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Georg Brandld33a9be2012-07-21 16:48:16 +02001Python News
Skip Montanaroe5d7f7f2002-09-20 14:16:59 +00002+++++++++++
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Benjamin Peterson988aba32013-05-11 22:36:05 -05004What's New in Python 2.7.6?
5===========================
6
7*Release date: XXXX-XX-XX*
8
9Core and Builtins
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11
Victor Stinner76038812013-06-23 14:56:57 +020012- Issue #18137: Detect integer overflow on precision in float.__format__()
13 and complex.__format__().
14
Serhiy Storchaka729ad5c2013-06-09 16:54:56 +030015- Issue #18038: SyntaxError raised during compilation sources with illegal
16 encoding now always contains an encoding name.
17
Benjamin Petersonb91ef002013-05-19 19:38:12 -070018- Issue #18019: Fix crash in the repr of dictionaries containing their own
19 views.
20
Benjamin Peterson988aba32013-05-11 22:36:05 -050021Library
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23
Victor Stinner4807df42013-06-23 15:15:10 +020024- Issue #18135: Fix a possible integer overflow in ssl.SSLSocket.write()
25 for strings longer than 2 gigabytes.
26
Serhiy Storchakae2cc3412013-06-17 16:33:48 +030027- Issue #18167: cgi.FieldStorage no more fails to handle multipart/form-data
28 when \r\n appears at end of 65535 bytes without other newlines.
29
Senthil Kumaran2c4810e2013-05-29 05:58:47 -070030- Issue #17403: urllib.parse.robotparser normalizes the urls before adding to
31 ruleline. This helps in handling certain types invalid urls in a conservative
32 manner. Patch contributed by Mher Movsisyan.
33
Benjamin Peterson1cf48b42013-05-22 13:25:41 -070034- Implement inequality on weakref.WeakSet.
35
Vinay Sajipbb6b51c2013-05-16 22:47:47 +010036- Issue #17981: Closed socket on error in SysLogHandler.
37
Raymond Hettinger7393c692013-05-27 10:58:55 -070038- Issue #18015: Fix unpickling of 2.7.3 and 2.7.4 namedtuples.
39
doko@ubuntu.com96645cc2013-05-15 15:46:11 +020040- Issue #17754: Make ctypes.util.find_library() independent of the locale.
Benjamin Peterson988aba32013-05-11 22:36:05 -050041
doko@ubuntu.com98552492013-05-15 16:54:16 +020042- Fix typos in the multiprocessing module.
43
Ronald Oussoren16c52a32013-05-24 13:45:27 +020044- Issue #17269: Workaround for socket.getaddrinfo crash on MacOS X
45 with port None or "0" and flags AI_NUMERICSERV.
46
Ned Deily1ab29e72013-05-28 16:31:45 -070047- Issue #18080: When building a C extension module on OS X, if the compiler
48 is overriden with the CC environment variable, use the new compiler as
49 the default for linking if LDSHARED is not also overriden. This restores
50 Distutils behavior introduced in 2.7.3 and inadvertently dropped in 2.7.4.
51
Andrew Kuchlinga49dcc52013-06-15 13:53:10 -040052- Issue #18113: Fixed a refcount leak in the curses.panel module's
53 set_userptr() method. Reported by Atsuo Ishimoto.
54
Ned Deily8e60f6e2013-05-30 00:14:29 -070055Build
56-----
57
Antoine Pitrou7e9cec02013-06-18 22:17:48 +020058- Issue #18256: Compilation fix for recent AIX releases. Patch by
59 David Edelsohn.
60
Ned Deily8e60f6e2013-05-30 00:14:29 -070061- Issue #18098: The deprecated OS X Build Applet.app fails to build on
62 OS X 10.8 systems because the Apple-deprecated QuickDraw headers have
63 been removed from Xcode 4. Skip building it in this case.
64
Roger Serwy02c0ed02013-05-20 22:13:39 -050065IDLE
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67
Roger Serwy16ce43a2013-06-11 22:13:17 -050068- Issue #5492: Avoid traceback when exiting IDLE caused by a race condition.
69
Roger Serwyfff3f482013-06-10 23:01:20 -050070- Issue #17511: Keep IDLE find dialog open after clicking "Find Next".
71 Original patch by Sarah K.
72
Terry Jan Reedyb8fd9ca2013-05-30 14:47:33 -040073- Issue #15392: Create a unittest framework for IDLE.
74 Preliminary patch by Rajagopalasarma Jayakrishnan
75
Roger Serwy02c0ed02013-05-20 22:13:39 -050076- Issue #14146: Highlight source line while debugging on Windows.
77
Ned Deily674f4fa2013-05-22 15:16:17 -070078- Issue #17532: Always include Options menu for IDLE on OS X.
79 Patch by Guilherme Simões.
80
Antoine Pitrouf41ffed2013-05-19 15:44:54 +020081Tests
82-----
83
Serhiy Storchaka95787fd2013-05-31 22:34:53 +030084- Issue #18094: test_uuid no more reports skipped tests as passed.
85
Antoine Pitrouf41ffed2013-05-19 15:44:54 +020086- Issue #11995: test_pydoc doesn't import all sys.path modules anymore.
87
Serhiy Storchaka54f70922013-05-22 15:28:30 +030088Documentation
89-------------
90
91- Issue #17844: Refactor a documentation of Python specific encodings.
92 Add links to encoders and decoders for binary-to-binary codecs.
93
Antoine Pitrouf41ffed2013-05-19 15:44:54 +020094
Benjamin Petersonaec81392013-03-23 15:24:13 -050095What's New in Python 2.7.5?
96===========================
97
Benjamin Peterson08649442013-05-11 22:29:20 -050098*Release date: 2013-05-12*
Benjamin Petersonaec81392013-03-23 15:24:13 -050099
100Core and Builtins
101-----------------
102
Ronald Oussoren16c52a32013-05-24 13:45:27 +0200103- Issue #15535: Fixed regression in the pickling of named tuples by
Raymond Hettinger0801d732013-05-03 00:59:20 -0700104 removing the __dict__ property introduced in 2.7.4.
105
Serhiy Storchaka8493a042013-04-28 14:09:47 +0300106- Issue #17857: Prevent build failures with pre-3.5.0 versions of sqlite3,
107 such as was shipped with Centos 5 and Mac OS X 10.4.
108
Antoine Pitrou108d1b42013-04-15 21:20:14 +0200109- Issue #17703: Fix a regression where an illegal use of Py_DECREF() after
110 interpreter finalization can cause a crash.
111
Mark Dickinsonf794b142013-04-13 15:19:05 +0100112- Issue #16447: Fixed potential segmentation fault when setting __name__ on a
113 class.
114
Benjamin Peterson74001fa2013-04-07 09:52:59 -0400115- Issue #17610: Don't rely on non-standard behavior of the C qsort() function.
116
Benjamin Petersonaec81392013-03-23 15:24:13 -0500117Library
118-------
119
Serhiy Storchakacb1a0282013-05-21 22:53:33 +0300120- Issue #17979: Fixed the re module in build with --disable-unicode.
121
Serhiy Storchaka74239032013-05-12 17:29:34 +0300122- Issue #17606: Fixed support of encoded byte strings in the XMLGenerator
123 .characters() and ignorableWhitespace() methods. Original patch by Sebastian
124 Ortiz Vasquez.
125
Serhiy Storchakace34ba62013-05-09 14:22:05 +0300126- Issue #16601: Restarting iteration over tarfile no more continues from where
127 it left off. Patch by Michael Birtwell.
128
Terry Jan Reedy673770c2013-05-08 23:42:41 -0400129- Issue 16584: in filecomp._cmp, catch IOError as well as os.error.
130 Patch by Till Maas.
131
Antoine Pitrou38f1afe2013-05-08 01:51:37 +0200132- Issue #17926: Fix dbm.__contains__ on 64-bit big-endian machines.
133
Antoine Pitrouf16ff7b2013-05-06 22:19:48 +0200134- Issue #17918: When using SSLSocket.accept(), if the SSL handshake failed
135 on the new socket, the socket would linger indefinitely. Thanks to
136 Peter Saveliev for reporting.
137
Antoine Pitrou31bc8be2013-05-06 21:51:03 +0200138- Issue #17289: The readline module now plays nicer with external modules
139 or applications changing the rl_completer_word_break_characters global
140 variable. Initial patch by Bradley Froehle.
141
Charles-Francois Natali880359c2013-05-06 21:21:57 +0200142- Issue #12181: select module: Fix struct kevent definition on OpenBSD 64-bit
143 platforms. Patch by Federico Schwindt.
144
Antoine Pitroud8931c32013-05-04 23:16:59 +0200145- Issue #14173: Avoid crashing when reading a signal handler during
146 interpreter shutdown.
147
Serhiy Storchaka6aca7652013-05-04 15:11:46 +0300148- Issue #16316: mimetypes now recognizes the .xz and .txz (.tar.xz) extensions.
149
Gregory P. Smith4832f342013-04-30 00:56:07 -0700150- Issue #17192: Restore the patch for Issue #10309 which was ommitted
151 in 2.7.4 when updating the bundled version of libffi used by ctypes.
152
Nadeem Vawdac1ea5ec2013-04-28 19:01:31 +0200153- Issue #17843: Removed test data file that was triggering false-positive virus
154 warnings with certain antivirus software.
155
Ronald Oussoren7b0baf02013-04-23 13:47:06 +0200156- Issue #17353: Plistlib emitted empty data tags with deeply nested datastructures
157
Serhiy Storchakad194b302013-04-22 22:51:00 +0300158- Issue #11714: Use 'with' statements to assure a Semaphore releases a
159 condition variable. Original patch by Thomas Rachel.
160
Vinay Sajip4dc385b2013-04-22 09:58:51 +0100161- Issue #17795: Reverted backwards-incompatible change in SysLogHandler with
162 Unix domain sockets.
163
Richard Oudkerk7bdd93c2013-04-17 19:15:52 +0100164- Issue #17555: Fix ForkAwareThreadLock so that size of after fork
165 registry does not grow exponentially with generation of process.
166
Antoine Pitroube929712013-04-15 21:35:25 +0200167- Issue #17710: Fix cPickle raising a SystemError on bogus input.
168
R David Murray60773392013-04-14 13:08:50 -0400169- Issue #17341: Include the invalid name in the error messages from re about
170 invalid group names.
171
Serhiy Storchaka616f2fe2013-04-13 21:15:10 +0300172- Issue #17016: Get rid of possible pointer wraparounds and integer overflows
173 in the re module. Patch by Nickolai Zeldovich.
174
doko@ubuntu.com66da7c52013-04-13 17:05:11 +0200175- Issue #17536: Add to webbrowser's browser list: xdg-open, gvfs-open,
176 www-browser, x-www-browser, chromium browsers, iceweasel, iceape.
177
Serhiy Storchaka6fa83f92013-04-13 12:28:17 +0300178- Issue #17656: Fix extraction of zip files with unicode member paths.
179
Serhiy Storchaka371432b2013-04-08 22:33:55 +0300180- Issue #17666: Fix reading gzip files with an extra field.
181
doko@ubuntu.com6cb43432013-04-08 21:20:09 +0200182- Issue #13150, #17512: sysconfig no longer parses the Makefile and config.h
183 files when imported, instead doing it at build time. This makes importing
184 sysconfig faster and reduces Python startup time by 20%.
185
R David Murrayc993a192013-04-02 12:15:07 -0400186- Issue #13163: Rename operands in smtplib.SMTP._get_socket to correct names;
187 fixes otherwise misleading output in tracebacks and when when debug is on.
188
Ezio Melottie66e7de2013-03-30 05:10:28 +0200189- Issue #17526: fix an IndexError raised while passing code without filename to
190 inspect.findsource(). Initial patch by Tyler Doyle.
191
Antoine Pitrou4ccdc962013-05-08 03:23:10 +0200192Build
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194
Benjamin Petersonc8759662013-05-11 13:00:05 -0500195- Issue #17547: In configure, explicitly pass -Wformat for the benefit for GCC
196 4.8.
197
Antoine Pitrou4ccdc962013-05-08 03:23:10 +0200198- Issue #17682: Add the _io module to Modules/Setup.dist (commented out).
199
200- Issue #17086: Search the include and library directories provided by the
201 compiler.
202
R David Murray5cbff512013-04-21 10:13:43 -0400203Tests
204-----
205
Antoine Pitrou1e181022013-05-08 02:07:13 +0200206- Issue #17928: Fix test_structmembers on 64-bit big-endian machines.
207
Ezio Melotti6a4f3942013-05-05 22:36:09 +0300208- Issue #17883: Fix buildbot testing of Tkinter on Windows.
209 Patch by Zachary Ware.
210
Ezio Melotti5cea09d2013-05-04 17:59:03 +0300211- Issue #7855: Add tests for ctypes/winreg for issues found in IronPython.
212 Initial patch by Dino Viehland.
213
Antoine Pitroub996e042013-05-01 00:15:44 +0200214- Issue #17712: Fix test_gdb failures on Ubuntu 13.04.
215
R David Murray5cbff512013-04-21 10:13:43 -0400216- Issue #17065: Use process-unique key for winreg tests to avoid failures if
217 test is run multiple times in parallel (eg: on a buildbot host).
218
Benjamin Peterson89e2aed2013-04-06 15:19:04 -0400219IDLE
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221
Benjamin Peterson5a271682013-05-11 22:24:28 -0500222- Issue #17838: Allow sys.stdin to be reassigned.
223
Roger Serwy90f8b232013-04-17 00:22:50 -0500224- Issue #14735: Update IDLE docs to omit "Control-z on Windows".
225
Roger Serwy53dc4f02013-04-11 19:13:21 -0500226- Issue #17585: Fixed IDLE regression. Now closes when using exit() or quit().
227
Roger Serwy789299f2013-04-08 20:57:13 -0500228- Issue #17657: Show full Tk version in IDLE's about dialog.
229 Patch by Todd Rovito.
230
Roger Serwy4e9a7052013-04-07 12:41:16 -0500231- Issue #17613: Prevent traceback when removing syntax colorizer in IDLE.
232
Roger Serwy231a8fd2013-04-07 12:15:52 -0500233- Issue #1207589: Backwards-compatibility patch for right-click menu in IDLE.
234
Roger Serwy75b249c2013-04-06 20:26:53 -0500235- Issue #16887: IDLE now accepts Cancel in tabify/untabify dialog box.
236
Benjamin Peterson89e2aed2013-04-06 15:19:04 -0400237- Issue #14254: IDLE now handles readline correctly across shell restarts.
238
239- Issue #17614: IDLE no longer raises exception when quickly closing a file.
240
241- Issue #6698: IDLE now opens just an editor window when configured to do so.
242
Roger Serwy08759c72013-04-06 20:21:21 -0500243- Issue #8900: Using keyboard shortcuts in IDLE to open a file no longer
244 raises an exception.
245
246- Issue #6649: Fixed missing exit status in IDLE. Patch by Guilherme Polo.
247
Terry Jan Reedy6e65e992013-04-03 13:24:26 -0400248Documentation
249-------------
250
251- Issue #15940: Specify effect of locale on time functions.
252
Ezio Melotti0ba584c2013-04-12 16:22:24 +0300253- Issue #6696: add documentation for the Profile objects, and improve
254 profile/cProfile docs. Patch by Tom Pinckney.
255
Benjamin Petersonaec81392013-03-23 15:24:13 -0500256
Benjamin Peterson31289232013-03-23 15:22:20 -0500257What's New in Python 2.7.4?
258===========================
259
Benjamin Peterson376dd0e2013-04-06 09:58:51 -0400260*Release date: 2013-04-06*
Benjamin Peterson31289232013-03-23 15:22:20 -0500261
Benjamin Petersonb9be7bb2013-03-26 08:55:37 -0400262Build
263-----
264
265- Issue #17550: Fix the --enable-profiling configure switch.
266
Benjamin Petersonda2c7eb2013-03-23 22:32:00 -0500267Core and Builtins
268-----------------
269
270- Issue #15801 (again): With string % formatting, relax the type check for a
271 mapping such that any type with a __getitem__ can be used on the right hand
272 side.
273
Serhiy Storchakaff99e412013-04-14 18:52:15 +0300274IDLE
275----
Benjamin Peterson31289232013-03-23 15:22:20 -0500276
Benjamin Peterson167a96c2013-04-03 22:35:12 -0400277- Issue #17625: In IDLE, close the replace dialog after it is used.
278
Serhiy Storchakaff99e412013-04-14 18:52:15 +0300279Tests
280-----
281
Antoine Pitrou68915d72013-04-24 23:31:38 +0200282- Issue #17835: Fix test_io when the default OS pipe buffer size is larger
283 than one million bytes.
284
Benjamin Peterson01d9a772013-03-23 15:40:36 -0500285- Issue #17531: Fix tests that thought group and user ids were always the int
Benjamin Peterson7e2f1972013-03-23 16:35:45 -0500286 type. Also, always allow -1 as a valid group and user id.
Benjamin Peterson31289232013-03-23 15:22:20 -0500287
Benjamin Petersond627e122013-03-30 10:36:31 -0400288- Issue #17533: Fix test_xpickle with older versions of Python 2.5.
289
Christian Heimes23790b42013-03-26 17:53:05 +0100290Documentation
291-------------
292
293- Issue 17538: Document XML vulnerabilties
294
Benjamin Peterson31289232013-03-23 15:22:20 -0500295
Benjamin Petersona1f6fab2013-03-23 10:17:29 -0500296What's New in Python 2.7.4 release candidate 1
297==============================================
Victor Stinner08563d92011-05-30 23:44:13 +0200298
Benjamin Petersona1f6fab2013-03-23 10:17:29 -0500299*Release date: 2013-03-23*
Victor Stinner08563d92011-05-30 23:44:13 +0200300
301Core and Builtins
302-----------------
303
Kristján Valur Jónsson9795ca42013-03-19 17:17:47 -0700304- Issue #10211: Buffer objects expose the new buffer interface internally
305
Mark Dickinson7cac1c22013-03-03 11:13:34 +0000306- Issue #16445: Fixed potential segmentation fault when deleting an exception
307 message.
308
R David Murray5b2cf5e2013-02-23 22:11:21 -0500309- Issue #17275: Corrected class name in init error messages of the C version of
310 BufferedWriter and BufferedRandom.
311
R David Murray5aff27a2013-02-18 22:04:59 -0500312- Issue #7963: Fixed misleading error message that issued when object is
313 called without arguments.
314
Serhiy Storchaka34fe1b72013-02-13 12:07:43 +0200315- Issue #5308: Raise ValueError when marshalling too large object (a sequence
316 with size >= 2**31), instead of producing illegal marshal data.
317
Serhiy Storchakad5327d92013-02-07 16:23:11 +0200318- Issue #17043: The unicode-internal decoder no longer read past the end of
319 input buffer.
320
Serhiy Storchaka64cca122013-01-29 12:04:55 +0200321- Issue #16979: Fix error handling bugs in the unicode-escape-decode decoder.
322
Serhiy Storchakac59c85c2013-01-26 12:13:40 +0200323- Issue #10156: In the interpreter's initialization phase, unicode globals
324 are now initialized dynamically as needed.
325
Serhiy Storchaka01b3a082013-01-25 23:30:50 +0200326- Issue #16975: Fix error handling bug in the escape-decode decoder.
327
Ezio Melotti302ad8d2013-01-19 19:44:58 +0200328- Issue #14850: Now a charmap decoder treats U+FFFE as "undefined mapping"
329 in any mapping, not only in a Unicode string.
Serhiy Storchaka95997452013-01-15 14:42:59 +0200330
Serhiy Storchakac4b82c02013-01-08 23:12:00 +0200331- Issue #11461: Fix the incremental UTF-16 decoder. Original patch by
332 Amaury Forgeot d'Arc.
333
Victor Stinner23a32ba2013-01-03 03:33:21 +0100334- Issue #16367: Fix FileIO.readall() on Windows for files larger than 2 GB.
335
Benjamin Petersona708adf2013-01-02 12:21:32 -0600336- Issue #15516: Fix a bug in PyString_FromFormat where it failed to properly
337 ignore errors from a __int__() method.
338
Benjamin Peterson6b3f8d32013-01-02 09:36:23 -0600339- Issue #16839: Fix a segfault when calling unicode() on a classic class early
340 in interpreter initialization.
341
Serhiy Storchakacf095f82012-12-28 09:31:59 +0200342- Issue #16761: Calling ``int()`` and ``long()`` with *base* argument only
343 now raises TypeError.
344
Brian Curtin33e05e72012-12-27 14:37:06 -0600345- Issue #16759: Support the full DWORD (unsigned long) range in Reg2Py
Ezio Melotti302ad8d2013-01-19 19:44:58 +0200346 when retrieving a REG_DWORD value. This corrects functions like
Brian Curtin33e05e72012-12-27 14:37:06 -0600347 winreg.QueryValueEx that may have been returning truncated values.
348
Brian Curtin0e091b02012-12-27 12:28:51 -0600349- Issue #14420: Support the full DWORD (unsigned long) range in Py2Reg
350 when passed a REG_DWORD value. Fixes ValueError in winreg.SetValueEx when
351 given a long.
352
Mark Dickinson9fade762012-12-24 16:33:18 +0000353- Issue #13863: Work around buggy 'fstat' implementation on Windows / NTFS that
354 lead to incorrect timestamps (off by one hour) being stored in .pyc files on
355 some systems.
356
Antoine Pitroud38c9902012-12-08 21:15:26 +0100357- Issue #16602: When a weakref's target was part of a long deallocation
358 chain, the object could remain reachable through its weakref even though
359 its refcount had dropped to zero.
360
Mark Dickinsonb1cc6aa2012-11-25 17:11:33 +0000361- Issue #9011: Fix hacky AST code that modified the CST when compiling
362 a negated numeric literal.
363
Ezio Melottidb5947f2012-11-18 13:46:38 +0200364- Issue #16306: Fix multiple error messages when unknown command line
365 parameters where passed to the interpreter. Patch by Hieu Nguyen.
366
Antoine Pitroue3ae3212012-11-17 21:14:58 +0100367- Issue #15379: Fix passing of non-BMP characters as integers for the charmap
368 decoder (already working as unicode strings). Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
369
Antoine Pitroub704eab2012-11-11 19:36:51 +0100370- Issue #16453: Fix equality testing of dead weakref objects.
371
Gregory P. Smithc1ce93a2012-11-10 20:38:17 -0800372- Issue #9535: Fix pending signals that have been received but not yet
373 handled by Python to not persist after os.fork() in the child process.
374
Hynek Schlawackb271b3e2012-11-07 09:41:28 +0100375- Issue #15001: fix segfault on "del sys.modules['__main__']". Patch by Victor
376 Stinner.
377
Ezio Melotti751a50f2012-11-05 00:06:50 +0200378- Issue #5057: the peepholer no longer optimizes subscription on unicode
Ezio Melottic18cc0e2012-11-05 00:03:21 +0200379 literals (e.g. u'foo'[0]) in order to produce compatible pyc files between
380 narrow and wide builds.
381
Ezio Melotti67dc4a82012-11-03 21:10:45 +0200382- Issue #8401: assigning an int to a bytearray slice (e.g. b[3:4] = 5) now
383 raises an error.
384
Mark Dickinson75d36002012-10-28 10:00:46 +0000385- Issue #14700: Fix buggy overflow checks for large width and precision
386 in string formatting operations.
387
Benjamin Peterson0ec820f2012-10-31 14:05:55 -0400388- Issue #16345: Fix an infinite loop when ``fromkeys`` on a dict subclass
Benjamin Petersonc40ddae2012-10-31 14:16:09 -0400389 received a nonempty dict from the constructor.
Benjamin Peterson0ec820f2012-10-31 14:05:55 -0400390
Nick Coghlanb48c0282012-10-19 21:58:18 +1000391- Issue #6074: Ensure cached bytecode files can always be updated by the
392 user that created them, even when the source file is read-only.
393
Chris Jerdonekad4b0002012-10-07 20:37:54 -0700394- Issue #14783: Improve int() and long() docstrings and switch docstrings for
395 unicode(), slice(), range(), and xrange() to use multi-line signatures.
396
Mark Dickinson218a8ab2012-09-28 20:36:36 +0100397- Issue #16030: Fix overflow bug in computing the `repr` of an xrange object
398 with large start, step or length.
399
400- Issue #16029: Fix overflow bug occurring when pickling xranges with large
401 start, step or length.
402
Christian Heimes671138f2012-09-25 13:29:30 +0200403- Issue #16037: Limit httplib's _read_status() function to work around broken
404 HTTP servers and reduce memory usage. It's actually a backport of a Python
405 3.2 fix. Thanks to Adrien Kunysz.
406
Jesus Cea7ddd9c22012-12-05 14:41:11 +0100407- Issue #16588: Silence unused-but-set warnings in Python/thread_pthread
408
Antoine Pitrou58098a72012-09-06 00:59:49 +0200409- Issue #13992: The trashcan mechanism is now thread-safe. This eliminates
410 sporadic crashes in multi-thread programs when several long deallocator
411 chains ran concurrently and involved subclasses of built-in container
412 types.
413
Benjamin Peterson23d49d32012-08-28 17:55:35 -0400414- Issue #15801: Make sure mappings passed to '%' formatting are actually
415 subscriptable.
416
Antoine Pitrouc5bef752012-08-15 23:16:51 +0200417- Issue #15604: Update uses of PyObject_IsTrue() to check for and handle
418 errors correctly. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
419
Antoine Pitrou715a63b2012-07-21 00:52:06 +0200420- Issue #14579: Fix error handling bug in the utf-16 decoder. Patch by
421 Serhiy Storchaka.
422
Meador Inge6642d1f2012-07-18 14:09:04 -0500423- Issue #15368: An issue that caused bytecode generation to be
424 non-deterministic when using randomized hashing (-R) has been fixed.
425
Jesus Ceae884be62012-10-03 02:13:05 +0200426- Issue #15897: zipimport.c doesn't check return value of fseek().
427 Patch by Felipe Cruz.
428
Jesus Ceabdf1b9e2012-10-31 17:00:19 +0100429- Issue #16369: Global PyTypeObjects not initialized with PyType_Ready(...).
430
Ezio Melotti50bc66a2012-11-03 21:29:08 +0200431- Issue #15033: Fix the exit status bug when modules invoked using -m switch,
Senthil Kumaran3b30b192012-07-04 19:50:29 -0700432 return the proper failure return value (1). Patch contributed by Jeff Knupp.
433
Gregory P. Smithb2ac4d62012-06-25 20:57:36 -0700434- Issue #12268: File readline, readlines and read() methods no longer lose
435 data when an underlying read system call is interrupted. IOError is no
436 longer raised due to a read system call returning EINTR from within these
437 methods.
438
Éric Araujoe5567cc2012-07-03 01:23:46 -0400439- Issue #13512: Create ~/.pypirc securely (CVE-2011-4944). Initial patch by
440 Philip Jenvey, tested by Mageia and Debian.
441
Éric Araujo3cf202e2012-07-03 01:12:42 -0400442- Issue #7719: Make distutils ignore ``.nfs*`` files instead of choking later
443 on. Initial patch by SilentGhost and Jeff Ramnani.
444
Hynek Schlawack9bd4bf22012-06-21 19:45:19 +0200445- Issue #10053: Don't close FDs when FileIO.__init__ fails. Loosely based on
446 the work by Hirokazu Yamamoto.
447
Antoine Pitrouff0e22b2012-05-28 22:22:34 +0200448- Issue #14775: Fix a potential quadratic dict build-up due to the garbage
449 collector repeatedly trying to untrack dicts.
450
Petri Lehtinen5f397062012-05-19 18:34:06 +0300451- Issue #14494: Fix __future__.py and its documentation to note that
452 absolute imports are the default behavior in 3.0 instead of 2.7.
453 Patch by Sven Marnach.
454
Antoine Pitrou284fa082012-05-09 13:24:31 +0200455- Issue #14761: Fix potential leak on an error case in the import machinery.
456
Benjamin Peterson042c47b2012-05-01 09:51:09 -0400457- Issue #14699: Fix calling the classmethod descriptor directly.
458
Benjamin Petersond157a4c2012-04-24 11:06:25 -0400459- Issue #11603 (again): Setting __repr__ to __str__ now raises a RuntimeError
460 when repr() or str() is called on such an object.
461
462- Issue #14658: Fix binding a special method to a builtin implementation of a
463 special method with a different name.
464
Benjamin Peterson76605552012-04-18 11:14:31 -0400465- Issue #14612: Fix jumping around with blocks by setting f_lineno.
466
Mark Dickinson9c0baf72012-04-15 15:19:06 +0100467- Issue #13889: Check and (if necessary) set FPU control word before calling
468 any of the dtoa.c string <-> float conversion functions, on MSVC builds of
469 Python. This fixes issues when embedding Python in a Delphi app.
470
Antoine Pitrou02a38012012-04-05 14:07:52 +0200471- Issue #14505: Fix file descriptor leak when deallocating file objects
472 created with PyFile_FromString().
473
Benjamin Petersonf73813a2012-04-02 11:15:17 -0400474- Issue #14474: Save and restore exception state in thread.start_new_thread()
475 while writing error message if the thread leaves a unhandled exception.
476
Antoine Pitroufe941772012-04-01 16:05:46 +0200477- Issue #13019: Fix potential reference leaks in bytearray.extend(). Patch
478 by Suman Saha.
479
Benjamin Petersoneff19a12012-03-22 08:19:04 -0400480- Issue #14378: Fix compiling ast.ImportFrom nodes with a "__future__" string as
481 the module name that was not interned.
482
Gregory P. Smithfcdf04b2012-03-18 16:07:10 -0700483- Issue #14331: Use significantly less stack space when importing modules by
484 allocating path buffers on the heap instead of the stack.
485
Benjamin Peterson6e7832b2012-03-16 09:32:59 -0500486- Issue #14334: Prevent in a segfault in type.__getattribute__ when it was not
Benjamin Petersondbc52f82012-03-16 10:58:46 -0500487 passed strings. Also fix segfaults in the __getattribute__ and __setattr__
488 methods of old-style classes.
Benjamin Peterson6e7832b2012-03-16 09:32:59 -0500489
Ezio Melotti11f8b682012-03-12 01:17:02 +0200490- Issue #14161: fix the __repr__ of file objects to escape the file name.
491
Benjamin Petersona8d45852012-03-07 18:41:11 -0600492- Issue #1469629: Allow cycles through an object's __dict__ slot to be
493 collected. (For example if ``x.__dict__ is x``).
494
Antoine Pitrou6a1cd1b2012-02-27 00:45:12 +0100495- Issue #13521: dict.setdefault() now does only one lookup for the given key,
496 making it "atomic" for many purposes. Patch by Filip Gruszczyński.
497
Ronald Oussoren1c60c7a2013-01-25 17:55:39 +0100498- Issue #1602133: on Mac OS X a shared library build (``--enable-shared``)
499 now fills the ``os.environ`` variable correctly.
500
krisvale479c8f82012-03-22 20:17:42 +0000501- Issue #10538: When using the "s*" code with PyArg_ParseTuple() to fill a
502 Py_buffer structure with data from an object supporting only the old
503 PyBuffer interface, a reference to the source objects is now properly added
504 to the Py_buffer.obj member.
505
Benjamin Petersona84f4682012-03-07 19:17:57 -0600506Library
507-------
508
Vinay Sajip1e76e862013-03-25 23:37:41 +0000509- Issue #12718: Fix interaction with winpdb overriding __import__ by setting
510 importer attribute on BaseConfigurator instance.
Serhiy Storchakaff99e412013-04-14 18:52:15 +0300511
Vinay Sajipbb2dad82013-03-23 11:18:10 +0000512- Issue #17521: Corrected non-enabling of logger following two calls to
513 fileConfig().
514
Vinay Sajip0e29f222013-03-23 10:56:39 +0000515- Issue #17508: Corrected MemoryHandler configuration in dictConfig() where
516 the target handler wasn't configured first.
517
Kristján Valur Jónsson9795ca42013-03-19 17:17:47 -0700518- Issue #10212: cStringIO and struct.unpack support new buffer objects.
519
Kristján Valur Jónsson8927e8f2013-03-19 15:07:35 -0700520- Issue #12098: multiprocessing on Windows now starts child processes
521 using the same sys.flags as the current process. Initial patch by
522 Sergey Mezentsev.
523
R David Murraya39c47a2013-03-19 16:26:53 -0400524- Issue #8862: Fixed curses cleanup when getkey is interrputed by a signal.
525
Kristján Valur Jónsson6ebc8f32013-03-19 10:58:59 -0700526- Issue #9090: When a socket with a timeout fails with EWOULDBLOCK or EAGAIN,
527 retry the select() loop instead of bailing out. This is because select()
528 can incorrectly report a socket as ready for reading (for example, if it
529 received some data with an invalid checksum).
530
Serhiy Storchaka923baea2013-03-14 21:31:09 +0200531- Issue #1285086: Get rid of the refcounting hack and speed up urllib.unquote().
532
Ezio Melottifda7a8c2013-03-13 01:49:57 +0200533- Issue #17368: Fix an off-by-one error in the Python JSON decoder that caused
534 a failure while decoding empty object literals when object_pairs_hook was
535 specified.
536
Antoine Pitrou49e4dfe2013-03-04 20:30:01 +0100537- Issue #17278: Fix a crash in heapq.heappush() and heapq.heappop() when
538 the list is being resized concurrently.
539
Richard Oudkerkba482642013-02-26 12:37:07 +0000540- Issue #17018: Make Process.join() retry if os.waitpid() fails with EINTR.
541
Petri Lehtinen9e147552013-02-23 19:05:09 +0100542- Issue #14720: sqlite3: Convert datetime microseconds correctly.
543 Patch by Lowe Thiderman.
544
Serhiy Storchaka49d40222013-02-21 20:17:54 +0200545- Issue #17225: JSON decoder now counts columns in the first line starting
546 with 1, as in other lines.
547
R David Murrayc32b6782013-02-19 20:00:11 -0500548- Issue #7842: backported fix for py_compile.compile() syntax error handling.
549
Serhiy Storchaka46764482013-02-18 13:00:08 +0200550- Issue #13153: Tkinter functions now raise TclError instead of ValueError when
551 a unicode argument contains non-BMP character.
552
Serhiy Storchaka6a8e2b42013-02-16 21:23:01 +0200553- Issue #9669: Protect re against infinite loops on zero-width matching in
554 non-greedy repeat. Patch by Matthew Barnett.
555
Serhiy Storchakae18e05c2013-02-16 16:47:15 +0200556- Issue #13169: The maximal repetition number in a regular expression has been
557 increased from 65534 to 2147483647 (on 32-bit platform) or 4294967294 (on
558 64-bit).
559
Richard Oudkerkf4b65602013-02-13 15:17:47 +0000560- Issue #16743: Fix mmap overflow check on 32 bit Windows.
561
Serhiy Storchaka8d7d6bc2013-02-13 12:26:58 +0200562- Issue #11311: StringIO.readline(0) now returns an empty string as all other
563 file-like objects.
564
Serhiy Storchaka0127de02013-02-13 00:34:46 +0200565- Issue #16800: tempfile.gettempdir() no longer left temporary files when
566 the disk is full. Original patch by Amir Szekely.
567
Serhiy Storchakacdc7a912013-02-12 21:36:47 +0200568- Issue #13555: cPickle now supports files larger than 2 GiB.
569
Michael Foordc36bf992013-02-11 12:53:21 +0000570- Issue #17052: unittest discovery should use self.testLoader.
Michael Foordcb66ee72013-02-10 23:59:46 +0000571
Serhiy Storchakada5c2a02013-02-12 09:27:53 +0200572- Issue #4591: Uid and gid values larger than 2**31 are supported now.
573
Serhiy Storchaka65d56392013-02-10 19:27:37 +0200574- Issue #17141: random.vonmisesvariate() no more hangs for large kappas.
575
Mark Dickinson9aaeb5e2013-02-10 14:13:40 +0000576- Issue #17149: Fix random.vonmisesvariate to always return results in
577 the range [0, 2*math.pi].
578
Serhiy Storchakaf8980382013-02-10 14:26:08 +0200579- Issue #1470548: XMLGenerator now works with UTF-16 and UTF-32 encodings.
580
Serhiy Storchaka0dd3d302013-02-10 12:21:49 +0200581- Issue #6975: os.path.realpath() now correctly resolves multiple nested
582 symlinks on POSIX platforms.
583
Serhiy Storchaka276f1d52013-02-09 13:47:43 +0200584- Issue #7358: cStringIO.StringIO now supports writing to and reading from
585 a stream larger than 2 GiB on 64-bit systems.
586
Serhiy Storchakabeaa3ad2013-02-09 12:20:18 +0200587- Issue #10355: In SpooledTemporaryFile class mode and name properties and
588 xreadlines method now work for unrolled files. encoding and newlines
589 properties now removed as they have no sense and always produced
590 AttributeError.
591
Serhiy Storchaka62e709c2013-02-09 11:10:30 +0200592- Issue #16686: Fixed a lot of bugs in audioop module. Fixed crashes in
593 avgpp(), maxpp() and ratecv(). Fixed an integer overflow in add(), bias(),
594 and ratecv(). reverse(), lin2lin() and ratecv() no more lose precision for
595 32-bit samples. max() and rms() no more returns a negative result and
596 various other functions now work correctly with 32-bit sample -0x80000000.
597
Serhiy Storchaka35c52b62013-02-07 16:59:34 +0200598- Issue #17073: Fix some integer overflows in sqlite3 module.
599
Serhiy Storchakaa07a8b42013-02-04 12:45:46 +0200600- Issue #6083: Fix multiple segmentation faults occured when PyArg_ParseTuple
601 parses nested mutating sequence.
602
Benjamin Petersonf727c312013-02-03 19:25:11 -0500603- Issue #5289: Fix ctypes.util.find_library on Solaris.
604
Serhiy Storchaka354d50e2013-02-03 17:10:42 +0200605- Issue #17106: Fix a segmentation fault in io.TextIOWrapper when an underlying
606 stream or a decoder produces data of an unexpected type (i.e. when
607 io.TextIOWrapper initialized with text stream or use bytes-to-bytes codec).
608
Éric Araujo3e081c72013-02-03 11:41:19 -0500609- Issue #13994: Add compatibility alias in distutils.ccompiler for
610 distutils.sysconfig.customize_compiler.
611
Antoine Pitroud66c0ee2013-02-02 22:49:34 +0100612- Issue #15633: httplib.HTTPResponse is now mark closed when the server
613 sends less than the advertised Content-Length.
614
Benjamin Petersoneff492f2013-02-02 11:15:50 -0500615- Issue #15881: Fixed atexit hook in multiprocessing.
616
Gregory P. Smitha5df2902012-07-14 14:12:35 -0700617- Issue #14340: Upgrade the embedded expat library to version 2.1.0.
618
Serhiy Storchaka8673ab92013-02-02 10:28:30 +0200619- Issue #11159: SAX parser now supports unicode file names.
620
Gregory P. Smith608cc452013-02-01 11:40:18 -0800621- Issue #6972: The zipfile module no longer overwrites files outside of
622 its destination path when extracting malicious zip files.
623
Serhiy Storchaka8d510cd2013-01-31 15:57:51 +0200624- Issue #17049: Localized calendar methods now return unicode if a locale
625 includes an encoding and the result string contains month or weekday (was
626 regression from Python 2.6).
627
Serhiy Storchaka0be506a2013-01-31 15:26:55 +0200628- Issue #4844: ZipFile now raises BadZipfile when opens a ZIP file with an
629 incomplete "End of Central Directory" record. Original patch by Guilherme
630 Polo and Alan McIntyre.
631
Michael Foord77cd8aa2013-01-29 22:59:02 +0000632- Issue #15505: `unittest.installHandler` no longer assumes SIGINT handler is
633 set to a callable object.
634
Serhiy Storchakac12dcd22013-02-08 11:21:32 +0200635- Issue #17051: Fix a memory leak in os.path.isdir() on Windows. Patch by
Serhiy Storchaka46f5b352013-01-28 20:19:50 +0200636 Robert Xiao.
637
Serhiy Storchakab09ec9b2013-01-25 13:31:05 +0200638- Issue #13454: Fix a crash when deleting an iterator created by itertools.tee()
639 if all other iterators were very advanced before.
640
Benjamin Peterson08e153a2013-01-18 00:10:24 -0500641- Issue #16992: On Windows in signal.set_wakeup_fd, validate the file
642 descriptor argument.
643
Serhiy Storchakae39ba042013-01-15 18:01:21 +0200644- Issue #15861: tkinter now correctly works with lists and tuples containing
645 strings with whitespaces, backslashes or unbalanced braces.
646
Richard Oudkerk90b5d922013-01-14 23:09:14 +0000647- Issue #10527: Use poll() instead of select() for multiprocessing pipes.
648
Serhiy Storchaka80a9fd72013-01-15 00:29:51 +0200649- Issue #9720: zipfile now writes correct local headers for files larger than
650 4 GiB.
651
Ezio Melotti5c4e32b2013-01-11 08:32:01 +0200652- Issue #13899: \A, \Z, and \B now correctly match the A, Z, and B literals
653 when used inside character classes (e.g. '[\A]'). Patch by Matthew Barnett.
654
Raymond Hettinger2cdb6432013-01-12 00:05:00 -0800655- Issue #16398: Optimize deque.rotate() so that it only moves pointers
656 and doesn't touch the underlying data with increfs and decrefs.
657
R David Murray32851d62013-01-10 21:10:40 -0500658- Issue #15109: Fix regression in sqlite3's iterdump method where it would
659 die with an encoding error if the database contained string values
660 containing non-ASCII. (Regression was introduced by fix for 9750).
661
R David Murrayd6186842013-01-10 11:30:51 -0500662- Issue #15545: Fix regression in sqlite3's iterdump method where it was
663 failing if the connection used a row factory (such as sqlite3.Row) that
664 produced unsortable objects. (Regression was introduced by fix for 9750).
665
Nadeem Vawda895cc222013-01-02 22:59:51 +0100666- Issue #16828: Fix error incorrectly raised by bz2.compress(''). Patch by
667 Martin Packman.
668
Richard Oudkerk7450a812013-01-01 17:25:09 +0000669- Issue #9586: Redefine SEM_FAILED on MacOSX to keep compiler happy.
670
Ezio Melotti302ad8d2013-01-19 19:44:58 +0200671- Issue #10527: make multiprocessing use poll() instead of select() if available.
Giampaolo Rodola'cef20062012-12-31 17:23:09 +0100672
Serhiy Storchakadbaac372013-01-02 11:56:58 +0200673- Issue #16485: Now file descriptors are closed if file header patching failed
674 on closing an aifc file.
Serhiy Storchaka4ed797e2012-12-29 22:25:59 +0200675
Antoine Pitrou40f12ab2012-12-28 19:03:43 +0100676- Issue #12065: connect_ex() on an SSL socket now returns the original errno
677 when the socket's timeout expires (it used to return None).
678
Senthil Kumaran1974baa2012-12-24 13:56:54 -0800679- Issue #16713: Fix the parsing of tel url with params using urlparse module.
680
Andrew Svetlov1c6c90f2012-12-23 20:09:01 +0200681- Issue #16443: Add docstrings to regular expression match objects.
682 Patch by Anton Kasyanov.
683
Petri Lehtinenab7dd182012-12-20 21:06:14 +0200684- Issue #8853: Allow port to be of type long for socket.getaddrinfo().
685
Benjamin Peterson92014422012-12-20 12:55:52 -0600686- Issue #16597: In buffered and text IO, call close() on the underlying stream
687 if invoking flush() fails.
688
Senthil Kumaranf8a6b002012-12-23 09:00:47 -0800689- Issue #15701: Fix HTTPError info method call to return the headers information.
690
Giampaolo Rodola'c2a81692012-12-17 14:30:48 +0100691- Issue #16646: ftplib.FTP.makeport() might lose socket error details.
692 (patch by Serhiy Storchaka)
693
Antoine Pitrou124ee8b2012-12-16 13:55:47 +0100694- Issue #16626: Fix infinite recursion in glob.glob() on Windows when the
695 pattern contains a wildcard in the drive or UNC path. Patch by Serhiy
696 Storchaka.
697
Antoine Pitrou4113d2b2012-12-15 19:11:54 +0100698- Issue #16298: In HTTPResponse.read(), close the socket when there is no
699 Content-Length and the incoming stream is finished. Patch by Eran
700 Rundstein.
701
Antoine Pitrou7dddec42012-12-09 14:46:18 +0100702- Issue #16248: Disable code execution from the user's home directory by
703 tkinter when the -E flag is passed to Python. Patch by Zachary Ware.
704
Antoine Pitrou8eeda722012-12-08 11:05:50 +0100705- Issue #16628: Fix a memory leak in ctypes.resize().
706
Éric Araujo2320fa02012-12-08 22:26:57 -0500707- Issue #13614: Fix setup.py register failure with invalid rst in description.
708 Patch by Julien Courteau and Pierre Paul Lefebvre.
709
Antoine Pitroub83575b2012-12-02 12:52:36 +0100710- Issue #10182: The re module doesn't truncate indices to 32 bits anymore.
711 Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
712
Benjamin Peterson256aaf72012-11-29 10:57:01 -0500713- Issue #16573: In 2to3, treat enumerate() like a consuming call, so superfluous
714 list() calls aren't added to filter(), map(), and zip() which are directly
715 passed enumerate().
716
Antoine Pitroub83ea142012-11-20 22:30:42 +0100717- Issue #1160: Fix compiling large regular expressions on UCS2 builds.
718 Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
719
Ezio Melotti9e949722012-11-18 13:18:06 +0200720- Issue #14313: zipfile now raises NotImplementedError when the compression
721 type is unknown.
722
Antoine Pitrou02512fb2012-11-17 23:56:53 +0100723- Issue #16408: Fix file descriptors not being closed in error conditions
724 in the zipfile module. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
725
Gregory P. Smith9d3b6e92012-11-10 22:49:03 -0800726- Issue #16327: The subprocess module no longer leaks file descriptors
727 used for stdin/stdout/stderr pipes to the child when fork() fails.
728
Gregory P. Smithf2705ae2012-11-10 21:13:20 -0800729- Issue #14396: Handle the odd rare case of waitpid returning 0 when not
730 expected in subprocess.Popen.wait().
731
Nadeem Vawda3c309702012-11-11 03:14:56 +0100732- Issue #16411: Fix a bug where zlib.decompressobj().flush() might try to access
733 previously-freed memory. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
734
Nadeem Vawda252f4dc2012-11-11 02:14:15 +0100735- Issue #16350: zlib.decompressobj().decompress() now accumulates data from
Nadeem Vawda6cad3712012-11-05 00:55:06 +0100736 successive calls after EOF in unused_data, instead of only saving the argument
Nadeem Vawda252f4dc2012-11-11 02:14:15 +0100737 to the last call. decompressobj().flush() now correctly sets unused_data and
738 unconsumed_tail. A bug in the handling of MemoryError when setting the
739 unconsumed_tail attribute has also been fixed. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
Nadeem Vawda6cad3712012-11-05 00:55:06 +0100740
Ezio Melottief317382012-11-03 20:31:12 +0200741- Issue #12759: sre_parse now raises a proper error when the name of the group
742 is missing. Initial patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
743
Ezio Melotti7d24b162012-11-03 17:30:51 +0200744- Issue #16152: fix tokenize to ignore whitespace at the end of the code when
745 no newline is found. Patch by Ned Batchelder.
746
Antoine Pitrou0552fc22012-11-01 20:13:54 +0100747- Issue #16230: Fix a crash in select.select() when one the lists changes
748 size while iterated on. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
749
Antoine Pitroue9e35c32012-11-01 20:07:40 +0100750- Issue #16228: Fix a crash in the json module where a list changes size
751 while it is being encoded. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
752
Petri Lehtinen5c89c192012-10-29 21:16:57 +0200753- Issue #14897: Enhance error messages of struct.pack and
754 struct.pack_into. Patch by Matti Mäki.
755
R David Murray54eed2e2012-10-27 14:42:36 -0400756- Issue #12890: cgitb no longer prints spurious <p> tags in text
757 mode when the logdir option is specified.
758
Nadeem Vawda45dba1d2012-10-21 23:09:08 +0200759- Issue #14398: Fix size truncation and overflow bugs in the bz2 module.
760
Nadeem Vawdadd72b3f2012-10-21 18:15:05 +0200761- Issue #5148: Ignore 'U' in mode given to gzip.open() and gzip.GzipFile().
762
Antoine Pitroue97a24d2012-10-21 14:09:05 +0200763- Issue #16220: wsgiref now always calls close() on an iterable response.
764 Patch by Brent Tubbs.
765
Jesus Ceaf34e4de2012-11-17 03:38:17 +0100766- Issue #16461: Wave library should be able to deal with 4GB wav files,
767 and sample rate of 44100 Hz.
768
Brian Curtinc1924ab2012-10-11 16:16:50 -0500769- Issue #16176: Properly identify Windows 8 via platform.platform()
770
Gregory P. Smith0798cbc2012-09-29 12:02:48 -0700771- Issue #15756: subprocess.poll() now properly handles errno.ECHILD to
772 return a returncode of 0 when the child has already exited or cannot
773 be waited on.
774
Michael Foordbf2ad342012-09-28 12:54:56 +0100775- Issue #12376: Pass on parameters in TextTestResult.__init__ super call
776
Petri Lehtinena4fd0dc2012-09-25 21:57:59 +0300777- Issue #15222: Insert blank line after each message in mbox mailboxes
778
Senthil Kumarand41dc7c2012-09-25 02:48:21 -0700779- Issue #16013: Fix CSV Reader parsing issue with ending quote characters.
780 Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
781
Ezio Melotticadff702012-09-21 17:26:35 +0300782- Issue #15421: fix an OverflowError in Calendar.itermonthdates() after
783 datetime.MAXYEAR. Patch by Cédric Krier.
784
Ezio Melotti6d6fb3a2012-09-19 08:11:03 +0300785- Issue #15970: xml.etree.ElementTree now serializes correctly the empty HTML
786 elements 'meta' and 'param'.
787
Jesus Cea8b54d6d2012-09-10 00:22:39 +0200788- Issue #15676: Now "mmap" check for empty files before doing the
789 offset check. Patch by Steven Willis.
790
Antoine Pitroue299cae2012-09-07 23:49:07 +0200791- Issue #15340: Fix importing the random module when /dev/urandom cannot
792 be opened. This was a regression caused by the hash randomization patch.
793
Antoine Pitrouc5eec0e2012-09-05 20:11:49 +0200794- Issue #15841: The readable(), writable() and seekable() methods of
795 io.BytesIO and io.StringIO objects now raise ValueError when the object has
796 been closed. Patch by Alessandro Moura.
797
Jesus Cea3e94e142012-10-04 15:06:57 +0200798- Issue #16112: platform.architecture does not correctly escape argument to
799 /usr/bin/file. Patch by David Benjamin.
800
R David Murray20101872012-08-31 23:15:28 -0400801- Issue #12776,#11839: call argparse type function (specified by add_argument)
802 only once. Before, the type function was called twice in the case where the
803 default was specified and the argument was given as well. This was
804 especially problematic for the FileType type, as a default file would always
805 be opened, even if a file argument was specified on the command line.
806
Barry Warsaw03fcfbe2012-09-11 21:06:29 -0400807- Issue #15906: Fix a regression in argparse caused by the preceding change,
808 when action='append', type='str' and default=[].
809
Ronald Oussorena00b1002012-08-25 11:18:48 +0200810- Issue #13370: Ensure that ctypes works on Mac OS X when Python is
811 compiled using the clang compiler
812
Mark Dickinson088cec32012-08-24 20:06:30 +0100813- Issue #15544: Fix Decimal.__float__ to work with payload-carrying NaNs.
814
Petri Lehtinen4efdc092012-08-20 21:05:56 +0300815- Issue #15199: Fix JavaScript's default MIME type to application/javascript.
816 Patch by Bohuslav Kabrda.
817
Mark Dickinson2de4be22012-08-18 12:31:34 +0100818- Issue #15477: In cmath and math modules, add workaround for platforms whose
819 system-supplied log1p function doesn't respect signs of zeros.
820
Petri Lehtinen2d44cee2012-08-15 14:22:46 +0300821- Issue #11062: Fix adding a message from file to Babyl mailbox.
822
Richard Oudkerkfaee75c2012-08-14 11:41:19 +0100823- Issue #15646: Prevent equivalent of a fork bomb when using
824 multiprocessing on Windows without the "if __name__ == '__main__'"
825 idiom.
826
Brian Curtina9391052012-08-09 23:04:42 -0500827- Issue #15567: Fix NameError when running threading._test
828
Meador Inge2d639d52012-08-10 22:05:45 -0500829- Issue #15424: Add a __sizeof__ implementation for array objects.
830 Patch by Ludwig Hähne.
831
Antoine Pitrou1fa9f7b2012-08-02 20:37:12 +0200832- Issue #15538: Fix compilation of the getnameinfo() / getaddrinfo()
833 emulation code. Patch by Philipp Hagemeister.
834
Andrew Svetlov2d968482012-07-30 20:04:53 +0300835- Issue #12288: Consider '0' and '0.0' as valid initialvalue
836 for tkinter SimpleDialog.
837
Antoine Pitroubaee34c2012-07-30 00:01:06 +0200838- Issue #15489: Add a __sizeof__ implementation for BytesIO objects.
839 Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
840
Jesus Cead4e58dc2012-08-03 14:48:23 +0200841- Issue #15469: Add a __sizeof__ implementation for deque objects.
842 Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
843
Antoine Pitroubff5df02012-07-29 19:02:46 +0200844- Issue #15487: Add a __sizeof__ implementation for buffered I/O objects.
845 Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
846
Jesus Cea3e3192d2012-08-03 14:25:53 +0200847- Issue #15512: Add a __sizeof__ implementation for parser.
848 Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
849
Meador Inge87c5b942012-07-23 09:27:00 -0500850- Issue #15402: An issue in the struct module that caused sys.getsizeof to
851 return incorrect results for struct.Struct instances has been fixed.
852 Initial patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
853
R David Murray0f111c12012-07-22 21:55:12 -0400854- Issue #15232: when mangle_from is True, email.Generator now correctly mangles
R David Murray70098452012-07-24 14:24:42 -0400855 lines that start with 'From ' that occur in a MIME preamble or epilog.
R David Murray0f111c12012-07-22 21:55:12 -0400856
R David Murray68f555c2012-07-21 22:54:34 -0400857- Issue #13922: argparse no longer incorrectly strips '--'s that appear
858 after the first one.
859
R David Murray056c31f2012-07-21 22:35:00 -0400860- Issue #12353: argparse now correctly handles null argument values.
861
Meador Inge25be3f62012-07-18 23:51:05 -0500862- Issue #6493: An issue in ctypes on Windows that caused structure bitfields
863 of type ctypes.c_uint32 and width 32 to incorrectly be set has been fixed.
864
Gregory P. Smithe0c22202012-07-15 22:16:06 -0700865- Issue #14635: telnetlib will use poll() rather than select() when possible
866 to avoid failing due to the select() file descriptor limit.
867
Antoine Pitrouc2ec9922012-07-06 18:48:24 +0200868- Issue #15247: FileIO now raises an error when given a file descriptor
869 pointing to a directory.
870
Mark Dickinsone0afb722012-06-30 17:19:35 +0100871- Issue #14591: Fix bug in Random.jumpahead that could produce an invalid
872 Mersenne Twister state on 64-bit machines.
873
Petri Lehtinend07de402012-06-29 15:09:12 +0300874- Issue #5346: Preserve permissions of mbox, MMDF and Babyl mailbox
875 files on flush().
876
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd958cc92012-06-29 01:42:46 +0200877- Issue #15219: Fix a reference leak when hashlib.new() is called with
878 invalid parameters.
879
Petri Lehtinen45f0d982012-06-28 13:48:17 +0300880- Issue #9559: If messages were only added, a new file is no longer
881 created and renamed over the old file when flush() is called on an
882 mbox, MMDF or Babyl mailbox.
883
Alexander Belopolskye99d3a12012-06-21 20:57:39 -0400884- Issue #14653: email.utils.mktime_tz() no longer relies on system
885 mktime() when timezone offest is supplied.
886
Richard Oudkerke4b99382012-07-27 14:05:46 +0100887- Issue #6056: Make multiprocessing use setblocking(True) on the
888 sockets it uses. Original patch by J Derek Wilson.
889
Richard Oudkerk4215d272012-06-18 15:37:31 +0100890- Issue #15101: Make pool finalizer avoid joining current thread.
891
Meador Inge43f42fc2012-06-16 21:05:50 -0500892- Issue #15054: A bug in tokenize.tokenize that caused string literals
893 with 'b' and 'br' prefixes to be incorrectly tokenized has been fixed.
894 Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
895
Petri Lehtinen48ee6902012-06-18 10:42:05 +0300896- Issue #15036: Mailbox no longer throws an error if a flush is done
897 between operations when removing or changing multiple items in mbox,
898 MMDF, or Babyl mailboxes.
Petri Lehtinen7cf66992012-06-15 20:50:51 +0300899
Richard Oudkerk926f58d2012-06-11 15:11:35 +0100900- Issue #10133: Make multiprocessing deallocate buffer if socket read
901 fails. Patch by Hallvard B Furuseth.
902
Richard Oudkerk2182e052012-06-06 19:01:14 +0100903- Issue #13854: Make multiprocessing properly handle non-integer
904 non-string argument to SystemExit.
905
Richard Oudkerkd44a4a22012-06-06 17:52:18 +0100906- Issue #12157: Make pool.map() empty iterables correctly. Initial
907 patch by mouad.
908
Senthil Kumaran37484dc2012-05-24 21:54:34 +0800909- Issue #14036: Add an additional check to validate that port in urlparse does
910 not go in illegal range and returns None.
911
Antoine Pitroucd8799f2012-05-23 23:16:14 +0200912- Issue #14888: Fix misbehaviour of the _md5 module when called on data
913 larger than 2**32 bytes.
914
Jesus Cea03a9d2a2012-09-10 21:04:42 +0200915- Issue #15908: Fix misbehaviour of the sha1 module when called on data
916 larger than 2**32 bytes.
917
Jesus Cea3fb774e2012-09-10 21:39:07 +0200918- Issue #15910: Fix misbehaviour of _md5 and sha1 modules when "updating"
919 on data larger than 2**32 bytes.
920
Ezio Melottied8cf7a2012-05-21 17:46:55 -0600921- Issue #14875: Use float('inf') instead of float('1e66666') in the json module.
922
Ned Deily77e77a12012-05-19 23:35:05 -0700923- Issue #14572: Prevent build failures with pre-3.5.0 versions of
924 sqlite3, such as was shipped with Centos 5 and Mac OS X 10.4.
925
Senthil Kumaranf439a362012-05-20 12:02:44 +0800926- Issue #14426: Correct the Date format in Expires attribute of Set-Cookie
927 Header in Cookie.py.
928
Senthil Kumaran618802d2012-05-19 16:52:21 +0800929- Issue #14721: Send proper header, Content-length: 0 when the body is an empty
930 string ''. Initial Patch contributed by Arve Knudsen.
931
Ezio Melotti6d9c1b12012-05-19 17:12:17 +0300932- Issue #14072: Fix parsing of 'tel' URIs in urlparse by making the check for
933 ports stricter.
934
Senthil Kumaranea24dda2012-05-19 08:10:40 +0800935- Issue #9374: Generic parsing of query and fragment portions of url for any
936 scheme. Supported both by RFC3986 and RFC2396.
937
Petri Lehtinen280e9f72012-05-18 21:51:11 +0300938- Issue #14798: Fix the functions in pyclbr to raise an ImportError
939 when the first part of a dotted name is not a package. Patch by
940 Xavier de Gaye.
941
R David Murray69493922012-05-16 14:01:03 -0400942- Issue #14832: fixed the order of the argument references in the error
943 message produced by unittest's assertItemsEqual.
944
Antoine Pitrou38fbd792012-05-16 15:01:40 +0200945- Issue #14829: Fix bisect issues under 64-bit Windows.
946
Ned Deily724a55c2012-05-15 18:05:57 -0700947- Issue #14777: tkinter may return undecoded UTF-8 bytes as a string when
948 accessing the Tk clipboard. Modify clipboad_get() to first request type
949 UTF8_STRING when no specific type is requested in an X11 windowing
950 environment, falling back to the current default type STRING if that fails.
951 Original patch by Thomas Kluyver.
952
Senthil Kumaran6a2a6c22012-05-15 22:24:10 +0800953- Issue #12541: Be lenient with quotes around Realm field with HTTP Basic
954 Authentation in urllib2.
955
Ned Deilyacdc56d2012-05-10 17:45:49 -0700956- Issue #14662: Prevent shutil failures on OS X when destination does not
957 support chflag operations. Patch by Hynek Schlawack.
958
Antoine Pitrouc2b714c2012-05-10 20:17:46 +0200959- Issue #14157: Fix time.strptime failing without a year on February 29th.
960 Patch by Hynek Schlawack.
961
Jesus Ceaf2011e32012-05-10 05:01:11 +0200962- Issue #14768: os.path.expanduser('~/a') doesn't works correctly when HOME is '/'.
963
Senthil Kumaran7f6d4e12012-05-01 10:36:28 +0800964- Issue #13183: Fix pdb skipping frames after hitting a breakpoint and running
965 step. Patch by Xavier de Gaye.
966
Antoine Pitrou38153162012-04-25 17:31:12 +0200967- Issue #14664: It is now possible to use @unittest.skip{If,Unless} on a
968 test class that doesn't inherit from TestCase (i.e. a mixin).
969
Lars Gustäbel231d4742012-04-24 22:42:08 +0200970- Issue #14160: TarFile.extractfile() failed to resolve symbolic links when
971 the links were not located in an archive subdirectory.
972
R David Murrayc313b1d2012-04-23 13:27:11 -0400973- Issue #14638: pydoc now treats non-string __name__ values as if they
974 were missing, instead of raising an error.
975
Senthil Kumaran4c20c4e2012-04-23 23:52:40 +0800976- Issue #13684: Fix httplib tunnel issue of infinite loops for certain sites
977 which send EOF without trailing \r\n.
Ezio Melottied8cf7a2012-05-21 17:46:55 -0600978
Antoine Pitrou52849bf2012-04-19 23:55:01 +0200979- Issue #14308: Fix an exception when a "dummy" thread is in the threading
980 module's active list after a fork().
981
Ezio Melottic45868e2012-04-18 19:08:41 -0600982- Issue #14538: HTMLParser can now parse correctly start tags that contain
983 a bare '/'.
984
Vinay Sajip7e9c9d52012-04-16 14:38:23 +0100985- Issue #14452: SysLogHandler no longer inserts a UTF-8 BOM into the message.
986
Mark Dickinson0407e962012-04-15 16:43:19 +0100987- Issue #13496: Fix potential overflow in bisect.bisect algorithm when applied
988 to a collection of size > sys.maxsize / 2.
989
R David Murray9955ad42012-04-13 21:27:00 -0400990- Issue #14399: zipfile now recognizes that the archive has been modified even
991 if only the comment is changed. As a consequence of this fix, ZipFile is now
992 a new style class.
R David Murray3f4ccba2012-04-12 18:42:47 -0400993
Antoine Pitroufa1d8412012-04-09 00:47:24 +0200994- Issue #7978: SocketServer now restarts the select() call when EINTR is
995 returned. This avoids crashing the server loop when a signal is received.
996 Patch by Jerzy Kozera.
997
Giampaolo Rodola'96cb5d12012-03-22 16:06:43 +0100998- Issue #10340: asyncore - properly handle EINVAL in dispatcher constructor on
999 OSX; avoid to call handle_connect in case of a disconnected socket which
1000 was not meant to connect.
1001
R David Murrayb3f95d72012-03-21 15:02:30 -04001002- Issue #12757: Fix the skipping of doctests when python is run with -OO so
1003 that it works in unittest's verbose mode as well as non-verbose mode.
1004
Giampaolo Rodola'3d3cf482012-03-20 16:46:57 +01001005- Issue #13694: asynchronous connect in asyncore.dispatcher does not set addr
1006 attribute.
1007
Senthil Kumaran51a65c92012-03-16 01:07:16 -07001008- Issue #10484: Fix the CGIHTTPServer's PATH_INFO handling problem.
1009
Senthil Kumaran4c592112012-03-15 13:24:40 -07001010- Issue #11199: Fix the with urllib which hangs on particular ftp urls.
1011
Antoine Pitrouf60845b2012-03-11 19:29:12 +01001012- Issue #14252: Fix subprocess.Popen.terminate() to not raise an error under
1013 Windows when the child process has already exited.
1014
Benjamin Petersona84f4682012-03-07 19:17:57 -06001015- Issue #14195: An issue that caused weakref.WeakSet instances to incorrectly
1016 return True for a WeakSet instance 'a' in both 'a < a' and 'a > a' has been
1017 fixed.
1018
1019- Issue #14159: Fix the len() of weak sets to return a better approximation
1020 when some objects are dead or dying. Moreover, the implementation is now
1021 O(1) rather than O(n).
1022
1023- Issue #2945: Make the distutils upload command aware of bdist_rpm products.
1024
Benjamin Petersona84f4682012-03-07 19:17:57 -06001025- Issue #6884: Fix long-standing bugs with MANIFEST.in parsing in distutils
1026 on Windows.
1027
Chris Withers2cc0b072012-11-09 15:48:17 +00001028- Issue #16441: Avoid excessive memory usage working with large gzip
1029 files using the gzip module.
1030
Ned Deilyec8f8f72013-01-09 22:04:35 -08001031- Issue #15782: Prevent compile errors of OS X Carbon modules _Fm, _Qd, and
1032 _Qdoffs when compiling with an SDK of 10.7 or later. The OS X APIs they
1033 wrap have long been deprecated and have now been removed with 10.7.
1034 These modules were already empty for 64-bit builds and have been removed
1035 in Python 3.
1036
Christian Heimes8112ea22012-09-24 13:17:08 +02001037Extension Modules
1038-----------------
1039
doko@ubuntu.com4950a3b2013-03-19 14:46:29 -07001040- Issue #17477: Update the bsddb module to pybsddb 5.3.0, supporting
1041 db-5.x, and dropping support for db-4.1 and db-4.2.
1042
Gregory P. Smith46ce27a2013-03-18 16:58:50 -07001043- Issue #17192: Update the ctypes module's libffi to v3.0.13. This
1044 specifically addresses a stack misalignment issue on x86 and issues on
1045 some more recent platforms.
1046
Gregory P. Smitha06ad5b2013-02-01 13:07:27 -08001047- Issue #12268: The io module file object write methods no longer abort early
1048 when a write system calls is interrupted (EINTR).
Gregory P. Smitha998ad02013-02-01 13:02:59 -08001049
Gregory P. Smith0d68ab32012-11-27 10:19:29 -08001050- Fix the leak of a dict in the time module when used in an embedded
1051 interpreter that is repeatedly initialized and shutdown and reinitialized.
1052
Gregory P. Smith99716162012-10-12 13:02:06 -07001053- Issue #12268: File readline, readlines and read or readall methods
1054 no longer lose data when an underlying read system call is interrupted
1055 within an io module object. IOError is no longer raised due to a read
1056 system call returning EINTR from within these methods.
1057
Christian Heimes8112ea22012-09-24 13:17:08 +02001058- Issue #16012: Fix a regression in pyexpat. The parser's UseForeignDTD()
1059 method doesn't require an argument again.
1060
Ned Deily18fae3f2013-01-31 01:24:55 -08001061- Issue #13590: OS X Xcode 4 - improve support for universal extension modules
1062 In particular, fix extension module build failures when trying to use
1063 32-bit-only installer Pythons on systems with Xcode 4 (currently
1064 OS X 10.8, 10.7, and optionally 10.6).
1065 * Backport 3.3.0 fixes to 2.7 branch (for release in 2.7.4)
1066 * Since Xcode 4 removes ppc support, extension module builds now
1067 check for ppc compiler support and by default remove ppc and
1068 ppc64 archs when they are not available.
1069 * Extension module builds now revert to using system installed
1070 headers and libs (/usr and /System/Library) if the SDK used
1071 to build the interpreter is not installed or has moved.
1072 * Try to avoid building extension modules with deprecated
1073 and problematic Apple llvm-gcc compiler. If original compiler
1074 is not available, use clang instead by default.
1075
Serhiy Storchakaff99e412013-04-14 18:52:15 +03001076IDLE
1077----
1078
1079- IDLE was displaying spurious SystemExit tracebacks when running scripts
1080 that terminated by raising SystemExit (i.e. unittest and turtledemo).
1081
1082- Issue #9290: In IDLE the sys.std* streams now implement io.TextIOBase
1083 interface and support all mandatory methods and properties.
1084
1085- Issue #16829: IDLE printing no longer fails if there are spaces or other
1086 special characters in the file path.
1087
1088- Issue #16819: IDLE method completion now correctly works for unicode literals.
1089
1090- Issue #16504: IDLE now catches SyntaxErrors raised by tokenizer. Patch by
1091 Roger Serwy.
1092
1093- Issue #1207589: Add Cut/Copy/Paste items to IDLE right click Context Menu
1094 Patch by Todd Rovito.
1095
1096- Issue #13052: Fix IDLE crashing when replace string in Search/Replace dialog
1097 ended with '\'. Patch by Roger Serwy.
1098
1099- Issue #9803: Don't close IDLE on saving if breakpoint is open.
1100 Patch by Roger Serwy.
1101
1102- Issue #14958: Change IDLE systax highlighting to recognize all string and byte
1103 literals currently supported in Python 2.7.
1104
1105- Issue #14962: Update text coloring in IDLE shell window after changing
1106 options. Patch by Roger Serwy.
1107
1108- Issue #10997: Prevent a duplicate entry in IDLE's "Recent Files" menu.
1109
1110- Issue #12510: Attempting to get invalid tooltip no longer closes IDLE.
1111 Original patch by Roger Serwy.
1112
1113- Issue #10365: File open dialog now works instead of crashing
1114 even when parent window is closed. Patch by Roger Serwy.
1115
1116- Issue #14876: Use user-selected font for highlight configuration.
1117 Patch by Roger Serwy.
1118
1119- Issue #14409: IDLE now properly executes commands in the Shell window
1120 when it cannot read the normal config files on startup and
1121 has to use the built-in default key bindings.
1122 There was previously a bug in one of the defaults.
1123
1124- Issue #3573: IDLE hangs when passing invalid command line args
1125 (directory(ies) instead of file(s)) (Patch by Guilherme Polo)
1126
1127- Issue #5219: Prevent event handler cascade in IDLE.
1128
Antoine Pitrou9945a642012-04-16 03:34:44 +02001129Tests
1130-----
1131
Serhiy Storchakaff99e412013-04-14 18:52:15 +03001132- Issue #16702: test_urllib2_localnet tests now correctly ignores proxies for
1133 localhost tests.
1134
1135- Issue #13447: Add a test file to host regression tests for bugs in the
1136 scripts found in the Tools directory.
1137
Ezio Melottie015b6b2013-03-16 20:04:44 +02001138- Issue #11420: make test suite pass with -B/DONTWRITEBYTECODE set.
1139 Initial patch by Thomas Wouters.
1140
Serhiy Storchaka2556c832013-03-14 20:59:09 +02001141- Issue #17299: Add test coverage for cPickle with file objects and general IO
1142 objects. Original patch by Aman Shah.
1143
Ezio Melottiefaad092013-03-11 00:34:33 +02001144- Issue #11963: remove human verification from test_parser and test_subprocess.
1145
Ezio Melotti2fddfd82013-02-23 05:45:37 +02001146- Issue #17249: convert a test in test_capi to use unittest and reap threads.
1147
R David Murraya5e7f8f2013-02-09 12:53:29 -05001148- We now run both test_email.py and test_email_renamed.py when running the
1149 test_email regression test. test_email_renamed contains some tests that
1150 test_email does not.
1151
Serhiy Storchaka72121c62013-01-27 19:45:49 +02001152- Issue #17041: Fix testing when Python is configured with the
1153 --without-doc-strings option.
1154
Serhiy Storchaka8cd7f822013-01-11 11:59:59 +02001155- Issue #15539: Added regression tests for Tools/scripts/pindent.py.
1156
Chris Jerdonek3684c792012-12-27 18:14:01 -08001157- Issue #15324: Fix regrtest parsing of --fromfile and --randomize options.
1158
Hynek Schlawack4a5a4c22012-12-27 10:24:21 +01001159- Issue #16618: Add more regression tests for glob.
1160 Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
1161
Hynek Schlawack646c7b52012-12-16 12:30:57 +01001162- Issue #16664: Add regression tests for glob's behaviour concerning entries
1163 starting with a ".". Patch by Sebastian Kreft.
1164
Victor Stinner8c7c6972012-12-04 10:07:16 +01001165- Issue #15747: ZFS always returns EOPNOTSUPP when attempting to set the
1166 UF_IMMUTABLE flag (via either chflags or lchflags); refactor affected
1167 tests in test_posix.py to account for this.
1168
Ezio Melottid8feba92012-11-29 02:14:52 +02001169- Issue #16549: Add tests for json.tools. Initial patch by Berker Peksag
1170 and Serhiy Storchaka.
1171
Ezio Melotti282d3312012-11-26 19:22:58 +02001172- Issue #16559: Add more tests for the json module, including some from the
1173 official test suite at json.org. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
1174
Trent Nelsone9992292012-10-26 22:21:46 -04001175- Issue #16274: Fix test_asyncore on Solaris. Patch by Giampaolo Rodola'.
1176
Petri Lehtinen9ad6a562012-10-23 14:39:34 +03001177- Issue #15040: Close files in mailbox tests for PyPy compatibility.
1178 Original patch by Matti Picus.
1179
Petri Lehtinen80f45532012-09-01 14:25:48 +03001180- Issue #15802: Fix test logic in TestMaildir.test_create_tmp. Patch
1181 by Serhiy Storchaka.
1182
Trent Nelsonda4277a2012-08-29 09:20:41 -04001183- Issue #15765: Extend a previous fix to Solaris and OpenBSD for quirky
1184 getcwd() behaviour (issue #9185) to NetBSD as well.
1185
Antoine Pitrou0e3a4c82012-08-18 20:51:05 +02001186- Issue #15615: Add some tests for the json module's handling of invalid
1187 input data. Patch by Kushal Das.
1188
Brian Curtinbc77d362012-08-13 17:26:48 -05001189- Issue #15496: Add directory removal helpers for tests on Windows.
1190 Patch by Jeremy Kloth.
1191
Nick Coghlana0933122012-06-17 19:03:39 +10001192- Issue #15043: test_gdb is now skipped entirely if gdb security settings
1193 block loading of the gdb hooks
1194
Antoine Pitrou9945a642012-04-16 03:34:44 +02001195- Issue #14589: Update certificate chain for sha256.tbs-internet.com, fixing
1196 a test failure in test_ssl.
1197
Ned Deilycc23cc62013-02-02 15:06:45 -08001198- Issue #16698: Skip posix test_getgroups when built with OS X
1199 deployment target prior to 10.6.
1200
Ned Deilyaa1e1a22013-02-11 22:10:59 -08001201- Issue #17111: Prevent test_surrogates (test_fileio) failure on OS X 10.4.
1202
Antoine Pitrou4b536d42012-03-31 23:53:07 +02001203Build
1204-----
1205
Martin v. Loewis18613e62013-03-22 22:01:56 +01001206- Issue #17425: Build against openssl 0.9.8y on Windows.
1207
Ezio Melotti617e2c12013-03-11 09:14:09 +02001208- Issue #16004: Add `make touch`.
1209
Petri Lehtinenc23178b2013-02-23 17:05:28 +01001210- Issue #5033: Fix building of the sqlite3 extension module when the
1211 SQLite library version has "beta" in it. Patch by Andreas Pelme.
1212
Benjamin Peterson8e830a02013-02-20 16:54:30 -05001213- Issue #17228: Fix building without pymalloc.
1214
doko@python.orgd65e2ba2013-01-31 23:52:03 +01001215- Issue #17086: Backport the patches from the 3.3 branch to cross-build
1216 the package.
1217
doko@python.orgfa3f9a32013-01-25 15:32:31 +01001218- Issue #3754: fix typo in pthread AC_CACHE_VAL.
1219
doko@python.org4e63fbe2013-01-25 13:08:27 +01001220- Issue #17029: Let h2py search the multiarch system include directory.
1221
Charles-François Natalia41cf292013-01-19 12:15:56 +01001222- Issue #16953: Fix socket module compilation on platforms with
1223 HAVE_BROKEN_POLL. Patch by Jeffrey Armstrong.
1224
Charles-François Natalibe2b9072013-01-08 19:47:00 +01001225- Issue #16836: Enable IPv6 support even if IPv6 is disabled on the build host.
1226
Ezio Melottic820de52012-09-30 22:41:37 +03001227- Issue #15923: fix a mistake in asdl_c.py that resulted in a TypeError after
1228 2801bf875a24 (see #15801).
1229
doko@ubuntu.com3d2fc152012-09-21 13:51:40 +02001230- Issue #11715: Fix multiarch detection without having Debian development
1231 tools (dpkg-dev) installed.
1232
Trent Nelsonf6407a12012-08-30 14:56:13 +00001233- Issue #15819: Make sure we can build Python out-of-tree from a readonly
1234 source directory. (Somewhat related to Issue #9860.)
1235
Ned Deily10fc1042012-09-08 18:47:27 -07001236- Issue #15822: Ensure 2to3 grammar pickles are properly installed.
Ned Deily8622f092012-08-22 23:26:06 -07001237
Ned Deily67028042012-08-05 14:42:45 -07001238- Issue #15560: Fix building _sqlite3 extension on OS X with an SDK.
1239
Martin v. Löwis33f8c3a2012-08-01 10:05:27 +02001240- Issue #8847: Disable COMDAT folding in Windows PGO builds.
1241
Ned Deilyd8ec4642012-07-30 04:07:49 -07001242- Issue #14018: Fix OS X Tcl/Tk framework checking when using OS X SDKs.
1243
Ned Deilyacf7b952013-02-01 13:58:00 -08001244- Issue #16256: OS X installer now sets correct permissions for doc directory.
1245
Martin v. Löwised11a5d2012-05-20 10:42:17 +02001246- Issue #8767: Restore building with --disable-unicode.
1247 Patch by Stefano Taschini.
1248
Martin v. Löwisfd0afed2012-05-15 17:26:31 +02001249- Build against bzip2 1.0.6 and openssl 0.9.8x on Windows.
1250
Charles-François Natali0d3db3a2012-04-12 19:11:54 +02001251- Issue #14557: Fix extensions build on HP-UX. Patch by Adi Roiban.
1252
Antoine Pitrou4b536d42012-03-31 23:53:07 +02001253- Issue #14437: Fix building the _io module under Cygwin.
1254
Ned Deily6e7da152013-02-01 23:10:56 -08001255- Issue #15587: Enable Tk high-resolution text rendering on Macs with
1256 Retina displays. Applies to Tkinter apps, such as IDLE, on OS X
1257 framework builds linked with Cocoa Tk 8.5.
1258
Ned Deilyed1e4382013-02-08 22:51:52 -08001259- Issue #17161: make install now also installs a python2 and python man page.
1260
Ned Deilyeec152d2013-03-04 14:31:04 -08001261- Issue #16848: python-config now returns proper --ldflags values for OS X
1262 framework builds.
1263
Ezio Melottidc118792012-11-09 11:46:19 +01001264Tools/Demos
1265-----------
1266
Serhiy Storchakaff99e412013-04-14 18:52:15 +03001267- Issue #17156: pygettext.py now correctly escapes non-ascii characters.
1268
Serhiy Storchaka8cd7f822013-01-11 11:59:59 +02001269- Issue #15539: Fix a number of bugs in Tools/scripts/pindent.py. Now
1270 pindent.py works with a "with" statement. pindent.py no longer produces
1271 improper indentation. pindent.py now works with continued lines broken after
1272 "class" or "def" keywords and with continuations at the start of line.
1273
Serhiy Storchakaff99e412013-04-14 18:52:15 +03001274- Issue #16476: Fix json.tool to avoid including trailing whitespace.
1275
Ezio Melottidc118792012-11-09 11:46:19 +01001276- Issue #13301: use ast.literal_eval() instead of eval() in Tools/i18n/msgfmt.py
1277 Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
1278
Ezio Melottie48daea2012-05-06 16:15:35 +03001279Documentation
Senthil Kumaran0c472c32012-07-22 19:36:03 -07001280-------------
Terry Jan Reedy45ed0122012-07-08 17:35:26 -04001281
Serhiy Storchakaff99e412013-04-14 18:52:15 +03001282- Issue #15041: Update "see also" list in tkinter documentation.
1283
Terry Jan Reedy0b2173a2013-03-14 19:32:22 -04001284- Issue #17412: update 2.7 Doc/make.bat to also use sphinx-1.0.7.
1285
Terry Jan Reedy21e52aa2013-03-12 02:19:09 -04001286- Issue #17047: remove doubled words in docs and docstrings
Terry Jan Reedyf9d31062013-03-12 01:26:28 -04001287 reported by Serhiy Storchaka and Matthew Barnett.
1288
Chris Jerdonek2277b942013-02-27 09:55:39 -08001289- Issue #16406: combine the pages for uploading and registering to PyPI.
1290
Petri Lehtinenfead3c82013-02-23 21:05:27 +01001291- Issue #16403: Document how distutils uses the maintainer field in
1292 PKG-INFO. Patch by Jyrki Pulliainen.
1293
Petri Lehtinen23427842013-02-23 19:53:03 +01001294- Issue #16695: Document how glob handles filenames starting with a
1295 dot. Initial patch by Jyrki Pulliainen.
1296
Petri Lehtinen0b785032013-02-23 19:24:08 +01001297- Issue #8890: Stop advertising an insecure practice by replacing uses
1298 of the /tmp directory with better alternatives in the documentation.
1299 Patch by Geoff Wilson.
1300
Chris Jerdonek13cee162013-02-21 18:52:12 -08001301- Issue #17203: add long option names to unittest discovery docs.
1302
Ezio Melotti58abc5b2013-01-05 00:49:48 +02001303- Issue #13094: add "Why do lambdas defined in a loop with different values
1304 all return the same result?" programming FAQ.
1305
Brian Curtinbc453ca2012-12-17 00:17:49 -06001306- Issue #14901: Update portions of the Windows FAQ.
1307 Patch by Ashish Nitin Patil.
1308
Chris Jerdonek8da82682012-11-29 19:03:37 -08001309- Issue #15990: Improve argument/parameter documentation.
1310
Chris Jerdonek08012312012-11-14 12:36:53 -08001311- Issue #16400: Update the description of which versions of a given package
1312 PyPI displays.
1313
Nadeem Vawda04050b82012-11-11 13:52:10 +01001314- Issue #15677: Document that zlib and gzip accept a compression level of 0 to
1315 mean 'no compression'. Patch by Brian Brazil.
1316
Ezio Melotti3d072062012-10-27 22:04:56 +03001317- Issue #8040: added a version switcher to the documentation. Patch by
1318 Yury Selivanov.
1319
Chris Jerdonek1906c0c2012-10-08 23:18:17 -07001320- Issue #16115: Improve subprocess.Popen() documentation around args, shell,
1321 and executable arguments.
1322
Ezio Melotti31a9e832012-10-02 05:34:38 +03001323- Issue #15979: Improve timeit documentation.
1324
Chris Jerdonek71d74b02012-09-30 21:07:56 -07001325- Issue #16036: Improve documentation of built-in int()'s signature and
1326 arguments.
1327
Barry Warsaw0dea9362012-09-25 10:32:53 -04001328- Issue #15935: Clarification of argparse docs, re: add_argument() type and
1329 default arguments. Patch contributed by Chris Jerdonek.
1330
Petri Lehtinenf9e1f112012-09-01 07:27:58 +03001331- Issue #13769: Document the effect of ensure_ascii to the return type
1332 of JSON decoding functions.
1333
Hynek Schlawack7d978902012-08-28 12:33:46 +02001334- Issue #14880: Fix kwargs notation in csv.reader, .writer & .register_dialect.
1335 Patch by Chris Rebert.
1336
Antoine Pitrouf3e0a692012-08-24 19:46:17 +02001337- Issue #14674: Add a discussion of the json module's standard compliance.
1338 Patch by Chris Rebert.
1339
Senthil Kumaran2f76f732012-08-12 11:58:53 -07001340- Issue #15630: Add an example for "continue" stmt in the tutorial. Patch by
1341 Daniel Ellis.
1342
Terry Jan Reedy45ed0122012-07-08 17:35:26 -04001343- Issue #13557: Clarify effect of giving two different namespaces to exec or
1344 execfile().
Ezio Melottie48daea2012-05-06 16:15:35 +03001345
1346- Issue #14034: added the argparse tutorial.
1347
Senthil Kumaran0c472c32012-07-22 19:36:03 -07001348- Issue #15250: Document that filecmp.dircmp compares files shallowly. Patch
1349 contributed by Chris Jerdonek.
1350
Ned Deily7045f052013-02-02 00:14:44 -08001351- Issue #15116: Remove references to appscript as it is no longer being
1352 supported.
1353
Benjamin Petersona84f4682012-03-07 19:17:57 -06001354
Gregory P. Smithc8ff4602012-03-14 15:28:10 -07001355What's New in Python 2.7.3 release candidate 2?
1356===============================================
1357
Benjamin Petersonee933ec2012-03-15 12:25:54 -05001358*Release date: 2012-03-17*
Gregory P. Smithc8ff4602012-03-14 15:28:10 -07001359
1360Library
1361-------
1362
1363- Issue #14234: CVE-2012-0876: Randomize hashes of xml attributes in the hash
1364 table internal to the pyexpat module's copy of the expat library to avoid a
1365 denial of service due to hash collisions. Patch by David Malcolm with some
1366 modifications by the expat project.
1367
1368
Benjamin Petersona84f4682012-03-07 19:17:57 -06001369What's New in Python 2.7.3 release candidate 1?
1370===============================================
1371
1372*Release date: 2012-02-23*
1373
1374Core and Builtins
1375-----------------
1376
Antoine Pitrouc66ed452012-02-15 02:51:43 +01001377- Issue #13020: Fix a reference leak when allocating a structsequence object
1378 fails. Patch by Suman Saha.
1379
Barry Warsaw1e13eb02012-02-20 20:42:21 -05001380- Issue #13703: oCERT-2011-003: add -R command-line option and PYTHONHASHSEED
1381 environment variable, to provide an opt-in way to protect against denial of
1382 service attacks due to hash collisions within the dict and set types. Patch
1383 by David Malcolm, based on work by Victor Stinner.
1384
Antoine Pitroud1c818a2012-01-24 17:44:06 +01001385- Issue #11235: Fix OverflowError when trying to import a source file whose
1386 modification time doesn't fit in a 32-bit timestamp.
1387
Jason R. Coombs042370e2011-12-26 10:15:15 -05001388- Issue #11638: Unicode strings in 'name' and 'version' no longer cause
1389 UnicodeDecodeErrors.
1390
Antoine Pitrou5b4b2da2011-12-15 14:15:31 +01001391- Fix the fix for issue #12149: it was incorrect, although it had the side
1392 effect of appearing to resolve the issue. Thanks to Mark Shannon for
1393 noticing.
1394
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc4bf21e22011-12-07 21:46:48 +01001395- Issue #13546: Fixed an overflow issue that could crash the intepreter when
1396 calling sys.setrecursionlimit((1<<31)-1).
1397
Antoine Pitrou30402542011-11-15 01:49:40 +01001398- Issue #13333: The UTF-7 decoder now accepts lone surrogates (the encoder
1399 already accepts them).
1400
Petri Lehtinen8028dc22011-10-30 20:59:10 +02001401- Issue #10519: Avoid unnecessary recursive function calls in
1402 setobject.c.
1403
Benjamin Peterson0c0d7562011-10-27 08:21:59 -04001404- Issue #13268: Fix the assert statement when a tuple is passed as the message.
1405
Petri Lehtinen8ffbab82011-10-24 20:59:29 +03001406- Issue #13018: Fix reference leaks in error paths in dictobject.c.
1407 Patch by Suman Saha.
1408
Senthil Kumaran797b95b2011-10-21 00:32:59 +08001409- Issue #12604: VTRACE macro expanded to no-op in _sre.c to avoid compiler
1410 warnings. Patch by Josh Triplett and Petri Lehtinen.
1411
Mark Hammond323b5da2011-10-17 11:05:36 +11001412- Issue #7833: Extension modules built using distutils on Windows will no
1413 longer include a "manifest" to prevent them failing at import time in some
1414 embedded situations.
1415
Benjamin Petersona7b09762011-10-15 13:43:21 -04001416- Issue #13186: Fix __delitem__ on old-style instances when invoked through
1417 PySequence_DelItem.
1418
Charles-François Natali40ab0022011-10-12 22:29:09 +02001419- Issue #13156: Revert the patch for issue #10517 (reset TLS upon fork()),
1420 which was only relevant for the native pthread TLS implementation.
1421
Victor Stinner63c22fa2011-09-23 19:37:03 +02001422- Issue #7732: Fix a crash on importing a module if a directory has the same
1423 name than a Python module (e.g. "__init__.py"): don't close the file twice.
1424
Mark Dickinsondbbed042011-09-19 16:38:08 +01001425- Issue #12973: Fix overflow checks that invoked undefined behaviour in
1426 int.__pow__. These overflow checks were causing int.__pow__ to produce
1427 incorrect results with recent versions of Clang, as a result of the
Mark Dickinsona96b0d12011-09-24 09:01:16 +01001428 compiler optimizing the check away. Also fix similar overflow checks
1429 in list_repeat (listobject.c) and islice_next (itertoolsmodule.c). These
1430 bugs caused test failures with recent versions of Clang.
Mark Dickinsondbbed042011-09-19 16:38:08 +01001431
Ezio Melotti15d6b652011-08-15 09:22:24 +03001432- Issue #12266: Fix str.capitalize() to correctly uppercase/lowercase
1433 titlecased and cased non-letter characters.
1434
Benjamin Peterson6c18ff02011-07-22 10:41:44 -05001435- Issues #12610 and #12609: Verify that user generated AST has correct string
1436 and identifier types before compiling.
1437
Barry Warsawc5643282011-07-19 17:06:30 -04001438- Issue #11627: Fix segfault when __new__ on a exception returns a
1439 non-exception class.
Benjamin Petersonc3349cd2011-07-15 14:15:40 -05001440
Antoine Pitrou16166452011-07-12 22:04:20 +02001441- Issue #12149: Update the method cache after a type's dictionnary gets
1442 cleared by the garbage collector. This fixes a segfault when an instance
1443 and its type get caught in a reference cycle, and the instance's
1444 deallocator calls one of the methods on the type (e.g. when subclassing
1445 IOBase). Diagnosis and patch by Davide Rizzo.
1446
Florent Xiclunaa1f948b2012-01-24 21:05:10 +01001447- Issue #12501: Remove Py3k warning for callable. callable() is supported
1448 again in Python 3.2.
Victor Stinnerba8b3a22011-07-08 02:07:45 +02001449
Victor Stinner59729ff2011-07-05 11:28:19 +02001450- Issue #9611, #9015: FileIO.read(), FileIO.readinto(), FileIO.write() and
1451 os.write() clamp the length to INT_MAX on Windows.
1452
Victor Stinnerd3c7e172011-05-30 23:49:13 +02001453- Issue #1195: my_fgets() now always clears errors before calling fgets(). Fix
Victor Stinner08563d92011-05-30 23:44:13 +02001454 the following case: sys.stdin.read() stopped with CTRL+d (end of file),
1455 raw_input() interrupted by CTRL+c.
1456
Łukasz Langa7a153902011-10-18 17:16:00 +02001457- Issue #10860: httplib now correctly handles an empty port after port
1458 delimiter in URLs.
1459
Barry Warsawc5643282011-07-19 17:06:30 -04001460- dict_proxy objects now display their contents rather than just the class
1461 name.
Raymond Hettingerbf7a2662011-06-30 00:44:36 +01001462
Victor Stinner08563d92011-05-30 23:44:13 +02001463Library
1464-------
Éric Araujoa13cd392011-09-10 05:39:45 +02001465
Petri Lehtinen4ab701b2012-02-21 13:58:40 +02001466- Issue #8033: sqlite3: Fix 64-bit integer handling in user functions
1467 on 32-bit architectures. Initial patch by Philippe Devalkeneer.
1468
Ezio Melotti36b73612012-02-21 09:22:16 +02001469- HTMLParser is now able to handle slashes in the start tag.
1470
Charles-François Natali66f3cc62012-02-18 14:15:38 +01001471- Issue #14001: CVE-2012-0845: xmlrpc: Fix an endless loop in
1472 SimpleXMLRPCServer upon malformed POST request.
1473
Gregory P. Smith14dc5102012-02-16 00:44:50 -08001474- Issue #2489: pty.spawn could consume 100% cpu when it encountered an EOF.
1475
Antoine Pitroudd7e0712012-02-15 22:25:27 +01001476- Issue #13014: Fix a possible reference leak in SSLSocket.getpeercert().
1477
Ezio Melottid2307cb2012-02-15 12:44:23 +02001478- Issue #13987: HTMLParser is now able to handle EOFs in the middle of a
Ezio Melotti65d36da2012-02-15 13:19:10 +02001479 construct and malformed start tags.
Ezio Melottid2307cb2012-02-15 12:44:23 +02001480
Antoine Pitrouc39cd782012-02-15 02:42:46 +01001481- Issue #13015: Fix a possible reference leak in defaultdict.__repr__.
1482 Patch by Suman Saha.
1483
Meador Ingeff337cc2012-02-13 22:22:06 -06001484- Issue #13979: A bug in ctypes.util.find_library that caused
1485 the wrong library name to be returned has been fixed.
1486
Éric Araujoe897a742012-02-15 16:28:20 +01001487- Issue #1326113: distutils' build_ext command --libraries option now
1488 correctly parses multiple values separated by whitespace or commas.
1489
Ezio Melottif1174432012-02-13 16:28:54 +02001490- Issue #13993: HTMLParser is now able to handle broken end tags.
1491
Ezio Melotti4b92cc32012-02-13 16:10:44 +02001492- Issue #13960: HTMLParser is now able to handle broken comments.
1493
Petri Lehtinen587209f2012-02-12 21:03:02 +02001494- Issue #9750: Fix sqlite3.Connection.iterdump on tables and fields
1495 with a name that is a keyword or contains quotes. Patch by Marko
1496 Kohtala.
1497
Florent Xiclunac2279652012-02-12 14:49:03 +01001498- Issue #13994: Earlier partial revert of Distutils enhancements in 2.7
Ned Deilyc47a4592012-02-11 20:40:24 +01001499 has left two versions of customize_compiler, the original in
1500 distutils.sysconfig and another copy in distutils.ccompiler, with some
1501 parts of distutils calling one and others using the other.
1502 Complete the revert back to only having one in distutils.sysconfig as
1503 is the case in 3.x.
1504
Ned Deily0d0ea482012-02-10 12:59:06 +01001505- Issue #13590: On OS X 10.7 and 10.6 with Xcode 4.2, building
1506 Distutils-based packages with C extension modules may fail because
1507 Apple has removed gcc-4.2, the version used to build python.org
1508 64-bit/32-bit Pythons. If the user does not explicitly override
1509 the default C compiler by setting the CC environment variable,
1510 Distutils will now attempt to compile extension modules with clang
1511 if gcc-4.2 is required but not found. Also as a convenience, if
1512 the user does explicitly set CC, substitute its value as the default
1513 compiler in the Distutils LDSHARED configuration variable for OS X.
1514 (Note, the python.org 32-bit-only Pythons use gcc-4.0 and the 10.4u
1515 SDK, neither of which are available in Xcode 4. This change does not
1516 attempt to override settings to support their use with Xcode 4.)
1517
Senthil Kumaran59e7c8f2012-02-09 18:22:01 +08001518- Issue #9021: Add an introduction to the copy module documentation.
1519
Senthil Kumaran607e31e2012-02-09 17:43:31 +08001520- Issue #6005: Examples in the socket library documentation use sendall, where
1521 relevant, instead send method.
1522
Petri Lehtinenc7fd5232011-05-09 12:24:09 +02001523- Issue #10811: Fix recursive usage of cursors. Instead of crashing,
1524 raise a ProgrammingError now.
1525
Petri Lehtinen0518f472012-02-01 22:20:12 +02001526- Issue #13676: Handle strings with embedded zeros correctly in sqlite3.
1527
Antoine Pitrou88c51e82012-01-28 22:01:59 +01001528- Issue #13806: The size check in audioop decompression functions was too
1529 strict and could reject valid compressed data. Patch by Oleg Plakhotnyuk.
1530
Antoine Pitroud358e052012-01-27 09:42:45 +01001531- Issue #13885: CVE-2011-3389: the _ssl module would always disable the CBC
1532 IV attack countermeasure.
1533
Senthil Kumaranb05f91d2012-01-21 11:45:12 +08001534- Issue #6631: Disallow relative file paths in urllib urlopen methods.
1535
Nadeem Vawdad7664de2012-01-19 00:40:46 +02001536- Issue #13781: Prevent gzip.GzipFile from using the dummy filename provided by
1537 file objects opened with os.fdopen().
1538
Antoine Pitrou3b6a3142012-01-17 17:13:04 +01001539- Issue #13589: Fix some serialization primitives in the aifc module.
1540 Patch by Oleg Plakhotnyuk.
1541
Jesus Cea4a8ba192012-01-18 03:51:38 +01001542- Issue #13803: Under Solaris, distutils doesn't include bitness
1543 in the directory name.
1544
Senthil Kumaranbcd833f2012-01-11 00:09:24 +08001545- Issue #13642: Unquote before b64encoding user:password during Basic
1546 Authentication. Patch contributed by Joonas Kuorilehto and Michele Orrù.
1547
Antoine Pitroud76088d2012-01-03 22:46:48 +01001548- Issue #13636: Weak ciphers are now disabled by default in the ssl module
1549 (except when SSLv2 is explicitly asked for).
1550
Senthil Kumaran84c18aa2011-12-23 11:14:56 +08001551- Issue #12798: Updated the mimetypes documentation.
1552
Lars Gustäbel7d4d0742011-12-21 19:27:50 +01001553- Issue #13639: Accept unicode filenames in tarfile.open(mode="w|gz").
1554
Antoine Pitroub8572a12011-12-21 10:16:14 +01001555- Issue #1785: Fix inspect and pydoc with misbehaving descriptors.
1556
Antoine Pitrou7a3d8ae2011-12-18 19:27:45 +01001557- Issue #7502: Fix equality comparison for DocTestCase instances. Patch by
1558 Cédric Krier.
1559
Charles-François Natali41616302011-12-18 18:22:24 +01001560- Issue #11870: threading: Properly reinitialize threads internal locks and
1561 condition variables to avoid deadlocks in child processes.
1562
Charles-François Natalif3d35f02011-12-18 15:52:48 +01001563- Issue #8035: urllib: Fix a bug where the client could remain stuck after a
1564 redirection or an error.
1565
Lars Gustäbel9a388632011-12-06 13:07:09 +01001566- tarfile.py: Correctly detect bzip2 compressed streams with blocksizes
1567 other than 900k.
1568
Raymond Hettingerf5377022011-12-11 22:31:09 -08001569- Issue #13573: The csv.writer now uses the repr() for floats rather than str().
1570 This allows floats to round-trip without loss of precision.
1571
Petri Lehtinen49e49a22011-12-02 21:09:30 +02001572- Issue #13439: Fix many errors in turtle docstrings.
1573
Antoine Pitroua5d5bb92011-11-25 21:28:15 +01001574- Issue #12856: Ensure child processes do not inherit the parent's random
1575 seed for filename generation in the tempfile module. Patch by Brian
1576 Harring.
1577
Antoine Pitrouaa1c9672011-11-23 01:39:19 +01001578- Issue #13458: Fix a memory leak in the ssl module when decoding a
1579 certificate with a subjectAltName. Patch by Robert Xiao.
1580
Victor Stinner53853c32011-11-22 22:20:13 +01001581- Issue #13415: os.unsetenv() doesn't ignore errors anymore.
1582
Antoine Pitrou5aa7df32011-11-21 20:16:44 +01001583- Issue #13322: Fix BufferedWriter.write() to ensure that BlockingIOError is
1584 raised when the wrapped raw file is non-blocking and the write would block.
1585 Previous code assumed that the raw write() would raise BlockingIOError, but
1586 RawIOBase.write() is defined to returned None when the call would block.
1587 Patch by sbt.
1588
Ezio Melotti00dc60b2011-11-18 18:00:40 +02001589- Issue #13358: HTMLParser now calls handle_data only once for each CDATA.
1590
Ezio Melotti93bbb6a2011-11-18 17:30:28 +02001591- Issue #4147: minidom's toprettyxml no longer adds whitespace around a text
1592 node when it is the only child of an element. Initial patch by Dan
1593 Kenigsberg.
1594
Ezio Melotti0f1571c2011-11-14 18:04:05 +02001595- Issues #1745761, #755670, #13357, #12629, #1200313: HTMLParser now correctly
1596 handles non-valid attributes, including adjacent and unquoted attributes.
1597
Antoine Pitrou6a570d62011-11-10 00:33:50 +01001598- Issue #13373: multiprocessing.Queue.get() could sometimes block indefinitely
1599 when called with a timeout. Patch by Arnaud Ysmal.
1600
Petri Lehtinen416ecff2011-11-05 10:18:50 +02001601- Issue #3067: Enhance the documentation and docstring of
1602 locale.setlocale().
1603
Petri Lehtinen49aa72e2011-11-05 09:50:37 +02001604- Issue #13254: Fix Maildir initialization so that maildir contents
1605 are read correctly.
1606
Florent Xicluna5f761d72011-11-04 10:15:57 +01001607- Issue #13140: Fix the daemon_threads attribute of ThreadingMixIn.
1608
Florent Xiclunac4a11bd2011-11-01 23:47:46 +01001609- Issue #2892: preserve iterparse events in case of SyntaxError.
1610
Ezio Melotti7e82b272011-11-01 14:09:56 +02001611- Issue #670664: Fix HTMLParser to correctly handle the content of
1612 ``<script>...</script>`` and ``<style>...</style>``.
1613
1614- Issue #10817: Fix urlretrieve function to raise ContentTooShortError even
Senthil Kumaran87e58552011-11-01 02:44:45 +08001615 when reporthook is None. Patch by Jyrki Pulliainen.
1616
Florent Xicluna67d5d0e2011-10-29 03:38:56 +02001617- Issue #7334: close source files on ElementTree.parse and iterparse.
1618
Vinay Sajipc515eba2011-10-24 23:26:00 +01001619- Issue #13232: logging: Improved logging of exceptions in the presence of
1620 multiple encodings.
1621
Charles-François Natali46f990e2011-10-24 18:43:51 +02001622- Issue #10332: multiprocessing: fix a race condition when a Pool is closed
1623 before all tasks have completed.
1624
Antoine Pitrou5a77fe92011-10-22 21:26:01 +02001625- Issue #1548891: The cStringIO.StringIO() constructor now encodes unicode
1626 arguments with the system default encoding just like the write() method
Éric Araujob21f51a2011-10-23 04:37:51 +02001627 does, instead of converting it to a raw buffer. This also fixes handling of
1628 unicode input in the shlex module (#6988, #1170).
Antoine Pitrou5a77fe92011-10-22 21:26:01 +02001629
Florent Xicluna47fb1922011-10-20 23:21:58 +02001630- Issue #9168: now smtpd is able to bind privileged port.
1631
Senthil Kumaran797b95b2011-10-21 00:32:59 +08001632- Issue #12529: fix cgi.parse_header issue on strings with double-quotes and
1633 semicolons together. Patch by Ben Darnell and Petri Lehtinen.
1634
Senthil Kumaranddd40312011-10-20 01:38:35 +08001635- Issue #6090: zipfile raises a ValueError when a document with a timestamp
1636 earlier than 1980 is provided. Patch contributed by Petri Lehtinen.
1637
Nadeem Vawdadeb1ce72011-10-17 19:33:38 +02001638- Issue #13194: zlib.compressobj().copy() and zlib.decompressobj().copy() are
1639 now available on Windows.
1640
Éric Araujo017e5352011-10-09 07:11:19 +02001641- Issue #13114: Fix the distutils commands check and register when the
1642 long description is a Unicode string with non-ASCII characters.
1643
Ned Deilybd9d07c2011-10-06 14:29:49 -07001644- Issue #7367: Fix pkgutil.walk_paths to skip directories whose
1645 contents cannot be read.
1646
1647- Issue #7425: Prevent pydoc -k failures due to module import errors.
1648 (Backport to 2.7 of existing 3.x fix)
1649
Antoine Pitrouace2ccf2011-10-04 13:38:04 +02001650- Issue #13099: Fix sqlite3.Cursor.lastrowid under a Turkish locale.
1651 Reported and diagnosed by Thomas Kluyver.
1652
Antoine Pitrou561a8212011-10-04 09:34:48 +02001653- Issue #7689: Allow pickling of dynamically created classes when their
1654 metaclass is registered with copy_reg. Patch by Nicolas M. Thiéry and
1655 Craig Citro.
1656
Charles-François Natali564f8902011-09-29 19:43:01 +02001657- Issue #13058: ossaudiodev: fix a file descriptor leak on error. Patch by
1658 Thomas Jarosch.
1659
Victor Stinner51b71982011-09-23 01:15:32 +02001660- Issue #12931: xmlrpclib now encodes Unicode URI to ISO-8859-1, instead of
1661 failing with a UnicodeDecodeError.
1662
Éric Araujoa13cd392011-09-10 05:39:45 +02001663- Issue #8933: distutils' PKG-INFO files will now correctly report
1664 Metadata-Version: 1.1 instead of 1.0 if a Classifier or Download-URL field is
1665 present.
1666
Éric Araujo0f2dbf32011-09-03 00:47:07 +02001667- Issue #8286: The distutils command sdist will print a warning message instead
1668 of crashing when an invalid path is given in the manifest template.
Victor Stinner08563d92011-05-30 23:44:13 +02001669
Lars Gustäbel8babfdf2011-09-05 17:04:18 +02001670- Issue #12841: tarfile unnecessarily checked the existence of numerical user
1671 and group ids on extraction. If one of them did not exist the respective id
1672 of the current user (i.e. root) was used for the file and ownership
1673 information was lost.
1674
Éric Araujo429b8902011-08-30 01:48:59 +02001675- Issue #10946: The distutils commands bdist_dumb, bdist_wininst and bdist_msi
1676 now respect a --skip-build option given to bdist.
1677
Charles-François Natalifda7b372011-08-28 16:22:33 +02001678- Issue #12287: Fix a stack corruption in ossaudiodev module when the FD is
1679 greater than FD_SETSIZE.
1680
Nadeem Vawdabbabbae2011-08-28 11:23:57 +02001681- Issue #12839: Fix crash in zlib module due to version mismatch.
1682 Fix by Richard M. Tew.
1683
Charles-François Natali2a34eb32011-08-25 21:20:54 +02001684- Issue #12786: Set communication pipes used by subprocess.Popen CLOEXEC to
1685 avoid them being inherited by other subprocesses.
1686
Antoine Pitrou77657e42011-08-24 22:41:05 +02001687- Issue #4106: Fix occasional exceptions printed out by multiprocessing on
1688 interpreter shutdown.
1689
Antoine Pitroua1a8da82011-08-23 19:54:20 +02001690- Issue #11657: Fix sending file descriptors over 255 over a multiprocessing
1691 Pipe.
1692
Antoine Pitrou808cec52011-08-20 15:40:58 +02001693- Issue #12213: Fix a buffering bug with interleaved reads and writes that
1694 could appear on io.BufferedRandom streams.
1695
Victor Stinneracacbaa2011-08-20 14:02:38 +02001696- Issue #12326: sys.platform is now always 'linux2' on Linux, even if Python
1697 is compiled on Linux 3.
1698
Jesus Cead256ca12011-09-19 16:57:18 +02001699- Issue #13007: whichdb should recognize gdbm 1.9 magic numbers.
1700
Éric Araujoe7329f42011-08-19 03:07:39 +02001701- Issue #9173: Let shutil._make_archive work if the logger argument is None.
1702
Charles-François Natalib02302c2011-08-18 17:18:28 +02001703- Issue #12650: Fix a race condition where a subprocess.Popen could leak
1704 resources (FD/zombie) when killed at the wrong time.
1705
Barry Warsaw39935f42011-08-15 19:50:35 -04001706- Issue #12752: Fix regression which prevented locale.normalize() from
1707 accepting unicode strings.
1708
Senthil Kumaranf432aec2011-08-03 18:31:59 +08001709- Issue #12683: urlparse updated to include svn as schemes that uses relative
1710 paths. (svn from 1.5 onwards support relative path).
1711
Éric Araujo33af2632011-08-02 03:16:12 +02001712- Issue #11933: Fix incorrect mtime comparison in distutils.
1713
Éric Araujo560bf852011-07-31 02:04:00 +02001714- Issues #11104, #8688: Fix the behavior of distutils' sdist command with
1715 manually-maintained MANIFEST files.
1716
Éric Araujo9a528302011-07-29 17:34:35 +02001717- Issue #8887: "pydoc somebuiltin.somemethod" (or help('somebuiltin.somemethod')
1718 in Python code) now finds the doc of the method.
1719
Charles-François Natali0cf7e252011-07-27 19:36:40 +02001720- Issue #12603: Fix pydoc.synopsis() on files with non-negative st_mtime.
1721
Raymond Hettinger55e5e272011-07-28 23:56:38 -07001722- Issue #12514: Use try/finally to assure the timeit module restores garbage
1723 collections when it is done.
1724
Ross Lagerwalld8e39012011-07-27 18:54:53 +02001725- Issue #12607: In subprocess, fix issue where if stdin, stdout or stderr is
1726 given as a low fd, it gets overwritten.
1727
Ross Lagerwall528c4ad2011-07-25 07:23:58 +02001728- Issue #12102: Document that buffered files must be flushed before being used
1729 with mmap. Patch by Steffen Daode Nurpmeso.
1730
Charles-François Natali3de8c732011-07-24 22:33:35 +02001731- Issue #12560: Build libpython.so on OpenBSD. Patch by Stefan Sperling.
1732
Antoine Pitrou4cfae022011-07-24 02:51:01 +02001733- Issue #1813: Fix codec lookup and setting/getting locales under Turkish
1734 locales.
1735
Nadeem Vawda0d2889f2011-07-23 16:13:01 +02001736- Issue #10883: Fix socket leaks in urllib when using FTP.
Nadeem Vawdab42c53e2011-07-23 15:51:16 +02001737
Charles-François Natali97781b02011-07-22 23:43:42 +02001738- Issue #12592: Make Python build on OpenBSD 5 (and future major releases).
1739
Charles-François Natali4929eb92011-07-21 19:41:04 +02001740- Issue #12372: POSIX semaphores are broken on AIX: don't use them.
1741
Antoine Pitrou495ee8f2011-07-20 00:26:23 +02001742- Issue #12571: Add a plat-linux3 directory mirroring the plat-linux2
1743 directory, so that "import DLFCN" and other similar imports work on
1744 Linux 3.0.
1745
R David Murray95225952011-07-18 21:34:04 -04001746- Issue #7484: smtplib no longer puts <> around addresses in VRFY and EXPN
1747 commands; they aren't required and in fact postfix doesn't support that form.
1748
Antoine Pitrou304f0f92011-07-15 21:22:50 +02001749- Issue #11603: Fix a crash when __str__ is rebound as __repr__. Patch by
1750 Andreas Stührk.
1751
Charles-François Natali26591402011-07-14 19:49:02 +02001752- Issue #12502: asyncore: fix polling loop with AF_UNIX sockets.
1753
Victor Stinnerbf547fd2011-07-13 21:47:31 +02001754- Issue #4376: ctypes now supports nested structures in a endian different than
1755 the parent structure. Patch by Vlad Riscutia.
1756
Victor Stinnere7901312011-07-05 14:08:01 +02001757- Issue #12493: subprocess: Popen.communicate() now also handles EINTR errors
1758 if the process has only one pipe.
1759
Victor Stinner65c15352011-07-04 03:05:37 +02001760- Issue #12467: warnings: fix a race condition if a warning is emitted at
1761 shutdown, if globals()['__file__'] is None.
1762
Charles-François Natali414d0fa2011-07-02 13:56:19 +02001763- Issue #12352: Fix a deadlock in multiprocessing.Heap when a block is freed by
1764 the garbage collector while the Heap lock is held.
1765
Ned Deily87e82bb2011-06-28 19:52:59 -07001766- Issue #9516: On Mac OS X, change Distutils to no longer globally attempt to
1767 check or set the MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET environment variable for the
1768 interpreter process. This could cause failures in non-Distutils subprocesses
1769 and was unreliable since tests or user programs could modify the interpreter
Ezio Melotti302ad8d2013-01-19 19:44:58 +02001770 environment after Distutils set it. Instead, have Distutils set the
Ned Deily87e82bb2011-06-28 19:52:59 -07001771 deployment target only in the environment of each build subprocess. It is
1772 still possible to globally override the default by setting
1773 MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET before launching the interpreter; its value must be
1774 greater or equal to the default value, the value with which the interpreter
1775 was built.
1776
Raymond Hettinger2c316a32011-06-25 17:14:53 +02001777- Issue #11802: The cache in filecmp now has a maximum size of 100 so that
1778 it won't grow without bound.
1779
Ross Lagerwallffa8e2f2011-06-25 09:55:10 +02001780- Issue #12404: Remove C89 incompatible code from mmap module. Patch by Akira
1781 Kitada.
1782
R David Murrayf1138bb2011-06-17 22:23:04 -04001783- Issue #11700: mailbox proxy object close methods can now be called multiple
1784 times without error, and _ProxyFile now closes the wrapped file.
1785
Victor Stinnerc74a6ba2011-06-17 14:06:27 +02001786- Issue #12133: AbstractHTTPHandler.do_open() of urllib.request closes the HTTP
1787 connection if its getresponse() method fails with a socket error. Patch
1788 written by Ezio Melotti.
1789
Benjamin Peterson0eb4ac42011-06-11 15:53:11 -05001790- Issue #9284: Allow inspect.findsource() to find the source of doctest
1791 functions.
1792
R David Murray873c5832011-06-09 16:01:09 -04001793- Issue #10694: zipfile now ignores garbage at the end of a zipfile.
1794
Brian Curtincaea7e82011-06-08 19:29:53 -05001795- Issue #11583: Speed up os.path.isdir on Windows by using GetFileAttributes
1796 instead of os.stat.
1797
Mark Dickinsona493ca32011-06-04 18:24:15 +01001798- Issue #12080: Fix a performance issue in Decimal._power_exact that caused
1799 some corner-case Decimal.__pow__ calls to take an unreasonably long time.
1800
Raymond Hettinger45b08292011-06-02 20:40:35 -07001801- Named tuples now work correctly with vars().
1802
Barry Warsawc5643282011-07-19 17:06:30 -04001803- sys.setcheckinterval() now updates the current ticker count as well as
1804 updating the check interval, so if the user decreases the check interval,
1805 the ticker doesn't have to wind down to zero from the old starting point
1806 before the new interval takes effect. And if the user increases the
1807 interval, it makes sure the new limit takes effect right away rather have an
1808 early task switch before recognizing the new interval.
Raymond Hettinger19b851d2011-06-01 18:21:42 -07001809
Victor Stinner776e69b2011-06-01 01:03:00 +02001810- Issue #12085: Fix an attribute error in subprocess.Popen destructor if the
1811 constructor has failed, e.g. because of an undeclared keyword argument. Patch
1812 written by Oleg Oshmyan.
1813
Barry Warsawc5643282011-07-19 17:06:30 -04001814Extension Modules
1815-----------------
1816
Meador Ingefe7aa492012-05-28 13:52:59 -05001817- Issue #9041: An issue in ctypes.c_longdouble, ctypes.c_double, and
1818 ctypes.c_float that caused an incorrect exception to be returned in the
1819 case of overflow has been fixed.
1820
Jesus Cea23fbd8c2012-01-17 00:17:10 +01001821- bsddb module: Erratic behaviour of "DBEnv->rep_elect()" because a typo.
1822 Possible crash.
1823
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcdee76e62012-01-13 22:53:25 +01001824- Issue #13774: json: Fix a SystemError when a bogus encoding is passed to
1825 json.loads().
1826
Charles-François Natali3aa59e32012-01-02 15:38:27 +01001827- Issue #9975: socket: Fix incorrect use of flowinfo and scope_id. Patch by
1828 Vilmos Nebehaj.
1829
Nadeem Vawda36248152011-10-13 13:52:46 +02001830- Issue #13159: FileIO, BZ2File, and the built-in file class now use a
1831 linear-time buffer growth strategy instead of a quadratic one.
1832
Charles-François Natali9ffcbf72011-10-06 19:09:45 +02001833- Issue #13070: Fix a crash when a TextIOWrapper caught in a reference cycle
1834 would be finalized after the reference to its underlying BufferedRWPair's
1835 writer got cleared by the GC.
1836
Meador Ingead349a12011-10-03 21:34:04 -05001837- Issue #12881: ctypes: Fix segfault with large structure field names.
1838
Meador Ingefe150032011-09-27 20:35:28 -05001839- Issue #13013: ctypes: Fix a reference leak in PyCArrayType_from_ctype.
1840 Thanks to Suman Saha for finding the bug and providing a patch.
1841
Jesus Ceac23484b2011-09-21 03:47:39 +02001842- Issue #13022: Fix: _multiprocessing.recvfd() doesn't check that
1843 file descriptor was actually received.
1844
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc439c25e2011-09-12 20:12:09 +02001845- Issue #12483: ctypes: Fix a crash when the destruction of a callback
1846 object triggers the garbage collector.
1847
Jesus Cea6ebaca12011-09-10 04:35:18 +02001848- Issue #12950: Fix passing file descriptors in multiprocessing, under
1849 OpenIndiana/Illumos.
1850
Amaury Forgeot d'Arccf316a12011-09-02 20:32:23 +02001851- Issue #12764: Fix a crash in ctypes when the name of a Structure field is not
1852 a string.
1853
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc3d7f2362011-08-30 21:04:35 +02001854- Issue #9651: Fix a crash when ctypes.create_string_buffer(0) was passed to
1855 some functions like file.write().
1856
Barry Warsawc5643282011-07-19 17:06:30 -04001857- Issue #10309: Define _GNU_SOURCE so that mremap() gets the proper
1858 signature. Without this, architectures where sizeof void* != sizeof int are
1859 broken. Patch given by Hallvard B Furuseth.
1860
Serhiy Storchakaff99e412013-04-14 18:52:15 +03001861IDLE
1862----
1863
1864- Issue #964437 Make IDLE help window non-modal.
1865 Patch by Guilherme Polo and Roger Serwy.
1866
1867- Issue #13933: IDLE auto-complete did not work with some imported
1868 module, like hashlib. (Patch by Roger Serwy)
1869
1870- Issue #13506: Add '' to path for IDLE Shell when started and restarted with Restart Shell.
1871 Original patches by Marco Scataglini and Roger Serwy.
1872
1873- Issue #4625: If IDLE cannot write to its recent file or breakpoint
1874 files, display a message popup and continue rather than crash.
1875 (original patch by Roger Serwy)
1876
1877- Issue #8793: Prevent IDLE crash when given strings with invalid hex escape
1878 sequences.
1879
1880- Issue #13296: Fix IDLE to clear compile __future__ flags on shell restart.
1881 (Patch by Roger Serwy)
1882
Ned Deily43e10542011-06-27 23:41:53 -07001883Build
1884-----
1885
Martin v. Löwisa1b2af82012-02-21 18:12:02 +01001886- Issue #6807: Run msisupport.mak earlier.
1887
Martin v. Löwisef281bd2012-02-21 17:07:32 +01001888- Issue #10580: Minor grammar change in Windows installer.
1889
Ned Deilyc5df5632012-02-19 02:19:12 +01001890- Issue #12627: Implement PEP 394 for Python 2.7 ("python2").
1891
Ned Deily43e10542011-06-27 23:41:53 -07001892- Issue #8746: Correct faulty configure checks so that os.chflags() and
1893 os.lchflags() are once again built on systems that support these
1894 functions (*BSD and OS X). Also add new stat file flags for OS X
1895 (UF_HIDDEN and UF_COMPRESSED).
1896
Jason R. Coombsfee77452011-07-27 14:05:37 -04001897Tools/Demos
1898-----------
1899
Nadeem Vawdaf00011a2012-02-22 11:40:09 +02001900- Issue #14053: patchcheck.py ("make patchcheck") now works with MQ patches.
1901 Patch by Francisco Martín Brugué.
1902
Gregory P. Smith12426992012-02-12 15:51:21 -08001903- Issue #13930: 2to3 is now able to write its converted output files to another
1904 directory tree as well as copying unchanged files and altering the file
1905 suffix. See its new -o, -W and --add-suffix options. This makes it more
1906 useful in many automated code translation workflows.
1907
Jason R. Coombsfee77452011-07-27 14:05:37 -04001908- Issue #10639: reindent.py no longer converts newlines and will raise
1909 an error if attempting to convert a file with mixed newlines.
1910
Victor Stinner99cff3f2011-12-19 13:59:58 +01001911- Issue #13628: python-gdb.py is now able to retrieve more frames in the Python
1912 traceback if Python is optimized.
1913
Victor Stinnerd9f52922011-05-30 23:58:21 +02001914Tests
1915-----
1916
Martin v. Löwisc02e1e62012-07-29 16:30:50 +02001917- Issue #15467: Move helpers for __sizeof__ tests into test_support.
1918 Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
1919
Petri Lehtinen437b1492012-02-17 21:34:41 +02001920- Issue #11689: Fix a variable scoping error in an sqlite3 test.
1921 Initial patch by Torsten Landschoff.
1922
Serhiy Storchakaff99e412013-04-14 18:52:15 +03001923- Issue #10881: Fix test_site failures with OS X framework builds.
1924
1925- Issue #13901: Prevent test_distutils failures on OS X with --enable-shared.
1926
Ned Deily1aacd7b2011-10-31 16:14:52 -07001927- Issue #13304: Skip test case if user site-packages disabled (-s or
1928 PYTHONNOUSERSITE). (Patch by Carl Meyer)
1929
Barry Warsawbf0cafa2011-10-28 16:16:58 -04001930- Issue #13218: Fix test_ssl failures on Debian/Ubuntu.
1931
Charles-François Natalicdaafe02011-08-23 19:42:02 +02001932- Issue #12821: Fix test_fcntl failures on OpenBSD 5.
1933
Éric Araujo498da2c2011-07-31 17:59:28 +02001934- Issue #12331: The test suite for lib2to3 can now run from an installed
1935 Python.
1936
Ned Deily0ab67ee2011-07-13 15:05:31 -07001937- Issue #12549: Correct test_platform to not fail when OS X returns 'x86_64'
1938 as the processor type on some Mac systems.
1939
Antoine Pitrou4a4a0fe2011-07-09 02:34:05 +02001940- Skip network tests when getaddrinfo() returns EAI_AGAIN, meaning a temporary
1941 failure in name resolution.
1942
Jesus Ceacb65f322011-11-08 16:06:44 +01001943- Issue #11812: Solve transient socket failure to connect to 'localhost'
1944 in test_telnetlib.py.
1945
Jesus Cea71094b52011-11-08 15:54:42 +01001946- Solved a potential deadlock in test_telnetlib.py. Related to issue #11812.
1947
Antoine Pitrou29603082011-07-08 19:40:15 +02001948- Avoid failing in test_robotparser when mueblesmoraleda.com is flaky and
1949 an overzealous DNS service (e.g. OpenDNS) redirects to a placeholder
1950 Web site.
1951
Antoine Pitroua4d58d22011-07-08 19:14:19 +02001952- Avoid failing in test_urllibnet.test_bad_address when some overzealous
1953 DNS service (e.g. OpenDNS) resolves a non-existent domain name. The test
1954 is now skipped instead.
1955
Ned Deily46268c42011-07-03 21:52:35 -07001956- Issue #8716: Avoid crashes caused by Aqua Tk on OSX when attempting to run
1957 test_tk or test_ttk_guionly under a username that is not currently logged
1958 in to the console windowserver (as may be the case under buildbot or ssh).
1959
Ned Deily63144c62011-06-28 00:39:19 -07001960- Issue #12141: Install a copy of template C module file so that
1961 test_build_ext of test_distutils is no longer silently skipped when
1962 run outside of a build directory.
1963
Ned Deily43e10542011-06-27 23:41:53 -07001964- Issue #8746: Add additional tests for os.chflags() and os.lchflags().
1965 Patch by Garrett Cooper.
1966
Ned Deily64e59952011-06-27 23:09:31 -07001967- Issue #10736: Fix test_ttk test_widgets failures with Cocoa Tk 8.5.9
1968 on Mac OS X. (Patch by Ronald Oussoren)
1969
Victor Stinnerd9f52922011-05-30 23:58:21 +02001970- Issue #12057: Add tests for ISO 2022 codecs (iso2022_jp, iso2022_jp_2,
1971 iso2022_kr).
1972
Florent Xiclunadf10d7c2011-10-23 23:07:22 +02001973Documentation
1974-------------
1975
Petri Lehtinena15a8d22012-03-01 21:28:00 +02001976- Issues #13491 and #13995: Fix many errors in sqlite3 documentation.
1977 Initial patch for #13491 by Johannes Vogel.
Petri Lehtinen002b2022012-02-16 21:42:34 +02001978
Petri Lehtinenfe6f9d02012-02-02 21:11:28 +02001979- Issue #13402: Document absoluteness of sys.executable.
1980
Brett Cannon64b2b6a2012-01-26 18:32:24 -05001981- Issue #13883: PYTHONCASEOK also works on OS X, OS/2, and RiscOS.
1982
Meador Ingeda747c32012-01-19 00:17:44 -06001983- Issue #2134: The tokenize documentation has been clarified to explain why
1984 all operator and delimiter tokens are treated as token.OP tokens.
1985
Meador Inge52957182011-12-03 12:13:42 -06001986- Issue #13513: Fix io.IOBase documentation to correctly link to the
1987 io.IOBase.readline method instead of the readline module.
1988
Nick Coghlan86711572011-10-24 22:19:40 +10001989- Issue #13237: Reorganise subprocess documentation to emphasise convenience
1990 functions and the most commonly needed arguments to Popen.
1991
Florent Xiclunadf10d7c2011-10-23 23:07:22 +02001992- Issue #13141: Demonstrate recommended style for SocketServer examples.
1993
Victor Stinner08563d92011-05-30 23:44:13 +02001994
Benjamin Peterson5ee84482010-11-28 04:49:23 +00001995What's New in Python 2.7.2?
1996===========================
1997
Benjamin Peterson9843ba52011-06-11 09:42:44 -05001998*Release date: 2011-06-11*
Benjamin Petersonf14e4202011-05-31 18:44:55 -05001999
Benjamin Peterson43ee1a52011-06-10 11:32:52 -05002000Library
2001-------
2002
2003- Issue #12009: Fixed regression in netrc file comment handling.
2004
Benjamin Peterson4ba009d2011-05-31 18:59:49 -05002005Extension Modules
2006-----------------
2007
2008- Issue #1221: Make pyexpat.__version__ equal to the Python version.
2009
Benjamin Petersonf14e4202011-05-31 18:44:55 -05002010
2011What's New in Python 2.7.2 release candidate 1?
2012===============================================
2013
Benjamin Petersoncd207052011-05-29 16:50:27 -05002014*Release date: 2011-05-29*
Benjamin Peterson5ee84482010-11-28 04:49:23 +00002015
2016Core and Builtins
2017-----------------
2018
Ned Deily482f9082011-05-28 00:11:54 -07002019- Issue #9670: Increase the default stack size for secondary threads on
2020 Mac OS X and FreeBSD to reduce the chances of a crash instead of a
2021 "maximum recursion depth" RuntimeError exception.
2022 (patch by Ronald Oussoren)
2023
Benjamin Petersonef1122c2011-06-03 16:17:22 -05002024- Correct lookup of __dir__ on objects. This allows old-style classes to have
2025 __dir__. It also causes errors besides AttributeError found on lookup to be
2026 propagated.
Benjamin Peterson8de87a62011-05-23 16:11:05 -05002027
Victor Stinner2c585f62011-05-10 00:22:59 +02002028- Issue #1195: Fix input() if it is interrupted by CTRL+d and then CTRL+c,
2029 clear the end-of-file indicator after CTRL+d.
2030
Victor Stinner0a92d182011-05-03 15:09:24 +02002031- Issue #8651: PyArg_Parse*() functions raise an OverflowError if the file
2032 doesn't have PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN define and the size doesn't fit in an int
2033 (length bigger than 2^31-1 bytes).
2034
Victor Stinner645b9f62011-05-03 15:06:11 +02002035- Issue #8651: Fix "z#" format of PyArg_Parse*() function: the size was not
2036 written if PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN is defined.
2037
Victor Stinnere363ec12011-05-01 23:43:37 +02002038- Issue #9756: When calling a method descriptor or a slot wrapper descriptor,
2039 the check of the object type doesn't read the __class__ attribute anymore.
2040 Fix a crash if a class override its __class__ attribute (e.g. a proxy of the
Victor Stinner97cf5852011-05-01 23:51:11 +02002041 str type). Patch written by Andreas Stührk.
Victor Stinnere363ec12011-05-01 23:43:37 +02002042
Antoine Pitrou1f9eb152011-04-27 19:26:06 +02002043- Issue #10517: After fork(), reinitialize the TLS used by the PyGILState_*
2044 APIs, to avoid a crash with the pthread implementation in RHEL 5. Patch
2045 by Charles-François Natali.
2046
Ezio Melottie3685f62011-04-26 05:12:51 +03002047- Issue #6780: fix starts/endswith error message to mention that tuples are
2048 accepted too.
2049
Ezio Melottic283a852011-04-15 16:14:04 +03002050- Issue #5057: fix a bug in the peepholer that led to non-portable pyc files
2051 between narrow and wide builds while optimizing BINARY_SUBSCR on non-BMP
2052 chars (e.g. u"\U00012345"[0]).
2053
Victor Stinner5de51ac2011-04-09 16:09:08 +02002054- Issue #11650: PyOS_StdioReadline() retries fgets() if it was interrupted
2055 (EINTR), for example if the program is stopped with CTRL+z on Mac OS X. Patch
2056 written by Charles-Francois Natali.
2057
Mark Dickinson874d59e2011-03-26 12:18:00 +00002058- Issue #11144: Ensure that int(a_float) returns an int whenever possible.
2059 Previously, there were some corner cases where a long was returned even
2060 though the result was within the range of an int.
2061
Antoine Pitrou2ddaaff2011-03-09 12:54:00 +01002062- Issue #11450: Don't truncate hg version info in Py_GetBuildInfo() when
2063 there are many tags (e.g. when using mq). Patch by Nadeem Vawda.
2064
Antoine Pitrou3013b162011-01-18 19:06:19 +00002065- Issue #10451: memoryview objects could allow to mutate a readable buffer.
2066 Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall.
2067
Benjamin Peterson9b911ca2011-01-12 15:49:47 +00002068- Issue #10892: Don't segfault when trying to delete __abstractmethods__ from a
2069 class.
2070
Antoine Pitrou5a72e762011-01-07 21:49:44 +00002071- Issue #8020: Avoid a crash where the small objects allocator would read
2072 non-Python managed memory while it is being modified by another thread.
2073 Patch by Matt Bandy.
2074
Raymond Hettinger57a86892011-01-25 21:43:29 +00002075- Issue #11004: Repaired edge case in deque.count().
2076
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcac514c82011-01-03 00:50:57 +00002077- Issue #8278: On Windows and with a NTFS filesystem, os.stat() and os.utime()
2078 can now handle dates after 2038.
2079
R. David Murray64a1e7c2010-12-15 01:36:03 +00002080- Issue #4236: Py_InitModule4 now checks the import machinery directly
2081 rather than the Py_IsInitialized flag, avoiding a Fatal Python
2082 error in certain circumstances when an import is done in __del__.
2083
Ezio Melotti302ad8d2013-01-19 19:44:58 +02002084- Issue #11828: startswith and endswith don't accept None as slice index.
Jesus Cea44e81682011-04-20 16:39:15 +02002085 Patch by Torsten Becker.
2086
Benjamin Peterson07f54512010-12-11 04:25:57 +00002087- Issue #10674: Remove unused 'dictmaker' rule from grammar.
2088
Mark Dickinsonecf8ec62010-12-04 12:30:41 +00002089- Issue #10596: Fix float.__mod__ to have the same behaviour as
2090 float.__divmod__ with respect to signed zeros. -4.0 % 4.0 should be
2091 0.0, not -0.0.
2092
Eli Bendersky680e6eb2011-03-04 06:14:56 +00002093- Issue #11386: bytearray.pop() now throws IndexError when the bytearray is
2094 empty, instead of OverflowError.
2095
Benjamin Peterson5ee84482010-11-28 04:49:23 +00002096Library
2097-------
Antoine Pitrou47900cf2010-12-17 17:45:12 +00002098
Benjamin Peterson4fa68ab2011-05-26 09:56:41 -05002099- Issue #12161: Cause StringIO.getvalue() to raise a ValueError when used on a
2100 closed StringIO instance.
2101
Victor Stinnerdbfba162011-05-26 13:37:25 +02002102- Issue #12182: Fix pydoc.HTMLDoc.multicolumn() if Python uses the new (true)
2103 division (python -Qnew). Patch written by Ralf W. Grosse-Kunstleve.
2104
Victor Stinnerdaf17e92011-05-25 22:52:37 +02002105- Issue #12175: RawIOBase.readall() now returns None if read() returns None.
2106
Victor Stinner5100a402011-05-25 22:15:36 +02002107- Issue #12175: FileIO.readall() now raises a ValueError instead of an IOError
2108 if the file is closed.
2109
Charles-François Natalib94e0cd2011-05-24 23:10:54 +02002110- Issue #1441530: In imaplib, use makefile() to wrap the SSL socket to avoid
2111 heap fragmentation and MemoryError with some malloc implementations.
2112
Victor Stinner40b41e12011-05-24 22:29:13 +02002113- Issue #12100: Don't reset incremental encoders of CJK codecs at each call to
2114 their encode() method anymore, but continue to call the reset() method if the
2115 final argument is True.
2116
Victor Stinnerf58f1c32011-05-21 02:13:22 +02002117- Issue #12124: zipimport doesn't keep a reference to zlib.decompress() anymore
2118 to be able to unload the module.
2119
Ronald Oussoren372954e2011-05-17 13:22:30 +02002120- Issue #10154, #10090: change the normalization of UTF-8 to "UTF-8" instead
2121 of "UTF8" in the locale module as the latter is not supported MacOSX and OpenBSD.
2122
Victor Stinnerf58f1c32011-05-21 02:13:22 +02002123- Issue #9516: avoid errors in sysconfig when MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET is
Ronald Oussoren53b6a5f2011-05-15 16:51:10 +02002124 set in shell.
2125
Nadeem Vawda0cc4fd92011-05-14 14:29:07 +02002126- Issue #12050: zlib.decompressobj().decompress() now clears the unconsumed_tail
2127 attribute when called without a max_length argument.
2128
Antoine Pitrouee46a7b2011-05-13 00:31:52 +02002129- Issue #12062: In the `io` module, fix a flushing bug when doing a certain
2130 type of I/O sequence on a file opened in read+write mode (namely: reading,
2131 seeking a bit forward, writing, then seeking before the previous write but
2132 still within buffered data, and writing again).
2133
Antoine Pitrou47d1d0d2011-05-10 19:16:03 +02002134- Issue #8498: In socket.accept(), allow to specify 0 as a backlog value in
2135 order to accept exactly one connection. Patch by Daniel Evers.
2136
Victor Stinnerb1241f92011-05-10 01:52:03 +02002137- Issue #12012: ssl.PROTOCOL_SSLv2 becomes optional.
2138
Antoine Pitrou21ce8f02011-05-07 19:59:33 +02002139- Issue #11927: SMTP_SSL now uses port 465 by default as documented. Patch
2140 by Kasun Herath.
2141
Ezio Melotti50bc66a2012-11-03 21:29:08 +02002142- Issue #11999: fixed sporadic sync failure mailbox.Maildir due to its trying to
R David Murray8b26c4b2011-05-06 21:56:22 -04002143 detect mtime changes by comparing to the system clock instead of to the
2144 previous value of the mtime.
2145
Ronald Oussoren58d6b1b2011-05-06 11:31:33 +02002146- Issue #10684: shutil.move used to delete a folder on case insensitive
2147 filesystems when the source and destination name where the same except
2148 for the case.
2149
Ezio Melottidf8a8f72011-05-04 14:40:53 +03002150- Issue #11982: fix json.loads('""') to return u'' rather than ''.
2151
Victor Stinner112d48a2011-05-03 14:36:36 +02002152- Issue #11277: mmap.mmap() calls fcntl(fd, F_FULLFSYNC) on Mac OS X to get
2153 around a mmap bug with sparse files. Patch written by Steffen Daode Nurpmeso.
2154
Senthil Kumaran011525e2011-04-28 15:30:31 +08002155- Issue #10761: Fix tarfile.extractall failure when symlinked files are
2156 present. Initial patch by Scott Leerssen.
2157
Ezio Melotti34b32d62011-04-27 09:45:46 +03002158- Issue #11763: don't use difflib in TestCase.assertMultiLineEqual if the
2159 strings are too long.
2160
Senthil Kumaran5dc68682011-04-26 21:17:45 +08002161- Issue #11236: getpass.getpass responds to ctrl-c or ctrl-z on terminal.
2162
Victor Stinner33feeab2011-04-18 16:33:28 +02002163- Issue #11768: The signal handler of the signal module only calls
2164 Py_AddPendingCall() for the first signal to fix a deadlock on reentrant or
2165 parallel calls. PyErr_SetInterrupt() writes also into the wake up file.
2166
Raymond Hettingere0156c42011-04-19 09:48:39 -07002167- Issue #11875: collections.OrderedDict's __reduce__ was temporarily
2168 mutating the object instead of just working on a copy.
2169
Martin v. Löwis2d253dd2011-04-17 22:29:40 +02002170- Issue #11442: Add a charset parameter to the Content-type in SimpleHTTPServer
2171 to avoid XSS attacks.
2172
Senthil Kumaranddaea1c2011-04-15 18:07:33 +08002173- Issue #11467: Fix urlparse behavior when handling urls which contains scheme
2174 specific part only digits. Patch by Santoso Wijaya.
2175
Raymond Hettinger37c0fe52011-04-15 13:12:21 -07002176- collections.Counter().copy() now works correctly for subclasses.
2177
Senthil Kumarana99b7612011-04-14 12:54:35 +08002178- Issue #11474: Fix the bug with url2pathname() handling of '/C|/' on Windows.
2179 Patch by Santoso Wijaya.
2180
Ezio Melotti2b96f092011-04-13 05:37:29 +03002181- Issue #9233: Fix json.loads('{}') to return a dict (instead of a list), when
2182 _json is not available.
2183
2184- Issue #11703: urllib2.geturl() does not return correct url when the original
Senthil Kumaran0531d6f2011-04-13 09:47:20 +08002185 url contains #fragment.
2186
R David Murrayea8b6ef2011-04-12 21:00:26 -04002187- Issue #10019: Fixed regression in json module where an indent of 0 stopped
2188 adding newlines and acted instead like 'None'.
2189
brian.curtin16f98b72011-04-11 18:05:33 -05002190- Issue #5162: Treat services like frozen executables to allow child spawning
2191 from multiprocessing.forking on Windows.
2192
Ezio Melotti8b4367e2011-04-11 03:44:28 +03002193- Issue #4877: Fix a segfault in xml.parsers.expat while attempting to parse
2194 a closed file.
2195
Raymond Hettingere4579c32011-04-11 17:27:42 -07002196- Issue #11830: Remove unnecessary introspection code in the decimal module.
2197 It was causing a failed import in the Turkish locale where the locale
2198 sensitive str.upper() method caused a name mismatch.
2199
Antoine Pitrou7dfc8742011-04-11 00:26:42 +02002200- Issue #8428: Fix a race condition in multiprocessing.Pool when terminating
2201 worker processes: new processes would be spawned while the pool is being
2202 shut down. Patch by Charles-François Natali.
2203
Ezio Melotti8b4367e2011-04-11 03:44:28 +03002204- Issue #7311: Fix HTMLParser to accept non-ASCII attribute values.
Ezio Melotti9f1ffb22011-04-05 20:40:52 +03002205
Ross Lagerwall104c3f12011-04-05 15:24:34 +02002206- Issue #10963: Ensure that subprocess.communicate() never raises EPIPE.
2207
guido@google.com2bc23b82011-03-24 10:44:17 -07002208- Issue #11662: Make urllib and urllib2 ignore redirections if the
guido@google.comdb3080e2011-03-28 13:53:40 -07002209 scheme is not HTTP, HTTPS or FTP (CVE-2011-1521).
Antoine Pitrou47900cf2010-12-17 17:45:12 +00002210
Benjamin Peterson77d46602011-03-28 17:32:31 -05002211- Issue #11256: Fix inspect.getcallargs on functions that take only keyword
2212 arguments.
2213
Martin v. Löwis03f7e232011-03-27 20:58:52 +02002214- Issue #11696: Fix ID generation in msilib.
2215
Mark Dickinsond687be02011-03-27 16:15:24 +01002216- Issue #9696: Fix exception incorrectly raised by xdrlib.Packer.pack_int when
2217 trying to pack a negative (in-range) integer.
2218
Mark Dickinson1829e8f2011-03-27 15:32:05 +01002219- Issue #11675: multiprocessing.[Raw]Array objects created from an integer size
2220 are now zeroed on creation. This matches the behaviour specified by the
2221 documentation.
2222
Martin v. Löwis49b0ce02011-03-27 10:10:46 +02002223- Issue #7639: Fix short file name generation in bdist_msi.
2224
Raymond Hettinger9aa5a342011-03-25 16:00:13 -07002225- Issue #11666: let help() display named tuple attributes and methods
2226 that start with a leading underscore.
2227
Mark Dickinsonf9e9a6f2011-03-25 22:01:06 +00002228- Issue #11673: Fix multiprocessing Array and RawArray constructors to accept a
2229 size of type 'long', rather than only accepting 'int'.
2230
Éric Araujo374274d2011-03-19 04:29:36 +01002231- Issue #10042: Fixed the total_ordering decorator to handle cross-type
2232 comparisons that could lead to infinite recursion.
2233
Michael Foord51368672011-03-17 12:59:38 -04002234- Issue #10979: unittest stdout buffering now works with class and module
2235 setup and teardown.
2236
Ronald Oussoren2ab59942011-03-16 09:47:15 -04002237- Issue #11569: use absolute path to the sysctl command in multiprocessing to
2238 ensure that it will be found regardless of the shell PATH. This ensures
2239 that multiprocessing.cpu_count works on default installs of MacOSX.
2240
Michael Foord51368672011-03-17 12:59:38 -04002241- Issue #11500: Fixed a bug in the os x proxy bypass code for fully qualified
2242 IP addresses in the proxy exception list.
Ronald Oussoren1aa999c2011-03-14 18:53:59 -04002243
Mark Dickinson2c8c62e2011-03-12 11:05:32 +00002244- Issue #11131: Fix sign of zero in plus and minus operations when
2245 the context rounding mode is ROUND_FLOOR.
2246
Ned Deily9d4836e2011-03-09 02:31:55 -08002247- Issue #5622: Fix curses.wrapper to raise correct exception if curses
2248 initialization fails.
2249
Antoine Pitroud6f3a3e2011-03-06 02:03:34 +01002250- Issue #11391: Writing to a mmap object created with
2251 ``mmap.PROT_READ|mmap.PROT_EXEC`` would segfault instead of raising a
2252 TypeError. Patch by Charles-François Natali.
2253
R. David Murray1a337902011-03-03 18:17:40 +00002254- Issue #11306: mailbox in certain cases adapts to an inability to open
2255 certain files in read-write mode. Previously it detected this by
2256 checking for EACCES, now it also checks for EROFS.
2257
Giampaolo Rodolàd65224f2011-03-03 14:17:51 +00002258- Issue #11265: asyncore now correctly handles EPIPE, EBADF and EAGAIN errors
2259 on accept(), send() and recv().
2260
Antoine Pitroud3f6ea12011-02-26 23:35:27 +00002261- Issue #11326: Add the missing connect_ex() implementation for SSL sockets,
2262 and make it work for non-blocking connects.
2263
Antoine Pitrou6439c002011-02-25 21:35:47 +00002264- Issue #10956: Buffered I/O classes retry reading or writing after a signal
2265 has arrived and the handler returned successfully.
2266
Georg Brandl28046022011-02-25 11:01:04 +00002267- Issue #10680: Fix mutually exclusive arguments for argument groups in
2268 argparse.
2269
Antoine Pitrouf4d2b3d2011-02-21 23:59:20 +00002270- Issue #4681: Allow mmap() to work on file sizes and offsets larger than
2271 4GB, even on 32-bit builds. Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall, adapted for
2272 32-bit Windows.
2273
Georg Brandl52f83952011-02-25 10:39:23 +00002274- Issue #10360: In WeakSet, do not raise TypeErrors when testing for
2275 membership of non-weakrefable objects.
2276
2277- Issue #10549: Fix pydoc traceback when text-documenting certain classes.
2278
2279- Issue #940286: pydoc.Helper.help() ignores input/output init parameters.
2280
Barry Warsaw42bb7ca2011-02-14 20:04:00 +00002281- Issue #11171: Fix detection of config/Makefile when --prefix !=
2282 --exec-prefix, which caused Python to not start.
2283
R. David Murray008c0442011-02-11 23:03:13 +00002284- Issue #11116: any error during addition of a message to a mailbox now causes
2285 a rollback, instead of leaving the mailbox partially modified.
2286
Antoine Pitrou820021e2011-01-31 21:47:45 +00002287- Issue #8275: Fix passing of callback arguments with ctypes under Win64.
2288 Patch by Stan Mihai.
2289
Vinay Sajipcdb83882011-01-21 23:35:57 +00002290- Issue #10949: Improved robustness of rotating file handlers.
2291
Antoine Pitrou8a0eede2011-01-20 21:20:18 +00002292- Issue #10955: Fix a potential crash when trying to mmap() a file past its
2293 length. Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall.
2294
Antoine Pitrou63a3f152011-01-19 15:27:24 +00002295- Issue #10898: Allow compiling the posix module when the C library defines
2296 a symbol named FSTAT.
2297
Antoine Pitrou9989d852011-01-15 16:18:57 +00002298- Issue #10916: mmap should not segfault when a file is mapped using 0 as
2299 length and a non-zero offset, and an attempt to read past the end of file
2300 is made (IndexError is raised instead). Patch by Ross Lagerwall.
2301
Terry Reedyf7dd7992011-01-10 22:15:19 +00002302- Issue #10875: Update Regular Expression HOWTO; patch by 'SilentGhost'.
2303
Antoine Pitrou5a72e762011-01-07 21:49:44 +00002304- Issue #10827: Changed the rules for 2-digit years. The time.asctime
2305 function will now format any year when ``time.accept2dyear`` is
2306 false and will accept years >= 1000 otherwise. The year range
2307 accepted by ``time.mktime`` and ``time.strftime`` is still system
2308 dependent, but ``time.mktime`` will now accept full range supported
2309 by the OS. Conversion of 2-digit years to 4-digit is deprecated.
2310
Georg Brandl6adb9792011-01-09 07:53:14 +00002311- Issue #10869: Fixed bug where ast.increment_lineno modified the root
2312 node twice.
2313
Antoine Pitrou1f1613f2011-01-06 18:30:26 +00002314- Issue #7858: Raise an error properly when os.utime() fails under Windows
2315 on an existing file.
2316
Antoine Pitrou77c1b382011-01-06 17:19:05 +00002317- Issue #3839: wsgiref should not override a Content-Length header set by
2318 the application. Initial patch by Clovis Fabricio.
2319
Antoine Pitrou91ce0d92011-01-03 18:45:09 +00002320- Issue #10806, issue #9905: Fix subprocess pipes when some of the standard
2321 file descriptors (0, 1, 2) are closed in the parent process. Initial
2322 patch by Ross Lagerwall.
2323
Antoine Pitroub0614612011-01-02 20:04:52 +00002324- Issue #4662: os.tempnam(), os.tmpfile() and os.tmpnam() now raise a py3k
2325 DeprecationWarning.
2326
Raymond Hettinger8ebebd82011-01-02 01:03:26 +00002327- Subclasses of collections.OrderedDict now work correctly with __missing__.
2328
Éric Araujo86f90742011-03-21 00:15:26 +01002329- Issue #10753 - Characters ';', '=' and ',' in the PATH_INFO environment
Senthil Kumaran559395f2010-12-29 06:30:19 +00002330 variable won't be quoted when the URI is constructed by the wsgiref.util 's
2331 request_uri method. According to RFC 3986, these characters can be a part of
2332 params in PATH component of URI and need not be quoted.
2333
Éric Araujo86f90742011-03-21 00:15:26 +01002334- Issue #10738: Fix webbrowser.Opera.raise_opts
Terry Reedy0df73672010-12-28 19:53:32 +00002335
Éric Araujo86f90742011-03-21 00:15:26 +01002336- Issue #9824: SimpleCookie now encodes , and ; in values to cater to how
R. David Murray08fc7012010-12-28 19:11:03 +00002337 browsers actually parse cookies.
2338
R. David Murray5360d002010-12-27 19:17:17 +00002339- Issue #1379416: eliminated a source of accidental unicode promotion in
2340 email.header.Header.encode.
2341
R. David Murray5874ed62010-12-26 22:29:53 +00002342- Issue #5258/#10642: if site.py encounters a .pth file that generates an error,
2343 it now prints the filename, line number, and traceback to stderr and skips
2344 the rest of that individual file, instead of stopping processing entirely.
2345
Antoine Pitroufc9ead62010-12-21 21:26:55 +00002346- Issue #10750: The ``raw`` attribute of buffered IO objects is now read-only.
2347
Daniel Stutzbach57cf0af2011-01-04 18:47:17 +00002348- Issue #10242: unittest.TestCase.assertItemsEqual makes too many assumptions
Michael Foorde6e0e262010-12-19 15:52:56 +00002349 about input.
2350
Michael Foorda17f0762010-12-19 14:53:19 +00002351- Issue #10611: SystemExit should not cause a unittest test run to exit.
2352
Antoine Pitroud7b6ac62010-12-18 18:18:21 +00002353- Issue #6791: Limit header line length (to 65535 bytes) in http.client,
2354 to avoid denial of services from the other party.
2355
R. David Murray3f752ab2010-12-18 17:22:18 +00002356- Issue #9907: Fix tab handling on OSX when using editline by calling
R. David Murray7a697252010-12-18 03:52:09 +00002357 rl_initialize first, then setting our custom defaults, then reading .editrc.
2358
Antoine Pitrou47900cf2010-12-17 17:45:12 +00002359- Issue #4188: Avoid creating dummy thread objects when logging operations
2360 from the threading module (with the internal verbose flag activated).
2361
Senthil Kumaran5c7fd6e2010-12-17 04:56:02 +00002362- Issue #9721: Fix the behavior of urljoin when the relative url starts with a
2363 ';' character. Patch by Wes Chow.
Benjamin Peterson5ee84482010-11-28 04:49:23 +00002364
Antoine Pitrou47d9b0e2010-12-16 17:11:34 +00002365- Issue #10714: Limit length of incoming request in http.server to 65536 bytes
2366 for security reasons. Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall.
2367
Éric Araujoe04c13c2010-12-15 21:15:25 +00002368- Issue #9558: Fix distutils.command.build_ext with VS 8.0.
2369
R. David Murraydacb8042010-12-14 14:34:16 +00002370- Issue #10695: passing the port as a string value to telnetlib no longer
2371 causes debug mode to fail.
2372
Antoine Pitrou4cb64ad2010-12-03 19:31:52 +00002373- Issue #10478: Reentrant calls inside buffered IO objects (for example by
2374 way of a signal handler) now raise a RuntimeError instead of freezing the
2375 current process.
2376
Éric Araujofb3de6b2010-12-03 19:24:49 +00002377- Issue #10497: Fix incorrect use of gettext in argparse.
2378
R. David Murrayd75cc912010-12-02 03:16:23 +00002379- Issue #10464: netrc now correctly handles lines with embedded '#' characters.
2380
Gregory P. Smith312efbc2010-12-14 15:02:53 +00002381- Issue #1731717: Fixed the problem where subprocess.wait() could cause an
2382 OSError exception when The OS had been told to ignore SIGCLD in our process
2383 or otherwise not wait for exiting child processes.
2384
Steven Bethardf8583ac2011-01-24 20:40:15 +00002385- Issue #9509: argparse now properly handles IOErrors raised by
2386 argparse.FileType.
2387
Steven Bethard3f69a052011-03-26 19:59:02 +01002388- Issue #9348: Raise an early error if argparse nargs and metavar don't match.
2389
2390- Issue #8982: Improve the documentation for the argparse Namespace object.
2391
Steven Bethard5e0062d2011-03-26 21:50:38 +01002392- Issue #9343: Document that argparse parent parsers must be configured before
2393 their children.
2394
Steven Bethardbc3b1042011-03-27 13:57:55 +02002395- Issue #9026: Fix order of argparse sub-commands in help messages.
2396
Steven Betharde3c11b42011-04-04 01:47:52 +02002397- Issue #9347: Fix formatting for tuples in argparse type= error messages.
2398
R. David Murray2a4b3fc2010-12-11 02:13:04 +00002399Extension Modules
2400-----------------
2401
Benjamin Peterson6116d4a2011-05-17 18:31:20 -05002402- Stop using the old interface for providing methods and attributes in the _sre
2403 module. Among other things, this gives these classes ``__class__``
2404 attributes. (See #12099)
2405
Ezio Melotti0639be62011-05-07 19:21:22 +03002406- Issue #10169: Fix argument parsing in socket.sendto() to avoid error masking.
2407
Ezio Melottic1ec7b52011-05-11 00:55:35 +03002408- Issue #12051: Fix segfault in json.dumps() while encoding highly-nested
2409 objects using the C accelerations.
2410
Ezio Melotticec46492011-05-07 17:40:23 +03002411- Issue #12017: Fix segfault in json.loads() while decoding highly-nested
2412 objects using the C accelerations.
2413
Benjamin Petersonf21ad922011-03-26 17:56:28 -05002414- Issue #1838: Prevent segfault in ctypes, when _as_parameter_ on a class is set
2415 to an instance of the class.
2416
R. David Murray2a4b3fc2010-12-11 02:13:04 +00002417- Issue #678250: Make mmap flush a noop on ACCESS_READ and ACCESS_COPY.
2418
Serhiy Storchakaff99e412013-04-14 18:52:15 +03002419IDLE
2420----
2421
2422- Issue #11718: IDLE's open module dialog couldn't find the __init__.py
2423 file in a package.
2424
2425- Issue #12590: IDLE editor window now always displays the first line
2426 when opening a long file. With Tk 8.5, the first line was hidden.
2427
2428- Issue #11088: don't crash when using F5 to run a script in IDLE on MacOSX
2429 with Tk 8.5.
2430
2431- Issue #10940: Workaround an IDLE hang on Mac OS X 10.6 when using the
2432 menu accelerators for Open Module, Go to Line, and New Indent Width.
2433 The accelerators still work but no longer appear in the menu items.
2434
2435- Issue #10907: Warn OS X 10.6 IDLE users to use ActiveState Tcl/Tk 8.5, rather
2436 than the currently problematic Apple-supplied one, when running with the
2437 64-/32-bit installer variant.
2438
2439- Issue #11052: Correct IDLE menu accelerators on Mac OS X for Save
2440 commands.
2441
2442- Issue #6075: IDLE on Mac OS X now works with both Carbon AquaTk and
2443 Cocoa AquaTk.
2444
2445- Issue #10404: Use ctl-button-1 on OSX for the context menu in Idle.
2446
2447- Issue #10107: Warn about unsaved files in IDLE on OSX.
2448
2449- Issue #10406: Enable Rstrip IDLE extension on OSX (just like on other
2450 platforms).
2451
Antoine Pitrouf11d1832011-01-02 19:37:45 +00002452Build
2453-----
2454
Ned Deily22f63b52011-05-28 05:56:14 -07002455- Issue #11217: For 64-bit/32-bit Mac OS X universal framework builds,
2456 ensure "make install" creates symlinks in --prefix bin for the "-32"
2457 files in the framework bin directory like the installer does.
2458
Thomas Wouters5edae7e2011-03-06 11:48:05 -08002459- Issue #11411: Fix 'make DESTDIR=' with a relative destination.
2460
Georg Brandl94800df2011-02-25 11:09:02 +00002461- Issue #10709: Add updated AIX notes in Misc/README.AIX.
2462
2463- Issue #11184: Fix large-file support on AIX.
2464
Georg Brandl71f4fbb2011-02-25 11:04:50 +00002465- Issue #941346: Fix broken shared library build on AIX.
2466
Ned Deilye6cc7d62011-02-21 21:00:09 +00002467- Issue #11268: Prevent Mac OS X Installer failure if Documentation
2468 package had previously been installed.
2469
Ned Deily68adfdc2011-02-07 16:52:25 +00002470- Issue #11079: The /Applications/Python x.x folder created by the Mac
2471 OS X installers now includes a link to the installed documentation.
2472
Ned Deily53c460d2011-01-30 01:43:40 +00002473- Issue #11054: Allow Mac OS X installer builds to again work on 10.5 with
2474 the system-provided Python.
2475
2476- Issue #10843: Update third-party library versions used in OS X
2477 32-bit installer builds: bzip2 1.0.6, readline 6.1.2, SQLite 3.7.4
2478 (with FTS3/FTS4 and RTREE enabled), and ncursesw 5.5 (wide-char
2479 support enabled).
2480
Antoine Pitrou9828b562011-01-03 19:11:32 +00002481- Don't run pgen twice when using make -j.
2482
Antoine Pitrou31e85952011-01-03 18:57:14 +00002483- Issue #7716: Under Solaris, don't assume existence of /usr/xpg4/bin/grep in
2484 the configure script but use $GREP instead. Patch by Fabian Groffen.
2485
Antoine Pitrouf11d1832011-01-02 19:37:45 +00002486- Issue #10475: Don't hardcode compilers for LDSHARED/LDCXXSHARED on NetBSD
2487 and DragonFly BSD. Patch by Nicolas Joly.
2488
David Malcolm4c29e1c2011-01-06 17:39:24 +00002489- Issue #10655: Fix the build on PowerPC on Linux with GCC when building with
2490 timestamp profiling (--with-tsc): the preprocessor test for the PowerPC
2491 support now looks for "__powerpc__" as well as "__ppc__": the latter seems to
2492 only be present on OS X; the former is the correct one for Linux with GCC.
2493
Ronald Oussoren19199832011-03-14 11:57:39 -04002494- Issue #1099: Fix the build on MacOSX when building a framework with pydebug
2495 using GCC 4.0.
2496
R. David Murray0960bc52010-12-04 17:24:46 +00002497Tests
2498-----
2499
Serhiy Storchakaff99e412013-04-14 18:52:15 +03002500- Issue #11164: Remove obsolete allnodes test from minidom test.
2501
Ned Deilyc4f97f42011-05-29 02:36:17 -07002502- Issue #12205: Fix test_subprocess failure due to uninstalled test data.
2503
Ezio Melottie3992eb2011-05-14 06:24:53 +03002504- Issue #5723: Improve json tests to be executed with and without accelerations.
2505
Ezio Melotti5c5d7e22011-05-09 06:54:53 +03002506- Issue #11910: Fix test_heapq to skip the C tests when _heapq is missing.
2507
Nadeem Vawdabafc6a92011-04-19 01:35:58 +02002508- Fix test_startfile to wait for child process to terminate before finishing.
2509
Ross Lagerwallfe2f1ad2011-04-09 20:39:50 +02002510- Issue #11719: Fix message about unexpected test_msilib skip on non-Windows
2511 platforms. Patch by Nadeem Vawda.
2512
Ned Deily5f511822011-04-05 17:16:09 -07002513- Issue #7108: Fix test_commands to not fail when special attributes ('@'
2514 or '.') appear in 'ls -l' output.
2515
R David Murraycdd5fc92011-03-13 22:37:18 -04002516- Issue #11490: test_subprocess:test_leaking_fds_on_error no longer gives a
2517 false positive if the last directory in the path is inaccessible.
2518
Antoine Pitrou8bc59fa2011-01-12 18:56:09 +00002519- Issue #10822: Fix test_posix:test_getgroups failure under Solaris. Patch
2520 by Ross Lagerwall.
2521
Antoine Pitrou8c688be2011-01-03 20:49:01 +00002522- Issue #6293: Have regrtest.py echo back sys.flags. This is done by default
2523 in whole runs and enabled selectively using ``--header`` when running an
2524 explicit list of tests. Original patch by Collin Winter.
2525
R. David Murrayf8a63912010-12-14 16:26:30 +00002526- Issue #775964: test_grp now skips YP/NIS entries instead of failing when
2527 encountering them.
2528
R. David Murray0960bc52010-12-04 17:24:46 +00002529- Issue #7110: regrtest now sends test failure reports and single-failure
2530 tracebacks to stderr rather than stdout.
2531
Benjamin Peterson5ee84482010-11-28 04:49:23 +00002532
Benjamin Petersondb4c3342010-11-13 23:32:58 +00002533What's New in Python 2.7.1?
2534===========================
2535
Benjamin Peterson3e0fa422010-11-27 14:40:29 +00002536*Release date: 2010-11-27*
Benjamin Petersondb4c3342010-11-13 23:32:58 +00002537
2538Library
2539-------
2540
Éric Araujo54274ad2011-02-03 00:12:18 +00002541- Issue #2236: distutils' mkpath ignored the mode parameter.
2542
2543- Fix typo in one sdist option (medata-check).
2544
Raymond Hettinger061bf7a2010-11-30 03:15:35 +00002545- Issue #10323: itertools.islice() now consumes the minimum number of
2546 inputs before stopping. Formerly, the final state of the underlying
2547 iterator was undefined.
2548
Alexander Belopolsky1fea5c42010-11-30 01:18:17 +00002549- Issue #10565: The collections.Iterator ABC now checks for both
2550 ``__iter__`` and ``next``.
2551
Georg Brandl79f096a2010-11-26 07:57:57 +00002552- Issue #10092: Properly reset locale in calendar.Locale*Calendar classes.
2553
Martin v. Löwise03c7782010-11-22 10:53:46 +00002554- Issue #10459: Update CJK character names to Unicode 5.2.
2555
Georg Brandl5ded7912010-11-26 07:35:31 +00002556- Issue #6098: Don't claim DOM level 3 conformance in minidom.
2557
Senthil Kumaran9a5897b2010-11-29 12:41:03 +00002558- Issue #10561: In pdb, clear the breakpoints by the breakpoint number.
2559
Georg Brandl5ded7912010-11-26 07:35:31 +00002560- Issue #5762: Fix AttributeError raised by ``xml.dom.minidom`` when an empty
2561 XML namespace attribute is encountered.
2562
Georg Brandl86e0c892010-11-26 07:22:28 +00002563- Issue #1710703: Write structures for an empty ZIP archive when a ZipFile is
2564 created in modes 'a' or 'w' and then closed without adding any files. Raise
2565 BadZipfile (rather than IOError) when opening small non-ZIP files.
2566
Senthil Kumaran0b7cac12010-11-22 05:04:33 +00002567- Issue #4493: urllib2 adds '/' in front of path components which does not
2568 start with '/. Common behavior exhibited by browsers and other clients.
2569
Éric Araujo4fadd532010-11-20 20:02:41 +00002570- Issue #10407: Fix one NameError in distutils.
2571
Georg Brandl839c1132010-11-20 11:29:38 +00002572- Issue #10198: fix duplicate header written to wave files when writeframes()
2573 is called without data.
2574
Benjamin Peterson4fec9ce2010-11-20 17:31:08 +00002575- Issue #10467: Fix BytesIO.readinto() after seeking into a position after the
2576 end of the file.
2577
Senthil Kumaran501bfd82010-11-14 03:31:52 +00002578- Issue #5111: IPv6 Host in the Header is wrapped inside [ ]. Patch by Chandru.
2579
Serhiy Storchakaff99e412013-04-14 18:52:15 +03002580IDLE
2581----
2582
2583- Issue #6378: idle.bat now runs with the appropriate Python version rather than
2584 the system default. Patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar.
2585
Martin v. Löwiseebd0172010-11-14 18:17:39 +00002586Build
2587-----
2588
Brian Curtin69a106a2010-11-22 02:08:49 +00002589- Backport r83399 to allow test_distutils to pass on installed versions.
2590
Martin v. Löwiseebd0172010-11-14 18:17:39 +00002591- Issue #1303434: Generate ZIP file containing all PDBs.
2592
Ezio Melotti2623a372010-11-21 13:34:58 +00002593Tests
2594-----
2595
2596- Issue #9424: Replace deprecated assert* methods in the Python test suite.
2597
Ezio Melottibf8484e2010-11-24 21:54:47 +00002598Documentation
2599-------------
2600
2601- Issue #10299: List the built-in functions in a table in functions.rst.
2602
Benjamin Petersondb4c3342010-11-13 23:32:58 +00002603
Benjamin Petersoncc214172010-11-13 17:33:04 +00002604What's New in Python 2.7.1 release candidate 1?
2605===============================================
Benjamin Petersone3c10452010-07-03 14:51:25 +00002606
Benjamin Petersoncc214172010-11-13 17:33:04 +00002607*Release date: 2010-11-13*
Benjamin Petersone3c10452010-07-03 14:51:25 +00002608
2609Core and Builtins
2610-----------------
2611
Raymond Hettinger2ad17e12010-10-30 08:17:46 +00002612- Issue #10221: dict.pop(k) now has a key error message that includes the
2613 missing key (same message d[k] returns for missing keys).
2614
Barry Warsawfa658272010-11-02 21:03:09 +00002615- Issue #10125: Don't segfault when the iterator passed to
2616 ``file.writelines()`` closes the file.
Benjamin Petersonbf775542010-10-16 19:20:12 +00002617
Barry Warsawfa658272010-11-02 21:03:09 +00002618- Issue #10186: Fix the SyntaxError caret when the offset is equal to the
2619 length of the offending line.
Benjamin Petersonf99f33d2010-10-24 03:00:35 +00002620
Benjamin Petersonf76942d2010-10-16 03:51:38 +00002621- Issue #9997: Don't let the name "top" have special significance in scope
2622 resolution.
2623
R. David Murray1d9d16e2010-10-16 00:43:13 +00002624- Issue #9862: Compensate for broken PIPE_BUF in AIX by hard coding
2625 its value as the default 512 when compiling on AIX.
2626
Jesus Cea33c722b2010-11-04 21:39:52 +00002627- Issue #9675: CObject use is marked as a Py3k warning, not a deprecation
2628 warning.
2629
Benjamin Petersondc954242010-10-12 23:02:35 +00002630- Issue #10068: Global objects which have reference cycles with their module's
2631 dict are now cleared again. This causes issue #7140 to appear again.
2632
Mark Dickinsoncb61e5d2010-09-26 10:37:12 +00002633- Issue #9869: Make long() and PyNumber_Long return something of type
2634 long for a class whose __long__ method returns a plain int. This
2635 fixes an interpreter crash when initializing an instance of a long
2636 subclass from an object whose __long__ method returns a plain int.
2637
Benjamin Petersona5d5cc42010-10-02 00:08:58 +00002638- Issue #10006: type.__abstractmethods__ now raises an AttributeError.
2639
Antoine Pitrou0a7b65b2010-09-08 12:40:49 +00002640- Issue #9797: pystate.c wrongly assumed that zero couldn't be a valid
2641 thread-local storage key.
2642
Victor Stinnercaafd772010-09-08 10:51:01 +00002643- Issue #4947: The write() method of sys.stdout and sys.stderr uses their
2644 encoding and errors attributes instead of using utf-8 in strict mode, to get
2645 the same behaviour than the print statement.
2646
Antoine Pitrou9cf85f12010-09-01 21:17:34 +00002647- Issue #9737: Fix a crash when trying to delete a slice or an item from
2648 a memoryview object.
2649
Martin v. Löwis6086b0d2010-08-19 09:09:04 +00002650- Restore GIL in nis_cat in case of error.
2651
Benjamin Peterson6f3d6a92010-08-25 23:17:42 +00002652- Issue #9688: __basicsize__ and __itemsize__ must be accessed as Py_ssize_t.
2653
Florent Xicluna172e15f2010-08-09 20:02:00 +00002654- Issue #8530: Prevent stringlib fastsearch from reading beyond the front
2655 of an array.
2656
Raymond Hettinger3ad323e2010-08-06 10:18:56 +00002657- Issue #83755: Implicit set-to-frozenset conversion was not thread-safe.
2658
Mark Dickinsonaad57bd2010-08-01 10:45:15 +00002659- Issue #9416: Fix some issues with complex formatting where the
2660 output with no type specifier failed to match the str output:
2661
2662 - format(complex(-0.0, 2.0), '-') omitted the real part from the output,
2663 - format(complex(0.0, 2.0), '-') included a sign and parentheses.
2664
Antoine Pitrou32669782010-07-11 12:14:05 +00002665- Issue #7616: Fix copying of overlapping memoryview slices with the Intel
2666 compiler.
Benjamin Petersone3c10452010-07-03 14:51:25 +00002667
2668Library
2669-------
2670
Éric Araujo86f90742011-03-21 00:15:26 +01002671- Issue #9926: Wrapped TestSuite subclass does not get __call__ executed
Michael Foord75152ea2010-11-20 17:40:49 +00002672
Antoine Pitrou7eaa4482010-11-09 23:15:18 +00002673- Issue #4471: Properly shutdown socket in IMAP.shutdown(). Patch by
2674 Lorenzo M. Catucci.
2675
Éric Araujo2f0a0402010-11-06 15:46:46 +00002676- Issue #10126: Fix distutils' test_build when Python was built with
2677 --enable-shared.
Michael Foord75152ea2010-11-20 17:40:49 +00002678
Éric Araujo2f0a0402010-11-06 15:46:46 +00002679- Fix typo in one sdist option (medata-check).
2680
2681- Issue #9199: Fix incorrect use of distutils.cmd.Command.announce.
2682
2683- Issue #1718574: Fix options that were supposed to accept arguments but did
2684 not in build_clib.
2685
Éric Araujoe9954b52010-11-06 04:53:42 +00002686- Issue #9281: Prevent race condition with mkdir in distutils. Patch by
2687 Arfrever.
2688
Éric Araujoe28665a2010-11-06 04:36:28 +00002689- Issue #10229: Fix caching error in gettext.
2690
Éric Araujod1feff72010-11-06 04:06:18 +00002691- Issue #10252: Close file objects in a timely manner in distutils code and
2692 tests. Patch by Brian Brazil, completed by Éric Araujo.
2693
Antoine Pitrou6b1167c2010-11-05 19:55:02 +00002694- Issue #10311: The signal module now restores errno before returning from
2695 its low-level signal handler. Patch by Hallvard B Furuseth.
2696
Barry Warsawfa658272010-11-02 21:03:09 +00002697- Issue #10038: json.loads() on str should always return unicode (regression
2698 from Python 2.6). Patch by Walter Dörwald.
Michael Foorde5dc24e2010-11-01 22:11:53 +00002699
Barry Warsawfa658272010-11-02 21:03:09 +00002700- Issue #120176: Wrapped TestSuite subclass does not get __call__ executed.
2701
2702- Issue #6706: asyncore accept() method no longer raises
2703 EWOULDBLOCK/ECONNABORTED on incomplete connection attempt but returns None
2704 instead.
Giampaolo Rodolà19e9fef2010-11-01 15:07:14 +00002705
Antoine Pitrou61d14b72010-10-31 16:17:36 +00002706- Issue #10266: uu.decode didn't close in_file explicitly when it was given
2707 as a filename. Patch by Brian Brazil.
2708
Antoine Pitrou3917c092010-10-31 13:12:48 +00002709- Issue #10246: uu.encode didn't close file objects explicitly when filenames
2710 were given to it. Patch by Brian Brazil.
2711
Antoine Pitrou594a0462010-10-31 13:05:48 +00002712- Issue #10253: FileIO leaks a file descriptor when trying to open a file
2713 for append that isn't seekable. Patch by Brian Brazil.
2714
Raymond Hettingercbba8d42010-10-30 07:29:44 +00002715- Issue #6105: json.dumps now respects OrderedDict's iteration order.
2716
Antoine Pitrou638cee62010-10-28 14:50:57 +00002717- Issue #9295: Fix a crash under Windows when calling close() on a file
2718 object with custom buffering from two threads at once.
2719
Antoine Pitrou7f081022010-10-27 18:43:21 +00002720- Issue #5027: The standard ``xml`` namespace is now understood by
2721 xml.sax.saxutils.XMLGenerator as being bound to
2722 http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace. Patch by Troy J. Farrell.
2723
Brian Curtin4cc54032010-10-21 14:48:22 +00002724- Issue #10163: Skip unreadable registry keys during mimetypes
2725 initialization.
2726
Hirokazu Yamamoto50f7d7e2010-10-18 13:55:29 +00002727- Issue #5117: Fixed root directory related issue on posixpath.relpath() and
2728 ntpath.relpath().
2729
Éric Araujo86f90742011-03-21 00:15:26 +01002730- Issue #9409: Fix the regex to match all kind of filenames, for interactive
Florent Xiclunab67660f2010-10-14 21:10:45 +00002731 debugging in doctests.
2732
Victor Stinnerd2f6ae62010-10-12 22:53:51 +00002733- Issue #6612: Fix site and sysconfig to catch os.getcwd() error, eg. if the
2734 current directory was deleted. Patch written by W. Trevor King.
2735
Fred Drake577acb42010-10-11 19:13:04 +00002736- Issue #10045: Improved performance when writing after seeking past the
2737 end of the "file" in cStringIO.
2738
Vinay Sajip5e8349e2010-10-10 20:36:04 +00002739- Issue #9948: Fixed problem of losing filename case information.
2740
Antoine Pitrou58dab672010-10-10 09:54:59 +00002741- Issue #9437: Fix building C extensions with non-default LDFLAGS.
2742
Antoine Pitrou76a66aa2010-10-06 21:26:52 +00002743- Issue #9759: GzipFile now raises ValueError when an operation is attempted
2744 after the file is closed. Patch by Jeffrey Finkelstein.
2745
Éric Araujoc17776f2010-10-04 23:59:35 +00002746- Issue #9042: Fix interaction of custom translation classes and caching in
2747 gettext.
2748
Lars Gustäbel6aab8d02010-10-04 15:37:53 +00002749- Issue #9065: tarfile no longer uses "root" as the default for the uname and
2750 gname field.
2751
R. David Murray10a86762010-10-02 16:26:05 +00002752- Issue #1050268: parseaddr now correctly quotes double quote and backslash
2753 characters that appear inside quoted strings in email addresses.
2754
R. David Murray20ad3632010-10-01 15:48:49 +00002755- Issue #10004: quoprimime no longer generates a traceback when confronted
2756 with invalid characters after '=' in a Q-encoded word.
2757
Antoine Pitrou66b5df62010-09-27 18:16:46 +00002758- Issue #9950: Fix socket.sendall() crash or misbehaviour when a signal is
2759 received. Now sendall() properly calls signal handlers if necessary,
2760 and retries sending if these returned successfully, including on sockets
2761 with a timeout.
2762
Vinay Sajip3eac5912010-09-25 17:48:25 +00002763- Issue #9947: logging: Fixed locking bug in stopListening.
2764
Vinay Sajip546885e2010-09-25 17:42:36 +00002765- Issue #9945: logging: Fixed locking bugs in addHandler/removeHandler.
2766
Alexander Belopolsky517185e2010-09-24 18:14:18 +00002767- Issue #9936: Fixed executable lines' search in the trace module.
2768
Antoine Pitrou2c7d6852010-09-23 19:55:24 +00002769- Issue #9928: Properly initialize the types exported by the bz2 module.
2770
Antoine Pitrou6391b342010-09-14 18:48:19 +00002771- Issue #9854: The default read() implementation in io.RawIOBase now
2772 handles non-blocking readinto() returning None correctly.
2773
Antoine Pitrouf7f390a2010-09-14 14:37:18 +00002774- Issue #9729: Fix the signature of SSLSocket.recvfrom() and
2775 SSLSocket.sendto() to match the corresponding socket methods. Also,
2776 fix various SSLSocket methods to raise socket.error rather than an
2777 unhelpful TypeError when called on an unconnected socket. Original patch
2778 by Andrew Bennetts.
2779
Raymond Hettinger74f869e2010-09-13 22:14:36 +00002780- Issue #9826: OrderedDict.__repr__ can now handle self-referential
2781 values: d['x'] = d.
2782
Victor Stinner8fc843b2010-09-17 23:35:50 +00002783- Issue #767645: Set os.path.supports_unicode_filenames to True on Mac OS X.
Victor Stinner46287f52010-09-13 20:31:34 +00002784
Antoine Pitroue4195e82010-09-12 14:56:27 +00002785- Issue #9837: The read() method of ZipExtFile objects (as returned by
2786 ZipFile.open()) could return more bytes than requested.
2787
Raymond Hettinger20397532010-09-12 02:11:45 +00002788- Issue #9825: removed __del__ from the definition of collections.OrderedDict.
2789 This prevents user-created self-referencing ordered dictionaries from
2790 becoming permanently uncollectable GC garbage. The downside is that
2791 removing __del__ means that the internal doubly-linked list has to wait for
2792 GC collection rather than freeing memory immediately when the refcnt drops
2793 to zero.
2794
Raymond Hettingerffd2a422010-09-10 10:47:22 +00002795- Issue #9816: random.Random.jumpahead(n) did not produce a sufficiently
Victor Stinnerd2f6ae62010-10-12 22:53:51 +00002796 different internal state for small values of n. Fixed by salting the
Raymond Hettingerffd2a422010-09-10 10:47:22 +00002797 value.
2798
Antoine Pitrouc818ed42010-09-07 21:40:25 +00002799- Issue #9792: In case of connection failure, socket.create_connection()
2800 would swallow the exception and raise a new one, making it impossible
2801 to fetch the original errno, or to filter timeout errors. Now the
2802 original error is re-raised.
2803
Antoine Pitrouf4f61712010-09-07 16:34:47 +00002804- Issue #9758: When fcntl.ioctl() was called with mutable_flag set to True,
2805 and the passed buffer was exactly 1024 bytes long, the buffer wouldn't
2806 be updated back after the system call. Original patch by Brian Brazil.
2807
Antoine Pitroudca9de92010-09-04 17:52:26 +00002808- Issue #1100562: Fix deep-copying of objects derived from the list and
2809 dict types. Patch by Michele Orrù and Björn Lindqvist.
2810
Fred Drakea1e627d2010-09-03 03:55:50 +00002811- Issue #7005: Fixed output of None values for RawConfigParser.write and
2812 ConfigParser.write.
2813
Daniel Stutzbach66c981b2010-08-31 20:29:39 +00002814- Issue #808164: Fixed socket.close to avoid references to globals, to
2815 avoid issues when socket.close is called from a __del__ method.
2816
Terry Reedyd2d2ae92010-11-11 23:22:19 +00002817- Issue #2986: difflib.SequenceMatcher gets a new parameter, autojunk, which
2818 can be set to False to turn off the previously undocumented 'popularity'
2819 heuristic. Patch by Terry Reedy and Eli Bendersky
2820
Senthil Kumaran7e8fd5e2010-08-26 06:20:13 +00002821- Issue #8797: urllib2 does a retry for Basic Authentication failure instead of
2822 falling into recursion.
2823
R. David Murray7c4bf552010-08-25 01:45:57 +00002824- Issue #1194222: email.utils.parsedate now returns RFC2822 compliant four
2825 character years even if the message contains RFC822 two character years.
2826
Daniel Stutzbach91287322010-08-24 21:09:30 +00002827- Issue #8750: Fixed MutableSet's methods to correctly handle
2828 reflexive operations, namely x -= x and x ^= x.
2829
Victor Stinnercaafd772010-09-08 10:51:01 +00002830- Issue #9129: smtpd.py is vulnerable to DoS attacks deriving from missing
Giampaolo Rodolà8664d742010-08-23 22:48:51 +00002831 error handling when accepting a new connection.
2832
Giampaolo Rodolà63308d72010-08-23 21:58:47 +00002833- Issue #658749: asyncore's connect() method now correctly interprets winsock
2834 errors.
2835
Vinay Sajip1ddd51f2010-08-23 17:50:30 +00002836- Issue #9501: Fixed logging regressions in cleanup code.
2837
Raymond Hettinger917bba12010-08-22 08:01:58 +00002838- Issue #9214: Set operations on KeysView or ItemsView in the collections
2839 module now correctly return a set. (Patch by Eli Bendersky.)
2840
Antoine Pitrou3ebaed62010-08-21 19:17:25 +00002841- Issue #9617: Signals received during a low-level write operation aren't
2842 ignored by the buffered IO layer anymore.
2843
Benjamin Peterson52c36052010-08-21 03:03:22 +00002844- Issue #2521: Use weakrefs on for caching in the abc module, so that classes
2845 are not held onto after they are deleted elsewhere.
2846
Raymond Hettingera54b2da2010-08-17 19:03:06 +00002847- Issue #9626: the view methods for collections.OrderedDict() were returning
2848 the unordered versions inherited from dict. Those methods are now
2849 overridden to provide ordered views.
2850
Éric Araujo0389ae62010-08-14 03:07:46 +00002851- Issue #8688: MANIFEST files created by distutils now include a magic
2852 comment indicating they are generated. Manually maintained MANIFESTs
2853 without this marker will not be overwritten or removed.
2854
Antoine Pitroue1436d12010-08-12 15:25:51 +00002855- Issue #7467: when reading a file from a ZIP archive, its CRC is checked
2856 and a BadZipfile error is raised if it doesn't match (as used to be the
2857 case in Python 2.5 and earlier).
2858
Antoine Pitroucb4f47c2010-08-11 13:40:17 +00002859- Issue #9550: a BufferedReader could issue an additional read when the
2860 original read request had been satisfied, which could block indefinitely
2861 when the underlying raw IO channel was e.g. a socket. Report and original
2862 patch by Jason V. Miller.
2863
Fred Drake0a1fa0e2010-08-10 13:09:54 +00002864- Issue #9551: Don't raise TypeError when setting the value to None for
2865 SafeConfigParser instances constructed with allow_no_value == True.
2866
Antoine Pitrou8cdede42010-08-10 00:04:13 +00002867- Issue #6915: Under Windows, os.listdir() didn't release the Global
2868 Interpreter Lock around all system calls. Original patch by Ryan Kelly.
2869
Antoine Pitrou99009162010-08-09 22:51:24 +00002870- Issue #3757: thread-local objects now support cyclic garbage collection.
2871 Thread-local objects involved in reference cycles will be deallocated
2872 timely by the cyclic GC, even if the underlying thread is still running.
2873
Florent Xicluna2f1b1ff2010-08-09 20:46:49 +00002874- Issue #6231: Fix xml.etree.ElementInclude to include the tail of the
2875 current node.
2876
Thomas Heller5c7589c2010-08-08 18:28:59 +00002877- Issue #6869: Fix a refcount problem in the _ctypes extension.
2878
Thomas Heller001d3a12010-08-08 17:56:41 +00002879- Issue5504 - ctypes should now work with systems where mmap can't be
2880 PROT_WRITE and PROT_EXEC.
2881
Senthil Kumarane677ecf2010-08-08 11:56:31 +00002882- Fix Issue8280 - urllib2's Request method will remove fragements in the url.
2883 This is how it is supposed to work, wget and curl do the same. Previous
2884 behavior was wrong.
2885
Giampaolo Rodolà47617ab2010-08-04 08:35:25 +00002886- Issue #2944: asyncore doesn't handle connection refused correctly.
2887
R. David Murray75a292e2010-08-04 00:05:50 +00002888- Issue #3196: email header decoding is now forgiving if an RFC2047
2889 encoded word encoded in base64 is lacking padding.
2890
R. David Murray1cbf78e2010-08-03 18:14:01 +00002891- Issue #9444: Argparse now uses the first element of prefix_chars as
2892 the option character for the added 'h/help' option if prefix_chars
2893 does not contain a '-', instead of raising an error.
2894
Georg Brandl7f0c3ff2010-08-01 21:18:52 +00002895- Issue #9354: Provide getsockopt() in asyncore's file_wrapper.
2896
Florent Xicluna92847452010-09-13 17:36:36 +00002897- Issue #9428: Fix running scripts with the profile/cProfile modules from
2898 the command line.
2899
Georg Brandl9c5efad2010-08-02 21:29:14 +00002900- Issue #7781: Fix restricting stats by entry counts in the pstats
2901 interactive browser.
2902
2903- Issue #9209: Do not crash in the pstats interactive browser on invalid
2904 regular expressions.
2905
Georg Brandla2a92cf2010-08-02 17:34:58 +00002906- Issue #7372: Fix pstats regression when stripping paths from profile
2907 data generated with the profile module.
2908
Georg Brandl2bd953e2010-08-01 20:59:03 +00002909- Issue #4108: In urllib.robotparser, if there are multiple 'User-agent: *'
2910 entries, consider the first one.
2911
Antoine Pitrou39703012010-08-01 20:13:11 +00002912- Issue #8397: Raise an error when attempting to mix iteration and regular
2913 reads on a BZ2File object, rather than returning incorrect results.
2914
Georg Brandl50775992010-08-01 19:33:15 +00002915- Issue #5294: Fix the behavior of pdb's "continue" command when called
2916 in the top-level debugged frame.
2917
2918- Issue #5727: Restore the ability to use readline when calling into pdb
2919 in doctests.
2920
2921- Issue #6719: In pdb, do not stop somewhere in the encodings machinery
2922 if the source file to be debugged is in a non-builtin encoding.
2923
2924- Issue #8048: Prevent doctests from failing when sys.displayhook has
2925 been reassigned.
2926
2927- Issue #8015: In pdb, do not crash when an empty line is entered as
2928 a breakpoint command.
2929
Antoine Pitrou607951d2010-08-01 16:57:17 +00002930- Issue #9448: Fix a leak of OS resources (mutexes or semaphores) when
2931 re-initializing a buffered IO object by calling its ``__init__`` method.
2932
Georg Brandle2773252010-08-01 19:14:56 +00002933- Issue #7909: Do not touch paths with the special prefixes ``\\.\``
2934 or ``\\?\`` in ntpath.normpath().
2935
Georg Brandl004c74d2010-08-01 19:06:51 +00002936- Issue #5146: Handle UID THREAD command correctly in imaplib.
2937
2938- Issue #5147: Fix the header generated for cookie files written by
2939 http.cookiejar.MozillaCookieJar.
2940
2941- Issue #8198: In pydoc, output all help text to the correct stream
2942 when sys.stdout is reassigned.
2943
Georg Brandl0347c712010-08-01 19:02:09 +00002944- Issue #7395: Fix tracebacks in pstats interactive browser.
2945
2946- Issue #8230: Fix Lib/test/sortperf.py.
2947
Georg Brandl78e69572010-08-01 18:52:52 +00002948- Issue #1713: Fix os.path.ismount(), which returned true for symbolic links
2949 across devices.
2950
2951- Issue #8826: Properly load old-style "expires" attribute in http.cookies.
2952
2953- Issue #1690103: Fix initial namespace for code run with trace.main().
2954
Georg Brandl1f05e2e2010-08-01 08:22:05 +00002955- Issue #8471: In doctest, properly reset the output stream to an empty
2956 string when Unicode was previously output.
2957
R. David Murray58f15b62010-08-01 04:04:03 +00002958- Issue #8620: when a Cmd is fed input that reaches EOF without a final
2959 newline, it no longer truncates the last character of the last command line.
2960
Victor Stinner73363e82010-07-28 01:39:45 +00002961- Issue #6213: Implement getstate() and setstate() methods of utf-8-sig and
2962 utf-16 incremental encoders.
2963
Brian Curtinb2ec2322010-07-26 02:40:17 +00002964- Issue #7113: Speed up loading in ConfigParser. Patch by Łukasz Langa.
2965
Gregory P. Smith2a91ce82010-07-25 19:11:36 +00002966- Issue #3704: cookielib was not properly handling URLs with a / in the
2967 parameters.
2968
Victor Stinner8b0d84e2010-07-24 02:51:49 +00002969- Issue #9032: XML-RPC client retries the request on EPIPE error. The EPIPE
2970 error occurs when the server closes the socket and the client sends a big
2971 XML-RPC request.
2972
Victor Stinner2c6aee92010-07-24 02:46:16 +00002973- Issue #5542: Remove special logic that closes HTTPConnection socket on EPIPE.
2974
Victor Stinner4c16d122010-07-24 01:07:52 +00002975- Issue #4629: getopt raises an error if an argument ends with = whereas getopt
2976 doesn't except a value (eg. --help= is rejected if getopt uses ['help='] long
2977 options).
2978
Ronald Oussoren3a04a252010-07-23 12:41:00 +00002979- Issue #7895: platform.mac_ver() no longer crashes after calling os.fork()
2980
Antoine Pitrou7a7013e2010-07-21 16:47:28 +00002981- Issue #5395: array.fromfile() would raise a spurious EOFError when an
2982 I/O error occurred. Now an IOError is raised instead. Patch by chuck
2983 (Jan Hosang).
2984
R. David Murrayf6cbdcb2010-07-09 13:25:56 +00002985- Issue #7646: The fnmatch pattern cache no longer grows without bound.
2986
Mark Dickinson7ea29b02010-07-08 21:28:31 +00002987- Issue #9136: Fix 'dictionary changed size during iteration'
2988 RuntimeError produced when profiling the decimal module. This was
2989 due to a dangerous iteration over 'locals()' in Context.__init__.
2990
2991- Fix extreme speed issue in Decimal.pow when the base is an exact
2992 power of 10 and the exponent is tiny (for example,
2993 Decimal(10) ** Decimal('1e-999999999')).
2994
R. David Murray3caf7b92010-07-05 16:06:05 +00002995- Issue #9161: Fix regression in optparse's acceptance of unicode
2996 strings in add_option calls.
2997
Mark Dickinson75b44b32010-07-04 16:47:56 +00002998- Issue #9130: Fix validation of relative imports in parser module.
2999
Mark Dickinsona7ee59b2010-07-04 16:23:54 +00003000- Issue #9128: Fix validation of class decorators in parser module.
Benjamin Petersone3c10452010-07-03 14:51:25 +00003001
Ronald Oussoren75956202010-07-11 08:52:52 +00003002- Issue #9164: Ensure sysconfig handles dupblice archs while building on OSX
3003
Alexander Belopolsky9d17da32010-09-13 16:45:02 +00003004- Issue #9315: Fix for the trace module to record correct class name
3005 for tracing methods.
3006
Benjamin Petersone3c10452010-07-03 14:51:25 +00003007Extension Modules
3008-----------------
3009
Georg Brandl67c27332010-10-24 14:16:05 +00003010- Issue #9054: Fix a crash occurring when using the pyexpat module
3011 with expat version 2.0.1.
3012
Brian Curtin1390dd72010-10-01 16:44:03 +00003013- Issue #10003: Allow handling of SIGBREAK on Windows. Fixes a regression
Victor Stinnerd2f6ae62010-10-12 22:53:51 +00003014 introduced by issue #9324.
Brian Curtin1390dd72010-10-01 16:44:03 +00003015
Antoine Pitroue6ebcda2010-09-04 21:24:42 +00003016- Issue #8734: Avoid crash in msvcrt.get_osfhandle() when an invalid file
3017 descriptor is provided. Patch by Pascal Chambon.
3018
Antoine Pitrou247e2fd2010-09-04 17:27:10 +00003019- Issue #7736: Release the GIL around calls to opendir() and closedir()
3020 in the posix module. Patch by Marcin Bachry.
3021
Benjamin Peterson52c36052010-08-21 03:03:22 +00003022- As a result of issue #2521, the _weakref module is now compiled into the
3023 interpreter by default.
3024
Brian Curtin24af0e92010-08-06 19:41:01 +00003025- Issue #9324: Add parameter validation to signal.signal on Windows in order
3026 to prevent crashes.
3027
Mark Dickinson5e684332010-08-06 09:44:48 +00003028- Issue #9526: Remove some outdated (int) casts that were preventing
3029 the array module from working correctly with arrays of more than
3030 2**31 elements.
3031
Mark Dickinsonf38d8882010-08-03 18:46:28 +00003032- Fix memory leak in ssl._ssl._test_decode_cert.
3033
Mark Dickinson0f981282010-08-03 16:54:19 +00003034- Issue #8065: Fix memory leak in readline module (from failure to
3035 free the result of history_get_history_state()).
3036
Mark Dickinson4ee98532010-08-03 16:18:39 +00003037- Issue #9450: Fix memory leak in readline.replace_history_item and
3038 readline.remove_history_item for readline version >= 5.0.
3039
Brian Curtinba6c08e2010-08-01 15:47:53 +00003040- Issue #8105: Validate file descriptor passed to mmap.mmap on Windows.
3041
Georg Brandla4917272010-07-31 21:22:36 +00003042- Issue #1019882: Fix IndexError when loading certain hotshot stats.
3043
Mark Dickinson96527c32010-07-29 21:44:47 +00003044- Issue #9422: Fix memory leak when re-initializing a struct.Struct object.
3045
Ronald Oussoren9e7ffae2010-07-24 09:46:41 +00003046- Issue #7900: The getgroups(2) system call on MacOSX behaves rather oddly
3047 compared to other unix systems. In particular, os.getgroups() does
3048 not reflect any changes made using os.setgroups() but basicly always
3049 returns the same information as the id command.
3050
3051 os.getgroups() can now return more than 16 groups on MacOSX.
3052
Mark Dickinsoncac0b832010-07-18 07:55:55 +00003053- Issue #9277: Fix bug in struct.pack for bools in standard mode
3054 (e.g., struct.pack('>?')): if conversion to bool raised an exception
3055 then that exception wasn't properly propagated on machines where
3056 char is unsigned.
3057
Matthias Klose6e86bf72010-07-30 21:27:18 +00003058- Issue #7567: Don't call `setupterm' twice.
3059
Ronald Oussoren19199832011-03-14 11:57:39 -04003060
Antoine Pitrou2fba0b32010-09-08 21:12:36 +00003061Tools/Demos
3062-----------
3063
Benjamin Peterson4de6b062010-10-13 22:07:17 +00003064- Issue #7287: Demo/imputil/knee.py was removed.
3065
Antoine Pitrou2fba0b32010-09-08 21:12:36 +00003066- Issue #9188: The gdb extension now handles correctly narrow (UCS2) as well
3067 as wide (UCS4) unicode builds for both the host interpreter (embedded
3068 inside gdb) and the interpreter under test.
3069
Benjamin Peterson4082d9b2010-07-17 20:41:16 +00003070Build
3071-----
3072
Antoine Pitroue0c5f3c2010-10-27 20:35:26 +00003073- Issue #8852: Allow the socket module to build on OpenSolaris.
3074
Antoine Pitrou7be5a652010-10-10 08:14:41 +00003075- Issue #10054: Some platforms provide uintptr_t in inttypes.h. Patch by
3076 Akira Kitada.
3077
Antoine Pitrou22ad2452010-10-09 15:28:59 +00003078- Issue #10055: Make json C89-compliant in UCS4 mode.
3079
Antoine Pitrou285cd162010-09-21 15:23:17 +00003080- Issue #1633863: Don't ignore $CC under AIX.
3081
Hirokazu Yamamotoc4caa9c2010-09-18 22:33:33 +00003082- Issue #9810: Compile bzip2 source files in python's project file
3083 directly. It used to be built with bzip2's makefile.
3084
Antoine Pitrouaabdceb2010-09-10 20:03:17 +00003085- Issue #941346: Improve the build process under AIX and allow Python to
3086 be built as a shared library. Patch by Sébastien Sablé.
3087
Antoine Pitrou85729812010-09-07 14:55:24 +00003088- Issue #4026: Make the fcntl extension build under AIX. Patch by Sébastien
3089 Sablé.
3090
Antoine Pitroua74c3342010-09-03 16:15:17 +00003091- Issue #3101: Helper functions _add_one_to_index_C() and
3092 _add_one_to_index_F() become _Py_add_one_to_index_C() and
3093 _Py_add_one_to_index_F(), respectively.
Antoine Pitrou1fcdba82010-09-01 13:02:50 +00003094
3095- Issue #9700: define HAVE_BROKEN_POSIX_SEMAPHORES under AIX 6.x. Patch by
3096 Sébastien Sablé.
3097
Benjamin Peterson4082d9b2010-07-17 20:41:16 +00003098- Issue #9280: Make sharedinstall depend on sharedmods.
3099
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00003100- Issue #9275: The OSX installer once again installs links to binaries in
3101 ``/usr/local/bin``.
Ronald Oussoren8a14db82010-07-23 11:13:03 +00003102
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00003103- Issue #9392: A framework build on OSX will once again use a versioned name
3104 of the ``2to3`` tool, that is you can use ``2to3-2.7`` to select the Python
3105 2.7 edition of 2to3.
Ronald Oussoren0969c672010-07-29 13:18:19 +00003106
Ronald Oussorenec2fe002010-09-28 14:01:49 +00003107- Issue #9701: The MacOSX installer can patch the shell profile to ensure that
3108 the "bin" directory inside the framework is on the shell's search path. This
3109 feature now also supports the ZSH shell.
3110
Ronald Oussoren24215252010-10-20 13:11:46 +00003111- Issue #7473: avoid link errors when building a framework with a different
3112 set of architectures than the one that is currently installed.
Ronald Oussorenec2fe002010-09-28 14:01:49 +00003113
Antoine Pitrou22db7352010-07-08 18:54:04 +00003114Tests
3115-----
3116
Hirokazu Yamamoto1f504f12010-10-08 09:41:13 +00003117- Issue #9978: Wait until subprocess completes initialization. (Win32KillTests
3118 in test_os)
3119
Antoine Pitrou767cbc42010-09-18 18:15:33 +00003120- Issue #9894: Do not hardcode ENOENT in test_subprocess.
3121
Florent Xicluna92847452010-09-13 17:36:36 +00003122- Issue #9323: Make test.regrtest.__file__ absolute, this was not always the
3123 case when running profile or trace, for example.
3124
Alexander Belopolsky9d17da32010-09-13 16:45:02 +00003125- Issue #9315: Added tests for the trace module. Patch by Eli Bendersky.
Florent Xicluna92847452010-09-13 17:36:36 +00003126
Florent Xiclunac0c0b142010-09-13 08:53:00 +00003127- Strengthen test_unicode with explicit type checking for assertEqual tests.
3128
Giampaolo Rodolà633e4742010-08-14 17:04:46 +00003129- Issue #8857: Provide a test case for socket.getaddrinfo.
3130
Florent Xicluna172e15f2010-08-09 20:02:00 +00003131- Issue #7564: Skip test_ioctl if another process is attached to /dev/tty.
3132
Mark Dickinson28669332010-08-07 13:07:11 +00003133- Issue #8433: Fix test_curses failure with newer versions of ncurses.
3134
Antoine Pitrou185fae72010-08-04 15:54:33 +00003135- Issue #9496: Provide a test suite for the rlcompleter module. Patch by
3136 Michele Orrù.
3137
Antoine Pitrou22db7352010-07-08 18:54:04 +00003138- Issue #8605: Skip test_gdb if Python is compiled with optimizations.
3139
Ronald Oussoren8928e322010-09-28 14:43:59 +00003140- Issue #9568: Fix test_urllib2_localnet on OS X 10.3.
3141
Brett Cannon8c4fa112010-07-21 09:52:10 +00003142Documentation
3143-------------
3144
Matthias Klose3e8230d2010-09-12 16:51:29 +00003145- Issue #9817: Add expat COPYING file; add expat, libffi and expat licenses
3146 to Doc/license.rst.
3147
Brian Curtin4d808892010-08-05 19:00:45 +00003148- Issue #9524: Document that two CTRL* signals are meant for use only
3149 with os.kill.
3150
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00003151- Issue #9255: Document that the 'test' package is for internal Python use
3152 only.
Brett Cannon9ae2cb72010-07-23 12:07:27 +00003153
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00003154- Issue #7829: Document in dis that bytecode is an implementation detail.
Brett Cannon8c4fa112010-07-21 09:52:10 +00003155
Benjamin Petersone3c10452010-07-03 14:51:25 +00003156
Benjamin Peterson4f612592010-06-21 17:28:30 +00003157What's New in Python 2.7?
3158=========================
3159
Benjamin Petersonc60082d2010-07-03 13:56:13 +00003160*Release date: 2010-07-03*
Benjamin Peterson4f612592010-06-21 17:28:30 +00003161
3162Core and Builtins
3163-----------------
3164
Benjamin Peterson947ce582010-06-24 00:12:40 +00003165- Prevent assignment to set literals.
3166
Benjamin Peterson4f612592010-06-21 17:28:30 +00003167Library
3168-------
3169
Antoine Pitroua4083502010-08-28 18:29:13 +00003170- Issue #1868: Eliminate subtle timing issues in thread-local objects by
3171 getting rid of the cached copy of thread-local attribute dictionary.
3172
Benjamin Peterson6a336f62010-07-03 13:57:30 +00003173- Issue #9125: Add recognition of 'except ... as ...' syntax to parser module.
3174
3175Extension Modules
3176-----------------
3177
Benjamin Petersonc670b7e2010-07-03 13:49:23 +00003178- Issue #7673: Fix security vulnerability (CVE-2010-2089) in the audioop module,
3179 ensure that the input string length is a multiple of the frame size.
Victor Stinner15e5b1b2010-07-03 13:36:19 +00003180
Antoine Pitrou0dddf602010-06-25 00:03:21 +00003181- Issue #9075: In the ssl module, remove the setting of a ``debug`` flag
3182 on an OpenSSL structure.
3183
Benjamin Peterson00633672010-07-03 13:56:56 +00003184
Michael Foord83d35762010-06-10 16:32:00 +00003185What's New in Python 2.7 release candidate 2?
3186=============================================
Benjamin Peterson2f3d9f92010-06-06 02:09:33 +00003187
Benjamin Petersonbfcedf42010-06-21 15:57:57 +00003188*Release date: 2010-06-20*
Benjamin Peterson2f3d9f92010-06-06 02:09:33 +00003189
3190Core and Builtins
3191-----------------
3192
Benjamin Petersonb9133892010-06-22 19:16:37 +00003193- Issue #9058: Remove assertions about INT_MAX in UnicodeDecodeError.
3194
Nick Coghlan8842c352010-06-13 06:50:39 +00003195- Issue #8202: Previous change to ``sys.argv[0]`` handling for -m command line
3196 option reverted due to unintended side effects on handling of ``sys.path``.
3197 See tracker issue for details.
3198
Antoine Pitroucca3a3f2010-06-11 21:42:26 +00003199- Issue #8941: decoding big endian UTF-32 data in UCS-2 builds could crash
3200 the interpreter with characters outside the Basic Multilingual Plane
3201 (higher than 0x10000).
3202
Benjamin Petersonfa4c59f2010-06-08 14:53:29 +00003203- In the unicode/str.format(), raise a ValueError when indexes to arguments are
3204 too large.
Benjamin Peterson13e934a2010-06-07 22:23:23 +00003205
Benjamin Petersonafa1b302010-06-21 15:27:46 +00003206Build
3207-----
3208
3209- Issue #8854: Fix finding Visual Studio 2008 on Windows x64.
3210
Benjamin Peterson2f3d9f92010-06-06 02:09:33 +00003211Library
3212-------
Mark Dickinsone979ec82010-06-13 10:50:29 +00003213
Victor Stinner15e5b1b2010-07-03 13:36:19 +00003214- Issue #6589: cleanup asyncore.socket_map in case smtpd.SMTPServer constructor
Giampaolo Rodolàe00e2f02010-06-30 17:38:28 +00003215 raises an exception.
3216
Thomas Hellerf1800992010-06-21 14:00:24 +00003217- Issue #8959: fix regression caused by using unmodified libffi
3218 library on Windows. ctypes does now again check the stack before
3219 and after calling foreign functions.
3220
R. David Murraydf1cf302010-06-17 01:36:52 +00003221- Issue #8720: fix regression caused by fix for #4050 by making getsourcefile
3222 smart enough to find source files in the linecache.
3223
Mark Dickinsone979ec82010-06-13 10:50:29 +00003224- Issue #8986: math.erfc was incorrectly raising OverflowError for
3225 values between -27.3 and -30.0 on some platforms.
3226
Vinay Sajip936efc72010-06-11 22:56:50 +00003227- Issue #8924: logging: Improved error handling for Unicode in exception text.
Benjamin Peterson2f3d9f92010-06-06 02:09:33 +00003228
Michael Foord83d35762010-06-10 16:32:00 +00003229- Issue #8948: cleanup functions and class / module setups and teardowns are
3230 now honored in unittest debug methods.
3231
Tarek Ziadé770fd152010-06-06 20:05:20 +00003232Documentation
3233-------------
3234
3235- Issues #8909: Added the size of the bitmap used in the installer created by
3236 distutils' bdist_wininst. Patch by Anatoly Techtonik.
3237
Victor Stinnerb65bd2e2010-06-11 19:22:28 +00003238Misc
3239----
3240
3241- Issue #8362: Add maintainers.rst: list of module maintainers
3242
Benjamin Peterson2f3d9f92010-06-06 02:09:33 +00003243
Antoine Pitrou6001b0b2010-05-09 18:32:48 +00003244What's New in Python 2.7 Release Candidate 1?
3245=============================================
Benjamin Peterson534b8de2010-05-08 18:53:42 +00003246
Benjamin Peterson77d534e2010-06-06 00:22:09 +00003247*Release date: 2010-06-05*
Benjamin Peterson534b8de2010-05-08 18:53:42 +00003248
3249Core and Builtins
3250-----------------
3251
Ezio Melottiab2eb0e2010-06-05 19:21:32 +00003252- Issue #8271: during the decoding of an invalid UTF-8 byte sequence, only the
3253 start byte and the continuation byte(s) are now considered invalid, instead
3254 of the number of bytes specified by the start byte.
3255 E.g.: '\xf1\x80AB'.decode('utf-8', 'replace') now returns u'\ufffdAB' and
3256 replaces with U+FFFD only the start byte ('\xf1') and the continuation byte
3257 ('\x80') even if '\xf1' is the start byte of a 4-bytes sequence.
3258 Previous versions returned a single u'\ufffd'.
3259
Mark Dickinson23f0d6b2010-06-05 11:52:24 +00003260- Issue #8627: Remove bogus "Overriding __cmp__ blocks inheritance of
Mark Dickinsone4b83e02010-06-05 12:14:43 +00003261 __hash__ in 3.x" warning. Also fix "XXX undetected error" that
3262 arises from the "Overriding __eq__ blocks inheritance ..." warning
3263 when turned into an exception: in this case the exception simply
3264 gets ignored.
Mark Dickinson23f0d6b2010-06-05 11:52:24 +00003265
Mark Dickinson4ca7c3c2010-05-30 13:18:10 +00003266- Issue #8748: Fix two issues with comparisons between complex and integer
3267 objects. (1) The comparison could incorrectly return True in some cases
3268 (2**53+1 == complex(2**53) == 2**53), breaking transivity of equality.
3269 (2) The comparison raised an OverflowError for large integers, leading
3270 to unpredictable exceptions when combining integers and complex objects
3271 in sets or dicts.
3272
Mark Dickinson81336372010-05-30 12:12:25 +00003273- Issue #5211: Implicit coercion for the complex type is now completely
3274 removed. (Coercion for arithmetic operations was already removed in 2.7
3275 alpha 4, but coercion for rich comparisons was accidentally left in.)
3276
Victor Stinnerc49dfcc2010-05-25 22:30:32 +00003277- Issue #3798: Write sys.exit() message to sys.stderr to use stderr encoding
3278 and error handler, instead of writing to the C stderr file in utf-8
3279
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003280- Issue #7902: When using explicit relative import syntax, don't try implicit
3281 relative import semantics.
Brett Cannoneb3cd302010-05-20 18:37:55 +00003282
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003283- Issue #7079: Fix a possible crash when closing a file object while using it
3284 from another thread. Patch by Daniel Stutzbach.
Antoine Pitrou83137c22010-05-17 19:56:59 +00003285
Victor Stinnerb65bd2e2010-06-11 19:22:28 +00003286- Issue #8868: Fix that ensures that python scripts have access to the
Ronald Oussoren27c72e92010-06-02 03:47:14 +00003287 Window Server again in a framework build on MacOSX 10.5 or earlier.
3288
Antoine Pitrou6a265602010-05-21 17:12:38 +00003289C-API
3290-----
3291
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003292- Issue #5753: A new C API function, :cfunc:`PySys_SetArgvEx`, allows embedders
3293 of the interpreter to set sys.argv without also modifying sys.path. This
3294 helps fix `CVE-2008-5983
Antoine Pitrou6a265602010-05-21 17:12:38 +00003295 <http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5983>`_.
3296
Benjamin Peterson534b8de2010-05-08 18:53:42 +00003297Library
3298-------
3299
Michael Foordd8918592010-06-05 19:51:38 +00003300- Issue #8302: SkipTest in unittest.TestCase.setUpClass or setUpModule is now
3301 reported as a skip rather than an error.
3302
3303- Issue #8351: Excessively large diffs due to
3304 unittest.TestCase.assertSequenceEqual are no longer included in failure
3305 reports.
3306
Alexander Belopolsky3b818bf2010-06-05 14:54:26 +00003307- Issue #8899: time.struct_time now has class and atribute docstrings.
3308
R. David Murraye7e505b2010-06-04 19:51:06 +00003309- Issue #4487: email now accepts as charset aliases all codec aliases
3310 accepted by the codecs module.
3311
Martin v. Löwiseba67c02010-06-04 19:39:07 +00003312- Issue #6470: Drop UNC prefix in FixTk.
3313
R. David Murray61746d52010-06-03 15:43:20 +00003314- Issue #5610: feedparser no longer eats extra characters at the end of
3315 a body part if the body part ends with a \r\n.
3316
Lars Gustäbel2ee9c6f2010-06-03 09:56:22 +00003317- Issue #8833: tarfile created hard link entries with a size field != 0 by
3318 mistake.
3319
R. David Murray52dcd452010-06-02 22:03:15 +00003320- Issue #1368247: set_charset (and therefore MIMEText) now automatically
3321 encodes a unicode _payload to the output_charset.
3322
Alexander Belopolsky9292ee02010-05-27 20:55:27 +00003323- Issue #7150: Raise OverflowError if the result of adding or subtracting
3324 timedelta from date or datetime falls outside of the MINYEAR:MAXYEAR range.
3325
Victor Stinner04ee3372010-05-24 21:37:28 +00003326- Issue #6662: Fix parsing of malformatted charref (&#bad;), patch written by
3327 Fredrik Håård
Victor Stinner554a3b82010-05-24 21:33:24 +00003328
Georg Brandlf0757a22010-05-24 21:29:07 +00003329- Issue #8016: Add the CP858 codec.
3330
Georg Brandl5d0ca2c2010-05-22 11:29:19 +00003331- Issue #3924: Ignore cookies with invalid "version" field in cookielib.
3332
Victor Stinner7df55da2010-05-22 13:37:56 +00003333- Issue #6268: Fix seek() method of codecs.open(), don't read or write the BOM
3334 twice after seek(0). Fix also reset() method of codecs, UTF-16, UTF-32 and
3335 StreamWriter classes.
Victor Stinner262be5e2010-05-22 02:11:07 +00003336
Victor Stinnerd6703b52010-05-21 22:50:28 +00003337- Issue #5640: Fix Shift-JIS incremental encoder for error handlers different
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003338 than 'strict'.
Victor Stinnerd6703b52010-05-21 22:50:28 +00003339
Benjamin Peterson266e4542010-05-21 21:31:24 +00003340- Issue #8782: Add a trailing newline in linecache.updatecache to the last line
3341 of files without one.
3342
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003343- Issue #8729: Return NotImplemented from ``collections.Mapping.__eq__()`` when
Benjamin Petersoneb318d32010-05-21 20:51:45 +00003344 comparing to a non-mapping.
3345
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003346- Issue #8759: Fix user paths in sysconfig for posix and os2 schemes.
Tarek Ziadé8f692272010-05-19 22:20:14 +00003347
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003348- Issue #1285086: Speed up ``urllib.quote()`` and urllib.unquote for simple
3349 cases.
Florent Xiclunaaf87f9f2010-05-17 13:35:09 +00003350
Tarek Ziadé422545f2010-05-17 10:06:20 +00003351- Issue #8688: Distutils now recalculates MANIFEST everytime.
3352
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003353- Issue #5099: The ``__del__()`` method of ``subprocess.Popen`` (and the methods
3354 it calls) referenced global objects, causing errors to pop up during
3355 interpreter shutdown.
Brett Cannon42a0ba72010-05-14 00:21:48 +00003356
Mark Dickinson932e1622010-05-10 16:07:42 +00003357Extension Modules
3358-----------------
3359
Stefan Krah449aa862010-06-03 12:39:50 +00003360- Issue #7384: If the system readline library is linked against ncurses,
3361 the curses module must be linked against ncurses as well. Otherwise it
3362 is not safe to load both the readline and curses modules in an application.
3363
Brian Curtinb64c89b2010-05-25 15:06:15 +00003364- Issue #2810: Fix cases where the Windows registry API returns
3365 ERROR_MORE_DATA, requiring a re-try in order to get the complete result.
3366
Mark Dickinson932e1622010-05-10 16:07:42 +00003367- Issue #8674: Fixed a number of incorrect or undefined-behaviour-inducing
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003368 overflow checks in the ``audioop`` module.
Benjamin Peterson534b8de2010-05-08 18:53:42 +00003369
Brett Cannonda9af752010-05-13 23:59:41 +00003370Tests
3371-----
3372
R. David Murray4653fb52010-06-03 20:19:25 +00003373- Issue #8889: test_support.transient_internet rewritten so that the new
3374 checks also work on FreeBSD, which lacks EAI_NODATA.
3375
3376- Issue #8835: test_support.transient_internet() catches gaierror(EAI_NONAME)
Victor Stinner03883622010-05-27 22:29:48 +00003377 and gaierror(EAI_NODATA)
3378
Victor Stinner708c0722010-05-26 17:25:28 +00003379- Issue #7449: Skip test_socketserver if threading support is disabled
3380
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003381- On darwin, ``test_site`` assumed that a framework build was being used,
3382 leading to a failure where four directories were expected for site-packages
3383 instead of two in a non-framework build.
Brett Cannonda9af752010-05-13 23:59:41 +00003384
Martin v. Löwisb41afb52010-05-28 15:28:47 +00003385Build
3386-----
3387
Martin v. Löwis16b2a5e2010-06-04 19:15:32 +00003388- Display installer warning that Windows 2000 won't be supported in future
3389 releases.
3390
Victor Stinnerb65bd2e2010-06-11 19:22:28 +00003391- Issues #1759169, #8864: Drop _XOPEN_SOURCE on Solaris, define it for
Martin v. Löwis26eec582010-06-04 17:18:42 +00003392 multiprocessing only.
Brett Cannonda9af752010-05-13 23:59:41 +00003393
Martin v. Löwis5aafc172010-06-04 18:04:42 +00003394Tools/Demos
3395-----------
3396
3397- Issue #5464: Implement plural forms in msgfmt.py.
3398
3399
Antoine Pitrouab5ce722010-04-11 22:45:47 +00003400What's New in Python 2.7 beta 2?
3401================================
Benjamin Peterson12409062010-04-10 18:53:58 +00003402
Benjamin Petersonc2516072010-05-08 17:08:17 +00003403*Release date: 2010-05-08*
Benjamin Peterson12409062010-04-10 18:53:58 +00003404
3405Core and Builtins
3406-----------------
3407
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003408- Run Clang 2.7's static analyzer for ``Objects/`` and ``Python/``.
Brett Cannon5fb89df2010-05-05 20:54:53 +00003409
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003410- Issue #1533: Fix inconsistency in range function argument processing: any
3411 non-float non-integer argument is now converted to an integer (if possible)
3412 using its __int__ method. Previously, only small arguments were treated this
3413 way; larger arguments (those whose __int__ was outside the range of a C long)
3414 would produce a TypeError.
Mark Dickinsona8d26682010-05-04 16:18:25 +00003415
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003416- Issue #8202: ``sys.argv[0]`` is now set to '-m' instead of '-c' when searching
3417 for the module file to be executed with the -m command line option.
Nick Coghlanc5e44852010-04-28 14:51:08 +00003418
Brett Cannon19949692010-04-25 22:33:36 +00003419- Issue #7319: When -Q is used, do not silence DeprecationWarning.
3420
Antoine Pitrou18e63fb2010-04-21 22:53:29 +00003421- Issue #7332: Remove the 16KB stack-based buffer in
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003422 ``PyMarshal_ReadLastObjectFromFile``, which doesn't bring any noticeable
Antoine Pitrou18e63fb2010-04-21 22:53:29 +00003423 benefit compared to the dynamic memory allocation fallback. Patch by
3424 Charles-François Natali.
3425
Benjamin Peterson821a8ea2010-04-16 22:35:38 +00003426- Issue #8417: Raise an OverflowError when an integer larger than sys.maxsize is
3427 passed to bytearray.
3428
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003429- Issue #7072: ``isspace(0xa0)`` is true on Mac OS X.
Ronald Oussoren37805e52010-04-18 13:47:49 +00003430
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003431- Issue #8404: Fix set operations on dictionary views.
Alexandre Vassalotti268e4872010-05-04 03:21:51 +00003432
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003433- Issue #8084: PEP 370 now conforms to system conventions for framework builds
3434 on MacOS X. That is, ``python setup.py install --user`` will install into
3435 ``~/Library/Python/2.7`` instead of ``~/.local``.
Ronald Oussoren2f88bfd2010-05-08 10:29:06 +00003436
Benjamin Peterson12409062010-04-10 18:53:58 +00003437Library
3438-------
3439
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003440- Issue #8681: Make the zlib module's error messages more informative when the
3441 zlib itself doesn't give any detailed explanation.
Antoine Pitroufc3bfad2010-05-11 23:42:28 +00003442
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003443- Issue #8571: Fix an internal error when compressing or decompressing a chunk
3444 larger than 1GB with the zlib module's compressor and decompressor objects.
Antoine Pitrou3843cd82010-05-07 16:50:34 +00003445
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003446- Issue #8573: asyncore ``_strerror()`` function might throw ValueError.
Giampaolo Rodolàf7454fa2010-05-06 17:57:06 +00003447
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003448- Issue #8483: asyncore.dispatcher's __getattr__ method produced confusing error
3449 messages when accessing undefined class attributes because of the cheap
3450 inheritance with the underlying socket object. The cheap inheritance has been
3451 deprecated.
Giampaolo Rodolàf7454fa2010-05-06 17:57:06 +00003452
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003453- Issue #4265: ``shutil.copyfile()`` was leaking file descriptors when disk
3454 fills. Patch by Tres Seaver.
Tarek Ziadé38f81222010-05-05 22:15:31 +00003455
Barry Warsaw8efa8672010-05-05 16:17:22 +00003456- Issue #7755: Use an unencumbered audio file for tests.
3457
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003458- Issue #8621: ``uuid.uuid4()`` returned the same sequence of values in the
3459 parent and any children created using ``os.fork`` on Mac OS X 10.6.
Ronald Oussoren33206962010-05-05 14:48:37 +00003460
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003461- Issue #8313: ``traceback.format_exception_only()`` encodes unicode message to
3462 ASCII with backslashreplace error handler if ``str(value)`` failed.
Victor Stinner926fd4e2010-05-05 12:40:49 +00003463
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003464- Issue #8567: Fix precedence of signals in Decimal module: when a Decimal
3465 operation raises multiple signals and more than one of those signals is
3466 trapped, the specification determines the order in which the signals should be
3467 handled. In many cases this order wasn't being followed, leading to the wrong
3468 Python exception being raised.
Mark Dickinson4f96f5f2010-05-04 14:25:50 +00003469
Antoine Pitrouf7fd8e42010-05-03 16:25:33 +00003470- Issue #7865: The close() method of :mod:`io` objects should not swallow
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003471 exceptions raised by the implicit flush(). Also ensure that calling close()
3472 several times is supported. Patch by Pascal Chambon.
Antoine Pitrouf7fd8e42010-05-03 16:25:33 +00003473
Vinay Sajip27a13702010-05-03 15:11:53 +00003474- Issue #8576: logging updated to remove usage of find_unused_port().
3475
Antoine Pitrou951919f2010-05-02 19:51:14 +00003476- Issue #4687: Fix accuracy of garbage collection runtimes displayed with
3477 gc.DEBUG_STATS.
3478
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003479- Issue #8354: The siginterrupt setting is now preserved for all signals, not
3480 just SIGCHLD.
Jean-Paul Calderonee54ddf12010-05-08 20:06:02 +00003481
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003482- Issue #7192: ``webbrowser.get("firefox")`` now works on Mac OS X, as does
3483 ``webbrowser.get("safari")``.
Ronald Oussoren4ef1c7e2010-05-02 09:48:21 +00003484
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003485- Issue #8577: ``distutils.sysconfig.get_python_inc()`` now makes a difference
Tarek Ziadéa5cd1822010-04-30 12:15:12 +00003486 between the build dir and the source dir when looking for "python.h" or
3487 "Include".
3488
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003489- Issue #8464: tarfile no longer creates files with execute permissions set when
3490 mode="w|" is used.
Lars Gustäbel5c4c4612010-04-29 15:23:38 +00003491
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003492- Issue #7834: Fix connect() of Bluetooth L2CAP sockets with recent versions of
3493 the Linux kernel. Patch by Yaniv Aknin.
Antoine Pitrouf56a2882010-04-29 10:05:40 +00003494
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003495- Issue #6312: Fix http HEAD request when the transfer encoding is chunked. It
3496 should correctly return an empty response now.
Senthil Kumaraned9204342010-04-28 17:20:43 +00003497
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003498- Issue #7490: To facilitate sharing of doctests between 2.x and 3.x test
3499 suites, the ``IGNORE_EXCEPTION_DETAIL`` directive now also ignores the module
3500 location of the raised exception. Based on initial patch by Lennart Regebro.
Nick Coghlandfb45df2010-04-28 14:29:06 +00003501
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003502- Issue #8086: In :func:`ssl.DER_cert_to_PEM_cert()`, fix missing newline before
3503 the certificate footer. Patch by Kyle VanderBeek.
Antoine Pitrou4c7bcf12010-04-27 22:03:37 +00003504
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003505- Issue #8546: Reject None given as the buffering argument to ``_pyio.open()``.
Benjamin Petersona9bd6d52010-04-27 21:01:54 +00003506
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003507- Issue #8549: Fix compiling the _ssl extension under AIX. Patch by Sridhar
3508 Ratnakumar.
Antoine Pitrou1dc6b082010-04-27 19:09:59 +00003509
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003510- Issue #6656: Fix locale.format_string to handle escaped percents and mappings.
R. David Murray3939dcd2010-04-26 21:17:14 +00003511
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003512- Issue #2302: Fix a race condition in SocketServer.BaseServer.shutdown, where
3513 the method could block indefinitely if called just before the event loop
3514 started running. This also fixes the occasional freezes witnessed in
3515 test_httpservers.
Antoine Pitroua6240402010-04-25 21:40:32 +00003516
Antoine Pitroufc69af12010-04-24 20:04:58 +00003517- Issue #5103: SSL handshake would ignore the socket timeout and block
3518 indefinitely if the other end didn't respond.
3519
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003520- The do_handshake() method of SSL objects now adjusts the blocking mode of the
3521 SSL structure if necessary (as other methods already do).
Antoine Pitrou4d3e3722010-04-24 19:57:01 +00003522
Georg Brandl4341e542010-04-24 09:08:10 +00003523- Issue #7507: Quote "!" in pipes.quote(); it is special to some shells.
3524
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003525- Issue #5238: Calling makefile() on an SSL object would prevent the underlying
3526 socket from being closed until all objects get truely destroyed.
Antoine Pitroub558f172010-04-23 23:25:45 +00003527
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003528- Issue #7943: Fix circular reference created when instantiating an SSL socket.
3529 Initial patch by Péter Szabó.
Antoine Pitroudfb299b2010-04-23 22:54:59 +00003530
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003531- Issue #8451: Syslog module now uses basename(sys.argv[0]) instead of the
3532 string "python" as the *ident*. openlog() arguments are all optional and
3533 keywords.
Sean Reifscheiderf6ce3cb2010-04-23 08:31:55 +00003534
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003535- Issue #8108: Fix the unwrap() method of SSL objects when the socket has a
3536 non-infinite timeout. Also make that method friendlier with applications
Antoine Pitroua5c4b552010-04-22 23:33:02 +00003537 wanting to continue using the socket in clear-text mode, by disabling
3538 OpenSSL's internal readahead. Thanks to Darryl Miles for guidance.
3539
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003540- Issue #8484: Load all ciphers and digest algorithms when initializing the _ssl
3541 extension, such that verification of some SSL certificates doesn't fail
3542 because of an "unknown algorithm".
Antoine Pitrouc715a9e2010-04-21 19:28:03 +00003543
Victor Stinnera92e81b2010-04-20 22:28:31 +00003544- Issue #8437: Fix test_gdb failures, patch written by Dave Malcolm
3545
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003546- Issue #4814: The timeout parameter is now applied also for connections
3547 resulting from PORT/EPRT commands.
Giampaolo Rodolà607f7c02010-04-19 21:46:28 +00003548
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003549- Issue #8463: Add missing reference to bztar in shutil's documentation.
Tarek Ziadé8a12f942010-04-19 21:28:21 +00003550
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003551- Issue #8438: Remove reference to the missing "surrogateescape" encoding error
3552 handler from the new IO library.
Antoine Pitrou7c587bf2010-04-19 18:52:43 +00003553
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003554- Issue #3817: ftplib.FTP.abort() method now considers 225 a valid response code
3555 as stated in RFC-959 at chapter 5.4.
Giampaolo Rodolàcf445fc2010-04-18 12:55:03 +00003556
Martin v. Löwis24f09fd2010-04-17 22:40:40 +00003557- Issue #8279: Fix test_gdb failures.
3558
Antoine Pitrou0a6373c2010-04-17 17:10:38 +00003559- Issue #8322: Add a *ciphers* argument to SSL sockets, so as to change the
3560 available cipher list. Helps fix test_ssl with OpenSSL 1.0.0.
3561
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003562- Issue #2987: RFC 2732 support for urlparse (IPv6 addresses). Patch by Tony
Senthil Kumaran8c6d9d72010-04-16 02:46:46 +00003563 Locke and Hans Ulrich Niedermann.
3564
R. David Murray1a14d3d2010-04-12 16:35:19 +00003565- Issue #7585: difflib context and unified diffs now place a tab between
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003566 filename and date, conforming to the 'standards' they were originally designed
3567 to follow. This improves compatibility with patch tools.
R. David Murray1a14d3d2010-04-12 16:35:19 +00003568
R. David Murray27ef9372010-04-12 14:26:06 +00003569- Issue #7472: Fixed typo in email.encoders module; messages using ISO-2022
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003570 character sets will now consistently use a Content-Transfer-Encoding of 7bit
3571 rather than sometimes being marked as 8bit.
R. David Murray27ef9372010-04-12 14:26:06 +00003572
Martin v. Löwis7f7765c2010-04-12 05:18:16 +00003573- Issue #8330: Fix expected output in test_gdb.
3574
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003575- Issue #8374: Update the internal alias table in the :mod:`locale` module to
3576 cover recent locale changes and additions.
Antoine Pitrouab5ce722010-04-11 22:45:47 +00003577
Matthias Klose8a96d202010-04-21 22:18:52 +00003578Extension Modules
3579-----------------
3580
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003581- Issue #8644: Improved accuracy of ``timedelta.total_seconds()``.
Mark Dickinson7000e9e2010-05-09 09:30:06 +00003582
Brett Cannon945df9a2010-05-04 01:04:53 +00003583- Use Clang 2.7's static analyzer to find places to clean up some code.
3584
Matthias Klose8a96d202010-04-21 22:18:52 +00003585- Build the ossaudio extension on GNU/kFreeBSD.
3586
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003587- On Windows, ctypes does no longer check the stack before and after calling a
3588 foreign function. This allows to use the unmodified libffi library.
Thomas Heller06a7e202010-05-04 18:44:42 +00003589
Antoine Pitroua5c4b552010-04-22 23:33:02 +00003590Tests
3591-----
3592
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003593- Issue #8672: Add a zlib test ensuring that an incomplete stream can be handled
3594 by a decompressor object without errors (it returns incomplete uncompressed
3595 data).
Antoine Pitrou37ffc3e2010-05-11 23:32:31 +00003596
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003597- Issue #8490: asyncore now has a more solid test suite which actually tests its
3598 API.
Giampaolo Rodolàff46d6e2010-05-10 15:33:22 +00003599
Antoine Pitrou54f9f832010-04-30 23:08:48 +00003600- Issue #8576: Remove use of find_unused_port() in test_smtplib and
3601 test_multiprocessing. Patch by Paul Moore.
3602
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003603- Issue #7449: Fix many tests to support Python compiled without thread support.
3604 Patches written by Jerry Seutter.
Victor Stinnerd9d147b2010-04-27 21:46:03 +00003605
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003606- Issue #8108: test_ftplib's non-blocking SSL server now has proper handling of
3607 SSL shutdowns.
Antoine Pitroua5c4b552010-04-22 23:33:02 +00003608
Matthias Klose5183ebd2010-04-24 16:38:36 +00003609Build
3610-----
3611
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003612- Issue #8625: Turn off optimization in ``--with-pydebug`` builds with gcc.
Mark Dickinsond2f3e3f2010-05-05 22:23:58 +00003613 (Optimization was unintentionally turned on in gcc --with-pydebug builds in
3614 2.7 beta1 as a result of the issue #1628484 fix, combined with autoconf's
3615 strange choice of default CFLAGS produced by AC_PROG_CC for gcc.)
3616
Matthias Klose5183ebd2010-04-24 16:38:36 +00003617- Issue #8509: Fix quoting in help strings and code snippets in configure.in.
3618
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003619- Issue #3646: It is now easily possible to install a Python framework into your
3620 home directory on Mac OS X, see Mac/README for more information.
Ronald Oussoren01d149f2010-04-30 11:20:14 +00003621
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003622- Issue #8510: Update to autoconf 2.65.
Matthias Klosea0bea5d2010-05-08 10:00:28 +00003623
Brett Cannonc1f5c2f2010-05-02 21:51:23 +00003624Misc
3625----
3626
3627- Update the Vim syntax highlight file.
3628
Benjamin Peterson12409062010-04-10 18:53:58 +00003629
Benjamin Peterson5da7e7c2010-03-06 22:44:07 +00003630What's New in Python 2.7 beta 1?
3631================================
3632
Benjamin Petersonfbac6c12010-04-10 16:22:05 +00003633*Release date: 2010-04-10*
Benjamin Peterson5da7e7c2010-03-06 22:44:07 +00003634
3635Core and Builtins
3636-----------------
3637
Philip Jenveyaebbaeb2010-04-06 23:24:45 +00003638- Issue #7301: Add environment variable $PYTHONWARNINGS.
3639
Benjamin Peterson3a1dfa22010-04-06 21:50:00 +00003640- Issue #8329: Don't return the same lists from select.select when no fds are
3641 changed.
3642
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003643- Issue #8259: ``1L << (2**31)`` no longer produces an 'outrageous shift error'
Mark Dickinson82791672010-04-06 16:47:55 +00003644 on 64-bit machines. The shift count for either left or right shift is
3645 permitted to be up to sys.maxsize.
3646
Benjamin Peterson4ceeeb02010-04-03 22:48:51 +00003647- Ensure that tokenization of identifiers is not affected by locale.
3648
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003649- Issue #1222585: Added LDCXXSHARED for C++ support. Patch by Arfrever.
Tarek Ziadé00002952010-04-03 08:37:59 +00003650
Benjamin Peterson1c7c11e2010-04-03 01:28:57 +00003651- Raise a TypeError when trying to delete a T_STRING_INPLACE struct member.
3652
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003653- Issue #7994: Issue a PendingDeprecationWarning if object.__format__ is called
3654 with a non-empty format string. This is an effort to future-proof user
3655 code. If a derived class does not currently implement __format__ but later
3656 adds its own __format__, it would most likely break user code that had
Antoine Pitrou01a196a2011-01-02 20:05:11 +00003657 supplied a format string. This will be changed to a DeprecationWarning in
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003658 Python 3.3 and it will be an error in Python 3.4.
Eric Smithd44b2fc2010-04-02 12:30:56 +00003659
Antoine Pitroua57df2c2010-03-31 21:32:15 +00003660- Issue #8268: Old-style classes (not just instances) now support weak
3661 references.
3662
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003663- Issue #8211: Save/restore CFLAGS around AC_PROG_CC in configure.in, in case it
3664 is set.
Victor Stinner6cbf90f2010-03-25 00:21:53 +00003665
Victor Stinnerc7790ed2010-03-22 12:36:28 +00003666- Issue #1583863: An unicode subclass can now override the __unicode__ method
Victor Stinner95affc42010-03-22 12:24:37 +00003667
Benjamin Peterson96545892010-03-21 20:21:00 +00003668- Issue #6474: Make error message from passing an inadequate number of keyword
3669 arguments to a function correct.
3670
Benjamin Peterson0dee9c12010-03-17 20:41:42 +00003671- Issue #8164: Don't allow lambda functions to have a docstring.
3672
Victor Stinner66644262010-03-10 22:30:19 +00003673- Issue #3137: Don't ignore errors at startup, especially a keyboard interrupt
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003674 (SIGINT). If an error occurs while importing the site module, the error is
3675 printed and Python exits. Initialize the GIL before importing the site
Victor Stinner66644262010-03-10 22:30:19 +00003676 module.
3677
Collin Winter001a3952010-03-18 21:54:01 +00003678- Code objects now support weak references.
3679
Benjamin Peterson5da7e7c2010-03-06 22:44:07 +00003680Library
3681-------
3682
R. David Murray661303f2010-04-13 20:57:40 +00003683- Issue #5277: Fix quote counting when parsing RFC 2231 encoded parameters.
3684
Antoine Pitrouf9de5342010-04-05 21:35:07 +00003685- Issue #8321: Give access to OpenSSL version numbers from the `ssl` module,
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003686 using the new attributes `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION`, `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION_INFO` and
3687 `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION_NUMBER`.
Antoine Pitrouf9de5342010-04-05 21:35:07 +00003688
Benjamin Peterson76a23c12010-04-04 23:23:22 +00003689- Issue #8310: Allow dis to examine new style classes.
3690
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003691- Issue #8257: The Decimal construct now accepts a float instance directly,
3692 converting that float to a Decimal of equal value:
Mark Dickinson8a950712010-04-03 15:47:46 +00003693
3694 >>> Decimal(1.1)
3695 Decimal('1.100000000000000088817841970012523233890533447265625')
3696
Raymond Hettinger34c35b22010-04-03 10:22:00 +00003697- collections.Counter() now supports a subtract() method.
3698
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003699- The functools module now has a total_ordering() class decorator to simplify
3700 the specification of rich comparisons.
Raymond Hettingera551f312010-04-04 18:34:45 +00003701
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003702- The functools module also adds cmp_to_key() as a tool to transition old-style
3703 comparison functions to new-style key-functions.
Raymond Hettingera551f312010-04-04 18:34:45 +00003704
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003705- Issue #8294: The Fraction constructor now accepts Decimal and float instances
3706 directly.
Mark Dickinson7c63eee2010-04-02 22:27:36 +00003707
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003708- Issue #7279: Comparisons involving a Decimal signaling NaN now signal
3709 InvalidOperation instead of returning False. (Comparisons involving a quiet
3710 NaN are unchanged.) Also, Decimal quiet NaNs are now hashable; Decimal
3711 signaling NaNs remain unhashable.
Mark Dickinsone096e822010-04-02 10:17:07 +00003712
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003713- Issue #2531: Comparison operations between floats and Decimal instances now
3714 return a result based on the numeric values of the operands; previously they
3715 returned an arbitrary result based on the relative ordering of id(float) and
3716 id(Decimal).
Mark Dickinson99d80962010-04-02 08:53:22 +00003717
Barry Warsawf7f2d6f2010-03-31 21:07:16 +00003718- Issue #8233: When run as a script, py_compile.py optionally takes a single
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003719 argument `-` which tells it to read files to compile from stdin. Each line is
3720 read on demand and the named file is compiled immediately. (Original patch by
3721 Piotr Ożarowski).
Barry Warsawf7f2d6f2010-03-31 21:07:16 +00003722
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003723- Issue #3135: Add ``inspect.getcallargs()``, which binds arguments to a
3724 function like a normal call.
Benjamin Peterson7e213252010-03-30 17:58:13 +00003725
Florent Xicluna58b65662010-03-30 16:29:03 +00003726- Backwards incompatible change: Unicode codepoints line tabulation (0x0B) and
3727 form feed (0x0C) are now considered linebreaks, as specified in Unicode
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003728 Standard Annex #14. See issue #7643. http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr14/
Florent Xicluna22b24382010-03-30 08:24:06 +00003729
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003730- Comparisons using one of <, <=, >, >= between a complex instance and a
3731 Fractions instance now raise TypeError instead of returning True/False. This
3732 makes Fraction <=> complex comparisons consistent with int <=> complex, float
3733 <=> complex, and complex <=> complex comparisons.
Mark Dickinson9588d992010-03-27 11:14:37 +00003734
Michael Foorde6410c52010-03-29 20:04:23 +00003735- Addition of ``WeakSet`` to the ``weakref`` module.
3736
Vinay Sajipb0623d62010-03-24 14:31:21 +00003737- logging: Added LOG_FTP to SysLogHandler and updated documentation.
3738
Florent Xicluna176cda12010-03-22 22:52:11 +00003739- Issue #8205: Remove the "Modules" directory from sys.path when Python is
3740 running from the build directory (POSIX only).
3741
Florent Xiclunae1f4c922010-03-22 22:45:50 +00003742- Issue #7667: Fix doctest failures with non-ASCII paths.
3743
Antoine Pitrou513d9ae2010-03-22 19:59:46 +00003744- Issue #7512: shutil.copystat() could raise an OSError when the filesystem
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003745 didn't support chflags() (for example ZFS under FreeBSD). The error is now
3746 silenced.
Antoine Pitrou513d9ae2010-03-22 19:59:46 +00003747
Florent Xicluna9e7a4c92010-03-22 16:07:38 +00003748- Issue #7703: ctypes supports both buffer() and memoryview(). The former is
3749 deprecated.
3750
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003751- Issue #7860: platform.uname now reports the correct 'machine' type when Python
3752 is running in WOW64 mode on 64 bit Windows.
R. David Murrayc9d1a782010-03-22 15:55:09 +00003753
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003754- logging: Added getChild utility method to Logger and added isEnabledFor method
3755 to LoggerAdapter.
Vinay Sajip804899b2010-03-22 15:29:01 +00003756
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003757- Issue #8201: logging: Handle situation of non-ASCII and Unicode logger names
3758 existing at the same time, causing a Unicode error when configuration code
3759 attempted to sort the existing loggers.
Vinay Sajip31e928e2010-03-22 13:02:28 +00003760
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003761- Issue #8200: logging: Handle errors when multiprocessing is not fully loaded
3762 when logging occurs.
Vinay Sajip3017a7b2010-03-22 12:33:08 +00003763
Antoine Pitroueee91cd2010-03-26 19:27:16 +00003764- Issue #3890, #8222: Fix recv() and recv_into() on non-blocking SSL sockets.
3765 Also, enable the SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY flag on SSL sockets, so that blocking
3766 reads and writes are always retried by OpenSSL itself.
Antoine Pitrou448da712010-03-21 19:33:38 +00003767
Florent Xiclunacf82fa62010-03-21 12:27:20 +00003768- Issue #8179: Fix macpath.realpath() on a non-existing path.
3769
Florent Xicluna2e0a53f2010-03-18 21:50:06 +00003770- Issue #8024: Update the Unicode database to 5.2.
3771
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003772- Issue #8104: socket.recv_into() and socket.recvfrom_into() now support writing
3773 into objects supporting the new buffer API, for example bytearrays or
3774 memoryviews.
Antoine Pitroud7b731d2010-03-17 22:45:39 +00003775
Matthias Klose8b411682010-03-16 10:48:52 +00003776- Issue #4961: Inconsistent/wrong result of askyesno function in tkMessageBox
3777 with Tcl/Tk-8.5.
3778
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003779- Issue #8140: Extend compileall to compile single files. Add -i option.
Matthias Kloseb13d04c2010-03-15 17:44:12 +00003780
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003781- Issue #7356: ctypes.util: Make parsing of ldconfig output independent of the
3782 locale.
Matthias Klose358e7ff2010-03-15 13:42:23 +00003783
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003784- Issue #7774: Set sys.executable to an empty string if ``argv[0]`` has been set
3785 to an non existent program name and Python is unable to retrieve the real
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003786 program name.
Victor Stinner75227342010-03-12 14:30:26 +00003787
Vinay Sajipecfa08f2010-03-12 09:16:10 +00003788- Issue #8117: logging: Improved algorithm for computing initial rollover time
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003789 for ``TimedRotatingFileHandler`` by using the modification time of an existing
3790 log file to compute the next rollover time. If the log file does not exist,
3791 the current time is used as the basis for the computation.
Vinay Sajip9098ee42010-03-12 06:01:21 +00003792
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003793- Issue #6472: The ``xml.etree`` package is updated to ElementTree 1.3. The
Florent Xicluna3e8c1892010-03-11 14:36:19 +00003794 cElementTree module is updated too.
3795
Florent Xicluna85677612010-03-10 23:58:42 +00003796- Issue #7880: Fix sysconfig when the python executable is a symbolic link.
3797
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003798- Issue #7624: Fix ``isinstance(foo(), collections.Callable)`` for old-style
Florent Xicluna47627d52010-03-08 15:20:28 +00003799 classes.
3800
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003801- Issue #7143: email: ``get_payload()`` used to strip any trailing newline from
3802 a base64 transfer-encoded payload *after* decoding it; it no longer does.
3803 This is a behavior change, so email's minor version number is now bumped, to
3804 version 4.0.2, for the 2.7 release.
R. David Murray4617e502010-03-08 02:04:06 +00003805
Larry Hastings3b958e32010-04-02 11:18:17 +00003806- Issue #8235: _socket: Add the constant ``SO_SETFIB``. SO_SETFIB is
3807 a socket option available on FreeBSD 7.1 and newer.
3808
Michael Foorda04c7a02010-04-02 22:55:59 +00003809- Issue #8038: unittest.TestCase.assertNotRegexpMatches
3810
3811- Addition of -b command line option to unittest for buffering stdout / stderr
3812 during test runs.
3813
Victor Stinnerdb990922010-05-15 21:00:59 +00003814- Issue #1220212: Added os.kill support for Windows, including support for
Brian Curtin85108e62010-04-02 23:31:28 +00003815 sending CTRL+C and CTRL+BREAK events to console subprocesses.
3816
Mark Dickinson154b7ad2010-03-07 16:24:45 +00003817Extension Modules
3818-----------------
3819
Martin v. Löwis16ea5482010-04-07 11:01:46 +00003820- Issue #8314: Fix unsigned long long bug in libffi on Sparc v8.
3821
Matthias Klosee9fbf2b2010-03-19 14:45:06 +00003822- Issue #1039, #8154: Fix os.execlp() crash with missing 2nd argument.
3823
Jesus Cea6557aac2010-03-22 14:22:26 +00003824- Issue #8156: bsddb module updated to version 4.8.4.
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003825 http://www.jcea.es/programacion/pybsddb.htm#bsddb3-4.8.4. This update drops
3826 support for Berkeley DB 4.0, and adds support for 4.8.
Matthias Klose54cc5392010-03-15 12:46:18 +00003827
Jesus Cea616de772010-04-28 10:32:30 +00003828- Issue #3928: os.mknod() now available in Solaris, also.
3829
Matthias Klose817acef2010-03-15 00:02:36 +00003830- Issue #8142: Update libffi to the 3.0.9 release.
3831
Mark Dickinson4846a8e2010-04-03 14:05:10 +00003832- Issue #8300: When passing a non-integer argument to struct.pack with any
3833 integer format code, struct.pack first attempts to convert the non-integer
3834 using its __index__ method. If that method is non-existent or raises
3835 TypeError it goes on to try the __int__ method, as described below.
3836
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003837- Issue #1530559: When passing a non-integer argument to struct.pack with *any*
3838 integer format code (one of 'bBhHiIlLqQ'), struct.pack attempts to use the
3839 argument's __int__ method to convert to an integer before packing. It also
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003840 produces a DeprecationWarning in this case. (In Python 2.6, the behaviour was
3841 inconsistent: __int__ was used for some integer codes but not for others, and
3842 the set of integer codes for which it was used differed between native packing
3843 and standard packing.)
Mark Dickinson154b7ad2010-03-07 16:24:45 +00003844
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003845- Issue #7347: _winreg: Add CreateKeyEx and DeleteKeyEx, as well as fix a bug in
3846 the return value of QueryReflectionKey.
Brian Curtin19479fa2010-04-02 21:51:37 +00003847
Antoine Pitrou02b3f0a2010-03-13 21:21:30 +00003848Tools/Demos
3849-----------
3850
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003851- Issue #7993: Add a test of IO packet processing bandwidth to ccbench. It
3852 measures the number of UDP packets processed per second depending on the
3853 number of background CPU-bound Python threads.
Benjamin Peterson5da7e7c2010-03-06 22:44:07 +00003854
Collin Wintera70f3492010-03-19 00:08:44 +00003855- python-config now supports multiple options on the same command line.
3856
Benjamin Peterson11d93232010-03-14 14:24:31 +00003857Build
3858-----
3859
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003860- Issue #8032: For gdb7, a python-gdb.py file is added to the build, allowing to
3861 use advanced gdb features when debugging Python.
Martin v. Löwisbf0dfb32010-04-01 07:40:51 +00003862
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003863- Issue #1628484: The Makefile doesn't ignore the CFLAGS environment variable
3864 anymore. It also forwards the LDFLAGS settings to the linker when building a
3865 shared library.
Antoine Pitrouf83b3082010-03-21 19:19:41 +00003866
Martin v. Löwis24e4e162010-03-15 13:00:17 +00003867- Issue #6716: Quote -x arguments of compileall in MSI installer.
3868
Benjamin Peterson11d93232010-03-14 14:24:31 +00003869- Issue #7705: Fix linking on FreeBSD.
3870
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven6d22cfc2010-04-07 16:34:08 +00003871- Make sure that the FreeBSD build of the included libffi uses the proper
3872 assembly file.
3873
Larry Hastings402b73f2010-03-25 00:54:54 +00003874C-API
3875-----
3876
Antoine Pitrou76c86492010-04-01 16:42:11 +00003877- Issue #8276: PyEval_CallObject() is now only available in macro form. The
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003878 function declaration, which was kept for backwards compatibility reasons, is
3879 now removed (the macro was introduced in 1997!).
Antoine Pitrou76c86492010-04-01 16:42:11 +00003880
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003881- Issue #7992: A replacement PyCObject API, PyCapsule, has been backported from
3882 Python 3.1. All existing Python CObjects in the main distribution have been
3883 converted to capsules. To address backwards-compatibility concerns,
3884 PyCObject_AsVoidPtr() was changed to understand capsules.
Larry Hastings402b73f2010-03-25 00:54:54 +00003885
Florent Xicluna3cc8f212010-03-15 18:08:58 +00003886Tests
3887-----
3888
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003889- Issue #3864: Skip three test_signal tests on freebsd6 because they fail if any
3890 thread was previously started, most likely due to a platform bug.
R. David Murraye0e8a872010-04-17 05:26:26 +00003891
Antoine Pitrouab5ce722010-04-11 22:45:47 +00003892- Issue #8348: Fix test ftp url in test_urllib2net.
3893
3894- Issue #8204: Fix test_ttk notebook test by forcing focus.
3895
3896- Issue #8344: Fix test_ttk bug on FreeBSD.
3897
Antoine Pitrou3b4c9892010-04-06 17:21:09 +00003898- Issue #8193: Fix test_zlib failure with zlib 1.2.4.
3899
Antoine Pitrou6032c252010-03-30 18:49:45 +00003900- Issue #8248: Add some tests for the bool type. Patch by Gregory Nofi.
3901
Florent Xicluna75c66762010-03-30 16:31:14 +00003902- Issue #8263: Now regrtest.py will report a failure if it receives a
3903 KeyboardInterrupt (SIGINT).
3904
Florent Xicluna8aa5a582010-03-25 20:33:49 +00003905- Issue #8180 and #8207: Fix test_pep277 on OS X and add more tests for special
3906 Unicode normalization cases.
Florent Xicluna77a88492010-03-21 18:00:38 +00003907
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003908- Issue #7783: test.test_support.open_urlresource invalidates the outdated files
3909 from the local cache.
Florent Xicluna3cc8f212010-03-15 18:08:58 +00003910
R. David Murray4617e502010-03-08 02:04:06 +00003911
Benjamin Peterson2d798ac2010-02-06 18:26:27 +00003912What's New in Python 2.7 alpha 4?
3913=================================
3914
Benjamin Peterson8e7c1172010-03-06 20:34:14 +00003915*Release date: 2010-03-06*
Benjamin Peterson2d798ac2010-02-06 18:26:27 +00003916
3917Core and Builtins
3918-----------------
3919
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003920- Issue #7544: Preallocate thread memory before creating the thread to avoid a
3921 fatal error in low memory condition.
Victor Stinner71fb87e2010-03-03 23:20:25 +00003922
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003923- Issue #7820: The parser tokenizer restores all bytes in the right if the BOM
3924 check fails.
Victor Stinnerd23d3932010-03-02 23:20:02 +00003925
Eric Smith2d9856d2010-02-24 14:15:36 +00003926- Issue #7309: Fix unchecked attribute access when converting
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003927 UnicodeEncodeError, UnicodeDecodeError, and UnicodeTranslateError to strings.
Eric Smith2d9856d2010-02-24 14:15:36 +00003928
Ezio Melotti32125152010-02-25 17:36:04 +00003929- Issue #7649: "u'%c' % char" now behaves like "u'%s' % char" and raises a
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003930 UnicodeDecodeError if 'char' is a byte string that can't be decoded using the
3931 default encoding.
Victor Stinnerf20f9c22010-02-23 23:16:07 +00003932
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003933- Issue #6902: Fix problem with built-in types format incorrectly with 0
3934 padding.
Eric Smith87bcb242010-02-23 00:11:16 +00003935
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003936- Issue #2560: Remove an unnecessary 'for' loop from ``my_fgets()`` in
Andrew M. Kuchlingb64d6132010-02-22 22:48:41 +00003937 Parser/myreadline.c.
3938
Eric Smithf32d4ac2010-02-22 18:33:47 +00003939- Issue #7988: Fix default alignment to be right aligned for
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003940 ``complex.__format__``. Now it matches other numeric types.
Eric Smithf32d4ac2010-02-22 18:33:47 +00003941
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003942- Issue #5211: The complex type no longer uses implicit coercion in mixed-type
3943 binary arithmetic operations.
Mark Dickinson82b34c52010-02-21 12:57:35 +00003944
Benjamin Peterson2d798ac2010-02-06 18:26:27 +00003945Library
3946-------
Georg Brandl7f0c3ff2010-08-01 21:18:52 +00003947
Senthil Kumaranc1d0ed22010-12-04 09:58:29 +00003948- Issue #7904: Changes to urllib.parse.urlsplit to handle schemes as defined by
3949 RFC3986. Anything before :// is considered a scheme and is followed by an
3950 authority (or netloc) and by '/' led path, which is optional.
3951
R. David Murray05b76312010-07-17 01:35:16 +00003952- Issue #1555570: email no longer inserts extra blank lines when a \r\n
3953 combo crosses an 8192 byte boundary.
Benjamin Peterson2d798ac2010-02-06 18:26:27 +00003954
Florent Xicluna0b9a18a2010-03-06 11:01:08 +00003955- Issue #6906: Tk should not set Unicode environment variables on Windows.
3956
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003957- Issue #1054943: Fix ``unicodedata.normalize('NFC', text)`` for the Public
Ezio Melotti8122bdd2010-03-14 10:13:49 +00003958 Review Issue #29 (http://unicode.org/review/pr-29.html).
Victor Stinner7c924ec2010-03-04 12:09:33 +00003959
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003960- Issue #7494: Fix a crash in ``_lsprof`` (cProfile) after clearing the profiler,
Victor Stinner56a51532010-03-04 00:10:12 +00003961 reset also the pointer to the current pointer context.
3962
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003963- Issue #7232: Add support for the context manager protocol to the
3964 ``tarfile.TarFile`` class.
Lars Gustäbel64581042010-03-03 11:55:48 +00003965
Barry Warsaw08a8fb32010-03-01 21:46:51 +00003966- Issue #7250: Fix info leak of os.environ across multi-run uses of
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003967 ``wsgiref.handlers.CGIHandler``.
Barry Warsaw08a8fb32010-03-01 21:46:51 +00003968
Florent Xiclunae7901c52010-03-01 20:45:01 +00003969- Issue #1729305: Fix doctest to handle encode error with "backslashreplace".
Florent Xicluna2a903b22010-02-27 13:31:23 +00003970
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003971- Issue #691291: ``codecs.open()`` should not convert end of lines on reading
3972 and writing.
Florent Xicluna82aa01f2010-02-27 11:19:18 +00003973
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003974- Issue #7975: Correct regression in dict methods supported by bsddb.dbshelve.
R. David Murray48605be2010-02-24 02:31:27 +00003975
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003976- Issue #7959: ctypes callback functions are now registered correctly with the
3977 cycle garbage collector.
Thomas Heller92bd0592010-02-23 20:11:44 +00003978
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003979- Issue #7970: ``email.Generator.flatten`` now correctly flattens
3980 message/rfc822 messages parsed by ``email.Parser.HeaderParser``.
R. David Murray51f12042010-02-21 04:23:00 +00003981
Ezio Melotti4cc80ca2010-02-20 08:09:39 +00003982- Issue #3426: ``os.path.abspath`` now returns unicode when its arg is unicode.
3983
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003984- Issue #7633: In the decimal module, ``Context`` class methods (with the
3985 exception of canonical and is_canonical) now accept instances of int and long
3986 wherever a Decimal instance is accepted, and implicitly convert that argument
3987 to Decimal. Previously only some arguments were converted.
Mark Dickinson6d8effb2010-02-18 14:27:02 +00003988
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003989- Issue #6003: Add an argument to ``zipfile.Zipfile.writestr`` to specify the
3990 compression type.
Ezio Melotti8f6a2872010-02-10 21:40:33 +00003991
Michael Foorddb43b5a2010-02-10 14:25:12 +00003992- Issue #7893: ``unittest.TextTestResult`` is made public and a ``resultclass``
3993 argument added to the TextTestRunner constructor allowing a different result
3994 class to be used without having to subclass.
Ezio Melotti8f6a2872010-02-10 21:40:33 +00003995
Ezio Melotti4cc80ca2010-02-20 08:09:39 +00003996- Issue #7588: ``unittest.TextTestResult.getDescription`` now includes the test
Michael Foorddb43b5a2010-02-10 14:25:12 +00003997 name in failure reports even if the test has a docstring.
Ronald Oussorendd25e862010-02-07 20:18:02 +00003998
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003999- Issue #5801: Remove spurious empty lines in wsgiref.
Tarek Ziadéb8708a22010-02-23 05:53:05 +00004000
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004001- Issue #1537721: Add a ``writeheader()`` method to ``csv.DictWriter``.
Dirkjan Ochtman86148172010-02-23 21:09:52 +00004002
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004003- Issue #7427: Improve the representation of httplib.BadStatusLine exceptions.
Dirkjan Ochtmanebc73dc2010-02-24 04:49:00 +00004004
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004005- Issue #7481: When a ``threading.Thread`` failed to start it would leave the
4006 instance stuck in initial state and present in ``threading.enumerate()``.
Gregory P. Smith613c7a52010-02-28 18:36:09 +00004007
Gregory P. Smithcce211f2010-03-01 00:05:08 +00004008- Issue #1068268: The subprocess module now handles EINTR in internal
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004009 ``os.waitpid()`` and ``os.read()`` system calls where appropriate.
Gregory P. Smithcce211f2010-03-01 00:05:08 +00004010
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004011- Issue #6729: Add ``ctypes.c_ssize_t`` to represent ssize_t.
Gregory P. Smith3c699d32010-03-01 04:56:12 +00004012
Steven Betharde9330e72010-03-02 08:38:09 +00004013- Issue #6247: The argparse module has been added to the standard library.
4014
Martin v. Löwis413fabc2010-02-18 09:22:20 +00004015Extension Modules
4016-----------------
4017
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004018- The sqlite3 module was updated to pysqlite 2.6.0. This fixes several obscure
Gerhard Häring3bbb6722010-03-05 09:12:37 +00004019 bugs and allows loading SQLite extensions from shared libraries.
4020
Florent Xiclunae7901c52010-03-01 20:45:01 +00004021- Issue #7808: Fix reference leaks in _bsddb and related tests.
4022
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004023- Issue #6544: Fix a reference leak in the kqueue implementation's error
Georg Brandlea370a92010-02-23 21:48:57 +00004024 handling.
4025
Martin v. Löwis413fabc2010-02-18 09:22:20 +00004026- Stop providing crtassem.h symbols when compiling with Visual Studio 2010, as
4027 msvcr100.dll is not a platform assembly anymore.
Benjamin Peterson2d798ac2010-02-06 18:26:27 +00004028
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004029- Issue #7242: On Solaris 9 and earlier calling ``os.fork()`` from within a
Gregory P. Smith9e5d1322010-03-01 01:22:39 +00004030 thread could raise an incorrect RuntimeError about not holding the import
4031 lock. The import lock is now reinitialized after fork.
4032
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004033- Issue #7999: ``os.setreuid()`` and ``os.setregid()`` would refuse to accept a
4034 -1 parameter on some platforms such as OS X.
Gregory P. Smith6a65f852010-03-01 05:43:43 +00004035
Ezio Melotti8f6a2872010-02-10 21:40:33 +00004036Tests
4037-----
4038
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004039- Issue #7849: The utility ``test.test_support.check_warnings()`` verifies if
4040 warnings are effectively raised. A new utility ``check_py3k_warnings()`` is
4041 available.
Florent Xicluna6de9e932010-03-07 12:18:33 +00004042
Florent Xicluna985478d2010-03-06 18:52:52 +00004043- The four path modules (genericpath, macpath, ntpath, posixpath) share a
4044 common TestCase for some tests: test_genericpath.CommonTest.
4045
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004046- Print platform information when running the whole test suite, or using the
4047 ``--verbose`` flag.
Florent Xicluna58526412010-03-06 17:24:36 +00004048
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004049- Issue #767675: Enable test_pep277 on POSIX platforms with Unicode-friendly
Florent Xiclunac0a9d412010-03-02 22:34:11 +00004050 filesystem encoding.
Florent Xicluna2db61fb2010-03-02 21:34:45 +00004051
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004052- Issue #6292: For the moment at least, the test suite runs cleanly if python
R. David Murrayf28fd242010-02-23 00:24:49 +00004053 is run with the -OO flag. Tests requiring docstrings are skipped.
4054
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004055- Issue #7712: test_support gained a new ``temp_cwd`` context manager which is
4056 now also used by regrtest to run all the tests in a temporary directory. The
4057 original CWD is saved in ``test.test_support.SAVEDCWD``. Thanks to Florent
4058 Xicluna who helped with the patch.
Ezio Melotti8f6a2872010-02-10 21:40:33 +00004059
Martin v. Löwis5e2dd862010-02-15 08:32:00 +00004060Build
4061-----
4062
Martin v. Löwis7875ef62010-02-15 21:41:12 +00004063- Issue #3920, #7903: Define _BSD_SOURCE on OpenBSD 4.4 through 4.9.
Martin v. Löwis5e2dd862010-02-15 08:32:00 +00004064
Ezio Melotti8f6a2872010-02-10 21:40:33 +00004065
Benjamin Petersondd6d92a2010-01-09 17:30:31 +00004066What's New in Python 2.7 alpha 3?
4067=================================
4068
Benjamin Petersona7be9d22010-02-06 16:37:32 +00004069*Release date: 2010-02-06*
Benjamin Petersondd6d92a2010-01-09 17:30:31 +00004070
4071Core and Builtins
4072-----------------
4073
Antoine Pitroubb445a12010-02-05 17:05:54 +00004074- Issue #5677: Explicitly forbid write operations on read-only file objects,
4075 and read operations on write-only file objects. On Windows, the system C
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004076 library would return a bogus result; on Solaris, it was possible to crash the
4077 interpreter. Patch by Stefan Krah.
Antoine Pitroubb445a12010-02-05 17:05:54 +00004078
Barry Warsawb1e66ee2010-02-05 18:45:25 +00004079- Issue #7853: Normalize exceptions before they are passed to a context
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004080 manager's ``__exit__()`` method.
Benjamin Peterson565d7852010-02-05 02:12:14 +00004081
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004082- Issue #7385: Fix a crash in ``PyMemoryView_FromObject()`` when
4083 ``PyObject_GetBuffer()`` fails. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
Antoine Pitrou526e4212010-02-02 22:36:17 +00004084
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004085- Issue #7819: Check ``sys.call_tracing()`` arguments types.
Victor Stinnerb4b0a292010-01-31 22:32:15 +00004086
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004087- Issue #7788: Fix an interpreter crash produced by deleting a list slice with
4088 very large step value.
Mark Dickinson36ecd672010-01-29 17:11:39 +00004089
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004090- Issue #7766: Change ``sys.getwindowsversion()`` return value to a named tuple
4091 and add the additional members returned in an OSVERSIONINFOEX structure. The
4092 new members are service_pack_major, service_pack_minor, suite_mask, and
4093 product_type.
Eric Smithee931b72010-01-27 00:28:29 +00004094
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004095- Issue #7561: Operations on empty bytearrays (such as ``int(bytearray())``)
4096 could crash in many places because of the ``PyByteArray_AS_STRING()`` macro
4097 returning NULL. The macro now returns a statically allocated empty string
4098 instead.
Antoine Pitroue80a6a42010-01-17 12:26:20 +00004099
Antoine Pitrou64672132010-01-13 07:55:48 +00004100- Issue #7622: Improve the split(), rsplit(), splitlines() and replace()
4101 methods of bytes, bytearray and unicode objects by using a common
4102 implementation based on stringlib's fast search. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
4103
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004104- Issue #7632: Fix various str -> float conversion bugs present in 2.7 alpha 2,
4105 including:
Mark Dickinson8efef5c2010-01-12 22:23:56 +00004106
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004107 (1) a serious 'wrong output' bug that could occur for long (> 40 digit) input
4108 strings,
4109 (2) a crash in dtoa.c that occurred in debug builds when parsing certain long
4110 numeric strings corresponding to subnormal values,
4111 (3) a memory leak for some values large enough to cause overflow, and
4112 (4) a number of flaws that could lead to incorrectly rounded results.
4113
4114- Issue #7319, #7770: Silence ``DeprecationWarning`` by default when the -3
4115 option is not used.
Brett Cannon6fdd3dc2010-01-10 02:56:19 +00004116
Alexandre Vassalottiee936a22010-01-09 23:35:54 +00004117- Issue #2335: Backport set literals syntax from Python 3.x.
4118
Alexandre Vassalotti7a8df802010-01-11 23:13:49 +00004119- Issue #2333: Backport set and dict comprehensions syntax from Python 3.x.
4120
Alexandre Vassalotti69eb5162010-01-11 23:17:10 +00004121- Issue #1967: Backport dictionary views from Python 3.x.
4122
Benjamin Petersondd6d92a2010-01-09 17:30:31 +00004123Library
4124-------
4125
Mark Dickinson42add992010-07-11 19:17:28 +00004126- Issue #9137: Fix issue in MutableMapping.update, which incorrectly
4127 treated keyword arguments called 'self' or 'other' specially.
4128
R. David Murray63e4fd72010-02-10 22:42:04 +00004129- Issue #7835: shelve should no longer produce mysterious warnings during
4130 interpreter shutdown.
4131
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004132- Issue #2746: Don't escape ampersands and angle brackets ("&", "<", ">") in
4133 XML processing instructions and comments. These raw characters are allowed
4134 by the XML specification, and are necessary when outputting e.g. PHP code in
4135 a processing instruction. Patch by Neil Muller.
Antoine Pitrou42fb6ab2010-02-09 17:08:05 +00004136
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004137- Issue #7869: logging: Improved diagnostic for format-time errors.
Vinay Sajip64e8b972010-02-07 12:56:54 +00004138
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004139- Issue #7868: logging: Added loggerClass attribute to Manager.
Vinay Sajip657514a2010-02-07 01:37:08 +00004140
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004141- Issue #7851: logging: Clarification on logging configuration files.
Vinay Sajip0e6e97d2010-02-04 20:23:45 +00004142
Antoine Pitroud840e512010-02-04 20:20:18 +00004143- Issue #4772: Raise a ValueError when an unknown Bluetooth protocol is
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004144 specified, rather than fall through to AF_PACKET (in the ``socket`` module).
Antoine Pitroud840e512010-02-04 20:20:18 +00004145 Also, raise ValueError rather than TypeError when an unknown TIPC address
4146 type is specified. Patch by Brian Curtin.
4147
Vinay Sajip28c382f2010-02-04 18:48:53 +00004148- logging: Implemented PEP 391.
4149
Antoine Pitrouf3fa0742010-01-31 22:26:04 +00004150- Issue #6939: Fix file I/O objects in the `io` module to keep the original
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004151 file position when calling `truncate()`. It would previously change the file
4152 position to the given argument, which goes against the tradition of
Antoine Pitrouf3fa0742010-01-31 22:26:04 +00004153 ftruncate() and other truncation APIs. Patch by Pascal Chambon.
4154
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004155- Issue #7610: Reworked implementation of the internal ``zipfile.ZipExtFile``
4156 class used to represent files stored inside an archive. The new
4157 implementation is significantly faster and can be wrapped in a
4158 ``io.BufferedReader`` object for more speedups. It also solves an issue
4159 where interleaved calls to ``read()`` and ``readline()`` give wrong results.
4160 Patch by Nir Aides.
Antoine Pitrou94c33eb2010-01-27 20:59:50 +00004161
Benjamin Peterson2deb5c72010-01-27 02:16:42 +00004162- Issue #7792: Registering non-classes to ABCs raised an obscure error.
4163
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004164- Removed the deprecated functions ``verify()`` and ``vereq()`` from
4165 Lib/test/test_support.py.
Ezio Melotti82230f92010-01-25 12:37:02 +00004166
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004167- Issue #7773: Fix an UnboundLocalError in ``platform.linux_distribution()``
4168 when the release file is empty.
Benjamin Petersona43f34c2010-01-25 03:31:13 +00004169
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004170- Issue #7748: Since unicode values are supported for some metadata options in
4171 Distutils, the DistributionMetadata get_* methods will now return an utf-8
4172 encoded string for them. This ensures that the upload and register commands
4173 send the correct values to PyPI without any error.
Tarek Ziadéf14c7fc2010-01-24 00:33:32 +00004174
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004175- Issue #1670765: Prevent ``email.generator.Generator`` from re-wrapping
R. David Murrayed44dfa2010-01-16 05:15:17 +00004176 headers in multipart/signed MIME parts, which fixes one of the sources of
4177 invalid modifications to such parts by Generator.
4178
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004179- Issue #7701: Fix crash in ``binascii.b2a_uu()`` in debug mode when given a
Antoine Pitrouc391ad02010-01-15 00:18:00 +00004180 1-byte argument. Patch by Victor Stinner.
4181
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004182- Issue #3299: Fix possible crash in the _sre module when given bad argument
4183 values in debug mode. Patch by Victor Stinner.
Antoine Pitrouefdddd32010-01-14 17:25:24 +00004184
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004185- Issue #7703: Add support for the new buffer API to functions of the binascii
4186 module. Backported from py3k by Florent Xicluna, with some additional tests.
Antoine Pitroufd3a60d2010-01-14 16:27:09 +00004187
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004188- Issue #2846: Add support for gzip.GzipFile reading zero-padded files. Patch
4189 by Brian Curtin.
Antoine Pitrou5a9112c2010-01-13 14:32:10 +00004190
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004191- Issue #5827: Make sure that normpath preserves unicode. Initial patch by
4192 Matt Giuca.
Ezio Melottib5689de2010-01-12 03:32:05 +00004193
Tarek Ziadédc0f4872010-01-11 22:50:29 +00004194- Issue #5372: Drop the reuse of .o files in Distutils' ccompiler (since
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004195 Extension extra options may change the output without changing the .c file).
4196 Initial patch by Collin Winter.
Tarek Ziadédc0f4872010-01-11 22:50:29 +00004197
Matthias Klose0d948ac2010-01-22 00:39:04 +00004198Extension Modules
4199-----------------
4200
4201- Expat: Fix DoS via XML document with malformed UTF-8 sequences
4202 (CVE_2009_3560).
4203
Antoine Pitrou8c510e72010-01-13 11:47:49 +00004204Build
4205-----
4206
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004207- Issue #7632: When Py_USING_MEMORY_DEBUGGER is defined, disable the private
4208 memory allocation scheme in dtoa.c and use PyMem_Malloc and PyMem_Free
4209 instead. Also disable caching of powers of 5.
Mark Dickinson9481c572010-01-17 20:57:56 +00004210
Ronald Oussorena55af9a2010-01-17 16:25:57 +00004211- Issue #7658: Ensure that the new pythonw executable works on OSX 10.4
4212
4213- Issue #7714: Use ``gcc -dumpversion`` to detect the version of GCC on
4214 MacOSX.
4215
Antoine Pitrou8c510e72010-01-13 11:47:49 +00004216- Issue #7661: Allow ctypes to be built from a non-ASCII directory path.
4217 Patch by Florent Xicluna.
4218
Antoine Pitrouc07336c2010-01-18 21:15:21 +00004219Tools/Demos
4220-----------
4221
4222- iobench (a file I/O benchmark) and ccbench (a concurrency benchmark) were
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004223 added to the ``Tools`` directory. They were previously living in the
Antoine Pitrouc07336c2010-01-18 21:15:21 +00004224 sandbox.
4225
R. David Murrayce6e4b02010-02-06 04:27:21 +00004226Tests
4227-----
4228
Ezio Melotti302ad8d2013-01-19 19:44:58 +02004229- Issue #7728: test_timeout was changed to use ``test_support.bind_port()``
R. David Murrayce6e4b02010-02-06 04:27:21 +00004230 instead of a hard coded port.
4231
Matthias Klose626d92a2010-01-31 16:05:13 +00004232Documentation
4233-------------
Victor Stinnerf20f9c22010-02-23 23:16:07 +00004234
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004235- Updated "Using Python" documentation to include description of CPython's -J,
4236 -U and -X options.
Barry Warsawb1e66ee2010-02-05 18:45:25 +00004237
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004238- Updated Python manual page (options -B, -O0, -s, environment variables
Matthias Klose626d92a2010-01-31 16:05:13 +00004239 PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE, PYTHONNOUSERSITE).
4240
Benjamin Petersondd6d92a2010-01-09 17:30:31 +00004241
Benjamin Peterson4f51baf2009-12-05 18:40:02 +00004242What's New in Python 2.7 alpha 2?
4243=================================
4244
Benjamin Petersonaa7e51f2010-01-09 16:34:06 +00004245*Release date: 2010-01-09*
Benjamin Peterson4f51baf2009-12-05 18:40:02 +00004246
4247Core and Builtins
4248-----------------
4249
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004250- The ``__complex__()`` method is now looked up on the class of instances to
4251 make it consistent with other special methods.
Benjamin Petersonecdae192010-01-04 00:43:01 +00004252
Antoine Pitrou5b7139a2010-01-02 21:12:58 +00004253- Issue #7462: Implement the stringlib fast search algorithm for the `rfind`,
4254 `rindex`, `rsplit` and `rpartition` methods. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
4255
Mark Dickinson1b34d252010-01-01 17:27:30 +00004256- Issue #5080: A number of functions and methods previously produced a
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004257 DeprecationWarning when passed a float argument where an integer was expected.
4258 These functions and methods now raise TypeError instead. The majority of the
4259 effects of this change are in the extension modules, but some core functions
4260 and methods are affected: notably the 'chr', 'range' and 'xrange' builtins,
4261 and many unicode/str methods.
Mark Dickinson1b34d252010-01-01 17:27:30 +00004262
Benjamin Peterson0f02d392009-12-30 19:34:10 +00004263- Issue #7604: Deleting an unset slotted attribute did not raise an
4264 AttributeError.
4265
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004266- Issue #7534: Fix handling of IEEE specials (infinities, nans, negative zero)
4267 in ** operator. The behaviour now conforms to that described in C99 Annex F.
Mark Dickinson99d652e2009-12-30 12:12:23 +00004268
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004269- Issue #7579: The msvcrt module now has docstrings for all its functions.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcc8a2ce72009-12-29 23:06:17 +00004270
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc8645a5c2009-12-29 22:03:38 +00004271- Issue #7413: Passing '\0' as the separator to datetime.datetime.isoformat()
4272 used to drop the time part of the result.
4273
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004274- Issue #1811: Improve accuracy and cross-platform consistency for true division
4275 of integers: the result of a/b is now correctly rounded for ints a and b (at
4276 least on IEEE 754 platforms), and in particular does not depend on the
4277 internal representation of a long.
Mark Dickinson46572832009-12-27 14:55:57 +00004278
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004279- Issue #6108: ``unicode(exception)`` and ``str(exception)`` should return the
4280 same message when only ``__str__()`` (and not ``__unicode__()``) is overridden
4281 in the subclass.
Ezio Melottif84caf42009-12-24 22:25:17 +00004282
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004283- Issue #6834: Replace the implementation for the 'python' and 'pythonw'
Ronald Oussoren92919a62009-12-24 13:30:58 +00004284 executables on OSX.
4285
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004286 These executables now work properly with the arch(1) command: ``arch -ppc
4287 python`` will start a universal binary version of python in PPC mode (unlike
4288 previous releases).
Ronald Oussoren92919a62009-12-24 13:30:58 +00004289
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004290- Issue #1680159: Unicode coercion during an 'in' operation no longer masks the
4291 underlying error when the coercion fails for the left hand operand.
R. David Murray0a0a1a82009-12-14 16:28:26 +00004292
Benjamin Peterson4895af42009-12-13 16:36:53 +00004293- Issue #7491: Metaclass's __cmp__ method was ignored.
4294
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004295- Issue #7466: Segmentation fault when the garbage collector is called in the
4296 middle of populating a tuple. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
Antoine Pitrou2a08b422009-12-13 16:18:14 +00004297
R. David Murrayc7298ff2009-12-14 21:57:39 +00004298
Benjamin Peterson4f51baf2009-12-05 18:40:02 +00004299Library
4300-------
4301
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004302- Issue #6963: Added "maxtasksperchild" argument to ``multiprocessing.Pool``,
4303 allowing for a maximum number of tasks within the pool to be completed by the
4304 worker before that worker is terminated, and a new one created to replace it.
Jesse Noller654ade32010-01-27 03:05:57 +00004305
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004306- Issue #7617: Make sure distutils.unixccompiler.UnixCCompiler recognizes gcc
4307 when it has a fully qualified configuration prefix. Initial patch by
4308 Arfrever.
Tarek Ziadéc25417f2010-01-08 23:42:23 +00004309
Antoine Pitrou80157252010-01-08 19:20:17 +00004310- Issue #7092: Remove py3k warning when importing cPickle. 2to3 handles
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004311 renaming of `cPickle` to `pickle`. The warning was annoying since there's no
4312 alternative to cPickle if you care about performance. Patch by Florent
Antoine Pitrou80157252010-01-08 19:20:17 +00004313 Xicluna.
4314
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004315- Issue #7455: Fix possible crash in cPickle on invalid input. Patch by Victor
4316 Stinner.
Antoine Pitrou0d423b82010-01-07 17:46:49 +00004317
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004318- Issue #7092: Fix the DeprecationWarnings emitted by the standard library when
4319 using the -3 flag. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
Antoine Pitroub9d49632010-01-04 23:22:44 +00004320
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004321- Issue #7471: Improve the performance of GzipFile's buffering mechanism, and
4322 make it implement the ``io.BufferedIOBase`` ABC to allow for further speedups
4323 by wrapping it in an ``io.BufferedReader``. Patch by Nir Aides.
Antoine Pitrou673ddf92010-01-03 22:29:56 +00004324
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004325- Issue #3972: ``httplib.HTTPConnection`` now accepts an optional source_address
Gregory P. Smith9d325212010-01-03 02:06:07 +00004326 parameter to allow specifying where your connections come from.
4327
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004328- ``socket.create_connection()`` now accepts an optional source_address
4329 parameter.
Gregory P. Smith79a3eb12010-01-03 01:29:44 +00004330
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004331- Issue #5511: ``zipfile.ZipFile`` can now be used as a context manager.
Ezio Melotti569e61f2009-12-30 06:14:51 +00004332 Initial patch by Brian Curtin.
4333
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004334- Distutils now correctly identifies the build architecture as "x86_64" when
4335 building on OSX 10.6 without "-arch" flags.
Ronald Oussorenca8e7ec2009-12-24 14:50:35 +00004336
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004337- Issue #7556: Distutils' msvc9compiler now opens the MSVC Manifest file in text
4338 mode.
Tarek Ziadé0479eb52009-12-21 23:37:44 +00004339
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004340- Issue #7552: Removed line feed in the base64 Authorization header in the
4341 Distutils upload command to avoid an error when PyPI reads it. This occurs on
4342 long passwords. Initial patch by JP St. Pierre.
Tarek Ziadé2421d562009-12-20 23:23:34 +00004343
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004344- Issue #7231: urllib2 cannot handle https with proxy requiring auth. Patch by
4345 Tatsuhiro Tsujikawa.
Senthil Kumaran7713acf2009-12-20 06:05:13 +00004346
Benjamin Petersonddd392c2009-12-13 19:19:07 +00004347- Issue #7349: Make methods of file objects in the io module accept None as an
4348 argument where file-like objects (ie StringIO and BytesIO) accept them to mean
4349 the same as passing no argument.
4350
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004351- Issue #7348: ``StringIO.StringIO.readline(-1)`` now acts as if it got no
4352 argument like other file objects.
Benjamin Petersonc4771d22009-12-13 17:31:31 +00004353
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004354- Issue #7357: tarfile no longer suppresses fatal extraction errors by default.
Lars Gustäbel92ca7562009-12-13 11:32:27 +00004355
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004356- Issue #7470: logging: Fix bug in Unicode encoding fallback.
Vinay Sajip5cc4e2a2009-12-11 09:16:01 +00004357
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004358- Issue #5949: Fixed IMAP4_SSL hang when the IMAP server response is missing
4359 proper end-of-line termination.
R. David Murray93321f32009-12-09 15:15:31 +00004360
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004361- Issue #7457: Added a read_pkg_file method to
4362 ``distutils.dist.DistributionMetadata``.
Benjamin Peterson4f51baf2009-12-05 18:40:02 +00004363
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004364- Issue #3745: Undo the 2.7a1 change to have hashlib to reject unicode and non
4365 buffer API supporting objects as input. That behavior is for 3.x only.
Gregory P. Smithfe32d302010-01-02 22:42:50 +00004366
Georg Brandl740cdc32009-12-28 08:34:58 +00004367C-API
4368-----
4369
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004370- Issue #7767: New function ``PyLong_AsLongLongAndOverflow()`` added, analogous
4371 to ``PyLong_AsLongAndOverflow()``.
Mark Dickinsona36507c2010-01-30 10:08:33 +00004372
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004373- Issue #5080: The argument parsing functions ``PyArg_ParseTuple()``,
4374 ``PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords()``, ``PyArg_VaParse()``,
4375 ``PyArg_VaParseTupleAndKeywords()`` and ``PyArg_Parse()`` no longer accept
4376 float arguments for integer format codes (other than 'L'): previously an
4377 attempt to pass a float resulted in a DeprecationWarning; now it gives a
4378 TypeError. For the 'L' format code (which previously had no warning) there is
4379 now a DeprecationWarning.
Mark Dickinson1b34d252010-01-01 17:27:30 +00004380
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004381- Issue #7033: Function ``PyErr_NewExceptionWithDoc()`` added.
Georg Brandl740cdc32009-12-28 08:34:58 +00004382
Martin v. Löwisb4261d52009-12-21 19:29:59 +00004383Build
4384-----
4385
Benjamin Petersonedfe72f2010-01-01 15:21:13 +00004386- Issue #6491: Allow --with-dbmliborder to specify that no dbms will be built.
4387
Benjamin Petersonb4abef62010-01-01 15:18:38 +00004388- Issue #6943: Use pkg-config to find the libffi headers when the
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004389 ``--with-system-ffi`` flag is used.
Benjamin Petersonb4abef62010-01-01 15:18:38 +00004390
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004391- Issue #7609: Add a ``--with-system-expat`` option that causes the system's
4392 expat library to be used for the pyexpat module instead of the one included
4393 with Python.
Benjamin Peterson2c196742009-12-31 03:17:18 +00004394
Benjamin Peterson500ce232009-12-30 02:58:50 +00004395- Issue #7589: Only build the nis module when the correct header files are
4396 found.
4397
Martin v. Löwisf477b932010-01-02 09:25:21 +00004398- Switch to OpenSSL 0.9.8l and sqlite 3.6.21 on Windows.
R. David Murray93321f32009-12-09 15:15:31 +00004399
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004400- Issue #7541: when using ``python-config`` with a framework install the
4401 compiler might use the wrong library.
Ronald Oussorenb5afe542009-12-24 14:17:19 +00004402
R. David Murrayc7298ff2009-12-14 21:57:39 +00004403Tests
4404-----
4405
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004406- Issue #7376: Instead of running a self-test (which was failing) when called
R. David Murray77e48ba2009-12-20 16:46:06 +00004407 with no arguments, doctest.py now gives a usage message.
4408
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004409- Issue #7396: Fix regrtest -s, which was broken by the -j enhancement.
R. David Murray98e3df32009-12-16 11:49:46 +00004410
R. David Murrayc7298ff2009-12-14 21:57:39 +00004411- Issue #7498: test_multiprocessing now uses test_support.find_unused_port
4412 instead of a hardcoded port number in test_rapid_restart.
4413
4414
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00004415What's New in Python 2.7 alpha 1
4416================================
4417
Benjamin Peterson3513c872009-12-05 18:48:13 +00004418*Release date: 2009-12-05*
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00004419
4420Core and Builtins
4421-----------------
4422
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004423- Issue #7419: ``locale.setlocale()`` could crash the interpreter on Windows
4424 when called with invalid values.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd7288712009-12-01 21:51:04 +00004425
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004426- Issue #3382: 'F' formatting for float and complex now convert the result to
4427 upper case. This only affects 'inf' and 'nan', since 'f' no longer converts
4428 to 'g' for large values.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd7288712009-12-01 21:51:04 +00004429
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004430- Remove switch from "%f" formatting to "%g" formatting for floats larger than
4431 1e50 in absolute value.
Mark Dickinson9dd5e162009-11-23 20:54:09 +00004432
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004433- Remove restrictions on precision when formatting floats. E.g., "%.120g" %
4434 1e-100 used to raise OverflowError, but now gives the requested 120
4435 significant digits instead.
Mark Dickinson18cfada2009-11-23 18:46:41 +00004436
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004437- Add Py3k warnings for parameter names in parentheses.
Benjamin Peterson89b1a5c2009-11-19 22:58:01 +00004438
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004439- Issue #7362: Give a proper error message for ``def f((x)=3): pass``.
Benjamin Peterson89b1a5c2009-11-19 22:58:01 +00004440
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004441- Issue #7085: Fix crash when importing some extensions in a thread on MacOSX
4442 10.6.
Ronald Oussoren315cd0c2009-11-19 16:25:21 +00004443
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004444- Issue #7117: ``repr(x)`` for a float x returns a result based on the shortest
4445 decimal string that's guaranteed to round back to x under correct rounding
4446 (with round-half-to-even rounding mode). Previously it gave a string based on
4447 rounding x to 17 decimal digits. repr(x) for a complex number behaves
4448 similarly. On platforms where the correctly-rounded strtod and dtoa code is
4449 not supported (see below), repr is unchanged.
Mark Dickinsonb678de82009-11-19 18:41:49 +00004450
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004451- Issue #7117: On almost all platforms: float-to-string and string-to-float
4452 conversions within Python are now correctly rounded. Places these conversions
4453 occur include: str for floats and complex numbers; the float and complex
4454 constructors; old-style and new-style numeric formatting; serialization and
4455 deserialization of floats and complex numbers using marshal, pickle and json;
4456 parsing of float and imaginary literals in Python code; Decimal-to-float
4457 conversion.
Mark Dickinsonb678de82009-11-19 18:41:49 +00004458
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004459 The conversions use a Python-adapted version of David Gay's well-known dtoa.c,
4460 providing correctly-rounded strtod and dtoa C functions. This code is
4461 supported on Windows, and on Unix-like platforms using gcc, icc or suncc as
4462 the C compiler. There may be a small number of platforms on which correct
4463 operation of this code cannot be guaranteed, so the code is not used: notably,
4464 this applies to platforms where the C double format is not IEEE 754 binary64,
4465 and to platforms on x86 hardware where the x87 FPU is set to 64-bit precision
4466 and Python's configure script is unable to determine how to change the FPU
4467 precision. On these platforms conversions use the platform strtod and dtoa,
4468 as before.
Mark Dickinsonb678de82009-11-19 18:41:49 +00004469
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004470- Issue #7117: Backport round implementation from Python 3.x. ``round()`` now
4471 uses the correctly-rounded string <-> float conversions described above (when
4472 available), and so produces correctly rounded results that will display nicely
4473 under the float repr. There are two related small changes: (1) round now
4474 accepts any class with an ``__index__()`` method for its second argument (but
4475 no longer accepts floats for the second argument), and (2) an excessively
4476 large second integer argument (e.g., ``round(1.234, 10**100)``) no longer
4477 raises an exception.
Mark Dickinsonbd15a062009-11-18 19:33:35 +00004478
Philip Jenveyfab8be22009-11-17 02:42:26 +00004479- Issue #1757126: Fix the cyrillic-asian alias for the ptcp154 encoding.
4480
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004481- Fix several issues with ``compile()``. The input can now contain Windows and
4482 Mac newlines and is no longer required to end in a newline.
Benjamin Petersone36199b2009-11-12 23:39:44 +00004483
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004484- Remove length limitation when constructing a complex number from a unicode
4485 string.
Mark Dickinsonc04c7c52009-10-26 22:28:14 +00004486
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004487- Issue #7244: ``itertools.izip_longest()`` no longer ignores exceptions raised
4488 during the formation of an output tuple.
Raymond Hettingerfa7dadd2009-11-01 20:45:16 +00004489
Mark Dickinson8d87dc02009-10-25 20:39:06 +00004490- Issue #1087418: Boost performance of bitwise operations for longs.
4491
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004492- Issue #1722344: ``threading._shutdown()`` is now called in ``Py_Finalize()``,
4493 which fixes the problem of some exceptions being thrown at shutdown when the
4494 interpreter is killed. Patch by Adam Olsen.
Antoine Pitrouefb60c02009-10-20 21:29:37 +00004495
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004496- Issue #7168: Document ``PyFloat_AsString()`` and ``PyFloat_AsReprString()``,
4497 and note that they are unsafe and deprecated.
Eric Smithc12781a2009-10-19 14:38:14 +00004498
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004499- Issue #7120: logging: Remove import of multiprocessing which is causing crash
4500 in GAE.
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +00004501
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004502- Issue #7140: The ``__dict__`` of a module should not be cleared unless the
4503 module is the only object holding a reference to it.
Benjamin Peterson196b0922009-10-15 15:44:46 +00004504
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004505- Issue #1754094: Improve the stack depth calculation in the compiler. There
4506 should be no other effect than a small decrease in memory use. Patch by
4507 Christopher Tur Lesniewski-Laas.
Neil Schemenauer7fdd1cb2009-10-14 17:17:14 +00004508
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004509- Issue #7084: Fix a (very unlikely) crash when printing a list from one thread,
4510 and mutating it from another one. Patch by Scott Dial.
Antoine Pitroubeaf6a02009-10-11 21:03:26 +00004511
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd0052d12009-10-06 19:56:32 +00004512- Issue #1571184: The Unicode database contains properties for more characters.
4513 The tables for code points representing numeric values, white spaces or line
4514 breaks are now generated from the official Unicode Character Database files,
4515 and include information from the Unihan.txt file.
4516
Benjamin Peterson7adbb5a2009-10-03 20:23:24 +00004517- Issue #7050: Fix a SystemError when trying to use unpacking and augmented
4518 assignment.
4519
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004520- Issue #5329: Fix ``os.popen*`` regression from 2.5 with commands as a sequence
4521 running through the shell. Patch by Jean-Paul Calderone and Jani Hakala.
Philip Jenvey8b902042009-09-29 19:10:15 +00004522
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004523- Issue #7019: Raise ValueError when unmarshalling bad long data, instead of
4524 producing internally inconsistent Python longs.
Mark Dickinson7e7a3ec2009-09-29 19:01:06 +00004525
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004526- Issue #6990: Fix ``threading.local`` subclasses leaving old state around after
4527 a reference cycle GC which could be recycled by new locals.
Philip Jenveydbf3b252009-09-29 04:32:44 +00004528
Benjamin Peterson9db55402009-09-18 21:47:27 +00004529- Issue #6300: unicode.encode, unicode.decode, str.decode, and str.encode now
Benjamin Peterson332d7212009-09-18 21:14:55 +00004530 take keyword arguments.
4531
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004532- Issue #6922: Fix an infinite loop when trying to decode an invalid UTF-32
4533 stream with a non-raising error handler like "replace" or "ignore".
Georg Brandle9741f32009-09-17 11:28:09 +00004534
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004535- Issue #6713: Improve performance of base 10 int -> string and long -> string
4536 conversions.
Mark Dickinsonaa2adc82009-09-16 22:10:56 +00004537
Thomas Wouters2920adb2009-09-16 20:36:34 +00004538- Issue #1590864: Fix potential deadlock when mixing threads and fork().
4539
Georg Brandl0674d3f2009-09-16 20:30:09 +00004540- Issue #6844: Do not emit DeprecationWarnings when accessing a "message"
4541 attribute on exceptions that was set explicitly.
4542
Mark Dickinsonc8a7c7c2009-09-06 10:03:31 +00004543- Issue #6846: Fix bug where bytearray.pop() returns negative integers.
4544
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004545- ``classmethod()`` no longer checks if its argument is callable.
Benjamin Peterson6fcf9b52009-09-01 22:27:57 +00004546
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004547- Issue #6750: A text file opened with ``io.open()`` could duplicate its output
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfff896b2009-08-29 18:14:40 +00004548 when writing from multiple threads at the same time.
4549
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004550- Issue #6704: Improve the col_offset in AST for "for" statements with a target
4551 of tuple unpacking.
Benjamin Petersonc0ba8282009-08-15 22:59:21 +00004552
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004553- Issue #6707: ``dir()`` on an uninitialized module caused a crash.
Benjamin Peterson4c6e8082009-08-15 13:16:38 +00004554
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004555- Issue #6540: Fixed crash for ``bytearray.translate()`` with invalid parameters.
Georg Brandlec812ca2009-07-22 11:57:15 +00004556
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004557- Issue #6573: ``set.union()`` stopped processing inputs if an instance of self
Raymond Hettingerc2b9e1a2009-07-27 20:32:04 +00004558 occurred in the argument chain.
4559
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc9d11fef2009-07-13 20:03:21 +00004560- Issue #1616979: Added the cp720 (Arabic DOS) encoding.
4561
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004562- Issue #6070: On posix platforms import no longer copies the execute bit from
4563 the .py file to the .pyc file if it is set. Patch by Marco N.
R. David Murray23a736a2009-07-07 01:06:13 +00004564
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004565- Issue #4618: When unicode arguments are passed to ``print()``, the default
Benjamin Peterson753d1622009-07-02 18:16:45 +00004566 separator and end should be unicode also.
4567
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00004568- Issue #6119: Fixed an incorrect Py3k warning about order comparisons of
4569 built-in functions and methods.
Benjamin Peterson1bf47652009-07-02 17:06:17 +00004570
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004571- Issue #6347: Include inttypes.h as well as stdint.h in pyport.h. This fixes a
4572 build failure on HP-UX: int32_t and uint32_t are defined in inttypes.h instead
4573 of stdint.h on that platform.
Mark Dickinson2f865b92009-06-30 15:32:30 +00004574
Hirokazu Yamamotoa3c56092009-06-28 10:23:00 +00004575- Issue #4856: Remove checks for win NT.
4576
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc595f7a52009-06-25 22:29:29 +00004577- Issue #2016: Fixed a crash in a corner case where the dictionary of keyword
4578 arguments could be modified during the function call setup.
4579
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc14fc6732009-06-23 21:09:09 +00004580- Removed the ipaddr module.
4581
Raymond Hettinger62641e92009-06-23 20:59:43 +00004582- Issue #6329: Fixed iteration for memoryview objects (it was being blocked
4583 because it wasn't recognized as a sequence).
4584
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004585- Issue #6289: Encoding errors from ``compile()`` were being masked.
Benjamin Peterson08a0bbc2009-06-16 00:29:31 +00004586
Benjamin Petersona72be3b2009-06-13 20:23:33 +00004587- When no module is given in a relative import, the module field of the
4588 ImportFrom AST node is now None instead of an empty string.
4589
Benjamin Peterson565e1b62009-06-13 03:46:30 +00004590- Assignment to None using import statements now raises a SyntaxError.
4591
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004592- Issue #4547: When debugging a very large function, it was not always possible
4593 to update the lineno attribute of the current frame.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcb02ceda2009-06-01 20:53:18 +00004594
Antoine Pitrou46dbe272009-05-30 21:27:00 +00004595- Issue #5330: C functions called with keyword arguments were not reported by
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004596 the various profiling modules (profile, cProfile). Patch by Hagen Fürstenau.
Antoine Pitrou46dbe272009-05-30 21:27:00 +00004597
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004598- Issue #5982: staticmethod and classmethod now expose the wrapped function with
4599 ``__func__``.
Raymond Hettinger578a2282009-05-29 04:58:52 +00004600
Raymond Hettinger822b87f2009-05-29 01:46:48 +00004601- Added support for multiple context managers in the same with-statement.
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004602 Deprecated ``contextlib.nested()`` which is no longer needed.
Georg Brandl944f6842009-05-25 21:02:56 +00004603
Benjamin Peterson1880d8b2009-05-25 13:13:44 +00004604- Issue #6101: A new opcode, SETUP_WITH, has been added to speed up the with
4605 statement and correctly lookup the __enter__ and __exit__ special methods.
4606
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004607- Issue #5829: complex("1e500") no longer raises OverflowError. This makes it
4608 consistent with float("1e500") and interpretation of real and imaginary
4609 literals.
Mark Dickinsona4e0efa2009-05-20 18:43:07 +00004610
Hirokazu Yamamotoa4f90182009-05-17 02:58:36 +00004611- Issue #3527: Removed Py_WIN_WIDE_FILENAMES which is not used any more.
4612
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004613- ``__instancecheck__()`` and ``__subclasscheck__()`` are now completely ignored
4614 on classic classes and instances.
Benjamin Petersoneb9fb2c2009-05-16 22:46:11 +00004615
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004616- Issue #5994: The marshal module now has docstrings.
R. David Murray525cffc2009-05-13 13:07:14 +00004617
Mark Dickinsonb1d45852009-05-11 15:33:08 +00004618- Issue #5981: Fix three minor inf/nan issues in float.fromhex:
Mark Dickinsonb1d45852009-05-11 15:33:08 +00004619
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004620 (1) inf and nan strings with trailing whitespace were incorrectly rejected;
4621 (2) parsing of strings representing infinities and nans was locale aware; and
4622 (3) the interpretation of fromhex('-nan') didn't match that of float('-nan').
Eric Smitha985a3a2009-05-05 18:26:08 +00004623
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004624- Issue #5920: For ``float.__format__()``, change the behavior with the empty
4625 presentation type (that is, not one of 'e', 'f', 'g', or 'n') to be like 'g'
4626 but with at least one decimal point and with a default precision
4627 of 12. Previously, the behavior the same but with a default precision of 6.
4628 This more closely matches ``str()``, and reduces surprises when adding
4629 alignment flags to the empty presentation type. This also affects the new
4630 complex.__format__ in the same way.
4631
4632- Issue #5890: In subclasses of 'property' the __doc__ attribute was shadowed by
4633 classtype's, even if it was None. property now inserts the __doc__ into the
4634 subclass instance __dict__.
R. David Murray7ba8e1c2009-05-04 22:16:24 +00004635
Antoine Pitrou653dece2009-05-04 18:32:32 +00004636- Issue #4426: The UTF-7 decoder was too strict and didn't accept some legal
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004637 sequences. Patch by Nick Barnes and Victor Stinner.
Antoine Pitrou653dece2009-05-04 18:32:32 +00004638
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004639- Issue #1588: Add complex.__format__. For example, ``format(complex(1, 2./3),
4640 '.5')`` now produces a sensible result.
Eric Smith9139cc62009-04-30 00:58:58 +00004641
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004642- Issue #5864: Fix empty format code formatting for floats so that it never
4643 gives more than the requested number of significant digits.
Mark Dickinson92fcc9c2009-04-29 20:41:00 +00004644
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004645- Issue #5793: Rationalize isdigit / isalpha / tolower, etc. Includes new
4646 Py_ISDIGIT / Py_ISALPHA / Py_TOLOWER, etc. in pctypes.h.
Eric Smithcac7af62009-04-27 19:04:37 +00004647
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004648- Issue #4971: Fix titlecase for characters that are their own titlecase, but
4649 not their own uppercase.
Martin v. Löwis99f27792009-04-26 00:53:18 +00004650
Eric Smith068f0652009-04-25 21:40:15 +00004651- Issue #5835: Deprecate PyOS_ascii_formatd and replace it with
4652 _PyOS_double_to_string or PyOS_double_to_string.
4653
Benjamin Peterson5083dc52009-04-25 00:41:22 +00004654- Issue #5283: Setting __class__ in __del__ caused a segfault.
4655
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004656- Issue #5816: ``complex(repr(z))`` now recovers z exactly, even when z involves
4657 nans, infs or negative zeros.
Mark Dickinson95bc9802009-04-24 12:46:53 +00004658
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004659- Implement PEP 378, Format Specifier for Thousands Separator, for floats, ints,
4660 and longs.
Eric Smithaca19e62009-04-22 13:29:05 +00004661
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004662- Issue #5515: 'n' formatting for ints, longs, and floats handles leading zero
4663 formatting poorly.
Eric Smithaca19e62009-04-22 13:29:05 +00004664
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004665- Issue #5772: For float.__format__, don't add a trailing ".0" if we're using no
4666 type code and we have an exponent.
Eric Smithaca19e62009-04-22 13:29:05 +00004667
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004668- Issue #3166: Make long -> float (and int -> float) conversions correctly
4669 rounded.
Mark Dickinson6736cf82009-04-20 21:13:33 +00004670
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004671- Issue #5787: ``object.__getattribute__(some_type, "__bases__")`` segfaulted on
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00004672 some built-in types.
Benjamin Petersond4d400c2009-04-18 20:12:47 +00004673
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004674- Issue #1869: Fix a couple of minor round() issues. ``round(5e15+1)`` was
4675 giving 5e15+2; ``round(-0.0)`` was losing the sign of the zero.
Mark Dickinson1bdf7e92009-04-18 14:59:42 +00004676
Benjamin Peterson99d36f12009-04-15 21:26:36 +00004677- Issue #5759: float() didn't call __float__ on str subclasses.
4678
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004679- Issue #5704: The "-3" command-line option now implies "-t".
Georg Brandl3c4a5462009-04-12 12:08:12 +00004680
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004681- Issue #2170: Refactored ``xml.dom.minidom.normalize``, increasing both its
4682 clarity and its speed.
R. David Murray0374a822009-04-09 21:54:50 +00004683
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004684- Issue #2396: The memoryview object was backported from Python 3.1.
Antoine Pitrou789be0c2009-04-02 21:18:34 +00004685
Georg Brandld3f03fa2009-04-02 18:09:04 +00004686- Fix a problem in PyErr_NormalizeException that leads to "undetected errors"
4687 when hitting the recursion limit under certain circumstances.
4688
Brett Cannon15ba4da2009-04-01 18:03:59 +00004689- Issue #1665206: Remove the last eager import in _warnings.c and make it lazy.
4690
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004691- Issue #4865: On MacOSX /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages is added to the end
4692 sys.path, for compatibility with the system install of Python.
Ronald Oussorene0154ed2009-03-30 23:10:35 +00004693
Antoine Pitrouf8387af2009-03-23 18:41:45 +00004694- Issue #4688: Add a heuristic so that tuples and dicts containing only
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004695 untrackable objects are not tracked by the garbage collector. This can reduce
4696 the size of collections and therefore the garbage collection overhead on
4697 long-running programs, depending on their particular use of datatypes.
Antoine Pitrouf8387af2009-03-23 18:41:45 +00004698
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004699- Issue #5512: Rewrite PyLong long division algorithm (x_divrem) to improve its
4700 performance. Long divisions and remainder operations are now between 50% and
4701 150% faster.
Mark Dickinson0b666bf2009-03-23 18:25:13 +00004702
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004703- Issue #4258: Make it possible to use base 2**30 instead of base 2**15 for the
4704 internal representation of integers, for performance reasons. Base 2**30 is
4705 enabled by default on 64-bit machines. Add --enable-big-digits option to
4706 configure, which overrides the default. Add sys.long_info structseq to
4707 provide information about the internal format.
Mark Dickinsonefc82f72009-03-20 15:51:55 +00004708
Benjamin Peterson6ffe8522009-03-18 20:52:15 +00004709- Issue #4034: Fix weird attribute error messages of the traceback object. (As a
4710 result traceback.__members__ no longer exists.)
4711
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004712- Issue #4474: PyUnicode_FromWideChar now converts characters outside the BMP to
4713 surrogate pairs, on systems with sizeof(wchar_t) == 4 and sizeof(Py_UNICODE)
4714 == 2.
Mark Dickinson6b265f12009-03-18 16:07:26 +00004715
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004716- Issue #5237: Allow auto-numbered fields in str.format(). For example: ``'{}
4717 {}'.format(1, 2) == '1 2'``.
Eric Smith6f42edb2009-03-14 11:57:26 +00004718
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004719- Issue #3652: Make the 'line' argument for ``warnings.showwarning()`` a
Brett Cannon6c4cff02009-03-11 04:51:06 +00004720 requirement. Means the DeprecationWarning from Python 2.6 can go away.
4721
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004722- Issue #5247: Improve error message when unknown format codes are used when
4723 using ``str.format()`` with str, unicode, long, int, and float arguments.
Eric Smithe9fb6862009-02-20 14:02:36 +00004724
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004725- Running Python with the -3 option now also warns about classic division for
4726 ints and longs.
Raymond Hettinger08259e82009-02-18 23:10:19 +00004727
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004728- Issue #5260: Long integers now consume less memory: average saving is 2 bytes
4729 per long on a 32-bit system and 6 bytes per long on a 64-bit system.
Mark Dickinson2ffb26f2009-02-15 10:13:41 +00004730
Antoine Pitrou76a4b892009-02-13 13:52:33 +00004731- Issue #5186: Reduce hash collisions for objects with no __hash__ method by
4732 rotating the object pointer by 4 bits to the right.
4733
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004734- Issue #4575: Fix Py_IS_INFINITY macro to work correctly on x87 FPUs: it now
4735 forces its argument to double before testing for infinity.
Mark Dickinsonc97c9092009-02-09 14:18:43 +00004736
Benjamin Petersone18ef192009-01-20 14:21:16 +00004737- Issue #4978: Passing keyword arguments as unicode strings is now allowed.
4738
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +00004739- Issue #1242657: the __len__() and __length_hint__() calls in several tools
Raymond Hettingerb5163702009-02-02 21:50:13 +00004740 were suppressing all exceptions. These include list(), filter(), map(),
4741 zip(), and bytearray().
4742
Benjamin Peterson596d3062009-01-19 15:42:23 +00004743- os.ftruncate raises OSErrors instead of IOErrors for consistency with other os
4744 functions.
4745
Benjamin Peterson5848d1f2009-01-19 00:08:08 +00004746- Issue #4991: Passing invalid file descriptors to io.FileIO now raises an
4747 OSError.
4748
Amaury Forgeot d'Arca18392a2009-01-13 23:19:08 +00004749- Issue #4807: Port the _winreg module to Windows CE.
4750
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004751- Issue #4935: The overflow checking code in the expandtabs() method common to
4752 str, bytes and bytearray could be optimized away by the compiler, letting the
4753 interpreter segfault instead of raising an error.
Antoine Pitrouc2f02212009-01-13 23:13:52 +00004754
Amaury Forgeot d'Arca40d5732009-01-12 23:36:55 +00004755- Issue #3720: Fix a crash when an iterator modifies its class and removes its
4756 __next__ method.
4757
Martin v. Löwise3422fa2009-01-12 08:11:24 +00004758- Issue #4893: Use NT threading on CE.
4759
Martin v. Löwis1b3bef22009-01-12 07:57:11 +00004760- Issue #4915: Port sysmodule to Windows CE.
4761
Antoine Pitrou4c5ecb72009-01-09 21:40:55 +00004762- Issue #4074: Change the criteria for doing a full garbage collection (i.e.
4763 collecting the oldest generation) so that allocating lots of objects without
4764 destroying them does not show quadratic performance. Based on a proposal by
Benjamin Petersond50a5d52009-07-13 00:03:20 +00004765 Martin von Löwis at
Antoine Pitrou4c5ecb72009-01-09 21:40:55 +00004766 http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2008-June/080579.html.
4767
Martin v. Löwisb90304a2009-01-07 18:40:40 +00004768- Issue #4850: Change COUNT_ALLOCS variables to Py_ssize_t.
4769
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004770- Issue #1180193: When importing a module from a .pyc (or .pyo) file with an
4771 existing .py counterpart, override the co_filename attributes of all code
4772 objects if the original filename is obsolete (which can happen if the file has
4773 been renamed, moved, or if it is accessed through different paths). Patch by
4774 Ziga Seilnacht and Jean-Paul Calderone.
Antoine Pitroue96d4ea2009-01-06 18:10:47 +00004775
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004776- Issue #4075: Use ``OutputDebugStringW()`` in Py_FatalError.
Martin v. Löwis5344c992009-01-02 20:32:55 +00004777
Hirokazu Yamamoto99a1b202009-01-01 15:45:39 +00004778- Issue #4797: IOError.filename was not set when _fileio.FileIO failed to open
4779 file with `str' filename on Windows.
4780
Antoine Pitrouaa687902009-01-01 14:11:22 +00004781- Issue #3680: Reference cycles created through a dict, set or deque iterator
4782 did not get collected.
4783
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004784- Issue #4701: PyObject_Hash now implicitly calls PyType_Ready on types where
4785 the tp_hash and tp_dict slots are both NULL.
Nick Coghlan180e4002008-12-30 01:18:48 +00004786
Benjamin Peterson7af65562008-12-29 17:56:58 +00004787- Issue #4764: With io.open, IOError.filename is set when trying to open a
4788 directory on POSIX systems.
4789
Benjamin Petersonfe231b02008-12-29 17:47:42 +00004790- Issue #4764: IOError.filename is set when trying to open a directory on POSIX
4791 systems.
4792
Georg Brandl6425a2f2008-12-28 11:54:53 +00004793- Issue #4759: None is now allowed as the first argument of
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004794 ``bytearray.translate()``. It was always allowed for ``bytes.translate()``.
Georg Brandl6425a2f2008-12-28 11:54:53 +00004795
Skip Montanarof205c132008-12-23 03:30:15 +00004796- Added test case to ensure attempts to read from a file opened for writing
4797 fail.
4798
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004799- Issue #2467: gc.DEBUG_STATS reported invalid elapsed times. Also, always print
4800 elapsed times, not only when some objects are uncollectable/unreachable.
4801 Original patch by Neil Schemenauer.
Antoine Pitrou73c0e652008-12-17 22:46:54 +00004802
Mark Dickinson1a707982008-12-17 16:14:37 +00004803- Issue #3439: Add a bit_length method to int and long.
4804
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004805- Issue #2183: Simplify and optimize bytecode for list comprehensions. Original
4806 patch by Neal Norwitz.
Antoine Pitroud0c35152008-12-17 00:38:28 +00004807
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004808- Issue #4597: Fixed exception handling when the __exit__ function of a context
4809 manager returns a value that cannot be converted to a bool.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcad9b5992008-12-10 23:22:49 +00004810
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004811- Issue #4597: Fixed several opcodes that weren't always propagating exceptions.
Jeffrey Yasskinffd42cf2008-12-10 07:35:02 +00004812
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004813- Issue #4445: Replace ``sizeof(PyStringObject)`` with
4814 ``offsetof(PyStringObject, ob_sval) + 1`` when allocating memory for str
4815 instances. On a typical machine this saves 3 bytes of memory (on average) per
4816 string allocation.
Mark Dickinson826f3fe2008-12-05 21:55:28 +00004817
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcdc619012008-11-22 20:01:18 +00004818- Issue #3996: On Windows, the PyOS_CheckStack function would cause the
4819 interpreter to abort ("Fatal Python error: Could not reset the stack!")
4820 instead of throwing a MemoryError.
4821
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004822- Issue #3689: The list reversed iterator now supports __length_hint__ instead
4823 of __len__. Behavior now matches other reversed iterators.
Raymond Hettinger7989a4d2008-12-03 15:42:10 +00004824
Benjamin Petersonc078f922008-11-21 22:27:24 +00004825- Issue #4367: Python would segfault during compiling when the unicodedata
4826 module couldn't be imported and \N escapes were present.
4827
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004828- Issue #4233: Changed semantic of ``_fileio.FileIO``'s ``close()`` method on
4829 file objects with closefd=False. The file descriptor is still kept open but
4830 the file object behaves like a closed file. The ``FileIO`` object also got a
4831 new readonly attribute ``closefd``.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc32265652008-11-20 23:34:31 +00004832
Benjamin Peterson46cc6d12008-11-19 21:49:09 +00004833- Issue #4348: Some bytearray methods returned that didn't cause any change to
4834 the bytearray, returned the same bytearray instead of a copy.
4835
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004836- Issue #4317: Fixed a crash in the ``imageop.rgb2rgb8()`` function.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc7cfe7ea2008-11-18 22:19:37 +00004837
Benjamin Peterson273c2332008-11-17 22:39:09 +00004838- Issue #4230: If ``__getattr__`` is a descriptor, it now functions correctly.
4839
Benjamin Peterson6624a9f2008-11-03 15:14:51 +00004840- Issue #4048: The parser module now correctly validates relative imports.
4841
Benjamin Petersondcee09d2008-10-31 02:16:05 +00004842- Issue #4225: ``from __future__ import unicode_literals`` didn't work in an
4843 exec statement.
4844
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004845- Issue #4176: Fixed a crash when pickling an object which ``__reduce__`` method
4846 does not return iterators for the 4th and 5th items.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc69a9c5b2008-10-30 21:18:34 +00004847
Benjamin Petersonbdca9422008-10-26 20:21:13 +00004848- Issue #4209: Enabling unicode_literals and the print_function in the same
4849 __future__ import didn't work.
4850
Benjamin Peterson399b1fe2008-10-25 02:53:28 +00004851- Using ``nonlocal`` as a variable name will now raise a Py3k SyntaxWarning
Georg Brandl7fb00ad2008-10-25 07:00:52 +00004852 because it is a reserved word in 3.x.
Benjamin Peterson399b1fe2008-10-25 02:53:28 +00004853
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004854- On windows, ``os.chdir()`` given unicode was not working if
4855 GetCurrentDirectoryW returned a path longer than MAX_PATH. (But It's doubtful
4856 this code path is really executed because I cannot move to such directory on
4857 win2k)
Hirokazu Yamamoto10a018c2008-10-09 10:00:30 +00004858
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004859- Issue #4069: When ``set.remove(element)`` is used with a set element, the
4860 element is temporarily replaced with an equivalent frozenset. But the
4861 eventual KeyError would always report the empty ``frozenset()`` as the missing
4862 key. Now it correctly refers to the initial element.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd78b9dc2008-10-07 20:32:10 +00004863
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004864- Issue #4509: Various issues surrounding resize of bytearray objects to which
4865 there are buffer exports.
Antoine Pitrouae5bece2008-12-06 21:29:24 +00004866
Benjamin Peterson8d5934b2008-12-27 18:24:11 +00004867- Issue #4748: Lambda generators no longer return a value.
4868
Kristján Valur Jónsson6220e412009-01-12 09:20:34 +00004869- Issue #3582: Use native TLS functions on Windows
4870
Gregory P. Smithae91d092009-03-02 05:13:57 +00004871- The re.sub(), re.subn() and re.split() functions now accept a flags parameter.
4872
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004873- Issue #3845: In PyRun_SimpleFileExFlags avoid invalid memory access with short
4874 file names.
Matthias Kloseedb5e1e2009-04-04 14:18:13 +00004875
Matthias Klose91a3b9e2009-04-05 21:19:13 +00004876- Issue #1113244: Py_XINCREF, Py_DECREF, Py_XDECREF: Add `do { ... } while (0)'
4877 to avoid compiler warnings.
Matthias Klose0610e082009-04-05 12:43:08 +00004878
Gregory P. Smith2b3eb372009-04-05 23:48:26 +00004879- Issue #5705: os.setuid() would not accept values > 2**31-1 but pwd.getpwnam()
4880 returned them on 64bit platforms.
4881
Walter Dörwalded960ac2009-05-03 22:36:33 +00004882- Issue #5108: Handle %s like %S and %R in PyUnicode_FromFormatV(): Call
4883 PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8() once, remember the result and output it in a second
4884 step. This avoids problems with counting UTF-8 bytes that ignores the effect
4885 of using the replace error handler in PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8().
4886
Walter Dörwald726ba8e2009-05-06 14:32:35 +00004887- Issue #3739: The unicode-internal encoder now reports the number of characters
4888 consumed like any other encoder (instead of the number of bytes).
4889
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004890- Issue #2422: When compiled with the ``--with-valgrind`` option, the pymalloc
4891 allocator will be automatically disabled when running under Valgrind. This
4892 gives improved memory leak detection when running under Valgrind, while taking
4893 advantage of pymalloc at other times.
Benjamin Peterson91c12eb2009-12-03 02:52:39 +00004894
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00004895Library
4896-------
Benjamin Petersonb3dd5482009-02-26 19:07:18 +00004897
Raymond Hettinger5f516ed2010-04-03 18:10:37 +00004898- Add count() and reverse() methods to collections.deque().
Raymond Hettingera5fd24e2009-12-10 06:42:54 +00004899
Raymond Hettinger0b3263b2009-12-10 06:00:33 +00004900- Fix variations of extending deques: d.extend(d) d.extendleft(d) d+=d
4901
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004902- Issue #6986: Fix crash in the JSON C accelerator when called with the wrong
4903 parameter types. Patch by Victor Stinner.
Antoine Pitrou187177f2009-12-08 15:40:51 +00004904
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004905- logging: Added optional "secure" parameter to SMTPHandler, to enable use of
Vinay Sajip48305662009-12-06 17:57:11 +00004906 TLS with authentication credentials.
4907
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004908- Issue #1923: Fixed the removal of meaningful spaces when PKG-INFO is generated
4909 in Distutils. Patch by Stephen Emslie.
Tarek Ziadé4f383172009-12-06 09:22:40 +00004910
Martin v. Löwisc218a2f2009-12-03 20:53:51 +00004911- Issue #4120: Drop reference to CRT from manifest when building extensions with
4912 msvc9compiler.
4913
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004914- Issue #7333: The ``posix`` module gains an ``initgroups()`` function providing
4915 access to the initgroups(3) C library call on Unix systems which implement it.
4916 Patch by Jean-Paul Calderone.
Antoine Pitrou30b3b352009-12-02 20:37:54 +00004917
Tarek Ziadéa5076a22009-11-29 22:20:30 +00004918- Issue #7408: Fixed distutils.tests.sdist so it doesn't check for group
4919 ownership when the group is not forced, because the group may be different
4920 from the user's group and inherit from its container when the test is run.
4921
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004922- Issue #1515: Enable use of deepcopy() with instance methods. Patch by Robert
4923 Collins.
Antoine Pitroud16f57b2009-11-28 15:55:58 +00004924
Vinay Sajip01801d12009-11-27 14:03:36 +00004925- Issue #7403: logging: Fixed possible race condition in lock creation.
4926
Antoine Pitrouacbe3bd2009-11-27 13:18:34 +00004927- Issue #6845: Add restart support for binary upload in ftplib. The
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004928 ``storbinary()`` method of FTP and FTP_TLS objects gains an optional "rest"
Antoine Pitrouacbe3bd2009-11-27 13:18:34 +00004929 argument. Patch by Pablo Mouzo.
4930
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004931- Issue #5788: ``datetime.timedelta`` objects get a new ``total_seconds()``
4932 method returning the total number of seconds in the duration. Patch by Brian
4933 Quinlan.
Antoine Pitroubcfaf802009-11-25 22:59:36 +00004934
Vinay Sajipc470d682009-11-25 09:03:30 +00004935- Issue #6615: logging: Used weakrefs in internal handler list.
4936
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004937- Issue #1488943: ``difflib.Differ`` doesn't always add hints for tab
4938 characters.
Senthil Kumaran5c456e62009-11-23 18:41:31 +00004939
Lars Gustäbeldd866d52009-11-22 18:30:53 +00004940- Issue #6123: tarfile now opens empty archives correctly and consistently
4941 raises ReadError on empty files.
4942
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004943- Issue #7354: distutils.tests.test_msvc9compiler - dragfullwindows can be 2.
Tarek Ziadé39de1fc2009-11-19 05:33:16 +00004944
Ezio Melotti3373a3a2010-01-16 18:38:01 +00004945- Issue #5037: Proxy the __unicode__ special method to __unicode__ instead of
4946 __str__.
Benjamin Petersondc3c2392009-11-19 03:00:02 +00004947
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004948- Issue #7341: Close the internal file object in the TarFile constructor in case
4949 of an error.
Lars Gustäbel355538e2009-11-18 20:24:54 +00004950
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004951- Issue #7293: ``distutils.test_msvc9compiler`` is fixed to work on any fresh
4952 Windows box. Help provided by David Bolen.
Tarek Ziadéacccafc2009-11-18 08:46:56 +00004953
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004954- Issue #7328: pydoc no longer corrupts sys.path when run with the '-m' switch.
Nick Coghlan11db64e2009-11-15 22:36:47 +00004955
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004956- Issue #2054: ftplib now provides an FTP_TLS class to do secure FTP using TLS
4957 or SSL. Patch by Giampaolo Rodola'.
Antoine Pitrouccd5e022009-11-15 17:22:09 +00004958
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004959- Issue #4969: The mimetypes module now reads the MIME database from the
4960 registry under Windows. Patch by Gabriel Genellina.
Antoine Pitroud5b34d42009-11-15 14:10:48 +00004961
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004962- Issue #6816: runpy now provides a run_path function that allows Python code to
4963 execute file paths that refer to source or compiled Python files as well as
4964 zipfiles, directories and other valid sys.path entries that contain a
Nick Coghlan49868cb2009-11-15 07:30:34 +00004965 __main__.py file. This allows applications that run other Python scripts to
4966 support the same flexibility as the CPython command line itself.
4967
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004968- Issue #7318: multiprocessing now uses a timeout when it fails to establish a
4969 connection with another process, rather than looping endlessly. The default
4970 timeout is 20 seconds, which should be amply sufficient for local connections.
Antoine Pitrouc562ca42009-11-13 22:31:18 +00004971
Antoine Pitrou0734c632009-11-10 20:49:30 +00004972- Issue #7197: Allow unittest.TextTestRunner objects to be pickled and
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004973 unpickled. This fixes crashes under Windows when trying to run
Antoine Pitrou0734c632009-11-10 20:49:30 +00004974 test_multiprocessing in verbose mode.
4975
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004976- Issue #7282: Fix a memory leak when an RLock was used in a thread other than
4977 those started through ``threading.Thread`` (for example, using
4978 ``thread.start_new_thread()``.
Antoine Pitroud7158d42009-11-09 16:00:11 +00004979
Antoine Pitrou99c160b2009-11-05 13:42:29 +00004980- Issue #7264: Fix a possible deadlock when deallocating thread-local objects
4981 which are part of a reference cycle.
4982
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004983- Issue #7211: Allow 64-bit values for the ``ident`` and ``data`` fields of
4984 kevent objects on 64-bit systems. Patch by Michael Broghton.
Antoine Pitrou323b9da2009-11-04 19:25:14 +00004985
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004986- Issue #6896: ``mailbox.Maildir`` now invalidates its internal cache each time
Antoine Pitrouaec41242009-11-02 11:34:27 +00004987 a modification is done through it. This fixes inconsistencies and test
4988 failures on systems with slightly bogus mtime behaviour.
4989
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004990- Issue #7246 & Issue #7208: getpass now properly flushes input before reading
4991 from stdin so that existing input does not confuse it and lead to incorrect
4992 entry or an IOError. It also properly flushes it afterwards to avoid the
4993 terminal echoing the input afterwards on OSes such as Solaris.
Gregory P. Smith38f5d8f2009-11-01 18:33:55 +00004994
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004995- Issue #7233: Fix a number of two-argument Decimal methods to make sure that
4996 they accept an int or long as the second argument. Also fix buggy handling of
4997 large arguments (those with coefficient longer than the current precision) in
4998 shift and rotate.
Mark Dickinson0c673122009-10-29 12:04:00 +00004999
Lars Gustäbel8c06ccc2009-10-29 09:15:00 +00005000- Issue #4750: Store the basename of the original filename in the gzip FNAME
5001 header as required by RFC 1952.
5002
Tarek Ziadé40b998b2009-10-27 23:06:10 +00005003- Issue #1180: Added a new global option to ignore ~/.pydistutils.cfg in
5004 Distutils.
5005
Tarek Ziadéd24cab82009-10-27 21:20:27 +00005006- Issue #7218: Fix test_site for win32, the directory comparison was done with
5007 an uppercase.
5008
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005009- Issue #7205: Fix a possible deadlock when using a BZ2File object from several
5010 threads at once.
Antoine Pitroudd629662009-10-27 17:41:58 +00005011
Tarek Ziadéb9c1cfc2009-10-24 15:10:37 +00005012- Issue #7071: byte-compilation in Distutils is now done with respect to
5013 sys.dont_write_bytecode.
5014
Vinay Sajipc470d682009-11-25 09:03:30 +00005015- Issue #7066: archive_util.make_archive now restores the cwd if an error is
Tarek Ziadé672422a2009-10-24 13:29:44 +00005016 raised. Initial patch by Ezio Melotti.
5017
Antoine Pitroufa94e802009-10-24 12:23:18 +00005018- Issue #6218: io.StringIO and io.BytesIO instances are now picklable with
5019 protocol 2.
5020
Vinay Sajip5ac65282009-10-21 20:22:14 +00005021- Issue #7077: logging: SysLogHandler now treats Unicode as per RFC 5424.
5022
Mark Dickinsona7a52ab2009-10-20 13:33:03 +00005023- Issue #7099: Decimal.is_normal now returns True for numbers with exponent
5024 larger than emax.
5025
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005026- Issue #5833: Fix extra space character in readline completion with the GNU
5027 readline library version 6.0.
Antoine Pitroue0899802009-10-19 18:20:21 +00005028
Antoine Pitrou5ba84912009-10-19 17:59:07 +00005029- Issue #7133: SSL objects now support the new buffer API.
5030
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005031- Issue #7149: urllib fails on OSX in the proxy detection code.
Ronald Oussoren31802d02009-10-18 07:07:00 +00005032
Benjamin Petersonc63457b2009-10-15 03:06:55 +00005033- Issue #7069: Make inspect.isabstract() return a boolean.
5034
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005035- Add support to the ``ihooks`` module for relative imports.
Neil Schemenauere6039f02009-10-14 19:23:53 +00005036
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005037- Issue #6894: Fixed the issue urllib2 doesn't respect "no_proxy" environment.
Senthil Kumaran27468662009-10-11 02:00:07 +00005038
Vinay Sajip1c77b7f2009-10-10 20:32:36 +00005039- Issue #7086: Added TCP support to SysLogHandler, and tidied up some
5040 anachronisms in the code which were a relic of 1.5.2 compatibility.
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +00005041
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005042- Issue #7082: When falling back to the MIME 'name' parameter, the correct place
5043 to look for it is the Content-Type header.
R. David Murray0c8bee62009-10-09 21:50:54 +00005044
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005045- Issue #7048: Force Decimal.logb to round its result when that result is too
5046 large to fit in the current precision.
Mark Dickinson15ae41c2009-10-07 19:22:05 +00005047
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +00005048- Issue #6516: Added owner/group support when creating tar archives in
Tarek Ziadé1b486712009-10-02 23:49:48 +00005049 Distutils.
5050
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005051- Issue #7031: Add ``TestCase.assert(Not)IsInstance()`` methods.
Georg Brandl12fafe62009-10-01 21:02:39 +00005052
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005053- Issue #6790: Make it possible again to pass an ``array.array`` to
5054 ``httplib.HTTPConnection.send``. Patch by Kirk McDonald.
Antoine Pitrou72481782009-09-29 17:48:18 +00005055
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005056- Issue #6236, #6348: Fix various failures in the `io` module under AIX and
5057 other platforms, when using a non-gcc compiler. Patch by egreen.
Antoine Pitrou2a466582009-09-21 21:17:48 +00005058
Tarek Ziadé99773352009-09-21 13:41:08 +00005059- Issue #6954: Fixed crash when using DISTUTILS_DEBUG flag in Distutils.
5060
Ronald Oussoren51f06332009-09-20 10:31:22 +00005061- Issue #6851: Fix urllib.urlopen crash on secondairy threads on OSX 10.6
5062
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005063- Issue #4606: Passing 'None' if ctypes argtype is set to POINTER(...) does now
5064 always result in NULL.
Thomas Heller6be522b2009-09-18 20:05:44 +00005065
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005066- Issue #5042: ctypes Structure sub-subclass does now initialize correctly with
5067 base class positional arguments.
Thomas Heller7a352c02009-09-18 18:55:17 +00005068
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005069- Issue #6938: Fix a TypeError in string formatting of a multiprocessing debug
5070 message.
Georg Brandlc40e60e2009-09-18 09:18:27 +00005071
Matthias Klose924eab62009-09-13 15:09:24 +00005072- Issue #6635: Fix profiler printing usage message.
5073
Lars Gustäbel21121e62009-09-12 10:28:15 +00005074- Issue #6856: Add a filter keyword argument to TarFile.add().
5075
Tarek Ziadébed26a32009-09-09 08:14:20 +00005076- Issue #6163: Fixed HP-UX runtime library dir options in
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005077 distutils.unixcompiler. Initial patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar and Michael
5078 Haubenwallner.
Tarek Ziadébed26a32009-09-09 08:14:20 +00005079
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005080- Issue #6857: Default format() alignment should be '>' for Decimal instances.
Mark Dickinson5cfa8042009-09-08 20:20:19 +00005081
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005082- Issue #6795: int(Decimal('nan')) now raises ValueError instead of returning
5083 NaN or raising InvalidContext. Also, fix infinite recursion in
5084 long(Decimal('nan')).
Mark Dickinson968f1692009-09-07 18:04:58 +00005085
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005086- Issue #6850: Fix bug in Decimal._parse_format_specifier for formats with no
5087 type specifier.
Mark Dickinson491ea552009-09-07 16:17:41 +00005088
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005089- Issue #4937: plat-mac/bundlebuilder refers to non-existing version.plist.
Ronald Oussoren626faeb2009-09-06 12:23:18 +00005090
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005091- Issue #6838: Use a list to accumulate the value instead of repeatedly
5092 concatenating strings in httplib's HTTPResponse._read_chunked providing a
5093 significant speed increase when downloading large files servend with a
5094 Transfer-Encoding of 'chunked'.
Chris Withers7f3ea6a2009-09-04 16:32:22 +00005095
Georg Brandld22b9512009-09-04 08:17:04 +00005096- Issue #5275: In Cookie's Cookie.load(), properly handle non-string arguments
5097 as documented.
5098
Georg Brandl2e1308f2009-09-04 06:59:20 +00005099- Issue #2666: Handle BROWSER environment variable properly for unknown browser
5100 names in the webbrowser module.
5101
Lars Gustäbelf7cda522009-08-28 19:23:44 +00005102- Issue #6054: Do not normalize stored pathnames in tarfile.
5103
Mark Dickinson7a7739d2009-08-28 13:25:02 +00005104- Issue #6794: Fix Decimal.compare_total and Decimal.compare_total_mag: NaN
5105 payloads are now ordered by integer value rather than lexicographically.
5106
Tarek Ziadé764fc232009-08-20 21:23:13 +00005107- Issue #6693: New functions in site.py to get user/global site packages paths.
5108
Gregory P. Smith4e63d542009-08-20 09:39:38 +00005109- The thread.lock type now supports weak references.
5110
Guilherme Polo7b50c4f2009-08-18 14:46:57 +00005111- Issue #1356969: Add missing info methods in Tix.HList.
5112
Guilherme Polo6b3c7092009-08-18 14:23:00 +00005113- Issue #1522587: New constants and methods for the Tix.Grid widget.
5114
Guilherme Polo6c823f82009-08-18 13:29:20 +00005115- Issue #1250469: Fix the return value of Tix.PanedWindow.panes.
5116
Guilherme Polod3e6e4b2009-08-18 13:23:08 +00005117- Issue #1119673: Do not override Tkinter.Text methods when creating a
5118 ScrolledText.
5119
Gregory P. Smithb98d6b22009-08-16 18:52:58 +00005120- Issue #6665: Fix fnmatch to properly match filenames with newlines in them.
5121
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005122- Issue #1135: Add the XView and YView mix-ins to avoid duplicating the xview*
5123 and yview* methods.
Guilherme Poloe45f0172009-08-14 14:36:45 +00005124
Antoine Pitrou20e1f932009-08-06 20:18:29 +00005125- Issue #6629: Fix a data corruption issue in the new `io` package, which could
5126 occur when writing to a BufferedRandom object (e.g. a file opened in "rb+" or
5127 "wb+" mode) after having buffered a certain amount of data for reading. This
5128 bug was not present in the pure Python implementation.
5129
Jesse Noller8497efe2009-08-06 02:05:56 +00005130- Issue #4660: If a multiprocessing.JoinableQueue.put() was preempted, it was
5131 possible to get a spurious 'task_done() called too many times' error.
5132
Gregory P. Smithc4ad0342009-08-13 18:54:50 +00005133- Issue #1628205: Socket file objects returned by socket.socket.makefile() now
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005134 properly handles EINTR within the read, readline, write & flush methods. The
5135 socket.sendall() method now properly handles interrupted system calls.
Gregory P. Smithc4ad0342009-08-13 18:54:50 +00005136
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005137- Issue #6595: The Decimal constructor now allows arbitrary Unicode decimal
5138 digits in input, as recommended by the standard. Previously it was restricted
5139 to accepting [0-9].
Mark Dickinson4326ad82009-08-02 10:59:36 +00005140
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc3e5b0272009-07-28 22:15:30 +00005141- Issue #6511: ZipFile now raises BadZipfile (instead of an IOError) when
5142 opening an empty or very small file.
5143
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc74b30162009-07-23 19:26:02 +00005144- Issue #6553: Fixed a crash in cPickle.load(), when given a file-like object
5145 containing incomplete data.
5146
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005147- Issue #6545: Removed assert statements in distutils.Extension, so the behavior
5148 is similar when used with -O.
Tarek Ziadéaf2406f2009-07-22 08:55:19 +00005149
Benjamin Petersond7b0eeb2009-07-19 20:18:21 +00005150- unittest has been split up into a package. All old names should still work.
5151
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005152- Issue #6431: Make Fraction type return NotImplemented when it doesn't know how
5153 to handle a comparison without loss of precision. Also add correct handling
5154 of infinities and nans for comparisons with float.
Mark Dickinson88a0a2e2009-07-18 15:18:18 +00005155
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc74b30162009-07-23 19:26:02 +00005156- Issue #6415: Fixed warnings.warn segfault on bad formatted string.
Hirokazu Yamamoto1a3d0852009-07-17 06:26:54 +00005157
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005158- Issue #6466: Now distutils.cygwinccompiler and distutils.emxccompiler uses the
5159 same refactored function to get gcc/ld/dllwrap versions numbers. It's
5160 ``distutils.util.get_compiler_versions()``. Added deprecation warnings for
5161 the obsolete get_versions() functions.
Tarek Ziadéa99dedf2009-07-16 15:35:45 +00005162
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005163- Issue #6433: Fixed issues with multiprocessing.pool.map hanging on empty list.
Jesse Noller7530e472009-07-16 14:23:04 +00005164
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +00005165- Issue #6314: logging: Extra checks on the "level" argument in more places.
5166
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc74b8d332009-07-11 14:33:51 +00005167- Issue #2622: Fixed an ImportError when importing email.messsage from a
5168 standalone application built with py2exe or py2app.
5169
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +00005170- Issue #6455: Fixed test_build_ext under win32.
Tarek Ziadé8c400012009-07-10 09:10:33 +00005171
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +00005172- Issue #6377: Enabled the compiler option, and deprecate its usage as an
Tarek Ziadée670e5a2009-07-06 12:50:46 +00005173 attribute.
5174
Tarek Ziadé63f17382009-07-04 02:02:41 +00005175- Issue #6413: Fixed the log level in distutils.dist for announce.
5176
Gregory P. Smithc197d0a2009-07-04 01:55:11 +00005177- Issue #3392: The subprocess communicate() method no longer fails in select()
5178 when file descriptors are large; communicate() now uses poll() when possible.
5179
Tarek Ziadé65ec61e2009-07-03 08:22:56 +00005180- Issue #6403: Fixed package path usage in build_ext.
5181
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005182- Issues #5155, #5313, #5331: multiprocessing.Process._bootstrap was
Jesse Noller1b90efb2009-06-30 17:11:52 +00005183 unconditionally calling "os.close(sys.stdin.fileno())" resulting in file
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005184 descriptor errors.
Jesse Noller1b90efb2009-06-30 17:11:52 +00005185
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +00005186- Issue #6365: Distutils build_ext inplace mode was copying the compiled
Tarek Ziadé3fbcc602009-06-29 16:13:39 +00005187 extension in a subdirectory if the extension name had dots.
5188
Hirokazu Yamamoto99ebc632009-06-29 14:29:31 +00005189- Issue #6344: Fixed a crash of mmap.read() when passed a negative argument.
5190
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005191- Issue #5230: pydoc would report no documentation found if a module generated a
5192 'not found' import error when loaded; it now reports the import errors.
R. David Murrayef087da2009-06-23 18:02:46 +00005193 Thanks to Lucas Prado Melo for initial fix and collaboration on the tests.
5194
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005195- Issue #6314: ``logging.basicConfig()`` performs extra checks on the "level"
Vinay Sajip603fb6d2009-06-21 17:37:27 +00005196 argument.
5197
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005198- Issue #6164: Added an AIX specific linker argument in Distutils unixcompiler.
5199 Original patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar.
Tarek Ziadé439bf932009-06-20 13:57:20 +00005200
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005201- Issue #6274: Fixed possible file descriptors leak in subprocess.py.
Facundo Batista8c826b72009-06-19 18:02:28 +00005202
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc5fe420e2009-06-18 22:32:50 +00005203- Issue #6189: Restored compatibility of subprocess.py with Python 2.2.
5204
Tarek Ziadéfdefc0a2009-06-16 07:29:52 +00005205- Issue #6287: Added the license field in Distutils documentation.
5206
Tarek Ziadéa1cc0402009-06-15 23:30:13 +00005207- Issue #6286: Now Distutils upload command is based on urllib2 instead of
5208 httplib, allowing the usage of http_proxy.
5209
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005210- Issue #6271: mmap tried to close invalid file handle (-1) for anonymous maps
5211 on Unix.
Hirokazu Yamamoto983a4652009-06-14 03:53:55 +00005212
Antoine Pitrou19690592009-06-12 20:14:08 +00005213- Issue #6215: All bug fixes and enhancements from the Python 3.1 io library
5214 (including the fast C implementation) have been backported to the standard
5215 ``io`` module.
5216
Martin v. Löwis2dcd7a02009-06-12 17:28:31 +00005217- Issue #6258: Support AMD64 in bdist_msi.
5218
Vinay Sajip334ffe82010-01-15 23:27:05 +00005219- Issue #6252: Fixed bug in next rollover time computation in
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00005220 TimedRotatingFileHandler.
5221
Tarek Ziadéc7498f52009-06-11 09:13:36 +00005222- Issue #6263: Fixed syntax error in distutils.cygwincompiler.
5223
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005224- Issue #5201: distutils.sysconfig.parse_makefile() now understands ``$$`` in
5225 Makefiles. This prevents compile errors when using syntax like:
5226 ``LDFLAGS='-rpath=\$$LIB:/some/other/path'``. Patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
Tarek Ziadé25d2bae2009-06-11 08:12:20 +00005227
Georg Brandle6632b42009-06-04 08:58:32 +00005228- Issue #5767: Removed sgmlop support from xmlrpclib.
5229
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005230- Issue #6131: test_modulefinder leaked when run after test_distutils. Patch by
5231 Hirokazu Yamamoto.
Tarek Ziadé3e3eace2009-05-29 08:08:07 +00005232
Tarek Ziadé9e5d2dc2009-05-28 12:53:54 +00005233- Issue #6048: Now Distutils uses the tarfile module in archive_util.
5234
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005235- Issue #6121: pydoc now ignores leading and trailing spaces in the argument to
5236 the 'help' function.
R. David Murrayd67ea7d2009-05-27 20:07:21 +00005237
Benjamin Peterson176a56c2009-05-25 00:48:58 +00005238- In unittest, using a skipping decorator on a class is now equivalent to
5239 skipping every test on the class. The ClassTestSuite class has been removed.
5240
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005241- Issue #6050: Don't fail extracting a directory from a zipfile if the directory
5242 already exists.
Martin v. Löwis0b09c422009-05-24 19:30:52 +00005243
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005244- Issue #5311: bdist_msi can now build packages that do not depend on a specific
5245 Python version.
Martin v. Löwis53b578e2009-05-24 19:10:52 +00005246
Antoine Pitroud49e3752009-05-24 15:40:09 +00005247- Issue #1309352: fcntl now converts its third arguments to a C `long` rather
5248 than an int, which makes some operations possible under 64-bit Linux (e.g.
5249 DN_MULTISHOT with F_NOTIFY).
5250
Senthil Kumarane266f252009-05-24 09:14:50 +00005251- Issue #1424152: Fix for httplib, urllib2 to support SSL while working through
5252 proxy. Original patch by Christopher Li, changes made by Senthil Kumaran.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00005253
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005254- Issue #1983: Fix functions taking or returning a process identifier to use the
5255 dedicated C type ``pid_t`` instead of a C ``int``. Some platforms have a
5256 process identifier type wider than the standard C integer type.
Antoine Pitrou5e858fe2009-05-23 15:37:45 +00005257
R. David Murrayad3058e2009-05-23 00:48:58 +00005258- Issue #4066: smtplib.SMTP_SSL._get_socket now correctly returns the socket.
5259 Patch by Farhan Ahmad, test by Marcin Bachry.
5260
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005261- Issue #6062: In distutils, fixed the package option of build_ext. Feedback
Tarek Ziadé7d7127d2009-05-19 16:17:21 +00005262 and tests on pywin32 by Tim Golden.
5263
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005264- Issue #6053: Fixed distutils tests on win32. Patch by Hirokazu Yamamoto.
Tarek Ziadé07bbfcc2009-05-18 12:21:26 +00005265
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005266- Issue #6046: Fixed the library extension when distutils build_ext is used in
5267 place. Initial patch by Roumen Petrov.
Tarek Ziadéfcc7f032009-05-18 08:03:37 +00005268
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00005269- Issue #6041: Now distutils `sdist` and `register` commands use `check` as a
Tarek Ziadécb768042009-05-16 16:37:06 +00005270 subcommand.
5271
Antoine Pitrou775fd662009-05-15 16:54:52 +00005272- Issue #2116: Weak references and weak dictionaries now support copy()ing and
5273 deepcopy()ing.
5274
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005275- Issue #1655: Make imaplib IPv6-capable. Patch by Derek Morr.
Antoine Pitrou52035a02009-05-15 11:50:29 +00005276
Antoine Pitrou42b5bcf2009-05-14 21:48:09 +00005277- Issue #5918: Fix a crash in the parser module.
5278
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005279- Issue #1664: Make nntplib IPv6-capable. Patch by Derek Morr.
Antoine Pitroueed30d82009-05-14 21:22:08 +00005280
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005281- Issue #6022: A test file was created in the current working directory by
Tarek Ziadécbb4f9e2009-05-14 20:14:13 +00005282 test_get_outputs in Distutils.
5283
R. David Murray996ba022009-05-13 17:14:11 +00005284- Issue #4050: inspect.findsource/getsource now raise an IOError if the 'source'
5285 file is a binary. Patch by Brodie Rao, tests by Daniel Diniz.
5286
Tarek Ziadé972480d2009-05-12 17:07:14 +00005287- Issue #5977: distutils build_ext.get_outputs was not taking into account the
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005288 inplace option. Initial patch by kxroberto.
Tarek Ziadé972480d2009-05-12 17:07:14 +00005289
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005290- Issue #5984: distutils.command.build_ext.check_extensions_list checks were
5291 broken for old-style extensions.
Tarek Ziadéd5d83422009-05-10 10:12:08 +00005292
Vinay Sajipf9b01fe2009-05-09 12:07:17 +00005293- Issue #5971: StreamHandler.handleError now swallows IOErrors which occur when
5294 trying to print a traceback.
5295
Tarek Ziadé812d7712009-05-09 10:06:00 +00005296- Issue #5976: Fixed Distutils test_check_environ.
5297
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005298- Issue #5900: Ensure RUNPATH is added to extension modules with RPATH if GNU ld
5299 is used. Original patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
Tarek Ziadée2be83d2009-05-09 08:28:53 +00005300
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005301- Issue #5941: Distutils build_clib command was not working anymore because of
5302 an incomplete costumization of the archiver command. Added ARFLAGS in the
5303 Makefile besides AR and make Distutils use it. Original patch by David
Tarek Ziadé99f660a2009-05-07 21:20:34 +00005304 Cournapeau.
5305
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00005306- Issue #5955: aifc's close method did not close the file it wrapped, now it
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005307 does. This also means getfp method now returns the real fp.
R. David Murrayd3bf34c2009-05-07 16:29:19 +00005308
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005309- Issue #4875: On win32, ctypes.util.find_library does no longer return
5310 directories.
Thomas Hellera57773e2009-05-05 18:55:47 +00005311
Georg Brandl4d4313d2009-05-05 08:54:11 +00005312- Issue #5142: Add the ability to skip modules while stepping to pdb.
5313
Georg Brandle3869c42009-05-05 08:30:28 +00005314- Issue #1309567: Fix linecache behavior of stripping subdirectories when
5315 looking for files given by a relative filename.
5316
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005317- Issue #5692: In ``zipfile.Zipfile``, fix wrong path calculation when
Antoine Pitrou97377bf2009-05-04 21:17:17 +00005318 extracting a file to the root directory.
5319
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005320- Issue #5913: ``os.listdir()`` should fail for empty path on windows.
Hirokazu Yamamoto406d7aa2009-05-04 05:28:39 +00005321
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005322- Issue #5084: Unpickling now interns the attribute names of pickled objects,
5323 saving memory and avoiding growth in size of subsequent pickles. Proposal and
5324 original patch by Jake McGuire.
Antoine Pitrou74309892009-05-02 21:13:23 +00005325
Antoine Pitrou1fc02312009-05-01 20:55:35 +00005326- Issue #3002: ``shutil.copyfile()`` and ``shutil.copytree()`` now raise an
5327 error when a named pipe is encountered, rather than blocking infinitely.
5328
Gregory P. Smith1d499262009-05-01 19:59:52 +00005329- Issue #3959: The ipaddr module has been added to the standard library.
5330 Contributed by Google.
5331
R. David Murray25b4add2009-04-29 13:17:37 +00005332- Issue #2245: aifc now skips chunk types it doesn't recognize, per spec.
5333
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005334- Issue #5874: distutils.tests.test_config_cmd is not locale-sensitive anymore.
Tarek Ziadéa1b91d92009-04-29 08:03:46 +00005335
Thomas Heller90c61a22009-04-28 19:23:41 +00005336- Issue #4305: ctypes should now build again on mipsel-linux-gnu
5337
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005338- Issue #1734234: Massively speedup ``unicodedata.normalize()`` when the string
5339 is already in normalized form, by performing a quick check beforehand.
Antoine Pitroue988e282009-04-27 21:53:26 +00005340 Original patch by Rauli Ruohonen.
5341
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005342- Issue #5853: Calling a function of the mimetypes module from several threads
Antoine Pitrouf2651e12009-04-27 20:50:20 +00005343 at once could hit the recursion limit if the mimetypes database hadn't been
5344 initialized before.
5345
Vinay Sajipe34d6aa2009-04-27 13:44:27 +00005346- Issue #5854: Updated __all__ to include some missing names and remove some
5347 names which should not be exported.
5348
5349- Issue #5810: Fixed Distutils test_build_scripts so it uses
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005350 ``sysconfig.get_config_vars()``.
Tarek Ziadébcddf672009-04-25 12:51:59 +00005351
Tarek Ziadéd567c382009-04-25 12:38:08 +00005352- Issue #4951: Fixed failure in test_httpservers.
5353
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005354- Issue #3102: All global symbols that the _ctypes extension defines are now
5355 prefixed with 'Py' or '_ctypes'.
Thomas Heller5c6af802009-04-24 20:31:47 +00005356
Thomas Hellerec21ccd2009-04-24 20:00:41 +00005357- Issue #5041: ctypes does now allow pickling wide character.
5358
Mark Dickinson4af8e742009-04-24 13:56:07 +00005359- Issue #5812: For the two-argument form of the Fraction constructor,
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005360 ``Fraction(m, n)``, m and n are permitted to be arbitrary Rational instances.
Mark Dickinson4af8e742009-04-24 13:56:07 +00005361
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005362- Issue #5812: Fraction('1e6') is valid: more generally, any string that's valid
5363 for float() is now valid for Fraction(), with the exception of strings
5364 representing NaNs and infinities.
Mark Dickinson8100bd82009-04-22 18:15:25 +00005365
Tarek Ziadé31559b62009-04-20 14:29:42 +00005366- Issue #5795: Fixed test_distutils failure on Debian ppc.
5367
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00005368- Issue #5768: Fixed bug in Unicode output logic and test case for same.
5369
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005370- Issue #1161031: Fix readwrite select flag handling: POLLPRI now results in a
5371 handle_expt_event call, not handle_read_event, and POLLERR and POLLNVAL now
5372 call handle_close, not handle_expt_event. Also, dispatcher now has an
5373 'ignore_log_types' attribute for suppressing log messages, which is set to
5374 'warning' by default.
R. David Murrayabc26602009-04-13 16:56:32 +00005375
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005376- Issue #5607: Fixed Distutils test_get_platform for Mac OS X fat binaries.
Tarek Ziadé156c31a2009-04-13 12:34:01 +00005377
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005378- Issue #5741: Don't disallow "%%" (which is an escape for "%") when setting a
5379 value in SafeConfigParser.
Georg Brandl21cf5ee2009-04-12 17:24:11 +00005380
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005381- Issue #5732: Added a new command in Distutils: check.
Tarek Ziadé942825f2009-04-11 14:55:07 +00005382
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00005383- Issue #5731: Distutils bdist_wininst no longer worked on non-Windows
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005384 platforms. Initial patch by Paul Moore.
Tarek Ziadéad958262009-04-09 21:36:44 +00005385
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005386- Issue #2254: Fix CGIHTTPServer information disclosure. Relative paths are now
5387 collapsed within the url properly before looking in cgi_directories.
Gregory P. Smith923ba362009-04-06 06:33:26 +00005388
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005389- Issue #5095: Added bdist_msi to the list of bdist supported formats. Initial
5390 fix by Steven Bethard.
Tarek Ziadé64408fb2009-04-05 22:51:09 +00005391
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005392- Issue #1491431: Fixed distutils.filelist.glob_to_re for edge cases. Initial
5393 fix by Wayne Davison.
Tarek Ziadéfaa6b122009-04-05 21:44:08 +00005394
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005395- Issue #5693: TestSuite.__iter__ can now be consistently overridden in
5396 subclasses.
Michael Foordf2dfef12009-04-05 19:19:28 +00005397
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005398- Issue #5694: Removed spurious test output in Distutils (test_clean).
Tarek Ziadé453d9532009-04-05 18:31:24 +00005399
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +00005400- Issue #5471: Fix os.path.expanduser() for $HOME set to '/'.
Georg Brandl3f0ef202009-04-05 14:48:49 +00005401
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005402- Issue #1326077: Fix the formatting of SyntaxErrors by the traceback module.
Georg Brandl1956d5c2009-04-05 14:25:41 +00005403
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005404- Issue #1726172: Fix IndexError in the case of and empty response in ftplib.
Georg Brandl50ba6e12009-04-05 10:48:47 +00005405
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005406- Issue #2625: Added missing iteritems() call to the for loop in
R. David Murray52720c52009-04-02 14:05:35 +00005407 mailbox.MH.get_message().
5408
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005409- Issue #5585: Add the ability to call an initializer to
5410 mulitiprocessing.manager so that users can install custom handlers/etc.
Jesse Noller7152f6d2009-04-02 05:17:26 +00005411
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005412- Issue #3551: Patch multiprocessing to raise a proper exception if the size of
5413 the object when writefile is called causes a ERROR_NO_SYSTEM_RESOURCES. Added
5414 docs to note the limitation.
Jesse Noller5053fbb2009-04-02 04:22:09 +00005415
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005416- unittest.assertNotEqual() now uses the inequality operator (!=) instead of the
5417 equality operator.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00005418
5419- Issue #6001: Test discovery for unittest. Implemented in
Michael Foordb4a81c82009-05-29 20:33:46 +00005420 unittest.TestLoader.discover and from the command line.
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00005421
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005422- Issue #5679: The methods unittest.TestCase.addCleanup and doCleanups were
5423 added. addCleanup allows you to add cleanup functions that will be called
Michael Foord07ef4872009-05-02 22:43:34 +00005424 unconditionally (after setUp if setUp fails, otherwise after tearDown). This
5425 allows for much simpler resource allocation and deallocation during tests.
5426
5427- Issue #3379: unittest.main now takes an optional exit argument. If False main
5428 doesn't call sys.exit allowing it to be used from the interactive interpreter.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00005429
5430- Issue #5995: unittest.main now takes an optional verbosity argument allowing
Michael Foord5d31e052009-05-11 17:59:43 +00005431 test modules to be run with a higher than default verbosity.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00005432
5433- Issue #5995: A fix to allow you to run "python -m unittest test_module" or
Michael Foord5d31e052009-05-11 17:59:43 +00005434 "python -m unittest test_module.TestClass" from the command line.
Michael Foord07ef4872009-05-02 22:43:34 +00005435
5436- Issue #5728: unittest.TestResult has new startTestRun and stopTestRun methods;
5437 called immediately before and after a test run.
5438
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005439- Issue #5663: Better failure messages for unittest asserts. Default assertTrue
Michael Foord345b2fe2009-04-02 03:20:38 +00005440 and assertFalse messages are now useful. TestCase has a longMessage attribute.
5441 This defaults to False, but if set to True useful error messages are shown in
5442 addition to explicit messages passed to assert methods.
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00005443
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005444- Issue #3110: Add additional protect around SEM_VALUE_MAX for multiprocessing.
Jesse Nollerb502bc72009-04-02 02:32:55 +00005445
Georg Brandl58b8b952009-04-01 21:54:21 +00005446- In Pdb, prevent the reassignment of __builtin__._ by sys.displayhook on
5447 printing out values.
5448
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005449- Issue #4572: Added SEEK_* symbolic constants to io module.
Georg Brandl5942b912009-04-01 21:05:44 +00005450
Brett Cannonad078a02009-04-01 16:00:34 +00005451- Issue #1665206 (partially): Move imports in cgitb to the top of the module
5452 instead of performing them in functions. Helps prevent import deadlocking in
5453 threads.
5454
Raymond Hettinger66c4a6b2009-04-01 18:50:56 +00005455- Issue #5647: MutableSet.__iand__() no longer mutates self during iteration.
5456
Georg Brandle92d4b62009-04-01 04:21:14 +00005457- Actually make the SimpleXMLRPCServer CGI handler work.
5458
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005459- Issue #2522: locale.format() now checks its first argument to ensure it has
R. David Murraya83da352009-04-01 03:21:43 +00005460 been passed only one pattern, avoiding mysterious errors where it appeared
5461 that it was failing to do localization.
5462
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005463- Issue #5583: Added optional extensions in Distutils. Initial patch by Georg
Tarek Ziadé9e47ce42009-03-31 22:27:23 +00005464 Brandl.
5465
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005466- Issue #5619: Multiprocessing children disobey the debug flag and causes popups
5467 on windows buildbots. Patch applied to work around this issue.
Jesse Noller42f9b4e2009-03-31 22:20:35 +00005468
Benjamin Petersond906ea62009-03-31 21:34:42 +00005469- Issue #5632: Thread.ident was None for the main thread and threads not created
5470 with the threading module.
5471
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005472- Issue #5400: Added patch for multiprocessing on netbsd compilation/support.
Jesse Noller1f0a5552009-03-31 18:27:14 +00005473
Hirokazu Yamamoto9d2ee5d2009-03-31 13:13:05 +00005474- Issue #5387: Fixed mmap.move crash by integer overflow.
5475
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005476- Issue #5261: Patch multiprocessing's semaphore.c to support context manager
5477 use: "with multiprocessing.Lock()" works now.
Jesse Noller82eb5902009-03-30 23:29:31 +00005478
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00005479- Issue #5177: Multiprocessing's SocketListener class now uses
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005480 socket.SO_REUSEADDR on all connections so that the user no longer needs to
5481 wait 120 seconds for the socket to expire.
Jesse Noller459a6482009-03-30 15:50:42 +00005482
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005483- Adjusted _tkinter to compile without warnings when WITH_THREAD is not defined
5484 (part of issue #5035).
Guilherme Polo1972d162009-03-27 21:43:08 +00005485
Marc-André Lemburgcbdf15b2009-03-25 19:45:33 +00005486- Issue #5561: Removed the sys.version_info shortcuts from platform's
5487 python_version() and python_version_tuple() since they produced different
5488 output compared to previous Python versions.
5489
Benjamin Peterson692428e2009-03-23 21:50:21 +00005490- Issue #1034053: unittest now supports skipping tests and expected failures.
5491
Gregory P. Smith28399852009-03-31 16:54:10 +00005492- The unittest.TestCase.assertRaises() method now returns a context manager when
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005493 not given a callable so that code to be tested can be written inline using a
5494 with statement.
Gregory P. Smith28399852009-03-31 16:54:10 +00005495
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005496- Issue #2578: The unittest.TestCase.assertEqual() now displays the differences
5497 in lists, tuples, dicts and sets on failure. Many new handy type and
5498 comparison specific assert* methods have been added that fail with error
5499 messages actually useful for debugging. Contributed in part by Google.
Gregory P. Smith28399852009-03-31 16:54:10 +00005500
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005501- Issue #5068: Fixed the tarfile._BZ2Proxy.read() method that would loop forever
5502 on incomplete input. That caused tarfile.open() to hang when used with mode
5503 'r' or 'r:bz2' and a fileobj argument that contained no data or partial bzip2
5504 compressed data.
Lars Gustäbel2020a592009-03-22 20:09:33 +00005505
Benjamin Petersonb364bfe2009-03-22 17:45:11 +00005506- Issue #5536: urllib.urlretrieve makes sure to close the file it's writing to
5507 even if an exception occurs.
5508
Raymond Hettinger91852ca2009-03-19 19:19:03 +00005509- Issue #5381: Added object_pairs_hook to the json module. This allows
5510 OrderedDicts to be built by the decoder.
5511
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005512- Issue #2110: Add support for thousands separator and 'n' type specifier to
5513 ``Decimal.__format__()``.
Mark Dickinson277859d2009-03-17 23:03:46 +00005514
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005515- Fix Decimal.__format__ bug that swapped the meanings of the '<' and '>'
5516 alignment characters.
Mark Dickinsonb065e522009-03-17 18:01:03 +00005517
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005518- Issue #1222: ``locale.format()`` bug when the thousands separator is a space
Antoine Pitroufeeafff2009-03-14 00:07:21 +00005519 character.
5520
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005521- Issue #5472: Fixed distutils.test_util tear down. Original patch by Tim
5522 Golden.
Tarek Ziadé61585c22009-03-11 12:48:04 +00005523
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005524- collections.deque objects now have a read-only attribute called maxlen.
Raymond Hettinger56411aa2009-03-10 12:50:59 +00005525
Guilherme Polo15d57652009-03-07 02:14:38 +00005526- Issue #2638: Show a window constructed with tkSimpleDialog.Dialog only after
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005527 it is has been populated and properly configured in order to prevent window
5528 flashing.
Guilherme Polo15d57652009-03-07 02:14:38 +00005529
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005530- Issue #4792: Prevent a segfault in _tkinter by using the guaranteed to be safe
5531 interp argument given to the PythonCmd in place of the Tcl interpreter taken
5532 from a PythonCmd_ClientData.
Guilherme Polo3768b2f2009-03-07 01:47:49 +00005533
Guilherme Polo6d6c1fd2009-03-07 01:19:12 +00005534- Issue #5193: Guarantee that Tkinter.Text.search returns a string.
5535
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005536- Issue #5394: Removed > 2.3 syntax from distutils.msvc9compiler.
Tarek Ziadé943b24e2009-03-07 00:32:45 +00005537 Original patch by Akira Kitada.
5538
Hirokazu Yamamoto264fc122009-03-05 14:21:12 +00005539- Issue #5385: Fixed mmap crash after resize failure on windows.
5540
Hirokazu Yamamotoeacbbdf2009-03-03 22:18:14 +00005541- Issue #5179: Fixed subprocess handle leak on failure on windows.
5542
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005543- PEP 372: Added collections.OrderedDict().
Raymond Hettingerbc512d32009-03-03 04:45:34 +00005544
Raymond Hettinger88a91642009-03-03 04:51:24 +00005545- The _asdict() for method for namedtuples now returns an OrderedDict().
5546
Raymond Hettingere89b8e92009-03-03 05:00:37 +00005547- The configparser module now defaults to using an ordered dictionary.
5548
Benjamin Peterson7d49bba2009-03-02 22:41:42 +00005549- Issue #4308: httplib.IncompleteRead's repr doesn't include all of the data all
5550 ready received.
5551
Benjamin Petersonad58b7c2009-03-02 03:35:12 +00005552- Issue #5401: Fixed a performance problem in mimetypes when ``from mimetypes
5553 import guess_extension`` was used.
5554
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005555- Issue #1733986: Fixed mmap crash on Windows in accessing elements of second
5556 map object with same tagname but larger size than first map.
Hirokazu Yamamotob0e10c72009-02-28 12:13:07 +00005557
Hirokazu Yamamotof2dc8852009-02-28 10:31:54 +00005558- Issue #5386: mmap.write_byte didn't check map size, so it could cause buffer
5559 overrun.
5560
Tarek Ziadé73347352009-02-28 10:08:02 +00005561- Issue #1533164: Installed but not listed *.pyo was breaking Distutils
5562 bdist_rpm command.
5563
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005564- Issue #5378: Added --quiet option to Distutils bdist_rpm command.
Tarek Ziadé73347352009-02-28 10:08:02 +00005565
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005566- Issue #5052: Make Distutils compatible with 2.3 again.
Tarek Ziadédda92f72009-02-27 12:53:34 +00005567
Benjamin Petersonb3dd5482009-02-26 19:07:18 +00005568- Deprecated methods of symtable.Symbol have been removed: is_keywordarg(),
5569 is_vararg(), and is_in_tuple().
5570
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005571- Issue #5316: Fixed buildbot failures introduced by multiple inheritance in
5572 Distutils tests.
Tarek Ziadée3bc0ef2009-02-25 22:29:27 +00005573
Vinay Sajip1a0d2be2009-02-19 12:31:32 +00005574- Issue #5287: Add exception handling around findCaller() call to help out
5575 IronPython.
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00005576
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005577- Issue #5282: Fixed mmap resize on 32bit Windows and Unix. When ``offset >
5578 0``, the file was resized to wrong size.
Hirokazu Yamamoto17a837e2009-02-17 13:17:26 +00005579
Hirokazu Yamamotof6bbd0e2009-02-17 10:12:10 +00005580- Issue #5292: Fixed mmap crash on its boundary access m[len(m)].
5581
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005582- Issue #2279: distutils.sdist.add_defaults now add files from the package_data
5583 and the data_files metadata.
Tarek Ziadé7dd53392009-02-16 21:38:01 +00005584
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005585- Issue #5257: Refactored all tests in distutils, so they use
Tarek Ziadé13699002009-02-14 14:10:23 +00005586 support.TempdirManager, to avoid writing in the tests directory.
5587
Tarek Ziadé2432b0b2009-02-13 23:00:43 +00005588- Issue #4524: distutils build_script command failed with --with-suffix=3.
5589 Initial patch by Amaury Forgeot d'Arc.
5590
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005591- Issue #2461: Added tests for distutils.util.
Tarek Ziadé275958a2009-02-13 22:22:03 +00005592
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005593- Issue #1008086: Fixed socket.inet_aton() to always return 4 bytes even on LP64
5594 platforms (most 64-bit Linux, bsd, unix systems).
Gregory P. Smith3605b5c2009-02-11 23:45:25 +00005595
Thomas Heller3689ae22009-02-10 18:43:01 +00005596- Issue #5203: Fixed ctypes segfaults when passing a unicode string to a
5597 function without argtypes (only occurs if HAVE_USABLE_WCHAR_T is false).
5598
Tarek Ziadé74fbf602009-02-10 12:31:09 +00005599- Issue #3386: distutils.sysconfig.get_python_lib prefix argument was ignored
5600 under NT and OS2. Patch by Philip Jenvey.
5601
Brett Cannon28d10882009-02-10 02:07:38 +00005602- Issue #5128: Make compileall properly inspect bytecode to determine if needs
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005603 to be recreated. This avoids a timing hole thanks to the old reliance on the
Brett Cannon28d10882009-02-10 02:07:38 +00005604 ctime of the files involved.
5605
Guilherme Poloa66cf5b2009-02-09 20:50:27 +00005606- Issue #5122: Synchronize tk load failure check to prevent a potential
5607 deadlock.
5608
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005609- Issue #1818: collections.namedtuple() now supports a keyword argument 'rename'
5610 which lets invalid fieldnames be automatically converted to positional names
5611 in the form, _1, _2, ...
Raymond Hettinger322daea2009-02-10 01:24:05 +00005612
Guilherme Polod2ea0332009-02-09 16:41:09 +00005613- Issue #4890: Handle empty text search pattern in Tkinter.Text.search.
5614
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005615- Issue #5170: Fixed Unicode output bug in logging and added test case. This is
5616 a regression which did not occur in 2.5.
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +00005617
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005618- Issue #4512 (part 2): Promote ``ZipImporter._get_filename()`` to be a public
5619 documented method ``ZipImporter.get_filename()``.
Nick Coghlan0194f5b2009-02-08 03:17:00 +00005620
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005621- Issue #4195: The ``runpy`` module (and the ``-m`` switch) now support the
5622 execution of packages by looking for and executing a ``__main__`` submodule
5623 when a package name is supplied. Initial patch by Andi Vajda.
Nick Coghland39600e2009-02-08 01:26:34 +00005624
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005625- Issue #1731706: Call Tcl_ConditionFinalize for Tcl_Conditions that will not be
5626 used again (this requires Tcl/Tk 8.3.1), also fix a memory leak in Tkapp_Call
5627 when calling from a thread different than the one that created the Tcl
5628 interpreter. Patch by Robert Hancock.
Guilherme Polo14ff18d2009-02-06 22:26:22 +00005629
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +00005630- Issue #1520877: Now distutils.sysconfig reads $AR from the
Tarek Ziadé05adf072009-02-06 01:15:51 +00005631 environment/Makefile. Patch by Douglas Greiman.
5632
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005633- Issue #4285: Change sys.version_info to be a named tuple. Patch by Ross
5634 Light.
Eric Smith81fe0932009-02-06 00:48:26 +00005635
Tarek Ziadéd5eb9852009-02-06 00:31:59 +00005636- Issue #1276768: The verbose option was not used in the code of
5637 distutils.file_util and distutils.dir_util.
5638
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +00005639- Issue #5132: Fixed trouble building extensions under Solaris with
Tarek Ziadé0d4fd342009-02-05 22:52:52 +00005640 --enabled-shared activated. Initial patch by Dave Peterson.
5641
Guilherme Polod7bb4d42009-02-02 21:14:14 +00005642- Issue #1581476: Always use the Tcl global namespace when calling into Tcl.
5643
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005644- Issue #2047: shutil.move() could believe that its destination path was inside
5645 its source path if it began with the same letters (e.g. "src" vs. "src.new").
Antoine Pitrou707c5932009-01-29 20:19:34 +00005646
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005647- Issue #4920: Fixed .next() vs .__next__() issues in the ABCs for Iterator and
5648 MutableSet.
Raymond Hettingerf779e6f2009-01-28 23:02:26 +00005649
Guilherme Polocda93aa2009-01-28 13:09:03 +00005650- Added the ttk module. See issue #2983: Ttk support for Tkinter.
5651
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005652- Issue #5021: doctest.testfile() did not create __name__ and
Raymond Hettingerecf252a2009-01-27 10:03:04 +00005653 collections.namedtuple() relied on __name__ being defined.
5654
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005655- Backport importlib from Python 3.1. Only the import_module() function has been
5656 backported to help facilitate transitions from 2.7 to 3.1.
Brett Cannon93881c62009-01-26 01:16:50 +00005657
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005658- Issue #1885: distutils: When running sdist with --formats=tar,gztar the tar
5659 file was overriden by the gztar one.
Tarek Ziadéaaedcef2009-01-25 23:34:00 +00005660
Tarek Ziadéef249b12009-01-25 18:19:25 +00005661- Issue #4863: distutils.mwerkscompiler has been removed.
5662
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005663- Added new itertools functions: combinations_with_replacement() and compress().
Raymond Hettinger2bcb8e92009-01-25 21:04:14 +00005664
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005665- Issue #5032: Added a step argument to itertools.count() and allowed
5666 non-integer arguments.
Raymond Hettinger31c769c2009-02-12 05:39:46 +00005667
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005668- Fix and properly document the multiprocessing module's logging support, expose
5669 the internal levels and provide proper usage examples.
Jesse Nollerb5a4b0a2009-01-25 03:36:13 +00005670
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005671- Issue #1672332: Fix unpickling of subnormal floats, which was
Mark Dickinsona3ecd2c2009-01-24 16:40:29 +00005672 producing a ValueError on some platforms.
5673
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005674- Issue #3881: Help Tcl to load even when started through the unreadable local
5675 symlink to "Program Files" on Vista.
Martin v. Löwisf081e1c2009-01-24 15:47:27 +00005676
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005677- Issue #4710: Extract directories properly in the zipfile module; allow adding
5678 directories to a zipfile.
Martin v. Löwis0dfcfc82009-01-24 14:00:33 +00005679
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +00005680- Issue #3807: _multiprocessing build fails when configure is passed
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005681 --without-threads argument. When this occurs, _multiprocessing will be
5682 disabled, and not compiled.
Jesse Nollerf6da8d12009-01-23 14:04:41 +00005683
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005684- Issue #5008: When a file is opened in append mode with the new IO library, do
5685 an explicit seek to the end of file (so that e.g. tell() returns the file size
5686 rather than 0). This is consistent with the behaviour of the traditional 2.x
5687 file object.
Antoine Pitroue741cc62009-01-21 00:45:36 +00005688
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00005689- Issue #5013: Fixed a bug in FileHandler which occurred when the delay
5690 parameter was set.
5691
Raymond Hettinger933d3a72009-01-20 20:34:19 +00005692- Issue #4998: The memory saving effect of __slots__ had been lost on Fractions
5693 which inherited from numbers.py which did not have __slots__ defined. The
Mark Dickinson39c6f7f2009-02-12 17:55:42 +00005694 numbers hierarchy now has its own __slots__ declarations.
Raymond Hettinger933d3a72009-01-20 20:34:19 +00005695
Jesse Noller9a5b2ad2009-01-19 15:12:22 +00005696- Issue #3321: _multiprocessing.Connection() doesn't check handle; added checks
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005697 for *nix machines for negative handles and large int handles. Without this
5698 check it is possible to segfault the interpreter.
Jesse Noller9a5b2ad2009-01-19 15:12:22 +00005699
Jesse Noller6ab22152009-01-18 02:45:38 +00005700- Issue #4449: AssertionError in mp_benchmarks.py, caused by an underlying issue
5701 in sharedctypes.py.
5702
Benjamin Peterson5e5fbb62009-01-17 22:27:54 +00005703- Issue #1225107: inspect.isclass() returned True for instances with a custom
5704 __getattr__.
5705
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005706- Issue #3997: Zipfiles generated with more than 65536 files could not be opened
5707 with other applications.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd25f87a2009-01-17 16:40:17 +00005708
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005709- Issue #1162154: ``inspect.getmembers()`` now skips attributes that raise
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcb54447f2009-01-13 23:39:22 +00005710 AttributeError, e.g. a __slots__ attribute which has not been set.
5711
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005712- Issue #1696199: Add collections.Counter() for rapid and convenient counting.
Raymond Hettingerf94d7fa2009-01-12 22:58:41 +00005713
Antoine Pitroubd4b5f22009-01-10 16:15:24 +00005714- Issue #3860: GzipFile and BZ2File now support the context manager protocol.
5715
Antoine Pitrouf0d2c3f2009-01-04 21:29:23 +00005716- Issue #4272: Add an optional argument to the GzipFile constructor to override
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005717 the timestamp in the gzip stream. The default value remains the current time.
5718 The information can be used by e.g. gunzip when decompressing. Patch by
Antoine Pitrouf0d2c3f2009-01-04 21:29:23 +00005719 Jacques Frechet.
5720
Mark Dickinson514d4832009-01-04 21:25:40 +00005721- Restore Python 2.3 compatibility for decimal.py.
5722
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00005723- Issue #1702551: distutils sdist was not excluding VCS directories under
Ezio Melotti50bc66a2012-11-03 21:29:08 +02005724 Windows. Initial solution by Guy Dalberto.
Tarek Ziadé85d6fb52009-01-04 00:04:49 +00005725
Guilherme Poloe7f14032009-01-03 21:51:09 +00005726- The _tkinter module functions "createfilehandler", "deletefilehandler",
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005727 "createtimerhandler", "mainloop", "dooneevent" and "quit" have been deprecated
5728 for removal in 3.x
Guilherme Poloe7f14032009-01-03 21:51:09 +00005729
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005730- Issue #4796: Added Decimal.from_float() and
5731 Context.create_decimal_from_float() to the decimal module.
Raymond Hettingerf4d85972009-01-03 19:02:23 +00005732
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005733- Issue #4812: Add missing underscore prefix to some internal-use-only constants
5734 in the decimal module. (Dec_0 becomes _Dec_0, etc.)
Mark Dickinsonc5de0962009-01-02 23:07:08 +00005735
Benjamin Peterson8ad09a42008-12-31 23:48:39 +00005736- Issue #4795: inspect.isgeneratorfunction() returns False instead of None when
5737 the function is not a generator.
5738
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005739- Issue #4702: Throwing a DistutilsPlatformError instead of IOError in case no
5740 MSVC compiler is found under Windows. Original patch by Philip Jenvey.
Tarek Ziadéb1a85412008-12-30 23:03:41 +00005741
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005742- Issue #4646: distutils was choking on empty options arg in the setup function.
5743 Original patch by Thomas Heller.
Tarek Ziadéc13acb12008-12-29 22:23:53 +00005744
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005745- Fractions.from_float() no longer loses precision for integers too big to cast
5746 as floats.
Georg Brandlfe427892009-01-03 22:03:11 +00005747
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005748- Issue #4790: The nsmallest() and nlargest() functions in the heapq module did
5749 unnecessary work in the common case where no key function was specified.
Georg Brandlfe427892009-01-03 22:03:11 +00005750
Martin v. Löwis732479f2008-12-29 16:22:25 +00005751- Issue #3767: Convert Tk object to string in tkColorChooser.
5752
Martin v. Löwise2eb2b42008-12-29 15:51:01 +00005753- Issue #3248: Allow placing ScrolledText in a PanedWindow.
5754
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005755- Issue #4444: Allow assertRaises() to be used as a context handler, so that the
5756 code under test can be written inline if more practical.
Antoine Pitrou697ca3d2008-12-28 14:09:36 +00005757
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005758- Issue #4739: Add pydoc help topics for symbols, so that e.g. help('@') works
5759 as expected in the interactive environment.
Georg Brandlc3a98032008-12-27 18:20:04 +00005760
Antoine Pitrou6f193e02008-12-27 15:43:12 +00005761- Issue #4756: zipfile.is_zipfile() now supports file-like objects. Patch by
5762 Gabriel Genellina.
5763
Tarek Ziadée4c75bb2008-12-24 19:10:05 +00005764- Issue #4400: .pypirc default generated file was broken in distutils.
5765
Benjamin Peterson54686e32008-12-24 15:10:27 +00005766- Issue #4736: io.BufferedRWPair's closed property now functions properly.
5767
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005768- Issue #3954: Fix a potential SystemError in _hotshot.logreader error handling.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc31949b92008-12-15 21:47:57 +00005769
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005770- Issue #4574: Fix a crash in io.IncrementalNewlineDecoder when a carriage
5771 return encodes to more than one byte in the source encoding (e.g. UTF-16) and
5772 gets split on a chunk boundary.
Antoine Pitrou655fbf12008-12-14 17:40:51 +00005773
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005774- Issue #4223: inspect.getsource() will now correctly display source code for
5775 packages loaded via zipimport (or any other conformant PEP 302
Nick Coghlana2053472008-12-14 10:54:50 +00005776 loader). Original patch by Alexander Belopolsky.
5777
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005778- Issue #4201: pdb can now access and display source code loaded via zipimport
5779 (or any other conformant PEP 302 loader). Original patch by Alexander
5780 Belopolsky.
Nick Coghlana2053472008-12-14 10:54:50 +00005781
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005782- Issue #4197: Doctests in modules loaded via zipimport (or any other PEP 302
5783 conformant loader) will now work correctly in most cases (they are still
5784 subject to the constraints that exist for all code running from inside a
5785 module loaded via a PEP 302 loader and attempting to perform IO operations
5786 based on __file__). Original patch by Alexander Belopolsky.
Nick Coghlana2053472008-12-14 10:54:50 +00005787
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005788- Issues #4082 and #4512: Add runpy support to zipimport in a manner that allows
5789 backporting to maintenance branches. Original patch by Alexander Belopolsky.
Nick Coghlana2053472008-12-14 10:54:50 +00005790
Antoine Pitrou74af3bb2008-12-13 23:12:30 +00005791- Issue #4163: Use unicode-friendly word splitting in the textwrap functions
Ezio Melotti302ad8d2013-01-19 19:44:58 +02005792 when given a Unicode string.
Antoine Pitrou74af3bb2008-12-13 23:12:30 +00005793
Lars Gustäbel3b027422008-12-12 13:58:03 +00005794- Issue #4616: TarFile.utime(): Restore directory times on Windows.
5795
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005796- Issue #4084: Fix max, min, max_mag and min_mag Decimal methods to give correct
5797 results in the case where one argument is a quiet NaN and the other is a
5798 finite number that requires rounding.
Facundo Batistae29d4352008-12-11 04:19:46 +00005799
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005800- Issue #1030250: Distutils created directories even when run with the --dry-run
5801 option.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc240028c2008-12-11 00:03:42 +00005802
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005803- Issue #4483: _dbm module now builds on systems with gdbm & gdbm_compat libs.
Skip Montanaro45313fe2008-12-06 17:43:30 +00005804
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005805- Issue #4529: Fix the parser module's validation of try-except-finally
Georg Brandlfe879e82008-12-05 12:09:41 +00005806 statements.
5807
Georg Brandla07435d2008-12-05 09:23:14 +00005808- Issue #4458: getopt.gnu_getopt() now recognizes a single "-" as an argument,
5809 not a malformed option.
5810
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005811- Added the subprocess.check_output() convenience function to get output from a
5812 subprocess on success or raise an exception on error.
Gregory P. Smith97f49f42008-12-04 20:21:09 +00005813
Fred Drake52481032008-12-04 18:25:17 +00005814- Issue #1055234: cgi.parse_header(): Fixed parsing of header parameters to
5815 support unusual filenames (such as those containing semi-colons) in
5816 Content-Disposition headers.
5817
Vinay Sajip6831d6b2008-12-04 20:32:18 +00005818- Issue #4384: Added logging integration with warnings module using
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005819 captureWarnings(). This change includes a NullHandler which does nothing; it
5820 will be of use to library developers who want to avoid the "No handlers could
5821 be found for logger XXX" message which can appear if the library user doesn't
5822 configure logging.
Vinay Sajip213faca2008-12-03 23:22:58 +00005823
Christian Heimesaa674712008-11-28 11:02:32 +00005824- Issue #3741: DISTUTILS_USE_SDK set causes msvc9compiler.py to raise an
5825 exception.
5826
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005827- Issue #4363: The uuid.uuid1() and uuid.uuid4() functions now work even if the
5828 ctypes module is not present.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd4294172008-11-21 22:05:48 +00005829
Benjamin Petersonbfc51562008-11-22 01:59:15 +00005830- FileIO's mode attribute now always includes ``"b"``.
5831
Martin v. Löwisbb9b1f12008-11-19 09:09:41 +00005832- Issue #4116: Resolve member name conflict in ScrolledCanvas.__init__.
5833
Brett Cannone3d0bf72008-11-15 22:40:44 +00005834- httplib.HTTPConnection.putheader() now accepts an arbitrary number of values
5835 for any header, matching what the documentation has claimed for a while.
5836
Hirokazu Yamamotob9828f62008-11-03 18:03:06 +00005837- Issue #3774: Fixed an error when create a Tkinter menu item without command
5838 and then remove it.
5839
Thomas Heller1fac5a42008-10-30 20:18:13 +00005840- Fixed a modulefinder crash on certain relative imports.
5841
Benjamin Petersonc18574c2008-10-22 21:16:34 +00005842- Issue #4150: Pdb's "up" command now works for generator frames in post-mortem
5843 debugging.
5844
Benjamin Petersone4dc1752008-10-21 22:20:31 +00005845- Issue #4092: Return ArgInfo as promised in the documentation from
5846 inspect.getargvalues.
5847
Georg Brandlf3776a12008-10-08 18:47:17 +00005848- Issue #3935: Properly support list subclasses in bisect's C implementation.
5849
Martin v. Löwis96a9f232008-10-06 15:15:40 +00005850- Issue #4014: Don't claim that Python has an Alpha release status, in addition
5851 to claiming it is Mature.
5852
Alexandre Vassalotti6067f782008-12-27 07:13:01 +00005853- Issue #4730: Fixed the cPickle module to handle correctly astral characters
5854 when protocol 0 is used.
5855
Ronald Oussoren0238497e2009-01-02 14:10:20 +00005856- Issue #1594: MacOS.GetCreatorAndType now always returns a big-endian result,
5857 to be consistent with Apple tools.
5858
Ronald Oussoren63b74fe2009-01-02 14:46:19 +00005859- Issue #900949: plat-mac/videoreader.py no longer relies on a non-existing
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00005860 module.
Ronald Oussoren63b74fe2009-01-02 14:46:19 +00005861
Ronald Oussoren7f8cbf02009-01-02 14:48:17 +00005862- Issue #16278952: plat-mac/videoreader.py now correctly imports MediaDescr
5863
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005864- Issue #1737832: plat-mac/EasyDialog.py no longer uses the broken aepack
Ronald Oussoren919697c2009-01-02 14:52:09 +00005865 module.
5866
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005867- Issue #1149804: macostools.mkdirs now even works when another process creates
5868 one of the needed subdirectories.
Ronald Oussorenabcc1682009-01-02 15:00:05 +00005869
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005870- Issue #900506: added --no-zipimport flag to the bundlebuilder script.
Ronald Oussoren072bb402009-01-02 15:25:36 +00005871
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005872- Issue #841800: bundlebuilder now works with 'python -O'.
Ronald Oussoren072bb402009-01-02 15:25:36 +00005873
Matthias Klose43723e22009-01-10 17:00:42 +00005874- Issue #4861: ctypes.util.find_library(): Robustify. Fix library detection on
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005875 biarch systems. Try to rely on ldconfig only, without using objdump and gcc.
Matthias Klose43723e22009-01-10 17:00:42 +00005876
Gregory P. Smithde1a8b72009-01-31 22:57:30 +00005877- Issue #5104: The socket module now raises OverflowError when 16-bit port and
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005878 protocol numbers are supplied outside the allowed 0-65536 range on bind() and
5879 getservbyport().
Gregory P. Smithde1a8b72009-01-31 22:57:30 +00005880
Neil Schemenauer92c3b212009-02-07 00:54:41 +00005881- Issue #999042: The Python compiler now handles explict global statements
5882 correctly (should be assigned using STORE_GLOBAL opcode).
5883
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005884- Issue #2703: SimpleXMLRPCDispatcher.__init__: Provide default values for new
5885 arguments introduced in 2.5.
Matthias Klosea5d58c82009-04-05 21:00:48 +00005886
Walter Dörwald5d98ec72009-04-25 14:03:16 +00005887- Issue #5828 (Invalid behavior of unicode.lower): Fixed bogus logic in
5888 makeunicodedata.py and regenerated the Unicode database (This fixes
5889 u'\u1d79'.lower() == '\x00').
5890
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Wervenb87b3342009-05-08 14:11:23 +00005891- Windows locale mapping updated to Vista.
5892
Serhiy Storchakaff99e412013-04-14 18:52:15 +03005893IDLE
5894----
5895
5896- Issue #5150: IDLE's format menu now has an option to strip trailing
5897 whitespace.
5898
5899- Issue #5847: Remove -n switch on "Edit with IDLE" menu item.
5900
Antoine Pitroue555f582008-12-27 20:34:52 +00005901Tools/Demos
5902-----------
5903
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005904- Ttk demos added in Demo/tkinter/ttk/.
Guilherme Polo4eae0782009-01-28 15:56:01 +00005905
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005906- Issue #4677: Add two list comprehension tests to pybench.
Antoine Pitroue555f582008-12-27 20:34:52 +00005907
Brett Cannon60b15d22008-10-06 22:44:37 +00005908Build
5909-----
5910
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005911- Issue #6603: Change READ_TIMESTAMP macro in ceval.c so that it compiles
5912 correctly under gcc on x86-64. This fixes a reported problem with the
5913 --with-tsc build on x86-64.
Mark Dickinson504a1512009-10-31 10:11:28 +00005914
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005915- Add 2 new options to ``--with-universal-archs`` on MacOSX: ``intel`` builds a
5916 distribution with ``i386`` and ``x86_64`` architectures, while ``3-way``
5917 builds a distribution with the ``ppc``, ``i386`` and ``x86_64`` architectures.
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +00005918
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005919- Issue #6802: Fix build issues on MacOSX 10.6.
Ronald Oussoren25967582009-09-06 10:00:26 +00005920
Guilherme Polo1ce2d532009-08-16 14:38:57 +00005921- Issue #6244: Allow detect_tkinter to look for Tcl/Tk 8.6.
5922
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00005923- Issue #5390: Add uninstall icon independent of whether file extensions are
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005924 installed.
Martin v. Löwisecb4f952009-06-28 09:32:39 +00005925
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00005926- Issue #5809: Specifying both --enable-framework and --enable-shared is an
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005927 error. Configure now explicity tells you about this.
Ronald Oussoren450d5612009-06-08 21:12:41 +00005928
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005929- Issue #3585: Add pkg-config support. It creates a python-2.7.pc file and a
5930 python.pc symlink in the $(LIBDIR)/pkgconfig directory. Patch by Clinton Roy.
Antoine Pitrouf2caeed2009-05-24 20:23:57 +00005931
Benjamin Petersone5afa3b2009-05-23 19:24:37 +00005932- Issue #6094: Build correctly with Subversion 1.7.
5933
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005934- Issue #5726: Make Modules/ld_so_aix return the actual exit code of the linker,
5935 rather than always exit successfully. Patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
Antoine Pitrou3fd4ea92009-05-01 21:16:14 +00005936
Matthias Klose10cbe482009-04-29 17:18:19 +00005937- Issue #4587: Add configure option --with-dbmliborder=db1:db2:... to specify
Vinay Sajipf9b01fe2009-05-09 12:07:17 +00005938 the order that backends for the dbm extension are checked.
Matthias Klose10cbe482009-04-29 17:18:19 +00005939
Matthias Klose8ad554f2009-02-22 23:14:26 +00005940- Link the shared python library with $(MODLIBS).
5941
Martin v. Löwisa3e3cb72009-02-10 13:09:19 +00005942- Issue #5134: Silence compiler warnings when compiling sqlite with VC++.
5943
Martin v. Löwisfee1c7f2009-02-02 14:23:16 +00005944- Issue #4494: Fix build with Py_NO_ENABLE_SHARED on Windows.
5945
Martin v. Löwiseefda272009-01-11 09:43:55 +00005946- Issue #4895: Use _strdup on Windows CE.
5947
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005948- Issue #4472: ``configure --enable-shared`` now works on OSX.
Ronald Oussorenf7d54052009-01-02 10:48:31 +00005949
Benjamin Petersonfd9633e2008-12-28 15:37:31 +00005950- Issues #4728 and #4060: WORDS_BIGEDIAN is now correct in Universal builds.
5951
Martin v. Löwiscb6c3592008-11-30 11:08:26 +00005952- Issue #4389: Add icon to the uninstall entry in "add-and-remove-programs".
5953
Martin v. Löwis63470982008-11-19 13:51:44 +00005954- Issue #4289: Remove Cancel button from AdvancedDlg.
5955
Martin v. Löwis3d6f8ff2008-11-07 18:51:50 +00005956- Issue #1656675: Register a drop handler for .py* files on Windows.
5957
Martin v. Löwis692c2f82008-11-06 16:43:00 +00005958- Issue #4120: Exclude manifest from extension modules in VS2008.
5959
Martin v. Löwis0f3e7692008-10-17 13:43:01 +00005960- Issue #4091: Install pythonxy.dll in system32 again.
5961
Martin v. Löwiseba774b2008-10-13 11:23:35 +00005962- Issue #4018: Disable "for me" installations on Vista.
5963
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005964- Issue #3758: Add ``patchcheck`` build target to ``.PHONY``.
Brett Cannon60b15d22008-10-06 22:44:37 +00005965
Martin v. Löwisbb86d832008-11-04 20:40:09 +00005966- Issue #4204: Fixed module build errors on FreeBSD 4.
5967
Tarek Ziadéc4a4aeb2009-08-21 14:28:38 +00005968Documentation
5969-------------
5970
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005971- Issue #6556: Fixed the Distutils configuration files location explanation for
5972 Windows.
Tarek Ziadéc4a4aeb2009-08-21 14:28:38 +00005973
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005974- Issue #6801: symmetric_difference_update also accepts ``|``. Thanks to Carl
5975 Chenet.
Tarek Ziadé3092ed92009-08-29 13:33:21 +00005976
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc07d539d2008-10-14 21:47:22 +00005977C-API
5978-----
5979
Mark Dickinsone31d3002009-12-21 11:21:25 +00005980- Issue #7528: Add PyLong_AsLongAndOverflow (backported from py3k).
5981
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005982- Issue #7228: Add '%lld' and '%llu' support to PyString_FromFormat(V) and
5983 PyErr_Format, on machines with HAVE_LONG_LONG defined.
Mark Dickinson82864d12009-11-15 16:18:58 +00005984
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005985- Add new C-API function PyOS_string_to_double, and deprecated PyOS_ascii_atof
5986 and PyOS_ascii_strtod.
Mark Dickinson09823a22009-10-31 09:42:39 +00005987
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005988- Removed _PyOS_double_to_string. Use PyOS_double_to_string instead. This is in
5989 preparation for (but not strictly related to) issue #7117, short float repr.
Mark Dickinsonba26b392009-10-31 09:28:12 +00005990
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005991- Issue #6624: PyArg_ParseTuple with "s" format when parsing argument with NULL:
5992 Bogus TypeError detail string.
Sean Reifscheider9279e7d2009-08-01 23:54:55 +00005993
Jeffrey Yasskinf7f858d2009-05-08 22:23:21 +00005994- Issue #5954: Add a PyFrame_GetLineNumber() function to replace most uses of
5995 PyCode_Addr2Line().
5996
Jeffrey Yasskin1aa47002009-05-08 21:51:06 +00005997- Issue #5959: Add a PyCode_NewEmpty() function to create a new empty code
5998 object at a specified file, function, and line number.
5999
Brett Cannonc4f90eb2009-04-02 03:17:39 +00006000- Issue #1419652: Change the first argument to PyImport_AppendInittab() to
6001 ``const char *`` as the string is stored beyond the call.
6002
Benjamin Peterson5781f322009-02-16 21:09:09 +00006003- Some PyBytes_* aliases have been removed because they don't exist in 3.x.
6004
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006005- Issue #5175: PyLong_AsUnsignedLongLong now raises OverflowError for negative
6006 arguments. Previously, it raised TypeError.
Mark Dickinson4015f622009-02-10 15:46:50 +00006007
Benjamin Petersoncf2ce242008-12-22 20:52:53 +00006008- Issue #4720: The format for PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords can begin with '|'.
6009
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006010- Issue #3632: From the gdb debugger, the 'pyo' macro can now be called when the
6011 GIL is released, or owned by another thread.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc3538a312008-12-15 22:29:14 +00006012
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc07d539d2008-10-14 21:47:22 +00006013- Issue #4122: On Windows, fix a compilation error when using the
6014 Py_UNICODE_ISSPACE macro in an extension module.
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00006015
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006016- Issue #4293: Py_AddPendingCall() is now thread safe and can be used for
Kristján Valur Jónssonc22ab182009-01-12 09:24:04 +00006017 asynchronous notifications to python from any thread. Documentation added.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc07d539d2008-10-14 21:47:22 +00006018
Benjamin Peterson9dfe6a82008-11-24 04:09:03 +00006019Extension Modules
6020-----------------
6021
Martin v. Löwis50ea4562009-11-27 13:56:01 +00006022- Issue #6508: Add posix.{getresuid,getresgid,setresuid,setresgid}.
6023
Mark Dickinson3d830822009-10-08 15:54:10 +00006024- Issue #7078: Set struct.__doc__ from _struct.__doc__.
6025
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006026- Issue #3366: Add erf, erfc, expm1, gamma, lgamma functions to math module.
Mark Dickinsonb93fff02009-09-28 18:54:55 +00006027
Brett Cannon4d947432009-09-22 00:29:48 +00006028- Issue #6823: Allow time.strftime() to accept a tuple with a isdst field
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006029 outside of the range of [-1, 1] by normalizing the value to within that range.
Brett Cannon4d947432009-09-22 00:29:48 +00006030
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006031- Issue #6877: Make it possible to link the readline extension to libedit on
6032 OSX.
Ronald Oussoren9f20d9d2009-09-20 14:18:15 +00006033
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006034- Issue #6944: Fix a SystemError when socket.getnameinfo() was called with
6035 something other than a tuple as first argument.
Georg Brandlab849892009-09-19 07:35:07 +00006036
Benjamin Peterson7f6d0832009-09-08 23:04:22 +00006037- Issue #6865: Fix reference counting issue in the initialization of the pwd
6038 module.
6039
Mark Dickinson6b3f1ef2009-09-06 21:21:05 +00006040- Issue #6848: Fix curses module build failure on OS X 10.6.
6041
Brett Cannon764465f2009-08-13 19:27:12 +00006042- Fix a segfault in expat when given a specially crafted input lead to the
Matthias Klose3b0f9b02010-01-22 00:34:48 +00006043 tokenizer not stopping. CVE-2009-3720.
Brett Cannon764465f2009-08-13 19:27:12 +00006044
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006045- Issue #6561: '\d' in a regex now matches only characters with Unicode category
6046 'Nd' (Number, Decimal Digit). Previously it also matched characters with
6047 category 'No'.
Mark Dickinsonfe67bd92009-07-28 20:35:03 +00006048
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006049- Issue #1523: Remove deprecated overflow wrapping for struct.pack with an
6050 integer format code ('bBhHiIlLqQ'). Packing an out-of-range integer now
6051 consistently raises struct.error.
Mark Dickinson5fd3af22009-07-07 15:08:28 +00006052
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006053- Issues #1530559, #1741130: Fix various struct.pack inconsistencies for the
6054 integer formats ('bBhHiIlLqQ'). In the following, '*' represents any of '=',
6055 '<', '>'.
Mark Dickinson463dc4b2009-07-05 10:01:24 +00006056
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006057 - Packing a float now always gives a Deprecation Warning. Previously it
6058 only warned for 'I', 'L', '*B', '*H', '*I', '*L'.
Mark Dickinson463dc4b2009-07-05 10:01:24 +00006059
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006060 - If x is not an int, long or float, then packing x will always result in
6061 struct.error. Previously an x with an __int__ method could be packed by
6062 'b', 'B', 'h', 'H', 'i', 'l', '*b', '*h' ,'*i', '*l', and an x with a
6063 __long__ method could be packed by 'q', 'Q', '*q', '*Q'; for x with
6064 neither __int__ nor __long__, TypeError used to be raised (with a
6065 confusing error message) for 'I', 'L', '*B', '*H', '*I', '*L', and
6066 struct.error in other cases.
Mark Dickinson463dc4b2009-07-05 10:01:24 +00006067
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006068 Note: as of Python 2.7 beta 1, the above is out of date. In 2.7 beta 1, any
6069 argument with an __int__ method can be packed, but use of this feature
6070 triggers a DeprecationWarning.
Mark Dickinson154b7ad2010-03-07 16:24:45 +00006071
Martin v. Löwis4f16d3b2009-05-29 15:58:08 +00006072- Issue #4873: Fix resource leaks in error cases of pwd and grp.
6073
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006074- Issue #4751: For hashlib algorithms provided by OpenSSL, the Python GIL is now
6075 released during computation on data lengths >= 2048 bytes.
Gregory P. Smithd02eeda2009-05-04 00:16:49 +00006076
Gregory P. Smithea388262009-02-13 03:00:00 +00006077- Issue #3745: Fix hashlib to always reject unicode and non buffer-api
6078 supporting objects as input no matter how it was compiled (built in
Gregory P. Smithfe32d302010-01-02 22:42:50 +00006079 implementations or external openssl library). NOTE: Undone in 2.7a2.
Gregory P. Smithea388262009-02-13 03:00:00 +00006080
Mark Dickinsona200dd52009-01-15 15:17:43 +00006081- Issue #4397: Fix occasional test_socket failure on OS X.
Mark Dickinsone82cdae2009-01-15 14:54:37 +00006082
Martin v. Löwisb3b7d852009-01-11 09:26:54 +00006083- Issue #4279: Fix build of parsermodule under Cygwin.
6084
Martin v. Löwis9ac49272009-01-02 20:40:14 +00006085- Issue #4051: Prevent conflict of UNICODE macros in cPickle.
6086
Georg Brandl6269fec2009-01-01 12:15:31 +00006087- Issue #4228: Pack negative values the same way as 2.4 in struct's L format.
6088
Martin v. Löwis03824e42008-12-29 18:17:34 +00006089- Issue #1040026: Fix os.times result on systems where HZ is incorrect.
6090
Mark Dickinson4c96fa52008-12-11 19:28:08 +00006091- Issues #3167, #3682: Fix test_math failures for log, log10 on Solaris,
6092 OpenBSD.
6093
Martin v. Löwisbcb017f2008-11-30 19:28:27 +00006094- Issue #4365: Add crtassem.h constants to the msvcrt module.
6095
Benjamin Peterson9dfe6a82008-11-24 04:09:03 +00006096- Issue #4396: The parser module now correctly validates the with statement.
6097
Jack Diederichd60c29e2009-03-31 23:46:48 +00006098- Issue #5228: Make functools.partial objects can now be pickled.
6099
Guilherme Polob1a98de2009-01-28 20:03:26 +00006100Tests
6101-----
6102
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006103- Issue #7431: Use TESTFN in test_linecache instead of trying to create a file
6104 in the Lib/test directory, which might be read-only for the user running the
6105 tests.
R. David Murray820b0ea2009-12-03 23:57:59 +00006106
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006107- Issue #7324: Add a sanity check to regrtest argument parsing to catch the case
6108 of an option with no handler.
R. David Murrayda826892009-11-15 00:04:32 +00006109
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006110- Issue #7312: Add a -F flag to run the selected tests in a loop until a test
6111 fails. Can be combined with -j.
R. David Murray7f7eea62009-11-14 15:18:22 +00006112
Antoine Pitrou310c9fe2009-11-11 20:55:07 +00006113- Issue #7295: Do not use a hardcoded file name in test_tarfile.
6114
Antoine Pitrouc98efe02009-11-06 22:34:35 +00006115- Issue #7270: Add some dedicated unit tests for multi-thread synchronization
6116 primitives such as Lock, RLock, Condition, Event and Semaphore.
6117
Antoine Pitrou59c44f32009-10-30 17:07:08 +00006118- Issue #7222: Make thread "reaping" more reliable so that reference
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006119 leak-chasing test runs give sensible results. The previous method of reaping
6120 threads could return successfully while some Thread objects were still
6121 referenced. This also introduces a new private function: ``thread._count()``.
Antoine Pitrou59c44f32009-10-30 17:07:08 +00006122
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006123- Issue #7151: Fixed regrtest -j so that output to stderr from a test no longer
6124 runs the risk of causing the worker thread to fail.
R. David Murray282396f2009-10-18 21:12:37 +00006125
Antoine Pitrou58d2f262009-10-10 20:52:11 +00006126- Issue #7055: test___all__ now greedily detects all modules which have an
6127 __all__ attribute, rather than using a hardcoded and incomplete list.
6128
R. David Murray14dcd432009-10-14 13:58:07 +00006129- Issue #7058: Added save/restore for things like sys.argv and cwd to
6130 runtest_inner in regrtest, with warnings if the called test modifies them,
6131 and a new section in the summary report at the end.
R. David Murrayabe3d3e2009-10-05 17:03:09 +00006132
Mark Dickinson245d9152009-10-04 18:38:39 +00006133- Issue #7042: Fix test_signal (test_itimer_virtual) failure on OS X 10.6.
6134
Brett Cannone7e941e2009-09-03 21:25:21 +00006135- Issue #6806: test_platform failed under OS X 10.6.0 because ``sw_ver`` leaves
6136 off the trailing 0 in the version number.
6137
Guilherme Polo7f146ab2009-06-21 17:22:50 +00006138- Issue #5450: Moved tests involving loading tk from Lib/test/test_tcl to
6139 Lib/lib-tk/test/test_tkinter/test_loadtk. With this, these tests demonstrate
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006140 the same behaviour as test_ttkguionly (and now also test_tk) which is to skip
6141 the tests if DISPLAY is defined but can't be used.
Guilherme Polo7f146ab2009-06-21 17:22:50 +00006142
Antoine Pitrou4698d992009-05-31 14:20:14 +00006143- Issue #6152: New option '-j'/'--multiprocess' for regrtest allows running
6144 regression tests in parallel, shortening the total runtime.
6145
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006146- Issue #5354: New test support function import_fresh_module() makes it easy to
6147 import both normal and optimised versions of modules. test_heapq and
6148 test_warnings have been adjusted to use it, tests for other modules with both
6149 C and Python implementations in the stdlib can be adjusted to use it over
6150 time.
Nick Coghlan5533ff62009-04-22 15:26:04 +00006151
Brett Cannonce3d2212009-04-01 20:25:48 +00006152- Fix test_warnings to no longer reset the warnings filter.
6153
Brett Cannon2da4d622009-04-01 19:57:10 +00006154- Fix test_logging to no longer reset the warnings filter.
6155
Georg Brandld8fb6ac2009-04-01 00:04:33 +00006156- Issue #5635: Fix running test_sys with tracing enabled.
6157
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006158- regrtest no longer treats ImportError as equivalent to SkipTest. Imports that
6159 should cause a test to be skipped are now done using import_module from test
6160 support, which does the conversion.
R. David Murray41448c52009-03-31 19:57:24 +00006161
Guilherme Polob1a98de2009-01-28 20:03:26 +00006162- Issue #5083: New 'gui' resource for regrtest.
6163
Walter Dörwalda1453172009-04-25 12:15:07 +00006164- Issue #5837: Certain sequences of calls to set() and unset() for
6165 support.EnvironmentVarGuard objects restored the environment variables
6166 incorrectly on __exit__.
6167
Alexandre Vassalotti999ecc02009-07-15 18:19:47 +00006168- Issue #2389: Array objects are now pickled in a portable manner.
6169
Brett Cannon813c43a2009-11-08 21:35:28 +00006170Misc
6171----
6172
6173- Issue #5611: Auto-detect whether a C file uses tabs or spaces in Vim.
6174
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00006175
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00006176What's New in Python 2.6 final
6177==============================
6178
Barry Warsawafa14362008-10-01 21:46:40 +00006179*Release date: 01-Oct-2008*
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00006180
6181Core and Builtins
6182-----------------
6183
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfc5ea392008-09-26 22:34:08 +00006184- Issue #3967: Fixed a crash in the count() and find() methods of string-like
6185 objects, when the "start" parameter is a huge value.
6186
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc17617a02008-09-25 20:52:56 +00006187- Issue #3965: Fixed a crash on Windows when open() is given an invalid
6188 filename or mode, and the filename is a unicode string.
6189
Martin v. Löwise86b07c2008-09-25 04:12:50 +00006190- Bug #3951: Py_USING_MEMORY_DEBUGGER should not be enabled by default.
6191
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00006192Library
6193-------
6194
Martin v. Löwise563aa42008-09-29 22:09:07 +00006195- Issue #3965: Allow repeated calls to turtle.Screen, by making it a
6196 true singleton object.
6197
Brett Cannonb2d61bd2008-09-29 03:41:21 +00006198- Issue #3895: It was possible to crash the interpreter when an external timer
6199 was used with cProfile that returned an object that could not be converted
6200 into a float.
6201
Benjamin Peterson22d3c922008-09-25 20:35:45 +00006202- Issue #3950: Made turtle respect scale factors.
6203
Thomas Hellera85c95d2008-09-24 18:26:05 +00006204- Issue #3547: Fixed ctypes structures bitfields of varying integer
6205 sizes.
6206
Benjamin Peterson2c7470d2008-09-21 21:27:51 +00006207- Issue #3879: A regression in urllib.getproxies_enviroment was fixed.
6208
Gregory P. Smith08067492008-09-30 20:41:13 +00006209- Issue #3863: Disabled a unit test of fork being called from a thread
6210 when running on platforms known to exhibit OS bugs when attempting that.
6211
Martin v. Löwis175d0072008-09-19 15:21:07 +00006212Build
6213-----
6214
Martin v. Löwisd69c9042008-10-01 11:19:50 +00006215- Bug #3989: Package the 2to3 script (as 2to3.py) in the Windows
6216 installer.
6217
Martin v. Löwis175d0072008-09-19 15:21:07 +00006218- Bug #3887: Package x64 version of CRT for AMD64 Windows binaries.
6219
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00006220
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00006221What's New in Python 2.6 release candidate 2?
6222=============================================
6223
Barry Warsaw6af16192008-09-18 04:33:43 +00006224*Release date: 17-Sep-2008*
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00006225
6226Core and Builtins
6227-----------------
6228
Benjamin Peterson8c2b7dc2008-09-18 01:22:16 +00006229Extension Modules
6230-----------------
6231
Benjamin Peterson8d77d442008-09-30 01:31:49 +00006232- Security Issue #2: imageop did not validate arguments correctly and could
6233 segfault as a result.
6234
Benjamin Peterson8c2b7dc2008-09-18 01:22:16 +00006235- Issue #3886: Possible integer overflows in the _hashopenssl module were
6236 closed.
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00006237
Antoine Pitrou3c9f5412008-09-13 20:30:30 +00006238Tools/Demos
6239-----------
6240
Georg Brandl2bd92a52009-10-11 21:10:07 +00006241- Issue #3850: recursion tests in Tools/scripts/find_recursion_limit.py can raise
Antoine Pitrou3c9f5412008-09-13 20:30:30 +00006242 AttributeError instead of RuntimeError, depending in which C API call
6243 exactly the recursion limit is exceeded. Consequently, both exception types
6244 are caught and silenced.
6245
Martin v. Löwis4eb18f92008-09-14 20:22:39 +00006246Build
6247-----
6248
6249- Issue #3617: Include a licensing statement regarding the Microsoft
6250 C runtime in the Windows installer.
6251
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00006252
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00006253What's New in Python 2.6 release candidate 1?
6254=============================================
6255
Barry Warsaw1e62aec2008-09-12 23:25:57 +00006256*Release date: 12-Sep-2008*
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00006257
6258Core and Builtins
6259-----------------
6260
Martin v. Löwis9fa5a282008-09-11 06:53:30 +00006261- Issue #3642: Suppress warning in obmalloc when size_t is larger than uint.
6262
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc05e34492008-09-10 22:04:45 +00006263- Issue #3743: In a few places, PY_FORMAT_SIZE_T was incorrectly used with
6264 PyString_FromFormat or PyErr_Format to display size_t values. The macro
6265 PY_FORMAT_SIZE_T is designed to select the correct format for the OS
6266 ``printf`` function, whereas PyString_FromFormat has an independent
6267 implementation and uses "%zd" on all platforms for size_t values.
6268 This makes a difference on win64, where ``printf`` needs "%Id" to display
6269 64bit values.
6270
Benjamin Peterson97179b02008-09-09 20:55:01 +00006271- Issue #3634: _weakref.ref(Exception).__init__() gave invalid return value on
6272 error.
6273
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd3ffb892008-09-09 07:24:30 +00006274- Issue #3777: long() applied to a float object now always return a long
6275 object; previously an int would be returned for small values. the __long__
6276 method is allowed to return either an int or a long, but the behaviour of
6277 float objects should not change to respect backward compatibility.
6278
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc3571fbf2008-09-01 19:52:00 +00006279- Issue #3751: str.rpartition would perform a left-partition when called with
6280 a unicode argument.
6281
Benjamin Peterson17f03ca2008-09-01 14:18:30 +00006282- Issue #3683: Fix compilation when --without-threads is given.
6283
Antoine Pitroud4ae97b2008-08-29 18:39:48 +00006284- Issue #3668: Fix a memory leak with the "s*" argument parser in
Vinay Sajip35e3b032008-09-01 14:33:59 +00006285 PyArg_ParseTuple and friends, which occurred when the argument for "s*"
Antoine Pitroud4ae97b2008-08-29 18:39:48 +00006286 was correctly parsed but parsing of subsequent arguments failed.
6287
Vinay Sajip35e3b032008-09-01 14:33:59 +00006288- Issue #2534: speed up isinstance() and issubclass() by 50-70%, so as to
Antoine Pitrou0668c622008-08-26 22:42:08 +00006289 match Python 2.5 speed despite the __instancecheck__ / __subclasscheck__
6290 mechanism. In the process, fix a bug where isinstance() and issubclass(),
6291 when given a tuple of classes as second argument, were looking up
6292 __instancecheck__ / __subclasscheck__ on the tuple rather than on each
6293 type object.
6294
Neal Norwitz18aa3882008-08-24 05:04:52 +00006295- Fix crashes on memory allocation failure found with failmalloc.
6296
6297- Fix memory leaks found with valgrind and update suppressions file.
6298
6299- Fix compiler warnings in opt mode which would lead to invalid memory reads.
6300
6301- Fix problem using wrong name in decimal module reported by pychecker.
6302
Christian Heimes7d4c3172008-08-22 19:47:25 +00006303- Silenced another compiler warning about a used but not defined
6304 function 'stringlib_contains_obj'.
6305
Benjamin Peterson712ee922008-08-24 18:10:20 +00006306- Added warnings on the use of ``__getslice__``, ``__setslice__``, or
6307 ``__delslice__``.
6308
Gregory P. Smith2bb25cc2008-09-02 05:29:51 +00006309- Issue #3678: Correctly pass LDFLAGS and LDLAST to the linker on shared
6310 library targets in the Makefile.
6311
Gregory P. Smith980b99b2008-09-07 05:15:18 +00006312- Issue #1204: The configure script now tests for additional libraries
6313 that may be required when linking against readline. This fixes issues
6314 with x86_64 builds on some platforms (a few Linux flavors and OpenBSD).
6315
Benjamin Peterson14cb6bc2008-08-26 17:08:40 +00006316C-API
6317-----
6318
6319- Aliased PyObject_Bytes to PyObject_Str.
6320
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00006321Library
6322-------
6323
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc24cb3822008-09-11 20:56:13 +00006324- Issue #3640: Pickling a list or a dict uses less local variables, to reduce
6325 stack usage in the case of deeply nested objects.
6326
Guido van Rossume3c4fd92008-09-10 14:27:00 +00006327- Issue #3629: Fix sre "bytecode" validator for an end case.
6328
Martin v. Löwis24329ba2008-09-10 13:38:12 +00006329- Issue #3811: The Unicode database was updated to 5.1.
6330
Nick Coghland2e09382008-09-11 12:11:06 +00006331- Issue #3781: Further warnings.catch_warnings() cleanup to prevent
6332 silent misbehaviour when a single instance is nested in multiple
6333 with statements, or when the methods are invoked in the wrong order.
6334
Vinay Sajip844f7412008-09-09 13:42:08 +00006335- Issue #3809: Fixed spurious 'test.blah' file left behind by test_logging.
6336
Nick Coghland2e09382008-09-11 12:11:06 +00006337- Issue #3781: Clean up the API for warnings.catch_warnings() by having it
Brett Cannon672237d2008-09-09 00:49:16 +00006338 return a list or None rather than a custom object.
6339
Benjamin Peterson6ac7d7c2008-09-06 19:28:11 +00006340- Issue #1638033: Cookie.Morsel gained the httponly attribute.
6341
Antoine Pitrouebcd0ce2008-09-05 23:30:23 +00006342- Issue #3535: zipfile couldn't read some zip files larger than 2GB.
6343
6344- Issue #3776: Deprecate the bsddb package for removal in 3.0.
Brett Cannon32476fc2008-09-05 18:33:51 +00006345
Hirokazu Yamamoto42e459e2008-09-04 14:25:30 +00006346- Issue #3762: platform.architecture() fails if python is lanched via
6347 its symbolic link.
6348
Vinay Sajip65d66e12008-09-04 07:31:21 +00006349- Issue #3772: Fixed regression problem in StreamHandler.emit().
6350
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00006351- Issue #600362: Relocated parse_qs() and parse_qsl(), from the cgi module
Facundo Batistac585df92008-09-03 22:35:50 +00006352 to the urlparse one. Added a PendingDeprecationWarning in the old
6353 module, it will be deprecated in the future.
6354
Marc-André Lemburgb339b2a2008-09-03 11:13:56 +00006355- Issue #2562: Fix distutils PKG-INFO writing logic to allow having
6356 non-ascii characters and Unicode in setup.py meta-data.
6357
6358- Issue #3726: Allow spaces in separators in logging configuration files.
Vinay Sajip6a2fd812008-09-03 09:20:05 +00006359
Marc-André Lemburg31a0a142008-09-02 12:11:19 +00006360- Issue #3719: platform.architecture() fails if there are spaces in the
6361 path to the Python binary.
6362
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00006363- Issue #3602: Moved test.test_support.catch_warning() to
Brett Cannon1eaf0742008-09-02 01:25:16 +00006364 warnings.catch_warnings() along with some API cleanup. Expanding the tests
6365 for catch_warnings() also led to an improvement in the raising of a
6366 DeprecationWarning related to warnings.warn_explicit().
6367
Benjamin Peterson973e6c22008-09-01 23:12:58 +00006368- The deprecation warnings for the old camelCase threading API were removed.
6369
Vinay Sajip35e3b032008-09-01 14:33:59 +00006370- logging: fixed lack of use of encoding attribute specified on a stream.
6371
Christian Heimesa27a62e2008-08-22 19:55:54 +00006372- Silenced a trivial compiler warning in the sqlite module.
6373
Christian Heimes1cc69632008-08-22 20:10:27 +00006374- Fixed two format strings in the _collections module.
6375
Benjamin Peterson17f03ca2008-09-01 14:18:30 +00006376- Issue #3703: _fileio.FileIO gave unhelpful error message when trying to open a
6377 directory.
Benjamin Petersonf22c26e2008-09-01 14:13:43 +00006378
Gregory P. Smithd7122032008-09-02 05:36:11 +00006379- Issue #3708: os.urandom no longer goes into an infinite loop when passed a
6380 non-integer floating point number.
6381
Vinay Sajip65d66e12008-09-04 07:31:21 +00006382- Issue #3110: multiprocessing fails to compiel on solaris 10 due to missing
Jesse Nollerb814d6a2008-09-03 18:10:30 +00006383 SEM_VALUE_MAX.
6384
Benjamin Peterson37346b22008-08-23 20:27:43 +00006385Extension Modules
6386-----------------
6387
Jesse Noller438195f2009-01-18 21:04:36 +00006388- Issue #4301: Patch the logging module to add processName support, remove
6389 _check_logger_class from multiprocessing.
6390
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc293924b2008-09-02 23:19:56 +00006391- Issue #2975: When compiling several extension modules with Visual Studio 2008
6392 from the same python interpreter, some environment variables would grow
6393 without limit.
6394
Benjamin Peterson37346b22008-08-23 20:27:43 +00006395- Issue #3643: Added a few more checks to _testcapi to prevent segfaults by
6396 exploitation of poor argument checking.
6397
Gerhard Häringef2276b2008-09-12 13:54:06 +00006398- sqlite3: Changed docstring of iterdump() to mark method as "Non-standard".
6399
Gerhard Häring6e1afcf2008-09-12 18:58:57 +00006400- Issue #3103: Reduced globals symbols used by sqlite3 module and made sure all
6401 remaining ones have "pysqlite_" prefix.
6402
Gerhard Häringe6872eb2008-09-12 22:33:22 +00006403- Issue #3846: Release the GIL during sqlite3_prepare calls. This improves
6404 concurrent access to the same SQLite database from multiple
6405 threads/processes.
6406
Brett Cannona0b74442008-09-03 22:45:11 +00006407Tests
6408-----
6409
Nick Coghland2e09382008-09-11 12:11:06 +00006410- Issue #3781: Add test.test_support.check_warnings() as a convenience
6411 wrapper for warnings.catch_warnings() that makes it easier to check
6412 that expected warning messages are being reported.
6413
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfeb8cad2008-09-06 20:53:51 +00006414- Issue #3796: Some tests functions were not enabled in test_float.
6415
6416- Issue #3768: Move test_py3kwarn over to the new API for catch_warnings().
Brett Cannona0b74442008-09-03 22:45:11 +00006417
Brett Cannoncdeb24b2008-09-05 22:59:17 +00006418Build
6419-----
6420
Martin v. Löwisab0b29b2008-09-13 08:11:57 +00006421- Issue #3833: Use a different upgrade code for Win64 installers.
6422
Martin v. Löwis3f5fda82008-09-08 13:50:10 +00006423- Issue #2271: Set SecureCustomProperties so that installation will properly
6424 use the TARGETDIR even for unprivileged users.
6425
Martin v. Löwis67543a92008-09-08 12:02:45 +00006426- Allow passing the MSI file name to merge.py.
6427
Vinay Sajip844f7412008-09-09 13:42:08 +00006428- Issue #3758: Rename the 'check' target to 'patchcheck' so as to not clash
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfeb8cad2008-09-06 20:53:51 +00006429 with GNU build target guidelines.
Brett Cannoncdeb24b2008-09-05 22:59:17 +00006430
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00006431
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00006432What's New in Python 2.6 beta 3?
6433================================
6434
Barry Warsaw07a4a382008-08-21 01:15:08 +00006435*Release date: 20-Aug-2008*
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00006436
6437Core and Builtins
6438-----------------
6439
Guido van Rossumf8402962008-08-20 15:01:50 +00006440- Issue #1878: Remove Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_VERSION_TAG from
6441 Py_TPFLAGS_DEFAULT when not building the core. This means 3rd party
6442 extensions do not automatically benefit from the class attribute
6443 cache; they will have to explicitly add Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_VERSION_TAG
6444 to their tp_flags field if they care. This is a backwards
6445 compatibility feature; in 3.0, all types will use the cache by
6446 default.
6447
Benjamin Petersonf647dc12008-08-20 01:27:30 +00006448- Keyword arguments can now follow starred arguments. (``f(a, *args,
6449 keyword=23)`` is now valid syntax.)
6450
Thomas Heller0ad5ae02008-08-19 19:25:04 +00006451- ctypes function pointers that are COM methods have a boolean True
6452 value again.
6453
Martin v. Löwisf91d46a2008-08-12 14:49:50 +00006454- Issue #3139: Make buffer-interface thread-safe wrt. PyArg_ParseTuple,
6455 by denying s# to parse objects that have a releasebuffer procedure,
6456 and introducing s*.
6457
Georg Brandl1e13ea92008-08-11 09:07:59 +00006458- Issue #3537: Fix an assertion failure when an empty but presized dict
6459 object was stored in the freelist.
6460
Mark Dickinsonb6467572008-08-04 21:30:09 +00006461- Issue #1481296: Make long(float('nan')) and int(float('nan')) raise
6462 ValueError consistently across platforms.
6463
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc39fd6722008-07-31 21:28:03 +00006464- Issue #3479: On platforms where sizeof(int) is smaller than sizeof(long)
6465 (64bit Unix, for example), unichr() would truncate its argument and return
6466 u'\x00' for unichr(2**32). Now it properly raises an OverflowError.
6467
Neal Norwitze7d8be82008-07-31 17:17:14 +00006468- Apply security patches from Apple.
6469
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc246daed2008-07-31 00:42:16 +00006470- Issue #2542: Now that issubclass() may call arbitrary code, ensure that
6471 PyErr_ExceptionMatches returns 0 when an exception occurs there.
6472
Antoine Pitrou92f82162008-07-25 22:22:08 +00006473- Issue #1819: function calls with several named parameters are now on
6474 average 35% faster (as measured by pybench).
6475
Amaury Forgeot d'Arce4921fe2008-07-21 22:00:38 +00006476- Issue #2378: An unexpected UnboundLocalError or NameError could appear when
6477 the python debugger steps into a class statement: the free variables (local
6478 variables defined in an outer scope) would be deleted from the outer scope.
6479
Gregory P. Smith0470bab2008-07-22 04:46:32 +00006480- Issue #2620: Overflow checking when allocating or reallocating memory
6481 was not always being done properly in some python types and extension
6482 modules. PyMem_MALLOC, PyMem_REALLOC, PyMem_NEW and PyMem_RESIZE have
6483 all been updated to perform better checks and places in the code that
6484 would previously leak memory on the error path when such an allocation
6485 failed have been fixed.
6486
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00006487Library
6488-------
6489
Hirokazu Yamamoto838c79f2008-08-20 13:14:07 +00006490- Issue #3612: Added some missing basic types in ctypes.wintypes.
6491
Benjamin Petersone977ad42008-08-20 01:42:01 +00006492- The methods ``is_in_tuple()``, ``is_vararg()``, and ``is_keywordarg()`` of
6493 symtable.Symbol have been deprecated for removal in 3.0 and the next release.
6494
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc351ffb82008-08-18 19:23:47 +00006495- Issue #2234: distutils failed for some versions of the cygwin compiler. The
6496 version reported by these tools does not necessarily follow the python
6497 version numbering scheme, so the module is less strict when parsing it.
6498
Nick Coghlanf70385a2008-08-18 12:42:46 +00006499- Issue #2235: Added Py3k warnings for types which will become unhashable
6500 under the stricter __hash__ inheritance rules in 3.0. Several types
6501 which did not meet the rules for hash invariants and were already
6502 unhashable in 3.0 have now been explicitly flagged as unhashable in
6503 2.6 as well (collections.Mapping, collections.Set, unittest.TestSuite,
6504 xml.dom.minidom.NamedNodeMap, numbers.Number, UserList.UserList)
6505
Brett Cannon88f801d2008-08-18 00:46:22 +00006506- Update __all__ for cookielib, csv, os, urllib2, and weakref to include things
6507 imported into the module but exposed as part of the module's API.
6508
Brett Cannon7b96f072008-08-18 00:41:11 +00006509- Remove an unneeded import of abc.ABCMeta from 'inspect'.
6510
Brett Cannon46225e72008-08-18 00:36:52 +00006511- Remove unneeded imports of 'sys' and 'warnings' from 'io'.
6512
Brett Cannon25c9d6a2008-08-17 22:10:11 +00006513- Remove unneeded imports of 'warnings' from shelve, filecmp, and dummy_thread.
6514
Hirokazu Yamamoto41a81eb2008-08-17 13:10:46 +00006515- Issue #3575: Incremental decoder's decode function now takes bytearray
6516 by using 's*' instead of 't#'.
6517
Mark Dickinson3e4caeb2009-02-21 20:27:01 +00006518- Issue #2222: Fixed reference leak when occurred os.rename()
Hirokazu Yamamoto7f30a682008-08-17 09:46:56 +00006519 fails unicode conversion on 2nd parameter. (windows only)
6520
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00006521- Issue #2464: urllib2 now supports a malformation in the URL received
Facundo Batista94f243a2008-08-17 03:38:39 +00006522 in a redirect.
6523
Brett Cannonabe423e2008-08-16 21:47:07 +00006524- Silence the DeprecationWarning raised when importing mimetools in
Brett Cannon721b1452008-08-16 22:00:27 +00006525 BaseHTTPServer, cgi (and rfc822), httplib.
Brett Cannonabe423e2008-08-16 21:47:07 +00006526
Facundo Batistaeb90b782008-08-16 14:44:07 +00006527- Issue #2776: fixed small issue when handling an URL with double slash
6528 after a 302 response in the case of not going through a proxy.
6529
Antoine Pitroub90a8be2008-08-15 21:03:21 +00006530- Issue #2676: in the email package, content-type parsing was hanging on
6531 pathological input because of quadratic or exponential behaviour of a
6532 regular expression.
6533
Antoine Pitrou11ec65d2008-08-14 21:04:30 +00006534- Issue #3476: binary buffered reading through the new "io" library is now
6535 thread-safe.
6536
Brett Cannonbf3157b2008-08-14 05:00:03 +00006537- Silence the DeprecationWarning of rfc822 when it is imported by mimetools
6538 since mimetools itself is deprecated. Because modules are cached, all
6539 subsequent imports of rfc822 will not raise a visible DeprecationWarning.
6540
Antoine Pitrou9fcd4b32008-08-11 17:21:36 +00006541- Issue #3134: shutil referenced undefined WindowsError symbol.
6542
Robert Schuppenies14646332008-08-10 11:01:53 +00006543- Issue #1342811: Fix leak in Tkinter.Menu.delete. Commands associated to
6544 menu entries were not deleted.
6545
Brett Cannon83e81842008-08-09 23:30:55 +00006546- Copied the implementation of reduce() to _functools.reduce() to have a
6547 version that did not raise a DeprecationWarning under -3.
6548
Antoine Pitrou76b8bee2008-08-09 17:27:23 +00006549- Issue #3205: When iterating over a BZ2File fails allocating memory, raise
6550 a MemoryError rather than silently stop the iteration.
6551
Guido van Rossum59ce9012008-08-09 14:55:34 +00006552- Issue #3487: sre "bytecode" validator. Passing invalid "re-bytecode"
6553 to _sre.compile() will now be rejected. This should not affect anybody
6554 since the re.compile() function never generates invalid re-bytecode.
6555
Skip Montanaroa032bf42008-08-08 22:52:51 +00006556- Issue #3436: Make csv.DictReader's fieldnames attribute a property so that
6557 upon first access it can be automatically initialized from the csv file if
6558 it wasn't initialized during instantiation.
6559
Brett Cannon3aa2a492008-08-06 22:28:09 +00006560- Issue #2338: Create imp.reload() to help with transitioning to Python 3.0 as
6561 the reload() built-in has been removed.
6562
Brett Cannon7e30b672008-08-04 21:52:25 +00006563- Changed code in the following modules/packages to remove warnings raised
Brett Cannonc1b76e42008-08-09 23:06:16 +00006564 while running under the ``-3`` flag: aifc, asynchat, asyncore, bdb, bsddb,
Brett Cannon047e4a92008-08-17 04:16:04 +00006565 ConfigParser, cookielib, csv, difflib, distutils, DocXMLRPCServer, email,
6566 filecmp, fileinput, inspect, logging, modulefinder, pdb, pickle, profile,
6567 pstats, pydoc, re, rlcompleter, SimpleXMLRPCServer, shelve, socket,
6568 subprocess, sqlite3, tarfile, Tkinter, test.test_support, textwrap,
6569 threading, tokenize, traceback, urlparse, wsgiref, xml, xmlrpclib.
Brett Cannon7e30b672008-08-04 21:52:25 +00006570
Lars Gustäbel727bd0b2008-08-02 11:26:39 +00006571- Issue #3039: Fix tarfile.TarFileCompat.writestr() which always
6572 raised an AttributeError.
6573
Benjamin Peterson01a24322008-07-28 23:35:27 +00006574- Issue #2523: Fix quadratic behaviour when read()ing a binary file without
Antoine Pitroude781a42008-08-09 12:43:23 +00006575 asking for a specific length. This problem only affected files opened
6576 using the new "io" module, not the built-in open() function.
Benjamin Peterson01a24322008-07-28 23:35:27 +00006577
Mark Dickinsonfe84cce2008-07-27 06:39:07 +00006578- Issue #3449: Update decimal module to use most recent specification
6579 (v. 1.68) and tests (v. 2.58) from IBM.
6580
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00006581- Issue #3437: Bug fix in robotparser parsing of Allow: lines.
Skip Montanarof9ac43f2008-07-27 00:50:41 +00006582
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00006583- Issue #1592: Improve error reporting when operations are attempted
Raymond Hettinger8c664e82008-07-25 18:43:33 +00006584 on a closed shelf.
6585
Georg Brandlf9efabb2008-07-23 15:16:45 +00006586- Deprecate the "ast" parser function aliases.
6587
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00006588- Issue #3120: On 64-bit Windows the subprocess module was truncating handles.
6589
6590- Issue #3303: Fix a crash in locale.strcoll() when calling it with
6591 invalid arguments.
6592
6593- Issue #3302: Fix several crashes when calling locale's gettext functions
6594 with None arguments.
6595
6596- Issue #3389: Allow resolving dotted names for handlers in logging
6597 configuration files.
6598
6599- Deprecate the sunaudio module for removal in Python 3.0.
6600
Antoine Pitrou5fdfa3e2008-07-25 19:42:26 +00006601- Issue #3394: zipfile.writestr sets external attributes when passed a
6602 file name rather than a ZipInfo instance, so files are extracted with
6603 mode 0600 rather than 000 under Unix.
6604
Gregory P. Smitha36f8fe2008-08-04 00:13:29 +00006605- Issue #1857: subprocess.Popen.poll gained an additional _deadstate keyword
6606 argument in python 2.5, this broke code that subclassed Popen to include its
6607 own poll method. Fixed my moving _deadstate to an _internal_poll method.
6608
Martin v. Löwis8dbf3642008-08-01 14:10:26 +00006609Build
6610-----
6611
6612- Generate the PatternGrammar pickle during "make install".
6613
Nick Coghlan2a0c2b12008-08-04 12:47:17 +00006614Documentation
6615-------------
6616
Nick Coghlan6e8fef02008-08-18 13:14:22 +00006617- Issue #2235: the C API function PyObject_HashNotImplemented and its
6618 interaction with the tp_hash slot (added in 2.6b2) are now documented
6619
Nick Coghlan2a0c2b12008-08-04 12:47:17 +00006620- Issue #643841: The language reference now provides more detailed
6621 coverage of the lookup process for special methods. The disclaimers
6622 regarding lack of coverage of new-style classes have also been
6623 removed, since the coverage is now fairly reasonable.
6624
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00006625
Raymond Hettingere3ae6552008-06-20 04:18:15 +00006626What's New in Python 2.6 beta 2?
6627================================
6628
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00006629*Release date: 17-Jul-2008*
6630
Raymond Hettingere3ae6552008-06-20 04:18:15 +00006631Core and Builtins
6632-----------------
6633
Georg Brandl3e483f62008-07-16 22:57:41 +00006634- Issue #3156: Fix inconsistent behavior of the bytearray type: all
6635 its methods now allow for items objects that can be converted to
6636 an integer using operator.index().
6637
Mark Dickinson64b7e502008-07-16 09:40:03 +00006638- Issue #3360: Fix incorrect parsing of '020000000000.0', which
6639 produced a ValueError instead of giving the correct float.
6640
Eric Smitha5fa5a22008-07-16 00:11:49 +00006641- Issue #3083: Add alternate (#) formatting for bin, oct, hex output
6642 for str.format(). This adds the prefix 0b, 0o, or 0x, respectively.
6643
Mark Dickinson7103aa42008-07-15 19:08:33 +00006644- Issue #3008: the float type has a new instance method 'float.hex'
6645 and a new class method 'float.fromhex' to convert floating-point
6646 numbers to and from hexadecimal strings, respectively.
6647
Nick Coghlan6d6bd442008-07-15 15:40:22 +00006648- Issue #2235: __hash__ is once again inherited by default. To allow
6649 collections.Hashable to remain meaningful in the presence of the
6650 default hash implementation (object.__hash__), it is now possible
6651 to explicit block inheritance of hash by setting __hash__=None at
6652 the Python level, or tp_hash=PyObject_HashNotImplemented at the C
6653 level.
6654
Nick Coghlanb028f502008-07-13 14:52:36 +00006655- Issue #3221: Issue a RuntimeWarning instead of raising SystemError if
6656 the parent module cannot be found while performing an absolute import.
6657 This means that an incorrectly defined __package__ attribute will
6658 now only prevent relative imports in that module rather than causing
6659 all imports from that module to fail.
6660
Nick Coghlan14ff9942008-07-08 14:21:42 +00006661- Issue #2517: Allow unicode messages in Exceptions again by correctly
6662 bypassing the instance dictionary when looking up __unicode__ on
6663 new-style classes.
6664
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbdd941f2008-07-01 20:38:04 +00006665- Issue #3242: Fix a crash inside the print statement, if sys.stdout is
6666 set to a custom object whose write() method happens to install
6667 another file in sys.stdout.
6668
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc1f40c8a2008-06-30 22:42:40 +00006669- Issue #3088: Corrected a race condition in classes derived from
6670 threading.local: the first member set by a thread could be saved in
6671 another thread's dictionary.
6672
Mark Dickinson1ec2fcd2008-06-20 14:53:43 +00006673- Issue #3004: Minor change to slice.indices(): the start and stop
6674 arguments are now treated identically, making the behaviour easier
6675 to describe and understand. For example, slice(None, -10,
6676 1).indices(9) now returns (0, 0, 1) instead of (0, -1, 1), and
6677 slice(None, 10, -1).indices(10) returns (9, 9, -1) instead of (9,
6678 10, -1).
6679
Georg Brandl278fc502008-07-19 12:46:12 +00006680- Issue #3219: Calling a function with repeated keyword arguments,
6681 f(a=2, a=23), would not cause a syntax error. This was a regression
6682 from 2.4 caused by the switch to the new compiler.
Benjamin Peterson175e4d92008-07-01 19:34:52 +00006683
Georg Brandl278fc502008-07-19 12:46:12 +00006684- Issue #2862: Make int and float freelist management consistent with
6685 other freelists. Changes their CompactFreeList apis into
6686 ClearFreeList apis and calls them via gc.collect().
Gregory P. Smith2fe77062008-07-06 03:35:58 +00006687
Brett Cannon8bb8fa52008-07-02 01:57:08 +00006688Library
6689-------
6690
Thomas Heller57adf222008-08-14 19:10:48 +00006691- Issue #3554: ctypes.string_at and ctypes.wstring_at did call Python
6692 api functions without holding the GIL, which could lead to a fatal
6693 error when they failed.
6694
Martin v. Löwisaabf4042008-08-02 07:20:25 +00006695- Issue #799428: Fix Tkinter.Misc._nametowidget to unwrap Tcl command objects.
6696
Jesse Noller7fb96402008-07-17 21:01:05 +00006697- Issue #3395: fix reference in test_multiprocessing to old debugInfo method
6698
Georg Brandla24869a2008-07-16 22:33:18 +00006699- Issue #3312: Fix two crashes in sqlite3.
6700
Georg Brandl86cbf812008-07-16 21:31:41 +00006701- Issue #1608818: Fix misbehavior in os.listdir() if readdir() fails.
6702
Jesse Noller13e9d582008-07-16 14:32:36 +00006703- Issue #3125: Remove copy_reg in multiprocessing and replace it with
6704 ForkingPickler.register() to resolve conflict with ctypes.
6705
Vinay Sajip51e65192008-07-18 09:01:10 +00006706- Issue #3090: Fixed ARCHFLAGS parsing on OS/X
Jesse Noller13e9d582008-07-16 14:32:36 +00006707
Thomas Heller880f5292008-07-15 19:39:38 +00006708- Issue #3313: Fixed a crash when a failed dlopen() call does not set
6709 a valid dlerror() message.
6710
Thomas Heller2bad6572008-07-15 17:19:50 +00006711- Issue #3258: Fixed a crash when a ctypes POINTER type to an
6712 incomplete structure was created.
6713
Brett Cannon3d0b9f02008-07-13 01:15:07 +00006714- Issue #3339: dummy_thread.acquire() should not return None.
6715
Raymond Hettingerb01713e2008-07-10 14:34:57 +00006716- Issue #3285: Fractions from_float() and from_decimal() accept Integral arguments.
6717
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00006718- Issue #3301: Bisect module behaved badly when lo was negative.
Raymond Hettinger3cd1e422008-07-10 14:03:19 +00006719
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc0f7cddc2008-07-06 21:34:39 +00006720- Issue #839496: SimpleHTTPServer used to open text files in text mode. This is
6721 both unnecessary (HTTP allows text content to be sent in several forms) and
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00006722 wrong because the actual transmitted size could differ from the
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc0f7cddc2008-07-06 21:34:39 +00006723 content-length. The problem had been corrected in the 2.4 branch, but never
6724 merged into trunk.
6725
Georg Brandle78fbcc2008-07-05 10:13:36 +00006726- Issue #2663: add filtering capability to shutil.copytree().
6727
Martin v. Löwis8c436412008-07-03 12:51:14 +00006728- Issue #1622: Correct interpretation of various ZIP header fields.
6729
6730- Issue #1526: Allow more than 64k files to be added to Zip64 file.
6731
6732- Issue #1746: Correct handling of zipfile archive comments (previously
6733 archives with comments over 4k were flagged as invalid). Allow writing
Vinay Sajip51e65192008-07-18 09:01:10 +00006734 Zip files with archives by setting the 'comment' attribute of a ZipFile.
Martin v. Löwis8c436412008-07-03 12:51:14 +00006735
Vinay Sajip51e65192008-07-18 09:01:10 +00006736- Issue #449227: The rlcompleter module now adds "(" to callable objects
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00006737 when completed.
Facundo Batista66c52772008-07-02 16:52:55 +00006738
Nick Coghlanc060b0e2008-07-02 13:09:19 +00006739- Issue #3190: Pydoc now hides the automatic module attribute __package__ (the
6740 handling is now the same as that of other special attributes like __name__).
6741
Brett Cannon8bb8fa52008-07-02 01:57:08 +00006742- Issue #2885 (partial): The urllib.urlopen() function has been deprecated for
6743 removal in Python 3.0 in favor of urllib2.urlopen().
6744
Gregory P. Smithf4140642008-07-06 07:16:40 +00006745- Issue #2113: Fix error in subprocess.Popen if the select system call is
6746 interrupted by a signal.
6747
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00006748- Issue #3309: Fix bz2.BZFile iterator to release its internal lock
Gregory P. Smith3b1e6b22008-07-07 04:31:58 +00006749 properly when raising an exception due to the bz2file being closed.
6750 Prevents a deadlock.
6751
Gregory P. Smithc4691ec2008-07-07 05:09:12 +00006752- Issue #3094: httplib.HTTPSConnection Host: headers no longer include the
6753 redundant ":443" port number designation when the connection is using the
6754 default https port (443).
6755
Gregory P. Smithdb3409c2008-07-17 03:13:05 +00006756- Issue #874900: after an os.fork() call the threading module state is cleaned
6757 up in the child process to prevent deadlock and report proper thread counts
6758 if the new process uses the threading module.
6759
Nick Coghlan38469e22008-07-13 12:23:47 +00006760Tests
6761-----
6762
6763- test.test_support.catch_warning now keeps track of all warnings it sees
6764 and is now better documented. Explicit unit tests for this context manager
6765 have been added to test_warnings.
6766
Martin v. Löwisd84fd952008-06-30 06:57:39 +00006767Build
6768-----
6769
6770- Issue #3215: Build sqlite3 as sqlite3.dll, not sqlite3.pyd.
6771
Brett Cannon8bb8fa52008-07-02 01:57:08 +00006772
Brett Cannon97aa1ae2008-07-11 00:12:52 +00006773Documentation
6774-------------
6775
Brett Cannonfeef51d2008-07-11 00:50:01 +00006776- Document that robotparser has been renamed to urllib.robotparser in
Brett Cannon963ffdb2008-07-11 00:48:57 +00006777 Python 3.0.
6778
Brett Cannonf6afa332008-07-11 00:16:30 +00006779- Document that urlparse has been renamed to urllib.parse in Python 3.0.
6780
Brett Cannon97aa1ae2008-07-11 00:12:52 +00006781- Document that urllib2 is split across multiple modules and renamed in
6782 Python 3.0.
6783
6784- Document that urllib is split across multiple modules and renamed in
6785 Python 3.0.
6786
6787
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00006788What's New in Python 2.6 beta 1?
6789================================
6790
Barry Warsawb5d17402008-06-19 01:48:07 +00006791*Release date: 18-June-2008*
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00006792
6793Core and Builtins
6794-----------------
6795
Brett Cannondea1b562008-06-27 00:31:13 +00006796- Issue #3211: warnings.warn_explicit() did not guard against its 'registry'
6797 argument being anything other than a dict or None. Also fixed a bug in error
6798 handling when 'message' and 'category' were both set to None, triggering a
6799 bus error.
6800
Amaury Forgeot d'Arca8919fe2008-06-16 19:12:42 +00006801- Issue #3100: Corrected a crash on deallocation of a subclassed weakref which
6802 holds the last (strong) reference to its referent.
6803
Georg Brandl89f48872008-06-11 18:55:38 +00006804- Add future_builtins.ascii().
6805
Raymond Hettinger5c4d3d02008-06-09 13:07:27 +00006806- Several set methods now accept multiple arguments: update(), union(),
Raymond Hettinger4267be62008-06-11 10:30:54 +00006807 intersection(), intersection_update(), difference(), and difference_update().
Raymond Hettingeree4bcad2008-06-09 08:33:37 +00006808
Robert Schuppenies51df0642008-06-01 16:16:17 +00006809- Issue #2898: Added sys.getsizeof() to retrieve size of objects in bytes.
6810
Martin v. Löwis99815892008-06-01 07:20:46 +00006811- New environment variable PYTHONIOENCODING.
6812
Martin v. Löwis4dd019f2008-05-20 08:11:19 +00006813- Patch #2488: Add sys.maxsize.
6814
Georg Brandla9916b52008-05-17 22:11:54 +00006815- Issue #2353: file.xreadlines() now emits a Py3k warning.
6816
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006817- Issue #2863: generators now have a ``gen.__name__`` attribute that
6818 equals ``gen.gi_code.co_name``, like ``func.__name___`` that equals
6819 ``func.func_code.co_name``. The repr() of a generator now also
6820 contains this name.
Georg Brandlc91210c2008-05-15 15:08:32 +00006821
Georg Brandlbd85eb12008-05-14 06:34:15 +00006822- Issue #2831: enumerate() now has a ``start`` argument.
6823
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006824- Issue #2801: fix bug in the float.is_integer method where a
6825 ValueError was sometimes incorrectly raised.
Mark Dickinsone81c3762008-05-09 16:14:15 +00006826
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006827- Issue #2790: sys.flags was not properly exposing its bytes_warning
6828 attribute.
Brett Cannon3c1d50a2008-05-08 20:23:54 +00006829
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006830- Issue #2196: hasattr() now lets exceptions which do not inherit
6831 Exception (KeyboardInterrupt, and SystemExit) propagate instead of
6832 ignoring them.
Benjamin Petersonb9030f42008-05-12 00:41:23 +00006833
Gregory P. Smith9d534572008-06-11 07:41:16 +00006834- Added checks for integer overflows, contributed by Google. Some are
6835 only available if asserts are left in the code, in cases where they
6836 can't be triggered from Python code.
6837
6838
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00006839Extension Modules
6840-----------------
Guido van Rossum84b1e0f2008-08-20 14:57:20 +00006841- Issue #1179: [CVE-2007-4965] Integer overflow in imageop module.
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00006842
Raymond Hettinger305480c2008-06-16 01:42:40 +00006843- Issue #3116: marshal.dumps() had quadratic behavior for strings > 32Mb.
6844
Andrew M. Kuchling2126bab2008-06-22 13:39:11 +00006845- Issue #2138: Add factorial() to the math module.
Raymond Hettingerecbdd2e2008-06-09 06:54:45 +00006846
Raymond Hettinger6d7702e2008-05-31 03:24:31 +00006847- The heapq module does comparisons using LT instead of LE. This
6848 makes its implementation match that used by list.sort().
6849
Mark Dickinson99dfe922008-05-23 01:35:30 +00006850- Issue #2819: add full-precision summation function to math module,
6851 based on Hettinger's ASPN Python Cookbook recipe.
6852
Georg Brandl88659b02008-05-20 08:40:43 +00006853- Issue #2592: delegate nb_index and the floor/truediv slots in
6854 weakref.proxy.
6855
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006856- Support os.O_ASYNC and fcntl.FASYNC if the constants exist on the
6857 platform.
Georg Brandl5049a852008-05-16 13:10:15 +00006858
Brett Cannon044616a2008-05-15 02:33:55 +00006859- Support for Windows 9x has been removed from the winsound module.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcf9b54c22008-05-12 21:30:24 +00006860
Jesus Cea09c01782008-09-28 23:24:19 +00006861- bsddb module updated to version 4.7.3.
Jesus Cea4907d272008-08-31 14:00:51 +00006862 http://www.jcea.es/programacion/pybsddb.htm#bsddb3-4.7.3. This
6863 code should be compatible with Python 3.0.
Jesus Ceaef9764f2008-05-13 18:45:46 +00006864
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006865- Issue #2858: Fix potential memory corruption when
6866 bsddb.db.DBEnv.lock_get and other bsddb.db object constructors
6867 raised an exception.
Gregory P. Smith664782e2008-05-17 06:12:02 +00006868
Gregory P. Smith5d7d6c32008-05-25 08:32:04 +00006869- Issue #2669: bsddb/__init__.py iteration no longer silently fails when
6870 the database has changed size during iteration. It now raises a
6871 RuntimeError in the same manner as a dictionary.
6872
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006873- Issue #2870: cmathmodule.c compile error.
Christian Heimes0bd23c02008-05-16 10:23:31 +00006874
Benjamin Petersond8a89722008-08-18 16:40:03 +00006875- Added a threading.Thread.ident property.
Gregory P. Smith8856dda2008-06-01 23:48:47 +00006876
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00006877Library
6878-------
6879
Vinay Sajip1e022682008-06-29 21:27:15 +00006880- logging.config: Removed out-of-date comment in _install_handlers and
6881 used issubclass in place of equality comparison of classes.
6882
Facundo Batista5596b0c2008-06-22 13:36:20 +00006883- Issue #2722: Now the os.getcwd() supports very long path names.
6884
Facundo Batista2da91c32008-06-21 17:43:56 +00006885- Issue #2888: Fixed the behaviour of pprint when working with nested
6886 structures, to match the behaviour of 2.5 and 3.0 (now follows the common
6887 sense).
6888
Facundo Batistaa6a4d502008-06-21 18:58:04 +00006889- Issue #1817: cgi now correctly handles the querystring on POST requests
6890
Vinay Sajip8dc20fd2008-06-19 22:41:08 +00006891- Issue #3136: fileConfig()'s disabling of old loggers is now conditional via
6892 an optional disable_existing_loggers parameter, but the default value is
6893 such that the old behaviour is preserved. Thanks to Leandro Lucarella for
6894 the patch.
6895
Vinay Sajip9828b7e2008-06-17 11:04:02 +00006896- Issue #3126: StreamHandler and FileHandler check before calling "flush" and
6897 "close" that the stream object has these, using hasattr (thanks to bobf for
6898 the patch).
6899
Benjamin Peterson5c0be322008-06-13 15:11:50 +00006900- Issue #2912: platform.uname now tries to determine unknown information even if
6901 os.uname exists.
6902
Benjamin Peterson26305a02008-06-12 22:33:06 +00006903- The rfc822 module has been deprecated for removal in 3.0.
6904
Benjamin Petersona03722f2008-06-12 14:23:49 +00006905- The mimetools module has been deprecated for removal in 3.0.
6906
Thomas Heller1cec7aa2008-06-10 14:07:12 +00006907- The ctypes.byref function now takes an optional second parameter
6908 which allows to specify an offset in bytes for the constructed
6909 pointer-like object.
6910
Georg Brandl8509db52008-06-10 07:45:28 +00006911- Added the ast module.
6912
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00006913- Added the multiprocessing module, PEP 371.
Benjamin Peterson6f7ae692008-06-11 20:04:30 +00006914
Georg Brandl7be19aa2008-06-07 15:59:10 +00006915- Factored out the indentation cleaning from inspect.getdoc() into
6916 inspect.cleandoc() to ease standalone use.
6917
Thomas Hellerfbb9c0b2008-06-06 08:33:46 +00006918- Issue #1798: Add ctypes calling convention that allows safe access
6919 to errno.
6920
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00006921- Issue #2404: ctypes objects support the new pep3118 buffer interface.
Thomas Heller59475e92008-06-05 17:52:59 +00006922
Vinay Sajip9828b7e2008-06-17 11:04:02 +00006923- Patch #2125: Add GetInteger and GetString methods for
Martin v. Löwisffe62ed2008-06-02 08:40:06 +00006924 msilib.Record objects.
6925
Gregory P. Smith137d8242008-06-02 04:05:52 +00006926- Issue #2782: The datetime module's strftime methods now accept
6927 unicode format strings just as time.strftime always has.
6928
Georg Brandlac19d852008-06-01 21:19:14 +00006929- The sgmllib and htmllib modules have been deprecated for removal
6930 in Python 3.0.
6931
6932- Issue #3011: locale module alias table was updated to the latest
6933 version from the X.org locale.alias file.
Marc-André Lemburgadff65b2008-05-30 20:52:18 +00006934
Thomas Heller9287acf2008-05-29 19:42:34 +00006935- Issue #1797 (partial fix): ctypes NULL function pointers have a
6936 False boolean value now.
6937
Georg Brandld0b592f2008-05-29 07:45:26 +00006938- Issue #2985: Allow 64-bit integer responses (``<i8>``) in XMLRPC
6939 transfers.
6940
6941- Issue #2877: The UserString.MutableString class has been removed in
6942 Python 3.0.
Brett Cannonabb34fe2008-05-29 05:08:50 +00006943
Lars Gustäbelb1a54a32008-05-27 12:39:23 +00006944- Do not close external file objects passed to tarfile.open(mode='w:bz2')
6945 when the TarFile is closed.
6946
Georg Brandle08e3d02008-05-25 08:07:37 +00006947- Issue #2959: For consistency with other file-like objects, gzip's
6948 GzipFile.close() can now be called multiple times without raising
6949 an exception.
6950
Martin v. Löwis27e4a172008-05-23 15:18:28 +00006951- Issue #1390: Raise ValueError in toxml when an invalid comment would
6952 otherwise be produced.
6953
Vinay Sajipc0128832008-05-20 15:37:22 +00006954- Issue #2914: TimedRotatingFileHandler now takes an optional keyword
6955 argument "utc" to use UTC time rather than local time.
6956
6957- Issue #2929: TimedRotatingFileHandler was using the wrong path when
6958 deleting old log files (filename only instead of full path).
6959
Georg Brandl112aa502008-05-20 08:25:48 +00006960- Issue #1775025: You can now specify zipfile members to open(),
6961 read() or extract() via a ZipInfo instance. This allows handling
6962 duplicate filenames in zipfiles.
6963
Georg Brandl28fdfa92008-05-17 17:57:01 +00006964- Issue #961805: Fix Text.edit_modified() in Tkinter.
6965
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006966- Issue #1793: Function ctypes.util.find_msvcrt() added that returns
Thomas Heller95ba13f2008-05-16 20:06:31 +00006967 the name of the C runtime library that Python uses.
6968 ctypes.util.find_library(name) now call this function when name is
6969 'm' or 'c'.
6970
Brett Cannonfa40bbf2008-05-16 00:50:02 +00006971- The statvfs module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
6972
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006973- The sunaudiodev and SUNAUDIODEV modules have been deprecated for
6974 removal in Python 3.0.
6975
6976- The WAIT module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
6977 3.0.
6978
6979- The torgb module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
6980 3.0.
6981
6982- The SV module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
6983 3.0.
6984
6985- The readcd module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
Brett Cannon22248172008-05-16 00:10:24 +00006986 Python 3.0.
6987
Brett Cannon11ae6e72008-05-15 03:49:00 +00006988- The panelparser module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
6989 Python 3.0.
6990
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006991- The panel module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
6992 3.0.
Brett Cannon7e375862008-05-15 03:46:27 +00006993
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006994- The jpeg module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
6995 3.0.
Brett Cannon89f5d9c2008-05-15 03:44:00 +00006996
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006997- The IOCTL module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
6998 3.0.
Brett Cannond8c41ec2008-05-15 03:41:55 +00006999
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007000- The IN module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
7001 3.0.
Brett Cannon6328b292008-05-15 03:36:13 +00007002
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007003- The imgfile module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
Brett Cannon178582e2008-05-15 03:20:36 +00007004 Python 3.0.
7005
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007006- The GLWS module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
7007 3.0.
Brett Cannon72ccc402008-05-15 03:17:24 +00007008
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007009- The GET module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
7010 3.0.
Brett Cannon2773b6f2008-05-15 03:14:57 +00007011
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007012- The fm module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
7013 3.0.
7014
7015- The FL, flp, and fl modules from IRIX have been deprecated for
7016 removal in Python 3.0.
7017
7018- The FILE module on IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
7019 3.0.
7020
7021- The ERRNO module on IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
7022 3.0.
7023
7024- The DEVICE, GL, gl, and cgen modules (which indirectly includes
7025 cgensupport) have been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
Brett Cannon044616a2008-05-15 02:33:55 +00007026
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007027- The CL, CL_old, and cl modules for IRIX have been deprecated for
7028 removal in Python 3.0.
7029
7030- The cdplayer module for IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
Brett Cannon650f5162008-05-14 21:12:12 +00007031 Python 3.0.
7032
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007033- The cddb module for IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
7034 3.0.
Brett Cannon9eebe492008-05-14 20:34:22 +00007035
Brett Cannonddf949f2008-05-14 20:31:38 +00007036- The cd and CD modules for IRIX have been deprecated for removal in
7037 Python 3.0.
7038
Brett Cannon34721d52008-05-14 01:08:21 +00007039- The al and AL modules for IRIX have been deprecated for removal in
7040 Python 3.0.
7041
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007042- Issue #1713041: fix pprint's handling of maximum depth.
Georg Brandl23da6e62008-05-12 16:26:52 +00007043
Brett Cannonbb141bb2008-05-12 03:47:47 +00007044- The timing module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
7045
Brett Cannonac861b52008-05-12 03:45:59 +00007046- The sv module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
7047
Brett Cannon43e5ef42008-05-12 03:19:20 +00007048- The multifile module has been deprecated as per PEP 4.
7049
Brett Cannon42bfa902008-05-12 00:08:34 +00007050- The imageop module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
7051
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007052- Issue #2250: Exceptions raised during evaluation of names in
7053 rlcompleter's ``Completer.complete()`` method are now caught and
7054 ignored.
Georg Brandl627a6662008-05-11 21:03:42 +00007055
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007056- Issue #2659: Added ``break_on_hyphens`` option to textwrap
7057 TextWrapper class.
Georg Brandl6f95ae52008-05-11 10:42:28 +00007058
Brett Cannon2a869132008-05-11 03:01:47 +00007059- The mhlib module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
7060
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007061- The linuxaudiodev module has been deprecated for removal in Python
7062 3.0.
Brett Cannondf0a7172008-05-11 00:50:51 +00007063
Brett Cannon27508d42008-05-10 22:45:07 +00007064- The ihooks module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
7065
Brett Cannonfe598512008-05-10 22:11:45 +00007066- The fpformat module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
7067
Brett Cannone35a3a12008-05-10 21:22:43 +00007068- The dl module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
7069
Brett Cannond5a09852008-05-10 03:14:32 +00007070- The Canvas module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
7071
Brett Cannon6192df12008-05-10 02:58:26 +00007072- The compiler package has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
7073
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007074- The Bastion and rexec modules have been deprecated for removal in
7075 Python 3.0.
Brett Cannoncda73a42008-05-10 02:53:46 +00007076
Brett Cannon768d44f2008-05-10 02:47:54 +00007077- The bsddb185 module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
7078
Brett Cannon9ac39742008-05-09 22:51:58 +00007079- The pure module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
7080
Mark Dickinsonf8476c12008-05-09 17:54:23 +00007081- Issue #2487: change the semantics of math.ldexp(x, n) when n is too
7082 large to fit in a C long. ldexp(x, n) now returns a zero (with
7083 suitable sign) if n is large and negative; previously, it raised
7084 OverflowError.
7085
Brett Cannonfa24d9a2008-05-09 05:32:42 +00007086- The toaiff module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
7087
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007088- The test.testall module has been deprecated for removal in Python
7089 3.0.
Brett Cannon3c759142008-05-09 05:25:37 +00007090
Brett Cannond7265d62008-05-09 05:18:40 +00007091- The new module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
7092
Brett Cannone3b19402008-05-08 20:36:09 +00007093- The user module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
7094
Brett Cannon6071cc82008-05-08 19:52:45 +00007095- The stringold module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
7096
7097- The mutex module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
Brett Cannon9d441822008-05-08 19:26:08 +00007098
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00007099- The imputil module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
7100
Brett Cannoncae4f5f2008-05-08 20:24:43 +00007101- test.test_support.catch_warning() gained a 'record' argument.
7102
Benjamin Peterson0893a0a2008-05-09 00:27:01 +00007103- os.path.walk is deprecated in favor of os.walk.
7104
Georg Brandl9020ff82008-05-11 14:17:13 +00007105- pdb gained the "until" command.
Benjamin Peterson98353942008-05-11 14:13:25 +00007106
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007107- The Mac Modules (including Carbon) have been deprecated for removal
7108 in Python 3.0.
Benjamin Peterson23681932008-05-12 21:42:13 +00007109
Vinay Sajip9828b7e2008-06-17 11:04:02 +00007110- Library: on MacOS X you can now set ``ARCHFLAGS`` in the shell
Ronald Oussoren5640ce22008-06-05 12:58:24 +00007111 environment to control the '-arch' flags that are used to build
7112 an extension. This was added for compatibility with Apple's build
7113 of Python.
7114
7115- The bundled OSX-specific copy of libbffi is now in sync with the version
7116 shipped with PyObjC 2.0 and includes support for x86_64 and ppc64 platforms.
7117
Georg Brandl25c34082008-08-18 23:09:49 +00007118- The threading module gained aliases for names that will be removed in the
7119 3.x series.
Benjamin Peterson0fbcf692008-06-11 17:27:50 +00007120
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00007121Build
7122-----
7123
Martin v. Löwiscc0f2b22008-06-13 18:12:51 +00007124- 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 +00007125
Martin v. Löwis8c255e42008-05-23 15:06:50 +00007126- Patch #1722225: Support QNX 6.
7127
Brett Cannonb61d8012008-05-11 23:39:04 +00007128- ``Lib/lib-old`` is now added to sys.path.
7129
Ronald Oussoren5640ce22008-06-05 12:58:24 +00007130- On MacOS X it is now possible to install the framework in 64-bit
7131 mode or even as a 4-way universal binary (that is, PPC, i386,
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00007132 PPC64 and x86_64 support in one binary).
Ronald Oussoren5640ce22008-06-05 12:58:24 +00007133
7134 This is controlled by the configure argument ``--with-universal-archs``:
7135
7136 - ``--with-universal-archs=all``: install 4-way universal
7137
7138 - ``--with-universal-archs=32-bit``: install 2-way universal, 32-bit (the default)
7139
7140 - ``--with-universal-archs=64-bit``: install 2-way universal, 64-bit
7141
7142 This option should be used in combination with ``--enable-universalsdk=``.
7143
7144 NOTE: 64-bit and 4-way builds are only suppported on Mac OS X 10.5 (or later).
7145
7146
Christian Heimes7a990612008-05-26 13:15:11 +00007147C API
7148-----
7149
Georg Brandl74a1dea2008-05-28 11:21:39 +00007150- Add ``PyType_Modified()`` as a public API to clear the type cache.
7151
7152- The PyBytes functions have been renamed to PyByteArray.
Christian Heimes7a990612008-05-26 13:15:11 +00007153
7154- The PyString functions have been renamed to PyBytes. A batch of
7155 defines were added so that the linker still sees the original
7156 PyString names.
7157
Georg Brandl5e7b1c02008-05-16 17:40:23 +00007158
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00007159What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 3?
Barry Warsaw65475fd2008-03-01 17:11:41 +00007160=================================
7161
Barry Warsaw6cc79402008-05-08 13:16:19 +00007162*Release date: 08-May-2008*
Barry Warsaw65475fd2008-03-01 17:11:41 +00007163
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd21fb4c2008-03-05 01:50:33 +00007164Core and builtins
7165-----------------
Georg Brandl80055f62008-03-25 07:56:27 +00007166
Georg Brandl28e08732008-04-30 19:47:09 +00007167- Issue #2719: backported the ``next()`` builtin from Python 3.
7168
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007169- Issue #2681: The octal literal ``0o8`` was incorrecly acctepted. Now
7170 it properly raises a SyntaxError.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc52167212008-04-24 18:07:05 +00007171
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007172- Issue #2617: Reserved -J and -X arguments for Jython, IronPython and
7173 other implementations of Python.
Christian Heimes7a98d272008-04-12 13:03:03 +00007174
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007175- Implemented PEP 370: Per user site-packages directory.
Christian Heimesaf748c32008-05-06 22:41:46 +00007176
Andrew M. Kuchling46d6b682008-04-30 16:19:55 +00007177Extension Modules
7178-----------------
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00007179
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007180- Issue #2670: Fix a failure in urllib2.build_opener(), when passed
7181 two handlers that derive the same default base class.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc96865852008-04-22 21:14:41 +00007182
Christian Heimese74c8f22008-04-19 02:23:57 +00007183- Added kill, terminate and send_signal(sig) to subprocess.Popen.
7184
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007185- Added phase(z) -> phi, polar(z) -> r, phi and rect(r, phi) -> z to
7186 the cmath module.
Christian Heimes6f341092008-04-18 23:13:07 +00007187
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007188- Four new methods were added to the math and cmath modules: acosh,
7189 asinh, atanh and log1p.
Christian Heimes6f341092008-04-18 23:13:07 +00007190
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007191- zlib.decompressobj().flush(value) no longer crashes the interpreter
7192 when passed a value less than or equal to zero.
Gregory P. Smith671c5d92008-04-09 18:18:43 +00007193
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007194- Issue #1631171: Re-implement the 'warnings' module in C (the
7195 original Python code has been kept as backup). This will allow for
7196 using the 'warning's machinery in such places as the parser where
7197 use of pure Python code is not possible. Both the ``showarning()``
7198 and ``formatwarning()`` gain an optional 'line' argument which is
7199 not called by default for backwards-compatibility reasons. Setting
7200 ``warnings.showwarning()`` to an implementation that lacks support
7201 for the ``line`` argument will raise a DeprecationWarning.
Brett Cannone9746892008-04-12 23:44:07 +00007202
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00007203Library
7204-------
7205
Brett Cannonf8436822008-05-06 23:41:32 +00007206- The audiodev module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
7207
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007208- Issue #2750: Add the 'json' package. Based on simplejson 1.9 and
7209 contributed by Bob Ippolito.
Brett Cannon4b964f92008-05-05 20:21:38 +00007210
Martin v. Löwis471617d2008-05-05 17:16:58 +00007211- Issue #1734346: Support Unicode file names for zipfiles.
7212
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007213- Issue #2581: distutils: Vista UAC/elevation support for
7214 bdist_wininst.
Mark Hammond7c5c8e62008-05-02 12:48:15 +00007215
Mark Dickinsonfe536f52008-04-25 16:59:09 +00007216- Issue #2635: Fix bug in 'fix_sentence_endings' textwrap.fill option,
7217 where an extra space was added after a word containing (but not
7218 ending in) '.', '!' or '?'.
7219
Thomas Heller6ad5fbb2008-04-25 15:44:16 +00007220- Add from_buffer() and from_buffer_copy() class methods to ctypes
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00007221 data types.
Thomas Heller6ad5fbb2008-04-25 15:44:16 +00007222
Neal Norwitz2b0bea52008-04-25 03:40:17 +00007223- Issue #2682: ctypes callback functions no longer contain a cyclic
Thomas Hellerbf027c42008-04-24 18:14:19 +00007224 reference to themselves.
7225
Gregory P. Smithd59fefb2008-04-22 08:11:33 +00007226- The getpass module has been improved on Unix. It now uses /dev/tty
7227 by default and uses stderr instead of stdout. A GetPassWarning is
7228 issued when input echo cannot be controlled.
Gregory P. Smith41e30182008-04-21 21:31:08 +00007229
Skip Montanarob131f042008-04-18 20:35:46 +00007230- Issue #2014: Allow XML-RPC datetime objects to have dates before
7231 1900-01-01.
7232
Nick Coghlan106fc482008-04-15 10:25:31 +00007233- Issue #2439: Added new function pkgutil.get_data(), which is a
7234 convenience wrapper for the PEP 302 get_data() API.
7235
Thomas Heller046e6a42008-04-14 16:10:07 +00007236- Issue #2616: The ctypes.pointer() and ctypes.POINTER() functions are
7237 now implemented in C for better performance.
7238
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007239- Issue #2408: The ``_types`` module, which was used as in
7240 implementation detail of the public ``types`` module, has been
7241 removed and replaced by pure python code.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc02f33b42008-04-08 23:10:07 +00007242
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007243- Issue #2513: distutils on Windows is now capable of cross-compiling
Mark Hammond495cf992008-04-07 01:53:39 +00007244 extension modules between 32 and 64 bit platforms. See the distutls
7245 build documentation for more information.
7246
Gregory P. Smithaa63d0d2008-04-06 23:11:17 +00007247- Issue #815646: Individual file objects may now be used from multiple
7248 threads at once without fear of crashing the Python interpreter. If
7249 file.close() is called while an object is in use by another thread
7250 an IOError exception will be raised and the file will not be closed.
7251
Thomas Hellerf7906482008-04-04 19:43:25 +00007252- The bundled libffi copy is now in sync with the recently released
7253 libffi3.0.5 version, apart from some small changes to
7254 Modules/_ctypes/libffi/configure.ac.
7255
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007256- Issue #2385: distutils.core.run_script() makes __file__ available,
7257 so the controlled environment will more closely mirror the typical
7258 script environment. This supports setup.py scripts that refer to
7259 data files.
Fred Drake46c58c12008-04-04 05:41:30 +00007260
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00007261Tests
7262-----
Trent Nelsone41b0062008-04-08 23:47:30 +00007263
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007264- Issue #2550: The approach used by client/server code for obtaining
7265 ports to listen on in network-oriented tests has been refined in an
7266 effort to facilitate running multiple instances of the entire
7267 regression test suite in parallel without issue.
7268 test_support.bind_port() has been fixed such that it will always
7269 return a unique port -- which wasn't always the case with the
7270 previous implementation, especially if socket options had been set
7271 that affected address reuse (i.e. SO_REUSEADDR, SO_REUSEPORT). The
7272 new implementation of bind_port() will actually raise an exception
7273 if it is passed an AF_INET/SOCK_STREAM socket with either the
7274 SO_REUSEADDR or SO_REUSEPORT socket option set. Furthermore, if
7275 available, bind_port() will set the SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE option on
7276 the socket it's been passed. This currently only applies to
7277 Windows. This option prevents any other sockets from binding to the
7278 host/port we've bound to, thus removing the possibility of the
7279 'non-deterministic' behaviour, as Microsoft puts it, that occurs
7280 when a second SOCK_STREAM socket binds and accepts to a host/port
7281 that's already been bound by another socket. The optional preferred
7282 port parameter to bind_port() has been removed. Under no
7283 circumstances should tests be hard coding ports!
7284
7285 test_support.find_unused_port() has also been introduced, which will
7286 pass a temporary socket object to bind_port() in order to obtain an
7287 unused port. The temporary socket object is then closed and
7288 deleted, and the port is returned. This method should only be used
7289 for obtaining an unused port in order to pass to an external program
7290 (i.e. the -accept [port] argument to openssl's s_server mode) or as
7291 a parameter to a server-oriented class that doesn't give you direct
7292 access to the underlying socket used.
7293
7294 Finally, test_support.HOST has been introduced, which should be used
7295 for the host argument of any relevant socket calls (i.e. bind and
7296 connect).
Trent Nelsone41b0062008-04-08 23:47:30 +00007297
7298 The following tests were updated to following the new conventions:
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007299 test_socket, test_smtplib, test_asyncore, test_ssl, test_httplib,
Trent Nelsone41b0062008-04-08 23:47:30 +00007300 test_poplib, test_ftplib, test_telnetlib, test_socketserver,
7301 test_asynchat and test_socket_ssl.
7302
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007303 It is now possible for multiple instances of the regression test
7304 suite to run in parallel without issue.
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00007305
7306Build
7307-----
7308
Mark Dickinson65134662008-04-25 16:11:04 +00007309- Issue #1496032: On alpha, use -mieee when gcc is the compiler.
7310
Thomas Hellerdc96a772008-04-04 10:07:55 +00007311- Issue #2544: On HP-UX systems, use 'gcc -shared' for linking when
7312 gcc is used as compiler.
7313
Ronald Oussoren580c7fe2008-05-02 19:45:11 +00007314- Issue #2573: On MacOS X it is now possible to install the framework
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007315 with a different name using --with-framework-name=NAME.
Ronald Oussoren580c7fe2008-05-02 19:45:11 +00007316
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00007317C API
7318-----
7319
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007320- Added implementation of copysign, acosh, asinh, atanh and log1p to
7321 the new files Include/pymath.h and Python/pymath.h for platforms
7322 which provide the functions through their libm. The files also
7323 contains several helpers and constants for math.
Christian Heimes6f341092008-04-18 23:13:07 +00007324
Benjamin Petersondacde0d2008-05-26 17:43:53 +00007325- Added a new convenience macro, PyErr_WarnPy3k, for issuing Py3k warnings.
Benjamin Petersona692c4d2008-04-27 02:28:02 +00007326
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00007327
7328What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 2?
7329=================================
7330
7331*Release date: 02-Apr-2008*
7332
7333Core and builtins
7334-----------------
7335
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007336- Issue #1733757: The interpreter would hang on shutdown if the
7337 tracing function set by sys.settrace is still active and happens to
7338 call threading.currentThread().
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd7a26512008-04-03 23:07:55 +00007339
Georg Brandl91e0cda2008-03-29 01:50:06 +00007340- Patch #1442: properly report exceptions when the PYTHONSTARTUP file
7341 cannot be executed.
7342
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc69b747b2008-03-28 20:30:50 +00007343- The compilation of a class nested in another class used to leak one
7344 reference on the outer class name.
7345
Georg Brandlfc8eef32008-03-28 12:11:56 +00007346- Patch #1810: compile() can now compile _ast trees as returned by
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007347 ``compile(..., PyCF_ONLY_AST)``.
Georg Brandlfc8eef32008-03-28 12:11:56 +00007348
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007349- Patch #2426: Added sqlite3.Connection.iterdump method to allow easy
7350 dumping of databases. Contributed by Paul Kippes at PyCon 2008.
Gregory P. Smithb9803422008-03-28 08:32:09 +00007351
Georg Brandldeaf2ca2008-03-27 13:27:31 +00007352- Patch #2477: Added from __future__ import unicode_literals.
Christian Heimes3c608332008-03-26 22:01:37 +00007353
Christian Heimes8c78cc32008-03-26 12:53:58 +00007354- Added backport of bytearray type.
7355
Georg Brandl80055f62008-03-25 07:56:27 +00007356- Issue #2355: add Py3k warning for buffer().
7357
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc9a0d3462008-03-23 09:55:29 +00007358- Issue #1477: With narrow Unicode builds, the unicode escape sequence
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007359 \Uxxxxxxxx did not accept values outside the Basic Multilingual
7360 Plane. This affected raw unicode literals and the
7361 'raw-unicode-escape' codec. Now UTF-16 surrogates are generated in
7362 this case, like normal unicode literals and the 'unicode-escape'
7363 codec.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc9a0d3462008-03-23 09:55:29 +00007364
Georg Brandl65bb42d2008-03-21 20:38:24 +00007365- Issue #2348: add Py3k warning for file.softspace.
7366
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007367- Issue #2346/#2347: add Py3k warnings for __methods__ and
7368 __members__.
Georg Brandl07e56812008-03-21 20:21:46 +00007369
Georg Brandl5a444242008-03-21 20:11:46 +00007370- Issue #2358: Add a Py3k warning on sys.exc_clear() usage.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd21fb4c2008-03-05 01:50:33 +00007371
Martin v. Löwisa4d77892008-03-19 04:39:13 +00007372- Issue #2400: Allow relative imports to "import *".
7373
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007374- Issue #1745: Backport print function with ``from __future__ import
7375 print_function``.
Eric Smith7c478942008-03-18 23:45:49 +00007376
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007377- Issue #2332: add new attribute names for instance method objects.
7378 The two changes are: im_self -> __self__ and im_func -> __func__
Neal Norwitzb1d3d962008-03-18 04:46:00 +00007379
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007380- Issue #2379: Raise a Py3K warning for __getitem__ or __getslice__ on
Guido van Rossum6d91be32008-03-18 04:42:22 +00007381 exception instances.
7382
Guido van Rossum04edb522008-03-18 02:49:46 +00007383- Issue #2371: Add a Py3k warning when catching an exception that
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007384 doesn't derive from BaseException.
7385
7386- Issue #2341: Add a Py3k warning when raising an exception that
7387 doesn't derive from BaseException.
Guido van Rossum04edb522008-03-18 02:49:46 +00007388
Neal Norwitz419fd492008-03-17 20:22:43 +00007389- Issue #2321: use pymalloc for unicode object string data to reduce
7390 memory usage in some circumstances.
7391
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007392- PEP 3127: octal literals now start with "0o". Old-style octal
7393 literals are still valid. There are binary literals with a prefix of
7394 "0b". This also affects int(x, 0).
Eric Smith0aed07a2008-03-17 19:43:40 +00007395
Georg Brandl1e7c3752008-03-25 08:37:23 +00007396- Issue #2359: Adding deprecation warnings for array.{read,write}.
7397
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007398- Issue #1779871: GNU gcc can now build Python on OS X because the
Jeffrey Yasskin1b4e45b2008-03-17 14:40:53 +00007399 flags -Wno-long-double, -no-cpp-precomp, and -mno-fused-madd are no
7400 longer passed.
7401
Neal Norwitz400aeda2008-03-15 22:03:18 +00007402- Add a warning when asserting a non-empty tuple which is always true.
7403
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007404- Issue #2179: speed up with statement execution by storing the exit
7405 method on the stack instead of in a temporary variable (patch by
7406 Jeffrey Yaskin)
Nick Coghlan7af53be2008-03-07 14:13:28 +00007407
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007408- Issue #2238: Some syntax errors in *args and **kwargs expressions
7409 could give bogus error messages.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd21fb4c2008-03-05 01:50:33 +00007410
Sean Reifscheider68fa8e62008-03-20 00:50:07 +00007411- Issue #2143: Fix embedded readline() hang on SSL socket EOF.
7412
Andrew M. Kuchling46d6b682008-04-30 16:19:55 +00007413Extension Modules
7414-----------------
Martin v. Löwisaef18b12008-03-24 13:31:16 +00007415
7416- Patch #2240: Implement signal.setitimer and signal.getitimer.
7417
Thomas Heller78b8f442008-03-05 14:53:39 +00007418Library
7419-------
7420
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007421- Issue #2315: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now accounts
7422 for daylight savings time in calculating the next rollover.
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00007423
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007424- Issue #2316: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now
7425 calculates rollovers correctly even when nothing is logged for a
7426 while.
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00007427
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007428- Issue #2317: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now uses
7429 improved logic for removing old files.
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00007430
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007431- Issue #2495: tokenize.untokenize now inserts a space between two
7432 consecutive string literals; previously, ["" ""] was rendered as
7433 [""""], which is incorrect python code.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcda0c0252008-03-27 23:23:54 +00007434
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007435- Issue #2248: return the result of the QUIT command. from
7436 SMTP.quit().
Georg Brandldeaf2ca2008-03-27 13:27:31 +00007437
Christian Heimes8c78cc32008-03-26 12:53:58 +00007438- Backport of Python 3.0's io module.
7439
Mark Dickinson8e85ffa2008-03-25 18:47:59 +00007440- Issue #2482: Make sure that the coefficient of a Decimal is always
7441 stored as a str instance, not as a unicode instance. This ensures
7442 that str(Decimal) is always an instance of str.
7443
Mark Dickinson3b24ccb2008-03-25 14:33:23 +00007444- Issue #2478: fix failure of decimal.Decimal(0).sqrt()
7445
Georg Brandl77354cf2008-03-21 20:01:51 +00007446- Issue #2432: give DictReader the dialect and line_num attributes
7447 advertised in the docs.
7448
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007449- Issue #2460: Make Ellipsis object copyable.
Raymond Hettingerb72233c2008-03-24 08:17:39 +00007450
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007451- Issue #1681432: Add triangular distribution to the random module
Raymond Hettingerbbc50ea2008-03-23 13:32:32 +00007452
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007453- Issue #2136: urllib2's auth handler now allows single-quoted realms
7454 in the WWW-Authenticate header.
Georg Brandl33124322008-03-21 19:54:00 +00007455
Marc-André Lemburga1867752008-03-20 18:08:00 +00007456- Issue #2434: Enhanced platform.win32_ver() to also work on Python
7457 installation which do not have the win32all package installed.
7458
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007459- Added support to platform.uname() to also report the machine and
7460 processor information on Windows XP and later. As a result,
Marc-André Lemburga1867752008-03-20 18:08:00 +00007461 platform.machine() and platform.processor() will report this
7462 information as well.
7463
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007464- The library implementing the 2to3 conversion, lib2to3, was added to
7465 the standard distribution.
Martin v. Löwis5e37bae2008-03-19 04:43:46 +00007466
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007467- Issue #1747858: Fix chown to work with large uid's and gid's on
7468 64-bit platforms.
Gregory P. Smith37f3f432008-03-18 20:40:01 +00007469
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007470- Issue #1202: zlib.crc32 and zlib.adler32 no longer return different
7471 values on 32-bit vs. 64-bit python interpreters. Both were correct,
7472 but they now both return a signed integer object for consistency.
Gregory P. Smithf48f9d32008-03-17 18:48:05 +00007473
Skip Montanaro32ed8c22008-03-15 16:07:11 +00007474- Issue #1158: add %f format (fractions of a second represented as
7475 microseconds) to datetime objects. Understood by both strptime and
7476 strftime.
7477
Mark Dickinsonc23b8a72008-03-14 14:23:37 +00007478- Issue #705836: struct.pack(">f", x) now raises OverflowError on all
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007479 platforms when x is too large to fit into an IEEE 754 float;
7480 previously it only raised OverflowError on non IEEE 754 platforms.
Mark Dickinsonc23b8a72008-03-14 14:23:37 +00007481
Andrew M. Kuchlingaac5c862008-05-11 14:00:00 +00007482- Issues #2166, #1741 and #1531505: now distutils deals with HOME
7483 correctly under win32
7484
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007485- Patch #1858: distutils: added multiple server support in .pypirc
Andrew M. Kuchlingaac5c862008-05-11 14:00:00 +00007486
Facundo Batistac54aec12008-03-08 16:50:27 +00007487- Issue #1106316: pdb.post_mortem()'s parameter, "traceback", is now
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007488 optional: it defaults to the traceback of the exception that is
7489 currently being handled (is mandatory to be in the middle of an
7490 exception, otherwise it raises ValueError).
Facundo Batistac54aec12008-03-08 16:50:27 +00007491
Jeffrey Yasskine75f59a2008-03-07 06:22:15 +00007492- Issue #1193577: A .shutdown() method has been added to SocketServers
7493 which terminates the .serve_forever() loop.
7494
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007495- Issue #2220: handle rlcompleter attribute match failure more
7496 gracefully.
Georg Brandl98aa8052008-03-06 07:45:52 +00007497
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007498- Issue #2225: py_compile, when executed as a script, now returns a
7499 non- zero status code if not all files could be compiled
7500 successfully.
Georg Brandla7bd27f2008-03-06 07:41:16 +00007501
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007502- Bug #1725737: In distutils' sdist, exclude RCS, CVS etc. also in the
Georg Brandl810ea292008-03-06 07:34:52 +00007503 root directory, and also exclude .hg, .git, .bzr, and _darcs.
7504
Thomas Hellerf3c05592008-03-05 15:34:29 +00007505- Issue #1872: The struct module typecode for _Bool has been changed
7506 from 't' to '?'.
7507
Thomas Heller78b8f442008-03-05 14:53:39 +00007508- The bundled libffi copy is now in sync with the recently released
7509 libffi3.0.4 version, apart from some small changes to
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007510 Modules/_ctypes/libffi/configure.ac. On OS X, preconfigured libffi
7511 files are used. On all linux systems the --with-system-ffi
7512 configure option defaults to "yes".
Thomas Heller78b8f442008-03-05 14:53:39 +00007513
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007514- Issue #1577: shutil.move() now calls os.rename() if the destination
7515 is a directory instead of copying-then-remove-source.
Sean Reifscheider493894c2008-03-18 17:24:12 +00007516
Martin v. Löwisd2bbe522008-03-06 06:55:22 +00007517Tests
7518-----
7519
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007520- test_nis no longer fails when test.test_support.verbose is true and
7521 NIS is not set up on the testing machine.
Brett Cannon7919d982008-03-19 16:50:13 +00007522
Brett Cannona5573b32008-03-18 04:16:06 +00007523- Output comparison tests are no longer supported.
7524
Brett Cannonb7ec8e52008-03-18 03:46:22 +00007525- Rewrite test_errno to use unittest and no longer be a no-op.
7526
Brett Cannon0bb79502008-03-18 01:58:56 +00007527- GHOP 234: Convert test_extcall to doctest.
7528
Brett Cannonba17cfc2008-03-18 01:50:25 +00007529- GHOP 290: Convert test_dbm and test_dummy_threading to unittest.
7530
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007531- GHOP 293: Convert test_strftime, test_getargs, and test_pep247 to
7532 unittest.
Brett Cannon6eeaddc2008-03-18 01:00:07 +00007533
Brett Cannon1f5182b2008-03-13 21:09:28 +00007534- Issue #2055: Convert test_fcntl to unittest.
7535
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00007536- Issue #1960: Convert test_gdbm to unittest.
Brett Cannon4a6e8d62008-03-13 21:02:16 +00007537
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007538- GHOP 294: Convert test_contains, test_crypt, and test_select to
7539 unittest.
Brett Cannon2e0f9f32008-03-13 20:47:41 +00007540
Brett Cannonb8d37352008-03-13 20:33:10 +00007541- GHOP 238: Convert test_tokenize to use doctest.
7542
Brett Cannon66865d22008-03-13 20:27:00 +00007543- GHOP 237: Rewrite test_thread using unittest.
7544
Martin v. Löwisd2bbe522008-03-06 06:55:22 +00007545- Patch #2232: os.tmpfile might fail on Windows if the user has no
7546 permission to create files in the root directory.
7547
Martin v. Löwisbf7b0b72008-03-14 13:56:09 +00007548Build
7549-----
7550
Martin v. Löwiscdbc9772008-03-24 12:57:53 +00007551- A new script 2to3 is now installed, to run the 2.x to 3.x converter.
7552
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007553- Python/memmove.c and Python/strerror.c have been removed; both
7554 functions are in the C89 standard library.
Brett Cannonaa5778d2008-03-18 04:09:00 +00007555
Martin v. Löwisbf7b0b72008-03-14 13:56:09 +00007556- Patch #2284: Add -x64 option to rt.bat.
Barry Warsaw65475fd2008-03-01 17:11:41 +00007557
Christian Heimes3c608332008-03-26 22:01:37 +00007558C API
7559-----
7560
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00007561- Patch #2477: Added PyParser_ParseFileFlagsEx() and
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007562 PyParser_ParseStringFlagsFilenameEx().
7563
Christian Heimes3c608332008-03-26 22:01:37 +00007564
Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +00007565What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 1?
7566=================================
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00007567
Barry Warsaw7c075232008-03-01 02:53:36 +00007568*Release date: 29-Feb-2008*
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00007569
7570Core and builtins
7571-----------------
7572
Fred Drakea8ee94b2008-03-01 02:45:07 +00007573- Issue #2051: pyc and pyo files are no longer created with permission
Barry Warsaw52973612008-03-01 02:23:38 +00007574 644. The mode is now inherited from the py file.
Christian Heimes40346852008-02-23 17:52:07 +00007575
Georg Brandlad61bc82008-02-23 15:11:18 +00007576- Issue #2067: file.__exit__() now calls subclasses' close() method.
7577
7578- Patch #1759: Backport of PEP 3129 class decorators.
Christian Heimes5224d282008-02-23 15:01:05 +00007579
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00007580- Issue #1881: An internal parser limit has been increased. Also see
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00007581 issue #215555 for a discussion.
Facundo Batistafc2d0102008-02-23 12:01:13 +00007582
Eric Smitha73fbe72008-02-23 03:09:44 +00007583- Added the future_builtins module, which contains hex() and oct().
7584 These are the PEP 3127 version of these functions, designed to be
7585 compatible with the hex() and oct() builtins from Python 3.0. They
7586 differ slightly in their output formats from the existing, unchanged
7587 Python 2.6 builtins. The expected usage of the future_builtins
7588 module is:
7589 from future_builtins import hex, oct
7590
Eric Smith7ef40bf2008-02-20 23:34:22 +00007591- Issue #1600: Modifed PyOS_ascii_formatd to use at most 2 digit
7592 exponents for exponents with absolute value < 100. Follows C99
7593 standard. This is a change on Windows, which would use 3 digits.
7594 Also, added 'n' to the formats that PyOS_ascii_formatd understands,
7595 so that any alterations it does to the resulting string will be
7596 available in stringlib/formatter.h (for float.__format__).
7597
Eric Smith5a3c1352008-02-19 13:21:56 +00007598- Implemented PEP 3101, Advanced String Formatting. This adds a new
7599 builtin format(); a format() method for str and unicode; a
7600 __format__() method to object, str, unicode, int, long, float, and
7601 datetime; the class string.Formatter; and the C API
7602 PyObject_Format().
7603
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007604- Fixed several potential crashes, all caused by specially crafted
7605 __del__ methods exploiting objects in temporarily inconsistent
7606 state.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc632fad32008-02-16 20:55:24 +00007607
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00007608- Issue #2115: Important speedup in setting __slot__ attributes. Also
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007609 prevent a possible crash: an Abstract Base Class would try to access
7610 a slot on a registered virtual subclass.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc60d6c7f2008-02-15 21:22:45 +00007611
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007612- Fixed repr() and str() of complex numbers with infinity or nan as
7613 real or imaginary part.
Christian Heimes2f0da532008-02-15 06:57:08 +00007614
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007615- Clear all free lists during a gc.collect() of the highest generation
7616 in order to allow pymalloc to free more arenas. Python may give back
7617 memory to the OS earlier.
Christian Heimes3b718a72008-02-14 12:47:33 +00007618
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007619- Issue #2045: Fix an infinite recursion triggered when printing a
7620 subclass of collections.defaultdict, if its default_factory is set
7621 to a bound method.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcb01aa432008-02-08 00:56:02 +00007622
Christian Heimesf75dbef2008-02-08 00:11:31 +00007623- Fixed a minor memory leak in dictobject.c. The content of the free
7624 list was not freed on interpreter shutdown.
7625
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00007626- Limit free list of method and built-in function objects to 256
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007627 entries each.
Christian Heimes6075a822008-02-06 12:44:34 +00007628
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007629- Patch #1953: Added ``sys._compact_freelists()`` and the C API
7630 functions ``PyInt_CompactFreeList`` and ``PyFloat_CompactFreeList``
Christian Heimes422051a2008-02-04 18:00:12 +00007631 to compact the internal free lists of pre-allocted ints and floats.
7632
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007633- Issue #1983: Fixed return type of fork(), fork1() and forkpty()
7634 calls. Python expected the return type int but the fork familie
7635 returns pi_t.
Christian Heimes951cc0f2008-01-31 23:08:23 +00007636
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007637- Issue #1678380: Fix a bug that identifies 0j and -0j when they
7638 appear in the same code unit.
Mark Dickinson105be772008-01-31 22:17:37 +00007639
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007640- Issue #2025: Add tuple.count() and tuple.index() methods to comply
7641 with the collections.Sequence API.
Raymond Hettinger5b07ebc2008-02-07 00:54:20 +00007642
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007643- Patch #1970 by Antoine Pitrou: Speedup unicode whitespace and
7644 linebreak detection
Christian Heimes4d4f2702008-01-30 11:32:37 +00007645
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007646- Added ``PyType_ClearCache()`` and ``sys._clear_type_cache`` to clear
7647 the internal lookup cache for ref leak tests.
Christian Heimes908caac2008-01-27 23:34:59 +00007648
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007649- Patch #1473257: generator objects gain a gi_code attribute. This is
7650 the same object as the func_code attribute of the function that
7651 produced the generator.
Georg Brandl0cdf9a32008-01-26 14:14:20 +00007652
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007653- Issue #1920: "while 0" statements were completely removed by the
7654 compiler, even in the presence of an "else" clause, which is
7655 supposed to be run when the condition is false. Now the compiler
7656 correctly emits bytecode for the "else" suite.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc31eaafe2008-01-24 22:59:25 +00007657
Guido van Rossumeead05f2008-01-24 18:21:02 +00007658- A few crashers fixed: weakref_in_del.py (issue #1377858);
7659 loosing_dict_ref.py (issue #1303614, test67.py);
7660 borrowed_ref_[34].py (not in tracker).
7661
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +00007662- Issue #1069410: The "can't load dll" message box on Windows is
Christian Heimesb2302ba2008-01-23 17:15:06 +00007663 suppressed while an extension is loaded by calling SetErrorMode in
7664 dynload_win.c. The error is still reported properly.
7665
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007666- Issue #1915: Python compiles with --enable-unicode=no again. However
Christian Heimes082c9b02008-01-23 14:20:50 +00007667 several extension methods and modules do not work without unicode
7668 support.
7669
Georg Brandl26543b12008-01-21 18:36:51 +00007670- Issue #1882: when compiling code from a string, encoding cookies in the
7671 second line of code were not always recognized correctly.
7672
Georg Brandl14404b62008-01-19 19:27:05 +00007673- Issue #1679: "0x" was taken as a valid integer literal.
7674
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00007675- Issue #1865: ``bytes`` as an alias for ``str`` and b"" as an alias "" were
Christian Heimes288e89a2008-01-18 18:24:07 +00007676 added.
7677
Christian Heimesc94e2b52008-01-14 04:13:37 +00007678- sys.float_info / PyFloat_GetInfo: The floating point information
7679 object was converted from a dict to a specialized structseq object.
7680
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007681- Patch #1816: Added sys.flags structseq. It exposes the status of
7682 most command line arguments and PYTHON* environment variables.
Christian Heimesf31b69f2008-01-14 03:42:48 +00007683
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007684- Objects/structseq.c: Implemented new structseq representation. The
7685 patch makes structseqs (e.g. the return value of os.stat) more
7686 readable.
Christian Heimes9c201962008-01-14 03:33:52 +00007687
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007688- Patch #1700288: added a type attribute cache that caches method
7689 accesses, resulting in speedups in heavily object-oriented code.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arce4c270c2008-01-14 00:29:41 +00007690
Neal Norwitz3fc15b82008-01-10 05:42:58 +00007691- Bug #1776: __import__() no longer accepts filenames on any platform.
7692 The first parameter to __import__() must be a valid module name.
Christian Heimes3403f152008-01-09 19:56:33 +00007693
Georg Brandlaed6c662008-01-07 17:25:53 +00007694- Patch #1668: renamed THREADDEBUG envvar to PYTHONTHREADDEBUG.
7695
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007696- Patch #602345: Add -B command line option, PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE
7697 envvar and sys.dont_write_bytecode attribute. All these can be set
7698 to forbid Python to attempt to write compiled bytecode files.
Georg Brandl2da0fce2008-01-07 17:09:35 +00007699
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007700- Improve some exception messages when Windows fails to load an
7701 extension module. Now we get for example '%1 is not a valid Win32
7702 application' instead of 'error code 193'.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arce0b76952008-01-04 02:04:15 +00007703
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007704- Bug #1481296: Fixed long(float('nan')) != 0L.
Christian Heimes8267d1d2008-01-04 00:37:34 +00007705
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007706- Issue #1640: Added math.isinf(x), math.isnan(x) and math.copysign(x,
7707 y) functions.
Christian Heimese2ca4242008-01-03 20:23:15 +00007708
Christian Heimes0a8143f2007-12-18 23:22:54 +00007709- Issue #1635: Platform independent creation and representation of NaN
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007710 and INF. float("nan"), float("inf") and float("-inf") now work on
7711 every platform with IEEE 754 semantics.
Christian Heimes0a8143f2007-12-18 23:22:54 +00007712
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007713- Compiler now generates simpler and faster code for dictionary
7714 literals. The oparg for BUILD_MAP now indicates an estimated
7715 dictionary size. There is a new opcode, STORE_MAP, for adding
7716 entries to the dictionary.
Raymond Hettingerfd7ed402007-12-18 21:24:09 +00007717
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007718- Issue #1638: %zd configure test fails on Linux.
Christian Heimesdb3d6cb2007-12-16 21:39:43 +00007719
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007720- Issue #1620: New property decorator syntax was modifying the
7721 decorator in place instead of creating a new decorator object.
Christian Heimes90e10e72007-12-14 02:35:23 +00007722
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007723- Issue #1538: Avoid copying string in split/rsplit if the split char
7724 is not found.
Skip Montanaro26015492007-12-08 15:33:24 +00007725
Andrew M. Kuchling395fe442007-12-05 13:27:20 +00007726- Issue #1553: An erroneous __length_hint__ can make list() raise a
Christian Heimes7cc1c6f2007-12-05 12:52:34 +00007727 SystemError.
7728
Nick Coghlanef01d822007-12-03 12:55:17 +00007729- PEP 366: Allow explicit relative imports when executing modules
7730 inside packages with the -m switch via a new module level
7731 __package__ attribute.
7732
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007733- Issue #1402: Fix a crash on exit, when another thread is still
7734 running, and if the deallocation of its frames somehow calls the
7735 PyGILState_Ensure() / PyGILState_Release() functions.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbe49a902007-11-30 20:37:22 +00007736
Christian Heimes28104c52007-11-27 23:16:44 +00007737- Expose the Py_Py3kWarningFlag as sys.py3kwarning.
7738
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00007739- Issue #1445: Fix a SystemError when accessing the ``cell_contents``
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcce7d10c2007-11-24 13:44:17 +00007740 attribute of an empty cell object.
7741
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007742- Issue #1460: The utf-7 incremental decoder did not accept truncated
7743 input. It now correctly saves its state between chunks of data.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcf57375a2007-11-21 01:38:26 +00007744
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007745- Patch #1739468: Directories and zipfiles containing a __main__.py
7746 file can now be directly executed by passing their name to the
7747 interpreter. The directory/zipfile is automatically inserted as the
7748 first entry in sys.path.
Nick Coghlan327a39b2007-11-18 11:56:28 +00007749
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007750- Issue #1265: Fix a problem with sys.settrace, if the tracing
7751 function uses a generator expression when at the same time the
7752 executed code is closing a paused generator.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc0d75f092007-11-13 21:54:28 +00007753
Raymond Hettinger1760c8a2007-11-08 02:52:43 +00007754- sets and frozensets now have an isdisjoint() method.
7755
Raymond Hettinger3f8caa32007-10-24 01:28:33 +00007756- optimize the performance of builtin.sum().
7757
Neal Norwitz44f326e2007-10-05 05:29:17 +00007758- Fix warnings found by the new version of the Coverity checker.
7759
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00007760- The enumerate() built-in function is no longer bounded to sequences
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007761 smaller than LONG_MAX. Formerly, it raised an OverflowError. Now,
7762 automatically shifts from ints to longs.
Raymond Hettinger8f669372007-10-03 21:18:11 +00007763
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007764- Issue #1686386: Tuple's tp_repr did not take into account the
7765 possibility of having a self-referential tuple, which is possible
7766 from C code. Nor did object's tp_str consider that a type's tp_str
7767 could do something that could lead to an inifinite recursion.
7768 Py_ReprEnter() and Py_EnterRecursiveCall(), respectively, fixed the
7769 issues.
Brett Cannon0b14f242007-09-30 19:45:10 +00007770
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007771- Issue #1164: It was possible to trigger deadlock when using the
7772 'print' statement to write to a file since the GIL was not released
7773 as needed. Now PyObject_Print() does the right thing along with
7774 various tp_print implementations of the built-in types and those in
7775 the collections module.
Brett Cannon01531592007-09-17 03:28:34 +00007776
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007777- Issue #1147: Exceptions were directly allowing string exceptions in
7778 their throw() method even though string exceptions no longer
7779 allowed.
Brett Cannon4c20bc42007-09-11 21:02:28 +00007780
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007781- Issue #1096: Prevent a segfault from getting the repr of a very
7782 deeply nested list by using the recursion counter.
Brett Cannona0c05512007-09-10 21:38:27 +00007783
Brett Cannon1e534b52007-09-07 04:18:30 +00007784- Issue #1202533: Fix infinite recursion calls triggered by calls to
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007785 PyObject_Call() never calling back out to Python code to trigger
7786 recursion depth updates/checks. Required the creation of a static
7787 RuntimeError instance in case normalizing an exception put the
7788 recursion check value past its limit. Fixes crashers
7789 infinite_rec_(1|2|4|5).py.
Brett Cannon1e534b52007-09-07 04:18:30 +00007790
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007791- Patch #1031213: Decode source line in SyntaxErrors back to its
7792 original source encoding.
Martin v. Löwisa5136192007-09-04 14:19:28 +00007793
Georg Brandl7c3b50d2007-07-12 08:38:00 +00007794- Patch #1673759: add a missing overflow check when formatting floats
7795 with %G.
7796
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007797- Prevent expandtabs() on string and unicode objects from causing a
7798 segfault when a large width is passed on 32-bit platforms.
Neal Norwitz7dbd2a32007-06-09 03:36:34 +00007799
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007800- Issue #1733488: Fix compilation of bufferobject.c on AIX.
Martin v. Löwisda587ab2007-06-08 17:29:20 +00007801
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007802- Issue #1722485: remove docstrings again when running with -OO.
Georg Brandla5ea6892007-06-01 11:33:33 +00007803
Neal Norwitz0ac60192007-05-27 04:08:54 +00007804- Add new attribute names for function objects. All the func_* become
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007805 __*__ attributes. (Some already existed, e.g., __doc__ and
7806 __name__.)
Neal Norwitz0ac60192007-05-27 04:08:54 +00007807
Neal Norwitz8b2bfbc2007-05-23 06:35:32 +00007808- Add -3 option to the interpreter to warn about features that are
7809 deprecated and will be changed/removed in Python 3.0.
7810
Georg Brandl2134e752007-05-21 20:34:16 +00007811- Patch #1686487: you can now pass any mapping after '**' in function
7812 calls.
7813
Collin Winter62903052007-05-18 23:11:24 +00007814- except clauses may now be spelled either "except E, target:" or
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007815 "except E as target:". This is to provide forwards compatibility
7816 with Python 3.0.
Collin Winter62903052007-05-18 23:11:24 +00007817
Brett Cannon229cee22007-05-05 01:34:02 +00007818- Deprecate BaseException.message as per PEP 352.
7819
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007820- Issue #1303614: don't expose object's __dict__ when the dict is
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00007821 inherited from a built-in base.
Armin Rigo9790a272007-05-02 19:23:31 +00007822
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00007823- When __slots__ are set to a unicode string, make it work the same as
Neal Norwitzcbd9ee62007-04-14 05:25:50 +00007824 setting a plain string, ie don't expand to single letter identifiers.
7825
Raymond Hettinger13936692007-04-11 18:40:58 +00007826- Request #1191699: Slices can now be pickled.
7827
Raymond Hettinger4db5fe92007-04-12 04:10:00 +00007828- Request #1193128: str.translate() now allows a None argument for
7829 translations that only remove characters without re-mapping the
7830 remaining characters.
7831
Georg Brandl5cb76c12007-03-21 09:00:39 +00007832- Patch #1682205: a TypeError while unpacking an iterable is no longer
7833 masked by a generic one with the message "unpack non-sequence".
7834
Neal Norwitzaa754b72007-03-21 06:39:48 +00007835- Remove unused file Python/fmod.c.
7836
Guido van Rossum143b5642007-03-23 04:58:42 +00007837- Bug #1683368: The object.__init__() and object.__new__() methods are
7838 now stricter in rejecting excess arguments. The only time when
7839 either allows excess arguments is when it is not overridden and the
7840 other one is. For backwards compatibility, when both are
7841 overridden, it is a deprecation warning (for now; maybe a Py3k
Guido van Rossum234b1ff2007-03-23 19:39:01 +00007842 warning later). Also, type.__init__() insists on the same signature
7843 as supported by type.__new__().
Guido van Rossum143b5642007-03-23 04:58:42 +00007844
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007845- Patch #1675423: PyComplex_AsCComplex() now tries to convert an
7846 object to complex using its __complex__() method before falling back
7847 to the __float__() method. Therefore, the functions in the cmath
7848 module now can operate on objects that define a __complex__()
7849 method.
Georg Brandl2b869942007-03-17 16:08:45 +00007850
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007851- Patch #1623563: allow __class__ assignment for classes with
7852 __slots__. The old and the new class are still required to have the
7853 same slot names.
Žiga Seilnacht6f2d09c2007-03-16 11:59:38 +00007854
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007855- Patch #1642547: Fix an error/crash when encountering syntax errors
7856 in complex if statements.
Collin Winter77c67bd2007-03-16 04:11:30 +00007857
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007858- Patch #1462488: Python no longer segfaults when
7859 ``object.__reduce_ex__()`` is called with an object that is faking
7860 its type.
Žiga Seilnacht20f43d32007-03-15 11:44:55 +00007861
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007862- Patch #1680015: Don't modify __slots__ tuple if it contains an
7863 unicode name.
Žiga Seilnacht71436f02007-03-14 12:24:09 +00007864
Georg Brandl5240d742007-03-13 20:46:32 +00007865- Patch #1444529: the builtin compile() now accepts keyword arguments.
7866
Georg Brandl7b9c5552007-03-12 14:30:05 +00007867- Bug #1678647: write a newline after printing an exception in any
7868 case, even when converting the value to a string failed.
7869
Georg Brandl871f1bc2007-03-12 13:17:36 +00007870- The dir() function has been extended to call the __dir__() method on
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007871 its argument, if it exists. If not, it will work like before. This
7872 allows customizing the output of dir() in the presence of a
7873 __getattr__().
Georg Brandl871f1bc2007-03-12 13:17:36 +00007874
Collin Winter276887b2007-03-12 16:11:39 +00007875- Patch #922167: Python no longer segfaults when faced with infinitely
7876 self-recursive reload() calls (as reported by bug #742342).
7877
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007878- Patch #1675981: remove unreachable code from ``type.__new__()``
7879 method.
Žiga Seilnacht89032082007-03-11 15:54:54 +00007880
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007881- Patch #1491866: change the complex() constructor to allow
7882 parthensized forms. This means complex(repr(x)) now works instead of
7883 raising a ValueError.
Collin Wintere38051d2007-03-09 20:33:07 +00007884
Georg Brandlaa2321b2007-03-07 00:40:28 +00007885- Patch #703779: unset __file__ in __main__ after running a file. This
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007886 makes the filenames the warning module prints much more sensible
7887 when a PYTHONSTARTUP file is used.
Georg Brandlaa2321b2007-03-07 00:40:28 +00007888
Georg Brandl49aafc92007-03-07 00:34:46 +00007889- Variant of patch #697613: don't exit the interpreter on a SystemExit
7890 exception if the -i command line option or PYTHONINSPECT environment
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007891 variable is given, but break into the interactive interpreter just
7892 like on other exceptions or normal program exit.
Georg Brandl49aafc92007-03-07 00:34:46 +00007893
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007894- Patch #1638879: don't accept strings with embedded NUL bytes in
7895 long().
Georg Brandl00cd8182007-03-06 18:41:12 +00007896
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007897- Bug #1674503: close the file opened by execfile() in an error
7898 condition.
Georg Brandl098cd692007-03-06 12:17:50 +00007899
Georg Brandl0fca97a2007-03-05 22:28:08 +00007900- Patch #1674228: when assigning a slice (old-style), check for the
7901 sq_ass_slice instead of the sq_slice slot.
7902
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007903- When printing an unraisable error, don't print exceptions. before
7904 the name. This duplicates the behavior whening normally printing
7905 exceptions.
Neal Norwitz88516a62007-02-26 22:41:45 +00007906
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007907- Bug #1653736: Properly discard third argument to
7908 slot_nb_inplace_power.
Martin v. Löwisfd963262007-02-09 12:19:32 +00007909
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007910- PEP 352: Raising a string exception now triggers a TypeError.
7911 Attempting to catch a string exception raises DeprecationWarning.
Brett Cannon129bd522007-01-30 21:34:36 +00007912
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007913- Bug #1377858: Fix the segfaulting of the interpreter when an object
7914 created a weakref on itself during a __del__ call for new-style
7915 classes (classic classes still have the bug).
Brett Cannonf5bee302007-01-23 23:21:22 +00007916
Martin v. Löwis6c5c5022007-01-23 21:11:47 +00007917- Bug #1579370: Make PyTraceBack_Here use the current thread, not the
7918 frame's thread state.
7919
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007920- patch #1630975: Fix crash when replacing sys.stdout in
7921 sitecustomize.py.
Thomas Wouters6ed19652007-01-23 13:50:49 +00007922
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007923- Prevent seg fault on shutdown which could occur if an object raised
7924 a warning.
Neal Norwitz72cd02c2007-01-05 05:25:22 +00007925
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007926- Bug #1566280: Explicitly invoke threading._shutdown from Py_Main, to
7927 avoid relying on atexit.
Martin v. Löwis7b7c9d42007-01-04 21:06:12 +00007928
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007929- Bug #1590891: random.randrange don't return correct value for big
7930 number.
Raymond Hettinger94547f72006-12-20 06:42:06 +00007931
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007932- Patch #1586791: Better exception messages for some operations on
7933 strings, tuples and lists.
Georg Brandl283a1352006-11-19 08:48:30 +00007934
Martin v. Löwis056dac12006-11-12 18:24:26 +00007935- Bug #1067760: Deprecate passing floats to file.seek.
7936
Martin v. Löwisa346c092006-11-08 06:48:36 +00007937- Bug #1591996: Correctly forward exception in instance_contains().
7938
Neal Norwitz85dbec62006-11-04 19:25:22 +00007939- Bug #1588287: fix invalid assertion for `1,2` in debug builds.
7940
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007941- Bug #1576657: when setting a KeyError for a tuple key, make sure
7942 that the tuple isn't used as the "exception arguments tuple".
Georg Brandlb9f4ad32006-10-29 18:31:42 +00007943
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007944- Bug #1565514: SystemError not raised on too many nested blocks.
Neal Norwitz21997af2006-10-28 21:19:07 +00007945
Thomas Hellerdf08f0b2006-10-27 18:31:36 +00007946- Bug #1576174: WindowsError now displays the windows error code
7947 again, no longer the posix error code.
7948
Martin v. Löwisb5bc5372006-10-27 06:16:31 +00007949- Patch #1549049: Support long values in structmember, issue warnings
7950 if the assigned value for structmember fields gets truncated.
7951
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007952- Update the peephole optimizer to remove more dead code (jumps after
7953 returns) and inline unconditional jumps to returns.
Neal Norwitzcbeb6872006-10-14 21:33:38 +00007954
Georg Brandl2c1375c2006-10-12 11:27:59 +00007955- Bug #1545497: when given an explicit base, int() did ignore NULs
7956 embedded in the string to convert.
7957
Georg Brandl846f73a2006-10-08 07:11:54 +00007958- Bug #1569998: break inside a try statement (outside a loop) is now
7959 recognized and rejected.
7960
Armin Rigo7ccbca92006-10-04 12:17:45 +00007961- list.pop(x) accepts any object x following the __index__ protocol.
7962
Armin Rigo7ccbca92006-10-04 12:17:45 +00007963- A number of places, including integer negation and absolute value,
7964 were fixed to not rely on undefined behaviour of the C compiler
7965 anymore.
Martin v. Löwis820d6ac2006-10-04 05:47:34 +00007966
Georg Brandl3267d282006-09-30 09:03:42 +00007967- Bug #1566800: make sure that EnvironmentError can be called with any
7968 number of arguments, as was the case in Python 2.4.
7969
Georg Brandl5d59c092006-09-30 08:43:30 +00007970- Patch #1567691: super() and new.instancemethod() now don't accept
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007971 keyword arguments any more (previously they accepted them, but
7972 didn't use them).
Georg Brandl5d59c092006-09-30 08:43:30 +00007973
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007974- Fix a bug in the parser's future statement handling that led to
7975 "with" not being recognized as a keyword after, e.g., this
7976 statement: from __future__ import division, with_statement
Georg Brandla10d3af2006-09-24 12:35:36 +00007977
Neal Norwitz3a230172006-09-22 08:18:10 +00007978- Bug #1557232: fix seg fault with def f((((x)))) and def f(((x),)).
7979
Neal Norwitz4a8fbdb2006-09-22 08:16:26 +00007980- Fix %zd string formatting on Mac OS X so it prints negative numbers.
7981
Brett Cannonf6aa86e2006-09-20 18:43:13 +00007982- Allow exception instances to be directly sliced again.
7983
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007984- Bug #1551432: Exceptions do not define an explicit __unicode__
7985 method. This allows calling unicode() on exceptions classes
7986 directly to succeed.
Brett Cannon9adeab72006-09-20 18:34:28 +00007987
Georg Brandl4e933132006-09-06 20:05:58 +00007988- Bug #1542051: Exceptions now correctly call PyObject_GC_UnTrack.
7989 Also make sure that every exception class has __module__ set to
7990 'exceptions'.
7991
Georg Brandl98775df2006-09-06 06:09:31 +00007992- Bug #1550983: emit better error messages for erroneous relative
7993 imports (if not in package and if beyond toplevel package).
7994
Tim Petersc10c9d02006-09-05 02:18:09 +00007995- Overflow checking code in integer division ran afoul of new gcc
7996 optimizations. Changed to be more standard-conforming.
7997
Neal Norwitz4f096d92006-08-21 19:47:08 +00007998- Patch #1542451: disallow continue anywhere under a finally.
7999
Neal Norwitza22975f2006-09-05 02:24:03 +00008000- Patch #1546288: fix seg fault in dict_equal due to ref counting bug.
8001
Neal Norwitzd34e4272006-09-05 02:36:20 +00008002- The return tuple from str.rpartition(sep) is (tail, sep, head) where
8003 head is the original string if sep was not found.
8004
Neal Norwitzdac090d2006-09-05 03:53:08 +00008005- Bug #1520864: unpacking singleton tuples in list comprehensions and
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008006 generator expressions (x for x, in ... ) works again. Fixing this
8007 problem required changing the .pyc magic number. This means that
8008 .pyc files generated before 2.5c2 will be regenerated.
Neal Norwitzdac090d2006-09-05 03:53:08 +00008009
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00008010- ``with`` and ``as`` are now keywords.
Neal Norwitzca460d92006-09-06 06:28:06 +00008011
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008012- Bug #1664966: Fix crash in exec if Unicode filename can't be
8013 decoded.
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00008014
Guido van Rossumcad37242008-01-15 17:59:29 +00008015- Issue #1537: Changed GeneratorExit's base class from Exception to
8016 BaseException.
Christian Heimes44eeaec2007-12-03 20:01:02 +00008017
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008018- Issue #1703448: A joined thread could show up in the
Gregory P. Smith95cd5c02008-01-22 01:20:42 +00008019 threading.enumerate() list after the join() for a brief period until
8020 it actually exited.
8021
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00008022
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00008023Library
8024-------
8025
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008026- Patch #2274: Add heapq.heappushpop().
Raymond Hettinger53bdf092008-03-13 19:03:51 +00008027
Christian Heimes608c1d82008-03-03 18:28:04 +00008028- Add inspect.isabstract(object) to fix bug #2223
8029
Mark Dickinson1ddf1d82008-02-29 02:16:37 +00008030- Add a __format__ method to Decimal, to support PEP 3101.
8031
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008032- Add a timing parameter when using trace.Trace to print out
8033 timestamps.
Neal Norwitzca376612008-02-26 08:21:28 +00008034
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008035- Issue #1627: httplib now ignores negative Content-Length headers.
Georg Brandl8c460d52008-02-24 00:14:24 +00008036
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008037- Issue #900744: If an invalid chunked-encoding header is sent by a
8038 server, httplib will now raise IncompleteRead and close the
8039 connection instead of raising ValueError.
Georg Brandl23635032008-02-24 00:03:22 +00008040
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008041- Issue #1492: The content type of BaseHTTPServer error messages can
8042 now be overridden.
Georg Brandl16479232008-02-23 15:02:28 +00008043
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008044- Issue #1781: ConfigParser now does not let you add the "default" section
Facundo Batistab12f0b52008-02-23 12:46:10 +00008045 (ignore-case)
8046
Guido van Rossum8bc09652008-02-21 18:18:37 +00008047- Removed uses of dict.has_key() from distutils, and uses of
8048 callable() from copy_reg.py, so the interpreter now starts up
8049 without warnings when '-3' is given. More work like this needs to
8050 be done in the rest of the stdlib.
8051
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008052- Issue #1916: added isgenerator() and isgeneratorfunction() to
8053 inspect.py.
Facundo Batista759bfc62008-02-18 03:43:43 +00008054
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008055- Issue #1224: Fixed bad url parsing when path begins with double
8056 slash.
Facundo Batistad14600e2008-02-18 12:48:43 +00008057
Thomas Hellera06a1a82008-02-13 20:21:53 +00008058- ctypes instances that are not or do not contain pointers can now be
8059 pickled.
8060
Martin v. Löwisdad88dc2008-02-12 18:47:34 +00008061- Patch #1966: Break infinite loop in httplib when the servers
8062 implements the chunked encoding incorrectly.
8063
Mark Dickinsond058cd22008-02-10 21:29:51 +00008064- Rename rational.py to fractions.py and the rational.Rational class
8065 to fractions.Fraction, to avoid the name clash with the abstract
8066 base class numbers.Rational. See discussion in issue #1682.
8067
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008068- The pickletools module now provides an optimize() function that
8069 eliminates unused PUT opcodes from a pickle string.
Raymond Hettingerda614dc2008-02-10 20:35:16 +00008070
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008071- Patch #2021: Allow tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile and
8072 SpooledTemporaryFile to be used in with statements by correctly
8073 supporting the context management protocol.
Nick Coghlanac094dc2008-02-10 07:32:52 +00008074
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008075- Patch #1979: Add rich comparisons to Decimal, and make Decimal
8076 comparisons involving a NaN follow the IEEE 754 standard.
Mark Dickinson2fc92632008-02-06 22:10:50 +00008077
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008078- Issue #2004: tarfile.py: Use mode 0700 for temporary directories and
8079 default permissions for missing directories.
Lars Gustäbel0192e432008-02-05 11:51:40 +00008080
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008081- Issue #175006: The debugger used to skip the condition of a "while"
8082 statement after the first iteration. Now it correctly steps on the
8083 expression, and breakpoints on the "while" statement are honored on
8084 each loop.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc6fd03bb2008-02-04 21:45:05 +00008085
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008086- Issue #1765140: add an optional delay argument to FileHandler and
8087 its subclasses. Defaults to false (existing behaviour), but if true,
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +00008088 defers opening the file until the first call to emit().
8089
Raymond Hettingerc226c312008-01-23 00:04:40 +00008090- The pprint module now supports sets and frozensets.
8091
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008092- Issue #1221598: add optional callbacks to ftplib.FTP's storbinary()
8093 and storlines() methods. (Contributed by Phil Schwartz)
Gregory P. Smithc64386b2008-01-22 00:19:41 +00008094
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008095- Issue #1715: include sub-extension modules in pydoc's text output.
Georg Brandlf2dae0e2008-01-21 21:05:49 +00008096
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008097- Issue #1836: fix an off-by-one bug in TimedRotatingHandler's
8098 rollover time calculation.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00008099
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008100- Issue #1021: fix a bug to allow basicConfig to accept NOTSET as a
8101 level.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00008102
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008103- Issue #932563: add LoggerAdapter convenience class to make it easier
8104 to add contextual information in logging output.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00008105
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008106- Issue #1760556: fix a bug to avoid FileHandler throwing an exception
8107 in flush().
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00008108
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008109- Bug #1530959: distutils' build command now uses different build
8110 directory when building extension modules against versions of Python
8111 compiled with ``--with-pydebug``.
Georg Brandl50160152008-01-21 17:42:40 +00008112
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008113- Issue #1555501: move plistlib from plat-mac directory to general
8114 library.
Georg Brandl864de822008-01-21 16:34:07 +00008115
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008116- Issue #1269: fix a bug in pstats.add_callers() and add a unit test
8117 file for pstats.
Georg Brandl66e73632008-01-21 10:24:59 +00008118
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008119- Issue #1669: don't allow shutil.rmtree() to be called on a symlink
8120 to a directory.
Georg Brandl52353982008-01-20 14:17:42 +00008121
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008122- Issue #1664522: in urllib, don't read non-existing directories in
8123 ftp mode, returning a 0-byte file -- raise an IOError instead.
Georg Brandld5e6cf22008-01-20 12:18:17 +00008124
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008125- Issue #856047: respect the ``no_proxy`` environment variable when
8126 using the ``http_proxy`` etc. environment variables in urllib.
Georg Brandl22350112008-01-20 12:05:43 +00008127
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008128- Issue #1178141: add a getcode() method to the addinfourls that
8129 urllib.open() returns so that you can retrieve the HTTP status code.
Georg Brandl9b0d46d2008-01-20 11:43:03 +00008130
Gregory P. Smithf25680a2008-01-20 01:26:04 +00008131- Issue #1003: Fix zipfile decryption check, it would fail zip files
8132 with extended local headers.
8133
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008134- Issue #1189216: Fix the zipfile module to work on archives with
8135 headers past the 2**31 byte boundary.
Gregory P. Smith350d03b2008-01-19 23:10:52 +00008136
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008137- Issue #1336: fix a race condition in subprocess.Popen if the garbage
Gregory P. Smithb9ba0752008-01-19 21:00:37 +00008138 collector kicked in at the wrong time that would cause the process
8139 to hang when the child wrote to stderr.
8140
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008141- Issue #1146: fix how textwrap breaks a long word that would start in
8142 the last column of a line.
Georg Brandlc6fde722008-01-19 19:48:19 +00008143
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008144- Issue #1693149: trace.py --ignore-module - accept multiple
8145 comma-separated modules to be given.
Skip Montanaro562133b2008-01-19 18:47:24 +00008146
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008147- Issue #1822: MIMEMultipart.is_multipart() behaves correctly for a
8148 just-created (and empty) instance. Thanks Jonathan Share.
Facundo Batista2b1b1952008-01-19 12:32:27 +00008149
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008150- Issue #1861: Added an attribute to the sched module which returns an
8151 ordered list of upcoming events (displayed as named tuples).
Raymond Hettinger44bd6c02008-01-17 19:31:38 +00008152
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008153- Issue #1837: The queue module now also supports a LIFO queue and a
8154 priority queue.
Raymond Hettinger3ad2acc82008-01-16 23:49:35 +00008155
Andrew M. Kuchling4a2762d2008-01-20 00:00:38 +00008156- Patch #1048820: Add insert-mode editing to curses.textpad.Textbox
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00008157 (patch by Stefan Wehr). Also, fix an off-by-one bug in
Andrew M. Kuchling4a2762d2008-01-20 00:00:38 +00008158 Textbox.gather().
8159
Thomas Heller02ec2892008-01-16 19:37:33 +00008160- Issue #1831: ctypes now raises a TypeError if conflicting positional
8161 and named arguments are passed to a Structure or Union initializer.
Thomas Heller415c1e32008-01-16 19:45:51 +00008162 When too many positional arguments are passed, also a TypeError is
8163 raised instead of a ValueError.
Thomas Heller02ec2892008-01-16 19:37:33 +00008164
Thomas Heller902d3072008-01-16 19:16:27 +00008165- Convert the internal ctypes array type cache to a WeakValueDict so
8166 that array types do not live longer than needed.
8167
Guido van Rossumcad37242008-01-15 17:59:29 +00008168- Issue #1786: pdb should use its own stdin/stdout around an exec call
8169 and when creating a recursive instance.
8170
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008171- Issue #1698398: ZipFile.printdir() crashed because the format string
8172 expected a tuple type of length six instead of time.struct_time
8173 object.
Raymond Hettinger351e1a32008-01-14 22:58:05 +00008174
Mark Dickinson59bc20b2008-01-12 01:56:00 +00008175- Issue #1780: The Decimal constructor now accepts arbitrary leading
8176 and trailing whitespace when constructing from a string.
8177 Context.create_decimal no longer accepts trailing newlines.
8178
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008179- Decimal.as_tuple(), difflib.find_longest_match() and inspect
8180 functions that returned a tuple now return a named tuple.
Georg Brandl2f32c392008-01-11 09:20:58 +00008181
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00008182- Doctest now returns results as a named tuple for readability:
Raymond Hettingerfff4e6e2008-01-11 01:25:54 +00008183 (0, 7) --> TestResults(failed=0, attempted=7)
8184
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008185- Issue #846388:q re.match is interruptible now, which is particularly
Facundo Batista4473d222008-01-08 21:10:12 +00008186 good for long regular expression matches.
8187
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008188- Patch #1137: allow setting buffer_size attribute on pyexpat Parser
8189 objects to set the character data buffer size.
Andrew M. Kuchlinge0a49b62008-01-08 14:30:55 +00008190
Facundo Batista52b25792008-01-08 12:25:20 +00008191- Issue #1757: The hash of a Decimal instance is no longer affected by
8192 the current context.
8193
Georg Brandl62416bc2008-01-07 18:47:44 +00008194- Patch #467924: add ZipFile.extract() and ZipFile.extractall() in the
8195 zipfile module.
8196
Christian Heimesfb2d25a2008-01-07 16:12:44 +00008197- Issue #1646: Make socket support the TIPC protocol.
8198
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008199- Bug #1742: return os.curdir from os.path.relpath() if both arguments
8200 are equal instead of raising an exception.
Georg Brandl183a0842008-01-06 14:27:15 +00008201
Guido van Rossumc6a04c22008-01-05 22:19:06 +00008202- Patch #1637: fix urlparse for URLs like 'http://x.com?arg=/foo'.
8203
Guido van Rossumced4eb02008-01-05 01:21:57 +00008204- Patch #1698: allow '@' in username parsed by urlparse.py.
8205
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008206- Issue #1735: TarFile.extractall() now correctly sets directory
8207 permissions and times.
Lars Gustäbel2ee1c762008-01-04 14:00:33 +00008208
Christian Heimes06875612008-01-04 13:21:07 +00008209- Bug #1713: posixpath.ismount() claims symlink to a mountpoint is a mountpoint.
8210
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008211- Bug #1687: Fxed plistlib.py restricts <integer> to Python int when
8212 writing
Christian Heimes06131882008-01-04 00:04:52 +00008213
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008214- Issue #1700: Regular expression inline flags incorrectly handle
8215 certain unicode characters.
Guido van Rossumae04c332008-01-03 19:12:44 +00008216
Jeffrey Yasskin2f3c16b2008-01-03 02:21:52 +00008217- Issue #1689: PEP 3141, numeric abstract base classes.
8218
Martin v. Löwis84b9aab2008-01-01 21:09:07 +00008219- Tk issue #1851526: Return results from Python callbacks to Tcl as
8220 Tcl objects.
8221
Thomas Heller153038e2007-12-18 19:00:34 +00008222- Issue #1642: Fix segfault in ctypes when trying to delete attributes.
8223
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008224- Issue #1727780: Support loading pickles of random.Random objects
8225 created on 32-bit systems on 64-bit systems, and vice versa. As a
8226 consequence of the change, Random pickles created by Python 2.6
8227 cannot be loaded in Python 2.5.
Martin v. Löwis6b449f42007-12-03 19:20:02 +00008228
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008229- Issue #1455: The distutils package now supports VS 2005 and VS 2008
8230 for both the msvccompiler and cygwincompiler.
Christian Heimesc654fc22007-12-03 13:55:16 +00008231
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008232- Issue #1531: tarfile.py: Read fileobj from the current offset, do
8233 not seek to the start.
Lars Gustäbel77b2d632007-12-01 21:02:12 +00008234
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008235- Issue #1534: Added a dictionary sys.float_info with information
8236 about the internal floating point type to the sys module.
Christian Heimesdfdfaab2007-12-01 11:20:10 +00008237
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008238- Issue #1429818: patch for trace and doctest modules so they play
8239 nicely together.
Skip Montanaro58a6f442007-11-24 14:30:47 +00008240
Brett Cannon43e53f82007-11-21 00:47:36 +00008241- doctest made a bad assumption that a package's __loader__.get_data()
8242 method used universal newlines.
8243
Nick Coghlan90b858e2007-11-07 11:57:51 +00008244- Issue #1705170: contextlib.contextmanager was still swallowing
8245 StopIteration in some cases. This should no longer happen.
8246
Thomas Heller486b1b02007-11-02 19:10:24 +00008247- Issue #1292: On alpha, arm, ppc, and s390 linux systems the
8248 --with-system-ffi configure option defaults to "yes".
8249
Hye-Shik Changa838a802007-10-28 11:19:02 +00008250- IN module for FreeBSD 8 is added and preexisting FreeBSD 6 and 7
8251 files are updated.
8252
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008253- Issues #1181, #1287: unsetenv() is now called when the
8254 os.environ.pop() and os.environ.clear() methods are used.
Georg Brandl1a94ec22007-10-24 21:40:38 +00008255
Thomas Heller91ac4222007-10-19 18:11:41 +00008256- ctypes will now work correctly on 32-bit systems when Python is
8257 configured with --with-system-ffi.
8258
Thomas Heller7fee6dd2007-10-11 19:51:32 +00008259- Patch #1203: ctypes now does work on OS X when Python is built with
Georg Brandl1a94ec22007-10-24 21:40:38 +00008260 --disable-toolbox-glue.
Thomas Heller7fee6dd2007-10-11 19:51:32 +00008261
Raymond Hettingera7fc4b12007-10-05 02:47:07 +00008262- collections.deque() now supports a "maxlen" argument.
8263
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008264- itertools.count() is no longer bounded to LONG_MAX. Formerly, it
8265 raised an OverflowError. Now, automatically shifts from ints to
8266 longs.
Raymond Hettinger50e90e22007-10-04 00:20:27 +00008267
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008268- Added itertools.product() which forms the Cartesian product of the
8269 input iterables.
Raymond Hettingerc5705a82008-02-22 19:50:06 +00008270
Raymond Hettinger66f91ea2008-03-05 20:59:58 +00008271- Added itertools.combinations() and itertools.permutations().
Raymond Hettinger93e804d2008-02-26 23:40:50 +00008272
Georg Brandlaff85e22007-09-20 16:06:07 +00008273- Patch #1541463: optimize performance of cgi.FieldStorage operations.
8274
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008275- Decimal is fully updated to the latest Decimal Specification
8276 (v1.66).
Facundo Batistab67da232007-09-17 16:26:50 +00008277
Georg Brandl8fd3ecf2007-09-12 19:00:07 +00008278- Bug #1153: repr.repr() now doesn't require set and dictionary items
8279 to be orderable to properly represent them.
8280
Thomas Heller2825b2e2007-09-07 06:32:17 +00008281- A 'c_longdouble' type was added to the ctypes module.
8282
Martin v. Löwis7dcb83c2007-08-30 19:04:09 +00008283- Bug #1709599: Run test_1565150 only if the file system is NTFS.
8284
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008285- When encountering a password-protected robots.txt file the
8286 RobotFileParser no longer prompts interactively for a username and
8287 password (bug 813986).
Skip Montanaro3e275362007-08-29 01:33:45 +00008288
Lars Gustäbel0f4a14b2007-08-28 12:31:09 +00008289- TarFile.__init__() no longer fails if no name argument is passed and
8290 the fileobj argument has no usable name attribute (e.g. StringIO).
8291
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008292- The functools module now provides 'reduce', for forward
8293 compatibility with Python 3000.
Guido van Rossum95f1a1b2007-08-27 20:52:10 +00008294
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008295- Server-side SSL support and cert verification added, by Bill
8296 Janssen.
Guido van Rossum4f2c3dd2007-08-25 15:08:43 +00008297
Bill Janssenf413fb02007-08-30 18:08:06 +00008298- socket.ssl deprecated; use new ssl module instead.
8299
Georg Brandl8ec57542007-08-24 06:10:01 +00008300- uuid creation is now threadsafe.
8301
Hye-Shik Chang23901042007-08-20 06:49:18 +00008302- EUC-KR codec now handles the cheot-ga-keut composed make-up hangul
8303 syllables.
8304
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008305- GB18030 codec now can encode additional two-byte characters that are
8306 missing in GBK.
Hye-Shik Changf3e93a02007-08-04 04:10:18 +00008307
Walter Dörwald6e390802007-08-17 16:41:28 +00008308- Add new codecs for UTF-32, UTF-32-LE and UTF-32-BE.
8309
Martin v. Löwisf1e0b3f2007-07-28 07:03:05 +00008310- Bug #1704793: Return UTF-16 pair if unicodedata.lookup cannot
8311 represent the result in a single character.
8312
Martin v. Löwisf25e35b2007-07-27 18:28:22 +00008313- Bug #978833: Close https sockets by releasing the _ssl object.
8314
Martin v. Löwis254b8f92007-07-25 16:24:23 +00008315- Change location of the package index to pypi.python.org/pypi
8316
Thomas Hellerfa704c62007-07-13 17:12:23 +00008317- Bug #1701409: Fix a segfault in printing ctypes.c_char_p and
8318 ctypes.c_wchar_p when they point to an invalid location. As a
8319 sideeffect the representation of these instances has changed.
8320
Lars Gustäbel104490e2007-06-18 11:42:11 +00008321- tarfile.py: Added "exclude" keyword argument to TarFile.add().
8322
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008323- Bug #1734723: Fix repr.Repr() so it doesn't ignore the maxtuple
8324 attribute.
Neal Norwitzc161cb92007-06-11 07:29:43 +00008325
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008326- The urlopen function of urllib2 now has an optional timeout
8327 parameter (note that it actually works with HTTP, HTTPS, FTP and
8328 FTPS connections).
Facundo Batista10951d52007-06-06 17:15:23 +00008329
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008330- In ftplib, the FTP.ntransfercmd method, when in passive mode, now
8331 uses the socket.create_connection function, using the timeout
8332 specified at connection time.
Facundo Batista92493122007-06-06 15:13:37 +00008333
Hye-Shik Chang9b541402007-06-05 18:58:51 +00008334- Bug #1728403: Fix a bug that CJKCodecs StreamReader hangs when it
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008335 reads a file that ends with incomplete sequence and sizehint
8336 argument for .read() is specified.
Hye-Shik Chang9b541402007-06-05 18:58:51 +00008337
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008338- Bug #1730389: Change time.strptime() to use ``\s+`` instead of
8339 ``\s*`` when matching spaces in the specified format argument.
Brett Cannonf7188ce2007-06-03 23:13:41 +00008340
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008341- Bugs #1668596/#1720897: distutils now copies data files even if
8342 package_dir is empty.
Neal Norwitz4a700bb2007-06-01 07:29:12 +00008343
Brett Cannonc2aa09a2007-05-31 19:20:00 +00008344- sha now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
8345
Brett Cannon7eec2172007-05-30 22:24:28 +00008346- md5 now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
8347
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008348- Issue #1385: The hmac module now computes the correct hmac when
8349 using hashes with a block size other than 64 bytes (such as sha384
8350 and sha512).
Gregory P. Smithe1ac4f12007-11-06 00:19:03 +00008351
Brett Cannonc249bda2007-05-30 21:48:58 +00008352- mimify now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
8353
Brett Cannon90134c92007-05-30 20:46:26 +00008354- MimeWriter now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
8355
Lars Gustäbela0fcb932007-05-27 19:49:30 +00008356- tarfile.py: Improved unicode support. Unicode input names are now
8357 officially supported. Added "errors" argument to the TarFile class.
8358
Facundo Batista711a54e2007-05-24 17:50:54 +00008359- urllib.ftpwrapper class now accepts an optional timeout.
8360
Georg Brandlc90bc752007-05-24 16:49:29 +00008361- shlex.split() now has an optional "posix" parameter.
8362
Brett Cannon41bf2fa2007-05-20 23:57:38 +00008363- The posixfile module now raises a DeprecationWarning.
8364
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008365- Remove the gopherlib module. This also leads to the removal of
8366 gopher support in urllib/urllib2.
Brett Cannond75f0432007-05-16 22:42:29 +00008367
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008368- Fix bug in marshal where bad data would cause a segfault due to lack
8369 of an infinite recursion check.
Neal Norwitzb1a9b372007-05-16 20:05:11 +00008370
Neal Norwitze0e70a42007-05-16 05:06:33 +00008371- Removed plat-freebsd2 and plat-freebsd3 directories (and IN.py in
8372 the directories).
8373
Georg Brandla09a96a2007-05-15 20:19:34 +00008374- HTML-escape the plain traceback in cgitb's HTML output, to prevent
8375 the traceback inadvertently or maliciously closing the comment and
8376 injecting HTML into the error page.
8377
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008378- The popen2 module and os.popen* are deprecated. Use the subprocess
8379 module.
Neal Norwitz42dd86b2007-05-11 06:57:33 +00008380
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008381- Added an optional credentials argument to SMTPHandler, for use with
8382 SMTP servers which require authentication.
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00008383
8384- Patch #1695948: Added optional timeout parameter to SocketHandler.
8385
8386- Bug #1652788: Minor fix for currentframe.
8387
8388- Patch #1598415: Added WatchedFileHandler to better support external
8389 log file rotation using e.g. newsyslog or logrotate. This handler is
8390 only useful in Unix/Linux environments.
8391
Georg Brandlfb4b3b72007-04-24 15:27:13 +00008392- Bug #1706381: Specifying the SWIG option "-c++" in the setup.py file
8393 (as opposed to the command line) will now write file names ending in
8394 ".cpp" too.
8395
Facundo Batistad918a652007-04-24 13:54:38 +00008396- As specified in RFC 2616, an HTTP response like 2xx indicates that
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008397 the client's request was successfully received, understood, and
8398 accepted. Now in these cases no error is raised in urllib (issue
8399 #1177) and urllib2.
Facundo Batistad918a652007-04-24 13:54:38 +00008400
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008401- Bug #1290505: time.strptime's internal cache of locale information
8402 is now properly recreated when the locale is changed.
Brett Cannonc6906652007-04-01 18:47:27 +00008403
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008404- Patch #1685563: remove (don't add) duplicate paths in
8405 distutils.MSVCCompiler.
Neal Norwitz8f35f442007-04-01 18:24:22 +00008406
Facundo Batistab6a5c9d2007-03-29 18:22:35 +00008407- Added a timeout parameter to the constructor of other protocols
8408 (telnetlib, ftplib, smtplib and poplib). This is second part of the
8409 work started with create_connection() and timeout in httplib, and
8410 closes patch #723312.
8411
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00008412- Patch #1676823: Added create_connection() to socket.py, which may be
8413 called with a timeout, and use it from httplib (whose HTTPConnection
Facundo Batista70f996b2007-05-21 17:32:32 +00008414 and HTTPSConnection now accept an optional timeout).
Facundo Batista07c78be2007-03-23 18:54:07 +00008415
Martin v. Löwis0af33882007-03-23 13:27:15 +00008416- Bug #978833: Revert r50844, as it broke _socketobject.dup.
8417
Žiga Seilnacht7492e422007-03-21 20:07:56 +00008418- Bug #1675967: re patterns pickled with Python 2.4 and earlier can
8419 now be unpickled with Python 2.5 and newer.
8420
Collin Wintera8785cc2007-03-19 18:52:08 +00008421- Patch #1630118: add a SpooledTemporaryFile class to tempfile.py.
8422
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008423- Patch #1273829: os.walk() now has a "followlinks" parameter. If set
8424 to True (which is not the default), it visits symlinks pointing to
Georg Brandlcae9f3d2007-03-21 09:10:29 +00008425 directories.
8426
Georg Brandl8f06d022007-03-16 07:55:09 +00008427- Bug #1681228: the webbrowser module now correctly uses the default
8428 GNOME or KDE browser, depending on whether there is a session of one
8429 of those present. Also, it tries the Windows default browser before
8430 trying Mozilla variants.
8431
Collin Winter6f187742007-03-16 22:16:08 +00008432- Patch #1339796: add a relpath() function to os.path.
8433
Georg Brandlab1f4672007-03-15 07:41:30 +00008434- Patch #1681153: the wave module now closes a file object it opened if
8435 initialization failed.
8436
Georg Brandlf66b6032007-03-14 08:27:52 +00008437- Bug #767111: fix long-standing bug in urllib which caused an
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008438 AttributeError instead of an IOError when the server's response
8439 didn't contain a valid HTTP status line.
Georg Brandlf66b6032007-03-14 08:27:52 +00008440
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008441- Patch #957650: "%var%" environment variable references are now
8442 properly expanded in ntpath.expandvars(), also "~user" home
8443 directory references are recognized and handled on Windows.
Georg Brandl03b90d82007-03-13 22:07:36 +00008444
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008445- Patch #1429539: pdb now correctly initializes the __main__ module
8446 for the debugged script, which means that imports from __main__ work
Georg Brandlb6ae6aa2007-03-13 21:58:44 +00008447 correctly now.
8448
Georg Brandlbad6f192007-03-13 21:32:56 +00008449- The nonobvious commands.getstatus() function is now deprecated.
8450
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008451- Patch #1393667: pdb now has a "run" command which restarts the
8452 debugged Python program, optionally with different arguments.
Georg Brandl8e84c652007-03-13 21:08:15 +00008453
Thomas Heller5dc4fe02007-03-13 20:42:52 +00008454- Patch #1649190: Adding support for _Bool to ctypes as c_bool.
8455
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008456- Patch #1530482: add pydoc.render_doc() which returns the
8457 documentation for a thing instead of paging it to stdout, which
8458 pydoc.doc() does.
Georg Brandl8441f152007-03-13 20:02:57 +00008459
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008460- Patch #1533909: the timeit module now accepts callables in addition
8461 to strings for the code to time and the setup code. Also added two
8462 convenience functions for instantiating a Timer and calling its
8463 methods.
Georg Brandld9bef352007-03-13 19:32:21 +00008464
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008465- Patch #1537850: tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile now has a "delete"
8466 parameter which can be set to False to prevent the default
8467 delete-on-close behavior.
Georg Brandl35ef9c12007-03-13 18:31:49 +00008468
Georg Brandl9e6b4702007-03-13 18:15:41 +00008469- Patch #1581073: add a flag to textwrap that prevents the dropping of
8470 whitespace while wrapping.
8471
Georg Brandl92a6bae2007-03-13 17:43:32 +00008472- Patch #1603688: ConfigParser.SafeConfigParser now checks values that
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008473 are set for invalid interpolation sequences that would lead to
8474 errors on reading back those values.
Georg Brandl92a6bae2007-03-13 17:43:32 +00008475
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008476- Added support for the POSIX.1-2001 (pax) format to
8477 tarfile.py. Extended and cleaned up the test suite. Added a new
8478 testtar.tar.
Lars Gustäbelc64e4022007-03-13 10:47:19 +00008479
Martin v. Löwisbdd0f392007-03-13 10:24:00 +00008480- Patch #1449244: Support Unicode strings in
8481 email.message.Message.{set_charset,get_content_charset}.
8482
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008483- Patch #1542681: add entries for "with", "as" and "CONTEXTMANAGERS"
8484 to pydoc's help keywords.
Georg Brandlb6a87542007-03-13 10:06:48 +00008485
Georg Brandl4ffc8f52007-03-13 09:41:31 +00008486- Patch #1555098: use str.join() instead of repeated string
8487 concatenation in robotparser.
8488
Georg Brandl94fe3f52007-03-13 09:32:11 +00008489- Patch #1635454: the csv.DictWriter class now includes the offending
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008490 field names in its exception message if you try to write a record
8491 with a dictionary containing fields not in the CSV field names list.
Georg Brandl94fe3f52007-03-13 09:32:11 +00008492
Georg Brandlceede5c2007-03-13 08:14:27 +00008493- Patch #1668100: urllib2 now correctly raises URLError instead of
8494 OSError if accessing a local file via the file:// protocol fails.
8495
Martin v. Löwis2681beb2007-03-12 11:01:10 +00008496- Patch #1677862: Require a space or tab after import in .pth files.
8497
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008498- Patch #1192590: Fix pdb's "ignore" and "condition" commands so they
8499 trap the IndexError caused by passing in an invalid breakpoint
8500 number.
Collin Winter2faa9e12007-03-11 16:00:20 +00008501
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008502- Patch #1599845: Add an option to disable the implicit calls to
8503 server_bind() and server_activate() in the constructors for
8504 TCPServer, SimpleXMLRPCServer and DocXMLRPCServer.
Collin Winterae041062007-03-10 14:41:48 +00008505
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008506- Bug #1531963: Make SocketServer.TCPServer's server_address always be
8507 equal to calling getsockname() on the server's socket. Fixed by
Collin Winterfaaa2042007-03-10 03:35:34 +00008508 patch #1545011.
Collin Winter22c42ba2007-03-10 02:51:26 +00008509
Andrew M. Kuchlinge45a77a2008-01-19 16:26:13 +00008510- Patch #742598: Add .timeout attribute to SocketServer that calls
8511 .handle_timeout() when no requests are received.
8512
Thomas Heller2456a3c2007-03-09 20:39:22 +00008513- Bug #1651235: When a tuple was passed to a ctypes function call,
8514 Python would crash instead of raising an error.
8515
Thomas Hellerc2f77252007-03-09 19:21:28 +00008516- Bug #1646630: ctypes.string_at(buf, 0) and ctypes.wstring_at(buf, 0)
8517 returned string up to the first NUL character.
8518
Martin v. Löwis1190a382007-03-09 15:35:55 +00008519- Patch #957003: Implement smtplib.LMTP.
8520
Collin Winterfb728de2007-03-09 03:26:32 +00008521- Patch #1481079: add support for HTTP_REFERER to CGIHTTPServer.
8522
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008523- Patch #1675424: Added tests for uncovered code in the zipfile
8524 module. The KeyError raised by Zipfile.getinfo for nonexistent
8525 names now has a descriptive message.
Georg Brandl4b3ab6f2007-07-12 09:59:22 +00008526
Martin v. Löwis05c075d2007-03-07 11:04:33 +00008527- Bug #1115886: os.path.splitext('.cshrc') gives now ('.cshrc', '').
8528
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008529- unittest now verifies more of its assumptions. In particular,
8530 TestCase and TestSuite subclasses (not instances) are no longer
8531 accepted in TestSuite.addTest(). This should cause no
8532 incompatibility since it never made sense with ordinary subclasses
8533 -- the failure just occurred later, with a more cumbersome
8534 exception.
Georg Brandl9caadf82007-03-08 18:37:31 +00008535
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008536- Patch #787789: allow to pass custom TestRunner instances to
8537 unittest's main() function.
Georg Brandld0a96252007-03-07 09:21:06 +00008538
Georg Brandl15c5ce92007-03-07 09:09:40 +00008539- Patches #1550273, #1550272: fix a few bugs in unittest and add a
8540 comprehensive test suite for the module.
8541
Georg Brandl71ff6462007-03-07 08:31:51 +00008542- Patch #1001604: glob.glob() now returns unicode filenames if it was
8543 given a unicode argument and os.listdir() returns unicode filenames.
8544
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008545- Patch #1673619: setup.py identifies extension modules it doesn't
8546 know how to build and those it knows how to build but that fail to
8547 build.
Skip Montanarod1287322007-03-06 15:41:38 +00008548
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00008549- Patch #912410: Replace HTML entity references for attribute values
Martin v. Löwisab8a6bb2007-03-06 14:43:00 +00008550 in HTMLParser.
8551
Georg Brandlff432e62007-03-06 13:37:45 +00008552- Patch #1663234: you can now run doctest on test files and modules
8553 using "python -m doctest [-v] filename ...".
8554
Martin v. Löwis3eb76482007-03-06 10:41:24 +00008555- Patch #1121142: Implement ZipFile.open.
8556
Skip Montanarof694b1b2007-03-04 20:54:12 +00008557- Taught setup.py how to locate Berkeley DB on Macs using MacPorts.
8558
Raymond Hettinger00166c52007-02-19 04:08:43 +00008559- Added heapq.merge() for merging sorted input streams.
8560
Raymond Hettingercd3c1082007-10-23 21:23:07 +00008561- Added collections.namedtuple() for assigning field names to tuples.
Raymond Hettingerc37e5e02007-03-01 06:16:43 +00008562
Raymond Hettingerd36862c2007-02-21 05:20:38 +00008563- Added itertools.izip_longest().
8564
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008565- Have the encoding package's search function dynamically import using
8566 absolute import semantics.
Brett Cannon971a0122007-02-15 22:54:39 +00008567
Lars Gustäbel5b1a7852007-02-13 16:09:24 +00008568- Patch #1647484: Renamed GzipFile's filename attribute to name.
8569
Martin v. Löwis84f6de92007-02-13 10:10:39 +00008570- Patch #1517891: Mode 'a' for ZipFile now creates the file if it
8571 doesn't exist.
8572
Martin v. Löwisc6d626e2007-02-13 09:49:38 +00008573- Patch #698833: Support file decryption in zipfile.
8574
Martin v. Löwis07aa3ed2007-02-13 08:34:45 +00008575- Patch #685268: Consider a package's __path__ in imputil.
8576
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008577- Patch #1463026: Support default namespace in XMLGenerator.
Martin v. Löwis2bad58f2007-02-12 12:21:10 +00008578
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008579- Patch #1571379: Make trace's --ignore-dir facility work in the face
8580 of relative directory names.
Skip Montanaro691acf22007-02-11 18:24:37 +00008581
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008582- Bug #1600860: Search for shared python library in LIBDIR, not
8583 lib/python/config, on "linux" and "gnu" systems.
Martin v. Löwis0a203262007-02-09 12:36:48 +00008584
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008585- Patch #1652681: tarfile.py: create nonexistent files in append mode
8586 and allow appending to empty files.
Lars Gustäbel3f8aca12007-02-06 18:38:13 +00008587
Peter Astrand5f9c6ae2007-02-06 15:37:50 +00008588- Bug #1124861: Automatically create pipes if GetStdHandle fails in
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00008589 subprocess.
Peter Astrand5f9c6ae2007-02-06 15:37:50 +00008590
Georg Brandl4ba9e5b2007-01-27 17:59:42 +00008591- Patch #1634778: add missing encoding aliases for iso8859_15 and
8592 iso8859_16.
8593
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008594- Patch #1638243: the compiler package is now able to correctly
8595 compile a with statement; previously, executing code containing a
8596 with statement compiled by the compiler package crashed the
8597 interpreter.
Georg Brandlab496842007-01-27 17:43:02 +00008598
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00008599- Bug #1643943: Fix time.strptime's support for the %U directive.
8600
Lars Gustäbel0713a682007-02-19 09:54:47 +00008601- Patch #1507247: tarfile.py: use current umask for intermediate
8602 directories.
8603
Georg Brandldd7b0522007-01-21 10:35:10 +00008604- Patch #1627441: close sockets properly in urllib2.
8605
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008606- Bug #494589: make ntpath.expandvars behave according to its
8607 docstring.
Sjoerd Mullender33a0a062007-01-16 16:42:38 +00008608
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00008609- Changed platform module API python_version_tuple() to actually
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00008610 return a tuple (it used to return a list).
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00008611
8612- Added new platform module APIs python_branch(), python_revision(),
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00008613 python_implementation() and linux_distribution().
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00008614
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00008615- Added support for IronPython and Jython to the platform module.
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00008616
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008617- The sets module has been deprecated. Use the built-in set/frozenset
8618 types instead.
Brett Cannon093b6702007-01-13 00:29:49 +00008619
Thomas Heller6fd45492007-01-12 20:21:53 +00008620- Bug #1610795: make ctypes.util.find_library work on BSD systems.
8621
Thomas Heller8138c262007-01-11 21:18:56 +00008622- Fixes for 64-bit Windows: In ctypes.wintypes, correct the
8623 definitions of HANDLE, WPARAM, LPARAM data types. Make
8624 parameterless foreign function calls work.
8625
Thomas Hellerfb9d7872007-01-10 20:12:13 +00008626- The version number of the ctypes package changed to "1.1.0".
8627
Vinay Sajipab41c102007-01-09 14:51:36 +00008628- Bug #1627575: logging: Added _open() method to FileHandler which can
8629 be used to reopen files. The FileHandler instance now saves the
8630 encoding (which can be None) in an attribute called "encoding".
8631
Vinay Sajipc9137262007-01-08 18:52:36 +00008632- Bug #411881: logging.handlers: bare except clause removed from
8633 SMTPHandler.emit. Now, only ImportError is trapped.
8634
8635- Bug #411881: logging.handlers: bare except clause removed from
8636 SocketHandler.createSocket. Now, only socket.error is trapped.
8637
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008638- Bug #411881: logging: bare except clause removed from
8639 LogRecord.__init__. Now, only ValueError, TypeError and
8640 AttributeError are trapped.
Vinay Sajipc9137262007-01-08 18:52:36 +00008641
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008642- Patch #1504073: Fix tarfile.open() for mode "r" with a fileobj
8643 argument.
Lars Gustäbela7ba6fc2006-12-27 10:30:46 +00008644
Andrew M. Kuchling71662322006-12-27 03:31:24 +00008645- Patch #1182394 from Shane Holloway: speed up HMAC.hexdigest.
8646
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008647- Patch #1262036: Prevent TarFiles from being added to themselves
8648 under certain conditions.
Lars Gustäbela4b23812006-12-23 17:57:23 +00008649
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008650- Patch #1230446: tarfile.py: fix ExFileObject so that read() and
8651 tell() work correctly together with readline().
Lars Gustäbel6baa5022006-12-23 16:40:13 +00008652
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008653- Patch #1484695: The tarfile module now raises a HeaderError
8654 exception if a buffer given to frombuf() is invalid.
Georg Brandlebbeed72006-12-19 22:06:46 +00008655
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00008656- Bug #1503765: Fix a problem in logging.config with spaces in comma-
8657 separated lists read from logging config files.
8658
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008659- Patch #1604907: Fix problems in logging.handlers caused at logging
8660 shutdown when syslog handlers fail to initialize because of syslogd
8661 problems.
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00008662
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008663- Patch #1608267: fix a race condition in os.makedirs() if the
8664 directory to be created is already there.
Georg Brandlb1307432006-12-09 09:08:29 +00008665
Georg Brandl87fa5592006-12-06 22:21:18 +00008666- Patch #1610437: fix a tarfile bug with long filename headers.
8667
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008668- Patch #1371075: Make ConfigParser accept optional dict type for
8669 ordering, sorting, etc.
Martin v. Löwisa00bcac2006-12-03 12:01:53 +00008670
Thomas Helleref583a42006-11-28 20:21:54 +00008671- Bug #1563807: _ctypes built on AIX fails with ld ffi error.
8672
Thomas Heller25d208b2006-11-24 18:45:39 +00008673- Bug #1598620: A ctypes Structure cannot contain itself.
8674
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008675- Patch #1070046: Marshal new-style objects like InstanceType in
8676 xmlrpclib.
Martin v. Löwis07529352006-11-19 18:51:54 +00008677
Martin v. Löwiscffcc8b2006-11-19 10:41:41 +00008678- cStringIO.truncate(-1) now raises an IOError, like StringIO and
8679 regular files.
8680
Martin v. Löwisbba003e2006-11-18 18:42:11 +00008681- Patch #1472877: Fix Tix subwidget name resolution.
8682
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008683- Patch #1594554: Always close a tkSimpleDialog on ok(), even if an
8684 exception occurs.
Martin v. Löwisef5fd3e2006-11-18 18:05:35 +00008685
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008686- Patch #1538878: Don't make tkSimpleDialog dialogs transient if the
8687 parent window is withdrawn.
Martin v. Löwisc73a4a42006-11-18 18:00:23 +00008688
Georg Brandl54082112006-11-16 16:50:59 +00008689- Bug #1597824: return the registered function from atexit.register()
8690 to facilitate usage as a decorator.
8691
Martin v. Löwis45cd4ff2006-11-12 18:56:03 +00008692- Patch #1360200: Use unmangled_version RPM spec field to deal with
8693 file name mangling.
8694
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008695- Patch #1359217: Process 2xx response in an ftplib transfer that
8696 precedes an 1xx response.
Martin v. Löwis36cbc082006-11-12 18:48:13 +00008697
Martin v. Löwis065f0c82006-11-12 10:41:39 +00008698- Patch #1355023: support whence argument for GzipFile.seek.
8699
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00008700- Patch #1065257: Support passing open files as body in
Martin v. Löwis040a9272006-11-12 10:32:47 +00008701 HTTPConnection.request().
8702
Andrew M. Kuchlinga3e5d372006-11-09 13:27:07 +00008703- Bug #1569790: mailbox.py: Maildir.get_folder() and MH.get_folder()
8704 weren't passing the message factory on to newly created Maildir/MH
8705 objects.
8706
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008707- Patch #1514543: mailbox.py: In the Maildir class, report errors if
8708 there's a filename clash instead of possibly losing a message.
8709 (Patch by David Watson.)
Andrew M. Kuchling978d8282006-11-09 21:16:46 +00008710
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008711- Patch #1514544: Try to ensure that messages/indexes have been
8712 physically written to disk after calling .flush() or
8713 .close(). (Patch by David Watson.)
Andrew M. Kuchlingb5686da2006-11-09 13:51:14 +00008714
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00008715- Patch #1592250: Add elide argument to Tkinter.Text.search.
Martin v. Löwis038cad72006-11-09 11:27:32 +00008716
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00008717- Patch #838546: Make terminal become controlling in pty.fork().
Martin v. Löwisb2bba732006-11-09 11:06:03 +00008718
Martin v. Löwis5361e9a2006-11-08 07:35:55 +00008719- Patch #1351744: Add askyesnocancel helper for tkMessageBox.
8720
Martin v. Löwis5310e502006-11-04 18:14:06 +00008721- Patch #1060577: Extract list of RPM files from spec file in
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00008722 bdist_rpm.
Martin v. Löwis5310e502006-11-04 18:14:06 +00008723
Georg Brandl2c9838e2006-10-29 14:39:09 +00008724- Bug #1586613: fix zlib and bz2 codecs' incremental en/decoders.
8725
Georg Brandl3354f282006-10-29 09:16:12 +00008726- Patch #1583880: fix tarfile's problems with long names and posix/
8727 GNU modes.
8728
Georg Brandl5addf702006-10-29 08:53:06 +00008729- Bug #1586448: the compiler module now emits the same bytecode for
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00008730 list comprehensions as the built-in compiler, using the LIST_APPEND
Georg Brandl5addf702006-10-29 08:53:06 +00008731 opcode.
8732
Georg Brandl8f99f812006-10-29 08:39:22 +00008733- Fix codecs.EncodedFile which did not use file_encoding in 2.5.0, and
8734 fix all codecs file wrappers to work correctly with the "with"
8735 statement (bug #1586513).
8736
Thomas Heller112d1a62006-10-27 19:05:53 +00008737- Lib/modulefinder.py now handles absolute and relative imports
8738 correctly.
8739
Martin v. Löwisee82c0e2006-10-27 07:13:28 +00008740- Patch #1567274: Support SMTP over TLS.
8741
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008742- Patch #1560695: Add .note.GNU-stack to ctypes' sysv.S so that ctypes
8743 isn't considered as requiring executable stacks.
Martin v. Löwis1b2f6272006-10-22 10:55:15 +00008744
Thomas Hellerd2ea4a22006-10-17 19:30:48 +00008745- ctypes callback functions only support 'fundamental' data types as
8746 result type. Raise an error when something else is used. This is a
8747 partial fix for Bug #1574584.
8748
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008749- Fix turtle so that time.sleep is imported for the entire library.
8750 Allows the demo2 function to be executed on its own instead of only
8751 when the module is run as a script.
Brett Cannond80e0c82006-10-16 03:09:52 +00008752
Martin v. Löwisf43893a2006-10-09 20:44:25 +00008753- Bug #1565150: Fix subsecond processing for os.utime on Windows.
8754
Martin v. Löwis8b274262006-10-04 15:25:28 +00008755- Support for MSVC 8 was added to bdist_wininst.
8756
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008757- Bug #1446043: correctly raise a LookupError if an encoding name
8758 given to encodings.search_function() contains a dot.
Georg Brandla92979a2006-09-30 11:22:28 +00008759
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008760- Bug #1560617: in pyclbr, return full module name not only for
8761 classes, but also for functions.
Georg Brandl154324a2006-09-30 11:06:47 +00008762
Georg Brandl05b3c452006-09-30 10:58:01 +00008763- Bug #1457823: cgi.(Sv)FormContentDict's constructor now takes
8764 keep_blank_values and strict_parsing keyword arguments.
8765
Georg Brandl8d1e5bf2006-09-30 09:13:21 +00008766- Bug #1566602: correct failure of posixpath unittest when $HOME ends
8767 with a slash.
8768
Georg Brandl8c667452006-09-30 07:31:57 +00008769- Bug #1565661: in webbrowser, split() the command for the default
8770 GNOME browser in case it is a command with args.
8771
Georg Brandl5a85d5c2009-06-24 06:41:19 +00008772- Made the error message for time.strptime when the data and
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008773 format do match be more clear.
Brett Cannon11b35352006-09-26 23:38:24 +00008774
Georg Brandlc7986ce2006-09-24 12:50:24 +00008775- Fix a bug in traceback.format_exception_only() that led to an error
8776 being raised when print_exc() was called without an exception set.
8777 In version 2.4, this printed "None", restored that behavior.
8778
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008779- Make webbrowser.BackgroundBrowser usable in Windows (it wasn't
8780 because the close_fds arg to subprocess.Popen is not supported).
Georg Brandl2c94bf72006-09-24 10:36:01 +00008781
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008782- Reverted patch #1504333 to sgmllib because it introduced an infinite
8783 loop.
Neal Norwitzbcc119a2006-09-11 04:24:09 +00008784
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008785- Patch #1553314: Fix the inspect.py slowdown that was hurting IPython
8786 & SAGE by adding smarter caching in inspect.getmodule()
Nick Coghlanb3c18f82006-09-08 10:04:38 +00008787
Georg Brandl4e933132006-09-06 20:05:58 +00008788- Fix missing import of the types module in logging.config.
8789
Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +00008790- Patch #1550886: Fix decimal module context management implementation
Neal Norwitza22975f2006-09-05 02:24:03 +00008791 to match the localcontext() example from PEP 343.
Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +00008792
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008793- Bug #1545341: The 'classifier' keyword argument to the Distutils
8794 setup() function now accepts tuples as well as lists.
Andrew M. Kuchling99994792006-10-09 17:10:12 +00008795
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008796- Bug #1541863: uuid.uuid1 failed to generate unique identifiers on
8797 systems with low clock resolution.
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00008798
Gustavo Niemeyerc36bede2006-09-07 00:48:33 +00008799- Bug #1531862: Do not close standard file descriptors in subprocess.
8800
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008801- Fix utf-8-sig incremental decoder, which didn't recognise a BOM when
8802 the first chunk fed to the decoder started with a BOM, but was
8803 longer than 3 bytes.
Georg Brandl27562782006-10-27 20:39:43 +00008804
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008805- The implementation of UnicodeError objects has been simplified
8806 (start and end attributes are now stored directly as Py_ssize_t
8807 members).
Walter Dörwald84a3efe2007-06-13 16:57:12 +00008808
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008809- Issue #829951: In the smtplib module, SMTP.starttls() now complies
8810 with RFC 3207 and forgets any knowledge obtained from the server not
8811 obtained from the TLS negotiation itself. Patch contributed by Bill
8812 Fenner.
Gregory P. Smith2b3ba582008-01-17 08:03:17 +00008813
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008814- Issue #1339: The smtplib.SMTP class has been refactored a bit such
Gregory P. Smithbde4ae42008-01-17 08:35:49 +00008815 that the SMTP.starttls() caller no longer needs to call ehlo()
8816 beforehand. SMTP.starttls() now raises an exception of the server
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008817 does not claim to support starttls. Adds the
8818 SMTP.ehlo_or_helo_if_needed() method. Patch contributed by Bill
8819 Fenner.
Gregory P. Smithbde4ae42008-01-17 08:35:49 +00008820
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008821- Patch #1089358: Add signal.siginterrupt, a wrapper around
8822 siginterrupt(3).
Georg Brandl29604a12008-01-26 14:03:47 +00008823
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00008824Extension Modules
8825-----------------
8826
Georg Brandl392c6fc2008-05-25 07:25:25 +00008827- Patch #1657: added select.epoll and select.kqueue.
Christian Heimes0e9ab5f2008-03-21 23:49:44 +00008828
Georg Brandlebcfd112008-02-23 23:04:35 +00008829- Patch #1506171: added operator.methodcaller().
8830
Georg Brandle2065c62008-02-23 23:02:23 +00008831- Patch #1826: operator.attrgetter() now supports dotted attribute paths.
8832
Georg Brandl392c6fc2008-05-25 07:25:25 +00008833- Patch #1957: syslogmodule: Release GIL when calling syslog(3).
Christian Heimesf0476e82008-02-23 17:42:31 +00008834
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008835- Bug #2112: mmap.error is now a subclass of EnvironmentError and not
8836 a direct EnvironmentError.
Facundo Batistae1396882008-02-17 18:59:29 +00008837
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008838- Bug #2111: mmap segfaults when trying to write a block opened with
8839 PROT_READ.
Christian Heimes7adfad82008-02-15 08:20:11 +00008840
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008841- Bug #2063: correct order of utime and stime in os.times() result on
8842 Windows.
Georg Brandl0a40ffb2008-02-13 07:20:22 +00008843
Martin v. Löwise0d30ef2008-02-12 13:47:26 +00008844- Patch #1736: Fix file name handling of _msi.FCICreate.
8845
Hye-Shik Chang01612e72008-02-08 17:10:20 +00008846- Updated ``big5hkscs`` codec to the HKSCS revision of 2004.
8847
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008848- Issue #1940: make it possible to use curses.filter() before
8849 curses.initscr() as the documentation says.
Georg Brandl29604a12008-01-26 14:03:47 +00008850
Christian Heimes7f39c9f2008-01-25 12:18:43 +00008851- Backport of _fileio module from Python 3.0.
8852
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008853- Patch #1087741: mmap.mmap is now a class, not a factory function. It
8854 is also subclassable now.
Georg Brandl5ca3fd82008-01-21 14:18:14 +00008855
Georg Brandl56112892008-01-20 13:59:46 +00008856- Patch #1648: added ``sys.getprofile()`` and ``sys.gettrace()``.
8857
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008858- Patch #1663329: added ``os.closerange()`` function to quickly close
8859 a range of file descriptors without considering errors.
Georg Brandl309501a2008-01-19 20:22:13 +00008860
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008861- Patch #976880: ``mmap`` objects now have an ``rfind`` method that
Andrew M. Kuchling5c60bfc2008-01-19 18:18:41 +00008862 works as expected. ``mmap.find`` also takes an optional ``end``
8863 parameter.
8864
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008865- _winreg's HKEY object has gained __enter__ and __exit__ methods to
8866 support the context manager protocol. The _winreg module also
8867 gained a new function ``ExpandEnvironmentStrings`` to expand
8868 REG_EXPAND_SZ keys.
Christian Heimesb39a7562008-01-08 15:46:10 +00008869
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008870- itertools.starmap() now accepts any iterable input. Previously, it
8871 required the function inputs to be tuples.
Raymond Hettinger47317092008-01-17 03:02:14 +00008872
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008873- itertools.chain() now has an alternate constructor,
8874 chain.from_iterable().
Raymond Hettingerb4cbc982008-02-28 22:46:41 +00008875
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008876- Issue #1646: Make socket support TIPC. The socket module now has
8877 support for TIPC under Linux, see http://tipc.sf.net/ for more
8878 information.
Christian Heimesfb2d25a2008-01-07 16:12:44 +00008879
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008880- Added interface for Windows' WSAIoctl to socket object and added an
8881 example for a simple network sniffer.
Christian Heimes04ae9162008-01-04 15:23:30 +00008882
Guido van Rossum076d9ee2008-01-03 23:54:04 +00008883- Bug #1301: Bad assert in _tkinter fixed.
8884
Christian Heimescdaa2cb2007-12-31 14:47:07 +00008885- Added bdist_wininst executable for VS 2008.
8886
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008887- Bug #1604: collections.deque.__init__(iterable) now clears any prior
8888 contents before adding elements from the iterable. This fix brings
8889 the behavior into line with that for list.__init__().
Raymond Hettingeradf9ffd2007-12-13 00:08:37 +00008890
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008891- Added wide char functions to msvcrt module: getwch, getwche, putwch
8892 and ungetwch. The functions accept or return unicode.
Christian Heimes7c7f6af2007-12-10 15:12:41 +00008893
Martin v. Löwis69233e82007-12-04 08:39:16 +00008894- os.access now returns True on Windows for any existing directory.
8895
Christian Heimes28104c52007-11-27 23:16:44 +00008896- Added warnpy3k function to the warnings module.
8897
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008898- Marshal.dumps() now expects exact type matches for int, long, float,
8899 complex, tuple, list, dict, set, and frozenset. Formerly, it would
8900 silently miscode subclasses of those types. Now, it raises a
8901 ValueError instead.
Raymond Hettinger12e94202007-11-07 01:13:09 +00008902
Martin v. Löwis58bd49f2007-09-04 13:13:14 +00008903- Patch #1388440: Add set_completion_display_matches_hook and
8904 get_completion_type to readline.
8905
Thomas Helleref4fff32007-07-13 17:46:54 +00008906- Bug #1649098: Avoid declaration of zero-sized array declaration in
8907 structure.
8908
Brett Cannondc48b742007-05-20 07:09:50 +00008909- Removed the rgbimg module; been deprecated since Python 2.5.
8910
Neal Norwitz59f58aa2007-05-19 03:48:47 +00008911- Bug #1721309: prevent bsddb module from freeing random memory.
8912
Gregory P. Smith82eafe62007-10-18 17:17:57 +00008913- Bug #1233: fix bsddb.dbshelve.DBShelf append method to work as
8914 intended for RECNO databases.
8915
Gregory P. Smithec10a4a2007-11-05 02:32:26 +00008916- pybsddb.sf.net Bug #477182: Load the database flags at database open
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008917 time so that opening a database previously created with the DB_DUP
8918 or DB_DUPSORT flag set will keep the proper behavior on subsequent
8919 opens. Specifically: dictionary assignment to a DB object will
8920 replace all values for a given key when the database allows
8921 duplicate values. DB users should use DB.put(k, v) when they want
8922 to store duplicates; not DB[k] = v.
Gregory P. Smithec10a4a2007-11-05 02:32:26 +00008923
Gregory P. Smithac11e022007-11-05 02:56:31 +00008924- Add the bsddb.db.DBEnv.lock_id_free method.
8925
Martin v. Löwis3bf573f2007-04-04 18:30:36 +00008926- Bug #1686475: Support stat'ing open files on Windows again.
8927
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008928- Patch #1185447: binascii.b2a_qp() now correctly quotes binary
8929 characters with ASCII value less than 32. Also, it correctly quotes
8930 dots only if they occur on a single line, as opposed to the previous
8931 behavior of quoting dots if they are the second character of any
8932 line.
Georg Brandl4aef7272007-03-13 22:49:43 +00008933
Georg Brandla47337f2007-03-13 12:34:25 +00008934- Bug #1622896: fix a rare corner case where the bz2 module raised an
8935 error in spite of a succesful compression.
8936
Georg Brandl40c62612007-03-06 18:59:11 +00008937- Patch #1654417: make operator.{get,set,del}slice use the full range
8938 of Py_ssize_t.
8939
Guido van Rossum2054ee92007-03-06 15:50:01 +00008940- Patch #1646728: datetime.fromtimestamp fails with negative
8941 fractional times. With unittest.
8942
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008943- Patch #1490190: posixmodule now includes os.chflags() and
8944 os.lchflags() functions on platforms where the underlying system
8945 calls are available.
Martin v. Löwis382abef2007-02-19 10:55:19 +00008946
Georg Brandl983d1002007-02-15 11:29:04 +00008947- Patch #1494140: Add documentation for the new struct.Struct object.
8948
Martin v. Löwis45423a72007-02-14 10:07:37 +00008949- Patch #1432399: Support the HCI protocol for bluetooth sockets
8950
Martin v. Löwisb1cc1d42007-02-13 12:14:19 +00008951- Patch #1657276: Make NETLINK_DNRTMSG conditional.
8952
Martin v. Löwis4c11a922007-02-08 09:13:36 +00008953- Bug #1653736: Complain about keyword arguments to time.isoformat.
8954
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008955- Bug #1486663: don't reject keyword arguments for subclasses of
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00008956 built-in types.
Georg Brandlb84c1372007-01-21 10:28:43 +00008957
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008958- Patch #1610575: The struct module now supports the 't' code, for C99
8959 _Bool.
Martin v. Löwisaef4c6b2007-01-21 09:33:07 +00008960
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008961- Patch #1635058: ensure that htonl and friends never accept or return
8962 negative numbers, per the underlying C implementation.
Guido van Rossumbb2cc692007-01-14 17:03:32 +00008963
Martin v. Löwis046c4d12006-12-03 11:23:45 +00008964- Patch #1544279: Improve thread-safety of the socket module by moving
8965 the sock_addr_t storage out of the socket object.
8966
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008967- Patch #1019808: fix bug that causes an incorrect error to be
8968 returned when a socket timeout is set and a connection attempt
8969 fails.
Andrew M. Kuchling060e6852008-01-19 20:47:59 +00008970
Neal Norwitz45e230a2006-11-19 21:26:53 +00008971- Speed up function calls into the math module.
8972
Georg Brandl25aabf42006-11-16 17:08:45 +00008973- Bug #1588217: don't parse "= " as a soft line break in binascii's
8974 a2b_qp() function, instead leave it in the string as quopri.decode()
8975 does.
8976
Neal Norwitz4fe44232006-11-21 05:26:22 +00008977- Bug #1599782: Fix segfault on bsddb.db.DB().type().
8978
Martin v. Löwis012bc722006-10-15 09:43:39 +00008979- Bug #1567666: Emulate GetFileAttributesExA for Win95.
8980
Martin v. Löwis18aaa562006-10-15 08:43:33 +00008981- Patch #1576166: Support os.utime for directories on Windows NT+.
8982
Georg Brandl412a9ea2006-10-09 19:03:06 +00008983- Patch #1572724: fix typo ('=' instead of '==') in _msi.c.
8984
Hye-Shik Changb7883462006-10-08 13:48:34 +00008985- Bug #1572832: fix a bug in ISO-2022 codecs which may cause segfault
8986 when encoding non-BMP unicode characters.
8987
Georg Brandl4ddfcd32006-09-30 11:17:34 +00008988- Bug #1556784: allow format strings longer than 127 characters in
8989 datetime's strftime function.
8990
Jack Diederichd10a0f72006-09-21 20:34:49 +00008991- Fix itertools.count(n) to work with negative numbers again.
8992
Martin v. Löwis43fd99c2006-09-16 17:36:37 +00008993- RLIMIT_SBSIZE was added to the resource module where available.
8994
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008995- Bug #1551427: fix a wrong NULL pointer check in the win32 version of
8996 os.urandom().
Georg Brandl74bb7832006-09-06 06:03:59 +00008997
Neal Norwitz6aefa912006-09-02 02:50:35 +00008998- Bug #1548092: fix curses.tparm seg fault on invalid input.
8999
Andrew M. Kuchling62182c82008-01-08 14:56:02 +00009000- Patch #1114: fix curses module compilation on 64-bit AIX, & possibly
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009001 other 64-bit LP64 platforms where attr_t is not the same size as a
9002 long. (Contributed by Luke Mewburn.)
Andrew M. Kuchling62182c82008-01-08 14:56:02 +00009003
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009004- Bug #1550714: fix SystemError from itertools.tee on negative value
9005 for n.
Neal Norwitz69e88972006-09-02 02:58:13 +00009006
Hye-Shik Chang199f1db2006-09-05 12:07:09 +00009007- Fixed a few bugs on cjkcodecs:
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009008 - gbk and gb18030 codec now handle U+30FB KATAKANA MIDDLE DOT
9009 correctly.
Hye-Shik Chang199f1db2006-09-05 12:07:09 +00009010 - iso2022_jp_2 codec now encodes into G0 for KS X 1001, GB2312
9011 codepoints to conform the standard.
Hye-Shik Chang2cad3e92006-09-05 12:14:57 +00009012 - iso2022_jp_3 and iso2022_jp_2004 codec can encode JIS X 0213:2
Hye-Shik Chang199f1db2006-09-05 12:07:09 +00009013 codepoints now.
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00009014
Andrew M. Kuchling43889c02006-09-27 16:37:30 +00009015- Bug #1552726: in readline.c, avoid repeatedly polling in interactive
9016 mode by only placing a timeout on the select() if an input hook has
9017 been defined. This prevents an interactive Python from waking up 10
9018 times per second. Patch by Richard Boulton.
9019
Gregory P. Smithf09c6262007-03-17 22:33:35 +00009020- fixed a bug with bsddb.DB.stat: the flags and txn keyword arguments
9021 were transposed.
9022
Jesus Cea4907d272008-08-31 14:00:51 +00009023- Added support for linking the bsddb module against BerkeleyDB 4.5.x,
9024 4.6.x and 4.7.x.
Gregory P. Smith8b96a352007-01-05 01:59:42 +00009025
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009026- Bug #1633621: if curses.resizeterm() or curses.resize_term() is
9027 called, update _curses.LINES, _curses.COLS, curses.LINES and
9028 curses.COLS.
Andrew M. Kuchling43889c02006-09-27 16:37:30 +00009029
Matthias Klosee19e0c22007-04-03 04:35:59 +00009030- Fix an off-by-one bug in locale.strxfrm().
9031
Matthias Klose38336402007-09-04 20:46:02 +00009032- Fix libffi configure for hppa*-*-linux* | parisc*-*-linux*.
9033
Matthias Klose9afb9852007-10-24 20:00:44 +00009034- Build using system ffi library on arm*-linux*.
9035
Christian Heimes3f065a42007-11-21 01:17:28 +00009036- Bug #1372: zlibmodule.c: int overflow in PyZlib_decompress
Matthias Klosee19e0c22007-04-03 04:35:59 +00009037
Gregory P. Smitheeed5b72008-02-03 07:20:53 +00009038- bsddb module: Fix memory leak when using database cursors on
9039 databases without a DBEnv.
9040
Gerhard Häring11ab8072008-03-02 13:12:27 +00009041- The sqlite3 module was updated to pysqlite 2.4.1.
9042
Serhiy Storchakaff99e412013-04-14 18:52:15 +03009043IDLE
9044----
9045
9046- Bug #813342: Start the IDLE subprocess with -Qnew if the parent is
9047 started with that option.
9048
9049- IDLE: Honor the "Cancel" action in the save dialog (Debian bug
9050 #299092).
9051
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00009052Tests
9053-----
9054
Brett Cannon56c4deb2008-03-03 00:38:58 +00009055- Refactor test_logging to use unittest.
Brett Cannonf9db8a32008-02-17 01:59:18 +00009056
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009057- Refactor test_profile and test_cprofile to use the same code to
9058 profile.
Georg Brandlb7090772008-02-05 19:58:17 +00009059
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009060- Make test_runpy reentrant by fixing _check_module to clear out any
9061 module being tested. Was causing an error by __import__ doing a
9062 reload on the second run and thus suppressing bytecode recreation.
Brett Cannondbed7a72007-08-23 14:53:17 +00009063
Brett Cannonea2835a2007-03-14 21:44:15 +00009064- Capture socket connection resets and timeouts in test_socket_ssl and
9065 test_urllib2net and raise test.test_support.ResourceDenied.
Brett Cannoned001842007-03-14 21:40:13 +00009066
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009067- Patch #1559413: Fix test_cmd_line if sys.executable contains a
9068 space.
Martin v. Löwiscd1210a2007-03-14 20:02:31 +00009069
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009070- Added test.test_support.TransientResource which is a context manager
9071 to surround calls to resources that are not guaranteed to work even
9072 if test.test_support.requires says that the resource should exist.
Brett Cannona30fcb42007-03-08 23:58:11 +00009073
Brett Cannone05e6b02007-01-29 04:41:44 +00009074- Added a test for slicing of an exception.
9075
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009076- Added test.test_support.EnvironmentVarGuard. It's a class that
9077 provides a context manager so that one can temporarily set or unset
9078 environment variables.
Brett Cannon92d54d52007-01-04 00:23:49 +00009079
Thomas Heller112d1a62006-10-27 19:05:53 +00009080- Added some tests for modulefinder.
9081
Brett Cannon373d90b2006-10-03 23:23:14 +00009082- Converted test_imp to use unittest.
9083
Neal Norwitz919d5cc2006-09-05 02:35:08 +00009084- Fix bsddb test_basics.test06_Transactions to check the version
9085 number properly.
9086
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009087- test.test_support.catch_warning is a new context manager that can be
9088 used to catch the warnings issued by the warning framework.
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00009089
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00009090Tools
9091-----
9092
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009093- Tools/scripts/reindent.py now creates the backup file using
9094 shutil.copy to preserve user/group and permissions. Added also a
9095 --nobackup option to not create the backup if the user is concerned
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00009096 regarding this. Check issue #1050828 for more details.
Facundo Batistaf88a0772008-02-17 16:21:13 +00009097
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009098- Tools/scripts/win_add2path.py was added. The simple script modifes
9099 the PATH environment var of the HKCU tree and adds the python bin
9100 and script directory.
Christian Heimesbd865db2008-01-18 11:58:50 +00009101
Skip Montanaro3e275362007-08-29 01:33:45 +00009102- Tools/18n/pygettext.py was added to the list of scripts installed by
9103 Tools/scripts/setup.py (tracker item 642309).
9104
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009105- Added IronPython and Jython support to pybench (part of which was
9106 patch #1563844).
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00009107
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009108- Made some minor changes to pybench output to allow the user to see
9109 which Python version is running pybench.
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00009110
9111- Added support for the new platform module feature
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009112 platform.python_implementation(); this will now be saved in the
9113 benchmark pickle.
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00009114
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00009115
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00009116Documentation
9117-------------
9118
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +00009119- RFE #1765140: Updated documentation on FileHandler and subclasses to
9120 include new optional delay argument.
9121
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009122- Bug #932563: Added section on getting contextual information into
9123 logging output, and added documentation for the new LoggerAdapter
9124 class.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00009125
9126- Bug #1295: Added information about caching of formatted exception
9127 information in the LogRecord by Formatter.format().
9128
Georg Brandl9467bc52007-07-12 09:37:49 +00009129- Bug #1637365: add subsection about "__name__ == __main__" to the
9130 Python tutorial.
9131
Georg Brandl3dc6e902007-04-25 06:24:59 +00009132- Patch #1698768: updated the "using Python on the Mac" intro.
9133
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009134- Bug #1569057: Document that calling file.next() when the file is
9135 open for writing is undefined.
Brett Cannon55a18642007-04-08 04:29:32 +00009136
Žiga Seilnachtc64ad482007-03-24 14:24:26 +00009137- Patch #1489771: the syntax rules in Python Reference Manual were
9138 updated to reflect the current Python syntax.
9139
Martin v. Löwis2f401d72007-03-23 10:35:49 +00009140- Patch #1686451: Fix return type for
9141 PySequence_{Count,Index,Fast_GET_SIZE}.
9142
Georg Brandl0692a262007-03-13 07:50:57 +00009143- Patch #1679379: add documentation for fnmatch.translate().
9144
Collin Winterb7b2b4e2007-03-09 18:09:10 +00009145- Bug #1629566: clarify the docs on the return values of parsedate()
9146 and parsedate_tz() in email.utils and rfc822.
9147
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00009148- Patch #1671450: add a section about subclassing built-in types to the
Georg Brandld28b9fc2007-03-06 10:02:47 +00009149 "extending and embedding" tutorial.
9150
Georg Brandlb26b1c62007-01-17 21:19:58 +00009151- Bug #1629125: fix wrong data type (int -> Py_ssize_t) in PyDict_Next
9152 docs.
9153
Georg Brandla4c8e322006-10-12 08:22:53 +00009154- Bug #1565919: document set types in the Language Reference.
9155
Georg Brandl44a7b3a2006-09-30 12:02:57 +00009156- Bug #1546052: clarify that PyString_FromString(AndSize) copies the
9157 string pointed to by its parameter.
9158
Georg Brandlfb257732006-09-30 09:06:45 +00009159- Bug #1566663: remove obsolete example from datetime docs.
9160
Georg Brandl648c1102006-08-18 07:27:59 +00009161- Bug #1541682: Fix example in the "Refcount details" API docs.
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009162 Additionally, remove a faulty example showing PySequence_SetItem
9163 applied to a newly created list object and add notes that this isn't
9164 a good idea.
Georg Brandl648c1102006-08-18 07:27:59 +00009165
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00009166
Georg Brandl27562782006-10-27 20:39:43 +00009167Tools/Demos
9168-----------
9169
9170- Patch #1552024: add decorator support to unparse.py demo script.
Marc-André Lemburg96148682006-09-06 20:40:22 +00009171
Brett Cannonc8939d22006-09-20 19:28:35 +00009172- Make auto-generated python.vim file list built-ins and exceptions in
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009173 alphatbetical order. Makes output more deterministic and easier to
9174 tell if the file is stale or not.
Brett Cannonc8939d22006-09-20 19:28:35 +00009175
Marc-André Lemburg96148682006-09-06 20:40:22 +00009176- Bug #1546372: Fixed small bugglet in pybench that caused a missing
9177 file not to get reported properly.
9178
9179
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00009180Build
9181-----
9182
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009183- Have the search path for building extensions follow the declared
9184 order in $CPPFLAGS and $LDFLAGS when adding directories from those
9185 environment variables.
Brett Cannon70c0c022008-02-03 09:59:21 +00009186
Christian Heimes951cc0f2008-01-31 23:08:23 +00009187- Bug #1983: Added a check to pyport to verify that sizeof(pid_t) is
9188 smaller or equal sizeof(long).
9189
Christian Heimescba36bb2008-01-30 22:54:18 +00009190- Bug #1234: Fixed semaphore errors on AIX 5.2
9191
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009192- Issue #1726: Remove Python/atof.c from PCBuild/pythoncore.vcproj.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00009193
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009194- Removed PCbuild8/ directory and added a new build directory for VS
9195 2005 based on the VS 2008 build directory to PC/VS8.0. The script
9196 PCbuild/vs8to9.py was added to sync changes from PCbuild to
9197 PC/VS8.0.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00009198
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009199- Moved PCbuild/ directory for VS 2003 to PC/VS7.1 and renamed
9200 PCBuild9/ directory to PCBuild/.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00009201
Martin v. Löwiscb78de62007-12-29 18:49:21 +00009202- Bug #1699: Define _BSD_SOURCE only on OpenBSD.
9203
Guido van Rossum7c862f82007-12-13 20:50:10 +00009204- Bug #1608: use -fwrapv when GCC supports it. This is important,
9205 newer GCC versions may optimize away overflow buffer overflow checks
9206 without this option!
9207
Martin v. Löwis63bf1492007-11-12 05:14:05 +00009208- Patch #1418: Make the AC_REPLACE_FUNCS object files actually work.
9209
Raymond Hettingerdc1d1ba2007-11-07 02:45:46 +00009210- Add a FAST_LOOPS build option that speeds-up looping by trading away
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009211 periodic threadstate and signal checking in tight loops. By
9212 default, this option is turned-off. It should only be enabled in
9213 debugged, performance critical applications.
Raymond Hettingerdc1d1ba2007-11-07 02:45:46 +00009214
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009215- Patch #786737: Allow building in a tree of symlinks pointing to a
9216 readonly source.
Martin v. Löwisd44a4e92007-09-05 11:47:34 +00009217
Martin v. Löwis8bc77e42007-09-01 06:36:03 +00009218- Bug #1737210: Change Manufacturer of Windows installer to PSF.
9219
Martin v. Löwis75c23bd2007-08-30 18:25:47 +00009220- Bug #1746880: Correctly install DLLs into system32 folder on Win64.
9221
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009222- Define _BSD_SOURCE, to get access to POSIX extensions on OpenBSD
9223 4.1+.
Martin v. Löwis76760b02007-07-31 19:57:56 +00009224
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009225- Stop supporting AtheOS and cause a build error in configure for the
9226 platform.
Brett Cannon19fab762007-06-02 03:02:29 +00009227
Georg Brandldb846032007-03-31 18:56:11 +00009228- Bug #1655392: don't add -L/usr/lib/pythonX.Y/config to the LDFLAGS
9229 returned by python-config if Python was built with --enable-shared
9230 because that prevented the shared library from being used.
9231
Georg Brandl18c47f62007-03-13 10:19:22 +00009232- Patch #1569798: fix a bug in distutils when building Python from a
9233 directory within sys.exec_prefix.
9234
Martin v. Löwiseb623572007-03-12 10:50:39 +00009235- Bug #1675511: Use -Kpic instead of -xcode=pic32 on Solaris/x86.
9236
Martin v. Löwis4d542ec2006-11-25 15:39:19 +00009237- Disable _XOPEN_SOURCE on NetBSD 1.x.
9238
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009239- configure now checks whether gcc supports the PyArg_ParseTuple
9240 format attribute.
Martin v. Löwisaac13162006-10-19 10:58:46 +00009241
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00009242- Bug #1578513: Cross compilation was broken by a change to configure.
Martin v. Löwisfefbc202006-10-17 18:59:23 +00009243 Repair so that it's back to how it was in 2.4.3.
9244
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009245- Patch #1576954: Update VC6 build directory; remove redundant files
9246 in VC7.
Martin v. Löwisc9e82f62006-10-15 07:54:40 +00009247
Martin v. Löwisebe26702006-10-02 14:55:51 +00009248- Bug #1568842: Fix test for uintptr_t.
9249
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009250- Patch #1540470: for OpenBSD 4.0.
Neal Norwitz4bc2c092006-09-05 02:57:01 +00009251
Matthias Klosed149d0c2006-12-03 17:16:41 +00009252- Fix build failure on kfreebsd and on the hurd.
9253
Matthias Kloseebde1492006-12-09 12:15:27 +00009254- Fix the build of the library reference in info format.
9255
Matthias Kloseeb8ff672007-08-02 21:33:13 +00009256- Allow Emacs 22 for building the documentation in info format.
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00009257
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009258- Makefile.pre.in(buildbottest): Run an optional script
9259 pybuildbot.identify to include some information about the build
9260 environment.
Matthias Klose642ac852007-09-04 18:17:36 +00009261
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00009262
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00009263C API
9264-----
9265
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009266- Unified naming convention for free lists and their limits. All free
9267 lists in Object/ are named ``free_list``, the counter ``numfree``
9268 and the upper limit is a macro ``PyName_MAXFREELIST`` inside an
9269 #ifndef block.
Christian Heimes5b970ad2008-02-06 13:33:44 +00009270
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009271- ``PySet_Add()`` can now modify a newly created frozenset. Similarly
9272 to ``PyTuple_SetItem``, it can be used to populate a brand new
9273 frozenset; but it does not steal a reference to the added item.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arccab3d982008-02-03 22:51:43 +00009274
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00009275- Added ``PySet_Check()`` and ``PyFrozenSet_Check()`` to the set API.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arccab3d982008-02-03 22:51:43 +00009276
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009277- Backport of PyUnicode_FromString(), _FromStringAndSize(), _Format
9278 and _FormatV from Python 3.0. Made PyLong_AsSsize_t and
9279 PyLong_FromSsize_t public functions.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00009280
9281- Patch #1720595: add T_BOOL to the range of structmember types.
9282
9283- Issue #1534: Added ``PyFloat_GetMax()``, ``PyFloat_GetMin()`` and
9284 ``PyFloat_GetInfo()`` to the float API.
9285
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009286- Issue #1521: On 64bit platforms, using PyArgs_ParseTuple with the t#
9287 of w# format code incorrectly truncated the length to an int, even
9288 when PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN is set. The str.decode method used to return
9289 incorrect results with huge strings.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00009290
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009291- Issue #1629: Renamed Py_Size, Py_Type and Py_Refcnt to Py_SIZE,
9292 Py_TYPE and Py_REFCNT.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00009293
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009294- PEP 3123: Provide forward compatibility with Python 3.0, while
9295 keeping backwards compatibility. Add Py_Refcnt, Py_Type, Py_Size,
9296 and PyVarObject_HEAD_INIT.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00009297
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009298- Py_ssize_t fields work in structmember when HAVE_LONG_LONG is not
9299 defined.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00009300
9301- Patch #1733960: Allow T_LONGLONG to accept ints.
9302
9303- T_PYSSIZET can now be used in PyMemberDef lists for Py_ssize_t members.
9304
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00009305- Added a new API function ``PyImport_ImportModuleNoBlock``.
9306
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00009307- Bug #1637022: Prefix AST symbols with _Py_.
9308
9309- Fix some leftovers from the conversion from int to Py_ssize_t
9310 (relevant to strings and sequences of more than 2**31 items).
9311
9312- Make _PyGILState_NoteThreadState() static, it was not used anywhere
9313 outside of pystate.c and should not be necessary.
9314
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009315- ``PyImport_Import`` and ``PyImport_ImportModule`` now always do
9316 absolute imports. In earlier versions they might have used relative
9317 imports under some conditions.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00009318
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009319- Added case insensitive comparison methods ``PyOS_stricmp(char*,
9320 char*)`` and ``PyOS_strnicmp(char*, char*, Py_ssize_t)``.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00009321
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009322- Bug #1542693: remove semi-colon at end of PyImport_ImportModuleEx
9323 macro so it can be used as an expression.
Neal Norwitz8a267062006-08-19 04:25:29 +00009324
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00009325
Martin v. Löwis2607e6c2006-11-21 18:20:25 +00009326Windows
9327-------
9328
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009329- Patch #1706: Drop support for Win9x, WinME and NT4. Python now
9330 requires Windows 2000 or greater. The _WINVER and NTDDI_VERSION
9331 macros are set to Win2k for x86/32bit builds and WinXP for AMD64
9332 builds.
Christian Heimes95d64472008-02-09 19:55:22 +00009333
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009334- Conditionalize definition of _CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE and
9335 _CRT_NONSTDC_NO_DEPRECATE.
Martin v. Löwis2607e6c2006-11-21 18:20:25 +00009336
Martin v. Löwisd476a402007-10-12 08:56:52 +00009337- Bug #1216: Restore support for Visual Studio 2002.
9338
Martin v. Löwis2607e6c2006-11-21 18:20:25 +00009339
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00009340Mac
9341---
9342
Brett Cannonf0cb1d72007-05-31 20:01:11 +00009343- cfmfile now raises a DeprecationWarning.
9344
Brett Cannon791d56f2007-05-31 19:40:42 +00009345- buildtools now raises a DeprecationWarning.
9346
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009347- Removed the macfs module. It had been deprecated since Python 2.5.
9348 This lead to the deprecation of macostools.touched() as it relied
9349 solely on macfs and was a no-op under OS X.
Brett Cannon5e263512007-05-20 23:17:38 +00009350
Skip Montanaroe5d7f7f2002-09-20 14:16:59 +00009351----
9352
9353**(For information about older versions, consult the HISTORY file.)**