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Skip Montanaroe5d7f7f2002-09-20 14:16:59 +00003+++++++++++
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Anthony Baxterb0c66302004-11-04 05:23:17 +00005(editors: check NEWS.help for information about editing NEWS using ReST.)
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Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00007What's New in Python 2.7 alpha 1
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10*Release date: XX-XXX-20XX*
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12Core and Builtins
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14
Antoine Pitroubeaf6a02009-10-11 21:03:26 +000015- Issue #7084: Fix a (very unlikely) crash when printing a list from one
16 thread, and mutating it from another one. Patch by Scott Dial.
17
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd0052d12009-10-06 19:56:32 +000018- Issue #1571184: The Unicode database contains properties for more characters.
19 The tables for code points representing numeric values, white spaces or line
20 breaks are now generated from the official Unicode Character Database files,
21 and include information from the Unihan.txt file.
22
Benjamin Peterson7adbb5a2009-10-03 20:23:24 +000023- Issue #7050: Fix a SystemError when trying to use unpacking and augmented
24 assignment.
25
Philip Jenvey8b902042009-09-29 19:10:15 +000026- Issue #5329: Fix os.popen* regression from 2.5 with commands as a
27 sequence running through the shell. Patch by Jean-Paul Calderone
28 and Jani Hakala.
29
Mark Dickinson7e7a3ec2009-09-29 19:01:06 +000030- Issue #7019: Raise ValueError when unmarshalling bad long data, instead
31 of producing internally inconsistent Python longs.
32
Philip Jenveydbf3b252009-09-29 04:32:44 +000033- Issue #6990: Fix threading.local subclasses leaving old state around
34 after a reference cycle GC which could be recycled by new locals.
35
Benjamin Peterson9db55402009-09-18 21:47:27 +000036- Issue #6300: unicode.encode, unicode.decode, str.decode, and str.encode now
Benjamin Peterson332d7212009-09-18 21:14:55 +000037 take keyword arguments.
38
Georg Brandle9741f32009-09-17 11:28:09 +000039- Issue #6922: Fix an infinite loop when trying to decode an invalid
40 UTF-32 stream with a non-raising error handler like "replace" or "ignore".
41
Mark Dickinson4b9d4732009-09-27 16:05:21 +000042- Issue #6713: Improve performance of base 10 int -> string and
43 long -> string conversions.
Mark Dickinsonaa2adc82009-09-16 22:10:56 +000044
Thomas Wouters2920adb2009-09-16 20:36:34 +000045- Issue #1590864: Fix potential deadlock when mixing threads and fork().
46
Georg Brandl0674d3f2009-09-16 20:30:09 +000047- Issue #6844: Do not emit DeprecationWarnings when accessing a "message"
48 attribute on exceptions that was set explicitly.
49
Mark Dickinsonc8a7c7c2009-09-06 10:03:31 +000050- Issue #6846: Fix bug where bytearray.pop() returns negative integers.
51
Benjamin Peterson6fcf9b52009-09-01 22:27:57 +000052- classmethod no longer checks if its argument is callable.
53
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfff896b2009-08-29 18:14:40 +000054- Issue #6750: A text file opened with io.open() could duplicate its output
55 when writing from multiple threads at the same time.
56
Benjamin Petersonc0ba8282009-08-15 22:59:21 +000057- Issue #6704: Improve the col_offset in AST for "for" statements with
58 a target of tuple unpacking.
59
Benjamin Peterson4c6e8082009-08-15 13:16:38 +000060- Issue #6707: dir() on an uninitialized module caused a crash.
61
Georg Brandlec812ca2009-07-22 11:57:15 +000062- Issue #6540: Fixed crash for bytearray.translate() with invalid parameters.
63
Raymond Hettingerc2b9e1a2009-07-27 20:32:04 +000064- Issue #6573: set.union() stopped processing inputs if an instance of self
65 occurred in the argument chain.
66
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc9d11fef2009-07-13 20:03:21 +000067- Issue #1616979: Added the cp720 (Arabic DOS) encoding.
68
69- Issue #6070: On posix platforms import no longer copies the execute bit
R. David Murray23a736a2009-07-07 01:06:13 +000070 from the .py file to the .pyc file if it is set. Patch by Marco N.
71
Benjamin Peterson753d1622009-07-02 18:16:45 +000072- Issue #4618: When unicode arguments are passed to print(), the default
73 separator and end should be unicode also.
74
Benjamin Peterson1bf47652009-07-02 17:06:17 +000075- Issue #6119: Fixed a incorrect Py3k warning about order comparisons of builtin
76 functions and methods.
77
Mark Dickinson2f865b92009-06-30 15:32:30 +000078- Issue #6347: Include inttypes.h as well as stdint.h in pyport.h.
79 This fixes a build failure on HP-UX: int32_t and uint32_t are
80 defined in inttypes.h instead of stdint.h on that platform.
81
Hirokazu Yamamotoa3c56092009-06-28 10:23:00 +000082- Issue #4856: Remove checks for win NT.
83
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc595f7a52009-06-25 22:29:29 +000084- Issue #2016: Fixed a crash in a corner case where the dictionary of keyword
85 arguments could be modified during the function call setup.
86
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc14fc6732009-06-23 21:09:09 +000087- Removed the ipaddr module.
88
Raymond Hettinger62641e92009-06-23 20:59:43 +000089- Issue #6329: Fixed iteration for memoryview objects (it was being blocked
90 because it wasn't recognized as a sequence).
91
Benjamin Peterson08a0bbc2009-06-16 00:29:31 +000092- Issue #6289: Encoding errors from compile() were being masked.
93
Benjamin Petersona72be3b2009-06-13 20:23:33 +000094- When no module is given in a relative import, the module field of the
95 ImportFrom AST node is now None instead of an empty string.
96
Benjamin Peterson565e1b62009-06-13 03:46:30 +000097- Assignment to None using import statements now raises a SyntaxError.
98
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcb02ceda2009-06-01 20:53:18 +000099- Issue #4547: When debugging a very large function, it was not always
100 possible to update the lineno attribute of the current frame.
101
Antoine Pitrou46dbe272009-05-30 21:27:00 +0000102- Issue #5330: C functions called with keyword arguments were not reported by
Benjamin Peterson95e5ebe2009-07-12 23:56:18 +0000103 the various profiling modules (profile, cProfile). Patch by Hagen Fürstenau.
Antoine Pitrou46dbe272009-05-30 21:27:00 +0000104
Raymond Hettinger578a2282009-05-29 04:58:52 +0000105- Issue #5982: staticmethod and classmethod now expose the wrapped
106 function with __func__.
107
Raymond Hettinger822b87f2009-05-29 01:46:48 +0000108- Added support for multiple context managers in the same with-statement.
109 Deprecated contextlib.nested() which is no longer needed.
Georg Brandl944f6842009-05-25 21:02:56 +0000110
Benjamin Peterson1880d8b2009-05-25 13:13:44 +0000111- Issue #6101: A new opcode, SETUP_WITH, has been added to speed up the with
112 statement and correctly lookup the __enter__ and __exit__ special methods.
113
Mark Dickinsona4e0efa2009-05-20 18:43:07 +0000114- Issue #5829: complex("1e500") no longer raises OverflowError. This
115 makes it consistent with float("1e500") and interpretation of real
116 and imaginary literals.
117
Hirokazu Yamamotoa4f90182009-05-17 02:58:36 +0000118- Issue #3527: Removed Py_WIN_WIDE_FILENAMES which is not used any more.
119
Benjamin Peterson0c3b4c62009-05-16 23:34:19 +0000120- __instancecheck__ and __subclasscheck__ are now completely ignored on classic
121 classes and instances.
Benjamin Petersoneb9fb2c2009-05-16 22:46:11 +0000122
R. David Murray525cffc2009-05-13 13:07:14 +0000123- Issue #5994: the marshal module now has docstrings.
124
Mark Dickinsonb1d45852009-05-11 15:33:08 +0000125- Issue #5981: Fix three minor inf/nan issues in float.fromhex:
126 (1) inf and nan strings with trailing whitespace were incorrectly
127 rejected; (2) parsing of strings representing infinities and nans
128 was locale aware; and (3) the interpretation of fromhex('-nan')
129 didn't match that of float('-nan').
130
Eric Smitha985a3a2009-05-05 18:26:08 +0000131- Issue #5920: For float.__format__, change the behavior with the
132 empty presentation type (that is, not one of 'e', 'f', 'g', or 'n')
133 to be like 'g' but with at least one decimal point and with a
134 default precision of 12. Previously, the behavior the same but with
135 a default precision of 6. This more closely matches str(), and
136 reduces surprises when adding alignment flags to the empty
137 presentation type. This also affects the new complex.__format__ in
138 the same way.
139
R. David Murray7ba8e1c2009-05-04 22:16:24 +0000140- Issue #5890: in subclasses of 'property' the __doc__ attribute was
141 shadowed by classtype's, even if it was None. property now
142 inserts the __doc__ into the subclass instance __dict__.
143
Antoine Pitrou653dece2009-05-04 18:32:32 +0000144- Issue #4426: The UTF-7 decoder was too strict and didn't accept some legal
145 sequences. Patch by Nick Barnes and Victor Stinner.
146
Vinay Sajipf9b01fe2009-05-09 12:07:17 +0000147- Issue #1588: Add complex.__format__. For example,
Eric Smith9139cc62009-04-30 00:58:58 +0000148 format(complex(1, 2./3), '.5') now produces a sensible result.
149
Mark Dickinson92fcc9c2009-04-29 20:41:00 +0000150- Issue #5864: Fix empty format code formatting for floats so that it
151 never gives more than the requested number of significant digits.
152
Eric Smithcac7af62009-04-27 19:04:37 +0000153- Issue #5793: Rationalize isdigit / isalpha / tolower, etc. Includes
154 new Py_ISDIGIT / Py_ISALPHA / Py_TOLOWER, etc. in pctypes.h.
155
Martin v. Löwis99f27792009-04-26 00:53:18 +0000156- Issue #4971: Fix titlecase for characters that are their own
157 titlecase, but not their own uppercase.
158
Eric Smith068f0652009-04-25 21:40:15 +0000159- Issue #5835: Deprecate PyOS_ascii_formatd and replace it with
160 _PyOS_double_to_string or PyOS_double_to_string.
161
Benjamin Peterson5083dc52009-04-25 00:41:22 +0000162- Issue #5283: Setting __class__ in __del__ caused a segfault.
163
Mark Dickinson95bc9802009-04-24 12:46:53 +0000164- Issue #5816: complex(repr(z)) now recovers z exactly, even when
165 z involves nans, infs or negative zeros.
166
Eric Smithaca19e62009-04-22 13:29:05 +0000167- Implement PEP 378, Format Specifier for Thousands Separator, for
168 floats, ints, and longs.
169
170- Issue #5515: 'n' formatting for ints, longs, and floats handles
171 leading zero formatting poorly.
172
173- Issue #5772: For float.__format__, don't add a trailing ".0" if
174 we're using no type code and we have an exponent.
175
Mark Dickinson6736cf82009-04-20 21:13:33 +0000176- Issue #3166: Make long -> float (and int -> float) conversions
177 correctly rounded.
178
Benjamin Petersond4d400c2009-04-18 20:12:47 +0000179- Issue #5787: object.__getattribute__(some_type, "__bases__") segfaulted on
180 some builtin types.
181
Mark Dickinson1bdf7e92009-04-18 14:59:42 +0000182- Issue #1869: fix a couple of minor round() issues. round(5e15+1)
Eric Smith9139cc62009-04-30 00:58:58 +0000183 was giving 5e15+2; round(-0.0) was losing the sign of the zero.
Mark Dickinson1bdf7e92009-04-18 14:59:42 +0000184
Benjamin Peterson99d36f12009-04-15 21:26:36 +0000185- Issue #5759: float() didn't call __float__ on str subclasses.
186
Georg Brandl3c4a5462009-04-12 12:08:12 +0000187- Issue #5704: the "-3" command-line option now implies "-t".
188
R. David Murray0374a822009-04-09 21:54:50 +0000189- Issue #2170: refactored xml.dom.minidom.normalize, increasing both
190 its clarity and its speed.
191
Antoine Pitrou789be0c2009-04-02 21:18:34 +0000192- Issue #2396: the memoryview object was backported from Python 3.1.
193
Georg Brandld3f03fa2009-04-02 18:09:04 +0000194- Fix a problem in PyErr_NormalizeException that leads to "undetected errors"
195 when hitting the recursion limit under certain circumstances.
196
Brett Cannon15ba4da2009-04-01 18:03:59 +0000197- Issue #1665206: Remove the last eager import in _warnings.c and make it lazy.
198
Ronald Oussorene0154ed2009-03-30 23:10:35 +0000199- Issue #4865: On MacOSX /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages is added to
200 the end sys.path, for compatibility with the system install of Python.
201
Antoine Pitrouf8387af2009-03-23 18:41:45 +0000202- Issue #4688: Add a heuristic so that tuples and dicts containing only
203 untrackable objects are not tracked by the garbage collector. This can
204 reduce the size of collections and therefore the garbage collection overhead
205 on long-running programs, depending on their particular use of datatypes.
206
Mark Dickinson0b666bf2009-03-23 18:25:13 +0000207- Issue #5512: Rewrite PyLong long division algorithm (x_divrem) to
208 improve its performance. Long divisions and remainder operations
209 are now between 50% and 150% faster.
210
Mark Dickinsonefc82f72009-03-20 15:51:55 +0000211- Issue #4258: Make it possible to use base 2**30 instead of base
212 2**15 for the internal representation of integers, for performance
213 reasons. Base 2**30 is enabled by default on 64-bit machines. Add
214 --enable-big-digits option to configure, which overrides the
215 default. Add sys.long_info structseq to provide information about
216 the internal format.
217
Benjamin Peterson6ffe8522009-03-18 20:52:15 +0000218- Issue #4034: Fix weird attribute error messages of the traceback object. (As a
219 result traceback.__members__ no longer exists.)
220
Mark Dickinson6b265f12009-03-18 16:07:26 +0000221- Issue #4474: PyUnicode_FromWideChar now converts characters outside
222 the BMP to surrogate pairs, on systems with sizeof(wchar_t) == 4
223 and sizeof(Py_UNICODE) == 2.
224
Eric Smith6f42edb2009-03-14 11:57:26 +0000225- Issue #5237: Allow auto-numbered fields in str.format(). For
226 example: '{} {}'.format(1, 2) == '1 2'.
227
Brett Cannon6c4cff02009-03-11 04:51:06 +0000228- Issue #3652: Make the 'line' argument for warnings.showwarning() a
229 requirement. Means the DeprecationWarning from Python 2.6 can go away.
230
Eric Smithe9fb6862009-02-20 14:02:36 +0000231- Issue #5247: Improve error message when unknown format codes are
232 used when using str.format() with str, unicode, long, int, and
233 float arguments.
234
Raymond Hettinger08259e82009-02-18 23:10:19 +0000235- Running Python with the -3 option now also warns about classic division
236 for ints and longs.
237
Mark Dickinson2ffb26f2009-02-15 10:13:41 +0000238- Issue #5260: Long integers now consume less memory: average
239 saving is 2 bytes per long on a 32-bit system and 6 bytes per long
240 on a 64-bit system.
241
Antoine Pitrou76a4b892009-02-13 13:52:33 +0000242- Issue #5186: Reduce hash collisions for objects with no __hash__ method by
243 rotating the object pointer by 4 bits to the right.
244
Mark Dickinsonc97c9092009-02-09 14:18:43 +0000245- Issue #4575: Fix Py_IS_INFINITY macro to work correctly on x87 FPUs:
246 it now forces its argument to double before testing for infinity.
247
Benjamin Petersone18ef192009-01-20 14:21:16 +0000248- Issue #4978: Passing keyword arguments as unicode strings is now allowed.
249
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +0000250- Issue #1242657: the __len__() and __length_hint__() calls in several tools
Raymond Hettingerb5163702009-02-02 21:50:13 +0000251 were suppressing all exceptions. These include list(), filter(), map(),
252 zip(), and bytearray().
253
Benjamin Peterson596d3062009-01-19 15:42:23 +0000254- os.ftruncate raises OSErrors instead of IOErrors for consistency with other os
255 functions.
256
Benjamin Peterson5848d1f2009-01-19 00:08:08 +0000257- Issue #4991: Passing invalid file descriptors to io.FileIO now raises an
258 OSError.
259
Amaury Forgeot d'Arca18392a2009-01-13 23:19:08 +0000260- Issue #4807: Port the _winreg module to Windows CE.
261
Antoine Pitrouc2f02212009-01-13 23:13:52 +0000262- Issue #4935: The overflow checking code in the expandtabs() method common
263 to str, bytes and bytearray could be optimized away by the compiler, letting
264 the interpreter segfault instead of raising an error.
265
Amaury Forgeot d'Arca40d5732009-01-12 23:36:55 +0000266- Issue #3720: Fix a crash when an iterator modifies its class and removes its
267 __next__ method.
268
Martin v. Löwise3422fa2009-01-12 08:11:24 +0000269- Issue #4893: Use NT threading on CE.
270
Martin v. Löwis1b3bef22009-01-12 07:57:11 +0000271- Issue #4915: Port sysmodule to Windows CE.
272
Antoine Pitrou4c5ecb72009-01-09 21:40:55 +0000273- Issue #4074: Change the criteria for doing a full garbage collection (i.e.
274 collecting the oldest generation) so that allocating lots of objects without
275 destroying them does not show quadratic performance. Based on a proposal by
Benjamin Petersond50a5d52009-07-13 00:03:20 +0000276 Martin von Löwis at
Antoine Pitrou4c5ecb72009-01-09 21:40:55 +0000277 http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2008-June/080579.html.
278
Martin v. Löwisb90304a2009-01-07 18:40:40 +0000279- Issue #4850: Change COUNT_ALLOCS variables to Py_ssize_t.
280
Antoine Pitroue96d4ea2009-01-06 18:10:47 +0000281- Issue #1180193: When importing a module from a .pyc (or .pyo) file with
282 an existing .py counterpart, override the co_filename attributes of all
283 code objects if the original filename is obsolete (which can happen if the
284 file has been renamed, moved, or if it is accessed through different paths).
285 Patch by Ziga Seilnacht and Jean-Paul Calderone.
286
Martin v. Löwis5344c992009-01-02 20:32:55 +0000287- Issue #4075: Use OutputDebugStringW in Py_FatalError.
288
Hirokazu Yamamoto99a1b202009-01-01 15:45:39 +0000289- Issue #4797: IOError.filename was not set when _fileio.FileIO failed to open
290 file with `str' filename on Windows.
291
Antoine Pitrouaa687902009-01-01 14:11:22 +0000292- Issue #3680: Reference cycles created through a dict, set or deque iterator
293 did not get collected.
294
Nick Coghlan180e4002008-12-30 01:18:48 +0000295- Issue #4701: PyObject_Hash now implicitly calls PyType_Ready on types
296 where the tp_hash and tp_dict slots are both NULL.
297
Benjamin Peterson7af65562008-12-29 17:56:58 +0000298- Issue #4764: With io.open, IOError.filename is set when trying to open a
299 directory on POSIX systems.
300
Benjamin Petersonfe231b02008-12-29 17:47:42 +0000301- Issue #4764: IOError.filename is set when trying to open a directory on POSIX
302 systems.
303
Georg Brandl6425a2f2008-12-28 11:54:53 +0000304- Issue #4759: None is now allowed as the first argument of
305 bytearray.translate(). It was always allowed for bytes.translate().
306
Skip Montanarof205c132008-12-23 03:30:15 +0000307- Added test case to ensure attempts to read from a file opened for writing
308 fail.
309
Antoine Pitrou73c0e652008-12-17 22:46:54 +0000310- Issue #2467: gc.DEBUG_STATS reported invalid elapsed times. Also, always
311 print elapsed times, not only when some objects are uncollectable /
312 unreachable. Original patch by Neil Schemenauer.
313
Mark Dickinson1a707982008-12-17 16:14:37 +0000314- Issue #3439: Add a bit_length method to int and long.
315
Antoine Pitroud0c35152008-12-17 00:38:28 +0000316- Issue #2183: Simplify and optimize bytecode for list comprehensions.
317 Original patch by Neal Norwitz.
318
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcad9b5992008-12-10 23:22:49 +0000319- Issue #4597: Fixed exception handling when the __exit__ function of a
320 context manager returns a value that cannot be converted to a bool.
321
Jeffrey Yasskinffd42cf2008-12-10 07:35:02 +0000322- Issue #4597: Fixed several opcodes that weren't always propagating
323 exceptions.
324
Mark Dickinson826f3fe2008-12-05 21:55:28 +0000325- Issue #4445: Replace "sizeof(PyStringObject)" with
326 "offsetof(PyStringObject, ob_sval) + 1" when allocating memory for
327 str instances. On a typical machine this saves 3 bytes of memory
328 (on average) per string allocation.
329
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcdc619012008-11-22 20:01:18 +0000330- Issue #3996: On Windows, the PyOS_CheckStack function would cause the
331 interpreter to abort ("Fatal Python error: Could not reset the stack!")
332 instead of throwing a MemoryError.
333
Raymond Hettinger7989a4d2008-12-03 15:42:10 +0000334- Issue #3689: The list reversed iterator now supports __length_hint__
335 instead of __len__. Behavior now matches other reversed iterators.
336
Benjamin Petersonc078f922008-11-21 22:27:24 +0000337- Issue #4367: Python would segfault during compiling when the unicodedata
338 module couldn't be imported and \N escapes were present.
339
Vinay Sajip213faca2008-12-03 23:22:58 +0000340- Issue #4233: Changed semantic of ``_fileio.FileIO``'s ``close()``
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc32265652008-11-20 23:34:31 +0000341 method on file objects with closefd=False. The file descriptor is still
342 kept open but the file object behaves like a closed file. The ``FileIO``
343 object also got a new readonly attribute ``closefd``.
344
Benjamin Peterson46cc6d12008-11-19 21:49:09 +0000345- Issue #4348: Some bytearray methods returned that didn't cause any change to
346 the bytearray, returned the same bytearray instead of a copy.
347
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc7cfe7ea2008-11-18 22:19:37 +0000348- Issue #4317: Fixed a crash in the imageop.rgb2rgb8() function.
349
Benjamin Peterson273c2332008-11-17 22:39:09 +0000350- Issue #4230: If ``__getattr__`` is a descriptor, it now functions correctly.
351
Benjamin Peterson6624a9f2008-11-03 15:14:51 +0000352- Issue #4048: The parser module now correctly validates relative imports.
353
Benjamin Petersondcee09d2008-10-31 02:16:05 +0000354- Issue #4225: ``from __future__ import unicode_literals`` didn't work in an
355 exec statement.
356
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc69a9c5b2008-10-30 21:18:34 +0000357- Issue #4176: Fixed a crash when pickling an object which ``__reduce__``
358 method does not return iterators for the 4th and 5th items.
359
Benjamin Petersonbdca9422008-10-26 20:21:13 +0000360- Issue #4209: Enabling unicode_literals and the print_function in the same
361 __future__ import didn't work.
362
Benjamin Peterson399b1fe2008-10-25 02:53:28 +0000363- Using ``nonlocal`` as a variable name will now raise a Py3k SyntaxWarning
Georg Brandl7fb00ad2008-10-25 07:00:52 +0000364 because it is a reserved word in 3.x.
Benjamin Peterson399b1fe2008-10-25 02:53:28 +0000365
Hirokazu Yamamoto10a018c2008-10-09 10:00:30 +0000366- On windows, os.chdir given unicode was not working if GetCurrentDirectoryW
367 returned a path longer than MAX_PATH. (But It's doubtful this code path is
368 really executed because I cannot move to such directory on win2k)
369
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd78b9dc2008-10-07 20:32:10 +0000370- Issue #4069: When set.remove(element) is used with a set element, the element
371 is temporarily replaced with an equivalent frozenset. But the eventual
372 KeyError would always report the empty frozenset([]) as the missing key. Now
373 it correctly refers to the initial element.
374
Antoine Pitrouae5bece2008-12-06 21:29:24 +0000375- Issue #4509: Various issues surrounding resize of bytearray objects to
376 which there are buffer exports.
377
Benjamin Peterson8d5934b2008-12-27 18:24:11 +0000378- Issue #4748: Lambda generators no longer return a value.
379
Kristján Valur Jónsson6220e412009-01-12 09:20:34 +0000380- Issue #3582: Use native TLS functions on Windows
381
Gregory P. Smithae91d092009-03-02 05:13:57 +0000382- The re.sub(), re.subn() and re.split() functions now accept a flags parameter.
383
Matthias Kloseedb5e1e2009-04-04 14:18:13 +0000384- Issue #3845: In PyRun_SimpleFileExFlags avoid invalid memory access with
385 short file names.
386
Matthias Klose91a3b9e2009-04-05 21:19:13 +0000387- Issue #1113244: Py_XINCREF, Py_DECREF, Py_XDECREF: Add `do { ... } while (0)'
388 to avoid compiler warnings.
Matthias Klose0610e082009-04-05 12:43:08 +0000389
Gregory P. Smith2b3eb372009-04-05 23:48:26 +0000390- Issue #5705: os.setuid() would not accept values > 2**31-1 but pwd.getpwnam()
391 returned them on 64bit platforms.
392
Walter Dörwalded960ac2009-05-03 22:36:33 +0000393- Issue #5108: Handle %s like %S and %R in PyUnicode_FromFormatV(): Call
394 PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8() once, remember the result and output it in a second
395 step. This avoids problems with counting UTF-8 bytes that ignores the effect
396 of using the replace error handler in PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8().
397
Walter Dörwald726ba8e2009-05-06 14:32:35 +0000398- Issue #3739: The unicode-internal encoder now reports the number of characters
399 consumed like any other encoder (instead of the number of bytes).
400
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +0000401Library
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Benjamin Petersonb3dd5482009-02-26 19:07:18 +0000403
Senthil Kumaran27468662009-10-11 02:00:07 +0000404- Issue #6894: Fixed the issue urllib2 doesn't respect "no_proxy" environment
405
Vinay Sajip1c77b7f2009-10-10 20:32:36 +0000406- Issue #7086: Added TCP support to SysLogHandler, and tidied up some
407 anachronisms in the code which were a relic of 1.5.2 compatibility.
408
R. David Murray0c8bee62009-10-09 21:50:54 +0000409- Issue #7082: When falling back to the MIME 'name' parameter, the
410 correct place to look for it is the Content-Type header.
411
Mark Dickinson15ae41c2009-10-07 19:22:05 +0000412- Issue #7048: Force Decimal.logb to round its result when that result
413 is too large to fit in the current precision.
414
Tarek Ziadé1b486712009-10-02 23:49:48 +0000415- Issue #6516: Added owner/group support when creating tar archives in
416 Distutils.
417
Georg Brandl12fafe62009-10-01 21:02:39 +0000418- Issue #7031: Add TestCase.assert(Not)IsInstance() methods.
419
Antoine Pitrou72481782009-09-29 17:48:18 +0000420- Issue #6790: Make it possible again to pass an `array.array` to
421 `httplib.HTTPConnection.send`. Patch by Kirk McDonald.
422
Antoine Pitrou2a466582009-09-21 21:17:48 +0000423- Issue #6236, #6348: Fix various failures in the `io` module under AIX
424 and other platforms, when using a non-gcc compiler. Patch by egreen.
425
Tarek Ziadé99773352009-09-21 13:41:08 +0000426- Issue #6954: Fixed crash when using DISTUTILS_DEBUG flag in Distutils.
427
Ronald Oussoren51f06332009-09-20 10:31:22 +0000428- Issue #6851: Fix urllib.urlopen crash on secondairy threads on OSX 10.6
429
Thomas Heller6be522b2009-09-18 20:05:44 +0000430- Issue #4606: Passing 'None' if ctypes argtype is set to POINTER(...)
431 does now always result in NULL.
432
433- Issue #5042: ctypes Structure sub-subclass does now initialize
434 correctly with base class positional arguments.
Thomas Heller7a352c02009-09-18 18:55:17 +0000435
Georg Brandlc40e60e2009-09-18 09:18:27 +0000436- Issue #6938: Fix a TypeError in string formatting of a multiprocessing
437 debug message.
438
Matthias Klose924eab62009-09-13 15:09:24 +0000439- Issue #6635: Fix profiler printing usage message.
440
Lars Gustäbel21121e62009-09-12 10:28:15 +0000441- Issue #6856: Add a filter keyword argument to TarFile.add().
442
Tarek Ziadébed26a32009-09-09 08:14:20 +0000443- Issue #6163: Fixed HP-UX runtime library dir options in
444 distutils.unixcompiler. Initial patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar and
445 Michael Haubenwallner.
446
Mark Dickinson5cfa8042009-09-08 20:20:19 +0000447- Issue #6857: Default format() alignment should be '>' for Decimal
448 instances.
449
Mark Dickinson968f1692009-09-07 18:04:58 +0000450- Issue #6795: int(Decimal('nan')) now raises ValueError instead of
451 returning NaN or raising InvalidContext. Also, fix infinite recursion
452 in long(Decimal('nan')).
453
Mark Dickinson491ea552009-09-07 16:17:41 +0000454- Issue #6850: Fix bug in Decimal._parse_format_specifier for formats
455 with no type specifier.
456
Ronald Oussoren626faeb2009-09-06 12:23:18 +0000457- Issue #4937: plat-mac/bundlebuilder revers to non-existing version.plist
458
Chris Withers7f3ea6a2009-09-04 16:32:22 +0000459- Issue #6838: Use a list to accumulate the value instead of
460 repeatedly concatenating strings in httplib's
461 HTTPResponse._read_chunked providing a significant speed increase
462 when downloading large files servend with a Transfer-Encoding of 'chunked'.
463
Georg Brandld22b9512009-09-04 08:17:04 +0000464- Issue #5275: In Cookie's Cookie.load(), properly handle non-string arguments
465 as documented.
466
Georg Brandl2e1308f2009-09-04 06:59:20 +0000467- Issue #2666: Handle BROWSER environment variable properly for unknown browser
468 names in the webbrowser module.
469
Lars Gustäbelf7cda522009-08-28 19:23:44 +0000470- Issue #6054: Do not normalize stored pathnames in tarfile.
471
Mark Dickinson7a7739d2009-08-28 13:25:02 +0000472- Issue #6794: Fix Decimal.compare_total and Decimal.compare_total_mag: NaN
473 payloads are now ordered by integer value rather than lexicographically.
474
Tarek Ziadé764fc232009-08-20 21:23:13 +0000475- Issue #6693: New functions in site.py to get user/global site packages paths.
476
Gregory P. Smith4e63d542009-08-20 09:39:38 +0000477- The thread.lock type now supports weak references.
478
Guilherme Polo7b50c4f2009-08-18 14:46:57 +0000479- Issue #1356969: Add missing info methods in Tix.HList.
480
Guilherme Polo6b3c7092009-08-18 14:23:00 +0000481- Issue #1522587: New constants and methods for the Tix.Grid widget.
482
Guilherme Polo6c823f82009-08-18 13:29:20 +0000483- Issue #1250469: Fix the return value of Tix.PanedWindow.panes.
484
Guilherme Polod3e6e4b2009-08-18 13:23:08 +0000485- Issue #1119673: Do not override Tkinter.Text methods when creating a
486 ScrolledText.
487
Gregory P. Smithb98d6b22009-08-16 18:52:58 +0000488- Issue #6665: Fix fnmatch to properly match filenames with newlines in them.
489
Guilherme Poloe45f0172009-08-14 14:36:45 +0000490- Issue #1135: Add the XView and YView mix-ins to avoid duplicating
491 the xview* and yview* methods.
492
Antoine Pitrou20e1f932009-08-06 20:18:29 +0000493- Issue #6629: Fix a data corruption issue in the new `io` package, which could
494 occur when writing to a BufferedRandom object (e.g. a file opened in "rb+" or
495 "wb+" mode) after having buffered a certain amount of data for reading. This
496 bug was not present in the pure Python implementation.
497
Jesse Noller8497efe2009-08-06 02:05:56 +0000498- Issue #4660: If a multiprocessing.JoinableQueue.put() was preempted, it was
499 possible to get a spurious 'task_done() called too many times' error.
500
Gregory P. Smithc4ad0342009-08-13 18:54:50 +0000501- Issue #1628205: Socket file objects returned by socket.socket.makefile() now
502 properly handles EINTR within the read, readline, write & flush methods.
503 The socket.sendall() method now properly handles interrupted system calls.
504
Mark Dickinson4326ad82009-08-02 10:59:36 +0000505- Issue #6595: The Decimal constructor now allows arbitrary Unicode
506 decimal digits in input, as recommended by the standard. Previously
507 it was restricted to accepting [0-9].
508
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc3e5b0272009-07-28 22:15:30 +0000509- Issue #6511: ZipFile now raises BadZipfile (instead of an IOError) when
510 opening an empty or very small file.
511
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc74b30162009-07-23 19:26:02 +0000512- Issue #6553: Fixed a crash in cPickle.load(), when given a file-like object
513 containing incomplete data.
514
515- Issue #6545: Removed assert statements in distutils.Extension, so the
Tarek Ziadéaf2406f2009-07-22 08:55:19 +0000516 behavior is similar when used with -O.
517
Benjamin Petersond7b0eeb2009-07-19 20:18:21 +0000518- unittest has been split up into a package. All old names should still work.
519
Mark Dickinson88a0a2e2009-07-18 15:18:18 +0000520- Issue #6431: Make Fraction type return NotImplemented when it doesn't
521 know how to handle a comparison without loss of precision. Also add
522 correct handling of infinities and nans for comparisons with float.
523
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc74b30162009-07-23 19:26:02 +0000524- Issue #6415: Fixed warnings.warn segfault on bad formatted string.
Hirokazu Yamamoto1a3d0852009-07-17 06:26:54 +0000525
Tarek Ziadéa99dedf2009-07-16 15:35:45 +0000526- Issue #6466: now distutils.cygwinccompiler and distutils.emxccompiler
527 uses the same refactored function to get gcc/ld/dllwrap versions numbers.
528 It's `distutils.util.get_compiler_versions`. Added deprecation warnings
529 for the obsolete get_versions() functions.
530
Jesse Noller7530e472009-07-16 14:23:04 +0000531- Issue #6433: fixed issues with multiprocessing.pool.map hanging on empty list
532
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +0000533- Issue #6314: logging: Extra checks on the "level" argument in more places.
534
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc74b8d332009-07-11 14:33:51 +0000535- Issue #2622: Fixed an ImportError when importing email.messsage from a
536 standalone application built with py2exe or py2app.
537
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +0000538- Issue #6455: Fixed test_build_ext under win32.
Tarek Ziadé8c400012009-07-10 09:10:33 +0000539
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +0000540- Issue #6377: Enabled the compiler option, and deprecate its usage as an
Tarek Ziadée670e5a2009-07-06 12:50:46 +0000541 attribute.
542
Tarek Ziadé63f17382009-07-04 02:02:41 +0000543- Issue #6413: Fixed the log level in distutils.dist for announce.
544
Gregory P. Smithc197d0a2009-07-04 01:55:11 +0000545- Issue #3392: The subprocess communicate() method no longer fails in select()
546 when file descriptors are large; communicate() now uses poll() when possible.
547
Tarek Ziadé65ec61e2009-07-03 08:22:56 +0000548- Issue #6403: Fixed package path usage in build_ext.
549
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +0000550- Issues #5155, 5313, 5331: multiprocessing.Process._bootstrap was
Jesse Noller1b90efb2009-06-30 17:11:52 +0000551 unconditionally calling "os.close(sys.stdin.fileno())" resulting in file
552 descriptor errors
553
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +0000554- Issue #6365: Distutils build_ext inplace mode was copying the compiled
Tarek Ziadé3fbcc602009-06-29 16:13:39 +0000555 extension in a subdirectory if the extension name had dots.
556
Hirokazu Yamamoto99ebc632009-06-29 14:29:31 +0000557- Issue #6344: Fixed a crash of mmap.read() when passed a negative argument.
558
R. David Murrayef087da2009-06-23 18:02:46 +0000559- Issue #5230: pydoc would report no documentation found if a module generated
560 a 'not found' import error when loaded; it now reports the import errors.
561 Thanks to Lucas Prado Melo for initial fix and collaboration on the tests.
562
Vinay Sajip603fb6d2009-06-21 17:37:27 +0000563- Issue #6314: logging.basicConfig() performs extra checks on the "level"
564 argument.
565
566- Issue #6164: Added an AIX specific linker argument in Distutils
Tarek Ziadé439bf932009-06-20 13:57:20 +0000567 unixcompiler. Original patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar.
568
Facundo Batista8c826b72009-06-19 18:02:28 +0000569- Issue #6274: Fixed possible file descriptors leak in subprocess.py
570
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc5fe420e2009-06-18 22:32:50 +0000571- Issue #6189: Restored compatibility of subprocess.py with Python 2.2.
572
Tarek Ziadéfdefc0a2009-06-16 07:29:52 +0000573- Issue #6287: Added the license field in Distutils documentation.
574
Tarek Ziadéa1cc0402009-06-15 23:30:13 +0000575- Issue #6286: Now Distutils upload command is based on urllib2 instead of
576 httplib, allowing the usage of http_proxy.
577
Hirokazu Yamamoto983a4652009-06-14 03:53:55 +0000578- Issue #6271: mmap tried to close invalid file handle (-1) when annonymous.
579 (On Unix)
580
Antoine Pitrou19690592009-06-12 20:14:08 +0000581- Issue #6215: All bug fixes and enhancements from the Python 3.1 io library
582 (including the fast C implementation) have been backported to the standard
583 ``io`` module.
584
Martin v. Löwis2dcd7a02009-06-12 17:28:31 +0000585- Issue #6258: Support AMD64 in bdist_msi.
586
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +0000587- Issue #5262: Fixed bug in next rollover time computation in
588 TimedRotatingFileHandler.
589
Tarek Ziadéc7498f52009-06-11 09:13:36 +0000590- Issue #6263: Fixed syntax error in distutils.cygwincompiler.
591
Tarek Ziadé25d2bae2009-06-11 08:12:20 +0000592- Issue #5201: distutils.sysconfig.parse_makefile() now understands `$$`
593 in Makefiles. This prevents compile errors when using syntax like:
594 `LDFLAGS='-rpath=\$$LIB:/some/other/path'`. Patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
595
Georg Brandle6632b42009-06-04 08:58:32 +0000596- Issue #5767: Removed sgmlop support from xmlrpclib.
597
Tarek Ziadé3e3eace2009-05-29 08:08:07 +0000598- Issue #6131: test_modulefinder leaked when run after test_distutils.
599 Patch by Hirokazu Yamamoto.
600
Tarek Ziadé9e5d2dc2009-05-28 12:53:54 +0000601- Issue #6048: Now Distutils uses the tarfile module in archive_util.
602
Raymond Hettingerb4d2d312009-05-29 01:36:26 +0000603- Issue #5150: IDLE's format menu now has an option to strip trailing
604 whitespace.
605
R. David Murrayd67ea7d2009-05-27 20:07:21 +0000606- Issue #6121: pydoc now ignores leading and trailing spaces in the
607 argument to the 'help' function.
608
Benjamin Peterson176a56c2009-05-25 00:48:58 +0000609- In unittest, using a skipping decorator on a class is now equivalent to
610 skipping every test on the class. The ClassTestSuite class has been removed.
611
Martin v. Löwis0b09c422009-05-24 19:30:52 +0000612- Issue #6050: Don't fail extracting a directory from a zipfile if
613 the directory already exists.
614
Martin v. Löwis53b578e2009-05-24 19:10:52 +0000615- Issue #5311: bdist_msi can now build packages that do not depend on a
616 specific Python version.
617
Antoine Pitroud49e3752009-05-24 15:40:09 +0000618- Issue #1309352: fcntl now converts its third arguments to a C `long` rather
619 than an int, which makes some operations possible under 64-bit Linux (e.g.
620 DN_MULTISHOT with F_NOTIFY).
621
Senthil Kumarane266f252009-05-24 09:14:50 +0000622- Issue #1424152: Fix for httplib, urllib2 to support SSL while working through
623 proxy. Original patch by Christopher Li, changes made by Senthil Kumaran.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +0000624
Antoine Pitrou5e858fe2009-05-23 15:37:45 +0000625- Issue #1983: Fix functions taking or returning a process identifier to use
626 the dedicated C type ``pid_t`` instead of a C ``int``. Some platforms have
627 a process identifier type wider than the standard C integer type.
628
R. David Murrayad3058e2009-05-23 00:48:58 +0000629- Issue #4066: smtplib.SMTP_SSL._get_socket now correctly returns the socket.
630 Patch by Farhan Ahmad, test by Marcin Bachry.
631
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +0000632- Issue #6062: In distutils, fixed the package option of build_ext. Feedback
Tarek Ziadé7d7127d2009-05-19 16:17:21 +0000633 and tests on pywin32 by Tim Golden.
634
Tarek Ziadé07bbfcc2009-05-18 12:21:26 +0000635- Issue #6053: Fixed distutils tests on win32. patch by Hirokazu Yamamoto.
636
Tarek Ziadéfcc7f032009-05-18 08:03:37 +0000637- Issue #6046: Fixed the library extension when distutils build_ext is used
638 inplace. Initial patch by Roumen Petrov.
639
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +0000640- Issue #6041: Now distutils `sdist` and `register` commands use `check` as a
Tarek Ziadécb768042009-05-16 16:37:06 +0000641 subcommand.
642
Antoine Pitrou775fd662009-05-15 16:54:52 +0000643- Issue #2116: Weak references and weak dictionaries now support copy()ing and
644 deepcopy()ing.
645
Antoine Pitrou52035a02009-05-15 11:50:29 +0000646- Issue #1655: Make imaplib IPv6-capable. Patch by Derek Morr.
647
Antoine Pitrou42b5bcf2009-05-14 21:48:09 +0000648- Issue #5918: Fix a crash in the parser module.
649
Antoine Pitroueed30d82009-05-14 21:22:08 +0000650- Issue #1664: Make nntplib IPv6-capable. Patch by Derek Morr.
651
Tarek Ziadécbb4f9e2009-05-14 20:14:13 +0000652- Issue #6022: a test file was created in the current working directory by
653 test_get_outputs in Distutils.
654
R. David Murray996ba022009-05-13 17:14:11 +0000655- Issue #4050: inspect.findsource/getsource now raise an IOError if the 'source'
656 file is a binary. Patch by Brodie Rao, tests by Daniel Diniz.
657
Tarek Ziadé972480d2009-05-12 17:07:14 +0000658- Issue #5977: distutils build_ext.get_outputs was not taking into account the
659 inplace option. Initial patch by kxroberto.
660
Tarek Ziadéd5d83422009-05-10 10:12:08 +0000661- Issue #5984: distutils.command.build_ext.check_extensions_list checks were broken
662 for old-style extensions.
663
Vinay Sajipf9b01fe2009-05-09 12:07:17 +0000664- Issue #5971: StreamHandler.handleError now swallows IOErrors which occur when
665 trying to print a traceback.
666
Tarek Ziadé812d7712009-05-09 10:06:00 +0000667- Issue #5976: Fixed Distutils test_check_environ.
668
Vinay Sajipf9b01fe2009-05-09 12:07:17 +0000669- Issue #5900: Ensure RUNPATH is added to extension modules with RPATH if GNU
Tarek Ziadée2be83d2009-05-09 08:28:53 +0000670 ld is used. Original patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
671
Tarek Ziadé99f660a2009-05-07 21:20:34 +0000672- Issue #5941: Distutils build_clib command was not working anymore because
673 of an incomplete costumization of the archiver command. Added ARFLAGS in the
674 Makefile besides AR and make Distutils use it. Original patch by David
675 Cournapeau.
676
R. David Murrayd3bf34c2009-05-07 16:29:19 +0000677- Issue 5955: aifc's close method did not close the file it wrapped,
678 now it does. This also means getfp method now returns the real fp.
679
Thomas Hellera57773e2009-05-05 18:55:47 +0000680- Issue #4875: On win32, ctypes.util.find_library does no longer
681 return directories.
682
Georg Brandl4d4313d2009-05-05 08:54:11 +0000683- Issue #5142: Add the ability to skip modules while stepping to pdb.
684
Georg Brandle3869c42009-05-05 08:30:28 +0000685- Issue #1309567: Fix linecache behavior of stripping subdirectories when
686 looking for files given by a relative filename.
687
Antoine Pitrou97377bf2009-05-04 21:17:17 +0000688- Issue #5692: In :class:`zipfile.Zipfile`, fix wrong path calculation when
689 extracting a file to the root directory.
690
Hirokazu Yamamoto406d7aa2009-05-04 05:28:39 +0000691- Issue #5913: os.listdir() should fail for empty path on windows.
692
Antoine Pitrou74309892009-05-02 21:13:23 +0000693- Issue #5084: unpickling now interns the attribute names of pickled objects,
694 saving memory and avoiding growth in size of subsequent pickles. Proposal
695 and original patch by Jake McGuire.
696
Antoine Pitrou1fc02312009-05-01 20:55:35 +0000697- Issue #3002: ``shutil.copyfile()`` and ``shutil.copytree()`` now raise an
698 error when a named pipe is encountered, rather than blocking infinitely.
699
Gregory P. Smith1d499262009-05-01 19:59:52 +0000700- Issue #3959: The ipaddr module has been added to the standard library.
701 Contributed by Google.
702
R. David Murray25b4add2009-04-29 13:17:37 +0000703- Issue #2245: aifc now skips chunk types it doesn't recognize, per spec.
704
Vinay Sajipf9b01fe2009-05-09 12:07:17 +0000705- Issue #5874: distutils.tests.test_config_cmd is not locale-sensitive
Tarek Ziadéa1b91d92009-04-29 08:03:46 +0000706 anymore.
707
Thomas Heller90c61a22009-04-28 19:23:41 +0000708- Issue #4305: ctypes should now build again on mipsel-linux-gnu
709
Antoine Pitroue988e282009-04-27 21:53:26 +0000710- Issue #1734234: Massively speedup ``unicodedata.normalize()`` when the
711 string is already in normalized form, by performing a quick check beforehand.
712 Original patch by Rauli Ruohonen.
713
Antoine Pitrouf2651e12009-04-27 20:50:20 +0000714- Issue #5853: calling a function of the mimetypes module from several threads
715 at once could hit the recursion limit if the mimetypes database hadn't been
716 initialized before.
717
Vinay Sajipe34d6aa2009-04-27 13:44:27 +0000718- Issue #5854: Updated __all__ to include some missing names and remove some
719 names which should not be exported.
720
721- Issue #5810: Fixed Distutils test_build_scripts so it uses
Tarek Ziadébcddf672009-04-25 12:51:59 +0000722 sysconfig.get_config_vars.
723
Tarek Ziadéd567c382009-04-25 12:38:08 +0000724- Issue #4951: Fixed failure in test_httpservers.
725
Thomas Heller5c6af802009-04-24 20:31:47 +0000726- Issue #3102: All global symbols that the _ctypes extension defines
727 are now prefixed with 'Py' or '_ctypes'.
728
Thomas Hellerec21ccd2009-04-24 20:00:41 +0000729- Issue #5041: ctypes does now allow pickling wide character.
730
Mark Dickinson4af8e742009-04-24 13:56:07 +0000731- Issue #5812: For the two-argument form of the Fraction constructor,
732 Fraction(m, n), m and n are permitted to be arbitrary Rational
733 instances.
734
Mark Dickinson8100bd82009-04-22 18:15:25 +0000735- Issue #5812: Fraction('1e6') is valid: more generally, any string
736 that's valid for float() is now valid for Fraction(), with the
737 exception of strings representing NaNs and infinities.
738
Tarek Ziadé31559b62009-04-20 14:29:42 +0000739- Issue #5795: Fixed test_distutils failure on Debian ppc.
740
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +0000741- Issue #5768: Fixed bug in Unicode output logic and test case for same.
742
R. David Murrayabc26602009-04-13 16:56:32 +0000743- Issue #1161031: fix readwrite select flag handling: POLLPRI now
744 results in a handle_expt_event call, not handle_read_event, and POLLERR
745 and POLLNVAL now call handle_close, not handle_expt_event. Also,
746 dispatcher now has an 'ignore_log_types' attribute for suppressing
747 log messages, which is set to 'warning' by default.
748
Tarek Ziadé156c31a2009-04-13 12:34:01 +0000749- Issue #5607: fixed Distutils test_get_platform for Mac OS X fat binaries.
750
Georg Brandl21cf5ee2009-04-12 17:24:11 +0000751- Issue #5741: don't disallow "%%" (which is an escape for "%") when setting
752 a value in SafeConfigParser.
753
Tarek Ziadé942825f2009-04-11 14:55:07 +0000754- Issue #5732: added a new command in Distutils: check.
755
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +0000756- Issue #5731: Distutils bdist_wininst no longer worked on non-Windows
Tarek Ziadéad958262009-04-09 21:36:44 +0000757 platforms. Initial patch by Paul Moore.
758
Gregory P. Smith923ba362009-04-06 06:33:26 +0000759- Issue #2254: Fix CGIHTTPServer information disclosure. Relative paths are
760 now collapsed within the url properly before looking in cgi_directories.
761
Tarek Ziadé64408fb2009-04-05 22:51:09 +0000762- Issue #5095: Added bdist_msi to the list of bdist supported formats.
763 Initial fix by Steven Bethard.
764
Tarek Ziadéfaa6b122009-04-05 21:44:08 +0000765- Issue #1491431: Fixed distutils.filelist.glob_to_re for edge cases.
766 Initial fix by Wayne Davison.
767
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +0000768- Issue #5693: TestSuite.__iter__ can now be consistently overridden in subclasses.
Michael Foordf2dfef12009-04-05 19:19:28 +0000769
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +0000770- Issue #5694: removed spurious test output in Distutils (test_clean).
Tarek Ziadé453d9532009-04-05 18:31:24 +0000771
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +0000772- Issue #5471: Fix os.path.expanduser() for $HOME set to '/'.
Georg Brandl3f0ef202009-04-05 14:48:49 +0000773
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +0000774- Issue #1326077: fix the formatting of SyntaxErrors by the traceback module.
Georg Brandl1956d5c2009-04-05 14:25:41 +0000775
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +0000776- Issue #1726172: fix IndexError in the case of and empty response in ftplib.
Georg Brandl50ba6e12009-04-05 10:48:47 +0000777
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +0000778- Issue #2625: added missing iteritems() call to the for loop in
R. David Murray52720c52009-04-02 14:05:35 +0000779 mailbox.MH.get_message().
780
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +0000781- Issue #5585: Add the ability to call an initializer to mulitiprocessing.manager
Andrew M. Kuchling59631852009-04-09 11:23:36 +0000782 so that users can install custom handlers/etc.
Jesse Noller7152f6d2009-04-02 05:17:26 +0000783
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +0000784- Issue #3551: Patch multiprocessing to raise a proper exception if the size of the
Jesse Noller5053fbb2009-04-02 04:22:09 +0000785 object when writefile is called causes a ERROR_NO_SYSTEM_RESOURCES. Added docs
786 to note the limitation
787
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +0000788- unittest.assertNotEqual() now uses the inequality operator (!=) instead
Michael Foord345b2fe2009-04-02 03:20:38 +0000789 of the equality operator.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +0000790
791- Issue #6001: Test discovery for unittest. Implemented in
Michael Foordb4a81c82009-05-29 20:33:46 +0000792 unittest.TestLoader.discover and from the command line.
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +0000793
Michael Foord07ef4872009-05-02 22:43:34 +0000794- Issue #5679: The methods unittest.TestCase.addCleanup and doCleanups were added.
795 addCleanup allows you to add cleanup functions that will be called
796 unconditionally (after setUp if setUp fails, otherwise after tearDown). This
797 allows for much simpler resource allocation and deallocation during tests.
798
799- Issue #3379: unittest.main now takes an optional exit argument. If False main
800 doesn't call sys.exit allowing it to be used from the interactive interpreter.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +0000801
802- Issue #5995: unittest.main now takes an optional verbosity argument allowing
Michael Foord5d31e052009-05-11 17:59:43 +0000803 test modules to be run with a higher than default verbosity.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +0000804
805- Issue #5995: A fix to allow you to run "python -m unittest test_module" or
Michael Foord5d31e052009-05-11 17:59:43 +0000806 "python -m unittest test_module.TestClass" from the command line.
Michael Foord07ef4872009-05-02 22:43:34 +0000807
808- Issue #5728: unittest.TestResult has new startTestRun and stopTestRun methods;
809 called immediately before and after a test run.
810
Michael Foord345b2fe2009-04-02 03:20:38 +0000811- Issue #5663: better failure messages for unittest asserts. Default assertTrue
812 and assertFalse messages are now useful. TestCase has a longMessage attribute.
813 This defaults to False, but if set to True useful error messages are shown in
814 addition to explicit messages passed to assert methods.
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +0000815
Jesse Nollerb502bc72009-04-02 02:32:55 +0000816- Issue #3110: Add additional protect around SEM_VALUE_MAX for multiprocessing
817
Georg Brandl58b8b952009-04-01 21:54:21 +0000818- In Pdb, prevent the reassignment of __builtin__._ by sys.displayhook on
819 printing out values.
820
Georg Brandl5942b912009-04-01 21:05:44 +0000821- Issue #4572: added SEEK_* symbolic constants to io module.
822
Brett Cannonad078a02009-04-01 16:00:34 +0000823- Issue #1665206 (partially): Move imports in cgitb to the top of the module
824 instead of performing them in functions. Helps prevent import deadlocking in
825 threads.
826
Raymond Hettinger66c4a6b2009-04-01 18:50:56 +0000827- Issue #5647: MutableSet.__iand__() no longer mutates self during iteration.
828
Georg Brandle92d4b62009-04-01 04:21:14 +0000829- Actually make the SimpleXMLRPCServer CGI handler work.
830
R. David Murraya83da352009-04-01 03:21:43 +0000831- Issue #2522: locale.format now checks its first argument to ensure it has
832 been passed only one pattern, avoiding mysterious errors where it appeared
833 that it was failing to do localization.
834
Tarek Ziadé9e47ce42009-03-31 22:27:23 +0000835- Issue #5583: Added optional Extensions in Distutils. Initial patch by Georg
836 Brandl.
837
Jesse Noller42f9b4e2009-03-31 22:20:35 +0000838- Issue #5619: Multiprocessing children disobey the debug flag and causes
839 popups on windows buildbots. Patch applied to work around this issue.
840
Benjamin Petersond906ea62009-03-31 21:34:42 +0000841- Issue #5632: Thread.ident was None for the main thread and threads not created
842 with the threading module.
843
Jesse Noller1f0a5552009-03-31 18:27:14 +0000844- Issue #5400: Added patch for multiprocessing on netbsd compilation/support
845
Hirokazu Yamamoto9d2ee5d2009-03-31 13:13:05 +0000846- Issue #5387: Fixed mmap.move crash by integer overflow.
847
Jesse Noller82eb5902009-03-30 23:29:31 +0000848- Issue #5261: Patch multiprocessing's semaphore.c to support context
849 manager use: "with multiprocessing.Lock()" works now.
850
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +0000851- Issue #5177: Multiprocessing's SocketListener class now uses
Jesse Noller459a6482009-03-30 15:50:42 +0000852 socket.SO_REUSEADDR on all connections so that the user no longer needs
853 to wait 120 seconds for the socket to expire.
854
Guilherme Polo1972d162009-03-27 21:43:08 +0000855- Adjusted _tkinter to compile without warnings when WITH_THREAD is not
856 defined (part of issue #5035).
857
Marc-André Lemburgcbdf15b2009-03-25 19:45:33 +0000858- Issue #5561: Removed the sys.version_info shortcuts from platform's
859 python_version() and python_version_tuple() since they produced different
860 output compared to previous Python versions.
861
Benjamin Peterson692428e2009-03-23 21:50:21 +0000862- Issue #1034053: unittest now supports skipping tests and expected failures.
863
Gregory P. Smith28399852009-03-31 16:54:10 +0000864- The unittest.TestCase.assertRaises() method now returns a context manager when
865 not given a callable so that code to be tested can be written inline using
866 a with statement.
867
868- The unittest.TestCase.assertEqual() now displays the differences in lists,
869 tuples, dicts and sets on failure. Many new handy type and comparison
870 specific assert* methods have been added that fail with error messages
871 actually useful for debugging. Contributed in part by Google. [Issue #2578]
872
Lars Gustäbel2020a592009-03-22 20:09:33 +0000873- Issue #5068: Fixed the tarfile._BZ2Proxy.read() method that would loop
874 forever on incomplete input. That caused tarfile.open() to hang when used
875 with mode 'r' or 'r:bz2' and a fileobj argument that contained no data or
876 partial bzip2 compressed data.
877
Benjamin Petersonb364bfe2009-03-22 17:45:11 +0000878- Issue #5536: urllib.urlretrieve makes sure to close the file it's writing to
879 even if an exception occurs.
880
Raymond Hettinger91852ca2009-03-19 19:19:03 +0000881- Issue #5381: Added object_pairs_hook to the json module. This allows
882 OrderedDicts to be built by the decoder.
883
Mark Dickinson277859d2009-03-17 23:03:46 +0000884- Issue #2110: Add support for thousands separator and 'n' type
885 specifier to Decimal.__format__
886
Mark Dickinsonb065e522009-03-17 18:01:03 +0000887- Fix Decimal.__format__ bug that swapped the meanings of the '<' and
888 '>' alignment characters.
889
Antoine Pitroufeeafff2009-03-14 00:07:21 +0000890- Issue #1222: locale.format() bug when the thousands separator is a space
891 character.
892
Tarek Ziadé61585c22009-03-11 12:48:04 +0000893- Issue #5472: Fixed distutils.test_util tear down. Original patch by
894 Tim Golden.
895
Raymond Hettinger56411aa2009-03-10 12:50:59 +0000896- collections.deque() objects now have a read-only attribute called maxlen.
897
Guilherme Polo15d57652009-03-07 02:14:38 +0000898- Issue #2638: Show a window constructed with tkSimpleDialog.Dialog only after
899 it is has been populated and properly configured in order to prevent
900 window flashing.
901
Guilherme Polo3768b2f2009-03-07 01:47:49 +0000902- Issue #4792: Prevent a segfault in _tkinter by using the
903 guaranteed to be safe interp argument given to the PythonCmd in place of
904 the Tcl interpreter taken from a PythonCmd_ClientData.
905
Guilherme Polo6d6c1fd2009-03-07 01:19:12 +0000906- Issue #5193: Guarantee that Tkinter.Text.search returns a string.
907
Tarek Ziadé943b24e2009-03-07 00:32:45 +0000908- Issue #5394: removed > 2.3 syntax from distutils.msvc9compiler.
909 Original patch by Akira Kitada.
910
Hirokazu Yamamoto264fc122009-03-05 14:21:12 +0000911- Issue #5385: Fixed mmap crash after resize failure on windows.
912
Hirokazu Yamamotoeacbbdf2009-03-03 22:18:14 +0000913- Issue #5179: Fixed subprocess handle leak on failure on windows.
914
Raymond Hettingerbc512d32009-03-03 04:45:34 +0000915- PEP 372: Added collections.OrderedDict().
916
Raymond Hettinger88a91642009-03-03 04:51:24 +0000917- The _asdict() for method for namedtuples now returns an OrderedDict().
918
Raymond Hettingere89b8e92009-03-03 05:00:37 +0000919- The configparser module now defaults to using an ordered dictionary.
920
Benjamin Peterson7d49bba2009-03-02 22:41:42 +0000921- Issue #4308: httplib.IncompleteRead's repr doesn't include all of the data all
922 ready received.
923
Benjamin Petersonad58b7c2009-03-02 03:35:12 +0000924- Issue #5401: Fixed a performance problem in mimetypes when ``from mimetypes
925 import guess_extension`` was used.
926
Hirokazu Yamamotob0e10c72009-02-28 12:13:07 +0000927- Issue #1733986: Fixed mmap crash in accessing elements of second map object
928 with same tagname but larger size than first map. (Windows)
929
Hirokazu Yamamotof2dc8852009-02-28 10:31:54 +0000930- Issue #5386: mmap.write_byte didn't check map size, so it could cause buffer
931 overrun.
932
Tarek Ziadé73347352009-02-28 10:08:02 +0000933- Issue #1533164: Installed but not listed *.pyo was breaking Distutils
934 bdist_rpm command.
935
936- Issue #5378: added --quiet option to Distutils bdist_rpm command.
937
Tarek Ziadédda92f72009-02-27 12:53:34 +0000938- Issue #5052: make Distutils compatible with 2.3 again.
939
Benjamin Petersonb3dd5482009-02-26 19:07:18 +0000940- Deprecated methods of symtable.Symbol have been removed: is_keywordarg(),
941 is_vararg(), and is_in_tuple().
942
Tarek Ziadée3bc0ef2009-02-25 22:29:27 +0000943- Issue #5316: Fixed buildbot failures introduced by multiple inheritance
944 in Distutils tests.
945
Vinay Sajip1a0d2be2009-02-19 12:31:32 +0000946- Issue #5287: Add exception handling around findCaller() call to help out
947 IronPython.
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +0000948
Hirokazu Yamamoto17a837e2009-02-17 13:17:26 +0000949- Issue #5282: Fixed mmap resize on 32bit windows and unix. When offset > 0,
950 The file was resized to wrong size.
951
Hirokazu Yamamotof6bbd0e2009-02-17 10:12:10 +0000952- Issue #5292: Fixed mmap crash on its boundary access m[len(m)].
953
Vinay Sajip1a0d2be2009-02-19 12:31:32 +0000954- Issue #2279: distutils.sdist.add_defaults now add files
Tarek Ziadé7dd53392009-02-16 21:38:01 +0000955 from the package_data and the data_files metadata.
956
Vinay Sajip1a0d2be2009-02-19 12:31:32 +0000957- Issue #5257: refactored all tests in distutils, so they use
Tarek Ziadé13699002009-02-14 14:10:23 +0000958 support.TempdirManager, to avoid writing in the tests directory.
959
Tarek Ziadé2432b0b2009-02-13 23:00:43 +0000960- Issue #4524: distutils build_script command failed with --with-suffix=3.
961 Initial patch by Amaury Forgeot d'Arc.
962
Tarek Ziadé275958a2009-02-13 22:22:03 +0000963- Issue #2461: added tests for distutils.util
964
Gregory P. Smith3605b5c2009-02-11 23:45:25 +0000965- Issue #1008086: Fixed socket.inet_aton() to always return 4 bytes even on
966 LP64 platforms (most 64-bit Linux, bsd, unix systems).
967
Thomas Heller3689ae22009-02-10 18:43:01 +0000968- Issue #5203: Fixed ctypes segfaults when passing a unicode string to a
969 function without argtypes (only occurs if HAVE_USABLE_WCHAR_T is false).
970
Tarek Ziadé74fbf602009-02-10 12:31:09 +0000971- Issue #3386: distutils.sysconfig.get_python_lib prefix argument was ignored
972 under NT and OS2. Patch by Philip Jenvey.
973
Brett Cannon28d10882009-02-10 02:07:38 +0000974- Issue #5128: Make compileall properly inspect bytecode to determine if needs
975 to be recreated. This avoids a timing hole thanks to the old reliance on the
976 ctime of the files involved.
977
Guilherme Poloa66cf5b2009-02-09 20:50:27 +0000978- Issue #5122: Synchronize tk load failure check to prevent a potential
979 deadlock.
980
Raymond Hettinger322daea2009-02-10 01:24:05 +0000981- Issue #1818: collections.namedtuple() now supports a keyword argument
982 'rename' which lets invalid fieldnames be automatically converted to
983 positional names in the form, _1, _2, ...
984
Guilherme Polod2ea0332009-02-09 16:41:09 +0000985- Issue #4890: Handle empty text search pattern in Tkinter.Text.search.
986
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +0000987- Issue #5170: Fixed Unicode output bug in logging and added test case.
988 This is a regression which did not occur in 2.5.
989
Nick Coghlan0194f5b2009-02-08 03:17:00 +0000990- Issue #4512 (part 2): Promote ``ZipImporter._get_filename()`` to be a
991 public documented method ``ZipImporter.get_filename()``.
992
Nick Coghland39600e2009-02-08 01:26:34 +0000993- Issue #4195: The ``runpy`` module (and the ``-m`` switch) now support
994 the execution of packages by looking for and executing a ``__main__``
Nick Coghlanc3623b12009-02-08 01:46:01 +0000995 submodule when a package name is supplied. Initial patch by Andi
996 Vajda.
Nick Coghland39600e2009-02-08 01:26:34 +0000997
Guilherme Polo363161a2009-02-06 22:48:07 +0000998- Issue #1731706: Call Tcl_ConditionFinalize for Tcl_Conditions that will
999 not be used again (this requires Tcl/Tk 8.3.1), also fix a memory leak in
1000 Tkapp_Call when calling from a thread different than the one that created
1001 the Tcl interpreter. Patch by Robert Hancock.
Guilherme Polo14ff18d2009-02-06 22:26:22 +00001002
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +00001003- Issue #1520877: Now distutils.sysconfig reads $AR from the
Tarek Ziadé05adf072009-02-06 01:15:51 +00001004 environment/Makefile. Patch by Douglas Greiman.
1005
Eric Smith81fe0932009-02-06 00:48:26 +00001006- Issue #4285: Change sys.version_info to be a named tuple. Patch by
1007 Ross Light.
1008
Tarek Ziadéd5eb9852009-02-06 00:31:59 +00001009- Issue #1276768: The verbose option was not used in the code of
1010 distutils.file_util and distutils.dir_util.
1011
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +00001012- Issue #5132: Fixed trouble building extensions under Solaris with
Tarek Ziadé0d4fd342009-02-05 22:52:52 +00001013 --enabled-shared activated. Initial patch by Dave Peterson.
1014
Guilherme Polod7bb4d42009-02-02 21:14:14 +00001015- Issue #1581476: Always use the Tcl global namespace when calling into Tcl.
1016
Antoine Pitrou707c5932009-01-29 20:19:34 +00001017- Issue #2047: shutil.move() could believe that its destination path was
1018 inside its source path if it began with the same letters (e.g. "src" vs.
1019 "src.new").
1020
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +00001021- Issue #4920: Fixed .next() vs .__next__() issues in the ABCs for
Raymond Hettingerf779e6f2009-01-28 23:02:26 +00001022 Iterator and MutableSet.
1023
Guilherme Polocda93aa2009-01-28 13:09:03 +00001024- Added the ttk module. See issue #2983: Ttk support for Tkinter.
1025
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +00001026- Issue #5021: doctest.testfile() did not create __name__ and
Raymond Hettingerecf252a2009-01-27 10:03:04 +00001027 collections.namedtuple() relied on __name__ being defined.
1028
Brett Cannon93881c62009-01-26 01:16:50 +00001029- Backport importlib from Python 3.1. Only the import_module() function has
1030 been backported to help facilitate transitions from 2.7 to 3.1.
1031
Tarek Ziadéaaedcef2009-01-25 23:34:00 +00001032- Issue #1885: distutils. When running sdist with --formats=tar,gztar
1033 the tar file was overriden by the gztar one.
1034
Tarek Ziadéef249b12009-01-25 18:19:25 +00001035- Issue #4863: distutils.mwerkscompiler has been removed.
1036
Raymond Hettingerd081abc2009-01-27 02:58:49 +00001037- Added a new itertools functions: combinations_with_replacement()
1038 and compress().
Raymond Hettinger2bcb8e92009-01-25 21:04:14 +00001039
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +00001040- Issue #5032: added a step argument to itertools.count() and
Raymond Hettinger31c769c2009-02-12 05:39:46 +00001041 allowed non-integer arguments.
1042
Jesse Nollerb5a4b0a2009-01-25 03:36:13 +00001043- Fix and properly document the multiprocessing module's logging
1044 support, expose the internal levels and provide proper usage
1045 examples.
1046
Mark Dickinsona3ecd2c2009-01-24 16:40:29 +00001047- Issue #1672332: fix unpickling of subnormal floats, which was
1048 producing a ValueError on some platforms.
1049
Martin v. Löwisf081e1c2009-01-24 15:47:27 +00001050- Issue #3881: Help Tcl to load even when started through the
1051 unreadable local symlink to "Program Files" on Vista.
1052
Martin v. Löwis0dfcfc82009-01-24 14:00:33 +00001053- Issue #4710: Extract directories properly in the zipfile module;
1054 allow adding directories to a zipfile.
1055
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +00001056- Issue #3807: _multiprocessing build fails when configure is passed
Jesse Nollerf6da8d12009-01-23 14:04:41 +00001057 --without-threads argument. When this occurs, _multiprocessing will
1058 be disabled, and not compiled.
1059
Antoine Pitroue741cc62009-01-21 00:45:36 +00001060- Issue #5008: When a file is opened in append mode with the new IO library,
1061 do an explicit seek to the end of file (so that e.g. tell() returns the
1062 file size rather than 0). This is consistent with the behaviour of the
1063 traditional 2.x file object.
1064
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00001065- Issue #5013: Fixed a bug in FileHandler which occurred when the delay
1066 parameter was set.
1067
Raymond Hettinger933d3a72009-01-20 20:34:19 +00001068- Issue #4998: The memory saving effect of __slots__ had been lost on Fractions
1069 which inherited from numbers.py which did not have __slots__ defined. The
Mark Dickinson39c6f7f2009-02-12 17:55:42 +00001070 numbers hierarchy now has its own __slots__ declarations.
Raymond Hettinger933d3a72009-01-20 20:34:19 +00001071
Jesse Noller9a5b2ad2009-01-19 15:12:22 +00001072- Issue #3321: _multiprocessing.Connection() doesn't check handle; added checks
1073 for *nix machines for negative handles and large int handles. Without this check
1074 it is possible to segfault the interpreter.
1075
Jesse Noller6ab22152009-01-18 02:45:38 +00001076- Issue #4449: AssertionError in mp_benchmarks.py, caused by an underlying issue
1077 in sharedctypes.py.
1078
Benjamin Peterson5e5fbb62009-01-17 22:27:54 +00001079- Issue #1225107: inspect.isclass() returned True for instances with a custom
1080 __getattr__.
1081
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd25f87a2009-01-17 16:40:17 +00001082- Issue #3997: zipfiles generated with more than 65536 files could not be
1083 opened with other applications.
1084
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcb54447f2009-01-13 23:39:22 +00001085- Issue #1162154: inspect.getmembers() now skips attributes that raise
1086 AttributeError, e.g. a __slots__ attribute which has not been set.
1087
1088- Issue #1696199: Add collections.Counter() for rapid and convenient
Raymond Hettingerf94d7fa2009-01-12 22:58:41 +00001089 counting.
1090
Antoine Pitroubd4b5f22009-01-10 16:15:24 +00001091- Issue #3860: GzipFile and BZ2File now support the context manager protocol.
1092
Antoine Pitrouf0d2c3f2009-01-04 21:29:23 +00001093- Issue #4272: Add an optional argument to the GzipFile constructor to override
1094 the timestamp in the gzip stream. The default value remains the current time.
1095 The information can be used by e.g. gunzip when decompressing. Patch by
1096 Jacques Frechet.
1097
Mark Dickinson514d4832009-01-04 21:25:40 +00001098- Restore Python 2.3 compatibility for decimal.py.
1099
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00001100- Issue #1702551: distutils sdist was not excluding VCS directories under
Tarek Ziadé85d6fb52009-01-04 00:04:49 +00001101 Windows. Inital solution by Guy Dalberto.
1102
Guilherme Poloe7f14032009-01-03 21:51:09 +00001103- The _tkinter module functions "createfilehandler", "deletefilehandler",
1104 "createtimerhandler", "mainloop", "dooneevent" and "quit" have been
1105 deprecated for removal in 3.x
1106
Raymond Hettingerf4d85972009-01-03 19:02:23 +00001107- Issue #4796: Added Decimal.from_float() and Context.create_decimal_from_float()
1108 to the decimal module.
1109
Mark Dickinsonc5de0962009-01-02 23:07:08 +00001110- Issue #4812: add missing underscore prefix to some internal-use-only
1111 constants in the decimal module. (Dec_0 becomes _Dec_0, etc.)
1112
Benjamin Peterson8ad09a42008-12-31 23:48:39 +00001113- Issue #4795: inspect.isgeneratorfunction() returns False instead of None when
1114 the function is not a generator.
1115
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00001116- Issue #4702: Throwing a DistutilsPlatformError instead of IOError in case
1117 no MSVC compiler is found under Windows. Original patch by Philip Jenvey.
Tarek Ziadéb1a85412008-12-30 23:03:41 +00001118
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00001119- Issue #4646: distutils was choking on empty options arg in the setup
Tarek Ziadéc13acb12008-12-29 22:23:53 +00001120 function. Original patch by Thomas Heller.
1121
Georg Brandlfe427892009-01-03 22:03:11 +00001122- Fractions.from_float() no longer loses precision for integers too big to
1123 cast as floats.
1124
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +00001125- Issue #4790: The nsmallest() and nlargest() functions in the heapq module
Georg Brandlfe427892009-01-03 22:03:11 +00001126 did unnecessary work in the common case where no key function was specified.
1127
Martin v. Löwis732479f2008-12-29 16:22:25 +00001128- Issue #3767: Convert Tk object to string in tkColorChooser.
1129
Martin v. Löwise2eb2b42008-12-29 15:51:01 +00001130- Issue #3248: Allow placing ScrolledText in a PanedWindow.
1131
Antoine Pitrou697ca3d2008-12-28 14:09:36 +00001132- Issue #4444: Allow assertRaises() to be used as a context handler, so that
1133 the code under test can be written inline if more practical.
1134
Georg Brandlc3a98032008-12-27 18:20:04 +00001135- Issue #4739: Add pydoc help topics for symbols, so that e.g. help('@')
1136 works as expected in the interactive environment.
1137
Antoine Pitrou6f193e02008-12-27 15:43:12 +00001138- Issue #4756: zipfile.is_zipfile() now supports file-like objects. Patch by
1139 Gabriel Genellina.
1140
Tarek Ziadée4c75bb2008-12-24 19:10:05 +00001141- Issue #4400: .pypirc default generated file was broken in distutils.
1142
Benjamin Peterson54686e32008-12-24 15:10:27 +00001143- Issue #4736: io.BufferedRWPair's closed property now functions properly.
1144
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc31949b92008-12-15 21:47:57 +00001145- Issue #3954: Fix a potential SystemError in _hotshot.logreader error
1146 handling.
1147
Antoine Pitrou655fbf12008-12-14 17:40:51 +00001148- Issue #4574: fix a crash in io.IncrementalNewlineDecoder when a carriage
1149 return encodes to more than one byte in the source encoding (e.g. UTF-16)
1150 and gets split on a chunk boundary.
1151
Nick Coghlana2053472008-12-14 10:54:50 +00001152- Issue #4223: inspect.getsource() will now correctly display source code
1153 for packages loaded via zipimport (or any other conformant PEP 302
1154 loader). Original patch by Alexander Belopolsky.
1155
1156- Issue #4201: pdb can now access and display source code loaded via
1157 zipimport (or any other conformant PEP 302 loader). Original patch by
1158 Alexander Belopolsky.
1159
1160- Issue #4197: doctests in modules loaded via zipimport (or any other PEP
1161 302 conformant loader) will now work correctly in most cases (they
1162 are still subject to the constraints that exist for all code running
1163 from inside a module loaded via a PEP 302 loader and attempting to
1164 perform IO operations based on __file__). Original patch by
1165 Alexander Belopolsky.
1166
1167- Issues #4082 and #4512: Add runpy support to zipimport in a manner that
1168 allows backporting to maintenance branches. Original patch by
1169 Alexander Belopolsky.
1170
Antoine Pitrou74af3bb2008-12-13 23:12:30 +00001171- Issue #4163: Use unicode-friendly word splitting in the textwrap functions
1172 when given an unicode string.
1173
Lars Gustäbel3b027422008-12-12 13:58:03 +00001174- Issue #4616: TarFile.utime(): Restore directory times on Windows.
1175
Facundo Batistae29d4352008-12-11 04:19:46 +00001176- Issue #4084: Fix max, min, max_mag and min_mag Decimal methods to
1177 give correct results in the case where one argument is a quiet NaN
1178 and the other is a finite number that requires rounding.
1179
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc240028c2008-12-11 00:03:42 +00001180- Issue #1030250: Distutils created directories even when run with the
1181 --dry-run option.
1182
Skip Montanaro45313fe2008-12-06 17:43:30 +00001183- Issue #4483: _dbm module now builds on systems with gdbm & gdbm_compat
1184 libs.
1185
Georg Brandlfe879e82008-12-05 12:09:41 +00001186- Issue #4529: fix the parser module's validation of try-except-finally
1187 statements.
1188
Georg Brandla07435d2008-12-05 09:23:14 +00001189- Issue #4458: getopt.gnu_getopt() now recognizes a single "-" as an argument,
1190 not a malformed option.
1191
Gregory P. Smith26576802008-12-05 02:27:01 +00001192- Added the subprocess.check_output() convenience function to get output
Gregory P. Smith97f49f42008-12-04 20:21:09 +00001193 from a subprocess on success or raise an exception on error.
1194
Fred Drake52481032008-12-04 18:25:17 +00001195- Issue #1055234: cgi.parse_header(): Fixed parsing of header parameters to
1196 support unusual filenames (such as those containing semi-colons) in
1197 Content-Disposition headers.
1198
Vinay Sajip6831d6b2008-12-04 20:32:18 +00001199- Issue #4384: Added logging integration with warnings module using
1200 captureWarnings(). This change includes a NullHandler which does nothing;
1201 it will be of use to library developers who want to avoid the "No handlers
1202 could be found for logger XXX" message which can appear if the library user
1203 doesn't configure logging.
Vinay Sajip213faca2008-12-03 23:22:58 +00001204
Christian Heimesaa674712008-11-28 11:02:32 +00001205- Issue #3741: DISTUTILS_USE_SDK set causes msvc9compiler.py to raise an
1206 exception.
1207
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd4294172008-11-21 22:05:48 +00001208- Issue #4363: The uuid.uuid1() and uuid.uuid4() functions now work even if
1209 the ctypes module is not present.
1210
Benjamin Petersonbfc51562008-11-22 01:59:15 +00001211- FileIO's mode attribute now always includes ``"b"``.
1212
Martin v. Löwisbb9b1f12008-11-19 09:09:41 +00001213- Issue #4116: Resolve member name conflict in ScrolledCanvas.__init__.
1214
Brett Cannone3d0bf72008-11-15 22:40:44 +00001215- httplib.HTTPConnection.putheader() now accepts an arbitrary number of values
1216 for any header, matching what the documentation has claimed for a while.
1217
Hirokazu Yamamotob9828f62008-11-03 18:03:06 +00001218- Issue #3774: Fixed an error when create a Tkinter menu item without command
1219 and then remove it.
1220
Thomas Heller1fac5a42008-10-30 20:18:13 +00001221- Fixed a modulefinder crash on certain relative imports.
1222
Benjamin Petersonc18574c2008-10-22 21:16:34 +00001223- Issue #4150: Pdb's "up" command now works for generator frames in post-mortem
1224 debugging.
1225
Benjamin Petersone4dc1752008-10-21 22:20:31 +00001226- Issue #4092: Return ArgInfo as promised in the documentation from
1227 inspect.getargvalues.
1228
Georg Brandlf3776a12008-10-08 18:47:17 +00001229- Issue #3935: Properly support list subclasses in bisect's C implementation.
1230
Martin v. Löwis96a9f232008-10-06 15:15:40 +00001231- Issue #4014: Don't claim that Python has an Alpha release status, in addition
1232 to claiming it is Mature.
1233
Alexandre Vassalotti6067f782008-12-27 07:13:01 +00001234- Issue #4730: Fixed the cPickle module to handle correctly astral characters
1235 when protocol 0 is used.
1236
Ronald Oussoren0238497e2009-01-02 14:10:20 +00001237- Issue #1594: MacOS.GetCreatorAndType now always returns a big-endian result,
1238 to be consistent with Apple tools.
1239
Ronald Oussoren63b74fe2009-01-02 14:46:19 +00001240- Issue #900949: plat-mac/videoreader.py no longer relies on a non-existing
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00001241 module.
Ronald Oussoren63b74fe2009-01-02 14:46:19 +00001242
Ronald Oussoren7f8cbf02009-01-02 14:48:17 +00001243- Issue #16278952: plat-mac/videoreader.py now correctly imports MediaDescr
1244
Ronald Oussoren919697c2009-01-02 14:52:09 +00001245- Issue #1737832 : plat-mac/EasyDialog.py no longer uses the broken aepack
1246 module.
1247
Ronald Oussorenabcc1682009-01-02 15:00:05 +00001248- Issue #1149804: macostools.mkdirs now even works when another process
1249 creates one of the needed subdirectories.
1250
Ronald Oussoren072bb402009-01-02 15:25:36 +00001251- Issue #900506: added --no-zipimport flag to the bundlebuilder script
1252
1253- Issue #841800: bundlebuilder now works with 'python -O'
1254
Matthias Klose43723e22009-01-10 17:00:42 +00001255- Issue #4861: ctypes.util.find_library(): Robustify. Fix library detection on
1256 biarch systems. Try to rely on ldconfig only, without using objdump and gcc.
1257
Gregory P. Smithde1a8b72009-01-31 22:57:30 +00001258- Issue #5104: The socket module now raises OverflowError when 16-bit port and
1259 protocol numbers are supplied outside the allowed 0-65536 range on bind()
1260 and getservbyport().
1261
Neil Schemenauer92c3b212009-02-07 00:54:41 +00001262- Issue #999042: The Python compiler now handles explict global statements
1263 correctly (should be assigned using STORE_GLOBAL opcode).
1264
Matthias Klosea5d58c82009-04-05 21:00:48 +00001265- Issue #2703: SimpleXMLRPCDispatcher.__init__: Provide default values for
1266 new arguments introduced in 2.5.
1267
Walter Dörwald5d98ec72009-04-25 14:03:16 +00001268- Issue #5828 (Invalid behavior of unicode.lower): Fixed bogus logic in
1269 makeunicodedata.py and regenerated the Unicode database (This fixes
1270 u'\u1d79'.lower() == '\x00').
1271
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Wervenb87b3342009-05-08 14:11:23 +00001272- Windows locale mapping updated to Vista.
1273
Antoine Pitroue555f582008-12-27 20:34:52 +00001274Tools/Demos
1275-----------
1276
Guilherme Polo4eae0782009-01-28 15:56:01 +00001277- Ttk demos added in Demo/tkinter/ttk/
1278
Antoine Pitroue555f582008-12-27 20:34:52 +00001279- Issue #4677: add two list comprehension tests to pybench.
1280
Brett Cannon60b15d22008-10-06 22:44:37 +00001281Build
1282-----
1283
Ronald Oussoren626faeb2009-09-06 12:23:18 +00001284- Add 2 new options to ``--with-universal-archs`` on MacOSX:
1285 ``intel`` builds a distribution with ``i386`` and ``x86_64`` architectures,
1286 while ``3-way`` builds a distribution with the ``ppc``, ``i386``
1287 and ``x86_64`` architectures.
1288
Ronald Oussoren25967582009-09-06 10:00:26 +00001289- Issue #6802: Fix build issues on MacOSX 10.6
1290
Guilherme Polo1ce2d532009-08-16 14:38:57 +00001291- Issue #6244: Allow detect_tkinter to look for Tcl/Tk 8.6.
1292
Martin v. Löwisecb4f952009-06-28 09:32:39 +00001293- Issue 5390: Add uninstall icon independent of whether file
1294 extensions are installed.
1295
Ronald Oussoren450d5612009-06-08 21:12:41 +00001296- Issue 5809: Specifying both --enable-framework and --enable-shared is
1297 an error. Configure now explicity tells you about this.
1298
Antoine Pitrouf2caeed2009-05-24 20:23:57 +00001299- Issue #3585: Add pkg-config support. It creates a python-2.7.pc file
1300 and a python.pc symlink in the $(LIBDIR)/pkgconfig directory. Patch by
1301 Clinton Roy.
1302
Benjamin Petersone5afa3b2009-05-23 19:24:37 +00001303- Issue #6094: Build correctly with Subversion 1.7.
1304
Martin v. Löwis588b54b2009-05-05 16:10:16 +00001305- Issue #5847: Remove -n switch on "Edit with IDLE" menu item.
1306
Antoine Pitrou3fd4ea92009-05-01 21:16:14 +00001307- Issue #5726: Make Modules/ld_so_aix return the actual exit code of the
1308 linker, rather than always exit successfully. Patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
1309
Matthias Klose10cbe482009-04-29 17:18:19 +00001310- Issue #4587: Add configure option --with-dbmliborder=db1:db2:... to specify
Vinay Sajipf9b01fe2009-05-09 12:07:17 +00001311 the order that backends for the dbm extension are checked.
Matthias Klose10cbe482009-04-29 17:18:19 +00001312
Matthias Klose8ad554f2009-02-22 23:14:26 +00001313- Link the shared python library with $(MODLIBS).
1314
Martin v. Löwisa3e3cb72009-02-10 13:09:19 +00001315- Issue #5134: Silence compiler warnings when compiling sqlite with VC++.
1316
Martin v. Löwisfee1c7f2009-02-02 14:23:16 +00001317- Issue #4494: Fix build with Py_NO_ENABLE_SHARED on Windows.
1318
Martin v. Löwiseefda272009-01-11 09:43:55 +00001319- Issue #4895: Use _strdup on Windows CE.
1320
Ronald Oussorenf7d54052009-01-02 10:48:31 +00001321- Issue #4472: "configure --enable-shared" now works on OSX
1322
Benjamin Petersonfd9633e2008-12-28 15:37:31 +00001323- Issues #4728 and #4060: WORDS_BIGEDIAN is now correct in Universal builds.
1324
Martin v. Löwiscb6c3592008-11-30 11:08:26 +00001325- Issue #4389: Add icon to the uninstall entry in "add-and-remove-programs".
1326
Martin v. Löwis63470982008-11-19 13:51:44 +00001327- Issue #4289: Remove Cancel button from AdvancedDlg.
1328
Martin v. Löwis3d6f8ff2008-11-07 18:51:50 +00001329- Issue #1656675: Register a drop handler for .py* files on Windows.
1330
Martin v. Löwis692c2f82008-11-06 16:43:00 +00001331- Issue #4120: Exclude manifest from extension modules in VS2008.
1332
Martin v. Löwis0f3e7692008-10-17 13:43:01 +00001333- Issue #4091: Install pythonxy.dll in system32 again.
1334
Martin v. Löwiseba774b2008-10-13 11:23:35 +00001335- Issue #4018: Disable "for me" installations on Vista.
1336
Brett Cannon60b15d22008-10-06 22:44:37 +00001337- Issue #3758: Add ``patchcheck`` build target to .PHONY.
1338
Martin v. Löwisbb86d832008-11-04 20:40:09 +00001339- Issue #4204: Fixed module build errors on FreeBSD 4.
1340
Tarek Ziadéc4a4aeb2009-08-21 14:28:38 +00001341Documentation
1342-------------
1343
1344- Issue #6556: Fixed the Distutils configuration files location explanation
1345 for Windows.
1346
Tarek Ziadé3092ed92009-08-29 13:33:21 +00001347- Issue #6801 : symmetric_difference_update also accepts |.
1348 Thanks to Carl Chenet.
1349
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc07d539d2008-10-14 21:47:22 +00001350C-API
1351-----
1352
Benjamin Petersonfe8745d2009-08-17 13:39:41 +00001353- Issue #6624: PyArg_ParseTuple with "s" format when parsing argument with
1354 NULL: Bogus TypeError detail string.
Sean Reifscheider9279e7d2009-08-01 23:54:55 +00001355
Jeffrey Yasskinf7f858d2009-05-08 22:23:21 +00001356- Issue #5954: Add a PyFrame_GetLineNumber() function to replace most uses of
1357 PyCode_Addr2Line().
1358
Jeffrey Yasskin1aa47002009-05-08 21:51:06 +00001359- Issue #5959: Add a PyCode_NewEmpty() function to create a new empty code
1360 object at a specified file, function, and line number.
1361
Brett Cannonc4f90eb2009-04-02 03:17:39 +00001362- Issue #1419652: Change the first argument to PyImport_AppendInittab() to
1363 ``const char *`` as the string is stored beyond the call.
1364
Benjamin Peterson5781f322009-02-16 21:09:09 +00001365- Some PyBytes_* aliases have been removed because they don't exist in 3.x.
1366
Mark Dickinson4015f622009-02-10 15:46:50 +00001367- Issue #5175: PyLong_AsUnsignedLongLong now raises OverflowError
1368 for negative arguments. Previously, it raised TypeError.
1369
Benjamin Petersoncf2ce242008-12-22 20:52:53 +00001370- Issue #4720: The format for PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords can begin with '|'.
1371
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc3538a312008-12-15 22:29:14 +00001372- Issue #3632: from the gdb debugger, the 'pyo' macro can now be called when
1373 the GIL is released, or owned by another thread.
1374
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc07d539d2008-10-14 21:47:22 +00001375- Issue #4122: On Windows, fix a compilation error when using the
1376 Py_UNICODE_ISSPACE macro in an extension module.
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00001377
Kristján Valur Jónssonc22ab182009-01-12 09:24:04 +00001378- Issue #4293: Py_AddPendingCall is now thread safe and can be used for
1379 asynchronous notifications to python from any thread. Documentation added.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc07d539d2008-10-14 21:47:22 +00001380
Benjamin Peterson9dfe6a82008-11-24 04:09:03 +00001381Extension Modules
1382-----------------
1383
Mark Dickinson3d830822009-10-08 15:54:10 +00001384- Issue #7078: Set struct.__doc__ from _struct.__doc__.
1385
Mark Dickinsonb93fff02009-09-28 18:54:55 +00001386- Issue #3366: Add gamma function to math module.
1387
Brett Cannon4d947432009-09-22 00:29:48 +00001388- Issue #6823: Allow time.strftime() to accept a tuple with a isdst field
1389 outside of the range of [-1, 1] by normalizing the value to within that
1390 range.
1391
Ronald Oussoren9f20d9d2009-09-20 14:18:15 +00001392- Issue #6877: Make it possible to link the readline extension to libedit
1393 on OSX.
1394
Georg Brandlab849892009-09-19 07:35:07 +00001395- Issue #6944: Fix a SystemError when socket.getnameinfo() was called
1396 with something other than a tuple as first argument.
1397
Benjamin Peterson7f6d0832009-09-08 23:04:22 +00001398- Issue #6865: Fix reference counting issue in the initialization of the pwd
1399 module.
1400
Mark Dickinson6b3f1ef2009-09-06 21:21:05 +00001401- Issue #6848: Fix curses module build failure on OS X 10.6.
1402
Brett Cannon764465f2009-08-13 19:27:12 +00001403- Fix a segfault in expat when given a specially crafted input lead to the
1404 tokenizer not stopping.
1405
Mark Dickinsonfe67bd92009-07-28 20:35:03 +00001406- Issue #6561: '\d' in a regex now matches only characters with
1407 Unicode category 'Nd' (Number, Decimal Digit). Previously it also
1408 matched characters with category 'No'.
1409
Mark Dickinson5fd3af22009-07-07 15:08:28 +00001410- Issue #1523: Remove deprecated overflow wrapping for struct.pack
1411 with an integer format code ('bBhHiIlLqQ'). Packing an out-of-range
1412 integer now consistently raises struct.error.
1413
Mark Dickinson463dc4b2009-07-05 10:01:24 +00001414- Issues #1530559, #1741130: Fix various struct.pack inconsistencies
1415 for the integer formats ('bBhHiIlLqQ'). In the following, '*'
1416 represents any of '=', '<', '>'.
1417
1418 - Packing a float now always gives a Deprecation Warning.
1419 Previously it only warned for 'I', 'L', '*B', '*H', '*I', '*L'.
1420
1421 - If x is not an int, long or float, then packing x will always
1422 result in struct.error. Previously an x with an __int__ method
1423 could be packed by 'b', 'B', 'h', 'H', 'i', 'l', '*b', '*h'
1424 ,'*i', '*l', and an x with a __long__ method could be packed by
1425 'q', 'Q', '*q', '*Q'; for x with neither __int__ nor __long__,
1426 TypeError used to be raised (with a confusing error message) for
1427 'I', 'L', '*B', '*H', '*I', '*L', and struct.error in other cases.
1428
Martin v. Löwis4f16d3b2009-05-29 15:58:08 +00001429- Issue #4873: Fix resource leaks in error cases of pwd and grp.
1430
Gregory P. Smithd02eeda2009-05-04 00:16:49 +00001431- Issue #4751: For hashlib algorithms provided by OpenSSL, the Python
1432 GIL is now released during computation on data lengths >= 2048 bytes.
1433
Gregory P. Smithea388262009-02-13 03:00:00 +00001434- Issue #3745: Fix hashlib to always reject unicode and non buffer-api
1435 supporting objects as input no matter how it was compiled (built in
1436 implementations or external openssl library).
1437
Mark Dickinsona200dd52009-01-15 15:17:43 +00001438- Issue #4397: Fix occasional test_socket failure on OS X.
Mark Dickinsone82cdae2009-01-15 14:54:37 +00001439
Martin v. Löwisb3b7d852009-01-11 09:26:54 +00001440- Issue #4279: Fix build of parsermodule under Cygwin.
1441
Martin v. Löwis9ac49272009-01-02 20:40:14 +00001442- Issue #4051: Prevent conflict of UNICODE macros in cPickle.
1443
Georg Brandl6269fec2009-01-01 12:15:31 +00001444- Issue #4228: Pack negative values the same way as 2.4 in struct's L format.
1445
Martin v. Löwis03824e42008-12-29 18:17:34 +00001446- Issue #1040026: Fix os.times result on systems where HZ is incorrect.
1447
Mark Dickinson4c96fa52008-12-11 19:28:08 +00001448- Issues #3167, #3682: Fix test_math failures for log, log10 on Solaris,
1449 OpenBSD.
1450
Martin v. Löwisbcb017f2008-11-30 19:28:27 +00001451- Issue #4365: Add crtassem.h constants to the msvcrt module.
1452
Benjamin Peterson9dfe6a82008-11-24 04:09:03 +00001453- Issue #4396: The parser module now correctly validates the with statement.
1454
Jack Diederichd60c29e2009-03-31 23:46:48 +00001455- Issue #5228: Make functools.partial objects can now be pickled.
1456
Guilherme Polob1a98de2009-01-28 20:03:26 +00001457Tests
1458-----
1459
Antoine Pitrou58d2f262009-10-10 20:52:11 +00001460- Issue #7055: test___all__ now greedily detects all modules which have an
1461 __all__ attribute, rather than using a hardcoded and incomplete list.
1462
R. David Murrayabe3d3e2009-10-05 17:03:09 +00001463- Issue #7058: Added save/restore for argv and os.environ to runtest_inner
1464 in regrtest, with warnings if the called test modifies them.
1465
Mark Dickinson245d9152009-10-04 18:38:39 +00001466- Issue #7042: Fix test_signal (test_itimer_virtual) failure on OS X 10.6.
1467
Brett Cannone7e941e2009-09-03 21:25:21 +00001468- Issue #6806: test_platform failed under OS X 10.6.0 because ``sw_ver`` leaves
1469 off the trailing 0 in the version number.
1470
Guilherme Polo7f146ab2009-06-21 17:22:50 +00001471- Issue #5450: Moved tests involving loading tk from Lib/test/test_tcl to
1472 Lib/lib-tk/test/test_tkinter/test_loadtk. With this, these tests demonstrate
1473 the same behaviour as test_ttkguionly (and now also test_tk) which is to
1474 skip the tests if DISPLAY is defined but can't be used.
1475
Antoine Pitrou4698d992009-05-31 14:20:14 +00001476- Issue #6152: New option '-j'/'--multiprocess' for regrtest allows running
1477 regression tests in parallel, shortening the total runtime.
1478
Nick Coghlan5533ff62009-04-22 15:26:04 +00001479- Issue #5354: New test support function import_fresh_module() makes
1480 it easy to import both normal and optimised versions of modules.
1481 test_heapq and test_warnings have been adjusted to use it, tests for
1482 other modules with both C and Python implementations in the stdlib
1483 can be adjusted to use it over time.
1484
Brett Cannonce3d2212009-04-01 20:25:48 +00001485- Fix test_warnings to no longer reset the warnings filter.
1486
Brett Cannon2da4d622009-04-01 19:57:10 +00001487- Fix test_logging to no longer reset the warnings filter.
1488
Georg Brandld8fb6ac2009-04-01 00:04:33 +00001489- Issue #5635: Fix running test_sys with tracing enabled.
1490
R. David Murray41448c52009-03-31 19:57:24 +00001491- regrtest no longer treats ImportError as equivalent to SkipTest. Imports
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00001492 that should cause a test to be skipped are now done using import_module
R. David Murray41448c52009-03-31 19:57:24 +00001493 from test support, which does the conversion.
1494
Guilherme Polob1a98de2009-01-28 20:03:26 +00001495- Issue #5083: New 'gui' resource for regrtest.
1496
Walter Dörwalda1453172009-04-25 12:15:07 +00001497- Issue #5837: Certain sequences of calls to set() and unset() for
1498 support.EnvironmentVarGuard objects restored the environment variables
1499 incorrectly on __exit__.
1500
Alexandre Vassalotti999ecc02009-07-15 18:19:47 +00001501- Issue #2389: Array objects are now pickled in a portable manner.
1502
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00001503
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00001504What's New in Python 2.6 final
1505==============================
1506
Barry Warsawafa14362008-10-01 21:46:40 +00001507*Release date: 01-Oct-2008*
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00001508
1509Core and Builtins
1510-----------------
1511
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfc5ea392008-09-26 22:34:08 +00001512- Issue #3967: Fixed a crash in the count() and find() methods of string-like
1513 objects, when the "start" parameter is a huge value.
1514
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc17617a02008-09-25 20:52:56 +00001515- Issue #3965: Fixed a crash on Windows when open() is given an invalid
1516 filename or mode, and the filename is a unicode string.
1517
Martin v. Löwise86b07c2008-09-25 04:12:50 +00001518- Bug #3951: Py_USING_MEMORY_DEBUGGER should not be enabled by default.
1519
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00001520Library
1521-------
1522
Martin v. Löwise563aa42008-09-29 22:09:07 +00001523- Issue #3965: Allow repeated calls to turtle.Screen, by making it a
1524 true singleton object.
1525
Brett Cannonb2d61bd2008-09-29 03:41:21 +00001526- Issue #3895: It was possible to crash the interpreter when an external timer
1527 was used with cProfile that returned an object that could not be converted
1528 into a float.
1529
Benjamin Peterson22d3c922008-09-25 20:35:45 +00001530- Issue #3950: Made turtle respect scale factors.
1531
Thomas Hellera85c95d2008-09-24 18:26:05 +00001532- Issue #3547: Fixed ctypes structures bitfields of varying integer
1533 sizes.
1534
Benjamin Peterson2c7470d2008-09-21 21:27:51 +00001535- Issue #3879: A regression in urllib.getproxies_enviroment was fixed.
1536
Gregory P. Smith08067492008-09-30 20:41:13 +00001537- Issue #3863: Disabled a unit test of fork being called from a thread
1538 when running on platforms known to exhibit OS bugs when attempting that.
1539
Martin v. Löwis175d0072008-09-19 15:21:07 +00001540Build
1541-----
1542
Martin v. Löwisd69c9042008-10-01 11:19:50 +00001543- Bug #3989: Package the 2to3 script (as 2to3.py) in the Windows
1544 installer.
1545
Martin v. Löwis175d0072008-09-19 15:21:07 +00001546- Bug #3887: Package x64 version of CRT for AMD64 Windows binaries.
1547
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00001548
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00001549What's New in Python 2.6 release candidate 2?
1550=============================================
1551
Barry Warsaw6af16192008-09-18 04:33:43 +00001552*Release date: 17-Sep-2008*
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00001553
1554Core and Builtins
1555-----------------
1556
Benjamin Peterson8c2b7dc2008-09-18 01:22:16 +00001557Extension Modules
1558-----------------
1559
Benjamin Peterson8d77d442008-09-30 01:31:49 +00001560- Security Issue #2: imageop did not validate arguments correctly and could
1561 segfault as a result.
1562
Benjamin Peterson8c2b7dc2008-09-18 01:22:16 +00001563- Issue #3886: Possible integer overflows in the _hashopenssl module were
1564 closed.
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00001565
Antoine Pitrou3c9f5412008-09-13 20:30:30 +00001566Tools/Demos
1567-----------
1568
1569- Issue #3850: recursion tests in Misc/find_recursion_limit.py can raise
1570 AttributeError instead of RuntimeError, depending in which C API call
1571 exactly the recursion limit is exceeded. Consequently, both exception types
1572 are caught and silenced.
1573
Martin v. Löwis4eb18f92008-09-14 20:22:39 +00001574Build
1575-----
1576
1577- Issue #3617: Include a licensing statement regarding the Microsoft
1578 C runtime in the Windows installer.
1579
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00001580
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00001581What's New in Python 2.6 release candidate 1?
1582=============================================
1583
Barry Warsaw1e62aec2008-09-12 23:25:57 +00001584*Release date: 12-Sep-2008*
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00001585
1586Core and Builtins
1587-----------------
1588
Martin v. Löwis9fa5a282008-09-11 06:53:30 +00001589- Issue #3642: Suppress warning in obmalloc when size_t is larger than uint.
1590
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc05e34492008-09-10 22:04:45 +00001591- Issue #3743: In a few places, PY_FORMAT_SIZE_T was incorrectly used with
1592 PyString_FromFormat or PyErr_Format to display size_t values. The macro
1593 PY_FORMAT_SIZE_T is designed to select the correct format for the OS
1594 ``printf`` function, whereas PyString_FromFormat has an independent
1595 implementation and uses "%zd" on all platforms for size_t values.
1596 This makes a difference on win64, where ``printf`` needs "%Id" to display
1597 64bit values.
1598
Benjamin Peterson97179b02008-09-09 20:55:01 +00001599- Issue #3634: _weakref.ref(Exception).__init__() gave invalid return value on
1600 error.
1601
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd3ffb892008-09-09 07:24:30 +00001602- Issue #3777: long() applied to a float object now always return a long
1603 object; previously an int would be returned for small values. the __long__
1604 method is allowed to return either an int or a long, but the behaviour of
1605 float objects should not change to respect backward compatibility.
1606
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc3571fbf2008-09-01 19:52:00 +00001607- Issue #3751: str.rpartition would perform a left-partition when called with
1608 a unicode argument.
1609
Benjamin Peterson17f03ca2008-09-01 14:18:30 +00001610- Issue #3683: Fix compilation when --without-threads is given.
1611
Antoine Pitroud4ae97b2008-08-29 18:39:48 +00001612- Issue #3668: Fix a memory leak with the "s*" argument parser in
Vinay Sajip35e3b032008-09-01 14:33:59 +00001613 PyArg_ParseTuple and friends, which occurred when the argument for "s*"
Antoine Pitroud4ae97b2008-08-29 18:39:48 +00001614 was correctly parsed but parsing of subsequent arguments failed.
1615
Vinay Sajip35e3b032008-09-01 14:33:59 +00001616- Issue #2534: speed up isinstance() and issubclass() by 50-70%, so as to
Antoine Pitrou0668c622008-08-26 22:42:08 +00001617 match Python 2.5 speed despite the __instancecheck__ / __subclasscheck__
1618 mechanism. In the process, fix a bug where isinstance() and issubclass(),
1619 when given a tuple of classes as second argument, were looking up
1620 __instancecheck__ / __subclasscheck__ on the tuple rather than on each
1621 type object.
1622
Neal Norwitz18aa3882008-08-24 05:04:52 +00001623- Fix crashes on memory allocation failure found with failmalloc.
1624
1625- Fix memory leaks found with valgrind and update suppressions file.
1626
1627- Fix compiler warnings in opt mode which would lead to invalid memory reads.
1628
1629- Fix problem using wrong name in decimal module reported by pychecker.
1630
Christian Heimes7d4c3172008-08-22 19:47:25 +00001631- Silenced another compiler warning about a used but not defined
1632 function 'stringlib_contains_obj'.
1633
Benjamin Peterson712ee922008-08-24 18:10:20 +00001634- Added warnings on the use of ``__getslice__``, ``__setslice__``, or
1635 ``__delslice__``.
1636
Gregory P. Smith2bb25cc2008-09-02 05:29:51 +00001637- Issue #3678: Correctly pass LDFLAGS and LDLAST to the linker on shared
1638 library targets in the Makefile.
1639
Gregory P. Smith980b99b2008-09-07 05:15:18 +00001640- Issue #1204: The configure script now tests for additional libraries
1641 that may be required when linking against readline. This fixes issues
1642 with x86_64 builds on some platforms (a few Linux flavors and OpenBSD).
1643
Benjamin Peterson14cb6bc2008-08-26 17:08:40 +00001644C-API
1645-----
1646
1647- Aliased PyObject_Bytes to PyObject_Str.
1648
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00001649Library
1650-------
1651
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc24cb3822008-09-11 20:56:13 +00001652- Issue #3640: Pickling a list or a dict uses less local variables, to reduce
1653 stack usage in the case of deeply nested objects.
1654
Guido van Rossume3c4fd92008-09-10 14:27:00 +00001655- Issue #3629: Fix sre "bytecode" validator for an end case.
1656
Martin v. Löwis24329ba2008-09-10 13:38:12 +00001657- Issue #3811: The Unicode database was updated to 5.1.
1658
Nick Coghland2e09382008-09-11 12:11:06 +00001659- Issue #3781: Further warnings.catch_warnings() cleanup to prevent
1660 silent misbehaviour when a single instance is nested in multiple
1661 with statements, or when the methods are invoked in the wrong order.
1662
Vinay Sajip844f7412008-09-09 13:42:08 +00001663- Issue #3809: Fixed spurious 'test.blah' file left behind by test_logging.
1664
Nick Coghland2e09382008-09-11 12:11:06 +00001665- Issue #3781: Clean up the API for warnings.catch_warnings() by having it
Brett Cannon672237d2008-09-09 00:49:16 +00001666 return a list or None rather than a custom object.
1667
Benjamin Peterson6ac7d7c2008-09-06 19:28:11 +00001668- Issue #1638033: Cookie.Morsel gained the httponly attribute.
1669
Antoine Pitrouebcd0ce2008-09-05 23:30:23 +00001670- Issue #3535: zipfile couldn't read some zip files larger than 2GB.
1671
1672- Issue #3776: Deprecate the bsddb package for removal in 3.0.
Brett Cannon32476fc2008-09-05 18:33:51 +00001673
Hirokazu Yamamoto42e459e2008-09-04 14:25:30 +00001674- Issue #3762: platform.architecture() fails if python is lanched via
1675 its symbolic link.
1676
Vinay Sajip65d66e12008-09-04 07:31:21 +00001677- Issue #3772: Fixed regression problem in StreamHandler.emit().
1678
Facundo Batistac585df92008-09-03 22:35:50 +00001679- Issue 600362: Relocated parse_qs() and parse_qsl(), from the cgi module
1680 to the urlparse one. Added a PendingDeprecationWarning in the old
1681 module, it will be deprecated in the future.
1682
Marc-André Lemburgb339b2a2008-09-03 11:13:56 +00001683- Issue #2562: Fix distutils PKG-INFO writing logic to allow having
1684 non-ascii characters and Unicode in setup.py meta-data.
1685
1686- Issue #3726: Allow spaces in separators in logging configuration files.
Vinay Sajip6a2fd812008-09-03 09:20:05 +00001687
Marc-André Lemburg31a0a142008-09-02 12:11:19 +00001688- Issue #3719: platform.architecture() fails if there are spaces in the
1689 path to the Python binary.
1690
Brett Cannon1eaf0742008-09-02 01:25:16 +00001691- Issue 3602: Moved test.test_support.catch_warning() to
1692 warnings.catch_warnings() along with some API cleanup. Expanding the tests
1693 for catch_warnings() also led to an improvement in the raising of a
1694 DeprecationWarning related to warnings.warn_explicit().
1695
Benjamin Peterson973e6c22008-09-01 23:12:58 +00001696- The deprecation warnings for the old camelCase threading API were removed.
1697
Vinay Sajip35e3b032008-09-01 14:33:59 +00001698- logging: fixed lack of use of encoding attribute specified on a stream.
1699
Christian Heimesa27a62e2008-08-22 19:55:54 +00001700- Silenced a trivial compiler warning in the sqlite module.
1701
Christian Heimes1cc69632008-08-22 20:10:27 +00001702- Fixed two format strings in the _collections module.
1703
Benjamin Peterson17f03ca2008-09-01 14:18:30 +00001704- Issue #3703: _fileio.FileIO gave unhelpful error message when trying to open a
1705 directory.
Benjamin Petersonf22c26e2008-09-01 14:13:43 +00001706
Gregory P. Smithd7122032008-09-02 05:36:11 +00001707- Issue #3708: os.urandom no longer goes into an infinite loop when passed a
1708 non-integer floating point number.
1709
Vinay Sajip65d66e12008-09-04 07:31:21 +00001710- Issue #3110: multiprocessing fails to compiel on solaris 10 due to missing
Jesse Nollerb814d6a2008-09-03 18:10:30 +00001711 SEM_VALUE_MAX.
1712
Benjamin Peterson37346b22008-08-23 20:27:43 +00001713Extension Modules
1714-----------------
1715
Jesse Noller438195f2009-01-18 21:04:36 +00001716- Issue #4301: Patch the logging module to add processName support, remove
1717 _check_logger_class from multiprocessing.
1718
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc293924b2008-09-02 23:19:56 +00001719- Issue #2975: When compiling several extension modules with Visual Studio 2008
1720 from the same python interpreter, some environment variables would grow
1721 without limit.
1722
Benjamin Peterson37346b22008-08-23 20:27:43 +00001723- Issue #3643: Added a few more checks to _testcapi to prevent segfaults by
1724 exploitation of poor argument checking.
1725
Gerhard Häringef2276b2008-09-12 13:54:06 +00001726- sqlite3: Changed docstring of iterdump() to mark method as "Non-standard".
1727
Gerhard Häring6e1afcf2008-09-12 18:58:57 +00001728- Issue #3103: Reduced globals symbols used by sqlite3 module and made sure all
1729 remaining ones have "pysqlite_" prefix.
1730
Gerhard Häringe6872eb2008-09-12 22:33:22 +00001731- Issue #3846: Release the GIL during sqlite3_prepare calls. This improves
1732 concurrent access to the same SQLite database from multiple
1733 threads/processes.
1734
Brett Cannona0b74442008-09-03 22:45:11 +00001735Tests
1736-----
1737
Nick Coghland2e09382008-09-11 12:11:06 +00001738- Issue #3781: Add test.test_support.check_warnings() as a convenience
1739 wrapper for warnings.catch_warnings() that makes it easier to check
1740 that expected warning messages are being reported.
1741
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfeb8cad2008-09-06 20:53:51 +00001742- Issue #3796: Some tests functions were not enabled in test_float.
1743
1744- Issue #3768: Move test_py3kwarn over to the new API for catch_warnings().
Brett Cannona0b74442008-09-03 22:45:11 +00001745
Brett Cannoncdeb24b2008-09-05 22:59:17 +00001746Build
1747-----
1748
Martin v. Löwisab0b29b2008-09-13 08:11:57 +00001749- Issue #3833: Use a different upgrade code for Win64 installers.
1750
Martin v. Löwis3f5fda82008-09-08 13:50:10 +00001751- Issue #2271: Set SecureCustomProperties so that installation will properly
1752 use the TARGETDIR even for unprivileged users.
1753
Martin v. Löwis67543a92008-09-08 12:02:45 +00001754- Allow passing the MSI file name to merge.py.
1755
Vinay Sajip844f7412008-09-09 13:42:08 +00001756- Issue #3758: Rename the 'check' target to 'patchcheck' so as to not clash
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfeb8cad2008-09-06 20:53:51 +00001757 with GNU build target guidelines.
Brett Cannoncdeb24b2008-09-05 22:59:17 +00001758
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00001759
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00001760What's New in Python 2.6 beta 3?
1761================================
1762
Barry Warsaw07a4a382008-08-21 01:15:08 +00001763*Release date: 20-Aug-2008*
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00001764
1765Core and Builtins
1766-----------------
1767
Guido van Rossumf8402962008-08-20 15:01:50 +00001768- Issue #1878: Remove Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_VERSION_TAG from
1769 Py_TPFLAGS_DEFAULT when not building the core. This means 3rd party
1770 extensions do not automatically benefit from the class attribute
1771 cache; they will have to explicitly add Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_VERSION_TAG
1772 to their tp_flags field if they care. This is a backwards
1773 compatibility feature; in 3.0, all types will use the cache by
1774 default.
1775
Benjamin Petersonf647dc12008-08-20 01:27:30 +00001776- Keyword arguments can now follow starred arguments. (``f(a, *args,
1777 keyword=23)`` is now valid syntax.)
1778
Thomas Heller0ad5ae02008-08-19 19:25:04 +00001779- ctypes function pointers that are COM methods have a boolean True
1780 value again.
1781
Martin v. Löwisf91d46a2008-08-12 14:49:50 +00001782- Issue #3139: Make buffer-interface thread-safe wrt. PyArg_ParseTuple,
1783 by denying s# to parse objects that have a releasebuffer procedure,
1784 and introducing s*.
1785
Georg Brandl1e13ea92008-08-11 09:07:59 +00001786- Issue #3537: Fix an assertion failure when an empty but presized dict
1787 object was stored in the freelist.
1788
Mark Dickinsonb6467572008-08-04 21:30:09 +00001789- Issue #1481296: Make long(float('nan')) and int(float('nan')) raise
1790 ValueError consistently across platforms.
1791
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc39fd6722008-07-31 21:28:03 +00001792- Issue #3479: On platforms where sizeof(int) is smaller than sizeof(long)
1793 (64bit Unix, for example), unichr() would truncate its argument and return
1794 u'\x00' for unichr(2**32). Now it properly raises an OverflowError.
1795
Neal Norwitze7d8be82008-07-31 17:17:14 +00001796- Apply security patches from Apple.
1797
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc246daed2008-07-31 00:42:16 +00001798- Issue #2542: Now that issubclass() may call arbitrary code, ensure that
1799 PyErr_ExceptionMatches returns 0 when an exception occurs there.
1800
Antoine Pitrou92f82162008-07-25 22:22:08 +00001801- Issue #1819: function calls with several named parameters are now on
1802 average 35% faster (as measured by pybench).
1803
Amaury Forgeot d'Arce4921fe2008-07-21 22:00:38 +00001804- Issue #2378: An unexpected UnboundLocalError or NameError could appear when
1805 the python debugger steps into a class statement: the free variables (local
1806 variables defined in an outer scope) would be deleted from the outer scope.
1807
Gregory P. Smith0470bab2008-07-22 04:46:32 +00001808- Issue #2620: Overflow checking when allocating or reallocating memory
1809 was not always being done properly in some python types and extension
1810 modules. PyMem_MALLOC, PyMem_REALLOC, PyMem_NEW and PyMem_RESIZE have
1811 all been updated to perform better checks and places in the code that
1812 would previously leak memory on the error path when such an allocation
1813 failed have been fixed.
1814
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00001815Library
1816-------
1817
Hirokazu Yamamoto838c79f2008-08-20 13:14:07 +00001818- Issue #3612: Added some missing basic types in ctypes.wintypes.
1819
Benjamin Petersone977ad42008-08-20 01:42:01 +00001820- The methods ``is_in_tuple()``, ``is_vararg()``, and ``is_keywordarg()`` of
1821 symtable.Symbol have been deprecated for removal in 3.0 and the next release.
1822
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc351ffb82008-08-18 19:23:47 +00001823- Issue #2234: distutils failed for some versions of the cygwin compiler. The
1824 version reported by these tools does not necessarily follow the python
1825 version numbering scheme, so the module is less strict when parsing it.
1826
Nick Coghlanf70385a2008-08-18 12:42:46 +00001827- Issue #2235: Added Py3k warnings for types which will become unhashable
1828 under the stricter __hash__ inheritance rules in 3.0. Several types
1829 which did not meet the rules for hash invariants and were already
1830 unhashable in 3.0 have now been explicitly flagged as unhashable in
1831 2.6 as well (collections.Mapping, collections.Set, unittest.TestSuite,
1832 xml.dom.minidom.NamedNodeMap, numbers.Number, UserList.UserList)
1833
Brett Cannon88f801d2008-08-18 00:46:22 +00001834- Update __all__ for cookielib, csv, os, urllib2, and weakref to include things
1835 imported into the module but exposed as part of the module's API.
1836
Brett Cannon7b96f072008-08-18 00:41:11 +00001837- Remove an unneeded import of abc.ABCMeta from 'inspect'.
1838
Brett Cannon46225e72008-08-18 00:36:52 +00001839- Remove unneeded imports of 'sys' and 'warnings' from 'io'.
1840
Brett Cannon25c9d6a2008-08-17 22:10:11 +00001841- Remove unneeded imports of 'warnings' from shelve, filecmp, and dummy_thread.
1842
Hirokazu Yamamoto41a81eb2008-08-17 13:10:46 +00001843- Issue #3575: Incremental decoder's decode function now takes bytearray
1844 by using 's*' instead of 't#'.
1845
Mark Dickinson3e4caeb2009-02-21 20:27:01 +00001846- Issue #2222: Fixed reference leak when occurred os.rename()
Hirokazu Yamamoto7f30a682008-08-17 09:46:56 +00001847 fails unicode conversion on 2nd parameter. (windows only)
1848
Facundo Batista94f243a2008-08-17 03:38:39 +00001849- Issue 2464. urllib2 now supports a malformation in the URL received
1850 in a redirect.
1851
Brett Cannonabe423e2008-08-16 21:47:07 +00001852- Silence the DeprecationWarning raised when importing mimetools in
Brett Cannon721b1452008-08-16 22:00:27 +00001853 BaseHTTPServer, cgi (and rfc822), httplib.
Brett Cannonabe423e2008-08-16 21:47:07 +00001854
Facundo Batistaeb90b782008-08-16 14:44:07 +00001855- Issue #2776: fixed small issue when handling an URL with double slash
1856 after a 302 response in the case of not going through a proxy.
1857
Antoine Pitroub90a8be2008-08-15 21:03:21 +00001858- Issue #2676: in the email package, content-type parsing was hanging on
1859 pathological input because of quadratic or exponential behaviour of a
1860 regular expression.
1861
Antoine Pitrou11ec65d2008-08-14 21:04:30 +00001862- Issue #3476: binary buffered reading through the new "io" library is now
1863 thread-safe.
1864
Brett Cannonbf3157b2008-08-14 05:00:03 +00001865- Silence the DeprecationWarning of rfc822 when it is imported by mimetools
1866 since mimetools itself is deprecated. Because modules are cached, all
1867 subsequent imports of rfc822 will not raise a visible DeprecationWarning.
1868
Antoine Pitrou9fcd4b32008-08-11 17:21:36 +00001869- Issue #3134: shutil referenced undefined WindowsError symbol.
1870
Robert Schuppenies14646332008-08-10 11:01:53 +00001871- Issue #1342811: Fix leak in Tkinter.Menu.delete. Commands associated to
1872 menu entries were not deleted.
1873
Brett Cannon83e81842008-08-09 23:30:55 +00001874- Copied the implementation of reduce() to _functools.reduce() to have a
1875 version that did not raise a DeprecationWarning under -3.
1876
Antoine Pitrou76b8bee2008-08-09 17:27:23 +00001877- Issue #3205: When iterating over a BZ2File fails allocating memory, raise
1878 a MemoryError rather than silently stop the iteration.
1879
Guido van Rossum59ce9012008-08-09 14:55:34 +00001880- Issue #3487: sre "bytecode" validator. Passing invalid "re-bytecode"
1881 to _sre.compile() will now be rejected. This should not affect anybody
1882 since the re.compile() function never generates invalid re-bytecode.
1883
Skip Montanaroa032bf42008-08-08 22:52:51 +00001884- Issue #3436: Make csv.DictReader's fieldnames attribute a property so that
1885 upon first access it can be automatically initialized from the csv file if
1886 it wasn't initialized during instantiation.
1887
Brett Cannon3aa2a492008-08-06 22:28:09 +00001888- Issue #2338: Create imp.reload() to help with transitioning to Python 3.0 as
1889 the reload() built-in has been removed.
1890
Brett Cannon7e30b672008-08-04 21:52:25 +00001891- Changed code in the following modules/packages to remove warnings raised
Brett Cannonc1b76e42008-08-09 23:06:16 +00001892 while running under the ``-3`` flag: aifc, asynchat, asyncore, bdb, bsddb,
Brett Cannon047e4a92008-08-17 04:16:04 +00001893 ConfigParser, cookielib, csv, difflib, distutils, DocXMLRPCServer, email,
1894 filecmp, fileinput, inspect, logging, modulefinder, pdb, pickle, profile,
1895 pstats, pydoc, re, rlcompleter, SimpleXMLRPCServer, shelve, socket,
1896 subprocess, sqlite3, tarfile, Tkinter, test.test_support, textwrap,
1897 threading, tokenize, traceback, urlparse, wsgiref, xml, xmlrpclib.
Brett Cannon7e30b672008-08-04 21:52:25 +00001898
Lars Gustäbel727bd0b2008-08-02 11:26:39 +00001899- Issue #3039: Fix tarfile.TarFileCompat.writestr() which always
1900 raised an AttributeError.
1901
Benjamin Peterson01a24322008-07-28 23:35:27 +00001902- Issue #2523: Fix quadratic behaviour when read()ing a binary file without
Antoine Pitroude781a42008-08-09 12:43:23 +00001903 asking for a specific length. This problem only affected files opened
1904 using the new "io" module, not the built-in open() function.
Benjamin Peterson01a24322008-07-28 23:35:27 +00001905
Mark Dickinsonfe84cce2008-07-27 06:39:07 +00001906- Issue #3449: Update decimal module to use most recent specification
1907 (v. 1.68) and tests (v. 2.58) from IBM.
1908
Skip Montanarof9ac43f2008-07-27 00:50:41 +00001909- Issue 3437: Bug fix in robotparser parsing of Allow: lines.
1910
Raymond Hettinger8c664e82008-07-25 18:43:33 +00001911- Issue 1592: Improve error reporting when operations are attempted
1912 on a closed shelf.
1913
Georg Brandlf9efabb2008-07-23 15:16:45 +00001914- Deprecate the "ast" parser function aliases.
1915
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00001916- Issue #3120: On 64-bit Windows the subprocess module was truncating handles.
1917
1918- Issue #3303: Fix a crash in locale.strcoll() when calling it with
1919 invalid arguments.
1920
1921- Issue #3302: Fix several crashes when calling locale's gettext functions
1922 with None arguments.
1923
1924- Issue #3389: Allow resolving dotted names for handlers in logging
1925 configuration files.
1926
1927- Deprecate the sunaudio module for removal in Python 3.0.
1928
Antoine Pitrou5fdfa3e2008-07-25 19:42:26 +00001929- Issue #3394: zipfile.writestr sets external attributes when passed a
1930 file name rather than a ZipInfo instance, so files are extracted with
1931 mode 0600 rather than 000 under Unix.
1932
Gregory P. Smitha36f8fe2008-08-04 00:13:29 +00001933- Issue #1857: subprocess.Popen.poll gained an additional _deadstate keyword
1934 argument in python 2.5, this broke code that subclassed Popen to include its
1935 own poll method. Fixed my moving _deadstate to an _internal_poll method.
1936
Martin v. Löwis8dbf3642008-08-01 14:10:26 +00001937Build
1938-----
1939
1940- Generate the PatternGrammar pickle during "make install".
1941
Nick Coghlan2a0c2b12008-08-04 12:47:17 +00001942Documentation
1943-------------
1944
Nick Coghlan6e8fef02008-08-18 13:14:22 +00001945- Issue #2235: the C API function PyObject_HashNotImplemented and its
1946 interaction with the tp_hash slot (added in 2.6b2) are now documented
1947
Nick Coghlan2a0c2b12008-08-04 12:47:17 +00001948- Issue #643841: The language reference now provides more detailed
1949 coverage of the lookup process for special methods. The disclaimers
1950 regarding lack of coverage of new-style classes have also been
1951 removed, since the coverage is now fairly reasonable.
1952
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00001953
Raymond Hettingere3ae6552008-06-20 04:18:15 +00001954What's New in Python 2.6 beta 2?
1955================================
1956
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00001957*Release date: 17-Jul-2008*
1958
Raymond Hettingere3ae6552008-06-20 04:18:15 +00001959Core and Builtins
1960-----------------
1961
Georg Brandl3e483f62008-07-16 22:57:41 +00001962- Issue #3156: Fix inconsistent behavior of the bytearray type: all
1963 its methods now allow for items objects that can be converted to
1964 an integer using operator.index().
1965
Mark Dickinson64b7e502008-07-16 09:40:03 +00001966- Issue #3360: Fix incorrect parsing of '020000000000.0', which
1967 produced a ValueError instead of giving the correct float.
1968
Eric Smitha5fa5a22008-07-16 00:11:49 +00001969- Issue #3083: Add alternate (#) formatting for bin, oct, hex output
1970 for str.format(). This adds the prefix 0b, 0o, or 0x, respectively.
1971
Mark Dickinson7103aa42008-07-15 19:08:33 +00001972- Issue #3008: the float type has a new instance method 'float.hex'
1973 and a new class method 'float.fromhex' to convert floating-point
1974 numbers to and from hexadecimal strings, respectively.
1975
Nick Coghlan6d6bd442008-07-15 15:40:22 +00001976- Issue #2235: __hash__ is once again inherited by default. To allow
1977 collections.Hashable to remain meaningful in the presence of the
1978 default hash implementation (object.__hash__), it is now possible
1979 to explicit block inheritance of hash by setting __hash__=None at
1980 the Python level, or tp_hash=PyObject_HashNotImplemented at the C
1981 level.
1982
Nick Coghlanb028f502008-07-13 14:52:36 +00001983- Issue #3221: Issue a RuntimeWarning instead of raising SystemError if
1984 the parent module cannot be found while performing an absolute import.
1985 This means that an incorrectly defined __package__ attribute will
1986 now only prevent relative imports in that module rather than causing
1987 all imports from that module to fail.
1988
Nick Coghlan14ff9942008-07-08 14:21:42 +00001989- Issue #2517: Allow unicode messages in Exceptions again by correctly
1990 bypassing the instance dictionary when looking up __unicode__ on
1991 new-style classes.
1992
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbdd941f2008-07-01 20:38:04 +00001993- Issue #3242: Fix a crash inside the print statement, if sys.stdout is
1994 set to a custom object whose write() method happens to install
1995 another file in sys.stdout.
1996
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc1f40c8a2008-06-30 22:42:40 +00001997- Issue #3088: Corrected a race condition in classes derived from
1998 threading.local: the first member set by a thread could be saved in
1999 another thread's dictionary.
2000
Mark Dickinson1ec2fcd2008-06-20 14:53:43 +00002001- Issue #3004: Minor change to slice.indices(): the start and stop
2002 arguments are now treated identically, making the behaviour easier
2003 to describe and understand. For example, slice(None, -10,
2004 1).indices(9) now returns (0, 0, 1) instead of (0, -1, 1), and
2005 slice(None, 10, -1).indices(10) returns (9, 9, -1) instead of (9,
2006 10, -1).
2007
Georg Brandl278fc502008-07-19 12:46:12 +00002008- Issue #3219: Calling a function with repeated keyword arguments,
2009 f(a=2, a=23), would not cause a syntax error. This was a regression
2010 from 2.4 caused by the switch to the new compiler.
Benjamin Peterson175e4d92008-07-01 19:34:52 +00002011
Georg Brandl278fc502008-07-19 12:46:12 +00002012- Issue #2862: Make int and float freelist management consistent with
2013 other freelists. Changes their CompactFreeList apis into
2014 ClearFreeList apis and calls them via gc.collect().
Gregory P. Smith2fe77062008-07-06 03:35:58 +00002015
Brett Cannon8bb8fa52008-07-02 01:57:08 +00002016Library
2017-------
2018
Thomas Heller57adf222008-08-14 19:10:48 +00002019- Issue #3554: ctypes.string_at and ctypes.wstring_at did call Python
2020 api functions without holding the GIL, which could lead to a fatal
2021 error when they failed.
2022
Martin v. Löwisaabf4042008-08-02 07:20:25 +00002023- Issue #799428: Fix Tkinter.Misc._nametowidget to unwrap Tcl command objects.
2024
Jesse Noller7fb96402008-07-17 21:01:05 +00002025- Issue #3395: fix reference in test_multiprocessing to old debugInfo method
2026
Georg Brandla24869a2008-07-16 22:33:18 +00002027- Issue #3312: Fix two crashes in sqlite3.
2028
Georg Brandl86cbf812008-07-16 21:31:41 +00002029- Issue #1608818: Fix misbehavior in os.listdir() if readdir() fails.
2030
Jesse Noller13e9d582008-07-16 14:32:36 +00002031- Issue #3125: Remove copy_reg in multiprocessing and replace it with
2032 ForkingPickler.register() to resolve conflict with ctypes.
2033
Vinay Sajip51e65192008-07-18 09:01:10 +00002034- Issue #3090: Fixed ARCHFLAGS parsing on OS/X
Jesse Noller13e9d582008-07-16 14:32:36 +00002035
Thomas Heller880f5292008-07-15 19:39:38 +00002036- Issue #3313: Fixed a crash when a failed dlopen() call does not set
2037 a valid dlerror() message.
2038
Thomas Heller2bad6572008-07-15 17:19:50 +00002039- Issue #3258: Fixed a crash when a ctypes POINTER type to an
2040 incomplete structure was created.
2041
Brett Cannon3d0b9f02008-07-13 01:15:07 +00002042- Issue #3339: dummy_thread.acquire() should not return None.
2043
Raymond Hettingerb01713e2008-07-10 14:34:57 +00002044- Issue #3285: Fractions from_float() and from_decimal() accept Integral arguments.
2045
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00002046- Issue #3301: Bisect module behaved badly when lo was negative.
Raymond Hettinger3cd1e422008-07-10 14:03:19 +00002047
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc0f7cddc2008-07-06 21:34:39 +00002048- Issue #839496: SimpleHTTPServer used to open text files in text mode. This is
2049 both unnecessary (HTTP allows text content to be sent in several forms) and
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00002050 wrong because the actual transmitted size could differ from the
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc0f7cddc2008-07-06 21:34:39 +00002051 content-length. The problem had been corrected in the 2.4 branch, but never
2052 merged into trunk.
2053
Georg Brandle78fbcc2008-07-05 10:13:36 +00002054- Issue #2663: add filtering capability to shutil.copytree().
2055
Martin v. Löwis8c436412008-07-03 12:51:14 +00002056- Issue #1622: Correct interpretation of various ZIP header fields.
2057
2058- Issue #1526: Allow more than 64k files to be added to Zip64 file.
2059
2060- Issue #1746: Correct handling of zipfile archive comments (previously
2061 archives with comments over 4k were flagged as invalid). Allow writing
Vinay Sajip51e65192008-07-18 09:01:10 +00002062 Zip files with archives by setting the 'comment' attribute of a ZipFile.
Martin v. Löwis8c436412008-07-03 12:51:14 +00002063
Vinay Sajip51e65192008-07-18 09:01:10 +00002064- Issue #449227: The rlcompleter module now adds "(" to callable objects
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00002065 when completed.
Facundo Batista66c52772008-07-02 16:52:55 +00002066
Nick Coghlanc060b0e2008-07-02 13:09:19 +00002067- Issue #3190: Pydoc now hides the automatic module attribute __package__ (the
2068 handling is now the same as that of other special attributes like __name__).
2069
Brett Cannon8bb8fa52008-07-02 01:57:08 +00002070- Issue #2885 (partial): The urllib.urlopen() function has been deprecated for
2071 removal in Python 3.0 in favor of urllib2.urlopen().
2072
Gregory P. Smithf4140642008-07-06 07:16:40 +00002073- Issue #2113: Fix error in subprocess.Popen if the select system call is
2074 interrupted by a signal.
2075
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00002076- Issue #3309: Fix bz2.BZFile iterator to release its internal lock
Gregory P. Smith3b1e6b22008-07-07 04:31:58 +00002077 properly when raising an exception due to the bz2file being closed.
2078 Prevents a deadlock.
2079
Gregory P. Smithc4691ec2008-07-07 05:09:12 +00002080- Issue #3094: httplib.HTTPSConnection Host: headers no longer include the
2081 redundant ":443" port number designation when the connection is using the
2082 default https port (443).
2083
Gregory P. Smithdb3409c2008-07-17 03:13:05 +00002084- Issue #874900: after an os.fork() call the threading module state is cleaned
2085 up in the child process to prevent deadlock and report proper thread counts
2086 if the new process uses the threading module.
2087
Nick Coghlan38469e22008-07-13 12:23:47 +00002088Tests
2089-----
2090
2091- test.test_support.catch_warning now keeps track of all warnings it sees
2092 and is now better documented. Explicit unit tests for this context manager
2093 have been added to test_warnings.
2094
Martin v. Löwisd84fd952008-06-30 06:57:39 +00002095Build
2096-----
2097
2098- Issue #3215: Build sqlite3 as sqlite3.dll, not sqlite3.pyd.
2099
Brett Cannon8bb8fa52008-07-02 01:57:08 +00002100
Brett Cannon97aa1ae2008-07-11 00:12:52 +00002101Documentation
2102-------------
2103
Brett Cannonfeef51d2008-07-11 00:50:01 +00002104- Document that robotparser has been renamed to urllib.robotparser in
Brett Cannon963ffdb2008-07-11 00:48:57 +00002105 Python 3.0.
2106
Brett Cannonf6afa332008-07-11 00:16:30 +00002107- Document that urlparse has been renamed to urllib.parse in Python 3.0.
2108
Brett Cannon97aa1ae2008-07-11 00:12:52 +00002109- Document that urllib2 is split across multiple modules and renamed in
2110 Python 3.0.
2111
2112- Document that urllib is split across multiple modules and renamed in
2113 Python 3.0.
2114
2115
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00002116What's New in Python 2.6 beta 1?
2117================================
2118
Barry Warsawb5d17402008-06-19 01:48:07 +00002119*Release date: 18-June-2008*
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00002120
2121Core and Builtins
2122-----------------
2123
Brett Cannondea1b562008-06-27 00:31:13 +00002124- Issue #3211: warnings.warn_explicit() did not guard against its 'registry'
2125 argument being anything other than a dict or None. Also fixed a bug in error
2126 handling when 'message' and 'category' were both set to None, triggering a
2127 bus error.
2128
Amaury Forgeot d'Arca8919fe2008-06-16 19:12:42 +00002129- Issue #3100: Corrected a crash on deallocation of a subclassed weakref which
2130 holds the last (strong) reference to its referent.
2131
Georg Brandl89f48872008-06-11 18:55:38 +00002132- Add future_builtins.ascii().
2133
Raymond Hettinger5c4d3d02008-06-09 13:07:27 +00002134- Several set methods now accept multiple arguments: update(), union(),
Raymond Hettinger4267be62008-06-11 10:30:54 +00002135 intersection(), intersection_update(), difference(), and difference_update().
Raymond Hettingeree4bcad2008-06-09 08:33:37 +00002136
Robert Schuppenies51df0642008-06-01 16:16:17 +00002137- Issue #2898: Added sys.getsizeof() to retrieve size of objects in bytes.
2138
Martin v. Löwis99815892008-06-01 07:20:46 +00002139- New environment variable PYTHONIOENCODING.
2140
Martin v. Löwis4dd019f2008-05-20 08:11:19 +00002141- Patch #2488: Add sys.maxsize.
2142
Georg Brandla9916b52008-05-17 22:11:54 +00002143- Issue #2353: file.xreadlines() now emits a Py3k warning.
2144
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002145- Issue #2863: generators now have a ``gen.__name__`` attribute that
2146 equals ``gen.gi_code.co_name``, like ``func.__name___`` that equals
2147 ``func.func_code.co_name``. The repr() of a generator now also
2148 contains this name.
Georg Brandlc91210c2008-05-15 15:08:32 +00002149
Georg Brandlbd85eb12008-05-14 06:34:15 +00002150- Issue #2831: enumerate() now has a ``start`` argument.
2151
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002152- Issue #2801: fix bug in the float.is_integer method where a
2153 ValueError was sometimes incorrectly raised.
Mark Dickinsone81c3762008-05-09 16:14:15 +00002154
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002155- Issue #2790: sys.flags was not properly exposing its bytes_warning
2156 attribute.
Brett Cannon3c1d50a2008-05-08 20:23:54 +00002157
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002158- Issue #2196: hasattr() now lets exceptions which do not inherit
2159 Exception (KeyboardInterrupt, and SystemExit) propagate instead of
2160 ignoring them.
Benjamin Petersonb9030f42008-05-12 00:41:23 +00002161
Gregory P. Smith9d534572008-06-11 07:41:16 +00002162- Added checks for integer overflows, contributed by Google. Some are
2163 only available if asserts are left in the code, in cases where they
2164 can't be triggered from Python code.
2165
2166
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00002167Extension Modules
2168-----------------
Guido van Rossum84b1e0f2008-08-20 14:57:20 +00002169- Issue #1179: [CVE-2007-4965] Integer overflow in imageop module.
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00002170
Raymond Hettinger305480c2008-06-16 01:42:40 +00002171- Issue #3116: marshal.dumps() had quadratic behavior for strings > 32Mb.
2172
Andrew M. Kuchling2126bab2008-06-22 13:39:11 +00002173- Issue #2138: Add factorial() to the math module.
Raymond Hettingerecbdd2e2008-06-09 06:54:45 +00002174
Raymond Hettinger6d7702e2008-05-31 03:24:31 +00002175- The heapq module does comparisons using LT instead of LE. This
2176 makes its implementation match that used by list.sort().
2177
Mark Dickinson99dfe922008-05-23 01:35:30 +00002178- Issue #2819: add full-precision summation function to math module,
2179 based on Hettinger's ASPN Python Cookbook recipe.
2180
Georg Brandl88659b02008-05-20 08:40:43 +00002181- Issue #2592: delegate nb_index and the floor/truediv slots in
2182 weakref.proxy.
2183
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002184- Support os.O_ASYNC and fcntl.FASYNC if the constants exist on the
2185 platform.
Georg Brandl5049a852008-05-16 13:10:15 +00002186
Brett Cannon044616a2008-05-15 02:33:55 +00002187- Support for Windows 9x has been removed from the winsound module.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcf9b54c22008-05-12 21:30:24 +00002188
Jesus Cea09c01782008-09-28 23:24:19 +00002189- bsddb module updated to version 4.7.3.
Jesus Cea4907d272008-08-31 14:00:51 +00002190 http://www.jcea.es/programacion/pybsddb.htm#bsddb3-4.7.3. This
2191 code should be compatible with Python 3.0.
Jesus Ceaef9764f2008-05-13 18:45:46 +00002192
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002193- Issue #2858: Fix potential memory corruption when
2194 bsddb.db.DBEnv.lock_get and other bsddb.db object constructors
2195 raised an exception.
Gregory P. Smith664782e2008-05-17 06:12:02 +00002196
Gregory P. Smith5d7d6c32008-05-25 08:32:04 +00002197- Issue #2669: bsddb/__init__.py iteration no longer silently fails when
2198 the database has changed size during iteration. It now raises a
2199 RuntimeError in the same manner as a dictionary.
2200
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002201- Issue #2870: cmathmodule.c compile error.
Christian Heimes0bd23c02008-05-16 10:23:31 +00002202
Benjamin Petersond8a89722008-08-18 16:40:03 +00002203- Added a threading.Thread.ident property.
Gregory P. Smith8856dda2008-06-01 23:48:47 +00002204
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00002205Library
2206-------
2207
Vinay Sajip1e022682008-06-29 21:27:15 +00002208- logging.config: Removed out-of-date comment in _install_handlers and
2209 used issubclass in place of equality comparison of classes.
2210
Facundo Batista5596b0c2008-06-22 13:36:20 +00002211- Issue #2722: Now the os.getcwd() supports very long path names.
2212
Facundo Batista2da91c32008-06-21 17:43:56 +00002213- Issue #2888: Fixed the behaviour of pprint when working with nested
2214 structures, to match the behaviour of 2.5 and 3.0 (now follows the common
2215 sense).
2216
Facundo Batistaa6a4d502008-06-21 18:58:04 +00002217- Issue #1817: cgi now correctly handles the querystring on POST requests
2218
Vinay Sajip8dc20fd2008-06-19 22:41:08 +00002219- Issue #3136: fileConfig()'s disabling of old loggers is now conditional via
2220 an optional disable_existing_loggers parameter, but the default value is
2221 such that the old behaviour is preserved. Thanks to Leandro Lucarella for
2222 the patch.
2223
Vinay Sajip9828b7e2008-06-17 11:04:02 +00002224- Issue #3126: StreamHandler and FileHandler check before calling "flush" and
2225 "close" that the stream object has these, using hasattr (thanks to bobf for
2226 the patch).
2227
Benjamin Peterson5c0be322008-06-13 15:11:50 +00002228- Issue #2912: platform.uname now tries to determine unknown information even if
2229 os.uname exists.
2230
Benjamin Peterson26305a02008-06-12 22:33:06 +00002231- The rfc822 module has been deprecated for removal in 3.0.
2232
Benjamin Petersona03722f2008-06-12 14:23:49 +00002233- The mimetools module has been deprecated for removal in 3.0.
2234
Thomas Heller1cec7aa2008-06-10 14:07:12 +00002235- The ctypes.byref function now takes an optional second parameter
2236 which allows to specify an offset in bytes for the constructed
2237 pointer-like object.
2238
Georg Brandl8509db52008-06-10 07:45:28 +00002239- Added the ast module.
2240
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00002241- Added the multiprocessing module, PEP 371.
Benjamin Peterson6f7ae692008-06-11 20:04:30 +00002242
Georg Brandl7be19aa2008-06-07 15:59:10 +00002243- Factored out the indentation cleaning from inspect.getdoc() into
2244 inspect.cleandoc() to ease standalone use.
2245
Thomas Hellerfbb9c0b2008-06-06 08:33:46 +00002246- Issue #1798: Add ctypes calling convention that allows safe access
2247 to errno.
2248
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00002249- Issue #2404: ctypes objects support the new pep3118 buffer interface.
Thomas Heller59475e92008-06-05 17:52:59 +00002250
Vinay Sajip9828b7e2008-06-17 11:04:02 +00002251- Patch #2125: Add GetInteger and GetString methods for
Martin v. Löwisffe62ed2008-06-02 08:40:06 +00002252 msilib.Record objects.
2253
Gregory P. Smith137d8242008-06-02 04:05:52 +00002254- Issue #2782: The datetime module's strftime methods now accept
2255 unicode format strings just as time.strftime always has.
2256
Georg Brandlac19d852008-06-01 21:19:14 +00002257- The sgmllib and htmllib modules have been deprecated for removal
2258 in Python 3.0.
2259
2260- Issue #3011: locale module alias table was updated to the latest
2261 version from the X.org locale.alias file.
Marc-André Lemburgadff65b2008-05-30 20:52:18 +00002262
Thomas Heller9287acf2008-05-29 19:42:34 +00002263- Issue #1797 (partial fix): ctypes NULL function pointers have a
2264 False boolean value now.
2265
Georg Brandld0b592f2008-05-29 07:45:26 +00002266- Issue #2985: Allow 64-bit integer responses (``<i8>``) in XMLRPC
2267 transfers.
2268
2269- Issue #2877: The UserString.MutableString class has been removed in
2270 Python 3.0.
Brett Cannonabb34fe2008-05-29 05:08:50 +00002271
Lars Gustäbelb1a54a32008-05-27 12:39:23 +00002272- Do not close external file objects passed to tarfile.open(mode='w:bz2')
2273 when the TarFile is closed.
2274
Georg Brandle08e3d02008-05-25 08:07:37 +00002275- Issue #2959: For consistency with other file-like objects, gzip's
2276 GzipFile.close() can now be called multiple times without raising
2277 an exception.
2278
Martin v. Löwis27e4a172008-05-23 15:18:28 +00002279- Issue #1390: Raise ValueError in toxml when an invalid comment would
2280 otherwise be produced.
2281
Vinay Sajipc0128832008-05-20 15:37:22 +00002282- Issue #2914: TimedRotatingFileHandler now takes an optional keyword
2283 argument "utc" to use UTC time rather than local time.
2284
2285- Issue #2929: TimedRotatingFileHandler was using the wrong path when
2286 deleting old log files (filename only instead of full path).
2287
Georg Brandl112aa502008-05-20 08:25:48 +00002288- Issue #1775025: You can now specify zipfile members to open(),
2289 read() or extract() via a ZipInfo instance. This allows handling
2290 duplicate filenames in zipfiles.
2291
Georg Brandl28fdfa92008-05-17 17:57:01 +00002292- Issue #961805: Fix Text.edit_modified() in Tkinter.
2293
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002294- Issue #1793: Function ctypes.util.find_msvcrt() added that returns
Thomas Heller95ba13f2008-05-16 20:06:31 +00002295 the name of the C runtime library that Python uses.
2296 ctypes.util.find_library(name) now call this function when name is
2297 'm' or 'c'.
2298
Brett Cannonfa40bbf2008-05-16 00:50:02 +00002299- The statvfs module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2300
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002301- The sunaudiodev and SUNAUDIODEV modules have been deprecated for
2302 removal in Python 3.0.
2303
2304- The WAIT module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
2305 3.0.
2306
2307- The torgb module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
2308 3.0.
2309
2310- The SV module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
2311 3.0.
2312
2313- The readcd module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
Brett Cannon22248172008-05-16 00:10:24 +00002314 Python 3.0.
2315
Brett Cannon11ae6e72008-05-15 03:49:00 +00002316- The panelparser module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
2317 Python 3.0.
2318
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002319- The panel module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
2320 3.0.
Brett Cannon7e375862008-05-15 03:46:27 +00002321
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002322- The jpeg module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
2323 3.0.
Brett Cannon89f5d9c2008-05-15 03:44:00 +00002324
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002325- The IOCTL module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
2326 3.0.
Brett Cannond8c41ec2008-05-15 03:41:55 +00002327
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002328- The IN module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
2329 3.0.
Brett Cannon6328b292008-05-15 03:36:13 +00002330
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002331- The imgfile module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
Brett Cannon178582e2008-05-15 03:20:36 +00002332 Python 3.0.
2333
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002334- The GLWS module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
2335 3.0.
Brett Cannon72ccc402008-05-15 03:17:24 +00002336
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002337- The GET module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
2338 3.0.
Brett Cannon2773b6f2008-05-15 03:14:57 +00002339
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002340- The fm module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
2341 3.0.
2342
2343- The FL, flp, and fl modules from IRIX have been deprecated for
2344 removal in Python 3.0.
2345
2346- The FILE module on IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
2347 3.0.
2348
2349- The ERRNO module on IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
2350 3.0.
2351
2352- The DEVICE, GL, gl, and cgen modules (which indirectly includes
2353 cgensupport) have been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
Brett Cannon044616a2008-05-15 02:33:55 +00002354
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002355- The CL, CL_old, and cl modules for IRIX have been deprecated for
2356 removal in Python 3.0.
2357
2358- The cdplayer module for IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
Brett Cannon650f5162008-05-14 21:12:12 +00002359 Python 3.0.
2360
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002361- The cddb module for IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
2362 3.0.
Brett Cannon9eebe492008-05-14 20:34:22 +00002363
Brett Cannonddf949f2008-05-14 20:31:38 +00002364- The cd and CD modules for IRIX have been deprecated for removal in
2365 Python 3.0.
2366
Brett Cannon34721d52008-05-14 01:08:21 +00002367- The al and AL modules for IRIX have been deprecated for removal in
2368 Python 3.0.
2369
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002370- Issue #1713041: fix pprint's handling of maximum depth.
Georg Brandl23da6e62008-05-12 16:26:52 +00002371
Brett Cannonbb141bb2008-05-12 03:47:47 +00002372- The timing module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2373
Brett Cannonac861b52008-05-12 03:45:59 +00002374- The sv module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2375
Brett Cannon43e5ef42008-05-12 03:19:20 +00002376- The multifile module has been deprecated as per PEP 4.
2377
Brett Cannon42bfa902008-05-12 00:08:34 +00002378- The imageop module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2379
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002380- Issue #2250: Exceptions raised during evaluation of names in
2381 rlcompleter's ``Completer.complete()`` method are now caught and
2382 ignored.
Georg Brandl627a6662008-05-11 21:03:42 +00002383
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002384- Issue #2659: Added ``break_on_hyphens`` option to textwrap
2385 TextWrapper class.
Georg Brandl6f95ae52008-05-11 10:42:28 +00002386
Brett Cannon2a869132008-05-11 03:01:47 +00002387- The mhlib module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2388
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002389- The linuxaudiodev module has been deprecated for removal in Python
2390 3.0.
Brett Cannondf0a7172008-05-11 00:50:51 +00002391
Brett Cannon27508d42008-05-10 22:45:07 +00002392- The ihooks module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2393
Brett Cannonfe598512008-05-10 22:11:45 +00002394- The fpformat module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2395
Brett Cannone35a3a12008-05-10 21:22:43 +00002396- The dl module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2397
Brett Cannond5a09852008-05-10 03:14:32 +00002398- The Canvas module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2399
Brett Cannon6192df12008-05-10 02:58:26 +00002400- The compiler package has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2401
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002402- The Bastion and rexec modules have been deprecated for removal in
2403 Python 3.0.
Brett Cannoncda73a42008-05-10 02:53:46 +00002404
Brett Cannon768d44f2008-05-10 02:47:54 +00002405- The bsddb185 module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2406
Brett Cannon9ac39742008-05-09 22:51:58 +00002407- The pure module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2408
Mark Dickinsonf8476c12008-05-09 17:54:23 +00002409- Issue #2487: change the semantics of math.ldexp(x, n) when n is too
2410 large to fit in a C long. ldexp(x, n) now returns a zero (with
2411 suitable sign) if n is large and negative; previously, it raised
2412 OverflowError.
2413
Brett Cannonfa24d9a2008-05-09 05:32:42 +00002414- The toaiff module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2415
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002416- The test.testall module has been deprecated for removal in Python
2417 3.0.
Brett Cannon3c759142008-05-09 05:25:37 +00002418
Brett Cannond7265d62008-05-09 05:18:40 +00002419- The new module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2420
Brett Cannone3b19402008-05-08 20:36:09 +00002421- The user module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2422
Brett Cannon6071cc82008-05-08 19:52:45 +00002423- The stringold module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2424
2425- The mutex module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
Brett Cannon9d441822008-05-08 19:26:08 +00002426
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00002427- The imputil module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2428
Brett Cannoncae4f5f2008-05-08 20:24:43 +00002429- test.test_support.catch_warning() gained a 'record' argument.
2430
Benjamin Peterson0893a0a2008-05-09 00:27:01 +00002431- os.path.walk is deprecated in favor of os.walk.
2432
Georg Brandl9020ff82008-05-11 14:17:13 +00002433- pdb gained the "until" command.
Benjamin Peterson98353942008-05-11 14:13:25 +00002434
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002435- The Mac Modules (including Carbon) have been deprecated for removal
2436 in Python 3.0.
Benjamin Peterson23681932008-05-12 21:42:13 +00002437
Vinay Sajip9828b7e2008-06-17 11:04:02 +00002438- Library: on MacOS X you can now set ``ARCHFLAGS`` in the shell
Ronald Oussoren5640ce22008-06-05 12:58:24 +00002439 environment to control the '-arch' flags that are used to build
2440 an extension. This was added for compatibility with Apple's build
2441 of Python.
2442
2443- The bundled OSX-specific copy of libbffi is now in sync with the version
2444 shipped with PyObjC 2.0 and includes support for x86_64 and ppc64 platforms.
2445
Georg Brandl25c34082008-08-18 23:09:49 +00002446- The threading module gained aliases for names that will be removed in the
2447 3.x series.
Benjamin Peterson0fbcf692008-06-11 17:27:50 +00002448
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00002449Build
2450-----
2451
Martin v. Löwiscc0f2b22008-06-13 18:12:51 +00002452- 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 +00002453
Martin v. Löwis8c255e42008-05-23 15:06:50 +00002454- Patch #1722225: Support QNX 6.
2455
Brett Cannonb61d8012008-05-11 23:39:04 +00002456- ``Lib/lib-old`` is now added to sys.path.
2457
Ronald Oussoren5640ce22008-06-05 12:58:24 +00002458- On MacOS X it is now possible to install the framework in 64-bit
2459 mode or even as a 4-way universal binary (that is, PPC, i386,
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00002460 PPC64 and x86_64 support in one binary).
Ronald Oussoren5640ce22008-06-05 12:58:24 +00002461
2462 This is controlled by the configure argument ``--with-universal-archs``:
2463
2464 - ``--with-universal-archs=all``: install 4-way universal
2465
2466 - ``--with-universal-archs=32-bit``: install 2-way universal, 32-bit (the default)
2467
2468 - ``--with-universal-archs=64-bit``: install 2-way universal, 64-bit
2469
2470 This option should be used in combination with ``--enable-universalsdk=``.
2471
2472 NOTE: 64-bit and 4-way builds are only suppported on Mac OS X 10.5 (or later).
2473
2474
Christian Heimes7a990612008-05-26 13:15:11 +00002475C API
2476-----
2477
Georg Brandl74a1dea2008-05-28 11:21:39 +00002478- Add ``PyType_Modified()`` as a public API to clear the type cache.
2479
2480- The PyBytes functions have been renamed to PyByteArray.
Christian Heimes7a990612008-05-26 13:15:11 +00002481
2482- The PyString functions have been renamed to PyBytes. A batch of
2483 defines were added so that the linker still sees the original
2484 PyString names.
2485
Georg Brandl5e7b1c02008-05-16 17:40:23 +00002486
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00002487What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 3?
Barry Warsaw65475fd2008-03-01 17:11:41 +00002488=================================
2489
Barry Warsaw6cc79402008-05-08 13:16:19 +00002490*Release date: 08-May-2008*
Barry Warsaw65475fd2008-03-01 17:11:41 +00002491
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd21fb4c2008-03-05 01:50:33 +00002492Core and builtins
2493-----------------
Georg Brandl80055f62008-03-25 07:56:27 +00002494
Georg Brandl28e08732008-04-30 19:47:09 +00002495- Issue #2719: backported the ``next()`` builtin from Python 3.
2496
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002497- Issue #2681: The octal literal ``0o8`` was incorrecly acctepted. Now
2498 it properly raises a SyntaxError.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc52167212008-04-24 18:07:05 +00002499
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002500- Issue #2617: Reserved -J and -X arguments for Jython, IronPython and
2501 other implementations of Python.
Christian Heimes7a98d272008-04-12 13:03:03 +00002502
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002503- Implemented PEP 370: Per user site-packages directory.
Christian Heimesaf748c32008-05-06 22:41:46 +00002504
Andrew M. Kuchling46d6b682008-04-30 16:19:55 +00002505Extension Modules
2506-----------------
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00002507
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002508- Issue #2670: Fix a failure in urllib2.build_opener(), when passed
2509 two handlers that derive the same default base class.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc96865852008-04-22 21:14:41 +00002510
Christian Heimese74c8f22008-04-19 02:23:57 +00002511- Added kill, terminate and send_signal(sig) to subprocess.Popen.
2512
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002513- Added phase(z) -> phi, polar(z) -> r, phi and rect(r, phi) -> z to
2514 the cmath module.
Christian Heimes6f341092008-04-18 23:13:07 +00002515
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002516- Four new methods were added to the math and cmath modules: acosh,
2517 asinh, atanh and log1p.
Christian Heimes6f341092008-04-18 23:13:07 +00002518
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002519- zlib.decompressobj().flush(value) no longer crashes the interpreter
2520 when passed a value less than or equal to zero.
Gregory P. Smith671c5d92008-04-09 18:18:43 +00002521
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002522- Issue #1631171: Re-implement the 'warnings' module in C (the
2523 original Python code has been kept as backup). This will allow for
2524 using the 'warning's machinery in such places as the parser where
2525 use of pure Python code is not possible. Both the ``showarning()``
2526 and ``formatwarning()`` gain an optional 'line' argument which is
2527 not called by default for backwards-compatibility reasons. Setting
2528 ``warnings.showwarning()`` to an implementation that lacks support
2529 for the ``line`` argument will raise a DeprecationWarning.
Brett Cannone9746892008-04-12 23:44:07 +00002530
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00002531Library
2532-------
2533
Brett Cannonf8436822008-05-06 23:41:32 +00002534- The audiodev module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2535
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002536- Issue #2750: Add the 'json' package. Based on simplejson 1.9 and
2537 contributed by Bob Ippolito.
Brett Cannon4b964f92008-05-05 20:21:38 +00002538
Martin v. Löwis471617d2008-05-05 17:16:58 +00002539- Issue #1734346: Support Unicode file names for zipfiles.
2540
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002541- Issue #2581: distutils: Vista UAC/elevation support for
2542 bdist_wininst.
Mark Hammond7c5c8e62008-05-02 12:48:15 +00002543
Mark Dickinsonfe536f52008-04-25 16:59:09 +00002544- Issue #2635: Fix bug in 'fix_sentence_endings' textwrap.fill option,
2545 where an extra space was added after a word containing (but not
2546 ending in) '.', '!' or '?'.
2547
Thomas Heller6ad5fbb2008-04-25 15:44:16 +00002548- Add from_buffer() and from_buffer_copy() class methods to ctypes
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00002549 data types.
Thomas Heller6ad5fbb2008-04-25 15:44:16 +00002550
Neal Norwitz2b0bea52008-04-25 03:40:17 +00002551- Issue #2682: ctypes callback functions no longer contain a cyclic
Thomas Hellerbf027c42008-04-24 18:14:19 +00002552 reference to themselves.
2553
Gregory P. Smithd59fefb2008-04-22 08:11:33 +00002554- The getpass module has been improved on Unix. It now uses /dev/tty
2555 by default and uses stderr instead of stdout. A GetPassWarning is
2556 issued when input echo cannot be controlled.
Gregory P. Smith41e30182008-04-21 21:31:08 +00002557
Skip Montanarob131f042008-04-18 20:35:46 +00002558- Issue #2014: Allow XML-RPC datetime objects to have dates before
2559 1900-01-01.
2560
Nick Coghlan106fc482008-04-15 10:25:31 +00002561- Issue #2439: Added new function pkgutil.get_data(), which is a
2562 convenience wrapper for the PEP 302 get_data() API.
2563
Thomas Heller046e6a42008-04-14 16:10:07 +00002564- Issue #2616: The ctypes.pointer() and ctypes.POINTER() functions are
2565 now implemented in C for better performance.
2566
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002567- Issue #2408: The ``_types`` module, which was used as in
2568 implementation detail of the public ``types`` module, has been
2569 removed and replaced by pure python code.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc02f33b42008-04-08 23:10:07 +00002570
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002571- Issue #2513: distutils on Windows is now capable of cross-compiling
Mark Hammond495cf992008-04-07 01:53:39 +00002572 extension modules between 32 and 64 bit platforms. See the distutls
2573 build documentation for more information.
2574
Gregory P. Smithaa63d0d2008-04-06 23:11:17 +00002575- Issue #815646: Individual file objects may now be used from multiple
2576 threads at once without fear of crashing the Python interpreter. If
2577 file.close() is called while an object is in use by another thread
2578 an IOError exception will be raised and the file will not be closed.
2579
Thomas Hellerf7906482008-04-04 19:43:25 +00002580- The bundled libffi copy is now in sync with the recently released
2581 libffi3.0.5 version, apart from some small changes to
2582 Modules/_ctypes/libffi/configure.ac.
2583
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002584- Issue #2385: distutils.core.run_script() makes __file__ available,
2585 so the controlled environment will more closely mirror the typical
2586 script environment. This supports setup.py scripts that refer to
2587 data files.
Fred Drake46c58c12008-04-04 05:41:30 +00002588
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00002589Tests
2590-----
Trent Nelsone41b0062008-04-08 23:47:30 +00002591
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002592- Issue #2550: The approach used by client/server code for obtaining
2593 ports to listen on in network-oriented tests has been refined in an
2594 effort to facilitate running multiple instances of the entire
2595 regression test suite in parallel without issue.
2596 test_support.bind_port() has been fixed such that it will always
2597 return a unique port -- which wasn't always the case with the
2598 previous implementation, especially if socket options had been set
2599 that affected address reuse (i.e. SO_REUSEADDR, SO_REUSEPORT). The
2600 new implementation of bind_port() will actually raise an exception
2601 if it is passed an AF_INET/SOCK_STREAM socket with either the
2602 SO_REUSEADDR or SO_REUSEPORT socket option set. Furthermore, if
2603 available, bind_port() will set the SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE option on
2604 the socket it's been passed. This currently only applies to
2605 Windows. This option prevents any other sockets from binding to the
2606 host/port we've bound to, thus removing the possibility of the
2607 'non-deterministic' behaviour, as Microsoft puts it, that occurs
2608 when a second SOCK_STREAM socket binds and accepts to a host/port
2609 that's already been bound by another socket. The optional preferred
2610 port parameter to bind_port() has been removed. Under no
2611 circumstances should tests be hard coding ports!
2612
2613 test_support.find_unused_port() has also been introduced, which will
2614 pass a temporary socket object to bind_port() in order to obtain an
2615 unused port. The temporary socket object is then closed and
2616 deleted, and the port is returned. This method should only be used
2617 for obtaining an unused port in order to pass to an external program
2618 (i.e. the -accept [port] argument to openssl's s_server mode) or as
2619 a parameter to a server-oriented class that doesn't give you direct
2620 access to the underlying socket used.
2621
2622 Finally, test_support.HOST has been introduced, which should be used
2623 for the host argument of any relevant socket calls (i.e. bind and
2624 connect).
Trent Nelsone41b0062008-04-08 23:47:30 +00002625
2626 The following tests were updated to following the new conventions:
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002627 test_socket, test_smtplib, test_asyncore, test_ssl, test_httplib,
Trent Nelsone41b0062008-04-08 23:47:30 +00002628 test_poplib, test_ftplib, test_telnetlib, test_socketserver,
2629 test_asynchat and test_socket_ssl.
2630
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002631 It is now possible for multiple instances of the regression test
2632 suite to run in parallel without issue.
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00002633
2634Build
2635-----
2636
Mark Dickinson65134662008-04-25 16:11:04 +00002637- Issue #1496032: On alpha, use -mieee when gcc is the compiler.
2638
Thomas Hellerdc96a772008-04-04 10:07:55 +00002639- Issue #2544: On HP-UX systems, use 'gcc -shared' for linking when
2640 gcc is used as compiler.
2641
Ronald Oussoren580c7fe2008-05-02 19:45:11 +00002642- Issue #2573: On MacOS X it is now possible to install the framework
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002643 with a different name using --with-framework-name=NAME.
Ronald Oussoren580c7fe2008-05-02 19:45:11 +00002644
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00002645C API
2646-----
2647
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002648- Added implementation of copysign, acosh, asinh, atanh and log1p to
2649 the new files Include/pymath.h and Python/pymath.h for platforms
2650 which provide the functions through their libm. The files also
2651 contains several helpers and constants for math.
Christian Heimes6f341092008-04-18 23:13:07 +00002652
Benjamin Petersondacde0d2008-05-26 17:43:53 +00002653- Added a new convenience macro, PyErr_WarnPy3k, for issuing Py3k warnings.
Benjamin Petersona692c4d2008-04-27 02:28:02 +00002654
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00002655
2656What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 2?
2657=================================
2658
2659*Release date: 02-Apr-2008*
2660
2661Core and builtins
2662-----------------
2663
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002664- Issue #1733757: The interpreter would hang on shutdown if the
2665 tracing function set by sys.settrace is still active and happens to
2666 call threading.currentThread().
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd7a26512008-04-03 23:07:55 +00002667
Georg Brandl91e0cda2008-03-29 01:50:06 +00002668- Patch #1442: properly report exceptions when the PYTHONSTARTUP file
2669 cannot be executed.
2670
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc69b747b2008-03-28 20:30:50 +00002671- The compilation of a class nested in another class used to leak one
2672 reference on the outer class name.
2673
Georg Brandlfc8eef32008-03-28 12:11:56 +00002674- Patch #1810: compile() can now compile _ast trees as returned by
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002675 ``compile(..., PyCF_ONLY_AST)``.
Georg Brandlfc8eef32008-03-28 12:11:56 +00002676
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002677- Patch #2426: Added sqlite3.Connection.iterdump method to allow easy
2678 dumping of databases. Contributed by Paul Kippes at PyCon 2008.
Gregory P. Smithb9803422008-03-28 08:32:09 +00002679
Georg Brandldeaf2ca2008-03-27 13:27:31 +00002680- Patch #2477: Added from __future__ import unicode_literals.
Christian Heimes3c608332008-03-26 22:01:37 +00002681
Christian Heimes8c78cc32008-03-26 12:53:58 +00002682- Added backport of bytearray type.
2683
Georg Brandl80055f62008-03-25 07:56:27 +00002684- Issue #2355: add Py3k warning for buffer().
2685
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc9a0d3462008-03-23 09:55:29 +00002686- Issue #1477: With narrow Unicode builds, the unicode escape sequence
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002687 \Uxxxxxxxx did not accept values outside the Basic Multilingual
2688 Plane. This affected raw unicode literals and the
2689 'raw-unicode-escape' codec. Now UTF-16 surrogates are generated in
2690 this case, like normal unicode literals and the 'unicode-escape'
2691 codec.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc9a0d3462008-03-23 09:55:29 +00002692
Georg Brandl65bb42d2008-03-21 20:38:24 +00002693- Issue #2348: add Py3k warning for file.softspace.
2694
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002695- Issue #2346/#2347: add Py3k warnings for __methods__ and
2696 __members__.
Georg Brandl07e56812008-03-21 20:21:46 +00002697
Georg Brandl5a444242008-03-21 20:11:46 +00002698- Issue #2358: Add a Py3k warning on sys.exc_clear() usage.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd21fb4c2008-03-05 01:50:33 +00002699
Martin v. Löwisa4d77892008-03-19 04:39:13 +00002700- Issue #2400: Allow relative imports to "import *".
2701
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002702- Issue #1745: Backport print function with ``from __future__ import
2703 print_function``.
Eric Smith7c478942008-03-18 23:45:49 +00002704
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002705- Issue #2332: add new attribute names for instance method objects.
2706 The two changes are: im_self -> __self__ and im_func -> __func__
Neal Norwitzb1d3d962008-03-18 04:46:00 +00002707
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002708- Issue #2379: Raise a Py3K warning for __getitem__ or __getslice__ on
Guido van Rossum6d91be32008-03-18 04:42:22 +00002709 exception instances.
2710
Guido van Rossum04edb522008-03-18 02:49:46 +00002711- Issue #2371: Add a Py3k warning when catching an exception that
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002712 doesn't derive from BaseException.
2713
2714- Issue #2341: Add a Py3k warning when raising an exception that
2715 doesn't derive from BaseException.
Guido van Rossum04edb522008-03-18 02:49:46 +00002716
Neal Norwitz419fd492008-03-17 20:22:43 +00002717- Issue #2321: use pymalloc for unicode object string data to reduce
2718 memory usage in some circumstances.
2719
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002720- PEP 3127: octal literals now start with "0o". Old-style octal
2721 literals are still valid. There are binary literals with a prefix of
2722 "0b". This also affects int(x, 0).
Eric Smith0aed07a2008-03-17 19:43:40 +00002723
Georg Brandl1e7c3752008-03-25 08:37:23 +00002724- Issue #2359: Adding deprecation warnings for array.{read,write}.
2725
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002726- Issue #1779871: GNU gcc can now build Python on OS X because the
Jeffrey Yasskin1b4e45b2008-03-17 14:40:53 +00002727 flags -Wno-long-double, -no-cpp-precomp, and -mno-fused-madd are no
2728 longer passed.
2729
Neal Norwitz400aeda2008-03-15 22:03:18 +00002730- Add a warning when asserting a non-empty tuple which is always true.
2731
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002732- Issue #2179: speed up with statement execution by storing the exit
2733 method on the stack instead of in a temporary variable (patch by
2734 Jeffrey Yaskin)
Nick Coghlan7af53be2008-03-07 14:13:28 +00002735
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002736- Issue #2238: Some syntax errors in *args and **kwargs expressions
2737 could give bogus error messages.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd21fb4c2008-03-05 01:50:33 +00002738
Sean Reifscheider68fa8e62008-03-20 00:50:07 +00002739- Issue #2143: Fix embedded readline() hang on SSL socket EOF.
2740
Andrew M. Kuchling46d6b682008-04-30 16:19:55 +00002741Extension Modules
2742-----------------
Martin v. Löwisaef18b12008-03-24 13:31:16 +00002743
2744- Patch #2240: Implement signal.setitimer and signal.getitimer.
2745
Thomas Heller78b8f442008-03-05 14:53:39 +00002746Library
2747-------
2748
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002749- Issue #2315: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now accounts
2750 for daylight savings time in calculating the next rollover.
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00002751
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002752- Issue #2316: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now
2753 calculates rollovers correctly even when nothing is logged for a
2754 while.
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00002755
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002756- Issue #2317: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now uses
2757 improved logic for removing old files.
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00002758
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002759- Issue #2495: tokenize.untokenize now inserts a space between two
2760 consecutive string literals; previously, ["" ""] was rendered as
2761 [""""], which is incorrect python code.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcda0c0252008-03-27 23:23:54 +00002762
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002763- Issue #2248: return the result of the QUIT command. from
2764 SMTP.quit().
Georg Brandldeaf2ca2008-03-27 13:27:31 +00002765
Christian Heimes8c78cc32008-03-26 12:53:58 +00002766- Backport of Python 3.0's io module.
2767
Mark Dickinson8e85ffa2008-03-25 18:47:59 +00002768- Issue #2482: Make sure that the coefficient of a Decimal is always
2769 stored as a str instance, not as a unicode instance. This ensures
2770 that str(Decimal) is always an instance of str.
2771
Mark Dickinson3b24ccb2008-03-25 14:33:23 +00002772- Issue #2478: fix failure of decimal.Decimal(0).sqrt()
2773
Georg Brandl77354cf2008-03-21 20:01:51 +00002774- Issue #2432: give DictReader the dialect and line_num attributes
2775 advertised in the docs.
2776
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002777- Issue #2460: Make Ellipsis object copyable.
Raymond Hettingerb72233c2008-03-24 08:17:39 +00002778
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002779- Issue #1681432: Add triangular distribution to the random module
Raymond Hettingerbbc50ea2008-03-23 13:32:32 +00002780
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002781- Issue #2136: urllib2's auth handler now allows single-quoted realms
2782 in the WWW-Authenticate header.
Georg Brandl33124322008-03-21 19:54:00 +00002783
Marc-André Lemburga1867752008-03-20 18:08:00 +00002784- Issue #2434: Enhanced platform.win32_ver() to also work on Python
2785 installation which do not have the win32all package installed.
2786
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002787- Added support to platform.uname() to also report the machine and
2788 processor information on Windows XP and later. As a result,
Marc-André Lemburga1867752008-03-20 18:08:00 +00002789 platform.machine() and platform.processor() will report this
2790 information as well.
2791
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002792- The library implementing the 2to3 conversion, lib2to3, was added to
2793 the standard distribution.
Martin v. Löwis5e37bae2008-03-19 04:43:46 +00002794
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002795- Issue #1747858: Fix chown to work with large uid's and gid's on
2796 64-bit platforms.
Gregory P. Smith37f3f432008-03-18 20:40:01 +00002797
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002798- Issue #1202: zlib.crc32 and zlib.adler32 no longer return different
2799 values on 32-bit vs. 64-bit python interpreters. Both were correct,
2800 but they now both return a signed integer object for consistency.
Gregory P. Smithf48f9d32008-03-17 18:48:05 +00002801
Skip Montanaro32ed8c22008-03-15 16:07:11 +00002802- Issue #1158: add %f format (fractions of a second represented as
2803 microseconds) to datetime objects. Understood by both strptime and
2804 strftime.
2805
Mark Dickinsonc23b8a72008-03-14 14:23:37 +00002806- Issue #705836: struct.pack(">f", x) now raises OverflowError on all
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002807 platforms when x is too large to fit into an IEEE 754 float;
2808 previously it only raised OverflowError on non IEEE 754 platforms.
Mark Dickinsonc23b8a72008-03-14 14:23:37 +00002809
Andrew M. Kuchlingaac5c862008-05-11 14:00:00 +00002810- Issues #2166, #1741 and #1531505: now distutils deals with HOME
2811 correctly under win32
2812
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002813- Patch #1858: distutils: added multiple server support in .pypirc
Andrew M. Kuchlingaac5c862008-05-11 14:00:00 +00002814
Facundo Batistac54aec12008-03-08 16:50:27 +00002815- Issue #1106316: pdb.post_mortem()'s parameter, "traceback", is now
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002816 optional: it defaults to the traceback of the exception that is
2817 currently being handled (is mandatory to be in the middle of an
2818 exception, otherwise it raises ValueError).
Facundo Batistac54aec12008-03-08 16:50:27 +00002819
Jeffrey Yasskine75f59a2008-03-07 06:22:15 +00002820- Issue #1193577: A .shutdown() method has been added to SocketServers
2821 which terminates the .serve_forever() loop.
2822
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002823- Issue #2220: handle rlcompleter attribute match failure more
2824 gracefully.
Georg Brandl98aa8052008-03-06 07:45:52 +00002825
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002826- Issue #2225: py_compile, when executed as a script, now returns a
2827 non- zero status code if not all files could be compiled
2828 successfully.
Georg Brandla7bd27f2008-03-06 07:41:16 +00002829
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002830- Bug #1725737: In distutils' sdist, exclude RCS, CVS etc. also in the
Georg Brandl810ea292008-03-06 07:34:52 +00002831 root directory, and also exclude .hg, .git, .bzr, and _darcs.
2832
Thomas Hellerf3c05592008-03-05 15:34:29 +00002833- Issue #1872: The struct module typecode for _Bool has been changed
2834 from 't' to '?'.
2835
Thomas Heller78b8f442008-03-05 14:53:39 +00002836- The bundled libffi copy is now in sync with the recently released
2837 libffi3.0.4 version, apart from some small changes to
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002838 Modules/_ctypes/libffi/configure.ac. On OS X, preconfigured libffi
2839 files are used. On all linux systems the --with-system-ffi
2840 configure option defaults to "yes".
Thomas Heller78b8f442008-03-05 14:53:39 +00002841
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002842- Issue #1577: shutil.move() now calls os.rename() if the destination
2843 is a directory instead of copying-then-remove-source.
Sean Reifscheider493894c2008-03-18 17:24:12 +00002844
Martin v. Löwisd2bbe522008-03-06 06:55:22 +00002845Tests
2846-----
2847
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002848- test_nis no longer fails when test.test_support.verbose is true and
2849 NIS is not set up on the testing machine.
Brett Cannon7919d982008-03-19 16:50:13 +00002850
Brett Cannona5573b32008-03-18 04:16:06 +00002851- Output comparison tests are no longer supported.
2852
Brett Cannonb7ec8e52008-03-18 03:46:22 +00002853- Rewrite test_errno to use unittest and no longer be a no-op.
2854
Brett Cannon0bb79502008-03-18 01:58:56 +00002855- GHOP 234: Convert test_extcall to doctest.
2856
Brett Cannonba17cfc2008-03-18 01:50:25 +00002857- GHOP 290: Convert test_dbm and test_dummy_threading to unittest.
2858
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002859- GHOP 293: Convert test_strftime, test_getargs, and test_pep247 to
2860 unittest.
Brett Cannon6eeaddc2008-03-18 01:00:07 +00002861
Brett Cannon1f5182b2008-03-13 21:09:28 +00002862- Issue #2055: Convert test_fcntl to unittest.
2863
Brett Cannon4a6e8d62008-03-13 21:02:16 +00002864- Issue 1960: Convert test_gdbm to unittest.
2865
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002866- GHOP 294: Convert test_contains, test_crypt, and test_select to
2867 unittest.
Brett Cannon2e0f9f32008-03-13 20:47:41 +00002868
Brett Cannonb8d37352008-03-13 20:33:10 +00002869- GHOP 238: Convert test_tokenize to use doctest.
2870
Brett Cannon66865d22008-03-13 20:27:00 +00002871- GHOP 237: Rewrite test_thread using unittest.
2872
Martin v. Löwisd2bbe522008-03-06 06:55:22 +00002873- Patch #2232: os.tmpfile might fail on Windows if the user has no
2874 permission to create files in the root directory.
2875
Martin v. Löwisbf7b0b72008-03-14 13:56:09 +00002876Build
2877-----
2878
Martin v. Löwiscdbc9772008-03-24 12:57:53 +00002879- A new script 2to3 is now installed, to run the 2.x to 3.x converter.
2880
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002881- Python/memmove.c and Python/strerror.c have been removed; both
2882 functions are in the C89 standard library.
Brett Cannonaa5778d2008-03-18 04:09:00 +00002883
Martin v. Löwisbf7b0b72008-03-14 13:56:09 +00002884- Patch #2284: Add -x64 option to rt.bat.
Barry Warsaw65475fd2008-03-01 17:11:41 +00002885
Christian Heimes3c608332008-03-26 22:01:37 +00002886C API
2887-----
2888
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00002889- Patch #2477: Added PyParser_ParseFileFlagsEx() and
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002890 PyParser_ParseStringFlagsFilenameEx().
2891
Christian Heimes3c608332008-03-26 22:01:37 +00002892
Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +00002893What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 1?
2894=================================
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00002895
Barry Warsaw7c075232008-03-01 02:53:36 +00002896*Release date: 29-Feb-2008*
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00002897
2898Core and builtins
2899-----------------
2900
Fred Drakea8ee94b2008-03-01 02:45:07 +00002901- Issue #2051: pyc and pyo files are no longer created with permission
Barry Warsaw52973612008-03-01 02:23:38 +00002902 644. The mode is now inherited from the py file.
Christian Heimes40346852008-02-23 17:52:07 +00002903
Georg Brandlad61bc82008-02-23 15:11:18 +00002904- Issue #2067: file.__exit__() now calls subclasses' close() method.
2905
2906- Patch #1759: Backport of PEP 3129 class decorators.
Christian Heimes5224d282008-02-23 15:01:05 +00002907
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00002908- Issue #1881: An internal parser limit has been increased. Also see
Facundo Batistafc2d0102008-02-23 12:01:13 +00002909 issue 215555 for a discussion.
2910
Eric Smitha73fbe72008-02-23 03:09:44 +00002911- Added the future_builtins module, which contains hex() and oct().
2912 These are the PEP 3127 version of these functions, designed to be
2913 compatible with the hex() and oct() builtins from Python 3.0. They
2914 differ slightly in their output formats from the existing, unchanged
2915 Python 2.6 builtins. The expected usage of the future_builtins
2916 module is:
2917 from future_builtins import hex, oct
2918
Eric Smith7ef40bf2008-02-20 23:34:22 +00002919- Issue #1600: Modifed PyOS_ascii_formatd to use at most 2 digit
2920 exponents for exponents with absolute value < 100. Follows C99
2921 standard. This is a change on Windows, which would use 3 digits.
2922 Also, added 'n' to the formats that PyOS_ascii_formatd understands,
2923 so that any alterations it does to the resulting string will be
2924 available in stringlib/formatter.h (for float.__format__).
2925
Eric Smith5a3c1352008-02-19 13:21:56 +00002926- Implemented PEP 3101, Advanced String Formatting. This adds a new
2927 builtin format(); a format() method for str and unicode; a
2928 __format__() method to object, str, unicode, int, long, float, and
2929 datetime; the class string.Formatter; and the C API
2930 PyObject_Format().
2931
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002932- Fixed several potential crashes, all caused by specially crafted
2933 __del__ methods exploiting objects in temporarily inconsistent
2934 state.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc632fad32008-02-16 20:55:24 +00002935
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00002936- Issue #2115: Important speedup in setting __slot__ attributes. Also
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002937 prevent a possible crash: an Abstract Base Class would try to access
2938 a slot on a registered virtual subclass.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc60d6c7f2008-02-15 21:22:45 +00002939
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002940- Fixed repr() and str() of complex numbers with infinity or nan as
2941 real or imaginary part.
Christian Heimes2f0da532008-02-15 06:57:08 +00002942
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002943- Clear all free lists during a gc.collect() of the highest generation
2944 in order to allow pymalloc to free more arenas. Python may give back
2945 memory to the OS earlier.
Christian Heimes3b718a72008-02-14 12:47:33 +00002946
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002947- Issue #2045: Fix an infinite recursion triggered when printing a
2948 subclass of collections.defaultdict, if its default_factory is set
2949 to a bound method.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcb01aa432008-02-08 00:56:02 +00002950
Christian Heimesf75dbef2008-02-08 00:11:31 +00002951- Fixed a minor memory leak in dictobject.c. The content of the free
2952 list was not freed on interpreter shutdown.
2953
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002954- Limit free list of method and builtin function objects to 256
2955 entries each.
Christian Heimes6075a822008-02-06 12:44:34 +00002956
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002957- Patch #1953: Added ``sys._compact_freelists()`` and the C API
2958 functions ``PyInt_CompactFreeList`` and ``PyFloat_CompactFreeList``
Christian Heimes422051a2008-02-04 18:00:12 +00002959 to compact the internal free lists of pre-allocted ints and floats.
2960
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002961- Issue #1983: Fixed return type of fork(), fork1() and forkpty()
2962 calls. Python expected the return type int but the fork familie
2963 returns pi_t.
Christian Heimes951cc0f2008-01-31 23:08:23 +00002964
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002965- Issue #1678380: Fix a bug that identifies 0j and -0j when they
2966 appear in the same code unit.
Mark Dickinson105be772008-01-31 22:17:37 +00002967
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002968- Issue #2025: Add tuple.count() and tuple.index() methods to comply
2969 with the collections.Sequence API.
Raymond Hettinger5b07ebc2008-02-07 00:54:20 +00002970
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002971- Patch #1970 by Antoine Pitrou: Speedup unicode whitespace and
2972 linebreak detection
Christian Heimes4d4f2702008-01-30 11:32:37 +00002973
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002974- Added ``PyType_ClearCache()`` and ``sys._clear_type_cache`` to clear
2975 the internal lookup cache for ref leak tests.
Christian Heimes908caac2008-01-27 23:34:59 +00002976
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002977- Patch #1473257: generator objects gain a gi_code attribute. This is
2978 the same object as the func_code attribute of the function that
2979 produced the generator.
Georg Brandl0cdf9a32008-01-26 14:14:20 +00002980
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002981- Issue #1920: "while 0" statements were completely removed by the
2982 compiler, even in the presence of an "else" clause, which is
2983 supposed to be run when the condition is false. Now the compiler
2984 correctly emits bytecode for the "else" suite.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc31eaafe2008-01-24 22:59:25 +00002985
Guido van Rossumeead05f2008-01-24 18:21:02 +00002986- A few crashers fixed: weakref_in_del.py (issue #1377858);
2987 loosing_dict_ref.py (issue #1303614, test67.py);
2988 borrowed_ref_[34].py (not in tracker).
2989
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +00002990- Issue #1069410: The "can't load dll" message box on Windows is
Christian Heimesb2302ba2008-01-23 17:15:06 +00002991 suppressed while an extension is loaded by calling SetErrorMode in
2992 dynload_win.c. The error is still reported properly.
2993
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002994- Issue #1915: Python compiles with --enable-unicode=no again. However
Christian Heimes082c9b02008-01-23 14:20:50 +00002995 several extension methods and modules do not work without unicode
2996 support.
2997
Georg Brandl26543b12008-01-21 18:36:51 +00002998- Issue #1882: when compiling code from a string, encoding cookies in the
2999 second line of code were not always recognized correctly.
3000
Georg Brandl14404b62008-01-19 19:27:05 +00003001- Issue #1679: "0x" was taken as a valid integer literal.
3002
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00003003- Issue #1865: ``bytes`` as an alias for ``str`` and b"" as an alias "" were
Christian Heimes288e89a2008-01-18 18:24:07 +00003004 added.
3005
Christian Heimesc94e2b52008-01-14 04:13:37 +00003006- sys.float_info / PyFloat_GetInfo: The floating point information
3007 object was converted from a dict to a specialized structseq object.
3008
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003009- Patch #1816: Added sys.flags structseq. It exposes the status of
3010 most command line arguments and PYTHON* environment variables.
Christian Heimesf31b69f2008-01-14 03:42:48 +00003011
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003012- Objects/structseq.c: Implemented new structseq representation. The
3013 patch makes structseqs (e.g. the return value of os.stat) more
3014 readable.
Christian Heimes9c201962008-01-14 03:33:52 +00003015
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003016- Patch #1700288: added a type attribute cache that caches method
3017 accesses, resulting in speedups in heavily object-oriented code.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arce4c270c2008-01-14 00:29:41 +00003018
Neal Norwitz3fc15b82008-01-10 05:42:58 +00003019- Bug #1776: __import__() no longer accepts filenames on any platform.
3020 The first parameter to __import__() must be a valid module name.
Christian Heimes3403f152008-01-09 19:56:33 +00003021
Georg Brandlaed6c662008-01-07 17:25:53 +00003022- Patch #1668: renamed THREADDEBUG envvar to PYTHONTHREADDEBUG.
3023
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003024- Patch #602345: Add -B command line option, PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE
3025 envvar and sys.dont_write_bytecode attribute. All these can be set
3026 to forbid Python to attempt to write compiled bytecode files.
Georg Brandl2da0fce2008-01-07 17:09:35 +00003027
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003028- Improve some exception messages when Windows fails to load an
3029 extension module. Now we get for example '%1 is not a valid Win32
3030 application' instead of 'error code 193'.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arce0b76952008-01-04 02:04:15 +00003031
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003032- Bug #1481296: Fixed long(float('nan')) != 0L.
Christian Heimes8267d1d2008-01-04 00:37:34 +00003033
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003034- Issue #1640: Added math.isinf(x), math.isnan(x) and math.copysign(x,
3035 y) functions.
Christian Heimese2ca4242008-01-03 20:23:15 +00003036
Christian Heimes0a8143f2007-12-18 23:22:54 +00003037- Issue #1635: Platform independent creation and representation of NaN
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003038 and INF. float("nan"), float("inf") and float("-inf") now work on
3039 every platform with IEEE 754 semantics.
Christian Heimes0a8143f2007-12-18 23:22:54 +00003040
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003041- Compiler now generates simpler and faster code for dictionary
3042 literals. The oparg for BUILD_MAP now indicates an estimated
3043 dictionary size. There is a new opcode, STORE_MAP, for adding
3044 entries to the dictionary.
Raymond Hettingerfd7ed402007-12-18 21:24:09 +00003045
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003046- Issue #1638: %zd configure test fails on Linux.
Christian Heimesdb3d6cb2007-12-16 21:39:43 +00003047
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003048- Issue #1620: New property decorator syntax was modifying the
3049 decorator in place instead of creating a new decorator object.
Christian Heimes90e10e72007-12-14 02:35:23 +00003050
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003051- Issue #1538: Avoid copying string in split/rsplit if the split char
3052 is not found.
Skip Montanaro26015492007-12-08 15:33:24 +00003053
Andrew M. Kuchling395fe442007-12-05 13:27:20 +00003054- Issue #1553: An erroneous __length_hint__ can make list() raise a
Christian Heimes7cc1c6f2007-12-05 12:52:34 +00003055 SystemError.
3056
Nick Coghlanef01d822007-12-03 12:55:17 +00003057- PEP 366: Allow explicit relative imports when executing modules
3058 inside packages with the -m switch via a new module level
3059 __package__ attribute.
3060
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003061- Issue #1402: Fix a crash on exit, when another thread is still
3062 running, and if the deallocation of its frames somehow calls the
3063 PyGILState_Ensure() / PyGILState_Release() functions.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbe49a902007-11-30 20:37:22 +00003064
Christian Heimes28104c52007-11-27 23:16:44 +00003065- Expose the Py_Py3kWarningFlag as sys.py3kwarning.
3066
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00003067- Issue #1445: Fix a SystemError when accessing the ``cell_contents``
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcce7d10c2007-11-24 13:44:17 +00003068 attribute of an empty cell object.
3069
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003070- Issue #1460: The utf-7 incremental decoder did not accept truncated
3071 input. It now correctly saves its state between chunks of data.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcf57375a2007-11-21 01:38:26 +00003072
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003073- Patch #1739468: Directories and zipfiles containing a __main__.py
3074 file can now be directly executed by passing their name to the
3075 interpreter. The directory/zipfile is automatically inserted as the
3076 first entry in sys.path.
Nick Coghlan327a39b2007-11-18 11:56:28 +00003077
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003078- Issue #1265: Fix a problem with sys.settrace, if the tracing
3079 function uses a generator expression when at the same time the
3080 executed code is closing a paused generator.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc0d75f092007-11-13 21:54:28 +00003081
Raymond Hettinger1760c8a2007-11-08 02:52:43 +00003082- sets and frozensets now have an isdisjoint() method.
3083
Raymond Hettinger3f8caa32007-10-24 01:28:33 +00003084- optimize the performance of builtin.sum().
3085
Neal Norwitz44f326e2007-10-05 05:29:17 +00003086- Fix warnings found by the new version of the Coverity checker.
3087
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003088- The enumerate() builtin function is no longer bounded to sequences
3089 smaller than LONG_MAX. Formerly, it raised an OverflowError. Now,
3090 automatically shifts from ints to longs.
Raymond Hettinger8f669372007-10-03 21:18:11 +00003091
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003092- Issue #1686386: Tuple's tp_repr did not take into account the
3093 possibility of having a self-referential tuple, which is possible
3094 from C code. Nor did object's tp_str consider that a type's tp_str
3095 could do something that could lead to an inifinite recursion.
3096 Py_ReprEnter() and Py_EnterRecursiveCall(), respectively, fixed the
3097 issues.
Brett Cannon0b14f242007-09-30 19:45:10 +00003098
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003099- Issue #1164: It was possible to trigger deadlock when using the
3100 'print' statement to write to a file since the GIL was not released
3101 as needed. Now PyObject_Print() does the right thing along with
3102 various tp_print implementations of the built-in types and those in
3103 the collections module.
Brett Cannon01531592007-09-17 03:28:34 +00003104
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003105- Issue #1147: Exceptions were directly allowing string exceptions in
3106 their throw() method even though string exceptions no longer
3107 allowed.
Brett Cannon4c20bc42007-09-11 21:02:28 +00003108
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003109- Issue #1096: Prevent a segfault from getting the repr of a very
3110 deeply nested list by using the recursion counter.
Brett Cannona0c05512007-09-10 21:38:27 +00003111
Brett Cannon1e534b52007-09-07 04:18:30 +00003112- Issue #1202533: Fix infinite recursion calls triggered by calls to
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003113 PyObject_Call() never calling back out to Python code to trigger
3114 recursion depth updates/checks. Required the creation of a static
3115 RuntimeError instance in case normalizing an exception put the
3116 recursion check value past its limit. Fixes crashers
3117 infinite_rec_(1|2|4|5).py.
Brett Cannon1e534b52007-09-07 04:18:30 +00003118
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003119- Patch #1031213: Decode source line in SyntaxErrors back to its
3120 original source encoding.
Martin v. Löwisa5136192007-09-04 14:19:28 +00003121
Georg Brandl7c3b50d2007-07-12 08:38:00 +00003122- Patch #1673759: add a missing overflow check when formatting floats
3123 with %G.
3124
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003125- Prevent expandtabs() on string and unicode objects from causing a
3126 segfault when a large width is passed on 32-bit platforms.
Neal Norwitz7dbd2a32007-06-09 03:36:34 +00003127
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003128- Issue #1733488: Fix compilation of bufferobject.c on AIX.
Martin v. Löwisda587ab2007-06-08 17:29:20 +00003129
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003130- Issue #1722485: remove docstrings again when running with -OO.
Georg Brandla5ea6892007-06-01 11:33:33 +00003131
Neal Norwitz0ac60192007-05-27 04:08:54 +00003132- Add new attribute names for function objects. All the func_* become
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003133 __*__ attributes. (Some already existed, e.g., __doc__ and
3134 __name__.)
Neal Norwitz0ac60192007-05-27 04:08:54 +00003135
Neal Norwitz8b2bfbc2007-05-23 06:35:32 +00003136- Add -3 option to the interpreter to warn about features that are
3137 deprecated and will be changed/removed in Python 3.0.
3138
Georg Brandl2134e752007-05-21 20:34:16 +00003139- Patch #1686487: you can now pass any mapping after '**' in function
3140 calls.
3141
Collin Winter62903052007-05-18 23:11:24 +00003142- except clauses may now be spelled either "except E, target:" or
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003143 "except E as target:". This is to provide forwards compatibility
3144 with Python 3.0.
Collin Winter62903052007-05-18 23:11:24 +00003145
Brett Cannon229cee22007-05-05 01:34:02 +00003146- Deprecate BaseException.message as per PEP 352.
3147
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003148- Issue #1303614: don't expose object's __dict__ when the dict is
Armin Rigo9790a272007-05-02 19:23:31 +00003149 inherited from a builtin base.
3150
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00003151- When __slots__ are set to a unicode string, make it work the same as
Neal Norwitzcbd9ee62007-04-14 05:25:50 +00003152 setting a plain string, ie don't expand to single letter identifiers.
3153
Raymond Hettinger13936692007-04-11 18:40:58 +00003154- Request #1191699: Slices can now be pickled.
3155
Raymond Hettinger4db5fe92007-04-12 04:10:00 +00003156- Request #1193128: str.translate() now allows a None argument for
3157 translations that only remove characters without re-mapping the
3158 remaining characters.
3159
Georg Brandl5cb76c12007-03-21 09:00:39 +00003160- Patch #1682205: a TypeError while unpacking an iterable is no longer
3161 masked by a generic one with the message "unpack non-sequence".
3162
Neal Norwitzaa754b72007-03-21 06:39:48 +00003163- Remove unused file Python/fmod.c.
3164
Guido van Rossum143b5642007-03-23 04:58:42 +00003165- Bug #1683368: The object.__init__() and object.__new__() methods are
3166 now stricter in rejecting excess arguments. The only time when
3167 either allows excess arguments is when it is not overridden and the
3168 other one is. For backwards compatibility, when both are
3169 overridden, it is a deprecation warning (for now; maybe a Py3k
Guido van Rossum234b1ff2007-03-23 19:39:01 +00003170 warning later). Also, type.__init__() insists on the same signature
3171 as supported by type.__new__().
Guido van Rossum143b5642007-03-23 04:58:42 +00003172
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003173- Patch #1675423: PyComplex_AsCComplex() now tries to convert an
3174 object to complex using its __complex__() method before falling back
3175 to the __float__() method. Therefore, the functions in the cmath
3176 module now can operate on objects that define a __complex__()
3177 method.
Georg Brandl2b869942007-03-17 16:08:45 +00003178
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003179- Patch #1623563: allow __class__ assignment for classes with
3180 __slots__. The old and the new class are still required to have the
3181 same slot names.
Žiga Seilnacht6f2d09c2007-03-16 11:59:38 +00003182
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003183- Patch #1642547: Fix an error/crash when encountering syntax errors
3184 in complex if statements.
Collin Winter77c67bd2007-03-16 04:11:30 +00003185
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003186- Patch #1462488: Python no longer segfaults when
3187 ``object.__reduce_ex__()`` is called with an object that is faking
3188 its type.
Žiga Seilnacht20f43d32007-03-15 11:44:55 +00003189
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003190- Patch #1680015: Don't modify __slots__ tuple if it contains an
3191 unicode name.
Žiga Seilnacht71436f02007-03-14 12:24:09 +00003192
Georg Brandl5240d742007-03-13 20:46:32 +00003193- Patch #1444529: the builtin compile() now accepts keyword arguments.
3194
Georg Brandl7b9c5552007-03-12 14:30:05 +00003195- Bug #1678647: write a newline after printing an exception in any
3196 case, even when converting the value to a string failed.
3197
Georg Brandl871f1bc2007-03-12 13:17:36 +00003198- The dir() function has been extended to call the __dir__() method on
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003199 its argument, if it exists. If not, it will work like before. This
3200 allows customizing the output of dir() in the presence of a
3201 __getattr__().
Georg Brandl871f1bc2007-03-12 13:17:36 +00003202
Collin Winter276887b2007-03-12 16:11:39 +00003203- Patch #922167: Python no longer segfaults when faced with infinitely
3204 self-recursive reload() calls (as reported by bug #742342).
3205
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003206- Patch #1675981: remove unreachable code from ``type.__new__()``
3207 method.
Žiga Seilnacht89032082007-03-11 15:54:54 +00003208
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003209- Patch #1491866: change the complex() constructor to allow
3210 parthensized forms. This means complex(repr(x)) now works instead of
3211 raising a ValueError.
Collin Wintere38051d2007-03-09 20:33:07 +00003212
Georg Brandlaa2321b2007-03-07 00:40:28 +00003213- Patch #703779: unset __file__ in __main__ after running a file. This
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003214 makes the filenames the warning module prints much more sensible
3215 when a PYTHONSTARTUP file is used.
Georg Brandlaa2321b2007-03-07 00:40:28 +00003216
Georg Brandl49aafc92007-03-07 00:34:46 +00003217- Variant of patch #697613: don't exit the interpreter on a SystemExit
3218 exception if the -i command line option or PYTHONINSPECT environment
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003219 variable is given, but break into the interactive interpreter just
3220 like on other exceptions or normal program exit.
Georg Brandl49aafc92007-03-07 00:34:46 +00003221
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003222- Patch #1638879: don't accept strings with embedded NUL bytes in
3223 long().
Georg Brandl00cd8182007-03-06 18:41:12 +00003224
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003225- Bug #1674503: close the file opened by execfile() in an error
3226 condition.
Georg Brandl098cd692007-03-06 12:17:50 +00003227
Georg Brandl0fca97a2007-03-05 22:28:08 +00003228- Patch #1674228: when assigning a slice (old-style), check for the
3229 sq_ass_slice instead of the sq_slice slot.
3230
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003231- When printing an unraisable error, don't print exceptions. before
3232 the name. This duplicates the behavior whening normally printing
3233 exceptions.
Neal Norwitz88516a62007-02-26 22:41:45 +00003234
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003235- Bug #1653736: Properly discard third argument to
3236 slot_nb_inplace_power.
Martin v. Löwisfd963262007-02-09 12:19:32 +00003237
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003238- PEP 352: Raising a string exception now triggers a TypeError.
3239 Attempting to catch a string exception raises DeprecationWarning.
Brett Cannon129bd522007-01-30 21:34:36 +00003240
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003241- Bug #1377858: Fix the segfaulting of the interpreter when an object
3242 created a weakref on itself during a __del__ call for new-style
3243 classes (classic classes still have the bug).
Brett Cannonf5bee302007-01-23 23:21:22 +00003244
Martin v. Löwis6c5c5022007-01-23 21:11:47 +00003245- Bug #1579370: Make PyTraceBack_Here use the current thread, not the
3246 frame's thread state.
3247
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003248- patch #1630975: Fix crash when replacing sys.stdout in
3249 sitecustomize.py.
Thomas Wouters6ed19652007-01-23 13:50:49 +00003250
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003251- Prevent seg fault on shutdown which could occur if an object raised
3252 a warning.
Neal Norwitz72cd02c2007-01-05 05:25:22 +00003253
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003254- Bug #1566280: Explicitly invoke threading._shutdown from Py_Main, to
3255 avoid relying on atexit.
Martin v. Löwis7b7c9d42007-01-04 21:06:12 +00003256
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003257- Bug #1590891: random.randrange don't return correct value for big
3258 number.
Raymond Hettinger94547f72006-12-20 06:42:06 +00003259
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003260- Patch #1586791: Better exception messages for some operations on
3261 strings, tuples and lists.
Georg Brandl283a1352006-11-19 08:48:30 +00003262
Martin v. Löwis056dac12006-11-12 18:24:26 +00003263- Bug #1067760: Deprecate passing floats to file.seek.
3264
Martin v. Löwisa346c092006-11-08 06:48:36 +00003265- Bug #1591996: Correctly forward exception in instance_contains().
3266
Neal Norwitz85dbec62006-11-04 19:25:22 +00003267- Bug #1588287: fix invalid assertion for `1,2` in debug builds.
3268
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003269- Bug #1576657: when setting a KeyError for a tuple key, make sure
3270 that the tuple isn't used as the "exception arguments tuple".
Georg Brandlb9f4ad32006-10-29 18:31:42 +00003271
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003272- Bug #1565514: SystemError not raised on too many nested blocks.
Neal Norwitz21997af2006-10-28 21:19:07 +00003273
Thomas Hellerdf08f0b2006-10-27 18:31:36 +00003274- Bug #1576174: WindowsError now displays the windows error code
3275 again, no longer the posix error code.
3276
Martin v. Löwisb5bc5372006-10-27 06:16:31 +00003277- Patch #1549049: Support long values in structmember, issue warnings
3278 if the assigned value for structmember fields gets truncated.
3279
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003280- Update the peephole optimizer to remove more dead code (jumps after
3281 returns) and inline unconditional jumps to returns.
Neal Norwitzcbeb6872006-10-14 21:33:38 +00003282
Georg Brandl2c1375c2006-10-12 11:27:59 +00003283- Bug #1545497: when given an explicit base, int() did ignore NULs
3284 embedded in the string to convert.
3285
Georg Brandl846f73a2006-10-08 07:11:54 +00003286- Bug #1569998: break inside a try statement (outside a loop) is now
3287 recognized and rejected.
3288
Armin Rigo7ccbca92006-10-04 12:17:45 +00003289- list.pop(x) accepts any object x following the __index__ protocol.
3290
Armin Rigo7ccbca92006-10-04 12:17:45 +00003291- A number of places, including integer negation and absolute value,
3292 were fixed to not rely on undefined behaviour of the C compiler
3293 anymore.
Martin v. Löwis820d6ac2006-10-04 05:47:34 +00003294
Georg Brandl3267d282006-09-30 09:03:42 +00003295- Bug #1566800: make sure that EnvironmentError can be called with any
3296 number of arguments, as was the case in Python 2.4.
3297
Georg Brandl5d59c092006-09-30 08:43:30 +00003298- Patch #1567691: super() and new.instancemethod() now don't accept
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003299 keyword arguments any more (previously they accepted them, but
3300 didn't use them).
Georg Brandl5d59c092006-09-30 08:43:30 +00003301
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003302- Fix a bug in the parser's future statement handling that led to
3303 "with" not being recognized as a keyword after, e.g., this
3304 statement: from __future__ import division, with_statement
Georg Brandla10d3af2006-09-24 12:35:36 +00003305
Neal Norwitz3a230172006-09-22 08:18:10 +00003306- Bug #1557232: fix seg fault with def f((((x)))) and def f(((x),)).
3307
Neal Norwitz4a8fbdb2006-09-22 08:16:26 +00003308- Fix %zd string formatting on Mac OS X so it prints negative numbers.
3309
Brett Cannonf6aa86e2006-09-20 18:43:13 +00003310- Allow exception instances to be directly sliced again.
3311
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003312- Bug #1551432: Exceptions do not define an explicit __unicode__
3313 method. This allows calling unicode() on exceptions classes
3314 directly to succeed.
Brett Cannon9adeab72006-09-20 18:34:28 +00003315
Georg Brandl4e933132006-09-06 20:05:58 +00003316- Bug #1542051: Exceptions now correctly call PyObject_GC_UnTrack.
3317 Also make sure that every exception class has __module__ set to
3318 'exceptions'.
3319
Georg Brandl98775df2006-09-06 06:09:31 +00003320- Bug #1550983: emit better error messages for erroneous relative
3321 imports (if not in package and if beyond toplevel package).
3322
Tim Petersc10c9d02006-09-05 02:18:09 +00003323- Overflow checking code in integer division ran afoul of new gcc
3324 optimizations. Changed to be more standard-conforming.
3325
Neal Norwitz4f096d92006-08-21 19:47:08 +00003326- Patch #1542451: disallow continue anywhere under a finally.
3327
Neal Norwitza22975f2006-09-05 02:24:03 +00003328- Patch #1546288: fix seg fault in dict_equal due to ref counting bug.
3329
Neal Norwitzd34e4272006-09-05 02:36:20 +00003330- The return tuple from str.rpartition(sep) is (tail, sep, head) where
3331 head is the original string if sep was not found.
3332
Neal Norwitzdac090d2006-09-05 03:53:08 +00003333- Bug #1520864: unpacking singleton tuples in list comprehensions and
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003334 generator expressions (x for x, in ... ) works again. Fixing this
3335 problem required changing the .pyc magic number. This means that
3336 .pyc files generated before 2.5c2 will be regenerated.
Neal Norwitzdac090d2006-09-05 03:53:08 +00003337
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00003338- ``with`` and ``as`` are now keywords.
Neal Norwitzca460d92006-09-06 06:28:06 +00003339
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003340- Bug #1664966: Fix crash in exec if Unicode filename can't be
3341 decoded.
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00003342
Guido van Rossumcad37242008-01-15 17:59:29 +00003343- Issue #1537: Changed GeneratorExit's base class from Exception to
3344 BaseException.
Christian Heimes44eeaec2007-12-03 20:01:02 +00003345
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003346- Issue #1703448: A joined thread could show up in the
Gregory P. Smith95cd5c02008-01-22 01:20:42 +00003347 threading.enumerate() list after the join() for a brief period until
3348 it actually exited.
3349
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00003350
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00003351Library
3352-------
3353
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003354- Patch #2274: Add heapq.heappushpop().
Raymond Hettinger53bdf092008-03-13 19:03:51 +00003355
Christian Heimes608c1d82008-03-03 18:28:04 +00003356- Add inspect.isabstract(object) to fix bug #2223
3357
Mark Dickinson1ddf1d82008-02-29 02:16:37 +00003358- Add a __format__ method to Decimal, to support PEP 3101.
3359
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003360- Add a timing parameter when using trace.Trace to print out
3361 timestamps.
Neal Norwitzca376612008-02-26 08:21:28 +00003362
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003363- Issue #1627: httplib now ignores negative Content-Length headers.
Georg Brandl8c460d52008-02-24 00:14:24 +00003364
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003365- Issue #900744: If an invalid chunked-encoding header is sent by a
3366 server, httplib will now raise IncompleteRead and close the
3367 connection instead of raising ValueError.
Georg Brandl23635032008-02-24 00:03:22 +00003368
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003369- Issue #1492: The content type of BaseHTTPServer error messages can
3370 now be overridden.
Georg Brandl16479232008-02-23 15:02:28 +00003371
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003372- Issue #1781: ConfigParser now does not let you add the "default" section
Facundo Batistab12f0b52008-02-23 12:46:10 +00003373 (ignore-case)
3374
Guido van Rossum8bc09652008-02-21 18:18:37 +00003375- Removed uses of dict.has_key() from distutils, and uses of
3376 callable() from copy_reg.py, so the interpreter now starts up
3377 without warnings when '-3' is given. More work like this needs to
3378 be done in the rest of the stdlib.
3379
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003380- Issue #1916: added isgenerator() and isgeneratorfunction() to
3381 inspect.py.
Facundo Batista759bfc62008-02-18 03:43:43 +00003382
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003383- Issue #1224: Fixed bad url parsing when path begins with double
3384 slash.
Facundo Batistad14600e2008-02-18 12:48:43 +00003385
Thomas Hellera06a1a82008-02-13 20:21:53 +00003386- ctypes instances that are not or do not contain pointers can now be
3387 pickled.
3388
Martin v. Löwisdad88dc2008-02-12 18:47:34 +00003389- Patch #1966: Break infinite loop in httplib when the servers
3390 implements the chunked encoding incorrectly.
3391
Mark Dickinsond058cd22008-02-10 21:29:51 +00003392- Rename rational.py to fractions.py and the rational.Rational class
3393 to fractions.Fraction, to avoid the name clash with the abstract
3394 base class numbers.Rational. See discussion in issue #1682.
3395
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003396- The pickletools module now provides an optimize() function that
3397 eliminates unused PUT opcodes from a pickle string.
Raymond Hettingerda614dc2008-02-10 20:35:16 +00003398
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003399- Patch #2021: Allow tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile and
3400 SpooledTemporaryFile to be used in with statements by correctly
3401 supporting the context management protocol.
Nick Coghlanac094dc2008-02-10 07:32:52 +00003402
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003403- Patch #1979: Add rich comparisons to Decimal, and make Decimal
3404 comparisons involving a NaN follow the IEEE 754 standard.
Mark Dickinson2fc92632008-02-06 22:10:50 +00003405
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003406- Issue #2004: tarfile.py: Use mode 0700 for temporary directories and
3407 default permissions for missing directories.
Lars Gustäbel0192e432008-02-05 11:51:40 +00003408
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003409- Issue #175006: The debugger used to skip the condition of a "while"
3410 statement after the first iteration. Now it correctly steps on the
3411 expression, and breakpoints on the "while" statement are honored on
3412 each loop.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc6fd03bb2008-02-04 21:45:05 +00003413
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003414- Issue #1765140: add an optional delay argument to FileHandler and
3415 its subclasses. Defaults to false (existing behaviour), but if true,
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +00003416 defers opening the file until the first call to emit().
3417
Raymond Hettingerc226c312008-01-23 00:04:40 +00003418- The pprint module now supports sets and frozensets.
3419
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003420- Issue #1221598: add optional callbacks to ftplib.FTP's storbinary()
3421 and storlines() methods. (Contributed by Phil Schwartz)
Gregory P. Smithc64386b2008-01-22 00:19:41 +00003422
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003423- Issue #1715: include sub-extension modules in pydoc's text output.
Georg Brandlf2dae0e2008-01-21 21:05:49 +00003424
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003425- Issue #1836: fix an off-by-one bug in TimedRotatingHandler's
3426 rollover time calculation.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00003427
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003428- Issue #1021: fix a bug to allow basicConfig to accept NOTSET as a
3429 level.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00003430
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003431- Issue #932563: add LoggerAdapter convenience class to make it easier
3432 to add contextual information in logging output.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00003433
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003434- Issue #1760556: fix a bug to avoid FileHandler throwing an exception
3435 in flush().
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00003436
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003437- Bug #1530959: distutils' build command now uses different build
3438 directory when building extension modules against versions of Python
3439 compiled with ``--with-pydebug``.
Georg Brandl50160152008-01-21 17:42:40 +00003440
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003441- Issue #1555501: move plistlib from plat-mac directory to general
3442 library.
Georg Brandl864de822008-01-21 16:34:07 +00003443
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003444- Issue #1269: fix a bug in pstats.add_callers() and add a unit test
3445 file for pstats.
Georg Brandl66e73632008-01-21 10:24:59 +00003446
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003447- Issue #1669: don't allow shutil.rmtree() to be called on a symlink
3448 to a directory.
Georg Brandl52353982008-01-20 14:17:42 +00003449
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003450- Issue #1664522: in urllib, don't read non-existing directories in
3451 ftp mode, returning a 0-byte file -- raise an IOError instead.
Georg Brandld5e6cf22008-01-20 12:18:17 +00003452
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003453- Issue #856047: respect the ``no_proxy`` environment variable when
3454 using the ``http_proxy`` etc. environment variables in urllib.
Georg Brandl22350112008-01-20 12:05:43 +00003455
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003456- Issue #1178141: add a getcode() method to the addinfourls that
3457 urllib.open() returns so that you can retrieve the HTTP status code.
Georg Brandl9b0d46d2008-01-20 11:43:03 +00003458
Gregory P. Smithf25680a2008-01-20 01:26:04 +00003459- Issue #1003: Fix zipfile decryption check, it would fail zip files
3460 with extended local headers.
3461
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003462- Issue #1189216: Fix the zipfile module to work on archives with
3463 headers past the 2**31 byte boundary.
Gregory P. Smith350d03b2008-01-19 23:10:52 +00003464
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003465- Issue #1336: fix a race condition in subprocess.Popen if the garbage
Gregory P. Smithb9ba0752008-01-19 21:00:37 +00003466 collector kicked in at the wrong time that would cause the process
3467 to hang when the child wrote to stderr.
3468
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003469- Issue #1146: fix how textwrap breaks a long word that would start in
3470 the last column of a line.
Georg Brandlc6fde722008-01-19 19:48:19 +00003471
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003472- Issue #1693149: trace.py --ignore-module - accept multiple
3473 comma-separated modules to be given.
Skip Montanaro562133b2008-01-19 18:47:24 +00003474
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003475- Issue #1822: MIMEMultipart.is_multipart() behaves correctly for a
3476 just-created (and empty) instance. Thanks Jonathan Share.
Facundo Batista2b1b1952008-01-19 12:32:27 +00003477
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003478- Issue #1861: Added an attribute to the sched module which returns an
3479 ordered list of upcoming events (displayed as named tuples).
Raymond Hettinger44bd6c02008-01-17 19:31:38 +00003480
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003481- Issue #1837: The queue module now also supports a LIFO queue and a
3482 priority queue.
Raymond Hettinger3ad2acc82008-01-16 23:49:35 +00003483
Andrew M. Kuchling4a2762d2008-01-20 00:00:38 +00003484- Patch #1048820: Add insert-mode editing to curses.textpad.Textbox
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00003485 (patch by Stefan Wehr). Also, fix an off-by-one bug in
Andrew M. Kuchling4a2762d2008-01-20 00:00:38 +00003486 Textbox.gather().
3487
Thomas Heller02ec2892008-01-16 19:37:33 +00003488- Issue #1831: ctypes now raises a TypeError if conflicting positional
3489 and named arguments are passed to a Structure or Union initializer.
Thomas Heller415c1e32008-01-16 19:45:51 +00003490 When too many positional arguments are passed, also a TypeError is
3491 raised instead of a ValueError.
Thomas Heller02ec2892008-01-16 19:37:33 +00003492
Thomas Heller902d3072008-01-16 19:16:27 +00003493- Convert the internal ctypes array type cache to a WeakValueDict so
3494 that array types do not live longer than needed.
3495
Guido van Rossumcad37242008-01-15 17:59:29 +00003496- Issue #1786: pdb should use its own stdin/stdout around an exec call
3497 and when creating a recursive instance.
3498
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003499- Issue #1698398: ZipFile.printdir() crashed because the format string
3500 expected a tuple type of length six instead of time.struct_time
3501 object.
Raymond Hettinger351e1a32008-01-14 22:58:05 +00003502
Mark Dickinson59bc20b2008-01-12 01:56:00 +00003503- Issue #1780: The Decimal constructor now accepts arbitrary leading
3504 and trailing whitespace when constructing from a string.
3505 Context.create_decimal no longer accepts trailing newlines.
3506
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003507- Decimal.as_tuple(), difflib.find_longest_match() and inspect
3508 functions that returned a tuple now return a named tuple.
Georg Brandl2f32c392008-01-11 09:20:58 +00003509
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00003510- Doctest now returns results as a named tuple for readability:
Raymond Hettingerfff4e6e2008-01-11 01:25:54 +00003511 (0, 7) --> TestResults(failed=0, attempted=7)
3512
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003513- Issue #846388:q re.match is interruptible now, which is particularly
Facundo Batista4473d222008-01-08 21:10:12 +00003514 good for long regular expression matches.
3515
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003516- Patch #1137: allow setting buffer_size attribute on pyexpat Parser
3517 objects to set the character data buffer size.
Andrew M. Kuchlinge0a49b62008-01-08 14:30:55 +00003518
Facundo Batista52b25792008-01-08 12:25:20 +00003519- Issue #1757: The hash of a Decimal instance is no longer affected by
3520 the current context.
3521
Georg Brandl62416bc2008-01-07 18:47:44 +00003522- Patch #467924: add ZipFile.extract() and ZipFile.extractall() in the
3523 zipfile module.
3524
Christian Heimesfb2d25a2008-01-07 16:12:44 +00003525- Issue #1646: Make socket support the TIPC protocol.
3526
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003527- Bug #1742: return os.curdir from os.path.relpath() if both arguments
3528 are equal instead of raising an exception.
Georg Brandl183a0842008-01-06 14:27:15 +00003529
Guido van Rossumc6a04c22008-01-05 22:19:06 +00003530- Patch #1637: fix urlparse for URLs like 'http://x.com?arg=/foo'.
3531
Guido van Rossumced4eb02008-01-05 01:21:57 +00003532- Patch #1698: allow '@' in username parsed by urlparse.py.
3533
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003534- Issue #1735: TarFile.extractall() now correctly sets directory
3535 permissions and times.
Lars Gustäbel2ee1c762008-01-04 14:00:33 +00003536
Christian Heimes06875612008-01-04 13:21:07 +00003537- Bug #1713: posixpath.ismount() claims symlink to a mountpoint is a mountpoint.
3538
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003539- Bug #1687: Fxed plistlib.py restricts <integer> to Python int when
3540 writing
Christian Heimes06131882008-01-04 00:04:52 +00003541
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003542- Issue #1700: Regular expression inline flags incorrectly handle
3543 certain unicode characters.
Guido van Rossumae04c332008-01-03 19:12:44 +00003544
Jeffrey Yasskin2f3c16b2008-01-03 02:21:52 +00003545- Issue #1689: PEP 3141, numeric abstract base classes.
3546
Martin v. Löwis84b9aab2008-01-01 21:09:07 +00003547- Tk issue #1851526: Return results from Python callbacks to Tcl as
3548 Tcl objects.
3549
Thomas Heller153038e2007-12-18 19:00:34 +00003550- Issue #1642: Fix segfault in ctypes when trying to delete attributes.
3551
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003552- Issue #1727780: Support loading pickles of random.Random objects
3553 created on 32-bit systems on 64-bit systems, and vice versa. As a
3554 consequence of the change, Random pickles created by Python 2.6
3555 cannot be loaded in Python 2.5.
Martin v. Löwis6b449f42007-12-03 19:20:02 +00003556
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003557- Issue #1455: The distutils package now supports VS 2005 and VS 2008
3558 for both the msvccompiler and cygwincompiler.
Christian Heimesc654fc22007-12-03 13:55:16 +00003559
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003560- Issue #1531: tarfile.py: Read fileobj from the current offset, do
3561 not seek to the start.
Lars Gustäbel77b2d632007-12-01 21:02:12 +00003562
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003563- Issue #1534: Added a dictionary sys.float_info with information
3564 about the internal floating point type to the sys module.
Christian Heimesdfdfaab2007-12-01 11:20:10 +00003565
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003566- Issue #1429818: patch for trace and doctest modules so they play
3567 nicely together.
Skip Montanaro58a6f442007-11-24 14:30:47 +00003568
Brett Cannon43e53f82007-11-21 00:47:36 +00003569- doctest made a bad assumption that a package's __loader__.get_data()
3570 method used universal newlines.
3571
Nick Coghlan90b858e2007-11-07 11:57:51 +00003572- Issue #1705170: contextlib.contextmanager was still swallowing
3573 StopIteration in some cases. This should no longer happen.
3574
Thomas Heller486b1b02007-11-02 19:10:24 +00003575- Issue #1292: On alpha, arm, ppc, and s390 linux systems the
3576 --with-system-ffi configure option defaults to "yes".
3577
Hye-Shik Changa838a802007-10-28 11:19:02 +00003578- IN module for FreeBSD 8 is added and preexisting FreeBSD 6 and 7
3579 files are updated.
3580
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003581- Issues #1181, #1287: unsetenv() is now called when the
3582 os.environ.pop() and os.environ.clear() methods are used.
Georg Brandl1a94ec22007-10-24 21:40:38 +00003583
Thomas Heller91ac4222007-10-19 18:11:41 +00003584- ctypes will now work correctly on 32-bit systems when Python is
3585 configured with --with-system-ffi.
3586
Thomas Heller7fee6dd2007-10-11 19:51:32 +00003587- Patch #1203: ctypes now does work on OS X when Python is built with
Georg Brandl1a94ec22007-10-24 21:40:38 +00003588 --disable-toolbox-glue.
Thomas Heller7fee6dd2007-10-11 19:51:32 +00003589
Raymond Hettingera7fc4b12007-10-05 02:47:07 +00003590- collections.deque() now supports a "maxlen" argument.
3591
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003592- itertools.count() is no longer bounded to LONG_MAX. Formerly, it
3593 raised an OverflowError. Now, automatically shifts from ints to
3594 longs.
Raymond Hettinger50e90e22007-10-04 00:20:27 +00003595
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003596- Added itertools.product() which forms the Cartesian product of the
3597 input iterables.
Raymond Hettingerc5705a82008-02-22 19:50:06 +00003598
Raymond Hettinger66f91ea2008-03-05 20:59:58 +00003599- Added itertools.combinations() and itertools.permutations().
Raymond Hettinger93e804d2008-02-26 23:40:50 +00003600
Georg Brandlaff85e22007-09-20 16:06:07 +00003601- Patch #1541463: optimize performance of cgi.FieldStorage operations.
3602
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003603- Decimal is fully updated to the latest Decimal Specification
3604 (v1.66).
Facundo Batistab67da232007-09-17 16:26:50 +00003605
Georg Brandl8fd3ecf2007-09-12 19:00:07 +00003606- Bug #1153: repr.repr() now doesn't require set and dictionary items
3607 to be orderable to properly represent them.
3608
Thomas Heller2825b2e2007-09-07 06:32:17 +00003609- A 'c_longdouble' type was added to the ctypes module.
3610
Martin v. Löwis7dcb83c2007-08-30 19:04:09 +00003611- Bug #1709599: Run test_1565150 only if the file system is NTFS.
3612
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003613- When encountering a password-protected robots.txt file the
3614 RobotFileParser no longer prompts interactively for a username and
3615 password (bug 813986).
Skip Montanaro3e275362007-08-29 01:33:45 +00003616
Lars Gustäbel0f4a14b2007-08-28 12:31:09 +00003617- TarFile.__init__() no longer fails if no name argument is passed and
3618 the fileobj argument has no usable name attribute (e.g. StringIO).
3619
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003620- The functools module now provides 'reduce', for forward
3621 compatibility with Python 3000.
Guido van Rossum95f1a1b2007-08-27 20:52:10 +00003622
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003623- Server-side SSL support and cert verification added, by Bill
3624 Janssen.
Guido van Rossum4f2c3dd2007-08-25 15:08:43 +00003625
Bill Janssenf413fb02007-08-30 18:08:06 +00003626- socket.ssl deprecated; use new ssl module instead.
3627
Georg Brandl8ec57542007-08-24 06:10:01 +00003628- uuid creation is now threadsafe.
3629
Hye-Shik Chang23901042007-08-20 06:49:18 +00003630- EUC-KR codec now handles the cheot-ga-keut composed make-up hangul
3631 syllables.
3632
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003633- GB18030 codec now can encode additional two-byte characters that are
3634 missing in GBK.
Hye-Shik Changf3e93a02007-08-04 04:10:18 +00003635
Walter Dörwald6e390802007-08-17 16:41:28 +00003636- Add new codecs for UTF-32, UTF-32-LE and UTF-32-BE.
3637
Martin v. Löwisf1e0b3f2007-07-28 07:03:05 +00003638- Bug #1704793: Return UTF-16 pair if unicodedata.lookup cannot
3639 represent the result in a single character.
3640
Martin v. Löwisf25e35b2007-07-27 18:28:22 +00003641- Bug #978833: Close https sockets by releasing the _ssl object.
3642
Martin v. Löwis254b8f92007-07-25 16:24:23 +00003643- Change location of the package index to pypi.python.org/pypi
3644
Thomas Hellerfa704c62007-07-13 17:12:23 +00003645- Bug #1701409: Fix a segfault in printing ctypes.c_char_p and
3646 ctypes.c_wchar_p when they point to an invalid location. As a
3647 sideeffect the representation of these instances has changed.
3648
Lars Gustäbel104490e2007-06-18 11:42:11 +00003649- tarfile.py: Added "exclude" keyword argument to TarFile.add().
3650
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003651- Bug #1734723: Fix repr.Repr() so it doesn't ignore the maxtuple
3652 attribute.
Neal Norwitzc161cb92007-06-11 07:29:43 +00003653
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003654- The urlopen function of urllib2 now has an optional timeout
3655 parameter (note that it actually works with HTTP, HTTPS, FTP and
3656 FTPS connections).
Facundo Batista10951d52007-06-06 17:15:23 +00003657
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003658- In ftplib, the FTP.ntransfercmd method, when in passive mode, now
3659 uses the socket.create_connection function, using the timeout
3660 specified at connection time.
Facundo Batista92493122007-06-06 15:13:37 +00003661
Hye-Shik Chang9b541402007-06-05 18:58:51 +00003662- Bug #1728403: Fix a bug that CJKCodecs StreamReader hangs when it
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003663 reads a file that ends with incomplete sequence and sizehint
3664 argument for .read() is specified.
Hye-Shik Chang9b541402007-06-05 18:58:51 +00003665
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003666- Bug #1730389: Change time.strptime() to use ``\s+`` instead of
3667 ``\s*`` when matching spaces in the specified format argument.
Brett Cannonf7188ce2007-06-03 23:13:41 +00003668
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003669- Bugs #1668596/#1720897: distutils now copies data files even if
3670 package_dir is empty.
Neal Norwitz4a700bb2007-06-01 07:29:12 +00003671
Brett Cannonc2aa09a2007-05-31 19:20:00 +00003672- sha now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
3673
Brett Cannon7eec2172007-05-30 22:24:28 +00003674- md5 now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
3675
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003676- Issue #1385: The hmac module now computes the correct hmac when
3677 using hashes with a block size other than 64 bytes (such as sha384
3678 and sha512).
Gregory P. Smithe1ac4f12007-11-06 00:19:03 +00003679
Brett Cannonc249bda2007-05-30 21:48:58 +00003680- mimify now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
3681
Brett Cannon90134c92007-05-30 20:46:26 +00003682- MimeWriter now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
3683
Lars Gustäbela0fcb932007-05-27 19:49:30 +00003684- tarfile.py: Improved unicode support. Unicode input names are now
3685 officially supported. Added "errors" argument to the TarFile class.
3686
Facundo Batista711a54e2007-05-24 17:50:54 +00003687- urllib.ftpwrapper class now accepts an optional timeout.
3688
Georg Brandlc90bc752007-05-24 16:49:29 +00003689- shlex.split() now has an optional "posix" parameter.
3690
Brett Cannon41bf2fa2007-05-20 23:57:38 +00003691- The posixfile module now raises a DeprecationWarning.
3692
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003693- Remove the gopherlib module. This also leads to the removal of
3694 gopher support in urllib/urllib2.
Brett Cannond75f0432007-05-16 22:42:29 +00003695
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003696- Fix bug in marshal where bad data would cause a segfault due to lack
3697 of an infinite recursion check.
Neal Norwitzb1a9b372007-05-16 20:05:11 +00003698
Neal Norwitze0e70a42007-05-16 05:06:33 +00003699- Removed plat-freebsd2 and plat-freebsd3 directories (and IN.py in
3700 the directories).
3701
Georg Brandla09a96a2007-05-15 20:19:34 +00003702- HTML-escape the plain traceback in cgitb's HTML output, to prevent
3703 the traceback inadvertently or maliciously closing the comment and
3704 injecting HTML into the error page.
3705
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003706- The popen2 module and os.popen* are deprecated. Use the subprocess
3707 module.
Neal Norwitz42dd86b2007-05-11 06:57:33 +00003708
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003709- Added an optional credentials argument to SMTPHandler, for use with
3710 SMTP servers which require authentication.
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00003711
3712- Patch #1695948: Added optional timeout parameter to SocketHandler.
3713
3714- Bug #1652788: Minor fix for currentframe.
3715
3716- Patch #1598415: Added WatchedFileHandler to better support external
3717 log file rotation using e.g. newsyslog or logrotate. This handler is
3718 only useful in Unix/Linux environments.
3719
Georg Brandlfb4b3b72007-04-24 15:27:13 +00003720- Bug #1706381: Specifying the SWIG option "-c++" in the setup.py file
3721 (as opposed to the command line) will now write file names ending in
3722 ".cpp" too.
3723
Facundo Batistad918a652007-04-24 13:54:38 +00003724- As specified in RFC 2616, an HTTP response like 2xx indicates that
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003725 the client's request was successfully received, understood, and
3726 accepted. Now in these cases no error is raised in urllib (issue
3727 #1177) and urllib2.
Facundo Batistad918a652007-04-24 13:54:38 +00003728
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003729- Bug #1290505: time.strptime's internal cache of locale information
3730 is now properly recreated when the locale is changed.
Brett Cannonc6906652007-04-01 18:47:27 +00003731
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003732- Patch #1685563: remove (don't add) duplicate paths in
3733 distutils.MSVCCompiler.
Neal Norwitz8f35f442007-04-01 18:24:22 +00003734
Facundo Batistab6a5c9d2007-03-29 18:22:35 +00003735- Added a timeout parameter to the constructor of other protocols
3736 (telnetlib, ftplib, smtplib and poplib). This is second part of the
3737 work started with create_connection() and timeout in httplib, and
3738 closes patch #723312.
3739
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00003740- Patch #1676823: Added create_connection() to socket.py, which may be
3741 called with a timeout, and use it from httplib (whose HTTPConnection
Facundo Batista70f996b2007-05-21 17:32:32 +00003742 and HTTPSConnection now accept an optional timeout).
Facundo Batista07c78be2007-03-23 18:54:07 +00003743
Martin v. Löwis0af33882007-03-23 13:27:15 +00003744- Bug #978833: Revert r50844, as it broke _socketobject.dup.
3745
Žiga Seilnacht7492e422007-03-21 20:07:56 +00003746- Bug #1675967: re patterns pickled with Python 2.4 and earlier can
3747 now be unpickled with Python 2.5 and newer.
3748
Collin Wintera8785cc2007-03-19 18:52:08 +00003749- Patch #1630118: add a SpooledTemporaryFile class to tempfile.py.
3750
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003751- Patch #1273829: os.walk() now has a "followlinks" parameter. If set
3752 to True (which is not the default), it visits symlinks pointing to
Georg Brandlcae9f3d2007-03-21 09:10:29 +00003753 directories.
3754
Georg Brandl8f06d022007-03-16 07:55:09 +00003755- Bug #1681228: the webbrowser module now correctly uses the default
3756 GNOME or KDE browser, depending on whether there is a session of one
3757 of those present. Also, it tries the Windows default browser before
3758 trying Mozilla variants.
3759
Collin Winter6f187742007-03-16 22:16:08 +00003760- Patch #1339796: add a relpath() function to os.path.
3761
Georg Brandlab1f4672007-03-15 07:41:30 +00003762- Patch #1681153: the wave module now closes a file object it opened if
3763 initialization failed.
3764
Georg Brandlf66b6032007-03-14 08:27:52 +00003765- Bug #767111: fix long-standing bug in urllib which caused an
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003766 AttributeError instead of an IOError when the server's response
3767 didn't contain a valid HTTP status line.
Georg Brandlf66b6032007-03-14 08:27:52 +00003768
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003769- Patch #957650: "%var%" environment variable references are now
3770 properly expanded in ntpath.expandvars(), also "~user" home
3771 directory references are recognized and handled on Windows.
Georg Brandl03b90d82007-03-13 22:07:36 +00003772
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003773- Patch #1429539: pdb now correctly initializes the __main__ module
3774 for the debugged script, which means that imports from __main__ work
Georg Brandlb6ae6aa2007-03-13 21:58:44 +00003775 correctly now.
3776
Georg Brandlbad6f192007-03-13 21:32:56 +00003777- The nonobvious commands.getstatus() function is now deprecated.
3778
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003779- Patch #1393667: pdb now has a "run" command which restarts the
3780 debugged Python program, optionally with different arguments.
Georg Brandl8e84c652007-03-13 21:08:15 +00003781
Thomas Heller5dc4fe02007-03-13 20:42:52 +00003782- Patch #1649190: Adding support for _Bool to ctypes as c_bool.
3783
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003784- Patch #1530482: add pydoc.render_doc() which returns the
3785 documentation for a thing instead of paging it to stdout, which
3786 pydoc.doc() does.
Georg Brandl8441f152007-03-13 20:02:57 +00003787
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003788- Patch #1533909: the timeit module now accepts callables in addition
3789 to strings for the code to time and the setup code. Also added two
3790 convenience functions for instantiating a Timer and calling its
3791 methods.
Georg Brandld9bef352007-03-13 19:32:21 +00003792
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003793- Patch #1537850: tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile now has a "delete"
3794 parameter which can be set to False to prevent the default
3795 delete-on-close behavior.
Georg Brandl35ef9c12007-03-13 18:31:49 +00003796
Georg Brandl9e6b4702007-03-13 18:15:41 +00003797- Patch #1581073: add a flag to textwrap that prevents the dropping of
3798 whitespace while wrapping.
3799
Georg Brandl92a6bae2007-03-13 17:43:32 +00003800- Patch #1603688: ConfigParser.SafeConfigParser now checks values that
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003801 are set for invalid interpolation sequences that would lead to
3802 errors on reading back those values.
Georg Brandl92a6bae2007-03-13 17:43:32 +00003803
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003804- Added support for the POSIX.1-2001 (pax) format to
3805 tarfile.py. Extended and cleaned up the test suite. Added a new
3806 testtar.tar.
Lars Gustäbelc64e4022007-03-13 10:47:19 +00003807
Martin v. Löwisbdd0f392007-03-13 10:24:00 +00003808- Patch #1449244: Support Unicode strings in
3809 email.message.Message.{set_charset,get_content_charset}.
3810
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003811- Patch #1542681: add entries for "with", "as" and "CONTEXTMANAGERS"
3812 to pydoc's help keywords.
Georg Brandlb6a87542007-03-13 10:06:48 +00003813
Georg Brandl4ffc8f52007-03-13 09:41:31 +00003814- Patch #1555098: use str.join() instead of repeated string
3815 concatenation in robotparser.
3816
Georg Brandl94fe3f52007-03-13 09:32:11 +00003817- Patch #1635454: the csv.DictWriter class now includes the offending
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003818 field names in its exception message if you try to write a record
3819 with a dictionary containing fields not in the CSV field names list.
Georg Brandl94fe3f52007-03-13 09:32:11 +00003820
Georg Brandlceede5c2007-03-13 08:14:27 +00003821- Patch #1668100: urllib2 now correctly raises URLError instead of
3822 OSError if accessing a local file via the file:// protocol fails.
3823
Martin v. Löwis2681beb2007-03-12 11:01:10 +00003824- Patch #1677862: Require a space or tab after import in .pth files.
3825
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003826- Patch #1192590: Fix pdb's "ignore" and "condition" commands so they
3827 trap the IndexError caused by passing in an invalid breakpoint
3828 number.
Collin Winter2faa9e12007-03-11 16:00:20 +00003829
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003830- Patch #1599845: Add an option to disable the implicit calls to
3831 server_bind() and server_activate() in the constructors for
3832 TCPServer, SimpleXMLRPCServer and DocXMLRPCServer.
Collin Winterae041062007-03-10 14:41:48 +00003833
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003834- Bug #1531963: Make SocketServer.TCPServer's server_address always be
3835 equal to calling getsockname() on the server's socket. Fixed by
Collin Winterfaaa2042007-03-10 03:35:34 +00003836 patch #1545011.
Collin Winter22c42ba2007-03-10 02:51:26 +00003837
Andrew M. Kuchlinge45a77a2008-01-19 16:26:13 +00003838- Patch #742598: Add .timeout attribute to SocketServer that calls
3839 .handle_timeout() when no requests are received.
3840
Thomas Heller2456a3c2007-03-09 20:39:22 +00003841- Bug #1651235: When a tuple was passed to a ctypes function call,
3842 Python would crash instead of raising an error.
3843
Thomas Hellerc2f77252007-03-09 19:21:28 +00003844- Bug #1646630: ctypes.string_at(buf, 0) and ctypes.wstring_at(buf, 0)
3845 returned string up to the first NUL character.
3846
Martin v. Löwis1190a382007-03-09 15:35:55 +00003847- Patch #957003: Implement smtplib.LMTP.
3848
Collin Winterfb728de2007-03-09 03:26:32 +00003849- Patch #1481079: add support for HTTP_REFERER to CGIHTTPServer.
3850
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003851- Patch #1675424: Added tests for uncovered code in the zipfile
3852 module. The KeyError raised by Zipfile.getinfo for nonexistent
3853 names now has a descriptive message.
Georg Brandl4b3ab6f2007-07-12 09:59:22 +00003854
Martin v. Löwis05c075d2007-03-07 11:04:33 +00003855- Bug #1115886: os.path.splitext('.cshrc') gives now ('.cshrc', '').
3856
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003857- unittest now verifies more of its assumptions. In particular,
3858 TestCase and TestSuite subclasses (not instances) are no longer
3859 accepted in TestSuite.addTest(). This should cause no
3860 incompatibility since it never made sense with ordinary subclasses
3861 -- the failure just occurred later, with a more cumbersome
3862 exception.
Georg Brandl9caadf82007-03-08 18:37:31 +00003863
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003864- Patch #787789: allow to pass custom TestRunner instances to
3865 unittest's main() function.
Georg Brandld0a96252007-03-07 09:21:06 +00003866
Georg Brandl15c5ce92007-03-07 09:09:40 +00003867- Patches #1550273, #1550272: fix a few bugs in unittest and add a
3868 comprehensive test suite for the module.
3869
Georg Brandl71ff6462007-03-07 08:31:51 +00003870- Patch #1001604: glob.glob() now returns unicode filenames if it was
3871 given a unicode argument and os.listdir() returns unicode filenames.
3872
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003873- Patch #1673619: setup.py identifies extension modules it doesn't
3874 know how to build and those it knows how to build but that fail to
3875 build.
Skip Montanarod1287322007-03-06 15:41:38 +00003876
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00003877- Patch #912410: Replace HTML entity references for attribute values
Martin v. Löwisab8a6bb2007-03-06 14:43:00 +00003878 in HTMLParser.
3879
Georg Brandlff432e62007-03-06 13:37:45 +00003880- Patch #1663234: you can now run doctest on test files and modules
3881 using "python -m doctest [-v] filename ...".
3882
Martin v. Löwis3eb76482007-03-06 10:41:24 +00003883- Patch #1121142: Implement ZipFile.open.
3884
Skip Montanarof694b1b2007-03-04 20:54:12 +00003885- Taught setup.py how to locate Berkeley DB on Macs using MacPorts.
3886
Raymond Hettinger00166c52007-02-19 04:08:43 +00003887- Added heapq.merge() for merging sorted input streams.
3888
Raymond Hettingercd3c1082007-10-23 21:23:07 +00003889- Added collections.namedtuple() for assigning field names to tuples.
Raymond Hettingerc37e5e02007-03-01 06:16:43 +00003890
Raymond Hettingerd36862c2007-02-21 05:20:38 +00003891- Added itertools.izip_longest().
3892
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003893- Have the encoding package's search function dynamically import using
3894 absolute import semantics.
Brett Cannon971a0122007-02-15 22:54:39 +00003895
Lars Gustäbel5b1a7852007-02-13 16:09:24 +00003896- Patch #1647484: Renamed GzipFile's filename attribute to name.
3897
Martin v. Löwis84f6de92007-02-13 10:10:39 +00003898- Patch #1517891: Mode 'a' for ZipFile now creates the file if it
3899 doesn't exist.
3900
Martin v. Löwisc6d626e2007-02-13 09:49:38 +00003901- Patch #698833: Support file decryption in zipfile.
3902
Martin v. Löwis07aa3ed2007-02-13 08:34:45 +00003903- Patch #685268: Consider a package's __path__ in imputil.
3904
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003905- Patch #1463026: Support default namespace in XMLGenerator.
Martin v. Löwis2bad58f2007-02-12 12:21:10 +00003906
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003907- Patch #1571379: Make trace's --ignore-dir facility work in the face
3908 of relative directory names.
Skip Montanaro691acf22007-02-11 18:24:37 +00003909
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003910- Bug #1600860: Search for shared python library in LIBDIR, not
3911 lib/python/config, on "linux" and "gnu" systems.
Martin v. Löwis0a203262007-02-09 12:36:48 +00003912
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003913- Patch #1652681: tarfile.py: create nonexistent files in append mode
3914 and allow appending to empty files.
Lars Gustäbel3f8aca12007-02-06 18:38:13 +00003915
Peter Astrand5f9c6ae2007-02-06 15:37:50 +00003916- Bug #1124861: Automatically create pipes if GetStdHandle fails in
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00003917 subprocess.
Peter Astrand5f9c6ae2007-02-06 15:37:50 +00003918
Georg Brandl4ba9e5b2007-01-27 17:59:42 +00003919- Patch #1634778: add missing encoding aliases for iso8859_15 and
3920 iso8859_16.
3921
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003922- Patch #1638243: the compiler package is now able to correctly
3923 compile a with statement; previously, executing code containing a
3924 with statement compiled by the compiler package crashed the
3925 interpreter.
Georg Brandlab496842007-01-27 17:43:02 +00003926
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00003927- Bug #1643943: Fix time.strptime's support for the %U directive.
3928
Lars Gustäbel0713a682007-02-19 09:54:47 +00003929- Patch #1507247: tarfile.py: use current umask for intermediate
3930 directories.
3931
Georg Brandldd7b0522007-01-21 10:35:10 +00003932- Patch #1627441: close sockets properly in urllib2.
3933
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003934- Bug #494589: make ntpath.expandvars behave according to its
3935 docstring.
Sjoerd Mullender33a0a062007-01-16 16:42:38 +00003936
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00003937- Changed platform module API python_version_tuple() to actually
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00003938 return a tuple (it used to return a list).
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00003939
3940- Added new platform module APIs python_branch(), python_revision(),
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00003941 python_implementation() and linux_distribution().
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00003942
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00003943- Added support for IronPython and Jython to the platform module.
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00003944
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003945- The sets module has been deprecated. Use the built-in set/frozenset
3946 types instead.
Brett Cannon093b6702007-01-13 00:29:49 +00003947
Thomas Heller6fd45492007-01-12 20:21:53 +00003948- Bug #1610795: make ctypes.util.find_library work on BSD systems.
3949
Thomas Heller8138c262007-01-11 21:18:56 +00003950- Fixes for 64-bit Windows: In ctypes.wintypes, correct the
3951 definitions of HANDLE, WPARAM, LPARAM data types. Make
3952 parameterless foreign function calls work.
3953
Thomas Hellerfb9d7872007-01-10 20:12:13 +00003954- The version number of the ctypes package changed to "1.1.0".
3955
Vinay Sajipab41c102007-01-09 14:51:36 +00003956- Bug #1627575: logging: Added _open() method to FileHandler which can
3957 be used to reopen files. The FileHandler instance now saves the
3958 encoding (which can be None) in an attribute called "encoding".
3959
Vinay Sajipc9137262007-01-08 18:52:36 +00003960- Bug #411881: logging.handlers: bare except clause removed from
3961 SMTPHandler.emit. Now, only ImportError is trapped.
3962
3963- Bug #411881: logging.handlers: bare except clause removed from
3964 SocketHandler.createSocket. Now, only socket.error is trapped.
3965
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003966- Bug #411881: logging: bare except clause removed from
3967 LogRecord.__init__. Now, only ValueError, TypeError and
3968 AttributeError are trapped.
Vinay Sajipc9137262007-01-08 18:52:36 +00003969
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003970- Patch #1504073: Fix tarfile.open() for mode "r" with a fileobj
3971 argument.
Lars Gustäbela7ba6fc2006-12-27 10:30:46 +00003972
Andrew M. Kuchling71662322006-12-27 03:31:24 +00003973- Patch #1182394 from Shane Holloway: speed up HMAC.hexdigest.
3974
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003975- Patch #1262036: Prevent TarFiles from being added to themselves
3976 under certain conditions.
Lars Gustäbela4b23812006-12-23 17:57:23 +00003977
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003978- Patch #1230446: tarfile.py: fix ExFileObject so that read() and
3979 tell() work correctly together with readline().
Lars Gustäbel6baa5022006-12-23 16:40:13 +00003980
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003981- Patch #1484695: The tarfile module now raises a HeaderError
3982 exception if a buffer given to frombuf() is invalid.
Georg Brandlebbeed72006-12-19 22:06:46 +00003983
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00003984- Bug #1503765: Fix a problem in logging.config with spaces in comma-
3985 separated lists read from logging config files.
3986
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003987- Patch #1604907: Fix problems in logging.handlers caused at logging
3988 shutdown when syslog handlers fail to initialize because of syslogd
3989 problems.
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00003990
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003991- Patch #1608267: fix a race condition in os.makedirs() if the
3992 directory to be created is already there.
Georg Brandlb1307432006-12-09 09:08:29 +00003993
Georg Brandl87fa5592006-12-06 22:21:18 +00003994- Patch #1610437: fix a tarfile bug with long filename headers.
3995
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003996- Patch #1371075: Make ConfigParser accept optional dict type for
3997 ordering, sorting, etc.
Martin v. Löwisa00bcac2006-12-03 12:01:53 +00003998
Thomas Helleref583a42006-11-28 20:21:54 +00003999- Bug #1563807: _ctypes built on AIX fails with ld ffi error.
4000
Thomas Heller25d208b2006-11-24 18:45:39 +00004001- Bug #1598620: A ctypes Structure cannot contain itself.
4002
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004003- Patch #1070046: Marshal new-style objects like InstanceType in
4004 xmlrpclib.
Martin v. Löwis07529352006-11-19 18:51:54 +00004005
Martin v. Löwiscffcc8b2006-11-19 10:41:41 +00004006- cStringIO.truncate(-1) now raises an IOError, like StringIO and
4007 regular files.
4008
Martin v. Löwisbba003e2006-11-18 18:42:11 +00004009- Patch #1472877: Fix Tix subwidget name resolution.
4010
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004011- Patch #1594554: Always close a tkSimpleDialog on ok(), even if an
4012 exception occurs.
Martin v. Löwisef5fd3e2006-11-18 18:05:35 +00004013
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004014- Patch #1538878: Don't make tkSimpleDialog dialogs transient if the
4015 parent window is withdrawn.
Martin v. Löwisc73a4a42006-11-18 18:00:23 +00004016
Georg Brandl54082112006-11-16 16:50:59 +00004017- Bug #1597824: return the registered function from atexit.register()
4018 to facilitate usage as a decorator.
4019
Martin v. Löwis45cd4ff2006-11-12 18:56:03 +00004020- Patch #1360200: Use unmangled_version RPM spec field to deal with
4021 file name mangling.
4022
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004023- Patch #1359217: Process 2xx response in an ftplib transfer that
4024 precedes an 1xx response.
Martin v. Löwis36cbc082006-11-12 18:48:13 +00004025
Martin v. Löwis065f0c82006-11-12 10:41:39 +00004026- Patch #1355023: support whence argument for GzipFile.seek.
4027
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00004028- Patch #1065257: Support passing open files as body in
Martin v. Löwis040a9272006-11-12 10:32:47 +00004029 HTTPConnection.request().
4030
Andrew M. Kuchlinga3e5d372006-11-09 13:27:07 +00004031- Bug #1569790: mailbox.py: Maildir.get_folder() and MH.get_folder()
4032 weren't passing the message factory on to newly created Maildir/MH
4033 objects.
4034
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004035- Patch #1514543: mailbox.py: In the Maildir class, report errors if
4036 there's a filename clash instead of possibly losing a message.
4037 (Patch by David Watson.)
Andrew M. Kuchling978d8282006-11-09 21:16:46 +00004038
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004039- Patch #1514544: Try to ensure that messages/indexes have been
4040 physically written to disk after calling .flush() or
4041 .close(). (Patch by David Watson.)
Andrew M. Kuchlingb5686da2006-11-09 13:51:14 +00004042
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00004043- Patch #1592250: Add elide argument to Tkinter.Text.search.
Martin v. Löwis038cad72006-11-09 11:27:32 +00004044
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00004045- Patch #838546: Make terminal become controlling in pty.fork().
Martin v. Löwisb2bba732006-11-09 11:06:03 +00004046
Martin v. Löwis5361e9a2006-11-08 07:35:55 +00004047- Patch #1351744: Add askyesnocancel helper for tkMessageBox.
4048
Martin v. Löwis5310e502006-11-04 18:14:06 +00004049- Patch #1060577: Extract list of RPM files from spec file in
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00004050 bdist_rpm.
Martin v. Löwis5310e502006-11-04 18:14:06 +00004051
Georg Brandl2c9838e2006-10-29 14:39:09 +00004052- Bug #1586613: fix zlib and bz2 codecs' incremental en/decoders.
4053
Georg Brandl3354f282006-10-29 09:16:12 +00004054- Patch #1583880: fix tarfile's problems with long names and posix/
4055 GNU modes.
4056
Georg Brandl5addf702006-10-29 08:53:06 +00004057- Bug #1586448: the compiler module now emits the same bytecode for
4058 list comprehensions as the builtin compiler, using the LIST_APPEND
4059 opcode.
4060
Georg Brandl8f99f812006-10-29 08:39:22 +00004061- Fix codecs.EncodedFile which did not use file_encoding in 2.5.0, and
4062 fix all codecs file wrappers to work correctly with the "with"
4063 statement (bug #1586513).
4064
Thomas Heller112d1a62006-10-27 19:05:53 +00004065- Lib/modulefinder.py now handles absolute and relative imports
4066 correctly.
4067
Martin v. Löwisee82c0e2006-10-27 07:13:28 +00004068- Patch #1567274: Support SMTP over TLS.
4069
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004070- Patch #1560695: Add .note.GNU-stack to ctypes' sysv.S so that ctypes
4071 isn't considered as requiring executable stacks.
Martin v. Löwis1b2f6272006-10-22 10:55:15 +00004072
Thomas Hellerd2ea4a22006-10-17 19:30:48 +00004073- ctypes callback functions only support 'fundamental' data types as
4074 result type. Raise an error when something else is used. This is a
4075 partial fix for Bug #1574584.
4076
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004077- Fix turtle so that time.sleep is imported for the entire library.
4078 Allows the demo2 function to be executed on its own instead of only
4079 when the module is run as a script.
Brett Cannond80e0c82006-10-16 03:09:52 +00004080
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004081- Bug #813342: Start the IDLE subprocess with -Qnew if the parent is
4082 started with that option.
Georg Brandld0761532006-10-12 07:57:21 +00004083
Martin v. Löwisf43893a2006-10-09 20:44:25 +00004084- Bug #1565150: Fix subsecond processing for os.utime on Windows.
4085
Martin v. Löwis8b274262006-10-04 15:25:28 +00004086- Support for MSVC 8 was added to bdist_wininst.
4087
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004088- Bug #1446043: correctly raise a LookupError if an encoding name
4089 given to encodings.search_function() contains a dot.
Georg Brandla92979a2006-09-30 11:22:28 +00004090
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004091- Bug #1560617: in pyclbr, return full module name not only for
4092 classes, but also for functions.
Georg Brandl154324a2006-09-30 11:06:47 +00004093
Georg Brandl05b3c452006-09-30 10:58:01 +00004094- Bug #1457823: cgi.(Sv)FormContentDict's constructor now takes
4095 keep_blank_values and strict_parsing keyword arguments.
4096
Georg Brandl8d1e5bf2006-09-30 09:13:21 +00004097- Bug #1566602: correct failure of posixpath unittest when $HOME ends
4098 with a slash.
4099
Georg Brandl8c667452006-09-30 07:31:57 +00004100- Bug #1565661: in webbrowser, split() the command for the default
4101 GNOME browser in case it is a command with args.
4102
Georg Brandl5a85d5c2009-06-24 06:41:19 +00004103- Made the error message for time.strptime when the data and
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004104 format do match be more clear.
Brett Cannon11b35352006-09-26 23:38:24 +00004105
Georg Brandlc7986ce2006-09-24 12:50:24 +00004106- Fix a bug in traceback.format_exception_only() that led to an error
4107 being raised when print_exc() was called without an exception set.
4108 In version 2.4, this printed "None", restored that behavior.
4109
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004110- Make webbrowser.BackgroundBrowser usable in Windows (it wasn't
4111 because the close_fds arg to subprocess.Popen is not supported).
Georg Brandl2c94bf72006-09-24 10:36:01 +00004112
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004113- Reverted patch #1504333 to sgmllib because it introduced an infinite
4114 loop.
Neal Norwitzbcc119a2006-09-11 04:24:09 +00004115
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004116- Patch #1553314: Fix the inspect.py slowdown that was hurting IPython
4117 & SAGE by adding smarter caching in inspect.getmodule()
Nick Coghlanb3c18f82006-09-08 10:04:38 +00004118
Georg Brandl4e933132006-09-06 20:05:58 +00004119- Fix missing import of the types module in logging.config.
4120
Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +00004121- Patch #1550886: Fix decimal module context management implementation
Neal Norwitza22975f2006-09-05 02:24:03 +00004122 to match the localcontext() example from PEP 343.
Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +00004123
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004124- Bug #1545341: The 'classifier' keyword argument to the Distutils
4125 setup() function now accepts tuples as well as lists.
Andrew M. Kuchling99994792006-10-09 17:10:12 +00004126
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004127- Bug #1541863: uuid.uuid1 failed to generate unique identifiers on
4128 systems with low clock resolution.
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00004129
Gustavo Niemeyerc36bede2006-09-07 00:48:33 +00004130- Bug #1531862: Do not close standard file descriptors in subprocess.
4131
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004132- idle: Honor the "Cancel" action in the save dialog (Debian bug
4133 #299092).
Matthias Klosea398e2d2007-01-11 11:44:04 +00004134
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004135- Fix utf-8-sig incremental decoder, which didn't recognise a BOM when
4136 the first chunk fed to the decoder started with a BOM, but was
4137 longer than 3 bytes.
Georg Brandl27562782006-10-27 20:39:43 +00004138
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004139- The implementation of UnicodeError objects has been simplified
4140 (start and end attributes are now stored directly as Py_ssize_t
4141 members).
Walter Dörwald84a3efe2007-06-13 16:57:12 +00004142
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004143- Issue #829951: In the smtplib module, SMTP.starttls() now complies
4144 with RFC 3207 and forgets any knowledge obtained from the server not
4145 obtained from the TLS negotiation itself. Patch contributed by Bill
4146 Fenner.
Gregory P. Smith2b3ba582008-01-17 08:03:17 +00004147
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004148- Issue #1339: The smtplib.SMTP class has been refactored a bit such
Gregory P. Smithbde4ae42008-01-17 08:35:49 +00004149 that the SMTP.starttls() caller no longer needs to call ehlo()
4150 beforehand. SMTP.starttls() now raises an exception of the server
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004151 does not claim to support starttls. Adds the
4152 SMTP.ehlo_or_helo_if_needed() method. Patch contributed by Bill
4153 Fenner.
Gregory P. Smithbde4ae42008-01-17 08:35:49 +00004154
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004155- Patch #1089358: Add signal.siginterrupt, a wrapper around
4156 siginterrupt(3).
Georg Brandl29604a12008-01-26 14:03:47 +00004157
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00004158Extension Modules
4159-----------------
4160
Georg Brandl392c6fc2008-05-25 07:25:25 +00004161- Patch #1657: added select.epoll and select.kqueue.
Christian Heimes0e9ab5f2008-03-21 23:49:44 +00004162
Georg Brandlebcfd112008-02-23 23:04:35 +00004163- Patch #1506171: added operator.methodcaller().
4164
Georg Brandle2065c62008-02-23 23:02:23 +00004165- Patch #1826: operator.attrgetter() now supports dotted attribute paths.
4166
Georg Brandl392c6fc2008-05-25 07:25:25 +00004167- Patch #1957: syslogmodule: Release GIL when calling syslog(3).
Christian Heimesf0476e82008-02-23 17:42:31 +00004168
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004169- Bug #2112: mmap.error is now a subclass of EnvironmentError and not
4170 a direct EnvironmentError.
Facundo Batistae1396882008-02-17 18:59:29 +00004171
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004172- Bug #2111: mmap segfaults when trying to write a block opened with
4173 PROT_READ.
Christian Heimes7adfad82008-02-15 08:20:11 +00004174
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004175- Bug #2063: correct order of utime and stime in os.times() result on
4176 Windows.
Georg Brandl0a40ffb2008-02-13 07:20:22 +00004177
Martin v. Löwise0d30ef2008-02-12 13:47:26 +00004178- Patch #1736: Fix file name handling of _msi.FCICreate.
4179
Hye-Shik Chang01612e72008-02-08 17:10:20 +00004180- Updated ``big5hkscs`` codec to the HKSCS revision of 2004.
4181
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004182- Issue #1940: make it possible to use curses.filter() before
4183 curses.initscr() as the documentation says.
Georg Brandl29604a12008-01-26 14:03:47 +00004184
Christian Heimes7f39c9f2008-01-25 12:18:43 +00004185- Backport of _fileio module from Python 3.0.
4186
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004187- Patch #1087741: mmap.mmap is now a class, not a factory function. It
4188 is also subclassable now.
Georg Brandl5ca3fd82008-01-21 14:18:14 +00004189
Georg Brandl56112892008-01-20 13:59:46 +00004190- Patch #1648: added ``sys.getprofile()`` and ``sys.gettrace()``.
4191
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004192- Patch #1663329: added ``os.closerange()`` function to quickly close
4193 a range of file descriptors without considering errors.
Georg Brandl309501a2008-01-19 20:22:13 +00004194
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004195- Patch #976880: ``mmap`` objects now have an ``rfind`` method that
Andrew M. Kuchling5c60bfc2008-01-19 18:18:41 +00004196 works as expected. ``mmap.find`` also takes an optional ``end``
4197 parameter.
4198
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004199- _winreg's HKEY object has gained __enter__ and __exit__ methods to
4200 support the context manager protocol. The _winreg module also
4201 gained a new function ``ExpandEnvironmentStrings`` to expand
4202 REG_EXPAND_SZ keys.
Christian Heimesb39a7562008-01-08 15:46:10 +00004203
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004204- itertools.starmap() now accepts any iterable input. Previously, it
4205 required the function inputs to be tuples.
Raymond Hettinger47317092008-01-17 03:02:14 +00004206
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004207- itertools.chain() now has an alternate constructor,
4208 chain.from_iterable().
Raymond Hettingerb4cbc982008-02-28 22:46:41 +00004209
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004210- Issue #1646: Make socket support TIPC. The socket module now has
4211 support for TIPC under Linux, see http://tipc.sf.net/ for more
4212 information.
Christian Heimesfb2d25a2008-01-07 16:12:44 +00004213
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004214- Added interface for Windows' WSAIoctl to socket object and added an
4215 example for a simple network sniffer.
Christian Heimes04ae9162008-01-04 15:23:30 +00004216
Guido van Rossum076d9ee2008-01-03 23:54:04 +00004217- Bug #1301: Bad assert in _tkinter fixed.
4218
Christian Heimescdaa2cb2007-12-31 14:47:07 +00004219- Added bdist_wininst executable for VS 2008.
4220
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004221- Bug #1604: collections.deque.__init__(iterable) now clears any prior
4222 contents before adding elements from the iterable. This fix brings
4223 the behavior into line with that for list.__init__().
Raymond Hettingeradf9ffd2007-12-13 00:08:37 +00004224
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004225- Added wide char functions to msvcrt module: getwch, getwche, putwch
4226 and ungetwch. The functions accept or return unicode.
Christian Heimes7c7f6af2007-12-10 15:12:41 +00004227
Martin v. Löwis69233e82007-12-04 08:39:16 +00004228- os.access now returns True on Windows for any existing directory.
4229
Christian Heimes28104c52007-11-27 23:16:44 +00004230- Added warnpy3k function to the warnings module.
4231
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004232- Marshal.dumps() now expects exact type matches for int, long, float,
4233 complex, tuple, list, dict, set, and frozenset. Formerly, it would
4234 silently miscode subclasses of those types. Now, it raises a
4235 ValueError instead.
Raymond Hettinger12e94202007-11-07 01:13:09 +00004236
Martin v. Löwis58bd49f2007-09-04 13:13:14 +00004237- Patch #1388440: Add set_completion_display_matches_hook and
4238 get_completion_type to readline.
4239
Thomas Helleref4fff32007-07-13 17:46:54 +00004240- Bug #1649098: Avoid declaration of zero-sized array declaration in
4241 structure.
4242
Brett Cannondc48b742007-05-20 07:09:50 +00004243- Removed the rgbimg module; been deprecated since Python 2.5.
4244
Neal Norwitz59f58aa2007-05-19 03:48:47 +00004245- Bug #1721309: prevent bsddb module from freeing random memory.
4246
Gregory P. Smith82eafe62007-10-18 17:17:57 +00004247- Bug #1233: fix bsddb.dbshelve.DBShelf append method to work as
4248 intended for RECNO databases.
4249
Gregory P. Smithec10a4a2007-11-05 02:32:26 +00004250- pybsddb.sf.net Bug #477182: Load the database flags at database open
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004251 time so that opening a database previously created with the DB_DUP
4252 or DB_DUPSORT flag set will keep the proper behavior on subsequent
4253 opens. Specifically: dictionary assignment to a DB object will
4254 replace all values for a given key when the database allows
4255 duplicate values. DB users should use DB.put(k, v) when they want
4256 to store duplicates; not DB[k] = v.
Gregory P. Smithec10a4a2007-11-05 02:32:26 +00004257
Gregory P. Smithac11e022007-11-05 02:56:31 +00004258- Add the bsddb.db.DBEnv.lock_id_free method.
4259
Martin v. Löwis3bf573f2007-04-04 18:30:36 +00004260- Bug #1686475: Support stat'ing open files on Windows again.
4261
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004262- Patch #1185447: binascii.b2a_qp() now correctly quotes binary
4263 characters with ASCII value less than 32. Also, it correctly quotes
4264 dots only if they occur on a single line, as opposed to the previous
4265 behavior of quoting dots if they are the second character of any
4266 line.
Georg Brandl4aef7272007-03-13 22:49:43 +00004267
Georg Brandla47337f2007-03-13 12:34:25 +00004268- Bug #1622896: fix a rare corner case where the bz2 module raised an
4269 error in spite of a succesful compression.
4270
Georg Brandl40c62612007-03-06 18:59:11 +00004271- Patch #1654417: make operator.{get,set,del}slice use the full range
4272 of Py_ssize_t.
4273
Guido van Rossum2054ee92007-03-06 15:50:01 +00004274- Patch #1646728: datetime.fromtimestamp fails with negative
4275 fractional times. With unittest.
4276
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004277- Patch #1490190: posixmodule now includes os.chflags() and
4278 os.lchflags() functions on platforms where the underlying system
4279 calls are available.
Martin v. Löwis382abef2007-02-19 10:55:19 +00004280
Georg Brandl983d1002007-02-15 11:29:04 +00004281- Patch #1494140: Add documentation for the new struct.Struct object.
4282
Martin v. Löwis45423a72007-02-14 10:07:37 +00004283- Patch #1432399: Support the HCI protocol for bluetooth sockets
4284
Martin v. Löwisb1cc1d42007-02-13 12:14:19 +00004285- Patch #1657276: Make NETLINK_DNRTMSG conditional.
4286
Martin v. Löwis4c11a922007-02-08 09:13:36 +00004287- Bug #1653736: Complain about keyword arguments to time.isoformat.
4288
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004289- Bug #1486663: don't reject keyword arguments for subclasses of
4290 builtin types.
Georg Brandlb84c1372007-01-21 10:28:43 +00004291
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004292- Patch #1610575: The struct module now supports the 't' code, for C99
4293 _Bool.
Martin v. Löwisaef4c6b2007-01-21 09:33:07 +00004294
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004295- Patch #1635058: ensure that htonl and friends never accept or return
4296 negative numbers, per the underlying C implementation.
Guido van Rossumbb2cc692007-01-14 17:03:32 +00004297
Martin v. Löwis046c4d12006-12-03 11:23:45 +00004298- Patch #1544279: Improve thread-safety of the socket module by moving
4299 the sock_addr_t storage out of the socket object.
4300
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004301- Patch #1019808: fix bug that causes an incorrect error to be
4302 returned when a socket timeout is set and a connection attempt
4303 fails.
Andrew M. Kuchling060e6852008-01-19 20:47:59 +00004304
Neal Norwitz45e230a2006-11-19 21:26:53 +00004305- Speed up function calls into the math module.
4306
Georg Brandl25aabf42006-11-16 17:08:45 +00004307- Bug #1588217: don't parse "= " as a soft line break in binascii's
4308 a2b_qp() function, instead leave it in the string as quopri.decode()
4309 does.
4310
Neal Norwitz4fe44232006-11-21 05:26:22 +00004311- Bug #1599782: Fix segfault on bsddb.db.DB().type().
4312
Martin v. Löwis012bc722006-10-15 09:43:39 +00004313- Bug #1567666: Emulate GetFileAttributesExA for Win95.
4314
Martin v. Löwis18aaa562006-10-15 08:43:33 +00004315- Patch #1576166: Support os.utime for directories on Windows NT+.
4316
Georg Brandl412a9ea2006-10-09 19:03:06 +00004317- Patch #1572724: fix typo ('=' instead of '==') in _msi.c.
4318
Hye-Shik Changb7883462006-10-08 13:48:34 +00004319- Bug #1572832: fix a bug in ISO-2022 codecs which may cause segfault
4320 when encoding non-BMP unicode characters.
4321
Georg Brandl4ddfcd32006-09-30 11:17:34 +00004322- Bug #1556784: allow format strings longer than 127 characters in
4323 datetime's strftime function.
4324
Jack Diederichd10a0f72006-09-21 20:34:49 +00004325- Fix itertools.count(n) to work with negative numbers again.
4326
Martin v. Löwis43fd99c2006-09-16 17:36:37 +00004327- RLIMIT_SBSIZE was added to the resource module where available.
4328
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004329- Bug #1551427: fix a wrong NULL pointer check in the win32 version of
4330 os.urandom().
Georg Brandl74bb7832006-09-06 06:03:59 +00004331
Neal Norwitz6aefa912006-09-02 02:50:35 +00004332- Bug #1548092: fix curses.tparm seg fault on invalid input.
4333
Andrew M. Kuchling62182c82008-01-08 14:56:02 +00004334- Patch #1114: fix curses module compilation on 64-bit AIX, & possibly
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004335 other 64-bit LP64 platforms where attr_t is not the same size as a
4336 long. (Contributed by Luke Mewburn.)
Andrew M. Kuchling62182c82008-01-08 14:56:02 +00004337
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004338- Bug #1550714: fix SystemError from itertools.tee on negative value
4339 for n.
Neal Norwitz69e88972006-09-02 02:58:13 +00004340
Hye-Shik Chang199f1db2006-09-05 12:07:09 +00004341- Fixed a few bugs on cjkcodecs:
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004342 - gbk and gb18030 codec now handle U+30FB KATAKANA MIDDLE DOT
4343 correctly.
Hye-Shik Chang199f1db2006-09-05 12:07:09 +00004344 - iso2022_jp_2 codec now encodes into G0 for KS X 1001, GB2312
4345 codepoints to conform the standard.
Hye-Shik Chang2cad3e92006-09-05 12:14:57 +00004346 - iso2022_jp_3 and iso2022_jp_2004 codec can encode JIS X 0213:2
Hye-Shik Chang199f1db2006-09-05 12:07:09 +00004347 codepoints now.
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00004348
Andrew M. Kuchling43889c02006-09-27 16:37:30 +00004349- Bug #1552726: in readline.c, avoid repeatedly polling in interactive
4350 mode by only placing a timeout on the select() if an input hook has
4351 been defined. This prevents an interactive Python from waking up 10
4352 times per second. Patch by Richard Boulton.
4353
Gregory P. Smithf09c6262007-03-17 22:33:35 +00004354- fixed a bug with bsddb.DB.stat: the flags and txn keyword arguments
4355 were transposed.
4356
Jesus Cea4907d272008-08-31 14:00:51 +00004357- Added support for linking the bsddb module against BerkeleyDB 4.5.x,
4358 4.6.x and 4.7.x.
Gregory P. Smith8b96a352007-01-05 01:59:42 +00004359
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004360- Bug #1633621: if curses.resizeterm() or curses.resize_term() is
4361 called, update _curses.LINES, _curses.COLS, curses.LINES and
4362 curses.COLS.
Andrew M. Kuchling43889c02006-09-27 16:37:30 +00004363
Matthias Klosee19e0c22007-04-03 04:35:59 +00004364- Fix an off-by-one bug in locale.strxfrm().
4365
Matthias Klose38336402007-09-04 20:46:02 +00004366- Fix libffi configure for hppa*-*-linux* | parisc*-*-linux*.
4367
Matthias Klose9afb9852007-10-24 20:00:44 +00004368- Build using system ffi library on arm*-linux*.
4369
Christian Heimes3f065a42007-11-21 01:17:28 +00004370- Bug #1372: zlibmodule.c: int overflow in PyZlib_decompress
Matthias Klosee19e0c22007-04-03 04:35:59 +00004371
Gregory P. Smitheeed5b72008-02-03 07:20:53 +00004372- bsddb module: Fix memory leak when using database cursors on
4373 databases without a DBEnv.
4374
Gerhard Häring11ab8072008-03-02 13:12:27 +00004375- The sqlite3 module was updated to pysqlite 2.4.1.
4376
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00004377Tests
4378-----
4379
Brett Cannon56c4deb2008-03-03 00:38:58 +00004380- Refactor test_logging to use unittest.
Brett Cannonf9db8a32008-02-17 01:59:18 +00004381
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004382- Refactor test_profile and test_cprofile to use the same code to
4383 profile.
Georg Brandlb7090772008-02-05 19:58:17 +00004384
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004385- Make test_runpy reentrant by fixing _check_module to clear out any
4386 module being tested. Was causing an error by __import__ doing a
4387 reload on the second run and thus suppressing bytecode recreation.
Brett Cannondbed7a72007-08-23 14:53:17 +00004388
Brett Cannonea2835a2007-03-14 21:44:15 +00004389- Capture socket connection resets and timeouts in test_socket_ssl and
4390 test_urllib2net and raise test.test_support.ResourceDenied.
Brett Cannoned001842007-03-14 21:40:13 +00004391
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004392- Patch #1559413: Fix test_cmd_line if sys.executable contains a
4393 space.
Martin v. Löwiscd1210a2007-03-14 20:02:31 +00004394
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004395- Added test.test_support.TransientResource which is a context manager
4396 to surround calls to resources that are not guaranteed to work even
4397 if test.test_support.requires says that the resource should exist.
Brett Cannona30fcb42007-03-08 23:58:11 +00004398
Brett Cannone05e6b02007-01-29 04:41:44 +00004399- Added a test for slicing of an exception.
4400
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004401- Added test.test_support.EnvironmentVarGuard. It's a class that
4402 provides a context manager so that one can temporarily set or unset
4403 environment variables.
Brett Cannon92d54d52007-01-04 00:23:49 +00004404
Thomas Heller112d1a62006-10-27 19:05:53 +00004405- Added some tests for modulefinder.
4406
Brett Cannon373d90b2006-10-03 23:23:14 +00004407- Converted test_imp to use unittest.
4408
Neal Norwitz919d5cc2006-09-05 02:35:08 +00004409- Fix bsddb test_basics.test06_Transactions to check the version
4410 number properly.
4411
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004412- test.test_support.catch_warning is a new context manager that can be
4413 used to catch the warnings issued by the warning framework.
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00004414
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00004415Tools
4416-----
4417
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004418- Tools/scripts/reindent.py now creates the backup file using
4419 shutil.copy to preserve user/group and permissions. Added also a
4420 --nobackup option to not create the backup if the user is concerned
4421 regarding this. Check issue 1050828 for more details.
Facundo Batistaf88a0772008-02-17 16:21:13 +00004422
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004423- Tools/scripts/win_add2path.py was added. The simple script modifes
4424 the PATH environment var of the HKCU tree and adds the python bin
4425 and script directory.
Christian Heimesbd865db2008-01-18 11:58:50 +00004426
Skip Montanaro3e275362007-08-29 01:33:45 +00004427- Tools/18n/pygettext.py was added to the list of scripts installed by
4428 Tools/scripts/setup.py (tracker item 642309).
4429
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004430- Added IronPython and Jython support to pybench (part of which was
4431 patch #1563844).
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00004432
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004433- Made some minor changes to pybench output to allow the user to see
4434 which Python version is running pybench.
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00004435
4436- Added support for the new platform module feature
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004437 platform.python_implementation(); this will now be saved in the
4438 benchmark pickle.
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00004439
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00004440
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00004441Documentation
4442-------------
4443
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +00004444- RFE #1765140: Updated documentation on FileHandler and subclasses to
4445 include new optional delay argument.
4446
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004447- Bug #932563: Added section on getting contextual information into
4448 logging output, and added documentation for the new LoggerAdapter
4449 class.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00004450
4451- Bug #1295: Added information about caching of formatted exception
4452 information in the LogRecord by Formatter.format().
4453
Georg Brandl9467bc52007-07-12 09:37:49 +00004454- Bug #1637365: add subsection about "__name__ == __main__" to the
4455 Python tutorial.
4456
Georg Brandl3dc6e902007-04-25 06:24:59 +00004457- Patch #1698768: updated the "using Python on the Mac" intro.
4458
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004459- Bug #1569057: Document that calling file.next() when the file is
4460 open for writing is undefined.
Brett Cannon55a18642007-04-08 04:29:32 +00004461
Žiga Seilnachtc64ad482007-03-24 14:24:26 +00004462- Patch #1489771: the syntax rules in Python Reference Manual were
4463 updated to reflect the current Python syntax.
4464
Martin v. Löwis2f401d72007-03-23 10:35:49 +00004465- Patch #1686451: Fix return type for
4466 PySequence_{Count,Index,Fast_GET_SIZE}.
4467
Georg Brandl0692a262007-03-13 07:50:57 +00004468- Patch #1679379: add documentation for fnmatch.translate().
4469
Collin Winterb7b2b4e2007-03-09 18:09:10 +00004470- Bug #1629566: clarify the docs on the return values of parsedate()
4471 and parsedate_tz() in email.utils and rfc822.
4472
Georg Brandld28b9fc2007-03-06 10:02:47 +00004473- Patch #1671450: add a section about subclassing builtin types to the
4474 "extending and embedding" tutorial.
4475
Georg Brandlb26b1c62007-01-17 21:19:58 +00004476- Bug #1629125: fix wrong data type (int -> Py_ssize_t) in PyDict_Next
4477 docs.
4478
Georg Brandla4c8e322006-10-12 08:22:53 +00004479- Bug #1565919: document set types in the Language Reference.
4480
Georg Brandl44a7b3a2006-09-30 12:02:57 +00004481- Bug #1546052: clarify that PyString_FromString(AndSize) copies the
4482 string pointed to by its parameter.
4483
Georg Brandlfb257732006-09-30 09:06:45 +00004484- Bug #1566663: remove obsolete example from datetime docs.
4485
Georg Brandl648c1102006-08-18 07:27:59 +00004486- Bug #1541682: Fix example in the "Refcount details" API docs.
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004487 Additionally, remove a faulty example showing PySequence_SetItem
4488 applied to a newly created list object and add notes that this isn't
4489 a good idea.
Georg Brandl648c1102006-08-18 07:27:59 +00004490
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00004491
Georg Brandl27562782006-10-27 20:39:43 +00004492Tools/Demos
4493-----------
4494
4495- Patch #1552024: add decorator support to unparse.py demo script.
Marc-André Lemburg96148682006-09-06 20:40:22 +00004496
Brett Cannonc8939d22006-09-20 19:28:35 +00004497- Make auto-generated python.vim file list built-ins and exceptions in
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004498 alphatbetical order. Makes output more deterministic and easier to
4499 tell if the file is stale or not.
Brett Cannonc8939d22006-09-20 19:28:35 +00004500
Marc-André Lemburg96148682006-09-06 20:40:22 +00004501- Bug #1546372: Fixed small bugglet in pybench that caused a missing
4502 file not to get reported properly.
4503
4504
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00004505Build
4506-----
4507
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004508- Have the search path for building extensions follow the declared
4509 order in $CPPFLAGS and $LDFLAGS when adding directories from those
4510 environment variables.
Brett Cannon70c0c022008-02-03 09:59:21 +00004511
Christian Heimes951cc0f2008-01-31 23:08:23 +00004512- Bug #1983: Added a check to pyport to verify that sizeof(pid_t) is
4513 smaller or equal sizeof(long).
4514
Christian Heimescba36bb2008-01-30 22:54:18 +00004515- Bug #1234: Fixed semaphore errors on AIX 5.2
4516
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004517- Issue #1726: Remove Python/atof.c from PCBuild/pythoncore.vcproj.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00004518
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004519- Removed PCbuild8/ directory and added a new build directory for VS
4520 2005 based on the VS 2008 build directory to PC/VS8.0. The script
4521 PCbuild/vs8to9.py was added to sync changes from PCbuild to
4522 PC/VS8.0.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00004523
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004524- Moved PCbuild/ directory for VS 2003 to PC/VS7.1 and renamed
4525 PCBuild9/ directory to PCBuild/.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00004526
Martin v. Löwiscb78de62007-12-29 18:49:21 +00004527- Bug #1699: Define _BSD_SOURCE only on OpenBSD.
4528
Guido van Rossum7c862f82007-12-13 20:50:10 +00004529- Bug #1608: use -fwrapv when GCC supports it. This is important,
4530 newer GCC versions may optimize away overflow buffer overflow checks
4531 without this option!
4532
Martin v. Löwis63bf1492007-11-12 05:14:05 +00004533- Patch #1418: Make the AC_REPLACE_FUNCS object files actually work.
4534
Raymond Hettingerdc1d1ba2007-11-07 02:45:46 +00004535- Add a FAST_LOOPS build option that speeds-up looping by trading away
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004536 periodic threadstate and signal checking in tight loops. By
4537 default, this option is turned-off. It should only be enabled in
4538 debugged, performance critical applications.
Raymond Hettingerdc1d1ba2007-11-07 02:45:46 +00004539
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004540- Patch #786737: Allow building in a tree of symlinks pointing to a
4541 readonly source.
Martin v. Löwisd44a4e92007-09-05 11:47:34 +00004542
Martin v. Löwis8bc77e42007-09-01 06:36:03 +00004543- Bug #1737210: Change Manufacturer of Windows installer to PSF.
4544
Martin v. Löwis75c23bd2007-08-30 18:25:47 +00004545- Bug #1746880: Correctly install DLLs into system32 folder on Win64.
4546
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004547- Define _BSD_SOURCE, to get access to POSIX extensions on OpenBSD
4548 4.1+.
Martin v. Löwis76760b02007-07-31 19:57:56 +00004549
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004550- Stop supporting AtheOS and cause a build error in configure for the
4551 platform.
Brett Cannon19fab762007-06-02 03:02:29 +00004552
Georg Brandldb846032007-03-31 18:56:11 +00004553- Bug #1655392: don't add -L/usr/lib/pythonX.Y/config to the LDFLAGS
4554 returned by python-config if Python was built with --enable-shared
4555 because that prevented the shared library from being used.
4556
Georg Brandl18c47f62007-03-13 10:19:22 +00004557- Patch #1569798: fix a bug in distutils when building Python from a
4558 directory within sys.exec_prefix.
4559
Martin v. Löwiseb623572007-03-12 10:50:39 +00004560- Bug #1675511: Use -Kpic instead of -xcode=pic32 on Solaris/x86.
4561
Martin v. Löwis4d542ec2006-11-25 15:39:19 +00004562- Disable _XOPEN_SOURCE on NetBSD 1.x.
4563
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004564- configure now checks whether gcc supports the PyArg_ParseTuple
4565 format attribute.
Martin v. Löwisaac13162006-10-19 10:58:46 +00004566
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00004567- Bug #1578513: Cross compilation was broken by a change to configure.
Martin v. Löwisfefbc202006-10-17 18:59:23 +00004568 Repair so that it's back to how it was in 2.4.3.
4569
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004570- Patch #1576954: Update VC6 build directory; remove redundant files
4571 in VC7.
Martin v. Löwisc9e82f62006-10-15 07:54:40 +00004572
Martin v. Löwisebe26702006-10-02 14:55:51 +00004573- Bug #1568842: Fix test for uintptr_t.
4574
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004575- Patch #1540470: for OpenBSD 4.0.
Neal Norwitz4bc2c092006-09-05 02:57:01 +00004576
Matthias Klosed149d0c2006-12-03 17:16:41 +00004577- Fix build failure on kfreebsd and on the hurd.
4578
Matthias Kloseebde1492006-12-09 12:15:27 +00004579- Fix the build of the library reference in info format.
4580
Matthias Kloseeb8ff672007-08-02 21:33:13 +00004581- Allow Emacs 22 for building the documentation in info format.
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00004582
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004583- Makefile.pre.in(buildbottest): Run an optional script
4584 pybuildbot.identify to include some information about the build
4585 environment.
Matthias Klose642ac852007-09-04 18:17:36 +00004586
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00004587
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00004588C API
4589-----
4590
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004591- Unified naming convention for free lists and their limits. All free
4592 lists in Object/ are named ``free_list``, the counter ``numfree``
4593 and the upper limit is a macro ``PyName_MAXFREELIST`` inside an
4594 #ifndef block.
Christian Heimes5b970ad2008-02-06 13:33:44 +00004595
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004596- ``PySet_Add()`` can now modify a newly created frozenset. Similarly
4597 to ``PyTuple_SetItem``, it can be used to populate a brand new
4598 frozenset; but it does not steal a reference to the added item.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arccab3d982008-02-03 22:51:43 +00004599
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00004600- Added ``PySet_Check()`` and ``PyFrozenSet_Check()`` to the set API.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arccab3d982008-02-03 22:51:43 +00004601
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004602- Backport of PyUnicode_FromString(), _FromStringAndSize(), _Format
4603 and _FormatV from Python 3.0. Made PyLong_AsSsize_t and
4604 PyLong_FromSsize_t public functions.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00004605
4606- Patch #1720595: add T_BOOL to the range of structmember types.
4607
4608- Issue #1534: Added ``PyFloat_GetMax()``, ``PyFloat_GetMin()`` and
4609 ``PyFloat_GetInfo()`` to the float API.
4610
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004611- Issue #1521: On 64bit platforms, using PyArgs_ParseTuple with the t#
4612 of w# format code incorrectly truncated the length to an int, even
4613 when PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN is set. The str.decode method used to return
4614 incorrect results with huge strings.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00004615
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004616- Issue #1629: Renamed Py_Size, Py_Type and Py_Refcnt to Py_SIZE,
4617 Py_TYPE and Py_REFCNT.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00004618
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004619- PEP 3123: Provide forward compatibility with Python 3.0, while
4620 keeping backwards compatibility. Add Py_Refcnt, Py_Type, Py_Size,
4621 and PyVarObject_HEAD_INIT.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00004622
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004623- Py_ssize_t fields work in structmember when HAVE_LONG_LONG is not
4624 defined.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00004625
4626- Patch #1733960: Allow T_LONGLONG to accept ints.
4627
4628- T_PYSSIZET can now be used in PyMemberDef lists for Py_ssize_t members.
4629
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00004630- Added a new API function ``PyImport_ImportModuleNoBlock``.
4631
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00004632- Bug #1637022: Prefix AST symbols with _Py_.
4633
4634- Fix some leftovers from the conversion from int to Py_ssize_t
4635 (relevant to strings and sequences of more than 2**31 items).
4636
4637- Make _PyGILState_NoteThreadState() static, it was not used anywhere
4638 outside of pystate.c and should not be necessary.
4639
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004640- ``PyImport_Import`` and ``PyImport_ImportModule`` now always do
4641 absolute imports. In earlier versions they might have used relative
4642 imports under some conditions.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00004643
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004644- Added case insensitive comparison methods ``PyOS_stricmp(char*,
4645 char*)`` and ``PyOS_strnicmp(char*, char*, Py_ssize_t)``.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00004646
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004647- Bug #1542693: remove semi-colon at end of PyImport_ImportModuleEx
4648 macro so it can be used as an expression.
Neal Norwitz8a267062006-08-19 04:25:29 +00004649
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00004650
Martin v. Löwis2607e6c2006-11-21 18:20:25 +00004651Windows
4652-------
4653
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004654- Patch #1706: Drop support for Win9x, WinME and NT4. Python now
4655 requires Windows 2000 or greater. The _WINVER and NTDDI_VERSION
4656 macros are set to Win2k for x86/32bit builds and WinXP for AMD64
4657 builds.
Christian Heimes95d64472008-02-09 19:55:22 +00004658
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004659- Conditionalize definition of _CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE and
4660 _CRT_NONSTDC_NO_DEPRECATE.
Martin v. Löwis2607e6c2006-11-21 18:20:25 +00004661
Martin v. Löwisd476a402007-10-12 08:56:52 +00004662- Bug #1216: Restore support for Visual Studio 2002.
4663
Martin v. Löwis2607e6c2006-11-21 18:20:25 +00004664
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00004665Mac
4666---
4667
Brett Cannonf0cb1d72007-05-31 20:01:11 +00004668- cfmfile now raises a DeprecationWarning.
4669
Brett Cannon791d56f2007-05-31 19:40:42 +00004670- buildtools now raises a DeprecationWarning.
4671
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004672- Removed the macfs module. It had been deprecated since Python 2.5.
4673 This lead to the deprecation of macostools.touched() as it relied
4674 solely on macfs and was a no-op under OS X.
Brett Cannon5e263512007-05-20 23:17:38 +00004675
Skip Montanaroe5d7f7f2002-09-20 14:16:59 +00004676----
4677
4678**(For information about older versions, consult the HISTORY file.)**