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Georg Brandld33a9be2012-07-21 16:48:16 +02001Python News
Skip Montanaroe5d7f7f2002-09-20 14:16:59 +00002+++++++++++
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Benjamin Petersonaec81392013-03-23 15:24:13 -05004What's New in Python 2.7.5?
5===========================
6
7*Release date: XXXX-XX-XX*
8
9Core and Builtins
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11
Raymond Hettinger0801d732013-05-03 00:59:20 -070012- Issue #15535: Fixed regression in the pickling of named tuples by
13 removing the __dict__ property introduced in 2.7.4.
14
Serhiy Storchaka8493a042013-04-28 14:09:47 +030015- Issue #17857: Prevent build failures with pre-3.5.0 versions of sqlite3,
16 such as was shipped with Centos 5 and Mac OS X 10.4.
17
Antoine Pitrou108d1b42013-04-15 21:20:14 +020018- Issue #17703: Fix a regression where an illegal use of Py_DECREF() after
19 interpreter finalization can cause a crash.
20
Mark Dickinsonf794b142013-04-13 15:19:05 +010021- Issue #16447: Fixed potential segmentation fault when setting __name__ on a
22 class.
23
Benjamin Peterson74001fa2013-04-07 09:52:59 -040024- Issue #17610: Don't rely on non-standard behavior of the C qsort() function.
25
Benjamin Petersonaec81392013-03-23 15:24:13 -050026Library
27-------
28
Serhiy Storchakace34ba62013-05-09 14:22:05 +030029- Issue #16601: Restarting iteration over tarfile no more continues from where
30 it left off. Patch by Michael Birtwell.
31
Terry Jan Reedy673770c2013-05-08 23:42:41 -040032- Issue 16584: in filecomp._cmp, catch IOError as well as os.error.
33 Patch by Till Maas.
34
Antoine Pitrou38f1afe2013-05-08 01:51:37 +020035- Issue #17926: Fix dbm.__contains__ on 64-bit big-endian machines.
36
Antoine Pitrouf16ff7b2013-05-06 22:19:48 +020037- Issue #17918: When using SSLSocket.accept(), if the SSL handshake failed
38 on the new socket, the socket would linger indefinitely. Thanks to
39 Peter Saveliev for reporting.
40
Antoine Pitrou31bc8be2013-05-06 21:51:03 +020041- Issue #17289: The readline module now plays nicer with external modules
42 or applications changing the rl_completer_word_break_characters global
43 variable. Initial patch by Bradley Froehle.
44
Charles-Francois Natali880359c2013-05-06 21:21:57 +020045- Issue #12181: select module: Fix struct kevent definition on OpenBSD 64-bit
46 platforms. Patch by Federico Schwindt.
47
Antoine Pitroud8931c32013-05-04 23:16:59 +020048- Issue #14173: Avoid crashing when reading a signal handler during
49 interpreter shutdown.
50
Serhiy Storchaka6aca7652013-05-04 15:11:46 +030051- Issue #16316: mimetypes now recognizes the .xz and .txz (.tar.xz) extensions.
52
Gregory P. Smith4832f342013-04-30 00:56:07 -070053- Issue #17192: Restore the patch for Issue #10309 which was ommitted
54 in 2.7.4 when updating the bundled version of libffi used by ctypes.
55
Nadeem Vawdac1ea5ec2013-04-28 19:01:31 +020056- Issue #17843: Removed test data file that was triggering false-positive virus
57 warnings with certain antivirus software.
58
Ronald Oussoren7b0baf02013-04-23 13:47:06 +020059- Issue #17353: Plistlib emitted empty data tags with deeply nested datastructures
60
Serhiy Storchakad194b302013-04-22 22:51:00 +030061- Issue #11714: Use 'with' statements to assure a Semaphore releases a
62 condition variable. Original patch by Thomas Rachel.
63
Vinay Sajip4dc385b2013-04-22 09:58:51 +010064- Issue #17795: Reverted backwards-incompatible change in SysLogHandler with
65 Unix domain sockets.
66
Richard Oudkerk7bdd93c2013-04-17 19:15:52 +010067- Issue #17555: Fix ForkAwareThreadLock so that size of after fork
68 registry does not grow exponentially with generation of process.
69
Antoine Pitroube929712013-04-15 21:35:25 +020070- Issue #17710: Fix cPickle raising a SystemError on bogus input.
71
R David Murray60773392013-04-14 13:08:50 -040072- Issue #17341: Include the invalid name in the error messages from re about
73 invalid group names.
74
Serhiy Storchaka616f2fe2013-04-13 21:15:10 +030075- Issue #17016: Get rid of possible pointer wraparounds and integer overflows
76 in the re module. Patch by Nickolai Zeldovich.
77
doko@ubuntu.com66da7c52013-04-13 17:05:11 +020078- Issue #17536: Add to webbrowser's browser list: xdg-open, gvfs-open,
79 www-browser, x-www-browser, chromium browsers, iceweasel, iceape.
80
Serhiy Storchaka6fa83f92013-04-13 12:28:17 +030081- Issue #17656: Fix extraction of zip files with unicode member paths.
82
Serhiy Storchaka371432b2013-04-08 22:33:55 +030083- Issue #17666: Fix reading gzip files with an extra field.
84
doko@ubuntu.com6cb43432013-04-08 21:20:09 +020085- Issue #13150, #17512: sysconfig no longer parses the Makefile and config.h
86 files when imported, instead doing it at build time. This makes importing
87 sysconfig faster and reduces Python startup time by 20%.
88
R David Murrayc993a192013-04-02 12:15:07 -040089- Issue #13163: Rename operands in smtplib.SMTP._get_socket to correct names;
90 fixes otherwise misleading output in tracebacks and when when debug is on.
91
Ezio Melottie66e7de2013-03-30 05:10:28 +020092- Issue #17526: fix an IndexError raised while passing code without filename to
93 inspect.findsource(). Initial patch by Tyler Doyle.
94
Antoine Pitrou4ccdc962013-05-08 03:23:10 +020095Build
96-----
97
Benjamin Petersonc8759662013-05-11 13:00:05 -050098- Issue #17547: In configure, explicitly pass -Wformat for the benefit for GCC
99 4.8.
100
Antoine Pitrou4ccdc962013-05-08 03:23:10 +0200101- Issue #17682: Add the _io module to Modules/Setup.dist (commented out).
102
103- Issue #17086: Search the include and library directories provided by the
104 compiler.
105
R David Murray5cbff512013-04-21 10:13:43 -0400106Tests
107-----
108
Antoine Pitrou1e181022013-05-08 02:07:13 +0200109- Issue #17928: Fix test_structmembers on 64-bit big-endian machines.
110
Ezio Melotti6a4f3942013-05-05 22:36:09 +0300111- Issue #17883: Fix buildbot testing of Tkinter on Windows.
112 Patch by Zachary Ware.
113
Ezio Melotti5cea09d2013-05-04 17:59:03 +0300114- Issue #7855: Add tests for ctypes/winreg for issues found in IronPython.
115 Initial patch by Dino Viehland.
116
Antoine Pitroub996e042013-05-01 00:15:44 +0200117- Issue #17712: Fix test_gdb failures on Ubuntu 13.04.
118
R David Murray5cbff512013-04-21 10:13:43 -0400119- Issue #17065: Use process-unique key for winreg tests to avoid failures if
120 test is run multiple times in parallel (eg: on a buildbot host).
121
Benjamin Peterson89e2aed2013-04-06 15:19:04 -0400122IDLE
123----
124
Roger Serwy90f8b232013-04-17 00:22:50 -0500125- Issue #14735: Update IDLE docs to omit "Control-z on Windows".
126
Roger Serwy53dc4f02013-04-11 19:13:21 -0500127- Issue #17585: Fixed IDLE regression. Now closes when using exit() or quit().
128
Roger Serwy789299f2013-04-08 20:57:13 -0500129- Issue #17657: Show full Tk version in IDLE's about dialog.
130 Patch by Todd Rovito.
131
Roger Serwy4e9a7052013-04-07 12:41:16 -0500132- Issue #17613: Prevent traceback when removing syntax colorizer in IDLE.
133
Roger Serwy231a8fd2013-04-07 12:15:52 -0500134- Issue #1207589: Backwards-compatibility patch for right-click menu in IDLE.
135
Roger Serwy75b249c2013-04-06 20:26:53 -0500136- Issue #16887: IDLE now accepts Cancel in tabify/untabify dialog box.
137
Benjamin Peterson89e2aed2013-04-06 15:19:04 -0400138- Issue #14254: IDLE now handles readline correctly across shell restarts.
139
140- Issue #17614: IDLE no longer raises exception when quickly closing a file.
141
142- Issue #6698: IDLE now opens just an editor window when configured to do so.
143
Roger Serwy08759c72013-04-06 20:21:21 -0500144- Issue #8900: Using keyboard shortcuts in IDLE to open a file no longer
145 raises an exception.
146
147- Issue #6649: Fixed missing exit status in IDLE. Patch by Guilherme Polo.
148
Terry Jan Reedy6e65e992013-04-03 13:24:26 -0400149Documentation
150-------------
151
152- Issue #15940: Specify effect of locale on time functions.
153
Ezio Melotti0ba584c2013-04-12 16:22:24 +0300154- Issue #6696: add documentation for the Profile objects, and improve
155 profile/cProfile docs. Patch by Tom Pinckney.
156
Benjamin Petersonaec81392013-03-23 15:24:13 -0500157
Benjamin Peterson31289232013-03-23 15:22:20 -0500158What's New in Python 2.7.4?
159===========================
160
Benjamin Peterson376dd0e2013-04-06 09:58:51 -0400161*Release date: 2013-04-06*
Benjamin Peterson31289232013-03-23 15:22:20 -0500162
Benjamin Petersonb9be7bb2013-03-26 08:55:37 -0400163Build
164-----
165
166- Issue #17550: Fix the --enable-profiling configure switch.
167
Benjamin Petersonda2c7eb2013-03-23 22:32:00 -0500168Core and Builtins
169-----------------
170
171- Issue #15801 (again): With string % formatting, relax the type check for a
172 mapping such that any type with a __getitem__ can be used on the right hand
173 side.
174
Serhiy Storchakaff99e412013-04-14 18:52:15 +0300175IDLE
176----
Benjamin Peterson31289232013-03-23 15:22:20 -0500177
Benjamin Peterson167a96c2013-04-03 22:35:12 -0400178- Issue #17625: In IDLE, close the replace dialog after it is used.
179
Serhiy Storchakaff99e412013-04-14 18:52:15 +0300180Tests
181-----
182
Antoine Pitrou68915d72013-04-24 23:31:38 +0200183- Issue #17835: Fix test_io when the default OS pipe buffer size is larger
184 than one million bytes.
185
Benjamin Peterson01d9a772013-03-23 15:40:36 -0500186- Issue #17531: Fix tests that thought group and user ids were always the int
Benjamin Peterson7e2f1972013-03-23 16:35:45 -0500187 type. Also, always allow -1 as a valid group and user id.
Benjamin Peterson31289232013-03-23 15:22:20 -0500188
Benjamin Petersond627e122013-03-30 10:36:31 -0400189- Issue #17533: Fix test_xpickle with older versions of Python 2.5.
190
Christian Heimes23790b42013-03-26 17:53:05 +0100191Documentation
192-------------
193
194- Issue 17538: Document XML vulnerabilties
195
Benjamin Peterson31289232013-03-23 15:22:20 -0500196
Benjamin Petersona1f6fab2013-03-23 10:17:29 -0500197What's New in Python 2.7.4 release candidate 1
198==============================================
Victor Stinner08563d92011-05-30 23:44:13 +0200199
Benjamin Petersona1f6fab2013-03-23 10:17:29 -0500200*Release date: 2013-03-23*
Victor Stinner08563d92011-05-30 23:44:13 +0200201
202Core and Builtins
203-----------------
204
Kristján Valur Jónsson9795ca42013-03-19 17:17:47 -0700205- Issue #10211: Buffer objects expose the new buffer interface internally
206
Mark Dickinson7cac1c22013-03-03 11:13:34 +0000207- Issue #16445: Fixed potential segmentation fault when deleting an exception
208 message.
209
R David Murray5b2cf5e2013-02-23 22:11:21 -0500210- Issue #17275: Corrected class name in init error messages of the C version of
211 BufferedWriter and BufferedRandom.
212
R David Murray5aff27a2013-02-18 22:04:59 -0500213- Issue #7963: Fixed misleading error message that issued when object is
214 called without arguments.
215
Serhiy Storchaka34fe1b72013-02-13 12:07:43 +0200216- Issue #5308: Raise ValueError when marshalling too large object (a sequence
217 with size >= 2**31), instead of producing illegal marshal data.
218
Serhiy Storchakad5327d92013-02-07 16:23:11 +0200219- Issue #17043: The unicode-internal decoder no longer read past the end of
220 input buffer.
221
Serhiy Storchaka64cca122013-01-29 12:04:55 +0200222- Issue #16979: Fix error handling bugs in the unicode-escape-decode decoder.
223
Serhiy Storchakac59c85c2013-01-26 12:13:40 +0200224- Issue #10156: In the interpreter's initialization phase, unicode globals
225 are now initialized dynamically as needed.
226
Serhiy Storchaka01b3a082013-01-25 23:30:50 +0200227- Issue #16975: Fix error handling bug in the escape-decode decoder.
228
Ezio Melotti302ad8d2013-01-19 19:44:58 +0200229- Issue #14850: Now a charmap decoder treats U+FFFE as "undefined mapping"
230 in any mapping, not only in a Unicode string.
Serhiy Storchaka95997452013-01-15 14:42:59 +0200231
Serhiy Storchakac4b82c02013-01-08 23:12:00 +0200232- Issue #11461: Fix the incremental UTF-16 decoder. Original patch by
233 Amaury Forgeot d'Arc.
234
Victor Stinner23a32ba2013-01-03 03:33:21 +0100235- Issue #16367: Fix FileIO.readall() on Windows for files larger than 2 GB.
236
Benjamin Petersona708adf2013-01-02 12:21:32 -0600237- Issue #15516: Fix a bug in PyString_FromFormat where it failed to properly
238 ignore errors from a __int__() method.
239
Benjamin Peterson6b3f8d32013-01-02 09:36:23 -0600240- Issue #16839: Fix a segfault when calling unicode() on a classic class early
241 in interpreter initialization.
242
Serhiy Storchakacf095f82012-12-28 09:31:59 +0200243- Issue #16761: Calling ``int()`` and ``long()`` with *base* argument only
244 now raises TypeError.
245
Brian Curtin33e05e72012-12-27 14:37:06 -0600246- Issue #16759: Support the full DWORD (unsigned long) range in Reg2Py
Ezio Melotti302ad8d2013-01-19 19:44:58 +0200247 when retrieving a REG_DWORD value. This corrects functions like
Brian Curtin33e05e72012-12-27 14:37:06 -0600248 winreg.QueryValueEx that may have been returning truncated values.
249
Brian Curtin0e091b02012-12-27 12:28:51 -0600250- Issue #14420: Support the full DWORD (unsigned long) range in Py2Reg
251 when passed a REG_DWORD value. Fixes ValueError in winreg.SetValueEx when
252 given a long.
253
Mark Dickinson9fade762012-12-24 16:33:18 +0000254- Issue #13863: Work around buggy 'fstat' implementation on Windows / NTFS that
255 lead to incorrect timestamps (off by one hour) being stored in .pyc files on
256 some systems.
257
Antoine Pitroud38c9902012-12-08 21:15:26 +0100258- Issue #16602: When a weakref's target was part of a long deallocation
259 chain, the object could remain reachable through its weakref even though
260 its refcount had dropped to zero.
261
Mark Dickinsonb1cc6aa2012-11-25 17:11:33 +0000262- Issue #9011: Fix hacky AST code that modified the CST when compiling
263 a negated numeric literal.
264
Ezio Melottidb5947f2012-11-18 13:46:38 +0200265- Issue #16306: Fix multiple error messages when unknown command line
266 parameters where passed to the interpreter. Patch by Hieu Nguyen.
267
Antoine Pitroue3ae3212012-11-17 21:14:58 +0100268- Issue #15379: Fix passing of non-BMP characters as integers for the charmap
269 decoder (already working as unicode strings). Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
270
Antoine Pitroub704eab2012-11-11 19:36:51 +0100271- Issue #16453: Fix equality testing of dead weakref objects.
272
Gregory P. Smithc1ce93a2012-11-10 20:38:17 -0800273- Issue #9535: Fix pending signals that have been received but not yet
274 handled by Python to not persist after os.fork() in the child process.
275
Hynek Schlawackb271b3e2012-11-07 09:41:28 +0100276- Issue #15001: fix segfault on "del sys.modules['__main__']". Patch by Victor
277 Stinner.
278
Ezio Melotti751a50f2012-11-05 00:06:50 +0200279- Issue #5057: the peepholer no longer optimizes subscription on unicode
Ezio Melottic18cc0e2012-11-05 00:03:21 +0200280 literals (e.g. u'foo'[0]) in order to produce compatible pyc files between
281 narrow and wide builds.
282
Ezio Melotti67dc4a82012-11-03 21:10:45 +0200283- Issue #8401: assigning an int to a bytearray slice (e.g. b[3:4] = 5) now
284 raises an error.
285
Mark Dickinson75d36002012-10-28 10:00:46 +0000286- Issue #14700: Fix buggy overflow checks for large width and precision
287 in string formatting operations.
288
Benjamin Peterson0ec820f2012-10-31 14:05:55 -0400289- Issue #16345: Fix an infinite loop when ``fromkeys`` on a dict subclass
Benjamin Petersonc40ddae2012-10-31 14:16:09 -0400290 received a nonempty dict from the constructor.
Benjamin Peterson0ec820f2012-10-31 14:05:55 -0400291
Nick Coghlanb48c0282012-10-19 21:58:18 +1000292- Issue #6074: Ensure cached bytecode files can always be updated by the
293 user that created them, even when the source file is read-only.
294
Chris Jerdonekad4b0002012-10-07 20:37:54 -0700295- Issue #14783: Improve int() and long() docstrings and switch docstrings for
296 unicode(), slice(), range(), and xrange() to use multi-line signatures.
297
Mark Dickinson218a8ab2012-09-28 20:36:36 +0100298- Issue #16030: Fix overflow bug in computing the `repr` of an xrange object
299 with large start, step or length.
300
301- Issue #16029: Fix overflow bug occurring when pickling xranges with large
302 start, step or length.
303
Christian Heimes671138f2012-09-25 13:29:30 +0200304- Issue #16037: Limit httplib's _read_status() function to work around broken
305 HTTP servers and reduce memory usage. It's actually a backport of a Python
306 3.2 fix. Thanks to Adrien Kunysz.
307
Jesus Cea7ddd9c22012-12-05 14:41:11 +0100308- Issue #16588: Silence unused-but-set warnings in Python/thread_pthread
309
Antoine Pitrou58098a72012-09-06 00:59:49 +0200310- Issue #13992: The trashcan mechanism is now thread-safe. This eliminates
311 sporadic crashes in multi-thread programs when several long deallocator
312 chains ran concurrently and involved subclasses of built-in container
313 types.
314
Benjamin Peterson23d49d32012-08-28 17:55:35 -0400315- Issue #15801: Make sure mappings passed to '%' formatting are actually
316 subscriptable.
317
Antoine Pitrouc5bef752012-08-15 23:16:51 +0200318- Issue #15604: Update uses of PyObject_IsTrue() to check for and handle
319 errors correctly. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
320
Antoine Pitrou715a63b2012-07-21 00:52:06 +0200321- Issue #14579: Fix error handling bug in the utf-16 decoder. Patch by
322 Serhiy Storchaka.
323
Meador Inge6642d1f2012-07-18 14:09:04 -0500324- Issue #15368: An issue that caused bytecode generation to be
325 non-deterministic when using randomized hashing (-R) has been fixed.
326
Jesus Ceae884be62012-10-03 02:13:05 +0200327- Issue #15897: zipimport.c doesn't check return value of fseek().
328 Patch by Felipe Cruz.
329
Jesus Ceabdf1b9e2012-10-31 17:00:19 +0100330- Issue #16369: Global PyTypeObjects not initialized with PyType_Ready(...).
331
Ezio Melotti50bc66a2012-11-03 21:29:08 +0200332- Issue #15033: Fix the exit status bug when modules invoked using -m switch,
Senthil Kumaran3b30b192012-07-04 19:50:29 -0700333 return the proper failure return value (1). Patch contributed by Jeff Knupp.
334
Gregory P. Smithb2ac4d62012-06-25 20:57:36 -0700335- Issue #12268: File readline, readlines and read() methods no longer lose
336 data when an underlying read system call is interrupted. IOError is no
337 longer raised due to a read system call returning EINTR from within these
338 methods.
339
Éric Araujoe5567cc2012-07-03 01:23:46 -0400340- Issue #13512: Create ~/.pypirc securely (CVE-2011-4944). Initial patch by
341 Philip Jenvey, tested by Mageia and Debian.
342
Éric Araujo3cf202e2012-07-03 01:12:42 -0400343- Issue #7719: Make distutils ignore ``.nfs*`` files instead of choking later
344 on. Initial patch by SilentGhost and Jeff Ramnani.
345
Hynek Schlawack9bd4bf22012-06-21 19:45:19 +0200346- Issue #10053: Don't close FDs when FileIO.__init__ fails. Loosely based on
347 the work by Hirokazu Yamamoto.
348
Antoine Pitrouff0e22b2012-05-28 22:22:34 +0200349- Issue #14775: Fix a potential quadratic dict build-up due to the garbage
350 collector repeatedly trying to untrack dicts.
351
Petri Lehtinen5f397062012-05-19 18:34:06 +0300352- Issue #14494: Fix __future__.py and its documentation to note that
353 absolute imports are the default behavior in 3.0 instead of 2.7.
354 Patch by Sven Marnach.
355
Antoine Pitrou284fa082012-05-09 13:24:31 +0200356- Issue #14761: Fix potential leak on an error case in the import machinery.
357
Benjamin Peterson042c47b2012-05-01 09:51:09 -0400358- Issue #14699: Fix calling the classmethod descriptor directly.
359
Benjamin Petersond157a4c2012-04-24 11:06:25 -0400360- Issue #11603 (again): Setting __repr__ to __str__ now raises a RuntimeError
361 when repr() or str() is called on such an object.
362
363- Issue #14658: Fix binding a special method to a builtin implementation of a
364 special method with a different name.
365
Benjamin Peterson76605552012-04-18 11:14:31 -0400366- Issue #14612: Fix jumping around with blocks by setting f_lineno.
367
Mark Dickinson9c0baf72012-04-15 15:19:06 +0100368- Issue #13889: Check and (if necessary) set FPU control word before calling
369 any of the dtoa.c string <-> float conversion functions, on MSVC builds of
370 Python. This fixes issues when embedding Python in a Delphi app.
371
Antoine Pitrou02a38012012-04-05 14:07:52 +0200372- Issue #14505: Fix file descriptor leak when deallocating file objects
373 created with PyFile_FromString().
374
Benjamin Petersonf73813a2012-04-02 11:15:17 -0400375- Issue #14474: Save and restore exception state in thread.start_new_thread()
376 while writing error message if the thread leaves a unhandled exception.
377
Antoine Pitroufe941772012-04-01 16:05:46 +0200378- Issue #13019: Fix potential reference leaks in bytearray.extend(). Patch
379 by Suman Saha.
380
Benjamin Petersoneff19a12012-03-22 08:19:04 -0400381- Issue #14378: Fix compiling ast.ImportFrom nodes with a "__future__" string as
382 the module name that was not interned.
383
Gregory P. Smithfcdf04b2012-03-18 16:07:10 -0700384- Issue #14331: Use significantly less stack space when importing modules by
385 allocating path buffers on the heap instead of the stack.
386
Benjamin Peterson6e7832b2012-03-16 09:32:59 -0500387- Issue #14334: Prevent in a segfault in type.__getattribute__ when it was not
Benjamin Petersondbc52f82012-03-16 10:58:46 -0500388 passed strings. Also fix segfaults in the __getattribute__ and __setattr__
389 methods of old-style classes.
Benjamin Peterson6e7832b2012-03-16 09:32:59 -0500390
Ezio Melotti11f8b682012-03-12 01:17:02 +0200391- Issue #14161: fix the __repr__ of file objects to escape the file name.
392
Benjamin Petersona8d45852012-03-07 18:41:11 -0600393- Issue #1469629: Allow cycles through an object's __dict__ slot to be
394 collected. (For example if ``x.__dict__ is x``).
395
Antoine Pitrou6a1cd1b2012-02-27 00:45:12 +0100396- Issue #13521: dict.setdefault() now does only one lookup for the given key,
397 making it "atomic" for many purposes. Patch by Filip Gruszczyński.
398
Ronald Oussoren1c60c7a2013-01-25 17:55:39 +0100399- Issue #1602133: on Mac OS X a shared library build (``--enable-shared``)
400 now fills the ``os.environ`` variable correctly.
401
krisvale479c8f82012-03-22 20:17:42 +0000402- Issue #10538: When using the "s*" code with PyArg_ParseTuple() to fill a
403 Py_buffer structure with data from an object supporting only the old
404 PyBuffer interface, a reference to the source objects is now properly added
405 to the Py_buffer.obj member.
406
Benjamin Petersona84f4682012-03-07 19:17:57 -0600407Library
408-------
409
Vinay Sajip1e76e862013-03-25 23:37:41 +0000410- Issue #12718: Fix interaction with winpdb overriding __import__ by setting
411 importer attribute on BaseConfigurator instance.
Serhiy Storchakaff99e412013-04-14 18:52:15 +0300412
Vinay Sajipbb2dad82013-03-23 11:18:10 +0000413- Issue #17521: Corrected non-enabling of logger following two calls to
414 fileConfig().
415
Vinay Sajip0e29f222013-03-23 10:56:39 +0000416- Issue #17508: Corrected MemoryHandler configuration in dictConfig() where
417 the target handler wasn't configured first.
418
Kristján Valur Jónsson9795ca42013-03-19 17:17:47 -0700419- Issue #10212: cStringIO and struct.unpack support new buffer objects.
420
Kristján Valur Jónsson8927e8f2013-03-19 15:07:35 -0700421- Issue #12098: multiprocessing on Windows now starts child processes
422 using the same sys.flags as the current process. Initial patch by
423 Sergey Mezentsev.
424
R David Murraya39c47a2013-03-19 16:26:53 -0400425- Issue #8862: Fixed curses cleanup when getkey is interrputed by a signal.
426
Kristján Valur Jónsson6ebc8f32013-03-19 10:58:59 -0700427- Issue #9090: When a socket with a timeout fails with EWOULDBLOCK or EAGAIN,
428 retry the select() loop instead of bailing out. This is because select()
429 can incorrectly report a socket as ready for reading (for example, if it
430 received some data with an invalid checksum).
431
Serhiy Storchaka923baea2013-03-14 21:31:09 +0200432- Issue #1285086: Get rid of the refcounting hack and speed up urllib.unquote().
433
Ezio Melottifda7a8c2013-03-13 01:49:57 +0200434- Issue #17368: Fix an off-by-one error in the Python JSON decoder that caused
435 a failure while decoding empty object literals when object_pairs_hook was
436 specified.
437
Antoine Pitrou49e4dfe2013-03-04 20:30:01 +0100438- Issue #17278: Fix a crash in heapq.heappush() and heapq.heappop() when
439 the list is being resized concurrently.
440
Richard Oudkerkba482642013-02-26 12:37:07 +0000441- Issue #17018: Make Process.join() retry if os.waitpid() fails with EINTR.
442
Petri Lehtinen9e147552013-02-23 19:05:09 +0100443- Issue #14720: sqlite3: Convert datetime microseconds correctly.
444 Patch by Lowe Thiderman.
445
Serhiy Storchaka49d40222013-02-21 20:17:54 +0200446- Issue #17225: JSON decoder now counts columns in the first line starting
447 with 1, as in other lines.
448
R David Murrayc32b6782013-02-19 20:00:11 -0500449- Issue #7842: backported fix for py_compile.compile() syntax error handling.
450
Serhiy Storchaka46764482013-02-18 13:00:08 +0200451- Issue #13153: Tkinter functions now raise TclError instead of ValueError when
452 a unicode argument contains non-BMP character.
453
Serhiy Storchaka6a8e2b42013-02-16 21:23:01 +0200454- Issue #9669: Protect re against infinite loops on zero-width matching in
455 non-greedy repeat. Patch by Matthew Barnett.
456
Serhiy Storchakae18e05c2013-02-16 16:47:15 +0200457- Issue #13169: The maximal repetition number in a regular expression has been
458 increased from 65534 to 2147483647 (on 32-bit platform) or 4294967294 (on
459 64-bit).
460
Richard Oudkerkf4b65602013-02-13 15:17:47 +0000461- Issue #16743: Fix mmap overflow check on 32 bit Windows.
462
Serhiy Storchaka8d7d6bc2013-02-13 12:26:58 +0200463- Issue #11311: StringIO.readline(0) now returns an empty string as all other
464 file-like objects.
465
Serhiy Storchaka0127de02013-02-13 00:34:46 +0200466- Issue #16800: tempfile.gettempdir() no longer left temporary files when
467 the disk is full. Original patch by Amir Szekely.
468
Serhiy Storchakacdc7a912013-02-12 21:36:47 +0200469- Issue #13555: cPickle now supports files larger than 2 GiB.
470
Michael Foordc36bf992013-02-11 12:53:21 +0000471- Issue #17052: unittest discovery should use self.testLoader.
Michael Foordcb66ee72013-02-10 23:59:46 +0000472
Serhiy Storchakada5c2a02013-02-12 09:27:53 +0200473- Issue #4591: Uid and gid values larger than 2**31 are supported now.
474
Serhiy Storchaka65d56392013-02-10 19:27:37 +0200475- Issue #17141: random.vonmisesvariate() no more hangs for large kappas.
476
Mark Dickinson9aaeb5e2013-02-10 14:13:40 +0000477- Issue #17149: Fix random.vonmisesvariate to always return results in
478 the range [0, 2*math.pi].
479
Serhiy Storchakaf8980382013-02-10 14:26:08 +0200480- Issue #1470548: XMLGenerator now works with UTF-16 and UTF-32 encodings.
481
Serhiy Storchaka0dd3d302013-02-10 12:21:49 +0200482- Issue #6975: os.path.realpath() now correctly resolves multiple nested
483 symlinks on POSIX platforms.
484
Serhiy Storchaka276f1d52013-02-09 13:47:43 +0200485- Issue #7358: cStringIO.StringIO now supports writing to and reading from
486 a stream larger than 2 GiB on 64-bit systems.
487
Serhiy Storchakabeaa3ad2013-02-09 12:20:18 +0200488- Issue #10355: In SpooledTemporaryFile class mode and name properties and
489 xreadlines method now work for unrolled files. encoding and newlines
490 properties now removed as they have no sense and always produced
491 AttributeError.
492
Serhiy Storchaka62e709c2013-02-09 11:10:30 +0200493- Issue #16686: Fixed a lot of bugs in audioop module. Fixed crashes in
494 avgpp(), maxpp() and ratecv(). Fixed an integer overflow in add(), bias(),
495 and ratecv(). reverse(), lin2lin() and ratecv() no more lose precision for
496 32-bit samples. max() and rms() no more returns a negative result and
497 various other functions now work correctly with 32-bit sample -0x80000000.
498
Serhiy Storchaka35c52b62013-02-07 16:59:34 +0200499- Issue #17073: Fix some integer overflows in sqlite3 module.
500
Serhiy Storchakaa07a8b42013-02-04 12:45:46 +0200501- Issue #6083: Fix multiple segmentation faults occured when PyArg_ParseTuple
502 parses nested mutating sequence.
503
Benjamin Petersonf727c312013-02-03 19:25:11 -0500504- Issue #5289: Fix ctypes.util.find_library on Solaris.
505
Serhiy Storchaka354d50e2013-02-03 17:10:42 +0200506- Issue #17106: Fix a segmentation fault in io.TextIOWrapper when an underlying
507 stream or a decoder produces data of an unexpected type (i.e. when
508 io.TextIOWrapper initialized with text stream or use bytes-to-bytes codec).
509
Éric Araujo3e081c72013-02-03 11:41:19 -0500510- Issue #13994: Add compatibility alias in distutils.ccompiler for
511 distutils.sysconfig.customize_compiler.
512
Antoine Pitroud66c0ee2013-02-02 22:49:34 +0100513- Issue #15633: httplib.HTTPResponse is now mark closed when the server
514 sends less than the advertised Content-Length.
515
Benjamin Petersoneff492f2013-02-02 11:15:50 -0500516- Issue #15881: Fixed atexit hook in multiprocessing.
517
Gregory P. Smitha5df2902012-07-14 14:12:35 -0700518- Issue #14340: Upgrade the embedded expat library to version 2.1.0.
519
Serhiy Storchaka8673ab92013-02-02 10:28:30 +0200520- Issue #11159: SAX parser now supports unicode file names.
521
Gregory P. Smith608cc452013-02-01 11:40:18 -0800522- Issue #6972: The zipfile module no longer overwrites files outside of
523 its destination path when extracting malicious zip files.
524
Serhiy Storchaka8d510cd2013-01-31 15:57:51 +0200525- Issue #17049: Localized calendar methods now return unicode if a locale
526 includes an encoding and the result string contains month or weekday (was
527 regression from Python 2.6).
528
Serhiy Storchaka0be506a2013-01-31 15:26:55 +0200529- Issue #4844: ZipFile now raises BadZipfile when opens a ZIP file with an
530 incomplete "End of Central Directory" record. Original patch by Guilherme
531 Polo and Alan McIntyre.
532
Michael Foord77cd8aa2013-01-29 22:59:02 +0000533- Issue #15505: `unittest.installHandler` no longer assumes SIGINT handler is
534 set to a callable object.
535
Serhiy Storchakac12dcd22013-02-08 11:21:32 +0200536- Issue #17051: Fix a memory leak in os.path.isdir() on Windows. Patch by
Serhiy Storchaka46f5b352013-01-28 20:19:50 +0200537 Robert Xiao.
538
Serhiy Storchakab09ec9b2013-01-25 13:31:05 +0200539- Issue #13454: Fix a crash when deleting an iterator created by itertools.tee()
540 if all other iterators were very advanced before.
541
Serhiy Storchaka353e54e2013-01-22 17:13:26 +0200542- Issue #1159051: GzipFile now raises EOFError when reading a corrupted file
543 with truncated header or footer.
544
Benjamin Peterson08e153a2013-01-18 00:10:24 -0500545- Issue #16992: On Windows in signal.set_wakeup_fd, validate the file
546 descriptor argument.
547
Serhiy Storchakae39ba042013-01-15 18:01:21 +0200548- Issue #15861: tkinter now correctly works with lists and tuples containing
549 strings with whitespaces, backslashes or unbalanced braces.
550
Richard Oudkerk90b5d922013-01-14 23:09:14 +0000551- Issue #10527: Use poll() instead of select() for multiprocessing pipes.
552
Serhiy Storchaka80a9fd72013-01-15 00:29:51 +0200553- Issue #9720: zipfile now writes correct local headers for files larger than
554 4 GiB.
555
Ezio Melotti5c4e32b2013-01-11 08:32:01 +0200556- Issue #13899: \A, \Z, and \B now correctly match the A, Z, and B literals
557 when used inside character classes (e.g. '[\A]'). Patch by Matthew Barnett.
558
Raymond Hettinger2cdb6432013-01-12 00:05:00 -0800559- Issue #16398: Optimize deque.rotate() so that it only moves pointers
560 and doesn't touch the underlying data with increfs and decrefs.
561
R David Murray32851d62013-01-10 21:10:40 -0500562- Issue #15109: Fix regression in sqlite3's iterdump method where it would
563 die with an encoding error if the database contained string values
564 containing non-ASCII. (Regression was introduced by fix for 9750).
565
R David Murrayd6186842013-01-10 11:30:51 -0500566- Issue #15545: Fix regression in sqlite3's iterdump method where it was
567 failing if the connection used a row factory (such as sqlite3.Row) that
568 produced unsortable objects. (Regression was introduced by fix for 9750).
569
Nadeem Vawda895cc222013-01-02 22:59:51 +0100570- Issue #16828: Fix error incorrectly raised by bz2.compress(''). Patch by
571 Martin Packman.
572
Richard Oudkerk7450a812013-01-01 17:25:09 +0000573- Issue #9586: Redefine SEM_FAILED on MacOSX to keep compiler happy.
574
Ezio Melotti302ad8d2013-01-19 19:44:58 +0200575- Issue #10527: make multiprocessing use poll() instead of select() if available.
Giampaolo Rodola'cef20062012-12-31 17:23:09 +0100576
Serhiy Storchakadbaac372013-01-02 11:56:58 +0200577- Issue #16485: Now file descriptors are closed if file header patching failed
578 on closing an aifc file.
Serhiy Storchaka4ed797e2012-12-29 22:25:59 +0200579
Antoine Pitrou40f12ab2012-12-28 19:03:43 +0100580- Issue #12065: connect_ex() on an SSL socket now returns the original errno
581 when the socket's timeout expires (it used to return None).
582
Senthil Kumaran1974baa2012-12-24 13:56:54 -0800583- Issue #16713: Fix the parsing of tel url with params using urlparse module.
584
Andrew Svetlov1c6c90f2012-12-23 20:09:01 +0200585- Issue #16443: Add docstrings to regular expression match objects.
586 Patch by Anton Kasyanov.
587
Petri Lehtinenab7dd182012-12-20 21:06:14 +0200588- Issue #8853: Allow port to be of type long for socket.getaddrinfo().
589
Benjamin Peterson92014422012-12-20 12:55:52 -0600590- Issue #16597: In buffered and text IO, call close() on the underlying stream
591 if invoking flush() fails.
592
Senthil Kumaranf8a6b002012-12-23 09:00:47 -0800593- Issue #15701: Fix HTTPError info method call to return the headers information.
594
Giampaolo Rodola'c2a81692012-12-17 14:30:48 +0100595- Issue #16646: ftplib.FTP.makeport() might lose socket error details.
596 (patch by Serhiy Storchaka)
597
Antoine Pitrou124ee8b2012-12-16 13:55:47 +0100598- Issue #16626: Fix infinite recursion in glob.glob() on Windows when the
599 pattern contains a wildcard in the drive or UNC path. Patch by Serhiy
600 Storchaka.
601
Antoine Pitrou4113d2b2012-12-15 19:11:54 +0100602- Issue #16298: In HTTPResponse.read(), close the socket when there is no
603 Content-Length and the incoming stream is finished. Patch by Eran
604 Rundstein.
605
Antoine Pitrou7dddec42012-12-09 14:46:18 +0100606- Issue #16248: Disable code execution from the user's home directory by
607 tkinter when the -E flag is passed to Python. Patch by Zachary Ware.
608
Antoine Pitrou8eeda722012-12-08 11:05:50 +0100609- Issue #16628: Fix a memory leak in ctypes.resize().
610
Éric Araujo2320fa02012-12-08 22:26:57 -0500611- Issue #13614: Fix setup.py register failure with invalid rst in description.
612 Patch by Julien Courteau and Pierre Paul Lefebvre.
613
Antoine Pitroub83575b2012-12-02 12:52:36 +0100614- Issue #10182: The re module doesn't truncate indices to 32 bits anymore.
615 Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
616
Benjamin Peterson256aaf72012-11-29 10:57:01 -0500617- Issue #16573: In 2to3, treat enumerate() like a consuming call, so superfluous
618 list() calls aren't added to filter(), map(), and zip() which are directly
619 passed enumerate().
620
Antoine Pitroub83ea142012-11-20 22:30:42 +0100621- Issue #1160: Fix compiling large regular expressions on UCS2 builds.
622 Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
623
Ezio Melotti9e949722012-11-18 13:18:06 +0200624- Issue #14313: zipfile now raises NotImplementedError when the compression
625 type is unknown.
626
Antoine Pitrou02512fb2012-11-17 23:56:53 +0100627- Issue #16408: Fix file descriptors not being closed in error conditions
628 in the zipfile module. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
629
Gregory P. Smith9d3b6e92012-11-10 22:49:03 -0800630- Issue #16327: The subprocess module no longer leaks file descriptors
631 used for stdin/stdout/stderr pipes to the child when fork() fails.
632
Gregory P. Smithf2705ae2012-11-10 21:13:20 -0800633- Issue #14396: Handle the odd rare case of waitpid returning 0 when not
634 expected in subprocess.Popen.wait().
635
Nadeem Vawda3c309702012-11-11 03:14:56 +0100636- Issue #16411: Fix a bug where zlib.decompressobj().flush() might try to access
637 previously-freed memory. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
638
Nadeem Vawda252f4dc2012-11-11 02:14:15 +0100639- Issue #16350: zlib.decompressobj().decompress() now accumulates data from
Nadeem Vawda6cad3712012-11-05 00:55:06 +0100640 successive calls after EOF in unused_data, instead of only saving the argument
Nadeem Vawda252f4dc2012-11-11 02:14:15 +0100641 to the last call. decompressobj().flush() now correctly sets unused_data and
642 unconsumed_tail. A bug in the handling of MemoryError when setting the
643 unconsumed_tail attribute has also been fixed. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
Nadeem Vawda6cad3712012-11-05 00:55:06 +0100644
Ezio Melottief317382012-11-03 20:31:12 +0200645- Issue #12759: sre_parse now raises a proper error when the name of the group
646 is missing. Initial patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
647
Ezio Melotti7d24b162012-11-03 17:30:51 +0200648- Issue #16152: fix tokenize to ignore whitespace at the end of the code when
649 no newline is found. Patch by Ned Batchelder.
650
Antoine Pitrou0552fc22012-11-01 20:13:54 +0100651- Issue #16230: Fix a crash in select.select() when one the lists changes
652 size while iterated on. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
653
Antoine Pitroue9e35c32012-11-01 20:07:40 +0100654- Issue #16228: Fix a crash in the json module where a list changes size
655 while it is being encoded. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
656
Petri Lehtinen5c89c192012-10-29 21:16:57 +0200657- Issue #14897: Enhance error messages of struct.pack and
658 struct.pack_into. Patch by Matti Mäki.
659
R David Murray54eed2e2012-10-27 14:42:36 -0400660- Issue #12890: cgitb no longer prints spurious <p> tags in text
661 mode when the logdir option is specified.
662
Nadeem Vawda45dba1d2012-10-21 23:09:08 +0200663- Issue #14398: Fix size truncation and overflow bugs in the bz2 module.
664
Nadeem Vawdadd72b3f2012-10-21 18:15:05 +0200665- Issue #5148: Ignore 'U' in mode given to gzip.open() and gzip.GzipFile().
666
Antoine Pitroue97a24d2012-10-21 14:09:05 +0200667- Issue #16220: wsgiref now always calls close() on an iterable response.
668 Patch by Brent Tubbs.
669
Jesus Ceaf34e4de2012-11-17 03:38:17 +0100670- Issue #16461: Wave library should be able to deal with 4GB wav files,
671 and sample rate of 44100 Hz.
672
Brian Curtinc1924ab2012-10-11 16:16:50 -0500673- Issue #16176: Properly identify Windows 8 via platform.platform()
674
Gregory P. Smith0798cbc2012-09-29 12:02:48 -0700675- Issue #15756: subprocess.poll() now properly handles errno.ECHILD to
676 return a returncode of 0 when the child has already exited or cannot
677 be waited on.
678
Michael Foordbf2ad342012-09-28 12:54:56 +0100679- Issue #12376: Pass on parameters in TextTestResult.__init__ super call
680
Petri Lehtinena4fd0dc2012-09-25 21:57:59 +0300681- Issue #15222: Insert blank line after each message in mbox mailboxes
682
Senthil Kumarand41dc7c2012-09-25 02:48:21 -0700683- Issue #16013: Fix CSV Reader parsing issue with ending quote characters.
684 Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
685
Ezio Melotticadff702012-09-21 17:26:35 +0300686- Issue #15421: fix an OverflowError in Calendar.itermonthdates() after
687 datetime.MAXYEAR. Patch by Cédric Krier.
688
Ezio Melotti6d6fb3a2012-09-19 08:11:03 +0300689- Issue #15970: xml.etree.ElementTree now serializes correctly the empty HTML
690 elements 'meta' and 'param'.
691
Jesus Cea8b54d6d2012-09-10 00:22:39 +0200692- Issue #15676: Now "mmap" check for empty files before doing the
693 offset check. Patch by Steven Willis.
694
Antoine Pitroue299cae2012-09-07 23:49:07 +0200695- Issue #15340: Fix importing the random module when /dev/urandom cannot
696 be opened. This was a regression caused by the hash randomization patch.
697
Antoine Pitrouc5eec0e2012-09-05 20:11:49 +0200698- Issue #15841: The readable(), writable() and seekable() methods of
699 io.BytesIO and io.StringIO objects now raise ValueError when the object has
700 been closed. Patch by Alessandro Moura.
701
Jesus Cea3e94e142012-10-04 15:06:57 +0200702- Issue #16112: platform.architecture does not correctly escape argument to
703 /usr/bin/file. Patch by David Benjamin.
704
R David Murray20101872012-08-31 23:15:28 -0400705- Issue #12776,#11839: call argparse type function (specified by add_argument)
706 only once. Before, the type function was called twice in the case where the
707 default was specified and the argument was given as well. This was
708 especially problematic for the FileType type, as a default file would always
709 be opened, even if a file argument was specified on the command line.
710
Barry Warsaw03fcfbe2012-09-11 21:06:29 -0400711- Issue #15906: Fix a regression in argparse caused by the preceding change,
712 when action='append', type='str' and default=[].
713
Ronald Oussorena00b1002012-08-25 11:18:48 +0200714- Issue #13370: Ensure that ctypes works on Mac OS X when Python is
715 compiled using the clang compiler
716
Mark Dickinson088cec32012-08-24 20:06:30 +0100717- Issue #15544: Fix Decimal.__float__ to work with payload-carrying NaNs.
718
Petri Lehtinen4efdc092012-08-20 21:05:56 +0300719- Issue #15199: Fix JavaScript's default MIME type to application/javascript.
720 Patch by Bohuslav Kabrda.
721
Mark Dickinson2de4be22012-08-18 12:31:34 +0100722- Issue #15477: In cmath and math modules, add workaround for platforms whose
723 system-supplied log1p function doesn't respect signs of zeros.
724
Petri Lehtinen2d44cee2012-08-15 14:22:46 +0300725- Issue #11062: Fix adding a message from file to Babyl mailbox.
726
Richard Oudkerkfaee75c2012-08-14 11:41:19 +0100727- Issue #15646: Prevent equivalent of a fork bomb when using
728 multiprocessing on Windows without the "if __name__ == '__main__'"
729 idiom.
730
Brian Curtina9391052012-08-09 23:04:42 -0500731- Issue #15567: Fix NameError when running threading._test
732
Meador Inge2d639d52012-08-10 22:05:45 -0500733- Issue #15424: Add a __sizeof__ implementation for array objects.
734 Patch by Ludwig Hähne.
735
Antoine Pitrou1fa9f7b2012-08-02 20:37:12 +0200736- Issue #15538: Fix compilation of the getnameinfo() / getaddrinfo()
737 emulation code. Patch by Philipp Hagemeister.
738
Andrew Svetlov2d968482012-07-30 20:04:53 +0300739- Issue #12288: Consider '0' and '0.0' as valid initialvalue
740 for tkinter SimpleDialog.
741
Antoine Pitroubaee34c2012-07-30 00:01:06 +0200742- Issue #15489: Add a __sizeof__ implementation for BytesIO objects.
743 Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
744
Jesus Cead4e58dc2012-08-03 14:48:23 +0200745- Issue #15469: Add a __sizeof__ implementation for deque objects.
746 Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
747
Antoine Pitroubff5df02012-07-29 19:02:46 +0200748- Issue #15487: Add a __sizeof__ implementation for buffered I/O objects.
749 Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
750
Jesus Cea3e3192d2012-08-03 14:25:53 +0200751- Issue #15512: Add a __sizeof__ implementation for parser.
752 Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
753
Meador Inge87c5b942012-07-23 09:27:00 -0500754- Issue #15402: An issue in the struct module that caused sys.getsizeof to
755 return incorrect results for struct.Struct instances has been fixed.
756 Initial patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
757
R David Murray0f111c12012-07-22 21:55:12 -0400758- Issue #15232: when mangle_from is True, email.Generator now correctly mangles
R David Murray70098452012-07-24 14:24:42 -0400759 lines that start with 'From ' that occur in a MIME preamble or epilog.
R David Murray0f111c12012-07-22 21:55:12 -0400760
R David Murray68f555c2012-07-21 22:54:34 -0400761- Issue #13922: argparse no longer incorrectly strips '--'s that appear
762 after the first one.
763
R David Murray056c31f2012-07-21 22:35:00 -0400764- Issue #12353: argparse now correctly handles null argument values.
765
Meador Inge25be3f62012-07-18 23:51:05 -0500766- Issue #6493: An issue in ctypes on Windows that caused structure bitfields
767 of type ctypes.c_uint32 and width 32 to incorrectly be set has been fixed.
768
Gregory P. Smithe0c22202012-07-15 22:16:06 -0700769- Issue #14635: telnetlib will use poll() rather than select() when possible
770 to avoid failing due to the select() file descriptor limit.
771
Antoine Pitrouc2ec9922012-07-06 18:48:24 +0200772- Issue #15247: FileIO now raises an error when given a file descriptor
773 pointing to a directory.
774
Mark Dickinsone0afb722012-06-30 17:19:35 +0100775- Issue #14591: Fix bug in Random.jumpahead that could produce an invalid
776 Mersenne Twister state on 64-bit machines.
777
Petri Lehtinend07de402012-06-29 15:09:12 +0300778- Issue #5346: Preserve permissions of mbox, MMDF and Babyl mailbox
779 files on flush().
780
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd958cc92012-06-29 01:42:46 +0200781- Issue #15219: Fix a reference leak when hashlib.new() is called with
782 invalid parameters.
783
Petri Lehtinen45f0d982012-06-28 13:48:17 +0300784- Issue #9559: If messages were only added, a new file is no longer
785 created and renamed over the old file when flush() is called on an
786 mbox, MMDF or Babyl mailbox.
787
Alexander Belopolskye99d3a12012-06-21 20:57:39 -0400788- Issue #14653: email.utils.mktime_tz() no longer relies on system
789 mktime() when timezone offest is supplied.
790
Richard Oudkerke4b99382012-07-27 14:05:46 +0100791- Issue #6056: Make multiprocessing use setblocking(True) on the
792 sockets it uses. Original patch by J Derek Wilson.
793
Richard Oudkerk4215d272012-06-18 15:37:31 +0100794- Issue #15101: Make pool finalizer avoid joining current thread.
795
Meador Inge43f42fc2012-06-16 21:05:50 -0500796- Issue #15054: A bug in tokenize.tokenize that caused string literals
797 with 'b' and 'br' prefixes to be incorrectly tokenized has been fixed.
798 Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
799
Petri Lehtinen48ee6902012-06-18 10:42:05 +0300800- Issue #15036: Mailbox no longer throws an error if a flush is done
801 between operations when removing or changing multiple items in mbox,
802 MMDF, or Babyl mailboxes.
Petri Lehtinen7cf66992012-06-15 20:50:51 +0300803
Richard Oudkerk926f58d2012-06-11 15:11:35 +0100804- Issue #10133: Make multiprocessing deallocate buffer if socket read
805 fails. Patch by Hallvard B Furuseth.
806
Richard Oudkerk2182e052012-06-06 19:01:14 +0100807- Issue #13854: Make multiprocessing properly handle non-integer
808 non-string argument to SystemExit.
809
Richard Oudkerkd44a4a22012-06-06 17:52:18 +0100810- Issue #12157: Make pool.map() empty iterables correctly. Initial
811 patch by mouad.
812
Senthil Kumaran37484dc2012-05-24 21:54:34 +0800813- Issue #14036: Add an additional check to validate that port in urlparse does
814 not go in illegal range and returns None.
815
Antoine Pitroucd8799f2012-05-23 23:16:14 +0200816- Issue #14888: Fix misbehaviour of the _md5 module when called on data
817 larger than 2**32 bytes.
818
Jesus Cea03a9d2a2012-09-10 21:04:42 +0200819- Issue #15908: Fix misbehaviour of the sha1 module when called on data
820 larger than 2**32 bytes.
821
Jesus Cea3fb774e2012-09-10 21:39:07 +0200822- Issue #15910: Fix misbehaviour of _md5 and sha1 modules when "updating"
823 on data larger than 2**32 bytes.
824
Ezio Melottied8cf7a2012-05-21 17:46:55 -0600825- Issue #14875: Use float('inf') instead of float('1e66666') in the json module.
826
Ned Deily77e77a12012-05-19 23:35:05 -0700827- Issue #14572: Prevent build failures with pre-3.5.0 versions of
828 sqlite3, such as was shipped with Centos 5 and Mac OS X 10.4.
829
Senthil Kumaranf439a362012-05-20 12:02:44 +0800830- Issue #14426: Correct the Date format in Expires attribute of Set-Cookie
831 Header in Cookie.py.
832
Senthil Kumaran618802d2012-05-19 16:52:21 +0800833- Issue #14721: Send proper header, Content-length: 0 when the body is an empty
834 string ''. Initial Patch contributed by Arve Knudsen.
835
Ezio Melotti6d9c1b12012-05-19 17:12:17 +0300836- Issue #14072: Fix parsing of 'tel' URIs in urlparse by making the check for
837 ports stricter.
838
Senthil Kumaranea24dda2012-05-19 08:10:40 +0800839- Issue #9374: Generic parsing of query and fragment portions of url for any
840 scheme. Supported both by RFC3986 and RFC2396.
841
Petri Lehtinen280e9f72012-05-18 21:51:11 +0300842- Issue #14798: Fix the functions in pyclbr to raise an ImportError
843 when the first part of a dotted name is not a package. Patch by
844 Xavier de Gaye.
845
R David Murray69493922012-05-16 14:01:03 -0400846- Issue #14832: fixed the order of the argument references in the error
847 message produced by unittest's assertItemsEqual.
848
Antoine Pitrou38fbd792012-05-16 15:01:40 +0200849- Issue #14829: Fix bisect issues under 64-bit Windows.
850
Ned Deily724a55c2012-05-15 18:05:57 -0700851- Issue #14777: tkinter may return undecoded UTF-8 bytes as a string when
852 accessing the Tk clipboard. Modify clipboad_get() to first request type
853 UTF8_STRING when no specific type is requested in an X11 windowing
854 environment, falling back to the current default type STRING if that fails.
855 Original patch by Thomas Kluyver.
856
Senthil Kumaran6a2a6c22012-05-15 22:24:10 +0800857- Issue #12541: Be lenient with quotes around Realm field with HTTP Basic
858 Authentation in urllib2.
859
Ned Deilyacdc56d2012-05-10 17:45:49 -0700860- Issue #14662: Prevent shutil failures on OS X when destination does not
861 support chflag operations. Patch by Hynek Schlawack.
862
Antoine Pitrouc2b714c2012-05-10 20:17:46 +0200863- Issue #14157: Fix time.strptime failing without a year on February 29th.
864 Patch by Hynek Schlawack.
865
Jesus Ceaf2011e32012-05-10 05:01:11 +0200866- Issue #14768: os.path.expanduser('~/a') doesn't works correctly when HOME is '/'.
867
Senthil Kumaran7f6d4e12012-05-01 10:36:28 +0800868- Issue #13183: Fix pdb skipping frames after hitting a breakpoint and running
869 step. Patch by Xavier de Gaye.
870
Antoine Pitrou38153162012-04-25 17:31:12 +0200871- Issue #14664: It is now possible to use @unittest.skip{If,Unless} on a
872 test class that doesn't inherit from TestCase (i.e. a mixin).
873
Lars Gustäbel231d4742012-04-24 22:42:08 +0200874- Issue #14160: TarFile.extractfile() failed to resolve symbolic links when
875 the links were not located in an archive subdirectory.
876
R David Murrayc313b1d2012-04-23 13:27:11 -0400877- Issue #14638: pydoc now treats non-string __name__ values as if they
878 were missing, instead of raising an error.
879
Senthil Kumaran4c20c4e2012-04-23 23:52:40 +0800880- Issue #13684: Fix httplib tunnel issue of infinite loops for certain sites
881 which send EOF without trailing \r\n.
Ezio Melottied8cf7a2012-05-21 17:46:55 -0600882
Antoine Pitrou52849bf2012-04-19 23:55:01 +0200883- Issue #14308: Fix an exception when a "dummy" thread is in the threading
884 module's active list after a fork().
885
Ezio Melottic45868e2012-04-18 19:08:41 -0600886- Issue #14538: HTMLParser can now parse correctly start tags that contain
887 a bare '/'.
888
Vinay Sajip7e9c9d52012-04-16 14:38:23 +0100889- Issue #14452: SysLogHandler no longer inserts a UTF-8 BOM into the message.
890
Mark Dickinson0407e962012-04-15 16:43:19 +0100891- Issue #13496: Fix potential overflow in bisect.bisect algorithm when applied
892 to a collection of size > sys.maxsize / 2.
893
R David Murray9955ad42012-04-13 21:27:00 -0400894- Issue #14399: zipfile now recognizes that the archive has been modified even
895 if only the comment is changed. As a consequence of this fix, ZipFile is now
896 a new style class.
R David Murray3f4ccba2012-04-12 18:42:47 -0400897
Antoine Pitroufa1d8412012-04-09 00:47:24 +0200898- Issue #7978: SocketServer now restarts the select() call when EINTR is
899 returned. This avoids crashing the server loop when a signal is received.
900 Patch by Jerzy Kozera.
901
Giampaolo Rodola'96cb5d12012-03-22 16:06:43 +0100902- Issue #10340: asyncore - properly handle EINVAL in dispatcher constructor on
903 OSX; avoid to call handle_connect in case of a disconnected socket which
904 was not meant to connect.
905
R David Murrayb3f95d72012-03-21 15:02:30 -0400906- Issue #12757: Fix the skipping of doctests when python is run with -OO so
907 that it works in unittest's verbose mode as well as non-verbose mode.
908
Giampaolo Rodola'3d3cf482012-03-20 16:46:57 +0100909- Issue #13694: asynchronous connect in asyncore.dispatcher does not set addr
910 attribute.
911
Senthil Kumaran51a65c92012-03-16 01:07:16 -0700912- Issue #10484: Fix the CGIHTTPServer's PATH_INFO handling problem.
913
Senthil Kumaran4c592112012-03-15 13:24:40 -0700914- Issue #11199: Fix the with urllib which hangs on particular ftp urls.
915
Antoine Pitrouf60845b2012-03-11 19:29:12 +0100916- Issue #14252: Fix subprocess.Popen.terminate() to not raise an error under
917 Windows when the child process has already exited.
918
Benjamin Petersona84f4682012-03-07 19:17:57 -0600919- Issue #14195: An issue that caused weakref.WeakSet instances to incorrectly
920 return True for a WeakSet instance 'a' in both 'a < a' and 'a > a' has been
921 fixed.
922
923- Issue #14159: Fix the len() of weak sets to return a better approximation
924 when some objects are dead or dying. Moreover, the implementation is now
925 O(1) rather than O(n).
926
927- Issue #2945: Make the distutils upload command aware of bdist_rpm products.
928
Benjamin Petersona84f4682012-03-07 19:17:57 -0600929- Issue #6884: Fix long-standing bugs with MANIFEST.in parsing in distutils
930 on Windows.
931
Chris Withers2cc0b072012-11-09 15:48:17 +0000932- Issue #16441: Avoid excessive memory usage working with large gzip
933 files using the gzip module.
934
Ned Deilyec8f8f72013-01-09 22:04:35 -0800935- Issue #15782: Prevent compile errors of OS X Carbon modules _Fm, _Qd, and
936 _Qdoffs when compiling with an SDK of 10.7 or later. The OS X APIs they
937 wrap have long been deprecated and have now been removed with 10.7.
938 These modules were already empty for 64-bit builds and have been removed
939 in Python 3.
940
Christian Heimes8112ea22012-09-24 13:17:08 +0200941Extension Modules
942-----------------
943
doko@ubuntu.com4950a3b2013-03-19 14:46:29 -0700944- Issue #17477: Update the bsddb module to pybsddb 5.3.0, supporting
945 db-5.x, and dropping support for db-4.1 and db-4.2.
946
Gregory P. Smith46ce27a2013-03-18 16:58:50 -0700947- Issue #17192: Update the ctypes module's libffi to v3.0.13. This
948 specifically addresses a stack misalignment issue on x86 and issues on
949 some more recent platforms.
950
Gregory P. Smitha06ad5b2013-02-01 13:07:27 -0800951- Issue #12268: The io module file object write methods no longer abort early
952 when a write system calls is interrupted (EINTR).
Gregory P. Smitha998ad02013-02-01 13:02:59 -0800953
Gregory P. Smith0d68ab32012-11-27 10:19:29 -0800954- Fix the leak of a dict in the time module when used in an embedded
955 interpreter that is repeatedly initialized and shutdown and reinitialized.
956
Gregory P. Smith99716162012-10-12 13:02:06 -0700957- Issue #12268: File readline, readlines and read or readall methods
958 no longer lose data when an underlying read system call is interrupted
959 within an io module object. IOError is no longer raised due to a read
960 system call returning EINTR from within these methods.
961
Christian Heimes8112ea22012-09-24 13:17:08 +0200962- Issue #16012: Fix a regression in pyexpat. The parser's UseForeignDTD()
963 method doesn't require an argument again.
964
Ned Deily18fae3f2013-01-31 01:24:55 -0800965- Issue #13590: OS X Xcode 4 - improve support for universal extension modules
966 In particular, fix extension module build failures when trying to use
967 32-bit-only installer Pythons on systems with Xcode 4 (currently
968 OS X 10.8, 10.7, and optionally 10.6).
969 * Backport 3.3.0 fixes to 2.7 branch (for release in 2.7.4)
970 * Since Xcode 4 removes ppc support, extension module builds now
971 check for ppc compiler support and by default remove ppc and
972 ppc64 archs when they are not available.
973 * Extension module builds now revert to using system installed
974 headers and libs (/usr and /System/Library) if the SDK used
975 to build the interpreter is not installed or has moved.
976 * Try to avoid building extension modules with deprecated
977 and problematic Apple llvm-gcc compiler. If original compiler
978 is not available, use clang instead by default.
979
Serhiy Storchakaff99e412013-04-14 18:52:15 +0300980IDLE
981----
982
983- IDLE was displaying spurious SystemExit tracebacks when running scripts
984 that terminated by raising SystemExit (i.e. unittest and turtledemo).
985
986- Issue #9290: In IDLE the sys.std* streams now implement io.TextIOBase
987 interface and support all mandatory methods and properties.
988
989- Issue #16829: IDLE printing no longer fails if there are spaces or other
990 special characters in the file path.
991
992- Issue #16819: IDLE method completion now correctly works for unicode literals.
993
994- Issue #16504: IDLE now catches SyntaxErrors raised by tokenizer. Patch by
995 Roger Serwy.
996
997- Issue #1207589: Add Cut/Copy/Paste items to IDLE right click Context Menu
998 Patch by Todd Rovito.
999
1000- Issue #13052: Fix IDLE crashing when replace string in Search/Replace dialog
1001 ended with '\'. Patch by Roger Serwy.
1002
1003- Issue #9803: Don't close IDLE on saving if breakpoint is open.
1004 Patch by Roger Serwy.
1005
1006- Issue #14958: Change IDLE systax highlighting to recognize all string and byte
1007 literals currently supported in Python 2.7.
1008
1009- Issue #14962: Update text coloring in IDLE shell window after changing
1010 options. Patch by Roger Serwy.
1011
1012- Issue #10997: Prevent a duplicate entry in IDLE's "Recent Files" menu.
1013
1014- Issue #12510: Attempting to get invalid tooltip no longer closes IDLE.
1015 Original patch by Roger Serwy.
1016
1017- Issue #10365: File open dialog now works instead of crashing
1018 even when parent window is closed. Patch by Roger Serwy.
1019
1020- Issue #14876: Use user-selected font for highlight configuration.
1021 Patch by Roger Serwy.
1022
1023- Issue #14409: IDLE now properly executes commands in the Shell window
1024 when it cannot read the normal config files on startup and
1025 has to use the built-in default key bindings.
1026 There was previously a bug in one of the defaults.
1027
1028- Issue #3573: IDLE hangs when passing invalid command line args
1029 (directory(ies) instead of file(s)) (Patch by Guilherme Polo)
1030
1031- Issue #5219: Prevent event handler cascade in IDLE.
1032
Antoine Pitrou9945a642012-04-16 03:34:44 +02001033Tests
1034-----
1035
Serhiy Storchakaff99e412013-04-14 18:52:15 +03001036- Issue #16702: test_urllib2_localnet tests now correctly ignores proxies for
1037 localhost tests.
1038
1039- Issue #13447: Add a test file to host regression tests for bugs in the
1040 scripts found in the Tools directory.
1041
Ezio Melottie015b6b2013-03-16 20:04:44 +02001042- Issue #11420: make test suite pass with -B/DONTWRITEBYTECODE set.
1043 Initial patch by Thomas Wouters.
1044
Serhiy Storchaka2556c832013-03-14 20:59:09 +02001045- Issue #17299: Add test coverage for cPickle with file objects and general IO
1046 objects. Original patch by Aman Shah.
1047
Ezio Melottiefaad092013-03-11 00:34:33 +02001048- Issue #11963: remove human verification from test_parser and test_subprocess.
1049
Ezio Melotti2fddfd82013-02-23 05:45:37 +02001050- Issue #17249: convert a test in test_capi to use unittest and reap threads.
1051
R David Murraya5e7f8f2013-02-09 12:53:29 -05001052- We now run both test_email.py and test_email_renamed.py when running the
1053 test_email regression test. test_email_renamed contains some tests that
1054 test_email does not.
1055
Serhiy Storchaka72121c62013-01-27 19:45:49 +02001056- Issue #17041: Fix testing when Python is configured with the
1057 --without-doc-strings option.
1058
Serhiy Storchaka8cd7f822013-01-11 11:59:59 +02001059- Issue #15539: Added regression tests for Tools/scripts/pindent.py.
1060
Chris Jerdonek3684c792012-12-27 18:14:01 -08001061- Issue #15324: Fix regrtest parsing of --fromfile and --randomize options.
1062
Hynek Schlawack4a5a4c22012-12-27 10:24:21 +01001063- Issue #16618: Add more regression tests for glob.
1064 Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
1065
Hynek Schlawack646c7b52012-12-16 12:30:57 +01001066- Issue #16664: Add regression tests for glob's behaviour concerning entries
1067 starting with a ".". Patch by Sebastian Kreft.
1068
Victor Stinner8c7c6972012-12-04 10:07:16 +01001069- Issue #15747: ZFS always returns EOPNOTSUPP when attempting to set the
1070 UF_IMMUTABLE flag (via either chflags or lchflags); refactor affected
1071 tests in test_posix.py to account for this.
1072
Ezio Melottid8feba92012-11-29 02:14:52 +02001073- Issue #16549: Add tests for json.tools. Initial patch by Berker Peksag
1074 and Serhiy Storchaka.
1075
Ezio Melotti282d3312012-11-26 19:22:58 +02001076- Issue #16559: Add more tests for the json module, including some from the
1077 official test suite at json.org. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
1078
Trent Nelsone9992292012-10-26 22:21:46 -04001079- Issue #16274: Fix test_asyncore on Solaris. Patch by Giampaolo Rodola'.
1080
Petri Lehtinen9ad6a562012-10-23 14:39:34 +03001081- Issue #15040: Close files in mailbox tests for PyPy compatibility.
1082 Original patch by Matti Picus.
1083
Petri Lehtinen80f45532012-09-01 14:25:48 +03001084- Issue #15802: Fix test logic in TestMaildir.test_create_tmp. Patch
1085 by Serhiy Storchaka.
1086
Trent Nelsonda4277a2012-08-29 09:20:41 -04001087- Issue #15765: Extend a previous fix to Solaris and OpenBSD for quirky
1088 getcwd() behaviour (issue #9185) to NetBSD as well.
1089
Antoine Pitrou0e3a4c82012-08-18 20:51:05 +02001090- Issue #15615: Add some tests for the json module's handling of invalid
1091 input data. Patch by Kushal Das.
1092
Brian Curtinbc77d362012-08-13 17:26:48 -05001093- Issue #15496: Add directory removal helpers for tests on Windows.
1094 Patch by Jeremy Kloth.
1095
Nick Coghlana0933122012-06-17 19:03:39 +10001096- Issue #15043: test_gdb is now skipped entirely if gdb security settings
1097 block loading of the gdb hooks
1098
Antoine Pitrou9945a642012-04-16 03:34:44 +02001099- Issue #14589: Update certificate chain for sha256.tbs-internet.com, fixing
1100 a test failure in test_ssl.
1101
Ned Deilycc23cc62013-02-02 15:06:45 -08001102- Issue #16698: Skip posix test_getgroups when built with OS X
1103 deployment target prior to 10.6.
1104
Ned Deilyaa1e1a22013-02-11 22:10:59 -08001105- Issue #17111: Prevent test_surrogates (test_fileio) failure on OS X 10.4.
1106
Antoine Pitrou4b536d42012-03-31 23:53:07 +02001107Build
1108-----
1109
Martin v. Loewis18613e62013-03-22 22:01:56 +01001110- Issue #17425: Build against openssl 0.9.8y on Windows.
1111
Ezio Melotti617e2c12013-03-11 09:14:09 +02001112- Issue #16004: Add `make touch`.
1113
Petri Lehtinenc23178b2013-02-23 17:05:28 +01001114- Issue #5033: Fix building of the sqlite3 extension module when the
1115 SQLite library version has "beta" in it. Patch by Andreas Pelme.
1116
Benjamin Peterson8e830a02013-02-20 16:54:30 -05001117- Issue #17228: Fix building without pymalloc.
1118
doko@python.orgd65e2ba2013-01-31 23:52:03 +01001119- Issue #17086: Backport the patches from the 3.3 branch to cross-build
1120 the package.
1121
doko@python.orgfa3f9a32013-01-25 15:32:31 +01001122- Issue #3754: fix typo in pthread AC_CACHE_VAL.
1123
doko@python.org4e63fbe2013-01-25 13:08:27 +01001124- Issue #17029: Let h2py search the multiarch system include directory.
1125
Charles-François Natalia41cf292013-01-19 12:15:56 +01001126- Issue #16953: Fix socket module compilation on platforms with
1127 HAVE_BROKEN_POLL. Patch by Jeffrey Armstrong.
1128
Charles-François Natalibe2b9072013-01-08 19:47:00 +01001129- Issue #16836: Enable IPv6 support even if IPv6 is disabled on the build host.
1130
Ezio Melottic820de52012-09-30 22:41:37 +03001131- Issue #15923: fix a mistake in asdl_c.py that resulted in a TypeError after
1132 2801bf875a24 (see #15801).
1133
doko@ubuntu.com3d2fc152012-09-21 13:51:40 +02001134- Issue #11715: Fix multiarch detection without having Debian development
1135 tools (dpkg-dev) installed.
1136
Trent Nelsonf6407a12012-08-30 14:56:13 +00001137- Issue #15819: Make sure we can build Python out-of-tree from a readonly
1138 source directory. (Somewhat related to Issue #9860.)
1139
Ned Deily10fc1042012-09-08 18:47:27 -07001140- Issue #15822: Ensure 2to3 grammar pickles are properly installed.
Ned Deily8622f092012-08-22 23:26:06 -07001141
Ned Deily67028042012-08-05 14:42:45 -07001142- Issue #15560: Fix building _sqlite3 extension on OS X with an SDK.
1143
Martin v. Löwis33f8c3a2012-08-01 10:05:27 +02001144- Issue #8847: Disable COMDAT folding in Windows PGO builds.
1145
Ned Deilyd8ec4642012-07-30 04:07:49 -07001146- Issue #14018: Fix OS X Tcl/Tk framework checking when using OS X SDKs.
1147
Ned Deilyacf7b952013-02-01 13:58:00 -08001148- Issue #16256: OS X installer now sets correct permissions for doc directory.
1149
Martin v. Löwised11a5d2012-05-20 10:42:17 +02001150- Issue #8767: Restore building with --disable-unicode.
1151 Patch by Stefano Taschini.
1152
Martin v. Löwisfd0afed2012-05-15 17:26:31 +02001153- Build against bzip2 1.0.6 and openssl 0.9.8x on Windows.
1154
Charles-François Natali0d3db3a2012-04-12 19:11:54 +02001155- Issue #14557: Fix extensions build on HP-UX. Patch by Adi Roiban.
1156
Antoine Pitrou4b536d42012-03-31 23:53:07 +02001157- Issue #14437: Fix building the _io module under Cygwin.
1158
Ned Deily6e7da152013-02-01 23:10:56 -08001159- Issue #15587: Enable Tk high-resolution text rendering on Macs with
1160 Retina displays. Applies to Tkinter apps, such as IDLE, on OS X
1161 framework builds linked with Cocoa Tk 8.5.
1162
Ned Deilyed1e4382013-02-08 22:51:52 -08001163- Issue #17161: make install now also installs a python2 and python man page.
1164
Ned Deilyeec152d2013-03-04 14:31:04 -08001165- Issue #16848: python-config now returns proper --ldflags values for OS X
1166 framework builds.
1167
Ezio Melottidc118792012-11-09 11:46:19 +01001168Tools/Demos
1169-----------
1170
Serhiy Storchakaff99e412013-04-14 18:52:15 +03001171- Issue #17156: pygettext.py now correctly escapes non-ascii characters.
1172
Serhiy Storchaka8cd7f822013-01-11 11:59:59 +02001173- Issue #15539: Fix a number of bugs in Tools/scripts/pindent.py. Now
1174 pindent.py works with a "with" statement. pindent.py no longer produces
1175 improper indentation. pindent.py now works with continued lines broken after
1176 "class" or "def" keywords and with continuations at the start of line.
1177
Serhiy Storchakaff99e412013-04-14 18:52:15 +03001178- Issue #16476: Fix json.tool to avoid including trailing whitespace.
1179
Ezio Melottidc118792012-11-09 11:46:19 +01001180- Issue #13301: use ast.literal_eval() instead of eval() in Tools/i18n/msgfmt.py
1181 Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
1182
Ezio Melottie48daea2012-05-06 16:15:35 +03001183Documentation
Senthil Kumaran0c472c32012-07-22 19:36:03 -07001184-------------
Terry Jan Reedy45ed0122012-07-08 17:35:26 -04001185
Serhiy Storchakaff99e412013-04-14 18:52:15 +03001186- Issue #15041: Update "see also" list in tkinter documentation.
1187
Terry Jan Reedy0b2173a2013-03-14 19:32:22 -04001188- Issue #17412: update 2.7 Doc/make.bat to also use sphinx-1.0.7.
1189
Terry Jan Reedy21e52aa2013-03-12 02:19:09 -04001190- Issue #17047: remove doubled words in docs and docstrings
Terry Jan Reedyf9d31062013-03-12 01:26:28 -04001191 reported by Serhiy Storchaka and Matthew Barnett.
1192
Chris Jerdonek2277b942013-02-27 09:55:39 -08001193- Issue #16406: combine the pages for uploading and registering to PyPI.
1194
Petri Lehtinenfead3c82013-02-23 21:05:27 +01001195- Issue #16403: Document how distutils uses the maintainer field in
1196 PKG-INFO. Patch by Jyrki Pulliainen.
1197
Petri Lehtinen23427842013-02-23 19:53:03 +01001198- Issue #16695: Document how glob handles filenames starting with a
1199 dot. Initial patch by Jyrki Pulliainen.
1200
Petri Lehtinen0b785032013-02-23 19:24:08 +01001201- Issue #8890: Stop advertising an insecure practice by replacing uses
1202 of the /tmp directory with better alternatives in the documentation.
1203 Patch by Geoff Wilson.
1204
Chris Jerdonek13cee162013-02-21 18:52:12 -08001205- Issue #17203: add long option names to unittest discovery docs.
1206
Ezio Melotti58abc5b2013-01-05 00:49:48 +02001207- Issue #13094: add "Why do lambdas defined in a loop with different values
1208 all return the same result?" programming FAQ.
1209
Brian Curtinbc453ca2012-12-17 00:17:49 -06001210- Issue #14901: Update portions of the Windows FAQ.
1211 Patch by Ashish Nitin Patil.
1212
Chris Jerdonek8da82682012-11-29 19:03:37 -08001213- Issue #15990: Improve argument/parameter documentation.
1214
Chris Jerdonek08012312012-11-14 12:36:53 -08001215- Issue #16400: Update the description of which versions of a given package
1216 PyPI displays.
1217
Nadeem Vawda04050b82012-11-11 13:52:10 +01001218- Issue #15677: Document that zlib and gzip accept a compression level of 0 to
1219 mean 'no compression'. Patch by Brian Brazil.
1220
Ezio Melotti3d072062012-10-27 22:04:56 +03001221- Issue #8040: added a version switcher to the documentation. Patch by
1222 Yury Selivanov.
1223
Chris Jerdonek1906c0c2012-10-08 23:18:17 -07001224- Issue #16115: Improve subprocess.Popen() documentation around args, shell,
1225 and executable arguments.
1226
Ezio Melotti31a9e832012-10-02 05:34:38 +03001227- Issue #15979: Improve timeit documentation.
1228
Chris Jerdonek71d74b02012-09-30 21:07:56 -07001229- Issue #16036: Improve documentation of built-in int()'s signature and
1230 arguments.
1231
Barry Warsaw0dea9362012-09-25 10:32:53 -04001232- Issue #15935: Clarification of argparse docs, re: add_argument() type and
1233 default arguments. Patch contributed by Chris Jerdonek.
1234
Petri Lehtinenf9e1f112012-09-01 07:27:58 +03001235- Issue #13769: Document the effect of ensure_ascii to the return type
1236 of JSON decoding functions.
1237
Hynek Schlawack7d978902012-08-28 12:33:46 +02001238- Issue #14880: Fix kwargs notation in csv.reader, .writer & .register_dialect.
1239 Patch by Chris Rebert.
1240
Antoine Pitrouf3e0a692012-08-24 19:46:17 +02001241- Issue #14674: Add a discussion of the json module's standard compliance.
1242 Patch by Chris Rebert.
1243
Senthil Kumaran2f76f732012-08-12 11:58:53 -07001244- Issue #15630: Add an example for "continue" stmt in the tutorial. Patch by
1245 Daniel Ellis.
1246
Terry Jan Reedy45ed0122012-07-08 17:35:26 -04001247- Issue #13557: Clarify effect of giving two different namespaces to exec or
1248 execfile().
Ezio Melottie48daea2012-05-06 16:15:35 +03001249
1250- Issue #14034: added the argparse tutorial.
1251
Senthil Kumaran0c472c32012-07-22 19:36:03 -07001252- Issue #15250: Document that filecmp.dircmp compares files shallowly. Patch
1253 contributed by Chris Jerdonek.
1254
Ned Deily7045f052013-02-02 00:14:44 -08001255- Issue #15116: Remove references to appscript as it is no longer being
1256 supported.
1257
Benjamin Petersona84f4682012-03-07 19:17:57 -06001258
Gregory P. Smithc8ff4602012-03-14 15:28:10 -07001259What's New in Python 2.7.3 release candidate 2?
1260===============================================
1261
Benjamin Petersonee933ec2012-03-15 12:25:54 -05001262*Release date: 2012-03-17*
Gregory P. Smithc8ff4602012-03-14 15:28:10 -07001263
1264Library
1265-------
1266
1267- Issue #14234: CVE-2012-0876: Randomize hashes of xml attributes in the hash
1268 table internal to the pyexpat module's copy of the expat library to avoid a
1269 denial of service due to hash collisions. Patch by David Malcolm with some
1270 modifications by the expat project.
1271
1272
Benjamin Petersona84f4682012-03-07 19:17:57 -06001273What's New in Python 2.7.3 release candidate 1?
1274===============================================
1275
1276*Release date: 2012-02-23*
1277
1278Core and Builtins
1279-----------------
1280
Antoine Pitrouc66ed452012-02-15 02:51:43 +01001281- Issue #13020: Fix a reference leak when allocating a structsequence object
1282 fails. Patch by Suman Saha.
1283
Barry Warsaw1e13eb02012-02-20 20:42:21 -05001284- Issue #13703: oCERT-2011-003: add -R command-line option and PYTHONHASHSEED
1285 environment variable, to provide an opt-in way to protect against denial of
1286 service attacks due to hash collisions within the dict and set types. Patch
1287 by David Malcolm, based on work by Victor Stinner.
1288
Antoine Pitroud1c818a2012-01-24 17:44:06 +01001289- Issue #11235: Fix OverflowError when trying to import a source file whose
1290 modification time doesn't fit in a 32-bit timestamp.
1291
Jason R. Coombs042370e2011-12-26 10:15:15 -05001292- Issue #11638: Unicode strings in 'name' and 'version' no longer cause
1293 UnicodeDecodeErrors.
1294
Antoine Pitrou5b4b2da2011-12-15 14:15:31 +01001295- Fix the fix for issue #12149: it was incorrect, although it had the side
1296 effect of appearing to resolve the issue. Thanks to Mark Shannon for
1297 noticing.
1298
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc4bf21e22011-12-07 21:46:48 +01001299- Issue #13546: Fixed an overflow issue that could crash the intepreter when
1300 calling sys.setrecursionlimit((1<<31)-1).
1301
Antoine Pitrou30402542011-11-15 01:49:40 +01001302- Issue #13333: The UTF-7 decoder now accepts lone surrogates (the encoder
1303 already accepts them).
1304
Petri Lehtinen8028dc22011-10-30 20:59:10 +02001305- Issue #10519: Avoid unnecessary recursive function calls in
1306 setobject.c.
1307
Benjamin Peterson0c0d7562011-10-27 08:21:59 -04001308- Issue #13268: Fix the assert statement when a tuple is passed as the message.
1309
Petri Lehtinen8ffbab82011-10-24 20:59:29 +03001310- Issue #13018: Fix reference leaks in error paths in dictobject.c.
1311 Patch by Suman Saha.
1312
Senthil Kumaran797b95b2011-10-21 00:32:59 +08001313- Issue #12604: VTRACE macro expanded to no-op in _sre.c to avoid compiler
1314 warnings. Patch by Josh Triplett and Petri Lehtinen.
1315
Mark Hammond323b5da2011-10-17 11:05:36 +11001316- Issue #7833: Extension modules built using distutils on Windows will no
1317 longer include a "manifest" to prevent them failing at import time in some
1318 embedded situations.
1319
Benjamin Petersona7b09762011-10-15 13:43:21 -04001320- Issue #13186: Fix __delitem__ on old-style instances when invoked through
1321 PySequence_DelItem.
1322
Charles-François Natali40ab0022011-10-12 22:29:09 +02001323- Issue #13156: Revert the patch for issue #10517 (reset TLS upon fork()),
1324 which was only relevant for the native pthread TLS implementation.
1325
Victor Stinner63c22fa2011-09-23 19:37:03 +02001326- Issue #7732: Fix a crash on importing a module if a directory has the same
1327 name than a Python module (e.g. "__init__.py"): don't close the file twice.
1328
Mark Dickinsondbbed042011-09-19 16:38:08 +01001329- Issue #12973: Fix overflow checks that invoked undefined behaviour in
1330 int.__pow__. These overflow checks were causing int.__pow__ to produce
1331 incorrect results with recent versions of Clang, as a result of the
Mark Dickinsona96b0d12011-09-24 09:01:16 +01001332 compiler optimizing the check away. Also fix similar overflow checks
1333 in list_repeat (listobject.c) and islice_next (itertoolsmodule.c). These
1334 bugs caused test failures with recent versions of Clang.
Mark Dickinsondbbed042011-09-19 16:38:08 +01001335
Ezio Melotti15d6b652011-08-15 09:22:24 +03001336- Issue #12266: Fix str.capitalize() to correctly uppercase/lowercase
1337 titlecased and cased non-letter characters.
1338
Benjamin Peterson6c18ff02011-07-22 10:41:44 -05001339- Issues #12610 and #12609: Verify that user generated AST has correct string
1340 and identifier types before compiling.
1341
Barry Warsawc5643282011-07-19 17:06:30 -04001342- Issue #11627: Fix segfault when __new__ on a exception returns a
1343 non-exception class.
Benjamin Petersonc3349cd2011-07-15 14:15:40 -05001344
Antoine Pitrou16166452011-07-12 22:04:20 +02001345- Issue #12149: Update the method cache after a type's dictionnary gets
1346 cleared by the garbage collector. This fixes a segfault when an instance
1347 and its type get caught in a reference cycle, and the instance's
1348 deallocator calls one of the methods on the type (e.g. when subclassing
1349 IOBase). Diagnosis and patch by Davide Rizzo.
1350
Florent Xiclunaa1f948b2012-01-24 21:05:10 +01001351- Issue #12501: Remove Py3k warning for callable. callable() is supported
1352 again in Python 3.2.
Victor Stinnerba8b3a22011-07-08 02:07:45 +02001353
Victor Stinner59729ff2011-07-05 11:28:19 +02001354- Issue #9611, #9015: FileIO.read(), FileIO.readinto(), FileIO.write() and
1355 os.write() clamp the length to INT_MAX on Windows.
1356
Victor Stinnerd3c7e172011-05-30 23:49:13 +02001357- Issue #1195: my_fgets() now always clears errors before calling fgets(). Fix
Victor Stinner08563d92011-05-30 23:44:13 +02001358 the following case: sys.stdin.read() stopped with CTRL+d (end of file),
1359 raw_input() interrupted by CTRL+c.
1360
Łukasz Langa7a153902011-10-18 17:16:00 +02001361- Issue #10860: httplib now correctly handles an empty port after port
1362 delimiter in URLs.
1363
Barry Warsawc5643282011-07-19 17:06:30 -04001364- dict_proxy objects now display their contents rather than just the class
1365 name.
Raymond Hettingerbf7a2662011-06-30 00:44:36 +01001366
Victor Stinner08563d92011-05-30 23:44:13 +02001367Library
1368-------
Éric Araujoa13cd392011-09-10 05:39:45 +02001369
Petri Lehtinen4ab701b2012-02-21 13:58:40 +02001370- Issue #8033: sqlite3: Fix 64-bit integer handling in user functions
1371 on 32-bit architectures. Initial patch by Philippe Devalkeneer.
1372
Ezio Melotti36b73612012-02-21 09:22:16 +02001373- HTMLParser is now able to handle slashes in the start tag.
1374
Charles-François Natali66f3cc62012-02-18 14:15:38 +01001375- Issue #14001: CVE-2012-0845: xmlrpc: Fix an endless loop in
1376 SimpleXMLRPCServer upon malformed POST request.
1377
Gregory P. Smith14dc5102012-02-16 00:44:50 -08001378- Issue #2489: pty.spawn could consume 100% cpu when it encountered an EOF.
1379
Antoine Pitroudd7e0712012-02-15 22:25:27 +01001380- Issue #13014: Fix a possible reference leak in SSLSocket.getpeercert().
1381
Ezio Melottid2307cb2012-02-15 12:44:23 +02001382- Issue #13987: HTMLParser is now able to handle EOFs in the middle of a
Ezio Melotti65d36da2012-02-15 13:19:10 +02001383 construct and malformed start tags.
Ezio Melottid2307cb2012-02-15 12:44:23 +02001384
Antoine Pitrouc39cd782012-02-15 02:42:46 +01001385- Issue #13015: Fix a possible reference leak in defaultdict.__repr__.
1386 Patch by Suman Saha.
1387
Meador Ingeff337cc2012-02-13 22:22:06 -06001388- Issue #13979: A bug in ctypes.util.find_library that caused
1389 the wrong library name to be returned has been fixed.
1390
Éric Araujoe897a742012-02-15 16:28:20 +01001391- Issue #1326113: distutils' build_ext command --libraries option now
1392 correctly parses multiple values separated by whitespace or commas.
1393
Ezio Melottif1174432012-02-13 16:28:54 +02001394- Issue #13993: HTMLParser is now able to handle broken end tags.
1395
Ezio Melotti4b92cc32012-02-13 16:10:44 +02001396- Issue #13960: HTMLParser is now able to handle broken comments.
1397
Petri Lehtinen587209f2012-02-12 21:03:02 +02001398- Issue #9750: Fix sqlite3.Connection.iterdump on tables and fields
1399 with a name that is a keyword or contains quotes. Patch by Marko
1400 Kohtala.
1401
Florent Xiclunac2279652012-02-12 14:49:03 +01001402- Issue #13994: Earlier partial revert of Distutils enhancements in 2.7
Ned Deilyc47a4592012-02-11 20:40:24 +01001403 has left two versions of customize_compiler, the original in
1404 distutils.sysconfig and another copy in distutils.ccompiler, with some
1405 parts of distutils calling one and others using the other.
1406 Complete the revert back to only having one in distutils.sysconfig as
1407 is the case in 3.x.
1408
Ned Deily0d0ea482012-02-10 12:59:06 +01001409- Issue #13590: On OS X 10.7 and 10.6 with Xcode 4.2, building
1410 Distutils-based packages with C extension modules may fail because
1411 Apple has removed gcc-4.2, the version used to build python.org
1412 64-bit/32-bit Pythons. If the user does not explicitly override
1413 the default C compiler by setting the CC environment variable,
1414 Distutils will now attempt to compile extension modules with clang
1415 if gcc-4.2 is required but not found. Also as a convenience, if
1416 the user does explicitly set CC, substitute its value as the default
1417 compiler in the Distutils LDSHARED configuration variable for OS X.
1418 (Note, the python.org 32-bit-only Pythons use gcc-4.0 and the 10.4u
1419 SDK, neither of which are available in Xcode 4. This change does not
1420 attempt to override settings to support their use with Xcode 4.)
1421
Senthil Kumaran59e7c8f2012-02-09 18:22:01 +08001422- Issue #9021: Add an introduction to the copy module documentation.
1423
Senthil Kumaran607e31e2012-02-09 17:43:31 +08001424- Issue #6005: Examples in the socket library documentation use sendall, where
1425 relevant, instead send method.
1426
Petri Lehtinenc7fd5232011-05-09 12:24:09 +02001427- Issue #10811: Fix recursive usage of cursors. Instead of crashing,
1428 raise a ProgrammingError now.
1429
Petri Lehtinen0518f472012-02-01 22:20:12 +02001430- Issue #13676: Handle strings with embedded zeros correctly in sqlite3.
1431
Antoine Pitrou88c51e82012-01-28 22:01:59 +01001432- Issue #13806: The size check in audioop decompression functions was too
1433 strict and could reject valid compressed data. Patch by Oleg Plakhotnyuk.
1434
Antoine Pitroud358e052012-01-27 09:42:45 +01001435- Issue #13885: CVE-2011-3389: the _ssl module would always disable the CBC
1436 IV attack countermeasure.
1437
Senthil Kumaranb05f91d2012-01-21 11:45:12 +08001438- Issue #6631: Disallow relative file paths in urllib urlopen methods.
1439
Nadeem Vawdad7664de2012-01-19 00:40:46 +02001440- Issue #13781: Prevent gzip.GzipFile from using the dummy filename provided by
1441 file objects opened with os.fdopen().
1442
Antoine Pitrou3b6a3142012-01-17 17:13:04 +01001443- Issue #13589: Fix some serialization primitives in the aifc module.
1444 Patch by Oleg Plakhotnyuk.
1445
Jesus Cea4a8ba192012-01-18 03:51:38 +01001446- Issue #13803: Under Solaris, distutils doesn't include bitness
1447 in the directory name.
1448
Senthil Kumaranbcd833f2012-01-11 00:09:24 +08001449- Issue #13642: Unquote before b64encoding user:password during Basic
1450 Authentication. Patch contributed by Joonas Kuorilehto and Michele Orrù.
1451
Antoine Pitroud76088d2012-01-03 22:46:48 +01001452- Issue #13636: Weak ciphers are now disabled by default in the ssl module
1453 (except when SSLv2 is explicitly asked for).
1454
Senthil Kumaran84c18aa2011-12-23 11:14:56 +08001455- Issue #12798: Updated the mimetypes documentation.
1456
Lars Gustäbel7d4d0742011-12-21 19:27:50 +01001457- Issue #13639: Accept unicode filenames in tarfile.open(mode="w|gz").
1458
Antoine Pitroub8572a12011-12-21 10:16:14 +01001459- Issue #1785: Fix inspect and pydoc with misbehaving descriptors.
1460
Antoine Pitrou7a3d8ae2011-12-18 19:27:45 +01001461- Issue #7502: Fix equality comparison for DocTestCase instances. Patch by
1462 Cédric Krier.
1463
Charles-François Natali41616302011-12-18 18:22:24 +01001464- Issue #11870: threading: Properly reinitialize threads internal locks and
1465 condition variables to avoid deadlocks in child processes.
1466
Charles-François Natalif3d35f02011-12-18 15:52:48 +01001467- Issue #8035: urllib: Fix a bug where the client could remain stuck after a
1468 redirection or an error.
1469
Lars Gustäbel9a388632011-12-06 13:07:09 +01001470- tarfile.py: Correctly detect bzip2 compressed streams with blocksizes
1471 other than 900k.
1472
Raymond Hettingerf5377022011-12-11 22:31:09 -08001473- Issue #13573: The csv.writer now uses the repr() for floats rather than str().
1474 This allows floats to round-trip without loss of precision.
1475
Petri Lehtinen49e49a22011-12-02 21:09:30 +02001476- Issue #13439: Fix many errors in turtle docstrings.
1477
Antoine Pitroua5d5bb92011-11-25 21:28:15 +01001478- Issue #12856: Ensure child processes do not inherit the parent's random
1479 seed for filename generation in the tempfile module. Patch by Brian
1480 Harring.
1481
Antoine Pitrouaa1c9672011-11-23 01:39:19 +01001482- Issue #13458: Fix a memory leak in the ssl module when decoding a
1483 certificate with a subjectAltName. Patch by Robert Xiao.
1484
Victor Stinner53853c32011-11-22 22:20:13 +01001485- Issue #13415: os.unsetenv() doesn't ignore errors anymore.
1486
Antoine Pitrou5aa7df32011-11-21 20:16:44 +01001487- Issue #13322: Fix BufferedWriter.write() to ensure that BlockingIOError is
1488 raised when the wrapped raw file is non-blocking and the write would block.
1489 Previous code assumed that the raw write() would raise BlockingIOError, but
1490 RawIOBase.write() is defined to returned None when the call would block.
1491 Patch by sbt.
1492
Ezio Melotti00dc60b2011-11-18 18:00:40 +02001493- Issue #13358: HTMLParser now calls handle_data only once for each CDATA.
1494
Ezio Melotti93bbb6a2011-11-18 17:30:28 +02001495- Issue #4147: minidom's toprettyxml no longer adds whitespace around a text
1496 node when it is the only child of an element. Initial patch by Dan
1497 Kenigsberg.
1498
Ezio Melotti0f1571c2011-11-14 18:04:05 +02001499- Issues #1745761, #755670, #13357, #12629, #1200313: HTMLParser now correctly
1500 handles non-valid attributes, including adjacent and unquoted attributes.
1501
Antoine Pitrou6a570d62011-11-10 00:33:50 +01001502- Issue #13373: multiprocessing.Queue.get() could sometimes block indefinitely
1503 when called with a timeout. Patch by Arnaud Ysmal.
1504
Petri Lehtinen416ecff2011-11-05 10:18:50 +02001505- Issue #3067: Enhance the documentation and docstring of
1506 locale.setlocale().
1507
Petri Lehtinen49aa72e2011-11-05 09:50:37 +02001508- Issue #13254: Fix Maildir initialization so that maildir contents
1509 are read correctly.
1510
Florent Xicluna5f761d72011-11-04 10:15:57 +01001511- Issue #13140: Fix the daemon_threads attribute of ThreadingMixIn.
1512
Florent Xiclunac4a11bd2011-11-01 23:47:46 +01001513- Issue #2892: preserve iterparse events in case of SyntaxError.
1514
Ezio Melotti7e82b272011-11-01 14:09:56 +02001515- Issue #670664: Fix HTMLParser to correctly handle the content of
1516 ``<script>...</script>`` and ``<style>...</style>``.
1517
1518- Issue #10817: Fix urlretrieve function to raise ContentTooShortError even
Senthil Kumaran87e58552011-11-01 02:44:45 +08001519 when reporthook is None. Patch by Jyrki Pulliainen.
1520
Florent Xicluna67d5d0e2011-10-29 03:38:56 +02001521- Issue #7334: close source files on ElementTree.parse and iterparse.
1522
Vinay Sajipc515eba2011-10-24 23:26:00 +01001523- Issue #13232: logging: Improved logging of exceptions in the presence of
1524 multiple encodings.
1525
Charles-François Natali46f990e2011-10-24 18:43:51 +02001526- Issue #10332: multiprocessing: fix a race condition when a Pool is closed
1527 before all tasks have completed.
1528
Antoine Pitrou5a77fe92011-10-22 21:26:01 +02001529- Issue #1548891: The cStringIO.StringIO() constructor now encodes unicode
1530 arguments with the system default encoding just like the write() method
Éric Araujob21f51a2011-10-23 04:37:51 +02001531 does, instead of converting it to a raw buffer. This also fixes handling of
1532 unicode input in the shlex module (#6988, #1170).
Antoine Pitrou5a77fe92011-10-22 21:26:01 +02001533
Florent Xicluna47fb1922011-10-20 23:21:58 +02001534- Issue #9168: now smtpd is able to bind privileged port.
1535
Senthil Kumaran797b95b2011-10-21 00:32:59 +08001536- Issue #12529: fix cgi.parse_header issue on strings with double-quotes and
1537 semicolons together. Patch by Ben Darnell and Petri Lehtinen.
1538
Senthil Kumaranddd40312011-10-20 01:38:35 +08001539- Issue #6090: zipfile raises a ValueError when a document with a timestamp
1540 earlier than 1980 is provided. Patch contributed by Petri Lehtinen.
1541
Nadeem Vawdadeb1ce72011-10-17 19:33:38 +02001542- Issue #13194: zlib.compressobj().copy() and zlib.decompressobj().copy() are
1543 now available on Windows.
1544
Éric Araujo017e5352011-10-09 07:11:19 +02001545- Issue #13114: Fix the distutils commands check and register when the
1546 long description is a Unicode string with non-ASCII characters.
1547
Ned Deilybd9d07c2011-10-06 14:29:49 -07001548- Issue #7367: Fix pkgutil.walk_paths to skip directories whose
1549 contents cannot be read.
1550
1551- Issue #7425: Prevent pydoc -k failures due to module import errors.
1552 (Backport to 2.7 of existing 3.x fix)
1553
Antoine Pitrouace2ccf2011-10-04 13:38:04 +02001554- Issue #13099: Fix sqlite3.Cursor.lastrowid under a Turkish locale.
1555 Reported and diagnosed by Thomas Kluyver.
1556
Antoine Pitrou561a8212011-10-04 09:34:48 +02001557- Issue #7689: Allow pickling of dynamically created classes when their
1558 metaclass is registered with copy_reg. Patch by Nicolas M. Thiéry and
1559 Craig Citro.
1560
Charles-François Natali564f8902011-09-29 19:43:01 +02001561- Issue #13058: ossaudiodev: fix a file descriptor leak on error. Patch by
1562 Thomas Jarosch.
1563
Victor Stinner51b71982011-09-23 01:15:32 +02001564- Issue #12931: xmlrpclib now encodes Unicode URI to ISO-8859-1, instead of
1565 failing with a UnicodeDecodeError.
1566
Éric Araujoa13cd392011-09-10 05:39:45 +02001567- Issue #8933: distutils' PKG-INFO files will now correctly report
1568 Metadata-Version: 1.1 instead of 1.0 if a Classifier or Download-URL field is
1569 present.
1570
Éric Araujo0f2dbf32011-09-03 00:47:07 +02001571- Issue #8286: The distutils command sdist will print a warning message instead
1572 of crashing when an invalid path is given in the manifest template.
Victor Stinner08563d92011-05-30 23:44:13 +02001573
Lars Gustäbel8babfdf2011-09-05 17:04:18 +02001574- Issue #12841: tarfile unnecessarily checked the existence of numerical user
1575 and group ids on extraction. If one of them did not exist the respective id
1576 of the current user (i.e. root) was used for the file and ownership
1577 information was lost.
1578
Éric Araujo429b8902011-08-30 01:48:59 +02001579- Issue #10946: The distutils commands bdist_dumb, bdist_wininst and bdist_msi
1580 now respect a --skip-build option given to bdist.
1581
Charles-François Natalifda7b372011-08-28 16:22:33 +02001582- Issue #12287: Fix a stack corruption in ossaudiodev module when the FD is
1583 greater than FD_SETSIZE.
1584
Nadeem Vawdabbabbae2011-08-28 11:23:57 +02001585- Issue #12839: Fix crash in zlib module due to version mismatch.
1586 Fix by Richard M. Tew.
1587
Charles-François Natali2a34eb32011-08-25 21:20:54 +02001588- Issue #12786: Set communication pipes used by subprocess.Popen CLOEXEC to
1589 avoid them being inherited by other subprocesses.
1590
Antoine Pitrou77657e42011-08-24 22:41:05 +02001591- Issue #4106: Fix occasional exceptions printed out by multiprocessing on
1592 interpreter shutdown.
1593
Antoine Pitroua1a8da82011-08-23 19:54:20 +02001594- Issue #11657: Fix sending file descriptors over 255 over a multiprocessing
1595 Pipe.
1596
Antoine Pitrou808cec52011-08-20 15:40:58 +02001597- Issue #12213: Fix a buffering bug with interleaved reads and writes that
1598 could appear on io.BufferedRandom streams.
1599
Victor Stinneracacbaa2011-08-20 14:02:38 +02001600- Issue #12326: sys.platform is now always 'linux2' on Linux, even if Python
1601 is compiled on Linux 3.
1602
Jesus Cead256ca12011-09-19 16:57:18 +02001603- Issue #13007: whichdb should recognize gdbm 1.9 magic numbers.
1604
Éric Araujoe7329f42011-08-19 03:07:39 +02001605- Issue #9173: Let shutil._make_archive work if the logger argument is None.
1606
Charles-François Natalib02302c2011-08-18 17:18:28 +02001607- Issue #12650: Fix a race condition where a subprocess.Popen could leak
1608 resources (FD/zombie) when killed at the wrong time.
1609
Barry Warsaw39935f42011-08-15 19:50:35 -04001610- Issue #12752: Fix regression which prevented locale.normalize() from
1611 accepting unicode strings.
1612
Senthil Kumaranf432aec2011-08-03 18:31:59 +08001613- Issue #12683: urlparse updated to include svn as schemes that uses relative
1614 paths. (svn from 1.5 onwards support relative path).
1615
Éric Araujo33af2632011-08-02 03:16:12 +02001616- Issue #11933: Fix incorrect mtime comparison in distutils.
1617
Éric Araujo560bf852011-07-31 02:04:00 +02001618- Issues #11104, #8688: Fix the behavior of distutils' sdist command with
1619 manually-maintained MANIFEST files.
1620
Éric Araujo9a528302011-07-29 17:34:35 +02001621- Issue #8887: "pydoc somebuiltin.somemethod" (or help('somebuiltin.somemethod')
1622 in Python code) now finds the doc of the method.
1623
Charles-François Natali0cf7e252011-07-27 19:36:40 +02001624- Issue #12603: Fix pydoc.synopsis() on files with non-negative st_mtime.
1625
Raymond Hettinger55e5e272011-07-28 23:56:38 -07001626- Issue #12514: Use try/finally to assure the timeit module restores garbage
1627 collections when it is done.
1628
Ross Lagerwalld8e39012011-07-27 18:54:53 +02001629- Issue #12607: In subprocess, fix issue where if stdin, stdout or stderr is
1630 given as a low fd, it gets overwritten.
1631
Ross Lagerwall528c4ad2011-07-25 07:23:58 +02001632- Issue #12102: Document that buffered files must be flushed before being used
1633 with mmap. Patch by Steffen Daode Nurpmeso.
1634
Charles-François Natali3de8c732011-07-24 22:33:35 +02001635- Issue #12560: Build libpython.so on OpenBSD. Patch by Stefan Sperling.
1636
Antoine Pitrou4cfae022011-07-24 02:51:01 +02001637- Issue #1813: Fix codec lookup and setting/getting locales under Turkish
1638 locales.
1639
Nadeem Vawda0d2889f2011-07-23 16:13:01 +02001640- Issue #10883: Fix socket leaks in urllib when using FTP.
Nadeem Vawdab42c53e2011-07-23 15:51:16 +02001641
Charles-François Natali97781b02011-07-22 23:43:42 +02001642- Issue #12592: Make Python build on OpenBSD 5 (and future major releases).
1643
Charles-François Natali4929eb92011-07-21 19:41:04 +02001644- Issue #12372: POSIX semaphores are broken on AIX: don't use them.
1645
Antoine Pitrou495ee8f2011-07-20 00:26:23 +02001646- Issue #12571: Add a plat-linux3 directory mirroring the plat-linux2
1647 directory, so that "import DLFCN" and other similar imports work on
1648 Linux 3.0.
1649
R David Murray95225952011-07-18 21:34:04 -04001650- Issue #7484: smtplib no longer puts <> around addresses in VRFY and EXPN
1651 commands; they aren't required and in fact postfix doesn't support that form.
1652
Antoine Pitrou304f0f92011-07-15 21:22:50 +02001653- Issue #11603: Fix a crash when __str__ is rebound as __repr__. Patch by
1654 Andreas Stührk.
1655
Charles-François Natali26591402011-07-14 19:49:02 +02001656- Issue #12502: asyncore: fix polling loop with AF_UNIX sockets.
1657
Victor Stinnerbf547fd2011-07-13 21:47:31 +02001658- Issue #4376: ctypes now supports nested structures in a endian different than
1659 the parent structure. Patch by Vlad Riscutia.
1660
Victor Stinnere7901312011-07-05 14:08:01 +02001661- Issue #12493: subprocess: Popen.communicate() now also handles EINTR errors
1662 if the process has only one pipe.
1663
Victor Stinner65c15352011-07-04 03:05:37 +02001664- Issue #12467: warnings: fix a race condition if a warning is emitted at
1665 shutdown, if globals()['__file__'] is None.
1666
Charles-François Natali414d0fa2011-07-02 13:56:19 +02001667- Issue #12352: Fix a deadlock in multiprocessing.Heap when a block is freed by
1668 the garbage collector while the Heap lock is held.
1669
Ned Deily87e82bb2011-06-28 19:52:59 -07001670- Issue #9516: On Mac OS X, change Distutils to no longer globally attempt to
1671 check or set the MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET environment variable for the
1672 interpreter process. This could cause failures in non-Distutils subprocesses
1673 and was unreliable since tests or user programs could modify the interpreter
Ezio Melotti302ad8d2013-01-19 19:44:58 +02001674 environment after Distutils set it. Instead, have Distutils set the
Ned Deily87e82bb2011-06-28 19:52:59 -07001675 deployment target only in the environment of each build subprocess. It is
1676 still possible to globally override the default by setting
1677 MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET before launching the interpreter; its value must be
1678 greater or equal to the default value, the value with which the interpreter
1679 was built.
1680
Raymond Hettinger2c316a32011-06-25 17:14:53 +02001681- Issue #11802: The cache in filecmp now has a maximum size of 100 so that
1682 it won't grow without bound.
1683
Ross Lagerwallffa8e2f2011-06-25 09:55:10 +02001684- Issue #12404: Remove C89 incompatible code from mmap module. Patch by Akira
1685 Kitada.
1686
R David Murrayf1138bb2011-06-17 22:23:04 -04001687- Issue #11700: mailbox proxy object close methods can now be called multiple
1688 times without error, and _ProxyFile now closes the wrapped file.
1689
Victor Stinnerc74a6ba2011-06-17 14:06:27 +02001690- Issue #12133: AbstractHTTPHandler.do_open() of urllib.request closes the HTTP
1691 connection if its getresponse() method fails with a socket error. Patch
1692 written by Ezio Melotti.
1693
Benjamin Peterson0eb4ac42011-06-11 15:53:11 -05001694- Issue #9284: Allow inspect.findsource() to find the source of doctest
1695 functions.
1696
R David Murray873c5832011-06-09 16:01:09 -04001697- Issue #10694: zipfile now ignores garbage at the end of a zipfile.
1698
Brian Curtincaea7e82011-06-08 19:29:53 -05001699- Issue #11583: Speed up os.path.isdir on Windows by using GetFileAttributes
1700 instead of os.stat.
1701
Mark Dickinsona493ca32011-06-04 18:24:15 +01001702- Issue #12080: Fix a performance issue in Decimal._power_exact that caused
1703 some corner-case Decimal.__pow__ calls to take an unreasonably long time.
1704
Raymond Hettinger45b08292011-06-02 20:40:35 -07001705- Named tuples now work correctly with vars().
1706
Barry Warsawc5643282011-07-19 17:06:30 -04001707- sys.setcheckinterval() now updates the current ticker count as well as
1708 updating the check interval, so if the user decreases the check interval,
1709 the ticker doesn't have to wind down to zero from the old starting point
1710 before the new interval takes effect. And if the user increases the
1711 interval, it makes sure the new limit takes effect right away rather have an
1712 early task switch before recognizing the new interval.
Raymond Hettinger19b851d2011-06-01 18:21:42 -07001713
Victor Stinner776e69b2011-06-01 01:03:00 +02001714- Issue #12085: Fix an attribute error in subprocess.Popen destructor if the
1715 constructor has failed, e.g. because of an undeclared keyword argument. Patch
1716 written by Oleg Oshmyan.
1717
Barry Warsawc5643282011-07-19 17:06:30 -04001718Extension Modules
1719-----------------
1720
Meador Ingefe7aa492012-05-28 13:52:59 -05001721- Issue #9041: An issue in ctypes.c_longdouble, ctypes.c_double, and
1722 ctypes.c_float that caused an incorrect exception to be returned in the
1723 case of overflow has been fixed.
1724
Jesus Cea23fbd8c2012-01-17 00:17:10 +01001725- bsddb module: Erratic behaviour of "DBEnv->rep_elect()" because a typo.
1726 Possible crash.
1727
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcdee76e62012-01-13 22:53:25 +01001728- Issue #13774: json: Fix a SystemError when a bogus encoding is passed to
1729 json.loads().
1730
Charles-François Natali3aa59e32012-01-02 15:38:27 +01001731- Issue #9975: socket: Fix incorrect use of flowinfo and scope_id. Patch by
1732 Vilmos Nebehaj.
1733
Nadeem Vawda36248152011-10-13 13:52:46 +02001734- Issue #13159: FileIO, BZ2File, and the built-in file class now use a
1735 linear-time buffer growth strategy instead of a quadratic one.
1736
Charles-François Natali9ffcbf72011-10-06 19:09:45 +02001737- Issue #13070: Fix a crash when a TextIOWrapper caught in a reference cycle
1738 would be finalized after the reference to its underlying BufferedRWPair's
1739 writer got cleared by the GC.
1740
Meador Ingead349a12011-10-03 21:34:04 -05001741- Issue #12881: ctypes: Fix segfault with large structure field names.
1742
Meador Ingefe150032011-09-27 20:35:28 -05001743- Issue #13013: ctypes: Fix a reference leak in PyCArrayType_from_ctype.
1744 Thanks to Suman Saha for finding the bug and providing a patch.
1745
Jesus Ceac23484b2011-09-21 03:47:39 +02001746- Issue #13022: Fix: _multiprocessing.recvfd() doesn't check that
1747 file descriptor was actually received.
1748
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc439c25e2011-09-12 20:12:09 +02001749- Issue #12483: ctypes: Fix a crash when the destruction of a callback
1750 object triggers the garbage collector.
1751
Jesus Cea6ebaca12011-09-10 04:35:18 +02001752- Issue #12950: Fix passing file descriptors in multiprocessing, under
1753 OpenIndiana/Illumos.
1754
Amaury Forgeot d'Arccf316a12011-09-02 20:32:23 +02001755- Issue #12764: Fix a crash in ctypes when the name of a Structure field is not
1756 a string.
1757
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc3d7f2362011-08-30 21:04:35 +02001758- Issue #9651: Fix a crash when ctypes.create_string_buffer(0) was passed to
1759 some functions like file.write().
1760
Barry Warsawc5643282011-07-19 17:06:30 -04001761- Issue #10309: Define _GNU_SOURCE so that mremap() gets the proper
1762 signature. Without this, architectures where sizeof void* != sizeof int are
1763 broken. Patch given by Hallvard B Furuseth.
1764
Serhiy Storchakaff99e412013-04-14 18:52:15 +03001765IDLE
1766----
1767
1768- Issue #964437 Make IDLE help window non-modal.
1769 Patch by Guilherme Polo and Roger Serwy.
1770
1771- Issue #13933: IDLE auto-complete did not work with some imported
1772 module, like hashlib. (Patch by Roger Serwy)
1773
1774- Issue #13506: Add '' to path for IDLE Shell when started and restarted with Restart Shell.
1775 Original patches by Marco Scataglini and Roger Serwy.
1776
1777- Issue #4625: If IDLE cannot write to its recent file or breakpoint
1778 files, display a message popup and continue rather than crash.
1779 (original patch by Roger Serwy)
1780
1781- Issue #8793: Prevent IDLE crash when given strings with invalid hex escape
1782 sequences.
1783
1784- Issue #13296: Fix IDLE to clear compile __future__ flags on shell restart.
1785 (Patch by Roger Serwy)
1786
Ned Deily43e10542011-06-27 23:41:53 -07001787Build
1788-----
1789
Martin v. Löwisa1b2af82012-02-21 18:12:02 +01001790- Issue #6807: Run msisupport.mak earlier.
1791
Martin v. Löwisef281bd2012-02-21 17:07:32 +01001792- Issue #10580: Minor grammar change in Windows installer.
1793
Ned Deilyc5df5632012-02-19 02:19:12 +01001794- Issue #12627: Implement PEP 394 for Python 2.7 ("python2").
1795
Ned Deily43e10542011-06-27 23:41:53 -07001796- Issue #8746: Correct faulty configure checks so that os.chflags() and
1797 os.lchflags() are once again built on systems that support these
1798 functions (*BSD and OS X). Also add new stat file flags for OS X
1799 (UF_HIDDEN and UF_COMPRESSED).
1800
Jason R. Coombsfee77452011-07-27 14:05:37 -04001801Tools/Demos
1802-----------
1803
Nadeem Vawdaf00011a2012-02-22 11:40:09 +02001804- Issue #14053: patchcheck.py ("make patchcheck") now works with MQ patches.
1805 Patch by Francisco Martín Brugué.
1806
Gregory P. Smith12426992012-02-12 15:51:21 -08001807- Issue #13930: 2to3 is now able to write its converted output files to another
1808 directory tree as well as copying unchanged files and altering the file
1809 suffix. See its new -o, -W and --add-suffix options. This makes it more
1810 useful in many automated code translation workflows.
1811
Jason R. Coombsfee77452011-07-27 14:05:37 -04001812- Issue #10639: reindent.py no longer converts newlines and will raise
1813 an error if attempting to convert a file with mixed newlines.
1814
Victor Stinner99cff3f2011-12-19 13:59:58 +01001815- Issue #13628: python-gdb.py is now able to retrieve more frames in the Python
1816 traceback if Python is optimized.
1817
Victor Stinnerd9f52922011-05-30 23:58:21 +02001818Tests
1819-----
1820
Martin v. Löwisc02e1e62012-07-29 16:30:50 +02001821- Issue #15467: Move helpers for __sizeof__ tests into test_support.
1822 Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
1823
Petri Lehtinen437b1492012-02-17 21:34:41 +02001824- Issue #11689: Fix a variable scoping error in an sqlite3 test.
1825 Initial patch by Torsten Landschoff.
1826
Serhiy Storchakaff99e412013-04-14 18:52:15 +03001827- Issue #10881: Fix test_site failures with OS X framework builds.
1828
1829- Issue #13901: Prevent test_distutils failures on OS X with --enable-shared.
1830
Ned Deily1aacd7b2011-10-31 16:14:52 -07001831- Issue #13304: Skip test case if user site-packages disabled (-s or
1832 PYTHONNOUSERSITE). (Patch by Carl Meyer)
1833
Barry Warsawbf0cafa2011-10-28 16:16:58 -04001834- Issue #13218: Fix test_ssl failures on Debian/Ubuntu.
1835
Charles-François Natalicdaafe02011-08-23 19:42:02 +02001836- Issue #12821: Fix test_fcntl failures on OpenBSD 5.
1837
Éric Araujo498da2c2011-07-31 17:59:28 +02001838- Issue #12331: The test suite for lib2to3 can now run from an installed
1839 Python.
1840
Ned Deily0ab67ee2011-07-13 15:05:31 -07001841- Issue #12549: Correct test_platform to not fail when OS X returns 'x86_64'
1842 as the processor type on some Mac systems.
1843
Antoine Pitrou4a4a0fe2011-07-09 02:34:05 +02001844- Skip network tests when getaddrinfo() returns EAI_AGAIN, meaning a temporary
1845 failure in name resolution.
1846
Jesus Ceacb65f322011-11-08 16:06:44 +01001847- Issue #11812: Solve transient socket failure to connect to 'localhost'
1848 in test_telnetlib.py.
1849
Jesus Cea71094b52011-11-08 15:54:42 +01001850- Solved a potential deadlock in test_telnetlib.py. Related to issue #11812.
1851
Antoine Pitrou29603082011-07-08 19:40:15 +02001852- Avoid failing in test_robotparser when mueblesmoraleda.com is flaky and
1853 an overzealous DNS service (e.g. OpenDNS) redirects to a placeholder
1854 Web site.
1855
Antoine Pitroua4d58d22011-07-08 19:14:19 +02001856- Avoid failing in test_urllibnet.test_bad_address when some overzealous
1857 DNS service (e.g. OpenDNS) resolves a non-existent domain name. The test
1858 is now skipped instead.
1859
Ned Deily46268c42011-07-03 21:52:35 -07001860- Issue #8716: Avoid crashes caused by Aqua Tk on OSX when attempting to run
1861 test_tk or test_ttk_guionly under a username that is not currently logged
1862 in to the console windowserver (as may be the case under buildbot or ssh).
1863
Ned Deily63144c62011-06-28 00:39:19 -07001864- Issue #12141: Install a copy of template C module file so that
1865 test_build_ext of test_distutils is no longer silently skipped when
1866 run outside of a build directory.
1867
Ned Deily43e10542011-06-27 23:41:53 -07001868- Issue #8746: Add additional tests for os.chflags() and os.lchflags().
1869 Patch by Garrett Cooper.
1870
Ned Deily64e59952011-06-27 23:09:31 -07001871- Issue #10736: Fix test_ttk test_widgets failures with Cocoa Tk 8.5.9
1872 on Mac OS X. (Patch by Ronald Oussoren)
1873
Victor Stinnerd9f52922011-05-30 23:58:21 +02001874- Issue #12057: Add tests for ISO 2022 codecs (iso2022_jp, iso2022_jp_2,
1875 iso2022_kr).
1876
Florent Xiclunadf10d7c2011-10-23 23:07:22 +02001877Documentation
1878-------------
1879
Petri Lehtinena15a8d22012-03-01 21:28:00 +02001880- Issues #13491 and #13995: Fix many errors in sqlite3 documentation.
1881 Initial patch for #13491 by Johannes Vogel.
Petri Lehtinen002b2022012-02-16 21:42:34 +02001882
Petri Lehtinenfe6f9d02012-02-02 21:11:28 +02001883- Issue #13402: Document absoluteness of sys.executable.
1884
Brett Cannon64b2b6a2012-01-26 18:32:24 -05001885- Issue #13883: PYTHONCASEOK also works on OS X, OS/2, and RiscOS.
1886
Meador Ingeda747c32012-01-19 00:17:44 -06001887- Issue #2134: The tokenize documentation has been clarified to explain why
1888 all operator and delimiter tokens are treated as token.OP tokens.
1889
Meador Inge52957182011-12-03 12:13:42 -06001890- Issue #13513: Fix io.IOBase documentation to correctly link to the
1891 io.IOBase.readline method instead of the readline module.
1892
Nick Coghlan86711572011-10-24 22:19:40 +10001893- Issue #13237: Reorganise subprocess documentation to emphasise convenience
1894 functions and the most commonly needed arguments to Popen.
1895
Florent Xiclunadf10d7c2011-10-23 23:07:22 +02001896- Issue #13141: Demonstrate recommended style for SocketServer examples.
1897
Victor Stinner08563d92011-05-30 23:44:13 +02001898
Benjamin Peterson5ee84482010-11-28 04:49:23 +00001899What's New in Python 2.7.2?
1900===========================
1901
Benjamin Peterson9843ba52011-06-11 09:42:44 -05001902*Release date: 2011-06-11*
Benjamin Petersonf14e4202011-05-31 18:44:55 -05001903
Benjamin Peterson43ee1a52011-06-10 11:32:52 -05001904Library
1905-------
1906
1907- Issue #12009: Fixed regression in netrc file comment handling.
1908
Benjamin Peterson4ba009d2011-05-31 18:59:49 -05001909Extension Modules
1910-----------------
1911
1912- Issue #1221: Make pyexpat.__version__ equal to the Python version.
1913
Benjamin Petersonf14e4202011-05-31 18:44:55 -05001914
1915What's New in Python 2.7.2 release candidate 1?
1916===============================================
1917
Benjamin Petersoncd207052011-05-29 16:50:27 -05001918*Release date: 2011-05-29*
Benjamin Peterson5ee84482010-11-28 04:49:23 +00001919
1920Core and Builtins
1921-----------------
1922
Ned Deily482f9082011-05-28 00:11:54 -07001923- Issue #9670: Increase the default stack size for secondary threads on
1924 Mac OS X and FreeBSD to reduce the chances of a crash instead of a
1925 "maximum recursion depth" RuntimeError exception.
1926 (patch by Ronald Oussoren)
1927
Benjamin Petersonef1122c2011-06-03 16:17:22 -05001928- Correct lookup of __dir__ on objects. This allows old-style classes to have
1929 __dir__. It also causes errors besides AttributeError found on lookup to be
1930 propagated.
Benjamin Peterson8de87a62011-05-23 16:11:05 -05001931
Victor Stinner2c585f62011-05-10 00:22:59 +02001932- Issue #1195: Fix input() if it is interrupted by CTRL+d and then CTRL+c,
1933 clear the end-of-file indicator after CTRL+d.
1934
Victor Stinner0a92d182011-05-03 15:09:24 +02001935- Issue #8651: PyArg_Parse*() functions raise an OverflowError if the file
1936 doesn't have PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN define and the size doesn't fit in an int
1937 (length bigger than 2^31-1 bytes).
1938
Victor Stinner645b9f62011-05-03 15:06:11 +02001939- Issue #8651: Fix "z#" format of PyArg_Parse*() function: the size was not
1940 written if PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN is defined.
1941
Victor Stinnere363ec12011-05-01 23:43:37 +02001942- Issue #9756: When calling a method descriptor or a slot wrapper descriptor,
1943 the check of the object type doesn't read the __class__ attribute anymore.
1944 Fix a crash if a class override its __class__ attribute (e.g. a proxy of the
Victor Stinner97cf5852011-05-01 23:51:11 +02001945 str type). Patch written by Andreas Stührk.
Victor Stinnere363ec12011-05-01 23:43:37 +02001946
Antoine Pitrou1f9eb152011-04-27 19:26:06 +02001947- Issue #10517: After fork(), reinitialize the TLS used by the PyGILState_*
1948 APIs, to avoid a crash with the pthread implementation in RHEL 5. Patch
1949 by Charles-François Natali.
1950
Ezio Melottie3685f62011-04-26 05:12:51 +03001951- Issue #6780: fix starts/endswith error message to mention that tuples are
1952 accepted too.
1953
Ezio Melottic283a852011-04-15 16:14:04 +03001954- Issue #5057: fix a bug in the peepholer that led to non-portable pyc files
1955 between narrow and wide builds while optimizing BINARY_SUBSCR on non-BMP
1956 chars (e.g. u"\U00012345"[0]).
1957
Victor Stinner5de51ac2011-04-09 16:09:08 +02001958- Issue #11650: PyOS_StdioReadline() retries fgets() if it was interrupted
1959 (EINTR), for example if the program is stopped with CTRL+z on Mac OS X. Patch
1960 written by Charles-Francois Natali.
1961
Mark Dickinson874d59e2011-03-26 12:18:00 +00001962- Issue #11144: Ensure that int(a_float) returns an int whenever possible.
1963 Previously, there were some corner cases where a long was returned even
1964 though the result was within the range of an int.
1965
Antoine Pitrou2ddaaff2011-03-09 12:54:00 +01001966- Issue #11450: Don't truncate hg version info in Py_GetBuildInfo() when
1967 there are many tags (e.g. when using mq). Patch by Nadeem Vawda.
1968
Antoine Pitrou3013b162011-01-18 19:06:19 +00001969- Issue #10451: memoryview objects could allow to mutate a readable buffer.
1970 Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall.
1971
Benjamin Peterson9b911ca2011-01-12 15:49:47 +00001972- Issue #10892: Don't segfault when trying to delete __abstractmethods__ from a
1973 class.
1974
Antoine Pitrou5a72e762011-01-07 21:49:44 +00001975- Issue #8020: Avoid a crash where the small objects allocator would read
1976 non-Python managed memory while it is being modified by another thread.
1977 Patch by Matt Bandy.
1978
Raymond Hettinger57a86892011-01-25 21:43:29 +00001979- Issue #11004: Repaired edge case in deque.count().
1980
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcac514c82011-01-03 00:50:57 +00001981- Issue #8278: On Windows and with a NTFS filesystem, os.stat() and os.utime()
1982 can now handle dates after 2038.
1983
R. David Murray64a1e7c2010-12-15 01:36:03 +00001984- Issue #4236: Py_InitModule4 now checks the import machinery directly
1985 rather than the Py_IsInitialized flag, avoiding a Fatal Python
1986 error in certain circumstances when an import is done in __del__.
1987
Ezio Melotti302ad8d2013-01-19 19:44:58 +02001988- Issue #11828: startswith and endswith don't accept None as slice index.
Jesus Cea44e81682011-04-20 16:39:15 +02001989 Patch by Torsten Becker.
1990
Benjamin Peterson07f54512010-12-11 04:25:57 +00001991- Issue #10674: Remove unused 'dictmaker' rule from grammar.
1992
Mark Dickinsonecf8ec62010-12-04 12:30:41 +00001993- Issue #10596: Fix float.__mod__ to have the same behaviour as
1994 float.__divmod__ with respect to signed zeros. -4.0 % 4.0 should be
1995 0.0, not -0.0.
1996
Eli Bendersky680e6eb2011-03-04 06:14:56 +00001997- Issue #11386: bytearray.pop() now throws IndexError when the bytearray is
1998 empty, instead of OverflowError.
1999
Benjamin Peterson5ee84482010-11-28 04:49:23 +00002000Library
2001-------
Antoine Pitrou47900cf2010-12-17 17:45:12 +00002002
Benjamin Peterson4fa68ab2011-05-26 09:56:41 -05002003- Issue #12161: Cause StringIO.getvalue() to raise a ValueError when used on a
2004 closed StringIO instance.
2005
Victor Stinnerdbfba162011-05-26 13:37:25 +02002006- Issue #12182: Fix pydoc.HTMLDoc.multicolumn() if Python uses the new (true)
2007 division (python -Qnew). Patch written by Ralf W. Grosse-Kunstleve.
2008
Victor Stinnerdaf17e92011-05-25 22:52:37 +02002009- Issue #12175: RawIOBase.readall() now returns None if read() returns None.
2010
Victor Stinner5100a402011-05-25 22:15:36 +02002011- Issue #12175: FileIO.readall() now raises a ValueError instead of an IOError
2012 if the file is closed.
2013
Charles-François Natalib94e0cd2011-05-24 23:10:54 +02002014- Issue #1441530: In imaplib, use makefile() to wrap the SSL socket to avoid
2015 heap fragmentation and MemoryError with some malloc implementations.
2016
Victor Stinner40b41e12011-05-24 22:29:13 +02002017- Issue #12100: Don't reset incremental encoders of CJK codecs at each call to
2018 their encode() method anymore, but continue to call the reset() method if the
2019 final argument is True.
2020
Victor Stinnerf58f1c32011-05-21 02:13:22 +02002021- Issue #12124: zipimport doesn't keep a reference to zlib.decompress() anymore
2022 to be able to unload the module.
2023
Ronald Oussoren372954e2011-05-17 13:22:30 +02002024- Issue #10154, #10090: change the normalization of UTF-8 to "UTF-8" instead
2025 of "UTF8" in the locale module as the latter is not supported MacOSX and OpenBSD.
2026
Victor Stinnerf58f1c32011-05-21 02:13:22 +02002027- Issue #9516: avoid errors in sysconfig when MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET is
Ronald Oussoren53b6a5f2011-05-15 16:51:10 +02002028 set in shell.
2029
Nadeem Vawda0cc4fd92011-05-14 14:29:07 +02002030- Issue #12050: zlib.decompressobj().decompress() now clears the unconsumed_tail
2031 attribute when called without a max_length argument.
2032
Antoine Pitrouee46a7b2011-05-13 00:31:52 +02002033- Issue #12062: In the `io` module, fix a flushing bug when doing a certain
2034 type of I/O sequence on a file opened in read+write mode (namely: reading,
2035 seeking a bit forward, writing, then seeking before the previous write but
2036 still within buffered data, and writing again).
2037
Antoine Pitrou47d1d0d2011-05-10 19:16:03 +02002038- Issue #8498: In socket.accept(), allow to specify 0 as a backlog value in
2039 order to accept exactly one connection. Patch by Daniel Evers.
2040
Victor Stinnerb1241f92011-05-10 01:52:03 +02002041- Issue #12012: ssl.PROTOCOL_SSLv2 becomes optional.
2042
Antoine Pitrou21ce8f02011-05-07 19:59:33 +02002043- Issue #11927: SMTP_SSL now uses port 465 by default as documented. Patch
2044 by Kasun Herath.
2045
Ezio Melotti50bc66a2012-11-03 21:29:08 +02002046- Issue #11999: fixed sporadic sync failure mailbox.Maildir due to its trying to
R David Murray8b26c4b2011-05-06 21:56:22 -04002047 detect mtime changes by comparing to the system clock instead of to the
2048 previous value of the mtime.
2049
Ronald Oussoren58d6b1b2011-05-06 11:31:33 +02002050- Issue #10684: shutil.move used to delete a folder on case insensitive
2051 filesystems when the source and destination name where the same except
2052 for the case.
2053
Ezio Melottidf8a8f72011-05-04 14:40:53 +03002054- Issue #11982: fix json.loads('""') to return u'' rather than ''.
2055
Victor Stinner112d48a2011-05-03 14:36:36 +02002056- Issue #11277: mmap.mmap() calls fcntl(fd, F_FULLFSYNC) on Mac OS X to get
2057 around a mmap bug with sparse files. Patch written by Steffen Daode Nurpmeso.
2058
Senthil Kumaran011525e2011-04-28 15:30:31 +08002059- Issue #10761: Fix tarfile.extractall failure when symlinked files are
2060 present. Initial patch by Scott Leerssen.
2061
Ezio Melotti34b32d62011-04-27 09:45:46 +03002062- Issue #11763: don't use difflib in TestCase.assertMultiLineEqual if the
2063 strings are too long.
2064
Senthil Kumaran5dc68682011-04-26 21:17:45 +08002065- Issue #11236: getpass.getpass responds to ctrl-c or ctrl-z on terminal.
2066
Victor Stinner33feeab2011-04-18 16:33:28 +02002067- Issue #11768: The signal handler of the signal module only calls
2068 Py_AddPendingCall() for the first signal to fix a deadlock on reentrant or
2069 parallel calls. PyErr_SetInterrupt() writes also into the wake up file.
2070
Raymond Hettingere0156c42011-04-19 09:48:39 -07002071- Issue #11875: collections.OrderedDict's __reduce__ was temporarily
2072 mutating the object instead of just working on a copy.
2073
Martin v. Löwis2d253dd2011-04-17 22:29:40 +02002074- Issue #11442: Add a charset parameter to the Content-type in SimpleHTTPServer
2075 to avoid XSS attacks.
2076
Senthil Kumaranddaea1c2011-04-15 18:07:33 +08002077- Issue #11467: Fix urlparse behavior when handling urls which contains scheme
2078 specific part only digits. Patch by Santoso Wijaya.
2079
Raymond Hettinger37c0fe52011-04-15 13:12:21 -07002080- collections.Counter().copy() now works correctly for subclasses.
2081
Senthil Kumarana99b7612011-04-14 12:54:35 +08002082- Issue #11474: Fix the bug with url2pathname() handling of '/C|/' on Windows.
2083 Patch by Santoso Wijaya.
2084
Ezio Melotti2b96f092011-04-13 05:37:29 +03002085- Issue #9233: Fix json.loads('{}') to return a dict (instead of a list), when
2086 _json is not available.
2087
2088- Issue #11703: urllib2.geturl() does not return correct url when the original
Senthil Kumaran0531d6f2011-04-13 09:47:20 +08002089 url contains #fragment.
2090
R David Murrayea8b6ef2011-04-12 21:00:26 -04002091- Issue #10019: Fixed regression in json module where an indent of 0 stopped
2092 adding newlines and acted instead like 'None'.
2093
brian.curtin16f98b72011-04-11 18:05:33 -05002094- Issue #5162: Treat services like frozen executables to allow child spawning
2095 from multiprocessing.forking on Windows.
2096
Ezio Melotti8b4367e2011-04-11 03:44:28 +03002097- Issue #4877: Fix a segfault in xml.parsers.expat while attempting to parse
2098 a closed file.
2099
Raymond Hettingere4579c32011-04-11 17:27:42 -07002100- Issue #11830: Remove unnecessary introspection code in the decimal module.
2101 It was causing a failed import in the Turkish locale where the locale
2102 sensitive str.upper() method caused a name mismatch.
2103
Antoine Pitrou7dfc8742011-04-11 00:26:42 +02002104- Issue #8428: Fix a race condition in multiprocessing.Pool when terminating
2105 worker processes: new processes would be spawned while the pool is being
2106 shut down. Patch by Charles-François Natali.
2107
Ezio Melotti8b4367e2011-04-11 03:44:28 +03002108- Issue #7311: Fix HTMLParser to accept non-ASCII attribute values.
Ezio Melotti9f1ffb22011-04-05 20:40:52 +03002109
Ross Lagerwall104c3f12011-04-05 15:24:34 +02002110- Issue #10963: Ensure that subprocess.communicate() never raises EPIPE.
2111
guido@google.com2bc23b82011-03-24 10:44:17 -07002112- Issue #11662: Make urllib and urllib2 ignore redirections if the
guido@google.comdb3080e2011-03-28 13:53:40 -07002113 scheme is not HTTP, HTTPS or FTP (CVE-2011-1521).
Antoine Pitrou47900cf2010-12-17 17:45:12 +00002114
Benjamin Peterson77d46602011-03-28 17:32:31 -05002115- Issue #11256: Fix inspect.getcallargs on functions that take only keyword
2116 arguments.
2117
Martin v. Löwis03f7e232011-03-27 20:58:52 +02002118- Issue #11696: Fix ID generation in msilib.
2119
Mark Dickinsond687be02011-03-27 16:15:24 +01002120- Issue #9696: Fix exception incorrectly raised by xdrlib.Packer.pack_int when
2121 trying to pack a negative (in-range) integer.
2122
Mark Dickinson1829e8f2011-03-27 15:32:05 +01002123- Issue #11675: multiprocessing.[Raw]Array objects created from an integer size
2124 are now zeroed on creation. This matches the behaviour specified by the
2125 documentation.
2126
Martin v. Löwis49b0ce02011-03-27 10:10:46 +02002127- Issue #7639: Fix short file name generation in bdist_msi.
2128
Raymond Hettinger9aa5a342011-03-25 16:00:13 -07002129- Issue #11666: let help() display named tuple attributes and methods
2130 that start with a leading underscore.
2131
Mark Dickinsonf9e9a6f2011-03-25 22:01:06 +00002132- Issue #11673: Fix multiprocessing Array and RawArray constructors to accept a
2133 size of type 'long', rather than only accepting 'int'.
2134
Éric Araujo374274d2011-03-19 04:29:36 +01002135- Issue #10042: Fixed the total_ordering decorator to handle cross-type
2136 comparisons that could lead to infinite recursion.
2137
Michael Foord51368672011-03-17 12:59:38 -04002138- Issue #10979: unittest stdout buffering now works with class and module
2139 setup and teardown.
2140
Ronald Oussoren2ab59942011-03-16 09:47:15 -04002141- Issue #11569: use absolute path to the sysctl command in multiprocessing to
2142 ensure that it will be found regardless of the shell PATH. This ensures
2143 that multiprocessing.cpu_count works on default installs of MacOSX.
2144
Michael Foord51368672011-03-17 12:59:38 -04002145- Issue #11500: Fixed a bug in the os x proxy bypass code for fully qualified
2146 IP addresses in the proxy exception list.
Ronald Oussoren1aa999c2011-03-14 18:53:59 -04002147
Mark Dickinson2c8c62e2011-03-12 11:05:32 +00002148- Issue #11131: Fix sign of zero in plus and minus operations when
2149 the context rounding mode is ROUND_FLOOR.
2150
Ned Deily9d4836e2011-03-09 02:31:55 -08002151- Issue #5622: Fix curses.wrapper to raise correct exception if curses
2152 initialization fails.
2153
Antoine Pitroud6f3a3e2011-03-06 02:03:34 +01002154- Issue #11391: Writing to a mmap object created with
2155 ``mmap.PROT_READ|mmap.PROT_EXEC`` would segfault instead of raising a
2156 TypeError. Patch by Charles-François Natali.
2157
R. David Murray1a337902011-03-03 18:17:40 +00002158- Issue #11306: mailbox in certain cases adapts to an inability to open
2159 certain files in read-write mode. Previously it detected this by
2160 checking for EACCES, now it also checks for EROFS.
2161
Giampaolo Rodolàd65224f2011-03-03 14:17:51 +00002162- Issue #11265: asyncore now correctly handles EPIPE, EBADF and EAGAIN errors
2163 on accept(), send() and recv().
2164
Antoine Pitroud3f6ea12011-02-26 23:35:27 +00002165- Issue #11326: Add the missing connect_ex() implementation for SSL sockets,
2166 and make it work for non-blocking connects.
2167
Antoine Pitrou6439c002011-02-25 21:35:47 +00002168- Issue #10956: Buffered I/O classes retry reading or writing after a signal
2169 has arrived and the handler returned successfully.
2170
Georg Brandl28046022011-02-25 11:01:04 +00002171- Issue #10680: Fix mutually exclusive arguments for argument groups in
2172 argparse.
2173
Antoine Pitrouf4d2b3d2011-02-21 23:59:20 +00002174- Issue #4681: Allow mmap() to work on file sizes and offsets larger than
2175 4GB, even on 32-bit builds. Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall, adapted for
2176 32-bit Windows.
2177
Georg Brandl52f83952011-02-25 10:39:23 +00002178- Issue #10360: In WeakSet, do not raise TypeErrors when testing for
2179 membership of non-weakrefable objects.
2180
2181- Issue #10549: Fix pydoc traceback when text-documenting certain classes.
2182
2183- Issue #940286: pydoc.Helper.help() ignores input/output init parameters.
2184
Barry Warsaw42bb7ca2011-02-14 20:04:00 +00002185- Issue #11171: Fix detection of config/Makefile when --prefix !=
2186 --exec-prefix, which caused Python to not start.
2187
R. David Murray008c0442011-02-11 23:03:13 +00002188- Issue #11116: any error during addition of a message to a mailbox now causes
2189 a rollback, instead of leaving the mailbox partially modified.
2190
Antoine Pitrou820021e2011-01-31 21:47:45 +00002191- Issue #8275: Fix passing of callback arguments with ctypes under Win64.
2192 Patch by Stan Mihai.
2193
Vinay Sajipcdb83882011-01-21 23:35:57 +00002194- Issue #10949: Improved robustness of rotating file handlers.
2195
Antoine Pitrou8a0eede2011-01-20 21:20:18 +00002196- Issue #10955: Fix a potential crash when trying to mmap() a file past its
2197 length. Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall.
2198
Antoine Pitrou63a3f152011-01-19 15:27:24 +00002199- Issue #10898: Allow compiling the posix module when the C library defines
2200 a symbol named FSTAT.
2201
Antoine Pitrou9989d852011-01-15 16:18:57 +00002202- Issue #10916: mmap should not segfault when a file is mapped using 0 as
2203 length and a non-zero offset, and an attempt to read past the end of file
2204 is made (IndexError is raised instead). Patch by Ross Lagerwall.
2205
Terry Reedyf7dd7992011-01-10 22:15:19 +00002206- Issue #10875: Update Regular Expression HOWTO; patch by 'SilentGhost'.
2207
Antoine Pitrou5a72e762011-01-07 21:49:44 +00002208- Issue #10827: Changed the rules for 2-digit years. The time.asctime
2209 function will now format any year when ``time.accept2dyear`` is
2210 false and will accept years >= 1000 otherwise. The year range
2211 accepted by ``time.mktime`` and ``time.strftime`` is still system
2212 dependent, but ``time.mktime`` will now accept full range supported
2213 by the OS. Conversion of 2-digit years to 4-digit is deprecated.
2214
Georg Brandl6adb9792011-01-09 07:53:14 +00002215- Issue #10869: Fixed bug where ast.increment_lineno modified the root
2216 node twice.
2217
Antoine Pitrou1f1613f2011-01-06 18:30:26 +00002218- Issue #7858: Raise an error properly when os.utime() fails under Windows
2219 on an existing file.
2220
Antoine Pitrou77c1b382011-01-06 17:19:05 +00002221- Issue #3839: wsgiref should not override a Content-Length header set by
2222 the application. Initial patch by Clovis Fabricio.
2223
Antoine Pitrou91ce0d92011-01-03 18:45:09 +00002224- Issue #10806, issue #9905: Fix subprocess pipes when some of the standard
2225 file descriptors (0, 1, 2) are closed in the parent process. Initial
2226 patch by Ross Lagerwall.
2227
Antoine Pitroub0614612011-01-02 20:04:52 +00002228- Issue #4662: os.tempnam(), os.tmpfile() and os.tmpnam() now raise a py3k
2229 DeprecationWarning.
2230
Raymond Hettinger8ebebd82011-01-02 01:03:26 +00002231- Subclasses of collections.OrderedDict now work correctly with __missing__.
2232
Éric Araujo86f90742011-03-21 00:15:26 +01002233- Issue #10753 - Characters ';', '=' and ',' in the PATH_INFO environment
Senthil Kumaran559395f2010-12-29 06:30:19 +00002234 variable won't be quoted when the URI is constructed by the wsgiref.util 's
2235 request_uri method. According to RFC 3986, these characters can be a part of
2236 params in PATH component of URI and need not be quoted.
2237
Éric Araujo86f90742011-03-21 00:15:26 +01002238- Issue #10738: Fix webbrowser.Opera.raise_opts
Terry Reedy0df73672010-12-28 19:53:32 +00002239
Éric Araujo86f90742011-03-21 00:15:26 +01002240- Issue #9824: SimpleCookie now encodes , and ; in values to cater to how
R. David Murray08fc7012010-12-28 19:11:03 +00002241 browsers actually parse cookies.
2242
R. David Murray5360d002010-12-27 19:17:17 +00002243- Issue #1379416: eliminated a source of accidental unicode promotion in
2244 email.header.Header.encode.
2245
R. David Murray5874ed62010-12-26 22:29:53 +00002246- Issue #5258/#10642: if site.py encounters a .pth file that generates an error,
2247 it now prints the filename, line number, and traceback to stderr and skips
2248 the rest of that individual file, instead of stopping processing entirely.
2249
Antoine Pitroufc9ead62010-12-21 21:26:55 +00002250- Issue #10750: The ``raw`` attribute of buffered IO objects is now read-only.
2251
Daniel Stutzbach57cf0af2011-01-04 18:47:17 +00002252- Issue #10242: unittest.TestCase.assertItemsEqual makes too many assumptions
Michael Foorde6e0e262010-12-19 15:52:56 +00002253 about input.
2254
Michael Foorda17f0762010-12-19 14:53:19 +00002255- Issue #10611: SystemExit should not cause a unittest test run to exit.
2256
Antoine Pitroud7b6ac62010-12-18 18:18:21 +00002257- Issue #6791: Limit header line length (to 65535 bytes) in http.client,
2258 to avoid denial of services from the other party.
2259
R. David Murray3f752ab2010-12-18 17:22:18 +00002260- Issue #9907: Fix tab handling on OSX when using editline by calling
R. David Murray7a697252010-12-18 03:52:09 +00002261 rl_initialize first, then setting our custom defaults, then reading .editrc.
2262
Antoine Pitrou47900cf2010-12-17 17:45:12 +00002263- Issue #4188: Avoid creating dummy thread objects when logging operations
2264 from the threading module (with the internal verbose flag activated).
2265
Senthil Kumaran5c7fd6e2010-12-17 04:56:02 +00002266- Issue #9721: Fix the behavior of urljoin when the relative url starts with a
2267 ';' character. Patch by Wes Chow.
Benjamin Peterson5ee84482010-11-28 04:49:23 +00002268
Antoine Pitrou47d9b0e2010-12-16 17:11:34 +00002269- Issue #10714: Limit length of incoming request in http.server to 65536 bytes
2270 for security reasons. Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall.
2271
Éric Araujoe04c13c2010-12-15 21:15:25 +00002272- Issue #9558: Fix distutils.command.build_ext with VS 8.0.
2273
R. David Murraydacb8042010-12-14 14:34:16 +00002274- Issue #10695: passing the port as a string value to telnetlib no longer
2275 causes debug mode to fail.
2276
Antoine Pitrou4cb64ad2010-12-03 19:31:52 +00002277- Issue #10478: Reentrant calls inside buffered IO objects (for example by
2278 way of a signal handler) now raise a RuntimeError instead of freezing the
2279 current process.
2280
Éric Araujofb3de6b2010-12-03 19:24:49 +00002281- Issue #10497: Fix incorrect use of gettext in argparse.
2282
R. David Murrayd75cc912010-12-02 03:16:23 +00002283- Issue #10464: netrc now correctly handles lines with embedded '#' characters.
2284
Gregory P. Smith312efbc2010-12-14 15:02:53 +00002285- Issue #1731717: Fixed the problem where subprocess.wait() could cause an
2286 OSError exception when The OS had been told to ignore SIGCLD in our process
2287 or otherwise not wait for exiting child processes.
2288
Steven Bethardf8583ac2011-01-24 20:40:15 +00002289- Issue #9509: argparse now properly handles IOErrors raised by
2290 argparse.FileType.
2291
Steven Bethard3f69a052011-03-26 19:59:02 +01002292- Issue #9348: Raise an early error if argparse nargs and metavar don't match.
2293
2294- Issue #8982: Improve the documentation for the argparse Namespace object.
2295
Steven Bethard5e0062d2011-03-26 21:50:38 +01002296- Issue #9343: Document that argparse parent parsers must be configured before
2297 their children.
2298
Steven Bethardbc3b1042011-03-27 13:57:55 +02002299- Issue #9026: Fix order of argparse sub-commands in help messages.
2300
Steven Betharde3c11b42011-04-04 01:47:52 +02002301- Issue #9347: Fix formatting for tuples in argparse type= error messages.
2302
R. David Murray2a4b3fc2010-12-11 02:13:04 +00002303Extension Modules
2304-----------------
2305
Benjamin Peterson6116d4a2011-05-17 18:31:20 -05002306- Stop using the old interface for providing methods and attributes in the _sre
2307 module. Among other things, this gives these classes ``__class__``
2308 attributes. (See #12099)
2309
Ezio Melotti0639be62011-05-07 19:21:22 +03002310- Issue #10169: Fix argument parsing in socket.sendto() to avoid error masking.
2311
Ezio Melottic1ec7b52011-05-11 00:55:35 +03002312- Issue #12051: Fix segfault in json.dumps() while encoding highly-nested
2313 objects using the C accelerations.
2314
Ezio Melotticec46492011-05-07 17:40:23 +03002315- Issue #12017: Fix segfault in json.loads() while decoding highly-nested
2316 objects using the C accelerations.
2317
Benjamin Petersonf21ad922011-03-26 17:56:28 -05002318- Issue #1838: Prevent segfault in ctypes, when _as_parameter_ on a class is set
2319 to an instance of the class.
2320
R. David Murray2a4b3fc2010-12-11 02:13:04 +00002321- Issue #678250: Make mmap flush a noop on ACCESS_READ and ACCESS_COPY.
2322
Serhiy Storchakaff99e412013-04-14 18:52:15 +03002323IDLE
2324----
2325
2326- Issue #11718: IDLE's open module dialog couldn't find the __init__.py
2327 file in a package.
2328
2329- Issue #12590: IDLE editor window now always displays the first line
2330 when opening a long file. With Tk 8.5, the first line was hidden.
2331
2332- Issue #11088: don't crash when using F5 to run a script in IDLE on MacOSX
2333 with Tk 8.5.
2334
2335- Issue #10940: Workaround an IDLE hang on Mac OS X 10.6 when using the
2336 menu accelerators for Open Module, Go to Line, and New Indent Width.
2337 The accelerators still work but no longer appear in the menu items.
2338
2339- Issue #10907: Warn OS X 10.6 IDLE users to use ActiveState Tcl/Tk 8.5, rather
2340 than the currently problematic Apple-supplied one, when running with the
2341 64-/32-bit installer variant.
2342
2343- Issue #11052: Correct IDLE menu accelerators on Mac OS X for Save
2344 commands.
2345
2346- Issue #6075: IDLE on Mac OS X now works with both Carbon AquaTk and
2347 Cocoa AquaTk.
2348
2349- Issue #10404: Use ctl-button-1 on OSX for the context menu in Idle.
2350
2351- Issue #10107: Warn about unsaved files in IDLE on OSX.
2352
2353- Issue #10406: Enable Rstrip IDLE extension on OSX (just like on other
2354 platforms).
2355
Antoine Pitrouf11d1832011-01-02 19:37:45 +00002356Build
2357-----
2358
Ned Deily22f63b52011-05-28 05:56:14 -07002359- Issue #11217: For 64-bit/32-bit Mac OS X universal framework builds,
2360 ensure "make install" creates symlinks in --prefix bin for the "-32"
2361 files in the framework bin directory like the installer does.
2362
Thomas Wouters5edae7e2011-03-06 11:48:05 -08002363- Issue #11411: Fix 'make DESTDIR=' with a relative destination.
2364
Georg Brandl94800df2011-02-25 11:09:02 +00002365- Issue #10709: Add updated AIX notes in Misc/README.AIX.
2366
2367- Issue #11184: Fix large-file support on AIX.
2368
Georg Brandl71f4fbb2011-02-25 11:04:50 +00002369- Issue #941346: Fix broken shared library build on AIX.
2370
Ned Deilye6cc7d62011-02-21 21:00:09 +00002371- Issue #11268: Prevent Mac OS X Installer failure if Documentation
2372 package had previously been installed.
2373
Ned Deily68adfdc2011-02-07 16:52:25 +00002374- Issue #11079: The /Applications/Python x.x folder created by the Mac
2375 OS X installers now includes a link to the installed documentation.
2376
Ned Deily53c460d2011-01-30 01:43:40 +00002377- Issue #11054: Allow Mac OS X installer builds to again work on 10.5 with
2378 the system-provided Python.
2379
2380- Issue #10843: Update third-party library versions used in OS X
2381 32-bit installer builds: bzip2 1.0.6, readline 6.1.2, SQLite 3.7.4
2382 (with FTS3/FTS4 and RTREE enabled), and ncursesw 5.5 (wide-char
2383 support enabled).
2384
Antoine Pitrou9828b562011-01-03 19:11:32 +00002385- Don't run pgen twice when using make -j.
2386
Antoine Pitrou31e85952011-01-03 18:57:14 +00002387- Issue #7716: Under Solaris, don't assume existence of /usr/xpg4/bin/grep in
2388 the configure script but use $GREP instead. Patch by Fabian Groffen.
2389
Antoine Pitrouf11d1832011-01-02 19:37:45 +00002390- Issue #10475: Don't hardcode compilers for LDSHARED/LDCXXSHARED on NetBSD
2391 and DragonFly BSD. Patch by Nicolas Joly.
2392
David Malcolm4c29e1c2011-01-06 17:39:24 +00002393- Issue #10655: Fix the build on PowerPC on Linux with GCC when building with
2394 timestamp profiling (--with-tsc): the preprocessor test for the PowerPC
2395 support now looks for "__powerpc__" as well as "__ppc__": the latter seems to
2396 only be present on OS X; the former is the correct one for Linux with GCC.
2397
Ronald Oussoren19199832011-03-14 11:57:39 -04002398- Issue #1099: Fix the build on MacOSX when building a framework with pydebug
2399 using GCC 4.0.
2400
R. David Murray0960bc52010-12-04 17:24:46 +00002401Tests
2402-----
2403
Serhiy Storchakaff99e412013-04-14 18:52:15 +03002404- Issue #11164: Remove obsolete allnodes test from minidom test.
2405
Ned Deilyc4f97f42011-05-29 02:36:17 -07002406- Issue #12205: Fix test_subprocess failure due to uninstalled test data.
2407
Ezio Melottie3992eb2011-05-14 06:24:53 +03002408- Issue #5723: Improve json tests to be executed with and without accelerations.
2409
Ezio Melotti5c5d7e22011-05-09 06:54:53 +03002410- Issue #11910: Fix test_heapq to skip the C tests when _heapq is missing.
2411
Nadeem Vawdabafc6a92011-04-19 01:35:58 +02002412- Fix test_startfile to wait for child process to terminate before finishing.
2413
Ross Lagerwallfe2f1ad2011-04-09 20:39:50 +02002414- Issue #11719: Fix message about unexpected test_msilib skip on non-Windows
2415 platforms. Patch by Nadeem Vawda.
2416
Ned Deily5f511822011-04-05 17:16:09 -07002417- Issue #7108: Fix test_commands to not fail when special attributes ('@'
2418 or '.') appear in 'ls -l' output.
2419
R David Murraycdd5fc92011-03-13 22:37:18 -04002420- Issue #11490: test_subprocess:test_leaking_fds_on_error no longer gives a
2421 false positive if the last directory in the path is inaccessible.
2422
Antoine Pitrou8bc59fa2011-01-12 18:56:09 +00002423- Issue #10822: Fix test_posix:test_getgroups failure under Solaris. Patch
2424 by Ross Lagerwall.
2425
Antoine Pitrou8c688be2011-01-03 20:49:01 +00002426- Issue #6293: Have regrtest.py echo back sys.flags. This is done by default
2427 in whole runs and enabled selectively using ``--header`` when running an
2428 explicit list of tests. Original patch by Collin Winter.
2429
R. David Murrayf8a63912010-12-14 16:26:30 +00002430- Issue #775964: test_grp now skips YP/NIS entries instead of failing when
2431 encountering them.
2432
R. David Murray0960bc52010-12-04 17:24:46 +00002433- Issue #7110: regrtest now sends test failure reports and single-failure
2434 tracebacks to stderr rather than stdout.
2435
Benjamin Peterson5ee84482010-11-28 04:49:23 +00002436
Benjamin Petersondb4c3342010-11-13 23:32:58 +00002437What's New in Python 2.7.1?
2438===========================
2439
Benjamin Peterson3e0fa422010-11-27 14:40:29 +00002440*Release date: 2010-11-27*
Benjamin Petersondb4c3342010-11-13 23:32:58 +00002441
2442Library
2443-------
2444
Éric Araujo54274ad2011-02-03 00:12:18 +00002445- Issue #2236: distutils' mkpath ignored the mode parameter.
2446
2447- Fix typo in one sdist option (medata-check).
2448
Raymond Hettinger061bf7a2010-11-30 03:15:35 +00002449- Issue #10323: itertools.islice() now consumes the minimum number of
2450 inputs before stopping. Formerly, the final state of the underlying
2451 iterator was undefined.
2452
Alexander Belopolsky1fea5c42010-11-30 01:18:17 +00002453- Issue #10565: The collections.Iterator ABC now checks for both
2454 ``__iter__`` and ``next``.
2455
Georg Brandl79f096a2010-11-26 07:57:57 +00002456- Issue #10092: Properly reset locale in calendar.Locale*Calendar classes.
2457
Martin v. Löwise03c7782010-11-22 10:53:46 +00002458- Issue #10459: Update CJK character names to Unicode 5.2.
2459
Georg Brandl5ded7912010-11-26 07:35:31 +00002460- Issue #6098: Don't claim DOM level 3 conformance in minidom.
2461
Senthil Kumaran9a5897b2010-11-29 12:41:03 +00002462- Issue #10561: In pdb, clear the breakpoints by the breakpoint number.
2463
Georg Brandl5ded7912010-11-26 07:35:31 +00002464- Issue #5762: Fix AttributeError raised by ``xml.dom.minidom`` when an empty
2465 XML namespace attribute is encountered.
2466
Georg Brandl86e0c892010-11-26 07:22:28 +00002467- Issue #1710703: Write structures for an empty ZIP archive when a ZipFile is
2468 created in modes 'a' or 'w' and then closed without adding any files. Raise
2469 BadZipfile (rather than IOError) when opening small non-ZIP files.
2470
Senthil Kumaran0b7cac12010-11-22 05:04:33 +00002471- Issue #4493: urllib2 adds '/' in front of path components which does not
2472 start with '/. Common behavior exhibited by browsers and other clients.
2473
Éric Araujo4fadd532010-11-20 20:02:41 +00002474- Issue #10407: Fix one NameError in distutils.
2475
Georg Brandl839c1132010-11-20 11:29:38 +00002476- Issue #10198: fix duplicate header written to wave files when writeframes()
2477 is called without data.
2478
Benjamin Peterson4fec9ce2010-11-20 17:31:08 +00002479- Issue #10467: Fix BytesIO.readinto() after seeking into a position after the
2480 end of the file.
2481
Senthil Kumaran501bfd82010-11-14 03:31:52 +00002482- Issue #5111: IPv6 Host in the Header is wrapped inside [ ]. Patch by Chandru.
2483
Serhiy Storchakaff99e412013-04-14 18:52:15 +03002484IDLE
2485----
2486
2487- Issue #6378: idle.bat now runs with the appropriate Python version rather than
2488 the system default. Patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar.
2489
Martin v. Löwiseebd0172010-11-14 18:17:39 +00002490Build
2491-----
2492
Brian Curtin69a106a2010-11-22 02:08:49 +00002493- Backport r83399 to allow test_distutils to pass on installed versions.
2494
Martin v. Löwiseebd0172010-11-14 18:17:39 +00002495- Issue #1303434: Generate ZIP file containing all PDBs.
2496
Ezio Melotti2623a372010-11-21 13:34:58 +00002497Tests
2498-----
2499
2500- Issue #9424: Replace deprecated assert* methods in the Python test suite.
2501
Ezio Melottibf8484e2010-11-24 21:54:47 +00002502Documentation
2503-------------
2504
2505- Issue #10299: List the built-in functions in a table in functions.rst.
2506
Benjamin Petersondb4c3342010-11-13 23:32:58 +00002507
Benjamin Petersoncc214172010-11-13 17:33:04 +00002508What's New in Python 2.7.1 release candidate 1?
2509===============================================
Benjamin Petersone3c10452010-07-03 14:51:25 +00002510
Benjamin Petersoncc214172010-11-13 17:33:04 +00002511*Release date: 2010-11-13*
Benjamin Petersone3c10452010-07-03 14:51:25 +00002512
2513Core and Builtins
2514-----------------
2515
Raymond Hettinger2ad17e12010-10-30 08:17:46 +00002516- Issue #10221: dict.pop(k) now has a key error message that includes the
2517 missing key (same message d[k] returns for missing keys).
2518
Barry Warsawfa658272010-11-02 21:03:09 +00002519- Issue #10125: Don't segfault when the iterator passed to
2520 ``file.writelines()`` closes the file.
Benjamin Petersonbf775542010-10-16 19:20:12 +00002521
Barry Warsawfa658272010-11-02 21:03:09 +00002522- Issue #10186: Fix the SyntaxError caret when the offset is equal to the
2523 length of the offending line.
Benjamin Petersonf99f33d2010-10-24 03:00:35 +00002524
Benjamin Petersonf76942d2010-10-16 03:51:38 +00002525- Issue #9997: Don't let the name "top" have special significance in scope
2526 resolution.
2527
R. David Murray1d9d16e2010-10-16 00:43:13 +00002528- Issue #9862: Compensate for broken PIPE_BUF in AIX by hard coding
2529 its value as the default 512 when compiling on AIX.
2530
Jesus Cea33c722b2010-11-04 21:39:52 +00002531- Issue #9675: CObject use is marked as a Py3k warning, not a deprecation
2532 warning.
2533
Benjamin Petersondc954242010-10-12 23:02:35 +00002534- Issue #10068: Global objects which have reference cycles with their module's
2535 dict are now cleared again. This causes issue #7140 to appear again.
2536
Mark Dickinsoncb61e5d2010-09-26 10:37:12 +00002537- Issue #9869: Make long() and PyNumber_Long return something of type
2538 long for a class whose __long__ method returns a plain int. This
2539 fixes an interpreter crash when initializing an instance of a long
2540 subclass from an object whose __long__ method returns a plain int.
2541
Benjamin Petersona5d5cc42010-10-02 00:08:58 +00002542- Issue #10006: type.__abstractmethods__ now raises an AttributeError.
2543
Antoine Pitrou0a7b65b2010-09-08 12:40:49 +00002544- Issue #9797: pystate.c wrongly assumed that zero couldn't be a valid
2545 thread-local storage key.
2546
Victor Stinnercaafd772010-09-08 10:51:01 +00002547- Issue #4947: The write() method of sys.stdout and sys.stderr uses their
2548 encoding and errors attributes instead of using utf-8 in strict mode, to get
2549 the same behaviour than the print statement.
2550
Antoine Pitrou9cf85f12010-09-01 21:17:34 +00002551- Issue #9737: Fix a crash when trying to delete a slice or an item from
2552 a memoryview object.
2553
Martin v. Löwis6086b0d2010-08-19 09:09:04 +00002554- Restore GIL in nis_cat in case of error.
2555
Benjamin Peterson6f3d6a92010-08-25 23:17:42 +00002556- Issue #9688: __basicsize__ and __itemsize__ must be accessed as Py_ssize_t.
2557
Florent Xicluna172e15f2010-08-09 20:02:00 +00002558- Issue #8530: Prevent stringlib fastsearch from reading beyond the front
2559 of an array.
2560
Raymond Hettinger3ad323e2010-08-06 10:18:56 +00002561- Issue #83755: Implicit set-to-frozenset conversion was not thread-safe.
2562
Mark Dickinsonaad57bd2010-08-01 10:45:15 +00002563- Issue #9416: Fix some issues with complex formatting where the
2564 output with no type specifier failed to match the str output:
2565
2566 - format(complex(-0.0, 2.0), '-') omitted the real part from the output,
2567 - format(complex(0.0, 2.0), '-') included a sign and parentheses.
2568
Antoine Pitrou32669782010-07-11 12:14:05 +00002569- Issue #7616: Fix copying of overlapping memoryview slices with the Intel
2570 compiler.
Benjamin Petersone3c10452010-07-03 14:51:25 +00002571
2572Library
2573-------
2574
Éric Araujo86f90742011-03-21 00:15:26 +01002575- Issue #9926: Wrapped TestSuite subclass does not get __call__ executed
Michael Foord75152ea2010-11-20 17:40:49 +00002576
Antoine Pitrou7eaa4482010-11-09 23:15:18 +00002577- Issue #4471: Properly shutdown socket in IMAP.shutdown(). Patch by
2578 Lorenzo M. Catucci.
2579
Éric Araujo2f0a0402010-11-06 15:46:46 +00002580- Issue #10126: Fix distutils' test_build when Python was built with
2581 --enable-shared.
Michael Foord75152ea2010-11-20 17:40:49 +00002582
Éric Araujo2f0a0402010-11-06 15:46:46 +00002583- Fix typo in one sdist option (medata-check).
2584
2585- Issue #9199: Fix incorrect use of distutils.cmd.Command.announce.
2586
2587- Issue #1718574: Fix options that were supposed to accept arguments but did
2588 not in build_clib.
2589
Éric Araujoe9954b52010-11-06 04:53:42 +00002590- Issue #9281: Prevent race condition with mkdir in distutils. Patch by
2591 Arfrever.
2592
Éric Araujoe28665a2010-11-06 04:36:28 +00002593- Issue #10229: Fix caching error in gettext.
2594
Éric Araujod1feff72010-11-06 04:06:18 +00002595- Issue #10252: Close file objects in a timely manner in distutils code and
2596 tests. Patch by Brian Brazil, completed by Éric Araujo.
2597
Antoine Pitrou6b1167c2010-11-05 19:55:02 +00002598- Issue #10311: The signal module now restores errno before returning from
2599 its low-level signal handler. Patch by Hallvard B Furuseth.
2600
Barry Warsawfa658272010-11-02 21:03:09 +00002601- Issue #10038: json.loads() on str should always return unicode (regression
2602 from Python 2.6). Patch by Walter Dörwald.
Michael Foorde5dc24e2010-11-01 22:11:53 +00002603
Barry Warsawfa658272010-11-02 21:03:09 +00002604- Issue #120176: Wrapped TestSuite subclass does not get __call__ executed.
2605
2606- Issue #6706: asyncore accept() method no longer raises
2607 EWOULDBLOCK/ECONNABORTED on incomplete connection attempt but returns None
2608 instead.
Giampaolo Rodolà19e9fef2010-11-01 15:07:14 +00002609
Antoine Pitrou61d14b72010-10-31 16:17:36 +00002610- Issue #10266: uu.decode didn't close in_file explicitly when it was given
2611 as a filename. Patch by Brian Brazil.
2612
Antoine Pitrou3917c092010-10-31 13:12:48 +00002613- Issue #10246: uu.encode didn't close file objects explicitly when filenames
2614 were given to it. Patch by Brian Brazil.
2615
Antoine Pitrou594a0462010-10-31 13:05:48 +00002616- Issue #10253: FileIO leaks a file descriptor when trying to open a file
2617 for append that isn't seekable. Patch by Brian Brazil.
2618
Raymond Hettingercbba8d42010-10-30 07:29:44 +00002619- Issue #6105: json.dumps now respects OrderedDict's iteration order.
2620
Antoine Pitrou638cee62010-10-28 14:50:57 +00002621- Issue #9295: Fix a crash under Windows when calling close() on a file
2622 object with custom buffering from two threads at once.
2623
Antoine Pitrou7f081022010-10-27 18:43:21 +00002624- Issue #5027: The standard ``xml`` namespace is now understood by
2625 xml.sax.saxutils.XMLGenerator as being bound to
2626 http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace. Patch by Troy J. Farrell.
2627
Brian Curtin4cc54032010-10-21 14:48:22 +00002628- Issue #10163: Skip unreadable registry keys during mimetypes
2629 initialization.
2630
Hirokazu Yamamoto50f7d7e2010-10-18 13:55:29 +00002631- Issue #5117: Fixed root directory related issue on posixpath.relpath() and
2632 ntpath.relpath().
2633
Éric Araujo86f90742011-03-21 00:15:26 +01002634- Issue #9409: Fix the regex to match all kind of filenames, for interactive
Florent Xiclunab67660f2010-10-14 21:10:45 +00002635 debugging in doctests.
2636
Victor Stinnerd2f6ae62010-10-12 22:53:51 +00002637- Issue #6612: Fix site and sysconfig to catch os.getcwd() error, eg. if the
2638 current directory was deleted. Patch written by W. Trevor King.
2639
Fred Drake577acb42010-10-11 19:13:04 +00002640- Issue #10045: Improved performance when writing after seeking past the
2641 end of the "file" in cStringIO.
2642
Vinay Sajip5e8349e2010-10-10 20:36:04 +00002643- Issue #9948: Fixed problem of losing filename case information.
2644
Antoine Pitrou58dab672010-10-10 09:54:59 +00002645- Issue #9437: Fix building C extensions with non-default LDFLAGS.
2646
Antoine Pitrou76a66aa2010-10-06 21:26:52 +00002647- Issue #9759: GzipFile now raises ValueError when an operation is attempted
2648 after the file is closed. Patch by Jeffrey Finkelstein.
2649
Éric Araujoc17776f2010-10-04 23:59:35 +00002650- Issue #9042: Fix interaction of custom translation classes and caching in
2651 gettext.
2652
Lars Gustäbel6aab8d02010-10-04 15:37:53 +00002653- Issue #9065: tarfile no longer uses "root" as the default for the uname and
2654 gname field.
2655
R. David Murray10a86762010-10-02 16:26:05 +00002656- Issue #1050268: parseaddr now correctly quotes double quote and backslash
2657 characters that appear inside quoted strings in email addresses.
2658
R. David Murray20ad3632010-10-01 15:48:49 +00002659- Issue #10004: quoprimime no longer generates a traceback when confronted
2660 with invalid characters after '=' in a Q-encoded word.
2661
Antoine Pitrou66b5df62010-09-27 18:16:46 +00002662- Issue #9950: Fix socket.sendall() crash or misbehaviour when a signal is
2663 received. Now sendall() properly calls signal handlers if necessary,
2664 and retries sending if these returned successfully, including on sockets
2665 with a timeout.
2666
Vinay Sajip3eac5912010-09-25 17:48:25 +00002667- Issue #9947: logging: Fixed locking bug in stopListening.
2668
Vinay Sajip546885e2010-09-25 17:42:36 +00002669- Issue #9945: logging: Fixed locking bugs in addHandler/removeHandler.
2670
Alexander Belopolsky517185e2010-09-24 18:14:18 +00002671- Issue #9936: Fixed executable lines' search in the trace module.
2672
Antoine Pitrou2c7d6852010-09-23 19:55:24 +00002673- Issue #9928: Properly initialize the types exported by the bz2 module.
2674
Antoine Pitrou6391b342010-09-14 18:48:19 +00002675- Issue #9854: The default read() implementation in io.RawIOBase now
2676 handles non-blocking readinto() returning None correctly.
2677
Antoine Pitrouf7f390a2010-09-14 14:37:18 +00002678- Issue #9729: Fix the signature of SSLSocket.recvfrom() and
2679 SSLSocket.sendto() to match the corresponding socket methods. Also,
2680 fix various SSLSocket methods to raise socket.error rather than an
2681 unhelpful TypeError when called on an unconnected socket. Original patch
2682 by Andrew Bennetts.
2683
Raymond Hettinger74f869e2010-09-13 22:14:36 +00002684- Issue #9826: OrderedDict.__repr__ can now handle self-referential
2685 values: d['x'] = d.
2686
Victor Stinner8fc843b2010-09-17 23:35:50 +00002687- Issue #767645: Set os.path.supports_unicode_filenames to True on Mac OS X.
Victor Stinner46287f52010-09-13 20:31:34 +00002688
Antoine Pitroue4195e82010-09-12 14:56:27 +00002689- Issue #9837: The read() method of ZipExtFile objects (as returned by
2690 ZipFile.open()) could return more bytes than requested.
2691
Raymond Hettinger20397532010-09-12 02:11:45 +00002692- Issue #9825: removed __del__ from the definition of collections.OrderedDict.
2693 This prevents user-created self-referencing ordered dictionaries from
2694 becoming permanently uncollectable GC garbage. The downside is that
2695 removing __del__ means that the internal doubly-linked list has to wait for
2696 GC collection rather than freeing memory immediately when the refcnt drops
2697 to zero.
2698
Raymond Hettingerffd2a422010-09-10 10:47:22 +00002699- Issue #9816: random.Random.jumpahead(n) did not produce a sufficiently
Victor Stinnerd2f6ae62010-10-12 22:53:51 +00002700 different internal state for small values of n. Fixed by salting the
Raymond Hettingerffd2a422010-09-10 10:47:22 +00002701 value.
2702
Antoine Pitrouc818ed42010-09-07 21:40:25 +00002703- Issue #9792: In case of connection failure, socket.create_connection()
2704 would swallow the exception and raise a new one, making it impossible
2705 to fetch the original errno, or to filter timeout errors. Now the
2706 original error is re-raised.
2707
Antoine Pitrouf4f61712010-09-07 16:34:47 +00002708- Issue #9758: When fcntl.ioctl() was called with mutable_flag set to True,
2709 and the passed buffer was exactly 1024 bytes long, the buffer wouldn't
2710 be updated back after the system call. Original patch by Brian Brazil.
2711
Antoine Pitroudca9de92010-09-04 17:52:26 +00002712- Issue #1100562: Fix deep-copying of objects derived from the list and
2713 dict types. Patch by Michele Orrù and Björn Lindqvist.
2714
Fred Drakea1e627d2010-09-03 03:55:50 +00002715- Issue #7005: Fixed output of None values for RawConfigParser.write and
2716 ConfigParser.write.
2717
Daniel Stutzbach66c981b2010-08-31 20:29:39 +00002718- Issue #808164: Fixed socket.close to avoid references to globals, to
2719 avoid issues when socket.close is called from a __del__ method.
2720
Terry Reedyd2d2ae92010-11-11 23:22:19 +00002721- Issue #2986: difflib.SequenceMatcher gets a new parameter, autojunk, which
2722 can be set to False to turn off the previously undocumented 'popularity'
2723 heuristic. Patch by Terry Reedy and Eli Bendersky
2724
Senthil Kumaran7e8fd5e2010-08-26 06:20:13 +00002725- Issue #8797: urllib2 does a retry for Basic Authentication failure instead of
2726 falling into recursion.
2727
R. David Murray7c4bf552010-08-25 01:45:57 +00002728- Issue #1194222: email.utils.parsedate now returns RFC2822 compliant four
2729 character years even if the message contains RFC822 two character years.
2730
Daniel Stutzbach91287322010-08-24 21:09:30 +00002731- Issue #8750: Fixed MutableSet's methods to correctly handle
2732 reflexive operations, namely x -= x and x ^= x.
2733
Victor Stinnercaafd772010-09-08 10:51:01 +00002734- Issue #9129: smtpd.py is vulnerable to DoS attacks deriving from missing
Giampaolo Rodolà8664d742010-08-23 22:48:51 +00002735 error handling when accepting a new connection.
2736
Giampaolo Rodolà63308d72010-08-23 21:58:47 +00002737- Issue #658749: asyncore's connect() method now correctly interprets winsock
2738 errors.
2739
Vinay Sajip1ddd51f2010-08-23 17:50:30 +00002740- Issue #9501: Fixed logging regressions in cleanup code.
2741
Raymond Hettinger917bba12010-08-22 08:01:58 +00002742- Issue #9214: Set operations on KeysView or ItemsView in the collections
2743 module now correctly return a set. (Patch by Eli Bendersky.)
2744
Antoine Pitrou3ebaed62010-08-21 19:17:25 +00002745- Issue #9617: Signals received during a low-level write operation aren't
2746 ignored by the buffered IO layer anymore.
2747
Benjamin Peterson52c36052010-08-21 03:03:22 +00002748- Issue #2521: Use weakrefs on for caching in the abc module, so that classes
2749 are not held onto after they are deleted elsewhere.
2750
Raymond Hettingera54b2da2010-08-17 19:03:06 +00002751- Issue #9626: the view methods for collections.OrderedDict() were returning
2752 the unordered versions inherited from dict. Those methods are now
2753 overridden to provide ordered views.
2754
Éric Araujo0389ae62010-08-14 03:07:46 +00002755- Issue #8688: MANIFEST files created by distutils now include a magic
2756 comment indicating they are generated. Manually maintained MANIFESTs
2757 without this marker will not be overwritten or removed.
2758
Antoine Pitroue1436d12010-08-12 15:25:51 +00002759- Issue #7467: when reading a file from a ZIP archive, its CRC is checked
2760 and a BadZipfile error is raised if it doesn't match (as used to be the
2761 case in Python 2.5 and earlier).
2762
Antoine Pitroucb4f47c2010-08-11 13:40:17 +00002763- Issue #9550: a BufferedReader could issue an additional read when the
2764 original read request had been satisfied, which could block indefinitely
2765 when the underlying raw IO channel was e.g. a socket. Report and original
2766 patch by Jason V. Miller.
2767
Fred Drake0a1fa0e2010-08-10 13:09:54 +00002768- Issue #9551: Don't raise TypeError when setting the value to None for
2769 SafeConfigParser instances constructed with allow_no_value == True.
2770
Antoine Pitrou8cdede42010-08-10 00:04:13 +00002771- Issue #6915: Under Windows, os.listdir() didn't release the Global
2772 Interpreter Lock around all system calls. Original patch by Ryan Kelly.
2773
Antoine Pitrou99009162010-08-09 22:51:24 +00002774- Issue #3757: thread-local objects now support cyclic garbage collection.
2775 Thread-local objects involved in reference cycles will be deallocated
2776 timely by the cyclic GC, even if the underlying thread is still running.
2777
Florent Xicluna2f1b1ff2010-08-09 20:46:49 +00002778- Issue #6231: Fix xml.etree.ElementInclude to include the tail of the
2779 current node.
2780
Thomas Heller5c7589c2010-08-08 18:28:59 +00002781- Issue #6869: Fix a refcount problem in the _ctypes extension.
2782
Thomas Heller001d3a12010-08-08 17:56:41 +00002783- Issue5504 - ctypes should now work with systems where mmap can't be
2784 PROT_WRITE and PROT_EXEC.
2785
Senthil Kumarane677ecf2010-08-08 11:56:31 +00002786- Fix Issue8280 - urllib2's Request method will remove fragements in the url.
2787 This is how it is supposed to work, wget and curl do the same. Previous
2788 behavior was wrong.
2789
Giampaolo Rodolà47617ab2010-08-04 08:35:25 +00002790- Issue #2944: asyncore doesn't handle connection refused correctly.
2791
R. David Murray75a292e2010-08-04 00:05:50 +00002792- Issue #3196: email header decoding is now forgiving if an RFC2047
2793 encoded word encoded in base64 is lacking padding.
2794
R. David Murray1cbf78e2010-08-03 18:14:01 +00002795- Issue #9444: Argparse now uses the first element of prefix_chars as
2796 the option character for the added 'h/help' option if prefix_chars
2797 does not contain a '-', instead of raising an error.
2798
Georg Brandl7f0c3ff2010-08-01 21:18:52 +00002799- Issue #9354: Provide getsockopt() in asyncore's file_wrapper.
2800
Florent Xicluna92847452010-09-13 17:36:36 +00002801- Issue #9428: Fix running scripts with the profile/cProfile modules from
2802 the command line.
2803
Georg Brandl9c5efad2010-08-02 21:29:14 +00002804- Issue #7781: Fix restricting stats by entry counts in the pstats
2805 interactive browser.
2806
2807- Issue #9209: Do not crash in the pstats interactive browser on invalid
2808 regular expressions.
2809
Georg Brandla2a92cf2010-08-02 17:34:58 +00002810- Issue #7372: Fix pstats regression when stripping paths from profile
2811 data generated with the profile module.
2812
Georg Brandl2bd953e2010-08-01 20:59:03 +00002813- Issue #4108: In urllib.robotparser, if there are multiple 'User-agent: *'
2814 entries, consider the first one.
2815
Antoine Pitrou39703012010-08-01 20:13:11 +00002816- Issue #8397: Raise an error when attempting to mix iteration and regular
2817 reads on a BZ2File object, rather than returning incorrect results.
2818
Georg Brandl50775992010-08-01 19:33:15 +00002819- Issue #5294: Fix the behavior of pdb's "continue" command when called
2820 in the top-level debugged frame.
2821
2822- Issue #5727: Restore the ability to use readline when calling into pdb
2823 in doctests.
2824
2825- Issue #6719: In pdb, do not stop somewhere in the encodings machinery
2826 if the source file to be debugged is in a non-builtin encoding.
2827
2828- Issue #8048: Prevent doctests from failing when sys.displayhook has
2829 been reassigned.
2830
2831- Issue #8015: In pdb, do not crash when an empty line is entered as
2832 a breakpoint command.
2833
Antoine Pitrou607951d2010-08-01 16:57:17 +00002834- Issue #9448: Fix a leak of OS resources (mutexes or semaphores) when
2835 re-initializing a buffered IO object by calling its ``__init__`` method.
2836
Georg Brandle2773252010-08-01 19:14:56 +00002837- Issue #7909: Do not touch paths with the special prefixes ``\\.\``
2838 or ``\\?\`` in ntpath.normpath().
2839
Georg Brandl004c74d2010-08-01 19:06:51 +00002840- Issue #5146: Handle UID THREAD command correctly in imaplib.
2841
2842- Issue #5147: Fix the header generated for cookie files written by
2843 http.cookiejar.MozillaCookieJar.
2844
2845- Issue #8198: In pydoc, output all help text to the correct stream
2846 when sys.stdout is reassigned.
2847
Georg Brandl0347c712010-08-01 19:02:09 +00002848- Issue #7395: Fix tracebacks in pstats interactive browser.
2849
2850- Issue #8230: Fix Lib/test/sortperf.py.
2851
Georg Brandl78e69572010-08-01 18:52:52 +00002852- Issue #1713: Fix os.path.ismount(), which returned true for symbolic links
2853 across devices.
2854
2855- Issue #8826: Properly load old-style "expires" attribute in http.cookies.
2856
2857- Issue #1690103: Fix initial namespace for code run with trace.main().
2858
Georg Brandl1f05e2e2010-08-01 08:22:05 +00002859- Issue #8471: In doctest, properly reset the output stream to an empty
2860 string when Unicode was previously output.
2861
R. David Murray58f15b62010-08-01 04:04:03 +00002862- Issue #8620: when a Cmd is fed input that reaches EOF without a final
2863 newline, it no longer truncates the last character of the last command line.
2864
Victor Stinner73363e82010-07-28 01:39:45 +00002865- Issue #6213: Implement getstate() and setstate() methods of utf-8-sig and
2866 utf-16 incremental encoders.
2867
Brian Curtinb2ec2322010-07-26 02:40:17 +00002868- Issue #7113: Speed up loading in ConfigParser. Patch by Łukasz Langa.
2869
Gregory P. Smith2a91ce82010-07-25 19:11:36 +00002870- Issue #3704: cookielib was not properly handling URLs with a / in the
2871 parameters.
2872
Victor Stinner8b0d84e2010-07-24 02:51:49 +00002873- Issue #9032: XML-RPC client retries the request on EPIPE error. The EPIPE
2874 error occurs when the server closes the socket and the client sends a big
2875 XML-RPC request.
2876
Victor Stinner2c6aee92010-07-24 02:46:16 +00002877- Issue #5542: Remove special logic that closes HTTPConnection socket on EPIPE.
2878
Victor Stinner4c16d122010-07-24 01:07:52 +00002879- Issue #4629: getopt raises an error if an argument ends with = whereas getopt
2880 doesn't except a value (eg. --help= is rejected if getopt uses ['help='] long
2881 options).
2882
Ronald Oussoren3a04a252010-07-23 12:41:00 +00002883- Issue #7895: platform.mac_ver() no longer crashes after calling os.fork()
2884
Antoine Pitrou7a7013e2010-07-21 16:47:28 +00002885- Issue #5395: array.fromfile() would raise a spurious EOFError when an
2886 I/O error occurred. Now an IOError is raised instead. Patch by chuck
2887 (Jan Hosang).
2888
R. David Murrayf6cbdcb2010-07-09 13:25:56 +00002889- Issue #7646: The fnmatch pattern cache no longer grows without bound.
2890
Mark Dickinson7ea29b02010-07-08 21:28:31 +00002891- Issue #9136: Fix 'dictionary changed size during iteration'
2892 RuntimeError produced when profiling the decimal module. This was
2893 due to a dangerous iteration over 'locals()' in Context.__init__.
2894
2895- Fix extreme speed issue in Decimal.pow when the base is an exact
2896 power of 10 and the exponent is tiny (for example,
2897 Decimal(10) ** Decimal('1e-999999999')).
2898
R. David Murray3caf7b92010-07-05 16:06:05 +00002899- Issue #9161: Fix regression in optparse's acceptance of unicode
2900 strings in add_option calls.
2901
Mark Dickinson75b44b32010-07-04 16:47:56 +00002902- Issue #9130: Fix validation of relative imports in parser module.
2903
Mark Dickinsona7ee59b2010-07-04 16:23:54 +00002904- Issue #9128: Fix validation of class decorators in parser module.
Benjamin Petersone3c10452010-07-03 14:51:25 +00002905
Ronald Oussoren75956202010-07-11 08:52:52 +00002906- Issue #9164: Ensure sysconfig handles dupblice archs while building on OSX
2907
Alexander Belopolsky9d17da32010-09-13 16:45:02 +00002908- Issue #9315: Fix for the trace module to record correct class name
2909 for tracing methods.
2910
Benjamin Petersone3c10452010-07-03 14:51:25 +00002911Extension Modules
2912-----------------
2913
Georg Brandl67c27332010-10-24 14:16:05 +00002914- Issue #9054: Fix a crash occurring when using the pyexpat module
2915 with expat version 2.0.1.
2916
Brian Curtin1390dd72010-10-01 16:44:03 +00002917- Issue #10003: Allow handling of SIGBREAK on Windows. Fixes a regression
Victor Stinnerd2f6ae62010-10-12 22:53:51 +00002918 introduced by issue #9324.
Brian Curtin1390dd72010-10-01 16:44:03 +00002919
Antoine Pitroue6ebcda2010-09-04 21:24:42 +00002920- Issue #8734: Avoid crash in msvcrt.get_osfhandle() when an invalid file
2921 descriptor is provided. Patch by Pascal Chambon.
2922
Antoine Pitrou247e2fd2010-09-04 17:27:10 +00002923- Issue #7736: Release the GIL around calls to opendir() and closedir()
2924 in the posix module. Patch by Marcin Bachry.
2925
Benjamin Peterson52c36052010-08-21 03:03:22 +00002926- As a result of issue #2521, the _weakref module is now compiled into the
2927 interpreter by default.
2928
Brian Curtin24af0e92010-08-06 19:41:01 +00002929- Issue #9324: Add parameter validation to signal.signal on Windows in order
2930 to prevent crashes.
2931
Mark Dickinson5e684332010-08-06 09:44:48 +00002932- Issue #9526: Remove some outdated (int) casts that were preventing
2933 the array module from working correctly with arrays of more than
2934 2**31 elements.
2935
Mark Dickinsonf38d8882010-08-03 18:46:28 +00002936- Fix memory leak in ssl._ssl._test_decode_cert.
2937
Mark Dickinson0f981282010-08-03 16:54:19 +00002938- Issue #8065: Fix memory leak in readline module (from failure to
2939 free the result of history_get_history_state()).
2940
Mark Dickinson4ee98532010-08-03 16:18:39 +00002941- Issue #9450: Fix memory leak in readline.replace_history_item and
2942 readline.remove_history_item for readline version >= 5.0.
2943
Brian Curtinba6c08e2010-08-01 15:47:53 +00002944- Issue #8105: Validate file descriptor passed to mmap.mmap on Windows.
2945
Georg Brandla4917272010-07-31 21:22:36 +00002946- Issue #1019882: Fix IndexError when loading certain hotshot stats.
2947
Mark Dickinson96527c32010-07-29 21:44:47 +00002948- Issue #9422: Fix memory leak when re-initializing a struct.Struct object.
2949
Ronald Oussoren9e7ffae2010-07-24 09:46:41 +00002950- Issue #7900: The getgroups(2) system call on MacOSX behaves rather oddly
2951 compared to other unix systems. In particular, os.getgroups() does
2952 not reflect any changes made using os.setgroups() but basicly always
2953 returns the same information as the id command.
2954
2955 os.getgroups() can now return more than 16 groups on MacOSX.
2956
Mark Dickinsoncac0b832010-07-18 07:55:55 +00002957- Issue #9277: Fix bug in struct.pack for bools in standard mode
2958 (e.g., struct.pack('>?')): if conversion to bool raised an exception
2959 then that exception wasn't properly propagated on machines where
2960 char is unsigned.
2961
Matthias Klose6e86bf72010-07-30 21:27:18 +00002962- Issue #7567: Don't call `setupterm' twice.
2963
Ronald Oussoren19199832011-03-14 11:57:39 -04002964
Antoine Pitrou2fba0b32010-09-08 21:12:36 +00002965Tools/Demos
2966-----------
2967
Benjamin Peterson4de6b062010-10-13 22:07:17 +00002968- Issue #7287: Demo/imputil/knee.py was removed.
2969
Antoine Pitrou2fba0b32010-09-08 21:12:36 +00002970- Issue #9188: The gdb extension now handles correctly narrow (UCS2) as well
2971 as wide (UCS4) unicode builds for both the host interpreter (embedded
2972 inside gdb) and the interpreter under test.
2973
Benjamin Peterson4082d9b2010-07-17 20:41:16 +00002974Build
2975-----
2976
Antoine Pitroue0c5f3c2010-10-27 20:35:26 +00002977- Issue #8852: Allow the socket module to build on OpenSolaris.
2978
Antoine Pitrou7be5a652010-10-10 08:14:41 +00002979- Issue #10054: Some platforms provide uintptr_t in inttypes.h. Patch by
2980 Akira Kitada.
2981
Antoine Pitrou22ad2452010-10-09 15:28:59 +00002982- Issue #10055: Make json C89-compliant in UCS4 mode.
2983
Antoine Pitrou285cd162010-09-21 15:23:17 +00002984- Issue #1633863: Don't ignore $CC under AIX.
2985
Hirokazu Yamamotoc4caa9c2010-09-18 22:33:33 +00002986- Issue #9810: Compile bzip2 source files in python's project file
2987 directly. It used to be built with bzip2's makefile.
2988
Antoine Pitrouaabdceb2010-09-10 20:03:17 +00002989- Issue #941346: Improve the build process under AIX and allow Python to
2990 be built as a shared library. Patch by Sébastien Sablé.
2991
Antoine Pitrou85729812010-09-07 14:55:24 +00002992- Issue #4026: Make the fcntl extension build under AIX. Patch by Sébastien
2993 Sablé.
2994
Antoine Pitroua74c3342010-09-03 16:15:17 +00002995- Issue #3101: Helper functions _add_one_to_index_C() and
2996 _add_one_to_index_F() become _Py_add_one_to_index_C() and
2997 _Py_add_one_to_index_F(), respectively.
Antoine Pitrou1fcdba82010-09-01 13:02:50 +00002998
2999- Issue #9700: define HAVE_BROKEN_POSIX_SEMAPHORES under AIX 6.x. Patch by
3000 Sébastien Sablé.
3001
Benjamin Peterson4082d9b2010-07-17 20:41:16 +00003002- Issue #9280: Make sharedinstall depend on sharedmods.
3003
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00003004- Issue #9275: The OSX installer once again installs links to binaries in
3005 ``/usr/local/bin``.
Ronald Oussoren8a14db82010-07-23 11:13:03 +00003006
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00003007- Issue #9392: A framework build on OSX will once again use a versioned name
3008 of the ``2to3`` tool, that is you can use ``2to3-2.7`` to select the Python
3009 2.7 edition of 2to3.
Ronald Oussoren0969c672010-07-29 13:18:19 +00003010
Ronald Oussorenec2fe002010-09-28 14:01:49 +00003011- Issue #9701: The MacOSX installer can patch the shell profile to ensure that
3012 the "bin" directory inside the framework is on the shell's search path. This
3013 feature now also supports the ZSH shell.
3014
Ronald Oussoren24215252010-10-20 13:11:46 +00003015- Issue #7473: avoid link errors when building a framework with a different
3016 set of architectures than the one that is currently installed.
Ronald Oussorenec2fe002010-09-28 14:01:49 +00003017
Antoine Pitrou22db7352010-07-08 18:54:04 +00003018Tests
3019-----
3020
Hirokazu Yamamoto1f504f12010-10-08 09:41:13 +00003021- Issue #9978: Wait until subprocess completes initialization. (Win32KillTests
3022 in test_os)
3023
Antoine Pitrou767cbc42010-09-18 18:15:33 +00003024- Issue #9894: Do not hardcode ENOENT in test_subprocess.
3025
Florent Xicluna92847452010-09-13 17:36:36 +00003026- Issue #9323: Make test.regrtest.__file__ absolute, this was not always the
3027 case when running profile or trace, for example.
3028
Alexander Belopolsky9d17da32010-09-13 16:45:02 +00003029- Issue #9315: Added tests for the trace module. Patch by Eli Bendersky.
Florent Xicluna92847452010-09-13 17:36:36 +00003030
Florent Xiclunac0c0b142010-09-13 08:53:00 +00003031- Strengthen test_unicode with explicit type checking for assertEqual tests.
3032
Giampaolo Rodolà633e4742010-08-14 17:04:46 +00003033- Issue #8857: Provide a test case for socket.getaddrinfo.
3034
Florent Xicluna172e15f2010-08-09 20:02:00 +00003035- Issue #7564: Skip test_ioctl if another process is attached to /dev/tty.
3036
Mark Dickinson28669332010-08-07 13:07:11 +00003037- Issue #8433: Fix test_curses failure with newer versions of ncurses.
3038
Antoine Pitrou185fae72010-08-04 15:54:33 +00003039- Issue #9496: Provide a test suite for the rlcompleter module. Patch by
3040 Michele Orrù.
3041
Antoine Pitrou22db7352010-07-08 18:54:04 +00003042- Issue #8605: Skip test_gdb if Python is compiled with optimizations.
3043
Ronald Oussoren8928e322010-09-28 14:43:59 +00003044- Issue #9568: Fix test_urllib2_localnet on OS X 10.3.
3045
Brett Cannon8c4fa112010-07-21 09:52:10 +00003046Documentation
3047-------------
3048
Matthias Klose3e8230d2010-09-12 16:51:29 +00003049- Issue #9817: Add expat COPYING file; add expat, libffi and expat licenses
3050 to Doc/license.rst.
3051
Brian Curtin4d808892010-08-05 19:00:45 +00003052- Issue #9524: Document that two CTRL* signals are meant for use only
3053 with os.kill.
3054
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00003055- Issue #9255: Document that the 'test' package is for internal Python use
3056 only.
Brett Cannon9ae2cb72010-07-23 12:07:27 +00003057
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00003058- Issue #7829: Document in dis that bytecode is an implementation detail.
Brett Cannon8c4fa112010-07-21 09:52:10 +00003059
Benjamin Petersone3c10452010-07-03 14:51:25 +00003060
Benjamin Peterson4f612592010-06-21 17:28:30 +00003061What's New in Python 2.7?
3062=========================
3063
Benjamin Petersonc60082d2010-07-03 13:56:13 +00003064*Release date: 2010-07-03*
Benjamin Peterson4f612592010-06-21 17:28:30 +00003065
3066Core and Builtins
3067-----------------
3068
Benjamin Peterson947ce582010-06-24 00:12:40 +00003069- Prevent assignment to set literals.
3070
Benjamin Peterson4f612592010-06-21 17:28:30 +00003071Library
3072-------
3073
Antoine Pitroua4083502010-08-28 18:29:13 +00003074- Issue #1868: Eliminate subtle timing issues in thread-local objects by
3075 getting rid of the cached copy of thread-local attribute dictionary.
3076
Benjamin Peterson6a336f62010-07-03 13:57:30 +00003077- Issue #9125: Add recognition of 'except ... as ...' syntax to parser module.
3078
3079Extension Modules
3080-----------------
3081
Benjamin Petersonc670b7e2010-07-03 13:49:23 +00003082- Issue #7673: Fix security vulnerability (CVE-2010-2089) in the audioop module,
3083 ensure that the input string length is a multiple of the frame size.
Victor Stinner15e5b1b2010-07-03 13:36:19 +00003084
Antoine Pitrou0dddf602010-06-25 00:03:21 +00003085- Issue #9075: In the ssl module, remove the setting of a ``debug`` flag
3086 on an OpenSSL structure.
3087
Benjamin Peterson00633672010-07-03 13:56:56 +00003088
Michael Foord83d35762010-06-10 16:32:00 +00003089What's New in Python 2.7 release candidate 2?
3090=============================================
Benjamin Peterson2f3d9f92010-06-06 02:09:33 +00003091
Benjamin Petersonbfcedf42010-06-21 15:57:57 +00003092*Release date: 2010-06-20*
Benjamin Peterson2f3d9f92010-06-06 02:09:33 +00003093
3094Core and Builtins
3095-----------------
3096
Benjamin Petersonb9133892010-06-22 19:16:37 +00003097- Issue #9058: Remove assertions about INT_MAX in UnicodeDecodeError.
3098
Nick Coghlan8842c352010-06-13 06:50:39 +00003099- Issue #8202: Previous change to ``sys.argv[0]`` handling for -m command line
3100 option reverted due to unintended side effects on handling of ``sys.path``.
3101 See tracker issue for details.
3102
Antoine Pitroucca3a3f2010-06-11 21:42:26 +00003103- Issue #8941: decoding big endian UTF-32 data in UCS-2 builds could crash
3104 the interpreter with characters outside the Basic Multilingual Plane
3105 (higher than 0x10000).
3106
Benjamin Petersonfa4c59f2010-06-08 14:53:29 +00003107- In the unicode/str.format(), raise a ValueError when indexes to arguments are
3108 too large.
Benjamin Peterson13e934a2010-06-07 22:23:23 +00003109
Benjamin Petersonafa1b302010-06-21 15:27:46 +00003110Build
3111-----
3112
3113- Issue #8854: Fix finding Visual Studio 2008 on Windows x64.
3114
Benjamin Peterson2f3d9f92010-06-06 02:09:33 +00003115Library
3116-------
Mark Dickinsone979ec82010-06-13 10:50:29 +00003117
Victor Stinner15e5b1b2010-07-03 13:36:19 +00003118- Issue #6589: cleanup asyncore.socket_map in case smtpd.SMTPServer constructor
Giampaolo Rodolàe00e2f02010-06-30 17:38:28 +00003119 raises an exception.
3120
Thomas Hellerf1800992010-06-21 14:00:24 +00003121- Issue #8959: fix regression caused by using unmodified libffi
3122 library on Windows. ctypes does now again check the stack before
3123 and after calling foreign functions.
3124
R. David Murraydf1cf302010-06-17 01:36:52 +00003125- Issue #8720: fix regression caused by fix for #4050 by making getsourcefile
3126 smart enough to find source files in the linecache.
3127
Mark Dickinsone979ec82010-06-13 10:50:29 +00003128- Issue #8986: math.erfc was incorrectly raising OverflowError for
3129 values between -27.3 and -30.0 on some platforms.
3130
Vinay Sajip936efc72010-06-11 22:56:50 +00003131- Issue #8924: logging: Improved error handling for Unicode in exception text.
Benjamin Peterson2f3d9f92010-06-06 02:09:33 +00003132
Michael Foord83d35762010-06-10 16:32:00 +00003133- Issue #8948: cleanup functions and class / module setups and teardowns are
3134 now honored in unittest debug methods.
3135
Tarek Ziadé770fd152010-06-06 20:05:20 +00003136Documentation
3137-------------
3138
3139- Issues #8909: Added the size of the bitmap used in the installer created by
3140 distutils' bdist_wininst. Patch by Anatoly Techtonik.
3141
Victor Stinnerb65bd2e2010-06-11 19:22:28 +00003142Misc
3143----
3144
3145- Issue #8362: Add maintainers.rst: list of module maintainers
3146
Benjamin Peterson2f3d9f92010-06-06 02:09:33 +00003147
Antoine Pitrou6001b0b2010-05-09 18:32:48 +00003148What's New in Python 2.7 Release Candidate 1?
3149=============================================
Benjamin Peterson534b8de2010-05-08 18:53:42 +00003150
Benjamin Peterson77d534e2010-06-06 00:22:09 +00003151*Release date: 2010-06-05*
Benjamin Peterson534b8de2010-05-08 18:53:42 +00003152
3153Core and Builtins
3154-----------------
3155
Ezio Melottiab2eb0e2010-06-05 19:21:32 +00003156- Issue #8271: during the decoding of an invalid UTF-8 byte sequence, only the
3157 start byte and the continuation byte(s) are now considered invalid, instead
3158 of the number of bytes specified by the start byte.
3159 E.g.: '\xf1\x80AB'.decode('utf-8', 'replace') now returns u'\ufffdAB' and
3160 replaces with U+FFFD only the start byte ('\xf1') and the continuation byte
3161 ('\x80') even if '\xf1' is the start byte of a 4-bytes sequence.
3162 Previous versions returned a single u'\ufffd'.
3163
Mark Dickinson23f0d6b2010-06-05 11:52:24 +00003164- Issue #8627: Remove bogus "Overriding __cmp__ blocks inheritance of
Mark Dickinsone4b83e02010-06-05 12:14:43 +00003165 __hash__ in 3.x" warning. Also fix "XXX undetected error" that
3166 arises from the "Overriding __eq__ blocks inheritance ..." warning
3167 when turned into an exception: in this case the exception simply
3168 gets ignored.
Mark Dickinson23f0d6b2010-06-05 11:52:24 +00003169
Mark Dickinson4ca7c3c2010-05-30 13:18:10 +00003170- Issue #8748: Fix two issues with comparisons between complex and integer
3171 objects. (1) The comparison could incorrectly return True in some cases
3172 (2**53+1 == complex(2**53) == 2**53), breaking transivity of equality.
3173 (2) The comparison raised an OverflowError for large integers, leading
3174 to unpredictable exceptions when combining integers and complex objects
3175 in sets or dicts.
3176
Mark Dickinson81336372010-05-30 12:12:25 +00003177- Issue #5211: Implicit coercion for the complex type is now completely
3178 removed. (Coercion for arithmetic operations was already removed in 2.7
3179 alpha 4, but coercion for rich comparisons was accidentally left in.)
3180
Victor Stinnerc49dfcc2010-05-25 22:30:32 +00003181- Issue #3798: Write sys.exit() message to sys.stderr to use stderr encoding
3182 and error handler, instead of writing to the C stderr file in utf-8
3183
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003184- Issue #7902: When using explicit relative import syntax, don't try implicit
3185 relative import semantics.
Brett Cannoneb3cd302010-05-20 18:37:55 +00003186
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003187- Issue #7079: Fix a possible crash when closing a file object while using it
3188 from another thread. Patch by Daniel Stutzbach.
Antoine Pitrou83137c22010-05-17 19:56:59 +00003189
Victor Stinnerb65bd2e2010-06-11 19:22:28 +00003190- Issue #8868: Fix that ensures that python scripts have access to the
Ronald Oussoren27c72e92010-06-02 03:47:14 +00003191 Window Server again in a framework build on MacOSX 10.5 or earlier.
3192
Antoine Pitrou6a265602010-05-21 17:12:38 +00003193C-API
3194-----
3195
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003196- Issue #5753: A new C API function, :cfunc:`PySys_SetArgvEx`, allows embedders
3197 of the interpreter to set sys.argv without also modifying sys.path. This
3198 helps fix `CVE-2008-5983
Antoine Pitrou6a265602010-05-21 17:12:38 +00003199 <http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5983>`_.
3200
Benjamin Peterson534b8de2010-05-08 18:53:42 +00003201Library
3202-------
3203
Michael Foordd8918592010-06-05 19:51:38 +00003204- Issue #8302: SkipTest in unittest.TestCase.setUpClass or setUpModule is now
3205 reported as a skip rather than an error.
3206
3207- Issue #8351: Excessively large diffs due to
3208 unittest.TestCase.assertSequenceEqual are no longer included in failure
3209 reports.
3210
Alexander Belopolsky3b818bf2010-06-05 14:54:26 +00003211- Issue #8899: time.struct_time now has class and atribute docstrings.
3212
R. David Murraye7e505b2010-06-04 19:51:06 +00003213- Issue #4487: email now accepts as charset aliases all codec aliases
3214 accepted by the codecs module.
3215
Martin v. Löwiseba67c02010-06-04 19:39:07 +00003216- Issue #6470: Drop UNC prefix in FixTk.
3217
R. David Murray61746d52010-06-03 15:43:20 +00003218- Issue #5610: feedparser no longer eats extra characters at the end of
3219 a body part if the body part ends with a \r\n.
3220
Lars Gustäbel2ee9c6f2010-06-03 09:56:22 +00003221- Issue #8833: tarfile created hard link entries with a size field != 0 by
3222 mistake.
3223
R. David Murray52dcd452010-06-02 22:03:15 +00003224- Issue #1368247: set_charset (and therefore MIMEText) now automatically
3225 encodes a unicode _payload to the output_charset.
3226
Alexander Belopolsky9292ee02010-05-27 20:55:27 +00003227- Issue #7150: Raise OverflowError if the result of adding or subtracting
3228 timedelta from date or datetime falls outside of the MINYEAR:MAXYEAR range.
3229
Victor Stinner04ee3372010-05-24 21:37:28 +00003230- Issue #6662: Fix parsing of malformatted charref (&#bad;), patch written by
3231 Fredrik Håård
Victor Stinner554a3b82010-05-24 21:33:24 +00003232
Georg Brandlf0757a22010-05-24 21:29:07 +00003233- Issue #8016: Add the CP858 codec.
3234
Georg Brandl5d0ca2c2010-05-22 11:29:19 +00003235- Issue #3924: Ignore cookies with invalid "version" field in cookielib.
3236
Victor Stinner7df55da2010-05-22 13:37:56 +00003237- Issue #6268: Fix seek() method of codecs.open(), don't read or write the BOM
3238 twice after seek(0). Fix also reset() method of codecs, UTF-16, UTF-32 and
3239 StreamWriter classes.
Victor Stinner262be5e2010-05-22 02:11:07 +00003240
Victor Stinnerd6703b52010-05-21 22:50:28 +00003241- Issue #5640: Fix Shift-JIS incremental encoder for error handlers different
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003242 than 'strict'.
Victor Stinnerd6703b52010-05-21 22:50:28 +00003243
Benjamin Peterson266e4542010-05-21 21:31:24 +00003244- Issue #8782: Add a trailing newline in linecache.updatecache to the last line
3245 of files without one.
3246
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003247- Issue #8729: Return NotImplemented from ``collections.Mapping.__eq__()`` when
Benjamin Petersoneb318d32010-05-21 20:51:45 +00003248 comparing to a non-mapping.
3249
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003250- Issue #8759: Fix user paths in sysconfig for posix and os2 schemes.
Tarek Ziadé8f692272010-05-19 22:20:14 +00003251
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003252- Issue #1285086: Speed up ``urllib.quote()`` and urllib.unquote for simple
3253 cases.
Florent Xiclunaaf87f9f2010-05-17 13:35:09 +00003254
Tarek Ziadé422545f2010-05-17 10:06:20 +00003255- Issue #8688: Distutils now recalculates MANIFEST everytime.
3256
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003257- Issue #5099: The ``__del__()`` method of ``subprocess.Popen`` (and the methods
3258 it calls) referenced global objects, causing errors to pop up during
3259 interpreter shutdown.
Brett Cannon42a0ba72010-05-14 00:21:48 +00003260
Mark Dickinson932e1622010-05-10 16:07:42 +00003261Extension Modules
3262-----------------
3263
Stefan Krah449aa862010-06-03 12:39:50 +00003264- Issue #7384: If the system readline library is linked against ncurses,
3265 the curses module must be linked against ncurses as well. Otherwise it
3266 is not safe to load both the readline and curses modules in an application.
3267
Brian Curtinb64c89b2010-05-25 15:06:15 +00003268- Issue #2810: Fix cases where the Windows registry API returns
3269 ERROR_MORE_DATA, requiring a re-try in order to get the complete result.
3270
Mark Dickinson932e1622010-05-10 16:07:42 +00003271- Issue #8674: Fixed a number of incorrect or undefined-behaviour-inducing
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003272 overflow checks in the ``audioop`` module.
Benjamin Peterson534b8de2010-05-08 18:53:42 +00003273
Brett Cannonda9af752010-05-13 23:59:41 +00003274Tests
3275-----
3276
R. David Murray4653fb52010-06-03 20:19:25 +00003277- Issue #8889: test_support.transient_internet rewritten so that the new
3278 checks also work on FreeBSD, which lacks EAI_NODATA.
3279
3280- Issue #8835: test_support.transient_internet() catches gaierror(EAI_NONAME)
Victor Stinner03883622010-05-27 22:29:48 +00003281 and gaierror(EAI_NODATA)
3282
Victor Stinner708c0722010-05-26 17:25:28 +00003283- Issue #7449: Skip test_socketserver if threading support is disabled
3284
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003285- On darwin, ``test_site`` assumed that a framework build was being used,
3286 leading to a failure where four directories were expected for site-packages
3287 instead of two in a non-framework build.
Brett Cannonda9af752010-05-13 23:59:41 +00003288
Martin v. Löwisb41afb52010-05-28 15:28:47 +00003289Build
3290-----
3291
Martin v. Löwis16b2a5e2010-06-04 19:15:32 +00003292- Display installer warning that Windows 2000 won't be supported in future
3293 releases.
3294
Victor Stinnerb65bd2e2010-06-11 19:22:28 +00003295- Issues #1759169, #8864: Drop _XOPEN_SOURCE on Solaris, define it for
Martin v. Löwis26eec582010-06-04 17:18:42 +00003296 multiprocessing only.
Brett Cannonda9af752010-05-13 23:59:41 +00003297
Martin v. Löwis5aafc172010-06-04 18:04:42 +00003298Tools/Demos
3299-----------
3300
3301- Issue #5464: Implement plural forms in msgfmt.py.
3302
3303
Antoine Pitrouab5ce722010-04-11 22:45:47 +00003304What's New in Python 2.7 beta 2?
3305================================
Benjamin Peterson12409062010-04-10 18:53:58 +00003306
Benjamin Petersonc2516072010-05-08 17:08:17 +00003307*Release date: 2010-05-08*
Benjamin Peterson12409062010-04-10 18:53:58 +00003308
3309Core and Builtins
3310-----------------
3311
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003312- Run Clang 2.7's static analyzer for ``Objects/`` and ``Python/``.
Brett Cannon5fb89df2010-05-05 20:54:53 +00003313
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003314- Issue #1533: Fix inconsistency in range function argument processing: any
3315 non-float non-integer argument is now converted to an integer (if possible)
3316 using its __int__ method. Previously, only small arguments were treated this
3317 way; larger arguments (those whose __int__ was outside the range of a C long)
3318 would produce a TypeError.
Mark Dickinsona8d26682010-05-04 16:18:25 +00003319
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003320- Issue #8202: ``sys.argv[0]`` is now set to '-m' instead of '-c' when searching
3321 for the module file to be executed with the -m command line option.
Nick Coghlanc5e44852010-04-28 14:51:08 +00003322
Brett Cannon19949692010-04-25 22:33:36 +00003323- Issue #7319: When -Q is used, do not silence DeprecationWarning.
3324
Antoine Pitrou18e63fb2010-04-21 22:53:29 +00003325- Issue #7332: Remove the 16KB stack-based buffer in
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003326 ``PyMarshal_ReadLastObjectFromFile``, which doesn't bring any noticeable
Antoine Pitrou18e63fb2010-04-21 22:53:29 +00003327 benefit compared to the dynamic memory allocation fallback. Patch by
3328 Charles-François Natali.
3329
Benjamin Peterson821a8ea2010-04-16 22:35:38 +00003330- Issue #8417: Raise an OverflowError when an integer larger than sys.maxsize is
3331 passed to bytearray.
3332
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003333- Issue #7072: ``isspace(0xa0)`` is true on Mac OS X.
Ronald Oussoren37805e52010-04-18 13:47:49 +00003334
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003335- Issue #8404: Fix set operations on dictionary views.
Alexandre Vassalotti268e4872010-05-04 03:21:51 +00003336
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003337- Issue #8084: PEP 370 now conforms to system conventions for framework builds
3338 on MacOS X. That is, ``python setup.py install --user`` will install into
3339 ``~/Library/Python/2.7`` instead of ``~/.local``.
Ronald Oussoren2f88bfd2010-05-08 10:29:06 +00003340
Benjamin Peterson12409062010-04-10 18:53:58 +00003341Library
3342-------
3343
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003344- Issue #8681: Make the zlib module's error messages more informative when the
3345 zlib itself doesn't give any detailed explanation.
Antoine Pitroufc3bfad2010-05-11 23:42:28 +00003346
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003347- Issue #8571: Fix an internal error when compressing or decompressing a chunk
3348 larger than 1GB with the zlib module's compressor and decompressor objects.
Antoine Pitrou3843cd82010-05-07 16:50:34 +00003349
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003350- Issue #8573: asyncore ``_strerror()`` function might throw ValueError.
Giampaolo Rodolàf7454fa2010-05-06 17:57:06 +00003351
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003352- Issue #8483: asyncore.dispatcher's __getattr__ method produced confusing error
3353 messages when accessing undefined class attributes because of the cheap
3354 inheritance with the underlying socket object. The cheap inheritance has been
3355 deprecated.
Giampaolo Rodolàf7454fa2010-05-06 17:57:06 +00003356
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003357- Issue #4265: ``shutil.copyfile()`` was leaking file descriptors when disk
3358 fills. Patch by Tres Seaver.
Tarek Ziadé38f81222010-05-05 22:15:31 +00003359
Barry Warsaw8efa8672010-05-05 16:17:22 +00003360- Issue #7755: Use an unencumbered audio file for tests.
3361
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003362- Issue #8621: ``uuid.uuid4()`` returned the same sequence of values in the
3363 parent and any children created using ``os.fork`` on Mac OS X 10.6.
Ronald Oussoren33206962010-05-05 14:48:37 +00003364
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003365- Issue #8313: ``traceback.format_exception_only()`` encodes unicode message to
3366 ASCII with backslashreplace error handler if ``str(value)`` failed.
Victor Stinner926fd4e2010-05-05 12:40:49 +00003367
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003368- Issue #8567: Fix precedence of signals in Decimal module: when a Decimal
3369 operation raises multiple signals and more than one of those signals is
3370 trapped, the specification determines the order in which the signals should be
3371 handled. In many cases this order wasn't being followed, leading to the wrong
3372 Python exception being raised.
Mark Dickinson4f96f5f2010-05-04 14:25:50 +00003373
Antoine Pitrouf7fd8e42010-05-03 16:25:33 +00003374- Issue #7865: The close() method of :mod:`io` objects should not swallow
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003375 exceptions raised by the implicit flush(). Also ensure that calling close()
3376 several times is supported. Patch by Pascal Chambon.
Antoine Pitrouf7fd8e42010-05-03 16:25:33 +00003377
Vinay Sajip27a13702010-05-03 15:11:53 +00003378- Issue #8576: logging updated to remove usage of find_unused_port().
3379
Antoine Pitrou951919f2010-05-02 19:51:14 +00003380- Issue #4687: Fix accuracy of garbage collection runtimes displayed with
3381 gc.DEBUG_STATS.
3382
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003383- Issue #8354: The siginterrupt setting is now preserved for all signals, not
3384 just SIGCHLD.
Jean-Paul Calderonee54ddf12010-05-08 20:06:02 +00003385
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003386- Issue #7192: ``webbrowser.get("firefox")`` now works on Mac OS X, as does
3387 ``webbrowser.get("safari")``.
Ronald Oussoren4ef1c7e2010-05-02 09:48:21 +00003388
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003389- Issue #8577: ``distutils.sysconfig.get_python_inc()`` now makes a difference
Tarek Ziadéa5cd1822010-04-30 12:15:12 +00003390 between the build dir and the source dir when looking for "python.h" or
3391 "Include".
3392
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003393- Issue #8464: tarfile no longer creates files with execute permissions set when
3394 mode="w|" is used.
Lars Gustäbel5c4c4612010-04-29 15:23:38 +00003395
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003396- Issue #7834: Fix connect() of Bluetooth L2CAP sockets with recent versions of
3397 the Linux kernel. Patch by Yaniv Aknin.
Antoine Pitrouf56a2882010-04-29 10:05:40 +00003398
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003399- Issue #6312: Fix http HEAD request when the transfer encoding is chunked. It
3400 should correctly return an empty response now.
Senthil Kumaraned9204342010-04-28 17:20:43 +00003401
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003402- Issue #7490: To facilitate sharing of doctests between 2.x and 3.x test
3403 suites, the ``IGNORE_EXCEPTION_DETAIL`` directive now also ignores the module
3404 location of the raised exception. Based on initial patch by Lennart Regebro.
Nick Coghlandfb45df2010-04-28 14:29:06 +00003405
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003406- Issue #8086: In :func:`ssl.DER_cert_to_PEM_cert()`, fix missing newline before
3407 the certificate footer. Patch by Kyle VanderBeek.
Antoine Pitrou4c7bcf12010-04-27 22:03:37 +00003408
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003409- Issue #8546: Reject None given as the buffering argument to ``_pyio.open()``.
Benjamin Petersona9bd6d52010-04-27 21:01:54 +00003410
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003411- Issue #8549: Fix compiling the _ssl extension under AIX. Patch by Sridhar
3412 Ratnakumar.
Antoine Pitrou1dc6b082010-04-27 19:09:59 +00003413
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003414- Issue #6656: Fix locale.format_string to handle escaped percents and mappings.
R. David Murray3939dcd2010-04-26 21:17:14 +00003415
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003416- Issue #2302: Fix a race condition in SocketServer.BaseServer.shutdown, where
3417 the method could block indefinitely if called just before the event loop
3418 started running. This also fixes the occasional freezes witnessed in
3419 test_httpservers.
Antoine Pitroua6240402010-04-25 21:40:32 +00003420
Antoine Pitroufc69af12010-04-24 20:04:58 +00003421- Issue #5103: SSL handshake would ignore the socket timeout and block
3422 indefinitely if the other end didn't respond.
3423
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003424- The do_handshake() method of SSL objects now adjusts the blocking mode of the
3425 SSL structure if necessary (as other methods already do).
Antoine Pitrou4d3e3722010-04-24 19:57:01 +00003426
Georg Brandl4341e542010-04-24 09:08:10 +00003427- Issue #7507: Quote "!" in pipes.quote(); it is special to some shells.
3428
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003429- Issue #5238: Calling makefile() on an SSL object would prevent the underlying
3430 socket from being closed until all objects get truely destroyed.
Antoine Pitroub558f172010-04-23 23:25:45 +00003431
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003432- Issue #7943: Fix circular reference created when instantiating an SSL socket.
3433 Initial patch by Péter Szabó.
Antoine Pitroudfb299b2010-04-23 22:54:59 +00003434
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003435- Issue #8451: Syslog module now uses basename(sys.argv[0]) instead of the
3436 string "python" as the *ident*. openlog() arguments are all optional and
3437 keywords.
Sean Reifscheiderf6ce3cb2010-04-23 08:31:55 +00003438
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003439- Issue #8108: Fix the unwrap() method of SSL objects when the socket has a
3440 non-infinite timeout. Also make that method friendlier with applications
Antoine Pitroua5c4b552010-04-22 23:33:02 +00003441 wanting to continue using the socket in clear-text mode, by disabling
3442 OpenSSL's internal readahead. Thanks to Darryl Miles for guidance.
3443
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003444- Issue #8484: Load all ciphers and digest algorithms when initializing the _ssl
3445 extension, such that verification of some SSL certificates doesn't fail
3446 because of an "unknown algorithm".
Antoine Pitrouc715a9e2010-04-21 19:28:03 +00003447
Victor Stinnera92e81b2010-04-20 22:28:31 +00003448- Issue #8437: Fix test_gdb failures, patch written by Dave Malcolm
3449
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003450- Issue #4814: The timeout parameter is now applied also for connections
3451 resulting from PORT/EPRT commands.
Giampaolo Rodolà607f7c02010-04-19 21:46:28 +00003452
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003453- Issue #8463: Add missing reference to bztar in shutil's documentation.
Tarek Ziadé8a12f942010-04-19 21:28:21 +00003454
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003455- Issue #8438: Remove reference to the missing "surrogateescape" encoding error
3456 handler from the new IO library.
Antoine Pitrou7c587bf2010-04-19 18:52:43 +00003457
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003458- Issue #3817: ftplib.FTP.abort() method now considers 225 a valid response code
3459 as stated in RFC-959 at chapter 5.4.
Giampaolo Rodolàcf445fc2010-04-18 12:55:03 +00003460
Martin v. Löwis24f09fd2010-04-17 22:40:40 +00003461- Issue #8279: Fix test_gdb failures.
3462
Antoine Pitrou0a6373c2010-04-17 17:10:38 +00003463- Issue #8322: Add a *ciphers* argument to SSL sockets, so as to change the
3464 available cipher list. Helps fix test_ssl with OpenSSL 1.0.0.
3465
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003466- Issue #2987: RFC 2732 support for urlparse (IPv6 addresses). Patch by Tony
Senthil Kumaran8c6d9d72010-04-16 02:46:46 +00003467 Locke and Hans Ulrich Niedermann.
3468
R. David Murray1a14d3d2010-04-12 16:35:19 +00003469- Issue #7585: difflib context and unified diffs now place a tab between
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003470 filename and date, conforming to the 'standards' they were originally designed
3471 to follow. This improves compatibility with patch tools.
R. David Murray1a14d3d2010-04-12 16:35:19 +00003472
R. David Murray27ef9372010-04-12 14:26:06 +00003473- Issue #7472: Fixed typo in email.encoders module; messages using ISO-2022
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003474 character sets will now consistently use a Content-Transfer-Encoding of 7bit
3475 rather than sometimes being marked as 8bit.
R. David Murray27ef9372010-04-12 14:26:06 +00003476
Martin v. Löwis7f7765c2010-04-12 05:18:16 +00003477- Issue #8330: Fix expected output in test_gdb.
3478
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003479- Issue #8374: Update the internal alias table in the :mod:`locale` module to
3480 cover recent locale changes and additions.
Antoine Pitrouab5ce722010-04-11 22:45:47 +00003481
Matthias Klose8a96d202010-04-21 22:18:52 +00003482Extension Modules
3483-----------------
3484
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003485- Issue #8644: Improved accuracy of ``timedelta.total_seconds()``.
Mark Dickinson7000e9e2010-05-09 09:30:06 +00003486
Brett Cannon945df9a2010-05-04 01:04:53 +00003487- Use Clang 2.7's static analyzer to find places to clean up some code.
3488
Matthias Klose8a96d202010-04-21 22:18:52 +00003489- Build the ossaudio extension on GNU/kFreeBSD.
3490
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003491- On Windows, ctypes does no longer check the stack before and after calling a
3492 foreign function. This allows to use the unmodified libffi library.
Thomas Heller06a7e202010-05-04 18:44:42 +00003493
Antoine Pitroua5c4b552010-04-22 23:33:02 +00003494Tests
3495-----
3496
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003497- Issue #8672: Add a zlib test ensuring that an incomplete stream can be handled
3498 by a decompressor object without errors (it returns incomplete uncompressed
3499 data).
Antoine Pitrou37ffc3e2010-05-11 23:32:31 +00003500
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003501- Issue #8490: asyncore now has a more solid test suite which actually tests its
3502 API.
Giampaolo Rodolàff46d6e2010-05-10 15:33:22 +00003503
Antoine Pitrou54f9f832010-04-30 23:08:48 +00003504- Issue #8576: Remove use of find_unused_port() in test_smtplib and
3505 test_multiprocessing. Patch by Paul Moore.
3506
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003507- Issue #7449: Fix many tests to support Python compiled without thread support.
3508 Patches written by Jerry Seutter.
Victor Stinnerd9d147b2010-04-27 21:46:03 +00003509
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003510- Issue #8108: test_ftplib's non-blocking SSL server now has proper handling of
3511 SSL shutdowns.
Antoine Pitroua5c4b552010-04-22 23:33:02 +00003512
Matthias Klose5183ebd2010-04-24 16:38:36 +00003513Build
3514-----
3515
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003516- Issue #8625: Turn off optimization in ``--with-pydebug`` builds with gcc.
Mark Dickinsond2f3e3f2010-05-05 22:23:58 +00003517 (Optimization was unintentionally turned on in gcc --with-pydebug builds in
3518 2.7 beta1 as a result of the issue #1628484 fix, combined with autoconf's
3519 strange choice of default CFLAGS produced by AC_PROG_CC for gcc.)
3520
Matthias Klose5183ebd2010-04-24 16:38:36 +00003521- Issue #8509: Fix quoting in help strings and code snippets in configure.in.
3522
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003523- Issue #3646: It is now easily possible to install a Python framework into your
3524 home directory on Mac OS X, see Mac/README for more information.
Ronald Oussoren01d149f2010-04-30 11:20:14 +00003525
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003526- Issue #8510: Update to autoconf 2.65.
Matthias Klosea0bea5d2010-05-08 10:00:28 +00003527
Brett Cannonc1f5c2f2010-05-02 21:51:23 +00003528Misc
3529----
3530
3531- Update the Vim syntax highlight file.
3532
Benjamin Peterson12409062010-04-10 18:53:58 +00003533
Benjamin Peterson5da7e7c2010-03-06 22:44:07 +00003534What's New in Python 2.7 beta 1?
3535================================
3536
Benjamin Petersonfbac6c12010-04-10 16:22:05 +00003537*Release date: 2010-04-10*
Benjamin Peterson5da7e7c2010-03-06 22:44:07 +00003538
3539Core and Builtins
3540-----------------
3541
Philip Jenveyaebbaeb2010-04-06 23:24:45 +00003542- Issue #7301: Add environment variable $PYTHONWARNINGS.
3543
Benjamin Peterson3a1dfa22010-04-06 21:50:00 +00003544- Issue #8329: Don't return the same lists from select.select when no fds are
3545 changed.
3546
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003547- Issue #8259: ``1L << (2**31)`` no longer produces an 'outrageous shift error'
Mark Dickinson82791672010-04-06 16:47:55 +00003548 on 64-bit machines. The shift count for either left or right shift is
3549 permitted to be up to sys.maxsize.
3550
Benjamin Peterson4ceeeb02010-04-03 22:48:51 +00003551- Ensure that tokenization of identifiers is not affected by locale.
3552
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003553- Issue #1222585: Added LDCXXSHARED for C++ support. Patch by Arfrever.
Tarek Ziadé00002952010-04-03 08:37:59 +00003554
Benjamin Peterson1c7c11e2010-04-03 01:28:57 +00003555- Raise a TypeError when trying to delete a T_STRING_INPLACE struct member.
3556
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003557- Issue #7994: Issue a PendingDeprecationWarning if object.__format__ is called
3558 with a non-empty format string. This is an effort to future-proof user
3559 code. If a derived class does not currently implement __format__ but later
3560 adds its own __format__, it would most likely break user code that had
Antoine Pitrou01a196a2011-01-02 20:05:11 +00003561 supplied a format string. This will be changed to a DeprecationWarning in
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003562 Python 3.3 and it will be an error in Python 3.4.
Eric Smithd44b2fc2010-04-02 12:30:56 +00003563
Antoine Pitroua57df2c2010-03-31 21:32:15 +00003564- Issue #8268: Old-style classes (not just instances) now support weak
3565 references.
3566
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003567- Issue #8211: Save/restore CFLAGS around AC_PROG_CC in configure.in, in case it
3568 is set.
Victor Stinner6cbf90f2010-03-25 00:21:53 +00003569
Victor Stinnerc7790ed2010-03-22 12:36:28 +00003570- Issue #1583863: An unicode subclass can now override the __unicode__ method
Victor Stinner95affc42010-03-22 12:24:37 +00003571
Benjamin Peterson96545892010-03-21 20:21:00 +00003572- Issue #6474: Make error message from passing an inadequate number of keyword
3573 arguments to a function correct.
3574
Benjamin Peterson0dee9c12010-03-17 20:41:42 +00003575- Issue #8164: Don't allow lambda functions to have a docstring.
3576
Victor Stinner66644262010-03-10 22:30:19 +00003577- Issue #3137: Don't ignore errors at startup, especially a keyboard interrupt
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003578 (SIGINT). If an error occurs while importing the site module, the error is
3579 printed and Python exits. Initialize the GIL before importing the site
Victor Stinner66644262010-03-10 22:30:19 +00003580 module.
3581
Collin Winter001a3952010-03-18 21:54:01 +00003582- Code objects now support weak references.
3583
Benjamin Peterson5da7e7c2010-03-06 22:44:07 +00003584Library
3585-------
3586
R. David Murray661303f2010-04-13 20:57:40 +00003587- Issue #5277: Fix quote counting when parsing RFC 2231 encoded parameters.
3588
Antoine Pitrouf9de5342010-04-05 21:35:07 +00003589- Issue #8321: Give access to OpenSSL version numbers from the `ssl` module,
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003590 using the new attributes `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION`, `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION_INFO` and
3591 `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION_NUMBER`.
Antoine Pitrouf9de5342010-04-05 21:35:07 +00003592
Benjamin Peterson76a23c12010-04-04 23:23:22 +00003593- Issue #8310: Allow dis to examine new style classes.
3594
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003595- Issue #8257: The Decimal construct now accepts a float instance directly,
3596 converting that float to a Decimal of equal value:
Mark Dickinson8a950712010-04-03 15:47:46 +00003597
3598 >>> Decimal(1.1)
3599 Decimal('1.100000000000000088817841970012523233890533447265625')
3600
Raymond Hettinger34c35b22010-04-03 10:22:00 +00003601- collections.Counter() now supports a subtract() method.
3602
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003603- The functools module now has a total_ordering() class decorator to simplify
3604 the specification of rich comparisons.
Raymond Hettingera551f312010-04-04 18:34:45 +00003605
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003606- The functools module also adds cmp_to_key() as a tool to transition old-style
3607 comparison functions to new-style key-functions.
Raymond Hettingera551f312010-04-04 18:34:45 +00003608
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003609- Issue #8294: The Fraction constructor now accepts Decimal and float instances
3610 directly.
Mark Dickinson7c63eee2010-04-02 22:27:36 +00003611
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003612- Issue #7279: Comparisons involving a Decimal signaling NaN now signal
3613 InvalidOperation instead of returning False. (Comparisons involving a quiet
3614 NaN are unchanged.) Also, Decimal quiet NaNs are now hashable; Decimal
3615 signaling NaNs remain unhashable.
Mark Dickinsone096e822010-04-02 10:17:07 +00003616
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003617- Issue #2531: Comparison operations between floats and Decimal instances now
3618 return a result based on the numeric values of the operands; previously they
3619 returned an arbitrary result based on the relative ordering of id(float) and
3620 id(Decimal).
Mark Dickinson99d80962010-04-02 08:53:22 +00003621
Barry Warsawf7f2d6f2010-03-31 21:07:16 +00003622- Issue #8233: When run as a script, py_compile.py optionally takes a single
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003623 argument `-` which tells it to read files to compile from stdin. Each line is
3624 read on demand and the named file is compiled immediately. (Original patch by
3625 Piotr Ożarowski).
Barry Warsawf7f2d6f2010-03-31 21:07:16 +00003626
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003627- Issue #3135: Add ``inspect.getcallargs()``, which binds arguments to a
3628 function like a normal call.
Benjamin Peterson7e213252010-03-30 17:58:13 +00003629
Florent Xicluna58b65662010-03-30 16:29:03 +00003630- Backwards incompatible change: Unicode codepoints line tabulation (0x0B) and
3631 form feed (0x0C) are now considered linebreaks, as specified in Unicode
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003632 Standard Annex #14. See issue #7643. http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr14/
Florent Xicluna22b24382010-03-30 08:24:06 +00003633
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003634- Comparisons using one of <, <=, >, >= between a complex instance and a
3635 Fractions instance now raise TypeError instead of returning True/False. This
3636 makes Fraction <=> complex comparisons consistent with int <=> complex, float
3637 <=> complex, and complex <=> complex comparisons.
Mark Dickinson9588d992010-03-27 11:14:37 +00003638
Michael Foorde6410c52010-03-29 20:04:23 +00003639- Addition of ``WeakSet`` to the ``weakref`` module.
3640
Vinay Sajipb0623d62010-03-24 14:31:21 +00003641- logging: Added LOG_FTP to SysLogHandler and updated documentation.
3642
Florent Xicluna176cda12010-03-22 22:52:11 +00003643- Issue #8205: Remove the "Modules" directory from sys.path when Python is
3644 running from the build directory (POSIX only).
3645
Florent Xiclunae1f4c922010-03-22 22:45:50 +00003646- Issue #7667: Fix doctest failures with non-ASCII paths.
3647
Antoine Pitrou513d9ae2010-03-22 19:59:46 +00003648- Issue #7512: shutil.copystat() could raise an OSError when the filesystem
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003649 didn't support chflags() (for example ZFS under FreeBSD). The error is now
3650 silenced.
Antoine Pitrou513d9ae2010-03-22 19:59:46 +00003651
Florent Xicluna9e7a4c92010-03-22 16:07:38 +00003652- Issue #7703: ctypes supports both buffer() and memoryview(). The former is
3653 deprecated.
3654
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003655- Issue #7860: platform.uname now reports the correct 'machine' type when Python
3656 is running in WOW64 mode on 64 bit Windows.
R. David Murrayc9d1a782010-03-22 15:55:09 +00003657
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003658- logging: Added getChild utility method to Logger and added isEnabledFor method
3659 to LoggerAdapter.
Vinay Sajip804899b2010-03-22 15:29:01 +00003660
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003661- Issue #8201: logging: Handle situation of non-ASCII and Unicode logger names
3662 existing at the same time, causing a Unicode error when configuration code
3663 attempted to sort the existing loggers.
Vinay Sajip31e928e2010-03-22 13:02:28 +00003664
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003665- Issue #8200: logging: Handle errors when multiprocessing is not fully loaded
3666 when logging occurs.
Vinay Sajip3017a7b2010-03-22 12:33:08 +00003667
Antoine Pitroueee91cd2010-03-26 19:27:16 +00003668- Issue #3890, #8222: Fix recv() and recv_into() on non-blocking SSL sockets.
3669 Also, enable the SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY flag on SSL sockets, so that blocking
3670 reads and writes are always retried by OpenSSL itself.
Antoine Pitrou448da712010-03-21 19:33:38 +00003671
Florent Xiclunacf82fa62010-03-21 12:27:20 +00003672- Issue #8179: Fix macpath.realpath() on a non-existing path.
3673
Florent Xicluna2e0a53f2010-03-18 21:50:06 +00003674- Issue #8024: Update the Unicode database to 5.2.
3675
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003676- Issue #8104: socket.recv_into() and socket.recvfrom_into() now support writing
3677 into objects supporting the new buffer API, for example bytearrays or
3678 memoryviews.
Antoine Pitroud7b731d2010-03-17 22:45:39 +00003679
Matthias Klose8b411682010-03-16 10:48:52 +00003680- Issue #4961: Inconsistent/wrong result of askyesno function in tkMessageBox
3681 with Tcl/Tk-8.5.
3682
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003683- Issue #8140: Extend compileall to compile single files. Add -i option.
Matthias Kloseb13d04c2010-03-15 17:44:12 +00003684
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003685- Issue #7356: ctypes.util: Make parsing of ldconfig output independent of the
3686 locale.
Matthias Klose358e7ff2010-03-15 13:42:23 +00003687
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003688- Issue #7774: Set sys.executable to an empty string if ``argv[0]`` has been set
3689 to an non existent program name and Python is unable to retrieve the real
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003690 program name.
Victor Stinner75227342010-03-12 14:30:26 +00003691
Vinay Sajipecfa08f2010-03-12 09:16:10 +00003692- Issue #8117: logging: Improved algorithm for computing initial rollover time
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003693 for ``TimedRotatingFileHandler`` by using the modification time of an existing
3694 log file to compute the next rollover time. If the log file does not exist,
3695 the current time is used as the basis for the computation.
Vinay Sajip9098ee42010-03-12 06:01:21 +00003696
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003697- Issue #6472: The ``xml.etree`` package is updated to ElementTree 1.3. The
Florent Xicluna3e8c1892010-03-11 14:36:19 +00003698 cElementTree module is updated too.
3699
Florent Xicluna85677612010-03-10 23:58:42 +00003700- Issue #7880: Fix sysconfig when the python executable is a symbolic link.
3701
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003702- Issue #7624: Fix ``isinstance(foo(), collections.Callable)`` for old-style
Florent Xicluna47627d52010-03-08 15:20:28 +00003703 classes.
3704
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003705- Issue #7143: email: ``get_payload()`` used to strip any trailing newline from
3706 a base64 transfer-encoded payload *after* decoding it; it no longer does.
3707 This is a behavior change, so email's minor version number is now bumped, to
3708 version 4.0.2, for the 2.7 release.
R. David Murray4617e502010-03-08 02:04:06 +00003709
Larry Hastings3b958e32010-04-02 11:18:17 +00003710- Issue #8235: _socket: Add the constant ``SO_SETFIB``. SO_SETFIB is
3711 a socket option available on FreeBSD 7.1 and newer.
3712
Michael Foorda04c7a02010-04-02 22:55:59 +00003713- Issue #8038: unittest.TestCase.assertNotRegexpMatches
3714
3715- Addition of -b command line option to unittest for buffering stdout / stderr
3716 during test runs.
3717
Victor Stinnerdb990922010-05-15 21:00:59 +00003718- Issue #1220212: Added os.kill support for Windows, including support for
Brian Curtin85108e62010-04-02 23:31:28 +00003719 sending CTRL+C and CTRL+BREAK events to console subprocesses.
3720
Mark Dickinson154b7ad2010-03-07 16:24:45 +00003721Extension Modules
3722-----------------
3723
Martin v. Löwis16ea5482010-04-07 11:01:46 +00003724- Issue #8314: Fix unsigned long long bug in libffi on Sparc v8.
3725
Matthias Klosee9fbf2b2010-03-19 14:45:06 +00003726- Issue #1039, #8154: Fix os.execlp() crash with missing 2nd argument.
3727
Jesus Cea6557aac2010-03-22 14:22:26 +00003728- Issue #8156: bsddb module updated to version 4.8.4.
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003729 http://www.jcea.es/programacion/pybsddb.htm#bsddb3-4.8.4. This update drops
3730 support for Berkeley DB 4.0, and adds support for 4.8.
Matthias Klose54cc5392010-03-15 12:46:18 +00003731
Jesus Cea616de772010-04-28 10:32:30 +00003732- Issue #3928: os.mknod() now available in Solaris, also.
3733
Matthias Klose817acef2010-03-15 00:02:36 +00003734- Issue #8142: Update libffi to the 3.0.9 release.
3735
Mark Dickinson4846a8e2010-04-03 14:05:10 +00003736- Issue #8300: When passing a non-integer argument to struct.pack with any
3737 integer format code, struct.pack first attempts to convert the non-integer
3738 using its __index__ method. If that method is non-existent or raises
3739 TypeError it goes on to try the __int__ method, as described below.
3740
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003741- Issue #1530559: When passing a non-integer argument to struct.pack with *any*
3742 integer format code (one of 'bBhHiIlLqQ'), struct.pack attempts to use the
3743 argument's __int__ method to convert to an integer before packing. It also
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003744 produces a DeprecationWarning in this case. (In Python 2.6, the behaviour was
3745 inconsistent: __int__ was used for some integer codes but not for others, and
3746 the set of integer codes for which it was used differed between native packing
3747 and standard packing.)
Mark Dickinson154b7ad2010-03-07 16:24:45 +00003748
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003749- Issue #7347: _winreg: Add CreateKeyEx and DeleteKeyEx, as well as fix a bug in
3750 the return value of QueryReflectionKey.
Brian Curtin19479fa2010-04-02 21:51:37 +00003751
Antoine Pitrou02b3f0a2010-03-13 21:21:30 +00003752Tools/Demos
3753-----------
3754
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003755- Issue #7993: Add a test of IO packet processing bandwidth to ccbench. It
3756 measures the number of UDP packets processed per second depending on the
3757 number of background CPU-bound Python threads.
Benjamin Peterson5da7e7c2010-03-06 22:44:07 +00003758
Collin Wintera70f3492010-03-19 00:08:44 +00003759- python-config now supports multiple options on the same command line.
3760
Benjamin Peterson11d93232010-03-14 14:24:31 +00003761Build
3762-----
3763
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003764- Issue #8032: For gdb7, a python-gdb.py file is added to the build, allowing to
3765 use advanced gdb features when debugging Python.
Martin v. Löwisbf0dfb32010-04-01 07:40:51 +00003766
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003767- Issue #1628484: The Makefile doesn't ignore the CFLAGS environment variable
3768 anymore. It also forwards the LDFLAGS settings to the linker when building a
3769 shared library.
Antoine Pitrouf83b3082010-03-21 19:19:41 +00003770
Martin v. Löwis24e4e162010-03-15 13:00:17 +00003771- Issue #6716: Quote -x arguments of compileall in MSI installer.
3772
Benjamin Peterson11d93232010-03-14 14:24:31 +00003773- Issue #7705: Fix linking on FreeBSD.
3774
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven6d22cfc2010-04-07 16:34:08 +00003775- Make sure that the FreeBSD build of the included libffi uses the proper
3776 assembly file.
3777
Larry Hastings402b73f2010-03-25 00:54:54 +00003778C-API
3779-----
3780
Antoine Pitrou76c86492010-04-01 16:42:11 +00003781- Issue #8276: PyEval_CallObject() is now only available in macro form. The
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003782 function declaration, which was kept for backwards compatibility reasons, is
3783 now removed (the macro was introduced in 1997!).
Antoine Pitrou76c86492010-04-01 16:42:11 +00003784
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003785- Issue #7992: A replacement PyCObject API, PyCapsule, has been backported from
3786 Python 3.1. All existing Python CObjects in the main distribution have been
3787 converted to capsules. To address backwards-compatibility concerns,
3788 PyCObject_AsVoidPtr() was changed to understand capsules.
Larry Hastings402b73f2010-03-25 00:54:54 +00003789
Florent Xicluna3cc8f212010-03-15 18:08:58 +00003790Tests
3791-----
3792
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003793- Issue #3864: Skip three test_signal tests on freebsd6 because they fail if any
3794 thread was previously started, most likely due to a platform bug.
R. David Murraye0e8a872010-04-17 05:26:26 +00003795
Antoine Pitrouab5ce722010-04-11 22:45:47 +00003796- Issue #8348: Fix test ftp url in test_urllib2net.
3797
3798- Issue #8204: Fix test_ttk notebook test by forcing focus.
3799
3800- Issue #8344: Fix test_ttk bug on FreeBSD.
3801
Antoine Pitrou3b4c9892010-04-06 17:21:09 +00003802- Issue #8193: Fix test_zlib failure with zlib 1.2.4.
3803
Antoine Pitrou6032c252010-03-30 18:49:45 +00003804- Issue #8248: Add some tests for the bool type. Patch by Gregory Nofi.
3805
Florent Xicluna75c66762010-03-30 16:31:14 +00003806- Issue #8263: Now regrtest.py will report a failure if it receives a
3807 KeyboardInterrupt (SIGINT).
3808
Florent Xicluna8aa5a582010-03-25 20:33:49 +00003809- Issue #8180 and #8207: Fix test_pep277 on OS X and add more tests for special
3810 Unicode normalization cases.
Florent Xicluna77a88492010-03-21 18:00:38 +00003811
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003812- Issue #7783: test.test_support.open_urlresource invalidates the outdated files
3813 from the local cache.
Florent Xicluna3cc8f212010-03-15 18:08:58 +00003814
R. David Murray4617e502010-03-08 02:04:06 +00003815
Benjamin Peterson2d798ac2010-02-06 18:26:27 +00003816What's New in Python 2.7 alpha 4?
3817=================================
3818
Benjamin Peterson8e7c1172010-03-06 20:34:14 +00003819*Release date: 2010-03-06*
Benjamin Peterson2d798ac2010-02-06 18:26:27 +00003820
3821Core and Builtins
3822-----------------
3823
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003824- Issue #7544: Preallocate thread memory before creating the thread to avoid a
3825 fatal error in low memory condition.
Victor Stinner71fb87e2010-03-03 23:20:25 +00003826
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003827- Issue #7820: The parser tokenizer restores all bytes in the right if the BOM
3828 check fails.
Victor Stinnerd23d3932010-03-02 23:20:02 +00003829
Eric Smith2d9856d2010-02-24 14:15:36 +00003830- Issue #7309: Fix unchecked attribute access when converting
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003831 UnicodeEncodeError, UnicodeDecodeError, and UnicodeTranslateError to strings.
Eric Smith2d9856d2010-02-24 14:15:36 +00003832
Ezio Melotti32125152010-02-25 17:36:04 +00003833- Issue #7649: "u'%c' % char" now behaves like "u'%s' % char" and raises a
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003834 UnicodeDecodeError if 'char' is a byte string that can't be decoded using the
3835 default encoding.
Victor Stinnerf20f9c22010-02-23 23:16:07 +00003836
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003837- Issue #6902: Fix problem with built-in types format incorrectly with 0
3838 padding.
Eric Smith87bcb242010-02-23 00:11:16 +00003839
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003840- Issue #2560: Remove an unnecessary 'for' loop from ``my_fgets()`` in
Andrew M. Kuchlingb64d6132010-02-22 22:48:41 +00003841 Parser/myreadline.c.
3842
Eric Smithf32d4ac2010-02-22 18:33:47 +00003843- Issue #7988: Fix default alignment to be right aligned for
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003844 ``complex.__format__``. Now it matches other numeric types.
Eric Smithf32d4ac2010-02-22 18:33:47 +00003845
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003846- Issue #5211: The complex type no longer uses implicit coercion in mixed-type
3847 binary arithmetic operations.
Mark Dickinson82b34c52010-02-21 12:57:35 +00003848
Benjamin Peterson2d798ac2010-02-06 18:26:27 +00003849Library
3850-------
Georg Brandl7f0c3ff2010-08-01 21:18:52 +00003851
Senthil Kumaranc1d0ed22010-12-04 09:58:29 +00003852- Issue #7904: Changes to urllib.parse.urlsplit to handle schemes as defined by
3853 RFC3986. Anything before :// is considered a scheme and is followed by an
3854 authority (or netloc) and by '/' led path, which is optional.
3855
R. David Murray05b76312010-07-17 01:35:16 +00003856- Issue #1555570: email no longer inserts extra blank lines when a \r\n
3857 combo crosses an 8192 byte boundary.
Benjamin Peterson2d798ac2010-02-06 18:26:27 +00003858
Florent Xicluna0b9a18a2010-03-06 11:01:08 +00003859- Issue #6906: Tk should not set Unicode environment variables on Windows.
3860
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003861- Issue #1054943: Fix ``unicodedata.normalize('NFC', text)`` for the Public
Ezio Melotti8122bdd2010-03-14 10:13:49 +00003862 Review Issue #29 (http://unicode.org/review/pr-29.html).
Victor Stinner7c924ec2010-03-04 12:09:33 +00003863
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003864- Issue #7494: Fix a crash in ``_lsprof`` (cProfile) after clearing the profiler,
Victor Stinner56a51532010-03-04 00:10:12 +00003865 reset also the pointer to the current pointer context.
3866
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003867- Issue #7232: Add support for the context manager protocol to the
3868 ``tarfile.TarFile`` class.
Lars Gustäbel64581042010-03-03 11:55:48 +00003869
Barry Warsaw08a8fb32010-03-01 21:46:51 +00003870- Issue #7250: Fix info leak of os.environ across multi-run uses of
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003871 ``wsgiref.handlers.CGIHandler``.
Barry Warsaw08a8fb32010-03-01 21:46:51 +00003872
Florent Xiclunae7901c52010-03-01 20:45:01 +00003873- Issue #1729305: Fix doctest to handle encode error with "backslashreplace".
Florent Xicluna2a903b22010-02-27 13:31:23 +00003874
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003875- Issue #691291: ``codecs.open()`` should not convert end of lines on reading
3876 and writing.
Florent Xicluna82aa01f2010-02-27 11:19:18 +00003877
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003878- Issue #7975: Correct regression in dict methods supported by bsddb.dbshelve.
R. David Murray48605be2010-02-24 02:31:27 +00003879
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003880- Issue #7959: ctypes callback functions are now registered correctly with the
3881 cycle garbage collector.
Thomas Heller92bd0592010-02-23 20:11:44 +00003882
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003883- Issue #7970: ``email.Generator.flatten`` now correctly flattens
3884 message/rfc822 messages parsed by ``email.Parser.HeaderParser``.
R. David Murray51f12042010-02-21 04:23:00 +00003885
Ezio Melotti4cc80ca2010-02-20 08:09:39 +00003886- Issue #3426: ``os.path.abspath`` now returns unicode when its arg is unicode.
3887
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003888- Issue #7633: In the decimal module, ``Context`` class methods (with the
3889 exception of canonical and is_canonical) now accept instances of int and long
3890 wherever a Decimal instance is accepted, and implicitly convert that argument
3891 to Decimal. Previously only some arguments were converted.
Mark Dickinson6d8effb2010-02-18 14:27:02 +00003892
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003893- Issue #6003: Add an argument to ``zipfile.Zipfile.writestr`` to specify the
3894 compression type.
Ezio Melotti8f6a2872010-02-10 21:40:33 +00003895
Michael Foorddb43b5a2010-02-10 14:25:12 +00003896- Issue #7893: ``unittest.TextTestResult`` is made public and a ``resultclass``
3897 argument added to the TextTestRunner constructor allowing a different result
3898 class to be used without having to subclass.
Ezio Melotti8f6a2872010-02-10 21:40:33 +00003899
Ezio Melotti4cc80ca2010-02-20 08:09:39 +00003900- Issue #7588: ``unittest.TextTestResult.getDescription`` now includes the test
Michael Foorddb43b5a2010-02-10 14:25:12 +00003901 name in failure reports even if the test has a docstring.
Ronald Oussorendd25e862010-02-07 20:18:02 +00003902
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003903- Issue #5801: Remove spurious empty lines in wsgiref.
Tarek Ziadéb8708a22010-02-23 05:53:05 +00003904
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003905- Issue #1537721: Add a ``writeheader()`` method to ``csv.DictWriter``.
Dirkjan Ochtman86148172010-02-23 21:09:52 +00003906
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003907- Issue #7427: Improve the representation of httplib.BadStatusLine exceptions.
Dirkjan Ochtmanebc73dc2010-02-24 04:49:00 +00003908
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003909- Issue #7481: When a ``threading.Thread`` failed to start it would leave the
3910 instance stuck in initial state and present in ``threading.enumerate()``.
Gregory P. Smith613c7a52010-02-28 18:36:09 +00003911
Gregory P. Smithcce211f2010-03-01 00:05:08 +00003912- Issue #1068268: The subprocess module now handles EINTR in internal
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003913 ``os.waitpid()`` and ``os.read()`` system calls where appropriate.
Gregory P. Smithcce211f2010-03-01 00:05:08 +00003914
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003915- Issue #6729: Add ``ctypes.c_ssize_t`` to represent ssize_t.
Gregory P. Smith3c699d32010-03-01 04:56:12 +00003916
Steven Betharde9330e72010-03-02 08:38:09 +00003917- Issue #6247: The argparse module has been added to the standard library.
3918
Martin v. Löwis413fabc2010-02-18 09:22:20 +00003919Extension Modules
3920-----------------
3921
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003922- The sqlite3 module was updated to pysqlite 2.6.0. This fixes several obscure
Gerhard Häring3bbb6722010-03-05 09:12:37 +00003923 bugs and allows loading SQLite extensions from shared libraries.
3924
Florent Xiclunae7901c52010-03-01 20:45:01 +00003925- Issue #7808: Fix reference leaks in _bsddb and related tests.
3926
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003927- Issue #6544: Fix a reference leak in the kqueue implementation's error
Georg Brandlea370a92010-02-23 21:48:57 +00003928 handling.
3929
Martin v. Löwis413fabc2010-02-18 09:22:20 +00003930- Stop providing crtassem.h symbols when compiling with Visual Studio 2010, as
3931 msvcr100.dll is not a platform assembly anymore.
Benjamin Peterson2d798ac2010-02-06 18:26:27 +00003932
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003933- Issue #7242: On Solaris 9 and earlier calling ``os.fork()`` from within a
Gregory P. Smith9e5d1322010-03-01 01:22:39 +00003934 thread could raise an incorrect RuntimeError about not holding the import
3935 lock. The import lock is now reinitialized after fork.
3936
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003937- Issue #7999: ``os.setreuid()`` and ``os.setregid()`` would refuse to accept a
3938 -1 parameter on some platforms such as OS X.
Gregory P. Smith6a65f852010-03-01 05:43:43 +00003939
Ezio Melotti8f6a2872010-02-10 21:40:33 +00003940Tests
3941-----
3942
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003943- Issue #7849: The utility ``test.test_support.check_warnings()`` verifies if
3944 warnings are effectively raised. A new utility ``check_py3k_warnings()`` is
3945 available.
Florent Xicluna6de9e932010-03-07 12:18:33 +00003946
Florent Xicluna985478d2010-03-06 18:52:52 +00003947- The four path modules (genericpath, macpath, ntpath, posixpath) share a
3948 common TestCase for some tests: test_genericpath.CommonTest.
3949
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003950- Print platform information when running the whole test suite, or using the
3951 ``--verbose`` flag.
Florent Xicluna58526412010-03-06 17:24:36 +00003952
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003953- Issue #767675: Enable test_pep277 on POSIX platforms with Unicode-friendly
Florent Xiclunac0a9d412010-03-02 22:34:11 +00003954 filesystem encoding.
Florent Xicluna2db61fb2010-03-02 21:34:45 +00003955
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003956- Issue #6292: For the moment at least, the test suite runs cleanly if python
R. David Murrayf28fd242010-02-23 00:24:49 +00003957 is run with the -OO flag. Tests requiring docstrings are skipped.
3958
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003959- Issue #7712: test_support gained a new ``temp_cwd`` context manager which is
3960 now also used by regrtest to run all the tests in a temporary directory. The
3961 original CWD is saved in ``test.test_support.SAVEDCWD``. Thanks to Florent
3962 Xicluna who helped with the patch.
Ezio Melotti8f6a2872010-02-10 21:40:33 +00003963
Martin v. Löwis5e2dd862010-02-15 08:32:00 +00003964Build
3965-----
3966
Martin v. Löwis7875ef62010-02-15 21:41:12 +00003967- Issue #3920, #7903: Define _BSD_SOURCE on OpenBSD 4.4 through 4.9.
Martin v. Löwis5e2dd862010-02-15 08:32:00 +00003968
Ezio Melotti8f6a2872010-02-10 21:40:33 +00003969
Benjamin Petersondd6d92a2010-01-09 17:30:31 +00003970What's New in Python 2.7 alpha 3?
3971=================================
3972
Benjamin Petersona7be9d22010-02-06 16:37:32 +00003973*Release date: 2010-02-06*
Benjamin Petersondd6d92a2010-01-09 17:30:31 +00003974
3975Core and Builtins
3976-----------------
3977
Antoine Pitroubb445a12010-02-05 17:05:54 +00003978- Issue #5677: Explicitly forbid write operations on read-only file objects,
3979 and read operations on write-only file objects. On Windows, the system C
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003980 library would return a bogus result; on Solaris, it was possible to crash the
3981 interpreter. Patch by Stefan Krah.
Antoine Pitroubb445a12010-02-05 17:05:54 +00003982
Barry Warsawb1e66ee2010-02-05 18:45:25 +00003983- Issue #7853: Normalize exceptions before they are passed to a context
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003984 manager's ``__exit__()`` method.
Benjamin Peterson565d7852010-02-05 02:12:14 +00003985
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003986- Issue #7385: Fix a crash in ``PyMemoryView_FromObject()`` when
3987 ``PyObject_GetBuffer()`` fails. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
Antoine Pitrou526e4212010-02-02 22:36:17 +00003988
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003989- Issue #7819: Check ``sys.call_tracing()`` arguments types.
Victor Stinnerb4b0a292010-01-31 22:32:15 +00003990
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003991- Issue #7788: Fix an interpreter crash produced by deleting a list slice with
3992 very large step value.
Mark Dickinson36ecd672010-01-29 17:11:39 +00003993
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003994- Issue #7766: Change ``sys.getwindowsversion()`` return value to a named tuple
3995 and add the additional members returned in an OSVERSIONINFOEX structure. The
3996 new members are service_pack_major, service_pack_minor, suite_mask, and
3997 product_type.
Eric Smithee931b72010-01-27 00:28:29 +00003998
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003999- Issue #7561: Operations on empty bytearrays (such as ``int(bytearray())``)
4000 could crash in many places because of the ``PyByteArray_AS_STRING()`` macro
4001 returning NULL. The macro now returns a statically allocated empty string
4002 instead.
Antoine Pitroue80a6a42010-01-17 12:26:20 +00004003
Antoine Pitrou64672132010-01-13 07:55:48 +00004004- Issue #7622: Improve the split(), rsplit(), splitlines() and replace()
4005 methods of bytes, bytearray and unicode objects by using a common
4006 implementation based on stringlib's fast search. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
4007
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004008- Issue #7632: Fix various str -> float conversion bugs present in 2.7 alpha 2,
4009 including:
Mark Dickinson8efef5c2010-01-12 22:23:56 +00004010
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004011 (1) a serious 'wrong output' bug that could occur for long (> 40 digit) input
4012 strings,
4013 (2) a crash in dtoa.c that occurred in debug builds when parsing certain long
4014 numeric strings corresponding to subnormal values,
4015 (3) a memory leak for some values large enough to cause overflow, and
4016 (4) a number of flaws that could lead to incorrectly rounded results.
4017
4018- Issue #7319, #7770: Silence ``DeprecationWarning`` by default when the -3
4019 option is not used.
Brett Cannon6fdd3dc2010-01-10 02:56:19 +00004020
Alexandre Vassalottiee936a22010-01-09 23:35:54 +00004021- Issue #2335: Backport set literals syntax from Python 3.x.
4022
Alexandre Vassalotti7a8df802010-01-11 23:13:49 +00004023- Issue #2333: Backport set and dict comprehensions syntax from Python 3.x.
4024
Alexandre Vassalotti69eb5162010-01-11 23:17:10 +00004025- Issue #1967: Backport dictionary views from Python 3.x.
4026
Benjamin Petersondd6d92a2010-01-09 17:30:31 +00004027Library
4028-------
4029
Mark Dickinson42add992010-07-11 19:17:28 +00004030- Issue #9137: Fix issue in MutableMapping.update, which incorrectly
4031 treated keyword arguments called 'self' or 'other' specially.
4032
R. David Murray63e4fd72010-02-10 22:42:04 +00004033- Issue #7835: shelve should no longer produce mysterious warnings during
4034 interpreter shutdown.
4035
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004036- Issue #2746: Don't escape ampersands and angle brackets ("&", "<", ">") in
4037 XML processing instructions and comments. These raw characters are allowed
4038 by the XML specification, and are necessary when outputting e.g. PHP code in
4039 a processing instruction. Patch by Neil Muller.
Antoine Pitrou42fb6ab2010-02-09 17:08:05 +00004040
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004041- Issue #7869: logging: Improved diagnostic for format-time errors.
Vinay Sajip64e8b972010-02-07 12:56:54 +00004042
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004043- Issue #7868: logging: Added loggerClass attribute to Manager.
Vinay Sajip657514a2010-02-07 01:37:08 +00004044
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004045- Issue #7851: logging: Clarification on logging configuration files.
Vinay Sajip0e6e97d2010-02-04 20:23:45 +00004046
Antoine Pitroud840e512010-02-04 20:20:18 +00004047- Issue #4772: Raise a ValueError when an unknown Bluetooth protocol is
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004048 specified, rather than fall through to AF_PACKET (in the ``socket`` module).
Antoine Pitroud840e512010-02-04 20:20:18 +00004049 Also, raise ValueError rather than TypeError when an unknown TIPC address
4050 type is specified. Patch by Brian Curtin.
4051
Vinay Sajip28c382f2010-02-04 18:48:53 +00004052- logging: Implemented PEP 391.
4053
Antoine Pitrouf3fa0742010-01-31 22:26:04 +00004054- Issue #6939: Fix file I/O objects in the `io` module to keep the original
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004055 file position when calling `truncate()`. It would previously change the file
4056 position to the given argument, which goes against the tradition of
Antoine Pitrouf3fa0742010-01-31 22:26:04 +00004057 ftruncate() and other truncation APIs. Patch by Pascal Chambon.
4058
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004059- Issue #7610: Reworked implementation of the internal ``zipfile.ZipExtFile``
4060 class used to represent files stored inside an archive. The new
4061 implementation is significantly faster and can be wrapped in a
4062 ``io.BufferedReader`` object for more speedups. It also solves an issue
4063 where interleaved calls to ``read()`` and ``readline()`` give wrong results.
4064 Patch by Nir Aides.
Antoine Pitrou94c33eb2010-01-27 20:59:50 +00004065
Benjamin Peterson2deb5c72010-01-27 02:16:42 +00004066- Issue #7792: Registering non-classes to ABCs raised an obscure error.
4067
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004068- Removed the deprecated functions ``verify()`` and ``vereq()`` from
4069 Lib/test/test_support.py.
Ezio Melotti82230f92010-01-25 12:37:02 +00004070
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004071- Issue #7773: Fix an UnboundLocalError in ``platform.linux_distribution()``
4072 when the release file is empty.
Benjamin Petersona43f34c2010-01-25 03:31:13 +00004073
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004074- Issue #7748: Since unicode values are supported for some metadata options in
4075 Distutils, the DistributionMetadata get_* methods will now return an utf-8
4076 encoded string for them. This ensures that the upload and register commands
4077 send the correct values to PyPI without any error.
Tarek Ziadéf14c7fc2010-01-24 00:33:32 +00004078
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004079- Issue #1670765: Prevent ``email.generator.Generator`` from re-wrapping
R. David Murrayed44dfa2010-01-16 05:15:17 +00004080 headers in multipart/signed MIME parts, which fixes one of the sources of
4081 invalid modifications to such parts by Generator.
4082
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004083- Issue #7701: Fix crash in ``binascii.b2a_uu()`` in debug mode when given a
Antoine Pitrouc391ad02010-01-15 00:18:00 +00004084 1-byte argument. Patch by Victor Stinner.
4085
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004086- Issue #3299: Fix possible crash in the _sre module when given bad argument
4087 values in debug mode. Patch by Victor Stinner.
Antoine Pitrouefdddd32010-01-14 17:25:24 +00004088
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004089- Issue #7703: Add support for the new buffer API to functions of the binascii
4090 module. Backported from py3k by Florent Xicluna, with some additional tests.
Antoine Pitroufd3a60d2010-01-14 16:27:09 +00004091
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004092- Issue #2846: Add support for gzip.GzipFile reading zero-padded files. Patch
4093 by Brian Curtin.
Antoine Pitrou5a9112c2010-01-13 14:32:10 +00004094
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004095- Issue #5827: Make sure that normpath preserves unicode. Initial patch by
4096 Matt Giuca.
Ezio Melottib5689de2010-01-12 03:32:05 +00004097
Tarek Ziadédc0f4872010-01-11 22:50:29 +00004098- Issue #5372: Drop the reuse of .o files in Distutils' ccompiler (since
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004099 Extension extra options may change the output without changing the .c file).
4100 Initial patch by Collin Winter.
Tarek Ziadédc0f4872010-01-11 22:50:29 +00004101
Matthias Klose0d948ac2010-01-22 00:39:04 +00004102Extension Modules
4103-----------------
4104
4105- Expat: Fix DoS via XML document with malformed UTF-8 sequences
4106 (CVE_2009_3560).
4107
Antoine Pitrou8c510e72010-01-13 11:47:49 +00004108Build
4109-----
4110
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004111- Issue #7632: When Py_USING_MEMORY_DEBUGGER is defined, disable the private
4112 memory allocation scheme in dtoa.c and use PyMem_Malloc and PyMem_Free
4113 instead. Also disable caching of powers of 5.
Mark Dickinson9481c572010-01-17 20:57:56 +00004114
Ronald Oussorena55af9a2010-01-17 16:25:57 +00004115- Issue #7658: Ensure that the new pythonw executable works on OSX 10.4
4116
4117- Issue #7714: Use ``gcc -dumpversion`` to detect the version of GCC on
4118 MacOSX.
4119
Antoine Pitrou8c510e72010-01-13 11:47:49 +00004120- Issue #7661: Allow ctypes to be built from a non-ASCII directory path.
4121 Patch by Florent Xicluna.
4122
Antoine Pitrouc07336c2010-01-18 21:15:21 +00004123Tools/Demos
4124-----------
4125
4126- iobench (a file I/O benchmark) and ccbench (a concurrency benchmark) were
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004127 added to the ``Tools`` directory. They were previously living in the
Antoine Pitrouc07336c2010-01-18 21:15:21 +00004128 sandbox.
4129
R. David Murrayce6e4b02010-02-06 04:27:21 +00004130Tests
4131-----
4132
Ezio Melotti302ad8d2013-01-19 19:44:58 +02004133- Issue #7728: test_timeout was changed to use ``test_support.bind_port()``
R. David Murrayce6e4b02010-02-06 04:27:21 +00004134 instead of a hard coded port.
4135
Matthias Klose626d92a2010-01-31 16:05:13 +00004136Documentation
4137-------------
Victor Stinnerf20f9c22010-02-23 23:16:07 +00004138
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004139- Updated "Using Python" documentation to include description of CPython's -J,
4140 -U and -X options.
Barry Warsawb1e66ee2010-02-05 18:45:25 +00004141
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004142- Updated Python manual page (options -B, -O0, -s, environment variables
Matthias Klose626d92a2010-01-31 16:05:13 +00004143 PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE, PYTHONNOUSERSITE).
4144
Benjamin Petersondd6d92a2010-01-09 17:30:31 +00004145
Benjamin Peterson4f51baf2009-12-05 18:40:02 +00004146What's New in Python 2.7 alpha 2?
4147=================================
4148
Benjamin Petersonaa7e51f2010-01-09 16:34:06 +00004149*Release date: 2010-01-09*
Benjamin Peterson4f51baf2009-12-05 18:40:02 +00004150
4151Core and Builtins
4152-----------------
4153
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004154- The ``__complex__()`` method is now looked up on the class of instances to
4155 make it consistent with other special methods.
Benjamin Petersonecdae192010-01-04 00:43:01 +00004156
Antoine Pitrou5b7139a2010-01-02 21:12:58 +00004157- Issue #7462: Implement the stringlib fast search algorithm for the `rfind`,
4158 `rindex`, `rsplit` and `rpartition` methods. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
4159
Mark Dickinson1b34d252010-01-01 17:27:30 +00004160- Issue #5080: A number of functions and methods previously produced a
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004161 DeprecationWarning when passed a float argument where an integer was expected.
4162 These functions and methods now raise TypeError instead. The majority of the
4163 effects of this change are in the extension modules, but some core functions
4164 and methods are affected: notably the 'chr', 'range' and 'xrange' builtins,
4165 and many unicode/str methods.
Mark Dickinson1b34d252010-01-01 17:27:30 +00004166
Benjamin Peterson0f02d392009-12-30 19:34:10 +00004167- Issue #7604: Deleting an unset slotted attribute did not raise an
4168 AttributeError.
4169
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004170- Issue #7534: Fix handling of IEEE specials (infinities, nans, negative zero)
4171 in ** operator. The behaviour now conforms to that described in C99 Annex F.
Mark Dickinson99d652e2009-12-30 12:12:23 +00004172
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004173- Issue #7579: The msvcrt module now has docstrings for all its functions.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcc8a2ce72009-12-29 23:06:17 +00004174
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc8645a5c2009-12-29 22:03:38 +00004175- Issue #7413: Passing '\0' as the separator to datetime.datetime.isoformat()
4176 used to drop the time part of the result.
4177
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004178- Issue #1811: Improve accuracy and cross-platform consistency for true division
4179 of integers: the result of a/b is now correctly rounded for ints a and b (at
4180 least on IEEE 754 platforms), and in particular does not depend on the
4181 internal representation of a long.
Mark Dickinson46572832009-12-27 14:55:57 +00004182
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004183- Issue #6108: ``unicode(exception)`` and ``str(exception)`` should return the
4184 same message when only ``__str__()`` (and not ``__unicode__()``) is overridden
4185 in the subclass.
Ezio Melottif84caf42009-12-24 22:25:17 +00004186
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004187- Issue #6834: Replace the implementation for the 'python' and 'pythonw'
Ronald Oussoren92919a62009-12-24 13:30:58 +00004188 executables on OSX.
4189
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004190 These executables now work properly with the arch(1) command: ``arch -ppc
4191 python`` will start a universal binary version of python in PPC mode (unlike
4192 previous releases).
Ronald Oussoren92919a62009-12-24 13:30:58 +00004193
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004194- Issue #1680159: Unicode coercion during an 'in' operation no longer masks the
4195 underlying error when the coercion fails for the left hand operand.
R. David Murray0a0a1a82009-12-14 16:28:26 +00004196
Benjamin Peterson4895af42009-12-13 16:36:53 +00004197- Issue #7491: Metaclass's __cmp__ method was ignored.
4198
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004199- Issue #7466: Segmentation fault when the garbage collector is called in the
4200 middle of populating a tuple. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
Antoine Pitrou2a08b422009-12-13 16:18:14 +00004201
R. David Murrayc7298ff2009-12-14 21:57:39 +00004202
Benjamin Peterson4f51baf2009-12-05 18:40:02 +00004203Library
4204-------
4205
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004206- Issue #6963: Added "maxtasksperchild" argument to ``multiprocessing.Pool``,
4207 allowing for a maximum number of tasks within the pool to be completed by the
4208 worker before that worker is terminated, and a new one created to replace it.
Jesse Noller654ade32010-01-27 03:05:57 +00004209
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004210- Issue #7617: Make sure distutils.unixccompiler.UnixCCompiler recognizes gcc
4211 when it has a fully qualified configuration prefix. Initial patch by
4212 Arfrever.
Tarek Ziadéc25417f2010-01-08 23:42:23 +00004213
Antoine Pitrou80157252010-01-08 19:20:17 +00004214- Issue #7092: Remove py3k warning when importing cPickle. 2to3 handles
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004215 renaming of `cPickle` to `pickle`. The warning was annoying since there's no
4216 alternative to cPickle if you care about performance. Patch by Florent
Antoine Pitrou80157252010-01-08 19:20:17 +00004217 Xicluna.
4218
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004219- Issue #7455: Fix possible crash in cPickle on invalid input. Patch by Victor
4220 Stinner.
Antoine Pitrou0d423b82010-01-07 17:46:49 +00004221
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004222- Issue #7092: Fix the DeprecationWarnings emitted by the standard library when
4223 using the -3 flag. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
Antoine Pitroub9d49632010-01-04 23:22:44 +00004224
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004225- Issue #7471: Improve the performance of GzipFile's buffering mechanism, and
4226 make it implement the ``io.BufferedIOBase`` ABC to allow for further speedups
4227 by wrapping it in an ``io.BufferedReader``. Patch by Nir Aides.
Antoine Pitrou673ddf92010-01-03 22:29:56 +00004228
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004229- Issue #3972: ``httplib.HTTPConnection`` now accepts an optional source_address
Gregory P. Smith9d325212010-01-03 02:06:07 +00004230 parameter to allow specifying where your connections come from.
4231
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004232- ``socket.create_connection()`` now accepts an optional source_address
4233 parameter.
Gregory P. Smith79a3eb12010-01-03 01:29:44 +00004234
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004235- Issue #5511: ``zipfile.ZipFile`` can now be used as a context manager.
Ezio Melotti569e61f2009-12-30 06:14:51 +00004236 Initial patch by Brian Curtin.
4237
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004238- Distutils now correctly identifies the build architecture as "x86_64" when
4239 building on OSX 10.6 without "-arch" flags.
Ronald Oussorenca8e7ec2009-12-24 14:50:35 +00004240
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004241- Issue #7556: Distutils' msvc9compiler now opens the MSVC Manifest file in text
4242 mode.
Tarek Ziadé0479eb52009-12-21 23:37:44 +00004243
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004244- Issue #7552: Removed line feed in the base64 Authorization header in the
4245 Distutils upload command to avoid an error when PyPI reads it. This occurs on
4246 long passwords. Initial patch by JP St. Pierre.
Tarek Ziadé2421d562009-12-20 23:23:34 +00004247
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004248- Issue #7231: urllib2 cannot handle https with proxy requiring auth. Patch by
4249 Tatsuhiro Tsujikawa.
Senthil Kumaran7713acf2009-12-20 06:05:13 +00004250
Benjamin Petersonddd392c2009-12-13 19:19:07 +00004251- Issue #7349: Make methods of file objects in the io module accept None as an
4252 argument where file-like objects (ie StringIO and BytesIO) accept them to mean
4253 the same as passing no argument.
4254
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004255- Issue #7348: ``StringIO.StringIO.readline(-1)`` now acts as if it got no
4256 argument like other file objects.
Benjamin Petersonc4771d22009-12-13 17:31:31 +00004257
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004258- Issue #7357: tarfile no longer suppresses fatal extraction errors by default.
Lars Gustäbel92ca7562009-12-13 11:32:27 +00004259
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004260- Issue #7470: logging: Fix bug in Unicode encoding fallback.
Vinay Sajip5cc4e2a2009-12-11 09:16:01 +00004261
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004262- Issue #5949: Fixed IMAP4_SSL hang when the IMAP server response is missing
4263 proper end-of-line termination.
R. David Murray93321f32009-12-09 15:15:31 +00004264
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004265- Issue #7457: Added a read_pkg_file method to
4266 ``distutils.dist.DistributionMetadata``.
Benjamin Peterson4f51baf2009-12-05 18:40:02 +00004267
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004268- Issue #3745: Undo the 2.7a1 change to have hashlib to reject unicode and non
4269 buffer API supporting objects as input. That behavior is for 3.x only.
Gregory P. Smithfe32d302010-01-02 22:42:50 +00004270
Georg Brandl740cdc32009-12-28 08:34:58 +00004271C-API
4272-----
4273
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004274- Issue #7767: New function ``PyLong_AsLongLongAndOverflow()`` added, analogous
4275 to ``PyLong_AsLongAndOverflow()``.
Mark Dickinsona36507c2010-01-30 10:08:33 +00004276
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004277- Issue #5080: The argument parsing functions ``PyArg_ParseTuple()``,
4278 ``PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords()``, ``PyArg_VaParse()``,
4279 ``PyArg_VaParseTupleAndKeywords()`` and ``PyArg_Parse()`` no longer accept
4280 float arguments for integer format codes (other than 'L'): previously an
4281 attempt to pass a float resulted in a DeprecationWarning; now it gives a
4282 TypeError. For the 'L' format code (which previously had no warning) there is
4283 now a DeprecationWarning.
Mark Dickinson1b34d252010-01-01 17:27:30 +00004284
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004285- Issue #7033: Function ``PyErr_NewExceptionWithDoc()`` added.
Georg Brandl740cdc32009-12-28 08:34:58 +00004286
Martin v. Löwisb4261d52009-12-21 19:29:59 +00004287Build
4288-----
4289
Benjamin Petersonedfe72f2010-01-01 15:21:13 +00004290- Issue #6491: Allow --with-dbmliborder to specify that no dbms will be built.
4291
Benjamin Petersonb4abef62010-01-01 15:18:38 +00004292- Issue #6943: Use pkg-config to find the libffi headers when the
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004293 ``--with-system-ffi`` flag is used.
Benjamin Petersonb4abef62010-01-01 15:18:38 +00004294
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004295- Issue #7609: Add a ``--with-system-expat`` option that causes the system's
4296 expat library to be used for the pyexpat module instead of the one included
4297 with Python.
Benjamin Peterson2c196742009-12-31 03:17:18 +00004298
Benjamin Peterson500ce232009-12-30 02:58:50 +00004299- Issue #7589: Only build the nis module when the correct header files are
4300 found.
4301
Martin v. Löwisf477b932010-01-02 09:25:21 +00004302- Switch to OpenSSL 0.9.8l and sqlite 3.6.21 on Windows.
R. David Murray93321f32009-12-09 15:15:31 +00004303
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004304- Issue #7541: when using ``python-config`` with a framework install the
4305 compiler might use the wrong library.
Ronald Oussorenb5afe542009-12-24 14:17:19 +00004306
R. David Murrayc7298ff2009-12-14 21:57:39 +00004307Tests
4308-----
4309
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004310- Issue #7376: Instead of running a self-test (which was failing) when called
R. David Murray77e48ba2009-12-20 16:46:06 +00004311 with no arguments, doctest.py now gives a usage message.
4312
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004313- Issue #7396: Fix regrtest -s, which was broken by the -j enhancement.
R. David Murray98e3df32009-12-16 11:49:46 +00004314
R. David Murrayc7298ff2009-12-14 21:57:39 +00004315- Issue #7498: test_multiprocessing now uses test_support.find_unused_port
4316 instead of a hardcoded port number in test_rapid_restart.
4317
4318
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00004319What's New in Python 2.7 alpha 1
4320================================
4321
Benjamin Peterson3513c872009-12-05 18:48:13 +00004322*Release date: 2009-12-05*
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00004323
4324Core and Builtins
4325-----------------
4326
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004327- Issue #7419: ``locale.setlocale()`` could crash the interpreter on Windows
4328 when called with invalid values.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd7288712009-12-01 21:51:04 +00004329
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004330- Issue #3382: 'F' formatting for float and complex now convert the result to
4331 upper case. This only affects 'inf' and 'nan', since 'f' no longer converts
4332 to 'g' for large values.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd7288712009-12-01 21:51:04 +00004333
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004334- Remove switch from "%f" formatting to "%g" formatting for floats larger than
4335 1e50 in absolute value.
Mark Dickinson9dd5e162009-11-23 20:54:09 +00004336
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004337- Remove restrictions on precision when formatting floats. E.g., "%.120g" %
4338 1e-100 used to raise OverflowError, but now gives the requested 120
4339 significant digits instead.
Mark Dickinson18cfada2009-11-23 18:46:41 +00004340
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004341- Add Py3k warnings for parameter names in parentheses.
Benjamin Peterson89b1a5c2009-11-19 22:58:01 +00004342
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004343- Issue #7362: Give a proper error message for ``def f((x)=3): pass``.
Benjamin Peterson89b1a5c2009-11-19 22:58:01 +00004344
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004345- Issue #7085: Fix crash when importing some extensions in a thread on MacOSX
4346 10.6.
Ronald Oussoren315cd0c2009-11-19 16:25:21 +00004347
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004348- Issue #7117: ``repr(x)`` for a float x returns a result based on the shortest
4349 decimal string that's guaranteed to round back to x under correct rounding
4350 (with round-half-to-even rounding mode). Previously it gave a string based on
4351 rounding x to 17 decimal digits. repr(x) for a complex number behaves
4352 similarly. On platforms where the correctly-rounded strtod and dtoa code is
4353 not supported (see below), repr is unchanged.
Mark Dickinsonb678de82009-11-19 18:41:49 +00004354
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004355- Issue #7117: On almost all platforms: float-to-string and string-to-float
4356 conversions within Python are now correctly rounded. Places these conversions
4357 occur include: str for floats and complex numbers; the float and complex
4358 constructors; old-style and new-style numeric formatting; serialization and
4359 deserialization of floats and complex numbers using marshal, pickle and json;
4360 parsing of float and imaginary literals in Python code; Decimal-to-float
4361 conversion.
Mark Dickinsonb678de82009-11-19 18:41:49 +00004362
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004363 The conversions use a Python-adapted version of David Gay's well-known dtoa.c,
4364 providing correctly-rounded strtod and dtoa C functions. This code is
4365 supported on Windows, and on Unix-like platforms using gcc, icc or suncc as
4366 the C compiler. There may be a small number of platforms on which correct
4367 operation of this code cannot be guaranteed, so the code is not used: notably,
4368 this applies to platforms where the C double format is not IEEE 754 binary64,
4369 and to platforms on x86 hardware where the x87 FPU is set to 64-bit precision
4370 and Python's configure script is unable to determine how to change the FPU
4371 precision. On these platforms conversions use the platform strtod and dtoa,
4372 as before.
Mark Dickinsonb678de82009-11-19 18:41:49 +00004373
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004374- Issue #7117: Backport round implementation from Python 3.x. ``round()`` now
4375 uses the correctly-rounded string <-> float conversions described above (when
4376 available), and so produces correctly rounded results that will display nicely
4377 under the float repr. There are two related small changes: (1) round now
4378 accepts any class with an ``__index__()`` method for its second argument (but
4379 no longer accepts floats for the second argument), and (2) an excessively
4380 large second integer argument (e.g., ``round(1.234, 10**100)``) no longer
4381 raises an exception.
Mark Dickinsonbd15a062009-11-18 19:33:35 +00004382
Philip Jenveyfab8be22009-11-17 02:42:26 +00004383- Issue #1757126: Fix the cyrillic-asian alias for the ptcp154 encoding.
4384
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004385- Fix several issues with ``compile()``. The input can now contain Windows and
4386 Mac newlines and is no longer required to end in a newline.
Benjamin Petersone36199b2009-11-12 23:39:44 +00004387
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004388- Remove length limitation when constructing a complex number from a unicode
4389 string.
Mark Dickinsonc04c7c52009-10-26 22:28:14 +00004390
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004391- Issue #7244: ``itertools.izip_longest()`` no longer ignores exceptions raised
4392 during the formation of an output tuple.
Raymond Hettingerfa7dadd2009-11-01 20:45:16 +00004393
Mark Dickinson8d87dc02009-10-25 20:39:06 +00004394- Issue #1087418: Boost performance of bitwise operations for longs.
4395
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004396- Issue #1722344: ``threading._shutdown()`` is now called in ``Py_Finalize()``,
4397 which fixes the problem of some exceptions being thrown at shutdown when the
4398 interpreter is killed. Patch by Adam Olsen.
Antoine Pitrouefb60c02009-10-20 21:29:37 +00004399
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004400- Issue #7168: Document ``PyFloat_AsString()`` and ``PyFloat_AsReprString()``,
4401 and note that they are unsafe and deprecated.
Eric Smithc12781a2009-10-19 14:38:14 +00004402
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004403- Issue #7120: logging: Remove import of multiprocessing which is causing crash
4404 in GAE.
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +00004405
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004406- Issue #7140: The ``__dict__`` of a module should not be cleared unless the
4407 module is the only object holding a reference to it.
Benjamin Peterson196b0922009-10-15 15:44:46 +00004408
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004409- Issue #1754094: Improve the stack depth calculation in the compiler. There
4410 should be no other effect than a small decrease in memory use. Patch by
4411 Christopher Tur Lesniewski-Laas.
Neil Schemenauer7fdd1cb2009-10-14 17:17:14 +00004412
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004413- Issue #7084: Fix a (very unlikely) crash when printing a list from one thread,
4414 and mutating it from another one. Patch by Scott Dial.
Antoine Pitroubeaf6a02009-10-11 21:03:26 +00004415
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd0052d12009-10-06 19:56:32 +00004416- Issue #1571184: The Unicode database contains properties for more characters.
4417 The tables for code points representing numeric values, white spaces or line
4418 breaks are now generated from the official Unicode Character Database files,
4419 and include information from the Unihan.txt file.
4420
Benjamin Peterson7adbb5a2009-10-03 20:23:24 +00004421- Issue #7050: Fix a SystemError when trying to use unpacking and augmented
4422 assignment.
4423
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004424- Issue #5329: Fix ``os.popen*`` regression from 2.5 with commands as a sequence
4425 running through the shell. Patch by Jean-Paul Calderone and Jani Hakala.
Philip Jenvey8b902042009-09-29 19:10:15 +00004426
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004427- Issue #7019: Raise ValueError when unmarshalling bad long data, instead of
4428 producing internally inconsistent Python longs.
Mark Dickinson7e7a3ec2009-09-29 19:01:06 +00004429
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004430- Issue #6990: Fix ``threading.local`` subclasses leaving old state around after
4431 a reference cycle GC which could be recycled by new locals.
Philip Jenveydbf3b252009-09-29 04:32:44 +00004432
Benjamin Peterson9db55402009-09-18 21:47:27 +00004433- Issue #6300: unicode.encode, unicode.decode, str.decode, and str.encode now
Benjamin Peterson332d7212009-09-18 21:14:55 +00004434 take keyword arguments.
4435
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004436- Issue #6922: Fix an infinite loop when trying to decode an invalid UTF-32
4437 stream with a non-raising error handler like "replace" or "ignore".
Georg Brandle9741f32009-09-17 11:28:09 +00004438
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004439- Issue #6713: Improve performance of base 10 int -> string and long -> string
4440 conversions.
Mark Dickinsonaa2adc82009-09-16 22:10:56 +00004441
Thomas Wouters2920adb2009-09-16 20:36:34 +00004442- Issue #1590864: Fix potential deadlock when mixing threads and fork().
4443
Georg Brandl0674d3f2009-09-16 20:30:09 +00004444- Issue #6844: Do not emit DeprecationWarnings when accessing a "message"
4445 attribute on exceptions that was set explicitly.
4446
Mark Dickinsonc8a7c7c2009-09-06 10:03:31 +00004447- Issue #6846: Fix bug where bytearray.pop() returns negative integers.
4448
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004449- ``classmethod()`` no longer checks if its argument is callable.
Benjamin Peterson6fcf9b52009-09-01 22:27:57 +00004450
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004451- Issue #6750: A text file opened with ``io.open()`` could duplicate its output
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfff896b2009-08-29 18:14:40 +00004452 when writing from multiple threads at the same time.
4453
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004454- Issue #6704: Improve the col_offset in AST for "for" statements with a target
4455 of tuple unpacking.
Benjamin Petersonc0ba8282009-08-15 22:59:21 +00004456
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004457- Issue #6707: ``dir()`` on an uninitialized module caused a crash.
Benjamin Peterson4c6e8082009-08-15 13:16:38 +00004458
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004459- Issue #6540: Fixed crash for ``bytearray.translate()`` with invalid parameters.
Georg Brandlec812ca2009-07-22 11:57:15 +00004460
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004461- Issue #6573: ``set.union()`` stopped processing inputs if an instance of self
Raymond Hettingerc2b9e1a2009-07-27 20:32:04 +00004462 occurred in the argument chain.
4463
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc9d11fef2009-07-13 20:03:21 +00004464- Issue #1616979: Added the cp720 (Arabic DOS) encoding.
4465
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004466- Issue #6070: On posix platforms import no longer copies the execute bit from
4467 the .py file to the .pyc file if it is set. Patch by Marco N.
R. David Murray23a736a2009-07-07 01:06:13 +00004468
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004469- Issue #4618: When unicode arguments are passed to ``print()``, the default
Benjamin Peterson753d1622009-07-02 18:16:45 +00004470 separator and end should be unicode also.
4471
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00004472- Issue #6119: Fixed an incorrect Py3k warning about order comparisons of
4473 built-in functions and methods.
Benjamin Peterson1bf47652009-07-02 17:06:17 +00004474
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004475- Issue #6347: Include inttypes.h as well as stdint.h in pyport.h. This fixes a
4476 build failure on HP-UX: int32_t and uint32_t are defined in inttypes.h instead
4477 of stdint.h on that platform.
Mark Dickinson2f865b92009-06-30 15:32:30 +00004478
Hirokazu Yamamotoa3c56092009-06-28 10:23:00 +00004479- Issue #4856: Remove checks for win NT.
4480
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc595f7a52009-06-25 22:29:29 +00004481- Issue #2016: Fixed a crash in a corner case where the dictionary of keyword
4482 arguments could be modified during the function call setup.
4483
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc14fc6732009-06-23 21:09:09 +00004484- Removed the ipaddr module.
4485
Raymond Hettinger62641e92009-06-23 20:59:43 +00004486- Issue #6329: Fixed iteration for memoryview objects (it was being blocked
4487 because it wasn't recognized as a sequence).
4488
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004489- Issue #6289: Encoding errors from ``compile()`` were being masked.
Benjamin Peterson08a0bbc2009-06-16 00:29:31 +00004490
Benjamin Petersona72be3b2009-06-13 20:23:33 +00004491- When no module is given in a relative import, the module field of the
4492 ImportFrom AST node is now None instead of an empty string.
4493
Benjamin Peterson565e1b62009-06-13 03:46:30 +00004494- Assignment to None using import statements now raises a SyntaxError.
4495
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004496- Issue #4547: When debugging a very large function, it was not always possible
4497 to update the lineno attribute of the current frame.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcb02ceda2009-06-01 20:53:18 +00004498
Antoine Pitrou46dbe272009-05-30 21:27:00 +00004499- Issue #5330: C functions called with keyword arguments were not reported by
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004500 the various profiling modules (profile, cProfile). Patch by Hagen Fürstenau.
Antoine Pitrou46dbe272009-05-30 21:27:00 +00004501
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004502- Issue #5982: staticmethod and classmethod now expose the wrapped function with
4503 ``__func__``.
Raymond Hettinger578a2282009-05-29 04:58:52 +00004504
Raymond Hettinger822b87f2009-05-29 01:46:48 +00004505- Added support for multiple context managers in the same with-statement.
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004506 Deprecated ``contextlib.nested()`` which is no longer needed.
Georg Brandl944f6842009-05-25 21:02:56 +00004507
Benjamin Peterson1880d8b2009-05-25 13:13:44 +00004508- Issue #6101: A new opcode, SETUP_WITH, has been added to speed up the with
4509 statement and correctly lookup the __enter__ and __exit__ special methods.
4510
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004511- Issue #5829: complex("1e500") no longer raises OverflowError. This makes it
4512 consistent with float("1e500") and interpretation of real and imaginary
4513 literals.
Mark Dickinsona4e0efa2009-05-20 18:43:07 +00004514
Hirokazu Yamamotoa4f90182009-05-17 02:58:36 +00004515- Issue #3527: Removed Py_WIN_WIDE_FILENAMES which is not used any more.
4516
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004517- ``__instancecheck__()`` and ``__subclasscheck__()`` are now completely ignored
4518 on classic classes and instances.
Benjamin Petersoneb9fb2c2009-05-16 22:46:11 +00004519
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004520- Issue #5994: The marshal module now has docstrings.
R. David Murray525cffc2009-05-13 13:07:14 +00004521
Mark Dickinsonb1d45852009-05-11 15:33:08 +00004522- Issue #5981: Fix three minor inf/nan issues in float.fromhex:
Mark Dickinsonb1d45852009-05-11 15:33:08 +00004523
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004524 (1) inf and nan strings with trailing whitespace were incorrectly rejected;
4525 (2) parsing of strings representing infinities and nans was locale aware; and
4526 (3) the interpretation of fromhex('-nan') didn't match that of float('-nan').
Eric Smitha985a3a2009-05-05 18:26:08 +00004527
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004528- Issue #5920: For ``float.__format__()``, change the behavior with the empty
4529 presentation type (that is, not one of 'e', 'f', 'g', or 'n') to be like 'g'
4530 but with at least one decimal point and with a default precision
4531 of 12. Previously, the behavior the same but with a default precision of 6.
4532 This more closely matches ``str()``, and reduces surprises when adding
4533 alignment flags to the empty presentation type. This also affects the new
4534 complex.__format__ in the same way.
4535
4536- Issue #5890: In subclasses of 'property' the __doc__ attribute was shadowed by
4537 classtype's, even if it was None. property now inserts the __doc__ into the
4538 subclass instance __dict__.
R. David Murray7ba8e1c2009-05-04 22:16:24 +00004539
Antoine Pitrou653dece2009-05-04 18:32:32 +00004540- Issue #4426: The UTF-7 decoder was too strict and didn't accept some legal
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004541 sequences. Patch by Nick Barnes and Victor Stinner.
Antoine Pitrou653dece2009-05-04 18:32:32 +00004542
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004543- Issue #1588: Add complex.__format__. For example, ``format(complex(1, 2./3),
4544 '.5')`` now produces a sensible result.
Eric Smith9139cc62009-04-30 00:58:58 +00004545
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004546- Issue #5864: Fix empty format code formatting for floats so that it never
4547 gives more than the requested number of significant digits.
Mark Dickinson92fcc9c2009-04-29 20:41:00 +00004548
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004549- Issue #5793: Rationalize isdigit / isalpha / tolower, etc. Includes new
4550 Py_ISDIGIT / Py_ISALPHA / Py_TOLOWER, etc. in pctypes.h.
Eric Smithcac7af62009-04-27 19:04:37 +00004551
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004552- Issue #4971: Fix titlecase for characters that are their own titlecase, but
4553 not their own uppercase.
Martin v. Löwis99f27792009-04-26 00:53:18 +00004554
Eric Smith068f0652009-04-25 21:40:15 +00004555- Issue #5835: Deprecate PyOS_ascii_formatd and replace it with
4556 _PyOS_double_to_string or PyOS_double_to_string.
4557
Benjamin Peterson5083dc52009-04-25 00:41:22 +00004558- Issue #5283: Setting __class__ in __del__ caused a segfault.
4559
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004560- Issue #5816: ``complex(repr(z))`` now recovers z exactly, even when z involves
4561 nans, infs or negative zeros.
Mark Dickinson95bc9802009-04-24 12:46:53 +00004562
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004563- Implement PEP 378, Format Specifier for Thousands Separator, for floats, ints,
4564 and longs.
Eric Smithaca19e62009-04-22 13:29:05 +00004565
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004566- Issue #5515: 'n' formatting for ints, longs, and floats handles leading zero
4567 formatting poorly.
Eric Smithaca19e62009-04-22 13:29:05 +00004568
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004569- Issue #5772: For float.__format__, don't add a trailing ".0" if we're using no
4570 type code and we have an exponent.
Eric Smithaca19e62009-04-22 13:29:05 +00004571
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004572- Issue #3166: Make long -> float (and int -> float) conversions correctly
4573 rounded.
Mark Dickinson6736cf82009-04-20 21:13:33 +00004574
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004575- Issue #5787: ``object.__getattribute__(some_type, "__bases__")`` segfaulted on
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00004576 some built-in types.
Benjamin Petersond4d400c2009-04-18 20:12:47 +00004577
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004578- Issue #1869: Fix a couple of minor round() issues. ``round(5e15+1)`` was
4579 giving 5e15+2; ``round(-0.0)`` was losing the sign of the zero.
Mark Dickinson1bdf7e92009-04-18 14:59:42 +00004580
Benjamin Peterson99d36f12009-04-15 21:26:36 +00004581- Issue #5759: float() didn't call __float__ on str subclasses.
4582
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004583- Issue #5704: The "-3" command-line option now implies "-t".
Georg Brandl3c4a5462009-04-12 12:08:12 +00004584
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004585- Issue #2170: Refactored ``xml.dom.minidom.normalize``, increasing both its
4586 clarity and its speed.
R. David Murray0374a822009-04-09 21:54:50 +00004587
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004588- Issue #2396: The memoryview object was backported from Python 3.1.
Antoine Pitrou789be0c2009-04-02 21:18:34 +00004589
Georg Brandld3f03fa2009-04-02 18:09:04 +00004590- Fix a problem in PyErr_NormalizeException that leads to "undetected errors"
4591 when hitting the recursion limit under certain circumstances.
4592
Brett Cannon15ba4da2009-04-01 18:03:59 +00004593- Issue #1665206: Remove the last eager import in _warnings.c and make it lazy.
4594
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004595- Issue #4865: On MacOSX /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages is added to the end
4596 sys.path, for compatibility with the system install of Python.
Ronald Oussorene0154ed2009-03-30 23:10:35 +00004597
Antoine Pitrouf8387af2009-03-23 18:41:45 +00004598- Issue #4688: Add a heuristic so that tuples and dicts containing only
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004599 untrackable objects are not tracked by the garbage collector. This can reduce
4600 the size of collections and therefore the garbage collection overhead on
4601 long-running programs, depending on their particular use of datatypes.
Antoine Pitrouf8387af2009-03-23 18:41:45 +00004602
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004603- Issue #5512: Rewrite PyLong long division algorithm (x_divrem) to improve its
4604 performance. Long divisions and remainder operations are now between 50% and
4605 150% faster.
Mark Dickinson0b666bf2009-03-23 18:25:13 +00004606
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004607- Issue #4258: Make it possible to use base 2**30 instead of base 2**15 for the
4608 internal representation of integers, for performance reasons. Base 2**30 is
4609 enabled by default on 64-bit machines. Add --enable-big-digits option to
4610 configure, which overrides the default. Add sys.long_info structseq to
4611 provide information about the internal format.
Mark Dickinsonefc82f72009-03-20 15:51:55 +00004612
Benjamin Peterson6ffe8522009-03-18 20:52:15 +00004613- Issue #4034: Fix weird attribute error messages of the traceback object. (As a
4614 result traceback.__members__ no longer exists.)
4615
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004616- Issue #4474: PyUnicode_FromWideChar now converts characters outside the BMP to
4617 surrogate pairs, on systems with sizeof(wchar_t) == 4 and sizeof(Py_UNICODE)
4618 == 2.
Mark Dickinson6b265f12009-03-18 16:07:26 +00004619
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004620- Issue #5237: Allow auto-numbered fields in str.format(). For example: ``'{}
4621 {}'.format(1, 2) == '1 2'``.
Eric Smith6f42edb2009-03-14 11:57:26 +00004622
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004623- Issue #3652: Make the 'line' argument for ``warnings.showwarning()`` a
Brett Cannon6c4cff02009-03-11 04:51:06 +00004624 requirement. Means the DeprecationWarning from Python 2.6 can go away.
4625
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004626- Issue #5247: Improve error message when unknown format codes are used when
4627 using ``str.format()`` with str, unicode, long, int, and float arguments.
Eric Smithe9fb6862009-02-20 14:02:36 +00004628
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004629- Running Python with the -3 option now also warns about classic division for
4630 ints and longs.
Raymond Hettinger08259e82009-02-18 23:10:19 +00004631
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004632- Issue #5260: Long integers now consume less memory: average saving is 2 bytes
4633 per long on a 32-bit system and 6 bytes per long on a 64-bit system.
Mark Dickinson2ffb26f2009-02-15 10:13:41 +00004634
Antoine Pitrou76a4b892009-02-13 13:52:33 +00004635- Issue #5186: Reduce hash collisions for objects with no __hash__ method by
4636 rotating the object pointer by 4 bits to the right.
4637
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004638- Issue #4575: Fix Py_IS_INFINITY macro to work correctly on x87 FPUs: it now
4639 forces its argument to double before testing for infinity.
Mark Dickinsonc97c9092009-02-09 14:18:43 +00004640
Benjamin Petersone18ef192009-01-20 14:21:16 +00004641- Issue #4978: Passing keyword arguments as unicode strings is now allowed.
4642
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +00004643- Issue #1242657: the __len__() and __length_hint__() calls in several tools
Raymond Hettingerb5163702009-02-02 21:50:13 +00004644 were suppressing all exceptions. These include list(), filter(), map(),
4645 zip(), and bytearray().
4646
Benjamin Peterson596d3062009-01-19 15:42:23 +00004647- os.ftruncate raises OSErrors instead of IOErrors for consistency with other os
4648 functions.
4649
Benjamin Peterson5848d1f2009-01-19 00:08:08 +00004650- Issue #4991: Passing invalid file descriptors to io.FileIO now raises an
4651 OSError.
4652
Amaury Forgeot d'Arca18392a2009-01-13 23:19:08 +00004653- Issue #4807: Port the _winreg module to Windows CE.
4654
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004655- Issue #4935: The overflow checking code in the expandtabs() method common to
4656 str, bytes and bytearray could be optimized away by the compiler, letting the
4657 interpreter segfault instead of raising an error.
Antoine Pitrouc2f02212009-01-13 23:13:52 +00004658
Amaury Forgeot d'Arca40d5732009-01-12 23:36:55 +00004659- Issue #3720: Fix a crash when an iterator modifies its class and removes its
4660 __next__ method.
4661
Martin v. Löwise3422fa2009-01-12 08:11:24 +00004662- Issue #4893: Use NT threading on CE.
4663
Martin v. Löwis1b3bef22009-01-12 07:57:11 +00004664- Issue #4915: Port sysmodule to Windows CE.
4665
Antoine Pitrou4c5ecb72009-01-09 21:40:55 +00004666- Issue #4074: Change the criteria for doing a full garbage collection (i.e.
4667 collecting the oldest generation) so that allocating lots of objects without
4668 destroying them does not show quadratic performance. Based on a proposal by
Benjamin Petersond50a5d52009-07-13 00:03:20 +00004669 Martin von Löwis at
Antoine Pitrou4c5ecb72009-01-09 21:40:55 +00004670 http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2008-June/080579.html.
4671
Martin v. Löwisb90304a2009-01-07 18:40:40 +00004672- Issue #4850: Change COUNT_ALLOCS variables to Py_ssize_t.
4673
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004674- Issue #1180193: When importing a module from a .pyc (or .pyo) file with an
4675 existing .py counterpart, override the co_filename attributes of all code
4676 objects if the original filename is obsolete (which can happen if the file has
4677 been renamed, moved, or if it is accessed through different paths). Patch by
4678 Ziga Seilnacht and Jean-Paul Calderone.
Antoine Pitroue96d4ea2009-01-06 18:10:47 +00004679
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004680- Issue #4075: Use ``OutputDebugStringW()`` in Py_FatalError.
Martin v. Löwis5344c992009-01-02 20:32:55 +00004681
Hirokazu Yamamoto99a1b202009-01-01 15:45:39 +00004682- Issue #4797: IOError.filename was not set when _fileio.FileIO failed to open
4683 file with `str' filename on Windows.
4684
Antoine Pitrouaa687902009-01-01 14:11:22 +00004685- Issue #3680: Reference cycles created through a dict, set or deque iterator
4686 did not get collected.
4687
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004688- Issue #4701: PyObject_Hash now implicitly calls PyType_Ready on types where
4689 the tp_hash and tp_dict slots are both NULL.
Nick Coghlan180e4002008-12-30 01:18:48 +00004690
Benjamin Peterson7af65562008-12-29 17:56:58 +00004691- Issue #4764: With io.open, IOError.filename is set when trying to open a
4692 directory on POSIX systems.
4693
Benjamin Petersonfe231b02008-12-29 17:47:42 +00004694- Issue #4764: IOError.filename is set when trying to open a directory on POSIX
4695 systems.
4696
Georg Brandl6425a2f2008-12-28 11:54:53 +00004697- Issue #4759: None is now allowed as the first argument of
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004698 ``bytearray.translate()``. It was always allowed for ``bytes.translate()``.
Georg Brandl6425a2f2008-12-28 11:54:53 +00004699
Skip Montanarof205c132008-12-23 03:30:15 +00004700- Added test case to ensure attempts to read from a file opened for writing
4701 fail.
4702
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004703- Issue #2467: gc.DEBUG_STATS reported invalid elapsed times. Also, always print
4704 elapsed times, not only when some objects are uncollectable/unreachable.
4705 Original patch by Neil Schemenauer.
Antoine Pitrou73c0e652008-12-17 22:46:54 +00004706
Mark Dickinson1a707982008-12-17 16:14:37 +00004707- Issue #3439: Add a bit_length method to int and long.
4708
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004709- Issue #2183: Simplify and optimize bytecode for list comprehensions. Original
4710 patch by Neal Norwitz.
Antoine Pitroud0c35152008-12-17 00:38:28 +00004711
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004712- Issue #4597: Fixed exception handling when the __exit__ function of a context
4713 manager returns a value that cannot be converted to a bool.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcad9b5992008-12-10 23:22:49 +00004714
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004715- Issue #4597: Fixed several opcodes that weren't always propagating exceptions.
Jeffrey Yasskinffd42cf2008-12-10 07:35:02 +00004716
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004717- Issue #4445: Replace ``sizeof(PyStringObject)`` with
4718 ``offsetof(PyStringObject, ob_sval) + 1`` when allocating memory for str
4719 instances. On a typical machine this saves 3 bytes of memory (on average) per
4720 string allocation.
Mark Dickinson826f3fe2008-12-05 21:55:28 +00004721
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcdc619012008-11-22 20:01:18 +00004722- Issue #3996: On Windows, the PyOS_CheckStack function would cause the
4723 interpreter to abort ("Fatal Python error: Could not reset the stack!")
4724 instead of throwing a MemoryError.
4725
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004726- Issue #3689: The list reversed iterator now supports __length_hint__ instead
4727 of __len__. Behavior now matches other reversed iterators.
Raymond Hettinger7989a4d2008-12-03 15:42:10 +00004728
Benjamin Petersonc078f922008-11-21 22:27:24 +00004729- Issue #4367: Python would segfault during compiling when the unicodedata
4730 module couldn't be imported and \N escapes were present.
4731
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004732- Issue #4233: Changed semantic of ``_fileio.FileIO``'s ``close()`` method on
4733 file objects with closefd=False. The file descriptor is still kept open but
4734 the file object behaves like a closed file. The ``FileIO`` object also got a
4735 new readonly attribute ``closefd``.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc32265652008-11-20 23:34:31 +00004736
Benjamin Peterson46cc6d12008-11-19 21:49:09 +00004737- Issue #4348: Some bytearray methods returned that didn't cause any change to
4738 the bytearray, returned the same bytearray instead of a copy.
4739
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004740- Issue #4317: Fixed a crash in the ``imageop.rgb2rgb8()`` function.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc7cfe7ea2008-11-18 22:19:37 +00004741
Benjamin Peterson273c2332008-11-17 22:39:09 +00004742- Issue #4230: If ``__getattr__`` is a descriptor, it now functions correctly.
4743
Benjamin Peterson6624a9f2008-11-03 15:14:51 +00004744- Issue #4048: The parser module now correctly validates relative imports.
4745
Benjamin Petersondcee09d2008-10-31 02:16:05 +00004746- Issue #4225: ``from __future__ import unicode_literals`` didn't work in an
4747 exec statement.
4748
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004749- Issue #4176: Fixed a crash when pickling an object which ``__reduce__`` method
4750 does not return iterators for the 4th and 5th items.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc69a9c5b2008-10-30 21:18:34 +00004751
Benjamin Petersonbdca9422008-10-26 20:21:13 +00004752- Issue #4209: Enabling unicode_literals and the print_function in the same
4753 __future__ import didn't work.
4754
Benjamin Peterson399b1fe2008-10-25 02:53:28 +00004755- Using ``nonlocal`` as a variable name will now raise a Py3k SyntaxWarning
Georg Brandl7fb00ad2008-10-25 07:00:52 +00004756 because it is a reserved word in 3.x.
Benjamin Peterson399b1fe2008-10-25 02:53:28 +00004757
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004758- On windows, ``os.chdir()`` given unicode was not working if
4759 GetCurrentDirectoryW returned a path longer than MAX_PATH. (But It's doubtful
4760 this code path is really executed because I cannot move to such directory on
4761 win2k)
Hirokazu Yamamoto10a018c2008-10-09 10:00:30 +00004762
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004763- Issue #4069: When ``set.remove(element)`` is used with a set element, the
4764 element is temporarily replaced with an equivalent frozenset. But the
4765 eventual KeyError would always report the empty ``frozenset()`` as the missing
4766 key. Now it correctly refers to the initial element.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd78b9dc2008-10-07 20:32:10 +00004767
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004768- Issue #4509: Various issues surrounding resize of bytearray objects to which
4769 there are buffer exports.
Antoine Pitrouae5bece2008-12-06 21:29:24 +00004770
Benjamin Peterson8d5934b2008-12-27 18:24:11 +00004771- Issue #4748: Lambda generators no longer return a value.
4772
Kristján Valur Jónsson6220e412009-01-12 09:20:34 +00004773- Issue #3582: Use native TLS functions on Windows
4774
Gregory P. Smithae91d092009-03-02 05:13:57 +00004775- The re.sub(), re.subn() and re.split() functions now accept a flags parameter.
4776
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004777- Issue #3845: In PyRun_SimpleFileExFlags avoid invalid memory access with short
4778 file names.
Matthias Kloseedb5e1e2009-04-04 14:18:13 +00004779
Matthias Klose91a3b9e2009-04-05 21:19:13 +00004780- Issue #1113244: Py_XINCREF, Py_DECREF, Py_XDECREF: Add `do { ... } while (0)'
4781 to avoid compiler warnings.
Matthias Klose0610e082009-04-05 12:43:08 +00004782
Gregory P. Smith2b3eb372009-04-05 23:48:26 +00004783- Issue #5705: os.setuid() would not accept values > 2**31-1 but pwd.getpwnam()
4784 returned them on 64bit platforms.
4785
Walter Dörwalded960ac2009-05-03 22:36:33 +00004786- Issue #5108: Handle %s like %S and %R in PyUnicode_FromFormatV(): Call
4787 PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8() once, remember the result and output it in a second
4788 step. This avoids problems with counting UTF-8 bytes that ignores the effect
4789 of using the replace error handler in PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8().
4790
Walter Dörwald726ba8e2009-05-06 14:32:35 +00004791- Issue #3739: The unicode-internal encoder now reports the number of characters
4792 consumed like any other encoder (instead of the number of bytes).
4793
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004794- Issue #2422: When compiled with the ``--with-valgrind`` option, the pymalloc
4795 allocator will be automatically disabled when running under Valgrind. This
4796 gives improved memory leak detection when running under Valgrind, while taking
4797 advantage of pymalloc at other times.
Benjamin Peterson91c12eb2009-12-03 02:52:39 +00004798
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00004799Library
4800-------
Benjamin Petersonb3dd5482009-02-26 19:07:18 +00004801
Raymond Hettinger5f516ed2010-04-03 18:10:37 +00004802- Add count() and reverse() methods to collections.deque().
Raymond Hettingera5fd24e2009-12-10 06:42:54 +00004803
Raymond Hettinger0b3263b2009-12-10 06:00:33 +00004804- Fix variations of extending deques: d.extend(d) d.extendleft(d) d+=d
4805
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004806- Issue #6986: Fix crash in the JSON C accelerator when called with the wrong
4807 parameter types. Patch by Victor Stinner.
Antoine Pitrou187177f2009-12-08 15:40:51 +00004808
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004809- logging: Added optional "secure" parameter to SMTPHandler, to enable use of
Vinay Sajip48305662009-12-06 17:57:11 +00004810 TLS with authentication credentials.
4811
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004812- Issue #1923: Fixed the removal of meaningful spaces when PKG-INFO is generated
4813 in Distutils. Patch by Stephen Emslie.
Tarek Ziadé4f383172009-12-06 09:22:40 +00004814
Martin v. Löwisc218a2f2009-12-03 20:53:51 +00004815- Issue #4120: Drop reference to CRT from manifest when building extensions with
4816 msvc9compiler.
4817
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004818- Issue #7333: The ``posix`` module gains an ``initgroups()`` function providing
4819 access to the initgroups(3) C library call on Unix systems which implement it.
4820 Patch by Jean-Paul Calderone.
Antoine Pitrou30b3b352009-12-02 20:37:54 +00004821
Tarek Ziadéa5076a22009-11-29 22:20:30 +00004822- Issue #7408: Fixed distutils.tests.sdist so it doesn't check for group
4823 ownership when the group is not forced, because the group may be different
4824 from the user's group and inherit from its container when the test is run.
4825
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004826- Issue #1515: Enable use of deepcopy() with instance methods. Patch by Robert
4827 Collins.
Antoine Pitroud16f57b2009-11-28 15:55:58 +00004828
Vinay Sajip01801d12009-11-27 14:03:36 +00004829- Issue #7403: logging: Fixed possible race condition in lock creation.
4830
Antoine Pitrouacbe3bd2009-11-27 13:18:34 +00004831- Issue #6845: Add restart support for binary upload in ftplib. The
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004832 ``storbinary()`` method of FTP and FTP_TLS objects gains an optional "rest"
Antoine Pitrouacbe3bd2009-11-27 13:18:34 +00004833 argument. Patch by Pablo Mouzo.
4834
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004835- Issue #5788: ``datetime.timedelta`` objects get a new ``total_seconds()``
4836 method returning the total number of seconds in the duration. Patch by Brian
4837 Quinlan.
Antoine Pitroubcfaf802009-11-25 22:59:36 +00004838
Vinay Sajipc470d682009-11-25 09:03:30 +00004839- Issue #6615: logging: Used weakrefs in internal handler list.
4840
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004841- Issue #1488943: ``difflib.Differ`` doesn't always add hints for tab
4842 characters.
Senthil Kumaran5c456e62009-11-23 18:41:31 +00004843
Lars Gustäbeldd866d52009-11-22 18:30:53 +00004844- Issue #6123: tarfile now opens empty archives correctly and consistently
4845 raises ReadError on empty files.
4846
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004847- Issue #7354: distutils.tests.test_msvc9compiler - dragfullwindows can be 2.
Tarek Ziadé39de1fc2009-11-19 05:33:16 +00004848
Ezio Melotti3373a3a2010-01-16 18:38:01 +00004849- Issue #5037: Proxy the __unicode__ special method to __unicode__ instead of
4850 __str__.
Benjamin Petersondc3c2392009-11-19 03:00:02 +00004851
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004852- Issue #7341: Close the internal file object in the TarFile constructor in case
4853 of an error.
Lars Gustäbel355538e2009-11-18 20:24:54 +00004854
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004855- Issue #7293: ``distutils.test_msvc9compiler`` is fixed to work on any fresh
4856 Windows box. Help provided by David Bolen.
Tarek Ziadéacccafc2009-11-18 08:46:56 +00004857
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004858- Issue #7328: pydoc no longer corrupts sys.path when run with the '-m' switch.
Nick Coghlan11db64e2009-11-15 22:36:47 +00004859
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004860- Issue #2054: ftplib now provides an FTP_TLS class to do secure FTP using TLS
4861 or SSL. Patch by Giampaolo Rodola'.
Antoine Pitrouccd5e022009-11-15 17:22:09 +00004862
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004863- Issue #4969: The mimetypes module now reads the MIME database from the
4864 registry under Windows. Patch by Gabriel Genellina.
Antoine Pitroud5b34d42009-11-15 14:10:48 +00004865
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004866- Issue #6816: runpy now provides a run_path function that allows Python code to
4867 execute file paths that refer to source or compiled Python files as well as
4868 zipfiles, directories and other valid sys.path entries that contain a
Nick Coghlan49868cb2009-11-15 07:30:34 +00004869 __main__.py file. This allows applications that run other Python scripts to
4870 support the same flexibility as the CPython command line itself.
4871
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004872- Issue #7318: multiprocessing now uses a timeout when it fails to establish a
4873 connection with another process, rather than looping endlessly. The default
4874 timeout is 20 seconds, which should be amply sufficient for local connections.
Antoine Pitrouc562ca42009-11-13 22:31:18 +00004875
Antoine Pitrou0734c632009-11-10 20:49:30 +00004876- Issue #7197: Allow unittest.TextTestRunner objects to be pickled and
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004877 unpickled. This fixes crashes under Windows when trying to run
Antoine Pitrou0734c632009-11-10 20:49:30 +00004878 test_multiprocessing in verbose mode.
4879
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004880- Issue #7282: Fix a memory leak when an RLock was used in a thread other than
4881 those started through ``threading.Thread`` (for example, using
4882 ``thread.start_new_thread()``.
Antoine Pitroud7158d42009-11-09 16:00:11 +00004883
Antoine Pitrou99c160b2009-11-05 13:42:29 +00004884- Issue #7264: Fix a possible deadlock when deallocating thread-local objects
4885 which are part of a reference cycle.
4886
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004887- Issue #7211: Allow 64-bit values for the ``ident`` and ``data`` fields of
4888 kevent objects on 64-bit systems. Patch by Michael Broghton.
Antoine Pitrou323b9da2009-11-04 19:25:14 +00004889
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004890- Issue #6896: ``mailbox.Maildir`` now invalidates its internal cache each time
Antoine Pitrouaec41242009-11-02 11:34:27 +00004891 a modification is done through it. This fixes inconsistencies and test
4892 failures on systems with slightly bogus mtime behaviour.
4893
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004894- Issue #7246 & Issue #7208: getpass now properly flushes input before reading
4895 from stdin so that existing input does not confuse it and lead to incorrect
4896 entry or an IOError. It also properly flushes it afterwards to avoid the
4897 terminal echoing the input afterwards on OSes such as Solaris.
Gregory P. Smith38f5d8f2009-11-01 18:33:55 +00004898
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004899- Issue #7233: Fix a number of two-argument Decimal methods to make sure that
4900 they accept an int or long as the second argument. Also fix buggy handling of
4901 large arguments (those with coefficient longer than the current precision) in
4902 shift and rotate.
Mark Dickinson0c673122009-10-29 12:04:00 +00004903
Lars Gustäbel8c06ccc2009-10-29 09:15:00 +00004904- Issue #4750: Store the basename of the original filename in the gzip FNAME
4905 header as required by RFC 1952.
4906
Tarek Ziadé40b998b2009-10-27 23:06:10 +00004907- Issue #1180: Added a new global option to ignore ~/.pydistutils.cfg in
4908 Distutils.
4909
Tarek Ziadéd24cab82009-10-27 21:20:27 +00004910- Issue #7218: Fix test_site for win32, the directory comparison was done with
4911 an uppercase.
4912
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004913- Issue #7205: Fix a possible deadlock when using a BZ2File object from several
4914 threads at once.
Antoine Pitroudd629662009-10-27 17:41:58 +00004915
Tarek Ziadéb9c1cfc2009-10-24 15:10:37 +00004916- Issue #7071: byte-compilation in Distutils is now done with respect to
4917 sys.dont_write_bytecode.
4918
Vinay Sajipc470d682009-11-25 09:03:30 +00004919- Issue #7066: archive_util.make_archive now restores the cwd if an error is
Tarek Ziadé672422a2009-10-24 13:29:44 +00004920 raised. Initial patch by Ezio Melotti.
4921
Antoine Pitroufa94e802009-10-24 12:23:18 +00004922- Issue #6218: io.StringIO and io.BytesIO instances are now picklable with
4923 protocol 2.
4924
Vinay Sajip5ac65282009-10-21 20:22:14 +00004925- Issue #7077: logging: SysLogHandler now treats Unicode as per RFC 5424.
4926
Mark Dickinsona7a52ab2009-10-20 13:33:03 +00004927- Issue #7099: Decimal.is_normal now returns True for numbers with exponent
4928 larger than emax.
4929
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004930- Issue #5833: Fix extra space character in readline completion with the GNU
4931 readline library version 6.0.
Antoine Pitroue0899802009-10-19 18:20:21 +00004932
Antoine Pitrou5ba84912009-10-19 17:59:07 +00004933- Issue #7133: SSL objects now support the new buffer API.
4934
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004935- Issue #7149: urllib fails on OSX in the proxy detection code.
Ronald Oussoren31802d02009-10-18 07:07:00 +00004936
Benjamin Petersonc63457b2009-10-15 03:06:55 +00004937- Issue #7069: Make inspect.isabstract() return a boolean.
4938
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004939- Add support to the ``ihooks`` module for relative imports.
Neil Schemenauere6039f02009-10-14 19:23:53 +00004940
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004941- Issue #6894: Fixed the issue urllib2 doesn't respect "no_proxy" environment.
Senthil Kumaran27468662009-10-11 02:00:07 +00004942
Vinay Sajip1c77b7f2009-10-10 20:32:36 +00004943- Issue #7086: Added TCP support to SysLogHandler, and tidied up some
4944 anachronisms in the code which were a relic of 1.5.2 compatibility.
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +00004945
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004946- Issue #7082: When falling back to the MIME 'name' parameter, the correct place
4947 to look for it is the Content-Type header.
R. David Murray0c8bee62009-10-09 21:50:54 +00004948
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004949- Issue #7048: Force Decimal.logb to round its result when that result is too
4950 large to fit in the current precision.
Mark Dickinson15ae41c2009-10-07 19:22:05 +00004951
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +00004952- Issue #6516: Added owner/group support when creating tar archives in
Tarek Ziadé1b486712009-10-02 23:49:48 +00004953 Distutils.
4954
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004955- Issue #7031: Add ``TestCase.assert(Not)IsInstance()`` methods.
Georg Brandl12fafe62009-10-01 21:02:39 +00004956
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004957- Issue #6790: Make it possible again to pass an ``array.array`` to
4958 ``httplib.HTTPConnection.send``. Patch by Kirk McDonald.
Antoine Pitrou72481782009-09-29 17:48:18 +00004959
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004960- Issue #6236, #6348: Fix various failures in the `io` module under AIX and
4961 other platforms, when using a non-gcc compiler. Patch by egreen.
Antoine Pitrou2a466582009-09-21 21:17:48 +00004962
Tarek Ziadé99773352009-09-21 13:41:08 +00004963- Issue #6954: Fixed crash when using DISTUTILS_DEBUG flag in Distutils.
4964
Ronald Oussoren51f06332009-09-20 10:31:22 +00004965- Issue #6851: Fix urllib.urlopen crash on secondairy threads on OSX 10.6
4966
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004967- Issue #4606: Passing 'None' if ctypes argtype is set to POINTER(...) does now
4968 always result in NULL.
Thomas Heller6be522b2009-09-18 20:05:44 +00004969
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004970- Issue #5042: ctypes Structure sub-subclass does now initialize correctly with
4971 base class positional arguments.
Thomas Heller7a352c02009-09-18 18:55:17 +00004972
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004973- Issue #6938: Fix a TypeError in string formatting of a multiprocessing debug
4974 message.
Georg Brandlc40e60e2009-09-18 09:18:27 +00004975
Matthias Klose924eab62009-09-13 15:09:24 +00004976- Issue #6635: Fix profiler printing usage message.
4977
Lars Gustäbel21121e62009-09-12 10:28:15 +00004978- Issue #6856: Add a filter keyword argument to TarFile.add().
4979
Tarek Ziadébed26a32009-09-09 08:14:20 +00004980- Issue #6163: Fixed HP-UX runtime library dir options in
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004981 distutils.unixcompiler. Initial patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar and Michael
4982 Haubenwallner.
Tarek Ziadébed26a32009-09-09 08:14:20 +00004983
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004984- Issue #6857: Default format() alignment should be '>' for Decimal instances.
Mark Dickinson5cfa8042009-09-08 20:20:19 +00004985
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004986- Issue #6795: int(Decimal('nan')) now raises ValueError instead of returning
4987 NaN or raising InvalidContext. Also, fix infinite recursion in
4988 long(Decimal('nan')).
Mark Dickinson968f1692009-09-07 18:04:58 +00004989
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004990- Issue #6850: Fix bug in Decimal._parse_format_specifier for formats with no
4991 type specifier.
Mark Dickinson491ea552009-09-07 16:17:41 +00004992
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004993- Issue #4937: plat-mac/bundlebuilder refers to non-existing version.plist.
Ronald Oussoren626faeb2009-09-06 12:23:18 +00004994
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004995- Issue #6838: Use a list to accumulate the value instead of repeatedly
4996 concatenating strings in httplib's HTTPResponse._read_chunked providing a
4997 significant speed increase when downloading large files servend with a
4998 Transfer-Encoding of 'chunked'.
Chris Withers7f3ea6a2009-09-04 16:32:22 +00004999
Georg Brandld22b9512009-09-04 08:17:04 +00005000- Issue #5275: In Cookie's Cookie.load(), properly handle non-string arguments
5001 as documented.
5002
Georg Brandl2e1308f2009-09-04 06:59:20 +00005003- Issue #2666: Handle BROWSER environment variable properly for unknown browser
5004 names in the webbrowser module.
5005
Lars Gustäbelf7cda522009-08-28 19:23:44 +00005006- Issue #6054: Do not normalize stored pathnames in tarfile.
5007
Mark Dickinson7a7739d2009-08-28 13:25:02 +00005008- Issue #6794: Fix Decimal.compare_total and Decimal.compare_total_mag: NaN
5009 payloads are now ordered by integer value rather than lexicographically.
5010
Tarek Ziadé764fc232009-08-20 21:23:13 +00005011- Issue #6693: New functions in site.py to get user/global site packages paths.
5012
Gregory P. Smith4e63d542009-08-20 09:39:38 +00005013- The thread.lock type now supports weak references.
5014
Guilherme Polo7b50c4f2009-08-18 14:46:57 +00005015- Issue #1356969: Add missing info methods in Tix.HList.
5016
Guilherme Polo6b3c7092009-08-18 14:23:00 +00005017- Issue #1522587: New constants and methods for the Tix.Grid widget.
5018
Guilherme Polo6c823f82009-08-18 13:29:20 +00005019- Issue #1250469: Fix the return value of Tix.PanedWindow.panes.
5020
Guilherme Polod3e6e4b2009-08-18 13:23:08 +00005021- Issue #1119673: Do not override Tkinter.Text methods when creating a
5022 ScrolledText.
5023
Gregory P. Smithb98d6b22009-08-16 18:52:58 +00005024- Issue #6665: Fix fnmatch to properly match filenames with newlines in them.
5025
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005026- Issue #1135: Add the XView and YView mix-ins to avoid duplicating the xview*
5027 and yview* methods.
Guilherme Poloe45f0172009-08-14 14:36:45 +00005028
Antoine Pitrou20e1f932009-08-06 20:18:29 +00005029- Issue #6629: Fix a data corruption issue in the new `io` package, which could
5030 occur when writing to a BufferedRandom object (e.g. a file opened in "rb+" or
5031 "wb+" mode) after having buffered a certain amount of data for reading. This
5032 bug was not present in the pure Python implementation.
5033
Jesse Noller8497efe2009-08-06 02:05:56 +00005034- Issue #4660: If a multiprocessing.JoinableQueue.put() was preempted, it was
5035 possible to get a spurious 'task_done() called too many times' error.
5036
Gregory P. Smithc4ad0342009-08-13 18:54:50 +00005037- Issue #1628205: Socket file objects returned by socket.socket.makefile() now
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005038 properly handles EINTR within the read, readline, write & flush methods. The
5039 socket.sendall() method now properly handles interrupted system calls.
Gregory P. Smithc4ad0342009-08-13 18:54:50 +00005040
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005041- Issue #6595: The Decimal constructor now allows arbitrary Unicode decimal
5042 digits in input, as recommended by the standard. Previously it was restricted
5043 to accepting [0-9].
Mark Dickinson4326ad82009-08-02 10:59:36 +00005044
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc3e5b0272009-07-28 22:15:30 +00005045- Issue #6511: ZipFile now raises BadZipfile (instead of an IOError) when
5046 opening an empty or very small file.
5047
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc74b30162009-07-23 19:26:02 +00005048- Issue #6553: Fixed a crash in cPickle.load(), when given a file-like object
5049 containing incomplete data.
5050
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005051- Issue #6545: Removed assert statements in distutils.Extension, so the behavior
5052 is similar when used with -O.
Tarek Ziadéaf2406f2009-07-22 08:55:19 +00005053
Benjamin Petersond7b0eeb2009-07-19 20:18:21 +00005054- unittest has been split up into a package. All old names should still work.
5055
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005056- Issue #6431: Make Fraction type return NotImplemented when it doesn't know how
5057 to handle a comparison without loss of precision. Also add correct handling
5058 of infinities and nans for comparisons with float.
Mark Dickinson88a0a2e2009-07-18 15:18:18 +00005059
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc74b30162009-07-23 19:26:02 +00005060- Issue #6415: Fixed warnings.warn segfault on bad formatted string.
Hirokazu Yamamoto1a3d0852009-07-17 06:26:54 +00005061
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005062- Issue #6466: Now distutils.cygwinccompiler and distutils.emxccompiler uses the
5063 same refactored function to get gcc/ld/dllwrap versions numbers. It's
5064 ``distutils.util.get_compiler_versions()``. Added deprecation warnings for
5065 the obsolete get_versions() functions.
Tarek Ziadéa99dedf2009-07-16 15:35:45 +00005066
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005067- Issue #6433: Fixed issues with multiprocessing.pool.map hanging on empty list.
Jesse Noller7530e472009-07-16 14:23:04 +00005068
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +00005069- Issue #6314: logging: Extra checks on the "level" argument in more places.
5070
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc74b8d332009-07-11 14:33:51 +00005071- Issue #2622: Fixed an ImportError when importing email.messsage from a
5072 standalone application built with py2exe or py2app.
5073
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +00005074- Issue #6455: Fixed test_build_ext under win32.
Tarek Ziadé8c400012009-07-10 09:10:33 +00005075
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +00005076- Issue #6377: Enabled the compiler option, and deprecate its usage as an
Tarek Ziadée670e5a2009-07-06 12:50:46 +00005077 attribute.
5078
Tarek Ziadé63f17382009-07-04 02:02:41 +00005079- Issue #6413: Fixed the log level in distutils.dist for announce.
5080
Gregory P. Smithc197d0a2009-07-04 01:55:11 +00005081- Issue #3392: The subprocess communicate() method no longer fails in select()
5082 when file descriptors are large; communicate() now uses poll() when possible.
5083
Tarek Ziadé65ec61e2009-07-03 08:22:56 +00005084- Issue #6403: Fixed package path usage in build_ext.
5085
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005086- Issues #5155, #5313, #5331: multiprocessing.Process._bootstrap was
Jesse Noller1b90efb2009-06-30 17:11:52 +00005087 unconditionally calling "os.close(sys.stdin.fileno())" resulting in file
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005088 descriptor errors.
Jesse Noller1b90efb2009-06-30 17:11:52 +00005089
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +00005090- Issue #6365: Distutils build_ext inplace mode was copying the compiled
Tarek Ziadé3fbcc602009-06-29 16:13:39 +00005091 extension in a subdirectory if the extension name had dots.
5092
Hirokazu Yamamoto99ebc632009-06-29 14:29:31 +00005093- Issue #6344: Fixed a crash of mmap.read() when passed a negative argument.
5094
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005095- Issue #5230: pydoc would report no documentation found if a module generated a
5096 'not found' import error when loaded; it now reports the import errors.
R. David Murrayef087da2009-06-23 18:02:46 +00005097 Thanks to Lucas Prado Melo for initial fix and collaboration on the tests.
5098
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005099- Issue #6314: ``logging.basicConfig()`` performs extra checks on the "level"
Vinay Sajip603fb6d2009-06-21 17:37:27 +00005100 argument.
5101
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005102- Issue #6164: Added an AIX specific linker argument in Distutils unixcompiler.
5103 Original patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar.
Tarek Ziadé439bf932009-06-20 13:57:20 +00005104
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005105- Issue #6274: Fixed possible file descriptors leak in subprocess.py.
Facundo Batista8c826b72009-06-19 18:02:28 +00005106
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc5fe420e2009-06-18 22:32:50 +00005107- Issue #6189: Restored compatibility of subprocess.py with Python 2.2.
5108
Tarek Ziadéfdefc0a2009-06-16 07:29:52 +00005109- Issue #6287: Added the license field in Distutils documentation.
5110
Tarek Ziadéa1cc0402009-06-15 23:30:13 +00005111- Issue #6286: Now Distutils upload command is based on urllib2 instead of
5112 httplib, allowing the usage of http_proxy.
5113
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005114- Issue #6271: mmap tried to close invalid file handle (-1) for anonymous maps
5115 on Unix.
Hirokazu Yamamoto983a4652009-06-14 03:53:55 +00005116
Antoine Pitrou19690592009-06-12 20:14:08 +00005117- Issue #6215: All bug fixes and enhancements from the Python 3.1 io library
5118 (including the fast C implementation) have been backported to the standard
5119 ``io`` module.
5120
Martin v. Löwis2dcd7a02009-06-12 17:28:31 +00005121- Issue #6258: Support AMD64 in bdist_msi.
5122
Vinay Sajip334ffe82010-01-15 23:27:05 +00005123- Issue #6252: Fixed bug in next rollover time computation in
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00005124 TimedRotatingFileHandler.
5125
Tarek Ziadéc7498f52009-06-11 09:13:36 +00005126- Issue #6263: Fixed syntax error in distutils.cygwincompiler.
5127
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005128- Issue #5201: distutils.sysconfig.parse_makefile() now understands ``$$`` in
5129 Makefiles. This prevents compile errors when using syntax like:
5130 ``LDFLAGS='-rpath=\$$LIB:/some/other/path'``. Patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
Tarek Ziadé25d2bae2009-06-11 08:12:20 +00005131
Georg Brandle6632b42009-06-04 08:58:32 +00005132- Issue #5767: Removed sgmlop support from xmlrpclib.
5133
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005134- Issue #6131: test_modulefinder leaked when run after test_distutils. Patch by
5135 Hirokazu Yamamoto.
Tarek Ziadé3e3eace2009-05-29 08:08:07 +00005136
Tarek Ziadé9e5d2dc2009-05-28 12:53:54 +00005137- Issue #6048: Now Distutils uses the tarfile module in archive_util.
5138
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005139- Issue #6121: pydoc now ignores leading and trailing spaces in the argument to
5140 the 'help' function.
R. David Murrayd67ea7d2009-05-27 20:07:21 +00005141
Benjamin Peterson176a56c2009-05-25 00:48:58 +00005142- In unittest, using a skipping decorator on a class is now equivalent to
5143 skipping every test on the class. The ClassTestSuite class has been removed.
5144
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005145- Issue #6050: Don't fail extracting a directory from a zipfile if the directory
5146 already exists.
Martin v. Löwis0b09c422009-05-24 19:30:52 +00005147
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005148- Issue #5311: bdist_msi can now build packages that do not depend on a specific
5149 Python version.
Martin v. Löwis53b578e2009-05-24 19:10:52 +00005150
Antoine Pitroud49e3752009-05-24 15:40:09 +00005151- Issue #1309352: fcntl now converts its third arguments to a C `long` rather
5152 than an int, which makes some operations possible under 64-bit Linux (e.g.
5153 DN_MULTISHOT with F_NOTIFY).
5154
Senthil Kumarane266f252009-05-24 09:14:50 +00005155- Issue #1424152: Fix for httplib, urllib2 to support SSL while working through
5156 proxy. Original patch by Christopher Li, changes made by Senthil Kumaran.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00005157
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005158- Issue #1983: Fix functions taking or returning a process identifier to use the
5159 dedicated C type ``pid_t`` instead of a C ``int``. Some platforms have a
5160 process identifier type wider than the standard C integer type.
Antoine Pitrou5e858fe2009-05-23 15:37:45 +00005161
R. David Murrayad3058e2009-05-23 00:48:58 +00005162- Issue #4066: smtplib.SMTP_SSL._get_socket now correctly returns the socket.
5163 Patch by Farhan Ahmad, test by Marcin Bachry.
5164
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005165- Issue #6062: In distutils, fixed the package option of build_ext. Feedback
Tarek Ziadé7d7127d2009-05-19 16:17:21 +00005166 and tests on pywin32 by Tim Golden.
5167
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005168- Issue #6053: Fixed distutils tests on win32. Patch by Hirokazu Yamamoto.
Tarek Ziadé07bbfcc2009-05-18 12:21:26 +00005169
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005170- Issue #6046: Fixed the library extension when distutils build_ext is used in
5171 place. Initial patch by Roumen Petrov.
Tarek Ziadéfcc7f032009-05-18 08:03:37 +00005172
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00005173- Issue #6041: Now distutils `sdist` and `register` commands use `check` as a
Tarek Ziadécb768042009-05-16 16:37:06 +00005174 subcommand.
5175
Antoine Pitrou775fd662009-05-15 16:54:52 +00005176- Issue #2116: Weak references and weak dictionaries now support copy()ing and
5177 deepcopy()ing.
5178
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005179- Issue #1655: Make imaplib IPv6-capable. Patch by Derek Morr.
Antoine Pitrou52035a02009-05-15 11:50:29 +00005180
Antoine Pitrou42b5bcf2009-05-14 21:48:09 +00005181- Issue #5918: Fix a crash in the parser module.
5182
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005183- Issue #1664: Make nntplib IPv6-capable. Patch by Derek Morr.
Antoine Pitroueed30d82009-05-14 21:22:08 +00005184
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005185- Issue #6022: A test file was created in the current working directory by
Tarek Ziadécbb4f9e2009-05-14 20:14:13 +00005186 test_get_outputs in Distutils.
5187
R. David Murray996ba022009-05-13 17:14:11 +00005188- Issue #4050: inspect.findsource/getsource now raise an IOError if the 'source'
5189 file is a binary. Patch by Brodie Rao, tests by Daniel Diniz.
5190
Tarek Ziadé972480d2009-05-12 17:07:14 +00005191- Issue #5977: distutils build_ext.get_outputs was not taking into account the
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005192 inplace option. Initial patch by kxroberto.
Tarek Ziadé972480d2009-05-12 17:07:14 +00005193
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005194- Issue #5984: distutils.command.build_ext.check_extensions_list checks were
5195 broken for old-style extensions.
Tarek Ziadéd5d83422009-05-10 10:12:08 +00005196
Vinay Sajipf9b01fe2009-05-09 12:07:17 +00005197- Issue #5971: StreamHandler.handleError now swallows IOErrors which occur when
5198 trying to print a traceback.
5199
Tarek Ziadé812d7712009-05-09 10:06:00 +00005200- Issue #5976: Fixed Distutils test_check_environ.
5201
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005202- Issue #5900: Ensure RUNPATH is added to extension modules with RPATH if GNU ld
5203 is used. Original patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
Tarek Ziadée2be83d2009-05-09 08:28:53 +00005204
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005205- Issue #5941: Distutils build_clib command was not working anymore because of
5206 an incomplete costumization of the archiver command. Added ARFLAGS in the
5207 Makefile besides AR and make Distutils use it. Original patch by David
Tarek Ziadé99f660a2009-05-07 21:20:34 +00005208 Cournapeau.
5209
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00005210- Issue #5955: aifc's close method did not close the file it wrapped, now it
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005211 does. This also means getfp method now returns the real fp.
R. David Murrayd3bf34c2009-05-07 16:29:19 +00005212
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005213- Issue #4875: On win32, ctypes.util.find_library does no longer return
5214 directories.
Thomas Hellera57773e2009-05-05 18:55:47 +00005215
Georg Brandl4d4313d2009-05-05 08:54:11 +00005216- Issue #5142: Add the ability to skip modules while stepping to pdb.
5217
Georg Brandle3869c42009-05-05 08:30:28 +00005218- Issue #1309567: Fix linecache behavior of stripping subdirectories when
5219 looking for files given by a relative filename.
5220
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005221- Issue #5692: In ``zipfile.Zipfile``, fix wrong path calculation when
Antoine Pitrou97377bf2009-05-04 21:17:17 +00005222 extracting a file to the root directory.
5223
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005224- Issue #5913: ``os.listdir()`` should fail for empty path on windows.
Hirokazu Yamamoto406d7aa2009-05-04 05:28:39 +00005225
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005226- Issue #5084: Unpickling now interns the attribute names of pickled objects,
5227 saving memory and avoiding growth in size of subsequent pickles. Proposal and
5228 original patch by Jake McGuire.
Antoine Pitrou74309892009-05-02 21:13:23 +00005229
Antoine Pitrou1fc02312009-05-01 20:55:35 +00005230- Issue #3002: ``shutil.copyfile()`` and ``shutil.copytree()`` now raise an
5231 error when a named pipe is encountered, rather than blocking infinitely.
5232
Gregory P. Smith1d499262009-05-01 19:59:52 +00005233- Issue #3959: The ipaddr module has been added to the standard library.
5234 Contributed by Google.
5235
R. David Murray25b4add2009-04-29 13:17:37 +00005236- Issue #2245: aifc now skips chunk types it doesn't recognize, per spec.
5237
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005238- Issue #5874: distutils.tests.test_config_cmd is not locale-sensitive anymore.
Tarek Ziadéa1b91d92009-04-29 08:03:46 +00005239
Thomas Heller90c61a22009-04-28 19:23:41 +00005240- Issue #4305: ctypes should now build again on mipsel-linux-gnu
5241
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005242- Issue #1734234: Massively speedup ``unicodedata.normalize()`` when the string
5243 is already in normalized form, by performing a quick check beforehand.
Antoine Pitroue988e282009-04-27 21:53:26 +00005244 Original patch by Rauli Ruohonen.
5245
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005246- Issue #5853: Calling a function of the mimetypes module from several threads
Antoine Pitrouf2651e12009-04-27 20:50:20 +00005247 at once could hit the recursion limit if the mimetypes database hadn't been
5248 initialized before.
5249
Vinay Sajipe34d6aa2009-04-27 13:44:27 +00005250- Issue #5854: Updated __all__ to include some missing names and remove some
5251 names which should not be exported.
5252
5253- Issue #5810: Fixed Distutils test_build_scripts so it uses
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005254 ``sysconfig.get_config_vars()``.
Tarek Ziadébcddf672009-04-25 12:51:59 +00005255
Tarek Ziadéd567c382009-04-25 12:38:08 +00005256- Issue #4951: Fixed failure in test_httpservers.
5257
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005258- Issue #3102: All global symbols that the _ctypes extension defines are now
5259 prefixed with 'Py' or '_ctypes'.
Thomas Heller5c6af802009-04-24 20:31:47 +00005260
Thomas Hellerec21ccd2009-04-24 20:00:41 +00005261- Issue #5041: ctypes does now allow pickling wide character.
5262
Mark Dickinson4af8e742009-04-24 13:56:07 +00005263- Issue #5812: For the two-argument form of the Fraction constructor,
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005264 ``Fraction(m, n)``, m and n are permitted to be arbitrary Rational instances.
Mark Dickinson4af8e742009-04-24 13:56:07 +00005265
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005266- Issue #5812: Fraction('1e6') is valid: more generally, any string that's valid
5267 for float() is now valid for Fraction(), with the exception of strings
5268 representing NaNs and infinities.
Mark Dickinson8100bd82009-04-22 18:15:25 +00005269
Tarek Ziadé31559b62009-04-20 14:29:42 +00005270- Issue #5795: Fixed test_distutils failure on Debian ppc.
5271
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00005272- Issue #5768: Fixed bug in Unicode output logic and test case for same.
5273
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005274- Issue #1161031: Fix readwrite select flag handling: POLLPRI now results in a
5275 handle_expt_event call, not handle_read_event, and POLLERR and POLLNVAL now
5276 call handle_close, not handle_expt_event. Also, dispatcher now has an
5277 'ignore_log_types' attribute for suppressing log messages, which is set to
5278 'warning' by default.
R. David Murrayabc26602009-04-13 16:56:32 +00005279
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005280- Issue #5607: Fixed Distutils test_get_platform for Mac OS X fat binaries.
Tarek Ziadé156c31a2009-04-13 12:34:01 +00005281
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005282- Issue #5741: Don't disallow "%%" (which is an escape for "%") when setting a
5283 value in SafeConfigParser.
Georg Brandl21cf5ee2009-04-12 17:24:11 +00005284
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005285- Issue #5732: Added a new command in Distutils: check.
Tarek Ziadé942825f2009-04-11 14:55:07 +00005286
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00005287- Issue #5731: Distutils bdist_wininst no longer worked on non-Windows
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005288 platforms. Initial patch by Paul Moore.
Tarek Ziadéad958262009-04-09 21:36:44 +00005289
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005290- Issue #2254: Fix CGIHTTPServer information disclosure. Relative paths are now
5291 collapsed within the url properly before looking in cgi_directories.
Gregory P. Smith923ba362009-04-06 06:33:26 +00005292
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005293- Issue #5095: Added bdist_msi to the list of bdist supported formats. Initial
5294 fix by Steven Bethard.
Tarek Ziadé64408fb2009-04-05 22:51:09 +00005295
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005296- Issue #1491431: Fixed distutils.filelist.glob_to_re for edge cases. Initial
5297 fix by Wayne Davison.
Tarek Ziadéfaa6b122009-04-05 21:44:08 +00005298
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005299- Issue #5693: TestSuite.__iter__ can now be consistently overridden in
5300 subclasses.
Michael Foordf2dfef12009-04-05 19:19:28 +00005301
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005302- Issue #5694: Removed spurious test output in Distutils (test_clean).
Tarek Ziadé453d9532009-04-05 18:31:24 +00005303
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +00005304- Issue #5471: Fix os.path.expanduser() for $HOME set to '/'.
Georg Brandl3f0ef202009-04-05 14:48:49 +00005305
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005306- Issue #1326077: Fix the formatting of SyntaxErrors by the traceback module.
Georg Brandl1956d5c2009-04-05 14:25:41 +00005307
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005308- Issue #1726172: Fix IndexError in the case of and empty response in ftplib.
Georg Brandl50ba6e12009-04-05 10:48:47 +00005309
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005310- Issue #2625: Added missing iteritems() call to the for loop in
R. David Murray52720c52009-04-02 14:05:35 +00005311 mailbox.MH.get_message().
5312
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005313- Issue #5585: Add the ability to call an initializer to
5314 mulitiprocessing.manager so that users can install custom handlers/etc.
Jesse Noller7152f6d2009-04-02 05:17:26 +00005315
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005316- Issue #3551: Patch multiprocessing to raise a proper exception if the size of
5317 the object when writefile is called causes a ERROR_NO_SYSTEM_RESOURCES. Added
5318 docs to note the limitation.
Jesse Noller5053fbb2009-04-02 04:22:09 +00005319
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005320- unittest.assertNotEqual() now uses the inequality operator (!=) instead of the
5321 equality operator.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00005322
5323- Issue #6001: Test discovery for unittest. Implemented in
Michael Foordb4a81c82009-05-29 20:33:46 +00005324 unittest.TestLoader.discover and from the command line.
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00005325
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005326- Issue #5679: The methods unittest.TestCase.addCleanup and doCleanups were
5327 added. addCleanup allows you to add cleanup functions that will be called
Michael Foord07ef4872009-05-02 22:43:34 +00005328 unconditionally (after setUp if setUp fails, otherwise after tearDown). This
5329 allows for much simpler resource allocation and deallocation during tests.
5330
5331- Issue #3379: unittest.main now takes an optional exit argument. If False main
5332 doesn't call sys.exit allowing it to be used from the interactive interpreter.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00005333
5334- Issue #5995: unittest.main now takes an optional verbosity argument allowing
Michael Foord5d31e052009-05-11 17:59:43 +00005335 test modules to be run with a higher than default verbosity.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00005336
5337- Issue #5995: A fix to allow you to run "python -m unittest test_module" or
Michael Foord5d31e052009-05-11 17:59:43 +00005338 "python -m unittest test_module.TestClass" from the command line.
Michael Foord07ef4872009-05-02 22:43:34 +00005339
5340- Issue #5728: unittest.TestResult has new startTestRun and stopTestRun methods;
5341 called immediately before and after a test run.
5342
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005343- Issue #5663: Better failure messages for unittest asserts. Default assertTrue
Michael Foord345b2fe2009-04-02 03:20:38 +00005344 and assertFalse messages are now useful. TestCase has a longMessage attribute.
5345 This defaults to False, but if set to True useful error messages are shown in
5346 addition to explicit messages passed to assert methods.
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00005347
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005348- Issue #3110: Add additional protect around SEM_VALUE_MAX for multiprocessing.
Jesse Nollerb502bc72009-04-02 02:32:55 +00005349
Georg Brandl58b8b952009-04-01 21:54:21 +00005350- In Pdb, prevent the reassignment of __builtin__._ by sys.displayhook on
5351 printing out values.
5352
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005353- Issue #4572: Added SEEK_* symbolic constants to io module.
Georg Brandl5942b912009-04-01 21:05:44 +00005354
Brett Cannonad078a02009-04-01 16:00:34 +00005355- Issue #1665206 (partially): Move imports in cgitb to the top of the module
5356 instead of performing them in functions. Helps prevent import deadlocking in
5357 threads.
5358
Raymond Hettinger66c4a6b2009-04-01 18:50:56 +00005359- Issue #5647: MutableSet.__iand__() no longer mutates self during iteration.
5360
Georg Brandle92d4b62009-04-01 04:21:14 +00005361- Actually make the SimpleXMLRPCServer CGI handler work.
5362
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005363- Issue #2522: locale.format() now checks its first argument to ensure it has
R. David Murraya83da352009-04-01 03:21:43 +00005364 been passed only one pattern, avoiding mysterious errors where it appeared
5365 that it was failing to do localization.
5366
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005367- Issue #5583: Added optional extensions in Distutils. Initial patch by Georg
Tarek Ziadé9e47ce42009-03-31 22:27:23 +00005368 Brandl.
5369
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005370- Issue #5619: Multiprocessing children disobey the debug flag and causes popups
5371 on windows buildbots. Patch applied to work around this issue.
Jesse Noller42f9b4e2009-03-31 22:20:35 +00005372
Benjamin Petersond906ea62009-03-31 21:34:42 +00005373- Issue #5632: Thread.ident was None for the main thread and threads not created
5374 with the threading module.
5375
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005376- Issue #5400: Added patch for multiprocessing on netbsd compilation/support.
Jesse Noller1f0a5552009-03-31 18:27:14 +00005377
Hirokazu Yamamoto9d2ee5d2009-03-31 13:13:05 +00005378- Issue #5387: Fixed mmap.move crash by integer overflow.
5379
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005380- Issue #5261: Patch multiprocessing's semaphore.c to support context manager
5381 use: "with multiprocessing.Lock()" works now.
Jesse Noller82eb5902009-03-30 23:29:31 +00005382
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00005383- Issue #5177: Multiprocessing's SocketListener class now uses
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005384 socket.SO_REUSEADDR on all connections so that the user no longer needs to
5385 wait 120 seconds for the socket to expire.
Jesse Noller459a6482009-03-30 15:50:42 +00005386
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005387- Adjusted _tkinter to compile without warnings when WITH_THREAD is not defined
5388 (part of issue #5035).
Guilherme Polo1972d162009-03-27 21:43:08 +00005389
Marc-André Lemburgcbdf15b2009-03-25 19:45:33 +00005390- Issue #5561: Removed the sys.version_info shortcuts from platform's
5391 python_version() and python_version_tuple() since they produced different
5392 output compared to previous Python versions.
5393
Benjamin Peterson692428e2009-03-23 21:50:21 +00005394- Issue #1034053: unittest now supports skipping tests and expected failures.
5395
Gregory P. Smith28399852009-03-31 16:54:10 +00005396- The unittest.TestCase.assertRaises() method now returns a context manager when
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005397 not given a callable so that code to be tested can be written inline using a
5398 with statement.
Gregory P. Smith28399852009-03-31 16:54:10 +00005399
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005400- Issue #2578: The unittest.TestCase.assertEqual() now displays the differences
5401 in lists, tuples, dicts and sets on failure. Many new handy type and
5402 comparison specific assert* methods have been added that fail with error
5403 messages actually useful for debugging. Contributed in part by Google.
Gregory P. Smith28399852009-03-31 16:54:10 +00005404
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005405- Issue #5068: Fixed the tarfile._BZ2Proxy.read() method that would loop forever
5406 on incomplete input. That caused tarfile.open() to hang when used with mode
5407 'r' or 'r:bz2' and a fileobj argument that contained no data or partial bzip2
5408 compressed data.
Lars Gustäbel2020a592009-03-22 20:09:33 +00005409
Benjamin Petersonb364bfe2009-03-22 17:45:11 +00005410- Issue #5536: urllib.urlretrieve makes sure to close the file it's writing to
5411 even if an exception occurs.
5412
Raymond Hettinger91852ca2009-03-19 19:19:03 +00005413- Issue #5381: Added object_pairs_hook to the json module. This allows
5414 OrderedDicts to be built by the decoder.
5415
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005416- Issue #2110: Add support for thousands separator and 'n' type specifier to
5417 ``Decimal.__format__()``.
Mark Dickinson277859d2009-03-17 23:03:46 +00005418
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005419- Fix Decimal.__format__ bug that swapped the meanings of the '<' and '>'
5420 alignment characters.
Mark Dickinsonb065e522009-03-17 18:01:03 +00005421
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005422- Issue #1222: ``locale.format()`` bug when the thousands separator is a space
Antoine Pitroufeeafff2009-03-14 00:07:21 +00005423 character.
5424
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005425- Issue #5472: Fixed distutils.test_util tear down. Original patch by Tim
5426 Golden.
Tarek Ziadé61585c22009-03-11 12:48:04 +00005427
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005428- collections.deque objects now have a read-only attribute called maxlen.
Raymond Hettinger56411aa2009-03-10 12:50:59 +00005429
Guilherme Polo15d57652009-03-07 02:14:38 +00005430- Issue #2638: Show a window constructed with tkSimpleDialog.Dialog only after
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005431 it is has been populated and properly configured in order to prevent window
5432 flashing.
Guilherme Polo15d57652009-03-07 02:14:38 +00005433
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005434- Issue #4792: Prevent a segfault in _tkinter by using the guaranteed to be safe
5435 interp argument given to the PythonCmd in place of the Tcl interpreter taken
5436 from a PythonCmd_ClientData.
Guilherme Polo3768b2f2009-03-07 01:47:49 +00005437
Guilherme Polo6d6c1fd2009-03-07 01:19:12 +00005438- Issue #5193: Guarantee that Tkinter.Text.search returns a string.
5439
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005440- Issue #5394: Removed > 2.3 syntax from distutils.msvc9compiler.
Tarek Ziadé943b24e2009-03-07 00:32:45 +00005441 Original patch by Akira Kitada.
5442
Hirokazu Yamamoto264fc122009-03-05 14:21:12 +00005443- Issue #5385: Fixed mmap crash after resize failure on windows.
5444
Hirokazu Yamamotoeacbbdf2009-03-03 22:18:14 +00005445- Issue #5179: Fixed subprocess handle leak on failure on windows.
5446
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005447- PEP 372: Added collections.OrderedDict().
Raymond Hettingerbc512d32009-03-03 04:45:34 +00005448
Raymond Hettinger88a91642009-03-03 04:51:24 +00005449- The _asdict() for method for namedtuples now returns an OrderedDict().
5450
Raymond Hettingere89b8e92009-03-03 05:00:37 +00005451- The configparser module now defaults to using an ordered dictionary.
5452
Benjamin Peterson7d49bba2009-03-02 22:41:42 +00005453- Issue #4308: httplib.IncompleteRead's repr doesn't include all of the data all
5454 ready received.
5455
Benjamin Petersonad58b7c2009-03-02 03:35:12 +00005456- Issue #5401: Fixed a performance problem in mimetypes when ``from mimetypes
5457 import guess_extension`` was used.
5458
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005459- Issue #1733986: Fixed mmap crash on Windows in accessing elements of second
5460 map object with same tagname but larger size than first map.
Hirokazu Yamamotob0e10c72009-02-28 12:13:07 +00005461
Hirokazu Yamamotof2dc8852009-02-28 10:31:54 +00005462- Issue #5386: mmap.write_byte didn't check map size, so it could cause buffer
5463 overrun.
5464
Tarek Ziadé73347352009-02-28 10:08:02 +00005465- Issue #1533164: Installed but not listed *.pyo was breaking Distutils
5466 bdist_rpm command.
5467
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005468- Issue #5378: Added --quiet option to Distutils bdist_rpm command.
Tarek Ziadé73347352009-02-28 10:08:02 +00005469
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005470- Issue #5052: Make Distutils compatible with 2.3 again.
Tarek Ziadédda92f72009-02-27 12:53:34 +00005471
Benjamin Petersonb3dd5482009-02-26 19:07:18 +00005472- Deprecated methods of symtable.Symbol have been removed: is_keywordarg(),
5473 is_vararg(), and is_in_tuple().
5474
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005475- Issue #5316: Fixed buildbot failures introduced by multiple inheritance in
5476 Distutils tests.
Tarek Ziadée3bc0ef2009-02-25 22:29:27 +00005477
Vinay Sajip1a0d2be2009-02-19 12:31:32 +00005478- Issue #5287: Add exception handling around findCaller() call to help out
5479 IronPython.
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00005480
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005481- Issue #5282: Fixed mmap resize on 32bit Windows and Unix. When ``offset >
5482 0``, the file was resized to wrong size.
Hirokazu Yamamoto17a837e2009-02-17 13:17:26 +00005483
Hirokazu Yamamotof6bbd0e2009-02-17 10:12:10 +00005484- Issue #5292: Fixed mmap crash on its boundary access m[len(m)].
5485
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005486- Issue #2279: distutils.sdist.add_defaults now add files from the package_data
5487 and the data_files metadata.
Tarek Ziadé7dd53392009-02-16 21:38:01 +00005488
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005489- Issue #5257: Refactored all tests in distutils, so they use
Tarek Ziadé13699002009-02-14 14:10:23 +00005490 support.TempdirManager, to avoid writing in the tests directory.
5491
Tarek Ziadé2432b0b2009-02-13 23:00:43 +00005492- Issue #4524: distutils build_script command failed with --with-suffix=3.
5493 Initial patch by Amaury Forgeot d'Arc.
5494
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005495- Issue #2461: Added tests for distutils.util.
Tarek Ziadé275958a2009-02-13 22:22:03 +00005496
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005497- Issue #1008086: Fixed socket.inet_aton() to always return 4 bytes even on LP64
5498 platforms (most 64-bit Linux, bsd, unix systems).
Gregory P. Smith3605b5c2009-02-11 23:45:25 +00005499
Thomas Heller3689ae22009-02-10 18:43:01 +00005500- Issue #5203: Fixed ctypes segfaults when passing a unicode string to a
5501 function without argtypes (only occurs if HAVE_USABLE_WCHAR_T is false).
5502
Tarek Ziadé74fbf602009-02-10 12:31:09 +00005503- Issue #3386: distutils.sysconfig.get_python_lib prefix argument was ignored
5504 under NT and OS2. Patch by Philip Jenvey.
5505
Brett Cannon28d10882009-02-10 02:07:38 +00005506- Issue #5128: Make compileall properly inspect bytecode to determine if needs
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005507 to be recreated. This avoids a timing hole thanks to the old reliance on the
Brett Cannon28d10882009-02-10 02:07:38 +00005508 ctime of the files involved.
5509
Guilherme Poloa66cf5b2009-02-09 20:50:27 +00005510- Issue #5122: Synchronize tk load failure check to prevent a potential
5511 deadlock.
5512
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005513- Issue #1818: collections.namedtuple() now supports a keyword argument 'rename'
5514 which lets invalid fieldnames be automatically converted to positional names
5515 in the form, _1, _2, ...
Raymond Hettinger322daea2009-02-10 01:24:05 +00005516
Guilherme Polod2ea0332009-02-09 16:41:09 +00005517- Issue #4890: Handle empty text search pattern in Tkinter.Text.search.
5518
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005519- Issue #5170: Fixed Unicode output bug in logging and added test case. This is
5520 a regression which did not occur in 2.5.
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +00005521
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005522- Issue #4512 (part 2): Promote ``ZipImporter._get_filename()`` to be a public
5523 documented method ``ZipImporter.get_filename()``.
Nick Coghlan0194f5b2009-02-08 03:17:00 +00005524
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005525- Issue #4195: The ``runpy`` module (and the ``-m`` switch) now support the
5526 execution of packages by looking for and executing a ``__main__`` submodule
5527 when a package name is supplied. Initial patch by Andi Vajda.
Nick Coghland39600e2009-02-08 01:26:34 +00005528
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005529- Issue #1731706: Call Tcl_ConditionFinalize for Tcl_Conditions that will not be
5530 used again (this requires Tcl/Tk 8.3.1), also fix a memory leak in Tkapp_Call
5531 when calling from a thread different than the one that created the Tcl
5532 interpreter. Patch by Robert Hancock.
Guilherme Polo14ff18d2009-02-06 22:26:22 +00005533
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +00005534- Issue #1520877: Now distutils.sysconfig reads $AR from the
Tarek Ziadé05adf072009-02-06 01:15:51 +00005535 environment/Makefile. Patch by Douglas Greiman.
5536
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005537- Issue #4285: Change sys.version_info to be a named tuple. Patch by Ross
5538 Light.
Eric Smith81fe0932009-02-06 00:48:26 +00005539
Tarek Ziadéd5eb9852009-02-06 00:31:59 +00005540- Issue #1276768: The verbose option was not used in the code of
5541 distutils.file_util and distutils.dir_util.
5542
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +00005543- Issue #5132: Fixed trouble building extensions under Solaris with
Tarek Ziadé0d4fd342009-02-05 22:52:52 +00005544 --enabled-shared activated. Initial patch by Dave Peterson.
5545
Guilherme Polod7bb4d42009-02-02 21:14:14 +00005546- Issue #1581476: Always use the Tcl global namespace when calling into Tcl.
5547
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005548- Issue #2047: shutil.move() could believe that its destination path was inside
5549 its source path if it began with the same letters (e.g. "src" vs. "src.new").
Antoine Pitrou707c5932009-01-29 20:19:34 +00005550
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005551- Issue #4920: Fixed .next() vs .__next__() issues in the ABCs for Iterator and
5552 MutableSet.
Raymond Hettingerf779e6f2009-01-28 23:02:26 +00005553
Guilherme Polocda93aa2009-01-28 13:09:03 +00005554- Added the ttk module. See issue #2983: Ttk support for Tkinter.
5555
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005556- Issue #5021: doctest.testfile() did not create __name__ and
Raymond Hettingerecf252a2009-01-27 10:03:04 +00005557 collections.namedtuple() relied on __name__ being defined.
5558
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005559- Backport importlib from Python 3.1. Only the import_module() function has been
5560 backported to help facilitate transitions from 2.7 to 3.1.
Brett Cannon93881c62009-01-26 01:16:50 +00005561
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005562- Issue #1885: distutils: When running sdist with --formats=tar,gztar the tar
5563 file was overriden by the gztar one.
Tarek Ziadéaaedcef2009-01-25 23:34:00 +00005564
Tarek Ziadéef249b12009-01-25 18:19:25 +00005565- Issue #4863: distutils.mwerkscompiler has been removed.
5566
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005567- Added new itertools functions: combinations_with_replacement() and compress().
Raymond Hettinger2bcb8e92009-01-25 21:04:14 +00005568
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005569- Issue #5032: Added a step argument to itertools.count() and allowed
5570 non-integer arguments.
Raymond Hettinger31c769c2009-02-12 05:39:46 +00005571
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005572- Fix and properly document the multiprocessing module's logging support, expose
5573 the internal levels and provide proper usage examples.
Jesse Nollerb5a4b0a2009-01-25 03:36:13 +00005574
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005575- Issue #1672332: Fix unpickling of subnormal floats, which was
Mark Dickinsona3ecd2c2009-01-24 16:40:29 +00005576 producing a ValueError on some platforms.
5577
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005578- Issue #3881: Help Tcl to load even when started through the unreadable local
5579 symlink to "Program Files" on Vista.
Martin v. Löwisf081e1c2009-01-24 15:47:27 +00005580
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005581- Issue #4710: Extract directories properly in the zipfile module; allow adding
5582 directories to a zipfile.
Martin v. Löwis0dfcfc82009-01-24 14:00:33 +00005583
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +00005584- Issue #3807: _multiprocessing build fails when configure is passed
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005585 --without-threads argument. When this occurs, _multiprocessing will be
5586 disabled, and not compiled.
Jesse Nollerf6da8d12009-01-23 14:04:41 +00005587
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005588- Issue #5008: When a file is opened in append mode with the new IO library, do
5589 an explicit seek to the end of file (so that e.g. tell() returns the file size
5590 rather than 0). This is consistent with the behaviour of the traditional 2.x
5591 file object.
Antoine Pitroue741cc62009-01-21 00:45:36 +00005592
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00005593- Issue #5013: Fixed a bug in FileHandler which occurred when the delay
5594 parameter was set.
5595
Raymond Hettinger933d3a72009-01-20 20:34:19 +00005596- Issue #4998: The memory saving effect of __slots__ had been lost on Fractions
5597 which inherited from numbers.py which did not have __slots__ defined. The
Mark Dickinson39c6f7f2009-02-12 17:55:42 +00005598 numbers hierarchy now has its own __slots__ declarations.
Raymond Hettinger933d3a72009-01-20 20:34:19 +00005599
Jesse Noller9a5b2ad2009-01-19 15:12:22 +00005600- Issue #3321: _multiprocessing.Connection() doesn't check handle; added checks
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005601 for *nix machines for negative handles and large int handles. Without this
5602 check it is possible to segfault the interpreter.
Jesse Noller9a5b2ad2009-01-19 15:12:22 +00005603
Jesse Noller6ab22152009-01-18 02:45:38 +00005604- Issue #4449: AssertionError in mp_benchmarks.py, caused by an underlying issue
5605 in sharedctypes.py.
5606
Benjamin Peterson5e5fbb62009-01-17 22:27:54 +00005607- Issue #1225107: inspect.isclass() returned True for instances with a custom
5608 __getattr__.
5609
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005610- Issue #3997: Zipfiles generated with more than 65536 files could not be opened
5611 with other applications.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd25f87a2009-01-17 16:40:17 +00005612
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005613- Issue #1162154: ``inspect.getmembers()`` now skips attributes that raise
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcb54447f2009-01-13 23:39:22 +00005614 AttributeError, e.g. a __slots__ attribute which has not been set.
5615
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005616- Issue #1696199: Add collections.Counter() for rapid and convenient counting.
Raymond Hettingerf94d7fa2009-01-12 22:58:41 +00005617
Antoine Pitroubd4b5f22009-01-10 16:15:24 +00005618- Issue #3860: GzipFile and BZ2File now support the context manager protocol.
5619
Antoine Pitrouf0d2c3f2009-01-04 21:29:23 +00005620- Issue #4272: Add an optional argument to the GzipFile constructor to override
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005621 the timestamp in the gzip stream. The default value remains the current time.
5622 The information can be used by e.g. gunzip when decompressing. Patch by
Antoine Pitrouf0d2c3f2009-01-04 21:29:23 +00005623 Jacques Frechet.
5624
Mark Dickinson514d4832009-01-04 21:25:40 +00005625- Restore Python 2.3 compatibility for decimal.py.
5626
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00005627- Issue #1702551: distutils sdist was not excluding VCS directories under
Ezio Melotti50bc66a2012-11-03 21:29:08 +02005628 Windows. Initial solution by Guy Dalberto.
Tarek Ziadé85d6fb52009-01-04 00:04:49 +00005629
Guilherme Poloe7f14032009-01-03 21:51:09 +00005630- The _tkinter module functions "createfilehandler", "deletefilehandler",
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005631 "createtimerhandler", "mainloop", "dooneevent" and "quit" have been deprecated
5632 for removal in 3.x
Guilherme Poloe7f14032009-01-03 21:51:09 +00005633
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005634- Issue #4796: Added Decimal.from_float() and
5635 Context.create_decimal_from_float() to the decimal module.
Raymond Hettingerf4d85972009-01-03 19:02:23 +00005636
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005637- Issue #4812: Add missing underscore prefix to some internal-use-only constants
5638 in the decimal module. (Dec_0 becomes _Dec_0, etc.)
Mark Dickinsonc5de0962009-01-02 23:07:08 +00005639
Benjamin Peterson8ad09a42008-12-31 23:48:39 +00005640- Issue #4795: inspect.isgeneratorfunction() returns False instead of None when
5641 the function is not a generator.
5642
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005643- Issue #4702: Throwing a DistutilsPlatformError instead of IOError in case no
5644 MSVC compiler is found under Windows. Original patch by Philip Jenvey.
Tarek Ziadéb1a85412008-12-30 23:03:41 +00005645
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005646- Issue #4646: distutils was choking on empty options arg in the setup function.
5647 Original patch by Thomas Heller.
Tarek Ziadéc13acb12008-12-29 22:23:53 +00005648
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005649- Fractions.from_float() no longer loses precision for integers too big to cast
5650 as floats.
Georg Brandlfe427892009-01-03 22:03:11 +00005651
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005652- Issue #4790: The nsmallest() and nlargest() functions in the heapq module did
5653 unnecessary work in the common case where no key function was specified.
Georg Brandlfe427892009-01-03 22:03:11 +00005654
Martin v. Löwis732479f2008-12-29 16:22:25 +00005655- Issue #3767: Convert Tk object to string in tkColorChooser.
5656
Martin v. Löwise2eb2b42008-12-29 15:51:01 +00005657- Issue #3248: Allow placing ScrolledText in a PanedWindow.
5658
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005659- Issue #4444: Allow assertRaises() to be used as a context handler, so that the
5660 code under test can be written inline if more practical.
Antoine Pitrou697ca3d2008-12-28 14:09:36 +00005661
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005662- Issue #4739: Add pydoc help topics for symbols, so that e.g. help('@') works
5663 as expected in the interactive environment.
Georg Brandlc3a98032008-12-27 18:20:04 +00005664
Antoine Pitrou6f193e02008-12-27 15:43:12 +00005665- Issue #4756: zipfile.is_zipfile() now supports file-like objects. Patch by
5666 Gabriel Genellina.
5667
Tarek Ziadée4c75bb2008-12-24 19:10:05 +00005668- Issue #4400: .pypirc default generated file was broken in distutils.
5669
Benjamin Peterson54686e32008-12-24 15:10:27 +00005670- Issue #4736: io.BufferedRWPair's closed property now functions properly.
5671
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005672- Issue #3954: Fix a potential SystemError in _hotshot.logreader error handling.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc31949b92008-12-15 21:47:57 +00005673
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005674- Issue #4574: Fix a crash in io.IncrementalNewlineDecoder when a carriage
5675 return encodes to more than one byte in the source encoding (e.g. UTF-16) and
5676 gets split on a chunk boundary.
Antoine Pitrou655fbf12008-12-14 17:40:51 +00005677
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005678- Issue #4223: inspect.getsource() will now correctly display source code for
5679 packages loaded via zipimport (or any other conformant PEP 302
Nick Coghlana2053472008-12-14 10:54:50 +00005680 loader). Original patch by Alexander Belopolsky.
5681
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005682- Issue #4201: pdb can now access and display source code loaded via zipimport
5683 (or any other conformant PEP 302 loader). Original patch by Alexander
5684 Belopolsky.
Nick Coghlana2053472008-12-14 10:54:50 +00005685
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005686- Issue #4197: Doctests in modules loaded via zipimport (or any other PEP 302
5687 conformant loader) will now work correctly in most cases (they are still
5688 subject to the constraints that exist for all code running from inside a
5689 module loaded via a PEP 302 loader and attempting to perform IO operations
5690 based on __file__). Original patch by Alexander Belopolsky.
Nick Coghlana2053472008-12-14 10:54:50 +00005691
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005692- Issues #4082 and #4512: Add runpy support to zipimport in a manner that allows
5693 backporting to maintenance branches. Original patch by Alexander Belopolsky.
Nick Coghlana2053472008-12-14 10:54:50 +00005694
Antoine Pitrou74af3bb2008-12-13 23:12:30 +00005695- Issue #4163: Use unicode-friendly word splitting in the textwrap functions
Ezio Melotti302ad8d2013-01-19 19:44:58 +02005696 when given a Unicode string.
Antoine Pitrou74af3bb2008-12-13 23:12:30 +00005697
Lars Gustäbel3b027422008-12-12 13:58:03 +00005698- Issue #4616: TarFile.utime(): Restore directory times on Windows.
5699
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005700- Issue #4084: Fix max, min, max_mag and min_mag Decimal methods to give correct
5701 results in the case where one argument is a quiet NaN and the other is a
5702 finite number that requires rounding.
Facundo Batistae29d4352008-12-11 04:19:46 +00005703
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005704- Issue #1030250: Distutils created directories even when run with the --dry-run
5705 option.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc240028c2008-12-11 00:03:42 +00005706
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005707- Issue #4483: _dbm module now builds on systems with gdbm & gdbm_compat libs.
Skip Montanaro45313fe2008-12-06 17:43:30 +00005708
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005709- Issue #4529: Fix the parser module's validation of try-except-finally
Georg Brandlfe879e82008-12-05 12:09:41 +00005710 statements.
5711
Georg Brandla07435d2008-12-05 09:23:14 +00005712- Issue #4458: getopt.gnu_getopt() now recognizes a single "-" as an argument,
5713 not a malformed option.
5714
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005715- Added the subprocess.check_output() convenience function to get output from a
5716 subprocess on success or raise an exception on error.
Gregory P. Smith97f49f42008-12-04 20:21:09 +00005717
Fred Drake52481032008-12-04 18:25:17 +00005718- Issue #1055234: cgi.parse_header(): Fixed parsing of header parameters to
5719 support unusual filenames (such as those containing semi-colons) in
5720 Content-Disposition headers.
5721
Vinay Sajip6831d6b2008-12-04 20:32:18 +00005722- Issue #4384: Added logging integration with warnings module using
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005723 captureWarnings(). This change includes a NullHandler which does nothing; it
5724 will be of use to library developers who want to avoid the "No handlers could
5725 be found for logger XXX" message which can appear if the library user doesn't
5726 configure logging.
Vinay Sajip213faca2008-12-03 23:22:58 +00005727
Christian Heimesaa674712008-11-28 11:02:32 +00005728- Issue #3741: DISTUTILS_USE_SDK set causes msvc9compiler.py to raise an
5729 exception.
5730
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005731- Issue #4363: The uuid.uuid1() and uuid.uuid4() functions now work even if the
5732 ctypes module is not present.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd4294172008-11-21 22:05:48 +00005733
Benjamin Petersonbfc51562008-11-22 01:59:15 +00005734- FileIO's mode attribute now always includes ``"b"``.
5735
Martin v. Löwisbb9b1f12008-11-19 09:09:41 +00005736- Issue #4116: Resolve member name conflict in ScrolledCanvas.__init__.
5737
Brett Cannone3d0bf72008-11-15 22:40:44 +00005738- httplib.HTTPConnection.putheader() now accepts an arbitrary number of values
5739 for any header, matching what the documentation has claimed for a while.
5740
Hirokazu Yamamotob9828f62008-11-03 18:03:06 +00005741- Issue #3774: Fixed an error when create a Tkinter menu item without command
5742 and then remove it.
5743
Thomas Heller1fac5a42008-10-30 20:18:13 +00005744- Fixed a modulefinder crash on certain relative imports.
5745
Benjamin Petersonc18574c2008-10-22 21:16:34 +00005746- Issue #4150: Pdb's "up" command now works for generator frames in post-mortem
5747 debugging.
5748
Benjamin Petersone4dc1752008-10-21 22:20:31 +00005749- Issue #4092: Return ArgInfo as promised in the documentation from
5750 inspect.getargvalues.
5751
Georg Brandlf3776a12008-10-08 18:47:17 +00005752- Issue #3935: Properly support list subclasses in bisect's C implementation.
5753
Martin v. Löwis96a9f232008-10-06 15:15:40 +00005754- Issue #4014: Don't claim that Python has an Alpha release status, in addition
5755 to claiming it is Mature.
5756
Alexandre Vassalotti6067f782008-12-27 07:13:01 +00005757- Issue #4730: Fixed the cPickle module to handle correctly astral characters
5758 when protocol 0 is used.
5759
Ronald Oussoren0238497e2009-01-02 14:10:20 +00005760- Issue #1594: MacOS.GetCreatorAndType now always returns a big-endian result,
5761 to be consistent with Apple tools.
5762
Ronald Oussoren63b74fe2009-01-02 14:46:19 +00005763- Issue #900949: plat-mac/videoreader.py no longer relies on a non-existing
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00005764 module.
Ronald Oussoren63b74fe2009-01-02 14:46:19 +00005765
Ronald Oussoren7f8cbf02009-01-02 14:48:17 +00005766- Issue #16278952: plat-mac/videoreader.py now correctly imports MediaDescr
5767
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005768- Issue #1737832: plat-mac/EasyDialog.py no longer uses the broken aepack
Ronald Oussoren919697c2009-01-02 14:52:09 +00005769 module.
5770
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005771- Issue #1149804: macostools.mkdirs now even works when another process creates
5772 one of the needed subdirectories.
Ronald Oussorenabcc1682009-01-02 15:00:05 +00005773
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005774- Issue #900506: added --no-zipimport flag to the bundlebuilder script.
Ronald Oussoren072bb402009-01-02 15:25:36 +00005775
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005776- Issue #841800: bundlebuilder now works with 'python -O'.
Ronald Oussoren072bb402009-01-02 15:25:36 +00005777
Matthias Klose43723e22009-01-10 17:00:42 +00005778- Issue #4861: ctypes.util.find_library(): Robustify. Fix library detection on
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005779 biarch systems. Try to rely on ldconfig only, without using objdump and gcc.
Matthias Klose43723e22009-01-10 17:00:42 +00005780
Gregory P. Smithde1a8b72009-01-31 22:57:30 +00005781- Issue #5104: The socket module now raises OverflowError when 16-bit port and
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005782 protocol numbers are supplied outside the allowed 0-65536 range on bind() and
5783 getservbyport().
Gregory P. Smithde1a8b72009-01-31 22:57:30 +00005784
Neil Schemenauer92c3b212009-02-07 00:54:41 +00005785- Issue #999042: The Python compiler now handles explict global statements
5786 correctly (should be assigned using STORE_GLOBAL opcode).
5787
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005788- Issue #2703: SimpleXMLRPCDispatcher.__init__: Provide default values for new
5789 arguments introduced in 2.5.
Matthias Klosea5d58c82009-04-05 21:00:48 +00005790
Walter Dörwald5d98ec72009-04-25 14:03:16 +00005791- Issue #5828 (Invalid behavior of unicode.lower): Fixed bogus logic in
5792 makeunicodedata.py and regenerated the Unicode database (This fixes
5793 u'\u1d79'.lower() == '\x00').
5794
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Wervenb87b3342009-05-08 14:11:23 +00005795- Windows locale mapping updated to Vista.
5796
Serhiy Storchakaff99e412013-04-14 18:52:15 +03005797IDLE
5798----
5799
5800- Issue #5150: IDLE's format menu now has an option to strip trailing
5801 whitespace.
5802
5803- Issue #5847: Remove -n switch on "Edit with IDLE" menu item.
5804
Antoine Pitroue555f582008-12-27 20:34:52 +00005805Tools/Demos
5806-----------
5807
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005808- Ttk demos added in Demo/tkinter/ttk/.
Guilherme Polo4eae0782009-01-28 15:56:01 +00005809
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005810- Issue #4677: Add two list comprehension tests to pybench.
Antoine Pitroue555f582008-12-27 20:34:52 +00005811
Brett Cannon60b15d22008-10-06 22:44:37 +00005812Build
5813-----
5814
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005815- Issue #6603: Change READ_TIMESTAMP macro in ceval.c so that it compiles
5816 correctly under gcc on x86-64. This fixes a reported problem with the
5817 --with-tsc build on x86-64.
Mark Dickinson504a1512009-10-31 10:11:28 +00005818
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005819- Add 2 new options to ``--with-universal-archs`` on MacOSX: ``intel`` builds a
5820 distribution with ``i386`` and ``x86_64`` architectures, while ``3-way``
5821 builds a distribution with the ``ppc``, ``i386`` and ``x86_64`` architectures.
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +00005822
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005823- Issue #6802: Fix build issues on MacOSX 10.6.
Ronald Oussoren25967582009-09-06 10:00:26 +00005824
Guilherme Polo1ce2d532009-08-16 14:38:57 +00005825- Issue #6244: Allow detect_tkinter to look for Tcl/Tk 8.6.
5826
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00005827- Issue #5390: Add uninstall icon independent of whether file extensions are
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005828 installed.
Martin v. Löwisecb4f952009-06-28 09:32:39 +00005829
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00005830- Issue #5809: Specifying both --enable-framework and --enable-shared is an
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005831 error. Configure now explicity tells you about this.
Ronald Oussoren450d5612009-06-08 21:12:41 +00005832
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005833- Issue #3585: Add pkg-config support. It creates a python-2.7.pc file and a
5834 python.pc symlink in the $(LIBDIR)/pkgconfig directory. Patch by Clinton Roy.
Antoine Pitrouf2caeed2009-05-24 20:23:57 +00005835
Benjamin Petersone5afa3b2009-05-23 19:24:37 +00005836- Issue #6094: Build correctly with Subversion 1.7.
5837
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005838- Issue #5726: Make Modules/ld_so_aix return the actual exit code of the linker,
5839 rather than always exit successfully. Patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
Antoine Pitrou3fd4ea92009-05-01 21:16:14 +00005840
Matthias Klose10cbe482009-04-29 17:18:19 +00005841- Issue #4587: Add configure option --with-dbmliborder=db1:db2:... to specify
Vinay Sajipf9b01fe2009-05-09 12:07:17 +00005842 the order that backends for the dbm extension are checked.
Matthias Klose10cbe482009-04-29 17:18:19 +00005843
Matthias Klose8ad554f2009-02-22 23:14:26 +00005844- Link the shared python library with $(MODLIBS).
5845
Martin v. Löwisa3e3cb72009-02-10 13:09:19 +00005846- Issue #5134: Silence compiler warnings when compiling sqlite with VC++.
5847
Martin v. Löwisfee1c7f2009-02-02 14:23:16 +00005848- Issue #4494: Fix build with Py_NO_ENABLE_SHARED on Windows.
5849
Martin v. Löwiseefda272009-01-11 09:43:55 +00005850- Issue #4895: Use _strdup on Windows CE.
5851
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005852- Issue #4472: ``configure --enable-shared`` now works on OSX.
Ronald Oussorenf7d54052009-01-02 10:48:31 +00005853
Benjamin Petersonfd9633e2008-12-28 15:37:31 +00005854- Issues #4728 and #4060: WORDS_BIGEDIAN is now correct in Universal builds.
5855
Martin v. Löwiscb6c3592008-11-30 11:08:26 +00005856- Issue #4389: Add icon to the uninstall entry in "add-and-remove-programs".
5857
Martin v. Löwis63470982008-11-19 13:51:44 +00005858- Issue #4289: Remove Cancel button from AdvancedDlg.
5859
Martin v. Löwis3d6f8ff2008-11-07 18:51:50 +00005860- Issue #1656675: Register a drop handler for .py* files on Windows.
5861
Martin v. Löwis692c2f82008-11-06 16:43:00 +00005862- Issue #4120: Exclude manifest from extension modules in VS2008.
5863
Martin v. Löwis0f3e7692008-10-17 13:43:01 +00005864- Issue #4091: Install pythonxy.dll in system32 again.
5865
Martin v. Löwiseba774b2008-10-13 11:23:35 +00005866- Issue #4018: Disable "for me" installations on Vista.
5867
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005868- Issue #3758: Add ``patchcheck`` build target to ``.PHONY``.
Brett Cannon60b15d22008-10-06 22:44:37 +00005869
Martin v. Löwisbb86d832008-11-04 20:40:09 +00005870- Issue #4204: Fixed module build errors on FreeBSD 4.
5871
Tarek Ziadéc4a4aeb2009-08-21 14:28:38 +00005872Documentation
5873-------------
5874
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005875- Issue #6556: Fixed the Distutils configuration files location explanation for
5876 Windows.
Tarek Ziadéc4a4aeb2009-08-21 14:28:38 +00005877
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005878- Issue #6801: symmetric_difference_update also accepts ``|``. Thanks to Carl
5879 Chenet.
Tarek Ziadé3092ed92009-08-29 13:33:21 +00005880
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc07d539d2008-10-14 21:47:22 +00005881C-API
5882-----
5883
Mark Dickinsone31d3002009-12-21 11:21:25 +00005884- Issue #7528: Add PyLong_AsLongAndOverflow (backported from py3k).
5885
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005886- Issue #7228: Add '%lld' and '%llu' support to PyString_FromFormat(V) and
5887 PyErr_Format, on machines with HAVE_LONG_LONG defined.
Mark Dickinson82864d12009-11-15 16:18:58 +00005888
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005889- Add new C-API function PyOS_string_to_double, and deprecated PyOS_ascii_atof
5890 and PyOS_ascii_strtod.
Mark Dickinson09823a22009-10-31 09:42:39 +00005891
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005892- Removed _PyOS_double_to_string. Use PyOS_double_to_string instead. This is in
5893 preparation for (but not strictly related to) issue #7117, short float repr.
Mark Dickinsonba26b392009-10-31 09:28:12 +00005894
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005895- Issue #6624: PyArg_ParseTuple with "s" format when parsing argument with NULL:
5896 Bogus TypeError detail string.
Sean Reifscheider9279e7d2009-08-01 23:54:55 +00005897
Jeffrey Yasskinf7f858d2009-05-08 22:23:21 +00005898- Issue #5954: Add a PyFrame_GetLineNumber() function to replace most uses of
5899 PyCode_Addr2Line().
5900
Jeffrey Yasskin1aa47002009-05-08 21:51:06 +00005901- Issue #5959: Add a PyCode_NewEmpty() function to create a new empty code
5902 object at a specified file, function, and line number.
5903
Brett Cannonc4f90eb2009-04-02 03:17:39 +00005904- Issue #1419652: Change the first argument to PyImport_AppendInittab() to
5905 ``const char *`` as the string is stored beyond the call.
5906
Benjamin Peterson5781f322009-02-16 21:09:09 +00005907- Some PyBytes_* aliases have been removed because they don't exist in 3.x.
5908
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005909- Issue #5175: PyLong_AsUnsignedLongLong now raises OverflowError for negative
5910 arguments. Previously, it raised TypeError.
Mark Dickinson4015f622009-02-10 15:46:50 +00005911
Benjamin Petersoncf2ce242008-12-22 20:52:53 +00005912- Issue #4720: The format for PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords can begin with '|'.
5913
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005914- Issue #3632: From the gdb debugger, the 'pyo' macro can now be called when the
5915 GIL is released, or owned by another thread.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc3538a312008-12-15 22:29:14 +00005916
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc07d539d2008-10-14 21:47:22 +00005917- Issue #4122: On Windows, fix a compilation error when using the
5918 Py_UNICODE_ISSPACE macro in an extension module.
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00005919
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005920- Issue #4293: Py_AddPendingCall() is now thread safe and can be used for
Kristján Valur Jónssonc22ab182009-01-12 09:24:04 +00005921 asynchronous notifications to python from any thread. Documentation added.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc07d539d2008-10-14 21:47:22 +00005922
Benjamin Peterson9dfe6a82008-11-24 04:09:03 +00005923Extension Modules
5924-----------------
5925
Martin v. Löwis50ea4562009-11-27 13:56:01 +00005926- Issue #6508: Add posix.{getresuid,getresgid,setresuid,setresgid}.
5927
Mark Dickinson3d830822009-10-08 15:54:10 +00005928- Issue #7078: Set struct.__doc__ from _struct.__doc__.
5929
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005930- Issue #3366: Add erf, erfc, expm1, gamma, lgamma functions to math module.
Mark Dickinsonb93fff02009-09-28 18:54:55 +00005931
Brett Cannon4d947432009-09-22 00:29:48 +00005932- Issue #6823: Allow time.strftime() to accept a tuple with a isdst field
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005933 outside of the range of [-1, 1] by normalizing the value to within that range.
Brett Cannon4d947432009-09-22 00:29:48 +00005934
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005935- Issue #6877: Make it possible to link the readline extension to libedit on
5936 OSX.
Ronald Oussoren9f20d9d2009-09-20 14:18:15 +00005937
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005938- Issue #6944: Fix a SystemError when socket.getnameinfo() was called with
5939 something other than a tuple as first argument.
Georg Brandlab849892009-09-19 07:35:07 +00005940
Benjamin Peterson7f6d0832009-09-08 23:04:22 +00005941- Issue #6865: Fix reference counting issue in the initialization of the pwd
5942 module.
5943
Mark Dickinson6b3f1ef2009-09-06 21:21:05 +00005944- Issue #6848: Fix curses module build failure on OS X 10.6.
5945
Brett Cannon764465f2009-08-13 19:27:12 +00005946- Fix a segfault in expat when given a specially crafted input lead to the
Matthias Klose3b0f9b02010-01-22 00:34:48 +00005947 tokenizer not stopping. CVE-2009-3720.
Brett Cannon764465f2009-08-13 19:27:12 +00005948
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005949- Issue #6561: '\d' in a regex now matches only characters with Unicode category
5950 'Nd' (Number, Decimal Digit). Previously it also matched characters with
5951 category 'No'.
Mark Dickinsonfe67bd92009-07-28 20:35:03 +00005952
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005953- Issue #1523: Remove deprecated overflow wrapping for struct.pack with an
5954 integer format code ('bBhHiIlLqQ'). Packing an out-of-range integer now
5955 consistently raises struct.error.
Mark Dickinson5fd3af22009-07-07 15:08:28 +00005956
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005957- Issues #1530559, #1741130: Fix various struct.pack inconsistencies for the
5958 integer formats ('bBhHiIlLqQ'). In the following, '*' represents any of '=',
5959 '<', '>'.
Mark Dickinson463dc4b2009-07-05 10:01:24 +00005960
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005961 - Packing a float now always gives a Deprecation Warning. Previously it
5962 only warned for 'I', 'L', '*B', '*H', '*I', '*L'.
Mark Dickinson463dc4b2009-07-05 10:01:24 +00005963
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005964 - If x is not an int, long or float, then packing x will always result in
5965 struct.error. Previously an x with an __int__ method could be packed by
5966 'b', 'B', 'h', 'H', 'i', 'l', '*b', '*h' ,'*i', '*l', and an x with a
5967 __long__ method could be packed by 'q', 'Q', '*q', '*Q'; for x with
5968 neither __int__ nor __long__, TypeError used to be raised (with a
5969 confusing error message) for 'I', 'L', '*B', '*H', '*I', '*L', and
5970 struct.error in other cases.
Mark Dickinson463dc4b2009-07-05 10:01:24 +00005971
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005972 Note: as of Python 2.7 beta 1, the above is out of date. In 2.7 beta 1, any
5973 argument with an __int__ method can be packed, but use of this feature
5974 triggers a DeprecationWarning.
Mark Dickinson154b7ad2010-03-07 16:24:45 +00005975
Martin v. Löwis4f16d3b2009-05-29 15:58:08 +00005976- Issue #4873: Fix resource leaks in error cases of pwd and grp.
5977
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005978- Issue #4751: For hashlib algorithms provided by OpenSSL, the Python GIL is now
5979 released during computation on data lengths >= 2048 bytes.
Gregory P. Smithd02eeda2009-05-04 00:16:49 +00005980
Gregory P. Smithea388262009-02-13 03:00:00 +00005981- Issue #3745: Fix hashlib to always reject unicode and non buffer-api
5982 supporting objects as input no matter how it was compiled (built in
Gregory P. Smithfe32d302010-01-02 22:42:50 +00005983 implementations or external openssl library). NOTE: Undone in 2.7a2.
Gregory P. Smithea388262009-02-13 03:00:00 +00005984
Mark Dickinsona200dd52009-01-15 15:17:43 +00005985- Issue #4397: Fix occasional test_socket failure on OS X.
Mark Dickinsone82cdae2009-01-15 14:54:37 +00005986
Martin v. Löwisb3b7d852009-01-11 09:26:54 +00005987- Issue #4279: Fix build of parsermodule under Cygwin.
5988
Martin v. Löwis9ac49272009-01-02 20:40:14 +00005989- Issue #4051: Prevent conflict of UNICODE macros in cPickle.
5990
Georg Brandl6269fec2009-01-01 12:15:31 +00005991- Issue #4228: Pack negative values the same way as 2.4 in struct's L format.
5992
Martin v. Löwis03824e42008-12-29 18:17:34 +00005993- Issue #1040026: Fix os.times result on systems where HZ is incorrect.
5994
Mark Dickinson4c96fa52008-12-11 19:28:08 +00005995- Issues #3167, #3682: Fix test_math failures for log, log10 on Solaris,
5996 OpenBSD.
5997
Martin v. Löwisbcb017f2008-11-30 19:28:27 +00005998- Issue #4365: Add crtassem.h constants to the msvcrt module.
5999
Benjamin Peterson9dfe6a82008-11-24 04:09:03 +00006000- Issue #4396: The parser module now correctly validates the with statement.
6001
Jack Diederichd60c29e2009-03-31 23:46:48 +00006002- Issue #5228: Make functools.partial objects can now be pickled.
6003
Guilherme Polob1a98de2009-01-28 20:03:26 +00006004Tests
6005-----
6006
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006007- Issue #7431: Use TESTFN in test_linecache instead of trying to create a file
6008 in the Lib/test directory, which might be read-only for the user running the
6009 tests.
R. David Murray820b0ea2009-12-03 23:57:59 +00006010
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006011- Issue #7324: Add a sanity check to regrtest argument parsing to catch the case
6012 of an option with no handler.
R. David Murrayda826892009-11-15 00:04:32 +00006013
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006014- Issue #7312: Add a -F flag to run the selected tests in a loop until a test
6015 fails. Can be combined with -j.
R. David Murray7f7eea62009-11-14 15:18:22 +00006016
Antoine Pitrou310c9fe2009-11-11 20:55:07 +00006017- Issue #7295: Do not use a hardcoded file name in test_tarfile.
6018
Antoine Pitrouc98efe02009-11-06 22:34:35 +00006019- Issue #7270: Add some dedicated unit tests for multi-thread synchronization
6020 primitives such as Lock, RLock, Condition, Event and Semaphore.
6021
Antoine Pitrou59c44f32009-10-30 17:07:08 +00006022- Issue #7222: Make thread "reaping" more reliable so that reference
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006023 leak-chasing test runs give sensible results. The previous method of reaping
6024 threads could return successfully while some Thread objects were still
6025 referenced. This also introduces a new private function: ``thread._count()``.
Antoine Pitrou59c44f32009-10-30 17:07:08 +00006026
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006027- Issue #7151: Fixed regrtest -j so that output to stderr from a test no longer
6028 runs the risk of causing the worker thread to fail.
R. David Murray282396f2009-10-18 21:12:37 +00006029
Antoine Pitrou58d2f262009-10-10 20:52:11 +00006030- Issue #7055: test___all__ now greedily detects all modules which have an
6031 __all__ attribute, rather than using a hardcoded and incomplete list.
6032
R. David Murray14dcd432009-10-14 13:58:07 +00006033- Issue #7058: Added save/restore for things like sys.argv and cwd to
6034 runtest_inner in regrtest, with warnings if the called test modifies them,
6035 and a new section in the summary report at the end.
R. David Murrayabe3d3e2009-10-05 17:03:09 +00006036
Mark Dickinson245d9152009-10-04 18:38:39 +00006037- Issue #7042: Fix test_signal (test_itimer_virtual) failure on OS X 10.6.
6038
Brett Cannone7e941e2009-09-03 21:25:21 +00006039- Issue #6806: test_platform failed under OS X 10.6.0 because ``sw_ver`` leaves
6040 off the trailing 0 in the version number.
6041
Guilherme Polo7f146ab2009-06-21 17:22:50 +00006042- Issue #5450: Moved tests involving loading tk from Lib/test/test_tcl to
6043 Lib/lib-tk/test/test_tkinter/test_loadtk. With this, these tests demonstrate
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006044 the same behaviour as test_ttkguionly (and now also test_tk) which is to skip
6045 the tests if DISPLAY is defined but can't be used.
Guilherme Polo7f146ab2009-06-21 17:22:50 +00006046
Antoine Pitrou4698d992009-05-31 14:20:14 +00006047- Issue #6152: New option '-j'/'--multiprocess' for regrtest allows running
6048 regression tests in parallel, shortening the total runtime.
6049
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006050- Issue #5354: New test support function import_fresh_module() makes it easy to
6051 import both normal and optimised versions of modules. test_heapq and
6052 test_warnings have been adjusted to use it, tests for other modules with both
6053 C and Python implementations in the stdlib can be adjusted to use it over
6054 time.
Nick Coghlan5533ff62009-04-22 15:26:04 +00006055
Brett Cannonce3d2212009-04-01 20:25:48 +00006056- Fix test_warnings to no longer reset the warnings filter.
6057
Brett Cannon2da4d622009-04-01 19:57:10 +00006058- Fix test_logging to no longer reset the warnings filter.
6059
Georg Brandld8fb6ac2009-04-01 00:04:33 +00006060- Issue #5635: Fix running test_sys with tracing enabled.
6061
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006062- regrtest no longer treats ImportError as equivalent to SkipTest. Imports that
6063 should cause a test to be skipped are now done using import_module from test
6064 support, which does the conversion.
R. David Murray41448c52009-03-31 19:57:24 +00006065
Guilherme Polob1a98de2009-01-28 20:03:26 +00006066- Issue #5083: New 'gui' resource for regrtest.
6067
Walter Dörwalda1453172009-04-25 12:15:07 +00006068- Issue #5837: Certain sequences of calls to set() and unset() for
6069 support.EnvironmentVarGuard objects restored the environment variables
6070 incorrectly on __exit__.
6071
Alexandre Vassalotti999ecc02009-07-15 18:19:47 +00006072- Issue #2389: Array objects are now pickled in a portable manner.
6073
Brett Cannon813c43a2009-11-08 21:35:28 +00006074Misc
6075----
6076
6077- Issue #5611: Auto-detect whether a C file uses tabs or spaces in Vim.
6078
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00006079
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00006080What's New in Python 2.6 final
6081==============================
6082
Barry Warsawafa14362008-10-01 21:46:40 +00006083*Release date: 01-Oct-2008*
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00006084
6085Core and Builtins
6086-----------------
6087
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfc5ea392008-09-26 22:34:08 +00006088- Issue #3967: Fixed a crash in the count() and find() methods of string-like
6089 objects, when the "start" parameter is a huge value.
6090
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc17617a02008-09-25 20:52:56 +00006091- Issue #3965: Fixed a crash on Windows when open() is given an invalid
6092 filename or mode, and the filename is a unicode string.
6093
Martin v. Löwise86b07c2008-09-25 04:12:50 +00006094- Bug #3951: Py_USING_MEMORY_DEBUGGER should not be enabled by default.
6095
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00006096Library
6097-------
6098
Martin v. Löwise563aa42008-09-29 22:09:07 +00006099- Issue #3965: Allow repeated calls to turtle.Screen, by making it a
6100 true singleton object.
6101
Brett Cannonb2d61bd2008-09-29 03:41:21 +00006102- Issue #3895: It was possible to crash the interpreter when an external timer
6103 was used with cProfile that returned an object that could not be converted
6104 into a float.
6105
Benjamin Peterson22d3c922008-09-25 20:35:45 +00006106- Issue #3950: Made turtle respect scale factors.
6107
Thomas Hellera85c95d2008-09-24 18:26:05 +00006108- Issue #3547: Fixed ctypes structures bitfields of varying integer
6109 sizes.
6110
Benjamin Peterson2c7470d2008-09-21 21:27:51 +00006111- Issue #3879: A regression in urllib.getproxies_enviroment was fixed.
6112
Gregory P. Smith08067492008-09-30 20:41:13 +00006113- Issue #3863: Disabled a unit test of fork being called from a thread
6114 when running on platforms known to exhibit OS bugs when attempting that.
6115
Martin v. Löwis175d0072008-09-19 15:21:07 +00006116Build
6117-----
6118
Martin v. Löwisd69c9042008-10-01 11:19:50 +00006119- Bug #3989: Package the 2to3 script (as 2to3.py) in the Windows
6120 installer.
6121
Martin v. Löwis175d0072008-09-19 15:21:07 +00006122- Bug #3887: Package x64 version of CRT for AMD64 Windows binaries.
6123
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00006124
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00006125What's New in Python 2.6 release candidate 2?
6126=============================================
6127
Barry Warsaw6af16192008-09-18 04:33:43 +00006128*Release date: 17-Sep-2008*
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00006129
6130Core and Builtins
6131-----------------
6132
Benjamin Peterson8c2b7dc2008-09-18 01:22:16 +00006133Extension Modules
6134-----------------
6135
Benjamin Peterson8d77d442008-09-30 01:31:49 +00006136- Security Issue #2: imageop did not validate arguments correctly and could
6137 segfault as a result.
6138
Benjamin Peterson8c2b7dc2008-09-18 01:22:16 +00006139- Issue #3886: Possible integer overflows in the _hashopenssl module were
6140 closed.
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00006141
Antoine Pitrou3c9f5412008-09-13 20:30:30 +00006142Tools/Demos
6143-----------
6144
Georg Brandl2bd92a52009-10-11 21:10:07 +00006145- Issue #3850: recursion tests in Tools/scripts/find_recursion_limit.py can raise
Antoine Pitrou3c9f5412008-09-13 20:30:30 +00006146 AttributeError instead of RuntimeError, depending in which C API call
6147 exactly the recursion limit is exceeded. Consequently, both exception types
6148 are caught and silenced.
6149
Martin v. Löwis4eb18f92008-09-14 20:22:39 +00006150Build
6151-----
6152
6153- Issue #3617: Include a licensing statement regarding the Microsoft
6154 C runtime in the Windows installer.
6155
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00006156
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00006157What's New in Python 2.6 release candidate 1?
6158=============================================
6159
Barry Warsaw1e62aec2008-09-12 23:25:57 +00006160*Release date: 12-Sep-2008*
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00006161
6162Core and Builtins
6163-----------------
6164
Martin v. Löwis9fa5a282008-09-11 06:53:30 +00006165- Issue #3642: Suppress warning in obmalloc when size_t is larger than uint.
6166
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc05e34492008-09-10 22:04:45 +00006167- Issue #3743: In a few places, PY_FORMAT_SIZE_T was incorrectly used with
6168 PyString_FromFormat or PyErr_Format to display size_t values. The macro
6169 PY_FORMAT_SIZE_T is designed to select the correct format for the OS
6170 ``printf`` function, whereas PyString_FromFormat has an independent
6171 implementation and uses "%zd" on all platforms for size_t values.
6172 This makes a difference on win64, where ``printf`` needs "%Id" to display
6173 64bit values.
6174
Benjamin Peterson97179b02008-09-09 20:55:01 +00006175- Issue #3634: _weakref.ref(Exception).__init__() gave invalid return value on
6176 error.
6177
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd3ffb892008-09-09 07:24:30 +00006178- Issue #3777: long() applied to a float object now always return a long
6179 object; previously an int would be returned for small values. the __long__
6180 method is allowed to return either an int or a long, but the behaviour of
6181 float objects should not change to respect backward compatibility.
6182
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc3571fbf2008-09-01 19:52:00 +00006183- Issue #3751: str.rpartition would perform a left-partition when called with
6184 a unicode argument.
6185
Benjamin Peterson17f03ca2008-09-01 14:18:30 +00006186- Issue #3683: Fix compilation when --without-threads is given.
6187
Antoine Pitroud4ae97b2008-08-29 18:39:48 +00006188- Issue #3668: Fix a memory leak with the "s*" argument parser in
Vinay Sajip35e3b032008-09-01 14:33:59 +00006189 PyArg_ParseTuple and friends, which occurred when the argument for "s*"
Antoine Pitroud4ae97b2008-08-29 18:39:48 +00006190 was correctly parsed but parsing of subsequent arguments failed.
6191
Vinay Sajip35e3b032008-09-01 14:33:59 +00006192- Issue #2534: speed up isinstance() and issubclass() by 50-70%, so as to
Antoine Pitrou0668c622008-08-26 22:42:08 +00006193 match Python 2.5 speed despite the __instancecheck__ / __subclasscheck__
6194 mechanism. In the process, fix a bug where isinstance() and issubclass(),
6195 when given a tuple of classes as second argument, were looking up
6196 __instancecheck__ / __subclasscheck__ on the tuple rather than on each
6197 type object.
6198
Neal Norwitz18aa3882008-08-24 05:04:52 +00006199- Fix crashes on memory allocation failure found with failmalloc.
6200
6201- Fix memory leaks found with valgrind and update suppressions file.
6202
6203- Fix compiler warnings in opt mode which would lead to invalid memory reads.
6204
6205- Fix problem using wrong name in decimal module reported by pychecker.
6206
Christian Heimes7d4c3172008-08-22 19:47:25 +00006207- Silenced another compiler warning about a used but not defined
6208 function 'stringlib_contains_obj'.
6209
Benjamin Peterson712ee922008-08-24 18:10:20 +00006210- Added warnings on the use of ``__getslice__``, ``__setslice__``, or
6211 ``__delslice__``.
6212
Gregory P. Smith2bb25cc2008-09-02 05:29:51 +00006213- Issue #3678: Correctly pass LDFLAGS and LDLAST to the linker on shared
6214 library targets in the Makefile.
6215
Gregory P. Smith980b99b2008-09-07 05:15:18 +00006216- Issue #1204: The configure script now tests for additional libraries
6217 that may be required when linking against readline. This fixes issues
6218 with x86_64 builds on some platforms (a few Linux flavors and OpenBSD).
6219
Benjamin Peterson14cb6bc2008-08-26 17:08:40 +00006220C-API
6221-----
6222
6223- Aliased PyObject_Bytes to PyObject_Str.
6224
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00006225Library
6226-------
6227
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc24cb3822008-09-11 20:56:13 +00006228- Issue #3640: Pickling a list or a dict uses less local variables, to reduce
6229 stack usage in the case of deeply nested objects.
6230
Guido van Rossume3c4fd92008-09-10 14:27:00 +00006231- Issue #3629: Fix sre "bytecode" validator for an end case.
6232
Martin v. Löwis24329ba2008-09-10 13:38:12 +00006233- Issue #3811: The Unicode database was updated to 5.1.
6234
Nick Coghland2e09382008-09-11 12:11:06 +00006235- Issue #3781: Further warnings.catch_warnings() cleanup to prevent
6236 silent misbehaviour when a single instance is nested in multiple
6237 with statements, or when the methods are invoked in the wrong order.
6238
Vinay Sajip844f7412008-09-09 13:42:08 +00006239- Issue #3809: Fixed spurious 'test.blah' file left behind by test_logging.
6240
Nick Coghland2e09382008-09-11 12:11:06 +00006241- Issue #3781: Clean up the API for warnings.catch_warnings() by having it
Brett Cannon672237d2008-09-09 00:49:16 +00006242 return a list or None rather than a custom object.
6243
Benjamin Peterson6ac7d7c2008-09-06 19:28:11 +00006244- Issue #1638033: Cookie.Morsel gained the httponly attribute.
6245
Antoine Pitrouebcd0ce2008-09-05 23:30:23 +00006246- Issue #3535: zipfile couldn't read some zip files larger than 2GB.
6247
6248- Issue #3776: Deprecate the bsddb package for removal in 3.0.
Brett Cannon32476fc2008-09-05 18:33:51 +00006249
Hirokazu Yamamoto42e459e2008-09-04 14:25:30 +00006250- Issue #3762: platform.architecture() fails if python is lanched via
6251 its symbolic link.
6252
Vinay Sajip65d66e12008-09-04 07:31:21 +00006253- Issue #3772: Fixed regression problem in StreamHandler.emit().
6254
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00006255- Issue #600362: Relocated parse_qs() and parse_qsl(), from the cgi module
Facundo Batistac585df92008-09-03 22:35:50 +00006256 to the urlparse one. Added a PendingDeprecationWarning in the old
6257 module, it will be deprecated in the future.
6258
Marc-André Lemburgb339b2a2008-09-03 11:13:56 +00006259- Issue #2562: Fix distutils PKG-INFO writing logic to allow having
6260 non-ascii characters and Unicode in setup.py meta-data.
6261
6262- Issue #3726: Allow spaces in separators in logging configuration files.
Vinay Sajip6a2fd812008-09-03 09:20:05 +00006263
Marc-André Lemburg31a0a142008-09-02 12:11:19 +00006264- Issue #3719: platform.architecture() fails if there are spaces in the
6265 path to the Python binary.
6266
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00006267- Issue #3602: Moved test.test_support.catch_warning() to
Brett Cannon1eaf0742008-09-02 01:25:16 +00006268 warnings.catch_warnings() along with some API cleanup. Expanding the tests
6269 for catch_warnings() also led to an improvement in the raising of a
6270 DeprecationWarning related to warnings.warn_explicit().
6271
Benjamin Peterson973e6c22008-09-01 23:12:58 +00006272- The deprecation warnings for the old camelCase threading API were removed.
6273
Vinay Sajip35e3b032008-09-01 14:33:59 +00006274- logging: fixed lack of use of encoding attribute specified on a stream.
6275
Christian Heimesa27a62e2008-08-22 19:55:54 +00006276- Silenced a trivial compiler warning in the sqlite module.
6277
Christian Heimes1cc69632008-08-22 20:10:27 +00006278- Fixed two format strings in the _collections module.
6279
Benjamin Peterson17f03ca2008-09-01 14:18:30 +00006280- Issue #3703: _fileio.FileIO gave unhelpful error message when trying to open a
6281 directory.
Benjamin Petersonf22c26e2008-09-01 14:13:43 +00006282
Gregory P. Smithd7122032008-09-02 05:36:11 +00006283- Issue #3708: os.urandom no longer goes into an infinite loop when passed a
6284 non-integer floating point number.
6285
Vinay Sajip65d66e12008-09-04 07:31:21 +00006286- Issue #3110: multiprocessing fails to compiel on solaris 10 due to missing
Jesse Nollerb814d6a2008-09-03 18:10:30 +00006287 SEM_VALUE_MAX.
6288
Benjamin Peterson37346b22008-08-23 20:27:43 +00006289Extension Modules
6290-----------------
6291
Jesse Noller438195f2009-01-18 21:04:36 +00006292- Issue #4301: Patch the logging module to add processName support, remove
6293 _check_logger_class from multiprocessing.
6294
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc293924b2008-09-02 23:19:56 +00006295- Issue #2975: When compiling several extension modules with Visual Studio 2008
6296 from the same python interpreter, some environment variables would grow
6297 without limit.
6298
Benjamin Peterson37346b22008-08-23 20:27:43 +00006299- Issue #3643: Added a few more checks to _testcapi to prevent segfaults by
6300 exploitation of poor argument checking.
6301
Gerhard Häringef2276b2008-09-12 13:54:06 +00006302- sqlite3: Changed docstring of iterdump() to mark method as "Non-standard".
6303
Gerhard Häring6e1afcf2008-09-12 18:58:57 +00006304- Issue #3103: Reduced globals symbols used by sqlite3 module and made sure all
6305 remaining ones have "pysqlite_" prefix.
6306
Gerhard Häringe6872eb2008-09-12 22:33:22 +00006307- Issue #3846: Release the GIL during sqlite3_prepare calls. This improves
6308 concurrent access to the same SQLite database from multiple
6309 threads/processes.
6310
Brett Cannona0b74442008-09-03 22:45:11 +00006311Tests
6312-----
6313
Nick Coghland2e09382008-09-11 12:11:06 +00006314- Issue #3781: Add test.test_support.check_warnings() as a convenience
6315 wrapper for warnings.catch_warnings() that makes it easier to check
6316 that expected warning messages are being reported.
6317
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfeb8cad2008-09-06 20:53:51 +00006318- Issue #3796: Some tests functions were not enabled in test_float.
6319
6320- Issue #3768: Move test_py3kwarn over to the new API for catch_warnings().
Brett Cannona0b74442008-09-03 22:45:11 +00006321
Brett Cannoncdeb24b2008-09-05 22:59:17 +00006322Build
6323-----
6324
Martin v. Löwisab0b29b2008-09-13 08:11:57 +00006325- Issue #3833: Use a different upgrade code for Win64 installers.
6326
Martin v. Löwis3f5fda82008-09-08 13:50:10 +00006327- Issue #2271: Set SecureCustomProperties so that installation will properly
6328 use the TARGETDIR even for unprivileged users.
6329
Martin v. Löwis67543a92008-09-08 12:02:45 +00006330- Allow passing the MSI file name to merge.py.
6331
Vinay Sajip844f7412008-09-09 13:42:08 +00006332- Issue #3758: Rename the 'check' target to 'patchcheck' so as to not clash
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfeb8cad2008-09-06 20:53:51 +00006333 with GNU build target guidelines.
Brett Cannoncdeb24b2008-09-05 22:59:17 +00006334
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00006335
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00006336What's New in Python 2.6 beta 3?
6337================================
6338
Barry Warsaw07a4a382008-08-21 01:15:08 +00006339*Release date: 20-Aug-2008*
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00006340
6341Core and Builtins
6342-----------------
6343
Guido van Rossumf8402962008-08-20 15:01:50 +00006344- Issue #1878: Remove Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_VERSION_TAG from
6345 Py_TPFLAGS_DEFAULT when not building the core. This means 3rd party
6346 extensions do not automatically benefit from the class attribute
6347 cache; they will have to explicitly add Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_VERSION_TAG
6348 to their tp_flags field if they care. This is a backwards
6349 compatibility feature; in 3.0, all types will use the cache by
6350 default.
6351
Benjamin Petersonf647dc12008-08-20 01:27:30 +00006352- Keyword arguments can now follow starred arguments. (``f(a, *args,
6353 keyword=23)`` is now valid syntax.)
6354
Thomas Heller0ad5ae02008-08-19 19:25:04 +00006355- ctypes function pointers that are COM methods have a boolean True
6356 value again.
6357
Martin v. Löwisf91d46a2008-08-12 14:49:50 +00006358- Issue #3139: Make buffer-interface thread-safe wrt. PyArg_ParseTuple,
6359 by denying s# to parse objects that have a releasebuffer procedure,
6360 and introducing s*.
6361
Georg Brandl1e13ea92008-08-11 09:07:59 +00006362- Issue #3537: Fix an assertion failure when an empty but presized dict
6363 object was stored in the freelist.
6364
Mark Dickinsonb6467572008-08-04 21:30:09 +00006365- Issue #1481296: Make long(float('nan')) and int(float('nan')) raise
6366 ValueError consistently across platforms.
6367
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc39fd6722008-07-31 21:28:03 +00006368- Issue #3479: On platforms where sizeof(int) is smaller than sizeof(long)
6369 (64bit Unix, for example), unichr() would truncate its argument and return
6370 u'\x00' for unichr(2**32). Now it properly raises an OverflowError.
6371
Neal Norwitze7d8be82008-07-31 17:17:14 +00006372- Apply security patches from Apple.
6373
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc246daed2008-07-31 00:42:16 +00006374- Issue #2542: Now that issubclass() may call arbitrary code, ensure that
6375 PyErr_ExceptionMatches returns 0 when an exception occurs there.
6376
Antoine Pitrou92f82162008-07-25 22:22:08 +00006377- Issue #1819: function calls with several named parameters are now on
6378 average 35% faster (as measured by pybench).
6379
Amaury Forgeot d'Arce4921fe2008-07-21 22:00:38 +00006380- Issue #2378: An unexpected UnboundLocalError or NameError could appear when
6381 the python debugger steps into a class statement: the free variables (local
6382 variables defined in an outer scope) would be deleted from the outer scope.
6383
Gregory P. Smith0470bab2008-07-22 04:46:32 +00006384- Issue #2620: Overflow checking when allocating or reallocating memory
6385 was not always being done properly in some python types and extension
6386 modules. PyMem_MALLOC, PyMem_REALLOC, PyMem_NEW and PyMem_RESIZE have
6387 all been updated to perform better checks and places in the code that
6388 would previously leak memory on the error path when such an allocation
6389 failed have been fixed.
6390
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00006391Library
6392-------
6393
Hirokazu Yamamoto838c79f2008-08-20 13:14:07 +00006394- Issue #3612: Added some missing basic types in ctypes.wintypes.
6395
Benjamin Petersone977ad42008-08-20 01:42:01 +00006396- The methods ``is_in_tuple()``, ``is_vararg()``, and ``is_keywordarg()`` of
6397 symtable.Symbol have been deprecated for removal in 3.0 and the next release.
6398
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc351ffb82008-08-18 19:23:47 +00006399- Issue #2234: distutils failed for some versions of the cygwin compiler. The
6400 version reported by these tools does not necessarily follow the python
6401 version numbering scheme, so the module is less strict when parsing it.
6402
Nick Coghlanf70385a2008-08-18 12:42:46 +00006403- Issue #2235: Added Py3k warnings for types which will become unhashable
6404 under the stricter __hash__ inheritance rules in 3.0. Several types
6405 which did not meet the rules for hash invariants and were already
6406 unhashable in 3.0 have now been explicitly flagged as unhashable in
6407 2.6 as well (collections.Mapping, collections.Set, unittest.TestSuite,
6408 xml.dom.minidom.NamedNodeMap, numbers.Number, UserList.UserList)
6409
Brett Cannon88f801d2008-08-18 00:46:22 +00006410- Update __all__ for cookielib, csv, os, urllib2, and weakref to include things
6411 imported into the module but exposed as part of the module's API.
6412
Brett Cannon7b96f072008-08-18 00:41:11 +00006413- Remove an unneeded import of abc.ABCMeta from 'inspect'.
6414
Brett Cannon46225e72008-08-18 00:36:52 +00006415- Remove unneeded imports of 'sys' and 'warnings' from 'io'.
6416
Brett Cannon25c9d6a2008-08-17 22:10:11 +00006417- Remove unneeded imports of 'warnings' from shelve, filecmp, and dummy_thread.
6418
Hirokazu Yamamoto41a81eb2008-08-17 13:10:46 +00006419- Issue #3575: Incremental decoder's decode function now takes bytearray
6420 by using 's*' instead of 't#'.
6421
Mark Dickinson3e4caeb2009-02-21 20:27:01 +00006422- Issue #2222: Fixed reference leak when occurred os.rename()
Hirokazu Yamamoto7f30a682008-08-17 09:46:56 +00006423 fails unicode conversion on 2nd parameter. (windows only)
6424
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00006425- Issue #2464: urllib2 now supports a malformation in the URL received
Facundo Batista94f243a2008-08-17 03:38:39 +00006426 in a redirect.
6427
Brett Cannonabe423e2008-08-16 21:47:07 +00006428- Silence the DeprecationWarning raised when importing mimetools in
Brett Cannon721b1452008-08-16 22:00:27 +00006429 BaseHTTPServer, cgi (and rfc822), httplib.
Brett Cannonabe423e2008-08-16 21:47:07 +00006430
Facundo Batistaeb90b782008-08-16 14:44:07 +00006431- Issue #2776: fixed small issue when handling an URL with double slash
6432 after a 302 response in the case of not going through a proxy.
6433
Antoine Pitroub90a8be2008-08-15 21:03:21 +00006434- Issue #2676: in the email package, content-type parsing was hanging on
6435 pathological input because of quadratic or exponential behaviour of a
6436 regular expression.
6437
Antoine Pitrou11ec65d2008-08-14 21:04:30 +00006438- Issue #3476: binary buffered reading through the new "io" library is now
6439 thread-safe.
6440
Brett Cannonbf3157b2008-08-14 05:00:03 +00006441- Silence the DeprecationWarning of rfc822 when it is imported by mimetools
6442 since mimetools itself is deprecated. Because modules are cached, all
6443 subsequent imports of rfc822 will not raise a visible DeprecationWarning.
6444
Antoine Pitrou9fcd4b32008-08-11 17:21:36 +00006445- Issue #3134: shutil referenced undefined WindowsError symbol.
6446
Robert Schuppenies14646332008-08-10 11:01:53 +00006447- Issue #1342811: Fix leak in Tkinter.Menu.delete. Commands associated to
6448 menu entries were not deleted.
6449
Brett Cannon83e81842008-08-09 23:30:55 +00006450- Copied the implementation of reduce() to _functools.reduce() to have a
6451 version that did not raise a DeprecationWarning under -3.
6452
Antoine Pitrou76b8bee2008-08-09 17:27:23 +00006453- Issue #3205: When iterating over a BZ2File fails allocating memory, raise
6454 a MemoryError rather than silently stop the iteration.
6455
Guido van Rossum59ce9012008-08-09 14:55:34 +00006456- Issue #3487: sre "bytecode" validator. Passing invalid "re-bytecode"
6457 to _sre.compile() will now be rejected. This should not affect anybody
6458 since the re.compile() function never generates invalid re-bytecode.
6459
Skip Montanaroa032bf42008-08-08 22:52:51 +00006460- Issue #3436: Make csv.DictReader's fieldnames attribute a property so that
6461 upon first access it can be automatically initialized from the csv file if
6462 it wasn't initialized during instantiation.
6463
Brett Cannon3aa2a492008-08-06 22:28:09 +00006464- Issue #2338: Create imp.reload() to help with transitioning to Python 3.0 as
6465 the reload() built-in has been removed.
6466
Brett Cannon7e30b672008-08-04 21:52:25 +00006467- Changed code in the following modules/packages to remove warnings raised
Brett Cannonc1b76e42008-08-09 23:06:16 +00006468 while running under the ``-3`` flag: aifc, asynchat, asyncore, bdb, bsddb,
Brett Cannon047e4a92008-08-17 04:16:04 +00006469 ConfigParser, cookielib, csv, difflib, distutils, DocXMLRPCServer, email,
6470 filecmp, fileinput, inspect, logging, modulefinder, pdb, pickle, profile,
6471 pstats, pydoc, re, rlcompleter, SimpleXMLRPCServer, shelve, socket,
6472 subprocess, sqlite3, tarfile, Tkinter, test.test_support, textwrap,
6473 threading, tokenize, traceback, urlparse, wsgiref, xml, xmlrpclib.
Brett Cannon7e30b672008-08-04 21:52:25 +00006474
Lars Gustäbel727bd0b2008-08-02 11:26:39 +00006475- Issue #3039: Fix tarfile.TarFileCompat.writestr() which always
6476 raised an AttributeError.
6477
Benjamin Peterson01a24322008-07-28 23:35:27 +00006478- Issue #2523: Fix quadratic behaviour when read()ing a binary file without
Antoine Pitroude781a42008-08-09 12:43:23 +00006479 asking for a specific length. This problem only affected files opened
6480 using the new "io" module, not the built-in open() function.
Benjamin Peterson01a24322008-07-28 23:35:27 +00006481
Mark Dickinsonfe84cce2008-07-27 06:39:07 +00006482- Issue #3449: Update decimal module to use most recent specification
6483 (v. 1.68) and tests (v. 2.58) from IBM.
6484
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00006485- Issue #3437: Bug fix in robotparser parsing of Allow: lines.
Skip Montanarof9ac43f2008-07-27 00:50:41 +00006486
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00006487- Issue #1592: Improve error reporting when operations are attempted
Raymond Hettinger8c664e82008-07-25 18:43:33 +00006488 on a closed shelf.
6489
Georg Brandlf9efabb2008-07-23 15:16:45 +00006490- Deprecate the "ast" parser function aliases.
6491
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00006492- Issue #3120: On 64-bit Windows the subprocess module was truncating handles.
6493
6494- Issue #3303: Fix a crash in locale.strcoll() when calling it with
6495 invalid arguments.
6496
6497- Issue #3302: Fix several crashes when calling locale's gettext functions
6498 with None arguments.
6499
6500- Issue #3389: Allow resolving dotted names for handlers in logging
6501 configuration files.
6502
6503- Deprecate the sunaudio module for removal in Python 3.0.
6504
Antoine Pitrou5fdfa3e2008-07-25 19:42:26 +00006505- Issue #3394: zipfile.writestr sets external attributes when passed a
6506 file name rather than a ZipInfo instance, so files are extracted with
6507 mode 0600 rather than 000 under Unix.
6508
Gregory P. Smitha36f8fe2008-08-04 00:13:29 +00006509- Issue #1857: subprocess.Popen.poll gained an additional _deadstate keyword
6510 argument in python 2.5, this broke code that subclassed Popen to include its
6511 own poll method. Fixed my moving _deadstate to an _internal_poll method.
6512
Martin v. Löwis8dbf3642008-08-01 14:10:26 +00006513Build
6514-----
6515
6516- Generate the PatternGrammar pickle during "make install".
6517
Nick Coghlan2a0c2b12008-08-04 12:47:17 +00006518Documentation
6519-------------
6520
Nick Coghlan6e8fef02008-08-18 13:14:22 +00006521- Issue #2235: the C API function PyObject_HashNotImplemented and its
6522 interaction with the tp_hash slot (added in 2.6b2) are now documented
6523
Nick Coghlan2a0c2b12008-08-04 12:47:17 +00006524- Issue #643841: The language reference now provides more detailed
6525 coverage of the lookup process for special methods. The disclaimers
6526 regarding lack of coverage of new-style classes have also been
6527 removed, since the coverage is now fairly reasonable.
6528
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00006529
Raymond Hettingere3ae6552008-06-20 04:18:15 +00006530What's New in Python 2.6 beta 2?
6531================================
6532
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00006533*Release date: 17-Jul-2008*
6534
Raymond Hettingere3ae6552008-06-20 04:18:15 +00006535Core and Builtins
6536-----------------
6537
Georg Brandl3e483f62008-07-16 22:57:41 +00006538- Issue #3156: Fix inconsistent behavior of the bytearray type: all
6539 its methods now allow for items objects that can be converted to
6540 an integer using operator.index().
6541
Mark Dickinson64b7e502008-07-16 09:40:03 +00006542- Issue #3360: Fix incorrect parsing of '020000000000.0', which
6543 produced a ValueError instead of giving the correct float.
6544
Eric Smitha5fa5a22008-07-16 00:11:49 +00006545- Issue #3083: Add alternate (#) formatting for bin, oct, hex output
6546 for str.format(). This adds the prefix 0b, 0o, or 0x, respectively.
6547
Mark Dickinson7103aa42008-07-15 19:08:33 +00006548- Issue #3008: the float type has a new instance method 'float.hex'
6549 and a new class method 'float.fromhex' to convert floating-point
6550 numbers to and from hexadecimal strings, respectively.
6551
Nick Coghlan6d6bd442008-07-15 15:40:22 +00006552- Issue #2235: __hash__ is once again inherited by default. To allow
6553 collections.Hashable to remain meaningful in the presence of the
6554 default hash implementation (object.__hash__), it is now possible
6555 to explicit block inheritance of hash by setting __hash__=None at
6556 the Python level, or tp_hash=PyObject_HashNotImplemented at the C
6557 level.
6558
Nick Coghlanb028f502008-07-13 14:52:36 +00006559- Issue #3221: Issue a RuntimeWarning instead of raising SystemError if
6560 the parent module cannot be found while performing an absolute import.
6561 This means that an incorrectly defined __package__ attribute will
6562 now only prevent relative imports in that module rather than causing
6563 all imports from that module to fail.
6564
Nick Coghlan14ff9942008-07-08 14:21:42 +00006565- Issue #2517: Allow unicode messages in Exceptions again by correctly
6566 bypassing the instance dictionary when looking up __unicode__ on
6567 new-style classes.
6568
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbdd941f2008-07-01 20:38:04 +00006569- Issue #3242: Fix a crash inside the print statement, if sys.stdout is
6570 set to a custom object whose write() method happens to install
6571 another file in sys.stdout.
6572
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc1f40c8a2008-06-30 22:42:40 +00006573- Issue #3088: Corrected a race condition in classes derived from
6574 threading.local: the first member set by a thread could be saved in
6575 another thread's dictionary.
6576
Mark Dickinson1ec2fcd2008-06-20 14:53:43 +00006577- Issue #3004: Minor change to slice.indices(): the start and stop
6578 arguments are now treated identically, making the behaviour easier
6579 to describe and understand. For example, slice(None, -10,
6580 1).indices(9) now returns (0, 0, 1) instead of (0, -1, 1), and
6581 slice(None, 10, -1).indices(10) returns (9, 9, -1) instead of (9,
6582 10, -1).
6583
Georg Brandl278fc502008-07-19 12:46:12 +00006584- Issue #3219: Calling a function with repeated keyword arguments,
6585 f(a=2, a=23), would not cause a syntax error. This was a regression
6586 from 2.4 caused by the switch to the new compiler.
Benjamin Peterson175e4d92008-07-01 19:34:52 +00006587
Georg Brandl278fc502008-07-19 12:46:12 +00006588- Issue #2862: Make int and float freelist management consistent with
6589 other freelists. Changes their CompactFreeList apis into
6590 ClearFreeList apis and calls them via gc.collect().
Gregory P. Smith2fe77062008-07-06 03:35:58 +00006591
Brett Cannon8bb8fa52008-07-02 01:57:08 +00006592Library
6593-------
6594
Thomas Heller57adf222008-08-14 19:10:48 +00006595- Issue #3554: ctypes.string_at and ctypes.wstring_at did call Python
6596 api functions without holding the GIL, which could lead to a fatal
6597 error when they failed.
6598
Martin v. Löwisaabf4042008-08-02 07:20:25 +00006599- Issue #799428: Fix Tkinter.Misc._nametowidget to unwrap Tcl command objects.
6600
Jesse Noller7fb96402008-07-17 21:01:05 +00006601- Issue #3395: fix reference in test_multiprocessing to old debugInfo method
6602
Georg Brandla24869a2008-07-16 22:33:18 +00006603- Issue #3312: Fix two crashes in sqlite3.
6604
Georg Brandl86cbf812008-07-16 21:31:41 +00006605- Issue #1608818: Fix misbehavior in os.listdir() if readdir() fails.
6606
Jesse Noller13e9d582008-07-16 14:32:36 +00006607- Issue #3125: Remove copy_reg in multiprocessing and replace it with
6608 ForkingPickler.register() to resolve conflict with ctypes.
6609
Vinay Sajip51e65192008-07-18 09:01:10 +00006610- Issue #3090: Fixed ARCHFLAGS parsing on OS/X
Jesse Noller13e9d582008-07-16 14:32:36 +00006611
Thomas Heller880f5292008-07-15 19:39:38 +00006612- Issue #3313: Fixed a crash when a failed dlopen() call does not set
6613 a valid dlerror() message.
6614
Thomas Heller2bad6572008-07-15 17:19:50 +00006615- Issue #3258: Fixed a crash when a ctypes POINTER type to an
6616 incomplete structure was created.
6617
Brett Cannon3d0b9f02008-07-13 01:15:07 +00006618- Issue #3339: dummy_thread.acquire() should not return None.
6619
Raymond Hettingerb01713e2008-07-10 14:34:57 +00006620- Issue #3285: Fractions from_float() and from_decimal() accept Integral arguments.
6621
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00006622- Issue #3301: Bisect module behaved badly when lo was negative.
Raymond Hettinger3cd1e422008-07-10 14:03:19 +00006623
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc0f7cddc2008-07-06 21:34:39 +00006624- Issue #839496: SimpleHTTPServer used to open text files in text mode. This is
6625 both unnecessary (HTTP allows text content to be sent in several forms) and
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00006626 wrong because the actual transmitted size could differ from the
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc0f7cddc2008-07-06 21:34:39 +00006627 content-length. The problem had been corrected in the 2.4 branch, but never
6628 merged into trunk.
6629
Georg Brandle78fbcc2008-07-05 10:13:36 +00006630- Issue #2663: add filtering capability to shutil.copytree().
6631
Martin v. Löwis8c436412008-07-03 12:51:14 +00006632- Issue #1622: Correct interpretation of various ZIP header fields.
6633
6634- Issue #1526: Allow more than 64k files to be added to Zip64 file.
6635
6636- Issue #1746: Correct handling of zipfile archive comments (previously
6637 archives with comments over 4k were flagged as invalid). Allow writing
Vinay Sajip51e65192008-07-18 09:01:10 +00006638 Zip files with archives by setting the 'comment' attribute of a ZipFile.
Martin v. Löwis8c436412008-07-03 12:51:14 +00006639
Vinay Sajip51e65192008-07-18 09:01:10 +00006640- Issue #449227: The rlcompleter module now adds "(" to callable objects
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00006641 when completed.
Facundo Batista66c52772008-07-02 16:52:55 +00006642
Nick Coghlanc060b0e2008-07-02 13:09:19 +00006643- Issue #3190: Pydoc now hides the automatic module attribute __package__ (the
6644 handling is now the same as that of other special attributes like __name__).
6645
Brett Cannon8bb8fa52008-07-02 01:57:08 +00006646- Issue #2885 (partial): The urllib.urlopen() function has been deprecated for
6647 removal in Python 3.0 in favor of urllib2.urlopen().
6648
Gregory P. Smithf4140642008-07-06 07:16:40 +00006649- Issue #2113: Fix error in subprocess.Popen if the select system call is
6650 interrupted by a signal.
6651
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00006652- Issue #3309: Fix bz2.BZFile iterator to release its internal lock
Gregory P. Smith3b1e6b22008-07-07 04:31:58 +00006653 properly when raising an exception due to the bz2file being closed.
6654 Prevents a deadlock.
6655
Gregory P. Smithc4691ec2008-07-07 05:09:12 +00006656- Issue #3094: httplib.HTTPSConnection Host: headers no longer include the
6657 redundant ":443" port number designation when the connection is using the
6658 default https port (443).
6659
Gregory P. Smithdb3409c2008-07-17 03:13:05 +00006660- Issue #874900: after an os.fork() call the threading module state is cleaned
6661 up in the child process to prevent deadlock and report proper thread counts
6662 if the new process uses the threading module.
6663
Nick Coghlan38469e22008-07-13 12:23:47 +00006664Tests
6665-----
6666
6667- test.test_support.catch_warning now keeps track of all warnings it sees
6668 and is now better documented. Explicit unit tests for this context manager
6669 have been added to test_warnings.
6670
Martin v. Löwisd84fd952008-06-30 06:57:39 +00006671Build
6672-----
6673
6674- Issue #3215: Build sqlite3 as sqlite3.dll, not sqlite3.pyd.
6675
Brett Cannon8bb8fa52008-07-02 01:57:08 +00006676
Brett Cannon97aa1ae2008-07-11 00:12:52 +00006677Documentation
6678-------------
6679
Brett Cannonfeef51d2008-07-11 00:50:01 +00006680- Document that robotparser has been renamed to urllib.robotparser in
Brett Cannon963ffdb2008-07-11 00:48:57 +00006681 Python 3.0.
6682
Brett Cannonf6afa332008-07-11 00:16:30 +00006683- Document that urlparse has been renamed to urllib.parse in Python 3.0.
6684
Brett Cannon97aa1ae2008-07-11 00:12:52 +00006685- Document that urllib2 is split across multiple modules and renamed in
6686 Python 3.0.
6687
6688- Document that urllib is split across multiple modules and renamed in
6689 Python 3.0.
6690
6691
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00006692What's New in Python 2.6 beta 1?
6693================================
6694
Barry Warsawb5d17402008-06-19 01:48:07 +00006695*Release date: 18-June-2008*
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00006696
6697Core and Builtins
6698-----------------
6699
Brett Cannondea1b562008-06-27 00:31:13 +00006700- Issue #3211: warnings.warn_explicit() did not guard against its 'registry'
6701 argument being anything other than a dict or None. Also fixed a bug in error
6702 handling when 'message' and 'category' were both set to None, triggering a
6703 bus error.
6704
Amaury Forgeot d'Arca8919fe2008-06-16 19:12:42 +00006705- Issue #3100: Corrected a crash on deallocation of a subclassed weakref which
6706 holds the last (strong) reference to its referent.
6707
Georg Brandl89f48872008-06-11 18:55:38 +00006708- Add future_builtins.ascii().
6709
Raymond Hettinger5c4d3d02008-06-09 13:07:27 +00006710- Several set methods now accept multiple arguments: update(), union(),
Raymond Hettinger4267be62008-06-11 10:30:54 +00006711 intersection(), intersection_update(), difference(), and difference_update().
Raymond Hettingeree4bcad2008-06-09 08:33:37 +00006712
Robert Schuppenies51df0642008-06-01 16:16:17 +00006713- Issue #2898: Added sys.getsizeof() to retrieve size of objects in bytes.
6714
Martin v. Löwis99815892008-06-01 07:20:46 +00006715- New environment variable PYTHONIOENCODING.
6716
Martin v. Löwis4dd019f2008-05-20 08:11:19 +00006717- Patch #2488: Add sys.maxsize.
6718
Georg Brandla9916b52008-05-17 22:11:54 +00006719- Issue #2353: file.xreadlines() now emits a Py3k warning.
6720
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006721- Issue #2863: generators now have a ``gen.__name__`` attribute that
6722 equals ``gen.gi_code.co_name``, like ``func.__name___`` that equals
6723 ``func.func_code.co_name``. The repr() of a generator now also
6724 contains this name.
Georg Brandlc91210c2008-05-15 15:08:32 +00006725
Georg Brandlbd85eb12008-05-14 06:34:15 +00006726- Issue #2831: enumerate() now has a ``start`` argument.
6727
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006728- Issue #2801: fix bug in the float.is_integer method where a
6729 ValueError was sometimes incorrectly raised.
Mark Dickinsone81c3762008-05-09 16:14:15 +00006730
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006731- Issue #2790: sys.flags was not properly exposing its bytes_warning
6732 attribute.
Brett Cannon3c1d50a2008-05-08 20:23:54 +00006733
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006734- Issue #2196: hasattr() now lets exceptions which do not inherit
6735 Exception (KeyboardInterrupt, and SystemExit) propagate instead of
6736 ignoring them.
Benjamin Petersonb9030f42008-05-12 00:41:23 +00006737
Gregory P. Smith9d534572008-06-11 07:41:16 +00006738- Added checks for integer overflows, contributed by Google. Some are
6739 only available if asserts are left in the code, in cases where they
6740 can't be triggered from Python code.
6741
6742
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00006743Extension Modules
6744-----------------
Guido van Rossum84b1e0f2008-08-20 14:57:20 +00006745- Issue #1179: [CVE-2007-4965] Integer overflow in imageop module.
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00006746
Raymond Hettinger305480c2008-06-16 01:42:40 +00006747- Issue #3116: marshal.dumps() had quadratic behavior for strings > 32Mb.
6748
Andrew M. Kuchling2126bab2008-06-22 13:39:11 +00006749- Issue #2138: Add factorial() to the math module.
Raymond Hettingerecbdd2e2008-06-09 06:54:45 +00006750
Raymond Hettinger6d7702e2008-05-31 03:24:31 +00006751- The heapq module does comparisons using LT instead of LE. This
6752 makes its implementation match that used by list.sort().
6753
Mark Dickinson99dfe922008-05-23 01:35:30 +00006754- Issue #2819: add full-precision summation function to math module,
6755 based on Hettinger's ASPN Python Cookbook recipe.
6756
Georg Brandl88659b02008-05-20 08:40:43 +00006757- Issue #2592: delegate nb_index and the floor/truediv slots in
6758 weakref.proxy.
6759
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006760- Support os.O_ASYNC and fcntl.FASYNC if the constants exist on the
6761 platform.
Georg Brandl5049a852008-05-16 13:10:15 +00006762
Brett Cannon044616a2008-05-15 02:33:55 +00006763- Support for Windows 9x has been removed from the winsound module.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcf9b54c22008-05-12 21:30:24 +00006764
Jesus Cea09c01782008-09-28 23:24:19 +00006765- bsddb module updated to version 4.7.3.
Jesus Cea4907d272008-08-31 14:00:51 +00006766 http://www.jcea.es/programacion/pybsddb.htm#bsddb3-4.7.3. This
6767 code should be compatible with Python 3.0.
Jesus Ceaef9764f2008-05-13 18:45:46 +00006768
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006769- Issue #2858: Fix potential memory corruption when
6770 bsddb.db.DBEnv.lock_get and other bsddb.db object constructors
6771 raised an exception.
Gregory P. Smith664782e2008-05-17 06:12:02 +00006772
Gregory P. Smith5d7d6c32008-05-25 08:32:04 +00006773- Issue #2669: bsddb/__init__.py iteration no longer silently fails when
6774 the database has changed size during iteration. It now raises a
6775 RuntimeError in the same manner as a dictionary.
6776
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006777- Issue #2870: cmathmodule.c compile error.
Christian Heimes0bd23c02008-05-16 10:23:31 +00006778
Benjamin Petersond8a89722008-08-18 16:40:03 +00006779- Added a threading.Thread.ident property.
Gregory P. Smith8856dda2008-06-01 23:48:47 +00006780
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00006781Library
6782-------
6783
Vinay Sajip1e022682008-06-29 21:27:15 +00006784- logging.config: Removed out-of-date comment in _install_handlers and
6785 used issubclass in place of equality comparison of classes.
6786
Facundo Batista5596b0c2008-06-22 13:36:20 +00006787- Issue #2722: Now the os.getcwd() supports very long path names.
6788
Facundo Batista2da91c32008-06-21 17:43:56 +00006789- Issue #2888: Fixed the behaviour of pprint when working with nested
6790 structures, to match the behaviour of 2.5 and 3.0 (now follows the common
6791 sense).
6792
Facundo Batistaa6a4d502008-06-21 18:58:04 +00006793- Issue #1817: cgi now correctly handles the querystring on POST requests
6794
Vinay Sajip8dc20fd2008-06-19 22:41:08 +00006795- Issue #3136: fileConfig()'s disabling of old loggers is now conditional via
6796 an optional disable_existing_loggers parameter, but the default value is
6797 such that the old behaviour is preserved. Thanks to Leandro Lucarella for
6798 the patch.
6799
Vinay Sajip9828b7e2008-06-17 11:04:02 +00006800- Issue #3126: StreamHandler and FileHandler check before calling "flush" and
6801 "close" that the stream object has these, using hasattr (thanks to bobf for
6802 the patch).
6803
Benjamin Peterson5c0be322008-06-13 15:11:50 +00006804- Issue #2912: platform.uname now tries to determine unknown information even if
6805 os.uname exists.
6806
Benjamin Peterson26305a02008-06-12 22:33:06 +00006807- The rfc822 module has been deprecated for removal in 3.0.
6808
Benjamin Petersona03722f2008-06-12 14:23:49 +00006809- The mimetools module has been deprecated for removal in 3.0.
6810
Thomas Heller1cec7aa2008-06-10 14:07:12 +00006811- The ctypes.byref function now takes an optional second parameter
6812 which allows to specify an offset in bytes for the constructed
6813 pointer-like object.
6814
Georg Brandl8509db52008-06-10 07:45:28 +00006815- Added the ast module.
6816
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00006817- Added the multiprocessing module, PEP 371.
Benjamin Peterson6f7ae692008-06-11 20:04:30 +00006818
Georg Brandl7be19aa2008-06-07 15:59:10 +00006819- Factored out the indentation cleaning from inspect.getdoc() into
6820 inspect.cleandoc() to ease standalone use.
6821
Thomas Hellerfbb9c0b2008-06-06 08:33:46 +00006822- Issue #1798: Add ctypes calling convention that allows safe access
6823 to errno.
6824
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00006825- Issue #2404: ctypes objects support the new pep3118 buffer interface.
Thomas Heller59475e92008-06-05 17:52:59 +00006826
Vinay Sajip9828b7e2008-06-17 11:04:02 +00006827- Patch #2125: Add GetInteger and GetString methods for
Martin v. Löwisffe62ed2008-06-02 08:40:06 +00006828 msilib.Record objects.
6829
Gregory P. Smith137d8242008-06-02 04:05:52 +00006830- Issue #2782: The datetime module's strftime methods now accept
6831 unicode format strings just as time.strftime always has.
6832
Georg Brandlac19d852008-06-01 21:19:14 +00006833- The sgmllib and htmllib modules have been deprecated for removal
6834 in Python 3.0.
6835
6836- Issue #3011: locale module alias table was updated to the latest
6837 version from the X.org locale.alias file.
Marc-André Lemburgadff65b2008-05-30 20:52:18 +00006838
Thomas Heller9287acf2008-05-29 19:42:34 +00006839- Issue #1797 (partial fix): ctypes NULL function pointers have a
6840 False boolean value now.
6841
Georg Brandld0b592f2008-05-29 07:45:26 +00006842- Issue #2985: Allow 64-bit integer responses (``<i8>``) in XMLRPC
6843 transfers.
6844
6845- Issue #2877: The UserString.MutableString class has been removed in
6846 Python 3.0.
Brett Cannonabb34fe2008-05-29 05:08:50 +00006847
Lars Gustäbelb1a54a32008-05-27 12:39:23 +00006848- Do not close external file objects passed to tarfile.open(mode='w:bz2')
6849 when the TarFile is closed.
6850
Georg Brandle08e3d02008-05-25 08:07:37 +00006851- Issue #2959: For consistency with other file-like objects, gzip's
6852 GzipFile.close() can now be called multiple times without raising
6853 an exception.
6854
Martin v. Löwis27e4a172008-05-23 15:18:28 +00006855- Issue #1390: Raise ValueError in toxml when an invalid comment would
6856 otherwise be produced.
6857
Vinay Sajipc0128832008-05-20 15:37:22 +00006858- Issue #2914: TimedRotatingFileHandler now takes an optional keyword
6859 argument "utc" to use UTC time rather than local time.
6860
6861- Issue #2929: TimedRotatingFileHandler was using the wrong path when
6862 deleting old log files (filename only instead of full path).
6863
Georg Brandl112aa502008-05-20 08:25:48 +00006864- Issue #1775025: You can now specify zipfile members to open(),
6865 read() or extract() via a ZipInfo instance. This allows handling
6866 duplicate filenames in zipfiles.
6867
Georg Brandl28fdfa92008-05-17 17:57:01 +00006868- Issue #961805: Fix Text.edit_modified() in Tkinter.
6869
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006870- Issue #1793: Function ctypes.util.find_msvcrt() added that returns
Thomas Heller95ba13f2008-05-16 20:06:31 +00006871 the name of the C runtime library that Python uses.
6872 ctypes.util.find_library(name) now call this function when name is
6873 'm' or 'c'.
6874
Brett Cannonfa40bbf2008-05-16 00:50:02 +00006875- The statvfs module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
6876
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006877- The sunaudiodev and SUNAUDIODEV modules have been deprecated for
6878 removal in Python 3.0.
6879
6880- The WAIT module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
6881 3.0.
6882
6883- The torgb module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
6884 3.0.
6885
6886- The SV module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
6887 3.0.
6888
6889- The readcd module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
Brett Cannon22248172008-05-16 00:10:24 +00006890 Python 3.0.
6891
Brett Cannon11ae6e72008-05-15 03:49:00 +00006892- The panelparser module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
6893 Python 3.0.
6894
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006895- The panel module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
6896 3.0.
Brett Cannon7e375862008-05-15 03:46:27 +00006897
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006898- The jpeg module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
6899 3.0.
Brett Cannon89f5d9c2008-05-15 03:44:00 +00006900
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006901- The IOCTL module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
6902 3.0.
Brett Cannond8c41ec2008-05-15 03:41:55 +00006903
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006904- The IN module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
6905 3.0.
Brett Cannon6328b292008-05-15 03:36:13 +00006906
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006907- The imgfile module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
Brett Cannon178582e2008-05-15 03:20:36 +00006908 Python 3.0.
6909
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006910- The GLWS module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
6911 3.0.
Brett Cannon72ccc402008-05-15 03:17:24 +00006912
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006913- The GET module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
6914 3.0.
Brett Cannon2773b6f2008-05-15 03:14:57 +00006915
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006916- The fm module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
6917 3.0.
6918
6919- The FL, flp, and fl modules from IRIX have been deprecated for
6920 removal in Python 3.0.
6921
6922- The FILE module on IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
6923 3.0.
6924
6925- The ERRNO module on IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
6926 3.0.
6927
6928- The DEVICE, GL, gl, and cgen modules (which indirectly includes
6929 cgensupport) have been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
Brett Cannon044616a2008-05-15 02:33:55 +00006930
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006931- The CL, CL_old, and cl modules for IRIX have been deprecated for
6932 removal in Python 3.0.
6933
6934- The cdplayer module for IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
Brett Cannon650f5162008-05-14 21:12:12 +00006935 Python 3.0.
6936
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006937- The cddb module for IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
6938 3.0.
Brett Cannon9eebe492008-05-14 20:34:22 +00006939
Brett Cannonddf949f2008-05-14 20:31:38 +00006940- The cd and CD modules for IRIX have been deprecated for removal in
6941 Python 3.0.
6942
Brett Cannon34721d52008-05-14 01:08:21 +00006943- The al and AL modules for IRIX have been deprecated for removal in
6944 Python 3.0.
6945
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006946- Issue #1713041: fix pprint's handling of maximum depth.
Georg Brandl23da6e62008-05-12 16:26:52 +00006947
Brett Cannonbb141bb2008-05-12 03:47:47 +00006948- The timing module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
6949
Brett Cannonac861b52008-05-12 03:45:59 +00006950- The sv module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
6951
Brett Cannon43e5ef42008-05-12 03:19:20 +00006952- The multifile module has been deprecated as per PEP 4.
6953
Brett Cannon42bfa902008-05-12 00:08:34 +00006954- The imageop module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
6955
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006956- Issue #2250: Exceptions raised during evaluation of names in
6957 rlcompleter's ``Completer.complete()`` method are now caught and
6958 ignored.
Georg Brandl627a6662008-05-11 21:03:42 +00006959
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006960- Issue #2659: Added ``break_on_hyphens`` option to textwrap
6961 TextWrapper class.
Georg Brandl6f95ae52008-05-11 10:42:28 +00006962
Brett Cannon2a869132008-05-11 03:01:47 +00006963- The mhlib module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
6964
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006965- The linuxaudiodev module has been deprecated for removal in Python
6966 3.0.
Brett Cannondf0a7172008-05-11 00:50:51 +00006967
Brett Cannon27508d42008-05-10 22:45:07 +00006968- The ihooks module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
6969
Brett Cannonfe598512008-05-10 22:11:45 +00006970- The fpformat module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
6971
Brett Cannone35a3a12008-05-10 21:22:43 +00006972- The dl module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
6973
Brett Cannond5a09852008-05-10 03:14:32 +00006974- The Canvas module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
6975
Brett Cannon6192df12008-05-10 02:58:26 +00006976- The compiler package has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
6977
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006978- The Bastion and rexec modules have been deprecated for removal in
6979 Python 3.0.
Brett Cannoncda73a42008-05-10 02:53:46 +00006980
Brett Cannon768d44f2008-05-10 02:47:54 +00006981- The bsddb185 module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
6982
Brett Cannon9ac39742008-05-09 22:51:58 +00006983- The pure module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
6984
Mark Dickinsonf8476c12008-05-09 17:54:23 +00006985- Issue #2487: change the semantics of math.ldexp(x, n) when n is too
6986 large to fit in a C long. ldexp(x, n) now returns a zero (with
6987 suitable sign) if n is large and negative; previously, it raised
6988 OverflowError.
6989
Brett Cannonfa24d9a2008-05-09 05:32:42 +00006990- The toaiff module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
6991
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006992- The test.testall module has been deprecated for removal in Python
6993 3.0.
Brett Cannon3c759142008-05-09 05:25:37 +00006994
Brett Cannond7265d62008-05-09 05:18:40 +00006995- The new module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
6996
Brett Cannone3b19402008-05-08 20:36:09 +00006997- The user module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
6998
Brett Cannon6071cc82008-05-08 19:52:45 +00006999- The stringold module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
7000
7001- The mutex module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
Brett Cannon9d441822008-05-08 19:26:08 +00007002
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00007003- The imputil module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
7004
Brett Cannoncae4f5f2008-05-08 20:24:43 +00007005- test.test_support.catch_warning() gained a 'record' argument.
7006
Benjamin Peterson0893a0a2008-05-09 00:27:01 +00007007- os.path.walk is deprecated in favor of os.walk.
7008
Georg Brandl9020ff82008-05-11 14:17:13 +00007009- pdb gained the "until" command.
Benjamin Peterson98353942008-05-11 14:13:25 +00007010
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007011- The Mac Modules (including Carbon) have been deprecated for removal
7012 in Python 3.0.
Benjamin Peterson23681932008-05-12 21:42:13 +00007013
Vinay Sajip9828b7e2008-06-17 11:04:02 +00007014- Library: on MacOS X you can now set ``ARCHFLAGS`` in the shell
Ronald Oussoren5640ce22008-06-05 12:58:24 +00007015 environment to control the '-arch' flags that are used to build
7016 an extension. This was added for compatibility with Apple's build
7017 of Python.
7018
7019- The bundled OSX-specific copy of libbffi is now in sync with the version
7020 shipped with PyObjC 2.0 and includes support for x86_64 and ppc64 platforms.
7021
Georg Brandl25c34082008-08-18 23:09:49 +00007022- The threading module gained aliases for names that will be removed in the
7023 3.x series.
Benjamin Peterson0fbcf692008-06-11 17:27:50 +00007024
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00007025Build
7026-----
7027
Martin v. Löwiscc0f2b22008-06-13 18:12:51 +00007028- 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 +00007029
Martin v. Löwis8c255e42008-05-23 15:06:50 +00007030- Patch #1722225: Support QNX 6.
7031
Brett Cannonb61d8012008-05-11 23:39:04 +00007032- ``Lib/lib-old`` is now added to sys.path.
7033
Ronald Oussoren5640ce22008-06-05 12:58:24 +00007034- On MacOS X it is now possible to install the framework in 64-bit
7035 mode or even as a 4-way universal binary (that is, PPC, i386,
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00007036 PPC64 and x86_64 support in one binary).
Ronald Oussoren5640ce22008-06-05 12:58:24 +00007037
7038 This is controlled by the configure argument ``--with-universal-archs``:
7039
7040 - ``--with-universal-archs=all``: install 4-way universal
7041
7042 - ``--with-universal-archs=32-bit``: install 2-way universal, 32-bit (the default)
7043
7044 - ``--with-universal-archs=64-bit``: install 2-way universal, 64-bit
7045
7046 This option should be used in combination with ``--enable-universalsdk=``.
7047
7048 NOTE: 64-bit and 4-way builds are only suppported on Mac OS X 10.5 (or later).
7049
7050
Christian Heimes7a990612008-05-26 13:15:11 +00007051C API
7052-----
7053
Georg Brandl74a1dea2008-05-28 11:21:39 +00007054- Add ``PyType_Modified()`` as a public API to clear the type cache.
7055
7056- The PyBytes functions have been renamed to PyByteArray.
Christian Heimes7a990612008-05-26 13:15:11 +00007057
7058- The PyString functions have been renamed to PyBytes. A batch of
7059 defines were added so that the linker still sees the original
7060 PyString names.
7061
Georg Brandl5e7b1c02008-05-16 17:40:23 +00007062
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00007063What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 3?
Barry Warsaw65475fd2008-03-01 17:11:41 +00007064=================================
7065
Barry Warsaw6cc79402008-05-08 13:16:19 +00007066*Release date: 08-May-2008*
Barry Warsaw65475fd2008-03-01 17:11:41 +00007067
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd21fb4c2008-03-05 01:50:33 +00007068Core and builtins
7069-----------------
Georg Brandl80055f62008-03-25 07:56:27 +00007070
Georg Brandl28e08732008-04-30 19:47:09 +00007071- Issue #2719: backported the ``next()`` builtin from Python 3.
7072
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007073- Issue #2681: The octal literal ``0o8`` was incorrecly acctepted. Now
7074 it properly raises a SyntaxError.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc52167212008-04-24 18:07:05 +00007075
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007076- Issue #2617: Reserved -J and -X arguments for Jython, IronPython and
7077 other implementations of Python.
Christian Heimes7a98d272008-04-12 13:03:03 +00007078
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007079- Implemented PEP 370: Per user site-packages directory.
Christian Heimesaf748c32008-05-06 22:41:46 +00007080
Andrew M. Kuchling46d6b682008-04-30 16:19:55 +00007081Extension Modules
7082-----------------
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00007083
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007084- Issue #2670: Fix a failure in urllib2.build_opener(), when passed
7085 two handlers that derive the same default base class.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc96865852008-04-22 21:14:41 +00007086
Christian Heimese74c8f22008-04-19 02:23:57 +00007087- Added kill, terminate and send_signal(sig) to subprocess.Popen.
7088
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007089- Added phase(z) -> phi, polar(z) -> r, phi and rect(r, phi) -> z to
7090 the cmath module.
Christian Heimes6f341092008-04-18 23:13:07 +00007091
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007092- Four new methods were added to the math and cmath modules: acosh,
7093 asinh, atanh and log1p.
Christian Heimes6f341092008-04-18 23:13:07 +00007094
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007095- zlib.decompressobj().flush(value) no longer crashes the interpreter
7096 when passed a value less than or equal to zero.
Gregory P. Smith671c5d92008-04-09 18:18:43 +00007097
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007098- Issue #1631171: Re-implement the 'warnings' module in C (the
7099 original Python code has been kept as backup). This will allow for
7100 using the 'warning's machinery in such places as the parser where
7101 use of pure Python code is not possible. Both the ``showarning()``
7102 and ``formatwarning()`` gain an optional 'line' argument which is
7103 not called by default for backwards-compatibility reasons. Setting
7104 ``warnings.showwarning()`` to an implementation that lacks support
7105 for the ``line`` argument will raise a DeprecationWarning.
Brett Cannone9746892008-04-12 23:44:07 +00007106
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00007107Library
7108-------
7109
Brett Cannonf8436822008-05-06 23:41:32 +00007110- The audiodev module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
7111
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007112- Issue #2750: Add the 'json' package. Based on simplejson 1.9 and
7113 contributed by Bob Ippolito.
Brett Cannon4b964f92008-05-05 20:21:38 +00007114
Martin v. Löwis471617d2008-05-05 17:16:58 +00007115- Issue #1734346: Support Unicode file names for zipfiles.
7116
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007117- Issue #2581: distutils: Vista UAC/elevation support for
7118 bdist_wininst.
Mark Hammond7c5c8e62008-05-02 12:48:15 +00007119
Mark Dickinsonfe536f52008-04-25 16:59:09 +00007120- Issue #2635: Fix bug in 'fix_sentence_endings' textwrap.fill option,
7121 where an extra space was added after a word containing (but not
7122 ending in) '.', '!' or '?'.
7123
Thomas Heller6ad5fbb2008-04-25 15:44:16 +00007124- Add from_buffer() and from_buffer_copy() class methods to ctypes
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00007125 data types.
Thomas Heller6ad5fbb2008-04-25 15:44:16 +00007126
Neal Norwitz2b0bea52008-04-25 03:40:17 +00007127- Issue #2682: ctypes callback functions no longer contain a cyclic
Thomas Hellerbf027c42008-04-24 18:14:19 +00007128 reference to themselves.
7129
Gregory P. Smithd59fefb2008-04-22 08:11:33 +00007130- The getpass module has been improved on Unix. It now uses /dev/tty
7131 by default and uses stderr instead of stdout. A GetPassWarning is
7132 issued when input echo cannot be controlled.
Gregory P. Smith41e30182008-04-21 21:31:08 +00007133
Skip Montanarob131f042008-04-18 20:35:46 +00007134- Issue #2014: Allow XML-RPC datetime objects to have dates before
7135 1900-01-01.
7136
Nick Coghlan106fc482008-04-15 10:25:31 +00007137- Issue #2439: Added new function pkgutil.get_data(), which is a
7138 convenience wrapper for the PEP 302 get_data() API.
7139
Thomas Heller046e6a42008-04-14 16:10:07 +00007140- Issue #2616: The ctypes.pointer() and ctypes.POINTER() functions are
7141 now implemented in C for better performance.
7142
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007143- Issue #2408: The ``_types`` module, which was used as in
7144 implementation detail of the public ``types`` module, has been
7145 removed and replaced by pure python code.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc02f33b42008-04-08 23:10:07 +00007146
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007147- Issue #2513: distutils on Windows is now capable of cross-compiling
Mark Hammond495cf992008-04-07 01:53:39 +00007148 extension modules between 32 and 64 bit platforms. See the distutls
7149 build documentation for more information.
7150
Gregory P. Smithaa63d0d2008-04-06 23:11:17 +00007151- Issue #815646: Individual file objects may now be used from multiple
7152 threads at once without fear of crashing the Python interpreter. If
7153 file.close() is called while an object is in use by another thread
7154 an IOError exception will be raised and the file will not be closed.
7155
Thomas Hellerf7906482008-04-04 19:43:25 +00007156- The bundled libffi copy is now in sync with the recently released
7157 libffi3.0.5 version, apart from some small changes to
7158 Modules/_ctypes/libffi/configure.ac.
7159
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007160- Issue #2385: distutils.core.run_script() makes __file__ available,
7161 so the controlled environment will more closely mirror the typical
7162 script environment. This supports setup.py scripts that refer to
7163 data files.
Fred Drake46c58c12008-04-04 05:41:30 +00007164
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00007165Tests
7166-----
Trent Nelsone41b0062008-04-08 23:47:30 +00007167
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007168- Issue #2550: The approach used by client/server code for obtaining
7169 ports to listen on in network-oriented tests has been refined in an
7170 effort to facilitate running multiple instances of the entire
7171 regression test suite in parallel without issue.
7172 test_support.bind_port() has been fixed such that it will always
7173 return a unique port -- which wasn't always the case with the
7174 previous implementation, especially if socket options had been set
7175 that affected address reuse (i.e. SO_REUSEADDR, SO_REUSEPORT). The
7176 new implementation of bind_port() will actually raise an exception
7177 if it is passed an AF_INET/SOCK_STREAM socket with either the
7178 SO_REUSEADDR or SO_REUSEPORT socket option set. Furthermore, if
7179 available, bind_port() will set the SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE option on
7180 the socket it's been passed. This currently only applies to
7181 Windows. This option prevents any other sockets from binding to the
7182 host/port we've bound to, thus removing the possibility of the
7183 'non-deterministic' behaviour, as Microsoft puts it, that occurs
7184 when a second SOCK_STREAM socket binds and accepts to a host/port
7185 that's already been bound by another socket. The optional preferred
7186 port parameter to bind_port() has been removed. Under no
7187 circumstances should tests be hard coding ports!
7188
7189 test_support.find_unused_port() has also been introduced, which will
7190 pass a temporary socket object to bind_port() in order to obtain an
7191 unused port. The temporary socket object is then closed and
7192 deleted, and the port is returned. This method should only be used
7193 for obtaining an unused port in order to pass to an external program
7194 (i.e. the -accept [port] argument to openssl's s_server mode) or as
7195 a parameter to a server-oriented class that doesn't give you direct
7196 access to the underlying socket used.
7197
7198 Finally, test_support.HOST has been introduced, which should be used
7199 for the host argument of any relevant socket calls (i.e. bind and
7200 connect).
Trent Nelsone41b0062008-04-08 23:47:30 +00007201
7202 The following tests were updated to following the new conventions:
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007203 test_socket, test_smtplib, test_asyncore, test_ssl, test_httplib,
Trent Nelsone41b0062008-04-08 23:47:30 +00007204 test_poplib, test_ftplib, test_telnetlib, test_socketserver,
7205 test_asynchat and test_socket_ssl.
7206
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007207 It is now possible for multiple instances of the regression test
7208 suite to run in parallel without issue.
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00007209
7210Build
7211-----
7212
Mark Dickinson65134662008-04-25 16:11:04 +00007213- Issue #1496032: On alpha, use -mieee when gcc is the compiler.
7214
Thomas Hellerdc96a772008-04-04 10:07:55 +00007215- Issue #2544: On HP-UX systems, use 'gcc -shared' for linking when
7216 gcc is used as compiler.
7217
Ronald Oussoren580c7fe2008-05-02 19:45:11 +00007218- Issue #2573: On MacOS X it is now possible to install the framework
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007219 with a different name using --with-framework-name=NAME.
Ronald Oussoren580c7fe2008-05-02 19:45:11 +00007220
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00007221C API
7222-----
7223
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007224- Added implementation of copysign, acosh, asinh, atanh and log1p to
7225 the new files Include/pymath.h and Python/pymath.h for platforms
7226 which provide the functions through their libm. The files also
7227 contains several helpers and constants for math.
Christian Heimes6f341092008-04-18 23:13:07 +00007228
Benjamin Petersondacde0d2008-05-26 17:43:53 +00007229- Added a new convenience macro, PyErr_WarnPy3k, for issuing Py3k warnings.
Benjamin Petersona692c4d2008-04-27 02:28:02 +00007230
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00007231
7232What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 2?
7233=================================
7234
7235*Release date: 02-Apr-2008*
7236
7237Core and builtins
7238-----------------
7239
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007240- Issue #1733757: The interpreter would hang on shutdown if the
7241 tracing function set by sys.settrace is still active and happens to
7242 call threading.currentThread().
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd7a26512008-04-03 23:07:55 +00007243
Georg Brandl91e0cda2008-03-29 01:50:06 +00007244- Patch #1442: properly report exceptions when the PYTHONSTARTUP file
7245 cannot be executed.
7246
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc69b747b2008-03-28 20:30:50 +00007247- The compilation of a class nested in another class used to leak one
7248 reference on the outer class name.
7249
Georg Brandlfc8eef32008-03-28 12:11:56 +00007250- Patch #1810: compile() can now compile _ast trees as returned by
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007251 ``compile(..., PyCF_ONLY_AST)``.
Georg Brandlfc8eef32008-03-28 12:11:56 +00007252
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007253- Patch #2426: Added sqlite3.Connection.iterdump method to allow easy
7254 dumping of databases. Contributed by Paul Kippes at PyCon 2008.
Gregory P. Smithb9803422008-03-28 08:32:09 +00007255
Georg Brandldeaf2ca2008-03-27 13:27:31 +00007256- Patch #2477: Added from __future__ import unicode_literals.
Christian Heimes3c608332008-03-26 22:01:37 +00007257
Christian Heimes8c78cc32008-03-26 12:53:58 +00007258- Added backport of bytearray type.
7259
Georg Brandl80055f62008-03-25 07:56:27 +00007260- Issue #2355: add Py3k warning for buffer().
7261
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc9a0d3462008-03-23 09:55:29 +00007262- Issue #1477: With narrow Unicode builds, the unicode escape sequence
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007263 \Uxxxxxxxx did not accept values outside the Basic Multilingual
7264 Plane. This affected raw unicode literals and the
7265 'raw-unicode-escape' codec. Now UTF-16 surrogates are generated in
7266 this case, like normal unicode literals and the 'unicode-escape'
7267 codec.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc9a0d3462008-03-23 09:55:29 +00007268
Georg Brandl65bb42d2008-03-21 20:38:24 +00007269- Issue #2348: add Py3k warning for file.softspace.
7270
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007271- Issue #2346/#2347: add Py3k warnings for __methods__ and
7272 __members__.
Georg Brandl07e56812008-03-21 20:21:46 +00007273
Georg Brandl5a444242008-03-21 20:11:46 +00007274- Issue #2358: Add a Py3k warning on sys.exc_clear() usage.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd21fb4c2008-03-05 01:50:33 +00007275
Martin v. Löwisa4d77892008-03-19 04:39:13 +00007276- Issue #2400: Allow relative imports to "import *".
7277
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007278- Issue #1745: Backport print function with ``from __future__ import
7279 print_function``.
Eric Smith7c478942008-03-18 23:45:49 +00007280
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007281- Issue #2332: add new attribute names for instance method objects.
7282 The two changes are: im_self -> __self__ and im_func -> __func__
Neal Norwitzb1d3d962008-03-18 04:46:00 +00007283
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007284- Issue #2379: Raise a Py3K warning for __getitem__ or __getslice__ on
Guido van Rossum6d91be32008-03-18 04:42:22 +00007285 exception instances.
7286
Guido van Rossum04edb522008-03-18 02:49:46 +00007287- Issue #2371: Add a Py3k warning when catching an exception that
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007288 doesn't derive from BaseException.
7289
7290- Issue #2341: Add a Py3k warning when raising an exception that
7291 doesn't derive from BaseException.
Guido van Rossum04edb522008-03-18 02:49:46 +00007292
Neal Norwitz419fd492008-03-17 20:22:43 +00007293- Issue #2321: use pymalloc for unicode object string data to reduce
7294 memory usage in some circumstances.
7295
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007296- PEP 3127: octal literals now start with "0o". Old-style octal
7297 literals are still valid. There are binary literals with a prefix of
7298 "0b". This also affects int(x, 0).
Eric Smith0aed07a2008-03-17 19:43:40 +00007299
Georg Brandl1e7c3752008-03-25 08:37:23 +00007300- Issue #2359: Adding deprecation warnings for array.{read,write}.
7301
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007302- Issue #1779871: GNU gcc can now build Python on OS X because the
Jeffrey Yasskin1b4e45b2008-03-17 14:40:53 +00007303 flags -Wno-long-double, -no-cpp-precomp, and -mno-fused-madd are no
7304 longer passed.
7305
Neal Norwitz400aeda2008-03-15 22:03:18 +00007306- Add a warning when asserting a non-empty tuple which is always true.
7307
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007308- Issue #2179: speed up with statement execution by storing the exit
7309 method on the stack instead of in a temporary variable (patch by
7310 Jeffrey Yaskin)
Nick Coghlan7af53be2008-03-07 14:13:28 +00007311
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007312- Issue #2238: Some syntax errors in *args and **kwargs expressions
7313 could give bogus error messages.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd21fb4c2008-03-05 01:50:33 +00007314
Sean Reifscheider68fa8e62008-03-20 00:50:07 +00007315- Issue #2143: Fix embedded readline() hang on SSL socket EOF.
7316
Andrew M. Kuchling46d6b682008-04-30 16:19:55 +00007317Extension Modules
7318-----------------
Martin v. Löwisaef18b12008-03-24 13:31:16 +00007319
7320- Patch #2240: Implement signal.setitimer and signal.getitimer.
7321
Thomas Heller78b8f442008-03-05 14:53:39 +00007322Library
7323-------
7324
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007325- Issue #2315: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now accounts
7326 for daylight savings time in calculating the next rollover.
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00007327
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007328- Issue #2316: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now
7329 calculates rollovers correctly even when nothing is logged for a
7330 while.
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00007331
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007332- Issue #2317: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now uses
7333 improved logic for removing old files.
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00007334
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007335- Issue #2495: tokenize.untokenize now inserts a space between two
7336 consecutive string literals; previously, ["" ""] was rendered as
7337 [""""], which is incorrect python code.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcda0c0252008-03-27 23:23:54 +00007338
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007339- Issue #2248: return the result of the QUIT command. from
7340 SMTP.quit().
Georg Brandldeaf2ca2008-03-27 13:27:31 +00007341
Christian Heimes8c78cc32008-03-26 12:53:58 +00007342- Backport of Python 3.0's io module.
7343
Mark Dickinson8e85ffa2008-03-25 18:47:59 +00007344- Issue #2482: Make sure that the coefficient of a Decimal is always
7345 stored as a str instance, not as a unicode instance. This ensures
7346 that str(Decimal) is always an instance of str.
7347
Mark Dickinson3b24ccb2008-03-25 14:33:23 +00007348- Issue #2478: fix failure of decimal.Decimal(0).sqrt()
7349
Georg Brandl77354cf2008-03-21 20:01:51 +00007350- Issue #2432: give DictReader the dialect and line_num attributes
7351 advertised in the docs.
7352
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007353- Issue #2460: Make Ellipsis object copyable.
Raymond Hettingerb72233c2008-03-24 08:17:39 +00007354
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007355- Issue #1681432: Add triangular distribution to the random module
Raymond Hettingerbbc50ea2008-03-23 13:32:32 +00007356
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007357- Issue #2136: urllib2's auth handler now allows single-quoted realms
7358 in the WWW-Authenticate header.
Georg Brandl33124322008-03-21 19:54:00 +00007359
Marc-André Lemburga1867752008-03-20 18:08:00 +00007360- Issue #2434: Enhanced platform.win32_ver() to also work on Python
7361 installation which do not have the win32all package installed.
7362
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007363- Added support to platform.uname() to also report the machine and
7364 processor information on Windows XP and later. As a result,
Marc-André Lemburga1867752008-03-20 18:08:00 +00007365 platform.machine() and platform.processor() will report this
7366 information as well.
7367
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007368- The library implementing the 2to3 conversion, lib2to3, was added to
7369 the standard distribution.
Martin v. Löwis5e37bae2008-03-19 04:43:46 +00007370
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007371- Issue #1747858: Fix chown to work with large uid's and gid's on
7372 64-bit platforms.
Gregory P. Smith37f3f432008-03-18 20:40:01 +00007373
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007374- Issue #1202: zlib.crc32 and zlib.adler32 no longer return different
7375 values on 32-bit vs. 64-bit python interpreters. Both were correct,
7376 but they now both return a signed integer object for consistency.
Gregory P. Smithf48f9d32008-03-17 18:48:05 +00007377
Skip Montanaro32ed8c22008-03-15 16:07:11 +00007378- Issue #1158: add %f format (fractions of a second represented as
7379 microseconds) to datetime objects. Understood by both strptime and
7380 strftime.
7381
Mark Dickinsonc23b8a72008-03-14 14:23:37 +00007382- Issue #705836: struct.pack(">f", x) now raises OverflowError on all
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007383 platforms when x is too large to fit into an IEEE 754 float;
7384 previously it only raised OverflowError on non IEEE 754 platforms.
Mark Dickinsonc23b8a72008-03-14 14:23:37 +00007385
Andrew M. Kuchlingaac5c862008-05-11 14:00:00 +00007386- Issues #2166, #1741 and #1531505: now distutils deals with HOME
7387 correctly under win32
7388
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007389- Patch #1858: distutils: added multiple server support in .pypirc
Andrew M. Kuchlingaac5c862008-05-11 14:00:00 +00007390
Facundo Batistac54aec12008-03-08 16:50:27 +00007391- Issue #1106316: pdb.post_mortem()'s parameter, "traceback", is now
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007392 optional: it defaults to the traceback of the exception that is
7393 currently being handled (is mandatory to be in the middle of an
7394 exception, otherwise it raises ValueError).
Facundo Batistac54aec12008-03-08 16:50:27 +00007395
Jeffrey Yasskine75f59a2008-03-07 06:22:15 +00007396- Issue #1193577: A .shutdown() method has been added to SocketServers
7397 which terminates the .serve_forever() loop.
7398
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007399- Issue #2220: handle rlcompleter attribute match failure more
7400 gracefully.
Georg Brandl98aa8052008-03-06 07:45:52 +00007401
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007402- Issue #2225: py_compile, when executed as a script, now returns a
7403 non- zero status code if not all files could be compiled
7404 successfully.
Georg Brandla7bd27f2008-03-06 07:41:16 +00007405
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007406- Bug #1725737: In distutils' sdist, exclude RCS, CVS etc. also in the
Georg Brandl810ea292008-03-06 07:34:52 +00007407 root directory, and also exclude .hg, .git, .bzr, and _darcs.
7408
Thomas Hellerf3c05592008-03-05 15:34:29 +00007409- Issue #1872: The struct module typecode for _Bool has been changed
7410 from 't' to '?'.
7411
Thomas Heller78b8f442008-03-05 14:53:39 +00007412- The bundled libffi copy is now in sync with the recently released
7413 libffi3.0.4 version, apart from some small changes to
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007414 Modules/_ctypes/libffi/configure.ac. On OS X, preconfigured libffi
7415 files are used. On all linux systems the --with-system-ffi
7416 configure option defaults to "yes".
Thomas Heller78b8f442008-03-05 14:53:39 +00007417
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007418- Issue #1577: shutil.move() now calls os.rename() if the destination
7419 is a directory instead of copying-then-remove-source.
Sean Reifscheider493894c2008-03-18 17:24:12 +00007420
Martin v. Löwisd2bbe522008-03-06 06:55:22 +00007421Tests
7422-----
7423
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007424- test_nis no longer fails when test.test_support.verbose is true and
7425 NIS is not set up on the testing machine.
Brett Cannon7919d982008-03-19 16:50:13 +00007426
Brett Cannona5573b32008-03-18 04:16:06 +00007427- Output comparison tests are no longer supported.
7428
Brett Cannonb7ec8e52008-03-18 03:46:22 +00007429- Rewrite test_errno to use unittest and no longer be a no-op.
7430
Brett Cannon0bb79502008-03-18 01:58:56 +00007431- GHOP 234: Convert test_extcall to doctest.
7432
Brett Cannonba17cfc2008-03-18 01:50:25 +00007433- GHOP 290: Convert test_dbm and test_dummy_threading to unittest.
7434
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007435- GHOP 293: Convert test_strftime, test_getargs, and test_pep247 to
7436 unittest.
Brett Cannon6eeaddc2008-03-18 01:00:07 +00007437
Brett Cannon1f5182b2008-03-13 21:09:28 +00007438- Issue #2055: Convert test_fcntl to unittest.
7439
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00007440- Issue #1960: Convert test_gdbm to unittest.
Brett Cannon4a6e8d62008-03-13 21:02:16 +00007441
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007442- GHOP 294: Convert test_contains, test_crypt, and test_select to
7443 unittest.
Brett Cannon2e0f9f32008-03-13 20:47:41 +00007444
Brett Cannonb8d37352008-03-13 20:33:10 +00007445- GHOP 238: Convert test_tokenize to use doctest.
7446
Brett Cannon66865d22008-03-13 20:27:00 +00007447- GHOP 237: Rewrite test_thread using unittest.
7448
Martin v. Löwisd2bbe522008-03-06 06:55:22 +00007449- Patch #2232: os.tmpfile might fail on Windows if the user has no
7450 permission to create files in the root directory.
7451
Martin v. Löwisbf7b0b72008-03-14 13:56:09 +00007452Build
7453-----
7454
Martin v. Löwiscdbc9772008-03-24 12:57:53 +00007455- A new script 2to3 is now installed, to run the 2.x to 3.x converter.
7456
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007457- Python/memmove.c and Python/strerror.c have been removed; both
7458 functions are in the C89 standard library.
Brett Cannonaa5778d2008-03-18 04:09:00 +00007459
Martin v. Löwisbf7b0b72008-03-14 13:56:09 +00007460- Patch #2284: Add -x64 option to rt.bat.
Barry Warsaw65475fd2008-03-01 17:11:41 +00007461
Christian Heimes3c608332008-03-26 22:01:37 +00007462C API
7463-----
7464
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00007465- Patch #2477: Added PyParser_ParseFileFlagsEx() and
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007466 PyParser_ParseStringFlagsFilenameEx().
7467
Christian Heimes3c608332008-03-26 22:01:37 +00007468
Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +00007469What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 1?
7470=================================
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00007471
Barry Warsaw7c075232008-03-01 02:53:36 +00007472*Release date: 29-Feb-2008*
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00007473
7474Core and builtins
7475-----------------
7476
Fred Drakea8ee94b2008-03-01 02:45:07 +00007477- Issue #2051: pyc and pyo files are no longer created with permission
Barry Warsaw52973612008-03-01 02:23:38 +00007478 644. The mode is now inherited from the py file.
Christian Heimes40346852008-02-23 17:52:07 +00007479
Georg Brandlad61bc82008-02-23 15:11:18 +00007480- Issue #2067: file.__exit__() now calls subclasses' close() method.
7481
7482- Patch #1759: Backport of PEP 3129 class decorators.
Christian Heimes5224d282008-02-23 15:01:05 +00007483
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00007484- Issue #1881: An internal parser limit has been increased. Also see
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00007485 issue #215555 for a discussion.
Facundo Batistafc2d0102008-02-23 12:01:13 +00007486
Eric Smitha73fbe72008-02-23 03:09:44 +00007487- Added the future_builtins module, which contains hex() and oct().
7488 These are the PEP 3127 version of these functions, designed to be
7489 compatible with the hex() and oct() builtins from Python 3.0. They
7490 differ slightly in their output formats from the existing, unchanged
7491 Python 2.6 builtins. The expected usage of the future_builtins
7492 module is:
7493 from future_builtins import hex, oct
7494
Eric Smith7ef40bf2008-02-20 23:34:22 +00007495- Issue #1600: Modifed PyOS_ascii_formatd to use at most 2 digit
7496 exponents for exponents with absolute value < 100. Follows C99
7497 standard. This is a change on Windows, which would use 3 digits.
7498 Also, added 'n' to the formats that PyOS_ascii_formatd understands,
7499 so that any alterations it does to the resulting string will be
7500 available in stringlib/formatter.h (for float.__format__).
7501
Eric Smith5a3c1352008-02-19 13:21:56 +00007502- Implemented PEP 3101, Advanced String Formatting. This adds a new
7503 builtin format(); a format() method for str and unicode; a
7504 __format__() method to object, str, unicode, int, long, float, and
7505 datetime; the class string.Formatter; and the C API
7506 PyObject_Format().
7507
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007508- Fixed several potential crashes, all caused by specially crafted
7509 __del__ methods exploiting objects in temporarily inconsistent
7510 state.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc632fad32008-02-16 20:55:24 +00007511
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00007512- Issue #2115: Important speedup in setting __slot__ attributes. Also
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007513 prevent a possible crash: an Abstract Base Class would try to access
7514 a slot on a registered virtual subclass.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc60d6c7f2008-02-15 21:22:45 +00007515
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007516- Fixed repr() and str() of complex numbers with infinity or nan as
7517 real or imaginary part.
Christian Heimes2f0da532008-02-15 06:57:08 +00007518
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007519- Clear all free lists during a gc.collect() of the highest generation
7520 in order to allow pymalloc to free more arenas. Python may give back
7521 memory to the OS earlier.
Christian Heimes3b718a72008-02-14 12:47:33 +00007522
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007523- Issue #2045: Fix an infinite recursion triggered when printing a
7524 subclass of collections.defaultdict, if its default_factory is set
7525 to a bound method.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcb01aa432008-02-08 00:56:02 +00007526
Christian Heimesf75dbef2008-02-08 00:11:31 +00007527- Fixed a minor memory leak in dictobject.c. The content of the free
7528 list was not freed on interpreter shutdown.
7529
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00007530- Limit free list of method and built-in function objects to 256
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007531 entries each.
Christian Heimes6075a822008-02-06 12:44:34 +00007532
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007533- Patch #1953: Added ``sys._compact_freelists()`` and the C API
7534 functions ``PyInt_CompactFreeList`` and ``PyFloat_CompactFreeList``
Christian Heimes422051a2008-02-04 18:00:12 +00007535 to compact the internal free lists of pre-allocted ints and floats.
7536
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007537- Issue #1983: Fixed return type of fork(), fork1() and forkpty()
7538 calls. Python expected the return type int but the fork familie
7539 returns pi_t.
Christian Heimes951cc0f2008-01-31 23:08:23 +00007540
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007541- Issue #1678380: Fix a bug that identifies 0j and -0j when they
7542 appear in the same code unit.
Mark Dickinson105be772008-01-31 22:17:37 +00007543
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007544- Issue #2025: Add tuple.count() and tuple.index() methods to comply
7545 with the collections.Sequence API.
Raymond Hettinger5b07ebc2008-02-07 00:54:20 +00007546
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007547- Patch #1970 by Antoine Pitrou: Speedup unicode whitespace and
7548 linebreak detection
Christian Heimes4d4f2702008-01-30 11:32:37 +00007549
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007550- Added ``PyType_ClearCache()`` and ``sys._clear_type_cache`` to clear
7551 the internal lookup cache for ref leak tests.
Christian Heimes908caac2008-01-27 23:34:59 +00007552
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007553- Patch #1473257: generator objects gain a gi_code attribute. This is
7554 the same object as the func_code attribute of the function that
7555 produced the generator.
Georg Brandl0cdf9a32008-01-26 14:14:20 +00007556
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007557- Issue #1920: "while 0" statements were completely removed by the
7558 compiler, even in the presence of an "else" clause, which is
7559 supposed to be run when the condition is false. Now the compiler
7560 correctly emits bytecode for the "else" suite.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc31eaafe2008-01-24 22:59:25 +00007561
Guido van Rossumeead05f2008-01-24 18:21:02 +00007562- A few crashers fixed: weakref_in_del.py (issue #1377858);
7563 loosing_dict_ref.py (issue #1303614, test67.py);
7564 borrowed_ref_[34].py (not in tracker).
7565
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +00007566- Issue #1069410: The "can't load dll" message box on Windows is
Christian Heimesb2302ba2008-01-23 17:15:06 +00007567 suppressed while an extension is loaded by calling SetErrorMode in
7568 dynload_win.c. The error is still reported properly.
7569
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007570- Issue #1915: Python compiles with --enable-unicode=no again. However
Christian Heimes082c9b02008-01-23 14:20:50 +00007571 several extension methods and modules do not work without unicode
7572 support.
7573
Georg Brandl26543b12008-01-21 18:36:51 +00007574- Issue #1882: when compiling code from a string, encoding cookies in the
7575 second line of code were not always recognized correctly.
7576
Georg Brandl14404b62008-01-19 19:27:05 +00007577- Issue #1679: "0x" was taken as a valid integer literal.
7578
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00007579- Issue #1865: ``bytes`` as an alias for ``str`` and b"" as an alias "" were
Christian Heimes288e89a2008-01-18 18:24:07 +00007580 added.
7581
Christian Heimesc94e2b52008-01-14 04:13:37 +00007582- sys.float_info / PyFloat_GetInfo: The floating point information
7583 object was converted from a dict to a specialized structseq object.
7584
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007585- Patch #1816: Added sys.flags structseq. It exposes the status of
7586 most command line arguments and PYTHON* environment variables.
Christian Heimesf31b69f2008-01-14 03:42:48 +00007587
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007588- Objects/structseq.c: Implemented new structseq representation. The
7589 patch makes structseqs (e.g. the return value of os.stat) more
7590 readable.
Christian Heimes9c201962008-01-14 03:33:52 +00007591
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007592- Patch #1700288: added a type attribute cache that caches method
7593 accesses, resulting in speedups in heavily object-oriented code.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arce4c270c2008-01-14 00:29:41 +00007594
Neal Norwitz3fc15b82008-01-10 05:42:58 +00007595- Bug #1776: __import__() no longer accepts filenames on any platform.
7596 The first parameter to __import__() must be a valid module name.
Christian Heimes3403f152008-01-09 19:56:33 +00007597
Georg Brandlaed6c662008-01-07 17:25:53 +00007598- Patch #1668: renamed THREADDEBUG envvar to PYTHONTHREADDEBUG.
7599
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007600- Patch #602345: Add -B command line option, PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE
7601 envvar and sys.dont_write_bytecode attribute. All these can be set
7602 to forbid Python to attempt to write compiled bytecode files.
Georg Brandl2da0fce2008-01-07 17:09:35 +00007603
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007604- Improve some exception messages when Windows fails to load an
7605 extension module. Now we get for example '%1 is not a valid Win32
7606 application' instead of 'error code 193'.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arce0b76952008-01-04 02:04:15 +00007607
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007608- Bug #1481296: Fixed long(float('nan')) != 0L.
Christian Heimes8267d1d2008-01-04 00:37:34 +00007609
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007610- Issue #1640: Added math.isinf(x), math.isnan(x) and math.copysign(x,
7611 y) functions.
Christian Heimese2ca4242008-01-03 20:23:15 +00007612
Christian Heimes0a8143f2007-12-18 23:22:54 +00007613- Issue #1635: Platform independent creation and representation of NaN
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007614 and INF. float("nan"), float("inf") and float("-inf") now work on
7615 every platform with IEEE 754 semantics.
Christian Heimes0a8143f2007-12-18 23:22:54 +00007616
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007617- Compiler now generates simpler and faster code for dictionary
7618 literals. The oparg for BUILD_MAP now indicates an estimated
7619 dictionary size. There is a new opcode, STORE_MAP, for adding
7620 entries to the dictionary.
Raymond Hettingerfd7ed402007-12-18 21:24:09 +00007621
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007622- Issue #1638: %zd configure test fails on Linux.
Christian Heimesdb3d6cb2007-12-16 21:39:43 +00007623
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007624- Issue #1620: New property decorator syntax was modifying the
7625 decorator in place instead of creating a new decorator object.
Christian Heimes90e10e72007-12-14 02:35:23 +00007626
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007627- Issue #1538: Avoid copying string in split/rsplit if the split char
7628 is not found.
Skip Montanaro26015492007-12-08 15:33:24 +00007629
Andrew M. Kuchling395fe442007-12-05 13:27:20 +00007630- Issue #1553: An erroneous __length_hint__ can make list() raise a
Christian Heimes7cc1c6f2007-12-05 12:52:34 +00007631 SystemError.
7632
Nick Coghlanef01d822007-12-03 12:55:17 +00007633- PEP 366: Allow explicit relative imports when executing modules
7634 inside packages with the -m switch via a new module level
7635 __package__ attribute.
7636
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007637- Issue #1402: Fix a crash on exit, when another thread is still
7638 running, and if the deallocation of its frames somehow calls the
7639 PyGILState_Ensure() / PyGILState_Release() functions.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbe49a902007-11-30 20:37:22 +00007640
Christian Heimes28104c52007-11-27 23:16:44 +00007641- Expose the Py_Py3kWarningFlag as sys.py3kwarning.
7642
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00007643- Issue #1445: Fix a SystemError when accessing the ``cell_contents``
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcce7d10c2007-11-24 13:44:17 +00007644 attribute of an empty cell object.
7645
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007646- Issue #1460: The utf-7 incremental decoder did not accept truncated
7647 input. It now correctly saves its state between chunks of data.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcf57375a2007-11-21 01:38:26 +00007648
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007649- Patch #1739468: Directories and zipfiles containing a __main__.py
7650 file can now be directly executed by passing their name to the
7651 interpreter. The directory/zipfile is automatically inserted as the
7652 first entry in sys.path.
Nick Coghlan327a39b2007-11-18 11:56:28 +00007653
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007654- Issue #1265: Fix a problem with sys.settrace, if the tracing
7655 function uses a generator expression when at the same time the
7656 executed code is closing a paused generator.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc0d75f092007-11-13 21:54:28 +00007657
Raymond Hettinger1760c8a2007-11-08 02:52:43 +00007658- sets and frozensets now have an isdisjoint() method.
7659
Raymond Hettinger3f8caa32007-10-24 01:28:33 +00007660- optimize the performance of builtin.sum().
7661
Neal Norwitz44f326e2007-10-05 05:29:17 +00007662- Fix warnings found by the new version of the Coverity checker.
7663
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00007664- The enumerate() built-in function is no longer bounded to sequences
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007665 smaller than LONG_MAX. Formerly, it raised an OverflowError. Now,
7666 automatically shifts from ints to longs.
Raymond Hettinger8f669372007-10-03 21:18:11 +00007667
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007668- Issue #1686386: Tuple's tp_repr did not take into account the
7669 possibility of having a self-referential tuple, which is possible
7670 from C code. Nor did object's tp_str consider that a type's tp_str
7671 could do something that could lead to an inifinite recursion.
7672 Py_ReprEnter() and Py_EnterRecursiveCall(), respectively, fixed the
7673 issues.
Brett Cannon0b14f242007-09-30 19:45:10 +00007674
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007675- Issue #1164: It was possible to trigger deadlock when using the
7676 'print' statement to write to a file since the GIL was not released
7677 as needed. Now PyObject_Print() does the right thing along with
7678 various tp_print implementations of the built-in types and those in
7679 the collections module.
Brett Cannon01531592007-09-17 03:28:34 +00007680
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007681- Issue #1147: Exceptions were directly allowing string exceptions in
7682 their throw() method even though string exceptions no longer
7683 allowed.
Brett Cannon4c20bc42007-09-11 21:02:28 +00007684
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007685- Issue #1096: Prevent a segfault from getting the repr of a very
7686 deeply nested list by using the recursion counter.
Brett Cannona0c05512007-09-10 21:38:27 +00007687
Brett Cannon1e534b52007-09-07 04:18:30 +00007688- Issue #1202533: Fix infinite recursion calls triggered by calls to
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007689 PyObject_Call() never calling back out to Python code to trigger
7690 recursion depth updates/checks. Required the creation of a static
7691 RuntimeError instance in case normalizing an exception put the
7692 recursion check value past its limit. Fixes crashers
7693 infinite_rec_(1|2|4|5).py.
Brett Cannon1e534b52007-09-07 04:18:30 +00007694
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007695- Patch #1031213: Decode source line in SyntaxErrors back to its
7696 original source encoding.
Martin v. Löwisa5136192007-09-04 14:19:28 +00007697
Georg Brandl7c3b50d2007-07-12 08:38:00 +00007698- Patch #1673759: add a missing overflow check when formatting floats
7699 with %G.
7700
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007701- Prevent expandtabs() on string and unicode objects from causing a
7702 segfault when a large width is passed on 32-bit platforms.
Neal Norwitz7dbd2a32007-06-09 03:36:34 +00007703
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007704- Issue #1733488: Fix compilation of bufferobject.c on AIX.
Martin v. Löwisda587ab2007-06-08 17:29:20 +00007705
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007706- Issue #1722485: remove docstrings again when running with -OO.
Georg Brandla5ea6892007-06-01 11:33:33 +00007707
Neal Norwitz0ac60192007-05-27 04:08:54 +00007708- Add new attribute names for function objects. All the func_* become
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007709 __*__ attributes. (Some already existed, e.g., __doc__ and
7710 __name__.)
Neal Norwitz0ac60192007-05-27 04:08:54 +00007711
Neal Norwitz8b2bfbc2007-05-23 06:35:32 +00007712- Add -3 option to the interpreter to warn about features that are
7713 deprecated and will be changed/removed in Python 3.0.
7714
Georg Brandl2134e752007-05-21 20:34:16 +00007715- Patch #1686487: you can now pass any mapping after '**' in function
7716 calls.
7717
Collin Winter62903052007-05-18 23:11:24 +00007718- except clauses may now be spelled either "except E, target:" or
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007719 "except E as target:". This is to provide forwards compatibility
7720 with Python 3.0.
Collin Winter62903052007-05-18 23:11:24 +00007721
Brett Cannon229cee22007-05-05 01:34:02 +00007722- Deprecate BaseException.message as per PEP 352.
7723
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007724- Issue #1303614: don't expose object's __dict__ when the dict is
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00007725 inherited from a built-in base.
Armin Rigo9790a272007-05-02 19:23:31 +00007726
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00007727- When __slots__ are set to a unicode string, make it work the same as
Neal Norwitzcbd9ee62007-04-14 05:25:50 +00007728 setting a plain string, ie don't expand to single letter identifiers.
7729
Raymond Hettinger13936692007-04-11 18:40:58 +00007730- Request #1191699: Slices can now be pickled.
7731
Raymond Hettinger4db5fe92007-04-12 04:10:00 +00007732- Request #1193128: str.translate() now allows a None argument for
7733 translations that only remove characters without re-mapping the
7734 remaining characters.
7735
Georg Brandl5cb76c12007-03-21 09:00:39 +00007736- Patch #1682205: a TypeError while unpacking an iterable is no longer
7737 masked by a generic one with the message "unpack non-sequence".
7738
Neal Norwitzaa754b72007-03-21 06:39:48 +00007739- Remove unused file Python/fmod.c.
7740
Guido van Rossum143b5642007-03-23 04:58:42 +00007741- Bug #1683368: The object.__init__() and object.__new__() methods are
7742 now stricter in rejecting excess arguments. The only time when
7743 either allows excess arguments is when it is not overridden and the
7744 other one is. For backwards compatibility, when both are
7745 overridden, it is a deprecation warning (for now; maybe a Py3k
Guido van Rossum234b1ff2007-03-23 19:39:01 +00007746 warning later). Also, type.__init__() insists on the same signature
7747 as supported by type.__new__().
Guido van Rossum143b5642007-03-23 04:58:42 +00007748
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007749- Patch #1675423: PyComplex_AsCComplex() now tries to convert an
7750 object to complex using its __complex__() method before falling back
7751 to the __float__() method. Therefore, the functions in the cmath
7752 module now can operate on objects that define a __complex__()
7753 method.
Georg Brandl2b869942007-03-17 16:08:45 +00007754
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007755- Patch #1623563: allow __class__ assignment for classes with
7756 __slots__. The old and the new class are still required to have the
7757 same slot names.
Žiga Seilnacht6f2d09c2007-03-16 11:59:38 +00007758
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007759- Patch #1642547: Fix an error/crash when encountering syntax errors
7760 in complex if statements.
Collin Winter77c67bd2007-03-16 04:11:30 +00007761
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007762- Patch #1462488: Python no longer segfaults when
7763 ``object.__reduce_ex__()`` is called with an object that is faking
7764 its type.
Žiga Seilnacht20f43d32007-03-15 11:44:55 +00007765
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007766- Patch #1680015: Don't modify __slots__ tuple if it contains an
7767 unicode name.
Žiga Seilnacht71436f02007-03-14 12:24:09 +00007768
Georg Brandl5240d742007-03-13 20:46:32 +00007769- Patch #1444529: the builtin compile() now accepts keyword arguments.
7770
Georg Brandl7b9c5552007-03-12 14:30:05 +00007771- Bug #1678647: write a newline after printing an exception in any
7772 case, even when converting the value to a string failed.
7773
Georg Brandl871f1bc2007-03-12 13:17:36 +00007774- The dir() function has been extended to call the __dir__() method on
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007775 its argument, if it exists. If not, it will work like before. This
7776 allows customizing the output of dir() in the presence of a
7777 __getattr__().
Georg Brandl871f1bc2007-03-12 13:17:36 +00007778
Collin Winter276887b2007-03-12 16:11:39 +00007779- Patch #922167: Python no longer segfaults when faced with infinitely
7780 self-recursive reload() calls (as reported by bug #742342).
7781
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007782- Patch #1675981: remove unreachable code from ``type.__new__()``
7783 method.
Žiga Seilnacht89032082007-03-11 15:54:54 +00007784
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007785- Patch #1491866: change the complex() constructor to allow
7786 parthensized forms. This means complex(repr(x)) now works instead of
7787 raising a ValueError.
Collin Wintere38051d2007-03-09 20:33:07 +00007788
Georg Brandlaa2321b2007-03-07 00:40:28 +00007789- Patch #703779: unset __file__ in __main__ after running a file. This
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007790 makes the filenames the warning module prints much more sensible
7791 when a PYTHONSTARTUP file is used.
Georg Brandlaa2321b2007-03-07 00:40:28 +00007792
Georg Brandl49aafc92007-03-07 00:34:46 +00007793- Variant of patch #697613: don't exit the interpreter on a SystemExit
7794 exception if the -i command line option or PYTHONINSPECT environment
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007795 variable is given, but break into the interactive interpreter just
7796 like on other exceptions or normal program exit.
Georg Brandl49aafc92007-03-07 00:34:46 +00007797
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007798- Patch #1638879: don't accept strings with embedded NUL bytes in
7799 long().
Georg Brandl00cd8182007-03-06 18:41:12 +00007800
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007801- Bug #1674503: close the file opened by execfile() in an error
7802 condition.
Georg Brandl098cd692007-03-06 12:17:50 +00007803
Georg Brandl0fca97a2007-03-05 22:28:08 +00007804- Patch #1674228: when assigning a slice (old-style), check for the
7805 sq_ass_slice instead of the sq_slice slot.
7806
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007807- When printing an unraisable error, don't print exceptions. before
7808 the name. This duplicates the behavior whening normally printing
7809 exceptions.
Neal Norwitz88516a62007-02-26 22:41:45 +00007810
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007811- Bug #1653736: Properly discard third argument to
7812 slot_nb_inplace_power.
Martin v. Löwisfd963262007-02-09 12:19:32 +00007813
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007814- PEP 352: Raising a string exception now triggers a TypeError.
7815 Attempting to catch a string exception raises DeprecationWarning.
Brett Cannon129bd522007-01-30 21:34:36 +00007816
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007817- Bug #1377858: Fix the segfaulting of the interpreter when an object
7818 created a weakref on itself during a __del__ call for new-style
7819 classes (classic classes still have the bug).
Brett Cannonf5bee302007-01-23 23:21:22 +00007820
Martin v. Löwis6c5c5022007-01-23 21:11:47 +00007821- Bug #1579370: Make PyTraceBack_Here use the current thread, not the
7822 frame's thread state.
7823
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007824- patch #1630975: Fix crash when replacing sys.stdout in
7825 sitecustomize.py.
Thomas Wouters6ed19652007-01-23 13:50:49 +00007826
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007827- Prevent seg fault on shutdown which could occur if an object raised
7828 a warning.
Neal Norwitz72cd02c2007-01-05 05:25:22 +00007829
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007830- Bug #1566280: Explicitly invoke threading._shutdown from Py_Main, to
7831 avoid relying on atexit.
Martin v. Löwis7b7c9d42007-01-04 21:06:12 +00007832
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007833- Bug #1590891: random.randrange don't return correct value for big
7834 number.
Raymond Hettinger94547f72006-12-20 06:42:06 +00007835
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007836- Patch #1586791: Better exception messages for some operations on
7837 strings, tuples and lists.
Georg Brandl283a1352006-11-19 08:48:30 +00007838
Martin v. Löwis056dac12006-11-12 18:24:26 +00007839- Bug #1067760: Deprecate passing floats to file.seek.
7840
Martin v. Löwisa346c092006-11-08 06:48:36 +00007841- Bug #1591996: Correctly forward exception in instance_contains().
7842
Neal Norwitz85dbec62006-11-04 19:25:22 +00007843- Bug #1588287: fix invalid assertion for `1,2` in debug builds.
7844
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007845- Bug #1576657: when setting a KeyError for a tuple key, make sure
7846 that the tuple isn't used as the "exception arguments tuple".
Georg Brandlb9f4ad32006-10-29 18:31:42 +00007847
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007848- Bug #1565514: SystemError not raised on too many nested blocks.
Neal Norwitz21997af2006-10-28 21:19:07 +00007849
Thomas Hellerdf08f0b2006-10-27 18:31:36 +00007850- Bug #1576174: WindowsError now displays the windows error code
7851 again, no longer the posix error code.
7852
Martin v. Löwisb5bc5372006-10-27 06:16:31 +00007853- Patch #1549049: Support long values in structmember, issue warnings
7854 if the assigned value for structmember fields gets truncated.
7855
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007856- Update the peephole optimizer to remove more dead code (jumps after
7857 returns) and inline unconditional jumps to returns.
Neal Norwitzcbeb6872006-10-14 21:33:38 +00007858
Georg Brandl2c1375c2006-10-12 11:27:59 +00007859- Bug #1545497: when given an explicit base, int() did ignore NULs
7860 embedded in the string to convert.
7861
Georg Brandl846f73a2006-10-08 07:11:54 +00007862- Bug #1569998: break inside a try statement (outside a loop) is now
7863 recognized and rejected.
7864
Armin Rigo7ccbca92006-10-04 12:17:45 +00007865- list.pop(x) accepts any object x following the __index__ protocol.
7866
Armin Rigo7ccbca92006-10-04 12:17:45 +00007867- A number of places, including integer negation and absolute value,
7868 were fixed to not rely on undefined behaviour of the C compiler
7869 anymore.
Martin v. Löwis820d6ac2006-10-04 05:47:34 +00007870
Georg Brandl3267d282006-09-30 09:03:42 +00007871- Bug #1566800: make sure that EnvironmentError can be called with any
7872 number of arguments, as was the case in Python 2.4.
7873
Georg Brandl5d59c092006-09-30 08:43:30 +00007874- Patch #1567691: super() and new.instancemethod() now don't accept
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007875 keyword arguments any more (previously they accepted them, but
7876 didn't use them).
Georg Brandl5d59c092006-09-30 08:43:30 +00007877
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007878- Fix a bug in the parser's future statement handling that led to
7879 "with" not being recognized as a keyword after, e.g., this
7880 statement: from __future__ import division, with_statement
Georg Brandla10d3af2006-09-24 12:35:36 +00007881
Neal Norwitz3a230172006-09-22 08:18:10 +00007882- Bug #1557232: fix seg fault with def f((((x)))) and def f(((x),)).
7883
Neal Norwitz4a8fbdb2006-09-22 08:16:26 +00007884- Fix %zd string formatting on Mac OS X so it prints negative numbers.
7885
Brett Cannonf6aa86e2006-09-20 18:43:13 +00007886- Allow exception instances to be directly sliced again.
7887
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007888- Bug #1551432: Exceptions do not define an explicit __unicode__
7889 method. This allows calling unicode() on exceptions classes
7890 directly to succeed.
Brett Cannon9adeab72006-09-20 18:34:28 +00007891
Georg Brandl4e933132006-09-06 20:05:58 +00007892- Bug #1542051: Exceptions now correctly call PyObject_GC_UnTrack.
7893 Also make sure that every exception class has __module__ set to
7894 'exceptions'.
7895
Georg Brandl98775df2006-09-06 06:09:31 +00007896- Bug #1550983: emit better error messages for erroneous relative
7897 imports (if not in package and if beyond toplevel package).
7898
Tim Petersc10c9d02006-09-05 02:18:09 +00007899- Overflow checking code in integer division ran afoul of new gcc
7900 optimizations. Changed to be more standard-conforming.
7901
Neal Norwitz4f096d92006-08-21 19:47:08 +00007902- Patch #1542451: disallow continue anywhere under a finally.
7903
Neal Norwitza22975f2006-09-05 02:24:03 +00007904- Patch #1546288: fix seg fault in dict_equal due to ref counting bug.
7905
Neal Norwitzd34e4272006-09-05 02:36:20 +00007906- The return tuple from str.rpartition(sep) is (tail, sep, head) where
7907 head is the original string if sep was not found.
7908
Neal Norwitzdac090d2006-09-05 03:53:08 +00007909- Bug #1520864: unpacking singleton tuples in list comprehensions and
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007910 generator expressions (x for x, in ... ) works again. Fixing this
7911 problem required changing the .pyc magic number. This means that
7912 .pyc files generated before 2.5c2 will be regenerated.
Neal Norwitzdac090d2006-09-05 03:53:08 +00007913
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00007914- ``with`` and ``as`` are now keywords.
Neal Norwitzca460d92006-09-06 06:28:06 +00007915
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007916- Bug #1664966: Fix crash in exec if Unicode filename can't be
7917 decoded.
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00007918
Guido van Rossumcad37242008-01-15 17:59:29 +00007919- Issue #1537: Changed GeneratorExit's base class from Exception to
7920 BaseException.
Christian Heimes44eeaec2007-12-03 20:01:02 +00007921
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007922- Issue #1703448: A joined thread could show up in the
Gregory P. Smith95cd5c02008-01-22 01:20:42 +00007923 threading.enumerate() list after the join() for a brief period until
7924 it actually exited.
7925
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00007926
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00007927Library
7928-------
7929
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007930- Patch #2274: Add heapq.heappushpop().
Raymond Hettinger53bdf092008-03-13 19:03:51 +00007931
Christian Heimes608c1d82008-03-03 18:28:04 +00007932- Add inspect.isabstract(object) to fix bug #2223
7933
Mark Dickinson1ddf1d82008-02-29 02:16:37 +00007934- Add a __format__ method to Decimal, to support PEP 3101.
7935
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007936- Add a timing parameter when using trace.Trace to print out
7937 timestamps.
Neal Norwitzca376612008-02-26 08:21:28 +00007938
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007939- Issue #1627: httplib now ignores negative Content-Length headers.
Georg Brandl8c460d52008-02-24 00:14:24 +00007940
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007941- Issue #900744: If an invalid chunked-encoding header is sent by a
7942 server, httplib will now raise IncompleteRead and close the
7943 connection instead of raising ValueError.
Georg Brandl23635032008-02-24 00:03:22 +00007944
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007945- Issue #1492: The content type of BaseHTTPServer error messages can
7946 now be overridden.
Georg Brandl16479232008-02-23 15:02:28 +00007947
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007948- Issue #1781: ConfigParser now does not let you add the "default" section
Facundo Batistab12f0b52008-02-23 12:46:10 +00007949 (ignore-case)
7950
Guido van Rossum8bc09652008-02-21 18:18:37 +00007951- Removed uses of dict.has_key() from distutils, and uses of
7952 callable() from copy_reg.py, so the interpreter now starts up
7953 without warnings when '-3' is given. More work like this needs to
7954 be done in the rest of the stdlib.
7955
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007956- Issue #1916: added isgenerator() and isgeneratorfunction() to
7957 inspect.py.
Facundo Batista759bfc62008-02-18 03:43:43 +00007958
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007959- Issue #1224: Fixed bad url parsing when path begins with double
7960 slash.
Facundo Batistad14600e2008-02-18 12:48:43 +00007961
Thomas Hellera06a1a82008-02-13 20:21:53 +00007962- ctypes instances that are not or do not contain pointers can now be
7963 pickled.
7964
Martin v. Löwisdad88dc2008-02-12 18:47:34 +00007965- Patch #1966: Break infinite loop in httplib when the servers
7966 implements the chunked encoding incorrectly.
7967
Mark Dickinsond058cd22008-02-10 21:29:51 +00007968- Rename rational.py to fractions.py and the rational.Rational class
7969 to fractions.Fraction, to avoid the name clash with the abstract
7970 base class numbers.Rational. See discussion in issue #1682.
7971
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007972- The pickletools module now provides an optimize() function that
7973 eliminates unused PUT opcodes from a pickle string.
Raymond Hettingerda614dc2008-02-10 20:35:16 +00007974
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007975- Patch #2021: Allow tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile and
7976 SpooledTemporaryFile to be used in with statements by correctly
7977 supporting the context management protocol.
Nick Coghlanac094dc2008-02-10 07:32:52 +00007978
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007979- Patch #1979: Add rich comparisons to Decimal, and make Decimal
7980 comparisons involving a NaN follow the IEEE 754 standard.
Mark Dickinson2fc92632008-02-06 22:10:50 +00007981
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007982- Issue #2004: tarfile.py: Use mode 0700 for temporary directories and
7983 default permissions for missing directories.
Lars Gustäbel0192e432008-02-05 11:51:40 +00007984
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007985- Issue #175006: The debugger used to skip the condition of a "while"
7986 statement after the first iteration. Now it correctly steps on the
7987 expression, and breakpoints on the "while" statement are honored on
7988 each loop.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc6fd03bb2008-02-04 21:45:05 +00007989
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007990- Issue #1765140: add an optional delay argument to FileHandler and
7991 its subclasses. Defaults to false (existing behaviour), but if true,
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +00007992 defers opening the file until the first call to emit().
7993
Raymond Hettingerc226c312008-01-23 00:04:40 +00007994- The pprint module now supports sets and frozensets.
7995
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007996- Issue #1221598: add optional callbacks to ftplib.FTP's storbinary()
7997 and storlines() methods. (Contributed by Phil Schwartz)
Gregory P. Smithc64386b2008-01-22 00:19:41 +00007998
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007999- Issue #1715: include sub-extension modules in pydoc's text output.
Georg Brandlf2dae0e2008-01-21 21:05:49 +00008000
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008001- Issue #1836: fix an off-by-one bug in TimedRotatingHandler's
8002 rollover time calculation.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00008003
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008004- Issue #1021: fix a bug to allow basicConfig to accept NOTSET as a
8005 level.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00008006
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008007- Issue #932563: add LoggerAdapter convenience class to make it easier
8008 to add contextual information in logging output.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00008009
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008010- Issue #1760556: fix a bug to avoid FileHandler throwing an exception
8011 in flush().
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00008012
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008013- Bug #1530959: distutils' build command now uses different build
8014 directory when building extension modules against versions of Python
8015 compiled with ``--with-pydebug``.
Georg Brandl50160152008-01-21 17:42:40 +00008016
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008017- Issue #1555501: move plistlib from plat-mac directory to general
8018 library.
Georg Brandl864de822008-01-21 16:34:07 +00008019
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008020- Issue #1269: fix a bug in pstats.add_callers() and add a unit test
8021 file for pstats.
Georg Brandl66e73632008-01-21 10:24:59 +00008022
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008023- Issue #1669: don't allow shutil.rmtree() to be called on a symlink
8024 to a directory.
Georg Brandl52353982008-01-20 14:17:42 +00008025
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008026- Issue #1664522: in urllib, don't read non-existing directories in
8027 ftp mode, returning a 0-byte file -- raise an IOError instead.
Georg Brandld5e6cf22008-01-20 12:18:17 +00008028
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008029- Issue #856047: respect the ``no_proxy`` environment variable when
8030 using the ``http_proxy`` etc. environment variables in urllib.
Georg Brandl22350112008-01-20 12:05:43 +00008031
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008032- Issue #1178141: add a getcode() method to the addinfourls that
8033 urllib.open() returns so that you can retrieve the HTTP status code.
Georg Brandl9b0d46d2008-01-20 11:43:03 +00008034
Gregory P. Smithf25680a2008-01-20 01:26:04 +00008035- Issue #1003: Fix zipfile decryption check, it would fail zip files
8036 with extended local headers.
8037
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008038- Issue #1189216: Fix the zipfile module to work on archives with
8039 headers past the 2**31 byte boundary.
Gregory P. Smith350d03b2008-01-19 23:10:52 +00008040
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008041- Issue #1336: fix a race condition in subprocess.Popen if the garbage
Gregory P. Smithb9ba0752008-01-19 21:00:37 +00008042 collector kicked in at the wrong time that would cause the process
8043 to hang when the child wrote to stderr.
8044
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008045- Issue #1146: fix how textwrap breaks a long word that would start in
8046 the last column of a line.
Georg Brandlc6fde722008-01-19 19:48:19 +00008047
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008048- Issue #1693149: trace.py --ignore-module - accept multiple
8049 comma-separated modules to be given.
Skip Montanaro562133b2008-01-19 18:47:24 +00008050
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008051- Issue #1822: MIMEMultipart.is_multipart() behaves correctly for a
8052 just-created (and empty) instance. Thanks Jonathan Share.
Facundo Batista2b1b1952008-01-19 12:32:27 +00008053
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008054- Issue #1861: Added an attribute to the sched module which returns an
8055 ordered list of upcoming events (displayed as named tuples).
Raymond Hettinger44bd6c02008-01-17 19:31:38 +00008056
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008057- Issue #1837: The queue module now also supports a LIFO queue and a
8058 priority queue.
Raymond Hettinger3ad2acc82008-01-16 23:49:35 +00008059
Andrew M. Kuchling4a2762d2008-01-20 00:00:38 +00008060- Patch #1048820: Add insert-mode editing to curses.textpad.Textbox
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00008061 (patch by Stefan Wehr). Also, fix an off-by-one bug in
Andrew M. Kuchling4a2762d2008-01-20 00:00:38 +00008062 Textbox.gather().
8063
Thomas Heller02ec2892008-01-16 19:37:33 +00008064- Issue #1831: ctypes now raises a TypeError if conflicting positional
8065 and named arguments are passed to a Structure or Union initializer.
Thomas Heller415c1e32008-01-16 19:45:51 +00008066 When too many positional arguments are passed, also a TypeError is
8067 raised instead of a ValueError.
Thomas Heller02ec2892008-01-16 19:37:33 +00008068
Thomas Heller902d3072008-01-16 19:16:27 +00008069- Convert the internal ctypes array type cache to a WeakValueDict so
8070 that array types do not live longer than needed.
8071
Guido van Rossumcad37242008-01-15 17:59:29 +00008072- Issue #1786: pdb should use its own stdin/stdout around an exec call
8073 and when creating a recursive instance.
8074
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008075- Issue #1698398: ZipFile.printdir() crashed because the format string
8076 expected a tuple type of length six instead of time.struct_time
8077 object.
Raymond Hettinger351e1a32008-01-14 22:58:05 +00008078
Mark Dickinson59bc20b2008-01-12 01:56:00 +00008079- Issue #1780: The Decimal constructor now accepts arbitrary leading
8080 and trailing whitespace when constructing from a string.
8081 Context.create_decimal no longer accepts trailing newlines.
8082
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008083- Decimal.as_tuple(), difflib.find_longest_match() and inspect
8084 functions that returned a tuple now return a named tuple.
Georg Brandl2f32c392008-01-11 09:20:58 +00008085
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00008086- Doctest now returns results as a named tuple for readability:
Raymond Hettingerfff4e6e2008-01-11 01:25:54 +00008087 (0, 7) --> TestResults(failed=0, attempted=7)
8088
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008089- Issue #846388:q re.match is interruptible now, which is particularly
Facundo Batista4473d222008-01-08 21:10:12 +00008090 good for long regular expression matches.
8091
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008092- Patch #1137: allow setting buffer_size attribute on pyexpat Parser
8093 objects to set the character data buffer size.
Andrew M. Kuchlinge0a49b62008-01-08 14:30:55 +00008094
Facundo Batista52b25792008-01-08 12:25:20 +00008095- Issue #1757: The hash of a Decimal instance is no longer affected by
8096 the current context.
8097
Georg Brandl62416bc2008-01-07 18:47:44 +00008098- Patch #467924: add ZipFile.extract() and ZipFile.extractall() in the
8099 zipfile module.
8100
Christian Heimesfb2d25a2008-01-07 16:12:44 +00008101- Issue #1646: Make socket support the TIPC protocol.
8102
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008103- Bug #1742: return os.curdir from os.path.relpath() if both arguments
8104 are equal instead of raising an exception.
Georg Brandl183a0842008-01-06 14:27:15 +00008105
Guido van Rossumc6a04c22008-01-05 22:19:06 +00008106- Patch #1637: fix urlparse for URLs like 'http://x.com?arg=/foo'.
8107
Guido van Rossumced4eb02008-01-05 01:21:57 +00008108- Patch #1698: allow '@' in username parsed by urlparse.py.
8109
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008110- Issue #1735: TarFile.extractall() now correctly sets directory
8111 permissions and times.
Lars Gustäbel2ee1c762008-01-04 14:00:33 +00008112
Christian Heimes06875612008-01-04 13:21:07 +00008113- Bug #1713: posixpath.ismount() claims symlink to a mountpoint is a mountpoint.
8114
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008115- Bug #1687: Fxed plistlib.py restricts <integer> to Python int when
8116 writing
Christian Heimes06131882008-01-04 00:04:52 +00008117
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008118- Issue #1700: Regular expression inline flags incorrectly handle
8119 certain unicode characters.
Guido van Rossumae04c332008-01-03 19:12:44 +00008120
Jeffrey Yasskin2f3c16b2008-01-03 02:21:52 +00008121- Issue #1689: PEP 3141, numeric abstract base classes.
8122
Martin v. Löwis84b9aab2008-01-01 21:09:07 +00008123- Tk issue #1851526: Return results from Python callbacks to Tcl as
8124 Tcl objects.
8125
Thomas Heller153038e2007-12-18 19:00:34 +00008126- Issue #1642: Fix segfault in ctypes when trying to delete attributes.
8127
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008128- Issue #1727780: Support loading pickles of random.Random objects
8129 created on 32-bit systems on 64-bit systems, and vice versa. As a
8130 consequence of the change, Random pickles created by Python 2.6
8131 cannot be loaded in Python 2.5.
Martin v. Löwis6b449f42007-12-03 19:20:02 +00008132
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008133- Issue #1455: The distutils package now supports VS 2005 and VS 2008
8134 for both the msvccompiler and cygwincompiler.
Christian Heimesc654fc22007-12-03 13:55:16 +00008135
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008136- Issue #1531: tarfile.py: Read fileobj from the current offset, do
8137 not seek to the start.
Lars Gustäbel77b2d632007-12-01 21:02:12 +00008138
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008139- Issue #1534: Added a dictionary sys.float_info with information
8140 about the internal floating point type to the sys module.
Christian Heimesdfdfaab2007-12-01 11:20:10 +00008141
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008142- Issue #1429818: patch for trace and doctest modules so they play
8143 nicely together.
Skip Montanaro58a6f442007-11-24 14:30:47 +00008144
Brett Cannon43e53f82007-11-21 00:47:36 +00008145- doctest made a bad assumption that a package's __loader__.get_data()
8146 method used universal newlines.
8147
Nick Coghlan90b858e2007-11-07 11:57:51 +00008148- Issue #1705170: contextlib.contextmanager was still swallowing
8149 StopIteration in some cases. This should no longer happen.
8150
Thomas Heller486b1b02007-11-02 19:10:24 +00008151- Issue #1292: On alpha, arm, ppc, and s390 linux systems the
8152 --with-system-ffi configure option defaults to "yes".
8153
Hye-Shik Changa838a802007-10-28 11:19:02 +00008154- IN module for FreeBSD 8 is added and preexisting FreeBSD 6 and 7
8155 files are updated.
8156
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008157- Issues #1181, #1287: unsetenv() is now called when the
8158 os.environ.pop() and os.environ.clear() methods are used.
Georg Brandl1a94ec22007-10-24 21:40:38 +00008159
Thomas Heller91ac4222007-10-19 18:11:41 +00008160- ctypes will now work correctly on 32-bit systems when Python is
8161 configured with --with-system-ffi.
8162
Thomas Heller7fee6dd2007-10-11 19:51:32 +00008163- Patch #1203: ctypes now does work on OS X when Python is built with
Georg Brandl1a94ec22007-10-24 21:40:38 +00008164 --disable-toolbox-glue.
Thomas Heller7fee6dd2007-10-11 19:51:32 +00008165
Raymond Hettingera7fc4b12007-10-05 02:47:07 +00008166- collections.deque() now supports a "maxlen" argument.
8167
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008168- itertools.count() is no longer bounded to LONG_MAX. Formerly, it
8169 raised an OverflowError. Now, automatically shifts from ints to
8170 longs.
Raymond Hettinger50e90e22007-10-04 00:20:27 +00008171
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008172- Added itertools.product() which forms the Cartesian product of the
8173 input iterables.
Raymond Hettingerc5705a82008-02-22 19:50:06 +00008174
Raymond Hettinger66f91ea2008-03-05 20:59:58 +00008175- Added itertools.combinations() and itertools.permutations().
Raymond Hettinger93e804d2008-02-26 23:40:50 +00008176
Georg Brandlaff85e22007-09-20 16:06:07 +00008177- Patch #1541463: optimize performance of cgi.FieldStorage operations.
8178
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008179- Decimal is fully updated to the latest Decimal Specification
8180 (v1.66).
Facundo Batistab67da232007-09-17 16:26:50 +00008181
Georg Brandl8fd3ecf2007-09-12 19:00:07 +00008182- Bug #1153: repr.repr() now doesn't require set and dictionary items
8183 to be orderable to properly represent them.
8184
Thomas Heller2825b2e2007-09-07 06:32:17 +00008185- A 'c_longdouble' type was added to the ctypes module.
8186
Martin v. Löwis7dcb83c2007-08-30 19:04:09 +00008187- Bug #1709599: Run test_1565150 only if the file system is NTFS.
8188
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008189- When encountering a password-protected robots.txt file the
8190 RobotFileParser no longer prompts interactively for a username and
8191 password (bug 813986).
Skip Montanaro3e275362007-08-29 01:33:45 +00008192
Lars Gustäbel0f4a14b2007-08-28 12:31:09 +00008193- TarFile.__init__() no longer fails if no name argument is passed and
8194 the fileobj argument has no usable name attribute (e.g. StringIO).
8195
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008196- The functools module now provides 'reduce', for forward
8197 compatibility with Python 3000.
Guido van Rossum95f1a1b2007-08-27 20:52:10 +00008198
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008199- Server-side SSL support and cert verification added, by Bill
8200 Janssen.
Guido van Rossum4f2c3dd2007-08-25 15:08:43 +00008201
Bill Janssenf413fb02007-08-30 18:08:06 +00008202- socket.ssl deprecated; use new ssl module instead.
8203
Georg Brandl8ec57542007-08-24 06:10:01 +00008204- uuid creation is now threadsafe.
8205
Hye-Shik Chang23901042007-08-20 06:49:18 +00008206- EUC-KR codec now handles the cheot-ga-keut composed make-up hangul
8207 syllables.
8208
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008209- GB18030 codec now can encode additional two-byte characters that are
8210 missing in GBK.
Hye-Shik Changf3e93a02007-08-04 04:10:18 +00008211
Walter Dörwald6e390802007-08-17 16:41:28 +00008212- Add new codecs for UTF-32, UTF-32-LE and UTF-32-BE.
8213
Martin v. Löwisf1e0b3f2007-07-28 07:03:05 +00008214- Bug #1704793: Return UTF-16 pair if unicodedata.lookup cannot
8215 represent the result in a single character.
8216
Martin v. Löwisf25e35b2007-07-27 18:28:22 +00008217- Bug #978833: Close https sockets by releasing the _ssl object.
8218
Martin v. Löwis254b8f92007-07-25 16:24:23 +00008219- Change location of the package index to pypi.python.org/pypi
8220
Thomas Hellerfa704c62007-07-13 17:12:23 +00008221- Bug #1701409: Fix a segfault in printing ctypes.c_char_p and
8222 ctypes.c_wchar_p when they point to an invalid location. As a
8223 sideeffect the representation of these instances has changed.
8224
Lars Gustäbel104490e2007-06-18 11:42:11 +00008225- tarfile.py: Added "exclude" keyword argument to TarFile.add().
8226
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008227- Bug #1734723: Fix repr.Repr() so it doesn't ignore the maxtuple
8228 attribute.
Neal Norwitzc161cb92007-06-11 07:29:43 +00008229
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008230- The urlopen function of urllib2 now has an optional timeout
8231 parameter (note that it actually works with HTTP, HTTPS, FTP and
8232 FTPS connections).
Facundo Batista10951d52007-06-06 17:15:23 +00008233
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008234- In ftplib, the FTP.ntransfercmd method, when in passive mode, now
8235 uses the socket.create_connection function, using the timeout
8236 specified at connection time.
Facundo Batista92493122007-06-06 15:13:37 +00008237
Hye-Shik Chang9b541402007-06-05 18:58:51 +00008238- Bug #1728403: Fix a bug that CJKCodecs StreamReader hangs when it
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008239 reads a file that ends with incomplete sequence and sizehint
8240 argument for .read() is specified.
Hye-Shik Chang9b541402007-06-05 18:58:51 +00008241
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008242- Bug #1730389: Change time.strptime() to use ``\s+`` instead of
8243 ``\s*`` when matching spaces in the specified format argument.
Brett Cannonf7188ce2007-06-03 23:13:41 +00008244
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008245- Bugs #1668596/#1720897: distutils now copies data files even if
8246 package_dir is empty.
Neal Norwitz4a700bb2007-06-01 07:29:12 +00008247
Brett Cannonc2aa09a2007-05-31 19:20:00 +00008248- sha now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
8249
Brett Cannon7eec2172007-05-30 22:24:28 +00008250- md5 now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
8251
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008252- Issue #1385: The hmac module now computes the correct hmac when
8253 using hashes with a block size other than 64 bytes (such as sha384
8254 and sha512).
Gregory P. Smithe1ac4f12007-11-06 00:19:03 +00008255
Brett Cannonc249bda2007-05-30 21:48:58 +00008256- mimify now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
8257
Brett Cannon90134c92007-05-30 20:46:26 +00008258- MimeWriter now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
8259
Lars Gustäbela0fcb932007-05-27 19:49:30 +00008260- tarfile.py: Improved unicode support. Unicode input names are now
8261 officially supported. Added "errors" argument to the TarFile class.
8262
Facundo Batista711a54e2007-05-24 17:50:54 +00008263- urllib.ftpwrapper class now accepts an optional timeout.
8264
Georg Brandlc90bc752007-05-24 16:49:29 +00008265- shlex.split() now has an optional "posix" parameter.
8266
Brett Cannon41bf2fa2007-05-20 23:57:38 +00008267- The posixfile module now raises a DeprecationWarning.
8268
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008269- Remove the gopherlib module. This also leads to the removal of
8270 gopher support in urllib/urllib2.
Brett Cannond75f0432007-05-16 22:42:29 +00008271
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008272- Fix bug in marshal where bad data would cause a segfault due to lack
8273 of an infinite recursion check.
Neal Norwitzb1a9b372007-05-16 20:05:11 +00008274
Neal Norwitze0e70a42007-05-16 05:06:33 +00008275- Removed plat-freebsd2 and plat-freebsd3 directories (and IN.py in
8276 the directories).
8277
Georg Brandla09a96a2007-05-15 20:19:34 +00008278- HTML-escape the plain traceback in cgitb's HTML output, to prevent
8279 the traceback inadvertently or maliciously closing the comment and
8280 injecting HTML into the error page.
8281
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008282- The popen2 module and os.popen* are deprecated. Use the subprocess
8283 module.
Neal Norwitz42dd86b2007-05-11 06:57:33 +00008284
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008285- Added an optional credentials argument to SMTPHandler, for use with
8286 SMTP servers which require authentication.
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00008287
8288- Patch #1695948: Added optional timeout parameter to SocketHandler.
8289
8290- Bug #1652788: Minor fix for currentframe.
8291
8292- Patch #1598415: Added WatchedFileHandler to better support external
8293 log file rotation using e.g. newsyslog or logrotate. This handler is
8294 only useful in Unix/Linux environments.
8295
Georg Brandlfb4b3b72007-04-24 15:27:13 +00008296- Bug #1706381: Specifying the SWIG option "-c++" in the setup.py file
8297 (as opposed to the command line) will now write file names ending in
8298 ".cpp" too.
8299
Facundo Batistad918a652007-04-24 13:54:38 +00008300- As specified in RFC 2616, an HTTP response like 2xx indicates that
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008301 the client's request was successfully received, understood, and
8302 accepted. Now in these cases no error is raised in urllib (issue
8303 #1177) and urllib2.
Facundo Batistad918a652007-04-24 13:54:38 +00008304
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008305- Bug #1290505: time.strptime's internal cache of locale information
8306 is now properly recreated when the locale is changed.
Brett Cannonc6906652007-04-01 18:47:27 +00008307
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008308- Patch #1685563: remove (don't add) duplicate paths in
8309 distutils.MSVCCompiler.
Neal Norwitz8f35f442007-04-01 18:24:22 +00008310
Facundo Batistab6a5c9d2007-03-29 18:22:35 +00008311- Added a timeout parameter to the constructor of other protocols
8312 (telnetlib, ftplib, smtplib and poplib). This is second part of the
8313 work started with create_connection() and timeout in httplib, and
8314 closes patch #723312.
8315
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00008316- Patch #1676823: Added create_connection() to socket.py, which may be
8317 called with a timeout, and use it from httplib (whose HTTPConnection
Facundo Batista70f996b2007-05-21 17:32:32 +00008318 and HTTPSConnection now accept an optional timeout).
Facundo Batista07c78be2007-03-23 18:54:07 +00008319
Martin v. Löwis0af33882007-03-23 13:27:15 +00008320- Bug #978833: Revert r50844, as it broke _socketobject.dup.
8321
Žiga Seilnacht7492e422007-03-21 20:07:56 +00008322- Bug #1675967: re patterns pickled with Python 2.4 and earlier can
8323 now be unpickled with Python 2.5 and newer.
8324
Collin Wintera8785cc2007-03-19 18:52:08 +00008325- Patch #1630118: add a SpooledTemporaryFile class to tempfile.py.
8326
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008327- Patch #1273829: os.walk() now has a "followlinks" parameter. If set
8328 to True (which is not the default), it visits symlinks pointing to
Georg Brandlcae9f3d2007-03-21 09:10:29 +00008329 directories.
8330
Georg Brandl8f06d022007-03-16 07:55:09 +00008331- Bug #1681228: the webbrowser module now correctly uses the default
8332 GNOME or KDE browser, depending on whether there is a session of one
8333 of those present. Also, it tries the Windows default browser before
8334 trying Mozilla variants.
8335
Collin Winter6f187742007-03-16 22:16:08 +00008336- Patch #1339796: add a relpath() function to os.path.
8337
Georg Brandlab1f4672007-03-15 07:41:30 +00008338- Patch #1681153: the wave module now closes a file object it opened if
8339 initialization failed.
8340
Georg Brandlf66b6032007-03-14 08:27:52 +00008341- Bug #767111: fix long-standing bug in urllib which caused an
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008342 AttributeError instead of an IOError when the server's response
8343 didn't contain a valid HTTP status line.
Georg Brandlf66b6032007-03-14 08:27:52 +00008344
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008345- Patch #957650: "%var%" environment variable references are now
8346 properly expanded in ntpath.expandvars(), also "~user" home
8347 directory references are recognized and handled on Windows.
Georg Brandl03b90d82007-03-13 22:07:36 +00008348
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008349- Patch #1429539: pdb now correctly initializes the __main__ module
8350 for the debugged script, which means that imports from __main__ work
Georg Brandlb6ae6aa2007-03-13 21:58:44 +00008351 correctly now.
8352
Georg Brandlbad6f192007-03-13 21:32:56 +00008353- The nonobvious commands.getstatus() function is now deprecated.
8354
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008355- Patch #1393667: pdb now has a "run" command which restarts the
8356 debugged Python program, optionally with different arguments.
Georg Brandl8e84c652007-03-13 21:08:15 +00008357
Thomas Heller5dc4fe02007-03-13 20:42:52 +00008358- Patch #1649190: Adding support for _Bool to ctypes as c_bool.
8359
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008360- Patch #1530482: add pydoc.render_doc() which returns the
8361 documentation for a thing instead of paging it to stdout, which
8362 pydoc.doc() does.
Georg Brandl8441f152007-03-13 20:02:57 +00008363
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008364- Patch #1533909: the timeit module now accepts callables in addition
8365 to strings for the code to time and the setup code. Also added two
8366 convenience functions for instantiating a Timer and calling its
8367 methods.
Georg Brandld9bef352007-03-13 19:32:21 +00008368
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008369- Patch #1537850: tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile now has a "delete"
8370 parameter which can be set to False to prevent the default
8371 delete-on-close behavior.
Georg Brandl35ef9c12007-03-13 18:31:49 +00008372
Georg Brandl9e6b4702007-03-13 18:15:41 +00008373- Patch #1581073: add a flag to textwrap that prevents the dropping of
8374 whitespace while wrapping.
8375
Georg Brandl92a6bae2007-03-13 17:43:32 +00008376- Patch #1603688: ConfigParser.SafeConfigParser now checks values that
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008377 are set for invalid interpolation sequences that would lead to
8378 errors on reading back those values.
Georg Brandl92a6bae2007-03-13 17:43:32 +00008379
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008380- Added support for the POSIX.1-2001 (pax) format to
8381 tarfile.py. Extended and cleaned up the test suite. Added a new
8382 testtar.tar.
Lars Gustäbelc64e4022007-03-13 10:47:19 +00008383
Martin v. Löwisbdd0f392007-03-13 10:24:00 +00008384- Patch #1449244: Support Unicode strings in
8385 email.message.Message.{set_charset,get_content_charset}.
8386
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008387- Patch #1542681: add entries for "with", "as" and "CONTEXTMANAGERS"
8388 to pydoc's help keywords.
Georg Brandlb6a87542007-03-13 10:06:48 +00008389
Georg Brandl4ffc8f52007-03-13 09:41:31 +00008390- Patch #1555098: use str.join() instead of repeated string
8391 concatenation in robotparser.
8392
Georg Brandl94fe3f52007-03-13 09:32:11 +00008393- Patch #1635454: the csv.DictWriter class now includes the offending
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008394 field names in its exception message if you try to write a record
8395 with a dictionary containing fields not in the CSV field names list.
Georg Brandl94fe3f52007-03-13 09:32:11 +00008396
Georg Brandlceede5c2007-03-13 08:14:27 +00008397- Patch #1668100: urllib2 now correctly raises URLError instead of
8398 OSError if accessing a local file via the file:// protocol fails.
8399
Martin v. Löwis2681beb2007-03-12 11:01:10 +00008400- Patch #1677862: Require a space or tab after import in .pth files.
8401
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008402- Patch #1192590: Fix pdb's "ignore" and "condition" commands so they
8403 trap the IndexError caused by passing in an invalid breakpoint
8404 number.
Collin Winter2faa9e12007-03-11 16:00:20 +00008405
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008406- Patch #1599845: Add an option to disable the implicit calls to
8407 server_bind() and server_activate() in the constructors for
8408 TCPServer, SimpleXMLRPCServer and DocXMLRPCServer.
Collin Winterae041062007-03-10 14:41:48 +00008409
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008410- Bug #1531963: Make SocketServer.TCPServer's server_address always be
8411 equal to calling getsockname() on the server's socket. Fixed by
Collin Winterfaaa2042007-03-10 03:35:34 +00008412 patch #1545011.
Collin Winter22c42ba2007-03-10 02:51:26 +00008413
Andrew M. Kuchlinge45a77a2008-01-19 16:26:13 +00008414- Patch #742598: Add .timeout attribute to SocketServer that calls
8415 .handle_timeout() when no requests are received.
8416
Thomas Heller2456a3c2007-03-09 20:39:22 +00008417- Bug #1651235: When a tuple was passed to a ctypes function call,
8418 Python would crash instead of raising an error.
8419
Thomas Hellerc2f77252007-03-09 19:21:28 +00008420- Bug #1646630: ctypes.string_at(buf, 0) and ctypes.wstring_at(buf, 0)
8421 returned string up to the first NUL character.
8422
Martin v. Löwis1190a382007-03-09 15:35:55 +00008423- Patch #957003: Implement smtplib.LMTP.
8424
Collin Winterfb728de2007-03-09 03:26:32 +00008425- Patch #1481079: add support for HTTP_REFERER to CGIHTTPServer.
8426
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008427- Patch #1675424: Added tests for uncovered code in the zipfile
8428 module. The KeyError raised by Zipfile.getinfo for nonexistent
8429 names now has a descriptive message.
Georg Brandl4b3ab6f2007-07-12 09:59:22 +00008430
Martin v. Löwis05c075d2007-03-07 11:04:33 +00008431- Bug #1115886: os.path.splitext('.cshrc') gives now ('.cshrc', '').
8432
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008433- unittest now verifies more of its assumptions. In particular,
8434 TestCase and TestSuite subclasses (not instances) are no longer
8435 accepted in TestSuite.addTest(). This should cause no
8436 incompatibility since it never made sense with ordinary subclasses
8437 -- the failure just occurred later, with a more cumbersome
8438 exception.
Georg Brandl9caadf82007-03-08 18:37:31 +00008439
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008440- Patch #787789: allow to pass custom TestRunner instances to
8441 unittest's main() function.
Georg Brandld0a96252007-03-07 09:21:06 +00008442
Georg Brandl15c5ce92007-03-07 09:09:40 +00008443- Patches #1550273, #1550272: fix a few bugs in unittest and add a
8444 comprehensive test suite for the module.
8445
Georg Brandl71ff6462007-03-07 08:31:51 +00008446- Patch #1001604: glob.glob() now returns unicode filenames if it was
8447 given a unicode argument and os.listdir() returns unicode filenames.
8448
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008449- Patch #1673619: setup.py identifies extension modules it doesn't
8450 know how to build and those it knows how to build but that fail to
8451 build.
Skip Montanarod1287322007-03-06 15:41:38 +00008452
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00008453- Patch #912410: Replace HTML entity references for attribute values
Martin v. Löwisab8a6bb2007-03-06 14:43:00 +00008454 in HTMLParser.
8455
Georg Brandlff432e62007-03-06 13:37:45 +00008456- Patch #1663234: you can now run doctest on test files and modules
8457 using "python -m doctest [-v] filename ...".
8458
Martin v. Löwis3eb76482007-03-06 10:41:24 +00008459- Patch #1121142: Implement ZipFile.open.
8460
Skip Montanarof694b1b2007-03-04 20:54:12 +00008461- Taught setup.py how to locate Berkeley DB on Macs using MacPorts.
8462
Raymond Hettinger00166c52007-02-19 04:08:43 +00008463- Added heapq.merge() for merging sorted input streams.
8464
Raymond Hettingercd3c1082007-10-23 21:23:07 +00008465- Added collections.namedtuple() for assigning field names to tuples.
Raymond Hettingerc37e5e02007-03-01 06:16:43 +00008466
Raymond Hettingerd36862c2007-02-21 05:20:38 +00008467- Added itertools.izip_longest().
8468
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008469- Have the encoding package's search function dynamically import using
8470 absolute import semantics.
Brett Cannon971a0122007-02-15 22:54:39 +00008471
Lars Gustäbel5b1a7852007-02-13 16:09:24 +00008472- Patch #1647484: Renamed GzipFile's filename attribute to name.
8473
Martin v. Löwis84f6de92007-02-13 10:10:39 +00008474- Patch #1517891: Mode 'a' for ZipFile now creates the file if it
8475 doesn't exist.
8476
Martin v. Löwisc6d626e2007-02-13 09:49:38 +00008477- Patch #698833: Support file decryption in zipfile.
8478
Martin v. Löwis07aa3ed2007-02-13 08:34:45 +00008479- Patch #685268: Consider a package's __path__ in imputil.
8480
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008481- Patch #1463026: Support default namespace in XMLGenerator.
Martin v. Löwis2bad58f2007-02-12 12:21:10 +00008482
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008483- Patch #1571379: Make trace's --ignore-dir facility work in the face
8484 of relative directory names.
Skip Montanaro691acf22007-02-11 18:24:37 +00008485
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008486- Bug #1600860: Search for shared python library in LIBDIR, not
8487 lib/python/config, on "linux" and "gnu" systems.
Martin v. Löwis0a203262007-02-09 12:36:48 +00008488
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008489- Patch #1652681: tarfile.py: create nonexistent files in append mode
8490 and allow appending to empty files.
Lars Gustäbel3f8aca12007-02-06 18:38:13 +00008491
Peter Astrand5f9c6ae2007-02-06 15:37:50 +00008492- Bug #1124861: Automatically create pipes if GetStdHandle fails in
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00008493 subprocess.
Peter Astrand5f9c6ae2007-02-06 15:37:50 +00008494
Georg Brandl4ba9e5b2007-01-27 17:59:42 +00008495- Patch #1634778: add missing encoding aliases for iso8859_15 and
8496 iso8859_16.
8497
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008498- Patch #1638243: the compiler package is now able to correctly
8499 compile a with statement; previously, executing code containing a
8500 with statement compiled by the compiler package crashed the
8501 interpreter.
Georg Brandlab496842007-01-27 17:43:02 +00008502
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00008503- Bug #1643943: Fix time.strptime's support for the %U directive.
8504
Lars Gustäbel0713a682007-02-19 09:54:47 +00008505- Patch #1507247: tarfile.py: use current umask for intermediate
8506 directories.
8507
Georg Brandldd7b0522007-01-21 10:35:10 +00008508- Patch #1627441: close sockets properly in urllib2.
8509
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008510- Bug #494589: make ntpath.expandvars behave according to its
8511 docstring.
Sjoerd Mullender33a0a062007-01-16 16:42:38 +00008512
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00008513- Changed platform module API python_version_tuple() to actually
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00008514 return a tuple (it used to return a list).
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00008515
8516- Added new platform module APIs python_branch(), python_revision(),
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00008517 python_implementation() and linux_distribution().
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00008518
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00008519- Added support for IronPython and Jython to the platform module.
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00008520
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008521- The sets module has been deprecated. Use the built-in set/frozenset
8522 types instead.
Brett Cannon093b6702007-01-13 00:29:49 +00008523
Thomas Heller6fd45492007-01-12 20:21:53 +00008524- Bug #1610795: make ctypes.util.find_library work on BSD systems.
8525
Thomas Heller8138c262007-01-11 21:18:56 +00008526- Fixes for 64-bit Windows: In ctypes.wintypes, correct the
8527 definitions of HANDLE, WPARAM, LPARAM data types. Make
8528 parameterless foreign function calls work.
8529
Thomas Hellerfb9d7872007-01-10 20:12:13 +00008530- The version number of the ctypes package changed to "1.1.0".
8531
Vinay Sajipab41c102007-01-09 14:51:36 +00008532- Bug #1627575: logging: Added _open() method to FileHandler which can
8533 be used to reopen files. The FileHandler instance now saves the
8534 encoding (which can be None) in an attribute called "encoding".
8535
Vinay Sajipc9137262007-01-08 18:52:36 +00008536- Bug #411881: logging.handlers: bare except clause removed from
8537 SMTPHandler.emit. Now, only ImportError is trapped.
8538
8539- Bug #411881: logging.handlers: bare except clause removed from
8540 SocketHandler.createSocket. Now, only socket.error is trapped.
8541
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008542- Bug #411881: logging: bare except clause removed from
8543 LogRecord.__init__. Now, only ValueError, TypeError and
8544 AttributeError are trapped.
Vinay Sajipc9137262007-01-08 18:52:36 +00008545
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008546- Patch #1504073: Fix tarfile.open() for mode "r" with a fileobj
8547 argument.
Lars Gustäbela7ba6fc2006-12-27 10:30:46 +00008548
Andrew M. Kuchling71662322006-12-27 03:31:24 +00008549- Patch #1182394 from Shane Holloway: speed up HMAC.hexdigest.
8550
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008551- Patch #1262036: Prevent TarFiles from being added to themselves
8552 under certain conditions.
Lars Gustäbela4b23812006-12-23 17:57:23 +00008553
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008554- Patch #1230446: tarfile.py: fix ExFileObject so that read() and
8555 tell() work correctly together with readline().
Lars Gustäbel6baa5022006-12-23 16:40:13 +00008556
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008557- Patch #1484695: The tarfile module now raises a HeaderError
8558 exception if a buffer given to frombuf() is invalid.
Georg Brandlebbeed72006-12-19 22:06:46 +00008559
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00008560- Bug #1503765: Fix a problem in logging.config with spaces in comma-
8561 separated lists read from logging config files.
8562
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008563- Patch #1604907: Fix problems in logging.handlers caused at logging
8564 shutdown when syslog handlers fail to initialize because of syslogd
8565 problems.
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00008566
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008567- Patch #1608267: fix a race condition in os.makedirs() if the
8568 directory to be created is already there.
Georg Brandlb1307432006-12-09 09:08:29 +00008569
Georg Brandl87fa5592006-12-06 22:21:18 +00008570- Patch #1610437: fix a tarfile bug with long filename headers.
8571
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008572- Patch #1371075: Make ConfigParser accept optional dict type for
8573 ordering, sorting, etc.
Martin v. Löwisa00bcac2006-12-03 12:01:53 +00008574
Thomas Helleref583a42006-11-28 20:21:54 +00008575- Bug #1563807: _ctypes built on AIX fails with ld ffi error.
8576
Thomas Heller25d208b2006-11-24 18:45:39 +00008577- Bug #1598620: A ctypes Structure cannot contain itself.
8578
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008579- Patch #1070046: Marshal new-style objects like InstanceType in
8580 xmlrpclib.
Martin v. Löwis07529352006-11-19 18:51:54 +00008581
Martin v. Löwiscffcc8b2006-11-19 10:41:41 +00008582- cStringIO.truncate(-1) now raises an IOError, like StringIO and
8583 regular files.
8584
Martin v. Löwisbba003e2006-11-18 18:42:11 +00008585- Patch #1472877: Fix Tix subwidget name resolution.
8586
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008587- Patch #1594554: Always close a tkSimpleDialog on ok(), even if an
8588 exception occurs.
Martin v. Löwisef5fd3e2006-11-18 18:05:35 +00008589
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008590- Patch #1538878: Don't make tkSimpleDialog dialogs transient if the
8591 parent window is withdrawn.
Martin v. Löwisc73a4a42006-11-18 18:00:23 +00008592
Georg Brandl54082112006-11-16 16:50:59 +00008593- Bug #1597824: return the registered function from atexit.register()
8594 to facilitate usage as a decorator.
8595
Martin v. Löwis45cd4ff2006-11-12 18:56:03 +00008596- Patch #1360200: Use unmangled_version RPM spec field to deal with
8597 file name mangling.
8598
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008599- Patch #1359217: Process 2xx response in an ftplib transfer that
8600 precedes an 1xx response.
Martin v. Löwis36cbc082006-11-12 18:48:13 +00008601
Martin v. Löwis065f0c82006-11-12 10:41:39 +00008602- Patch #1355023: support whence argument for GzipFile.seek.
8603
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00008604- Patch #1065257: Support passing open files as body in
Martin v. Löwis040a9272006-11-12 10:32:47 +00008605 HTTPConnection.request().
8606
Andrew M. Kuchlinga3e5d372006-11-09 13:27:07 +00008607- Bug #1569790: mailbox.py: Maildir.get_folder() and MH.get_folder()
8608 weren't passing the message factory on to newly created Maildir/MH
8609 objects.
8610
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008611- Patch #1514543: mailbox.py: In the Maildir class, report errors if
8612 there's a filename clash instead of possibly losing a message.
8613 (Patch by David Watson.)
Andrew M. Kuchling978d8282006-11-09 21:16:46 +00008614
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008615- Patch #1514544: Try to ensure that messages/indexes have been
8616 physically written to disk after calling .flush() or
8617 .close(). (Patch by David Watson.)
Andrew M. Kuchlingb5686da2006-11-09 13:51:14 +00008618
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00008619- Patch #1592250: Add elide argument to Tkinter.Text.search.
Martin v. Löwis038cad72006-11-09 11:27:32 +00008620
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00008621- Patch #838546: Make terminal become controlling in pty.fork().
Martin v. Löwisb2bba732006-11-09 11:06:03 +00008622
Martin v. Löwis5361e9a2006-11-08 07:35:55 +00008623- Patch #1351744: Add askyesnocancel helper for tkMessageBox.
8624
Martin v. Löwis5310e502006-11-04 18:14:06 +00008625- Patch #1060577: Extract list of RPM files from spec file in
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00008626 bdist_rpm.
Martin v. Löwis5310e502006-11-04 18:14:06 +00008627
Georg Brandl2c9838e2006-10-29 14:39:09 +00008628- Bug #1586613: fix zlib and bz2 codecs' incremental en/decoders.
8629
Georg Brandl3354f282006-10-29 09:16:12 +00008630- Patch #1583880: fix tarfile's problems with long names and posix/
8631 GNU modes.
8632
Georg Brandl5addf702006-10-29 08:53:06 +00008633- Bug #1586448: the compiler module now emits the same bytecode for
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00008634 list comprehensions as the built-in compiler, using the LIST_APPEND
Georg Brandl5addf702006-10-29 08:53:06 +00008635 opcode.
8636
Georg Brandl8f99f812006-10-29 08:39:22 +00008637- Fix codecs.EncodedFile which did not use file_encoding in 2.5.0, and
8638 fix all codecs file wrappers to work correctly with the "with"
8639 statement (bug #1586513).
8640
Thomas Heller112d1a62006-10-27 19:05:53 +00008641- Lib/modulefinder.py now handles absolute and relative imports
8642 correctly.
8643
Martin v. Löwisee82c0e2006-10-27 07:13:28 +00008644- Patch #1567274: Support SMTP over TLS.
8645
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008646- Patch #1560695: Add .note.GNU-stack to ctypes' sysv.S so that ctypes
8647 isn't considered as requiring executable stacks.
Martin v. Löwis1b2f6272006-10-22 10:55:15 +00008648
Thomas Hellerd2ea4a22006-10-17 19:30:48 +00008649- ctypes callback functions only support 'fundamental' data types as
8650 result type. Raise an error when something else is used. This is a
8651 partial fix for Bug #1574584.
8652
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008653- Fix turtle so that time.sleep is imported for the entire library.
8654 Allows the demo2 function to be executed on its own instead of only
8655 when the module is run as a script.
Brett Cannond80e0c82006-10-16 03:09:52 +00008656
Martin v. Löwisf43893a2006-10-09 20:44:25 +00008657- Bug #1565150: Fix subsecond processing for os.utime on Windows.
8658
Martin v. Löwis8b274262006-10-04 15:25:28 +00008659- Support for MSVC 8 was added to bdist_wininst.
8660
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008661- Bug #1446043: correctly raise a LookupError if an encoding name
8662 given to encodings.search_function() contains a dot.
Georg Brandla92979a2006-09-30 11:22:28 +00008663
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008664- Bug #1560617: in pyclbr, return full module name not only for
8665 classes, but also for functions.
Georg Brandl154324a2006-09-30 11:06:47 +00008666
Georg Brandl05b3c452006-09-30 10:58:01 +00008667- Bug #1457823: cgi.(Sv)FormContentDict's constructor now takes
8668 keep_blank_values and strict_parsing keyword arguments.
8669
Georg Brandl8d1e5bf2006-09-30 09:13:21 +00008670- Bug #1566602: correct failure of posixpath unittest when $HOME ends
8671 with a slash.
8672
Georg Brandl8c667452006-09-30 07:31:57 +00008673- Bug #1565661: in webbrowser, split() the command for the default
8674 GNOME browser in case it is a command with args.
8675
Georg Brandl5a85d5c2009-06-24 06:41:19 +00008676- Made the error message for time.strptime when the data and
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008677 format do match be more clear.
Brett Cannon11b35352006-09-26 23:38:24 +00008678
Georg Brandlc7986ce2006-09-24 12:50:24 +00008679- Fix a bug in traceback.format_exception_only() that led to an error
8680 being raised when print_exc() was called without an exception set.
8681 In version 2.4, this printed "None", restored that behavior.
8682
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008683- Make webbrowser.BackgroundBrowser usable in Windows (it wasn't
8684 because the close_fds arg to subprocess.Popen is not supported).
Georg Brandl2c94bf72006-09-24 10:36:01 +00008685
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008686- Reverted patch #1504333 to sgmllib because it introduced an infinite
8687 loop.
Neal Norwitzbcc119a2006-09-11 04:24:09 +00008688
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008689- Patch #1553314: Fix the inspect.py slowdown that was hurting IPython
8690 & SAGE by adding smarter caching in inspect.getmodule()
Nick Coghlanb3c18f82006-09-08 10:04:38 +00008691
Georg Brandl4e933132006-09-06 20:05:58 +00008692- Fix missing import of the types module in logging.config.
8693
Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +00008694- Patch #1550886: Fix decimal module context management implementation
Neal Norwitza22975f2006-09-05 02:24:03 +00008695 to match the localcontext() example from PEP 343.
Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +00008696
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008697- Bug #1545341: The 'classifier' keyword argument to the Distutils
8698 setup() function now accepts tuples as well as lists.
Andrew M. Kuchling99994792006-10-09 17:10:12 +00008699
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008700- Bug #1541863: uuid.uuid1 failed to generate unique identifiers on
8701 systems with low clock resolution.
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00008702
Gustavo Niemeyerc36bede2006-09-07 00:48:33 +00008703- Bug #1531862: Do not close standard file descriptors in subprocess.
8704
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008705- Fix utf-8-sig incremental decoder, which didn't recognise a BOM when
8706 the first chunk fed to the decoder started with a BOM, but was
8707 longer than 3 bytes.
Georg Brandl27562782006-10-27 20:39:43 +00008708
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008709- The implementation of UnicodeError objects has been simplified
8710 (start and end attributes are now stored directly as Py_ssize_t
8711 members).
Walter Dörwald84a3efe2007-06-13 16:57:12 +00008712
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008713- Issue #829951: In the smtplib module, SMTP.starttls() now complies
8714 with RFC 3207 and forgets any knowledge obtained from the server not
8715 obtained from the TLS negotiation itself. Patch contributed by Bill
8716 Fenner.
Gregory P. Smith2b3ba582008-01-17 08:03:17 +00008717
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008718- Issue #1339: The smtplib.SMTP class has been refactored a bit such
Gregory P. Smithbde4ae42008-01-17 08:35:49 +00008719 that the SMTP.starttls() caller no longer needs to call ehlo()
8720 beforehand. SMTP.starttls() now raises an exception of the server
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008721 does not claim to support starttls. Adds the
8722 SMTP.ehlo_or_helo_if_needed() method. Patch contributed by Bill
8723 Fenner.
Gregory P. Smithbde4ae42008-01-17 08:35:49 +00008724
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008725- Patch #1089358: Add signal.siginterrupt, a wrapper around
8726 siginterrupt(3).
Georg Brandl29604a12008-01-26 14:03:47 +00008727
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00008728Extension Modules
8729-----------------
8730
Georg Brandl392c6fc2008-05-25 07:25:25 +00008731- Patch #1657: added select.epoll and select.kqueue.
Christian Heimes0e9ab5f2008-03-21 23:49:44 +00008732
Georg Brandlebcfd112008-02-23 23:04:35 +00008733- Patch #1506171: added operator.methodcaller().
8734
Georg Brandle2065c62008-02-23 23:02:23 +00008735- Patch #1826: operator.attrgetter() now supports dotted attribute paths.
8736
Georg Brandl392c6fc2008-05-25 07:25:25 +00008737- Patch #1957: syslogmodule: Release GIL when calling syslog(3).
Christian Heimesf0476e82008-02-23 17:42:31 +00008738
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008739- Bug #2112: mmap.error is now a subclass of EnvironmentError and not
8740 a direct EnvironmentError.
Facundo Batistae1396882008-02-17 18:59:29 +00008741
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008742- Bug #2111: mmap segfaults when trying to write a block opened with
8743 PROT_READ.
Christian Heimes7adfad82008-02-15 08:20:11 +00008744
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008745- Bug #2063: correct order of utime and stime in os.times() result on
8746 Windows.
Georg Brandl0a40ffb2008-02-13 07:20:22 +00008747
Martin v. Löwise0d30ef2008-02-12 13:47:26 +00008748- Patch #1736: Fix file name handling of _msi.FCICreate.
8749
Hye-Shik Chang01612e72008-02-08 17:10:20 +00008750- Updated ``big5hkscs`` codec to the HKSCS revision of 2004.
8751
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008752- Issue #1940: make it possible to use curses.filter() before
8753 curses.initscr() as the documentation says.
Georg Brandl29604a12008-01-26 14:03:47 +00008754
Christian Heimes7f39c9f2008-01-25 12:18:43 +00008755- Backport of _fileio module from Python 3.0.
8756
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008757- Patch #1087741: mmap.mmap is now a class, not a factory function. It
8758 is also subclassable now.
Georg Brandl5ca3fd82008-01-21 14:18:14 +00008759
Georg Brandl56112892008-01-20 13:59:46 +00008760- Patch #1648: added ``sys.getprofile()`` and ``sys.gettrace()``.
8761
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008762- Patch #1663329: added ``os.closerange()`` function to quickly close
8763 a range of file descriptors without considering errors.
Georg Brandl309501a2008-01-19 20:22:13 +00008764
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008765- Patch #976880: ``mmap`` objects now have an ``rfind`` method that
Andrew M. Kuchling5c60bfc2008-01-19 18:18:41 +00008766 works as expected. ``mmap.find`` also takes an optional ``end``
8767 parameter.
8768
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008769- _winreg's HKEY object has gained __enter__ and __exit__ methods to
8770 support the context manager protocol. The _winreg module also
8771 gained a new function ``ExpandEnvironmentStrings`` to expand
8772 REG_EXPAND_SZ keys.
Christian Heimesb39a7562008-01-08 15:46:10 +00008773
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008774- itertools.starmap() now accepts any iterable input. Previously, it
8775 required the function inputs to be tuples.
Raymond Hettinger47317092008-01-17 03:02:14 +00008776
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008777- itertools.chain() now has an alternate constructor,
8778 chain.from_iterable().
Raymond Hettingerb4cbc982008-02-28 22:46:41 +00008779
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008780- Issue #1646: Make socket support TIPC. The socket module now has
8781 support for TIPC under Linux, see http://tipc.sf.net/ for more
8782 information.
Christian Heimesfb2d25a2008-01-07 16:12:44 +00008783
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008784- Added interface for Windows' WSAIoctl to socket object and added an
8785 example for a simple network sniffer.
Christian Heimes04ae9162008-01-04 15:23:30 +00008786
Guido van Rossum076d9ee2008-01-03 23:54:04 +00008787- Bug #1301: Bad assert in _tkinter fixed.
8788
Christian Heimescdaa2cb2007-12-31 14:47:07 +00008789- Added bdist_wininst executable for VS 2008.
8790
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008791- Bug #1604: collections.deque.__init__(iterable) now clears any prior
8792 contents before adding elements from the iterable. This fix brings
8793 the behavior into line with that for list.__init__().
Raymond Hettingeradf9ffd2007-12-13 00:08:37 +00008794
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008795- Added wide char functions to msvcrt module: getwch, getwche, putwch
8796 and ungetwch. The functions accept or return unicode.
Christian Heimes7c7f6af2007-12-10 15:12:41 +00008797
Martin v. Löwis69233e82007-12-04 08:39:16 +00008798- os.access now returns True on Windows for any existing directory.
8799
Christian Heimes28104c52007-11-27 23:16:44 +00008800- Added warnpy3k function to the warnings module.
8801
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008802- Marshal.dumps() now expects exact type matches for int, long, float,
8803 complex, tuple, list, dict, set, and frozenset. Formerly, it would
8804 silently miscode subclasses of those types. Now, it raises a
8805 ValueError instead.
Raymond Hettinger12e94202007-11-07 01:13:09 +00008806
Martin v. Löwis58bd49f2007-09-04 13:13:14 +00008807- Patch #1388440: Add set_completion_display_matches_hook and
8808 get_completion_type to readline.
8809
Thomas Helleref4fff32007-07-13 17:46:54 +00008810- Bug #1649098: Avoid declaration of zero-sized array declaration in
8811 structure.
8812
Brett Cannondc48b742007-05-20 07:09:50 +00008813- Removed the rgbimg module; been deprecated since Python 2.5.
8814
Neal Norwitz59f58aa2007-05-19 03:48:47 +00008815- Bug #1721309: prevent bsddb module from freeing random memory.
8816
Gregory P. Smith82eafe62007-10-18 17:17:57 +00008817- Bug #1233: fix bsddb.dbshelve.DBShelf append method to work as
8818 intended for RECNO databases.
8819
Gregory P. Smithec10a4a2007-11-05 02:32:26 +00008820- pybsddb.sf.net Bug #477182: Load the database flags at database open
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008821 time so that opening a database previously created with the DB_DUP
8822 or DB_DUPSORT flag set will keep the proper behavior on subsequent
8823 opens. Specifically: dictionary assignment to a DB object will
8824 replace all values for a given key when the database allows
8825 duplicate values. DB users should use DB.put(k, v) when they want
8826 to store duplicates; not DB[k] = v.
Gregory P. Smithec10a4a2007-11-05 02:32:26 +00008827
Gregory P. Smithac11e022007-11-05 02:56:31 +00008828- Add the bsddb.db.DBEnv.lock_id_free method.
8829
Martin v. Löwis3bf573f2007-04-04 18:30:36 +00008830- Bug #1686475: Support stat'ing open files on Windows again.
8831
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008832- Patch #1185447: binascii.b2a_qp() now correctly quotes binary
8833 characters with ASCII value less than 32. Also, it correctly quotes
8834 dots only if they occur on a single line, as opposed to the previous
8835 behavior of quoting dots if they are the second character of any
8836 line.
Georg Brandl4aef7272007-03-13 22:49:43 +00008837
Georg Brandla47337f2007-03-13 12:34:25 +00008838- Bug #1622896: fix a rare corner case where the bz2 module raised an
8839 error in spite of a succesful compression.
8840
Georg Brandl40c62612007-03-06 18:59:11 +00008841- Patch #1654417: make operator.{get,set,del}slice use the full range
8842 of Py_ssize_t.
8843
Guido van Rossum2054ee92007-03-06 15:50:01 +00008844- Patch #1646728: datetime.fromtimestamp fails with negative
8845 fractional times. With unittest.
8846
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008847- Patch #1490190: posixmodule now includes os.chflags() and
8848 os.lchflags() functions on platforms where the underlying system
8849 calls are available.
Martin v. Löwis382abef2007-02-19 10:55:19 +00008850
Georg Brandl983d1002007-02-15 11:29:04 +00008851- Patch #1494140: Add documentation for the new struct.Struct object.
8852
Martin v. Löwis45423a72007-02-14 10:07:37 +00008853- Patch #1432399: Support the HCI protocol for bluetooth sockets
8854
Martin v. Löwisb1cc1d42007-02-13 12:14:19 +00008855- Patch #1657276: Make NETLINK_DNRTMSG conditional.
8856
Martin v. Löwis4c11a922007-02-08 09:13:36 +00008857- Bug #1653736: Complain about keyword arguments to time.isoformat.
8858
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008859- Bug #1486663: don't reject keyword arguments for subclasses of
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00008860 built-in types.
Georg Brandlb84c1372007-01-21 10:28:43 +00008861
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008862- Patch #1610575: The struct module now supports the 't' code, for C99
8863 _Bool.
Martin v. Löwisaef4c6b2007-01-21 09:33:07 +00008864
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008865- Patch #1635058: ensure that htonl and friends never accept or return
8866 negative numbers, per the underlying C implementation.
Guido van Rossumbb2cc692007-01-14 17:03:32 +00008867
Martin v. Löwis046c4d12006-12-03 11:23:45 +00008868- Patch #1544279: Improve thread-safety of the socket module by moving
8869 the sock_addr_t storage out of the socket object.
8870
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008871- Patch #1019808: fix bug that causes an incorrect error to be
8872 returned when a socket timeout is set and a connection attempt
8873 fails.
Andrew M. Kuchling060e6852008-01-19 20:47:59 +00008874
Neal Norwitz45e230a2006-11-19 21:26:53 +00008875- Speed up function calls into the math module.
8876
Georg Brandl25aabf42006-11-16 17:08:45 +00008877- Bug #1588217: don't parse "= " as a soft line break in binascii's
8878 a2b_qp() function, instead leave it in the string as quopri.decode()
8879 does.
8880
Neal Norwitz4fe44232006-11-21 05:26:22 +00008881- Bug #1599782: Fix segfault on bsddb.db.DB().type().
8882
Martin v. Löwis012bc722006-10-15 09:43:39 +00008883- Bug #1567666: Emulate GetFileAttributesExA for Win95.
8884
Martin v. Löwis18aaa562006-10-15 08:43:33 +00008885- Patch #1576166: Support os.utime for directories on Windows NT+.
8886
Georg Brandl412a9ea2006-10-09 19:03:06 +00008887- Patch #1572724: fix typo ('=' instead of '==') in _msi.c.
8888
Hye-Shik Changb7883462006-10-08 13:48:34 +00008889- Bug #1572832: fix a bug in ISO-2022 codecs which may cause segfault
8890 when encoding non-BMP unicode characters.
8891
Georg Brandl4ddfcd32006-09-30 11:17:34 +00008892- Bug #1556784: allow format strings longer than 127 characters in
8893 datetime's strftime function.
8894
Jack Diederichd10a0f72006-09-21 20:34:49 +00008895- Fix itertools.count(n) to work with negative numbers again.
8896
Martin v. Löwis43fd99c2006-09-16 17:36:37 +00008897- RLIMIT_SBSIZE was added to the resource module where available.
8898
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008899- Bug #1551427: fix a wrong NULL pointer check in the win32 version of
8900 os.urandom().
Georg Brandl74bb7832006-09-06 06:03:59 +00008901
Neal Norwitz6aefa912006-09-02 02:50:35 +00008902- Bug #1548092: fix curses.tparm seg fault on invalid input.
8903
Andrew M. Kuchling62182c82008-01-08 14:56:02 +00008904- Patch #1114: fix curses module compilation on 64-bit AIX, & possibly
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008905 other 64-bit LP64 platforms where attr_t is not the same size as a
8906 long. (Contributed by Luke Mewburn.)
Andrew M. Kuchling62182c82008-01-08 14:56:02 +00008907
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008908- Bug #1550714: fix SystemError from itertools.tee on negative value
8909 for n.
Neal Norwitz69e88972006-09-02 02:58:13 +00008910
Hye-Shik Chang199f1db2006-09-05 12:07:09 +00008911- Fixed a few bugs on cjkcodecs:
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008912 - gbk and gb18030 codec now handle U+30FB KATAKANA MIDDLE DOT
8913 correctly.
Hye-Shik Chang199f1db2006-09-05 12:07:09 +00008914 - iso2022_jp_2 codec now encodes into G0 for KS X 1001, GB2312
8915 codepoints to conform the standard.
Hye-Shik Chang2cad3e92006-09-05 12:14:57 +00008916 - iso2022_jp_3 and iso2022_jp_2004 codec can encode JIS X 0213:2
Hye-Shik Chang199f1db2006-09-05 12:07:09 +00008917 codepoints now.
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00008918
Andrew M. Kuchling43889c02006-09-27 16:37:30 +00008919- Bug #1552726: in readline.c, avoid repeatedly polling in interactive
8920 mode by only placing a timeout on the select() if an input hook has
8921 been defined. This prevents an interactive Python from waking up 10
8922 times per second. Patch by Richard Boulton.
8923
Gregory P. Smithf09c6262007-03-17 22:33:35 +00008924- fixed a bug with bsddb.DB.stat: the flags and txn keyword arguments
8925 were transposed.
8926
Jesus Cea4907d272008-08-31 14:00:51 +00008927- Added support for linking the bsddb module against BerkeleyDB 4.5.x,
8928 4.6.x and 4.7.x.
Gregory P. Smith8b96a352007-01-05 01:59:42 +00008929
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008930- Bug #1633621: if curses.resizeterm() or curses.resize_term() is
8931 called, update _curses.LINES, _curses.COLS, curses.LINES and
8932 curses.COLS.
Andrew M. Kuchling43889c02006-09-27 16:37:30 +00008933
Matthias Klosee19e0c22007-04-03 04:35:59 +00008934- Fix an off-by-one bug in locale.strxfrm().
8935
Matthias Klose38336402007-09-04 20:46:02 +00008936- Fix libffi configure for hppa*-*-linux* | parisc*-*-linux*.
8937
Matthias Klose9afb9852007-10-24 20:00:44 +00008938- Build using system ffi library on arm*-linux*.
8939
Christian Heimes3f065a42007-11-21 01:17:28 +00008940- Bug #1372: zlibmodule.c: int overflow in PyZlib_decompress
Matthias Klosee19e0c22007-04-03 04:35:59 +00008941
Gregory P. Smitheeed5b72008-02-03 07:20:53 +00008942- bsddb module: Fix memory leak when using database cursors on
8943 databases without a DBEnv.
8944
Gerhard Häring11ab8072008-03-02 13:12:27 +00008945- The sqlite3 module was updated to pysqlite 2.4.1.
8946
Serhiy Storchakaff99e412013-04-14 18:52:15 +03008947IDLE
8948----
8949
8950- Bug #813342: Start the IDLE subprocess with -Qnew if the parent is
8951 started with that option.
8952
8953- IDLE: Honor the "Cancel" action in the save dialog (Debian bug
8954 #299092).
8955
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00008956Tests
8957-----
8958
Brett Cannon56c4deb2008-03-03 00:38:58 +00008959- Refactor test_logging to use unittest.
Brett Cannonf9db8a32008-02-17 01:59:18 +00008960
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008961- Refactor test_profile and test_cprofile to use the same code to
8962 profile.
Georg Brandlb7090772008-02-05 19:58:17 +00008963
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008964- Make test_runpy reentrant by fixing _check_module to clear out any
8965 module being tested. Was causing an error by __import__ doing a
8966 reload on the second run and thus suppressing bytecode recreation.
Brett Cannondbed7a72007-08-23 14:53:17 +00008967
Brett Cannonea2835a2007-03-14 21:44:15 +00008968- Capture socket connection resets and timeouts in test_socket_ssl and
8969 test_urllib2net and raise test.test_support.ResourceDenied.
Brett Cannoned001842007-03-14 21:40:13 +00008970
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008971- Patch #1559413: Fix test_cmd_line if sys.executable contains a
8972 space.
Martin v. Löwiscd1210a2007-03-14 20:02:31 +00008973
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008974- Added test.test_support.TransientResource which is a context manager
8975 to surround calls to resources that are not guaranteed to work even
8976 if test.test_support.requires says that the resource should exist.
Brett Cannona30fcb42007-03-08 23:58:11 +00008977
Brett Cannone05e6b02007-01-29 04:41:44 +00008978- Added a test for slicing of an exception.
8979
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008980- Added test.test_support.EnvironmentVarGuard. It's a class that
8981 provides a context manager so that one can temporarily set or unset
8982 environment variables.
Brett Cannon92d54d52007-01-04 00:23:49 +00008983
Thomas Heller112d1a62006-10-27 19:05:53 +00008984- Added some tests for modulefinder.
8985
Brett Cannon373d90b2006-10-03 23:23:14 +00008986- Converted test_imp to use unittest.
8987
Neal Norwitz919d5cc2006-09-05 02:35:08 +00008988- Fix bsddb test_basics.test06_Transactions to check the version
8989 number properly.
8990
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008991- test.test_support.catch_warning is a new context manager that can be
8992 used to catch the warnings issued by the warning framework.
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00008993
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00008994Tools
8995-----
8996
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008997- Tools/scripts/reindent.py now creates the backup file using
8998 shutil.copy to preserve user/group and permissions. Added also a
8999 --nobackup option to not create the backup if the user is concerned
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00009000 regarding this. Check issue #1050828 for more details.
Facundo Batistaf88a0772008-02-17 16:21:13 +00009001
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009002- Tools/scripts/win_add2path.py was added. The simple script modifes
9003 the PATH environment var of the HKCU tree and adds the python bin
9004 and script directory.
Christian Heimesbd865db2008-01-18 11:58:50 +00009005
Skip Montanaro3e275362007-08-29 01:33:45 +00009006- Tools/18n/pygettext.py was added to the list of scripts installed by
9007 Tools/scripts/setup.py (tracker item 642309).
9008
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009009- Added IronPython and Jython support to pybench (part of which was
9010 patch #1563844).
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00009011
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009012- Made some minor changes to pybench output to allow the user to see
9013 which Python version is running pybench.
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00009014
9015- Added support for the new platform module feature
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009016 platform.python_implementation(); this will now be saved in the
9017 benchmark pickle.
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00009018
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00009019
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00009020Documentation
9021-------------
9022
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +00009023- RFE #1765140: Updated documentation on FileHandler and subclasses to
9024 include new optional delay argument.
9025
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009026- Bug #932563: Added section on getting contextual information into
9027 logging output, and added documentation for the new LoggerAdapter
9028 class.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00009029
9030- Bug #1295: Added information about caching of formatted exception
9031 information in the LogRecord by Formatter.format().
9032
Georg Brandl9467bc52007-07-12 09:37:49 +00009033- Bug #1637365: add subsection about "__name__ == __main__" to the
9034 Python tutorial.
9035
Georg Brandl3dc6e902007-04-25 06:24:59 +00009036- Patch #1698768: updated the "using Python on the Mac" intro.
9037
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009038- Bug #1569057: Document that calling file.next() when the file is
9039 open for writing is undefined.
Brett Cannon55a18642007-04-08 04:29:32 +00009040
Žiga Seilnachtc64ad482007-03-24 14:24:26 +00009041- Patch #1489771: the syntax rules in Python Reference Manual were
9042 updated to reflect the current Python syntax.
9043
Martin v. Löwis2f401d72007-03-23 10:35:49 +00009044- Patch #1686451: Fix return type for
9045 PySequence_{Count,Index,Fast_GET_SIZE}.
9046
Georg Brandl0692a262007-03-13 07:50:57 +00009047- Patch #1679379: add documentation for fnmatch.translate().
9048
Collin Winterb7b2b4e2007-03-09 18:09:10 +00009049- Bug #1629566: clarify the docs on the return values of parsedate()
9050 and parsedate_tz() in email.utils and rfc822.
9051
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00009052- Patch #1671450: add a section about subclassing built-in types to the
Georg Brandld28b9fc2007-03-06 10:02:47 +00009053 "extending and embedding" tutorial.
9054
Georg Brandlb26b1c62007-01-17 21:19:58 +00009055- Bug #1629125: fix wrong data type (int -> Py_ssize_t) in PyDict_Next
9056 docs.
9057
Georg Brandla4c8e322006-10-12 08:22:53 +00009058- Bug #1565919: document set types in the Language Reference.
9059
Georg Brandl44a7b3a2006-09-30 12:02:57 +00009060- Bug #1546052: clarify that PyString_FromString(AndSize) copies the
9061 string pointed to by its parameter.
9062
Georg Brandlfb257732006-09-30 09:06:45 +00009063- Bug #1566663: remove obsolete example from datetime docs.
9064
Georg Brandl648c1102006-08-18 07:27:59 +00009065- Bug #1541682: Fix example in the "Refcount details" API docs.
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009066 Additionally, remove a faulty example showing PySequence_SetItem
9067 applied to a newly created list object and add notes that this isn't
9068 a good idea.
Georg Brandl648c1102006-08-18 07:27:59 +00009069
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00009070
Georg Brandl27562782006-10-27 20:39:43 +00009071Tools/Demos
9072-----------
9073
9074- Patch #1552024: add decorator support to unparse.py demo script.
Marc-André Lemburg96148682006-09-06 20:40:22 +00009075
Brett Cannonc8939d22006-09-20 19:28:35 +00009076- Make auto-generated python.vim file list built-ins and exceptions in
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009077 alphatbetical order. Makes output more deterministic and easier to
9078 tell if the file is stale or not.
Brett Cannonc8939d22006-09-20 19:28:35 +00009079
Marc-André Lemburg96148682006-09-06 20:40:22 +00009080- Bug #1546372: Fixed small bugglet in pybench that caused a missing
9081 file not to get reported properly.
9082
9083
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00009084Build
9085-----
9086
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009087- Have the search path for building extensions follow the declared
9088 order in $CPPFLAGS and $LDFLAGS when adding directories from those
9089 environment variables.
Brett Cannon70c0c022008-02-03 09:59:21 +00009090
Christian Heimes951cc0f2008-01-31 23:08:23 +00009091- Bug #1983: Added a check to pyport to verify that sizeof(pid_t) is
9092 smaller or equal sizeof(long).
9093
Christian Heimescba36bb2008-01-30 22:54:18 +00009094- Bug #1234: Fixed semaphore errors on AIX 5.2
9095
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009096- Issue #1726: Remove Python/atof.c from PCBuild/pythoncore.vcproj.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00009097
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009098- Removed PCbuild8/ directory and added a new build directory for VS
9099 2005 based on the VS 2008 build directory to PC/VS8.0. The script
9100 PCbuild/vs8to9.py was added to sync changes from PCbuild to
9101 PC/VS8.0.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00009102
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009103- Moved PCbuild/ directory for VS 2003 to PC/VS7.1 and renamed
9104 PCBuild9/ directory to PCBuild/.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00009105
Martin v. Löwiscb78de62007-12-29 18:49:21 +00009106- Bug #1699: Define _BSD_SOURCE only on OpenBSD.
9107
Guido van Rossum7c862f82007-12-13 20:50:10 +00009108- Bug #1608: use -fwrapv when GCC supports it. This is important,
9109 newer GCC versions may optimize away overflow buffer overflow checks
9110 without this option!
9111
Martin v. Löwis63bf1492007-11-12 05:14:05 +00009112- Patch #1418: Make the AC_REPLACE_FUNCS object files actually work.
9113
Raymond Hettingerdc1d1ba2007-11-07 02:45:46 +00009114- Add a FAST_LOOPS build option that speeds-up looping by trading away
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009115 periodic threadstate and signal checking in tight loops. By
9116 default, this option is turned-off. It should only be enabled in
9117 debugged, performance critical applications.
Raymond Hettingerdc1d1ba2007-11-07 02:45:46 +00009118
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009119- Patch #786737: Allow building in a tree of symlinks pointing to a
9120 readonly source.
Martin v. Löwisd44a4e92007-09-05 11:47:34 +00009121
Martin v. Löwis8bc77e42007-09-01 06:36:03 +00009122- Bug #1737210: Change Manufacturer of Windows installer to PSF.
9123
Martin v. Löwis75c23bd2007-08-30 18:25:47 +00009124- Bug #1746880: Correctly install DLLs into system32 folder on Win64.
9125
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009126- Define _BSD_SOURCE, to get access to POSIX extensions on OpenBSD
9127 4.1+.
Martin v. Löwis76760b02007-07-31 19:57:56 +00009128
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009129- Stop supporting AtheOS and cause a build error in configure for the
9130 platform.
Brett Cannon19fab762007-06-02 03:02:29 +00009131
Georg Brandldb846032007-03-31 18:56:11 +00009132- Bug #1655392: don't add -L/usr/lib/pythonX.Y/config to the LDFLAGS
9133 returned by python-config if Python was built with --enable-shared
9134 because that prevented the shared library from being used.
9135
Georg Brandl18c47f62007-03-13 10:19:22 +00009136- Patch #1569798: fix a bug in distutils when building Python from a
9137 directory within sys.exec_prefix.
9138
Martin v. Löwiseb623572007-03-12 10:50:39 +00009139- Bug #1675511: Use -Kpic instead of -xcode=pic32 on Solaris/x86.
9140
Martin v. Löwis4d542ec2006-11-25 15:39:19 +00009141- Disable _XOPEN_SOURCE on NetBSD 1.x.
9142
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009143- configure now checks whether gcc supports the PyArg_ParseTuple
9144 format attribute.
Martin v. Löwisaac13162006-10-19 10:58:46 +00009145
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00009146- Bug #1578513: Cross compilation was broken by a change to configure.
Martin v. Löwisfefbc202006-10-17 18:59:23 +00009147 Repair so that it's back to how it was in 2.4.3.
9148
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009149- Patch #1576954: Update VC6 build directory; remove redundant files
9150 in VC7.
Martin v. Löwisc9e82f62006-10-15 07:54:40 +00009151
Martin v. Löwisebe26702006-10-02 14:55:51 +00009152- Bug #1568842: Fix test for uintptr_t.
9153
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009154- Patch #1540470: for OpenBSD 4.0.
Neal Norwitz4bc2c092006-09-05 02:57:01 +00009155
Matthias Klosed149d0c2006-12-03 17:16:41 +00009156- Fix build failure on kfreebsd and on the hurd.
9157
Matthias Kloseebde1492006-12-09 12:15:27 +00009158- Fix the build of the library reference in info format.
9159
Matthias Kloseeb8ff672007-08-02 21:33:13 +00009160- Allow Emacs 22 for building the documentation in info format.
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00009161
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009162- Makefile.pre.in(buildbottest): Run an optional script
9163 pybuildbot.identify to include some information about the build
9164 environment.
Matthias Klose642ac852007-09-04 18:17:36 +00009165
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00009166
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00009167C API
9168-----
9169
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009170- Unified naming convention for free lists and their limits. All free
9171 lists in Object/ are named ``free_list``, the counter ``numfree``
9172 and the upper limit is a macro ``PyName_MAXFREELIST`` inside an
9173 #ifndef block.
Christian Heimes5b970ad2008-02-06 13:33:44 +00009174
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009175- ``PySet_Add()`` can now modify a newly created frozenset. Similarly
9176 to ``PyTuple_SetItem``, it can be used to populate a brand new
9177 frozenset; but it does not steal a reference to the added item.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arccab3d982008-02-03 22:51:43 +00009178
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00009179- Added ``PySet_Check()`` and ``PyFrozenSet_Check()`` to the set API.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arccab3d982008-02-03 22:51:43 +00009180
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009181- Backport of PyUnicode_FromString(), _FromStringAndSize(), _Format
9182 and _FormatV from Python 3.0. Made PyLong_AsSsize_t and
9183 PyLong_FromSsize_t public functions.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00009184
9185- Patch #1720595: add T_BOOL to the range of structmember types.
9186
9187- Issue #1534: Added ``PyFloat_GetMax()``, ``PyFloat_GetMin()`` and
9188 ``PyFloat_GetInfo()`` to the float API.
9189
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009190- Issue #1521: On 64bit platforms, using PyArgs_ParseTuple with the t#
9191 of w# format code incorrectly truncated the length to an int, even
9192 when PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN is set. The str.decode method used to return
9193 incorrect results with huge strings.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00009194
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009195- Issue #1629: Renamed Py_Size, Py_Type and Py_Refcnt to Py_SIZE,
9196 Py_TYPE and Py_REFCNT.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00009197
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009198- PEP 3123: Provide forward compatibility with Python 3.0, while
9199 keeping backwards compatibility. Add Py_Refcnt, Py_Type, Py_Size,
9200 and PyVarObject_HEAD_INIT.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00009201
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009202- Py_ssize_t fields work in structmember when HAVE_LONG_LONG is not
9203 defined.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00009204
9205- Patch #1733960: Allow T_LONGLONG to accept ints.
9206
9207- T_PYSSIZET can now be used in PyMemberDef lists for Py_ssize_t members.
9208
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00009209- Added a new API function ``PyImport_ImportModuleNoBlock``.
9210
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00009211- Bug #1637022: Prefix AST symbols with _Py_.
9212
9213- Fix some leftovers from the conversion from int to Py_ssize_t
9214 (relevant to strings and sequences of more than 2**31 items).
9215
9216- Make _PyGILState_NoteThreadState() static, it was not used anywhere
9217 outside of pystate.c and should not be necessary.
9218
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009219- ``PyImport_Import`` and ``PyImport_ImportModule`` now always do
9220 absolute imports. In earlier versions they might have used relative
9221 imports under some conditions.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00009222
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009223- Added case insensitive comparison methods ``PyOS_stricmp(char*,
9224 char*)`` and ``PyOS_strnicmp(char*, char*, Py_ssize_t)``.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00009225
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009226- Bug #1542693: remove semi-colon at end of PyImport_ImportModuleEx
9227 macro so it can be used as an expression.
Neal Norwitz8a267062006-08-19 04:25:29 +00009228
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00009229
Martin v. Löwis2607e6c2006-11-21 18:20:25 +00009230Windows
9231-------
9232
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009233- Patch #1706: Drop support for Win9x, WinME and NT4. Python now
9234 requires Windows 2000 or greater. The _WINVER and NTDDI_VERSION
9235 macros are set to Win2k for x86/32bit builds and WinXP for AMD64
9236 builds.
Christian Heimes95d64472008-02-09 19:55:22 +00009237
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009238- Conditionalize definition of _CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE and
9239 _CRT_NONSTDC_NO_DEPRECATE.
Martin v. Löwis2607e6c2006-11-21 18:20:25 +00009240
Martin v. Löwisd476a402007-10-12 08:56:52 +00009241- Bug #1216: Restore support for Visual Studio 2002.
9242
Martin v. Löwis2607e6c2006-11-21 18:20:25 +00009243
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00009244Mac
9245---
9246
Brett Cannonf0cb1d72007-05-31 20:01:11 +00009247- cfmfile now raises a DeprecationWarning.
9248
Brett Cannon791d56f2007-05-31 19:40:42 +00009249- buildtools now raises a DeprecationWarning.
9250
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009251- Removed the macfs module. It had been deprecated since Python 2.5.
9252 This lead to the deprecation of macostools.touched() as it relied
9253 solely on macfs and was a no-op under OS X.
Brett Cannon5e263512007-05-20 23:17:38 +00009254
Skip Montanaroe5d7f7f2002-09-20 14:16:59 +00009255----
9256
9257**(For information about older versions, consult the HISTORY file.)**