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Anthony Baxterb0c66302004-11-04 05:23:17 +00005(editors: check NEWS.help for information about editing NEWS using ReST.)
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Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00007What's New in Python 2.7 alpha 1
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9
10*Release date: XX-XXX-20XX*
11
12Core and Builtins
13-----------------
14
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc7cfe7ea2008-11-18 22:19:37 +000015- Issue #4317: Fixed a crash in the imageop.rgb2rgb8() function.
16
Benjamin Peterson273c2332008-11-17 22:39:09 +000017- Issue #4230: If ``__getattr__`` is a descriptor, it now functions correctly.
18
Benjamin Peterson6624a9f2008-11-03 15:14:51 +000019- Issue #4048: The parser module now correctly validates relative imports.
20
Benjamin Petersondcee09d2008-10-31 02:16:05 +000021- Issue #4225: ``from __future__ import unicode_literals`` didn't work in an
22 exec statement.
23
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc69a9c5b2008-10-30 21:18:34 +000024- Issue #4176: Fixed a crash when pickling an object which ``__reduce__``
25 method does not return iterators for the 4th and 5th items.
26
Benjamin Petersonbdca9422008-10-26 20:21:13 +000027- Issue #4209: Enabling unicode_literals and the print_function in the same
28 __future__ import didn't work.
29
Benjamin Peterson399b1fe2008-10-25 02:53:28 +000030- Using ``nonlocal`` as a variable name will now raise a Py3k SyntaxWarning
Georg Brandl7fb00ad2008-10-25 07:00:52 +000031 because it is a reserved word in 3.x.
Benjamin Peterson399b1fe2008-10-25 02:53:28 +000032
Hirokazu Yamamoto10a018c2008-10-09 10:00:30 +000033- On windows, os.chdir given unicode was not working if GetCurrentDirectoryW
34 returned a path longer than MAX_PATH. (But It's doubtful this code path is
35 really executed because I cannot move to such directory on win2k)
36
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd78b9dc2008-10-07 20:32:10 +000037- Issue #4069: When set.remove(element) is used with a set element, the element
38 is temporarily replaced with an equivalent frozenset. But the eventual
39 KeyError would always report the empty frozenset([]) as the missing key. Now
40 it correctly refers to the initial element.
41
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +000042Library
43-------
44
Martin v. Löwisbb9b1f12008-11-19 09:09:41 +000045- Issue #4116: Resolve member name conflict in ScrolledCanvas.__init__.
46
Brett Cannone3d0bf72008-11-15 22:40:44 +000047- httplib.HTTPConnection.putheader() now accepts an arbitrary number of values
48 for any header, matching what the documentation has claimed for a while.
49
Hirokazu Yamamotob9828f62008-11-03 18:03:06 +000050- Issue #3774: Fixed an error when create a Tkinter menu item without command
51 and then remove it.
52
Thomas Heller1fac5a42008-10-30 20:18:13 +000053- Fixed a modulefinder crash on certain relative imports.
54
Benjamin Petersonc18574c2008-10-22 21:16:34 +000055- Issue #4150: Pdb's "up" command now works for generator frames in post-mortem
56 debugging.
57
Benjamin Petersone4dc1752008-10-21 22:20:31 +000058- Issue #4092: Return ArgInfo as promised in the documentation from
59 inspect.getargvalues.
60
Georg Brandlf3776a12008-10-08 18:47:17 +000061- Issue #3935: Properly support list subclasses in bisect's C implementation.
62
Martin v. Löwis96a9f232008-10-06 15:15:40 +000063- Issue #4014: Don't claim that Python has an Alpha release status, in addition
64 to claiming it is Mature.
65
Brett Cannon60b15d22008-10-06 22:44:37 +000066Build
67-----
68
Martin v. Löwis3d6f8ff2008-11-07 18:51:50 +000069- Issue #1656675: Register a drop handler for .py* files on Windows.
70
Martin v. Löwis692c2f82008-11-06 16:43:00 +000071- Issue #4120: Exclude manifest from extension modules in VS2008.
72
Martin v. Löwis0f3e7692008-10-17 13:43:01 +000073- Issue #4091: Install pythonxy.dll in system32 again.
74
Martin v. Löwiseba774b2008-10-13 11:23:35 +000075- Issue #4018: Disable "for me" installations on Vista.
76
Brett Cannon60b15d22008-10-06 22:44:37 +000077- Issue #3758: Add ``patchcheck`` build target to .PHONY.
78
Martin v. Löwisbb86d832008-11-04 20:40:09 +000079- Issue #4204: Fixed module build errors on FreeBSD 4.
80
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc07d539d2008-10-14 21:47:22 +000081C-API
82-----
83
84- Issue #4122: On Windows, fix a compilation error when using the
85 Py_UNICODE_ISSPACE macro in an extension module.
86
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +000087
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +000088What's New in Python 2.6 final
89==============================
90
Barry Warsawafa14362008-10-01 21:46:40 +000091*Release date: 01-Oct-2008*
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +000092
93Core and Builtins
94-----------------
95
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfc5ea392008-09-26 22:34:08 +000096- Issue #3967: Fixed a crash in the count() and find() methods of string-like
97 objects, when the "start" parameter is a huge value.
98
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc17617a02008-09-25 20:52:56 +000099- Issue #3965: Fixed a crash on Windows when open() is given an invalid
100 filename or mode, and the filename is a unicode string.
101
Martin v. Löwise86b07c2008-09-25 04:12:50 +0000102- Bug #3951: Py_USING_MEMORY_DEBUGGER should not be enabled by default.
103
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +0000104Library
105-------
106
Martin v. Löwise563aa42008-09-29 22:09:07 +0000107- Issue #3965: Allow repeated calls to turtle.Screen, by making it a
108 true singleton object.
109
Brett Cannonb2d61bd2008-09-29 03:41:21 +0000110- Issue #3895: It was possible to crash the interpreter when an external timer
111 was used with cProfile that returned an object that could not be converted
112 into a float.
113
Benjamin Peterson22d3c922008-09-25 20:35:45 +0000114- Issue #3950: Made turtle respect scale factors.
115
Thomas Hellera85c95d2008-09-24 18:26:05 +0000116- Issue #3547: Fixed ctypes structures bitfields of varying integer
117 sizes.
118
Benjamin Peterson2c7470d2008-09-21 21:27:51 +0000119- Issue #3879: A regression in urllib.getproxies_enviroment was fixed.
120
Gregory P. Smith08067492008-09-30 20:41:13 +0000121- Issue #3863: Disabled a unit test of fork being called from a thread
122 when running on platforms known to exhibit OS bugs when attempting that.
123
Martin v. Löwis175d0072008-09-19 15:21:07 +0000124Build
125-----
126
Martin v. Löwisd69c9042008-10-01 11:19:50 +0000127- Bug #3989: Package the 2to3 script (as 2to3.py) in the Windows
128 installer.
129
Martin v. Löwis175d0072008-09-19 15:21:07 +0000130- Bug #3887: Package x64 version of CRT for AMD64 Windows binaries.
131
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +0000132
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +0000133What's New in Python 2.6 release candidate 2?
134=============================================
135
Barry Warsaw6af16192008-09-18 04:33:43 +0000136*Release date: 17-Sep-2008*
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +0000137
138Core and Builtins
139-----------------
140
Benjamin Peterson8c2b7dc2008-09-18 01:22:16 +0000141Extension Modules
142-----------------
143
Benjamin Peterson8d77d442008-09-30 01:31:49 +0000144- Security Issue #2: imageop did not validate arguments correctly and could
145 segfault as a result.
146
Benjamin Peterson8c2b7dc2008-09-18 01:22:16 +0000147- Issue #3886: Possible integer overflows in the _hashopenssl module were
148 closed.
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +0000149
Antoine Pitrou3c9f5412008-09-13 20:30:30 +0000150Tools/Demos
151-----------
152
153- Issue #3850: recursion tests in Misc/find_recursion_limit.py can raise
154 AttributeError instead of RuntimeError, depending in which C API call
155 exactly the recursion limit is exceeded. Consequently, both exception types
156 are caught and silenced.
157
Martin v. Löwis4eb18f92008-09-14 20:22:39 +0000158Build
159-----
160
161- Issue #3617: Include a licensing statement regarding the Microsoft
162 C runtime in the Windows installer.
163
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +0000164
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +0000165What's New in Python 2.6 release candidate 1?
166=============================================
167
Barry Warsaw1e62aec2008-09-12 23:25:57 +0000168*Release date: 12-Sep-2008*
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +0000169
170Core and Builtins
171-----------------
172
Martin v. Löwis9fa5a282008-09-11 06:53:30 +0000173- Issue #3642: Suppress warning in obmalloc when size_t is larger than uint.
174
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc05e34492008-09-10 22:04:45 +0000175- Issue #3743: In a few places, PY_FORMAT_SIZE_T was incorrectly used with
176 PyString_FromFormat or PyErr_Format to display size_t values. The macro
177 PY_FORMAT_SIZE_T is designed to select the correct format for the OS
178 ``printf`` function, whereas PyString_FromFormat has an independent
179 implementation and uses "%zd" on all platforms for size_t values.
180 This makes a difference on win64, where ``printf`` needs "%Id" to display
181 64bit values.
182
Benjamin Peterson97179b02008-09-09 20:55:01 +0000183- Issue #3634: _weakref.ref(Exception).__init__() gave invalid return value on
184 error.
185
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd3ffb892008-09-09 07:24:30 +0000186- Issue #3777: long() applied to a float object now always return a long
187 object; previously an int would be returned for small values. the __long__
188 method is allowed to return either an int or a long, but the behaviour of
189 float objects should not change to respect backward compatibility.
190
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc3571fbf2008-09-01 19:52:00 +0000191- Issue #3751: str.rpartition would perform a left-partition when called with
192 a unicode argument.
193
Benjamin Peterson17f03ca2008-09-01 14:18:30 +0000194- Issue #3683: Fix compilation when --without-threads is given.
195
Antoine Pitroud4ae97b2008-08-29 18:39:48 +0000196- Issue #3668: Fix a memory leak with the "s*" argument parser in
Vinay Sajip35e3b032008-09-01 14:33:59 +0000197 PyArg_ParseTuple and friends, which occurred when the argument for "s*"
Antoine Pitroud4ae97b2008-08-29 18:39:48 +0000198 was correctly parsed but parsing of subsequent arguments failed.
199
Vinay Sajip35e3b032008-09-01 14:33:59 +0000200- Issue #2534: speed up isinstance() and issubclass() by 50-70%, so as to
Antoine Pitrou0668c622008-08-26 22:42:08 +0000201 match Python 2.5 speed despite the __instancecheck__ / __subclasscheck__
202 mechanism. In the process, fix a bug where isinstance() and issubclass(),
203 when given a tuple of classes as second argument, were looking up
204 __instancecheck__ / __subclasscheck__ on the tuple rather than on each
205 type object.
206
Neal Norwitz18aa3882008-08-24 05:04:52 +0000207- Fix crashes on memory allocation failure found with failmalloc.
208
209- Fix memory leaks found with valgrind and update suppressions file.
210
211- Fix compiler warnings in opt mode which would lead to invalid memory reads.
212
213- Fix problem using wrong name in decimal module reported by pychecker.
214
Christian Heimes7d4c3172008-08-22 19:47:25 +0000215- Silenced another compiler warning about a used but not defined
216 function 'stringlib_contains_obj'.
217
Benjamin Peterson712ee922008-08-24 18:10:20 +0000218- Added warnings on the use of ``__getslice__``, ``__setslice__``, or
219 ``__delslice__``.
220
Gregory P. Smith2bb25cc2008-09-02 05:29:51 +0000221- Issue #3678: Correctly pass LDFLAGS and LDLAST to the linker on shared
222 library targets in the Makefile.
223
Gregory P. Smith980b99b2008-09-07 05:15:18 +0000224- Issue #1204: The configure script now tests for additional libraries
225 that may be required when linking against readline. This fixes issues
226 with x86_64 builds on some platforms (a few Linux flavors and OpenBSD).
227
Benjamin Peterson14cb6bc2008-08-26 17:08:40 +0000228C-API
229-----
230
231- Aliased PyObject_Bytes to PyObject_Str.
232
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +0000233Library
234-------
235
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc24cb3822008-09-11 20:56:13 +0000236- Issue #3640: Pickling a list or a dict uses less local variables, to reduce
237 stack usage in the case of deeply nested objects.
238
Guido van Rossume3c4fd92008-09-10 14:27:00 +0000239- Issue #3629: Fix sre "bytecode" validator for an end case.
240
Martin v. Löwis24329ba2008-09-10 13:38:12 +0000241- Issue #3811: The Unicode database was updated to 5.1.
242
Nick Coghland2e09382008-09-11 12:11:06 +0000243- Issue #3781: Further warnings.catch_warnings() cleanup to prevent
244 silent misbehaviour when a single instance is nested in multiple
245 with statements, or when the methods are invoked in the wrong order.
246
Vinay Sajip844f7412008-09-09 13:42:08 +0000247- Issue #3809: Fixed spurious 'test.blah' file left behind by test_logging.
248
Nick Coghland2e09382008-09-11 12:11:06 +0000249- Issue #3781: Clean up the API for warnings.catch_warnings() by having it
Brett Cannon672237d2008-09-09 00:49:16 +0000250 return a list or None rather than a custom object.
251
Benjamin Peterson6ac7d7c2008-09-06 19:28:11 +0000252- Issue #1638033: Cookie.Morsel gained the httponly attribute.
253
Antoine Pitrouebcd0ce2008-09-05 23:30:23 +0000254- Issue #3535: zipfile couldn't read some zip files larger than 2GB.
255
256- Issue #3776: Deprecate the bsddb package for removal in 3.0.
Brett Cannon32476fc2008-09-05 18:33:51 +0000257
Hirokazu Yamamoto42e459e2008-09-04 14:25:30 +0000258- Issue #3762: platform.architecture() fails if python is lanched via
259 its symbolic link.
260
Vinay Sajip65d66e12008-09-04 07:31:21 +0000261- Issue #3772: Fixed regression problem in StreamHandler.emit().
262
Facundo Batistac585df92008-09-03 22:35:50 +0000263- Issue 600362: Relocated parse_qs() and parse_qsl(), from the cgi module
264 to the urlparse one. Added a PendingDeprecationWarning in the old
265 module, it will be deprecated in the future.
266
Marc-André Lemburgb339b2a2008-09-03 11:13:56 +0000267- Issue #2562: Fix distutils PKG-INFO writing logic to allow having
268 non-ascii characters and Unicode in setup.py meta-data.
269
270- Issue #3726: Allow spaces in separators in logging configuration files.
Vinay Sajip6a2fd812008-09-03 09:20:05 +0000271
Marc-André Lemburg31a0a142008-09-02 12:11:19 +0000272- Issue #3719: platform.architecture() fails if there are spaces in the
273 path to the Python binary.
274
Brett Cannon1eaf0742008-09-02 01:25:16 +0000275- Issue 3602: Moved test.test_support.catch_warning() to
276 warnings.catch_warnings() along with some API cleanup. Expanding the tests
277 for catch_warnings() also led to an improvement in the raising of a
278 DeprecationWarning related to warnings.warn_explicit().
279
Benjamin Peterson973e6c22008-09-01 23:12:58 +0000280- The deprecation warnings for the old camelCase threading API were removed.
281
Vinay Sajip35e3b032008-09-01 14:33:59 +0000282- logging: fixed lack of use of encoding attribute specified on a stream.
283
Christian Heimesa27a62e2008-08-22 19:55:54 +0000284- Silenced a trivial compiler warning in the sqlite module.
285
Christian Heimes1cc69632008-08-22 20:10:27 +0000286- Fixed two format strings in the _collections module.
287
Benjamin Peterson17f03ca2008-09-01 14:18:30 +0000288- Issue #3703: _fileio.FileIO gave unhelpful error message when trying to open a
289 directory.
Benjamin Petersonf22c26e2008-09-01 14:13:43 +0000290
Gregory P. Smithd7122032008-09-02 05:36:11 +0000291- Issue #3708: os.urandom no longer goes into an infinite loop when passed a
292 non-integer floating point number.
293
Vinay Sajip65d66e12008-09-04 07:31:21 +0000294- Issue #3110: multiprocessing fails to compiel on solaris 10 due to missing
Jesse Nollerb814d6a2008-09-03 18:10:30 +0000295 SEM_VALUE_MAX.
296
Benjamin Peterson37346b22008-08-23 20:27:43 +0000297Extension Modules
298-----------------
299
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc293924b2008-09-02 23:19:56 +0000300- Issue #2975: When compiling several extension modules with Visual Studio 2008
301 from the same python interpreter, some environment variables would grow
302 without limit.
303
Benjamin Peterson37346b22008-08-23 20:27:43 +0000304- Issue #3643: Added a few more checks to _testcapi to prevent segfaults by
305 exploitation of poor argument checking.
306
Gerhard Häringef2276b2008-09-12 13:54:06 +0000307- sqlite3: Changed docstring of iterdump() to mark method as "Non-standard".
308
Gerhard Häring6e1afcf2008-09-12 18:58:57 +0000309- Issue #3103: Reduced globals symbols used by sqlite3 module and made sure all
310 remaining ones have "pysqlite_" prefix.
311
Gerhard Häringe6872eb2008-09-12 22:33:22 +0000312- Issue #3846: Release the GIL during sqlite3_prepare calls. This improves
313 concurrent access to the same SQLite database from multiple
314 threads/processes.
315
Brett Cannona0b74442008-09-03 22:45:11 +0000316Tests
317-----
318
Nick Coghland2e09382008-09-11 12:11:06 +0000319- Issue #3781: Add test.test_support.check_warnings() as a convenience
320 wrapper for warnings.catch_warnings() that makes it easier to check
321 that expected warning messages are being reported.
322
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfeb8cad2008-09-06 20:53:51 +0000323- Issue #3796: Some tests functions were not enabled in test_float.
324
325- Issue #3768: Move test_py3kwarn over to the new API for catch_warnings().
Brett Cannona0b74442008-09-03 22:45:11 +0000326
Brett Cannoncdeb24b2008-09-05 22:59:17 +0000327Build
328-----
329
Martin v. Löwisab0b29b2008-09-13 08:11:57 +0000330- Issue #3833: Use a different upgrade code for Win64 installers.
331
Martin v. Löwis3f5fda82008-09-08 13:50:10 +0000332- Issue #2271: Set SecureCustomProperties so that installation will properly
333 use the TARGETDIR even for unprivileged users.
334
Martin v. Löwis67543a92008-09-08 12:02:45 +0000335- Allow passing the MSI file name to merge.py.
336
Vinay Sajip844f7412008-09-09 13:42:08 +0000337- Issue #3758: Rename the 'check' target to 'patchcheck' so as to not clash
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfeb8cad2008-09-06 20:53:51 +0000338 with GNU build target guidelines.
Brett Cannoncdeb24b2008-09-05 22:59:17 +0000339
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +0000340
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +0000341What's New in Python 2.6 beta 3?
342================================
343
Barry Warsaw07a4a382008-08-21 01:15:08 +0000344*Release date: 20-Aug-2008*
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +0000345
346Core and Builtins
347-----------------
348
Guido van Rossumf8402962008-08-20 15:01:50 +0000349- Issue #1878: Remove Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_VERSION_TAG from
350 Py_TPFLAGS_DEFAULT when not building the core. This means 3rd party
351 extensions do not automatically benefit from the class attribute
352 cache; they will have to explicitly add Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_VERSION_TAG
353 to their tp_flags field if they care. This is a backwards
354 compatibility feature; in 3.0, all types will use the cache by
355 default.
356
Benjamin Petersonf647dc12008-08-20 01:27:30 +0000357- Keyword arguments can now follow starred arguments. (``f(a, *args,
358 keyword=23)`` is now valid syntax.)
359
Thomas Heller0ad5ae02008-08-19 19:25:04 +0000360- ctypes function pointers that are COM methods have a boolean True
361 value again.
362
Martin v. Löwisf91d46a2008-08-12 14:49:50 +0000363- Issue #3139: Make buffer-interface thread-safe wrt. PyArg_ParseTuple,
364 by denying s# to parse objects that have a releasebuffer procedure,
365 and introducing s*.
366
Georg Brandl1e13ea92008-08-11 09:07:59 +0000367- Issue #3537: Fix an assertion failure when an empty but presized dict
368 object was stored in the freelist.
369
Mark Dickinsonb6467572008-08-04 21:30:09 +0000370- Issue #1481296: Make long(float('nan')) and int(float('nan')) raise
371 ValueError consistently across platforms.
372
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc39fd6722008-07-31 21:28:03 +0000373- Issue #3479: On platforms where sizeof(int) is smaller than sizeof(long)
374 (64bit Unix, for example), unichr() would truncate its argument and return
375 u'\x00' for unichr(2**32). Now it properly raises an OverflowError.
376
Neal Norwitze7d8be82008-07-31 17:17:14 +0000377- Apply security patches from Apple.
378
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc246daed2008-07-31 00:42:16 +0000379- Issue #2542: Now that issubclass() may call arbitrary code, ensure that
380 PyErr_ExceptionMatches returns 0 when an exception occurs there.
381
Antoine Pitrou92f82162008-07-25 22:22:08 +0000382- Issue #1819: function calls with several named parameters are now on
383 average 35% faster (as measured by pybench).
384
Amaury Forgeot d'Arce4921fe2008-07-21 22:00:38 +0000385- Issue #2378: An unexpected UnboundLocalError or NameError could appear when
386 the python debugger steps into a class statement: the free variables (local
387 variables defined in an outer scope) would be deleted from the outer scope.
388
Gregory P. Smith0470bab2008-07-22 04:46:32 +0000389- Issue #2620: Overflow checking when allocating or reallocating memory
390 was not always being done properly in some python types and extension
391 modules. PyMem_MALLOC, PyMem_REALLOC, PyMem_NEW and PyMem_RESIZE have
392 all been updated to perform better checks and places in the code that
393 would previously leak memory on the error path when such an allocation
394 failed have been fixed.
395
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +0000396Library
397-------
398
Hirokazu Yamamoto838c79f2008-08-20 13:14:07 +0000399- Issue #3612: Added some missing basic types in ctypes.wintypes.
400
Benjamin Petersone977ad42008-08-20 01:42:01 +0000401- The methods ``is_in_tuple()``, ``is_vararg()``, and ``is_keywordarg()`` of
402 symtable.Symbol have been deprecated for removal in 3.0 and the next release.
403
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc351ffb82008-08-18 19:23:47 +0000404- Issue #2234: distutils failed for some versions of the cygwin compiler. The
405 version reported by these tools does not necessarily follow the python
406 version numbering scheme, so the module is less strict when parsing it.
407
Nick Coghlanf70385a2008-08-18 12:42:46 +0000408- Issue #2235: Added Py3k warnings for types which will become unhashable
409 under the stricter __hash__ inheritance rules in 3.0. Several types
410 which did not meet the rules for hash invariants and were already
411 unhashable in 3.0 have now been explicitly flagged as unhashable in
412 2.6 as well (collections.Mapping, collections.Set, unittest.TestSuite,
413 xml.dom.minidom.NamedNodeMap, numbers.Number, UserList.UserList)
414
Brett Cannon88f801d2008-08-18 00:46:22 +0000415- Update __all__ for cookielib, csv, os, urllib2, and weakref to include things
416 imported into the module but exposed as part of the module's API.
417
Brett Cannon7b96f072008-08-18 00:41:11 +0000418- Remove an unneeded import of abc.ABCMeta from 'inspect'.
419
Brett Cannon46225e72008-08-18 00:36:52 +0000420- Remove unneeded imports of 'sys' and 'warnings' from 'io'.
421
Brett Cannon25c9d6a2008-08-17 22:10:11 +0000422- Remove unneeded imports of 'warnings' from shelve, filecmp, and dummy_thread.
423
Hirokazu Yamamoto41a81eb2008-08-17 13:10:46 +0000424- Issue #3575: Incremental decoder's decode function now takes bytearray
425 by using 's*' instead of 't#'.
426
Hirokazu Yamamoto7f30a682008-08-17 09:46:56 +0000427- Issue #2222: Fixed reference leak when occured os.rename()
428 fails unicode conversion on 2nd parameter. (windows only)
429
Facundo Batista94f243a2008-08-17 03:38:39 +0000430- Issue 2464. urllib2 now supports a malformation in the URL received
431 in a redirect.
432
Brett Cannonabe423e2008-08-16 21:47:07 +0000433- Silence the DeprecationWarning raised when importing mimetools in
Brett Cannon721b1452008-08-16 22:00:27 +0000434 BaseHTTPServer, cgi (and rfc822), httplib.
Brett Cannonabe423e2008-08-16 21:47:07 +0000435
Facundo Batistaeb90b782008-08-16 14:44:07 +0000436- Issue #2776: fixed small issue when handling an URL with double slash
437 after a 302 response in the case of not going through a proxy.
438
Antoine Pitroub90a8be2008-08-15 21:03:21 +0000439- Issue #2676: in the email package, content-type parsing was hanging on
440 pathological input because of quadratic or exponential behaviour of a
441 regular expression.
442
Antoine Pitrou11ec65d2008-08-14 21:04:30 +0000443- Issue #3476: binary buffered reading through the new "io" library is now
444 thread-safe.
445
Brett Cannonbf3157b2008-08-14 05:00:03 +0000446- Silence the DeprecationWarning of rfc822 when it is imported by mimetools
447 since mimetools itself is deprecated. Because modules are cached, all
448 subsequent imports of rfc822 will not raise a visible DeprecationWarning.
449
Antoine Pitrou9fcd4b32008-08-11 17:21:36 +0000450- Issue #3134: shutil referenced undefined WindowsError symbol.
451
Robert Schuppenies14646332008-08-10 11:01:53 +0000452- Issue #1342811: Fix leak in Tkinter.Menu.delete. Commands associated to
453 menu entries were not deleted.
454
Brett Cannon83e81842008-08-09 23:30:55 +0000455- Copied the implementation of reduce() to _functools.reduce() to have a
456 version that did not raise a DeprecationWarning under -3.
457
Antoine Pitrou76b8bee2008-08-09 17:27:23 +0000458- Issue #3205: When iterating over a BZ2File fails allocating memory, raise
459 a MemoryError rather than silently stop the iteration.
460
Guido van Rossum59ce9012008-08-09 14:55:34 +0000461- Issue #3487: sre "bytecode" validator. Passing invalid "re-bytecode"
462 to _sre.compile() will now be rejected. This should not affect anybody
463 since the re.compile() function never generates invalid re-bytecode.
464
Skip Montanaroa032bf42008-08-08 22:52:51 +0000465- Issue #3436: Make csv.DictReader's fieldnames attribute a property so that
466 upon first access it can be automatically initialized from the csv file if
467 it wasn't initialized during instantiation.
468
Brett Cannon3aa2a492008-08-06 22:28:09 +0000469- Issue #2338: Create imp.reload() to help with transitioning to Python 3.0 as
470 the reload() built-in has been removed.
471
Brett Cannon7e30b672008-08-04 21:52:25 +0000472- Changed code in the following modules/packages to remove warnings raised
Brett Cannonc1b76e42008-08-09 23:06:16 +0000473 while running under the ``-3`` flag: aifc, asynchat, asyncore, bdb, bsddb,
Brett Cannon047e4a92008-08-17 04:16:04 +0000474 ConfigParser, cookielib, csv, difflib, distutils, DocXMLRPCServer, email,
475 filecmp, fileinput, inspect, logging, modulefinder, pdb, pickle, profile,
476 pstats, pydoc, re, rlcompleter, SimpleXMLRPCServer, shelve, socket,
477 subprocess, sqlite3, tarfile, Tkinter, test.test_support, textwrap,
478 threading, tokenize, traceback, urlparse, wsgiref, xml, xmlrpclib.
Brett Cannon7e30b672008-08-04 21:52:25 +0000479
Lars Gustäbel727bd0b2008-08-02 11:26:39 +0000480- Issue #3039: Fix tarfile.TarFileCompat.writestr() which always
481 raised an AttributeError.
482
Benjamin Peterson01a24322008-07-28 23:35:27 +0000483- Issue #2523: Fix quadratic behaviour when read()ing a binary file without
Antoine Pitroude781a42008-08-09 12:43:23 +0000484 asking for a specific length. This problem only affected files opened
485 using the new "io" module, not the built-in open() function.
Benjamin Peterson01a24322008-07-28 23:35:27 +0000486
Mark Dickinsonfe84cce2008-07-27 06:39:07 +0000487- Issue #3449: Update decimal module to use most recent specification
488 (v. 1.68) and tests (v. 2.58) from IBM.
489
Skip Montanarof9ac43f2008-07-27 00:50:41 +0000490- Issue 3437: Bug fix in robotparser parsing of Allow: lines.
491
Raymond Hettinger8c664e82008-07-25 18:43:33 +0000492- Issue 1592: Improve error reporting when operations are attempted
493 on a closed shelf.
494
Georg Brandlf9efabb2008-07-23 15:16:45 +0000495- Deprecate the "ast" parser function aliases.
496
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +0000497- Issue #3120: On 64-bit Windows the subprocess module was truncating handles.
498
499- Issue #3303: Fix a crash in locale.strcoll() when calling it with
500 invalid arguments.
501
502- Issue #3302: Fix several crashes when calling locale's gettext functions
503 with None arguments.
504
505- Issue #3389: Allow resolving dotted names for handlers in logging
506 configuration files.
507
508- Deprecate the sunaudio module for removal in Python 3.0.
509
Antoine Pitrou5fdfa3e2008-07-25 19:42:26 +0000510- Issue #3394: zipfile.writestr sets external attributes when passed a
511 file name rather than a ZipInfo instance, so files are extracted with
512 mode 0600 rather than 000 under Unix.
513
Gregory P. Smitha36f8fe2008-08-04 00:13:29 +0000514- Issue #1857: subprocess.Popen.poll gained an additional _deadstate keyword
515 argument in python 2.5, this broke code that subclassed Popen to include its
516 own poll method. Fixed my moving _deadstate to an _internal_poll method.
517
Martin v. Löwis8dbf3642008-08-01 14:10:26 +0000518Build
519-----
520
521- Generate the PatternGrammar pickle during "make install".
522
Nick Coghlan2a0c2b12008-08-04 12:47:17 +0000523Documentation
524-------------
525
Nick Coghlan6e8fef02008-08-18 13:14:22 +0000526- Issue #2235: the C API function PyObject_HashNotImplemented and its
527 interaction with the tp_hash slot (added in 2.6b2) are now documented
528
Nick Coghlan2a0c2b12008-08-04 12:47:17 +0000529- Issue #643841: The language reference now provides more detailed
530 coverage of the lookup process for special methods. The disclaimers
531 regarding lack of coverage of new-style classes have also been
532 removed, since the coverage is now fairly reasonable.
533
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +0000534
Raymond Hettingere3ae6552008-06-20 04:18:15 +0000535What's New in Python 2.6 beta 2?
536================================
537
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +0000538*Release date: 17-Jul-2008*
539
Raymond Hettingere3ae6552008-06-20 04:18:15 +0000540Core and Builtins
541-----------------
542
Georg Brandl3e483f62008-07-16 22:57:41 +0000543- Issue #3156: Fix inconsistent behavior of the bytearray type: all
544 its methods now allow for items objects that can be converted to
545 an integer using operator.index().
546
Mark Dickinson64b7e502008-07-16 09:40:03 +0000547- Issue #3360: Fix incorrect parsing of '020000000000.0', which
548 produced a ValueError instead of giving the correct float.
549
Eric Smitha5fa5a22008-07-16 00:11:49 +0000550- Issue #3083: Add alternate (#) formatting for bin, oct, hex output
551 for str.format(). This adds the prefix 0b, 0o, or 0x, respectively.
552
Mark Dickinson7103aa42008-07-15 19:08:33 +0000553- Issue #3008: the float type has a new instance method 'float.hex'
554 and a new class method 'float.fromhex' to convert floating-point
555 numbers to and from hexadecimal strings, respectively.
556
Nick Coghlan6d6bd442008-07-15 15:40:22 +0000557- Issue #2235: __hash__ is once again inherited by default. To allow
558 collections.Hashable to remain meaningful in the presence of the
559 default hash implementation (object.__hash__), it is now possible
560 to explicit block inheritance of hash by setting __hash__=None at
561 the Python level, or tp_hash=PyObject_HashNotImplemented at the C
562 level.
563
Nick Coghlanb028f502008-07-13 14:52:36 +0000564- Issue #3221: Issue a RuntimeWarning instead of raising SystemError if
565 the parent module cannot be found while performing an absolute import.
566 This means that an incorrectly defined __package__ attribute will
567 now only prevent relative imports in that module rather than causing
568 all imports from that module to fail.
569
Nick Coghlan14ff9942008-07-08 14:21:42 +0000570- Issue #2517: Allow unicode messages in Exceptions again by correctly
571 bypassing the instance dictionary when looking up __unicode__ on
572 new-style classes.
573
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbdd941f2008-07-01 20:38:04 +0000574- Issue #3242: Fix a crash inside the print statement, if sys.stdout is
575 set to a custom object whose write() method happens to install
576 another file in sys.stdout.
577
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc1f40c8a2008-06-30 22:42:40 +0000578- Issue #3088: Corrected a race condition in classes derived from
579 threading.local: the first member set by a thread could be saved in
580 another thread's dictionary.
581
Mark Dickinson1ec2fcd2008-06-20 14:53:43 +0000582- Issue #3004: Minor change to slice.indices(): the start and stop
583 arguments are now treated identically, making the behaviour easier
584 to describe and understand. For example, slice(None, -10,
585 1).indices(9) now returns (0, 0, 1) instead of (0, -1, 1), and
586 slice(None, 10, -1).indices(10) returns (9, 9, -1) instead of (9,
587 10, -1).
588
Georg Brandl278fc502008-07-19 12:46:12 +0000589- Issue #3219: Calling a function with repeated keyword arguments,
590 f(a=2, a=23), would not cause a syntax error. This was a regression
591 from 2.4 caused by the switch to the new compiler.
Benjamin Peterson175e4d92008-07-01 19:34:52 +0000592
Georg Brandl278fc502008-07-19 12:46:12 +0000593- Issue #2862: Make int and float freelist management consistent with
594 other freelists. Changes their CompactFreeList apis into
595 ClearFreeList apis and calls them via gc.collect().
Gregory P. Smith2fe77062008-07-06 03:35:58 +0000596
Brett Cannon8bb8fa52008-07-02 01:57:08 +0000597Library
598-------
599
Thomas Heller57adf222008-08-14 19:10:48 +0000600- Issue #3554: ctypes.string_at and ctypes.wstring_at did call Python
601 api functions without holding the GIL, which could lead to a fatal
602 error when they failed.
603
Martin v. Löwisaabf4042008-08-02 07:20:25 +0000604- Issue #799428: Fix Tkinter.Misc._nametowidget to unwrap Tcl command objects.
605
Jesse Noller7fb96402008-07-17 21:01:05 +0000606- Issue #3395: fix reference in test_multiprocessing to old debugInfo method
607
Georg Brandla24869a2008-07-16 22:33:18 +0000608- Issue #3312: Fix two crashes in sqlite3.
609
Georg Brandl86cbf812008-07-16 21:31:41 +0000610- Issue #1608818: Fix misbehavior in os.listdir() if readdir() fails.
611
Jesse Noller13e9d582008-07-16 14:32:36 +0000612- Issue #3125: Remove copy_reg in multiprocessing and replace it with
613 ForkingPickler.register() to resolve conflict with ctypes.
614
Vinay Sajip51e65192008-07-18 09:01:10 +0000615- Issue #3090: Fixed ARCHFLAGS parsing on OS/X
Jesse Noller13e9d582008-07-16 14:32:36 +0000616
Thomas Heller880f5292008-07-15 19:39:38 +0000617- Issue #3313: Fixed a crash when a failed dlopen() call does not set
618 a valid dlerror() message.
619
Thomas Heller2bad6572008-07-15 17:19:50 +0000620- Issue #3258: Fixed a crash when a ctypes POINTER type to an
621 incomplete structure was created.
622
Brett Cannon3d0b9f02008-07-13 01:15:07 +0000623- Issue #3339: dummy_thread.acquire() should not return None.
624
Raymond Hettingerb01713e2008-07-10 14:34:57 +0000625- Issue #3285: Fractions from_float() and from_decimal() accept Integral arguments.
626
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +0000627- Issue #3301: Bisect module behaved badly when lo was negative.
Raymond Hettinger3cd1e422008-07-10 14:03:19 +0000628
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc0f7cddc2008-07-06 21:34:39 +0000629- Issue #839496: SimpleHTTPServer used to open text files in text mode. This is
630 both unnecessary (HTTP allows text content to be sent in several forms) and
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +0000631 wrong because the actual transmitted size could differ from the
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc0f7cddc2008-07-06 21:34:39 +0000632 content-length. The problem had been corrected in the 2.4 branch, but never
633 merged into trunk.
634
Georg Brandle78fbcc2008-07-05 10:13:36 +0000635- Issue #2663: add filtering capability to shutil.copytree().
636
Martin v. Löwis8c436412008-07-03 12:51:14 +0000637- Issue #1622: Correct interpretation of various ZIP header fields.
638
639- Issue #1526: Allow more than 64k files to be added to Zip64 file.
640
641- Issue #1746: Correct handling of zipfile archive comments (previously
642 archives with comments over 4k were flagged as invalid). Allow writing
Vinay Sajip51e65192008-07-18 09:01:10 +0000643 Zip files with archives by setting the 'comment' attribute of a ZipFile.
Martin v. Löwis8c436412008-07-03 12:51:14 +0000644
Vinay Sajip51e65192008-07-18 09:01:10 +0000645- Issue #449227: The rlcompleter module now adds "(" to callable objects
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +0000646 when completed.
Facundo Batista66c52772008-07-02 16:52:55 +0000647
Nick Coghlanc060b0e2008-07-02 13:09:19 +0000648- Issue #3190: Pydoc now hides the automatic module attribute __package__ (the
649 handling is now the same as that of other special attributes like __name__).
650
Brett Cannon8bb8fa52008-07-02 01:57:08 +0000651- Issue #2885 (partial): The urllib.urlopen() function has been deprecated for
652 removal in Python 3.0 in favor of urllib2.urlopen().
653
Gregory P. Smithf4140642008-07-06 07:16:40 +0000654- Issue #2113: Fix error in subprocess.Popen if the select system call is
655 interrupted by a signal.
656
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +0000657- Issue #3309: Fix bz2.BZFile iterator to release its internal lock
Gregory P. Smith3b1e6b22008-07-07 04:31:58 +0000658 properly when raising an exception due to the bz2file being closed.
659 Prevents a deadlock.
660
Gregory P. Smithc4691ec2008-07-07 05:09:12 +0000661- Issue #3094: httplib.HTTPSConnection Host: headers no longer include the
662 redundant ":443" port number designation when the connection is using the
663 default https port (443).
664
Gregory P. Smithdb3409c2008-07-17 03:13:05 +0000665- Issue #874900: after an os.fork() call the threading module state is cleaned
666 up in the child process to prevent deadlock and report proper thread counts
667 if the new process uses the threading module.
668
Nick Coghlan38469e22008-07-13 12:23:47 +0000669Tests
670-----
671
672- test.test_support.catch_warning now keeps track of all warnings it sees
673 and is now better documented. Explicit unit tests for this context manager
674 have been added to test_warnings.
675
Martin v. Löwisd84fd952008-06-30 06:57:39 +0000676Build
677-----
678
679- Issue #3215: Build sqlite3 as sqlite3.dll, not sqlite3.pyd.
680
Brett Cannon8bb8fa52008-07-02 01:57:08 +0000681
Brett Cannon97aa1ae2008-07-11 00:12:52 +0000682Documentation
683-------------
684
Brett Cannonfeef51d2008-07-11 00:50:01 +0000685- Document that robotparser has been renamed to urllib.robotparser in
Brett Cannon963ffdb2008-07-11 00:48:57 +0000686 Python 3.0.
687
Brett Cannonf6afa332008-07-11 00:16:30 +0000688- Document that urlparse has been renamed to urllib.parse in Python 3.0.
689
Brett Cannon97aa1ae2008-07-11 00:12:52 +0000690- Document that urllib2 is split across multiple modules and renamed in
691 Python 3.0.
692
693- Document that urllib is split across multiple modules and renamed in
694 Python 3.0.
695
696
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +0000697What's New in Python 2.6 beta 1?
698================================
699
Barry Warsawb5d17402008-06-19 01:48:07 +0000700*Release date: 18-June-2008*
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +0000701
702Core and Builtins
703-----------------
704
Brett Cannondea1b562008-06-27 00:31:13 +0000705- Issue #3211: warnings.warn_explicit() did not guard against its 'registry'
706 argument being anything other than a dict or None. Also fixed a bug in error
707 handling when 'message' and 'category' were both set to None, triggering a
708 bus error.
709
Amaury Forgeot d'Arca8919fe2008-06-16 19:12:42 +0000710- Issue #3100: Corrected a crash on deallocation of a subclassed weakref which
711 holds the last (strong) reference to its referent.
712
Georg Brandl89f48872008-06-11 18:55:38 +0000713- Add future_builtins.ascii().
714
Raymond Hettinger5c4d3d02008-06-09 13:07:27 +0000715- Several set methods now accept multiple arguments: update(), union(),
Raymond Hettinger4267be62008-06-11 10:30:54 +0000716 intersection(), intersection_update(), difference(), and difference_update().
Raymond Hettingeree4bcad2008-06-09 08:33:37 +0000717
Robert Schuppenies51df0642008-06-01 16:16:17 +0000718- Issue #2898: Added sys.getsizeof() to retrieve size of objects in bytes.
719
Martin v. Löwis99815892008-06-01 07:20:46 +0000720- New environment variable PYTHONIOENCODING.
721
Martin v. Löwis4dd019f2008-05-20 08:11:19 +0000722- Patch #2488: Add sys.maxsize.
723
Georg Brandla9916b52008-05-17 22:11:54 +0000724- Issue #2353: file.xreadlines() now emits a Py3k warning.
725
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000726- Issue #2863: generators now have a ``gen.__name__`` attribute that
727 equals ``gen.gi_code.co_name``, like ``func.__name___`` that equals
728 ``func.func_code.co_name``. The repr() of a generator now also
729 contains this name.
Georg Brandlc91210c2008-05-15 15:08:32 +0000730
Georg Brandlbd85eb12008-05-14 06:34:15 +0000731- Issue #2831: enumerate() now has a ``start`` argument.
732
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000733- Issue #2801: fix bug in the float.is_integer method where a
734 ValueError was sometimes incorrectly raised.
Mark Dickinsone81c3762008-05-09 16:14:15 +0000735
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000736- Issue #2790: sys.flags was not properly exposing its bytes_warning
737 attribute.
Brett Cannon3c1d50a2008-05-08 20:23:54 +0000738
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000739- Issue #2196: hasattr() now lets exceptions which do not inherit
740 Exception (KeyboardInterrupt, and SystemExit) propagate instead of
741 ignoring them.
Benjamin Petersonb9030f42008-05-12 00:41:23 +0000742
Gregory P. Smith9d534572008-06-11 07:41:16 +0000743- Added checks for integer overflows, contributed by Google. Some are
744 only available if asserts are left in the code, in cases where they
745 can't be triggered from Python code.
746
747
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +0000748Extension Modules
749-----------------
Guido van Rossum84b1e0f2008-08-20 14:57:20 +0000750- Issue #1179: [CVE-2007-4965] Integer overflow in imageop module.
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +0000751
Raymond Hettinger305480c2008-06-16 01:42:40 +0000752- Issue #3116: marshal.dumps() had quadratic behavior for strings > 32Mb.
753
Andrew M. Kuchling2126bab2008-06-22 13:39:11 +0000754- Issue #2138: Add factorial() to the math module.
Raymond Hettingerecbdd2e2008-06-09 06:54:45 +0000755
Raymond Hettinger6d7702e2008-05-31 03:24:31 +0000756- The heapq module does comparisons using LT instead of LE. This
757 makes its implementation match that used by list.sort().
758
Mark Dickinson99dfe922008-05-23 01:35:30 +0000759- Issue #2819: add full-precision summation function to math module,
760 based on Hettinger's ASPN Python Cookbook recipe.
761
Georg Brandl88659b02008-05-20 08:40:43 +0000762- Issue #2592: delegate nb_index and the floor/truediv slots in
763 weakref.proxy.
764
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000765- Support os.O_ASYNC and fcntl.FASYNC if the constants exist on the
766 platform.
Georg Brandl5049a852008-05-16 13:10:15 +0000767
Brett Cannon044616a2008-05-15 02:33:55 +0000768- Support for Windows 9x has been removed from the winsound module.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcf9b54c22008-05-12 21:30:24 +0000769
Jesus Cea09c01782008-09-28 23:24:19 +0000770- bsddb module updated to version 4.7.3.
Jesus Cea4907d272008-08-31 14:00:51 +0000771 http://www.jcea.es/programacion/pybsddb.htm#bsddb3-4.7.3. This
772 code should be compatible with Python 3.0.
Jesus Ceaef9764f2008-05-13 18:45:46 +0000773
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000774- Issue #2858: Fix potential memory corruption when
775 bsddb.db.DBEnv.lock_get and other bsddb.db object constructors
776 raised an exception.
Gregory P. Smith664782e2008-05-17 06:12:02 +0000777
Gregory P. Smith5d7d6c32008-05-25 08:32:04 +0000778- Issue #2669: bsddb/__init__.py iteration no longer silently fails when
779 the database has changed size during iteration. It now raises a
780 RuntimeError in the same manner as a dictionary.
781
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000782- Issue #2870: cmathmodule.c compile error.
Christian Heimes0bd23c02008-05-16 10:23:31 +0000783
Benjamin Petersond8a89722008-08-18 16:40:03 +0000784- Added a threading.Thread.ident property.
Gregory P. Smith8856dda2008-06-01 23:48:47 +0000785
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +0000786Library
787-------
788
Vinay Sajip1e022682008-06-29 21:27:15 +0000789- logging.config: Removed out-of-date comment in _install_handlers and
790 used issubclass in place of equality comparison of classes.
791
Facundo Batista5596b0c2008-06-22 13:36:20 +0000792- Issue #2722: Now the os.getcwd() supports very long path names.
793
Facundo Batista2da91c32008-06-21 17:43:56 +0000794- Issue #2888: Fixed the behaviour of pprint when working with nested
795 structures, to match the behaviour of 2.5 and 3.0 (now follows the common
796 sense).
797
Facundo Batistaa6a4d502008-06-21 18:58:04 +0000798- Issue #1817: cgi now correctly handles the querystring on POST requests
799
Vinay Sajip8dc20fd2008-06-19 22:41:08 +0000800- Issue #3136: fileConfig()'s disabling of old loggers is now conditional via
801 an optional disable_existing_loggers parameter, but the default value is
802 such that the old behaviour is preserved. Thanks to Leandro Lucarella for
803 the patch.
804
Vinay Sajip9828b7e2008-06-17 11:04:02 +0000805- Issue #3126: StreamHandler and FileHandler check before calling "flush" and
806 "close" that the stream object has these, using hasattr (thanks to bobf for
807 the patch).
808
Benjamin Peterson5c0be322008-06-13 15:11:50 +0000809- Issue #2912: platform.uname now tries to determine unknown information even if
810 os.uname exists.
811
Benjamin Peterson26305a02008-06-12 22:33:06 +0000812- The rfc822 module has been deprecated for removal in 3.0.
813
Benjamin Petersona03722f2008-06-12 14:23:49 +0000814- The mimetools module has been deprecated for removal in 3.0.
815
Thomas Heller1cec7aa2008-06-10 14:07:12 +0000816- The ctypes.byref function now takes an optional second parameter
817 which allows to specify an offset in bytes for the constructed
818 pointer-like object.
819
Georg Brandl8509db52008-06-10 07:45:28 +0000820- Added the ast module.
821
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +0000822- Added the multiprocessing module, PEP 371.
Benjamin Peterson6f7ae692008-06-11 20:04:30 +0000823
Georg Brandl7be19aa2008-06-07 15:59:10 +0000824- Factored out the indentation cleaning from inspect.getdoc() into
825 inspect.cleandoc() to ease standalone use.
826
Thomas Hellerfbb9c0b2008-06-06 08:33:46 +0000827- Issue #1798: Add ctypes calling convention that allows safe access
828 to errno.
829
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +0000830- Issue #2404: ctypes objects support the new pep3118 buffer interface.
Thomas Heller59475e92008-06-05 17:52:59 +0000831
Vinay Sajip9828b7e2008-06-17 11:04:02 +0000832- Patch #2125: Add GetInteger and GetString methods for
Martin v. Löwisffe62ed2008-06-02 08:40:06 +0000833 msilib.Record objects.
834
Gregory P. Smith137d8242008-06-02 04:05:52 +0000835- Issue #2782: The datetime module's strftime methods now accept
836 unicode format strings just as time.strftime always has.
837
Georg Brandlac19d852008-06-01 21:19:14 +0000838- The sgmllib and htmllib modules have been deprecated for removal
839 in Python 3.0.
840
841- Issue #3011: locale module alias table was updated to the latest
842 version from the X.org locale.alias file.
Marc-André Lemburgadff65b2008-05-30 20:52:18 +0000843
Thomas Heller9287acf2008-05-29 19:42:34 +0000844- Issue #1797 (partial fix): ctypes NULL function pointers have a
845 False boolean value now.
846
Georg Brandld0b592f2008-05-29 07:45:26 +0000847- Issue #2985: Allow 64-bit integer responses (``<i8>``) in XMLRPC
848 transfers.
849
850- Issue #2877: The UserString.MutableString class has been removed in
851 Python 3.0.
Brett Cannonabb34fe2008-05-29 05:08:50 +0000852
Lars Gustäbelb1a54a32008-05-27 12:39:23 +0000853- Do not close external file objects passed to tarfile.open(mode='w:bz2')
854 when the TarFile is closed.
855
Georg Brandle08e3d02008-05-25 08:07:37 +0000856- Issue #2959: For consistency with other file-like objects, gzip's
857 GzipFile.close() can now be called multiple times without raising
858 an exception.
859
Martin v. Löwis27e4a172008-05-23 15:18:28 +0000860- Issue #1390: Raise ValueError in toxml when an invalid comment would
861 otherwise be produced.
862
Vinay Sajipc0128832008-05-20 15:37:22 +0000863- Issue #2914: TimedRotatingFileHandler now takes an optional keyword
864 argument "utc" to use UTC time rather than local time.
865
866- Issue #2929: TimedRotatingFileHandler was using the wrong path when
867 deleting old log files (filename only instead of full path).
868
Georg Brandl112aa502008-05-20 08:25:48 +0000869- Issue #1775025: You can now specify zipfile members to open(),
870 read() or extract() via a ZipInfo instance. This allows handling
871 duplicate filenames in zipfiles.
872
Georg Brandl28fdfa92008-05-17 17:57:01 +0000873- Issue #961805: Fix Text.edit_modified() in Tkinter.
874
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000875- Issue #1793: Function ctypes.util.find_msvcrt() added that returns
Thomas Heller95ba13f2008-05-16 20:06:31 +0000876 the name of the C runtime library that Python uses.
877 ctypes.util.find_library(name) now call this function when name is
878 'm' or 'c'.
879
Brett Cannonfa40bbf2008-05-16 00:50:02 +0000880- The statvfs module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
881
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000882- The sunaudiodev and SUNAUDIODEV modules have been deprecated for
883 removal in Python 3.0.
884
885- The WAIT module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
886 3.0.
887
888- The torgb module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
889 3.0.
890
891- The SV module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
892 3.0.
893
894- The readcd module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
Brett Cannon22248172008-05-16 00:10:24 +0000895 Python 3.0.
896
Brett Cannon11ae6e72008-05-15 03:49:00 +0000897- The panelparser module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
898 Python 3.0.
899
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000900- The panel module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
901 3.0.
Brett Cannon7e375862008-05-15 03:46:27 +0000902
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000903- The jpeg module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
904 3.0.
Brett Cannon89f5d9c2008-05-15 03:44:00 +0000905
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000906- The IOCTL module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
907 3.0.
Brett Cannond8c41ec2008-05-15 03:41:55 +0000908
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000909- The IN module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
910 3.0.
Brett Cannon6328b292008-05-15 03:36:13 +0000911
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000912- The imgfile module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
Brett Cannon178582e2008-05-15 03:20:36 +0000913 Python 3.0.
914
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000915- The GLWS module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
916 3.0.
Brett Cannon72ccc402008-05-15 03:17:24 +0000917
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000918- The GET module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
919 3.0.
Brett Cannon2773b6f2008-05-15 03:14:57 +0000920
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000921- The fm module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
922 3.0.
923
924- The FL, flp, and fl modules from IRIX have been deprecated for
925 removal in Python 3.0.
926
927- The FILE module on IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
928 3.0.
929
930- The ERRNO module on IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
931 3.0.
932
933- The DEVICE, GL, gl, and cgen modules (which indirectly includes
934 cgensupport) have been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
Brett Cannon044616a2008-05-15 02:33:55 +0000935
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000936- The CL, CL_old, and cl modules for IRIX have been deprecated for
937 removal in Python 3.0.
938
939- The cdplayer module for IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
Brett Cannon650f5162008-05-14 21:12:12 +0000940 Python 3.0.
941
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000942- The cddb module for IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
943 3.0.
Brett Cannon9eebe492008-05-14 20:34:22 +0000944
Brett Cannonddf949f2008-05-14 20:31:38 +0000945- The cd and CD modules for IRIX have been deprecated for removal in
946 Python 3.0.
947
Brett Cannon34721d52008-05-14 01:08:21 +0000948- The al and AL modules for IRIX have been deprecated for removal in
949 Python 3.0.
950
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000951- Issue #1713041: fix pprint's handling of maximum depth.
Georg Brandl23da6e62008-05-12 16:26:52 +0000952
Brett Cannonbb141bb2008-05-12 03:47:47 +0000953- The timing module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
954
Brett Cannonac861b52008-05-12 03:45:59 +0000955- The sv module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
956
Brett Cannon43e5ef42008-05-12 03:19:20 +0000957- The multifile module has been deprecated as per PEP 4.
958
Brett Cannon42bfa902008-05-12 00:08:34 +0000959- The imageop module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
960
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000961- Issue #2250: Exceptions raised during evaluation of names in
962 rlcompleter's ``Completer.complete()`` method are now caught and
963 ignored.
Georg Brandl627a6662008-05-11 21:03:42 +0000964
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000965- Issue #2659: Added ``break_on_hyphens`` option to textwrap
966 TextWrapper class.
Georg Brandl6f95ae52008-05-11 10:42:28 +0000967
Brett Cannon2a869132008-05-11 03:01:47 +0000968- The mhlib module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
969
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000970- The linuxaudiodev module has been deprecated for removal in Python
971 3.0.
Brett Cannondf0a7172008-05-11 00:50:51 +0000972
Brett Cannon27508d42008-05-10 22:45:07 +0000973- The ihooks module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
974
Brett Cannonfe598512008-05-10 22:11:45 +0000975- The fpformat module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
976
Brett Cannone35a3a12008-05-10 21:22:43 +0000977- The dl module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
978
Brett Cannond5a09852008-05-10 03:14:32 +0000979- The Canvas module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
980
Brett Cannon6192df12008-05-10 02:58:26 +0000981- The compiler package has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
982
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000983- The Bastion and rexec modules have been deprecated for removal in
984 Python 3.0.
Brett Cannoncda73a42008-05-10 02:53:46 +0000985
Brett Cannon768d44f2008-05-10 02:47:54 +0000986- The bsddb185 module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
987
Brett Cannon9ac39742008-05-09 22:51:58 +0000988- The pure module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
989
Mark Dickinsonf8476c12008-05-09 17:54:23 +0000990- Issue #2487: change the semantics of math.ldexp(x, n) when n is too
991 large to fit in a C long. ldexp(x, n) now returns a zero (with
992 suitable sign) if n is large and negative; previously, it raised
993 OverflowError.
994
Brett Cannonfa24d9a2008-05-09 05:32:42 +0000995- The toaiff module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
996
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000997- The test.testall module has been deprecated for removal in Python
998 3.0.
Brett Cannon3c759142008-05-09 05:25:37 +0000999
Brett Cannond7265d62008-05-09 05:18:40 +00001000- The new module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
1001
Brett Cannone3b19402008-05-08 20:36:09 +00001002- The user module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
1003
Brett Cannon6071cc82008-05-08 19:52:45 +00001004- The stringold module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
1005
1006- The mutex module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
Brett Cannon9d441822008-05-08 19:26:08 +00001007
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00001008- The imputil module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
1009
Brett Cannoncae4f5f2008-05-08 20:24:43 +00001010- test.test_support.catch_warning() gained a 'record' argument.
1011
Benjamin Peterson0893a0a2008-05-09 00:27:01 +00001012- os.path.walk is deprecated in favor of os.walk.
1013
Georg Brandl9020ff82008-05-11 14:17:13 +00001014- pdb gained the "until" command.
Benjamin Peterson98353942008-05-11 14:13:25 +00001015
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001016- The Mac Modules (including Carbon) have been deprecated for removal
1017 in Python 3.0.
Benjamin Peterson23681932008-05-12 21:42:13 +00001018
Vinay Sajip9828b7e2008-06-17 11:04:02 +00001019- Library: on MacOS X you can now set ``ARCHFLAGS`` in the shell
Ronald Oussoren5640ce22008-06-05 12:58:24 +00001020 environment to control the '-arch' flags that are used to build
1021 an extension. This was added for compatibility with Apple's build
1022 of Python.
1023
1024- The bundled OSX-specific copy of libbffi is now in sync with the version
1025 shipped with PyObjC 2.0 and includes support for x86_64 and ppc64 platforms.
1026
Georg Brandl25c34082008-08-18 23:09:49 +00001027- The threading module gained aliases for names that will be removed in the
1028 3.x series.
Benjamin Peterson0fbcf692008-06-11 17:27:50 +00001029
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00001030Build
1031-----
1032
Martin v. Löwiscc0f2b22008-06-13 18:12:51 +00001033- 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 +00001034
Martin v. Löwis8c255e42008-05-23 15:06:50 +00001035- Patch #1722225: Support QNX 6.
1036
Brett Cannonb61d8012008-05-11 23:39:04 +00001037- ``Lib/lib-old`` is now added to sys.path.
1038
Ronald Oussoren5640ce22008-06-05 12:58:24 +00001039- On MacOS X it is now possible to install the framework in 64-bit
1040 mode or even as a 4-way universal binary (that is, PPC, i386,
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00001041 PPC64 and x86_64 support in one binary).
Ronald Oussoren5640ce22008-06-05 12:58:24 +00001042
1043 This is controlled by the configure argument ``--with-universal-archs``:
1044
1045 - ``--with-universal-archs=all``: install 4-way universal
1046
1047 - ``--with-universal-archs=32-bit``: install 2-way universal, 32-bit (the default)
1048
1049 - ``--with-universal-archs=64-bit``: install 2-way universal, 64-bit
1050
1051 This option should be used in combination with ``--enable-universalsdk=``.
1052
1053 NOTE: 64-bit and 4-way builds are only suppported on Mac OS X 10.5 (or later).
1054
1055
Christian Heimes7a990612008-05-26 13:15:11 +00001056C API
1057-----
1058
Georg Brandl74a1dea2008-05-28 11:21:39 +00001059- Add ``PyType_Modified()`` as a public API to clear the type cache.
1060
1061- The PyBytes functions have been renamed to PyByteArray.
Christian Heimes7a990612008-05-26 13:15:11 +00001062
1063- The PyString functions have been renamed to PyBytes. A batch of
1064 defines were added so that the linker still sees the original
1065 PyString names.
1066
Georg Brandl5e7b1c02008-05-16 17:40:23 +00001067
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00001068What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 3?
Barry Warsaw65475fd2008-03-01 17:11:41 +00001069=================================
1070
Barry Warsaw6cc79402008-05-08 13:16:19 +00001071*Release date: 08-May-2008*
Barry Warsaw65475fd2008-03-01 17:11:41 +00001072
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd21fb4c2008-03-05 01:50:33 +00001073Core and builtins
1074-----------------
Georg Brandl80055f62008-03-25 07:56:27 +00001075
Georg Brandl28e08732008-04-30 19:47:09 +00001076- Issue #2719: backported the ``next()`` builtin from Python 3.
1077
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001078- Issue #2681: The octal literal ``0o8`` was incorrecly acctepted. Now
1079 it properly raises a SyntaxError.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc52167212008-04-24 18:07:05 +00001080
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001081- Issue #2617: Reserved -J and -X arguments for Jython, IronPython and
1082 other implementations of Python.
Christian Heimes7a98d272008-04-12 13:03:03 +00001083
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001084- Implemented PEP 370: Per user site-packages directory.
Christian Heimesaf748c32008-05-06 22:41:46 +00001085
Andrew M. Kuchling46d6b682008-04-30 16:19:55 +00001086Extension Modules
1087-----------------
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00001088
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001089- Issue #2670: Fix a failure in urllib2.build_opener(), when passed
1090 two handlers that derive the same default base class.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc96865852008-04-22 21:14:41 +00001091
Christian Heimese74c8f22008-04-19 02:23:57 +00001092- Added kill, terminate and send_signal(sig) to subprocess.Popen.
1093
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001094- Added phase(z) -> phi, polar(z) -> r, phi and rect(r, phi) -> z to
1095 the cmath module.
Christian Heimes6f341092008-04-18 23:13:07 +00001096
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001097- Four new methods were added to the math and cmath modules: acosh,
1098 asinh, atanh and log1p.
Christian Heimes6f341092008-04-18 23:13:07 +00001099
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001100- zlib.decompressobj().flush(value) no longer crashes the interpreter
1101 when passed a value less than or equal to zero.
Gregory P. Smith671c5d92008-04-09 18:18:43 +00001102
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001103- Issue #1631171: Re-implement the 'warnings' module in C (the
1104 original Python code has been kept as backup). This will allow for
1105 using the 'warning's machinery in such places as the parser where
1106 use of pure Python code is not possible. Both the ``showarning()``
1107 and ``formatwarning()`` gain an optional 'line' argument which is
1108 not called by default for backwards-compatibility reasons. Setting
1109 ``warnings.showwarning()`` to an implementation that lacks support
1110 for the ``line`` argument will raise a DeprecationWarning.
Brett Cannone9746892008-04-12 23:44:07 +00001111
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00001112Library
1113-------
1114
Brett Cannonf8436822008-05-06 23:41:32 +00001115- The audiodev module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
1116
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001117- Issue #2750: Add the 'json' package. Based on simplejson 1.9 and
1118 contributed by Bob Ippolito.
Brett Cannon4b964f92008-05-05 20:21:38 +00001119
Martin v. Löwis471617d2008-05-05 17:16:58 +00001120- Issue #1734346: Support Unicode file names for zipfiles.
1121
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001122- Issue #2581: distutils: Vista UAC/elevation support for
1123 bdist_wininst.
Mark Hammond7c5c8e62008-05-02 12:48:15 +00001124
Mark Dickinsonfe536f52008-04-25 16:59:09 +00001125- Issue #2635: Fix bug in 'fix_sentence_endings' textwrap.fill option,
1126 where an extra space was added after a word containing (but not
1127 ending in) '.', '!' or '?'.
1128
Thomas Heller6ad5fbb2008-04-25 15:44:16 +00001129- Add from_buffer() and from_buffer_copy() class methods to ctypes
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00001130 data types.
Thomas Heller6ad5fbb2008-04-25 15:44:16 +00001131
Neal Norwitz2b0bea52008-04-25 03:40:17 +00001132- Issue #2682: ctypes callback functions no longer contain a cyclic
Thomas Hellerbf027c42008-04-24 18:14:19 +00001133 reference to themselves.
1134
Gregory P. Smithd59fefb2008-04-22 08:11:33 +00001135- The getpass module has been improved on Unix. It now uses /dev/tty
1136 by default and uses stderr instead of stdout. A GetPassWarning is
1137 issued when input echo cannot be controlled.
Gregory P. Smith41e30182008-04-21 21:31:08 +00001138
Skip Montanarob131f042008-04-18 20:35:46 +00001139- Issue #2014: Allow XML-RPC datetime objects to have dates before
1140 1900-01-01.
1141
Nick Coghlan106fc482008-04-15 10:25:31 +00001142- Issue #2439: Added new function pkgutil.get_data(), which is a
1143 convenience wrapper for the PEP 302 get_data() API.
1144
Thomas Heller046e6a42008-04-14 16:10:07 +00001145- Issue #2616: The ctypes.pointer() and ctypes.POINTER() functions are
1146 now implemented in C for better performance.
1147
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001148- Issue #2408: The ``_types`` module, which was used as in
1149 implementation detail of the public ``types`` module, has been
1150 removed and replaced by pure python code.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc02f33b42008-04-08 23:10:07 +00001151
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001152- Issue #2513: distutils on Windows is now capable of cross-compiling
Mark Hammond495cf992008-04-07 01:53:39 +00001153 extension modules between 32 and 64 bit platforms. See the distutls
1154 build documentation for more information.
1155
Gregory P. Smithaa63d0d2008-04-06 23:11:17 +00001156- Issue #815646: Individual file objects may now be used from multiple
1157 threads at once without fear of crashing the Python interpreter. If
1158 file.close() is called while an object is in use by another thread
1159 an IOError exception will be raised and the file will not be closed.
1160
Thomas Hellerf7906482008-04-04 19:43:25 +00001161- The bundled libffi copy is now in sync with the recently released
1162 libffi3.0.5 version, apart from some small changes to
1163 Modules/_ctypes/libffi/configure.ac.
1164
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001165- Issue #2385: distutils.core.run_script() makes __file__ available,
1166 so the controlled environment will more closely mirror the typical
1167 script environment. This supports setup.py scripts that refer to
1168 data files.
Fred Drake46c58c12008-04-04 05:41:30 +00001169
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00001170Tests
1171-----
Trent Nelsone41b0062008-04-08 23:47:30 +00001172
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001173- Issue #2550: The approach used by client/server code for obtaining
1174 ports to listen on in network-oriented tests has been refined in an
1175 effort to facilitate running multiple instances of the entire
1176 regression test suite in parallel without issue.
1177 test_support.bind_port() has been fixed such that it will always
1178 return a unique port -- which wasn't always the case with the
1179 previous implementation, especially if socket options had been set
1180 that affected address reuse (i.e. SO_REUSEADDR, SO_REUSEPORT). The
1181 new implementation of bind_port() will actually raise an exception
1182 if it is passed an AF_INET/SOCK_STREAM socket with either the
1183 SO_REUSEADDR or SO_REUSEPORT socket option set. Furthermore, if
1184 available, bind_port() will set the SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE option on
1185 the socket it's been passed. This currently only applies to
1186 Windows. This option prevents any other sockets from binding to the
1187 host/port we've bound to, thus removing the possibility of the
1188 'non-deterministic' behaviour, as Microsoft puts it, that occurs
1189 when a second SOCK_STREAM socket binds and accepts to a host/port
1190 that's already been bound by another socket. The optional preferred
1191 port parameter to bind_port() has been removed. Under no
1192 circumstances should tests be hard coding ports!
1193
1194 test_support.find_unused_port() has also been introduced, which will
1195 pass a temporary socket object to bind_port() in order to obtain an
1196 unused port. The temporary socket object is then closed and
1197 deleted, and the port is returned. This method should only be used
1198 for obtaining an unused port in order to pass to an external program
1199 (i.e. the -accept [port] argument to openssl's s_server mode) or as
1200 a parameter to a server-oriented class that doesn't give you direct
1201 access to the underlying socket used.
1202
1203 Finally, test_support.HOST has been introduced, which should be used
1204 for the host argument of any relevant socket calls (i.e. bind and
1205 connect).
Trent Nelsone41b0062008-04-08 23:47:30 +00001206
1207 The following tests were updated to following the new conventions:
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001208 test_socket, test_smtplib, test_asyncore, test_ssl, test_httplib,
Trent Nelsone41b0062008-04-08 23:47:30 +00001209 test_poplib, test_ftplib, test_telnetlib, test_socketserver,
1210 test_asynchat and test_socket_ssl.
1211
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001212 It is now possible for multiple instances of the regression test
1213 suite to run in parallel without issue.
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00001214
1215Build
1216-----
1217
Mark Dickinson65134662008-04-25 16:11:04 +00001218- Issue #1496032: On alpha, use -mieee when gcc is the compiler.
1219
Thomas Hellerdc96a772008-04-04 10:07:55 +00001220- Issue #2544: On HP-UX systems, use 'gcc -shared' for linking when
1221 gcc is used as compiler.
1222
Ronald Oussoren580c7fe2008-05-02 19:45:11 +00001223- Issue #2573: On MacOS X it is now possible to install the framework
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001224 with a different name using --with-framework-name=NAME.
Ronald Oussoren580c7fe2008-05-02 19:45:11 +00001225
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00001226C API
1227-----
1228
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001229- Added implementation of copysign, acosh, asinh, atanh and log1p to
1230 the new files Include/pymath.h and Python/pymath.h for platforms
1231 which provide the functions through their libm. The files also
1232 contains several helpers and constants for math.
Christian Heimes6f341092008-04-18 23:13:07 +00001233
Benjamin Petersondacde0d2008-05-26 17:43:53 +00001234- Added a new convenience macro, PyErr_WarnPy3k, for issuing Py3k warnings.
Benjamin Petersona692c4d2008-04-27 02:28:02 +00001235
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00001236
1237What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 2?
1238=================================
1239
1240*Release date: 02-Apr-2008*
1241
1242Core and builtins
1243-----------------
1244
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001245- Issue #1733757: The interpreter would hang on shutdown if the
1246 tracing function set by sys.settrace is still active and happens to
1247 call threading.currentThread().
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd7a26512008-04-03 23:07:55 +00001248
Georg Brandl91e0cda2008-03-29 01:50:06 +00001249- Patch #1442: properly report exceptions when the PYTHONSTARTUP file
1250 cannot be executed.
1251
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc69b747b2008-03-28 20:30:50 +00001252- The compilation of a class nested in another class used to leak one
1253 reference on the outer class name.
1254
Georg Brandlfc8eef32008-03-28 12:11:56 +00001255- Patch #1810: compile() can now compile _ast trees as returned by
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001256 ``compile(..., PyCF_ONLY_AST)``.
Georg Brandlfc8eef32008-03-28 12:11:56 +00001257
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001258- Patch #2426: Added sqlite3.Connection.iterdump method to allow easy
1259 dumping of databases. Contributed by Paul Kippes at PyCon 2008.
Gregory P. Smithb9803422008-03-28 08:32:09 +00001260
Georg Brandldeaf2ca2008-03-27 13:27:31 +00001261- Patch #2477: Added from __future__ import unicode_literals.
Christian Heimes3c608332008-03-26 22:01:37 +00001262
Christian Heimes8c78cc32008-03-26 12:53:58 +00001263- Added backport of bytearray type.
1264
Georg Brandl80055f62008-03-25 07:56:27 +00001265- Issue #2355: add Py3k warning for buffer().
1266
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc9a0d3462008-03-23 09:55:29 +00001267- Issue #1477: With narrow Unicode builds, the unicode escape sequence
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001268 \Uxxxxxxxx did not accept values outside the Basic Multilingual
1269 Plane. This affected raw unicode literals and the
1270 'raw-unicode-escape' codec. Now UTF-16 surrogates are generated in
1271 this case, like normal unicode literals and the 'unicode-escape'
1272 codec.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc9a0d3462008-03-23 09:55:29 +00001273
Georg Brandl65bb42d2008-03-21 20:38:24 +00001274- Issue #2348: add Py3k warning for file.softspace.
1275
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001276- Issue #2346/#2347: add Py3k warnings for __methods__ and
1277 __members__.
Georg Brandl07e56812008-03-21 20:21:46 +00001278
Georg Brandl5a444242008-03-21 20:11:46 +00001279- Issue #2358: Add a Py3k warning on sys.exc_clear() usage.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd21fb4c2008-03-05 01:50:33 +00001280
Martin v. Löwisa4d77892008-03-19 04:39:13 +00001281- Issue #2400: Allow relative imports to "import *".
1282
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001283- Issue #1745: Backport print function with ``from __future__ import
1284 print_function``.
Eric Smith7c478942008-03-18 23:45:49 +00001285
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001286- Issue #2332: add new attribute names for instance method objects.
1287 The two changes are: im_self -> __self__ and im_func -> __func__
Neal Norwitzb1d3d962008-03-18 04:46:00 +00001288
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001289- Issue #2379: Raise a Py3K warning for __getitem__ or __getslice__ on
Guido van Rossum6d91be32008-03-18 04:42:22 +00001290 exception instances.
1291
Guido van Rossum04edb522008-03-18 02:49:46 +00001292- Issue #2371: Add a Py3k warning when catching an exception that
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001293 doesn't derive from BaseException.
1294
1295- Issue #2341: Add a Py3k warning when raising an exception that
1296 doesn't derive from BaseException.
Guido van Rossum04edb522008-03-18 02:49:46 +00001297
Neal Norwitz419fd492008-03-17 20:22:43 +00001298- Issue #2321: use pymalloc for unicode object string data to reduce
1299 memory usage in some circumstances.
1300
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001301- PEP 3127: octal literals now start with "0o". Old-style octal
1302 literals are still valid. There are binary literals with a prefix of
1303 "0b". This also affects int(x, 0).
Eric Smith0aed07a2008-03-17 19:43:40 +00001304
Georg Brandl1e7c3752008-03-25 08:37:23 +00001305- Issue #2359: Adding deprecation warnings for array.{read,write}.
1306
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001307- Issue #1779871: GNU gcc can now build Python on OS X because the
Jeffrey Yasskin1b4e45b2008-03-17 14:40:53 +00001308 flags -Wno-long-double, -no-cpp-precomp, and -mno-fused-madd are no
1309 longer passed.
1310
Neal Norwitz400aeda2008-03-15 22:03:18 +00001311- Add a warning when asserting a non-empty tuple which is always true.
1312
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001313- Issue #2179: speed up with statement execution by storing the exit
1314 method on the stack instead of in a temporary variable (patch by
1315 Jeffrey Yaskin)
Nick Coghlan7af53be2008-03-07 14:13:28 +00001316
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001317- Issue #2238: Some syntax errors in *args and **kwargs expressions
1318 could give bogus error messages.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd21fb4c2008-03-05 01:50:33 +00001319
Sean Reifscheider68fa8e62008-03-20 00:50:07 +00001320- Issue #2143: Fix embedded readline() hang on SSL socket EOF.
1321
Andrew M. Kuchling46d6b682008-04-30 16:19:55 +00001322Extension Modules
1323-----------------
Martin v. Löwisaef18b12008-03-24 13:31:16 +00001324
1325- Patch #2240: Implement signal.setitimer and signal.getitimer.
1326
Thomas Heller78b8f442008-03-05 14:53:39 +00001327Library
1328-------
1329
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001330- Issue #2315: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now accounts
1331 for daylight savings time in calculating the next rollover.
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00001332
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001333- Issue #2316: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now
1334 calculates rollovers correctly even when nothing is logged for a
1335 while.
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00001336
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001337- Issue #2317: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now uses
1338 improved logic for removing old files.
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00001339
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001340- Issue #2495: tokenize.untokenize now inserts a space between two
1341 consecutive string literals; previously, ["" ""] was rendered as
1342 [""""], which is incorrect python code.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcda0c0252008-03-27 23:23:54 +00001343
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001344- Issue #2248: return the result of the QUIT command. from
1345 SMTP.quit().
Georg Brandldeaf2ca2008-03-27 13:27:31 +00001346
Christian Heimes8c78cc32008-03-26 12:53:58 +00001347- Backport of Python 3.0's io module.
1348
Mark Dickinson8e85ffa2008-03-25 18:47:59 +00001349- Issue #2482: Make sure that the coefficient of a Decimal is always
1350 stored as a str instance, not as a unicode instance. This ensures
1351 that str(Decimal) is always an instance of str.
1352
Mark Dickinson3b24ccb2008-03-25 14:33:23 +00001353- Issue #2478: fix failure of decimal.Decimal(0).sqrt()
1354
Georg Brandl77354cf2008-03-21 20:01:51 +00001355- Issue #2432: give DictReader the dialect and line_num attributes
1356 advertised in the docs.
1357
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001358- Issue #2460: Make Ellipsis object copyable.
Raymond Hettingerb72233c2008-03-24 08:17:39 +00001359
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001360- Issue #1681432: Add triangular distribution to the random module
Raymond Hettingerbbc50ea2008-03-23 13:32:32 +00001361
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001362- Issue #2136: urllib2's auth handler now allows single-quoted realms
1363 in the WWW-Authenticate header.
Georg Brandl33124322008-03-21 19:54:00 +00001364
Marc-André Lemburga1867752008-03-20 18:08:00 +00001365- Issue #2434: Enhanced platform.win32_ver() to also work on Python
1366 installation which do not have the win32all package installed.
1367
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001368- Added support to platform.uname() to also report the machine and
1369 processor information on Windows XP and later. As a result,
Marc-André Lemburga1867752008-03-20 18:08:00 +00001370 platform.machine() and platform.processor() will report this
1371 information as well.
1372
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001373- The library implementing the 2to3 conversion, lib2to3, was added to
1374 the standard distribution.
Martin v. Löwis5e37bae2008-03-19 04:43:46 +00001375
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001376- Issue #1747858: Fix chown to work with large uid's and gid's on
1377 64-bit platforms.
Gregory P. Smith37f3f432008-03-18 20:40:01 +00001378
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001379- Issue #1202: zlib.crc32 and zlib.adler32 no longer return different
1380 values on 32-bit vs. 64-bit python interpreters. Both were correct,
1381 but they now both return a signed integer object for consistency.
Gregory P. Smithf48f9d32008-03-17 18:48:05 +00001382
Skip Montanaro32ed8c22008-03-15 16:07:11 +00001383- Issue #1158: add %f format (fractions of a second represented as
1384 microseconds) to datetime objects. Understood by both strptime and
1385 strftime.
1386
Mark Dickinsonc23b8a72008-03-14 14:23:37 +00001387- Issue #705836: struct.pack(">f", x) now raises OverflowError on all
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001388 platforms when x is too large to fit into an IEEE 754 float;
1389 previously it only raised OverflowError on non IEEE 754 platforms.
Mark Dickinsonc23b8a72008-03-14 14:23:37 +00001390
Andrew M. Kuchlingaac5c862008-05-11 14:00:00 +00001391- Issues #2166, #1741 and #1531505: now distutils deals with HOME
1392 correctly under win32
1393
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001394- Patch #1858: distutils: added multiple server support in .pypirc
Andrew M. Kuchlingaac5c862008-05-11 14:00:00 +00001395
Facundo Batistac54aec12008-03-08 16:50:27 +00001396- Issue #1106316: pdb.post_mortem()'s parameter, "traceback", is now
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001397 optional: it defaults to the traceback of the exception that is
1398 currently being handled (is mandatory to be in the middle of an
1399 exception, otherwise it raises ValueError).
Facundo Batistac54aec12008-03-08 16:50:27 +00001400
Jeffrey Yasskine75f59a2008-03-07 06:22:15 +00001401- Issue #1193577: A .shutdown() method has been added to SocketServers
1402 which terminates the .serve_forever() loop.
1403
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001404- Issue #2220: handle rlcompleter attribute match failure more
1405 gracefully.
Georg Brandl98aa8052008-03-06 07:45:52 +00001406
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001407- Issue #2225: py_compile, when executed as a script, now returns a
1408 non- zero status code if not all files could be compiled
1409 successfully.
Georg Brandla7bd27f2008-03-06 07:41:16 +00001410
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001411- Bug #1725737: In distutils' sdist, exclude RCS, CVS etc. also in the
Georg Brandl810ea292008-03-06 07:34:52 +00001412 root directory, and also exclude .hg, .git, .bzr, and _darcs.
1413
Thomas Hellerf3c05592008-03-05 15:34:29 +00001414- Issue #1872: The struct module typecode for _Bool has been changed
1415 from 't' to '?'.
1416
Thomas Heller78b8f442008-03-05 14:53:39 +00001417- The bundled libffi copy is now in sync with the recently released
1418 libffi3.0.4 version, apart from some small changes to
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001419 Modules/_ctypes/libffi/configure.ac. On OS X, preconfigured libffi
1420 files are used. On all linux systems the --with-system-ffi
1421 configure option defaults to "yes".
Thomas Heller78b8f442008-03-05 14:53:39 +00001422
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001423- Issue #1577: shutil.move() now calls os.rename() if the destination
1424 is a directory instead of copying-then-remove-source.
Sean Reifscheider493894c2008-03-18 17:24:12 +00001425
Martin v. Löwisd2bbe522008-03-06 06:55:22 +00001426Tests
1427-----
1428
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001429- test_nis no longer fails when test.test_support.verbose is true and
1430 NIS is not set up on the testing machine.
Brett Cannon7919d982008-03-19 16:50:13 +00001431
Brett Cannona5573b32008-03-18 04:16:06 +00001432- Output comparison tests are no longer supported.
1433
Brett Cannonb7ec8e52008-03-18 03:46:22 +00001434- Rewrite test_errno to use unittest and no longer be a no-op.
1435
Brett Cannon0bb79502008-03-18 01:58:56 +00001436- GHOP 234: Convert test_extcall to doctest.
1437
Brett Cannonba17cfc2008-03-18 01:50:25 +00001438- GHOP 290: Convert test_dbm and test_dummy_threading to unittest.
1439
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001440- GHOP 293: Convert test_strftime, test_getargs, and test_pep247 to
1441 unittest.
Brett Cannon6eeaddc2008-03-18 01:00:07 +00001442
Brett Cannon1f5182b2008-03-13 21:09:28 +00001443- Issue #2055: Convert test_fcntl to unittest.
1444
Brett Cannon4a6e8d62008-03-13 21:02:16 +00001445- Issue 1960: Convert test_gdbm to unittest.
1446
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001447- GHOP 294: Convert test_contains, test_crypt, and test_select to
1448 unittest.
Brett Cannon2e0f9f32008-03-13 20:47:41 +00001449
Brett Cannonb8d37352008-03-13 20:33:10 +00001450- GHOP 238: Convert test_tokenize to use doctest.
1451
Brett Cannon66865d22008-03-13 20:27:00 +00001452- GHOP 237: Rewrite test_thread using unittest.
1453
Martin v. Löwisd2bbe522008-03-06 06:55:22 +00001454- Patch #2232: os.tmpfile might fail on Windows if the user has no
1455 permission to create files in the root directory.
1456
Martin v. Löwisbf7b0b72008-03-14 13:56:09 +00001457Build
1458-----
1459
Martin v. Löwiscdbc9772008-03-24 12:57:53 +00001460- A new script 2to3 is now installed, to run the 2.x to 3.x converter.
1461
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001462- Python/memmove.c and Python/strerror.c have been removed; both
1463 functions are in the C89 standard library.
Brett Cannonaa5778d2008-03-18 04:09:00 +00001464
Martin v. Löwisbf7b0b72008-03-14 13:56:09 +00001465- Patch #2284: Add -x64 option to rt.bat.
Barry Warsaw65475fd2008-03-01 17:11:41 +00001466
Christian Heimes3c608332008-03-26 22:01:37 +00001467C API
1468-----
1469
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00001470- Patch #2477: Added PyParser_ParseFileFlagsEx() and
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001471 PyParser_ParseStringFlagsFilenameEx().
1472
Christian Heimes3c608332008-03-26 22:01:37 +00001473
Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +00001474What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 1?
1475=================================
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00001476
Barry Warsaw7c075232008-03-01 02:53:36 +00001477*Release date: 29-Feb-2008*
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00001478
1479Core and builtins
1480-----------------
1481
Fred Drakea8ee94b2008-03-01 02:45:07 +00001482- Issue #2051: pyc and pyo files are no longer created with permission
Barry Warsaw52973612008-03-01 02:23:38 +00001483 644. The mode is now inherited from the py file.
Christian Heimes40346852008-02-23 17:52:07 +00001484
Georg Brandlad61bc82008-02-23 15:11:18 +00001485- Issue #2067: file.__exit__() now calls subclasses' close() method.
1486
1487- Patch #1759: Backport of PEP 3129 class decorators.
Christian Heimes5224d282008-02-23 15:01:05 +00001488
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00001489- Issue #1881: An internal parser limit has been increased. Also see
Facundo Batistafc2d0102008-02-23 12:01:13 +00001490 issue 215555 for a discussion.
1491
Eric Smitha73fbe72008-02-23 03:09:44 +00001492- Added the future_builtins module, which contains hex() and oct().
1493 These are the PEP 3127 version of these functions, designed to be
1494 compatible with the hex() and oct() builtins from Python 3.0. They
1495 differ slightly in their output formats from the existing, unchanged
1496 Python 2.6 builtins. The expected usage of the future_builtins
1497 module is:
1498 from future_builtins import hex, oct
1499
Eric Smith7ef40bf2008-02-20 23:34:22 +00001500- Issue #1600: Modifed PyOS_ascii_formatd to use at most 2 digit
1501 exponents for exponents with absolute value < 100. Follows C99
1502 standard. This is a change on Windows, which would use 3 digits.
1503 Also, added 'n' to the formats that PyOS_ascii_formatd understands,
1504 so that any alterations it does to the resulting string will be
1505 available in stringlib/formatter.h (for float.__format__).
1506
Eric Smith5a3c1352008-02-19 13:21:56 +00001507- Implemented PEP 3101, Advanced String Formatting. This adds a new
1508 builtin format(); a format() method for str and unicode; a
1509 __format__() method to object, str, unicode, int, long, float, and
1510 datetime; the class string.Formatter; and the C API
1511 PyObject_Format().
1512
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001513- Fixed several potential crashes, all caused by specially crafted
1514 __del__ methods exploiting objects in temporarily inconsistent
1515 state.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc632fad32008-02-16 20:55:24 +00001516
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00001517- Issue #2115: Important speedup in setting __slot__ attributes. Also
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001518 prevent a possible crash: an Abstract Base Class would try to access
1519 a slot on a registered virtual subclass.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc60d6c7f2008-02-15 21:22:45 +00001520
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001521- Fixed repr() and str() of complex numbers with infinity or nan as
1522 real or imaginary part.
Christian Heimes2f0da532008-02-15 06:57:08 +00001523
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001524- Clear all free lists during a gc.collect() of the highest generation
1525 in order to allow pymalloc to free more arenas. Python may give back
1526 memory to the OS earlier.
Christian Heimes3b718a72008-02-14 12:47:33 +00001527
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001528- Issue #2045: Fix an infinite recursion triggered when printing a
1529 subclass of collections.defaultdict, if its default_factory is set
1530 to a bound method.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcb01aa432008-02-08 00:56:02 +00001531
Christian Heimesf75dbef2008-02-08 00:11:31 +00001532- Fixed a minor memory leak in dictobject.c. The content of the free
1533 list was not freed on interpreter shutdown.
1534
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001535- Limit free list of method and builtin function objects to 256
1536 entries each.
Christian Heimes6075a822008-02-06 12:44:34 +00001537
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001538- Patch #1953: Added ``sys._compact_freelists()`` and the C API
1539 functions ``PyInt_CompactFreeList`` and ``PyFloat_CompactFreeList``
Christian Heimes422051a2008-02-04 18:00:12 +00001540 to compact the internal free lists of pre-allocted ints and floats.
1541
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001542- Issue #1983: Fixed return type of fork(), fork1() and forkpty()
1543 calls. Python expected the return type int but the fork familie
1544 returns pi_t.
Christian Heimes951cc0f2008-01-31 23:08:23 +00001545
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001546- Issue #1678380: Fix a bug that identifies 0j and -0j when they
1547 appear in the same code unit.
Mark Dickinson105be772008-01-31 22:17:37 +00001548
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001549- Issue #2025: Add tuple.count() and tuple.index() methods to comply
1550 with the collections.Sequence API.
Raymond Hettinger5b07ebc2008-02-07 00:54:20 +00001551
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001552- Patch #1970 by Antoine Pitrou: Speedup unicode whitespace and
1553 linebreak detection
Christian Heimes4d4f2702008-01-30 11:32:37 +00001554
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001555- Added ``PyType_ClearCache()`` and ``sys._clear_type_cache`` to clear
1556 the internal lookup cache for ref leak tests.
Christian Heimes908caac2008-01-27 23:34:59 +00001557
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001558- Patch #1473257: generator objects gain a gi_code attribute. This is
1559 the same object as the func_code attribute of the function that
1560 produced the generator.
Georg Brandl0cdf9a32008-01-26 14:14:20 +00001561
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001562- Issue #1920: "while 0" statements were completely removed by the
1563 compiler, even in the presence of an "else" clause, which is
1564 supposed to be run when the condition is false. Now the compiler
1565 correctly emits bytecode for the "else" suite.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc31eaafe2008-01-24 22:59:25 +00001566
Guido van Rossumeead05f2008-01-24 18:21:02 +00001567- A few crashers fixed: weakref_in_del.py (issue #1377858);
1568 loosing_dict_ref.py (issue #1303614, test67.py);
1569 borrowed_ref_[34].py (not in tracker).
1570
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +00001571- Issue #1069410: The "can't load dll" message box on Windows is
Christian Heimesb2302ba2008-01-23 17:15:06 +00001572 suppressed while an extension is loaded by calling SetErrorMode in
1573 dynload_win.c. The error is still reported properly.
1574
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001575- Issue #1915: Python compiles with --enable-unicode=no again. However
Christian Heimes082c9b02008-01-23 14:20:50 +00001576 several extension methods and modules do not work without unicode
1577 support.
1578
Georg Brandl26543b12008-01-21 18:36:51 +00001579- Issue #1882: when compiling code from a string, encoding cookies in the
1580 second line of code were not always recognized correctly.
1581
Georg Brandl14404b62008-01-19 19:27:05 +00001582- Issue #1679: "0x" was taken as a valid integer literal.
1583
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00001584- Issue #1865: ``bytes`` as an alias for ``str`` and b"" as an alias "" were
Christian Heimes288e89a2008-01-18 18:24:07 +00001585 added.
1586
Christian Heimesc94e2b52008-01-14 04:13:37 +00001587- sys.float_info / PyFloat_GetInfo: The floating point information
1588 object was converted from a dict to a specialized structseq object.
1589
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001590- Patch #1816: Added sys.flags structseq. It exposes the status of
1591 most command line arguments and PYTHON* environment variables.
Christian Heimesf31b69f2008-01-14 03:42:48 +00001592
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001593- Objects/structseq.c: Implemented new structseq representation. The
1594 patch makes structseqs (e.g. the return value of os.stat) more
1595 readable.
Christian Heimes9c201962008-01-14 03:33:52 +00001596
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001597- Patch #1700288: added a type attribute cache that caches method
1598 accesses, resulting in speedups in heavily object-oriented code.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arce4c270c2008-01-14 00:29:41 +00001599
Neal Norwitz3fc15b82008-01-10 05:42:58 +00001600- Bug #1776: __import__() no longer accepts filenames on any platform.
1601 The first parameter to __import__() must be a valid module name.
Christian Heimes3403f152008-01-09 19:56:33 +00001602
Georg Brandlaed6c662008-01-07 17:25:53 +00001603- Patch #1668: renamed THREADDEBUG envvar to PYTHONTHREADDEBUG.
1604
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001605- Patch #602345: Add -B command line option, PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE
1606 envvar and sys.dont_write_bytecode attribute. All these can be set
1607 to forbid Python to attempt to write compiled bytecode files.
Georg Brandl2da0fce2008-01-07 17:09:35 +00001608
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001609- Improve some exception messages when Windows fails to load an
1610 extension module. Now we get for example '%1 is not a valid Win32
1611 application' instead of 'error code 193'.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arce0b76952008-01-04 02:04:15 +00001612
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001613- Bug #1481296: Fixed long(float('nan')) != 0L.
Christian Heimes8267d1d2008-01-04 00:37:34 +00001614
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001615- Issue #1640: Added math.isinf(x), math.isnan(x) and math.copysign(x,
1616 y) functions.
Christian Heimese2ca4242008-01-03 20:23:15 +00001617
Christian Heimes0a8143f2007-12-18 23:22:54 +00001618- Issue #1635: Platform independent creation and representation of NaN
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001619 and INF. float("nan"), float("inf") and float("-inf") now work on
1620 every platform with IEEE 754 semantics.
Christian Heimes0a8143f2007-12-18 23:22:54 +00001621
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001622- Compiler now generates simpler and faster code for dictionary
1623 literals. The oparg for BUILD_MAP now indicates an estimated
1624 dictionary size. There is a new opcode, STORE_MAP, for adding
1625 entries to the dictionary.
Raymond Hettingerfd7ed402007-12-18 21:24:09 +00001626
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001627- Issue #1638: %zd configure test fails on Linux.
Christian Heimesdb3d6cb2007-12-16 21:39:43 +00001628
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001629- Issue #1620: New property decorator syntax was modifying the
1630 decorator in place instead of creating a new decorator object.
Christian Heimes90e10e72007-12-14 02:35:23 +00001631
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001632- Issue #1538: Avoid copying string in split/rsplit if the split char
1633 is not found.
Skip Montanaro26015492007-12-08 15:33:24 +00001634
Andrew M. Kuchling395fe442007-12-05 13:27:20 +00001635- Issue #1553: An erroneous __length_hint__ can make list() raise a
Christian Heimes7cc1c6f2007-12-05 12:52:34 +00001636 SystemError.
1637
Nick Coghlanef01d822007-12-03 12:55:17 +00001638- PEP 366: Allow explicit relative imports when executing modules
1639 inside packages with the -m switch via a new module level
1640 __package__ attribute.
1641
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001642- Issue #1402: Fix a crash on exit, when another thread is still
1643 running, and if the deallocation of its frames somehow calls the
1644 PyGILState_Ensure() / PyGILState_Release() functions.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbe49a902007-11-30 20:37:22 +00001645
Christian Heimes28104c52007-11-27 23:16:44 +00001646- Expose the Py_Py3kWarningFlag as sys.py3kwarning.
1647
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00001648- Issue #1445: Fix a SystemError when accessing the ``cell_contents``
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcce7d10c2007-11-24 13:44:17 +00001649 attribute of an empty cell object.
1650
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001651- Issue #1460: The utf-7 incremental decoder did not accept truncated
1652 input. It now correctly saves its state between chunks of data.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcf57375a2007-11-21 01:38:26 +00001653
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001654- Patch #1739468: Directories and zipfiles containing a __main__.py
1655 file can now be directly executed by passing their name to the
1656 interpreter. The directory/zipfile is automatically inserted as the
1657 first entry in sys.path.
Nick Coghlan327a39b2007-11-18 11:56:28 +00001658
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001659- Issue #1265: Fix a problem with sys.settrace, if the tracing
1660 function uses a generator expression when at the same time the
1661 executed code is closing a paused generator.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc0d75f092007-11-13 21:54:28 +00001662
Raymond Hettinger1760c8a2007-11-08 02:52:43 +00001663- sets and frozensets now have an isdisjoint() method.
1664
Raymond Hettinger3f8caa32007-10-24 01:28:33 +00001665- optimize the performance of builtin.sum().
1666
Neal Norwitz44f326e2007-10-05 05:29:17 +00001667- Fix warnings found by the new version of the Coverity checker.
1668
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001669- The enumerate() builtin function is no longer bounded to sequences
1670 smaller than LONG_MAX. Formerly, it raised an OverflowError. Now,
1671 automatically shifts from ints to longs.
Raymond Hettinger8f669372007-10-03 21:18:11 +00001672
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001673- Issue #1686386: Tuple's tp_repr did not take into account the
1674 possibility of having a self-referential tuple, which is possible
1675 from C code. Nor did object's tp_str consider that a type's tp_str
1676 could do something that could lead to an inifinite recursion.
1677 Py_ReprEnter() and Py_EnterRecursiveCall(), respectively, fixed the
1678 issues.
Brett Cannon0b14f242007-09-30 19:45:10 +00001679
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001680- Issue #1164: It was possible to trigger deadlock when using the
1681 'print' statement to write to a file since the GIL was not released
1682 as needed. Now PyObject_Print() does the right thing along with
1683 various tp_print implementations of the built-in types and those in
1684 the collections module.
Brett Cannon01531592007-09-17 03:28:34 +00001685
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001686- Issue #1147: Exceptions were directly allowing string exceptions in
1687 their throw() method even though string exceptions no longer
1688 allowed.
Brett Cannon4c20bc42007-09-11 21:02:28 +00001689
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001690- Issue #1096: Prevent a segfault from getting the repr of a very
1691 deeply nested list by using the recursion counter.
Brett Cannona0c05512007-09-10 21:38:27 +00001692
Brett Cannon1e534b52007-09-07 04:18:30 +00001693- Issue #1202533: Fix infinite recursion calls triggered by calls to
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001694 PyObject_Call() never calling back out to Python code to trigger
1695 recursion depth updates/checks. Required the creation of a static
1696 RuntimeError instance in case normalizing an exception put the
1697 recursion check value past its limit. Fixes crashers
1698 infinite_rec_(1|2|4|5).py.
Brett Cannon1e534b52007-09-07 04:18:30 +00001699
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001700- Patch #1031213: Decode source line in SyntaxErrors back to its
1701 original source encoding.
Martin v. Löwisa5136192007-09-04 14:19:28 +00001702
Georg Brandl7c3b50d2007-07-12 08:38:00 +00001703- Patch #1673759: add a missing overflow check when formatting floats
1704 with %G.
1705
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001706- Prevent expandtabs() on string and unicode objects from causing a
1707 segfault when a large width is passed on 32-bit platforms.
Neal Norwitz7dbd2a32007-06-09 03:36:34 +00001708
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001709- Issue #1733488: Fix compilation of bufferobject.c on AIX.
Martin v. Löwisda587ab2007-06-08 17:29:20 +00001710
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001711- Issue #1722485: remove docstrings again when running with -OO.
Georg Brandla5ea6892007-06-01 11:33:33 +00001712
Neal Norwitz0ac60192007-05-27 04:08:54 +00001713- Add new attribute names for function objects. All the func_* become
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001714 __*__ attributes. (Some already existed, e.g., __doc__ and
1715 __name__.)
Neal Norwitz0ac60192007-05-27 04:08:54 +00001716
Neal Norwitz8b2bfbc2007-05-23 06:35:32 +00001717- Add -3 option to the interpreter to warn about features that are
1718 deprecated and will be changed/removed in Python 3.0.
1719
Georg Brandl2134e752007-05-21 20:34:16 +00001720- Patch #1686487: you can now pass any mapping after '**' in function
1721 calls.
1722
Collin Winter62903052007-05-18 23:11:24 +00001723- except clauses may now be spelled either "except E, target:" or
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001724 "except E as target:". This is to provide forwards compatibility
1725 with Python 3.0.
Collin Winter62903052007-05-18 23:11:24 +00001726
Brett Cannon229cee22007-05-05 01:34:02 +00001727- Deprecate BaseException.message as per PEP 352.
1728
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001729- Issue #1303614: don't expose object's __dict__ when the dict is
Armin Rigo9790a272007-05-02 19:23:31 +00001730 inherited from a builtin base.
1731
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00001732- When __slots__ are set to a unicode string, make it work the same as
Neal Norwitzcbd9ee62007-04-14 05:25:50 +00001733 setting a plain string, ie don't expand to single letter identifiers.
1734
Raymond Hettinger13936692007-04-11 18:40:58 +00001735- Request #1191699: Slices can now be pickled.
1736
Raymond Hettinger4db5fe92007-04-12 04:10:00 +00001737- Request #1193128: str.translate() now allows a None argument for
1738 translations that only remove characters without re-mapping the
1739 remaining characters.
1740
Georg Brandl5cb76c12007-03-21 09:00:39 +00001741- Patch #1682205: a TypeError while unpacking an iterable is no longer
1742 masked by a generic one with the message "unpack non-sequence".
1743
Neal Norwitzaa754b72007-03-21 06:39:48 +00001744- Remove unused file Python/fmod.c.
1745
Guido van Rossum143b5642007-03-23 04:58:42 +00001746- Bug #1683368: The object.__init__() and object.__new__() methods are
1747 now stricter in rejecting excess arguments. The only time when
1748 either allows excess arguments is when it is not overridden and the
1749 other one is. For backwards compatibility, when both are
1750 overridden, it is a deprecation warning (for now; maybe a Py3k
Guido van Rossum234b1ff2007-03-23 19:39:01 +00001751 warning later). Also, type.__init__() insists on the same signature
1752 as supported by type.__new__().
Guido van Rossum143b5642007-03-23 04:58:42 +00001753
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001754- Patch #1675423: PyComplex_AsCComplex() now tries to convert an
1755 object to complex using its __complex__() method before falling back
1756 to the __float__() method. Therefore, the functions in the cmath
1757 module now can operate on objects that define a __complex__()
1758 method.
Georg Brandl2b869942007-03-17 16:08:45 +00001759
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001760- Patch #1623563: allow __class__ assignment for classes with
1761 __slots__. The old and the new class are still required to have the
1762 same slot names.
Žiga Seilnacht6f2d09c2007-03-16 11:59:38 +00001763
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001764- Patch #1642547: Fix an error/crash when encountering syntax errors
1765 in complex if statements.
Collin Winter77c67bd2007-03-16 04:11:30 +00001766
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001767- Patch #1462488: Python no longer segfaults when
1768 ``object.__reduce_ex__()`` is called with an object that is faking
1769 its type.
Žiga Seilnacht20f43d32007-03-15 11:44:55 +00001770
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001771- Patch #1680015: Don't modify __slots__ tuple if it contains an
1772 unicode name.
Žiga Seilnacht71436f02007-03-14 12:24:09 +00001773
Georg Brandl5240d742007-03-13 20:46:32 +00001774- Patch #1444529: the builtin compile() now accepts keyword arguments.
1775
Georg Brandl7b9c5552007-03-12 14:30:05 +00001776- Bug #1678647: write a newline after printing an exception in any
1777 case, even when converting the value to a string failed.
1778
Georg Brandl871f1bc2007-03-12 13:17:36 +00001779- The dir() function has been extended to call the __dir__() method on
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001780 its argument, if it exists. If not, it will work like before. This
1781 allows customizing the output of dir() in the presence of a
1782 __getattr__().
Georg Brandl871f1bc2007-03-12 13:17:36 +00001783
Collin Winter276887b2007-03-12 16:11:39 +00001784- Patch #922167: Python no longer segfaults when faced with infinitely
1785 self-recursive reload() calls (as reported by bug #742342).
1786
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001787- Patch #1675981: remove unreachable code from ``type.__new__()``
1788 method.
Žiga Seilnacht89032082007-03-11 15:54:54 +00001789
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001790- Patch #1491866: change the complex() constructor to allow
1791 parthensized forms. This means complex(repr(x)) now works instead of
1792 raising a ValueError.
Collin Wintere38051d2007-03-09 20:33:07 +00001793
Georg Brandlaa2321b2007-03-07 00:40:28 +00001794- Patch #703779: unset __file__ in __main__ after running a file. This
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001795 makes the filenames the warning module prints much more sensible
1796 when a PYTHONSTARTUP file is used.
Georg Brandlaa2321b2007-03-07 00:40:28 +00001797
Georg Brandl49aafc92007-03-07 00:34:46 +00001798- Variant of patch #697613: don't exit the interpreter on a SystemExit
1799 exception if the -i command line option or PYTHONINSPECT environment
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001800 variable is given, but break into the interactive interpreter just
1801 like on other exceptions or normal program exit.
Georg Brandl49aafc92007-03-07 00:34:46 +00001802
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001803- Patch #1638879: don't accept strings with embedded NUL bytes in
1804 long().
Georg Brandl00cd8182007-03-06 18:41:12 +00001805
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001806- Bug #1674503: close the file opened by execfile() in an error
1807 condition.
Georg Brandl098cd692007-03-06 12:17:50 +00001808
Georg Brandl0fca97a2007-03-05 22:28:08 +00001809- Patch #1674228: when assigning a slice (old-style), check for the
1810 sq_ass_slice instead of the sq_slice slot.
1811
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001812- When printing an unraisable error, don't print exceptions. before
1813 the name. This duplicates the behavior whening normally printing
1814 exceptions.
Neal Norwitz88516a62007-02-26 22:41:45 +00001815
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001816- Bug #1653736: Properly discard third argument to
1817 slot_nb_inplace_power.
Martin v. Löwisfd963262007-02-09 12:19:32 +00001818
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001819- PEP 352: Raising a string exception now triggers a TypeError.
1820 Attempting to catch a string exception raises DeprecationWarning.
Brett Cannon129bd522007-01-30 21:34:36 +00001821
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001822- Bug #1377858: Fix the segfaulting of the interpreter when an object
1823 created a weakref on itself during a __del__ call for new-style
1824 classes (classic classes still have the bug).
Brett Cannonf5bee302007-01-23 23:21:22 +00001825
Martin v. Löwis6c5c5022007-01-23 21:11:47 +00001826- Bug #1579370: Make PyTraceBack_Here use the current thread, not the
1827 frame's thread state.
1828
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001829- patch #1630975: Fix crash when replacing sys.stdout in
1830 sitecustomize.py.
Thomas Wouters6ed19652007-01-23 13:50:49 +00001831
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001832- Prevent seg fault on shutdown which could occur if an object raised
1833 a warning.
Neal Norwitz72cd02c2007-01-05 05:25:22 +00001834
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001835- Bug #1566280: Explicitly invoke threading._shutdown from Py_Main, to
1836 avoid relying on atexit.
Martin v. Löwis7b7c9d42007-01-04 21:06:12 +00001837
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001838- Bug #1590891: random.randrange don't return correct value for big
1839 number.
Raymond Hettinger94547f72006-12-20 06:42:06 +00001840
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001841- Patch #1586791: Better exception messages for some operations on
1842 strings, tuples and lists.
Georg Brandl283a1352006-11-19 08:48:30 +00001843
Martin v. Löwis056dac12006-11-12 18:24:26 +00001844- Bug #1067760: Deprecate passing floats to file.seek.
1845
Martin v. Löwisa346c092006-11-08 06:48:36 +00001846- Bug #1591996: Correctly forward exception in instance_contains().
1847
Neal Norwitz85dbec62006-11-04 19:25:22 +00001848- Bug #1588287: fix invalid assertion for `1,2` in debug builds.
1849
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001850- Bug #1576657: when setting a KeyError for a tuple key, make sure
1851 that the tuple isn't used as the "exception arguments tuple".
Georg Brandlb9f4ad32006-10-29 18:31:42 +00001852
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001853- Bug #1565514: SystemError not raised on too many nested blocks.
Neal Norwitz21997af2006-10-28 21:19:07 +00001854
Thomas Hellerdf08f0b2006-10-27 18:31:36 +00001855- Bug #1576174: WindowsError now displays the windows error code
1856 again, no longer the posix error code.
1857
Martin v. Löwisb5bc5372006-10-27 06:16:31 +00001858- Patch #1549049: Support long values in structmember, issue warnings
1859 if the assigned value for structmember fields gets truncated.
1860
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001861- Update the peephole optimizer to remove more dead code (jumps after
1862 returns) and inline unconditional jumps to returns.
Neal Norwitzcbeb6872006-10-14 21:33:38 +00001863
Georg Brandl2c1375c2006-10-12 11:27:59 +00001864- Bug #1545497: when given an explicit base, int() did ignore NULs
1865 embedded in the string to convert.
1866
Georg Brandl846f73a2006-10-08 07:11:54 +00001867- Bug #1569998: break inside a try statement (outside a loop) is now
1868 recognized and rejected.
1869
Armin Rigo7ccbca92006-10-04 12:17:45 +00001870- list.pop(x) accepts any object x following the __index__ protocol.
1871
Armin Rigo7ccbca92006-10-04 12:17:45 +00001872- A number of places, including integer negation and absolute value,
1873 were fixed to not rely on undefined behaviour of the C compiler
1874 anymore.
Martin v. Löwis820d6ac2006-10-04 05:47:34 +00001875
Georg Brandl3267d282006-09-30 09:03:42 +00001876- Bug #1566800: make sure that EnvironmentError can be called with any
1877 number of arguments, as was the case in Python 2.4.
1878
Georg Brandl5d59c092006-09-30 08:43:30 +00001879- Patch #1567691: super() and new.instancemethod() now don't accept
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001880 keyword arguments any more (previously they accepted them, but
1881 didn't use them).
Georg Brandl5d59c092006-09-30 08:43:30 +00001882
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001883- Fix a bug in the parser's future statement handling that led to
1884 "with" not being recognized as a keyword after, e.g., this
1885 statement: from __future__ import division, with_statement
Georg Brandla10d3af2006-09-24 12:35:36 +00001886
Neal Norwitz3a230172006-09-22 08:18:10 +00001887- Bug #1557232: fix seg fault with def f((((x)))) and def f(((x),)).
1888
Neal Norwitz4a8fbdb2006-09-22 08:16:26 +00001889- Fix %zd string formatting on Mac OS X so it prints negative numbers.
1890
Brett Cannonf6aa86e2006-09-20 18:43:13 +00001891- Allow exception instances to be directly sliced again.
1892
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001893- Bug #1551432: Exceptions do not define an explicit __unicode__
1894 method. This allows calling unicode() on exceptions classes
1895 directly to succeed.
Brett Cannon9adeab72006-09-20 18:34:28 +00001896
Georg Brandl4e933132006-09-06 20:05:58 +00001897- Bug #1542051: Exceptions now correctly call PyObject_GC_UnTrack.
1898 Also make sure that every exception class has __module__ set to
1899 'exceptions'.
1900
Georg Brandl98775df2006-09-06 06:09:31 +00001901- Bug #1550983: emit better error messages for erroneous relative
1902 imports (if not in package and if beyond toplevel package).
1903
Tim Petersc10c9d02006-09-05 02:18:09 +00001904- Overflow checking code in integer division ran afoul of new gcc
1905 optimizations. Changed to be more standard-conforming.
1906
Neal Norwitz4f096d92006-08-21 19:47:08 +00001907- Patch #1542451: disallow continue anywhere under a finally.
1908
Neal Norwitza22975f2006-09-05 02:24:03 +00001909- Patch #1546288: fix seg fault in dict_equal due to ref counting bug.
1910
Neal Norwitzd34e4272006-09-05 02:36:20 +00001911- The return tuple from str.rpartition(sep) is (tail, sep, head) where
1912 head is the original string if sep was not found.
1913
Neal Norwitzdac090d2006-09-05 03:53:08 +00001914- Bug #1520864: unpacking singleton tuples in list comprehensions and
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001915 generator expressions (x for x, in ... ) works again. Fixing this
1916 problem required changing the .pyc magic number. This means that
1917 .pyc files generated before 2.5c2 will be regenerated.
Neal Norwitzdac090d2006-09-05 03:53:08 +00001918
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00001919- ``with`` and ``as`` are now keywords.
Neal Norwitzca460d92006-09-06 06:28:06 +00001920
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001921- Bug #1664966: Fix crash in exec if Unicode filename can't be
1922 decoded.
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00001923
Guido van Rossumcad37242008-01-15 17:59:29 +00001924- Issue #1537: Changed GeneratorExit's base class from Exception to
1925 BaseException.
Christian Heimes44eeaec2007-12-03 20:01:02 +00001926
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001927- Issue #1703448: A joined thread could show up in the
Gregory P. Smith95cd5c02008-01-22 01:20:42 +00001928 threading.enumerate() list after the join() for a brief period until
1929 it actually exited.
1930
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00001931
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00001932Library
1933-------
1934
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001935- Patch #2274: Add heapq.heappushpop().
Raymond Hettinger53bdf092008-03-13 19:03:51 +00001936
Christian Heimes608c1d82008-03-03 18:28:04 +00001937- Add inspect.isabstract(object) to fix bug #2223
1938
Mark Dickinson1ddf1d82008-02-29 02:16:37 +00001939- Add a __format__ method to Decimal, to support PEP 3101.
1940
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001941- Add a timing parameter when using trace.Trace to print out
1942 timestamps.
Neal Norwitzca376612008-02-26 08:21:28 +00001943
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001944- Issue #1627: httplib now ignores negative Content-Length headers.
Georg Brandl8c460d52008-02-24 00:14:24 +00001945
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001946- Issue #900744: If an invalid chunked-encoding header is sent by a
1947 server, httplib will now raise IncompleteRead and close the
1948 connection instead of raising ValueError.
Georg Brandl23635032008-02-24 00:03:22 +00001949
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001950- Issue #1492: The content type of BaseHTTPServer error messages can
1951 now be overridden.
Georg Brandl16479232008-02-23 15:02:28 +00001952
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001953- Issue #1781: ConfigParser now does not let you add the "default" section
Facundo Batistab12f0b52008-02-23 12:46:10 +00001954 (ignore-case)
1955
Guido van Rossum8bc09652008-02-21 18:18:37 +00001956- Removed uses of dict.has_key() from distutils, and uses of
1957 callable() from copy_reg.py, so the interpreter now starts up
1958 without warnings when '-3' is given. More work like this needs to
1959 be done in the rest of the stdlib.
1960
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001961- Issue #1916: added isgenerator() and isgeneratorfunction() to
1962 inspect.py.
Facundo Batista759bfc62008-02-18 03:43:43 +00001963
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001964- Issue #1224: Fixed bad url parsing when path begins with double
1965 slash.
Facundo Batistad14600e2008-02-18 12:48:43 +00001966
Thomas Hellera06a1a82008-02-13 20:21:53 +00001967- ctypes instances that are not or do not contain pointers can now be
1968 pickled.
1969
Martin v. Löwisdad88dc2008-02-12 18:47:34 +00001970- Patch #1966: Break infinite loop in httplib when the servers
1971 implements the chunked encoding incorrectly.
1972
Mark Dickinsond058cd22008-02-10 21:29:51 +00001973- Rename rational.py to fractions.py and the rational.Rational class
1974 to fractions.Fraction, to avoid the name clash with the abstract
1975 base class numbers.Rational. See discussion in issue #1682.
1976
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001977- The pickletools module now provides an optimize() function that
1978 eliminates unused PUT opcodes from a pickle string.
Raymond Hettingerda614dc2008-02-10 20:35:16 +00001979
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001980- Patch #2021: Allow tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile and
1981 SpooledTemporaryFile to be used in with statements by correctly
1982 supporting the context management protocol.
Nick Coghlanac094dc2008-02-10 07:32:52 +00001983
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001984- Patch #1979: Add rich comparisons to Decimal, and make Decimal
1985 comparisons involving a NaN follow the IEEE 754 standard.
Mark Dickinson2fc92632008-02-06 22:10:50 +00001986
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001987- Issue #2004: tarfile.py: Use mode 0700 for temporary directories and
1988 default permissions for missing directories.
Lars Gustäbel0192e432008-02-05 11:51:40 +00001989
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001990- Issue #175006: The debugger used to skip the condition of a "while"
1991 statement after the first iteration. Now it correctly steps on the
1992 expression, and breakpoints on the "while" statement are honored on
1993 each loop.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc6fd03bb2008-02-04 21:45:05 +00001994
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001995- Issue #1765140: add an optional delay argument to FileHandler and
1996 its subclasses. Defaults to false (existing behaviour), but if true,
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +00001997 defers opening the file until the first call to emit().
1998
Raymond Hettingerc226c312008-01-23 00:04:40 +00001999- The pprint module now supports sets and frozensets.
2000
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002001- Issue #1221598: add optional callbacks to ftplib.FTP's storbinary()
2002 and storlines() methods. (Contributed by Phil Schwartz)
Gregory P. Smithc64386b2008-01-22 00:19:41 +00002003
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002004- Issue #1715: include sub-extension modules in pydoc's text output.
Georg Brandlf2dae0e2008-01-21 21:05:49 +00002005
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002006- Issue #1836: fix an off-by-one bug in TimedRotatingHandler's
2007 rollover time calculation.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00002008
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002009- Issue #1021: fix a bug to allow basicConfig to accept NOTSET as a
2010 level.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00002011
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002012- Issue #932563: add LoggerAdapter convenience class to make it easier
2013 to add contextual information in logging output.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00002014
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002015- Issue #1760556: fix a bug to avoid FileHandler throwing an exception
2016 in flush().
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00002017
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002018- Bug #1530959: distutils' build command now uses different build
2019 directory when building extension modules against versions of Python
2020 compiled with ``--with-pydebug``.
Georg Brandl50160152008-01-21 17:42:40 +00002021
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002022- Issue #1555501: move plistlib from plat-mac directory to general
2023 library.
Georg Brandl864de822008-01-21 16:34:07 +00002024
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002025- Issue #1269: fix a bug in pstats.add_callers() and add a unit test
2026 file for pstats.
Georg Brandl66e73632008-01-21 10:24:59 +00002027
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002028- Issue #1669: don't allow shutil.rmtree() to be called on a symlink
2029 to a directory.
Georg Brandl52353982008-01-20 14:17:42 +00002030
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002031- Issue #1664522: in urllib, don't read non-existing directories in
2032 ftp mode, returning a 0-byte file -- raise an IOError instead.
Georg Brandld5e6cf22008-01-20 12:18:17 +00002033
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002034- Issue #856047: respect the ``no_proxy`` environment variable when
2035 using the ``http_proxy`` etc. environment variables in urllib.
Georg Brandl22350112008-01-20 12:05:43 +00002036
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002037- Issue #1178141: add a getcode() method to the addinfourls that
2038 urllib.open() returns so that you can retrieve the HTTP status code.
Georg Brandl9b0d46d2008-01-20 11:43:03 +00002039
Gregory P. Smithf25680a2008-01-20 01:26:04 +00002040- Issue #1003: Fix zipfile decryption check, it would fail zip files
2041 with extended local headers.
2042
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002043- Issue #1189216: Fix the zipfile module to work on archives with
2044 headers past the 2**31 byte boundary.
Gregory P. Smith350d03b2008-01-19 23:10:52 +00002045
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002046- Issue #1336: fix a race condition in subprocess.Popen if the garbage
Gregory P. Smithb9ba0752008-01-19 21:00:37 +00002047 collector kicked in at the wrong time that would cause the process
2048 to hang when the child wrote to stderr.
2049
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002050- Issue #1146: fix how textwrap breaks a long word that would start in
2051 the last column of a line.
Georg Brandlc6fde722008-01-19 19:48:19 +00002052
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002053- Issue #1693149: trace.py --ignore-module - accept multiple
2054 comma-separated modules to be given.
Skip Montanaro562133b2008-01-19 18:47:24 +00002055
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002056- Issue #1822: MIMEMultipart.is_multipart() behaves correctly for a
2057 just-created (and empty) instance. Thanks Jonathan Share.
Facundo Batista2b1b1952008-01-19 12:32:27 +00002058
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002059- Issue #1861: Added an attribute to the sched module which returns an
2060 ordered list of upcoming events (displayed as named tuples).
Raymond Hettinger44bd6c02008-01-17 19:31:38 +00002061
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002062- Issue #1837: The queue module now also supports a LIFO queue and a
2063 priority queue.
Raymond Hettinger3ad2acc82008-01-16 23:49:35 +00002064
Andrew M. Kuchling4a2762d2008-01-20 00:00:38 +00002065- Patch #1048820: Add insert-mode editing to curses.textpad.Textbox
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00002066 (patch by Stefan Wehr). Also, fix an off-by-one bug in
Andrew M. Kuchling4a2762d2008-01-20 00:00:38 +00002067 Textbox.gather().
2068
Thomas Heller02ec2892008-01-16 19:37:33 +00002069- Issue #1831: ctypes now raises a TypeError if conflicting positional
2070 and named arguments are passed to a Structure or Union initializer.
Thomas Heller415c1e32008-01-16 19:45:51 +00002071 When too many positional arguments are passed, also a TypeError is
2072 raised instead of a ValueError.
Thomas Heller02ec2892008-01-16 19:37:33 +00002073
Thomas Heller902d3072008-01-16 19:16:27 +00002074- Convert the internal ctypes array type cache to a WeakValueDict so
2075 that array types do not live longer than needed.
2076
Guido van Rossumcad37242008-01-15 17:59:29 +00002077- Issue #1786: pdb should use its own stdin/stdout around an exec call
2078 and when creating a recursive instance.
2079
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002080- Issue #1698398: ZipFile.printdir() crashed because the format string
2081 expected a tuple type of length six instead of time.struct_time
2082 object.
Raymond Hettinger351e1a32008-01-14 22:58:05 +00002083
Mark Dickinson59bc20b2008-01-12 01:56:00 +00002084- Issue #1780: The Decimal constructor now accepts arbitrary leading
2085 and trailing whitespace when constructing from a string.
2086 Context.create_decimal no longer accepts trailing newlines.
2087
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002088- Decimal.as_tuple(), difflib.find_longest_match() and inspect
2089 functions that returned a tuple now return a named tuple.
Georg Brandl2f32c392008-01-11 09:20:58 +00002090
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00002091- Doctest now returns results as a named tuple for readability:
Raymond Hettingerfff4e6e2008-01-11 01:25:54 +00002092 (0, 7) --> TestResults(failed=0, attempted=7)
2093
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002094- Issue #846388:q re.match is interruptible now, which is particularly
Facundo Batista4473d222008-01-08 21:10:12 +00002095 good for long regular expression matches.
2096
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002097- Patch #1137: allow setting buffer_size attribute on pyexpat Parser
2098 objects to set the character data buffer size.
Andrew M. Kuchlinge0a49b62008-01-08 14:30:55 +00002099
Facundo Batista52b25792008-01-08 12:25:20 +00002100- Issue #1757: The hash of a Decimal instance is no longer affected by
2101 the current context.
2102
Georg Brandl62416bc2008-01-07 18:47:44 +00002103- Patch #467924: add ZipFile.extract() and ZipFile.extractall() in the
2104 zipfile module.
2105
Christian Heimesfb2d25a2008-01-07 16:12:44 +00002106- Issue #1646: Make socket support the TIPC protocol.
2107
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002108- Bug #1742: return os.curdir from os.path.relpath() if both arguments
2109 are equal instead of raising an exception.
Georg Brandl183a0842008-01-06 14:27:15 +00002110
Guido van Rossumc6a04c22008-01-05 22:19:06 +00002111- Patch #1637: fix urlparse for URLs like 'http://x.com?arg=/foo'.
2112
Guido van Rossumced4eb02008-01-05 01:21:57 +00002113- Patch #1698: allow '@' in username parsed by urlparse.py.
2114
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002115- Issue #1735: TarFile.extractall() now correctly sets directory
2116 permissions and times.
Lars Gustäbel2ee1c762008-01-04 14:00:33 +00002117
Christian Heimes06875612008-01-04 13:21:07 +00002118- Bug #1713: posixpath.ismount() claims symlink to a mountpoint is a mountpoint.
2119
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002120- Bug #1687: Fxed plistlib.py restricts <integer> to Python int when
2121 writing
Christian Heimes06131882008-01-04 00:04:52 +00002122
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002123- Issue #1700: Regular expression inline flags incorrectly handle
2124 certain unicode characters.
Guido van Rossumae04c332008-01-03 19:12:44 +00002125
Jeffrey Yasskin2f3c16b2008-01-03 02:21:52 +00002126- Issue #1689: PEP 3141, numeric abstract base classes.
2127
Martin v. Löwis84b9aab2008-01-01 21:09:07 +00002128- Tk issue #1851526: Return results from Python callbacks to Tcl as
2129 Tcl objects.
2130
Thomas Heller153038e2007-12-18 19:00:34 +00002131- Issue #1642: Fix segfault in ctypes when trying to delete attributes.
2132
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002133- Issue #1727780: Support loading pickles of random.Random objects
2134 created on 32-bit systems on 64-bit systems, and vice versa. As a
2135 consequence of the change, Random pickles created by Python 2.6
2136 cannot be loaded in Python 2.5.
Martin v. Löwis6b449f42007-12-03 19:20:02 +00002137
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002138- Issue #1455: The distutils package now supports VS 2005 and VS 2008
2139 for both the msvccompiler and cygwincompiler.
Christian Heimesc654fc22007-12-03 13:55:16 +00002140
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002141- Issue #1531: tarfile.py: Read fileobj from the current offset, do
2142 not seek to the start.
Lars Gustäbel77b2d632007-12-01 21:02:12 +00002143
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002144- Issue #1534: Added a dictionary sys.float_info with information
2145 about the internal floating point type to the sys module.
Christian Heimesdfdfaab2007-12-01 11:20:10 +00002146
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002147- Issue #1429818: patch for trace and doctest modules so they play
2148 nicely together.
Skip Montanaro58a6f442007-11-24 14:30:47 +00002149
Brett Cannon43e53f82007-11-21 00:47:36 +00002150- doctest made a bad assumption that a package's __loader__.get_data()
2151 method used universal newlines.
2152
Nick Coghlan90b858e2007-11-07 11:57:51 +00002153- Issue #1705170: contextlib.contextmanager was still swallowing
2154 StopIteration in some cases. This should no longer happen.
2155
Thomas Heller486b1b02007-11-02 19:10:24 +00002156- Issue #1292: On alpha, arm, ppc, and s390 linux systems the
2157 --with-system-ffi configure option defaults to "yes".
2158
Hye-Shik Changa838a802007-10-28 11:19:02 +00002159- IN module for FreeBSD 8 is added and preexisting FreeBSD 6 and 7
2160 files are updated.
2161
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002162- Issues #1181, #1287: unsetenv() is now called when the
2163 os.environ.pop() and os.environ.clear() methods are used.
Georg Brandl1a94ec22007-10-24 21:40:38 +00002164
Thomas Heller91ac4222007-10-19 18:11:41 +00002165- ctypes will now work correctly on 32-bit systems when Python is
2166 configured with --with-system-ffi.
2167
Thomas Heller7fee6dd2007-10-11 19:51:32 +00002168- Patch #1203: ctypes now does work on OS X when Python is built with
Georg Brandl1a94ec22007-10-24 21:40:38 +00002169 --disable-toolbox-glue.
Thomas Heller7fee6dd2007-10-11 19:51:32 +00002170
Raymond Hettingera7fc4b12007-10-05 02:47:07 +00002171- collections.deque() now supports a "maxlen" argument.
2172
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002173- itertools.count() is no longer bounded to LONG_MAX. Formerly, it
2174 raised an OverflowError. Now, automatically shifts from ints to
2175 longs.
Raymond Hettinger50e90e22007-10-04 00:20:27 +00002176
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002177- Added itertools.product() which forms the Cartesian product of the
2178 input iterables.
Raymond Hettingerc5705a82008-02-22 19:50:06 +00002179
Raymond Hettinger66f91ea2008-03-05 20:59:58 +00002180- Added itertools.combinations() and itertools.permutations().
Raymond Hettinger93e804d2008-02-26 23:40:50 +00002181
Georg Brandlaff85e22007-09-20 16:06:07 +00002182- Patch #1541463: optimize performance of cgi.FieldStorage operations.
2183
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002184- Decimal is fully updated to the latest Decimal Specification
2185 (v1.66).
Facundo Batistab67da232007-09-17 16:26:50 +00002186
Georg Brandl8fd3ecf2007-09-12 19:00:07 +00002187- Bug #1153: repr.repr() now doesn't require set and dictionary items
2188 to be orderable to properly represent them.
2189
Thomas Heller2825b2e2007-09-07 06:32:17 +00002190- A 'c_longdouble' type was added to the ctypes module.
2191
Martin v. Löwis7dcb83c2007-08-30 19:04:09 +00002192- Bug #1709599: Run test_1565150 only if the file system is NTFS.
2193
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002194- When encountering a password-protected robots.txt file the
2195 RobotFileParser no longer prompts interactively for a username and
2196 password (bug 813986).
Skip Montanaro3e275362007-08-29 01:33:45 +00002197
Lars Gustäbel0f4a14b2007-08-28 12:31:09 +00002198- TarFile.__init__() no longer fails if no name argument is passed and
2199 the fileobj argument has no usable name attribute (e.g. StringIO).
2200
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002201- The functools module now provides 'reduce', for forward
2202 compatibility with Python 3000.
Guido van Rossum95f1a1b2007-08-27 20:52:10 +00002203
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002204- Server-side SSL support and cert verification added, by Bill
2205 Janssen.
Guido van Rossum4f2c3dd2007-08-25 15:08:43 +00002206
Bill Janssenf413fb02007-08-30 18:08:06 +00002207- socket.ssl deprecated; use new ssl module instead.
2208
Georg Brandl8ec57542007-08-24 06:10:01 +00002209- uuid creation is now threadsafe.
2210
Hye-Shik Chang23901042007-08-20 06:49:18 +00002211- EUC-KR codec now handles the cheot-ga-keut composed make-up hangul
2212 syllables.
2213
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002214- GB18030 codec now can encode additional two-byte characters that are
2215 missing in GBK.
Hye-Shik Changf3e93a02007-08-04 04:10:18 +00002216
Walter Dörwald6e390802007-08-17 16:41:28 +00002217- Add new codecs for UTF-32, UTF-32-LE and UTF-32-BE.
2218
Martin v. Löwisf1e0b3f2007-07-28 07:03:05 +00002219- Bug #1704793: Return UTF-16 pair if unicodedata.lookup cannot
2220 represent the result in a single character.
2221
Martin v. Löwisf25e35b2007-07-27 18:28:22 +00002222- Bug #978833: Close https sockets by releasing the _ssl object.
2223
Martin v. Löwis254b8f92007-07-25 16:24:23 +00002224- Change location of the package index to pypi.python.org/pypi
2225
Thomas Hellerfa704c62007-07-13 17:12:23 +00002226- Bug #1701409: Fix a segfault in printing ctypes.c_char_p and
2227 ctypes.c_wchar_p when they point to an invalid location. As a
2228 sideeffect the representation of these instances has changed.
2229
Lars Gustäbel104490e2007-06-18 11:42:11 +00002230- tarfile.py: Added "exclude" keyword argument to TarFile.add().
2231
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002232- Bug #1734723: Fix repr.Repr() so it doesn't ignore the maxtuple
2233 attribute.
Neal Norwitzc161cb92007-06-11 07:29:43 +00002234
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002235- The urlopen function of urllib2 now has an optional timeout
2236 parameter (note that it actually works with HTTP, HTTPS, FTP and
2237 FTPS connections).
Facundo Batista10951d52007-06-06 17:15:23 +00002238
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002239- In ftplib, the FTP.ntransfercmd method, when in passive mode, now
2240 uses the socket.create_connection function, using the timeout
2241 specified at connection time.
Facundo Batista92493122007-06-06 15:13:37 +00002242
Hye-Shik Chang9b541402007-06-05 18:58:51 +00002243- Bug #1728403: Fix a bug that CJKCodecs StreamReader hangs when it
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002244 reads a file that ends with incomplete sequence and sizehint
2245 argument for .read() is specified.
Hye-Shik Chang9b541402007-06-05 18:58:51 +00002246
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002247- Bug #1730389: Change time.strptime() to use ``\s+`` instead of
2248 ``\s*`` when matching spaces in the specified format argument.
Brett Cannonf7188ce2007-06-03 23:13:41 +00002249
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002250- Bugs #1668596/#1720897: distutils now copies data files even if
2251 package_dir is empty.
Neal Norwitz4a700bb2007-06-01 07:29:12 +00002252
Brett Cannonc2aa09a2007-05-31 19:20:00 +00002253- sha now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
2254
Brett Cannon7eec2172007-05-30 22:24:28 +00002255- md5 now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
2256
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002257- Issue #1385: The hmac module now computes the correct hmac when
2258 using hashes with a block size other than 64 bytes (such as sha384
2259 and sha512).
Gregory P. Smithe1ac4f12007-11-06 00:19:03 +00002260
Brett Cannonc249bda2007-05-30 21:48:58 +00002261- mimify now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
2262
Brett Cannon90134c92007-05-30 20:46:26 +00002263- MimeWriter now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
2264
Lars Gustäbela0fcb932007-05-27 19:49:30 +00002265- tarfile.py: Improved unicode support. Unicode input names are now
2266 officially supported. Added "errors" argument to the TarFile class.
2267
Facundo Batista711a54e2007-05-24 17:50:54 +00002268- urllib.ftpwrapper class now accepts an optional timeout.
2269
Georg Brandlc90bc752007-05-24 16:49:29 +00002270- shlex.split() now has an optional "posix" parameter.
2271
Brett Cannon41bf2fa2007-05-20 23:57:38 +00002272- The posixfile module now raises a DeprecationWarning.
2273
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002274- Remove the gopherlib module. This also leads to the removal of
2275 gopher support in urllib/urllib2.
Brett Cannond75f0432007-05-16 22:42:29 +00002276
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002277- Fix bug in marshal where bad data would cause a segfault due to lack
2278 of an infinite recursion check.
Neal Norwitzb1a9b372007-05-16 20:05:11 +00002279
Neal Norwitze0e70a42007-05-16 05:06:33 +00002280- Removed plat-freebsd2 and plat-freebsd3 directories (and IN.py in
2281 the directories).
2282
Georg Brandla09a96a2007-05-15 20:19:34 +00002283- HTML-escape the plain traceback in cgitb's HTML output, to prevent
2284 the traceback inadvertently or maliciously closing the comment and
2285 injecting HTML into the error page.
2286
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002287- The popen2 module and os.popen* are deprecated. Use the subprocess
2288 module.
Neal Norwitz42dd86b2007-05-11 06:57:33 +00002289
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002290- Added an optional credentials argument to SMTPHandler, for use with
2291 SMTP servers which require authentication.
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00002292
2293- Patch #1695948: Added optional timeout parameter to SocketHandler.
2294
2295- Bug #1652788: Minor fix for currentframe.
2296
2297- Patch #1598415: Added WatchedFileHandler to better support external
2298 log file rotation using e.g. newsyslog or logrotate. This handler is
2299 only useful in Unix/Linux environments.
2300
Georg Brandlfb4b3b72007-04-24 15:27:13 +00002301- Bug #1706381: Specifying the SWIG option "-c++" in the setup.py file
2302 (as opposed to the command line) will now write file names ending in
2303 ".cpp" too.
2304
Facundo Batistad918a652007-04-24 13:54:38 +00002305- As specified in RFC 2616, an HTTP response like 2xx indicates that
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002306 the client's request was successfully received, understood, and
2307 accepted. Now in these cases no error is raised in urllib (issue
2308 #1177) and urllib2.
Facundo Batistad918a652007-04-24 13:54:38 +00002309
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002310- Bug #1290505: time.strptime's internal cache of locale information
2311 is now properly recreated when the locale is changed.
Brett Cannonc6906652007-04-01 18:47:27 +00002312
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002313- Patch #1685563: remove (don't add) duplicate paths in
2314 distutils.MSVCCompiler.
Neal Norwitz8f35f442007-04-01 18:24:22 +00002315
Facundo Batistab6a5c9d2007-03-29 18:22:35 +00002316- Added a timeout parameter to the constructor of other protocols
2317 (telnetlib, ftplib, smtplib and poplib). This is second part of the
2318 work started with create_connection() and timeout in httplib, and
2319 closes patch #723312.
2320
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00002321- Patch #1676823: Added create_connection() to socket.py, which may be
2322 called with a timeout, and use it from httplib (whose HTTPConnection
Facundo Batista70f996b2007-05-21 17:32:32 +00002323 and HTTPSConnection now accept an optional timeout).
Facundo Batista07c78be2007-03-23 18:54:07 +00002324
Martin v. Löwis0af33882007-03-23 13:27:15 +00002325- Bug #978833: Revert r50844, as it broke _socketobject.dup.
2326
Žiga Seilnacht7492e422007-03-21 20:07:56 +00002327- Bug #1675967: re patterns pickled with Python 2.4 and earlier can
2328 now be unpickled with Python 2.5 and newer.
2329
Collin Wintera8785cc2007-03-19 18:52:08 +00002330- Patch #1630118: add a SpooledTemporaryFile class to tempfile.py.
2331
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002332- Patch #1273829: os.walk() now has a "followlinks" parameter. If set
2333 to True (which is not the default), it visits symlinks pointing to
Georg Brandlcae9f3d2007-03-21 09:10:29 +00002334 directories.
2335
Georg Brandl8f06d022007-03-16 07:55:09 +00002336- Bug #1681228: the webbrowser module now correctly uses the default
2337 GNOME or KDE browser, depending on whether there is a session of one
2338 of those present. Also, it tries the Windows default browser before
2339 trying Mozilla variants.
2340
Collin Winter6f187742007-03-16 22:16:08 +00002341- Patch #1339796: add a relpath() function to os.path.
2342
Georg Brandlab1f4672007-03-15 07:41:30 +00002343- Patch #1681153: the wave module now closes a file object it opened if
2344 initialization failed.
2345
Georg Brandlf66b6032007-03-14 08:27:52 +00002346- Bug #767111: fix long-standing bug in urllib which caused an
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002347 AttributeError instead of an IOError when the server's response
2348 didn't contain a valid HTTP status line.
Georg Brandlf66b6032007-03-14 08:27:52 +00002349
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002350- Patch #957650: "%var%" environment variable references are now
2351 properly expanded in ntpath.expandvars(), also "~user" home
2352 directory references are recognized and handled on Windows.
Georg Brandl03b90d82007-03-13 22:07:36 +00002353
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002354- Patch #1429539: pdb now correctly initializes the __main__ module
2355 for the debugged script, which means that imports from __main__ work
Georg Brandlb6ae6aa2007-03-13 21:58:44 +00002356 correctly now.
2357
Georg Brandlbad6f192007-03-13 21:32:56 +00002358- The nonobvious commands.getstatus() function is now deprecated.
2359
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002360- Patch #1393667: pdb now has a "run" command which restarts the
2361 debugged Python program, optionally with different arguments.
Georg Brandl8e84c652007-03-13 21:08:15 +00002362
Thomas Heller5dc4fe02007-03-13 20:42:52 +00002363- Patch #1649190: Adding support for _Bool to ctypes as c_bool.
2364
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002365- Patch #1530482: add pydoc.render_doc() which returns the
2366 documentation for a thing instead of paging it to stdout, which
2367 pydoc.doc() does.
Georg Brandl8441f152007-03-13 20:02:57 +00002368
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002369- Patch #1533909: the timeit module now accepts callables in addition
2370 to strings for the code to time and the setup code. Also added two
2371 convenience functions for instantiating a Timer and calling its
2372 methods.
Georg Brandld9bef352007-03-13 19:32:21 +00002373
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002374- Patch #1537850: tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile now has a "delete"
2375 parameter which can be set to False to prevent the default
2376 delete-on-close behavior.
Georg Brandl35ef9c12007-03-13 18:31:49 +00002377
Georg Brandl9e6b4702007-03-13 18:15:41 +00002378- Patch #1581073: add a flag to textwrap that prevents the dropping of
2379 whitespace while wrapping.
2380
Georg Brandl92a6bae2007-03-13 17:43:32 +00002381- Patch #1603688: ConfigParser.SafeConfigParser now checks values that
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002382 are set for invalid interpolation sequences that would lead to
2383 errors on reading back those values.
Georg Brandl92a6bae2007-03-13 17:43:32 +00002384
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002385- Added support for the POSIX.1-2001 (pax) format to
2386 tarfile.py. Extended and cleaned up the test suite. Added a new
2387 testtar.tar.
Lars Gustäbelc64e4022007-03-13 10:47:19 +00002388
Martin v. Löwisbdd0f392007-03-13 10:24:00 +00002389- Patch #1449244: Support Unicode strings in
2390 email.message.Message.{set_charset,get_content_charset}.
2391
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002392- Patch #1542681: add entries for "with", "as" and "CONTEXTMANAGERS"
2393 to pydoc's help keywords.
Georg Brandlb6a87542007-03-13 10:06:48 +00002394
Georg Brandl4ffc8f52007-03-13 09:41:31 +00002395- Patch #1555098: use str.join() instead of repeated string
2396 concatenation in robotparser.
2397
Georg Brandl94fe3f52007-03-13 09:32:11 +00002398- Patch #1635454: the csv.DictWriter class now includes the offending
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002399 field names in its exception message if you try to write a record
2400 with a dictionary containing fields not in the CSV field names list.
Georg Brandl94fe3f52007-03-13 09:32:11 +00002401
Georg Brandlceede5c2007-03-13 08:14:27 +00002402- Patch #1668100: urllib2 now correctly raises URLError instead of
2403 OSError if accessing a local file via the file:// protocol fails.
2404
Martin v. Löwis2681beb2007-03-12 11:01:10 +00002405- Patch #1677862: Require a space or tab after import in .pth files.
2406
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002407- Patch #1192590: Fix pdb's "ignore" and "condition" commands so they
2408 trap the IndexError caused by passing in an invalid breakpoint
2409 number.
Collin Winter2faa9e12007-03-11 16:00:20 +00002410
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002411- Patch #1599845: Add an option to disable the implicit calls to
2412 server_bind() and server_activate() in the constructors for
2413 TCPServer, SimpleXMLRPCServer and DocXMLRPCServer.
Collin Winterae041062007-03-10 14:41:48 +00002414
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002415- Bug #1531963: Make SocketServer.TCPServer's server_address always be
2416 equal to calling getsockname() on the server's socket. Fixed by
Collin Winterfaaa2042007-03-10 03:35:34 +00002417 patch #1545011.
Collin Winter22c42ba2007-03-10 02:51:26 +00002418
Andrew M. Kuchlinge45a77a2008-01-19 16:26:13 +00002419- Patch #742598: Add .timeout attribute to SocketServer that calls
2420 .handle_timeout() when no requests are received.
2421
Thomas Heller2456a3c2007-03-09 20:39:22 +00002422- Bug #1651235: When a tuple was passed to a ctypes function call,
2423 Python would crash instead of raising an error.
2424
Thomas Hellerc2f77252007-03-09 19:21:28 +00002425- Bug #1646630: ctypes.string_at(buf, 0) and ctypes.wstring_at(buf, 0)
2426 returned string up to the first NUL character.
2427
Martin v. Löwis1190a382007-03-09 15:35:55 +00002428- Patch #957003: Implement smtplib.LMTP.
2429
Collin Winterfb728de2007-03-09 03:26:32 +00002430- Patch #1481079: add support for HTTP_REFERER to CGIHTTPServer.
2431
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002432- Patch #1675424: Added tests for uncovered code in the zipfile
2433 module. The KeyError raised by Zipfile.getinfo for nonexistent
2434 names now has a descriptive message.
Georg Brandl4b3ab6f2007-07-12 09:59:22 +00002435
Martin v. Löwis05c075d2007-03-07 11:04:33 +00002436- Bug #1115886: os.path.splitext('.cshrc') gives now ('.cshrc', '').
2437
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002438- unittest now verifies more of its assumptions. In particular,
2439 TestCase and TestSuite subclasses (not instances) are no longer
2440 accepted in TestSuite.addTest(). This should cause no
2441 incompatibility since it never made sense with ordinary subclasses
2442 -- the failure just occurred later, with a more cumbersome
2443 exception.
Georg Brandl9caadf82007-03-08 18:37:31 +00002444
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002445- Patch #787789: allow to pass custom TestRunner instances to
2446 unittest's main() function.
Georg Brandld0a96252007-03-07 09:21:06 +00002447
Georg Brandl15c5ce92007-03-07 09:09:40 +00002448- Patches #1550273, #1550272: fix a few bugs in unittest and add a
2449 comprehensive test suite for the module.
2450
Georg Brandl71ff6462007-03-07 08:31:51 +00002451- Patch #1001604: glob.glob() now returns unicode filenames if it was
2452 given a unicode argument and os.listdir() returns unicode filenames.
2453
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002454- Patch #1673619: setup.py identifies extension modules it doesn't
2455 know how to build and those it knows how to build but that fail to
2456 build.
Skip Montanarod1287322007-03-06 15:41:38 +00002457
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00002458- Patch #912410: Replace HTML entity references for attribute values
Martin v. Löwisab8a6bb2007-03-06 14:43:00 +00002459 in HTMLParser.
2460
Georg Brandlff432e62007-03-06 13:37:45 +00002461- Patch #1663234: you can now run doctest on test files and modules
2462 using "python -m doctest [-v] filename ...".
2463
Martin v. Löwis3eb76482007-03-06 10:41:24 +00002464- Patch #1121142: Implement ZipFile.open.
2465
Skip Montanarof694b1b2007-03-04 20:54:12 +00002466- Taught setup.py how to locate Berkeley DB on Macs using MacPorts.
2467
Raymond Hettinger00166c52007-02-19 04:08:43 +00002468- Added heapq.merge() for merging sorted input streams.
2469
Raymond Hettingercd3c1082007-10-23 21:23:07 +00002470- Added collections.namedtuple() for assigning field names to tuples.
Raymond Hettingerc37e5e02007-03-01 06:16:43 +00002471
Raymond Hettingerd36862c2007-02-21 05:20:38 +00002472- Added itertools.izip_longest().
2473
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002474- Have the encoding package's search function dynamically import using
2475 absolute import semantics.
Brett Cannon971a0122007-02-15 22:54:39 +00002476
Lars Gustäbel5b1a7852007-02-13 16:09:24 +00002477- Patch #1647484: Renamed GzipFile's filename attribute to name.
2478
Martin v. Löwis84f6de92007-02-13 10:10:39 +00002479- Patch #1517891: Mode 'a' for ZipFile now creates the file if it
2480 doesn't exist.
2481
Martin v. Löwisc6d626e2007-02-13 09:49:38 +00002482- Patch #698833: Support file decryption in zipfile.
2483
Martin v. Löwis07aa3ed2007-02-13 08:34:45 +00002484- Patch #685268: Consider a package's __path__ in imputil.
2485
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002486- Patch #1463026: Support default namespace in XMLGenerator.
Martin v. Löwis2bad58f2007-02-12 12:21:10 +00002487
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002488- Patch #1571379: Make trace's --ignore-dir facility work in the face
2489 of relative directory names.
Skip Montanaro691acf22007-02-11 18:24:37 +00002490
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002491- Bug #1600860: Search for shared python library in LIBDIR, not
2492 lib/python/config, on "linux" and "gnu" systems.
Martin v. Löwis0a203262007-02-09 12:36:48 +00002493
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002494- Patch #1652681: tarfile.py: create nonexistent files in append mode
2495 and allow appending to empty files.
Lars Gustäbel3f8aca12007-02-06 18:38:13 +00002496
Peter Astrand5f9c6ae2007-02-06 15:37:50 +00002497- Bug #1124861: Automatically create pipes if GetStdHandle fails in
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00002498 subprocess.
Peter Astrand5f9c6ae2007-02-06 15:37:50 +00002499
Georg Brandl4ba9e5b2007-01-27 17:59:42 +00002500- Patch #1634778: add missing encoding aliases for iso8859_15 and
2501 iso8859_16.
2502
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002503- Patch #1638243: the compiler package is now able to correctly
2504 compile a with statement; previously, executing code containing a
2505 with statement compiled by the compiler package crashed the
2506 interpreter.
Georg Brandlab496842007-01-27 17:43:02 +00002507
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00002508- Bug #1643943: Fix time.strptime's support for the %U directive.
2509
Lars Gustäbel0713a682007-02-19 09:54:47 +00002510- Patch #1507247: tarfile.py: use current umask for intermediate
2511 directories.
2512
Georg Brandldd7b0522007-01-21 10:35:10 +00002513- Patch #1627441: close sockets properly in urllib2.
2514
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002515- Bug #494589: make ntpath.expandvars behave according to its
2516 docstring.
Sjoerd Mullender33a0a062007-01-16 16:42:38 +00002517
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00002518- Changed platform module API python_version_tuple() to actually
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00002519 return a tuple (it used to return a list).
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00002520
2521- Added new platform module APIs python_branch(), python_revision(),
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00002522 python_implementation() and linux_distribution().
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00002523
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00002524- Added support for IronPython and Jython to the platform module.
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00002525
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002526- The sets module has been deprecated. Use the built-in set/frozenset
2527 types instead.
Brett Cannon093b6702007-01-13 00:29:49 +00002528
Thomas Heller6fd45492007-01-12 20:21:53 +00002529- Bug #1610795: make ctypes.util.find_library work on BSD systems.
2530
Thomas Heller8138c262007-01-11 21:18:56 +00002531- Fixes for 64-bit Windows: In ctypes.wintypes, correct the
2532 definitions of HANDLE, WPARAM, LPARAM data types. Make
2533 parameterless foreign function calls work.
2534
Thomas Hellerfb9d7872007-01-10 20:12:13 +00002535- The version number of the ctypes package changed to "1.1.0".
2536
Vinay Sajipab41c102007-01-09 14:51:36 +00002537- Bug #1627575: logging: Added _open() method to FileHandler which can
2538 be used to reopen files. The FileHandler instance now saves the
2539 encoding (which can be None) in an attribute called "encoding".
2540
Vinay Sajipc9137262007-01-08 18:52:36 +00002541- Bug #411881: logging.handlers: bare except clause removed from
2542 SMTPHandler.emit. Now, only ImportError is trapped.
2543
2544- Bug #411881: logging.handlers: bare except clause removed from
2545 SocketHandler.createSocket. Now, only socket.error is trapped.
2546
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002547- Bug #411881: logging: bare except clause removed from
2548 LogRecord.__init__. Now, only ValueError, TypeError and
2549 AttributeError are trapped.
Vinay Sajipc9137262007-01-08 18:52:36 +00002550
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002551- Patch #1504073: Fix tarfile.open() for mode "r" with a fileobj
2552 argument.
Lars Gustäbela7ba6fc2006-12-27 10:30:46 +00002553
Andrew M. Kuchling71662322006-12-27 03:31:24 +00002554- Patch #1182394 from Shane Holloway: speed up HMAC.hexdigest.
2555
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002556- Patch #1262036: Prevent TarFiles from being added to themselves
2557 under certain conditions.
Lars Gustäbela4b23812006-12-23 17:57:23 +00002558
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002559- Patch #1230446: tarfile.py: fix ExFileObject so that read() and
2560 tell() work correctly together with readline().
Lars Gustäbel6baa5022006-12-23 16:40:13 +00002561
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002562- Patch #1484695: The tarfile module now raises a HeaderError
2563 exception if a buffer given to frombuf() is invalid.
Georg Brandlebbeed72006-12-19 22:06:46 +00002564
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00002565- Bug #1503765: Fix a problem in logging.config with spaces in comma-
2566 separated lists read from logging config files.
2567
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002568- Patch #1604907: Fix problems in logging.handlers caused at logging
2569 shutdown when syslog handlers fail to initialize because of syslogd
2570 problems.
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00002571
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002572- Patch #1608267: fix a race condition in os.makedirs() if the
2573 directory to be created is already there.
Georg Brandlb1307432006-12-09 09:08:29 +00002574
Georg Brandl87fa5592006-12-06 22:21:18 +00002575- Patch #1610437: fix a tarfile bug with long filename headers.
2576
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002577- Patch #1371075: Make ConfigParser accept optional dict type for
2578 ordering, sorting, etc.
Martin v. Löwisa00bcac2006-12-03 12:01:53 +00002579
Thomas Helleref583a42006-11-28 20:21:54 +00002580- Bug #1563807: _ctypes built on AIX fails with ld ffi error.
2581
Thomas Heller25d208b2006-11-24 18:45:39 +00002582- Bug #1598620: A ctypes Structure cannot contain itself.
2583
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002584- Patch #1070046: Marshal new-style objects like InstanceType in
2585 xmlrpclib.
Martin v. Löwis07529352006-11-19 18:51:54 +00002586
Martin v. Löwiscffcc8b2006-11-19 10:41:41 +00002587- cStringIO.truncate(-1) now raises an IOError, like StringIO and
2588 regular files.
2589
Martin v. Löwisbba003e2006-11-18 18:42:11 +00002590- Patch #1472877: Fix Tix subwidget name resolution.
2591
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002592- Patch #1594554: Always close a tkSimpleDialog on ok(), even if an
2593 exception occurs.
Martin v. Löwisef5fd3e2006-11-18 18:05:35 +00002594
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002595- Patch #1538878: Don't make tkSimpleDialog dialogs transient if the
2596 parent window is withdrawn.
Martin v. Löwisc73a4a42006-11-18 18:00:23 +00002597
Georg Brandl54082112006-11-16 16:50:59 +00002598- Bug #1597824: return the registered function from atexit.register()
2599 to facilitate usage as a decorator.
2600
Martin v. Löwis45cd4ff2006-11-12 18:56:03 +00002601- Patch #1360200: Use unmangled_version RPM spec field to deal with
2602 file name mangling.
2603
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002604- Patch #1359217: Process 2xx response in an ftplib transfer that
2605 precedes an 1xx response.
Martin v. Löwis36cbc082006-11-12 18:48:13 +00002606
Martin v. Löwis065f0c82006-11-12 10:41:39 +00002607- Patch #1355023: support whence argument for GzipFile.seek.
2608
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00002609- Patch #1065257: Support passing open files as body in
Martin v. Löwis040a9272006-11-12 10:32:47 +00002610 HTTPConnection.request().
2611
Andrew M. Kuchlinga3e5d372006-11-09 13:27:07 +00002612- Bug #1569790: mailbox.py: Maildir.get_folder() and MH.get_folder()
2613 weren't passing the message factory on to newly created Maildir/MH
2614 objects.
2615
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002616- Patch #1514543: mailbox.py: In the Maildir class, report errors if
2617 there's a filename clash instead of possibly losing a message.
2618 (Patch by David Watson.)
Andrew M. Kuchling978d8282006-11-09 21:16:46 +00002619
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002620- Patch #1514544: Try to ensure that messages/indexes have been
2621 physically written to disk after calling .flush() or
2622 .close(). (Patch by David Watson.)
Andrew M. Kuchlingb5686da2006-11-09 13:51:14 +00002623
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00002624- Patch #1592250: Add elide argument to Tkinter.Text.search.
Martin v. Löwis038cad72006-11-09 11:27:32 +00002625
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00002626- Patch #838546: Make terminal become controlling in pty.fork().
Martin v. Löwisb2bba732006-11-09 11:06:03 +00002627
Martin v. Löwis5361e9a2006-11-08 07:35:55 +00002628- Patch #1351744: Add askyesnocancel helper for tkMessageBox.
2629
Martin v. Löwis5310e502006-11-04 18:14:06 +00002630- Patch #1060577: Extract list of RPM files from spec file in
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00002631 bdist_rpm.
Martin v. Löwis5310e502006-11-04 18:14:06 +00002632
Georg Brandl2c9838e2006-10-29 14:39:09 +00002633- Bug #1586613: fix zlib and bz2 codecs' incremental en/decoders.
2634
Georg Brandl3354f282006-10-29 09:16:12 +00002635- Patch #1583880: fix tarfile's problems with long names and posix/
2636 GNU modes.
2637
Georg Brandl5addf702006-10-29 08:53:06 +00002638- Bug #1586448: the compiler module now emits the same bytecode for
2639 list comprehensions as the builtin compiler, using the LIST_APPEND
2640 opcode.
2641
Georg Brandl8f99f812006-10-29 08:39:22 +00002642- Fix codecs.EncodedFile which did not use file_encoding in 2.5.0, and
2643 fix all codecs file wrappers to work correctly with the "with"
2644 statement (bug #1586513).
2645
Thomas Heller112d1a62006-10-27 19:05:53 +00002646- Lib/modulefinder.py now handles absolute and relative imports
2647 correctly.
2648
Martin v. Löwisee82c0e2006-10-27 07:13:28 +00002649- Patch #1567274: Support SMTP over TLS.
2650
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002651- Patch #1560695: Add .note.GNU-stack to ctypes' sysv.S so that ctypes
2652 isn't considered as requiring executable stacks.
Martin v. Löwis1b2f6272006-10-22 10:55:15 +00002653
Thomas Hellerd2ea4a22006-10-17 19:30:48 +00002654- ctypes callback functions only support 'fundamental' data types as
2655 result type. Raise an error when something else is used. This is a
2656 partial fix for Bug #1574584.
2657
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002658- Fix turtle so that time.sleep is imported for the entire library.
2659 Allows the demo2 function to be executed on its own instead of only
2660 when the module is run as a script.
Brett Cannond80e0c82006-10-16 03:09:52 +00002661
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002662- Bug #813342: Start the IDLE subprocess with -Qnew if the parent is
2663 started with that option.
Georg Brandld0761532006-10-12 07:57:21 +00002664
Martin v. Löwisf43893a2006-10-09 20:44:25 +00002665- Bug #1565150: Fix subsecond processing for os.utime on Windows.
2666
Martin v. Löwis8b274262006-10-04 15:25:28 +00002667- Support for MSVC 8 was added to bdist_wininst.
2668
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002669- Bug #1446043: correctly raise a LookupError if an encoding name
2670 given to encodings.search_function() contains a dot.
Georg Brandla92979a2006-09-30 11:22:28 +00002671
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002672- Bug #1560617: in pyclbr, return full module name not only for
2673 classes, but also for functions.
Georg Brandl154324a2006-09-30 11:06:47 +00002674
Georg Brandl05b3c452006-09-30 10:58:01 +00002675- Bug #1457823: cgi.(Sv)FormContentDict's constructor now takes
2676 keep_blank_values and strict_parsing keyword arguments.
2677
Georg Brandl8d1e5bf2006-09-30 09:13:21 +00002678- Bug #1566602: correct failure of posixpath unittest when $HOME ends
2679 with a slash.
2680
Georg Brandl8c667452006-09-30 07:31:57 +00002681- Bug #1565661: in webbrowser, split() the command for the default
2682 GNOME browser in case it is a command with args.
2683
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002684- Made the error message for time.strptime when the data data and
2685 format do match be more clear.
Brett Cannon11b35352006-09-26 23:38:24 +00002686
Georg Brandlc7986ce2006-09-24 12:50:24 +00002687- Fix a bug in traceback.format_exception_only() that led to an error
2688 being raised when print_exc() was called without an exception set.
2689 In version 2.4, this printed "None", restored that behavior.
2690
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002691- Make webbrowser.BackgroundBrowser usable in Windows (it wasn't
2692 because the close_fds arg to subprocess.Popen is not supported).
Georg Brandl2c94bf72006-09-24 10:36:01 +00002693
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002694- Reverted patch #1504333 to sgmllib because it introduced an infinite
2695 loop.
Neal Norwitzbcc119a2006-09-11 04:24:09 +00002696
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002697- Patch #1553314: Fix the inspect.py slowdown that was hurting IPython
2698 & SAGE by adding smarter caching in inspect.getmodule()
Nick Coghlanb3c18f82006-09-08 10:04:38 +00002699
Georg Brandl4e933132006-09-06 20:05:58 +00002700- Fix missing import of the types module in logging.config.
2701
Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +00002702- Patch #1550886: Fix decimal module context management implementation
Neal Norwitza22975f2006-09-05 02:24:03 +00002703 to match the localcontext() example from PEP 343.
Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +00002704
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002705- Bug #1545341: The 'classifier' keyword argument to the Distutils
2706 setup() function now accepts tuples as well as lists.
Andrew M. Kuchling99994792006-10-09 17:10:12 +00002707
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002708- Bug #1541863: uuid.uuid1 failed to generate unique identifiers on
2709 systems with low clock resolution.
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00002710
Gustavo Niemeyerc36bede2006-09-07 00:48:33 +00002711- Bug #1531862: Do not close standard file descriptors in subprocess.
2712
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002713- idle: Honor the "Cancel" action in the save dialog (Debian bug
2714 #299092).
Matthias Klosea398e2d2007-01-11 11:44:04 +00002715
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002716- Fix utf-8-sig incremental decoder, which didn't recognise a BOM when
2717 the first chunk fed to the decoder started with a BOM, but was
2718 longer than 3 bytes.
Georg Brandl27562782006-10-27 20:39:43 +00002719
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002720- The implementation of UnicodeError objects has been simplified
2721 (start and end attributes are now stored directly as Py_ssize_t
2722 members).
Walter Dörwald84a3efe2007-06-13 16:57:12 +00002723
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002724- Issue #829951: In the smtplib module, SMTP.starttls() now complies
2725 with RFC 3207 and forgets any knowledge obtained from the server not
2726 obtained from the TLS negotiation itself. Patch contributed by Bill
2727 Fenner.
Gregory P. Smith2b3ba582008-01-17 08:03:17 +00002728
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002729- Issue #1339: The smtplib.SMTP class has been refactored a bit such
Gregory P. Smithbde4ae42008-01-17 08:35:49 +00002730 that the SMTP.starttls() caller no longer needs to call ehlo()
2731 beforehand. SMTP.starttls() now raises an exception of the server
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002732 does not claim to support starttls. Adds the
2733 SMTP.ehlo_or_helo_if_needed() method. Patch contributed by Bill
2734 Fenner.
Gregory P. Smithbde4ae42008-01-17 08:35:49 +00002735
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002736- Patch #1089358: Add signal.siginterrupt, a wrapper around
2737 siginterrupt(3).
Georg Brandl29604a12008-01-26 14:03:47 +00002738
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00002739Extension Modules
2740-----------------
2741
Georg Brandl392c6fc2008-05-25 07:25:25 +00002742- Patch #1657: added select.epoll and select.kqueue.
Christian Heimes0e9ab5f2008-03-21 23:49:44 +00002743
Georg Brandlebcfd112008-02-23 23:04:35 +00002744- Patch #1506171: added operator.methodcaller().
2745
Georg Brandle2065c62008-02-23 23:02:23 +00002746- Patch #1826: operator.attrgetter() now supports dotted attribute paths.
2747
Georg Brandl392c6fc2008-05-25 07:25:25 +00002748- Patch #1957: syslogmodule: Release GIL when calling syslog(3).
Christian Heimesf0476e82008-02-23 17:42:31 +00002749
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002750- Bug #2112: mmap.error is now a subclass of EnvironmentError and not
2751 a direct EnvironmentError.
Facundo Batistae1396882008-02-17 18:59:29 +00002752
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002753- Bug #2111: mmap segfaults when trying to write a block opened with
2754 PROT_READ.
Christian Heimes7adfad82008-02-15 08:20:11 +00002755
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002756- Bug #2063: correct order of utime and stime in os.times() result on
2757 Windows.
Georg Brandl0a40ffb2008-02-13 07:20:22 +00002758
Martin v. Löwise0d30ef2008-02-12 13:47:26 +00002759- Patch #1736: Fix file name handling of _msi.FCICreate.
2760
Hye-Shik Chang01612e72008-02-08 17:10:20 +00002761- Updated ``big5hkscs`` codec to the HKSCS revision of 2004.
2762
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002763- Issue #1940: make it possible to use curses.filter() before
2764 curses.initscr() as the documentation says.
Georg Brandl29604a12008-01-26 14:03:47 +00002765
Christian Heimes7f39c9f2008-01-25 12:18:43 +00002766- Backport of _fileio module from Python 3.0.
2767
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002768- Patch #1087741: mmap.mmap is now a class, not a factory function. It
2769 is also subclassable now.
Georg Brandl5ca3fd82008-01-21 14:18:14 +00002770
Georg Brandl56112892008-01-20 13:59:46 +00002771- Patch #1648: added ``sys.getprofile()`` and ``sys.gettrace()``.
2772
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002773- Patch #1663329: added ``os.closerange()`` function to quickly close
2774 a range of file descriptors without considering errors.
Georg Brandl309501a2008-01-19 20:22:13 +00002775
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002776- Patch #976880: ``mmap`` objects now have an ``rfind`` method that
Andrew M. Kuchling5c60bfc2008-01-19 18:18:41 +00002777 works as expected. ``mmap.find`` also takes an optional ``end``
2778 parameter.
2779
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002780- _winreg's HKEY object has gained __enter__ and __exit__ methods to
2781 support the context manager protocol. The _winreg module also
2782 gained a new function ``ExpandEnvironmentStrings`` to expand
2783 REG_EXPAND_SZ keys.
Christian Heimesb39a7562008-01-08 15:46:10 +00002784
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002785- itertools.starmap() now accepts any iterable input. Previously, it
2786 required the function inputs to be tuples.
Raymond Hettinger47317092008-01-17 03:02:14 +00002787
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002788- itertools.chain() now has an alternate constructor,
2789 chain.from_iterable().
Raymond Hettingerb4cbc982008-02-28 22:46:41 +00002790
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002791- Issue #1646: Make socket support TIPC. The socket module now has
2792 support for TIPC under Linux, see http://tipc.sf.net/ for more
2793 information.
Christian Heimesfb2d25a2008-01-07 16:12:44 +00002794
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002795- Added interface for Windows' WSAIoctl to socket object and added an
2796 example for a simple network sniffer.
Christian Heimes04ae9162008-01-04 15:23:30 +00002797
Guido van Rossum076d9ee2008-01-03 23:54:04 +00002798- Bug #1301: Bad assert in _tkinter fixed.
2799
Christian Heimescdaa2cb2007-12-31 14:47:07 +00002800- Added bdist_wininst executable for VS 2008.
2801
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002802- Bug #1604: collections.deque.__init__(iterable) now clears any prior
2803 contents before adding elements from the iterable. This fix brings
2804 the behavior into line with that for list.__init__().
Raymond Hettingeradf9ffd2007-12-13 00:08:37 +00002805
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002806- Added wide char functions to msvcrt module: getwch, getwche, putwch
2807 and ungetwch. The functions accept or return unicode.
Christian Heimes7c7f6af2007-12-10 15:12:41 +00002808
Martin v. Löwis69233e82007-12-04 08:39:16 +00002809- os.access now returns True on Windows for any existing directory.
2810
Christian Heimes28104c52007-11-27 23:16:44 +00002811- Added warnpy3k function to the warnings module.
2812
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002813- Marshal.dumps() now expects exact type matches for int, long, float,
2814 complex, tuple, list, dict, set, and frozenset. Formerly, it would
2815 silently miscode subclasses of those types. Now, it raises a
2816 ValueError instead.
Raymond Hettinger12e94202007-11-07 01:13:09 +00002817
Martin v. Löwis58bd49f2007-09-04 13:13:14 +00002818- Patch #1388440: Add set_completion_display_matches_hook and
2819 get_completion_type to readline.
2820
Thomas Helleref4fff32007-07-13 17:46:54 +00002821- Bug #1649098: Avoid declaration of zero-sized array declaration in
2822 structure.
2823
Brett Cannondc48b742007-05-20 07:09:50 +00002824- Removed the rgbimg module; been deprecated since Python 2.5.
2825
Neal Norwitz59f58aa2007-05-19 03:48:47 +00002826- Bug #1721309: prevent bsddb module from freeing random memory.
2827
Gregory P. Smith82eafe62007-10-18 17:17:57 +00002828- Bug #1233: fix bsddb.dbshelve.DBShelf append method to work as
2829 intended for RECNO databases.
2830
Gregory P. Smithec10a4a2007-11-05 02:32:26 +00002831- pybsddb.sf.net Bug #477182: Load the database flags at database open
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002832 time so that opening a database previously created with the DB_DUP
2833 or DB_DUPSORT flag set will keep the proper behavior on subsequent
2834 opens. Specifically: dictionary assignment to a DB object will
2835 replace all values for a given key when the database allows
2836 duplicate values. DB users should use DB.put(k, v) when they want
2837 to store duplicates; not DB[k] = v.
Gregory P. Smithec10a4a2007-11-05 02:32:26 +00002838
Gregory P. Smithac11e022007-11-05 02:56:31 +00002839- Add the bsddb.db.DBEnv.lock_id_free method.
2840
Martin v. Löwis3bf573f2007-04-04 18:30:36 +00002841- Bug #1686475: Support stat'ing open files on Windows again.
2842
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002843- Patch #1185447: binascii.b2a_qp() now correctly quotes binary
2844 characters with ASCII value less than 32. Also, it correctly quotes
2845 dots only if they occur on a single line, as opposed to the previous
2846 behavior of quoting dots if they are the second character of any
2847 line.
Georg Brandl4aef7272007-03-13 22:49:43 +00002848
Georg Brandla47337f2007-03-13 12:34:25 +00002849- Bug #1622896: fix a rare corner case where the bz2 module raised an
2850 error in spite of a succesful compression.
2851
Georg Brandl40c62612007-03-06 18:59:11 +00002852- Patch #1654417: make operator.{get,set,del}slice use the full range
2853 of Py_ssize_t.
2854
Guido van Rossum2054ee92007-03-06 15:50:01 +00002855- Patch #1646728: datetime.fromtimestamp fails with negative
2856 fractional times. With unittest.
2857
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002858- Patch #1490190: posixmodule now includes os.chflags() and
2859 os.lchflags() functions on platforms where the underlying system
2860 calls are available.
Martin v. Löwis382abef2007-02-19 10:55:19 +00002861
Georg Brandl983d1002007-02-15 11:29:04 +00002862- Patch #1494140: Add documentation for the new struct.Struct object.
2863
Martin v. Löwis45423a72007-02-14 10:07:37 +00002864- Patch #1432399: Support the HCI protocol for bluetooth sockets
2865
Martin v. Löwisb1cc1d42007-02-13 12:14:19 +00002866- Patch #1657276: Make NETLINK_DNRTMSG conditional.
2867
Martin v. Löwis4c11a922007-02-08 09:13:36 +00002868- Bug #1653736: Complain about keyword arguments to time.isoformat.
2869
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002870- Bug #1486663: don't reject keyword arguments for subclasses of
2871 builtin types.
Georg Brandlb84c1372007-01-21 10:28:43 +00002872
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002873- Patch #1610575: The struct module now supports the 't' code, for C99
2874 _Bool.
Martin v. Löwisaef4c6b2007-01-21 09:33:07 +00002875
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002876- Patch #1635058: ensure that htonl and friends never accept or return
2877 negative numbers, per the underlying C implementation.
Guido van Rossumbb2cc692007-01-14 17:03:32 +00002878
Martin v. Löwis046c4d12006-12-03 11:23:45 +00002879- Patch #1544279: Improve thread-safety of the socket module by moving
2880 the sock_addr_t storage out of the socket object.
2881
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002882- Patch #1019808: fix bug that causes an incorrect error to be
2883 returned when a socket timeout is set and a connection attempt
2884 fails.
Andrew M. Kuchling060e6852008-01-19 20:47:59 +00002885
Neal Norwitz45e230a2006-11-19 21:26:53 +00002886- Speed up function calls into the math module.
2887
Georg Brandl25aabf42006-11-16 17:08:45 +00002888- Bug #1588217: don't parse "= " as a soft line break in binascii's
2889 a2b_qp() function, instead leave it in the string as quopri.decode()
2890 does.
2891
Neal Norwitz4fe44232006-11-21 05:26:22 +00002892- Bug #1599782: Fix segfault on bsddb.db.DB().type().
2893
Martin v. Löwis012bc722006-10-15 09:43:39 +00002894- Bug #1567666: Emulate GetFileAttributesExA for Win95.
2895
Martin v. Löwis18aaa562006-10-15 08:43:33 +00002896- Patch #1576166: Support os.utime for directories on Windows NT+.
2897
Georg Brandl412a9ea2006-10-09 19:03:06 +00002898- Patch #1572724: fix typo ('=' instead of '==') in _msi.c.
2899
Hye-Shik Changb7883462006-10-08 13:48:34 +00002900- Bug #1572832: fix a bug in ISO-2022 codecs which may cause segfault
2901 when encoding non-BMP unicode characters.
2902
Georg Brandl4ddfcd32006-09-30 11:17:34 +00002903- Bug #1556784: allow format strings longer than 127 characters in
2904 datetime's strftime function.
2905
Jack Diederichd10a0f72006-09-21 20:34:49 +00002906- Fix itertools.count(n) to work with negative numbers again.
2907
Martin v. Löwis43fd99c2006-09-16 17:36:37 +00002908- RLIMIT_SBSIZE was added to the resource module where available.
2909
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002910- Bug #1551427: fix a wrong NULL pointer check in the win32 version of
2911 os.urandom().
Georg Brandl74bb7832006-09-06 06:03:59 +00002912
Neal Norwitz6aefa912006-09-02 02:50:35 +00002913- Bug #1548092: fix curses.tparm seg fault on invalid input.
2914
Andrew M. Kuchling62182c82008-01-08 14:56:02 +00002915- Patch #1114: fix curses module compilation on 64-bit AIX, & possibly
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002916 other 64-bit LP64 platforms where attr_t is not the same size as a
2917 long. (Contributed by Luke Mewburn.)
Andrew M. Kuchling62182c82008-01-08 14:56:02 +00002918
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002919- Bug #1550714: fix SystemError from itertools.tee on negative value
2920 for n.
Neal Norwitz69e88972006-09-02 02:58:13 +00002921
Hye-Shik Chang199f1db2006-09-05 12:07:09 +00002922- Fixed a few bugs on cjkcodecs:
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002923 - gbk and gb18030 codec now handle U+30FB KATAKANA MIDDLE DOT
2924 correctly.
Hye-Shik Chang199f1db2006-09-05 12:07:09 +00002925 - iso2022_jp_2 codec now encodes into G0 for KS X 1001, GB2312
2926 codepoints to conform the standard.
Hye-Shik Chang2cad3e92006-09-05 12:14:57 +00002927 - iso2022_jp_3 and iso2022_jp_2004 codec can encode JIS X 0213:2
Hye-Shik Chang199f1db2006-09-05 12:07:09 +00002928 codepoints now.
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00002929
Andrew M. Kuchling43889c02006-09-27 16:37:30 +00002930- Bug #1552726: in readline.c, avoid repeatedly polling in interactive
2931 mode by only placing a timeout on the select() if an input hook has
2932 been defined. This prevents an interactive Python from waking up 10
2933 times per second. Patch by Richard Boulton.
2934
Gregory P. Smithf09c6262007-03-17 22:33:35 +00002935- fixed a bug with bsddb.DB.stat: the flags and txn keyword arguments
2936 were transposed.
2937
Jesus Cea4907d272008-08-31 14:00:51 +00002938- Added support for linking the bsddb module against BerkeleyDB 4.5.x,
2939 4.6.x and 4.7.x.
Gregory P. Smith8b96a352007-01-05 01:59:42 +00002940
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002941- Bug #1633621: if curses.resizeterm() or curses.resize_term() is
2942 called, update _curses.LINES, _curses.COLS, curses.LINES and
2943 curses.COLS.
Andrew M. Kuchling43889c02006-09-27 16:37:30 +00002944
Matthias Klosee19e0c22007-04-03 04:35:59 +00002945- Fix an off-by-one bug in locale.strxfrm().
2946
Matthias Klose38336402007-09-04 20:46:02 +00002947- Fix libffi configure for hppa*-*-linux* | parisc*-*-linux*.
2948
Matthias Klose9afb9852007-10-24 20:00:44 +00002949- Build using system ffi library on arm*-linux*.
2950
Christian Heimes3f065a42007-11-21 01:17:28 +00002951- Bug #1372: zlibmodule.c: int overflow in PyZlib_decompress
Matthias Klosee19e0c22007-04-03 04:35:59 +00002952
Gregory P. Smitheeed5b72008-02-03 07:20:53 +00002953- bsddb module: Fix memory leak when using database cursors on
2954 databases without a DBEnv.
2955
Gerhard Häring11ab8072008-03-02 13:12:27 +00002956- The sqlite3 module was updated to pysqlite 2.4.1.
2957
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00002958Tests
2959-----
2960
Brett Cannon56c4deb2008-03-03 00:38:58 +00002961- Refactor test_logging to use unittest.
Brett Cannonf9db8a32008-02-17 01:59:18 +00002962
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002963- Refactor test_profile and test_cprofile to use the same code to
2964 profile.
Georg Brandlb7090772008-02-05 19:58:17 +00002965
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002966- Make test_runpy reentrant by fixing _check_module to clear out any
2967 module being tested. Was causing an error by __import__ doing a
2968 reload on the second run and thus suppressing bytecode recreation.
Brett Cannondbed7a72007-08-23 14:53:17 +00002969
Brett Cannonea2835a2007-03-14 21:44:15 +00002970- Capture socket connection resets and timeouts in test_socket_ssl and
2971 test_urllib2net and raise test.test_support.ResourceDenied.
Brett Cannoned001842007-03-14 21:40:13 +00002972
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002973- Patch #1559413: Fix test_cmd_line if sys.executable contains a
2974 space.
Martin v. Löwiscd1210a2007-03-14 20:02:31 +00002975
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002976- Added test.test_support.TransientResource which is a context manager
2977 to surround calls to resources that are not guaranteed to work even
2978 if test.test_support.requires says that the resource should exist.
Brett Cannona30fcb42007-03-08 23:58:11 +00002979
Brett Cannone05e6b02007-01-29 04:41:44 +00002980- Added a test for slicing of an exception.
2981
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002982- Added test.test_support.EnvironmentVarGuard. It's a class that
2983 provides a context manager so that one can temporarily set or unset
2984 environment variables.
Brett Cannon92d54d52007-01-04 00:23:49 +00002985
Thomas Heller112d1a62006-10-27 19:05:53 +00002986- Added some tests for modulefinder.
2987
Brett Cannon373d90b2006-10-03 23:23:14 +00002988- Converted test_imp to use unittest.
2989
Neal Norwitz919d5cc2006-09-05 02:35:08 +00002990- Fix bsddb test_basics.test06_Transactions to check the version
2991 number properly.
2992
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002993- test.test_support.catch_warning is a new context manager that can be
2994 used to catch the warnings issued by the warning framework.
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00002995
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00002996Tools
2997-----
2998
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002999- Tools/scripts/reindent.py now creates the backup file using
3000 shutil.copy to preserve user/group and permissions. Added also a
3001 --nobackup option to not create the backup if the user is concerned
3002 regarding this. Check issue 1050828 for more details.
Facundo Batistaf88a0772008-02-17 16:21:13 +00003003
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003004- Tools/scripts/win_add2path.py was added. The simple script modifes
3005 the PATH environment var of the HKCU tree and adds the python bin
3006 and script directory.
Christian Heimesbd865db2008-01-18 11:58:50 +00003007
Skip Montanaro3e275362007-08-29 01:33:45 +00003008- Tools/18n/pygettext.py was added to the list of scripts installed by
3009 Tools/scripts/setup.py (tracker item 642309).
3010
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003011- Added IronPython and Jython support to pybench (part of which was
3012 patch #1563844).
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00003013
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003014- Made some minor changes to pybench output to allow the user to see
3015 which Python version is running pybench.
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00003016
3017- Added support for the new platform module feature
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003018 platform.python_implementation(); this will now be saved in the
3019 benchmark pickle.
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00003020
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00003021
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00003022Documentation
3023-------------
3024
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +00003025- RFE #1765140: Updated documentation on FileHandler and subclasses to
3026 include new optional delay argument.
3027
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003028- Bug #932563: Added section on getting contextual information into
3029 logging output, and added documentation for the new LoggerAdapter
3030 class.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00003031
3032- Bug #1295: Added information about caching of formatted exception
3033 information in the LogRecord by Formatter.format().
3034
Georg Brandl9467bc52007-07-12 09:37:49 +00003035- Bug #1637365: add subsection about "__name__ == __main__" to the
3036 Python tutorial.
3037
Georg Brandl3dc6e902007-04-25 06:24:59 +00003038- Patch #1698768: updated the "using Python on the Mac" intro.
3039
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003040- Bug #1569057: Document that calling file.next() when the file is
3041 open for writing is undefined.
Brett Cannon55a18642007-04-08 04:29:32 +00003042
Žiga Seilnachtc64ad482007-03-24 14:24:26 +00003043- Patch #1489771: the syntax rules in Python Reference Manual were
3044 updated to reflect the current Python syntax.
3045
Martin v. Löwis2f401d72007-03-23 10:35:49 +00003046- Patch #1686451: Fix return type for
3047 PySequence_{Count,Index,Fast_GET_SIZE}.
3048
Georg Brandl0692a262007-03-13 07:50:57 +00003049- Patch #1679379: add documentation for fnmatch.translate().
3050
Collin Winterb7b2b4e2007-03-09 18:09:10 +00003051- Bug #1629566: clarify the docs on the return values of parsedate()
3052 and parsedate_tz() in email.utils and rfc822.
3053
Georg Brandld28b9fc2007-03-06 10:02:47 +00003054- Patch #1671450: add a section about subclassing builtin types to the
3055 "extending and embedding" tutorial.
3056
Georg Brandlb26b1c62007-01-17 21:19:58 +00003057- Bug #1629125: fix wrong data type (int -> Py_ssize_t) in PyDict_Next
3058 docs.
3059
Georg Brandla4c8e322006-10-12 08:22:53 +00003060- Bug #1565919: document set types in the Language Reference.
3061
Georg Brandl44a7b3a2006-09-30 12:02:57 +00003062- Bug #1546052: clarify that PyString_FromString(AndSize) copies the
3063 string pointed to by its parameter.
3064
Georg Brandlfb257732006-09-30 09:06:45 +00003065- Bug #1566663: remove obsolete example from datetime docs.
3066
Georg Brandl648c1102006-08-18 07:27:59 +00003067- Bug #1541682: Fix example in the "Refcount details" API docs.
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003068 Additionally, remove a faulty example showing PySequence_SetItem
3069 applied to a newly created list object and add notes that this isn't
3070 a good idea.
Georg Brandl648c1102006-08-18 07:27:59 +00003071
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00003072
Georg Brandl27562782006-10-27 20:39:43 +00003073Tools/Demos
3074-----------
3075
3076- Patch #1552024: add decorator support to unparse.py demo script.
Marc-André Lemburg96148682006-09-06 20:40:22 +00003077
Brett Cannonc8939d22006-09-20 19:28:35 +00003078- Make auto-generated python.vim file list built-ins and exceptions in
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003079 alphatbetical order. Makes output more deterministic and easier to
3080 tell if the file is stale or not.
Brett Cannonc8939d22006-09-20 19:28:35 +00003081
Marc-André Lemburg96148682006-09-06 20:40:22 +00003082- Bug #1546372: Fixed small bugglet in pybench that caused a missing
3083 file not to get reported properly.
3084
3085
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00003086Build
3087-----
3088
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003089- Have the search path for building extensions follow the declared
3090 order in $CPPFLAGS and $LDFLAGS when adding directories from those
3091 environment variables.
Brett Cannon70c0c022008-02-03 09:59:21 +00003092
Christian Heimes951cc0f2008-01-31 23:08:23 +00003093- Bug #1983: Added a check to pyport to verify that sizeof(pid_t) is
3094 smaller or equal sizeof(long).
3095
Christian Heimescba36bb2008-01-30 22:54:18 +00003096- Bug #1234: Fixed semaphore errors on AIX 5.2
3097
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003098- Issue #1726: Remove Python/atof.c from PCBuild/pythoncore.vcproj.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00003099
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003100- Removed PCbuild8/ directory and added a new build directory for VS
3101 2005 based on the VS 2008 build directory to PC/VS8.0. The script
3102 PCbuild/vs8to9.py was added to sync changes from PCbuild to
3103 PC/VS8.0.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00003104
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003105- Moved PCbuild/ directory for VS 2003 to PC/VS7.1 and renamed
3106 PCBuild9/ directory to PCBuild/.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00003107
Martin v. Löwiscb78de62007-12-29 18:49:21 +00003108- Bug #1699: Define _BSD_SOURCE only on OpenBSD.
3109
Guido van Rossum7c862f82007-12-13 20:50:10 +00003110- Bug #1608: use -fwrapv when GCC supports it. This is important,
3111 newer GCC versions may optimize away overflow buffer overflow checks
3112 without this option!
3113
Martin v. Löwis63bf1492007-11-12 05:14:05 +00003114- Patch #1418: Make the AC_REPLACE_FUNCS object files actually work.
3115
Raymond Hettingerdc1d1ba2007-11-07 02:45:46 +00003116- Add a FAST_LOOPS build option that speeds-up looping by trading away
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003117 periodic threadstate and signal checking in tight loops. By
3118 default, this option is turned-off. It should only be enabled in
3119 debugged, performance critical applications.
Raymond Hettingerdc1d1ba2007-11-07 02:45:46 +00003120
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003121- Patch #786737: Allow building in a tree of symlinks pointing to a
3122 readonly source.
Martin v. Löwisd44a4e92007-09-05 11:47:34 +00003123
Martin v. Löwis8bc77e42007-09-01 06:36:03 +00003124- Bug #1737210: Change Manufacturer of Windows installer to PSF.
3125
Martin v. Löwis75c23bd2007-08-30 18:25:47 +00003126- Bug #1746880: Correctly install DLLs into system32 folder on Win64.
3127
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003128- Define _BSD_SOURCE, to get access to POSIX extensions on OpenBSD
3129 4.1+.
Martin v. Löwis76760b02007-07-31 19:57:56 +00003130
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003131- Stop supporting AtheOS and cause a build error in configure for the
3132 platform.
Brett Cannon19fab762007-06-02 03:02:29 +00003133
Georg Brandldb846032007-03-31 18:56:11 +00003134- Bug #1655392: don't add -L/usr/lib/pythonX.Y/config to the LDFLAGS
3135 returned by python-config if Python was built with --enable-shared
3136 because that prevented the shared library from being used.
3137
Georg Brandl18c47f62007-03-13 10:19:22 +00003138- Patch #1569798: fix a bug in distutils when building Python from a
3139 directory within sys.exec_prefix.
3140
Martin v. Löwiseb623572007-03-12 10:50:39 +00003141- Bug #1675511: Use -Kpic instead of -xcode=pic32 on Solaris/x86.
3142
Martin v. Löwis4d542ec2006-11-25 15:39:19 +00003143- Disable _XOPEN_SOURCE on NetBSD 1.x.
3144
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003145- configure now checks whether gcc supports the PyArg_ParseTuple
3146 format attribute.
Martin v. Löwisaac13162006-10-19 10:58:46 +00003147
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00003148- Bug #1578513: Cross compilation was broken by a change to configure.
Martin v. Löwisfefbc202006-10-17 18:59:23 +00003149 Repair so that it's back to how it was in 2.4.3.
3150
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003151- Patch #1576954: Update VC6 build directory; remove redundant files
3152 in VC7.
Martin v. Löwisc9e82f62006-10-15 07:54:40 +00003153
Martin v. Löwisebe26702006-10-02 14:55:51 +00003154- Bug #1568842: Fix test for uintptr_t.
3155
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003156- Patch #1540470: for OpenBSD 4.0.
Neal Norwitz4bc2c092006-09-05 02:57:01 +00003157
Matthias Klosed149d0c2006-12-03 17:16:41 +00003158- Fix build failure on kfreebsd and on the hurd.
3159
Matthias Kloseebde1492006-12-09 12:15:27 +00003160- Fix the build of the library reference in info format.
3161
Matthias Kloseeb8ff672007-08-02 21:33:13 +00003162- Allow Emacs 22 for building the documentation in info format.
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00003163
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003164- Makefile.pre.in(buildbottest): Run an optional script
3165 pybuildbot.identify to include some information about the build
3166 environment.
Matthias Klose642ac852007-09-04 18:17:36 +00003167
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00003168
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00003169C API
3170-----
3171
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003172- Unified naming convention for free lists and their limits. All free
3173 lists in Object/ are named ``free_list``, the counter ``numfree``
3174 and the upper limit is a macro ``PyName_MAXFREELIST`` inside an
3175 #ifndef block.
Christian Heimes5b970ad2008-02-06 13:33:44 +00003176
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003177- ``PySet_Add()`` can now modify a newly created frozenset. Similarly
3178 to ``PyTuple_SetItem``, it can be used to populate a brand new
3179 frozenset; but it does not steal a reference to the added item.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arccab3d982008-02-03 22:51:43 +00003180
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00003181- Added ``PySet_Check()`` and ``PyFrozenSet_Check()`` to the set API.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arccab3d982008-02-03 22:51:43 +00003182
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003183- Backport of PyUnicode_FromString(), _FromStringAndSize(), _Format
3184 and _FormatV from Python 3.0. Made PyLong_AsSsize_t and
3185 PyLong_FromSsize_t public functions.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00003186
3187- Patch #1720595: add T_BOOL to the range of structmember types.
3188
3189- Issue #1534: Added ``PyFloat_GetMax()``, ``PyFloat_GetMin()`` and
3190 ``PyFloat_GetInfo()`` to the float API.
3191
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003192- Issue #1521: On 64bit platforms, using PyArgs_ParseTuple with the t#
3193 of w# format code incorrectly truncated the length to an int, even
3194 when PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN is set. The str.decode method used to return
3195 incorrect results with huge strings.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00003196
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003197- Issue #1629: Renamed Py_Size, Py_Type and Py_Refcnt to Py_SIZE,
3198 Py_TYPE and Py_REFCNT.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00003199
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003200- PEP 3123: Provide forward compatibility with Python 3.0, while
3201 keeping backwards compatibility. Add Py_Refcnt, Py_Type, Py_Size,
3202 and PyVarObject_HEAD_INIT.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00003203
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003204- Py_ssize_t fields work in structmember when HAVE_LONG_LONG is not
3205 defined.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00003206
3207- Patch #1733960: Allow T_LONGLONG to accept ints.
3208
3209- T_PYSSIZET can now be used in PyMemberDef lists for Py_ssize_t members.
3210
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00003211- Added a new API function ``PyImport_ImportModuleNoBlock``.
3212
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00003213- Bug #1637022: Prefix AST symbols with _Py_.
3214
3215- Fix some leftovers from the conversion from int to Py_ssize_t
3216 (relevant to strings and sequences of more than 2**31 items).
3217
3218- Make _PyGILState_NoteThreadState() static, it was not used anywhere
3219 outside of pystate.c and should not be necessary.
3220
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003221- ``PyImport_Import`` and ``PyImport_ImportModule`` now always do
3222 absolute imports. In earlier versions they might have used relative
3223 imports under some conditions.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00003224
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003225- Added case insensitive comparison methods ``PyOS_stricmp(char*,
3226 char*)`` and ``PyOS_strnicmp(char*, char*, Py_ssize_t)``.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00003227
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003228- Bug #1542693: remove semi-colon at end of PyImport_ImportModuleEx
3229 macro so it can be used as an expression.
Neal Norwitz8a267062006-08-19 04:25:29 +00003230
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00003231
Martin v. Löwis2607e6c2006-11-21 18:20:25 +00003232Windows
3233-------
3234
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003235- Patch #1706: Drop support for Win9x, WinME and NT4. Python now
3236 requires Windows 2000 or greater. The _WINVER and NTDDI_VERSION
3237 macros are set to Win2k for x86/32bit builds and WinXP for AMD64
3238 builds.
Christian Heimes95d64472008-02-09 19:55:22 +00003239
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003240- Conditionalize definition of _CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE and
3241 _CRT_NONSTDC_NO_DEPRECATE.
Martin v. Löwis2607e6c2006-11-21 18:20:25 +00003242
Martin v. Löwisd476a402007-10-12 08:56:52 +00003243- Bug #1216: Restore support for Visual Studio 2002.
3244
Martin v. Löwis2607e6c2006-11-21 18:20:25 +00003245
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00003246Mac
3247---
3248
Brett Cannonf0cb1d72007-05-31 20:01:11 +00003249- cfmfile now raises a DeprecationWarning.
3250
Brett Cannon791d56f2007-05-31 19:40:42 +00003251- buildtools now raises a DeprecationWarning.
3252
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003253- Removed the macfs module. It had been deprecated since Python 2.5.
3254 This lead to the deprecation of macostools.touched() as it relied
3255 solely on macfs and was a no-op under OS X.
Brett Cannon5e263512007-05-20 23:17:38 +00003256
Skip Montanaroe5d7f7f2002-09-20 14:16:59 +00003257----
3258
3259**(For information about older versions, consult the HISTORY file.)**