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Skip Montanaroe5d7f7f2002-09-20 14:16:59 +00003+++++++++++
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Benjamin Petersone3c10452010-07-03 14:51:25 +00007What's New in Python 2.7.1?
8===========================
9
10*Release date: XXXX-XX-XX*
11
12Core and Builtins
13-----------------
14
Victor Stinnercaafd772010-09-08 10:51:01 +000015- Issue #4947: The write() method of sys.stdout and sys.stderr uses their
16 encoding and errors attributes instead of using utf-8 in strict mode, to get
17 the same behaviour than the print statement.
18
Antoine Pitrou9cf85f12010-09-01 21:17:34 +000019- Issue #9737: Fix a crash when trying to delete a slice or an item from
20 a memoryview object.
21
Martin v. Löwis6086b0d2010-08-19 09:09:04 +000022- Restore GIL in nis_cat in case of error.
23
Benjamin Peterson6f3d6a92010-08-25 23:17:42 +000024- Issue #9688: __basicsize__ and __itemsize__ must be accessed as Py_ssize_t.
25
Florent Xicluna172e15f2010-08-09 20:02:00 +000026- Issue #8530: Prevent stringlib fastsearch from reading beyond the front
27 of an array.
28
Raymond Hettinger3ad323e2010-08-06 10:18:56 +000029- Issue #83755: Implicit set-to-frozenset conversion was not thread-safe.
30
Mark Dickinsonaad57bd2010-08-01 10:45:15 +000031- Issue #9416: Fix some issues with complex formatting where the
32 output with no type specifier failed to match the str output:
33
34 - format(complex(-0.0, 2.0), '-') omitted the real part from the output,
35 - format(complex(0.0, 2.0), '-') included a sign and parentheses.
36
Antoine Pitrou32669782010-07-11 12:14:05 +000037- Issue #7616: Fix copying of overlapping memoryview slices with the Intel
38 compiler.
Benjamin Petersone3c10452010-07-03 14:51:25 +000039
40Library
41-------
42
Antoine Pitrouc818ed42010-09-07 21:40:25 +000043- Issue #9792: In case of connection failure, socket.create_connection()
44 would swallow the exception and raise a new one, making it impossible
45 to fetch the original errno, or to filter timeout errors. Now the
46 original error is re-raised.
47
Antoine Pitrouf4f61712010-09-07 16:34:47 +000048- Issue #9758: When fcntl.ioctl() was called with mutable_flag set to True,
49 and the passed buffer was exactly 1024 bytes long, the buffer wouldn't
50 be updated back after the system call. Original patch by Brian Brazil.
51
Antoine Pitroudca9de92010-09-04 17:52:26 +000052- Issue #1100562: Fix deep-copying of objects derived from the list and
53 dict types. Patch by Michele Orrù and Björn Lindqvist.
54
Fred Drakea1e627d2010-09-03 03:55:50 +000055- Issue #7005: Fixed output of None values for RawConfigParser.write and
56 ConfigParser.write.
57
Daniel Stutzbach66c981b2010-08-31 20:29:39 +000058- Issue #808164: Fixed socket.close to avoid references to globals, to
59 avoid issues when socket.close is called from a __del__ method.
60
Senthil Kumaran7e8fd5e2010-08-26 06:20:13 +000061- Issue #8797: urllib2 does a retry for Basic Authentication failure instead of
62 falling into recursion.
63
R. David Murray7c4bf552010-08-25 01:45:57 +000064- Issue #1194222: email.utils.parsedate now returns RFC2822 compliant four
65 character years even if the message contains RFC822 two character years.
66
Daniel Stutzbach91287322010-08-24 21:09:30 +000067- Issue #8750: Fixed MutableSet's methods to correctly handle
68 reflexive operations, namely x -= x and x ^= x.
69
Victor Stinnercaafd772010-09-08 10:51:01 +000070- Issue #9129: smtpd.py is vulnerable to DoS attacks deriving from missing
Giampaolo Rodolà8664d742010-08-23 22:48:51 +000071 error handling when accepting a new connection.
72
Giampaolo Rodolà63308d72010-08-23 21:58:47 +000073- Issue #658749: asyncore's connect() method now correctly interprets winsock
74 errors.
75
Vinay Sajip1ddd51f2010-08-23 17:50:30 +000076- Issue #9501: Fixed logging regressions in cleanup code.
77
Raymond Hettinger917bba12010-08-22 08:01:58 +000078- Issue #9214: Set operations on KeysView or ItemsView in the collections
79 module now correctly return a set. (Patch by Eli Bendersky.)
80
Antoine Pitrou3ebaed62010-08-21 19:17:25 +000081- Issue #9617: Signals received during a low-level write operation aren't
82 ignored by the buffered IO layer anymore.
83
Benjamin Peterson52c36052010-08-21 03:03:22 +000084- Issue #2521: Use weakrefs on for caching in the abc module, so that classes
85 are not held onto after they are deleted elsewhere.
86
Raymond Hettingera54b2da2010-08-17 19:03:06 +000087- Issue #9626: the view methods for collections.OrderedDict() were returning
88 the unordered versions inherited from dict. Those methods are now
89 overridden to provide ordered views.
90
Éric Araujo0389ae62010-08-14 03:07:46 +000091- Issue #8688: MANIFEST files created by distutils now include a magic
92 comment indicating they are generated. Manually maintained MANIFESTs
93 without this marker will not be overwritten or removed.
94
Antoine Pitroue1436d12010-08-12 15:25:51 +000095- Issue #7467: when reading a file from a ZIP archive, its CRC is checked
96 and a BadZipfile error is raised if it doesn't match (as used to be the
97 case in Python 2.5 and earlier).
98
Antoine Pitroucb4f47c2010-08-11 13:40:17 +000099- Issue #9550: a BufferedReader could issue an additional read when the
100 original read request had been satisfied, which could block indefinitely
101 when the underlying raw IO channel was e.g. a socket. Report and original
102 patch by Jason V. Miller.
103
Fred Drake0a1fa0e2010-08-10 13:09:54 +0000104- Issue #9551: Don't raise TypeError when setting the value to None for
105 SafeConfigParser instances constructed with allow_no_value == True.
106
Antoine Pitrou8cdede42010-08-10 00:04:13 +0000107- Issue #6915: Under Windows, os.listdir() didn't release the Global
108 Interpreter Lock around all system calls. Original patch by Ryan Kelly.
109
Antoine Pitrou99009162010-08-09 22:51:24 +0000110- Issue #3757: thread-local objects now support cyclic garbage collection.
111 Thread-local objects involved in reference cycles will be deallocated
112 timely by the cyclic GC, even if the underlying thread is still running.
113
Florent Xicluna2f1b1ff2010-08-09 20:46:49 +0000114- Issue #6231: Fix xml.etree.ElementInclude to include the tail of the
115 current node.
116
Thomas Heller5c7589c2010-08-08 18:28:59 +0000117- Issue #6869: Fix a refcount problem in the _ctypes extension.
118
Thomas Heller001d3a12010-08-08 17:56:41 +0000119- Issue5504 - ctypes should now work with systems where mmap can't be
120 PROT_WRITE and PROT_EXEC.
121
Senthil Kumarane677ecf2010-08-08 11:56:31 +0000122- Fix Issue8280 - urllib2's Request method will remove fragements in the url.
123 This is how it is supposed to work, wget and curl do the same. Previous
124 behavior was wrong.
125
Giampaolo Rodolà47617ab2010-08-04 08:35:25 +0000126- Issue #2944: asyncore doesn't handle connection refused correctly.
127
R. David Murray75a292e2010-08-04 00:05:50 +0000128- Issue #3196: email header decoding is now forgiving if an RFC2047
129 encoded word encoded in base64 is lacking padding.
130
R. David Murray1cbf78e2010-08-03 18:14:01 +0000131- Issue #9444: Argparse now uses the first element of prefix_chars as
132 the option character for the added 'h/help' option if prefix_chars
133 does not contain a '-', instead of raising an error.
134
Georg Brandl7f0c3ff2010-08-01 21:18:52 +0000135- Issue #9354: Provide getsockopt() in asyncore's file_wrapper.
136
Georg Brandl9c5efad2010-08-02 21:29:14 +0000137- Issue #7781: Fix restricting stats by entry counts in the pstats
138 interactive browser.
139
140- Issue #9209: Do not crash in the pstats interactive browser on invalid
141 regular expressions.
142
Georg Brandla2a92cf2010-08-02 17:34:58 +0000143- Issue #7372: Fix pstats regression when stripping paths from profile
144 data generated with the profile module.
145
Georg Brandl2bd953e2010-08-01 20:59:03 +0000146- Issue #4108: In urllib.robotparser, if there are multiple 'User-agent: *'
147 entries, consider the first one.
148
Antoine Pitrou39703012010-08-01 20:13:11 +0000149- Issue #8397: Raise an error when attempting to mix iteration and regular
150 reads on a BZ2File object, rather than returning incorrect results.
151
Georg Brandl50775992010-08-01 19:33:15 +0000152- Issue #5294: Fix the behavior of pdb's "continue" command when called
153 in the top-level debugged frame.
154
155- Issue #5727: Restore the ability to use readline when calling into pdb
156 in doctests.
157
158- Issue #6719: In pdb, do not stop somewhere in the encodings machinery
159 if the source file to be debugged is in a non-builtin encoding.
160
161- Issue #8048: Prevent doctests from failing when sys.displayhook has
162 been reassigned.
163
164- Issue #8015: In pdb, do not crash when an empty line is entered as
165 a breakpoint command.
166
Antoine Pitrou607951d2010-08-01 16:57:17 +0000167- Issue #9448: Fix a leak of OS resources (mutexes or semaphores) when
168 re-initializing a buffered IO object by calling its ``__init__`` method.
169
Georg Brandle2773252010-08-01 19:14:56 +0000170- Issue #7909: Do not touch paths with the special prefixes ``\\.\``
171 or ``\\?\`` in ntpath.normpath().
172
Georg Brandl004c74d2010-08-01 19:06:51 +0000173- Issue #5146: Handle UID THREAD command correctly in imaplib.
174
175- Issue #5147: Fix the header generated for cookie files written by
176 http.cookiejar.MozillaCookieJar.
177
178- Issue #8198: In pydoc, output all help text to the correct stream
179 when sys.stdout is reassigned.
180
Georg Brandl0347c712010-08-01 19:02:09 +0000181- Issue #7395: Fix tracebacks in pstats interactive browser.
182
183- Issue #8230: Fix Lib/test/sortperf.py.
184
Georg Brandl78e69572010-08-01 18:52:52 +0000185- Issue #1713: Fix os.path.ismount(), which returned true for symbolic links
186 across devices.
187
188- Issue #8826: Properly load old-style "expires" attribute in http.cookies.
189
190- Issue #1690103: Fix initial namespace for code run with trace.main().
191
Georg Brandl1f05e2e2010-08-01 08:22:05 +0000192- Issue #8471: In doctest, properly reset the output stream to an empty
193 string when Unicode was previously output.
194
R. David Murray58f15b62010-08-01 04:04:03 +0000195- Issue #8620: when a Cmd is fed input that reaches EOF without a final
196 newline, it no longer truncates the last character of the last command line.
197
Victor Stinner73363e82010-07-28 01:39:45 +0000198- Issue #6213: Implement getstate() and setstate() methods of utf-8-sig and
199 utf-16 incremental encoders.
200
Brian Curtinb2ec2322010-07-26 02:40:17 +0000201- Issue #7113: Speed up loading in ConfigParser. Patch by Łukasz Langa.
202
Gregory P. Smith2a91ce82010-07-25 19:11:36 +0000203- Issue #3704: cookielib was not properly handling URLs with a / in the
204 parameters.
205
Victor Stinner8b0d84e2010-07-24 02:51:49 +0000206- Issue #9032: XML-RPC client retries the request on EPIPE error. The EPIPE
207 error occurs when the server closes the socket and the client sends a big
208 XML-RPC request.
209
Victor Stinner2c6aee92010-07-24 02:46:16 +0000210- Issue #5542: Remove special logic that closes HTTPConnection socket on EPIPE.
211
Victor Stinner4c16d122010-07-24 01:07:52 +0000212- Issue #4629: getopt raises an error if an argument ends with = whereas getopt
213 doesn't except a value (eg. --help= is rejected if getopt uses ['help='] long
214 options).
215
Ronald Oussoren3a04a252010-07-23 12:41:00 +0000216- Issue #7895: platform.mac_ver() no longer crashes after calling os.fork()
217
Antoine Pitrou7a7013e2010-07-21 16:47:28 +0000218- Issue #5395: array.fromfile() would raise a spurious EOFError when an
219 I/O error occurred. Now an IOError is raised instead. Patch by chuck
220 (Jan Hosang).
221
R. David Murrayf6cbdcb2010-07-09 13:25:56 +0000222- Issue #7646: The fnmatch pattern cache no longer grows without bound.
223
Mark Dickinson7ea29b02010-07-08 21:28:31 +0000224- Issue #9136: Fix 'dictionary changed size during iteration'
225 RuntimeError produced when profiling the decimal module. This was
226 due to a dangerous iteration over 'locals()' in Context.__init__.
227
228- Fix extreme speed issue in Decimal.pow when the base is an exact
229 power of 10 and the exponent is tiny (for example,
230 Decimal(10) ** Decimal('1e-999999999')).
231
R. David Murray3caf7b92010-07-05 16:06:05 +0000232- Issue #9161: Fix regression in optparse's acceptance of unicode
233 strings in add_option calls.
234
Mark Dickinson75b44b32010-07-04 16:47:56 +0000235- Issue #9130: Fix validation of relative imports in parser module.
236
Mark Dickinsona7ee59b2010-07-04 16:23:54 +0000237- Issue #9128: Fix validation of class decorators in parser module.
Benjamin Petersone3c10452010-07-03 14:51:25 +0000238
Ronald Oussoren75956202010-07-11 08:52:52 +0000239- Issue #9164: Ensure sysconfig handles dupblice archs while building on OSX
240
Benjamin Petersone3c10452010-07-03 14:51:25 +0000241Extension Modules
242-----------------
243
Antoine Pitroue6ebcda2010-09-04 21:24:42 +0000244- Issue #8734: Avoid crash in msvcrt.get_osfhandle() when an invalid file
245 descriptor is provided. Patch by Pascal Chambon.
246
Antoine Pitrou247e2fd2010-09-04 17:27:10 +0000247- Issue #7736: Release the GIL around calls to opendir() and closedir()
248 in the posix module. Patch by Marcin Bachry.
249
Benjamin Peterson52c36052010-08-21 03:03:22 +0000250- As a result of issue #2521, the _weakref module is now compiled into the
251 interpreter by default.
252
Brian Curtin24af0e92010-08-06 19:41:01 +0000253- Issue #9324: Add parameter validation to signal.signal on Windows in order
254 to prevent crashes.
255
Mark Dickinson5e684332010-08-06 09:44:48 +0000256- Issue #9526: Remove some outdated (int) casts that were preventing
257 the array module from working correctly with arrays of more than
258 2**31 elements.
259
Mark Dickinsonf38d8882010-08-03 18:46:28 +0000260- Fix memory leak in ssl._ssl._test_decode_cert.
261
Mark Dickinson0f981282010-08-03 16:54:19 +0000262- Issue #8065: Fix memory leak in readline module (from failure to
263 free the result of history_get_history_state()).
264
Mark Dickinson4ee98532010-08-03 16:18:39 +0000265- Issue #9450: Fix memory leak in readline.replace_history_item and
266 readline.remove_history_item for readline version >= 5.0.
267
Brian Curtinba6c08e2010-08-01 15:47:53 +0000268- Issue #8105: Validate file descriptor passed to mmap.mmap on Windows.
269
Georg Brandla4917272010-07-31 21:22:36 +0000270- Issue #1019882: Fix IndexError when loading certain hotshot stats.
271
Mark Dickinson96527c32010-07-29 21:44:47 +0000272- Issue #9422: Fix memory leak when re-initializing a struct.Struct object.
273
Ronald Oussoren9e7ffae2010-07-24 09:46:41 +0000274- Issue #7900: The getgroups(2) system call on MacOSX behaves rather oddly
275 compared to other unix systems. In particular, os.getgroups() does
276 not reflect any changes made using os.setgroups() but basicly always
277 returns the same information as the id command.
278
279 os.getgroups() can now return more than 16 groups on MacOSX.
280
Mark Dickinsoncac0b832010-07-18 07:55:55 +0000281- Issue #9277: Fix bug in struct.pack for bools in standard mode
282 (e.g., struct.pack('>?')): if conversion to bool raised an exception
283 then that exception wasn't properly propagated on machines where
284 char is unsigned.
285
Matthias Klose6e86bf72010-07-30 21:27:18 +0000286- Issue #7567: Don't call `setupterm' twice.
287
Benjamin Peterson4082d9b2010-07-17 20:41:16 +0000288Build
289-----
290
Antoine Pitrou85729812010-09-07 14:55:24 +0000291- Issue #4026: Make the fcntl extension build under AIX. Patch by Sébastien
292 Sablé.
293
Antoine Pitroua74c3342010-09-03 16:15:17 +0000294- Issue #3101: Helper functions _add_one_to_index_C() and
295 _add_one_to_index_F() become _Py_add_one_to_index_C() and
296 _Py_add_one_to_index_F(), respectively.
Antoine Pitrou1fcdba82010-09-01 13:02:50 +0000297
298- Issue #9700: define HAVE_BROKEN_POSIX_SEMAPHORES under AIX 6.x. Patch by
299 Sébastien Sablé.
300
Benjamin Peterson4082d9b2010-07-17 20:41:16 +0000301- Issue #9280: Make sharedinstall depend on sharedmods.
302
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +0000303- Issue #9275: The OSX installer once again installs links to binaries in
304 ``/usr/local/bin``.
Ronald Oussoren8a14db82010-07-23 11:13:03 +0000305
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +0000306- Issue #9392: A framework build on OSX will once again use a versioned name
307 of the ``2to3`` tool, that is you can use ``2to3-2.7`` to select the Python
308 2.7 edition of 2to3.
Ronald Oussoren0969c672010-07-29 13:18:19 +0000309
Antoine Pitrou22db7352010-07-08 18:54:04 +0000310Tests
311-----
312
Giampaolo Rodolà633e4742010-08-14 17:04:46 +0000313- Issue #8857: Provide a test case for socket.getaddrinfo.
314
Florent Xicluna172e15f2010-08-09 20:02:00 +0000315- Issue #7564: Skip test_ioctl if another process is attached to /dev/tty.
316
Mark Dickinson28669332010-08-07 13:07:11 +0000317- Issue #8433: Fix test_curses failure with newer versions of ncurses.
318
Antoine Pitrou185fae72010-08-04 15:54:33 +0000319- Issue #9496: Provide a test suite for the rlcompleter module. Patch by
320 Michele Orrù.
321
Antoine Pitrou22db7352010-07-08 18:54:04 +0000322- Issue #8605: Skip test_gdb if Python is compiled with optimizations.
323
Brett Cannon8c4fa112010-07-21 09:52:10 +0000324Documentation
325-------------
326
Brian Curtin4d808892010-08-05 19:00:45 +0000327- Issue #9524: Document that two CTRL* signals are meant for use only
328 with os.kill.
329
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +0000330- Issue #9255: Document that the 'test' package is for internal Python use
331 only.
Brett Cannon9ae2cb72010-07-23 12:07:27 +0000332
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +0000333- Issue #7829: Document in dis that bytecode is an implementation detail.
Brett Cannon8c4fa112010-07-21 09:52:10 +0000334
Benjamin Petersone3c10452010-07-03 14:51:25 +0000335
Benjamin Peterson4f612592010-06-21 17:28:30 +0000336What's New in Python 2.7?
337=========================
338
Benjamin Petersonc60082d2010-07-03 13:56:13 +0000339*Release date: 2010-07-03*
Benjamin Peterson4f612592010-06-21 17:28:30 +0000340
341Core and Builtins
342-----------------
343
Benjamin Peterson947ce582010-06-24 00:12:40 +0000344- Prevent assignment to set literals.
345
Benjamin Peterson4f612592010-06-21 17:28:30 +0000346Library
347-------
348
Antoine Pitroua4083502010-08-28 18:29:13 +0000349- Issue #1868: Eliminate subtle timing issues in thread-local objects by
350 getting rid of the cached copy of thread-local attribute dictionary.
351
Benjamin Peterson6a336f62010-07-03 13:57:30 +0000352- Issue #9125: Add recognition of 'except ... as ...' syntax to parser module.
353
354Extension Modules
355-----------------
356
Benjamin Petersonc670b7e2010-07-03 13:49:23 +0000357- Issue #7673: Fix security vulnerability (CVE-2010-2089) in the audioop module,
358 ensure that the input string length is a multiple of the frame size.
Victor Stinner15e5b1b2010-07-03 13:36:19 +0000359
Antoine Pitrou0dddf602010-06-25 00:03:21 +0000360- Issue #9075: In the ssl module, remove the setting of a ``debug`` flag
361 on an OpenSSL structure.
362
Benjamin Peterson00633672010-07-03 13:56:56 +0000363
Michael Foord83d35762010-06-10 16:32:00 +0000364What's New in Python 2.7 release candidate 2?
365=============================================
Benjamin Peterson2f3d9f92010-06-06 02:09:33 +0000366
Benjamin Petersonbfcedf42010-06-21 15:57:57 +0000367*Release date: 2010-06-20*
Benjamin Peterson2f3d9f92010-06-06 02:09:33 +0000368
369Core and Builtins
370-----------------
371
Benjamin Petersonb9133892010-06-22 19:16:37 +0000372- Issue #9058: Remove assertions about INT_MAX in UnicodeDecodeError.
373
Nick Coghlan8842c352010-06-13 06:50:39 +0000374- Issue #8202: Previous change to ``sys.argv[0]`` handling for -m command line
375 option reverted due to unintended side effects on handling of ``sys.path``.
376 See tracker issue for details.
377
Antoine Pitroucca3a3f2010-06-11 21:42:26 +0000378- Issue #8941: decoding big endian UTF-32 data in UCS-2 builds could crash
379 the interpreter with characters outside the Basic Multilingual Plane
380 (higher than 0x10000).
381
Benjamin Petersonfa4c59f2010-06-08 14:53:29 +0000382- In the unicode/str.format(), raise a ValueError when indexes to arguments are
383 too large.
Benjamin Peterson13e934a2010-06-07 22:23:23 +0000384
Benjamin Petersonafa1b302010-06-21 15:27:46 +0000385Build
386-----
387
388- Issue #8854: Fix finding Visual Studio 2008 on Windows x64.
389
Benjamin Peterson2f3d9f92010-06-06 02:09:33 +0000390Library
391-------
Mark Dickinsone979ec82010-06-13 10:50:29 +0000392
Victor Stinner15e5b1b2010-07-03 13:36:19 +0000393- Issue #6589: cleanup asyncore.socket_map in case smtpd.SMTPServer constructor
Giampaolo Rodolàe00e2f02010-06-30 17:38:28 +0000394 raises an exception.
395
Thomas Hellerf1800992010-06-21 14:00:24 +0000396- Issue #8959: fix regression caused by using unmodified libffi
397 library on Windows. ctypes does now again check the stack before
398 and after calling foreign functions.
399
R. David Murraydf1cf302010-06-17 01:36:52 +0000400- Issue #8720: fix regression caused by fix for #4050 by making getsourcefile
401 smart enough to find source files in the linecache.
402
Mark Dickinsone979ec82010-06-13 10:50:29 +0000403- Issue #8986: math.erfc was incorrectly raising OverflowError for
404 values between -27.3 and -30.0 on some platforms.
405
Vinay Sajip936efc72010-06-11 22:56:50 +0000406- Issue #8924: logging: Improved error handling for Unicode in exception text.
Benjamin Peterson2f3d9f92010-06-06 02:09:33 +0000407
Michael Foord83d35762010-06-10 16:32:00 +0000408- Issue #8948: cleanup functions and class / module setups and teardowns are
409 now honored in unittest debug methods.
410
Tarek Ziadé770fd152010-06-06 20:05:20 +0000411Documentation
412-------------
413
414- Issues #8909: Added the size of the bitmap used in the installer created by
415 distutils' bdist_wininst. Patch by Anatoly Techtonik.
416
Victor Stinnerb65bd2e2010-06-11 19:22:28 +0000417Misc
418----
419
420- Issue #8362: Add maintainers.rst: list of module maintainers
421
Benjamin Peterson2f3d9f92010-06-06 02:09:33 +0000422
Antoine Pitrou6001b0b2010-05-09 18:32:48 +0000423What's New in Python 2.7 Release Candidate 1?
424=============================================
Benjamin Peterson534b8de2010-05-08 18:53:42 +0000425
Benjamin Peterson77d534e2010-06-06 00:22:09 +0000426*Release date: 2010-06-05*
Benjamin Peterson534b8de2010-05-08 18:53:42 +0000427
428Core and Builtins
429-----------------
430
Ezio Melottiab2eb0e2010-06-05 19:21:32 +0000431- Issue #8271: during the decoding of an invalid UTF-8 byte sequence, only the
432 start byte and the continuation byte(s) are now considered invalid, instead
433 of the number of bytes specified by the start byte.
434 E.g.: '\xf1\x80AB'.decode('utf-8', 'replace') now returns u'\ufffdAB' and
435 replaces with U+FFFD only the start byte ('\xf1') and the continuation byte
436 ('\x80') even if '\xf1' is the start byte of a 4-bytes sequence.
437 Previous versions returned a single u'\ufffd'.
438
Mark Dickinson23f0d6b2010-06-05 11:52:24 +0000439- Issue #8627: Remove bogus "Overriding __cmp__ blocks inheritance of
Mark Dickinsone4b83e02010-06-05 12:14:43 +0000440 __hash__ in 3.x" warning. Also fix "XXX undetected error" that
441 arises from the "Overriding __eq__ blocks inheritance ..." warning
442 when turned into an exception: in this case the exception simply
443 gets ignored.
Mark Dickinson23f0d6b2010-06-05 11:52:24 +0000444
Mark Dickinson4ca7c3c2010-05-30 13:18:10 +0000445- Issue #8748: Fix two issues with comparisons between complex and integer
446 objects. (1) The comparison could incorrectly return True in some cases
447 (2**53+1 == complex(2**53) == 2**53), breaking transivity of equality.
448 (2) The comparison raised an OverflowError for large integers, leading
449 to unpredictable exceptions when combining integers and complex objects
450 in sets or dicts.
451
Mark Dickinson81336372010-05-30 12:12:25 +0000452- Issue #5211: Implicit coercion for the complex type is now completely
453 removed. (Coercion for arithmetic operations was already removed in 2.7
454 alpha 4, but coercion for rich comparisons was accidentally left in.)
455
Victor Stinnerc49dfcc2010-05-25 22:30:32 +0000456- Issue #3798: Write sys.exit() message to sys.stderr to use stderr encoding
457 and error handler, instead of writing to the C stderr file in utf-8
458
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000459- Issue #7902: When using explicit relative import syntax, don't try implicit
460 relative import semantics.
Brett Cannoneb3cd302010-05-20 18:37:55 +0000461
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000462- Issue #7079: Fix a possible crash when closing a file object while using it
463 from another thread. Patch by Daniel Stutzbach.
Antoine Pitrou83137c22010-05-17 19:56:59 +0000464
Victor Stinnerb65bd2e2010-06-11 19:22:28 +0000465- Issue #8868: Fix that ensures that python scripts have access to the
Ronald Oussoren27c72e92010-06-02 03:47:14 +0000466 Window Server again in a framework build on MacOSX 10.5 or earlier.
467
Antoine Pitrou6a265602010-05-21 17:12:38 +0000468C-API
469-----
470
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000471- Issue #5753: A new C API function, :cfunc:`PySys_SetArgvEx`, allows embedders
472 of the interpreter to set sys.argv without also modifying sys.path. This
473 helps fix `CVE-2008-5983
Antoine Pitrou6a265602010-05-21 17:12:38 +0000474 <http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5983>`_.
475
Benjamin Peterson534b8de2010-05-08 18:53:42 +0000476Library
477-------
478
Michael Foordd8918592010-06-05 19:51:38 +0000479- Issue #8302: SkipTest in unittest.TestCase.setUpClass or setUpModule is now
480 reported as a skip rather than an error.
481
482- Issue #8351: Excessively large diffs due to
483 unittest.TestCase.assertSequenceEqual are no longer included in failure
484 reports.
485
Alexander Belopolsky3b818bf2010-06-05 14:54:26 +0000486- Issue #8899: time.struct_time now has class and atribute docstrings.
487
R. David Murraye7e505b2010-06-04 19:51:06 +0000488- Issue #4487: email now accepts as charset aliases all codec aliases
489 accepted by the codecs module.
490
Martin v. Löwiseba67c02010-06-04 19:39:07 +0000491- Issue #6470: Drop UNC prefix in FixTk.
492
R. David Murray61746d52010-06-03 15:43:20 +0000493- Issue #5610: feedparser no longer eats extra characters at the end of
494 a body part if the body part ends with a \r\n.
495
Lars Gustäbel2ee9c6f2010-06-03 09:56:22 +0000496- Issue #8833: tarfile created hard link entries with a size field != 0 by
497 mistake.
498
R. David Murray52dcd452010-06-02 22:03:15 +0000499- Issue #1368247: set_charset (and therefore MIMEText) now automatically
500 encodes a unicode _payload to the output_charset.
501
Alexander Belopolsky9292ee02010-05-27 20:55:27 +0000502- Issue #7150: Raise OverflowError if the result of adding or subtracting
503 timedelta from date or datetime falls outside of the MINYEAR:MAXYEAR range.
504
Victor Stinner04ee3372010-05-24 21:37:28 +0000505- Issue #6662: Fix parsing of malformatted charref (&#bad;), patch written by
506 Fredrik Håård
Victor Stinner554a3b82010-05-24 21:33:24 +0000507
Georg Brandlf0757a22010-05-24 21:29:07 +0000508- Issue #8016: Add the CP858 codec.
509
Georg Brandl5d0ca2c2010-05-22 11:29:19 +0000510- Issue #3924: Ignore cookies with invalid "version" field in cookielib.
511
Victor Stinner7df55da2010-05-22 13:37:56 +0000512- Issue #6268: Fix seek() method of codecs.open(), don't read or write the BOM
513 twice after seek(0). Fix also reset() method of codecs, UTF-16, UTF-32 and
514 StreamWriter classes.
Victor Stinner262be5e2010-05-22 02:11:07 +0000515
Victor Stinnerd6703b52010-05-21 22:50:28 +0000516- Issue #5640: Fix Shift-JIS incremental encoder for error handlers different
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000517 than 'strict'.
Victor Stinnerd6703b52010-05-21 22:50:28 +0000518
Benjamin Peterson266e4542010-05-21 21:31:24 +0000519- Issue #8782: Add a trailing newline in linecache.updatecache to the last line
520 of files without one.
521
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000522- Issue #8729: Return NotImplemented from ``collections.Mapping.__eq__()`` when
Benjamin Petersoneb318d32010-05-21 20:51:45 +0000523 comparing to a non-mapping.
524
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000525- Issue #8759: Fix user paths in sysconfig for posix and os2 schemes.
Tarek Ziadé8f692272010-05-19 22:20:14 +0000526
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000527- Issue #1285086: Speed up ``urllib.quote()`` and urllib.unquote for simple
528 cases.
Florent Xiclunaaf87f9f2010-05-17 13:35:09 +0000529
Tarek Ziadé422545f2010-05-17 10:06:20 +0000530- Issue #8688: Distutils now recalculates MANIFEST everytime.
531
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000532- Issue #5099: The ``__del__()`` method of ``subprocess.Popen`` (and the methods
533 it calls) referenced global objects, causing errors to pop up during
534 interpreter shutdown.
Brett Cannon42a0ba72010-05-14 00:21:48 +0000535
Mark Dickinson932e1622010-05-10 16:07:42 +0000536Extension Modules
537-----------------
538
Stefan Krah449aa862010-06-03 12:39:50 +0000539- Issue #7384: If the system readline library is linked against ncurses,
540 the curses module must be linked against ncurses as well. Otherwise it
541 is not safe to load both the readline and curses modules in an application.
542
Brian Curtinb64c89b2010-05-25 15:06:15 +0000543- Issue #2810: Fix cases where the Windows registry API returns
544 ERROR_MORE_DATA, requiring a re-try in order to get the complete result.
545
Mark Dickinson932e1622010-05-10 16:07:42 +0000546- Issue #8674: Fixed a number of incorrect or undefined-behaviour-inducing
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000547 overflow checks in the ``audioop`` module.
Benjamin Peterson534b8de2010-05-08 18:53:42 +0000548
Brett Cannonda9af752010-05-13 23:59:41 +0000549Tests
550-----
551
R. David Murray4653fb52010-06-03 20:19:25 +0000552- Issue #8889: test_support.transient_internet rewritten so that the new
553 checks also work on FreeBSD, which lacks EAI_NODATA.
554
555- Issue #8835: test_support.transient_internet() catches gaierror(EAI_NONAME)
Victor Stinner03883622010-05-27 22:29:48 +0000556 and gaierror(EAI_NODATA)
557
Victor Stinner708c0722010-05-26 17:25:28 +0000558- Issue #7449: Skip test_socketserver if threading support is disabled
559
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000560- On darwin, ``test_site`` assumed that a framework build was being used,
561 leading to a failure where four directories were expected for site-packages
562 instead of two in a non-framework build.
Brett Cannonda9af752010-05-13 23:59:41 +0000563
Martin v. Löwisb41afb52010-05-28 15:28:47 +0000564Build
565-----
566
Martin v. Löwis16b2a5e2010-06-04 19:15:32 +0000567- Display installer warning that Windows 2000 won't be supported in future
568 releases.
569
Victor Stinnerb65bd2e2010-06-11 19:22:28 +0000570- Issues #1759169, #8864: Drop _XOPEN_SOURCE on Solaris, define it for
Martin v. Löwis26eec582010-06-04 17:18:42 +0000571 multiprocessing only.
Brett Cannonda9af752010-05-13 23:59:41 +0000572
Martin v. Löwis5aafc172010-06-04 18:04:42 +0000573Tools/Demos
574-----------
575
576- Issue #5464: Implement plural forms in msgfmt.py.
577
578
Antoine Pitrouab5ce722010-04-11 22:45:47 +0000579What's New in Python 2.7 beta 2?
580================================
Benjamin Peterson12409062010-04-10 18:53:58 +0000581
Benjamin Petersonc2516072010-05-08 17:08:17 +0000582*Release date: 2010-05-08*
Benjamin Peterson12409062010-04-10 18:53:58 +0000583
584Core and Builtins
585-----------------
586
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000587- Run Clang 2.7's static analyzer for ``Objects/`` and ``Python/``.
Brett Cannon5fb89df2010-05-05 20:54:53 +0000588
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000589- Issue #1533: Fix inconsistency in range function argument processing: any
590 non-float non-integer argument is now converted to an integer (if possible)
591 using its __int__ method. Previously, only small arguments were treated this
592 way; larger arguments (those whose __int__ was outside the range of a C long)
593 would produce a TypeError.
Mark Dickinsona8d26682010-05-04 16:18:25 +0000594
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000595- Issue #8202: ``sys.argv[0]`` is now set to '-m' instead of '-c' when searching
596 for the module file to be executed with the -m command line option.
Nick Coghlanc5e44852010-04-28 14:51:08 +0000597
Brett Cannon19949692010-04-25 22:33:36 +0000598- Issue #7319: When -Q is used, do not silence DeprecationWarning.
599
Antoine Pitrou18e63fb2010-04-21 22:53:29 +0000600- Issue #7332: Remove the 16KB stack-based buffer in
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000601 ``PyMarshal_ReadLastObjectFromFile``, which doesn't bring any noticeable
Antoine Pitrou18e63fb2010-04-21 22:53:29 +0000602 benefit compared to the dynamic memory allocation fallback. Patch by
603 Charles-François Natali.
604
Benjamin Peterson821a8ea2010-04-16 22:35:38 +0000605- Issue #8417: Raise an OverflowError when an integer larger than sys.maxsize is
606 passed to bytearray.
607
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000608- Issue #7072: ``isspace(0xa0)`` is true on Mac OS X.
Ronald Oussoren37805e52010-04-18 13:47:49 +0000609
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000610- Issue #8404: Fix set operations on dictionary views.
Alexandre Vassalotti268e4872010-05-04 03:21:51 +0000611
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000612- Issue #8084: PEP 370 now conforms to system conventions for framework builds
613 on MacOS X. That is, ``python setup.py install --user`` will install into
614 ``~/Library/Python/2.7`` instead of ``~/.local``.
Ronald Oussoren2f88bfd2010-05-08 10:29:06 +0000615
Benjamin Peterson12409062010-04-10 18:53:58 +0000616Library
617-------
618
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000619- Issue #8681: Make the zlib module's error messages more informative when the
620 zlib itself doesn't give any detailed explanation.
Antoine Pitroufc3bfad2010-05-11 23:42:28 +0000621
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000622- Issue #8571: Fix an internal error when compressing or decompressing a chunk
623 larger than 1GB with the zlib module's compressor and decompressor objects.
Antoine Pitrou3843cd82010-05-07 16:50:34 +0000624
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000625- Issue #8573: asyncore ``_strerror()`` function might throw ValueError.
Giampaolo Rodolàf7454fa2010-05-06 17:57:06 +0000626
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000627- Issue #8483: asyncore.dispatcher's __getattr__ method produced confusing error
628 messages when accessing undefined class attributes because of the cheap
629 inheritance with the underlying socket object. The cheap inheritance has been
630 deprecated.
Giampaolo Rodolàf7454fa2010-05-06 17:57:06 +0000631
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000632- Issue #4265: ``shutil.copyfile()`` was leaking file descriptors when disk
633 fills. Patch by Tres Seaver.
Tarek Ziadé38f81222010-05-05 22:15:31 +0000634
Barry Warsaw8efa8672010-05-05 16:17:22 +0000635- Issue #7755: Use an unencumbered audio file for tests.
636
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000637- Issue #8621: ``uuid.uuid4()`` returned the same sequence of values in the
638 parent and any children created using ``os.fork`` on Mac OS X 10.6.
Ronald Oussoren33206962010-05-05 14:48:37 +0000639
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000640- Issue #8313: ``traceback.format_exception_only()`` encodes unicode message to
641 ASCII with backslashreplace error handler if ``str(value)`` failed.
Victor Stinner926fd4e2010-05-05 12:40:49 +0000642
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000643- Issue #8567: Fix precedence of signals in Decimal module: when a Decimal
644 operation raises multiple signals and more than one of those signals is
645 trapped, the specification determines the order in which the signals should be
646 handled. In many cases this order wasn't being followed, leading to the wrong
647 Python exception being raised.
Mark Dickinson4f96f5f2010-05-04 14:25:50 +0000648
Antoine Pitrouf7fd8e42010-05-03 16:25:33 +0000649- Issue #7865: The close() method of :mod:`io` objects should not swallow
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000650 exceptions raised by the implicit flush(). Also ensure that calling close()
651 several times is supported. Patch by Pascal Chambon.
Antoine Pitrouf7fd8e42010-05-03 16:25:33 +0000652
Vinay Sajip27a13702010-05-03 15:11:53 +0000653- Issue #8576: logging updated to remove usage of find_unused_port().
654
Antoine Pitrou951919f2010-05-02 19:51:14 +0000655- Issue #4687: Fix accuracy of garbage collection runtimes displayed with
656 gc.DEBUG_STATS.
657
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000658- Issue #8354: The siginterrupt setting is now preserved for all signals, not
659 just SIGCHLD.
Jean-Paul Calderonee54ddf12010-05-08 20:06:02 +0000660
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000661- Issue #7192: ``webbrowser.get("firefox")`` now works on Mac OS X, as does
662 ``webbrowser.get("safari")``.
Ronald Oussoren4ef1c7e2010-05-02 09:48:21 +0000663
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000664- Issue #8577: ``distutils.sysconfig.get_python_inc()`` now makes a difference
Tarek Ziadéa5cd1822010-04-30 12:15:12 +0000665 between the build dir and the source dir when looking for "python.h" or
666 "Include".
667
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000668- Issue #8464: tarfile no longer creates files with execute permissions set when
669 mode="w|" is used.
Lars Gustäbel5c4c4612010-04-29 15:23:38 +0000670
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000671- Issue #7834: Fix connect() of Bluetooth L2CAP sockets with recent versions of
672 the Linux kernel. Patch by Yaniv Aknin.
Antoine Pitrouf56a2882010-04-29 10:05:40 +0000673
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000674- Issue #6312: Fix http HEAD request when the transfer encoding is chunked. It
675 should correctly return an empty response now.
Senthil Kumaraned9204342010-04-28 17:20:43 +0000676
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000677- Issue #7490: To facilitate sharing of doctests between 2.x and 3.x test
678 suites, the ``IGNORE_EXCEPTION_DETAIL`` directive now also ignores the module
679 location of the raised exception. Based on initial patch by Lennart Regebro.
Nick Coghlandfb45df2010-04-28 14:29:06 +0000680
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000681- Issue #8086: In :func:`ssl.DER_cert_to_PEM_cert()`, fix missing newline before
682 the certificate footer. Patch by Kyle VanderBeek.
Antoine Pitrou4c7bcf12010-04-27 22:03:37 +0000683
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000684- Issue #8546: Reject None given as the buffering argument to ``_pyio.open()``.
Benjamin Petersona9bd6d52010-04-27 21:01:54 +0000685
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000686- Issue #8549: Fix compiling the _ssl extension under AIX. Patch by Sridhar
687 Ratnakumar.
Antoine Pitrou1dc6b082010-04-27 19:09:59 +0000688
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000689- Issue #6656: Fix locale.format_string to handle escaped percents and mappings.
R. David Murray3939dcd2010-04-26 21:17:14 +0000690
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000691- Issue #2302: Fix a race condition in SocketServer.BaseServer.shutdown, where
692 the method could block indefinitely if called just before the event loop
693 started running. This also fixes the occasional freezes witnessed in
694 test_httpservers.
Antoine Pitroua6240402010-04-25 21:40:32 +0000695
Antoine Pitroufc69af12010-04-24 20:04:58 +0000696- Issue #5103: SSL handshake would ignore the socket timeout and block
697 indefinitely if the other end didn't respond.
698
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000699- The do_handshake() method of SSL objects now adjusts the blocking mode of the
700 SSL structure if necessary (as other methods already do).
Antoine Pitrou4d3e3722010-04-24 19:57:01 +0000701
Georg Brandl4341e542010-04-24 09:08:10 +0000702- Issue #7507: Quote "!" in pipes.quote(); it is special to some shells.
703
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000704- Issue #5238: Calling makefile() on an SSL object would prevent the underlying
705 socket from being closed until all objects get truely destroyed.
Antoine Pitroub558f172010-04-23 23:25:45 +0000706
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000707- Issue #7943: Fix circular reference created when instantiating an SSL socket.
708 Initial patch by Péter Szabó.
Antoine Pitroudfb299b2010-04-23 22:54:59 +0000709
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000710- Issue #8451: Syslog module now uses basename(sys.argv[0]) instead of the
711 string "python" as the *ident*. openlog() arguments are all optional and
712 keywords.
Sean Reifscheiderf6ce3cb2010-04-23 08:31:55 +0000713
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000714- Issue #8108: Fix the unwrap() method of SSL objects when the socket has a
715 non-infinite timeout. Also make that method friendlier with applications
Antoine Pitroua5c4b552010-04-22 23:33:02 +0000716 wanting to continue using the socket in clear-text mode, by disabling
717 OpenSSL's internal readahead. Thanks to Darryl Miles for guidance.
718
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000719- Issue #8484: Load all ciphers and digest algorithms when initializing the _ssl
720 extension, such that verification of some SSL certificates doesn't fail
721 because of an "unknown algorithm".
Antoine Pitrouc715a9e2010-04-21 19:28:03 +0000722
Victor Stinnera92e81b2010-04-20 22:28:31 +0000723- Issue #8437: Fix test_gdb failures, patch written by Dave Malcolm
724
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000725- Issue #4814: The timeout parameter is now applied also for connections
726 resulting from PORT/EPRT commands.
Giampaolo Rodolà607f7c02010-04-19 21:46:28 +0000727
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000728- Issue #8463: Add missing reference to bztar in shutil's documentation.
Tarek Ziadé8a12f942010-04-19 21:28:21 +0000729
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000730- Issue #8438: Remove reference to the missing "surrogateescape" encoding error
731 handler from the new IO library.
Antoine Pitrou7c587bf2010-04-19 18:52:43 +0000732
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000733- Issue #3817: ftplib.FTP.abort() method now considers 225 a valid response code
734 as stated in RFC-959 at chapter 5.4.
Giampaolo Rodolàcf445fc2010-04-18 12:55:03 +0000735
Martin v. Löwis24f09fd2010-04-17 22:40:40 +0000736- Issue #8279: Fix test_gdb failures.
737
Antoine Pitrou0a6373c2010-04-17 17:10:38 +0000738- Issue #8322: Add a *ciphers* argument to SSL sockets, so as to change the
739 available cipher list. Helps fix test_ssl with OpenSSL 1.0.0.
740
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000741- Issue #2987: RFC 2732 support for urlparse (IPv6 addresses). Patch by Tony
Senthil Kumaran8c6d9d72010-04-16 02:46:46 +0000742 Locke and Hans Ulrich Niedermann.
743
R. David Murray1a14d3d2010-04-12 16:35:19 +0000744- Issue #7585: difflib context and unified diffs now place a tab between
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000745 filename and date, conforming to the 'standards' they were originally designed
746 to follow. This improves compatibility with patch tools.
R. David Murray1a14d3d2010-04-12 16:35:19 +0000747
R. David Murray27ef9372010-04-12 14:26:06 +0000748- Issue #7472: Fixed typo in email.encoders module; messages using ISO-2022
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000749 character sets will now consistently use a Content-Transfer-Encoding of 7bit
750 rather than sometimes being marked as 8bit.
R. David Murray27ef9372010-04-12 14:26:06 +0000751
Martin v. Löwis7f7765c2010-04-12 05:18:16 +0000752- Issue #8330: Fix expected output in test_gdb.
753
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000754- Issue #8374: Update the internal alias table in the :mod:`locale` module to
755 cover recent locale changes and additions.
Antoine Pitrouab5ce722010-04-11 22:45:47 +0000756
Matthias Klose8a96d202010-04-21 22:18:52 +0000757Extension Modules
758-----------------
759
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000760- Issue #8644: Improved accuracy of ``timedelta.total_seconds()``.
Mark Dickinson7000e9e2010-05-09 09:30:06 +0000761
Brett Cannon945df9a2010-05-04 01:04:53 +0000762- Use Clang 2.7's static analyzer to find places to clean up some code.
763
Matthias Klose8a96d202010-04-21 22:18:52 +0000764- Build the ossaudio extension on GNU/kFreeBSD.
765
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000766- On Windows, ctypes does no longer check the stack before and after calling a
767 foreign function. This allows to use the unmodified libffi library.
Thomas Heller06a7e202010-05-04 18:44:42 +0000768
Antoine Pitroua5c4b552010-04-22 23:33:02 +0000769Tests
770-----
771
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000772- Issue #8672: Add a zlib test ensuring that an incomplete stream can be handled
773 by a decompressor object without errors (it returns incomplete uncompressed
774 data).
Antoine Pitrou37ffc3e2010-05-11 23:32:31 +0000775
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000776- Issue #8490: asyncore now has a more solid test suite which actually tests its
777 API.
Giampaolo Rodolàff46d6e2010-05-10 15:33:22 +0000778
Antoine Pitrou54f9f832010-04-30 23:08:48 +0000779- Issue #8576: Remove use of find_unused_port() in test_smtplib and
780 test_multiprocessing. Patch by Paul Moore.
781
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000782- Issue #7449: Fix many tests to support Python compiled without thread support.
783 Patches written by Jerry Seutter.
Victor Stinnerd9d147b2010-04-27 21:46:03 +0000784
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000785- Issue #8108: test_ftplib's non-blocking SSL server now has proper handling of
786 SSL shutdowns.
Antoine Pitroua5c4b552010-04-22 23:33:02 +0000787
Matthias Klose5183ebd2010-04-24 16:38:36 +0000788Build
789-----
790
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000791- Issue #8625: Turn off optimization in ``--with-pydebug`` builds with gcc.
Mark Dickinsond2f3e3f2010-05-05 22:23:58 +0000792 (Optimization was unintentionally turned on in gcc --with-pydebug builds in
793 2.7 beta1 as a result of the issue #1628484 fix, combined with autoconf's
794 strange choice of default CFLAGS produced by AC_PROG_CC for gcc.)
795
Matthias Klose5183ebd2010-04-24 16:38:36 +0000796- Issue #8509: Fix quoting in help strings and code snippets in configure.in.
797
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000798- Issue #3646: It is now easily possible to install a Python framework into your
799 home directory on Mac OS X, see Mac/README for more information.
Ronald Oussoren01d149f2010-04-30 11:20:14 +0000800
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000801- Issue #8510: Update to autoconf 2.65.
Matthias Klosea0bea5d2010-05-08 10:00:28 +0000802
Brett Cannonc1f5c2f2010-05-02 21:51:23 +0000803Misc
804----
805
806- Update the Vim syntax highlight file.
807
Benjamin Peterson12409062010-04-10 18:53:58 +0000808
Benjamin Peterson5da7e7c2010-03-06 22:44:07 +0000809What's New in Python 2.7 beta 1?
810================================
811
Benjamin Petersonfbac6c12010-04-10 16:22:05 +0000812*Release date: 2010-04-10*
Benjamin Peterson5da7e7c2010-03-06 22:44:07 +0000813
814Core and Builtins
815-----------------
816
Philip Jenveyaebbaeb2010-04-06 23:24:45 +0000817- Issue #7301: Add environment variable $PYTHONWARNINGS.
818
Benjamin Peterson3a1dfa22010-04-06 21:50:00 +0000819- Issue #8329: Don't return the same lists from select.select when no fds are
820 changed.
821
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000822- Issue #8259: ``1L << (2**31)`` no longer produces an 'outrageous shift error'
Mark Dickinson82791672010-04-06 16:47:55 +0000823 on 64-bit machines. The shift count for either left or right shift is
824 permitted to be up to sys.maxsize.
825
Benjamin Peterson4ceeeb02010-04-03 22:48:51 +0000826- Ensure that tokenization of identifiers is not affected by locale.
827
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000828- Issue #1222585: Added LDCXXSHARED for C++ support. Patch by Arfrever.
Tarek Ziadé00002952010-04-03 08:37:59 +0000829
Benjamin Peterson1c7c11e2010-04-03 01:28:57 +0000830- Raise a TypeError when trying to delete a T_STRING_INPLACE struct member.
831
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000832- Issue #7994: Issue a PendingDeprecationWarning if object.__format__ is called
833 with a non-empty format string. This is an effort to future-proof user
834 code. If a derived class does not currently implement __format__ but later
835 adds its own __format__, it would most likely break user code that had
836 supplied a format string. This will be changed to a DeprecationWaring in
837 Python 3.3 and it will be an error in Python 3.4.
Eric Smithd44b2fc2010-04-02 12:30:56 +0000838
Antoine Pitroua57df2c2010-03-31 21:32:15 +0000839- Issue #8268: Old-style classes (not just instances) now support weak
840 references.
841
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000842- Issue #8211: Save/restore CFLAGS around AC_PROG_CC in configure.in, in case it
843 is set.
Victor Stinner6cbf90f2010-03-25 00:21:53 +0000844
Victor Stinnerc7790ed2010-03-22 12:36:28 +0000845- Issue #1583863: An unicode subclass can now override the __unicode__ method
Victor Stinner95affc42010-03-22 12:24:37 +0000846
Benjamin Peterson96545892010-03-21 20:21:00 +0000847- Issue #6474: Make error message from passing an inadequate number of keyword
848 arguments to a function correct.
849
Benjamin Peterson0dee9c12010-03-17 20:41:42 +0000850- Issue #8164: Don't allow lambda functions to have a docstring.
851
Victor Stinner66644262010-03-10 22:30:19 +0000852- Issue #3137: Don't ignore errors at startup, especially a keyboard interrupt
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000853 (SIGINT). If an error occurs while importing the site module, the error is
854 printed and Python exits. Initialize the GIL before importing the site
Victor Stinner66644262010-03-10 22:30:19 +0000855 module.
856
Collin Winter001a3952010-03-18 21:54:01 +0000857- Code objects now support weak references.
858
Benjamin Peterson5da7e7c2010-03-06 22:44:07 +0000859Library
860-------
861
R. David Murray661303f2010-04-13 20:57:40 +0000862- Issue #5277: Fix quote counting when parsing RFC 2231 encoded parameters.
863
Antoine Pitrouf9de5342010-04-05 21:35:07 +0000864- Issue #8321: Give access to OpenSSL version numbers from the `ssl` module,
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000865 using the new attributes `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION`, `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION_INFO` and
866 `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION_NUMBER`.
Antoine Pitrouf9de5342010-04-05 21:35:07 +0000867
Benjamin Peterson76a23c12010-04-04 23:23:22 +0000868- Issue #8310: Allow dis to examine new style classes.
869
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000870- Issue #8257: The Decimal construct now accepts a float instance directly,
871 converting that float to a Decimal of equal value:
Mark Dickinson8a950712010-04-03 15:47:46 +0000872
873 >>> Decimal(1.1)
874 Decimal('1.100000000000000088817841970012523233890533447265625')
875
Raymond Hettinger34c35b22010-04-03 10:22:00 +0000876- collections.Counter() now supports a subtract() method.
877
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000878- The functools module now has a total_ordering() class decorator to simplify
879 the specification of rich comparisons.
Raymond Hettingera551f312010-04-04 18:34:45 +0000880
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000881- The functools module also adds cmp_to_key() as a tool to transition old-style
882 comparison functions to new-style key-functions.
Raymond Hettingera551f312010-04-04 18:34:45 +0000883
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000884- Issue #8294: The Fraction constructor now accepts Decimal and float instances
885 directly.
Mark Dickinson7c63eee2010-04-02 22:27:36 +0000886
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000887- Issue #7279: Comparisons involving a Decimal signaling NaN now signal
888 InvalidOperation instead of returning False. (Comparisons involving a quiet
889 NaN are unchanged.) Also, Decimal quiet NaNs are now hashable; Decimal
890 signaling NaNs remain unhashable.
Mark Dickinsone096e822010-04-02 10:17:07 +0000891
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000892- Issue #2531: Comparison operations between floats and Decimal instances now
893 return a result based on the numeric values of the operands; previously they
894 returned an arbitrary result based on the relative ordering of id(float) and
895 id(Decimal).
Mark Dickinson99d80962010-04-02 08:53:22 +0000896
Barry Warsawf7f2d6f2010-03-31 21:07:16 +0000897- Issue #8233: When run as a script, py_compile.py optionally takes a single
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000898 argument `-` which tells it to read files to compile from stdin. Each line is
899 read on demand and the named file is compiled immediately. (Original patch by
900 Piotr Ożarowski).
Barry Warsawf7f2d6f2010-03-31 21:07:16 +0000901
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000902- Issue #3135: Add ``inspect.getcallargs()``, which binds arguments to a
903 function like a normal call.
Benjamin Peterson7e213252010-03-30 17:58:13 +0000904
Florent Xicluna58b65662010-03-30 16:29:03 +0000905- Backwards incompatible change: Unicode codepoints line tabulation (0x0B) and
906 form feed (0x0C) are now considered linebreaks, as specified in Unicode
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000907 Standard Annex #14. See issue #7643. http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr14/
Florent Xicluna22b24382010-03-30 08:24:06 +0000908
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000909- Comparisons using one of <, <=, >, >= between a complex instance and a
910 Fractions instance now raise TypeError instead of returning True/False. This
911 makes Fraction <=> complex comparisons consistent with int <=> complex, float
912 <=> complex, and complex <=> complex comparisons.
Mark Dickinson9588d992010-03-27 11:14:37 +0000913
Michael Foorde6410c52010-03-29 20:04:23 +0000914- Addition of ``WeakSet`` to the ``weakref`` module.
915
Vinay Sajipb0623d62010-03-24 14:31:21 +0000916- logging: Added LOG_FTP to SysLogHandler and updated documentation.
917
Florent Xicluna176cda12010-03-22 22:52:11 +0000918- Issue #8205: Remove the "Modules" directory from sys.path when Python is
919 running from the build directory (POSIX only).
920
Florent Xiclunae1f4c922010-03-22 22:45:50 +0000921- Issue #7667: Fix doctest failures with non-ASCII paths.
922
Antoine Pitrou513d9ae2010-03-22 19:59:46 +0000923- Issue #7512: shutil.copystat() could raise an OSError when the filesystem
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000924 didn't support chflags() (for example ZFS under FreeBSD). The error is now
925 silenced.
Antoine Pitrou513d9ae2010-03-22 19:59:46 +0000926
Florent Xicluna9e7a4c92010-03-22 16:07:38 +0000927- Issue #7703: ctypes supports both buffer() and memoryview(). The former is
928 deprecated.
929
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000930- Issue #7860: platform.uname now reports the correct 'machine' type when Python
931 is running in WOW64 mode on 64 bit Windows.
R. David Murrayc9d1a782010-03-22 15:55:09 +0000932
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000933- logging: Added getChild utility method to Logger and added isEnabledFor method
934 to LoggerAdapter.
Vinay Sajip804899b2010-03-22 15:29:01 +0000935
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000936- Issue #8201: logging: Handle situation of non-ASCII and Unicode logger names
937 existing at the same time, causing a Unicode error when configuration code
938 attempted to sort the existing loggers.
Vinay Sajip31e928e2010-03-22 13:02:28 +0000939
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000940- Issue #8200: logging: Handle errors when multiprocessing is not fully loaded
941 when logging occurs.
Vinay Sajip3017a7b2010-03-22 12:33:08 +0000942
Antoine Pitroueee91cd2010-03-26 19:27:16 +0000943- Issue #3890, #8222: Fix recv() and recv_into() on non-blocking SSL sockets.
944 Also, enable the SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY flag on SSL sockets, so that blocking
945 reads and writes are always retried by OpenSSL itself.
Antoine Pitrou448da712010-03-21 19:33:38 +0000946
Florent Xiclunacf82fa62010-03-21 12:27:20 +0000947- Issue #8179: Fix macpath.realpath() on a non-existing path.
948
Florent Xicluna2e0a53f2010-03-18 21:50:06 +0000949- Issue #8024: Update the Unicode database to 5.2.
950
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000951- Issue #8104: socket.recv_into() and socket.recvfrom_into() now support writing
952 into objects supporting the new buffer API, for example bytearrays or
953 memoryviews.
Antoine Pitroud7b731d2010-03-17 22:45:39 +0000954
Matthias Klose8b411682010-03-16 10:48:52 +0000955- Issue #4961: Inconsistent/wrong result of askyesno function in tkMessageBox
956 with Tcl/Tk-8.5.
957
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000958- Issue #8140: Extend compileall to compile single files. Add -i option.
Matthias Kloseb13d04c2010-03-15 17:44:12 +0000959
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000960- Issue #7356: ctypes.util: Make parsing of ldconfig output independent of the
961 locale.
Matthias Klose358e7ff2010-03-15 13:42:23 +0000962
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000963- Issue #7774: Set sys.executable to an empty string if ``argv[0]`` has been set
964 to an non existent program name and Python is unable to retrieve the real
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000965 program name.
Victor Stinner75227342010-03-12 14:30:26 +0000966
Vinay Sajipecfa08f2010-03-12 09:16:10 +0000967- Issue #8117: logging: Improved algorithm for computing initial rollover time
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000968 for ``TimedRotatingFileHandler`` by using the modification time of an existing
969 log file to compute the next rollover time. If the log file does not exist,
970 the current time is used as the basis for the computation.
Vinay Sajip9098ee42010-03-12 06:01:21 +0000971
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000972- Issue #6472: The ``xml.etree`` package is updated to ElementTree 1.3. The
Florent Xicluna3e8c1892010-03-11 14:36:19 +0000973 cElementTree module is updated too.
974
Florent Xicluna85677612010-03-10 23:58:42 +0000975- Issue #7880: Fix sysconfig when the python executable is a symbolic link.
976
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000977- Issue #7624: Fix ``isinstance(foo(), collections.Callable)`` for old-style
Florent Xicluna47627d52010-03-08 15:20:28 +0000978 classes.
979
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000980- Issue #7143: email: ``get_payload()`` used to strip any trailing newline from
981 a base64 transfer-encoded payload *after* decoding it; it no longer does.
982 This is a behavior change, so email's minor version number is now bumped, to
983 version 4.0.2, for the 2.7 release.
R. David Murray4617e502010-03-08 02:04:06 +0000984
Larry Hastings3b958e32010-04-02 11:18:17 +0000985- Issue #8235: _socket: Add the constant ``SO_SETFIB``. SO_SETFIB is
986 a socket option available on FreeBSD 7.1 and newer.
987
Michael Foorda04c7a02010-04-02 22:55:59 +0000988- Issue #8038: unittest.TestCase.assertNotRegexpMatches
989
990- Addition of -b command line option to unittest for buffering stdout / stderr
991 during test runs.
992
Victor Stinnerdb990922010-05-15 21:00:59 +0000993- Issue #1220212: Added os.kill support for Windows, including support for
Brian Curtin85108e62010-04-02 23:31:28 +0000994 sending CTRL+C and CTRL+BREAK events to console subprocesses.
995
Mark Dickinson154b7ad2010-03-07 16:24:45 +0000996Extension Modules
997-----------------
998
Martin v. Löwis16ea5482010-04-07 11:01:46 +0000999- Issue #8314: Fix unsigned long long bug in libffi on Sparc v8.
1000
Matthias Klosee9fbf2b2010-03-19 14:45:06 +00001001- Issue #1039, #8154: Fix os.execlp() crash with missing 2nd argument.
1002
Jesus Cea6557aac2010-03-22 14:22:26 +00001003- Issue #8156: bsddb module updated to version 4.8.4.
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001004 http://www.jcea.es/programacion/pybsddb.htm#bsddb3-4.8.4. This update drops
1005 support for Berkeley DB 4.0, and adds support for 4.8.
Matthias Klose54cc5392010-03-15 12:46:18 +00001006
Jesus Cea616de772010-04-28 10:32:30 +00001007- Issue #3928: os.mknod() now available in Solaris, also.
1008
Matthias Klose817acef2010-03-15 00:02:36 +00001009- Issue #8142: Update libffi to the 3.0.9 release.
1010
Mark Dickinson4846a8e2010-04-03 14:05:10 +00001011- Issue #8300: When passing a non-integer argument to struct.pack with any
1012 integer format code, struct.pack first attempts to convert the non-integer
1013 using its __index__ method. If that method is non-existent or raises
1014 TypeError it goes on to try the __int__ method, as described below.
1015
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001016- Issue #1530559: When passing a non-integer argument to struct.pack with *any*
1017 integer format code (one of 'bBhHiIlLqQ'), struct.pack attempts to use the
1018 argument's __int__ method to convert to an integer before packing. It also
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001019 produces a DeprecationWarning in this case. (In Python 2.6, the behaviour was
1020 inconsistent: __int__ was used for some integer codes but not for others, and
1021 the set of integer codes for which it was used differed between native packing
1022 and standard packing.)
Mark Dickinson154b7ad2010-03-07 16:24:45 +00001023
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001024- Issue #7347: _winreg: Add CreateKeyEx and DeleteKeyEx, as well as fix a bug in
1025 the return value of QueryReflectionKey.
Brian Curtin19479fa2010-04-02 21:51:37 +00001026
Antoine Pitrou02b3f0a2010-03-13 21:21:30 +00001027Tools/Demos
1028-----------
1029
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001030- Issue #7993: Add a test of IO packet processing bandwidth to ccbench. It
1031 measures the number of UDP packets processed per second depending on the
1032 number of background CPU-bound Python threads.
Benjamin Peterson5da7e7c2010-03-06 22:44:07 +00001033
Collin Wintera70f3492010-03-19 00:08:44 +00001034- python-config now supports multiple options on the same command line.
1035
Benjamin Peterson11d93232010-03-14 14:24:31 +00001036Build
1037-----
1038
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001039- Issue #8032: For gdb7, a python-gdb.py file is added to the build, allowing to
1040 use advanced gdb features when debugging Python.
Martin v. Löwisbf0dfb32010-04-01 07:40:51 +00001041
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001042- Issue #1628484: The Makefile doesn't ignore the CFLAGS environment variable
1043 anymore. It also forwards the LDFLAGS settings to the linker when building a
1044 shared library.
Antoine Pitrouf83b3082010-03-21 19:19:41 +00001045
Martin v. Löwis24e4e162010-03-15 13:00:17 +00001046- Issue #6716: Quote -x arguments of compileall in MSI installer.
1047
Benjamin Peterson11d93232010-03-14 14:24:31 +00001048- Issue #7705: Fix linking on FreeBSD.
1049
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven6d22cfc2010-04-07 16:34:08 +00001050- Make sure that the FreeBSD build of the included libffi uses the proper
1051 assembly file.
1052
Larry Hastings402b73f2010-03-25 00:54:54 +00001053C-API
1054-----
1055
Antoine Pitrou76c86492010-04-01 16:42:11 +00001056- Issue #8276: PyEval_CallObject() is now only available in macro form. The
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001057 function declaration, which was kept for backwards compatibility reasons, is
1058 now removed (the macro was introduced in 1997!).
Antoine Pitrou76c86492010-04-01 16:42:11 +00001059
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001060- Issue #7992: A replacement PyCObject API, PyCapsule, has been backported from
1061 Python 3.1. All existing Python CObjects in the main distribution have been
1062 converted to capsules. To address backwards-compatibility concerns,
1063 PyCObject_AsVoidPtr() was changed to understand capsules.
Larry Hastings402b73f2010-03-25 00:54:54 +00001064
Florent Xicluna3cc8f212010-03-15 18:08:58 +00001065Tests
1066-----
1067
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001068- Issue #3864: Skip three test_signal tests on freebsd6 because they fail if any
1069 thread was previously started, most likely due to a platform bug.
R. David Murraye0e8a872010-04-17 05:26:26 +00001070
Antoine Pitrouab5ce722010-04-11 22:45:47 +00001071- Issue #8348: Fix test ftp url in test_urllib2net.
1072
1073- Issue #8204: Fix test_ttk notebook test by forcing focus.
1074
1075- Issue #8344: Fix test_ttk bug on FreeBSD.
1076
Antoine Pitrou3b4c9892010-04-06 17:21:09 +00001077- Issue #8193: Fix test_zlib failure with zlib 1.2.4.
1078
Antoine Pitrou6032c252010-03-30 18:49:45 +00001079- Issue #8248: Add some tests for the bool type. Patch by Gregory Nofi.
1080
Florent Xicluna75c66762010-03-30 16:31:14 +00001081- Issue #8263: Now regrtest.py will report a failure if it receives a
1082 KeyboardInterrupt (SIGINT).
1083
Florent Xicluna8aa5a582010-03-25 20:33:49 +00001084- Issue #8180 and #8207: Fix test_pep277 on OS X and add more tests for special
1085 Unicode normalization cases.
Florent Xicluna77a88492010-03-21 18:00:38 +00001086
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001087- Issue #7783: test.test_support.open_urlresource invalidates the outdated files
1088 from the local cache.
Florent Xicluna3cc8f212010-03-15 18:08:58 +00001089
R. David Murray4617e502010-03-08 02:04:06 +00001090
Benjamin Peterson2d798ac2010-02-06 18:26:27 +00001091What's New in Python 2.7 alpha 4?
1092=================================
1093
Benjamin Peterson8e7c1172010-03-06 20:34:14 +00001094*Release date: 2010-03-06*
Benjamin Peterson2d798ac2010-02-06 18:26:27 +00001095
1096Core and Builtins
1097-----------------
1098
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001099- Issue #7544: Preallocate thread memory before creating the thread to avoid a
1100 fatal error in low memory condition.
Victor Stinner71fb87e2010-03-03 23:20:25 +00001101
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001102- Issue #7820: The parser tokenizer restores all bytes in the right if the BOM
1103 check fails.
Victor Stinnerd23d3932010-03-02 23:20:02 +00001104
Eric Smith2d9856d2010-02-24 14:15:36 +00001105- Issue #7309: Fix unchecked attribute access when converting
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001106 UnicodeEncodeError, UnicodeDecodeError, and UnicodeTranslateError to strings.
Eric Smith2d9856d2010-02-24 14:15:36 +00001107
Ezio Melotti32125152010-02-25 17:36:04 +00001108- Issue #7649: "u'%c' % char" now behaves like "u'%s' % char" and raises a
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001109 UnicodeDecodeError if 'char' is a byte string that can't be decoded using the
1110 default encoding.
Victor Stinnerf20f9c22010-02-23 23:16:07 +00001111
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001112- Issue #6902: Fix problem with built-in types format incorrectly with 0
1113 padding.
Eric Smith87bcb242010-02-23 00:11:16 +00001114
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001115- Issue #2560: Remove an unnecessary 'for' loop from ``my_fgets()`` in
Andrew M. Kuchlingb64d6132010-02-22 22:48:41 +00001116 Parser/myreadline.c.
1117
Eric Smithf32d4ac2010-02-22 18:33:47 +00001118- Issue #7988: Fix default alignment to be right aligned for
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001119 ``complex.__format__``. Now it matches other numeric types.
Eric Smithf32d4ac2010-02-22 18:33:47 +00001120
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001121- Issue #5211: The complex type no longer uses implicit coercion in mixed-type
1122 binary arithmetic operations.
Mark Dickinson82b34c52010-02-21 12:57:35 +00001123
Benjamin Peterson2d798ac2010-02-06 18:26:27 +00001124Library
1125-------
Georg Brandl7f0c3ff2010-08-01 21:18:52 +00001126
R. David Murray05b76312010-07-17 01:35:16 +00001127- Issue #1555570: email no longer inserts extra blank lines when a \r\n
1128 combo crosses an 8192 byte boundary.
Benjamin Peterson2d798ac2010-02-06 18:26:27 +00001129
Florent Xicluna0b9a18a2010-03-06 11:01:08 +00001130- Issue #6906: Tk should not set Unicode environment variables on Windows.
1131
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001132- Issue #1054943: Fix ``unicodedata.normalize('NFC', text)`` for the Public
Ezio Melotti8122bdd2010-03-14 10:13:49 +00001133 Review Issue #29 (http://unicode.org/review/pr-29.html).
Victor Stinner7c924ec2010-03-04 12:09:33 +00001134
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001135- Issue #7494: Fix a crash in ``_lsprof`` (cProfile) after clearing the profiler,
Victor Stinner56a51532010-03-04 00:10:12 +00001136 reset also the pointer to the current pointer context.
1137
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001138- Issue #7232: Add support for the context manager protocol to the
1139 ``tarfile.TarFile`` class.
Lars Gustäbel64581042010-03-03 11:55:48 +00001140
Barry Warsaw08a8fb32010-03-01 21:46:51 +00001141- Issue #7250: Fix info leak of os.environ across multi-run uses of
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001142 ``wsgiref.handlers.CGIHandler``.
Barry Warsaw08a8fb32010-03-01 21:46:51 +00001143
Florent Xiclunae7901c52010-03-01 20:45:01 +00001144- Issue #1729305: Fix doctest to handle encode error with "backslashreplace".
Florent Xicluna2a903b22010-02-27 13:31:23 +00001145
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001146- Issue #691291: ``codecs.open()`` should not convert end of lines on reading
1147 and writing.
Florent Xicluna82aa01f2010-02-27 11:19:18 +00001148
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001149- Issue #7975: Correct regression in dict methods supported by bsddb.dbshelve.
R. David Murray48605be2010-02-24 02:31:27 +00001150
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001151- Issue #7959: ctypes callback functions are now registered correctly with the
1152 cycle garbage collector.
Thomas Heller92bd0592010-02-23 20:11:44 +00001153
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001154- Issue #7970: ``email.Generator.flatten`` now correctly flattens
1155 message/rfc822 messages parsed by ``email.Parser.HeaderParser``.
R. David Murray51f12042010-02-21 04:23:00 +00001156
Ezio Melotti4cc80ca2010-02-20 08:09:39 +00001157- Issue #3426: ``os.path.abspath`` now returns unicode when its arg is unicode.
1158
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001159- Issue #7633: In the decimal module, ``Context`` class methods (with the
1160 exception of canonical and is_canonical) now accept instances of int and long
1161 wherever a Decimal instance is accepted, and implicitly convert that argument
1162 to Decimal. Previously only some arguments were converted.
Mark Dickinson6d8effb2010-02-18 14:27:02 +00001163
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001164- Issue #6003: Add an argument to ``zipfile.Zipfile.writestr`` to specify the
1165 compression type.
Ezio Melotti8f6a2872010-02-10 21:40:33 +00001166
Michael Foorddb43b5a2010-02-10 14:25:12 +00001167- Issue #7893: ``unittest.TextTestResult`` is made public and a ``resultclass``
1168 argument added to the TextTestRunner constructor allowing a different result
1169 class to be used without having to subclass.
Ezio Melotti8f6a2872010-02-10 21:40:33 +00001170
Ezio Melotti4cc80ca2010-02-20 08:09:39 +00001171- Issue #7588: ``unittest.TextTestResult.getDescription`` now includes the test
Michael Foorddb43b5a2010-02-10 14:25:12 +00001172 name in failure reports even if the test has a docstring.
Ronald Oussorendd25e862010-02-07 20:18:02 +00001173
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001174- Issue #5801: Remove spurious empty lines in wsgiref.
Tarek Ziadéb8708a22010-02-23 05:53:05 +00001175
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001176- Issue #1537721: Add a ``writeheader()`` method to ``csv.DictWriter``.
Dirkjan Ochtman86148172010-02-23 21:09:52 +00001177
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001178- Issue #7427: Improve the representation of httplib.BadStatusLine exceptions.
Dirkjan Ochtmanebc73dc2010-02-24 04:49:00 +00001179
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001180- Issue #7481: When a ``threading.Thread`` failed to start it would leave the
1181 instance stuck in initial state and present in ``threading.enumerate()``.
Gregory P. Smith613c7a52010-02-28 18:36:09 +00001182
Gregory P. Smithcce211f2010-03-01 00:05:08 +00001183- Issue #1068268: The subprocess module now handles EINTR in internal
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001184 ``os.waitpid()`` and ``os.read()`` system calls where appropriate.
Gregory P. Smithcce211f2010-03-01 00:05:08 +00001185
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001186- Issue #6729: Add ``ctypes.c_ssize_t`` to represent ssize_t.
Gregory P. Smith3c699d32010-03-01 04:56:12 +00001187
Steven Betharde9330e72010-03-02 08:38:09 +00001188- Issue #6247: The argparse module has been added to the standard library.
1189
Martin v. Löwis413fabc2010-02-18 09:22:20 +00001190Extension Modules
1191-----------------
1192
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001193- The sqlite3 module was updated to pysqlite 2.6.0. This fixes several obscure
Gerhard Häring3bbb6722010-03-05 09:12:37 +00001194 bugs and allows loading SQLite extensions from shared libraries.
1195
Florent Xiclunae7901c52010-03-01 20:45:01 +00001196- Issue #7808: Fix reference leaks in _bsddb and related tests.
1197
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001198- Issue #6544: Fix a reference leak in the kqueue implementation's error
Georg Brandlea370a92010-02-23 21:48:57 +00001199 handling.
1200
Martin v. Löwis413fabc2010-02-18 09:22:20 +00001201- Stop providing crtassem.h symbols when compiling with Visual Studio 2010, as
1202 msvcr100.dll is not a platform assembly anymore.
Benjamin Peterson2d798ac2010-02-06 18:26:27 +00001203
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001204- Issue #7242: On Solaris 9 and earlier calling ``os.fork()`` from within a
Gregory P. Smith9e5d1322010-03-01 01:22:39 +00001205 thread could raise an incorrect RuntimeError about not holding the import
1206 lock. The import lock is now reinitialized after fork.
1207
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001208- Issue #7999: ``os.setreuid()`` and ``os.setregid()`` would refuse to accept a
1209 -1 parameter on some platforms such as OS X.
Gregory P. Smith6a65f852010-03-01 05:43:43 +00001210
Ezio Melotti8f6a2872010-02-10 21:40:33 +00001211Tests
1212-----
1213
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001214- Issue #7849: The utility ``test.test_support.check_warnings()`` verifies if
1215 warnings are effectively raised. A new utility ``check_py3k_warnings()`` is
1216 available.
Florent Xicluna6de9e932010-03-07 12:18:33 +00001217
Florent Xicluna985478d2010-03-06 18:52:52 +00001218- The four path modules (genericpath, macpath, ntpath, posixpath) share a
1219 common TestCase for some tests: test_genericpath.CommonTest.
1220
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001221- Print platform information when running the whole test suite, or using the
1222 ``--verbose`` flag.
Florent Xicluna58526412010-03-06 17:24:36 +00001223
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001224- Issue #767675: Enable test_pep277 on POSIX platforms with Unicode-friendly
Florent Xiclunac0a9d412010-03-02 22:34:11 +00001225 filesystem encoding.
Florent Xicluna2db61fb2010-03-02 21:34:45 +00001226
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001227- Issue #6292: For the moment at least, the test suite runs cleanly if python
R. David Murrayf28fd242010-02-23 00:24:49 +00001228 is run with the -OO flag. Tests requiring docstrings are skipped.
1229
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001230- Issue #7712: test_support gained a new ``temp_cwd`` context manager which is
1231 now also used by regrtest to run all the tests in a temporary directory. The
1232 original CWD is saved in ``test.test_support.SAVEDCWD``. Thanks to Florent
1233 Xicluna who helped with the patch.
Ezio Melotti8f6a2872010-02-10 21:40:33 +00001234
Martin v. Löwis5e2dd862010-02-15 08:32:00 +00001235Build
1236-----
1237
Martin v. Löwis7875ef62010-02-15 21:41:12 +00001238- Issue #3920, #7903: Define _BSD_SOURCE on OpenBSD 4.4 through 4.9.
Martin v. Löwis5e2dd862010-02-15 08:32:00 +00001239
Ezio Melotti8f6a2872010-02-10 21:40:33 +00001240
Benjamin Petersondd6d92a2010-01-09 17:30:31 +00001241What's New in Python 2.7 alpha 3?
1242=================================
1243
Benjamin Petersona7be9d22010-02-06 16:37:32 +00001244*Release date: 2010-02-06*
Benjamin Petersondd6d92a2010-01-09 17:30:31 +00001245
1246Core and Builtins
1247-----------------
1248
Antoine Pitroubb445a12010-02-05 17:05:54 +00001249- Issue #5677: Explicitly forbid write operations on read-only file objects,
1250 and read operations on write-only file objects. On Windows, the system C
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001251 library would return a bogus result; on Solaris, it was possible to crash the
1252 interpreter. Patch by Stefan Krah.
Antoine Pitroubb445a12010-02-05 17:05:54 +00001253
Barry Warsawb1e66ee2010-02-05 18:45:25 +00001254- Issue #7853: Normalize exceptions before they are passed to a context
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001255 manager's ``__exit__()`` method.
Benjamin Peterson565d7852010-02-05 02:12:14 +00001256
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001257- Issue #7385: Fix a crash in ``PyMemoryView_FromObject()`` when
1258 ``PyObject_GetBuffer()`` fails. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
Antoine Pitrou526e4212010-02-02 22:36:17 +00001259
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001260- Issue #7819: Check ``sys.call_tracing()`` arguments types.
Victor Stinnerb4b0a292010-01-31 22:32:15 +00001261
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001262- Issue #7788: Fix an interpreter crash produced by deleting a list slice with
1263 very large step value.
Mark Dickinson36ecd672010-01-29 17:11:39 +00001264
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001265- Issue #7766: Change ``sys.getwindowsversion()`` return value to a named tuple
1266 and add the additional members returned in an OSVERSIONINFOEX structure. The
1267 new members are service_pack_major, service_pack_minor, suite_mask, and
1268 product_type.
Eric Smithee931b72010-01-27 00:28:29 +00001269
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001270- Issue #7561: Operations on empty bytearrays (such as ``int(bytearray())``)
1271 could crash in many places because of the ``PyByteArray_AS_STRING()`` macro
1272 returning NULL. The macro now returns a statically allocated empty string
1273 instead.
Antoine Pitroue80a6a42010-01-17 12:26:20 +00001274
Antoine Pitrou64672132010-01-13 07:55:48 +00001275- Issue #7622: Improve the split(), rsplit(), splitlines() and replace()
1276 methods of bytes, bytearray and unicode objects by using a common
1277 implementation based on stringlib's fast search. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
1278
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001279- Issue #7632: Fix various str -> float conversion bugs present in 2.7 alpha 2,
1280 including:
Mark Dickinson8efef5c2010-01-12 22:23:56 +00001281
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001282 (1) a serious 'wrong output' bug that could occur for long (> 40 digit) input
1283 strings,
1284 (2) a crash in dtoa.c that occurred in debug builds when parsing certain long
1285 numeric strings corresponding to subnormal values,
1286 (3) a memory leak for some values large enough to cause overflow, and
1287 (4) a number of flaws that could lead to incorrectly rounded results.
1288
1289- Issue #7319, #7770: Silence ``DeprecationWarning`` by default when the -3
1290 option is not used.
Brett Cannon6fdd3dc2010-01-10 02:56:19 +00001291
Alexandre Vassalottiee936a22010-01-09 23:35:54 +00001292- Issue #2335: Backport set literals syntax from Python 3.x.
1293
Alexandre Vassalotti7a8df802010-01-11 23:13:49 +00001294- Issue #2333: Backport set and dict comprehensions syntax from Python 3.x.
1295
Alexandre Vassalotti69eb5162010-01-11 23:17:10 +00001296- Issue #1967: Backport dictionary views from Python 3.x.
1297
Benjamin Petersondd6d92a2010-01-09 17:30:31 +00001298Library
1299-------
1300
Mark Dickinson42add992010-07-11 19:17:28 +00001301- Issue #9137: Fix issue in MutableMapping.update, which incorrectly
1302 treated keyword arguments called 'self' or 'other' specially.
1303
R. David Murray63e4fd72010-02-10 22:42:04 +00001304- Issue #7835: shelve should no longer produce mysterious warnings during
1305 interpreter shutdown.
1306
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001307- Issue #2746: Don't escape ampersands and angle brackets ("&", "<", ">") in
1308 XML processing instructions and comments. These raw characters are allowed
1309 by the XML specification, and are necessary when outputting e.g. PHP code in
1310 a processing instruction. Patch by Neil Muller.
Antoine Pitrou42fb6ab2010-02-09 17:08:05 +00001311
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001312- Issue #7869: logging: Improved diagnostic for format-time errors.
Vinay Sajip64e8b972010-02-07 12:56:54 +00001313
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001314- Issue #7868: logging: Added loggerClass attribute to Manager.
Vinay Sajip657514a2010-02-07 01:37:08 +00001315
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001316- Issue #7851: logging: Clarification on logging configuration files.
Vinay Sajip0e6e97d2010-02-04 20:23:45 +00001317
Antoine Pitroud840e512010-02-04 20:20:18 +00001318- Issue #4772: Raise a ValueError when an unknown Bluetooth protocol is
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001319 specified, rather than fall through to AF_PACKET (in the ``socket`` module).
Antoine Pitroud840e512010-02-04 20:20:18 +00001320 Also, raise ValueError rather than TypeError when an unknown TIPC address
1321 type is specified. Patch by Brian Curtin.
1322
Vinay Sajip28c382f2010-02-04 18:48:53 +00001323- logging: Implemented PEP 391.
1324
Antoine Pitrouf3fa0742010-01-31 22:26:04 +00001325- Issue #6939: Fix file I/O objects in the `io` module to keep the original
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001326 file position when calling `truncate()`. It would previously change the file
1327 position to the given argument, which goes against the tradition of
Antoine Pitrouf3fa0742010-01-31 22:26:04 +00001328 ftruncate() and other truncation APIs. Patch by Pascal Chambon.
1329
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001330- Issue #7610: Reworked implementation of the internal ``zipfile.ZipExtFile``
1331 class used to represent files stored inside an archive. The new
1332 implementation is significantly faster and can be wrapped in a
1333 ``io.BufferedReader`` object for more speedups. It also solves an issue
1334 where interleaved calls to ``read()`` and ``readline()`` give wrong results.
1335 Patch by Nir Aides.
Antoine Pitrou94c33eb2010-01-27 20:59:50 +00001336
Benjamin Peterson2deb5c72010-01-27 02:16:42 +00001337- Issue #7792: Registering non-classes to ABCs raised an obscure error.
1338
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001339- Removed the deprecated functions ``verify()`` and ``vereq()`` from
1340 Lib/test/test_support.py.
Ezio Melotti82230f92010-01-25 12:37:02 +00001341
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001342- Issue #7773: Fix an UnboundLocalError in ``platform.linux_distribution()``
1343 when the release file is empty.
Benjamin Petersona43f34c2010-01-25 03:31:13 +00001344
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001345- Issue #7748: Since unicode values are supported for some metadata options in
1346 Distutils, the DistributionMetadata get_* methods will now return an utf-8
1347 encoded string for them. This ensures that the upload and register commands
1348 send the correct values to PyPI without any error.
Tarek Ziadéf14c7fc2010-01-24 00:33:32 +00001349
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001350- Issue #1670765: Prevent ``email.generator.Generator`` from re-wrapping
R. David Murrayed44dfa2010-01-16 05:15:17 +00001351 headers in multipart/signed MIME parts, which fixes one of the sources of
1352 invalid modifications to such parts by Generator.
1353
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001354- Issue #7701: Fix crash in ``binascii.b2a_uu()`` in debug mode when given a
Antoine Pitrouc391ad02010-01-15 00:18:00 +00001355 1-byte argument. Patch by Victor Stinner.
1356
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001357- Issue #3299: Fix possible crash in the _sre module when given bad argument
1358 values in debug mode. Patch by Victor Stinner.
Antoine Pitrouefdddd32010-01-14 17:25:24 +00001359
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001360- Issue #7703: Add support for the new buffer API to functions of the binascii
1361 module. Backported from py3k by Florent Xicluna, with some additional tests.
Antoine Pitroufd3a60d2010-01-14 16:27:09 +00001362
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001363- Issue #2846: Add support for gzip.GzipFile reading zero-padded files. Patch
1364 by Brian Curtin.
Antoine Pitrou5a9112c2010-01-13 14:32:10 +00001365
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001366- Issue #5827: Make sure that normpath preserves unicode. Initial patch by
1367 Matt Giuca.
Ezio Melottib5689de2010-01-12 03:32:05 +00001368
Tarek Ziadédc0f4872010-01-11 22:50:29 +00001369- Issue #5372: Drop the reuse of .o files in Distutils' ccompiler (since
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001370 Extension extra options may change the output without changing the .c file).
1371 Initial patch by Collin Winter.
Tarek Ziadédc0f4872010-01-11 22:50:29 +00001372
Matthias Klose0d948ac2010-01-22 00:39:04 +00001373Extension Modules
1374-----------------
1375
1376- Expat: Fix DoS via XML document with malformed UTF-8 sequences
1377 (CVE_2009_3560).
1378
Antoine Pitrou8c510e72010-01-13 11:47:49 +00001379Build
1380-----
1381
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001382- Issue #7632: When Py_USING_MEMORY_DEBUGGER is defined, disable the private
1383 memory allocation scheme in dtoa.c and use PyMem_Malloc and PyMem_Free
1384 instead. Also disable caching of powers of 5.
Mark Dickinson9481c572010-01-17 20:57:56 +00001385
Ronald Oussorena55af9a2010-01-17 16:25:57 +00001386- Issue #7658: Ensure that the new pythonw executable works on OSX 10.4
1387
1388- Issue #7714: Use ``gcc -dumpversion`` to detect the version of GCC on
1389 MacOSX.
1390
Antoine Pitrou8c510e72010-01-13 11:47:49 +00001391- Issue #7661: Allow ctypes to be built from a non-ASCII directory path.
1392 Patch by Florent Xicluna.
1393
Antoine Pitrouc07336c2010-01-18 21:15:21 +00001394Tools/Demos
1395-----------
1396
1397- iobench (a file I/O benchmark) and ccbench (a concurrency benchmark) were
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001398 added to the ``Tools`` directory. They were previously living in the
Antoine Pitrouc07336c2010-01-18 21:15:21 +00001399 sandbox.
1400
R. David Murrayce6e4b02010-02-06 04:27:21 +00001401Tests
1402-----
1403
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001404- issue #7728: test_timeout was changed to use ``test_support.bind_port()``
R. David Murrayce6e4b02010-02-06 04:27:21 +00001405 instead of a hard coded port.
1406
Matthias Klose626d92a2010-01-31 16:05:13 +00001407Documentation
1408-------------
Victor Stinnerf20f9c22010-02-23 23:16:07 +00001409
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001410- Updated "Using Python" documentation to include description of CPython's -J,
1411 -U and -X options.
Barry Warsawb1e66ee2010-02-05 18:45:25 +00001412
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001413- Updated Python manual page (options -B, -O0, -s, environment variables
Matthias Klose626d92a2010-01-31 16:05:13 +00001414 PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE, PYTHONNOUSERSITE).
1415
Benjamin Petersondd6d92a2010-01-09 17:30:31 +00001416
Benjamin Peterson4f51baf2009-12-05 18:40:02 +00001417What's New in Python 2.7 alpha 2?
1418=================================
1419
Benjamin Petersonaa7e51f2010-01-09 16:34:06 +00001420*Release date: 2010-01-09*
Benjamin Peterson4f51baf2009-12-05 18:40:02 +00001421
1422Core and Builtins
1423-----------------
1424
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001425- The ``__complex__()`` method is now looked up on the class of instances to
1426 make it consistent with other special methods.
Benjamin Petersonecdae192010-01-04 00:43:01 +00001427
Antoine Pitrou5b7139a2010-01-02 21:12:58 +00001428- Issue #7462: Implement the stringlib fast search algorithm for the `rfind`,
1429 `rindex`, `rsplit` and `rpartition` methods. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
1430
Mark Dickinson1b34d252010-01-01 17:27:30 +00001431- Issue #5080: A number of functions and methods previously produced a
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001432 DeprecationWarning when passed a float argument where an integer was expected.
1433 These functions and methods now raise TypeError instead. The majority of the
1434 effects of this change are in the extension modules, but some core functions
1435 and methods are affected: notably the 'chr', 'range' and 'xrange' builtins,
1436 and many unicode/str methods.
Mark Dickinson1b34d252010-01-01 17:27:30 +00001437
Benjamin Peterson0f02d392009-12-30 19:34:10 +00001438- Issue #7604: Deleting an unset slotted attribute did not raise an
1439 AttributeError.
1440
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001441- Issue #7534: Fix handling of IEEE specials (infinities, nans, negative zero)
1442 in ** operator. The behaviour now conforms to that described in C99 Annex F.
Mark Dickinson99d652e2009-12-30 12:12:23 +00001443
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001444- Issue #7579: The msvcrt module now has docstrings for all its functions.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcc8a2ce72009-12-29 23:06:17 +00001445
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc8645a5c2009-12-29 22:03:38 +00001446- Issue #7413: Passing '\0' as the separator to datetime.datetime.isoformat()
1447 used to drop the time part of the result.
1448
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001449- Issue #1811: Improve accuracy and cross-platform consistency for true division
1450 of integers: the result of a/b is now correctly rounded for ints a and b (at
1451 least on IEEE 754 platforms), and in particular does not depend on the
1452 internal representation of a long.
Mark Dickinson46572832009-12-27 14:55:57 +00001453
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001454- Issue #6108: ``unicode(exception)`` and ``str(exception)`` should return the
1455 same message when only ``__str__()`` (and not ``__unicode__()``) is overridden
1456 in the subclass.
Ezio Melottif84caf42009-12-24 22:25:17 +00001457
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001458- Issue #6834: Replace the implementation for the 'python' and 'pythonw'
Ronald Oussoren92919a62009-12-24 13:30:58 +00001459 executables on OSX.
1460
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001461 These executables now work properly with the arch(1) command: ``arch -ppc
1462 python`` will start a universal binary version of python in PPC mode (unlike
1463 previous releases).
Ronald Oussoren92919a62009-12-24 13:30:58 +00001464
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001465- Issue #1680159: Unicode coercion during an 'in' operation no longer masks the
1466 underlying error when the coercion fails for the left hand operand.
R. David Murray0a0a1a82009-12-14 16:28:26 +00001467
Benjamin Peterson4895af42009-12-13 16:36:53 +00001468- Issue #7491: Metaclass's __cmp__ method was ignored.
1469
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001470- Issue #7466: Segmentation fault when the garbage collector is called in the
1471 middle of populating a tuple. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
Antoine Pitrou2a08b422009-12-13 16:18:14 +00001472
R. David Murrayc7298ff2009-12-14 21:57:39 +00001473
Benjamin Peterson4f51baf2009-12-05 18:40:02 +00001474Library
1475-------
1476
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001477- Issue #6963: Added "maxtasksperchild" argument to ``multiprocessing.Pool``,
1478 allowing for a maximum number of tasks within the pool to be completed by the
1479 worker before that worker is terminated, and a new one created to replace it.
Jesse Noller654ade32010-01-27 03:05:57 +00001480
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001481- Issue #7617: Make sure distutils.unixccompiler.UnixCCompiler recognizes gcc
1482 when it has a fully qualified configuration prefix. Initial patch by
1483 Arfrever.
Tarek Ziadéc25417f2010-01-08 23:42:23 +00001484
Antoine Pitrou80157252010-01-08 19:20:17 +00001485- Issue #7092: Remove py3k warning when importing cPickle. 2to3 handles
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001486 renaming of `cPickle` to `pickle`. The warning was annoying since there's no
1487 alternative to cPickle if you care about performance. Patch by Florent
Antoine Pitrou80157252010-01-08 19:20:17 +00001488 Xicluna.
1489
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001490- Issue #7455: Fix possible crash in cPickle on invalid input. Patch by Victor
1491 Stinner.
Antoine Pitrou0d423b82010-01-07 17:46:49 +00001492
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001493- Issue #7092: Fix the DeprecationWarnings emitted by the standard library when
1494 using the -3 flag. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
Antoine Pitroub9d49632010-01-04 23:22:44 +00001495
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001496- Issue #7471: Improve the performance of GzipFile's buffering mechanism, and
1497 make it implement the ``io.BufferedIOBase`` ABC to allow for further speedups
1498 by wrapping it in an ``io.BufferedReader``. Patch by Nir Aides.
Antoine Pitrou673ddf92010-01-03 22:29:56 +00001499
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001500- Issue #3972: ``httplib.HTTPConnection`` now accepts an optional source_address
Gregory P. Smith9d325212010-01-03 02:06:07 +00001501 parameter to allow specifying where your connections come from.
1502
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001503- ``socket.create_connection()`` now accepts an optional source_address
1504 parameter.
Gregory P. Smith79a3eb12010-01-03 01:29:44 +00001505
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001506- Issue #5511: ``zipfile.ZipFile`` can now be used as a context manager.
Ezio Melotti569e61f2009-12-30 06:14:51 +00001507 Initial patch by Brian Curtin.
1508
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001509- Distutils now correctly identifies the build architecture as "x86_64" when
1510 building on OSX 10.6 without "-arch" flags.
Ronald Oussorenca8e7ec2009-12-24 14:50:35 +00001511
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001512- Issue #7556: Distutils' msvc9compiler now opens the MSVC Manifest file in text
1513 mode.
Tarek Ziadé0479eb52009-12-21 23:37:44 +00001514
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001515- Issue #7552: Removed line feed in the base64 Authorization header in the
1516 Distutils upload command to avoid an error when PyPI reads it. This occurs on
1517 long passwords. Initial patch by JP St. Pierre.
Tarek Ziadé2421d562009-12-20 23:23:34 +00001518
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001519- Issue #7231: urllib2 cannot handle https with proxy requiring auth. Patch by
1520 Tatsuhiro Tsujikawa.
Senthil Kumaran7713acf2009-12-20 06:05:13 +00001521
Benjamin Petersonddd392c2009-12-13 19:19:07 +00001522- Issue #7349: Make methods of file objects in the io module accept None as an
1523 argument where file-like objects (ie StringIO and BytesIO) accept them to mean
1524 the same as passing no argument.
1525
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001526- Issue #7348: ``StringIO.StringIO.readline(-1)`` now acts as if it got no
1527 argument like other file objects.
Benjamin Petersonc4771d22009-12-13 17:31:31 +00001528
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001529- Issue #7357: tarfile no longer suppresses fatal extraction errors by default.
Lars Gustäbel92ca7562009-12-13 11:32:27 +00001530
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001531- Issue #7470: logging: Fix bug in Unicode encoding fallback.
Vinay Sajip5cc4e2a2009-12-11 09:16:01 +00001532
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001533- Issue #5949: Fixed IMAP4_SSL hang when the IMAP server response is missing
1534 proper end-of-line termination.
R. David Murray93321f32009-12-09 15:15:31 +00001535
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001536- Issue #7457: Added a read_pkg_file method to
1537 ``distutils.dist.DistributionMetadata``.
Benjamin Peterson4f51baf2009-12-05 18:40:02 +00001538
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001539- Issue #3745: Undo the 2.7a1 change to have hashlib to reject unicode and non
1540 buffer API supporting objects as input. That behavior is for 3.x only.
Gregory P. Smithfe32d302010-01-02 22:42:50 +00001541
Georg Brandl740cdc32009-12-28 08:34:58 +00001542C-API
1543-----
1544
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001545- Issue #7767: New function ``PyLong_AsLongLongAndOverflow()`` added, analogous
1546 to ``PyLong_AsLongAndOverflow()``.
Mark Dickinsona36507c2010-01-30 10:08:33 +00001547
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001548- Issue #5080: The argument parsing functions ``PyArg_ParseTuple()``,
1549 ``PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords()``, ``PyArg_VaParse()``,
1550 ``PyArg_VaParseTupleAndKeywords()`` and ``PyArg_Parse()`` no longer accept
1551 float arguments for integer format codes (other than 'L'): previously an
1552 attempt to pass a float resulted in a DeprecationWarning; now it gives a
1553 TypeError. For the 'L' format code (which previously had no warning) there is
1554 now a DeprecationWarning.
Mark Dickinson1b34d252010-01-01 17:27:30 +00001555
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001556- Issue #7033: Function ``PyErr_NewExceptionWithDoc()`` added.
Georg Brandl740cdc32009-12-28 08:34:58 +00001557
Martin v. Löwisb4261d52009-12-21 19:29:59 +00001558Build
1559-----
1560
Benjamin Petersonedfe72f2010-01-01 15:21:13 +00001561- Issue #6491: Allow --with-dbmliborder to specify that no dbms will be built.
1562
Benjamin Petersonb4abef62010-01-01 15:18:38 +00001563- Issue #6943: Use pkg-config to find the libffi headers when the
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001564 ``--with-system-ffi`` flag is used.
Benjamin Petersonb4abef62010-01-01 15:18:38 +00001565
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001566- Issue #7609: Add a ``--with-system-expat`` option that causes the system's
1567 expat library to be used for the pyexpat module instead of the one included
1568 with Python.
Benjamin Peterson2c196742009-12-31 03:17:18 +00001569
Benjamin Peterson500ce232009-12-30 02:58:50 +00001570- Issue #7589: Only build the nis module when the correct header files are
1571 found.
1572
Martin v. Löwisf477b932010-01-02 09:25:21 +00001573- Switch to OpenSSL 0.9.8l and sqlite 3.6.21 on Windows.
R. David Murray93321f32009-12-09 15:15:31 +00001574
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001575- Issue #7541: when using ``python-config`` with a framework install the
1576 compiler might use the wrong library.
Ronald Oussorenb5afe542009-12-24 14:17:19 +00001577
R. David Murrayc7298ff2009-12-14 21:57:39 +00001578Tests
1579-----
1580
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001581- Issue #7376: Instead of running a self-test (which was failing) when called
R. David Murray77e48ba2009-12-20 16:46:06 +00001582 with no arguments, doctest.py now gives a usage message.
1583
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001584- Issue #7396: Fix regrtest -s, which was broken by the -j enhancement.
R. David Murray98e3df32009-12-16 11:49:46 +00001585
R. David Murrayc7298ff2009-12-14 21:57:39 +00001586- Issue #7498: test_multiprocessing now uses test_support.find_unused_port
1587 instead of a hardcoded port number in test_rapid_restart.
1588
1589
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00001590What's New in Python 2.7 alpha 1
1591================================
1592
Benjamin Peterson3513c872009-12-05 18:48:13 +00001593*Release date: 2009-12-05*
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00001594
1595Core and Builtins
1596-----------------
1597
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001598- Issue #7419: ``locale.setlocale()`` could crash the interpreter on Windows
1599 when called with invalid values.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd7288712009-12-01 21:51:04 +00001600
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001601- Issue #3382: 'F' formatting for float and complex now convert the result to
1602 upper case. This only affects 'inf' and 'nan', since 'f' no longer converts
1603 to 'g' for large values.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd7288712009-12-01 21:51:04 +00001604
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001605- Remove switch from "%f" formatting to "%g" formatting for floats larger than
1606 1e50 in absolute value.
Mark Dickinson9dd5e162009-11-23 20:54:09 +00001607
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001608- Remove restrictions on precision when formatting floats. E.g., "%.120g" %
1609 1e-100 used to raise OverflowError, but now gives the requested 120
1610 significant digits instead.
Mark Dickinson18cfada2009-11-23 18:46:41 +00001611
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001612- Add Py3k warnings for parameter names in parentheses.
Benjamin Peterson89b1a5c2009-11-19 22:58:01 +00001613
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001614- Issue #7362: Give a proper error message for ``def f((x)=3): pass``.
Benjamin Peterson89b1a5c2009-11-19 22:58:01 +00001615
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001616- Issue #7085: Fix crash when importing some extensions in a thread on MacOSX
1617 10.6.
Ronald Oussoren315cd0c2009-11-19 16:25:21 +00001618
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001619- Issue #7117: ``repr(x)`` for a float x returns a result based on the shortest
1620 decimal string that's guaranteed to round back to x under correct rounding
1621 (with round-half-to-even rounding mode). Previously it gave a string based on
1622 rounding x to 17 decimal digits. repr(x) for a complex number behaves
1623 similarly. On platforms where the correctly-rounded strtod and dtoa code is
1624 not supported (see below), repr is unchanged.
Mark Dickinsonb678de82009-11-19 18:41:49 +00001625
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001626- Issue #7117: On almost all platforms: float-to-string and string-to-float
1627 conversions within Python are now correctly rounded. Places these conversions
1628 occur include: str for floats and complex numbers; the float and complex
1629 constructors; old-style and new-style numeric formatting; serialization and
1630 deserialization of floats and complex numbers using marshal, pickle and json;
1631 parsing of float and imaginary literals in Python code; Decimal-to-float
1632 conversion.
Mark Dickinsonb678de82009-11-19 18:41:49 +00001633
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001634 The conversions use a Python-adapted version of David Gay's well-known dtoa.c,
1635 providing correctly-rounded strtod and dtoa C functions. This code is
1636 supported on Windows, and on Unix-like platforms using gcc, icc or suncc as
1637 the C compiler. There may be a small number of platforms on which correct
1638 operation of this code cannot be guaranteed, so the code is not used: notably,
1639 this applies to platforms where the C double format is not IEEE 754 binary64,
1640 and to platforms on x86 hardware where the x87 FPU is set to 64-bit precision
1641 and Python's configure script is unable to determine how to change the FPU
1642 precision. On these platforms conversions use the platform strtod and dtoa,
1643 as before.
Mark Dickinsonb678de82009-11-19 18:41:49 +00001644
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001645- Issue #7117: Backport round implementation from Python 3.x. ``round()`` now
1646 uses the correctly-rounded string <-> float conversions described above (when
1647 available), and so produces correctly rounded results that will display nicely
1648 under the float repr. There are two related small changes: (1) round now
1649 accepts any class with an ``__index__()`` method for its second argument (but
1650 no longer accepts floats for the second argument), and (2) an excessively
1651 large second integer argument (e.g., ``round(1.234, 10**100)``) no longer
1652 raises an exception.
Mark Dickinsonbd15a062009-11-18 19:33:35 +00001653
Philip Jenveyfab8be22009-11-17 02:42:26 +00001654- Issue #1757126: Fix the cyrillic-asian alias for the ptcp154 encoding.
1655
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001656- Fix several issues with ``compile()``. The input can now contain Windows and
1657 Mac newlines and is no longer required to end in a newline.
Benjamin Petersone36199b2009-11-12 23:39:44 +00001658
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001659- Remove length limitation when constructing a complex number from a unicode
1660 string.
Mark Dickinsonc04c7c52009-10-26 22:28:14 +00001661
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001662- Issue #7244: ``itertools.izip_longest()`` no longer ignores exceptions raised
1663 during the formation of an output tuple.
Raymond Hettingerfa7dadd2009-11-01 20:45:16 +00001664
Mark Dickinson8d87dc02009-10-25 20:39:06 +00001665- Issue #1087418: Boost performance of bitwise operations for longs.
1666
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001667- Issue #1722344: ``threading._shutdown()`` is now called in ``Py_Finalize()``,
1668 which fixes the problem of some exceptions being thrown at shutdown when the
1669 interpreter is killed. Patch by Adam Olsen.
Antoine Pitrouefb60c02009-10-20 21:29:37 +00001670
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001671- Issue #7168: Document ``PyFloat_AsString()`` and ``PyFloat_AsReprString()``,
1672 and note that they are unsafe and deprecated.
Eric Smithc12781a2009-10-19 14:38:14 +00001673
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001674- Issue #7120: logging: Remove import of multiprocessing which is causing crash
1675 in GAE.
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +00001676
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001677- Issue #7140: The ``__dict__`` of a module should not be cleared unless the
1678 module is the only object holding a reference to it.
Benjamin Peterson196b0922009-10-15 15:44:46 +00001679
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001680- Issue #1754094: Improve the stack depth calculation in the compiler. There
1681 should be no other effect than a small decrease in memory use. Patch by
1682 Christopher Tur Lesniewski-Laas.
Neil Schemenauer7fdd1cb2009-10-14 17:17:14 +00001683
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001684- Issue #7084: Fix a (very unlikely) crash when printing a list from one thread,
1685 and mutating it from another one. Patch by Scott Dial.
Antoine Pitroubeaf6a02009-10-11 21:03:26 +00001686
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd0052d12009-10-06 19:56:32 +00001687- Issue #1571184: The Unicode database contains properties for more characters.
1688 The tables for code points representing numeric values, white spaces or line
1689 breaks are now generated from the official Unicode Character Database files,
1690 and include information from the Unihan.txt file.
1691
Benjamin Peterson7adbb5a2009-10-03 20:23:24 +00001692- Issue #7050: Fix a SystemError when trying to use unpacking and augmented
1693 assignment.
1694
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001695- Issue #5329: Fix ``os.popen*`` regression from 2.5 with commands as a sequence
1696 running through the shell. Patch by Jean-Paul Calderone and Jani Hakala.
Philip Jenvey8b902042009-09-29 19:10:15 +00001697
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001698- Issue #7019: Raise ValueError when unmarshalling bad long data, instead of
1699 producing internally inconsistent Python longs.
Mark Dickinson7e7a3ec2009-09-29 19:01:06 +00001700
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001701- Issue #6990: Fix ``threading.local`` subclasses leaving old state around after
1702 a reference cycle GC which could be recycled by new locals.
Philip Jenveydbf3b252009-09-29 04:32:44 +00001703
Benjamin Peterson9db55402009-09-18 21:47:27 +00001704- Issue #6300: unicode.encode, unicode.decode, str.decode, and str.encode now
Benjamin Peterson332d7212009-09-18 21:14:55 +00001705 take keyword arguments.
1706
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001707- Issue #6922: Fix an infinite loop when trying to decode an invalid UTF-32
1708 stream with a non-raising error handler like "replace" or "ignore".
Georg Brandle9741f32009-09-17 11:28:09 +00001709
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001710- Issue #6713: Improve performance of base 10 int -> string and long -> string
1711 conversions.
Mark Dickinsonaa2adc82009-09-16 22:10:56 +00001712
Thomas Wouters2920adb2009-09-16 20:36:34 +00001713- Issue #1590864: Fix potential deadlock when mixing threads and fork().
1714
Georg Brandl0674d3f2009-09-16 20:30:09 +00001715- Issue #6844: Do not emit DeprecationWarnings when accessing a "message"
1716 attribute on exceptions that was set explicitly.
1717
Mark Dickinsonc8a7c7c2009-09-06 10:03:31 +00001718- Issue #6846: Fix bug where bytearray.pop() returns negative integers.
1719
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001720- ``classmethod()`` no longer checks if its argument is callable.
Benjamin Peterson6fcf9b52009-09-01 22:27:57 +00001721
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001722- Issue #6750: A text file opened with ``io.open()`` could duplicate its output
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfff896b2009-08-29 18:14:40 +00001723 when writing from multiple threads at the same time.
1724
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001725- Issue #6704: Improve the col_offset in AST for "for" statements with a target
1726 of tuple unpacking.
Benjamin Petersonc0ba8282009-08-15 22:59:21 +00001727
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001728- Issue #6707: ``dir()`` on an uninitialized module caused a crash.
Benjamin Peterson4c6e8082009-08-15 13:16:38 +00001729
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001730- Issue #6540: Fixed crash for ``bytearray.translate()`` with invalid parameters.
Georg Brandlec812ca2009-07-22 11:57:15 +00001731
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001732- Issue #6573: ``set.union()`` stopped processing inputs if an instance of self
Raymond Hettingerc2b9e1a2009-07-27 20:32:04 +00001733 occurred in the argument chain.
1734
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc9d11fef2009-07-13 20:03:21 +00001735- Issue #1616979: Added the cp720 (Arabic DOS) encoding.
1736
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001737- Issue #6070: On posix platforms import no longer copies the execute bit from
1738 the .py file to the .pyc file if it is set. Patch by Marco N.
R. David Murray23a736a2009-07-07 01:06:13 +00001739
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001740- Issue #4618: When unicode arguments are passed to ``print()``, the default
Benjamin Peterson753d1622009-07-02 18:16:45 +00001741 separator and end should be unicode also.
1742
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00001743- Issue #6119: Fixed an incorrect Py3k warning about order comparisons of
1744 built-in functions and methods.
Benjamin Peterson1bf47652009-07-02 17:06:17 +00001745
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001746- Issue #6347: Include inttypes.h as well as stdint.h in pyport.h. This fixes a
1747 build failure on HP-UX: int32_t and uint32_t are defined in inttypes.h instead
1748 of stdint.h on that platform.
Mark Dickinson2f865b92009-06-30 15:32:30 +00001749
Hirokazu Yamamotoa3c56092009-06-28 10:23:00 +00001750- Issue #4856: Remove checks for win NT.
1751
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc595f7a52009-06-25 22:29:29 +00001752- Issue #2016: Fixed a crash in a corner case where the dictionary of keyword
1753 arguments could be modified during the function call setup.
1754
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc14fc6732009-06-23 21:09:09 +00001755- Removed the ipaddr module.
1756
Raymond Hettinger62641e92009-06-23 20:59:43 +00001757- Issue #6329: Fixed iteration for memoryview objects (it was being blocked
1758 because it wasn't recognized as a sequence).
1759
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001760- Issue #6289: Encoding errors from ``compile()`` were being masked.
Benjamin Peterson08a0bbc2009-06-16 00:29:31 +00001761
Benjamin Petersona72be3b2009-06-13 20:23:33 +00001762- When no module is given in a relative import, the module field of the
1763 ImportFrom AST node is now None instead of an empty string.
1764
Benjamin Peterson565e1b62009-06-13 03:46:30 +00001765- Assignment to None using import statements now raises a SyntaxError.
1766
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001767- Issue #4547: When debugging a very large function, it was not always possible
1768 to update the lineno attribute of the current frame.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcb02ceda2009-06-01 20:53:18 +00001769
Antoine Pitrou46dbe272009-05-30 21:27:00 +00001770- Issue #5330: C functions called with keyword arguments were not reported by
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001771 the various profiling modules (profile, cProfile). Patch by Hagen Fürstenau.
Antoine Pitrou46dbe272009-05-30 21:27:00 +00001772
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001773- Issue #5982: staticmethod and classmethod now expose the wrapped function with
1774 ``__func__``.
Raymond Hettinger578a2282009-05-29 04:58:52 +00001775
Raymond Hettinger822b87f2009-05-29 01:46:48 +00001776- Added support for multiple context managers in the same with-statement.
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001777 Deprecated ``contextlib.nested()`` which is no longer needed.
Georg Brandl944f6842009-05-25 21:02:56 +00001778
Benjamin Peterson1880d8b2009-05-25 13:13:44 +00001779- Issue #6101: A new opcode, SETUP_WITH, has been added to speed up the with
1780 statement and correctly lookup the __enter__ and __exit__ special methods.
1781
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001782- Issue #5829: complex("1e500") no longer raises OverflowError. This makes it
1783 consistent with float("1e500") and interpretation of real and imaginary
1784 literals.
Mark Dickinsona4e0efa2009-05-20 18:43:07 +00001785
Hirokazu Yamamotoa4f90182009-05-17 02:58:36 +00001786- Issue #3527: Removed Py_WIN_WIDE_FILENAMES which is not used any more.
1787
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001788- ``__instancecheck__()`` and ``__subclasscheck__()`` are now completely ignored
1789 on classic classes and instances.
Benjamin Petersoneb9fb2c2009-05-16 22:46:11 +00001790
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001791- Issue #5994: The marshal module now has docstrings.
R. David Murray525cffc2009-05-13 13:07:14 +00001792
Mark Dickinsonb1d45852009-05-11 15:33:08 +00001793- Issue #5981: Fix three minor inf/nan issues in float.fromhex:
Mark Dickinsonb1d45852009-05-11 15:33:08 +00001794
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001795 (1) inf and nan strings with trailing whitespace were incorrectly rejected;
1796 (2) parsing of strings representing infinities and nans was locale aware; and
1797 (3) the interpretation of fromhex('-nan') didn't match that of float('-nan').
Eric Smitha985a3a2009-05-05 18:26:08 +00001798
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001799- Issue #5920: For ``float.__format__()``, change the behavior with the empty
1800 presentation type (that is, not one of 'e', 'f', 'g', or 'n') to be like 'g'
1801 but with at least one decimal point and with a default precision
1802 of 12. Previously, the behavior the same but with a default precision of 6.
1803 This more closely matches ``str()``, and reduces surprises when adding
1804 alignment flags to the empty presentation type. This also affects the new
1805 complex.__format__ in the same way.
1806
1807- Issue #5890: In subclasses of 'property' the __doc__ attribute was shadowed by
1808 classtype's, even if it was None. property now inserts the __doc__ into the
1809 subclass instance __dict__.
R. David Murray7ba8e1c2009-05-04 22:16:24 +00001810
Antoine Pitrou653dece2009-05-04 18:32:32 +00001811- Issue #4426: The UTF-7 decoder was too strict and didn't accept some legal
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001812 sequences. Patch by Nick Barnes and Victor Stinner.
Antoine Pitrou653dece2009-05-04 18:32:32 +00001813
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001814- Issue #1588: Add complex.__format__. For example, ``format(complex(1, 2./3),
1815 '.5')`` now produces a sensible result.
Eric Smith9139cc62009-04-30 00:58:58 +00001816
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001817- Issue #5864: Fix empty format code formatting for floats so that it never
1818 gives more than the requested number of significant digits.
Mark Dickinson92fcc9c2009-04-29 20:41:00 +00001819
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001820- Issue #5793: Rationalize isdigit / isalpha / tolower, etc. Includes new
1821 Py_ISDIGIT / Py_ISALPHA / Py_TOLOWER, etc. in pctypes.h.
Eric Smithcac7af62009-04-27 19:04:37 +00001822
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001823- Issue #4971: Fix titlecase for characters that are their own titlecase, but
1824 not their own uppercase.
Martin v. Löwis99f27792009-04-26 00:53:18 +00001825
Eric Smith068f0652009-04-25 21:40:15 +00001826- Issue #5835: Deprecate PyOS_ascii_formatd and replace it with
1827 _PyOS_double_to_string or PyOS_double_to_string.
1828
Benjamin Peterson5083dc52009-04-25 00:41:22 +00001829- Issue #5283: Setting __class__ in __del__ caused a segfault.
1830
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001831- Issue #5816: ``complex(repr(z))`` now recovers z exactly, even when z involves
1832 nans, infs or negative zeros.
Mark Dickinson95bc9802009-04-24 12:46:53 +00001833
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001834- Implement PEP 378, Format Specifier for Thousands Separator, for floats, ints,
1835 and longs.
Eric Smithaca19e62009-04-22 13:29:05 +00001836
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001837- Issue #5515: 'n' formatting for ints, longs, and floats handles leading zero
1838 formatting poorly.
Eric Smithaca19e62009-04-22 13:29:05 +00001839
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001840- Issue #5772: For float.__format__, don't add a trailing ".0" if we're using no
1841 type code and we have an exponent.
Eric Smithaca19e62009-04-22 13:29:05 +00001842
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001843- Issue #3166: Make long -> float (and int -> float) conversions correctly
1844 rounded.
Mark Dickinson6736cf82009-04-20 21:13:33 +00001845
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001846- Issue #5787: ``object.__getattribute__(some_type, "__bases__")`` segfaulted on
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00001847 some built-in types.
Benjamin Petersond4d400c2009-04-18 20:12:47 +00001848
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001849- Issue #1869: Fix a couple of minor round() issues. ``round(5e15+1)`` was
1850 giving 5e15+2; ``round(-0.0)`` was losing the sign of the zero.
Mark Dickinson1bdf7e92009-04-18 14:59:42 +00001851
Benjamin Peterson99d36f12009-04-15 21:26:36 +00001852- Issue #5759: float() didn't call __float__ on str subclasses.
1853
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001854- Issue #5704: The "-3" command-line option now implies "-t".
Georg Brandl3c4a5462009-04-12 12:08:12 +00001855
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001856- Issue #2170: Refactored ``xml.dom.minidom.normalize``, increasing both its
1857 clarity and its speed.
R. David Murray0374a822009-04-09 21:54:50 +00001858
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001859- Issue #2396: The memoryview object was backported from Python 3.1.
Antoine Pitrou789be0c2009-04-02 21:18:34 +00001860
Georg Brandld3f03fa2009-04-02 18:09:04 +00001861- Fix a problem in PyErr_NormalizeException that leads to "undetected errors"
1862 when hitting the recursion limit under certain circumstances.
1863
Brett Cannon15ba4da2009-04-01 18:03:59 +00001864- Issue #1665206: Remove the last eager import in _warnings.c and make it lazy.
1865
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001866- Issue #4865: On MacOSX /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages is added to the end
1867 sys.path, for compatibility with the system install of Python.
Ronald Oussorene0154ed2009-03-30 23:10:35 +00001868
Antoine Pitrouf8387af2009-03-23 18:41:45 +00001869- Issue #4688: Add a heuristic so that tuples and dicts containing only
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001870 untrackable objects are not tracked by the garbage collector. This can reduce
1871 the size of collections and therefore the garbage collection overhead on
1872 long-running programs, depending on their particular use of datatypes.
Antoine Pitrouf8387af2009-03-23 18:41:45 +00001873
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001874- Issue #5512: Rewrite PyLong long division algorithm (x_divrem) to improve its
1875 performance. Long divisions and remainder operations are now between 50% and
1876 150% faster.
Mark Dickinson0b666bf2009-03-23 18:25:13 +00001877
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001878- Issue #4258: Make it possible to use base 2**30 instead of base 2**15 for the
1879 internal representation of integers, for performance reasons. Base 2**30 is
1880 enabled by default on 64-bit machines. Add --enable-big-digits option to
1881 configure, which overrides the default. Add sys.long_info structseq to
1882 provide information about the internal format.
Mark Dickinsonefc82f72009-03-20 15:51:55 +00001883
Benjamin Peterson6ffe8522009-03-18 20:52:15 +00001884- Issue #4034: Fix weird attribute error messages of the traceback object. (As a
1885 result traceback.__members__ no longer exists.)
1886
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001887- Issue #4474: PyUnicode_FromWideChar now converts characters outside the BMP to
1888 surrogate pairs, on systems with sizeof(wchar_t) == 4 and sizeof(Py_UNICODE)
1889 == 2.
Mark Dickinson6b265f12009-03-18 16:07:26 +00001890
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001891- Issue #5237: Allow auto-numbered fields in str.format(). For example: ``'{}
1892 {}'.format(1, 2) == '1 2'``.
Eric Smith6f42edb2009-03-14 11:57:26 +00001893
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001894- Issue #3652: Make the 'line' argument for ``warnings.showwarning()`` a
Brett Cannon6c4cff02009-03-11 04:51:06 +00001895 requirement. Means the DeprecationWarning from Python 2.6 can go away.
1896
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001897- Issue #5247: Improve error message when unknown format codes are used when
1898 using ``str.format()`` with str, unicode, long, int, and float arguments.
Eric Smithe9fb6862009-02-20 14:02:36 +00001899
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001900- Running Python with the -3 option now also warns about classic division for
1901 ints and longs.
Raymond Hettinger08259e82009-02-18 23:10:19 +00001902
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001903- Issue #5260: Long integers now consume less memory: average saving is 2 bytes
1904 per long on a 32-bit system and 6 bytes per long on a 64-bit system.
Mark Dickinson2ffb26f2009-02-15 10:13:41 +00001905
Antoine Pitrou76a4b892009-02-13 13:52:33 +00001906- Issue #5186: Reduce hash collisions for objects with no __hash__ method by
1907 rotating the object pointer by 4 bits to the right.
1908
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001909- Issue #4575: Fix Py_IS_INFINITY macro to work correctly on x87 FPUs: it now
1910 forces its argument to double before testing for infinity.
Mark Dickinsonc97c9092009-02-09 14:18:43 +00001911
Benjamin Petersone18ef192009-01-20 14:21:16 +00001912- Issue #4978: Passing keyword arguments as unicode strings is now allowed.
1913
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +00001914- Issue #1242657: the __len__() and __length_hint__() calls in several tools
Raymond Hettingerb5163702009-02-02 21:50:13 +00001915 were suppressing all exceptions. These include list(), filter(), map(),
1916 zip(), and bytearray().
1917
Benjamin Peterson596d3062009-01-19 15:42:23 +00001918- os.ftruncate raises OSErrors instead of IOErrors for consistency with other os
1919 functions.
1920
Benjamin Peterson5848d1f2009-01-19 00:08:08 +00001921- Issue #4991: Passing invalid file descriptors to io.FileIO now raises an
1922 OSError.
1923
Amaury Forgeot d'Arca18392a2009-01-13 23:19:08 +00001924- Issue #4807: Port the _winreg module to Windows CE.
1925
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001926- Issue #4935: The overflow checking code in the expandtabs() method common to
1927 str, bytes and bytearray could be optimized away by the compiler, letting the
1928 interpreter segfault instead of raising an error.
Antoine Pitrouc2f02212009-01-13 23:13:52 +00001929
Amaury Forgeot d'Arca40d5732009-01-12 23:36:55 +00001930- Issue #3720: Fix a crash when an iterator modifies its class and removes its
1931 __next__ method.
1932
Martin v. Löwise3422fa2009-01-12 08:11:24 +00001933- Issue #4893: Use NT threading on CE.
1934
Martin v. Löwis1b3bef22009-01-12 07:57:11 +00001935- Issue #4915: Port sysmodule to Windows CE.
1936
Antoine Pitrou4c5ecb72009-01-09 21:40:55 +00001937- Issue #4074: Change the criteria for doing a full garbage collection (i.e.
1938 collecting the oldest generation) so that allocating lots of objects without
1939 destroying them does not show quadratic performance. Based on a proposal by
Benjamin Petersond50a5d52009-07-13 00:03:20 +00001940 Martin von Löwis at
Antoine Pitrou4c5ecb72009-01-09 21:40:55 +00001941 http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2008-June/080579.html.
1942
Martin v. Löwisb90304a2009-01-07 18:40:40 +00001943- Issue #4850: Change COUNT_ALLOCS variables to Py_ssize_t.
1944
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001945- Issue #1180193: When importing a module from a .pyc (or .pyo) file with an
1946 existing .py counterpart, override the co_filename attributes of all code
1947 objects if the original filename is obsolete (which can happen if the file has
1948 been renamed, moved, or if it is accessed through different paths). Patch by
1949 Ziga Seilnacht and Jean-Paul Calderone.
Antoine Pitroue96d4ea2009-01-06 18:10:47 +00001950
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001951- Issue #4075: Use ``OutputDebugStringW()`` in Py_FatalError.
Martin v. Löwis5344c992009-01-02 20:32:55 +00001952
Hirokazu Yamamoto99a1b202009-01-01 15:45:39 +00001953- Issue #4797: IOError.filename was not set when _fileio.FileIO failed to open
1954 file with `str' filename on Windows.
1955
Antoine Pitrouaa687902009-01-01 14:11:22 +00001956- Issue #3680: Reference cycles created through a dict, set or deque iterator
1957 did not get collected.
1958
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001959- Issue #4701: PyObject_Hash now implicitly calls PyType_Ready on types where
1960 the tp_hash and tp_dict slots are both NULL.
Nick Coghlan180e4002008-12-30 01:18:48 +00001961
Benjamin Peterson7af65562008-12-29 17:56:58 +00001962- Issue #4764: With io.open, IOError.filename is set when trying to open a
1963 directory on POSIX systems.
1964
Benjamin Petersonfe231b02008-12-29 17:47:42 +00001965- Issue #4764: IOError.filename is set when trying to open a directory on POSIX
1966 systems.
1967
Georg Brandl6425a2f2008-12-28 11:54:53 +00001968- Issue #4759: None is now allowed as the first argument of
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001969 ``bytearray.translate()``. It was always allowed for ``bytes.translate()``.
Georg Brandl6425a2f2008-12-28 11:54:53 +00001970
Skip Montanarof205c132008-12-23 03:30:15 +00001971- Added test case to ensure attempts to read from a file opened for writing
1972 fail.
1973
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001974- Issue #2467: gc.DEBUG_STATS reported invalid elapsed times. Also, always print
1975 elapsed times, not only when some objects are uncollectable/unreachable.
1976 Original patch by Neil Schemenauer.
Antoine Pitrou73c0e652008-12-17 22:46:54 +00001977
Mark Dickinson1a707982008-12-17 16:14:37 +00001978- Issue #3439: Add a bit_length method to int and long.
1979
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001980- Issue #2183: Simplify and optimize bytecode for list comprehensions. Original
1981 patch by Neal Norwitz.
Antoine Pitroud0c35152008-12-17 00:38:28 +00001982
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001983- Issue #4597: Fixed exception handling when the __exit__ function of a context
1984 manager returns a value that cannot be converted to a bool.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcad9b5992008-12-10 23:22:49 +00001985
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001986- Issue #4597: Fixed several opcodes that weren't always propagating exceptions.
Jeffrey Yasskinffd42cf2008-12-10 07:35:02 +00001987
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001988- Issue #4445: Replace ``sizeof(PyStringObject)`` with
1989 ``offsetof(PyStringObject, ob_sval) + 1`` when allocating memory for str
1990 instances. On a typical machine this saves 3 bytes of memory (on average) per
1991 string allocation.
Mark Dickinson826f3fe2008-12-05 21:55:28 +00001992
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcdc619012008-11-22 20:01:18 +00001993- Issue #3996: On Windows, the PyOS_CheckStack function would cause the
1994 interpreter to abort ("Fatal Python error: Could not reset the stack!")
1995 instead of throwing a MemoryError.
1996
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001997- Issue #3689: The list reversed iterator now supports __length_hint__ instead
1998 of __len__. Behavior now matches other reversed iterators.
Raymond Hettinger7989a4d2008-12-03 15:42:10 +00001999
Benjamin Petersonc078f922008-11-21 22:27:24 +00002000- Issue #4367: Python would segfault during compiling when the unicodedata
2001 module couldn't be imported and \N escapes were present.
2002
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002003- Issue #4233: Changed semantic of ``_fileio.FileIO``'s ``close()`` method on
2004 file objects with closefd=False. The file descriptor is still kept open but
2005 the file object behaves like a closed file. The ``FileIO`` object also got a
2006 new readonly attribute ``closefd``.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc32265652008-11-20 23:34:31 +00002007
Benjamin Peterson46cc6d12008-11-19 21:49:09 +00002008- Issue #4348: Some bytearray methods returned that didn't cause any change to
2009 the bytearray, returned the same bytearray instead of a copy.
2010
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002011- Issue #4317: Fixed a crash in the ``imageop.rgb2rgb8()`` function.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc7cfe7ea2008-11-18 22:19:37 +00002012
Benjamin Peterson273c2332008-11-17 22:39:09 +00002013- Issue #4230: If ``__getattr__`` is a descriptor, it now functions correctly.
2014
Benjamin Peterson6624a9f2008-11-03 15:14:51 +00002015- Issue #4048: The parser module now correctly validates relative imports.
2016
Benjamin Petersondcee09d2008-10-31 02:16:05 +00002017- Issue #4225: ``from __future__ import unicode_literals`` didn't work in an
2018 exec statement.
2019
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002020- Issue #4176: Fixed a crash when pickling an object which ``__reduce__`` method
2021 does not return iterators for the 4th and 5th items.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc69a9c5b2008-10-30 21:18:34 +00002022
Benjamin Petersonbdca9422008-10-26 20:21:13 +00002023- Issue #4209: Enabling unicode_literals and the print_function in the same
2024 __future__ import didn't work.
2025
Benjamin Peterson399b1fe2008-10-25 02:53:28 +00002026- Using ``nonlocal`` as a variable name will now raise a Py3k SyntaxWarning
Georg Brandl7fb00ad2008-10-25 07:00:52 +00002027 because it is a reserved word in 3.x.
Benjamin Peterson399b1fe2008-10-25 02:53:28 +00002028
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002029- On windows, ``os.chdir()`` given unicode was not working if
2030 GetCurrentDirectoryW returned a path longer than MAX_PATH. (But It's doubtful
2031 this code path is really executed because I cannot move to such directory on
2032 win2k)
Hirokazu Yamamoto10a018c2008-10-09 10:00:30 +00002033
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002034- Issue #4069: When ``set.remove(element)`` is used with a set element, the
2035 element is temporarily replaced with an equivalent frozenset. But the
2036 eventual KeyError would always report the empty ``frozenset()`` as the missing
2037 key. Now it correctly refers to the initial element.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd78b9dc2008-10-07 20:32:10 +00002038
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002039- Issue #4509: Various issues surrounding resize of bytearray objects to which
2040 there are buffer exports.
Antoine Pitrouae5bece2008-12-06 21:29:24 +00002041
Benjamin Peterson8d5934b2008-12-27 18:24:11 +00002042- Issue #4748: Lambda generators no longer return a value.
2043
Kristján Valur Jónsson6220e412009-01-12 09:20:34 +00002044- Issue #3582: Use native TLS functions on Windows
2045
Gregory P. Smithae91d092009-03-02 05:13:57 +00002046- The re.sub(), re.subn() and re.split() functions now accept a flags parameter.
2047
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002048- Issue #3845: In PyRun_SimpleFileExFlags avoid invalid memory access with short
2049 file names.
Matthias Kloseedb5e1e2009-04-04 14:18:13 +00002050
Matthias Klose91a3b9e2009-04-05 21:19:13 +00002051- Issue #1113244: Py_XINCREF, Py_DECREF, Py_XDECREF: Add `do { ... } while (0)'
2052 to avoid compiler warnings.
Matthias Klose0610e082009-04-05 12:43:08 +00002053
Gregory P. Smith2b3eb372009-04-05 23:48:26 +00002054- Issue #5705: os.setuid() would not accept values > 2**31-1 but pwd.getpwnam()
2055 returned them on 64bit platforms.
2056
Walter Dörwalded960ac2009-05-03 22:36:33 +00002057- Issue #5108: Handle %s like %S and %R in PyUnicode_FromFormatV(): Call
2058 PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8() once, remember the result and output it in a second
2059 step. This avoids problems with counting UTF-8 bytes that ignores the effect
2060 of using the replace error handler in PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8().
2061
Walter Dörwald726ba8e2009-05-06 14:32:35 +00002062- Issue #3739: The unicode-internal encoder now reports the number of characters
2063 consumed like any other encoder (instead of the number of bytes).
2064
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002065- Issue #2422: When compiled with the ``--with-valgrind`` option, the pymalloc
2066 allocator will be automatically disabled when running under Valgrind. This
2067 gives improved memory leak detection when running under Valgrind, while taking
2068 advantage of pymalloc at other times.
Benjamin Peterson91c12eb2009-12-03 02:52:39 +00002069
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00002070Library
2071-------
Benjamin Petersonb3dd5482009-02-26 19:07:18 +00002072
Raymond Hettinger5f516ed2010-04-03 18:10:37 +00002073- Add count() and reverse() methods to collections.deque().
Raymond Hettingera5fd24e2009-12-10 06:42:54 +00002074
Raymond Hettinger0b3263b2009-12-10 06:00:33 +00002075- Fix variations of extending deques: d.extend(d) d.extendleft(d) d+=d
2076
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002077- Issue #6986: Fix crash in the JSON C accelerator when called with the wrong
2078 parameter types. Patch by Victor Stinner.
Antoine Pitrou187177f2009-12-08 15:40:51 +00002079
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002080- logging: Added optional "secure" parameter to SMTPHandler, to enable use of
Vinay Sajip48305662009-12-06 17:57:11 +00002081 TLS with authentication credentials.
2082
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002083- Issue #1923: Fixed the removal of meaningful spaces when PKG-INFO is generated
2084 in Distutils. Patch by Stephen Emslie.
Tarek Ziadé4f383172009-12-06 09:22:40 +00002085
Martin v. Löwisc218a2f2009-12-03 20:53:51 +00002086- Issue #4120: Drop reference to CRT from manifest when building extensions with
2087 msvc9compiler.
2088
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002089- Issue #7333: The ``posix`` module gains an ``initgroups()`` function providing
2090 access to the initgroups(3) C library call on Unix systems which implement it.
2091 Patch by Jean-Paul Calderone.
Antoine Pitrou30b3b352009-12-02 20:37:54 +00002092
Tarek Ziadéa5076a22009-11-29 22:20:30 +00002093- Issue #7408: Fixed distutils.tests.sdist so it doesn't check for group
2094 ownership when the group is not forced, because the group may be different
2095 from the user's group and inherit from its container when the test is run.
2096
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002097- Issue #1515: Enable use of deepcopy() with instance methods. Patch by Robert
2098 Collins.
Antoine Pitroud16f57b2009-11-28 15:55:58 +00002099
Vinay Sajip01801d12009-11-27 14:03:36 +00002100- Issue #7403: logging: Fixed possible race condition in lock creation.
2101
Antoine Pitrouacbe3bd2009-11-27 13:18:34 +00002102- Issue #6845: Add restart support for binary upload in ftplib. The
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002103 ``storbinary()`` method of FTP and FTP_TLS objects gains an optional "rest"
Antoine Pitrouacbe3bd2009-11-27 13:18:34 +00002104 argument. Patch by Pablo Mouzo.
2105
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002106- Issue #5788: ``datetime.timedelta`` objects get a new ``total_seconds()``
2107 method returning the total number of seconds in the duration. Patch by Brian
2108 Quinlan.
Antoine Pitroubcfaf802009-11-25 22:59:36 +00002109
Vinay Sajipc470d682009-11-25 09:03:30 +00002110- Issue #6615: logging: Used weakrefs in internal handler list.
2111
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002112- Issue #1488943: ``difflib.Differ`` doesn't always add hints for tab
2113 characters.
Senthil Kumaran5c456e62009-11-23 18:41:31 +00002114
Lars Gustäbeldd866d52009-11-22 18:30:53 +00002115- Issue #6123: tarfile now opens empty archives correctly and consistently
2116 raises ReadError on empty files.
2117
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002118- Issue #7354: distutils.tests.test_msvc9compiler - dragfullwindows can be 2.
Tarek Ziadé39de1fc2009-11-19 05:33:16 +00002119
Ezio Melotti3373a3a2010-01-16 18:38:01 +00002120- Issue #5037: Proxy the __unicode__ special method to __unicode__ instead of
2121 __str__.
Benjamin Petersondc3c2392009-11-19 03:00:02 +00002122
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002123- Issue #7341: Close the internal file object in the TarFile constructor in case
2124 of an error.
Lars Gustäbel355538e2009-11-18 20:24:54 +00002125
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002126- Issue #7293: ``distutils.test_msvc9compiler`` is fixed to work on any fresh
2127 Windows box. Help provided by David Bolen.
Tarek Ziadéacccafc2009-11-18 08:46:56 +00002128
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002129- Issue #7328: pydoc no longer corrupts sys.path when run with the '-m' switch.
Nick Coghlan11db64e2009-11-15 22:36:47 +00002130
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002131- Issue #2054: ftplib now provides an FTP_TLS class to do secure FTP using TLS
2132 or SSL. Patch by Giampaolo Rodola'.
Antoine Pitrouccd5e022009-11-15 17:22:09 +00002133
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002134- Issue #4969: The mimetypes module now reads the MIME database from the
2135 registry under Windows. Patch by Gabriel Genellina.
Antoine Pitroud5b34d42009-11-15 14:10:48 +00002136
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002137- Issue #6816: runpy now provides a run_path function that allows Python code to
2138 execute file paths that refer to source or compiled Python files as well as
2139 zipfiles, directories and other valid sys.path entries that contain a
Nick Coghlan49868cb2009-11-15 07:30:34 +00002140 __main__.py file. This allows applications that run other Python scripts to
2141 support the same flexibility as the CPython command line itself.
2142
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002143- Issue #7318: multiprocessing now uses a timeout when it fails to establish a
2144 connection with another process, rather than looping endlessly. The default
2145 timeout is 20 seconds, which should be amply sufficient for local connections.
Antoine Pitrouc562ca42009-11-13 22:31:18 +00002146
Antoine Pitrou0734c632009-11-10 20:49:30 +00002147- Issue #7197: Allow unittest.TextTestRunner objects to be pickled and
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002148 unpickled. This fixes crashes under Windows when trying to run
Antoine Pitrou0734c632009-11-10 20:49:30 +00002149 test_multiprocessing in verbose mode.
2150
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002151- Issue #7282: Fix a memory leak when an RLock was used in a thread other than
2152 those started through ``threading.Thread`` (for example, using
2153 ``thread.start_new_thread()``.
Antoine Pitroud7158d42009-11-09 16:00:11 +00002154
Antoine Pitrou99c160b2009-11-05 13:42:29 +00002155- Issue #7264: Fix a possible deadlock when deallocating thread-local objects
2156 which are part of a reference cycle.
2157
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002158- Issue #7211: Allow 64-bit values for the ``ident`` and ``data`` fields of
2159 kevent objects on 64-bit systems. Patch by Michael Broghton.
Antoine Pitrou323b9da2009-11-04 19:25:14 +00002160
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002161- Issue #6896: ``mailbox.Maildir`` now invalidates its internal cache each time
Antoine Pitrouaec41242009-11-02 11:34:27 +00002162 a modification is done through it. This fixes inconsistencies and test
2163 failures on systems with slightly bogus mtime behaviour.
2164
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002165- Issue #7246 & Issue #7208: getpass now properly flushes input before reading
2166 from stdin so that existing input does not confuse it and lead to incorrect
2167 entry or an IOError. It also properly flushes it afterwards to avoid the
2168 terminal echoing the input afterwards on OSes such as Solaris.
Gregory P. Smith38f5d8f2009-11-01 18:33:55 +00002169
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002170- Issue #7233: Fix a number of two-argument Decimal methods to make sure that
2171 they accept an int or long as the second argument. Also fix buggy handling of
2172 large arguments (those with coefficient longer than the current precision) in
2173 shift and rotate.
Mark Dickinson0c673122009-10-29 12:04:00 +00002174
Lars Gustäbel8c06ccc2009-10-29 09:15:00 +00002175- Issue #4750: Store the basename of the original filename in the gzip FNAME
2176 header as required by RFC 1952.
2177
Tarek Ziadé40b998b2009-10-27 23:06:10 +00002178- Issue #1180: Added a new global option to ignore ~/.pydistutils.cfg in
2179 Distutils.
2180
Tarek Ziadéd24cab82009-10-27 21:20:27 +00002181- Issue #7218: Fix test_site for win32, the directory comparison was done with
2182 an uppercase.
2183
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002184- Issue #7205: Fix a possible deadlock when using a BZ2File object from several
2185 threads at once.
Antoine Pitroudd629662009-10-27 17:41:58 +00002186
Tarek Ziadéb9c1cfc2009-10-24 15:10:37 +00002187- Issue #7071: byte-compilation in Distutils is now done with respect to
2188 sys.dont_write_bytecode.
2189
Vinay Sajipc470d682009-11-25 09:03:30 +00002190- Issue #7066: archive_util.make_archive now restores the cwd if an error is
Tarek Ziadé672422a2009-10-24 13:29:44 +00002191 raised. Initial patch by Ezio Melotti.
2192
Antoine Pitroufa94e802009-10-24 12:23:18 +00002193- Issue #6218: io.StringIO and io.BytesIO instances are now picklable with
2194 protocol 2.
2195
Vinay Sajip5ac65282009-10-21 20:22:14 +00002196- Issue #7077: logging: SysLogHandler now treats Unicode as per RFC 5424.
2197
Mark Dickinsona7a52ab2009-10-20 13:33:03 +00002198- Issue #7099: Decimal.is_normal now returns True for numbers with exponent
2199 larger than emax.
2200
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002201- Issue #5833: Fix extra space character in readline completion with the GNU
2202 readline library version 6.0.
Antoine Pitroue0899802009-10-19 18:20:21 +00002203
Antoine Pitrou5ba84912009-10-19 17:59:07 +00002204- Issue #7133: SSL objects now support the new buffer API.
2205
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002206- Issue #7149: urllib fails on OSX in the proxy detection code.
Ronald Oussoren31802d02009-10-18 07:07:00 +00002207
Benjamin Petersonc63457b2009-10-15 03:06:55 +00002208- Issue #7069: Make inspect.isabstract() return a boolean.
2209
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002210- Add support to the ``ihooks`` module for relative imports.
Neil Schemenauere6039f02009-10-14 19:23:53 +00002211
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002212- Issue #6894: Fixed the issue urllib2 doesn't respect "no_proxy" environment.
Senthil Kumaran27468662009-10-11 02:00:07 +00002213
Vinay Sajip1c77b7f2009-10-10 20:32:36 +00002214- Issue #7086: Added TCP support to SysLogHandler, and tidied up some
2215 anachronisms in the code which were a relic of 1.5.2 compatibility.
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +00002216
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002217- Issue #7082: When falling back to the MIME 'name' parameter, the correct place
2218 to look for it is the Content-Type header.
R. David Murray0c8bee62009-10-09 21:50:54 +00002219
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002220- Issue #7048: Force Decimal.logb to round its result when that result is too
2221 large to fit in the current precision.
Mark Dickinson15ae41c2009-10-07 19:22:05 +00002222
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +00002223- Issue #6516: Added owner/group support when creating tar archives in
Tarek Ziadé1b486712009-10-02 23:49:48 +00002224 Distutils.
2225
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002226- Issue #7031: Add ``TestCase.assert(Not)IsInstance()`` methods.
Georg Brandl12fafe62009-10-01 21:02:39 +00002227
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002228- Issue #6790: Make it possible again to pass an ``array.array`` to
2229 ``httplib.HTTPConnection.send``. Patch by Kirk McDonald.
Antoine Pitrou72481782009-09-29 17:48:18 +00002230
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002231- Issue #6236, #6348: Fix various failures in the `io` module under AIX and
2232 other platforms, when using a non-gcc compiler. Patch by egreen.
Antoine Pitrou2a466582009-09-21 21:17:48 +00002233
Tarek Ziadé99773352009-09-21 13:41:08 +00002234- Issue #6954: Fixed crash when using DISTUTILS_DEBUG flag in Distutils.
2235
Ronald Oussoren51f06332009-09-20 10:31:22 +00002236- Issue #6851: Fix urllib.urlopen crash on secondairy threads on OSX 10.6
2237
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002238- Issue #4606: Passing 'None' if ctypes argtype is set to POINTER(...) does now
2239 always result in NULL.
Thomas Heller6be522b2009-09-18 20:05:44 +00002240
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002241- Issue #5042: ctypes Structure sub-subclass does now initialize correctly with
2242 base class positional arguments.
Thomas Heller7a352c02009-09-18 18:55:17 +00002243
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002244- Issue #6938: Fix a TypeError in string formatting of a multiprocessing debug
2245 message.
Georg Brandlc40e60e2009-09-18 09:18:27 +00002246
Matthias Klose924eab62009-09-13 15:09:24 +00002247- Issue #6635: Fix profiler printing usage message.
2248
Lars Gustäbel21121e62009-09-12 10:28:15 +00002249- Issue #6856: Add a filter keyword argument to TarFile.add().
2250
Tarek Ziadébed26a32009-09-09 08:14:20 +00002251- Issue #6163: Fixed HP-UX runtime library dir options in
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002252 distutils.unixcompiler. Initial patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar and Michael
2253 Haubenwallner.
Tarek Ziadébed26a32009-09-09 08:14:20 +00002254
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002255- Issue #6857: Default format() alignment should be '>' for Decimal instances.
Mark Dickinson5cfa8042009-09-08 20:20:19 +00002256
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002257- Issue #6795: int(Decimal('nan')) now raises ValueError instead of returning
2258 NaN or raising InvalidContext. Also, fix infinite recursion in
2259 long(Decimal('nan')).
Mark Dickinson968f1692009-09-07 18:04:58 +00002260
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002261- Issue #6850: Fix bug in Decimal._parse_format_specifier for formats with no
2262 type specifier.
Mark Dickinson491ea552009-09-07 16:17:41 +00002263
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002264- Issue #4937: plat-mac/bundlebuilder refers to non-existing version.plist.
Ronald Oussoren626faeb2009-09-06 12:23:18 +00002265
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002266- Issue #6838: Use a list to accumulate the value instead of repeatedly
2267 concatenating strings in httplib's HTTPResponse._read_chunked providing a
2268 significant speed increase when downloading large files servend with a
2269 Transfer-Encoding of 'chunked'.
Chris Withers7f3ea6a2009-09-04 16:32:22 +00002270
Georg Brandld22b9512009-09-04 08:17:04 +00002271- Issue #5275: In Cookie's Cookie.load(), properly handle non-string arguments
2272 as documented.
2273
Georg Brandl2e1308f2009-09-04 06:59:20 +00002274- Issue #2666: Handle BROWSER environment variable properly for unknown browser
2275 names in the webbrowser module.
2276
Lars Gustäbelf7cda522009-08-28 19:23:44 +00002277- Issue #6054: Do not normalize stored pathnames in tarfile.
2278
Mark Dickinson7a7739d2009-08-28 13:25:02 +00002279- Issue #6794: Fix Decimal.compare_total and Decimal.compare_total_mag: NaN
2280 payloads are now ordered by integer value rather than lexicographically.
2281
Tarek Ziadé764fc232009-08-20 21:23:13 +00002282- Issue #6693: New functions in site.py to get user/global site packages paths.
2283
Gregory P. Smith4e63d542009-08-20 09:39:38 +00002284- The thread.lock type now supports weak references.
2285
Guilherme Polo7b50c4f2009-08-18 14:46:57 +00002286- Issue #1356969: Add missing info methods in Tix.HList.
2287
Guilherme Polo6b3c7092009-08-18 14:23:00 +00002288- Issue #1522587: New constants and methods for the Tix.Grid widget.
2289
Guilherme Polo6c823f82009-08-18 13:29:20 +00002290- Issue #1250469: Fix the return value of Tix.PanedWindow.panes.
2291
Guilherme Polod3e6e4b2009-08-18 13:23:08 +00002292- Issue #1119673: Do not override Tkinter.Text methods when creating a
2293 ScrolledText.
2294
Gregory P. Smithb98d6b22009-08-16 18:52:58 +00002295- Issue #6665: Fix fnmatch to properly match filenames with newlines in them.
2296
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002297- Issue #1135: Add the XView and YView mix-ins to avoid duplicating the xview*
2298 and yview* methods.
Guilherme Poloe45f0172009-08-14 14:36:45 +00002299
Antoine Pitrou20e1f932009-08-06 20:18:29 +00002300- Issue #6629: Fix a data corruption issue in the new `io` package, which could
2301 occur when writing to a BufferedRandom object (e.g. a file opened in "rb+" or
2302 "wb+" mode) after having buffered a certain amount of data for reading. This
2303 bug was not present in the pure Python implementation.
2304
Jesse Noller8497efe2009-08-06 02:05:56 +00002305- Issue #4660: If a multiprocessing.JoinableQueue.put() was preempted, it was
2306 possible to get a spurious 'task_done() called too many times' error.
2307
Gregory P. Smithc4ad0342009-08-13 18:54:50 +00002308- Issue #1628205: Socket file objects returned by socket.socket.makefile() now
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002309 properly handles EINTR within the read, readline, write & flush methods. The
2310 socket.sendall() method now properly handles interrupted system calls.
Gregory P. Smithc4ad0342009-08-13 18:54:50 +00002311
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002312- Issue #6595: The Decimal constructor now allows arbitrary Unicode decimal
2313 digits in input, as recommended by the standard. Previously it was restricted
2314 to accepting [0-9].
Mark Dickinson4326ad82009-08-02 10:59:36 +00002315
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc3e5b0272009-07-28 22:15:30 +00002316- Issue #6511: ZipFile now raises BadZipfile (instead of an IOError) when
2317 opening an empty or very small file.
2318
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc74b30162009-07-23 19:26:02 +00002319- Issue #6553: Fixed a crash in cPickle.load(), when given a file-like object
2320 containing incomplete data.
2321
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002322- Issue #6545: Removed assert statements in distutils.Extension, so the behavior
2323 is similar when used with -O.
Tarek Ziadéaf2406f2009-07-22 08:55:19 +00002324
Benjamin Petersond7b0eeb2009-07-19 20:18:21 +00002325- unittest has been split up into a package. All old names should still work.
2326
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002327- Issue #6431: Make Fraction type return NotImplemented when it doesn't know how
2328 to handle a comparison without loss of precision. Also add correct handling
2329 of infinities and nans for comparisons with float.
Mark Dickinson88a0a2e2009-07-18 15:18:18 +00002330
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc74b30162009-07-23 19:26:02 +00002331- Issue #6415: Fixed warnings.warn segfault on bad formatted string.
Hirokazu Yamamoto1a3d0852009-07-17 06:26:54 +00002332
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002333- Issue #6466: Now distutils.cygwinccompiler and distutils.emxccompiler uses the
2334 same refactored function to get gcc/ld/dllwrap versions numbers. It's
2335 ``distutils.util.get_compiler_versions()``. Added deprecation warnings for
2336 the obsolete get_versions() functions.
Tarek Ziadéa99dedf2009-07-16 15:35:45 +00002337
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002338- Issue #6433: Fixed issues with multiprocessing.pool.map hanging on empty list.
Jesse Noller7530e472009-07-16 14:23:04 +00002339
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +00002340- Issue #6314: logging: Extra checks on the "level" argument in more places.
2341
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc74b8d332009-07-11 14:33:51 +00002342- Issue #2622: Fixed an ImportError when importing email.messsage from a
2343 standalone application built with py2exe or py2app.
2344
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +00002345- Issue #6455: Fixed test_build_ext under win32.
Tarek Ziadé8c400012009-07-10 09:10:33 +00002346
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +00002347- Issue #6377: Enabled the compiler option, and deprecate its usage as an
Tarek Ziadée670e5a2009-07-06 12:50:46 +00002348 attribute.
2349
Tarek Ziadé63f17382009-07-04 02:02:41 +00002350- Issue #6413: Fixed the log level in distutils.dist for announce.
2351
Gregory P. Smithc197d0a2009-07-04 01:55:11 +00002352- Issue #3392: The subprocess communicate() method no longer fails in select()
2353 when file descriptors are large; communicate() now uses poll() when possible.
2354
Tarek Ziadé65ec61e2009-07-03 08:22:56 +00002355- Issue #6403: Fixed package path usage in build_ext.
2356
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002357- Issues #5155, #5313, #5331: multiprocessing.Process._bootstrap was
Jesse Noller1b90efb2009-06-30 17:11:52 +00002358 unconditionally calling "os.close(sys.stdin.fileno())" resulting in file
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002359 descriptor errors.
Jesse Noller1b90efb2009-06-30 17:11:52 +00002360
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +00002361- Issue #6365: Distutils build_ext inplace mode was copying the compiled
Tarek Ziadé3fbcc602009-06-29 16:13:39 +00002362 extension in a subdirectory if the extension name had dots.
2363
Hirokazu Yamamoto99ebc632009-06-29 14:29:31 +00002364- Issue #6344: Fixed a crash of mmap.read() when passed a negative argument.
2365
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002366- Issue #5230: pydoc would report no documentation found if a module generated a
2367 'not found' import error when loaded; it now reports the import errors.
R. David Murrayef087da2009-06-23 18:02:46 +00002368 Thanks to Lucas Prado Melo for initial fix and collaboration on the tests.
2369
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002370- Issue #6314: ``logging.basicConfig()`` performs extra checks on the "level"
Vinay Sajip603fb6d2009-06-21 17:37:27 +00002371 argument.
2372
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002373- Issue #6164: Added an AIX specific linker argument in Distutils unixcompiler.
2374 Original patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar.
Tarek Ziadé439bf932009-06-20 13:57:20 +00002375
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002376- Issue #6274: Fixed possible file descriptors leak in subprocess.py.
Facundo Batista8c826b72009-06-19 18:02:28 +00002377
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc5fe420e2009-06-18 22:32:50 +00002378- Issue #6189: Restored compatibility of subprocess.py with Python 2.2.
2379
Tarek Ziadéfdefc0a2009-06-16 07:29:52 +00002380- Issue #6287: Added the license field in Distutils documentation.
2381
Tarek Ziadéa1cc0402009-06-15 23:30:13 +00002382- Issue #6286: Now Distutils upload command is based on urllib2 instead of
2383 httplib, allowing the usage of http_proxy.
2384
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002385- Issue #6271: mmap tried to close invalid file handle (-1) for anonymous maps
2386 on Unix.
Hirokazu Yamamoto983a4652009-06-14 03:53:55 +00002387
Antoine Pitrou19690592009-06-12 20:14:08 +00002388- Issue #6215: All bug fixes and enhancements from the Python 3.1 io library
2389 (including the fast C implementation) have been backported to the standard
2390 ``io`` module.
2391
Martin v. Löwis2dcd7a02009-06-12 17:28:31 +00002392- Issue #6258: Support AMD64 in bdist_msi.
2393
Vinay Sajip334ffe82010-01-15 23:27:05 +00002394- Issue #6252: Fixed bug in next rollover time computation in
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00002395 TimedRotatingFileHandler.
2396
Tarek Ziadéc7498f52009-06-11 09:13:36 +00002397- Issue #6263: Fixed syntax error in distutils.cygwincompiler.
2398
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002399- Issue #5201: distutils.sysconfig.parse_makefile() now understands ``$$`` in
2400 Makefiles. This prevents compile errors when using syntax like:
2401 ``LDFLAGS='-rpath=\$$LIB:/some/other/path'``. Patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
Tarek Ziadé25d2bae2009-06-11 08:12:20 +00002402
Georg Brandle6632b42009-06-04 08:58:32 +00002403- Issue #5767: Removed sgmlop support from xmlrpclib.
2404
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002405- Issue #6131: test_modulefinder leaked when run after test_distutils. Patch by
2406 Hirokazu Yamamoto.
Tarek Ziadé3e3eace2009-05-29 08:08:07 +00002407
Tarek Ziadé9e5d2dc2009-05-28 12:53:54 +00002408- Issue #6048: Now Distutils uses the tarfile module in archive_util.
2409
Raymond Hettingerb4d2d312009-05-29 01:36:26 +00002410- Issue #5150: IDLE's format menu now has an option to strip trailing
2411 whitespace.
2412
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002413- Issue #6121: pydoc now ignores leading and trailing spaces in the argument to
2414 the 'help' function.
R. David Murrayd67ea7d2009-05-27 20:07:21 +00002415
Benjamin Peterson176a56c2009-05-25 00:48:58 +00002416- In unittest, using a skipping decorator on a class is now equivalent to
2417 skipping every test on the class. The ClassTestSuite class has been removed.
2418
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002419- Issue #6050: Don't fail extracting a directory from a zipfile if the directory
2420 already exists.
Martin v. Löwis0b09c422009-05-24 19:30:52 +00002421
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002422- Issue #5311: bdist_msi can now build packages that do not depend on a specific
2423 Python version.
Martin v. Löwis53b578e2009-05-24 19:10:52 +00002424
Antoine Pitroud49e3752009-05-24 15:40:09 +00002425- Issue #1309352: fcntl now converts its third arguments to a C `long` rather
2426 than an int, which makes some operations possible under 64-bit Linux (e.g.
2427 DN_MULTISHOT with F_NOTIFY).
2428
Senthil Kumarane266f252009-05-24 09:14:50 +00002429- Issue #1424152: Fix for httplib, urllib2 to support SSL while working through
2430 proxy. Original patch by Christopher Li, changes made by Senthil Kumaran.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00002431
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002432- Issue #1983: Fix functions taking or returning a process identifier to use the
2433 dedicated C type ``pid_t`` instead of a C ``int``. Some platforms have a
2434 process identifier type wider than the standard C integer type.
Antoine Pitrou5e858fe2009-05-23 15:37:45 +00002435
R. David Murrayad3058e2009-05-23 00:48:58 +00002436- Issue #4066: smtplib.SMTP_SSL._get_socket now correctly returns the socket.
2437 Patch by Farhan Ahmad, test by Marcin Bachry.
2438
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002439- Issue #6062: In distutils, fixed the package option of build_ext. Feedback
Tarek Ziadé7d7127d2009-05-19 16:17:21 +00002440 and tests on pywin32 by Tim Golden.
2441
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002442- Issue #6053: Fixed distutils tests on win32. Patch by Hirokazu Yamamoto.
Tarek Ziadé07bbfcc2009-05-18 12:21:26 +00002443
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002444- Issue #6046: Fixed the library extension when distutils build_ext is used in
2445 place. Initial patch by Roumen Petrov.
Tarek Ziadéfcc7f032009-05-18 08:03:37 +00002446
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00002447- Issue #6041: Now distutils `sdist` and `register` commands use `check` as a
Tarek Ziadécb768042009-05-16 16:37:06 +00002448 subcommand.
2449
Antoine Pitrou775fd662009-05-15 16:54:52 +00002450- Issue #2116: Weak references and weak dictionaries now support copy()ing and
2451 deepcopy()ing.
2452
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002453- Issue #1655: Make imaplib IPv6-capable. Patch by Derek Morr.
Antoine Pitrou52035a02009-05-15 11:50:29 +00002454
Antoine Pitrou42b5bcf2009-05-14 21:48:09 +00002455- Issue #5918: Fix a crash in the parser module.
2456
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002457- Issue #1664: Make nntplib IPv6-capable. Patch by Derek Morr.
Antoine Pitroueed30d82009-05-14 21:22:08 +00002458
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002459- Issue #6022: A test file was created in the current working directory by
Tarek Ziadécbb4f9e2009-05-14 20:14:13 +00002460 test_get_outputs in Distutils.
2461
R. David Murray996ba022009-05-13 17:14:11 +00002462- Issue #4050: inspect.findsource/getsource now raise an IOError if the 'source'
2463 file is a binary. Patch by Brodie Rao, tests by Daniel Diniz.
2464
Tarek Ziadé972480d2009-05-12 17:07:14 +00002465- Issue #5977: distutils build_ext.get_outputs was not taking into account the
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002466 inplace option. Initial patch by kxroberto.
Tarek Ziadé972480d2009-05-12 17:07:14 +00002467
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002468- Issue #5984: distutils.command.build_ext.check_extensions_list checks were
2469 broken for old-style extensions.
Tarek Ziadéd5d83422009-05-10 10:12:08 +00002470
Vinay Sajipf9b01fe2009-05-09 12:07:17 +00002471- Issue #5971: StreamHandler.handleError now swallows IOErrors which occur when
2472 trying to print a traceback.
2473
Tarek Ziadé812d7712009-05-09 10:06:00 +00002474- Issue #5976: Fixed Distutils test_check_environ.
2475
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002476- Issue #5900: Ensure RUNPATH is added to extension modules with RPATH if GNU ld
2477 is used. Original patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
Tarek Ziadée2be83d2009-05-09 08:28:53 +00002478
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002479- Issue #5941: Distutils build_clib command was not working anymore because of
2480 an incomplete costumization of the archiver command. Added ARFLAGS in the
2481 Makefile besides AR and make Distutils use it. Original patch by David
Tarek Ziadé99f660a2009-05-07 21:20:34 +00002482 Cournapeau.
2483
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00002484- Issue #5955: aifc's close method did not close the file it wrapped, now it
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002485 does. This also means getfp method now returns the real fp.
R. David Murrayd3bf34c2009-05-07 16:29:19 +00002486
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002487- Issue #4875: On win32, ctypes.util.find_library does no longer return
2488 directories.
Thomas Hellera57773e2009-05-05 18:55:47 +00002489
Georg Brandl4d4313d2009-05-05 08:54:11 +00002490- Issue #5142: Add the ability to skip modules while stepping to pdb.
2491
Georg Brandle3869c42009-05-05 08:30:28 +00002492- Issue #1309567: Fix linecache behavior of stripping subdirectories when
2493 looking for files given by a relative filename.
2494
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002495- Issue #5692: In ``zipfile.Zipfile``, fix wrong path calculation when
Antoine Pitrou97377bf2009-05-04 21:17:17 +00002496 extracting a file to the root directory.
2497
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002498- Issue #5913: ``os.listdir()`` should fail for empty path on windows.
Hirokazu Yamamoto406d7aa2009-05-04 05:28:39 +00002499
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002500- Issue #5084: Unpickling now interns the attribute names of pickled objects,
2501 saving memory and avoiding growth in size of subsequent pickles. Proposal and
2502 original patch by Jake McGuire.
Antoine Pitrou74309892009-05-02 21:13:23 +00002503
Antoine Pitrou1fc02312009-05-01 20:55:35 +00002504- Issue #3002: ``shutil.copyfile()`` and ``shutil.copytree()`` now raise an
2505 error when a named pipe is encountered, rather than blocking infinitely.
2506
Gregory P. Smith1d499262009-05-01 19:59:52 +00002507- Issue #3959: The ipaddr module has been added to the standard library.
2508 Contributed by Google.
2509
R. David Murray25b4add2009-04-29 13:17:37 +00002510- Issue #2245: aifc now skips chunk types it doesn't recognize, per spec.
2511
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002512- Issue #5874: distutils.tests.test_config_cmd is not locale-sensitive anymore.
Tarek Ziadéa1b91d92009-04-29 08:03:46 +00002513
Thomas Heller90c61a22009-04-28 19:23:41 +00002514- Issue #4305: ctypes should now build again on mipsel-linux-gnu
2515
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002516- Issue #1734234: Massively speedup ``unicodedata.normalize()`` when the string
2517 is already in normalized form, by performing a quick check beforehand.
Antoine Pitroue988e282009-04-27 21:53:26 +00002518 Original patch by Rauli Ruohonen.
2519
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002520- Issue #5853: Calling a function of the mimetypes module from several threads
Antoine Pitrouf2651e12009-04-27 20:50:20 +00002521 at once could hit the recursion limit if the mimetypes database hadn't been
2522 initialized before.
2523
Vinay Sajipe34d6aa2009-04-27 13:44:27 +00002524- Issue #5854: Updated __all__ to include some missing names and remove some
2525 names which should not be exported.
2526
2527- Issue #5810: Fixed Distutils test_build_scripts so it uses
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002528 ``sysconfig.get_config_vars()``.
Tarek Ziadébcddf672009-04-25 12:51:59 +00002529
Tarek Ziadéd567c382009-04-25 12:38:08 +00002530- Issue #4951: Fixed failure in test_httpservers.
2531
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002532- Issue #3102: All global symbols that the _ctypes extension defines are now
2533 prefixed with 'Py' or '_ctypes'.
Thomas Heller5c6af802009-04-24 20:31:47 +00002534
Thomas Hellerec21ccd2009-04-24 20:00:41 +00002535- Issue #5041: ctypes does now allow pickling wide character.
2536
Mark Dickinson4af8e742009-04-24 13:56:07 +00002537- Issue #5812: For the two-argument form of the Fraction constructor,
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002538 ``Fraction(m, n)``, m and n are permitted to be arbitrary Rational instances.
Mark Dickinson4af8e742009-04-24 13:56:07 +00002539
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002540- Issue #5812: Fraction('1e6') is valid: more generally, any string that's valid
2541 for float() is now valid for Fraction(), with the exception of strings
2542 representing NaNs and infinities.
Mark Dickinson8100bd82009-04-22 18:15:25 +00002543
Tarek Ziadé31559b62009-04-20 14:29:42 +00002544- Issue #5795: Fixed test_distutils failure on Debian ppc.
2545
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00002546- Issue #5768: Fixed bug in Unicode output logic and test case for same.
2547
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002548- Issue #1161031: Fix readwrite select flag handling: POLLPRI now results in a
2549 handle_expt_event call, not handle_read_event, and POLLERR and POLLNVAL now
2550 call handle_close, not handle_expt_event. Also, dispatcher now has an
2551 'ignore_log_types' attribute for suppressing log messages, which is set to
2552 'warning' by default.
R. David Murrayabc26602009-04-13 16:56:32 +00002553
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002554- Issue #5607: Fixed Distutils test_get_platform for Mac OS X fat binaries.
Tarek Ziadé156c31a2009-04-13 12:34:01 +00002555
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002556- Issue #5741: Don't disallow "%%" (which is an escape for "%") when setting a
2557 value in SafeConfigParser.
Georg Brandl21cf5ee2009-04-12 17:24:11 +00002558
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002559- Issue #5732: Added a new command in Distutils: check.
Tarek Ziadé942825f2009-04-11 14:55:07 +00002560
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00002561- Issue #5731: Distutils bdist_wininst no longer worked on non-Windows
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002562 platforms. Initial patch by Paul Moore.
Tarek Ziadéad958262009-04-09 21:36:44 +00002563
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002564- Issue #2254: Fix CGIHTTPServer information disclosure. Relative paths are now
2565 collapsed within the url properly before looking in cgi_directories.
Gregory P. Smith923ba362009-04-06 06:33:26 +00002566
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002567- Issue #5095: Added bdist_msi to the list of bdist supported formats. Initial
2568 fix by Steven Bethard.
Tarek Ziadé64408fb2009-04-05 22:51:09 +00002569
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002570- Issue #1491431: Fixed distutils.filelist.glob_to_re for edge cases. Initial
2571 fix by Wayne Davison.
Tarek Ziadéfaa6b122009-04-05 21:44:08 +00002572
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002573- Issue #5693: TestSuite.__iter__ can now be consistently overridden in
2574 subclasses.
Michael Foordf2dfef12009-04-05 19:19:28 +00002575
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002576- Issue #5694: Removed spurious test output in Distutils (test_clean).
Tarek Ziadé453d9532009-04-05 18:31:24 +00002577
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +00002578- Issue #5471: Fix os.path.expanduser() for $HOME set to '/'.
Georg Brandl3f0ef202009-04-05 14:48:49 +00002579
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002580- Issue #1326077: Fix the formatting of SyntaxErrors by the traceback module.
Georg Brandl1956d5c2009-04-05 14:25:41 +00002581
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002582- Issue #1726172: Fix IndexError in the case of and empty response in ftplib.
Georg Brandl50ba6e12009-04-05 10:48:47 +00002583
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002584- Issue #2625: Added missing iteritems() call to the for loop in
R. David Murray52720c52009-04-02 14:05:35 +00002585 mailbox.MH.get_message().
2586
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002587- Issue #5585: Add the ability to call an initializer to
2588 mulitiprocessing.manager so that users can install custom handlers/etc.
Jesse Noller7152f6d2009-04-02 05:17:26 +00002589
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002590- Issue #3551: Patch multiprocessing to raise a proper exception if the size of
2591 the object when writefile is called causes a ERROR_NO_SYSTEM_RESOURCES. Added
2592 docs to note the limitation.
Jesse Noller5053fbb2009-04-02 04:22:09 +00002593
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002594- unittest.assertNotEqual() now uses the inequality operator (!=) instead of the
2595 equality operator.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00002596
2597- Issue #6001: Test discovery for unittest. Implemented in
Michael Foordb4a81c82009-05-29 20:33:46 +00002598 unittest.TestLoader.discover and from the command line.
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00002599
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002600- Issue #5679: The methods unittest.TestCase.addCleanup and doCleanups were
2601 added. addCleanup allows you to add cleanup functions that will be called
Michael Foord07ef4872009-05-02 22:43:34 +00002602 unconditionally (after setUp if setUp fails, otherwise after tearDown). This
2603 allows for much simpler resource allocation and deallocation during tests.
2604
2605- Issue #3379: unittest.main now takes an optional exit argument. If False main
2606 doesn't call sys.exit allowing it to be used from the interactive interpreter.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00002607
2608- Issue #5995: unittest.main now takes an optional verbosity argument allowing
Michael Foord5d31e052009-05-11 17:59:43 +00002609 test modules to be run with a higher than default verbosity.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00002610
2611- Issue #5995: A fix to allow you to run "python -m unittest test_module" or
Michael Foord5d31e052009-05-11 17:59:43 +00002612 "python -m unittest test_module.TestClass" from the command line.
Michael Foord07ef4872009-05-02 22:43:34 +00002613
2614- Issue #5728: unittest.TestResult has new startTestRun and stopTestRun methods;
2615 called immediately before and after a test run.
2616
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002617- Issue #5663: Better failure messages for unittest asserts. Default assertTrue
Michael Foord345b2fe2009-04-02 03:20:38 +00002618 and assertFalse messages are now useful. TestCase has a longMessage attribute.
2619 This defaults to False, but if set to True useful error messages are shown in
2620 addition to explicit messages passed to assert methods.
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00002621
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002622- Issue #3110: Add additional protect around SEM_VALUE_MAX for multiprocessing.
Jesse Nollerb502bc72009-04-02 02:32:55 +00002623
Georg Brandl58b8b952009-04-01 21:54:21 +00002624- In Pdb, prevent the reassignment of __builtin__._ by sys.displayhook on
2625 printing out values.
2626
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002627- Issue #4572: Added SEEK_* symbolic constants to io module.
Georg Brandl5942b912009-04-01 21:05:44 +00002628
Brett Cannonad078a02009-04-01 16:00:34 +00002629- Issue #1665206 (partially): Move imports in cgitb to the top of the module
2630 instead of performing them in functions. Helps prevent import deadlocking in
2631 threads.
2632
Raymond Hettinger66c4a6b2009-04-01 18:50:56 +00002633- Issue #5647: MutableSet.__iand__() no longer mutates self during iteration.
2634
Georg Brandle92d4b62009-04-01 04:21:14 +00002635- Actually make the SimpleXMLRPCServer CGI handler work.
2636
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002637- Issue #2522: locale.format() now checks its first argument to ensure it has
R. David Murraya83da352009-04-01 03:21:43 +00002638 been passed only one pattern, avoiding mysterious errors where it appeared
2639 that it was failing to do localization.
2640
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002641- Issue #5583: Added optional extensions in Distutils. Initial patch by Georg
Tarek Ziadé9e47ce42009-03-31 22:27:23 +00002642 Brandl.
2643
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002644- Issue #5619: Multiprocessing children disobey the debug flag and causes popups
2645 on windows buildbots. Patch applied to work around this issue.
Jesse Noller42f9b4e2009-03-31 22:20:35 +00002646
Benjamin Petersond906ea62009-03-31 21:34:42 +00002647- Issue #5632: Thread.ident was None for the main thread and threads not created
2648 with the threading module.
2649
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002650- Issue #5400: Added patch for multiprocessing on netbsd compilation/support.
Jesse Noller1f0a5552009-03-31 18:27:14 +00002651
Hirokazu Yamamoto9d2ee5d2009-03-31 13:13:05 +00002652- Issue #5387: Fixed mmap.move crash by integer overflow.
2653
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002654- Issue #5261: Patch multiprocessing's semaphore.c to support context manager
2655 use: "with multiprocessing.Lock()" works now.
Jesse Noller82eb5902009-03-30 23:29:31 +00002656
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00002657- Issue #5177: Multiprocessing's SocketListener class now uses
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002658 socket.SO_REUSEADDR on all connections so that the user no longer needs to
2659 wait 120 seconds for the socket to expire.
Jesse Noller459a6482009-03-30 15:50:42 +00002660
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002661- Adjusted _tkinter to compile without warnings when WITH_THREAD is not defined
2662 (part of issue #5035).
Guilherme Polo1972d162009-03-27 21:43:08 +00002663
Marc-André Lemburgcbdf15b2009-03-25 19:45:33 +00002664- Issue #5561: Removed the sys.version_info shortcuts from platform's
2665 python_version() and python_version_tuple() since they produced different
2666 output compared to previous Python versions.
2667
Benjamin Peterson692428e2009-03-23 21:50:21 +00002668- Issue #1034053: unittest now supports skipping tests and expected failures.
2669
Gregory P. Smith28399852009-03-31 16:54:10 +00002670- The unittest.TestCase.assertRaises() method now returns a context manager when
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002671 not given a callable so that code to be tested can be written inline using a
2672 with statement.
Gregory P. Smith28399852009-03-31 16:54:10 +00002673
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002674- Issue #2578: The unittest.TestCase.assertEqual() now displays the differences
2675 in lists, tuples, dicts and sets on failure. Many new handy type and
2676 comparison specific assert* methods have been added that fail with error
2677 messages actually useful for debugging. Contributed in part by Google.
Gregory P. Smith28399852009-03-31 16:54:10 +00002678
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002679- Issue #5068: Fixed the tarfile._BZ2Proxy.read() method that would loop forever
2680 on incomplete input. That caused tarfile.open() to hang when used with mode
2681 'r' or 'r:bz2' and a fileobj argument that contained no data or partial bzip2
2682 compressed data.
Lars Gustäbel2020a592009-03-22 20:09:33 +00002683
Benjamin Petersonb364bfe2009-03-22 17:45:11 +00002684- Issue #5536: urllib.urlretrieve makes sure to close the file it's writing to
2685 even if an exception occurs.
2686
Raymond Hettinger91852ca2009-03-19 19:19:03 +00002687- Issue #5381: Added object_pairs_hook to the json module. This allows
2688 OrderedDicts to be built by the decoder.
2689
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002690- Issue #2110: Add support for thousands separator and 'n' type specifier to
2691 ``Decimal.__format__()``.
Mark Dickinson277859d2009-03-17 23:03:46 +00002692
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002693- Fix Decimal.__format__ bug that swapped the meanings of the '<' and '>'
2694 alignment characters.
Mark Dickinsonb065e522009-03-17 18:01:03 +00002695
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002696- Issue #1222: ``locale.format()`` bug when the thousands separator is a space
Antoine Pitroufeeafff2009-03-14 00:07:21 +00002697 character.
2698
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002699- Issue #5472: Fixed distutils.test_util tear down. Original patch by Tim
2700 Golden.
Tarek Ziadé61585c22009-03-11 12:48:04 +00002701
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002702- collections.deque objects now have a read-only attribute called maxlen.
Raymond Hettinger56411aa2009-03-10 12:50:59 +00002703
Guilherme Polo15d57652009-03-07 02:14:38 +00002704- Issue #2638: Show a window constructed with tkSimpleDialog.Dialog only after
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002705 it is has been populated and properly configured in order to prevent window
2706 flashing.
Guilherme Polo15d57652009-03-07 02:14:38 +00002707
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002708- Issue #4792: Prevent a segfault in _tkinter by using the guaranteed to be safe
2709 interp argument given to the PythonCmd in place of the Tcl interpreter taken
2710 from a PythonCmd_ClientData.
Guilherme Polo3768b2f2009-03-07 01:47:49 +00002711
Guilherme Polo6d6c1fd2009-03-07 01:19:12 +00002712- Issue #5193: Guarantee that Tkinter.Text.search returns a string.
2713
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002714- Issue #5394: Removed > 2.3 syntax from distutils.msvc9compiler.
Tarek Ziadé943b24e2009-03-07 00:32:45 +00002715 Original patch by Akira Kitada.
2716
Hirokazu Yamamoto264fc122009-03-05 14:21:12 +00002717- Issue #5385: Fixed mmap crash after resize failure on windows.
2718
Hirokazu Yamamotoeacbbdf2009-03-03 22:18:14 +00002719- Issue #5179: Fixed subprocess handle leak on failure on windows.
2720
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002721- PEP 372: Added collections.OrderedDict().
Raymond Hettingerbc512d32009-03-03 04:45:34 +00002722
Raymond Hettinger88a91642009-03-03 04:51:24 +00002723- The _asdict() for method for namedtuples now returns an OrderedDict().
2724
Raymond Hettingere89b8e92009-03-03 05:00:37 +00002725- The configparser module now defaults to using an ordered dictionary.
2726
Benjamin Peterson7d49bba2009-03-02 22:41:42 +00002727- Issue #4308: httplib.IncompleteRead's repr doesn't include all of the data all
2728 ready received.
2729
Benjamin Petersonad58b7c2009-03-02 03:35:12 +00002730- Issue #5401: Fixed a performance problem in mimetypes when ``from mimetypes
2731 import guess_extension`` was used.
2732
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002733- Issue #1733986: Fixed mmap crash on Windows in accessing elements of second
2734 map object with same tagname but larger size than first map.
Hirokazu Yamamotob0e10c72009-02-28 12:13:07 +00002735
Hirokazu Yamamotof2dc8852009-02-28 10:31:54 +00002736- Issue #5386: mmap.write_byte didn't check map size, so it could cause buffer
2737 overrun.
2738
Tarek Ziadé73347352009-02-28 10:08:02 +00002739- Issue #1533164: Installed but not listed *.pyo was breaking Distutils
2740 bdist_rpm command.
2741
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002742- Issue #5378: Added --quiet option to Distutils bdist_rpm command.
Tarek Ziadé73347352009-02-28 10:08:02 +00002743
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002744- Issue #5052: Make Distutils compatible with 2.3 again.
Tarek Ziadédda92f72009-02-27 12:53:34 +00002745
Benjamin Petersonb3dd5482009-02-26 19:07:18 +00002746- Deprecated methods of symtable.Symbol have been removed: is_keywordarg(),
2747 is_vararg(), and is_in_tuple().
2748
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002749- Issue #5316: Fixed buildbot failures introduced by multiple inheritance in
2750 Distutils tests.
Tarek Ziadée3bc0ef2009-02-25 22:29:27 +00002751
Vinay Sajip1a0d2be2009-02-19 12:31:32 +00002752- Issue #5287: Add exception handling around findCaller() call to help out
2753 IronPython.
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00002754
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002755- Issue #5282: Fixed mmap resize on 32bit Windows and Unix. When ``offset >
2756 0``, the file was resized to wrong size.
Hirokazu Yamamoto17a837e2009-02-17 13:17:26 +00002757
Hirokazu Yamamotof6bbd0e2009-02-17 10:12:10 +00002758- Issue #5292: Fixed mmap crash on its boundary access m[len(m)].
2759
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002760- Issue #2279: distutils.sdist.add_defaults now add files from the package_data
2761 and the data_files metadata.
Tarek Ziadé7dd53392009-02-16 21:38:01 +00002762
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002763- Issue #5257: Refactored all tests in distutils, so they use
Tarek Ziadé13699002009-02-14 14:10:23 +00002764 support.TempdirManager, to avoid writing in the tests directory.
2765
Tarek Ziadé2432b0b2009-02-13 23:00:43 +00002766- Issue #4524: distutils build_script command failed with --with-suffix=3.
2767 Initial patch by Amaury Forgeot d'Arc.
2768
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002769- Issue #2461: Added tests for distutils.util.
Tarek Ziadé275958a2009-02-13 22:22:03 +00002770
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002771- Issue #1008086: Fixed socket.inet_aton() to always return 4 bytes even on LP64
2772 platforms (most 64-bit Linux, bsd, unix systems).
Gregory P. Smith3605b5c2009-02-11 23:45:25 +00002773
Thomas Heller3689ae22009-02-10 18:43:01 +00002774- Issue #5203: Fixed ctypes segfaults when passing a unicode string to a
2775 function without argtypes (only occurs if HAVE_USABLE_WCHAR_T is false).
2776
Tarek Ziadé74fbf602009-02-10 12:31:09 +00002777- Issue #3386: distutils.sysconfig.get_python_lib prefix argument was ignored
2778 under NT and OS2. Patch by Philip Jenvey.
2779
Brett Cannon28d10882009-02-10 02:07:38 +00002780- Issue #5128: Make compileall properly inspect bytecode to determine if needs
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002781 to be recreated. This avoids a timing hole thanks to the old reliance on the
Brett Cannon28d10882009-02-10 02:07:38 +00002782 ctime of the files involved.
2783
Guilherme Poloa66cf5b2009-02-09 20:50:27 +00002784- Issue #5122: Synchronize tk load failure check to prevent a potential
2785 deadlock.
2786
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002787- Issue #1818: collections.namedtuple() now supports a keyword argument 'rename'
2788 which lets invalid fieldnames be automatically converted to positional names
2789 in the form, _1, _2, ...
Raymond Hettinger322daea2009-02-10 01:24:05 +00002790
Guilherme Polod2ea0332009-02-09 16:41:09 +00002791- Issue #4890: Handle empty text search pattern in Tkinter.Text.search.
2792
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002793- Issue #5170: Fixed Unicode output bug in logging and added test case. This is
2794 a regression which did not occur in 2.5.
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +00002795
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002796- Issue #4512 (part 2): Promote ``ZipImporter._get_filename()`` to be a public
2797 documented method ``ZipImporter.get_filename()``.
Nick Coghlan0194f5b2009-02-08 03:17:00 +00002798
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002799- Issue #4195: The ``runpy`` module (and the ``-m`` switch) now support the
2800 execution of packages by looking for and executing a ``__main__`` submodule
2801 when a package name is supplied. Initial patch by Andi Vajda.
Nick Coghland39600e2009-02-08 01:26:34 +00002802
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002803- Issue #1731706: Call Tcl_ConditionFinalize for Tcl_Conditions that will not be
2804 used again (this requires Tcl/Tk 8.3.1), also fix a memory leak in Tkapp_Call
2805 when calling from a thread different than the one that created the Tcl
2806 interpreter. Patch by Robert Hancock.
Guilherme Polo14ff18d2009-02-06 22:26:22 +00002807
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +00002808- Issue #1520877: Now distutils.sysconfig reads $AR from the
Tarek Ziadé05adf072009-02-06 01:15:51 +00002809 environment/Makefile. Patch by Douglas Greiman.
2810
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002811- Issue #4285: Change sys.version_info to be a named tuple. Patch by Ross
2812 Light.
Eric Smith81fe0932009-02-06 00:48:26 +00002813
Tarek Ziadéd5eb9852009-02-06 00:31:59 +00002814- Issue #1276768: The verbose option was not used in the code of
2815 distutils.file_util and distutils.dir_util.
2816
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +00002817- Issue #5132: Fixed trouble building extensions under Solaris with
Tarek Ziadé0d4fd342009-02-05 22:52:52 +00002818 --enabled-shared activated. Initial patch by Dave Peterson.
2819
Guilherme Polod7bb4d42009-02-02 21:14:14 +00002820- Issue #1581476: Always use the Tcl global namespace when calling into Tcl.
2821
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002822- Issue #2047: shutil.move() could believe that its destination path was inside
2823 its source path if it began with the same letters (e.g. "src" vs. "src.new").
Antoine Pitrou707c5932009-01-29 20:19:34 +00002824
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002825- Issue #4920: Fixed .next() vs .__next__() issues in the ABCs for Iterator and
2826 MutableSet.
Raymond Hettingerf779e6f2009-01-28 23:02:26 +00002827
Guilherme Polocda93aa2009-01-28 13:09:03 +00002828- Added the ttk module. See issue #2983: Ttk support for Tkinter.
2829
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002830- Issue #5021: doctest.testfile() did not create __name__ and
Raymond Hettingerecf252a2009-01-27 10:03:04 +00002831 collections.namedtuple() relied on __name__ being defined.
2832
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002833- Backport importlib from Python 3.1. Only the import_module() function has been
2834 backported to help facilitate transitions from 2.7 to 3.1.
Brett Cannon93881c62009-01-26 01:16:50 +00002835
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002836- Issue #1885: distutils: When running sdist with --formats=tar,gztar the tar
2837 file was overriden by the gztar one.
Tarek Ziadéaaedcef2009-01-25 23:34:00 +00002838
Tarek Ziadéef249b12009-01-25 18:19:25 +00002839- Issue #4863: distutils.mwerkscompiler has been removed.
2840
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002841- Added new itertools functions: combinations_with_replacement() and compress().
Raymond Hettinger2bcb8e92009-01-25 21:04:14 +00002842
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002843- Issue #5032: Added a step argument to itertools.count() and allowed
2844 non-integer arguments.
Raymond Hettinger31c769c2009-02-12 05:39:46 +00002845
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002846- Fix and properly document the multiprocessing module's logging support, expose
2847 the internal levels and provide proper usage examples.
Jesse Nollerb5a4b0a2009-01-25 03:36:13 +00002848
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002849- Issue #1672332: Fix unpickling of subnormal floats, which was
Mark Dickinsona3ecd2c2009-01-24 16:40:29 +00002850 producing a ValueError on some platforms.
2851
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002852- Issue #3881: Help Tcl to load even when started through the unreadable local
2853 symlink to "Program Files" on Vista.
Martin v. Löwisf081e1c2009-01-24 15:47:27 +00002854
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002855- Issue #4710: Extract directories properly in the zipfile module; allow adding
2856 directories to a zipfile.
Martin v. Löwis0dfcfc82009-01-24 14:00:33 +00002857
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +00002858- Issue #3807: _multiprocessing build fails when configure is passed
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002859 --without-threads argument. When this occurs, _multiprocessing will be
2860 disabled, and not compiled.
Jesse Nollerf6da8d12009-01-23 14:04:41 +00002861
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002862- Issue #5008: When a file is opened in append mode with the new IO library, do
2863 an explicit seek to the end of file (so that e.g. tell() returns the file size
2864 rather than 0). This is consistent with the behaviour of the traditional 2.x
2865 file object.
Antoine Pitroue741cc62009-01-21 00:45:36 +00002866
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00002867- Issue #5013: Fixed a bug in FileHandler which occurred when the delay
2868 parameter was set.
2869
Raymond Hettinger933d3a72009-01-20 20:34:19 +00002870- Issue #4998: The memory saving effect of __slots__ had been lost on Fractions
2871 which inherited from numbers.py which did not have __slots__ defined. The
Mark Dickinson39c6f7f2009-02-12 17:55:42 +00002872 numbers hierarchy now has its own __slots__ declarations.
Raymond Hettinger933d3a72009-01-20 20:34:19 +00002873
Jesse Noller9a5b2ad2009-01-19 15:12:22 +00002874- Issue #3321: _multiprocessing.Connection() doesn't check handle; added checks
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002875 for *nix machines for negative handles and large int handles. Without this
2876 check it is possible to segfault the interpreter.
Jesse Noller9a5b2ad2009-01-19 15:12:22 +00002877
Jesse Noller6ab22152009-01-18 02:45:38 +00002878- Issue #4449: AssertionError in mp_benchmarks.py, caused by an underlying issue
2879 in sharedctypes.py.
2880
Benjamin Peterson5e5fbb62009-01-17 22:27:54 +00002881- Issue #1225107: inspect.isclass() returned True for instances with a custom
2882 __getattr__.
2883
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002884- Issue #3997: Zipfiles generated with more than 65536 files could not be opened
2885 with other applications.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd25f87a2009-01-17 16:40:17 +00002886
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002887- Issue #1162154: ``inspect.getmembers()`` now skips attributes that raise
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcb54447f2009-01-13 23:39:22 +00002888 AttributeError, e.g. a __slots__ attribute which has not been set.
2889
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002890- Issue #1696199: Add collections.Counter() for rapid and convenient counting.
Raymond Hettingerf94d7fa2009-01-12 22:58:41 +00002891
Antoine Pitroubd4b5f22009-01-10 16:15:24 +00002892- Issue #3860: GzipFile and BZ2File now support the context manager protocol.
2893
Antoine Pitrouf0d2c3f2009-01-04 21:29:23 +00002894- Issue #4272: Add an optional argument to the GzipFile constructor to override
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002895 the timestamp in the gzip stream. The default value remains the current time.
2896 The information can be used by e.g. gunzip when decompressing. Patch by
Antoine Pitrouf0d2c3f2009-01-04 21:29:23 +00002897 Jacques Frechet.
2898
Mark Dickinson514d4832009-01-04 21:25:40 +00002899- Restore Python 2.3 compatibility for decimal.py.
2900
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00002901- Issue #1702551: distutils sdist was not excluding VCS directories under
Tarek Ziadé85d6fb52009-01-04 00:04:49 +00002902 Windows. Inital solution by Guy Dalberto.
2903
Guilherme Poloe7f14032009-01-03 21:51:09 +00002904- The _tkinter module functions "createfilehandler", "deletefilehandler",
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002905 "createtimerhandler", "mainloop", "dooneevent" and "quit" have been deprecated
2906 for removal in 3.x
Guilherme Poloe7f14032009-01-03 21:51:09 +00002907
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002908- Issue #4796: Added Decimal.from_float() and
2909 Context.create_decimal_from_float() to the decimal module.
Raymond Hettingerf4d85972009-01-03 19:02:23 +00002910
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002911- Issue #4812: Add missing underscore prefix to some internal-use-only constants
2912 in the decimal module. (Dec_0 becomes _Dec_0, etc.)
Mark Dickinsonc5de0962009-01-02 23:07:08 +00002913
Benjamin Peterson8ad09a42008-12-31 23:48:39 +00002914- Issue #4795: inspect.isgeneratorfunction() returns False instead of None when
2915 the function is not a generator.
2916
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002917- Issue #4702: Throwing a DistutilsPlatformError instead of IOError in case no
2918 MSVC compiler is found under Windows. Original patch by Philip Jenvey.
Tarek Ziadéb1a85412008-12-30 23:03:41 +00002919
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002920- Issue #4646: distutils was choking on empty options arg in the setup function.
2921 Original patch by Thomas Heller.
Tarek Ziadéc13acb12008-12-29 22:23:53 +00002922
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002923- Fractions.from_float() no longer loses precision for integers too big to cast
2924 as floats.
Georg Brandlfe427892009-01-03 22:03:11 +00002925
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002926- Issue #4790: The nsmallest() and nlargest() functions in the heapq module did
2927 unnecessary work in the common case where no key function was specified.
Georg Brandlfe427892009-01-03 22:03:11 +00002928
Martin v. Löwis732479f2008-12-29 16:22:25 +00002929- Issue #3767: Convert Tk object to string in tkColorChooser.
2930
Martin v. Löwise2eb2b42008-12-29 15:51:01 +00002931- Issue #3248: Allow placing ScrolledText in a PanedWindow.
2932
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002933- Issue #4444: Allow assertRaises() to be used as a context handler, so that the
2934 code under test can be written inline if more practical.
Antoine Pitrou697ca3d2008-12-28 14:09:36 +00002935
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002936- Issue #4739: Add pydoc help topics for symbols, so that e.g. help('@') works
2937 as expected in the interactive environment.
Georg Brandlc3a98032008-12-27 18:20:04 +00002938
Antoine Pitrou6f193e02008-12-27 15:43:12 +00002939- Issue #4756: zipfile.is_zipfile() now supports file-like objects. Patch by
2940 Gabriel Genellina.
2941
Tarek Ziadée4c75bb2008-12-24 19:10:05 +00002942- Issue #4400: .pypirc default generated file was broken in distutils.
2943
Benjamin Peterson54686e32008-12-24 15:10:27 +00002944- Issue #4736: io.BufferedRWPair's closed property now functions properly.
2945
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002946- Issue #3954: Fix a potential SystemError in _hotshot.logreader error handling.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc31949b92008-12-15 21:47:57 +00002947
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002948- Issue #4574: Fix a crash in io.IncrementalNewlineDecoder when a carriage
2949 return encodes to more than one byte in the source encoding (e.g. UTF-16) and
2950 gets split on a chunk boundary.
Antoine Pitrou655fbf12008-12-14 17:40:51 +00002951
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002952- Issue #4223: inspect.getsource() will now correctly display source code for
2953 packages loaded via zipimport (or any other conformant PEP 302
Nick Coghlana2053472008-12-14 10:54:50 +00002954 loader). Original patch by Alexander Belopolsky.
2955
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002956- Issue #4201: pdb can now access and display source code loaded via zipimport
2957 (or any other conformant PEP 302 loader). Original patch by Alexander
2958 Belopolsky.
Nick Coghlana2053472008-12-14 10:54:50 +00002959
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002960- Issue #4197: Doctests in modules loaded via zipimport (or any other PEP 302
2961 conformant loader) will now work correctly in most cases (they are still
2962 subject to the constraints that exist for all code running from inside a
2963 module loaded via a PEP 302 loader and attempting to perform IO operations
2964 based on __file__). Original patch by Alexander Belopolsky.
Nick Coghlana2053472008-12-14 10:54:50 +00002965
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002966- Issues #4082 and #4512: Add runpy support to zipimport in a manner that allows
2967 backporting to maintenance branches. Original patch by Alexander Belopolsky.
Nick Coghlana2053472008-12-14 10:54:50 +00002968
Antoine Pitrou74af3bb2008-12-13 23:12:30 +00002969- Issue #4163: Use unicode-friendly word splitting in the textwrap functions
2970 when given an unicode string.
2971
Lars Gustäbel3b027422008-12-12 13:58:03 +00002972- Issue #4616: TarFile.utime(): Restore directory times on Windows.
2973
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002974- Issue #4084: Fix max, min, max_mag and min_mag Decimal methods to give correct
2975 results in the case where one argument is a quiet NaN and the other is a
2976 finite number that requires rounding.
Facundo Batistae29d4352008-12-11 04:19:46 +00002977
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002978- Issue #1030250: Distutils created directories even when run with the --dry-run
2979 option.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc240028c2008-12-11 00:03:42 +00002980
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002981- Issue #4483: _dbm module now builds on systems with gdbm & gdbm_compat libs.
Skip Montanaro45313fe2008-12-06 17:43:30 +00002982
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002983- Issue #4529: Fix the parser module's validation of try-except-finally
Georg Brandlfe879e82008-12-05 12:09:41 +00002984 statements.
2985
Georg Brandla07435d2008-12-05 09:23:14 +00002986- Issue #4458: getopt.gnu_getopt() now recognizes a single "-" as an argument,
2987 not a malformed option.
2988
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002989- Added the subprocess.check_output() convenience function to get output from a
2990 subprocess on success or raise an exception on error.
Gregory P. Smith97f49f42008-12-04 20:21:09 +00002991
Fred Drake52481032008-12-04 18:25:17 +00002992- Issue #1055234: cgi.parse_header(): Fixed parsing of header parameters to
2993 support unusual filenames (such as those containing semi-colons) in
2994 Content-Disposition headers.
2995
Vinay Sajip6831d6b2008-12-04 20:32:18 +00002996- Issue #4384: Added logging integration with warnings module using
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002997 captureWarnings(). This change includes a NullHandler which does nothing; it
2998 will be of use to library developers who want to avoid the "No handlers could
2999 be found for logger XXX" message which can appear if the library user doesn't
3000 configure logging.
Vinay Sajip213faca2008-12-03 23:22:58 +00003001
Christian Heimesaa674712008-11-28 11:02:32 +00003002- Issue #3741: DISTUTILS_USE_SDK set causes msvc9compiler.py to raise an
3003 exception.
3004
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003005- Issue #4363: The uuid.uuid1() and uuid.uuid4() functions now work even if the
3006 ctypes module is not present.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd4294172008-11-21 22:05:48 +00003007
Benjamin Petersonbfc51562008-11-22 01:59:15 +00003008- FileIO's mode attribute now always includes ``"b"``.
3009
Martin v. Löwisbb9b1f12008-11-19 09:09:41 +00003010- Issue #4116: Resolve member name conflict in ScrolledCanvas.__init__.
3011
Brett Cannone3d0bf72008-11-15 22:40:44 +00003012- httplib.HTTPConnection.putheader() now accepts an arbitrary number of values
3013 for any header, matching what the documentation has claimed for a while.
3014
Hirokazu Yamamotob9828f62008-11-03 18:03:06 +00003015- Issue #3774: Fixed an error when create a Tkinter menu item without command
3016 and then remove it.
3017
Thomas Heller1fac5a42008-10-30 20:18:13 +00003018- Fixed a modulefinder crash on certain relative imports.
3019
Benjamin Petersonc18574c2008-10-22 21:16:34 +00003020- Issue #4150: Pdb's "up" command now works for generator frames in post-mortem
3021 debugging.
3022
Benjamin Petersone4dc1752008-10-21 22:20:31 +00003023- Issue #4092: Return ArgInfo as promised in the documentation from
3024 inspect.getargvalues.
3025
Georg Brandlf3776a12008-10-08 18:47:17 +00003026- Issue #3935: Properly support list subclasses in bisect's C implementation.
3027
Martin v. Löwis96a9f232008-10-06 15:15:40 +00003028- Issue #4014: Don't claim that Python has an Alpha release status, in addition
3029 to claiming it is Mature.
3030
Alexandre Vassalotti6067f782008-12-27 07:13:01 +00003031- Issue #4730: Fixed the cPickle module to handle correctly astral characters
3032 when protocol 0 is used.
3033
Ronald Oussoren0238497e2009-01-02 14:10:20 +00003034- Issue #1594: MacOS.GetCreatorAndType now always returns a big-endian result,
3035 to be consistent with Apple tools.
3036
Ronald Oussoren63b74fe2009-01-02 14:46:19 +00003037- Issue #900949: plat-mac/videoreader.py no longer relies on a non-existing
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00003038 module.
Ronald Oussoren63b74fe2009-01-02 14:46:19 +00003039
Ronald Oussoren7f8cbf02009-01-02 14:48:17 +00003040- Issue #16278952: plat-mac/videoreader.py now correctly imports MediaDescr
3041
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003042- Issue #1737832: plat-mac/EasyDialog.py no longer uses the broken aepack
Ronald Oussoren919697c2009-01-02 14:52:09 +00003043 module.
3044
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003045- Issue #1149804: macostools.mkdirs now even works when another process creates
3046 one of the needed subdirectories.
Ronald Oussorenabcc1682009-01-02 15:00:05 +00003047
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003048- Issue #900506: added --no-zipimport flag to the bundlebuilder script.
Ronald Oussoren072bb402009-01-02 15:25:36 +00003049
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003050- Issue #841800: bundlebuilder now works with 'python -O'.
Ronald Oussoren072bb402009-01-02 15:25:36 +00003051
Matthias Klose43723e22009-01-10 17:00:42 +00003052- Issue #4861: ctypes.util.find_library(): Robustify. Fix library detection on
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003053 biarch systems. Try to rely on ldconfig only, without using objdump and gcc.
Matthias Klose43723e22009-01-10 17:00:42 +00003054
Gregory P. Smithde1a8b72009-01-31 22:57:30 +00003055- Issue #5104: The socket module now raises OverflowError when 16-bit port and
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003056 protocol numbers are supplied outside the allowed 0-65536 range on bind() and
3057 getservbyport().
Gregory P. Smithde1a8b72009-01-31 22:57:30 +00003058
Neil Schemenauer92c3b212009-02-07 00:54:41 +00003059- Issue #999042: The Python compiler now handles explict global statements
3060 correctly (should be assigned using STORE_GLOBAL opcode).
3061
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003062- Issue #2703: SimpleXMLRPCDispatcher.__init__: Provide default values for new
3063 arguments introduced in 2.5.
Matthias Klosea5d58c82009-04-05 21:00:48 +00003064
Walter Dörwald5d98ec72009-04-25 14:03:16 +00003065- Issue #5828 (Invalid behavior of unicode.lower): Fixed bogus logic in
3066 makeunicodedata.py and regenerated the Unicode database (This fixes
3067 u'\u1d79'.lower() == '\x00').
3068
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Wervenb87b3342009-05-08 14:11:23 +00003069- Windows locale mapping updated to Vista.
3070
Antoine Pitroue555f582008-12-27 20:34:52 +00003071Tools/Demos
3072-----------
3073
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003074- Ttk demos added in Demo/tkinter/ttk/.
Guilherme Polo4eae0782009-01-28 15:56:01 +00003075
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003076- Issue #4677: Add two list comprehension tests to pybench.
Antoine Pitroue555f582008-12-27 20:34:52 +00003077
Brett Cannon60b15d22008-10-06 22:44:37 +00003078Build
3079-----
3080
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003081- Issue #6603: Change READ_TIMESTAMP macro in ceval.c so that it compiles
3082 correctly under gcc on x86-64. This fixes a reported problem with the
3083 --with-tsc build on x86-64.
Mark Dickinson504a1512009-10-31 10:11:28 +00003084
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003085- Add 2 new options to ``--with-universal-archs`` on MacOSX: ``intel`` builds a
3086 distribution with ``i386`` and ``x86_64`` architectures, while ``3-way``
3087 builds a distribution with the ``ppc``, ``i386`` and ``x86_64`` architectures.
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +00003088
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003089- Issue #6802: Fix build issues on MacOSX 10.6.
Ronald Oussoren25967582009-09-06 10:00:26 +00003090
Guilherme Polo1ce2d532009-08-16 14:38:57 +00003091- Issue #6244: Allow detect_tkinter to look for Tcl/Tk 8.6.
3092
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00003093- Issue #5390: Add uninstall icon independent of whether file extensions are
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003094 installed.
Martin v. Löwisecb4f952009-06-28 09:32:39 +00003095
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00003096- Issue #5809: Specifying both --enable-framework and --enable-shared is an
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003097 error. Configure now explicity tells you about this.
Ronald Oussoren450d5612009-06-08 21:12:41 +00003098
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003099- Issue #3585: Add pkg-config support. It creates a python-2.7.pc file and a
3100 python.pc symlink in the $(LIBDIR)/pkgconfig directory. Patch by Clinton Roy.
Antoine Pitrouf2caeed2009-05-24 20:23:57 +00003101
Benjamin Petersone5afa3b2009-05-23 19:24:37 +00003102- Issue #6094: Build correctly with Subversion 1.7.
3103
Martin v. Löwis588b54b2009-05-05 16:10:16 +00003104- Issue #5847: Remove -n switch on "Edit with IDLE" menu item.
3105
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003106- Issue #5726: Make Modules/ld_so_aix return the actual exit code of the linker,
3107 rather than always exit successfully. Patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
Antoine Pitrou3fd4ea92009-05-01 21:16:14 +00003108
Matthias Klose10cbe482009-04-29 17:18:19 +00003109- Issue #4587: Add configure option --with-dbmliborder=db1:db2:... to specify
Vinay Sajipf9b01fe2009-05-09 12:07:17 +00003110 the order that backends for the dbm extension are checked.
Matthias Klose10cbe482009-04-29 17:18:19 +00003111
Matthias Klose8ad554f2009-02-22 23:14:26 +00003112- Link the shared python library with $(MODLIBS).
3113
Martin v. Löwisa3e3cb72009-02-10 13:09:19 +00003114- Issue #5134: Silence compiler warnings when compiling sqlite with VC++.
3115
Martin v. Löwisfee1c7f2009-02-02 14:23:16 +00003116- Issue #4494: Fix build with Py_NO_ENABLE_SHARED on Windows.
3117
Martin v. Löwiseefda272009-01-11 09:43:55 +00003118- Issue #4895: Use _strdup on Windows CE.
3119
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003120- Issue #4472: ``configure --enable-shared`` now works on OSX.
Ronald Oussorenf7d54052009-01-02 10:48:31 +00003121
Benjamin Petersonfd9633e2008-12-28 15:37:31 +00003122- Issues #4728 and #4060: WORDS_BIGEDIAN is now correct in Universal builds.
3123
Martin v. Löwiscb6c3592008-11-30 11:08:26 +00003124- Issue #4389: Add icon to the uninstall entry in "add-and-remove-programs".
3125
Martin v. Löwis63470982008-11-19 13:51:44 +00003126- Issue #4289: Remove Cancel button from AdvancedDlg.
3127
Martin v. Löwis3d6f8ff2008-11-07 18:51:50 +00003128- Issue #1656675: Register a drop handler for .py* files on Windows.
3129
Martin v. Löwis692c2f82008-11-06 16:43:00 +00003130- Issue #4120: Exclude manifest from extension modules in VS2008.
3131
Martin v. Löwis0f3e7692008-10-17 13:43:01 +00003132- Issue #4091: Install pythonxy.dll in system32 again.
3133
Martin v. Löwiseba774b2008-10-13 11:23:35 +00003134- Issue #4018: Disable "for me" installations on Vista.
3135
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003136- Issue #3758: Add ``patchcheck`` build target to ``.PHONY``.
Brett Cannon60b15d22008-10-06 22:44:37 +00003137
Martin v. Löwisbb86d832008-11-04 20:40:09 +00003138- Issue #4204: Fixed module build errors on FreeBSD 4.
3139
Tarek Ziadéc4a4aeb2009-08-21 14:28:38 +00003140Documentation
3141-------------
3142
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003143- Issue #6556: Fixed the Distutils configuration files location explanation for
3144 Windows.
Tarek Ziadéc4a4aeb2009-08-21 14:28:38 +00003145
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003146- Issue #6801: symmetric_difference_update also accepts ``|``. Thanks to Carl
3147 Chenet.
Tarek Ziadé3092ed92009-08-29 13:33:21 +00003148
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc07d539d2008-10-14 21:47:22 +00003149C-API
3150-----
3151
Mark Dickinsone31d3002009-12-21 11:21:25 +00003152- Issue #7528: Add PyLong_AsLongAndOverflow (backported from py3k).
3153
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003154- Issue #7228: Add '%lld' and '%llu' support to PyString_FromFormat(V) and
3155 PyErr_Format, on machines with HAVE_LONG_LONG defined.
Mark Dickinson82864d12009-11-15 16:18:58 +00003156
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003157- Add new C-API function PyOS_string_to_double, and deprecated PyOS_ascii_atof
3158 and PyOS_ascii_strtod.
Mark Dickinson09823a22009-10-31 09:42:39 +00003159
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003160- Removed _PyOS_double_to_string. Use PyOS_double_to_string instead. This is in
3161 preparation for (but not strictly related to) issue #7117, short float repr.
Mark Dickinsonba26b392009-10-31 09:28:12 +00003162
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003163- Issue #6624: PyArg_ParseTuple with "s" format when parsing argument with NULL:
3164 Bogus TypeError detail string.
Sean Reifscheider9279e7d2009-08-01 23:54:55 +00003165
Jeffrey Yasskinf7f858d2009-05-08 22:23:21 +00003166- Issue #5954: Add a PyFrame_GetLineNumber() function to replace most uses of
3167 PyCode_Addr2Line().
3168
Jeffrey Yasskin1aa47002009-05-08 21:51:06 +00003169- Issue #5959: Add a PyCode_NewEmpty() function to create a new empty code
3170 object at a specified file, function, and line number.
3171
Brett Cannonc4f90eb2009-04-02 03:17:39 +00003172- Issue #1419652: Change the first argument to PyImport_AppendInittab() to
3173 ``const char *`` as the string is stored beyond the call.
3174
Benjamin Peterson5781f322009-02-16 21:09:09 +00003175- Some PyBytes_* aliases have been removed because they don't exist in 3.x.
3176
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003177- Issue #5175: PyLong_AsUnsignedLongLong now raises OverflowError for negative
3178 arguments. Previously, it raised TypeError.
Mark Dickinson4015f622009-02-10 15:46:50 +00003179
Benjamin Petersoncf2ce242008-12-22 20:52:53 +00003180- Issue #4720: The format for PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords can begin with '|'.
3181
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003182- Issue #3632: From the gdb debugger, the 'pyo' macro can now be called when the
3183 GIL is released, or owned by another thread.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc3538a312008-12-15 22:29:14 +00003184
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc07d539d2008-10-14 21:47:22 +00003185- Issue #4122: On Windows, fix a compilation error when using the
3186 Py_UNICODE_ISSPACE macro in an extension module.
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00003187
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003188- Issue #4293: Py_AddPendingCall() is now thread safe and can be used for
Kristján Valur Jónssonc22ab182009-01-12 09:24:04 +00003189 asynchronous notifications to python from any thread. Documentation added.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc07d539d2008-10-14 21:47:22 +00003190
Benjamin Peterson9dfe6a82008-11-24 04:09:03 +00003191Extension Modules
3192-----------------
3193
Martin v. Löwis50ea4562009-11-27 13:56:01 +00003194- Issue #6508: Add posix.{getresuid,getresgid,setresuid,setresgid}.
3195
Mark Dickinson3d830822009-10-08 15:54:10 +00003196- Issue #7078: Set struct.__doc__ from _struct.__doc__.
3197
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003198- Issue #3366: Add erf, erfc, expm1, gamma, lgamma functions to math module.
Mark Dickinsonb93fff02009-09-28 18:54:55 +00003199
Brett Cannon4d947432009-09-22 00:29:48 +00003200- Issue #6823: Allow time.strftime() to accept a tuple with a isdst field
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003201 outside of the range of [-1, 1] by normalizing the value to within that range.
Brett Cannon4d947432009-09-22 00:29:48 +00003202
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003203- Issue #6877: Make it possible to link the readline extension to libedit on
3204 OSX.
Ronald Oussoren9f20d9d2009-09-20 14:18:15 +00003205
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003206- Issue #6944: Fix a SystemError when socket.getnameinfo() was called with
3207 something other than a tuple as first argument.
Georg Brandlab849892009-09-19 07:35:07 +00003208
Benjamin Peterson7f6d0832009-09-08 23:04:22 +00003209- Issue #6865: Fix reference counting issue in the initialization of the pwd
3210 module.
3211
Mark Dickinson6b3f1ef2009-09-06 21:21:05 +00003212- Issue #6848: Fix curses module build failure on OS X 10.6.
3213
Brett Cannon764465f2009-08-13 19:27:12 +00003214- Fix a segfault in expat when given a specially crafted input lead to the
Matthias Klose3b0f9b02010-01-22 00:34:48 +00003215 tokenizer not stopping. CVE-2009-3720.
Brett Cannon764465f2009-08-13 19:27:12 +00003216
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003217- Issue #6561: '\d' in a regex now matches only characters with Unicode category
3218 'Nd' (Number, Decimal Digit). Previously it also matched characters with
3219 category 'No'.
Mark Dickinsonfe67bd92009-07-28 20:35:03 +00003220
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003221- Issue #1523: Remove deprecated overflow wrapping for struct.pack with an
3222 integer format code ('bBhHiIlLqQ'). Packing an out-of-range integer now
3223 consistently raises struct.error.
Mark Dickinson5fd3af22009-07-07 15:08:28 +00003224
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003225- Issues #1530559, #1741130: Fix various struct.pack inconsistencies for the
3226 integer formats ('bBhHiIlLqQ'). In the following, '*' represents any of '=',
3227 '<', '>'.
Mark Dickinson463dc4b2009-07-05 10:01:24 +00003228
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003229 - Packing a float now always gives a Deprecation Warning. Previously it
3230 only warned for 'I', 'L', '*B', '*H', '*I', '*L'.
Mark Dickinson463dc4b2009-07-05 10:01:24 +00003231
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003232 - If x is not an int, long or float, then packing x will always result in
3233 struct.error. Previously an x with an __int__ method could be packed by
3234 'b', 'B', 'h', 'H', 'i', 'l', '*b', '*h' ,'*i', '*l', and an x with a
3235 __long__ method could be packed by 'q', 'Q', '*q', '*Q'; for x with
3236 neither __int__ nor __long__, TypeError used to be raised (with a
3237 confusing error message) for 'I', 'L', '*B', '*H', '*I', '*L', and
3238 struct.error in other cases.
Mark Dickinson463dc4b2009-07-05 10:01:24 +00003239
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003240 Note: as of Python 2.7 beta 1, the above is out of date. In 2.7 beta 1, any
3241 argument with an __int__ method can be packed, but use of this feature
3242 triggers a DeprecationWarning.
Mark Dickinson154b7ad2010-03-07 16:24:45 +00003243
Martin v. Löwis4f16d3b2009-05-29 15:58:08 +00003244- Issue #4873: Fix resource leaks in error cases of pwd and grp.
3245
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003246- Issue #4751: For hashlib algorithms provided by OpenSSL, the Python GIL is now
3247 released during computation on data lengths >= 2048 bytes.
Gregory P. Smithd02eeda2009-05-04 00:16:49 +00003248
Gregory P. Smithea388262009-02-13 03:00:00 +00003249- Issue #3745: Fix hashlib to always reject unicode and non buffer-api
3250 supporting objects as input no matter how it was compiled (built in
Gregory P. Smithfe32d302010-01-02 22:42:50 +00003251 implementations or external openssl library). NOTE: Undone in 2.7a2.
Gregory P. Smithea388262009-02-13 03:00:00 +00003252
Mark Dickinsona200dd52009-01-15 15:17:43 +00003253- Issue #4397: Fix occasional test_socket failure on OS X.
Mark Dickinsone82cdae2009-01-15 14:54:37 +00003254
Martin v. Löwisb3b7d852009-01-11 09:26:54 +00003255- Issue #4279: Fix build of parsermodule under Cygwin.
3256
Martin v. Löwis9ac49272009-01-02 20:40:14 +00003257- Issue #4051: Prevent conflict of UNICODE macros in cPickle.
3258
Georg Brandl6269fec2009-01-01 12:15:31 +00003259- Issue #4228: Pack negative values the same way as 2.4 in struct's L format.
3260
Martin v. Löwis03824e42008-12-29 18:17:34 +00003261- Issue #1040026: Fix os.times result on systems where HZ is incorrect.
3262
Mark Dickinson4c96fa52008-12-11 19:28:08 +00003263- Issues #3167, #3682: Fix test_math failures for log, log10 on Solaris,
3264 OpenBSD.
3265
Martin v. Löwisbcb017f2008-11-30 19:28:27 +00003266- Issue #4365: Add crtassem.h constants to the msvcrt module.
3267
Benjamin Peterson9dfe6a82008-11-24 04:09:03 +00003268- Issue #4396: The parser module now correctly validates the with statement.
3269
Jack Diederichd60c29e2009-03-31 23:46:48 +00003270- Issue #5228: Make functools.partial objects can now be pickled.
3271
Guilherme Polob1a98de2009-01-28 20:03:26 +00003272Tests
3273-----
3274
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003275- Issue #7431: Use TESTFN in test_linecache instead of trying to create a file
3276 in the Lib/test directory, which might be read-only for the user running the
3277 tests.
R. David Murray820b0ea2009-12-03 23:57:59 +00003278
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003279- Issue #7324: Add a sanity check to regrtest argument parsing to catch the case
3280 of an option with no handler.
R. David Murrayda826892009-11-15 00:04:32 +00003281
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003282- Issue #7312: Add a -F flag to run the selected tests in a loop until a test
3283 fails. Can be combined with -j.
R. David Murray7f7eea62009-11-14 15:18:22 +00003284
Antoine Pitrou310c9fe2009-11-11 20:55:07 +00003285- Issue #7295: Do not use a hardcoded file name in test_tarfile.
3286
Antoine Pitrouc98efe02009-11-06 22:34:35 +00003287- Issue #7270: Add some dedicated unit tests for multi-thread synchronization
3288 primitives such as Lock, RLock, Condition, Event and Semaphore.
3289
Antoine Pitrou59c44f32009-10-30 17:07:08 +00003290- Issue #7222: Make thread "reaping" more reliable so that reference
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003291 leak-chasing test runs give sensible results. The previous method of reaping
3292 threads could return successfully while some Thread objects were still
3293 referenced. This also introduces a new private function: ``thread._count()``.
Antoine Pitrou59c44f32009-10-30 17:07:08 +00003294
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003295- Issue #7151: Fixed regrtest -j so that output to stderr from a test no longer
3296 runs the risk of causing the worker thread to fail.
R. David Murray282396f2009-10-18 21:12:37 +00003297
Antoine Pitrou58d2f262009-10-10 20:52:11 +00003298- Issue #7055: test___all__ now greedily detects all modules which have an
3299 __all__ attribute, rather than using a hardcoded and incomplete list.
3300
R. David Murray14dcd432009-10-14 13:58:07 +00003301- Issue #7058: Added save/restore for things like sys.argv and cwd to
3302 runtest_inner in regrtest, with warnings if the called test modifies them,
3303 and a new section in the summary report at the end.
R. David Murrayabe3d3e2009-10-05 17:03:09 +00003304
Mark Dickinson245d9152009-10-04 18:38:39 +00003305- Issue #7042: Fix test_signal (test_itimer_virtual) failure on OS X 10.6.
3306
Brett Cannone7e941e2009-09-03 21:25:21 +00003307- Issue #6806: test_platform failed under OS X 10.6.0 because ``sw_ver`` leaves
3308 off the trailing 0 in the version number.
3309
Guilherme Polo7f146ab2009-06-21 17:22:50 +00003310- Issue #5450: Moved tests involving loading tk from Lib/test/test_tcl to
3311 Lib/lib-tk/test/test_tkinter/test_loadtk. With this, these tests demonstrate
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003312 the same behaviour as test_ttkguionly (and now also test_tk) which is to skip
3313 the tests if DISPLAY is defined but can't be used.
Guilherme Polo7f146ab2009-06-21 17:22:50 +00003314
Antoine Pitrou4698d992009-05-31 14:20:14 +00003315- Issue #6152: New option '-j'/'--multiprocess' for regrtest allows running
3316 regression tests in parallel, shortening the total runtime.
3317
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003318- Issue #5354: New test support function import_fresh_module() makes it easy to
3319 import both normal and optimised versions of modules. test_heapq and
3320 test_warnings have been adjusted to use it, tests for other modules with both
3321 C and Python implementations in the stdlib can be adjusted to use it over
3322 time.
Nick Coghlan5533ff62009-04-22 15:26:04 +00003323
Brett Cannonce3d2212009-04-01 20:25:48 +00003324- Fix test_warnings to no longer reset the warnings filter.
3325
Brett Cannon2da4d622009-04-01 19:57:10 +00003326- Fix test_logging to no longer reset the warnings filter.
3327
Georg Brandld8fb6ac2009-04-01 00:04:33 +00003328- Issue #5635: Fix running test_sys with tracing enabled.
3329
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003330- regrtest no longer treats ImportError as equivalent to SkipTest. Imports that
3331 should cause a test to be skipped are now done using import_module from test
3332 support, which does the conversion.
R. David Murray41448c52009-03-31 19:57:24 +00003333
Guilherme Polob1a98de2009-01-28 20:03:26 +00003334- Issue #5083: New 'gui' resource for regrtest.
3335
Walter Dörwalda1453172009-04-25 12:15:07 +00003336- Issue #5837: Certain sequences of calls to set() and unset() for
3337 support.EnvironmentVarGuard objects restored the environment variables
3338 incorrectly on __exit__.
3339
Alexandre Vassalotti999ecc02009-07-15 18:19:47 +00003340- Issue #2389: Array objects are now pickled in a portable manner.
3341
Brett Cannon813c43a2009-11-08 21:35:28 +00003342Misc
3343----
3344
3345- Issue #5611: Auto-detect whether a C file uses tabs or spaces in Vim.
3346
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00003347
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00003348What's New in Python 2.6 final
3349==============================
3350
Barry Warsawafa14362008-10-01 21:46:40 +00003351*Release date: 01-Oct-2008*
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00003352
3353Core and Builtins
3354-----------------
3355
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfc5ea392008-09-26 22:34:08 +00003356- Issue #3967: Fixed a crash in the count() and find() methods of string-like
3357 objects, when the "start" parameter is a huge value.
3358
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc17617a02008-09-25 20:52:56 +00003359- Issue #3965: Fixed a crash on Windows when open() is given an invalid
3360 filename or mode, and the filename is a unicode string.
3361
Martin v. Löwise86b07c2008-09-25 04:12:50 +00003362- Bug #3951: Py_USING_MEMORY_DEBUGGER should not be enabled by default.
3363
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00003364Library
3365-------
3366
Martin v. Löwise563aa42008-09-29 22:09:07 +00003367- Issue #3965: Allow repeated calls to turtle.Screen, by making it a
3368 true singleton object.
3369
Brett Cannonb2d61bd2008-09-29 03:41:21 +00003370- Issue #3895: It was possible to crash the interpreter when an external timer
3371 was used with cProfile that returned an object that could not be converted
3372 into a float.
3373
Benjamin Peterson22d3c922008-09-25 20:35:45 +00003374- Issue #3950: Made turtle respect scale factors.
3375
Thomas Hellera85c95d2008-09-24 18:26:05 +00003376- Issue #3547: Fixed ctypes structures bitfields of varying integer
3377 sizes.
3378
Benjamin Peterson2c7470d2008-09-21 21:27:51 +00003379- Issue #3879: A regression in urllib.getproxies_enviroment was fixed.
3380
Gregory P. Smith08067492008-09-30 20:41:13 +00003381- Issue #3863: Disabled a unit test of fork being called from a thread
3382 when running on platforms known to exhibit OS bugs when attempting that.
3383
Martin v. Löwis175d0072008-09-19 15:21:07 +00003384Build
3385-----
3386
Martin v. Löwisd69c9042008-10-01 11:19:50 +00003387- Bug #3989: Package the 2to3 script (as 2to3.py) in the Windows
3388 installer.
3389
Martin v. Löwis175d0072008-09-19 15:21:07 +00003390- Bug #3887: Package x64 version of CRT for AMD64 Windows binaries.
3391
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00003392
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00003393What's New in Python 2.6 release candidate 2?
3394=============================================
3395
Barry Warsaw6af16192008-09-18 04:33:43 +00003396*Release date: 17-Sep-2008*
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00003397
3398Core and Builtins
3399-----------------
3400
Benjamin Peterson8c2b7dc2008-09-18 01:22:16 +00003401Extension Modules
3402-----------------
3403
Benjamin Peterson8d77d442008-09-30 01:31:49 +00003404- Security Issue #2: imageop did not validate arguments correctly and could
3405 segfault as a result.
3406
Benjamin Peterson8c2b7dc2008-09-18 01:22:16 +00003407- Issue #3886: Possible integer overflows in the _hashopenssl module were
3408 closed.
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00003409
Antoine Pitrou3c9f5412008-09-13 20:30:30 +00003410Tools/Demos
3411-----------
3412
Georg Brandl2bd92a52009-10-11 21:10:07 +00003413- Issue #3850: recursion tests in Tools/scripts/find_recursion_limit.py can raise
Antoine Pitrou3c9f5412008-09-13 20:30:30 +00003414 AttributeError instead of RuntimeError, depending in which C API call
3415 exactly the recursion limit is exceeded. Consequently, both exception types
3416 are caught and silenced.
3417
Martin v. Löwis4eb18f92008-09-14 20:22:39 +00003418Build
3419-----
3420
3421- Issue #3617: Include a licensing statement regarding the Microsoft
3422 C runtime in the Windows installer.
3423
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00003424
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00003425What's New in Python 2.6 release candidate 1?
3426=============================================
3427
Barry Warsaw1e62aec2008-09-12 23:25:57 +00003428*Release date: 12-Sep-2008*
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00003429
3430Core and Builtins
3431-----------------
3432
Martin v. Löwis9fa5a282008-09-11 06:53:30 +00003433- Issue #3642: Suppress warning in obmalloc when size_t is larger than uint.
3434
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc05e34492008-09-10 22:04:45 +00003435- Issue #3743: In a few places, PY_FORMAT_SIZE_T was incorrectly used with
3436 PyString_FromFormat or PyErr_Format to display size_t values. The macro
3437 PY_FORMAT_SIZE_T is designed to select the correct format for the OS
3438 ``printf`` function, whereas PyString_FromFormat has an independent
3439 implementation and uses "%zd" on all platforms for size_t values.
3440 This makes a difference on win64, where ``printf`` needs "%Id" to display
3441 64bit values.
3442
Benjamin Peterson97179b02008-09-09 20:55:01 +00003443- Issue #3634: _weakref.ref(Exception).__init__() gave invalid return value on
3444 error.
3445
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd3ffb892008-09-09 07:24:30 +00003446- Issue #3777: long() applied to a float object now always return a long
3447 object; previously an int would be returned for small values. the __long__
3448 method is allowed to return either an int or a long, but the behaviour of
3449 float objects should not change to respect backward compatibility.
3450
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc3571fbf2008-09-01 19:52:00 +00003451- Issue #3751: str.rpartition would perform a left-partition when called with
3452 a unicode argument.
3453
Benjamin Peterson17f03ca2008-09-01 14:18:30 +00003454- Issue #3683: Fix compilation when --without-threads is given.
3455
Antoine Pitroud4ae97b2008-08-29 18:39:48 +00003456- Issue #3668: Fix a memory leak with the "s*" argument parser in
Vinay Sajip35e3b032008-09-01 14:33:59 +00003457 PyArg_ParseTuple and friends, which occurred when the argument for "s*"
Antoine Pitroud4ae97b2008-08-29 18:39:48 +00003458 was correctly parsed but parsing of subsequent arguments failed.
3459
Vinay Sajip35e3b032008-09-01 14:33:59 +00003460- Issue #2534: speed up isinstance() and issubclass() by 50-70%, so as to
Antoine Pitrou0668c622008-08-26 22:42:08 +00003461 match Python 2.5 speed despite the __instancecheck__ / __subclasscheck__
3462 mechanism. In the process, fix a bug where isinstance() and issubclass(),
3463 when given a tuple of classes as second argument, were looking up
3464 __instancecheck__ / __subclasscheck__ on the tuple rather than on each
3465 type object.
3466
Neal Norwitz18aa3882008-08-24 05:04:52 +00003467- Fix crashes on memory allocation failure found with failmalloc.
3468
3469- Fix memory leaks found with valgrind and update suppressions file.
3470
3471- Fix compiler warnings in opt mode which would lead to invalid memory reads.
3472
3473- Fix problem using wrong name in decimal module reported by pychecker.
3474
Christian Heimes7d4c3172008-08-22 19:47:25 +00003475- Silenced another compiler warning about a used but not defined
3476 function 'stringlib_contains_obj'.
3477
Benjamin Peterson712ee922008-08-24 18:10:20 +00003478- Added warnings on the use of ``__getslice__``, ``__setslice__``, or
3479 ``__delslice__``.
3480
Gregory P. Smith2bb25cc2008-09-02 05:29:51 +00003481- Issue #3678: Correctly pass LDFLAGS and LDLAST to the linker on shared
3482 library targets in the Makefile.
3483
Gregory P. Smith980b99b2008-09-07 05:15:18 +00003484- Issue #1204: The configure script now tests for additional libraries
3485 that may be required when linking against readline. This fixes issues
3486 with x86_64 builds on some platforms (a few Linux flavors and OpenBSD).
3487
Benjamin Peterson14cb6bc2008-08-26 17:08:40 +00003488C-API
3489-----
3490
3491- Aliased PyObject_Bytes to PyObject_Str.
3492
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00003493Library
3494-------
3495
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc24cb3822008-09-11 20:56:13 +00003496- Issue #3640: Pickling a list or a dict uses less local variables, to reduce
3497 stack usage in the case of deeply nested objects.
3498
Guido van Rossume3c4fd92008-09-10 14:27:00 +00003499- Issue #3629: Fix sre "bytecode" validator for an end case.
3500
Martin v. Löwis24329ba2008-09-10 13:38:12 +00003501- Issue #3811: The Unicode database was updated to 5.1.
3502
Nick Coghland2e09382008-09-11 12:11:06 +00003503- Issue #3781: Further warnings.catch_warnings() cleanup to prevent
3504 silent misbehaviour when a single instance is nested in multiple
3505 with statements, or when the methods are invoked in the wrong order.
3506
Vinay Sajip844f7412008-09-09 13:42:08 +00003507- Issue #3809: Fixed spurious 'test.blah' file left behind by test_logging.
3508
Nick Coghland2e09382008-09-11 12:11:06 +00003509- Issue #3781: Clean up the API for warnings.catch_warnings() by having it
Brett Cannon672237d2008-09-09 00:49:16 +00003510 return a list or None rather than a custom object.
3511
Benjamin Peterson6ac7d7c2008-09-06 19:28:11 +00003512- Issue #1638033: Cookie.Morsel gained the httponly attribute.
3513
Antoine Pitrouebcd0ce2008-09-05 23:30:23 +00003514- Issue #3535: zipfile couldn't read some zip files larger than 2GB.
3515
3516- Issue #3776: Deprecate the bsddb package for removal in 3.0.
Brett Cannon32476fc2008-09-05 18:33:51 +00003517
Hirokazu Yamamoto42e459e2008-09-04 14:25:30 +00003518- Issue #3762: platform.architecture() fails if python is lanched via
3519 its symbolic link.
3520
Vinay Sajip65d66e12008-09-04 07:31:21 +00003521- Issue #3772: Fixed regression problem in StreamHandler.emit().
3522
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00003523- Issue #600362: Relocated parse_qs() and parse_qsl(), from the cgi module
Facundo Batistac585df92008-09-03 22:35:50 +00003524 to the urlparse one. Added a PendingDeprecationWarning in the old
3525 module, it will be deprecated in the future.
3526
Marc-André Lemburgb339b2a2008-09-03 11:13:56 +00003527- Issue #2562: Fix distutils PKG-INFO writing logic to allow having
3528 non-ascii characters and Unicode in setup.py meta-data.
3529
3530- Issue #3726: Allow spaces in separators in logging configuration files.
Vinay Sajip6a2fd812008-09-03 09:20:05 +00003531
Marc-André Lemburg31a0a142008-09-02 12:11:19 +00003532- Issue #3719: platform.architecture() fails if there are spaces in the
3533 path to the Python binary.
3534
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00003535- Issue #3602: Moved test.test_support.catch_warning() to
Brett Cannon1eaf0742008-09-02 01:25:16 +00003536 warnings.catch_warnings() along with some API cleanup. Expanding the tests
3537 for catch_warnings() also led to an improvement in the raising of a
3538 DeprecationWarning related to warnings.warn_explicit().
3539
Benjamin Peterson973e6c22008-09-01 23:12:58 +00003540- The deprecation warnings for the old camelCase threading API were removed.
3541
Vinay Sajip35e3b032008-09-01 14:33:59 +00003542- logging: fixed lack of use of encoding attribute specified on a stream.
3543
Christian Heimesa27a62e2008-08-22 19:55:54 +00003544- Silenced a trivial compiler warning in the sqlite module.
3545
Christian Heimes1cc69632008-08-22 20:10:27 +00003546- Fixed two format strings in the _collections module.
3547
Benjamin Peterson17f03ca2008-09-01 14:18:30 +00003548- Issue #3703: _fileio.FileIO gave unhelpful error message when trying to open a
3549 directory.
Benjamin Petersonf22c26e2008-09-01 14:13:43 +00003550
Gregory P. Smithd7122032008-09-02 05:36:11 +00003551- Issue #3708: os.urandom no longer goes into an infinite loop when passed a
3552 non-integer floating point number.
3553
Vinay Sajip65d66e12008-09-04 07:31:21 +00003554- Issue #3110: multiprocessing fails to compiel on solaris 10 due to missing
Jesse Nollerb814d6a2008-09-03 18:10:30 +00003555 SEM_VALUE_MAX.
3556
Benjamin Peterson37346b22008-08-23 20:27:43 +00003557Extension Modules
3558-----------------
3559
Jesse Noller438195f2009-01-18 21:04:36 +00003560- Issue #4301: Patch the logging module to add processName support, remove
3561 _check_logger_class from multiprocessing.
3562
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc293924b2008-09-02 23:19:56 +00003563- Issue #2975: When compiling several extension modules with Visual Studio 2008
3564 from the same python interpreter, some environment variables would grow
3565 without limit.
3566
Benjamin Peterson37346b22008-08-23 20:27:43 +00003567- Issue #3643: Added a few more checks to _testcapi to prevent segfaults by
3568 exploitation of poor argument checking.
3569
Gerhard Häringef2276b2008-09-12 13:54:06 +00003570- sqlite3: Changed docstring of iterdump() to mark method as "Non-standard".
3571
Gerhard Häring6e1afcf2008-09-12 18:58:57 +00003572- Issue #3103: Reduced globals symbols used by sqlite3 module and made sure all
3573 remaining ones have "pysqlite_" prefix.
3574
Gerhard Häringe6872eb2008-09-12 22:33:22 +00003575- Issue #3846: Release the GIL during sqlite3_prepare calls. This improves
3576 concurrent access to the same SQLite database from multiple
3577 threads/processes.
3578
Brett Cannona0b74442008-09-03 22:45:11 +00003579Tests
3580-----
3581
Nick Coghland2e09382008-09-11 12:11:06 +00003582- Issue #3781: Add test.test_support.check_warnings() as a convenience
3583 wrapper for warnings.catch_warnings() that makes it easier to check
3584 that expected warning messages are being reported.
3585
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfeb8cad2008-09-06 20:53:51 +00003586- Issue #3796: Some tests functions were not enabled in test_float.
3587
3588- Issue #3768: Move test_py3kwarn over to the new API for catch_warnings().
Brett Cannona0b74442008-09-03 22:45:11 +00003589
Brett Cannoncdeb24b2008-09-05 22:59:17 +00003590Build
3591-----
3592
Martin v. Löwisab0b29b2008-09-13 08:11:57 +00003593- Issue #3833: Use a different upgrade code for Win64 installers.
3594
Martin v. Löwis3f5fda82008-09-08 13:50:10 +00003595- Issue #2271: Set SecureCustomProperties so that installation will properly
3596 use the TARGETDIR even for unprivileged users.
3597
Martin v. Löwis67543a92008-09-08 12:02:45 +00003598- Allow passing the MSI file name to merge.py.
3599
Vinay Sajip844f7412008-09-09 13:42:08 +00003600- Issue #3758: Rename the 'check' target to 'patchcheck' so as to not clash
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfeb8cad2008-09-06 20:53:51 +00003601 with GNU build target guidelines.
Brett Cannoncdeb24b2008-09-05 22:59:17 +00003602
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00003603
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00003604What's New in Python 2.6 beta 3?
3605================================
3606
Barry Warsaw07a4a382008-08-21 01:15:08 +00003607*Release date: 20-Aug-2008*
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00003608
3609Core and Builtins
3610-----------------
3611
Guido van Rossumf8402962008-08-20 15:01:50 +00003612- Issue #1878: Remove Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_VERSION_TAG from
3613 Py_TPFLAGS_DEFAULT when not building the core. This means 3rd party
3614 extensions do not automatically benefit from the class attribute
3615 cache; they will have to explicitly add Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_VERSION_TAG
3616 to their tp_flags field if they care. This is a backwards
3617 compatibility feature; in 3.0, all types will use the cache by
3618 default.
3619
Benjamin Petersonf647dc12008-08-20 01:27:30 +00003620- Keyword arguments can now follow starred arguments. (``f(a, *args,
3621 keyword=23)`` is now valid syntax.)
3622
Thomas Heller0ad5ae02008-08-19 19:25:04 +00003623- ctypes function pointers that are COM methods have a boolean True
3624 value again.
3625
Martin v. Löwisf91d46a2008-08-12 14:49:50 +00003626- Issue #3139: Make buffer-interface thread-safe wrt. PyArg_ParseTuple,
3627 by denying s# to parse objects that have a releasebuffer procedure,
3628 and introducing s*.
3629
Georg Brandl1e13ea92008-08-11 09:07:59 +00003630- Issue #3537: Fix an assertion failure when an empty but presized dict
3631 object was stored in the freelist.
3632
Mark Dickinsonb6467572008-08-04 21:30:09 +00003633- Issue #1481296: Make long(float('nan')) and int(float('nan')) raise
3634 ValueError consistently across platforms.
3635
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc39fd6722008-07-31 21:28:03 +00003636- Issue #3479: On platforms where sizeof(int) is smaller than sizeof(long)
3637 (64bit Unix, for example), unichr() would truncate its argument and return
3638 u'\x00' for unichr(2**32). Now it properly raises an OverflowError.
3639
Neal Norwitze7d8be82008-07-31 17:17:14 +00003640- Apply security patches from Apple.
3641
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc246daed2008-07-31 00:42:16 +00003642- Issue #2542: Now that issubclass() may call arbitrary code, ensure that
3643 PyErr_ExceptionMatches returns 0 when an exception occurs there.
3644
Antoine Pitrou92f82162008-07-25 22:22:08 +00003645- Issue #1819: function calls with several named parameters are now on
3646 average 35% faster (as measured by pybench).
3647
Amaury Forgeot d'Arce4921fe2008-07-21 22:00:38 +00003648- Issue #2378: An unexpected UnboundLocalError or NameError could appear when
3649 the python debugger steps into a class statement: the free variables (local
3650 variables defined in an outer scope) would be deleted from the outer scope.
3651
Gregory P. Smith0470bab2008-07-22 04:46:32 +00003652- Issue #2620: Overflow checking when allocating or reallocating memory
3653 was not always being done properly in some python types and extension
3654 modules. PyMem_MALLOC, PyMem_REALLOC, PyMem_NEW and PyMem_RESIZE have
3655 all been updated to perform better checks and places in the code that
3656 would previously leak memory on the error path when such an allocation
3657 failed have been fixed.
3658
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00003659Library
3660-------
3661
Hirokazu Yamamoto838c79f2008-08-20 13:14:07 +00003662- Issue #3612: Added some missing basic types in ctypes.wintypes.
3663
Benjamin Petersone977ad42008-08-20 01:42:01 +00003664- The methods ``is_in_tuple()``, ``is_vararg()``, and ``is_keywordarg()`` of
3665 symtable.Symbol have been deprecated for removal in 3.0 and the next release.
3666
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc351ffb82008-08-18 19:23:47 +00003667- Issue #2234: distutils failed for some versions of the cygwin compiler. The
3668 version reported by these tools does not necessarily follow the python
3669 version numbering scheme, so the module is less strict when parsing it.
3670
Nick Coghlanf70385a2008-08-18 12:42:46 +00003671- Issue #2235: Added Py3k warnings for types which will become unhashable
3672 under the stricter __hash__ inheritance rules in 3.0. Several types
3673 which did not meet the rules for hash invariants and were already
3674 unhashable in 3.0 have now been explicitly flagged as unhashable in
3675 2.6 as well (collections.Mapping, collections.Set, unittest.TestSuite,
3676 xml.dom.minidom.NamedNodeMap, numbers.Number, UserList.UserList)
3677
Brett Cannon88f801d2008-08-18 00:46:22 +00003678- Update __all__ for cookielib, csv, os, urllib2, and weakref to include things
3679 imported into the module but exposed as part of the module's API.
3680
Brett Cannon7b96f072008-08-18 00:41:11 +00003681- Remove an unneeded import of abc.ABCMeta from 'inspect'.
3682
Brett Cannon46225e72008-08-18 00:36:52 +00003683- Remove unneeded imports of 'sys' and 'warnings' from 'io'.
3684
Brett Cannon25c9d6a2008-08-17 22:10:11 +00003685- Remove unneeded imports of 'warnings' from shelve, filecmp, and dummy_thread.
3686
Hirokazu Yamamoto41a81eb2008-08-17 13:10:46 +00003687- Issue #3575: Incremental decoder's decode function now takes bytearray
3688 by using 's*' instead of 't#'.
3689
Mark Dickinson3e4caeb2009-02-21 20:27:01 +00003690- Issue #2222: Fixed reference leak when occurred os.rename()
Hirokazu Yamamoto7f30a682008-08-17 09:46:56 +00003691 fails unicode conversion on 2nd parameter. (windows only)
3692
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00003693- Issue #2464: urllib2 now supports a malformation in the URL received
Facundo Batista94f243a2008-08-17 03:38:39 +00003694 in a redirect.
3695
Brett Cannonabe423e2008-08-16 21:47:07 +00003696- Silence the DeprecationWarning raised when importing mimetools in
Brett Cannon721b1452008-08-16 22:00:27 +00003697 BaseHTTPServer, cgi (and rfc822), httplib.
Brett Cannonabe423e2008-08-16 21:47:07 +00003698
Facundo Batistaeb90b782008-08-16 14:44:07 +00003699- Issue #2776: fixed small issue when handling an URL with double slash
3700 after a 302 response in the case of not going through a proxy.
3701
Antoine Pitroub90a8be2008-08-15 21:03:21 +00003702- Issue #2676: in the email package, content-type parsing was hanging on
3703 pathological input because of quadratic or exponential behaviour of a
3704 regular expression.
3705
Antoine Pitrou11ec65d2008-08-14 21:04:30 +00003706- Issue #3476: binary buffered reading through the new "io" library is now
3707 thread-safe.
3708
Brett Cannonbf3157b2008-08-14 05:00:03 +00003709- Silence the DeprecationWarning of rfc822 when it is imported by mimetools
3710 since mimetools itself is deprecated. Because modules are cached, all
3711 subsequent imports of rfc822 will not raise a visible DeprecationWarning.
3712
Antoine Pitrou9fcd4b32008-08-11 17:21:36 +00003713- Issue #3134: shutil referenced undefined WindowsError symbol.
3714
Robert Schuppenies14646332008-08-10 11:01:53 +00003715- Issue #1342811: Fix leak in Tkinter.Menu.delete. Commands associated to
3716 menu entries were not deleted.
3717
Brett Cannon83e81842008-08-09 23:30:55 +00003718- Copied the implementation of reduce() to _functools.reduce() to have a
3719 version that did not raise a DeprecationWarning under -3.
3720
Antoine Pitrou76b8bee2008-08-09 17:27:23 +00003721- Issue #3205: When iterating over a BZ2File fails allocating memory, raise
3722 a MemoryError rather than silently stop the iteration.
3723
Guido van Rossum59ce9012008-08-09 14:55:34 +00003724- Issue #3487: sre "bytecode" validator. Passing invalid "re-bytecode"
3725 to _sre.compile() will now be rejected. This should not affect anybody
3726 since the re.compile() function never generates invalid re-bytecode.
3727
Skip Montanaroa032bf42008-08-08 22:52:51 +00003728- Issue #3436: Make csv.DictReader's fieldnames attribute a property so that
3729 upon first access it can be automatically initialized from the csv file if
3730 it wasn't initialized during instantiation.
3731
Brett Cannon3aa2a492008-08-06 22:28:09 +00003732- Issue #2338: Create imp.reload() to help with transitioning to Python 3.0 as
3733 the reload() built-in has been removed.
3734
Brett Cannon7e30b672008-08-04 21:52:25 +00003735- Changed code in the following modules/packages to remove warnings raised
Brett Cannonc1b76e42008-08-09 23:06:16 +00003736 while running under the ``-3`` flag: aifc, asynchat, asyncore, bdb, bsddb,
Brett Cannon047e4a92008-08-17 04:16:04 +00003737 ConfigParser, cookielib, csv, difflib, distutils, DocXMLRPCServer, email,
3738 filecmp, fileinput, inspect, logging, modulefinder, pdb, pickle, profile,
3739 pstats, pydoc, re, rlcompleter, SimpleXMLRPCServer, shelve, socket,
3740 subprocess, sqlite3, tarfile, Tkinter, test.test_support, textwrap,
3741 threading, tokenize, traceback, urlparse, wsgiref, xml, xmlrpclib.
Brett Cannon7e30b672008-08-04 21:52:25 +00003742
Lars Gustäbel727bd0b2008-08-02 11:26:39 +00003743- Issue #3039: Fix tarfile.TarFileCompat.writestr() which always
3744 raised an AttributeError.
3745
Benjamin Peterson01a24322008-07-28 23:35:27 +00003746- Issue #2523: Fix quadratic behaviour when read()ing a binary file without
Antoine Pitroude781a42008-08-09 12:43:23 +00003747 asking for a specific length. This problem only affected files opened
3748 using the new "io" module, not the built-in open() function.
Benjamin Peterson01a24322008-07-28 23:35:27 +00003749
Mark Dickinsonfe84cce2008-07-27 06:39:07 +00003750- Issue #3449: Update decimal module to use most recent specification
3751 (v. 1.68) and tests (v. 2.58) from IBM.
3752
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00003753- Issue #3437: Bug fix in robotparser parsing of Allow: lines.
Skip Montanarof9ac43f2008-07-27 00:50:41 +00003754
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00003755- Issue #1592: Improve error reporting when operations are attempted
Raymond Hettinger8c664e82008-07-25 18:43:33 +00003756 on a closed shelf.
3757
Georg Brandlf9efabb2008-07-23 15:16:45 +00003758- Deprecate the "ast" parser function aliases.
3759
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00003760- Issue #3120: On 64-bit Windows the subprocess module was truncating handles.
3761
3762- Issue #3303: Fix a crash in locale.strcoll() when calling it with
3763 invalid arguments.
3764
3765- Issue #3302: Fix several crashes when calling locale's gettext functions
3766 with None arguments.
3767
3768- Issue #3389: Allow resolving dotted names for handlers in logging
3769 configuration files.
3770
3771- Deprecate the sunaudio module for removal in Python 3.0.
3772
Antoine Pitrou5fdfa3e2008-07-25 19:42:26 +00003773- Issue #3394: zipfile.writestr sets external attributes when passed a
3774 file name rather than a ZipInfo instance, so files are extracted with
3775 mode 0600 rather than 000 under Unix.
3776
Gregory P. Smitha36f8fe2008-08-04 00:13:29 +00003777- Issue #1857: subprocess.Popen.poll gained an additional _deadstate keyword
3778 argument in python 2.5, this broke code that subclassed Popen to include its
3779 own poll method. Fixed my moving _deadstate to an _internal_poll method.
3780
Martin v. Löwis8dbf3642008-08-01 14:10:26 +00003781Build
3782-----
3783
3784- Generate the PatternGrammar pickle during "make install".
3785
Nick Coghlan2a0c2b12008-08-04 12:47:17 +00003786Documentation
3787-------------
3788
Nick Coghlan6e8fef02008-08-18 13:14:22 +00003789- Issue #2235: the C API function PyObject_HashNotImplemented and its
3790 interaction with the tp_hash slot (added in 2.6b2) are now documented
3791
Nick Coghlan2a0c2b12008-08-04 12:47:17 +00003792- Issue #643841: The language reference now provides more detailed
3793 coverage of the lookup process for special methods. The disclaimers
3794 regarding lack of coverage of new-style classes have also been
3795 removed, since the coverage is now fairly reasonable.
3796
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00003797
Raymond Hettingere3ae6552008-06-20 04:18:15 +00003798What's New in Python 2.6 beta 2?
3799================================
3800
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00003801*Release date: 17-Jul-2008*
3802
Raymond Hettingere3ae6552008-06-20 04:18:15 +00003803Core and Builtins
3804-----------------
3805
Georg Brandl3e483f62008-07-16 22:57:41 +00003806- Issue #3156: Fix inconsistent behavior of the bytearray type: all
3807 its methods now allow for items objects that can be converted to
3808 an integer using operator.index().
3809
Mark Dickinson64b7e502008-07-16 09:40:03 +00003810- Issue #3360: Fix incorrect parsing of '020000000000.0', which
3811 produced a ValueError instead of giving the correct float.
3812
Eric Smitha5fa5a22008-07-16 00:11:49 +00003813- Issue #3083: Add alternate (#) formatting for bin, oct, hex output
3814 for str.format(). This adds the prefix 0b, 0o, or 0x, respectively.
3815
Mark Dickinson7103aa42008-07-15 19:08:33 +00003816- Issue #3008: the float type has a new instance method 'float.hex'
3817 and a new class method 'float.fromhex' to convert floating-point
3818 numbers to and from hexadecimal strings, respectively.
3819
Nick Coghlan6d6bd442008-07-15 15:40:22 +00003820- Issue #2235: __hash__ is once again inherited by default. To allow
3821 collections.Hashable to remain meaningful in the presence of the
3822 default hash implementation (object.__hash__), it is now possible
3823 to explicit block inheritance of hash by setting __hash__=None at
3824 the Python level, or tp_hash=PyObject_HashNotImplemented at the C
3825 level.
3826
Nick Coghlanb028f502008-07-13 14:52:36 +00003827- Issue #3221: Issue a RuntimeWarning instead of raising SystemError if
3828 the parent module cannot be found while performing an absolute import.
3829 This means that an incorrectly defined __package__ attribute will
3830 now only prevent relative imports in that module rather than causing
3831 all imports from that module to fail.
3832
Nick Coghlan14ff9942008-07-08 14:21:42 +00003833- Issue #2517: Allow unicode messages in Exceptions again by correctly
3834 bypassing the instance dictionary when looking up __unicode__ on
3835 new-style classes.
3836
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbdd941f2008-07-01 20:38:04 +00003837- Issue #3242: Fix a crash inside the print statement, if sys.stdout is
3838 set to a custom object whose write() method happens to install
3839 another file in sys.stdout.
3840
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc1f40c8a2008-06-30 22:42:40 +00003841- Issue #3088: Corrected a race condition in classes derived from
3842 threading.local: the first member set by a thread could be saved in
3843 another thread's dictionary.
3844
Mark Dickinson1ec2fcd2008-06-20 14:53:43 +00003845- Issue #3004: Minor change to slice.indices(): the start and stop
3846 arguments are now treated identically, making the behaviour easier
3847 to describe and understand. For example, slice(None, -10,
3848 1).indices(9) now returns (0, 0, 1) instead of (0, -1, 1), and
3849 slice(None, 10, -1).indices(10) returns (9, 9, -1) instead of (9,
3850 10, -1).
3851
Georg Brandl278fc502008-07-19 12:46:12 +00003852- Issue #3219: Calling a function with repeated keyword arguments,
3853 f(a=2, a=23), would not cause a syntax error. This was a regression
3854 from 2.4 caused by the switch to the new compiler.
Benjamin Peterson175e4d92008-07-01 19:34:52 +00003855
Georg Brandl278fc502008-07-19 12:46:12 +00003856- Issue #2862: Make int and float freelist management consistent with
3857 other freelists. Changes their CompactFreeList apis into
3858 ClearFreeList apis and calls them via gc.collect().
Gregory P. Smith2fe77062008-07-06 03:35:58 +00003859
Brett Cannon8bb8fa52008-07-02 01:57:08 +00003860Library
3861-------
3862
Thomas Heller57adf222008-08-14 19:10:48 +00003863- Issue #3554: ctypes.string_at and ctypes.wstring_at did call Python
3864 api functions without holding the GIL, which could lead to a fatal
3865 error when they failed.
3866
Martin v. Löwisaabf4042008-08-02 07:20:25 +00003867- Issue #799428: Fix Tkinter.Misc._nametowidget to unwrap Tcl command objects.
3868
Jesse Noller7fb96402008-07-17 21:01:05 +00003869- Issue #3395: fix reference in test_multiprocessing to old debugInfo method
3870
Georg Brandla24869a2008-07-16 22:33:18 +00003871- Issue #3312: Fix two crashes in sqlite3.
3872
Georg Brandl86cbf812008-07-16 21:31:41 +00003873- Issue #1608818: Fix misbehavior in os.listdir() if readdir() fails.
3874
Jesse Noller13e9d582008-07-16 14:32:36 +00003875- Issue #3125: Remove copy_reg in multiprocessing and replace it with
3876 ForkingPickler.register() to resolve conflict with ctypes.
3877
Vinay Sajip51e65192008-07-18 09:01:10 +00003878- Issue #3090: Fixed ARCHFLAGS parsing on OS/X
Jesse Noller13e9d582008-07-16 14:32:36 +00003879
Thomas Heller880f5292008-07-15 19:39:38 +00003880- Issue #3313: Fixed a crash when a failed dlopen() call does not set
3881 a valid dlerror() message.
3882
Thomas Heller2bad6572008-07-15 17:19:50 +00003883- Issue #3258: Fixed a crash when a ctypes POINTER type to an
3884 incomplete structure was created.
3885
Brett Cannon3d0b9f02008-07-13 01:15:07 +00003886- Issue #3339: dummy_thread.acquire() should not return None.
3887
Raymond Hettingerb01713e2008-07-10 14:34:57 +00003888- Issue #3285: Fractions from_float() and from_decimal() accept Integral arguments.
3889
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00003890- Issue #3301: Bisect module behaved badly when lo was negative.
Raymond Hettinger3cd1e422008-07-10 14:03:19 +00003891
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc0f7cddc2008-07-06 21:34:39 +00003892- Issue #839496: SimpleHTTPServer used to open text files in text mode. This is
3893 both unnecessary (HTTP allows text content to be sent in several forms) and
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00003894 wrong because the actual transmitted size could differ from the
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc0f7cddc2008-07-06 21:34:39 +00003895 content-length. The problem had been corrected in the 2.4 branch, but never
3896 merged into trunk.
3897
Georg Brandle78fbcc2008-07-05 10:13:36 +00003898- Issue #2663: add filtering capability to shutil.copytree().
3899
Martin v. Löwis8c436412008-07-03 12:51:14 +00003900- Issue #1622: Correct interpretation of various ZIP header fields.
3901
3902- Issue #1526: Allow more than 64k files to be added to Zip64 file.
3903
3904- Issue #1746: Correct handling of zipfile archive comments (previously
3905 archives with comments over 4k were flagged as invalid). Allow writing
Vinay Sajip51e65192008-07-18 09:01:10 +00003906 Zip files with archives by setting the 'comment' attribute of a ZipFile.
Martin v. Löwis8c436412008-07-03 12:51:14 +00003907
Vinay Sajip51e65192008-07-18 09:01:10 +00003908- Issue #449227: The rlcompleter module now adds "(" to callable objects
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00003909 when completed.
Facundo Batista66c52772008-07-02 16:52:55 +00003910
Nick Coghlanc060b0e2008-07-02 13:09:19 +00003911- Issue #3190: Pydoc now hides the automatic module attribute __package__ (the
3912 handling is now the same as that of other special attributes like __name__).
3913
Brett Cannon8bb8fa52008-07-02 01:57:08 +00003914- Issue #2885 (partial): The urllib.urlopen() function has been deprecated for
3915 removal in Python 3.0 in favor of urllib2.urlopen().
3916
Gregory P. Smithf4140642008-07-06 07:16:40 +00003917- Issue #2113: Fix error in subprocess.Popen if the select system call is
3918 interrupted by a signal.
3919
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00003920- Issue #3309: Fix bz2.BZFile iterator to release its internal lock
Gregory P. Smith3b1e6b22008-07-07 04:31:58 +00003921 properly when raising an exception due to the bz2file being closed.
3922 Prevents a deadlock.
3923
Gregory P. Smithc4691ec2008-07-07 05:09:12 +00003924- Issue #3094: httplib.HTTPSConnection Host: headers no longer include the
3925 redundant ":443" port number designation when the connection is using the
3926 default https port (443).
3927
Gregory P. Smithdb3409c2008-07-17 03:13:05 +00003928- Issue #874900: after an os.fork() call the threading module state is cleaned
3929 up in the child process to prevent deadlock and report proper thread counts
3930 if the new process uses the threading module.
3931
Nick Coghlan38469e22008-07-13 12:23:47 +00003932Tests
3933-----
3934
3935- test.test_support.catch_warning now keeps track of all warnings it sees
3936 and is now better documented. Explicit unit tests for this context manager
3937 have been added to test_warnings.
3938
Martin v. Löwisd84fd952008-06-30 06:57:39 +00003939Build
3940-----
3941
3942- Issue #3215: Build sqlite3 as sqlite3.dll, not sqlite3.pyd.
3943
Brett Cannon8bb8fa52008-07-02 01:57:08 +00003944
Brett Cannon97aa1ae2008-07-11 00:12:52 +00003945Documentation
3946-------------
3947
Brett Cannonfeef51d2008-07-11 00:50:01 +00003948- Document that robotparser has been renamed to urllib.robotparser in
Brett Cannon963ffdb2008-07-11 00:48:57 +00003949 Python 3.0.
3950
Brett Cannonf6afa332008-07-11 00:16:30 +00003951- Document that urlparse has been renamed to urllib.parse in Python 3.0.
3952
Brett Cannon97aa1ae2008-07-11 00:12:52 +00003953- Document that urllib2 is split across multiple modules and renamed in
3954 Python 3.0.
3955
3956- Document that urllib is split across multiple modules and renamed in
3957 Python 3.0.
3958
3959
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00003960What's New in Python 2.6 beta 1?
3961================================
3962
Barry Warsawb5d17402008-06-19 01:48:07 +00003963*Release date: 18-June-2008*
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00003964
3965Core and Builtins
3966-----------------
3967
Brett Cannondea1b562008-06-27 00:31:13 +00003968- Issue #3211: warnings.warn_explicit() did not guard against its 'registry'
3969 argument being anything other than a dict or None. Also fixed a bug in error
3970 handling when 'message' and 'category' were both set to None, triggering a
3971 bus error.
3972
Amaury Forgeot d'Arca8919fe2008-06-16 19:12:42 +00003973- Issue #3100: Corrected a crash on deallocation of a subclassed weakref which
3974 holds the last (strong) reference to its referent.
3975
Georg Brandl89f48872008-06-11 18:55:38 +00003976- Add future_builtins.ascii().
3977
Raymond Hettinger5c4d3d02008-06-09 13:07:27 +00003978- Several set methods now accept multiple arguments: update(), union(),
Raymond Hettinger4267be62008-06-11 10:30:54 +00003979 intersection(), intersection_update(), difference(), and difference_update().
Raymond Hettingeree4bcad2008-06-09 08:33:37 +00003980
Robert Schuppenies51df0642008-06-01 16:16:17 +00003981- Issue #2898: Added sys.getsizeof() to retrieve size of objects in bytes.
3982
Martin v. Löwis99815892008-06-01 07:20:46 +00003983- New environment variable PYTHONIOENCODING.
3984
Martin v. Löwis4dd019f2008-05-20 08:11:19 +00003985- Patch #2488: Add sys.maxsize.
3986
Georg Brandla9916b52008-05-17 22:11:54 +00003987- Issue #2353: file.xreadlines() now emits a Py3k warning.
3988
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003989- Issue #2863: generators now have a ``gen.__name__`` attribute that
3990 equals ``gen.gi_code.co_name``, like ``func.__name___`` that equals
3991 ``func.func_code.co_name``. The repr() of a generator now also
3992 contains this name.
Georg Brandlc91210c2008-05-15 15:08:32 +00003993
Georg Brandlbd85eb12008-05-14 06:34:15 +00003994- Issue #2831: enumerate() now has a ``start`` argument.
3995
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003996- Issue #2801: fix bug in the float.is_integer method where a
3997 ValueError was sometimes incorrectly raised.
Mark Dickinsone81c3762008-05-09 16:14:15 +00003998
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003999- Issue #2790: sys.flags was not properly exposing its bytes_warning
4000 attribute.
Brett Cannon3c1d50a2008-05-08 20:23:54 +00004001
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004002- Issue #2196: hasattr() now lets exceptions which do not inherit
4003 Exception (KeyboardInterrupt, and SystemExit) propagate instead of
4004 ignoring them.
Benjamin Petersonb9030f42008-05-12 00:41:23 +00004005
Gregory P. Smith9d534572008-06-11 07:41:16 +00004006- Added checks for integer overflows, contributed by Google. Some are
4007 only available if asserts are left in the code, in cases where they
4008 can't be triggered from Python code.
4009
4010
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00004011Extension Modules
4012-----------------
Guido van Rossum84b1e0f2008-08-20 14:57:20 +00004013- Issue #1179: [CVE-2007-4965] Integer overflow in imageop module.
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00004014
Raymond Hettinger305480c2008-06-16 01:42:40 +00004015- Issue #3116: marshal.dumps() had quadratic behavior for strings > 32Mb.
4016
Andrew M. Kuchling2126bab2008-06-22 13:39:11 +00004017- Issue #2138: Add factorial() to the math module.
Raymond Hettingerecbdd2e2008-06-09 06:54:45 +00004018
Raymond Hettinger6d7702e2008-05-31 03:24:31 +00004019- The heapq module does comparisons using LT instead of LE. This
4020 makes its implementation match that used by list.sort().
4021
Mark Dickinson99dfe922008-05-23 01:35:30 +00004022- Issue #2819: add full-precision summation function to math module,
4023 based on Hettinger's ASPN Python Cookbook recipe.
4024
Georg Brandl88659b02008-05-20 08:40:43 +00004025- Issue #2592: delegate nb_index and the floor/truediv slots in
4026 weakref.proxy.
4027
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004028- Support os.O_ASYNC and fcntl.FASYNC if the constants exist on the
4029 platform.
Georg Brandl5049a852008-05-16 13:10:15 +00004030
Brett Cannon044616a2008-05-15 02:33:55 +00004031- Support for Windows 9x has been removed from the winsound module.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcf9b54c22008-05-12 21:30:24 +00004032
Jesus Cea09c01782008-09-28 23:24:19 +00004033- bsddb module updated to version 4.7.3.
Jesus Cea4907d272008-08-31 14:00:51 +00004034 http://www.jcea.es/programacion/pybsddb.htm#bsddb3-4.7.3. This
4035 code should be compatible with Python 3.0.
Jesus Ceaef9764f2008-05-13 18:45:46 +00004036
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004037- Issue #2858: Fix potential memory corruption when
4038 bsddb.db.DBEnv.lock_get and other bsddb.db object constructors
4039 raised an exception.
Gregory P. Smith664782e2008-05-17 06:12:02 +00004040
Gregory P. Smith5d7d6c32008-05-25 08:32:04 +00004041- Issue #2669: bsddb/__init__.py iteration no longer silently fails when
4042 the database has changed size during iteration. It now raises a
4043 RuntimeError in the same manner as a dictionary.
4044
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004045- Issue #2870: cmathmodule.c compile error.
Christian Heimes0bd23c02008-05-16 10:23:31 +00004046
Benjamin Petersond8a89722008-08-18 16:40:03 +00004047- Added a threading.Thread.ident property.
Gregory P. Smith8856dda2008-06-01 23:48:47 +00004048
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00004049Library
4050-------
4051
Vinay Sajip1e022682008-06-29 21:27:15 +00004052- logging.config: Removed out-of-date comment in _install_handlers and
4053 used issubclass in place of equality comparison of classes.
4054
Facundo Batista5596b0c2008-06-22 13:36:20 +00004055- Issue #2722: Now the os.getcwd() supports very long path names.
4056
Facundo Batista2da91c32008-06-21 17:43:56 +00004057- Issue #2888: Fixed the behaviour of pprint when working with nested
4058 structures, to match the behaviour of 2.5 and 3.0 (now follows the common
4059 sense).
4060
Facundo Batistaa6a4d502008-06-21 18:58:04 +00004061- Issue #1817: cgi now correctly handles the querystring on POST requests
4062
Vinay Sajip8dc20fd2008-06-19 22:41:08 +00004063- Issue #3136: fileConfig()'s disabling of old loggers is now conditional via
4064 an optional disable_existing_loggers parameter, but the default value is
4065 such that the old behaviour is preserved. Thanks to Leandro Lucarella for
4066 the patch.
4067
Vinay Sajip9828b7e2008-06-17 11:04:02 +00004068- Issue #3126: StreamHandler and FileHandler check before calling "flush" and
4069 "close" that the stream object has these, using hasattr (thanks to bobf for
4070 the patch).
4071
Benjamin Peterson5c0be322008-06-13 15:11:50 +00004072- Issue #2912: platform.uname now tries to determine unknown information even if
4073 os.uname exists.
4074
Benjamin Peterson26305a02008-06-12 22:33:06 +00004075- The rfc822 module has been deprecated for removal in 3.0.
4076
Benjamin Petersona03722f2008-06-12 14:23:49 +00004077- The mimetools module has been deprecated for removal in 3.0.
4078
Thomas Heller1cec7aa2008-06-10 14:07:12 +00004079- The ctypes.byref function now takes an optional second parameter
4080 which allows to specify an offset in bytes for the constructed
4081 pointer-like object.
4082
Georg Brandl8509db52008-06-10 07:45:28 +00004083- Added the ast module.
4084
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00004085- Added the multiprocessing module, PEP 371.
Benjamin Peterson6f7ae692008-06-11 20:04:30 +00004086
Georg Brandl7be19aa2008-06-07 15:59:10 +00004087- Factored out the indentation cleaning from inspect.getdoc() into
4088 inspect.cleandoc() to ease standalone use.
4089
Thomas Hellerfbb9c0b2008-06-06 08:33:46 +00004090- Issue #1798: Add ctypes calling convention that allows safe access
4091 to errno.
4092
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00004093- Issue #2404: ctypes objects support the new pep3118 buffer interface.
Thomas Heller59475e92008-06-05 17:52:59 +00004094
Vinay Sajip9828b7e2008-06-17 11:04:02 +00004095- Patch #2125: Add GetInteger and GetString methods for
Martin v. Löwisffe62ed2008-06-02 08:40:06 +00004096 msilib.Record objects.
4097
Gregory P. Smith137d8242008-06-02 04:05:52 +00004098- Issue #2782: The datetime module's strftime methods now accept
4099 unicode format strings just as time.strftime always has.
4100
Georg Brandlac19d852008-06-01 21:19:14 +00004101- The sgmllib and htmllib modules have been deprecated for removal
4102 in Python 3.0.
4103
4104- Issue #3011: locale module alias table was updated to the latest
4105 version from the X.org locale.alias file.
Marc-André Lemburgadff65b2008-05-30 20:52:18 +00004106
Thomas Heller9287acf2008-05-29 19:42:34 +00004107- Issue #1797 (partial fix): ctypes NULL function pointers have a
4108 False boolean value now.
4109
Georg Brandld0b592f2008-05-29 07:45:26 +00004110- Issue #2985: Allow 64-bit integer responses (``<i8>``) in XMLRPC
4111 transfers.
4112
4113- Issue #2877: The UserString.MutableString class has been removed in
4114 Python 3.0.
Brett Cannonabb34fe2008-05-29 05:08:50 +00004115
Lars Gustäbelb1a54a32008-05-27 12:39:23 +00004116- Do not close external file objects passed to tarfile.open(mode='w:bz2')
4117 when the TarFile is closed.
4118
Georg Brandle08e3d02008-05-25 08:07:37 +00004119- Issue #2959: For consistency with other file-like objects, gzip's
4120 GzipFile.close() can now be called multiple times without raising
4121 an exception.
4122
Martin v. Löwis27e4a172008-05-23 15:18:28 +00004123- Issue #1390: Raise ValueError in toxml when an invalid comment would
4124 otherwise be produced.
4125
Vinay Sajipc0128832008-05-20 15:37:22 +00004126- Issue #2914: TimedRotatingFileHandler now takes an optional keyword
4127 argument "utc" to use UTC time rather than local time.
4128
4129- Issue #2929: TimedRotatingFileHandler was using the wrong path when
4130 deleting old log files (filename only instead of full path).
4131
Georg Brandl112aa502008-05-20 08:25:48 +00004132- Issue #1775025: You can now specify zipfile members to open(),
4133 read() or extract() via a ZipInfo instance. This allows handling
4134 duplicate filenames in zipfiles.
4135
Georg Brandl28fdfa92008-05-17 17:57:01 +00004136- Issue #961805: Fix Text.edit_modified() in Tkinter.
4137
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004138- Issue #1793: Function ctypes.util.find_msvcrt() added that returns
Thomas Heller95ba13f2008-05-16 20:06:31 +00004139 the name of the C runtime library that Python uses.
4140 ctypes.util.find_library(name) now call this function when name is
4141 'm' or 'c'.
4142
Brett Cannonfa40bbf2008-05-16 00:50:02 +00004143- The statvfs module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
4144
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004145- The sunaudiodev and SUNAUDIODEV modules have been deprecated for
4146 removal in Python 3.0.
4147
4148- The WAIT module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
4149 3.0.
4150
4151- The torgb module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
4152 3.0.
4153
4154- The SV module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
4155 3.0.
4156
4157- The readcd module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
Brett Cannon22248172008-05-16 00:10:24 +00004158 Python 3.0.
4159
Brett Cannon11ae6e72008-05-15 03:49:00 +00004160- The panelparser module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
4161 Python 3.0.
4162
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004163- The panel module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
4164 3.0.
Brett Cannon7e375862008-05-15 03:46:27 +00004165
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004166- The jpeg module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
4167 3.0.
Brett Cannon89f5d9c2008-05-15 03:44:00 +00004168
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004169- The IOCTL module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
4170 3.0.
Brett Cannond8c41ec2008-05-15 03:41:55 +00004171
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004172- The IN module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
4173 3.0.
Brett Cannon6328b292008-05-15 03:36:13 +00004174
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004175- The imgfile module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
Brett Cannon178582e2008-05-15 03:20:36 +00004176 Python 3.0.
4177
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004178- The GLWS module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
4179 3.0.
Brett Cannon72ccc402008-05-15 03:17:24 +00004180
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004181- The GET module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
4182 3.0.
Brett Cannon2773b6f2008-05-15 03:14:57 +00004183
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004184- The fm module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
4185 3.0.
4186
4187- The FL, flp, and fl modules from IRIX have been deprecated for
4188 removal in Python 3.0.
4189
4190- The FILE module on IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
4191 3.0.
4192
4193- The ERRNO module on IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
4194 3.0.
4195
4196- The DEVICE, GL, gl, and cgen modules (which indirectly includes
4197 cgensupport) have been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
Brett Cannon044616a2008-05-15 02:33:55 +00004198
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004199- The CL, CL_old, and cl modules for IRIX have been deprecated for
4200 removal in Python 3.0.
4201
4202- The cdplayer module for IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
Brett Cannon650f5162008-05-14 21:12:12 +00004203 Python 3.0.
4204
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004205- The cddb module for IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
4206 3.0.
Brett Cannon9eebe492008-05-14 20:34:22 +00004207
Brett Cannonddf949f2008-05-14 20:31:38 +00004208- The cd and CD modules for IRIX have been deprecated for removal in
4209 Python 3.0.
4210
Brett Cannon34721d52008-05-14 01:08:21 +00004211- The al and AL modules for IRIX have been deprecated for removal in
4212 Python 3.0.
4213
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004214- Issue #1713041: fix pprint's handling of maximum depth.
Georg Brandl23da6e62008-05-12 16:26:52 +00004215
Brett Cannonbb141bb2008-05-12 03:47:47 +00004216- The timing module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
4217
Brett Cannonac861b52008-05-12 03:45:59 +00004218- The sv module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
4219
Brett Cannon43e5ef42008-05-12 03:19:20 +00004220- The multifile module has been deprecated as per PEP 4.
4221
Brett Cannon42bfa902008-05-12 00:08:34 +00004222- The imageop module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
4223
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004224- Issue #2250: Exceptions raised during evaluation of names in
4225 rlcompleter's ``Completer.complete()`` method are now caught and
4226 ignored.
Georg Brandl627a6662008-05-11 21:03:42 +00004227
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004228- Issue #2659: Added ``break_on_hyphens`` option to textwrap
4229 TextWrapper class.
Georg Brandl6f95ae52008-05-11 10:42:28 +00004230
Brett Cannon2a869132008-05-11 03:01:47 +00004231- The mhlib module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
4232
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004233- The linuxaudiodev module has been deprecated for removal in Python
4234 3.0.
Brett Cannondf0a7172008-05-11 00:50:51 +00004235
Brett Cannon27508d42008-05-10 22:45:07 +00004236- The ihooks module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
4237
Brett Cannonfe598512008-05-10 22:11:45 +00004238- The fpformat module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
4239
Brett Cannone35a3a12008-05-10 21:22:43 +00004240- The dl module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
4241
Brett Cannond5a09852008-05-10 03:14:32 +00004242- The Canvas module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
4243
Brett Cannon6192df12008-05-10 02:58:26 +00004244- The compiler package has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
4245
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004246- The Bastion and rexec modules have been deprecated for removal in
4247 Python 3.0.
Brett Cannoncda73a42008-05-10 02:53:46 +00004248
Brett Cannon768d44f2008-05-10 02:47:54 +00004249- The bsddb185 module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
4250
Brett Cannon9ac39742008-05-09 22:51:58 +00004251- The pure module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
4252
Mark Dickinsonf8476c12008-05-09 17:54:23 +00004253- Issue #2487: change the semantics of math.ldexp(x, n) when n is too
4254 large to fit in a C long. ldexp(x, n) now returns a zero (with
4255 suitable sign) if n is large and negative; previously, it raised
4256 OverflowError.
4257
Brett Cannonfa24d9a2008-05-09 05:32:42 +00004258- The toaiff module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
4259
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004260- The test.testall module has been deprecated for removal in Python
4261 3.0.
Brett Cannon3c759142008-05-09 05:25:37 +00004262
Brett Cannond7265d62008-05-09 05:18:40 +00004263- The new module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
4264
Brett Cannone3b19402008-05-08 20:36:09 +00004265- The user module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
4266
Brett Cannon6071cc82008-05-08 19:52:45 +00004267- The stringold module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
4268
4269- The mutex module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
Brett Cannon9d441822008-05-08 19:26:08 +00004270
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00004271- The imputil module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
4272
Brett Cannoncae4f5f2008-05-08 20:24:43 +00004273- test.test_support.catch_warning() gained a 'record' argument.
4274
Benjamin Peterson0893a0a2008-05-09 00:27:01 +00004275- os.path.walk is deprecated in favor of os.walk.
4276
Georg Brandl9020ff82008-05-11 14:17:13 +00004277- pdb gained the "until" command.
Benjamin Peterson98353942008-05-11 14:13:25 +00004278
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004279- The Mac Modules (including Carbon) have been deprecated for removal
4280 in Python 3.0.
Benjamin Peterson23681932008-05-12 21:42:13 +00004281
Vinay Sajip9828b7e2008-06-17 11:04:02 +00004282- Library: on MacOS X you can now set ``ARCHFLAGS`` in the shell
Ronald Oussoren5640ce22008-06-05 12:58:24 +00004283 environment to control the '-arch' flags that are used to build
4284 an extension. This was added for compatibility with Apple's build
4285 of Python.
4286
4287- The bundled OSX-specific copy of libbffi is now in sync with the version
4288 shipped with PyObjC 2.0 and includes support for x86_64 and ppc64 platforms.
4289
Georg Brandl25c34082008-08-18 23:09:49 +00004290- The threading module gained aliases for names that will be removed in the
4291 3.x series.
Benjamin Peterson0fbcf692008-06-11 17:27:50 +00004292
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00004293Build
4294-----
4295
Martin v. Löwiscc0f2b22008-06-13 18:12:51 +00004296- 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 +00004297
Martin v. Löwis8c255e42008-05-23 15:06:50 +00004298- Patch #1722225: Support QNX 6.
4299
Brett Cannonb61d8012008-05-11 23:39:04 +00004300- ``Lib/lib-old`` is now added to sys.path.
4301
Ronald Oussoren5640ce22008-06-05 12:58:24 +00004302- On MacOS X it is now possible to install the framework in 64-bit
4303 mode or even as a 4-way universal binary (that is, PPC, i386,
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00004304 PPC64 and x86_64 support in one binary).
Ronald Oussoren5640ce22008-06-05 12:58:24 +00004305
4306 This is controlled by the configure argument ``--with-universal-archs``:
4307
4308 - ``--with-universal-archs=all``: install 4-way universal
4309
4310 - ``--with-universal-archs=32-bit``: install 2-way universal, 32-bit (the default)
4311
4312 - ``--with-universal-archs=64-bit``: install 2-way universal, 64-bit
4313
4314 This option should be used in combination with ``--enable-universalsdk=``.
4315
4316 NOTE: 64-bit and 4-way builds are only suppported on Mac OS X 10.5 (or later).
4317
4318
Christian Heimes7a990612008-05-26 13:15:11 +00004319C API
4320-----
4321
Georg Brandl74a1dea2008-05-28 11:21:39 +00004322- Add ``PyType_Modified()`` as a public API to clear the type cache.
4323
4324- The PyBytes functions have been renamed to PyByteArray.
Christian Heimes7a990612008-05-26 13:15:11 +00004325
4326- The PyString functions have been renamed to PyBytes. A batch of
4327 defines were added so that the linker still sees the original
4328 PyString names.
4329
Georg Brandl5e7b1c02008-05-16 17:40:23 +00004330
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00004331What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 3?
Barry Warsaw65475fd2008-03-01 17:11:41 +00004332=================================
4333
Barry Warsaw6cc79402008-05-08 13:16:19 +00004334*Release date: 08-May-2008*
Barry Warsaw65475fd2008-03-01 17:11:41 +00004335
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd21fb4c2008-03-05 01:50:33 +00004336Core and builtins
4337-----------------
Georg Brandl80055f62008-03-25 07:56:27 +00004338
Georg Brandl28e08732008-04-30 19:47:09 +00004339- Issue #2719: backported the ``next()`` builtin from Python 3.
4340
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004341- Issue #2681: The octal literal ``0o8`` was incorrecly acctepted. Now
4342 it properly raises a SyntaxError.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc52167212008-04-24 18:07:05 +00004343
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004344- Issue #2617: Reserved -J and -X arguments for Jython, IronPython and
4345 other implementations of Python.
Christian Heimes7a98d272008-04-12 13:03:03 +00004346
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004347- Implemented PEP 370: Per user site-packages directory.
Christian Heimesaf748c32008-05-06 22:41:46 +00004348
Andrew M. Kuchling46d6b682008-04-30 16:19:55 +00004349Extension Modules
4350-----------------
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00004351
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004352- Issue #2670: Fix a failure in urllib2.build_opener(), when passed
4353 two handlers that derive the same default base class.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc96865852008-04-22 21:14:41 +00004354
Christian Heimese74c8f22008-04-19 02:23:57 +00004355- Added kill, terminate and send_signal(sig) to subprocess.Popen.
4356
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004357- Added phase(z) -> phi, polar(z) -> r, phi and rect(r, phi) -> z to
4358 the cmath module.
Christian Heimes6f341092008-04-18 23:13:07 +00004359
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004360- Four new methods were added to the math and cmath modules: acosh,
4361 asinh, atanh and log1p.
Christian Heimes6f341092008-04-18 23:13:07 +00004362
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004363- zlib.decompressobj().flush(value) no longer crashes the interpreter
4364 when passed a value less than or equal to zero.
Gregory P. Smith671c5d92008-04-09 18:18:43 +00004365
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004366- Issue #1631171: Re-implement the 'warnings' module in C (the
4367 original Python code has been kept as backup). This will allow for
4368 using the 'warning's machinery in such places as the parser where
4369 use of pure Python code is not possible. Both the ``showarning()``
4370 and ``formatwarning()`` gain an optional 'line' argument which is
4371 not called by default for backwards-compatibility reasons. Setting
4372 ``warnings.showwarning()`` to an implementation that lacks support
4373 for the ``line`` argument will raise a DeprecationWarning.
Brett Cannone9746892008-04-12 23:44:07 +00004374
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00004375Library
4376-------
4377
Brett Cannonf8436822008-05-06 23:41:32 +00004378- The audiodev module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
4379
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004380- Issue #2750: Add the 'json' package. Based on simplejson 1.9 and
4381 contributed by Bob Ippolito.
Brett Cannon4b964f92008-05-05 20:21:38 +00004382
Martin v. Löwis471617d2008-05-05 17:16:58 +00004383- Issue #1734346: Support Unicode file names for zipfiles.
4384
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004385- Issue #2581: distutils: Vista UAC/elevation support for
4386 bdist_wininst.
Mark Hammond7c5c8e62008-05-02 12:48:15 +00004387
Mark Dickinsonfe536f52008-04-25 16:59:09 +00004388- Issue #2635: Fix bug in 'fix_sentence_endings' textwrap.fill option,
4389 where an extra space was added after a word containing (but not
4390 ending in) '.', '!' or '?'.
4391
Thomas Heller6ad5fbb2008-04-25 15:44:16 +00004392- Add from_buffer() and from_buffer_copy() class methods to ctypes
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00004393 data types.
Thomas Heller6ad5fbb2008-04-25 15:44:16 +00004394
Neal Norwitz2b0bea52008-04-25 03:40:17 +00004395- Issue #2682: ctypes callback functions no longer contain a cyclic
Thomas Hellerbf027c42008-04-24 18:14:19 +00004396 reference to themselves.
4397
Gregory P. Smithd59fefb2008-04-22 08:11:33 +00004398- The getpass module has been improved on Unix. It now uses /dev/tty
4399 by default and uses stderr instead of stdout. A GetPassWarning is
4400 issued when input echo cannot be controlled.
Gregory P. Smith41e30182008-04-21 21:31:08 +00004401
Skip Montanarob131f042008-04-18 20:35:46 +00004402- Issue #2014: Allow XML-RPC datetime objects to have dates before
4403 1900-01-01.
4404
Nick Coghlan106fc482008-04-15 10:25:31 +00004405- Issue #2439: Added new function pkgutil.get_data(), which is a
4406 convenience wrapper for the PEP 302 get_data() API.
4407
Thomas Heller046e6a42008-04-14 16:10:07 +00004408- Issue #2616: The ctypes.pointer() and ctypes.POINTER() functions are
4409 now implemented in C for better performance.
4410
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004411- Issue #2408: The ``_types`` module, which was used as in
4412 implementation detail of the public ``types`` module, has been
4413 removed and replaced by pure python code.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc02f33b42008-04-08 23:10:07 +00004414
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004415- Issue #2513: distutils on Windows is now capable of cross-compiling
Mark Hammond495cf992008-04-07 01:53:39 +00004416 extension modules between 32 and 64 bit platforms. See the distutls
4417 build documentation for more information.
4418
Gregory P. Smithaa63d0d2008-04-06 23:11:17 +00004419- Issue #815646: Individual file objects may now be used from multiple
4420 threads at once without fear of crashing the Python interpreter. If
4421 file.close() is called while an object is in use by another thread
4422 an IOError exception will be raised and the file will not be closed.
4423
Thomas Hellerf7906482008-04-04 19:43:25 +00004424- The bundled libffi copy is now in sync with the recently released
4425 libffi3.0.5 version, apart from some small changes to
4426 Modules/_ctypes/libffi/configure.ac.
4427
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004428- Issue #2385: distutils.core.run_script() makes __file__ available,
4429 so the controlled environment will more closely mirror the typical
4430 script environment. This supports setup.py scripts that refer to
4431 data files.
Fred Drake46c58c12008-04-04 05:41:30 +00004432
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00004433Tests
4434-----
Trent Nelsone41b0062008-04-08 23:47:30 +00004435
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004436- Issue #2550: The approach used by client/server code for obtaining
4437 ports to listen on in network-oriented tests has been refined in an
4438 effort to facilitate running multiple instances of the entire
4439 regression test suite in parallel without issue.
4440 test_support.bind_port() has been fixed such that it will always
4441 return a unique port -- which wasn't always the case with the
4442 previous implementation, especially if socket options had been set
4443 that affected address reuse (i.e. SO_REUSEADDR, SO_REUSEPORT). The
4444 new implementation of bind_port() will actually raise an exception
4445 if it is passed an AF_INET/SOCK_STREAM socket with either the
4446 SO_REUSEADDR or SO_REUSEPORT socket option set. Furthermore, if
4447 available, bind_port() will set the SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE option on
4448 the socket it's been passed. This currently only applies to
4449 Windows. This option prevents any other sockets from binding to the
4450 host/port we've bound to, thus removing the possibility of the
4451 'non-deterministic' behaviour, as Microsoft puts it, that occurs
4452 when a second SOCK_STREAM socket binds and accepts to a host/port
4453 that's already been bound by another socket. The optional preferred
4454 port parameter to bind_port() has been removed. Under no
4455 circumstances should tests be hard coding ports!
4456
4457 test_support.find_unused_port() has also been introduced, which will
4458 pass a temporary socket object to bind_port() in order to obtain an
4459 unused port. The temporary socket object is then closed and
4460 deleted, and the port is returned. This method should only be used
4461 for obtaining an unused port in order to pass to an external program
4462 (i.e. the -accept [port] argument to openssl's s_server mode) or as
4463 a parameter to a server-oriented class that doesn't give you direct
4464 access to the underlying socket used.
4465
4466 Finally, test_support.HOST has been introduced, which should be used
4467 for the host argument of any relevant socket calls (i.e. bind and
4468 connect).
Trent Nelsone41b0062008-04-08 23:47:30 +00004469
4470 The following tests were updated to following the new conventions:
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004471 test_socket, test_smtplib, test_asyncore, test_ssl, test_httplib,
Trent Nelsone41b0062008-04-08 23:47:30 +00004472 test_poplib, test_ftplib, test_telnetlib, test_socketserver,
4473 test_asynchat and test_socket_ssl.
4474
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004475 It is now possible for multiple instances of the regression test
4476 suite to run in parallel without issue.
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00004477
4478Build
4479-----
4480
Mark Dickinson65134662008-04-25 16:11:04 +00004481- Issue #1496032: On alpha, use -mieee when gcc is the compiler.
4482
Thomas Hellerdc96a772008-04-04 10:07:55 +00004483- Issue #2544: On HP-UX systems, use 'gcc -shared' for linking when
4484 gcc is used as compiler.
4485
Ronald Oussoren580c7fe2008-05-02 19:45:11 +00004486- Issue #2573: On MacOS X it is now possible to install the framework
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004487 with a different name using --with-framework-name=NAME.
Ronald Oussoren580c7fe2008-05-02 19:45:11 +00004488
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00004489C API
4490-----
4491
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004492- Added implementation of copysign, acosh, asinh, atanh and log1p to
4493 the new files Include/pymath.h and Python/pymath.h for platforms
4494 which provide the functions through their libm. The files also
4495 contains several helpers and constants for math.
Christian Heimes6f341092008-04-18 23:13:07 +00004496
Benjamin Petersondacde0d2008-05-26 17:43:53 +00004497- Added a new convenience macro, PyErr_WarnPy3k, for issuing Py3k warnings.
Benjamin Petersona692c4d2008-04-27 02:28:02 +00004498
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00004499
4500What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 2?
4501=================================
4502
4503*Release date: 02-Apr-2008*
4504
4505Core and builtins
4506-----------------
4507
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004508- Issue #1733757: The interpreter would hang on shutdown if the
4509 tracing function set by sys.settrace is still active and happens to
4510 call threading.currentThread().
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd7a26512008-04-03 23:07:55 +00004511
Georg Brandl91e0cda2008-03-29 01:50:06 +00004512- Patch #1442: properly report exceptions when the PYTHONSTARTUP file
4513 cannot be executed.
4514
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc69b747b2008-03-28 20:30:50 +00004515- The compilation of a class nested in another class used to leak one
4516 reference on the outer class name.
4517
Georg Brandlfc8eef32008-03-28 12:11:56 +00004518- Patch #1810: compile() can now compile _ast trees as returned by
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004519 ``compile(..., PyCF_ONLY_AST)``.
Georg Brandlfc8eef32008-03-28 12:11:56 +00004520
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004521- Patch #2426: Added sqlite3.Connection.iterdump method to allow easy
4522 dumping of databases. Contributed by Paul Kippes at PyCon 2008.
Gregory P. Smithb9803422008-03-28 08:32:09 +00004523
Georg Brandldeaf2ca2008-03-27 13:27:31 +00004524- Patch #2477: Added from __future__ import unicode_literals.
Christian Heimes3c608332008-03-26 22:01:37 +00004525
Christian Heimes8c78cc32008-03-26 12:53:58 +00004526- Added backport of bytearray type.
4527
Georg Brandl80055f62008-03-25 07:56:27 +00004528- Issue #2355: add Py3k warning for buffer().
4529
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc9a0d3462008-03-23 09:55:29 +00004530- Issue #1477: With narrow Unicode builds, the unicode escape sequence
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004531 \Uxxxxxxxx did not accept values outside the Basic Multilingual
4532 Plane. This affected raw unicode literals and the
4533 'raw-unicode-escape' codec. Now UTF-16 surrogates are generated in
4534 this case, like normal unicode literals and the 'unicode-escape'
4535 codec.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc9a0d3462008-03-23 09:55:29 +00004536
Georg Brandl65bb42d2008-03-21 20:38:24 +00004537- Issue #2348: add Py3k warning for file.softspace.
4538
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004539- Issue #2346/#2347: add Py3k warnings for __methods__ and
4540 __members__.
Georg Brandl07e56812008-03-21 20:21:46 +00004541
Georg Brandl5a444242008-03-21 20:11:46 +00004542- Issue #2358: Add a Py3k warning on sys.exc_clear() usage.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd21fb4c2008-03-05 01:50:33 +00004543
Martin v. Löwisa4d77892008-03-19 04:39:13 +00004544- Issue #2400: Allow relative imports to "import *".
4545
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004546- Issue #1745: Backport print function with ``from __future__ import
4547 print_function``.
Eric Smith7c478942008-03-18 23:45:49 +00004548
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004549- Issue #2332: add new attribute names for instance method objects.
4550 The two changes are: im_self -> __self__ and im_func -> __func__
Neal Norwitzb1d3d962008-03-18 04:46:00 +00004551
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004552- Issue #2379: Raise a Py3K warning for __getitem__ or __getslice__ on
Guido van Rossum6d91be32008-03-18 04:42:22 +00004553 exception instances.
4554
Guido van Rossum04edb522008-03-18 02:49:46 +00004555- Issue #2371: Add a Py3k warning when catching an exception that
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004556 doesn't derive from BaseException.
4557
4558- Issue #2341: Add a Py3k warning when raising an exception that
4559 doesn't derive from BaseException.
Guido van Rossum04edb522008-03-18 02:49:46 +00004560
Neal Norwitz419fd492008-03-17 20:22:43 +00004561- Issue #2321: use pymalloc for unicode object string data to reduce
4562 memory usage in some circumstances.
4563
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004564- PEP 3127: octal literals now start with "0o". Old-style octal
4565 literals are still valid. There are binary literals with a prefix of
4566 "0b". This also affects int(x, 0).
Eric Smith0aed07a2008-03-17 19:43:40 +00004567
Georg Brandl1e7c3752008-03-25 08:37:23 +00004568- Issue #2359: Adding deprecation warnings for array.{read,write}.
4569
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004570- Issue #1779871: GNU gcc can now build Python on OS X because the
Jeffrey Yasskin1b4e45b2008-03-17 14:40:53 +00004571 flags -Wno-long-double, -no-cpp-precomp, and -mno-fused-madd are no
4572 longer passed.
4573
Neal Norwitz400aeda2008-03-15 22:03:18 +00004574- Add a warning when asserting a non-empty tuple which is always true.
4575
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004576- Issue #2179: speed up with statement execution by storing the exit
4577 method on the stack instead of in a temporary variable (patch by
4578 Jeffrey Yaskin)
Nick Coghlan7af53be2008-03-07 14:13:28 +00004579
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004580- Issue #2238: Some syntax errors in *args and **kwargs expressions
4581 could give bogus error messages.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd21fb4c2008-03-05 01:50:33 +00004582
Sean Reifscheider68fa8e62008-03-20 00:50:07 +00004583- Issue #2143: Fix embedded readline() hang on SSL socket EOF.
4584
Andrew M. Kuchling46d6b682008-04-30 16:19:55 +00004585Extension Modules
4586-----------------
Martin v. Löwisaef18b12008-03-24 13:31:16 +00004587
4588- Patch #2240: Implement signal.setitimer and signal.getitimer.
4589
Thomas Heller78b8f442008-03-05 14:53:39 +00004590Library
4591-------
4592
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004593- Issue #2315: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now accounts
4594 for daylight savings time in calculating the next rollover.
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00004595
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004596- Issue #2316: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now
4597 calculates rollovers correctly even when nothing is logged for a
4598 while.
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00004599
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004600- Issue #2317: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now uses
4601 improved logic for removing old files.
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00004602
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004603- Issue #2495: tokenize.untokenize now inserts a space between two
4604 consecutive string literals; previously, ["" ""] was rendered as
4605 [""""], which is incorrect python code.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcda0c0252008-03-27 23:23:54 +00004606
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004607- Issue #2248: return the result of the QUIT command. from
4608 SMTP.quit().
Georg Brandldeaf2ca2008-03-27 13:27:31 +00004609
Christian Heimes8c78cc32008-03-26 12:53:58 +00004610- Backport of Python 3.0's io module.
4611
Mark Dickinson8e85ffa2008-03-25 18:47:59 +00004612- Issue #2482: Make sure that the coefficient of a Decimal is always
4613 stored as a str instance, not as a unicode instance. This ensures
4614 that str(Decimal) is always an instance of str.
4615
Mark Dickinson3b24ccb2008-03-25 14:33:23 +00004616- Issue #2478: fix failure of decimal.Decimal(0).sqrt()
4617
Georg Brandl77354cf2008-03-21 20:01:51 +00004618- Issue #2432: give DictReader the dialect and line_num attributes
4619 advertised in the docs.
4620
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004621- Issue #2460: Make Ellipsis object copyable.
Raymond Hettingerb72233c2008-03-24 08:17:39 +00004622
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004623- Issue #1681432: Add triangular distribution to the random module
Raymond Hettingerbbc50ea2008-03-23 13:32:32 +00004624
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004625- Issue #2136: urllib2's auth handler now allows single-quoted realms
4626 in the WWW-Authenticate header.
Georg Brandl33124322008-03-21 19:54:00 +00004627
Marc-André Lemburga1867752008-03-20 18:08:00 +00004628- Issue #2434: Enhanced platform.win32_ver() to also work on Python
4629 installation which do not have the win32all package installed.
4630
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004631- Added support to platform.uname() to also report the machine and
4632 processor information on Windows XP and later. As a result,
Marc-André Lemburga1867752008-03-20 18:08:00 +00004633 platform.machine() and platform.processor() will report this
4634 information as well.
4635
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004636- The library implementing the 2to3 conversion, lib2to3, was added to
4637 the standard distribution.
Martin v. Löwis5e37bae2008-03-19 04:43:46 +00004638
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004639- Issue #1747858: Fix chown to work with large uid's and gid's on
4640 64-bit platforms.
Gregory P. Smith37f3f432008-03-18 20:40:01 +00004641
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004642- Issue #1202: zlib.crc32 and zlib.adler32 no longer return different
4643 values on 32-bit vs. 64-bit python interpreters. Both were correct,
4644 but they now both return a signed integer object for consistency.
Gregory P. Smithf48f9d32008-03-17 18:48:05 +00004645
Skip Montanaro32ed8c22008-03-15 16:07:11 +00004646- Issue #1158: add %f format (fractions of a second represented as
4647 microseconds) to datetime objects. Understood by both strptime and
4648 strftime.
4649
Mark Dickinsonc23b8a72008-03-14 14:23:37 +00004650- Issue #705836: struct.pack(">f", x) now raises OverflowError on all
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004651 platforms when x is too large to fit into an IEEE 754 float;
4652 previously it only raised OverflowError on non IEEE 754 platforms.
Mark Dickinsonc23b8a72008-03-14 14:23:37 +00004653
Andrew M. Kuchlingaac5c862008-05-11 14:00:00 +00004654- Issues #2166, #1741 and #1531505: now distutils deals with HOME
4655 correctly under win32
4656
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004657- Patch #1858: distutils: added multiple server support in .pypirc
Andrew M. Kuchlingaac5c862008-05-11 14:00:00 +00004658
Facundo Batistac54aec12008-03-08 16:50:27 +00004659- Issue #1106316: pdb.post_mortem()'s parameter, "traceback", is now
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004660 optional: it defaults to the traceback of the exception that is
4661 currently being handled (is mandatory to be in the middle of an
4662 exception, otherwise it raises ValueError).
Facundo Batistac54aec12008-03-08 16:50:27 +00004663
Jeffrey Yasskine75f59a2008-03-07 06:22:15 +00004664- Issue #1193577: A .shutdown() method has been added to SocketServers
4665 which terminates the .serve_forever() loop.
4666
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004667- Issue #2220: handle rlcompleter attribute match failure more
4668 gracefully.
Georg Brandl98aa8052008-03-06 07:45:52 +00004669
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004670- Issue #2225: py_compile, when executed as a script, now returns a
4671 non- zero status code if not all files could be compiled
4672 successfully.
Georg Brandla7bd27f2008-03-06 07:41:16 +00004673
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004674- Bug #1725737: In distutils' sdist, exclude RCS, CVS etc. also in the
Georg Brandl810ea292008-03-06 07:34:52 +00004675 root directory, and also exclude .hg, .git, .bzr, and _darcs.
4676
Thomas Hellerf3c05592008-03-05 15:34:29 +00004677- Issue #1872: The struct module typecode for _Bool has been changed
4678 from 't' to '?'.
4679
Thomas Heller78b8f442008-03-05 14:53:39 +00004680- The bundled libffi copy is now in sync with the recently released
4681 libffi3.0.4 version, apart from some small changes to
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004682 Modules/_ctypes/libffi/configure.ac. On OS X, preconfigured libffi
4683 files are used. On all linux systems the --with-system-ffi
4684 configure option defaults to "yes".
Thomas Heller78b8f442008-03-05 14:53:39 +00004685
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004686- Issue #1577: shutil.move() now calls os.rename() if the destination
4687 is a directory instead of copying-then-remove-source.
Sean Reifscheider493894c2008-03-18 17:24:12 +00004688
Martin v. Löwisd2bbe522008-03-06 06:55:22 +00004689Tests
4690-----
4691
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004692- test_nis no longer fails when test.test_support.verbose is true and
4693 NIS is not set up on the testing machine.
Brett Cannon7919d982008-03-19 16:50:13 +00004694
Brett Cannona5573b32008-03-18 04:16:06 +00004695- Output comparison tests are no longer supported.
4696
Brett Cannonb7ec8e52008-03-18 03:46:22 +00004697- Rewrite test_errno to use unittest and no longer be a no-op.
4698
Brett Cannon0bb79502008-03-18 01:58:56 +00004699- GHOP 234: Convert test_extcall to doctest.
4700
Brett Cannonba17cfc2008-03-18 01:50:25 +00004701- GHOP 290: Convert test_dbm and test_dummy_threading to unittest.
4702
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004703- GHOP 293: Convert test_strftime, test_getargs, and test_pep247 to
4704 unittest.
Brett Cannon6eeaddc2008-03-18 01:00:07 +00004705
Brett Cannon1f5182b2008-03-13 21:09:28 +00004706- Issue #2055: Convert test_fcntl to unittest.
4707
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00004708- Issue #1960: Convert test_gdbm to unittest.
Brett Cannon4a6e8d62008-03-13 21:02:16 +00004709
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004710- GHOP 294: Convert test_contains, test_crypt, and test_select to
4711 unittest.
Brett Cannon2e0f9f32008-03-13 20:47:41 +00004712
Brett Cannonb8d37352008-03-13 20:33:10 +00004713- GHOP 238: Convert test_tokenize to use doctest.
4714
Brett Cannon66865d22008-03-13 20:27:00 +00004715- GHOP 237: Rewrite test_thread using unittest.
4716
Martin v. Löwisd2bbe522008-03-06 06:55:22 +00004717- Patch #2232: os.tmpfile might fail on Windows if the user has no
4718 permission to create files in the root directory.
4719
Martin v. Löwisbf7b0b72008-03-14 13:56:09 +00004720Build
4721-----
4722
Martin v. Löwiscdbc9772008-03-24 12:57:53 +00004723- A new script 2to3 is now installed, to run the 2.x to 3.x converter.
4724
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004725- Python/memmove.c and Python/strerror.c have been removed; both
4726 functions are in the C89 standard library.
Brett Cannonaa5778d2008-03-18 04:09:00 +00004727
Martin v. Löwisbf7b0b72008-03-14 13:56:09 +00004728- Patch #2284: Add -x64 option to rt.bat.
Barry Warsaw65475fd2008-03-01 17:11:41 +00004729
Christian Heimes3c608332008-03-26 22:01:37 +00004730C API
4731-----
4732
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00004733- Patch #2477: Added PyParser_ParseFileFlagsEx() and
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004734 PyParser_ParseStringFlagsFilenameEx().
4735
Christian Heimes3c608332008-03-26 22:01:37 +00004736
Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +00004737What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 1?
4738=================================
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00004739
Barry Warsaw7c075232008-03-01 02:53:36 +00004740*Release date: 29-Feb-2008*
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00004741
4742Core and builtins
4743-----------------
4744
Fred Drakea8ee94b2008-03-01 02:45:07 +00004745- Issue #2051: pyc and pyo files are no longer created with permission
Barry Warsaw52973612008-03-01 02:23:38 +00004746 644. The mode is now inherited from the py file.
Christian Heimes40346852008-02-23 17:52:07 +00004747
Georg Brandlad61bc82008-02-23 15:11:18 +00004748- Issue #2067: file.__exit__() now calls subclasses' close() method.
4749
4750- Patch #1759: Backport of PEP 3129 class decorators.
Christian Heimes5224d282008-02-23 15:01:05 +00004751
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00004752- Issue #1881: An internal parser limit has been increased. Also see
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00004753 issue #215555 for a discussion.
Facundo Batistafc2d0102008-02-23 12:01:13 +00004754
Eric Smitha73fbe72008-02-23 03:09:44 +00004755- Added the future_builtins module, which contains hex() and oct().
4756 These are the PEP 3127 version of these functions, designed to be
4757 compatible with the hex() and oct() builtins from Python 3.0. They
4758 differ slightly in their output formats from the existing, unchanged
4759 Python 2.6 builtins. The expected usage of the future_builtins
4760 module is:
4761 from future_builtins import hex, oct
4762
Eric Smith7ef40bf2008-02-20 23:34:22 +00004763- Issue #1600: Modifed PyOS_ascii_formatd to use at most 2 digit
4764 exponents for exponents with absolute value < 100. Follows C99
4765 standard. This is a change on Windows, which would use 3 digits.
4766 Also, added 'n' to the formats that PyOS_ascii_formatd understands,
4767 so that any alterations it does to the resulting string will be
4768 available in stringlib/formatter.h (for float.__format__).
4769
Eric Smith5a3c1352008-02-19 13:21:56 +00004770- Implemented PEP 3101, Advanced String Formatting. This adds a new
4771 builtin format(); a format() method for str and unicode; a
4772 __format__() method to object, str, unicode, int, long, float, and
4773 datetime; the class string.Formatter; and the C API
4774 PyObject_Format().
4775
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004776- Fixed several potential crashes, all caused by specially crafted
4777 __del__ methods exploiting objects in temporarily inconsistent
4778 state.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc632fad32008-02-16 20:55:24 +00004779
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00004780- Issue #2115: Important speedup in setting __slot__ attributes. Also
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004781 prevent a possible crash: an Abstract Base Class would try to access
4782 a slot on a registered virtual subclass.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc60d6c7f2008-02-15 21:22:45 +00004783
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004784- Fixed repr() and str() of complex numbers with infinity or nan as
4785 real or imaginary part.
Christian Heimes2f0da532008-02-15 06:57:08 +00004786
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004787- Clear all free lists during a gc.collect() of the highest generation
4788 in order to allow pymalloc to free more arenas. Python may give back
4789 memory to the OS earlier.
Christian Heimes3b718a72008-02-14 12:47:33 +00004790
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004791- Issue #2045: Fix an infinite recursion triggered when printing a
4792 subclass of collections.defaultdict, if its default_factory is set
4793 to a bound method.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcb01aa432008-02-08 00:56:02 +00004794
Christian Heimesf75dbef2008-02-08 00:11:31 +00004795- Fixed a minor memory leak in dictobject.c. The content of the free
4796 list was not freed on interpreter shutdown.
4797
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00004798- Limit free list of method and built-in function objects to 256
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004799 entries each.
Christian Heimes6075a822008-02-06 12:44:34 +00004800
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004801- Patch #1953: Added ``sys._compact_freelists()`` and the C API
4802 functions ``PyInt_CompactFreeList`` and ``PyFloat_CompactFreeList``
Christian Heimes422051a2008-02-04 18:00:12 +00004803 to compact the internal free lists of pre-allocted ints and floats.
4804
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004805- Issue #1983: Fixed return type of fork(), fork1() and forkpty()
4806 calls. Python expected the return type int but the fork familie
4807 returns pi_t.
Christian Heimes951cc0f2008-01-31 23:08:23 +00004808
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004809- Issue #1678380: Fix a bug that identifies 0j and -0j when they
4810 appear in the same code unit.
Mark Dickinson105be772008-01-31 22:17:37 +00004811
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004812- Issue #2025: Add tuple.count() and tuple.index() methods to comply
4813 with the collections.Sequence API.
Raymond Hettinger5b07ebc2008-02-07 00:54:20 +00004814
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004815- Patch #1970 by Antoine Pitrou: Speedup unicode whitespace and
4816 linebreak detection
Christian Heimes4d4f2702008-01-30 11:32:37 +00004817
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004818- Added ``PyType_ClearCache()`` and ``sys._clear_type_cache`` to clear
4819 the internal lookup cache for ref leak tests.
Christian Heimes908caac2008-01-27 23:34:59 +00004820
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004821- Patch #1473257: generator objects gain a gi_code attribute. This is
4822 the same object as the func_code attribute of the function that
4823 produced the generator.
Georg Brandl0cdf9a32008-01-26 14:14:20 +00004824
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004825- Issue #1920: "while 0" statements were completely removed by the
4826 compiler, even in the presence of an "else" clause, which is
4827 supposed to be run when the condition is false. Now the compiler
4828 correctly emits bytecode for the "else" suite.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc31eaafe2008-01-24 22:59:25 +00004829
Guido van Rossumeead05f2008-01-24 18:21:02 +00004830- A few crashers fixed: weakref_in_del.py (issue #1377858);
4831 loosing_dict_ref.py (issue #1303614, test67.py);
4832 borrowed_ref_[34].py (not in tracker).
4833
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +00004834- Issue #1069410: The "can't load dll" message box on Windows is
Christian Heimesb2302ba2008-01-23 17:15:06 +00004835 suppressed while an extension is loaded by calling SetErrorMode in
4836 dynload_win.c. The error is still reported properly.
4837
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004838- Issue #1915: Python compiles with --enable-unicode=no again. However
Christian Heimes082c9b02008-01-23 14:20:50 +00004839 several extension methods and modules do not work without unicode
4840 support.
4841
Georg Brandl26543b12008-01-21 18:36:51 +00004842- Issue #1882: when compiling code from a string, encoding cookies in the
4843 second line of code were not always recognized correctly.
4844
Georg Brandl14404b62008-01-19 19:27:05 +00004845- Issue #1679: "0x" was taken as a valid integer literal.
4846
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00004847- Issue #1865: ``bytes`` as an alias for ``str`` and b"" as an alias "" were
Christian Heimes288e89a2008-01-18 18:24:07 +00004848 added.
4849
Christian Heimesc94e2b52008-01-14 04:13:37 +00004850- sys.float_info / PyFloat_GetInfo: The floating point information
4851 object was converted from a dict to a specialized structseq object.
4852
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004853- Patch #1816: Added sys.flags structseq. It exposes the status of
4854 most command line arguments and PYTHON* environment variables.
Christian Heimesf31b69f2008-01-14 03:42:48 +00004855
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004856- Objects/structseq.c: Implemented new structseq representation. The
4857 patch makes structseqs (e.g. the return value of os.stat) more
4858 readable.
Christian Heimes9c201962008-01-14 03:33:52 +00004859
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004860- Patch #1700288: added a type attribute cache that caches method
4861 accesses, resulting in speedups in heavily object-oriented code.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arce4c270c2008-01-14 00:29:41 +00004862
Neal Norwitz3fc15b82008-01-10 05:42:58 +00004863- Bug #1776: __import__() no longer accepts filenames on any platform.
4864 The first parameter to __import__() must be a valid module name.
Christian Heimes3403f152008-01-09 19:56:33 +00004865
Georg Brandlaed6c662008-01-07 17:25:53 +00004866- Patch #1668: renamed THREADDEBUG envvar to PYTHONTHREADDEBUG.
4867
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004868- Patch #602345: Add -B command line option, PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE
4869 envvar and sys.dont_write_bytecode attribute. All these can be set
4870 to forbid Python to attempt to write compiled bytecode files.
Georg Brandl2da0fce2008-01-07 17:09:35 +00004871
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004872- Improve some exception messages when Windows fails to load an
4873 extension module. Now we get for example '%1 is not a valid Win32
4874 application' instead of 'error code 193'.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arce0b76952008-01-04 02:04:15 +00004875
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004876- Bug #1481296: Fixed long(float('nan')) != 0L.
Christian Heimes8267d1d2008-01-04 00:37:34 +00004877
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004878- Issue #1640: Added math.isinf(x), math.isnan(x) and math.copysign(x,
4879 y) functions.
Christian Heimese2ca4242008-01-03 20:23:15 +00004880
Christian Heimes0a8143f2007-12-18 23:22:54 +00004881- Issue #1635: Platform independent creation and representation of NaN
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004882 and INF. float("nan"), float("inf") and float("-inf") now work on
4883 every platform with IEEE 754 semantics.
Christian Heimes0a8143f2007-12-18 23:22:54 +00004884
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004885- Compiler now generates simpler and faster code for dictionary
4886 literals. The oparg for BUILD_MAP now indicates an estimated
4887 dictionary size. There is a new opcode, STORE_MAP, for adding
4888 entries to the dictionary.
Raymond Hettingerfd7ed402007-12-18 21:24:09 +00004889
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004890- Issue #1638: %zd configure test fails on Linux.
Christian Heimesdb3d6cb2007-12-16 21:39:43 +00004891
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004892- Issue #1620: New property decorator syntax was modifying the
4893 decorator in place instead of creating a new decorator object.
Christian Heimes90e10e72007-12-14 02:35:23 +00004894
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004895- Issue #1538: Avoid copying string in split/rsplit if the split char
4896 is not found.
Skip Montanaro26015492007-12-08 15:33:24 +00004897
Andrew M. Kuchling395fe442007-12-05 13:27:20 +00004898- Issue #1553: An erroneous __length_hint__ can make list() raise a
Christian Heimes7cc1c6f2007-12-05 12:52:34 +00004899 SystemError.
4900
Nick Coghlanef01d822007-12-03 12:55:17 +00004901- PEP 366: Allow explicit relative imports when executing modules
4902 inside packages with the -m switch via a new module level
4903 __package__ attribute.
4904
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004905- Issue #1402: Fix a crash on exit, when another thread is still
4906 running, and if the deallocation of its frames somehow calls the
4907 PyGILState_Ensure() / PyGILState_Release() functions.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbe49a902007-11-30 20:37:22 +00004908
Christian Heimes28104c52007-11-27 23:16:44 +00004909- Expose the Py_Py3kWarningFlag as sys.py3kwarning.
4910
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00004911- Issue #1445: Fix a SystemError when accessing the ``cell_contents``
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcce7d10c2007-11-24 13:44:17 +00004912 attribute of an empty cell object.
4913
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004914- Issue #1460: The utf-7 incremental decoder did not accept truncated
4915 input. It now correctly saves its state between chunks of data.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcf57375a2007-11-21 01:38:26 +00004916
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004917- Patch #1739468: Directories and zipfiles containing a __main__.py
4918 file can now be directly executed by passing their name to the
4919 interpreter. The directory/zipfile is automatically inserted as the
4920 first entry in sys.path.
Nick Coghlan327a39b2007-11-18 11:56:28 +00004921
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004922- Issue #1265: Fix a problem with sys.settrace, if the tracing
4923 function uses a generator expression when at the same time the
4924 executed code is closing a paused generator.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc0d75f092007-11-13 21:54:28 +00004925
Raymond Hettinger1760c8a2007-11-08 02:52:43 +00004926- sets and frozensets now have an isdisjoint() method.
4927
Raymond Hettinger3f8caa32007-10-24 01:28:33 +00004928- optimize the performance of builtin.sum().
4929
Neal Norwitz44f326e2007-10-05 05:29:17 +00004930- Fix warnings found by the new version of the Coverity checker.
4931
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00004932- The enumerate() built-in function is no longer bounded to sequences
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004933 smaller than LONG_MAX. Formerly, it raised an OverflowError. Now,
4934 automatically shifts from ints to longs.
Raymond Hettinger8f669372007-10-03 21:18:11 +00004935
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004936- Issue #1686386: Tuple's tp_repr did not take into account the
4937 possibility of having a self-referential tuple, which is possible
4938 from C code. Nor did object's tp_str consider that a type's tp_str
4939 could do something that could lead to an inifinite recursion.
4940 Py_ReprEnter() and Py_EnterRecursiveCall(), respectively, fixed the
4941 issues.
Brett Cannon0b14f242007-09-30 19:45:10 +00004942
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004943- Issue #1164: It was possible to trigger deadlock when using the
4944 'print' statement to write to a file since the GIL was not released
4945 as needed. Now PyObject_Print() does the right thing along with
4946 various tp_print implementations of the built-in types and those in
4947 the collections module.
Brett Cannon01531592007-09-17 03:28:34 +00004948
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004949- Issue #1147: Exceptions were directly allowing string exceptions in
4950 their throw() method even though string exceptions no longer
4951 allowed.
Brett Cannon4c20bc42007-09-11 21:02:28 +00004952
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004953- Issue #1096: Prevent a segfault from getting the repr of a very
4954 deeply nested list by using the recursion counter.
Brett Cannona0c05512007-09-10 21:38:27 +00004955
Brett Cannon1e534b52007-09-07 04:18:30 +00004956- Issue #1202533: Fix infinite recursion calls triggered by calls to
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004957 PyObject_Call() never calling back out to Python code to trigger
4958 recursion depth updates/checks. Required the creation of a static
4959 RuntimeError instance in case normalizing an exception put the
4960 recursion check value past its limit. Fixes crashers
4961 infinite_rec_(1|2|4|5).py.
Brett Cannon1e534b52007-09-07 04:18:30 +00004962
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004963- Patch #1031213: Decode source line in SyntaxErrors back to its
4964 original source encoding.
Martin v. Löwisa5136192007-09-04 14:19:28 +00004965
Georg Brandl7c3b50d2007-07-12 08:38:00 +00004966- Patch #1673759: add a missing overflow check when formatting floats
4967 with %G.
4968
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004969- Prevent expandtabs() on string and unicode objects from causing a
4970 segfault when a large width is passed on 32-bit platforms.
Neal Norwitz7dbd2a32007-06-09 03:36:34 +00004971
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004972- Issue #1733488: Fix compilation of bufferobject.c on AIX.
Martin v. Löwisda587ab2007-06-08 17:29:20 +00004973
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004974- Issue #1722485: remove docstrings again when running with -OO.
Georg Brandla5ea6892007-06-01 11:33:33 +00004975
Neal Norwitz0ac60192007-05-27 04:08:54 +00004976- Add new attribute names for function objects. All the func_* become
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004977 __*__ attributes. (Some already existed, e.g., __doc__ and
4978 __name__.)
Neal Norwitz0ac60192007-05-27 04:08:54 +00004979
Neal Norwitz8b2bfbc2007-05-23 06:35:32 +00004980- Add -3 option to the interpreter to warn about features that are
4981 deprecated and will be changed/removed in Python 3.0.
4982
Georg Brandl2134e752007-05-21 20:34:16 +00004983- Patch #1686487: you can now pass any mapping after '**' in function
4984 calls.
4985
Collin Winter62903052007-05-18 23:11:24 +00004986- except clauses may now be spelled either "except E, target:" or
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004987 "except E as target:". This is to provide forwards compatibility
4988 with Python 3.0.
Collin Winter62903052007-05-18 23:11:24 +00004989
Brett Cannon229cee22007-05-05 01:34:02 +00004990- Deprecate BaseException.message as per PEP 352.
4991
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004992- Issue #1303614: don't expose object's __dict__ when the dict is
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00004993 inherited from a built-in base.
Armin Rigo9790a272007-05-02 19:23:31 +00004994
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00004995- When __slots__ are set to a unicode string, make it work the same as
Neal Norwitzcbd9ee62007-04-14 05:25:50 +00004996 setting a plain string, ie don't expand to single letter identifiers.
4997
Raymond Hettinger13936692007-04-11 18:40:58 +00004998- Request #1191699: Slices can now be pickled.
4999
Raymond Hettinger4db5fe92007-04-12 04:10:00 +00005000- Request #1193128: str.translate() now allows a None argument for
5001 translations that only remove characters without re-mapping the
5002 remaining characters.
5003
Georg Brandl5cb76c12007-03-21 09:00:39 +00005004- Patch #1682205: a TypeError while unpacking an iterable is no longer
5005 masked by a generic one with the message "unpack non-sequence".
5006
Neal Norwitzaa754b72007-03-21 06:39:48 +00005007- Remove unused file Python/fmod.c.
5008
Guido van Rossum143b5642007-03-23 04:58:42 +00005009- Bug #1683368: The object.__init__() and object.__new__() methods are
5010 now stricter in rejecting excess arguments. The only time when
5011 either allows excess arguments is when it is not overridden and the
5012 other one is. For backwards compatibility, when both are
5013 overridden, it is a deprecation warning (for now; maybe a Py3k
Guido van Rossum234b1ff2007-03-23 19:39:01 +00005014 warning later). Also, type.__init__() insists on the same signature
5015 as supported by type.__new__().
Guido van Rossum143b5642007-03-23 04:58:42 +00005016
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005017- Patch #1675423: PyComplex_AsCComplex() now tries to convert an
5018 object to complex using its __complex__() method before falling back
5019 to the __float__() method. Therefore, the functions in the cmath
5020 module now can operate on objects that define a __complex__()
5021 method.
Georg Brandl2b869942007-03-17 16:08:45 +00005022
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005023- Patch #1623563: allow __class__ assignment for classes with
5024 __slots__. The old and the new class are still required to have the
5025 same slot names.
Žiga Seilnacht6f2d09c2007-03-16 11:59:38 +00005026
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005027- Patch #1642547: Fix an error/crash when encountering syntax errors
5028 in complex if statements.
Collin Winter77c67bd2007-03-16 04:11:30 +00005029
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005030- Patch #1462488: Python no longer segfaults when
5031 ``object.__reduce_ex__()`` is called with an object that is faking
5032 its type.
Žiga Seilnacht20f43d32007-03-15 11:44:55 +00005033
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005034- Patch #1680015: Don't modify __slots__ tuple if it contains an
5035 unicode name.
Žiga Seilnacht71436f02007-03-14 12:24:09 +00005036
Georg Brandl5240d742007-03-13 20:46:32 +00005037- Patch #1444529: the builtin compile() now accepts keyword arguments.
5038
Georg Brandl7b9c5552007-03-12 14:30:05 +00005039- Bug #1678647: write a newline after printing an exception in any
5040 case, even when converting the value to a string failed.
5041
Georg Brandl871f1bc2007-03-12 13:17:36 +00005042- The dir() function has been extended to call the __dir__() method on
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005043 its argument, if it exists. If not, it will work like before. This
5044 allows customizing the output of dir() in the presence of a
5045 __getattr__().
Georg Brandl871f1bc2007-03-12 13:17:36 +00005046
Collin Winter276887b2007-03-12 16:11:39 +00005047- Patch #922167: Python no longer segfaults when faced with infinitely
5048 self-recursive reload() calls (as reported by bug #742342).
5049
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005050- Patch #1675981: remove unreachable code from ``type.__new__()``
5051 method.
Žiga Seilnacht89032082007-03-11 15:54:54 +00005052
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005053- Patch #1491866: change the complex() constructor to allow
5054 parthensized forms. This means complex(repr(x)) now works instead of
5055 raising a ValueError.
Collin Wintere38051d2007-03-09 20:33:07 +00005056
Georg Brandlaa2321b2007-03-07 00:40:28 +00005057- Patch #703779: unset __file__ in __main__ after running a file. This
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005058 makes the filenames the warning module prints much more sensible
5059 when a PYTHONSTARTUP file is used.
Georg Brandlaa2321b2007-03-07 00:40:28 +00005060
Georg Brandl49aafc92007-03-07 00:34:46 +00005061- Variant of patch #697613: don't exit the interpreter on a SystemExit
5062 exception if the -i command line option or PYTHONINSPECT environment
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005063 variable is given, but break into the interactive interpreter just
5064 like on other exceptions or normal program exit.
Georg Brandl49aafc92007-03-07 00:34:46 +00005065
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005066- Patch #1638879: don't accept strings with embedded NUL bytes in
5067 long().
Georg Brandl00cd8182007-03-06 18:41:12 +00005068
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005069- Bug #1674503: close the file opened by execfile() in an error
5070 condition.
Georg Brandl098cd692007-03-06 12:17:50 +00005071
Georg Brandl0fca97a2007-03-05 22:28:08 +00005072- Patch #1674228: when assigning a slice (old-style), check for the
5073 sq_ass_slice instead of the sq_slice slot.
5074
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005075- When printing an unraisable error, don't print exceptions. before
5076 the name. This duplicates the behavior whening normally printing
5077 exceptions.
Neal Norwitz88516a62007-02-26 22:41:45 +00005078
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005079- Bug #1653736: Properly discard third argument to
5080 slot_nb_inplace_power.
Martin v. Löwisfd963262007-02-09 12:19:32 +00005081
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005082- PEP 352: Raising a string exception now triggers a TypeError.
5083 Attempting to catch a string exception raises DeprecationWarning.
Brett Cannon129bd522007-01-30 21:34:36 +00005084
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005085- Bug #1377858: Fix the segfaulting of the interpreter when an object
5086 created a weakref on itself during a __del__ call for new-style
5087 classes (classic classes still have the bug).
Brett Cannonf5bee302007-01-23 23:21:22 +00005088
Martin v. Löwis6c5c5022007-01-23 21:11:47 +00005089- Bug #1579370: Make PyTraceBack_Here use the current thread, not the
5090 frame's thread state.
5091
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005092- patch #1630975: Fix crash when replacing sys.stdout in
5093 sitecustomize.py.
Thomas Wouters6ed19652007-01-23 13:50:49 +00005094
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005095- Prevent seg fault on shutdown which could occur if an object raised
5096 a warning.
Neal Norwitz72cd02c2007-01-05 05:25:22 +00005097
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005098- Bug #1566280: Explicitly invoke threading._shutdown from Py_Main, to
5099 avoid relying on atexit.
Martin v. Löwis7b7c9d42007-01-04 21:06:12 +00005100
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005101- Bug #1590891: random.randrange don't return correct value for big
5102 number.
Raymond Hettinger94547f72006-12-20 06:42:06 +00005103
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005104- Patch #1586791: Better exception messages for some operations on
5105 strings, tuples and lists.
Georg Brandl283a1352006-11-19 08:48:30 +00005106
Martin v. Löwis056dac12006-11-12 18:24:26 +00005107- Bug #1067760: Deprecate passing floats to file.seek.
5108
Martin v. Löwisa346c092006-11-08 06:48:36 +00005109- Bug #1591996: Correctly forward exception in instance_contains().
5110
Neal Norwitz85dbec62006-11-04 19:25:22 +00005111- Bug #1588287: fix invalid assertion for `1,2` in debug builds.
5112
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005113- Bug #1576657: when setting a KeyError for a tuple key, make sure
5114 that the tuple isn't used as the "exception arguments tuple".
Georg Brandlb9f4ad32006-10-29 18:31:42 +00005115
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005116- Bug #1565514: SystemError not raised on too many nested blocks.
Neal Norwitz21997af2006-10-28 21:19:07 +00005117
Thomas Hellerdf08f0b2006-10-27 18:31:36 +00005118- Bug #1576174: WindowsError now displays the windows error code
5119 again, no longer the posix error code.
5120
Martin v. Löwisb5bc5372006-10-27 06:16:31 +00005121- Patch #1549049: Support long values in structmember, issue warnings
5122 if the assigned value for structmember fields gets truncated.
5123
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005124- Update the peephole optimizer to remove more dead code (jumps after
5125 returns) and inline unconditional jumps to returns.
Neal Norwitzcbeb6872006-10-14 21:33:38 +00005126
Georg Brandl2c1375c2006-10-12 11:27:59 +00005127- Bug #1545497: when given an explicit base, int() did ignore NULs
5128 embedded in the string to convert.
5129
Georg Brandl846f73a2006-10-08 07:11:54 +00005130- Bug #1569998: break inside a try statement (outside a loop) is now
5131 recognized and rejected.
5132
Armin Rigo7ccbca92006-10-04 12:17:45 +00005133- list.pop(x) accepts any object x following the __index__ protocol.
5134
Armin Rigo7ccbca92006-10-04 12:17:45 +00005135- A number of places, including integer negation and absolute value,
5136 were fixed to not rely on undefined behaviour of the C compiler
5137 anymore.
Martin v. Löwis820d6ac2006-10-04 05:47:34 +00005138
Georg Brandl3267d282006-09-30 09:03:42 +00005139- Bug #1566800: make sure that EnvironmentError can be called with any
5140 number of arguments, as was the case in Python 2.4.
5141
Georg Brandl5d59c092006-09-30 08:43:30 +00005142- Patch #1567691: super() and new.instancemethod() now don't accept
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005143 keyword arguments any more (previously they accepted them, but
5144 didn't use them).
Georg Brandl5d59c092006-09-30 08:43:30 +00005145
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005146- Fix a bug in the parser's future statement handling that led to
5147 "with" not being recognized as a keyword after, e.g., this
5148 statement: from __future__ import division, with_statement
Georg Brandla10d3af2006-09-24 12:35:36 +00005149
Neal Norwitz3a230172006-09-22 08:18:10 +00005150- Bug #1557232: fix seg fault with def f((((x)))) and def f(((x),)).
5151
Neal Norwitz4a8fbdb2006-09-22 08:16:26 +00005152- Fix %zd string formatting on Mac OS X so it prints negative numbers.
5153
Brett Cannonf6aa86e2006-09-20 18:43:13 +00005154- Allow exception instances to be directly sliced again.
5155
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005156- Bug #1551432: Exceptions do not define an explicit __unicode__
5157 method. This allows calling unicode() on exceptions classes
5158 directly to succeed.
Brett Cannon9adeab72006-09-20 18:34:28 +00005159
Georg Brandl4e933132006-09-06 20:05:58 +00005160- Bug #1542051: Exceptions now correctly call PyObject_GC_UnTrack.
5161 Also make sure that every exception class has __module__ set to
5162 'exceptions'.
5163
Georg Brandl98775df2006-09-06 06:09:31 +00005164- Bug #1550983: emit better error messages for erroneous relative
5165 imports (if not in package and if beyond toplevel package).
5166
Tim Petersc10c9d02006-09-05 02:18:09 +00005167- Overflow checking code in integer division ran afoul of new gcc
5168 optimizations. Changed to be more standard-conforming.
5169
Neal Norwitz4f096d92006-08-21 19:47:08 +00005170- Patch #1542451: disallow continue anywhere under a finally.
5171
Neal Norwitza22975f2006-09-05 02:24:03 +00005172- Patch #1546288: fix seg fault in dict_equal due to ref counting bug.
5173
Neal Norwitzd34e4272006-09-05 02:36:20 +00005174- The return tuple from str.rpartition(sep) is (tail, sep, head) where
5175 head is the original string if sep was not found.
5176
Neal Norwitzdac090d2006-09-05 03:53:08 +00005177- Bug #1520864: unpacking singleton tuples in list comprehensions and
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005178 generator expressions (x for x, in ... ) works again. Fixing this
5179 problem required changing the .pyc magic number. This means that
5180 .pyc files generated before 2.5c2 will be regenerated.
Neal Norwitzdac090d2006-09-05 03:53:08 +00005181
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00005182- ``with`` and ``as`` are now keywords.
Neal Norwitzca460d92006-09-06 06:28:06 +00005183
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005184- Bug #1664966: Fix crash in exec if Unicode filename can't be
5185 decoded.
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00005186
Guido van Rossumcad37242008-01-15 17:59:29 +00005187- Issue #1537: Changed GeneratorExit's base class from Exception to
5188 BaseException.
Christian Heimes44eeaec2007-12-03 20:01:02 +00005189
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005190- Issue #1703448: A joined thread could show up in the
Gregory P. Smith95cd5c02008-01-22 01:20:42 +00005191 threading.enumerate() list after the join() for a brief period until
5192 it actually exited.
5193
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00005194
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00005195Library
5196-------
5197
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005198- Patch #2274: Add heapq.heappushpop().
Raymond Hettinger53bdf092008-03-13 19:03:51 +00005199
Christian Heimes608c1d82008-03-03 18:28:04 +00005200- Add inspect.isabstract(object) to fix bug #2223
5201
Mark Dickinson1ddf1d82008-02-29 02:16:37 +00005202- Add a __format__ method to Decimal, to support PEP 3101.
5203
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005204- Add a timing parameter when using trace.Trace to print out
5205 timestamps.
Neal Norwitzca376612008-02-26 08:21:28 +00005206
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005207- Issue #1627: httplib now ignores negative Content-Length headers.
Georg Brandl8c460d52008-02-24 00:14:24 +00005208
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005209- Issue #900744: If an invalid chunked-encoding header is sent by a
5210 server, httplib will now raise IncompleteRead and close the
5211 connection instead of raising ValueError.
Georg Brandl23635032008-02-24 00:03:22 +00005212
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005213- Issue #1492: The content type of BaseHTTPServer error messages can
5214 now be overridden.
Georg Brandl16479232008-02-23 15:02:28 +00005215
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005216- Issue #1781: ConfigParser now does not let you add the "default" section
Facundo Batistab12f0b52008-02-23 12:46:10 +00005217 (ignore-case)
5218
Guido van Rossum8bc09652008-02-21 18:18:37 +00005219- Removed uses of dict.has_key() from distutils, and uses of
5220 callable() from copy_reg.py, so the interpreter now starts up
5221 without warnings when '-3' is given. More work like this needs to
5222 be done in the rest of the stdlib.
5223
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005224- Issue #1916: added isgenerator() and isgeneratorfunction() to
5225 inspect.py.
Facundo Batista759bfc62008-02-18 03:43:43 +00005226
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005227- Issue #1224: Fixed bad url parsing when path begins with double
5228 slash.
Facundo Batistad14600e2008-02-18 12:48:43 +00005229
Thomas Hellera06a1a82008-02-13 20:21:53 +00005230- ctypes instances that are not or do not contain pointers can now be
5231 pickled.
5232
Martin v. Löwisdad88dc2008-02-12 18:47:34 +00005233- Patch #1966: Break infinite loop in httplib when the servers
5234 implements the chunked encoding incorrectly.
5235
Mark Dickinsond058cd22008-02-10 21:29:51 +00005236- Rename rational.py to fractions.py and the rational.Rational class
5237 to fractions.Fraction, to avoid the name clash with the abstract
5238 base class numbers.Rational. See discussion in issue #1682.
5239
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005240- The pickletools module now provides an optimize() function that
5241 eliminates unused PUT opcodes from a pickle string.
Raymond Hettingerda614dc2008-02-10 20:35:16 +00005242
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005243- Patch #2021: Allow tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile and
5244 SpooledTemporaryFile to be used in with statements by correctly
5245 supporting the context management protocol.
Nick Coghlanac094dc2008-02-10 07:32:52 +00005246
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005247- Patch #1979: Add rich comparisons to Decimal, and make Decimal
5248 comparisons involving a NaN follow the IEEE 754 standard.
Mark Dickinson2fc92632008-02-06 22:10:50 +00005249
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005250- Issue #2004: tarfile.py: Use mode 0700 for temporary directories and
5251 default permissions for missing directories.
Lars Gustäbel0192e432008-02-05 11:51:40 +00005252
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005253- Issue #175006: The debugger used to skip the condition of a "while"
5254 statement after the first iteration. Now it correctly steps on the
5255 expression, and breakpoints on the "while" statement are honored on
5256 each loop.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc6fd03bb2008-02-04 21:45:05 +00005257
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005258- Issue #1765140: add an optional delay argument to FileHandler and
5259 its subclasses. Defaults to false (existing behaviour), but if true,
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +00005260 defers opening the file until the first call to emit().
5261
Raymond Hettingerc226c312008-01-23 00:04:40 +00005262- The pprint module now supports sets and frozensets.
5263
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005264- Issue #1221598: add optional callbacks to ftplib.FTP's storbinary()
5265 and storlines() methods. (Contributed by Phil Schwartz)
Gregory P. Smithc64386b2008-01-22 00:19:41 +00005266
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005267- Issue #1715: include sub-extension modules in pydoc's text output.
Georg Brandlf2dae0e2008-01-21 21:05:49 +00005268
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005269- Issue #1836: fix an off-by-one bug in TimedRotatingHandler's
5270 rollover time calculation.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00005271
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005272- Issue #1021: fix a bug to allow basicConfig to accept NOTSET as a
5273 level.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00005274
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005275- Issue #932563: add LoggerAdapter convenience class to make it easier
5276 to add contextual information in logging output.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00005277
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005278- Issue #1760556: fix a bug to avoid FileHandler throwing an exception
5279 in flush().
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00005280
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005281- Bug #1530959: distutils' build command now uses different build
5282 directory when building extension modules against versions of Python
5283 compiled with ``--with-pydebug``.
Georg Brandl50160152008-01-21 17:42:40 +00005284
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005285- Issue #1555501: move plistlib from plat-mac directory to general
5286 library.
Georg Brandl864de822008-01-21 16:34:07 +00005287
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005288- Issue #1269: fix a bug in pstats.add_callers() and add a unit test
5289 file for pstats.
Georg Brandl66e73632008-01-21 10:24:59 +00005290
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005291- Issue #1669: don't allow shutil.rmtree() to be called on a symlink
5292 to a directory.
Georg Brandl52353982008-01-20 14:17:42 +00005293
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005294- Issue #1664522: in urllib, don't read non-existing directories in
5295 ftp mode, returning a 0-byte file -- raise an IOError instead.
Georg Brandld5e6cf22008-01-20 12:18:17 +00005296
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005297- Issue #856047: respect the ``no_proxy`` environment variable when
5298 using the ``http_proxy`` etc. environment variables in urllib.
Georg Brandl22350112008-01-20 12:05:43 +00005299
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005300- Issue #1178141: add a getcode() method to the addinfourls that
5301 urllib.open() returns so that you can retrieve the HTTP status code.
Georg Brandl9b0d46d2008-01-20 11:43:03 +00005302
Gregory P. Smithf25680a2008-01-20 01:26:04 +00005303- Issue #1003: Fix zipfile decryption check, it would fail zip files
5304 with extended local headers.
5305
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005306- Issue #1189216: Fix the zipfile module to work on archives with
5307 headers past the 2**31 byte boundary.
Gregory P. Smith350d03b2008-01-19 23:10:52 +00005308
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005309- Issue #1336: fix a race condition in subprocess.Popen if the garbage
Gregory P. Smithb9ba0752008-01-19 21:00:37 +00005310 collector kicked in at the wrong time that would cause the process
5311 to hang when the child wrote to stderr.
5312
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005313- Issue #1146: fix how textwrap breaks a long word that would start in
5314 the last column of a line.
Georg Brandlc6fde722008-01-19 19:48:19 +00005315
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005316- Issue #1693149: trace.py --ignore-module - accept multiple
5317 comma-separated modules to be given.
Skip Montanaro562133b2008-01-19 18:47:24 +00005318
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005319- Issue #1822: MIMEMultipart.is_multipart() behaves correctly for a
5320 just-created (and empty) instance. Thanks Jonathan Share.
Facundo Batista2b1b1952008-01-19 12:32:27 +00005321
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005322- Issue #1861: Added an attribute to the sched module which returns an
5323 ordered list of upcoming events (displayed as named tuples).
Raymond Hettinger44bd6c02008-01-17 19:31:38 +00005324
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005325- Issue #1837: The queue module now also supports a LIFO queue and a
5326 priority queue.
Raymond Hettinger3ad2acc82008-01-16 23:49:35 +00005327
Andrew M. Kuchling4a2762d2008-01-20 00:00:38 +00005328- Patch #1048820: Add insert-mode editing to curses.textpad.Textbox
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00005329 (patch by Stefan Wehr). Also, fix an off-by-one bug in
Andrew M. Kuchling4a2762d2008-01-20 00:00:38 +00005330 Textbox.gather().
5331
Thomas Heller02ec2892008-01-16 19:37:33 +00005332- Issue #1831: ctypes now raises a TypeError if conflicting positional
5333 and named arguments are passed to a Structure or Union initializer.
Thomas Heller415c1e32008-01-16 19:45:51 +00005334 When too many positional arguments are passed, also a TypeError is
5335 raised instead of a ValueError.
Thomas Heller02ec2892008-01-16 19:37:33 +00005336
Thomas Heller902d3072008-01-16 19:16:27 +00005337- Convert the internal ctypes array type cache to a WeakValueDict so
5338 that array types do not live longer than needed.
5339
Guido van Rossumcad37242008-01-15 17:59:29 +00005340- Issue #1786: pdb should use its own stdin/stdout around an exec call
5341 and when creating a recursive instance.
5342
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005343- Issue #1698398: ZipFile.printdir() crashed because the format string
5344 expected a tuple type of length six instead of time.struct_time
5345 object.
Raymond Hettinger351e1a32008-01-14 22:58:05 +00005346
Mark Dickinson59bc20b2008-01-12 01:56:00 +00005347- Issue #1780: The Decimal constructor now accepts arbitrary leading
5348 and trailing whitespace when constructing from a string.
5349 Context.create_decimal no longer accepts trailing newlines.
5350
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005351- Decimal.as_tuple(), difflib.find_longest_match() and inspect
5352 functions that returned a tuple now return a named tuple.
Georg Brandl2f32c392008-01-11 09:20:58 +00005353
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00005354- Doctest now returns results as a named tuple for readability:
Raymond Hettingerfff4e6e2008-01-11 01:25:54 +00005355 (0, 7) --> TestResults(failed=0, attempted=7)
5356
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005357- Issue #846388:q re.match is interruptible now, which is particularly
Facundo Batista4473d222008-01-08 21:10:12 +00005358 good for long regular expression matches.
5359
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005360- Patch #1137: allow setting buffer_size attribute on pyexpat Parser
5361 objects to set the character data buffer size.
Andrew M. Kuchlinge0a49b62008-01-08 14:30:55 +00005362
Facundo Batista52b25792008-01-08 12:25:20 +00005363- Issue #1757: The hash of a Decimal instance is no longer affected by
5364 the current context.
5365
Georg Brandl62416bc2008-01-07 18:47:44 +00005366- Patch #467924: add ZipFile.extract() and ZipFile.extractall() in the
5367 zipfile module.
5368
Christian Heimesfb2d25a2008-01-07 16:12:44 +00005369- Issue #1646: Make socket support the TIPC protocol.
5370
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005371- Bug #1742: return os.curdir from os.path.relpath() if both arguments
5372 are equal instead of raising an exception.
Georg Brandl183a0842008-01-06 14:27:15 +00005373
Guido van Rossumc6a04c22008-01-05 22:19:06 +00005374- Patch #1637: fix urlparse for URLs like 'http://x.com?arg=/foo'.
5375
Guido van Rossumced4eb02008-01-05 01:21:57 +00005376- Patch #1698: allow '@' in username parsed by urlparse.py.
5377
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005378- Issue #1735: TarFile.extractall() now correctly sets directory
5379 permissions and times.
Lars Gustäbel2ee1c762008-01-04 14:00:33 +00005380
Christian Heimes06875612008-01-04 13:21:07 +00005381- Bug #1713: posixpath.ismount() claims symlink to a mountpoint is a mountpoint.
5382
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005383- Bug #1687: Fxed plistlib.py restricts <integer> to Python int when
5384 writing
Christian Heimes06131882008-01-04 00:04:52 +00005385
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005386- Issue #1700: Regular expression inline flags incorrectly handle
5387 certain unicode characters.
Guido van Rossumae04c332008-01-03 19:12:44 +00005388
Jeffrey Yasskin2f3c16b2008-01-03 02:21:52 +00005389- Issue #1689: PEP 3141, numeric abstract base classes.
5390
Martin v. Löwis84b9aab2008-01-01 21:09:07 +00005391- Tk issue #1851526: Return results from Python callbacks to Tcl as
5392 Tcl objects.
5393
Thomas Heller153038e2007-12-18 19:00:34 +00005394- Issue #1642: Fix segfault in ctypes when trying to delete attributes.
5395
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005396- Issue #1727780: Support loading pickles of random.Random objects
5397 created on 32-bit systems on 64-bit systems, and vice versa. As a
5398 consequence of the change, Random pickles created by Python 2.6
5399 cannot be loaded in Python 2.5.
Martin v. Löwis6b449f42007-12-03 19:20:02 +00005400
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005401- Issue #1455: The distutils package now supports VS 2005 and VS 2008
5402 for both the msvccompiler and cygwincompiler.
Christian Heimesc654fc22007-12-03 13:55:16 +00005403
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005404- Issue #1531: tarfile.py: Read fileobj from the current offset, do
5405 not seek to the start.
Lars Gustäbel77b2d632007-12-01 21:02:12 +00005406
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005407- Issue #1534: Added a dictionary sys.float_info with information
5408 about the internal floating point type to the sys module.
Christian Heimesdfdfaab2007-12-01 11:20:10 +00005409
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005410- Issue #1429818: patch for trace and doctest modules so they play
5411 nicely together.
Skip Montanaro58a6f442007-11-24 14:30:47 +00005412
Brett Cannon43e53f82007-11-21 00:47:36 +00005413- doctest made a bad assumption that a package's __loader__.get_data()
5414 method used universal newlines.
5415
Nick Coghlan90b858e2007-11-07 11:57:51 +00005416- Issue #1705170: contextlib.contextmanager was still swallowing
5417 StopIteration in some cases. This should no longer happen.
5418
Thomas Heller486b1b02007-11-02 19:10:24 +00005419- Issue #1292: On alpha, arm, ppc, and s390 linux systems the
5420 --with-system-ffi configure option defaults to "yes".
5421
Hye-Shik Changa838a802007-10-28 11:19:02 +00005422- IN module for FreeBSD 8 is added and preexisting FreeBSD 6 and 7
5423 files are updated.
5424
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005425- Issues #1181, #1287: unsetenv() is now called when the
5426 os.environ.pop() and os.environ.clear() methods are used.
Georg Brandl1a94ec22007-10-24 21:40:38 +00005427
Thomas Heller91ac4222007-10-19 18:11:41 +00005428- ctypes will now work correctly on 32-bit systems when Python is
5429 configured with --with-system-ffi.
5430
Thomas Heller7fee6dd2007-10-11 19:51:32 +00005431- Patch #1203: ctypes now does work on OS X when Python is built with
Georg Brandl1a94ec22007-10-24 21:40:38 +00005432 --disable-toolbox-glue.
Thomas Heller7fee6dd2007-10-11 19:51:32 +00005433
Raymond Hettingera7fc4b12007-10-05 02:47:07 +00005434- collections.deque() now supports a "maxlen" argument.
5435
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005436- itertools.count() is no longer bounded to LONG_MAX. Formerly, it
5437 raised an OverflowError. Now, automatically shifts from ints to
5438 longs.
Raymond Hettinger50e90e22007-10-04 00:20:27 +00005439
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005440- Added itertools.product() which forms the Cartesian product of the
5441 input iterables.
Raymond Hettingerc5705a82008-02-22 19:50:06 +00005442
Raymond Hettinger66f91ea2008-03-05 20:59:58 +00005443- Added itertools.combinations() and itertools.permutations().
Raymond Hettinger93e804d2008-02-26 23:40:50 +00005444
Georg Brandlaff85e22007-09-20 16:06:07 +00005445- Patch #1541463: optimize performance of cgi.FieldStorage operations.
5446
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005447- Decimal is fully updated to the latest Decimal Specification
5448 (v1.66).
Facundo Batistab67da232007-09-17 16:26:50 +00005449
Georg Brandl8fd3ecf2007-09-12 19:00:07 +00005450- Bug #1153: repr.repr() now doesn't require set and dictionary items
5451 to be orderable to properly represent them.
5452
Thomas Heller2825b2e2007-09-07 06:32:17 +00005453- A 'c_longdouble' type was added to the ctypes module.
5454
Martin v. Löwis7dcb83c2007-08-30 19:04:09 +00005455- Bug #1709599: Run test_1565150 only if the file system is NTFS.
5456
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005457- When encountering a password-protected robots.txt file the
5458 RobotFileParser no longer prompts interactively for a username and
5459 password (bug 813986).
Skip Montanaro3e275362007-08-29 01:33:45 +00005460
Lars Gustäbel0f4a14b2007-08-28 12:31:09 +00005461- TarFile.__init__() no longer fails if no name argument is passed and
5462 the fileobj argument has no usable name attribute (e.g. StringIO).
5463
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005464- The functools module now provides 'reduce', for forward
5465 compatibility with Python 3000.
Guido van Rossum95f1a1b2007-08-27 20:52:10 +00005466
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005467- Server-side SSL support and cert verification added, by Bill
5468 Janssen.
Guido van Rossum4f2c3dd2007-08-25 15:08:43 +00005469
Bill Janssenf413fb02007-08-30 18:08:06 +00005470- socket.ssl deprecated; use new ssl module instead.
5471
Georg Brandl8ec57542007-08-24 06:10:01 +00005472- uuid creation is now threadsafe.
5473
Hye-Shik Chang23901042007-08-20 06:49:18 +00005474- EUC-KR codec now handles the cheot-ga-keut composed make-up hangul
5475 syllables.
5476
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005477- GB18030 codec now can encode additional two-byte characters that are
5478 missing in GBK.
Hye-Shik Changf3e93a02007-08-04 04:10:18 +00005479
Walter Dörwald6e390802007-08-17 16:41:28 +00005480- Add new codecs for UTF-32, UTF-32-LE and UTF-32-BE.
5481
Martin v. Löwisf1e0b3f2007-07-28 07:03:05 +00005482- Bug #1704793: Return UTF-16 pair if unicodedata.lookup cannot
5483 represent the result in a single character.
5484
Martin v. Löwisf25e35b2007-07-27 18:28:22 +00005485- Bug #978833: Close https sockets by releasing the _ssl object.
5486
Martin v. Löwis254b8f92007-07-25 16:24:23 +00005487- Change location of the package index to pypi.python.org/pypi
5488
Thomas Hellerfa704c62007-07-13 17:12:23 +00005489- Bug #1701409: Fix a segfault in printing ctypes.c_char_p and
5490 ctypes.c_wchar_p when they point to an invalid location. As a
5491 sideeffect the representation of these instances has changed.
5492
Lars Gustäbel104490e2007-06-18 11:42:11 +00005493- tarfile.py: Added "exclude" keyword argument to TarFile.add().
5494
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005495- Bug #1734723: Fix repr.Repr() so it doesn't ignore the maxtuple
5496 attribute.
Neal Norwitzc161cb92007-06-11 07:29:43 +00005497
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005498- The urlopen function of urllib2 now has an optional timeout
5499 parameter (note that it actually works with HTTP, HTTPS, FTP and
5500 FTPS connections).
Facundo Batista10951d52007-06-06 17:15:23 +00005501
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005502- In ftplib, the FTP.ntransfercmd method, when in passive mode, now
5503 uses the socket.create_connection function, using the timeout
5504 specified at connection time.
Facundo Batista92493122007-06-06 15:13:37 +00005505
Hye-Shik Chang9b541402007-06-05 18:58:51 +00005506- Bug #1728403: Fix a bug that CJKCodecs StreamReader hangs when it
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005507 reads a file that ends with incomplete sequence and sizehint
5508 argument for .read() is specified.
Hye-Shik Chang9b541402007-06-05 18:58:51 +00005509
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005510- Bug #1730389: Change time.strptime() to use ``\s+`` instead of
5511 ``\s*`` when matching spaces in the specified format argument.
Brett Cannonf7188ce2007-06-03 23:13:41 +00005512
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005513- Bugs #1668596/#1720897: distutils now copies data files even if
5514 package_dir is empty.
Neal Norwitz4a700bb2007-06-01 07:29:12 +00005515
Brett Cannonc2aa09a2007-05-31 19:20:00 +00005516- sha now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
5517
Brett Cannon7eec2172007-05-30 22:24:28 +00005518- md5 now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
5519
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005520- Issue #1385: The hmac module now computes the correct hmac when
5521 using hashes with a block size other than 64 bytes (such as sha384
5522 and sha512).
Gregory P. Smithe1ac4f12007-11-06 00:19:03 +00005523
Brett Cannonc249bda2007-05-30 21:48:58 +00005524- mimify now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
5525
Brett Cannon90134c92007-05-30 20:46:26 +00005526- MimeWriter now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
5527
Lars Gustäbela0fcb932007-05-27 19:49:30 +00005528- tarfile.py: Improved unicode support. Unicode input names are now
5529 officially supported. Added "errors" argument to the TarFile class.
5530
Facundo Batista711a54e2007-05-24 17:50:54 +00005531- urllib.ftpwrapper class now accepts an optional timeout.
5532
Georg Brandlc90bc752007-05-24 16:49:29 +00005533- shlex.split() now has an optional "posix" parameter.
5534
Brett Cannon41bf2fa2007-05-20 23:57:38 +00005535- The posixfile module now raises a DeprecationWarning.
5536
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005537- Remove the gopherlib module. This also leads to the removal of
5538 gopher support in urllib/urllib2.
Brett Cannond75f0432007-05-16 22:42:29 +00005539
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005540- Fix bug in marshal where bad data would cause a segfault due to lack
5541 of an infinite recursion check.
Neal Norwitzb1a9b372007-05-16 20:05:11 +00005542
Neal Norwitze0e70a42007-05-16 05:06:33 +00005543- Removed plat-freebsd2 and plat-freebsd3 directories (and IN.py in
5544 the directories).
5545
Georg Brandla09a96a2007-05-15 20:19:34 +00005546- HTML-escape the plain traceback in cgitb's HTML output, to prevent
5547 the traceback inadvertently or maliciously closing the comment and
5548 injecting HTML into the error page.
5549
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005550- The popen2 module and os.popen* are deprecated. Use the subprocess
5551 module.
Neal Norwitz42dd86b2007-05-11 06:57:33 +00005552
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005553- Added an optional credentials argument to SMTPHandler, for use with
5554 SMTP servers which require authentication.
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00005555
5556- Patch #1695948: Added optional timeout parameter to SocketHandler.
5557
5558- Bug #1652788: Minor fix for currentframe.
5559
5560- Patch #1598415: Added WatchedFileHandler to better support external
5561 log file rotation using e.g. newsyslog or logrotate. This handler is
5562 only useful in Unix/Linux environments.
5563
Georg Brandlfb4b3b72007-04-24 15:27:13 +00005564- Bug #1706381: Specifying the SWIG option "-c++" in the setup.py file
5565 (as opposed to the command line) will now write file names ending in
5566 ".cpp" too.
5567
Facundo Batistad918a652007-04-24 13:54:38 +00005568- As specified in RFC 2616, an HTTP response like 2xx indicates that
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005569 the client's request was successfully received, understood, and
5570 accepted. Now in these cases no error is raised in urllib (issue
5571 #1177) and urllib2.
Facundo Batistad918a652007-04-24 13:54:38 +00005572
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005573- Bug #1290505: time.strptime's internal cache of locale information
5574 is now properly recreated when the locale is changed.
Brett Cannonc6906652007-04-01 18:47:27 +00005575
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005576- Patch #1685563: remove (don't add) duplicate paths in
5577 distutils.MSVCCompiler.
Neal Norwitz8f35f442007-04-01 18:24:22 +00005578
Facundo Batistab6a5c9d2007-03-29 18:22:35 +00005579- Added a timeout parameter to the constructor of other protocols
5580 (telnetlib, ftplib, smtplib and poplib). This is second part of the
5581 work started with create_connection() and timeout in httplib, and
5582 closes patch #723312.
5583
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00005584- Patch #1676823: Added create_connection() to socket.py, which may be
5585 called with a timeout, and use it from httplib (whose HTTPConnection
Facundo Batista70f996b2007-05-21 17:32:32 +00005586 and HTTPSConnection now accept an optional timeout).
Facundo Batista07c78be2007-03-23 18:54:07 +00005587
Martin v. Löwis0af33882007-03-23 13:27:15 +00005588- Bug #978833: Revert r50844, as it broke _socketobject.dup.
5589
Žiga Seilnacht7492e422007-03-21 20:07:56 +00005590- Bug #1675967: re patterns pickled with Python 2.4 and earlier can
5591 now be unpickled with Python 2.5 and newer.
5592
Collin Wintera8785cc2007-03-19 18:52:08 +00005593- Patch #1630118: add a SpooledTemporaryFile class to tempfile.py.
5594
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005595- Patch #1273829: os.walk() now has a "followlinks" parameter. If set
5596 to True (which is not the default), it visits symlinks pointing to
Georg Brandlcae9f3d2007-03-21 09:10:29 +00005597 directories.
5598
Georg Brandl8f06d022007-03-16 07:55:09 +00005599- Bug #1681228: the webbrowser module now correctly uses the default
5600 GNOME or KDE browser, depending on whether there is a session of one
5601 of those present. Also, it tries the Windows default browser before
5602 trying Mozilla variants.
5603
Collin Winter6f187742007-03-16 22:16:08 +00005604- Patch #1339796: add a relpath() function to os.path.
5605
Georg Brandlab1f4672007-03-15 07:41:30 +00005606- Patch #1681153: the wave module now closes a file object it opened if
5607 initialization failed.
5608
Georg Brandlf66b6032007-03-14 08:27:52 +00005609- Bug #767111: fix long-standing bug in urllib which caused an
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005610 AttributeError instead of an IOError when the server's response
5611 didn't contain a valid HTTP status line.
Georg Brandlf66b6032007-03-14 08:27:52 +00005612
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005613- Patch #957650: "%var%" environment variable references are now
5614 properly expanded in ntpath.expandvars(), also "~user" home
5615 directory references are recognized and handled on Windows.
Georg Brandl03b90d82007-03-13 22:07:36 +00005616
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005617- Patch #1429539: pdb now correctly initializes the __main__ module
5618 for the debugged script, which means that imports from __main__ work
Georg Brandlb6ae6aa2007-03-13 21:58:44 +00005619 correctly now.
5620
Georg Brandlbad6f192007-03-13 21:32:56 +00005621- The nonobvious commands.getstatus() function is now deprecated.
5622
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005623- Patch #1393667: pdb now has a "run" command which restarts the
5624 debugged Python program, optionally with different arguments.
Georg Brandl8e84c652007-03-13 21:08:15 +00005625
Thomas Heller5dc4fe02007-03-13 20:42:52 +00005626- Patch #1649190: Adding support for _Bool to ctypes as c_bool.
5627
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005628- Patch #1530482: add pydoc.render_doc() which returns the
5629 documentation for a thing instead of paging it to stdout, which
5630 pydoc.doc() does.
Georg Brandl8441f152007-03-13 20:02:57 +00005631
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005632- Patch #1533909: the timeit module now accepts callables in addition
5633 to strings for the code to time and the setup code. Also added two
5634 convenience functions for instantiating a Timer and calling its
5635 methods.
Georg Brandld9bef352007-03-13 19:32:21 +00005636
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005637- Patch #1537850: tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile now has a "delete"
5638 parameter which can be set to False to prevent the default
5639 delete-on-close behavior.
Georg Brandl35ef9c12007-03-13 18:31:49 +00005640
Georg Brandl9e6b4702007-03-13 18:15:41 +00005641- Patch #1581073: add a flag to textwrap that prevents the dropping of
5642 whitespace while wrapping.
5643
Georg Brandl92a6bae2007-03-13 17:43:32 +00005644- Patch #1603688: ConfigParser.SafeConfigParser now checks values that
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005645 are set for invalid interpolation sequences that would lead to
5646 errors on reading back those values.
Georg Brandl92a6bae2007-03-13 17:43:32 +00005647
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005648- Added support for the POSIX.1-2001 (pax) format to
5649 tarfile.py. Extended and cleaned up the test suite. Added a new
5650 testtar.tar.
Lars Gustäbelc64e4022007-03-13 10:47:19 +00005651
Martin v. Löwisbdd0f392007-03-13 10:24:00 +00005652- Patch #1449244: Support Unicode strings in
5653 email.message.Message.{set_charset,get_content_charset}.
5654
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005655- Patch #1542681: add entries for "with", "as" and "CONTEXTMANAGERS"
5656 to pydoc's help keywords.
Georg Brandlb6a87542007-03-13 10:06:48 +00005657
Georg Brandl4ffc8f52007-03-13 09:41:31 +00005658- Patch #1555098: use str.join() instead of repeated string
5659 concatenation in robotparser.
5660
Georg Brandl94fe3f52007-03-13 09:32:11 +00005661- Patch #1635454: the csv.DictWriter class now includes the offending
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005662 field names in its exception message if you try to write a record
5663 with a dictionary containing fields not in the CSV field names list.
Georg Brandl94fe3f52007-03-13 09:32:11 +00005664
Georg Brandlceede5c2007-03-13 08:14:27 +00005665- Patch #1668100: urllib2 now correctly raises URLError instead of
5666 OSError if accessing a local file via the file:// protocol fails.
5667
Martin v. Löwis2681beb2007-03-12 11:01:10 +00005668- Patch #1677862: Require a space or tab after import in .pth files.
5669
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005670- Patch #1192590: Fix pdb's "ignore" and "condition" commands so they
5671 trap the IndexError caused by passing in an invalid breakpoint
5672 number.
Collin Winter2faa9e12007-03-11 16:00:20 +00005673
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005674- Patch #1599845: Add an option to disable the implicit calls to
5675 server_bind() and server_activate() in the constructors for
5676 TCPServer, SimpleXMLRPCServer and DocXMLRPCServer.
Collin Winterae041062007-03-10 14:41:48 +00005677
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005678- Bug #1531963: Make SocketServer.TCPServer's server_address always be
5679 equal to calling getsockname() on the server's socket. Fixed by
Collin Winterfaaa2042007-03-10 03:35:34 +00005680 patch #1545011.
Collin Winter22c42ba2007-03-10 02:51:26 +00005681
Andrew M. Kuchlinge45a77a2008-01-19 16:26:13 +00005682- Patch #742598: Add .timeout attribute to SocketServer that calls
5683 .handle_timeout() when no requests are received.
5684
Thomas Heller2456a3c2007-03-09 20:39:22 +00005685- Bug #1651235: When a tuple was passed to a ctypes function call,
5686 Python would crash instead of raising an error.
5687
Thomas Hellerc2f77252007-03-09 19:21:28 +00005688- Bug #1646630: ctypes.string_at(buf, 0) and ctypes.wstring_at(buf, 0)
5689 returned string up to the first NUL character.
5690
Martin v. Löwis1190a382007-03-09 15:35:55 +00005691- Patch #957003: Implement smtplib.LMTP.
5692
Collin Winterfb728de2007-03-09 03:26:32 +00005693- Patch #1481079: add support for HTTP_REFERER to CGIHTTPServer.
5694
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005695- Patch #1675424: Added tests for uncovered code in the zipfile
5696 module. The KeyError raised by Zipfile.getinfo for nonexistent
5697 names now has a descriptive message.
Georg Brandl4b3ab6f2007-07-12 09:59:22 +00005698
Martin v. Löwis05c075d2007-03-07 11:04:33 +00005699- Bug #1115886: os.path.splitext('.cshrc') gives now ('.cshrc', '').
5700
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005701- unittest now verifies more of its assumptions. In particular,
5702 TestCase and TestSuite subclasses (not instances) are no longer
5703 accepted in TestSuite.addTest(). This should cause no
5704 incompatibility since it never made sense with ordinary subclasses
5705 -- the failure just occurred later, with a more cumbersome
5706 exception.
Georg Brandl9caadf82007-03-08 18:37:31 +00005707
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005708- Patch #787789: allow to pass custom TestRunner instances to
5709 unittest's main() function.
Georg Brandld0a96252007-03-07 09:21:06 +00005710
Georg Brandl15c5ce92007-03-07 09:09:40 +00005711- Patches #1550273, #1550272: fix a few bugs in unittest and add a
5712 comprehensive test suite for the module.
5713
Georg Brandl71ff6462007-03-07 08:31:51 +00005714- Patch #1001604: glob.glob() now returns unicode filenames if it was
5715 given a unicode argument and os.listdir() returns unicode filenames.
5716
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005717- Patch #1673619: setup.py identifies extension modules it doesn't
5718 know how to build and those it knows how to build but that fail to
5719 build.
Skip Montanarod1287322007-03-06 15:41:38 +00005720
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00005721- Patch #912410: Replace HTML entity references for attribute values
Martin v. Löwisab8a6bb2007-03-06 14:43:00 +00005722 in HTMLParser.
5723
Georg Brandlff432e62007-03-06 13:37:45 +00005724- Patch #1663234: you can now run doctest on test files and modules
5725 using "python -m doctest [-v] filename ...".
5726
Martin v. Löwis3eb76482007-03-06 10:41:24 +00005727- Patch #1121142: Implement ZipFile.open.
5728
Skip Montanarof694b1b2007-03-04 20:54:12 +00005729- Taught setup.py how to locate Berkeley DB on Macs using MacPorts.
5730
Raymond Hettinger00166c52007-02-19 04:08:43 +00005731- Added heapq.merge() for merging sorted input streams.
5732
Raymond Hettingercd3c1082007-10-23 21:23:07 +00005733- Added collections.namedtuple() for assigning field names to tuples.
Raymond Hettingerc37e5e02007-03-01 06:16:43 +00005734
Raymond Hettingerd36862c2007-02-21 05:20:38 +00005735- Added itertools.izip_longest().
5736
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005737- Have the encoding package's search function dynamically import using
5738 absolute import semantics.
Brett Cannon971a0122007-02-15 22:54:39 +00005739
Lars Gustäbel5b1a7852007-02-13 16:09:24 +00005740- Patch #1647484: Renamed GzipFile's filename attribute to name.
5741
Martin v. Löwis84f6de92007-02-13 10:10:39 +00005742- Patch #1517891: Mode 'a' for ZipFile now creates the file if it
5743 doesn't exist.
5744
Martin v. Löwisc6d626e2007-02-13 09:49:38 +00005745- Patch #698833: Support file decryption in zipfile.
5746
Martin v. Löwis07aa3ed2007-02-13 08:34:45 +00005747- Patch #685268: Consider a package's __path__ in imputil.
5748
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005749- Patch #1463026: Support default namespace in XMLGenerator.
Martin v. Löwis2bad58f2007-02-12 12:21:10 +00005750
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005751- Patch #1571379: Make trace's --ignore-dir facility work in the face
5752 of relative directory names.
Skip Montanaro691acf22007-02-11 18:24:37 +00005753
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005754- Bug #1600860: Search for shared python library in LIBDIR, not
5755 lib/python/config, on "linux" and "gnu" systems.
Martin v. Löwis0a203262007-02-09 12:36:48 +00005756
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005757- Patch #1652681: tarfile.py: create nonexistent files in append mode
5758 and allow appending to empty files.
Lars Gustäbel3f8aca12007-02-06 18:38:13 +00005759
Peter Astrand5f9c6ae2007-02-06 15:37:50 +00005760- Bug #1124861: Automatically create pipes if GetStdHandle fails in
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00005761 subprocess.
Peter Astrand5f9c6ae2007-02-06 15:37:50 +00005762
Georg Brandl4ba9e5b2007-01-27 17:59:42 +00005763- Patch #1634778: add missing encoding aliases for iso8859_15 and
5764 iso8859_16.
5765
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005766- Patch #1638243: the compiler package is now able to correctly
5767 compile a with statement; previously, executing code containing a
5768 with statement compiled by the compiler package crashed the
5769 interpreter.
Georg Brandlab496842007-01-27 17:43:02 +00005770
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00005771- Bug #1643943: Fix time.strptime's support for the %U directive.
5772
Lars Gustäbel0713a682007-02-19 09:54:47 +00005773- Patch #1507247: tarfile.py: use current umask for intermediate
5774 directories.
5775
Georg Brandldd7b0522007-01-21 10:35:10 +00005776- Patch #1627441: close sockets properly in urllib2.
5777
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005778- Bug #494589: make ntpath.expandvars behave according to its
5779 docstring.
Sjoerd Mullender33a0a062007-01-16 16:42:38 +00005780
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00005781- Changed platform module API python_version_tuple() to actually
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00005782 return a tuple (it used to return a list).
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00005783
5784- Added new platform module APIs python_branch(), python_revision(),
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00005785 python_implementation() and linux_distribution().
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00005786
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00005787- Added support for IronPython and Jython to the platform module.
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00005788
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005789- The sets module has been deprecated. Use the built-in set/frozenset
5790 types instead.
Brett Cannon093b6702007-01-13 00:29:49 +00005791
Thomas Heller6fd45492007-01-12 20:21:53 +00005792- Bug #1610795: make ctypes.util.find_library work on BSD systems.
5793
Thomas Heller8138c262007-01-11 21:18:56 +00005794- Fixes for 64-bit Windows: In ctypes.wintypes, correct the
5795 definitions of HANDLE, WPARAM, LPARAM data types. Make
5796 parameterless foreign function calls work.
5797
Thomas Hellerfb9d7872007-01-10 20:12:13 +00005798- The version number of the ctypes package changed to "1.1.0".
5799
Vinay Sajipab41c102007-01-09 14:51:36 +00005800- Bug #1627575: logging: Added _open() method to FileHandler which can
5801 be used to reopen files. The FileHandler instance now saves the
5802 encoding (which can be None) in an attribute called "encoding".
5803
Vinay Sajipc9137262007-01-08 18:52:36 +00005804- Bug #411881: logging.handlers: bare except clause removed from
5805 SMTPHandler.emit. Now, only ImportError is trapped.
5806
5807- Bug #411881: logging.handlers: bare except clause removed from
5808 SocketHandler.createSocket. Now, only socket.error is trapped.
5809
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005810- Bug #411881: logging: bare except clause removed from
5811 LogRecord.__init__. Now, only ValueError, TypeError and
5812 AttributeError are trapped.
Vinay Sajipc9137262007-01-08 18:52:36 +00005813
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005814- Patch #1504073: Fix tarfile.open() for mode "r" with a fileobj
5815 argument.
Lars Gustäbela7ba6fc2006-12-27 10:30:46 +00005816
Andrew M. Kuchling71662322006-12-27 03:31:24 +00005817- Patch #1182394 from Shane Holloway: speed up HMAC.hexdigest.
5818
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005819- Patch #1262036: Prevent TarFiles from being added to themselves
5820 under certain conditions.
Lars Gustäbela4b23812006-12-23 17:57:23 +00005821
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005822- Patch #1230446: tarfile.py: fix ExFileObject so that read() and
5823 tell() work correctly together with readline().
Lars Gustäbel6baa5022006-12-23 16:40:13 +00005824
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005825- Patch #1484695: The tarfile module now raises a HeaderError
5826 exception if a buffer given to frombuf() is invalid.
Georg Brandlebbeed72006-12-19 22:06:46 +00005827
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00005828- Bug #1503765: Fix a problem in logging.config with spaces in comma-
5829 separated lists read from logging config files.
5830
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005831- Patch #1604907: Fix problems in logging.handlers caused at logging
5832 shutdown when syslog handlers fail to initialize because of syslogd
5833 problems.
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00005834
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005835- Patch #1608267: fix a race condition in os.makedirs() if the
5836 directory to be created is already there.
Georg Brandlb1307432006-12-09 09:08:29 +00005837
Georg Brandl87fa5592006-12-06 22:21:18 +00005838- Patch #1610437: fix a tarfile bug with long filename headers.
5839
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005840- Patch #1371075: Make ConfigParser accept optional dict type for
5841 ordering, sorting, etc.
Martin v. Löwisa00bcac2006-12-03 12:01:53 +00005842
Thomas Helleref583a42006-11-28 20:21:54 +00005843- Bug #1563807: _ctypes built on AIX fails with ld ffi error.
5844
Thomas Heller25d208b2006-11-24 18:45:39 +00005845- Bug #1598620: A ctypes Structure cannot contain itself.
5846
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005847- Patch #1070046: Marshal new-style objects like InstanceType in
5848 xmlrpclib.
Martin v. Löwis07529352006-11-19 18:51:54 +00005849
Martin v. Löwiscffcc8b2006-11-19 10:41:41 +00005850- cStringIO.truncate(-1) now raises an IOError, like StringIO and
5851 regular files.
5852
Martin v. Löwisbba003e2006-11-18 18:42:11 +00005853- Patch #1472877: Fix Tix subwidget name resolution.
5854
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005855- Patch #1594554: Always close a tkSimpleDialog on ok(), even if an
5856 exception occurs.
Martin v. Löwisef5fd3e2006-11-18 18:05:35 +00005857
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005858- Patch #1538878: Don't make tkSimpleDialog dialogs transient if the
5859 parent window is withdrawn.
Martin v. Löwisc73a4a42006-11-18 18:00:23 +00005860
Georg Brandl54082112006-11-16 16:50:59 +00005861- Bug #1597824: return the registered function from atexit.register()
5862 to facilitate usage as a decorator.
5863
Martin v. Löwis45cd4ff2006-11-12 18:56:03 +00005864- Patch #1360200: Use unmangled_version RPM spec field to deal with
5865 file name mangling.
5866
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005867- Patch #1359217: Process 2xx response in an ftplib transfer that
5868 precedes an 1xx response.
Martin v. Löwis36cbc082006-11-12 18:48:13 +00005869
Martin v. Löwis065f0c82006-11-12 10:41:39 +00005870- Patch #1355023: support whence argument for GzipFile.seek.
5871
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00005872- Patch #1065257: Support passing open files as body in
Martin v. Löwis040a9272006-11-12 10:32:47 +00005873 HTTPConnection.request().
5874
Andrew M. Kuchlinga3e5d372006-11-09 13:27:07 +00005875- Bug #1569790: mailbox.py: Maildir.get_folder() and MH.get_folder()
5876 weren't passing the message factory on to newly created Maildir/MH
5877 objects.
5878
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005879- Patch #1514543: mailbox.py: In the Maildir class, report errors if
5880 there's a filename clash instead of possibly losing a message.
5881 (Patch by David Watson.)
Andrew M. Kuchling978d8282006-11-09 21:16:46 +00005882
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005883- Patch #1514544: Try to ensure that messages/indexes have been
5884 physically written to disk after calling .flush() or
5885 .close(). (Patch by David Watson.)
Andrew M. Kuchlingb5686da2006-11-09 13:51:14 +00005886
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00005887- Patch #1592250: Add elide argument to Tkinter.Text.search.
Martin v. Löwis038cad72006-11-09 11:27:32 +00005888
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00005889- Patch #838546: Make terminal become controlling in pty.fork().
Martin v. Löwisb2bba732006-11-09 11:06:03 +00005890
Martin v. Löwis5361e9a2006-11-08 07:35:55 +00005891- Patch #1351744: Add askyesnocancel helper for tkMessageBox.
5892
Martin v. Löwis5310e502006-11-04 18:14:06 +00005893- Patch #1060577: Extract list of RPM files from spec file in
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00005894 bdist_rpm.
Martin v. Löwis5310e502006-11-04 18:14:06 +00005895
Georg Brandl2c9838e2006-10-29 14:39:09 +00005896- Bug #1586613: fix zlib and bz2 codecs' incremental en/decoders.
5897
Georg Brandl3354f282006-10-29 09:16:12 +00005898- Patch #1583880: fix tarfile's problems with long names and posix/
5899 GNU modes.
5900
Georg Brandl5addf702006-10-29 08:53:06 +00005901- Bug #1586448: the compiler module now emits the same bytecode for
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00005902 list comprehensions as the built-in compiler, using the LIST_APPEND
Georg Brandl5addf702006-10-29 08:53:06 +00005903 opcode.
5904
Georg Brandl8f99f812006-10-29 08:39:22 +00005905- Fix codecs.EncodedFile which did not use file_encoding in 2.5.0, and
5906 fix all codecs file wrappers to work correctly with the "with"
5907 statement (bug #1586513).
5908
Thomas Heller112d1a62006-10-27 19:05:53 +00005909- Lib/modulefinder.py now handles absolute and relative imports
5910 correctly.
5911
Martin v. Löwisee82c0e2006-10-27 07:13:28 +00005912- Patch #1567274: Support SMTP over TLS.
5913
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005914- Patch #1560695: Add .note.GNU-stack to ctypes' sysv.S so that ctypes
5915 isn't considered as requiring executable stacks.
Martin v. Löwis1b2f6272006-10-22 10:55:15 +00005916
Thomas Hellerd2ea4a22006-10-17 19:30:48 +00005917- ctypes callback functions only support 'fundamental' data types as
5918 result type. Raise an error when something else is used. This is a
5919 partial fix for Bug #1574584.
5920
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005921- Fix turtle so that time.sleep is imported for the entire library.
5922 Allows the demo2 function to be executed on its own instead of only
5923 when the module is run as a script.
Brett Cannond80e0c82006-10-16 03:09:52 +00005924
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005925- Bug #813342: Start the IDLE subprocess with -Qnew if the parent is
5926 started with that option.
Georg Brandld0761532006-10-12 07:57:21 +00005927
Martin v. Löwisf43893a2006-10-09 20:44:25 +00005928- Bug #1565150: Fix subsecond processing for os.utime on Windows.
5929
Martin v. Löwis8b274262006-10-04 15:25:28 +00005930- Support for MSVC 8 was added to bdist_wininst.
5931
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005932- Bug #1446043: correctly raise a LookupError if an encoding name
5933 given to encodings.search_function() contains a dot.
Georg Brandla92979a2006-09-30 11:22:28 +00005934
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005935- Bug #1560617: in pyclbr, return full module name not only for
5936 classes, but also for functions.
Georg Brandl154324a2006-09-30 11:06:47 +00005937
Georg Brandl05b3c452006-09-30 10:58:01 +00005938- Bug #1457823: cgi.(Sv)FormContentDict's constructor now takes
5939 keep_blank_values and strict_parsing keyword arguments.
5940
Georg Brandl8d1e5bf2006-09-30 09:13:21 +00005941- Bug #1566602: correct failure of posixpath unittest when $HOME ends
5942 with a slash.
5943
Georg Brandl8c667452006-09-30 07:31:57 +00005944- Bug #1565661: in webbrowser, split() the command for the default
5945 GNOME browser in case it is a command with args.
5946
Georg Brandl5a85d5c2009-06-24 06:41:19 +00005947- Made the error message for time.strptime when the data and
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005948 format do match be more clear.
Brett Cannon11b35352006-09-26 23:38:24 +00005949
Georg Brandlc7986ce2006-09-24 12:50:24 +00005950- Fix a bug in traceback.format_exception_only() that led to an error
5951 being raised when print_exc() was called without an exception set.
5952 In version 2.4, this printed "None", restored that behavior.
5953
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005954- Make webbrowser.BackgroundBrowser usable in Windows (it wasn't
5955 because the close_fds arg to subprocess.Popen is not supported).
Georg Brandl2c94bf72006-09-24 10:36:01 +00005956
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005957- Reverted patch #1504333 to sgmllib because it introduced an infinite
5958 loop.
Neal Norwitzbcc119a2006-09-11 04:24:09 +00005959
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005960- Patch #1553314: Fix the inspect.py slowdown that was hurting IPython
5961 & SAGE by adding smarter caching in inspect.getmodule()
Nick Coghlanb3c18f82006-09-08 10:04:38 +00005962
Georg Brandl4e933132006-09-06 20:05:58 +00005963- Fix missing import of the types module in logging.config.
5964
Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +00005965- Patch #1550886: Fix decimal module context management implementation
Neal Norwitza22975f2006-09-05 02:24:03 +00005966 to match the localcontext() example from PEP 343.
Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +00005967
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005968- Bug #1545341: The 'classifier' keyword argument to the Distutils
5969 setup() function now accepts tuples as well as lists.
Andrew M. Kuchling99994792006-10-09 17:10:12 +00005970
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005971- Bug #1541863: uuid.uuid1 failed to generate unique identifiers on
5972 systems with low clock resolution.
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00005973
Gustavo Niemeyerc36bede2006-09-07 00:48:33 +00005974- Bug #1531862: Do not close standard file descriptors in subprocess.
5975
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005976- idle: Honor the "Cancel" action in the save dialog (Debian bug
5977 #299092).
Matthias Klosea398e2d2007-01-11 11:44:04 +00005978
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005979- Fix utf-8-sig incremental decoder, which didn't recognise a BOM when
5980 the first chunk fed to the decoder started with a BOM, but was
5981 longer than 3 bytes.
Georg Brandl27562782006-10-27 20:39:43 +00005982
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005983- The implementation of UnicodeError objects has been simplified
5984 (start and end attributes are now stored directly as Py_ssize_t
5985 members).
Walter Dörwald84a3efe2007-06-13 16:57:12 +00005986
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005987- Issue #829951: In the smtplib module, SMTP.starttls() now complies
5988 with RFC 3207 and forgets any knowledge obtained from the server not
5989 obtained from the TLS negotiation itself. Patch contributed by Bill
5990 Fenner.
Gregory P. Smith2b3ba582008-01-17 08:03:17 +00005991
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005992- Issue #1339: The smtplib.SMTP class has been refactored a bit such
Gregory P. Smithbde4ae42008-01-17 08:35:49 +00005993 that the SMTP.starttls() caller no longer needs to call ehlo()
5994 beforehand. SMTP.starttls() now raises an exception of the server
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005995 does not claim to support starttls. Adds the
5996 SMTP.ehlo_or_helo_if_needed() method. Patch contributed by Bill
5997 Fenner.
Gregory P. Smithbde4ae42008-01-17 08:35:49 +00005998
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005999- Patch #1089358: Add signal.siginterrupt, a wrapper around
6000 siginterrupt(3).
Georg Brandl29604a12008-01-26 14:03:47 +00006001
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00006002Extension Modules
6003-----------------
6004
Georg Brandl392c6fc2008-05-25 07:25:25 +00006005- Patch #1657: added select.epoll and select.kqueue.
Christian Heimes0e9ab5f2008-03-21 23:49:44 +00006006
Georg Brandlebcfd112008-02-23 23:04:35 +00006007- Patch #1506171: added operator.methodcaller().
6008
Georg Brandle2065c62008-02-23 23:02:23 +00006009- Patch #1826: operator.attrgetter() now supports dotted attribute paths.
6010
Georg Brandl392c6fc2008-05-25 07:25:25 +00006011- Patch #1957: syslogmodule: Release GIL when calling syslog(3).
Christian Heimesf0476e82008-02-23 17:42:31 +00006012
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006013- Bug #2112: mmap.error is now a subclass of EnvironmentError and not
6014 a direct EnvironmentError.
Facundo Batistae1396882008-02-17 18:59:29 +00006015
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006016- Bug #2111: mmap segfaults when trying to write a block opened with
6017 PROT_READ.
Christian Heimes7adfad82008-02-15 08:20:11 +00006018
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006019- Bug #2063: correct order of utime and stime in os.times() result on
6020 Windows.
Georg Brandl0a40ffb2008-02-13 07:20:22 +00006021
Martin v. Löwise0d30ef2008-02-12 13:47:26 +00006022- Patch #1736: Fix file name handling of _msi.FCICreate.
6023
Hye-Shik Chang01612e72008-02-08 17:10:20 +00006024- Updated ``big5hkscs`` codec to the HKSCS revision of 2004.
6025
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006026- Issue #1940: make it possible to use curses.filter() before
6027 curses.initscr() as the documentation says.
Georg Brandl29604a12008-01-26 14:03:47 +00006028
Christian Heimes7f39c9f2008-01-25 12:18:43 +00006029- Backport of _fileio module from Python 3.0.
6030
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006031- Patch #1087741: mmap.mmap is now a class, not a factory function. It
6032 is also subclassable now.
Georg Brandl5ca3fd82008-01-21 14:18:14 +00006033
Georg Brandl56112892008-01-20 13:59:46 +00006034- Patch #1648: added ``sys.getprofile()`` and ``sys.gettrace()``.
6035
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006036- Patch #1663329: added ``os.closerange()`` function to quickly close
6037 a range of file descriptors without considering errors.
Georg Brandl309501a2008-01-19 20:22:13 +00006038
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006039- Patch #976880: ``mmap`` objects now have an ``rfind`` method that
Andrew M. Kuchling5c60bfc2008-01-19 18:18:41 +00006040 works as expected. ``mmap.find`` also takes an optional ``end``
6041 parameter.
6042
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006043- _winreg's HKEY object has gained __enter__ and __exit__ methods to
6044 support the context manager protocol. The _winreg module also
6045 gained a new function ``ExpandEnvironmentStrings`` to expand
6046 REG_EXPAND_SZ keys.
Christian Heimesb39a7562008-01-08 15:46:10 +00006047
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006048- itertools.starmap() now accepts any iterable input. Previously, it
6049 required the function inputs to be tuples.
Raymond Hettinger47317092008-01-17 03:02:14 +00006050
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006051- itertools.chain() now has an alternate constructor,
6052 chain.from_iterable().
Raymond Hettingerb4cbc982008-02-28 22:46:41 +00006053
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006054- Issue #1646: Make socket support TIPC. The socket module now has
6055 support for TIPC under Linux, see http://tipc.sf.net/ for more
6056 information.
Christian Heimesfb2d25a2008-01-07 16:12:44 +00006057
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006058- Added interface for Windows' WSAIoctl to socket object and added an
6059 example for a simple network sniffer.
Christian Heimes04ae9162008-01-04 15:23:30 +00006060
Guido van Rossum076d9ee2008-01-03 23:54:04 +00006061- Bug #1301: Bad assert in _tkinter fixed.
6062
Christian Heimescdaa2cb2007-12-31 14:47:07 +00006063- Added bdist_wininst executable for VS 2008.
6064
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006065- Bug #1604: collections.deque.__init__(iterable) now clears any prior
6066 contents before adding elements from the iterable. This fix brings
6067 the behavior into line with that for list.__init__().
Raymond Hettingeradf9ffd2007-12-13 00:08:37 +00006068
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006069- Added wide char functions to msvcrt module: getwch, getwche, putwch
6070 and ungetwch. The functions accept or return unicode.
Christian Heimes7c7f6af2007-12-10 15:12:41 +00006071
Martin v. Löwis69233e82007-12-04 08:39:16 +00006072- os.access now returns True on Windows for any existing directory.
6073
Christian Heimes28104c52007-11-27 23:16:44 +00006074- Added warnpy3k function to the warnings module.
6075
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006076- Marshal.dumps() now expects exact type matches for int, long, float,
6077 complex, tuple, list, dict, set, and frozenset. Formerly, it would
6078 silently miscode subclasses of those types. Now, it raises a
6079 ValueError instead.
Raymond Hettinger12e94202007-11-07 01:13:09 +00006080
Martin v. Löwis58bd49f2007-09-04 13:13:14 +00006081- Patch #1388440: Add set_completion_display_matches_hook and
6082 get_completion_type to readline.
6083
Thomas Helleref4fff32007-07-13 17:46:54 +00006084- Bug #1649098: Avoid declaration of zero-sized array declaration in
6085 structure.
6086
Brett Cannondc48b742007-05-20 07:09:50 +00006087- Removed the rgbimg module; been deprecated since Python 2.5.
6088
Neal Norwitz59f58aa2007-05-19 03:48:47 +00006089- Bug #1721309: prevent bsddb module from freeing random memory.
6090
Gregory P. Smith82eafe62007-10-18 17:17:57 +00006091- Bug #1233: fix bsddb.dbshelve.DBShelf append method to work as
6092 intended for RECNO databases.
6093
Gregory P. Smithec10a4a2007-11-05 02:32:26 +00006094- pybsddb.sf.net Bug #477182: Load the database flags at database open
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006095 time so that opening a database previously created with the DB_DUP
6096 or DB_DUPSORT flag set will keep the proper behavior on subsequent
6097 opens. Specifically: dictionary assignment to a DB object will
6098 replace all values for a given key when the database allows
6099 duplicate values. DB users should use DB.put(k, v) when they want
6100 to store duplicates; not DB[k] = v.
Gregory P. Smithec10a4a2007-11-05 02:32:26 +00006101
Gregory P. Smithac11e022007-11-05 02:56:31 +00006102- Add the bsddb.db.DBEnv.lock_id_free method.
6103
Martin v. Löwis3bf573f2007-04-04 18:30:36 +00006104- Bug #1686475: Support stat'ing open files on Windows again.
6105
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006106- Patch #1185447: binascii.b2a_qp() now correctly quotes binary
6107 characters with ASCII value less than 32. Also, it correctly quotes
6108 dots only if they occur on a single line, as opposed to the previous
6109 behavior of quoting dots if they are the second character of any
6110 line.
Georg Brandl4aef7272007-03-13 22:49:43 +00006111
Georg Brandla47337f2007-03-13 12:34:25 +00006112- Bug #1622896: fix a rare corner case where the bz2 module raised an
6113 error in spite of a succesful compression.
6114
Georg Brandl40c62612007-03-06 18:59:11 +00006115- Patch #1654417: make operator.{get,set,del}slice use the full range
6116 of Py_ssize_t.
6117
Guido van Rossum2054ee92007-03-06 15:50:01 +00006118- Patch #1646728: datetime.fromtimestamp fails with negative
6119 fractional times. With unittest.
6120
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006121- Patch #1490190: posixmodule now includes os.chflags() and
6122 os.lchflags() functions on platforms where the underlying system
6123 calls are available.
Martin v. Löwis382abef2007-02-19 10:55:19 +00006124
Georg Brandl983d1002007-02-15 11:29:04 +00006125- Patch #1494140: Add documentation for the new struct.Struct object.
6126
Martin v. Löwis45423a72007-02-14 10:07:37 +00006127- Patch #1432399: Support the HCI protocol for bluetooth sockets
6128
Martin v. Löwisb1cc1d42007-02-13 12:14:19 +00006129- Patch #1657276: Make NETLINK_DNRTMSG conditional.
6130
Martin v. Löwis4c11a922007-02-08 09:13:36 +00006131- Bug #1653736: Complain about keyword arguments to time.isoformat.
6132
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006133- Bug #1486663: don't reject keyword arguments for subclasses of
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00006134 built-in types.
Georg Brandlb84c1372007-01-21 10:28:43 +00006135
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006136- Patch #1610575: The struct module now supports the 't' code, for C99
6137 _Bool.
Martin v. Löwisaef4c6b2007-01-21 09:33:07 +00006138
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006139- Patch #1635058: ensure that htonl and friends never accept or return
6140 negative numbers, per the underlying C implementation.
Guido van Rossumbb2cc692007-01-14 17:03:32 +00006141
Martin v. Löwis046c4d12006-12-03 11:23:45 +00006142- Patch #1544279: Improve thread-safety of the socket module by moving
6143 the sock_addr_t storage out of the socket object.
6144
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006145- Patch #1019808: fix bug that causes an incorrect error to be
6146 returned when a socket timeout is set and a connection attempt
6147 fails.
Andrew M. Kuchling060e6852008-01-19 20:47:59 +00006148
Neal Norwitz45e230a2006-11-19 21:26:53 +00006149- Speed up function calls into the math module.
6150
Georg Brandl25aabf42006-11-16 17:08:45 +00006151- Bug #1588217: don't parse "= " as a soft line break in binascii's
6152 a2b_qp() function, instead leave it in the string as quopri.decode()
6153 does.
6154
Neal Norwitz4fe44232006-11-21 05:26:22 +00006155- Bug #1599782: Fix segfault on bsddb.db.DB().type().
6156
Martin v. Löwis012bc722006-10-15 09:43:39 +00006157- Bug #1567666: Emulate GetFileAttributesExA for Win95.
6158
Martin v. Löwis18aaa562006-10-15 08:43:33 +00006159- Patch #1576166: Support os.utime for directories on Windows NT+.
6160
Georg Brandl412a9ea2006-10-09 19:03:06 +00006161- Patch #1572724: fix typo ('=' instead of '==') in _msi.c.
6162
Hye-Shik Changb7883462006-10-08 13:48:34 +00006163- Bug #1572832: fix a bug in ISO-2022 codecs which may cause segfault
6164 when encoding non-BMP unicode characters.
6165
Georg Brandl4ddfcd32006-09-30 11:17:34 +00006166- Bug #1556784: allow format strings longer than 127 characters in
6167 datetime's strftime function.
6168
Jack Diederichd10a0f72006-09-21 20:34:49 +00006169- Fix itertools.count(n) to work with negative numbers again.
6170
Martin v. Löwis43fd99c2006-09-16 17:36:37 +00006171- RLIMIT_SBSIZE was added to the resource module where available.
6172
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006173- Bug #1551427: fix a wrong NULL pointer check in the win32 version of
6174 os.urandom().
Georg Brandl74bb7832006-09-06 06:03:59 +00006175
Neal Norwitz6aefa912006-09-02 02:50:35 +00006176- Bug #1548092: fix curses.tparm seg fault on invalid input.
6177
Andrew M. Kuchling62182c82008-01-08 14:56:02 +00006178- Patch #1114: fix curses module compilation on 64-bit AIX, & possibly
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006179 other 64-bit LP64 platforms where attr_t is not the same size as a
6180 long. (Contributed by Luke Mewburn.)
Andrew M. Kuchling62182c82008-01-08 14:56:02 +00006181
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006182- Bug #1550714: fix SystemError from itertools.tee on negative value
6183 for n.
Neal Norwitz69e88972006-09-02 02:58:13 +00006184
Hye-Shik Chang199f1db2006-09-05 12:07:09 +00006185- Fixed a few bugs on cjkcodecs:
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006186 - gbk and gb18030 codec now handle U+30FB KATAKANA MIDDLE DOT
6187 correctly.
Hye-Shik Chang199f1db2006-09-05 12:07:09 +00006188 - iso2022_jp_2 codec now encodes into G0 for KS X 1001, GB2312
6189 codepoints to conform the standard.
Hye-Shik Chang2cad3e92006-09-05 12:14:57 +00006190 - iso2022_jp_3 and iso2022_jp_2004 codec can encode JIS X 0213:2
Hye-Shik Chang199f1db2006-09-05 12:07:09 +00006191 codepoints now.
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00006192
Andrew M. Kuchling43889c02006-09-27 16:37:30 +00006193- Bug #1552726: in readline.c, avoid repeatedly polling in interactive
6194 mode by only placing a timeout on the select() if an input hook has
6195 been defined. This prevents an interactive Python from waking up 10
6196 times per second. Patch by Richard Boulton.
6197
Gregory P. Smithf09c6262007-03-17 22:33:35 +00006198- fixed a bug with bsddb.DB.stat: the flags and txn keyword arguments
6199 were transposed.
6200
Jesus Cea4907d272008-08-31 14:00:51 +00006201- Added support for linking the bsddb module against BerkeleyDB 4.5.x,
6202 4.6.x and 4.7.x.
Gregory P. Smith8b96a352007-01-05 01:59:42 +00006203
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006204- Bug #1633621: if curses.resizeterm() or curses.resize_term() is
6205 called, update _curses.LINES, _curses.COLS, curses.LINES and
6206 curses.COLS.
Andrew M. Kuchling43889c02006-09-27 16:37:30 +00006207
Matthias Klosee19e0c22007-04-03 04:35:59 +00006208- Fix an off-by-one bug in locale.strxfrm().
6209
Matthias Klose38336402007-09-04 20:46:02 +00006210- Fix libffi configure for hppa*-*-linux* | parisc*-*-linux*.
6211
Matthias Klose9afb9852007-10-24 20:00:44 +00006212- Build using system ffi library on arm*-linux*.
6213
Christian Heimes3f065a42007-11-21 01:17:28 +00006214- Bug #1372: zlibmodule.c: int overflow in PyZlib_decompress
Matthias Klosee19e0c22007-04-03 04:35:59 +00006215
Gregory P. Smitheeed5b72008-02-03 07:20:53 +00006216- bsddb module: Fix memory leak when using database cursors on
6217 databases without a DBEnv.
6218
Gerhard Häring11ab8072008-03-02 13:12:27 +00006219- The sqlite3 module was updated to pysqlite 2.4.1.
6220
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00006221Tests
6222-----
6223
Brett Cannon56c4deb2008-03-03 00:38:58 +00006224- Refactor test_logging to use unittest.
Brett Cannonf9db8a32008-02-17 01:59:18 +00006225
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006226- Refactor test_profile and test_cprofile to use the same code to
6227 profile.
Georg Brandlb7090772008-02-05 19:58:17 +00006228
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006229- Make test_runpy reentrant by fixing _check_module to clear out any
6230 module being tested. Was causing an error by __import__ doing a
6231 reload on the second run and thus suppressing bytecode recreation.
Brett Cannondbed7a72007-08-23 14:53:17 +00006232
Brett Cannonea2835a2007-03-14 21:44:15 +00006233- Capture socket connection resets and timeouts in test_socket_ssl and
6234 test_urllib2net and raise test.test_support.ResourceDenied.
Brett Cannoned001842007-03-14 21:40:13 +00006235
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006236- Patch #1559413: Fix test_cmd_line if sys.executable contains a
6237 space.
Martin v. Löwiscd1210a2007-03-14 20:02:31 +00006238
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006239- Added test.test_support.TransientResource which is a context manager
6240 to surround calls to resources that are not guaranteed to work even
6241 if test.test_support.requires says that the resource should exist.
Brett Cannona30fcb42007-03-08 23:58:11 +00006242
Brett Cannone05e6b02007-01-29 04:41:44 +00006243- Added a test for slicing of an exception.
6244
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006245- Added test.test_support.EnvironmentVarGuard. It's a class that
6246 provides a context manager so that one can temporarily set or unset
6247 environment variables.
Brett Cannon92d54d52007-01-04 00:23:49 +00006248
Thomas Heller112d1a62006-10-27 19:05:53 +00006249- Added some tests for modulefinder.
6250
Brett Cannon373d90b2006-10-03 23:23:14 +00006251- Converted test_imp to use unittest.
6252
Neal Norwitz919d5cc2006-09-05 02:35:08 +00006253- Fix bsddb test_basics.test06_Transactions to check the version
6254 number properly.
6255
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006256- test.test_support.catch_warning is a new context manager that can be
6257 used to catch the warnings issued by the warning framework.
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00006258
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00006259Tools
6260-----
6261
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006262- Tools/scripts/reindent.py now creates the backup file using
6263 shutil.copy to preserve user/group and permissions. Added also a
6264 --nobackup option to not create the backup if the user is concerned
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00006265 regarding this. Check issue #1050828 for more details.
Facundo Batistaf88a0772008-02-17 16:21:13 +00006266
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006267- Tools/scripts/win_add2path.py was added. The simple script modifes
6268 the PATH environment var of the HKCU tree and adds the python bin
6269 and script directory.
Christian Heimesbd865db2008-01-18 11:58:50 +00006270
Skip Montanaro3e275362007-08-29 01:33:45 +00006271- Tools/18n/pygettext.py was added to the list of scripts installed by
6272 Tools/scripts/setup.py (tracker item 642309).
6273
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006274- Added IronPython and Jython support to pybench (part of which was
6275 patch #1563844).
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00006276
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006277- Made some minor changes to pybench output to allow the user to see
6278 which Python version is running pybench.
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00006279
6280- Added support for the new platform module feature
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006281 platform.python_implementation(); this will now be saved in the
6282 benchmark pickle.
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00006283
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00006284
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00006285Documentation
6286-------------
6287
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +00006288- RFE #1765140: Updated documentation on FileHandler and subclasses to
6289 include new optional delay argument.
6290
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006291- Bug #932563: Added section on getting contextual information into
6292 logging output, and added documentation for the new LoggerAdapter
6293 class.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00006294
6295- Bug #1295: Added information about caching of formatted exception
6296 information in the LogRecord by Formatter.format().
6297
Georg Brandl9467bc52007-07-12 09:37:49 +00006298- Bug #1637365: add subsection about "__name__ == __main__" to the
6299 Python tutorial.
6300
Georg Brandl3dc6e902007-04-25 06:24:59 +00006301- Patch #1698768: updated the "using Python on the Mac" intro.
6302
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006303- Bug #1569057: Document that calling file.next() when the file is
6304 open for writing is undefined.
Brett Cannon55a18642007-04-08 04:29:32 +00006305
Žiga Seilnachtc64ad482007-03-24 14:24:26 +00006306- Patch #1489771: the syntax rules in Python Reference Manual were
6307 updated to reflect the current Python syntax.
6308
Martin v. Löwis2f401d72007-03-23 10:35:49 +00006309- Patch #1686451: Fix return type for
6310 PySequence_{Count,Index,Fast_GET_SIZE}.
6311
Georg Brandl0692a262007-03-13 07:50:57 +00006312- Patch #1679379: add documentation for fnmatch.translate().
6313
Collin Winterb7b2b4e2007-03-09 18:09:10 +00006314- Bug #1629566: clarify the docs on the return values of parsedate()
6315 and parsedate_tz() in email.utils and rfc822.
6316
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00006317- Patch #1671450: add a section about subclassing built-in types to the
Georg Brandld28b9fc2007-03-06 10:02:47 +00006318 "extending and embedding" tutorial.
6319
Georg Brandlb26b1c62007-01-17 21:19:58 +00006320- Bug #1629125: fix wrong data type (int -> Py_ssize_t) in PyDict_Next
6321 docs.
6322
Georg Brandla4c8e322006-10-12 08:22:53 +00006323- Bug #1565919: document set types in the Language Reference.
6324
Georg Brandl44a7b3a2006-09-30 12:02:57 +00006325- Bug #1546052: clarify that PyString_FromString(AndSize) copies the
6326 string pointed to by its parameter.
6327
Georg Brandlfb257732006-09-30 09:06:45 +00006328- Bug #1566663: remove obsolete example from datetime docs.
6329
Georg Brandl648c1102006-08-18 07:27:59 +00006330- Bug #1541682: Fix example in the "Refcount details" API docs.
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006331 Additionally, remove a faulty example showing PySequence_SetItem
6332 applied to a newly created list object and add notes that this isn't
6333 a good idea.
Georg Brandl648c1102006-08-18 07:27:59 +00006334
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00006335
Georg Brandl27562782006-10-27 20:39:43 +00006336Tools/Demos
6337-----------
6338
6339- Patch #1552024: add decorator support to unparse.py demo script.
Marc-André Lemburg96148682006-09-06 20:40:22 +00006340
Brett Cannonc8939d22006-09-20 19:28:35 +00006341- Make auto-generated python.vim file list built-ins and exceptions in
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006342 alphatbetical order. Makes output more deterministic and easier to
6343 tell if the file is stale or not.
Brett Cannonc8939d22006-09-20 19:28:35 +00006344
Marc-André Lemburg96148682006-09-06 20:40:22 +00006345- Bug #1546372: Fixed small bugglet in pybench that caused a missing
6346 file not to get reported properly.
6347
6348
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00006349Build
6350-----
6351
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006352- Have the search path for building extensions follow the declared
6353 order in $CPPFLAGS and $LDFLAGS when adding directories from those
6354 environment variables.
Brett Cannon70c0c022008-02-03 09:59:21 +00006355
Christian Heimes951cc0f2008-01-31 23:08:23 +00006356- Bug #1983: Added a check to pyport to verify that sizeof(pid_t) is
6357 smaller or equal sizeof(long).
6358
Christian Heimescba36bb2008-01-30 22:54:18 +00006359- Bug #1234: Fixed semaphore errors on AIX 5.2
6360
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006361- Issue #1726: Remove Python/atof.c from PCBuild/pythoncore.vcproj.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00006362
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006363- Removed PCbuild8/ directory and added a new build directory for VS
6364 2005 based on the VS 2008 build directory to PC/VS8.0. The script
6365 PCbuild/vs8to9.py was added to sync changes from PCbuild to
6366 PC/VS8.0.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00006367
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006368- Moved PCbuild/ directory for VS 2003 to PC/VS7.1 and renamed
6369 PCBuild9/ directory to PCBuild/.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00006370
Martin v. Löwiscb78de62007-12-29 18:49:21 +00006371- Bug #1699: Define _BSD_SOURCE only on OpenBSD.
6372
Guido van Rossum7c862f82007-12-13 20:50:10 +00006373- Bug #1608: use -fwrapv when GCC supports it. This is important,
6374 newer GCC versions may optimize away overflow buffer overflow checks
6375 without this option!
6376
Martin v. Löwis63bf1492007-11-12 05:14:05 +00006377- Patch #1418: Make the AC_REPLACE_FUNCS object files actually work.
6378
Raymond Hettingerdc1d1ba2007-11-07 02:45:46 +00006379- Add a FAST_LOOPS build option that speeds-up looping by trading away
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006380 periodic threadstate and signal checking in tight loops. By
6381 default, this option is turned-off. It should only be enabled in
6382 debugged, performance critical applications.
Raymond Hettingerdc1d1ba2007-11-07 02:45:46 +00006383
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006384- Patch #786737: Allow building in a tree of symlinks pointing to a
6385 readonly source.
Martin v. Löwisd44a4e92007-09-05 11:47:34 +00006386
Martin v. Löwis8bc77e42007-09-01 06:36:03 +00006387- Bug #1737210: Change Manufacturer of Windows installer to PSF.
6388
Martin v. Löwis75c23bd2007-08-30 18:25:47 +00006389- Bug #1746880: Correctly install DLLs into system32 folder on Win64.
6390
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006391- Define _BSD_SOURCE, to get access to POSIX extensions on OpenBSD
6392 4.1+.
Martin v. Löwis76760b02007-07-31 19:57:56 +00006393
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006394- Stop supporting AtheOS and cause a build error in configure for the
6395 platform.
Brett Cannon19fab762007-06-02 03:02:29 +00006396
Georg Brandldb846032007-03-31 18:56:11 +00006397- Bug #1655392: don't add -L/usr/lib/pythonX.Y/config to the LDFLAGS
6398 returned by python-config if Python was built with --enable-shared
6399 because that prevented the shared library from being used.
6400
Georg Brandl18c47f62007-03-13 10:19:22 +00006401- Patch #1569798: fix a bug in distutils when building Python from a
6402 directory within sys.exec_prefix.
6403
Martin v. Löwiseb623572007-03-12 10:50:39 +00006404- Bug #1675511: Use -Kpic instead of -xcode=pic32 on Solaris/x86.
6405
Martin v. Löwis4d542ec2006-11-25 15:39:19 +00006406- Disable _XOPEN_SOURCE on NetBSD 1.x.
6407
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006408- configure now checks whether gcc supports the PyArg_ParseTuple
6409 format attribute.
Martin v. Löwisaac13162006-10-19 10:58:46 +00006410
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00006411- Bug #1578513: Cross compilation was broken by a change to configure.
Martin v. Löwisfefbc202006-10-17 18:59:23 +00006412 Repair so that it's back to how it was in 2.4.3.
6413
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006414- Patch #1576954: Update VC6 build directory; remove redundant files
6415 in VC7.
Martin v. Löwisc9e82f62006-10-15 07:54:40 +00006416
Martin v. Löwisebe26702006-10-02 14:55:51 +00006417- Bug #1568842: Fix test for uintptr_t.
6418
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006419- Patch #1540470: for OpenBSD 4.0.
Neal Norwitz4bc2c092006-09-05 02:57:01 +00006420
Matthias Klosed149d0c2006-12-03 17:16:41 +00006421- Fix build failure on kfreebsd and on the hurd.
6422
Matthias Kloseebde1492006-12-09 12:15:27 +00006423- Fix the build of the library reference in info format.
6424
Matthias Kloseeb8ff672007-08-02 21:33:13 +00006425- Allow Emacs 22 for building the documentation in info format.
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00006426
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006427- Makefile.pre.in(buildbottest): Run an optional script
6428 pybuildbot.identify to include some information about the build
6429 environment.
Matthias Klose642ac852007-09-04 18:17:36 +00006430
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00006431
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00006432C API
6433-----
6434
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006435- Unified naming convention for free lists and their limits. All free
6436 lists in Object/ are named ``free_list``, the counter ``numfree``
6437 and the upper limit is a macro ``PyName_MAXFREELIST`` inside an
6438 #ifndef block.
Christian Heimes5b970ad2008-02-06 13:33:44 +00006439
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006440- ``PySet_Add()`` can now modify a newly created frozenset. Similarly
6441 to ``PyTuple_SetItem``, it can be used to populate a brand new
6442 frozenset; but it does not steal a reference to the added item.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arccab3d982008-02-03 22:51:43 +00006443
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00006444- Added ``PySet_Check()`` and ``PyFrozenSet_Check()`` to the set API.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arccab3d982008-02-03 22:51:43 +00006445
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006446- Backport of PyUnicode_FromString(), _FromStringAndSize(), _Format
6447 and _FormatV from Python 3.0. Made PyLong_AsSsize_t and
6448 PyLong_FromSsize_t public functions.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00006449
6450- Patch #1720595: add T_BOOL to the range of structmember types.
6451
6452- Issue #1534: Added ``PyFloat_GetMax()``, ``PyFloat_GetMin()`` and
6453 ``PyFloat_GetInfo()`` to the float API.
6454
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006455- Issue #1521: On 64bit platforms, using PyArgs_ParseTuple with the t#
6456 of w# format code incorrectly truncated the length to an int, even
6457 when PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN is set. The str.decode method used to return
6458 incorrect results with huge strings.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00006459
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006460- Issue #1629: Renamed Py_Size, Py_Type and Py_Refcnt to Py_SIZE,
6461 Py_TYPE and Py_REFCNT.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00006462
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006463- PEP 3123: Provide forward compatibility with Python 3.0, while
6464 keeping backwards compatibility. Add Py_Refcnt, Py_Type, Py_Size,
6465 and PyVarObject_HEAD_INIT.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00006466
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006467- Py_ssize_t fields work in structmember when HAVE_LONG_LONG is not
6468 defined.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00006469
6470- Patch #1733960: Allow T_LONGLONG to accept ints.
6471
6472- T_PYSSIZET can now be used in PyMemberDef lists for Py_ssize_t members.
6473
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00006474- Added a new API function ``PyImport_ImportModuleNoBlock``.
6475
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00006476- Bug #1637022: Prefix AST symbols with _Py_.
6477
6478- Fix some leftovers from the conversion from int to Py_ssize_t
6479 (relevant to strings and sequences of more than 2**31 items).
6480
6481- Make _PyGILState_NoteThreadState() static, it was not used anywhere
6482 outside of pystate.c and should not be necessary.
6483
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006484- ``PyImport_Import`` and ``PyImport_ImportModule`` now always do
6485 absolute imports. In earlier versions they might have used relative
6486 imports under some conditions.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00006487
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006488- Added case insensitive comparison methods ``PyOS_stricmp(char*,
6489 char*)`` and ``PyOS_strnicmp(char*, char*, Py_ssize_t)``.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00006490
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006491- Bug #1542693: remove semi-colon at end of PyImport_ImportModuleEx
6492 macro so it can be used as an expression.
Neal Norwitz8a267062006-08-19 04:25:29 +00006493
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00006494
Martin v. Löwis2607e6c2006-11-21 18:20:25 +00006495Windows
6496-------
6497
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006498- Patch #1706: Drop support for Win9x, WinME and NT4. Python now
6499 requires Windows 2000 or greater. The _WINVER and NTDDI_VERSION
6500 macros are set to Win2k for x86/32bit builds and WinXP for AMD64
6501 builds.
Christian Heimes95d64472008-02-09 19:55:22 +00006502
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006503- Conditionalize definition of _CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE and
6504 _CRT_NONSTDC_NO_DEPRECATE.
Martin v. Löwis2607e6c2006-11-21 18:20:25 +00006505
Martin v. Löwisd476a402007-10-12 08:56:52 +00006506- Bug #1216: Restore support for Visual Studio 2002.
6507
Martin v. Löwis2607e6c2006-11-21 18:20:25 +00006508
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00006509Mac
6510---
6511
Brett Cannonf0cb1d72007-05-31 20:01:11 +00006512- cfmfile now raises a DeprecationWarning.
6513
Brett Cannon791d56f2007-05-31 19:40:42 +00006514- buildtools now raises a DeprecationWarning.
6515
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006516- Removed the macfs module. It had been deprecated since Python 2.5.
6517 This lead to the deprecation of macostools.touched() as it relied
6518 solely on macfs and was a no-op under OS X.
Brett Cannon5e263512007-05-20 23:17:38 +00006519
Skip Montanaroe5d7f7f2002-09-20 14:16:59 +00006520----
6521
6522**(For information about older versions, consult the HISTORY file.)**