Skip Montanaro | e5d7f7f | 2002-09-20 14:16:59 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | +++++++++++ |
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Anthony Baxter | b0c6630 | 2004-11-04 05:23:17 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 5 | (editors: check NEWS.help for information about editing NEWS using ReST.) |
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Raymond Hettinger | 4901a1f | 2004-12-02 08:59:14 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 7 | What's New in Python 2.5 alpha 1? |
| 8 | ================================= |
| 9 | |
Anthony Baxter | 12b6f6c | 2005-03-29 13:36:16 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 10 | *Release date: XX-XXX-2006* |
| 11 | |
Raymond Hettinger | 4901a1f | 2004-12-02 08:59:14 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 12 | Core and builtins |
| 13 | ----------------- |
| 14 | |
Hye-Shik Chang | d478f34 | 2006-03-23 12:32:36 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 15 | - Patch #1396919: The system scope threads are reenabled on FreeBSD |
| 16 | 5.4 and later versions. |
| 17 | |
Neal Norwitz | e98ccf6 | 2006-03-23 05:39:47 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 18 | - Bug #1115379: Compiling a Unicode string with an encoding declaration |
| 19 | now gives a SyntaxError. |
| 20 | |
Georg Brandl | abd1ff8 | 2006-03-18 07:59:59 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 21 | - Previously, Python code had no easy way to access the contents of a |
| 22 | cell object. Now, a ``cell_contents`` attribute has been added |
| 23 | (closes patch #1170323). |
| 24 | |
Tim Peters | cf79aac | 2006-03-16 01:14:46 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 25 | - Patch #1123430: Python's small-object allocator now returns an arena to |
| 26 | the system ``free()`` when all memory within an arena becomes unused |
| 27 | again. Prior to Python 2.5, arenas (256KB chunks of memory) were never |
| 28 | freed. Some applications will see a drop in virtual memory size now, |
| 29 | especially long-running applications that, from time to time, temporarily |
| 30 | use a large number of small objects. Note that when Python returns an |
| 31 | arena to the platform C's ``free()``, there's no guarantee that the |
| 32 | platform C will in turn return that memory to the operating system. The |
| 33 | effect of the patch is to stop making that impossible, and in tests it |
| 34 | appears to be effective at least on Microsoft C and gcc-based systems. |
| 35 | Thanks to Evan Jones for hard work and patience. |
| 36 | |
Georg Brandl | 533ff6f | 2006-03-08 18:09:27 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 37 | - Patch #1434038: property() now uses the getter's docstring if there is |
| 38 | no "doc" argument given. This makes it possible to legitimately use |
| 39 | property() as a decorator to produce a read-only property. |
| 40 | |
Guido van Rossum | 9aa37ab | 2006-03-07 18:54:08 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 41 | - PEP 357, patch 1436368: add an __index__ method to int/long and a matching |
| 42 | nb_index slot to the PyNumberMethods struct. The slot is consulted instead |
| 43 | of requiring an int or long in slicing and a few other contexts, enabling |
| 44 | other objects (e.g. Numeric Python's integers) to be used as slice indices. |
| 45 | |
Neal Norwitz | 995acdf | 2006-03-07 05:01:00 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 46 | - Fixed various bugs reported by Coverity's Prevent tool. |
| 47 | |
Brett Cannon | bf36409 | 2006-03-01 04:25:17 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 48 | - PEP 352, patch #1104669: Make exceptions new-style objects. Introduced the |
| 49 | new exception base class, BaseException, which has a new message attribute. |
| 50 | KeyboardInterrupt and SystemExit to directly inherit from BaseException now. |
| 51 | Raising a string exception now raises a DeprecationWarning. |
| 52 | |
Thomas Wouters | fb609f4 | 2006-02-28 16:37:25 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 53 | - Patch #1438387, PEP 328: relative and absolute imports. Imports can now be |
| 54 | explicitly relative, using 'from .module import name' to mean 'from the same |
| 55 | package as this module is in. Imports without dots still default to the |
| 56 | old relative-then-absolute, unless 'from __future__ import |
| 57 | absolute_import' is used. |
| 58 | |
Brett Cannon | a7446e3 | 2006-02-27 23:39:10 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 59 | - Properly check if 'warnings' raises an exception (usually when a filter set |
| 60 | to "error" is triggered) when raising a warning for raising string |
| 61 | exceptions. |
| 62 | |
Neal Norwitz | 0023a2f | 2006-02-27 23:24:48 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 63 | - CO_GENERATOR_ALLOWED is no longer defined, this behavior is the default. |
| 64 | The name was removed from Include/code.h. |
| 65 | |
Neal Norwitz | eb65125 | 2006-02-27 16:47:12 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 66 | - PEP 308: conditional expressions were added (x if cond else y). |
| 67 | |
Guido van Rossum | 1968ad3 | 2006-02-25 22:38:04 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 68 | - Patch 1433928: |
| 69 | - The copy module now "copies" function objects (as atomic objects). |
| 70 | - dict.__getitem__ now looks for a __missing__ hook before raising |
| 71 | KeyError. |
| 72 | |
Tim Peters | 84ef21c | 2006-02-28 20:39:06 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 73 | - PEP 343: with statement implemented. Needs ``from __future__ import |
| 74 | with_statement``. Use of 'with' as a variable will generate a warning. |
| 75 | Use of 'as' as a variable will also generate a warning (unless it's |
Neal Norwitz | 055ec24 | 2006-02-28 20:06:49 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 76 | part of an import statement). |
Guido van Rossum | 1a5e21e | 2006-02-28 21:57:43 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 77 | The following objects have __context__ methods: |
| 78 | - The built-in file type. |
| 79 | - The thread.LockType type. |
| 80 | - The following types defined by the threading module: |
| 81 | Lock, RLock, Condition, Semaphore, BoundedSemaphore. |
| 82 | - The decimal.Context class. |
Guido van Rossum | c2e2074 | 2006-02-27 22:32:47 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 83 | |
Marc-André Lemburg | fe4b34c | 2006-02-19 15:22:22 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 84 | - Fix the encodings package codec search function to only search |
| 85 | inside its own package. Fixes problem reported in patch #1433198. |
| 86 | |
| 87 | Note: Codec packages should implement and register their own |
| 88 | codec search function. PEP 100 has the details. |
| 89 | |
Martin v. Löwis | 18e1655 | 2006-02-15 17:27:45 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 90 | - PEP 353: Using ssize_t as the index type. |
| 91 | |
Neal Norwitz | fc76d63 | 2006-01-10 06:03:13 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 92 | - Patch #1400181, fix unicode string formatting to not use the locale. |
| 93 | This is how string objects work. u'%f' could use , instead of . |
| 94 | for the decimal point. Now both strings and unicode always use periods. |
| 95 | |
Neal Norwitz | 671b9e3 | 2006-01-09 07:07:12 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 96 | - Bug #1244610, #1392915, fix build problem on OpenBSD 3.7 and 3.8. |
| 97 | configure would break checking curses.h. |
| 98 | |
Georg Brandl | cd4d1e8 | 2005-12-27 17:37:07 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 99 | - Bug #959576: The pwd module is now builtin. This allows Python to be |
| 100 | built on UNIX platforms without $HOME set. |
| 101 | |
Neal Norwitz | c10978f | 2005-12-19 06:07:16 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 102 | - Bug #1072182, fix some potential problems if characters are signed. |
| 103 | |
Neal Norwitz | 5d0ad50 | 2005-12-19 04:27:42 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 104 | - Bug #889500, fix line number on SyntaxWarning for global declarations. |
| 105 | |
Neal Norwitz | db83eb3 | 2005-12-18 05:29:30 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 106 | - Bug #1378022, UTF-8 files with a leading BOM crashed the interpreter. |
| 107 | |
Neal Norwitz | e7214a1 | 2005-12-18 05:03:17 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 108 | - Support for converting hex strings to floats no longer works. |
| 109 | This was not portable. float('0x3') now raises a ValueError. |
| 110 | |
Barry Warsaw | 2a38a86 | 2005-12-18 01:27:35 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 111 | - Patch #1382163: Expose Subversion revision number to Python. New C API |
Barry Warsaw | d3c38ff | 2006-03-07 09:46:03 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 112 | function Py_GetBuildNumber(). New attribute sys.subversion. Build number |
Barry Warsaw | 2a38a86 | 2005-12-18 01:27:35 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 113 | is now displayed in interactive prompt banner. |
| 114 | |
Georg Brandl | fa16668 | 2005-12-17 21:45:17 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 115 | - Implementation of PEP 341 - Unification of try/except and try/finally. |
| 116 | "except" clauses can now be written together with a "finally" clause in |
Neal Norwitz | 11ca77e | 2005-12-17 22:24:12 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 117 | one try statement instead of two nested ones. Patch #1355913. |
Georg Brandl | fa16668 | 2005-12-17 21:45:17 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 118 | |
Hye-Shik Chang | 835b243 | 2005-12-17 04:38:31 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 119 | - Bug #1379994: Builtin unicode_escape and raw_unicode_escape codec |
| 120 | now encodes backslash correctly. |
| 121 | |
Martin v. Löwis | b45b315 | 2005-11-28 17:34:23 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 122 | - Patch #1350409: Work around signal handling bug in Visual Studio 2005. |
| 123 | |
Georg Brandl | f06e30a | 2005-11-24 15:37:42 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 124 | - Bug #1281408: Py_BuildValue now works correct even with unsigned longs |
| 125 | and long longs. |
| 126 | |
Neal Norwitz | 67715f0 | 2005-11-09 06:59:35 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 127 | - SF Bug #1350188, "setdlopenflags" leads to crash upon "import" |
| 128 | It was possible dlerror() returns a NULL pointer, use a default error |
| 129 | message in this case. |
| 130 | |
Marc-André Lemburg | a5bafc4 | 2005-10-23 13:43:40 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 131 | - Replaced most Unicode charmap codecs with new ones using the |
| 132 | new Unicode translate string feature in the builtin charmap |
| 133 | codec; the codecs were created from the mapping tables available |
| 134 | at ftp.unicode.org and contain a few updates (e.g. the Mac OS |
| 135 | encodings now include a mapping for the Apple logo) |
| 136 | |
Tim Peters | e3547fd | 2005-12-16 23:13:57 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 137 | - Added a few more codecs for Mac OS encodings |
Marc-André Lemburg | a5bafc4 | 2005-10-23 13:43:40 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 138 | |
Neal Norwitz | fed9b3e | 2005-10-21 06:32:02 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 139 | - Speed up some Unicode operations. |
| 140 | |
Martin v. Löwis | bd260da | 2006-02-26 19:42:26 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 141 | - A new AST parser implementation was completed. The abstract |
| 142 | syntax tree is available for read-only (non-compile) access |
Martin v. Löwis | 577b5b9 | 2006-02-27 15:23:19 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 143 | to Python code; an _ast module was added. |
Neal Norwitz | fed9b3e | 2005-10-21 06:32:02 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 144 | |
Neal Norwitz | b6570f5 | 2005-10-21 06:26:10 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 145 | - SF bug #1167751: fix incorrect code being for generator expressions. |
Neal Norwitz | 16af734 | 2005-10-21 06:25:33 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 146 | The following code now raises a SyntaxError: foo(a = i for i in range(10)) |
| 147 | |
Neal Norwitz | 708e51a | 2005-10-03 04:48:15 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 148 | - SF Bug #976608: fix SystemError when mtime of an imported file is -1. |
| 149 | |
Neal Norwitz | 11bd119 | 2005-10-03 00:54:56 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 150 | - SF Bug #887946: fix segfault when redirecting stdin from a directory. |
| 151 | Provide a warning when a directory is passed on the command line. |
| 152 | |
Neal Norwitz | 40d3781 | 2005-10-02 01:48:49 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 153 | - Fix segfault with invalid coding. |
| 154 | |
| 155 | - SF bug #772896: unknown encoding results in MemoryError. |
| 156 | |
Raymond Hettinger | 6b27cda | 2005-09-24 21:23:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 157 | - All iterators now have a Boolean value of true. Formerly, some iterators |
| 158 | supported a __len__() method which evaluated to False when the iterator |
| 159 | was empty. |
| 160 | |
Guido van Rossum | 630db60 | 2005-09-20 18:49:54 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 161 | - On 64-bit platforms, when __len__() returns a value that cannot be |
| 162 | represented as a C int, raise OverflowError. |
| 163 | |
Skip Montanaro | f8948ca | 2005-09-19 03:54:46 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 164 | - test__locale is skipped on OS X < 10.4 (only partial locale support is |
Walter Dörwald | 6611a8b | 2005-10-09 19:28:35 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 165 | present). |
Skip Montanaro | f8948ca | 2005-09-19 03:54:46 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 166 | |
Georg Brandl | 80bbf3f | 2005-09-14 19:38:29 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 167 | - SF bug #893549: parsing keyword arguments was broken with a few format |
| 168 | codes. |
| 169 | |
Guido van Rossum | 8ee3e5a | 2005-09-14 18:09:42 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 170 | - Changes donated by Elemental Security to make it work on AIX 5.3 |
| 171 | with IBM's 64-bit compiler (SF patch #1284289). This also closes SF |
| 172 | bug #105470: test_pwd fails on 64bit system (Opteron). |
| 173 | |
Guido van Rossum | 539c662 | 2005-09-14 17:49:54 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 174 | - Changes donated by Elemental Security to make it work on HP-UX 11 on |
| 175 | Itanium2 with HP's 64-bit compiler (SF patch #1225212). |
| 176 | |
Georg Brandl | 4550b8d | 2005-08-26 06:43:52 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 177 | - Disallow keyword arguments for type constructors that don't use them |
Georg Brandl | 02c4287 | 2005-08-26 06:42:30 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 178 | (fixes bug #1119418). |
| 179 | |
Martin v. Löwis | d35edda | 2005-08-24 08:39:24 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 180 | - Forward UnicodeDecodeError into SyntaxError for source encoding errors. |
| 181 | |
Barry Warsaw | e2eca0b | 2005-08-15 18:14:19 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 182 | - SF bug #900092: When tracing (e.g. for hotshot), restore 'return' events for |
| 183 | exceptions that cause a function to exit. |
| 184 | |
Raymond Hettinger | 9f1a679 | 2005-07-31 01:16:36 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 185 | - The implementation of set() and frozenset() was revised to use its |
| 186 | own internal data structure. Memory consumption is reduced by 1/3 |
| 187 | and there are modest speed-ups as well. The API is unchanged. |
| 188 | |
Tim Peters | de7990b | 2005-07-17 23:45:23 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 189 | - SF bug #1238681: freed pointer is used in longobject.c:long_pow(). |
| 190 | |
Michael W. Hudson | 0edc7a0 | 2005-07-12 10:21:19 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 191 | - SF bug #1229429: PyObject_CallMethod failed to decrement some |
| 192 | reference counts in some error exit cases. |
| 193 | |
Tim Peters | ecc6e6a | 2005-07-10 22:30:55 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 194 | - SF bug #1185883: Python's small-object memory allocator took over |
| 195 | a block managed by the platform C library whenever a realloc specified |
| 196 | a small new size. However, there's no portable way to know then how |
| 197 | much of the address space following the pointer is valid, so no |
| 198 | portable way to copy data from the C-managed block into Python's |
| 199 | small-object space without risking a memory fault. Python's small-object |
| 200 | realloc now leaves such blocks under the control of the platform C |
| 201 | realloc. |
| 202 | |
Michael W. Hudson | b896381 | 2005-07-05 15:21:58 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 203 | - SF bug #1232517: An overflow error was not detected properly when |
| 204 | attempting to convert a large float to an int in os.utime(). |
| 205 | |
Raymond Hettinger | 3296e69 | 2005-06-29 23:29:56 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 206 | - SF bug #1224347: hex longs now print with lowercase letters just |
| 207 | like their int counterparts. |
| 208 | |
Michael W. Hudson | 188d436 | 2005-06-20 16:52:57 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 209 | - SF bug #1163563: the original fix for bug #1010677 ("thread Module |
| 210 | Breaks PyGILState_Ensure()") broke badly in the case of multiple |
| 211 | interpreter states; back out that fix and do a better job (see |
| 212 | http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2005-June/054258.html |
| 213 | for a longer write-up of the problem). |
| 214 | |
Michael W. Hudson | df88846 | 2005-06-03 14:41:55 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 215 | - SF patch #1180995: marshal now uses a binary format by default when |
| 216 | serializing floats. |
| 217 | |
Michael W. Hudson | da85a90 | 2005-06-01 11:34:22 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 218 | - SF patch #1181301: on platforms that appear to use IEEE 754 floats, |
| 219 | the routines that promise to produce IEEE 754 binary representations |
| 220 | of floats now simply copy bytes around. |
| 221 | |
Skip Montanaro | bbf12ba | 2005-05-20 03:07:06 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 222 | - bug #967182: disallow opening files with 'wU' or 'aU' as specified by PEP |
| 223 | 278. |
| 224 | |
Brett Cannon | c3647ac | 2005-04-26 03:45:26 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 225 | - patch #1109424: int, long, float, complex, and unicode now check for the |
| 226 | proper magic slot for type conversions when subclassed. Previously the |
| 227 | magic slot was ignored during conversion. Semantics now match the way |
| 228 | subclasses of str always behaved. int/long/float, conversion of an instance |
Walter Dörwald | 78a78b0 | 2005-09-01 12:04:29 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 229 | to the base class has been moved to the proper nb_* magic slot and out of |
Brett Cannon | c3647ac | 2005-04-26 03:45:26 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 230 | PyNumber_*(). |
| 231 | Thanks Walter Dörwald. |
| 232 | |
Barry Warsaw | c8d907c | 2005-04-19 23:43:40 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 233 | - Descriptors defined in C with a PyGetSetDef structure, where the setter is |
| 234 | NULL, now raise an AttributeError when attempting to set or delete the |
| 235 | attribute. Previously a TypeError was raised, but this was inconsistent |
| 236 | with the equivalent pure-Python implementation. |
| 237 | |
Michael W. Hudson | 774479c | 2005-04-18 08:46:17 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 238 | - It is now safe to call PyGILState_Release() before |
| 239 | PyEval_InitThreads() (note that if there is reason to believe there |
| 240 | are multiple threads around you still must call PyEval_InitThreads() |
| 241 | before using the Python API; this fix is for extension modules that |
| 242 | have no way of knowing if Python is multi-threaded yet). |
| 243 | |
Michael W. Hudson | e3afc59 | 2005-04-07 10:11:19 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 244 | - Typing Ctrl-C whilst raw_input() was waiting in a build with threads |
| 245 | disabled caused a crash. |
| 246 | |
Michael W. Hudson | b330adf | 2005-03-31 09:35:44 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 247 | - Bug #1165306: instancemethod_new allowed the creation of a method |
| 248 | with im_class == im_self == NULL, which caused a crash when called. |
| 249 | |
Tim Peters | ecc6e6a | 2005-07-10 22:30:55 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 250 | - Move exception finalisation later in the shutdown process - this |
Anthony Baxter | 12b6f6c | 2005-03-29 13:36:16 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 251 | fixes the crash seen in bug #1165761 |
| 252 | |
Raymond Hettinger | 96229b1 | 2005-03-11 06:49:40 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 253 | - Added two new builtins, any() and all(). |
| 254 | |
Brett Cannon | 409d8f2 | 2005-03-05 06:47:57 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 255 | - Defining a class with empty parentheses is now allowed |
Brett Cannon | f418991 | 2005-04-09 02:30:16 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 256 | (e.g., ``class C(): pass`` is no longer a syntax error). |
| 257 | Patch #1176012 added support to the 'parser' module and 'compiler' package |
| 258 | (thanks to logistix for that added support). |
Brett Cannon | 409d8f2 | 2005-03-05 06:47:57 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 259 | |
Martin v. Löwis | 96d743e | 2005-03-03 23:00:26 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 260 | - Patch #1115086: Support PY_LONGLONG in structmember. |
| 261 | |
Raymond Hettinger | b67cc80 | 2005-03-03 16:45:19 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 262 | - Bug #1155938: new style classes did not check that __init__() was |
| 263 | returning None. |
| 264 | |
Tim Peters | ecc6e6a | 2005-07-10 22:30:55 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 265 | - Patch #802188: Report characters after line continuation character |
Martin v. Löwis | 4bf108d | 2005-03-03 11:45:45 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 266 | ('\') with a specific error message. |
| 267 | |
Martin v. Löwis | ff232d7 | 2005-03-03 09:24:38 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 268 | - Bug #723201: Raise a TypeError for passing bad objects to 'L' format. |
| 269 | |
Michael W. Hudson | 8e1afab | 2005-02-17 14:55:21 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 270 | - Bug #1124295: the __name__ attribute of file objects was |
| 271 | inadvertently made inaccessible in restricted mode. |
| 272 | |
Tim Peters | ecc6e6a | 2005-07-10 22:30:55 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 273 | - Bug #1074011: closing sys.std{out,err} now causes a flush() and |
Martin v. Löwis | 8e3ca8a | 2005-01-23 09:41:49 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 274 | an ferror() call. |
| 275 | |
Raymond Hettinger | 3b0c7c2 | 2004-12-03 08:30:39 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 276 | - min() and max() now support key= arguments with the same meaning as in |
| 277 | list.sort(). |
| 278 | |
Raymond Hettinger | c34f867 | 2005-01-02 06:17:33 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 279 | - The peephole optimizer now performs simple constant folding in expressions: |
| 280 | (2+3) --> (5). |
| 281 | |
Raymond Hettinger | a422c34 | 2005-01-11 03:03:27 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 282 | - set and frozenset objects can now be marshalled. SF #1098985. |
| 283 | |
Michael W. Hudson | faa7648 | 2005-01-31 17:09:25 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 284 | - Bug #1077106: Poor argument checking could cause memory corruption |
| 285 | in calls to os.read(). |
Raymond Hettinger | 4901a1f | 2004-12-02 08:59:14 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 286 | |
Jeremy Hylton | ab63050 | 2005-02-04 18:44:06 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 287 | - The parser did not complain about future statements in illegal |
| 288 | positions. It once again reports a syntax error if a future |
| 289 | statement occurs after anything other than a doc string. |
| 290 | |
Neil Schemenauer | cf52c07 | 2005-08-12 17:34:58 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 291 | - Change the %s format specifier for str objects so that it returns a |
| 292 | unicode instance if the argument is not an instance of basestring and |
| 293 | calling __str__ on the argument returns a unicode instance. |
| 294 | |
Tim Peters | f4e6928 | 2006-02-27 17:15:31 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 295 | - Patch #1413181: changed ``PyThreadState_Delete()`` to forget about the |
| 296 | current thread state when the auto-GIL-state machinery knows about |
| 297 | it (since the thread state is being deleted, continuing to remember it |
| 298 | can't help, but can hurt if another thread happens to get created with |
| 299 | the same thread id). |
| 300 | |
Raymond Hettinger | 4901a1f | 2004-12-02 08:59:14 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 301 | Extension Modules |
| 302 | ----------------- |
| 303 | |
Neal Norwitz | 05a4559 | 2006-03-20 06:30:08 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 304 | - Patch #1309579: wait3 and wait4 were added to the posix module. |
| 305 | |
Anthony Baxter | fa86907 | 2006-03-20 05:21:58 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 306 | - Patch #1231053: The audioop module now supports encoding/decoding of alaw. |
| 307 | In addition, the existing ulaw code was updated. |
| 308 | |
Georg Brandl | bc45a3f | 2006-03-17 19:17:34 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 309 | - RFE #567972: Socket objects' family, type and proto properties are |
Georg Brandl | 72d7a78 | 2006-03-22 06:44:14 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 310 | now exposed via new attributes. |
Georg Brandl | bc45a3f | 2006-03-17 19:17:34 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 311 | |
Neal Norwitz | 10be10c | 2006-03-16 06:50:13 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 312 | - Everything under lib-old was removed. This includes the following modules: |
| 313 | Para, addpack, cmp, cmpcache, codehack, dircmp, dump, find, fmt, grep, |
| 314 | lockfile, newdir, ni, packmail, poly, rand, statcache, tb, tzparse, |
| 315 | util, whatsound, whrandom, zmod |
| 316 | |
| 317 | - The following modules were removed: regsub, reconvert, regex, regex_syntax. |
| 318 | |
| 319 | - re and sre were swapped, so help(re) provides full help. importing sre |
Neal Norwitz | efbeaef | 2006-03-16 06:40:39 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 320 | is deprecated. The undocumented re.engine variable no longer exists. |
| 321 | |
Hye-Shik Chang | abb903f | 2006-03-13 10:20:08 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 322 | - Bug #1448490: Fixed a bug that ISO-2022 codecs could not handle |
| 323 | SS2 (single-shift 2) escape sequences correctly. |
| 324 | |
Martin v. Löwis | 480f1bb | 2006-03-09 23:38:20 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 325 | - The unicodedata module was updated to the 4.1 version of the Unicode |
| 326 | database. The 3.2 version is still available as unicodedata.db_3_2_0 |
| 327 | for applications that require this specific version (such as IDNA). |
| 328 | |
Neal Norwitz | b62c433 | 2006-03-04 18:35:47 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 329 | - The timing module is no longer built by default. It was deprecated |
| 330 | in PEP 4 in Python 2.0 or earlier. |
| 331 | |
Guido van Rossum | 1968ad3 | 2006-02-25 22:38:04 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 332 | - Patch 1433928: Added a new type, defaultdict, to the collections module. |
| 333 | This uses the new __missing__ hook behavior added to dict (see above). |
| 334 | |
Georg Brandl | dbd8339 | 2006-02-20 09:42:33 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 335 | - Bug #854823: socketmodule now builds on Sun platforms even when |
| 336 | INET_ADDRSTRLEN is not defined. |
| 337 | |
Georg Brandl | f4f4415 | 2006-02-18 22:29:33 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 338 | - Patch #1393157: os.startfile() now has an optional argument to specify |
| 339 | a "command verb" to invoke on the file. |
| 340 | |
Neal Norwitz | 082b2df | 2006-02-07 07:04:46 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 341 | - Bug #876637, prevent stack corruption when socket descriptor |
| 342 | is larger than FD_SETSIZE. |
| 343 | |
Neal Norwitz | 0e6bc8c | 2006-02-05 05:45:43 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 344 | - Patch #1407135, bug #1424041: harmonize mmap behavior of anonymous memory. |
| 345 | mmap.mmap(-1, size) now returns anonymous memory in both Unix and Windows. |
| 346 | mmap.mmap(0, size) should not be used on Windows for anonymous memory. |
| 347 | |
Martin v. Löwis | 57a34e8 | 2006-02-04 19:12:37 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 348 | - Patch #1422385: The nis module now supports access to domains other |
| 349 | than the system default domain. |
| 350 | |
Martin v. Löwis | 1469466 | 2006-02-03 12:54:16 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 351 | - Use Win32 API to implement os.stat/fstat. As a result, subsecond timestamps |
| 352 | are reported, the limit on path name lengths is removed, and stat reports |
| 353 | WindowsError now (instead of OSError). |
| 354 | |
Gregory P. Smith | cfc4a8d | 2006-01-29 19:46:23 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 355 | - Add bsddb.db.DBEnv.set_tx_timestamp allowing time based database recovery. |
| 356 | |
Neal Norwitz | 62a2112 | 2006-01-25 05:21:55 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 357 | - Bug #1413192, fix seg fault in bsddb if a transaction was deleted |
| 358 | before the env. |
| 359 | |
Martin v. Löwis | 11017b1 | 2006-01-14 18:12:57 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 360 | - Patch #1103116: Basic AF_NETLINK support. |
| 361 | |
Neal Norwitz | 3b4fff8 | 2006-01-11 08:54:45 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 362 | - Bug #1402308, (possible) segfault when using mmap.mmap(-1, ...) |
| 363 | |
Neal Norwitz | 88bbd73 | 2006-01-10 07:05:44 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 364 | - Bug #1400822, _curses over{lay,write} doesn't work when passing 6 ints. |
| 365 | Also fix ungetmouse() which did not accept arguments properly. |
| 366 | The code now conforms to the documented signature. |
| 367 | |
Neal Norwitz | 5e3d862 | 2006-01-09 06:24:35 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 368 | - Bug #1400115, Fix segfault when calling curses.panel.userptr() |
| 369 | without prior setting of the userptr. |
| 370 | |
Neal Norwitz | 40c6b47 | 2006-01-05 05:43:35 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 371 | - Fix 64-bit problems in bsddb. |
| 372 | |
Neal Norwitz | 8856fb7 | 2005-12-18 03:34:22 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 373 | - Patch #1365916: fix some unsafe 64-bit mmap methods. |
| 374 | |
Hye-Shik Chang | c5c57e6 | 2005-12-12 11:48:32 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 375 | - Bug #1290333: Added a workaround for cjkcodecs' _codecs_cn build |
| 376 | problem on AIX. |
| 377 | |
Georg Brandl | a13c244 | 2005-11-22 19:30:31 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 378 | - Bug #869197: os.setgroups rejects long integer arguments |
| 379 | |
Neal Norwitz | 0f46bbf | 2005-11-03 05:00:25 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 380 | - Bug #1346533, select.poll() doesn't raise an error if timeout > sys.maxint |
| 381 | |
Neal Norwitz | 7b63179 | 2005-11-02 05:26:07 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 382 | - Bug #1344508, Fix UNIX mmap leaking file descriptors |
| 383 | |
Neal Norwitz | f339654 | 2005-10-28 05:52:22 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 384 | - Patch #1338314, Bug #1336623: fix tarfile so it can extract |
| 385 | REGTYPE directories from tarfiles written by old programs. |
| 386 | |
Gregory P. Smith | e101df9 | 2006-01-24 20:09:45 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 387 | - Patch #1407992, fixes broken bsddb module db associate when using |
| 388 | BerkeleyDB 3.3, 4.0 or 4.1. |
| 389 | |
| 390 | - Get bsddb module to build with BerkeleyDB version 4.4 |
| 391 | |
| 392 | - Get bsddb module to build with BerkeleyDB version 3.2 |
Neal Norwitz | fed9b3e | 2005-10-21 06:32:02 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 393 | |
Neal Norwitz | 484d9a4 | 2005-09-30 04:46:49 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 394 | - Patch #1309009, Fix segfault in pyexpat when the XML document is in latin_1, |
| 395 | but Python incorrectly assumes it is in UTF-8 format |
| 396 | |
Georg Brandl | e677adc | 2005-09-29 13:40:49 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 397 | - Fix parse errors in the readline module when compiling without threads. |
| 398 | |
Hye-Shik Chang | 9ceebd5 | 2005-09-24 14:58:47 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 399 | - Patch #1288833: Removed thread lock from socket.getaddrinfo on |
| 400 | FreeBSD 5.3 and later versions which got thread-safe getaddrinfo(3). |
| 401 | |
Michael W. Hudson | 10402a3 | 2005-09-22 09:19:01 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 402 | - Patches #1298449 and #1298499: Add some missing checks for error |
| 403 | returns in cStringIO.c. |
| 404 | |
Neal Norwitz | 058bde1 | 2005-09-21 06:44:25 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 405 | - Patch #1297028: fix segfault if call type on MultibyteCodec, |
| 406 | MultibyteStreamReader, or MultibyteStreamWriter |
| 407 | |
Neal Norwitz | cfe7dd9 | 2005-09-19 06:49:27 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 408 | - Fix memory leak in posix.access(). |
| 409 | |
Martin v. Löwis | 8b291e2 | 2005-09-18 08:17:56 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 410 | - Patch #1213831: Fix typo in unicodedata._getcode. |
| 411 | |
Georg Brandl | fb1ef85 | 2005-09-14 20:53:32 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 412 | - Bug #1007046: os.startfile() did not accept unicode strings encoded in |
| 413 | the file system encoding. |
| 414 | |
Georg Brandl | d2e3ba7 | 2005-08-26 08:34:00 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 415 | - Patch #756021: Special-case socket.inet_aton('255.255.255.255') for |
| 416 | platforms that don't have inet_aton(). |
Georg Brandl | 02760f9 | 2005-08-25 13:10:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 417 | |
Georg Brandl | d2e3ba7 | 2005-08-26 08:34:00 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 418 | - Bug #1215928: Fix bz2.BZ2File.seek() for 64-bit file offsets. |
| 419 | |
| 420 | - Bug #1191043: Fix bz2.BZ2File.(x)readlines for files containing one |
Georg Brandl | 02760f9 | 2005-08-25 13:10:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 421 | line without newlines. |
| 422 | |
Georg Brandl | 38387b8 | 2005-08-24 07:17:40 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 423 | - Bug #728515: mmap.resize() now resizes the file on Unix as it did |
| 424 | on Windows. |
| 425 | |
Walter Dörwald | a05834e | 2005-10-09 19:38:21 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 426 | - Patch #1180695: Add nanosecond stat resolution, and st_gen, |
Martin v. Löwis | ebd9d5b | 2005-08-09 15:00:59 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 427 | st_birthtime for FreeBSD. |
| 428 | |
Michael W. Hudson | 8137bea | 2005-07-27 20:24:40 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 429 | - Patch #1231069: The fcntl.ioctl function now uses the 'I' code for |
| 430 | the request code argument, which results in more C-like behaviour |
| 431 | for large or negative values. |
| 432 | |
Tim Peters | ecc6e6a | 2005-07-10 22:30:55 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 433 | - Bug #1234979: For the argument of thread.Lock.acquire, the Windows |
Andrew M. Kuchling | 88b8582 | 2005-08-23 00:57:07 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 434 | implementation treated all integer values except 1 as false. |
Georg Brandl | af410b5 | 2005-07-08 22:26:13 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 435 | |
Georg Brandl | 6b95f1d | 2005-06-03 19:47:00 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 436 | - Bug #1194181: bz2.BZ2File didn't handle mode 'U' correctly. |
| 437 | |
Hye-Shik Chang | 5f937a7 | 2005-06-02 13:09:30 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 438 | - Patch #1212117: os.stat().st_flags is now accessible as a attribute |
| 439 | if available on the platform. |
| 440 | |
Skip Montanaro | 5ff1492 | 2005-05-16 02:42:22 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 441 | - Patch #1103951: Expose O_SHLOCK and O_EXLOCK in the posix module if |
| 442 | available on the platform. |
| 443 | |
Michael W. Hudson | b330adf | 2005-03-31 09:35:44 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 444 | - Bug #1166660: The readline module could segfault if hook functions |
| 445 | were set in a different thread than that which called readline. |
| 446 | |
Raymond Hettinger | 4aec61e | 2005-03-18 21:20:23 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 447 | - collections.deque objects now support a remove() method. |
| 448 | |
Raymond Hettinger | 984f9bb | 2005-03-09 16:38:48 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 449 | - operator.itemgetter() and operator.attrgetter() now support retrieving |
| 450 | multiple fields. This provides direct support for sorting on multiple |
| 451 | keys (primary, secondary, etc). |
| 452 | |
Martin v. Löwis | b60ae99 | 2005-03-08 09:10:29 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 453 | - os.access now supports Unicode path names on non-Win32 systems. |
| 454 | |
Martin v. Löwis | fd78a6f | 2005-03-04 14:37:01 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 455 | - Patches #925152, #1118602: Avoid reading after the end of the buffer |
| 456 | in pyexpat.GetInputContext. |
| 457 | |
Tim Peters | ecc6e6a | 2005-07-10 22:30:55 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 458 | - Patches #749830, #1144555: allow UNIX mmap size to default to current |
Martin v. Löwis | 7fe60c0 | 2005-03-03 11:22:44 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 459 | file size. |
| 460 | |
Raymond Hettinger | 9c323f8 | 2005-02-28 19:39:44 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 461 | - Added functional.partial(). See PEP309. |
| 462 | |
Martin v. Löwis | 9533e34 | 2005-02-27 20:33:25 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 463 | - Patch #1093585: raise a ValueError for negative history items in readline. |
| 464 | {remove_history,replace_history} |
| 465 | |
Fred Drake | 9c131f2 | 2005-01-23 15:16:08 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 466 | - The spwd module has been added, allowing access to the shadow password |
| 467 | database. |
Martin v. Löwis | c300175 | 2005-01-23 09:27:24 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 468 | |
Martin v. Löwis | fe33d0b | 2005-01-16 08:57:39 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 469 | - stat_float_times is now True. |
| 470 | |
Raymond Hettinger | b0900e6 | 2004-12-16 16:23:40 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 471 | - array.array objects are now picklable. |
| 472 | |
Raymond Hettinger | a6b45cc | 2004-12-07 07:05:57 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 473 | - the cPickle module no longer accepts the deprecated None option in the |
| 474 | args tuple returned by __reduce__(). |
| 475 | |
Raymond Hettinger | b259405 | 2004-12-05 09:25:51 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 476 | - itertools.islice() now accepts None for the start and step arguments. |
| 477 | This allows islice() to work more readily with slices: |
| 478 | islice(s.start, s.stop, s.step) |
| 479 | |
Skip Montanaro | 0af3ade | 2005-01-13 04:12:31 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 480 | - datetime.datetime() now has a strptime class method which can be used to |
| 481 | create datetime object using a string and format. |
Raymond Hettinger | 4901a1f | 2004-12-02 08:59:14 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 482 | |
| 483 | Library |
| 484 | ------- |
| 485 | |
Thomas Heller | c61c049 | 2006-03-22 10:09:27 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 486 | - Added the ctypes ffi package. |
| 487 | |
Barry Warsaw | 4d90bbd | 2006-03-22 02:45:50 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 488 | - email 4.0 package now integrated. This is largely the same as the email 3.0 |
| 489 | package that was included in Python 2.3, except that PEP 8 module names are |
| 490 | now used (e.g. mail.message instead of email.Message). The MIME classes |
| 491 | have been moved to a subpackage (e.g. email.mime.text instead of |
| 492 | email.MIMEText). The old names are still supported for now. Several |
| 493 | deprecated Message methods have been removed and lots of bugs have been |
| 494 | fixed. More details can be found in the email package documentation. |
| 495 | |
Walter Dörwald | abb02e5 | 2006-03-15 11:35:15 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 496 | - Patch #1436130: codecs.lookup() now returns a CodecInfo object (a subclass |
| 497 | of tuple) that provides incremental decoders and encoders (a way to use |
| 498 | stateful codecs without the stream API). Functions |
| 499 | codecs.getincrementaldecoder() and codecs.getincrementalencoder() have |
| 500 | been added. |
| 501 | |
Walter Dörwald | 067db48 | 2006-03-15 22:17:27 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 502 | - Patch #1359365: Calling next() on a closed StringIO.String object raises |
| 503 | a ValueError instead of a StopIteration now (like file and cString.String do). |
| 504 | cStringIO.StringIO.isatty() will raise a ValueError now if close() has been |
| 505 | called before (like file and StringIO.StringIO do). |
Walter Dörwald | 197e832 | 2006-03-15 22:13:13 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 506 | |
Martin v. Löwis | 04824ce | 2006-03-10 21:26:16 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 507 | - A regrtest option -w was added to re-run failed tests in verbose mode. |
| 508 | |
Georg Brandl | e2b4677 | 2006-03-09 23:22:43 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 509 | - Patch #1446372: quit and exit can now be called from the interactive |
| 510 | interpreter to exit. |
| 511 | |
Barry Warsaw | d3c38ff | 2006-03-07 09:46:03 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 512 | - The function get_count() has been added to the gc module, and gc.collect() |
| 513 | grew an optional 'generation' argument. |
| 514 | |
Martin v. Löwis | fbab90e | 2006-03-05 13:36:04 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 515 | - A library msilib to generate Windows Installer files, and a distutils |
| 516 | command bdist_msi have been added. |
| 517 | |
Guido van Rossum | 1a5e21e | 2006-02-28 21:57:43 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 518 | - PEP 343: new module contextlib.py defines decorator @contextmanager |
| 519 | and helpful context managers nested() and closing(). |
| 520 | |
Martin v. Löwis | 415ed93 | 2006-02-27 19:56:30 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 521 | - The compiler package now supports future imports after the module docstring. |
| 522 | |
Georg Brandl | 8f7c54e | 2006-02-20 08:40:38 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 523 | - Bug #1413790: zipfile now sanitizes absolute archive names that are |
| 524 | not allowed by the specs. |
| 525 | |
Georg Brandl | c98eeed | 2006-02-19 14:57:47 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 526 | - Patch #1215184: FileInput now can be given an opening hook which can |
| 527 | be used to control how files are opened. |
| 528 | |
Georg Brandl | c029f87 | 2006-02-19 14:12:34 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 529 | - Patch #1212287: fileinput.input() now has a mode parameter for |
| 530 | specifying the file mode input files should be opened with. |
| 531 | |
Georg Brandl | 67e9fb9 | 2006-02-19 13:56:17 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 532 | - Patch #1215184: fileinput now has a fileno() function for getting the |
| 533 | current file number. |
| 534 | |
Georg Brandl | 602b9ba | 2006-02-19 13:26:36 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 535 | - Patch #1349274: gettext.install() now optionally installs additional |
| 536 | translation functions other than _() in the builtin namespace. |
| 537 | |
Georg Brandl | e466217 | 2006-02-19 09:51:27 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 538 | - Patch #1337756: fileinput now accepts Unicode filenames. |
| 539 | |
Georg Brandl | 7b4e7c2 | 2006-02-18 21:10:56 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 540 | - Patch #1373643: The chunk module can now read chunks larger than |
| 541 | two gigabytes. |
| 542 | |
Georg Brandl | 21dd1af | 2006-02-17 13:35:13 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 543 | - Patch #1417555: SimpleHTTPServer now returns Last-Modified headers. |
| 544 | |
Georg Brandl | bd3bc4d | 2006-02-17 09:52:53 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 545 | - Bug #1430298: It is now possible to send a mail with an empty |
| 546 | return address using smtplib. |
| 547 | |
Georg Brandl | 0e1abe2 | 2006-02-17 09:48:14 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 548 | - Bug #1432260: The names of lambda functions are now properly displayed |
| 549 | in pydoc. |
Georg Brandl | 501dd0d | 2006-02-17 09:45:40 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 550 | |
Martin v. Löwis | 0075690 | 2006-02-05 17:09:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 551 | - Patch #1412872: zipfile now sets the creator system to 3 (Unix) |
| 552 | unless the system is Win32. |
| 553 | |
Tim Peters | da1329b | 2006-02-27 16:50:01 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 554 | - Patch #1349118: urllib now supports user:pass@ style proxy |
Martin v. Löwis | 3e86595 | 2006-01-24 15:51:21 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 555 | specifications, raises IOErrors when proxies for unsupported protocols |
| 556 | are defined, and uses the https proxy on https redirections. |
| 557 | |
Georg Brandl | 531ceba | 2006-01-21 07:20:56 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 558 | - Bug #902075: urllib2 now supports 'host:port' style proxy specifications. |
| 559 | |
| 560 | - Bug #1407902: Add support for sftp:// URIs to urlparse. |
Georg Brandl | 89f35ac | 2006-01-20 17:24:23 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 561 | |
Georg Brandl | b709c2c | 2006-01-20 09:07:35 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 562 | - Bug #1371247: Update Windows locale identifiers in locale.py. |
| 563 | |
Neal Norwitz | f60cd47 | 2006-01-14 07:05:13 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 564 | - Bug #1394565: SimpleHTTPServer now doesn't choke on query parameters |
Georg Brandl | 45ab233 | 2006-01-13 17:05:56 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 565 | any more. |
Georg Brandl | b709c2c | 2006-01-20 09:07:35 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 566 | |
Georg Brandl | 4edd989 | 2006-01-13 16:59:46 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 567 | - Bug #1403410: The warnings module now doesn't get confused |
| 568 | when it can't find out the module name it generates a warning for. |
Georg Brandl | b709c2c | 2006-01-20 09:07:35 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 569 | |
Martin v. Löwis | 412ed3b | 2006-01-08 10:45:39 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 570 | - Patch #1177307: Added a new codec utf_8_sig for UTF-8 with a BOM signature. |
| 571 | |
Neal Norwitz | ab86f8e | 2005-12-23 21:44:36 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 572 | - Patch #1157027: cookielib mishandles RFC 2109 cookies in Netscape mode |
| 573 | |
Neal Norwitz | 338e786 | 2005-12-23 21:27:46 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 574 | - Patch #1117398: cookielib.LWPCookieJar and .MozillaCookieJar now raise |
| 575 | LoadError as documented, instead of IOError. For compatibility, |
| 576 | LoadError subclasses IOError. |
| 577 | |
Brett Cannon | 3cbd038 | 2005-12-16 22:49:23 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 578 | - Added the hashlib module. It provides secure hash functions for MD5 and |
Tim Peters | e3547fd | 2005-12-16 23:13:57 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 579 | SHA1, 224, 256, 384, and 512. Note that recent developments make the |
| 580 | historic MD5 and SHA1 unsuitable for cryptographic-strength applications. |
| 581 | In <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2005-December/058850.html> |
| 582 | Ronald L. Rivest offered this advice for Python: |
| 583 | |
| 584 | "The consensus of researchers in this area (at least as |
| 585 | expressed at the NIST Hash Function Workshop 10/31/05), |
| 586 | is that SHA-256 is a good choice for the time being, but |
| 587 | that research should continue, and other alternatives may |
| 588 | arise from this research. The larger SHA's also seem OK." |
Brett Cannon | 3cbd038 | 2005-12-16 22:49:23 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 589 | |
Fredrik Lundh | 7e0aef0 | 2005-12-12 18:54:55 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 590 | - Added a subset of Fredrik Lundh's ElementTree package. Available |
| 591 | modules are xml.etree.ElementTree, xml.etree.ElementPath, and |
| 592 | xml.etree.ElementInclude, from ElementTree 1.2.6. |
| 593 | |
Martin v. Löwis | 307021f | 2005-11-27 16:59:04 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 594 | - Patch #1162825: Support non-ASCII characters in IDLE window titles. |
| 595 | |
Georg Brandl | 1f66357 | 2005-11-26 16:50:44 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 596 | - Bug #1365984: urllib now opens "data:" URLs again. |
| 597 | |
Brett Cannon | ad07ff2 | 2005-11-23 02:15:50 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 598 | - Patch #1314396: prevent deadlock for threading.Thread.join() when an exception |
| 599 | is raised within the method itself on a previous call (e.g., passing in an |
| 600 | illegal argument) |
| 601 | |
Brett Cannon | 5d0bf94 | 2005-11-02 23:04:26 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 602 | - Bug #1340337: change time.strptime() to always return ValueError when there |
| 603 | is an error in the format string. |
| 604 | |
Georg Brandl | e8f2443 | 2005-10-03 14:16:44 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 605 | - Patch #754022: Greatly enhanced webbrowser.py (by Oleg Broytmann). |
| 606 | |
Walter Dörwald | a05834e | 2005-10-09 19:38:21 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 607 | - Bug #729103: pydoc.py: Fix docother() method to accept additional |
Georg Brandl | 8b813db | 2005-10-01 16:32:31 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 608 | "parent" argument. |
| 609 | |
Georg Brandl | aa93517 | 2005-09-29 20:49:16 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 610 | - Patch #1300515: xdrlib.py: Fix pack_fstring() to really use null bytes |
| 611 | for padding. |
| 612 | |
Georg Brandl | 80ba8e8 | 2005-09-29 20:16:07 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 613 | - Bug #1296004: httplib.py: Limit maximal amount of data read from the |
| 614 | socket to avoid a MemoryError on Windows. |
| 615 | |
Matthias Klose | f3f231f | 2005-09-20 07:02:49 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 616 | - Patch #1166948: locale.py: Prefer LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE and LANG over LANGUAGE |
| 617 | to get the correct encoding. |
| 618 | |
| 619 | - Patch #1166938: locale.py: Parse LANGUAGE as a colon separated list of |
| 620 | languages. |
| 621 | |
Martin v. Löwis | 4ed6738 | 2005-09-18 08:34:39 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 622 | - Patch #1268314: Cache lines in StreamReader.readlines for performance. |
| 623 | |
Brett Cannon | a783d06 | 2005-09-15 02:34:56 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 624 | - Bug #1290505: Fix clearing the regex cache for time.strptime(). |
| 625 | |
Martin v. Löwis | 5dbdc59 | 2005-08-27 10:07:56 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 626 | - Bug #1167128: Fix size of a symlink in a tarfile to be 0. |
| 627 | |
Georg Brandl | 5a650a2 | 2005-08-26 08:51:34 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 628 | - Patch #810023: Fix off-by-one bug in urllib.urlretrieve reporthook |
| 629 | functionality. |
| 630 | |
Martin v. Löwis | 8b59514 | 2005-08-25 11:03:38 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 631 | - Bug #1163178: Make IDNA return an empty string when the input is empty. |
| 632 | |
Georg Brandl | 532efab | 2005-08-24 22:34:21 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 633 | - Patch #848017: Make Cookie more RFC-compliant. Use CRLF as default output |
| 634 | separator and do not output trailing semicola. |
| 635 | |
Georg Brandl | b925602 | 2005-08-24 18:46:39 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 636 | - Patch #1062060: urllib.urlretrieve() now raises a new exception, named |
| 637 | ContentTooShortException, when the actually downloaded size does not |
| 638 | match the Content-Length header. |
| 639 | |
Martin v. Löwis | 0a5d4a2 | 2005-08-24 14:55:22 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 640 | - Bug #1121494: distutils.dir_utils.mkpath now accepts Unicode strings. |
| 641 | |
Martin v. Löwis | 56066d2 | 2005-08-24 07:38:12 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 642 | - Bug #1178484: Return complete lines from codec stream readers |
| 643 | even if there is an exception in later lines, resulting in |
Walter Dörwald | a05834e | 2005-10-09 19:38:21 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 644 | correct line numbers for decoding errors in source code. |
Martin v. Löwis | 56066d2 | 2005-08-24 07:38:12 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 645 | |
Georg Brandl | 6d2b346 | 2005-08-24 07:36:17 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 646 | - Bug #1192315: Disallow negative arguments to clear() in pdb. |
| 647 | |
Martin v. Löwis | b813c53 | 2005-08-07 20:51:04 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 648 | - Patch #827386: Support absolute source paths in msvccompiler.py. |
| 649 | |
Georg Brandl | 649f8e7 | 2005-08-03 07:30:12 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 650 | - Patch #1105730: Apply the new implementation of commonprefix in posixpath |
| 651 | to ntpath, macpath, os2emxpath and riscospath. |
| 652 | |
Guido van Rossum | 755149f | 2005-07-27 00:00:44 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 653 | - Fix a problem in Tkinter introduced by SF patch #869468: delete bogus |
| 654 | __hasattr__ and __delattr__ methods on class Tk that were breaking |
| 655 | Tkdnd. |
| 656 | |
Georg Brandl | 5dbda75 | 2005-07-17 20:27:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 657 | - Bug #1015140: disambiguated the term "article id" in nntplib docs and |
| 658 | docstrings to either "article number" or "message id". |
| 659 | |
Georg Brandl | a4a8b82 | 2005-07-15 09:13:21 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 660 | - Bug #1238170: threading.Thread.__init__ no longer has "kwargs={}" as a |
| 661 | parameter, but uses the usual "kwargs=None". |
| 662 | |
Andrew M. Kuchling | 88b8582 | 2005-08-23 00:57:07 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 663 | - textwrap now processes text chunks at O(n) speed instead of O(n**2). |
Raymond Hettinger | 8bfa893 | 2005-07-15 06:53:35 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 664 | Patch #1209527 (Contributed by Connelly). |
| 665 | |
Georg Brandl | 5c5fe2f | 2005-07-14 06:40:47 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 666 | - urllib2 has now an attribute 'httpresponses' mapping from HTTP status code |
| 667 | to W3C name (404 -> 'Not Found'). RFE #1216944. |
| 668 | |
Georg Brandl | 9e43acf | 2005-07-04 17:16:07 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 669 | - Bug #1177468: Don't cache the /dev/urandom file descriptor for os.urandom, |
| 670 | as this can cause problems with apps closing all file descriptors. |
| 671 | |
Georg Brandl | 5284b53 | 2005-06-26 22:54:58 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 672 | - Bug #839151: Fix an attempt to access sys.argv in the warnings module |
Andrew M. Kuchling | 88b8582 | 2005-08-23 00:57:07 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 673 | it can be missing in embedded interpreters |
Georg Brandl | 5284b53 | 2005-06-26 22:54:58 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 674 | |
Georg Brandl | 2f210b6 | 2005-06-26 22:09:06 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 675 | - Bug #1155638: Fix a bug which affected HTTP 0.9 responses in httplib. |
| 676 | |
Georg Brandl | fbff1bc | 2005-06-26 21:36:25 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 677 | - Bug #1100201: Cross-site scripting was possible on BaseHTTPServer via |
| 678 | error messages. |
| 679 | |
Georg Brandl | 379f99d | 2005-06-26 21:09:38 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 680 | - Bug #1108948: Cookie.py produced invalid JavaScript code. |
| 681 | |
Raymond Hettinger | da99d1c | 2005-06-21 07:43:58 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 682 | - The tokenize module now detects and reports indentation errors. |
| 683 | Bug #1224621. |
| 684 | |
Raymond Hettinger | 68c0453 | 2005-06-10 11:05:19 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 685 | - The tokenize module has a new untokenize() function to support a full |
| 686 | roundtrip from lexed tokens back to Python sourcecode. In addition, |
| 687 | the generate_tokens() function now accepts a callable argument that |
| 688 | terminates by raising StopIteration. |
| 689 | |
Georg Brandl | 9166e1a | 2005-06-04 09:20:03 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 690 | - Bug #1196315: fix weakref.WeakValueDictionary constructor. |
| 691 | |
Georg Brandl | 268e61c | 2005-06-03 14:28:50 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 692 | - Bug #1213894: os.path.realpath didn't resolve symlinks that were the first |
| 693 | component of the path. |
| 694 | |
Skip Montanaro | 174dd22 | 2005-05-14 20:54:16 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 695 | - Patch #1120353: The xmlrpclib module provides better, more transparent, |
| 696 | support for datetime.{datetime,date,time} objects. With use_datetime set |
| 697 | to True, applications shouldn't have to fiddle with the DateTime wrapper |
| 698 | class at all. |
| 699 | |
Martin v. Löwis | 55f1bb8 | 2005-03-21 20:56:35 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 700 | - distutils.commands.upload was added to support uploading distribution |
| 701 | files to PyPI. |
| 702 | |
Walter Dörwald | a6e8a4a | 2005-03-31 13:57:38 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 703 | - distutils.commands.register now encodes the data as UTF-8 before posting |
| 704 | them to PyPI. |
| 705 | |
Raymond Hettinger | 267b868 | 2005-03-27 10:47:39 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 706 | - decimal operator and comparison methods now return NotImplemented |
| 707 | instead of raising a TypeError when interacting with other types. This |
| 708 | allows other classes to implement __radd__ style methods and have them |
| 709 | work as expected. |
| 710 | |
Raymond Hettinger | bea3f6f | 2005-03-15 04:59:17 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 711 | - Bug #1163325: Decimal infinities failed to hash. Attempting to |
| 712 | hash a NaN raised an InvalidOperation instead of a TypeError. |
| 713 | |
Tim Peters | ecc6e6a | 2005-07-10 22:30:55 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 714 | - Patch #918101: Add tarfile open mode r|* for auto-detection of the |
Martin v. Löwis | 78be7df | 2005-03-05 12:47:42 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 715 | stream compression; add, for symmetry reasons, r:* as a synonym of r. |
| 716 | |
Martin v. Löwis | 00a73e7 | 2005-03-04 19:40:34 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 717 | - Patch #1043890: Add extractall method to tarfile. |
| 718 | |
Martin v. Löwis | c72dd38 | 2005-03-04 13:50:17 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 719 | - Patch #1075887: Don't require MSVC in distutils if there is nothing |
| 720 | to build. |
| 721 | |
Martin v. Löwis | 637431b | 2005-03-03 23:12:42 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 722 | - Patch #1103407: Properly deal with tarfile iterators when untarring |
| 723 | symbolic links on Windows. |
| 724 | |
Tim Peters | ecc6e6a | 2005-07-10 22:30:55 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 725 | - Patch #645894: Use getrusage for computing the time consumption in |
Martin v. Löwis | a4dac40 | 2005-03-03 11:39:45 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 726 | profile.py if available. |
| 727 | |
Martin v. Löwis | df37c8c | 2005-03-03 11:08:03 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 728 | - Patch #1046831: Use get_python_version where appropriate in sysconfig.py. |
| 729 | |
Martin v. Löwis | c5574e8 | 2005-03-03 10:57:37 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 730 | - Patch #1117454: Remove code to special-case cookies without values |
| 731 | in LWPCookieJar. |
| 732 | |
Martin v. Löwis | 4ea3ead | 2005-03-03 10:48:12 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 733 | - Patch #1117339: Add cookielib special name tests. |
| 734 | |
Martin v. Löwis | e869eb1 | 2005-03-03 09:46:07 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 735 | - Patch #1112812: Make bsddb/__init__.py more friendly for modulefinder. |
| 736 | |
Martin v. Löwis | f2a8d63 | 2005-03-03 08:35:22 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 737 | - Patch #1110248: SYNC_FLUSH the zlib buffer for GZipFile.flush. |
| 738 | |
Martin v. Löwis | df24153 | 2005-03-03 08:17:42 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 739 | - Patch #1107973: Allow to iterate over the lines of a tarfile.ExFileObject. |
| 740 | |
Martin v. Löwis | 8ed338a | 2005-03-03 08:12:27 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 741 | - Patch #1104111: Alter setup.py --help and --help-commands. |
| 742 | |
Martin v. Löwis | 4afe154 | 2005-03-01 08:09:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 743 | - Patch #1121234: Properly cleanup _exit and tkerror commands. |
| 744 | |
Martin v. Löwis | c2a0ac2 | 2005-02-24 20:22:10 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 745 | - Patch #1049151: xdrlib now unpacks booleans as True or False. |
| 746 | |
Raymond Hettinger | bab4143 | 2005-02-05 01:31:19 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 747 | - Fixed bug in a NameError bug in cookielib. Patch #1116583. |
| 748 | |
Guido van Rossum | d064142 | 2005-02-03 15:01:24 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 749 | - Applied a security fix to SimpleXMLRPCserver (PSF-2005-001). This |
| 750 | disables recursive traversal through instance attributes, which can |
| 751 | be exploited in various ways. |
| 752 | |
Tim Peters | e3547fd | 2005-12-16 23:13:57 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 753 | - Bug #1222790: in SimpleXMLRPCServer, set the reuse-address and close-on-exec |
Andrew M. Kuchling | 3a97605 | 2005-12-04 15:07:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 754 | flags on the HTTP listening socket. |
| 755 | |
Andrew M. Kuchling | e63fde7 | 2005-12-04 15:36:57 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 756 | - Bug #792570: SimpleXMLRPCServer had problems if the request grew too large. |
| 757 | Fixed by reading the HTTP body in chunks instead of one big socket.read(). |
| 758 | |
Tim Peters | e3547fd | 2005-12-16 23:13:57 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 759 | - Patches #893642, #1039083: add allow_none, encoding arguments to constructors of |
Andrew M. Kuchling | 10a16de | 2005-12-04 16:34:40 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 760 | SimpleXMLRPCServer and CGIXMLRPCRequestHandler. |
| 761 | |
Martin v. Löwis | 1d11de6 | 2005-01-29 13:29:23 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 762 | - Bug #1110478: Revert os.environ.update to do putenv again. |
| 763 | |
Thomas Heller | d6c6e22 | 2005-01-20 19:20:16 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 764 | - Bug #1103844: fix distutils.install.dump_dirs() with negated options. |
| 765 | |
Martin v. Löwis | 22b457e | 2005-01-16 08:40:58 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 766 | - os.{SEEK_SET, SEEK_CUR, SEEK_END} have been added for convenience. |
| 767 | |
Andrew McNamara | a08eecb | 2005-01-12 03:25:27 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 768 | - Enhancements to the csv module: |
| 769 | |
| 770 | + Dialects are now validated by the underlying C code, better |
Georg Brandl | 7eb4b7d | 2005-07-22 21:49:32 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 771 | reflecting its capabilities, and improving its compliance with |
Tim Peters | ecc6e6a | 2005-07-10 22:30:55 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 772 | PEP 305. |
Andrew McNamara | a08eecb | 2005-01-12 03:25:27 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 773 | + Dialect parameter parsing has been re-implemented to improve error |
| 774 | reporting. |
| 775 | + quotechar=None and quoting=QUOTE_NONE now work the way PEP 305 |
| 776 | dictates. |
| 777 | + the parser now removes the escapechar prefix from escaped characters. |
Andrew McNamara | 0f0599d | 2005-01-12 09:45:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 778 | + when quoting=QUOTE_NONNUMERIC, the writer now tests for numeric |
Andrew McNamara | f69d94f | 2005-01-13 11:30:54 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 779 | types, rather than any object than can be represented as a numeric. |
Andrew McNamara | 0f0599d | 2005-01-12 09:45:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 780 | + when quoting=QUOTE_NONNUMERIC, the reader now casts unquoted fields |
| 781 | to floats. |
Andrew McNamara | f69d94f | 2005-01-13 11:30:54 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 782 | + reader now allows \r characters to be quoted (previously it only allowed |
| 783 | \n to be quoted). |
Andrew McNamara | c89f284 | 2005-01-12 07:44:42 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 784 | + writer doublequote handling improved. |
Andrew McNamara | a08eecb | 2005-01-12 03:25:27 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 785 | + Dialect classes passed to the module are no longer instantiated by |
| 786 | the module before being parsed (the former validation scheme required |
| 787 | this, but the mechanism was unreliable). |
| 788 | + The dialect registry now contains instances of the internal |
| 789 | C-coded dialect type, rather than references to python objects. |
| 790 | + the internal c-coded dialect type is now immutable. |
| 791 | + register_dialect now accepts the same keyword dialect specifications |
| 792 | as the reader and writer, allowing the user to register dialects |
| 793 | without first creating a dialect class. |
| 794 | + a configurable limit to the size of parsed fields has been added - |
| 795 | previously, an unmatched quote character could result in the entire |
| 796 | file being read into the field buffer before an error was reported. |
Andrew McNamara | 31d8896 | 2005-01-12 03:45:10 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 797 | + A new module method csv.field_size_limit() has been added that sets |
Andrew McNamara | a08eecb | 2005-01-12 03:25:27 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 798 | the parser field size limit (returning the former limit). The initial |
| 799 | limit is 128kB. |
Andrew McNamara | 7f2053e | 2005-01-12 11:17:16 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 800 | + A line_num attribute has been added to the reader object, which tracks |
| 801 | the number of lines read from the source iterator. This is not |
| 802 | the same as the number of records returned, as records can span |
| 803 | multiple lines. |
Andrew McNamara | a08eecb | 2005-01-12 03:25:27 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 804 | + reader and writer objects were not being registered with the cyclic-GC. |
| 805 | This has been fixed. |
| 806 | |
Brett Cannon | e6539c4 | 2005-01-08 02:43:53 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 807 | - _DummyThread objects in the threading module now delete self.__block that is |
| 808 | inherited from _Thread since it uses up a lock allocated by 'thread'. The |
| 809 | lock primitives tend to be limited in number and thus should not be wasted on |
| 810 | a _DummyThread object. Fixes bug #1089632. |
| 811 | |
Raymond Hettinger | 97db05d | 2005-01-07 08:15:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 812 | - The imghdr module now detects Exif files. |
| 813 | |
Raymond Hettinger | 6065d32 | 2004-12-20 23:51:53 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 814 | - StringIO.truncate() now correctly adjusts the size attribute. |
| 815 | (Bug #951915). |
| 816 | |
Marc-André Lemburg | bb4f1bd | 2004-12-10 21:58:14 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 817 | - locale.py now uses an updated locale alias table (built using |
| 818 | Tools/i18n/makelocalealias.py, a tool to parse the X11 locale |
| 819 | alias file); the encoding lookup was enhanced to use Python's |
Andrew M. Kuchling | 88b8582 | 2005-08-23 00:57:07 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 820 | encoding alias table. |
Marc-André Lemburg | bb4f1bd | 2004-12-10 21:58:14 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 821 | |
Raymond Hettinger | 3557f42 | 2004-12-07 12:02:02 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 822 | - moved deprecated modules to Lib/lib-old: whrandom, tzparse, statcache. |
| 823 | |
Raymond Hettinger | a6b45cc | 2004-12-07 07:05:57 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 824 | - the pickle module no longer accepts the deprecated None option in the |
| 825 | args tuple returned by __reduce__(). |
| 826 | |
Brett Cannon | 84667c0 | 2004-12-07 03:25:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 827 | - optparse now optionally imports gettext. This allows its use in setup.py. |
| 828 | |
Raymond Hettinger | 3489cad | 2004-12-05 05:20:42 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 829 | - the pickle module no longer uses the deprecated bin parameter. |
| 830 | |
Raymond Hettinger | 1bc82f8 | 2004-12-05 03:58:17 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 831 | - the shelve module no longer uses the deprecated binary parameter. |
| 832 | |
Raymond Hettinger | 6c92d76 | 2004-12-05 03:28:00 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 833 | - the pstats module no longer uses the deprecated ignore() method. |
| 834 | |
Raymond Hettinger | f3fa946 | 2004-12-05 01:58:09 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 835 | - the filecmp module no longer uses the deprecated use_statcache argument. |
| 836 | |
Raymond Hettinger | 664347b | 2004-12-04 21:21:53 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 837 | - unittest.TestCase.run() and unittest.TestSuite.run() can now be successfully |
| 838 | extended or overridden by subclasses. Formerly, the subclassed method would |
| 839 | be ignored by the rest of the module. (Bug #1078905). |
| 840 | |
Raymond Hettinger | 4901a1f | 2004-12-02 08:59:14 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 841 | - heapq.nsmallest() and heapq.nlargest() now support key= arguments with |
Raymond Hettinger | 3b0c7c2 | 2004-12-03 08:30:39 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 842 | the same meaning as in list.sort(). |
Raymond Hettinger | 4901a1f | 2004-12-02 08:59:14 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 843 | |
Walter Dörwald | 3673369 | 2004-12-22 12:50:50 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 844 | - Bug #1076985: ``codecs.StreamReader.readline()`` now calls ``read()`` only |
| 845 | once when a size argument is given. This prevents a buffer overflow in the |
| 846 | tokenizer with very long source lines. |
| 847 | |
Barry Warsaw | 538561e | 2006-01-01 21:48:54 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 848 | - Bug #1083110: ``zlib.decompress.flush()`` would segfault if called |
| 849 | immediately after creating the object, without any intervening |
| 850 | ``.decompress()`` calls. |
Andrew M. Kuchling | 3b585b3 | 2004-12-28 20:10:48 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 851 | |
Skip Montanaro | 0588581 | 2005-01-16 20:48:27 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 852 | - The reconvert.quote function can now emit triple-quoted strings. The |
| 853 | reconvert module now has some simple documentation. |
Raymond Hettinger | 4901a1f | 2004-12-02 08:59:14 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 854 | |
Walter Dörwald | af3b39a | 2005-02-18 13:22:43 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 855 | - ``UserString.MutableString`` now supports negative indices in |
| 856 | ``__setitem__`` and ``__delitem__`` |
| 857 | |
Greg Ward | 4040794 | 2005-03-05 02:53:17 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 858 | - Bug #1149508: ``textwrap`` now handles hyphenated numbers (eg. "2004-03-05") |
| 859 | correctly. |
| 860 | |
Walter Dörwald | bc8e642 | 2005-04-21 21:32:03 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 861 | - Partial fixes for SF bugs #1163244 and #1175396: If a chunk read by |
| 862 | ``codecs.StreamReader.readline()`` has a trailing "\r", read one more |
| 863 | character even if the user has passed a size parameter to get a proper |
| 864 | line ending. Remove the special handling of a "\r\n" that has been split |
| 865 | between two lines. |
| 866 | |
Walter Dörwald | a47d1c0 | 2005-08-30 10:23:14 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 867 | - Bug #1251300: On UCS-4 builds the "unicode-internal" codec will now complain |
| 868 | about illegal code points. The codec now supports PEP 293 style error |
| 869 | handlers. |
| 870 | |
Walter Dörwald | 78a78b0 | 2005-09-01 12:04:29 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 871 | - Bug #1235646: ``codecs.StreamRecoder.next()`` now reencodes the data it reads |
Walter Dörwald | c5238b8 | 2005-09-01 11:56:53 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 872 | from the input stream, so that the output is a byte string in the correct |
| 873 | encoding instead of a unicode string. |
Greg Ward | 4040794 | 2005-03-05 02:53:17 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 874 | |
Gustavo Niemeyer | 6fa0c5a | 2005-09-14 08:54:39 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 875 | - Bug #1202493: Fixing SRE parser to handle '{}' as perl does, rather than |
| 876 | considering it exactly like a '*'. |
| 877 | |
Walter Dörwald | 007f8df | 2005-10-09 19:42:27 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 878 | - Bug #1245379: Add "unicode-1-1-utf-7" as an alias for "utf-7" to |
| 879 | ``encodings.aliases``. |
Gustavo Niemeyer | 6fa0c5a | 2005-09-14 08:54:39 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 880 | |
Walter Dörwald | 09f0dd5 | 2005-11-21 19:10:07 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 881 | - ` uu.encode()`` and ``uu.decode()`` now support unicode filenames. |
| 882 | |
Gustavo Niemeyer | 54814881 | 2006-01-31 18:34:13 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 883 | - Patch #1413711: Certain patterns of differences were making difflib |
| 884 | touch the recursion limit. |
| 885 | |
Raymond Hettinger | 4901a1f | 2004-12-02 08:59:14 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 886 | Build |
| 887 | ----- |
| 888 | |
Martin v. Löwis | 86d6626 | 2006-02-17 08:40:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 889 | - Patch #1432345: Make python compile on DragonFly. |
| 890 | |
Martin v. Löwis | 856bf9a | 2006-02-14 20:42:55 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 891 | - Build support for Win64-AMD64 was added. |
| 892 | |
Martin v. Löwis | a55e55e | 2006-02-11 15:55:14 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 893 | - Patch #1428494: Prefer linking against ncursesw over ncurses library. |
| 894 | |
Martin v. Löwis | fd9a72a | 2006-01-08 10:07:33 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 895 | - Patch #881820: look for openpty and forkpty also in libbsd. |
| 896 | |
Martin v. Löwis | 64c33dd | 2006-01-03 07:42:14 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 897 | - The sources of zlib are now part of the Python distribution (zlib 1.2.3). |
| 898 | The zlib module is now builtin on Windows. |
| 899 | |
Martin v. Löwis | d5845ec | 2005-12-30 12:31:38 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 900 | - Use -xcode=pic32 for CCSHARED on Solaris with SunPro. |
| 901 | |
Martin v. Löwis | 147fbe5 | 2005-08-07 21:09:30 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 902 | - Bug #1189330: configure did not correctly determine the necessary |
| 903 | value of LINKCC if python was built with GCC 4.0. |
| 904 | |
Trent Mick | 8321b42 | 2005-07-26 02:29:21 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 905 | - Upgrade Windows build to zlib 1.2.3 which eliminates a potential security |
| 906 | vulnerability in zlib 1.2.1 and 1.2.2. |
| 907 | |
Brett Cannon | 08cd598 | 2005-04-24 22:26:38 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 908 | - EXTRA_CFLAGS has been introduced as an environment variable to hold compiler |
| 909 | flags that change binary compatibility. Changes were also made to |
| 910 | distutils.sysconfig to also use the environment variable when used during |
Martin v. Löwis | d7c795e | 2005-04-25 07:14:03 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 911 | compilation of the interpreter and of C extensions through distutils. |
Brett Cannon | 08cd598 | 2005-04-24 22:26:38 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 912 | |
Bob Ippolito | ed23346 | 2005-03-29 13:47:59 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 913 | - SF patch 1171735: Darwin 8's headers are anal about POSIX compliance, |
| 914 | and linking has changed (prebinding is now deprecated, and libcc_dynamic |
| 915 | no longer exists). This configure patch makes things right. |
| 916 | |
Martin v. Löwis | e2713be | 2005-03-08 15:03:08 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 917 | - Bug #1158607: Build with --disable-unicode again. |
| 918 | |
Brett Cannon | 46d9623 | 2005-02-16 00:07:19 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 919 | - spwdmodule.c is built only if either HAVE_GETSPNAM or HAVE_HAVE_GETSPENT is |
| 920 | defined. Discovered as a result of not being able to build on OS X. |
| 921 | |
Brett Cannon | 516592f | 2004-12-07 00:42:59 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 922 | - setup.py now uses the directories specified in LDFLAGS using the -L option |
| 923 | and in CPPFLAGS using the -I option for adding library and include |
| 924 | directories, respectively, for compiling extension modules against. This has |
| 925 | led to the core being compiled using the values in CPPFLAGS. It also removes |
| 926 | the need for the special-casing of both DarwinPorts and Fink for darwin since |
| 927 | the proper directories can be specified in LDFLAGS (``-L/sw/lib`` for Fink, |
| 928 | ``-L/opt/local/lib`` for DarwinPorts) and CPPFLAGS (``-I/sw/include`` for |
| 929 | Fink, ``-I/opt/local/include`` for DarwinPorts). |
| 930 | |
Brett Cannon | 4380242 | 2005-02-10 20:48:03 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 931 | - Test in configure.in that checks for tzset no longer dependent on tm->tm_zone |
| 932 | to exist in the struct (not required by either ISO C nor the UNIX 2 spec). |
| 933 | Tests for sanity in tzname when HAVE_TZNAME defined were also defined. |
| 934 | Closes bug #1096244. Thanks Gregory Bond. |
| 935 | |
Raymond Hettinger | 4901a1f | 2004-12-02 08:59:14 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 936 | C API |
| 937 | ----- |
| 938 | |
Raymond Hettinger | beb3101 | 2005-08-16 03:47:52 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 939 | - Added a C API for set and frozenset objects. |
| 940 | |
Raymond Hettinger | 6651748 | 2004-12-03 11:45:13 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 941 | - Removed PyRange_New(). |
| 942 | |
Walter Dörwald | d1c1e10 | 2005-10-06 20:29:57 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 943 | - Patch #1313939: PyUnicode_DecodeCharmap() accepts a unicode string as the |
| 944 | mapping argument now. This string is used as a mapping table. Byte values |
| 945 | greater than the length of the string and 0xFFFE are treated as undefined |
| 946 | mappings. |
| 947 | |
Raymond Hettinger | 4901a1f | 2004-12-02 08:59:14 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 948 | |
| 949 | Tests |
| 950 | ----- |
| 951 | |
Martin v. Löwis | 4d394df | 2005-01-23 09:19:22 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 952 | - In test_os, st_?time is now truncated before comparing it with ST_?TIME. |
Raymond Hettinger | 4901a1f | 2004-12-02 08:59:14 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 953 | |
Hye-Shik Chang | aaa2f1d | 2005-12-10 17:44:27 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 954 | - Patch #1276356: New resource "urlfetch" is implemented. This enables |
| 955 | even impatient people to run tests that require remote files. |
| 956 | |
Brett Cannon | ced04e0 | 2005-02-13 22:53:22 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 957 | |
| 958 | Documentation |
| 959 | ------------- |
| 960 | |
Georg Brandl | 8cb3077 | 2006-01-20 09:34:29 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 961 | - Bug #1402224: Add warning to dl docs about crashes. |
| 962 | |
Georg Brandl | a3a93ae | 2006-01-20 09:14:36 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 963 | - Bug #1396471: Document that Windows' ftell() can return invalid |
| 964 | values for text files with UNIX-style line endings. |
| 965 | |
Georg Brandl | 3225242 | 2005-09-14 20:42:00 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 966 | - Bug #1274828: Document os.path.splitunc(). |
| 967 | |
Georg Brandl | 79c122f | 2005-08-24 07:31:33 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 968 | - Bug #1190204: Clarify which directories are searched by site.py. |
| 969 | |
Georg Brandl | 6f2bbd3 | 2005-08-24 07:26:55 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 970 | - Bug #1193849: Clarify os.path.expanduser() documentation. |
| 971 | |
Georg Brandl | f13c4ba | 2005-08-02 10:28:08 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 972 | - Bug #1243192: re.UNICODE and re.LOCALE affect \d, \D, \s and \S. |
| 973 | |
Georg Brandl | 150db73 | 2005-07-18 08:53:17 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 974 | - Bug #755617: Document the effects of os.chown() on Windows. |
| 975 | |
Georg Brandl | 379f99d | 2005-06-26 21:09:38 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 976 | - Patch #1180012: The documentation for modulefinder is now in the library reference. |
| 977 | |
| 978 | - Patch #1213031: Document that os.chown() accepts argument values of -1. |
| 979 | |
| 980 | - Bug #1190563: Document os.waitpid() return value with WNOHANG flag. |
| 981 | |
| 982 | - Bug #1175022: Correct the example code for property(). |
| 983 | |
Georg Brandl | 40c7165 | 2005-06-25 21:08:46 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 984 | - Document the IterableUserDict class in the UserDict module. |
| 985 | Closes bug #1166582. |
| 986 | |
Brett Cannon | ced04e0 | 2005-02-13 22:53:22 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 987 | - Remove all latent references for "Macintosh" that referred to semantics for |
| 988 | Mac OS 9 and change to reflect the state for OS X. |
| 989 | Closes patch #1095802. Thanks Jack Jansen. |
| 990 | |
Raymond Hettinger | 4901a1f | 2004-12-02 08:59:14 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 991 | Mac |
| 992 | --- |
| 993 | |
| 994 | |
Hye-Shik Chang | 4e42281 | 2005-07-17 02:36:59 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 995 | New platforms |
| 996 | ------------- |
| 997 | |
| 998 | - FreeBSD 7 support is added. |
| 999 | |
Raymond Hettinger | 4901a1f | 2004-12-02 08:59:14 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1000 | |
| 1001 | Tools/Demos |
| 1002 | ----------- |
| 1003 | |
Brett Cannon | acde734 | 2006-03-01 04:28:00 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1004 | - Created Misc/Vim/vim_syntax.py to auto-generate a python.vim file in that |
| 1005 | directory for syntax highlighting in Vim. Vim directory was added and placed |
| 1006 | vimrc to it (was previous up a level). |
| 1007 | |
Georg Brandl | 5689731 | 2005-08-24 18:32:30 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1008 | - Added two new files to Tools/scripts: pysource.py, which recursively |
| 1009 | finds Python source files, and findnocoding.py, which finds Python |
| 1010 | source files that need an encoding declaration. |
| 1011 | Patch #784089, credits to Oleg Broytmann. |
| 1012 | |
Georg Brandl | 379f99d | 2005-06-26 21:09:38 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1013 | - Bug #1072853: pindent.py used an uninitialized variable. |
| 1014 | |
Martin v. Löwis | ab9ec16 | 2005-04-09 10:53:34 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1015 | - Patch #1177597: Correct Complex.__init__. |
Raymond Hettinger | 4901a1f | 2004-12-02 08:59:14 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1016 | |
Barry Warsaw | 538561e | 2006-01-01 21:48:54 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1017 | - Fixed a display glitch in Pynche, which could cause the right arrow to |
| 1018 | wiggle over by a pixel. |
Raymond Hettinger | 4901a1f | 2004-12-02 08:59:14 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1019 | |
Skip Montanaro | e5d7f7f | 2002-09-20 14:16:59 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1020 | ---- |
| 1021 | |
| 1022 | **(For information about older versions, consult the HISTORY file.)** |