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Georg Brandld8fb6ac2009-04-01 00:04:33 +00001Python News
Skip Montanaroe5d7f7f2002-09-20 14:16:59 +00002+++++++++++
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Victor Stinner08563d92011-05-30 23:44:13 +02004What's New in Python 2.7.3?
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7*Release date: XXXX-XX-XX*
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9Core and Builtins
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11
Jason R. Coombs042370e2011-12-26 10:15:15 -050012- Issue #11638: Unicode strings in 'name' and 'version' no longer cause
13 UnicodeDecodeErrors.
14
Antoine Pitrou5b4b2da2011-12-15 14:15:31 +010015- Fix the fix for issue #12149: it was incorrect, although it had the side
16 effect of appearing to resolve the issue. Thanks to Mark Shannon for
17 noticing.
18
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc4bf21e22011-12-07 21:46:48 +010019- Issue #13546: Fixed an overflow issue that could crash the intepreter when
20 calling sys.setrecursionlimit((1<<31)-1).
21
Antoine Pitrou30402542011-11-15 01:49:40 +010022- Issue #13333: The UTF-7 decoder now accepts lone surrogates (the encoder
23 already accepts them).
24
Benjamin Petersona5ae1f02011-11-06 08:20:12 -050025- Remove Py3k warning for callable.
26
Petri Lehtinen8028dc22011-10-30 20:59:10 +020027- Issue #10519: Avoid unnecessary recursive function calls in
28 setobject.c.
29
Benjamin Peterson0c0d7562011-10-27 08:21:59 -040030- Issue #13268: Fix the assert statement when a tuple is passed as the message.
31
Petri Lehtinen8ffbab82011-10-24 20:59:29 +030032- Issue #13018: Fix reference leaks in error paths in dictobject.c.
33 Patch by Suman Saha.
34
Senthil Kumaran797b95b2011-10-21 00:32:59 +080035- Issue #12604: VTRACE macro expanded to no-op in _sre.c to avoid compiler
36 warnings. Patch by Josh Triplett and Petri Lehtinen.
37
Mark Hammond323b5da2011-10-17 11:05:36 +110038- Issue #7833: Extension modules built using distutils on Windows will no
39 longer include a "manifest" to prevent them failing at import time in some
40 embedded situations.
41
Benjamin Petersona7b09762011-10-15 13:43:21 -040042- Issue #13186: Fix __delitem__ on old-style instances when invoked through
43 PySequence_DelItem.
44
Charles-François Natali40ab0022011-10-12 22:29:09 +020045- Issue #13156: Revert the patch for issue #10517 (reset TLS upon fork()),
46 which was only relevant for the native pthread TLS implementation.
47
Victor Stinner63c22fa2011-09-23 19:37:03 +020048- Issue #7732: Fix a crash on importing a module if a directory has the same
49 name than a Python module (e.g. "__init__.py"): don't close the file twice.
50
Mark Dickinsondbbed042011-09-19 16:38:08 +010051- Issue #12973: Fix overflow checks that invoked undefined behaviour in
52 int.__pow__. These overflow checks were causing int.__pow__ to produce
53 incorrect results with recent versions of Clang, as a result of the
Mark Dickinsona96b0d12011-09-24 09:01:16 +010054 compiler optimizing the check away. Also fix similar overflow checks
55 in list_repeat (listobject.c) and islice_next (itertoolsmodule.c). These
56 bugs caused test failures with recent versions of Clang.
Mark Dickinsondbbed042011-09-19 16:38:08 +010057
Ezio Melotti15d6b652011-08-15 09:22:24 +030058- Issue #12266: Fix str.capitalize() to correctly uppercase/lowercase
59 titlecased and cased non-letter characters.
60
Benjamin Peterson6c18ff02011-07-22 10:41:44 -050061- Issues #12610 and #12609: Verify that user generated AST has correct string
62 and identifier types before compiling.
63
Barry Warsawc5643282011-07-19 17:06:30 -040064- Issue #11627: Fix segfault when __new__ on a exception returns a
65 non-exception class.
Benjamin Petersonc3349cd2011-07-15 14:15:40 -050066
Antoine Pitrou16166452011-07-12 22:04:20 +020067- Issue #12149: Update the method cache after a type's dictionnary gets
68 cleared by the garbage collector. This fixes a segfault when an instance
69 and its type get caught in a reference cycle, and the instance's
70 deallocator calls one of the methods on the type (e.g. when subclassing
71 IOBase). Diagnosis and patch by Davide Rizzo.
72
Victor Stinnerba8b3a22011-07-08 02:07:45 +020073- Issue #12501: Adjust callable() warning: callable() is only not supported in
74 Python 3.1. callable() is again supported in Python 3.2.
75
Victor Stinner59729ff2011-07-05 11:28:19 +020076- Issue #9611, #9015: FileIO.read(), FileIO.readinto(), FileIO.write() and
77 os.write() clamp the length to INT_MAX on Windows.
78
Victor Stinnerd3c7e172011-05-30 23:49:13 +020079- Issue #1195: my_fgets() now always clears errors before calling fgets(). Fix
Victor Stinner08563d92011-05-30 23:44:13 +020080 the following case: sys.stdin.read() stopped with CTRL+d (end of file),
81 raw_input() interrupted by CTRL+c.
82
Łukasz Langa7a153902011-10-18 17:16:00 +020083- Issue #10860: httplib now correctly handles an empty port after port
84 delimiter in URLs.
85
Barry Warsawc5643282011-07-19 17:06:30 -040086- dict_proxy objects now display their contents rather than just the class
87 name.
Raymond Hettingerbf7a2662011-06-30 00:44:36 +010088
Victor Stinner08563d92011-05-30 23:44:13 +020089Library
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Éric Araujoa13cd392011-09-10 05:39:45 +020091
Antoine Pitroud76088d2012-01-03 22:46:48 +010092- Issue #13636: Weak ciphers are now disabled by default in the ssl module
93 (except when SSLv2 is explicitly asked for).
94
Senthil Kumaran84c18aa2011-12-23 11:14:56 +080095- Issue #12798: Updated the mimetypes documentation.
96
Lars Gustäbel7d4d0742011-12-21 19:27:50 +010097- Issue #13639: Accept unicode filenames in tarfile.open(mode="w|gz").
98
Antoine Pitroub8572a12011-12-21 10:16:14 +010099- Issue #1785: Fix inspect and pydoc with misbehaving descriptors.
100
Antoine Pitrou7a3d8ae2011-12-18 19:27:45 +0100101- Issue #7502: Fix equality comparison for DocTestCase instances. Patch by
102 Cédric Krier.
103
Charles-François Natali41616302011-12-18 18:22:24 +0100104- Issue #11870: threading: Properly reinitialize threads internal locks and
105 condition variables to avoid deadlocks in child processes.
106
Charles-François Natalif3d35f02011-12-18 15:52:48 +0100107- Issue #8035: urllib: Fix a bug where the client could remain stuck after a
108 redirection or an error.
109
Ned Deilyd8fdbad2011-12-14 15:05:42 -0800110- Issue #4625: If IDLE cannot write to its recent file or breakpoint
111 files, display a message popup and continue rather than crash.
112 (original patch by Roger Serwy)
113
Lars Gustäbel9a388632011-12-06 13:07:09 +0100114- tarfile.py: Correctly detect bzip2 compressed streams with blocksizes
115 other than 900k.
116
Raymond Hettingerf5377022011-12-11 22:31:09 -0800117- Issue #13573: The csv.writer now uses the repr() for floats rather than str().
118 This allows floats to round-trip without loss of precision.
119
Petri Lehtinen49e49a22011-12-02 21:09:30 +0200120- Issue #13439: Fix many errors in turtle docstrings.
121
Antoine Pitroua5d5bb92011-11-25 21:28:15 +0100122- Issue #12856: Ensure child processes do not inherit the parent's random
123 seed for filename generation in the tempfile module. Patch by Brian
124 Harring.
125
Antoine Pitrouaa1c9672011-11-23 01:39:19 +0100126- Issue #13458: Fix a memory leak in the ssl module when decoding a
127 certificate with a subjectAltName. Patch by Robert Xiao.
128
Victor Stinner53853c32011-11-22 22:20:13 +0100129- Issue #13415: os.unsetenv() doesn't ignore errors anymore.
130
Antoine Pitrou5aa7df32011-11-21 20:16:44 +0100131- Issue #13322: Fix BufferedWriter.write() to ensure that BlockingIOError is
132 raised when the wrapped raw file is non-blocking and the write would block.
133 Previous code assumed that the raw write() would raise BlockingIOError, but
134 RawIOBase.write() is defined to returned None when the call would block.
135 Patch by sbt.
136
Ezio Melotti00dc60b2011-11-18 18:00:40 +0200137- Issue #13358: HTMLParser now calls handle_data only once for each CDATA.
138
Ezio Melotti93bbb6a2011-11-18 17:30:28 +0200139- Issue #4147: minidom's toprettyxml no longer adds whitespace around a text
140 node when it is the only child of an element. Initial patch by Dan
141 Kenigsberg.
142
Ned Deily174c4f82011-11-15 18:29:02 -0800143- Issue #8793: Prevent IDLE crash when given strings with invalid hex escape
144 sequences.
145
Ezio Melotti0f1571c2011-11-14 18:04:05 +0200146- Issues #1745761, #755670, #13357, #12629, #1200313: HTMLParser now correctly
147 handles non-valid attributes, including adjacent and unquoted attributes.
148
Antoine Pitrou667383c2011-11-12 01:33:59 +0100149- Issue #13193: Fix distutils.filelist.FileList under Windows. The
150 "recursive-include" directive now recognizes both legal path separators.
151
Antoine Pitrou6a570d62011-11-10 00:33:50 +0100152- Issue #13373: multiprocessing.Queue.get() could sometimes block indefinitely
153 when called with a timeout. Patch by Arnaud Ysmal.
154
Petri Lehtinen416ecff2011-11-05 10:18:50 +0200155- Issue #3067: Enhance the documentation and docstring of
156 locale.setlocale().
157
Petri Lehtinen49aa72e2011-11-05 09:50:37 +0200158- Issue #13254: Fix Maildir initialization so that maildir contents
159 are read correctly.
160
Florent Xicluna5f761d72011-11-04 10:15:57 +0100161- Issue #13140: Fix the daemon_threads attribute of ThreadingMixIn.
162
Florent Xiclunac4a11bd2011-11-01 23:47:46 +0100163- Issue #2892: preserve iterparse events in case of SyntaxError.
164
Ezio Melotti7e82b272011-11-01 14:09:56 +0200165- Issue #670664: Fix HTMLParser to correctly handle the content of
166 ``<script>...</script>`` and ``<style>...</style>``.
167
168- Issue #10817: Fix urlretrieve function to raise ContentTooShortError even
Senthil Kumaran87e58552011-11-01 02:44:45 +0800169 when reporthook is None. Patch by Jyrki Pulliainen.
170
Ezio Melotti7e82b272011-11-01 14:09:56 +0200171- Issue #13296: Fix IDLE to clear compile __future__ flags on shell restart.
Ned Deily86d669b2011-10-30 19:58:04 -0700172 (Patch by Roger Serwy)
173
Florent Xicluna67d5d0e2011-10-29 03:38:56 +0200174- Issue #7334: close source files on ElementTree.parse and iterparse.
175
Vinay Sajipc515eba2011-10-24 23:26:00 +0100176- Issue #13232: logging: Improved logging of exceptions in the presence of
177 multiple encodings.
178
Charles-François Natali46f990e2011-10-24 18:43:51 +0200179- Issue #10332: multiprocessing: fix a race condition when a Pool is closed
180 before all tasks have completed.
181
Antoine Pitrou5a77fe92011-10-22 21:26:01 +0200182- Issue #1548891: The cStringIO.StringIO() constructor now encodes unicode
183 arguments with the system default encoding just like the write() method
Éric Araujob21f51a2011-10-23 04:37:51 +0200184 does, instead of converting it to a raw buffer. This also fixes handling of
185 unicode input in the shlex module (#6988, #1170).
Antoine Pitrou5a77fe92011-10-22 21:26:01 +0200186
Florent Xicluna47fb1922011-10-20 23:21:58 +0200187- Issue #9168: now smtpd is able to bind privileged port.
188
Senthil Kumaran797b95b2011-10-21 00:32:59 +0800189- Issue #12529: fix cgi.parse_header issue on strings with double-quotes and
190 semicolons together. Patch by Ben Darnell and Petri Lehtinen.
191
Senthil Kumaranddd40312011-10-20 01:38:35 +0800192- Issue #6090: zipfile raises a ValueError when a document with a timestamp
193 earlier than 1980 is provided. Patch contributed by Petri Lehtinen.
194
Nadeem Vawdadeb1ce72011-10-17 19:33:38 +0200195- Issue #13194: zlib.compressobj().copy() and zlib.decompressobj().copy() are
196 now available on Windows.
197
Éric Araujo017e5352011-10-09 07:11:19 +0200198- Issue #13114: Fix the distutils commands check and register when the
199 long description is a Unicode string with non-ASCII characters.
200
Ned Deilybd9d07c2011-10-06 14:29:49 -0700201- Issue #7367: Fix pkgutil.walk_paths to skip directories whose
202 contents cannot be read.
203
204- Issue #7425: Prevent pydoc -k failures due to module import errors.
205 (Backport to 2.7 of existing 3.x fix)
206
Antoine Pitrouace2ccf2011-10-04 13:38:04 +0200207- Issue #13099: Fix sqlite3.Cursor.lastrowid under a Turkish locale.
208 Reported and diagnosed by Thomas Kluyver.
209
Antoine Pitrou561a8212011-10-04 09:34:48 +0200210- Issue #7689: Allow pickling of dynamically created classes when their
211 metaclass is registered with copy_reg. Patch by Nicolas M. Thiéry and
212 Craig Citro.
213
Charles-François Natali564f8902011-09-29 19:43:01 +0200214- Issue #13058: ossaudiodev: fix a file descriptor leak on error. Patch by
215 Thomas Jarosch.
216
Victor Stinner51b71982011-09-23 01:15:32 +0200217- Issue #12931: xmlrpclib now encodes Unicode URI to ISO-8859-1, instead of
218 failing with a UnicodeDecodeError.
219
Éric Araujoa13cd392011-09-10 05:39:45 +0200220- Issue #8933: distutils' PKG-INFO files will now correctly report
221 Metadata-Version: 1.1 instead of 1.0 if a Classifier or Download-URL field is
222 present.
223
Éric Araujo0f2dbf32011-09-03 00:47:07 +0200224- Issue #8286: The distutils command sdist will print a warning message instead
225 of crashing when an invalid path is given in the manifest template.
Victor Stinner08563d92011-05-30 23:44:13 +0200226
Lars Gustäbel8babfdf2011-09-05 17:04:18 +0200227- Issue #12841: tarfile unnecessarily checked the existence of numerical user
228 and group ids on extraction. If one of them did not exist the respective id
229 of the current user (i.e. root) was used for the file and ownership
230 information was lost.
231
Éric Araujo429b8902011-08-30 01:48:59 +0200232- Issue #10946: The distutils commands bdist_dumb, bdist_wininst and bdist_msi
233 now respect a --skip-build option given to bdist.
234
Charles-François Natalifda7b372011-08-28 16:22:33 +0200235- Issue #12287: Fix a stack corruption in ossaudiodev module when the FD is
236 greater than FD_SETSIZE.
237
Nadeem Vawdabbabbae2011-08-28 11:23:57 +0200238- Issue #12839: Fix crash in zlib module due to version mismatch.
239 Fix by Richard M. Tew.
240
Charles-François Natali2a34eb32011-08-25 21:20:54 +0200241- Issue #12786: Set communication pipes used by subprocess.Popen CLOEXEC to
242 avoid them being inherited by other subprocesses.
243
Antoine Pitrou77657e42011-08-24 22:41:05 +0200244- Issue #4106: Fix occasional exceptions printed out by multiprocessing on
245 interpreter shutdown.
246
Antoine Pitroua1a8da82011-08-23 19:54:20 +0200247- Issue #11657: Fix sending file descriptors over 255 over a multiprocessing
248 Pipe.
249
Antoine Pitrou808cec52011-08-20 15:40:58 +0200250- Issue #12213: Fix a buffering bug with interleaved reads and writes that
251 could appear on io.BufferedRandom streams.
252
Victor Stinneracacbaa2011-08-20 14:02:38 +0200253- Issue #12326: sys.platform is now always 'linux2' on Linux, even if Python
254 is compiled on Linux 3.
255
Jesus Cead256ca12011-09-19 16:57:18 +0200256- Issue #13007: whichdb should recognize gdbm 1.9 magic numbers.
257
Éric Araujoe7329f42011-08-19 03:07:39 +0200258- Issue #9173: Let shutil._make_archive work if the logger argument is None.
259
Charles-François Natalib02302c2011-08-18 17:18:28 +0200260- Issue #12650: Fix a race condition where a subprocess.Popen could leak
261 resources (FD/zombie) when killed at the wrong time.
262
Barry Warsaw39935f42011-08-15 19:50:35 -0400263- Issue #12752: Fix regression which prevented locale.normalize() from
264 accepting unicode strings.
265
Senthil Kumaranf432aec2011-08-03 18:31:59 +0800266- Issue #12683: urlparse updated to include svn as schemes that uses relative
267 paths. (svn from 1.5 onwards support relative path).
268
Éric Araujo33af2632011-08-02 03:16:12 +0200269- Issue #11933: Fix incorrect mtime comparison in distutils.
270
Éric Araujo560bf852011-07-31 02:04:00 +0200271- Issues #11104, #8688: Fix the behavior of distutils' sdist command with
272 manually-maintained MANIFEST files.
273
Éric Araujo9a528302011-07-29 17:34:35 +0200274- Issue #8887: "pydoc somebuiltin.somemethod" (or help('somebuiltin.somemethod')
275 in Python code) now finds the doc of the method.
276
Charles-François Natali0cf7e252011-07-27 19:36:40 +0200277- Issue #12603: Fix pydoc.synopsis() on files with non-negative st_mtime.
278
Raymond Hettinger55e5e272011-07-28 23:56:38 -0700279- Issue #12514: Use try/finally to assure the timeit module restores garbage
280 collections when it is done.
281
Ross Lagerwalld8e39012011-07-27 18:54:53 +0200282- Issue #12607: In subprocess, fix issue where if stdin, stdout or stderr is
283 given as a low fd, it gets overwritten.
284
Ross Lagerwall528c4ad2011-07-25 07:23:58 +0200285- Issue #12102: Document that buffered files must be flushed before being used
286 with mmap. Patch by Steffen Daode Nurpmeso.
287
Charles-François Natali3de8c732011-07-24 22:33:35 +0200288- Issue #12560: Build libpython.so on OpenBSD. Patch by Stefan Sperling.
289
Antoine Pitrou4cfae022011-07-24 02:51:01 +0200290- Issue #1813: Fix codec lookup and setting/getting locales under Turkish
291 locales.
292
Nadeem Vawda0d2889f2011-07-23 16:13:01 +0200293- Issue #10883: Fix socket leaks in urllib when using FTP.
Nadeem Vawdab42c53e2011-07-23 15:51:16 +0200294
Charles-François Natali97781b02011-07-22 23:43:42 +0200295- Issue #12592: Make Python build on OpenBSD 5 (and future major releases).
296
Charles-François Natali4929eb92011-07-21 19:41:04 +0200297- Issue #12372: POSIX semaphores are broken on AIX: don't use them.
298
Antoine Pitrou495ee8f2011-07-20 00:26:23 +0200299- Issue #12571: Add a plat-linux3 directory mirroring the plat-linux2
300 directory, so that "import DLFCN" and other similar imports work on
301 Linux 3.0.
302
R David Murray95225952011-07-18 21:34:04 -0400303- Issue #7484: smtplib no longer puts <> around addresses in VRFY and EXPN
304 commands; they aren't required and in fact postfix doesn't support that form.
305
Antoine Pitrou304f0f92011-07-15 21:22:50 +0200306- Issue #11603: Fix a crash when __str__ is rebound as __repr__. Patch by
307 Andreas Stührk.
308
Charles-François Natali26591402011-07-14 19:49:02 +0200309- Issue #12502: asyncore: fix polling loop with AF_UNIX sockets.
310
Victor Stinnerbf547fd2011-07-13 21:47:31 +0200311- Issue #4376: ctypes now supports nested structures in a endian different than
312 the parent structure. Patch by Vlad Riscutia.
313
Victor Stinnere7901312011-07-05 14:08:01 +0200314- Issue #12493: subprocess: Popen.communicate() now also handles EINTR errors
315 if the process has only one pipe.
316
Victor Stinner65c15352011-07-04 03:05:37 +0200317- Issue #12467: warnings: fix a race condition if a warning is emitted at
318 shutdown, if globals()['__file__'] is None.
319
Charles-François Natali414d0fa2011-07-02 13:56:19 +0200320- Issue #12352: Fix a deadlock in multiprocessing.Heap when a block is freed by
321 the garbage collector while the Heap lock is held.
322
Ned Deily87e82bb2011-06-28 19:52:59 -0700323- Issue #9516: On Mac OS X, change Distutils to no longer globally attempt to
324 check or set the MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET environment variable for the
325 interpreter process. This could cause failures in non-Distutils subprocesses
326 and was unreliable since tests or user programs could modify the interpreter
327 environment after Distutils set it. Instead, have Distutils set the the
328 deployment target only in the environment of each build subprocess. It is
329 still possible to globally override the default by setting
330 MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET before launching the interpreter; its value must be
331 greater or equal to the default value, the value with which the interpreter
332 was built.
333
Raymond Hettinger2c316a32011-06-25 17:14:53 +0200334- Issue #11802: The cache in filecmp now has a maximum size of 100 so that
335 it won't grow without bound.
336
Ross Lagerwallffa8e2f2011-06-25 09:55:10 +0200337- Issue #12404: Remove C89 incompatible code from mmap module. Patch by Akira
338 Kitada.
339
R David Murrayf1138bb2011-06-17 22:23:04 -0400340- Issue #11700: mailbox proxy object close methods can now be called multiple
341 times without error, and _ProxyFile now closes the wrapped file.
342
Victor Stinnerc74a6ba2011-06-17 14:06:27 +0200343- Issue #12133: AbstractHTTPHandler.do_open() of urllib.request closes the HTTP
344 connection if its getresponse() method fails with a socket error. Patch
345 written by Ezio Melotti.
346
Benjamin Peterson0eb4ac42011-06-11 15:53:11 -0500347- Issue #9284: Allow inspect.findsource() to find the source of doctest
348 functions.
349
R David Murray873c5832011-06-09 16:01:09 -0400350- Issue #10694: zipfile now ignores garbage at the end of a zipfile.
351
Brian Curtincaea7e82011-06-08 19:29:53 -0500352- Issue #11583: Speed up os.path.isdir on Windows by using GetFileAttributes
353 instead of os.stat.
354
Mark Dickinsona493ca32011-06-04 18:24:15 +0100355- Issue #12080: Fix a performance issue in Decimal._power_exact that caused
356 some corner-case Decimal.__pow__ calls to take an unreasonably long time.
357
Raymond Hettinger45b08292011-06-02 20:40:35 -0700358- Named tuples now work correctly with vars().
359
Barry Warsawc5643282011-07-19 17:06:30 -0400360- sys.setcheckinterval() now updates the current ticker count as well as
361 updating the check interval, so if the user decreases the check interval,
362 the ticker doesn't have to wind down to zero from the old starting point
363 before the new interval takes effect. And if the user increases the
364 interval, it makes sure the new limit takes effect right away rather have an
365 early task switch before recognizing the new interval.
Raymond Hettinger19b851d2011-06-01 18:21:42 -0700366
Victor Stinner776e69b2011-06-01 01:03:00 +0200367- Issue #12085: Fix an attribute error in subprocess.Popen destructor if the
368 constructor has failed, e.g. because of an undeclared keyword argument. Patch
369 written by Oleg Oshmyan.
370
Barry Warsawc5643282011-07-19 17:06:30 -0400371Extension Modules
372-----------------
373
Charles-François Natali3aa59e32012-01-02 15:38:27 +0100374- Issue #9975: socket: Fix incorrect use of flowinfo and scope_id. Patch by
375 Vilmos Nebehaj.
376
Nadeem Vawda36248152011-10-13 13:52:46 +0200377- Issue #13159: FileIO, BZ2File, and the built-in file class now use a
378 linear-time buffer growth strategy instead of a quadratic one.
379
Charles-François Natali9ffcbf72011-10-06 19:09:45 +0200380- Issue #13070: Fix a crash when a TextIOWrapper caught in a reference cycle
381 would be finalized after the reference to its underlying BufferedRWPair's
382 writer got cleared by the GC.
383
Meador Ingead349a12011-10-03 21:34:04 -0500384- Issue #12881: ctypes: Fix segfault with large structure field names.
385
Meador Ingefe150032011-09-27 20:35:28 -0500386- Issue #13013: ctypes: Fix a reference leak in PyCArrayType_from_ctype.
387 Thanks to Suman Saha for finding the bug and providing a patch.
388
Jesus Ceac23484b2011-09-21 03:47:39 +0200389- Issue #13022: Fix: _multiprocessing.recvfd() doesn't check that
390 file descriptor was actually received.
391
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc439c25e2011-09-12 20:12:09 +0200392- Issue #12483: ctypes: Fix a crash when the destruction of a callback
393 object triggers the garbage collector.
394
Jesus Cea6ebaca12011-09-10 04:35:18 +0200395- Issue #12950: Fix passing file descriptors in multiprocessing, under
396 OpenIndiana/Illumos.
397
Amaury Forgeot d'Arccf316a12011-09-02 20:32:23 +0200398- Issue #12764: Fix a crash in ctypes when the name of a Structure field is not
399 a string.
400
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc3d7f2362011-08-30 21:04:35 +0200401- Issue #9651: Fix a crash when ctypes.create_string_buffer(0) was passed to
402 some functions like file.write().
403
Barry Warsawc5643282011-07-19 17:06:30 -0400404- Issue #10309: Define _GNU_SOURCE so that mremap() gets the proper
405 signature. Without this, architectures where sizeof void* != sizeof int are
406 broken. Patch given by Hallvard B Furuseth.
407
Ned Deily43e10542011-06-27 23:41:53 -0700408Build
409-----
410
411- Issue #8746: Correct faulty configure checks so that os.chflags() and
412 os.lchflags() are once again built on systems that support these
413 functions (*BSD and OS X). Also add new stat file flags for OS X
414 (UF_HIDDEN and UF_COMPRESSED).
415
Jason R. Coombsfee77452011-07-27 14:05:37 -0400416Tools/Demos
417-----------
418
419- Issue #10639: reindent.py no longer converts newlines and will raise
420 an error if attempting to convert a file with mixed newlines.
421
Victor Stinner99cff3f2011-12-19 13:59:58 +0100422Tools/Demos
423-----------
424
425- Issue #13628: python-gdb.py is now able to retrieve more frames in the Python
426 traceback if Python is optimized.
427
Victor Stinnerd9f52922011-05-30 23:58:21 +0200428Tests
429-----
430
Ned Deily1aacd7b2011-10-31 16:14:52 -0700431- Issue #13304: Skip test case if user site-packages disabled (-s or
432 PYTHONNOUSERSITE). (Patch by Carl Meyer)
433
Barry Warsawbf0cafa2011-10-28 16:16:58 -0400434- Issue #13218: Fix test_ssl failures on Debian/Ubuntu.
435
Charles-François Natalicdaafe02011-08-23 19:42:02 +0200436- Issue #12821: Fix test_fcntl failures on OpenBSD 5.
437
Éric Araujo498da2c2011-07-31 17:59:28 +0200438- Issue #12331: The test suite for lib2to3 can now run from an installed
439 Python.
440
Ned Deily0ab67ee2011-07-13 15:05:31 -0700441- Issue #12549: Correct test_platform to not fail when OS X returns 'x86_64'
442 as the processor type on some Mac systems.
443
Antoine Pitrou4a4a0fe2011-07-09 02:34:05 +0200444- Skip network tests when getaddrinfo() returns EAI_AGAIN, meaning a temporary
445 failure in name resolution.
446
Jesus Ceacb65f322011-11-08 16:06:44 +0100447- Issue #11812: Solve transient socket failure to connect to 'localhost'
448 in test_telnetlib.py.
449
Jesus Cea71094b52011-11-08 15:54:42 +0100450- Solved a potential deadlock in test_telnetlib.py. Related to issue #11812.
451
Antoine Pitrou29603082011-07-08 19:40:15 +0200452- Avoid failing in test_robotparser when mueblesmoraleda.com is flaky and
453 an overzealous DNS service (e.g. OpenDNS) redirects to a placeholder
454 Web site.
455
Antoine Pitroua4d58d22011-07-08 19:14:19 +0200456- Avoid failing in test_urllibnet.test_bad_address when some overzealous
457 DNS service (e.g. OpenDNS) resolves a non-existent domain name. The test
458 is now skipped instead.
459
Ned Deily46268c42011-07-03 21:52:35 -0700460- Issue #8716: Avoid crashes caused by Aqua Tk on OSX when attempting to run
461 test_tk or test_ttk_guionly under a username that is not currently logged
462 in to the console windowserver (as may be the case under buildbot or ssh).
463
Ned Deily63144c62011-06-28 00:39:19 -0700464- Issue #12141: Install a copy of template C module file so that
465 test_build_ext of test_distutils is no longer silently skipped when
466 run outside of a build directory.
467
Ned Deily43e10542011-06-27 23:41:53 -0700468- Issue #8746: Add additional tests for os.chflags() and os.lchflags().
469 Patch by Garrett Cooper.
470
Ned Deily64e59952011-06-27 23:09:31 -0700471- Issue #10736: Fix test_ttk test_widgets failures with Cocoa Tk 8.5.9
472 on Mac OS X. (Patch by Ronald Oussoren)
473
Victor Stinnerd9f52922011-05-30 23:58:21 +0200474- Issue #12057: Add tests for ISO 2022 codecs (iso2022_jp, iso2022_jp_2,
475 iso2022_kr).
476
Florent Xiclunadf10d7c2011-10-23 23:07:22 +0200477Documentation
478-------------
479
Meador Inge52957182011-12-03 12:13:42 -0600480- Issue #13513: Fix io.IOBase documentation to correctly link to the
481 io.IOBase.readline method instead of the readline module.
482
Nick Coghlan86711572011-10-24 22:19:40 +1000483- Issue #13237: Reorganise subprocess documentation to emphasise convenience
484 functions and the most commonly needed arguments to Popen.
485
Florent Xiclunadf10d7c2011-10-23 23:07:22 +0200486- Issue #13141: Demonstrate recommended style for SocketServer examples.
487
Victor Stinner08563d92011-05-30 23:44:13 +0200488
Benjamin Peterson5ee84482010-11-28 04:49:23 +0000489What's New in Python 2.7.2?
490===========================
491
Benjamin Peterson9843ba52011-06-11 09:42:44 -0500492*Release date: 2011-06-11*
Benjamin Petersonf14e4202011-05-31 18:44:55 -0500493
Benjamin Peterson43ee1a52011-06-10 11:32:52 -0500494Library
495-------
496
497- Issue #12009: Fixed regression in netrc file comment handling.
498
Benjamin Peterson4ba009d2011-05-31 18:59:49 -0500499Extension Modules
500-----------------
501
502- Issue #1221: Make pyexpat.__version__ equal to the Python version.
503
Benjamin Petersonf14e4202011-05-31 18:44:55 -0500504
505What's New in Python 2.7.2 release candidate 1?
506===============================================
507
Benjamin Petersoncd207052011-05-29 16:50:27 -0500508*Release date: 2011-05-29*
Benjamin Peterson5ee84482010-11-28 04:49:23 +0000509
510Core and Builtins
511-----------------
512
Ned Deily482f9082011-05-28 00:11:54 -0700513- Issue #9670: Increase the default stack size for secondary threads on
514 Mac OS X and FreeBSD to reduce the chances of a crash instead of a
515 "maximum recursion depth" RuntimeError exception.
516 (patch by Ronald Oussoren)
517
Benjamin Petersonef1122c2011-06-03 16:17:22 -0500518- Correct lookup of __dir__ on objects. This allows old-style classes to have
519 __dir__. It also causes errors besides AttributeError found on lookup to be
520 propagated.
Benjamin Peterson8de87a62011-05-23 16:11:05 -0500521
Victor Stinner2c585f62011-05-10 00:22:59 +0200522- Issue #1195: Fix input() if it is interrupted by CTRL+d and then CTRL+c,
523 clear the end-of-file indicator after CTRL+d.
524
Victor Stinner0a92d182011-05-03 15:09:24 +0200525- Issue #8651: PyArg_Parse*() functions raise an OverflowError if the file
526 doesn't have PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN define and the size doesn't fit in an int
527 (length bigger than 2^31-1 bytes).
528
Victor Stinner645b9f62011-05-03 15:06:11 +0200529- Issue #8651: Fix "z#" format of PyArg_Parse*() function: the size was not
530 written if PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN is defined.
531
Victor Stinnere363ec12011-05-01 23:43:37 +0200532- Issue #9756: When calling a method descriptor or a slot wrapper descriptor,
533 the check of the object type doesn't read the __class__ attribute anymore.
534 Fix a crash if a class override its __class__ attribute (e.g. a proxy of the
Victor Stinner97cf5852011-05-01 23:51:11 +0200535 str type). Patch written by Andreas Stührk.
Victor Stinnere363ec12011-05-01 23:43:37 +0200536
Antoine Pitrou1f9eb152011-04-27 19:26:06 +0200537- Issue #10517: After fork(), reinitialize the TLS used by the PyGILState_*
538 APIs, to avoid a crash with the pthread implementation in RHEL 5. Patch
539 by Charles-François Natali.
540
Ezio Melottie3685f62011-04-26 05:12:51 +0300541- Issue #6780: fix starts/endswith error message to mention that tuples are
542 accepted too.
543
Ezio Melottic283a852011-04-15 16:14:04 +0300544- Issue #5057: fix a bug in the peepholer that led to non-portable pyc files
545 between narrow and wide builds while optimizing BINARY_SUBSCR on non-BMP
546 chars (e.g. u"\U00012345"[0]).
547
Victor Stinner5de51ac2011-04-09 16:09:08 +0200548- Issue #11650: PyOS_StdioReadline() retries fgets() if it was interrupted
549 (EINTR), for example if the program is stopped with CTRL+z on Mac OS X. Patch
550 written by Charles-Francois Natali.
551
Mark Dickinson874d59e2011-03-26 12:18:00 +0000552- Issue #11144: Ensure that int(a_float) returns an int whenever possible.
553 Previously, there were some corner cases where a long was returned even
554 though the result was within the range of an int.
555
Antoine Pitrou2ddaaff2011-03-09 12:54:00 +0100556- Issue #11450: Don't truncate hg version info in Py_GetBuildInfo() when
557 there are many tags (e.g. when using mq). Patch by Nadeem Vawda.
558
Antoine Pitrou3013b162011-01-18 19:06:19 +0000559- Issue #10451: memoryview objects could allow to mutate a readable buffer.
560 Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall.
561
Benjamin Peterson9b911ca2011-01-12 15:49:47 +0000562- Issue #10892: Don't segfault when trying to delete __abstractmethods__ from a
563 class.
564
Antoine Pitrou5a72e762011-01-07 21:49:44 +0000565- Issue #8020: Avoid a crash where the small objects allocator would read
566 non-Python managed memory while it is being modified by another thread.
567 Patch by Matt Bandy.
568
Raymond Hettinger57a86892011-01-25 21:43:29 +0000569- Issue #11004: Repaired edge case in deque.count().
570
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcac514c82011-01-03 00:50:57 +0000571- Issue #8278: On Windows and with a NTFS filesystem, os.stat() and os.utime()
572 can now handle dates after 2038.
573
R. David Murray64a1e7c2010-12-15 01:36:03 +0000574- Issue #4236: Py_InitModule4 now checks the import machinery directly
575 rather than the Py_IsInitialized flag, avoiding a Fatal Python
576 error in certain circumstances when an import is done in __del__.
577
Jesus Cea44e81682011-04-20 16:39:15 +0200578- issue #11828: startswith and endswith don't accept None as slice index.
579 Patch by Torsten Becker.
580
Benjamin Peterson07f54512010-12-11 04:25:57 +0000581- Issue #10674: Remove unused 'dictmaker' rule from grammar.
582
Mark Dickinsonecf8ec62010-12-04 12:30:41 +0000583- Issue #10596: Fix float.__mod__ to have the same behaviour as
584 float.__divmod__ with respect to signed zeros. -4.0 % 4.0 should be
585 0.0, not -0.0.
586
Eli Bendersky680e6eb2011-03-04 06:14:56 +0000587- Issue #11386: bytearray.pop() now throws IndexError when the bytearray is
588 empty, instead of OverflowError.
589
Benjamin Peterson5ee84482010-11-28 04:49:23 +0000590Library
591-------
Antoine Pitrou47900cf2010-12-17 17:45:12 +0000592
Ned Deilyd8b17232011-07-26 18:16:08 -0700593- Issue #12590: IDLE editor window now always displays the first line
594 when opening a long file. With Tk 8.5, the first line was hidden.
595
Benjamin Peterson4fa68ab2011-05-26 09:56:41 -0500596- Issue #12161: Cause StringIO.getvalue() to raise a ValueError when used on a
597 closed StringIO instance.
598
Victor Stinnerdbfba162011-05-26 13:37:25 +0200599- Issue #12182: Fix pydoc.HTMLDoc.multicolumn() if Python uses the new (true)
600 division (python -Qnew). Patch written by Ralf W. Grosse-Kunstleve.
601
Victor Stinnerdaf17e92011-05-25 22:52:37 +0200602- Issue #12175: RawIOBase.readall() now returns None if read() returns None.
603
Victor Stinner5100a402011-05-25 22:15:36 +0200604- Issue #12175: FileIO.readall() now raises a ValueError instead of an IOError
605 if the file is closed.
606
Charles-François Natalib94e0cd2011-05-24 23:10:54 +0200607- Issue #1441530: In imaplib, use makefile() to wrap the SSL socket to avoid
608 heap fragmentation and MemoryError with some malloc implementations.
609
Victor Stinner40b41e12011-05-24 22:29:13 +0200610- Issue #12100: Don't reset incremental encoders of CJK codecs at each call to
611 their encode() method anymore, but continue to call the reset() method if the
612 final argument is True.
613
Victor Stinnerf58f1c32011-05-21 02:13:22 +0200614- Issue #12124: zipimport doesn't keep a reference to zlib.decompress() anymore
615 to be able to unload the module.
616
Ronald Oussorenb13cacf2011-05-17 15:13:46 +0200617- Issue #11088: don't crash when using F5 to run a script in IDLE on MacOSX
618 with Tk 8.5.
619
Ronald Oussoren372954e2011-05-17 13:22:30 +0200620- Issue #10154, #10090: change the normalization of UTF-8 to "UTF-8" instead
621 of "UTF8" in the locale module as the latter is not supported MacOSX and OpenBSD.
622
Victor Stinnerf58f1c32011-05-21 02:13:22 +0200623- Issue #9516: avoid errors in sysconfig when MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET is
Ronald Oussoren53b6a5f2011-05-15 16:51:10 +0200624 set in shell.
625
Nadeem Vawda0cc4fd92011-05-14 14:29:07 +0200626- Issue #12050: zlib.decompressobj().decompress() now clears the unconsumed_tail
627 attribute when called without a max_length argument.
628
Antoine Pitrouee46a7b2011-05-13 00:31:52 +0200629- Issue #12062: In the `io` module, fix a flushing bug when doing a certain
630 type of I/O sequence on a file opened in read+write mode (namely: reading,
631 seeking a bit forward, writing, then seeking before the previous write but
632 still within buffered data, and writing again).
633
Antoine Pitrou47d1d0d2011-05-10 19:16:03 +0200634- Issue #8498: In socket.accept(), allow to specify 0 as a backlog value in
635 order to accept exactly one connection. Patch by Daniel Evers.
636
Victor Stinnerb1241f92011-05-10 01:52:03 +0200637- Issue #12012: ssl.PROTOCOL_SSLv2 becomes optional.
638
Martin v. Löwis591c2df2011-05-09 08:19:13 +0200639- Issue #11164: Remove obsolete allnodes test from minidom test.
640
Antoine Pitrou21ce8f02011-05-07 19:59:33 +0200641- Issue #11927: SMTP_SSL now uses port 465 by default as documented. Patch
642 by Kasun Herath.
643
R David Murray8b26c4b2011-05-06 21:56:22 -0400644- Issue 11999: fixed sporadic sync failure mailbox.Maildir due to its trying to
645 detect mtime changes by comparing to the system clock instead of to the
646 previous value of the mtime.
647
Ronald Oussoren58d6b1b2011-05-06 11:31:33 +0200648- Issue #10684: shutil.move used to delete a folder on case insensitive
649 filesystems when the source and destination name where the same except
650 for the case.
651
Ezio Melottidf8a8f72011-05-04 14:40:53 +0300652- Issue #11982: fix json.loads('""') to return u'' rather than ''.
653
Victor Stinner112d48a2011-05-03 14:36:36 +0200654- Issue #11277: mmap.mmap() calls fcntl(fd, F_FULLFSYNC) on Mac OS X to get
655 around a mmap bug with sparse files. Patch written by Steffen Daode Nurpmeso.
656
Senthil Kumaran011525e2011-04-28 15:30:31 +0800657- Issue #10761: Fix tarfile.extractall failure when symlinked files are
658 present. Initial patch by Scott Leerssen.
659
Ezio Melotti34b32d62011-04-27 09:45:46 +0300660- Issue #11763: don't use difflib in TestCase.assertMultiLineEqual if the
661 strings are too long.
662
Senthil Kumaran5dc68682011-04-26 21:17:45 +0800663- Issue #11236: getpass.getpass responds to ctrl-c or ctrl-z on terminal.
664
Victor Stinner33feeab2011-04-18 16:33:28 +0200665- Issue #11768: The signal handler of the signal module only calls
666 Py_AddPendingCall() for the first signal to fix a deadlock on reentrant or
667 parallel calls. PyErr_SetInterrupt() writes also into the wake up file.
668
Raymond Hettingere0156c42011-04-19 09:48:39 -0700669- Issue #11875: collections.OrderedDict's __reduce__ was temporarily
670 mutating the object instead of just working on a copy.
671
Martin v. Löwis2d253dd2011-04-17 22:29:40 +0200672- Issue #11442: Add a charset parameter to the Content-type in SimpleHTTPServer
673 to avoid XSS attacks.
674
Senthil Kumaranddaea1c2011-04-15 18:07:33 +0800675- Issue #11467: Fix urlparse behavior when handling urls which contains scheme
676 specific part only digits. Patch by Santoso Wijaya.
677
Raymond Hettinger37c0fe52011-04-15 13:12:21 -0700678- collections.Counter().copy() now works correctly for subclasses.
679
Senthil Kumarana99b7612011-04-14 12:54:35 +0800680- Issue #11474: Fix the bug with url2pathname() handling of '/C|/' on Windows.
681 Patch by Santoso Wijaya.
682
Ezio Melotti2b96f092011-04-13 05:37:29 +0300683- Issue #9233: Fix json.loads('{}') to return a dict (instead of a list), when
684 _json is not available.
685
686- Issue #11703: urllib2.geturl() does not return correct url when the original
Senthil Kumaran0531d6f2011-04-13 09:47:20 +0800687 url contains #fragment.
688
R David Murrayea8b6ef2011-04-12 21:00:26 -0400689- Issue #10019: Fixed regression in json module where an indent of 0 stopped
690 adding newlines and acted instead like 'None'.
691
brian.curtin16f98b72011-04-11 18:05:33 -0500692- Issue #5162: Treat services like frozen executables to allow child spawning
693 from multiprocessing.forking on Windows.
694
Ezio Melotti8b4367e2011-04-11 03:44:28 +0300695- Issue #4877: Fix a segfault in xml.parsers.expat while attempting to parse
696 a closed file.
697
Raymond Hettingere4579c32011-04-11 17:27:42 -0700698- Issue #11830: Remove unnecessary introspection code in the decimal module.
699 It was causing a failed import in the Turkish locale where the locale
700 sensitive str.upper() method caused a name mismatch.
701
Antoine Pitrou7dfc8742011-04-11 00:26:42 +0200702- Issue #8428: Fix a race condition in multiprocessing.Pool when terminating
703 worker processes: new processes would be spawned while the pool is being
704 shut down. Patch by Charles-François Natali.
705
Ezio Melotti8b4367e2011-04-11 03:44:28 +0300706- Issue #7311: Fix HTMLParser to accept non-ASCII attribute values.
Ezio Melotti9f1ffb22011-04-05 20:40:52 +0300707
Ross Lagerwall104c3f12011-04-05 15:24:34 +0200708- Issue #10963: Ensure that subprocess.communicate() never raises EPIPE.
709
guido@google.com2bc23b82011-03-24 10:44:17 -0700710- Issue #11662: Make urllib and urllib2 ignore redirections if the
guido@google.comdb3080e2011-03-28 13:53:40 -0700711 scheme is not HTTP, HTTPS or FTP (CVE-2011-1521).
Antoine Pitrou47900cf2010-12-17 17:45:12 +0000712
Benjamin Peterson77d46602011-03-28 17:32:31 -0500713- Issue #11256: Fix inspect.getcallargs on functions that take only keyword
714 arguments.
715
Martin v. Löwis03f7e232011-03-27 20:58:52 +0200716- Issue #11696: Fix ID generation in msilib.
717
Mark Dickinsond687be02011-03-27 16:15:24 +0100718- Issue #9696: Fix exception incorrectly raised by xdrlib.Packer.pack_int when
719 trying to pack a negative (in-range) integer.
720
Mark Dickinson1829e8f2011-03-27 15:32:05 +0100721- Issue #11675: multiprocessing.[Raw]Array objects created from an integer size
722 are now zeroed on creation. This matches the behaviour specified by the
723 documentation.
724
Martin v. Löwis49b0ce02011-03-27 10:10:46 +0200725- Issue #7639: Fix short file name generation in bdist_msi.
726
Raymond Hettinger9aa5a342011-03-25 16:00:13 -0700727- Issue #11666: let help() display named tuple attributes and methods
728 that start with a leading underscore.
729
Mark Dickinsonf9e9a6f2011-03-25 22:01:06 +0000730- Issue #11673: Fix multiprocessing Array and RawArray constructors to accept a
731 size of type 'long', rather than only accepting 'int'.
732
Éric Araujo374274d2011-03-19 04:29:36 +0100733- Issue #10042: Fixed the total_ordering decorator to handle cross-type
734 comparisons that could lead to infinite recursion.
735
Michael Foord51368672011-03-17 12:59:38 -0400736- Issue #10979: unittest stdout buffering now works with class and module
737 setup and teardown.
738
Ronald Oussoren2ab59942011-03-16 09:47:15 -0400739- Issue #11569: use absolute path to the sysctl command in multiprocessing to
740 ensure that it will be found regardless of the shell PATH. This ensures
741 that multiprocessing.cpu_count works on default installs of MacOSX.
742
Michael Foord51368672011-03-17 12:59:38 -0400743- Issue #11500: Fixed a bug in the os x proxy bypass code for fully qualified
744 IP addresses in the proxy exception list.
Ronald Oussoren1aa999c2011-03-14 18:53:59 -0400745
Mark Dickinson2c8c62e2011-03-12 11:05:32 +0000746- Issue #11131: Fix sign of zero in plus and minus operations when
747 the context rounding mode is ROUND_FLOOR.
748
Ned Deily9d4836e2011-03-09 02:31:55 -0800749- Issue #5622: Fix curses.wrapper to raise correct exception if curses
750 initialization fails.
751
Antoine Pitroud6f3a3e2011-03-06 02:03:34 +0100752- Issue #11391: Writing to a mmap object created with
753 ``mmap.PROT_READ|mmap.PROT_EXEC`` would segfault instead of raising a
754 TypeError. Patch by Charles-François Natali.
755
R. David Murray1a337902011-03-03 18:17:40 +0000756- Issue #11306: mailbox in certain cases adapts to an inability to open
757 certain files in read-write mode. Previously it detected this by
758 checking for EACCES, now it also checks for EROFS.
759
Giampaolo Rodolàd65224f2011-03-03 14:17:51 +0000760- Issue #11265: asyncore now correctly handles EPIPE, EBADF and EAGAIN errors
761 on accept(), send() and recv().
762
Antoine Pitroud3f6ea12011-02-26 23:35:27 +0000763- Issue #11326: Add the missing connect_ex() implementation for SSL sockets,
764 and make it work for non-blocking connects.
765
Antoine Pitrou6439c002011-02-25 21:35:47 +0000766- Issue #10956: Buffered I/O classes retry reading or writing after a signal
767 has arrived and the handler returned successfully.
768
Georg Brandl28046022011-02-25 11:01:04 +0000769- Issue #10680: Fix mutually exclusive arguments for argument groups in
770 argparse.
771
Antoine Pitrouf4d2b3d2011-02-21 23:59:20 +0000772- Issue #4681: Allow mmap() to work on file sizes and offsets larger than
773 4GB, even on 32-bit builds. Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall, adapted for
774 32-bit Windows.
775
Georg Brandl52f83952011-02-25 10:39:23 +0000776- Issue #10360: In WeakSet, do not raise TypeErrors when testing for
777 membership of non-weakrefable objects.
778
779- Issue #10549: Fix pydoc traceback when text-documenting certain classes.
780
781- Issue #940286: pydoc.Helper.help() ignores input/output init parameters.
782
Barry Warsaw42bb7ca2011-02-14 20:04:00 +0000783- Issue #11171: Fix detection of config/Makefile when --prefix !=
784 --exec-prefix, which caused Python to not start.
785
R. David Murray008c0442011-02-11 23:03:13 +0000786- Issue #11116: any error during addition of a message to a mailbox now causes
787 a rollback, instead of leaving the mailbox partially modified.
788
Antoine Pitrou820021e2011-01-31 21:47:45 +0000789- Issue #8275: Fix passing of callback arguments with ctypes under Win64.
790 Patch by Stan Mihai.
791
Ned Deily60651532011-01-31 00:52:49 +0000792- Issue #10940: Workaround an IDLE hang on Mac OS X 10.6 when using the
793 menu accelerators for Open Module, Go to Line, and New Indent Width.
794 The accelerators still work but no longer appear in the menu items.
795
Ned Deily2a6f4b32011-01-30 00:18:47 +0000796- Issue #10907: Warn OS X 10.6 IDLE users to use ActiveState Tcl/Tk 8.5, rather
797 than the currently problematic Apple-supplied one, when running with the
798 64-/32-bit installer variant.
799
Ned Deilyefc527a2011-01-29 19:30:39 +0000800- Issue #11052: Correct IDLE menu accelerators on Mac OS X for Save
801 commands.
802
Vinay Sajipcdb83882011-01-21 23:35:57 +0000803- Issue #10949: Improved robustness of rotating file handlers.
804
Antoine Pitrou8a0eede2011-01-20 21:20:18 +0000805- Issue #10955: Fix a potential crash when trying to mmap() a file past its
806 length. Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall.
807
Antoine Pitrou63a3f152011-01-19 15:27:24 +0000808- Issue #10898: Allow compiling the posix module when the C library defines
809 a symbol named FSTAT.
810
Ned Deily4a705502011-01-18 04:33:22 +0000811- Issue #6075: IDLE on Mac OS X now works with both Carbon AquaTk and
812 Cocoa AquaTk.
813
Antoine Pitrou9989d852011-01-15 16:18:57 +0000814- Issue #10916: mmap should not segfault when a file is mapped using 0 as
815 length and a non-zero offset, and an attempt to read past the end of file
816 is made (IndexError is raised instead). Patch by Ross Lagerwall.
817
Terry Reedyf7dd7992011-01-10 22:15:19 +0000818- Issue #10875: Update Regular Expression HOWTO; patch by 'SilentGhost'.
819
Antoine Pitrou5a72e762011-01-07 21:49:44 +0000820- Issue #10827: Changed the rules for 2-digit years. The time.asctime
821 function will now format any year when ``time.accept2dyear`` is
822 false and will accept years >= 1000 otherwise. The year range
823 accepted by ``time.mktime`` and ``time.strftime`` is still system
824 dependent, but ``time.mktime`` will now accept full range supported
825 by the OS. Conversion of 2-digit years to 4-digit is deprecated.
826
Georg Brandl6adb9792011-01-09 07:53:14 +0000827- Issue #10869: Fixed bug where ast.increment_lineno modified the root
828 node twice.
829
Antoine Pitrou1f1613f2011-01-06 18:30:26 +0000830- Issue #7858: Raise an error properly when os.utime() fails under Windows
831 on an existing file.
832
Antoine Pitrou77c1b382011-01-06 17:19:05 +0000833- Issue #3839: wsgiref should not override a Content-Length header set by
834 the application. Initial patch by Clovis Fabricio.
835
Antoine Pitrou91ce0d92011-01-03 18:45:09 +0000836- Issue #10806, issue #9905: Fix subprocess pipes when some of the standard
837 file descriptors (0, 1, 2) are closed in the parent process. Initial
838 patch by Ross Lagerwall.
839
Antoine Pitroub0614612011-01-02 20:04:52 +0000840- Issue #4662: os.tempnam(), os.tmpfile() and os.tmpnam() now raise a py3k
841 DeprecationWarning.
842
Raymond Hettinger8ebebd82011-01-02 01:03:26 +0000843- Subclasses of collections.OrderedDict now work correctly with __missing__.
844
Éric Araujo86f90742011-03-21 00:15:26 +0100845- Issue #10753 - Characters ';', '=' and ',' in the PATH_INFO environment
Senthil Kumaran559395f2010-12-29 06:30:19 +0000846 variable won't be quoted when the URI is constructed by the wsgiref.util 's
847 request_uri method. According to RFC 3986, these characters can be a part of
848 params in PATH component of URI and need not be quoted.
849
Éric Araujo86f90742011-03-21 00:15:26 +0100850- Issue #10738: Fix webbrowser.Opera.raise_opts
Terry Reedy0df73672010-12-28 19:53:32 +0000851
Éric Araujo86f90742011-03-21 00:15:26 +0100852- Issue #9824: SimpleCookie now encodes , and ; in values to cater to how
R. David Murray08fc7012010-12-28 19:11:03 +0000853 browsers actually parse cookies.
854
R. David Murray5360d002010-12-27 19:17:17 +0000855- Issue #1379416: eliminated a source of accidental unicode promotion in
856 email.header.Header.encode.
857
R. David Murray5874ed62010-12-26 22:29:53 +0000858- Issue #5258/#10642: if site.py encounters a .pth file that generates an error,
859 it now prints the filename, line number, and traceback to stderr and skips
860 the rest of that individual file, instead of stopping processing entirely.
861
Antoine Pitroufc9ead62010-12-21 21:26:55 +0000862- Issue #10750: The ``raw`` attribute of buffered IO objects is now read-only.
863
Daniel Stutzbach57cf0af2011-01-04 18:47:17 +0000864- Issue #10242: unittest.TestCase.assertItemsEqual makes too many assumptions
Michael Foorde6e0e262010-12-19 15:52:56 +0000865 about input.
866
Michael Foorda17f0762010-12-19 14:53:19 +0000867- Issue #10611: SystemExit should not cause a unittest test run to exit.
868
Antoine Pitroud7b6ac62010-12-18 18:18:21 +0000869- Issue #6791: Limit header line length (to 65535 bytes) in http.client,
870 to avoid denial of services from the other party.
871
R. David Murray3f752ab2010-12-18 17:22:18 +0000872- Issue #10404: Use ctl-button-1 on OSX for the context menu in Idle.
873
874- Issue #9907: Fix tab handling on OSX when using editline by calling
R. David Murray7a697252010-12-18 03:52:09 +0000875 rl_initialize first, then setting our custom defaults, then reading .editrc.
876
Antoine Pitrou47900cf2010-12-17 17:45:12 +0000877- Issue #4188: Avoid creating dummy thread objects when logging operations
878 from the threading module (with the internal verbose flag activated).
879
Senthil Kumaran5c7fd6e2010-12-17 04:56:02 +0000880- Issue #9721: Fix the behavior of urljoin when the relative url starts with a
881 ';' character. Patch by Wes Chow.
Benjamin Peterson5ee84482010-11-28 04:49:23 +0000882
Antoine Pitrou47d9b0e2010-12-16 17:11:34 +0000883- Issue #10714: Limit length of incoming request in http.server to 65536 bytes
884 for security reasons. Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall.
885
Éric Araujoe04c13c2010-12-15 21:15:25 +0000886- Issue #9558: Fix distutils.command.build_ext with VS 8.0.
887
R. David Murraydacb8042010-12-14 14:34:16 +0000888- Issue #10695: passing the port as a string value to telnetlib no longer
889 causes debug mode to fail.
890
Ronald Oussoren8ec374c2010-12-07 16:02:59 +0000891- Issue #10107: Warn about unsaved files in IDLE on OSX.
892
Ronald Oussoren517858a2010-12-07 16:13:17 +0000893- Issue #10406: Enable Rstrip IDLE extension on OSX (just like on other
894 platforms).
895
Antoine Pitrou4cb64ad2010-12-03 19:31:52 +0000896- Issue #10478: Reentrant calls inside buffered IO objects (for example by
897 way of a signal handler) now raise a RuntimeError instead of freezing the
898 current process.
899
Éric Araujofb3de6b2010-12-03 19:24:49 +0000900- Issue #10497: Fix incorrect use of gettext in argparse.
901
R. David Murrayd75cc912010-12-02 03:16:23 +0000902- Issue #10464: netrc now correctly handles lines with embedded '#' characters.
903
Gregory P. Smith312efbc2010-12-14 15:02:53 +0000904- Issue #1731717: Fixed the problem where subprocess.wait() could cause an
905 OSError exception when The OS had been told to ignore SIGCLD in our process
906 or otherwise not wait for exiting child processes.
907
Steven Bethardf8583ac2011-01-24 20:40:15 +0000908- Issue #9509: argparse now properly handles IOErrors raised by
909 argparse.FileType.
910
Steven Bethard3f69a052011-03-26 19:59:02 +0100911- Issue #9348: Raise an early error if argparse nargs and metavar don't match.
912
913- Issue #8982: Improve the documentation for the argparse Namespace object.
914
Steven Bethard5e0062d2011-03-26 21:50:38 +0100915- Issue #9343: Document that argparse parent parsers must be configured before
916 their children.
917
Steven Bethardbc3b1042011-03-27 13:57:55 +0200918- Issue #9026: Fix order of argparse sub-commands in help messages.
919
Steven Betharde3c11b42011-04-04 01:47:52 +0200920- Issue #9347: Fix formatting for tuples in argparse type= error messages.
921
R. David Murray2a4b3fc2010-12-11 02:13:04 +0000922Extension Modules
923-----------------
924
Benjamin Peterson6116d4a2011-05-17 18:31:20 -0500925- Stop using the old interface for providing methods and attributes in the _sre
926 module. Among other things, this gives these classes ``__class__``
927 attributes. (See #12099)
928
Ezio Melotti0639be62011-05-07 19:21:22 +0300929- Issue #10169: Fix argument parsing in socket.sendto() to avoid error masking.
930
Ezio Melottic1ec7b52011-05-11 00:55:35 +0300931- Issue #12051: Fix segfault in json.dumps() while encoding highly-nested
932 objects using the C accelerations.
933
Ezio Melotticec46492011-05-07 17:40:23 +0300934- Issue #12017: Fix segfault in json.loads() while decoding highly-nested
935 objects using the C accelerations.
936
Benjamin Petersonf21ad922011-03-26 17:56:28 -0500937- Issue #1838: Prevent segfault in ctypes, when _as_parameter_ on a class is set
938 to an instance of the class.
939
R. David Murray2a4b3fc2010-12-11 02:13:04 +0000940- Issue #678250: Make mmap flush a noop on ACCESS_READ and ACCESS_COPY.
941
Antoine Pitrouf11d1832011-01-02 19:37:45 +0000942Build
943-----
944
Ned Deily22f63b52011-05-28 05:56:14 -0700945- Issue #11217: For 64-bit/32-bit Mac OS X universal framework builds,
946 ensure "make install" creates symlinks in --prefix bin for the "-32"
947 files in the framework bin directory like the installer does.
948
Thomas Wouters5edae7e2011-03-06 11:48:05 -0800949- Issue #11411: Fix 'make DESTDIR=' with a relative destination.
950
Georg Brandl94800df2011-02-25 11:09:02 +0000951- Issue #10709: Add updated AIX notes in Misc/README.AIX.
952
953- Issue #11184: Fix large-file support on AIX.
954
Georg Brandl71f4fbb2011-02-25 11:04:50 +0000955- Issue #941346: Fix broken shared library build on AIX.
956
Ned Deilye6cc7d62011-02-21 21:00:09 +0000957- Issue #11268: Prevent Mac OS X Installer failure if Documentation
958 package had previously been installed.
959
Ned Deily68adfdc2011-02-07 16:52:25 +0000960- Issue #11079: The /Applications/Python x.x folder created by the Mac
961 OS X installers now includes a link to the installed documentation.
962
Ned Deily53c460d2011-01-30 01:43:40 +0000963- Issue #11054: Allow Mac OS X installer builds to again work on 10.5 with
964 the system-provided Python.
965
966- Issue #10843: Update third-party library versions used in OS X
967 32-bit installer builds: bzip2 1.0.6, readline 6.1.2, SQLite 3.7.4
968 (with FTS3/FTS4 and RTREE enabled), and ncursesw 5.5 (wide-char
969 support enabled).
970
Antoine Pitrou9828b562011-01-03 19:11:32 +0000971- Don't run pgen twice when using make -j.
972
Antoine Pitrou31e85952011-01-03 18:57:14 +0000973- Issue #7716: Under Solaris, don't assume existence of /usr/xpg4/bin/grep in
974 the configure script but use $GREP instead. Patch by Fabian Groffen.
975
Antoine Pitrouf11d1832011-01-02 19:37:45 +0000976- Issue #10475: Don't hardcode compilers for LDSHARED/LDCXXSHARED on NetBSD
977 and DragonFly BSD. Patch by Nicolas Joly.
978
David Malcolm4c29e1c2011-01-06 17:39:24 +0000979- Issue #10655: Fix the build on PowerPC on Linux with GCC when building with
980 timestamp profiling (--with-tsc): the preprocessor test for the PowerPC
981 support now looks for "__powerpc__" as well as "__ppc__": the latter seems to
982 only be present on OS X; the former is the correct one for Linux with GCC.
983
Ronald Oussoren19199832011-03-14 11:57:39 -0400984- Issue #1099: Fix the build on MacOSX when building a framework with pydebug
985 using GCC 4.0.
986
Raymond Hettinger179816d2011-04-12 18:54:46 -0700987IDLE
988----
989
990- Issue #11718: IDLE's open module dialog couldn't find the __init__.py
991 file in a package.
992
R. David Murray0960bc52010-12-04 17:24:46 +0000993Tests
994-----
995
Ned Deilyc4f97f42011-05-29 02:36:17 -0700996- Issue #12205: Fix test_subprocess failure due to uninstalled test data.
997
Ezio Melottie3992eb2011-05-14 06:24:53 +0300998- Issue #5723: Improve json tests to be executed with and without accelerations.
999
Ezio Melotti5c5d7e22011-05-09 06:54:53 +03001000- Issue #11910: Fix test_heapq to skip the C tests when _heapq is missing.
1001
Nadeem Vawdabafc6a92011-04-19 01:35:58 +02001002- Fix test_startfile to wait for child process to terminate before finishing.
1003
Ross Lagerwallfe2f1ad2011-04-09 20:39:50 +02001004- Issue #11719: Fix message about unexpected test_msilib skip on non-Windows
1005 platforms. Patch by Nadeem Vawda.
1006
Ned Deily5f511822011-04-05 17:16:09 -07001007- Issue #7108: Fix test_commands to not fail when special attributes ('@'
1008 or '.') appear in 'ls -l' output.
1009
R David Murraycdd5fc92011-03-13 22:37:18 -04001010- Issue #11490: test_subprocess:test_leaking_fds_on_error no longer gives a
1011 false positive if the last directory in the path is inaccessible.
1012
Antoine Pitrou8bc59fa2011-01-12 18:56:09 +00001013- Issue #10822: Fix test_posix:test_getgroups failure under Solaris. Patch
1014 by Ross Lagerwall.
1015
Antoine Pitrou8c688be2011-01-03 20:49:01 +00001016- Issue #6293: Have regrtest.py echo back sys.flags. This is done by default
1017 in whole runs and enabled selectively using ``--header`` when running an
1018 explicit list of tests. Original patch by Collin Winter.
1019
R. David Murrayf8a63912010-12-14 16:26:30 +00001020- Issue #775964: test_grp now skips YP/NIS entries instead of failing when
1021 encountering them.
1022
R. David Murray0960bc52010-12-04 17:24:46 +00001023- Issue #7110: regrtest now sends test failure reports and single-failure
1024 tracebacks to stderr rather than stdout.
1025
Benjamin Peterson5ee84482010-11-28 04:49:23 +00001026
Benjamin Petersondb4c3342010-11-13 23:32:58 +00001027What's New in Python 2.7.1?
1028===========================
1029
Benjamin Peterson3e0fa422010-11-27 14:40:29 +00001030*Release date: 2010-11-27*
Benjamin Petersondb4c3342010-11-13 23:32:58 +00001031
1032Library
1033-------
1034
Éric Araujo54274ad2011-02-03 00:12:18 +00001035- Issue #2236: distutils' mkpath ignored the mode parameter.
1036
1037- Fix typo in one sdist option (medata-check).
1038
Raymond Hettinger061bf7a2010-11-30 03:15:35 +00001039- Issue #10323: itertools.islice() now consumes the minimum number of
1040 inputs before stopping. Formerly, the final state of the underlying
1041 iterator was undefined.
1042
Alexander Belopolsky1fea5c42010-11-30 01:18:17 +00001043- Issue #10565: The collections.Iterator ABC now checks for both
1044 ``__iter__`` and ``next``.
1045
Georg Brandl79f096a2010-11-26 07:57:57 +00001046- Issue #10092: Properly reset locale in calendar.Locale*Calendar classes.
1047
Martin v. Löwise03c7782010-11-22 10:53:46 +00001048- Issue #10459: Update CJK character names to Unicode 5.2.
1049
Georg Brandl5ded7912010-11-26 07:35:31 +00001050- Issue #6098: Don't claim DOM level 3 conformance in minidom.
1051
Senthil Kumaran9a5897b2010-11-29 12:41:03 +00001052- Issue #10561: In pdb, clear the breakpoints by the breakpoint number.
1053
Georg Brandl5ded7912010-11-26 07:35:31 +00001054- Issue #5762: Fix AttributeError raised by ``xml.dom.minidom`` when an empty
1055 XML namespace attribute is encountered.
1056
Georg Brandl86e0c892010-11-26 07:22:28 +00001057- Issue #1710703: Write structures for an empty ZIP archive when a ZipFile is
1058 created in modes 'a' or 'w' and then closed without adding any files. Raise
1059 BadZipfile (rather than IOError) when opening small non-ZIP files.
1060
Senthil Kumaran0b7cac12010-11-22 05:04:33 +00001061- Issue #4493: urllib2 adds '/' in front of path components which does not
1062 start with '/. Common behavior exhibited by browsers and other clients.
1063
Brian Curtin2d011ed2010-11-21 23:50:51 +00001064- Issue #6378: idle.bat now runs with the appropriate Python version rather than
1065 the system default. Patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar.
1066
Éric Araujo4fadd532010-11-20 20:02:41 +00001067- Issue #10407: Fix one NameError in distutils.
1068
Georg Brandl839c1132010-11-20 11:29:38 +00001069- Issue #10198: fix duplicate header written to wave files when writeframes()
1070 is called without data.
1071
Benjamin Peterson4fec9ce2010-11-20 17:31:08 +00001072- Issue #10467: Fix BytesIO.readinto() after seeking into a position after the
1073 end of the file.
1074
Senthil Kumaran501bfd82010-11-14 03:31:52 +00001075- Issue #5111: IPv6 Host in the Header is wrapped inside [ ]. Patch by Chandru.
1076
Martin v. Löwiseebd0172010-11-14 18:17:39 +00001077Build
1078-----
1079
Brian Curtin69a106a2010-11-22 02:08:49 +00001080- Backport r83399 to allow test_distutils to pass on installed versions.
1081
Martin v. Löwiseebd0172010-11-14 18:17:39 +00001082- Issue #1303434: Generate ZIP file containing all PDBs.
1083
Ezio Melotti2623a372010-11-21 13:34:58 +00001084Tests
1085-----
1086
1087- Issue #9424: Replace deprecated assert* methods in the Python test suite.
1088
Ezio Melottibf8484e2010-11-24 21:54:47 +00001089Documentation
1090-------------
1091
1092- Issue #10299: List the built-in functions in a table in functions.rst.
1093
Benjamin Petersondb4c3342010-11-13 23:32:58 +00001094
Benjamin Petersoncc214172010-11-13 17:33:04 +00001095What's New in Python 2.7.1 release candidate 1?
1096===============================================
Benjamin Petersone3c10452010-07-03 14:51:25 +00001097
Benjamin Petersoncc214172010-11-13 17:33:04 +00001098*Release date: 2010-11-13*
Benjamin Petersone3c10452010-07-03 14:51:25 +00001099
1100Core and Builtins
1101-----------------
1102
Raymond Hettinger2ad17e12010-10-30 08:17:46 +00001103- Issue #10221: dict.pop(k) now has a key error message that includes the
1104 missing key (same message d[k] returns for missing keys).
1105
Barry Warsawfa658272010-11-02 21:03:09 +00001106- Issue #10125: Don't segfault when the iterator passed to
1107 ``file.writelines()`` closes the file.
Benjamin Petersonbf775542010-10-16 19:20:12 +00001108
Barry Warsawfa658272010-11-02 21:03:09 +00001109- Issue #10186: Fix the SyntaxError caret when the offset is equal to the
1110 length of the offending line.
Benjamin Petersonf99f33d2010-10-24 03:00:35 +00001111
Benjamin Petersonf76942d2010-10-16 03:51:38 +00001112- Issue #9997: Don't let the name "top" have special significance in scope
1113 resolution.
1114
R. David Murray1d9d16e2010-10-16 00:43:13 +00001115- Issue #9862: Compensate for broken PIPE_BUF in AIX by hard coding
1116 its value as the default 512 when compiling on AIX.
1117
Jesus Cea33c722b2010-11-04 21:39:52 +00001118- Issue #9675: CObject use is marked as a Py3k warning, not a deprecation
1119 warning.
1120
Benjamin Petersondc954242010-10-12 23:02:35 +00001121- Issue #10068: Global objects which have reference cycles with their module's
1122 dict are now cleared again. This causes issue #7140 to appear again.
1123
Mark Dickinsoncb61e5d2010-09-26 10:37:12 +00001124- Issue #9869: Make long() and PyNumber_Long return something of type
1125 long for a class whose __long__ method returns a plain int. This
1126 fixes an interpreter crash when initializing an instance of a long
1127 subclass from an object whose __long__ method returns a plain int.
1128
Benjamin Petersona5d5cc42010-10-02 00:08:58 +00001129- Issue #10006: type.__abstractmethods__ now raises an AttributeError.
1130
Antoine Pitrou0a7b65b2010-09-08 12:40:49 +00001131- Issue #9797: pystate.c wrongly assumed that zero couldn't be a valid
1132 thread-local storage key.
1133
Victor Stinnercaafd772010-09-08 10:51:01 +00001134- Issue #4947: The write() method of sys.stdout and sys.stderr uses their
1135 encoding and errors attributes instead of using utf-8 in strict mode, to get
1136 the same behaviour than the print statement.
1137
Antoine Pitrou9cf85f12010-09-01 21:17:34 +00001138- Issue #9737: Fix a crash when trying to delete a slice or an item from
1139 a memoryview object.
1140
Martin v. Löwis6086b0d2010-08-19 09:09:04 +00001141- Restore GIL in nis_cat in case of error.
1142
Benjamin Peterson6f3d6a92010-08-25 23:17:42 +00001143- Issue #9688: __basicsize__ and __itemsize__ must be accessed as Py_ssize_t.
1144
Florent Xicluna172e15f2010-08-09 20:02:00 +00001145- Issue #8530: Prevent stringlib fastsearch from reading beyond the front
1146 of an array.
1147
Raymond Hettinger3ad323e2010-08-06 10:18:56 +00001148- Issue #83755: Implicit set-to-frozenset conversion was not thread-safe.
1149
Mark Dickinsonaad57bd2010-08-01 10:45:15 +00001150- Issue #9416: Fix some issues with complex formatting where the
1151 output with no type specifier failed to match the str output:
1152
1153 - format(complex(-0.0, 2.0), '-') omitted the real part from the output,
1154 - format(complex(0.0, 2.0), '-') included a sign and parentheses.
1155
Antoine Pitrou32669782010-07-11 12:14:05 +00001156- Issue #7616: Fix copying of overlapping memoryview slices with the Intel
1157 compiler.
Benjamin Petersone3c10452010-07-03 14:51:25 +00001158
1159Library
1160-------
1161
Éric Araujo86f90742011-03-21 00:15:26 +01001162- Issue #9926: Wrapped TestSuite subclass does not get __call__ executed
Michael Foord75152ea2010-11-20 17:40:49 +00001163
Antoine Pitrou7eaa4482010-11-09 23:15:18 +00001164- Issue #4471: Properly shutdown socket in IMAP.shutdown(). Patch by
1165 Lorenzo M. Catucci.
1166
Éric Araujo2f0a0402010-11-06 15:46:46 +00001167- Issue #10126: Fix distutils' test_build when Python was built with
1168 --enable-shared.
Michael Foord75152ea2010-11-20 17:40:49 +00001169
Éric Araujo2f0a0402010-11-06 15:46:46 +00001170- Fix typo in one sdist option (medata-check).
1171
1172- Issue #9199: Fix incorrect use of distutils.cmd.Command.announce.
1173
1174- Issue #1718574: Fix options that were supposed to accept arguments but did
1175 not in build_clib.
1176
Éric Araujoe9954b52010-11-06 04:53:42 +00001177- Issue #9281: Prevent race condition with mkdir in distutils. Patch by
1178 Arfrever.
1179
Éric Araujoe28665a2010-11-06 04:36:28 +00001180- Issue #10229: Fix caching error in gettext.
1181
Éric Araujod1feff72010-11-06 04:06:18 +00001182- Issue #10252: Close file objects in a timely manner in distutils code and
1183 tests. Patch by Brian Brazil, completed by Éric Araujo.
1184
Antoine Pitrou6b1167c2010-11-05 19:55:02 +00001185- Issue #10311: The signal module now restores errno before returning from
1186 its low-level signal handler. Patch by Hallvard B Furuseth.
1187
Barry Warsawfa658272010-11-02 21:03:09 +00001188- Issue #10038: json.loads() on str should always return unicode (regression
1189 from Python 2.6). Patch by Walter Dörwald.
Michael Foorde5dc24e2010-11-01 22:11:53 +00001190
Barry Warsawfa658272010-11-02 21:03:09 +00001191- Issue #120176: Wrapped TestSuite subclass does not get __call__ executed.
1192
1193- Issue #6706: asyncore accept() method no longer raises
1194 EWOULDBLOCK/ECONNABORTED on incomplete connection attempt but returns None
1195 instead.
Giampaolo Rodolà19e9fef2010-11-01 15:07:14 +00001196
Antoine Pitrou61d14b72010-10-31 16:17:36 +00001197- Issue #10266: uu.decode didn't close in_file explicitly when it was given
1198 as a filename. Patch by Brian Brazil.
1199
Antoine Pitrou3917c092010-10-31 13:12:48 +00001200- Issue #10246: uu.encode didn't close file objects explicitly when filenames
1201 were given to it. Patch by Brian Brazil.
1202
Antoine Pitrou594a0462010-10-31 13:05:48 +00001203- Issue #10253: FileIO leaks a file descriptor when trying to open a file
1204 for append that isn't seekable. Patch by Brian Brazil.
1205
Raymond Hettingercbba8d42010-10-30 07:29:44 +00001206- Issue #6105: json.dumps now respects OrderedDict's iteration order.
1207
Antoine Pitrou638cee62010-10-28 14:50:57 +00001208- Issue #9295: Fix a crash under Windows when calling close() on a file
1209 object with custom buffering from two threads at once.
1210
Antoine Pitrou7f081022010-10-27 18:43:21 +00001211- Issue #5027: The standard ``xml`` namespace is now understood by
1212 xml.sax.saxutils.XMLGenerator as being bound to
1213 http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace. Patch by Troy J. Farrell.
1214
Brian Curtin4cc54032010-10-21 14:48:22 +00001215- Issue #10163: Skip unreadable registry keys during mimetypes
1216 initialization.
1217
Hirokazu Yamamoto50f7d7e2010-10-18 13:55:29 +00001218- Issue #5117: Fixed root directory related issue on posixpath.relpath() and
1219 ntpath.relpath().
1220
Éric Araujo86f90742011-03-21 00:15:26 +01001221- Issue #9409: Fix the regex to match all kind of filenames, for interactive
Florent Xiclunab67660f2010-10-14 21:10:45 +00001222 debugging in doctests.
1223
Victor Stinnerd2f6ae62010-10-12 22:53:51 +00001224- Issue #6612: Fix site and sysconfig to catch os.getcwd() error, eg. if the
1225 current directory was deleted. Patch written by W. Trevor King.
1226
Fred Drake577acb42010-10-11 19:13:04 +00001227- Issue #10045: Improved performance when writing after seeking past the
1228 end of the "file" in cStringIO.
1229
Vinay Sajip5e8349e2010-10-10 20:36:04 +00001230- Issue #9948: Fixed problem of losing filename case information.
1231
Antoine Pitrou58dab672010-10-10 09:54:59 +00001232- Issue #9437: Fix building C extensions with non-default LDFLAGS.
1233
Antoine Pitrou76a66aa2010-10-06 21:26:52 +00001234- Issue #9759: GzipFile now raises ValueError when an operation is attempted
1235 after the file is closed. Patch by Jeffrey Finkelstein.
1236
Éric Araujoc17776f2010-10-04 23:59:35 +00001237- Issue #9042: Fix interaction of custom translation classes and caching in
1238 gettext.
1239
Lars Gustäbel6aab8d02010-10-04 15:37:53 +00001240- Issue #9065: tarfile no longer uses "root" as the default for the uname and
1241 gname field.
1242
R. David Murray10a86762010-10-02 16:26:05 +00001243- Issue #1050268: parseaddr now correctly quotes double quote and backslash
1244 characters that appear inside quoted strings in email addresses.
1245
R. David Murray20ad3632010-10-01 15:48:49 +00001246- Issue #10004: quoprimime no longer generates a traceback when confronted
1247 with invalid characters after '=' in a Q-encoded word.
1248
Antoine Pitrou66b5df62010-09-27 18:16:46 +00001249- Issue #9950: Fix socket.sendall() crash or misbehaviour when a signal is
1250 received. Now sendall() properly calls signal handlers if necessary,
1251 and retries sending if these returned successfully, including on sockets
1252 with a timeout.
1253
Vinay Sajip3eac5912010-09-25 17:48:25 +00001254- Issue #9947: logging: Fixed locking bug in stopListening.
1255
Vinay Sajip546885e2010-09-25 17:42:36 +00001256- Issue #9945: logging: Fixed locking bugs in addHandler/removeHandler.
1257
Alexander Belopolsky517185e2010-09-24 18:14:18 +00001258- Issue #9936: Fixed executable lines' search in the trace module.
1259
Antoine Pitrou2c7d6852010-09-23 19:55:24 +00001260- Issue #9928: Properly initialize the types exported by the bz2 module.
1261
Antoine Pitrou6391b342010-09-14 18:48:19 +00001262- Issue #9854: The default read() implementation in io.RawIOBase now
1263 handles non-blocking readinto() returning None correctly.
1264
Antoine Pitrouf7f390a2010-09-14 14:37:18 +00001265- Issue #9729: Fix the signature of SSLSocket.recvfrom() and
1266 SSLSocket.sendto() to match the corresponding socket methods. Also,
1267 fix various SSLSocket methods to raise socket.error rather than an
1268 unhelpful TypeError when called on an unconnected socket. Original patch
1269 by Andrew Bennetts.
1270
Raymond Hettinger74f869e2010-09-13 22:14:36 +00001271- Issue #9826: OrderedDict.__repr__ can now handle self-referential
1272 values: d['x'] = d.
1273
Victor Stinner8fc843b2010-09-17 23:35:50 +00001274- Issue #767645: Set os.path.supports_unicode_filenames to True on Mac OS X.
Victor Stinner46287f52010-09-13 20:31:34 +00001275
Antoine Pitroue4195e82010-09-12 14:56:27 +00001276- Issue #9837: The read() method of ZipExtFile objects (as returned by
1277 ZipFile.open()) could return more bytes than requested.
1278
Raymond Hettinger20397532010-09-12 02:11:45 +00001279- Issue #9825: removed __del__ from the definition of collections.OrderedDict.
1280 This prevents user-created self-referencing ordered dictionaries from
1281 becoming permanently uncollectable GC garbage. The downside is that
1282 removing __del__ means that the internal doubly-linked list has to wait for
1283 GC collection rather than freeing memory immediately when the refcnt drops
1284 to zero.
1285
Raymond Hettingerffd2a422010-09-10 10:47:22 +00001286- Issue #9816: random.Random.jumpahead(n) did not produce a sufficiently
Victor Stinnerd2f6ae62010-10-12 22:53:51 +00001287 different internal state for small values of n. Fixed by salting the
Raymond Hettingerffd2a422010-09-10 10:47:22 +00001288 value.
1289
Antoine Pitrouc818ed42010-09-07 21:40:25 +00001290- Issue #9792: In case of connection failure, socket.create_connection()
1291 would swallow the exception and raise a new one, making it impossible
1292 to fetch the original errno, or to filter timeout errors. Now the
1293 original error is re-raised.
1294
Antoine Pitrouf4f61712010-09-07 16:34:47 +00001295- Issue #9758: When fcntl.ioctl() was called with mutable_flag set to True,
1296 and the passed buffer was exactly 1024 bytes long, the buffer wouldn't
1297 be updated back after the system call. Original patch by Brian Brazil.
1298
Antoine Pitroudca9de92010-09-04 17:52:26 +00001299- Issue #1100562: Fix deep-copying of objects derived from the list and
1300 dict types. Patch by Michele Orrù and Björn Lindqvist.
1301
Fred Drakea1e627d2010-09-03 03:55:50 +00001302- Issue #7005: Fixed output of None values for RawConfigParser.write and
1303 ConfigParser.write.
1304
Daniel Stutzbach66c981b2010-08-31 20:29:39 +00001305- Issue #808164: Fixed socket.close to avoid references to globals, to
1306 avoid issues when socket.close is called from a __del__ method.
1307
Terry Reedyd2d2ae92010-11-11 23:22:19 +00001308- Issue #2986: difflib.SequenceMatcher gets a new parameter, autojunk, which
1309 can be set to False to turn off the previously undocumented 'popularity'
1310 heuristic. Patch by Terry Reedy and Eli Bendersky
1311
Senthil Kumaran7e8fd5e2010-08-26 06:20:13 +00001312- Issue #8797: urllib2 does a retry for Basic Authentication failure instead of
1313 falling into recursion.
1314
R. David Murray7c4bf552010-08-25 01:45:57 +00001315- Issue #1194222: email.utils.parsedate now returns RFC2822 compliant four
1316 character years even if the message contains RFC822 two character years.
1317
Daniel Stutzbach91287322010-08-24 21:09:30 +00001318- Issue #8750: Fixed MutableSet's methods to correctly handle
1319 reflexive operations, namely x -= x and x ^= x.
1320
Victor Stinnercaafd772010-09-08 10:51:01 +00001321- Issue #9129: smtpd.py is vulnerable to DoS attacks deriving from missing
Giampaolo Rodolà8664d742010-08-23 22:48:51 +00001322 error handling when accepting a new connection.
1323
Giampaolo Rodolà63308d72010-08-23 21:58:47 +00001324- Issue #658749: asyncore's connect() method now correctly interprets winsock
1325 errors.
1326
Vinay Sajip1ddd51f2010-08-23 17:50:30 +00001327- Issue #9501: Fixed logging regressions in cleanup code.
1328
Raymond Hettinger917bba12010-08-22 08:01:58 +00001329- Issue #9214: Set operations on KeysView or ItemsView in the collections
1330 module now correctly return a set. (Patch by Eli Bendersky.)
1331
Antoine Pitrou3ebaed62010-08-21 19:17:25 +00001332- Issue #9617: Signals received during a low-level write operation aren't
1333 ignored by the buffered IO layer anymore.
1334
Benjamin Peterson52c36052010-08-21 03:03:22 +00001335- Issue #2521: Use weakrefs on for caching in the abc module, so that classes
1336 are not held onto after they are deleted elsewhere.
1337
Raymond Hettingera54b2da2010-08-17 19:03:06 +00001338- Issue #9626: the view methods for collections.OrderedDict() were returning
1339 the unordered versions inherited from dict. Those methods are now
1340 overridden to provide ordered views.
1341
Éric Araujo0389ae62010-08-14 03:07:46 +00001342- Issue #8688: MANIFEST files created by distutils now include a magic
1343 comment indicating they are generated. Manually maintained MANIFESTs
1344 without this marker will not be overwritten or removed.
1345
Antoine Pitroue1436d12010-08-12 15:25:51 +00001346- Issue #7467: when reading a file from a ZIP archive, its CRC is checked
1347 and a BadZipfile error is raised if it doesn't match (as used to be the
1348 case in Python 2.5 and earlier).
1349
Antoine Pitroucb4f47c2010-08-11 13:40:17 +00001350- Issue #9550: a BufferedReader could issue an additional read when the
1351 original read request had been satisfied, which could block indefinitely
1352 when the underlying raw IO channel was e.g. a socket. Report and original
1353 patch by Jason V. Miller.
1354
Fred Drake0a1fa0e2010-08-10 13:09:54 +00001355- Issue #9551: Don't raise TypeError when setting the value to None for
1356 SafeConfigParser instances constructed with allow_no_value == True.
1357
Antoine Pitrou8cdede42010-08-10 00:04:13 +00001358- Issue #6915: Under Windows, os.listdir() didn't release the Global
1359 Interpreter Lock around all system calls. Original patch by Ryan Kelly.
1360
Antoine Pitrou99009162010-08-09 22:51:24 +00001361- Issue #3757: thread-local objects now support cyclic garbage collection.
1362 Thread-local objects involved in reference cycles will be deallocated
1363 timely by the cyclic GC, even if the underlying thread is still running.
1364
Florent Xicluna2f1b1ff2010-08-09 20:46:49 +00001365- Issue #6231: Fix xml.etree.ElementInclude to include the tail of the
1366 current node.
1367
Thomas Heller5c7589c2010-08-08 18:28:59 +00001368- Issue #6869: Fix a refcount problem in the _ctypes extension.
1369
Thomas Heller001d3a12010-08-08 17:56:41 +00001370- Issue5504 - ctypes should now work with systems where mmap can't be
1371 PROT_WRITE and PROT_EXEC.
1372
Senthil Kumarane677ecf2010-08-08 11:56:31 +00001373- Fix Issue8280 - urllib2's Request method will remove fragements in the url.
1374 This is how it is supposed to work, wget and curl do the same. Previous
1375 behavior was wrong.
1376
Giampaolo Rodolà47617ab2010-08-04 08:35:25 +00001377- Issue #2944: asyncore doesn't handle connection refused correctly.
1378
R. David Murray75a292e2010-08-04 00:05:50 +00001379- Issue #3196: email header decoding is now forgiving if an RFC2047
1380 encoded word encoded in base64 is lacking padding.
1381
R. David Murray1cbf78e2010-08-03 18:14:01 +00001382- Issue #9444: Argparse now uses the first element of prefix_chars as
1383 the option character for the added 'h/help' option if prefix_chars
1384 does not contain a '-', instead of raising an error.
1385
Georg Brandl7f0c3ff2010-08-01 21:18:52 +00001386- Issue #9354: Provide getsockopt() in asyncore's file_wrapper.
1387
Florent Xicluna92847452010-09-13 17:36:36 +00001388- Issue #9428: Fix running scripts with the profile/cProfile modules from
1389 the command line.
1390
Georg Brandl9c5efad2010-08-02 21:29:14 +00001391- Issue #7781: Fix restricting stats by entry counts in the pstats
1392 interactive browser.
1393
1394- Issue #9209: Do not crash in the pstats interactive browser on invalid
1395 regular expressions.
1396
Georg Brandla2a92cf2010-08-02 17:34:58 +00001397- Issue #7372: Fix pstats regression when stripping paths from profile
1398 data generated with the profile module.
1399
Georg Brandl2bd953e2010-08-01 20:59:03 +00001400- Issue #4108: In urllib.robotparser, if there are multiple 'User-agent: *'
1401 entries, consider the first one.
1402
Antoine Pitrou39703012010-08-01 20:13:11 +00001403- Issue #8397: Raise an error when attempting to mix iteration and regular
1404 reads on a BZ2File object, rather than returning incorrect results.
1405
Georg Brandl50775992010-08-01 19:33:15 +00001406- Issue #5294: Fix the behavior of pdb's "continue" command when called
1407 in the top-level debugged frame.
1408
1409- Issue #5727: Restore the ability to use readline when calling into pdb
1410 in doctests.
1411
1412- Issue #6719: In pdb, do not stop somewhere in the encodings machinery
1413 if the source file to be debugged is in a non-builtin encoding.
1414
1415- Issue #8048: Prevent doctests from failing when sys.displayhook has
1416 been reassigned.
1417
1418- Issue #8015: In pdb, do not crash when an empty line is entered as
1419 a breakpoint command.
1420
Antoine Pitrou607951d2010-08-01 16:57:17 +00001421- Issue #9448: Fix a leak of OS resources (mutexes or semaphores) when
1422 re-initializing a buffered IO object by calling its ``__init__`` method.
1423
Georg Brandle2773252010-08-01 19:14:56 +00001424- Issue #7909: Do not touch paths with the special prefixes ``\\.\``
1425 or ``\\?\`` in ntpath.normpath().
1426
Georg Brandl004c74d2010-08-01 19:06:51 +00001427- Issue #5146: Handle UID THREAD command correctly in imaplib.
1428
1429- Issue #5147: Fix the header generated for cookie files written by
1430 http.cookiejar.MozillaCookieJar.
1431
1432- Issue #8198: In pydoc, output all help text to the correct stream
1433 when sys.stdout is reassigned.
1434
Georg Brandl0347c712010-08-01 19:02:09 +00001435- Issue #7395: Fix tracebacks in pstats interactive browser.
1436
1437- Issue #8230: Fix Lib/test/sortperf.py.
1438
Georg Brandl78e69572010-08-01 18:52:52 +00001439- Issue #1713: Fix os.path.ismount(), which returned true for symbolic links
1440 across devices.
1441
1442- Issue #8826: Properly load old-style "expires" attribute in http.cookies.
1443
1444- Issue #1690103: Fix initial namespace for code run with trace.main().
1445
Georg Brandl1f05e2e2010-08-01 08:22:05 +00001446- Issue #8471: In doctest, properly reset the output stream to an empty
1447 string when Unicode was previously output.
1448
R. David Murray58f15b62010-08-01 04:04:03 +00001449- Issue #8620: when a Cmd is fed input that reaches EOF without a final
1450 newline, it no longer truncates the last character of the last command line.
1451
Victor Stinner73363e82010-07-28 01:39:45 +00001452- Issue #6213: Implement getstate() and setstate() methods of utf-8-sig and
1453 utf-16 incremental encoders.
1454
Brian Curtinb2ec2322010-07-26 02:40:17 +00001455- Issue #7113: Speed up loading in ConfigParser. Patch by Łukasz Langa.
1456
Gregory P. Smith2a91ce82010-07-25 19:11:36 +00001457- Issue #3704: cookielib was not properly handling URLs with a / in the
1458 parameters.
1459
Victor Stinner8b0d84e2010-07-24 02:51:49 +00001460- Issue #9032: XML-RPC client retries the request on EPIPE error. The EPIPE
1461 error occurs when the server closes the socket and the client sends a big
1462 XML-RPC request.
1463
Victor Stinner2c6aee92010-07-24 02:46:16 +00001464- Issue #5542: Remove special logic that closes HTTPConnection socket on EPIPE.
1465
Victor Stinner4c16d122010-07-24 01:07:52 +00001466- Issue #4629: getopt raises an error if an argument ends with = whereas getopt
1467 doesn't except a value (eg. --help= is rejected if getopt uses ['help='] long
1468 options).
1469
Ronald Oussoren3a04a252010-07-23 12:41:00 +00001470- Issue #7895: platform.mac_ver() no longer crashes after calling os.fork()
1471
Antoine Pitrou7a7013e2010-07-21 16:47:28 +00001472- Issue #5395: array.fromfile() would raise a spurious EOFError when an
1473 I/O error occurred. Now an IOError is raised instead. Patch by chuck
1474 (Jan Hosang).
1475
R. David Murrayf6cbdcb2010-07-09 13:25:56 +00001476- Issue #7646: The fnmatch pattern cache no longer grows without bound.
1477
Mark Dickinson7ea29b02010-07-08 21:28:31 +00001478- Issue #9136: Fix 'dictionary changed size during iteration'
1479 RuntimeError produced when profiling the decimal module. This was
1480 due to a dangerous iteration over 'locals()' in Context.__init__.
1481
1482- Fix extreme speed issue in Decimal.pow when the base is an exact
1483 power of 10 and the exponent is tiny (for example,
1484 Decimal(10) ** Decimal('1e-999999999')).
1485
R. David Murray3caf7b92010-07-05 16:06:05 +00001486- Issue #9161: Fix regression in optparse's acceptance of unicode
1487 strings in add_option calls.
1488
Mark Dickinson75b44b32010-07-04 16:47:56 +00001489- Issue #9130: Fix validation of relative imports in parser module.
1490
Mark Dickinsona7ee59b2010-07-04 16:23:54 +00001491- Issue #9128: Fix validation of class decorators in parser module.
Benjamin Petersone3c10452010-07-03 14:51:25 +00001492
Ronald Oussoren75956202010-07-11 08:52:52 +00001493- Issue #9164: Ensure sysconfig handles dupblice archs while building on OSX
1494
Alexander Belopolsky9d17da32010-09-13 16:45:02 +00001495- Issue #9315: Fix for the trace module to record correct class name
1496 for tracing methods.
1497
Benjamin Petersone3c10452010-07-03 14:51:25 +00001498Extension Modules
1499-----------------
1500
Georg Brandl67c27332010-10-24 14:16:05 +00001501- Issue #9054: Fix a crash occurring when using the pyexpat module
1502 with expat version 2.0.1.
1503
Brian Curtin1390dd72010-10-01 16:44:03 +00001504- Issue #10003: Allow handling of SIGBREAK on Windows. Fixes a regression
Victor Stinnerd2f6ae62010-10-12 22:53:51 +00001505 introduced by issue #9324.
Brian Curtin1390dd72010-10-01 16:44:03 +00001506
Antoine Pitroue6ebcda2010-09-04 21:24:42 +00001507- Issue #8734: Avoid crash in msvcrt.get_osfhandle() when an invalid file
1508 descriptor is provided. Patch by Pascal Chambon.
1509
Antoine Pitrou247e2fd2010-09-04 17:27:10 +00001510- Issue #7736: Release the GIL around calls to opendir() and closedir()
1511 in the posix module. Patch by Marcin Bachry.
1512
Benjamin Peterson52c36052010-08-21 03:03:22 +00001513- As a result of issue #2521, the _weakref module is now compiled into the
1514 interpreter by default.
1515
Brian Curtin24af0e92010-08-06 19:41:01 +00001516- Issue #9324: Add parameter validation to signal.signal on Windows in order
1517 to prevent crashes.
1518
Mark Dickinson5e684332010-08-06 09:44:48 +00001519- Issue #9526: Remove some outdated (int) casts that were preventing
1520 the array module from working correctly with arrays of more than
1521 2**31 elements.
1522
Mark Dickinsonf38d8882010-08-03 18:46:28 +00001523- Fix memory leak in ssl._ssl._test_decode_cert.
1524
Mark Dickinson0f981282010-08-03 16:54:19 +00001525- Issue #8065: Fix memory leak in readline module (from failure to
1526 free the result of history_get_history_state()).
1527
Mark Dickinson4ee98532010-08-03 16:18:39 +00001528- Issue #9450: Fix memory leak in readline.replace_history_item and
1529 readline.remove_history_item for readline version >= 5.0.
1530
Brian Curtinba6c08e2010-08-01 15:47:53 +00001531- Issue #8105: Validate file descriptor passed to mmap.mmap on Windows.
1532
Georg Brandla4917272010-07-31 21:22:36 +00001533- Issue #1019882: Fix IndexError when loading certain hotshot stats.
1534
Mark Dickinson96527c32010-07-29 21:44:47 +00001535- Issue #9422: Fix memory leak when re-initializing a struct.Struct object.
1536
Ronald Oussoren9e7ffae2010-07-24 09:46:41 +00001537- Issue #7900: The getgroups(2) system call on MacOSX behaves rather oddly
1538 compared to other unix systems. In particular, os.getgroups() does
1539 not reflect any changes made using os.setgroups() but basicly always
1540 returns the same information as the id command.
1541
1542 os.getgroups() can now return more than 16 groups on MacOSX.
1543
Mark Dickinsoncac0b832010-07-18 07:55:55 +00001544- Issue #9277: Fix bug in struct.pack for bools in standard mode
1545 (e.g., struct.pack('>?')): if conversion to bool raised an exception
1546 then that exception wasn't properly propagated on machines where
1547 char is unsigned.
1548
Matthias Klose6e86bf72010-07-30 21:27:18 +00001549- Issue #7567: Don't call `setupterm' twice.
1550
Ronald Oussoren19199832011-03-14 11:57:39 -04001551
Antoine Pitrou2fba0b32010-09-08 21:12:36 +00001552Tools/Demos
1553-----------
1554
Benjamin Peterson4de6b062010-10-13 22:07:17 +00001555- Issue #7287: Demo/imputil/knee.py was removed.
1556
Antoine Pitrou2fba0b32010-09-08 21:12:36 +00001557- Issue #9188: The gdb extension now handles correctly narrow (UCS2) as well
1558 as wide (UCS4) unicode builds for both the host interpreter (embedded
1559 inside gdb) and the interpreter under test.
1560
Benjamin Peterson4082d9b2010-07-17 20:41:16 +00001561Build
1562-----
1563
Antoine Pitroue0c5f3c2010-10-27 20:35:26 +00001564- Issue #8852: Allow the socket module to build on OpenSolaris.
1565
Antoine Pitrou7be5a652010-10-10 08:14:41 +00001566- Issue #10054: Some platforms provide uintptr_t in inttypes.h. Patch by
1567 Akira Kitada.
1568
Antoine Pitrou22ad2452010-10-09 15:28:59 +00001569- Issue #10055: Make json C89-compliant in UCS4 mode.
1570
Antoine Pitrou285cd162010-09-21 15:23:17 +00001571- Issue #1633863: Don't ignore $CC under AIX.
1572
Hirokazu Yamamotoc4caa9c2010-09-18 22:33:33 +00001573- Issue #9810: Compile bzip2 source files in python's project file
1574 directly. It used to be built with bzip2's makefile.
1575
Antoine Pitrouaabdceb2010-09-10 20:03:17 +00001576- Issue #941346: Improve the build process under AIX and allow Python to
1577 be built as a shared library. Patch by Sébastien Sablé.
1578
Antoine Pitrou85729812010-09-07 14:55:24 +00001579- Issue #4026: Make the fcntl extension build under AIX. Patch by Sébastien
1580 Sablé.
1581
Antoine Pitroua74c3342010-09-03 16:15:17 +00001582- Issue #3101: Helper functions _add_one_to_index_C() and
1583 _add_one_to_index_F() become _Py_add_one_to_index_C() and
1584 _Py_add_one_to_index_F(), respectively.
Antoine Pitrou1fcdba82010-09-01 13:02:50 +00001585
1586- Issue #9700: define HAVE_BROKEN_POSIX_SEMAPHORES under AIX 6.x. Patch by
1587 Sébastien Sablé.
1588
Benjamin Peterson4082d9b2010-07-17 20:41:16 +00001589- Issue #9280: Make sharedinstall depend on sharedmods.
1590
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00001591- Issue #9275: The OSX installer once again installs links to binaries in
1592 ``/usr/local/bin``.
Ronald Oussoren8a14db82010-07-23 11:13:03 +00001593
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00001594- Issue #9392: A framework build on OSX will once again use a versioned name
1595 of the ``2to3`` tool, that is you can use ``2to3-2.7`` to select the Python
1596 2.7 edition of 2to3.
Ronald Oussoren0969c672010-07-29 13:18:19 +00001597
Ronald Oussorenec2fe002010-09-28 14:01:49 +00001598- Issue #9701: The MacOSX installer can patch the shell profile to ensure that
1599 the "bin" directory inside the framework is on the shell's search path. This
1600 feature now also supports the ZSH shell.
1601
Ronald Oussoren24215252010-10-20 13:11:46 +00001602- Issue #7473: avoid link errors when building a framework with a different
1603 set of architectures than the one that is currently installed.
Ronald Oussorenec2fe002010-09-28 14:01:49 +00001604
Antoine Pitrou22db7352010-07-08 18:54:04 +00001605Tests
1606-----
1607
Hirokazu Yamamoto1f504f12010-10-08 09:41:13 +00001608- Issue #9978: Wait until subprocess completes initialization. (Win32KillTests
1609 in test_os)
1610
Antoine Pitrou767cbc42010-09-18 18:15:33 +00001611- Issue #9894: Do not hardcode ENOENT in test_subprocess.
1612
Florent Xicluna92847452010-09-13 17:36:36 +00001613- Issue #9323: Make test.regrtest.__file__ absolute, this was not always the
1614 case when running profile or trace, for example.
1615
Alexander Belopolsky9d17da32010-09-13 16:45:02 +00001616- Issue #9315: Added tests for the trace module. Patch by Eli Bendersky.
Florent Xicluna92847452010-09-13 17:36:36 +00001617
Florent Xiclunac0c0b142010-09-13 08:53:00 +00001618- Strengthen test_unicode with explicit type checking for assertEqual tests.
1619
Giampaolo Rodolà633e4742010-08-14 17:04:46 +00001620- Issue #8857: Provide a test case for socket.getaddrinfo.
1621
Florent Xicluna172e15f2010-08-09 20:02:00 +00001622- Issue #7564: Skip test_ioctl if another process is attached to /dev/tty.
1623
Mark Dickinson28669332010-08-07 13:07:11 +00001624- Issue #8433: Fix test_curses failure with newer versions of ncurses.
1625
Antoine Pitrou185fae72010-08-04 15:54:33 +00001626- Issue #9496: Provide a test suite for the rlcompleter module. Patch by
1627 Michele Orrù.
1628
Antoine Pitrou22db7352010-07-08 18:54:04 +00001629- Issue #8605: Skip test_gdb if Python is compiled with optimizations.
1630
Ronald Oussoren8928e322010-09-28 14:43:59 +00001631- Issue #9568: Fix test_urllib2_localnet on OS X 10.3.
1632
Brett Cannon8c4fa112010-07-21 09:52:10 +00001633Documentation
1634-------------
1635
Matthias Klose3e8230d2010-09-12 16:51:29 +00001636- Issue #9817: Add expat COPYING file; add expat, libffi and expat licenses
1637 to Doc/license.rst.
1638
Brian Curtin4d808892010-08-05 19:00:45 +00001639- Issue #9524: Document that two CTRL* signals are meant for use only
1640 with os.kill.
1641
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00001642- Issue #9255: Document that the 'test' package is for internal Python use
1643 only.
Brett Cannon9ae2cb72010-07-23 12:07:27 +00001644
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00001645- Issue #7829: Document in dis that bytecode is an implementation detail.
Brett Cannon8c4fa112010-07-21 09:52:10 +00001646
Benjamin Petersone3c10452010-07-03 14:51:25 +00001647
Benjamin Peterson4f612592010-06-21 17:28:30 +00001648What's New in Python 2.7?
1649=========================
1650
Benjamin Petersonc60082d2010-07-03 13:56:13 +00001651*Release date: 2010-07-03*
Benjamin Peterson4f612592010-06-21 17:28:30 +00001652
1653Core and Builtins
1654-----------------
1655
Benjamin Peterson947ce582010-06-24 00:12:40 +00001656- Prevent assignment to set literals.
1657
Benjamin Peterson4f612592010-06-21 17:28:30 +00001658Library
1659-------
1660
Antoine Pitroua4083502010-08-28 18:29:13 +00001661- Issue #1868: Eliminate subtle timing issues in thread-local objects by
1662 getting rid of the cached copy of thread-local attribute dictionary.
1663
Benjamin Peterson6a336f62010-07-03 13:57:30 +00001664- Issue #9125: Add recognition of 'except ... as ...' syntax to parser module.
1665
1666Extension Modules
1667-----------------
1668
Benjamin Petersonc670b7e2010-07-03 13:49:23 +00001669- Issue #7673: Fix security vulnerability (CVE-2010-2089) in the audioop module,
1670 ensure that the input string length is a multiple of the frame size.
Victor Stinner15e5b1b2010-07-03 13:36:19 +00001671
Antoine Pitrou0dddf602010-06-25 00:03:21 +00001672- Issue #9075: In the ssl module, remove the setting of a ``debug`` flag
1673 on an OpenSSL structure.
1674
Benjamin Peterson00633672010-07-03 13:56:56 +00001675
Michael Foord83d35762010-06-10 16:32:00 +00001676What's New in Python 2.7 release candidate 2?
1677=============================================
Benjamin Peterson2f3d9f92010-06-06 02:09:33 +00001678
Benjamin Petersonbfcedf42010-06-21 15:57:57 +00001679*Release date: 2010-06-20*
Benjamin Peterson2f3d9f92010-06-06 02:09:33 +00001680
1681Core and Builtins
1682-----------------
1683
Benjamin Petersonb9133892010-06-22 19:16:37 +00001684- Issue #9058: Remove assertions about INT_MAX in UnicodeDecodeError.
1685
Nick Coghlan8842c352010-06-13 06:50:39 +00001686- Issue #8202: Previous change to ``sys.argv[0]`` handling for -m command line
1687 option reverted due to unintended side effects on handling of ``sys.path``.
1688 See tracker issue for details.
1689
Antoine Pitroucca3a3f2010-06-11 21:42:26 +00001690- Issue #8941: decoding big endian UTF-32 data in UCS-2 builds could crash
1691 the interpreter with characters outside the Basic Multilingual Plane
1692 (higher than 0x10000).
1693
Benjamin Petersonfa4c59f2010-06-08 14:53:29 +00001694- In the unicode/str.format(), raise a ValueError when indexes to arguments are
1695 too large.
Benjamin Peterson13e934a2010-06-07 22:23:23 +00001696
Benjamin Petersonafa1b302010-06-21 15:27:46 +00001697Build
1698-----
1699
1700- Issue #8854: Fix finding Visual Studio 2008 on Windows x64.
1701
Benjamin Peterson2f3d9f92010-06-06 02:09:33 +00001702Library
1703-------
Mark Dickinsone979ec82010-06-13 10:50:29 +00001704
Victor Stinner15e5b1b2010-07-03 13:36:19 +00001705- Issue #6589: cleanup asyncore.socket_map in case smtpd.SMTPServer constructor
Giampaolo Rodolàe00e2f02010-06-30 17:38:28 +00001706 raises an exception.
1707
Thomas Hellerf1800992010-06-21 14:00:24 +00001708- Issue #8959: fix regression caused by using unmodified libffi
1709 library on Windows. ctypes does now again check the stack before
1710 and after calling foreign functions.
1711
R. David Murraydf1cf302010-06-17 01:36:52 +00001712- Issue #8720: fix regression caused by fix for #4050 by making getsourcefile
1713 smart enough to find source files in the linecache.
1714
Mark Dickinsone979ec82010-06-13 10:50:29 +00001715- Issue #8986: math.erfc was incorrectly raising OverflowError for
1716 values between -27.3 and -30.0 on some platforms.
1717
Vinay Sajip936efc72010-06-11 22:56:50 +00001718- Issue #8924: logging: Improved error handling for Unicode in exception text.
Benjamin Peterson2f3d9f92010-06-06 02:09:33 +00001719
Michael Foord83d35762010-06-10 16:32:00 +00001720- Issue #8948: cleanup functions and class / module setups and teardowns are
1721 now honored in unittest debug methods.
1722
Tarek Ziadé770fd152010-06-06 20:05:20 +00001723Documentation
1724-------------
1725
1726- Issues #8909: Added the size of the bitmap used in the installer created by
1727 distutils' bdist_wininst. Patch by Anatoly Techtonik.
1728
Victor Stinnerb65bd2e2010-06-11 19:22:28 +00001729Misc
1730----
1731
1732- Issue #8362: Add maintainers.rst: list of module maintainers
1733
Benjamin Peterson2f3d9f92010-06-06 02:09:33 +00001734
Antoine Pitrou6001b0b2010-05-09 18:32:48 +00001735What's New in Python 2.7 Release Candidate 1?
1736=============================================
Benjamin Peterson534b8de2010-05-08 18:53:42 +00001737
Benjamin Peterson77d534e2010-06-06 00:22:09 +00001738*Release date: 2010-06-05*
Benjamin Peterson534b8de2010-05-08 18:53:42 +00001739
1740Core and Builtins
1741-----------------
1742
Ezio Melottiab2eb0e2010-06-05 19:21:32 +00001743- Issue #8271: during the decoding of an invalid UTF-8 byte sequence, only the
1744 start byte and the continuation byte(s) are now considered invalid, instead
1745 of the number of bytes specified by the start byte.
1746 E.g.: '\xf1\x80AB'.decode('utf-8', 'replace') now returns u'\ufffdAB' and
1747 replaces with U+FFFD only the start byte ('\xf1') and the continuation byte
1748 ('\x80') even if '\xf1' is the start byte of a 4-bytes sequence.
1749 Previous versions returned a single u'\ufffd'.
1750
Mark Dickinson23f0d6b2010-06-05 11:52:24 +00001751- Issue #8627: Remove bogus "Overriding __cmp__ blocks inheritance of
Mark Dickinsone4b83e02010-06-05 12:14:43 +00001752 __hash__ in 3.x" warning. Also fix "XXX undetected error" that
1753 arises from the "Overriding __eq__ blocks inheritance ..." warning
1754 when turned into an exception: in this case the exception simply
1755 gets ignored.
Mark Dickinson23f0d6b2010-06-05 11:52:24 +00001756
Mark Dickinson4ca7c3c2010-05-30 13:18:10 +00001757- Issue #8748: Fix two issues with comparisons between complex and integer
1758 objects. (1) The comparison could incorrectly return True in some cases
1759 (2**53+1 == complex(2**53) == 2**53), breaking transivity of equality.
1760 (2) The comparison raised an OverflowError for large integers, leading
1761 to unpredictable exceptions when combining integers and complex objects
1762 in sets or dicts.
1763
Mark Dickinson81336372010-05-30 12:12:25 +00001764- Issue #5211: Implicit coercion for the complex type is now completely
1765 removed. (Coercion for arithmetic operations was already removed in 2.7
1766 alpha 4, but coercion for rich comparisons was accidentally left in.)
1767
Victor Stinnerc49dfcc2010-05-25 22:30:32 +00001768- Issue #3798: Write sys.exit() message to sys.stderr to use stderr encoding
1769 and error handler, instead of writing to the C stderr file in utf-8
1770
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001771- Issue #7902: When using explicit relative import syntax, don't try implicit
1772 relative import semantics.
Brett Cannoneb3cd302010-05-20 18:37:55 +00001773
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001774- Issue #7079: Fix a possible crash when closing a file object while using it
1775 from another thread. Patch by Daniel Stutzbach.
Antoine Pitrou83137c22010-05-17 19:56:59 +00001776
Victor Stinnerb65bd2e2010-06-11 19:22:28 +00001777- Issue #8868: Fix that ensures that python scripts have access to the
Ronald Oussoren27c72e92010-06-02 03:47:14 +00001778 Window Server again in a framework build on MacOSX 10.5 or earlier.
1779
Antoine Pitrou6a265602010-05-21 17:12:38 +00001780C-API
1781-----
1782
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001783- Issue #5753: A new C API function, :cfunc:`PySys_SetArgvEx`, allows embedders
1784 of the interpreter to set sys.argv without also modifying sys.path. This
1785 helps fix `CVE-2008-5983
Antoine Pitrou6a265602010-05-21 17:12:38 +00001786 <http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5983>`_.
1787
Benjamin Peterson534b8de2010-05-08 18:53:42 +00001788Library
1789-------
1790
Michael Foordd8918592010-06-05 19:51:38 +00001791- Issue #8302: SkipTest in unittest.TestCase.setUpClass or setUpModule is now
1792 reported as a skip rather than an error.
1793
1794- Issue #8351: Excessively large diffs due to
1795 unittest.TestCase.assertSequenceEqual are no longer included in failure
1796 reports.
1797
Alexander Belopolsky3b818bf2010-06-05 14:54:26 +00001798- Issue #8899: time.struct_time now has class and atribute docstrings.
1799
R. David Murraye7e505b2010-06-04 19:51:06 +00001800- Issue #4487: email now accepts as charset aliases all codec aliases
1801 accepted by the codecs module.
1802
Martin v. Löwiseba67c02010-06-04 19:39:07 +00001803- Issue #6470: Drop UNC prefix in FixTk.
1804
R. David Murray61746d52010-06-03 15:43:20 +00001805- Issue #5610: feedparser no longer eats extra characters at the end of
1806 a body part if the body part ends with a \r\n.
1807
Lars Gustäbel2ee9c6f2010-06-03 09:56:22 +00001808- Issue #8833: tarfile created hard link entries with a size field != 0 by
1809 mistake.
1810
R. David Murray52dcd452010-06-02 22:03:15 +00001811- Issue #1368247: set_charset (and therefore MIMEText) now automatically
1812 encodes a unicode _payload to the output_charset.
1813
Alexander Belopolsky9292ee02010-05-27 20:55:27 +00001814- Issue #7150: Raise OverflowError if the result of adding or subtracting
1815 timedelta from date or datetime falls outside of the MINYEAR:MAXYEAR range.
1816
Victor Stinner04ee3372010-05-24 21:37:28 +00001817- Issue #6662: Fix parsing of malformatted charref (&#bad;), patch written by
1818 Fredrik Håård
Victor Stinner554a3b82010-05-24 21:33:24 +00001819
Georg Brandlf0757a22010-05-24 21:29:07 +00001820- Issue #8016: Add the CP858 codec.
1821
Georg Brandl5d0ca2c2010-05-22 11:29:19 +00001822- Issue #3924: Ignore cookies with invalid "version" field in cookielib.
1823
Victor Stinner7df55da2010-05-22 13:37:56 +00001824- Issue #6268: Fix seek() method of codecs.open(), don't read or write the BOM
1825 twice after seek(0). Fix also reset() method of codecs, UTF-16, UTF-32 and
1826 StreamWriter classes.
Victor Stinner262be5e2010-05-22 02:11:07 +00001827
Victor Stinnerd6703b52010-05-21 22:50:28 +00001828- Issue #5640: Fix Shift-JIS incremental encoder for error handlers different
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001829 than 'strict'.
Victor Stinnerd6703b52010-05-21 22:50:28 +00001830
Benjamin Peterson266e4542010-05-21 21:31:24 +00001831- Issue #8782: Add a trailing newline in linecache.updatecache to the last line
1832 of files without one.
1833
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001834- Issue #8729: Return NotImplemented from ``collections.Mapping.__eq__()`` when
Benjamin Petersoneb318d32010-05-21 20:51:45 +00001835 comparing to a non-mapping.
1836
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001837- Issue #8759: Fix user paths in sysconfig for posix and os2 schemes.
Tarek Ziadé8f692272010-05-19 22:20:14 +00001838
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001839- Issue #1285086: Speed up ``urllib.quote()`` and urllib.unquote for simple
1840 cases.
Florent Xiclunaaf87f9f2010-05-17 13:35:09 +00001841
Tarek Ziadé422545f2010-05-17 10:06:20 +00001842- Issue #8688: Distutils now recalculates MANIFEST everytime.
1843
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001844- Issue #5099: The ``__del__()`` method of ``subprocess.Popen`` (and the methods
1845 it calls) referenced global objects, causing errors to pop up during
1846 interpreter shutdown.
Brett Cannon42a0ba72010-05-14 00:21:48 +00001847
Mark Dickinson932e1622010-05-10 16:07:42 +00001848Extension Modules
1849-----------------
1850
Stefan Krah449aa862010-06-03 12:39:50 +00001851- Issue #7384: If the system readline library is linked against ncurses,
1852 the curses module must be linked against ncurses as well. Otherwise it
1853 is not safe to load both the readline and curses modules in an application.
1854
Brian Curtinb64c89b2010-05-25 15:06:15 +00001855- Issue #2810: Fix cases where the Windows registry API returns
1856 ERROR_MORE_DATA, requiring a re-try in order to get the complete result.
1857
Mark Dickinson932e1622010-05-10 16:07:42 +00001858- Issue #8674: Fixed a number of incorrect or undefined-behaviour-inducing
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001859 overflow checks in the ``audioop`` module.
Benjamin Peterson534b8de2010-05-08 18:53:42 +00001860
Brett Cannonda9af752010-05-13 23:59:41 +00001861Tests
1862-----
1863
R. David Murray4653fb52010-06-03 20:19:25 +00001864- Issue #8889: test_support.transient_internet rewritten so that the new
1865 checks also work on FreeBSD, which lacks EAI_NODATA.
1866
1867- Issue #8835: test_support.transient_internet() catches gaierror(EAI_NONAME)
Victor Stinner03883622010-05-27 22:29:48 +00001868 and gaierror(EAI_NODATA)
1869
Victor Stinner708c0722010-05-26 17:25:28 +00001870- Issue #7449: Skip test_socketserver if threading support is disabled
1871
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001872- On darwin, ``test_site`` assumed that a framework build was being used,
1873 leading to a failure where four directories were expected for site-packages
1874 instead of two in a non-framework build.
Brett Cannonda9af752010-05-13 23:59:41 +00001875
Martin v. Löwisb41afb52010-05-28 15:28:47 +00001876Build
1877-----
1878
Martin v. Löwis16b2a5e2010-06-04 19:15:32 +00001879- Display installer warning that Windows 2000 won't be supported in future
1880 releases.
1881
Victor Stinnerb65bd2e2010-06-11 19:22:28 +00001882- Issues #1759169, #8864: Drop _XOPEN_SOURCE on Solaris, define it for
Martin v. Löwis26eec582010-06-04 17:18:42 +00001883 multiprocessing only.
Brett Cannonda9af752010-05-13 23:59:41 +00001884
Martin v. Löwis5aafc172010-06-04 18:04:42 +00001885Tools/Demos
1886-----------
1887
1888- Issue #5464: Implement plural forms in msgfmt.py.
1889
1890
Antoine Pitrouab5ce722010-04-11 22:45:47 +00001891What's New in Python 2.7 beta 2?
1892================================
Benjamin Peterson12409062010-04-10 18:53:58 +00001893
Benjamin Petersonc2516072010-05-08 17:08:17 +00001894*Release date: 2010-05-08*
Benjamin Peterson12409062010-04-10 18:53:58 +00001895
1896Core and Builtins
1897-----------------
1898
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001899- Run Clang 2.7's static analyzer for ``Objects/`` and ``Python/``.
Brett Cannon5fb89df2010-05-05 20:54:53 +00001900
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001901- Issue #1533: Fix inconsistency in range function argument processing: any
1902 non-float non-integer argument is now converted to an integer (if possible)
1903 using its __int__ method. Previously, only small arguments were treated this
1904 way; larger arguments (those whose __int__ was outside the range of a C long)
1905 would produce a TypeError.
Mark Dickinsona8d26682010-05-04 16:18:25 +00001906
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001907- Issue #8202: ``sys.argv[0]`` is now set to '-m' instead of '-c' when searching
1908 for the module file to be executed with the -m command line option.
Nick Coghlanc5e44852010-04-28 14:51:08 +00001909
Brett Cannon19949692010-04-25 22:33:36 +00001910- Issue #7319: When -Q is used, do not silence DeprecationWarning.
1911
Antoine Pitrou18e63fb2010-04-21 22:53:29 +00001912- Issue #7332: Remove the 16KB stack-based buffer in
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001913 ``PyMarshal_ReadLastObjectFromFile``, which doesn't bring any noticeable
Antoine Pitrou18e63fb2010-04-21 22:53:29 +00001914 benefit compared to the dynamic memory allocation fallback. Patch by
1915 Charles-François Natali.
1916
Benjamin Peterson821a8ea2010-04-16 22:35:38 +00001917- Issue #8417: Raise an OverflowError when an integer larger than sys.maxsize is
1918 passed to bytearray.
1919
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001920- Issue #7072: ``isspace(0xa0)`` is true on Mac OS X.
Ronald Oussoren37805e52010-04-18 13:47:49 +00001921
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001922- Issue #8404: Fix set operations on dictionary views.
Alexandre Vassalotti268e4872010-05-04 03:21:51 +00001923
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001924- Issue #8084: PEP 370 now conforms to system conventions for framework builds
1925 on MacOS X. That is, ``python setup.py install --user`` will install into
1926 ``~/Library/Python/2.7`` instead of ``~/.local``.
Ronald Oussoren2f88bfd2010-05-08 10:29:06 +00001927
Benjamin Peterson12409062010-04-10 18:53:58 +00001928Library
1929-------
1930
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001931- Issue #8681: Make the zlib module's error messages more informative when the
1932 zlib itself doesn't give any detailed explanation.
Antoine Pitroufc3bfad2010-05-11 23:42:28 +00001933
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001934- Issue #8571: Fix an internal error when compressing or decompressing a chunk
1935 larger than 1GB with the zlib module's compressor and decompressor objects.
Antoine Pitrou3843cd82010-05-07 16:50:34 +00001936
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001937- Issue #8573: asyncore ``_strerror()`` function might throw ValueError.
Giampaolo Rodolàf7454fa2010-05-06 17:57:06 +00001938
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001939- Issue #8483: asyncore.dispatcher's __getattr__ method produced confusing error
1940 messages when accessing undefined class attributes because of the cheap
1941 inheritance with the underlying socket object. The cheap inheritance has been
1942 deprecated.
Giampaolo Rodolàf7454fa2010-05-06 17:57:06 +00001943
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001944- Issue #4265: ``shutil.copyfile()`` was leaking file descriptors when disk
1945 fills. Patch by Tres Seaver.
Tarek Ziadé38f81222010-05-05 22:15:31 +00001946
Barry Warsaw8efa8672010-05-05 16:17:22 +00001947- Issue #7755: Use an unencumbered audio file for tests.
1948
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001949- Issue #8621: ``uuid.uuid4()`` returned the same sequence of values in the
1950 parent and any children created using ``os.fork`` on Mac OS X 10.6.
Ronald Oussoren33206962010-05-05 14:48:37 +00001951
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001952- Issue #8313: ``traceback.format_exception_only()`` encodes unicode message to
1953 ASCII with backslashreplace error handler if ``str(value)`` failed.
Victor Stinner926fd4e2010-05-05 12:40:49 +00001954
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001955- Issue #8567: Fix precedence of signals in Decimal module: when a Decimal
1956 operation raises multiple signals and more than one of those signals is
1957 trapped, the specification determines the order in which the signals should be
1958 handled. In many cases this order wasn't being followed, leading to the wrong
1959 Python exception being raised.
Mark Dickinson4f96f5f2010-05-04 14:25:50 +00001960
Antoine Pitrouf7fd8e42010-05-03 16:25:33 +00001961- Issue #7865: The close() method of :mod:`io` objects should not swallow
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001962 exceptions raised by the implicit flush(). Also ensure that calling close()
1963 several times is supported. Patch by Pascal Chambon.
Antoine Pitrouf7fd8e42010-05-03 16:25:33 +00001964
Vinay Sajip27a13702010-05-03 15:11:53 +00001965- Issue #8576: logging updated to remove usage of find_unused_port().
1966
Antoine Pitrou951919f2010-05-02 19:51:14 +00001967- Issue #4687: Fix accuracy of garbage collection runtimes displayed with
1968 gc.DEBUG_STATS.
1969
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001970- Issue #8354: The siginterrupt setting is now preserved for all signals, not
1971 just SIGCHLD.
Jean-Paul Calderonee54ddf12010-05-08 20:06:02 +00001972
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001973- Issue #7192: ``webbrowser.get("firefox")`` now works on Mac OS X, as does
1974 ``webbrowser.get("safari")``.
Ronald Oussoren4ef1c7e2010-05-02 09:48:21 +00001975
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001976- Issue #8577: ``distutils.sysconfig.get_python_inc()`` now makes a difference
Tarek Ziadéa5cd1822010-04-30 12:15:12 +00001977 between the build dir and the source dir when looking for "python.h" or
1978 "Include".
1979
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001980- Issue #8464: tarfile no longer creates files with execute permissions set when
1981 mode="w|" is used.
Lars Gustäbel5c4c4612010-04-29 15:23:38 +00001982
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001983- Issue #7834: Fix connect() of Bluetooth L2CAP sockets with recent versions of
1984 the Linux kernel. Patch by Yaniv Aknin.
Antoine Pitrouf56a2882010-04-29 10:05:40 +00001985
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001986- Issue #6312: Fix http HEAD request when the transfer encoding is chunked. It
1987 should correctly return an empty response now.
Senthil Kumaraned9204342010-04-28 17:20:43 +00001988
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001989- Issue #7490: To facilitate sharing of doctests between 2.x and 3.x test
1990 suites, the ``IGNORE_EXCEPTION_DETAIL`` directive now also ignores the module
1991 location of the raised exception. Based on initial patch by Lennart Regebro.
Nick Coghlandfb45df2010-04-28 14:29:06 +00001992
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001993- Issue #8086: In :func:`ssl.DER_cert_to_PEM_cert()`, fix missing newline before
1994 the certificate footer. Patch by Kyle VanderBeek.
Antoine Pitrou4c7bcf12010-04-27 22:03:37 +00001995
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001996- Issue #8546: Reject None given as the buffering argument to ``_pyio.open()``.
Benjamin Petersona9bd6d52010-04-27 21:01:54 +00001997
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001998- Issue #8549: Fix compiling the _ssl extension under AIX. Patch by Sridhar
1999 Ratnakumar.
Antoine Pitrou1dc6b082010-04-27 19:09:59 +00002000
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002001- Issue #6656: Fix locale.format_string to handle escaped percents and mappings.
R. David Murray3939dcd2010-04-26 21:17:14 +00002002
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002003- Issue #2302: Fix a race condition in SocketServer.BaseServer.shutdown, where
2004 the method could block indefinitely if called just before the event loop
2005 started running. This also fixes the occasional freezes witnessed in
2006 test_httpservers.
Antoine Pitroua6240402010-04-25 21:40:32 +00002007
Antoine Pitroufc69af12010-04-24 20:04:58 +00002008- Issue #5103: SSL handshake would ignore the socket timeout and block
2009 indefinitely if the other end didn't respond.
2010
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002011- The do_handshake() method of SSL objects now adjusts the blocking mode of the
2012 SSL structure if necessary (as other methods already do).
Antoine Pitrou4d3e3722010-04-24 19:57:01 +00002013
Georg Brandl4341e542010-04-24 09:08:10 +00002014- Issue #7507: Quote "!" in pipes.quote(); it is special to some shells.
2015
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002016- Issue #5238: Calling makefile() on an SSL object would prevent the underlying
2017 socket from being closed until all objects get truely destroyed.
Antoine Pitroub558f172010-04-23 23:25:45 +00002018
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002019- Issue #7943: Fix circular reference created when instantiating an SSL socket.
2020 Initial patch by Péter Szabó.
Antoine Pitroudfb299b2010-04-23 22:54:59 +00002021
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002022- Issue #8451: Syslog module now uses basename(sys.argv[0]) instead of the
2023 string "python" as the *ident*. openlog() arguments are all optional and
2024 keywords.
Sean Reifscheiderf6ce3cb2010-04-23 08:31:55 +00002025
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002026- Issue #8108: Fix the unwrap() method of SSL objects when the socket has a
2027 non-infinite timeout. Also make that method friendlier with applications
Antoine Pitroua5c4b552010-04-22 23:33:02 +00002028 wanting to continue using the socket in clear-text mode, by disabling
2029 OpenSSL's internal readahead. Thanks to Darryl Miles for guidance.
2030
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002031- Issue #8484: Load all ciphers and digest algorithms when initializing the _ssl
2032 extension, such that verification of some SSL certificates doesn't fail
2033 because of an "unknown algorithm".
Antoine Pitrouc715a9e2010-04-21 19:28:03 +00002034
Victor Stinnera92e81b2010-04-20 22:28:31 +00002035- Issue #8437: Fix test_gdb failures, patch written by Dave Malcolm
2036
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002037- Issue #4814: The timeout parameter is now applied also for connections
2038 resulting from PORT/EPRT commands.
Giampaolo Rodolà607f7c02010-04-19 21:46:28 +00002039
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002040- Issue #8463: Add missing reference to bztar in shutil's documentation.
Tarek Ziadé8a12f942010-04-19 21:28:21 +00002041
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002042- Issue #8438: Remove reference to the missing "surrogateescape" encoding error
2043 handler from the new IO library.
Antoine Pitrou7c587bf2010-04-19 18:52:43 +00002044
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002045- Issue #3817: ftplib.FTP.abort() method now considers 225 a valid response code
2046 as stated in RFC-959 at chapter 5.4.
Giampaolo Rodolàcf445fc2010-04-18 12:55:03 +00002047
Martin v. Löwis24f09fd2010-04-17 22:40:40 +00002048- Issue #8279: Fix test_gdb failures.
2049
Antoine Pitrou0a6373c2010-04-17 17:10:38 +00002050- Issue #8322: Add a *ciphers* argument to SSL sockets, so as to change the
2051 available cipher list. Helps fix test_ssl with OpenSSL 1.0.0.
2052
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002053- Issue #2987: RFC 2732 support for urlparse (IPv6 addresses). Patch by Tony
Senthil Kumaran8c6d9d72010-04-16 02:46:46 +00002054 Locke and Hans Ulrich Niedermann.
2055
R. David Murray1a14d3d2010-04-12 16:35:19 +00002056- Issue #7585: difflib context and unified diffs now place a tab between
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002057 filename and date, conforming to the 'standards' they were originally designed
2058 to follow. This improves compatibility with patch tools.
R. David Murray1a14d3d2010-04-12 16:35:19 +00002059
R. David Murray27ef9372010-04-12 14:26:06 +00002060- Issue #7472: Fixed typo in email.encoders module; messages using ISO-2022
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002061 character sets will now consistently use a Content-Transfer-Encoding of 7bit
2062 rather than sometimes being marked as 8bit.
R. David Murray27ef9372010-04-12 14:26:06 +00002063
Martin v. Löwis7f7765c2010-04-12 05:18:16 +00002064- Issue #8330: Fix expected output in test_gdb.
2065
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002066- Issue #8374: Update the internal alias table in the :mod:`locale` module to
2067 cover recent locale changes and additions.
Antoine Pitrouab5ce722010-04-11 22:45:47 +00002068
Matthias Klose8a96d202010-04-21 22:18:52 +00002069Extension Modules
2070-----------------
2071
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002072- Issue #8644: Improved accuracy of ``timedelta.total_seconds()``.
Mark Dickinson7000e9e2010-05-09 09:30:06 +00002073
Brett Cannon945df9a2010-05-04 01:04:53 +00002074- Use Clang 2.7's static analyzer to find places to clean up some code.
2075
Matthias Klose8a96d202010-04-21 22:18:52 +00002076- Build the ossaudio extension on GNU/kFreeBSD.
2077
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002078- On Windows, ctypes does no longer check the stack before and after calling a
2079 foreign function. This allows to use the unmodified libffi library.
Thomas Heller06a7e202010-05-04 18:44:42 +00002080
Antoine Pitroua5c4b552010-04-22 23:33:02 +00002081Tests
2082-----
2083
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002084- Issue #8672: Add a zlib test ensuring that an incomplete stream can be handled
2085 by a decompressor object without errors (it returns incomplete uncompressed
2086 data).
Antoine Pitrou37ffc3e2010-05-11 23:32:31 +00002087
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002088- Issue #8490: asyncore now has a more solid test suite which actually tests its
2089 API.
Giampaolo Rodolàff46d6e2010-05-10 15:33:22 +00002090
Antoine Pitrou54f9f832010-04-30 23:08:48 +00002091- Issue #8576: Remove use of find_unused_port() in test_smtplib and
2092 test_multiprocessing. Patch by Paul Moore.
2093
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002094- Issue #7449: Fix many tests to support Python compiled without thread support.
2095 Patches written by Jerry Seutter.
Victor Stinnerd9d147b2010-04-27 21:46:03 +00002096
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002097- Issue #8108: test_ftplib's non-blocking SSL server now has proper handling of
2098 SSL shutdowns.
Antoine Pitroua5c4b552010-04-22 23:33:02 +00002099
Matthias Klose5183ebd2010-04-24 16:38:36 +00002100Build
2101-----
2102
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002103- Issue #8625: Turn off optimization in ``--with-pydebug`` builds with gcc.
Mark Dickinsond2f3e3f2010-05-05 22:23:58 +00002104 (Optimization was unintentionally turned on in gcc --with-pydebug builds in
2105 2.7 beta1 as a result of the issue #1628484 fix, combined with autoconf's
2106 strange choice of default CFLAGS produced by AC_PROG_CC for gcc.)
2107
Matthias Klose5183ebd2010-04-24 16:38:36 +00002108- Issue #8509: Fix quoting in help strings and code snippets in configure.in.
2109
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002110- Issue #3646: It is now easily possible to install a Python framework into your
2111 home directory on Mac OS X, see Mac/README for more information.
Ronald Oussoren01d149f2010-04-30 11:20:14 +00002112
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002113- Issue #8510: Update to autoconf 2.65.
Matthias Klosea0bea5d2010-05-08 10:00:28 +00002114
Brett Cannonc1f5c2f2010-05-02 21:51:23 +00002115Misc
2116----
2117
2118- Update the Vim syntax highlight file.
2119
Benjamin Peterson12409062010-04-10 18:53:58 +00002120
Benjamin Peterson5da7e7c2010-03-06 22:44:07 +00002121What's New in Python 2.7 beta 1?
2122================================
2123
Benjamin Petersonfbac6c12010-04-10 16:22:05 +00002124*Release date: 2010-04-10*
Benjamin Peterson5da7e7c2010-03-06 22:44:07 +00002125
2126Core and Builtins
2127-----------------
2128
Philip Jenveyaebbaeb2010-04-06 23:24:45 +00002129- Issue #7301: Add environment variable $PYTHONWARNINGS.
2130
Benjamin Peterson3a1dfa22010-04-06 21:50:00 +00002131- Issue #8329: Don't return the same lists from select.select when no fds are
2132 changed.
2133
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002134- Issue #8259: ``1L << (2**31)`` no longer produces an 'outrageous shift error'
Mark Dickinson82791672010-04-06 16:47:55 +00002135 on 64-bit machines. The shift count for either left or right shift is
2136 permitted to be up to sys.maxsize.
2137
Benjamin Peterson4ceeeb02010-04-03 22:48:51 +00002138- Ensure that tokenization of identifiers is not affected by locale.
2139
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002140- Issue #1222585: Added LDCXXSHARED for C++ support. Patch by Arfrever.
Tarek Ziadé00002952010-04-03 08:37:59 +00002141
Benjamin Peterson1c7c11e2010-04-03 01:28:57 +00002142- Raise a TypeError when trying to delete a T_STRING_INPLACE struct member.
2143
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002144- Issue #7994: Issue a PendingDeprecationWarning if object.__format__ is called
2145 with a non-empty format string. This is an effort to future-proof user
2146 code. If a derived class does not currently implement __format__ but later
2147 adds its own __format__, it would most likely break user code that had
Antoine Pitrou01a196a2011-01-02 20:05:11 +00002148 supplied a format string. This will be changed to a DeprecationWarning in
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002149 Python 3.3 and it will be an error in Python 3.4.
Eric Smithd44b2fc2010-04-02 12:30:56 +00002150
Antoine Pitroua57df2c2010-03-31 21:32:15 +00002151- Issue #8268: Old-style classes (not just instances) now support weak
2152 references.
2153
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002154- Issue #8211: Save/restore CFLAGS around AC_PROG_CC in configure.in, in case it
2155 is set.
Victor Stinner6cbf90f2010-03-25 00:21:53 +00002156
Victor Stinnerc7790ed2010-03-22 12:36:28 +00002157- Issue #1583863: An unicode subclass can now override the __unicode__ method
Victor Stinner95affc42010-03-22 12:24:37 +00002158
Benjamin Peterson96545892010-03-21 20:21:00 +00002159- Issue #6474: Make error message from passing an inadequate number of keyword
2160 arguments to a function correct.
2161
Benjamin Peterson0dee9c12010-03-17 20:41:42 +00002162- Issue #8164: Don't allow lambda functions to have a docstring.
2163
Victor Stinner66644262010-03-10 22:30:19 +00002164- Issue #3137: Don't ignore errors at startup, especially a keyboard interrupt
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002165 (SIGINT). If an error occurs while importing the site module, the error is
2166 printed and Python exits. Initialize the GIL before importing the site
Victor Stinner66644262010-03-10 22:30:19 +00002167 module.
2168
Collin Winter001a3952010-03-18 21:54:01 +00002169- Code objects now support weak references.
2170
Benjamin Peterson5da7e7c2010-03-06 22:44:07 +00002171Library
2172-------
2173
R. David Murray661303f2010-04-13 20:57:40 +00002174- Issue #5277: Fix quote counting when parsing RFC 2231 encoded parameters.
2175
Antoine Pitrouf9de5342010-04-05 21:35:07 +00002176- Issue #8321: Give access to OpenSSL version numbers from the `ssl` module,
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002177 using the new attributes `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION`, `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION_INFO` and
2178 `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION_NUMBER`.
Antoine Pitrouf9de5342010-04-05 21:35:07 +00002179
Benjamin Peterson76a23c12010-04-04 23:23:22 +00002180- Issue #8310: Allow dis to examine new style classes.
2181
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002182- Issue #8257: The Decimal construct now accepts a float instance directly,
2183 converting that float to a Decimal of equal value:
Mark Dickinson8a950712010-04-03 15:47:46 +00002184
2185 >>> Decimal(1.1)
2186 Decimal('1.100000000000000088817841970012523233890533447265625')
2187
Raymond Hettinger34c35b22010-04-03 10:22:00 +00002188- collections.Counter() now supports a subtract() method.
2189
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002190- The functools module now has a total_ordering() class decorator to simplify
2191 the specification of rich comparisons.
Raymond Hettingera551f312010-04-04 18:34:45 +00002192
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002193- The functools module also adds cmp_to_key() as a tool to transition old-style
2194 comparison functions to new-style key-functions.
Raymond Hettingera551f312010-04-04 18:34:45 +00002195
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002196- Issue #8294: The Fraction constructor now accepts Decimal and float instances
2197 directly.
Mark Dickinson7c63eee2010-04-02 22:27:36 +00002198
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002199- Issue #7279: Comparisons involving a Decimal signaling NaN now signal
2200 InvalidOperation instead of returning False. (Comparisons involving a quiet
2201 NaN are unchanged.) Also, Decimal quiet NaNs are now hashable; Decimal
2202 signaling NaNs remain unhashable.
Mark Dickinsone096e822010-04-02 10:17:07 +00002203
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002204- Issue #2531: Comparison operations between floats and Decimal instances now
2205 return a result based on the numeric values of the operands; previously they
2206 returned an arbitrary result based on the relative ordering of id(float) and
2207 id(Decimal).
Mark Dickinson99d80962010-04-02 08:53:22 +00002208
Barry Warsawf7f2d6f2010-03-31 21:07:16 +00002209- Issue #8233: When run as a script, py_compile.py optionally takes a single
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002210 argument `-` which tells it to read files to compile from stdin. Each line is
2211 read on demand and the named file is compiled immediately. (Original patch by
2212 Piotr Ożarowski).
Barry Warsawf7f2d6f2010-03-31 21:07:16 +00002213
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002214- Issue #3135: Add ``inspect.getcallargs()``, which binds arguments to a
2215 function like a normal call.
Benjamin Peterson7e213252010-03-30 17:58:13 +00002216
Florent Xicluna58b65662010-03-30 16:29:03 +00002217- Backwards incompatible change: Unicode codepoints line tabulation (0x0B) and
2218 form feed (0x0C) are now considered linebreaks, as specified in Unicode
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002219 Standard Annex #14. See issue #7643. http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr14/
Florent Xicluna22b24382010-03-30 08:24:06 +00002220
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002221- Comparisons using one of <, <=, >, >= between a complex instance and a
2222 Fractions instance now raise TypeError instead of returning True/False. This
2223 makes Fraction <=> complex comparisons consistent with int <=> complex, float
2224 <=> complex, and complex <=> complex comparisons.
Mark Dickinson9588d992010-03-27 11:14:37 +00002225
Michael Foorde6410c52010-03-29 20:04:23 +00002226- Addition of ``WeakSet`` to the ``weakref`` module.
2227
Vinay Sajipb0623d62010-03-24 14:31:21 +00002228- logging: Added LOG_FTP to SysLogHandler and updated documentation.
2229
Florent Xicluna176cda12010-03-22 22:52:11 +00002230- Issue #8205: Remove the "Modules" directory from sys.path when Python is
2231 running from the build directory (POSIX only).
2232
Florent Xiclunae1f4c922010-03-22 22:45:50 +00002233- Issue #7667: Fix doctest failures with non-ASCII paths.
2234
Antoine Pitrou513d9ae2010-03-22 19:59:46 +00002235- Issue #7512: shutil.copystat() could raise an OSError when the filesystem
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002236 didn't support chflags() (for example ZFS under FreeBSD). The error is now
2237 silenced.
Antoine Pitrou513d9ae2010-03-22 19:59:46 +00002238
Florent Xicluna9e7a4c92010-03-22 16:07:38 +00002239- Issue #7703: ctypes supports both buffer() and memoryview(). The former is
2240 deprecated.
2241
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002242- Issue #7860: platform.uname now reports the correct 'machine' type when Python
2243 is running in WOW64 mode on 64 bit Windows.
R. David Murrayc9d1a782010-03-22 15:55:09 +00002244
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002245- logging: Added getChild utility method to Logger and added isEnabledFor method
2246 to LoggerAdapter.
Vinay Sajip804899b2010-03-22 15:29:01 +00002247
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002248- Issue #8201: logging: Handle situation of non-ASCII and Unicode logger names
2249 existing at the same time, causing a Unicode error when configuration code
2250 attempted to sort the existing loggers.
Vinay Sajip31e928e2010-03-22 13:02:28 +00002251
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002252- Issue #8200: logging: Handle errors when multiprocessing is not fully loaded
2253 when logging occurs.
Vinay Sajip3017a7b2010-03-22 12:33:08 +00002254
Antoine Pitroueee91cd2010-03-26 19:27:16 +00002255- Issue #3890, #8222: Fix recv() and recv_into() on non-blocking SSL sockets.
2256 Also, enable the SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY flag on SSL sockets, so that blocking
2257 reads and writes are always retried by OpenSSL itself.
Antoine Pitrou448da712010-03-21 19:33:38 +00002258
Florent Xiclunacf82fa62010-03-21 12:27:20 +00002259- Issue #8179: Fix macpath.realpath() on a non-existing path.
2260
Florent Xicluna2e0a53f2010-03-18 21:50:06 +00002261- Issue #8024: Update the Unicode database to 5.2.
2262
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002263- Issue #8104: socket.recv_into() and socket.recvfrom_into() now support writing
2264 into objects supporting the new buffer API, for example bytearrays or
2265 memoryviews.
Antoine Pitroud7b731d2010-03-17 22:45:39 +00002266
Matthias Klose8b411682010-03-16 10:48:52 +00002267- Issue #4961: Inconsistent/wrong result of askyesno function in tkMessageBox
2268 with Tcl/Tk-8.5.
2269
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002270- Issue #8140: Extend compileall to compile single files. Add -i option.
Matthias Kloseb13d04c2010-03-15 17:44:12 +00002271
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002272- Issue #7356: ctypes.util: Make parsing of ldconfig output independent of the
2273 locale.
Matthias Klose358e7ff2010-03-15 13:42:23 +00002274
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002275- Issue #7774: Set sys.executable to an empty string if ``argv[0]`` has been set
2276 to an non existent program name and Python is unable to retrieve the real
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002277 program name.
Victor Stinner75227342010-03-12 14:30:26 +00002278
Vinay Sajipecfa08f2010-03-12 09:16:10 +00002279- Issue #8117: logging: Improved algorithm for computing initial rollover time
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002280 for ``TimedRotatingFileHandler`` by using the modification time of an existing
2281 log file to compute the next rollover time. If the log file does not exist,
2282 the current time is used as the basis for the computation.
Vinay Sajip9098ee42010-03-12 06:01:21 +00002283
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002284- Issue #6472: The ``xml.etree`` package is updated to ElementTree 1.3. The
Florent Xicluna3e8c1892010-03-11 14:36:19 +00002285 cElementTree module is updated too.
2286
Florent Xicluna85677612010-03-10 23:58:42 +00002287- Issue #7880: Fix sysconfig when the python executable is a symbolic link.
2288
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002289- Issue #7624: Fix ``isinstance(foo(), collections.Callable)`` for old-style
Florent Xicluna47627d52010-03-08 15:20:28 +00002290 classes.
2291
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002292- Issue #7143: email: ``get_payload()`` used to strip any trailing newline from
2293 a base64 transfer-encoded payload *after* decoding it; it no longer does.
2294 This is a behavior change, so email's minor version number is now bumped, to
2295 version 4.0.2, for the 2.7 release.
R. David Murray4617e502010-03-08 02:04:06 +00002296
Larry Hastings3b958e32010-04-02 11:18:17 +00002297- Issue #8235: _socket: Add the constant ``SO_SETFIB``. SO_SETFIB is
2298 a socket option available on FreeBSD 7.1 and newer.
2299
Michael Foorda04c7a02010-04-02 22:55:59 +00002300- Issue #8038: unittest.TestCase.assertNotRegexpMatches
2301
2302- Addition of -b command line option to unittest for buffering stdout / stderr
2303 during test runs.
2304
Victor Stinnerdb990922010-05-15 21:00:59 +00002305- Issue #1220212: Added os.kill support for Windows, including support for
Brian Curtin85108e62010-04-02 23:31:28 +00002306 sending CTRL+C and CTRL+BREAK events to console subprocesses.
2307
Mark Dickinson154b7ad2010-03-07 16:24:45 +00002308Extension Modules
2309-----------------
2310
Martin v. Löwis16ea5482010-04-07 11:01:46 +00002311- Issue #8314: Fix unsigned long long bug in libffi on Sparc v8.
2312
Matthias Klosee9fbf2b2010-03-19 14:45:06 +00002313- Issue #1039, #8154: Fix os.execlp() crash with missing 2nd argument.
2314
Jesus Cea6557aac2010-03-22 14:22:26 +00002315- Issue #8156: bsddb module updated to version 4.8.4.
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002316 http://www.jcea.es/programacion/pybsddb.htm#bsddb3-4.8.4. This update drops
2317 support for Berkeley DB 4.0, and adds support for 4.8.
Matthias Klose54cc5392010-03-15 12:46:18 +00002318
Jesus Cea616de772010-04-28 10:32:30 +00002319- Issue #3928: os.mknod() now available in Solaris, also.
2320
Matthias Klose817acef2010-03-15 00:02:36 +00002321- Issue #8142: Update libffi to the 3.0.9 release.
2322
Mark Dickinson4846a8e2010-04-03 14:05:10 +00002323- Issue #8300: When passing a non-integer argument to struct.pack with any
2324 integer format code, struct.pack first attempts to convert the non-integer
2325 using its __index__ method. If that method is non-existent or raises
2326 TypeError it goes on to try the __int__ method, as described below.
2327
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002328- Issue #1530559: When passing a non-integer argument to struct.pack with *any*
2329 integer format code (one of 'bBhHiIlLqQ'), struct.pack attempts to use the
2330 argument's __int__ method to convert to an integer before packing. It also
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002331 produces a DeprecationWarning in this case. (In Python 2.6, the behaviour was
2332 inconsistent: __int__ was used for some integer codes but not for others, and
2333 the set of integer codes for which it was used differed between native packing
2334 and standard packing.)
Mark Dickinson154b7ad2010-03-07 16:24:45 +00002335
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002336- Issue #7347: _winreg: Add CreateKeyEx and DeleteKeyEx, as well as fix a bug in
2337 the return value of QueryReflectionKey.
Brian Curtin19479fa2010-04-02 21:51:37 +00002338
Antoine Pitrou02b3f0a2010-03-13 21:21:30 +00002339Tools/Demos
2340-----------
2341
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002342- Issue #7993: Add a test of IO packet processing bandwidth to ccbench. It
2343 measures the number of UDP packets processed per second depending on the
2344 number of background CPU-bound Python threads.
Benjamin Peterson5da7e7c2010-03-06 22:44:07 +00002345
Collin Wintera70f3492010-03-19 00:08:44 +00002346- python-config now supports multiple options on the same command line.
2347
Benjamin Peterson11d93232010-03-14 14:24:31 +00002348Build
2349-----
2350
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002351- Issue #8032: For gdb7, a python-gdb.py file is added to the build, allowing to
2352 use advanced gdb features when debugging Python.
Martin v. Löwisbf0dfb32010-04-01 07:40:51 +00002353
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002354- Issue #1628484: The Makefile doesn't ignore the CFLAGS environment variable
2355 anymore. It also forwards the LDFLAGS settings to the linker when building a
2356 shared library.
Antoine Pitrouf83b3082010-03-21 19:19:41 +00002357
Martin v. Löwis24e4e162010-03-15 13:00:17 +00002358- Issue #6716: Quote -x arguments of compileall in MSI installer.
2359
Benjamin Peterson11d93232010-03-14 14:24:31 +00002360- Issue #7705: Fix linking on FreeBSD.
2361
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven6d22cfc2010-04-07 16:34:08 +00002362- Make sure that the FreeBSD build of the included libffi uses the proper
2363 assembly file.
2364
Larry Hastings402b73f2010-03-25 00:54:54 +00002365C-API
2366-----
2367
Antoine Pitrou76c86492010-04-01 16:42:11 +00002368- Issue #8276: PyEval_CallObject() is now only available in macro form. The
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002369 function declaration, which was kept for backwards compatibility reasons, is
2370 now removed (the macro was introduced in 1997!).
Antoine Pitrou76c86492010-04-01 16:42:11 +00002371
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002372- Issue #7992: A replacement PyCObject API, PyCapsule, has been backported from
2373 Python 3.1. All existing Python CObjects in the main distribution have been
2374 converted to capsules. To address backwards-compatibility concerns,
2375 PyCObject_AsVoidPtr() was changed to understand capsules.
Larry Hastings402b73f2010-03-25 00:54:54 +00002376
Florent Xicluna3cc8f212010-03-15 18:08:58 +00002377Tests
2378-----
2379
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002380- Issue #3864: Skip three test_signal tests on freebsd6 because they fail if any
2381 thread was previously started, most likely due to a platform bug.
R. David Murraye0e8a872010-04-17 05:26:26 +00002382
Antoine Pitrouab5ce722010-04-11 22:45:47 +00002383- Issue #8348: Fix test ftp url in test_urllib2net.
2384
2385- Issue #8204: Fix test_ttk notebook test by forcing focus.
2386
2387- Issue #8344: Fix test_ttk bug on FreeBSD.
2388
Antoine Pitrou3b4c9892010-04-06 17:21:09 +00002389- Issue #8193: Fix test_zlib failure with zlib 1.2.4.
2390
Antoine Pitrou6032c252010-03-30 18:49:45 +00002391- Issue #8248: Add some tests for the bool type. Patch by Gregory Nofi.
2392
Florent Xicluna75c66762010-03-30 16:31:14 +00002393- Issue #8263: Now regrtest.py will report a failure if it receives a
2394 KeyboardInterrupt (SIGINT).
2395
Florent Xicluna8aa5a582010-03-25 20:33:49 +00002396- Issue #8180 and #8207: Fix test_pep277 on OS X and add more tests for special
2397 Unicode normalization cases.
Florent Xicluna77a88492010-03-21 18:00:38 +00002398
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002399- Issue #7783: test.test_support.open_urlresource invalidates the outdated files
2400 from the local cache.
Florent Xicluna3cc8f212010-03-15 18:08:58 +00002401
R. David Murray4617e502010-03-08 02:04:06 +00002402
Benjamin Peterson2d798ac2010-02-06 18:26:27 +00002403What's New in Python 2.7 alpha 4?
2404=================================
2405
Benjamin Peterson8e7c1172010-03-06 20:34:14 +00002406*Release date: 2010-03-06*
Benjamin Peterson2d798ac2010-02-06 18:26:27 +00002407
2408Core and Builtins
2409-----------------
2410
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002411- Issue #7544: Preallocate thread memory before creating the thread to avoid a
2412 fatal error in low memory condition.
Victor Stinner71fb87e2010-03-03 23:20:25 +00002413
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002414- Issue #7820: The parser tokenizer restores all bytes in the right if the BOM
2415 check fails.
Victor Stinnerd23d3932010-03-02 23:20:02 +00002416
Eric Smith2d9856d2010-02-24 14:15:36 +00002417- Issue #7309: Fix unchecked attribute access when converting
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002418 UnicodeEncodeError, UnicodeDecodeError, and UnicodeTranslateError to strings.
Eric Smith2d9856d2010-02-24 14:15:36 +00002419
Ezio Melotti32125152010-02-25 17:36:04 +00002420- Issue #7649: "u'%c' % char" now behaves like "u'%s' % char" and raises a
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002421 UnicodeDecodeError if 'char' is a byte string that can't be decoded using the
2422 default encoding.
Victor Stinnerf20f9c22010-02-23 23:16:07 +00002423
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002424- Issue #6902: Fix problem with built-in types format incorrectly with 0
2425 padding.
Eric Smith87bcb242010-02-23 00:11:16 +00002426
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002427- Issue #2560: Remove an unnecessary 'for' loop from ``my_fgets()`` in
Andrew M. Kuchlingb64d6132010-02-22 22:48:41 +00002428 Parser/myreadline.c.
2429
Eric Smithf32d4ac2010-02-22 18:33:47 +00002430- Issue #7988: Fix default alignment to be right aligned for
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002431 ``complex.__format__``. Now it matches other numeric types.
Eric Smithf32d4ac2010-02-22 18:33:47 +00002432
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002433- Issue #5211: The complex type no longer uses implicit coercion in mixed-type
2434 binary arithmetic operations.
Mark Dickinson82b34c52010-02-21 12:57:35 +00002435
Benjamin Peterson2d798ac2010-02-06 18:26:27 +00002436Library
2437-------
Georg Brandl7f0c3ff2010-08-01 21:18:52 +00002438
Senthil Kumaranc1d0ed22010-12-04 09:58:29 +00002439- Issue #7904: Changes to urllib.parse.urlsplit to handle schemes as defined by
2440 RFC3986. Anything before :// is considered a scheme and is followed by an
2441 authority (or netloc) and by '/' led path, which is optional.
2442
R. David Murray05b76312010-07-17 01:35:16 +00002443- Issue #1555570: email no longer inserts extra blank lines when a \r\n
2444 combo crosses an 8192 byte boundary.
Benjamin Peterson2d798ac2010-02-06 18:26:27 +00002445
Florent Xicluna0b9a18a2010-03-06 11:01:08 +00002446- Issue #6906: Tk should not set Unicode environment variables on Windows.
2447
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002448- Issue #1054943: Fix ``unicodedata.normalize('NFC', text)`` for the Public
Ezio Melotti8122bdd2010-03-14 10:13:49 +00002449 Review Issue #29 (http://unicode.org/review/pr-29.html).
Victor Stinner7c924ec2010-03-04 12:09:33 +00002450
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002451- Issue #7494: Fix a crash in ``_lsprof`` (cProfile) after clearing the profiler,
Victor Stinner56a51532010-03-04 00:10:12 +00002452 reset also the pointer to the current pointer context.
2453
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002454- Issue #7232: Add support for the context manager protocol to the
2455 ``tarfile.TarFile`` class.
Lars Gustäbel64581042010-03-03 11:55:48 +00002456
Barry Warsaw08a8fb32010-03-01 21:46:51 +00002457- Issue #7250: Fix info leak of os.environ across multi-run uses of
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002458 ``wsgiref.handlers.CGIHandler``.
Barry Warsaw08a8fb32010-03-01 21:46:51 +00002459
Florent Xiclunae7901c52010-03-01 20:45:01 +00002460- Issue #1729305: Fix doctest to handle encode error with "backslashreplace".
Florent Xicluna2a903b22010-02-27 13:31:23 +00002461
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002462- Issue #691291: ``codecs.open()`` should not convert end of lines on reading
2463 and writing.
Florent Xicluna82aa01f2010-02-27 11:19:18 +00002464
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002465- Issue #7975: Correct regression in dict methods supported by bsddb.dbshelve.
R. David Murray48605be2010-02-24 02:31:27 +00002466
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002467- Issue #7959: ctypes callback functions are now registered correctly with the
2468 cycle garbage collector.
Thomas Heller92bd0592010-02-23 20:11:44 +00002469
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002470- Issue #7970: ``email.Generator.flatten`` now correctly flattens
2471 message/rfc822 messages parsed by ``email.Parser.HeaderParser``.
R. David Murray51f12042010-02-21 04:23:00 +00002472
Ezio Melotti4cc80ca2010-02-20 08:09:39 +00002473- Issue #3426: ``os.path.abspath`` now returns unicode when its arg is unicode.
2474
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002475- Issue #7633: In the decimal module, ``Context`` class methods (with the
2476 exception of canonical and is_canonical) now accept instances of int and long
2477 wherever a Decimal instance is accepted, and implicitly convert that argument
2478 to Decimal. Previously only some arguments were converted.
Mark Dickinson6d8effb2010-02-18 14:27:02 +00002479
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002480- Issue #6003: Add an argument to ``zipfile.Zipfile.writestr`` to specify the
2481 compression type.
Ezio Melotti8f6a2872010-02-10 21:40:33 +00002482
Michael Foorddb43b5a2010-02-10 14:25:12 +00002483- Issue #7893: ``unittest.TextTestResult`` is made public and a ``resultclass``
2484 argument added to the TextTestRunner constructor allowing a different result
2485 class to be used without having to subclass.
Ezio Melotti8f6a2872010-02-10 21:40:33 +00002486
Ezio Melotti4cc80ca2010-02-20 08:09:39 +00002487- Issue #7588: ``unittest.TextTestResult.getDescription`` now includes the test
Michael Foorddb43b5a2010-02-10 14:25:12 +00002488 name in failure reports even if the test has a docstring.
Ronald Oussorendd25e862010-02-07 20:18:02 +00002489
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002490- Issue #5801: Remove spurious empty lines in wsgiref.
Tarek Ziadéb8708a22010-02-23 05:53:05 +00002491
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002492- Issue #1537721: Add a ``writeheader()`` method to ``csv.DictWriter``.
Dirkjan Ochtman86148172010-02-23 21:09:52 +00002493
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002494- Issue #7427: Improve the representation of httplib.BadStatusLine exceptions.
Dirkjan Ochtmanebc73dc2010-02-24 04:49:00 +00002495
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002496- Issue #7481: When a ``threading.Thread`` failed to start it would leave the
2497 instance stuck in initial state and present in ``threading.enumerate()``.
Gregory P. Smith613c7a52010-02-28 18:36:09 +00002498
Gregory P. Smithcce211f2010-03-01 00:05:08 +00002499- Issue #1068268: The subprocess module now handles EINTR in internal
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002500 ``os.waitpid()`` and ``os.read()`` system calls where appropriate.
Gregory P. Smithcce211f2010-03-01 00:05:08 +00002501
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002502- Issue #6729: Add ``ctypes.c_ssize_t`` to represent ssize_t.
Gregory P. Smith3c699d32010-03-01 04:56:12 +00002503
Steven Betharde9330e72010-03-02 08:38:09 +00002504- Issue #6247: The argparse module has been added to the standard library.
2505
Martin v. Löwis413fabc2010-02-18 09:22:20 +00002506Extension Modules
2507-----------------
2508
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002509- The sqlite3 module was updated to pysqlite 2.6.0. This fixes several obscure
Gerhard Häring3bbb6722010-03-05 09:12:37 +00002510 bugs and allows loading SQLite extensions from shared libraries.
2511
Florent Xiclunae7901c52010-03-01 20:45:01 +00002512- Issue #7808: Fix reference leaks in _bsddb and related tests.
2513
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002514- Issue #6544: Fix a reference leak in the kqueue implementation's error
Georg Brandlea370a92010-02-23 21:48:57 +00002515 handling.
2516
Martin v. Löwis413fabc2010-02-18 09:22:20 +00002517- Stop providing crtassem.h symbols when compiling with Visual Studio 2010, as
2518 msvcr100.dll is not a platform assembly anymore.
Benjamin Peterson2d798ac2010-02-06 18:26:27 +00002519
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002520- Issue #7242: On Solaris 9 and earlier calling ``os.fork()`` from within a
Gregory P. Smith9e5d1322010-03-01 01:22:39 +00002521 thread could raise an incorrect RuntimeError about not holding the import
2522 lock. The import lock is now reinitialized after fork.
2523
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002524- Issue #7999: ``os.setreuid()`` and ``os.setregid()`` would refuse to accept a
2525 -1 parameter on some platforms such as OS X.
Gregory P. Smith6a65f852010-03-01 05:43:43 +00002526
Ezio Melotti8f6a2872010-02-10 21:40:33 +00002527Tests
2528-----
2529
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002530- Issue #7849: The utility ``test.test_support.check_warnings()`` verifies if
2531 warnings are effectively raised. A new utility ``check_py3k_warnings()`` is
2532 available.
Florent Xicluna6de9e932010-03-07 12:18:33 +00002533
Florent Xicluna985478d2010-03-06 18:52:52 +00002534- The four path modules (genericpath, macpath, ntpath, posixpath) share a
2535 common TestCase for some tests: test_genericpath.CommonTest.
2536
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002537- Print platform information when running the whole test suite, or using the
2538 ``--verbose`` flag.
Florent Xicluna58526412010-03-06 17:24:36 +00002539
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002540- Issue #767675: Enable test_pep277 on POSIX platforms with Unicode-friendly
Florent Xiclunac0a9d412010-03-02 22:34:11 +00002541 filesystem encoding.
Florent Xicluna2db61fb2010-03-02 21:34:45 +00002542
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002543- Issue #6292: For the moment at least, the test suite runs cleanly if python
R. David Murrayf28fd242010-02-23 00:24:49 +00002544 is run with the -OO flag. Tests requiring docstrings are skipped.
2545
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002546- Issue #7712: test_support gained a new ``temp_cwd`` context manager which is
2547 now also used by regrtest to run all the tests in a temporary directory. The
2548 original CWD is saved in ``test.test_support.SAVEDCWD``. Thanks to Florent
2549 Xicluna who helped with the patch.
Ezio Melotti8f6a2872010-02-10 21:40:33 +00002550
Martin v. Löwis5e2dd862010-02-15 08:32:00 +00002551Build
2552-----
2553
Martin v. Löwis7875ef62010-02-15 21:41:12 +00002554- Issue #3920, #7903: Define _BSD_SOURCE on OpenBSD 4.4 through 4.9.
Martin v. Löwis5e2dd862010-02-15 08:32:00 +00002555
Ezio Melotti8f6a2872010-02-10 21:40:33 +00002556
Benjamin Petersondd6d92a2010-01-09 17:30:31 +00002557What's New in Python 2.7 alpha 3?
2558=================================
2559
Benjamin Petersona7be9d22010-02-06 16:37:32 +00002560*Release date: 2010-02-06*
Benjamin Petersondd6d92a2010-01-09 17:30:31 +00002561
2562Core and Builtins
2563-----------------
2564
Antoine Pitroubb445a12010-02-05 17:05:54 +00002565- Issue #5677: Explicitly forbid write operations on read-only file objects,
2566 and read operations on write-only file objects. On Windows, the system C
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002567 library would return a bogus result; on Solaris, it was possible to crash the
2568 interpreter. Patch by Stefan Krah.
Antoine Pitroubb445a12010-02-05 17:05:54 +00002569
Barry Warsawb1e66ee2010-02-05 18:45:25 +00002570- Issue #7853: Normalize exceptions before they are passed to a context
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002571 manager's ``__exit__()`` method.
Benjamin Peterson565d7852010-02-05 02:12:14 +00002572
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002573- Issue #7385: Fix a crash in ``PyMemoryView_FromObject()`` when
2574 ``PyObject_GetBuffer()`` fails. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
Antoine Pitrou526e4212010-02-02 22:36:17 +00002575
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002576- Issue #7819: Check ``sys.call_tracing()`` arguments types.
Victor Stinnerb4b0a292010-01-31 22:32:15 +00002577
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002578- Issue #7788: Fix an interpreter crash produced by deleting a list slice with
2579 very large step value.
Mark Dickinson36ecd672010-01-29 17:11:39 +00002580
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002581- Issue #7766: Change ``sys.getwindowsversion()`` return value to a named tuple
2582 and add the additional members returned in an OSVERSIONINFOEX structure. The
2583 new members are service_pack_major, service_pack_minor, suite_mask, and
2584 product_type.
Eric Smithee931b72010-01-27 00:28:29 +00002585
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002586- Issue #7561: Operations on empty bytearrays (such as ``int(bytearray())``)
2587 could crash in many places because of the ``PyByteArray_AS_STRING()`` macro
2588 returning NULL. The macro now returns a statically allocated empty string
2589 instead.
Antoine Pitroue80a6a42010-01-17 12:26:20 +00002590
Antoine Pitrou64672132010-01-13 07:55:48 +00002591- Issue #7622: Improve the split(), rsplit(), splitlines() and replace()
2592 methods of bytes, bytearray and unicode objects by using a common
2593 implementation based on stringlib's fast search. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
2594
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002595- Issue #7632: Fix various str -> float conversion bugs present in 2.7 alpha 2,
2596 including:
Mark Dickinson8efef5c2010-01-12 22:23:56 +00002597
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002598 (1) a serious 'wrong output' bug that could occur for long (> 40 digit) input
2599 strings,
2600 (2) a crash in dtoa.c that occurred in debug builds when parsing certain long
2601 numeric strings corresponding to subnormal values,
2602 (3) a memory leak for some values large enough to cause overflow, and
2603 (4) a number of flaws that could lead to incorrectly rounded results.
2604
2605- Issue #7319, #7770: Silence ``DeprecationWarning`` by default when the -3
2606 option is not used.
Brett Cannon6fdd3dc2010-01-10 02:56:19 +00002607
Alexandre Vassalottiee936a22010-01-09 23:35:54 +00002608- Issue #2335: Backport set literals syntax from Python 3.x.
2609
Alexandre Vassalotti7a8df802010-01-11 23:13:49 +00002610- Issue #2333: Backport set and dict comprehensions syntax from Python 3.x.
2611
Alexandre Vassalotti69eb5162010-01-11 23:17:10 +00002612- Issue #1967: Backport dictionary views from Python 3.x.
2613
Benjamin Petersondd6d92a2010-01-09 17:30:31 +00002614Library
2615-------
2616
Mark Dickinson42add992010-07-11 19:17:28 +00002617- Issue #9137: Fix issue in MutableMapping.update, which incorrectly
2618 treated keyword arguments called 'self' or 'other' specially.
2619
R. David Murray63e4fd72010-02-10 22:42:04 +00002620- Issue #7835: shelve should no longer produce mysterious warnings during
2621 interpreter shutdown.
2622
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002623- Issue #2746: Don't escape ampersands and angle brackets ("&", "<", ">") in
2624 XML processing instructions and comments. These raw characters are allowed
2625 by the XML specification, and are necessary when outputting e.g. PHP code in
2626 a processing instruction. Patch by Neil Muller.
Antoine Pitrou42fb6ab2010-02-09 17:08:05 +00002627
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002628- Issue #7869: logging: Improved diagnostic for format-time errors.
Vinay Sajip64e8b972010-02-07 12:56:54 +00002629
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002630- Issue #7868: logging: Added loggerClass attribute to Manager.
Vinay Sajip657514a2010-02-07 01:37:08 +00002631
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002632- Issue #7851: logging: Clarification on logging configuration files.
Vinay Sajip0e6e97d2010-02-04 20:23:45 +00002633
Antoine Pitroud840e512010-02-04 20:20:18 +00002634- Issue #4772: Raise a ValueError when an unknown Bluetooth protocol is
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002635 specified, rather than fall through to AF_PACKET (in the ``socket`` module).
Antoine Pitroud840e512010-02-04 20:20:18 +00002636 Also, raise ValueError rather than TypeError when an unknown TIPC address
2637 type is specified. Patch by Brian Curtin.
2638
Vinay Sajip28c382f2010-02-04 18:48:53 +00002639- logging: Implemented PEP 391.
2640
Antoine Pitrouf3fa0742010-01-31 22:26:04 +00002641- Issue #6939: Fix file I/O objects in the `io` module to keep the original
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002642 file position when calling `truncate()`. It would previously change the file
2643 position to the given argument, which goes against the tradition of
Antoine Pitrouf3fa0742010-01-31 22:26:04 +00002644 ftruncate() and other truncation APIs. Patch by Pascal Chambon.
2645
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002646- Issue #7610: Reworked implementation of the internal ``zipfile.ZipExtFile``
2647 class used to represent files stored inside an archive. The new
2648 implementation is significantly faster and can be wrapped in a
2649 ``io.BufferedReader`` object for more speedups. It also solves an issue
2650 where interleaved calls to ``read()`` and ``readline()`` give wrong results.
2651 Patch by Nir Aides.
Antoine Pitrou94c33eb2010-01-27 20:59:50 +00002652
Benjamin Peterson2deb5c72010-01-27 02:16:42 +00002653- Issue #7792: Registering non-classes to ABCs raised an obscure error.
2654
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002655- Removed the deprecated functions ``verify()`` and ``vereq()`` from
2656 Lib/test/test_support.py.
Ezio Melotti82230f92010-01-25 12:37:02 +00002657
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002658- Issue #7773: Fix an UnboundLocalError in ``platform.linux_distribution()``
2659 when the release file is empty.
Benjamin Petersona43f34c2010-01-25 03:31:13 +00002660
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002661- Issue #7748: Since unicode values are supported for some metadata options in
2662 Distutils, the DistributionMetadata get_* methods will now return an utf-8
2663 encoded string for them. This ensures that the upload and register commands
2664 send the correct values to PyPI without any error.
Tarek Ziadéf14c7fc2010-01-24 00:33:32 +00002665
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002666- Issue #1670765: Prevent ``email.generator.Generator`` from re-wrapping
R. David Murrayed44dfa2010-01-16 05:15:17 +00002667 headers in multipart/signed MIME parts, which fixes one of the sources of
2668 invalid modifications to such parts by Generator.
2669
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002670- Issue #7701: Fix crash in ``binascii.b2a_uu()`` in debug mode when given a
Antoine Pitrouc391ad02010-01-15 00:18:00 +00002671 1-byte argument. Patch by Victor Stinner.
2672
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002673- Issue #3299: Fix possible crash in the _sre module when given bad argument
2674 values in debug mode. Patch by Victor Stinner.
Antoine Pitrouefdddd32010-01-14 17:25:24 +00002675
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002676- Issue #7703: Add support for the new buffer API to functions of the binascii
2677 module. Backported from py3k by Florent Xicluna, with some additional tests.
Antoine Pitroufd3a60d2010-01-14 16:27:09 +00002678
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002679- Issue #2846: Add support for gzip.GzipFile reading zero-padded files. Patch
2680 by Brian Curtin.
Antoine Pitrou5a9112c2010-01-13 14:32:10 +00002681
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002682- Issue #5827: Make sure that normpath preserves unicode. Initial patch by
2683 Matt Giuca.
Ezio Melottib5689de2010-01-12 03:32:05 +00002684
Tarek Ziadédc0f4872010-01-11 22:50:29 +00002685- Issue #5372: Drop the reuse of .o files in Distutils' ccompiler (since
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002686 Extension extra options may change the output without changing the .c file).
2687 Initial patch by Collin Winter.
Tarek Ziadédc0f4872010-01-11 22:50:29 +00002688
Matthias Klose0d948ac2010-01-22 00:39:04 +00002689Extension Modules
2690-----------------
2691
2692- Expat: Fix DoS via XML document with malformed UTF-8 sequences
2693 (CVE_2009_3560).
2694
Antoine Pitrou8c510e72010-01-13 11:47:49 +00002695Build
2696-----
2697
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002698- Issue #7632: When Py_USING_MEMORY_DEBUGGER is defined, disable the private
2699 memory allocation scheme in dtoa.c and use PyMem_Malloc and PyMem_Free
2700 instead. Also disable caching of powers of 5.
Mark Dickinson9481c572010-01-17 20:57:56 +00002701
Ronald Oussorena55af9a2010-01-17 16:25:57 +00002702- Issue #7658: Ensure that the new pythonw executable works on OSX 10.4
2703
2704- Issue #7714: Use ``gcc -dumpversion`` to detect the version of GCC on
2705 MacOSX.
2706
Antoine Pitrou8c510e72010-01-13 11:47:49 +00002707- Issue #7661: Allow ctypes to be built from a non-ASCII directory path.
2708 Patch by Florent Xicluna.
2709
Antoine Pitrouc07336c2010-01-18 21:15:21 +00002710Tools/Demos
2711-----------
2712
2713- iobench (a file I/O benchmark) and ccbench (a concurrency benchmark) were
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002714 added to the ``Tools`` directory. They were previously living in the
Antoine Pitrouc07336c2010-01-18 21:15:21 +00002715 sandbox.
2716
R. David Murrayce6e4b02010-02-06 04:27:21 +00002717Tests
2718-----
2719
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002720- issue #7728: test_timeout was changed to use ``test_support.bind_port()``
R. David Murrayce6e4b02010-02-06 04:27:21 +00002721 instead of a hard coded port.
2722
Matthias Klose626d92a2010-01-31 16:05:13 +00002723Documentation
2724-------------
Victor Stinnerf20f9c22010-02-23 23:16:07 +00002725
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002726- Updated "Using Python" documentation to include description of CPython's -J,
2727 -U and -X options.
Barry Warsawb1e66ee2010-02-05 18:45:25 +00002728
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002729- Updated Python manual page (options -B, -O0, -s, environment variables
Matthias Klose626d92a2010-01-31 16:05:13 +00002730 PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE, PYTHONNOUSERSITE).
2731
Benjamin Petersondd6d92a2010-01-09 17:30:31 +00002732
Benjamin Peterson4f51baf2009-12-05 18:40:02 +00002733What's New in Python 2.7 alpha 2?
2734=================================
2735
Benjamin Petersonaa7e51f2010-01-09 16:34:06 +00002736*Release date: 2010-01-09*
Benjamin Peterson4f51baf2009-12-05 18:40:02 +00002737
2738Core and Builtins
2739-----------------
2740
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002741- The ``__complex__()`` method is now looked up on the class of instances to
2742 make it consistent with other special methods.
Benjamin Petersonecdae192010-01-04 00:43:01 +00002743
Antoine Pitrou5b7139a2010-01-02 21:12:58 +00002744- Issue #7462: Implement the stringlib fast search algorithm for the `rfind`,
2745 `rindex`, `rsplit` and `rpartition` methods. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
2746
Mark Dickinson1b34d252010-01-01 17:27:30 +00002747- Issue #5080: A number of functions and methods previously produced a
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002748 DeprecationWarning when passed a float argument where an integer was expected.
2749 These functions and methods now raise TypeError instead. The majority of the
2750 effects of this change are in the extension modules, but some core functions
2751 and methods are affected: notably the 'chr', 'range' and 'xrange' builtins,
2752 and many unicode/str methods.
Mark Dickinson1b34d252010-01-01 17:27:30 +00002753
Benjamin Peterson0f02d392009-12-30 19:34:10 +00002754- Issue #7604: Deleting an unset slotted attribute did not raise an
2755 AttributeError.
2756
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002757- Issue #7534: Fix handling of IEEE specials (infinities, nans, negative zero)
2758 in ** operator. The behaviour now conforms to that described in C99 Annex F.
Mark Dickinson99d652e2009-12-30 12:12:23 +00002759
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002760- Issue #7579: The msvcrt module now has docstrings for all its functions.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcc8a2ce72009-12-29 23:06:17 +00002761
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc8645a5c2009-12-29 22:03:38 +00002762- Issue #7413: Passing '\0' as the separator to datetime.datetime.isoformat()
2763 used to drop the time part of the result.
2764
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002765- Issue #1811: Improve accuracy and cross-platform consistency for true division
2766 of integers: the result of a/b is now correctly rounded for ints a and b (at
2767 least on IEEE 754 platforms), and in particular does not depend on the
2768 internal representation of a long.
Mark Dickinson46572832009-12-27 14:55:57 +00002769
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002770- Issue #6108: ``unicode(exception)`` and ``str(exception)`` should return the
2771 same message when only ``__str__()`` (and not ``__unicode__()``) is overridden
2772 in the subclass.
Ezio Melottif84caf42009-12-24 22:25:17 +00002773
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002774- Issue #6834: Replace the implementation for the 'python' and 'pythonw'
Ronald Oussoren92919a62009-12-24 13:30:58 +00002775 executables on OSX.
2776
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002777 These executables now work properly with the arch(1) command: ``arch -ppc
2778 python`` will start a universal binary version of python in PPC mode (unlike
2779 previous releases).
Ronald Oussoren92919a62009-12-24 13:30:58 +00002780
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002781- Issue #1680159: Unicode coercion during an 'in' operation no longer masks the
2782 underlying error when the coercion fails for the left hand operand.
R. David Murray0a0a1a82009-12-14 16:28:26 +00002783
Benjamin Peterson4895af42009-12-13 16:36:53 +00002784- Issue #7491: Metaclass's __cmp__ method was ignored.
2785
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002786- Issue #7466: Segmentation fault when the garbage collector is called in the
2787 middle of populating a tuple. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
Antoine Pitrou2a08b422009-12-13 16:18:14 +00002788
R. David Murrayc7298ff2009-12-14 21:57:39 +00002789
Benjamin Peterson4f51baf2009-12-05 18:40:02 +00002790Library
2791-------
2792
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002793- Issue #6963: Added "maxtasksperchild" argument to ``multiprocessing.Pool``,
2794 allowing for a maximum number of tasks within the pool to be completed by the
2795 worker before that worker is terminated, and a new one created to replace it.
Jesse Noller654ade32010-01-27 03:05:57 +00002796
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002797- Issue #7617: Make sure distutils.unixccompiler.UnixCCompiler recognizes gcc
2798 when it has a fully qualified configuration prefix. Initial patch by
2799 Arfrever.
Tarek Ziadéc25417f2010-01-08 23:42:23 +00002800
Antoine Pitrou80157252010-01-08 19:20:17 +00002801- Issue #7092: Remove py3k warning when importing cPickle. 2to3 handles
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002802 renaming of `cPickle` to `pickle`. The warning was annoying since there's no
2803 alternative to cPickle if you care about performance. Patch by Florent
Antoine Pitrou80157252010-01-08 19:20:17 +00002804 Xicluna.
2805
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002806- Issue #7455: Fix possible crash in cPickle on invalid input. Patch by Victor
2807 Stinner.
Antoine Pitrou0d423b82010-01-07 17:46:49 +00002808
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002809- Issue #7092: Fix the DeprecationWarnings emitted by the standard library when
2810 using the -3 flag. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
Antoine Pitroub9d49632010-01-04 23:22:44 +00002811
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002812- Issue #7471: Improve the performance of GzipFile's buffering mechanism, and
2813 make it implement the ``io.BufferedIOBase`` ABC to allow for further speedups
2814 by wrapping it in an ``io.BufferedReader``. Patch by Nir Aides.
Antoine Pitrou673ddf92010-01-03 22:29:56 +00002815
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002816- Issue #3972: ``httplib.HTTPConnection`` now accepts an optional source_address
Gregory P. Smith9d325212010-01-03 02:06:07 +00002817 parameter to allow specifying where your connections come from.
2818
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002819- ``socket.create_connection()`` now accepts an optional source_address
2820 parameter.
Gregory P. Smith79a3eb12010-01-03 01:29:44 +00002821
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002822- Issue #5511: ``zipfile.ZipFile`` can now be used as a context manager.
Ezio Melotti569e61f2009-12-30 06:14:51 +00002823 Initial patch by Brian Curtin.
2824
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002825- Distutils now correctly identifies the build architecture as "x86_64" when
2826 building on OSX 10.6 without "-arch" flags.
Ronald Oussorenca8e7ec2009-12-24 14:50:35 +00002827
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002828- Issue #7556: Distutils' msvc9compiler now opens the MSVC Manifest file in text
2829 mode.
Tarek Ziadé0479eb52009-12-21 23:37:44 +00002830
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002831- Issue #7552: Removed line feed in the base64 Authorization header in the
2832 Distutils upload command to avoid an error when PyPI reads it. This occurs on
2833 long passwords. Initial patch by JP St. Pierre.
Tarek Ziadé2421d562009-12-20 23:23:34 +00002834
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002835- Issue #7231: urllib2 cannot handle https with proxy requiring auth. Patch by
2836 Tatsuhiro Tsujikawa.
Senthil Kumaran7713acf2009-12-20 06:05:13 +00002837
Benjamin Petersonddd392c2009-12-13 19:19:07 +00002838- Issue #7349: Make methods of file objects in the io module accept None as an
2839 argument where file-like objects (ie StringIO and BytesIO) accept them to mean
2840 the same as passing no argument.
2841
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002842- Issue #7348: ``StringIO.StringIO.readline(-1)`` now acts as if it got no
2843 argument like other file objects.
Benjamin Petersonc4771d22009-12-13 17:31:31 +00002844
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002845- Issue #7357: tarfile no longer suppresses fatal extraction errors by default.
Lars Gustäbel92ca7562009-12-13 11:32:27 +00002846
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002847- Issue #7470: logging: Fix bug in Unicode encoding fallback.
Vinay Sajip5cc4e2a2009-12-11 09:16:01 +00002848
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002849- Issue #5949: Fixed IMAP4_SSL hang when the IMAP server response is missing
2850 proper end-of-line termination.
R. David Murray93321f32009-12-09 15:15:31 +00002851
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002852- Issue #7457: Added a read_pkg_file method to
2853 ``distutils.dist.DistributionMetadata``.
Benjamin Peterson4f51baf2009-12-05 18:40:02 +00002854
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002855- Issue #3745: Undo the 2.7a1 change to have hashlib to reject unicode and non
2856 buffer API supporting objects as input. That behavior is for 3.x only.
Gregory P. Smithfe32d302010-01-02 22:42:50 +00002857
Georg Brandl740cdc32009-12-28 08:34:58 +00002858C-API
2859-----
2860
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002861- Issue #7767: New function ``PyLong_AsLongLongAndOverflow()`` added, analogous
2862 to ``PyLong_AsLongAndOverflow()``.
Mark Dickinsona36507c2010-01-30 10:08:33 +00002863
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002864- Issue #5080: The argument parsing functions ``PyArg_ParseTuple()``,
2865 ``PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords()``, ``PyArg_VaParse()``,
2866 ``PyArg_VaParseTupleAndKeywords()`` and ``PyArg_Parse()`` no longer accept
2867 float arguments for integer format codes (other than 'L'): previously an
2868 attempt to pass a float resulted in a DeprecationWarning; now it gives a
2869 TypeError. For the 'L' format code (which previously had no warning) there is
2870 now a DeprecationWarning.
Mark Dickinson1b34d252010-01-01 17:27:30 +00002871
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002872- Issue #7033: Function ``PyErr_NewExceptionWithDoc()`` added.
Georg Brandl740cdc32009-12-28 08:34:58 +00002873
Martin v. Löwisb4261d52009-12-21 19:29:59 +00002874Build
2875-----
2876
Benjamin Petersonedfe72f2010-01-01 15:21:13 +00002877- Issue #6491: Allow --with-dbmliborder to specify that no dbms will be built.
2878
Benjamin Petersonb4abef62010-01-01 15:18:38 +00002879- Issue #6943: Use pkg-config to find the libffi headers when the
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002880 ``--with-system-ffi`` flag is used.
Benjamin Petersonb4abef62010-01-01 15:18:38 +00002881
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002882- Issue #7609: Add a ``--with-system-expat`` option that causes the system's
2883 expat library to be used for the pyexpat module instead of the one included
2884 with Python.
Benjamin Peterson2c196742009-12-31 03:17:18 +00002885
Benjamin Peterson500ce232009-12-30 02:58:50 +00002886- Issue #7589: Only build the nis module when the correct header files are
2887 found.
2888
Martin v. Löwisf477b932010-01-02 09:25:21 +00002889- Switch to OpenSSL 0.9.8l and sqlite 3.6.21 on Windows.
R. David Murray93321f32009-12-09 15:15:31 +00002890
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002891- Issue #7541: when using ``python-config`` with a framework install the
2892 compiler might use the wrong library.
Ronald Oussorenb5afe542009-12-24 14:17:19 +00002893
R. David Murrayc7298ff2009-12-14 21:57:39 +00002894Tests
2895-----
2896
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002897- Issue #7376: Instead of running a self-test (which was failing) when called
R. David Murray77e48ba2009-12-20 16:46:06 +00002898 with no arguments, doctest.py now gives a usage message.
2899
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002900- Issue #7396: Fix regrtest -s, which was broken by the -j enhancement.
R. David Murray98e3df32009-12-16 11:49:46 +00002901
R. David Murrayc7298ff2009-12-14 21:57:39 +00002902- Issue #7498: test_multiprocessing now uses test_support.find_unused_port
2903 instead of a hardcoded port number in test_rapid_restart.
2904
2905
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00002906What's New in Python 2.7 alpha 1
2907================================
2908
Benjamin Peterson3513c872009-12-05 18:48:13 +00002909*Release date: 2009-12-05*
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00002910
2911Core and Builtins
2912-----------------
2913
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002914- Issue #7419: ``locale.setlocale()`` could crash the interpreter on Windows
2915 when called with invalid values.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd7288712009-12-01 21:51:04 +00002916
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002917- Issue #3382: 'F' formatting for float and complex now convert the result to
2918 upper case. This only affects 'inf' and 'nan', since 'f' no longer converts
2919 to 'g' for large values.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd7288712009-12-01 21:51:04 +00002920
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002921- Remove switch from "%f" formatting to "%g" formatting for floats larger than
2922 1e50 in absolute value.
Mark Dickinson9dd5e162009-11-23 20:54:09 +00002923
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002924- Remove restrictions on precision when formatting floats. E.g., "%.120g" %
2925 1e-100 used to raise OverflowError, but now gives the requested 120
2926 significant digits instead.
Mark Dickinson18cfada2009-11-23 18:46:41 +00002927
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002928- Add Py3k warnings for parameter names in parentheses.
Benjamin Peterson89b1a5c2009-11-19 22:58:01 +00002929
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002930- Issue #7362: Give a proper error message for ``def f((x)=3): pass``.
Benjamin Peterson89b1a5c2009-11-19 22:58:01 +00002931
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002932- Issue #7085: Fix crash when importing some extensions in a thread on MacOSX
2933 10.6.
Ronald Oussoren315cd0c2009-11-19 16:25:21 +00002934
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002935- Issue #7117: ``repr(x)`` for a float x returns a result based on the shortest
2936 decimal string that's guaranteed to round back to x under correct rounding
2937 (with round-half-to-even rounding mode). Previously it gave a string based on
2938 rounding x to 17 decimal digits. repr(x) for a complex number behaves
2939 similarly. On platforms where the correctly-rounded strtod and dtoa code is
2940 not supported (see below), repr is unchanged.
Mark Dickinsonb678de82009-11-19 18:41:49 +00002941
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002942- Issue #7117: On almost all platforms: float-to-string and string-to-float
2943 conversions within Python are now correctly rounded. Places these conversions
2944 occur include: str for floats and complex numbers; the float and complex
2945 constructors; old-style and new-style numeric formatting; serialization and
2946 deserialization of floats and complex numbers using marshal, pickle and json;
2947 parsing of float and imaginary literals in Python code; Decimal-to-float
2948 conversion.
Mark Dickinsonb678de82009-11-19 18:41:49 +00002949
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002950 The conversions use a Python-adapted version of David Gay's well-known dtoa.c,
2951 providing correctly-rounded strtod and dtoa C functions. This code is
2952 supported on Windows, and on Unix-like platforms using gcc, icc or suncc as
2953 the C compiler. There may be a small number of platforms on which correct
2954 operation of this code cannot be guaranteed, so the code is not used: notably,
2955 this applies to platforms where the C double format is not IEEE 754 binary64,
2956 and to platforms on x86 hardware where the x87 FPU is set to 64-bit precision
2957 and Python's configure script is unable to determine how to change the FPU
2958 precision. On these platforms conversions use the platform strtod and dtoa,
2959 as before.
Mark Dickinsonb678de82009-11-19 18:41:49 +00002960
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002961- Issue #7117: Backport round implementation from Python 3.x. ``round()`` now
2962 uses the correctly-rounded string <-> float conversions described above (when
2963 available), and so produces correctly rounded results that will display nicely
2964 under the float repr. There are two related small changes: (1) round now
2965 accepts any class with an ``__index__()`` method for its second argument (but
2966 no longer accepts floats for the second argument), and (2) an excessively
2967 large second integer argument (e.g., ``round(1.234, 10**100)``) no longer
2968 raises an exception.
Mark Dickinsonbd15a062009-11-18 19:33:35 +00002969
Philip Jenveyfab8be22009-11-17 02:42:26 +00002970- Issue #1757126: Fix the cyrillic-asian alias for the ptcp154 encoding.
2971
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002972- Fix several issues with ``compile()``. The input can now contain Windows and
2973 Mac newlines and is no longer required to end in a newline.
Benjamin Petersone36199b2009-11-12 23:39:44 +00002974
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002975- Remove length limitation when constructing a complex number from a unicode
2976 string.
Mark Dickinsonc04c7c52009-10-26 22:28:14 +00002977
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002978- Issue #7244: ``itertools.izip_longest()`` no longer ignores exceptions raised
2979 during the formation of an output tuple.
Raymond Hettingerfa7dadd2009-11-01 20:45:16 +00002980
Mark Dickinson8d87dc02009-10-25 20:39:06 +00002981- Issue #1087418: Boost performance of bitwise operations for longs.
2982
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002983- Issue #1722344: ``threading._shutdown()`` is now called in ``Py_Finalize()``,
2984 which fixes the problem of some exceptions being thrown at shutdown when the
2985 interpreter is killed. Patch by Adam Olsen.
Antoine Pitrouefb60c02009-10-20 21:29:37 +00002986
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002987- Issue #7168: Document ``PyFloat_AsString()`` and ``PyFloat_AsReprString()``,
2988 and note that they are unsafe and deprecated.
Eric Smithc12781a2009-10-19 14:38:14 +00002989
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002990- Issue #7120: logging: Remove import of multiprocessing which is causing crash
2991 in GAE.
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +00002992
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002993- Issue #7140: The ``__dict__`` of a module should not be cleared unless the
2994 module is the only object holding a reference to it.
Benjamin Peterson196b0922009-10-15 15:44:46 +00002995
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002996- Issue #1754094: Improve the stack depth calculation in the compiler. There
2997 should be no other effect than a small decrease in memory use. Patch by
2998 Christopher Tur Lesniewski-Laas.
Neil Schemenauer7fdd1cb2009-10-14 17:17:14 +00002999
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003000- Issue #7084: Fix a (very unlikely) crash when printing a list from one thread,
3001 and mutating it from another one. Patch by Scott Dial.
Antoine Pitroubeaf6a02009-10-11 21:03:26 +00003002
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd0052d12009-10-06 19:56:32 +00003003- Issue #1571184: The Unicode database contains properties for more characters.
3004 The tables for code points representing numeric values, white spaces or line
3005 breaks are now generated from the official Unicode Character Database files,
3006 and include information from the Unihan.txt file.
3007
Benjamin Peterson7adbb5a2009-10-03 20:23:24 +00003008- Issue #7050: Fix a SystemError when trying to use unpacking and augmented
3009 assignment.
3010
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003011- Issue #5329: Fix ``os.popen*`` regression from 2.5 with commands as a sequence
3012 running through the shell. Patch by Jean-Paul Calderone and Jani Hakala.
Philip Jenvey8b902042009-09-29 19:10:15 +00003013
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003014- Issue #7019: Raise ValueError when unmarshalling bad long data, instead of
3015 producing internally inconsistent Python longs.
Mark Dickinson7e7a3ec2009-09-29 19:01:06 +00003016
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003017- Issue #6990: Fix ``threading.local`` subclasses leaving old state around after
3018 a reference cycle GC which could be recycled by new locals.
Philip Jenveydbf3b252009-09-29 04:32:44 +00003019
Benjamin Peterson9db55402009-09-18 21:47:27 +00003020- Issue #6300: unicode.encode, unicode.decode, str.decode, and str.encode now
Benjamin Peterson332d7212009-09-18 21:14:55 +00003021 take keyword arguments.
3022
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003023- Issue #6922: Fix an infinite loop when trying to decode an invalid UTF-32
3024 stream with a non-raising error handler like "replace" or "ignore".
Georg Brandle9741f32009-09-17 11:28:09 +00003025
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003026- Issue #6713: Improve performance of base 10 int -> string and long -> string
3027 conversions.
Mark Dickinsonaa2adc82009-09-16 22:10:56 +00003028
Thomas Wouters2920adb2009-09-16 20:36:34 +00003029- Issue #1590864: Fix potential deadlock when mixing threads and fork().
3030
Georg Brandl0674d3f2009-09-16 20:30:09 +00003031- Issue #6844: Do not emit DeprecationWarnings when accessing a "message"
3032 attribute on exceptions that was set explicitly.
3033
Mark Dickinsonc8a7c7c2009-09-06 10:03:31 +00003034- Issue #6846: Fix bug where bytearray.pop() returns negative integers.
3035
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003036- ``classmethod()`` no longer checks if its argument is callable.
Benjamin Peterson6fcf9b52009-09-01 22:27:57 +00003037
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003038- Issue #6750: A text file opened with ``io.open()`` could duplicate its output
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfff896b2009-08-29 18:14:40 +00003039 when writing from multiple threads at the same time.
3040
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003041- Issue #6704: Improve the col_offset in AST for "for" statements with a target
3042 of tuple unpacking.
Benjamin Petersonc0ba8282009-08-15 22:59:21 +00003043
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003044- Issue #6707: ``dir()`` on an uninitialized module caused a crash.
Benjamin Peterson4c6e8082009-08-15 13:16:38 +00003045
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003046- Issue #6540: Fixed crash for ``bytearray.translate()`` with invalid parameters.
Georg Brandlec812ca2009-07-22 11:57:15 +00003047
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003048- Issue #6573: ``set.union()`` stopped processing inputs if an instance of self
Raymond Hettingerc2b9e1a2009-07-27 20:32:04 +00003049 occurred in the argument chain.
3050
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc9d11fef2009-07-13 20:03:21 +00003051- Issue #1616979: Added the cp720 (Arabic DOS) encoding.
3052
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003053- Issue #6070: On posix platforms import no longer copies the execute bit from
3054 the .py file to the .pyc file if it is set. Patch by Marco N.
R. David Murray23a736a2009-07-07 01:06:13 +00003055
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003056- Issue #4618: When unicode arguments are passed to ``print()``, the default
Benjamin Peterson753d1622009-07-02 18:16:45 +00003057 separator and end should be unicode also.
3058
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00003059- Issue #6119: Fixed an incorrect Py3k warning about order comparisons of
3060 built-in functions and methods.
Benjamin Peterson1bf47652009-07-02 17:06:17 +00003061
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003062- Issue #6347: Include inttypes.h as well as stdint.h in pyport.h. This fixes a
3063 build failure on HP-UX: int32_t and uint32_t are defined in inttypes.h instead
3064 of stdint.h on that platform.
Mark Dickinson2f865b92009-06-30 15:32:30 +00003065
Hirokazu Yamamotoa3c56092009-06-28 10:23:00 +00003066- Issue #4856: Remove checks for win NT.
3067
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc595f7a52009-06-25 22:29:29 +00003068- Issue #2016: Fixed a crash in a corner case where the dictionary of keyword
3069 arguments could be modified during the function call setup.
3070
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc14fc6732009-06-23 21:09:09 +00003071- Removed the ipaddr module.
3072
Raymond Hettinger62641e92009-06-23 20:59:43 +00003073- Issue #6329: Fixed iteration for memoryview objects (it was being blocked
3074 because it wasn't recognized as a sequence).
3075
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003076- Issue #6289: Encoding errors from ``compile()`` were being masked.
Benjamin Peterson08a0bbc2009-06-16 00:29:31 +00003077
Benjamin Petersona72be3b2009-06-13 20:23:33 +00003078- When no module is given in a relative import, the module field of the
3079 ImportFrom AST node is now None instead of an empty string.
3080
Benjamin Peterson565e1b62009-06-13 03:46:30 +00003081- Assignment to None using import statements now raises a SyntaxError.
3082
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003083- Issue #4547: When debugging a very large function, it was not always possible
3084 to update the lineno attribute of the current frame.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcb02ceda2009-06-01 20:53:18 +00003085
Antoine Pitrou46dbe272009-05-30 21:27:00 +00003086- Issue #5330: C functions called with keyword arguments were not reported by
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003087 the various profiling modules (profile, cProfile). Patch by Hagen Fürstenau.
Antoine Pitrou46dbe272009-05-30 21:27:00 +00003088
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003089- Issue #5982: staticmethod and classmethod now expose the wrapped function with
3090 ``__func__``.
Raymond Hettinger578a2282009-05-29 04:58:52 +00003091
Raymond Hettinger822b87f2009-05-29 01:46:48 +00003092- Added support for multiple context managers in the same with-statement.
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003093 Deprecated ``contextlib.nested()`` which is no longer needed.
Georg Brandl944f6842009-05-25 21:02:56 +00003094
Benjamin Peterson1880d8b2009-05-25 13:13:44 +00003095- Issue #6101: A new opcode, SETUP_WITH, has been added to speed up the with
3096 statement and correctly lookup the __enter__ and __exit__ special methods.
3097
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003098- Issue #5829: complex("1e500") no longer raises OverflowError. This makes it
3099 consistent with float("1e500") and interpretation of real and imaginary
3100 literals.
Mark Dickinsona4e0efa2009-05-20 18:43:07 +00003101
Hirokazu Yamamotoa4f90182009-05-17 02:58:36 +00003102- Issue #3527: Removed Py_WIN_WIDE_FILENAMES which is not used any more.
3103
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003104- ``__instancecheck__()`` and ``__subclasscheck__()`` are now completely ignored
3105 on classic classes and instances.
Benjamin Petersoneb9fb2c2009-05-16 22:46:11 +00003106
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003107- Issue #5994: The marshal module now has docstrings.
R. David Murray525cffc2009-05-13 13:07:14 +00003108
Mark Dickinsonb1d45852009-05-11 15:33:08 +00003109- Issue #5981: Fix three minor inf/nan issues in float.fromhex:
Mark Dickinsonb1d45852009-05-11 15:33:08 +00003110
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003111 (1) inf and nan strings with trailing whitespace were incorrectly rejected;
3112 (2) parsing of strings representing infinities and nans was locale aware; and
3113 (3) the interpretation of fromhex('-nan') didn't match that of float('-nan').
Eric Smitha985a3a2009-05-05 18:26:08 +00003114
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003115- Issue #5920: For ``float.__format__()``, change the behavior with the empty
3116 presentation type (that is, not one of 'e', 'f', 'g', or 'n') to be like 'g'
3117 but with at least one decimal point and with a default precision
3118 of 12. Previously, the behavior the same but with a default precision of 6.
3119 This more closely matches ``str()``, and reduces surprises when adding
3120 alignment flags to the empty presentation type. This also affects the new
3121 complex.__format__ in the same way.
3122
3123- Issue #5890: In subclasses of 'property' the __doc__ attribute was shadowed by
3124 classtype's, even if it was None. property now inserts the __doc__ into the
3125 subclass instance __dict__.
R. David Murray7ba8e1c2009-05-04 22:16:24 +00003126
Antoine Pitrou653dece2009-05-04 18:32:32 +00003127- Issue #4426: The UTF-7 decoder was too strict and didn't accept some legal
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003128 sequences. Patch by Nick Barnes and Victor Stinner.
Antoine Pitrou653dece2009-05-04 18:32:32 +00003129
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003130- Issue #1588: Add complex.__format__. For example, ``format(complex(1, 2./3),
3131 '.5')`` now produces a sensible result.
Eric Smith9139cc62009-04-30 00:58:58 +00003132
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003133- Issue #5864: Fix empty format code formatting for floats so that it never
3134 gives more than the requested number of significant digits.
Mark Dickinson92fcc9c2009-04-29 20:41:00 +00003135
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003136- Issue #5793: Rationalize isdigit / isalpha / tolower, etc. Includes new
3137 Py_ISDIGIT / Py_ISALPHA / Py_TOLOWER, etc. in pctypes.h.
Eric Smithcac7af62009-04-27 19:04:37 +00003138
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003139- Issue #4971: Fix titlecase for characters that are their own titlecase, but
3140 not their own uppercase.
Martin v. Löwis99f27792009-04-26 00:53:18 +00003141
Eric Smith068f0652009-04-25 21:40:15 +00003142- Issue #5835: Deprecate PyOS_ascii_formatd and replace it with
3143 _PyOS_double_to_string or PyOS_double_to_string.
3144
Benjamin Peterson5083dc52009-04-25 00:41:22 +00003145- Issue #5283: Setting __class__ in __del__ caused a segfault.
3146
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003147- Issue #5816: ``complex(repr(z))`` now recovers z exactly, even when z involves
3148 nans, infs or negative zeros.
Mark Dickinson95bc9802009-04-24 12:46:53 +00003149
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003150- Implement PEP 378, Format Specifier for Thousands Separator, for floats, ints,
3151 and longs.
Eric Smithaca19e62009-04-22 13:29:05 +00003152
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003153- Issue #5515: 'n' formatting for ints, longs, and floats handles leading zero
3154 formatting poorly.
Eric Smithaca19e62009-04-22 13:29:05 +00003155
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003156- Issue #5772: For float.__format__, don't add a trailing ".0" if we're using no
3157 type code and we have an exponent.
Eric Smithaca19e62009-04-22 13:29:05 +00003158
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003159- Issue #3166: Make long -> float (and int -> float) conversions correctly
3160 rounded.
Mark Dickinson6736cf82009-04-20 21:13:33 +00003161
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003162- Issue #5787: ``object.__getattribute__(some_type, "__bases__")`` segfaulted on
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00003163 some built-in types.
Benjamin Petersond4d400c2009-04-18 20:12:47 +00003164
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003165- Issue #1869: Fix a couple of minor round() issues. ``round(5e15+1)`` was
3166 giving 5e15+2; ``round(-0.0)`` was losing the sign of the zero.
Mark Dickinson1bdf7e92009-04-18 14:59:42 +00003167
Benjamin Peterson99d36f12009-04-15 21:26:36 +00003168- Issue #5759: float() didn't call __float__ on str subclasses.
3169
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003170- Issue #5704: The "-3" command-line option now implies "-t".
Georg Brandl3c4a5462009-04-12 12:08:12 +00003171
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003172- Issue #2170: Refactored ``xml.dom.minidom.normalize``, increasing both its
3173 clarity and its speed.
R. David Murray0374a822009-04-09 21:54:50 +00003174
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003175- Issue #2396: The memoryview object was backported from Python 3.1.
Antoine Pitrou789be0c2009-04-02 21:18:34 +00003176
Georg Brandld3f03fa2009-04-02 18:09:04 +00003177- Fix a problem in PyErr_NormalizeException that leads to "undetected errors"
3178 when hitting the recursion limit under certain circumstances.
3179
Brett Cannon15ba4da2009-04-01 18:03:59 +00003180- Issue #1665206: Remove the last eager import in _warnings.c and make it lazy.
3181
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003182- Issue #4865: On MacOSX /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages is added to the end
3183 sys.path, for compatibility with the system install of Python.
Ronald Oussorene0154ed2009-03-30 23:10:35 +00003184
Antoine Pitrouf8387af2009-03-23 18:41:45 +00003185- Issue #4688: Add a heuristic so that tuples and dicts containing only
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003186 untrackable objects are not tracked by the garbage collector. This can reduce
3187 the size of collections and therefore the garbage collection overhead on
3188 long-running programs, depending on their particular use of datatypes.
Antoine Pitrouf8387af2009-03-23 18:41:45 +00003189
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003190- Issue #5512: Rewrite PyLong long division algorithm (x_divrem) to improve its
3191 performance. Long divisions and remainder operations are now between 50% and
3192 150% faster.
Mark Dickinson0b666bf2009-03-23 18:25:13 +00003193
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003194- Issue #4258: Make it possible to use base 2**30 instead of base 2**15 for the
3195 internal representation of integers, for performance reasons. Base 2**30 is
3196 enabled by default on 64-bit machines. Add --enable-big-digits option to
3197 configure, which overrides the default. Add sys.long_info structseq to
3198 provide information about the internal format.
Mark Dickinsonefc82f72009-03-20 15:51:55 +00003199
Benjamin Peterson6ffe8522009-03-18 20:52:15 +00003200- Issue #4034: Fix weird attribute error messages of the traceback object. (As a
3201 result traceback.__members__ no longer exists.)
3202
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003203- Issue #4474: PyUnicode_FromWideChar now converts characters outside the BMP to
3204 surrogate pairs, on systems with sizeof(wchar_t) == 4 and sizeof(Py_UNICODE)
3205 == 2.
Mark Dickinson6b265f12009-03-18 16:07:26 +00003206
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003207- Issue #5237: Allow auto-numbered fields in str.format(). For example: ``'{}
3208 {}'.format(1, 2) == '1 2'``.
Eric Smith6f42edb2009-03-14 11:57:26 +00003209
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003210- Issue #3652: Make the 'line' argument for ``warnings.showwarning()`` a
Brett Cannon6c4cff02009-03-11 04:51:06 +00003211 requirement. Means the DeprecationWarning from Python 2.6 can go away.
3212
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003213- Issue #5247: Improve error message when unknown format codes are used when
3214 using ``str.format()`` with str, unicode, long, int, and float arguments.
Eric Smithe9fb6862009-02-20 14:02:36 +00003215
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003216- Running Python with the -3 option now also warns about classic division for
3217 ints and longs.
Raymond Hettinger08259e82009-02-18 23:10:19 +00003218
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003219- Issue #5260: Long integers now consume less memory: average saving is 2 bytes
3220 per long on a 32-bit system and 6 bytes per long on a 64-bit system.
Mark Dickinson2ffb26f2009-02-15 10:13:41 +00003221
Antoine Pitrou76a4b892009-02-13 13:52:33 +00003222- Issue #5186: Reduce hash collisions for objects with no __hash__ method by
3223 rotating the object pointer by 4 bits to the right.
3224
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003225- Issue #4575: Fix Py_IS_INFINITY macro to work correctly on x87 FPUs: it now
3226 forces its argument to double before testing for infinity.
Mark Dickinsonc97c9092009-02-09 14:18:43 +00003227
Benjamin Petersone18ef192009-01-20 14:21:16 +00003228- Issue #4978: Passing keyword arguments as unicode strings is now allowed.
3229
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +00003230- Issue #1242657: the __len__() and __length_hint__() calls in several tools
Raymond Hettingerb5163702009-02-02 21:50:13 +00003231 were suppressing all exceptions. These include list(), filter(), map(),
3232 zip(), and bytearray().
3233
Benjamin Peterson596d3062009-01-19 15:42:23 +00003234- os.ftruncate raises OSErrors instead of IOErrors for consistency with other os
3235 functions.
3236
Benjamin Peterson5848d1f2009-01-19 00:08:08 +00003237- Issue #4991: Passing invalid file descriptors to io.FileIO now raises an
3238 OSError.
3239
Amaury Forgeot d'Arca18392a2009-01-13 23:19:08 +00003240- Issue #4807: Port the _winreg module to Windows CE.
3241
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003242- Issue #4935: The overflow checking code in the expandtabs() method common to
3243 str, bytes and bytearray could be optimized away by the compiler, letting the
3244 interpreter segfault instead of raising an error.
Antoine Pitrouc2f02212009-01-13 23:13:52 +00003245
Amaury Forgeot d'Arca40d5732009-01-12 23:36:55 +00003246- Issue #3720: Fix a crash when an iterator modifies its class and removes its
3247 __next__ method.
3248
Martin v. Löwise3422fa2009-01-12 08:11:24 +00003249- Issue #4893: Use NT threading on CE.
3250
Martin v. Löwis1b3bef22009-01-12 07:57:11 +00003251- Issue #4915: Port sysmodule to Windows CE.
3252
Antoine Pitrou4c5ecb72009-01-09 21:40:55 +00003253- Issue #4074: Change the criteria for doing a full garbage collection (i.e.
3254 collecting the oldest generation) so that allocating lots of objects without
3255 destroying them does not show quadratic performance. Based on a proposal by
Benjamin Petersond50a5d52009-07-13 00:03:20 +00003256 Martin von Löwis at
Antoine Pitrou4c5ecb72009-01-09 21:40:55 +00003257 http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2008-June/080579.html.
3258
Martin v. Löwisb90304a2009-01-07 18:40:40 +00003259- Issue #4850: Change COUNT_ALLOCS variables to Py_ssize_t.
3260
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003261- Issue #1180193: When importing a module from a .pyc (or .pyo) file with an
3262 existing .py counterpart, override the co_filename attributes of all code
3263 objects if the original filename is obsolete (which can happen if the file has
3264 been renamed, moved, or if it is accessed through different paths). Patch by
3265 Ziga Seilnacht and Jean-Paul Calderone.
Antoine Pitroue96d4ea2009-01-06 18:10:47 +00003266
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003267- Issue #4075: Use ``OutputDebugStringW()`` in Py_FatalError.
Martin v. Löwis5344c992009-01-02 20:32:55 +00003268
Hirokazu Yamamoto99a1b202009-01-01 15:45:39 +00003269- Issue #4797: IOError.filename was not set when _fileio.FileIO failed to open
3270 file with `str' filename on Windows.
3271
Antoine Pitrouaa687902009-01-01 14:11:22 +00003272- Issue #3680: Reference cycles created through a dict, set or deque iterator
3273 did not get collected.
3274
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003275- Issue #4701: PyObject_Hash now implicitly calls PyType_Ready on types where
3276 the tp_hash and tp_dict slots are both NULL.
Nick Coghlan180e4002008-12-30 01:18:48 +00003277
Benjamin Peterson7af65562008-12-29 17:56:58 +00003278- Issue #4764: With io.open, IOError.filename is set when trying to open a
3279 directory on POSIX systems.
3280
Benjamin Petersonfe231b02008-12-29 17:47:42 +00003281- Issue #4764: IOError.filename is set when trying to open a directory on POSIX
3282 systems.
3283
Georg Brandl6425a2f2008-12-28 11:54:53 +00003284- Issue #4759: None is now allowed as the first argument of
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003285 ``bytearray.translate()``. It was always allowed for ``bytes.translate()``.
Georg Brandl6425a2f2008-12-28 11:54:53 +00003286
Skip Montanarof205c132008-12-23 03:30:15 +00003287- Added test case to ensure attempts to read from a file opened for writing
3288 fail.
3289
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003290- Issue #2467: gc.DEBUG_STATS reported invalid elapsed times. Also, always print
3291 elapsed times, not only when some objects are uncollectable/unreachable.
3292 Original patch by Neil Schemenauer.
Antoine Pitrou73c0e652008-12-17 22:46:54 +00003293
Mark Dickinson1a707982008-12-17 16:14:37 +00003294- Issue #3439: Add a bit_length method to int and long.
3295
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003296- Issue #2183: Simplify and optimize bytecode for list comprehensions. Original
3297 patch by Neal Norwitz.
Antoine Pitroud0c35152008-12-17 00:38:28 +00003298
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003299- Issue #4597: Fixed exception handling when the __exit__ function of a context
3300 manager returns a value that cannot be converted to a bool.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcad9b5992008-12-10 23:22:49 +00003301
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003302- Issue #4597: Fixed several opcodes that weren't always propagating exceptions.
Jeffrey Yasskinffd42cf2008-12-10 07:35:02 +00003303
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003304- Issue #4445: Replace ``sizeof(PyStringObject)`` with
3305 ``offsetof(PyStringObject, ob_sval) + 1`` when allocating memory for str
3306 instances. On a typical machine this saves 3 bytes of memory (on average) per
3307 string allocation.
Mark Dickinson826f3fe2008-12-05 21:55:28 +00003308
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcdc619012008-11-22 20:01:18 +00003309- Issue #3996: On Windows, the PyOS_CheckStack function would cause the
3310 interpreter to abort ("Fatal Python error: Could not reset the stack!")
3311 instead of throwing a MemoryError.
3312
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003313- Issue #3689: The list reversed iterator now supports __length_hint__ instead
3314 of __len__. Behavior now matches other reversed iterators.
Raymond Hettinger7989a4d2008-12-03 15:42:10 +00003315
Benjamin Petersonc078f922008-11-21 22:27:24 +00003316- Issue #4367: Python would segfault during compiling when the unicodedata
3317 module couldn't be imported and \N escapes were present.
3318
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003319- Issue #4233: Changed semantic of ``_fileio.FileIO``'s ``close()`` method on
3320 file objects with closefd=False. The file descriptor is still kept open but
3321 the file object behaves like a closed file. The ``FileIO`` object also got a
3322 new readonly attribute ``closefd``.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc32265652008-11-20 23:34:31 +00003323
Benjamin Peterson46cc6d12008-11-19 21:49:09 +00003324- Issue #4348: Some bytearray methods returned that didn't cause any change to
3325 the bytearray, returned the same bytearray instead of a copy.
3326
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003327- Issue #4317: Fixed a crash in the ``imageop.rgb2rgb8()`` function.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc7cfe7ea2008-11-18 22:19:37 +00003328
Benjamin Peterson273c2332008-11-17 22:39:09 +00003329- Issue #4230: If ``__getattr__`` is a descriptor, it now functions correctly.
3330
Benjamin Peterson6624a9f2008-11-03 15:14:51 +00003331- Issue #4048: The parser module now correctly validates relative imports.
3332
Benjamin Petersondcee09d2008-10-31 02:16:05 +00003333- Issue #4225: ``from __future__ import unicode_literals`` didn't work in an
3334 exec statement.
3335
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003336- Issue #4176: Fixed a crash when pickling an object which ``__reduce__`` method
3337 does not return iterators for the 4th and 5th items.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc69a9c5b2008-10-30 21:18:34 +00003338
Benjamin Petersonbdca9422008-10-26 20:21:13 +00003339- Issue #4209: Enabling unicode_literals and the print_function in the same
3340 __future__ import didn't work.
3341
Benjamin Peterson399b1fe2008-10-25 02:53:28 +00003342- Using ``nonlocal`` as a variable name will now raise a Py3k SyntaxWarning
Georg Brandl7fb00ad2008-10-25 07:00:52 +00003343 because it is a reserved word in 3.x.
Benjamin Peterson399b1fe2008-10-25 02:53:28 +00003344
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003345- On windows, ``os.chdir()`` given unicode was not working if
3346 GetCurrentDirectoryW returned a path longer than MAX_PATH. (But It's doubtful
3347 this code path is really executed because I cannot move to such directory on
3348 win2k)
Hirokazu Yamamoto10a018c2008-10-09 10:00:30 +00003349
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003350- Issue #4069: When ``set.remove(element)`` is used with a set element, the
3351 element is temporarily replaced with an equivalent frozenset. But the
3352 eventual KeyError would always report the empty ``frozenset()`` as the missing
3353 key. Now it correctly refers to the initial element.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd78b9dc2008-10-07 20:32:10 +00003354
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003355- Issue #4509: Various issues surrounding resize of bytearray objects to which
3356 there are buffer exports.
Antoine Pitrouae5bece2008-12-06 21:29:24 +00003357
Benjamin Peterson8d5934b2008-12-27 18:24:11 +00003358- Issue #4748: Lambda generators no longer return a value.
3359
Kristján Valur Jónsson6220e412009-01-12 09:20:34 +00003360- Issue #3582: Use native TLS functions on Windows
3361
Gregory P. Smithae91d092009-03-02 05:13:57 +00003362- The re.sub(), re.subn() and re.split() functions now accept a flags parameter.
3363
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003364- Issue #3845: In PyRun_SimpleFileExFlags avoid invalid memory access with short
3365 file names.
Matthias Kloseedb5e1e2009-04-04 14:18:13 +00003366
Matthias Klose91a3b9e2009-04-05 21:19:13 +00003367- Issue #1113244: Py_XINCREF, Py_DECREF, Py_XDECREF: Add `do { ... } while (0)'
3368 to avoid compiler warnings.
Matthias Klose0610e082009-04-05 12:43:08 +00003369
Gregory P. Smith2b3eb372009-04-05 23:48:26 +00003370- Issue #5705: os.setuid() would not accept values > 2**31-1 but pwd.getpwnam()
3371 returned them on 64bit platforms.
3372
Walter Dörwalded960ac2009-05-03 22:36:33 +00003373- Issue #5108: Handle %s like %S and %R in PyUnicode_FromFormatV(): Call
3374 PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8() once, remember the result and output it in a second
3375 step. This avoids problems with counting UTF-8 bytes that ignores the effect
3376 of using the replace error handler in PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8().
3377
Walter Dörwald726ba8e2009-05-06 14:32:35 +00003378- Issue #3739: The unicode-internal encoder now reports the number of characters
3379 consumed like any other encoder (instead of the number of bytes).
3380
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003381- Issue #2422: When compiled with the ``--with-valgrind`` option, the pymalloc
3382 allocator will be automatically disabled when running under Valgrind. This
3383 gives improved memory leak detection when running under Valgrind, while taking
3384 advantage of pymalloc at other times.
Benjamin Peterson91c12eb2009-12-03 02:52:39 +00003385
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00003386Library
3387-------
Benjamin Petersonb3dd5482009-02-26 19:07:18 +00003388
Raymond Hettinger5f516ed2010-04-03 18:10:37 +00003389- Add count() and reverse() methods to collections.deque().
Raymond Hettingera5fd24e2009-12-10 06:42:54 +00003390
Raymond Hettinger0b3263b2009-12-10 06:00:33 +00003391- Fix variations of extending deques: d.extend(d) d.extendleft(d) d+=d
3392
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003393- Issue #6986: Fix crash in the JSON C accelerator when called with the wrong
3394 parameter types. Patch by Victor Stinner.
Antoine Pitrou187177f2009-12-08 15:40:51 +00003395
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003396- logging: Added optional "secure" parameter to SMTPHandler, to enable use of
Vinay Sajip48305662009-12-06 17:57:11 +00003397 TLS with authentication credentials.
3398
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003399- Issue #1923: Fixed the removal of meaningful spaces when PKG-INFO is generated
3400 in Distutils. Patch by Stephen Emslie.
Tarek Ziadé4f383172009-12-06 09:22:40 +00003401
Martin v. Löwisc218a2f2009-12-03 20:53:51 +00003402- Issue #4120: Drop reference to CRT from manifest when building extensions with
3403 msvc9compiler.
3404
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003405- Issue #7333: The ``posix`` module gains an ``initgroups()`` function providing
3406 access to the initgroups(3) C library call on Unix systems which implement it.
3407 Patch by Jean-Paul Calderone.
Antoine Pitrou30b3b352009-12-02 20:37:54 +00003408
Tarek Ziadéa5076a22009-11-29 22:20:30 +00003409- Issue #7408: Fixed distutils.tests.sdist so it doesn't check for group
3410 ownership when the group is not forced, because the group may be different
3411 from the user's group and inherit from its container when the test is run.
3412
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003413- Issue #1515: Enable use of deepcopy() with instance methods. Patch by Robert
3414 Collins.
Antoine Pitroud16f57b2009-11-28 15:55:58 +00003415
Vinay Sajip01801d12009-11-27 14:03:36 +00003416- Issue #7403: logging: Fixed possible race condition in lock creation.
3417
Antoine Pitrouacbe3bd2009-11-27 13:18:34 +00003418- Issue #6845: Add restart support for binary upload in ftplib. The
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003419 ``storbinary()`` method of FTP and FTP_TLS objects gains an optional "rest"
Antoine Pitrouacbe3bd2009-11-27 13:18:34 +00003420 argument. Patch by Pablo Mouzo.
3421
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003422- Issue #5788: ``datetime.timedelta`` objects get a new ``total_seconds()``
3423 method returning the total number of seconds in the duration. Patch by Brian
3424 Quinlan.
Antoine Pitroubcfaf802009-11-25 22:59:36 +00003425
Vinay Sajipc470d682009-11-25 09:03:30 +00003426- Issue #6615: logging: Used weakrefs in internal handler list.
3427
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003428- Issue #1488943: ``difflib.Differ`` doesn't always add hints for tab
3429 characters.
Senthil Kumaran5c456e62009-11-23 18:41:31 +00003430
Lars Gustäbeldd866d52009-11-22 18:30:53 +00003431- Issue #6123: tarfile now opens empty archives correctly and consistently
3432 raises ReadError on empty files.
3433
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003434- Issue #7354: distutils.tests.test_msvc9compiler - dragfullwindows can be 2.
Tarek Ziadé39de1fc2009-11-19 05:33:16 +00003435
Ezio Melotti3373a3a2010-01-16 18:38:01 +00003436- Issue #5037: Proxy the __unicode__ special method to __unicode__ instead of
3437 __str__.
Benjamin Petersondc3c2392009-11-19 03:00:02 +00003438
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003439- Issue #7341: Close the internal file object in the TarFile constructor in case
3440 of an error.
Lars Gustäbel355538e2009-11-18 20:24:54 +00003441
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003442- Issue #7293: ``distutils.test_msvc9compiler`` is fixed to work on any fresh
3443 Windows box. Help provided by David Bolen.
Tarek Ziadéacccafc2009-11-18 08:46:56 +00003444
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003445- Issue #7328: pydoc no longer corrupts sys.path when run with the '-m' switch.
Nick Coghlan11db64e2009-11-15 22:36:47 +00003446
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003447- Issue #2054: ftplib now provides an FTP_TLS class to do secure FTP using TLS
3448 or SSL. Patch by Giampaolo Rodola'.
Antoine Pitrouccd5e022009-11-15 17:22:09 +00003449
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003450- Issue #4969: The mimetypes module now reads the MIME database from the
3451 registry under Windows. Patch by Gabriel Genellina.
Antoine Pitroud5b34d42009-11-15 14:10:48 +00003452
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003453- Issue #6816: runpy now provides a run_path function that allows Python code to
3454 execute file paths that refer to source or compiled Python files as well as
3455 zipfiles, directories and other valid sys.path entries that contain a
Nick Coghlan49868cb2009-11-15 07:30:34 +00003456 __main__.py file. This allows applications that run other Python scripts to
3457 support the same flexibility as the CPython command line itself.
3458
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003459- Issue #7318: multiprocessing now uses a timeout when it fails to establish a
3460 connection with another process, rather than looping endlessly. The default
3461 timeout is 20 seconds, which should be amply sufficient for local connections.
Antoine Pitrouc562ca42009-11-13 22:31:18 +00003462
Antoine Pitrou0734c632009-11-10 20:49:30 +00003463- Issue #7197: Allow unittest.TextTestRunner objects to be pickled and
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003464 unpickled. This fixes crashes under Windows when trying to run
Antoine Pitrou0734c632009-11-10 20:49:30 +00003465 test_multiprocessing in verbose mode.
3466
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003467- Issue #7282: Fix a memory leak when an RLock was used in a thread other than
3468 those started through ``threading.Thread`` (for example, using
3469 ``thread.start_new_thread()``.
Antoine Pitroud7158d42009-11-09 16:00:11 +00003470
Antoine Pitrou99c160b2009-11-05 13:42:29 +00003471- Issue #7264: Fix a possible deadlock when deallocating thread-local objects
3472 which are part of a reference cycle.
3473
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003474- Issue #7211: Allow 64-bit values for the ``ident`` and ``data`` fields of
3475 kevent objects on 64-bit systems. Patch by Michael Broghton.
Antoine Pitrou323b9da2009-11-04 19:25:14 +00003476
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003477- Issue #6896: ``mailbox.Maildir`` now invalidates its internal cache each time
Antoine Pitrouaec41242009-11-02 11:34:27 +00003478 a modification is done through it. This fixes inconsistencies and test
3479 failures on systems with slightly bogus mtime behaviour.
3480
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003481- Issue #7246 & Issue #7208: getpass now properly flushes input before reading
3482 from stdin so that existing input does not confuse it and lead to incorrect
3483 entry or an IOError. It also properly flushes it afterwards to avoid the
3484 terminal echoing the input afterwards on OSes such as Solaris.
Gregory P. Smith38f5d8f2009-11-01 18:33:55 +00003485
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003486- Issue #7233: Fix a number of two-argument Decimal methods to make sure that
3487 they accept an int or long as the second argument. Also fix buggy handling of
3488 large arguments (those with coefficient longer than the current precision) in
3489 shift and rotate.
Mark Dickinson0c673122009-10-29 12:04:00 +00003490
Lars Gustäbel8c06ccc2009-10-29 09:15:00 +00003491- Issue #4750: Store the basename of the original filename in the gzip FNAME
3492 header as required by RFC 1952.
3493
Tarek Ziadé40b998b2009-10-27 23:06:10 +00003494- Issue #1180: Added a new global option to ignore ~/.pydistutils.cfg in
3495 Distutils.
3496
Tarek Ziadéd24cab82009-10-27 21:20:27 +00003497- Issue #7218: Fix test_site for win32, the directory comparison was done with
3498 an uppercase.
3499
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003500- Issue #7205: Fix a possible deadlock when using a BZ2File object from several
3501 threads at once.
Antoine Pitroudd629662009-10-27 17:41:58 +00003502
Tarek Ziadéb9c1cfc2009-10-24 15:10:37 +00003503- Issue #7071: byte-compilation in Distutils is now done with respect to
3504 sys.dont_write_bytecode.
3505
Vinay Sajipc470d682009-11-25 09:03:30 +00003506- Issue #7066: archive_util.make_archive now restores the cwd if an error is
Tarek Ziadé672422a2009-10-24 13:29:44 +00003507 raised. Initial patch by Ezio Melotti.
3508
Antoine Pitroufa94e802009-10-24 12:23:18 +00003509- Issue #6218: io.StringIO and io.BytesIO instances are now picklable with
3510 protocol 2.
3511
Vinay Sajip5ac65282009-10-21 20:22:14 +00003512- Issue #7077: logging: SysLogHandler now treats Unicode as per RFC 5424.
3513
Mark Dickinsona7a52ab2009-10-20 13:33:03 +00003514- Issue #7099: Decimal.is_normal now returns True for numbers with exponent
3515 larger than emax.
3516
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003517- Issue #5833: Fix extra space character in readline completion with the GNU
3518 readline library version 6.0.
Antoine Pitroue0899802009-10-19 18:20:21 +00003519
Antoine Pitrou5ba84912009-10-19 17:59:07 +00003520- Issue #7133: SSL objects now support the new buffer API.
3521
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003522- Issue #7149: urllib fails on OSX in the proxy detection code.
Ronald Oussoren31802d02009-10-18 07:07:00 +00003523
Benjamin Petersonc63457b2009-10-15 03:06:55 +00003524- Issue #7069: Make inspect.isabstract() return a boolean.
3525
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003526- Add support to the ``ihooks`` module for relative imports.
Neil Schemenauere6039f02009-10-14 19:23:53 +00003527
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003528- Issue #6894: Fixed the issue urllib2 doesn't respect "no_proxy" environment.
Senthil Kumaran27468662009-10-11 02:00:07 +00003529
Vinay Sajip1c77b7f2009-10-10 20:32:36 +00003530- Issue #7086: Added TCP support to SysLogHandler, and tidied up some
3531 anachronisms in the code which were a relic of 1.5.2 compatibility.
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +00003532
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003533- Issue #7082: When falling back to the MIME 'name' parameter, the correct place
3534 to look for it is the Content-Type header.
R. David Murray0c8bee62009-10-09 21:50:54 +00003535
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003536- Issue #7048: Force Decimal.logb to round its result when that result is too
3537 large to fit in the current precision.
Mark Dickinson15ae41c2009-10-07 19:22:05 +00003538
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +00003539- Issue #6516: Added owner/group support when creating tar archives in
Tarek Ziadé1b486712009-10-02 23:49:48 +00003540 Distutils.
3541
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003542- Issue #7031: Add ``TestCase.assert(Not)IsInstance()`` methods.
Georg Brandl12fafe62009-10-01 21:02:39 +00003543
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003544- Issue #6790: Make it possible again to pass an ``array.array`` to
3545 ``httplib.HTTPConnection.send``. Patch by Kirk McDonald.
Antoine Pitrou72481782009-09-29 17:48:18 +00003546
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003547- Issue #6236, #6348: Fix various failures in the `io` module under AIX and
3548 other platforms, when using a non-gcc compiler. Patch by egreen.
Antoine Pitrou2a466582009-09-21 21:17:48 +00003549
Tarek Ziadé99773352009-09-21 13:41:08 +00003550- Issue #6954: Fixed crash when using DISTUTILS_DEBUG flag in Distutils.
3551
Ronald Oussoren51f06332009-09-20 10:31:22 +00003552- Issue #6851: Fix urllib.urlopen crash on secondairy threads on OSX 10.6
3553
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003554- Issue #4606: Passing 'None' if ctypes argtype is set to POINTER(...) does now
3555 always result in NULL.
Thomas Heller6be522b2009-09-18 20:05:44 +00003556
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003557- Issue #5042: ctypes Structure sub-subclass does now initialize correctly with
3558 base class positional arguments.
Thomas Heller7a352c02009-09-18 18:55:17 +00003559
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003560- Issue #6938: Fix a TypeError in string formatting of a multiprocessing debug
3561 message.
Georg Brandlc40e60e2009-09-18 09:18:27 +00003562
Matthias Klose924eab62009-09-13 15:09:24 +00003563- Issue #6635: Fix profiler printing usage message.
3564
Lars Gustäbel21121e62009-09-12 10:28:15 +00003565- Issue #6856: Add a filter keyword argument to TarFile.add().
3566
Tarek Ziadébed26a32009-09-09 08:14:20 +00003567- Issue #6163: Fixed HP-UX runtime library dir options in
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003568 distutils.unixcompiler. Initial patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar and Michael
3569 Haubenwallner.
Tarek Ziadébed26a32009-09-09 08:14:20 +00003570
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003571- Issue #6857: Default format() alignment should be '>' for Decimal instances.
Mark Dickinson5cfa8042009-09-08 20:20:19 +00003572
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003573- Issue #6795: int(Decimal('nan')) now raises ValueError instead of returning
3574 NaN or raising InvalidContext. Also, fix infinite recursion in
3575 long(Decimal('nan')).
Mark Dickinson968f1692009-09-07 18:04:58 +00003576
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003577- Issue #6850: Fix bug in Decimal._parse_format_specifier for formats with no
3578 type specifier.
Mark Dickinson491ea552009-09-07 16:17:41 +00003579
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003580- Issue #4937: plat-mac/bundlebuilder refers to non-existing version.plist.
Ronald Oussoren626faeb2009-09-06 12:23:18 +00003581
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003582- Issue #6838: Use a list to accumulate the value instead of repeatedly
3583 concatenating strings in httplib's HTTPResponse._read_chunked providing a
3584 significant speed increase when downloading large files servend with a
3585 Transfer-Encoding of 'chunked'.
Chris Withers7f3ea6a2009-09-04 16:32:22 +00003586
Georg Brandld22b9512009-09-04 08:17:04 +00003587- Issue #5275: In Cookie's Cookie.load(), properly handle non-string arguments
3588 as documented.
3589
Georg Brandl2e1308f2009-09-04 06:59:20 +00003590- Issue #2666: Handle BROWSER environment variable properly for unknown browser
3591 names in the webbrowser module.
3592
Lars Gustäbelf7cda522009-08-28 19:23:44 +00003593- Issue #6054: Do not normalize stored pathnames in tarfile.
3594
Mark Dickinson7a7739d2009-08-28 13:25:02 +00003595- Issue #6794: Fix Decimal.compare_total and Decimal.compare_total_mag: NaN
3596 payloads are now ordered by integer value rather than lexicographically.
3597
Tarek Ziadé764fc232009-08-20 21:23:13 +00003598- Issue #6693: New functions in site.py to get user/global site packages paths.
3599
Gregory P. Smith4e63d542009-08-20 09:39:38 +00003600- The thread.lock type now supports weak references.
3601
Guilherme Polo7b50c4f2009-08-18 14:46:57 +00003602- Issue #1356969: Add missing info methods in Tix.HList.
3603
Guilherme Polo6b3c7092009-08-18 14:23:00 +00003604- Issue #1522587: New constants and methods for the Tix.Grid widget.
3605
Guilherme Polo6c823f82009-08-18 13:29:20 +00003606- Issue #1250469: Fix the return value of Tix.PanedWindow.panes.
3607
Guilherme Polod3e6e4b2009-08-18 13:23:08 +00003608- Issue #1119673: Do not override Tkinter.Text methods when creating a
3609 ScrolledText.
3610
Gregory P. Smithb98d6b22009-08-16 18:52:58 +00003611- Issue #6665: Fix fnmatch to properly match filenames with newlines in them.
3612
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003613- Issue #1135: Add the XView and YView mix-ins to avoid duplicating the xview*
3614 and yview* methods.
Guilherme Poloe45f0172009-08-14 14:36:45 +00003615
Antoine Pitrou20e1f932009-08-06 20:18:29 +00003616- Issue #6629: Fix a data corruption issue in the new `io` package, which could
3617 occur when writing to a BufferedRandom object (e.g. a file opened in "rb+" or
3618 "wb+" mode) after having buffered a certain amount of data for reading. This
3619 bug was not present in the pure Python implementation.
3620
Jesse Noller8497efe2009-08-06 02:05:56 +00003621- Issue #4660: If a multiprocessing.JoinableQueue.put() was preempted, it was
3622 possible to get a spurious 'task_done() called too many times' error.
3623
Gregory P. Smithc4ad0342009-08-13 18:54:50 +00003624- Issue #1628205: Socket file objects returned by socket.socket.makefile() now
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003625 properly handles EINTR within the read, readline, write & flush methods. The
3626 socket.sendall() method now properly handles interrupted system calls.
Gregory P. Smithc4ad0342009-08-13 18:54:50 +00003627
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003628- Issue #6595: The Decimal constructor now allows arbitrary Unicode decimal
3629 digits in input, as recommended by the standard. Previously it was restricted
3630 to accepting [0-9].
Mark Dickinson4326ad82009-08-02 10:59:36 +00003631
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc3e5b0272009-07-28 22:15:30 +00003632- Issue #6511: ZipFile now raises BadZipfile (instead of an IOError) when
3633 opening an empty or very small file.
3634
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc74b30162009-07-23 19:26:02 +00003635- Issue #6553: Fixed a crash in cPickle.load(), when given a file-like object
3636 containing incomplete data.
3637
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003638- Issue #6545: Removed assert statements in distutils.Extension, so the behavior
3639 is similar when used with -O.
Tarek Ziadéaf2406f2009-07-22 08:55:19 +00003640
Benjamin Petersond7b0eeb2009-07-19 20:18:21 +00003641- unittest has been split up into a package. All old names should still work.
3642
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003643- Issue #6431: Make Fraction type return NotImplemented when it doesn't know how
3644 to handle a comparison without loss of precision. Also add correct handling
3645 of infinities and nans for comparisons with float.
Mark Dickinson88a0a2e2009-07-18 15:18:18 +00003646
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc74b30162009-07-23 19:26:02 +00003647- Issue #6415: Fixed warnings.warn segfault on bad formatted string.
Hirokazu Yamamoto1a3d0852009-07-17 06:26:54 +00003648
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003649- Issue #6466: Now distutils.cygwinccompiler and distutils.emxccompiler uses the
3650 same refactored function to get gcc/ld/dllwrap versions numbers. It's
3651 ``distutils.util.get_compiler_versions()``. Added deprecation warnings for
3652 the obsolete get_versions() functions.
Tarek Ziadéa99dedf2009-07-16 15:35:45 +00003653
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003654- Issue #6433: Fixed issues with multiprocessing.pool.map hanging on empty list.
Jesse Noller7530e472009-07-16 14:23:04 +00003655
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +00003656- Issue #6314: logging: Extra checks on the "level" argument in more places.
3657
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc74b8d332009-07-11 14:33:51 +00003658- Issue #2622: Fixed an ImportError when importing email.messsage from a
3659 standalone application built with py2exe or py2app.
3660
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +00003661- Issue #6455: Fixed test_build_ext under win32.
Tarek Ziadé8c400012009-07-10 09:10:33 +00003662
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +00003663- Issue #6377: Enabled the compiler option, and deprecate its usage as an
Tarek Ziadée670e5a2009-07-06 12:50:46 +00003664 attribute.
3665
Tarek Ziadé63f17382009-07-04 02:02:41 +00003666- Issue #6413: Fixed the log level in distutils.dist for announce.
3667
Gregory P. Smithc197d0a2009-07-04 01:55:11 +00003668- Issue #3392: The subprocess communicate() method no longer fails in select()
3669 when file descriptors are large; communicate() now uses poll() when possible.
3670
Tarek Ziadé65ec61e2009-07-03 08:22:56 +00003671- Issue #6403: Fixed package path usage in build_ext.
3672
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003673- Issues #5155, #5313, #5331: multiprocessing.Process._bootstrap was
Jesse Noller1b90efb2009-06-30 17:11:52 +00003674 unconditionally calling "os.close(sys.stdin.fileno())" resulting in file
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003675 descriptor errors.
Jesse Noller1b90efb2009-06-30 17:11:52 +00003676
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +00003677- Issue #6365: Distutils build_ext inplace mode was copying the compiled
Tarek Ziadé3fbcc602009-06-29 16:13:39 +00003678 extension in a subdirectory if the extension name had dots.
3679
Hirokazu Yamamoto99ebc632009-06-29 14:29:31 +00003680- Issue #6344: Fixed a crash of mmap.read() when passed a negative argument.
3681
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003682- Issue #5230: pydoc would report no documentation found if a module generated a
3683 'not found' import error when loaded; it now reports the import errors.
R. David Murrayef087da2009-06-23 18:02:46 +00003684 Thanks to Lucas Prado Melo for initial fix and collaboration on the tests.
3685
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003686- Issue #6314: ``logging.basicConfig()`` performs extra checks on the "level"
Vinay Sajip603fb6d2009-06-21 17:37:27 +00003687 argument.
3688
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003689- Issue #6164: Added an AIX specific linker argument in Distutils unixcompiler.
3690 Original patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar.
Tarek Ziadé439bf932009-06-20 13:57:20 +00003691
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003692- Issue #6274: Fixed possible file descriptors leak in subprocess.py.
Facundo Batista8c826b72009-06-19 18:02:28 +00003693
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc5fe420e2009-06-18 22:32:50 +00003694- Issue #6189: Restored compatibility of subprocess.py with Python 2.2.
3695
Tarek Ziadéfdefc0a2009-06-16 07:29:52 +00003696- Issue #6287: Added the license field in Distutils documentation.
3697
Tarek Ziadéa1cc0402009-06-15 23:30:13 +00003698- Issue #6286: Now Distutils upload command is based on urllib2 instead of
3699 httplib, allowing the usage of http_proxy.
3700
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003701- Issue #6271: mmap tried to close invalid file handle (-1) for anonymous maps
3702 on Unix.
Hirokazu Yamamoto983a4652009-06-14 03:53:55 +00003703
Antoine Pitrou19690592009-06-12 20:14:08 +00003704- Issue #6215: All bug fixes and enhancements from the Python 3.1 io library
3705 (including the fast C implementation) have been backported to the standard
3706 ``io`` module.
3707
Martin v. Löwis2dcd7a02009-06-12 17:28:31 +00003708- Issue #6258: Support AMD64 in bdist_msi.
3709
Vinay Sajip334ffe82010-01-15 23:27:05 +00003710- Issue #6252: Fixed bug in next rollover time computation in
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00003711 TimedRotatingFileHandler.
3712
Tarek Ziadéc7498f52009-06-11 09:13:36 +00003713- Issue #6263: Fixed syntax error in distutils.cygwincompiler.
3714
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003715- Issue #5201: distutils.sysconfig.parse_makefile() now understands ``$$`` in
3716 Makefiles. This prevents compile errors when using syntax like:
3717 ``LDFLAGS='-rpath=\$$LIB:/some/other/path'``. Patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
Tarek Ziadé25d2bae2009-06-11 08:12:20 +00003718
Georg Brandle6632b42009-06-04 08:58:32 +00003719- Issue #5767: Removed sgmlop support from xmlrpclib.
3720
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003721- Issue #6131: test_modulefinder leaked when run after test_distutils. Patch by
3722 Hirokazu Yamamoto.
Tarek Ziadé3e3eace2009-05-29 08:08:07 +00003723
Tarek Ziadé9e5d2dc2009-05-28 12:53:54 +00003724- Issue #6048: Now Distutils uses the tarfile module in archive_util.
3725
Raymond Hettingerb4d2d312009-05-29 01:36:26 +00003726- Issue #5150: IDLE's format menu now has an option to strip trailing
3727 whitespace.
3728
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003729- Issue #6121: pydoc now ignores leading and trailing spaces in the argument to
3730 the 'help' function.
R. David Murrayd67ea7d2009-05-27 20:07:21 +00003731
Benjamin Peterson176a56c2009-05-25 00:48:58 +00003732- In unittest, using a skipping decorator on a class is now equivalent to
3733 skipping every test on the class. The ClassTestSuite class has been removed.
3734
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003735- Issue #6050: Don't fail extracting a directory from a zipfile if the directory
3736 already exists.
Martin v. Löwis0b09c422009-05-24 19:30:52 +00003737
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003738- Issue #5311: bdist_msi can now build packages that do not depend on a specific
3739 Python version.
Martin v. Löwis53b578e2009-05-24 19:10:52 +00003740
Antoine Pitroud49e3752009-05-24 15:40:09 +00003741- Issue #1309352: fcntl now converts its third arguments to a C `long` rather
3742 than an int, which makes some operations possible under 64-bit Linux (e.g.
3743 DN_MULTISHOT with F_NOTIFY).
3744
Senthil Kumarane266f252009-05-24 09:14:50 +00003745- Issue #1424152: Fix for httplib, urllib2 to support SSL while working through
3746 proxy. Original patch by Christopher Li, changes made by Senthil Kumaran.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00003747
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003748- Issue #1983: Fix functions taking or returning a process identifier to use the
3749 dedicated C type ``pid_t`` instead of a C ``int``. Some platforms have a
3750 process identifier type wider than the standard C integer type.
Antoine Pitrou5e858fe2009-05-23 15:37:45 +00003751
R. David Murrayad3058e2009-05-23 00:48:58 +00003752- Issue #4066: smtplib.SMTP_SSL._get_socket now correctly returns the socket.
3753 Patch by Farhan Ahmad, test by Marcin Bachry.
3754
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003755- Issue #6062: In distutils, fixed the package option of build_ext. Feedback
Tarek Ziadé7d7127d2009-05-19 16:17:21 +00003756 and tests on pywin32 by Tim Golden.
3757
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003758- Issue #6053: Fixed distutils tests on win32. Patch by Hirokazu Yamamoto.
Tarek Ziadé07bbfcc2009-05-18 12:21:26 +00003759
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003760- Issue #6046: Fixed the library extension when distutils build_ext is used in
3761 place. Initial patch by Roumen Petrov.
Tarek Ziadéfcc7f032009-05-18 08:03:37 +00003762
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00003763- Issue #6041: Now distutils `sdist` and `register` commands use `check` as a
Tarek Ziadécb768042009-05-16 16:37:06 +00003764 subcommand.
3765
Antoine Pitrou775fd662009-05-15 16:54:52 +00003766- Issue #2116: Weak references and weak dictionaries now support copy()ing and
3767 deepcopy()ing.
3768
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003769- Issue #1655: Make imaplib IPv6-capable. Patch by Derek Morr.
Antoine Pitrou52035a02009-05-15 11:50:29 +00003770
Antoine Pitrou42b5bcf2009-05-14 21:48:09 +00003771- Issue #5918: Fix a crash in the parser module.
3772
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003773- Issue #1664: Make nntplib IPv6-capable. Patch by Derek Morr.
Antoine Pitroueed30d82009-05-14 21:22:08 +00003774
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003775- Issue #6022: A test file was created in the current working directory by
Tarek Ziadécbb4f9e2009-05-14 20:14:13 +00003776 test_get_outputs in Distutils.
3777
R. David Murray996ba022009-05-13 17:14:11 +00003778- Issue #4050: inspect.findsource/getsource now raise an IOError if the 'source'
3779 file is a binary. Patch by Brodie Rao, tests by Daniel Diniz.
3780
Tarek Ziadé972480d2009-05-12 17:07:14 +00003781- Issue #5977: distutils build_ext.get_outputs was not taking into account the
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003782 inplace option. Initial patch by kxroberto.
Tarek Ziadé972480d2009-05-12 17:07:14 +00003783
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003784- Issue #5984: distutils.command.build_ext.check_extensions_list checks were
3785 broken for old-style extensions.
Tarek Ziadéd5d83422009-05-10 10:12:08 +00003786
Vinay Sajipf9b01fe2009-05-09 12:07:17 +00003787- Issue #5971: StreamHandler.handleError now swallows IOErrors which occur when
3788 trying to print a traceback.
3789
Tarek Ziadé812d7712009-05-09 10:06:00 +00003790- Issue #5976: Fixed Distutils test_check_environ.
3791
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003792- Issue #5900: Ensure RUNPATH is added to extension modules with RPATH if GNU ld
3793 is used. Original patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
Tarek Ziadée2be83d2009-05-09 08:28:53 +00003794
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003795- Issue #5941: Distutils build_clib command was not working anymore because of
3796 an incomplete costumization of the archiver command. Added ARFLAGS in the
3797 Makefile besides AR and make Distutils use it. Original patch by David
Tarek Ziadé99f660a2009-05-07 21:20:34 +00003798 Cournapeau.
3799
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00003800- Issue #5955: aifc's close method did not close the file it wrapped, now it
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003801 does. This also means getfp method now returns the real fp.
R. David Murrayd3bf34c2009-05-07 16:29:19 +00003802
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003803- Issue #4875: On win32, ctypes.util.find_library does no longer return
3804 directories.
Thomas Hellera57773e2009-05-05 18:55:47 +00003805
Georg Brandl4d4313d2009-05-05 08:54:11 +00003806- Issue #5142: Add the ability to skip modules while stepping to pdb.
3807
Georg Brandle3869c42009-05-05 08:30:28 +00003808- Issue #1309567: Fix linecache behavior of stripping subdirectories when
3809 looking for files given by a relative filename.
3810
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003811- Issue #5692: In ``zipfile.Zipfile``, fix wrong path calculation when
Antoine Pitrou97377bf2009-05-04 21:17:17 +00003812 extracting a file to the root directory.
3813
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003814- Issue #5913: ``os.listdir()`` should fail for empty path on windows.
Hirokazu Yamamoto406d7aa2009-05-04 05:28:39 +00003815
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003816- Issue #5084: Unpickling now interns the attribute names of pickled objects,
3817 saving memory and avoiding growth in size of subsequent pickles. Proposal and
3818 original patch by Jake McGuire.
Antoine Pitrou74309892009-05-02 21:13:23 +00003819
Antoine Pitrou1fc02312009-05-01 20:55:35 +00003820- Issue #3002: ``shutil.copyfile()`` and ``shutil.copytree()`` now raise an
3821 error when a named pipe is encountered, rather than blocking infinitely.
3822
Gregory P. Smith1d499262009-05-01 19:59:52 +00003823- Issue #3959: The ipaddr module has been added to the standard library.
3824 Contributed by Google.
3825
R. David Murray25b4add2009-04-29 13:17:37 +00003826- Issue #2245: aifc now skips chunk types it doesn't recognize, per spec.
3827
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003828- Issue #5874: distutils.tests.test_config_cmd is not locale-sensitive anymore.
Tarek Ziadéa1b91d92009-04-29 08:03:46 +00003829
Thomas Heller90c61a22009-04-28 19:23:41 +00003830- Issue #4305: ctypes should now build again on mipsel-linux-gnu
3831
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003832- Issue #1734234: Massively speedup ``unicodedata.normalize()`` when the string
3833 is already in normalized form, by performing a quick check beforehand.
Antoine Pitroue988e282009-04-27 21:53:26 +00003834 Original patch by Rauli Ruohonen.
3835
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003836- Issue #5853: Calling a function of the mimetypes module from several threads
Antoine Pitrouf2651e12009-04-27 20:50:20 +00003837 at once could hit the recursion limit if the mimetypes database hadn't been
3838 initialized before.
3839
Vinay Sajipe34d6aa2009-04-27 13:44:27 +00003840- Issue #5854: Updated __all__ to include some missing names and remove some
3841 names which should not be exported.
3842
3843- Issue #5810: Fixed Distutils test_build_scripts so it uses
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003844 ``sysconfig.get_config_vars()``.
Tarek Ziadébcddf672009-04-25 12:51:59 +00003845
Tarek Ziadéd567c382009-04-25 12:38:08 +00003846- Issue #4951: Fixed failure in test_httpservers.
3847
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003848- Issue #3102: All global symbols that the _ctypes extension defines are now
3849 prefixed with 'Py' or '_ctypes'.
Thomas Heller5c6af802009-04-24 20:31:47 +00003850
Thomas Hellerec21ccd2009-04-24 20:00:41 +00003851- Issue #5041: ctypes does now allow pickling wide character.
3852
Mark Dickinson4af8e742009-04-24 13:56:07 +00003853- Issue #5812: For the two-argument form of the Fraction constructor,
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003854 ``Fraction(m, n)``, m and n are permitted to be arbitrary Rational instances.
Mark Dickinson4af8e742009-04-24 13:56:07 +00003855
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003856- Issue #5812: Fraction('1e6') is valid: more generally, any string that's valid
3857 for float() is now valid for Fraction(), with the exception of strings
3858 representing NaNs and infinities.
Mark Dickinson8100bd82009-04-22 18:15:25 +00003859
Tarek Ziadé31559b62009-04-20 14:29:42 +00003860- Issue #5795: Fixed test_distutils failure on Debian ppc.
3861
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00003862- Issue #5768: Fixed bug in Unicode output logic and test case for same.
3863
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003864- Issue #1161031: Fix readwrite select flag handling: POLLPRI now results in a
3865 handle_expt_event call, not handle_read_event, and POLLERR and POLLNVAL now
3866 call handle_close, not handle_expt_event. Also, dispatcher now has an
3867 'ignore_log_types' attribute for suppressing log messages, which is set to
3868 'warning' by default.
R. David Murrayabc26602009-04-13 16:56:32 +00003869
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003870- Issue #5607: Fixed Distutils test_get_platform for Mac OS X fat binaries.
Tarek Ziadé156c31a2009-04-13 12:34:01 +00003871
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003872- Issue #5741: Don't disallow "%%" (which is an escape for "%") when setting a
3873 value in SafeConfigParser.
Georg Brandl21cf5ee2009-04-12 17:24:11 +00003874
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003875- Issue #5732: Added a new command in Distutils: check.
Tarek Ziadé942825f2009-04-11 14:55:07 +00003876
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00003877- Issue #5731: Distutils bdist_wininst no longer worked on non-Windows
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003878 platforms. Initial patch by Paul Moore.
Tarek Ziadéad958262009-04-09 21:36:44 +00003879
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003880- Issue #2254: Fix CGIHTTPServer information disclosure. Relative paths are now
3881 collapsed within the url properly before looking in cgi_directories.
Gregory P. Smith923ba362009-04-06 06:33:26 +00003882
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003883- Issue #5095: Added bdist_msi to the list of bdist supported formats. Initial
3884 fix by Steven Bethard.
Tarek Ziadé64408fb2009-04-05 22:51:09 +00003885
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003886- Issue #1491431: Fixed distutils.filelist.glob_to_re for edge cases. Initial
3887 fix by Wayne Davison.
Tarek Ziadéfaa6b122009-04-05 21:44:08 +00003888
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003889- Issue #5693: TestSuite.__iter__ can now be consistently overridden in
3890 subclasses.
Michael Foordf2dfef12009-04-05 19:19:28 +00003891
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003892- Issue #5694: Removed spurious test output in Distutils (test_clean).
Tarek Ziadé453d9532009-04-05 18:31:24 +00003893
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +00003894- Issue #5471: Fix os.path.expanduser() for $HOME set to '/'.
Georg Brandl3f0ef202009-04-05 14:48:49 +00003895
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003896- Issue #1326077: Fix the formatting of SyntaxErrors by the traceback module.
Georg Brandl1956d5c2009-04-05 14:25:41 +00003897
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003898- Issue #1726172: Fix IndexError in the case of and empty response in ftplib.
Georg Brandl50ba6e12009-04-05 10:48:47 +00003899
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003900- Issue #2625: Added missing iteritems() call to the for loop in
R. David Murray52720c52009-04-02 14:05:35 +00003901 mailbox.MH.get_message().
3902
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003903- Issue #5585: Add the ability to call an initializer to
3904 mulitiprocessing.manager so that users can install custom handlers/etc.
Jesse Noller7152f6d2009-04-02 05:17:26 +00003905
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003906- Issue #3551: Patch multiprocessing to raise a proper exception if the size of
3907 the object when writefile is called causes a ERROR_NO_SYSTEM_RESOURCES. Added
3908 docs to note the limitation.
Jesse Noller5053fbb2009-04-02 04:22:09 +00003909
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003910- unittest.assertNotEqual() now uses the inequality operator (!=) instead of the
3911 equality operator.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00003912
3913- Issue #6001: Test discovery for unittest. Implemented in
Michael Foordb4a81c82009-05-29 20:33:46 +00003914 unittest.TestLoader.discover and from the command line.
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00003915
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003916- Issue #5679: The methods unittest.TestCase.addCleanup and doCleanups were
3917 added. addCleanup allows you to add cleanup functions that will be called
Michael Foord07ef4872009-05-02 22:43:34 +00003918 unconditionally (after setUp if setUp fails, otherwise after tearDown). This
3919 allows for much simpler resource allocation and deallocation during tests.
3920
3921- Issue #3379: unittest.main now takes an optional exit argument. If False main
3922 doesn't call sys.exit allowing it to be used from the interactive interpreter.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00003923
3924- Issue #5995: unittest.main now takes an optional verbosity argument allowing
Michael Foord5d31e052009-05-11 17:59:43 +00003925 test modules to be run with a higher than default verbosity.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00003926
3927- Issue #5995: A fix to allow you to run "python -m unittest test_module" or
Michael Foord5d31e052009-05-11 17:59:43 +00003928 "python -m unittest test_module.TestClass" from the command line.
Michael Foord07ef4872009-05-02 22:43:34 +00003929
3930- Issue #5728: unittest.TestResult has new startTestRun and stopTestRun methods;
3931 called immediately before and after a test run.
3932
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003933- Issue #5663: Better failure messages for unittest asserts. Default assertTrue
Michael Foord345b2fe2009-04-02 03:20:38 +00003934 and assertFalse messages are now useful. TestCase has a longMessage attribute.
3935 This defaults to False, but if set to True useful error messages are shown in
3936 addition to explicit messages passed to assert methods.
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00003937
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003938- Issue #3110: Add additional protect around SEM_VALUE_MAX for multiprocessing.
Jesse Nollerb502bc72009-04-02 02:32:55 +00003939
Georg Brandl58b8b952009-04-01 21:54:21 +00003940- In Pdb, prevent the reassignment of __builtin__._ by sys.displayhook on
3941 printing out values.
3942
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003943- Issue #4572: Added SEEK_* symbolic constants to io module.
Georg Brandl5942b912009-04-01 21:05:44 +00003944
Brett Cannonad078a02009-04-01 16:00:34 +00003945- Issue #1665206 (partially): Move imports in cgitb to the top of the module
3946 instead of performing them in functions. Helps prevent import deadlocking in
3947 threads.
3948
Raymond Hettinger66c4a6b2009-04-01 18:50:56 +00003949- Issue #5647: MutableSet.__iand__() no longer mutates self during iteration.
3950
Georg Brandle92d4b62009-04-01 04:21:14 +00003951- Actually make the SimpleXMLRPCServer CGI handler work.
3952
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003953- Issue #2522: locale.format() now checks its first argument to ensure it has
R. David Murraya83da352009-04-01 03:21:43 +00003954 been passed only one pattern, avoiding mysterious errors where it appeared
3955 that it was failing to do localization.
3956
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003957- Issue #5583: Added optional extensions in Distutils. Initial patch by Georg
Tarek Ziadé9e47ce42009-03-31 22:27:23 +00003958 Brandl.
3959
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003960- Issue #5619: Multiprocessing children disobey the debug flag and causes popups
3961 on windows buildbots. Patch applied to work around this issue.
Jesse Noller42f9b4e2009-03-31 22:20:35 +00003962
Benjamin Petersond906ea62009-03-31 21:34:42 +00003963- Issue #5632: Thread.ident was None for the main thread and threads not created
3964 with the threading module.
3965
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003966- Issue #5400: Added patch for multiprocessing on netbsd compilation/support.
Jesse Noller1f0a5552009-03-31 18:27:14 +00003967
Hirokazu Yamamoto9d2ee5d2009-03-31 13:13:05 +00003968- Issue #5387: Fixed mmap.move crash by integer overflow.
3969
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003970- Issue #5261: Patch multiprocessing's semaphore.c to support context manager
3971 use: "with multiprocessing.Lock()" works now.
Jesse Noller82eb5902009-03-30 23:29:31 +00003972
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00003973- Issue #5177: Multiprocessing's SocketListener class now uses
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003974 socket.SO_REUSEADDR on all connections so that the user no longer needs to
3975 wait 120 seconds for the socket to expire.
Jesse Noller459a6482009-03-30 15:50:42 +00003976
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003977- Adjusted _tkinter to compile without warnings when WITH_THREAD is not defined
3978 (part of issue #5035).
Guilherme Polo1972d162009-03-27 21:43:08 +00003979
Marc-André Lemburgcbdf15b2009-03-25 19:45:33 +00003980- Issue #5561: Removed the sys.version_info shortcuts from platform's
3981 python_version() and python_version_tuple() since they produced different
3982 output compared to previous Python versions.
3983
Benjamin Peterson692428e2009-03-23 21:50:21 +00003984- Issue #1034053: unittest now supports skipping tests and expected failures.
3985
Gregory P. Smith28399852009-03-31 16:54:10 +00003986- The unittest.TestCase.assertRaises() method now returns a context manager when
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003987 not given a callable so that code to be tested can be written inline using a
3988 with statement.
Gregory P. Smith28399852009-03-31 16:54:10 +00003989
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003990- Issue #2578: The unittest.TestCase.assertEqual() now displays the differences
3991 in lists, tuples, dicts and sets on failure. Many new handy type and
3992 comparison specific assert* methods have been added that fail with error
3993 messages actually useful for debugging. Contributed in part by Google.
Gregory P. Smith28399852009-03-31 16:54:10 +00003994
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003995- Issue #5068: Fixed the tarfile._BZ2Proxy.read() method that would loop forever
3996 on incomplete input. That caused tarfile.open() to hang when used with mode
3997 'r' or 'r:bz2' and a fileobj argument that contained no data or partial bzip2
3998 compressed data.
Lars Gustäbel2020a592009-03-22 20:09:33 +00003999
Benjamin Petersonb364bfe2009-03-22 17:45:11 +00004000- Issue #5536: urllib.urlretrieve makes sure to close the file it's writing to
4001 even if an exception occurs.
4002
Raymond Hettinger91852ca2009-03-19 19:19:03 +00004003- Issue #5381: Added object_pairs_hook to the json module. This allows
4004 OrderedDicts to be built by the decoder.
4005
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004006- Issue #2110: Add support for thousands separator and 'n' type specifier to
4007 ``Decimal.__format__()``.
Mark Dickinson277859d2009-03-17 23:03:46 +00004008
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004009- Fix Decimal.__format__ bug that swapped the meanings of the '<' and '>'
4010 alignment characters.
Mark Dickinsonb065e522009-03-17 18:01:03 +00004011
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004012- Issue #1222: ``locale.format()`` bug when the thousands separator is a space
Antoine Pitroufeeafff2009-03-14 00:07:21 +00004013 character.
4014
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004015- Issue #5472: Fixed distutils.test_util tear down. Original patch by Tim
4016 Golden.
Tarek Ziadé61585c22009-03-11 12:48:04 +00004017
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004018- collections.deque objects now have a read-only attribute called maxlen.
Raymond Hettinger56411aa2009-03-10 12:50:59 +00004019
Guilherme Polo15d57652009-03-07 02:14:38 +00004020- Issue #2638: Show a window constructed with tkSimpleDialog.Dialog only after
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004021 it is has been populated and properly configured in order to prevent window
4022 flashing.
Guilherme Polo15d57652009-03-07 02:14:38 +00004023
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004024- Issue #4792: Prevent a segfault in _tkinter by using the guaranteed to be safe
4025 interp argument given to the PythonCmd in place of the Tcl interpreter taken
4026 from a PythonCmd_ClientData.
Guilherme Polo3768b2f2009-03-07 01:47:49 +00004027
Guilherme Polo6d6c1fd2009-03-07 01:19:12 +00004028- Issue #5193: Guarantee that Tkinter.Text.search returns a string.
4029
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004030- Issue #5394: Removed > 2.3 syntax from distutils.msvc9compiler.
Tarek Ziadé943b24e2009-03-07 00:32:45 +00004031 Original patch by Akira Kitada.
4032
Hirokazu Yamamoto264fc122009-03-05 14:21:12 +00004033- Issue #5385: Fixed mmap crash after resize failure on windows.
4034
Hirokazu Yamamotoeacbbdf2009-03-03 22:18:14 +00004035- Issue #5179: Fixed subprocess handle leak on failure on windows.
4036
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004037- PEP 372: Added collections.OrderedDict().
Raymond Hettingerbc512d32009-03-03 04:45:34 +00004038
Raymond Hettinger88a91642009-03-03 04:51:24 +00004039- The _asdict() for method for namedtuples now returns an OrderedDict().
4040
Raymond Hettingere89b8e92009-03-03 05:00:37 +00004041- The configparser module now defaults to using an ordered dictionary.
4042
Benjamin Peterson7d49bba2009-03-02 22:41:42 +00004043- Issue #4308: httplib.IncompleteRead's repr doesn't include all of the data all
4044 ready received.
4045
Benjamin Petersonad58b7c2009-03-02 03:35:12 +00004046- Issue #5401: Fixed a performance problem in mimetypes when ``from mimetypes
4047 import guess_extension`` was used.
4048
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004049- Issue #1733986: Fixed mmap crash on Windows in accessing elements of second
4050 map object with same tagname but larger size than first map.
Hirokazu Yamamotob0e10c72009-02-28 12:13:07 +00004051
Hirokazu Yamamotof2dc8852009-02-28 10:31:54 +00004052- Issue #5386: mmap.write_byte didn't check map size, so it could cause buffer
4053 overrun.
4054
Tarek Ziadé73347352009-02-28 10:08:02 +00004055- Issue #1533164: Installed but not listed *.pyo was breaking Distutils
4056 bdist_rpm command.
4057
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004058- Issue #5378: Added --quiet option to Distutils bdist_rpm command.
Tarek Ziadé73347352009-02-28 10:08:02 +00004059
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004060- Issue #5052: Make Distutils compatible with 2.3 again.
Tarek Ziadédda92f72009-02-27 12:53:34 +00004061
Benjamin Petersonb3dd5482009-02-26 19:07:18 +00004062- Deprecated methods of symtable.Symbol have been removed: is_keywordarg(),
4063 is_vararg(), and is_in_tuple().
4064
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004065- Issue #5316: Fixed buildbot failures introduced by multiple inheritance in
4066 Distutils tests.
Tarek Ziadée3bc0ef2009-02-25 22:29:27 +00004067
Vinay Sajip1a0d2be2009-02-19 12:31:32 +00004068- Issue #5287: Add exception handling around findCaller() call to help out
4069 IronPython.
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00004070
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004071- Issue #5282: Fixed mmap resize on 32bit Windows and Unix. When ``offset >
4072 0``, the file was resized to wrong size.
Hirokazu Yamamoto17a837e2009-02-17 13:17:26 +00004073
Hirokazu Yamamotof6bbd0e2009-02-17 10:12:10 +00004074- Issue #5292: Fixed mmap crash on its boundary access m[len(m)].
4075
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004076- Issue #2279: distutils.sdist.add_defaults now add files from the package_data
4077 and the data_files metadata.
Tarek Ziadé7dd53392009-02-16 21:38:01 +00004078
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004079- Issue #5257: Refactored all tests in distutils, so they use
Tarek Ziadé13699002009-02-14 14:10:23 +00004080 support.TempdirManager, to avoid writing in the tests directory.
4081
Tarek Ziadé2432b0b2009-02-13 23:00:43 +00004082- Issue #4524: distutils build_script command failed with --with-suffix=3.
4083 Initial patch by Amaury Forgeot d'Arc.
4084
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004085- Issue #2461: Added tests for distutils.util.
Tarek Ziadé275958a2009-02-13 22:22:03 +00004086
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004087- Issue #1008086: Fixed socket.inet_aton() to always return 4 bytes even on LP64
4088 platforms (most 64-bit Linux, bsd, unix systems).
Gregory P. Smith3605b5c2009-02-11 23:45:25 +00004089
Thomas Heller3689ae22009-02-10 18:43:01 +00004090- Issue #5203: Fixed ctypes segfaults when passing a unicode string to a
4091 function without argtypes (only occurs if HAVE_USABLE_WCHAR_T is false).
4092
Tarek Ziadé74fbf602009-02-10 12:31:09 +00004093- Issue #3386: distutils.sysconfig.get_python_lib prefix argument was ignored
4094 under NT and OS2. Patch by Philip Jenvey.
4095
Brett Cannon28d10882009-02-10 02:07:38 +00004096- Issue #5128: Make compileall properly inspect bytecode to determine if needs
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004097 to be recreated. This avoids a timing hole thanks to the old reliance on the
Brett Cannon28d10882009-02-10 02:07:38 +00004098 ctime of the files involved.
4099
Guilherme Poloa66cf5b2009-02-09 20:50:27 +00004100- Issue #5122: Synchronize tk load failure check to prevent a potential
4101 deadlock.
4102
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004103- Issue #1818: collections.namedtuple() now supports a keyword argument 'rename'
4104 which lets invalid fieldnames be automatically converted to positional names
4105 in the form, _1, _2, ...
Raymond Hettinger322daea2009-02-10 01:24:05 +00004106
Guilherme Polod2ea0332009-02-09 16:41:09 +00004107- Issue #4890: Handle empty text search pattern in Tkinter.Text.search.
4108
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004109- Issue #5170: Fixed Unicode output bug in logging and added test case. This is
4110 a regression which did not occur in 2.5.
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +00004111
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004112- Issue #4512 (part 2): Promote ``ZipImporter._get_filename()`` to be a public
4113 documented method ``ZipImporter.get_filename()``.
Nick Coghlan0194f5b2009-02-08 03:17:00 +00004114
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004115- Issue #4195: The ``runpy`` module (and the ``-m`` switch) now support the
4116 execution of packages by looking for and executing a ``__main__`` submodule
4117 when a package name is supplied. Initial patch by Andi Vajda.
Nick Coghland39600e2009-02-08 01:26:34 +00004118
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004119- Issue #1731706: Call Tcl_ConditionFinalize for Tcl_Conditions that will not be
4120 used again (this requires Tcl/Tk 8.3.1), also fix a memory leak in Tkapp_Call
4121 when calling from a thread different than the one that created the Tcl
4122 interpreter. Patch by Robert Hancock.
Guilherme Polo14ff18d2009-02-06 22:26:22 +00004123
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +00004124- Issue #1520877: Now distutils.sysconfig reads $AR from the
Tarek Ziadé05adf072009-02-06 01:15:51 +00004125 environment/Makefile. Patch by Douglas Greiman.
4126
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004127- Issue #4285: Change sys.version_info to be a named tuple. Patch by Ross
4128 Light.
Eric Smith81fe0932009-02-06 00:48:26 +00004129
Tarek Ziadéd5eb9852009-02-06 00:31:59 +00004130- Issue #1276768: The verbose option was not used in the code of
4131 distutils.file_util and distutils.dir_util.
4132
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +00004133- Issue #5132: Fixed trouble building extensions under Solaris with
Tarek Ziadé0d4fd342009-02-05 22:52:52 +00004134 --enabled-shared activated. Initial patch by Dave Peterson.
4135
Guilherme Polod7bb4d42009-02-02 21:14:14 +00004136- Issue #1581476: Always use the Tcl global namespace when calling into Tcl.
4137
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004138- Issue #2047: shutil.move() could believe that its destination path was inside
4139 its source path if it began with the same letters (e.g. "src" vs. "src.new").
Antoine Pitrou707c5932009-01-29 20:19:34 +00004140
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004141- Issue #4920: Fixed .next() vs .__next__() issues in the ABCs for Iterator and
4142 MutableSet.
Raymond Hettingerf779e6f2009-01-28 23:02:26 +00004143
Guilherme Polocda93aa2009-01-28 13:09:03 +00004144- Added the ttk module. See issue #2983: Ttk support for Tkinter.
4145
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004146- Issue #5021: doctest.testfile() did not create __name__ and
Raymond Hettingerecf252a2009-01-27 10:03:04 +00004147 collections.namedtuple() relied on __name__ being defined.
4148
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004149- Backport importlib from Python 3.1. Only the import_module() function has been
4150 backported to help facilitate transitions from 2.7 to 3.1.
Brett Cannon93881c62009-01-26 01:16:50 +00004151
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004152- Issue #1885: distutils: When running sdist with --formats=tar,gztar the tar
4153 file was overriden by the gztar one.
Tarek Ziadéaaedcef2009-01-25 23:34:00 +00004154
Tarek Ziadéef249b12009-01-25 18:19:25 +00004155- Issue #4863: distutils.mwerkscompiler has been removed.
4156
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004157- Added new itertools functions: combinations_with_replacement() and compress().
Raymond Hettinger2bcb8e92009-01-25 21:04:14 +00004158
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004159- Issue #5032: Added a step argument to itertools.count() and allowed
4160 non-integer arguments.
Raymond Hettinger31c769c2009-02-12 05:39:46 +00004161
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004162- Fix and properly document the multiprocessing module's logging support, expose
4163 the internal levels and provide proper usage examples.
Jesse Nollerb5a4b0a2009-01-25 03:36:13 +00004164
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004165- Issue #1672332: Fix unpickling of subnormal floats, which was
Mark Dickinsona3ecd2c2009-01-24 16:40:29 +00004166 producing a ValueError on some platforms.
4167
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004168- Issue #3881: Help Tcl to load even when started through the unreadable local
4169 symlink to "Program Files" on Vista.
Martin v. Löwisf081e1c2009-01-24 15:47:27 +00004170
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004171- Issue #4710: Extract directories properly in the zipfile module; allow adding
4172 directories to a zipfile.
Martin v. Löwis0dfcfc82009-01-24 14:00:33 +00004173
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +00004174- Issue #3807: _multiprocessing build fails when configure is passed
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004175 --without-threads argument. When this occurs, _multiprocessing will be
4176 disabled, and not compiled.
Jesse Nollerf6da8d12009-01-23 14:04:41 +00004177
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004178- Issue #5008: When a file is opened in append mode with the new IO library, do
4179 an explicit seek to the end of file (so that e.g. tell() returns the file size
4180 rather than 0). This is consistent with the behaviour of the traditional 2.x
4181 file object.
Antoine Pitroue741cc62009-01-21 00:45:36 +00004182
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00004183- Issue #5013: Fixed a bug in FileHandler which occurred when the delay
4184 parameter was set.
4185
Raymond Hettinger933d3a72009-01-20 20:34:19 +00004186- Issue #4998: The memory saving effect of __slots__ had been lost on Fractions
4187 which inherited from numbers.py which did not have __slots__ defined. The
Mark Dickinson39c6f7f2009-02-12 17:55:42 +00004188 numbers hierarchy now has its own __slots__ declarations.
Raymond Hettinger933d3a72009-01-20 20:34:19 +00004189
Jesse Noller9a5b2ad2009-01-19 15:12:22 +00004190- Issue #3321: _multiprocessing.Connection() doesn't check handle; added checks
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004191 for *nix machines for negative handles and large int handles. Without this
4192 check it is possible to segfault the interpreter.
Jesse Noller9a5b2ad2009-01-19 15:12:22 +00004193
Jesse Noller6ab22152009-01-18 02:45:38 +00004194- Issue #4449: AssertionError in mp_benchmarks.py, caused by an underlying issue
4195 in sharedctypes.py.
4196
Benjamin Peterson5e5fbb62009-01-17 22:27:54 +00004197- Issue #1225107: inspect.isclass() returned True for instances with a custom
4198 __getattr__.
4199
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004200- Issue #3997: Zipfiles generated with more than 65536 files could not be opened
4201 with other applications.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd25f87a2009-01-17 16:40:17 +00004202
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004203- Issue #1162154: ``inspect.getmembers()`` now skips attributes that raise
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcb54447f2009-01-13 23:39:22 +00004204 AttributeError, e.g. a __slots__ attribute which has not been set.
4205
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004206- Issue #1696199: Add collections.Counter() for rapid and convenient counting.
Raymond Hettingerf94d7fa2009-01-12 22:58:41 +00004207
Antoine Pitroubd4b5f22009-01-10 16:15:24 +00004208- Issue #3860: GzipFile and BZ2File now support the context manager protocol.
4209
Antoine Pitrouf0d2c3f2009-01-04 21:29:23 +00004210- Issue #4272: Add an optional argument to the GzipFile constructor to override
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004211 the timestamp in the gzip stream. The default value remains the current time.
4212 The information can be used by e.g. gunzip when decompressing. Patch by
Antoine Pitrouf0d2c3f2009-01-04 21:29:23 +00004213 Jacques Frechet.
4214
Mark Dickinson514d4832009-01-04 21:25:40 +00004215- Restore Python 2.3 compatibility for decimal.py.
4216
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00004217- Issue #1702551: distutils sdist was not excluding VCS directories under
Tarek Ziadé85d6fb52009-01-04 00:04:49 +00004218 Windows. Inital solution by Guy Dalberto.
4219
Guilherme Poloe7f14032009-01-03 21:51:09 +00004220- The _tkinter module functions "createfilehandler", "deletefilehandler",
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004221 "createtimerhandler", "mainloop", "dooneevent" and "quit" have been deprecated
4222 for removal in 3.x
Guilherme Poloe7f14032009-01-03 21:51:09 +00004223
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004224- Issue #4796: Added Decimal.from_float() and
4225 Context.create_decimal_from_float() to the decimal module.
Raymond Hettingerf4d85972009-01-03 19:02:23 +00004226
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004227- Issue #4812: Add missing underscore prefix to some internal-use-only constants
4228 in the decimal module. (Dec_0 becomes _Dec_0, etc.)
Mark Dickinsonc5de0962009-01-02 23:07:08 +00004229
Benjamin Peterson8ad09a42008-12-31 23:48:39 +00004230- Issue #4795: inspect.isgeneratorfunction() returns False instead of None when
4231 the function is not a generator.
4232
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004233- Issue #4702: Throwing a DistutilsPlatformError instead of IOError in case no
4234 MSVC compiler is found under Windows. Original patch by Philip Jenvey.
Tarek Ziadéb1a85412008-12-30 23:03:41 +00004235
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004236- Issue #4646: distutils was choking on empty options arg in the setup function.
4237 Original patch by Thomas Heller.
Tarek Ziadéc13acb12008-12-29 22:23:53 +00004238
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004239- Fractions.from_float() no longer loses precision for integers too big to cast
4240 as floats.
Georg Brandlfe427892009-01-03 22:03:11 +00004241
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004242- Issue #4790: The nsmallest() and nlargest() functions in the heapq module did
4243 unnecessary work in the common case where no key function was specified.
Georg Brandlfe427892009-01-03 22:03:11 +00004244
Martin v. Löwis732479f2008-12-29 16:22:25 +00004245- Issue #3767: Convert Tk object to string in tkColorChooser.
4246
Martin v. Löwise2eb2b42008-12-29 15:51:01 +00004247- Issue #3248: Allow placing ScrolledText in a PanedWindow.
4248
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004249- Issue #4444: Allow assertRaises() to be used as a context handler, so that the
4250 code under test can be written inline if more practical.
Antoine Pitrou697ca3d2008-12-28 14:09:36 +00004251
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004252- Issue #4739: Add pydoc help topics for symbols, so that e.g. help('@') works
4253 as expected in the interactive environment.
Georg Brandlc3a98032008-12-27 18:20:04 +00004254
Antoine Pitrou6f193e02008-12-27 15:43:12 +00004255- Issue #4756: zipfile.is_zipfile() now supports file-like objects. Patch by
4256 Gabriel Genellina.
4257
Tarek Ziadée4c75bb2008-12-24 19:10:05 +00004258- Issue #4400: .pypirc default generated file was broken in distutils.
4259
Benjamin Peterson54686e32008-12-24 15:10:27 +00004260- Issue #4736: io.BufferedRWPair's closed property now functions properly.
4261
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004262- Issue #3954: Fix a potential SystemError in _hotshot.logreader error handling.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc31949b92008-12-15 21:47:57 +00004263
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004264- Issue #4574: Fix a crash in io.IncrementalNewlineDecoder when a carriage
4265 return encodes to more than one byte in the source encoding (e.g. UTF-16) and
4266 gets split on a chunk boundary.
Antoine Pitrou655fbf12008-12-14 17:40:51 +00004267
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004268- Issue #4223: inspect.getsource() will now correctly display source code for
4269 packages loaded via zipimport (or any other conformant PEP 302
Nick Coghlana2053472008-12-14 10:54:50 +00004270 loader). Original patch by Alexander Belopolsky.
4271
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004272- Issue #4201: pdb can now access and display source code loaded via zipimport
4273 (or any other conformant PEP 302 loader). Original patch by Alexander
4274 Belopolsky.
Nick Coghlana2053472008-12-14 10:54:50 +00004275
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004276- Issue #4197: Doctests in modules loaded via zipimport (or any other PEP 302
4277 conformant loader) will now work correctly in most cases (they are still
4278 subject to the constraints that exist for all code running from inside a
4279 module loaded via a PEP 302 loader and attempting to perform IO operations
4280 based on __file__). Original patch by Alexander Belopolsky.
Nick Coghlana2053472008-12-14 10:54:50 +00004281
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004282- Issues #4082 and #4512: Add runpy support to zipimport in a manner that allows
4283 backporting to maintenance branches. Original patch by Alexander Belopolsky.
Nick Coghlana2053472008-12-14 10:54:50 +00004284
Antoine Pitrou74af3bb2008-12-13 23:12:30 +00004285- Issue #4163: Use unicode-friendly word splitting in the textwrap functions
4286 when given an unicode string.
4287
Lars Gustäbel3b027422008-12-12 13:58:03 +00004288- Issue #4616: TarFile.utime(): Restore directory times on Windows.
4289
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004290- Issue #4084: Fix max, min, max_mag and min_mag Decimal methods to give correct
4291 results in the case where one argument is a quiet NaN and the other is a
4292 finite number that requires rounding.
Facundo Batistae29d4352008-12-11 04:19:46 +00004293
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004294- Issue #1030250: Distutils created directories even when run with the --dry-run
4295 option.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc240028c2008-12-11 00:03:42 +00004296
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004297- Issue #4483: _dbm module now builds on systems with gdbm & gdbm_compat libs.
Skip Montanaro45313fe2008-12-06 17:43:30 +00004298
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004299- Issue #4529: Fix the parser module's validation of try-except-finally
Georg Brandlfe879e82008-12-05 12:09:41 +00004300 statements.
4301
Georg Brandla07435d2008-12-05 09:23:14 +00004302- Issue #4458: getopt.gnu_getopt() now recognizes a single "-" as an argument,
4303 not a malformed option.
4304
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004305- Added the subprocess.check_output() convenience function to get output from a
4306 subprocess on success or raise an exception on error.
Gregory P. Smith97f49f42008-12-04 20:21:09 +00004307
Fred Drake52481032008-12-04 18:25:17 +00004308- Issue #1055234: cgi.parse_header(): Fixed parsing of header parameters to
4309 support unusual filenames (such as those containing semi-colons) in
4310 Content-Disposition headers.
4311
Vinay Sajip6831d6b2008-12-04 20:32:18 +00004312- Issue #4384: Added logging integration with warnings module using
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004313 captureWarnings(). This change includes a NullHandler which does nothing; it
4314 will be of use to library developers who want to avoid the "No handlers could
4315 be found for logger XXX" message which can appear if the library user doesn't
4316 configure logging.
Vinay Sajip213faca2008-12-03 23:22:58 +00004317
Christian Heimesaa674712008-11-28 11:02:32 +00004318- Issue #3741: DISTUTILS_USE_SDK set causes msvc9compiler.py to raise an
4319 exception.
4320
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004321- Issue #4363: The uuid.uuid1() and uuid.uuid4() functions now work even if the
4322 ctypes module is not present.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd4294172008-11-21 22:05:48 +00004323
Benjamin Petersonbfc51562008-11-22 01:59:15 +00004324- FileIO's mode attribute now always includes ``"b"``.
4325
Martin v. Löwisbb9b1f12008-11-19 09:09:41 +00004326- Issue #4116: Resolve member name conflict in ScrolledCanvas.__init__.
4327
Brett Cannone3d0bf72008-11-15 22:40:44 +00004328- httplib.HTTPConnection.putheader() now accepts an arbitrary number of values
4329 for any header, matching what the documentation has claimed for a while.
4330
Hirokazu Yamamotob9828f62008-11-03 18:03:06 +00004331- Issue #3774: Fixed an error when create a Tkinter menu item without command
4332 and then remove it.
4333
Thomas Heller1fac5a42008-10-30 20:18:13 +00004334- Fixed a modulefinder crash on certain relative imports.
4335
Benjamin Petersonc18574c2008-10-22 21:16:34 +00004336- Issue #4150: Pdb's "up" command now works for generator frames in post-mortem
4337 debugging.
4338
Benjamin Petersone4dc1752008-10-21 22:20:31 +00004339- Issue #4092: Return ArgInfo as promised in the documentation from
4340 inspect.getargvalues.
4341
Georg Brandlf3776a12008-10-08 18:47:17 +00004342- Issue #3935: Properly support list subclasses in bisect's C implementation.
4343
Martin v. Löwis96a9f232008-10-06 15:15:40 +00004344- Issue #4014: Don't claim that Python has an Alpha release status, in addition
4345 to claiming it is Mature.
4346
Alexandre Vassalotti6067f782008-12-27 07:13:01 +00004347- Issue #4730: Fixed the cPickle module to handle correctly astral characters
4348 when protocol 0 is used.
4349
Ronald Oussoren0238497e2009-01-02 14:10:20 +00004350- Issue #1594: MacOS.GetCreatorAndType now always returns a big-endian result,
4351 to be consistent with Apple tools.
4352
Ronald Oussoren63b74fe2009-01-02 14:46:19 +00004353- Issue #900949: plat-mac/videoreader.py no longer relies on a non-existing
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00004354 module.
Ronald Oussoren63b74fe2009-01-02 14:46:19 +00004355
Ronald Oussoren7f8cbf02009-01-02 14:48:17 +00004356- Issue #16278952: plat-mac/videoreader.py now correctly imports MediaDescr
4357
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004358- Issue #1737832: plat-mac/EasyDialog.py no longer uses the broken aepack
Ronald Oussoren919697c2009-01-02 14:52:09 +00004359 module.
4360
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004361- Issue #1149804: macostools.mkdirs now even works when another process creates
4362 one of the needed subdirectories.
Ronald Oussorenabcc1682009-01-02 15:00:05 +00004363
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004364- Issue #900506: added --no-zipimport flag to the bundlebuilder script.
Ronald Oussoren072bb402009-01-02 15:25:36 +00004365
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004366- Issue #841800: bundlebuilder now works with 'python -O'.
Ronald Oussoren072bb402009-01-02 15:25:36 +00004367
Matthias Klose43723e22009-01-10 17:00:42 +00004368- Issue #4861: ctypes.util.find_library(): Robustify. Fix library detection on
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004369 biarch systems. Try to rely on ldconfig only, without using objdump and gcc.
Matthias Klose43723e22009-01-10 17:00:42 +00004370
Gregory P. Smithde1a8b72009-01-31 22:57:30 +00004371- Issue #5104: The socket module now raises OverflowError when 16-bit port and
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004372 protocol numbers are supplied outside the allowed 0-65536 range on bind() and
4373 getservbyport().
Gregory P. Smithde1a8b72009-01-31 22:57:30 +00004374
Neil Schemenauer92c3b212009-02-07 00:54:41 +00004375- Issue #999042: The Python compiler now handles explict global statements
4376 correctly (should be assigned using STORE_GLOBAL opcode).
4377
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004378- Issue #2703: SimpleXMLRPCDispatcher.__init__: Provide default values for new
4379 arguments introduced in 2.5.
Matthias Klosea5d58c82009-04-05 21:00:48 +00004380
Walter Dörwald5d98ec72009-04-25 14:03:16 +00004381- Issue #5828 (Invalid behavior of unicode.lower): Fixed bogus logic in
4382 makeunicodedata.py and regenerated the Unicode database (This fixes
4383 u'\u1d79'.lower() == '\x00').
4384
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Wervenb87b3342009-05-08 14:11:23 +00004385- Windows locale mapping updated to Vista.
4386
Antoine Pitroue555f582008-12-27 20:34:52 +00004387Tools/Demos
4388-----------
4389
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004390- Ttk demos added in Demo/tkinter/ttk/.
Guilherme Polo4eae0782009-01-28 15:56:01 +00004391
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004392- Issue #4677: Add two list comprehension tests to pybench.
Antoine Pitroue555f582008-12-27 20:34:52 +00004393
Brett Cannon60b15d22008-10-06 22:44:37 +00004394Build
4395-----
4396
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004397- Issue #6603: Change READ_TIMESTAMP macro in ceval.c so that it compiles
4398 correctly under gcc on x86-64. This fixes a reported problem with the
4399 --with-tsc build on x86-64.
Mark Dickinson504a1512009-10-31 10:11:28 +00004400
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004401- Add 2 new options to ``--with-universal-archs`` on MacOSX: ``intel`` builds a
4402 distribution with ``i386`` and ``x86_64`` architectures, while ``3-way``
4403 builds a distribution with the ``ppc``, ``i386`` and ``x86_64`` architectures.
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +00004404
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004405- Issue #6802: Fix build issues on MacOSX 10.6.
Ronald Oussoren25967582009-09-06 10:00:26 +00004406
Guilherme Polo1ce2d532009-08-16 14:38:57 +00004407- Issue #6244: Allow detect_tkinter to look for Tcl/Tk 8.6.
4408
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00004409- Issue #5390: Add uninstall icon independent of whether file extensions are
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004410 installed.
Martin v. Löwisecb4f952009-06-28 09:32:39 +00004411
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00004412- Issue #5809: Specifying both --enable-framework and --enable-shared is an
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004413 error. Configure now explicity tells you about this.
Ronald Oussoren450d5612009-06-08 21:12:41 +00004414
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004415- Issue #3585: Add pkg-config support. It creates a python-2.7.pc file and a
4416 python.pc symlink in the $(LIBDIR)/pkgconfig directory. Patch by Clinton Roy.
Antoine Pitrouf2caeed2009-05-24 20:23:57 +00004417
Benjamin Petersone5afa3b2009-05-23 19:24:37 +00004418- Issue #6094: Build correctly with Subversion 1.7.
4419
Martin v. Löwis588b54b2009-05-05 16:10:16 +00004420- Issue #5847: Remove -n switch on "Edit with IDLE" menu item.
4421
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004422- Issue #5726: Make Modules/ld_so_aix return the actual exit code of the linker,
4423 rather than always exit successfully. Patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
Antoine Pitrou3fd4ea92009-05-01 21:16:14 +00004424
Matthias Klose10cbe482009-04-29 17:18:19 +00004425- Issue #4587: Add configure option --with-dbmliborder=db1:db2:... to specify
Vinay Sajipf9b01fe2009-05-09 12:07:17 +00004426 the order that backends for the dbm extension are checked.
Matthias Klose10cbe482009-04-29 17:18:19 +00004427
Matthias Klose8ad554f2009-02-22 23:14:26 +00004428- Link the shared python library with $(MODLIBS).
4429
Martin v. Löwisa3e3cb72009-02-10 13:09:19 +00004430- Issue #5134: Silence compiler warnings when compiling sqlite with VC++.
4431
Martin v. Löwisfee1c7f2009-02-02 14:23:16 +00004432- Issue #4494: Fix build with Py_NO_ENABLE_SHARED on Windows.
4433
Martin v. Löwiseefda272009-01-11 09:43:55 +00004434- Issue #4895: Use _strdup on Windows CE.
4435
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004436- Issue #4472: ``configure --enable-shared`` now works on OSX.
Ronald Oussorenf7d54052009-01-02 10:48:31 +00004437
Benjamin Petersonfd9633e2008-12-28 15:37:31 +00004438- Issues #4728 and #4060: WORDS_BIGEDIAN is now correct in Universal builds.
4439
Martin v. Löwiscb6c3592008-11-30 11:08:26 +00004440- Issue #4389: Add icon to the uninstall entry in "add-and-remove-programs".
4441
Martin v. Löwis63470982008-11-19 13:51:44 +00004442- Issue #4289: Remove Cancel button from AdvancedDlg.
4443
Martin v. Löwis3d6f8ff2008-11-07 18:51:50 +00004444- Issue #1656675: Register a drop handler for .py* files on Windows.
4445
Martin v. Löwis692c2f82008-11-06 16:43:00 +00004446- Issue #4120: Exclude manifest from extension modules in VS2008.
4447
Martin v. Löwis0f3e7692008-10-17 13:43:01 +00004448- Issue #4091: Install pythonxy.dll in system32 again.
4449
Martin v. Löwiseba774b2008-10-13 11:23:35 +00004450- Issue #4018: Disable "for me" installations on Vista.
4451
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004452- Issue #3758: Add ``patchcheck`` build target to ``.PHONY``.
Brett Cannon60b15d22008-10-06 22:44:37 +00004453
Martin v. Löwisbb86d832008-11-04 20:40:09 +00004454- Issue #4204: Fixed module build errors on FreeBSD 4.
4455
Tarek Ziadéc4a4aeb2009-08-21 14:28:38 +00004456Documentation
4457-------------
4458
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004459- Issue #6556: Fixed the Distutils configuration files location explanation for
4460 Windows.
Tarek Ziadéc4a4aeb2009-08-21 14:28:38 +00004461
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004462- Issue #6801: symmetric_difference_update also accepts ``|``. Thanks to Carl
4463 Chenet.
Tarek Ziadé3092ed92009-08-29 13:33:21 +00004464
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc07d539d2008-10-14 21:47:22 +00004465C-API
4466-----
4467
Mark Dickinsone31d3002009-12-21 11:21:25 +00004468- Issue #7528: Add PyLong_AsLongAndOverflow (backported from py3k).
4469
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004470- Issue #7228: Add '%lld' and '%llu' support to PyString_FromFormat(V) and
4471 PyErr_Format, on machines with HAVE_LONG_LONG defined.
Mark Dickinson82864d12009-11-15 16:18:58 +00004472
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004473- Add new C-API function PyOS_string_to_double, and deprecated PyOS_ascii_atof
4474 and PyOS_ascii_strtod.
Mark Dickinson09823a22009-10-31 09:42:39 +00004475
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004476- Removed _PyOS_double_to_string. Use PyOS_double_to_string instead. This is in
4477 preparation for (but not strictly related to) issue #7117, short float repr.
Mark Dickinsonba26b392009-10-31 09:28:12 +00004478
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004479- Issue #6624: PyArg_ParseTuple with "s" format when parsing argument with NULL:
4480 Bogus TypeError detail string.
Sean Reifscheider9279e7d2009-08-01 23:54:55 +00004481
Jeffrey Yasskinf7f858d2009-05-08 22:23:21 +00004482- Issue #5954: Add a PyFrame_GetLineNumber() function to replace most uses of
4483 PyCode_Addr2Line().
4484
Jeffrey Yasskin1aa47002009-05-08 21:51:06 +00004485- Issue #5959: Add a PyCode_NewEmpty() function to create a new empty code
4486 object at a specified file, function, and line number.
4487
Brett Cannonc4f90eb2009-04-02 03:17:39 +00004488- Issue #1419652: Change the first argument to PyImport_AppendInittab() to
4489 ``const char *`` as the string is stored beyond the call.
4490
Benjamin Peterson5781f322009-02-16 21:09:09 +00004491- Some PyBytes_* aliases have been removed because they don't exist in 3.x.
4492
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004493- Issue #5175: PyLong_AsUnsignedLongLong now raises OverflowError for negative
4494 arguments. Previously, it raised TypeError.
Mark Dickinson4015f622009-02-10 15:46:50 +00004495
Benjamin Petersoncf2ce242008-12-22 20:52:53 +00004496- Issue #4720: The format for PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords can begin with '|'.
4497
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004498- Issue #3632: From the gdb debugger, the 'pyo' macro can now be called when the
4499 GIL is released, or owned by another thread.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc3538a312008-12-15 22:29:14 +00004500
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc07d539d2008-10-14 21:47:22 +00004501- Issue #4122: On Windows, fix a compilation error when using the
4502 Py_UNICODE_ISSPACE macro in an extension module.
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00004503
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004504- Issue #4293: Py_AddPendingCall() is now thread safe and can be used for
Kristján Valur Jónssonc22ab182009-01-12 09:24:04 +00004505 asynchronous notifications to python from any thread. Documentation added.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc07d539d2008-10-14 21:47:22 +00004506
Benjamin Peterson9dfe6a82008-11-24 04:09:03 +00004507Extension Modules
4508-----------------
4509
Martin v. Löwis50ea4562009-11-27 13:56:01 +00004510- Issue #6508: Add posix.{getresuid,getresgid,setresuid,setresgid}.
4511
Mark Dickinson3d830822009-10-08 15:54:10 +00004512- Issue #7078: Set struct.__doc__ from _struct.__doc__.
4513
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004514- Issue #3366: Add erf, erfc, expm1, gamma, lgamma functions to math module.
Mark Dickinsonb93fff02009-09-28 18:54:55 +00004515
Brett Cannon4d947432009-09-22 00:29:48 +00004516- Issue #6823: Allow time.strftime() to accept a tuple with a isdst field
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004517 outside of the range of [-1, 1] by normalizing the value to within that range.
Brett Cannon4d947432009-09-22 00:29:48 +00004518
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004519- Issue #6877: Make it possible to link the readline extension to libedit on
4520 OSX.
Ronald Oussoren9f20d9d2009-09-20 14:18:15 +00004521
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004522- Issue #6944: Fix a SystemError when socket.getnameinfo() was called with
4523 something other than a tuple as first argument.
Georg Brandlab849892009-09-19 07:35:07 +00004524
Benjamin Peterson7f6d0832009-09-08 23:04:22 +00004525- Issue #6865: Fix reference counting issue in the initialization of the pwd
4526 module.
4527
Mark Dickinson6b3f1ef2009-09-06 21:21:05 +00004528- Issue #6848: Fix curses module build failure on OS X 10.6.
4529
Brett Cannon764465f2009-08-13 19:27:12 +00004530- Fix a segfault in expat when given a specially crafted input lead to the
Matthias Klose3b0f9b02010-01-22 00:34:48 +00004531 tokenizer not stopping. CVE-2009-3720.
Brett Cannon764465f2009-08-13 19:27:12 +00004532
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004533- Issue #6561: '\d' in a regex now matches only characters with Unicode category
4534 'Nd' (Number, Decimal Digit). Previously it also matched characters with
4535 category 'No'.
Mark Dickinsonfe67bd92009-07-28 20:35:03 +00004536
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004537- Issue #1523: Remove deprecated overflow wrapping for struct.pack with an
4538 integer format code ('bBhHiIlLqQ'). Packing an out-of-range integer now
4539 consistently raises struct.error.
Mark Dickinson5fd3af22009-07-07 15:08:28 +00004540
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004541- Issues #1530559, #1741130: Fix various struct.pack inconsistencies for the
4542 integer formats ('bBhHiIlLqQ'). In the following, '*' represents any of '=',
4543 '<', '>'.
Mark Dickinson463dc4b2009-07-05 10:01:24 +00004544
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004545 - Packing a float now always gives a Deprecation Warning. Previously it
4546 only warned for 'I', 'L', '*B', '*H', '*I', '*L'.
Mark Dickinson463dc4b2009-07-05 10:01:24 +00004547
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004548 - If x is not an int, long or float, then packing x will always result in
4549 struct.error. Previously an x with an __int__ method could be packed by
4550 'b', 'B', 'h', 'H', 'i', 'l', '*b', '*h' ,'*i', '*l', and an x with a
4551 __long__ method could be packed by 'q', 'Q', '*q', '*Q'; for x with
4552 neither __int__ nor __long__, TypeError used to be raised (with a
4553 confusing error message) for 'I', 'L', '*B', '*H', '*I', '*L', and
4554 struct.error in other cases.
Mark Dickinson463dc4b2009-07-05 10:01:24 +00004555
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004556 Note: as of Python 2.7 beta 1, the above is out of date. In 2.7 beta 1, any
4557 argument with an __int__ method can be packed, but use of this feature
4558 triggers a DeprecationWarning.
Mark Dickinson154b7ad2010-03-07 16:24:45 +00004559
Martin v. Löwis4f16d3b2009-05-29 15:58:08 +00004560- Issue #4873: Fix resource leaks in error cases of pwd and grp.
4561
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004562- Issue #4751: For hashlib algorithms provided by OpenSSL, the Python GIL is now
4563 released during computation on data lengths >= 2048 bytes.
Gregory P. Smithd02eeda2009-05-04 00:16:49 +00004564
Gregory P. Smithea388262009-02-13 03:00:00 +00004565- Issue #3745: Fix hashlib to always reject unicode and non buffer-api
4566 supporting objects as input no matter how it was compiled (built in
Gregory P. Smithfe32d302010-01-02 22:42:50 +00004567 implementations or external openssl library). NOTE: Undone in 2.7a2.
Gregory P. Smithea388262009-02-13 03:00:00 +00004568
Mark Dickinsona200dd52009-01-15 15:17:43 +00004569- Issue #4397: Fix occasional test_socket failure on OS X.
Mark Dickinsone82cdae2009-01-15 14:54:37 +00004570
Martin v. Löwisb3b7d852009-01-11 09:26:54 +00004571- Issue #4279: Fix build of parsermodule under Cygwin.
4572
Martin v. Löwis9ac49272009-01-02 20:40:14 +00004573- Issue #4051: Prevent conflict of UNICODE macros in cPickle.
4574
Georg Brandl6269fec2009-01-01 12:15:31 +00004575- Issue #4228: Pack negative values the same way as 2.4 in struct's L format.
4576
Martin v. Löwis03824e42008-12-29 18:17:34 +00004577- Issue #1040026: Fix os.times result on systems where HZ is incorrect.
4578
Mark Dickinson4c96fa52008-12-11 19:28:08 +00004579- Issues #3167, #3682: Fix test_math failures for log, log10 on Solaris,
4580 OpenBSD.
4581
Martin v. Löwisbcb017f2008-11-30 19:28:27 +00004582- Issue #4365: Add crtassem.h constants to the msvcrt module.
4583
Benjamin Peterson9dfe6a82008-11-24 04:09:03 +00004584- Issue #4396: The parser module now correctly validates the with statement.
4585
Jack Diederichd60c29e2009-03-31 23:46:48 +00004586- Issue #5228: Make functools.partial objects can now be pickled.
4587
Guilherme Polob1a98de2009-01-28 20:03:26 +00004588Tests
4589-----
4590
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004591- Issue #7431: Use TESTFN in test_linecache instead of trying to create a file
4592 in the Lib/test directory, which might be read-only for the user running the
4593 tests.
R. David Murray820b0ea2009-12-03 23:57:59 +00004594
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004595- Issue #7324: Add a sanity check to regrtest argument parsing to catch the case
4596 of an option with no handler.
R. David Murrayda826892009-11-15 00:04:32 +00004597
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004598- Issue #7312: Add a -F flag to run the selected tests in a loop until a test
4599 fails. Can be combined with -j.
R. David Murray7f7eea62009-11-14 15:18:22 +00004600
Antoine Pitrou310c9fe2009-11-11 20:55:07 +00004601- Issue #7295: Do not use a hardcoded file name in test_tarfile.
4602
Antoine Pitrouc98efe02009-11-06 22:34:35 +00004603- Issue #7270: Add some dedicated unit tests for multi-thread synchronization
4604 primitives such as Lock, RLock, Condition, Event and Semaphore.
4605
Antoine Pitrou59c44f32009-10-30 17:07:08 +00004606- Issue #7222: Make thread "reaping" more reliable so that reference
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004607 leak-chasing test runs give sensible results. The previous method of reaping
4608 threads could return successfully while some Thread objects were still
4609 referenced. This also introduces a new private function: ``thread._count()``.
Antoine Pitrou59c44f32009-10-30 17:07:08 +00004610
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004611- Issue #7151: Fixed regrtest -j so that output to stderr from a test no longer
4612 runs the risk of causing the worker thread to fail.
R. David Murray282396f2009-10-18 21:12:37 +00004613
Antoine Pitrou58d2f262009-10-10 20:52:11 +00004614- Issue #7055: test___all__ now greedily detects all modules which have an
4615 __all__ attribute, rather than using a hardcoded and incomplete list.
4616
R. David Murray14dcd432009-10-14 13:58:07 +00004617- Issue #7058: Added save/restore for things like sys.argv and cwd to
4618 runtest_inner in regrtest, with warnings if the called test modifies them,
4619 and a new section in the summary report at the end.
R. David Murrayabe3d3e2009-10-05 17:03:09 +00004620
Mark Dickinson245d9152009-10-04 18:38:39 +00004621- Issue #7042: Fix test_signal (test_itimer_virtual) failure on OS X 10.6.
4622
Brett Cannone7e941e2009-09-03 21:25:21 +00004623- Issue #6806: test_platform failed under OS X 10.6.0 because ``sw_ver`` leaves
4624 off the trailing 0 in the version number.
4625
Guilherme Polo7f146ab2009-06-21 17:22:50 +00004626- Issue #5450: Moved tests involving loading tk from Lib/test/test_tcl to
4627 Lib/lib-tk/test/test_tkinter/test_loadtk. With this, these tests demonstrate
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004628 the same behaviour as test_ttkguionly (and now also test_tk) which is to skip
4629 the tests if DISPLAY is defined but can't be used.
Guilherme Polo7f146ab2009-06-21 17:22:50 +00004630
Antoine Pitrou4698d992009-05-31 14:20:14 +00004631- Issue #6152: New option '-j'/'--multiprocess' for regrtest allows running
4632 regression tests in parallel, shortening the total runtime.
4633
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004634- Issue #5354: New test support function import_fresh_module() makes it easy to
4635 import both normal and optimised versions of modules. test_heapq and
4636 test_warnings have been adjusted to use it, tests for other modules with both
4637 C and Python implementations in the stdlib can be adjusted to use it over
4638 time.
Nick Coghlan5533ff62009-04-22 15:26:04 +00004639
Brett Cannonce3d2212009-04-01 20:25:48 +00004640- Fix test_warnings to no longer reset the warnings filter.
4641
Brett Cannon2da4d622009-04-01 19:57:10 +00004642- Fix test_logging to no longer reset the warnings filter.
4643
Georg Brandld8fb6ac2009-04-01 00:04:33 +00004644- Issue #5635: Fix running test_sys with tracing enabled.
4645
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004646- regrtest no longer treats ImportError as equivalent to SkipTest. Imports that
4647 should cause a test to be skipped are now done using import_module from test
4648 support, which does the conversion.
R. David Murray41448c52009-03-31 19:57:24 +00004649
Guilherme Polob1a98de2009-01-28 20:03:26 +00004650- Issue #5083: New 'gui' resource for regrtest.
4651
Walter Dörwalda1453172009-04-25 12:15:07 +00004652- Issue #5837: Certain sequences of calls to set() and unset() for
4653 support.EnvironmentVarGuard objects restored the environment variables
4654 incorrectly on __exit__.
4655
Alexandre Vassalotti999ecc02009-07-15 18:19:47 +00004656- Issue #2389: Array objects are now pickled in a portable manner.
4657
Brett Cannon813c43a2009-11-08 21:35:28 +00004658Misc
4659----
4660
4661- Issue #5611: Auto-detect whether a C file uses tabs or spaces in Vim.
4662
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00004663
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00004664What's New in Python 2.6 final
4665==============================
4666
Barry Warsawafa14362008-10-01 21:46:40 +00004667*Release date: 01-Oct-2008*
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00004668
4669Core and Builtins
4670-----------------
4671
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfc5ea392008-09-26 22:34:08 +00004672- Issue #3967: Fixed a crash in the count() and find() methods of string-like
4673 objects, when the "start" parameter is a huge value.
4674
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc17617a02008-09-25 20:52:56 +00004675- Issue #3965: Fixed a crash on Windows when open() is given an invalid
4676 filename or mode, and the filename is a unicode string.
4677
Martin v. Löwise86b07c2008-09-25 04:12:50 +00004678- Bug #3951: Py_USING_MEMORY_DEBUGGER should not be enabled by default.
4679
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00004680Library
4681-------
4682
Martin v. Löwise563aa42008-09-29 22:09:07 +00004683- Issue #3965: Allow repeated calls to turtle.Screen, by making it a
4684 true singleton object.
4685
Brett Cannonb2d61bd2008-09-29 03:41:21 +00004686- Issue #3895: It was possible to crash the interpreter when an external timer
4687 was used with cProfile that returned an object that could not be converted
4688 into a float.
4689
Benjamin Peterson22d3c922008-09-25 20:35:45 +00004690- Issue #3950: Made turtle respect scale factors.
4691
Thomas Hellera85c95d2008-09-24 18:26:05 +00004692- Issue #3547: Fixed ctypes structures bitfields of varying integer
4693 sizes.
4694
Benjamin Peterson2c7470d2008-09-21 21:27:51 +00004695- Issue #3879: A regression in urllib.getproxies_enviroment was fixed.
4696
Gregory P. Smith08067492008-09-30 20:41:13 +00004697- Issue #3863: Disabled a unit test of fork being called from a thread
4698 when running on platforms known to exhibit OS bugs when attempting that.
4699
Martin v. Löwis175d0072008-09-19 15:21:07 +00004700Build
4701-----
4702
Martin v. Löwisd69c9042008-10-01 11:19:50 +00004703- Bug #3989: Package the 2to3 script (as 2to3.py) in the Windows
4704 installer.
4705
Martin v. Löwis175d0072008-09-19 15:21:07 +00004706- Bug #3887: Package x64 version of CRT for AMD64 Windows binaries.
4707
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00004708
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00004709What's New in Python 2.6 release candidate 2?
4710=============================================
4711
Barry Warsaw6af16192008-09-18 04:33:43 +00004712*Release date: 17-Sep-2008*
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00004713
4714Core and Builtins
4715-----------------
4716
Benjamin Peterson8c2b7dc2008-09-18 01:22:16 +00004717Extension Modules
4718-----------------
4719
Benjamin Peterson8d77d442008-09-30 01:31:49 +00004720- Security Issue #2: imageop did not validate arguments correctly and could
4721 segfault as a result.
4722
Benjamin Peterson8c2b7dc2008-09-18 01:22:16 +00004723- Issue #3886: Possible integer overflows in the _hashopenssl module were
4724 closed.
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00004725
Antoine Pitrou3c9f5412008-09-13 20:30:30 +00004726Tools/Demos
4727-----------
4728
Georg Brandl2bd92a52009-10-11 21:10:07 +00004729- Issue #3850: recursion tests in Tools/scripts/find_recursion_limit.py can raise
Antoine Pitrou3c9f5412008-09-13 20:30:30 +00004730 AttributeError instead of RuntimeError, depending in which C API call
4731 exactly the recursion limit is exceeded. Consequently, both exception types
4732 are caught and silenced.
4733
Martin v. Löwis4eb18f92008-09-14 20:22:39 +00004734Build
4735-----
4736
4737- Issue #3617: Include a licensing statement regarding the Microsoft
4738 C runtime in the Windows installer.
4739
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00004740
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00004741What's New in Python 2.6 release candidate 1?
4742=============================================
4743
Barry Warsaw1e62aec2008-09-12 23:25:57 +00004744*Release date: 12-Sep-2008*
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00004745
4746Core and Builtins
4747-----------------
4748
Martin v. Löwis9fa5a282008-09-11 06:53:30 +00004749- Issue #3642: Suppress warning in obmalloc when size_t is larger than uint.
4750
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc05e34492008-09-10 22:04:45 +00004751- Issue #3743: In a few places, PY_FORMAT_SIZE_T was incorrectly used with
4752 PyString_FromFormat or PyErr_Format to display size_t values. The macro
4753 PY_FORMAT_SIZE_T is designed to select the correct format for the OS
4754 ``printf`` function, whereas PyString_FromFormat has an independent
4755 implementation and uses "%zd" on all platforms for size_t values.
4756 This makes a difference on win64, where ``printf`` needs "%Id" to display
4757 64bit values.
4758
Benjamin Peterson97179b02008-09-09 20:55:01 +00004759- Issue #3634: _weakref.ref(Exception).__init__() gave invalid return value on
4760 error.
4761
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd3ffb892008-09-09 07:24:30 +00004762- Issue #3777: long() applied to a float object now always return a long
4763 object; previously an int would be returned for small values. the __long__
4764 method is allowed to return either an int or a long, but the behaviour of
4765 float objects should not change to respect backward compatibility.
4766
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc3571fbf2008-09-01 19:52:00 +00004767- Issue #3751: str.rpartition would perform a left-partition when called with
4768 a unicode argument.
4769
Benjamin Peterson17f03ca2008-09-01 14:18:30 +00004770- Issue #3683: Fix compilation when --without-threads is given.
4771
Antoine Pitroud4ae97b2008-08-29 18:39:48 +00004772- Issue #3668: Fix a memory leak with the "s*" argument parser in
Vinay Sajip35e3b032008-09-01 14:33:59 +00004773 PyArg_ParseTuple and friends, which occurred when the argument for "s*"
Antoine Pitroud4ae97b2008-08-29 18:39:48 +00004774 was correctly parsed but parsing of subsequent arguments failed.
4775
Vinay Sajip35e3b032008-09-01 14:33:59 +00004776- Issue #2534: speed up isinstance() and issubclass() by 50-70%, so as to
Antoine Pitrou0668c622008-08-26 22:42:08 +00004777 match Python 2.5 speed despite the __instancecheck__ / __subclasscheck__
4778 mechanism. In the process, fix a bug where isinstance() and issubclass(),
4779 when given a tuple of classes as second argument, were looking up
4780 __instancecheck__ / __subclasscheck__ on the tuple rather than on each
4781 type object.
4782
Neal Norwitz18aa3882008-08-24 05:04:52 +00004783- Fix crashes on memory allocation failure found with failmalloc.
4784
4785- Fix memory leaks found with valgrind and update suppressions file.
4786
4787- Fix compiler warnings in opt mode which would lead to invalid memory reads.
4788
4789- Fix problem using wrong name in decimal module reported by pychecker.
4790
Christian Heimes7d4c3172008-08-22 19:47:25 +00004791- Silenced another compiler warning about a used but not defined
4792 function 'stringlib_contains_obj'.
4793
Benjamin Peterson712ee922008-08-24 18:10:20 +00004794- Added warnings on the use of ``__getslice__``, ``__setslice__``, or
4795 ``__delslice__``.
4796
Gregory P. Smith2bb25cc2008-09-02 05:29:51 +00004797- Issue #3678: Correctly pass LDFLAGS and LDLAST to the linker on shared
4798 library targets in the Makefile.
4799
Gregory P. Smith980b99b2008-09-07 05:15:18 +00004800- Issue #1204: The configure script now tests for additional libraries
4801 that may be required when linking against readline. This fixes issues
4802 with x86_64 builds on some platforms (a few Linux flavors and OpenBSD).
4803
Benjamin Peterson14cb6bc2008-08-26 17:08:40 +00004804C-API
4805-----
4806
4807- Aliased PyObject_Bytes to PyObject_Str.
4808
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00004809Library
4810-------
4811
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc24cb3822008-09-11 20:56:13 +00004812- Issue #3640: Pickling a list or a dict uses less local variables, to reduce
4813 stack usage in the case of deeply nested objects.
4814
Guido van Rossume3c4fd92008-09-10 14:27:00 +00004815- Issue #3629: Fix sre "bytecode" validator for an end case.
4816
Martin v. Löwis24329ba2008-09-10 13:38:12 +00004817- Issue #3811: The Unicode database was updated to 5.1.
4818
Nick Coghland2e09382008-09-11 12:11:06 +00004819- Issue #3781: Further warnings.catch_warnings() cleanup to prevent
4820 silent misbehaviour when a single instance is nested in multiple
4821 with statements, or when the methods are invoked in the wrong order.
4822
Vinay Sajip844f7412008-09-09 13:42:08 +00004823- Issue #3809: Fixed spurious 'test.blah' file left behind by test_logging.
4824
Nick Coghland2e09382008-09-11 12:11:06 +00004825- Issue #3781: Clean up the API for warnings.catch_warnings() by having it
Brett Cannon672237d2008-09-09 00:49:16 +00004826 return a list or None rather than a custom object.
4827
Benjamin Peterson6ac7d7c2008-09-06 19:28:11 +00004828- Issue #1638033: Cookie.Morsel gained the httponly attribute.
4829
Antoine Pitrouebcd0ce2008-09-05 23:30:23 +00004830- Issue #3535: zipfile couldn't read some zip files larger than 2GB.
4831
4832- Issue #3776: Deprecate the bsddb package for removal in 3.0.
Brett Cannon32476fc2008-09-05 18:33:51 +00004833
Hirokazu Yamamoto42e459e2008-09-04 14:25:30 +00004834- Issue #3762: platform.architecture() fails if python is lanched via
4835 its symbolic link.
4836
Vinay Sajip65d66e12008-09-04 07:31:21 +00004837- Issue #3772: Fixed regression problem in StreamHandler.emit().
4838
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00004839- Issue #600362: Relocated parse_qs() and parse_qsl(), from the cgi module
Facundo Batistac585df92008-09-03 22:35:50 +00004840 to the urlparse one. Added a PendingDeprecationWarning in the old
4841 module, it will be deprecated in the future.
4842
Marc-André Lemburgb339b2a2008-09-03 11:13:56 +00004843- Issue #2562: Fix distutils PKG-INFO writing logic to allow having
4844 non-ascii characters and Unicode in setup.py meta-data.
4845
4846- Issue #3726: Allow spaces in separators in logging configuration files.
Vinay Sajip6a2fd812008-09-03 09:20:05 +00004847
Marc-André Lemburg31a0a142008-09-02 12:11:19 +00004848- Issue #3719: platform.architecture() fails if there are spaces in the
4849 path to the Python binary.
4850
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00004851- Issue #3602: Moved test.test_support.catch_warning() to
Brett Cannon1eaf0742008-09-02 01:25:16 +00004852 warnings.catch_warnings() along with some API cleanup. Expanding the tests
4853 for catch_warnings() also led to an improvement in the raising of a
4854 DeprecationWarning related to warnings.warn_explicit().
4855
Benjamin Peterson973e6c22008-09-01 23:12:58 +00004856- The deprecation warnings for the old camelCase threading API were removed.
4857
Vinay Sajip35e3b032008-09-01 14:33:59 +00004858- logging: fixed lack of use of encoding attribute specified on a stream.
4859
Christian Heimesa27a62e2008-08-22 19:55:54 +00004860- Silenced a trivial compiler warning in the sqlite module.
4861
Christian Heimes1cc69632008-08-22 20:10:27 +00004862- Fixed two format strings in the _collections module.
4863
Benjamin Peterson17f03ca2008-09-01 14:18:30 +00004864- Issue #3703: _fileio.FileIO gave unhelpful error message when trying to open a
4865 directory.
Benjamin Petersonf22c26e2008-09-01 14:13:43 +00004866
Gregory P. Smithd7122032008-09-02 05:36:11 +00004867- Issue #3708: os.urandom no longer goes into an infinite loop when passed a
4868 non-integer floating point number.
4869
Vinay Sajip65d66e12008-09-04 07:31:21 +00004870- Issue #3110: multiprocessing fails to compiel on solaris 10 due to missing
Jesse Nollerb814d6a2008-09-03 18:10:30 +00004871 SEM_VALUE_MAX.
4872
Benjamin Peterson37346b22008-08-23 20:27:43 +00004873Extension Modules
4874-----------------
4875
Jesse Noller438195f2009-01-18 21:04:36 +00004876- Issue #4301: Patch the logging module to add processName support, remove
4877 _check_logger_class from multiprocessing.
4878
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc293924b2008-09-02 23:19:56 +00004879- Issue #2975: When compiling several extension modules with Visual Studio 2008
4880 from the same python interpreter, some environment variables would grow
4881 without limit.
4882
Benjamin Peterson37346b22008-08-23 20:27:43 +00004883- Issue #3643: Added a few more checks to _testcapi to prevent segfaults by
4884 exploitation of poor argument checking.
4885
Gerhard Häringef2276b2008-09-12 13:54:06 +00004886- sqlite3: Changed docstring of iterdump() to mark method as "Non-standard".
4887
Gerhard Häring6e1afcf2008-09-12 18:58:57 +00004888- Issue #3103: Reduced globals symbols used by sqlite3 module and made sure all
4889 remaining ones have "pysqlite_" prefix.
4890
Gerhard Häringe6872eb2008-09-12 22:33:22 +00004891- Issue #3846: Release the GIL during sqlite3_prepare calls. This improves
4892 concurrent access to the same SQLite database from multiple
4893 threads/processes.
4894
Brett Cannona0b74442008-09-03 22:45:11 +00004895Tests
4896-----
4897
Nick Coghland2e09382008-09-11 12:11:06 +00004898- Issue #3781: Add test.test_support.check_warnings() as a convenience
4899 wrapper for warnings.catch_warnings() that makes it easier to check
4900 that expected warning messages are being reported.
4901
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfeb8cad2008-09-06 20:53:51 +00004902- Issue #3796: Some tests functions were not enabled in test_float.
4903
4904- Issue #3768: Move test_py3kwarn over to the new API for catch_warnings().
Brett Cannona0b74442008-09-03 22:45:11 +00004905
Brett Cannoncdeb24b2008-09-05 22:59:17 +00004906Build
4907-----
4908
Martin v. Löwisab0b29b2008-09-13 08:11:57 +00004909- Issue #3833: Use a different upgrade code for Win64 installers.
4910
Martin v. Löwis3f5fda82008-09-08 13:50:10 +00004911- Issue #2271: Set SecureCustomProperties so that installation will properly
4912 use the TARGETDIR even for unprivileged users.
4913
Martin v. Löwis67543a92008-09-08 12:02:45 +00004914- Allow passing the MSI file name to merge.py.
4915
Vinay Sajip844f7412008-09-09 13:42:08 +00004916- Issue #3758: Rename the 'check' target to 'patchcheck' so as to not clash
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfeb8cad2008-09-06 20:53:51 +00004917 with GNU build target guidelines.
Brett Cannoncdeb24b2008-09-05 22:59:17 +00004918
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00004919
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00004920What's New in Python 2.6 beta 3?
4921================================
4922
Barry Warsaw07a4a382008-08-21 01:15:08 +00004923*Release date: 20-Aug-2008*
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00004924
4925Core and Builtins
4926-----------------
4927
Guido van Rossumf8402962008-08-20 15:01:50 +00004928- Issue #1878: Remove Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_VERSION_TAG from
4929 Py_TPFLAGS_DEFAULT when not building the core. This means 3rd party
4930 extensions do not automatically benefit from the class attribute
4931 cache; they will have to explicitly add Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_VERSION_TAG
4932 to their tp_flags field if they care. This is a backwards
4933 compatibility feature; in 3.0, all types will use the cache by
4934 default.
4935
Benjamin Petersonf647dc12008-08-20 01:27:30 +00004936- Keyword arguments can now follow starred arguments. (``f(a, *args,
4937 keyword=23)`` is now valid syntax.)
4938
Thomas Heller0ad5ae02008-08-19 19:25:04 +00004939- ctypes function pointers that are COM methods have a boolean True
4940 value again.
4941
Martin v. Löwisf91d46a2008-08-12 14:49:50 +00004942- Issue #3139: Make buffer-interface thread-safe wrt. PyArg_ParseTuple,
4943 by denying s# to parse objects that have a releasebuffer procedure,
4944 and introducing s*.
4945
Georg Brandl1e13ea92008-08-11 09:07:59 +00004946- Issue #3537: Fix an assertion failure when an empty but presized dict
4947 object was stored in the freelist.
4948
Mark Dickinsonb6467572008-08-04 21:30:09 +00004949- Issue #1481296: Make long(float('nan')) and int(float('nan')) raise
4950 ValueError consistently across platforms.
4951
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc39fd6722008-07-31 21:28:03 +00004952- Issue #3479: On platforms where sizeof(int) is smaller than sizeof(long)
4953 (64bit Unix, for example), unichr() would truncate its argument and return
4954 u'\x00' for unichr(2**32). Now it properly raises an OverflowError.
4955
Neal Norwitze7d8be82008-07-31 17:17:14 +00004956- Apply security patches from Apple.
4957
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc246daed2008-07-31 00:42:16 +00004958- Issue #2542: Now that issubclass() may call arbitrary code, ensure that
4959 PyErr_ExceptionMatches returns 0 when an exception occurs there.
4960
Antoine Pitrou92f82162008-07-25 22:22:08 +00004961- Issue #1819: function calls with several named parameters are now on
4962 average 35% faster (as measured by pybench).
4963
Amaury Forgeot d'Arce4921fe2008-07-21 22:00:38 +00004964- Issue #2378: An unexpected UnboundLocalError or NameError could appear when
4965 the python debugger steps into a class statement: the free variables (local
4966 variables defined in an outer scope) would be deleted from the outer scope.
4967
Gregory P. Smith0470bab2008-07-22 04:46:32 +00004968- Issue #2620: Overflow checking when allocating or reallocating memory
4969 was not always being done properly in some python types and extension
4970 modules. PyMem_MALLOC, PyMem_REALLOC, PyMem_NEW and PyMem_RESIZE have
4971 all been updated to perform better checks and places in the code that
4972 would previously leak memory on the error path when such an allocation
4973 failed have been fixed.
4974
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00004975Library
4976-------
4977
Hirokazu Yamamoto838c79f2008-08-20 13:14:07 +00004978- Issue #3612: Added some missing basic types in ctypes.wintypes.
4979
Benjamin Petersone977ad42008-08-20 01:42:01 +00004980- The methods ``is_in_tuple()``, ``is_vararg()``, and ``is_keywordarg()`` of
4981 symtable.Symbol have been deprecated for removal in 3.0 and the next release.
4982
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc351ffb82008-08-18 19:23:47 +00004983- Issue #2234: distutils failed for some versions of the cygwin compiler. The
4984 version reported by these tools does not necessarily follow the python
4985 version numbering scheme, so the module is less strict when parsing it.
4986
Nick Coghlanf70385a2008-08-18 12:42:46 +00004987- Issue #2235: Added Py3k warnings for types which will become unhashable
4988 under the stricter __hash__ inheritance rules in 3.0. Several types
4989 which did not meet the rules for hash invariants and were already
4990 unhashable in 3.0 have now been explicitly flagged as unhashable in
4991 2.6 as well (collections.Mapping, collections.Set, unittest.TestSuite,
4992 xml.dom.minidom.NamedNodeMap, numbers.Number, UserList.UserList)
4993
Brett Cannon88f801d2008-08-18 00:46:22 +00004994- Update __all__ for cookielib, csv, os, urllib2, and weakref to include things
4995 imported into the module but exposed as part of the module's API.
4996
Brett Cannon7b96f072008-08-18 00:41:11 +00004997- Remove an unneeded import of abc.ABCMeta from 'inspect'.
4998
Brett Cannon46225e72008-08-18 00:36:52 +00004999- Remove unneeded imports of 'sys' and 'warnings' from 'io'.
5000
Brett Cannon25c9d6a2008-08-17 22:10:11 +00005001- Remove unneeded imports of 'warnings' from shelve, filecmp, and dummy_thread.
5002
Hirokazu Yamamoto41a81eb2008-08-17 13:10:46 +00005003- Issue #3575: Incremental decoder's decode function now takes bytearray
5004 by using 's*' instead of 't#'.
5005
Mark Dickinson3e4caeb2009-02-21 20:27:01 +00005006- Issue #2222: Fixed reference leak when occurred os.rename()
Hirokazu Yamamoto7f30a682008-08-17 09:46:56 +00005007 fails unicode conversion on 2nd parameter. (windows only)
5008
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00005009- Issue #2464: urllib2 now supports a malformation in the URL received
Facundo Batista94f243a2008-08-17 03:38:39 +00005010 in a redirect.
5011
Brett Cannonabe423e2008-08-16 21:47:07 +00005012- Silence the DeprecationWarning raised when importing mimetools in
Brett Cannon721b1452008-08-16 22:00:27 +00005013 BaseHTTPServer, cgi (and rfc822), httplib.
Brett Cannonabe423e2008-08-16 21:47:07 +00005014
Facundo Batistaeb90b782008-08-16 14:44:07 +00005015- Issue #2776: fixed small issue when handling an URL with double slash
5016 after a 302 response in the case of not going through a proxy.
5017
Antoine Pitroub90a8be2008-08-15 21:03:21 +00005018- Issue #2676: in the email package, content-type parsing was hanging on
5019 pathological input because of quadratic or exponential behaviour of a
5020 regular expression.
5021
Antoine Pitrou11ec65d2008-08-14 21:04:30 +00005022- Issue #3476: binary buffered reading through the new "io" library is now
5023 thread-safe.
5024
Brett Cannonbf3157b2008-08-14 05:00:03 +00005025- Silence the DeprecationWarning of rfc822 when it is imported by mimetools
5026 since mimetools itself is deprecated. Because modules are cached, all
5027 subsequent imports of rfc822 will not raise a visible DeprecationWarning.
5028
Antoine Pitrou9fcd4b32008-08-11 17:21:36 +00005029- Issue #3134: shutil referenced undefined WindowsError symbol.
5030
Robert Schuppenies14646332008-08-10 11:01:53 +00005031- Issue #1342811: Fix leak in Tkinter.Menu.delete. Commands associated to
5032 menu entries were not deleted.
5033
Brett Cannon83e81842008-08-09 23:30:55 +00005034- Copied the implementation of reduce() to _functools.reduce() to have a
5035 version that did not raise a DeprecationWarning under -3.
5036
Antoine Pitrou76b8bee2008-08-09 17:27:23 +00005037- Issue #3205: When iterating over a BZ2File fails allocating memory, raise
5038 a MemoryError rather than silently stop the iteration.
5039
Guido van Rossum59ce9012008-08-09 14:55:34 +00005040- Issue #3487: sre "bytecode" validator. Passing invalid "re-bytecode"
5041 to _sre.compile() will now be rejected. This should not affect anybody
5042 since the re.compile() function never generates invalid re-bytecode.
5043
Skip Montanaroa032bf42008-08-08 22:52:51 +00005044- Issue #3436: Make csv.DictReader's fieldnames attribute a property so that
5045 upon first access it can be automatically initialized from the csv file if
5046 it wasn't initialized during instantiation.
5047
Brett Cannon3aa2a492008-08-06 22:28:09 +00005048- Issue #2338: Create imp.reload() to help with transitioning to Python 3.0 as
5049 the reload() built-in has been removed.
5050
Brett Cannon7e30b672008-08-04 21:52:25 +00005051- Changed code in the following modules/packages to remove warnings raised
Brett Cannonc1b76e42008-08-09 23:06:16 +00005052 while running under the ``-3`` flag: aifc, asynchat, asyncore, bdb, bsddb,
Brett Cannon047e4a92008-08-17 04:16:04 +00005053 ConfigParser, cookielib, csv, difflib, distutils, DocXMLRPCServer, email,
5054 filecmp, fileinput, inspect, logging, modulefinder, pdb, pickle, profile,
5055 pstats, pydoc, re, rlcompleter, SimpleXMLRPCServer, shelve, socket,
5056 subprocess, sqlite3, tarfile, Tkinter, test.test_support, textwrap,
5057 threading, tokenize, traceback, urlparse, wsgiref, xml, xmlrpclib.
Brett Cannon7e30b672008-08-04 21:52:25 +00005058
Lars Gustäbel727bd0b2008-08-02 11:26:39 +00005059- Issue #3039: Fix tarfile.TarFileCompat.writestr() which always
5060 raised an AttributeError.
5061
Benjamin Peterson01a24322008-07-28 23:35:27 +00005062- Issue #2523: Fix quadratic behaviour when read()ing a binary file without
Antoine Pitroude781a42008-08-09 12:43:23 +00005063 asking for a specific length. This problem only affected files opened
5064 using the new "io" module, not the built-in open() function.
Benjamin Peterson01a24322008-07-28 23:35:27 +00005065
Mark Dickinsonfe84cce2008-07-27 06:39:07 +00005066- Issue #3449: Update decimal module to use most recent specification
5067 (v. 1.68) and tests (v. 2.58) from IBM.
5068
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00005069- Issue #3437: Bug fix in robotparser parsing of Allow: lines.
Skip Montanarof9ac43f2008-07-27 00:50:41 +00005070
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00005071- Issue #1592: Improve error reporting when operations are attempted
Raymond Hettinger8c664e82008-07-25 18:43:33 +00005072 on a closed shelf.
5073
Georg Brandlf9efabb2008-07-23 15:16:45 +00005074- Deprecate the "ast" parser function aliases.
5075
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00005076- Issue #3120: On 64-bit Windows the subprocess module was truncating handles.
5077
5078- Issue #3303: Fix a crash in locale.strcoll() when calling it with
5079 invalid arguments.
5080
5081- Issue #3302: Fix several crashes when calling locale's gettext functions
5082 with None arguments.
5083
5084- Issue #3389: Allow resolving dotted names for handlers in logging
5085 configuration files.
5086
5087- Deprecate the sunaudio module for removal in Python 3.0.
5088
Antoine Pitrou5fdfa3e2008-07-25 19:42:26 +00005089- Issue #3394: zipfile.writestr sets external attributes when passed a
5090 file name rather than a ZipInfo instance, so files are extracted with
5091 mode 0600 rather than 000 under Unix.
5092
Gregory P. Smitha36f8fe2008-08-04 00:13:29 +00005093- Issue #1857: subprocess.Popen.poll gained an additional _deadstate keyword
5094 argument in python 2.5, this broke code that subclassed Popen to include its
5095 own poll method. Fixed my moving _deadstate to an _internal_poll method.
5096
Martin v. Löwis8dbf3642008-08-01 14:10:26 +00005097Build
5098-----
5099
5100- Generate the PatternGrammar pickle during "make install".
5101
Nick Coghlan2a0c2b12008-08-04 12:47:17 +00005102Documentation
5103-------------
5104
Nick Coghlan6e8fef02008-08-18 13:14:22 +00005105- Issue #2235: the C API function PyObject_HashNotImplemented and its
5106 interaction with the tp_hash slot (added in 2.6b2) are now documented
5107
Nick Coghlan2a0c2b12008-08-04 12:47:17 +00005108- Issue #643841: The language reference now provides more detailed
5109 coverage of the lookup process for special methods. The disclaimers
5110 regarding lack of coverage of new-style classes have also been
5111 removed, since the coverage is now fairly reasonable.
5112
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00005113
Raymond Hettingere3ae6552008-06-20 04:18:15 +00005114What's New in Python 2.6 beta 2?
5115================================
5116
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00005117*Release date: 17-Jul-2008*
5118
Raymond Hettingere3ae6552008-06-20 04:18:15 +00005119Core and Builtins
5120-----------------
5121
Georg Brandl3e483f62008-07-16 22:57:41 +00005122- Issue #3156: Fix inconsistent behavior of the bytearray type: all
5123 its methods now allow for items objects that can be converted to
5124 an integer using operator.index().
5125
Mark Dickinson64b7e502008-07-16 09:40:03 +00005126- Issue #3360: Fix incorrect parsing of '020000000000.0', which
5127 produced a ValueError instead of giving the correct float.
5128
Eric Smitha5fa5a22008-07-16 00:11:49 +00005129- Issue #3083: Add alternate (#) formatting for bin, oct, hex output
5130 for str.format(). This adds the prefix 0b, 0o, or 0x, respectively.
5131
Mark Dickinson7103aa42008-07-15 19:08:33 +00005132- Issue #3008: the float type has a new instance method 'float.hex'
5133 and a new class method 'float.fromhex' to convert floating-point
5134 numbers to and from hexadecimal strings, respectively.
5135
Nick Coghlan6d6bd442008-07-15 15:40:22 +00005136- Issue #2235: __hash__ is once again inherited by default. To allow
5137 collections.Hashable to remain meaningful in the presence of the
5138 default hash implementation (object.__hash__), it is now possible
5139 to explicit block inheritance of hash by setting __hash__=None at
5140 the Python level, or tp_hash=PyObject_HashNotImplemented at the C
5141 level.
5142
Nick Coghlanb028f502008-07-13 14:52:36 +00005143- Issue #3221: Issue a RuntimeWarning instead of raising SystemError if
5144 the parent module cannot be found while performing an absolute import.
5145 This means that an incorrectly defined __package__ attribute will
5146 now only prevent relative imports in that module rather than causing
5147 all imports from that module to fail.
5148
Nick Coghlan14ff9942008-07-08 14:21:42 +00005149- Issue #2517: Allow unicode messages in Exceptions again by correctly
5150 bypassing the instance dictionary when looking up __unicode__ on
5151 new-style classes.
5152
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbdd941f2008-07-01 20:38:04 +00005153- Issue #3242: Fix a crash inside the print statement, if sys.stdout is
5154 set to a custom object whose write() method happens to install
5155 another file in sys.stdout.
5156
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc1f40c8a2008-06-30 22:42:40 +00005157- Issue #3088: Corrected a race condition in classes derived from
5158 threading.local: the first member set by a thread could be saved in
5159 another thread's dictionary.
5160
Mark Dickinson1ec2fcd2008-06-20 14:53:43 +00005161- Issue #3004: Minor change to slice.indices(): the start and stop
5162 arguments are now treated identically, making the behaviour easier
5163 to describe and understand. For example, slice(None, -10,
5164 1).indices(9) now returns (0, 0, 1) instead of (0, -1, 1), and
5165 slice(None, 10, -1).indices(10) returns (9, 9, -1) instead of (9,
5166 10, -1).
5167
Georg Brandl278fc502008-07-19 12:46:12 +00005168- Issue #3219: Calling a function with repeated keyword arguments,
5169 f(a=2, a=23), would not cause a syntax error. This was a regression
5170 from 2.4 caused by the switch to the new compiler.
Benjamin Peterson175e4d92008-07-01 19:34:52 +00005171
Georg Brandl278fc502008-07-19 12:46:12 +00005172- Issue #2862: Make int and float freelist management consistent with
5173 other freelists. Changes their CompactFreeList apis into
5174 ClearFreeList apis and calls them via gc.collect().
Gregory P. Smith2fe77062008-07-06 03:35:58 +00005175
Brett Cannon8bb8fa52008-07-02 01:57:08 +00005176Library
5177-------
5178
Thomas Heller57adf222008-08-14 19:10:48 +00005179- Issue #3554: ctypes.string_at and ctypes.wstring_at did call Python
5180 api functions without holding the GIL, which could lead to a fatal
5181 error when they failed.
5182
Martin v. Löwisaabf4042008-08-02 07:20:25 +00005183- Issue #799428: Fix Tkinter.Misc._nametowidget to unwrap Tcl command objects.
5184
Jesse Noller7fb96402008-07-17 21:01:05 +00005185- Issue #3395: fix reference in test_multiprocessing to old debugInfo method
5186
Georg Brandla24869a2008-07-16 22:33:18 +00005187- Issue #3312: Fix two crashes in sqlite3.
5188
Georg Brandl86cbf812008-07-16 21:31:41 +00005189- Issue #1608818: Fix misbehavior in os.listdir() if readdir() fails.
5190
Jesse Noller13e9d582008-07-16 14:32:36 +00005191- Issue #3125: Remove copy_reg in multiprocessing and replace it with
5192 ForkingPickler.register() to resolve conflict with ctypes.
5193
Vinay Sajip51e65192008-07-18 09:01:10 +00005194- Issue #3090: Fixed ARCHFLAGS parsing on OS/X
Jesse Noller13e9d582008-07-16 14:32:36 +00005195
Thomas Heller880f5292008-07-15 19:39:38 +00005196- Issue #3313: Fixed a crash when a failed dlopen() call does not set
5197 a valid dlerror() message.
5198
Thomas Heller2bad6572008-07-15 17:19:50 +00005199- Issue #3258: Fixed a crash when a ctypes POINTER type to an
5200 incomplete structure was created.
5201
Brett Cannon3d0b9f02008-07-13 01:15:07 +00005202- Issue #3339: dummy_thread.acquire() should not return None.
5203
Raymond Hettingerb01713e2008-07-10 14:34:57 +00005204- Issue #3285: Fractions from_float() and from_decimal() accept Integral arguments.
5205
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00005206- Issue #3301: Bisect module behaved badly when lo was negative.
Raymond Hettinger3cd1e422008-07-10 14:03:19 +00005207
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc0f7cddc2008-07-06 21:34:39 +00005208- Issue #839496: SimpleHTTPServer used to open text files in text mode. This is
5209 both unnecessary (HTTP allows text content to be sent in several forms) and
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00005210 wrong because the actual transmitted size could differ from the
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc0f7cddc2008-07-06 21:34:39 +00005211 content-length. The problem had been corrected in the 2.4 branch, but never
5212 merged into trunk.
5213
Georg Brandle78fbcc2008-07-05 10:13:36 +00005214- Issue #2663: add filtering capability to shutil.copytree().
5215
Martin v. Löwis8c436412008-07-03 12:51:14 +00005216- Issue #1622: Correct interpretation of various ZIP header fields.
5217
5218- Issue #1526: Allow more than 64k files to be added to Zip64 file.
5219
5220- Issue #1746: Correct handling of zipfile archive comments (previously
5221 archives with comments over 4k were flagged as invalid). Allow writing
Vinay Sajip51e65192008-07-18 09:01:10 +00005222 Zip files with archives by setting the 'comment' attribute of a ZipFile.
Martin v. Löwis8c436412008-07-03 12:51:14 +00005223
Vinay Sajip51e65192008-07-18 09:01:10 +00005224- Issue #449227: The rlcompleter module now adds "(" to callable objects
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00005225 when completed.
Facundo Batista66c52772008-07-02 16:52:55 +00005226
Nick Coghlanc060b0e2008-07-02 13:09:19 +00005227- Issue #3190: Pydoc now hides the automatic module attribute __package__ (the
5228 handling is now the same as that of other special attributes like __name__).
5229
Brett Cannon8bb8fa52008-07-02 01:57:08 +00005230- Issue #2885 (partial): The urllib.urlopen() function has been deprecated for
5231 removal in Python 3.0 in favor of urllib2.urlopen().
5232
Gregory P. Smithf4140642008-07-06 07:16:40 +00005233- Issue #2113: Fix error in subprocess.Popen if the select system call is
5234 interrupted by a signal.
5235
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00005236- Issue #3309: Fix bz2.BZFile iterator to release its internal lock
Gregory P. Smith3b1e6b22008-07-07 04:31:58 +00005237 properly when raising an exception due to the bz2file being closed.
5238 Prevents a deadlock.
5239
Gregory P. Smithc4691ec2008-07-07 05:09:12 +00005240- Issue #3094: httplib.HTTPSConnection Host: headers no longer include the
5241 redundant ":443" port number designation when the connection is using the
5242 default https port (443).
5243
Gregory P. Smithdb3409c2008-07-17 03:13:05 +00005244- Issue #874900: after an os.fork() call the threading module state is cleaned
5245 up in the child process to prevent deadlock and report proper thread counts
5246 if the new process uses the threading module.
5247
Nick Coghlan38469e22008-07-13 12:23:47 +00005248Tests
5249-----
5250
5251- test.test_support.catch_warning now keeps track of all warnings it sees
5252 and is now better documented. Explicit unit tests for this context manager
5253 have been added to test_warnings.
5254
Martin v. Löwisd84fd952008-06-30 06:57:39 +00005255Build
5256-----
5257
5258- Issue #3215: Build sqlite3 as sqlite3.dll, not sqlite3.pyd.
5259
Brett Cannon8bb8fa52008-07-02 01:57:08 +00005260
Brett Cannon97aa1ae2008-07-11 00:12:52 +00005261Documentation
5262-------------
5263
Brett Cannonfeef51d2008-07-11 00:50:01 +00005264- Document that robotparser has been renamed to urllib.robotparser in
Brett Cannon963ffdb2008-07-11 00:48:57 +00005265 Python 3.0.
5266
Brett Cannonf6afa332008-07-11 00:16:30 +00005267- Document that urlparse has been renamed to urllib.parse in Python 3.0.
5268
Brett Cannon97aa1ae2008-07-11 00:12:52 +00005269- Document that urllib2 is split across multiple modules and renamed in
5270 Python 3.0.
5271
5272- Document that urllib is split across multiple modules and renamed in
5273 Python 3.0.
5274
5275
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00005276What's New in Python 2.6 beta 1?
5277================================
5278
Barry Warsawb5d17402008-06-19 01:48:07 +00005279*Release date: 18-June-2008*
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00005280
5281Core and Builtins
5282-----------------
5283
Brett Cannondea1b562008-06-27 00:31:13 +00005284- Issue #3211: warnings.warn_explicit() did not guard against its 'registry'
5285 argument being anything other than a dict or None. Also fixed a bug in error
5286 handling when 'message' and 'category' were both set to None, triggering a
5287 bus error.
5288
Amaury Forgeot d'Arca8919fe2008-06-16 19:12:42 +00005289- Issue #3100: Corrected a crash on deallocation of a subclassed weakref which
5290 holds the last (strong) reference to its referent.
5291
Georg Brandl89f48872008-06-11 18:55:38 +00005292- Add future_builtins.ascii().
5293
Raymond Hettinger5c4d3d02008-06-09 13:07:27 +00005294- Several set methods now accept multiple arguments: update(), union(),
Raymond Hettinger4267be62008-06-11 10:30:54 +00005295 intersection(), intersection_update(), difference(), and difference_update().
Raymond Hettingeree4bcad2008-06-09 08:33:37 +00005296
Robert Schuppenies51df0642008-06-01 16:16:17 +00005297- Issue #2898: Added sys.getsizeof() to retrieve size of objects in bytes.
5298
Martin v. Löwis99815892008-06-01 07:20:46 +00005299- New environment variable PYTHONIOENCODING.
5300
Martin v. Löwis4dd019f2008-05-20 08:11:19 +00005301- Patch #2488: Add sys.maxsize.
5302
Georg Brandla9916b52008-05-17 22:11:54 +00005303- Issue #2353: file.xreadlines() now emits a Py3k warning.
5304
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005305- Issue #2863: generators now have a ``gen.__name__`` attribute that
5306 equals ``gen.gi_code.co_name``, like ``func.__name___`` that equals
5307 ``func.func_code.co_name``. The repr() of a generator now also
5308 contains this name.
Georg Brandlc91210c2008-05-15 15:08:32 +00005309
Georg Brandlbd85eb12008-05-14 06:34:15 +00005310- Issue #2831: enumerate() now has a ``start`` argument.
5311
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005312- Issue #2801: fix bug in the float.is_integer method where a
5313 ValueError was sometimes incorrectly raised.
Mark Dickinsone81c3762008-05-09 16:14:15 +00005314
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005315- Issue #2790: sys.flags was not properly exposing its bytes_warning
5316 attribute.
Brett Cannon3c1d50a2008-05-08 20:23:54 +00005317
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005318- Issue #2196: hasattr() now lets exceptions which do not inherit
5319 Exception (KeyboardInterrupt, and SystemExit) propagate instead of
5320 ignoring them.
Benjamin Petersonb9030f42008-05-12 00:41:23 +00005321
Gregory P. Smith9d534572008-06-11 07:41:16 +00005322- Added checks for integer overflows, contributed by Google. Some are
5323 only available if asserts are left in the code, in cases where they
5324 can't be triggered from Python code.
5325
5326
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00005327Extension Modules
5328-----------------
Guido van Rossum84b1e0f2008-08-20 14:57:20 +00005329- Issue #1179: [CVE-2007-4965] Integer overflow in imageop module.
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00005330
Raymond Hettinger305480c2008-06-16 01:42:40 +00005331- Issue #3116: marshal.dumps() had quadratic behavior for strings > 32Mb.
5332
Andrew M. Kuchling2126bab2008-06-22 13:39:11 +00005333- Issue #2138: Add factorial() to the math module.
Raymond Hettingerecbdd2e2008-06-09 06:54:45 +00005334
Raymond Hettinger6d7702e2008-05-31 03:24:31 +00005335- The heapq module does comparisons using LT instead of LE. This
5336 makes its implementation match that used by list.sort().
5337
Mark Dickinson99dfe922008-05-23 01:35:30 +00005338- Issue #2819: add full-precision summation function to math module,
5339 based on Hettinger's ASPN Python Cookbook recipe.
5340
Georg Brandl88659b02008-05-20 08:40:43 +00005341- Issue #2592: delegate nb_index and the floor/truediv slots in
5342 weakref.proxy.
5343
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005344- Support os.O_ASYNC and fcntl.FASYNC if the constants exist on the
5345 platform.
Georg Brandl5049a852008-05-16 13:10:15 +00005346
Brett Cannon044616a2008-05-15 02:33:55 +00005347- Support for Windows 9x has been removed from the winsound module.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcf9b54c22008-05-12 21:30:24 +00005348
Jesus Cea09c01782008-09-28 23:24:19 +00005349- bsddb module updated to version 4.7.3.
Jesus Cea4907d272008-08-31 14:00:51 +00005350 http://www.jcea.es/programacion/pybsddb.htm#bsddb3-4.7.3. This
5351 code should be compatible with Python 3.0.
Jesus Ceaef9764f2008-05-13 18:45:46 +00005352
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005353- Issue #2858: Fix potential memory corruption when
5354 bsddb.db.DBEnv.lock_get and other bsddb.db object constructors
5355 raised an exception.
Gregory P. Smith664782e2008-05-17 06:12:02 +00005356
Gregory P. Smith5d7d6c32008-05-25 08:32:04 +00005357- Issue #2669: bsddb/__init__.py iteration no longer silently fails when
5358 the database has changed size during iteration. It now raises a
5359 RuntimeError in the same manner as a dictionary.
5360
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005361- Issue #2870: cmathmodule.c compile error.
Christian Heimes0bd23c02008-05-16 10:23:31 +00005362
Benjamin Petersond8a89722008-08-18 16:40:03 +00005363- Added a threading.Thread.ident property.
Gregory P. Smith8856dda2008-06-01 23:48:47 +00005364
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00005365Library
5366-------
5367
Vinay Sajip1e022682008-06-29 21:27:15 +00005368- logging.config: Removed out-of-date comment in _install_handlers and
5369 used issubclass in place of equality comparison of classes.
5370
Facundo Batista5596b0c2008-06-22 13:36:20 +00005371- Issue #2722: Now the os.getcwd() supports very long path names.
5372
Facundo Batista2da91c32008-06-21 17:43:56 +00005373- Issue #2888: Fixed the behaviour of pprint when working with nested
5374 structures, to match the behaviour of 2.5 and 3.0 (now follows the common
5375 sense).
5376
Facundo Batistaa6a4d502008-06-21 18:58:04 +00005377- Issue #1817: cgi now correctly handles the querystring on POST requests
5378
Vinay Sajip8dc20fd2008-06-19 22:41:08 +00005379- Issue #3136: fileConfig()'s disabling of old loggers is now conditional via
5380 an optional disable_existing_loggers parameter, but the default value is
5381 such that the old behaviour is preserved. Thanks to Leandro Lucarella for
5382 the patch.
5383
Vinay Sajip9828b7e2008-06-17 11:04:02 +00005384- Issue #3126: StreamHandler and FileHandler check before calling "flush" and
5385 "close" that the stream object has these, using hasattr (thanks to bobf for
5386 the patch).
5387
Benjamin Peterson5c0be322008-06-13 15:11:50 +00005388- Issue #2912: platform.uname now tries to determine unknown information even if
5389 os.uname exists.
5390
Benjamin Peterson26305a02008-06-12 22:33:06 +00005391- The rfc822 module has been deprecated for removal in 3.0.
5392
Benjamin Petersona03722f2008-06-12 14:23:49 +00005393- The mimetools module has been deprecated for removal in 3.0.
5394
Thomas Heller1cec7aa2008-06-10 14:07:12 +00005395- The ctypes.byref function now takes an optional second parameter
5396 which allows to specify an offset in bytes for the constructed
5397 pointer-like object.
5398
Georg Brandl8509db52008-06-10 07:45:28 +00005399- Added the ast module.
5400
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00005401- Added the multiprocessing module, PEP 371.
Benjamin Peterson6f7ae692008-06-11 20:04:30 +00005402
Georg Brandl7be19aa2008-06-07 15:59:10 +00005403- Factored out the indentation cleaning from inspect.getdoc() into
5404 inspect.cleandoc() to ease standalone use.
5405
Thomas Hellerfbb9c0b2008-06-06 08:33:46 +00005406- Issue #1798: Add ctypes calling convention that allows safe access
5407 to errno.
5408
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00005409- Issue #2404: ctypes objects support the new pep3118 buffer interface.
Thomas Heller59475e92008-06-05 17:52:59 +00005410
Vinay Sajip9828b7e2008-06-17 11:04:02 +00005411- Patch #2125: Add GetInteger and GetString methods for
Martin v. Löwisffe62ed2008-06-02 08:40:06 +00005412 msilib.Record objects.
5413
Gregory P. Smith137d8242008-06-02 04:05:52 +00005414- Issue #2782: The datetime module's strftime methods now accept
5415 unicode format strings just as time.strftime always has.
5416
Georg Brandlac19d852008-06-01 21:19:14 +00005417- The sgmllib and htmllib modules have been deprecated for removal
5418 in Python 3.0.
5419
5420- Issue #3011: locale module alias table was updated to the latest
5421 version from the X.org locale.alias file.
Marc-André Lemburgadff65b2008-05-30 20:52:18 +00005422
Thomas Heller9287acf2008-05-29 19:42:34 +00005423- Issue #1797 (partial fix): ctypes NULL function pointers have a
5424 False boolean value now.
5425
Georg Brandld0b592f2008-05-29 07:45:26 +00005426- Issue #2985: Allow 64-bit integer responses (``<i8>``) in XMLRPC
5427 transfers.
5428
5429- Issue #2877: The UserString.MutableString class has been removed in
5430 Python 3.0.
Brett Cannonabb34fe2008-05-29 05:08:50 +00005431
Lars Gustäbelb1a54a32008-05-27 12:39:23 +00005432- Do not close external file objects passed to tarfile.open(mode='w:bz2')
5433 when the TarFile is closed.
5434
Georg Brandle08e3d02008-05-25 08:07:37 +00005435- Issue #2959: For consistency with other file-like objects, gzip's
5436 GzipFile.close() can now be called multiple times without raising
5437 an exception.
5438
Martin v. Löwis27e4a172008-05-23 15:18:28 +00005439- Issue #1390: Raise ValueError in toxml when an invalid comment would
5440 otherwise be produced.
5441
Vinay Sajipc0128832008-05-20 15:37:22 +00005442- Issue #2914: TimedRotatingFileHandler now takes an optional keyword
5443 argument "utc" to use UTC time rather than local time.
5444
5445- Issue #2929: TimedRotatingFileHandler was using the wrong path when
5446 deleting old log files (filename only instead of full path).
5447
Georg Brandl112aa502008-05-20 08:25:48 +00005448- Issue #1775025: You can now specify zipfile members to open(),
5449 read() or extract() via a ZipInfo instance. This allows handling
5450 duplicate filenames in zipfiles.
5451
Georg Brandl28fdfa92008-05-17 17:57:01 +00005452- Issue #961805: Fix Text.edit_modified() in Tkinter.
5453
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005454- Issue #1793: Function ctypes.util.find_msvcrt() added that returns
Thomas Heller95ba13f2008-05-16 20:06:31 +00005455 the name of the C runtime library that Python uses.
5456 ctypes.util.find_library(name) now call this function when name is
5457 'm' or 'c'.
5458
Brett Cannonfa40bbf2008-05-16 00:50:02 +00005459- The statvfs module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
5460
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005461- The sunaudiodev and SUNAUDIODEV modules have been deprecated for
5462 removal in Python 3.0.
5463
5464- The WAIT module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
5465 3.0.
5466
5467- The torgb module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
5468 3.0.
5469
5470- The SV module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
5471 3.0.
5472
5473- The readcd module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
Brett Cannon22248172008-05-16 00:10:24 +00005474 Python 3.0.
5475
Brett Cannon11ae6e72008-05-15 03:49:00 +00005476- The panelparser module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
5477 Python 3.0.
5478
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005479- The panel module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
5480 3.0.
Brett Cannon7e375862008-05-15 03:46:27 +00005481
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005482- The jpeg module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
5483 3.0.
Brett Cannon89f5d9c2008-05-15 03:44:00 +00005484
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005485- The IOCTL module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
5486 3.0.
Brett Cannond8c41ec2008-05-15 03:41:55 +00005487
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005488- The IN module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
5489 3.0.
Brett Cannon6328b292008-05-15 03:36:13 +00005490
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005491- The imgfile module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
Brett Cannon178582e2008-05-15 03:20:36 +00005492 Python 3.0.
5493
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005494- The GLWS module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
5495 3.0.
Brett Cannon72ccc402008-05-15 03:17:24 +00005496
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005497- The GET module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
5498 3.0.
Brett Cannon2773b6f2008-05-15 03:14:57 +00005499
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005500- The fm module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
5501 3.0.
5502
5503- The FL, flp, and fl modules from IRIX have been deprecated for
5504 removal in Python 3.0.
5505
5506- The FILE module on IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
5507 3.0.
5508
5509- The ERRNO module on IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
5510 3.0.
5511
5512- The DEVICE, GL, gl, and cgen modules (which indirectly includes
5513 cgensupport) have been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
Brett Cannon044616a2008-05-15 02:33:55 +00005514
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005515- The CL, CL_old, and cl modules for IRIX have been deprecated for
5516 removal in Python 3.0.
5517
5518- The cdplayer module for IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
Brett Cannon650f5162008-05-14 21:12:12 +00005519 Python 3.0.
5520
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005521- The cddb module for IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
5522 3.0.
Brett Cannon9eebe492008-05-14 20:34:22 +00005523
Brett Cannonddf949f2008-05-14 20:31:38 +00005524- The cd and CD modules for IRIX have been deprecated for removal in
5525 Python 3.0.
5526
Brett Cannon34721d52008-05-14 01:08:21 +00005527- The al and AL modules for IRIX have been deprecated for removal in
5528 Python 3.0.
5529
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005530- Issue #1713041: fix pprint's handling of maximum depth.
Georg Brandl23da6e62008-05-12 16:26:52 +00005531
Brett Cannonbb141bb2008-05-12 03:47:47 +00005532- The timing module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
5533
Brett Cannonac861b52008-05-12 03:45:59 +00005534- The sv module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
5535
Brett Cannon43e5ef42008-05-12 03:19:20 +00005536- The multifile module has been deprecated as per PEP 4.
5537
Brett Cannon42bfa902008-05-12 00:08:34 +00005538- The imageop module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
5539
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005540- Issue #2250: Exceptions raised during evaluation of names in
5541 rlcompleter's ``Completer.complete()`` method are now caught and
5542 ignored.
Georg Brandl627a6662008-05-11 21:03:42 +00005543
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005544- Issue #2659: Added ``break_on_hyphens`` option to textwrap
5545 TextWrapper class.
Georg Brandl6f95ae52008-05-11 10:42:28 +00005546
Brett Cannon2a869132008-05-11 03:01:47 +00005547- The mhlib module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
5548
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005549- The linuxaudiodev module has been deprecated for removal in Python
5550 3.0.
Brett Cannondf0a7172008-05-11 00:50:51 +00005551
Brett Cannon27508d42008-05-10 22:45:07 +00005552- The ihooks module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
5553
Brett Cannonfe598512008-05-10 22:11:45 +00005554- The fpformat module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
5555
Brett Cannone35a3a12008-05-10 21:22:43 +00005556- The dl module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
5557
Brett Cannond5a09852008-05-10 03:14:32 +00005558- The Canvas module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
5559
Brett Cannon6192df12008-05-10 02:58:26 +00005560- The compiler package has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
5561
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005562- The Bastion and rexec modules have been deprecated for removal in
5563 Python 3.0.
Brett Cannoncda73a42008-05-10 02:53:46 +00005564
Brett Cannon768d44f2008-05-10 02:47:54 +00005565- The bsddb185 module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
5566
Brett Cannon9ac39742008-05-09 22:51:58 +00005567- The pure module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
5568
Mark Dickinsonf8476c12008-05-09 17:54:23 +00005569- Issue #2487: change the semantics of math.ldexp(x, n) when n is too
5570 large to fit in a C long. ldexp(x, n) now returns a zero (with
5571 suitable sign) if n is large and negative; previously, it raised
5572 OverflowError.
5573
Brett Cannonfa24d9a2008-05-09 05:32:42 +00005574- The toaiff module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
5575
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005576- The test.testall module has been deprecated for removal in Python
5577 3.0.
Brett Cannon3c759142008-05-09 05:25:37 +00005578
Brett Cannond7265d62008-05-09 05:18:40 +00005579- The new module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
5580
Brett Cannone3b19402008-05-08 20:36:09 +00005581- The user module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
5582
Brett Cannon6071cc82008-05-08 19:52:45 +00005583- The stringold module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
5584
5585- The mutex module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
Brett Cannon9d441822008-05-08 19:26:08 +00005586
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00005587- The imputil module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
5588
Brett Cannoncae4f5f2008-05-08 20:24:43 +00005589- test.test_support.catch_warning() gained a 'record' argument.
5590
Benjamin Peterson0893a0a2008-05-09 00:27:01 +00005591- os.path.walk is deprecated in favor of os.walk.
5592
Georg Brandl9020ff82008-05-11 14:17:13 +00005593- pdb gained the "until" command.
Benjamin Peterson98353942008-05-11 14:13:25 +00005594
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005595- The Mac Modules (including Carbon) have been deprecated for removal
5596 in Python 3.0.
Benjamin Peterson23681932008-05-12 21:42:13 +00005597
Vinay Sajip9828b7e2008-06-17 11:04:02 +00005598- Library: on MacOS X you can now set ``ARCHFLAGS`` in the shell
Ronald Oussoren5640ce22008-06-05 12:58:24 +00005599 environment to control the '-arch' flags that are used to build
5600 an extension. This was added for compatibility with Apple's build
5601 of Python.
5602
5603- The bundled OSX-specific copy of libbffi is now in sync with the version
5604 shipped with PyObjC 2.0 and includes support for x86_64 and ppc64 platforms.
5605
Georg Brandl25c34082008-08-18 23:09:49 +00005606- The threading module gained aliases for names that will be removed in the
5607 3.x series.
Benjamin Peterson0fbcf692008-06-11 17:27:50 +00005608
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00005609Build
5610-----
5611
Martin v. Löwiscc0f2b22008-06-13 18:12:51 +00005612- 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 +00005613
Martin v. Löwis8c255e42008-05-23 15:06:50 +00005614- Patch #1722225: Support QNX 6.
5615
Brett Cannonb61d8012008-05-11 23:39:04 +00005616- ``Lib/lib-old`` is now added to sys.path.
5617
Ronald Oussoren5640ce22008-06-05 12:58:24 +00005618- On MacOS X it is now possible to install the framework in 64-bit
5619 mode or even as a 4-way universal binary (that is, PPC, i386,
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00005620 PPC64 and x86_64 support in one binary).
Ronald Oussoren5640ce22008-06-05 12:58:24 +00005621
5622 This is controlled by the configure argument ``--with-universal-archs``:
5623
5624 - ``--with-universal-archs=all``: install 4-way universal
5625
5626 - ``--with-universal-archs=32-bit``: install 2-way universal, 32-bit (the default)
5627
5628 - ``--with-universal-archs=64-bit``: install 2-way universal, 64-bit
5629
5630 This option should be used in combination with ``--enable-universalsdk=``.
5631
5632 NOTE: 64-bit and 4-way builds are only suppported on Mac OS X 10.5 (or later).
5633
5634
Christian Heimes7a990612008-05-26 13:15:11 +00005635C API
5636-----
5637
Georg Brandl74a1dea2008-05-28 11:21:39 +00005638- Add ``PyType_Modified()`` as a public API to clear the type cache.
5639
5640- The PyBytes functions have been renamed to PyByteArray.
Christian Heimes7a990612008-05-26 13:15:11 +00005641
5642- The PyString functions have been renamed to PyBytes. A batch of
5643 defines were added so that the linker still sees the original
5644 PyString names.
5645
Georg Brandl5e7b1c02008-05-16 17:40:23 +00005646
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00005647What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 3?
Barry Warsaw65475fd2008-03-01 17:11:41 +00005648=================================
5649
Barry Warsaw6cc79402008-05-08 13:16:19 +00005650*Release date: 08-May-2008*
Barry Warsaw65475fd2008-03-01 17:11:41 +00005651
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd21fb4c2008-03-05 01:50:33 +00005652Core and builtins
5653-----------------
Georg Brandl80055f62008-03-25 07:56:27 +00005654
Georg Brandl28e08732008-04-30 19:47:09 +00005655- Issue #2719: backported the ``next()`` builtin from Python 3.
5656
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005657- Issue #2681: The octal literal ``0o8`` was incorrecly acctepted. Now
5658 it properly raises a SyntaxError.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc52167212008-04-24 18:07:05 +00005659
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005660- Issue #2617: Reserved -J and -X arguments for Jython, IronPython and
5661 other implementations of Python.
Christian Heimes7a98d272008-04-12 13:03:03 +00005662
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005663- Implemented PEP 370: Per user site-packages directory.
Christian Heimesaf748c32008-05-06 22:41:46 +00005664
Andrew M. Kuchling46d6b682008-04-30 16:19:55 +00005665Extension Modules
5666-----------------
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00005667
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005668- Issue #2670: Fix a failure in urllib2.build_opener(), when passed
5669 two handlers that derive the same default base class.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc96865852008-04-22 21:14:41 +00005670
Christian Heimese74c8f22008-04-19 02:23:57 +00005671- Added kill, terminate and send_signal(sig) to subprocess.Popen.
5672
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005673- Added phase(z) -> phi, polar(z) -> r, phi and rect(r, phi) -> z to
5674 the cmath module.
Christian Heimes6f341092008-04-18 23:13:07 +00005675
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005676- Four new methods were added to the math and cmath modules: acosh,
5677 asinh, atanh and log1p.
Christian Heimes6f341092008-04-18 23:13:07 +00005678
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005679- zlib.decompressobj().flush(value) no longer crashes the interpreter
5680 when passed a value less than or equal to zero.
Gregory P. Smith671c5d92008-04-09 18:18:43 +00005681
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005682- Issue #1631171: Re-implement the 'warnings' module in C (the
5683 original Python code has been kept as backup). This will allow for
5684 using the 'warning's machinery in such places as the parser where
5685 use of pure Python code is not possible. Both the ``showarning()``
5686 and ``formatwarning()`` gain an optional 'line' argument which is
5687 not called by default for backwards-compatibility reasons. Setting
5688 ``warnings.showwarning()`` to an implementation that lacks support
5689 for the ``line`` argument will raise a DeprecationWarning.
Brett Cannone9746892008-04-12 23:44:07 +00005690
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00005691Library
5692-------
5693
Brett Cannonf8436822008-05-06 23:41:32 +00005694- The audiodev module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
5695
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005696- Issue #2750: Add the 'json' package. Based on simplejson 1.9 and
5697 contributed by Bob Ippolito.
Brett Cannon4b964f92008-05-05 20:21:38 +00005698
Martin v. Löwis471617d2008-05-05 17:16:58 +00005699- Issue #1734346: Support Unicode file names for zipfiles.
5700
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005701- Issue #2581: distutils: Vista UAC/elevation support for
5702 bdist_wininst.
Mark Hammond7c5c8e62008-05-02 12:48:15 +00005703
Mark Dickinsonfe536f52008-04-25 16:59:09 +00005704- Issue #2635: Fix bug in 'fix_sentence_endings' textwrap.fill option,
5705 where an extra space was added after a word containing (but not
5706 ending in) '.', '!' or '?'.
5707
Thomas Heller6ad5fbb2008-04-25 15:44:16 +00005708- Add from_buffer() and from_buffer_copy() class methods to ctypes
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00005709 data types.
Thomas Heller6ad5fbb2008-04-25 15:44:16 +00005710
Neal Norwitz2b0bea52008-04-25 03:40:17 +00005711- Issue #2682: ctypes callback functions no longer contain a cyclic
Thomas Hellerbf027c42008-04-24 18:14:19 +00005712 reference to themselves.
5713
Gregory P. Smithd59fefb2008-04-22 08:11:33 +00005714- The getpass module has been improved on Unix. It now uses /dev/tty
5715 by default and uses stderr instead of stdout. A GetPassWarning is
5716 issued when input echo cannot be controlled.
Gregory P. Smith41e30182008-04-21 21:31:08 +00005717
Skip Montanarob131f042008-04-18 20:35:46 +00005718- Issue #2014: Allow XML-RPC datetime objects to have dates before
5719 1900-01-01.
5720
Nick Coghlan106fc482008-04-15 10:25:31 +00005721- Issue #2439: Added new function pkgutil.get_data(), which is a
5722 convenience wrapper for the PEP 302 get_data() API.
5723
Thomas Heller046e6a42008-04-14 16:10:07 +00005724- Issue #2616: The ctypes.pointer() and ctypes.POINTER() functions are
5725 now implemented in C for better performance.
5726
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005727- Issue #2408: The ``_types`` module, which was used as in
5728 implementation detail of the public ``types`` module, has been
5729 removed and replaced by pure python code.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc02f33b42008-04-08 23:10:07 +00005730
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005731- Issue #2513: distutils on Windows is now capable of cross-compiling
Mark Hammond495cf992008-04-07 01:53:39 +00005732 extension modules between 32 and 64 bit platforms. See the distutls
5733 build documentation for more information.
5734
Gregory P. Smithaa63d0d2008-04-06 23:11:17 +00005735- Issue #815646: Individual file objects may now be used from multiple
5736 threads at once without fear of crashing the Python interpreter. If
5737 file.close() is called while an object is in use by another thread
5738 an IOError exception will be raised and the file will not be closed.
5739
Thomas Hellerf7906482008-04-04 19:43:25 +00005740- The bundled libffi copy is now in sync with the recently released
5741 libffi3.0.5 version, apart from some small changes to
5742 Modules/_ctypes/libffi/configure.ac.
5743
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005744- Issue #2385: distutils.core.run_script() makes __file__ available,
5745 so the controlled environment will more closely mirror the typical
5746 script environment. This supports setup.py scripts that refer to
5747 data files.
Fred Drake46c58c12008-04-04 05:41:30 +00005748
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00005749Tests
5750-----
Trent Nelsone41b0062008-04-08 23:47:30 +00005751
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005752- Issue #2550: The approach used by client/server code for obtaining
5753 ports to listen on in network-oriented tests has been refined in an
5754 effort to facilitate running multiple instances of the entire
5755 regression test suite in parallel without issue.
5756 test_support.bind_port() has been fixed such that it will always
5757 return a unique port -- which wasn't always the case with the
5758 previous implementation, especially if socket options had been set
5759 that affected address reuse (i.e. SO_REUSEADDR, SO_REUSEPORT). The
5760 new implementation of bind_port() will actually raise an exception
5761 if it is passed an AF_INET/SOCK_STREAM socket with either the
5762 SO_REUSEADDR or SO_REUSEPORT socket option set. Furthermore, if
5763 available, bind_port() will set the SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE option on
5764 the socket it's been passed. This currently only applies to
5765 Windows. This option prevents any other sockets from binding to the
5766 host/port we've bound to, thus removing the possibility of the
5767 'non-deterministic' behaviour, as Microsoft puts it, that occurs
5768 when a second SOCK_STREAM socket binds and accepts to a host/port
5769 that's already been bound by another socket. The optional preferred
5770 port parameter to bind_port() has been removed. Under no
5771 circumstances should tests be hard coding ports!
5772
5773 test_support.find_unused_port() has also been introduced, which will
5774 pass a temporary socket object to bind_port() in order to obtain an
5775 unused port. The temporary socket object is then closed and
5776 deleted, and the port is returned. This method should only be used
5777 for obtaining an unused port in order to pass to an external program
5778 (i.e. the -accept [port] argument to openssl's s_server mode) or as
5779 a parameter to a server-oriented class that doesn't give you direct
5780 access to the underlying socket used.
5781
5782 Finally, test_support.HOST has been introduced, which should be used
5783 for the host argument of any relevant socket calls (i.e. bind and
5784 connect).
Trent Nelsone41b0062008-04-08 23:47:30 +00005785
5786 The following tests were updated to following the new conventions:
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005787 test_socket, test_smtplib, test_asyncore, test_ssl, test_httplib,
Trent Nelsone41b0062008-04-08 23:47:30 +00005788 test_poplib, test_ftplib, test_telnetlib, test_socketserver,
5789 test_asynchat and test_socket_ssl.
5790
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005791 It is now possible for multiple instances of the regression test
5792 suite to run in parallel without issue.
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00005793
5794Build
5795-----
5796
Mark Dickinson65134662008-04-25 16:11:04 +00005797- Issue #1496032: On alpha, use -mieee when gcc is the compiler.
5798
Thomas Hellerdc96a772008-04-04 10:07:55 +00005799- Issue #2544: On HP-UX systems, use 'gcc -shared' for linking when
5800 gcc is used as compiler.
5801
Ronald Oussoren580c7fe2008-05-02 19:45:11 +00005802- Issue #2573: On MacOS X it is now possible to install the framework
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005803 with a different name using --with-framework-name=NAME.
Ronald Oussoren580c7fe2008-05-02 19:45:11 +00005804
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00005805C API
5806-----
5807
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005808- Added implementation of copysign, acosh, asinh, atanh and log1p to
5809 the new files Include/pymath.h and Python/pymath.h for platforms
5810 which provide the functions through their libm. The files also
5811 contains several helpers and constants for math.
Christian Heimes6f341092008-04-18 23:13:07 +00005812
Benjamin Petersondacde0d2008-05-26 17:43:53 +00005813- Added a new convenience macro, PyErr_WarnPy3k, for issuing Py3k warnings.
Benjamin Petersona692c4d2008-04-27 02:28:02 +00005814
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00005815
5816What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 2?
5817=================================
5818
5819*Release date: 02-Apr-2008*
5820
5821Core and builtins
5822-----------------
5823
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005824- Issue #1733757: The interpreter would hang on shutdown if the
5825 tracing function set by sys.settrace is still active and happens to
5826 call threading.currentThread().
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd7a26512008-04-03 23:07:55 +00005827
Georg Brandl91e0cda2008-03-29 01:50:06 +00005828- Patch #1442: properly report exceptions when the PYTHONSTARTUP file
5829 cannot be executed.
5830
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc69b747b2008-03-28 20:30:50 +00005831- The compilation of a class nested in another class used to leak one
5832 reference on the outer class name.
5833
Georg Brandlfc8eef32008-03-28 12:11:56 +00005834- Patch #1810: compile() can now compile _ast trees as returned by
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005835 ``compile(..., PyCF_ONLY_AST)``.
Georg Brandlfc8eef32008-03-28 12:11:56 +00005836
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005837- Patch #2426: Added sqlite3.Connection.iterdump method to allow easy
5838 dumping of databases. Contributed by Paul Kippes at PyCon 2008.
Gregory P. Smithb9803422008-03-28 08:32:09 +00005839
Georg Brandldeaf2ca2008-03-27 13:27:31 +00005840- Patch #2477: Added from __future__ import unicode_literals.
Christian Heimes3c608332008-03-26 22:01:37 +00005841
Christian Heimes8c78cc32008-03-26 12:53:58 +00005842- Added backport of bytearray type.
5843
Georg Brandl80055f62008-03-25 07:56:27 +00005844- Issue #2355: add Py3k warning for buffer().
5845
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc9a0d3462008-03-23 09:55:29 +00005846- Issue #1477: With narrow Unicode builds, the unicode escape sequence
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005847 \Uxxxxxxxx did not accept values outside the Basic Multilingual
5848 Plane. This affected raw unicode literals and the
5849 'raw-unicode-escape' codec. Now UTF-16 surrogates are generated in
5850 this case, like normal unicode literals and the 'unicode-escape'
5851 codec.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc9a0d3462008-03-23 09:55:29 +00005852
Georg Brandl65bb42d2008-03-21 20:38:24 +00005853- Issue #2348: add Py3k warning for file.softspace.
5854
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005855- Issue #2346/#2347: add Py3k warnings for __methods__ and
5856 __members__.
Georg Brandl07e56812008-03-21 20:21:46 +00005857
Georg Brandl5a444242008-03-21 20:11:46 +00005858- Issue #2358: Add a Py3k warning on sys.exc_clear() usage.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd21fb4c2008-03-05 01:50:33 +00005859
Martin v. Löwisa4d77892008-03-19 04:39:13 +00005860- Issue #2400: Allow relative imports to "import *".
5861
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005862- Issue #1745: Backport print function with ``from __future__ import
5863 print_function``.
Eric Smith7c478942008-03-18 23:45:49 +00005864
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005865- Issue #2332: add new attribute names for instance method objects.
5866 The two changes are: im_self -> __self__ and im_func -> __func__
Neal Norwitzb1d3d962008-03-18 04:46:00 +00005867
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005868- Issue #2379: Raise a Py3K warning for __getitem__ or __getslice__ on
Guido van Rossum6d91be32008-03-18 04:42:22 +00005869 exception instances.
5870
Guido van Rossum04edb522008-03-18 02:49:46 +00005871- Issue #2371: Add a Py3k warning when catching an exception that
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005872 doesn't derive from BaseException.
5873
5874- Issue #2341: Add a Py3k warning when raising an exception that
5875 doesn't derive from BaseException.
Guido van Rossum04edb522008-03-18 02:49:46 +00005876
Neal Norwitz419fd492008-03-17 20:22:43 +00005877- Issue #2321: use pymalloc for unicode object string data to reduce
5878 memory usage in some circumstances.
5879
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005880- PEP 3127: octal literals now start with "0o". Old-style octal
5881 literals are still valid. There are binary literals with a prefix of
5882 "0b". This also affects int(x, 0).
Eric Smith0aed07a2008-03-17 19:43:40 +00005883
Georg Brandl1e7c3752008-03-25 08:37:23 +00005884- Issue #2359: Adding deprecation warnings for array.{read,write}.
5885
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005886- Issue #1779871: GNU gcc can now build Python on OS X because the
Jeffrey Yasskin1b4e45b2008-03-17 14:40:53 +00005887 flags -Wno-long-double, -no-cpp-precomp, and -mno-fused-madd are no
5888 longer passed.
5889
Neal Norwitz400aeda2008-03-15 22:03:18 +00005890- Add a warning when asserting a non-empty tuple which is always true.
5891
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005892- Issue #2179: speed up with statement execution by storing the exit
5893 method on the stack instead of in a temporary variable (patch by
5894 Jeffrey Yaskin)
Nick Coghlan7af53be2008-03-07 14:13:28 +00005895
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005896- Issue #2238: Some syntax errors in *args and **kwargs expressions
5897 could give bogus error messages.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd21fb4c2008-03-05 01:50:33 +00005898
Sean Reifscheider68fa8e62008-03-20 00:50:07 +00005899- Issue #2143: Fix embedded readline() hang on SSL socket EOF.
5900
Andrew M. Kuchling46d6b682008-04-30 16:19:55 +00005901Extension Modules
5902-----------------
Martin v. Löwisaef18b12008-03-24 13:31:16 +00005903
5904- Patch #2240: Implement signal.setitimer and signal.getitimer.
5905
Thomas Heller78b8f442008-03-05 14:53:39 +00005906Library
5907-------
5908
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005909- Issue #2315: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now accounts
5910 for daylight savings time in calculating the next rollover.
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00005911
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005912- Issue #2316: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now
5913 calculates rollovers correctly even when nothing is logged for a
5914 while.
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00005915
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005916- Issue #2317: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now uses
5917 improved logic for removing old files.
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00005918
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005919- Issue #2495: tokenize.untokenize now inserts a space between two
5920 consecutive string literals; previously, ["" ""] was rendered as
5921 [""""], which is incorrect python code.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcda0c0252008-03-27 23:23:54 +00005922
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005923- Issue #2248: return the result of the QUIT command. from
5924 SMTP.quit().
Georg Brandldeaf2ca2008-03-27 13:27:31 +00005925
Christian Heimes8c78cc32008-03-26 12:53:58 +00005926- Backport of Python 3.0's io module.
5927
Mark Dickinson8e85ffa2008-03-25 18:47:59 +00005928- Issue #2482: Make sure that the coefficient of a Decimal is always
5929 stored as a str instance, not as a unicode instance. This ensures
5930 that str(Decimal) is always an instance of str.
5931
Mark Dickinson3b24ccb2008-03-25 14:33:23 +00005932- Issue #2478: fix failure of decimal.Decimal(0).sqrt()
5933
Georg Brandl77354cf2008-03-21 20:01:51 +00005934- Issue #2432: give DictReader the dialect and line_num attributes
5935 advertised in the docs.
5936
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005937- Issue #2460: Make Ellipsis object copyable.
Raymond Hettingerb72233c2008-03-24 08:17:39 +00005938
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005939- Issue #1681432: Add triangular distribution to the random module
Raymond Hettingerbbc50ea2008-03-23 13:32:32 +00005940
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005941- Issue #2136: urllib2's auth handler now allows single-quoted realms
5942 in the WWW-Authenticate header.
Georg Brandl33124322008-03-21 19:54:00 +00005943
Marc-André Lemburga1867752008-03-20 18:08:00 +00005944- Issue #2434: Enhanced platform.win32_ver() to also work on Python
5945 installation which do not have the win32all package installed.
5946
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005947- Added support to platform.uname() to also report the machine and
5948 processor information on Windows XP and later. As a result,
Marc-André Lemburga1867752008-03-20 18:08:00 +00005949 platform.machine() and platform.processor() will report this
5950 information as well.
5951
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005952- The library implementing the 2to3 conversion, lib2to3, was added to
5953 the standard distribution.
Martin v. Löwis5e37bae2008-03-19 04:43:46 +00005954
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005955- Issue #1747858: Fix chown to work with large uid's and gid's on
5956 64-bit platforms.
Gregory P. Smith37f3f432008-03-18 20:40:01 +00005957
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005958- Issue #1202: zlib.crc32 and zlib.adler32 no longer return different
5959 values on 32-bit vs. 64-bit python interpreters. Both were correct,
5960 but they now both return a signed integer object for consistency.
Gregory P. Smithf48f9d32008-03-17 18:48:05 +00005961
Skip Montanaro32ed8c22008-03-15 16:07:11 +00005962- Issue #1158: add %f format (fractions of a second represented as
5963 microseconds) to datetime objects. Understood by both strptime and
5964 strftime.
5965
Mark Dickinsonc23b8a72008-03-14 14:23:37 +00005966- Issue #705836: struct.pack(">f", x) now raises OverflowError on all
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005967 platforms when x is too large to fit into an IEEE 754 float;
5968 previously it only raised OverflowError on non IEEE 754 platforms.
Mark Dickinsonc23b8a72008-03-14 14:23:37 +00005969
Andrew M. Kuchlingaac5c862008-05-11 14:00:00 +00005970- Issues #2166, #1741 and #1531505: now distutils deals with HOME
5971 correctly under win32
5972
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005973- Patch #1858: distutils: added multiple server support in .pypirc
Andrew M. Kuchlingaac5c862008-05-11 14:00:00 +00005974
Facundo Batistac54aec12008-03-08 16:50:27 +00005975- Issue #1106316: pdb.post_mortem()'s parameter, "traceback", is now
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005976 optional: it defaults to the traceback of the exception that is
5977 currently being handled (is mandatory to be in the middle of an
5978 exception, otherwise it raises ValueError).
Facundo Batistac54aec12008-03-08 16:50:27 +00005979
Jeffrey Yasskine75f59a2008-03-07 06:22:15 +00005980- Issue #1193577: A .shutdown() method has been added to SocketServers
5981 which terminates the .serve_forever() loop.
5982
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005983- Issue #2220: handle rlcompleter attribute match failure more
5984 gracefully.
Georg Brandl98aa8052008-03-06 07:45:52 +00005985
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005986- Issue #2225: py_compile, when executed as a script, now returns a
5987 non- zero status code if not all files could be compiled
5988 successfully.
Georg Brandla7bd27f2008-03-06 07:41:16 +00005989
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005990- Bug #1725737: In distutils' sdist, exclude RCS, CVS etc. also in the
Georg Brandl810ea292008-03-06 07:34:52 +00005991 root directory, and also exclude .hg, .git, .bzr, and _darcs.
5992
Thomas Hellerf3c05592008-03-05 15:34:29 +00005993- Issue #1872: The struct module typecode for _Bool has been changed
5994 from 't' to '?'.
5995
Thomas Heller78b8f442008-03-05 14:53:39 +00005996- The bundled libffi copy is now in sync with the recently released
5997 libffi3.0.4 version, apart from some small changes to
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005998 Modules/_ctypes/libffi/configure.ac. On OS X, preconfigured libffi
5999 files are used. On all linux systems the --with-system-ffi
6000 configure option defaults to "yes".
Thomas Heller78b8f442008-03-05 14:53:39 +00006001
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006002- Issue #1577: shutil.move() now calls os.rename() if the destination
6003 is a directory instead of copying-then-remove-source.
Sean Reifscheider493894c2008-03-18 17:24:12 +00006004
Martin v. Löwisd2bbe522008-03-06 06:55:22 +00006005Tests
6006-----
6007
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006008- test_nis no longer fails when test.test_support.verbose is true and
6009 NIS is not set up on the testing machine.
Brett Cannon7919d982008-03-19 16:50:13 +00006010
Brett Cannona5573b32008-03-18 04:16:06 +00006011- Output comparison tests are no longer supported.
6012
Brett Cannonb7ec8e52008-03-18 03:46:22 +00006013- Rewrite test_errno to use unittest and no longer be a no-op.
6014
Brett Cannon0bb79502008-03-18 01:58:56 +00006015- GHOP 234: Convert test_extcall to doctest.
6016
Brett Cannonba17cfc2008-03-18 01:50:25 +00006017- GHOP 290: Convert test_dbm and test_dummy_threading to unittest.
6018
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006019- GHOP 293: Convert test_strftime, test_getargs, and test_pep247 to
6020 unittest.
Brett Cannon6eeaddc2008-03-18 01:00:07 +00006021
Brett Cannon1f5182b2008-03-13 21:09:28 +00006022- Issue #2055: Convert test_fcntl to unittest.
6023
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00006024- Issue #1960: Convert test_gdbm to unittest.
Brett Cannon4a6e8d62008-03-13 21:02:16 +00006025
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006026- GHOP 294: Convert test_contains, test_crypt, and test_select to
6027 unittest.
Brett Cannon2e0f9f32008-03-13 20:47:41 +00006028
Brett Cannonb8d37352008-03-13 20:33:10 +00006029- GHOP 238: Convert test_tokenize to use doctest.
6030
Brett Cannon66865d22008-03-13 20:27:00 +00006031- GHOP 237: Rewrite test_thread using unittest.
6032
Martin v. Löwisd2bbe522008-03-06 06:55:22 +00006033- Patch #2232: os.tmpfile might fail on Windows if the user has no
6034 permission to create files in the root directory.
6035
Martin v. Löwisbf7b0b72008-03-14 13:56:09 +00006036Build
6037-----
6038
Martin v. Löwiscdbc9772008-03-24 12:57:53 +00006039- A new script 2to3 is now installed, to run the 2.x to 3.x converter.
6040
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006041- Python/memmove.c and Python/strerror.c have been removed; both
6042 functions are in the C89 standard library.
Brett Cannonaa5778d2008-03-18 04:09:00 +00006043
Martin v. Löwisbf7b0b72008-03-14 13:56:09 +00006044- Patch #2284: Add -x64 option to rt.bat.
Barry Warsaw65475fd2008-03-01 17:11:41 +00006045
Christian Heimes3c608332008-03-26 22:01:37 +00006046C API
6047-----
6048
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00006049- Patch #2477: Added PyParser_ParseFileFlagsEx() and
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006050 PyParser_ParseStringFlagsFilenameEx().
6051
Christian Heimes3c608332008-03-26 22:01:37 +00006052
Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +00006053What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 1?
6054=================================
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00006055
Barry Warsaw7c075232008-03-01 02:53:36 +00006056*Release date: 29-Feb-2008*
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00006057
6058Core and builtins
6059-----------------
6060
Fred Drakea8ee94b2008-03-01 02:45:07 +00006061- Issue #2051: pyc and pyo files are no longer created with permission
Barry Warsaw52973612008-03-01 02:23:38 +00006062 644. The mode is now inherited from the py file.
Christian Heimes40346852008-02-23 17:52:07 +00006063
Georg Brandlad61bc82008-02-23 15:11:18 +00006064- Issue #2067: file.__exit__() now calls subclasses' close() method.
6065
6066- Patch #1759: Backport of PEP 3129 class decorators.
Christian Heimes5224d282008-02-23 15:01:05 +00006067
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00006068- Issue #1881: An internal parser limit has been increased. Also see
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00006069 issue #215555 for a discussion.
Facundo Batistafc2d0102008-02-23 12:01:13 +00006070
Eric Smitha73fbe72008-02-23 03:09:44 +00006071- Added the future_builtins module, which contains hex() and oct().
6072 These are the PEP 3127 version of these functions, designed to be
6073 compatible with the hex() and oct() builtins from Python 3.0. They
6074 differ slightly in their output formats from the existing, unchanged
6075 Python 2.6 builtins. The expected usage of the future_builtins
6076 module is:
6077 from future_builtins import hex, oct
6078
Eric Smith7ef40bf2008-02-20 23:34:22 +00006079- Issue #1600: Modifed PyOS_ascii_formatd to use at most 2 digit
6080 exponents for exponents with absolute value < 100. Follows C99
6081 standard. This is a change on Windows, which would use 3 digits.
6082 Also, added 'n' to the formats that PyOS_ascii_formatd understands,
6083 so that any alterations it does to the resulting string will be
6084 available in stringlib/formatter.h (for float.__format__).
6085
Eric Smith5a3c1352008-02-19 13:21:56 +00006086- Implemented PEP 3101, Advanced String Formatting. This adds a new
6087 builtin format(); a format() method for str and unicode; a
6088 __format__() method to object, str, unicode, int, long, float, and
6089 datetime; the class string.Formatter; and the C API
6090 PyObject_Format().
6091
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006092- Fixed several potential crashes, all caused by specially crafted
6093 __del__ methods exploiting objects in temporarily inconsistent
6094 state.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc632fad32008-02-16 20:55:24 +00006095
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00006096- Issue #2115: Important speedup in setting __slot__ attributes. Also
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006097 prevent a possible crash: an Abstract Base Class would try to access
6098 a slot on a registered virtual subclass.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc60d6c7f2008-02-15 21:22:45 +00006099
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006100- Fixed repr() and str() of complex numbers with infinity or nan as
6101 real or imaginary part.
Christian Heimes2f0da532008-02-15 06:57:08 +00006102
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006103- Clear all free lists during a gc.collect() of the highest generation
6104 in order to allow pymalloc to free more arenas. Python may give back
6105 memory to the OS earlier.
Christian Heimes3b718a72008-02-14 12:47:33 +00006106
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006107- Issue #2045: Fix an infinite recursion triggered when printing a
6108 subclass of collections.defaultdict, if its default_factory is set
6109 to a bound method.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcb01aa432008-02-08 00:56:02 +00006110
Christian Heimesf75dbef2008-02-08 00:11:31 +00006111- Fixed a minor memory leak in dictobject.c. The content of the free
6112 list was not freed on interpreter shutdown.
6113
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00006114- Limit free list of method and built-in function objects to 256
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006115 entries each.
Christian Heimes6075a822008-02-06 12:44:34 +00006116
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006117- Patch #1953: Added ``sys._compact_freelists()`` and the C API
6118 functions ``PyInt_CompactFreeList`` and ``PyFloat_CompactFreeList``
Christian Heimes422051a2008-02-04 18:00:12 +00006119 to compact the internal free lists of pre-allocted ints and floats.
6120
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006121- Issue #1983: Fixed return type of fork(), fork1() and forkpty()
6122 calls. Python expected the return type int but the fork familie
6123 returns pi_t.
Christian Heimes951cc0f2008-01-31 23:08:23 +00006124
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006125- Issue #1678380: Fix a bug that identifies 0j and -0j when they
6126 appear in the same code unit.
Mark Dickinson105be772008-01-31 22:17:37 +00006127
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006128- Issue #2025: Add tuple.count() and tuple.index() methods to comply
6129 with the collections.Sequence API.
Raymond Hettinger5b07ebc2008-02-07 00:54:20 +00006130
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006131- Patch #1970 by Antoine Pitrou: Speedup unicode whitespace and
6132 linebreak detection
Christian Heimes4d4f2702008-01-30 11:32:37 +00006133
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006134- Added ``PyType_ClearCache()`` and ``sys._clear_type_cache`` to clear
6135 the internal lookup cache for ref leak tests.
Christian Heimes908caac2008-01-27 23:34:59 +00006136
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006137- Patch #1473257: generator objects gain a gi_code attribute. This is
6138 the same object as the func_code attribute of the function that
6139 produced the generator.
Georg Brandl0cdf9a32008-01-26 14:14:20 +00006140
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006141- Issue #1920: "while 0" statements were completely removed by the
6142 compiler, even in the presence of an "else" clause, which is
6143 supposed to be run when the condition is false. Now the compiler
6144 correctly emits bytecode for the "else" suite.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc31eaafe2008-01-24 22:59:25 +00006145
Guido van Rossumeead05f2008-01-24 18:21:02 +00006146- A few crashers fixed: weakref_in_del.py (issue #1377858);
6147 loosing_dict_ref.py (issue #1303614, test67.py);
6148 borrowed_ref_[34].py (not in tracker).
6149
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +00006150- Issue #1069410: The "can't load dll" message box on Windows is
Christian Heimesb2302ba2008-01-23 17:15:06 +00006151 suppressed while an extension is loaded by calling SetErrorMode in
6152 dynload_win.c. The error is still reported properly.
6153
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006154- Issue #1915: Python compiles with --enable-unicode=no again. However
Christian Heimes082c9b02008-01-23 14:20:50 +00006155 several extension methods and modules do not work without unicode
6156 support.
6157
Georg Brandl26543b12008-01-21 18:36:51 +00006158- Issue #1882: when compiling code from a string, encoding cookies in the
6159 second line of code were not always recognized correctly.
6160
Georg Brandl14404b62008-01-19 19:27:05 +00006161- Issue #1679: "0x" was taken as a valid integer literal.
6162
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00006163- Issue #1865: ``bytes`` as an alias for ``str`` and b"" as an alias "" were
Christian Heimes288e89a2008-01-18 18:24:07 +00006164 added.
6165
Christian Heimesc94e2b52008-01-14 04:13:37 +00006166- sys.float_info / PyFloat_GetInfo: The floating point information
6167 object was converted from a dict to a specialized structseq object.
6168
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006169- Patch #1816: Added sys.flags structseq. It exposes the status of
6170 most command line arguments and PYTHON* environment variables.
Christian Heimesf31b69f2008-01-14 03:42:48 +00006171
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006172- Objects/structseq.c: Implemented new structseq representation. The
6173 patch makes structseqs (e.g. the return value of os.stat) more
6174 readable.
Christian Heimes9c201962008-01-14 03:33:52 +00006175
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006176- Patch #1700288: added a type attribute cache that caches method
6177 accesses, resulting in speedups in heavily object-oriented code.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arce4c270c2008-01-14 00:29:41 +00006178
Neal Norwitz3fc15b82008-01-10 05:42:58 +00006179- Bug #1776: __import__() no longer accepts filenames on any platform.
6180 The first parameter to __import__() must be a valid module name.
Christian Heimes3403f152008-01-09 19:56:33 +00006181
Georg Brandlaed6c662008-01-07 17:25:53 +00006182- Patch #1668: renamed THREADDEBUG envvar to PYTHONTHREADDEBUG.
6183
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006184- Patch #602345: Add -B command line option, PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE
6185 envvar and sys.dont_write_bytecode attribute. All these can be set
6186 to forbid Python to attempt to write compiled bytecode files.
Georg Brandl2da0fce2008-01-07 17:09:35 +00006187
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006188- Improve some exception messages when Windows fails to load an
6189 extension module. Now we get for example '%1 is not a valid Win32
6190 application' instead of 'error code 193'.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arce0b76952008-01-04 02:04:15 +00006191
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006192- Bug #1481296: Fixed long(float('nan')) != 0L.
Christian Heimes8267d1d2008-01-04 00:37:34 +00006193
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006194- Issue #1640: Added math.isinf(x), math.isnan(x) and math.copysign(x,
6195 y) functions.
Christian Heimese2ca4242008-01-03 20:23:15 +00006196
Christian Heimes0a8143f2007-12-18 23:22:54 +00006197- Issue #1635: Platform independent creation and representation of NaN
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006198 and INF. float("nan"), float("inf") and float("-inf") now work on
6199 every platform with IEEE 754 semantics.
Christian Heimes0a8143f2007-12-18 23:22:54 +00006200
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006201- Compiler now generates simpler and faster code for dictionary
6202 literals. The oparg for BUILD_MAP now indicates an estimated
6203 dictionary size. There is a new opcode, STORE_MAP, for adding
6204 entries to the dictionary.
Raymond Hettingerfd7ed402007-12-18 21:24:09 +00006205
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006206- Issue #1638: %zd configure test fails on Linux.
Christian Heimesdb3d6cb2007-12-16 21:39:43 +00006207
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006208- Issue #1620: New property decorator syntax was modifying the
6209 decorator in place instead of creating a new decorator object.
Christian Heimes90e10e72007-12-14 02:35:23 +00006210
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006211- Issue #1538: Avoid copying string in split/rsplit if the split char
6212 is not found.
Skip Montanaro26015492007-12-08 15:33:24 +00006213
Andrew M. Kuchling395fe442007-12-05 13:27:20 +00006214- Issue #1553: An erroneous __length_hint__ can make list() raise a
Christian Heimes7cc1c6f2007-12-05 12:52:34 +00006215 SystemError.
6216
Nick Coghlanef01d822007-12-03 12:55:17 +00006217- PEP 366: Allow explicit relative imports when executing modules
6218 inside packages with the -m switch via a new module level
6219 __package__ attribute.
6220
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006221- Issue #1402: Fix a crash on exit, when another thread is still
6222 running, and if the deallocation of its frames somehow calls the
6223 PyGILState_Ensure() / PyGILState_Release() functions.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbe49a902007-11-30 20:37:22 +00006224
Christian Heimes28104c52007-11-27 23:16:44 +00006225- Expose the Py_Py3kWarningFlag as sys.py3kwarning.
6226
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00006227- Issue #1445: Fix a SystemError when accessing the ``cell_contents``
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcce7d10c2007-11-24 13:44:17 +00006228 attribute of an empty cell object.
6229
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006230- Issue #1460: The utf-7 incremental decoder did not accept truncated
6231 input. It now correctly saves its state between chunks of data.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcf57375a2007-11-21 01:38:26 +00006232
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006233- Patch #1739468: Directories and zipfiles containing a __main__.py
6234 file can now be directly executed by passing their name to the
6235 interpreter. The directory/zipfile is automatically inserted as the
6236 first entry in sys.path.
Nick Coghlan327a39b2007-11-18 11:56:28 +00006237
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006238- Issue #1265: Fix a problem with sys.settrace, if the tracing
6239 function uses a generator expression when at the same time the
6240 executed code is closing a paused generator.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc0d75f092007-11-13 21:54:28 +00006241
Raymond Hettinger1760c8a2007-11-08 02:52:43 +00006242- sets and frozensets now have an isdisjoint() method.
6243
Raymond Hettinger3f8caa32007-10-24 01:28:33 +00006244- optimize the performance of builtin.sum().
6245
Neal Norwitz44f326e2007-10-05 05:29:17 +00006246- Fix warnings found by the new version of the Coverity checker.
6247
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00006248- The enumerate() built-in function is no longer bounded to sequences
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006249 smaller than LONG_MAX. Formerly, it raised an OverflowError. Now,
6250 automatically shifts from ints to longs.
Raymond Hettinger8f669372007-10-03 21:18:11 +00006251
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006252- Issue #1686386: Tuple's tp_repr did not take into account the
6253 possibility of having a self-referential tuple, which is possible
6254 from C code. Nor did object's tp_str consider that a type's tp_str
6255 could do something that could lead to an inifinite recursion.
6256 Py_ReprEnter() and Py_EnterRecursiveCall(), respectively, fixed the
6257 issues.
Brett Cannon0b14f242007-09-30 19:45:10 +00006258
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006259- Issue #1164: It was possible to trigger deadlock when using the
6260 'print' statement to write to a file since the GIL was not released
6261 as needed. Now PyObject_Print() does the right thing along with
6262 various tp_print implementations of the built-in types and those in
6263 the collections module.
Brett Cannon01531592007-09-17 03:28:34 +00006264
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006265- Issue #1147: Exceptions were directly allowing string exceptions in
6266 their throw() method even though string exceptions no longer
6267 allowed.
Brett Cannon4c20bc42007-09-11 21:02:28 +00006268
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006269- Issue #1096: Prevent a segfault from getting the repr of a very
6270 deeply nested list by using the recursion counter.
Brett Cannona0c05512007-09-10 21:38:27 +00006271
Brett Cannon1e534b52007-09-07 04:18:30 +00006272- Issue #1202533: Fix infinite recursion calls triggered by calls to
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006273 PyObject_Call() never calling back out to Python code to trigger
6274 recursion depth updates/checks. Required the creation of a static
6275 RuntimeError instance in case normalizing an exception put the
6276 recursion check value past its limit. Fixes crashers
6277 infinite_rec_(1|2|4|5).py.
Brett Cannon1e534b52007-09-07 04:18:30 +00006278
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006279- Patch #1031213: Decode source line in SyntaxErrors back to its
6280 original source encoding.
Martin v. Löwisa5136192007-09-04 14:19:28 +00006281
Georg Brandl7c3b50d2007-07-12 08:38:00 +00006282- Patch #1673759: add a missing overflow check when formatting floats
6283 with %G.
6284
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006285- Prevent expandtabs() on string and unicode objects from causing a
6286 segfault when a large width is passed on 32-bit platforms.
Neal Norwitz7dbd2a32007-06-09 03:36:34 +00006287
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006288- Issue #1733488: Fix compilation of bufferobject.c on AIX.
Martin v. Löwisda587ab2007-06-08 17:29:20 +00006289
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006290- Issue #1722485: remove docstrings again when running with -OO.
Georg Brandla5ea6892007-06-01 11:33:33 +00006291
Neal Norwitz0ac60192007-05-27 04:08:54 +00006292- Add new attribute names for function objects. All the func_* become
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006293 __*__ attributes. (Some already existed, e.g., __doc__ and
6294 __name__.)
Neal Norwitz0ac60192007-05-27 04:08:54 +00006295
Neal Norwitz8b2bfbc2007-05-23 06:35:32 +00006296- Add -3 option to the interpreter to warn about features that are
6297 deprecated and will be changed/removed in Python 3.0.
6298
Georg Brandl2134e752007-05-21 20:34:16 +00006299- Patch #1686487: you can now pass any mapping after '**' in function
6300 calls.
6301
Collin Winter62903052007-05-18 23:11:24 +00006302- except clauses may now be spelled either "except E, target:" or
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006303 "except E as target:". This is to provide forwards compatibility
6304 with Python 3.0.
Collin Winter62903052007-05-18 23:11:24 +00006305
Brett Cannon229cee22007-05-05 01:34:02 +00006306- Deprecate BaseException.message as per PEP 352.
6307
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006308- Issue #1303614: don't expose object's __dict__ when the dict is
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00006309 inherited from a built-in base.
Armin Rigo9790a272007-05-02 19:23:31 +00006310
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00006311- When __slots__ are set to a unicode string, make it work the same as
Neal Norwitzcbd9ee62007-04-14 05:25:50 +00006312 setting a plain string, ie don't expand to single letter identifiers.
6313
Raymond Hettinger13936692007-04-11 18:40:58 +00006314- Request #1191699: Slices can now be pickled.
6315
Raymond Hettinger4db5fe92007-04-12 04:10:00 +00006316- Request #1193128: str.translate() now allows a None argument for
6317 translations that only remove characters without re-mapping the
6318 remaining characters.
6319
Georg Brandl5cb76c12007-03-21 09:00:39 +00006320- Patch #1682205: a TypeError while unpacking an iterable is no longer
6321 masked by a generic one with the message "unpack non-sequence".
6322
Neal Norwitzaa754b72007-03-21 06:39:48 +00006323- Remove unused file Python/fmod.c.
6324
Guido van Rossum143b5642007-03-23 04:58:42 +00006325- Bug #1683368: The object.__init__() and object.__new__() methods are
6326 now stricter in rejecting excess arguments. The only time when
6327 either allows excess arguments is when it is not overridden and the
6328 other one is. For backwards compatibility, when both are
6329 overridden, it is a deprecation warning (for now; maybe a Py3k
Guido van Rossum234b1ff2007-03-23 19:39:01 +00006330 warning later). Also, type.__init__() insists on the same signature
6331 as supported by type.__new__().
Guido van Rossum143b5642007-03-23 04:58:42 +00006332
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006333- Patch #1675423: PyComplex_AsCComplex() now tries to convert an
6334 object to complex using its __complex__() method before falling back
6335 to the __float__() method. Therefore, the functions in the cmath
6336 module now can operate on objects that define a __complex__()
6337 method.
Georg Brandl2b869942007-03-17 16:08:45 +00006338
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006339- Patch #1623563: allow __class__ assignment for classes with
6340 __slots__. The old and the new class are still required to have the
6341 same slot names.
Žiga Seilnacht6f2d09c2007-03-16 11:59:38 +00006342
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006343- Patch #1642547: Fix an error/crash when encountering syntax errors
6344 in complex if statements.
Collin Winter77c67bd2007-03-16 04:11:30 +00006345
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006346- Patch #1462488: Python no longer segfaults when
6347 ``object.__reduce_ex__()`` is called with an object that is faking
6348 its type.
Žiga Seilnacht20f43d32007-03-15 11:44:55 +00006349
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006350- Patch #1680015: Don't modify __slots__ tuple if it contains an
6351 unicode name.
Žiga Seilnacht71436f02007-03-14 12:24:09 +00006352
Georg Brandl5240d742007-03-13 20:46:32 +00006353- Patch #1444529: the builtin compile() now accepts keyword arguments.
6354
Georg Brandl7b9c5552007-03-12 14:30:05 +00006355- Bug #1678647: write a newline after printing an exception in any
6356 case, even when converting the value to a string failed.
6357
Georg Brandl871f1bc2007-03-12 13:17:36 +00006358- The dir() function has been extended to call the __dir__() method on
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006359 its argument, if it exists. If not, it will work like before. This
6360 allows customizing the output of dir() in the presence of a
6361 __getattr__().
Georg Brandl871f1bc2007-03-12 13:17:36 +00006362
Collin Winter276887b2007-03-12 16:11:39 +00006363- Patch #922167: Python no longer segfaults when faced with infinitely
6364 self-recursive reload() calls (as reported by bug #742342).
6365
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006366- Patch #1675981: remove unreachable code from ``type.__new__()``
6367 method.
Žiga Seilnacht89032082007-03-11 15:54:54 +00006368
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006369- Patch #1491866: change the complex() constructor to allow
6370 parthensized forms. This means complex(repr(x)) now works instead of
6371 raising a ValueError.
Collin Wintere38051d2007-03-09 20:33:07 +00006372
Georg Brandlaa2321b2007-03-07 00:40:28 +00006373- Patch #703779: unset __file__ in __main__ after running a file. This
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006374 makes the filenames the warning module prints much more sensible
6375 when a PYTHONSTARTUP file is used.
Georg Brandlaa2321b2007-03-07 00:40:28 +00006376
Georg Brandl49aafc92007-03-07 00:34:46 +00006377- Variant of patch #697613: don't exit the interpreter on a SystemExit
6378 exception if the -i command line option or PYTHONINSPECT environment
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006379 variable is given, but break into the interactive interpreter just
6380 like on other exceptions or normal program exit.
Georg Brandl49aafc92007-03-07 00:34:46 +00006381
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006382- Patch #1638879: don't accept strings with embedded NUL bytes in
6383 long().
Georg Brandl00cd8182007-03-06 18:41:12 +00006384
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006385- Bug #1674503: close the file opened by execfile() in an error
6386 condition.
Georg Brandl098cd692007-03-06 12:17:50 +00006387
Georg Brandl0fca97a2007-03-05 22:28:08 +00006388- Patch #1674228: when assigning a slice (old-style), check for the
6389 sq_ass_slice instead of the sq_slice slot.
6390
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006391- When printing an unraisable error, don't print exceptions. before
6392 the name. This duplicates the behavior whening normally printing
6393 exceptions.
Neal Norwitz88516a62007-02-26 22:41:45 +00006394
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006395- Bug #1653736: Properly discard third argument to
6396 slot_nb_inplace_power.
Martin v. Löwisfd963262007-02-09 12:19:32 +00006397
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006398- PEP 352: Raising a string exception now triggers a TypeError.
6399 Attempting to catch a string exception raises DeprecationWarning.
Brett Cannon129bd522007-01-30 21:34:36 +00006400
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006401- Bug #1377858: Fix the segfaulting of the interpreter when an object
6402 created a weakref on itself during a __del__ call for new-style
6403 classes (classic classes still have the bug).
Brett Cannonf5bee302007-01-23 23:21:22 +00006404
Martin v. Löwis6c5c5022007-01-23 21:11:47 +00006405- Bug #1579370: Make PyTraceBack_Here use the current thread, not the
6406 frame's thread state.
6407
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006408- patch #1630975: Fix crash when replacing sys.stdout in
6409 sitecustomize.py.
Thomas Wouters6ed19652007-01-23 13:50:49 +00006410
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006411- Prevent seg fault on shutdown which could occur if an object raised
6412 a warning.
Neal Norwitz72cd02c2007-01-05 05:25:22 +00006413
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006414- Bug #1566280: Explicitly invoke threading._shutdown from Py_Main, to
6415 avoid relying on atexit.
Martin v. Löwis7b7c9d42007-01-04 21:06:12 +00006416
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006417- Bug #1590891: random.randrange don't return correct value for big
6418 number.
Raymond Hettinger94547f72006-12-20 06:42:06 +00006419
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006420- Patch #1586791: Better exception messages for some operations on
6421 strings, tuples and lists.
Georg Brandl283a1352006-11-19 08:48:30 +00006422
Martin v. Löwis056dac12006-11-12 18:24:26 +00006423- Bug #1067760: Deprecate passing floats to file.seek.
6424
Martin v. Löwisa346c092006-11-08 06:48:36 +00006425- Bug #1591996: Correctly forward exception in instance_contains().
6426
Neal Norwitz85dbec62006-11-04 19:25:22 +00006427- Bug #1588287: fix invalid assertion for `1,2` in debug builds.
6428
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006429- Bug #1576657: when setting a KeyError for a tuple key, make sure
6430 that the tuple isn't used as the "exception arguments tuple".
Georg Brandlb9f4ad32006-10-29 18:31:42 +00006431
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006432- Bug #1565514: SystemError not raised on too many nested blocks.
Neal Norwitz21997af2006-10-28 21:19:07 +00006433
Thomas Hellerdf08f0b2006-10-27 18:31:36 +00006434- Bug #1576174: WindowsError now displays the windows error code
6435 again, no longer the posix error code.
6436
Martin v. Löwisb5bc5372006-10-27 06:16:31 +00006437- Patch #1549049: Support long values in structmember, issue warnings
6438 if the assigned value for structmember fields gets truncated.
6439
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006440- Update the peephole optimizer to remove more dead code (jumps after
6441 returns) and inline unconditional jumps to returns.
Neal Norwitzcbeb6872006-10-14 21:33:38 +00006442
Georg Brandl2c1375c2006-10-12 11:27:59 +00006443- Bug #1545497: when given an explicit base, int() did ignore NULs
6444 embedded in the string to convert.
6445
Georg Brandl846f73a2006-10-08 07:11:54 +00006446- Bug #1569998: break inside a try statement (outside a loop) is now
6447 recognized and rejected.
6448
Armin Rigo7ccbca92006-10-04 12:17:45 +00006449- list.pop(x) accepts any object x following the __index__ protocol.
6450
Armin Rigo7ccbca92006-10-04 12:17:45 +00006451- A number of places, including integer negation and absolute value,
6452 were fixed to not rely on undefined behaviour of the C compiler
6453 anymore.
Martin v. Löwis820d6ac2006-10-04 05:47:34 +00006454
Georg Brandl3267d282006-09-30 09:03:42 +00006455- Bug #1566800: make sure that EnvironmentError can be called with any
6456 number of arguments, as was the case in Python 2.4.
6457
Georg Brandl5d59c092006-09-30 08:43:30 +00006458- Patch #1567691: super() and new.instancemethod() now don't accept
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006459 keyword arguments any more (previously they accepted them, but
6460 didn't use them).
Georg Brandl5d59c092006-09-30 08:43:30 +00006461
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006462- Fix a bug in the parser's future statement handling that led to
6463 "with" not being recognized as a keyword after, e.g., this
6464 statement: from __future__ import division, with_statement
Georg Brandla10d3af2006-09-24 12:35:36 +00006465
Neal Norwitz3a230172006-09-22 08:18:10 +00006466- Bug #1557232: fix seg fault with def f((((x)))) and def f(((x),)).
6467
Neal Norwitz4a8fbdb2006-09-22 08:16:26 +00006468- Fix %zd string formatting on Mac OS X so it prints negative numbers.
6469
Brett Cannonf6aa86e2006-09-20 18:43:13 +00006470- Allow exception instances to be directly sliced again.
6471
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006472- Bug #1551432: Exceptions do not define an explicit __unicode__
6473 method. This allows calling unicode() on exceptions classes
6474 directly to succeed.
Brett Cannon9adeab72006-09-20 18:34:28 +00006475
Georg Brandl4e933132006-09-06 20:05:58 +00006476- Bug #1542051: Exceptions now correctly call PyObject_GC_UnTrack.
6477 Also make sure that every exception class has __module__ set to
6478 'exceptions'.
6479
Georg Brandl98775df2006-09-06 06:09:31 +00006480- Bug #1550983: emit better error messages for erroneous relative
6481 imports (if not in package and if beyond toplevel package).
6482
Tim Petersc10c9d02006-09-05 02:18:09 +00006483- Overflow checking code in integer division ran afoul of new gcc
6484 optimizations. Changed to be more standard-conforming.
6485
Neal Norwitz4f096d92006-08-21 19:47:08 +00006486- Patch #1542451: disallow continue anywhere under a finally.
6487
Neal Norwitza22975f2006-09-05 02:24:03 +00006488- Patch #1546288: fix seg fault in dict_equal due to ref counting bug.
6489
Neal Norwitzd34e4272006-09-05 02:36:20 +00006490- The return tuple from str.rpartition(sep) is (tail, sep, head) where
6491 head is the original string if sep was not found.
6492
Neal Norwitzdac090d2006-09-05 03:53:08 +00006493- Bug #1520864: unpacking singleton tuples in list comprehensions and
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006494 generator expressions (x for x, in ... ) works again. Fixing this
6495 problem required changing the .pyc magic number. This means that
6496 .pyc files generated before 2.5c2 will be regenerated.
Neal Norwitzdac090d2006-09-05 03:53:08 +00006497
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00006498- ``with`` and ``as`` are now keywords.
Neal Norwitzca460d92006-09-06 06:28:06 +00006499
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006500- Bug #1664966: Fix crash in exec if Unicode filename can't be
6501 decoded.
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00006502
Guido van Rossumcad37242008-01-15 17:59:29 +00006503- Issue #1537: Changed GeneratorExit's base class from Exception to
6504 BaseException.
Christian Heimes44eeaec2007-12-03 20:01:02 +00006505
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006506- Issue #1703448: A joined thread could show up in the
Gregory P. Smith95cd5c02008-01-22 01:20:42 +00006507 threading.enumerate() list after the join() for a brief period until
6508 it actually exited.
6509
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00006510
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00006511Library
6512-------
6513
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006514- Patch #2274: Add heapq.heappushpop().
Raymond Hettinger53bdf092008-03-13 19:03:51 +00006515
Christian Heimes608c1d82008-03-03 18:28:04 +00006516- Add inspect.isabstract(object) to fix bug #2223
6517
Mark Dickinson1ddf1d82008-02-29 02:16:37 +00006518- Add a __format__ method to Decimal, to support PEP 3101.
6519
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006520- Add a timing parameter when using trace.Trace to print out
6521 timestamps.
Neal Norwitzca376612008-02-26 08:21:28 +00006522
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006523- Issue #1627: httplib now ignores negative Content-Length headers.
Georg Brandl8c460d52008-02-24 00:14:24 +00006524
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006525- Issue #900744: If an invalid chunked-encoding header is sent by a
6526 server, httplib will now raise IncompleteRead and close the
6527 connection instead of raising ValueError.
Georg Brandl23635032008-02-24 00:03:22 +00006528
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006529- Issue #1492: The content type of BaseHTTPServer error messages can
6530 now be overridden.
Georg Brandl16479232008-02-23 15:02:28 +00006531
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006532- Issue #1781: ConfigParser now does not let you add the "default" section
Facundo Batistab12f0b52008-02-23 12:46:10 +00006533 (ignore-case)
6534
Guido van Rossum8bc09652008-02-21 18:18:37 +00006535- Removed uses of dict.has_key() from distutils, and uses of
6536 callable() from copy_reg.py, so the interpreter now starts up
6537 without warnings when '-3' is given. More work like this needs to
6538 be done in the rest of the stdlib.
6539
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006540- Issue #1916: added isgenerator() and isgeneratorfunction() to
6541 inspect.py.
Facundo Batista759bfc62008-02-18 03:43:43 +00006542
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006543- Issue #1224: Fixed bad url parsing when path begins with double
6544 slash.
Facundo Batistad14600e2008-02-18 12:48:43 +00006545
Thomas Hellera06a1a82008-02-13 20:21:53 +00006546- ctypes instances that are not or do not contain pointers can now be
6547 pickled.
6548
Martin v. Löwisdad88dc2008-02-12 18:47:34 +00006549- Patch #1966: Break infinite loop in httplib when the servers
6550 implements the chunked encoding incorrectly.
6551
Mark Dickinsond058cd22008-02-10 21:29:51 +00006552- Rename rational.py to fractions.py and the rational.Rational class
6553 to fractions.Fraction, to avoid the name clash with the abstract
6554 base class numbers.Rational. See discussion in issue #1682.
6555
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006556- The pickletools module now provides an optimize() function that
6557 eliminates unused PUT opcodes from a pickle string.
Raymond Hettingerda614dc2008-02-10 20:35:16 +00006558
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006559- Patch #2021: Allow tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile and
6560 SpooledTemporaryFile to be used in with statements by correctly
6561 supporting the context management protocol.
Nick Coghlanac094dc2008-02-10 07:32:52 +00006562
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006563- Patch #1979: Add rich comparisons to Decimal, and make Decimal
6564 comparisons involving a NaN follow the IEEE 754 standard.
Mark Dickinson2fc92632008-02-06 22:10:50 +00006565
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006566- Issue #2004: tarfile.py: Use mode 0700 for temporary directories and
6567 default permissions for missing directories.
Lars Gustäbel0192e432008-02-05 11:51:40 +00006568
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006569- Issue #175006: The debugger used to skip the condition of a "while"
6570 statement after the first iteration. Now it correctly steps on the
6571 expression, and breakpoints on the "while" statement are honored on
6572 each loop.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc6fd03bb2008-02-04 21:45:05 +00006573
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006574- Issue #1765140: add an optional delay argument to FileHandler and
6575 its subclasses. Defaults to false (existing behaviour), but if true,
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +00006576 defers opening the file until the first call to emit().
6577
Raymond Hettingerc226c312008-01-23 00:04:40 +00006578- The pprint module now supports sets and frozensets.
6579
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006580- Issue #1221598: add optional callbacks to ftplib.FTP's storbinary()
6581 and storlines() methods. (Contributed by Phil Schwartz)
Gregory P. Smithc64386b2008-01-22 00:19:41 +00006582
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006583- Issue #1715: include sub-extension modules in pydoc's text output.
Georg Brandlf2dae0e2008-01-21 21:05:49 +00006584
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006585- Issue #1836: fix an off-by-one bug in TimedRotatingHandler's
6586 rollover time calculation.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00006587
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006588- Issue #1021: fix a bug to allow basicConfig to accept NOTSET as a
6589 level.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00006590
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006591- Issue #932563: add LoggerAdapter convenience class to make it easier
6592 to add contextual information in logging output.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00006593
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006594- Issue #1760556: fix a bug to avoid FileHandler throwing an exception
6595 in flush().
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00006596
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006597- Bug #1530959: distutils' build command now uses different build
6598 directory when building extension modules against versions of Python
6599 compiled with ``--with-pydebug``.
Georg Brandl50160152008-01-21 17:42:40 +00006600
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006601- Issue #1555501: move plistlib from plat-mac directory to general
6602 library.
Georg Brandl864de822008-01-21 16:34:07 +00006603
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006604- Issue #1269: fix a bug in pstats.add_callers() and add a unit test
6605 file for pstats.
Georg Brandl66e73632008-01-21 10:24:59 +00006606
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006607- Issue #1669: don't allow shutil.rmtree() to be called on a symlink
6608 to a directory.
Georg Brandl52353982008-01-20 14:17:42 +00006609
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006610- Issue #1664522: in urllib, don't read non-existing directories in
6611 ftp mode, returning a 0-byte file -- raise an IOError instead.
Georg Brandld5e6cf22008-01-20 12:18:17 +00006612
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006613- Issue #856047: respect the ``no_proxy`` environment variable when
6614 using the ``http_proxy`` etc. environment variables in urllib.
Georg Brandl22350112008-01-20 12:05:43 +00006615
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006616- Issue #1178141: add a getcode() method to the addinfourls that
6617 urllib.open() returns so that you can retrieve the HTTP status code.
Georg Brandl9b0d46d2008-01-20 11:43:03 +00006618
Gregory P. Smithf25680a2008-01-20 01:26:04 +00006619- Issue #1003: Fix zipfile decryption check, it would fail zip files
6620 with extended local headers.
6621
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006622- Issue #1189216: Fix the zipfile module to work on archives with
6623 headers past the 2**31 byte boundary.
Gregory P. Smith350d03b2008-01-19 23:10:52 +00006624
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006625- Issue #1336: fix a race condition in subprocess.Popen if the garbage
Gregory P. Smithb9ba0752008-01-19 21:00:37 +00006626 collector kicked in at the wrong time that would cause the process
6627 to hang when the child wrote to stderr.
6628
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006629- Issue #1146: fix how textwrap breaks a long word that would start in
6630 the last column of a line.
Georg Brandlc6fde722008-01-19 19:48:19 +00006631
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006632- Issue #1693149: trace.py --ignore-module - accept multiple
6633 comma-separated modules to be given.
Skip Montanaro562133b2008-01-19 18:47:24 +00006634
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006635- Issue #1822: MIMEMultipart.is_multipart() behaves correctly for a
6636 just-created (and empty) instance. Thanks Jonathan Share.
Facundo Batista2b1b1952008-01-19 12:32:27 +00006637
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006638- Issue #1861: Added an attribute to the sched module which returns an
6639 ordered list of upcoming events (displayed as named tuples).
Raymond Hettinger44bd6c02008-01-17 19:31:38 +00006640
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006641- Issue #1837: The queue module now also supports a LIFO queue and a
6642 priority queue.
Raymond Hettinger3ad2acc82008-01-16 23:49:35 +00006643
Andrew M. Kuchling4a2762d2008-01-20 00:00:38 +00006644- Patch #1048820: Add insert-mode editing to curses.textpad.Textbox
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00006645 (patch by Stefan Wehr). Also, fix an off-by-one bug in
Andrew M. Kuchling4a2762d2008-01-20 00:00:38 +00006646 Textbox.gather().
6647
Thomas Heller02ec2892008-01-16 19:37:33 +00006648- Issue #1831: ctypes now raises a TypeError if conflicting positional
6649 and named arguments are passed to a Structure or Union initializer.
Thomas Heller415c1e32008-01-16 19:45:51 +00006650 When too many positional arguments are passed, also a TypeError is
6651 raised instead of a ValueError.
Thomas Heller02ec2892008-01-16 19:37:33 +00006652
Thomas Heller902d3072008-01-16 19:16:27 +00006653- Convert the internal ctypes array type cache to a WeakValueDict so
6654 that array types do not live longer than needed.
6655
Guido van Rossumcad37242008-01-15 17:59:29 +00006656- Issue #1786: pdb should use its own stdin/stdout around an exec call
6657 and when creating a recursive instance.
6658
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006659- Issue #1698398: ZipFile.printdir() crashed because the format string
6660 expected a tuple type of length six instead of time.struct_time
6661 object.
Raymond Hettinger351e1a32008-01-14 22:58:05 +00006662
Mark Dickinson59bc20b2008-01-12 01:56:00 +00006663- Issue #1780: The Decimal constructor now accepts arbitrary leading
6664 and trailing whitespace when constructing from a string.
6665 Context.create_decimal no longer accepts trailing newlines.
6666
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006667- Decimal.as_tuple(), difflib.find_longest_match() and inspect
6668 functions that returned a tuple now return a named tuple.
Georg Brandl2f32c392008-01-11 09:20:58 +00006669
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00006670- Doctest now returns results as a named tuple for readability:
Raymond Hettingerfff4e6e2008-01-11 01:25:54 +00006671 (0, 7) --> TestResults(failed=0, attempted=7)
6672
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006673- Issue #846388:q re.match is interruptible now, which is particularly
Facundo Batista4473d222008-01-08 21:10:12 +00006674 good for long regular expression matches.
6675
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006676- Patch #1137: allow setting buffer_size attribute on pyexpat Parser
6677 objects to set the character data buffer size.
Andrew M. Kuchlinge0a49b62008-01-08 14:30:55 +00006678
Facundo Batista52b25792008-01-08 12:25:20 +00006679- Issue #1757: The hash of a Decimal instance is no longer affected by
6680 the current context.
6681
Georg Brandl62416bc2008-01-07 18:47:44 +00006682- Patch #467924: add ZipFile.extract() and ZipFile.extractall() in the
6683 zipfile module.
6684
Christian Heimesfb2d25a2008-01-07 16:12:44 +00006685- Issue #1646: Make socket support the TIPC protocol.
6686
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006687- Bug #1742: return os.curdir from os.path.relpath() if both arguments
6688 are equal instead of raising an exception.
Georg Brandl183a0842008-01-06 14:27:15 +00006689
Guido van Rossumc6a04c22008-01-05 22:19:06 +00006690- Patch #1637: fix urlparse for URLs like 'http://x.com?arg=/foo'.
6691
Guido van Rossumced4eb02008-01-05 01:21:57 +00006692- Patch #1698: allow '@' in username parsed by urlparse.py.
6693
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006694- Issue #1735: TarFile.extractall() now correctly sets directory
6695 permissions and times.
Lars Gustäbel2ee1c762008-01-04 14:00:33 +00006696
Christian Heimes06875612008-01-04 13:21:07 +00006697- Bug #1713: posixpath.ismount() claims symlink to a mountpoint is a mountpoint.
6698
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006699- Bug #1687: Fxed plistlib.py restricts <integer> to Python int when
6700 writing
Christian Heimes06131882008-01-04 00:04:52 +00006701
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006702- Issue #1700: Regular expression inline flags incorrectly handle
6703 certain unicode characters.
Guido van Rossumae04c332008-01-03 19:12:44 +00006704
Jeffrey Yasskin2f3c16b2008-01-03 02:21:52 +00006705- Issue #1689: PEP 3141, numeric abstract base classes.
6706
Martin v. Löwis84b9aab2008-01-01 21:09:07 +00006707- Tk issue #1851526: Return results from Python callbacks to Tcl as
6708 Tcl objects.
6709
Thomas Heller153038e2007-12-18 19:00:34 +00006710- Issue #1642: Fix segfault in ctypes when trying to delete attributes.
6711
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006712- Issue #1727780: Support loading pickles of random.Random objects
6713 created on 32-bit systems on 64-bit systems, and vice versa. As a
6714 consequence of the change, Random pickles created by Python 2.6
6715 cannot be loaded in Python 2.5.
Martin v. Löwis6b449f42007-12-03 19:20:02 +00006716
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006717- Issue #1455: The distutils package now supports VS 2005 and VS 2008
6718 for both the msvccompiler and cygwincompiler.
Christian Heimesc654fc22007-12-03 13:55:16 +00006719
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006720- Issue #1531: tarfile.py: Read fileobj from the current offset, do
6721 not seek to the start.
Lars Gustäbel77b2d632007-12-01 21:02:12 +00006722
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006723- Issue #1534: Added a dictionary sys.float_info with information
6724 about the internal floating point type to the sys module.
Christian Heimesdfdfaab2007-12-01 11:20:10 +00006725
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006726- Issue #1429818: patch for trace and doctest modules so they play
6727 nicely together.
Skip Montanaro58a6f442007-11-24 14:30:47 +00006728
Brett Cannon43e53f82007-11-21 00:47:36 +00006729- doctest made a bad assumption that a package's __loader__.get_data()
6730 method used universal newlines.
6731
Nick Coghlan90b858e2007-11-07 11:57:51 +00006732- Issue #1705170: contextlib.contextmanager was still swallowing
6733 StopIteration in some cases. This should no longer happen.
6734
Thomas Heller486b1b02007-11-02 19:10:24 +00006735- Issue #1292: On alpha, arm, ppc, and s390 linux systems the
6736 --with-system-ffi configure option defaults to "yes".
6737
Hye-Shik Changa838a802007-10-28 11:19:02 +00006738- IN module for FreeBSD 8 is added and preexisting FreeBSD 6 and 7
6739 files are updated.
6740
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006741- Issues #1181, #1287: unsetenv() is now called when the
6742 os.environ.pop() and os.environ.clear() methods are used.
Georg Brandl1a94ec22007-10-24 21:40:38 +00006743
Thomas Heller91ac4222007-10-19 18:11:41 +00006744- ctypes will now work correctly on 32-bit systems when Python is
6745 configured with --with-system-ffi.
6746
Thomas Heller7fee6dd2007-10-11 19:51:32 +00006747- Patch #1203: ctypes now does work on OS X when Python is built with
Georg Brandl1a94ec22007-10-24 21:40:38 +00006748 --disable-toolbox-glue.
Thomas Heller7fee6dd2007-10-11 19:51:32 +00006749
Raymond Hettingera7fc4b12007-10-05 02:47:07 +00006750- collections.deque() now supports a "maxlen" argument.
6751
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006752- itertools.count() is no longer bounded to LONG_MAX. Formerly, it
6753 raised an OverflowError. Now, automatically shifts from ints to
6754 longs.
Raymond Hettinger50e90e22007-10-04 00:20:27 +00006755
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006756- Added itertools.product() which forms the Cartesian product of the
6757 input iterables.
Raymond Hettingerc5705a82008-02-22 19:50:06 +00006758
Raymond Hettinger66f91ea2008-03-05 20:59:58 +00006759- Added itertools.combinations() and itertools.permutations().
Raymond Hettinger93e804d2008-02-26 23:40:50 +00006760
Georg Brandlaff85e22007-09-20 16:06:07 +00006761- Patch #1541463: optimize performance of cgi.FieldStorage operations.
6762
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006763- Decimal is fully updated to the latest Decimal Specification
6764 (v1.66).
Facundo Batistab67da232007-09-17 16:26:50 +00006765
Georg Brandl8fd3ecf2007-09-12 19:00:07 +00006766- Bug #1153: repr.repr() now doesn't require set and dictionary items
6767 to be orderable to properly represent them.
6768
Thomas Heller2825b2e2007-09-07 06:32:17 +00006769- A 'c_longdouble' type was added to the ctypes module.
6770
Martin v. Löwis7dcb83c2007-08-30 19:04:09 +00006771- Bug #1709599: Run test_1565150 only if the file system is NTFS.
6772
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006773- When encountering a password-protected robots.txt file the
6774 RobotFileParser no longer prompts interactively for a username and
6775 password (bug 813986).
Skip Montanaro3e275362007-08-29 01:33:45 +00006776
Lars Gustäbel0f4a14b2007-08-28 12:31:09 +00006777- TarFile.__init__() no longer fails if no name argument is passed and
6778 the fileobj argument has no usable name attribute (e.g. StringIO).
6779
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006780- The functools module now provides 'reduce', for forward
6781 compatibility with Python 3000.
Guido van Rossum95f1a1b2007-08-27 20:52:10 +00006782
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006783- Server-side SSL support and cert verification added, by Bill
6784 Janssen.
Guido van Rossum4f2c3dd2007-08-25 15:08:43 +00006785
Bill Janssenf413fb02007-08-30 18:08:06 +00006786- socket.ssl deprecated; use new ssl module instead.
6787
Georg Brandl8ec57542007-08-24 06:10:01 +00006788- uuid creation is now threadsafe.
6789
Hye-Shik Chang23901042007-08-20 06:49:18 +00006790- EUC-KR codec now handles the cheot-ga-keut composed make-up hangul
6791 syllables.
6792
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006793- GB18030 codec now can encode additional two-byte characters that are
6794 missing in GBK.
Hye-Shik Changf3e93a02007-08-04 04:10:18 +00006795
Walter Dörwald6e390802007-08-17 16:41:28 +00006796- Add new codecs for UTF-32, UTF-32-LE and UTF-32-BE.
6797
Martin v. Löwisf1e0b3f2007-07-28 07:03:05 +00006798- Bug #1704793: Return UTF-16 pair if unicodedata.lookup cannot
6799 represent the result in a single character.
6800
Martin v. Löwisf25e35b2007-07-27 18:28:22 +00006801- Bug #978833: Close https sockets by releasing the _ssl object.
6802
Martin v. Löwis254b8f92007-07-25 16:24:23 +00006803- Change location of the package index to pypi.python.org/pypi
6804
Thomas Hellerfa704c62007-07-13 17:12:23 +00006805- Bug #1701409: Fix a segfault in printing ctypes.c_char_p and
6806 ctypes.c_wchar_p when they point to an invalid location. As a
6807 sideeffect the representation of these instances has changed.
6808
Lars Gustäbel104490e2007-06-18 11:42:11 +00006809- tarfile.py: Added "exclude" keyword argument to TarFile.add().
6810
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006811- Bug #1734723: Fix repr.Repr() so it doesn't ignore the maxtuple
6812 attribute.
Neal Norwitzc161cb92007-06-11 07:29:43 +00006813
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006814- The urlopen function of urllib2 now has an optional timeout
6815 parameter (note that it actually works with HTTP, HTTPS, FTP and
6816 FTPS connections).
Facundo Batista10951d52007-06-06 17:15:23 +00006817
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006818- In ftplib, the FTP.ntransfercmd method, when in passive mode, now
6819 uses the socket.create_connection function, using the timeout
6820 specified at connection time.
Facundo Batista92493122007-06-06 15:13:37 +00006821
Hye-Shik Chang9b541402007-06-05 18:58:51 +00006822- Bug #1728403: Fix a bug that CJKCodecs StreamReader hangs when it
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006823 reads a file that ends with incomplete sequence and sizehint
6824 argument for .read() is specified.
Hye-Shik Chang9b541402007-06-05 18:58:51 +00006825
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006826- Bug #1730389: Change time.strptime() to use ``\s+`` instead of
6827 ``\s*`` when matching spaces in the specified format argument.
Brett Cannonf7188ce2007-06-03 23:13:41 +00006828
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006829- Bugs #1668596/#1720897: distutils now copies data files even if
6830 package_dir is empty.
Neal Norwitz4a700bb2007-06-01 07:29:12 +00006831
Brett Cannonc2aa09a2007-05-31 19:20:00 +00006832- sha now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
6833
Brett Cannon7eec2172007-05-30 22:24:28 +00006834- md5 now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
6835
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006836- Issue #1385: The hmac module now computes the correct hmac when
6837 using hashes with a block size other than 64 bytes (such as sha384
6838 and sha512).
Gregory P. Smithe1ac4f12007-11-06 00:19:03 +00006839
Brett Cannonc249bda2007-05-30 21:48:58 +00006840- mimify now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
6841
Brett Cannon90134c92007-05-30 20:46:26 +00006842- MimeWriter now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
6843
Lars Gustäbela0fcb932007-05-27 19:49:30 +00006844- tarfile.py: Improved unicode support. Unicode input names are now
6845 officially supported. Added "errors" argument to the TarFile class.
6846
Facundo Batista711a54e2007-05-24 17:50:54 +00006847- urllib.ftpwrapper class now accepts an optional timeout.
6848
Georg Brandlc90bc752007-05-24 16:49:29 +00006849- shlex.split() now has an optional "posix" parameter.
6850
Brett Cannon41bf2fa2007-05-20 23:57:38 +00006851- The posixfile module now raises a DeprecationWarning.
6852
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006853- Remove the gopherlib module. This also leads to the removal of
6854 gopher support in urllib/urllib2.
Brett Cannond75f0432007-05-16 22:42:29 +00006855
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006856- Fix bug in marshal where bad data would cause a segfault due to lack
6857 of an infinite recursion check.
Neal Norwitzb1a9b372007-05-16 20:05:11 +00006858
Neal Norwitze0e70a42007-05-16 05:06:33 +00006859- Removed plat-freebsd2 and plat-freebsd3 directories (and IN.py in
6860 the directories).
6861
Georg Brandla09a96a2007-05-15 20:19:34 +00006862- HTML-escape the plain traceback in cgitb's HTML output, to prevent
6863 the traceback inadvertently or maliciously closing the comment and
6864 injecting HTML into the error page.
6865
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006866- The popen2 module and os.popen* are deprecated. Use the subprocess
6867 module.
Neal Norwitz42dd86b2007-05-11 06:57:33 +00006868
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006869- Added an optional credentials argument to SMTPHandler, for use with
6870 SMTP servers which require authentication.
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00006871
6872- Patch #1695948: Added optional timeout parameter to SocketHandler.
6873
6874- Bug #1652788: Minor fix for currentframe.
6875
6876- Patch #1598415: Added WatchedFileHandler to better support external
6877 log file rotation using e.g. newsyslog or logrotate. This handler is
6878 only useful in Unix/Linux environments.
6879
Georg Brandlfb4b3b72007-04-24 15:27:13 +00006880- Bug #1706381: Specifying the SWIG option "-c++" in the setup.py file
6881 (as opposed to the command line) will now write file names ending in
6882 ".cpp" too.
6883
Facundo Batistad918a652007-04-24 13:54:38 +00006884- As specified in RFC 2616, an HTTP response like 2xx indicates that
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006885 the client's request was successfully received, understood, and
6886 accepted. Now in these cases no error is raised in urllib (issue
6887 #1177) and urllib2.
Facundo Batistad918a652007-04-24 13:54:38 +00006888
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006889- Bug #1290505: time.strptime's internal cache of locale information
6890 is now properly recreated when the locale is changed.
Brett Cannonc6906652007-04-01 18:47:27 +00006891
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006892- Patch #1685563: remove (don't add) duplicate paths in
6893 distutils.MSVCCompiler.
Neal Norwitz8f35f442007-04-01 18:24:22 +00006894
Facundo Batistab6a5c9d2007-03-29 18:22:35 +00006895- Added a timeout parameter to the constructor of other protocols
6896 (telnetlib, ftplib, smtplib and poplib). This is second part of the
6897 work started with create_connection() and timeout in httplib, and
6898 closes patch #723312.
6899
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00006900- Patch #1676823: Added create_connection() to socket.py, which may be
6901 called with a timeout, and use it from httplib (whose HTTPConnection
Facundo Batista70f996b2007-05-21 17:32:32 +00006902 and HTTPSConnection now accept an optional timeout).
Facundo Batista07c78be2007-03-23 18:54:07 +00006903
Martin v. Löwis0af33882007-03-23 13:27:15 +00006904- Bug #978833: Revert r50844, as it broke _socketobject.dup.
6905
Žiga Seilnacht7492e422007-03-21 20:07:56 +00006906- Bug #1675967: re patterns pickled with Python 2.4 and earlier can
6907 now be unpickled with Python 2.5 and newer.
6908
Collin Wintera8785cc2007-03-19 18:52:08 +00006909- Patch #1630118: add a SpooledTemporaryFile class to tempfile.py.
6910
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006911- Patch #1273829: os.walk() now has a "followlinks" parameter. If set
6912 to True (which is not the default), it visits symlinks pointing to
Georg Brandlcae9f3d2007-03-21 09:10:29 +00006913 directories.
6914
Georg Brandl8f06d022007-03-16 07:55:09 +00006915- Bug #1681228: the webbrowser module now correctly uses the default
6916 GNOME or KDE browser, depending on whether there is a session of one
6917 of those present. Also, it tries the Windows default browser before
6918 trying Mozilla variants.
6919
Collin Winter6f187742007-03-16 22:16:08 +00006920- Patch #1339796: add a relpath() function to os.path.
6921
Georg Brandlab1f4672007-03-15 07:41:30 +00006922- Patch #1681153: the wave module now closes a file object it opened if
6923 initialization failed.
6924
Georg Brandlf66b6032007-03-14 08:27:52 +00006925- Bug #767111: fix long-standing bug in urllib which caused an
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006926 AttributeError instead of an IOError when the server's response
6927 didn't contain a valid HTTP status line.
Georg Brandlf66b6032007-03-14 08:27:52 +00006928
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006929- Patch #957650: "%var%" environment variable references are now
6930 properly expanded in ntpath.expandvars(), also "~user" home
6931 directory references are recognized and handled on Windows.
Georg Brandl03b90d82007-03-13 22:07:36 +00006932
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006933- Patch #1429539: pdb now correctly initializes the __main__ module
6934 for the debugged script, which means that imports from __main__ work
Georg Brandlb6ae6aa2007-03-13 21:58:44 +00006935 correctly now.
6936
Georg Brandlbad6f192007-03-13 21:32:56 +00006937- The nonobvious commands.getstatus() function is now deprecated.
6938
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006939- Patch #1393667: pdb now has a "run" command which restarts the
6940 debugged Python program, optionally with different arguments.
Georg Brandl8e84c652007-03-13 21:08:15 +00006941
Thomas Heller5dc4fe02007-03-13 20:42:52 +00006942- Patch #1649190: Adding support for _Bool to ctypes as c_bool.
6943
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006944- Patch #1530482: add pydoc.render_doc() which returns the
6945 documentation for a thing instead of paging it to stdout, which
6946 pydoc.doc() does.
Georg Brandl8441f152007-03-13 20:02:57 +00006947
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006948- Patch #1533909: the timeit module now accepts callables in addition
6949 to strings for the code to time and the setup code. Also added two
6950 convenience functions for instantiating a Timer and calling its
6951 methods.
Georg Brandld9bef352007-03-13 19:32:21 +00006952
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006953- Patch #1537850: tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile now has a "delete"
6954 parameter which can be set to False to prevent the default
6955 delete-on-close behavior.
Georg Brandl35ef9c12007-03-13 18:31:49 +00006956
Georg Brandl9e6b4702007-03-13 18:15:41 +00006957- Patch #1581073: add a flag to textwrap that prevents the dropping of
6958 whitespace while wrapping.
6959
Georg Brandl92a6bae2007-03-13 17:43:32 +00006960- Patch #1603688: ConfigParser.SafeConfigParser now checks values that
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006961 are set for invalid interpolation sequences that would lead to
6962 errors on reading back those values.
Georg Brandl92a6bae2007-03-13 17:43:32 +00006963
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006964- Added support for the POSIX.1-2001 (pax) format to
6965 tarfile.py. Extended and cleaned up the test suite. Added a new
6966 testtar.tar.
Lars Gustäbelc64e4022007-03-13 10:47:19 +00006967
Martin v. Löwisbdd0f392007-03-13 10:24:00 +00006968- Patch #1449244: Support Unicode strings in
6969 email.message.Message.{set_charset,get_content_charset}.
6970
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006971- Patch #1542681: add entries for "with", "as" and "CONTEXTMANAGERS"
6972 to pydoc's help keywords.
Georg Brandlb6a87542007-03-13 10:06:48 +00006973
Georg Brandl4ffc8f52007-03-13 09:41:31 +00006974- Patch #1555098: use str.join() instead of repeated string
6975 concatenation in robotparser.
6976
Georg Brandl94fe3f52007-03-13 09:32:11 +00006977- Patch #1635454: the csv.DictWriter class now includes the offending
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006978 field names in its exception message if you try to write a record
6979 with a dictionary containing fields not in the CSV field names list.
Georg Brandl94fe3f52007-03-13 09:32:11 +00006980
Georg Brandlceede5c2007-03-13 08:14:27 +00006981- Patch #1668100: urllib2 now correctly raises URLError instead of
6982 OSError if accessing a local file via the file:// protocol fails.
6983
Martin v. Löwis2681beb2007-03-12 11:01:10 +00006984- Patch #1677862: Require a space or tab after import in .pth files.
6985
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006986- Patch #1192590: Fix pdb's "ignore" and "condition" commands so they
6987 trap the IndexError caused by passing in an invalid breakpoint
6988 number.
Collin Winter2faa9e12007-03-11 16:00:20 +00006989
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006990- Patch #1599845: Add an option to disable the implicit calls to
6991 server_bind() and server_activate() in the constructors for
6992 TCPServer, SimpleXMLRPCServer and DocXMLRPCServer.
Collin Winterae041062007-03-10 14:41:48 +00006993
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006994- Bug #1531963: Make SocketServer.TCPServer's server_address always be
6995 equal to calling getsockname() on the server's socket. Fixed by
Collin Winterfaaa2042007-03-10 03:35:34 +00006996 patch #1545011.
Collin Winter22c42ba2007-03-10 02:51:26 +00006997
Andrew M. Kuchlinge45a77a2008-01-19 16:26:13 +00006998- Patch #742598: Add .timeout attribute to SocketServer that calls
6999 .handle_timeout() when no requests are received.
7000
Thomas Heller2456a3c2007-03-09 20:39:22 +00007001- Bug #1651235: When a tuple was passed to a ctypes function call,
7002 Python would crash instead of raising an error.
7003
Thomas Hellerc2f77252007-03-09 19:21:28 +00007004- Bug #1646630: ctypes.string_at(buf, 0) and ctypes.wstring_at(buf, 0)
7005 returned string up to the first NUL character.
7006
Martin v. Löwis1190a382007-03-09 15:35:55 +00007007- Patch #957003: Implement smtplib.LMTP.
7008
Collin Winterfb728de2007-03-09 03:26:32 +00007009- Patch #1481079: add support for HTTP_REFERER to CGIHTTPServer.
7010
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007011- Patch #1675424: Added tests for uncovered code in the zipfile
7012 module. The KeyError raised by Zipfile.getinfo for nonexistent
7013 names now has a descriptive message.
Georg Brandl4b3ab6f2007-07-12 09:59:22 +00007014
Martin v. Löwis05c075d2007-03-07 11:04:33 +00007015- Bug #1115886: os.path.splitext('.cshrc') gives now ('.cshrc', '').
7016
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007017- unittest now verifies more of its assumptions. In particular,
7018 TestCase and TestSuite subclasses (not instances) are no longer
7019 accepted in TestSuite.addTest(). This should cause no
7020 incompatibility since it never made sense with ordinary subclasses
7021 -- the failure just occurred later, with a more cumbersome
7022 exception.
Georg Brandl9caadf82007-03-08 18:37:31 +00007023
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007024- Patch #787789: allow to pass custom TestRunner instances to
7025 unittest's main() function.
Georg Brandld0a96252007-03-07 09:21:06 +00007026
Georg Brandl15c5ce92007-03-07 09:09:40 +00007027- Patches #1550273, #1550272: fix a few bugs in unittest and add a
7028 comprehensive test suite for the module.
7029
Georg Brandl71ff6462007-03-07 08:31:51 +00007030- Patch #1001604: glob.glob() now returns unicode filenames if it was
7031 given a unicode argument and os.listdir() returns unicode filenames.
7032
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007033- Patch #1673619: setup.py identifies extension modules it doesn't
7034 know how to build and those it knows how to build but that fail to
7035 build.
Skip Montanarod1287322007-03-06 15:41:38 +00007036
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00007037- Patch #912410: Replace HTML entity references for attribute values
Martin v. Löwisab8a6bb2007-03-06 14:43:00 +00007038 in HTMLParser.
7039
Georg Brandlff432e62007-03-06 13:37:45 +00007040- Patch #1663234: you can now run doctest on test files and modules
7041 using "python -m doctest [-v] filename ...".
7042
Martin v. Löwis3eb76482007-03-06 10:41:24 +00007043- Patch #1121142: Implement ZipFile.open.
7044
Skip Montanarof694b1b2007-03-04 20:54:12 +00007045- Taught setup.py how to locate Berkeley DB on Macs using MacPorts.
7046
Raymond Hettinger00166c52007-02-19 04:08:43 +00007047- Added heapq.merge() for merging sorted input streams.
7048
Raymond Hettingercd3c1082007-10-23 21:23:07 +00007049- Added collections.namedtuple() for assigning field names to tuples.
Raymond Hettingerc37e5e02007-03-01 06:16:43 +00007050
Raymond Hettingerd36862c2007-02-21 05:20:38 +00007051- Added itertools.izip_longest().
7052
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007053- Have the encoding package's search function dynamically import using
7054 absolute import semantics.
Brett Cannon971a0122007-02-15 22:54:39 +00007055
Lars Gustäbel5b1a7852007-02-13 16:09:24 +00007056- Patch #1647484: Renamed GzipFile's filename attribute to name.
7057
Martin v. Löwis84f6de92007-02-13 10:10:39 +00007058- Patch #1517891: Mode 'a' for ZipFile now creates the file if it
7059 doesn't exist.
7060
Martin v. Löwisc6d626e2007-02-13 09:49:38 +00007061- Patch #698833: Support file decryption in zipfile.
7062
Martin v. Löwis07aa3ed2007-02-13 08:34:45 +00007063- Patch #685268: Consider a package's __path__ in imputil.
7064
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007065- Patch #1463026: Support default namespace in XMLGenerator.
Martin v. Löwis2bad58f2007-02-12 12:21:10 +00007066
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007067- Patch #1571379: Make trace's --ignore-dir facility work in the face
7068 of relative directory names.
Skip Montanaro691acf22007-02-11 18:24:37 +00007069
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007070- Bug #1600860: Search for shared python library in LIBDIR, not
7071 lib/python/config, on "linux" and "gnu" systems.
Martin v. Löwis0a203262007-02-09 12:36:48 +00007072
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007073- Patch #1652681: tarfile.py: create nonexistent files in append mode
7074 and allow appending to empty files.
Lars Gustäbel3f8aca12007-02-06 18:38:13 +00007075
Peter Astrand5f9c6ae2007-02-06 15:37:50 +00007076- Bug #1124861: Automatically create pipes if GetStdHandle fails in
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00007077 subprocess.
Peter Astrand5f9c6ae2007-02-06 15:37:50 +00007078
Georg Brandl4ba9e5b2007-01-27 17:59:42 +00007079- Patch #1634778: add missing encoding aliases for iso8859_15 and
7080 iso8859_16.
7081
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007082- Patch #1638243: the compiler package is now able to correctly
7083 compile a with statement; previously, executing code containing a
7084 with statement compiled by the compiler package crashed the
7085 interpreter.
Georg Brandlab496842007-01-27 17:43:02 +00007086
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00007087- Bug #1643943: Fix time.strptime's support for the %U directive.
7088
Lars Gustäbel0713a682007-02-19 09:54:47 +00007089- Patch #1507247: tarfile.py: use current umask for intermediate
7090 directories.
7091
Georg Brandldd7b0522007-01-21 10:35:10 +00007092- Patch #1627441: close sockets properly in urllib2.
7093
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007094- Bug #494589: make ntpath.expandvars behave according to its
7095 docstring.
Sjoerd Mullender33a0a062007-01-16 16:42:38 +00007096
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00007097- Changed platform module API python_version_tuple() to actually
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00007098 return a tuple (it used to return a list).
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00007099
7100- Added new platform module APIs python_branch(), python_revision(),
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00007101 python_implementation() and linux_distribution().
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00007102
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00007103- Added support for IronPython and Jython to the platform module.
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00007104
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007105- The sets module has been deprecated. Use the built-in set/frozenset
7106 types instead.
Brett Cannon093b6702007-01-13 00:29:49 +00007107
Thomas Heller6fd45492007-01-12 20:21:53 +00007108- Bug #1610795: make ctypes.util.find_library work on BSD systems.
7109
Thomas Heller8138c262007-01-11 21:18:56 +00007110- Fixes for 64-bit Windows: In ctypes.wintypes, correct the
7111 definitions of HANDLE, WPARAM, LPARAM data types. Make
7112 parameterless foreign function calls work.
7113
Thomas Hellerfb9d7872007-01-10 20:12:13 +00007114- The version number of the ctypes package changed to "1.1.0".
7115
Vinay Sajipab41c102007-01-09 14:51:36 +00007116- Bug #1627575: logging: Added _open() method to FileHandler which can
7117 be used to reopen files. The FileHandler instance now saves the
7118 encoding (which can be None) in an attribute called "encoding".
7119
Vinay Sajipc9137262007-01-08 18:52:36 +00007120- Bug #411881: logging.handlers: bare except clause removed from
7121 SMTPHandler.emit. Now, only ImportError is trapped.
7122
7123- Bug #411881: logging.handlers: bare except clause removed from
7124 SocketHandler.createSocket. Now, only socket.error is trapped.
7125
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007126- Bug #411881: logging: bare except clause removed from
7127 LogRecord.__init__. Now, only ValueError, TypeError and
7128 AttributeError are trapped.
Vinay Sajipc9137262007-01-08 18:52:36 +00007129
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007130- Patch #1504073: Fix tarfile.open() for mode "r" with a fileobj
7131 argument.
Lars Gustäbela7ba6fc2006-12-27 10:30:46 +00007132
Andrew M. Kuchling71662322006-12-27 03:31:24 +00007133- Patch #1182394 from Shane Holloway: speed up HMAC.hexdigest.
7134
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007135- Patch #1262036: Prevent TarFiles from being added to themselves
7136 under certain conditions.
Lars Gustäbela4b23812006-12-23 17:57:23 +00007137
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007138- Patch #1230446: tarfile.py: fix ExFileObject so that read() and
7139 tell() work correctly together with readline().
Lars Gustäbel6baa5022006-12-23 16:40:13 +00007140
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007141- Patch #1484695: The tarfile module now raises a HeaderError
7142 exception if a buffer given to frombuf() is invalid.
Georg Brandlebbeed72006-12-19 22:06:46 +00007143
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00007144- Bug #1503765: Fix a problem in logging.config with spaces in comma-
7145 separated lists read from logging config files.
7146
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007147- Patch #1604907: Fix problems in logging.handlers caused at logging
7148 shutdown when syslog handlers fail to initialize because of syslogd
7149 problems.
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00007150
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007151- Patch #1608267: fix a race condition in os.makedirs() if the
7152 directory to be created is already there.
Georg Brandlb1307432006-12-09 09:08:29 +00007153
Georg Brandl87fa5592006-12-06 22:21:18 +00007154- Patch #1610437: fix a tarfile bug with long filename headers.
7155
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007156- Patch #1371075: Make ConfigParser accept optional dict type for
7157 ordering, sorting, etc.
Martin v. Löwisa00bcac2006-12-03 12:01:53 +00007158
Thomas Helleref583a42006-11-28 20:21:54 +00007159- Bug #1563807: _ctypes built on AIX fails with ld ffi error.
7160
Thomas Heller25d208b2006-11-24 18:45:39 +00007161- Bug #1598620: A ctypes Structure cannot contain itself.
7162
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007163- Patch #1070046: Marshal new-style objects like InstanceType in
7164 xmlrpclib.
Martin v. Löwis07529352006-11-19 18:51:54 +00007165
Martin v. Löwiscffcc8b2006-11-19 10:41:41 +00007166- cStringIO.truncate(-1) now raises an IOError, like StringIO and
7167 regular files.
7168
Martin v. Löwisbba003e2006-11-18 18:42:11 +00007169- Patch #1472877: Fix Tix subwidget name resolution.
7170
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007171- Patch #1594554: Always close a tkSimpleDialog on ok(), even if an
7172 exception occurs.
Martin v. Löwisef5fd3e2006-11-18 18:05:35 +00007173
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007174- Patch #1538878: Don't make tkSimpleDialog dialogs transient if the
7175 parent window is withdrawn.
Martin v. Löwisc73a4a42006-11-18 18:00:23 +00007176
Georg Brandl54082112006-11-16 16:50:59 +00007177- Bug #1597824: return the registered function from atexit.register()
7178 to facilitate usage as a decorator.
7179
Martin v. Löwis45cd4ff2006-11-12 18:56:03 +00007180- Patch #1360200: Use unmangled_version RPM spec field to deal with
7181 file name mangling.
7182
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007183- Patch #1359217: Process 2xx response in an ftplib transfer that
7184 precedes an 1xx response.
Martin v. Löwis36cbc082006-11-12 18:48:13 +00007185
Martin v. Löwis065f0c82006-11-12 10:41:39 +00007186- Patch #1355023: support whence argument for GzipFile.seek.
7187
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00007188- Patch #1065257: Support passing open files as body in
Martin v. Löwis040a9272006-11-12 10:32:47 +00007189 HTTPConnection.request().
7190
Andrew M. Kuchlinga3e5d372006-11-09 13:27:07 +00007191- Bug #1569790: mailbox.py: Maildir.get_folder() and MH.get_folder()
7192 weren't passing the message factory on to newly created Maildir/MH
7193 objects.
7194
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007195- Patch #1514543: mailbox.py: In the Maildir class, report errors if
7196 there's a filename clash instead of possibly losing a message.
7197 (Patch by David Watson.)
Andrew M. Kuchling978d8282006-11-09 21:16:46 +00007198
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007199- Patch #1514544: Try to ensure that messages/indexes have been
7200 physically written to disk after calling .flush() or
7201 .close(). (Patch by David Watson.)
Andrew M. Kuchlingb5686da2006-11-09 13:51:14 +00007202
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00007203- Patch #1592250: Add elide argument to Tkinter.Text.search.
Martin v. Löwis038cad72006-11-09 11:27:32 +00007204
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00007205- Patch #838546: Make terminal become controlling in pty.fork().
Martin v. Löwisb2bba732006-11-09 11:06:03 +00007206
Martin v. Löwis5361e9a2006-11-08 07:35:55 +00007207- Patch #1351744: Add askyesnocancel helper for tkMessageBox.
7208
Martin v. Löwis5310e502006-11-04 18:14:06 +00007209- Patch #1060577: Extract list of RPM files from spec file in
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00007210 bdist_rpm.
Martin v. Löwis5310e502006-11-04 18:14:06 +00007211
Georg Brandl2c9838e2006-10-29 14:39:09 +00007212- Bug #1586613: fix zlib and bz2 codecs' incremental en/decoders.
7213
Georg Brandl3354f282006-10-29 09:16:12 +00007214- Patch #1583880: fix tarfile's problems with long names and posix/
7215 GNU modes.
7216
Georg Brandl5addf702006-10-29 08:53:06 +00007217- Bug #1586448: the compiler module now emits the same bytecode for
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00007218 list comprehensions as the built-in compiler, using the LIST_APPEND
Georg Brandl5addf702006-10-29 08:53:06 +00007219 opcode.
7220
Georg Brandl8f99f812006-10-29 08:39:22 +00007221- Fix codecs.EncodedFile which did not use file_encoding in 2.5.0, and
7222 fix all codecs file wrappers to work correctly with the "with"
7223 statement (bug #1586513).
7224
Thomas Heller112d1a62006-10-27 19:05:53 +00007225- Lib/modulefinder.py now handles absolute and relative imports
7226 correctly.
7227
Martin v. Löwisee82c0e2006-10-27 07:13:28 +00007228- Patch #1567274: Support SMTP over TLS.
7229
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007230- Patch #1560695: Add .note.GNU-stack to ctypes' sysv.S so that ctypes
7231 isn't considered as requiring executable stacks.
Martin v. Löwis1b2f6272006-10-22 10:55:15 +00007232
Thomas Hellerd2ea4a22006-10-17 19:30:48 +00007233- ctypes callback functions only support 'fundamental' data types as
7234 result type. Raise an error when something else is used. This is a
7235 partial fix for Bug #1574584.
7236
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007237- Fix turtle so that time.sleep is imported for the entire library.
7238 Allows the demo2 function to be executed on its own instead of only
7239 when the module is run as a script.
Brett Cannond80e0c82006-10-16 03:09:52 +00007240
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007241- Bug #813342: Start the IDLE subprocess with -Qnew if the parent is
7242 started with that option.
Georg Brandld0761532006-10-12 07:57:21 +00007243
Martin v. Löwisf43893a2006-10-09 20:44:25 +00007244- Bug #1565150: Fix subsecond processing for os.utime on Windows.
7245
Martin v. Löwis8b274262006-10-04 15:25:28 +00007246- Support for MSVC 8 was added to bdist_wininst.
7247
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007248- Bug #1446043: correctly raise a LookupError if an encoding name
7249 given to encodings.search_function() contains a dot.
Georg Brandla92979a2006-09-30 11:22:28 +00007250
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007251- Bug #1560617: in pyclbr, return full module name not only for
7252 classes, but also for functions.
Georg Brandl154324a2006-09-30 11:06:47 +00007253
Georg Brandl05b3c452006-09-30 10:58:01 +00007254- Bug #1457823: cgi.(Sv)FormContentDict's constructor now takes
7255 keep_blank_values and strict_parsing keyword arguments.
7256
Georg Brandl8d1e5bf2006-09-30 09:13:21 +00007257- Bug #1566602: correct failure of posixpath unittest when $HOME ends
7258 with a slash.
7259
Georg Brandl8c667452006-09-30 07:31:57 +00007260- Bug #1565661: in webbrowser, split() the command for the default
7261 GNOME browser in case it is a command with args.
7262
Georg Brandl5a85d5c2009-06-24 06:41:19 +00007263- Made the error message for time.strptime when the data and
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007264 format do match be more clear.
Brett Cannon11b35352006-09-26 23:38:24 +00007265
Georg Brandlc7986ce2006-09-24 12:50:24 +00007266- Fix a bug in traceback.format_exception_only() that led to an error
7267 being raised when print_exc() was called without an exception set.
7268 In version 2.4, this printed "None", restored that behavior.
7269
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007270- Make webbrowser.BackgroundBrowser usable in Windows (it wasn't
7271 because the close_fds arg to subprocess.Popen is not supported).
Georg Brandl2c94bf72006-09-24 10:36:01 +00007272
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007273- Reverted patch #1504333 to sgmllib because it introduced an infinite
7274 loop.
Neal Norwitzbcc119a2006-09-11 04:24:09 +00007275
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007276- Patch #1553314: Fix the inspect.py slowdown that was hurting IPython
7277 & SAGE by adding smarter caching in inspect.getmodule()
Nick Coghlanb3c18f82006-09-08 10:04:38 +00007278
Georg Brandl4e933132006-09-06 20:05:58 +00007279- Fix missing import of the types module in logging.config.
7280
Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +00007281- Patch #1550886: Fix decimal module context management implementation
Neal Norwitza22975f2006-09-05 02:24:03 +00007282 to match the localcontext() example from PEP 343.
Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +00007283
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007284- Bug #1545341: The 'classifier' keyword argument to the Distutils
7285 setup() function now accepts tuples as well as lists.
Andrew M. Kuchling99994792006-10-09 17:10:12 +00007286
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007287- Bug #1541863: uuid.uuid1 failed to generate unique identifiers on
7288 systems with low clock resolution.
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00007289
Gustavo Niemeyerc36bede2006-09-07 00:48:33 +00007290- Bug #1531862: Do not close standard file descriptors in subprocess.
7291
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007292- idle: Honor the "Cancel" action in the save dialog (Debian bug
7293 #299092).
Matthias Klosea398e2d2007-01-11 11:44:04 +00007294
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007295- Fix utf-8-sig incremental decoder, which didn't recognise a BOM when
7296 the first chunk fed to the decoder started with a BOM, but was
7297 longer than 3 bytes.
Georg Brandl27562782006-10-27 20:39:43 +00007298
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007299- The implementation of UnicodeError objects has been simplified
7300 (start and end attributes are now stored directly as Py_ssize_t
7301 members).
Walter Dörwald84a3efe2007-06-13 16:57:12 +00007302
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007303- Issue #829951: In the smtplib module, SMTP.starttls() now complies
7304 with RFC 3207 and forgets any knowledge obtained from the server not
7305 obtained from the TLS negotiation itself. Patch contributed by Bill
7306 Fenner.
Gregory P. Smith2b3ba582008-01-17 08:03:17 +00007307
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007308- Issue #1339: The smtplib.SMTP class has been refactored a bit such
Gregory P. Smithbde4ae42008-01-17 08:35:49 +00007309 that the SMTP.starttls() caller no longer needs to call ehlo()
7310 beforehand. SMTP.starttls() now raises an exception of the server
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007311 does not claim to support starttls. Adds the
7312 SMTP.ehlo_or_helo_if_needed() method. Patch contributed by Bill
7313 Fenner.
Gregory P. Smithbde4ae42008-01-17 08:35:49 +00007314
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007315- Patch #1089358: Add signal.siginterrupt, a wrapper around
7316 siginterrupt(3).
Georg Brandl29604a12008-01-26 14:03:47 +00007317
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00007318Extension Modules
7319-----------------
7320
Georg Brandl392c6fc2008-05-25 07:25:25 +00007321- Patch #1657: added select.epoll and select.kqueue.
Christian Heimes0e9ab5f2008-03-21 23:49:44 +00007322
Georg Brandlebcfd112008-02-23 23:04:35 +00007323- Patch #1506171: added operator.methodcaller().
7324
Georg Brandle2065c62008-02-23 23:02:23 +00007325- Patch #1826: operator.attrgetter() now supports dotted attribute paths.
7326
Georg Brandl392c6fc2008-05-25 07:25:25 +00007327- Patch #1957: syslogmodule: Release GIL when calling syslog(3).
Christian Heimesf0476e82008-02-23 17:42:31 +00007328
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007329- Bug #2112: mmap.error is now a subclass of EnvironmentError and not
7330 a direct EnvironmentError.
Facundo Batistae1396882008-02-17 18:59:29 +00007331
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007332- Bug #2111: mmap segfaults when trying to write a block opened with
7333 PROT_READ.
Christian Heimes7adfad82008-02-15 08:20:11 +00007334
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007335- Bug #2063: correct order of utime and stime in os.times() result on
7336 Windows.
Georg Brandl0a40ffb2008-02-13 07:20:22 +00007337
Martin v. Löwise0d30ef2008-02-12 13:47:26 +00007338- Patch #1736: Fix file name handling of _msi.FCICreate.
7339
Hye-Shik Chang01612e72008-02-08 17:10:20 +00007340- Updated ``big5hkscs`` codec to the HKSCS revision of 2004.
7341
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007342- Issue #1940: make it possible to use curses.filter() before
7343 curses.initscr() as the documentation says.
Georg Brandl29604a12008-01-26 14:03:47 +00007344
Christian Heimes7f39c9f2008-01-25 12:18:43 +00007345- Backport of _fileio module from Python 3.0.
7346
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007347- Patch #1087741: mmap.mmap is now a class, not a factory function. It
7348 is also subclassable now.
Georg Brandl5ca3fd82008-01-21 14:18:14 +00007349
Georg Brandl56112892008-01-20 13:59:46 +00007350- Patch #1648: added ``sys.getprofile()`` and ``sys.gettrace()``.
7351
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007352- Patch #1663329: added ``os.closerange()`` function to quickly close
7353 a range of file descriptors without considering errors.
Georg Brandl309501a2008-01-19 20:22:13 +00007354
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007355- Patch #976880: ``mmap`` objects now have an ``rfind`` method that
Andrew M. Kuchling5c60bfc2008-01-19 18:18:41 +00007356 works as expected. ``mmap.find`` also takes an optional ``end``
7357 parameter.
7358
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007359- _winreg's HKEY object has gained __enter__ and __exit__ methods to
7360 support the context manager protocol. The _winreg module also
7361 gained a new function ``ExpandEnvironmentStrings`` to expand
7362 REG_EXPAND_SZ keys.
Christian Heimesb39a7562008-01-08 15:46:10 +00007363
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007364- itertools.starmap() now accepts any iterable input. Previously, it
7365 required the function inputs to be tuples.
Raymond Hettinger47317092008-01-17 03:02:14 +00007366
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007367- itertools.chain() now has an alternate constructor,
7368 chain.from_iterable().
Raymond Hettingerb4cbc982008-02-28 22:46:41 +00007369
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007370- Issue #1646: Make socket support TIPC. The socket module now has
7371 support for TIPC under Linux, see http://tipc.sf.net/ for more
7372 information.
Christian Heimesfb2d25a2008-01-07 16:12:44 +00007373
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007374- Added interface for Windows' WSAIoctl to socket object and added an
7375 example for a simple network sniffer.
Christian Heimes04ae9162008-01-04 15:23:30 +00007376
Guido van Rossum076d9ee2008-01-03 23:54:04 +00007377- Bug #1301: Bad assert in _tkinter fixed.
7378
Christian Heimescdaa2cb2007-12-31 14:47:07 +00007379- Added bdist_wininst executable for VS 2008.
7380
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007381- Bug #1604: collections.deque.__init__(iterable) now clears any prior
7382 contents before adding elements from the iterable. This fix brings
7383 the behavior into line with that for list.__init__().
Raymond Hettingeradf9ffd2007-12-13 00:08:37 +00007384
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007385- Added wide char functions to msvcrt module: getwch, getwche, putwch
7386 and ungetwch. The functions accept or return unicode.
Christian Heimes7c7f6af2007-12-10 15:12:41 +00007387
Martin v. Löwis69233e82007-12-04 08:39:16 +00007388- os.access now returns True on Windows for any existing directory.
7389
Christian Heimes28104c52007-11-27 23:16:44 +00007390- Added warnpy3k function to the warnings module.
7391
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007392- Marshal.dumps() now expects exact type matches for int, long, float,
7393 complex, tuple, list, dict, set, and frozenset. Formerly, it would
7394 silently miscode subclasses of those types. Now, it raises a
7395 ValueError instead.
Raymond Hettinger12e94202007-11-07 01:13:09 +00007396
Martin v. Löwis58bd49f2007-09-04 13:13:14 +00007397- Patch #1388440: Add set_completion_display_matches_hook and
7398 get_completion_type to readline.
7399
Thomas Helleref4fff32007-07-13 17:46:54 +00007400- Bug #1649098: Avoid declaration of zero-sized array declaration in
7401 structure.
7402
Brett Cannondc48b742007-05-20 07:09:50 +00007403- Removed the rgbimg module; been deprecated since Python 2.5.
7404
Neal Norwitz59f58aa2007-05-19 03:48:47 +00007405- Bug #1721309: prevent bsddb module from freeing random memory.
7406
Gregory P. Smith82eafe62007-10-18 17:17:57 +00007407- Bug #1233: fix bsddb.dbshelve.DBShelf append method to work as
7408 intended for RECNO databases.
7409
Gregory P. Smithec10a4a2007-11-05 02:32:26 +00007410- pybsddb.sf.net Bug #477182: Load the database flags at database open
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007411 time so that opening a database previously created with the DB_DUP
7412 or DB_DUPSORT flag set will keep the proper behavior on subsequent
7413 opens. Specifically: dictionary assignment to a DB object will
7414 replace all values for a given key when the database allows
7415 duplicate values. DB users should use DB.put(k, v) when they want
7416 to store duplicates; not DB[k] = v.
Gregory P. Smithec10a4a2007-11-05 02:32:26 +00007417
Gregory P. Smithac11e022007-11-05 02:56:31 +00007418- Add the bsddb.db.DBEnv.lock_id_free method.
7419
Martin v. Löwis3bf573f2007-04-04 18:30:36 +00007420- Bug #1686475: Support stat'ing open files on Windows again.
7421
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007422- Patch #1185447: binascii.b2a_qp() now correctly quotes binary
7423 characters with ASCII value less than 32. Also, it correctly quotes
7424 dots only if they occur on a single line, as opposed to the previous
7425 behavior of quoting dots if they are the second character of any
7426 line.
Georg Brandl4aef7272007-03-13 22:49:43 +00007427
Georg Brandla47337f2007-03-13 12:34:25 +00007428- Bug #1622896: fix a rare corner case where the bz2 module raised an
7429 error in spite of a succesful compression.
7430
Georg Brandl40c62612007-03-06 18:59:11 +00007431- Patch #1654417: make operator.{get,set,del}slice use the full range
7432 of Py_ssize_t.
7433
Guido van Rossum2054ee92007-03-06 15:50:01 +00007434- Patch #1646728: datetime.fromtimestamp fails with negative
7435 fractional times. With unittest.
7436
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007437- Patch #1490190: posixmodule now includes os.chflags() and
7438 os.lchflags() functions on platforms where the underlying system
7439 calls are available.
Martin v. Löwis382abef2007-02-19 10:55:19 +00007440
Georg Brandl983d1002007-02-15 11:29:04 +00007441- Patch #1494140: Add documentation for the new struct.Struct object.
7442
Martin v. Löwis45423a72007-02-14 10:07:37 +00007443- Patch #1432399: Support the HCI protocol for bluetooth sockets
7444
Martin v. Löwisb1cc1d42007-02-13 12:14:19 +00007445- Patch #1657276: Make NETLINK_DNRTMSG conditional.
7446
Martin v. Löwis4c11a922007-02-08 09:13:36 +00007447- Bug #1653736: Complain about keyword arguments to time.isoformat.
7448
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007449- Bug #1486663: don't reject keyword arguments for subclasses of
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00007450 built-in types.
Georg Brandlb84c1372007-01-21 10:28:43 +00007451
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007452- Patch #1610575: The struct module now supports the 't' code, for C99
7453 _Bool.
Martin v. Löwisaef4c6b2007-01-21 09:33:07 +00007454
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007455- Patch #1635058: ensure that htonl and friends never accept or return
7456 negative numbers, per the underlying C implementation.
Guido van Rossumbb2cc692007-01-14 17:03:32 +00007457
Martin v. Löwis046c4d12006-12-03 11:23:45 +00007458- Patch #1544279: Improve thread-safety of the socket module by moving
7459 the sock_addr_t storage out of the socket object.
7460
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007461- Patch #1019808: fix bug that causes an incorrect error to be
7462 returned when a socket timeout is set and a connection attempt
7463 fails.
Andrew M. Kuchling060e6852008-01-19 20:47:59 +00007464
Neal Norwitz45e230a2006-11-19 21:26:53 +00007465- Speed up function calls into the math module.
7466
Georg Brandl25aabf42006-11-16 17:08:45 +00007467- Bug #1588217: don't parse "= " as a soft line break in binascii's
7468 a2b_qp() function, instead leave it in the string as quopri.decode()
7469 does.
7470
Neal Norwitz4fe44232006-11-21 05:26:22 +00007471- Bug #1599782: Fix segfault on bsddb.db.DB().type().
7472
Martin v. Löwis012bc722006-10-15 09:43:39 +00007473- Bug #1567666: Emulate GetFileAttributesExA for Win95.
7474
Martin v. Löwis18aaa562006-10-15 08:43:33 +00007475- Patch #1576166: Support os.utime for directories on Windows NT+.
7476
Georg Brandl412a9ea2006-10-09 19:03:06 +00007477- Patch #1572724: fix typo ('=' instead of '==') in _msi.c.
7478
Hye-Shik Changb7883462006-10-08 13:48:34 +00007479- Bug #1572832: fix a bug in ISO-2022 codecs which may cause segfault
7480 when encoding non-BMP unicode characters.
7481
Georg Brandl4ddfcd32006-09-30 11:17:34 +00007482- Bug #1556784: allow format strings longer than 127 characters in
7483 datetime's strftime function.
7484
Jack Diederichd10a0f72006-09-21 20:34:49 +00007485- Fix itertools.count(n) to work with negative numbers again.
7486
Martin v. Löwis43fd99c2006-09-16 17:36:37 +00007487- RLIMIT_SBSIZE was added to the resource module where available.
7488
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007489- Bug #1551427: fix a wrong NULL pointer check in the win32 version of
7490 os.urandom().
Georg Brandl74bb7832006-09-06 06:03:59 +00007491
Neal Norwitz6aefa912006-09-02 02:50:35 +00007492- Bug #1548092: fix curses.tparm seg fault on invalid input.
7493
Andrew M. Kuchling62182c82008-01-08 14:56:02 +00007494- Patch #1114: fix curses module compilation on 64-bit AIX, & possibly
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007495 other 64-bit LP64 platforms where attr_t is not the same size as a
7496 long. (Contributed by Luke Mewburn.)
Andrew M. Kuchling62182c82008-01-08 14:56:02 +00007497
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007498- Bug #1550714: fix SystemError from itertools.tee on negative value
7499 for n.
Neal Norwitz69e88972006-09-02 02:58:13 +00007500
Hye-Shik Chang199f1db2006-09-05 12:07:09 +00007501- Fixed a few bugs on cjkcodecs:
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007502 - gbk and gb18030 codec now handle U+30FB KATAKANA MIDDLE DOT
7503 correctly.
Hye-Shik Chang199f1db2006-09-05 12:07:09 +00007504 - iso2022_jp_2 codec now encodes into G0 for KS X 1001, GB2312
7505 codepoints to conform the standard.
Hye-Shik Chang2cad3e92006-09-05 12:14:57 +00007506 - iso2022_jp_3 and iso2022_jp_2004 codec can encode JIS X 0213:2
Hye-Shik Chang199f1db2006-09-05 12:07:09 +00007507 codepoints now.
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00007508
Andrew M. Kuchling43889c02006-09-27 16:37:30 +00007509- Bug #1552726: in readline.c, avoid repeatedly polling in interactive
7510 mode by only placing a timeout on the select() if an input hook has
7511 been defined. This prevents an interactive Python from waking up 10
7512 times per second. Patch by Richard Boulton.
7513
Gregory P. Smithf09c6262007-03-17 22:33:35 +00007514- fixed a bug with bsddb.DB.stat: the flags and txn keyword arguments
7515 were transposed.
7516
Jesus Cea4907d272008-08-31 14:00:51 +00007517- Added support for linking the bsddb module against BerkeleyDB 4.5.x,
7518 4.6.x and 4.7.x.
Gregory P. Smith8b96a352007-01-05 01:59:42 +00007519
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007520- Bug #1633621: if curses.resizeterm() or curses.resize_term() is
7521 called, update _curses.LINES, _curses.COLS, curses.LINES and
7522 curses.COLS.
Andrew M. Kuchling43889c02006-09-27 16:37:30 +00007523
Matthias Klosee19e0c22007-04-03 04:35:59 +00007524- Fix an off-by-one bug in locale.strxfrm().
7525
Matthias Klose38336402007-09-04 20:46:02 +00007526- Fix libffi configure for hppa*-*-linux* | parisc*-*-linux*.
7527
Matthias Klose9afb9852007-10-24 20:00:44 +00007528- Build using system ffi library on arm*-linux*.
7529
Christian Heimes3f065a42007-11-21 01:17:28 +00007530- Bug #1372: zlibmodule.c: int overflow in PyZlib_decompress
Matthias Klosee19e0c22007-04-03 04:35:59 +00007531
Gregory P. Smitheeed5b72008-02-03 07:20:53 +00007532- bsddb module: Fix memory leak when using database cursors on
7533 databases without a DBEnv.
7534
Gerhard Häring11ab8072008-03-02 13:12:27 +00007535- The sqlite3 module was updated to pysqlite 2.4.1.
7536
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00007537Tests
7538-----
7539
Brett Cannon56c4deb2008-03-03 00:38:58 +00007540- Refactor test_logging to use unittest.
Brett Cannonf9db8a32008-02-17 01:59:18 +00007541
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007542- Refactor test_profile and test_cprofile to use the same code to
7543 profile.
Georg Brandlb7090772008-02-05 19:58:17 +00007544
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007545- Make test_runpy reentrant by fixing _check_module to clear out any
7546 module being tested. Was causing an error by __import__ doing a
7547 reload on the second run and thus suppressing bytecode recreation.
Brett Cannondbed7a72007-08-23 14:53:17 +00007548
Brett Cannonea2835a2007-03-14 21:44:15 +00007549- Capture socket connection resets and timeouts in test_socket_ssl and
7550 test_urllib2net and raise test.test_support.ResourceDenied.
Brett Cannoned001842007-03-14 21:40:13 +00007551
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007552- Patch #1559413: Fix test_cmd_line if sys.executable contains a
7553 space.
Martin v. Löwiscd1210a2007-03-14 20:02:31 +00007554
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007555- Added test.test_support.TransientResource which is a context manager
7556 to surround calls to resources that are not guaranteed to work even
7557 if test.test_support.requires says that the resource should exist.
Brett Cannona30fcb42007-03-08 23:58:11 +00007558
Brett Cannone05e6b02007-01-29 04:41:44 +00007559- Added a test for slicing of an exception.
7560
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007561- Added test.test_support.EnvironmentVarGuard. It's a class that
7562 provides a context manager so that one can temporarily set or unset
7563 environment variables.
Brett Cannon92d54d52007-01-04 00:23:49 +00007564
Thomas Heller112d1a62006-10-27 19:05:53 +00007565- Added some tests for modulefinder.
7566
Brett Cannon373d90b2006-10-03 23:23:14 +00007567- Converted test_imp to use unittest.
7568
Neal Norwitz919d5cc2006-09-05 02:35:08 +00007569- Fix bsddb test_basics.test06_Transactions to check the version
7570 number properly.
7571
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007572- test.test_support.catch_warning is a new context manager that can be
7573 used to catch the warnings issued by the warning framework.
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00007574
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00007575Tools
7576-----
7577
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007578- Tools/scripts/reindent.py now creates the backup file using
7579 shutil.copy to preserve user/group and permissions. Added also a
7580 --nobackup option to not create the backup if the user is concerned
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00007581 regarding this. Check issue #1050828 for more details.
Facundo Batistaf88a0772008-02-17 16:21:13 +00007582
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007583- Tools/scripts/win_add2path.py was added. The simple script modifes
7584 the PATH environment var of the HKCU tree and adds the python bin
7585 and script directory.
Christian Heimesbd865db2008-01-18 11:58:50 +00007586
Skip Montanaro3e275362007-08-29 01:33:45 +00007587- Tools/18n/pygettext.py was added to the list of scripts installed by
7588 Tools/scripts/setup.py (tracker item 642309).
7589
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007590- Added IronPython and Jython support to pybench (part of which was
7591 patch #1563844).
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00007592
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007593- Made some minor changes to pybench output to allow the user to see
7594 which Python version is running pybench.
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00007595
7596- Added support for the new platform module feature
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007597 platform.python_implementation(); this will now be saved in the
7598 benchmark pickle.
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00007599
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00007600
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00007601Documentation
7602-------------
7603
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +00007604- RFE #1765140: Updated documentation on FileHandler and subclasses to
7605 include new optional delay argument.
7606
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007607- Bug #932563: Added section on getting contextual information into
7608 logging output, and added documentation for the new LoggerAdapter
7609 class.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00007610
7611- Bug #1295: Added information about caching of formatted exception
7612 information in the LogRecord by Formatter.format().
7613
Georg Brandl9467bc52007-07-12 09:37:49 +00007614- Bug #1637365: add subsection about "__name__ == __main__" to the
7615 Python tutorial.
7616
Georg Brandl3dc6e902007-04-25 06:24:59 +00007617- Patch #1698768: updated the "using Python on the Mac" intro.
7618
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007619- Bug #1569057: Document that calling file.next() when the file is
7620 open for writing is undefined.
Brett Cannon55a18642007-04-08 04:29:32 +00007621
Žiga Seilnachtc64ad482007-03-24 14:24:26 +00007622- Patch #1489771: the syntax rules in Python Reference Manual were
7623 updated to reflect the current Python syntax.
7624
Martin v. Löwis2f401d72007-03-23 10:35:49 +00007625- Patch #1686451: Fix return type for
7626 PySequence_{Count,Index,Fast_GET_SIZE}.
7627
Georg Brandl0692a262007-03-13 07:50:57 +00007628- Patch #1679379: add documentation for fnmatch.translate().
7629
Collin Winterb7b2b4e2007-03-09 18:09:10 +00007630- Bug #1629566: clarify the docs on the return values of parsedate()
7631 and parsedate_tz() in email.utils and rfc822.
7632
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00007633- Patch #1671450: add a section about subclassing built-in types to the
Georg Brandld28b9fc2007-03-06 10:02:47 +00007634 "extending and embedding" tutorial.
7635
Georg Brandlb26b1c62007-01-17 21:19:58 +00007636- Bug #1629125: fix wrong data type (int -> Py_ssize_t) in PyDict_Next
7637 docs.
7638
Georg Brandla4c8e322006-10-12 08:22:53 +00007639- Bug #1565919: document set types in the Language Reference.
7640
Georg Brandl44a7b3a2006-09-30 12:02:57 +00007641- Bug #1546052: clarify that PyString_FromString(AndSize) copies the
7642 string pointed to by its parameter.
7643
Georg Brandlfb257732006-09-30 09:06:45 +00007644- Bug #1566663: remove obsolete example from datetime docs.
7645
Georg Brandl648c1102006-08-18 07:27:59 +00007646- Bug #1541682: Fix example in the "Refcount details" API docs.
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007647 Additionally, remove a faulty example showing PySequence_SetItem
7648 applied to a newly created list object and add notes that this isn't
7649 a good idea.
Georg Brandl648c1102006-08-18 07:27:59 +00007650
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00007651
Georg Brandl27562782006-10-27 20:39:43 +00007652Tools/Demos
7653-----------
7654
7655- Patch #1552024: add decorator support to unparse.py demo script.
Marc-André Lemburg96148682006-09-06 20:40:22 +00007656
Brett Cannonc8939d22006-09-20 19:28:35 +00007657- Make auto-generated python.vim file list built-ins and exceptions in
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007658 alphatbetical order. Makes output more deterministic and easier to
7659 tell if the file is stale or not.
Brett Cannonc8939d22006-09-20 19:28:35 +00007660
Marc-André Lemburg96148682006-09-06 20:40:22 +00007661- Bug #1546372: Fixed small bugglet in pybench that caused a missing
7662 file not to get reported properly.
7663
7664
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00007665Build
7666-----
7667
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007668- Have the search path for building extensions follow the declared
7669 order in $CPPFLAGS and $LDFLAGS when adding directories from those
7670 environment variables.
Brett Cannon70c0c022008-02-03 09:59:21 +00007671
Christian Heimes951cc0f2008-01-31 23:08:23 +00007672- Bug #1983: Added a check to pyport to verify that sizeof(pid_t) is
7673 smaller or equal sizeof(long).
7674
Christian Heimescba36bb2008-01-30 22:54:18 +00007675- Bug #1234: Fixed semaphore errors on AIX 5.2
7676
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007677- Issue #1726: Remove Python/atof.c from PCBuild/pythoncore.vcproj.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00007678
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007679- Removed PCbuild8/ directory and added a new build directory for VS
7680 2005 based on the VS 2008 build directory to PC/VS8.0. The script
7681 PCbuild/vs8to9.py was added to sync changes from PCbuild to
7682 PC/VS8.0.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00007683
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007684- Moved PCbuild/ directory for VS 2003 to PC/VS7.1 and renamed
7685 PCBuild9/ directory to PCBuild/.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00007686
Martin v. Löwiscb78de62007-12-29 18:49:21 +00007687- Bug #1699: Define _BSD_SOURCE only on OpenBSD.
7688
Guido van Rossum7c862f82007-12-13 20:50:10 +00007689- Bug #1608: use -fwrapv when GCC supports it. This is important,
7690 newer GCC versions may optimize away overflow buffer overflow checks
7691 without this option!
7692
Martin v. Löwis63bf1492007-11-12 05:14:05 +00007693- Patch #1418: Make the AC_REPLACE_FUNCS object files actually work.
7694
Raymond Hettingerdc1d1ba2007-11-07 02:45:46 +00007695- Add a FAST_LOOPS build option that speeds-up looping by trading away
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007696 periodic threadstate and signal checking in tight loops. By
7697 default, this option is turned-off. It should only be enabled in
7698 debugged, performance critical applications.
Raymond Hettingerdc1d1ba2007-11-07 02:45:46 +00007699
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007700- Patch #786737: Allow building in a tree of symlinks pointing to a
7701 readonly source.
Martin v. Löwisd44a4e92007-09-05 11:47:34 +00007702
Martin v. Löwis8bc77e42007-09-01 06:36:03 +00007703- Bug #1737210: Change Manufacturer of Windows installer to PSF.
7704
Martin v. Löwis75c23bd2007-08-30 18:25:47 +00007705- Bug #1746880: Correctly install DLLs into system32 folder on Win64.
7706
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007707- Define _BSD_SOURCE, to get access to POSIX extensions on OpenBSD
7708 4.1+.
Martin v. Löwis76760b02007-07-31 19:57:56 +00007709
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007710- Stop supporting AtheOS and cause a build error in configure for the
7711 platform.
Brett Cannon19fab762007-06-02 03:02:29 +00007712
Georg Brandldb846032007-03-31 18:56:11 +00007713- Bug #1655392: don't add -L/usr/lib/pythonX.Y/config to the LDFLAGS
7714 returned by python-config if Python was built with --enable-shared
7715 because that prevented the shared library from being used.
7716
Georg Brandl18c47f62007-03-13 10:19:22 +00007717- Patch #1569798: fix a bug in distutils when building Python from a
7718 directory within sys.exec_prefix.
7719
Martin v. Löwiseb623572007-03-12 10:50:39 +00007720- Bug #1675511: Use -Kpic instead of -xcode=pic32 on Solaris/x86.
7721
Martin v. Löwis4d542ec2006-11-25 15:39:19 +00007722- Disable _XOPEN_SOURCE on NetBSD 1.x.
7723
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007724- configure now checks whether gcc supports the PyArg_ParseTuple
7725 format attribute.
Martin v. Löwisaac13162006-10-19 10:58:46 +00007726
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00007727- Bug #1578513: Cross compilation was broken by a change to configure.
Martin v. Löwisfefbc202006-10-17 18:59:23 +00007728 Repair so that it's back to how it was in 2.4.3.
7729
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007730- Patch #1576954: Update VC6 build directory; remove redundant files
7731 in VC7.
Martin v. Löwisc9e82f62006-10-15 07:54:40 +00007732
Martin v. Löwisebe26702006-10-02 14:55:51 +00007733- Bug #1568842: Fix test for uintptr_t.
7734
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007735- Patch #1540470: for OpenBSD 4.0.
Neal Norwitz4bc2c092006-09-05 02:57:01 +00007736
Matthias Klosed149d0c2006-12-03 17:16:41 +00007737- Fix build failure on kfreebsd and on the hurd.
7738
Matthias Kloseebde1492006-12-09 12:15:27 +00007739- Fix the build of the library reference in info format.
7740
Matthias Kloseeb8ff672007-08-02 21:33:13 +00007741- Allow Emacs 22 for building the documentation in info format.
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00007742
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007743- Makefile.pre.in(buildbottest): Run an optional script
7744 pybuildbot.identify to include some information about the build
7745 environment.
Matthias Klose642ac852007-09-04 18:17:36 +00007746
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00007747
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00007748C API
7749-----
7750
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007751- Unified naming convention for free lists and their limits. All free
7752 lists in Object/ are named ``free_list``, the counter ``numfree``
7753 and the upper limit is a macro ``PyName_MAXFREELIST`` inside an
7754 #ifndef block.
Christian Heimes5b970ad2008-02-06 13:33:44 +00007755
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007756- ``PySet_Add()`` can now modify a newly created frozenset. Similarly
7757 to ``PyTuple_SetItem``, it can be used to populate a brand new
7758 frozenset; but it does not steal a reference to the added item.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arccab3d982008-02-03 22:51:43 +00007759
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00007760- Added ``PySet_Check()`` and ``PyFrozenSet_Check()`` to the set API.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arccab3d982008-02-03 22:51:43 +00007761
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007762- Backport of PyUnicode_FromString(), _FromStringAndSize(), _Format
7763 and _FormatV from Python 3.0. Made PyLong_AsSsize_t and
7764 PyLong_FromSsize_t public functions.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00007765
7766- Patch #1720595: add T_BOOL to the range of structmember types.
7767
7768- Issue #1534: Added ``PyFloat_GetMax()``, ``PyFloat_GetMin()`` and
7769 ``PyFloat_GetInfo()`` to the float API.
7770
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007771- Issue #1521: On 64bit platforms, using PyArgs_ParseTuple with the t#
7772 of w# format code incorrectly truncated the length to an int, even
7773 when PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN is set. The str.decode method used to return
7774 incorrect results with huge strings.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00007775
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007776- Issue #1629: Renamed Py_Size, Py_Type and Py_Refcnt to Py_SIZE,
7777 Py_TYPE and Py_REFCNT.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00007778
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007779- PEP 3123: Provide forward compatibility with Python 3.0, while
7780 keeping backwards compatibility. Add Py_Refcnt, Py_Type, Py_Size,
7781 and PyVarObject_HEAD_INIT.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00007782
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007783- Py_ssize_t fields work in structmember when HAVE_LONG_LONG is not
7784 defined.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00007785
7786- Patch #1733960: Allow T_LONGLONG to accept ints.
7787
7788- T_PYSSIZET can now be used in PyMemberDef lists for Py_ssize_t members.
7789
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00007790- Added a new API function ``PyImport_ImportModuleNoBlock``.
7791
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00007792- Bug #1637022: Prefix AST symbols with _Py_.
7793
7794- Fix some leftovers from the conversion from int to Py_ssize_t
7795 (relevant to strings and sequences of more than 2**31 items).
7796
7797- Make _PyGILState_NoteThreadState() static, it was not used anywhere
7798 outside of pystate.c and should not be necessary.
7799
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007800- ``PyImport_Import`` and ``PyImport_ImportModule`` now always do
7801 absolute imports. In earlier versions they might have used relative
7802 imports under some conditions.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00007803
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007804- Added case insensitive comparison methods ``PyOS_stricmp(char*,
7805 char*)`` and ``PyOS_strnicmp(char*, char*, Py_ssize_t)``.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00007806
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007807- Bug #1542693: remove semi-colon at end of PyImport_ImportModuleEx
7808 macro so it can be used as an expression.
Neal Norwitz8a267062006-08-19 04:25:29 +00007809
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00007810
Martin v. Löwis2607e6c2006-11-21 18:20:25 +00007811Windows
7812-------
7813
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007814- Patch #1706: Drop support for Win9x, WinME and NT4. Python now
7815 requires Windows 2000 or greater. The _WINVER and NTDDI_VERSION
7816 macros are set to Win2k for x86/32bit builds and WinXP for AMD64
7817 builds.
Christian Heimes95d64472008-02-09 19:55:22 +00007818
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007819- Conditionalize definition of _CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE and
7820 _CRT_NONSTDC_NO_DEPRECATE.
Martin v. Löwis2607e6c2006-11-21 18:20:25 +00007821
Martin v. Löwisd476a402007-10-12 08:56:52 +00007822- Bug #1216: Restore support for Visual Studio 2002.
7823
Martin v. Löwis2607e6c2006-11-21 18:20:25 +00007824
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00007825Mac
7826---
7827
Brett Cannonf0cb1d72007-05-31 20:01:11 +00007828- cfmfile now raises a DeprecationWarning.
7829
Brett Cannon791d56f2007-05-31 19:40:42 +00007830- buildtools now raises a DeprecationWarning.
7831
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007832- Removed the macfs module. It had been deprecated since Python 2.5.
7833 This lead to the deprecation of macostools.touched() as it relied
7834 solely on macfs and was a no-op under OS X.
Brett Cannon5e263512007-05-20 23:17:38 +00007835
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7837
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