03-23 09:55:29 +0000873- Issue #1477: With narrow Unicode builds, the unicode escape sequence
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000874 \Uxxxxxxxx did not accept values outside the Basic Multilingual
875 Plane. This affected raw unicode literals and the
876 'raw-unicode-escape' codec. Now UTF-16 surrogates are generated in
877 this case, like normal unicode literals and the 'unicode-escape'
878 codec.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc9a0d3462008-03-23 09:55:29 +0000879
Georg Brandl65bb42d2008-03-21 20:38:24 +0000880- Issue #2348: add Py3k warning for file.softspace.
881
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000882- Issue #2346/#2347: add Py3k warnings for __methods__ and
883 __members__.
Georg Brandl07e56812008-03-21 20:21:46 +0000884
Georg Brandl5a444242008-03-21 20:11:46 +0000885- Issue #2358: Add a Py3k warning on sys.exc_clear() usage.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd21fb4c2008-03-05 01:50:33 +0000886
Martin v. Löwisa4d77892008-03-19 04:39:13 +0000887- Issue #2400: Allow relative imports to "import *".
888
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000889- Issue #1745: Backport print function with ``from __future__ import
890 print_function``.
Eric Smith7c478942008-03-18 23:45:49 +0000891
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000892- Issue #2332: add new attribute names for instance method objects.
893 The two changes are: im_self -> __self__ and im_func -> __func__
Neal Norwitzb1d3d962008-03-18 04:46:00 +0000894
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000895- Issue #2379: Raise a Py3K warning for __getitem__ or __getslice__ on
Guido van Rossum6d91be32008-03-18 04:42:22 +0000896 exception instances.
897
Guido van Rossum04edb522008-03-18 02:49:46 +0000898- Issue #2371: Add a Py3k warning when catching an exception that
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000899 doesn't derive from BaseException.
900
901- Issue #2341: Add a Py3k warning when raising an exception that
902 doesn't derive from BaseException.
Guido van Rossum04edb522008-03-18 02:49:46 +0000903
Neal Norwitz419fd492008-03-17 20:22:43 +0000904- Issue #2321: use pymalloc for unicode object string data to reduce
905 memory usage in some circumstances.
906
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000907- PEP 3127: octal literals now start with "0o". Old-style octal
908 literals are still valid. There are binary literals with a prefix of
909 "0b". This also affects int(x, 0).
Eric Smith0aed07a2008-03-17 19:43:40 +0000910
Georg Brandl1e7c3752008-03-25 08:37:23 +0000911- Issue #2359: Adding deprecation warnings for array.{read,write}.
912
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000913- Issue #1779871: GNU gcc can now build Python on OS X because the
Jeffrey Yasskin1b4e45b2008-03-17 14:40:53 +0000914 flags -Wno-long-double, -no-cpp-precomp, and -mno-fused-madd are no
915 longer passed.
916
Neal Norwitz400aeda2008-03-15 22:03:18 +0000917- Add a warning when asserting a non-empty tuple which is always true.
918
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000919- Issue #2179: speed up with statement execution by storing the exit
920 method on the stack instead of in a temporary variable (patch by
921 Jeffrey Yaskin)
Nick Coghlan7af53be2008-03-07 14:13:28 +0000922
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000923- Issue #2238: Some syntax errors in *args and **kwargs expressions
924 could give bogus error messages.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd21fb4c2008-03-05 01:50:33 +0000925
Sean Reifscheider68fa8e62008-03-20 00:50:07 +0000926- Issue #2143: Fix embedded readline() hang on SSL socket EOF.
927
Andrew M. Kuchling46d6b682008-04-30 16:19:55 +0000928Extension Modules
929-----------------
Martin v. Löwisaef18b12008-03-24 13:31:16 +0000930
931- Patch #2240: Implement signal.setitimer and signal.getitimer.
932
Thomas Heller78b8f442008-03-05 14:53:39 +0000933Library
934-------
935
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000936- Issue #2315: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now accounts
937 for daylight savings time in calculating the next rollover.
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +0000938
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000939- Issue #2316: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now
940 calculates rollovers correctly even when nothing is logged for a
941 while.
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +0000942
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000943- Issue #2317: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now uses
944 improved logic for removing old files.
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +0000945
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000946- Issue #2495: tokenize.untokenize now inserts a space between two
947 consecutive string literals; previously, ["" ""] was rendered as
948 [""""], which is incorrect python code.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcda0c0252008-03-27 23:23:54 +0000949
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000950- Issue #2248: return the result of the QUIT command. from
951 SMTP.quit().
Georg Brandldeaf2ca2008-03-27 13:27:31 +0000952
Christian Heimes8c78cc32008-03-26 12:53:58 +0000953- Backport of Python 3.0's io module.
954
Mark Dickinson8e85ffa2008-03-25 18:47:59 +0000955- Issue #2482: Make sure that the coefficient of a Decimal is always
956 stored as a str instance, not as a unicode instance. This ensures
957 that str(Decimal) is always an instance of str.
958
Mark Dickinson3b24ccb2008-03-25 14:33:23 +0000959- Issue #2478: fix failure of decimal.Decimal(0).sqrt()
960
Georg Brandl77354cf2008-03-21 20:01:51 +0000961- Issue #2432: give DictReader the dialect and line_num attributes
962 advertised in the docs.
963
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000964- Issue #2460: Make Ellipsis object copyable.
Raymond Hettingerb72233c2008-03-24 08:17:39 +0000965
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000966- Issue #1681432: Add triangular distribution to the random module
Raymond Hettingerbbc50ea2008-03-23 13:32:32 +0000967
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000968- Issue #2136: urllib2's auth handler now allows single-quoted realms
969 in the WWW-Authenticate header.
Georg Brandl33124322008-03-21 19:54:00 +0000970
Marc-André Lemburga1867752008-03-20 18:08:00 +0000971- Issue #2434: Enhanced platform.win32_ver() to also work on Python
972 installation which do not have the win32all package installed.
973
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000974- Added support to platform.uname() to also report the machine and
975 processor information on Windows XP and later. As a result,
Marc-André Lemburga1867752008-03-20 18:08:00 +0000976 platform.machine() and platform.processor() will report this
977 information as well.
978
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000979- The library implementing the 2to3 conversion, lib2to3, was added to
980 the standard distribution.
Martin v. Löwis5e37bae2008-03-19 04:43:46 +0000981
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000982- Issue #1747858: Fix chown to work with large uid's and gid's on
983 64-bit platforms.
Gregory P. Smith37f3f432008-03-18 20:40:01 +0000984
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000985- Issue #1202: zlib.crc32 and zlib.adler32 no longer return different
986 values on 32-bit vs. 64-bit python interpreters. Both were correct,
987 but they now both return a signed integer object for consistency.
Gregory P. Smithf48f9d32008-03-17 18:48:05 +0000988
Skip Montanaro32ed8c22008-03-15 16:07:11 +0000989- Issue #1158: add %f format (fractions of a second represented as
990 microseconds) to datetime objects. Understood by both strptime and
991 strftime.
992
Mark Dickinsonc23b8a72008-03-14 14:23:37 +0000993- Issue #705836: struct.pack(">f", x) now raises OverflowError on all
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000994 platforms when x is too large to fit into an IEEE 754 float;
995 previously it only raised OverflowError on non IEEE 754 platforms.
Mark Dickinsonc23b8a72008-03-14 14:23:37 +0000996
Andrew M. Kuchlingaac5c862008-05-11 14:00:00 +0000997- Issues #2166, #1741 and #1531505: now distutils deals with HOME
998 correctly under win32
999
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001000- Patch #1858: distutils: added multiple server support in .pypirc
Andrew M. Kuchlingaac5c862008-05-11 14:00:00 +00001001
Facundo Batistac54aec12008-03-08 16:50:27 +00001002- Issue #1106316: pdb.post_mortem()'s parameter, "traceback", is now
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001003 optional: it defaults to the traceback of the exception that is
1004 currently being handled (is mandatory to be in the middle of an
1005 exception, otherwise it raises ValueError).
Facundo Batistac54aec12008-03-08 16:50:27 +00001006
Jeffrey Yasskine75f59a2008-03-07 06:22:15 +00001007- Issue #1193577: A .shutdown() method has been added to SocketServers
1008 which terminates the .serve_forever() loop.
1009
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001010- Issue #2220: handle rlcompleter attribute match failure more
1011 gracefully.
Georg Brandl98aa8052008-03-06 07:45:52 +00001012
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001013- Issue #2225: py_compile, when executed as a script, now returns a
1014 non- zero status code if not all files could be compiled
1015 successfully.
Georg Brandla7bd27f2008-03-06 07:41:16 +00001016
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001017- Bug #1725737: In distutils' sdist, exclude RCS, CVS etc. also in the
Georg Brandl810ea292008-03-06 07:34:52 +00001018 root directory, and also exclude .hg, .git, .bzr, and _darcs.
1019
Thomas Hellerf3c05592008-03-05 15:34:29 +00001020- Issue #1872: The struct module typecode for _Bool has been changed
1021 from 't' to '?'.
1022
Thomas Heller78b8f442008-03-05 14:53:39 +00001023- The bundled libffi copy is now in sync with the recently released
1024 libffi3.0.4 version, apart from some small changes to
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001025 Modules/_ctypes/libffi/configure.ac. On OS X, preconfigured libffi
1026 files are used. On all linux systems the --with-system-ffi
1027 configure option defaults to "yes".
Thomas Heller78b8f442008-03-05 14:53:39 +00001028
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001029- Issue #1577: shutil.move() now calls os.rename() if the destination
1030 is a directory instead of copying-then-remove-source.
Sean Reifscheider493894c2008-03-18 17:24:12 +00001031
Martin v. Löwisd2bbe522008-03-06 06:55:22 +00001032Tests
1033-----
1034
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001035- test_nis no longer fails when test.test_support.verbose is true and
1036 NIS is not set up on the testing machine.
Brett Cannon7919d982008-03-19 16:50:13 +00001037
Brett Cannona5573b32008-03-18 04:16:06 +00001038- Output comparison tests are no longer supported.
1039
Brett Cannonb7ec8e52008-03-18 03:46:22 +00001040- Rewrite test_errno to use unittest and no longer be a no-op.
1041
Brett Cannon0bb79502008-03-18 01:58:56 +00001042- GHOP 234: Convert test_extcall to doctest.
1043
Brett Cannonba17cfc2008-03-18 01:50:25 +00001044- GHOP 290: Convert test_dbm and test_dummy_threading to unittest.
1045
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001046- GHOP 293: Convert test_strftime, test_getargs, and test_pep247 to
1047 unittest.
Brett Cannon6eeaddc2008-03-18 01:00:07 +00001048
Brett Cannon1f5182b2008-03-13 21:09:28 +00001049- Issue #2055: Convert test_fcntl to unittest.
1050
Brett Cannon4a6e8d62008-03-13 21:02:16 +00001051- Issue 1960: Convert test_gdbm to unittest.
1052
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001053- GHOP 294: Convert test_contains, test_crypt, and test_select to
1054 unittest.
Brett Cannon2e0f9f32008-03-13 20:47:41 +00001055
Brett Cannonb8d37352008-03-13 20:33:10 +00001056- GHOP 238: Convert test_tokenize to use doctest.
1057
Brett Cannon66865d22008-03-13 20:27:00 +00001058- GHOP 237: Rewrite test_thread using unittest.
1059
Martin v. Löwisd2bbe522008-03-06 06:55:22 +00001060- Patch #2232: os.tmpfile might fail on Windows if the user has no
1061 permission to create files in the root directory.
1062
Martin v. Löwisbf7b0b72008-03-14 13:56:09 +00001063Build
1064-----
1065
Martin v. Löwiscdbc9772008-03-24 12:57:53 +00001066- A new script 2to3 is now installed, to run the 2.x to 3.x converter.
1067
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001068- Python/memmove.c and Python/strerror.c have been removed; both
1069 functions are in the C89 standard library.
Brett Cannonaa5778d2008-03-18 04:09:00 +00001070
Martin v. Löwisbf7b0b72008-03-14 13:56:09 +00001071- Patch #2284: Add -x64 option to rt.bat.
Barry Warsaw65475fd2008-03-01 17:11:41 +00001072
Christian Heimes3c608332008-03-26 22:01:37 +00001073C API
1074-----
1075
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00001076- Patch #2477: Added PyParser_ParseFileFlagsEx() and
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001077 PyParser_ParseStringFlagsFilenameEx().
1078
Christian Heimes3c608332008-03-26 22:01:37 +00001079
Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +00001080What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 1?
1081=================================
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00001082
Barry Warsaw7c075232008-03-01 02:53:36 +00001083*Release date: 29-Feb-2008*
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00001084
1085Core and builtins
1086-----------------
1087
Fred Drakea8ee94b2008-03-01 02:45:07 +00001088- Issue #2051: pyc and pyo files are no longer created with permission
Barry Warsaw52973612008-03-01 02:23:38 +00001089 644. The mode is now inherited from the py file.
Christian Heimes40346852008-02-23 17:52:07 +00001090
Georg Brandlad61bc82008-02-23 15:11:18 +00001091- Issue #2067: file.__exit__() now calls subclasses' close() method.
1092
1093- Patch #1759: Backport of PEP 3129 class decorators.
Christian Heimes5224d282008-02-23 15:01:05 +00001094
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00001095- Issue #1881: An internal parser limit has been increased. Also see
Facundo Batistafc2d0102008-02-23 12:01:13 +00001096 issue 215555 for a discussion.
1097
Eric Smitha73fbe72008-02-23 03:09:44 +00001098- Added the future_builtins module, which contains hex() and oct().
1099 These are the PEP 3127 version of these functions, designed to be
1100 compatible with the hex() and oct() builtins from Python 3.0. They
1101 differ slightly in their output formats from the existing, unchanged
1102 Python 2.6 builtins. The expected usage of the future_builtins
1103 module is:
1104 from future_builtins import hex, oct
1105
Eric Smith7ef40bf2008-02-20 23:34:22 +00001106- Issue #1600: Modifed PyOS_ascii_formatd to use at most 2 digit
1107 exponents for exponents with absolute value < 100. Follows C99
1108 standard. This is a change on Windows, which would use 3 digits.
1109 Also, added 'n' to the formats that PyOS_ascii_formatd understands,
1110 so that any alterations it does to the resulting string will be
1111 available in stringlib/formatter.h (for float.__format__).
1112
Eric Smith5a3c1352008-02-19 13:21:56 +00001113- Implemented PEP 3101, Advanced String Formatting. This adds a new
1114 builtin format(); a format() method for str and unicode; a
1115 __format__() method to object, str, unicode, int, long, float, and
1116 datetime; the class string.Formatter; and the C API
1117 PyObject_Format().
1118
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001119- Fixed several potential crashes, all caused by specially crafted
1120 __del__ methods exploiting objects in temporarily inconsistent
1121 state.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc632fad32008-02-16 20:55:24 +00001122
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00001123- Issue #2115: Important speedup in setting __slot__ attributes. Also
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001124 prevent a possible crash: an Abstract Base Class would try to access
1125 a slot on a registered virtual subclass.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc60d6c7f2008-02-15 21:22:45 +00001126
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001127- Fixed repr() and str() of complex numbers with infinity or nan as
1128 real or imaginary part.
Christian Heimes2f0da532008-02-15 06:57:08 +00001129
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001130- Clear all free lists during a gc.collect() of the highest generation
1131 in order to allow pymalloc to free more arenas. Python may give back
1132 memory to the OS earlier.
Christian Heimes3b718a72008-02-14 12:47:33 +00001133
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001134- Issue #2045: Fix an infinite recursion triggered when printing a
1135 subclass of collections.defaultdict, if its default_factory is set
1136 to a bound method.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcb01aa432008-02-08 00:56:02 +00001137
Christian Heimesf75dbef2008-02-08 00:11:31 +00001138- Fixed a minor memory leak in dictobject.c. The content of the free
1139 list was not freed on interpreter shutdown.
1140
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001141- Limit free list of method and builtin function objects to 256
1142 entries each.
Christian Heimes6075a822008-02-06 12:44:34 +00001143
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001144- Patch #1953: Added ``sys._compact_freelists()`` and the C API
1145 functions ``PyInt_CompactFreeList`` and ``PyFloat_CompactFreeList``
Christian Heimes422051a2008-02-04 18:00:12 +00001146 to compact the internal free lists of pre-allocted ints and floats.
1147
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001148- Issue #1983: Fixed return type of fork(), fork1() and forkpty()
1149 calls. Python expected the return type int but the fork familie
1150 returns pi_t.
Christian Heimes951cc0f2008-01-31 23:08:23 +00001151
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001152- Issue #1678380: Fix a bug that identifies 0j and -0j when they
1153 appear in the same code unit.
Mark Dickinson105be772008-01-31 22:17:37 +00001154
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001155- Issue #2025: Add tuple.count() and tuple.index() methods to comply
1156 with the collections.Sequence API.
Raymond Hettinger5b07ebc2008-02-07 00:54:20 +00001157
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001158- Patch #1970 by Antoine Pitrou: Speedup unicode whitespace and
1159 linebreak detection
Christian Heimes4d4f2702008-01-30 11:32:37 +00001160
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001161- Added ``PyType_ClearCache()`` and ``sys._clear_type_cache`` to clear
1162 the internal lookup cache for ref leak tests.
Christian Heimes908caac2008-01-27 23:34:59 +00001163
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001164- Patch #1473257: generator objects gain a gi_code attribute. This is
1165 the same object as the func_code attribute of the function that
1166 produced the generator.
Georg Brandl0cdf9a32008-01-26 14:14:20 +00001167
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001168- Issue #1920: "while 0" statements were completely removed by the
1169 compiler, even in the presence of an "else" clause, which is
1170 supposed to be run when the condition is false. Now the compiler
1171 correctly emits bytecode for the "else" suite.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc31eaafe2008-01-24 22:59:25 +00001172
Guido van Rossumeead05f2008-01-24 18:21:02 +00001173- A few crashers fixed: weakref_in_del.py (issue #1377858);
1174 loosing_dict_ref.py (issue #1303614, test67.py);
1175 borrowed_ref_[34].py (not in tracker).
1176
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +00001177- Issue #1069410: The "can't load dll" message box on Windows is
Christian Heimesb2302ba2008-01-23 17:15:06 +00001178 suppressed while an extension is loaded by calling SetErrorMode in
1179 dynload_win.c. The error is still reported properly.
1180
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001181- Issue #1915: Python compiles with --enable-unicode=no again. However
Christian Heimes082c9b02008-01-23 14:20:50 +00001182 several extension methods and modules do not work without unicode
1183 support.
1184
Georg Brandl26543b12008-01-21 18:36:51 +00001185- Issue #1882: when compiling code from a string, encoding cookies in the
1186 second line of code were not always recognized correctly.
1187
Georg Brandl14404b62008-01-19 19:27:05 +00001188- Issue #1679: "0x" was taken as a valid integer literal.
1189
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00001190- Issue #1865: ``bytes`` as an alias for ``str`` and b"" as an alias "" were
Christian Heimes288e89a2008-01-18 18:24:07 +00001191 added.
1192
Christian Heimesc94e2b52008-01-14 04:13:37 +00001193- sys.float_info / PyFloat_GetInfo: The floating point information
1194 object was converted from a dict to a specialized structseq object.
1195
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001196- Patch #1816: Added sys.flags structseq. It exposes the status of
1197 most command line arguments and PYTHON* environment variables.
Christian Heimesf31b69f2008-01-14 03:42:48 +00001198
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001199- Objects/structseq.c: Implemented new structseq representation. The
1200 patch makes structseqs (e.g. the return value of os.stat) more
1201 readable.
Christian Heimes9c201962008-01-14 03:33:52 +00001202
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001203- Patch #1700288: added a type attribute cache that caches method
1204 accesses, resulting in speedups in heavily object-oriented code.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arce4c270c2008-01-14 00:29:41 +00001205
Neal Norwitz3fc15b82008-01-10 05:42:58 +00001206- Bug #1776: __import__() no longer accepts filenames on any platform.
1207 The first parameter to __import__() must be a valid module name.
Christian Heimes3403f152008-01-09 19:56:33 +00001208
Georg Brandlaed6c662008-01-07 17:25:53 +00001209- Patch #1668: renamed THREADDEBUG envvar to PYTHONTHREADDEBUG.
1210
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001211- Patch #602345: Add -B command line option, PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE
1212 envvar and sys.dont_write_bytecode attribute. All these can be set
1213 to forbid Python to attempt to write compiled bytecode files.
Georg Brandl2da0fce2008-01-07 17:09:35 +00001214
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001215- Improve some exception messages when Windows fails to load an
1216 extension module. Now we get for example '%1 is not a valid Win32
1217 application' instead of 'error code 193'.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arce0b76952008-01-04 02:04:15 +00001218
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001219- Bug #1481296: Fixed long(float('nan')) != 0L.
Christian Heimes8267d1d2008-01-04 00:37:34 +00001220
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001221- Issue #1640: Added math.isinf(x), math.isnan(x) and math.copysign(x,
1222 y) functions.
Christian Heimese2ca4242008-01-03 20:23:15 +00001223
Christian Heimes0a8143f2007-12-18 23:22:54 +00001224- Issue #1635: Platform independent creation and representation of NaN
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001225 and INF. float("nan"), float("inf") and float("-inf") now work on
1226 every platform with IEEE 754 semantics.
Christian Heimes0a8143f2007-12-18 23:22:54 +00001227
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001228- Compiler now generates simpler and faster code for dictionary
1229 literals. The oparg for BUILD_MAP now indicates an estimated
1230 dictionary size. There is a new opcode, STORE_MAP, for adding
1231 entries to the dictionary.
Raymond Hettingerfd7ed402007-12-18 21:24:09 +00001232
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001233- Issue #1638: %zd configure test fails on Linux.
Christian Heimesdb3d6cb2007-12-16 21:39:43 +00001234
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001235- Issue #1620: New property decorator syntax was modifying the
1236 decorator in place instead of creating a new decorator object.
Christian Heimes90e10e72007-12-14 02:35:23 +00001237
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001238- Issue #1538: Avoid copying string in split/rsplit if the split char
1239 is not found.
Skip Montanaro26015492007-12-08 15:33:24 +00001240
Andrew M. Kuchling395fe442007-12-05 13:27:20 +00001241- Issue #1553: An erroneous __length_hint__ can make list() raise a
Christian Heimes7cc1c6f2007-12-05 12:52:34 +00001242 SystemError.
1243
Nick Coghlanef01d822007-12-03 12:55:17 +00001244- PEP 366: Allow explicit relative imports when executing modules
1245 inside packages with the -m switch via a new module level
1246 __package__ attribute.
1247
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001248- Issue #1402: Fix a crash on exit, when another thread is still
1249 running, and if the deallocation of its frames somehow calls the
1250 PyGILState_Ensure() / PyGILState_Release() functions.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbe49a902007-11-30 20:37:22 +00001251
Christian Heimes28104c52007-11-27 23:16:44 +00001252- Expose the Py_Py3kWarningFlag as sys.py3kwarning.
1253
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00001254- Issue #1445: Fix a SystemError when accessing the ``cell_contents``
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcce7d10c2007-11-24 13:44:17 +00001255 attribute of an empty cell object.
1256
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001257- Issue #1460: The utf-7 incremental decoder did not accept truncated
1258 input. It now correctly saves its state between chunks of data.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcf57375a2007-11-21 01:38:26 +00001259
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001260- Patch #1739468: Directories and zipfiles containing a __main__.py
1261 file can now be directly executed by passing their name to the
1262 interpreter. The directory/zipfile is automatically inserted as the
1263 first entry in sys.path.
Nick Coghlan327a39b2007-11-18 11:56:28 +00001264
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001265- Issue #1265: Fix a problem with sys.settrace, if the tracing
1266 function uses a generator expression when at the same time the
1267 executed code is closing a paused generator.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc0d75f092007-11-13 21:54:28 +00001268
Raymond Hettinger1760c8a2007-11-08 02:52:43 +00001269- sets and frozensets now have an isdisjoint() method.
1270
Raymond Hettinger3f8caa32007-10-24 01:28:33 +00001271- optimize the performance of builtin.sum().
1272
Neal Norwitz44f326e2007-10-05 05:29:17 +00001273- Fix warnings found by the new version of the Coverity checker.
1274
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001275- The enumerate() builtin function is no longer bounded to sequences
1276 smaller than LONG_MAX. Formerly, it raised an OverflowError. Now,
1277 automatically shifts from ints to longs.
Raymond Hettinger8f669372007-10-03 21:18:11 +00001278
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001279- Issue #1686386: Tuple's tp_repr did not take into account the
1280 possibility of having a self-referential tuple, which is possible
1281 from C code. Nor did object's tp_str consider that a type's tp_str
1282 could do something that could lead to an inifinite recursion.
1283 Py_ReprEnter() and Py_EnterRecursiveCall(), respectively, fixed the
1284 issues.
Brett Cannon0b14f242007-09-30 19:45:10 +00001285
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001286- Issue #1164: It was possible to trigger deadlock when using the
1287 'print' statement to write to a file since the GIL was not released
1288 as needed. Now PyObject_Print() does the right thing along with
1289 various tp_print implementations of the built-in types and those in
1290 the collections module.
Brett Cannon01531592007-09-17 03:28:34 +00001291
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001292- Issue #1147: Exceptions were directly allowing string exceptions in
1293 their throw() method even though string exceptions no longer
1294 allowed.
Brett Cannon4c20bc42007-09-11 21:02:28 +00001295
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001296- Issue #1096: Prevent a segfault from getting the repr of a very
1297 deeply nested list by using the recursion counter.
Brett Cannona0c05512007-09-10 21:38:27 +00001298
Brett Cannon1e534b52007-09-07 04:18:30 +00001299- Issue #1202533: Fix infinite recursion calls triggered by calls to
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001300 PyObject_Call() never calling back out to Python code to trigger
1301 recursion depth updates/checks. Required the creation of a static
1302 RuntimeError instance in case normalizing an exception put the
1303 recursion check value past its limit. Fixes crashers
1304 infinite_rec_(1|2|4|5).py.
Brett Cannon1e534b52007-09-07 04:18:30 +00001305
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001306- Patch #1031213: Decode source line in SyntaxErrors back to its
1307 original source encoding.
Martin v. Löwisa5136192007-09-04 14:19:28 +00001308
Georg Brandl7c3b50d2007-07-12 08:38:00 +00001309- Patch #1673759: add a missing overflow check when formatting floats
1310 with %G.
1311
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001312- Prevent expandtabs() on string and unicode objects from causing a
1313 segfault when a large width is passed on 32-bit platforms.
Neal Norwitz7dbd2a32007-06-09 03:36:34 +00001314
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001315- Issue #1733488: Fix compilation of bufferobject.c on AIX.
Martin v. Löwisda587ab2007-06-08 17:29:20 +00001316
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001317- Issue #1722485: remove docstrings again when running with -OO.
Georg Brandla5ea6892007-06-01 11:33:33 +00001318
Neal Norwitz0ac60192007-05-27 04:08:54 +00001319- Add new attribute names for function objects. All the func_* become
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001320 __*__ attributes. (Some already existed, e.g., __doc__ and
1321 __name__.)
Neal Norwitz0ac60192007-05-27 04:08:54 +00001322
Neal Norwitz8b2bfbc2007-05-23 06:35:32 +00001323- Add -3 option to the interpreter to warn about features that are
1324 deprecated and will be changed/removed in Python 3.0.
1325
Georg Brandl2134e752007-05-21 20:34:16 +00001326- Patch #1686487: you can now pass any mapping after '**' in function
1327 calls.
1328
Collin Winter62903052007-05-18 23:11:24 +00001329- except clauses may now be spelled either "except E, target:" or
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001330 "except E as target:". This is to provide forwards compatibility
1331 with Python 3.0.
Collin Winter62903052007-05-18 23:11:24 +00001332
Brett Cannon229cee22007-05-05 01:34:02 +00001333- Deprecate BaseException.message as per PEP 352.
1334
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001335- Issue #1303614: don't expose object's __dict__ when the dict is
Armin Rigo9790a272007-05-02 19:23:31 +00001336 inherited from a builtin base.
1337
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00001338- When __slots__ are set to a unicode string, make it work the same as
Neal Norwitzcbd9ee62007-04-14 05:25:50 +00001339 setting a plain string, ie don't expand to single letter identifiers.
1340
Raymond Hettinger13936692007-04-11 18:40:58 +00001341- Request #1191699: Slices can now be pickled.
1342
Raymond Hettinger4db5fe92007-04-12 04:10:00 +00001343- Request #1193128: str.translate() now allows a None argument for
1344 translations that only remove characters without re-mapping the
1345 remaining characters.
1346
Georg Brandl5cb76c12007-03-21 09:00:39 +00001347- Patch #1682205: a TypeError while unpacking an iterable is no longer
1348 masked by a generic one with the message "unpack non-sequence".
1349
Neal Norwitzaa754b72007-03-21 06:39:48 +00001350- Remove unused file Python/fmod.c.
1351
Guido van Rossum143b5642007-03-23 04:58:42 +00001352- Bug #1683368: The object.__init__() and object.__new__() methods are
1353 now stricter in rejecting excess arguments. The only time when
1354 either allows excess arguments is when it is not overridden and the
1355 other one is. For backwards compatibility, when both are
1356 overridden, it is a deprecation warning (for now; maybe a Py3k
Guido van Rossum234b1ff2007-03-23 19:39:01 +00001357 warning later). Also, type.__init__() insists on the same signature
1358 as supported by type.__new__().
Guido van Rossum143b5642007-03-23 04:58:42 +00001359
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001360- Patch #1675423: PyComplex_AsCComplex() now tries to convert an
1361 object to complex using its __complex__() method before falling back
1362 to the __float__() method. Therefore, the functions in the cmath
1363 module now can operate on objects that define a __complex__()
1364 method.
Georg Brandl2b869942007-03-17 16:08:45 +00001365
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001366- Patch #1623563: allow __class__ assignment for classes with
1367 __slots__. The old and the new class are still required to have the
1368 same slot names.
Žiga Seilnacht6f2d09c2007-03-16 11:59:38 +00001369
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001370- Patch #1642547: Fix an error/crash when encountering syntax errors
1371 in complex if statements.
Collin Winter77c67bd2007-03-16 04:11:30 +00001372
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001373- Patch #1462488: Python no longer segfaults when
1374 ``object.__reduce_ex__()`` is called with an object that is faking
1375 its type.
Žiga Seilnacht20f43d32007-03-15 11:44:55 +00001376
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001377- Patch #1680015: Don't modify __slots__ tuple if it contains an
1378 unicode name.
Žiga Seilnacht71436f02007-03-14 12:24:09 +00001379
Georg Brandl5240d742007-03-13 20:46:32 +00001380- Patch #1444529: the builtin compile() now accepts keyword arguments.
1381
Georg Brandl7b9c5552007-03-12 14:30:05 +00001382- Bug #1678647: write a newline after printing an exception in any
1383 case, even when converting the value to a string failed.
1384
Georg Brandl871f1bc2007-03-12 13:17:36 +00001385- The dir() function has been extended to call the __dir__() method on
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001386 its argument, if it exists. If not, it will work like before. This
1387 allows customizing the output of dir() in the presence of a
1388 __getattr__().
Georg Brandl871f1bc2007-03-12 13:17:36 +00001389
Collin Winter276887b2007-03-12 16:11:39 +00001390- Patch #922167: Python no longer segfaults when faced with infinitely
1391 self-recursive reload() calls (as reported by bug #742342).
1392
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001393- Patch #1675981: remove unreachable code from ``type.__new__()``
1394 method.
Žiga Seilnacht89032082007-03-11 15:54:54 +00001395
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001396- Patch #1491866: change the complex() constructor to allow
1397 parthensized forms. This means complex(repr(x)) now works instead of
1398 raising a ValueError.
Collin Wintere38051d2007-03-09 20:33:07 +00001399
Georg Brandlaa2321b2007-03-07 00:40:28 +00001400- Patch #703779: unset __file__ in __main__ after running a file. This
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001401 makes the filenames the warning module prints much more sensible
1402 when a PYTHONSTARTUP file is used.
Georg Brandlaa2321b2007-03-07 00:40:28 +00001403
Georg Brandl49aafc92007-03-07 00:34:46 +00001404- Variant of patch #697613: don't exit the interpreter on a SystemExit
1405 exception if the -i command line option or PYTHONINSPECT environment
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001406 variable is given, but break into the interactive interpreter just
1407 like on other exceptions or normal program exit.
Georg Brandl49aafc92007-03-07 00:34:46 +00001408
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001409- Patch #1638879: don't accept strings with embedded NUL bytes in
1410 long().
Georg Brandl00cd8182007-03-06 18:41:12 +00001411
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001412- Bug #1674503: close the file opened by execfile() in an error
1413 condition.
Georg Brandl098cd692007-03-06 12:17:50 +00001414
Georg Brandl0fca97a2007-03-05 22:28:08 +00001415- Patch #1674228: when assigning a slice (old-style), check for the
1416 sq_ass_slice instead of the sq_slice slot.
1417
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001418- When printing an unraisable error, don't print exceptions. before
1419 the name. This duplicates the behavior whening normally printing
1420 exceptions.
Neal Norwitz88516a62007-02-26 22:41:45 +00001421
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001422- Bug #1653736: Properly discard third argument to
1423 slot_nb_inplace_power.
Martin v. Löwisfd963262007-02-09 12:19:32 +00001424
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001425- PEP 352: Raising a string exception now triggers a TypeError.
1426 Attempting to catch a string exception raises DeprecationWarning.
Brett Cannon129bd522007-01-30 21:34:36 +00001427
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001428- Bug #1377858: Fix the segfaulting of the interpreter when an object
1429 created a weakref on itself during a __del__ call for new-style
1430 classes (classic classes still have the bug).
Brett Cannonf5bee302007-01-23 23:21:22 +00001431
Martin v. Löwis6c5c5022007-01-23 21:11:47 +00001432- Bug #1579370: Make PyTraceBack_Here use the current thread, not the
1433 frame's thread state.
1434
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001435- patch #1630975: Fix crash when replacing sys.stdout in
1436 sitecustomize.py.
Thomas Wouters6ed19652007-01-23 13:50:49 +00001437
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001438- Prevent seg fault on shutdown which could occur if an object raised
1439 a warning.
Neal Norwitz72cd02c2007-01-05 05:25:22 +00001440
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001441- Bug #1566280: Explicitly invoke threading._shutdown from Py_Main, to
1442 avoid relying on atexit.
Martin v. Löwis7b7c9d42007-01-04 21:06:12 +00001443
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001444- Bug #1590891: random.randrange don't return correct value for big
1445 number.
Raymond Hettinger94547f72006-12-20 06:42:06 +00001446
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001447- Patch #1586791: Better exception messages for some operations on
1448 strings, tuples and lists.
Georg Brandl283a1352006-11-19 08:48:30 +00001449
Martin v. Löwis056dac12006-11-12 18:24:26 +00001450- Bug #1067760: Deprecate passing floats to file.seek.
1451
Martin v. Löwisa346c092006-11-08 06:48:36 +00001452- Bug #1591996: Correctly forward exception in instance_contains().
1453
Neal Norwitz85dbec62006-11-04 19:25:22 +00001454- Bug #1588287: fix invalid assertion for `1,2` in debug builds.
1455
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001456- Bug #1576657: when setting a KeyError for a tuple key, make sure
1457 that the tuple isn't used as the "exception arguments tuple".
Georg Brandlb9f4ad32006-10-29 18:31:42 +00001458
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001459- Bug #1565514: SystemError not raised on too many nested blocks.
Neal Norwitz21997af2006-10-28 21:19:07 +00001460
Thomas Hellerdf08f0b2006-10-27 18:31:36 +00001461- Bug #1576174: WindowsError now displays the windows error code
1462 again, no longer the posix error code.
1463
Martin v. Löwisb5bc5372006-10-27 06:16:31 +00001464- Patch #1549049: Support long values in structmember, issue warnings
1465 if the assigned value for structmember fields gets truncated.
1466
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001467- Update the peephole optimizer to remove more dead code (jumps after
1468 returns) and inline unconditional jumps to returns.
Neal Norwitzcbeb6872006-10-14 21:33:38 +00001469
Georg Brandl2c1375c2006-10-12 11:27:59 +00001470- Bug #1545497: when given an explicit base, int() did ignore NULs
1471 embedded in the string to convert.
1472
Georg Brandl846f73a2006-10-08 07:11:54 +00001473- Bug #1569998: break inside a try statement (outside a loop) is now
1474 recognized and rejected.
1475
Armin Rigo7ccbca92006-10-04 12:17:45 +00001476- list.pop(x) accepts any object x following the __index__ protocol.
1477
Armin Rigo7ccbca92006-10-04 12:17:45 +00001478- A number of places, including integer negation and absolute value,
1479 were fixed to not rely on undefined behaviour of the C compiler
1480 anymore.
Martin v. Löwis820d6ac2006-10-04 05:47:34 +00001481
Georg Brandl3267d282006-09-30 09:03:42 +00001482- Bug #1566800: make sure that EnvironmentError can be called with any
1483 number of arguments, as was the case in Python 2.4.
1484
Georg Brandl5d59c092006-09-30 08:43:30 +00001485- Patch #1567691: super() and new.instancemethod() now don't accept
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001486 keyword arguments any more (previously they accepted them, but
1487 didn't use them).
Georg Brandl5d59c092006-09-30 08:43:30 +00001488
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001489- Fix a bug in the parser's future statement handling that led to
1490 "with" not being recognized as a keyword after, e.g., this
1491 statement: from __future__ import division, with_statement
Georg Brandla10d3af2006-09-24 12:35:36 +00001492
Neal Norwitz3a230172006-09-22 08:18:10 +00001493- Bug #1557232: fix seg fault with def f((((x)))) and def f(((x),)).
1494
Neal Norwitz4a8fbdb2006-09-22 08:16:26 +00001495- Fix %zd string formatting on Mac OS X so it prints negative numbers.
1496
Brett Cannonf6aa86e2006-09-20 18:43:13 +00001497- Allow exception instances to be directly sliced again.
1498
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001499- Bug #1551432: Exceptions do not define an explicit __unicode__
1500 method. This allows calling unicode() on exceptions classes
1501 directly to succeed.
Brett Cannon9adeab72006-09-20 18:34:28 +00001502
Georg Brandl4e933132006-09-06 20:05:58 +00001503- Bug #1542051: Exceptions now correctly call PyObject_GC_UnTrack.
1504 Also make sure that every exception class has __module__ set to
1505 'exceptions'.
1506
Georg Brandl98775df2006-09-06 06:09:31 +00001507- Bug #1550983: emit better error messages for erroneous relative
1508 imports (if not in package and if beyond toplevel package).
1509
Tim Petersc10c9d02006-09-05 02:18:09 +00001510- Overflow checking code in integer division ran afoul of new gcc
1511 optimizations. Changed to be more standard-conforming.
1512
Neal Norwitz4f096d92006-08-21 19:47:08 +00001513- Patch #1542451: disallow continue anywhere under a finally.
1514
Neal Norwitza22975f2006-09-05 02:24:03 +00001515- Patch #1546288: fix seg fault in dict_equal due to ref counting bug.
1516
Neal Norwitzd34e4272006-09-05 02:36:20 +00001517- The return tuple from str.rpartition(sep) is (tail, sep, head) where
1518 head is the original string if sep was not found.
1519
Neal Norwitzdac090d2006-09-05 03:53:08 +00001520- Bug #1520864: unpacking singleton tuples in list comprehensions and
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001521 generator expressions (x for x, in ... ) works again. Fixing this
1522 problem required changing the .pyc magic number. This means that
1523 .pyc files generated before 2.5c2 will be regenerated.
Neal Norwitzdac090d2006-09-05 03:53:08 +00001524
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00001525- ``with`` and ``as`` are now keywords.
Neal Norwitzca460d92006-09-06 06:28:06 +00001526
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001527- Bug #1664966: Fix crash in exec if Unicode filename can't be
1528 decoded.
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00001529
Guido van Rossumcad37242008-01-15 17:59:29 +00001530- Issue #1537: Changed GeneratorExit's base class from Exception to
1531 BaseException.
Christian Heimes44eeaec2007-12-03 20:01:02 +00001532
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001533- Issue #1703448: A joined thread could show up in the
Gregory P. Smith95cd5c02008-01-22 01:20:42 +00001534 threading.enumerate() list after the join() for a brief period until
1535 it actually exited.
1536
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00001537
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00001538Library
1539-------
1540
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001541- Patch #2274: Add heapq.heappushpop().
Raymond Hettinger53bdf092008-03-13 19:03:51 +00001542
Christian Heimes608c1d82008-03-03 18:28:04 +00001543- Add inspect.isabstract(object) to fix bug #2223
1544
Mark Dickinson1ddf1d82008-02-29 02:16:37 +00001545- Add a __format__ method to Decimal, to support PEP 3101.
1546
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001547- Add a timing parameter when using trace.Trace to print out
1548 timestamps.
Neal Norwitzca376612008-02-26 08:21:28 +00001549
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001550- Issue #1627: httplib now ignores negative Content-Length headers.
Georg Brandl8c460d52008-02-24 00:14:24 +00001551
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001552- Issue #900744: If an invalid chunked-encoding header is sent by a
1553 server, httplib will now raise IncompleteRead and close the
1554 connection instead of raising ValueError.
Georg Brandl23635032008-02-24 00:03:22 +00001555
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001556- Issue #1492: The content type of BaseHTTPServer error messages can
1557 now be overridden.
Georg Brandl16479232008-02-23 15:02:28 +00001558
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001559- Issue #1781: ConfigParser now does not let you add the "default" section
Facundo Batistab12f0b52008-02-23 12:46:10 +00001560 (ignore-case)
1561
Guido van Rossum8bc09652008-02-21 18:18:37 +00001562- Removed uses of dict.has_key() from distutils, and uses of
1563 callable() from copy_reg.py, so the interpreter now starts up
1564 without warnings when '-3' is given. More work like this needs to
1565 be done in the rest of the stdlib.
1566
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001567- Issue #1916: added isgenerator() and isgeneratorfunction() to
1568 inspect.py.
Facundo Batista759bfc62008-02-18 03:43:43 +00001569
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001570- Issue #1224: Fixed bad url parsing when path begins with double
1571 slash.
Facundo Batistad14600e2008-02-18 12:48:43 +00001572
Thomas Hellera06a1a82008-02-13 20:21:53 +00001573- ctypes instances that are not or do not contain pointers can now be
1574 pickled.
1575
Martin v. Löwisdad88dc2008-02-12 18:47:34 +00001576- Patch #1966: Break infinite loop in httplib when the servers
1577 implements the chunked encoding incorrectly.
1578
Mark Dickinsond058cd22008-02-10 21:29:51 +00001579- Rename rational.py to fractions.py and the rational.Rational class
1580 to fractions.Fraction, to avoid the name clash with the abstract
1581 base class numbers.Rational. See discussion in issue #1682.
1582
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001583- The pickletools module now provides an optimize() function that
1584 eliminates unused PUT opcodes from a pickle string.
Raymond Hettingerda614dc2008-02-10 20:35:16 +00001585
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001586- Patch #2021: Allow tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile and
1587 SpooledTemporaryFile to be used in with statements by correctly
1588 supporting the context management protocol.
Nick Coghlanac094dc2008-02-10 07:32:52 +00001589
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001590- Patch #1979: Add rich comparisons to Decimal, and make Decimal
1591 comparisons involving a NaN follow the IEEE 754 standard.
Mark Dickinson2fc92632008-02-06 22:10:50 +00001592
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001593- Issue #2004: tarfile.py: Use mode 0700 for temporary directories and
1594 default permissions for missing directories.
Lars Gustäbel0192e432008-02-05 11:51:40 +00001595
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001596- Issue #175006: The debugger used to skip the condition of a "while"
1597 statement after the first iteration. Now it correctly steps on the
1598 expression, and breakpoints on the "while" statement are honored on
1599 each loop.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc6fd03bb2008-02-04 21:45:05 +00001600
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001601- Issue #1765140: add an optional delay argument to FileHandler and
1602 its subclasses. Defaults to false (existing behaviour), but if true,
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +00001603 defers opening the file until the first call to emit().
1604
Raymond Hettingerc226c312008-01-23 00:04:40 +00001605- The pprint module now supports sets and frozensets.
1606
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001607- Issue #1221598: add optional callbacks to ftplib.FTP's storbinary()
1608 and storlines() methods. (Contributed by Phil Schwartz)
Gregory P. Smithc64386b2008-01-22 00:19:41 +00001609
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001610- Issue #1715: include sub-extension modules in pydoc's text output.
Georg Brandlf2dae0e2008-01-21 21:05:49 +00001611
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001612- Issue #1836: fix an off-by-one bug in TimedRotatingHandler's
1613 rollover time calculation.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00001614
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001615- Issue #1021: fix a bug to allow basicConfig to accept NOTSET as a
1616 level.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00001617
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001618- Issue #932563: add LoggerAdapter convenience class to make it easier
1619 to add contextual information in logging output.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00001620
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001621- Issue #1760556: fix a bug to avoid FileHandler throwing an exception
1622 in flush().
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00001623
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001624- Bug #1530959: distutils' build command now uses different build
1625 directory when building extension modules against versions of Python
1626 compiled with ``--with-pydebug``.
Georg Brandl50160152008-01-21 17:42:40 +00001627
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001628- Issue #1555501: move plistlib from plat-mac directory to general
1629 library.
Georg Brandl864de822008-01-21 16:34:07 +00001630
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001631- Issue #1269: fix a bug in pstats.add_callers() and add a unit test
1632 file for pstats.
Georg Brandl66e73632008-01-21 10:24:59 +00001633
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001634- Issue #1669: don't allow shutil.rmtree() to be called on a symlink
1635 to a directory.
Georg Brandl52353982008-01-20 14:17:42 +00001636
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001637- Issue #1664522: in urllib, don't read non-existing directories in
1638 ftp mode, returning a 0-byte file -- raise an IOError instead.
Georg Brandld5e6cf22008-01-20 12:18:17 +00001639
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001640- Issue #856047: respect the ``no_proxy`` environment variable when
1641 using the ``http_proxy`` etc. environment variables in urllib.
Georg Brandl22350112008-01-20 12:05:43 +00001642
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001643- Issue #1178141: add a getcode() method to the addinfourls that
1644 urllib.open() returns so that you can retrieve the HTTP status code.
Georg Brandl9b0d46d2008-01-20 11:43:03 +00001645
Gregory P. Smithf25680a2008-01-20 01:26:04 +00001646- Issue #1003: Fix zipfile decryption check, it would fail zip files
1647 with extended local headers.
1648
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001649- Issue #1189216: Fix the zipfile module to work on archives with
1650 headers past the 2**31 byte boundary.
Gregory P. Smith350d03b2008-01-19 23:10:52 +00001651
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001652- Issue #1336: fix a race condition in subprocess.Popen if the garbage
Gregory P. Smithb9ba0752008-01-19 21:00:37 +00001653 collector kicked in at the wrong time that would cause the process
1654 to hang when the child wrote to stderr.
1655
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001656- Issue #1146: fix how textwrap breaks a long word that would start in
1657 the last column of a line.
Georg Brandlc6fde722008-01-19 19:48:19 +00001658
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001659- Issue #1693149: trace.py --ignore-module - accept multiple
1660 comma-separated modules to be given.
Skip Montanaro562133b2008-01-19 18:47:24 +00001661
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001662- Issue #1822: MIMEMultipart.is_multipart() behaves correctly for a
1663 just-created (and empty) instance. Thanks Jonathan Share.
Facundo Batista2b1b1952008-01-19 12:32:27 +00001664
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001665- Issue #1861: Added an attribute to the sched module which returns an
1666 ordered list of upcoming events (displayed as named tuples).
Raymond Hettinger44bd6c02008-01-17 19:31:38 +00001667
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001668- Issue #1837: The queue module now also supports a LIFO queue and a
1669 priority queue.
Raymond Hettinger3ad2acc82008-01-16 23:49:35 +00001670
Andrew M. Kuchling4a2762d2008-01-20 00:00:38 +00001671- Patch #1048820: Add insert-mode editing to curses.textpad.Textbox
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00001672 (patch by Stefan Wehr). Also, fix an off-by-one bug in
Andrew M. Kuchling4a2762d2008-01-20 00:00:38 +00001673 Textbox.gather().
1674
Thomas Heller02ec2892008-01-16 19:37:33 +00001675- Issue #1831: ctypes now raises a TypeError if conflicting positional
1676 and named arguments are passed to a Structure or Union initializer.
Thomas Heller415c1e32008-01-16 19:45:51 +00001677 When too many positional arguments are passed, also a TypeError is
1678 raised instead of a ValueError.
Thomas Heller02ec2892008-01-16 19:37:33 +00001679
Thomas Heller902d3072008-01-16 19:16:27 +00001680- Convert the internal ctypes array type cache to a WeakValueDict so
1681 that array types do not live longer than needed.
1682
Guido van Rossumcad37242008-01-15 17:59:29 +00001683- Issue #1786: pdb should use its own stdin/stdout around an exec call
1684 and when creating a recursive instance.
1685
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001686- Issue #1698398: ZipFile.printdir() crashed because the format string
1687 expected a tuple type of length six instead of time.struct_time
1688 object.
Raymond Hettinger351e1a32008-01-14 22:58:05 +00001689
Mark Dickinson59bc20b2008-01-12 01:56:00 +00001690- Issue #1780: The Decimal constructor now accepts arbitrary leading
1691 and trailing whitespace when constructing from a string.
1692 Context.create_decimal no longer accepts trailing newlines.
1693
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001694- Decimal.as_tuple(), difflib.find_longest_match() and inspect
1695 functions that returned a tuple now return a named tuple.
Georg Brandl2f32c392008-01-11 09:20:58 +00001696
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00001697- Doctest now returns results as a named tuple for readability:
Raymond Hettingerfff4e6e2008-01-11 01:25:54 +00001698 (0, 7) --> TestResults(failed=0, attempted=7)
1699
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001700- Issue #846388:q re.match is interruptible now, which is particularly
Facundo Batista4473d222008-01-08 21:10:12 +00001701 good for long regular expression matches.
1702
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001703- Patch #1137: allow setting buffer_size attribute on pyexpat Parser
1704 objects to set the character data buffer size.
Andrew M. Kuchlinge0a49b62008-01-08 14:30:55 +00001705
Facundo Batista52b25792008-01-08 12:25:20 +00001706- Issue #1757: The hash of a Decimal instance is no longer affected by
1707 the current context.
1708
Georg Brandl62416bc2008-01-07 18:47:44 +00001709- Patch #467924: add ZipFile.extract() and ZipFile.extractall() in the
1710 zipfile module.
1711
Christian Heimesfb2d25a2008-01-07 16:12:44 +00001712- Issue #1646: Make socket support the TIPC protocol.
1713
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001714- Bug #1742: return os.curdir from os.path.relpath() if both arguments
1715 are equal instead of raising an exception.
Georg Brandl183a0842008-01-06 14:27:15 +00001716
Guido van Rossumc6a04c22008-01-05 22:19:06 +00001717- Patch #1637: fix urlparse for URLs like 'http://x.com?arg=/foo'.
1718
Guido van Rossumced4eb02008-01-05 01:21:57 +00001719- Patch #1698: allow '@' in username parsed by urlparse.py.
1720
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001721- Issue #1735: TarFile.extractall() now correctly sets directory
1722 permissions and times.
Lars Gustäbel2ee1c762008-01-04 14:00:33 +00001723
Christian Heimes06875612008-01-04 13:21:07 +00001724- Bug #1713: posixpath.ismount() claims symlink to a mountpoint is a mountpoint.
1725
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001726- Bug #1687: Fxed plistlib.py restricts <integer> to Python int when
1727 writing
Christian Heimes06131882008-01-04 00:04:52 +00001728
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001729- Issue #1700: Regular expression inline flags incorrectly handle
1730 certain unicode characters.
Guido van Rossumae04c332008-01-03 19:12:44 +00001731
Jeffrey Yasskin2f3c16b2008-01-03 02:21:52 +00001732- Issue #1689: PEP 3141, numeric abstract base classes.
1733
Martin v. Löwis84b9aab2008-01-01 21:09:07 +00001734- Tk issue #1851526: Return results from Python callbacks to Tcl as
1735 Tcl objects.
1736
Thomas Heller153038e2007-12-18 19:00:34 +00001737- Issue #1642: Fix segfault in ctypes when trying to delete attributes.
1738
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001739- Issue #1727780: Support loading pickles of random.Random objects
1740 created on 32-bit systems on 64-bit systems, and vice versa. As a
1741 consequence of the change, Random pickles created by Python 2.6
1742 cannot be loaded in Python 2.5.
Martin v. Löwis6b449f42007-12-03 19:20:02 +00001743
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001744- Issue #1455: The distutils package now supports VS 2005 and VS 2008
1745 for both the msvccompiler and cygwincompiler.
Christian Heimesc654fc22007-12-03 13:55:16 +00001746
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001747- Issue #1531: tarfile.py: Read fileobj from the current offset, do
1748 not seek to the start.
Lars Gustäbel77b2d632007-12-01 21:02:12 +00001749
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001750- Issue #1534: Added a dictionary sys.float_info with information
1751 about the internal floating point type to the sys module.
Christian Heimesdfdfaab2007-12-01 11:20:10 +00001752
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001753- Issue #1429818: patch for trace and doctest modules so they play
1754 nicely together.
Skip Montanaro58a6f442007-11-24 14:30:47 +00001755
Brett Cannon43e53f82007-11-21 00:47:36 +00001756- doctest made a bad assumption that a package's __loader__.get_data()
1757 method used universal newlines.
1758
Nick Coghlan90b858e2007-11-07 11:57:51 +00001759- Issue #1705170: contextlib.contextmanager was still swallowing
1760 StopIteration in some cases. This should no longer happen.
1761
Thomas Heller486b1b02007-11-02 19:10:24 +00001762- Issue #1292: On alpha, arm, ppc, and s390 linux systems the
1763 --with-system-ffi configure option defaults to "yes".
1764
Hye-Shik Changa838a802007-10-28 11:19:02 +00001765- IN module for FreeBSD 8 is added and preexisting FreeBSD 6 and 7
1766 files are updated.
1767
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001768- Issues #1181, #1287: unsetenv() is now called when the
1769 os.environ.pop() and os.environ.clear() methods are used.
Georg Brandl1a94ec22007-10-24 21:40:38 +00001770
Thomas Heller91ac4222007-10-19 18:11:41 +00001771- ctypes will now work correctly on 32-bit systems when Python is
1772 configured with --with-system-ffi.
1773
Thomas Heller7fee6dd2007-10-11 19:51:32 +00001774- Patch #1203: ctypes now does work on OS X when Python is built with
Georg Brandl1a94ec22007-10-24 21:40:38 +00001775 --disable-toolbox-glue.
Thomas Heller7fee6dd2007-10-11 19:51:32 +00001776
Raymond Hettingera7fc4b12007-10-05 02:47:07 +00001777- collections.deque() now supports a "maxlen" argument.
1778
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001779- itertools.count() is no longer bounded to LONG_MAX. Formerly, it
1780 raised an OverflowError. Now, automatically shifts from ints to
1781 longs.
Raymond Hettinger50e90e22007-10-04 00:20:27 +00001782
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001783- Added itertools.product() which forms the Cartesian product of the
1784 input iterables.
Raymond Hettingerc5705a82008-02-22 19:50:06 +00001785
Raymond Hettinger66f91ea2008-03-05 20:59:58 +00001786- Added itertools.combinations() and itertools.permutations().
Raymond Hettinger93e804d2008-02-26 23:40:50 +00001787
Georg Brandlaff85e22007-09-20 16:06:07 +00001788- Patch #1541463: optimize performance of cgi.FieldStorage operations.
1789
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001790- Decimal is fully updated to the latest Decimal Specification
1791 (v1.66).
Facundo Batistab67da232007-09-17 16:26:50 +00001792
Georg Brandl8fd3ecf2007-09-12 19:00:07 +00001793- Bug #1153: repr.repr() now doesn't require set and dictionary items
1794 to be orderable to properly represent them.
1795
Thomas Heller2825b2e2007-09-07 06:32:17 +00001796- A 'c_longdouble' type was added to the ctypes module.
1797
Martin v. Löwis7dcb83c2007-08-30 19:04:09 +00001798- Bug #1709599: Run test_1565150 only if the file system is NTFS.
1799
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001800- When encountering a password-protected robots.txt file the
1801 RobotFileParser no longer prompts interactively for a username and
1802 password (bug 813986).
Skip Montanaro3e275362007-08-29 01:33:45 +00001803
Lars Gustäbel0f4a14b2007-08-28 12:31:09 +00001804- TarFile.__init__() no longer fails if no name argument is passed and
1805 the fileobj argument has no usable name attribute (e.g. StringIO).
1806
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001807- The functools module now provides 'reduce', for forward
1808 compatibility with Python 3000.
Guido van Rossum95f1a1b2007-08-27 20:52:10 +00001809
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001810- Server-side SSL support and cert verification added, by Bill
1811 Janssen.
Guido van Rossum4f2c3dd2007-08-25 15:08:43 +00001812
Bill Janssenf413fb02007-08-30 18:08:06 +00001813- socket.ssl deprecated; use new ssl module instead.
1814
Georg Brandl8ec57542007-08-24 06:10:01 +00001815- uuid creation is now threadsafe.
1816
Hye-Shik Chang23901042007-08-20 06:49:18 +00001817- EUC-KR codec now handles the cheot-ga-keut composed make-up hangul
1818 syllables.
1819
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001820- GB18030 codec now can encode additional two-byte characters that are
1821 missing in GBK.
Hye-Shik Changf3e93a02007-08-04 04:10:18 +00001822
Walter Dörwald6e390802007-08-17 16:41:28 +00001823- Add new codecs for UTF-32, UTF-32-LE and UTF-32-BE.
1824
Martin v. Löwisf1e0b3f2007-07-28 07:03:05 +00001825- Bug #1704793: Return UTF-16 pair if unicodedata.lookup cannot
1826 represent the result in a single character.
1827
Martin v. Löwisf25e35b2007-07-27 18:28:22 +00001828- Bug #978833: Close https sockets by releasing the _ssl object.
1829
Martin v. Löwis254b8f92007-07-25 16:24:23 +00001830- Change location of the package index to pypi.python.org/pypi
1831
Thomas Hellerfa704c62007-07-13 17:12:23 +00001832- Bug #1701409: Fix a segfault in printing ctypes.c_char_p and
1833 ctypes.c_wchar_p when they point to an invalid location. As a
1834 sideeffect the representation of these instances has changed.
1835
Lars Gustäbel104490e2007-06-18 11:42:11 +00001836- tarfile.py: Added "exclude" keyword argument to TarFile.add().
1837
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001838- Bug #1734723: Fix repr.Repr() so it doesn't ignore the maxtuple
1839 attribute.
Neal Norwitzc161cb92007-06-11 07:29:43 +00001840
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001841- The urlopen function of urllib2 now has an optional timeout
1842 parameter (note that it actually works with HTTP, HTTPS, FTP and
1843 FTPS connections).
Facundo Batista10951d52007-06-06 17:15:23 +00001844
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001845- In ftplib, the FTP.ntransfercmd method, when in passive mode, now
1846 uses the socket.create_connection function, using the timeout
1847 specified at connection time.
Facundo Batista92493122007-06-06 15:13:37 +00001848
Hye-Shik Chang9b541402007-06-05 18:58:51 +00001849- Bug #1728403: Fix a bug that CJKCodecs StreamReader hangs when it
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001850 reads a file that ends with incomplete sequence and sizehint
1851 argument for .read() is specified.
Hye-Shik Chang9b541402007-06-05 18:58:51 +00001852
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001853- Bug #1730389: Change time.strptime() to use ``\s+`` instead of
1854 ``\s*`` when matching spaces in the specified format argument.
Brett Cannonf7188ce2007-06-03 23:13:41 +00001855
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001856- Bugs #1668596/#1720897: distutils now copies data files even if
1857 package_dir is empty.
Neal Norwitz4a700bb2007-06-01 07:29:12 +00001858
Brett Cannonc2aa09a2007-05-31 19:20:00 +00001859- sha now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
1860
Brett Cannon7eec2172007-05-30 22:24:28 +00001861- md5 now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
1862
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001863- Issue #1385: The hmac module now computes the correct hmac when
1864 using hashes with a block size other than 64 bytes (such as sha384
1865 and sha512).
Gregory P. Smithe1ac4f12007-11-06 00:19:03 +00001866
Brett Cannonc249bda2007-05-30 21:48:58 +00001867- mimify now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
1868
Brett Cannon90134c92007-05-30 20:46:26 +00001869- MimeWriter now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
1870
Lars Gustäbela0fcb932007-05-27 19:49:30 +00001871- tarfile.py: Improved unicode support. Unicode input names are now
1872 officially supported. Added "errors" argument to the TarFile class.
1873
Facundo Batista711a54e2007-05-24 17:50:54 +00001874- urllib.ftpwrapper class now accepts an optional timeout.
1875
Georg Brandlc90bc752007-05-24 16:49:29 +00001876- shlex.split() now has an optional "posix" parameter.
1877
Brett Cannon41bf2fa2007-05-20 23:57:38 +00001878- The posixfile module now raises a DeprecationWarning.
1879
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001880- Remove the gopherlib module. This also leads to the removal of
1881 gopher support in urllib/urllib2.
Brett Cannond75f0432007-05-16 22:42:29 +00001882
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001883- Fix bug in marshal where bad data would cause a segfault due to lack
1884 of an infinite recursion check.
Neal Norwitzb1a9b372007-05-16 20:05:11 +00001885
Neal Norwitze0e70a42007-05-16 05:06:33 +00001886- Removed plat-freebsd2 and plat-freebsd3 directories (and IN.py in
1887 the directories).
1888
Georg Brandla09a96a2007-05-15 20:19:34 +00001889- HTML-escape the plain traceback in cgitb's HTML output, to prevent
1890 the traceback inadvertently or maliciously closing the comment and
1891 injecting HTML into the error page.
1892
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001893- The popen2 module and os.popen* are deprecated. Use the subprocess
1894 module.
Neal Norwitz42dd86b2007-05-11 06:57:33 +00001895
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001896- Added an optional credentials argument to SMTPHandler, for use with
1897 SMTP servers which require authentication.
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00001898
1899- Patch #1695948: Added optional timeout parameter to SocketHandler.
1900
1901- Bug #1652788: Minor fix for currentframe.
1902
1903- Patch #1598415: Added WatchedFileHandler to better support external
1904 log file rotation using e.g. newsyslog or logrotate. This handler is
1905 only useful in Unix/Linux environments.
1906
Georg Brandlfb4b3b72007-04-24 15:27:13 +00001907- Bug #1706381: Specifying the SWIG option "-c++" in the setup.py file
1908 (as opposed to the command line) will now write file names ending in
1909 ".cpp" too.
1910
Facundo Batistad918a652007-04-24 13:54:38 +00001911- As specified in RFC 2616, an HTTP response like 2xx indicates that
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001912 the client's request was successfully received, understood, and
1913 accepted. Now in these cases no error is raised in urllib (issue
1914 #1177) and urllib2.
Facundo Batistad918a652007-04-24 13:54:38 +00001915
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001916- Bug #1290505: time.strptime's internal cache of locale information
1917 is now properly recreated when the locale is changed.
Brett Cannonc6906652007-04-01 18:47:27 +00001918
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001919- Patch #1685563: remove (don't add) duplicate paths in
1920 distutils.MSVCCompiler.
Neal Norwitz8f35f442007-04-01 18:24:22 +00001921
Facundo Batistab6a5c9d2007-03-29 18:22:35 +00001922- Added a timeout parameter to the constructor of other protocols
1923 (telnetlib, ftplib, smtplib and poplib). This is second part of the
1924 work started with create_connection() and timeout in httplib, and
1925 closes patch #723312.
1926
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00001927- Patch #1676823: Added create_connection() to socket.py, which may be
1928 called with a timeout, and use it from httplib (whose HTTPConnection
Facundo Batista70f996b2007-05-21 17:32:32 +00001929 and HTTPSConnection now accept an optional timeout).
Facundo Batista07c78be2007-03-23 18:54:07 +00001930
Martin v. Löwis0af33882007-03-23 13:27:15 +00001931- Bug #978833: Revert r50844, as it broke _socketobject.dup.
1932
Žiga Seilnacht7492e422007-03-21 20:07:56 +00001933- Bug #1675967: re patterns pickled with Python 2.4 and earlier can
1934 now be unpickled with Python 2.5 and newer.
1935
Collin Wintera8785cc2007-03-19 18:52:08 +00001936- Patch #1630118: add a SpooledTemporaryFile class to tempfile.py.
1937
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001938- Patch #1273829: os.walk() now has a "followlinks" parameter. If set
1939 to True (which is not the default), it visits symlinks pointing to
Georg Brandlcae9f3d2007-03-21 09:10:29 +00001940 directories.
1941
Georg Brandl8f06d022007-03-16 07:55:09 +00001942- Bug #1681228: the webbrowser module now correctly uses the default
1943 GNOME or KDE browser, depending on whether there is a session of one
1944 of those present. Also, it tries the Windows default browser before
1945 trying Mozilla variants.
1946
Collin Winter6f187742007-03-16 22:16:08 +00001947- Patch #1339796: add a relpath() function to os.path.
1948
Georg Brandlab1f4672007-03-15 07:41:30 +00001949- Patch #1681153: the wave module now closes a file object it opened if
1950 initialization failed.
1951
Georg Brandlf66b6032007-03-14 08:27:52 +00001952- Bug #767111: fix long-standing bug in urllib which caused an
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001953 AttributeError instead of an IOError when the server's response
1954 didn't contain a valid HTTP status line.
Georg Brandlf66b6032007-03-14 08:27:52 +00001955
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001956- Patch #957650: "%var%" environment variable references are now
1957 properly expanded in ntpath.expandvars(), also "~user" home
1958 directory references are recognized and handled on Windows.
Georg Brandl03b90d82007-03-13 22:07:36 +00001959
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001960- Patch #1429539: pdb now correctly initializes the __main__ module
1961 for the debugged script, which means that imports from __main__ work
Georg Brandlb6ae6aa2007-03-13 21:58:44 +00001962 correctly now.
1963
Georg Brandlbad6f192007-03-13 21:32:56 +00001964- The nonobvious commands.getstatus() function is now deprecated.
1965
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001966- Patch #1393667: pdb now has a "run" command which restarts the
1967 debugged Python program, optionally with different arguments.
Georg Brandl8e84c652007-03-13 21:08:15 +00001968
Thomas Heller5dc4fe02007-03-13 20:42:52 +00001969- Patch #1649190: Adding support for _Bool to ctypes as c_bool.
1970
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001971- Patch #1530482: add pydoc.render_doc() which returns the
1972 documentation for a thing instead of paging it to stdout, which
1973 pydoc.doc() does.
Georg Brandl8441f152007-03-13 20:02:57 +00001974
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001975- Patch #1533909: the timeit module now accepts callables in addition
1976 to strings for the code to time and the setup code. Also added two
1977 convenience functions for instantiating a Timer and calling its
1978 methods.
Georg Brandld9bef352007-03-13 19:32:21 +00001979
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001980- Patch #1537850: tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile now has a "delete"
1981 parameter which can be set to False to prevent the default
1982 delete-on-close behavior.
Georg Brandl35ef9c12007-03-13 18:31:49 +00001983
Georg Brandl9e6b4702007-03-13 18:15:41 +00001984- Patch #1581073: add a flag to textwrap that prevents the dropping of
1985 whitespace while wrapping.
1986
Georg Brandl92a6bae2007-03-13 17:43:32 +00001987- Patch #1603688: ConfigParser.SafeConfigParser now checks values that
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001988 are set for invalid interpolation sequences that would lead to
1989 errors on reading back those values.
Georg Brandl92a6bae2007-03-13 17:43:32 +00001990
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001991- Added support for the POSIX.1-2001 (pax) format to
1992 tarfile.py. Extended and cleaned up the test suite. Added a new
1993 testtar.tar.
Lars Gustäbelc64e4022007-03-13 10:47:19 +00001994
Martin v. Löwisbdd0f392007-03-13 10:24:00 +00001995- Patch #1449244: Support Unicode strings in
1996 email.message.Message.{set_charset,get_content_charset}.
1997
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001998- Patch #1542681: add entries for "with", "as" and "CONTEXTMANAGERS"
1999 to pydoc's help keywords.
Georg Brandlb6a87542007-03-13 10:06:48 +00002000
Georg Brandl4ffc8f52007-03-13 09:41:31 +00002001- Patch #1555098: use str.join() instead of repeated string
2002 concatenation in robotparser.
2003
Georg Brandl94fe3f52007-03-13 09:32:11 +00002004- Patch #1635454: the csv.DictWriter class now includes the offending
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002005 field names in its exception message if you try to write a record
2006 with a dictionary containing fields not in the CSV field names list.
Georg Brandl94fe3f52007-03-13 09:32:11 +00002007
Georg Brandlceede5c2007-03-13 08:14:27 +00002008- Patch #1668100: urllib2 now correctly raises URLError instead of
2009 OSError if accessing a local file via the file:// protocol fails.
2010
Martin v. Löwis2681beb2007-03-12 11:01:10 +00002011- Patch #1677862: Require a space or tab after import in .pth files.
2012
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002013- Patch #1192590: Fix pdb's "ignore" and "condition" commands so they
2014 trap the IndexError caused by passing in an invalid breakpoint
2015 number.
Collin Winter2faa9e12007-03-11 16:00:20 +00002016
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002017- Patch #1599845: Add an option to disable the implicit calls to
2018 server_bind() and server_activate() in the constructors for
2019 TCPServer, SimpleXMLRPCServer and DocXMLRPCServer.
Collin Winterae041062007-03-10 14:41:48 +00002020
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002021- Bug #1531963: Make SocketServer.TCPServer's server_address always be
2022 equal to calling getsockname() on the server's socket. Fixed by
Collin Winterfaaa2042007-03-10 03:35:34 +00002023 patch #1545011.
Collin Winter22c42ba2007-03-10 02:51:26 +00002024
Andrew M. Kuchlinge45a77a2008-01-19 16:26:13 +00002025- Patch #742598: Add .timeout attribute to SocketServer that calls
2026 .handle_timeout() when no requests are received.
2027
Thomas Heller2456a3c2007-03-09 20:39:22 +00002028- Bug #1651235: When a tuple was passed to a ctypes function call,
2029 Python would crash instead of raising an error.
2030
Thomas Hellerc2f77252007-03-09 19:21:28 +00002031- Bug #1646630: ctypes.string_at(buf, 0) and ctypes.wstring_at(buf, 0)
2032 returned string up to the first NUL character.
2033
Martin v. Löwis1190a382007-03-09 15:35:55 +00002034- Patch #957003: Implement smtplib.LMTP.
2035
Collin Winterfb728de2007-03-09 03:26:32 +00002036- Patch #1481079: add support for HTTP_REFERER to CGIHTTPServer.
2037
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002038- Patch #1675424: Added tests for uncovered code in the zipfile
2039 module. The KeyError raised by Zipfile.getinfo for nonexistent
2040 names now has a descriptive message.
Georg Brandl4b3ab6f2007-07-12 09:59:22 +00002041
Martin v. Löwis05c075d2007-03-07 11:04:33 +00002042- Bug #1115886: os.path.splitext('.cshrc') gives now ('.cshrc', '').
2043
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002044- unittest now verifies more of its assumptions. In particular,
2045 TestCase and TestSuite subclasses (not instances) are no longer
2046 accepted in TestSuite.addTest(). This should cause no
2047 incompatibility since it never made sense with ordinary subclasses
2048 -- the failure just occurred later, with a more cumbersome
2049 exception.
Georg Brandl9caadf82007-03-08 18:37:31 +00002050
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002051- Patch #787789: allow to pass custom TestRunner instances to
2052 unittest's main() function.
Georg Brandld0a96252007-03-07 09:21:06 +00002053
Georg Brandl15c5ce92007-03-07 09:09:40 +00002054- Patches #1550273, #1550272: fix a few bugs in unittest and add a
2055 comprehensive test suite for the module.
2056
Georg Brandl71ff6462007-03-07 08:31:51 +00002057- Patch #1001604: glob.glob() now returns unicode filenames if it was
2058 given a unicode argument and os.listdir() returns unicode filenames.
2059
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002060- Patch #1673619: setup.py identifies extension modules it doesn't
2061 know how to build and those it knows how to build but that fail to
2062 build.
Skip Montanarod1287322007-03-06 15:41:38 +00002063
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00002064- Patch #912410: Replace HTML entity references for attribute values
Martin v. Löwisab8a6bb2007-03-06 14:43:00 +00002065 in HTMLParser.
2066
Georg Brandlff432e62007-03-06 13:37:45 +00002067- Patch #1663234: you can now run doctest on test files and modules
2068 using "python -m doctest [-v] filename ...".
2069
Martin v. Löwis3eb76482007-03-06 10:41:24 +00002070- Patch #1121142: Implement ZipFile.open.
2071
Skip Montanarof694b1b2007-03-04 20:54:12 +00002072- Taught setup.py how to locate Berkeley DB on Macs using MacPorts.
2073
Raymond Hettinger00166c52007-02-19 04:08:43 +00002074- Added heapq.merge() for merging sorted input streams.
2075
Raymond Hettingercd3c1082007-10-23 21:23:07 +00002076- Added collections.namedtuple() for assigning field names to tuples.
Raymond Hettingerc37e5e02007-03-01 06:16:43 +00002077
Raymond Hettingerd36862c2007-02-21 05:20:38 +00002078- Added itertools.izip_longest().
2079
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002080- Have the encoding package's search function dynamically import using
2081 absolute import semantics.
Brett Cannon971a0122007-02-15 22:54:39 +00002082
Lars Gustäbel5b1a7852007-02-13 16:09:24 +00002083- Patch #1647484: Renamed GzipFile's filename attribute to name.
2084
Martin v. Löwis84f6de92007-02-13 10:10:39 +00002085- Patch #1517891: Mode 'a' for ZipFile now creates the file if it
2086 doesn't exist.
2087
Martin v. Löwisc6d626e2007-02-13 09:49:38 +00002088- Patch #698833: Support file decryption in zipfile.
2089
Martin v. Löwis07aa3ed2007-02-13 08:34:45 +00002090- Patch #685268: Consider a package's __path__ in imputil.
2091
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002092- Patch #1463026: Support default namespace in XMLGenerator.
Martin v. Löwis2bad58f2007-02-12 12:21:10 +00002093
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002094- Patch #1571379: Make trace's --ignore-dir facility work in the face
2095 of relative directory names.
Skip Montanaro691acf22007-02-11 18:24:37 +00002096
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002097- Bug #1600860: Search for shared python library in LIBDIR, not
2098 lib/python/config, on "linux" and "gnu" systems.
Martin v. Löwis0a203262007-02-09 12:36:48 +00002099
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002100- Patch #1652681: tarfile.py: create nonexistent files in append mode
2101 and allow appending to empty files.
Lars Gustäbel3f8aca12007-02-06 18:38:13 +00002102
Peter Astrand5f9c6ae2007-02-06 15:37:50 +00002103- Bug #1124861: Automatically create pipes if GetStdHandle fails in
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00002104 subprocess.
Peter Astrand5f9c6ae2007-02-06 15:37:50 +00002105
Georg Brandl4ba9e5b2007-01-27 17:59:42 +00002106- Patch #1634778: add missing encoding aliases for iso8859_15 and
2107 iso8859_16.
2108
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002109- Patch #1638243: the compiler package is now able to correctly
2110 compile a with statement; previously, executing code containing a
2111 with statement compiled by the compiler package crashed the
2112 interpreter.
Georg Brandlab496842007-01-27 17:43:02 +00002113
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00002114- Bug #1643943: Fix time.strptime's support for the %U directive.
2115
Lars Gustäbel0713a682007-02-19 09:54:47 +00002116- Patch #1507247: tarfile.py: use current umask for intermediate
2117 directories.
2118
Georg Brandldd7b0522007-01-21 10:35:10 +00002119- Patch #1627441: close sockets properly in urllib2.
2120
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002121- Bug #494589: make ntpath.expandvars behave according to its
2122 docstring.
Sjoerd Mullender33a0a062007-01-16 16:42:38 +00002123
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00002124- Changed platform module API python_version_tuple() to actually
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00002125 return a tuple (it used to return a list).
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00002126
2127- Added new platform module APIs python_branch(), python_revision(),
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00002128 python_implementation() and linux_distribution().
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00002129
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00002130- Added support for IronPython and Jython to the platform module.
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00002131
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002132- The sets module has been deprecated. Use the built-in set/frozenset
2133 types instead.
Brett Cannon093b6702007-01-13 00:29:49 +00002134
Thomas Heller6fd45492007-01-12 20:21:53 +00002135- Bug #1610795: make ctypes.util.find_library work on BSD systems.
2136
Thomas Heller8138c262007-01-11 21:18:56 +00002137- Fixes for 64-bit Windows: In ctypes.wintypes, correct the
2138 definitions of HANDLE, WPARAM, LPARAM data types. Make
2139 parameterless foreign function calls work.
2140
Thomas Hellerfb9d7872007-01-10 20:12:13 +00002141- The version number of the ctypes package changed to "1.1.0".
2142
Vinay Sajipab41c102007-01-09 14:51:36 +00002143- Bug #1627575: logging: Added _open() method to FileHandler which can
2144 be used to reopen files. The FileHandler instance now saves the
2145 encoding (which can be None) in an attribute called "encoding".
2146
Vinay Sajipc9137262007-01-08 18:52:36 +00002147- Bug #411881: logging.handlers: bare except clause removed from
2148 SMTPHandler.emit. Now, only ImportError is trapped.
2149
2150- Bug #411881: logging.handlers: bare except clause removed from
2151 SocketHandler.createSocket. Now, only socket.error is trapped.
2152
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002153- Bug #411881: logging: bare except clause removed from
2154 LogRecord.__init__. Now, only ValueError, TypeError and
2155 AttributeError are trapped.
Vinay Sajipc9137262007-01-08 18:52:36 +00002156
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002157- Patch #1504073: Fix tarfile.open() for mode "r" with a fileobj
2158 argument.
Lars Gustäbela7ba6fc2006-12-27 10:30:46 +00002159
Andrew M. Kuchling71662322006-12-27 03:31:24 +00002160- Patch #1182394 from Shane Holloway: speed up HMAC.hexdigest.
2161
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002162- Patch #1262036: Prevent TarFiles from being added to themselves
2163 under certain conditions.
Lars Gustäbela4b23812006-12-23 17:57:23 +00002164
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002165- Patch #1230446: tarfile.py: fix ExFileObject so that read() and
2166 tell() work correctly together with readline().
Lars Gustäbel6baa5022006-12-23 16:40:13 +00002167
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002168- Patch #1484695: The tarfile module now raises a HeaderError
2169 exception if a buffer given to frombuf() is invalid.
Georg Brandlebbeed72006-12-19 22:06:46 +00002170
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00002171- Bug #1503765: Fix a problem in logging.config with spaces in comma-
2172 separated lists read from logging config files.
2173
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002174- Patch #1604907: Fix problems in logging.handlers caused at logging
2175 shutdown when syslog handlers fail to initialize because of syslogd
2176 problems.
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00002177
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002178- Patch #1608267: fix a race condition in os.makedirs() if the
2179 directory to be created is already there.
Georg Brandlb1307432006-12-09 09:08:29 +00002180
Georg Brandl87fa5592006-12-06 22:21:18 +00002181- Patch #1610437: fix a tarfile bug with long filename headers.
2182
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002183- Patch #1371075: Make ConfigParser accept optional dict type for
2184 ordering, sorting, etc.
Martin v. Löwisa00bcac2006-12-03 12:01:53 +00002185
Thomas Helleref583a42006-11-28 20:21:54 +00002186- Bug #1563807: _ctypes built on AIX fails with ld ffi error.
2187
Thomas Heller25d208b2006-11-24 18:45:39 +00002188- Bug #1598620: A ctypes Structure cannot contain itself.
2189
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002190- Patch #1070046: Marshal new-style objects like InstanceType in
2191 xmlrpclib.
Martin v. Löwis07529352006-11-19 18:51:54 +00002192
Martin v. Löwiscffcc8b2006-11-19 10:41:41 +00002193- cStringIO.truncate(-1) now raises an IOError, like StringIO and
2194 regular files.
2195
Martin v. Löwisbba003e2006-11-18 18:42:11 +00002196- Patch #1472877: Fix Tix subwidget name resolution.
2197
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002198- Patch #1594554: Always close a tkSimpleDialog on ok(), even if an
2199 exception occurs.
Martin v. Löwisef5fd3e2006-11-18 18:05:35 +00002200
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002201- Patch #1538878: Don't make tkSimpleDialog dialogs transient if the
2202 parent window is withdrawn.
Martin v. Löwisc73a4a42006-11-18 18:00:23 +00002203
Georg Brandl54082112006-11-16 16:50:59 +00002204- Bug #1597824: return the registered function from atexit.register()
2205 to facilitate usage as a decorator.
2206
Martin v. Löwis45cd4ff2006-11-12 18:56:03 +00002207- Patch #1360200: Use unmangled_version RPM spec field to deal with
2208 file name mangling.
2209
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002210- Patch #1359217: Process 2xx response in an ftplib transfer that
2211 precedes an 1xx response.
Martin v. Löwis36cbc082006-11-12 18:48:13 +00002212
Martin v. Löwis065f0c82006-11-12 10:41:39 +00002213- Patch #1355023: support whence argument for GzipFile.seek.
2214
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00002215- Patch #1065257: Support passing open files as body in
Martin v. Löwis040a9272006-11-12 10:32:47 +00002216 HTTPConnection.request().
2217
Andrew M. Kuchlinga3e5d372006-11-09 13:27:07 +00002218- Bug #1569790: mailbox.py: Maildir.get_folder() and MH.get_folder()
2219 weren't passing the message factory on to newly created Maildir/MH
2220 objects.
2221
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002222- Patch #1514543: mailbox.py: In the Maildir class, report errors if
2223 there's a filename clash instead of possibly losing a message.
2224 (Patch by David Watson.)
Andrew M. Kuchling978d8282006-11-09 21:16:46 +00002225
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002226- Patch #1514544: Try to ensure that messages/indexes have been
2227 physically written to disk after calling .flush() or
2228 .close(). (Patch by David Watson.)
Andrew M. Kuchlingb5686da2006-11-09 13:51:14 +00002229
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00002230- Patch #1592250: Add elide argument to Tkinter.Text.search.
Martin v. Löwis038cad72006-11-09 11:27:32 +00002231
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00002232- Patch #838546: Make terminal become controlling in pty.fork().
Martin v. Löwisb2bba732006-11-09 11:06:03 +00002233
Martin v. Löwis5361e9a2006-11-08 07:35:55 +00002234- Patch #1351744: Add askyesnocancel helper for tkMessageBox.
2235
Martin v. Löwis5310e502006-11-04 18:14:06 +00002236- Patch #1060577: Extract list of RPM files from spec file in
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00002237 bdist_rpm.
Martin v. Löwis5310e502006-11-04 18:14:06 +00002238
Georg Brandl2c9838e2006-10-29 14:39:09 +00002239- Bug #1586613: fix zlib and bz2 codecs' incremental en/decoders.
2240
Georg Brandl3354f282006-10-29 09:16:12 +00002241- Patch #1583880: fix tarfile's problems with long names and posix/
2242 GNU modes.
2243
Georg Brandl5addf702006-10-29 08:53:06 +00002244- Bug #1586448: the compiler module now emits the same bytecode for
2245 list comprehensions as the builtin compiler, using the LIST_APPEND
2246 opcode.
2247
Georg Brandl8f99f812006-10-29 08:39:22 +00002248- Fix codecs.EncodedFile which did not use file_encoding in 2.5.0, and
2249 fix all codecs file wrappers to work correctly with the "with"
2250 statement (bug #1586513).
2251
Thomas Heller112d1a62006-10-27 19:05:53 +00002252- Lib/modulefinder.py now handles absolute and relative imports
2253 correctly.
2254
Martin v. Löwisee82c0e2006-10-27 07:13:28 +00002255- Patch #1567274: Support SMTP over TLS.
2256
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002257- Patch #1560695: Add .note.GNU-stack to ctypes' sysv.S so that ctypes
2258 isn't considered as requiring executable stacks.
Martin v. Löwis1b2f6272006-10-22 10:55:15 +00002259
Thomas Hellerd2ea4a22006-10-17 19:30:48 +00002260- ctypes callback functions only support 'fundamental' data types as
2261 result type. Raise an error when something else is used. This is a
2262 partial fix for Bug #1574584.
2263
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002264- Fix turtle so that time.sleep is imported for the entire library.
2265 Allows the demo2 function to be executed on its own instead of only
2266 when the module is run as a script.
Brett Cannond80e0c82006-10-16 03:09:52 +00002267
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002268- Bug #813342: Start the IDLE subprocess with -Qnew if the parent is
2269 started with that option.
Georg Brandld0761532006-10-12 07:57:21 +00002270
Martin v. Löwisf43893a2006-10-09 20:44:25 +00002271- Bug #1565150: Fix subsecond processing for os.utime on Windows.
2272
Martin v. Löwis8b274262006-10-04 15:25:28 +00002273- Support for MSVC 8 was added to bdist_wininst.
2274
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002275- Bug #1446043: correctly raise a LookupError if an encoding name
2276 given to encodings.search_function() contains a dot.
Georg Brandla92979a2006-09-30 11:22:28 +00002277
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002278- Bug #1560617: in pyclbr, return full module name not only for
2279 classes, but also for functions.
Georg Brandl154324a2006-09-30 11:06:47 +00002280
Georg Brandl05b3c452006-09-30 10:58:01 +00002281- Bug #1457823: cgi.(Sv)FormContentDict's constructor now takes
2282 keep_blank_values and strict_parsing keyword arguments.
2283
Georg Brandl8d1e5bf2006-09-30 09:13:21 +00002284- Bug #1566602: correct failure of posixpath unittest when $HOME ends
2285 with a slash.
2286
Georg Brandl8c667452006-09-30 07:31:57 +00002287- Bug #1565661: in webbrowser, split() the command for the default
2288 GNOME browser in case it is a command with args.
2289
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002290- Made the error message for time.strptime when the data data and
2291 format do match be more clear.
Brett Cannon11b35352006-09-26 23:38:24 +00002292
Georg Brandlc7986ce2006-09-24 12:50:24 +00002293- Fix a bug in traceback.format_exception_only() that led to an error
2294 being raised when print_exc() was called without an exception set.
2295 In version 2.4, this printed "None", restored that behavior.
2296
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002297- Make webbrowser.BackgroundBrowser usable in Windows (it wasn't
2298 because the close_fds arg to subprocess.Popen is not supported).
Georg Brandl2c94bf72006-09-24 10:36:01 +00002299
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002300- Reverted patch #1504333 to sgmllib because it introduced an infinite
2301 loop.
Neal Norwitzbcc119a2006-09-11 04:24:09 +00002302
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002303- Patch #1553314: Fix the inspect.py slowdown that was hurting IPython
2304 & SAGE by adding smarter caching in inspect.getmodule()
Nick Coghlanb3c18f82006-09-08 10:04:38 +00002305
Georg Brandl4e933132006-09-06 20:05:58 +00002306- Fix missing import of the types module in logging.config.
2307
Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +00002308- Patch #1550886: Fix decimal module context management implementation
Neal Norwitza22975f2006-09-05 02:24:03 +00002309 to match the localcontext() example from PEP 343.
Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +00002310
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002311- Bug #1545341: The 'classifier' keyword argument to the Distutils
2312 setup() function now accepts tuples as well as lists.
Andrew M. Kuchling99994792006-10-09 17:10:12 +00002313
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002314- Bug #1541863: uuid.uuid1 failed to generate unique identifiers on
2315 systems with low clock resolution.
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00002316
Gustavo Niemeyerc36bede2006-09-07 00:48:33 +00002317- Bug #1531862: Do not close standard file descriptors in subprocess.
2318
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002319- idle: Honor the "Cancel" action in the save dialog (Debian bug
2320 #299092).
Matthias Klosea398e2d2007-01-11 11:44:04 +00002321
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002322- Fix utf-8-sig incremental decoder, which didn't recognise a BOM when
2323 the first chunk fed to the decoder started with a BOM, but was
2324 longer than 3 bytes.
Georg Brandl27562782006-10-27 20:39:43 +00002325
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002326- The implementation of UnicodeError objects has been simplified
2327 (start and end attributes are now stored directly as Py_ssize_t
2328 members).
Walter Dörwald84a3efe2007-06-13 16:57:12 +00002329
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002330- Issue #829951: In the smtplib module, SMTP.starttls() now complies
2331 with RFC 3207 and forgets any knowledge obtained from the server not
2332 obtained from the TLS negotiation itself. Patch contributed by Bill
2333 Fenner.
Gregory P. Smith2b3ba582008-01-17 08:03:17 +00002334
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002335- Issue #1339: The smtplib.SMTP class has been refactored a bit such
Gregory P. Smithbde4ae42008-01-17 08:35:49 +00002336 that the SMTP.starttls() caller no longer needs to call ehlo()
2337 beforehand. SMTP.starttls() now raises an exception of the server
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002338 does not claim to support starttls. Adds the
2339 SMTP.ehlo_or_helo_if_needed() method. Patch contributed by Bill
2340 Fenner.
Gregory P. Smithbde4ae42008-01-17 08:35:49 +00002341
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002342- Patch #1089358: Add signal.siginterrupt, a wrapper around
2343 siginterrupt(3).
Georg Brandl29604a12008-01-26 14:03:47 +00002344
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00002345Extension Modules
2346-----------------
2347
Georg Brandl392c6fc2008-05-25 07:25:25 +00002348- Patch #1657: added select.epoll and select.kqueue.
Christian Heimes0e9ab5f2008-03-21 23:49:44 +00002349
Georg Brandlebcfd112008-02-23 23:04:35 +00002350- Patch #1506171: added operator.methodcaller().
2351
Georg Brandle2065c62008-02-23 23:02:23 +00002352- Patch #1826: operator.attrgetter() now supports dotted attribute paths.
2353
Georg Brandl392c6fc2008-05-25 07:25:25 +00002354- Patch #1957: syslogmodule: Release GIL when calling syslog(3).
Christian Heimesf0476e82008-02-23 17:42:31 +00002355
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002356- Bug #2112: mmap.error is now a subclass of EnvironmentError and not
2357 a direct EnvironmentError.
Facundo Batistae1396882008-02-17 18:59:29 +00002358
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002359- Bug #2111: mmap segfaults when trying to write a block opened with
2360 PROT_READ.
Christian Heimes7adfad82008-02-15 08:20:11 +00002361
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002362- Bug #2063: correct order of utime and stime in os.times() result on
2363 Windows.
Georg Brandl0a40ffb2008-02-13 07:20:22 +00002364
Martin v. Löwise0d30ef2008-02-12 13:47:26 +00002365- Patch #1736: Fix file name handling of _msi.FCICreate.
2366
Hye-Shik Chang01612e72008-02-08 17:10:20 +00002367- Updated ``big5hkscs`` codec to the HKSCS revision of 2004.
2368
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002369- Issue #1940: make it possible to use curses.filter() before
2370 curses.initscr() as the documentation says.
Georg Brandl29604a12008-01-26 14:03:47 +00002371
Christian Heimes7f39c9f2008-01-25 12:18:43 +00002372- Backport of _fileio module from Python 3.0.
2373
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002374- Patch #1087741: mmap.mmap is now a class, not a factory function. It
2375 is also subclassable now.
Georg Brandl5ca3fd82008-01-21 14:18:14 +00002376
Georg Brandl56112892008-01-20 13:59:46 +00002377- Patch #1648: added ``sys.getprofile()`` and ``sys.gettrace()``.
2378
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002379- Patch #1663329: added ``os.closerange()`` function to quickly close
2380 a range of file descriptors without considering errors.
Georg Brandl309501a2008-01-19 20:22:13 +00002381
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002382- Patch #976880: ``mmap`` objects now have an ``rfind`` method that
Andrew M. Kuchling5c60bfc2008-01-19 18:18:41 +00002383 works as expected. ``mmap.find`` also takes an optional ``end``
2384 parameter.
2385
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002386- _winreg's HKEY object has gained __enter__ and __exit__ methods to
2387 support the context manager protocol. The _winreg module also
2388 gained a new function ``ExpandEnvironmentStrings`` to expand
2389 REG_EXPAND_SZ keys.
Christian Heimesb39a7562008-01-08 15:46:10 +00002390
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002391- itertools.starmap() now accepts any iterable input. Previously, it
2392 required the function inputs to be tuples.
Raymond Hettinger47317092008-01-17 03:02:14 +00002393
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002394- itertools.chain() now has an alternate constructor,
2395 chain.from_iterable().
Raymond Hettingerb4cbc982008-02-28 22:46:41 +00002396
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002397- Issue #1646: Make socket support TIPC. The socket module now has
2398 support for TIPC under Linux, see http://tipc.sf.net/ for more
2399 information.
Christian Heimesfb2d25a2008-01-07 16:12:44 +00002400
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002401- Added interface for Windows' WSAIoctl to socket object and added an
2402 example for a simple network sniffer.
Christian Heimes04ae9162008-01-04 15:23:30 +00002403
Guido van Rossum076d9ee2008-01-03 23:54:04 +00002404- Bug #1301: Bad assert in _tkinter fixed.
2405
Christian Heimescdaa2cb2007-12-31 14:47:07 +00002406- Added bdist_wininst executable for VS 2008.
2407
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002408- Bug #1604: collections.deque.__init__(iterable) now clears any prior
2409 contents before adding elements from the iterable. This fix brings
2410 the behavior into line with that for list.__init__().
Raymond Hettingeradf9ffd2007-12-13 00:08:37 +00002411
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002412- Added wide char functions to msvcrt module: getwch, getwche, putwch
2413 and ungetwch. The functions accept or return unicode.
Christian Heimes7c7f6af2007-12-10 15:12:41 +00002414
Martin v. Löwis69233e82007-12-04 08:39:16 +00002415- os.access now returns True on Windows for any existing directory.
2416
Christian Heimes28104c52007-11-27 23:16:44 +00002417- Added warnpy3k function to the warnings module.
2418
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002419- Marshal.dumps() now expects exact type matches for int, long, float,
2420 complex, tuple, list, dict, set, and frozenset. Formerly, it would
2421 silently miscode subclasses of those types. Now, it raises a
2422 ValueError instead.
Raymond Hettinger12e94202007-11-07 01:13:09 +00002423
Martin v. Löwis58bd49f2007-09-04 13:13:14 +00002424- Patch #1388440: Add set_completion_display_matches_hook and
2425 get_completion_type to readline.
2426
Thomas Helleref4fff32007-07-13 17:46:54 +00002427- Bug #1649098: Avoid declaration of zero-sized array declaration in
2428 structure.
2429
Brett Cannondc48b742007-05-20 07:09:50 +00002430- Removed the rgbimg module; been deprecated since Python 2.5.
2431
Neal Norwitz59f58aa2007-05-19 03:48:47 +00002432- Bug #1721309: prevent bsddb module from freeing random memory.
2433
Gregory P. Smith82eafe62007-10-18 17:17:57 +00002434- Bug #1233: fix bsddb.dbshelve.DBShelf append method to work as
2435 intended for RECNO databases.
2436
Gregory P. Smithec10a4a2007-11-05 02:32:26 +00002437- pybsddb.sf.net Bug #477182: Load the database flags at database open
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002438 time so that opening a database previously created with the DB_DUP
2439 or DB_DUPSORT flag set will keep the proper behavior on subsequent
2440 opens. Specifically: dictionary assignment to a DB object will
2441 replace all values for a given key when the database allows
2442 duplicate values. DB users should use DB.put(k, v) when they want
2443 to store duplicates; not DB[k] = v.
Gregory P. Smithec10a4a2007-11-05 02:32:26 +00002444
Gregory P. Smithac11e022007-11-05 02:56:31 +00002445- Add the bsddb.db.DBEnv.lock_id_free method.
2446
Martin v. Löwis3bf573f2007-04-04 18:30:36 +00002447- Bug #1686475: Support stat'ing open files on Windows again.
2448
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002449- Patch #1185447: binascii.b2a_qp() now correctly quotes binary
2450 characters with ASCII value less than 32. Also, it correctly quotes
2451 dots only if they occur on a single line, as opposed to the previous
2452 behavior of quoting dots if they are the second character of any
2453 line.
Georg Brandl4aef7272007-03-13 22:49:43 +00002454
Georg Brandla47337f2007-03-13 12:34:25 +00002455- Bug #1622896: fix a rare corner case where the bz2 module raised an
2456 error in spite of a succesful compression.
2457
Georg Brandl40c62612007-03-06 18:59:11 +00002458- Patch #1654417: make operator.{get,set,del}slice use the full range
2459 of Py_ssize_t.
2460
Guido van Rossum2054ee92007-03-06 15:50:01 +00002461- Patch #1646728: datetime.fromtimestamp fails with negative
2462 fractional times. With unittest.
2463
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002464- Patch #1490190: posixmodule now includes os.chflags() and
2465 os.lchflags() functions on platforms where the underlying system
2466 calls are available.
Martin v. Löwis382abef2007-02-19 10:55:19 +00002467
Georg Brandl983d1002007-02-15 11:29:04 +00002468- Patch #1494140: Add documentation for the new struct.Struct object.
2469
Martin v. Löwis45423a72007-02-14 10:07:37 +00002470- Patch #1432399: Support the HCI protocol for bluetooth sockets
2471
Martin v. Löwisb1cc1d42007-02-13 12:14:19 +00002472- Patch #1657276: Make NETLINK_DNRTMSG conditional.
2473
Martin v. Löwis4c11a922007-02-08 09:13:36 +00002474- Bug #1653736: Complain about keyword arguments to time.isoformat.
2475
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002476- Bug #1486663: don't reject keyword arguments for subclasses of
2477 builtin types.
Georg Brandlb84c1372007-01-21 10:28:43 +00002478
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002479- Patch #1610575: The struct module now supports the 't' code, for C99
2480 _Bool.
Martin v. Löwisaef4c6b2007-01-21 09:33:07 +00002481
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002482- Patch #1635058: ensure that htonl and friends never accept or return
2483 negative numbers, per the underlying C implementation.
Guido van Rossumbb2cc692007-01-14 17:03:32 +00002484
Martin v. Löwis046c4d12006-12-03 11:23:45 +00002485- Patch #1544279: Improve thread-safety of the socket module by moving
2486 the sock_addr_t storage out of the socket object.
2487
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002488- Patch #1019808: fix bug that causes an incorrect error to be
2489 returned when a socket timeout is set and a connection attempt
2490 fails.
Andrew M. Kuchling060e6852008-01-19 20:47:59 +00002491
Neal Norwitz45e230a2006-11-19 21:26:53 +00002492- Speed up function calls into the math module.
2493
Georg Brandl25aabf42006-11-16 17:08:45 +00002494- Bug #1588217: don't parse "= " as a soft line break in binascii's
2495 a2b_qp() function, instead leave it in the string as quopri.decode()
2496 does.
2497
Neal Norwitz4fe44232006-11-21 05:26:22 +00002498- Bug #1599782: Fix segfault on bsddb.db.DB().type().
2499
Martin v. Löwis012bc722006-10-15 09:43:39 +00002500- Bug #1567666: Emulate GetFileAttributesExA for Win95.
2501
Martin v. Löwis18aaa562006-10-15 08:43:33 +00002502- Patch #1576166: Support os.utime for directories on Windows NT+.
2503
Georg Brandl412a9ea2006-10-09 19:03:06 +00002504- Patch #1572724: fix typo ('=' instead of '==') in _msi.c.
2505
Hye-Shik Changb7883462006-10-08 13:48:34 +00002506- Bug #1572832: fix a bug in ISO-2022 codecs which may cause segfault
2507 when encoding non-BMP unicode characters.
2508
Georg Brandl4ddfcd32006-09-30 11:17:34 +00002509- Bug #1556784: allow format strings longer than 127 characters in
2510 datetime's strftime function.
2511
Jack Diederichd10a0f72006-09-21 20:34:49 +00002512- Fix itertools.count(n) to work with negative numbers again.
2513
Martin v. Löwis43fd99c2006-09-16 17:36:37 +00002514- RLIMIT_SBSIZE was added to the resource module where available.
2515
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002516- Bug #1551427: fix a wrong NULL pointer check in the win32 version of
2517 os.urandom().
Georg Brandl74bb7832006-09-06 06:03:59 +00002518
Neal Norwitz6aefa912006-09-02 02:50:35 +00002519- Bug #1548092: fix curses.tparm seg fault on invalid input.
2520
Andrew M. Kuchling62182c82008-01-08 14:56:02 +00002521- Patch #1114: fix curses module compilation on 64-bit AIX, & possibly
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002522 other 64-bit LP64 platforms where attr_t is not the same size as a
2523 long. (Contributed by Luke Mewburn.)
Andrew M. Kuchling62182c82008-01-08 14:56:02 +00002524
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002525- Bug #1550714: fix SystemError from itertools.tee on negative value
2526 for n.
Neal Norwitz69e88972006-09-02 02:58:13 +00002527
Hye-Shik Chang199f1db2006-09-05 12:07:09 +00002528- Fixed a few bugs on cjkcodecs:
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002529 - gbk and gb18030 codec now handle U+30FB KATAKANA MIDDLE DOT
2530 correctly.
Hye-Shik Chang199f1db2006-09-05 12:07:09 +00002531 - iso2022_jp_2 codec now encodes into G0 for KS X 1001, GB2312
2532 codepoints to conform the standard.
Hye-Shik Chang2cad3e92006-09-05 12:14:57 +00002533 - iso2022_jp_3 and iso2022_jp_2004 codec can encode JIS X 0213:2
Hye-Shik Chang199f1db2006-09-05 12:07:09 +00002534 codepoints now.
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00002535
Andrew M. Kuchling43889c02006-09-27 16:37:30 +00002536- Bug #1552726: in readline.c, avoid repeatedly polling in interactive
2537 mode by only placing a timeout on the select() if an input hook has
2538 been defined. This prevents an interactive Python from waking up 10
2539 times per second. Patch by Richard Boulton.
2540
Gregory P. Smithf09c6262007-03-17 22:33:35 +00002541- fixed a bug with bsddb.DB.stat: the flags and txn keyword arguments
2542 were transposed.
2543
Matthias Klose691632f2007-09-03 23:33:04 +00002544- Added support for linking the bsddb module against BerkeleyDB 4.5.x
2545 and 4.6.x.
Gregory P. Smith8b96a352007-01-05 01:59:42 +00002546
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002547- Bug #1633621: if curses.resizeterm() or curses.resize_term() is
2548 called, update _curses.LINES, _curses.COLS, curses.LINES and
2549 curses.COLS.
Andrew M. Kuchling43889c02006-09-27 16:37:30 +00002550
Matthias Klosee19e0c22007-04-03 04:35:59 +00002551- Fix an off-by-one bug in locale.strxfrm().
2552
Matthias Klose38336402007-09-04 20:46:02 +00002553- Fix libffi configure for hppa*-*-linux* | parisc*-*-linux*.
2554
Matthias Klose9afb9852007-10-24 20:00:44 +00002555- Build using system ffi library on arm*-linux*.
2556
Christian Heimes3f065a42007-11-21 01:17:28 +00002557- Bug #1372: zlibmodule.c: int overflow in PyZlib_decompress
Matthias Klosee19e0c22007-04-03 04:35:59 +00002558
Gregory P. Smitheeed5b72008-02-03 07:20:53 +00002559- bsddb module: Fix memory leak when using database cursors on
2560 databases without a DBEnv.
2561
Gerhard Häring11ab8072008-03-02 13:12:27 +00002562- The sqlite3 module was updated to pysqlite 2.4.1.
2563
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00002564Tests
2565-----
2566
Brett Cannon56c4deb2008-03-03 00:38:58 +00002567- Refactor test_logging to use unittest.
Brett Cannonf9db8a32008-02-17 01:59:18 +00002568
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002569- Refactor test_profile and test_cprofile to use the same code to
2570 profile.
Georg Brandlb7090772008-02-05 19:58:17 +00002571
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002572- Make test_runpy reentrant by fixing _check_module to clear out any
2573 module being tested. Was causing an error by __import__ doing a
2574 reload on the second run and thus suppressing bytecode recreation.
Brett Cannondbed7a72007-08-23 14:53:17 +00002575
Brett Cannonea2835a2007-03-14 21:44:15 +00002576- Capture socket connection resets and timeouts in test_socket_ssl and
2577 test_urllib2net and raise test.test_support.ResourceDenied.
Brett Cannoned001842007-03-14 21:40:13 +00002578
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002579- Patch #1559413: Fix test_cmd_line if sys.executable contains a
2580 space.
Martin v. Löwiscd1210a2007-03-14 20:02:31 +00002581
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002582- Added test.test_support.TransientResource which is a context manager
2583 to surround calls to resources that are not guaranteed to work even
2584 if test.test_support.requires says that the resource should exist.
Brett Cannona30fcb42007-03-08 23:58:11 +00002585
Brett Cannone05e6b02007-01-29 04:41:44 +00002586- Added a test for slicing of an exception.
2587
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002588- Added test.test_support.EnvironmentVarGuard. It's a class that
2589 provides a context manager so that one can temporarily set or unset
2590 environment variables.
Brett Cannon92d54d52007-01-04 00:23:49 +00002591
Thomas Heller112d1a62006-10-27 19:05:53 +00002592- Added some tests for modulefinder.
2593
Brett Cannon373d90b2006-10-03 23:23:14 +00002594- Converted test_imp to use unittest.
2595
Neal Norwitz919d5cc2006-09-05 02:35:08 +00002596- Fix bsddb test_basics.test06_Transactions to check the version
2597 number properly.
2598
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002599- test.test_support.catch_warning is a new context manager that can be
2600 used to catch the warnings issued by the warning framework.
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00002601
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00002602Tools
2603-----
2604
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002605- Tools/scripts/reindent.py now creates the backup file using
2606 shutil.copy to preserve user/group and permissions. Added also a
2607 --nobackup option to not create the backup if the user is concerned
2608 regarding this. Check issue 1050828 for more details.
Facundo Batistaf88a0772008-02-17 16:21:13 +00002609
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002610- Tools/scripts/win_add2path.py was added. The simple script modifes
2611 the PATH environment var of the HKCU tree and adds the python bin
2612 and script directory.
Christian Heimesbd865db2008-01-18 11:58:50 +00002613
Skip Montanaro3e275362007-08-29 01:33:45 +00002614- Tools/18n/pygettext.py was added to the list of scripts installed by
2615 Tools/scripts/setup.py (tracker item 642309).
2616
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002617- Added IronPython and Jython support to pybench (part of which was
2618 patch #1563844).
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00002619
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002620- Made some minor changes to pybench output to allow the user to see
2621 which Python version is running pybench.
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00002622
2623- Added support for the new platform module feature
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002624 platform.python_implementation(); this will now be saved in the
2625 benchmark pickle.
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00002626
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00002627
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00002628Documentation
2629-------------
2630
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +00002631- RFE #1765140: Updated documentation on FileHandler and subclasses to
2632 include new optional delay argument.
2633
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002634- Bug #932563: Added section on getting contextual information into
2635 logging output, and added documentation for the new LoggerAdapter
2636 class.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00002637
2638- Bug #1295: Added information about caching of formatted exception
2639 information in the LogRecord by Formatter.format().
2640
Georg Brandl9467bc52007-07-12 09:37:49 +00002641- Bug #1637365: add subsection about "__name__ == __main__" to the
2642 Python tutorial.
2643
Georg Brandl3dc6e902007-04-25 06:24:59 +00002644- Patch #1698768: updated the "using Python on the Mac" intro.
2645
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002646- Bug #1569057: Document that calling file.next() when the file is
2647 open for writing is undefined.
Brett Cannon55a18642007-04-08 04:29:32 +00002648
Žiga Seilnachtc64ad482007-03-24 14:24:26 +00002649- Patch #1489771: the syntax rules in Python Reference Manual were
2650 updated to reflect the current Python syntax.
2651
Martin v. Löwis2f401d72007-03-23 10:35:49 +00002652- Patch #1686451: Fix return type for
2653 PySequence_{Count,Index,Fast_GET_SIZE}.
2654
Georg Brandl0692a262007-03-13 07:50:57 +00002655- Patch #1679379: add documentation for fnmatch.translate().
2656
Collin Winterb7b2b4e2007-03-09 18:09:10 +00002657- Bug #1629566: clarify the docs on the return values of parsedate()
2658 and parsedate_tz() in email.utils and rfc822.
2659
Georg Brandld28b9fc2007-03-06 10:02:47 +00002660- Patch #1671450: add a section about subclassing builtin types to the
2661 "extending and embedding" tutorial.
2662
Georg Brandlb26b1c62007-01-17 21:19:58 +00002663- Bug #1629125: fix wrong data type (int -> Py_ssize_t) in PyDict_Next
2664 docs.
2665
Georg Brandla4c8e322006-10-12 08:22:53 +00002666- Bug #1565919: document set types in the Language Reference.
2667
Georg Brandl44a7b3a2006-09-30 12:02:57 +00002668- Bug #1546052: clarify that PyString_FromString(AndSize) copies the
2669 string pointed to by its parameter.
2670
Georg Brandlfb257732006-09-30 09:06:45 +00002671- Bug #1566663: remove obsolete example from datetime docs.
2672
Georg Brandl648c1102006-08-18 07:27:59 +00002673- Bug #1541682: Fix example in the "Refcount details" API docs.
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002674 Additionally, remove a faulty example showing PySequence_SetItem
2675 applied to a newly created list object and add notes that this isn't
2676 a good idea.
Georg Brandl648c1102006-08-18 07:27:59 +00002677
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00002678
Georg Brandl27562782006-10-27 20:39:43 +00002679Tools/Demos
2680-----------
2681
2682- Patch #1552024: add decorator support to unparse.py demo script.
Marc-André Lemburg96148682006-09-06 20:40:22 +00002683
Brett Cannonc8939d22006-09-20 19:28:35 +00002684- Make auto-generated python.vim file list built-ins and exceptions in
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002685 alphatbetical order. Makes output more deterministic and easier to
2686 tell if the file is stale or not.
Brett Cannonc8939d22006-09-20 19:28:35 +00002687
Marc-André Lemburg96148682006-09-06 20:40:22 +00002688- Bug #1546372: Fixed small bugglet in pybench that caused a missing
2689 file not to get reported properly.
2690
2691
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00002692Build
2693-----
2694
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002695- Have the search path for building extensions follow the declared
2696 order in $CPPFLAGS and $LDFLAGS when adding directories from those
2697 environment variables.
Brett Cannon70c0c022008-02-03 09:59:21 +00002698
Christian Heimes951cc0f2008-01-31 23:08:23 +00002699- Bug #1983: Added a check to pyport to verify that sizeof(pid_t) is
2700 smaller or equal sizeof(long).
2701
Christian Heimescba36bb2008-01-30 22:54:18 +00002702- Bug #1234: Fixed semaphore errors on AIX 5.2
2703
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002704- Issue #1726: Remove Python/atof.c from PCBuild/pythoncore.vcproj.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00002705
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002706- Removed PCbuild8/ directory and added a new build directory for VS
2707 2005 based on the VS 2008 build directory to PC/VS8.0. The script
2708 PCbuild/vs8to9.py was added to sync changes from PCbuild to
2709 PC/VS8.0.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00002710
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002711- Moved PCbuild/ directory for VS 2003 to PC/VS7.1 and renamed
2712 PCBuild9/ directory to PCBuild/.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00002713
Martin v. Löwiscb78de62007-12-29 18:49:21 +00002714- Bug #1699: Define _BSD_SOURCE only on OpenBSD.
2715
Guido van Rossum7c862f82007-12-13 20:50:10 +00002716- Bug #1608: use -fwrapv when GCC supports it. This is important,
2717 newer GCC versions may optimize away overflow buffer overflow checks
2718 without this option!
2719
Martin v. Löwis63bf1492007-11-12 05:14:05 +00002720- Patch #1418: Make the AC_REPLACE_FUNCS object files actually work.
2721
Raymond Hettingerdc1d1ba2007-11-07 02:45:46 +00002722- Add a FAST_LOOPS build option that speeds-up looping by trading away
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002723 periodic threadstate and signal checking in tight loops. By
2724 default, this option is turned-off. It should only be enabled in
2725 debugged, performance critical applications.
Raymond Hettingerdc1d1ba2007-11-07 02:45:46 +00002726
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002727- Patch #786737: Allow building in a tree of symlinks pointing to a
2728 readonly source.
Martin v. Löwisd44a4e92007-09-05 11:47:34 +00002729
Martin v. Löwis8bc77e42007-09-01 06:36:03 +00002730- Bug #1737210: Change Manufacturer of Windows installer to PSF.
2731
Martin v. Löwis75c23bd2007-08-30 18:25:47 +00002732- Bug #1746880: Correctly install DLLs into system32 folder on Win64.
2733
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002734- Define _BSD_SOURCE, to get access to POSIX extensions on OpenBSD
2735 4.1+.
Martin v. Löwis76760b02007-07-31 19:57:56 +00002736
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002737- Stop supporting AtheOS and cause a build error in configure for the
2738 platform.
Brett Cannon19fab762007-06-02 03:02:29 +00002739
Georg Brandldb846032007-03-31 18:56:11 +00002740- Bug #1655392: don't add -L/usr/lib/pythonX.Y/config to the LDFLAGS
2741 returned by python-config if Python was built with --enable-shared
2742 because that prevented the shared library from being used.
2743
Georg Brandl18c47f62007-03-13 10:19:22 +00002744- Patch #1569798: fix a bug in distutils when building Python from a
2745 directory within sys.exec_prefix.
2746
Martin v. Löwiseb623572007-03-12 10:50:39 +00002747- Bug #1675511: Use -Kpic instead of -xcode=pic32 on Solaris/x86.
2748
Martin v. Löwis4d542ec2006-11-25 15:39:19 +00002749- Disable _XOPEN_SOURCE on NetBSD 1.x.
2750
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002751- configure now checks whether gcc supports the PyArg_ParseTuple
2752 format attribute.
Martin v. Löwisaac13162006-10-19 10:58:46 +00002753
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00002754- Bug #1578513: Cross compilation was broken by a change to configure.
Martin v. Löwisfefbc202006-10-17 18:59:23 +00002755 Repair so that it's back to how it was in 2.4.3.
2756
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002757- Patch #1576954: Update VC6 build directory; remove redundant files
2758 in VC7.
Martin v. Löwisc9e82f62006-10-15 07:54:40 +00002759
Martin v. Löwisebe26702006-10-02 14:55:51 +00002760- Bug #1568842: Fix test for uintptr_t.
2761
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002762- Patch #1540470: for OpenBSD 4.0.
Neal Norwitz4bc2c092006-09-05 02:57:01 +00002763
Matthias Klosed149d0c2006-12-03 17:16:41 +00002764- Fix build failure on kfreebsd and on the hurd.
2765
Matthias Kloseebde1492006-12-09 12:15:27 +00002766- Fix the build of the library reference in info format.
2767
Matthias Kloseeb8ff672007-08-02 21:33:13 +00002768- Allow Emacs 22 for building the documentation in info format.
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00002769
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002770- Makefile.pre.in(buildbottest): Run an optional script
2771 pybuildbot.identify to include some information about the build
2772 environment.
Matthias Klose642ac852007-09-04 18:17:36 +00002773
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00002774
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00002775C API
2776-----
2777
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002778- Unified naming convention for free lists and their limits. All free
2779 lists in Object/ are named ``free_list``, the counter ``numfree``
2780 and the upper limit is a macro ``PyName_MAXFREELIST`` inside an
2781 #ifndef block.
Christian Heimes5b970ad2008-02-06 13:33:44 +00002782
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002783- ``PySet_Add()`` can now modify a newly created frozenset. Similarly
2784 to ``PyTuple_SetItem``, it can be used to populate a brand new
2785 frozenset; but it does not steal a reference to the added item.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arccab3d982008-02-03 22:51:43 +00002786
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00002787- Added ``PySet_Check()`` and ``PyFrozenSet_Check()`` to the set API.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arccab3d982008-02-03 22:51:43 +00002788
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002789- Backport of PyUnicode_FromString(), _FromStringAndSize(), _Format
2790 and _FormatV from Python 3.0. Made PyLong_AsSsize_t and
2791 PyLong_FromSsize_t public functions.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00002792
2793- Patch #1720595: add T_BOOL to the range of structmember types.
2794
2795- Issue #1534: Added ``PyFloat_GetMax()``, ``PyFloat_GetMin()`` and
2796 ``PyFloat_GetInfo()`` to the float API.
2797
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002798- Issue #1521: On 64bit platforms, using PyArgs_ParseTuple with the t#
2799 of w# format code incorrectly truncated the length to an int, even
2800 when PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN is set. The str.decode method used to return
2801 incorrect results with huge strings.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00002802
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002803- Issue #1629: Renamed Py_Size, Py_Type and Py_Refcnt to Py_SIZE,
2804 Py_TYPE and Py_REFCNT.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00002805
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002806- PEP 3123: Provide forward compatibility with Python 3.0, while
2807 keeping backwards compatibility. Add Py_Refcnt, Py_Type, Py_Size,
2808 and PyVarObject_HEAD_INIT.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00002809
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002810- Py_ssize_t fields work in structmember when HAVE_LONG_LONG is not
2811 defined.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00002812
2813- Patch #1733960: Allow T_LONGLONG to accept ints.
2814
2815- T_PYSSIZET can now be used in PyMemberDef lists for Py_ssize_t members.
2816
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00002817- Added a new API function ``PyImport_ImportModuleNoBlock``.
2818
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00002819- Bug #1637022: Prefix AST symbols with _Py_.
2820
2821- Fix some leftovers from the conversion from int to Py_ssize_t
2822 (relevant to strings and sequences of more than 2**31 items).
2823
2824- Make _PyGILState_NoteThreadState() static, it was not used anywhere
2825 outside of pystate.c and should not be necessary.
2826
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002827- ``PyImport_Import`` and ``PyImport_ImportModule`` now always do
2828 absolute imports. In earlier versions they might have used relative
2829 imports under some conditions.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00002830
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002831- Added case insensitive comparison methods ``PyOS_stricmp(char*,
2832 char*)`` and ``PyOS_strnicmp(char*, char*, Py_ssize_t)``.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00002833
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002834- Bug #1542693: remove semi-colon at end of PyImport_ImportModuleEx
2835 macro so it can be used as an expression.
Neal Norwitz8a267062006-08-19 04:25:29 +00002836
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00002837
Martin v. Löwis2607e6c2006-11-21 18:20:25 +00002838Windows
2839-------
2840
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002841- Patch #1706: Drop support for Win9x, WinME and NT4. Python now
2842 requires Windows 2000 or greater. The _WINVER and NTDDI_VERSION
2843 macros are set to Win2k for x86/32bit builds and WinXP for AMD64
2844 builds.
Christian Heimes95d64472008-02-09 19:55:22 +00002845
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002846- Conditionalize definition of _CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE and
2847 _CRT_NONSTDC_NO_DEPRECATE.
Martin v. Löwis2607e6c2006-11-21 18:20:25 +00002848
Martin v. Löwisd476a402007-10-12 08:56:52 +00002849- Bug #1216: Restore support for Visual Studio 2002.
2850
Martin v. Löwis2607e6c2006-11-21 18:20:25 +00002851
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00002852Mac
2853---
2854
Brett Cannonf0cb1d72007-05-31 20:01:11 +00002855- cfmfile now raises a DeprecationWarning.
2856
Brett Cannon791d56f2007-05-31 19:40:42 +00002857- buildtools now raises a DeprecationWarning.
2858
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002859- Removed the macfs module. It had been deprecated since Python 2.5.
2860 This lead to the deprecation of macostools.touched() as it relied
2861 solely on macfs and was a no-op under OS X.
Brett Cannon5e263512007-05-20 23:17:38 +00002862
Skip Montanaroe5d7f7f2002-09-20 14:16:59 +00002863----
2864
2865**(For information about older versions, consult the HISTORY file.)**