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Skip Montanaroe5d7f7f2002-09-20 14:16:59 +00003+++++++++++
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Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00007What's New in Python 2.7 alpha 1
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10*Release date: XX-XXX-20XX*
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12Core and Builtins
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14
Benjamin Petersone36199b2009-11-12 23:39:44 +000015- Fix several issues with compile(). The input can now contain Windows and Mac
16 newlines and is no longer required to end in a newline.
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Mark Dickinsonc04c7c52009-10-26 22:28:14 +000018- Remove length limitation when constructing a complex number from a
19 unicode string.
20
Raymond Hettingerfa7dadd2009-11-01 20:45:16 +000021- Issue #7244: itertools.izip_longest() no longer ignores exceptions
22 raised during the formation of an output tuple.
23
Mark Dickinson8d87dc02009-10-25 20:39:06 +000024- Issue #1087418: Boost performance of bitwise operations for longs.
25
Antoine Pitrouefb60c02009-10-20 21:29:37 +000026- Issue #1722344: threading._shutdown() is now called in Py_Finalize(), which
27 fixes the problem of some exceptions being thrown at shutdown when the
28 interpreter is killed. Patch by Adam Olsen.
29
Eric Smithc12781a2009-10-19 14:38:14 +000030- Issue #7168: Document PyFloat_AsString and PyFloat_AsReprString, and
31 note that they are unsafe and deprecated.
32
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +000033- Issue #7120: logging: Removed import of multiprocessing which is causing
34 crash in GAE.
35
Benjamin Peterson196b0922009-10-15 15:44:46 +000036- Issue #7140: The __dict__ of a module should not be cleared unless the module
37 is the only object holding a reference to it.
38
Neil Schemenauer7fdd1cb2009-10-14 17:17:14 +000039- Issue #1754094: Improve the stack depth calculation in the compiler.
40 There should be no other effect than a small decrease in memory use.
41 Patch by Christopher Tur Lesniewski-Laas.
42
Antoine Pitroubeaf6a02009-10-11 21:03:26 +000043- Issue #7084: Fix a (very unlikely) crash when printing a list from one
44 thread, and mutating it from another one. Patch by Scott Dial.
45
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd0052d12009-10-06 19:56:32 +000046- Issue #1571184: The Unicode database contains properties for more characters.
47 The tables for code points representing numeric values, white spaces or line
48 breaks are now generated from the official Unicode Character Database files,
49 and include information from the Unihan.txt file.
50
Benjamin Peterson7adbb5a2009-10-03 20:23:24 +000051- Issue #7050: Fix a SystemError when trying to use unpacking and augmented
52 assignment.
53
Philip Jenvey8b902042009-09-29 19:10:15 +000054- Issue #5329: Fix os.popen* regression from 2.5 with commands as a
55 sequence running through the shell. Patch by Jean-Paul Calderone
56 and Jani Hakala.
57
Mark Dickinson7e7a3ec2009-09-29 19:01:06 +000058- Issue #7019: Raise ValueError when unmarshalling bad long data, instead
59 of producing internally inconsistent Python longs.
60
Philip Jenveydbf3b252009-09-29 04:32:44 +000061- Issue #6990: Fix threading.local subclasses leaving old state around
62 after a reference cycle GC which could be recycled by new locals.
63
Benjamin Peterson9db55402009-09-18 21:47:27 +000064- Issue #6300: unicode.encode, unicode.decode, str.decode, and str.encode now
Benjamin Peterson332d7212009-09-18 21:14:55 +000065 take keyword arguments.
66
Georg Brandle9741f32009-09-17 11:28:09 +000067- Issue #6922: Fix an infinite loop when trying to decode an invalid
68 UTF-32 stream with a non-raising error handler like "replace" or "ignore".
69
Mark Dickinson4b9d4732009-09-27 16:05:21 +000070- Issue #6713: Improve performance of base 10 int -> string and
71 long -> string conversions.
Mark Dickinsonaa2adc82009-09-16 22:10:56 +000072
Thomas Wouters2920adb2009-09-16 20:36:34 +000073- Issue #1590864: Fix potential deadlock when mixing threads and fork().
74
Georg Brandl0674d3f2009-09-16 20:30:09 +000075- Issue #6844: Do not emit DeprecationWarnings when accessing a "message"
76 attribute on exceptions that was set explicitly.
77
Mark Dickinsonc8a7c7c2009-09-06 10:03:31 +000078- Issue #6846: Fix bug where bytearray.pop() returns negative integers.
79
Benjamin Peterson6fcf9b52009-09-01 22:27:57 +000080- classmethod no longer checks if its argument is callable.
81
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfff896b2009-08-29 18:14:40 +000082- Issue #6750: A text file opened with io.open() could duplicate its output
83 when writing from multiple threads at the same time.
84
Benjamin Petersonc0ba8282009-08-15 22:59:21 +000085- Issue #6704: Improve the col_offset in AST for "for" statements with
86 a target of tuple unpacking.
87
Benjamin Peterson4c6e8082009-08-15 13:16:38 +000088- Issue #6707: dir() on an uninitialized module caused a crash.
89
Georg Brandlec812ca2009-07-22 11:57:15 +000090- Issue #6540: Fixed crash for bytearray.translate() with invalid parameters.
91
Raymond Hettingerc2b9e1a2009-07-27 20:32:04 +000092- Issue #6573: set.union() stopped processing inputs if an instance of self
93 occurred in the argument chain.
94
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc9d11fef2009-07-13 20:03:21 +000095- Issue #1616979: Added the cp720 (Arabic DOS) encoding.
96
97- Issue #6070: On posix platforms import no longer copies the execute bit
R. David Murray23a736a2009-07-07 01:06:13 +000098 from the .py file to the .pyc file if it is set. Patch by Marco N.
99
Benjamin Peterson753d1622009-07-02 18:16:45 +0000100- Issue #4618: When unicode arguments are passed to print(), the default
101 separator and end should be unicode also.
102
Benjamin Peterson1bf47652009-07-02 17:06:17 +0000103- Issue #6119: Fixed a incorrect Py3k warning about order comparisons of builtin
104 functions and methods.
105
Mark Dickinson2f865b92009-06-30 15:32:30 +0000106- Issue #6347: Include inttypes.h as well as stdint.h in pyport.h.
107 This fixes a build failure on HP-UX: int32_t and uint32_t are
108 defined in inttypes.h instead of stdint.h on that platform.
109
Hirokazu Yamamotoa3c56092009-06-28 10:23:00 +0000110- Issue #4856: Remove checks for win NT.
111
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc595f7a52009-06-25 22:29:29 +0000112- Issue #2016: Fixed a crash in a corner case where the dictionary of keyword
113 arguments could be modified during the function call setup.
114
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc14fc6732009-06-23 21:09:09 +0000115- Removed the ipaddr module.
116
Raymond Hettinger62641e92009-06-23 20:59:43 +0000117- Issue #6329: Fixed iteration for memoryview objects (it was being blocked
118 because it wasn't recognized as a sequence).
119
Benjamin Peterson08a0bbc2009-06-16 00:29:31 +0000120- Issue #6289: Encoding errors from compile() were being masked.
121
Benjamin Petersona72be3b2009-06-13 20:23:33 +0000122- When no module is given in a relative import, the module field of the
123 ImportFrom AST node is now None instead of an empty string.
124
Benjamin Peterson565e1b62009-06-13 03:46:30 +0000125- Assignment to None using import statements now raises a SyntaxError.
126
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcb02ceda2009-06-01 20:53:18 +0000127- Issue #4547: When debugging a very large function, it was not always
128 possible to update the lineno attribute of the current frame.
129
Antoine Pitrou46dbe272009-05-30 21:27:00 +0000130- Issue #5330: C functions called with keyword arguments were not reported by
Benjamin Peterson95e5ebe2009-07-12 23:56:18 +0000131 the various profiling modules (profile, cProfile). Patch by Hagen Fürstenau.
Antoine Pitrou46dbe272009-05-30 21:27:00 +0000132
Raymond Hettinger578a2282009-05-29 04:58:52 +0000133- Issue #5982: staticmethod and classmethod now expose the wrapped
134 function with __func__.
135
Raymond Hettinger822b87f2009-05-29 01:46:48 +0000136- Added support for multiple context managers in the same with-statement.
137 Deprecated contextlib.nested() which is no longer needed.
Georg Brandl944f6842009-05-25 21:02:56 +0000138
Benjamin Peterson1880d8b2009-05-25 13:13:44 +0000139- Issue #6101: A new opcode, SETUP_WITH, has been added to speed up the with
140 statement and correctly lookup the __enter__ and __exit__ special methods.
141
Mark Dickinsona4e0efa2009-05-20 18:43:07 +0000142- Issue #5829: complex("1e500") no longer raises OverflowError. This
143 makes it consistent with float("1e500") and interpretation of real
144 and imaginary literals.
145
Hirokazu Yamamotoa4f90182009-05-17 02:58:36 +0000146- Issue #3527: Removed Py_WIN_WIDE_FILENAMES which is not used any more.
147
Benjamin Peterson0c3b4c62009-05-16 23:34:19 +0000148- __instancecheck__ and __subclasscheck__ are now completely ignored on classic
149 classes and instances.
Benjamin Petersoneb9fb2c2009-05-16 22:46:11 +0000150
R. David Murray525cffc2009-05-13 13:07:14 +0000151- Issue #5994: the marshal module now has docstrings.
152
Mark Dickinsonb1d45852009-05-11 15:33:08 +0000153- Issue #5981: Fix three minor inf/nan issues in float.fromhex:
154 (1) inf and nan strings with trailing whitespace were incorrectly
155 rejected; (2) parsing of strings representing infinities and nans
156 was locale aware; and (3) the interpretation of fromhex('-nan')
157 didn't match that of float('-nan').
158
Eric Smitha985a3a2009-05-05 18:26:08 +0000159- Issue #5920: For float.__format__, change the behavior with the
160 empty presentation type (that is, not one of 'e', 'f', 'g', or 'n')
161 to be like 'g' but with at least one decimal point and with a
162 default precision of 12. Previously, the behavior the same but with
163 a default precision of 6. This more closely matches str(), and
164 reduces surprises when adding alignment flags to the empty
165 presentation type. This also affects the new complex.__format__ in
166 the same way.
167
R. David Murray7ba8e1c2009-05-04 22:16:24 +0000168- Issue #5890: in subclasses of 'property' the __doc__ attribute was
169 shadowed by classtype's, even if it was None. property now
170 inserts the __doc__ into the subclass instance __dict__.
171
Antoine Pitrou653dece2009-05-04 18:32:32 +0000172- Issue #4426: The UTF-7 decoder was too strict and didn't accept some legal
173 sequences. Patch by Nick Barnes and Victor Stinner.
174
Vinay Sajipf9b01fe2009-05-09 12:07:17 +0000175- Issue #1588: Add complex.__format__. For example,
Eric Smith9139cc62009-04-30 00:58:58 +0000176 format(complex(1, 2./3), '.5') now produces a sensible result.
177
Mark Dickinson92fcc9c2009-04-29 20:41:00 +0000178- Issue #5864: Fix empty format code formatting for floats so that it
179 never gives more than the requested number of significant digits.
180
Eric Smithcac7af62009-04-27 19:04:37 +0000181- Issue #5793: Rationalize isdigit / isalpha / tolower, etc. Includes
182 new Py_ISDIGIT / Py_ISALPHA / Py_TOLOWER, etc. in pctypes.h.
183
Martin v. Löwis99f27792009-04-26 00:53:18 +0000184- Issue #4971: Fix titlecase for characters that are their own
185 titlecase, but not their own uppercase.
186
Eric Smith068f0652009-04-25 21:40:15 +0000187- Issue #5835: Deprecate PyOS_ascii_formatd and replace it with
188 _PyOS_double_to_string or PyOS_double_to_string.
189
Benjamin Peterson5083dc52009-04-25 00:41:22 +0000190- Issue #5283: Setting __class__ in __del__ caused a segfault.
191
Mark Dickinson95bc9802009-04-24 12:46:53 +0000192- Issue #5816: complex(repr(z)) now recovers z exactly, even when
193 z involves nans, infs or negative zeros.
194
Eric Smithaca19e62009-04-22 13:29:05 +0000195- Implement PEP 378, Format Specifier for Thousands Separator, for
196 floats, ints, and longs.
197
198- Issue #5515: 'n' formatting for ints, longs, and floats handles
199 leading zero formatting poorly.
200
201- Issue #5772: For float.__format__, don't add a trailing ".0" if
202 we're using no type code and we have an exponent.
203
Mark Dickinson6736cf82009-04-20 21:13:33 +0000204- Issue #3166: Make long -> float (and int -> float) conversions
205 correctly rounded.
206
Benjamin Petersond4d400c2009-04-18 20:12:47 +0000207- Issue #5787: object.__getattribute__(some_type, "__bases__") segfaulted on
208 some builtin types.
209
Mark Dickinson1bdf7e92009-04-18 14:59:42 +0000210- Issue #1869: fix a couple of minor round() issues. round(5e15+1)
Eric Smith9139cc62009-04-30 00:58:58 +0000211 was giving 5e15+2; round(-0.0) was losing the sign of the zero.
Mark Dickinson1bdf7e92009-04-18 14:59:42 +0000212
Benjamin Peterson99d36f12009-04-15 21:26:36 +0000213- Issue #5759: float() didn't call __float__ on str subclasses.
214
Georg Brandl3c4a5462009-04-12 12:08:12 +0000215- Issue #5704: the "-3" command-line option now implies "-t".
216
R. David Murray0374a822009-04-09 21:54:50 +0000217- Issue #2170: refactored xml.dom.minidom.normalize, increasing both
218 its clarity and its speed.
219
Antoine Pitrou789be0c2009-04-02 21:18:34 +0000220- Issue #2396: the memoryview object was backported from Python 3.1.
221
Georg Brandld3f03fa2009-04-02 18:09:04 +0000222- Fix a problem in PyErr_NormalizeException that leads to "undetected errors"
223 when hitting the recursion limit under certain circumstances.
224
Brett Cannon15ba4da2009-04-01 18:03:59 +0000225- Issue #1665206: Remove the last eager import in _warnings.c and make it lazy.
226
Ronald Oussorene0154ed2009-03-30 23:10:35 +0000227- Issue #4865: On MacOSX /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages is added to
228 the end sys.path, for compatibility with the system install of Python.
229
Antoine Pitrouf8387af2009-03-23 18:41:45 +0000230- Issue #4688: Add a heuristic so that tuples and dicts containing only
231 untrackable objects are not tracked by the garbage collector. This can
232 reduce the size of collections and therefore the garbage collection overhead
233 on long-running programs, depending on their particular use of datatypes.
234
Mark Dickinson0b666bf2009-03-23 18:25:13 +0000235- Issue #5512: Rewrite PyLong long division algorithm (x_divrem) to
236 improve its performance. Long divisions and remainder operations
237 are now between 50% and 150% faster.
238
Mark Dickinsonefc82f72009-03-20 15:51:55 +0000239- Issue #4258: Make it possible to use base 2**30 instead of base
240 2**15 for the internal representation of integers, for performance
241 reasons. Base 2**30 is enabled by default on 64-bit machines. Add
242 --enable-big-digits option to configure, which overrides the
243 default. Add sys.long_info structseq to provide information about
244 the internal format.
245
Benjamin Peterson6ffe8522009-03-18 20:52:15 +0000246- Issue #4034: Fix weird attribute error messages of the traceback object. (As a
247 result traceback.__members__ no longer exists.)
248
Mark Dickinson6b265f12009-03-18 16:07:26 +0000249- Issue #4474: PyUnicode_FromWideChar now converts characters outside
250 the BMP to surrogate pairs, on systems with sizeof(wchar_t) == 4
251 and sizeof(Py_UNICODE) == 2.
252
Eric Smith6f42edb2009-03-14 11:57:26 +0000253- Issue #5237: Allow auto-numbered fields in str.format(). For
254 example: '{} {}'.format(1, 2) == '1 2'.
255
Brett Cannon6c4cff02009-03-11 04:51:06 +0000256- Issue #3652: Make the 'line' argument for warnings.showwarning() a
257 requirement. Means the DeprecationWarning from Python 2.6 can go away.
258
Eric Smithe9fb6862009-02-20 14:02:36 +0000259- Issue #5247: Improve error message when unknown format codes are
260 used when using str.format() with str, unicode, long, int, and
261 float arguments.
262
Raymond Hettinger08259e82009-02-18 23:10:19 +0000263- Running Python with the -3 option now also warns about classic division
264 for ints and longs.
265
Mark Dickinson2ffb26f2009-02-15 10:13:41 +0000266- Issue #5260: Long integers now consume less memory: average
267 saving is 2 bytes per long on a 32-bit system and 6 bytes per long
268 on a 64-bit system.
269
Antoine Pitrou76a4b892009-02-13 13:52:33 +0000270- Issue #5186: Reduce hash collisions for objects with no __hash__ method by
271 rotating the object pointer by 4 bits to the right.
272
Mark Dickinsonc97c9092009-02-09 14:18:43 +0000273- Issue #4575: Fix Py_IS_INFINITY macro to work correctly on x87 FPUs:
274 it now forces its argument to double before testing for infinity.
275
Benjamin Petersone18ef192009-01-20 14:21:16 +0000276- Issue #4978: Passing keyword arguments as unicode strings is now allowed.
277
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +0000278- Issue #1242657: the __len__() and __length_hint__() calls in several tools
Raymond Hettingerb5163702009-02-02 21:50:13 +0000279 were suppressing all exceptions. These include list(), filter(), map(),
280 zip(), and bytearray().
281
Benjamin Peterson596d3062009-01-19 15:42:23 +0000282- os.ftruncate raises OSErrors instead of IOErrors for consistency with other os
283 functions.
284
Benjamin Peterson5848d1f2009-01-19 00:08:08 +0000285- Issue #4991: Passing invalid file descriptors to io.FileIO now raises an
286 OSError.
287
Amaury Forgeot d'Arca18392a2009-01-13 23:19:08 +0000288- Issue #4807: Port the _winreg module to Windows CE.
289
Antoine Pitrouc2f02212009-01-13 23:13:52 +0000290- Issue #4935: The overflow checking code in the expandtabs() method common
291 to str, bytes and bytearray could be optimized away by the compiler, letting
292 the interpreter segfault instead of raising an error.
293
Amaury Forgeot d'Arca40d5732009-01-12 23:36:55 +0000294- Issue #3720: Fix a crash when an iterator modifies its class and removes its
295 __next__ method.
296
Martin v. Löwise3422fa2009-01-12 08:11:24 +0000297- Issue #4893: Use NT threading on CE.
298
Martin v. Löwis1b3bef22009-01-12 07:57:11 +0000299- Issue #4915: Port sysmodule to Windows CE.
300
Antoine Pitrou4c5ecb72009-01-09 21:40:55 +0000301- Issue #4074: Change the criteria for doing a full garbage collection (i.e.
302 collecting the oldest generation) so that allocating lots of objects without
303 destroying them does not show quadratic performance. Based on a proposal by
Benjamin Petersond50a5d52009-07-13 00:03:20 +0000304 Martin von Löwis at
Antoine Pitrou4c5ecb72009-01-09 21:40:55 +0000305 http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2008-June/080579.html.
306
Martin v. Löwisb90304a2009-01-07 18:40:40 +0000307- Issue #4850: Change COUNT_ALLOCS variables to Py_ssize_t.
308
Antoine Pitroue96d4ea2009-01-06 18:10:47 +0000309- Issue #1180193: When importing a module from a .pyc (or .pyo) file with
310 an existing .py counterpart, override the co_filename attributes of all
311 code objects if the original filename is obsolete (which can happen if the
312 file has been renamed, moved, or if it is accessed through different paths).
313 Patch by Ziga Seilnacht and Jean-Paul Calderone.
314
Martin v. Löwis5344c992009-01-02 20:32:55 +0000315- Issue #4075: Use OutputDebugStringW in Py_FatalError.
316
Hirokazu Yamamoto99a1b202009-01-01 15:45:39 +0000317- Issue #4797: IOError.filename was not set when _fileio.FileIO failed to open
318 file with `str' filename on Windows.
319
Antoine Pitrouaa687902009-01-01 14:11:22 +0000320- Issue #3680: Reference cycles created through a dict, set or deque iterator
321 did not get collected.
322
Nick Coghlan180e4002008-12-30 01:18:48 +0000323- Issue #4701: PyObject_Hash now implicitly calls PyType_Ready on types
324 where the tp_hash and tp_dict slots are both NULL.
325
Benjamin Peterson7af65562008-12-29 17:56:58 +0000326- Issue #4764: With io.open, IOError.filename is set when trying to open a
327 directory on POSIX systems.
328
Benjamin Petersonfe231b02008-12-29 17:47:42 +0000329- Issue #4764: IOError.filename is set when trying to open a directory on POSIX
330 systems.
331
Georg Brandl6425a2f2008-12-28 11:54:53 +0000332- Issue #4759: None is now allowed as the first argument of
333 bytearray.translate(). It was always allowed for bytes.translate().
334
Skip Montanarof205c132008-12-23 03:30:15 +0000335- Added test case to ensure attempts to read from a file opened for writing
336 fail.
337
Antoine Pitrou73c0e652008-12-17 22:46:54 +0000338- Issue #2467: gc.DEBUG_STATS reported invalid elapsed times. Also, always
339 print elapsed times, not only when some objects are uncollectable /
340 unreachable. Original patch by Neil Schemenauer.
341
Mark Dickinson1a707982008-12-17 16:14:37 +0000342- Issue #3439: Add a bit_length method to int and long.
343
Antoine Pitroud0c35152008-12-17 00:38:28 +0000344- Issue #2183: Simplify and optimize bytecode for list comprehensions.
345 Original patch by Neal Norwitz.
346
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcad9b5992008-12-10 23:22:49 +0000347- Issue #4597: Fixed exception handling when the __exit__ function of a
348 context manager returns a value that cannot be converted to a bool.
349
Jeffrey Yasskinffd42cf2008-12-10 07:35:02 +0000350- Issue #4597: Fixed several opcodes that weren't always propagating
351 exceptions.
352
Mark Dickinson826f3fe2008-12-05 21:55:28 +0000353- Issue #4445: Replace "sizeof(PyStringObject)" with
354 "offsetof(PyStringObject, ob_sval) + 1" when allocating memory for
355 str instances. On a typical machine this saves 3 bytes of memory
356 (on average) per string allocation.
357
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcdc619012008-11-22 20:01:18 +0000358- Issue #3996: On Windows, the PyOS_CheckStack function would cause the
359 interpreter to abort ("Fatal Python error: Could not reset the stack!")
360 instead of throwing a MemoryError.
361
Raymond Hettinger7989a4d2008-12-03 15:42:10 +0000362- Issue #3689: The list reversed iterator now supports __length_hint__
363 instead of __len__. Behavior now matches other reversed iterators.
364
Benjamin Petersonc078f922008-11-21 22:27:24 +0000365- Issue #4367: Python would segfault during compiling when the unicodedata
366 module couldn't be imported and \N escapes were present.
367
Vinay Sajip213faca2008-12-03 23:22:58 +0000368- Issue #4233: Changed semantic of ``_fileio.FileIO``'s ``close()``
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc32265652008-11-20 23:34:31 +0000369 method on file objects with closefd=False. The file descriptor is still
370 kept open but the file object behaves like a closed file. The ``FileIO``
371 object also got a new readonly attribute ``closefd``.
372
Benjamin Peterson46cc6d12008-11-19 21:49:09 +0000373- Issue #4348: Some bytearray methods returned that didn't cause any change to
374 the bytearray, returned the same bytearray instead of a copy.
375
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc7cfe7ea2008-11-18 22:19:37 +0000376- Issue #4317: Fixed a crash in the imageop.rgb2rgb8() function.
377
Benjamin Peterson273c2332008-11-17 22:39:09 +0000378- Issue #4230: If ``__getattr__`` is a descriptor, it now functions correctly.
379
Benjamin Peterson6624a9f2008-11-03 15:14:51 +0000380- Issue #4048: The parser module now correctly validates relative imports.
381
Benjamin Petersondcee09d2008-10-31 02:16:05 +0000382- Issue #4225: ``from __future__ import unicode_literals`` didn't work in an
383 exec statement.
384
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc69a9c5b2008-10-30 21:18:34 +0000385- Issue #4176: Fixed a crash when pickling an object which ``__reduce__``
386 method does not return iterators for the 4th and 5th items.
387
Benjamin Petersonbdca9422008-10-26 20:21:13 +0000388- Issue #4209: Enabling unicode_literals and the print_function in the same
389 __future__ import didn't work.
390
Benjamin Peterson399b1fe2008-10-25 02:53:28 +0000391- Using ``nonlocal`` as a variable name will now raise a Py3k SyntaxWarning
Georg Brandl7fb00ad2008-10-25 07:00:52 +0000392 because it is a reserved word in 3.x.
Benjamin Peterson399b1fe2008-10-25 02:53:28 +0000393
Hirokazu Yamamoto10a018c2008-10-09 10:00:30 +0000394- On windows, os.chdir given unicode was not working if GetCurrentDirectoryW
395 returned a path longer than MAX_PATH. (But It's doubtful this code path is
396 really executed because I cannot move to such directory on win2k)
397
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd78b9dc2008-10-07 20:32:10 +0000398- Issue #4069: When set.remove(element) is used with a set element, the element
399 is temporarily replaced with an equivalent frozenset. But the eventual
400 KeyError would always report the empty frozenset([]) as the missing key. Now
401 it correctly refers to the initial element.
402
Antoine Pitrouae5bece2008-12-06 21:29:24 +0000403- Issue #4509: Various issues surrounding resize of bytearray objects to
404 which there are buffer exports.
405
Benjamin Peterson8d5934b2008-12-27 18:24:11 +0000406- Issue #4748: Lambda generators no longer return a value.
407
Kristján Valur Jónsson6220e412009-01-12 09:20:34 +0000408- Issue #3582: Use native TLS functions on Windows
409
Gregory P. Smithae91d092009-03-02 05:13:57 +0000410- The re.sub(), re.subn() and re.split() functions now accept a flags parameter.
411
Matthias Kloseedb5e1e2009-04-04 14:18:13 +0000412- Issue #3845: In PyRun_SimpleFileExFlags avoid invalid memory access with
413 short file names.
414
Matthias Klose91a3b9e2009-04-05 21:19:13 +0000415- Issue #1113244: Py_XINCREF, Py_DECREF, Py_XDECREF: Add `do { ... } while (0)'
416 to avoid compiler warnings.
Matthias Klose0610e082009-04-05 12:43:08 +0000417
Gregory P. Smith2b3eb372009-04-05 23:48:26 +0000418- Issue #5705: os.setuid() would not accept values > 2**31-1 but pwd.getpwnam()
419 returned them on 64bit platforms.
420
Walter Dörwalded960ac2009-05-03 22:36:33 +0000421- Issue #5108: Handle %s like %S and %R in PyUnicode_FromFormatV(): Call
422 PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8() once, remember the result and output it in a second
423 step. This avoids problems with counting UTF-8 bytes that ignores the effect
424 of using the replace error handler in PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8().
425
Walter Dörwald726ba8e2009-05-06 14:32:35 +0000426- Issue #3739: The unicode-internal encoder now reports the number of characters
427 consumed like any other encoder (instead of the number of bytes).
428
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +0000429Library
430-------
Benjamin Petersonb3dd5482009-02-26 19:07:18 +0000431
Antoine Pitroud5b34d42009-11-15 14:10:48 +0000432- Issue #4969: The mimetypes module now reads the MIME database from
433 the registry under Windows. Patch by Gabriel Genellina.
434
Nick Coghlan49868cb2009-11-15 07:30:34 +0000435- Issue #6816: runpy now provides a run_path function that allows Python code
436 to execute file paths that refer to source or compiled Python files as well
437 as zipfiles, directories and other valid sys.path entries that contain a
438 __main__.py file. This allows applications that run other Python scripts to
439 support the same flexibility as the CPython command line itself.
440
Antoine Pitrouc562ca42009-11-13 22:31:18 +0000441- Issue #7318: multiprocessing now uses a timeout when it fails to establish
442 a connection with another process, rather than looping endlessly. The
443 default timeout is 20 seconds, which should be amply sufficient for
444 local connections.
445
Antoine Pitrou0734c632009-11-10 20:49:30 +0000446- Issue #7197: Allow unittest.TextTestRunner objects to be pickled and
447 unpickled. This fixes crashes under Windows when trying to run
448 test_multiprocessing in verbose mode.
449
Antoine Pitroud7158d42009-11-09 16:00:11 +0000450- Issue #7282: Fix a memory leak when an RLock was used in a thread other
451 than those started through `threading.Thread` (for example, using
452 `thread.start_new_thread()`.
453
Antoine Pitrou99c160b2009-11-05 13:42:29 +0000454- Issue #7264: Fix a possible deadlock when deallocating thread-local objects
455 which are part of a reference cycle.
456
Antoine Pitrou323b9da2009-11-04 19:25:14 +0000457- Issue #7211: Allow 64-bit values for the `ident` and `data` fields of kevent
458 objects on 64-bit systems. Patch by Michael Broghton.
459
Antoine Pitrouaec41242009-11-02 11:34:27 +0000460- Issue #6896: mailbox.Maildir now invalidates its internal cache each time
461 a modification is done through it. This fixes inconsistencies and test
462 failures on systems with slightly bogus mtime behaviour.
463
Gregory P. Smith38f5d8f2009-11-01 18:33:55 +0000464- Issue #7246 & Issue #7208: getpass now properly flushes input before
465 reading from stdin so that existing input does not confuse it and
466 lead to incorrect entry or an IOError. It also properly flushes it
467 afterwards to avoid the terminal echoing the input afterwards on
468 OSes such as Solaris.
469
Mark Dickinson6f390012009-10-29 12:11:18 +0000470- Issue #7233: Fix a number of two-argument Decimal methods to make
471 sure that they accept an int or long as the second argument. Also
472 fix buggy handling of large arguments (those with coefficient longer
473 than the current precision) in shift and rotate.
Mark Dickinson0c673122009-10-29 12:04:00 +0000474
Lars Gustäbel8c06ccc2009-10-29 09:15:00 +0000475- Issue #4750: Store the basename of the original filename in the gzip FNAME
476 header as required by RFC 1952.
477
Tarek Ziadé40b998b2009-10-27 23:06:10 +0000478- Issue #1180: Added a new global option to ignore ~/.pydistutils.cfg in
479 Distutils.
480
Tarek Ziadéd24cab82009-10-27 21:20:27 +0000481- Issue #7218: Fix test_site for win32, the directory comparison was done with
482 an uppercase.
483
Antoine Pitroudd629662009-10-27 17:41:58 +0000484- Issue #7205: Fix a possible deadlock when using a BZ2File object from
485 several threads at once.
486
Tarek Ziadéb9c1cfc2009-10-24 15:10:37 +0000487- Issue #7071: byte-compilation in Distutils is now done with respect to
488 sys.dont_write_bytecode.
489
Tarek Ziadé672422a2009-10-24 13:29:44 +0000490- Issue #7066: archive_util.make_archive now restores the cwd if an error is
491 raised. Initial patch by Ezio Melotti.
492
Antoine Pitroufa94e802009-10-24 12:23:18 +0000493- Issue #6218: io.StringIO and io.BytesIO instances are now picklable with
494 protocol 2.
495
Vinay Sajip5ac65282009-10-21 20:22:14 +0000496- Issue #7077: logging: SysLogHandler now treats Unicode as per RFC 5424.
497
Mark Dickinsona7a52ab2009-10-20 13:33:03 +0000498- Issue #7099: Decimal.is_normal now returns True for numbers with exponent
499 larger than emax.
500
Antoine Pitroue0899802009-10-19 18:20:21 +0000501- Issue #5833: Fix extra space character in readline completion with the
502 GNU readline library version 6.0.
503
Antoine Pitrou5ba84912009-10-19 17:59:07 +0000504- Issue #7133: SSL objects now support the new buffer API.
505
Ronald Oussoren31802d02009-10-18 07:07:00 +0000506- Issue #7149: urllib fails on OSX in the proxy detection code
507
Benjamin Petersonc63457b2009-10-15 03:06:55 +0000508- Issue #7069: Make inspect.isabstract() return a boolean.
509
Neil Schemenauere6039f02009-10-14 19:23:53 +0000510- Add support to the `ihooks` module for relative imports.
511
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +0000512- Issue #6894: Fixed the issue urllib2 doesn't respect "no_proxy" environment
Senthil Kumaran27468662009-10-11 02:00:07 +0000513
Vinay Sajip1c77b7f2009-10-10 20:32:36 +0000514- Issue #7086: Added TCP support to SysLogHandler, and tidied up some
515 anachronisms in the code which were a relic of 1.5.2 compatibility.
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +0000516
R. David Murray0c8bee62009-10-09 21:50:54 +0000517- Issue #7082: When falling back to the MIME 'name' parameter, the
518 correct place to look for it is the Content-Type header.
519
Mark Dickinson15ae41c2009-10-07 19:22:05 +0000520- Issue #7048: Force Decimal.logb to round its result when that result
521 is too large to fit in the current precision.
522
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +0000523- Issue #6516: Added owner/group support when creating tar archives in
Tarek Ziadé1b486712009-10-02 23:49:48 +0000524 Distutils.
525
Georg Brandl12fafe62009-10-01 21:02:39 +0000526- Issue #7031: Add TestCase.assert(Not)IsInstance() methods.
527
Antoine Pitrou72481782009-09-29 17:48:18 +0000528- Issue #6790: Make it possible again to pass an `array.array` to
529 `httplib.HTTPConnection.send`. Patch by Kirk McDonald.
530
Antoine Pitrou2a466582009-09-21 21:17:48 +0000531- Issue #6236, #6348: Fix various failures in the `io` module under AIX
532 and other platforms, when using a non-gcc compiler. Patch by egreen.
533
Tarek Ziadé99773352009-09-21 13:41:08 +0000534- Issue #6954: Fixed crash when using DISTUTILS_DEBUG flag in Distutils.
535
Ronald Oussoren51f06332009-09-20 10:31:22 +0000536- Issue #6851: Fix urllib.urlopen crash on secondairy threads on OSX 10.6
537
Thomas Heller6be522b2009-09-18 20:05:44 +0000538- Issue #4606: Passing 'None' if ctypes argtype is set to POINTER(...)
539 does now always result in NULL.
540
541- Issue #5042: ctypes Structure sub-subclass does now initialize
542 correctly with base class positional arguments.
Thomas Heller7a352c02009-09-18 18:55:17 +0000543
Georg Brandlc40e60e2009-09-18 09:18:27 +0000544- Issue #6938: Fix a TypeError in string formatting of a multiprocessing
545 debug message.
546
Matthias Klose924eab62009-09-13 15:09:24 +0000547- Issue #6635: Fix profiler printing usage message.
548
Lars Gustäbel21121e62009-09-12 10:28:15 +0000549- Issue #6856: Add a filter keyword argument to TarFile.add().
550
Tarek Ziadébed26a32009-09-09 08:14:20 +0000551- Issue #6163: Fixed HP-UX runtime library dir options in
552 distutils.unixcompiler. Initial patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar and
553 Michael Haubenwallner.
554
Mark Dickinson5cfa8042009-09-08 20:20:19 +0000555- Issue #6857: Default format() alignment should be '>' for Decimal
556 instances.
557
Mark Dickinson968f1692009-09-07 18:04:58 +0000558- Issue #6795: int(Decimal('nan')) now raises ValueError instead of
559 returning NaN or raising InvalidContext. Also, fix infinite recursion
560 in long(Decimal('nan')).
561
Mark Dickinson491ea552009-09-07 16:17:41 +0000562- Issue #6850: Fix bug in Decimal._parse_format_specifier for formats
563 with no type specifier.
564
Ronald Oussoren626faeb2009-09-06 12:23:18 +0000565- Issue #4937: plat-mac/bundlebuilder revers to non-existing version.plist
566
Chris Withers7f3ea6a2009-09-04 16:32:22 +0000567- Issue #6838: Use a list to accumulate the value instead of
568 repeatedly concatenating strings in httplib's
569 HTTPResponse._read_chunked providing a significant speed increase
570 when downloading large files servend with a Transfer-Encoding of 'chunked'.
571
Georg Brandld22b9512009-09-04 08:17:04 +0000572- Issue #5275: In Cookie's Cookie.load(), properly handle non-string arguments
573 as documented.
574
Georg Brandl2e1308f2009-09-04 06:59:20 +0000575- Issue #2666: Handle BROWSER environment variable properly for unknown browser
576 names in the webbrowser module.
577
Lars Gustäbelf7cda522009-08-28 19:23:44 +0000578- Issue #6054: Do not normalize stored pathnames in tarfile.
579
Mark Dickinson7a7739d2009-08-28 13:25:02 +0000580- Issue #6794: Fix Decimal.compare_total and Decimal.compare_total_mag: NaN
581 payloads are now ordered by integer value rather than lexicographically.
582
Tarek Ziadé764fc232009-08-20 21:23:13 +0000583- Issue #6693: New functions in site.py to get user/global site packages paths.
584
Gregory P. Smith4e63d542009-08-20 09:39:38 +0000585- The thread.lock type now supports weak references.
586
Guilherme Polo7b50c4f2009-08-18 14:46:57 +0000587- Issue #1356969: Add missing info methods in Tix.HList.
588
Guilherme Polo6b3c7092009-08-18 14:23:00 +0000589- Issue #1522587: New constants and methods for the Tix.Grid widget.
590
Guilherme Polo6c823f82009-08-18 13:29:20 +0000591- Issue #1250469: Fix the return value of Tix.PanedWindow.panes.
592
Guilherme Polod3e6e4b2009-08-18 13:23:08 +0000593- Issue #1119673: Do not override Tkinter.Text methods when creating a
594 ScrolledText.
595
Gregory P. Smithb98d6b22009-08-16 18:52:58 +0000596- Issue #6665: Fix fnmatch to properly match filenames with newlines in them.
597
Guilherme Poloe45f0172009-08-14 14:36:45 +0000598- Issue #1135: Add the XView and YView mix-ins to avoid duplicating
599 the xview* and yview* methods.
600
Antoine Pitrou20e1f932009-08-06 20:18:29 +0000601- Issue #6629: Fix a data corruption issue in the new `io` package, which could
602 occur when writing to a BufferedRandom object (e.g. a file opened in "rb+" or
603 "wb+" mode) after having buffered a certain amount of data for reading. This
604 bug was not present in the pure Python implementation.
605
Jesse Noller8497efe2009-08-06 02:05:56 +0000606- Issue #4660: If a multiprocessing.JoinableQueue.put() was preempted, it was
607 possible to get a spurious 'task_done() called too many times' error.
608
Gregory P. Smithc4ad0342009-08-13 18:54:50 +0000609- Issue #1628205: Socket file objects returned by socket.socket.makefile() now
610 properly handles EINTR within the read, readline, write & flush methods.
611 The socket.sendall() method now properly handles interrupted system calls.
612
Mark Dickinson4326ad82009-08-02 10:59:36 +0000613- Issue #6595: The Decimal constructor now allows arbitrary Unicode
614 decimal digits in input, as recommended by the standard. Previously
615 it was restricted to accepting [0-9].
616
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc3e5b0272009-07-28 22:15:30 +0000617- Issue #6511: ZipFile now raises BadZipfile (instead of an IOError) when
618 opening an empty or very small file.
619
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc74b30162009-07-23 19:26:02 +0000620- Issue #6553: Fixed a crash in cPickle.load(), when given a file-like object
621 containing incomplete data.
622
623- Issue #6545: Removed assert statements in distutils.Extension, so the
Tarek Ziadéaf2406f2009-07-22 08:55:19 +0000624 behavior is similar when used with -O.
625
Benjamin Petersond7b0eeb2009-07-19 20:18:21 +0000626- unittest has been split up into a package. All old names should still work.
627
Mark Dickinson88a0a2e2009-07-18 15:18:18 +0000628- Issue #6431: Make Fraction type return NotImplemented when it doesn't
629 know how to handle a comparison without loss of precision. Also add
630 correct handling of infinities and nans for comparisons with float.
631
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc74b30162009-07-23 19:26:02 +0000632- Issue #6415: Fixed warnings.warn segfault on bad formatted string.
Hirokazu Yamamoto1a3d0852009-07-17 06:26:54 +0000633
Tarek Ziadéa99dedf2009-07-16 15:35:45 +0000634- Issue #6466: now distutils.cygwinccompiler and distutils.emxccompiler
635 uses the same refactored function to get gcc/ld/dllwrap versions numbers.
636 It's `distutils.util.get_compiler_versions`. Added deprecation warnings
637 for the obsolete get_versions() functions.
638
Jesse Noller7530e472009-07-16 14:23:04 +0000639- Issue #6433: fixed issues with multiprocessing.pool.map hanging on empty list
640
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +0000641- Issue #6314: logging: Extra checks on the "level" argument in more places.
642
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc74b8d332009-07-11 14:33:51 +0000643- Issue #2622: Fixed an ImportError when importing email.messsage from a
644 standalone application built with py2exe or py2app.
645
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +0000646- Issue #6455: Fixed test_build_ext under win32.
Tarek Ziadé8c400012009-07-10 09:10:33 +0000647
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +0000648- Issue #6377: Enabled the compiler option, and deprecate its usage as an
Tarek Ziadée670e5a2009-07-06 12:50:46 +0000649 attribute.
650
Tarek Ziadé63f17382009-07-04 02:02:41 +0000651- Issue #6413: Fixed the log level in distutils.dist for announce.
652
Gregory P. Smithc197d0a2009-07-04 01:55:11 +0000653- Issue #3392: The subprocess communicate() method no longer fails in select()
654 when file descriptors are large; communicate() now uses poll() when possible.
655
Tarek Ziadé65ec61e2009-07-03 08:22:56 +0000656- Issue #6403: Fixed package path usage in build_ext.
657
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +0000658- Issues #5155, 5313, 5331: multiprocessing.Process._bootstrap was
Jesse Noller1b90efb2009-06-30 17:11:52 +0000659 unconditionally calling "os.close(sys.stdin.fileno())" resulting in file
660 descriptor errors
661
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +0000662- Issue #6365: Distutils build_ext inplace mode was copying the compiled
Tarek Ziadé3fbcc602009-06-29 16:13:39 +0000663 extension in a subdirectory if the extension name had dots.
664
Hirokazu Yamamoto99ebc632009-06-29 14:29:31 +0000665- Issue #6344: Fixed a crash of mmap.read() when passed a negative argument.
666
R. David Murrayef087da2009-06-23 18:02:46 +0000667- Issue #5230: pydoc would report no documentation found if a module generated
668 a 'not found' import error when loaded; it now reports the import errors.
669 Thanks to Lucas Prado Melo for initial fix and collaboration on the tests.
670
Vinay Sajip603fb6d2009-06-21 17:37:27 +0000671- Issue #6314: logging.basicConfig() performs extra checks on the "level"
672 argument.
673
674- Issue #6164: Added an AIX specific linker argument in Distutils
Tarek Ziadé439bf932009-06-20 13:57:20 +0000675 unixcompiler. Original patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar.
676
Facundo Batista8c826b72009-06-19 18:02:28 +0000677- Issue #6274: Fixed possible file descriptors leak in subprocess.py
678
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc5fe420e2009-06-18 22:32:50 +0000679- Issue #6189: Restored compatibility of subprocess.py with Python 2.2.
680
Tarek Ziadéfdefc0a2009-06-16 07:29:52 +0000681- Issue #6287: Added the license field in Distutils documentation.
682
Tarek Ziadéa1cc0402009-06-15 23:30:13 +0000683- Issue #6286: Now Distutils upload command is based on urllib2 instead of
684 httplib, allowing the usage of http_proxy.
685
Hirokazu Yamamoto983a4652009-06-14 03:53:55 +0000686- Issue #6271: mmap tried to close invalid file handle (-1) when annonymous.
687 (On Unix)
688
Antoine Pitrou19690592009-06-12 20:14:08 +0000689- Issue #6215: All bug fixes and enhancements from the Python 3.1 io library
690 (including the fast C implementation) have been backported to the standard
691 ``io`` module.
692
Martin v. Löwis2dcd7a02009-06-12 17:28:31 +0000693- Issue #6258: Support AMD64 in bdist_msi.
694
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +0000695- Issue #5262: Fixed bug in next rollover time computation in
696 TimedRotatingFileHandler.
697
Tarek Ziadéc7498f52009-06-11 09:13:36 +0000698- Issue #6263: Fixed syntax error in distutils.cygwincompiler.
699
Tarek Ziadé25d2bae2009-06-11 08:12:20 +0000700- Issue #5201: distutils.sysconfig.parse_makefile() now understands `$$`
701 in Makefiles. This prevents compile errors when using syntax like:
702 `LDFLAGS='-rpath=\$$LIB:/some/other/path'`. Patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
703
Georg Brandle6632b42009-06-04 08:58:32 +0000704- Issue #5767: Removed sgmlop support from xmlrpclib.
705
Tarek Ziadé3e3eace2009-05-29 08:08:07 +0000706- Issue #6131: test_modulefinder leaked when run after test_distutils.
707 Patch by Hirokazu Yamamoto.
708
Tarek Ziadé9e5d2dc2009-05-28 12:53:54 +0000709- Issue #6048: Now Distutils uses the tarfile module in archive_util.
710
Raymond Hettingerb4d2d312009-05-29 01:36:26 +0000711- Issue #5150: IDLE's format menu now has an option to strip trailing
712 whitespace.
713
R. David Murrayd67ea7d2009-05-27 20:07:21 +0000714- Issue #6121: pydoc now ignores leading and trailing spaces in the
715 argument to the 'help' function.
716
Benjamin Peterson176a56c2009-05-25 00:48:58 +0000717- In unittest, using a skipping decorator on a class is now equivalent to
718 skipping every test on the class. The ClassTestSuite class has been removed.
719
Martin v. Löwis0b09c422009-05-24 19:30:52 +0000720- Issue #6050: Don't fail extracting a directory from a zipfile if
721 the directory already exists.
722
Martin v. Löwis53b578e2009-05-24 19:10:52 +0000723- Issue #5311: bdist_msi can now build packages that do not depend on a
724 specific Python version.
725
Antoine Pitroud49e3752009-05-24 15:40:09 +0000726- Issue #1309352: fcntl now converts its third arguments to a C `long` rather
727 than an int, which makes some operations possible under 64-bit Linux (e.g.
728 DN_MULTISHOT with F_NOTIFY).
729
Senthil Kumarane266f252009-05-24 09:14:50 +0000730- Issue #1424152: Fix for httplib, urllib2 to support SSL while working through
731 proxy. Original patch by Christopher Li, changes made by Senthil Kumaran.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +0000732
Antoine Pitrou5e858fe2009-05-23 15:37:45 +0000733- Issue #1983: Fix functions taking or returning a process identifier to use
734 the dedicated C type ``pid_t`` instead of a C ``int``. Some platforms have
735 a process identifier type wider than the standard C integer type.
736
R. David Murrayad3058e2009-05-23 00:48:58 +0000737- Issue #4066: smtplib.SMTP_SSL._get_socket now correctly returns the socket.
738 Patch by Farhan Ahmad, test by Marcin Bachry.
739
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +0000740- Issue #6062: In distutils, fixed the package option of build_ext. Feedback
Tarek Ziadé7d7127d2009-05-19 16:17:21 +0000741 and tests on pywin32 by Tim Golden.
742
Tarek Ziadé07bbfcc2009-05-18 12:21:26 +0000743- Issue #6053: Fixed distutils tests on win32. patch by Hirokazu Yamamoto.
744
Tarek Ziadéfcc7f032009-05-18 08:03:37 +0000745- Issue #6046: Fixed the library extension when distutils build_ext is used
746 inplace. Initial patch by Roumen Petrov.
747
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +0000748- Issue #6041: Now distutils `sdist` and `register` commands use `check` as a
Tarek Ziadécb768042009-05-16 16:37:06 +0000749 subcommand.
750
Antoine Pitrou775fd662009-05-15 16:54:52 +0000751- Issue #2116: Weak references and weak dictionaries now support copy()ing and
752 deepcopy()ing.
753
Antoine Pitrou52035a02009-05-15 11:50:29 +0000754- Issue #1655: Make imaplib IPv6-capable. Patch by Derek Morr.
755
Antoine Pitrou42b5bcf2009-05-14 21:48:09 +0000756- Issue #5918: Fix a crash in the parser module.
757
Antoine Pitroueed30d82009-05-14 21:22:08 +0000758- Issue #1664: Make nntplib IPv6-capable. Patch by Derek Morr.
759
Tarek Ziadécbb4f9e2009-05-14 20:14:13 +0000760- Issue #6022: a test file was created in the current working directory by
761 test_get_outputs in Distutils.
762
R. David Murray996ba022009-05-13 17:14:11 +0000763- Issue #4050: inspect.findsource/getsource now raise an IOError if the 'source'
764 file is a binary. Patch by Brodie Rao, tests by Daniel Diniz.
765
Tarek Ziadé972480d2009-05-12 17:07:14 +0000766- Issue #5977: distutils build_ext.get_outputs was not taking into account the
767 inplace option. Initial patch by kxroberto.
768
Tarek Ziadéd5d83422009-05-10 10:12:08 +0000769- Issue #5984: distutils.command.build_ext.check_extensions_list checks were broken
770 for old-style extensions.
771
Vinay Sajipf9b01fe2009-05-09 12:07:17 +0000772- Issue #5971: StreamHandler.handleError now swallows IOErrors which occur when
773 trying to print a traceback.
774
Tarek Ziadé812d7712009-05-09 10:06:00 +0000775- Issue #5976: Fixed Distutils test_check_environ.
776
Vinay Sajipf9b01fe2009-05-09 12:07:17 +0000777- Issue #5900: Ensure RUNPATH is added to extension modules with RPATH if GNU
Tarek Ziadée2be83d2009-05-09 08:28:53 +0000778 ld is used. Original patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
779
Tarek Ziadé99f660a2009-05-07 21:20:34 +0000780- Issue #5941: Distutils build_clib command was not working anymore because
781 of an incomplete costumization of the archiver command. Added ARFLAGS in the
782 Makefile besides AR and make Distutils use it. Original patch by David
783 Cournapeau.
784
R. David Murrayd3bf34c2009-05-07 16:29:19 +0000785- Issue 5955: aifc's close method did not close the file it wrapped,
786 now it does. This also means getfp method now returns the real fp.
787
Thomas Hellera57773e2009-05-05 18:55:47 +0000788- Issue #4875: On win32, ctypes.util.find_library does no longer
789 return directories.
790
Georg Brandl4d4313d2009-05-05 08:54:11 +0000791- Issue #5142: Add the ability to skip modules while stepping to pdb.
792
Georg Brandle3869c42009-05-05 08:30:28 +0000793- Issue #1309567: Fix linecache behavior of stripping subdirectories when
794 looking for files given by a relative filename.
795
Antoine Pitrou97377bf2009-05-04 21:17:17 +0000796- Issue #5692: In :class:`zipfile.Zipfile`, fix wrong path calculation when
797 extracting a file to the root directory.
798
Hirokazu Yamamoto406d7aa2009-05-04 05:28:39 +0000799- Issue #5913: os.listdir() should fail for empty path on windows.
800
Antoine Pitrou74309892009-05-02 21:13:23 +0000801- Issue #5084: unpickling now interns the attribute names of pickled objects,
802 saving memory and avoiding growth in size of subsequent pickles. Proposal
803 and original patch by Jake McGuire.
804
Antoine Pitrou1fc02312009-05-01 20:55:35 +0000805- Issue #3002: ``shutil.copyfile()`` and ``shutil.copytree()`` now raise an
806 error when a named pipe is encountered, rather than blocking infinitely.
807
Gregory P. Smith1d499262009-05-01 19:59:52 +0000808- Issue #3959: The ipaddr module has been added to the standard library.
809 Contributed by Google.
810
R. David Murray25b4add2009-04-29 13:17:37 +0000811- Issue #2245: aifc now skips chunk types it doesn't recognize, per spec.
812
Vinay Sajipf9b01fe2009-05-09 12:07:17 +0000813- Issue #5874: distutils.tests.test_config_cmd is not locale-sensitive
Tarek Ziadéa1b91d92009-04-29 08:03:46 +0000814 anymore.
815
Thomas Heller90c61a22009-04-28 19:23:41 +0000816- Issue #4305: ctypes should now build again on mipsel-linux-gnu
817
Antoine Pitroue988e282009-04-27 21:53:26 +0000818- Issue #1734234: Massively speedup ``unicodedata.normalize()`` when the
819 string is already in normalized form, by performing a quick check beforehand.
820 Original patch by Rauli Ruohonen.
821
Antoine Pitrouf2651e12009-04-27 20:50:20 +0000822- Issue #5853: calling a function of the mimetypes module from several threads
823 at once could hit the recursion limit if the mimetypes database hadn't been
824 initialized before.
825
Vinay Sajipe34d6aa2009-04-27 13:44:27 +0000826- Issue #5854: Updated __all__ to include some missing names and remove some
827 names which should not be exported.
828
829- Issue #5810: Fixed Distutils test_build_scripts so it uses
Tarek Ziadébcddf672009-04-25 12:51:59 +0000830 sysconfig.get_config_vars.
831
Tarek Ziadéd567c382009-04-25 12:38:08 +0000832- Issue #4951: Fixed failure in test_httpservers.
833
Thomas Heller5c6af802009-04-24 20:31:47 +0000834- Issue #3102: All global symbols that the _ctypes extension defines
835 are now prefixed with 'Py' or '_ctypes'.
836
Thomas Hellerec21ccd2009-04-24 20:00:41 +0000837- Issue #5041: ctypes does now allow pickling wide character.
838
Mark Dickinson4af8e742009-04-24 13:56:07 +0000839- Issue #5812: For the two-argument form of the Fraction constructor,
840 Fraction(m, n), m and n are permitted to be arbitrary Rational
841 instances.
842
Mark Dickinson8100bd82009-04-22 18:15:25 +0000843- Issue #5812: Fraction('1e6') is valid: more generally, any string
844 that's valid for float() is now valid for Fraction(), with the
845 exception of strings representing NaNs and infinities.
846
Tarek Ziadé31559b62009-04-20 14:29:42 +0000847- Issue #5795: Fixed test_distutils failure on Debian ppc.
848
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +0000849- Issue #5768: Fixed bug in Unicode output logic and test case for same.
850
R. David Murrayabc26602009-04-13 16:56:32 +0000851- Issue #1161031: fix readwrite select flag handling: POLLPRI now
852 results in a handle_expt_event call, not handle_read_event, and POLLERR
853 and POLLNVAL now call handle_close, not handle_expt_event. Also,
854 dispatcher now has an 'ignore_log_types' attribute for suppressing
855 log messages, which is set to 'warning' by default.
856
Tarek Ziadé156c31a2009-04-13 12:34:01 +0000857- Issue #5607: fixed Distutils test_get_platform for Mac OS X fat binaries.
858
Georg Brandl21cf5ee2009-04-12 17:24:11 +0000859- Issue #5741: don't disallow "%%" (which is an escape for "%") when setting
860 a value in SafeConfigParser.
861
Tarek Ziadé942825f2009-04-11 14:55:07 +0000862- Issue #5732: added a new command in Distutils: check.
863
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +0000864- Issue #5731: Distutils bdist_wininst no longer worked on non-Windows
Tarek Ziadéad958262009-04-09 21:36:44 +0000865 platforms. Initial patch by Paul Moore.
866
Gregory P. Smith923ba362009-04-06 06:33:26 +0000867- Issue #2254: Fix CGIHTTPServer information disclosure. Relative paths are
868 now collapsed within the url properly before looking in cgi_directories.
869
Tarek Ziadé64408fb2009-04-05 22:51:09 +0000870- Issue #5095: Added bdist_msi to the list of bdist supported formats.
871 Initial fix by Steven Bethard.
872
Tarek Ziadéfaa6b122009-04-05 21:44:08 +0000873- Issue #1491431: Fixed distutils.filelist.glob_to_re for edge cases.
874 Initial fix by Wayne Davison.
875
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +0000876- Issue #5693: TestSuite.__iter__ can now be consistently overridden in subclasses.
Michael Foordf2dfef12009-04-05 19:19:28 +0000877
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +0000878- Issue #5694: removed spurious test output in Distutils (test_clean).
Tarek Ziadé453d9532009-04-05 18:31:24 +0000879
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +0000880- Issue #5471: Fix os.path.expanduser() for $HOME set to '/'.
Georg Brandl3f0ef202009-04-05 14:48:49 +0000881
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +0000882- Issue #1326077: fix the formatting of SyntaxErrors by the traceback module.
Georg Brandl1956d5c2009-04-05 14:25:41 +0000883
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +0000884- Issue #1726172: fix IndexError in the case of and empty response in ftplib.
Georg Brandl50ba6e12009-04-05 10:48:47 +0000885
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +0000886- Issue #2625: added missing iteritems() call to the for loop in
R. David Murray52720c52009-04-02 14:05:35 +0000887 mailbox.MH.get_message().
888
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +0000889- Issue #5585: Add the ability to call an initializer to mulitiprocessing.manager
Andrew M. Kuchling59631852009-04-09 11:23:36 +0000890 so that users can install custom handlers/etc.
Jesse Noller7152f6d2009-04-02 05:17:26 +0000891
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +0000892- Issue #3551: Patch multiprocessing to raise a proper exception if the size of the
Jesse Noller5053fbb2009-04-02 04:22:09 +0000893 object when writefile is called causes a ERROR_NO_SYSTEM_RESOURCES. Added docs
894 to note the limitation
895
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +0000896- unittest.assertNotEqual() now uses the inequality operator (!=) instead
Michael Foord345b2fe2009-04-02 03:20:38 +0000897 of the equality operator.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +0000898
899- Issue #6001: Test discovery for unittest. Implemented in
Michael Foordb4a81c82009-05-29 20:33:46 +0000900 unittest.TestLoader.discover and from the command line.
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +0000901
Michael Foord07ef4872009-05-02 22:43:34 +0000902- Issue #5679: The methods unittest.TestCase.addCleanup and doCleanups were added.
903 addCleanup allows you to add cleanup functions that will be called
904 unconditionally (after setUp if setUp fails, otherwise after tearDown). This
905 allows for much simpler resource allocation and deallocation during tests.
906
907- Issue #3379: unittest.main now takes an optional exit argument. If False main
908 doesn't call sys.exit allowing it to be used from the interactive interpreter.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +0000909
910- Issue #5995: unittest.main now takes an optional verbosity argument allowing
Michael Foord5d31e052009-05-11 17:59:43 +0000911 test modules to be run with a higher than default verbosity.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +0000912
913- Issue #5995: A fix to allow you to run "python -m unittest test_module" or
Michael Foord5d31e052009-05-11 17:59:43 +0000914 "python -m unittest test_module.TestClass" from the command line.
Michael Foord07ef4872009-05-02 22:43:34 +0000915
916- Issue #5728: unittest.TestResult has new startTestRun and stopTestRun methods;
917 called immediately before and after a test run.
918
Michael Foord345b2fe2009-04-02 03:20:38 +0000919- Issue #5663: better failure messages for unittest asserts. Default assertTrue
920 and assertFalse messages are now useful. TestCase has a longMessage attribute.
921 This defaults to False, but if set to True useful error messages are shown in
922 addition to explicit messages passed to assert methods.
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +0000923
Jesse Nollerb502bc72009-04-02 02:32:55 +0000924- Issue #3110: Add additional protect around SEM_VALUE_MAX for multiprocessing
925
Georg Brandl58b8b952009-04-01 21:54:21 +0000926- In Pdb, prevent the reassignment of __builtin__._ by sys.displayhook on
927 printing out values.
928
Georg Brandl5942b912009-04-01 21:05:44 +0000929- Issue #4572: added SEEK_* symbolic constants to io module.
930
Brett Cannonad078a02009-04-01 16:00:34 +0000931- Issue #1665206 (partially): Move imports in cgitb to the top of the module
932 instead of performing them in functions. Helps prevent import deadlocking in
933 threads.
934
Raymond Hettinger66c4a6b2009-04-01 18:50:56 +0000935- Issue #5647: MutableSet.__iand__() no longer mutates self during iteration.
936
Georg Brandle92d4b62009-04-01 04:21:14 +0000937- Actually make the SimpleXMLRPCServer CGI handler work.
938
R. David Murraya83da352009-04-01 03:21:43 +0000939- Issue #2522: locale.format now checks its first argument to ensure it has
940 been passed only one pattern, avoiding mysterious errors where it appeared
941 that it was failing to do localization.
942
Tarek Ziadé9e47ce42009-03-31 22:27:23 +0000943- Issue #5583: Added optional Extensions in Distutils. Initial patch by Georg
944 Brandl.
945
Jesse Noller42f9b4e2009-03-31 22:20:35 +0000946- Issue #5619: Multiprocessing children disobey the debug flag and causes
947 popups on windows buildbots. Patch applied to work around this issue.
948
Benjamin Petersond906ea62009-03-31 21:34:42 +0000949- Issue #5632: Thread.ident was None for the main thread and threads not created
950 with the threading module.
951
Jesse Noller1f0a5552009-03-31 18:27:14 +0000952- Issue #5400: Added patch for multiprocessing on netbsd compilation/support
953
Hirokazu Yamamoto9d2ee5d2009-03-31 13:13:05 +0000954- Issue #5387: Fixed mmap.move crash by integer overflow.
955
Jesse Noller82eb5902009-03-30 23:29:31 +0000956- Issue #5261: Patch multiprocessing's semaphore.c to support context
957 manager use: "with multiprocessing.Lock()" works now.
958
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +0000959- Issue #5177: Multiprocessing's SocketListener class now uses
Jesse Noller459a6482009-03-30 15:50:42 +0000960 socket.SO_REUSEADDR on all connections so that the user no longer needs
961 to wait 120 seconds for the socket to expire.
962
Guilherme Polo1972d162009-03-27 21:43:08 +0000963- Adjusted _tkinter to compile without warnings when WITH_THREAD is not
964 defined (part of issue #5035).
965
Marc-André Lemburgcbdf15b2009-03-25 19:45:33 +0000966- Issue #5561: Removed the sys.version_info shortcuts from platform's
967 python_version() and python_version_tuple() since they produced different
968 output compared to previous Python versions.
969
Benjamin Peterson692428e2009-03-23 21:50:21 +0000970- Issue #1034053: unittest now supports skipping tests and expected failures.
971
Gregory P. Smith28399852009-03-31 16:54:10 +0000972- The unittest.TestCase.assertRaises() method now returns a context manager when
973 not given a callable so that code to be tested can be written inline using
974 a with statement.
975
976- The unittest.TestCase.assertEqual() now displays the differences in lists,
977 tuples, dicts and sets on failure. Many new handy type and comparison
978 specific assert* methods have been added that fail with error messages
979 actually useful for debugging. Contributed in part by Google. [Issue #2578]
980
Lars Gustäbel2020a592009-03-22 20:09:33 +0000981- Issue #5068: Fixed the tarfile._BZ2Proxy.read() method that would loop
982 forever on incomplete input. That caused tarfile.open() to hang when used
983 with mode 'r' or 'r:bz2' and a fileobj argument that contained no data or
984 partial bzip2 compressed data.
985
Benjamin Petersonb364bfe2009-03-22 17:45:11 +0000986- Issue #5536: urllib.urlretrieve makes sure to close the file it's writing to
987 even if an exception occurs.
988
Raymond Hettinger91852ca2009-03-19 19:19:03 +0000989- Issue #5381: Added object_pairs_hook to the json module. This allows
990 OrderedDicts to be built by the decoder.
991
Mark Dickinson277859d2009-03-17 23:03:46 +0000992- Issue #2110: Add support for thousands separator and 'n' type
993 specifier to Decimal.__format__
994
Mark Dickinsonb065e522009-03-17 18:01:03 +0000995- Fix Decimal.__format__ bug that swapped the meanings of the '<' and
996 '>' alignment characters.
997
Antoine Pitroufeeafff2009-03-14 00:07:21 +0000998- Issue #1222: locale.format() bug when the thousands separator is a space
999 character.
1000
Tarek Ziadé61585c22009-03-11 12:48:04 +00001001- Issue #5472: Fixed distutils.test_util tear down. Original patch by
1002 Tim Golden.
1003
Raymond Hettinger56411aa2009-03-10 12:50:59 +00001004- collections.deque() objects now have a read-only attribute called maxlen.
1005
Guilherme Polo15d57652009-03-07 02:14:38 +00001006- Issue #2638: Show a window constructed with tkSimpleDialog.Dialog only after
1007 it is has been populated and properly configured in order to prevent
1008 window flashing.
1009
Guilherme Polo3768b2f2009-03-07 01:47:49 +00001010- Issue #4792: Prevent a segfault in _tkinter by using the
1011 guaranteed to be safe interp argument given to the PythonCmd in place of
1012 the Tcl interpreter taken from a PythonCmd_ClientData.
1013
Guilherme Polo6d6c1fd2009-03-07 01:19:12 +00001014- Issue #5193: Guarantee that Tkinter.Text.search returns a string.
1015
Tarek Ziadé943b24e2009-03-07 00:32:45 +00001016- Issue #5394: removed > 2.3 syntax from distutils.msvc9compiler.
1017 Original patch by Akira Kitada.
1018
Hirokazu Yamamoto264fc122009-03-05 14:21:12 +00001019- Issue #5385: Fixed mmap crash after resize failure on windows.
1020
Hirokazu Yamamotoeacbbdf2009-03-03 22:18:14 +00001021- Issue #5179: Fixed subprocess handle leak on failure on windows.
1022
Raymond Hettingerbc512d32009-03-03 04:45:34 +00001023- PEP 372: Added collections.OrderedDict().
1024
Raymond Hettinger88a91642009-03-03 04:51:24 +00001025- The _asdict() for method for namedtuples now returns an OrderedDict().
1026
Raymond Hettingere89b8e92009-03-03 05:00:37 +00001027- The configparser module now defaults to using an ordered dictionary.
1028
Benjamin Peterson7d49bba2009-03-02 22:41:42 +00001029- Issue #4308: httplib.IncompleteRead's repr doesn't include all of the data all
1030 ready received.
1031
Benjamin Petersonad58b7c2009-03-02 03:35:12 +00001032- Issue #5401: Fixed a performance problem in mimetypes when ``from mimetypes
1033 import guess_extension`` was used.
1034
Hirokazu Yamamotob0e10c72009-02-28 12:13:07 +00001035- Issue #1733986: Fixed mmap crash in accessing elements of second map object
1036 with same tagname but larger size than first map. (Windows)
1037
Hirokazu Yamamotof2dc8852009-02-28 10:31:54 +00001038- Issue #5386: mmap.write_byte didn't check map size, so it could cause buffer
1039 overrun.
1040
Tarek Ziadé73347352009-02-28 10:08:02 +00001041- Issue #1533164: Installed but not listed *.pyo was breaking Distutils
1042 bdist_rpm command.
1043
1044- Issue #5378: added --quiet option to Distutils bdist_rpm command.
1045
Tarek Ziadédda92f72009-02-27 12:53:34 +00001046- Issue #5052: make Distutils compatible with 2.3 again.
1047
Benjamin Petersonb3dd5482009-02-26 19:07:18 +00001048- Deprecated methods of symtable.Symbol have been removed: is_keywordarg(),
1049 is_vararg(), and is_in_tuple().
1050
Tarek Ziadée3bc0ef2009-02-25 22:29:27 +00001051- Issue #5316: Fixed buildbot failures introduced by multiple inheritance
1052 in Distutils tests.
1053
Vinay Sajip1a0d2be2009-02-19 12:31:32 +00001054- Issue #5287: Add exception handling around findCaller() call to help out
1055 IronPython.
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00001056
Hirokazu Yamamoto17a837e2009-02-17 13:17:26 +00001057- Issue #5282: Fixed mmap resize on 32bit windows and unix. When offset > 0,
1058 The file was resized to wrong size.
1059
Hirokazu Yamamotof6bbd0e2009-02-17 10:12:10 +00001060- Issue #5292: Fixed mmap crash on its boundary access m[len(m)].
1061
Vinay Sajip1a0d2be2009-02-19 12:31:32 +00001062- Issue #2279: distutils.sdist.add_defaults now add files
Tarek Ziadé7dd53392009-02-16 21:38:01 +00001063 from the package_data and the data_files metadata.
1064
Vinay Sajip1a0d2be2009-02-19 12:31:32 +00001065- Issue #5257: refactored all tests in distutils, so they use
Tarek Ziadé13699002009-02-14 14:10:23 +00001066 support.TempdirManager, to avoid writing in the tests directory.
1067
Tarek Ziadé2432b0b2009-02-13 23:00:43 +00001068- Issue #4524: distutils build_script command failed with --with-suffix=3.
1069 Initial patch by Amaury Forgeot d'Arc.
1070
Tarek Ziadé275958a2009-02-13 22:22:03 +00001071- Issue #2461: added tests for distutils.util
1072
Gregory P. Smith3605b5c2009-02-11 23:45:25 +00001073- Issue #1008086: Fixed socket.inet_aton() to always return 4 bytes even on
1074 LP64 platforms (most 64-bit Linux, bsd, unix systems).
1075
Thomas Heller3689ae22009-02-10 18:43:01 +00001076- Issue #5203: Fixed ctypes segfaults when passing a unicode string to a
1077 function without argtypes (only occurs if HAVE_USABLE_WCHAR_T is false).
1078
Tarek Ziadé74fbf602009-02-10 12:31:09 +00001079- Issue #3386: distutils.sysconfig.get_python_lib prefix argument was ignored
1080 under NT and OS2. Patch by Philip Jenvey.
1081
Brett Cannon28d10882009-02-10 02:07:38 +00001082- Issue #5128: Make compileall properly inspect bytecode to determine if needs
1083 to be recreated. This avoids a timing hole thanks to the old reliance on the
1084 ctime of the files involved.
1085
Guilherme Poloa66cf5b2009-02-09 20:50:27 +00001086- Issue #5122: Synchronize tk load failure check to prevent a potential
1087 deadlock.
1088
Raymond Hettinger322daea2009-02-10 01:24:05 +00001089- Issue #1818: collections.namedtuple() now supports a keyword argument
1090 'rename' which lets invalid fieldnames be automatically converted to
1091 positional names in the form, _1, _2, ...
1092
Guilherme Polod2ea0332009-02-09 16:41:09 +00001093- Issue #4890: Handle empty text search pattern in Tkinter.Text.search.
1094
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +00001095- Issue #5170: Fixed Unicode output bug in logging and added test case.
1096 This is a regression which did not occur in 2.5.
1097
Nick Coghlan0194f5b2009-02-08 03:17:00 +00001098- Issue #4512 (part 2): Promote ``ZipImporter._get_filename()`` to be a
1099 public documented method ``ZipImporter.get_filename()``.
1100
Nick Coghland39600e2009-02-08 01:26:34 +00001101- Issue #4195: The ``runpy`` module (and the ``-m`` switch) now support
1102 the execution of packages by looking for and executing a ``__main__``
Nick Coghlanc3623b12009-02-08 01:46:01 +00001103 submodule when a package name is supplied. Initial patch by Andi
1104 Vajda.
Nick Coghland39600e2009-02-08 01:26:34 +00001105
Guilherme Polo363161a2009-02-06 22:48:07 +00001106- Issue #1731706: Call Tcl_ConditionFinalize for Tcl_Conditions that will
1107 not be used again (this requires Tcl/Tk 8.3.1), also fix a memory leak in
1108 Tkapp_Call when calling from a thread different than the one that created
1109 the Tcl interpreter. Patch by Robert Hancock.
Guilherme Polo14ff18d2009-02-06 22:26:22 +00001110
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +00001111- Issue #1520877: Now distutils.sysconfig reads $AR from the
Tarek Ziadé05adf072009-02-06 01:15:51 +00001112 environment/Makefile. Patch by Douglas Greiman.
1113
Eric Smith81fe0932009-02-06 00:48:26 +00001114- Issue #4285: Change sys.version_info to be a named tuple. Patch by
1115 Ross Light.
1116
Tarek Ziadéd5eb9852009-02-06 00:31:59 +00001117- Issue #1276768: The verbose option was not used in the code of
1118 distutils.file_util and distutils.dir_util.
1119
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +00001120- Issue #5132: Fixed trouble building extensions under Solaris with
Tarek Ziadé0d4fd342009-02-05 22:52:52 +00001121 --enabled-shared activated. Initial patch by Dave Peterson.
1122
Guilherme Polod7bb4d42009-02-02 21:14:14 +00001123- Issue #1581476: Always use the Tcl global namespace when calling into Tcl.
1124
Antoine Pitrou707c5932009-01-29 20:19:34 +00001125- Issue #2047: shutil.move() could believe that its destination path was
1126 inside its source path if it began with the same letters (e.g. "src" vs.
1127 "src.new").
1128
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +00001129- Issue #4920: Fixed .next() vs .__next__() issues in the ABCs for
Raymond Hettingerf779e6f2009-01-28 23:02:26 +00001130 Iterator and MutableSet.
1131
Guilherme Polocda93aa2009-01-28 13:09:03 +00001132- Added the ttk module. See issue #2983: Ttk support for Tkinter.
1133
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +00001134- Issue #5021: doctest.testfile() did not create __name__ and
Raymond Hettingerecf252a2009-01-27 10:03:04 +00001135 collections.namedtuple() relied on __name__ being defined.
1136
Brett Cannon93881c62009-01-26 01:16:50 +00001137- Backport importlib from Python 3.1. Only the import_module() function has
1138 been backported to help facilitate transitions from 2.7 to 3.1.
1139
Tarek Ziadéaaedcef2009-01-25 23:34:00 +00001140- Issue #1885: distutils. When running sdist with --formats=tar,gztar
1141 the tar file was overriden by the gztar one.
1142
Tarek Ziadéef249b12009-01-25 18:19:25 +00001143- Issue #4863: distutils.mwerkscompiler has been removed.
1144
Raymond Hettingerd081abc2009-01-27 02:58:49 +00001145- Added a new itertools functions: combinations_with_replacement()
1146 and compress().
Raymond Hettinger2bcb8e92009-01-25 21:04:14 +00001147
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +00001148- Issue #5032: added a step argument to itertools.count() and
Raymond Hettinger31c769c2009-02-12 05:39:46 +00001149 allowed non-integer arguments.
1150
Jesse Nollerb5a4b0a2009-01-25 03:36:13 +00001151- Fix and properly document the multiprocessing module's logging
1152 support, expose the internal levels and provide proper usage
1153 examples.
1154
Mark Dickinsona3ecd2c2009-01-24 16:40:29 +00001155- Issue #1672332: fix unpickling of subnormal floats, which was
1156 producing a ValueError on some platforms.
1157
Martin v. Löwisf081e1c2009-01-24 15:47:27 +00001158- Issue #3881: Help Tcl to load even when started through the
1159 unreadable local symlink to "Program Files" on Vista.
1160
Martin v. Löwis0dfcfc82009-01-24 14:00:33 +00001161- Issue #4710: Extract directories properly in the zipfile module;
1162 allow adding directories to a zipfile.
1163
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +00001164- Issue #3807: _multiprocessing build fails when configure is passed
Jesse Nollerf6da8d12009-01-23 14:04:41 +00001165 --without-threads argument. When this occurs, _multiprocessing will
1166 be disabled, and not compiled.
1167
Antoine Pitroue741cc62009-01-21 00:45:36 +00001168- Issue #5008: When a file is opened in append mode with the new IO library,
1169 do an explicit seek to the end of file (so that e.g. tell() returns the
1170 file size rather than 0). This is consistent with the behaviour of the
1171 traditional 2.x file object.
1172
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00001173- Issue #5013: Fixed a bug in FileHandler which occurred when the delay
1174 parameter was set.
1175
Raymond Hettinger933d3a72009-01-20 20:34:19 +00001176- Issue #4998: The memory saving effect of __slots__ had been lost on Fractions
1177 which inherited from numbers.py which did not have __slots__ defined. The
Mark Dickinson39c6f7f2009-02-12 17:55:42 +00001178 numbers hierarchy now has its own __slots__ declarations.
Raymond Hettinger933d3a72009-01-20 20:34:19 +00001179
Jesse Noller9a5b2ad2009-01-19 15:12:22 +00001180- Issue #3321: _multiprocessing.Connection() doesn't check handle; added checks
1181 for *nix machines for negative handles and large int handles. Without this check
1182 it is possible to segfault the interpreter.
1183
Jesse Noller6ab22152009-01-18 02:45:38 +00001184- Issue #4449: AssertionError in mp_benchmarks.py, caused by an underlying issue
1185 in sharedctypes.py.
1186
Benjamin Peterson5e5fbb62009-01-17 22:27:54 +00001187- Issue #1225107: inspect.isclass() returned True for instances with a custom
1188 __getattr__.
1189
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd25f87a2009-01-17 16:40:17 +00001190- Issue #3997: zipfiles generated with more than 65536 files could not be
1191 opened with other applications.
1192
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcb54447f2009-01-13 23:39:22 +00001193- Issue #1162154: inspect.getmembers() now skips attributes that raise
1194 AttributeError, e.g. a __slots__ attribute which has not been set.
1195
1196- Issue #1696199: Add collections.Counter() for rapid and convenient
Raymond Hettingerf94d7fa2009-01-12 22:58:41 +00001197 counting.
1198
Antoine Pitroubd4b5f22009-01-10 16:15:24 +00001199- Issue #3860: GzipFile and BZ2File now support the context manager protocol.
1200
Antoine Pitrouf0d2c3f2009-01-04 21:29:23 +00001201- Issue #4272: Add an optional argument to the GzipFile constructor to override
1202 the timestamp in the gzip stream. The default value remains the current time.
1203 The information can be used by e.g. gunzip when decompressing. Patch by
1204 Jacques Frechet.
1205
Mark Dickinson514d4832009-01-04 21:25:40 +00001206- Restore Python 2.3 compatibility for decimal.py.
1207
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00001208- Issue #1702551: distutils sdist was not excluding VCS directories under
Tarek Ziadé85d6fb52009-01-04 00:04:49 +00001209 Windows. Inital solution by Guy Dalberto.
1210
Guilherme Poloe7f14032009-01-03 21:51:09 +00001211- The _tkinter module functions "createfilehandler", "deletefilehandler",
1212 "createtimerhandler", "mainloop", "dooneevent" and "quit" have been
1213 deprecated for removal in 3.x
1214
Raymond Hettingerf4d85972009-01-03 19:02:23 +00001215- Issue #4796: Added Decimal.from_float() and Context.create_decimal_from_float()
1216 to the decimal module.
1217
Mark Dickinsonc5de0962009-01-02 23:07:08 +00001218- Issue #4812: add missing underscore prefix to some internal-use-only
1219 constants in the decimal module. (Dec_0 becomes _Dec_0, etc.)
1220
Benjamin Peterson8ad09a42008-12-31 23:48:39 +00001221- Issue #4795: inspect.isgeneratorfunction() returns False instead of None when
1222 the function is not a generator.
1223
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00001224- Issue #4702: Throwing a DistutilsPlatformError instead of IOError in case
1225 no MSVC compiler is found under Windows. Original patch by Philip Jenvey.
Tarek Ziadéb1a85412008-12-30 23:03:41 +00001226
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00001227- Issue #4646: distutils was choking on empty options arg in the setup
Tarek Ziadéc13acb12008-12-29 22:23:53 +00001228 function. Original patch by Thomas Heller.
1229
Georg Brandlfe427892009-01-03 22:03:11 +00001230- Fractions.from_float() no longer loses precision for integers too big to
1231 cast as floats.
1232
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +00001233- Issue #4790: The nsmallest() and nlargest() functions in the heapq module
Georg Brandlfe427892009-01-03 22:03:11 +00001234 did unnecessary work in the common case where no key function was specified.
1235
Martin v. Löwis732479f2008-12-29 16:22:25 +00001236- Issue #3767: Convert Tk object to string in tkColorChooser.
1237
Martin v. Löwise2eb2b42008-12-29 15:51:01 +00001238- Issue #3248: Allow placing ScrolledText in a PanedWindow.
1239
Antoine Pitrou697ca3d2008-12-28 14:09:36 +00001240- Issue #4444: Allow assertRaises() to be used as a context handler, so that
1241 the code under test can be written inline if more practical.
1242
Georg Brandlc3a98032008-12-27 18:20:04 +00001243- Issue #4739: Add pydoc help topics for symbols, so that e.g. help('@')
1244 works as expected in the interactive environment.
1245
Antoine Pitrou6f193e02008-12-27 15:43:12 +00001246- Issue #4756: zipfile.is_zipfile() now supports file-like objects. Patch by
1247 Gabriel Genellina.
1248
Tarek Ziadée4c75bb2008-12-24 19:10:05 +00001249- Issue #4400: .pypirc default generated file was broken in distutils.
1250
Benjamin Peterson54686e32008-12-24 15:10:27 +00001251- Issue #4736: io.BufferedRWPair's closed property now functions properly.
1252
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc31949b92008-12-15 21:47:57 +00001253- Issue #3954: Fix a potential SystemError in _hotshot.logreader error
1254 handling.
1255
Antoine Pitrou655fbf12008-12-14 17:40:51 +00001256- Issue #4574: fix a crash in io.IncrementalNewlineDecoder when a carriage
1257 return encodes to more than one byte in the source encoding (e.g. UTF-16)
1258 and gets split on a chunk boundary.
1259
Nick Coghlana2053472008-12-14 10:54:50 +00001260- Issue #4223: inspect.getsource() will now correctly display source code
1261 for packages loaded via zipimport (or any other conformant PEP 302
1262 loader). Original patch by Alexander Belopolsky.
1263
1264- Issue #4201: pdb can now access and display source code loaded via
1265 zipimport (or any other conformant PEP 302 loader). Original patch by
1266 Alexander Belopolsky.
1267
1268- Issue #4197: doctests in modules loaded via zipimport (or any other PEP
1269 302 conformant loader) will now work correctly in most cases (they
1270 are still subject to the constraints that exist for all code running
1271 from inside a module loaded via a PEP 302 loader and attempting to
1272 perform IO operations based on __file__). Original patch by
1273 Alexander Belopolsky.
1274
1275- Issues #4082 and #4512: Add runpy support to zipimport in a manner that
1276 allows backporting to maintenance branches. Original patch by
1277 Alexander Belopolsky.
1278
Antoine Pitrou74af3bb2008-12-13 23:12:30 +00001279- Issue #4163: Use unicode-friendly word splitting in the textwrap functions
1280 when given an unicode string.
1281
Lars Gustäbel3b027422008-12-12 13:58:03 +00001282- Issue #4616: TarFile.utime(): Restore directory times on Windows.
1283
Facundo Batistae29d4352008-12-11 04:19:46 +00001284- Issue #4084: Fix max, min, max_mag and min_mag Decimal methods to
1285 give correct results in the case where one argument is a quiet NaN
1286 and the other is a finite number that requires rounding.
1287
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc240028c2008-12-11 00:03:42 +00001288- Issue #1030250: Distutils created directories even when run with the
1289 --dry-run option.
1290
Skip Montanaro45313fe2008-12-06 17:43:30 +00001291- Issue #4483: _dbm module now builds on systems with gdbm & gdbm_compat
1292 libs.
1293
Georg Brandlfe879e82008-12-05 12:09:41 +00001294- Issue #4529: fix the parser module's validation of try-except-finally
1295 statements.
1296
Georg Brandla07435d2008-12-05 09:23:14 +00001297- Issue #4458: getopt.gnu_getopt() now recognizes a single "-" as an argument,
1298 not a malformed option.
1299
Gregory P. Smith26576802008-12-05 02:27:01 +00001300- Added the subprocess.check_output() convenience function to get output
Gregory P. Smith97f49f42008-12-04 20:21:09 +00001301 from a subprocess on success or raise an exception on error.
1302
Fred Drake52481032008-12-04 18:25:17 +00001303- Issue #1055234: cgi.parse_header(): Fixed parsing of header parameters to
1304 support unusual filenames (such as those containing semi-colons) in
1305 Content-Disposition headers.
1306
Vinay Sajip6831d6b2008-12-04 20:32:18 +00001307- Issue #4384: Added logging integration with warnings module using
1308 captureWarnings(). This change includes a NullHandler which does nothing;
1309 it will be of use to library developers who want to avoid the "No handlers
1310 could be found for logger XXX" message which can appear if the library user
1311 doesn't configure logging.
Vinay Sajip213faca2008-12-03 23:22:58 +00001312
Christian Heimesaa674712008-11-28 11:02:32 +00001313- Issue #3741: DISTUTILS_USE_SDK set causes msvc9compiler.py to raise an
1314 exception.
1315
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd4294172008-11-21 22:05:48 +00001316- Issue #4363: The uuid.uuid1() and uuid.uuid4() functions now work even if
1317 the ctypes module is not present.
1318
Benjamin Petersonbfc51562008-11-22 01:59:15 +00001319- FileIO's mode attribute now always includes ``"b"``.
1320
Martin v. Löwisbb9b1f12008-11-19 09:09:41 +00001321- Issue #4116: Resolve member name conflict in ScrolledCanvas.__init__.
1322
Brett Cannone3d0bf72008-11-15 22:40:44 +00001323- httplib.HTTPConnection.putheader() now accepts an arbitrary number of values
1324 for any header, matching what the documentation has claimed for a while.
1325
Hirokazu Yamamotob9828f62008-11-03 18:03:06 +00001326- Issue #3774: Fixed an error when create a Tkinter menu item without command
1327 and then remove it.
1328
Thomas Heller1fac5a42008-10-30 20:18:13 +00001329- Fixed a modulefinder crash on certain relative imports.
1330
Benjamin Petersonc18574c2008-10-22 21:16:34 +00001331- Issue #4150: Pdb's "up" command now works for generator frames in post-mortem
1332 debugging.
1333
Benjamin Petersone4dc1752008-10-21 22:20:31 +00001334- Issue #4092: Return ArgInfo as promised in the documentation from
1335 inspect.getargvalues.
1336
Georg Brandlf3776a12008-10-08 18:47:17 +00001337- Issue #3935: Properly support list subclasses in bisect's C implementation.
1338
Martin v. Löwis96a9f232008-10-06 15:15:40 +00001339- Issue #4014: Don't claim that Python has an Alpha release status, in addition
1340 to claiming it is Mature.
1341
Alexandre Vassalotti6067f782008-12-27 07:13:01 +00001342- Issue #4730: Fixed the cPickle module to handle correctly astral characters
1343 when protocol 0 is used.
1344
Ronald Oussoren0238497e2009-01-02 14:10:20 +00001345- Issue #1594: MacOS.GetCreatorAndType now always returns a big-endian result,
1346 to be consistent with Apple tools.
1347
Ronald Oussoren63b74fe2009-01-02 14:46:19 +00001348- Issue #900949: plat-mac/videoreader.py no longer relies on a non-existing
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00001349 module.
Ronald Oussoren63b74fe2009-01-02 14:46:19 +00001350
Ronald Oussoren7f8cbf02009-01-02 14:48:17 +00001351- Issue #16278952: plat-mac/videoreader.py now correctly imports MediaDescr
1352
Ronald Oussoren919697c2009-01-02 14:52:09 +00001353- Issue #1737832 : plat-mac/EasyDialog.py no longer uses the broken aepack
1354 module.
1355
Ronald Oussorenabcc1682009-01-02 15:00:05 +00001356- Issue #1149804: macostools.mkdirs now even works when another process
1357 creates one of the needed subdirectories.
1358
Ronald Oussoren072bb402009-01-02 15:25:36 +00001359- Issue #900506: added --no-zipimport flag to the bundlebuilder script
1360
1361- Issue #841800: bundlebuilder now works with 'python -O'
1362
Matthias Klose43723e22009-01-10 17:00:42 +00001363- Issue #4861: ctypes.util.find_library(): Robustify. Fix library detection on
1364 biarch systems. Try to rely on ldconfig only, without using objdump and gcc.
1365
Gregory P. Smithde1a8b72009-01-31 22:57:30 +00001366- Issue #5104: The socket module now raises OverflowError when 16-bit port and
1367 protocol numbers are supplied outside the allowed 0-65536 range on bind()
1368 and getservbyport().
1369
Neil Schemenauer92c3b212009-02-07 00:54:41 +00001370- Issue #999042: The Python compiler now handles explict global statements
1371 correctly (should be assigned using STORE_GLOBAL opcode).
1372
Matthias Klosea5d58c82009-04-05 21:00:48 +00001373- Issue #2703: SimpleXMLRPCDispatcher.__init__: Provide default values for
1374 new arguments introduced in 2.5.
1375
Walter Dörwald5d98ec72009-04-25 14:03:16 +00001376- Issue #5828 (Invalid behavior of unicode.lower): Fixed bogus logic in
1377 makeunicodedata.py and regenerated the Unicode database (This fixes
1378 u'\u1d79'.lower() == '\x00').
1379
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Wervenb87b3342009-05-08 14:11:23 +00001380- Windows locale mapping updated to Vista.
1381
Antoine Pitroue555f582008-12-27 20:34:52 +00001382Tools/Demos
1383-----------
1384
Guilherme Polo4eae0782009-01-28 15:56:01 +00001385- Ttk demos added in Demo/tkinter/ttk/
1386
Antoine Pitroue555f582008-12-27 20:34:52 +00001387- Issue #4677: add two list comprehension tests to pybench.
1388
Brett Cannon60b15d22008-10-06 22:44:37 +00001389Build
1390-----
1391
Mark Dickinson504a1512009-10-31 10:11:28 +00001392- Issue #6603: Change READ_TIMESTAMP macro in ceval.c so that it
1393 compiles correctly under gcc on x86-64. This fixes a reported
1394 problem with the --with-tsc build on x86-64.
1395
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +00001396- Add 2 new options to ``--with-universal-archs`` on MacOSX:
Ronald Oussoren626faeb2009-09-06 12:23:18 +00001397 ``intel`` builds a distribution with ``i386`` and ``x86_64`` architectures,
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +00001398 while ``3-way`` builds a distribution with the ``ppc``, ``i386``
1399 and ``x86_64`` architectures.
1400
Ronald Oussoren25967582009-09-06 10:00:26 +00001401- Issue #6802: Fix build issues on MacOSX 10.6
1402
Guilherme Polo1ce2d532009-08-16 14:38:57 +00001403- Issue #6244: Allow detect_tkinter to look for Tcl/Tk 8.6.
1404
Martin v. Löwisecb4f952009-06-28 09:32:39 +00001405- Issue 5390: Add uninstall icon independent of whether file
1406 extensions are installed.
1407
Ronald Oussoren450d5612009-06-08 21:12:41 +00001408- Issue 5809: Specifying both --enable-framework and --enable-shared is
1409 an error. Configure now explicity tells you about this.
1410
Antoine Pitrouf2caeed2009-05-24 20:23:57 +00001411- Issue #3585: Add pkg-config support. It creates a python-2.7.pc file
1412 and a python.pc symlink in the $(LIBDIR)/pkgconfig directory. Patch by
1413 Clinton Roy.
1414
Benjamin Petersone5afa3b2009-05-23 19:24:37 +00001415- Issue #6094: Build correctly with Subversion 1.7.
1416
Martin v. Löwis588b54b2009-05-05 16:10:16 +00001417- Issue #5847: Remove -n switch on "Edit with IDLE" menu item.
1418
Antoine Pitrou3fd4ea92009-05-01 21:16:14 +00001419- Issue #5726: Make Modules/ld_so_aix return the actual exit code of the
1420 linker, rather than always exit successfully. Patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
1421
Matthias Klose10cbe482009-04-29 17:18:19 +00001422- Issue #4587: Add configure option --with-dbmliborder=db1:db2:... to specify
Vinay Sajipf9b01fe2009-05-09 12:07:17 +00001423 the order that backends for the dbm extension are checked.
Matthias Klose10cbe482009-04-29 17:18:19 +00001424
Matthias Klose8ad554f2009-02-22 23:14:26 +00001425- Link the shared python library with $(MODLIBS).
1426
Martin v. Löwisa3e3cb72009-02-10 13:09:19 +00001427- Issue #5134: Silence compiler warnings when compiling sqlite with VC++.
1428
Martin v. Löwisfee1c7f2009-02-02 14:23:16 +00001429- Issue #4494: Fix build with Py_NO_ENABLE_SHARED on Windows.
1430
Martin v. Löwiseefda272009-01-11 09:43:55 +00001431- Issue #4895: Use _strdup on Windows CE.
1432
Ronald Oussorenf7d54052009-01-02 10:48:31 +00001433- Issue #4472: "configure --enable-shared" now works on OSX
1434
Benjamin Petersonfd9633e2008-12-28 15:37:31 +00001435- Issues #4728 and #4060: WORDS_BIGEDIAN is now correct in Universal builds.
1436
Martin v. Löwiscb6c3592008-11-30 11:08:26 +00001437- Issue #4389: Add icon to the uninstall entry in "add-and-remove-programs".
1438
Martin v. Löwis63470982008-11-19 13:51:44 +00001439- Issue #4289: Remove Cancel button from AdvancedDlg.
1440
Martin v. Löwis3d6f8ff2008-11-07 18:51:50 +00001441- Issue #1656675: Register a drop handler for .py* files on Windows.
1442
Martin v. Löwis692c2f82008-11-06 16:43:00 +00001443- Issue #4120: Exclude manifest from extension modules in VS2008.
1444
Martin v. Löwis0f3e7692008-10-17 13:43:01 +00001445- Issue #4091: Install pythonxy.dll in system32 again.
1446
Martin v. Löwiseba774b2008-10-13 11:23:35 +00001447- Issue #4018: Disable "for me" installations on Vista.
1448
Brett Cannon60b15d22008-10-06 22:44:37 +00001449- Issue #3758: Add ``patchcheck`` build target to .PHONY.
1450
Martin v. Löwisbb86d832008-11-04 20:40:09 +00001451- Issue #4204: Fixed module build errors on FreeBSD 4.
1452
Tarek Ziadéc4a4aeb2009-08-21 14:28:38 +00001453Documentation
1454-------------
1455
1456- Issue #6556: Fixed the Distutils configuration files location explanation
1457 for Windows.
1458
Tarek Ziadé3092ed92009-08-29 13:33:21 +00001459- Issue #6801 : symmetric_difference_update also accepts |.
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +00001460 Thanks to Carl Chenet.
Tarek Ziadé3092ed92009-08-29 13:33:21 +00001461
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc07d539d2008-10-14 21:47:22 +00001462C-API
1463-----
1464
Mark Dickinson82864d12009-11-15 16:18:58 +00001465- Issue #Add '%lld' and '%llu' support to PyString_FromFormat(V)
1466 and PyErr_Format, on machines with HAVE_LONG_LONG defined.
1467
Mark Dickinson09823a22009-10-31 09:42:39 +00001468- Add new C-API function PyOS_string_to_double, and deprecated
1469 PyOS_ascii_atof and PyOS_ascii_strtod.
1470
Mark Dickinsonba26b392009-10-31 09:28:12 +00001471- Removed _PyOS_double_to_string. Use PyOS_double_to_string
1472 instead. This is in preparation for (but not strictly related to)
1473 issue #7117, short float repr.
1474
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +00001475- Issue #6624: PyArg_ParseTuple with "s" format when parsing argument with
Benjamin Petersonfe8745d2009-08-17 13:39:41 +00001476 NULL: Bogus TypeError detail string.
Sean Reifscheider9279e7d2009-08-01 23:54:55 +00001477
Jeffrey Yasskinf7f858d2009-05-08 22:23:21 +00001478- Issue #5954: Add a PyFrame_GetLineNumber() function to replace most uses of
1479 PyCode_Addr2Line().
1480
Jeffrey Yasskin1aa47002009-05-08 21:51:06 +00001481- Issue #5959: Add a PyCode_NewEmpty() function to create a new empty code
1482 object at a specified file, function, and line number.
1483
Brett Cannonc4f90eb2009-04-02 03:17:39 +00001484- Issue #1419652: Change the first argument to PyImport_AppendInittab() to
1485 ``const char *`` as the string is stored beyond the call.
1486
Benjamin Peterson5781f322009-02-16 21:09:09 +00001487- Some PyBytes_* aliases have been removed because they don't exist in 3.x.
1488
Mark Dickinson4015f622009-02-10 15:46:50 +00001489- Issue #5175: PyLong_AsUnsignedLongLong now raises OverflowError
1490 for negative arguments. Previously, it raised TypeError.
1491
Benjamin Petersoncf2ce242008-12-22 20:52:53 +00001492- Issue #4720: The format for PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords can begin with '|'.
1493
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc3538a312008-12-15 22:29:14 +00001494- Issue #3632: from the gdb debugger, the 'pyo' macro can now be called when
1495 the GIL is released, or owned by another thread.
1496
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc07d539d2008-10-14 21:47:22 +00001497- Issue #4122: On Windows, fix a compilation error when using the
1498 Py_UNICODE_ISSPACE macro in an extension module.
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00001499
Kristján Valur Jónssonc22ab182009-01-12 09:24:04 +00001500- Issue #4293: Py_AddPendingCall is now thread safe and can be used for
1501 asynchronous notifications to python from any thread. Documentation added.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc07d539d2008-10-14 21:47:22 +00001502
Benjamin Peterson9dfe6a82008-11-24 04:09:03 +00001503Extension Modules
1504-----------------
1505
Mark Dickinson3d830822009-10-08 15:54:10 +00001506- Issue #7078: Set struct.__doc__ from _struct.__doc__.
1507
Mark Dickinsonb93fff02009-09-28 18:54:55 +00001508- Issue #3366: Add gamma function to math module.
1509
Brett Cannon4d947432009-09-22 00:29:48 +00001510- Issue #6823: Allow time.strftime() to accept a tuple with a isdst field
1511 outside of the range of [-1, 1] by normalizing the value to within that
1512 range.
1513
Ronald Oussoren9f20d9d2009-09-20 14:18:15 +00001514- Issue #6877: Make it possible to link the readline extension to libedit
1515 on OSX.
1516
Georg Brandlab849892009-09-19 07:35:07 +00001517- Issue #6944: Fix a SystemError when socket.getnameinfo() was called
1518 with something other than a tuple as first argument.
1519
Benjamin Peterson7f6d0832009-09-08 23:04:22 +00001520- Issue #6865: Fix reference counting issue in the initialization of the pwd
1521 module.
1522
Mark Dickinson6b3f1ef2009-09-06 21:21:05 +00001523- Issue #6848: Fix curses module build failure on OS X 10.6.
1524
Brett Cannon764465f2009-08-13 19:27:12 +00001525- Fix a segfault in expat when given a specially crafted input lead to the
1526 tokenizer not stopping.
1527
Mark Dickinsonfe67bd92009-07-28 20:35:03 +00001528- Issue #6561: '\d' in a regex now matches only characters with
1529 Unicode category 'Nd' (Number, Decimal Digit). Previously it also
1530 matched characters with category 'No'.
1531
Mark Dickinson5fd3af22009-07-07 15:08:28 +00001532- Issue #1523: Remove deprecated overflow wrapping for struct.pack
1533 with an integer format code ('bBhHiIlLqQ'). Packing an out-of-range
1534 integer now consistently raises struct.error.
1535
Mark Dickinson463dc4b2009-07-05 10:01:24 +00001536- Issues #1530559, #1741130: Fix various struct.pack inconsistencies
1537 for the integer formats ('bBhHiIlLqQ'). In the following, '*'
1538 represents any of '=', '<', '>'.
1539
1540 - Packing a float now always gives a Deprecation Warning.
1541 Previously it only warned for 'I', 'L', '*B', '*H', '*I', '*L'.
1542
1543 - If x is not an int, long or float, then packing x will always
1544 result in struct.error. Previously an x with an __int__ method
1545 could be packed by 'b', 'B', 'h', 'H', 'i', 'l', '*b', '*h'
1546 ,'*i', '*l', and an x with a __long__ method could be packed by
1547 'q', 'Q', '*q', '*Q'; for x with neither __int__ nor __long__,
1548 TypeError used to be raised (with a confusing error message) for
1549 'I', 'L', '*B', '*H', '*I', '*L', and struct.error in other cases.
1550
Martin v. Löwis4f16d3b2009-05-29 15:58:08 +00001551- Issue #4873: Fix resource leaks in error cases of pwd and grp.
1552
Gregory P. Smithd02eeda2009-05-04 00:16:49 +00001553- Issue #4751: For hashlib algorithms provided by OpenSSL, the Python
1554 GIL is now released during computation on data lengths >= 2048 bytes.
1555
Gregory P. Smithea388262009-02-13 03:00:00 +00001556- Issue #3745: Fix hashlib to always reject unicode and non buffer-api
1557 supporting objects as input no matter how it was compiled (built in
1558 implementations or external openssl library).
1559
Mark Dickinsona200dd52009-01-15 15:17:43 +00001560- Issue #4397: Fix occasional test_socket failure on OS X.
Mark Dickinsone82cdae2009-01-15 14:54:37 +00001561
Martin v. Löwisb3b7d852009-01-11 09:26:54 +00001562- Issue #4279: Fix build of parsermodule under Cygwin.
1563
Martin v. Löwis9ac49272009-01-02 20:40:14 +00001564- Issue #4051: Prevent conflict of UNICODE macros in cPickle.
1565
Georg Brandl6269fec2009-01-01 12:15:31 +00001566- Issue #4228: Pack negative values the same way as 2.4 in struct's L format.
1567
Martin v. Löwis03824e42008-12-29 18:17:34 +00001568- Issue #1040026: Fix os.times result on systems where HZ is incorrect.
1569
Mark Dickinson4c96fa52008-12-11 19:28:08 +00001570- Issues #3167, #3682: Fix test_math failures for log, log10 on Solaris,
1571 OpenBSD.
1572
Martin v. Löwisbcb017f2008-11-30 19:28:27 +00001573- Issue #4365: Add crtassem.h constants to the msvcrt module.
1574
Benjamin Peterson9dfe6a82008-11-24 04:09:03 +00001575- Issue #4396: The parser module now correctly validates the with statement.
1576
Jack Diederichd60c29e2009-03-31 23:46:48 +00001577- Issue #5228: Make functools.partial objects can now be pickled.
1578
Guilherme Polob1a98de2009-01-28 20:03:26 +00001579Tests
1580-----
1581
R. David Murrayda826892009-11-15 00:04:32 +00001582- Issue #7324: add a sanity check to regrtest argument parsing to
1583 catch the case of an option with no handler.
1584
R. David Murray7f7eea62009-11-14 15:18:22 +00001585- Issue #7312: Add a -F flag to run the selected tests in a loop until
1586 a test fails. Can be combined with -j.
1587
Antoine Pitrou310c9fe2009-11-11 20:55:07 +00001588- Issue #7295: Do not use a hardcoded file name in test_tarfile.
1589
Antoine Pitrouc98efe02009-11-06 22:34:35 +00001590- Issue #7270: Add some dedicated unit tests for multi-thread synchronization
1591 primitives such as Lock, RLock, Condition, Event and Semaphore.
1592
Antoine Pitrou59c44f32009-10-30 17:07:08 +00001593- Issue #7222: Make thread "reaping" more reliable so that reference
1594 leak-chasing test runs give sensible results. The previous method of
1595 reaping threads could return successfully while some Thread objects were
1596 still referenced. This also introduces a new private function:
1597 :func:`thread._count()`.
1598
R. David Murray282396f2009-10-18 21:12:37 +00001599- Issue #7151: fixed regrtest -j so that output to stderr from a test no
1600 longer runs the risk of causing the worker thread to fail.
1601
Antoine Pitrou58d2f262009-10-10 20:52:11 +00001602- Issue #7055: test___all__ now greedily detects all modules which have an
1603 __all__ attribute, rather than using a hardcoded and incomplete list.
1604
R. David Murray14dcd432009-10-14 13:58:07 +00001605- Issue #7058: Added save/restore for things like sys.argv and cwd to
1606 runtest_inner in regrtest, with warnings if the called test modifies them,
1607 and a new section in the summary report at the end.
R. David Murrayabe3d3e2009-10-05 17:03:09 +00001608
Mark Dickinson245d9152009-10-04 18:38:39 +00001609- Issue #7042: Fix test_signal (test_itimer_virtual) failure on OS X 10.6.
1610
Brett Cannone7e941e2009-09-03 21:25:21 +00001611- Issue #6806: test_platform failed under OS X 10.6.0 because ``sw_ver`` leaves
1612 off the trailing 0 in the version number.
1613
Guilherme Polo7f146ab2009-06-21 17:22:50 +00001614- Issue #5450: Moved tests involving loading tk from Lib/test/test_tcl to
1615 Lib/lib-tk/test/test_tkinter/test_loadtk. With this, these tests demonstrate
1616 the same behaviour as test_ttkguionly (and now also test_tk) which is to
1617 skip the tests if DISPLAY is defined but can't be used.
1618
Antoine Pitrou4698d992009-05-31 14:20:14 +00001619- Issue #6152: New option '-j'/'--multiprocess' for regrtest allows running
1620 regression tests in parallel, shortening the total runtime.
1621
Nick Coghlan5533ff62009-04-22 15:26:04 +00001622- Issue #5354: New test support function import_fresh_module() makes
1623 it easy to import both normal and optimised versions of modules.
1624 test_heapq and test_warnings have been adjusted to use it, tests for
1625 other modules with both C and Python implementations in the stdlib
1626 can be adjusted to use it over time.
1627
Brett Cannonce3d2212009-04-01 20:25:48 +00001628- Fix test_warnings to no longer reset the warnings filter.
1629
Brett Cannon2da4d622009-04-01 19:57:10 +00001630- Fix test_logging to no longer reset the warnings filter.
1631
Georg Brandld8fb6ac2009-04-01 00:04:33 +00001632- Issue #5635: Fix running test_sys with tracing enabled.
1633
R. David Murray41448c52009-03-31 19:57:24 +00001634- regrtest no longer treats ImportError as equivalent to SkipTest. Imports
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00001635 that should cause a test to be skipped are now done using import_module
R. David Murray41448c52009-03-31 19:57:24 +00001636 from test support, which does the conversion.
1637
Guilherme Polob1a98de2009-01-28 20:03:26 +00001638- Issue #5083: New 'gui' resource for regrtest.
1639
Walter Dörwalda1453172009-04-25 12:15:07 +00001640- Issue #5837: Certain sequences of calls to set() and unset() for
1641 support.EnvironmentVarGuard objects restored the environment variables
1642 incorrectly on __exit__.
1643
Alexandre Vassalotti999ecc02009-07-15 18:19:47 +00001644- Issue #2389: Array objects are now pickled in a portable manner.
1645
Brett Cannon813c43a2009-11-08 21:35:28 +00001646Misc
1647----
1648
1649- Issue #5611: Auto-detect whether a C file uses tabs or spaces in Vim.
1650
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00001651
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00001652What's New in Python 2.6 final
1653==============================
1654
Barry Warsawafa14362008-10-01 21:46:40 +00001655*Release date: 01-Oct-2008*
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00001656
1657Core and Builtins
1658-----------------
1659
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfc5ea392008-09-26 22:34:08 +00001660- Issue #3967: Fixed a crash in the count() and find() methods of string-like
1661 objects, when the "start" parameter is a huge value.
1662
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc17617a02008-09-25 20:52:56 +00001663- Issue #3965: Fixed a crash on Windows when open() is given an invalid
1664 filename or mode, and the filename is a unicode string.
1665
Martin v. Löwise86b07c2008-09-25 04:12:50 +00001666- Bug #3951: Py_USING_MEMORY_DEBUGGER should not be enabled by default.
1667
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00001668Library
1669-------
1670
Martin v. Löwise563aa42008-09-29 22:09:07 +00001671- Issue #3965: Allow repeated calls to turtle.Screen, by making it a
1672 true singleton object.
1673
Brett Cannonb2d61bd2008-09-29 03:41:21 +00001674- Issue #3895: It was possible to crash the interpreter when an external timer
1675 was used with cProfile that returned an object that could not be converted
1676 into a float.
1677
Benjamin Peterson22d3c922008-09-25 20:35:45 +00001678- Issue #3950: Made turtle respect scale factors.
1679
Thomas Hellera85c95d2008-09-24 18:26:05 +00001680- Issue #3547: Fixed ctypes structures bitfields of varying integer
1681 sizes.
1682
Benjamin Peterson2c7470d2008-09-21 21:27:51 +00001683- Issue #3879: A regression in urllib.getproxies_enviroment was fixed.
1684
Gregory P. Smith08067492008-09-30 20:41:13 +00001685- Issue #3863: Disabled a unit test of fork being called from a thread
1686 when running on platforms known to exhibit OS bugs when attempting that.
1687
Martin v. Löwis175d0072008-09-19 15:21:07 +00001688Build
1689-----
1690
Martin v. Löwisd69c9042008-10-01 11:19:50 +00001691- Bug #3989: Package the 2to3 script (as 2to3.py) in the Windows
1692 installer.
1693
Martin v. Löwis175d0072008-09-19 15:21:07 +00001694- Bug #3887: Package x64 version of CRT for AMD64 Windows binaries.
1695
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00001696
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00001697What's New in Python 2.6 release candidate 2?
1698=============================================
1699
Barry Warsaw6af16192008-09-18 04:33:43 +00001700*Release date: 17-Sep-2008*
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00001701
1702Core and Builtins
1703-----------------
1704
Benjamin Peterson8c2b7dc2008-09-18 01:22:16 +00001705Extension Modules
1706-----------------
1707
Benjamin Peterson8d77d442008-09-30 01:31:49 +00001708- Security Issue #2: imageop did not validate arguments correctly and could
1709 segfault as a result.
1710
Benjamin Peterson8c2b7dc2008-09-18 01:22:16 +00001711- Issue #3886: Possible integer overflows in the _hashopenssl module were
1712 closed.
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00001713
Antoine Pitrou3c9f5412008-09-13 20:30:30 +00001714Tools/Demos
1715-----------
1716
Georg Brandl2bd92a52009-10-11 21:10:07 +00001717- Issue #3850: recursion tests in Tools/scripts/find_recursion_limit.py can raise
Antoine Pitrou3c9f5412008-09-13 20:30:30 +00001718 AttributeError instead of RuntimeError, depending in which C API call
1719 exactly the recursion limit is exceeded. Consequently, both exception types
1720 are caught and silenced.
1721
Martin v. Löwis4eb18f92008-09-14 20:22:39 +00001722Build
1723-----
1724
1725- Issue #3617: Include a licensing statement regarding the Microsoft
1726 C runtime in the Windows installer.
1727
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00001728
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00001729What's New in Python 2.6 release candidate 1?
1730=============================================
1731
Barry Warsaw1e62aec2008-09-12 23:25:57 +00001732*Release date: 12-Sep-2008*
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00001733
1734Core and Builtins
1735-----------------
1736
Martin v. Löwis9fa5a282008-09-11 06:53:30 +00001737- Issue #3642: Suppress warning in obmalloc when size_t is larger than uint.
1738
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc05e34492008-09-10 22:04:45 +00001739- Issue #3743: In a few places, PY_FORMAT_SIZE_T was incorrectly used with
1740 PyString_FromFormat or PyErr_Format to display size_t values. The macro
1741 PY_FORMAT_SIZE_T is designed to select the correct format for the OS
1742 ``printf`` function, whereas PyString_FromFormat has an independent
1743 implementation and uses "%zd" on all platforms for size_t values.
1744 This makes a difference on win64, where ``printf`` needs "%Id" to display
1745 64bit values.
1746
Benjamin Peterson97179b02008-09-09 20:55:01 +00001747- Issue #3634: _weakref.ref(Exception).__init__() gave invalid return value on
1748 error.
1749
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd3ffb892008-09-09 07:24:30 +00001750- Issue #3777: long() applied to a float object now always return a long
1751 object; previously an int would be returned for small values. the __long__
1752 method is allowed to return either an int or a long, but the behaviour of
1753 float objects should not change to respect backward compatibility.
1754
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc3571fbf2008-09-01 19:52:00 +00001755- Issue #3751: str.rpartition would perform a left-partition when called with
1756 a unicode argument.
1757
Benjamin Peterson17f03ca2008-09-01 14:18:30 +00001758- Issue #3683: Fix compilation when --without-threads is given.
1759
Antoine Pitroud4ae97b2008-08-29 18:39:48 +00001760- Issue #3668: Fix a memory leak with the "s*" argument parser in
Vinay Sajip35e3b032008-09-01 14:33:59 +00001761 PyArg_ParseTuple and friends, which occurred when the argument for "s*"
Antoine Pitroud4ae97b2008-08-29 18:39:48 +00001762 was correctly parsed but parsing of subsequent arguments failed.
1763
Vinay Sajip35e3b032008-09-01 14:33:59 +00001764- Issue #2534: speed up isinstance() and issubclass() by 50-70%, so as to
Antoine Pitrou0668c622008-08-26 22:42:08 +00001765 match Python 2.5 speed despite the __instancecheck__ / __subclasscheck__
1766 mechanism. In the process, fix a bug where isinstance() and issubclass(),
1767 when given a tuple of classes as second argument, were looking up
1768 __instancecheck__ / __subclasscheck__ on the tuple rather than on each
1769 type object.
1770
Neal Norwitz18aa3882008-08-24 05:04:52 +00001771- Fix crashes on memory allocation failure found with failmalloc.
1772
1773- Fix memory leaks found with valgrind and update suppressions file.
1774
1775- Fix compiler warnings in opt mode which would lead to invalid memory reads.
1776
1777- Fix problem using wrong name in decimal module reported by pychecker.
1778
Christian Heimes7d4c3172008-08-22 19:47:25 +00001779- Silenced another compiler warning about a used but not defined
1780 function 'stringlib_contains_obj'.
1781
Benjamin Peterson712ee922008-08-24 18:10:20 +00001782- Added warnings on the use of ``__getslice__``, ``__setslice__``, or
1783 ``__delslice__``.
1784
Gregory P. Smith2bb25cc2008-09-02 05:29:51 +00001785- Issue #3678: Correctly pass LDFLAGS and LDLAST to the linker on shared
1786 library targets in the Makefile.
1787
Gregory P. Smith980b99b2008-09-07 05:15:18 +00001788- Issue #1204: The configure script now tests for additional libraries
1789 that may be required when linking against readline. This fixes issues
1790 with x86_64 builds on some platforms (a few Linux flavors and OpenBSD).
1791
Benjamin Peterson14cb6bc2008-08-26 17:08:40 +00001792C-API
1793-----
1794
1795- Aliased PyObject_Bytes to PyObject_Str.
1796
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00001797Library
1798-------
1799
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc24cb3822008-09-11 20:56:13 +00001800- Issue #3640: Pickling a list or a dict uses less local variables, to reduce
1801 stack usage in the case of deeply nested objects.
1802
Guido van Rossume3c4fd92008-09-10 14:27:00 +00001803- Issue #3629: Fix sre "bytecode" validator for an end case.
1804
Martin v. Löwis24329ba2008-09-10 13:38:12 +00001805- Issue #3811: The Unicode database was updated to 5.1.
1806
Nick Coghland2e09382008-09-11 12:11:06 +00001807- Issue #3781: Further warnings.catch_warnings() cleanup to prevent
1808 silent misbehaviour when a single instance is nested in multiple
1809 with statements, or when the methods are invoked in the wrong order.
1810
Vinay Sajip844f7412008-09-09 13:42:08 +00001811- Issue #3809: Fixed spurious 'test.blah' file left behind by test_logging.
1812
Nick Coghland2e09382008-09-11 12:11:06 +00001813- Issue #3781: Clean up the API for warnings.catch_warnings() by having it
Brett Cannon672237d2008-09-09 00:49:16 +00001814 return a list or None rather than a custom object.
1815
Benjamin Peterson6ac7d7c2008-09-06 19:28:11 +00001816- Issue #1638033: Cookie.Morsel gained the httponly attribute.
1817
Antoine Pitrouebcd0ce2008-09-05 23:30:23 +00001818- Issue #3535: zipfile couldn't read some zip files larger than 2GB.
1819
1820- Issue #3776: Deprecate the bsddb package for removal in 3.0.
Brett Cannon32476fc2008-09-05 18:33:51 +00001821
Hirokazu Yamamoto42e459e2008-09-04 14:25:30 +00001822- Issue #3762: platform.architecture() fails if python is lanched via
1823 its symbolic link.
1824
Vinay Sajip65d66e12008-09-04 07:31:21 +00001825- Issue #3772: Fixed regression problem in StreamHandler.emit().
1826
Facundo Batistac585df92008-09-03 22:35:50 +00001827- Issue 600362: Relocated parse_qs() and parse_qsl(), from the cgi module
1828 to the urlparse one. Added a PendingDeprecationWarning in the old
1829 module, it will be deprecated in the future.
1830
Marc-André Lemburgb339b2a2008-09-03 11:13:56 +00001831- Issue #2562: Fix distutils PKG-INFO writing logic to allow having
1832 non-ascii characters and Unicode in setup.py meta-data.
1833
1834- Issue #3726: Allow spaces in separators in logging configuration files.
Vinay Sajip6a2fd812008-09-03 09:20:05 +00001835
Marc-André Lemburg31a0a142008-09-02 12:11:19 +00001836- Issue #3719: platform.architecture() fails if there are spaces in the
1837 path to the Python binary.
1838
Brett Cannon1eaf0742008-09-02 01:25:16 +00001839- Issue 3602: Moved test.test_support.catch_warning() to
1840 warnings.catch_warnings() along with some API cleanup. Expanding the tests
1841 for catch_warnings() also led to an improvement in the raising of a
1842 DeprecationWarning related to warnings.warn_explicit().
1843
Benjamin Peterson973e6c22008-09-01 23:12:58 +00001844- The deprecation warnings for the old camelCase threading API were removed.
1845
Vinay Sajip35e3b032008-09-01 14:33:59 +00001846- logging: fixed lack of use of encoding attribute specified on a stream.
1847
Christian Heimesa27a62e2008-08-22 19:55:54 +00001848- Silenced a trivial compiler warning in the sqlite module.
1849
Christian Heimes1cc69632008-08-22 20:10:27 +00001850- Fixed two format strings in the _collections module.
1851
Benjamin Peterson17f03ca2008-09-01 14:18:30 +00001852- Issue #3703: _fileio.FileIO gave unhelpful error message when trying to open a
1853 directory.
Benjamin Petersonf22c26e2008-09-01 14:13:43 +00001854
Gregory P. Smithd7122032008-09-02 05:36:11 +00001855- Issue #3708: os.urandom no longer goes into an infinite loop when passed a
1856 non-integer floating point number.
1857
Vinay Sajip65d66e12008-09-04 07:31:21 +00001858- Issue #3110: multiprocessing fails to compiel on solaris 10 due to missing
Jesse Nollerb814d6a2008-09-03 18:10:30 +00001859 SEM_VALUE_MAX.
1860
Benjamin Peterson37346b22008-08-23 20:27:43 +00001861Extension Modules
1862-----------------
1863
Jesse Noller438195f2009-01-18 21:04:36 +00001864- Issue #4301: Patch the logging module to add processName support, remove
1865 _check_logger_class from multiprocessing.
1866
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc293924b2008-09-02 23:19:56 +00001867- Issue #2975: When compiling several extension modules with Visual Studio 2008
1868 from the same python interpreter, some environment variables would grow
1869 without limit.
1870
Benjamin Peterson37346b22008-08-23 20:27:43 +00001871- Issue #3643: Added a few more checks to _testcapi to prevent segfaults by
1872 exploitation of poor argument checking.
1873
Gerhard Häringef2276b2008-09-12 13:54:06 +00001874- sqlite3: Changed docstring of iterdump() to mark method as "Non-standard".
1875
Gerhard Häring6e1afcf2008-09-12 18:58:57 +00001876- Issue #3103: Reduced globals symbols used by sqlite3 module and made sure all
1877 remaining ones have "pysqlite_" prefix.
1878
Gerhard Häringe6872eb2008-09-12 22:33:22 +00001879- Issue #3846: Release the GIL during sqlite3_prepare calls. This improves
1880 concurrent access to the same SQLite database from multiple
1881 threads/processes.
1882
Brett Cannona0b74442008-09-03 22:45:11 +00001883Tests
1884-----
1885
Nick Coghland2e09382008-09-11 12:11:06 +00001886- Issue #3781: Add test.test_support.check_warnings() as a convenience
1887 wrapper for warnings.catch_warnings() that makes it easier to check
1888 that expected warning messages are being reported.
1889
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfeb8cad2008-09-06 20:53:51 +00001890- Issue #3796: Some tests functions were not enabled in test_float.
1891
1892- Issue #3768: Move test_py3kwarn over to the new API for catch_warnings().
Brett Cannona0b74442008-09-03 22:45:11 +00001893
Brett Cannoncdeb24b2008-09-05 22:59:17 +00001894Build
1895-----
1896
Martin v. Löwisab0b29b2008-09-13 08:11:57 +00001897- Issue #3833: Use a different upgrade code for Win64 installers.
1898
Martin v. Löwis3f5fda82008-09-08 13:50:10 +00001899- Issue #2271: Set SecureCustomProperties so that installation will properly
1900 use the TARGETDIR even for unprivileged users.
1901
Martin v. Löwis67543a92008-09-08 12:02:45 +00001902- Allow passing the MSI file name to merge.py.
1903
Vinay Sajip844f7412008-09-09 13:42:08 +00001904- Issue #3758: Rename the 'check' target to 'patchcheck' so as to not clash
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfeb8cad2008-09-06 20:53:51 +00001905 with GNU build target guidelines.
Brett Cannoncdeb24b2008-09-05 22:59:17 +00001906
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00001907
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00001908What's New in Python 2.6 beta 3?
1909================================
1910
Barry Warsaw07a4a382008-08-21 01:15:08 +00001911*Release date: 20-Aug-2008*
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00001912
1913Core and Builtins
1914-----------------
1915
Guido van Rossumf8402962008-08-20 15:01:50 +00001916- Issue #1878: Remove Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_VERSION_TAG from
1917 Py_TPFLAGS_DEFAULT when not building the core. This means 3rd party
1918 extensions do not automatically benefit from the class attribute
1919 cache; they will have to explicitly add Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_VERSION_TAG
1920 to their tp_flags field if they care. This is a backwards
1921 compatibility feature; in 3.0, all types will use the cache by
1922 default.
1923
Benjamin Petersonf647dc12008-08-20 01:27:30 +00001924- Keyword arguments can now follow starred arguments. (``f(a, *args,
1925 keyword=23)`` is now valid syntax.)
1926
Thomas Heller0ad5ae02008-08-19 19:25:04 +00001927- ctypes function pointers that are COM methods have a boolean True
1928 value again.
1929
Martin v. Löwisf91d46a2008-08-12 14:49:50 +00001930- Issue #3139: Make buffer-interface thread-safe wrt. PyArg_ParseTuple,
1931 by denying s# to parse objects that have a releasebuffer procedure,
1932 and introducing s*.
1933
Georg Brandl1e13ea92008-08-11 09:07:59 +00001934- Issue #3537: Fix an assertion failure when an empty but presized dict
1935 object was stored in the freelist.
1936
Mark Dickinsonb6467572008-08-04 21:30:09 +00001937- Issue #1481296: Make long(float('nan')) and int(float('nan')) raise
1938 ValueError consistently across platforms.
1939
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc39fd6722008-07-31 21:28:03 +00001940- Issue #3479: On platforms where sizeof(int) is smaller than sizeof(long)
1941 (64bit Unix, for example), unichr() would truncate its argument and return
1942 u'\x00' for unichr(2**32). Now it properly raises an OverflowError.
1943
Neal Norwitze7d8be82008-07-31 17:17:14 +00001944- Apply security patches from Apple.
1945
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc246daed2008-07-31 00:42:16 +00001946- Issue #2542: Now that issubclass() may call arbitrary code, ensure that
1947 PyErr_ExceptionMatches returns 0 when an exception occurs there.
1948
Antoine Pitrou92f82162008-07-25 22:22:08 +00001949- Issue #1819: function calls with several named parameters are now on
1950 average 35% faster (as measured by pybench).
1951
Amaury Forgeot d'Arce4921fe2008-07-21 22:00:38 +00001952- Issue #2378: An unexpected UnboundLocalError or NameError could appear when
1953 the python debugger steps into a class statement: the free variables (local
1954 variables defined in an outer scope) would be deleted from the outer scope.
1955
Gregory P. Smith0470bab2008-07-22 04:46:32 +00001956- Issue #2620: Overflow checking when allocating or reallocating memory
1957 was not always being done properly in some python types and extension
1958 modules. PyMem_MALLOC, PyMem_REALLOC, PyMem_NEW and PyMem_RESIZE have
1959 all been updated to perform better checks and places in the code that
1960 would previously leak memory on the error path when such an allocation
1961 failed have been fixed.
1962
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00001963Library
1964-------
1965
Hirokazu Yamamoto838c79f2008-08-20 13:14:07 +00001966- Issue #3612: Added some missing basic types in ctypes.wintypes.
1967
Benjamin Petersone977ad42008-08-20 01:42:01 +00001968- The methods ``is_in_tuple()``, ``is_vararg()``, and ``is_keywordarg()`` of
1969 symtable.Symbol have been deprecated for removal in 3.0 and the next release.
1970
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc351ffb82008-08-18 19:23:47 +00001971- Issue #2234: distutils failed for some versions of the cygwin compiler. The
1972 version reported by these tools does not necessarily follow the python
1973 version numbering scheme, so the module is less strict when parsing it.
1974
Nick Coghlanf70385a2008-08-18 12:42:46 +00001975- Issue #2235: Added Py3k warnings for types which will become unhashable
1976 under the stricter __hash__ inheritance rules in 3.0. Several types
1977 which did not meet the rules for hash invariants and were already
1978 unhashable in 3.0 have now been explicitly flagged as unhashable in
1979 2.6 as well (collections.Mapping, collections.Set, unittest.TestSuite,
1980 xml.dom.minidom.NamedNodeMap, numbers.Number, UserList.UserList)
1981
Brett Cannon88f801d2008-08-18 00:46:22 +00001982- Update __all__ for cookielib, csv, os, urllib2, and weakref to include things
1983 imported into the module but exposed as part of the module's API.
1984
Brett Cannon7b96f072008-08-18 00:41:11 +00001985- Remove an unneeded import of abc.ABCMeta from 'inspect'.
1986
Brett Cannon46225e72008-08-18 00:36:52 +00001987- Remove unneeded imports of 'sys' and 'warnings' from 'io'.
1988
Brett Cannon25c9d6a2008-08-17 22:10:11 +00001989- Remove unneeded imports of 'warnings' from shelve, filecmp, and dummy_thread.
1990
Hirokazu Yamamoto41a81eb2008-08-17 13:10:46 +00001991- Issue #3575: Incremental decoder's decode function now takes bytearray
1992 by using 's*' instead of 't#'.
1993
Mark Dickinson3e4caeb2009-02-21 20:27:01 +00001994- Issue #2222: Fixed reference leak when occurred os.rename()
Hirokazu Yamamoto7f30a682008-08-17 09:46:56 +00001995 fails unicode conversion on 2nd parameter. (windows only)
1996
Facundo Batista94f243a2008-08-17 03:38:39 +00001997- Issue 2464. urllib2 now supports a malformation in the URL received
1998 in a redirect.
1999
Brett Cannonabe423e2008-08-16 21:47:07 +00002000- Silence the DeprecationWarning raised when importing mimetools in
Brett Cannon721b1452008-08-16 22:00:27 +00002001 BaseHTTPServer, cgi (and rfc822), httplib.
Brett Cannonabe423e2008-08-16 21:47:07 +00002002
Facundo Batistaeb90b782008-08-16 14:44:07 +00002003- Issue #2776: fixed small issue when handling an URL with double slash
2004 after a 302 response in the case of not going through a proxy.
2005
Antoine Pitroub90a8be2008-08-15 21:03:21 +00002006- Issue #2676: in the email package, content-type parsing was hanging on
2007 pathological input because of quadratic or exponential behaviour of a
2008 regular expression.
2009
Antoine Pitrou11ec65d2008-08-14 21:04:30 +00002010- Issue #3476: binary buffered reading through the new "io" library is now
2011 thread-safe.
2012
Brett Cannonbf3157b2008-08-14 05:00:03 +00002013- Silence the DeprecationWarning of rfc822 when it is imported by mimetools
2014 since mimetools itself is deprecated. Because modules are cached, all
2015 subsequent imports of rfc822 will not raise a visible DeprecationWarning.
2016
Antoine Pitrou9fcd4b32008-08-11 17:21:36 +00002017- Issue #3134: shutil referenced undefined WindowsError symbol.
2018
Robert Schuppenies14646332008-08-10 11:01:53 +00002019- Issue #1342811: Fix leak in Tkinter.Menu.delete. Commands associated to
2020 menu entries were not deleted.
2021
Brett Cannon83e81842008-08-09 23:30:55 +00002022- Copied the implementation of reduce() to _functools.reduce() to have a
2023 version that did not raise a DeprecationWarning under -3.
2024
Antoine Pitrou76b8bee2008-08-09 17:27:23 +00002025- Issue #3205: When iterating over a BZ2File fails allocating memory, raise
2026 a MemoryError rather than silently stop the iteration.
2027
Guido van Rossum59ce9012008-08-09 14:55:34 +00002028- Issue #3487: sre "bytecode" validator. Passing invalid "re-bytecode"
2029 to _sre.compile() will now be rejected. This should not affect anybody
2030 since the re.compile() function never generates invalid re-bytecode.
2031
Skip Montanaroa032bf42008-08-08 22:52:51 +00002032- Issue #3436: Make csv.DictReader's fieldnames attribute a property so that
2033 upon first access it can be automatically initialized from the csv file if
2034 it wasn't initialized during instantiation.
2035
Brett Cannon3aa2a492008-08-06 22:28:09 +00002036- Issue #2338: Create imp.reload() to help with transitioning to Python 3.0 as
2037 the reload() built-in has been removed.
2038
Brett Cannon7e30b672008-08-04 21:52:25 +00002039- Changed code in the following modules/packages to remove warnings raised
Brett Cannonc1b76e42008-08-09 23:06:16 +00002040 while running under the ``-3`` flag: aifc, asynchat, asyncore, bdb, bsddb,
Brett Cannon047e4a92008-08-17 04:16:04 +00002041 ConfigParser, cookielib, csv, difflib, distutils, DocXMLRPCServer, email,
2042 filecmp, fileinput, inspect, logging, modulefinder, pdb, pickle, profile,
2043 pstats, pydoc, re, rlcompleter, SimpleXMLRPCServer, shelve, socket,
2044 subprocess, sqlite3, tarfile, Tkinter, test.test_support, textwrap,
2045 threading, tokenize, traceback, urlparse, wsgiref, xml, xmlrpclib.
Brett Cannon7e30b672008-08-04 21:52:25 +00002046
Lars Gustäbel727bd0b2008-08-02 11:26:39 +00002047- Issue #3039: Fix tarfile.TarFileCompat.writestr() which always
2048 raised an AttributeError.
2049
Benjamin Peterson01a24322008-07-28 23:35:27 +00002050- Issue #2523: Fix quadratic behaviour when read()ing a binary file without
Antoine Pitroude781a42008-08-09 12:43:23 +00002051 asking for a specific length. This problem only affected files opened
2052 using the new "io" module, not the built-in open() function.
Benjamin Peterson01a24322008-07-28 23:35:27 +00002053
Mark Dickinsonfe84cce2008-07-27 06:39:07 +00002054- Issue #3449: Update decimal module to use most recent specification
2055 (v. 1.68) and tests (v. 2.58) from IBM.
2056
Skip Montanarof9ac43f2008-07-27 00:50:41 +00002057- Issue 3437: Bug fix in robotparser parsing of Allow: lines.
2058
Raymond Hettinger8c664e82008-07-25 18:43:33 +00002059- Issue 1592: Improve error reporting when operations are attempted
2060 on a closed shelf.
2061
Georg Brandlf9efabb2008-07-23 15:16:45 +00002062- Deprecate the "ast" parser function aliases.
2063
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00002064- Issue #3120: On 64-bit Windows the subprocess module was truncating handles.
2065
2066- Issue #3303: Fix a crash in locale.strcoll() when calling it with
2067 invalid arguments.
2068
2069- Issue #3302: Fix several crashes when calling locale's gettext functions
2070 with None arguments.
2071
2072- Issue #3389: Allow resolving dotted names for handlers in logging
2073 configuration files.
2074
2075- Deprecate the sunaudio module for removal in Python 3.0.
2076
Antoine Pitrou5fdfa3e2008-07-25 19:42:26 +00002077- Issue #3394: zipfile.writestr sets external attributes when passed a
2078 file name rather than a ZipInfo instance, so files are extracted with
2079 mode 0600 rather than 000 under Unix.
2080
Gregory P. Smitha36f8fe2008-08-04 00:13:29 +00002081- Issue #1857: subprocess.Popen.poll gained an additional _deadstate keyword
2082 argument in python 2.5, this broke code that subclassed Popen to include its
2083 own poll method. Fixed my moving _deadstate to an _internal_poll method.
2084
Martin v. Löwis8dbf3642008-08-01 14:10:26 +00002085Build
2086-----
2087
2088- Generate the PatternGrammar pickle during "make install".
2089
Nick Coghlan2a0c2b12008-08-04 12:47:17 +00002090Documentation
2091-------------
2092
Nick Coghlan6e8fef02008-08-18 13:14:22 +00002093- Issue #2235: the C API function PyObject_HashNotImplemented and its
2094 interaction with the tp_hash slot (added in 2.6b2) are now documented
2095
Nick Coghlan2a0c2b12008-08-04 12:47:17 +00002096- Issue #643841: The language reference now provides more detailed
2097 coverage of the lookup process for special methods. The disclaimers
2098 regarding lack of coverage of new-style classes have also been
2099 removed, since the coverage is now fairly reasonable.
2100
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00002101
Raymond Hettingere3ae6552008-06-20 04:18:15 +00002102What's New in Python 2.6 beta 2?
2103================================
2104
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00002105*Release date: 17-Jul-2008*
2106
Raymond Hettingere3ae6552008-06-20 04:18:15 +00002107Core and Builtins
2108-----------------
2109
Georg Brandl3e483f62008-07-16 22:57:41 +00002110- Issue #3156: Fix inconsistent behavior of the bytearray type: all
2111 its methods now allow for items objects that can be converted to
2112 an integer using operator.index().
2113
Mark Dickinson64b7e502008-07-16 09:40:03 +00002114- Issue #3360: Fix incorrect parsing of '020000000000.0', which
2115 produced a ValueError instead of giving the correct float.
2116
Eric Smitha5fa5a22008-07-16 00:11:49 +00002117- Issue #3083: Add alternate (#) formatting for bin, oct, hex output
2118 for str.format(). This adds the prefix 0b, 0o, or 0x, respectively.
2119
Mark Dickinson7103aa42008-07-15 19:08:33 +00002120- Issue #3008: the float type has a new instance method 'float.hex'
2121 and a new class method 'float.fromhex' to convert floating-point
2122 numbers to and from hexadecimal strings, respectively.
2123
Nick Coghlan6d6bd442008-07-15 15:40:22 +00002124- Issue #2235: __hash__ is once again inherited by default. To allow
2125 collections.Hashable to remain meaningful in the presence of the
2126 default hash implementation (object.__hash__), it is now possible
2127 to explicit block inheritance of hash by setting __hash__=None at
2128 the Python level, or tp_hash=PyObject_HashNotImplemented at the C
2129 level.
2130
Nick Coghlanb028f502008-07-13 14:52:36 +00002131- Issue #3221: Issue a RuntimeWarning instead of raising SystemError if
2132 the parent module cannot be found while performing an absolute import.
2133 This means that an incorrectly defined __package__ attribute will
2134 now only prevent relative imports in that module rather than causing
2135 all imports from that module to fail.
2136
Nick Coghlan14ff9942008-07-08 14:21:42 +00002137- Issue #2517: Allow unicode messages in Exceptions again by correctly
2138 bypassing the instance dictionary when looking up __unicode__ on
2139 new-style classes.
2140
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbdd941f2008-07-01 20:38:04 +00002141- Issue #3242: Fix a crash inside the print statement, if sys.stdout is
2142 set to a custom object whose write() method happens to install
2143 another file in sys.stdout.
2144
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc1f40c8a2008-06-30 22:42:40 +00002145- Issue #3088: Corrected a race condition in classes derived from
2146 threading.local: the first member set by a thread could be saved in
2147 another thread's dictionary.
2148
Mark Dickinson1ec2fcd2008-06-20 14:53:43 +00002149- Issue #3004: Minor change to slice.indices(): the start and stop
2150 arguments are now treated identically, making the behaviour easier
2151 to describe and understand. For example, slice(None, -10,
2152 1).indices(9) now returns (0, 0, 1) instead of (0, -1, 1), and
2153 slice(None, 10, -1).indices(10) returns (9, 9, -1) instead of (9,
2154 10, -1).
2155
Georg Brandl278fc502008-07-19 12:46:12 +00002156- Issue #3219: Calling a function with repeated keyword arguments,
2157 f(a=2, a=23), would not cause a syntax error. This was a regression
2158 from 2.4 caused by the switch to the new compiler.
Benjamin Peterson175e4d92008-07-01 19:34:52 +00002159
Georg Brandl278fc502008-07-19 12:46:12 +00002160- Issue #2862: Make int and float freelist management consistent with
2161 other freelists. Changes their CompactFreeList apis into
2162 ClearFreeList apis and calls them via gc.collect().
Gregory P. Smith2fe77062008-07-06 03:35:58 +00002163
Brett Cannon8bb8fa52008-07-02 01:57:08 +00002164Library
2165-------
2166
Thomas Heller57adf222008-08-14 19:10:48 +00002167- Issue #3554: ctypes.string_at and ctypes.wstring_at did call Python
2168 api functions without holding the GIL, which could lead to a fatal
2169 error when they failed.
2170
Martin v. Löwisaabf4042008-08-02 07:20:25 +00002171- Issue #799428: Fix Tkinter.Misc._nametowidget to unwrap Tcl command objects.
2172
Jesse Noller7fb96402008-07-17 21:01:05 +00002173- Issue #3395: fix reference in test_multiprocessing to old debugInfo method
2174
Georg Brandla24869a2008-07-16 22:33:18 +00002175- Issue #3312: Fix two crashes in sqlite3.
2176
Georg Brandl86cbf812008-07-16 21:31:41 +00002177- Issue #1608818: Fix misbehavior in os.listdir() if readdir() fails.
2178
Jesse Noller13e9d582008-07-16 14:32:36 +00002179- Issue #3125: Remove copy_reg in multiprocessing and replace it with
2180 ForkingPickler.register() to resolve conflict with ctypes.
2181
Vinay Sajip51e65192008-07-18 09:01:10 +00002182- Issue #3090: Fixed ARCHFLAGS parsing on OS/X
Jesse Noller13e9d582008-07-16 14:32:36 +00002183
Thomas Heller880f5292008-07-15 19:39:38 +00002184- Issue #3313: Fixed a crash when a failed dlopen() call does not set
2185 a valid dlerror() message.
2186
Thomas Heller2bad6572008-07-15 17:19:50 +00002187- Issue #3258: Fixed a crash when a ctypes POINTER type to an
2188 incomplete structure was created.
2189
Brett Cannon3d0b9f02008-07-13 01:15:07 +00002190- Issue #3339: dummy_thread.acquire() should not return None.
2191
Raymond Hettingerb01713e2008-07-10 14:34:57 +00002192- Issue #3285: Fractions from_float() and from_decimal() accept Integral arguments.
2193
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00002194- Issue #3301: Bisect module behaved badly when lo was negative.
Raymond Hettinger3cd1e422008-07-10 14:03:19 +00002195
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc0f7cddc2008-07-06 21:34:39 +00002196- Issue #839496: SimpleHTTPServer used to open text files in text mode. This is
2197 both unnecessary (HTTP allows text content to be sent in several forms) and
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00002198 wrong because the actual transmitted size could differ from the
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc0f7cddc2008-07-06 21:34:39 +00002199 content-length. The problem had been corrected in the 2.4 branch, but never
2200 merged into trunk.
2201
Georg Brandle78fbcc2008-07-05 10:13:36 +00002202- Issue #2663: add filtering capability to shutil.copytree().
2203
Martin v. Löwis8c436412008-07-03 12:51:14 +00002204- Issue #1622: Correct interpretation of various ZIP header fields.
2205
2206- Issue #1526: Allow more than 64k files to be added to Zip64 file.
2207
2208- Issue #1746: Correct handling of zipfile archive comments (previously
2209 archives with comments over 4k were flagged as invalid). Allow writing
Vinay Sajip51e65192008-07-18 09:01:10 +00002210 Zip files with archives by setting the 'comment' attribute of a ZipFile.
Martin v. Löwis8c436412008-07-03 12:51:14 +00002211
Vinay Sajip51e65192008-07-18 09:01:10 +00002212- Issue #449227: The rlcompleter module now adds "(" to callable objects
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00002213 when completed.
Facundo Batista66c52772008-07-02 16:52:55 +00002214
Nick Coghlanc060b0e2008-07-02 13:09:19 +00002215- Issue #3190: Pydoc now hides the automatic module attribute __package__ (the
2216 handling is now the same as that of other special attributes like __name__).
2217
Brett Cannon8bb8fa52008-07-02 01:57:08 +00002218- Issue #2885 (partial): The urllib.urlopen() function has been deprecated for
2219 removal in Python 3.0 in favor of urllib2.urlopen().
2220
Gregory P. Smithf4140642008-07-06 07:16:40 +00002221- Issue #2113: Fix error in subprocess.Popen if the select system call is
2222 interrupted by a signal.
2223
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00002224- Issue #3309: Fix bz2.BZFile iterator to release its internal lock
Gregory P. Smith3b1e6b22008-07-07 04:31:58 +00002225 properly when raising an exception due to the bz2file being closed.
2226 Prevents a deadlock.
2227
Gregory P. Smithc4691ec2008-07-07 05:09:12 +00002228- Issue #3094: httplib.HTTPSConnection Host: headers no longer include the
2229 redundant ":443" port number designation when the connection is using the
2230 default https port (443).
2231
Gregory P. Smithdb3409c2008-07-17 03:13:05 +00002232- Issue #874900: after an os.fork() call the threading module state is cleaned
2233 up in the child process to prevent deadlock and report proper thread counts
2234 if the new process uses the threading module.
2235
Nick Coghlan38469e22008-07-13 12:23:47 +00002236Tests
2237-----
2238
2239- test.test_support.catch_warning now keeps track of all warnings it sees
2240 and is now better documented. Explicit unit tests for this context manager
2241 have been added to test_warnings.
2242
Martin v. Löwisd84fd952008-06-30 06:57:39 +00002243Build
2244-----
2245
2246- Issue #3215: Build sqlite3 as sqlite3.dll, not sqlite3.pyd.
2247
Brett Cannon8bb8fa52008-07-02 01:57:08 +00002248
Brett Cannon97aa1ae2008-07-11 00:12:52 +00002249Documentation
2250-------------
2251
Brett Cannonfeef51d2008-07-11 00:50:01 +00002252- Document that robotparser has been renamed to urllib.robotparser in
Brett Cannon963ffdb2008-07-11 00:48:57 +00002253 Python 3.0.
2254
Brett Cannonf6afa332008-07-11 00:16:30 +00002255- Document that urlparse has been renamed to urllib.parse in Python 3.0.
2256
Brett Cannon97aa1ae2008-07-11 00:12:52 +00002257- Document that urllib2 is split across multiple modules and renamed in
2258 Python 3.0.
2259
2260- Document that urllib is split across multiple modules and renamed in
2261 Python 3.0.
2262
2263
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00002264What's New in Python 2.6 beta 1?
2265================================
2266
Barry Warsawb5d17402008-06-19 01:48:07 +00002267*Release date: 18-June-2008*
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00002268
2269Core and Builtins
2270-----------------
2271
Brett Cannondea1b562008-06-27 00:31:13 +00002272- Issue #3211: warnings.warn_explicit() did not guard against its 'registry'
2273 argument being anything other than a dict or None. Also fixed a bug in error
2274 handling when 'message' and 'category' were both set to None, triggering a
2275 bus error.
2276
Amaury Forgeot d'Arca8919fe2008-06-16 19:12:42 +00002277- Issue #3100: Corrected a crash on deallocation of a subclassed weakref which
2278 holds the last (strong) reference to its referent.
2279
Georg Brandl89f48872008-06-11 18:55:38 +00002280- Add future_builtins.ascii().
2281
Raymond Hettinger5c4d3d02008-06-09 13:07:27 +00002282- Several set methods now accept multiple arguments: update(), union(),
Raymond Hettinger4267be62008-06-11 10:30:54 +00002283 intersection(), intersection_update(), difference(), and difference_update().
Raymond Hettingeree4bcad2008-06-09 08:33:37 +00002284
Robert Schuppenies51df0642008-06-01 16:16:17 +00002285- Issue #2898: Added sys.getsizeof() to retrieve size of objects in bytes.
2286
Martin v. Löwis99815892008-06-01 07:20:46 +00002287- New environment variable PYTHONIOENCODING.
2288
Martin v. Löwis4dd019f2008-05-20 08:11:19 +00002289- Patch #2488: Add sys.maxsize.
2290
Georg Brandla9916b52008-05-17 22:11:54 +00002291- Issue #2353: file.xreadlines() now emits a Py3k warning.
2292
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002293- Issue #2863: generators now have a ``gen.__name__`` attribute that
2294 equals ``gen.gi_code.co_name``, like ``func.__name___`` that equals
2295 ``func.func_code.co_name``. The repr() of a generator now also
2296 contains this name.
Georg Brandlc91210c2008-05-15 15:08:32 +00002297
Georg Brandlbd85eb12008-05-14 06:34:15 +00002298- Issue #2831: enumerate() now has a ``start`` argument.
2299
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002300- Issue #2801: fix bug in the float.is_integer method where a
2301 ValueError was sometimes incorrectly raised.
Mark Dickinsone81c3762008-05-09 16:14:15 +00002302
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002303- Issue #2790: sys.flags was not properly exposing its bytes_warning
2304 attribute.
Brett Cannon3c1d50a2008-05-08 20:23:54 +00002305
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002306- Issue #2196: hasattr() now lets exceptions which do not inherit
2307 Exception (KeyboardInterrupt, and SystemExit) propagate instead of
2308 ignoring them.
Benjamin Petersonb9030f42008-05-12 00:41:23 +00002309
Gregory P. Smith9d534572008-06-11 07:41:16 +00002310- Added checks for integer overflows, contributed by Google. Some are
2311 only available if asserts are left in the code, in cases where they
2312 can't be triggered from Python code.
2313
2314
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00002315Extension Modules
2316-----------------
Guido van Rossum84b1e0f2008-08-20 14:57:20 +00002317- Issue #1179: [CVE-2007-4965] Integer overflow in imageop module.
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00002318
Raymond Hettinger305480c2008-06-16 01:42:40 +00002319- Issue #3116: marshal.dumps() had quadratic behavior for strings > 32Mb.
2320
Andrew M. Kuchling2126bab2008-06-22 13:39:11 +00002321- Issue #2138: Add factorial() to the math module.
Raymond Hettingerecbdd2e2008-06-09 06:54:45 +00002322
Raymond Hettinger6d7702e2008-05-31 03:24:31 +00002323- The heapq module does comparisons using LT instead of LE. This
2324 makes its implementation match that used by list.sort().
2325
Mark Dickinson99dfe922008-05-23 01:35:30 +00002326- Issue #2819: add full-precision summation function to math module,
2327 based on Hettinger's ASPN Python Cookbook recipe.
2328
Georg Brandl88659b02008-05-20 08:40:43 +00002329- Issue #2592: delegate nb_index and the floor/truediv slots in
2330 weakref.proxy.
2331
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002332- Support os.O_ASYNC and fcntl.FASYNC if the constants exist on the
2333 platform.
Georg Brandl5049a852008-05-16 13:10:15 +00002334
Brett Cannon044616a2008-05-15 02:33:55 +00002335- Support for Windows 9x has been removed from the winsound module.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcf9b54c22008-05-12 21:30:24 +00002336
Jesus Cea09c01782008-09-28 23:24:19 +00002337- bsddb module updated to version 4.7.3.
Jesus Cea4907d272008-08-31 14:00:51 +00002338 http://www.jcea.es/programacion/pybsddb.htm#bsddb3-4.7.3. This
2339 code should be compatible with Python 3.0.
Jesus Ceaef9764f2008-05-13 18:45:46 +00002340
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002341- Issue #2858: Fix potential memory corruption when
2342 bsddb.db.DBEnv.lock_get and other bsddb.db object constructors
2343 raised an exception.
Gregory P. Smith664782e2008-05-17 06:12:02 +00002344
Gregory P. Smith5d7d6c32008-05-25 08:32:04 +00002345- Issue #2669: bsddb/__init__.py iteration no longer silently fails when
2346 the database has changed size during iteration. It now raises a
2347 RuntimeError in the same manner as a dictionary.
2348
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002349- Issue #2870: cmathmodule.c compile error.
Christian Heimes0bd23c02008-05-16 10:23:31 +00002350
Benjamin Petersond8a89722008-08-18 16:40:03 +00002351- Added a threading.Thread.ident property.
Gregory P. Smith8856dda2008-06-01 23:48:47 +00002352
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00002353Library
2354-------
2355
Vinay Sajip1e022682008-06-29 21:27:15 +00002356- logging.config: Removed out-of-date comment in _install_handlers and
2357 used issubclass in place of equality comparison of classes.
2358
Facundo Batista5596b0c2008-06-22 13:36:20 +00002359- Issue #2722: Now the os.getcwd() supports very long path names.
2360
Facundo Batista2da91c32008-06-21 17:43:56 +00002361- Issue #2888: Fixed the behaviour of pprint when working with nested
2362 structures, to match the behaviour of 2.5 and 3.0 (now follows the common
2363 sense).
2364
Facundo Batistaa6a4d502008-06-21 18:58:04 +00002365- Issue #1817: cgi now correctly handles the querystring on POST requests
2366
Vinay Sajip8dc20fd2008-06-19 22:41:08 +00002367- Issue #3136: fileConfig()'s disabling of old loggers is now conditional via
2368 an optional disable_existing_loggers parameter, but the default value is
2369 such that the old behaviour is preserved. Thanks to Leandro Lucarella for
2370 the patch.
2371
Vinay Sajip9828b7e2008-06-17 11:04:02 +00002372- Issue #3126: StreamHandler and FileHandler check before calling "flush" and
2373 "close" that the stream object has these, using hasattr (thanks to bobf for
2374 the patch).
2375
Benjamin Peterson5c0be322008-06-13 15:11:50 +00002376- Issue #2912: platform.uname now tries to determine unknown information even if
2377 os.uname exists.
2378
Benjamin Peterson26305a02008-06-12 22:33:06 +00002379- The rfc822 module has been deprecated for removal in 3.0.
2380
Benjamin Petersona03722f2008-06-12 14:23:49 +00002381- The mimetools module has been deprecated for removal in 3.0.
2382
Thomas Heller1cec7aa2008-06-10 14:07:12 +00002383- The ctypes.byref function now takes an optional second parameter
2384 which allows to specify an offset in bytes for the constructed
2385 pointer-like object.
2386
Georg Brandl8509db52008-06-10 07:45:28 +00002387- Added the ast module.
2388
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00002389- Added the multiprocessing module, PEP 371.
Benjamin Peterson6f7ae692008-06-11 20:04:30 +00002390
Georg Brandl7be19aa2008-06-07 15:59:10 +00002391- Factored out the indentation cleaning from inspect.getdoc() into
2392 inspect.cleandoc() to ease standalone use.
2393
Thomas Hellerfbb9c0b2008-06-06 08:33:46 +00002394- Issue #1798: Add ctypes calling convention that allows safe access
2395 to errno.
2396
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00002397- Issue #2404: ctypes objects support the new pep3118 buffer interface.
Thomas Heller59475e92008-06-05 17:52:59 +00002398
Vinay Sajip9828b7e2008-06-17 11:04:02 +00002399- Patch #2125: Add GetInteger and GetString methods for
Martin v. Löwisffe62ed2008-06-02 08:40:06 +00002400 msilib.Record objects.
2401
Gregory P. Smith137d8242008-06-02 04:05:52 +00002402- Issue #2782: The datetime module's strftime methods now accept
2403 unicode format strings just as time.strftime always has.
2404
Georg Brandlac19d852008-06-01 21:19:14 +00002405- The sgmllib and htmllib modules have been deprecated for removal
2406 in Python 3.0.
2407
2408- Issue #3011: locale module alias table was updated to the latest
2409 version from the X.org locale.alias file.
Marc-André Lemburgadff65b2008-05-30 20:52:18 +00002410
Thomas Heller9287acf2008-05-29 19:42:34 +00002411- Issue #1797 (partial fix): ctypes NULL function pointers have a
2412 False boolean value now.
2413
Georg Brandld0b592f2008-05-29 07:45:26 +00002414- Issue #2985: Allow 64-bit integer responses (``<i8>``) in XMLRPC
2415 transfers.
2416
2417- Issue #2877: The UserString.MutableString class has been removed in
2418 Python 3.0.
Brett Cannonabb34fe2008-05-29 05:08:50 +00002419
Lars Gustäbelb1a54a32008-05-27 12:39:23 +00002420- Do not close external file objects passed to tarfile.open(mode='w:bz2')
2421 when the TarFile is closed.
2422
Georg Brandle08e3d02008-05-25 08:07:37 +00002423- Issue #2959: For consistency with other file-like objects, gzip's
2424 GzipFile.close() can now be called multiple times without raising
2425 an exception.
2426
Martin v. Löwis27e4a172008-05-23 15:18:28 +00002427- Issue #1390: Raise ValueError in toxml when an invalid comment would
2428 otherwise be produced.
2429
Vinay Sajipc0128832008-05-20 15:37:22 +00002430- Issue #2914: TimedRotatingFileHandler now takes an optional keyword
2431 argument "utc" to use UTC time rather than local time.
2432
2433- Issue #2929: TimedRotatingFileHandler was using the wrong path when
2434 deleting old log files (filename only instead of full path).
2435
Georg Brandl112aa502008-05-20 08:25:48 +00002436- Issue #1775025: You can now specify zipfile members to open(),
2437 read() or extract() via a ZipInfo instance. This allows handling
2438 duplicate filenames in zipfiles.
2439
Georg Brandl28fdfa92008-05-17 17:57:01 +00002440- Issue #961805: Fix Text.edit_modified() in Tkinter.
2441
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002442- Issue #1793: Function ctypes.util.find_msvcrt() added that returns
Thomas Heller95ba13f2008-05-16 20:06:31 +00002443 the name of the C runtime library that Python uses.
2444 ctypes.util.find_library(name) now call this function when name is
2445 'm' or 'c'.
2446
Brett Cannonfa40bbf2008-05-16 00:50:02 +00002447- The statvfs module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2448
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002449- The sunaudiodev and SUNAUDIODEV modules have been deprecated for
2450 removal in Python 3.0.
2451
2452- The WAIT module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
2453 3.0.
2454
2455- The torgb module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
2456 3.0.
2457
2458- The SV module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
2459 3.0.
2460
2461- The readcd module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
Brett Cannon22248172008-05-16 00:10:24 +00002462 Python 3.0.
2463
Brett Cannon11ae6e72008-05-15 03:49:00 +00002464- The panelparser module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
2465 Python 3.0.
2466
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002467- The panel module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
2468 3.0.
Brett Cannon7e375862008-05-15 03:46:27 +00002469
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002470- The jpeg module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
2471 3.0.
Brett Cannon89f5d9c2008-05-15 03:44:00 +00002472
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002473- The IOCTL module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
2474 3.0.
Brett Cannond8c41ec2008-05-15 03:41:55 +00002475
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002476- The IN module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
2477 3.0.
Brett Cannon6328b292008-05-15 03:36:13 +00002478
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002479- The imgfile module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
Brett Cannon178582e2008-05-15 03:20:36 +00002480 Python 3.0.
2481
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002482- The GLWS module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
2483 3.0.
Brett Cannon72ccc402008-05-15 03:17:24 +00002484
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002485- The GET module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
2486 3.0.
Brett Cannon2773b6f2008-05-15 03:14:57 +00002487
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002488- The fm module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
2489 3.0.
2490
2491- The FL, flp, and fl modules from IRIX have been deprecated for
2492 removal in Python 3.0.
2493
2494- The FILE module on IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
2495 3.0.
2496
2497- The ERRNO module on IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
2498 3.0.
2499
2500- The DEVICE, GL, gl, and cgen modules (which indirectly includes
2501 cgensupport) have been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
Brett Cannon044616a2008-05-15 02:33:55 +00002502
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002503- The CL, CL_old, and cl modules for IRIX have been deprecated for
2504 removal in Python 3.0.
2505
2506- The cdplayer module for IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
Brett Cannon650f5162008-05-14 21:12:12 +00002507 Python 3.0.
2508
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002509- The cddb module for IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
2510 3.0.
Brett Cannon9eebe492008-05-14 20:34:22 +00002511
Brett Cannonddf949f2008-05-14 20:31:38 +00002512- The cd and CD modules for IRIX have been deprecated for removal in
2513 Python 3.0.
2514
Brett Cannon34721d52008-05-14 01:08:21 +00002515- The al and AL modules for IRIX have been deprecated for removal in
2516 Python 3.0.
2517
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002518- Issue #1713041: fix pprint's handling of maximum depth.
Georg Brandl23da6e62008-05-12 16:26:52 +00002519
Brett Cannonbb141bb2008-05-12 03:47:47 +00002520- The timing module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2521
Brett Cannonac861b52008-05-12 03:45:59 +00002522- The sv module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2523
Brett Cannon43e5ef42008-05-12 03:19:20 +00002524- The multifile module has been deprecated as per PEP 4.
2525
Brett Cannon42bfa902008-05-12 00:08:34 +00002526- The imageop module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2527
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002528- Issue #2250: Exceptions raised during evaluation of names in
2529 rlcompleter's ``Completer.complete()`` method are now caught and
2530 ignored.
Georg Brandl627a6662008-05-11 21:03:42 +00002531
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002532- Issue #2659: Added ``break_on_hyphens`` option to textwrap
2533 TextWrapper class.
Georg Brandl6f95ae52008-05-11 10:42:28 +00002534
Brett Cannon2a869132008-05-11 03:01:47 +00002535- The mhlib module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2536
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002537- The linuxaudiodev module has been deprecated for removal in Python
2538 3.0.
Brett Cannondf0a7172008-05-11 00:50:51 +00002539
Brett Cannon27508d42008-05-10 22:45:07 +00002540- The ihooks module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2541
Brett Cannonfe598512008-05-10 22:11:45 +00002542- The fpformat module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2543
Brett Cannone35a3a12008-05-10 21:22:43 +00002544- The dl module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2545
Brett Cannond5a09852008-05-10 03:14:32 +00002546- The Canvas module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2547
Brett Cannon6192df12008-05-10 02:58:26 +00002548- The compiler package has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2549
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002550- The Bastion and rexec modules have been deprecated for removal in
2551 Python 3.0.
Brett Cannoncda73a42008-05-10 02:53:46 +00002552
Brett Cannon768d44f2008-05-10 02:47:54 +00002553- The bsddb185 module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2554
Brett Cannon9ac39742008-05-09 22:51:58 +00002555- The pure module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2556
Mark Dickinsonf8476c12008-05-09 17:54:23 +00002557- Issue #2487: change the semantics of math.ldexp(x, n) when n is too
2558 large to fit in a C long. ldexp(x, n) now returns a zero (with
2559 suitable sign) if n is large and negative; previously, it raised
2560 OverflowError.
2561
Brett Cannonfa24d9a2008-05-09 05:32:42 +00002562- The toaiff module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2563
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002564- The test.testall module has been deprecated for removal in Python
2565 3.0.
Brett Cannon3c759142008-05-09 05:25:37 +00002566
Brett Cannond7265d62008-05-09 05:18:40 +00002567- The new module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2568
Brett Cannone3b19402008-05-08 20:36:09 +00002569- The user module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2570
Brett Cannon6071cc82008-05-08 19:52:45 +00002571- The stringold module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2572
2573- The mutex module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
Brett Cannon9d441822008-05-08 19:26:08 +00002574
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00002575- The imputil module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2576
Brett Cannoncae4f5f2008-05-08 20:24:43 +00002577- test.test_support.catch_warning() gained a 'record' argument.
2578
Benjamin Peterson0893a0a2008-05-09 00:27:01 +00002579- os.path.walk is deprecated in favor of os.walk.
2580
Georg Brandl9020ff82008-05-11 14:17:13 +00002581- pdb gained the "until" command.
Benjamin Peterson98353942008-05-11 14:13:25 +00002582
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002583- The Mac Modules (including Carbon) have been deprecated for removal
2584 in Python 3.0.
Benjamin Peterson23681932008-05-12 21:42:13 +00002585
Vinay Sajip9828b7e2008-06-17 11:04:02 +00002586- Library: on MacOS X you can now set ``ARCHFLAGS`` in the shell
Ronald Oussoren5640ce22008-06-05 12:58:24 +00002587 environment to control the '-arch' flags that are used to build
2588 an extension. This was added for compatibility with Apple's build
2589 of Python.
2590
2591- The bundled OSX-specific copy of libbffi is now in sync with the version
2592 shipped with PyObjC 2.0 and includes support for x86_64 and ppc64 platforms.
2593
Georg Brandl25c34082008-08-18 23:09:49 +00002594- The threading module gained aliases for names that will be removed in the
2595 3.x series.
Benjamin Peterson0fbcf692008-06-11 17:27:50 +00002596
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00002597Build
2598-----
2599
Martin v. Löwiscc0f2b22008-06-13 18:12:51 +00002600- 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 +00002601
Martin v. Löwis8c255e42008-05-23 15:06:50 +00002602- Patch #1722225: Support QNX 6.
2603
Brett Cannonb61d8012008-05-11 23:39:04 +00002604- ``Lib/lib-old`` is now added to sys.path.
2605
Ronald Oussoren5640ce22008-06-05 12:58:24 +00002606- On MacOS X it is now possible to install the framework in 64-bit
2607 mode or even as a 4-way universal binary (that is, PPC, i386,
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00002608 PPC64 and x86_64 support in one binary).
Ronald Oussoren5640ce22008-06-05 12:58:24 +00002609
2610 This is controlled by the configure argument ``--with-universal-archs``:
2611
2612 - ``--with-universal-archs=all``: install 4-way universal
2613
2614 - ``--with-universal-archs=32-bit``: install 2-way universal, 32-bit (the default)
2615
2616 - ``--with-universal-archs=64-bit``: install 2-way universal, 64-bit
2617
2618 This option should be used in combination with ``--enable-universalsdk=``.
2619
2620 NOTE: 64-bit and 4-way builds are only suppported on Mac OS X 10.5 (or later).
2621
2622
Christian Heimes7a990612008-05-26 13:15:11 +00002623C API
2624-----
2625
Georg Brandl74a1dea2008-05-28 11:21:39 +00002626- Add ``PyType_Modified()`` as a public API to clear the type cache.
2627
2628- The PyBytes functions have been renamed to PyByteArray.
Christian Heimes7a990612008-05-26 13:15:11 +00002629
2630- The PyString functions have been renamed to PyBytes. A batch of
2631 defines were added so that the linker still sees the original
2632 PyString names.
2633
Georg Brandl5e7b1c02008-05-16 17:40:23 +00002634
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00002635What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 3?
Barry Warsaw65475fd2008-03-01 17:11:41 +00002636=================================
2637
Barry Warsaw6cc79402008-05-08 13:16:19 +00002638*Release date: 08-May-2008*
Barry Warsaw65475fd2008-03-01 17:11:41 +00002639
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd21fb4c2008-03-05 01:50:33 +00002640Core and builtins
2641-----------------
Georg Brandl80055f62008-03-25 07:56:27 +00002642
Georg Brandl28e08732008-04-30 19:47:09 +00002643- Issue #2719: backported the ``next()`` builtin from Python 3.
2644
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002645- Issue #2681: The octal literal ``0o8`` was incorrecly acctepted. Now
2646 it properly raises a SyntaxError.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc52167212008-04-24 18:07:05 +00002647
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002648- Issue #2617: Reserved -J and -X arguments for Jython, IronPython and
2649 other implementations of Python.
Christian Heimes7a98d272008-04-12 13:03:03 +00002650
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002651- Implemented PEP 370: Per user site-packages directory.
Christian Heimesaf748c32008-05-06 22:41:46 +00002652
Andrew M. Kuchling46d6b682008-04-30 16:19:55 +00002653Extension Modules
2654-----------------
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00002655
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002656- Issue #2670: Fix a failure in urllib2.build_opener(), when passed
2657 two handlers that derive the same default base class.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc96865852008-04-22 21:14:41 +00002658
Christian Heimese74c8f22008-04-19 02:23:57 +00002659- Added kill, terminate and send_signal(sig) to subprocess.Popen.
2660
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002661- Added phase(z) -> phi, polar(z) -> r, phi and rect(r, phi) -> z to
2662 the cmath module.
Christian Heimes6f341092008-04-18 23:13:07 +00002663
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002664- Four new methods were added to the math and cmath modules: acosh,
2665 asinh, atanh and log1p.
Christian Heimes6f341092008-04-18 23:13:07 +00002666
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002667- zlib.decompressobj().flush(value) no longer crashes the interpreter
2668 when passed a value less than or equal to zero.
Gregory P. Smith671c5d92008-04-09 18:18:43 +00002669
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002670- Issue #1631171: Re-implement the 'warnings' module in C (the
2671 original Python code has been kept as backup). This will allow for
2672 using the 'warning's machinery in such places as the parser where
2673 use of pure Python code is not possible. Both the ``showarning()``
2674 and ``formatwarning()`` gain an optional 'line' argument which is
2675 not called by default for backwards-compatibility reasons. Setting
2676 ``warnings.showwarning()`` to an implementation that lacks support
2677 for the ``line`` argument will raise a DeprecationWarning.
Brett Cannone9746892008-04-12 23:44:07 +00002678
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00002679Library
2680-------
2681
Brett Cannonf8436822008-05-06 23:41:32 +00002682- The audiodev module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2683
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002684- Issue #2750: Add the 'json' package. Based on simplejson 1.9 and
2685 contributed by Bob Ippolito.
Brett Cannon4b964f92008-05-05 20:21:38 +00002686
Martin v. Löwis471617d2008-05-05 17:16:58 +00002687- Issue #1734346: Support Unicode file names for zipfiles.
2688
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002689- Issue #2581: distutils: Vista UAC/elevation support for
2690 bdist_wininst.
Mark Hammond7c5c8e62008-05-02 12:48:15 +00002691
Mark Dickinsonfe536f52008-04-25 16:59:09 +00002692- Issue #2635: Fix bug in 'fix_sentence_endings' textwrap.fill option,
2693 where an extra space was added after a word containing (but not
2694 ending in) '.', '!' or '?'.
2695
Thomas Heller6ad5fbb2008-04-25 15:44:16 +00002696- Add from_buffer() and from_buffer_copy() class methods to ctypes
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00002697 data types.
Thomas Heller6ad5fbb2008-04-25 15:44:16 +00002698
Neal Norwitz2b0bea52008-04-25 03:40:17 +00002699- Issue #2682: ctypes callback functions no longer contain a cyclic
Thomas Hellerbf027c42008-04-24 18:14:19 +00002700 reference to themselves.
2701
Gregory P. Smithd59fefb2008-04-22 08:11:33 +00002702- The getpass module has been improved on Unix. It now uses /dev/tty
2703 by default and uses stderr instead of stdout. A GetPassWarning is
2704 issued when input echo cannot be controlled.
Gregory P. Smith41e30182008-04-21 21:31:08 +00002705
Skip Montanarob131f042008-04-18 20:35:46 +00002706- Issue #2014: Allow XML-RPC datetime objects to have dates before
2707 1900-01-01.
2708
Nick Coghlan106fc482008-04-15 10:25:31 +00002709- Issue #2439: Added new function pkgutil.get_data(), which is a
2710 convenience wrapper for the PEP 302 get_data() API.
2711
Thomas Heller046e6a42008-04-14 16:10:07 +00002712- Issue #2616: The ctypes.pointer() and ctypes.POINTER() functions are
2713 now implemented in C for better performance.
2714
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002715- Issue #2408: The ``_types`` module, which was used as in
2716 implementation detail of the public ``types`` module, has been
2717 removed and replaced by pure python code.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc02f33b42008-04-08 23:10:07 +00002718
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002719- Issue #2513: distutils on Windows is now capable of cross-compiling
Mark Hammond495cf992008-04-07 01:53:39 +00002720 extension modules between 32 and 64 bit platforms. See the distutls
2721 build documentation for more information.
2722
Gregory P. Smithaa63d0d2008-04-06 23:11:17 +00002723- Issue #815646: Individual file objects may now be used from multiple
2724 threads at once without fear of crashing the Python interpreter. If
2725 file.close() is called while an object is in use by another thread
2726 an IOError exception will be raised and the file will not be closed.
2727
Thomas Hellerf7906482008-04-04 19:43:25 +00002728- The bundled libffi copy is now in sync with the recently released
2729 libffi3.0.5 version, apart from some small changes to
2730 Modules/_ctypes/libffi/configure.ac.
2731
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002732- Issue #2385: distutils.core.run_script() makes __file__ available,
2733 so the controlled environment will more closely mirror the typical
2734 script environment. This supports setup.py scripts that refer to
2735 data files.
Fred Drake46c58c12008-04-04 05:41:30 +00002736
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00002737Tests
2738-----
Trent Nelsone41b0062008-04-08 23:47:30 +00002739
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002740- Issue #2550: The approach used by client/server code for obtaining
2741 ports to listen on in network-oriented tests has been refined in an
2742 effort to facilitate running multiple instances of the entire
2743 regression test suite in parallel without issue.
2744 test_support.bind_port() has been fixed such that it will always
2745 return a unique port -- which wasn't always the case with the
2746 previous implementation, especially if socket options had been set
2747 that affected address reuse (i.e. SO_REUSEADDR, SO_REUSEPORT). The
2748 new implementation of bind_port() will actually raise an exception
2749 if it is passed an AF_INET/SOCK_STREAM socket with either the
2750 SO_REUSEADDR or SO_REUSEPORT socket option set. Furthermore, if
2751 available, bind_port() will set the SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE option on
2752 the socket it's been passed. This currently only applies to
2753 Windows. This option prevents any other sockets from binding to the
2754 host/port we've bound to, thus removing the possibility of the
2755 'non-deterministic' behaviour, as Microsoft puts it, that occurs
2756 when a second SOCK_STREAM socket binds and accepts to a host/port
2757 that's already been bound by another socket. The optional preferred
2758 port parameter to bind_port() has been removed. Under no
2759 circumstances should tests be hard coding ports!
2760
2761 test_support.find_unused_port() has also been introduced, which will
2762 pass a temporary socket object to bind_port() in order to obtain an
2763 unused port. The temporary socket object is then closed and
2764 deleted, and the port is returned. This method should only be used
2765 for obtaining an unused port in order to pass to an external program
2766 (i.e. the -accept [port] argument to openssl's s_server mode) or as
2767 a parameter to a server-oriented class that doesn't give you direct
2768 access to the underlying socket used.
2769
2770 Finally, test_support.HOST has been introduced, which should be used
2771 for the host argument of any relevant socket calls (i.e. bind and
2772 connect).
Trent Nelsone41b0062008-04-08 23:47:30 +00002773
2774 The following tests were updated to following the new conventions:
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002775 test_socket, test_smtplib, test_asyncore, test_ssl, test_httplib,
Trent Nelsone41b0062008-04-08 23:47:30 +00002776 test_poplib, test_ftplib, test_telnetlib, test_socketserver,
2777 test_asynchat and test_socket_ssl.
2778
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002779 It is now possible for multiple instances of the regression test
2780 suite to run in parallel without issue.
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00002781
2782Build
2783-----
2784
Mark Dickinson65134662008-04-25 16:11:04 +00002785- Issue #1496032: On alpha, use -mieee when gcc is the compiler.
2786
Thomas Hellerdc96a772008-04-04 10:07:55 +00002787- Issue #2544: On HP-UX systems, use 'gcc -shared' for linking when
2788 gcc is used as compiler.
2789
Ronald Oussoren580c7fe2008-05-02 19:45:11 +00002790- Issue #2573: On MacOS X it is now possible to install the framework
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002791 with a different name using --with-framework-name=NAME.
Ronald Oussoren580c7fe2008-05-02 19:45:11 +00002792
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00002793C API
2794-----
2795
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002796- Added implementation of copysign, acosh, asinh, atanh and log1p to
2797 the new files Include/pymath.h and Python/pymath.h for platforms
2798 which provide the functions through their libm. The files also
2799 contains several helpers and constants for math.
Christian Heimes6f341092008-04-18 23:13:07 +00002800
Benjamin Petersondacde0d2008-05-26 17:43:53 +00002801- Added a new convenience macro, PyErr_WarnPy3k, for issuing Py3k warnings.
Benjamin Petersona692c4d2008-04-27 02:28:02 +00002802
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00002803
2804What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 2?
2805=================================
2806
2807*Release date: 02-Apr-2008*
2808
2809Core and builtins
2810-----------------
2811
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002812- Issue #1733757: The interpreter would hang on shutdown if the
2813 tracing function set by sys.settrace is still active and happens to
2814 call threading.currentThread().
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd7a26512008-04-03 23:07:55 +00002815
Georg Brandl91e0cda2008-03-29 01:50:06 +00002816- Patch #1442: properly report exceptions when the PYTHONSTARTUP file
2817 cannot be executed.
2818
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc69b747b2008-03-28 20:30:50 +00002819- The compilation of a class nested in another class used to leak one
2820 reference on the outer class name.
2821
Georg Brandlfc8eef32008-03-28 12:11:56 +00002822- Patch #1810: compile() can now compile _ast trees as returned by
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002823 ``compile(..., PyCF_ONLY_AST)``.
Georg Brandlfc8eef32008-03-28 12:11:56 +00002824
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002825- Patch #2426: Added sqlite3.Connection.iterdump method to allow easy
2826 dumping of databases. Contributed by Paul Kippes at PyCon 2008.
Gregory P. Smithb9803422008-03-28 08:32:09 +00002827
Georg Brandldeaf2ca2008-03-27 13:27:31 +00002828- Patch #2477: Added from __future__ import unicode_literals.
Christian Heimes3c608332008-03-26 22:01:37 +00002829
Christian Heimes8c78cc32008-03-26 12:53:58 +00002830- Added backport of bytearray type.
2831
Georg Brandl80055f62008-03-25 07:56:27 +00002832- Issue #2355: add Py3k warning for buffer().
2833
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc9a0d3462008-03-23 09:55:29 +00002834- Issue #1477: With narrow Unicode builds, the unicode escape sequence
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002835 \Uxxxxxxxx did not accept values outside the Basic Multilingual
2836 Plane. This affected raw unicode literals and the
2837 'raw-unicode-escape' codec. Now UTF-16 surrogates are generated in
2838 this case, like normal unicode literals and the 'unicode-escape'
2839 codec.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc9a0d3462008-03-23 09:55:29 +00002840
Georg Brandl65bb42d2008-03-21 20:38:24 +00002841- Issue #2348: add Py3k warning for file.softspace.
2842
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002843- Issue #2346/#2347: add Py3k warnings for __methods__ and
2844 __members__.
Georg Brandl07e56812008-03-21 20:21:46 +00002845
Georg Brandl5a444242008-03-21 20:11:46 +00002846- Issue #2358: Add a Py3k warning on sys.exc_clear() usage.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd21fb4c2008-03-05 01:50:33 +00002847
Martin v. Löwisa4d77892008-03-19 04:39:13 +00002848- Issue #2400: Allow relative imports to "import *".
2849
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002850- Issue #1745: Backport print function with ``from __future__ import
2851 print_function``.
Eric Smith7c478942008-03-18 23:45:49 +00002852
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002853- Issue #2332: add new attribute names for instance method objects.
2854 The two changes are: im_self -> __self__ and im_func -> __func__
Neal Norwitzb1d3d962008-03-18 04:46:00 +00002855
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002856- Issue #2379: Raise a Py3K warning for __getitem__ or __getslice__ on
Guido van Rossum6d91be32008-03-18 04:42:22 +00002857 exception instances.
2858
Guido van Rossum04edb522008-03-18 02:49:46 +00002859- Issue #2371: Add a Py3k warning when catching an exception that
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002860 doesn't derive from BaseException.
2861
2862- Issue #2341: Add a Py3k warning when raising an exception that
2863 doesn't derive from BaseException.
Guido van Rossum04edb522008-03-18 02:49:46 +00002864
Neal Norwitz419fd492008-03-17 20:22:43 +00002865- Issue #2321: use pymalloc for unicode object string data to reduce
2866 memory usage in some circumstances.
2867
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002868- PEP 3127: octal literals now start with "0o". Old-style octal
2869 literals are still valid. There are binary literals with a prefix of
2870 "0b". This also affects int(x, 0).
Eric Smith0aed07a2008-03-17 19:43:40 +00002871
Georg Brandl1e7c3752008-03-25 08:37:23 +00002872- Issue #2359: Adding deprecation warnings for array.{read,write}.
2873
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002874- Issue #1779871: GNU gcc can now build Python on OS X because the
Jeffrey Yasskin1b4e45b2008-03-17 14:40:53 +00002875 flags -Wno-long-double, -no-cpp-precomp, and -mno-fused-madd are no
2876 longer passed.
2877
Neal Norwitz400aeda2008-03-15 22:03:18 +00002878- Add a warning when asserting a non-empty tuple which is always true.
2879
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002880- Issue #2179: speed up with statement execution by storing the exit
2881 method on the stack instead of in a temporary variable (patch by
2882 Jeffrey Yaskin)
Nick Coghlan7af53be2008-03-07 14:13:28 +00002883
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002884- Issue #2238: Some syntax errors in *args and **kwargs expressions
2885 could give bogus error messages.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd21fb4c2008-03-05 01:50:33 +00002886
Sean Reifscheider68fa8e62008-03-20 00:50:07 +00002887- Issue #2143: Fix embedded readline() hang on SSL socket EOF.
2888
Andrew M. Kuchling46d6b682008-04-30 16:19:55 +00002889Extension Modules
2890-----------------
Martin v. Löwisaef18b12008-03-24 13:31:16 +00002891
2892- Patch #2240: Implement signal.setitimer and signal.getitimer.
2893
Thomas Heller78b8f442008-03-05 14:53:39 +00002894Library
2895-------
2896
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002897- Issue #2315: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now accounts
2898 for daylight savings time in calculating the next rollover.
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00002899
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002900- Issue #2316: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now
2901 calculates rollovers correctly even when nothing is logged for a
2902 while.
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00002903
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002904- Issue #2317: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now uses
2905 improved logic for removing old files.
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00002906
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002907- Issue #2495: tokenize.untokenize now inserts a space between two
2908 consecutive string literals; previously, ["" ""] was rendered as
2909 [""""], which is incorrect python code.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcda0c0252008-03-27 23:23:54 +00002910
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002911- Issue #2248: return the result of the QUIT command. from
2912 SMTP.quit().
Georg Brandldeaf2ca2008-03-27 13:27:31 +00002913
Christian Heimes8c78cc32008-03-26 12:53:58 +00002914- Backport of Python 3.0's io module.
2915
Mark Dickinson8e85ffa2008-03-25 18:47:59 +00002916- Issue #2482: Make sure that the coefficient of a Decimal is always
2917 stored as a str instance, not as a unicode instance. This ensures
2918 that str(Decimal) is always an instance of str.
2919
Mark Dickinson3b24ccb2008-03-25 14:33:23 +00002920- Issue #2478: fix failure of decimal.Decimal(0).sqrt()
2921
Georg Brandl77354cf2008-03-21 20:01:51 +00002922- Issue #2432: give DictReader the dialect and line_num attributes
2923 advertised in the docs.
2924
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002925- Issue #2460: Make Ellipsis object copyable.
Raymond Hettingerb72233c2008-03-24 08:17:39 +00002926
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002927- Issue #1681432: Add triangular distribution to the random module
Raymond Hettingerbbc50ea2008-03-23 13:32:32 +00002928
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002929- Issue #2136: urllib2's auth handler now allows single-quoted realms
2930 in the WWW-Authenticate header.
Georg Brandl33124322008-03-21 19:54:00 +00002931
Marc-André Lemburga1867752008-03-20 18:08:00 +00002932- Issue #2434: Enhanced platform.win32_ver() to also work on Python
2933 installation which do not have the win32all package installed.
2934
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002935- Added support to platform.uname() to also report the machine and
2936 processor information on Windows XP and later. As a result,
Marc-André Lemburga1867752008-03-20 18:08:00 +00002937 platform.machine() and platform.processor() will report this
2938 information as well.
2939
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002940- The library implementing the 2to3 conversion, lib2to3, was added to
2941 the standard distribution.
Martin v. Löwis5e37bae2008-03-19 04:43:46 +00002942
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002943- Issue #1747858: Fix chown to work with large uid's and gid's on
2944 64-bit platforms.
Gregory P. Smith37f3f432008-03-18 20:40:01 +00002945
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002946- Issue #1202: zlib.crc32 and zlib.adler32 no longer return different
2947 values on 32-bit vs. 64-bit python interpreters. Both were correct,
2948 but they now both return a signed integer object for consistency.
Gregory P. Smithf48f9d32008-03-17 18:48:05 +00002949
Skip Montanaro32ed8c22008-03-15 16:07:11 +00002950- Issue #1158: add %f format (fractions of a second represented as
2951 microseconds) to datetime objects. Understood by both strptime and
2952 strftime.
2953
Mark Dickinsonc23b8a72008-03-14 14:23:37 +00002954- Issue #705836: struct.pack(">f", x) now raises OverflowError on all
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002955 platforms when x is too large to fit into an IEEE 754 float;
2956 previously it only raised OverflowError on non IEEE 754 platforms.
Mark Dickinsonc23b8a72008-03-14 14:23:37 +00002957
Andrew M. Kuchlingaac5c862008-05-11 14:00:00 +00002958- Issues #2166, #1741 and #1531505: now distutils deals with HOME
2959 correctly under win32
2960
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002961- Patch #1858: distutils: added multiple server support in .pypirc
Andrew M. Kuchlingaac5c862008-05-11 14:00:00 +00002962
Facundo Batistac54aec12008-03-08 16:50:27 +00002963- Issue #1106316: pdb.post_mortem()'s parameter, "traceback", is now
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002964 optional: it defaults to the traceback of the exception that is
2965 currently being handled (is mandatory to be in the middle of an
2966 exception, otherwise it raises ValueError).
Facundo Batistac54aec12008-03-08 16:50:27 +00002967
Jeffrey Yasskine75f59a2008-03-07 06:22:15 +00002968- Issue #1193577: A .shutdown() method has been added to SocketServers
2969 which terminates the .serve_forever() loop.
2970
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002971- Issue #2220: handle rlcompleter attribute match failure more
2972 gracefully.
Georg Brandl98aa8052008-03-06 07:45:52 +00002973
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002974- Issue #2225: py_compile, when executed as a script, now returns a
2975 non- zero status code if not all files could be compiled
2976 successfully.
Georg Brandla7bd27f2008-03-06 07:41:16 +00002977
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002978- Bug #1725737: In distutils' sdist, exclude RCS, CVS etc. also in the
Georg Brandl810ea292008-03-06 07:34:52 +00002979 root directory, and also exclude .hg, .git, .bzr, and _darcs.
2980
Thomas Hellerf3c05592008-03-05 15:34:29 +00002981- Issue #1872: The struct module typecode for _Bool has been changed
2982 from 't' to '?'.
2983
Thomas Heller78b8f442008-03-05 14:53:39 +00002984- The bundled libffi copy is now in sync with the recently released
2985 libffi3.0.4 version, apart from some small changes to
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002986 Modules/_ctypes/libffi/configure.ac. On OS X, preconfigured libffi
2987 files are used. On all linux systems the --with-system-ffi
2988 configure option defaults to "yes".
Thomas Heller78b8f442008-03-05 14:53:39 +00002989
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002990- Issue #1577: shutil.move() now calls os.rename() if the destination
2991 is a directory instead of copying-then-remove-source.
Sean Reifscheider493894c2008-03-18 17:24:12 +00002992
Martin v. Löwisd2bbe522008-03-06 06:55:22 +00002993Tests
2994-----
2995
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002996- test_nis no longer fails when test.test_support.verbose is true and
2997 NIS is not set up on the testing machine.
Brett Cannon7919d982008-03-19 16:50:13 +00002998
Brett Cannona5573b32008-03-18 04:16:06 +00002999- Output comparison tests are no longer supported.
3000
Brett Cannonb7ec8e52008-03-18 03:46:22 +00003001- Rewrite test_errno to use unittest and no longer be a no-op.
3002
Brett Cannon0bb79502008-03-18 01:58:56 +00003003- GHOP 234: Convert test_extcall to doctest.
3004
Brett Cannonba17cfc2008-03-18 01:50:25 +00003005- GHOP 290: Convert test_dbm and test_dummy_threading to unittest.
3006
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003007- GHOP 293: Convert test_strftime, test_getargs, and test_pep247 to
3008 unittest.
Brett Cannon6eeaddc2008-03-18 01:00:07 +00003009
Brett Cannon1f5182b2008-03-13 21:09:28 +00003010- Issue #2055: Convert test_fcntl to unittest.
3011
Brett Cannon4a6e8d62008-03-13 21:02:16 +00003012- Issue 1960: Convert test_gdbm to unittest.
3013
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003014- GHOP 294: Convert test_contains, test_crypt, and test_select to
3015 unittest.
Brett Cannon2e0f9f32008-03-13 20:47:41 +00003016
Brett Cannonb8d37352008-03-13 20:33:10 +00003017- GHOP 238: Convert test_tokenize to use doctest.
3018
Brett Cannon66865d22008-03-13 20:27:00 +00003019- GHOP 237: Rewrite test_thread using unittest.
3020
Martin v. Löwisd2bbe522008-03-06 06:55:22 +00003021- Patch #2232: os.tmpfile might fail on Windows if the user has no
3022 permission to create files in the root directory.
3023
Martin v. Löwisbf7b0b72008-03-14 13:56:09 +00003024Build
3025-----
3026
Martin v. Löwiscdbc9772008-03-24 12:57:53 +00003027- A new script 2to3 is now installed, to run the 2.x to 3.x converter.
3028
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003029- Python/memmove.c and Python/strerror.c have been removed; both
3030 functions are in the C89 standard library.
Brett Cannonaa5778d2008-03-18 04:09:00 +00003031
Martin v. Löwisbf7b0b72008-03-14 13:56:09 +00003032- Patch #2284: Add -x64 option to rt.bat.
Barry Warsaw65475fd2008-03-01 17:11:41 +00003033
Christian Heimes3c608332008-03-26 22:01:37 +00003034C API
3035-----
3036
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00003037- Patch #2477: Added PyParser_ParseFileFlagsEx() and
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003038 PyParser_ParseStringFlagsFilenameEx().
3039
Christian Heimes3c608332008-03-26 22:01:37 +00003040
Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +00003041What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 1?
3042=================================
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00003043
Barry Warsaw7c075232008-03-01 02:53:36 +00003044*Release date: 29-Feb-2008*
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00003045
3046Core and builtins
3047-----------------
3048
Fred Drakea8ee94b2008-03-01 02:45:07 +00003049- Issue #2051: pyc and pyo files are no longer created with permission
Barry Warsaw52973612008-03-01 02:23:38 +00003050 644. The mode is now inherited from the py file.
Christian Heimes40346852008-02-23 17:52:07 +00003051
Georg Brandlad61bc82008-02-23 15:11:18 +00003052- Issue #2067: file.__exit__() now calls subclasses' close() method.
3053
3054- Patch #1759: Backport of PEP 3129 class decorators.
Christian Heimes5224d282008-02-23 15:01:05 +00003055
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00003056- Issue #1881: An internal parser limit has been increased. Also see
Facundo Batistafc2d0102008-02-23 12:01:13 +00003057 issue 215555 for a discussion.
3058
Eric Smitha73fbe72008-02-23 03:09:44 +00003059- Added the future_builtins module, which contains hex() and oct().
3060 These are the PEP 3127 version of these functions, designed to be
3061 compatible with the hex() and oct() builtins from Python 3.0. They
3062 differ slightly in their output formats from the existing, unchanged
3063 Python 2.6 builtins. The expected usage of the future_builtins
3064 module is:
3065 from future_builtins import hex, oct
3066
Eric Smith7ef40bf2008-02-20 23:34:22 +00003067- Issue #1600: Modifed PyOS_ascii_formatd to use at most 2 digit
3068 exponents for exponents with absolute value < 100. Follows C99
3069 standard. This is a change on Windows, which would use 3 digits.
3070 Also, added 'n' to the formats that PyOS_ascii_formatd understands,
3071 so that any alterations it does to the resulting string will be
3072 available in stringlib/formatter.h (for float.__format__).
3073
Eric Smith5a3c1352008-02-19 13:21:56 +00003074- Implemented PEP 3101, Advanced String Formatting. This adds a new
3075 builtin format(); a format() method for str and unicode; a
3076 __format__() method to object, str, unicode, int, long, float, and
3077 datetime; the class string.Formatter; and the C API
3078 PyObject_Format().
3079
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003080- Fixed several potential crashes, all caused by specially crafted
3081 __del__ methods exploiting objects in temporarily inconsistent
3082 state.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc632fad32008-02-16 20:55:24 +00003083
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00003084- Issue #2115: Important speedup in setting __slot__ attributes. Also
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003085 prevent a possible crash: an Abstract Base Class would try to access
3086 a slot on a registered virtual subclass.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc60d6c7f2008-02-15 21:22:45 +00003087
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003088- Fixed repr() and str() of complex numbers with infinity or nan as
3089 real or imaginary part.
Christian Heimes2f0da532008-02-15 06:57:08 +00003090
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003091- Clear all free lists during a gc.collect() of the highest generation
3092 in order to allow pymalloc to free more arenas. Python may give back
3093 memory to the OS earlier.
Christian Heimes3b718a72008-02-14 12:47:33 +00003094
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003095- Issue #2045: Fix an infinite recursion triggered when printing a
3096 subclass of collections.defaultdict, if its default_factory is set
3097 to a bound method.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcb01aa432008-02-08 00:56:02 +00003098
Christian Heimesf75dbef2008-02-08 00:11:31 +00003099- Fixed a minor memory leak in dictobject.c. The content of the free
3100 list was not freed on interpreter shutdown.
3101
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003102- Limit free list of method and builtin function objects to 256
3103 entries each.
Christian Heimes6075a822008-02-06 12:44:34 +00003104
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003105- Patch #1953: Added ``sys._compact_freelists()`` and the C API
3106 functions ``PyInt_CompactFreeList`` and ``PyFloat_CompactFreeList``
Christian Heimes422051a2008-02-04 18:00:12 +00003107 to compact the internal free lists of pre-allocted ints and floats.
3108
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003109- Issue #1983: Fixed return type of fork(), fork1() and forkpty()
3110 calls. Python expected the return type int but the fork familie
3111 returns pi_t.
Christian Heimes951cc0f2008-01-31 23:08:23 +00003112
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003113- Issue #1678380: Fix a bug that identifies 0j and -0j when they
3114 appear in the same code unit.
Mark Dickinson105be772008-01-31 22:17:37 +00003115
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003116- Issue #2025: Add tuple.count() and tuple.index() methods to comply
3117 with the collections.Sequence API.
Raymond Hettinger5b07ebc2008-02-07 00:54:20 +00003118
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003119- Patch #1970 by Antoine Pitrou: Speedup unicode whitespace and
3120 linebreak detection
Christian Heimes4d4f2702008-01-30 11:32:37 +00003121
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003122- Added ``PyType_ClearCache()`` and ``sys._clear_type_cache`` to clear
3123 the internal lookup cache for ref leak tests.
Christian Heimes908caac2008-01-27 23:34:59 +00003124
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003125- Patch #1473257: generator objects gain a gi_code attribute. This is
3126 the same object as the func_code attribute of the function that
3127 produced the generator.
Georg Brandl0cdf9a32008-01-26 14:14:20 +00003128
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003129- Issue #1920: "while 0" statements were completely removed by the
3130 compiler, even in the presence of an "else" clause, which is
3131 supposed to be run when the condition is false. Now the compiler
3132 correctly emits bytecode for the "else" suite.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc31eaafe2008-01-24 22:59:25 +00003133
Guido van Rossumeead05f2008-01-24 18:21:02 +00003134- A few crashers fixed: weakref_in_del.py (issue #1377858);
3135 loosing_dict_ref.py (issue #1303614, test67.py);
3136 borrowed_ref_[34].py (not in tracker).
3137
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +00003138- Issue #1069410: The "can't load dll" message box on Windows is
Christian Heimesb2302ba2008-01-23 17:15:06 +00003139 suppressed while an extension is loaded by calling SetErrorMode in
3140 dynload_win.c. The error is still reported properly.
3141
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003142- Issue #1915: Python compiles with --enable-unicode=no again. However
Christian Heimes082c9b02008-01-23 14:20:50 +00003143 several extension methods and modules do not work without unicode
3144 support.
3145
Georg Brandl26543b12008-01-21 18:36:51 +00003146- Issue #1882: when compiling code from a string, encoding cookies in the
3147 second line of code were not always recognized correctly.
3148
Georg Brandl14404b62008-01-19 19:27:05 +00003149- Issue #1679: "0x" was taken as a valid integer literal.
3150
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00003151- Issue #1865: ``bytes`` as an alias for ``str`` and b"" as an alias "" were
Christian Heimes288e89a2008-01-18 18:24:07 +00003152 added.
3153
Christian Heimesc94e2b52008-01-14 04:13:37 +00003154- sys.float_info / PyFloat_GetInfo: The floating point information
3155 object was converted from a dict to a specialized structseq object.
3156
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003157- Patch #1816: Added sys.flags structseq. It exposes the status of
3158 most command line arguments and PYTHON* environment variables.
Christian Heimesf31b69f2008-01-14 03:42:48 +00003159
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003160- Objects/structseq.c: Implemented new structseq representation. The
3161 patch makes structseqs (e.g. the return value of os.stat) more
3162 readable.
Christian Heimes9c201962008-01-14 03:33:52 +00003163
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003164- Patch #1700288: added a type attribute cache that caches method
3165 accesses, resulting in speedups in heavily object-oriented code.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arce4c270c2008-01-14 00:29:41 +00003166
Neal Norwitz3fc15b82008-01-10 05:42:58 +00003167- Bug #1776: __import__() no longer accepts filenames on any platform.
3168 The first parameter to __import__() must be a valid module name.
Christian Heimes3403f152008-01-09 19:56:33 +00003169
Georg Brandlaed6c662008-01-07 17:25:53 +00003170- Patch #1668: renamed THREADDEBUG envvar to PYTHONTHREADDEBUG.
3171
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003172- Patch #602345: Add -B command line option, PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE
3173 envvar and sys.dont_write_bytecode attribute. All these can be set
3174 to forbid Python to attempt to write compiled bytecode files.
Georg Brandl2da0fce2008-01-07 17:09:35 +00003175
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003176- Improve some exception messages when Windows fails to load an
3177 extension module. Now we get for example '%1 is not a valid Win32
3178 application' instead of 'error code 193'.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arce0b76952008-01-04 02:04:15 +00003179
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003180- Bug #1481296: Fixed long(float('nan')) != 0L.
Christian Heimes8267d1d2008-01-04 00:37:34 +00003181
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003182- Issue #1640: Added math.isinf(x), math.isnan(x) and math.copysign(x,
3183 y) functions.
Christian Heimese2ca4242008-01-03 20:23:15 +00003184
Christian Heimes0a8143f2007-12-18 23:22:54 +00003185- Issue #1635: Platform independent creation and representation of NaN
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003186 and INF. float("nan"), float("inf") and float("-inf") now work on
3187 every platform with IEEE 754 semantics.
Christian Heimes0a8143f2007-12-18 23:22:54 +00003188
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003189- Compiler now generates simpler and faster code for dictionary
3190 literals. The oparg for BUILD_MAP now indicates an estimated
3191 dictionary size. There is a new opcode, STORE_MAP, for adding
3192 entries to the dictionary.
Raymond Hettingerfd7ed402007-12-18 21:24:09 +00003193
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003194- Issue #1638: %zd configure test fails on Linux.
Christian Heimesdb3d6cb2007-12-16 21:39:43 +00003195
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003196- Issue #1620: New property decorator syntax was modifying the
3197 decorator in place instead of creating a new decorator object.
Christian Heimes90e10e72007-12-14 02:35:23 +00003198
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003199- Issue #1538: Avoid copying string in split/rsplit if the split char
3200 is not found.
Skip Montanaro26015492007-12-08 15:33:24 +00003201
Andrew M. Kuchling395fe442007-12-05 13:27:20 +00003202- Issue #1553: An erroneous __length_hint__ can make list() raise a
Christian Heimes7cc1c6f2007-12-05 12:52:34 +00003203 SystemError.
3204
Nick Coghlanef01d822007-12-03 12:55:17 +00003205- PEP 366: Allow explicit relative imports when executing modules
3206 inside packages with the -m switch via a new module level
3207 __package__ attribute.
3208
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003209- Issue #1402: Fix a crash on exit, when another thread is still
3210 running, and if the deallocation of its frames somehow calls the
3211 PyGILState_Ensure() / PyGILState_Release() functions.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbe49a902007-11-30 20:37:22 +00003212
Christian Heimes28104c52007-11-27 23:16:44 +00003213- Expose the Py_Py3kWarningFlag as sys.py3kwarning.
3214
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00003215- Issue #1445: Fix a SystemError when accessing the ``cell_contents``
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcce7d10c2007-11-24 13:44:17 +00003216 attribute of an empty cell object.
3217
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003218- Issue #1460: The utf-7 incremental decoder did not accept truncated
3219 input. It now correctly saves its state between chunks of data.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcf57375a2007-11-21 01:38:26 +00003220
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003221- Patch #1739468: Directories and zipfiles containing a __main__.py
3222 file can now be directly executed by passing their name to the
3223 interpreter. The directory/zipfile is automatically inserted as the
3224 first entry in sys.path.
Nick Coghlan327a39b2007-11-18 11:56:28 +00003225
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003226- Issue #1265: Fix a problem with sys.settrace, if the tracing
3227 function uses a generator expression when at the same time the
3228 executed code is closing a paused generator.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc0d75f092007-11-13 21:54:28 +00003229
Raymond Hettinger1760c8a2007-11-08 02:52:43 +00003230- sets and frozensets now have an isdisjoint() method.
3231
Raymond Hettinger3f8caa32007-10-24 01:28:33 +00003232- optimize the performance of builtin.sum().
3233
Neal Norwitz44f326e2007-10-05 05:29:17 +00003234- Fix warnings found by the new version of the Coverity checker.
3235
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003236- The enumerate() builtin function is no longer bounded to sequences
3237 smaller than LONG_MAX. Formerly, it raised an OverflowError. Now,
3238 automatically shifts from ints to longs.
Raymond Hettinger8f669372007-10-03 21:18:11 +00003239
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003240- Issue #1686386: Tuple's tp_repr did not take into account the
3241 possibility of having a self-referential tuple, which is possible
3242 from C code. Nor did object's tp_str consider that a type's tp_str
3243 could do something that could lead to an inifinite recursion.
3244 Py_ReprEnter() and Py_EnterRecursiveCall(), respectively, fixed the
3245 issues.
Brett Cannon0b14f242007-09-30 19:45:10 +00003246
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003247- Issue #1164: It was possible to trigger deadlock when using the
3248 'print' statement to write to a file since the GIL was not released
3249 as needed. Now PyObject_Print() does the right thing along with
3250 various tp_print implementations of the built-in types and those in
3251 the collections module.
Brett Cannon01531592007-09-17 03:28:34 +00003252
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003253- Issue #1147: Exceptions were directly allowing string exceptions in
3254 their throw() method even though string exceptions no longer
3255 allowed.
Brett Cannon4c20bc42007-09-11 21:02:28 +00003256
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003257- Issue #1096: Prevent a segfault from getting the repr of a very
3258 deeply nested list by using the recursion counter.
Brett Cannona0c05512007-09-10 21:38:27 +00003259
Brett Cannon1e534b52007-09-07 04:18:30 +00003260- Issue #1202533: Fix infinite recursion calls triggered by calls to
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003261 PyObject_Call() never calling back out to Python code to trigger
3262 recursion depth updates/checks. Required the creation of a static
3263 RuntimeError instance in case normalizing an exception put the
3264 recursion check value past its limit. Fixes crashers
3265 infinite_rec_(1|2|4|5).py.
Brett Cannon1e534b52007-09-07 04:18:30 +00003266
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003267- Patch #1031213: Decode source line in SyntaxErrors back to its
3268 original source encoding.
Martin v. Löwisa5136192007-09-04 14:19:28 +00003269
Georg Brandl7c3b50d2007-07-12 08:38:00 +00003270- Patch #1673759: add a missing overflow check when formatting floats
3271 with %G.
3272
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003273- Prevent expandtabs() on string and unicode objects from causing a
3274 segfault when a large width is passed on 32-bit platforms.
Neal Norwitz7dbd2a32007-06-09 03:36:34 +00003275
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003276- Issue #1733488: Fix compilation of bufferobject.c on AIX.
Martin v. Löwisda587ab2007-06-08 17:29:20 +00003277
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003278- Issue #1722485: remove docstrings again when running with -OO.
Georg Brandla5ea6892007-06-01 11:33:33 +00003279
Neal Norwitz0ac60192007-05-27 04:08:54 +00003280- Add new attribute names for function objects. All the func_* become
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003281 __*__ attributes. (Some already existed, e.g., __doc__ and
3282 __name__.)
Neal Norwitz0ac60192007-05-27 04:08:54 +00003283
Neal Norwitz8b2bfbc2007-05-23 06:35:32 +00003284- Add -3 option to the interpreter to warn about features that are
3285 deprecated and will be changed/removed in Python 3.0.
3286
Georg Brandl2134e752007-05-21 20:34:16 +00003287- Patch #1686487: you can now pass any mapping after '**' in function
3288 calls.
3289
Collin Winter62903052007-05-18 23:11:24 +00003290- except clauses may now be spelled either "except E, target:" or
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003291 "except E as target:". This is to provide forwards compatibility
3292 with Python 3.0.
Collin Winter62903052007-05-18 23:11:24 +00003293
Brett Cannon229cee22007-05-05 01:34:02 +00003294- Deprecate BaseException.message as per PEP 352.
3295
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003296- Issue #1303614: don't expose object's __dict__ when the dict is
Armin Rigo9790a272007-05-02 19:23:31 +00003297 inherited from a builtin base.
3298
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00003299- When __slots__ are set to a unicode string, make it work the same as
Neal Norwitzcbd9ee62007-04-14 05:25:50 +00003300 setting a plain string, ie don't expand to single letter identifiers.
3301
Raymond Hettinger13936692007-04-11 18:40:58 +00003302- Request #1191699: Slices can now be pickled.
3303
Raymond Hettinger4db5fe92007-04-12 04:10:00 +00003304- Request #1193128: str.translate() now allows a None argument for
3305 translations that only remove characters without re-mapping the
3306 remaining characters.
3307
Georg Brandl5cb76c12007-03-21 09:00:39 +00003308- Patch #1682205: a TypeError while unpacking an iterable is no longer
3309 masked by a generic one with the message "unpack non-sequence".
3310
Neal Norwitzaa754b72007-03-21 06:39:48 +00003311- Remove unused file Python/fmod.c.
3312
Guido van Rossum143b5642007-03-23 04:58:42 +00003313- Bug #1683368: The object.__init__() and object.__new__() methods are
3314 now stricter in rejecting excess arguments. The only time when
3315 either allows excess arguments is when it is not overridden and the
3316 other one is. For backwards compatibility, when both are
3317 overridden, it is a deprecation warning (for now; maybe a Py3k
Guido van Rossum234b1ff2007-03-23 19:39:01 +00003318 warning later). Also, type.__init__() insists on the same signature
3319 as supported by type.__new__().
Guido van Rossum143b5642007-03-23 04:58:42 +00003320
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003321- Patch #1675423: PyComplex_AsCComplex() now tries to convert an
3322 object to complex using its __complex__() method before falling back
3323 to the __float__() method. Therefore, the functions in the cmath
3324 module now can operate on objects that define a __complex__()
3325 method.
Georg Brandl2b869942007-03-17 16:08:45 +00003326
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003327- Patch #1623563: allow __class__ assignment for classes with
3328 __slots__. The old and the new class are still required to have the
3329 same slot names.
Žiga Seilnacht6f2d09c2007-03-16 11:59:38 +00003330
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003331- Patch #1642547: Fix an error/crash when encountering syntax errors
3332 in complex if statements.
Collin Winter77c67bd2007-03-16 04:11:30 +00003333
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003334- Patch #1462488: Python no longer segfaults when
3335 ``object.__reduce_ex__()`` is called with an object that is faking
3336 its type.
Žiga Seilnacht20f43d32007-03-15 11:44:55 +00003337
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003338- Patch #1680015: Don't modify __slots__ tuple if it contains an
3339 unicode name.
Žiga Seilnacht71436f02007-03-14 12:24:09 +00003340
Georg Brandl5240d742007-03-13 20:46:32 +00003341- Patch #1444529: the builtin compile() now accepts keyword arguments.
3342
Georg Brandl7b9c5552007-03-12 14:30:05 +00003343- Bug #1678647: write a newline after printing an exception in any
3344 case, even when converting the value to a string failed.
3345
Georg Brandl871f1bc2007-03-12 13:17:36 +00003346- The dir() function has been extended to call the __dir__() method on
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003347 its argument, if it exists. If not, it will work like before. This
3348 allows customizing the output of dir() in the presence of a
3349 __getattr__().
Georg Brandl871f1bc2007-03-12 13:17:36 +00003350
Collin Winter276887b2007-03-12 16:11:39 +00003351- Patch #922167: Python no longer segfaults when faced with infinitely
3352 self-recursive reload() calls (as reported by bug #742342).
3353
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003354- Patch #1675981: remove unreachable code from ``type.__new__()``
3355 method.
Žiga Seilnacht89032082007-03-11 15:54:54 +00003356
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003357- Patch #1491866: change the complex() constructor to allow
3358 parthensized forms. This means complex(repr(x)) now works instead of
3359 raising a ValueError.
Collin Wintere38051d2007-03-09 20:33:07 +00003360
Georg Brandlaa2321b2007-03-07 00:40:28 +00003361- Patch #703779: unset __file__ in __main__ after running a file. This
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003362 makes the filenames the warning module prints much more sensible
3363 when a PYTHONSTARTUP file is used.
Georg Brandlaa2321b2007-03-07 00:40:28 +00003364
Georg Brandl49aafc92007-03-07 00:34:46 +00003365- Variant of patch #697613: don't exit the interpreter on a SystemExit
3366 exception if the -i command line option or PYTHONINSPECT environment
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003367 variable is given, but break into the interactive interpreter just
3368 like on other exceptions or normal program exit.
Georg Brandl49aafc92007-03-07 00:34:46 +00003369
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003370- Patch #1638879: don't accept strings with embedded NUL bytes in
3371 long().
Georg Brandl00cd8182007-03-06 18:41:12 +00003372
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003373- Bug #1674503: close the file opened by execfile() in an error
3374 condition.
Georg Brandl098cd692007-03-06 12:17:50 +00003375
Georg Brandl0fca97a2007-03-05 22:28:08 +00003376- Patch #1674228: when assigning a slice (old-style), check for the
3377 sq_ass_slice instead of the sq_slice slot.
3378
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003379- When printing an unraisable error, don't print exceptions. before
3380 the name. This duplicates the behavior whening normally printing
3381 exceptions.
Neal Norwitz88516a62007-02-26 22:41:45 +00003382
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003383- Bug #1653736: Properly discard third argument to
3384 slot_nb_inplace_power.
Martin v. Löwisfd963262007-02-09 12:19:32 +00003385
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003386- PEP 352: Raising a string exception now triggers a TypeError.
3387 Attempting to catch a string exception raises DeprecationWarning.
Brett Cannon129bd522007-01-30 21:34:36 +00003388
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003389- Bug #1377858: Fix the segfaulting of the interpreter when an object
3390 created a weakref on itself during a __del__ call for new-style
3391 classes (classic classes still have the bug).
Brett Cannonf5bee302007-01-23 23:21:22 +00003392
Martin v. Löwis6c5c5022007-01-23 21:11:47 +00003393- Bug #1579370: Make PyTraceBack_Here use the current thread, not the
3394 frame's thread state.
3395
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003396- patch #1630975: Fix crash when replacing sys.stdout in
3397 sitecustomize.py.
Thomas Wouters6ed19652007-01-23 13:50:49 +00003398
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003399- Prevent seg fault on shutdown which could occur if an object raised
3400 a warning.
Neal Norwitz72cd02c2007-01-05 05:25:22 +00003401
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003402- Bug #1566280: Explicitly invoke threading._shutdown from Py_Main, to
3403 avoid relying on atexit.
Martin v. Löwis7b7c9d42007-01-04 21:06:12 +00003404
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003405- Bug #1590891: random.randrange don't return correct value for big
3406 number.
Raymond Hettinger94547f72006-12-20 06:42:06 +00003407
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003408- Patch #1586791: Better exception messages for some operations on
3409 strings, tuples and lists.
Georg Brandl283a1352006-11-19 08:48:30 +00003410
Martin v. Löwis056dac12006-11-12 18:24:26 +00003411- Bug #1067760: Deprecate passing floats to file.seek.
3412
Martin v. Löwisa346c092006-11-08 06:48:36 +00003413- Bug #1591996: Correctly forward exception in instance_contains().
3414
Neal Norwitz85dbec62006-11-04 19:25:22 +00003415- Bug #1588287: fix invalid assertion for `1,2` in debug builds.
3416
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003417- Bug #1576657: when setting a KeyError for a tuple key, make sure
3418 that the tuple isn't used as the "exception arguments tuple".
Georg Brandlb9f4ad32006-10-29 18:31:42 +00003419
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003420- Bug #1565514: SystemError not raised on too many nested blocks.
Neal Norwitz21997af2006-10-28 21:19:07 +00003421
Thomas Hellerdf08f0b2006-10-27 18:31:36 +00003422- Bug #1576174: WindowsError now displays the windows error code
3423 again, no longer the posix error code.
3424
Martin v. Löwisb5bc5372006-10-27 06:16:31 +00003425- Patch #1549049: Support long values in structmember, issue warnings
3426 if the assigned value for structmember fields gets truncated.
3427
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003428- Update the peephole optimizer to remove more dead code (jumps after
3429 returns) and inline unconditional jumps to returns.
Neal Norwitzcbeb6872006-10-14 21:33:38 +00003430
Georg Brandl2c1375c2006-10-12 11:27:59 +00003431- Bug #1545497: when given an explicit base, int() did ignore NULs
3432 embedded in the string to convert.
3433
Georg Brandl846f73a2006-10-08 07:11:54 +00003434- Bug #1569998: break inside a try statement (outside a loop) is now
3435 recognized and rejected.
3436
Armin Rigo7ccbca92006-10-04 12:17:45 +00003437- list.pop(x) accepts any object x following the __index__ protocol.
3438
Armin Rigo7ccbca92006-10-04 12:17:45 +00003439- A number of places, including integer negation and absolute value,
3440 were fixed to not rely on undefined behaviour of the C compiler
3441 anymore.
Martin v. Löwis820d6ac2006-10-04 05:47:34 +00003442
Georg Brandl3267d282006-09-30 09:03:42 +00003443- Bug #1566800: make sure that EnvironmentError can be called with any
3444 number of arguments, as was the case in Python 2.4.
3445
Georg Brandl5d59c092006-09-30 08:43:30 +00003446- Patch #1567691: super() and new.instancemethod() now don't accept
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003447 keyword arguments any more (previously they accepted them, but
3448 didn't use them).
Georg Brandl5d59c092006-09-30 08:43:30 +00003449
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003450- Fix a bug in the parser's future statement handling that led to
3451 "with" not being recognized as a keyword after, e.g., this
3452 statement: from __future__ import division, with_statement
Georg Brandla10d3af2006-09-24 12:35:36 +00003453
Neal Norwitz3a230172006-09-22 08:18:10 +00003454- Bug #1557232: fix seg fault with def f((((x)))) and def f(((x),)).
3455
Neal Norwitz4a8fbdb2006-09-22 08:16:26 +00003456- Fix %zd string formatting on Mac OS X so it prints negative numbers.
3457
Brett Cannonf6aa86e2006-09-20 18:43:13 +00003458- Allow exception instances to be directly sliced again.
3459
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003460- Bug #1551432: Exceptions do not define an explicit __unicode__
3461 method. This allows calling unicode() on exceptions classes
3462 directly to succeed.
Brett Cannon9adeab72006-09-20 18:34:28 +00003463
Georg Brandl4e933132006-09-06 20:05:58 +00003464- Bug #1542051: Exceptions now correctly call PyObject_GC_UnTrack.
3465 Also make sure that every exception class has __module__ set to
3466 'exceptions'.
3467
Georg Brandl98775df2006-09-06 06:09:31 +00003468- Bug #1550983: emit better error messages for erroneous relative
3469 imports (if not in package and if beyond toplevel package).
3470
Tim Petersc10c9d02006-09-05 02:18:09 +00003471- Overflow checking code in integer division ran afoul of new gcc
3472 optimizations. Changed to be more standard-conforming.
3473
Neal Norwitz4f096d92006-08-21 19:47:08 +00003474- Patch #1542451: disallow continue anywhere under a finally.
3475
Neal Norwitza22975f2006-09-05 02:24:03 +00003476- Patch #1546288: fix seg fault in dict_equal due to ref counting bug.
3477
Neal Norwitzd34e4272006-09-05 02:36:20 +00003478- The return tuple from str.rpartition(sep) is (tail, sep, head) where
3479 head is the original string if sep was not found.
3480
Neal Norwitzdac090d2006-09-05 03:53:08 +00003481- Bug #1520864: unpacking singleton tuples in list comprehensions and
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003482 generator expressions (x for x, in ... ) works again. Fixing this
3483 problem required changing the .pyc magic number. This means that
3484 .pyc files generated before 2.5c2 will be regenerated.
Neal Norwitzdac090d2006-09-05 03:53:08 +00003485
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00003486- ``with`` and ``as`` are now keywords.
Neal Norwitzca460d92006-09-06 06:28:06 +00003487
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003488- Bug #1664966: Fix crash in exec if Unicode filename can't be
3489 decoded.
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00003490
Guido van Rossumcad37242008-01-15 17:59:29 +00003491- Issue #1537: Changed GeneratorExit's base class from Exception to
3492 BaseException.
Christian Heimes44eeaec2007-12-03 20:01:02 +00003493
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003494- Issue #1703448: A joined thread could show up in the
Gregory P. Smith95cd5c02008-01-22 01:20:42 +00003495 threading.enumerate() list after the join() for a brief period until
3496 it actually exited.
3497
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00003498
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00003499Library
3500-------
3501
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003502- Patch #2274: Add heapq.heappushpop().
Raymond Hettinger53bdf092008-03-13 19:03:51 +00003503
Christian Heimes608c1d82008-03-03 18:28:04 +00003504- Add inspect.isabstract(object) to fix bug #2223
3505
Mark Dickinson1ddf1d82008-02-29 02:16:37 +00003506- Add a __format__ method to Decimal, to support PEP 3101.
3507
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003508- Add a timing parameter when using trace.Trace to print out
3509 timestamps.
Neal Norwitzca376612008-02-26 08:21:28 +00003510
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003511- Issue #1627: httplib now ignores negative Content-Length headers.
Georg Brandl8c460d52008-02-24 00:14:24 +00003512
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003513- Issue #900744: If an invalid chunked-encoding header is sent by a
3514 server, httplib will now raise IncompleteRead and close the
3515 connection instead of raising ValueError.
Georg Brandl23635032008-02-24 00:03:22 +00003516
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003517- Issue #1492: The content type of BaseHTTPServer error messages can
3518 now be overridden.
Georg Brandl16479232008-02-23 15:02:28 +00003519
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003520- Issue #1781: ConfigParser now does not let you add the "default" section
Facundo Batistab12f0b52008-02-23 12:46:10 +00003521 (ignore-case)
3522
Guido van Rossum8bc09652008-02-21 18:18:37 +00003523- Removed uses of dict.has_key() from distutils, and uses of
3524 callable() from copy_reg.py, so the interpreter now starts up
3525 without warnings when '-3' is given. More work like this needs to
3526 be done in the rest of the stdlib.
3527
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003528- Issue #1916: added isgenerator() and isgeneratorfunction() to
3529 inspect.py.
Facundo Batista759bfc62008-02-18 03:43:43 +00003530
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003531- Issue #1224: Fixed bad url parsing when path begins with double
3532 slash.
Facundo Batistad14600e2008-02-18 12:48:43 +00003533
Thomas Hellera06a1a82008-02-13 20:21:53 +00003534- ctypes instances that are not or do not contain pointers can now be
3535 pickled.
3536
Martin v. Löwisdad88dc2008-02-12 18:47:34 +00003537- Patch #1966: Break infinite loop in httplib when the servers
3538 implements the chunked encoding incorrectly.
3539
Mark Dickinsond058cd22008-02-10 21:29:51 +00003540- Rename rational.py to fractions.py and the rational.Rational class
3541 to fractions.Fraction, to avoid the name clash with the abstract
3542 base class numbers.Rational. See discussion in issue #1682.
3543
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003544- The pickletools module now provides an optimize() function that
3545 eliminates unused PUT opcodes from a pickle string.
Raymond Hettingerda614dc2008-02-10 20:35:16 +00003546
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003547- Patch #2021: Allow tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile and
3548 SpooledTemporaryFile to be used in with statements by correctly
3549 supporting the context management protocol.
Nick Coghlanac094dc2008-02-10 07:32:52 +00003550
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003551- Patch #1979: Add rich comparisons to Decimal, and make Decimal
3552 comparisons involving a NaN follow the IEEE 754 standard.
Mark Dickinson2fc92632008-02-06 22:10:50 +00003553
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003554- Issue #2004: tarfile.py: Use mode 0700 for temporary directories and
3555 default permissions for missing directories.
Lars Gustäbel0192e432008-02-05 11:51:40 +00003556
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003557- Issue #175006: The debugger used to skip the condition of a "while"
3558 statement after the first iteration. Now it correctly steps on the
3559 expression, and breakpoints on the "while" statement are honored on
3560 each loop.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc6fd03bb2008-02-04 21:45:05 +00003561
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003562- Issue #1765140: add an optional delay argument to FileHandler and
3563 its subclasses. Defaults to false (existing behaviour), but if true,
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +00003564 defers opening the file until the first call to emit().
3565
Raymond Hettingerc226c312008-01-23 00:04:40 +00003566- The pprint module now supports sets and frozensets.
3567
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003568- Issue #1221598: add optional callbacks to ftplib.FTP's storbinary()
3569 and storlines() methods. (Contributed by Phil Schwartz)
Gregory P. Smithc64386b2008-01-22 00:19:41 +00003570
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003571- Issue #1715: include sub-extension modules in pydoc's text output.
Georg Brandlf2dae0e2008-01-21 21:05:49 +00003572
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003573- Issue #1836: fix an off-by-one bug in TimedRotatingHandler's
3574 rollover time calculation.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00003575
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003576- Issue #1021: fix a bug to allow basicConfig to accept NOTSET as a
3577 level.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00003578
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003579- Issue #932563: add LoggerAdapter convenience class to make it easier
3580 to add contextual information in logging output.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00003581
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003582- Issue #1760556: fix a bug to avoid FileHandler throwing an exception
3583 in flush().
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00003584
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003585- Bug #1530959: distutils' build command now uses different build
3586 directory when building extension modules against versions of Python
3587 compiled with ``--with-pydebug``.
Georg Brandl50160152008-01-21 17:42:40 +00003588
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003589- Issue #1555501: move plistlib from plat-mac directory to general
3590 library.
Georg Brandl864de822008-01-21 16:34:07 +00003591
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003592- Issue #1269: fix a bug in pstats.add_callers() and add a unit test
3593 file for pstats.
Georg Brandl66e73632008-01-21 10:24:59 +00003594
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003595- Issue #1669: don't allow shutil.rmtree() to be called on a symlink
3596 to a directory.
Georg Brandl52353982008-01-20 14:17:42 +00003597
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003598- Issue #1664522: in urllib, don't read non-existing directories in
3599 ftp mode, returning a 0-byte file -- raise an IOError instead.
Georg Brandld5e6cf22008-01-20 12:18:17 +00003600
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003601- Issue #856047: respect the ``no_proxy`` environment variable when
3602 using the ``http_proxy`` etc. environment variables in urllib.
Georg Brandl22350112008-01-20 12:05:43 +00003603
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003604- Issue #1178141: add a getcode() method to the addinfourls that
3605 urllib.open() returns so that you can retrieve the HTTP status code.
Georg Brandl9b0d46d2008-01-20 11:43:03 +00003606
Gregory P. Smithf25680a2008-01-20 01:26:04 +00003607- Issue #1003: Fix zipfile decryption check, it would fail zip files
3608 with extended local headers.
3609
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003610- Issue #1189216: Fix the zipfile module to work on archives with
3611 headers past the 2**31 byte boundary.
Gregory P. Smith350d03b2008-01-19 23:10:52 +00003612
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003613- Issue #1336: fix a race condition in subprocess.Popen if the garbage
Gregory P. Smithb9ba0752008-01-19 21:00:37 +00003614 collector kicked in at the wrong time that would cause the process
3615 to hang when the child wrote to stderr.
3616
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003617- Issue #1146: fix how textwrap breaks a long word that would start in
3618 the last column of a line.
Georg Brandlc6fde722008-01-19 19:48:19 +00003619
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003620- Issue #1693149: trace.py --ignore-module - accept multiple
3621 comma-separated modules to be given.
Skip Montanaro562133b2008-01-19 18:47:24 +00003622
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003623- Issue #1822: MIMEMultipart.is_multipart() behaves correctly for a
3624 just-created (and empty) instance. Thanks Jonathan Share.
Facundo Batista2b1b1952008-01-19 12:32:27 +00003625
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003626- Issue #1861: Added an attribute to the sched module which returns an
3627 ordered list of upcoming events (displayed as named tuples).
Raymond Hettinger44bd6c02008-01-17 19:31:38 +00003628
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003629- Issue #1837: The queue module now also supports a LIFO queue and a
3630 priority queue.
Raymond Hettinger3ad2acc82008-01-16 23:49:35 +00003631
Andrew M. Kuchling4a2762d2008-01-20 00:00:38 +00003632- Patch #1048820: Add insert-mode editing to curses.textpad.Textbox
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00003633 (patch by Stefan Wehr). Also, fix an off-by-one bug in
Andrew M. Kuchling4a2762d2008-01-20 00:00:38 +00003634 Textbox.gather().
3635
Thomas Heller02ec2892008-01-16 19:37:33 +00003636- Issue #1831: ctypes now raises a TypeError if conflicting positional
3637 and named arguments are passed to a Structure or Union initializer.
Thomas Heller415c1e32008-01-16 19:45:51 +00003638 When too many positional arguments are passed, also a TypeError is
3639 raised instead of a ValueError.
Thomas Heller02ec2892008-01-16 19:37:33 +00003640
Thomas Heller902d3072008-01-16 19:16:27 +00003641- Convert the internal ctypes array type cache to a WeakValueDict so
3642 that array types do not live longer than needed.
3643
Guido van Rossumcad37242008-01-15 17:59:29 +00003644- Issue #1786: pdb should use its own stdin/stdout around an exec call
3645 and when creating a recursive instance.
3646
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003647- Issue #1698398: ZipFile.printdir() crashed because the format string
3648 expected a tuple type of length six instead of time.struct_time
3649 object.
Raymond Hettinger351e1a32008-01-14 22:58:05 +00003650
Mark Dickinson59bc20b2008-01-12 01:56:00 +00003651- Issue #1780: The Decimal constructor now accepts arbitrary leading
3652 and trailing whitespace when constructing from a string.
3653 Context.create_decimal no longer accepts trailing newlines.
3654
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003655- Decimal.as_tuple(), difflib.find_longest_match() and inspect
3656 functions that returned a tuple now return a named tuple.
Georg Brandl2f32c392008-01-11 09:20:58 +00003657
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00003658- Doctest now returns results as a named tuple for readability:
Raymond Hettingerfff4e6e2008-01-11 01:25:54 +00003659 (0, 7) --> TestResults(failed=0, attempted=7)
3660
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003661- Issue #846388:q re.match is interruptible now, which is particularly
Facundo Batista4473d222008-01-08 21:10:12 +00003662 good for long regular expression matches.
3663
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003664- Patch #1137: allow setting buffer_size attribute on pyexpat Parser
3665 objects to set the character data buffer size.
Andrew M. Kuchlinge0a49b62008-01-08 14:30:55 +00003666
Facundo Batista52b25792008-01-08 12:25:20 +00003667- Issue #1757: The hash of a Decimal instance is no longer affected by
3668 the current context.
3669
Georg Brandl62416bc2008-01-07 18:47:44 +00003670- Patch #467924: add ZipFile.extract() and ZipFile.extractall() in the
3671 zipfile module.
3672
Christian Heimesfb2d25a2008-01-07 16:12:44 +00003673- Issue #1646: Make socket support the TIPC protocol.
3674
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003675- Bug #1742: return os.curdir from os.path.relpath() if both arguments
3676 are equal instead of raising an exception.
Georg Brandl183a0842008-01-06 14:27:15 +00003677
Guido van Rossumc6a04c22008-01-05 22:19:06 +00003678- Patch #1637: fix urlparse for URLs like 'http://x.com?arg=/foo'.
3679
Guido van Rossumced4eb02008-01-05 01:21:57 +00003680- Patch #1698: allow '@' in username parsed by urlparse.py.
3681
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003682- Issue #1735: TarFile.extractall() now correctly sets directory
3683 permissions and times.
Lars Gustäbel2ee1c762008-01-04 14:00:33 +00003684
Christian Heimes06875612008-01-04 13:21:07 +00003685- Bug #1713: posixpath.ismount() claims symlink to a mountpoint is a mountpoint.
3686
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003687- Bug #1687: Fxed plistlib.py restricts <integer> to Python int when
3688 writing
Christian Heimes06131882008-01-04 00:04:52 +00003689
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003690- Issue #1700: Regular expression inline flags incorrectly handle
3691 certain unicode characters.
Guido van Rossumae04c332008-01-03 19:12:44 +00003692
Jeffrey Yasskin2f3c16b2008-01-03 02:21:52 +00003693- Issue #1689: PEP 3141, numeric abstract base classes.
3694
Martin v. Löwis84b9aab2008-01-01 21:09:07 +00003695- Tk issue #1851526: Return results from Python callbacks to Tcl as
3696 Tcl objects.
3697
Thomas Heller153038e2007-12-18 19:00:34 +00003698- Issue #1642: Fix segfault in ctypes when trying to delete attributes.
3699
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003700- Issue #1727780: Support loading pickles of random.Random objects
3701 created on 32-bit systems on 64-bit systems, and vice versa. As a
3702 consequence of the change, Random pickles created by Python 2.6
3703 cannot be loaded in Python 2.5.
Martin v. Löwis6b449f42007-12-03 19:20:02 +00003704
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003705- Issue #1455: The distutils package now supports VS 2005 and VS 2008
3706 for both the msvccompiler and cygwincompiler.
Christian Heimesc654fc22007-12-03 13:55:16 +00003707
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003708- Issue #1531: tarfile.py: Read fileobj from the current offset, do
3709 not seek to the start.
Lars Gustäbel77b2d632007-12-01 21:02:12 +00003710
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003711- Issue #1534: Added a dictionary sys.float_info with information
3712 about the internal floating point type to the sys module.
Christian Heimesdfdfaab2007-12-01 11:20:10 +00003713
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003714- Issue #1429818: patch for trace and doctest modules so they play
3715 nicely together.
Skip Montanaro58a6f442007-11-24 14:30:47 +00003716
Brett Cannon43e53f82007-11-21 00:47:36 +00003717- doctest made a bad assumption that a package's __loader__.get_data()
3718 method used universal newlines.
3719
Nick Coghlan90b858e2007-11-07 11:57:51 +00003720- Issue #1705170: contextlib.contextmanager was still swallowing
3721 StopIteration in some cases. This should no longer happen.
3722
Thomas Heller486b1b02007-11-02 19:10:24 +00003723- Issue #1292: On alpha, arm, ppc, and s390 linux systems the
3724 --with-system-ffi configure option defaults to "yes".
3725
Hye-Shik Changa838a802007-10-28 11:19:02 +00003726- IN module for FreeBSD 8 is added and preexisting FreeBSD 6 and 7
3727 files are updated.
3728
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003729- Issues #1181, #1287: unsetenv() is now called when the
3730 os.environ.pop() and os.environ.clear() methods are used.
Georg Brandl1a94ec22007-10-24 21:40:38 +00003731
Thomas Heller91ac4222007-10-19 18:11:41 +00003732- ctypes will now work correctly on 32-bit systems when Python is
3733 configured with --with-system-ffi.
3734
Thomas Heller7fee6dd2007-10-11 19:51:32 +00003735- Patch #1203: ctypes now does work on OS X when Python is built with
Georg Brandl1a94ec22007-10-24 21:40:38 +00003736 --disable-toolbox-glue.
Thomas Heller7fee6dd2007-10-11 19:51:32 +00003737
Raymond Hettingera7fc4b12007-10-05 02:47:07 +00003738- collections.deque() now supports a "maxlen" argument.
3739
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003740- itertools.count() is no longer bounded to LONG_MAX. Formerly, it
3741 raised an OverflowError. Now, automatically shifts from ints to
3742 longs.
Raymond Hettinger50e90e22007-10-04 00:20:27 +00003743
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003744- Added itertools.product() which forms the Cartesian product of the
3745 input iterables.
Raymond Hettingerc5705a82008-02-22 19:50:06 +00003746
Raymond Hettinger66f91ea2008-03-05 20:59:58 +00003747- Added itertools.combinations() and itertools.permutations().
Raymond Hettinger93e804d2008-02-26 23:40:50 +00003748
Georg Brandlaff85e22007-09-20 16:06:07 +00003749- Patch #1541463: optimize performance of cgi.FieldStorage operations.
3750
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003751- Decimal is fully updated to the latest Decimal Specification
3752 (v1.66).
Facundo Batistab67da232007-09-17 16:26:50 +00003753
Georg Brandl8fd3ecf2007-09-12 19:00:07 +00003754- Bug #1153: repr.repr() now doesn't require set and dictionary items
3755 to be orderable to properly represent them.
3756
Thomas Heller2825b2e2007-09-07 06:32:17 +00003757- A 'c_longdouble' type was added to the ctypes module.
3758
Martin v. Löwis7dcb83c2007-08-30 19:04:09 +00003759- Bug #1709599: Run test_1565150 only if the file system is NTFS.
3760
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003761- When encountering a password-protected robots.txt file the
3762 RobotFileParser no longer prompts interactively for a username and
3763 password (bug 813986).
Skip Montanaro3e275362007-08-29 01:33:45 +00003764
Lars Gustäbel0f4a14b2007-08-28 12:31:09 +00003765- TarFile.__init__() no longer fails if no name argument is passed and
3766 the fileobj argument has no usable name attribute (e.g. StringIO).
3767
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003768- The functools module now provides 'reduce', for forward
3769 compatibility with Python 3000.
Guido van Rossum95f1a1b2007-08-27 20:52:10 +00003770
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003771- Server-side SSL support and cert verification added, by Bill
3772 Janssen.
Guido van Rossum4f2c3dd2007-08-25 15:08:43 +00003773
Bill Janssenf413fb02007-08-30 18:08:06 +00003774- socket.ssl deprecated; use new ssl module instead.
3775
Georg Brandl8ec57542007-08-24 06:10:01 +00003776- uuid creation is now threadsafe.
3777
Hye-Shik Chang23901042007-08-20 06:49:18 +00003778- EUC-KR codec now handles the cheot-ga-keut composed make-up hangul
3779 syllables.
3780
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003781- GB18030 codec now can encode additional two-byte characters that are
3782 missing in GBK.
Hye-Shik Changf3e93a02007-08-04 04:10:18 +00003783
Walter Dörwald6e390802007-08-17 16:41:28 +00003784- Add new codecs for UTF-32, UTF-32-LE and UTF-32-BE.
3785
Martin v. Löwisf1e0b3f2007-07-28 07:03:05 +00003786- Bug #1704793: Return UTF-16 pair if unicodedata.lookup cannot
3787 represent the result in a single character.
3788
Martin v. Löwisf25e35b2007-07-27 18:28:22 +00003789- Bug #978833: Close https sockets by releasing the _ssl object.
3790
Martin v. Löwis254b8f92007-07-25 16:24:23 +00003791- Change location of the package index to pypi.python.org/pypi
3792
Thomas Hellerfa704c62007-07-13 17:12:23 +00003793- Bug #1701409: Fix a segfault in printing ctypes.c_char_p and
3794 ctypes.c_wchar_p when they point to an invalid location. As a
3795 sideeffect the representation of these instances has changed.
3796
Lars Gustäbel104490e2007-06-18 11:42:11 +00003797- tarfile.py: Added "exclude" keyword argument to TarFile.add().
3798
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003799- Bug #1734723: Fix repr.Repr() so it doesn't ignore the maxtuple
3800 attribute.
Neal Norwitzc161cb92007-06-11 07:29:43 +00003801
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003802- The urlopen function of urllib2 now has an optional timeout
3803 parameter (note that it actually works with HTTP, HTTPS, FTP and
3804 FTPS connections).
Facundo Batista10951d52007-06-06 17:15:23 +00003805
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003806- In ftplib, the FTP.ntransfercmd method, when in passive mode, now
3807 uses the socket.create_connection function, using the timeout
3808 specified at connection time.
Facundo Batista92493122007-06-06 15:13:37 +00003809
Hye-Shik Chang9b541402007-06-05 18:58:51 +00003810- Bug #1728403: Fix a bug that CJKCodecs StreamReader hangs when it
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003811 reads a file that ends with incomplete sequence and sizehint
3812 argument for .read() is specified.
Hye-Shik Chang9b541402007-06-05 18:58:51 +00003813
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003814- Bug #1730389: Change time.strptime() to use ``\s+`` instead of
3815 ``\s*`` when matching spaces in the specified format argument.
Brett Cannonf7188ce2007-06-03 23:13:41 +00003816
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003817- Bugs #1668596/#1720897: distutils now copies data files even if
3818 package_dir is empty.
Neal Norwitz4a700bb2007-06-01 07:29:12 +00003819
Brett Cannonc2aa09a2007-05-31 19:20:00 +00003820- sha now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
3821
Brett Cannon7eec2172007-05-30 22:24:28 +00003822- md5 now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
3823
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003824- Issue #1385: The hmac module now computes the correct hmac when
3825 using hashes with a block size other than 64 bytes (such as sha384
3826 and sha512).
Gregory P. Smithe1ac4f12007-11-06 00:19:03 +00003827
Brett Cannonc249bda2007-05-30 21:48:58 +00003828- mimify now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
3829
Brett Cannon90134c92007-05-30 20:46:26 +00003830- MimeWriter now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
3831
Lars Gustäbela0fcb932007-05-27 19:49:30 +00003832- tarfile.py: Improved unicode support. Unicode input names are now
3833 officially supported. Added "errors" argument to the TarFile class.
3834
Facundo Batista711a54e2007-05-24 17:50:54 +00003835- urllib.ftpwrapper class now accepts an optional timeout.
3836
Georg Brandlc90bc752007-05-24 16:49:29 +00003837- shlex.split() now has an optional "posix" parameter.
3838
Brett Cannon41bf2fa2007-05-20 23:57:38 +00003839- The posixfile module now raises a DeprecationWarning.
3840
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003841- Remove the gopherlib module. This also leads to the removal of
3842 gopher support in urllib/urllib2.
Brett Cannond75f0432007-05-16 22:42:29 +00003843
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003844- Fix bug in marshal where bad data would cause a segfault due to lack
3845 of an infinite recursion check.
Neal Norwitzb1a9b372007-05-16 20:05:11 +00003846
Neal Norwitze0e70a42007-05-16 05:06:33 +00003847- Removed plat-freebsd2 and plat-freebsd3 directories (and IN.py in
3848 the directories).
3849
Georg Brandla09a96a2007-05-15 20:19:34 +00003850- HTML-escape the plain traceback in cgitb's HTML output, to prevent
3851 the traceback inadvertently or maliciously closing the comment and
3852 injecting HTML into the error page.
3853
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003854- The popen2 module and os.popen* are deprecated. Use the subprocess
3855 module.
Neal Norwitz42dd86b2007-05-11 06:57:33 +00003856
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003857- Added an optional credentials argument to SMTPHandler, for use with
3858 SMTP servers which require authentication.
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00003859
3860- Patch #1695948: Added optional timeout parameter to SocketHandler.
3861
3862- Bug #1652788: Minor fix for currentframe.
3863
3864- Patch #1598415: Added WatchedFileHandler to better support external
3865 log file rotation using e.g. newsyslog or logrotate. This handler is
3866 only useful in Unix/Linux environments.
3867
Georg Brandlfb4b3b72007-04-24 15:27:13 +00003868- Bug #1706381: Specifying the SWIG option "-c++" in the setup.py file
3869 (as opposed to the command line) will now write file names ending in
3870 ".cpp" too.
3871
Facundo Batistad918a652007-04-24 13:54:38 +00003872- As specified in RFC 2616, an HTTP response like 2xx indicates that
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003873 the client's request was successfully received, understood, and
3874 accepted. Now in these cases no error is raised in urllib (issue
3875 #1177) and urllib2.
Facundo Batistad918a652007-04-24 13:54:38 +00003876
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003877- Bug #1290505: time.strptime's internal cache of locale information
3878 is now properly recreated when the locale is changed.
Brett Cannonc6906652007-04-01 18:47:27 +00003879
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003880- Patch #1685563: remove (don't add) duplicate paths in
3881 distutils.MSVCCompiler.
Neal Norwitz8f35f442007-04-01 18:24:22 +00003882
Facundo Batistab6a5c9d2007-03-29 18:22:35 +00003883- Added a timeout parameter to the constructor of other protocols
3884 (telnetlib, ftplib, smtplib and poplib). This is second part of the
3885 work started with create_connection() and timeout in httplib, and
3886 closes patch #723312.
3887
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00003888- Patch #1676823: Added create_connection() to socket.py, which may be
3889 called with a timeout, and use it from httplib (whose HTTPConnection
Facundo Batista70f996b2007-05-21 17:32:32 +00003890 and HTTPSConnection now accept an optional timeout).
Facundo Batista07c78be2007-03-23 18:54:07 +00003891
Martin v. Löwis0af33882007-03-23 13:27:15 +00003892- Bug #978833: Revert r50844, as it broke _socketobject.dup.
3893
Žiga Seilnacht7492e422007-03-21 20:07:56 +00003894- Bug #1675967: re patterns pickled with Python 2.4 and earlier can
3895 now be unpickled with Python 2.5 and newer.
3896
Collin Wintera8785cc2007-03-19 18:52:08 +00003897- Patch #1630118: add a SpooledTemporaryFile class to tempfile.py.
3898
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003899- Patch #1273829: os.walk() now has a "followlinks" parameter. If set
3900 to True (which is not the default), it visits symlinks pointing to
Georg Brandlcae9f3d2007-03-21 09:10:29 +00003901 directories.
3902
Georg Brandl8f06d022007-03-16 07:55:09 +00003903- Bug #1681228: the webbrowser module now correctly uses the default
3904 GNOME or KDE browser, depending on whether there is a session of one
3905 of those present. Also, it tries the Windows default browser before
3906 trying Mozilla variants.
3907
Collin Winter6f187742007-03-16 22:16:08 +00003908- Patch #1339796: add a relpath() function to os.path.
3909
Georg Brandlab1f4672007-03-15 07:41:30 +00003910- Patch #1681153: the wave module now closes a file object it opened if
3911 initialization failed.
3912
Georg Brandlf66b6032007-03-14 08:27:52 +00003913- Bug #767111: fix long-standing bug in urllib which caused an
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003914 AttributeError instead of an IOError when the server's response
3915 didn't contain a valid HTTP status line.
Georg Brandlf66b6032007-03-14 08:27:52 +00003916
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003917- Patch #957650: "%var%" environment variable references are now
3918 properly expanded in ntpath.expandvars(), also "~user" home
3919 directory references are recognized and handled on Windows.
Georg Brandl03b90d82007-03-13 22:07:36 +00003920
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003921- Patch #1429539: pdb now correctly initializes the __main__ module
3922 for the debugged script, which means that imports from __main__ work
Georg Brandlb6ae6aa2007-03-13 21:58:44 +00003923 correctly now.
3924
Georg Brandlbad6f192007-03-13 21:32:56 +00003925- The nonobvious commands.getstatus() function is now deprecated.
3926
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003927- Patch #1393667: pdb now has a "run" command which restarts the
3928 debugged Python program, optionally with different arguments.
Georg Brandl8e84c652007-03-13 21:08:15 +00003929
Thomas Heller5dc4fe02007-03-13 20:42:52 +00003930- Patch #1649190: Adding support for _Bool to ctypes as c_bool.
3931
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003932- Patch #1530482: add pydoc.render_doc() which returns the
3933 documentation for a thing instead of paging it to stdout, which
3934 pydoc.doc() does.
Georg Brandl8441f152007-03-13 20:02:57 +00003935
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003936- Patch #1533909: the timeit module now accepts callables in addition
3937 to strings for the code to time and the setup code. Also added two
3938 convenience functions for instantiating a Timer and calling its
3939 methods.
Georg Brandld9bef352007-03-13 19:32:21 +00003940
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003941- Patch #1537850: tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile now has a "delete"
3942 parameter which can be set to False to prevent the default
3943 delete-on-close behavior.
Georg Brandl35ef9c12007-03-13 18:31:49 +00003944
Georg Brandl9e6b4702007-03-13 18:15:41 +00003945- Patch #1581073: add a flag to textwrap that prevents the dropping of
3946 whitespace while wrapping.
3947
Georg Brandl92a6bae2007-03-13 17:43:32 +00003948- Patch #1603688: ConfigParser.SafeConfigParser now checks values that
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003949 are set for invalid interpolation sequences that would lead to
3950 errors on reading back those values.
Georg Brandl92a6bae2007-03-13 17:43:32 +00003951
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003952- Added support for the POSIX.1-2001 (pax) format to
3953 tarfile.py. Extended and cleaned up the test suite. Added a new
3954 testtar.tar.
Lars Gustäbelc64e4022007-03-13 10:47:19 +00003955
Martin v. Löwisbdd0f392007-03-13 10:24:00 +00003956- Patch #1449244: Support Unicode strings in
3957 email.message.Message.{set_charset,get_content_charset}.
3958
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003959- Patch #1542681: add entries for "with", "as" and "CONTEXTMANAGERS"
3960 to pydoc's help keywords.
Georg Brandlb6a87542007-03-13 10:06:48 +00003961
Georg Brandl4ffc8f52007-03-13 09:41:31 +00003962- Patch #1555098: use str.join() instead of repeated string
3963 concatenation in robotparser.
3964
Georg Brandl94fe3f52007-03-13 09:32:11 +00003965- Patch #1635454: the csv.DictWriter class now includes the offending
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003966 field names in its exception message if you try to write a record
3967 with a dictionary containing fields not in the CSV field names list.
Georg Brandl94fe3f52007-03-13 09:32:11 +00003968
Georg Brandlceede5c2007-03-13 08:14:27 +00003969- Patch #1668100: urllib2 now correctly raises URLError instead of
3970 OSError if accessing a local file via the file:// protocol fails.
3971
Martin v. Löwis2681beb2007-03-12 11:01:10 +00003972- Patch #1677862: Require a space or tab after import in .pth files.
3973
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003974- Patch #1192590: Fix pdb's "ignore" and "condition" commands so they
3975 trap the IndexError caused by passing in an invalid breakpoint
3976 number.
Collin Winter2faa9e12007-03-11 16:00:20 +00003977
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003978- Patch #1599845: Add an option to disable the implicit calls to
3979 server_bind() and server_activate() in the constructors for
3980 TCPServer, SimpleXMLRPCServer and DocXMLRPCServer.
Collin Winterae041062007-03-10 14:41:48 +00003981
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003982- Bug #1531963: Make SocketServer.TCPServer's server_address always be
3983 equal to calling getsockname() on the server's socket. Fixed by
Collin Winterfaaa2042007-03-10 03:35:34 +00003984 patch #1545011.
Collin Winter22c42ba2007-03-10 02:51:26 +00003985
Andrew M. Kuchlinge45a77a2008-01-19 16:26:13 +00003986- Patch #742598: Add .timeout attribute to SocketServer that calls
3987 .handle_timeout() when no requests are received.
3988
Thomas Heller2456a3c2007-03-09 20:39:22 +00003989- Bug #1651235: When a tuple was passed to a ctypes function call,
3990 Python would crash instead of raising an error.
3991
Thomas Hellerc2f77252007-03-09 19:21:28 +00003992- Bug #1646630: ctypes.string_at(buf, 0) and ctypes.wstring_at(buf, 0)
3993 returned string up to the first NUL character.
3994
Martin v. Löwis1190a382007-03-09 15:35:55 +00003995- Patch #957003: Implement smtplib.LMTP.
3996
Collin Winterfb728de2007-03-09 03:26:32 +00003997- Patch #1481079: add support for HTTP_REFERER to CGIHTTPServer.
3998
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003999- Patch #1675424: Added tests for uncovered code in the zipfile
4000 module. The KeyError raised by Zipfile.getinfo for nonexistent
4001 names now has a descriptive message.
Georg Brandl4b3ab6f2007-07-12 09:59:22 +00004002
Martin v. Löwis05c075d2007-03-07 11:04:33 +00004003- Bug #1115886: os.path.splitext('.cshrc') gives now ('.cshrc', '').
4004
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004005- unittest now verifies more of its assumptions. In particular,
4006 TestCase and TestSuite subclasses (not instances) are no longer
4007 accepted in TestSuite.addTest(). This should cause no
4008 incompatibility since it never made sense with ordinary subclasses
4009 -- the failure just occurred later, with a more cumbersome
4010 exception.
Georg Brandl9caadf82007-03-08 18:37:31 +00004011
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004012- Patch #787789: allow to pass custom TestRunner instances to
4013 unittest's main() function.
Georg Brandld0a96252007-03-07 09:21:06 +00004014
Georg Brandl15c5ce92007-03-07 09:09:40 +00004015- Patches #1550273, #1550272: fix a few bugs in unittest and add a
4016 comprehensive test suite for the module.
4017
Georg Brandl71ff6462007-03-07 08:31:51 +00004018- Patch #1001604: glob.glob() now returns unicode filenames if it was
4019 given a unicode argument and os.listdir() returns unicode filenames.
4020
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004021- Patch #1673619: setup.py identifies extension modules it doesn't
4022 know how to build and those it knows how to build but that fail to
4023 build.
Skip Montanarod1287322007-03-06 15:41:38 +00004024
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00004025- Patch #912410: Replace HTML entity references for attribute values
Martin v. Löwisab8a6bb2007-03-06 14:43:00 +00004026 in HTMLParser.
4027
Georg Brandlff432e62007-03-06 13:37:45 +00004028- Patch #1663234: you can now run doctest on test files and modules
4029 using "python -m doctest [-v] filename ...".
4030
Martin v. Löwis3eb76482007-03-06 10:41:24 +00004031- Patch #1121142: Implement ZipFile.open.
4032
Skip Montanarof694b1b2007-03-04 20:54:12 +00004033- Taught setup.py how to locate Berkeley DB on Macs using MacPorts.
4034
Raymond Hettinger00166c52007-02-19 04:08:43 +00004035- Added heapq.merge() for merging sorted input streams.
4036
Raymond Hettingercd3c1082007-10-23 21:23:07 +00004037- Added collections.namedtuple() for assigning field names to tuples.
Raymond Hettingerc37e5e02007-03-01 06:16:43 +00004038
Raymond Hettingerd36862c2007-02-21 05:20:38 +00004039- Added itertools.izip_longest().
4040
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004041- Have the encoding package's search function dynamically import using
4042 absolute import semantics.
Brett Cannon971a0122007-02-15 22:54:39 +00004043
Lars Gustäbel5b1a7852007-02-13 16:09:24 +00004044- Patch #1647484: Renamed GzipFile's filename attribute to name.
4045
Martin v. Löwis84f6de92007-02-13 10:10:39 +00004046- Patch #1517891: Mode 'a' for ZipFile now creates the file if it
4047 doesn't exist.
4048
Martin v. Löwisc6d626e2007-02-13 09:49:38 +00004049- Patch #698833: Support file decryption in zipfile.
4050
Martin v. Löwis07aa3ed2007-02-13 08:34:45 +00004051- Patch #685268: Consider a package's __path__ in imputil.
4052
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004053- Patch #1463026: Support default namespace in XMLGenerator.
Martin v. Löwis2bad58f2007-02-12 12:21:10 +00004054
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004055- Patch #1571379: Make trace's --ignore-dir facility work in the face
4056 of relative directory names.
Skip Montanaro691acf22007-02-11 18:24:37 +00004057
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004058- Bug #1600860: Search for shared python library in LIBDIR, not
4059 lib/python/config, on "linux" and "gnu" systems.
Martin v. Löwis0a203262007-02-09 12:36:48 +00004060
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004061- Patch #1652681: tarfile.py: create nonexistent files in append mode
4062 and allow appending to empty files.
Lars Gustäbel3f8aca12007-02-06 18:38:13 +00004063
Peter Astrand5f9c6ae2007-02-06 15:37:50 +00004064- Bug #1124861: Automatically create pipes if GetStdHandle fails in
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00004065 subprocess.
Peter Astrand5f9c6ae2007-02-06 15:37:50 +00004066
Georg Brandl4ba9e5b2007-01-27 17:59:42 +00004067- Patch #1634778: add missing encoding aliases for iso8859_15 and
4068 iso8859_16.
4069
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004070- Patch #1638243: the compiler package is now able to correctly
4071 compile a with statement; previously, executing code containing a
4072 with statement compiled by the compiler package crashed the
4073 interpreter.
Georg Brandlab496842007-01-27 17:43:02 +00004074
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00004075- Bug #1643943: Fix time.strptime's support for the %U directive.
4076
Lars Gustäbel0713a682007-02-19 09:54:47 +00004077- Patch #1507247: tarfile.py: use current umask for intermediate
4078 directories.
4079
Georg Brandldd7b0522007-01-21 10:35:10 +00004080- Patch #1627441: close sockets properly in urllib2.
4081
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004082- Bug #494589: make ntpath.expandvars behave according to its
4083 docstring.
Sjoerd Mullender33a0a062007-01-16 16:42:38 +00004084
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00004085- Changed platform module API python_version_tuple() to actually
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00004086 return a tuple (it used to return a list).
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00004087
4088- Added new platform module APIs python_branch(), python_revision(),
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00004089 python_implementation() and linux_distribution().
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00004090
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00004091- Added support for IronPython and Jython to the platform module.
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00004092
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004093- The sets module has been deprecated. Use the built-in set/frozenset
4094 types instead.
Brett Cannon093b6702007-01-13 00:29:49 +00004095
Thomas Heller6fd45492007-01-12 20:21:53 +00004096- Bug #1610795: make ctypes.util.find_library work on BSD systems.
4097
Thomas Heller8138c262007-01-11 21:18:56 +00004098- Fixes for 64-bit Windows: In ctypes.wintypes, correct the
4099 definitions of HANDLE, WPARAM, LPARAM data types. Make
4100 parameterless foreign function calls work.
4101
Thomas Hellerfb9d7872007-01-10 20:12:13 +00004102- The version number of the ctypes package changed to "1.1.0".
4103
Vinay Sajipab41c102007-01-09 14:51:36 +00004104- Bug #1627575: logging: Added _open() method to FileHandler which can
4105 be used to reopen files. The FileHandler instance now saves the
4106 encoding (which can be None) in an attribute called "encoding".
4107
Vinay Sajipc9137262007-01-08 18:52:36 +00004108- Bug #411881: logging.handlers: bare except clause removed from
4109 SMTPHandler.emit. Now, only ImportError is trapped.
4110
4111- Bug #411881: logging.handlers: bare except clause removed from
4112 SocketHandler.createSocket. Now, only socket.error is trapped.
4113
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004114- Bug #411881: logging: bare except clause removed from
4115 LogRecord.__init__. Now, only ValueError, TypeError and
4116 AttributeError are trapped.
Vinay Sajipc9137262007-01-08 18:52:36 +00004117
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004118- Patch #1504073: Fix tarfile.open() for mode "r" with a fileobj
4119 argument.
Lars Gustäbela7ba6fc2006-12-27 10:30:46 +00004120
Andrew M. Kuchling71662322006-12-27 03:31:24 +00004121- Patch #1182394 from Shane Holloway: speed up HMAC.hexdigest.
4122
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004123- Patch #1262036: Prevent TarFiles from being added to themselves
4124 under certain conditions.
Lars Gustäbela4b23812006-12-23 17:57:23 +00004125
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004126- Patch #1230446: tarfile.py: fix ExFileObject so that read() and
4127 tell() work correctly together with readline().
Lars Gustäbel6baa5022006-12-23 16:40:13 +00004128
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004129- Patch #1484695: The tarfile module now raises a HeaderError
4130 exception if a buffer given to frombuf() is invalid.
Georg Brandlebbeed72006-12-19 22:06:46 +00004131
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00004132- Bug #1503765: Fix a problem in logging.config with spaces in comma-
4133 separated lists read from logging config files.
4134
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004135- Patch #1604907: Fix problems in logging.handlers caused at logging
4136 shutdown when syslog handlers fail to initialize because of syslogd
4137 problems.
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00004138
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004139- Patch #1608267: fix a race condition in os.makedirs() if the
4140 directory to be created is already there.
Georg Brandlb1307432006-12-09 09:08:29 +00004141
Georg Brandl87fa5592006-12-06 22:21:18 +00004142- Patch #1610437: fix a tarfile bug with long filename headers.
4143
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004144- Patch #1371075: Make ConfigParser accept optional dict type for
4145 ordering, sorting, etc.
Martin v. Löwisa00bcac2006-12-03 12:01:53 +00004146
Thomas Helleref583a42006-11-28 20:21:54 +00004147- Bug #1563807: _ctypes built on AIX fails with ld ffi error.
4148
Thomas Heller25d208b2006-11-24 18:45:39 +00004149- Bug #1598620: A ctypes Structure cannot contain itself.
4150
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004151- Patch #1070046: Marshal new-style objects like InstanceType in
4152 xmlrpclib.
Martin v. Löwis07529352006-11-19 18:51:54 +00004153
Martin v. Löwiscffcc8b2006-11-19 10:41:41 +00004154- cStringIO.truncate(-1) now raises an IOError, like StringIO and
4155 regular files.
4156
Martin v. Löwisbba003e2006-11-18 18:42:11 +00004157- Patch #1472877: Fix Tix subwidget name resolution.
4158
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004159- Patch #1594554: Always close a tkSimpleDialog on ok(), even if an
4160 exception occurs.
Martin v. Löwisef5fd3e2006-11-18 18:05:35 +00004161
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004162- Patch #1538878: Don't make tkSimpleDialog dialogs transient if the
4163 parent window is withdrawn.
Martin v. Löwisc73a4a42006-11-18 18:00:23 +00004164
Georg Brandl54082112006-11-16 16:50:59 +00004165- Bug #1597824: return the registered function from atexit.register()
4166 to facilitate usage as a decorator.
4167
Martin v. Löwis45cd4ff2006-11-12 18:56:03 +00004168- Patch #1360200: Use unmangled_version RPM spec field to deal with
4169 file name mangling.
4170
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004171- Patch #1359217: Process 2xx response in an ftplib transfer that
4172 precedes an 1xx response.
Martin v. Löwis36cbc082006-11-12 18:48:13 +00004173
Martin v. Löwis065f0c82006-11-12 10:41:39 +00004174- Patch #1355023: support whence argument for GzipFile.seek.
4175
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00004176- Patch #1065257: Support passing open files as body in
Martin v. Löwis040a9272006-11-12 10:32:47 +00004177 HTTPConnection.request().
4178
Andrew M. Kuchlinga3e5d372006-11-09 13:27:07 +00004179- Bug #1569790: mailbox.py: Maildir.get_folder() and MH.get_folder()
4180 weren't passing the message factory on to newly created Maildir/MH
4181 objects.
4182
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004183- Patch #1514543: mailbox.py: In the Maildir class, report errors if
4184 there's a filename clash instead of possibly losing a message.
4185 (Patch by David Watson.)
Andrew M. Kuchling978d8282006-11-09 21:16:46 +00004186
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004187- Patch #1514544: Try to ensure that messages/indexes have been
4188 physically written to disk after calling .flush() or
4189 .close(). (Patch by David Watson.)
Andrew M. Kuchlingb5686da2006-11-09 13:51:14 +00004190
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00004191- Patch #1592250: Add elide argument to Tkinter.Text.search.
Martin v. Löwis038cad72006-11-09 11:27:32 +00004192
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00004193- Patch #838546: Make terminal become controlling in pty.fork().
Martin v. Löwisb2bba732006-11-09 11:06:03 +00004194
Martin v. Löwis5361e9a2006-11-08 07:35:55 +00004195- Patch #1351744: Add askyesnocancel helper for tkMessageBox.
4196
Martin v. Löwis5310e502006-11-04 18:14:06 +00004197- Patch #1060577: Extract list of RPM files from spec file in
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00004198 bdist_rpm.
Martin v. Löwis5310e502006-11-04 18:14:06 +00004199
Georg Brandl2c9838e2006-10-29 14:39:09 +00004200- Bug #1586613: fix zlib and bz2 codecs' incremental en/decoders.
4201
Georg Brandl3354f282006-10-29 09:16:12 +00004202- Patch #1583880: fix tarfile's problems with long names and posix/
4203 GNU modes.
4204
Georg Brandl5addf702006-10-29 08:53:06 +00004205- Bug #1586448: the compiler module now emits the same bytecode for
4206 list comprehensions as the builtin compiler, using the LIST_APPEND
4207 opcode.
4208
Georg Brandl8f99f812006-10-29 08:39:22 +00004209- Fix codecs.EncodedFile which did not use file_encoding in 2.5.0, and
4210 fix all codecs file wrappers to work correctly with the "with"
4211 statement (bug #1586513).
4212
Thomas Heller112d1a62006-10-27 19:05:53 +00004213- Lib/modulefinder.py now handles absolute and relative imports
4214 correctly.
4215
Martin v. Löwisee82c0e2006-10-27 07:13:28 +00004216- Patch #1567274: Support SMTP over TLS.
4217
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004218- Patch #1560695: Add .note.GNU-stack to ctypes' sysv.S so that ctypes
4219 isn't considered as requiring executable stacks.
Martin v. Löwis1b2f6272006-10-22 10:55:15 +00004220
Thomas Hellerd2ea4a22006-10-17 19:30:48 +00004221- ctypes callback functions only support 'fundamental' data types as
4222 result type. Raise an error when something else is used. This is a
4223 partial fix for Bug #1574584.
4224
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004225- Fix turtle so that time.sleep is imported for the entire library.
4226 Allows the demo2 function to be executed on its own instead of only
4227 when the module is run as a script.
Brett Cannond80e0c82006-10-16 03:09:52 +00004228
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004229- Bug #813342: Start the IDLE subprocess with -Qnew if the parent is
4230 started with that option.
Georg Brandld0761532006-10-12 07:57:21 +00004231
Martin v. Löwisf43893a2006-10-09 20:44:25 +00004232- Bug #1565150: Fix subsecond processing for os.utime on Windows.
4233
Martin v. Löwis8b274262006-10-04 15:25:28 +00004234- Support for MSVC 8 was added to bdist_wininst.
4235
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004236- Bug #1446043: correctly raise a LookupError if an encoding name
4237 given to encodings.search_function() contains a dot.
Georg Brandla92979a2006-09-30 11:22:28 +00004238
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004239- Bug #1560617: in pyclbr, return full module name not only for
4240 classes, but also for functions.
Georg Brandl154324a2006-09-30 11:06:47 +00004241
Georg Brandl05b3c452006-09-30 10:58:01 +00004242- Bug #1457823: cgi.(Sv)FormContentDict's constructor now takes
4243 keep_blank_values and strict_parsing keyword arguments.
4244
Georg Brandl8d1e5bf2006-09-30 09:13:21 +00004245- Bug #1566602: correct failure of posixpath unittest when $HOME ends
4246 with a slash.
4247
Georg Brandl8c667452006-09-30 07:31:57 +00004248- Bug #1565661: in webbrowser, split() the command for the default
4249 GNOME browser in case it is a command with args.
4250
Georg Brandl5a85d5c2009-06-24 06:41:19 +00004251- Made the error message for time.strptime when the data and
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004252 format do match be more clear.
Brett Cannon11b35352006-09-26 23:38:24 +00004253
Georg Brandlc7986ce2006-09-24 12:50:24 +00004254- Fix a bug in traceback.format_exception_only() that led to an error
4255 being raised when print_exc() was called without an exception set.
4256 In version 2.4, this printed "None", restored that behavior.
4257
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004258- Make webbrowser.BackgroundBrowser usable in Windows (it wasn't
4259 because the close_fds arg to subprocess.Popen is not supported).
Georg Brandl2c94bf72006-09-24 10:36:01 +00004260
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004261- Reverted patch #1504333 to sgmllib because it introduced an infinite
4262 loop.
Neal Norwitzbcc119a2006-09-11 04:24:09 +00004263
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004264- Patch #1553314: Fix the inspect.py slowdown that was hurting IPython
4265 & SAGE by adding smarter caching in inspect.getmodule()
Nick Coghlanb3c18f82006-09-08 10:04:38 +00004266
Georg Brandl4e933132006-09-06 20:05:58 +00004267- Fix missing import of the types module in logging.config.
4268
Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +00004269- Patch #1550886: Fix decimal module context management implementation
Neal Norwitza22975f2006-09-05 02:24:03 +00004270 to match the localcontext() example from PEP 343.
Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +00004271
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004272- Bug #1545341: The 'classifier' keyword argument to the Distutils
4273 setup() function now accepts tuples as well as lists.
Andrew M. Kuchling99994792006-10-09 17:10:12 +00004274
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004275- Bug #1541863: uuid.uuid1 failed to generate unique identifiers on
4276 systems with low clock resolution.
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00004277
Gustavo Niemeyerc36bede2006-09-07 00:48:33 +00004278- Bug #1531862: Do not close standard file descriptors in subprocess.
4279
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004280- idle: Honor the "Cancel" action in the save dialog (Debian bug
4281 #299092).
Matthias Klosea398e2d2007-01-11 11:44:04 +00004282
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004283- Fix utf-8-sig incremental decoder, which didn't recognise a BOM when
4284 the first chunk fed to the decoder started with a BOM, but was
4285 longer than 3 bytes.
Georg Brandl27562782006-10-27 20:39:43 +00004286
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004287- The implementation of UnicodeError objects has been simplified
4288 (start and end attributes are now stored directly as Py_ssize_t
4289 members).
Walter Dörwald84a3efe2007-06-13 16:57:12 +00004290
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004291- Issue #829951: In the smtplib module, SMTP.starttls() now complies
4292 with RFC 3207 and forgets any knowledge obtained from the server not
4293 obtained from the TLS negotiation itself. Patch contributed by Bill
4294 Fenner.
Gregory P. Smith2b3ba582008-01-17 08:03:17 +00004295
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004296- Issue #1339: The smtplib.SMTP class has been refactored a bit such
Gregory P. Smithbde4ae42008-01-17 08:35:49 +00004297 that the SMTP.starttls() caller no longer needs to call ehlo()
4298 beforehand. SMTP.starttls() now raises an exception of the server
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004299 does not claim to support starttls. Adds the
4300 SMTP.ehlo_or_helo_if_needed() method. Patch contributed by Bill
4301 Fenner.
Gregory P. Smithbde4ae42008-01-17 08:35:49 +00004302
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004303- Patch #1089358: Add signal.siginterrupt, a wrapper around
4304 siginterrupt(3).
Georg Brandl29604a12008-01-26 14:03:47 +00004305
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00004306Extension Modules
4307-----------------
4308
Georg Brandl392c6fc2008-05-25 07:25:25 +00004309- Patch #1657: added select.epoll and select.kqueue.
Christian Heimes0e9ab5f2008-03-21 23:49:44 +00004310
Georg Brandlebcfd112008-02-23 23:04:35 +00004311- Patch #1506171: added operator.methodcaller().
4312
Georg Brandle2065c62008-02-23 23:02:23 +00004313- Patch #1826: operator.attrgetter() now supports dotted attribute paths.
4314
Georg Brandl392c6fc2008-05-25 07:25:25 +00004315- Patch #1957: syslogmodule: Release GIL when calling syslog(3).
Christian Heimesf0476e82008-02-23 17:42:31 +00004316
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004317- Bug #2112: mmap.error is now a subclass of EnvironmentError and not
4318 a direct EnvironmentError.
Facundo Batistae1396882008-02-17 18:59:29 +00004319
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004320- Bug #2111: mmap segfaults when trying to write a block opened with
4321 PROT_READ.
Christian Heimes7adfad82008-02-15 08:20:11 +00004322
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004323- Bug #2063: correct order of utime and stime in os.times() result on
4324 Windows.
Georg Brandl0a40ffb2008-02-13 07:20:22 +00004325
Martin v. Löwise0d30ef2008-02-12 13:47:26 +00004326- Patch #1736: Fix file name handling of _msi.FCICreate.
4327
Hye-Shik Chang01612e72008-02-08 17:10:20 +00004328- Updated ``big5hkscs`` codec to the HKSCS revision of 2004.
4329
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004330- Issue #1940: make it possible to use curses.filter() before
4331 curses.initscr() as the documentation says.
Georg Brandl29604a12008-01-26 14:03:47 +00004332
Christian Heimes7f39c9f2008-01-25 12:18:43 +00004333- Backport of _fileio module from Python 3.0.
4334
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004335- Patch #1087741: mmap.mmap is now a class, not a factory function. It
4336 is also subclassable now.
Georg Brandl5ca3fd82008-01-21 14:18:14 +00004337
Georg Brandl56112892008-01-20 13:59:46 +00004338- Patch #1648: added ``sys.getprofile()`` and ``sys.gettrace()``.
4339
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004340- Patch #1663329: added ``os.closerange()`` function to quickly close
4341 a range of file descriptors without considering errors.
Georg Brandl309501a2008-01-19 20:22:13 +00004342
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004343- Patch #976880: ``mmap`` objects now have an ``rfind`` method that
Andrew M. Kuchling5c60bfc2008-01-19 18:18:41 +00004344 works as expected. ``mmap.find`` also takes an optional ``end``
4345 parameter.
4346
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004347- _winreg's HKEY object has gained __enter__ and __exit__ methods to
4348 support the context manager protocol. The _winreg module also
4349 gained a new function ``ExpandEnvironmentStrings`` to expand
4350 REG_EXPAND_SZ keys.
Christian Heimesb39a7562008-01-08 15:46:10 +00004351
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004352- itertools.starmap() now accepts any iterable input. Previously, it
4353 required the function inputs to be tuples.
Raymond Hettinger47317092008-01-17 03:02:14 +00004354
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004355- itertools.chain() now has an alternate constructor,
4356 chain.from_iterable().
Raymond Hettingerb4cbc982008-02-28 22:46:41 +00004357
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004358- Issue #1646: Make socket support TIPC. The socket module now has
4359 support for TIPC under Linux, see http://tipc.sf.net/ for more
4360 information.
Christian Heimesfb2d25a2008-01-07 16:12:44 +00004361
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004362- Added interface for Windows' WSAIoctl to socket object and added an
4363 example for a simple network sniffer.
Christian Heimes04ae9162008-01-04 15:23:30 +00004364
Guido van Rossum076d9ee2008-01-03 23:54:04 +00004365- Bug #1301: Bad assert in _tkinter fixed.
4366
Christian Heimescdaa2cb2007-12-31 14:47:07 +00004367- Added bdist_wininst executable for VS 2008.
4368
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004369- Bug #1604: collections.deque.__init__(iterable) now clears any prior
4370 contents before adding elements from the iterable. This fix brings
4371 the behavior into line with that for list.__init__().
Raymond Hettingeradf9ffd2007-12-13 00:08:37 +00004372
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004373- Added wide char functions to msvcrt module: getwch, getwche, putwch
4374 and ungetwch. The functions accept or return unicode.
Christian Heimes7c7f6af2007-12-10 15:12:41 +00004375
Martin v. Löwis69233e82007-12-04 08:39:16 +00004376- os.access now returns True on Windows for any existing directory.
4377
Christian Heimes28104c52007-11-27 23:16:44 +00004378- Added warnpy3k function to the warnings module.
4379
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004380- Marshal.dumps() now expects exact type matches for int, long, float,
4381 complex, tuple, list, dict, set, and frozenset. Formerly, it would
4382 silently miscode subclasses of those types. Now, it raises a
4383 ValueError instead.
Raymond Hettinger12e94202007-11-07 01:13:09 +00004384
Martin v. Löwis58bd49f2007-09-04 13:13:14 +00004385- Patch #1388440: Add set_completion_display_matches_hook and
4386 get_completion_type to readline.
4387
Thomas Helleref4fff32007-07-13 17:46:54 +00004388- Bug #1649098: Avoid declaration of zero-sized array declaration in
4389 structure.
4390
Brett Cannondc48b742007-05-20 07:09:50 +00004391- Removed the rgbimg module; been deprecated since Python 2.5.
4392
Neal Norwitz59f58aa2007-05-19 03:48:47 +00004393- Bug #1721309: prevent bsddb module from freeing random memory.
4394
Gregory P. Smith82eafe62007-10-18 17:17:57 +00004395- Bug #1233: fix bsddb.dbshelve.DBShelf append method to work as
4396 intended for RECNO databases.
4397
Gregory P. Smithec10a4a2007-11-05 02:32:26 +00004398- pybsddb.sf.net Bug #477182: Load the database flags at database open
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004399 time so that opening a database previously created with the DB_DUP
4400 or DB_DUPSORT flag set will keep the proper behavior on subsequent
4401 opens. Specifically: dictionary assignment to a DB object will
4402 replace all values for a given key when the database allows
4403 duplicate values. DB users should use DB.put(k, v) when they want
4404 to store duplicates; not DB[k] = v.
Gregory P. Smithec10a4a2007-11-05 02:32:26 +00004405
Gregory P. Smithac11e022007-11-05 02:56:31 +00004406- Add the bsddb.db.DBEnv.lock_id_free method.
4407
Martin v. Löwis3bf573f2007-04-04 18:30:36 +00004408- Bug #1686475: Support stat'ing open files on Windows again.
4409
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004410- Patch #1185447: binascii.b2a_qp() now correctly quotes binary
4411 characters with ASCII value less than 32. Also, it correctly quotes
4412 dots only if they occur on a single line, as opposed to the previous
4413 behavior of quoting dots if they are the second character of any
4414 line.
Georg Brandl4aef7272007-03-13 22:49:43 +00004415
Georg Brandla47337f2007-03-13 12:34:25 +00004416- Bug #1622896: fix a rare corner case where the bz2 module raised an
4417 error in spite of a succesful compression.
4418
Georg Brandl40c62612007-03-06 18:59:11 +00004419- Patch #1654417: make operator.{get,set,del}slice use the full range
4420 of Py_ssize_t.
4421
Guido van Rossum2054ee92007-03-06 15:50:01 +00004422- Patch #1646728: datetime.fromtimestamp fails with negative
4423 fractional times. With unittest.
4424
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004425- Patch #1490190: posixmodule now includes os.chflags() and
4426 os.lchflags() functions on platforms where the underlying system
4427 calls are available.
Martin v. Löwis382abef2007-02-19 10:55:19 +00004428
Georg Brandl983d1002007-02-15 11:29:04 +00004429- Patch #1494140: Add documentation for the new struct.Struct object.
4430
Martin v. Löwis45423a72007-02-14 10:07:37 +00004431- Patch #1432399: Support the HCI protocol for bluetooth sockets
4432
Martin v. Löwisb1cc1d42007-02-13 12:14:19 +00004433- Patch #1657276: Make NETLINK_DNRTMSG conditional.
4434
Martin v. Löwis4c11a922007-02-08 09:13:36 +00004435- Bug #1653736: Complain about keyword arguments to time.isoformat.
4436
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004437- Bug #1486663: don't reject keyword arguments for subclasses of
4438 builtin types.
Georg Brandlb84c1372007-01-21 10:28:43 +00004439
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004440- Patch #1610575: The struct module now supports the 't' code, for C99
4441 _Bool.
Martin v. Löwisaef4c6b2007-01-21 09:33:07 +00004442
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004443- Patch #1635058: ensure that htonl and friends never accept or return
4444 negative numbers, per the underlying C implementation.
Guido van Rossumbb2cc692007-01-14 17:03:32 +00004445
Martin v. Löwis046c4d12006-12-03 11:23:45 +00004446- Patch #1544279: Improve thread-safety of the socket module by moving
4447 the sock_addr_t storage out of the socket object.
4448
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004449- Patch #1019808: fix bug that causes an incorrect error to be
4450 returned when a socket timeout is set and a connection attempt
4451 fails.
Andrew M. Kuchling060e6852008-01-19 20:47:59 +00004452
Neal Norwitz45e230a2006-11-19 21:26:53 +00004453- Speed up function calls into the math module.
4454
Georg Brandl25aabf42006-11-16 17:08:45 +00004455- Bug #1588217: don't parse "= " as a soft line break in binascii's
4456 a2b_qp() function, instead leave it in the string as quopri.decode()
4457 does.
4458
Neal Norwitz4fe44232006-11-21 05:26:22 +00004459- Bug #1599782: Fix segfault on bsddb.db.DB().type().
4460
Martin v. Löwis012bc722006-10-15 09:43:39 +00004461- Bug #1567666: Emulate GetFileAttributesExA for Win95.
4462
Martin v. Löwis18aaa562006-10-15 08:43:33 +00004463- Patch #1576166: Support os.utime for directories on Windows NT+.
4464
Georg Brandl412a9ea2006-10-09 19:03:06 +00004465- Patch #1572724: fix typo ('=' instead of '==') in _msi.c.
4466
Hye-Shik Changb7883462006-10-08 13:48:34 +00004467- Bug #1572832: fix a bug in ISO-2022 codecs which may cause segfault
4468 when encoding non-BMP unicode characters.
4469
Georg Brandl4ddfcd32006-09-30 11:17:34 +00004470- Bug #1556784: allow format strings longer than 127 characters in
4471 datetime's strftime function.
4472
Jack Diederichd10a0f72006-09-21 20:34:49 +00004473- Fix itertools.count(n) to work with negative numbers again.
4474
Martin v. Löwis43fd99c2006-09-16 17:36:37 +00004475- RLIMIT_SBSIZE was added to the resource module where available.
4476
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004477- Bug #1551427: fix a wrong NULL pointer check in the win32 version of
4478 os.urandom().
Georg Brandl74bb7832006-09-06 06:03:59 +00004479
Neal Norwitz6aefa912006-09-02 02:50:35 +00004480- Bug #1548092: fix curses.tparm seg fault on invalid input.
4481
Andrew M. Kuchling62182c82008-01-08 14:56:02 +00004482- Patch #1114: fix curses module compilation on 64-bit AIX, & possibly
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004483 other 64-bit LP64 platforms where attr_t is not the same size as a
4484 long. (Contributed by Luke Mewburn.)
Andrew M. Kuchling62182c82008-01-08 14:56:02 +00004485
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004486- Bug #1550714: fix SystemError from itertools.tee on negative value
4487 for n.
Neal Norwitz69e88972006-09-02 02:58:13 +00004488
Hye-Shik Chang199f1db2006-09-05 12:07:09 +00004489- Fixed a few bugs on cjkcodecs:
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004490 - gbk and gb18030 codec now handle U+30FB KATAKANA MIDDLE DOT
4491 correctly.
Hye-Shik Chang199f1db2006-09-05 12:07:09 +00004492 - iso2022_jp_2 codec now encodes into G0 for KS X 1001, GB2312
4493 codepoints to conform the standard.
Hye-Shik Chang2cad3e92006-09-05 12:14:57 +00004494 - iso2022_jp_3 and iso2022_jp_2004 codec can encode JIS X 0213:2
Hye-Shik Chang199f1db2006-09-05 12:07:09 +00004495 codepoints now.
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00004496
Andrew M. Kuchling43889c02006-09-27 16:37:30 +00004497- Bug #1552726: in readline.c, avoid repeatedly polling in interactive
4498 mode by only placing a timeout on the select() if an input hook has
4499 been defined. This prevents an interactive Python from waking up 10
4500 times per second. Patch by Richard Boulton.
4501
Gregory P. Smithf09c6262007-03-17 22:33:35 +00004502- fixed a bug with bsddb.DB.stat: the flags and txn keyword arguments
4503 were transposed.
4504
Jesus Cea4907d272008-08-31 14:00:51 +00004505- Added support for linking the bsddb module against BerkeleyDB 4.5.x,
4506 4.6.x and 4.7.x.
Gregory P. Smith8b96a352007-01-05 01:59:42 +00004507
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004508- Bug #1633621: if curses.resizeterm() or curses.resize_term() is
4509 called, update _curses.LINES, _curses.COLS, curses.LINES and
4510 curses.COLS.
Andrew M. Kuchling43889c02006-09-27 16:37:30 +00004511
Matthias Klosee19e0c22007-04-03 04:35:59 +00004512- Fix an off-by-one bug in locale.strxfrm().
4513
Matthias Klose38336402007-09-04 20:46:02 +00004514- Fix libffi configure for hppa*-*-linux* | parisc*-*-linux*.
4515
Matthias Klose9afb9852007-10-24 20:00:44 +00004516- Build using system ffi library on arm*-linux*.
4517
Christian Heimes3f065a42007-11-21 01:17:28 +00004518- Bug #1372: zlibmodule.c: int overflow in PyZlib_decompress
Matthias Klosee19e0c22007-04-03 04:35:59 +00004519
Gregory P. Smitheeed5b72008-02-03 07:20:53 +00004520- bsddb module: Fix memory leak when using database cursors on
4521 databases without a DBEnv.
4522
Gerhard Häring11ab8072008-03-02 13:12:27 +00004523- The sqlite3 module was updated to pysqlite 2.4.1.
4524
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00004525Tests
4526-----
4527
Brett Cannon56c4deb2008-03-03 00:38:58 +00004528- Refactor test_logging to use unittest.
Brett Cannonf9db8a32008-02-17 01:59:18 +00004529
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004530- Refactor test_profile and test_cprofile to use the same code to
4531 profile.
Georg Brandlb7090772008-02-05 19:58:17 +00004532
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004533- Make test_runpy reentrant by fixing _check_module to clear out any
4534 module being tested. Was causing an error by __import__ doing a
4535 reload on the second run and thus suppressing bytecode recreation.
Brett Cannondbed7a72007-08-23 14:53:17 +00004536
Brett Cannonea2835a2007-03-14 21:44:15 +00004537- Capture socket connection resets and timeouts in test_socket_ssl and
4538 test_urllib2net and raise test.test_support.ResourceDenied.
Brett Cannoned001842007-03-14 21:40:13 +00004539
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004540- Patch #1559413: Fix test_cmd_line if sys.executable contains a
4541 space.
Martin v. Löwiscd1210a2007-03-14 20:02:31 +00004542
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004543- Added test.test_support.TransientResource which is a context manager
4544 to surround calls to resources that are not guaranteed to work even
4545 if test.test_support.requires says that the resource should exist.
Brett Cannona30fcb42007-03-08 23:58:11 +00004546
Brett Cannone05e6b02007-01-29 04:41:44 +00004547- Added a test for slicing of an exception.
4548
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004549- Added test.test_support.EnvironmentVarGuard. It's a class that
4550 provides a context manager so that one can temporarily set or unset
4551 environment variables.
Brett Cannon92d54d52007-01-04 00:23:49 +00004552
Thomas Heller112d1a62006-10-27 19:05:53 +00004553- Added some tests for modulefinder.
4554
Brett Cannon373d90b2006-10-03 23:23:14 +00004555- Converted test_imp to use unittest.
4556
Neal Norwitz919d5cc2006-09-05 02:35:08 +00004557- Fix bsddb test_basics.test06_Transactions to check the version
4558 number properly.
4559
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004560- test.test_support.catch_warning is a new context manager that can be
4561 used to catch the warnings issued by the warning framework.
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00004562
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00004563Tools
4564-----
4565
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004566- Tools/scripts/reindent.py now creates the backup file using
4567 shutil.copy to preserve user/group and permissions. Added also a
4568 --nobackup option to not create the backup if the user is concerned
4569 regarding this. Check issue 1050828 for more details.
Facundo Batistaf88a0772008-02-17 16:21:13 +00004570
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004571- Tools/scripts/win_add2path.py was added. The simple script modifes
4572 the PATH environment var of the HKCU tree and adds the python bin
4573 and script directory.
Christian Heimesbd865db2008-01-18 11:58:50 +00004574
Skip Montanaro3e275362007-08-29 01:33:45 +00004575- Tools/18n/pygettext.py was added to the list of scripts installed by
4576 Tools/scripts/setup.py (tracker item 642309).
4577
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004578- Added IronPython and Jython support to pybench (part of which was
4579 patch #1563844).
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00004580
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004581- Made some minor changes to pybench output to allow the user to see
4582 which Python version is running pybench.
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00004583
4584- Added support for the new platform module feature
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004585 platform.python_implementation(); this will now be saved in the
4586 benchmark pickle.
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00004587
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00004588
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00004589Documentation
4590-------------
4591
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +00004592- RFE #1765140: Updated documentation on FileHandler and subclasses to
4593 include new optional delay argument.
4594
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004595- Bug #932563: Added section on getting contextual information into
4596 logging output, and added documentation for the new LoggerAdapter
4597 class.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00004598
4599- Bug #1295: Added information about caching of formatted exception
4600 information in the LogRecord by Formatter.format().
4601
Georg Brandl9467bc52007-07-12 09:37:49 +00004602- Bug #1637365: add subsection about "__name__ == __main__" to the
4603 Python tutorial.
4604
Georg Brandl3dc6e902007-04-25 06:24:59 +00004605- Patch #1698768: updated the "using Python on the Mac" intro.
4606
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004607- Bug #1569057: Document that calling file.next() when the file is
4608 open for writing is undefined.
Brett Cannon55a18642007-04-08 04:29:32 +00004609
Žiga Seilnachtc64ad482007-03-24 14:24:26 +00004610- Patch #1489771: the syntax rules in Python Reference Manual were
4611 updated to reflect the current Python syntax.
4612
Martin v. Löwis2f401d72007-03-23 10:35:49 +00004613- Patch #1686451: Fix return type for
4614 PySequence_{Count,Index,Fast_GET_SIZE}.
4615
Georg Brandl0692a262007-03-13 07:50:57 +00004616- Patch #1679379: add documentation for fnmatch.translate().
4617
Collin Winterb7b2b4e2007-03-09 18:09:10 +00004618- Bug #1629566: clarify the docs on the return values of parsedate()
4619 and parsedate_tz() in email.utils and rfc822.
4620
Georg Brandld28b9fc2007-03-06 10:02:47 +00004621- Patch #1671450: add a section about subclassing builtin types to the
4622 "extending and embedding" tutorial.
4623
Georg Brandlb26b1c62007-01-17 21:19:58 +00004624- Bug #1629125: fix wrong data type (int -> Py_ssize_t) in PyDict_Next
4625 docs.
4626
Georg Brandla4c8e322006-10-12 08:22:53 +00004627- Bug #1565919: document set types in the Language Reference.
4628
Georg Brandl44a7b3a2006-09-30 12:02:57 +00004629- Bug #1546052: clarify that PyString_FromString(AndSize) copies the
4630 string pointed to by its parameter.
4631
Georg Brandlfb257732006-09-30 09:06:45 +00004632- Bug #1566663: remove obsolete example from datetime docs.
4633
Georg Brandl648c1102006-08-18 07:27:59 +00004634- Bug #1541682: Fix example in the "Refcount details" API docs.
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004635 Additionally, remove a faulty example showing PySequence_SetItem
4636 applied to a newly created list object and add notes that this isn't
4637 a good idea.
Georg Brandl648c1102006-08-18 07:27:59 +00004638
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00004639
Georg Brandl27562782006-10-27 20:39:43 +00004640Tools/Demos
4641-----------
4642
4643- Patch #1552024: add decorator support to unparse.py demo script.
Marc-André Lemburg96148682006-09-06 20:40:22 +00004644
Brett Cannonc8939d22006-09-20 19:28:35 +00004645- Make auto-generated python.vim file list built-ins and exceptions in
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004646 alphatbetical order. Makes output more deterministic and easier to
4647 tell if the file is stale or not.
Brett Cannonc8939d22006-09-20 19:28:35 +00004648
Marc-André Lemburg96148682006-09-06 20:40:22 +00004649- Bug #1546372: Fixed small bugglet in pybench that caused a missing
4650 file not to get reported properly.
4651
4652
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00004653Build
4654-----
4655
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004656- Have the search path for building extensions follow the declared
4657 order in $CPPFLAGS and $LDFLAGS when adding directories from those
4658 environment variables.
Brett Cannon70c0c022008-02-03 09:59:21 +00004659
Christian Heimes951cc0f2008-01-31 23:08:23 +00004660- Bug #1983: Added a check to pyport to verify that sizeof(pid_t) is
4661 smaller or equal sizeof(long).
4662
Christian Heimescba36bb2008-01-30 22:54:18 +00004663- Bug #1234: Fixed semaphore errors on AIX 5.2
4664
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004665- Issue #1726: Remove Python/atof.c from PCBuild/pythoncore.vcproj.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00004666
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004667- Removed PCbuild8/ directory and added a new build directory for VS
4668 2005 based on the VS 2008 build directory to PC/VS8.0. The script
4669 PCbuild/vs8to9.py was added to sync changes from PCbuild to
4670 PC/VS8.0.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00004671
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004672- Moved PCbuild/ directory for VS 2003 to PC/VS7.1 and renamed
4673 PCBuild9/ directory to PCBuild/.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00004674
Martin v. Löwiscb78de62007-12-29 18:49:21 +00004675- Bug #1699: Define _BSD_SOURCE only on OpenBSD.
4676
Guido van Rossum7c862f82007-12-13 20:50:10 +00004677- Bug #1608: use -fwrapv when GCC supports it. This is important,
4678 newer GCC versions may optimize away overflow buffer overflow checks
4679 without this option!
4680
Martin v. Löwis63bf1492007-11-12 05:14:05 +00004681- Patch #1418: Make the AC_REPLACE_FUNCS object files actually work.
4682
Raymond Hettingerdc1d1ba2007-11-07 02:45:46 +00004683- Add a FAST_LOOPS build option that speeds-up looping by trading away
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004684 periodic threadstate and signal checking in tight loops. By
4685 default, this option is turned-off. It should only be enabled in
4686 debugged, performance critical applications.
Raymond Hettingerdc1d1ba2007-11-07 02:45:46 +00004687
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004688- Patch #786737: Allow building in a tree of symlinks pointing to a
4689 readonly source.
Martin v. Löwisd44a4e92007-09-05 11:47:34 +00004690
Martin v. Löwis8bc77e42007-09-01 06:36:03 +00004691- Bug #1737210: Change Manufacturer of Windows installer to PSF.
4692
Martin v. Löwis75c23bd2007-08-30 18:25:47 +00004693- Bug #1746880: Correctly install DLLs into system32 folder on Win64.
4694
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004695- Define _BSD_SOURCE, to get access to POSIX extensions on OpenBSD
4696 4.1+.
Martin v. Löwis76760b02007-07-31 19:57:56 +00004697
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004698- Stop supporting AtheOS and cause a build error in configure for the
4699 platform.
Brett Cannon19fab762007-06-02 03:02:29 +00004700
Georg Brandldb846032007-03-31 18:56:11 +00004701- Bug #1655392: don't add -L/usr/lib/pythonX.Y/config to the LDFLAGS
4702 returned by python-config if Python was built with --enable-shared
4703 because that prevented the shared library from being used.
4704
Georg Brandl18c47f62007-03-13 10:19:22 +00004705- Patch #1569798: fix a bug in distutils when building Python from a
4706 directory within sys.exec_prefix.
4707
Martin v. Löwiseb623572007-03-12 10:50:39 +00004708- Bug #1675511: Use -Kpic instead of -xcode=pic32 on Solaris/x86.
4709
Martin v. Löwis4d542ec2006-11-25 15:39:19 +00004710- Disable _XOPEN_SOURCE on NetBSD 1.x.
4711
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004712- configure now checks whether gcc supports the PyArg_ParseTuple
4713 format attribute.
Martin v. Löwisaac13162006-10-19 10:58:46 +00004714
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00004715- Bug #1578513: Cross compilation was broken by a change to configure.
Martin v. Löwisfefbc202006-10-17 18:59:23 +00004716 Repair so that it's back to how it was in 2.4.3.
4717
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004718- Patch #1576954: Update VC6 build directory; remove redundant files
4719 in VC7.
Martin v. Löwisc9e82f62006-10-15 07:54:40 +00004720
Martin v. Löwisebe26702006-10-02 14:55:51 +00004721- Bug #1568842: Fix test for uintptr_t.
4722
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004723- Patch #1540470: for OpenBSD 4.0.
Neal Norwitz4bc2c092006-09-05 02:57:01 +00004724
Matthias Klosed149d0c2006-12-03 17:16:41 +00004725- Fix build failure on kfreebsd and on the hurd.
4726
Matthias Kloseebde1492006-12-09 12:15:27 +00004727- Fix the build of the library reference in info format.
4728
Matthias Kloseeb8ff672007-08-02 21:33:13 +00004729- Allow Emacs 22 for building the documentation in info format.
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00004730
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004731- Makefile.pre.in(buildbottest): Run an optional script
4732 pybuildbot.identify to include some information about the build
4733 environment.
Matthias Klose642ac852007-09-04 18:17:36 +00004734
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00004735
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00004736C API
4737-----
4738
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004739- Unified naming convention for free lists and their limits. All free
4740 lists in Object/ are named ``free_list``, the counter ``numfree``
4741 and the upper limit is a macro ``PyName_MAXFREELIST`` inside an
4742 #ifndef block.
Christian Heimes5b970ad2008-02-06 13:33:44 +00004743
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004744- ``PySet_Add()`` can now modify a newly created frozenset. Similarly
4745 to ``PyTuple_SetItem``, it can be used to populate a brand new
4746 frozenset; but it does not steal a reference to the added item.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arccab3d982008-02-03 22:51:43 +00004747
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00004748- Added ``PySet_Check()`` and ``PyFrozenSet_Check()`` to the set API.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arccab3d982008-02-03 22:51:43 +00004749
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004750- Backport of PyUnicode_FromString(), _FromStringAndSize(), _Format
4751 and _FormatV from Python 3.0. Made PyLong_AsSsize_t and
4752 PyLong_FromSsize_t public functions.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00004753
4754- Patch #1720595: add T_BOOL to the range of structmember types.
4755
4756- Issue #1534: Added ``PyFloat_GetMax()``, ``PyFloat_GetMin()`` and
4757 ``PyFloat_GetInfo()`` to the float API.
4758
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004759- Issue #1521: On 64bit platforms, using PyArgs_ParseTuple with the t#
4760 of w# format code incorrectly truncated the length to an int, even
4761 when PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN is set. The str.decode method used to return
4762 incorrect results with huge strings.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00004763
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004764- Issue #1629: Renamed Py_Size, Py_Type and Py_Refcnt to Py_SIZE,
4765 Py_TYPE and Py_REFCNT.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00004766
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004767- PEP 3123: Provide forward compatibility with Python 3.0, while
4768 keeping backwards compatibility. Add Py_Refcnt, Py_Type, Py_Size,
4769 and PyVarObject_HEAD_INIT.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00004770
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004771- Py_ssize_t fields work in structmember when HAVE_LONG_LONG is not
4772 defined.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00004773
4774- Patch #1733960: Allow T_LONGLONG to accept ints.
4775
4776- T_PYSSIZET can now be used in PyMemberDef lists for Py_ssize_t members.
4777
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00004778- Added a new API function ``PyImport_ImportModuleNoBlock``.
4779
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00004780- Bug #1637022: Prefix AST symbols with _Py_.
4781
4782- Fix some leftovers from the conversion from int to Py_ssize_t
4783 (relevant to strings and sequences of more than 2**31 items).
4784
4785- Make _PyGILState_NoteThreadState() static, it was not used anywhere
4786 outside of pystate.c and should not be necessary.
4787
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004788- ``PyImport_Import`` and ``PyImport_ImportModule`` now always do
4789 absolute imports. In earlier versions they might have used relative
4790 imports under some conditions.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00004791
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004792- Added case insensitive comparison methods ``PyOS_stricmp(char*,
4793 char*)`` and ``PyOS_strnicmp(char*, char*, Py_ssize_t)``.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00004794
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004795- Bug #1542693: remove semi-colon at end of PyImport_ImportModuleEx
4796 macro so it can be used as an expression.
Neal Norwitz8a267062006-08-19 04:25:29 +00004797
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00004798
Martin v. Löwis2607e6c2006-11-21 18:20:25 +00004799Windows
4800-------
4801
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004802- Patch #1706: Drop support for Win9x, WinME and NT4. Python now
4803 requires Windows 2000 or greater. The _WINVER and NTDDI_VERSION
4804 macros are set to Win2k for x86/32bit builds and WinXP for AMD64
4805 builds.
Christian Heimes95d64472008-02-09 19:55:22 +00004806
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004807- Conditionalize definition of _CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE and
4808 _CRT_NONSTDC_NO_DEPRECATE.
Martin v. Löwis2607e6c2006-11-21 18:20:25 +00004809
Martin v. Löwisd476a402007-10-12 08:56:52 +00004810- Bug #1216: Restore support for Visual Studio 2002.
4811
Martin v. Löwis2607e6c2006-11-21 18:20:25 +00004812
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00004813Mac
4814---
4815
Brett Cannonf0cb1d72007-05-31 20:01:11 +00004816- cfmfile now raises a DeprecationWarning.
4817
Brett Cannon791d56f2007-05-31 19:40:42 +00004818- buildtools now raises a DeprecationWarning.
4819
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004820- Removed the macfs module. It had been deprecated since Python 2.5.
4821 This lead to the deprecation of macostools.touched() as it relied
4822 solely on macfs and was a no-op under OS X.
Brett Cannon5e263512007-05-20 23:17:38 +00004823
Skip Montanaroe5d7f7f2002-09-20 14:16:59 +00004824----
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