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Nick Coghlanc649ec52006-05-29 12:43:05 +00007What's New in Python 2.5 beta 1?
Anthony Baxter51bcb682006-04-05 14:51:42 +00008=================================
9
Nick Coghlanc649ec52006-05-29 12:43:05 +000010*Release date: XX-JUN-2006*
Anthony Baxter51bcb682006-04-05 14:51:42 +000011
12Core and builtins
13-----------------
14
Neal Norwitzb9845e72006-06-12 02:11:18 +000015- Removed 5 integers from C frame objects (PyFrameObject).
16 f_nlocals, f_ncells, f_nfreevars, f_stack_size, f_restricted.
17
Brett Cannon22565aa2006-06-09 22:31:23 +000018- Bug #532646: object.__call__() will continue looking for the __call__
19 attribute on objects until one without one is found. This leads to recursion
20 when you take a class and set its __call__ attribute to an instance of the
21 class. Originally fixed for classic classes, but this fix is for new-style.
22 Removes the infinite_rec_3 crasher.
23
Georg Brandl24250812006-06-09 18:45:48 +000024- The string and unicode methods startswith() and endswith() now accept
25 a tuple of prefixes/suffixes to look for. Implements RFE #1491485.
26
Brett Cannonde3b0522006-06-08 17:00:45 +000027- Buffer objects, at the C level, never used the char buffer
28 implementation even when the char buffer for the wrapped object was
29 explicitly requested (originally returned the read or write buffer).
30 Now a TypeError is raised if the char buffer is not present but is
31 requested.
32
Georg Brandlddbaa662006-06-04 21:56:52 +000033- Patch #1346214: Statements like "if 0: suite" are now again optimized
34 away like they were in Python 2.4.
35
Georg Brandlb7c8f542006-05-27 12:30:25 +000036- Builtin exceptions are now full-blown new-style classes instead of
37 instances pretending to be classes, which speeds up exception handling
38 by about 80% in comparison to 2.5a2.
39
Martin v. Löwisd004fc82006-05-27 08:36:52 +000040- Patch #1494554: Update unicodedata.numeric and unicode.isnumeric to
41 Unicode 4.1.
42
Georg Brandlf4ef1162006-05-26 18:03:31 +000043- Patch #921466: sys.path_importer_cache is now used to cache valid and
44 invalid file paths for the built-in import machinery which leads to
45 fewer open calls on startup.
46
Tim Peters696cf432006-05-24 21:10:40 +000047- Patch #1442927: ``long(str, base)`` is now up to 6x faster for non-power-
48 of-2 bases. The largest speedup is for inputs with about 1000 decimal
49 digits. Conversion from non-power-of-2 bases remains quadratic-time in
50 the number of input digits (it was and remains linear-time for bases
51 2, 4, 8, 16 and 32).
52
Tim Petersb713ec22006-05-23 18:45:30 +000053- Bug #1334662: ``int(string, base)`` could deliver a wrong answer
54 when ``base`` was not 2, 4, 8, 10, 16 or 32, and ``string`` represented
55 an integer close to ``sys.maxint``. This was repaired by patch
56 #1335972, which also gives a nice speedup.
57
Richard Jonescebbefc2006-05-23 18:28:17 +000058- Patch #1337051: reduced size of frame objects.
59
60- PyErr_NewException now accepts a tuple of base classes as its
61 "base" parameter.
62
Richard Jones7c88dcc2006-05-23 10:37:38 +000063- Patch #876206: function call speedup by retaining allocated frame
64 objects.
65
Georg Brandl7b90e162006-05-18 07:01:27 +000066- Bug #1462152: file() now checks more thoroughly for invalid mode
67 strings and removes a possible "U" before passing the mode to the
68 C library function.
69
Neal Norwitz1004a532006-05-15 07:17:23 +000070- Patch #1488312, Fix memory alignment problem on SPARC in unicode
71
Neal Norwitz373f0a72006-05-15 07:04:36 +000072- Bug #1487966: Fix SystemError with conditional expression in assignment
73
Martin v. Löwis879768d2006-05-11 13:28:43 +000074- WindowsError now has two error code attributes: errno, which carries
75 the error values from errno.h, and winerror, which carries the error
76 values from winerror.h. Previous versions put the winerror.h values
77 (from GetLastError()) into the errno attribute.
78
Martin v. Löwis77736712006-05-04 05:51:03 +000079- Patch #1475845: Raise IndentationError for unexpected indent.
80
Neal Norwitzc4edb0e2006-05-02 04:43:14 +000081- Patch #1479181: split open() and file() from being aliases for each other.
82
Tim Peters44bd9862006-06-01 13:49:23 +000083- Patch #1497053 & bug #1275608: Exceptions occurring in ``__eq__()``
84 methods were always silently ignored by dictionaries when comparing keys.
85 They are now passed through (except when using the C API function
86 ``PyDict_GetItem()``, whose semantics did not change).
87
88- Bug #1456209: In some obscure cases it was possible for a class with a
89 custom ``__eq__()`` method to confuse dict internals when class instances
90 were used as a dict's keys and the ``__eq__()`` method mutated the dict.
91 No, you don't have any code that did this ;-)
Armin Rigo35f6d362006-06-01 13:19:12 +000092
Neal Norwitz7a5fc282006-05-15 06:48:14 +000093Extension Modules
94-----------------
95
Brett Cannon6ee7d012006-06-08 16:23:04 +000096- Change binascii.hexlify to accept a read-only buffer instead of only a char
97 buffer and actually follow its documentation.
98
Hye-Shik Chang58ce5bc2006-06-05 00:59:54 +000099- Fixed a potentially invalid memory access of CJKCodecs' shift-jis decoder.
100
Nick Coghlanc649ec52006-05-29 12:43:05 +0000101- Patch #1478788 (modified version): The functional extension module has
102 been renamed to _functools and a functools Python wrapper module added.
103 This provides a home for additional function related utilities that are
104 not specifically about functional programming. See PEP 309.
105
Bob Ippolito7ccc95a2006-05-23 19:11:34 +0000106- Patch #1493701: performance enhancements for struct module.
107
Georg Brandl378d5922006-05-17 14:26:50 +0000108- Patch #1490224: time.altzone is now set correctly on Cygwin.
109
Georg Brandl8d3342b2006-05-16 07:38:27 +0000110- Patch #1435422: zlib's compress and decompress objects now have a
111 copy() method.
112
Neal Norwitz7a5fc282006-05-15 06:48:14 +0000113- On Win32, os.listdir now supports arbitrarily-long Unicode path names
114 (up to the system limit of 32K characters).
115
116- Use Win32 API to implement os.{access,chdir,chmod,mkdir,remove,rename,rmdir,utime}.
117 As a result, these functions now raise WindowsError instead of OSError.
118
Tim Peters7a822da2006-05-25 21:50:17 +0000119- ``time.clock()`` on Win64 should use the high-performance Windows
120 ``QueryPerformanceCounter()`` now (as was already the case on 32-bit
121 Windows platforms).
122
Neal Norwitz7a5fc282006-05-15 06:48:14 +0000123- Calling Tk_Init twice is refused if the first call failed as that
124 may deadlock.
125
Gregory P. Smith0459e4d2006-06-05 02:02:25 +0000126- bsddb: added the DB_ARCH_REMOVE flag and fixed db.DBEnv.log_archive() to
127 accept it without potentially using an uninitialized pointer.
128
129- bsddb: added support for the DBEnv.log_stat() and DBEnv.lsn_reset() methods
130 assuming BerkeleyDB >= 4.0 and 4.4 respectively. [pybsddb project SF
131 patch numbers 1494885 and 1494902]
Nick Coghlanc649ec52006-05-29 12:43:05 +0000132
Gregory P. Smith372b5832006-06-05 18:48:21 +0000133- bsddb: added an interface for the BerkeleyDB >= 4.3 DBSequence class.
Gregory P. Smithf0547d02006-06-05 17:38:04 +0000134 [pybsddb project SF patch number 1466734]
135
Gregory P. Smith372b5832006-06-05 18:48:21 +0000136- bsddb: fix DBCursor.pget() bug with keyword argument names when no data
137 parameter is supplied. [SF pybsddb bug #1477863]
138
Gregory P. Smith3c228b12006-06-05 23:59:37 +0000139- bsddb: the __len__ method of a DB object has been fixed to return correct
140 results. It could previously incorrectly return 0 in some cases.
141 Fixes SF bug 1493322 (pybsddb bug 1184012).
142
Gregory P. Smithff7d9912006-06-08 05:17:08 +0000143- bsddb: the bsddb.dbtables Modify method now raises the proper error and
144 aborts the db transaction safely when a modifier callback fails.
145 Fixes SF python patch/bug #1408584.
146
Gregory P. Smith372b5832006-06-05 18:48:21 +0000147
Neal Norwitz7a5fc282006-05-15 06:48:14 +0000148Library
149-------
150
Greg Ward0e0c9f42006-06-11 16:24:11 +0000151- Bug #1498146: fix optparse to handle Unicode strings in option help,
152 description, and epilog.
153
Greg Wardd1c797e2006-06-11 14:42:41 +0000154- Bug #1366250: minor optparse documentation error.
155
Greg Ward7f547402006-06-11 00:40:49 +0000156- Bug #1361643: fix textwrap.dedent() so it handles tabs appropriately;
157 clarify docs.
158
Andrew M. Kuchling0873b112006-06-09 16:46:51 +0000159- The wsgiref package has been added to the standard library.
160
Nick Coghlan676725d2006-06-08 13:54:49 +0000161- The functions update_wrapper() and wraps() have been added to the functools
162 module. These make it easier to copy relevant metadata from the original
163 function when writing wrapper functions.
164
Tim Petersd6a9eef2006-06-05 01:48:21 +0000165- The optional ``isprivate`` argument to ``doctest.testmod()``, and the
166 ``doctest.is_private()`` function, both deprecated in 2.4, were removed.
Tim Petersbf0400a2006-06-05 01:43:03 +0000167
Martin v. Löwis3f767792006-06-04 19:36:28 +0000168- Patch #1359618: Speed up charmap encoder by using a trie structure
169 for lookup.
170
Tim Petersd609b1a2006-06-02 23:22:51 +0000171- The functions in the ``pprint`` module now sort dictionaries by key
172 before computing the display. Before 2.5, ``pprint`` sorted a dictionary
173 if and only if its display required more than one line, although that
174 wasn't documented. The new behavior increases predictability; e.g.,
175 using ``pprint.pprint(a_dict)`` in a doctest is now reliable.
176
Georg Brandlfd9a4b12006-05-29 20:57:01 +0000177- Patch #1497027: try HTTP digest auth before basic auth in urllib2
178 (thanks for J. J. Lee).
179
Georg Brandl2b330372006-05-28 20:23:12 +0000180- Patch #1496206: improve urllib2 handling of passwords with respect to
181 default HTTP and HTTPS ports.
182
George Yoshidaf3c65de2006-05-28 16:39:09 +0000183- Patch #1080727: add "encoding" parameter to doctest.DocFileSuite.
184
Bob Ippolito7298f272006-05-23 18:43:47 +0000185- Patch #1281707: speed up gzip.readline.
186
Georg Brandlb89316f2006-05-17 15:51:16 +0000187- Patch #1180296: Two new functions were added to the locale module:
188 format_string() to get the effect of "format % items" but locale-aware,
189 and currency() to format a monetary number with currency sign.
190
Georg Brandle3a25832006-05-17 14:56:04 +0000191- Patch #1486962: Several bugs in the turtle Tk demo module were fixed
192 and several features added, such as speed and geometry control.
193
Georg Brandl49c8f4c2006-05-15 19:30:35 +0000194- Patch #1488881: add support for external file objects in bz2 compressed
195 tarfiles.
196
Neal Norwitz7a5fc282006-05-15 06:48:14 +0000197- Patch #721464: pdb.Pdb instances can now be given explicit stdin and
198 stdout arguments, making it possible to redirect input and output
199 for remote debugging.
200
201- Patch #1484695: Update the tarfile module to version 0.8. This fixes
202 a couple of issues, notably handling of long file names using the
203 GNU LONGNAME extension.
204
205- Patch #1478292. ``doctest.register_optionflag(name)`` shouldn't create a
206 new flag when ``name`` is already the name of an option flag.
207
208- Bug #1385040: don't allow "def foo(a=1, b): pass" in the compiler
209 package.
210
211- Patch #1472854: make the rlcompleter.Completer class usable on non-
212 UNIX platforms.
213
214- Patch #1470846: fix urllib2 ProxyBasicAuthHandler.
215
Andrew M. Kuchling3fed2eb2006-06-09 16:44:40 +0000216- Bug #1472827: correctly escape newlines and tabs in attribute values in
217 the saxutils.XMLGenerator class.
218
219
Neal Norwitz7a5fc282006-05-15 06:48:14 +0000220Build
221-----
222
Georg Brandl66a0dbb2006-06-08 12:54:13 +0000223- Bug #1502728: Correctly link against librt library on HP-UX.
224
Martin v. Löwis222c5152006-06-03 07:37:13 +0000225- OpenBSD 3.9 is supported now.
226
Martin v. Löwisa43190b2006-05-22 09:15:18 +0000227- Patch #1492356: Port to Windows CE.
228
Neal Norwitz58e28882006-05-19 07:00:58 +0000229- Bug/Patch #1481770: Use .so extension for shared libraries on HP-UX for ia64.
230
Neal Norwitz7a5fc282006-05-15 06:48:14 +0000231- Patch #1471883: Add --enable-universalsdk.
232
233C API
234-----
235
236Tests
237-----
238
239Tools
240-----
241
242Documentation
243-------------
244
Nick Coghlanc649ec52006-05-29 12:43:05 +0000245
246
Neal Norwitz7a5fc282006-05-15 06:48:14 +0000247What's New in Python 2.5 alpha 2?
248=================================
249
250*Release date: 27-APR-2006*
251
252Core and builtins
253-----------------
254
Thomas Heller1b046642006-04-18 18:51:06 +0000255- Bug #1465834: 'bdist_wininst preinstall script support' was fixed
256 by converting these apis from macros into exported functions again:
257
258 PyParser_SimpleParseFile PyParser_SimpleParseString PyRun_AnyFile
259 PyRun_AnyFileEx PyRun_AnyFileFlags PyRun_File PyRun_FileEx
260 PyRun_FileFlags PyRun_InteractiveLoop PyRun_InteractiveOne
261 PyRun_SimpleFile PyRun_SimpleFileEx PyRun_SimpleString
262 PyRun_String Py_CompileString
263
Martin v. Löwis45294a92006-04-18 06:24:08 +0000264- Under COUNT_ALLOCS, types are not necessarily immortal anymore.
265
Martin v. Löwis19ab6c92006-04-16 18:55:50 +0000266- All uses of PyStructSequence_InitType have been changed to initialize
267 the type objects only once, even if the interpreter is initialized
268 multiple times.
269
Neal Norwitz61546162006-04-14 05:20:28 +0000270- Bug #1454485, array.array('u') could crash the interpreter. This was
271 due to PyArgs_ParseTuple(args, 'u#', ...) trying to convert buffers (strings)
272 to unicode when it didn't make sense. 'u#' now requires a unicode string.
273
274- Py_UNICODE is unsigned. It was always documented as unsigned, but
275 due to a bug had a signed value in previous versions.
276
Tim Peters3a5e8b12006-04-11 01:44:07 +0000277- Patch #837242: ``id()`` of any Python object always gives a positive
278 number now, which might be a long integer. ``PyLong_FromVoidPtr`` and
279 ``PyLong_AsVoidPtr`` have been changed accordingly. Note that it has
Tim Peters527f6522006-04-11 01:47:17 +0000280 never been correct to implement a ``__hash()__`` method that returns the
Tim Peters3a5e8b12006-04-11 01:44:07 +0000281 ``id()`` of an object:
Martin v. Löwis0bc2ab92006-04-10 20:28:17 +0000282
Tim Peters3a5e8b12006-04-11 01:44:07 +0000283 def __hash__(self):
284 return id(self) # WRONG
285
286 because a hash result must be a (short) Python int but it was always
287 possible for ``id()`` to return a Python long. However, because ``id()``
Tim Peters527f6522006-04-11 01:47:17 +0000288 could return negative values before, on a 32-bit box an ``id()`` result
Tim Peters3a5e8b12006-04-11 01:44:07 +0000289 was always usable as a hash value before this patch. That's no longer
290 necessarily so.
291
292- Python on OS X 10.3 and above now uses dlopen() (via dynload_shlib.c)
Anthony Baxter82201742006-04-09 15:07:40 +0000293 to load extension modules and now provides the dl module. As a result,
Tim Peters3a5e8b12006-04-11 01:44:07 +0000294 sys.setdlopenflags() now works correctly on these systems. (SF patch
Anthony Baxter82201742006-04-09 15:07:40 +0000295 #1454844)
296
Phillip J. Eby51dd7d92006-04-11 01:21:31 +0000297- Patch #1463867: enhanced garbage collection to allow cleanup of cycles
298 involving generators that have paused outside of any ``try`` or ``with``
299 blocks. (In 2.5a1, a paused generator that was part of a reference
300 cycle could not be garbage collected, regardless of whether it was
301 paused in a ``try`` or ``with`` block.)
Anthony Baxter82201742006-04-09 15:07:40 +0000302
Anthony Baxter51bcb682006-04-05 14:51:42 +0000303Extension Modules
304-----------------
305
Martin v. Löwis7e75f1a2006-04-15 08:35:59 +0000306- Patch #1191065: Fix preprocessor problems on systems where recvfrom
307 is a macro.
308
Georg Brandlbbfe4fa2006-04-11 06:47:43 +0000309- Bug #1467952: os.listdir() now correctly raises an error if readdir()
310 fails with an error condition.
311
Gregory P. Smith3adc4aa2006-04-13 19:19:01 +0000312- Fixed bsddb.db.DBError derived exceptions so they can be unpickled.
313
314- Bug #1117761: bsddb.*open() no longer raises an exception when using
315 the cachesize parameter.
316
317- Bug #1149413: bsddb.*open() no longer raises an exception when using
318 a temporary db (file=None) with the 'n' flag to truncate on open.
319
320- Bug #1332852: bsddb module minimum BerkeleyDB version raised to 3.3
321 as older versions cause excessive test failures.
Gregory P. Smith7f5b6f42006-04-08 07:10:51 +0000322
Armin Rigoa9017c32006-04-19 11:50:27 +0000323- Patch #1062014: AF_UNIX sockets under Linux have a special
324 abstract namespace that is now fully supported.
325
Anthony Baxter51bcb682006-04-05 14:51:42 +0000326Library
327-------
328
Tim Peters711bf302006-04-25 03:31:36 +0000329- Patch #1475231: ``doctest`` has a new ``SKIP`` option, which causes
330 a doctest to be skipped (the code is not run, and the expected output
331 or exception is ignored).
332
Nick Coghlanda2268f2006-04-24 04:37:15 +0000333- Fixed contextlib.nested to cope with exceptions being raised and
334 caught inside exit handlers.
335
Greg Wardab05edc2006-04-23 03:47:58 +0000336- Updated optparse module to Optik 1.5.1 (allow numeric constants in
337 hex, octal, or binary; add ``append_const`` action; keep going if
338 gettext cannot be imported; added ``OptionParser.destroy()`` method;
339 added ``epilog`` for better help generation).
340
Tim Peters21fbd572006-04-21 21:18:10 +0000341- Bug #1473760: ``tempfile.TemporaryFile()`` could hang on Windows, when
342 called from a thread spawned as a side effect of importing a module.
343
Phillip J. Eby17a35f92006-04-18 16:45:14 +0000344- The pydoc module now supports documenting packages contained in
345 .zip or .egg files.
346
347- The pkgutil module now has several new utility functions, such
348 as ``walk_packages()`` to support working with packages that are either
349 in the filesystem or zip files.
350
Andrew M. Kuchling1da4a942006-04-22 02:32:43 +0000351- The mailbox module can now modify and delete messages from
352 mailboxes, in addition to simply reading them. Thanks to Gregory
353 K. Johnson for writing the code, and to the 2005 Google Summer of
354 Code for funding his work.
Phillip J. Eby17a35f92006-04-18 16:45:14 +0000355
Tim Petersc7605f22006-04-17 21:12:33 +0000356- The ``__del__`` method of class ``local`` in module ``_threading_local``
357 returned before accomplishing any of its intended cleanup.
358
Martin v. Löwisbd30f522006-04-17 17:08:37 +0000359- Patch #790710: Add breakpoint command lists in pdb.
360
Martin v. Löwis0db2a982006-04-16 20:55:38 +0000361- Patch #1063914: Add Tkinter.Misc.clipboard_get().
362
Martin v. Löwis4b501e62006-04-15 08:41:11 +0000363- Patch #1191700: Adjust column alignment in bdb breakpoint lists.
364
Anthony Baxtere29002c2006-04-12 12:07:31 +0000365- SimpleXMLRPCServer relied on the fcntl module, which is unavailable on
366 Windows. Bug #1469163.
367
Phillip J. Eby47032112006-04-11 01:07:43 +0000368- The warnings, linecache, inspect, traceback, site, and doctest modules
369 were updated to work correctly with modules imported from zipfiles or
370 via other PEP 302 __loader__ objects.
371
Martin v. Löwis17de8ff2006-04-10 15:55:37 +0000372- Patch #1467770: Reduce usage of subprocess._active to processes which
373 the application hasn't waited on.
374
Martin v. Löwisb04dee92006-04-10 08:34:21 +0000375- Patch #1462222: Fix Tix.Grid.
376
Neal Norwitza31bf182006-04-09 03:35:43 +0000377- Fix exception when doing glob.glob('anything*/')
378
Skip Montanaro262fb922006-04-21 02:31:07 +0000379- The pstats.Stats class accepts an optional stream keyword argument to
380 direct output to an alternate file-like object.
381
Anthony Baxter51bcb682006-04-05 14:51:42 +0000382Build
383-----
384
Martin v. Löwis4be4e652006-04-17 19:25:49 +0000385- The Makefile now has a reindent target, which runs reindent.py on
386 the library.
387
Martin v. Löwis48bbaf22006-04-15 18:06:54 +0000388- Patch #1470875: Building Python with MS Free Compiler
389
Martin v. Löwisc90b17e2006-04-15 08:13:05 +0000390- Patch #1161914: Add a python-config script.
Martin v. Löwis48bbaf22006-04-15 18:06:54 +0000391
Martin v. Löwis0f48d982006-04-14 14:34:26 +0000392- Patch #1324762:Remove ccpython.cc; replace --with-cxx with
393 --with-cxx-main. Link with C++ compiler only if --with-cxx-main was
Andrew M. Kuchlingdb4018f2006-04-14 14:54:18 +0000394 specified. (Can be overridden by explicitly setting LINKCC.) Decouple
Martin v. Löwis0f48d982006-04-14 14:34:26 +0000395 CXX from --with-cxx-main, see description in README.
396
Martin v. Löwis10acfd02006-04-10 12:39:36 +0000397- Patch #1429775: Link extension modules with the shared libpython.
398
Hye-Shik Changf4795c82006-04-26 19:20:26 +0000399- Fixed a libffi build problem on MIPS systems.
400
Tim Peters8931ff12006-05-13 23:28:20 +0000401- ``PyString_FromFormat``, ``PyErr_Format``, and ``PyString_FromFormatV``
402 now accept formats "%u" for unsigned ints, "%lu" for unsigned longs,
403 and "%zu" for unsigned integers of type ``size_t``.
404
Anthony Baxter51bcb682006-04-05 14:51:42 +0000405Tests
406-----
407
Nick Coghlanda2268f2006-04-24 04:37:15 +0000408- test_contextlib now checks contextlib.nested can cope with exceptions
409 being raised and caught inside exit handlers.
410
Nick Coghlan27ec1a72006-04-24 04:32:47 +0000411- test_cmd_line now checks operation of the -m and -c command switches
412
Phillip J. Eby51dd7d92006-04-11 01:21:31 +0000413- The test_contextlib test in 2.5a1 wasn't actually run unless you ran
414 it separately and by hand. It also wasn't cleaning up its changes to
415 the current Decimal context.
416
Thomas Woutersabd08882006-04-26 15:53:30 +0000417- regrtest.py now has a -M option to run tests that test the new limits of
418 containers, on 64-bit architectures. Running these tests is only sensible
419 on 64-bit machines with more than two gigabytes of memory. The argument
420 passed is the maximum amount of memory for the tests to use.
421
Marc-André Lemburgd0b8e832006-04-19 15:48:59 +0000422Tools
423-----
424
425- Added the Python benchmark suite pybench to the Tools/ directory;
426 contributed by Marc-Andre Lemburg.
Phillip J. Eby51dd7d92006-04-11 01:21:31 +0000427
Anthony Baxter51bcb682006-04-05 14:51:42 +0000428Documentation
429-------------
430
Tim Petersb06d28c2006-05-12 01:57:59 +0000431- Patch #1473132: Improve docs for ``tp_clear`` and ``tp_traverse``.
432
Nick Coghlanc195d8a2006-04-24 03:04:43 +0000433- PEP 343: Added Context Types section to the library reference
434 and attempted to bring other PEP 343 related documentation into
435 line with the implementation and/or python-dev discussions.
436
Tim Peters8dc73d22006-04-24 02:03:16 +0000437- Bug #1337990: clarified that ``doctest`` does not support examples
438 requiring both expected output and an exception.
Anthony Baxter51bcb682006-04-05 14:51:42 +0000439
440
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +0000441What's New in Python 2.5 alpha 1?
442=================================
443
Anthony Baxterebed3f62006-04-03 15:03:44 +0000444*Release date: 05-APR-2006*
Anthony Baxter12b6f6c2005-03-29 13:36:16 +0000445
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +0000446Core and builtins
447-----------------
448
Nick Coghlan43832302006-04-23 17:04:07 +0000449- PEP 338: -m command line switch now delegates to runpy.run_module
450 allowing it to support modules in packages and zipfiles
451
Martin v. Löwisc661b882006-04-20 04:54:23 +0000452- On Windows, .DLL is not an accepted file name extension for
453 extension modules anymore; extensions are only found if they
454 end in .PYD.
455
Martin v. Löwisea62d252006-04-03 10:56:49 +0000456- Bug #1421664: sys.stderr.encoding is now set to the same value as
457 sys.stdout.encoding.
458
Neal Norwitz92e212f2006-04-03 04:48:37 +0000459- __import__ accepts keyword arguments.
460
Georg Brandlccadf842006-03-31 18:54:53 +0000461- Patch #1460496: round() now accepts keyword arguments.
462
Anthony Baxter262c00a2006-03-30 10:53:17 +0000463- Fixed bug #1459029 - unicode reprs were double-escaped.
464
Hye-Shik Changd478f342006-03-23 12:32:36 +0000465- Patch #1396919: The system scope threads are reenabled on FreeBSD
466 5.4 and later versions.
467
Neal Norwitze98ccf62006-03-23 05:39:47 +0000468- Bug #1115379: Compiling a Unicode string with an encoding declaration
469 now gives a SyntaxError.
470
Georg Brandlabd1ff82006-03-18 07:59:59 +0000471- Previously, Python code had no easy way to access the contents of a
472 cell object. Now, a ``cell_contents`` attribute has been added
473 (closes patch #1170323).
474
Tim Peterscf79aac2006-03-16 01:14:46 +0000475- Patch #1123430: Python's small-object allocator now returns an arena to
476 the system ``free()`` when all memory within an arena becomes unused
477 again. Prior to Python 2.5, arenas (256KB chunks of memory) were never
478 freed. Some applications will see a drop in virtual memory size now,
479 especially long-running applications that, from time to time, temporarily
480 use a large number of small objects. Note that when Python returns an
481 arena to the platform C's ``free()``, there's no guarantee that the
Andrew M. Kuchling1da4a942006-04-22 02:32:43 +0000482 platform C library will in turn return that memory to the operating system.
483 The effect of the patch is to stop making that impossible, and in tests it
Tim Peterscf79aac2006-03-16 01:14:46 +0000484 appears to be effective at least on Microsoft C and gcc-based systems.
485 Thanks to Evan Jones for hard work and patience.
486
Georg Brandl533ff6f2006-03-08 18:09:27 +0000487- Patch #1434038: property() now uses the getter's docstring if there is
488 no "doc" argument given. This makes it possible to legitimately use
489 property() as a decorator to produce a read-only property.
490
Guido van Rossum9aa37ab2006-03-07 18:54:08 +0000491- PEP 357, patch 1436368: add an __index__ method to int/long and a matching
492 nb_index slot to the PyNumberMethods struct. The slot is consulted instead
493 of requiring an int or long in slicing and a few other contexts, enabling
494 other objects (e.g. Numeric Python's integers) to be used as slice indices.
495
Neal Norwitz995acdf2006-03-07 05:01:00 +0000496- Fixed various bugs reported by Coverity's Prevent tool.
497
Brett Cannonbf364092006-03-01 04:25:17 +0000498- PEP 352, patch #1104669: Make exceptions new-style objects. Introduced the
499 new exception base class, BaseException, which has a new message attribute.
500 KeyboardInterrupt and SystemExit to directly inherit from BaseException now.
501 Raising a string exception now raises a DeprecationWarning.
502
Thomas Woutersfb609f42006-02-28 16:37:25 +0000503- Patch #1438387, PEP 328: relative and absolute imports. Imports can now be
504 explicitly relative, using 'from .module import name' to mean 'from the same
505 package as this module is in. Imports without dots still default to the
506 old relative-then-absolute, unless 'from __future__ import
507 absolute_import' is used.
508
Brett Cannona7446e32006-02-27 23:39:10 +0000509- Properly check if 'warnings' raises an exception (usually when a filter set
510 to "error" is triggered) when raising a warning for raising string
511 exceptions.
512
Andrew M. Kuchling7034f6b2006-04-01 10:50:08 +0000513- CO_GENERATOR_ALLOWED is no longer defined. This behavior is the default.
Neal Norwitz0023a2f2006-02-27 23:24:48 +0000514 The name was removed from Include/code.h.
515
Andrew M. Kuchling7034f6b2006-04-01 10:50:08 +0000516- PEP 308: conditional expressions were added: (x if cond else y).
Neal Norwitzeb651252006-02-27 16:47:12 +0000517
Guido van Rossum1968ad32006-02-25 22:38:04 +0000518- Patch 1433928:
519 - The copy module now "copies" function objects (as atomic objects).
520 - dict.__getitem__ now looks for a __missing__ hook before raising
521 KeyError.
522
Tim Peters84ef21c2006-02-28 20:39:06 +0000523- PEP 343: with statement implemented. Needs ``from __future__ import
524 with_statement``. Use of 'with' as a variable will generate a warning.
525 Use of 'as' as a variable will also generate a warning (unless it's
Neal Norwitz055ec242006-02-28 20:06:49 +0000526 part of an import statement).
Guido van Rossum1a5e21e2006-02-28 21:57:43 +0000527 The following objects have __context__ methods:
528 - The built-in file type.
529 - The thread.LockType type.
530 - The following types defined by the threading module:
531 Lock, RLock, Condition, Semaphore, BoundedSemaphore.
532 - The decimal.Context class.
Guido van Rossumc2e20742006-02-27 22:32:47 +0000533
Marc-André Lemburgfe4b34c2006-02-19 15:22:22 +0000534- Fix the encodings package codec search function to only search
535 inside its own package. Fixes problem reported in patch #1433198.
536
537 Note: Codec packages should implement and register their own
538 codec search function. PEP 100 has the details.
539
Tim Peters9ea89d22006-06-04 03:26:02 +0000540- PEP 353: Using ``Py_ssize_t`` as the index type.
541
542- ``PYMALLOC_DEBUG`` builds now add ``4*sizeof(size_t)`` bytes of debugging
543 info to each allocated block, since the ``Py_ssize_t`` changes (PEP 353)
544 now allow Python to make use of memory blocks exceeding 2**32 bytes for
545 some purposes on 64-bit boxes. A ``PYMALLOC_DEBUG`` build was limited
546 to 4-byte allocations before.
Martin v. Löwis18e16552006-02-15 17:27:45 +0000547
Neal Norwitzfc76d632006-01-10 06:03:13 +0000548- Patch #1400181, fix unicode string formatting to not use the locale.
549 This is how string objects work. u'%f' could use , instead of .
550 for the decimal point. Now both strings and unicode always use periods.
551
Neal Norwitz671b9e32006-01-09 07:07:12 +0000552- Bug #1244610, #1392915, fix build problem on OpenBSD 3.7 and 3.8.
553 configure would break checking curses.h.
554
Georg Brandlcd4d1e82005-12-27 17:37:07 +0000555- Bug #959576: The pwd module is now builtin. This allows Python to be
556 built on UNIX platforms without $HOME set.
557
Neal Norwitzc10978f2005-12-19 06:07:16 +0000558- Bug #1072182, fix some potential problems if characters are signed.
559
Neal Norwitz5d0ad502005-12-19 04:27:42 +0000560- Bug #889500, fix line number on SyntaxWarning for global declarations.
561
Neal Norwitzdb83eb32005-12-18 05:29:30 +0000562- Bug #1378022, UTF-8 files with a leading BOM crashed the interpreter.
563
Neal Norwitze7214a12005-12-18 05:03:17 +0000564- Support for converting hex strings to floats no longer works.
565 This was not portable. float('0x3') now raises a ValueError.
566
Barry Warsaw2a38a862005-12-18 01:27:35 +0000567- Patch #1382163: Expose Subversion revision number to Python. New C API
Barry Warsawd3c38ff2006-03-07 09:46:03 +0000568 function Py_GetBuildNumber(). New attribute sys.subversion. Build number
Barry Warsaw2a38a862005-12-18 01:27:35 +0000569 is now displayed in interactive prompt banner.
570
Georg Brandlfa166682005-12-17 21:45:17 +0000571- Implementation of PEP 341 - Unification of try/except and try/finally.
572 "except" clauses can now be written together with a "finally" clause in
Neal Norwitz11ca77e2005-12-17 22:24:12 +0000573 one try statement instead of two nested ones. Patch #1355913.
Georg Brandlfa166682005-12-17 21:45:17 +0000574
Hye-Shik Chang835b2432005-12-17 04:38:31 +0000575- Bug #1379994: Builtin unicode_escape and raw_unicode_escape codec
576 now encodes backslash correctly.
577
Martin v. Löwisb45b3152005-11-28 17:34:23 +0000578- Patch #1350409: Work around signal handling bug in Visual Studio 2005.
579
Andrew M. Kuchling7034f6b2006-04-01 10:50:08 +0000580- Bug #1281408: Py_BuildValue now works correctly even with unsigned longs
Georg Brandlf06e30a2005-11-24 15:37:42 +0000581 and long longs.
582
Neal Norwitz67715f02005-11-09 06:59:35 +0000583- SF Bug #1350188, "setdlopenflags" leads to crash upon "import"
Tim Peters3a5e8b12006-04-11 01:44:07 +0000584 It was possible for dlerror() to return a NULL pointer, so
Andrew M. Kuchling7034f6b2006-04-01 10:50:08 +0000585 it will now use a default error message in this case.
Neal Norwitz67715f02005-11-09 06:59:35 +0000586
Marc-André Lemburga5bafc42005-10-23 13:43:40 +0000587- Replaced most Unicode charmap codecs with new ones using the
588 new Unicode translate string feature in the builtin charmap
589 codec; the codecs were created from the mapping tables available
590 at ftp.unicode.org and contain a few updates (e.g. the Mac OS
591 encodings now include a mapping for the Apple logo)
592
Tim Peterse3547fd2005-12-16 23:13:57 +0000593- Added a few more codecs for Mac OS encodings
Marc-André Lemburga5bafc42005-10-23 13:43:40 +0000594
Andrew M. Kuchling7034f6b2006-04-01 10:50:08 +0000595- Sped up some Unicode operations.
Neal Norwitzfed9b3e2005-10-21 06:32:02 +0000596
Martin v. Löwisbd260da2006-02-26 19:42:26 +0000597- A new AST parser implementation was completed. The abstract
598 syntax tree is available for read-only (non-compile) access
Martin v. Löwis577b5b92006-02-27 15:23:19 +0000599 to Python code; an _ast module was added.
Neal Norwitzfed9b3e2005-10-21 06:32:02 +0000600
Andrew M. Kuchling7034f6b2006-04-01 10:50:08 +0000601- SF bug #1167751: fix incorrect code being produced for generator expressions.
Neal Norwitz16af7342005-10-21 06:25:33 +0000602 The following code now raises a SyntaxError: foo(a = i for i in range(10))
603
Neal Norwitz708e51a2005-10-03 04:48:15 +0000604- SF Bug #976608: fix SystemError when mtime of an imported file is -1.
605
Neal Norwitz11bd1192005-10-03 00:54:56 +0000606- SF Bug #887946: fix segfault when redirecting stdin from a directory.
607 Provide a warning when a directory is passed on the command line.
608
Neal Norwitz40d37812005-10-02 01:48:49 +0000609- Fix segfault with invalid coding.
610
611- SF bug #772896: unknown encoding results in MemoryError.
612
Andrew M. Kuchling7034f6b2006-04-01 10:50:08 +0000613- All iterators now have a Boolean value of True. Formerly, some iterators
Raymond Hettinger6b27cda2005-09-24 21:23:05 +0000614 supported a __len__() method which evaluated to False when the iterator
615 was empty.
616
Guido van Rossum630db602005-09-20 18:49:54 +0000617- On 64-bit platforms, when __len__() returns a value that cannot be
618 represented as a C int, raise OverflowError.
619
Skip Montanarof8948ca2005-09-19 03:54:46 +0000620- test__locale is skipped on OS X < 10.4 (only partial locale support is
Walter Dörwald6611a8b2005-10-09 19:28:35 +0000621 present).
Skip Montanarof8948ca2005-09-19 03:54:46 +0000622
Georg Brandl80bbf3f2005-09-14 19:38:29 +0000623- SF bug #893549: parsing keyword arguments was broken with a few format
624 codes.
625
Guido van Rossum8ee3e5a2005-09-14 18:09:42 +0000626- Changes donated by Elemental Security to make it work on AIX 5.3
627 with IBM's 64-bit compiler (SF patch #1284289). This also closes SF
628 bug #105470: test_pwd fails on 64bit system (Opteron).
629
Guido van Rossum539c6622005-09-14 17:49:54 +0000630- Changes donated by Elemental Security to make it work on HP-UX 11 on
631 Itanium2 with HP's 64-bit compiler (SF patch #1225212).
632
Georg Brandl4550b8d2005-08-26 06:43:52 +0000633- Disallow keyword arguments for type constructors that don't use them
Georg Brandl02c42872005-08-26 06:42:30 +0000634 (fixes bug #1119418).
635
Martin v. Löwisd35edda2005-08-24 08:39:24 +0000636- Forward UnicodeDecodeError into SyntaxError for source encoding errors.
637
Barry Warsawe2eca0b2005-08-15 18:14:19 +0000638- SF bug #900092: When tracing (e.g. for hotshot), restore 'return' events for
639 exceptions that cause a function to exit.
640
Raymond Hettinger9f1a6792005-07-31 01:16:36 +0000641- The implementation of set() and frozenset() was revised to use its
642 own internal data structure. Memory consumption is reduced by 1/3
643 and there are modest speed-ups as well. The API is unchanged.
644
Tim Petersde7990b2005-07-17 23:45:23 +0000645- SF bug #1238681: freed pointer is used in longobject.c:long_pow().
646
Michael W. Hudson0edc7a02005-07-12 10:21:19 +0000647- SF bug #1229429: PyObject_CallMethod failed to decrement some
648 reference counts in some error exit cases.
649
Tim Petersecc6e6a2005-07-10 22:30:55 +0000650- SF bug #1185883: Python's small-object memory allocator took over
651 a block managed by the platform C library whenever a realloc specified
652 a small new size. However, there's no portable way to know then how
Andrew M. Kuchling7034f6b2006-04-01 10:50:08 +0000653 much of the address space following the pointer is valid, so there's no
Tim Petersecc6e6a2005-07-10 22:30:55 +0000654 portable way to copy data from the C-managed block into Python's
655 small-object space without risking a memory fault. Python's small-object
656 realloc now leaves such blocks under the control of the platform C
657 realloc.
658
Michael W. Hudsonb8963812005-07-05 15:21:58 +0000659- SF bug #1232517: An overflow error was not detected properly when
660 attempting to convert a large float to an int in os.utime().
661
Raymond Hettinger3296e692005-06-29 23:29:56 +0000662- SF bug #1224347: hex longs now print with lowercase letters just
663 like their int counterparts.
664
Michael W. Hudson188d4362005-06-20 16:52:57 +0000665- SF bug #1163563: the original fix for bug #1010677 ("thread Module
666 Breaks PyGILState_Ensure()") broke badly in the case of multiple
667 interpreter states; back out that fix and do a better job (see
668 http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2005-June/054258.html
669 for a longer write-up of the problem).
670
Michael W. Hudsondf888462005-06-03 14:41:55 +0000671- SF patch #1180995: marshal now uses a binary format by default when
672 serializing floats.
673
Michael W. Hudsonda85a902005-06-01 11:34:22 +0000674- SF patch #1181301: on platforms that appear to use IEEE 754 floats,
675 the routines that promise to produce IEEE 754 binary representations
676 of floats now simply copy bytes around.
677
Skip Montanarobbf12ba2005-05-20 03:07:06 +0000678- bug #967182: disallow opening files with 'wU' or 'aU' as specified by PEP
679 278.
680
Brett Cannonc3647ac2005-04-26 03:45:26 +0000681- patch #1109424: int, long, float, complex, and unicode now check for the
682 proper magic slot for type conversions when subclassed. Previously the
683 magic slot was ignored during conversion. Semantics now match the way
684 subclasses of str always behaved. int/long/float, conversion of an instance
Walter Dörwald78a78b02005-09-01 12:04:29 +0000685 to the base class has been moved to the proper nb_* magic slot and out of
Brett Cannonc3647ac2005-04-26 03:45:26 +0000686 PyNumber_*().
Neal Norwitzcfba5f82006-04-25 05:05:03 +0000687 Thanks Walter D�rwald.
Brett Cannonc3647ac2005-04-26 03:45:26 +0000688
Barry Warsawc8d907c2005-04-19 23:43:40 +0000689- Descriptors defined in C with a PyGetSetDef structure, where the setter is
690 NULL, now raise an AttributeError when attempting to set or delete the
691 attribute. Previously a TypeError was raised, but this was inconsistent
692 with the equivalent pure-Python implementation.
693
Michael W. Hudson774479c2005-04-18 08:46:17 +0000694- It is now safe to call PyGILState_Release() before
695 PyEval_InitThreads() (note that if there is reason to believe there
696 are multiple threads around you still must call PyEval_InitThreads()
697 before using the Python API; this fix is for extension modules that
698 have no way of knowing if Python is multi-threaded yet).
699
Michael W. Hudsone3afc592005-04-07 10:11:19 +0000700- Typing Ctrl-C whilst raw_input() was waiting in a build with threads
701 disabled caused a crash.
702
Michael W. Hudsonb330adf2005-03-31 09:35:44 +0000703- Bug #1165306: instancemethod_new allowed the creation of a method
704 with im_class == im_self == NULL, which caused a crash when called.
705
Tim Petersecc6e6a2005-07-10 22:30:55 +0000706- Move exception finalisation later in the shutdown process - this
Anthony Baxter12b6f6c2005-03-29 13:36:16 +0000707 fixes the crash seen in bug #1165761
708
Raymond Hettinger96229b12005-03-11 06:49:40 +0000709- Added two new builtins, any() and all().
710
Brett Cannon409d8f22005-03-05 06:47:57 +0000711- Defining a class with empty parentheses is now allowed
Brett Cannonf4189912005-04-09 02:30:16 +0000712 (e.g., ``class C(): pass`` is no longer a syntax error).
713 Patch #1176012 added support to the 'parser' module and 'compiler' package
714 (thanks to logistix for that added support).
Brett Cannon409d8f22005-03-05 06:47:57 +0000715
Martin v. Löwis96d743e2005-03-03 23:00:26 +0000716- Patch #1115086: Support PY_LONGLONG in structmember.
717
Raymond Hettingerb67cc802005-03-03 16:45:19 +0000718- Bug #1155938: new style classes did not check that __init__() was
719 returning None.
720
Tim Petersecc6e6a2005-07-10 22:30:55 +0000721- Patch #802188: Report characters after line continuation character
Martin v. Löwis4bf108d2005-03-03 11:45:45 +0000722 ('\') with a specific error message.
723
Martin v. Löwisff232d72005-03-03 09:24:38 +0000724- Bug #723201: Raise a TypeError for passing bad objects to 'L' format.
725
Michael W. Hudson8e1afab2005-02-17 14:55:21 +0000726- Bug #1124295: the __name__ attribute of file objects was
727 inadvertently made inaccessible in restricted mode.
728
Tim Petersecc6e6a2005-07-10 22:30:55 +0000729- Bug #1074011: closing sys.std{out,err} now causes a flush() and
Martin v. Löwis8e3ca8a2005-01-23 09:41:49 +0000730 an ferror() call.
731
Raymond Hettinger3b0c7c22004-12-03 08:30:39 +0000732- min() and max() now support key= arguments with the same meaning as in
733 list.sort().
734
Raymond Hettingerc34f8672005-01-02 06:17:33 +0000735- The peephole optimizer now performs simple constant folding in expressions:
736 (2+3) --> (5).
737
Raymond Hettingera422c342005-01-11 03:03:27 +0000738- set and frozenset objects can now be marshalled. SF #1098985.
739
Michael W. Hudsonfaa76482005-01-31 17:09:25 +0000740- Bug #1077106: Poor argument checking could cause memory corruption
741 in calls to os.read().
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +0000742
Jeremy Hyltonab630502005-02-04 18:44:06 +0000743- The parser did not complain about future statements in illegal
744 positions. It once again reports a syntax error if a future
745 statement occurs after anything other than a doc string.
746
Neil Schemenauercf52c072005-08-12 17:34:58 +0000747- Change the %s format specifier for str objects so that it returns a
748 unicode instance if the argument is not an instance of basestring and
749 calling __str__ on the argument returns a unicode instance.
750
Tim Petersf4e69282006-02-27 17:15:31 +0000751- Patch #1413181: changed ``PyThreadState_Delete()`` to forget about the
752 current thread state when the auto-GIL-state machinery knows about
753 it (since the thread state is being deleted, continuing to remember it
754 can't help, but can hurt if another thread happens to get created with
755 the same thread id).
756
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +0000757Extension Modules
758-----------------
759
Georg Brandl43f08a82006-03-31 18:01:16 +0000760- Patch #1380952: fix SSL objects timing out on consecutive read()s
761
Neal Norwitz05a45592006-03-20 06:30:08 +0000762- Patch #1309579: wait3 and wait4 were added to the posix module.
763
Anthony Baxterfa869072006-03-20 05:21:58 +0000764- Patch #1231053: The audioop module now supports encoding/decoding of alaw.
765 In addition, the existing ulaw code was updated.
766
Georg Brandlbc45a3f2006-03-17 19:17:34 +0000767- RFE #567972: Socket objects' family, type and proto properties are
Georg Brandl72d7a782006-03-22 06:44:14 +0000768 now exposed via new attributes.
Georg Brandlbc45a3f2006-03-17 19:17:34 +0000769
Neal Norwitz10be10c2006-03-16 06:50:13 +0000770- Everything under lib-old was removed. This includes the following modules:
771 Para, addpack, cmp, cmpcache, codehack, dircmp, dump, find, fmt, grep,
Tim Petersc9d78aa2006-03-26 23:27:58 +0000772 lockfile, newdir, ni, packmail, poly, rand, statcache, tb, tzparse,
Neal Norwitz10be10c2006-03-16 06:50:13 +0000773 util, whatsound, whrandom, zmod
774
775- The following modules were removed: regsub, reconvert, regex, regex_syntax.
776
777- re and sre were swapped, so help(re) provides full help. importing sre
Neal Norwitzefbeaef2006-03-16 06:40:39 +0000778 is deprecated. The undocumented re.engine variable no longer exists.
779
Hye-Shik Changabb903f2006-03-13 10:20:08 +0000780- Bug #1448490: Fixed a bug that ISO-2022 codecs could not handle
781 SS2 (single-shift 2) escape sequences correctly.
782
Martin v. Löwis480f1bb2006-03-09 23:38:20 +0000783- The unicodedata module was updated to the 4.1 version of the Unicode
784 database. The 3.2 version is still available as unicodedata.db_3_2_0
785 for applications that require this specific version (such as IDNA).
786
Neal Norwitzb62c4332006-03-04 18:35:47 +0000787- The timing module is no longer built by default. It was deprecated
788 in PEP 4 in Python 2.0 or earlier.
789
Guido van Rossum1968ad32006-02-25 22:38:04 +0000790- Patch 1433928: Added a new type, defaultdict, to the collections module.
791 This uses the new __missing__ hook behavior added to dict (see above).
792
Georg Brandldbd83392006-02-20 09:42:33 +0000793- Bug #854823: socketmodule now builds on Sun platforms even when
794 INET_ADDRSTRLEN is not defined.
795
Georg Brandlf4f44152006-02-18 22:29:33 +0000796- Patch #1393157: os.startfile() now has an optional argument to specify
797 a "command verb" to invoke on the file.
798
Neal Norwitz082b2df2006-02-07 07:04:46 +0000799- Bug #876637, prevent stack corruption when socket descriptor
800 is larger than FD_SETSIZE.
801
Neal Norwitz0e6bc8c2006-02-05 05:45:43 +0000802- Patch #1407135, bug #1424041: harmonize mmap behavior of anonymous memory.
803 mmap.mmap(-1, size) now returns anonymous memory in both Unix and Windows.
804 mmap.mmap(0, size) should not be used on Windows for anonymous memory.
805
Martin v. Löwis57a34e82006-02-04 19:12:37 +0000806- Patch #1422385: The nis module now supports access to domains other
807 than the system default domain.
808
Martin v. Löwis14694662006-02-03 12:54:16 +0000809- Use Win32 API to implement os.stat/fstat. As a result, subsecond timestamps
810 are reported, the limit on path name lengths is removed, and stat reports
811 WindowsError now (instead of OSError).
812
Gregory P. Smithcfc4a8d2006-01-29 19:46:23 +0000813- Add bsddb.db.DBEnv.set_tx_timestamp allowing time based database recovery.
814
Neal Norwitz62a21122006-01-25 05:21:55 +0000815- Bug #1413192, fix seg fault in bsddb if a transaction was deleted
816 before the env.
817
Martin v. Löwis11017b12006-01-14 18:12:57 +0000818- Patch #1103116: Basic AF_NETLINK support.
819
Neal Norwitz3b4fff82006-01-11 08:54:45 +0000820- Bug #1402308, (possible) segfault when using mmap.mmap(-1, ...)
821
Neal Norwitz88bbd732006-01-10 07:05:44 +0000822- Bug #1400822, _curses over{lay,write} doesn't work when passing 6 ints.
823 Also fix ungetmouse() which did not accept arguments properly.
824 The code now conforms to the documented signature.
825
Neal Norwitz5e3d8622006-01-09 06:24:35 +0000826- Bug #1400115, Fix segfault when calling curses.panel.userptr()
827 without prior setting of the userptr.
828
Neal Norwitz40c6b472006-01-05 05:43:35 +0000829- Fix 64-bit problems in bsddb.
830
Neal Norwitz8856fb72005-12-18 03:34:22 +0000831- Patch #1365916: fix some unsafe 64-bit mmap methods.
832
Hye-Shik Changc5c57e62005-12-12 11:48:32 +0000833- Bug #1290333: Added a workaround for cjkcodecs' _codecs_cn build
834 problem on AIX.
835
Georg Brandla13c2442005-11-22 19:30:31 +0000836- Bug #869197: os.setgroups rejects long integer arguments
837
Neal Norwitz0f46bbf2005-11-03 05:00:25 +0000838- Bug #1346533, select.poll() doesn't raise an error if timeout > sys.maxint
839
Neal Norwitz7b631792005-11-02 05:26:07 +0000840- Bug #1344508, Fix UNIX mmap leaking file descriptors
841
Neal Norwitzf3396542005-10-28 05:52:22 +0000842- Patch #1338314, Bug #1336623: fix tarfile so it can extract
843 REGTYPE directories from tarfiles written by old programs.
844
Gregory P. Smithe101df92006-01-24 20:09:45 +0000845- Patch #1407992, fixes broken bsddb module db associate when using
846 BerkeleyDB 3.3, 4.0 or 4.1.
847
848- Get bsddb module to build with BerkeleyDB version 4.4
849
850- Get bsddb module to build with BerkeleyDB version 3.2
Neal Norwitzfed9b3e2005-10-21 06:32:02 +0000851
Neal Norwitz484d9a42005-09-30 04:46:49 +0000852- Patch #1309009, Fix segfault in pyexpat when the XML document is in latin_1,
853 but Python incorrectly assumes it is in UTF-8 format
854
Georg Brandle677adc2005-09-29 13:40:49 +0000855- Fix parse errors in the readline module when compiling without threads.
856
Hye-Shik Chang9ceebd52005-09-24 14:58:47 +0000857- Patch #1288833: Removed thread lock from socket.getaddrinfo on
858 FreeBSD 5.3 and later versions which got thread-safe getaddrinfo(3).
859
Michael W. Hudson10402a32005-09-22 09:19:01 +0000860- Patches #1298449 and #1298499: Add some missing checks for error
861 returns in cStringIO.c.
862
Neal Norwitz058bde12005-09-21 06:44:25 +0000863- Patch #1297028: fix segfault if call type on MultibyteCodec,
864 MultibyteStreamReader, or MultibyteStreamWriter
865
Neal Norwitzcfe7dd92005-09-19 06:49:27 +0000866- Fix memory leak in posix.access().
867
Martin v. Löwis8b291e22005-09-18 08:17:56 +0000868- Patch #1213831: Fix typo in unicodedata._getcode.
869
Georg Brandlfb1ef852005-09-14 20:53:32 +0000870- Bug #1007046: os.startfile() did not accept unicode strings encoded in
871 the file system encoding.
872
Georg Brandld2e3ba72005-08-26 08:34:00 +0000873- Patch #756021: Special-case socket.inet_aton('255.255.255.255') for
874 platforms that don't have inet_aton().
Georg Brandl02760f92005-08-25 13:10:41 +0000875
Georg Brandld2e3ba72005-08-26 08:34:00 +0000876- Bug #1215928: Fix bz2.BZ2File.seek() for 64-bit file offsets.
877
878- Bug #1191043: Fix bz2.BZ2File.(x)readlines for files containing one
Georg Brandl02760f92005-08-25 13:10:41 +0000879 line without newlines.
880
Georg Brandl38387b82005-08-24 07:17:40 +0000881- Bug #728515: mmap.resize() now resizes the file on Unix as it did
882 on Windows.
883
Walter Dörwalda05834e2005-10-09 19:38:21 +0000884- Patch #1180695: Add nanosecond stat resolution, and st_gen,
Martin v. Löwisebd9d5b2005-08-09 15:00:59 +0000885 st_birthtime for FreeBSD.
886
Michael W. Hudson8137bea2005-07-27 20:24:40 +0000887- Patch #1231069: The fcntl.ioctl function now uses the 'I' code for
888 the request code argument, which results in more C-like behaviour
889 for large or negative values.
890
Tim Petersecc6e6a2005-07-10 22:30:55 +0000891- Bug #1234979: For the argument of thread.Lock.acquire, the Windows
Andrew M. Kuchling88b85822005-08-23 00:57:07 +0000892 implementation treated all integer values except 1 as false.
Georg Brandlaf410b52005-07-08 22:26:13 +0000893
Georg Brandl6b95f1d2005-06-03 19:47:00 +0000894- Bug #1194181: bz2.BZ2File didn't handle mode 'U' correctly.
895
Hye-Shik Chang5f937a72005-06-02 13:09:30 +0000896- Patch #1212117: os.stat().st_flags is now accessible as a attribute
897 if available on the platform.
898
Skip Montanaro5ff14922005-05-16 02:42:22 +0000899- Patch #1103951: Expose O_SHLOCK and O_EXLOCK in the posix module if
900 available on the platform.
901
Michael W. Hudsonb330adf2005-03-31 09:35:44 +0000902- Bug #1166660: The readline module could segfault if hook functions
903 were set in a different thread than that which called readline.
904
Raymond Hettinger4aec61e2005-03-18 21:20:23 +0000905- collections.deque objects now support a remove() method.
906
Raymond Hettinger984f9bb2005-03-09 16:38:48 +0000907- operator.itemgetter() and operator.attrgetter() now support retrieving
908 multiple fields. This provides direct support for sorting on multiple
909 keys (primary, secondary, etc).
910
Martin v. Löwisb60ae992005-03-08 09:10:29 +0000911- os.access now supports Unicode path names on non-Win32 systems.
912
Martin v. Löwisfd78a6f2005-03-04 14:37:01 +0000913- Patches #925152, #1118602: Avoid reading after the end of the buffer
914 in pyexpat.GetInputContext.
915
Tim Petersecc6e6a2005-07-10 22:30:55 +0000916- Patches #749830, #1144555: allow UNIX mmap size to default to current
Martin v. Löwis7fe60c02005-03-03 11:22:44 +0000917 file size.
918
Raymond Hettinger9c323f82005-02-28 19:39:44 +0000919- Added functional.partial(). See PEP309.
920
Martin v. Löwis9533e342005-02-27 20:33:25 +0000921- Patch #1093585: raise a ValueError for negative history items in readline.
922 {remove_history,replace_history}
923
Fred Drake9c131f22005-01-23 15:16:08 +0000924- The spwd module has been added, allowing access to the shadow password
925 database.
Martin v. Löwisc3001752005-01-23 09:27:24 +0000926
Martin v. Löwisfe33d0b2005-01-16 08:57:39 +0000927- stat_float_times is now True.
928
Raymond Hettingerb0900e62004-12-16 16:23:40 +0000929- array.array objects are now picklable.
930
Raymond Hettingera6b45cc2004-12-07 07:05:57 +0000931- the cPickle module no longer accepts the deprecated None option in the
932 args tuple returned by __reduce__().
933
Raymond Hettingerb2594052004-12-05 09:25:51 +0000934- itertools.islice() now accepts None for the start and step arguments.
935 This allows islice() to work more readily with slices:
936 islice(s.start, s.stop, s.step)
937
Skip Montanaro0af3ade2005-01-13 04:12:31 +0000938- datetime.datetime() now has a strptime class method which can be used to
939 create datetime object using a string and format.
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +0000940
Matthias Klosed77f8b32006-04-03 16:34:56 +0000941- Patch #1117961: Replace the MD5 implementation from RSA Data Security Inc
Matthias Klose8e39ec72006-04-03 16:27:50 +0000942 with the implementation from http://sourceforge.net/projects/libmd5-rfc/.
943
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +0000944Library
945-------
946
Nick Coghlan43832302006-04-23 17:04:07 +0000947- PEP 338: new module runpy defines a run_module function to support
948 executing modules which provide access to source code or a code object
949 via the PEP 302 import mechanisms.
950
Anthony Baxter93f5b932006-04-03 08:05:07 +0000951- The email module's parsedate_tz function now sets the daylight savings
952 flag to -1 (unknown) since it can't tell from the date whether it should
953 be set.
954
Fred Drakead5177c2006-04-01 22:14:43 +0000955- Patch #624325: urlparse.urlparse() and urlparse.urlsplit() results
956 now sport attributes that provide access to the parts of the result.
957
Georg Brandl7f6b67c2006-04-01 08:35:18 +0000958- Patch #1462498: sgmllib now handles entity and character references
959 in attribute values.
960
Anthony Baxterc51ee692006-04-01 00:57:31 +0000961- Added the sqlite3 package. This is based on pysqlite2.1.3, and provides
Georg Brandl828fdef2006-04-01 08:59:03 +0000962 a DB-API interface in the standard library. You'll need sqlite 3.0.8 or
Tim Peters3a5e8b12006-04-11 01:44:07 +0000963 later to build this - if you have an earlier version, the C extension
Anthony Baxterc51ee692006-04-01 00:57:31 +0000964 module will not be built.
965
Tim Petersc17976e2006-04-01 00:26:53 +0000966- Bug #1460340: ``random.sample(dict)`` failed in various ways. Dicts
967 aren't officially supported here, and trying to use them will probably
968 raise an exception some day. But dicts have been allowed, and "mostly
969 worked", so support for them won't go away without warning.
970
Georg Brandl338ef7d2006-03-31 18:42:16 +0000971- Bug #1445068: getpass.getpass() can now be given an explicit stream
972 argument to specify where to write the prompt.
973
Georg Brandl22ec80b2006-03-31 18:25:44 +0000974- Patch #1462313, bug #1443328: the pickle modules now can handle classes
975 that have __private names in their __slots__.
976
Neal Norwitz6974a512006-04-10 00:25:01 +0000977- Bug #1250170: mimetools now handles socket.gethostname() failures gracefully.
Georg Brandldd2245f2006-03-31 17:18:06 +0000978
Phillip J. Eby59821cf2006-03-30 02:16:40 +0000979- patch #1457316: "setup.py upload" now supports --identity to select the
980 key to be used for signing the uploaded code.
981
Raymond Hettingerfd3fcf02006-03-24 20:43:29 +0000982- Queue.Queue objects now support .task_done() and .join() methods
983 to make it easier to monitor when daemon threads have completed
984 processing all enqueued tasks. Patch #1455676.
985
Martin v. Löwisbd8dbab2006-03-23 18:18:35 +0000986- popen2.Popen objects now preserve the command in a .cmd attribute.
987
Thomas Hellerc61c0492006-03-22 10:09:27 +0000988- Added the ctypes ffi package.
989
Barry Warsaw4d90bbd2006-03-22 02:45:50 +0000990- email 4.0 package now integrated. This is largely the same as the email 3.0
991 package that was included in Python 2.3, except that PEP 8 module names are
992 now used (e.g. mail.message instead of email.Message). The MIME classes
993 have been moved to a subpackage (e.g. email.mime.text instead of
994 email.MIMEText). The old names are still supported for now. Several
995 deprecated Message methods have been removed and lots of bugs have been
996 fixed. More details can be found in the email package documentation.
997
Walter Dörwald40108c92006-03-27 08:15:44 +0000998- Patches #1436130/#1443155: codecs.lookup() now returns a CodecInfo object
999 (a subclass of tuple) that provides incremental decoders and encoders
1000 (a way to use stateful codecs without the stream API). Python functions
1001 codecs.getincrementaldecoder() and codecs.getincrementalencoder() as well
1002 as C functions PyCodec_IncrementalEncoder() and PyCodec_IncrementalDecoder()
1003 have been added.
Walter Dörwaldabb02e52006-03-15 11:35:15 +00001004
Walter Dörwald067db482006-03-15 22:17:27 +00001005- Patch #1359365: Calling next() on a closed StringIO.String object raises
1006 a ValueError instead of a StopIteration now (like file and cString.String do).
1007 cStringIO.StringIO.isatty() will raise a ValueError now if close() has been
1008 called before (like file and StringIO.StringIO do).
Walter Dörwald197e8322006-03-15 22:13:13 +00001009
Martin v. Löwis04824ce2006-03-10 21:26:16 +00001010- A regrtest option -w was added to re-run failed tests in verbose mode.
1011
Georg Brandle2b46772006-03-09 23:22:43 +00001012- Patch #1446372: quit and exit can now be called from the interactive
1013 interpreter to exit.
1014
Barry Warsawd3c38ff2006-03-07 09:46:03 +00001015- The function get_count() has been added to the gc module, and gc.collect()
1016 grew an optional 'generation' argument.
1017
Martin v. Löwisfbab90e2006-03-05 13:36:04 +00001018- A library msilib to generate Windows Installer files, and a distutils
1019 command bdist_msi have been added.
1020
Guido van Rossum1a5e21e2006-02-28 21:57:43 +00001021- PEP 343: new module contextlib.py defines decorator @contextmanager
1022 and helpful context managers nested() and closing().
1023
Martin v. Löwis415ed932006-02-27 19:56:30 +00001024- The compiler package now supports future imports after the module docstring.
1025
Georg Brandl8f7c54e2006-02-20 08:40:38 +00001026- Bug #1413790: zipfile now sanitizes absolute archive names that are
1027 not allowed by the specs.
1028
Georg Brandlc98eeed2006-02-19 14:57:47 +00001029- Patch #1215184: FileInput now can be given an opening hook which can
1030 be used to control how files are opened.
1031
Georg Brandlc029f872006-02-19 14:12:34 +00001032- Patch #1212287: fileinput.input() now has a mode parameter for
1033 specifying the file mode input files should be opened with.
1034
Georg Brandl67e9fb92006-02-19 13:56:17 +00001035- Patch #1215184: fileinput now has a fileno() function for getting the
1036 current file number.
1037
Georg Brandl602b9ba2006-02-19 13:26:36 +00001038- Patch #1349274: gettext.install() now optionally installs additional
1039 translation functions other than _() in the builtin namespace.
1040
Georg Brandle4662172006-02-19 09:51:27 +00001041- Patch #1337756: fileinput now accepts Unicode filenames.
1042
Georg Brandl7b4e7c22006-02-18 21:10:56 +00001043- Patch #1373643: The chunk module can now read chunks larger than
1044 two gigabytes.
1045
Georg Brandl21dd1af2006-02-17 13:35:13 +00001046- Patch #1417555: SimpleHTTPServer now returns Last-Modified headers.
1047
Georg Brandlbd3bc4d2006-02-17 09:52:53 +00001048- Bug #1430298: It is now possible to send a mail with an empty
1049 return address using smtplib.
1050
Georg Brandl0e1abe22006-02-17 09:48:14 +00001051- Bug #1432260: The names of lambda functions are now properly displayed
1052 in pydoc.
Georg Brandl501dd0d2006-02-17 09:45:40 +00001053
Martin v. Löwis00756902006-02-05 17:09:41 +00001054- Patch #1412872: zipfile now sets the creator system to 3 (Unix)
1055 unless the system is Win32.
1056
Tim Petersda1329b2006-02-27 16:50:01 +00001057- Patch #1349118: urllib now supports user:pass@ style proxy
Martin v. Löwis3e865952006-01-24 15:51:21 +00001058 specifications, raises IOErrors when proxies for unsupported protocols
1059 are defined, and uses the https proxy on https redirections.
1060
Georg Brandl531ceba2006-01-21 07:20:56 +00001061- Bug #902075: urllib2 now supports 'host:port' style proxy specifications.
1062
1063- Bug #1407902: Add support for sftp:// URIs to urlparse.
Georg Brandl89f35ac2006-01-20 17:24:23 +00001064
Georg Brandlb709c2c2006-01-20 09:07:35 +00001065- Bug #1371247: Update Windows locale identifiers in locale.py.
1066
Neal Norwitzf60cd472006-01-14 07:05:13 +00001067- Bug #1394565: SimpleHTTPServer now doesn't choke on query parameters
Georg Brandl45ab2332006-01-13 17:05:56 +00001068 any more.
Georg Brandlb709c2c2006-01-20 09:07:35 +00001069
Georg Brandl4edd9892006-01-13 16:59:46 +00001070- Bug #1403410: The warnings module now doesn't get confused
1071 when it can't find out the module name it generates a warning for.
Georg Brandlb709c2c2006-01-20 09:07:35 +00001072
Martin v. Löwis412ed3b2006-01-08 10:45:39 +00001073- Patch #1177307: Added a new codec utf_8_sig for UTF-8 with a BOM signature.
1074
Neal Norwitzab86f8e2005-12-23 21:44:36 +00001075- Patch #1157027: cookielib mishandles RFC 2109 cookies in Netscape mode
1076
Neal Norwitz338e7862005-12-23 21:27:46 +00001077- Patch #1117398: cookielib.LWPCookieJar and .MozillaCookieJar now raise
1078 LoadError as documented, instead of IOError. For compatibility,
1079 LoadError subclasses IOError.
1080
Brett Cannon3cbd0382005-12-16 22:49:23 +00001081- Added the hashlib module. It provides secure hash functions for MD5 and
Tim Peterse3547fd2005-12-16 23:13:57 +00001082 SHA1, 224, 256, 384, and 512. Note that recent developments make the
1083 historic MD5 and SHA1 unsuitable for cryptographic-strength applications.
1084 In <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2005-December/058850.html>
1085 Ronald L. Rivest offered this advice for Python:
1086
1087 "The consensus of researchers in this area (at least as
1088 expressed at the NIST Hash Function Workshop 10/31/05),
1089 is that SHA-256 is a good choice for the time being, but
1090 that research should continue, and other alternatives may
1091 arise from this research. The larger SHA's also seem OK."
Brett Cannon3cbd0382005-12-16 22:49:23 +00001092
Fredrik Lundh7e0aef02005-12-12 18:54:55 +00001093- Added a subset of Fredrik Lundh's ElementTree package. Available
1094 modules are xml.etree.ElementTree, xml.etree.ElementPath, and
1095 xml.etree.ElementInclude, from ElementTree 1.2.6.
1096
Martin v. Löwis307021f2005-11-27 16:59:04 +00001097- Patch #1162825: Support non-ASCII characters in IDLE window titles.
1098
Georg Brandl1f663572005-11-26 16:50:44 +00001099- Bug #1365984: urllib now opens "data:" URLs again.
1100
Brett Cannonad07ff22005-11-23 02:15:50 +00001101- Patch #1314396: prevent deadlock for threading.Thread.join() when an exception
1102 is raised within the method itself on a previous call (e.g., passing in an
1103 illegal argument)
1104
Brett Cannon5d0bf942005-11-02 23:04:26 +00001105- Bug #1340337: change time.strptime() to always return ValueError when there
1106 is an error in the format string.
1107
Georg Brandle8f24432005-10-03 14:16:44 +00001108- Patch #754022: Greatly enhanced webbrowser.py (by Oleg Broytmann).
1109
Walter Dörwalda05834e2005-10-09 19:38:21 +00001110- Bug #729103: pydoc.py: Fix docother() method to accept additional
Georg Brandl8b813db2005-10-01 16:32:31 +00001111 "parent" argument.
1112
Georg Brandlaa935172005-09-29 20:49:16 +00001113- Patch #1300515: xdrlib.py: Fix pack_fstring() to really use null bytes
1114 for padding.
1115
Georg Brandl80ba8e82005-09-29 20:16:07 +00001116- Bug #1296004: httplib.py: Limit maximal amount of data read from the
1117 socket to avoid a MemoryError on Windows.
1118
Matthias Klosef3f231f2005-09-20 07:02:49 +00001119- Patch #1166948: locale.py: Prefer LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE and LANG over LANGUAGE
1120 to get the correct encoding.
1121
1122- Patch #1166938: locale.py: Parse LANGUAGE as a colon separated list of
1123 languages.
1124
Martin v. Löwis4ed67382005-09-18 08:34:39 +00001125- Patch #1268314: Cache lines in StreamReader.readlines for performance.
1126
Brett Cannona783d062005-09-15 02:34:56 +00001127- Bug #1290505: Fix clearing the regex cache for time.strptime().
1128
Martin v. Löwis5dbdc592005-08-27 10:07:56 +00001129- Bug #1167128: Fix size of a symlink in a tarfile to be 0.
1130
Georg Brandl5a650a22005-08-26 08:51:34 +00001131- Patch #810023: Fix off-by-one bug in urllib.urlretrieve reporthook
1132 functionality.
1133
Martin v. Löwis8b595142005-08-25 11:03:38 +00001134- Bug #1163178: Make IDNA return an empty string when the input is empty.
1135
Georg Brandl532efab2005-08-24 22:34:21 +00001136- Patch #848017: Make Cookie more RFC-compliant. Use CRLF as default output
Andrew M. Kuchling7034f6b2006-04-01 10:50:08 +00001137 separator and do not output trailing semicolon.
Georg Brandl532efab2005-08-24 22:34:21 +00001138
Georg Brandlb9256022005-08-24 18:46:39 +00001139- Patch #1062060: urllib.urlretrieve() now raises a new exception, named
1140 ContentTooShortException, when the actually downloaded size does not
1141 match the Content-Length header.
1142
Martin v. Löwis0a5d4a22005-08-24 14:55:22 +00001143- Bug #1121494: distutils.dir_utils.mkpath now accepts Unicode strings.
1144
Martin v. Löwis56066d22005-08-24 07:38:12 +00001145- Bug #1178484: Return complete lines from codec stream readers
1146 even if there is an exception in later lines, resulting in
Walter Dörwalda05834e2005-10-09 19:38:21 +00001147 correct line numbers for decoding errors in source code.
Martin v. Löwis56066d22005-08-24 07:38:12 +00001148
Georg Brandl6d2b3462005-08-24 07:36:17 +00001149- Bug #1192315: Disallow negative arguments to clear() in pdb.
1150
Martin v. Löwisb813c532005-08-07 20:51:04 +00001151- Patch #827386: Support absolute source paths in msvccompiler.py.
1152
Georg Brandl649f8e72005-08-03 07:30:12 +00001153- Patch #1105730: Apply the new implementation of commonprefix in posixpath
1154 to ntpath, macpath, os2emxpath and riscospath.
1155
Guido van Rossum755149f2005-07-27 00:00:44 +00001156- Fix a problem in Tkinter introduced by SF patch #869468: delete bogus
1157 __hasattr__ and __delattr__ methods on class Tk that were breaking
1158 Tkdnd.
1159
Georg Brandl5dbda752005-07-17 20:27:41 +00001160- Bug #1015140: disambiguated the term "article id" in nntplib docs and
1161 docstrings to either "article number" or "message id".
1162
Georg Brandla4a8b822005-07-15 09:13:21 +00001163- Bug #1238170: threading.Thread.__init__ no longer has "kwargs={}" as a
1164 parameter, but uses the usual "kwargs=None".
1165
Andrew M. Kuchling88b85822005-08-23 00:57:07 +00001166- textwrap now processes text chunks at O(n) speed instead of O(n**2).
Raymond Hettinger8bfa8932005-07-15 06:53:35 +00001167 Patch #1209527 (Contributed by Connelly).
1168
Georg Brandl5c5fe2f2005-07-14 06:40:47 +00001169- urllib2 has now an attribute 'httpresponses' mapping from HTTP status code
1170 to W3C name (404 -> 'Not Found'). RFE #1216944.
1171
Georg Brandl9e43acf2005-07-04 17:16:07 +00001172- Bug #1177468: Don't cache the /dev/urandom file descriptor for os.urandom,
1173 as this can cause problems with apps closing all file descriptors.
1174
Andrew M. Kuchling7034f6b2006-04-01 10:50:08 +00001175- Bug #839151: Fix an attempt to access sys.argv in the warnings module;
Andrew M. Kuchling88b85822005-08-23 00:57:07 +00001176 it can be missing in embedded interpreters
Georg Brandl5284b532005-06-26 22:54:58 +00001177
Georg Brandl2f210b62005-06-26 22:09:06 +00001178- Bug #1155638: Fix a bug which affected HTTP 0.9 responses in httplib.
1179
Georg Brandlfbff1bc2005-06-26 21:36:25 +00001180- Bug #1100201: Cross-site scripting was possible on BaseHTTPServer via
1181 error messages.
1182
Georg Brandl379f99d2005-06-26 21:09:38 +00001183- Bug #1108948: Cookie.py produced invalid JavaScript code.
1184
Raymond Hettingerda99d1c2005-06-21 07:43:58 +00001185- The tokenize module now detects and reports indentation errors.
1186 Bug #1224621.
1187
Raymond Hettinger68c04532005-06-10 11:05:19 +00001188- The tokenize module has a new untokenize() function to support a full
Andrew M. Kuchling7034f6b2006-04-01 10:50:08 +00001189 roundtrip from lexed tokens back to Python source code. In addition,
Raymond Hettinger68c04532005-06-10 11:05:19 +00001190 the generate_tokens() function now accepts a callable argument that
1191 terminates by raising StopIteration.
1192
Georg Brandl9166e1a2005-06-04 09:20:03 +00001193- Bug #1196315: fix weakref.WeakValueDictionary constructor.
1194
Georg Brandl268e61c2005-06-03 14:28:50 +00001195- Bug #1213894: os.path.realpath didn't resolve symlinks that were the first
1196 component of the path.
1197
Skip Montanaro174dd222005-05-14 20:54:16 +00001198- Patch #1120353: The xmlrpclib module provides better, more transparent,
1199 support for datetime.{datetime,date,time} objects. With use_datetime set
1200 to True, applications shouldn't have to fiddle with the DateTime wrapper
1201 class at all.
1202
Martin v. Löwis55f1bb82005-03-21 20:56:35 +00001203- distutils.commands.upload was added to support uploading distribution
1204 files to PyPI.
1205
Walter Dörwalda6e8a4a2005-03-31 13:57:38 +00001206- distutils.commands.register now encodes the data as UTF-8 before posting
1207 them to PyPI.
1208
Raymond Hettinger267b8682005-03-27 10:47:39 +00001209- decimal operator and comparison methods now return NotImplemented
1210 instead of raising a TypeError when interacting with other types. This
1211 allows other classes to implement __radd__ style methods and have them
1212 work as expected.
1213
Raymond Hettingerbea3f6f2005-03-15 04:59:17 +00001214- Bug #1163325: Decimal infinities failed to hash. Attempting to
1215 hash a NaN raised an InvalidOperation instead of a TypeError.
1216
Tim Petersecc6e6a2005-07-10 22:30:55 +00001217- Patch #918101: Add tarfile open mode r|* for auto-detection of the
Martin v. Löwis78be7df2005-03-05 12:47:42 +00001218 stream compression; add, for symmetry reasons, r:* as a synonym of r.
1219
Martin v. Löwis00a73e72005-03-04 19:40:34 +00001220- Patch #1043890: Add extractall method to tarfile.
1221
Martin v. Löwisc72dd382005-03-04 13:50:17 +00001222- Patch #1075887: Don't require MSVC in distutils if there is nothing
1223 to build.
1224
Martin v. Löwis637431b2005-03-03 23:12:42 +00001225- Patch #1103407: Properly deal with tarfile iterators when untarring
1226 symbolic links on Windows.
1227
Tim Petersecc6e6a2005-07-10 22:30:55 +00001228- Patch #645894: Use getrusage for computing the time consumption in
Martin v. Löwisa4dac402005-03-03 11:39:45 +00001229 profile.py if available.
1230
Martin v. Löwisdf37c8c2005-03-03 11:08:03 +00001231- Patch #1046831: Use get_python_version where appropriate in sysconfig.py.
1232
Martin v. Löwisc5574e82005-03-03 10:57:37 +00001233- Patch #1117454: Remove code to special-case cookies without values
1234 in LWPCookieJar.
1235
Martin v. Löwis4ea3ead2005-03-03 10:48:12 +00001236- Patch #1117339: Add cookielib special name tests.
1237
Martin v. Löwise869eb12005-03-03 09:46:07 +00001238- Patch #1112812: Make bsddb/__init__.py more friendly for modulefinder.
1239
Martin v. Löwisf2a8d632005-03-03 08:35:22 +00001240- Patch #1110248: SYNC_FLUSH the zlib buffer for GZipFile.flush.
1241
Martin v. Löwisdf241532005-03-03 08:17:42 +00001242- Patch #1107973: Allow to iterate over the lines of a tarfile.ExFileObject.
1243
Martin v. Löwis8ed338a2005-03-03 08:12:27 +00001244- Patch #1104111: Alter setup.py --help and --help-commands.
1245
Martin v. Löwis4afe1542005-03-01 08:09:28 +00001246- Patch #1121234: Properly cleanup _exit and tkerror commands.
1247
Martin v. Löwisc2a0ac22005-02-24 20:22:10 +00001248- Patch #1049151: xdrlib now unpacks booleans as True or False.
1249
Raymond Hettingerbab41432005-02-05 01:31:19 +00001250- Fixed bug in a NameError bug in cookielib. Patch #1116583.
1251
Guido van Rossumd0641422005-02-03 15:01:24 +00001252- Applied a security fix to SimpleXMLRPCserver (PSF-2005-001). This
1253 disables recursive traversal through instance attributes, which can
1254 be exploited in various ways.
1255
Tim Peterse3547fd2005-12-16 23:13:57 +00001256- Bug #1222790: in SimpleXMLRPCServer, set the reuse-address and close-on-exec
Andrew M. Kuchling3a976052005-12-04 15:07:41 +00001257 flags on the HTTP listening socket.
1258
Andrew M. Kuchlinge63fde72005-12-04 15:36:57 +00001259- Bug #792570: SimpleXMLRPCServer had problems if the request grew too large.
1260 Fixed by reading the HTTP body in chunks instead of one big socket.read().
1261
Tim Peterse3547fd2005-12-16 23:13:57 +00001262- Patches #893642, #1039083: add allow_none, encoding arguments to constructors of
Andrew M. Kuchling10a16de2005-12-04 16:34:40 +00001263 SimpleXMLRPCServer and CGIXMLRPCRequestHandler.
1264
Martin v. Löwis1d11de62005-01-29 13:29:23 +00001265- Bug #1110478: Revert os.environ.update to do putenv again.
1266
Thomas Hellerd6c6e222005-01-20 19:20:16 +00001267- Bug #1103844: fix distutils.install.dump_dirs() with negated options.
1268
Martin v. Löwis22b457e2005-01-16 08:40:58 +00001269- os.{SEEK_SET, SEEK_CUR, SEEK_END} have been added for convenience.
1270
Andrew McNamaraa08eecb2005-01-12 03:25:27 +00001271- Enhancements to the csv module:
1272
1273 + Dialects are now validated by the underlying C code, better
Georg Brandl7eb4b7d2005-07-22 21:49:32 +00001274 reflecting its capabilities, and improving its compliance with
Tim Petersecc6e6a2005-07-10 22:30:55 +00001275 PEP 305.
Andrew McNamaraa08eecb2005-01-12 03:25:27 +00001276 + Dialect parameter parsing has been re-implemented to improve error
1277 reporting.
1278 + quotechar=None and quoting=QUOTE_NONE now work the way PEP 305
1279 dictates.
1280 + the parser now removes the escapechar prefix from escaped characters.
Andrew McNamara0f0599d2005-01-12 09:45:18 +00001281 + when quoting=QUOTE_NONNUMERIC, the writer now tests for numeric
Andrew M. Kuchling6db67822006-04-18 14:04:57 +00001282 types, rather than any object that can be represented as a numeric.
Andrew McNamara0f0599d2005-01-12 09:45:18 +00001283 + when quoting=QUOTE_NONNUMERIC, the reader now casts unquoted fields
1284 to floats.
Andrew McNamaraf69d94f2005-01-13 11:30:54 +00001285 + reader now allows \r characters to be quoted (previously it only allowed
1286 \n to be quoted).
Andrew McNamarac89f2842005-01-12 07:44:42 +00001287 + writer doublequote handling improved.
Andrew McNamaraa08eecb2005-01-12 03:25:27 +00001288 + Dialect classes passed to the module are no longer instantiated by
1289 the module before being parsed (the former validation scheme required
1290 this, but the mechanism was unreliable).
1291 + The dialect registry now contains instances of the internal
1292 C-coded dialect type, rather than references to python objects.
1293 + the internal c-coded dialect type is now immutable.
1294 + register_dialect now accepts the same keyword dialect specifications
1295 as the reader and writer, allowing the user to register dialects
1296 without first creating a dialect class.
1297 + a configurable limit to the size of parsed fields has been added -
1298 previously, an unmatched quote character could result in the entire
1299 file being read into the field buffer before an error was reported.
Andrew McNamara31d88962005-01-12 03:45:10 +00001300 + A new module method csv.field_size_limit() has been added that sets
Andrew McNamaraa08eecb2005-01-12 03:25:27 +00001301 the parser field size limit (returning the former limit). The initial
1302 limit is 128kB.
Andrew McNamara7f2053e2005-01-12 11:17:16 +00001303 + A line_num attribute has been added to the reader object, which tracks
1304 the number of lines read from the source iterator. This is not
1305 the same as the number of records returned, as records can span
1306 multiple lines.
Andrew McNamaraa08eecb2005-01-12 03:25:27 +00001307 + reader and writer objects were not being registered with the cyclic-GC.
1308 This has been fixed.
1309
Brett Cannone6539c42005-01-08 02:43:53 +00001310- _DummyThread objects in the threading module now delete self.__block that is
1311 inherited from _Thread since it uses up a lock allocated by 'thread'. The
1312 lock primitives tend to be limited in number and thus should not be wasted on
1313 a _DummyThread object. Fixes bug #1089632.
1314
Raymond Hettinger97db05d2005-01-07 08:15:41 +00001315- The imghdr module now detects Exif files.
1316
Raymond Hettinger6065d322004-12-20 23:51:53 +00001317- StringIO.truncate() now correctly adjusts the size attribute.
1318 (Bug #951915).
1319
Marc-André Lemburgbb4f1bd2004-12-10 21:58:14 +00001320- locale.py now uses an updated locale alias table (built using
1321 Tools/i18n/makelocalealias.py, a tool to parse the X11 locale
1322 alias file); the encoding lookup was enhanced to use Python's
Andrew M. Kuchling88b85822005-08-23 00:57:07 +00001323 encoding alias table.
Marc-André Lemburgbb4f1bd2004-12-10 21:58:14 +00001324
Raymond Hettinger3557f422004-12-07 12:02:02 +00001325- moved deprecated modules to Lib/lib-old: whrandom, tzparse, statcache.
1326
Raymond Hettingera6b45cc2004-12-07 07:05:57 +00001327- the pickle module no longer accepts the deprecated None option in the
1328 args tuple returned by __reduce__().
1329
Brett Cannon84667c02004-12-07 03:25:18 +00001330- optparse now optionally imports gettext. This allows its use in setup.py.
1331
Raymond Hettinger3489cad2004-12-05 05:20:42 +00001332- the pickle module no longer uses the deprecated bin parameter.
1333
Raymond Hettinger1bc82f82004-12-05 03:58:17 +00001334- the shelve module no longer uses the deprecated binary parameter.
1335
Raymond Hettinger6c92d762004-12-05 03:28:00 +00001336- the pstats module no longer uses the deprecated ignore() method.
1337
Raymond Hettingerf3fa9462004-12-05 01:58:09 +00001338- the filecmp module no longer uses the deprecated use_statcache argument.
1339
Raymond Hettinger664347b2004-12-04 21:21:53 +00001340- unittest.TestCase.run() and unittest.TestSuite.run() can now be successfully
1341 extended or overridden by subclasses. Formerly, the subclassed method would
1342 be ignored by the rest of the module. (Bug #1078905).
1343
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +00001344- heapq.nsmallest() and heapq.nlargest() now support key= arguments with
Raymond Hettinger3b0c7c22004-12-03 08:30:39 +00001345 the same meaning as in list.sort().
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +00001346
Walter Dörwald36733692004-12-22 12:50:50 +00001347- Bug #1076985: ``codecs.StreamReader.readline()`` now calls ``read()`` only
1348 once when a size argument is given. This prevents a buffer overflow in the
1349 tokenizer with very long source lines.
1350
Barry Warsaw538561e2006-01-01 21:48:54 +00001351- Bug #1083110: ``zlib.decompress.flush()`` would segfault if called
1352 immediately after creating the object, without any intervening
1353 ``.decompress()`` calls.
Andrew M. Kuchling3b585b32004-12-28 20:10:48 +00001354
Skip Montanaro05885812005-01-16 20:48:27 +00001355- The reconvert.quote function can now emit triple-quoted strings. The
1356 reconvert module now has some simple documentation.
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +00001357
Walter Dörwaldaf3b39a2005-02-18 13:22:43 +00001358- ``UserString.MutableString`` now supports negative indices in
1359 ``__setitem__`` and ``__delitem__``
1360
Greg Ward40407942005-03-05 02:53:17 +00001361- Bug #1149508: ``textwrap`` now handles hyphenated numbers (eg. "2004-03-05")
1362 correctly.
1363
Walter Dörwaldbc8e6422005-04-21 21:32:03 +00001364- Partial fixes for SF bugs #1163244 and #1175396: If a chunk read by
1365 ``codecs.StreamReader.readline()`` has a trailing "\r", read one more
1366 character even if the user has passed a size parameter to get a proper
1367 line ending. Remove the special handling of a "\r\n" that has been split
1368 between two lines.
1369
Walter Dörwalda47d1c02005-08-30 10:23:14 +00001370- Bug #1251300: On UCS-4 builds the "unicode-internal" codec will now complain
1371 about illegal code points. The codec now supports PEP 293 style error
1372 handlers.
1373
Walter Dörwald78a78b02005-09-01 12:04:29 +00001374- Bug #1235646: ``codecs.StreamRecoder.next()`` now reencodes the data it reads
Walter Dörwaldc5238b82005-09-01 11:56:53 +00001375 from the input stream, so that the output is a byte string in the correct
1376 encoding instead of a unicode string.
Greg Ward40407942005-03-05 02:53:17 +00001377
Gustavo Niemeyer6fa0c5a2005-09-14 08:54:39 +00001378- Bug #1202493: Fixing SRE parser to handle '{}' as perl does, rather than
1379 considering it exactly like a '*'.
1380
Walter Dörwald007f8df2005-10-09 19:42:27 +00001381- Bug #1245379: Add "unicode-1-1-utf-7" as an alias for "utf-7" to
1382 ``encodings.aliases``.
Gustavo Niemeyer6fa0c5a2005-09-14 08:54:39 +00001383
Walter Dörwald09f0dd52005-11-21 19:10:07 +00001384- ` uu.encode()`` and ``uu.decode()`` now support unicode filenames.
1385
Gustavo Niemeyer548148812006-01-31 18:34:13 +00001386- Patch #1413711: Certain patterns of differences were making difflib
1387 touch the recursion limit.
1388
Walter Dörwald58917a62006-03-31 15:26:22 +00001389- Bug #947906: An object oriented interface has been added to the calendar
1390 module. It's possible to generate HTML calendar now and the module can be
Walter Dörwald48d5e502006-04-01 07:57:00 +00001391 called as a script (e.g. via ``python -mcalendar``). Localized month and
1392 weekday names can be ouput (even if an exotic encoding is used) using
1393 special classes that use unicode.
Walter Dörwald58917a62006-03-31 15:26:22 +00001394
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +00001395Build
1396-----
1397
Neal Norwitz602d3392006-03-31 08:21:40 +00001398- Fix test_float, test_long, and test_struct failures on Tru64 with gcc
1399 by using -mieee gcc option.
1400
Martin v. Löwis86d66262006-02-17 08:40:11 +00001401- Patch #1432345: Make python compile on DragonFly.
1402
Martin v. Löwis856bf9a2006-02-14 20:42:55 +00001403- Build support for Win64-AMD64 was added.
1404
Martin v. Löwisa55e55e2006-02-11 15:55:14 +00001405- Patch #1428494: Prefer linking against ncursesw over ncurses library.
1406
Martin v. Löwisfd9a72a2006-01-08 10:07:33 +00001407- Patch #881820: look for openpty and forkpty also in libbsd.
1408
Martin v. Löwis64c33dd2006-01-03 07:42:14 +00001409- The sources of zlib are now part of the Python distribution (zlib 1.2.3).
1410 The zlib module is now builtin on Windows.
1411
Martin v. Löwisd5845ec2005-12-30 12:31:38 +00001412- Use -xcode=pic32 for CCSHARED on Solaris with SunPro.
1413
Martin v. Löwis147fbe52005-08-07 21:09:30 +00001414- Bug #1189330: configure did not correctly determine the necessary
1415 value of LINKCC if python was built with GCC 4.0.
1416
Trent Mick8321b422005-07-26 02:29:21 +00001417- Upgrade Windows build to zlib 1.2.3 which eliminates a potential security
1418 vulnerability in zlib 1.2.1 and 1.2.2.
1419
Brett Cannon08cd5982005-04-24 22:26:38 +00001420- EXTRA_CFLAGS has been introduced as an environment variable to hold compiler
1421 flags that change binary compatibility. Changes were also made to
1422 distutils.sysconfig to also use the environment variable when used during
Martin v. Löwisd7c795e2005-04-25 07:14:03 +00001423 compilation of the interpreter and of C extensions through distutils.
Brett Cannon08cd5982005-04-24 22:26:38 +00001424
Bob Ippolitoed233462005-03-29 13:47:59 +00001425- SF patch 1171735: Darwin 8's headers are anal about POSIX compliance,
1426 and linking has changed (prebinding is now deprecated, and libcc_dynamic
1427 no longer exists). This configure patch makes things right.
1428
Martin v. Löwise2713be2005-03-08 15:03:08 +00001429- Bug #1158607: Build with --disable-unicode again.
1430
Brett Cannon46d96232005-02-16 00:07:19 +00001431- spwdmodule.c is built only if either HAVE_GETSPNAM or HAVE_HAVE_GETSPENT is
1432 defined. Discovered as a result of not being able to build on OS X.
1433
Brett Cannon516592f2004-12-07 00:42:59 +00001434- setup.py now uses the directories specified in LDFLAGS using the -L option
1435 and in CPPFLAGS using the -I option for adding library and include
1436 directories, respectively, for compiling extension modules against. This has
1437 led to the core being compiled using the values in CPPFLAGS. It also removes
1438 the need for the special-casing of both DarwinPorts and Fink for darwin since
1439 the proper directories can be specified in LDFLAGS (``-L/sw/lib`` for Fink,
1440 ``-L/opt/local/lib`` for DarwinPorts) and CPPFLAGS (``-I/sw/include`` for
1441 Fink, ``-I/opt/local/include`` for DarwinPorts).
1442
Brett Cannon43802422005-02-10 20:48:03 +00001443- Test in configure.in that checks for tzset no longer dependent on tm->tm_zone
1444 to exist in the struct (not required by either ISO C nor the UNIX 2 spec).
1445 Tests for sanity in tzname when HAVE_TZNAME defined were also defined.
1446 Closes bug #1096244. Thanks Gregory Bond.
1447
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +00001448C API
1449-----
1450
Tim Petersc9d78aa2006-03-26 23:27:58 +00001451- ``PyMem_{Del, DEL}`` and ``PyMem_{Free, FREE}`` no longer map to
1452 ``PyObject_{Free, FREE}``. They map to the system ``free()`` now. If memory
1453 is obtained via the ``PyObject_`` family, it must be released via the
1454 ``PyObject_`` family, and likewise for the ``PyMem_`` family. This has
1455 always been officially true, but when Python's small-object allocator was
1456 introduced, an attempt was made to cater to a few extension modules
1457 discovered at the time that obtained memory via ``PyObject_New`` but
1458 released it via ``PyMem_DEL``. It's years later, and if such code still
1459 exists it will fail now (probably with segfaults, but calling wrong
1460 low-level memory management functions can yield many symptoms).
1461
Raymond Hettingerbeb31012005-08-16 03:47:52 +00001462- Added a C API for set and frozenset objects.
1463
Raymond Hettinger66517482004-12-03 11:45:13 +00001464- Removed PyRange_New().
1465
Walter Dörwaldd1c1e102005-10-06 20:29:57 +00001466- Patch #1313939: PyUnicode_DecodeCharmap() accepts a unicode string as the
1467 mapping argument now. This string is used as a mapping table. Byte values
1468 greater than the length of the string and 0xFFFE are treated as undefined
1469 mappings.
1470
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +00001471
1472Tests
1473-----
1474
Martin v. Löwis4d394df2005-01-23 09:19:22 +00001475- In test_os, st_?time is now truncated before comparing it with ST_?TIME.
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +00001476
Hye-Shik Changaaa2f1d2005-12-10 17:44:27 +00001477- Patch #1276356: New resource "urlfetch" is implemented. This enables
1478 even impatient people to run tests that require remote files.
1479
Brett Cannonced04e02005-02-13 22:53:22 +00001480
1481Documentation
1482-------------
1483
Georg Brandl8cb30772006-01-20 09:34:29 +00001484- Bug #1402224: Add warning to dl docs about crashes.
1485
Georg Brandla3a93ae2006-01-20 09:14:36 +00001486- Bug #1396471: Document that Windows' ftell() can return invalid
1487 values for text files with UNIX-style line endings.
1488
Georg Brandl32252422005-09-14 20:42:00 +00001489- Bug #1274828: Document os.path.splitunc().
1490
Georg Brandl79c122f2005-08-24 07:31:33 +00001491- Bug #1190204: Clarify which directories are searched by site.py.
1492
Georg Brandl6f2bbd32005-08-24 07:26:55 +00001493- Bug #1193849: Clarify os.path.expanduser() documentation.
1494
Georg Brandlf13c4ba2005-08-02 10:28:08 +00001495- Bug #1243192: re.UNICODE and re.LOCALE affect \d, \D, \s and \S.
1496
Georg Brandl150db732005-07-18 08:53:17 +00001497- Bug #755617: Document the effects of os.chown() on Windows.
1498
Georg Brandl379f99d2005-06-26 21:09:38 +00001499- Patch #1180012: The documentation for modulefinder is now in the library reference.
1500
1501- Patch #1213031: Document that os.chown() accepts argument values of -1.
1502
1503- Bug #1190563: Document os.waitpid() return value with WNOHANG flag.
1504
1505- Bug #1175022: Correct the example code for property().
1506
Georg Brandl40c71652005-06-25 21:08:46 +00001507- Document the IterableUserDict class in the UserDict module.
1508 Closes bug #1166582.
1509
Brett Cannonced04e02005-02-13 22:53:22 +00001510- Remove all latent references for "Macintosh" that referred to semantics for
1511 Mac OS 9 and change to reflect the state for OS X.
1512 Closes patch #1095802. Thanks Jack Jansen.
1513
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +00001514Mac
1515---
1516
1517
Hye-Shik Chang4e422812005-07-17 02:36:59 +00001518New platforms
1519-------------
1520
1521- FreeBSD 7 support is added.
1522
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +00001523
1524Tools/Demos
1525-----------
1526
Brett Cannonacde7342006-03-01 04:28:00 +00001527- Created Misc/Vim/vim_syntax.py to auto-generate a python.vim file in that
1528 directory for syntax highlighting in Vim. Vim directory was added and placed
1529 vimrc to it (was previous up a level).
1530
Georg Brandl56897312005-08-24 18:32:30 +00001531- Added two new files to Tools/scripts: pysource.py, which recursively
1532 finds Python source files, and findnocoding.py, which finds Python
1533 source files that need an encoding declaration.
1534 Patch #784089, credits to Oleg Broytmann.
1535
Georg Brandl379f99d2005-06-26 21:09:38 +00001536- Bug #1072853: pindent.py used an uninitialized variable.
1537
Martin v. Löwisab9ec162005-04-09 10:53:34 +00001538- Patch #1177597: Correct Complex.__init__.
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +00001539
Barry Warsaw538561e2006-01-01 21:48:54 +00001540- Fixed a display glitch in Pynche, which could cause the right arrow to
1541 wiggle over by a pixel.
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +00001542
Skip Montanaroe5d7f7f2002-09-20 14:16:59 +00001543----
1544
1545**(For information about older versions, consult the HISTORY file.)**