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Skip Montanaroe5d7f7f2002-09-20 14:16:59 +00003+++++++++++
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Benjamin Peterson5da7e7c2010-03-06 22:44:07 +00007What's New in Python 2.7 beta 1?
8================================
9
10*Release date: XXXX-XX-XX*
11
12Core and Builtins
13-----------------
14
Benjamin Peterson0dee9c12010-03-17 20:41:42 +000015- Issue #8164: Don't allow lambda functions to have a docstring.
16
Victor Stinner66644262010-03-10 22:30:19 +000017- Issue #3137: Don't ignore errors at startup, especially a keyboard interrupt
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +000018 (SIGINT). If an error occurs while importing the site module, the error is
19 printed and Python exits. Initialize the GIL before importing the site
Victor Stinner66644262010-03-10 22:30:19 +000020 module.
21
Benjamin Peterson5da7e7c2010-03-06 22:44:07 +000022Library
23-------
24
Matthias Klose8b411682010-03-16 10:48:52 +000025- Issue #4961: Inconsistent/wrong result of askyesno function in tkMessageBox
26 with Tcl/Tk-8.5.
27
Matthias Kloseb13d04c2010-03-15 17:44:12 +000028- Issue #8140: extend compileall to compile single files. Add -i option.
29
Matthias Klose358e7ff2010-03-15 13:42:23 +000030- Issue #7356: ctypes.util: Make parsing of ldconfig output independent of
31 the locale.
32
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +000033- Issue #7774: Set sys.executable to an empty string if ``argv[0]`` has been
Victor Stinner75227342010-03-12 14:30:26 +000034 set to an non existent program name and Python is unable to retrieve the real
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +000035 program name.
Victor Stinner75227342010-03-12 14:30:26 +000036
Vinay Sajipecfa08f2010-03-12 09:16:10 +000037- Issue #8117: logging: Improved algorithm for computing initial rollover time
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +000038 for ``TimedRotatingFileHandler`` by using the modification time of an
39 existing log file to compute the next rollover time. If the log file does
40 not exist, the current time is used as the basis for the computation.
Vinay Sajip9098ee42010-03-12 06:01:21 +000041
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +000042- Issue #6472: The ``xml.etree`` package is updated to ElementTree 1.3. The
Florent Xicluna3e8c1892010-03-11 14:36:19 +000043 cElementTree module is updated too.
44
Florent Xicluna85677612010-03-10 23:58:42 +000045- Issue #7880: Fix sysconfig when the python executable is a symbolic link.
46
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +000047- Issue #7624: Fix ``isinstance(foo(), collections.Callable)`` for old-style
Florent Xicluna47627d52010-03-08 15:20:28 +000048 classes.
49
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +000050- Issue #7143: email: ``get_payload()`` used to strip any trailing newline from
51 a base64 transfer-encoded payload *after* decoding it; it no longer does.
52 This is a behavior change, so email's minor version number is now bumped, to
53 version 4.0.2, for the 2.7 release.
R. David Murray4617e502010-03-08 02:04:06 +000054
Mark Dickinson154b7ad2010-03-07 16:24:45 +000055Extension Modules
56-----------------
57
Matthias Klose54cc5392010-03-15 12:46:18 +000058- Issue #6949: Allow the _bsddb extension to be built with db-4.8.x.
59
Matthias Klose817acef2010-03-15 00:02:36 +000060- Issue #8142: Update libffi to the 3.0.9 release.
61
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +000062- Issue #1530559: When passing a non-integer argument to struct.pack with *any*
63 integer format code (one of 'bBhHiIlLqQ'), struct.pack attempts to use the
64 argument's __int__ method to convert to an integer before packing. It also
65 produces a DeprecationWarning in this case. (In Python 2.6, the behaviour
66 was inconsistent: __int__ was used for some integer codes but not for others,
67 and the set of integer codes for which it was used differed between native
68 packing and standard packing.)
Mark Dickinson154b7ad2010-03-07 16:24:45 +000069
Antoine Pitrou02b3f0a2010-03-13 21:21:30 +000070Tools/Demos
71-----------
72
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +000073- Issue #7993: Add a test of IO packet processing bandwidth to ccbench. It
74 measures the number of UDP packets processed per second depending on the
75 number of background CPU-bound Python threads.
Benjamin Peterson5da7e7c2010-03-06 22:44:07 +000076
Benjamin Peterson11d93232010-03-14 14:24:31 +000077Build
78-----
79
Martin v. Löwis24e4e162010-03-15 13:00:17 +000080- Issue #6716: Quote -x arguments of compileall in MSI installer.
81
Benjamin Peterson11d93232010-03-14 14:24:31 +000082- Issue #7705: Fix linking on FreeBSD.
83
Florent Xicluna3cc8f212010-03-15 18:08:58 +000084Tests
85-----
86
87- Issue #7783: test.test_support.open_urlresource invalidates the outdated
88 files from the local cache.
89
R. David Murray4617e502010-03-08 02:04:06 +000090
Benjamin Peterson2d798ac2010-02-06 18:26:27 +000091What's New in Python 2.7 alpha 4?
92=================================
93
Benjamin Peterson8e7c1172010-03-06 20:34:14 +000094*Release date: 2010-03-06*
Benjamin Peterson2d798ac2010-02-06 18:26:27 +000095
96Core and Builtins
97-----------------
98
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +000099- Issue #7544: Preallocate thread memory before creating the thread to avoid a
100 fatal error in low memory condition.
Victor Stinner71fb87e2010-03-03 23:20:25 +0000101
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000102- Issue #7820: The parser tokenizer restores all bytes in the right if the BOM
103 check fails.
Victor Stinnerd23d3932010-03-02 23:20:02 +0000104
Eric Smith2d9856d2010-02-24 14:15:36 +0000105- Issue #7309: Fix unchecked attribute access when converting
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000106 UnicodeEncodeError, UnicodeDecodeError, and UnicodeTranslateError to strings.
Eric Smith2d9856d2010-02-24 14:15:36 +0000107
Ezio Melotti32125152010-02-25 17:36:04 +0000108- Issue #7649: "u'%c' % char" now behaves like "u'%s' % char" and raises a
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000109 UnicodeDecodeError if 'char' is a byte string that can't be decoded using the
110 default encoding.
Victor Stinnerf20f9c22010-02-23 23:16:07 +0000111
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000112- Issue #6902: Fix problem with built-in types format incorrectly with 0
113 padding.
Eric Smith87bcb242010-02-23 00:11:16 +0000114
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000115- Issue #2560: Remove an unnecessary 'for' loop from ``my_fgets()`` in
Andrew M. Kuchlingb64d6132010-02-22 22:48:41 +0000116 Parser/myreadline.c.
117
Eric Smithf32d4ac2010-02-22 18:33:47 +0000118- Issue #7988: Fix default alignment to be right aligned for
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000119 ``complex.__format__``. Now it matches other numeric types.
Eric Smithf32d4ac2010-02-22 18:33:47 +0000120
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000121- Issue #5211: The complex type no longer uses implicit coercion in mixed-type
122 binary arithmetic operations.
Mark Dickinson82b34c52010-02-21 12:57:35 +0000123
Benjamin Peterson2d798ac2010-02-06 18:26:27 +0000124Library
125-------
126
Florent Xicluna0b9a18a2010-03-06 11:01:08 +0000127- Issue #6906: Tk should not set Unicode environment variables on Windows.
128
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000129- Issue #1054943: Fix ``unicodedata.normalize('NFC', text)`` for the Public
Ezio Melotti8122bdd2010-03-14 10:13:49 +0000130 Review Issue #29 (http://unicode.org/review/pr-29.html).
Victor Stinner7c924ec2010-03-04 12:09:33 +0000131
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000132- Issue #7494: Fix a crash in ``_lsprof`` (cProfile) after clearing the profiler,
Victor Stinner56a51532010-03-04 00:10:12 +0000133 reset also the pointer to the current pointer context.
134
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000135- Issue #7232: Add support for the context manager protocol to the
136 ``tarfile.TarFile`` class.
Lars Gustäbel64581042010-03-03 11:55:48 +0000137
Barry Warsaw08a8fb32010-03-01 21:46:51 +0000138- Issue #7250: Fix info leak of os.environ across multi-run uses of
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000139 ``wsgiref.handlers.CGIHandler``.
Barry Warsaw08a8fb32010-03-01 21:46:51 +0000140
Florent Xiclunae7901c52010-03-01 20:45:01 +0000141- Issue #1729305: Fix doctest to handle encode error with "backslashreplace".
Florent Xicluna2a903b22010-02-27 13:31:23 +0000142
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000143- Issue #691291: ``codecs.open()`` should not convert end of lines on reading
144 and writing.
Florent Xicluna82aa01f2010-02-27 11:19:18 +0000145
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000146- Issue #7975: Correct regression in dict methods supported by bsddb.dbshelve.
R. David Murray48605be2010-02-24 02:31:27 +0000147
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000148- Issue #7959: ctypes callback functions are now registered correctly with the
149 cycle garbage collector.
Thomas Heller92bd0592010-02-23 20:11:44 +0000150
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000151- Issue #7970: ``email.Generator.flatten`` now correctly flattens
152 message/rfc822 messages parsed by ``email.Parser.HeaderParser``.
R. David Murray51f12042010-02-21 04:23:00 +0000153
Ezio Melotti4cc80ca2010-02-20 08:09:39 +0000154- Issue #3426: ``os.path.abspath`` now returns unicode when its arg is unicode.
155
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000156- Issue #7633: In the decimal module, ``Context`` class methods (with the
157 exception of canonical and is_canonical) now accept instances of int and long
158 wherever a Decimal instance is accepted, and implicitly convert that argument
159 to Decimal. Previously only some arguments were converted.
Mark Dickinson6d8effb2010-02-18 14:27:02 +0000160
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000161- Issue #6003: Add an argument to ``zipfile.Zipfile.writestr`` to specify the
162 compression type.
Ezio Melotti8f6a2872010-02-10 21:40:33 +0000163
Michael Foorddb43b5a2010-02-10 14:25:12 +0000164- Issue #7893: ``unittest.TextTestResult`` is made public and a ``resultclass``
165 argument added to the TextTestRunner constructor allowing a different result
166 class to be used without having to subclass.
Ezio Melotti8f6a2872010-02-10 21:40:33 +0000167
Ezio Melotti4cc80ca2010-02-20 08:09:39 +0000168- Issue #7588: ``unittest.TextTestResult.getDescription`` now includes the test
Michael Foorddb43b5a2010-02-10 14:25:12 +0000169 name in failure reports even if the test has a docstring.
Ronald Oussorendd25e862010-02-07 20:18:02 +0000170
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000171- Issue #5801: Remove spurious empty lines in wsgiref.
Tarek Ziadéb8708a22010-02-23 05:53:05 +0000172
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000173- Issue #1537721: Add a ``writeheader()`` method to ``csv.DictWriter``.
Dirkjan Ochtman86148172010-02-23 21:09:52 +0000174
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000175- Issue #7427: Improve the representation of httplib.BadStatusLine exceptions.
Dirkjan Ochtmanebc73dc2010-02-24 04:49:00 +0000176
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000177- Issue #7481: When a ``threading.Thread`` failed to start it would leave the
178 instance stuck in initial state and present in ``threading.enumerate()``.
Gregory P. Smith613c7a52010-02-28 18:36:09 +0000179
Gregory P. Smithcce211f2010-03-01 00:05:08 +0000180- Issue #1068268: The subprocess module now handles EINTR in internal
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000181 ``os.waitpid()`` and ``os.read()`` system calls where appropriate.
Gregory P. Smithcce211f2010-03-01 00:05:08 +0000182
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000183- Issue #6729: Add ``ctypes.c_ssize_t`` to represent ssize_t.
Gregory P. Smith3c699d32010-03-01 04:56:12 +0000184
Steven Betharde9330e72010-03-02 08:38:09 +0000185- Issue #6247: The argparse module has been added to the standard library.
186
Martin v. Löwis413fabc2010-02-18 09:22:20 +0000187Extension Modules
188-----------------
189
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000190- The sqlite3 module was updated to pysqlite 2.6.0. This fixes several obscure
Gerhard Häring3bbb6722010-03-05 09:12:37 +0000191 bugs and allows loading SQLite extensions from shared libraries.
192
Florent Xiclunae7901c52010-03-01 20:45:01 +0000193- Issue #7808: Fix reference leaks in _bsddb and related tests.
194
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000195- Issue #6544: Fix a reference leak in the kqueue implementation's error
Georg Brandlea370a92010-02-23 21:48:57 +0000196 handling.
197
Martin v. Löwis413fabc2010-02-18 09:22:20 +0000198- Stop providing crtassem.h symbols when compiling with Visual Studio 2010, as
199 msvcr100.dll is not a platform assembly anymore.
Benjamin Peterson2d798ac2010-02-06 18:26:27 +0000200
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000201- Issue #7242: On Solaris 9 and earlier calling ``os.fork()`` from within a
Gregory P. Smith9e5d1322010-03-01 01:22:39 +0000202 thread could raise an incorrect RuntimeError about not holding the import
203 lock. The import lock is now reinitialized after fork.
204
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000205- Issue #7999: ``os.setreuid()`` and ``os.setregid()`` would refuse to accept a
206 -1 parameter on some platforms such as OS X.
Gregory P. Smith6a65f852010-03-01 05:43:43 +0000207
Ezio Melotti8f6a2872010-02-10 21:40:33 +0000208Tests
209-----
210
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000211- Issue #7849: The utility ``test.test_support.check_warnings()`` verifies if
212 warnings are effectively raised. A new utility ``check_py3k_warnings()`` is
213 available.
Florent Xicluna6de9e932010-03-07 12:18:33 +0000214
Florent Xicluna985478d2010-03-06 18:52:52 +0000215- The four path modules (genericpath, macpath, ntpath, posixpath) share a
216 common TestCase for some tests: test_genericpath.CommonTest.
217
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000218- Print platform information when running the whole test suite, or using the
219 ``--verbose`` flag.
Florent Xicluna58526412010-03-06 17:24:36 +0000220
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000221- Issue #767675: Enable test_pep277 on POSIX platforms with Unicode-friendly
Florent Xiclunac0a9d412010-03-02 22:34:11 +0000222 filesystem encoding.
Florent Xicluna2db61fb2010-03-02 21:34:45 +0000223
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000224- Issue #6292: For the moment at least, the test suite runs cleanly if python
R. David Murrayf28fd242010-02-23 00:24:49 +0000225 is run with the -OO flag. Tests requiring docstrings are skipped.
226
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000227- Issue #7712: test_support gained a new ``temp_cwd`` context manager which is
228 now also used by regrtest to run all the tests in a temporary directory. The
229 original CWD is saved in ``test.test_support.SAVEDCWD``. Thanks to Florent
230 Xicluna who helped with the patch.
Ezio Melotti8f6a2872010-02-10 21:40:33 +0000231
Martin v. Löwis5e2dd862010-02-15 08:32:00 +0000232Build
233-----
234
Martin v. Löwis7875ef62010-02-15 21:41:12 +0000235- Issue #3920, #7903: Define _BSD_SOURCE on OpenBSD 4.4 through 4.9.
Martin v. Löwis5e2dd862010-02-15 08:32:00 +0000236
Ezio Melotti8f6a2872010-02-10 21:40:33 +0000237
Benjamin Petersondd6d92a2010-01-09 17:30:31 +0000238What's New in Python 2.7 alpha 3?
239=================================
240
Benjamin Petersona7be9d22010-02-06 16:37:32 +0000241*Release date: 2010-02-06*
Benjamin Petersondd6d92a2010-01-09 17:30:31 +0000242
243Core and Builtins
244-----------------
245
Antoine Pitroubb445a12010-02-05 17:05:54 +0000246- Issue #5677: Explicitly forbid write operations on read-only file objects,
247 and read operations on write-only file objects. On Windows, the system C
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000248 library would return a bogus result; on Solaris, it was possible to crash the
249 interpreter. Patch by Stefan Krah.
Antoine Pitroubb445a12010-02-05 17:05:54 +0000250
Barry Warsawb1e66ee2010-02-05 18:45:25 +0000251- Issue #7853: Normalize exceptions before they are passed to a context
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000252 manager's ``__exit__()`` method.
Benjamin Peterson565d7852010-02-05 02:12:14 +0000253
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000254- Issue #7385: Fix a crash in ``PyMemoryView_FromObject()`` when
255 ``PyObject_GetBuffer()`` fails. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
Antoine Pitrou526e4212010-02-02 22:36:17 +0000256
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000257- Issue #7819: Check ``sys.call_tracing()`` arguments types.
Victor Stinnerb4b0a292010-01-31 22:32:15 +0000258
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000259- Issue #7788: Fix an interpreter crash produced by deleting a list slice with
260 very large step value.
Mark Dickinson36ecd672010-01-29 17:11:39 +0000261
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000262- Issue #7766: Change ``sys.getwindowsversion()`` return value to a named tuple
263 and add the additional members returned in an OSVERSIONINFOEX structure. The
264 new members are service_pack_major, service_pack_minor, suite_mask, and
265 product_type.
Eric Smithee931b72010-01-27 00:28:29 +0000266
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000267- Issue #7561: Operations on empty bytearrays (such as ``int(bytearray())``)
268 could crash in many places because of the ``PyByteArray_AS_STRING()`` macro
269 returning NULL. The macro now returns a statically allocated empty string
270 instead.
Antoine Pitroue80a6a42010-01-17 12:26:20 +0000271
Antoine Pitrou64672132010-01-13 07:55:48 +0000272- Issue #7622: Improve the split(), rsplit(), splitlines() and replace()
273 methods of bytes, bytearray and unicode objects by using a common
274 implementation based on stringlib's fast search. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
275
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000276- Issue #7632: Fix various str -> float conversion bugs present in 2.7 alpha 2,
277 including:
Mark Dickinson8efef5c2010-01-12 22:23:56 +0000278
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000279 (1) a serious 'wrong output' bug that could occur for long (> 40 digit) input
280 strings,
281 (2) a crash in dtoa.c that occurred in debug builds when parsing certain long
282 numeric strings corresponding to subnormal values,
283 (3) a memory leak for some values large enough to cause overflow, and
284 (4) a number of flaws that could lead to incorrectly rounded results.
285
286- Issue #7319, #7770: Silence ``DeprecationWarning`` by default when the -3
287 option is not used.
Brett Cannon6fdd3dc2010-01-10 02:56:19 +0000288
Alexandre Vassalottiee936a22010-01-09 23:35:54 +0000289- Issue #2335: Backport set literals syntax from Python 3.x.
290
Alexandre Vassalotti7a8df802010-01-11 23:13:49 +0000291- Issue #2333: Backport set and dict comprehensions syntax from Python 3.x.
292
Alexandre Vassalotti69eb5162010-01-11 23:17:10 +0000293- Issue #1967: Backport dictionary views from Python 3.x.
294
Benjamin Petersondd6d92a2010-01-09 17:30:31 +0000295Library
296-------
297
R. David Murray63e4fd72010-02-10 22:42:04 +0000298- Issue #7835: shelve should no longer produce mysterious warnings during
299 interpreter shutdown.
300
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000301- Issue #2746: Don't escape ampersands and angle brackets ("&", "<", ">") in
302 XML processing instructions and comments. These raw characters are allowed
303 by the XML specification, and are necessary when outputting e.g. PHP code in
304 a processing instruction. Patch by Neil Muller.
Antoine Pitrou42fb6ab2010-02-09 17:08:05 +0000305
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000306- Issue #7869: logging: Improved diagnostic for format-time errors.
Vinay Sajip64e8b972010-02-07 12:56:54 +0000307
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000308- Issue #7868: logging: Added loggerClass attribute to Manager.
Vinay Sajip657514a2010-02-07 01:37:08 +0000309
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000310- Issue #7851: logging: Clarification on logging configuration files.
Vinay Sajip0e6e97d2010-02-04 20:23:45 +0000311
Antoine Pitroud840e512010-02-04 20:20:18 +0000312- Issue #4772: Raise a ValueError when an unknown Bluetooth protocol is
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000313 specified, rather than fall through to AF_PACKET (in the ``socket`` module).
Antoine Pitroud840e512010-02-04 20:20:18 +0000314 Also, raise ValueError rather than TypeError when an unknown TIPC address
315 type is specified. Patch by Brian Curtin.
316
Vinay Sajip28c382f2010-02-04 18:48:53 +0000317- logging: Implemented PEP 391.
318
Antoine Pitrouf3fa0742010-01-31 22:26:04 +0000319- Issue #6939: Fix file I/O objects in the `io` module to keep the original
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000320 file position when calling `truncate()`. It would previously change the file
321 position to the given argument, which goes against the tradition of
Antoine Pitrouf3fa0742010-01-31 22:26:04 +0000322 ftruncate() and other truncation APIs. Patch by Pascal Chambon.
323
Benjamin Petersone06f7112010-01-28 02:15:02 +0000324- UserDict is now a new-style class.
325
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000326- Issue #7610: Reworked implementation of the internal ``zipfile.ZipExtFile``
327 class used to represent files stored inside an archive. The new
328 implementation is significantly faster and can be wrapped in a
329 ``io.BufferedReader`` object for more speedups. It also solves an issue
330 where interleaved calls to ``read()`` and ``readline()`` give wrong results.
331 Patch by Nir Aides.
Antoine Pitrou94c33eb2010-01-27 20:59:50 +0000332
Benjamin Peterson2deb5c72010-01-27 02:16:42 +0000333- Issue #7792: Registering non-classes to ABCs raised an obscure error.
334
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000335- Removed the deprecated functions ``verify()`` and ``vereq()`` from
336 Lib/test/test_support.py.
Ezio Melotti82230f92010-01-25 12:37:02 +0000337
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000338- Issue #7773: Fix an UnboundLocalError in ``platform.linux_distribution()``
339 when the release file is empty.
Benjamin Petersona43f34c2010-01-25 03:31:13 +0000340
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000341- Issue #7748: Since unicode values are supported for some metadata options in
342 Distutils, the DistributionMetadata get_* methods will now return an utf-8
343 encoded string for them. This ensures that the upload and register commands
344 send the correct values to PyPI without any error.
Tarek Ziadéf14c7fc2010-01-24 00:33:32 +0000345
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000346- Issue #1670765: Prevent ``email.generator.Generator`` from re-wrapping
R. David Murrayed44dfa2010-01-16 05:15:17 +0000347 headers in multipart/signed MIME parts, which fixes one of the sources of
348 invalid modifications to such parts by Generator.
349
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000350- Issue #7701: Fix crash in ``binascii.b2a_uu()`` in debug mode when given a
Antoine Pitrouc391ad02010-01-15 00:18:00 +0000351 1-byte argument. Patch by Victor Stinner.
352
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000353- Issue #3299: Fix possible crash in the _sre module when given bad argument
354 values in debug mode. Patch by Victor Stinner.
Antoine Pitrouefdddd32010-01-14 17:25:24 +0000355
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000356- Issue #7703: Add support for the new buffer API to functions of the binascii
357 module. Backported from py3k by Florent Xicluna, with some additional tests.
Antoine Pitroufd3a60d2010-01-14 16:27:09 +0000358
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000359- Issue #2846: Add support for gzip.GzipFile reading zero-padded files. Patch
360 by Brian Curtin.
Antoine Pitrou5a9112c2010-01-13 14:32:10 +0000361
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000362- Issue #5827: Make sure that normpath preserves unicode. Initial patch by
363 Matt Giuca.
Ezio Melottib5689de2010-01-12 03:32:05 +0000364
Tarek Ziadédc0f4872010-01-11 22:50:29 +0000365- Issue #5372: Drop the reuse of .o files in Distutils' ccompiler (since
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000366 Extension extra options may change the output without changing the .c file).
367 Initial patch by Collin Winter.
Tarek Ziadédc0f4872010-01-11 22:50:29 +0000368
Matthias Klose0d948ac2010-01-22 00:39:04 +0000369Extension Modules
370-----------------
371
372- Expat: Fix DoS via XML document with malformed UTF-8 sequences
373 (CVE_2009_3560).
374
Antoine Pitrou8c510e72010-01-13 11:47:49 +0000375Build
376-----
377
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000378- Issue #7632: When Py_USING_MEMORY_DEBUGGER is defined, disable the private
379 memory allocation scheme in dtoa.c and use PyMem_Malloc and PyMem_Free
380 instead. Also disable caching of powers of 5.
Mark Dickinson9481c572010-01-17 20:57:56 +0000381
Ronald Oussorena55af9a2010-01-17 16:25:57 +0000382- Issue #7658: Ensure that the new pythonw executable works on OSX 10.4
383
384- Issue #7714: Use ``gcc -dumpversion`` to detect the version of GCC on
385 MacOSX.
386
Antoine Pitrou8c510e72010-01-13 11:47:49 +0000387- Issue #7661: Allow ctypes to be built from a non-ASCII directory path.
388 Patch by Florent Xicluna.
389
Antoine Pitrouc07336c2010-01-18 21:15:21 +0000390Tools/Demos
391-----------
392
393- iobench (a file I/O benchmark) and ccbench (a concurrency benchmark) were
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000394 added to the ``Tools`` directory. They were previously living in the
Antoine Pitrouc07336c2010-01-18 21:15:21 +0000395 sandbox.
396
R. David Murrayce6e4b02010-02-06 04:27:21 +0000397Tests
398-----
399
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000400- issue #7728: test_timeout was changed to use ``test_support.bind_port()``
R. David Murrayce6e4b02010-02-06 04:27:21 +0000401 instead of a hard coded port.
402
Matthias Klose626d92a2010-01-31 16:05:13 +0000403Documentation
404-------------
Victor Stinnerf20f9c22010-02-23 23:16:07 +0000405
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000406- Updated "Using Python" documentation to include description of CPython's -J,
407 -U and -X options.
Barry Warsawb1e66ee2010-02-05 18:45:25 +0000408
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000409- Updated Python manual page (options -B, -O0, -s, environment variables
Matthias Klose626d92a2010-01-31 16:05:13 +0000410 PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE, PYTHONNOUSERSITE).
411
Benjamin Petersondd6d92a2010-01-09 17:30:31 +0000412
Benjamin Peterson4f51baf2009-12-05 18:40:02 +0000413What's New in Python 2.7 alpha 2?
414=================================
415
Benjamin Petersonaa7e51f2010-01-09 16:34:06 +0000416*Release date: 2010-01-09*
Benjamin Peterson4f51baf2009-12-05 18:40:02 +0000417
418Core and Builtins
419-----------------
420
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000421- The ``__complex__()`` method is now looked up on the class of instances to
422 make it consistent with other special methods.
Benjamin Petersonecdae192010-01-04 00:43:01 +0000423
Antoine Pitrou5b7139a2010-01-02 21:12:58 +0000424- Issue #7462: Implement the stringlib fast search algorithm for the `rfind`,
425 `rindex`, `rsplit` and `rpartition` methods. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
426
Mark Dickinson1b34d252010-01-01 17:27:30 +0000427- Issue #5080: A number of functions and methods previously produced a
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000428 DeprecationWarning when passed a float argument where an integer was expected.
429 These functions and methods now raise TypeError instead. The majority of the
430 effects of this change are in the extension modules, but some core functions
431 and methods are affected: notably the 'chr', 'range' and 'xrange' builtins,
432 and many unicode/str methods.
Mark Dickinson1b34d252010-01-01 17:27:30 +0000433
Benjamin Peterson0f02d392009-12-30 19:34:10 +0000434- Issue #7604: Deleting an unset slotted attribute did not raise an
435 AttributeError.
436
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000437- Issue #7534: Fix handling of IEEE specials (infinities, nans, negative zero)
438 in ** operator. The behaviour now conforms to that described in C99 Annex F.
Mark Dickinson99d652e2009-12-30 12:12:23 +0000439
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000440- Issue #7579: The msvcrt module now has docstrings for all its functions.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcc8a2ce72009-12-29 23:06:17 +0000441
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc8645a5c2009-12-29 22:03:38 +0000442- Issue #7413: Passing '\0' as the separator to datetime.datetime.isoformat()
443 used to drop the time part of the result.
444
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000445- Issue #1811: Improve accuracy and cross-platform consistency for true division
446 of integers: the result of a/b is now correctly rounded for ints a and b (at
447 least on IEEE 754 platforms), and in particular does not depend on the
448 internal representation of a long.
Mark Dickinson46572832009-12-27 14:55:57 +0000449
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000450- Issue #6108: ``unicode(exception)`` and ``str(exception)`` should return the
451 same message when only ``__str__()`` (and not ``__unicode__()``) is overridden
452 in the subclass.
Ezio Melottif84caf42009-12-24 22:25:17 +0000453
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000454- Issue #6834: Replace the implementation for the 'python' and 'pythonw'
Ronald Oussoren92919a62009-12-24 13:30:58 +0000455 executables on OSX.
456
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000457 These executables now work properly with the arch(1) command: ``arch -ppc
458 python`` will start a universal binary version of python in PPC mode (unlike
459 previous releases).
Ronald Oussoren92919a62009-12-24 13:30:58 +0000460
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000461- Issue #1680159: Unicode coercion during an 'in' operation no longer masks the
462 underlying error when the coercion fails for the left hand operand.
R. David Murray0a0a1a82009-12-14 16:28:26 +0000463
Benjamin Peterson4895af42009-12-13 16:36:53 +0000464- Issue #7491: Metaclass's __cmp__ method was ignored.
465
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000466- Issue #7466: Segmentation fault when the garbage collector is called in the
467 middle of populating a tuple. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
Antoine Pitrou2a08b422009-12-13 16:18:14 +0000468
R. David Murrayc7298ff2009-12-14 21:57:39 +0000469
Benjamin Peterson4f51baf2009-12-05 18:40:02 +0000470Library
471-------
472
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000473- Issue #6963: Added "maxtasksperchild" argument to ``multiprocessing.Pool``,
474 allowing for a maximum number of tasks within the pool to be completed by the
475 worker before that worker is terminated, and a new one created to replace it.
Jesse Noller654ade32010-01-27 03:05:57 +0000476
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000477- Issue #7617: Make sure distutils.unixccompiler.UnixCCompiler recognizes gcc
478 when it has a fully qualified configuration prefix. Initial patch by
479 Arfrever.
Tarek Ziadéc25417f2010-01-08 23:42:23 +0000480
Antoine Pitrou80157252010-01-08 19:20:17 +0000481- Issue #7092: Remove py3k warning when importing cPickle. 2to3 handles
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000482 renaming of `cPickle` to `pickle`. The warning was annoying since there's no
483 alternative to cPickle if you care about performance. Patch by Florent
Antoine Pitrou80157252010-01-08 19:20:17 +0000484 Xicluna.
485
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000486- Issue #7455: Fix possible crash in cPickle on invalid input. Patch by Victor
487 Stinner.
Antoine Pitrou0d423b82010-01-07 17:46:49 +0000488
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000489- Issue #7092: Fix the DeprecationWarnings emitted by the standard library when
490 using the -3 flag. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
Antoine Pitroub9d49632010-01-04 23:22:44 +0000491
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000492- Issue #7471: Improve the performance of GzipFile's buffering mechanism, and
493 make it implement the ``io.BufferedIOBase`` ABC to allow for further speedups
494 by wrapping it in an ``io.BufferedReader``. Patch by Nir Aides.
Antoine Pitrou673ddf92010-01-03 22:29:56 +0000495
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000496- Issue #3972: ``httplib.HTTPConnection`` now accepts an optional source_address
Gregory P. Smith9d325212010-01-03 02:06:07 +0000497 parameter to allow specifying where your connections come from.
498
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000499- ``socket.create_connection()`` now accepts an optional source_address
500 parameter.
Gregory P. Smith79a3eb12010-01-03 01:29:44 +0000501
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000502- Issue #5511: ``zipfile.ZipFile`` can now be used as a context manager.
Ezio Melotti569e61f2009-12-30 06:14:51 +0000503 Initial patch by Brian Curtin.
504
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000505- Distutils now correctly identifies the build architecture as "x86_64" when
506 building on OSX 10.6 without "-arch" flags.
Ronald Oussorenca8e7ec2009-12-24 14:50:35 +0000507
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000508- Issue #7556: Distutils' msvc9compiler now opens the MSVC Manifest file in text
509 mode.
Tarek Ziadé0479eb52009-12-21 23:37:44 +0000510
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000511- Issue #7552: Removed line feed in the base64 Authorization header in the
512 Distutils upload command to avoid an error when PyPI reads it. This occurs on
513 long passwords. Initial patch by JP St. Pierre.
Tarek Ziadé2421d562009-12-20 23:23:34 +0000514
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000515- Issue #7231: urllib2 cannot handle https with proxy requiring auth. Patch by
516 Tatsuhiro Tsujikawa.
Senthil Kumaran7713acf2009-12-20 06:05:13 +0000517
Benjamin Petersonddd392c2009-12-13 19:19:07 +0000518- Issue #7349: Make methods of file objects in the io module accept None as an
519 argument where file-like objects (ie StringIO and BytesIO) accept them to mean
520 the same as passing no argument.
521
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000522- Issue #7348: ``StringIO.StringIO.readline(-1)`` now acts as if it got no
523 argument like other file objects.
Benjamin Petersonc4771d22009-12-13 17:31:31 +0000524
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000525- Issue #7357: tarfile no longer suppresses fatal extraction errors by default.
Lars Gustäbel92ca7562009-12-13 11:32:27 +0000526
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000527- Issue #7470: logging: Fix bug in Unicode encoding fallback.
Vinay Sajip5cc4e2a2009-12-11 09:16:01 +0000528
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000529- Issue #5949: Fixed IMAP4_SSL hang when the IMAP server response is missing
530 proper end-of-line termination.
R. David Murray93321f32009-12-09 15:15:31 +0000531
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000532- Issue #7457: Added a read_pkg_file method to
533 ``distutils.dist.DistributionMetadata``.
Benjamin Peterson4f51baf2009-12-05 18:40:02 +0000534
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000535- Issue #3745: Undo the 2.7a1 change to have hashlib to reject unicode and non
536 buffer API supporting objects as input. That behavior is for 3.x only.
Gregory P. Smithfe32d302010-01-02 22:42:50 +0000537
Georg Brandl740cdc32009-12-28 08:34:58 +0000538C-API
539-----
540
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000541- Issue #7767: New function ``PyLong_AsLongLongAndOverflow()`` added, analogous
542 to ``PyLong_AsLongAndOverflow()``.
Mark Dickinsona36507c2010-01-30 10:08:33 +0000543
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000544- Issue #5080: The argument parsing functions ``PyArg_ParseTuple()``,
545 ``PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords()``, ``PyArg_VaParse()``,
546 ``PyArg_VaParseTupleAndKeywords()`` and ``PyArg_Parse()`` no longer accept
547 float arguments for integer format codes (other than 'L'): previously an
548 attempt to pass a float resulted in a DeprecationWarning; now it gives a
549 TypeError. For the 'L' format code (which previously had no warning) there is
550 now a DeprecationWarning.
Mark Dickinson1b34d252010-01-01 17:27:30 +0000551
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000552- Issue #7033: Function ``PyErr_NewExceptionWithDoc()`` added.
Georg Brandl740cdc32009-12-28 08:34:58 +0000553
Martin v. Löwisb4261d52009-12-21 19:29:59 +0000554Build
555-----
556
Benjamin Petersonedfe72f2010-01-01 15:21:13 +0000557- Issue #6491: Allow --with-dbmliborder to specify that no dbms will be built.
558
Benjamin Petersonb4abef62010-01-01 15:18:38 +0000559- Issue #6943: Use pkg-config to find the libffi headers when the
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000560 ``--with-system-ffi`` flag is used.
Benjamin Petersonb4abef62010-01-01 15:18:38 +0000561
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000562- Issue #7609: Add a ``--with-system-expat`` option that causes the system's
563 expat library to be used for the pyexpat module instead of the one included
564 with Python.
Benjamin Peterson2c196742009-12-31 03:17:18 +0000565
Benjamin Peterson500ce232009-12-30 02:58:50 +0000566- Issue #7589: Only build the nis module when the correct header files are
567 found.
568
Martin v. Löwisf477b932010-01-02 09:25:21 +0000569- Switch to OpenSSL 0.9.8l and sqlite 3.6.21 on Windows.
R. David Murray93321f32009-12-09 15:15:31 +0000570
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000571- Issue #7541: when using ``python-config`` with a framework install the
572 compiler might use the wrong library.
Ronald Oussorenb5afe542009-12-24 14:17:19 +0000573
R. David Murrayc7298ff2009-12-14 21:57:39 +0000574Tests
575-----
576
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000577- Issue #7376: Instead of running a self-test (which was failing) when called
R. David Murray77e48ba2009-12-20 16:46:06 +0000578 with no arguments, doctest.py now gives a usage message.
579
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000580- Issue #7396: Fix regrtest -s, which was broken by the -j enhancement.
R. David Murray98e3df32009-12-16 11:49:46 +0000581
R. David Murrayc7298ff2009-12-14 21:57:39 +0000582- Issue #7498: test_multiprocessing now uses test_support.find_unused_port
583 instead of a hardcoded port number in test_rapid_restart.
584
585
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +0000586What's New in Python 2.7 alpha 1
587================================
588
Benjamin Peterson3513c872009-12-05 18:48:13 +0000589*Release date: 2009-12-05*
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +0000590
591Core and Builtins
592-----------------
593
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000594- Issue #7419: ``locale.setlocale()`` could crash the interpreter on Windows
595 when called with invalid values.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd7288712009-12-01 21:51:04 +0000596
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000597- Issue #3382: 'F' formatting for float and complex now convert the result to
598 upper case. This only affects 'inf' and 'nan', since 'f' no longer converts
599 to 'g' for large values.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd7288712009-12-01 21:51:04 +0000600
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000601- Remove switch from "%f" formatting to "%g" formatting for floats larger than
602 1e50 in absolute value.
Mark Dickinson9dd5e162009-11-23 20:54:09 +0000603
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000604- Remove restrictions on precision when formatting floats. E.g., "%.120g" %
605 1e-100 used to raise OverflowError, but now gives the requested 120
606 significant digits instead.
Mark Dickinson18cfada2009-11-23 18:46:41 +0000607
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000608- Add Py3k warnings for parameter names in parentheses.
Benjamin Peterson89b1a5c2009-11-19 22:58:01 +0000609
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000610- Issue #7362: Give a proper error message for ``def f((x)=3): pass``.
Benjamin Peterson89b1a5c2009-11-19 22:58:01 +0000611
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000612- Issue #7085: Fix crash when importing some extensions in a thread on MacOSX
613 10.6.
Ronald Oussoren315cd0c2009-11-19 16:25:21 +0000614
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000615- Issue #7117: ``repr(x)`` for a float x returns a result based on the shortest
616 decimal string that's guaranteed to round back to x under correct rounding
617 (with round-half-to-even rounding mode). Previously it gave a string based on
618 rounding x to 17 decimal digits. repr(x) for a complex number behaves
619 similarly. On platforms where the correctly-rounded strtod and dtoa code is
620 not supported (see below), repr is unchanged.
Mark Dickinsonb678de82009-11-19 18:41:49 +0000621
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000622- Issue #7117: On almost all platforms: float-to-string and string-to-float
623 conversions within Python are now correctly rounded. Places these conversions
624 occur include: str for floats and complex numbers; the float and complex
625 constructors; old-style and new-style numeric formatting; serialization and
626 deserialization of floats and complex numbers using marshal, pickle and json;
627 parsing of float and imaginary literals in Python code; Decimal-to-float
628 conversion.
Mark Dickinsonb678de82009-11-19 18:41:49 +0000629
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000630 The conversions use a Python-adapted version of David Gay's well-known dtoa.c,
631 providing correctly-rounded strtod and dtoa C functions. This code is
632 supported on Windows, and on Unix-like platforms using gcc, icc or suncc as
633 the C compiler. There may be a small number of platforms on which correct
634 operation of this code cannot be guaranteed, so the code is not used: notably,
635 this applies to platforms where the C double format is not IEEE 754 binary64,
636 and to platforms on x86 hardware where the x87 FPU is set to 64-bit precision
637 and Python's configure script is unable to determine how to change the FPU
638 precision. On these platforms conversions use the platform strtod and dtoa,
639 as before.
Mark Dickinsonb678de82009-11-19 18:41:49 +0000640
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000641- Issue #7117: Backport round implementation from Python 3.x. ``round()`` now
642 uses the correctly-rounded string <-> float conversions described above (when
643 available), and so produces correctly rounded results that will display nicely
644 under the float repr. There are two related small changes: (1) round now
645 accepts any class with an ``__index__()`` method for its second argument (but
646 no longer accepts floats for the second argument), and (2) an excessively
647 large second integer argument (e.g., ``round(1.234, 10**100)``) no longer
648 raises an exception.
Mark Dickinsonbd15a062009-11-18 19:33:35 +0000649
Philip Jenveyfab8be22009-11-17 02:42:26 +0000650- Issue #1757126: Fix the cyrillic-asian alias for the ptcp154 encoding.
651
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000652- Fix several issues with ``compile()``. The input can now contain Windows and
653 Mac newlines and is no longer required to end in a newline.
Benjamin Petersone36199b2009-11-12 23:39:44 +0000654
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000655- Remove length limitation when constructing a complex number from a unicode
656 string.
Mark Dickinsonc04c7c52009-10-26 22:28:14 +0000657
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000658- Issue #7244: ``itertools.izip_longest()`` no longer ignores exceptions raised
659 during the formation of an output tuple.
Raymond Hettingerfa7dadd2009-11-01 20:45:16 +0000660
Mark Dickinson8d87dc02009-10-25 20:39:06 +0000661- Issue #1087418: Boost performance of bitwise operations for longs.
662
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000663- Issue #1722344: ``threading._shutdown()`` is now called in ``Py_Finalize()``,
664 which fixes the problem of some exceptions being thrown at shutdown when the
665 interpreter is killed. Patch by Adam Olsen.
Antoine Pitrouefb60c02009-10-20 21:29:37 +0000666
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000667- Issue #7168: Document ``PyFloat_AsString()`` and ``PyFloat_AsReprString()``,
668 and note that they are unsafe and deprecated.
Eric Smithc12781a2009-10-19 14:38:14 +0000669
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000670- Issue #7120: logging: Remove import of multiprocessing which is causing crash
671 in GAE.
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +0000672
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000673- Issue #7140: The ``__dict__`` of a module should not be cleared unless the
674 module is the only object holding a reference to it.
Benjamin Peterson196b0922009-10-15 15:44:46 +0000675
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000676- Issue #1754094: Improve the stack depth calculation in the compiler. There
677 should be no other effect than a small decrease in memory use. Patch by
678 Christopher Tur Lesniewski-Laas.
Neil Schemenauer7fdd1cb2009-10-14 17:17:14 +0000679
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000680- Issue #7084: Fix a (very unlikely) crash when printing a list from one thread,
681 and mutating it from another one. Patch by Scott Dial.
Antoine Pitroubeaf6a02009-10-11 21:03:26 +0000682
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd0052d12009-10-06 19:56:32 +0000683- Issue #1571184: The Unicode database contains properties for more characters.
684 The tables for code points representing numeric values, white spaces or line
685 breaks are now generated from the official Unicode Character Database files,
686 and include information from the Unihan.txt file.
687
Benjamin Peterson7adbb5a2009-10-03 20:23:24 +0000688- Issue #7050: Fix a SystemError when trying to use unpacking and augmented
689 assignment.
690
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000691- Issue #5329: Fix ``os.popen*`` regression from 2.5 with commands as a sequence
692 running through the shell. Patch by Jean-Paul Calderone and Jani Hakala.
Philip Jenvey8b902042009-09-29 19:10:15 +0000693
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000694- Issue #7019: Raise ValueError when unmarshalling bad long data, instead of
695 producing internally inconsistent Python longs.
Mark Dickinson7e7a3ec2009-09-29 19:01:06 +0000696
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000697- Issue #6990: Fix ``threading.local`` subclasses leaving old state around after
698 a reference cycle GC which could be recycled by new locals.
Philip Jenveydbf3b252009-09-29 04:32:44 +0000699
Benjamin Peterson9db55402009-09-18 21:47:27 +0000700- Issue #6300: unicode.encode, unicode.decode, str.decode, and str.encode now
Benjamin Peterson332d7212009-09-18 21:14:55 +0000701 take keyword arguments.
702
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000703- Issue #6922: Fix an infinite loop when trying to decode an invalid UTF-32
704 stream with a non-raising error handler like "replace" or "ignore".
Georg Brandle9741f32009-09-17 11:28:09 +0000705
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000706- Issue #6713: Improve performance of base 10 int -> string and long -> string
707 conversions.
Mark Dickinsonaa2adc82009-09-16 22:10:56 +0000708
Thomas Wouters2920adb2009-09-16 20:36:34 +0000709- Issue #1590864: Fix potential deadlock when mixing threads and fork().
710
Georg Brandl0674d3f2009-09-16 20:30:09 +0000711- Issue #6844: Do not emit DeprecationWarnings when accessing a "message"
712 attribute on exceptions that was set explicitly.
713
Mark Dickinsonc8a7c7c2009-09-06 10:03:31 +0000714- Issue #6846: Fix bug where bytearray.pop() returns negative integers.
715
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000716- ``classmethod()`` no longer checks if its argument is callable.
Benjamin Peterson6fcf9b52009-09-01 22:27:57 +0000717
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000718- Issue #6750: A text file opened with ``io.open()`` could duplicate its output
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfff896b2009-08-29 18:14:40 +0000719 when writing from multiple threads at the same time.
720
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000721- Issue #6704: Improve the col_offset in AST for "for" statements with a target
722 of tuple unpacking.
Benjamin Petersonc0ba8282009-08-15 22:59:21 +0000723
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000724- Issue #6707: ``dir()`` on an uninitialized module caused a crash.
Benjamin Peterson4c6e8082009-08-15 13:16:38 +0000725
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000726- Issue #6540: Fixed crash for ``bytearray.translate()`` with invalid parameters.
Georg Brandlec812ca2009-07-22 11:57:15 +0000727
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000728- Issue #6573: ``set.union()`` stopped processing inputs if an instance of self
Raymond Hettingerc2b9e1a2009-07-27 20:32:04 +0000729 occurred in the argument chain.
730
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc9d11fef2009-07-13 20:03:21 +0000731- Issue #1616979: Added the cp720 (Arabic DOS) encoding.
732
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000733- Issue #6070: On posix platforms import no longer copies the execute bit from
734 the .py file to the .pyc file if it is set. Patch by Marco N.
R. David Murray23a736a2009-07-07 01:06:13 +0000735
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000736- Issue #4618: When unicode arguments are passed to ``print()``, the default
Benjamin Peterson753d1622009-07-02 18:16:45 +0000737 separator and end should be unicode also.
738
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +0000739- Issue #6119: Fixed an incorrect Py3k warning about order comparisons of
740 built-in functions and methods.
Benjamin Peterson1bf47652009-07-02 17:06:17 +0000741
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000742- Issue #6347: Include inttypes.h as well as stdint.h in pyport.h. This fixes a
743 build failure on HP-UX: int32_t and uint32_t are defined in inttypes.h instead
744 of stdint.h on that platform.
Mark Dickinson2f865b92009-06-30 15:32:30 +0000745
Hirokazu Yamamotoa3c56092009-06-28 10:23:00 +0000746- Issue #4856: Remove checks for win NT.
747
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc595f7a52009-06-25 22:29:29 +0000748- Issue #2016: Fixed a crash in a corner case where the dictionary of keyword
749 arguments could be modified during the function call setup.
750
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc14fc6732009-06-23 21:09:09 +0000751- Removed the ipaddr module.
752
Raymond Hettinger62641e92009-06-23 20:59:43 +0000753- Issue #6329: Fixed iteration for memoryview objects (it was being blocked
754 because it wasn't recognized as a sequence).
755
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000756- Issue #6289: Encoding errors from ``compile()`` were being masked.
Benjamin Peterson08a0bbc2009-06-16 00:29:31 +0000757
Benjamin Petersona72be3b2009-06-13 20:23:33 +0000758- When no module is given in a relative import, the module field of the
759 ImportFrom AST node is now None instead of an empty string.
760
Benjamin Peterson565e1b62009-06-13 03:46:30 +0000761- Assignment to None using import statements now raises a SyntaxError.
762
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000763- Issue #4547: When debugging a very large function, it was not always possible
764 to update the lineno attribute of the current frame.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcb02ceda2009-06-01 20:53:18 +0000765
Antoine Pitrou46dbe272009-05-30 21:27:00 +0000766- Issue #5330: C functions called with keyword arguments were not reported by
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000767 the various profiling modules (profile, cProfile). Patch by Hagen Fürstenau.
Antoine Pitrou46dbe272009-05-30 21:27:00 +0000768
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000769- Issue #5982: staticmethod and classmethod now expose the wrapped function with
770 ``__func__``.
Raymond Hettinger578a2282009-05-29 04:58:52 +0000771
Raymond Hettinger822b87f2009-05-29 01:46:48 +0000772- Added support for multiple context managers in the same with-statement.
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000773 Deprecated ``contextlib.nested()`` which is no longer needed.
Georg Brandl944f6842009-05-25 21:02:56 +0000774
Benjamin Peterson1880d8b2009-05-25 13:13:44 +0000775- Issue #6101: A new opcode, SETUP_WITH, has been added to speed up the with
776 statement and correctly lookup the __enter__ and __exit__ special methods.
777
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000778- Issue #5829: complex("1e500") no longer raises OverflowError. This makes it
779 consistent with float("1e500") and interpretation of real and imaginary
780 literals.
Mark Dickinsona4e0efa2009-05-20 18:43:07 +0000781
Hirokazu Yamamotoa4f90182009-05-17 02:58:36 +0000782- Issue #3527: Removed Py_WIN_WIDE_FILENAMES which is not used any more.
783
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000784- ``__instancecheck__()`` and ``__subclasscheck__()`` are now completely ignored
785 on classic classes and instances.
Benjamin Petersoneb9fb2c2009-05-16 22:46:11 +0000786
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000787- Issue #5994: The marshal module now has docstrings.
R. David Murray525cffc2009-05-13 13:07:14 +0000788
Mark Dickinsonb1d45852009-05-11 15:33:08 +0000789- Issue #5981: Fix three minor inf/nan issues in float.fromhex:
Mark Dickinsonb1d45852009-05-11 15:33:08 +0000790
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000791 (1) inf and nan strings with trailing whitespace were incorrectly rejected;
792 (2) parsing of strings representing infinities and nans was locale aware; and
793 (3) the interpretation of fromhex('-nan') didn't match that of float('-nan').
Eric Smitha985a3a2009-05-05 18:26:08 +0000794
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000795- Issue #5920: For ``float.__format__()``, change the behavior with the empty
796 presentation type (that is, not one of 'e', 'f', 'g', or 'n') to be like 'g'
797 but with at least one decimal point and with a default precision
798 of 12. Previously, the behavior the same but with a default precision of 6.
799 This more closely matches ``str()``, and reduces surprises when adding
800 alignment flags to the empty presentation type. This also affects the new
801 complex.__format__ in the same way.
802
803- Issue #5890: In subclasses of 'property' the __doc__ attribute was shadowed by
804 classtype's, even if it was None. property now inserts the __doc__ into the
805 subclass instance __dict__.
R. David Murray7ba8e1c2009-05-04 22:16:24 +0000806
Antoine Pitrou653dece2009-05-04 18:32:32 +0000807- Issue #4426: The UTF-7 decoder was too strict and didn't accept some legal
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000808 sequences. Patch by Nick Barnes and Victor Stinner.
Antoine Pitrou653dece2009-05-04 18:32:32 +0000809
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000810- Issue #1588: Add complex.__format__. For example, ``format(complex(1, 2./3),
811 '.5')`` now produces a sensible result.
Eric Smith9139cc62009-04-30 00:58:58 +0000812
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000813- Issue #5864: Fix empty format code formatting for floats so that it never
814 gives more than the requested number of significant digits.
Mark Dickinson92fcc9c2009-04-29 20:41:00 +0000815
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000816- Issue #5793: Rationalize isdigit / isalpha / tolower, etc. Includes new
817 Py_ISDIGIT / Py_ISALPHA / Py_TOLOWER, etc. in pctypes.h.
Eric Smithcac7af62009-04-27 19:04:37 +0000818
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000819- Issue #4971: Fix titlecase for characters that are their own titlecase, but
820 not their own uppercase.
Martin v. Löwis99f27792009-04-26 00:53:18 +0000821
Eric Smith068f0652009-04-25 21:40:15 +0000822- Issue #5835: Deprecate PyOS_ascii_formatd and replace it with
823 _PyOS_double_to_string or PyOS_double_to_string.
824
Benjamin Peterson5083dc52009-04-25 00:41:22 +0000825- Issue #5283: Setting __class__ in __del__ caused a segfault.
826
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000827- Issue #5816: ``complex(repr(z))`` now recovers z exactly, even when z involves
828 nans, infs or negative zeros.
Mark Dickinson95bc9802009-04-24 12:46:53 +0000829
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000830- Implement PEP 378, Format Specifier for Thousands Separator, for floats, ints,
831 and longs.
Eric Smithaca19e62009-04-22 13:29:05 +0000832
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000833- Issue #5515: 'n' formatting for ints, longs, and floats handles leading zero
834 formatting poorly.
Eric Smithaca19e62009-04-22 13:29:05 +0000835
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000836- Issue #5772: For float.__format__, don't add a trailing ".0" if we're using no
837 type code and we have an exponent.
Eric Smithaca19e62009-04-22 13:29:05 +0000838
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000839- Issue #3166: Make long -> float (and int -> float) conversions correctly
840 rounded.
Mark Dickinson6736cf82009-04-20 21:13:33 +0000841
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000842- Issue #5787: ``object.__getattribute__(some_type, "__bases__")`` segfaulted on
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +0000843 some built-in types.
Benjamin Petersond4d400c2009-04-18 20:12:47 +0000844
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000845- Issue #1869: Fix a couple of minor round() issues. ``round(5e15+1)`` was
846 giving 5e15+2; ``round(-0.0)`` was losing the sign of the zero.
Mark Dickinson1bdf7e92009-04-18 14:59:42 +0000847
Benjamin Peterson99d36f12009-04-15 21:26:36 +0000848- Issue #5759: float() didn't call __float__ on str subclasses.
849
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000850- Issue #5704: The "-3" command-line option now implies "-t".
Georg Brandl3c4a5462009-04-12 12:08:12 +0000851
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000852- Issue #2170: Refactored ``xml.dom.minidom.normalize``, increasing both its
853 clarity and its speed.
R. David Murray0374a822009-04-09 21:54:50 +0000854
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000855- Issue #2396: The memoryview object was backported from Python 3.1.
Antoine Pitrou789be0c2009-04-02 21:18:34 +0000856
Georg Brandld3f03fa2009-04-02 18:09:04 +0000857- Fix a problem in PyErr_NormalizeException that leads to "undetected errors"
858 when hitting the recursion limit under certain circumstances.
859
Brett Cannon15ba4da2009-04-01 18:03:59 +0000860- Issue #1665206: Remove the last eager import in _warnings.c and make it lazy.
861
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000862- Issue #4865: On MacOSX /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages is added to the end
863 sys.path, for compatibility with the system install of Python.
Ronald Oussorene0154ed2009-03-30 23:10:35 +0000864
Antoine Pitrouf8387af2009-03-23 18:41:45 +0000865- Issue #4688: Add a heuristic so that tuples and dicts containing only
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000866 untrackable objects are not tracked by the garbage collector. This can reduce
867 the size of collections and therefore the garbage collection overhead on
868 long-running programs, depending on their particular use of datatypes.
Antoine Pitrouf8387af2009-03-23 18:41:45 +0000869
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000870- Issue #5512: Rewrite PyLong long division algorithm (x_divrem) to improve its
871 performance. Long divisions and remainder operations are now between 50% and
872 150% faster.
Mark Dickinson0b666bf2009-03-23 18:25:13 +0000873
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000874- Issue #4258: Make it possible to use base 2**30 instead of base 2**15 for the
875 internal representation of integers, for performance reasons. Base 2**30 is
876 enabled by default on 64-bit machines. Add --enable-big-digits option to
877 configure, which overrides the default. Add sys.long_info structseq to
878 provide information about the internal format.
Mark Dickinsonefc82f72009-03-20 15:51:55 +0000879
Benjamin Peterson6ffe8522009-03-18 20:52:15 +0000880- Issue #4034: Fix weird attribute error messages of the traceback object. (As a
881 result traceback.__members__ no longer exists.)
882
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000883- Issue #4474: PyUnicode_FromWideChar now converts characters outside the BMP to
884 surrogate pairs, on systems with sizeof(wchar_t) == 4 and sizeof(Py_UNICODE)
885 == 2.
Mark Dickinson6b265f12009-03-18 16:07:26 +0000886
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000887- Issue #5237: Allow auto-numbered fields in str.format(). For example: ``'{}
888 {}'.format(1, 2) == '1 2'``.
Eric Smith6f42edb2009-03-14 11:57:26 +0000889
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000890- Issue #3652: Make the 'line' argument for ``warnings.showwarning()`` a
Brett Cannon6c4cff02009-03-11 04:51:06 +0000891 requirement. Means the DeprecationWarning from Python 2.6 can go away.
892
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000893- Issue #5247: Improve error message when unknown format codes are used when
894 using ``str.format()`` with str, unicode, long, int, and float arguments.
Eric Smithe9fb6862009-02-20 14:02:36 +0000895
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000896- Running Python with the -3 option now also warns about classic division for
897 ints and longs.
Raymond Hettinger08259e82009-02-18 23:10:19 +0000898
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000899- Issue #5260: Long integers now consume less memory: average saving is 2 bytes
900 per long on a 32-bit system and 6 bytes per long on a 64-bit system.
Mark Dickinson2ffb26f2009-02-15 10:13:41 +0000901
Antoine Pitrou76a4b892009-02-13 13:52:33 +0000902- Issue #5186: Reduce hash collisions for objects with no __hash__ method by
903 rotating the object pointer by 4 bits to the right.
904
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000905- Issue #4575: Fix Py_IS_INFINITY macro to work correctly on x87 FPUs: it now
906 forces its argument to double before testing for infinity.
Mark Dickinsonc97c9092009-02-09 14:18:43 +0000907
Benjamin Petersone18ef192009-01-20 14:21:16 +0000908- Issue #4978: Passing keyword arguments as unicode strings is now allowed.
909
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +0000910- Issue #1242657: the __len__() and __length_hint__() calls in several tools
Raymond Hettingerb5163702009-02-02 21:50:13 +0000911 were suppressing all exceptions. These include list(), filter(), map(),
912 zip(), and bytearray().
913
Benjamin Peterson596d3062009-01-19 15:42:23 +0000914- os.ftruncate raises OSErrors instead of IOErrors for consistency with other os
915 functions.
916
Benjamin Peterson5848d1f2009-01-19 00:08:08 +0000917- Issue #4991: Passing invalid file descriptors to io.FileIO now raises an
918 OSError.
919
Amaury Forgeot d'Arca18392a2009-01-13 23:19:08 +0000920- Issue #4807: Port the _winreg module to Windows CE.
921
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000922- Issue #4935: The overflow checking code in the expandtabs() method common to
923 str, bytes and bytearray could be optimized away by the compiler, letting the
924 interpreter segfault instead of raising an error.
Antoine Pitrouc2f02212009-01-13 23:13:52 +0000925
Amaury Forgeot d'Arca40d5732009-01-12 23:36:55 +0000926- Issue #3720: Fix a crash when an iterator modifies its class and removes its
927 __next__ method.
928
Martin v. Löwise3422fa2009-01-12 08:11:24 +0000929- Issue #4893: Use NT threading on CE.
930
Martin v. Löwis1b3bef22009-01-12 07:57:11 +0000931- Issue #4915: Port sysmodule to Windows CE.
932
Antoine Pitrou4c5ecb72009-01-09 21:40:55 +0000933- Issue #4074: Change the criteria for doing a full garbage collection (i.e.
934 collecting the oldest generation) so that allocating lots of objects without
935 destroying them does not show quadratic performance. Based on a proposal by
Benjamin Petersond50a5d52009-07-13 00:03:20 +0000936 Martin von Löwis at
Antoine Pitrou4c5ecb72009-01-09 21:40:55 +0000937 http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2008-June/080579.html.
938
Martin v. Löwisb90304a2009-01-07 18:40:40 +0000939- Issue #4850: Change COUNT_ALLOCS variables to Py_ssize_t.
940
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000941- Issue #1180193: When importing a module from a .pyc (or .pyo) file with an
942 existing .py counterpart, override the co_filename attributes of all code
943 objects if the original filename is obsolete (which can happen if the file has
944 been renamed, moved, or if it is accessed through different paths). Patch by
945 Ziga Seilnacht and Jean-Paul Calderone.
Antoine Pitroue96d4ea2009-01-06 18:10:47 +0000946
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000947- Issue #4075: Use ``OutputDebugStringW()`` in Py_FatalError.
Martin v. Löwis5344c992009-01-02 20:32:55 +0000948
Hirokazu Yamamoto99a1b202009-01-01 15:45:39 +0000949- Issue #4797: IOError.filename was not set when _fileio.FileIO failed to open
950 file with `str' filename on Windows.
951
Antoine Pitrouaa687902009-01-01 14:11:22 +0000952- Issue #3680: Reference cycles created through a dict, set or deque iterator
953 did not get collected.
954
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000955- Issue #4701: PyObject_Hash now implicitly calls PyType_Ready on types where
956 the tp_hash and tp_dict slots are both NULL.
Nick Coghlan180e4002008-12-30 01:18:48 +0000957
Benjamin Peterson7af65562008-12-29 17:56:58 +0000958- Issue #4764: With io.open, IOError.filename is set when trying to open a
959 directory on POSIX systems.
960
Benjamin Petersonfe231b02008-12-29 17:47:42 +0000961- Issue #4764: IOError.filename is set when trying to open a directory on POSIX
962 systems.
963
Georg Brandl6425a2f2008-12-28 11:54:53 +0000964- Issue #4759: None is now allowed as the first argument of
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000965 ``bytearray.translate()``. It was always allowed for ``bytes.translate()``.
Georg Brandl6425a2f2008-12-28 11:54:53 +0000966
Skip Montanarof205c132008-12-23 03:30:15 +0000967- Added test case to ensure attempts to read from a file opened for writing
968 fail.
969
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000970- Issue #2467: gc.DEBUG_STATS reported invalid elapsed times. Also, always print
971 elapsed times, not only when some objects are uncollectable/unreachable.
972 Original patch by Neil Schemenauer.
Antoine Pitrou73c0e652008-12-17 22:46:54 +0000973
Mark Dickinson1a707982008-12-17 16:14:37 +0000974- Issue #3439: Add a bit_length method to int and long.
975
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000976- Issue #2183: Simplify and optimize bytecode for list comprehensions. Original
977 patch by Neal Norwitz.
Antoine Pitroud0c35152008-12-17 00:38:28 +0000978
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000979- Issue #4597: Fixed exception handling when the __exit__ function of a context
980 manager returns a value that cannot be converted to a bool.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcad9b5992008-12-10 23:22:49 +0000981
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000982- Issue #4597: Fixed several opcodes that weren't always propagating exceptions.
Jeffrey Yasskinffd42cf2008-12-10 07:35:02 +0000983
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000984- Issue #4445: Replace ``sizeof(PyStringObject)`` with
985 ``offsetof(PyStringObject, ob_sval) + 1`` when allocating memory for str
986 instances. On a typical machine this saves 3 bytes of memory (on average) per
987 string allocation.
Mark Dickinson826f3fe2008-12-05 21:55:28 +0000988
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcdc619012008-11-22 20:01:18 +0000989- Issue #3996: On Windows, the PyOS_CheckStack function would cause the
990 interpreter to abort ("Fatal Python error: Could not reset the stack!")
991 instead of throwing a MemoryError.
992
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000993- Issue #3689: The list reversed iterator now supports __length_hint__ instead
994 of __len__. Behavior now matches other reversed iterators.
Raymond Hettinger7989a4d2008-12-03 15:42:10 +0000995
Benjamin Petersonc078f922008-11-21 22:27:24 +0000996- Issue #4367: Python would segfault during compiling when the unicodedata
997 module couldn't be imported and \N escapes were present.
998
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000999- Issue #4233: Changed semantic of ``_fileio.FileIO``'s ``close()`` method on
1000 file objects with closefd=False. The file descriptor is still kept open but
1001 the file object behaves like a closed file. The ``FileIO`` object also got a
1002 new readonly attribute ``closefd``.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc32265652008-11-20 23:34:31 +00001003
Benjamin Peterson46cc6d12008-11-19 21:49:09 +00001004- Issue #4348: Some bytearray methods returned that didn't cause any change to
1005 the bytearray, returned the same bytearray instead of a copy.
1006
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001007- Issue #4317: Fixed a crash in the ``imageop.rgb2rgb8()`` function.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc7cfe7ea2008-11-18 22:19:37 +00001008
Benjamin Peterson273c2332008-11-17 22:39:09 +00001009- Issue #4230: If ``__getattr__`` is a descriptor, it now functions correctly.
1010
Benjamin Peterson6624a9f2008-11-03 15:14:51 +00001011- Issue #4048: The parser module now correctly validates relative imports.
1012
Benjamin Petersondcee09d2008-10-31 02:16:05 +00001013- Issue #4225: ``from __future__ import unicode_literals`` didn't work in an
1014 exec statement.
1015
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001016- Issue #4176: Fixed a crash when pickling an object which ``__reduce__`` method
1017 does not return iterators for the 4th and 5th items.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc69a9c5b2008-10-30 21:18:34 +00001018
Benjamin Petersonbdca9422008-10-26 20:21:13 +00001019- Issue #4209: Enabling unicode_literals and the print_function in the same
1020 __future__ import didn't work.
1021
Benjamin Peterson399b1fe2008-10-25 02:53:28 +00001022- Using ``nonlocal`` as a variable name will now raise a Py3k SyntaxWarning
Georg Brandl7fb00ad2008-10-25 07:00:52 +00001023 because it is a reserved word in 3.x.
Benjamin Peterson399b1fe2008-10-25 02:53:28 +00001024
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001025- On windows, ``os.chdir()`` given unicode was not working if
1026 GetCurrentDirectoryW returned a path longer than MAX_PATH. (But It's doubtful
1027 this code path is really executed because I cannot move to such directory on
1028 win2k)
Hirokazu Yamamoto10a018c2008-10-09 10:00:30 +00001029
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001030- Issue #4069: When ``set.remove(element)`` is used with a set element, the
1031 element is temporarily replaced with an equivalent frozenset. But the
1032 eventual KeyError would always report the empty ``frozenset()`` as the missing
1033 key. Now it correctly refers to the initial element.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd78b9dc2008-10-07 20:32:10 +00001034
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001035- Issue #4509: Various issues surrounding resize of bytearray objects to which
1036 there are buffer exports.
Antoine Pitrouae5bece2008-12-06 21:29:24 +00001037
Benjamin Peterson8d5934b2008-12-27 18:24:11 +00001038- Issue #4748: Lambda generators no longer return a value.
1039
Kristján Valur Jónsson6220e412009-01-12 09:20:34 +00001040- Issue #3582: Use native TLS functions on Windows
1041
Gregory P. Smithae91d092009-03-02 05:13:57 +00001042- The re.sub(), re.subn() and re.split() functions now accept a flags parameter.
1043
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001044- Issue #3845: In PyRun_SimpleFileExFlags avoid invalid memory access with short
1045 file names.
Matthias Kloseedb5e1e2009-04-04 14:18:13 +00001046
Matthias Klose91a3b9e2009-04-05 21:19:13 +00001047- Issue #1113244: Py_XINCREF, Py_DECREF, Py_XDECREF: Add `do { ... } while (0)'
1048 to avoid compiler warnings.
Matthias Klose0610e082009-04-05 12:43:08 +00001049
Gregory P. Smith2b3eb372009-04-05 23:48:26 +00001050- Issue #5705: os.setuid() would not accept values > 2**31-1 but pwd.getpwnam()
1051 returned them on 64bit platforms.
1052
Walter Dörwalded960ac2009-05-03 22:36:33 +00001053- Issue #5108: Handle %s like %S and %R in PyUnicode_FromFormatV(): Call
1054 PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8() once, remember the result and output it in a second
1055 step. This avoids problems with counting UTF-8 bytes that ignores the effect
1056 of using the replace error handler in PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8().
1057
Walter Dörwald726ba8e2009-05-06 14:32:35 +00001058- Issue #3739: The unicode-internal encoder now reports the number of characters
1059 consumed like any other encoder (instead of the number of bytes).
1060
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001061- Issue #2422: When compiled with the ``--with-valgrind`` option, the pymalloc
1062 allocator will be automatically disabled when running under Valgrind. This
1063 gives improved memory leak detection when running under Valgrind, while taking
1064 advantage of pymalloc at other times.
Benjamin Peterson91c12eb2009-12-03 02:52:39 +00001065
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00001066Library
1067-------
Benjamin Petersonb3dd5482009-02-26 19:07:18 +00001068
Raymond Hettingera5fd24e2009-12-10 06:42:54 +00001069- Add a reverse() method to collections.deque().
1070
Raymond Hettinger0b3263b2009-12-10 06:00:33 +00001071- Fix variations of extending deques: d.extend(d) d.extendleft(d) d+=d
1072
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001073- Issue #6986: Fix crash in the JSON C accelerator when called with the wrong
1074 parameter types. Patch by Victor Stinner.
Antoine Pitrou187177f2009-12-08 15:40:51 +00001075
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001076- logging: Added optional "secure" parameter to SMTPHandler, to enable use of
Vinay Sajip48305662009-12-06 17:57:11 +00001077 TLS with authentication credentials.
1078
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001079- Issue #1923: Fixed the removal of meaningful spaces when PKG-INFO is generated
1080 in Distutils. Patch by Stephen Emslie.
Tarek Ziadé4f383172009-12-06 09:22:40 +00001081
Martin v. Löwisc218a2f2009-12-03 20:53:51 +00001082- Issue #4120: Drop reference to CRT from manifest when building extensions with
1083 msvc9compiler.
1084
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001085- Issue #7333: The ``posix`` module gains an ``initgroups()`` function providing
1086 access to the initgroups(3) C library call on Unix systems which implement it.
1087 Patch by Jean-Paul Calderone.
Antoine Pitrou30b3b352009-12-02 20:37:54 +00001088
Tarek Ziadéa5076a22009-11-29 22:20:30 +00001089- Issue #7408: Fixed distutils.tests.sdist so it doesn't check for group
1090 ownership when the group is not forced, because the group may be different
1091 from the user's group and inherit from its container when the test is run.
1092
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001093- Issue #1515: Enable use of deepcopy() with instance methods. Patch by Robert
1094 Collins.
Antoine Pitroud16f57b2009-11-28 15:55:58 +00001095
Vinay Sajip01801d12009-11-27 14:03:36 +00001096- Issue #7403: logging: Fixed possible race condition in lock creation.
1097
Antoine Pitrouacbe3bd2009-11-27 13:18:34 +00001098- Issue #6845: Add restart support for binary upload in ftplib. The
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001099 ``storbinary()`` method of FTP and FTP_TLS objects gains an optional "rest"
Antoine Pitrouacbe3bd2009-11-27 13:18:34 +00001100 argument. Patch by Pablo Mouzo.
1101
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001102- Issue #5788: ``datetime.timedelta`` objects get a new ``total_seconds()``
1103 method returning the total number of seconds in the duration. Patch by Brian
1104 Quinlan.
Antoine Pitroubcfaf802009-11-25 22:59:36 +00001105
Vinay Sajipc470d682009-11-25 09:03:30 +00001106- Issue #6615: logging: Used weakrefs in internal handler list.
1107
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001108- Issue #1488943: ``difflib.Differ`` doesn't always add hints for tab
1109 characters.
Senthil Kumaran5c456e62009-11-23 18:41:31 +00001110
Lars Gustäbeldd866d52009-11-22 18:30:53 +00001111- Issue #6123: tarfile now opens empty archives correctly and consistently
1112 raises ReadError on empty files.
1113
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001114- Issue #7354: distutils.tests.test_msvc9compiler - dragfullwindows can be 2.
Tarek Ziadé39de1fc2009-11-19 05:33:16 +00001115
Ezio Melotti3373a3a2010-01-16 18:38:01 +00001116- Issue #5037: Proxy the __unicode__ special method to __unicode__ instead of
1117 __str__.
Benjamin Petersondc3c2392009-11-19 03:00:02 +00001118
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001119- Issue #7341: Close the internal file object in the TarFile constructor in case
1120 of an error.
Lars Gustäbel355538e2009-11-18 20:24:54 +00001121
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001122- Issue #7293: ``distutils.test_msvc9compiler`` is fixed to work on any fresh
1123 Windows box. Help provided by David Bolen.
Tarek Ziadéacccafc2009-11-18 08:46:56 +00001124
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001125- Issue #7328: pydoc no longer corrupts sys.path when run with the '-m' switch.
Nick Coghlan11db64e2009-11-15 22:36:47 +00001126
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001127- Issue #2054: ftplib now provides an FTP_TLS class to do secure FTP using TLS
1128 or SSL. Patch by Giampaolo Rodola'.
Antoine Pitrouccd5e022009-11-15 17:22:09 +00001129
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001130- Issue #4969: The mimetypes module now reads the MIME database from the
1131 registry under Windows. Patch by Gabriel Genellina.
Antoine Pitroud5b34d42009-11-15 14:10:48 +00001132
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001133- Issue #6816: runpy now provides a run_path function that allows Python code to
1134 execute file paths that refer to source or compiled Python files as well as
1135 zipfiles, directories and other valid sys.path entries that contain a
Nick Coghlan49868cb2009-11-15 07:30:34 +00001136 __main__.py file. This allows applications that run other Python scripts to
1137 support the same flexibility as the CPython command line itself.
1138
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001139- Issue #7318: multiprocessing now uses a timeout when it fails to establish a
1140 connection with another process, rather than looping endlessly. The default
1141 timeout is 20 seconds, which should be amply sufficient for local connections.
Antoine Pitrouc562ca42009-11-13 22:31:18 +00001142
Antoine Pitrou0734c632009-11-10 20:49:30 +00001143- Issue #7197: Allow unittest.TextTestRunner objects to be pickled and
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001144 unpickled. This fixes crashes under Windows when trying to run
Antoine Pitrou0734c632009-11-10 20:49:30 +00001145 test_multiprocessing in verbose mode.
1146
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001147- Issue #7282: Fix a memory leak when an RLock was used in a thread other than
1148 those started through ``threading.Thread`` (for example, using
1149 ``thread.start_new_thread()``.
Antoine Pitroud7158d42009-11-09 16:00:11 +00001150
Antoine Pitrou99c160b2009-11-05 13:42:29 +00001151- Issue #7264: Fix a possible deadlock when deallocating thread-local objects
1152 which are part of a reference cycle.
1153
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001154- Issue #7211: Allow 64-bit values for the ``ident`` and ``data`` fields of
1155 kevent objects on 64-bit systems. Patch by Michael Broghton.
Antoine Pitrou323b9da2009-11-04 19:25:14 +00001156
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001157- Issue #6896: ``mailbox.Maildir`` now invalidates its internal cache each time
Antoine Pitrouaec41242009-11-02 11:34:27 +00001158 a modification is done through it. This fixes inconsistencies and test
1159 failures on systems with slightly bogus mtime behaviour.
1160
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001161- Issue #7246 & Issue #7208: getpass now properly flushes input before reading
1162 from stdin so that existing input does not confuse it and lead to incorrect
1163 entry or an IOError. It also properly flushes it afterwards to avoid the
1164 terminal echoing the input afterwards on OSes such as Solaris.
Gregory P. Smith38f5d8f2009-11-01 18:33:55 +00001165
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001166- Issue #7233: Fix a number of two-argument Decimal methods to make sure that
1167 they accept an int or long as the second argument. Also fix buggy handling of
1168 large arguments (those with coefficient longer than the current precision) in
1169 shift and rotate.
Mark Dickinson0c673122009-10-29 12:04:00 +00001170
Lars Gustäbel8c06ccc2009-10-29 09:15:00 +00001171- Issue #4750: Store the basename of the original filename in the gzip FNAME
1172 header as required by RFC 1952.
1173
Tarek Ziadé40b998b2009-10-27 23:06:10 +00001174- Issue #1180: Added a new global option to ignore ~/.pydistutils.cfg in
1175 Distutils.
1176
Tarek Ziadéd24cab82009-10-27 21:20:27 +00001177- Issue #7218: Fix test_site for win32, the directory comparison was done with
1178 an uppercase.
1179
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001180- Issue #7205: Fix a possible deadlock when using a BZ2File object from several
1181 threads at once.
Antoine Pitroudd629662009-10-27 17:41:58 +00001182
Tarek Ziadéb9c1cfc2009-10-24 15:10:37 +00001183- Issue #7071: byte-compilation in Distutils is now done with respect to
1184 sys.dont_write_bytecode.
1185
Vinay Sajipc470d682009-11-25 09:03:30 +00001186- Issue #7066: archive_util.make_archive now restores the cwd if an error is
Tarek Ziadé672422a2009-10-24 13:29:44 +00001187 raised. Initial patch by Ezio Melotti.
1188
Antoine Pitroufa94e802009-10-24 12:23:18 +00001189- Issue #6218: io.StringIO and io.BytesIO instances are now picklable with
1190 protocol 2.
1191
Vinay Sajip5ac65282009-10-21 20:22:14 +00001192- Issue #7077: logging: SysLogHandler now treats Unicode as per RFC 5424.
1193
Mark Dickinsona7a52ab2009-10-20 13:33:03 +00001194- Issue #7099: Decimal.is_normal now returns True for numbers with exponent
1195 larger than emax.
1196
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001197- Issue #5833: Fix extra space character in readline completion with the GNU
1198 readline library version 6.0.
Antoine Pitroue0899802009-10-19 18:20:21 +00001199
Antoine Pitrou5ba84912009-10-19 17:59:07 +00001200- Issue #7133: SSL objects now support the new buffer API.
1201
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001202- Issue #7149: urllib fails on OSX in the proxy detection code.
Ronald Oussoren31802d02009-10-18 07:07:00 +00001203
Benjamin Petersonc63457b2009-10-15 03:06:55 +00001204- Issue #7069: Make inspect.isabstract() return a boolean.
1205
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001206- Add support to the ``ihooks`` module for relative imports.
Neil Schemenauere6039f02009-10-14 19:23:53 +00001207
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001208- Issue #6894: Fixed the issue urllib2 doesn't respect "no_proxy" environment.
Senthil Kumaran27468662009-10-11 02:00:07 +00001209
Vinay Sajip1c77b7f2009-10-10 20:32:36 +00001210- Issue #7086: Added TCP support to SysLogHandler, and tidied up some
1211 anachronisms in the code which were a relic of 1.5.2 compatibility.
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +00001212
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001213- Issue #7082: When falling back to the MIME 'name' parameter, the correct place
1214 to look for it is the Content-Type header.
R. David Murray0c8bee62009-10-09 21:50:54 +00001215
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001216- Issue #7048: Force Decimal.logb to round its result when that result is too
1217 large to fit in the current precision.
Mark Dickinson15ae41c2009-10-07 19:22:05 +00001218
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +00001219- Issue #6516: Added owner/group support when creating tar archives in
Tarek Ziadé1b486712009-10-02 23:49:48 +00001220 Distutils.
1221
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001222- Issue #7031: Add ``TestCase.assert(Not)IsInstance()`` methods.
Georg Brandl12fafe62009-10-01 21:02:39 +00001223
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001224- Issue #6790: Make it possible again to pass an ``array.array`` to
1225 ``httplib.HTTPConnection.send``. Patch by Kirk McDonald.
Antoine Pitrou72481782009-09-29 17:48:18 +00001226
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001227- Issue #6236, #6348: Fix various failures in the `io` module under AIX and
1228 other platforms, when using a non-gcc compiler. Patch by egreen.
Antoine Pitrou2a466582009-09-21 21:17:48 +00001229
Tarek Ziadé99773352009-09-21 13:41:08 +00001230- Issue #6954: Fixed crash when using DISTUTILS_DEBUG flag in Distutils.
1231
Ronald Oussoren51f06332009-09-20 10:31:22 +00001232- Issue #6851: Fix urllib.urlopen crash on secondairy threads on OSX 10.6
1233
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001234- Issue #4606: Passing 'None' if ctypes argtype is set to POINTER(...) does now
1235 always result in NULL.
Thomas Heller6be522b2009-09-18 20:05:44 +00001236
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001237- Issue #5042: ctypes Structure sub-subclass does now initialize correctly with
1238 base class positional arguments.
Thomas Heller7a352c02009-09-18 18:55:17 +00001239
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001240- Issue #6938: Fix a TypeError in string formatting of a multiprocessing debug
1241 message.
Georg Brandlc40e60e2009-09-18 09:18:27 +00001242
Matthias Klose924eab62009-09-13 15:09:24 +00001243- Issue #6635: Fix profiler printing usage message.
1244
Lars Gustäbel21121e62009-09-12 10:28:15 +00001245- Issue #6856: Add a filter keyword argument to TarFile.add().
1246
Tarek Ziadébed26a32009-09-09 08:14:20 +00001247- Issue #6163: Fixed HP-UX runtime library dir options in
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001248 distutils.unixcompiler. Initial patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar and Michael
1249 Haubenwallner.
Tarek Ziadébed26a32009-09-09 08:14:20 +00001250
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001251- Issue #6857: Default format() alignment should be '>' for Decimal instances.
Mark Dickinson5cfa8042009-09-08 20:20:19 +00001252
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001253- Issue #6795: int(Decimal('nan')) now raises ValueError instead of returning
1254 NaN or raising InvalidContext. Also, fix infinite recursion in
1255 long(Decimal('nan')).
Mark Dickinson968f1692009-09-07 18:04:58 +00001256
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001257- Issue #6850: Fix bug in Decimal._parse_format_specifier for formats with no
1258 type specifier.
Mark Dickinson491ea552009-09-07 16:17:41 +00001259
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001260- Issue #4937: plat-mac/bundlebuilder refers to non-existing version.plist.
Ronald Oussoren626faeb2009-09-06 12:23:18 +00001261
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001262- Issue #6838: Use a list to accumulate the value instead of repeatedly
1263 concatenating strings in httplib's HTTPResponse._read_chunked providing a
1264 significant speed increase when downloading large files servend with a
1265 Transfer-Encoding of 'chunked'.
Chris Withers7f3ea6a2009-09-04 16:32:22 +00001266
Georg Brandld22b9512009-09-04 08:17:04 +00001267- Issue #5275: In Cookie's Cookie.load(), properly handle non-string arguments
1268 as documented.
1269
Georg Brandl2e1308f2009-09-04 06:59:20 +00001270- Issue #2666: Handle BROWSER environment variable properly for unknown browser
1271 names in the webbrowser module.
1272
Lars Gustäbelf7cda522009-08-28 19:23:44 +00001273- Issue #6054: Do not normalize stored pathnames in tarfile.
1274
Mark Dickinson7a7739d2009-08-28 13:25:02 +00001275- Issue #6794: Fix Decimal.compare_total and Decimal.compare_total_mag: NaN
1276 payloads are now ordered by integer value rather than lexicographically.
1277
Tarek Ziadé764fc232009-08-20 21:23:13 +00001278- Issue #6693: New functions in site.py to get user/global site packages paths.
1279
Gregory P. Smith4e63d542009-08-20 09:39:38 +00001280- The thread.lock type now supports weak references.
1281
Guilherme Polo7b50c4f2009-08-18 14:46:57 +00001282- Issue #1356969: Add missing info methods in Tix.HList.
1283
Guilherme Polo6b3c7092009-08-18 14:23:00 +00001284- Issue #1522587: New constants and methods for the Tix.Grid widget.
1285
Guilherme Polo6c823f82009-08-18 13:29:20 +00001286- Issue #1250469: Fix the return value of Tix.PanedWindow.panes.
1287
Guilherme Polod3e6e4b2009-08-18 13:23:08 +00001288- Issue #1119673: Do not override Tkinter.Text methods when creating a
1289 ScrolledText.
1290
Gregory P. Smithb98d6b22009-08-16 18:52:58 +00001291- Issue #6665: Fix fnmatch to properly match filenames with newlines in them.
1292
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001293- Issue #1135: Add the XView and YView mix-ins to avoid duplicating the xview*
1294 and yview* methods.
Guilherme Poloe45f0172009-08-14 14:36:45 +00001295
Antoine Pitrou20e1f932009-08-06 20:18:29 +00001296- Issue #6629: Fix a data corruption issue in the new `io` package, which could
1297 occur when writing to a BufferedRandom object (e.g. a file opened in "rb+" or
1298 "wb+" mode) after having buffered a certain amount of data for reading. This
1299 bug was not present in the pure Python implementation.
1300
Jesse Noller8497efe2009-08-06 02:05:56 +00001301- Issue #4660: If a multiprocessing.JoinableQueue.put() was preempted, it was
1302 possible to get a spurious 'task_done() called too many times' error.
1303
Gregory P. Smithc4ad0342009-08-13 18:54:50 +00001304- Issue #1628205: Socket file objects returned by socket.socket.makefile() now
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001305 properly handles EINTR within the read, readline, write & flush methods. The
1306 socket.sendall() method now properly handles interrupted system calls.
Gregory P. Smithc4ad0342009-08-13 18:54:50 +00001307
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001308- Issue #6595: The Decimal constructor now allows arbitrary Unicode decimal
1309 digits in input, as recommended by the standard. Previously it was restricted
1310 to accepting [0-9].
Mark Dickinson4326ad82009-08-02 10:59:36 +00001311
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc3e5b0272009-07-28 22:15:30 +00001312- Issue #6511: ZipFile now raises BadZipfile (instead of an IOError) when
1313 opening an empty or very small file.
1314
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc74b30162009-07-23 19:26:02 +00001315- Issue #6553: Fixed a crash in cPickle.load(), when given a file-like object
1316 containing incomplete data.
1317
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001318- Issue #6545: Removed assert statements in distutils.Extension, so the behavior
1319 is similar when used with -O.
Tarek Ziadéaf2406f2009-07-22 08:55:19 +00001320
Benjamin Petersond7b0eeb2009-07-19 20:18:21 +00001321- unittest has been split up into a package. All old names should still work.
1322
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001323- Issue #6431: Make Fraction type return NotImplemented when it doesn't know how
1324 to handle a comparison without loss of precision. Also add correct handling
1325 of infinities and nans for comparisons with float.
Mark Dickinson88a0a2e2009-07-18 15:18:18 +00001326
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc74b30162009-07-23 19:26:02 +00001327- Issue #6415: Fixed warnings.warn segfault on bad formatted string.
Hirokazu Yamamoto1a3d0852009-07-17 06:26:54 +00001328
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001329- Issue #6466: Now distutils.cygwinccompiler and distutils.emxccompiler uses the
1330 same refactored function to get gcc/ld/dllwrap versions numbers. It's
1331 ``distutils.util.get_compiler_versions()``. Added deprecation warnings for
1332 the obsolete get_versions() functions.
Tarek Ziadéa99dedf2009-07-16 15:35:45 +00001333
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001334- Issue #6433: Fixed issues with multiprocessing.pool.map hanging on empty list.
Jesse Noller7530e472009-07-16 14:23:04 +00001335
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +00001336- Issue #6314: logging: Extra checks on the "level" argument in more places.
1337
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc74b8d332009-07-11 14:33:51 +00001338- Issue #2622: Fixed an ImportError when importing email.messsage from a
1339 standalone application built with py2exe or py2app.
1340
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +00001341- Issue #6455: Fixed test_build_ext under win32.
Tarek Ziadé8c400012009-07-10 09:10:33 +00001342
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +00001343- Issue #6377: Enabled the compiler option, and deprecate its usage as an
Tarek Ziadée670e5a2009-07-06 12:50:46 +00001344 attribute.
1345
Tarek Ziadé63f17382009-07-04 02:02:41 +00001346- Issue #6413: Fixed the log level in distutils.dist for announce.
1347
Gregory P. Smithc197d0a2009-07-04 01:55:11 +00001348- Issue #3392: The subprocess communicate() method no longer fails in select()
1349 when file descriptors are large; communicate() now uses poll() when possible.
1350
Tarek Ziadé65ec61e2009-07-03 08:22:56 +00001351- Issue #6403: Fixed package path usage in build_ext.
1352
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001353- Issues #5155, #5313, #5331: multiprocessing.Process._bootstrap was
Jesse Noller1b90efb2009-06-30 17:11:52 +00001354 unconditionally calling "os.close(sys.stdin.fileno())" resulting in file
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001355 descriptor errors.
Jesse Noller1b90efb2009-06-30 17:11:52 +00001356
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +00001357- Issue #6365: Distutils build_ext inplace mode was copying the compiled
Tarek Ziadé3fbcc602009-06-29 16:13:39 +00001358 extension in a subdirectory if the extension name had dots.
1359
Hirokazu Yamamoto99ebc632009-06-29 14:29:31 +00001360- Issue #6344: Fixed a crash of mmap.read() when passed a negative argument.
1361
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001362- Issue #5230: pydoc would report no documentation found if a module generated a
1363 'not found' import error when loaded; it now reports the import errors.
R. David Murrayef087da2009-06-23 18:02:46 +00001364 Thanks to Lucas Prado Melo for initial fix and collaboration on the tests.
1365
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001366- Issue #6314: ``logging.basicConfig()`` performs extra checks on the "level"
Vinay Sajip603fb6d2009-06-21 17:37:27 +00001367 argument.
1368
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001369- Issue #6164: Added an AIX specific linker argument in Distutils unixcompiler.
1370 Original patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar.
Tarek Ziadé439bf932009-06-20 13:57:20 +00001371
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001372- Issue #6274: Fixed possible file descriptors leak in subprocess.py.
Facundo Batista8c826b72009-06-19 18:02:28 +00001373
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc5fe420e2009-06-18 22:32:50 +00001374- Issue #6189: Restored compatibility of subprocess.py with Python 2.2.
1375
Tarek Ziadéfdefc0a2009-06-16 07:29:52 +00001376- Issue #6287: Added the license field in Distutils documentation.
1377
Tarek Ziadéa1cc0402009-06-15 23:30:13 +00001378- Issue #6286: Now Distutils upload command is based on urllib2 instead of
1379 httplib, allowing the usage of http_proxy.
1380
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001381- Issue #6271: mmap tried to close invalid file handle (-1) for anonymous maps
1382 on Unix.
Hirokazu Yamamoto983a4652009-06-14 03:53:55 +00001383
Antoine Pitrou19690592009-06-12 20:14:08 +00001384- Issue #6215: All bug fixes and enhancements from the Python 3.1 io library
1385 (including the fast C implementation) have been backported to the standard
1386 ``io`` module.
1387
Martin v. Löwis2dcd7a02009-06-12 17:28:31 +00001388- Issue #6258: Support AMD64 in bdist_msi.
1389
Vinay Sajip334ffe82010-01-15 23:27:05 +00001390- Issue #6252: Fixed bug in next rollover time computation in
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00001391 TimedRotatingFileHandler.
1392
Tarek Ziadéc7498f52009-06-11 09:13:36 +00001393- Issue #6263: Fixed syntax error in distutils.cygwincompiler.
1394
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001395- Issue #5201: distutils.sysconfig.parse_makefile() now understands ``$$`` in
1396 Makefiles. This prevents compile errors when using syntax like:
1397 ``LDFLAGS='-rpath=\$$LIB:/some/other/path'``. Patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
Tarek Ziadé25d2bae2009-06-11 08:12:20 +00001398
Georg Brandle6632b42009-06-04 08:58:32 +00001399- Issue #5767: Removed sgmlop support from xmlrpclib.
1400
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001401- Issue #6131: test_modulefinder leaked when run after test_distutils. Patch by
1402 Hirokazu Yamamoto.
Tarek Ziadé3e3eace2009-05-29 08:08:07 +00001403
Tarek Ziadé9e5d2dc2009-05-28 12:53:54 +00001404- Issue #6048: Now Distutils uses the tarfile module in archive_util.
1405
Raymond Hettingerb4d2d312009-05-29 01:36:26 +00001406- Issue #5150: IDLE's format menu now has an option to strip trailing
1407 whitespace.
1408
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001409- Issue #6121: pydoc now ignores leading and trailing spaces in the argument to
1410 the 'help' function.
R. David Murrayd67ea7d2009-05-27 20:07:21 +00001411
Benjamin Peterson176a56c2009-05-25 00:48:58 +00001412- In unittest, using a skipping decorator on a class is now equivalent to
1413 skipping every test on the class. The ClassTestSuite class has been removed.
1414
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001415- Issue #6050: Don't fail extracting a directory from a zipfile if the directory
1416 already exists.
Martin v. Löwis0b09c422009-05-24 19:30:52 +00001417
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001418- Issue #5311: bdist_msi can now build packages that do not depend on a specific
1419 Python version.
Martin v. Löwis53b578e2009-05-24 19:10:52 +00001420
Antoine Pitroud49e3752009-05-24 15:40:09 +00001421- Issue #1309352: fcntl now converts its third arguments to a C `long` rather
1422 than an int, which makes some operations possible under 64-bit Linux (e.g.
1423 DN_MULTISHOT with F_NOTIFY).
1424
Senthil Kumarane266f252009-05-24 09:14:50 +00001425- Issue #1424152: Fix for httplib, urllib2 to support SSL while working through
1426 proxy. Original patch by Christopher Li, changes made by Senthil Kumaran.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00001427
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001428- Issue #1983: Fix functions taking or returning a process identifier to use the
1429 dedicated C type ``pid_t`` instead of a C ``int``. Some platforms have a
1430 process identifier type wider than the standard C integer type.
Antoine Pitrou5e858fe2009-05-23 15:37:45 +00001431
R. David Murrayad3058e2009-05-23 00:48:58 +00001432- Issue #4066: smtplib.SMTP_SSL._get_socket now correctly returns the socket.
1433 Patch by Farhan Ahmad, test by Marcin Bachry.
1434
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001435- Issue #6062: In distutils, fixed the package option of build_ext. Feedback
Tarek Ziadé7d7127d2009-05-19 16:17:21 +00001436 and tests on pywin32 by Tim Golden.
1437
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001438- Issue #6053: Fixed distutils tests on win32. Patch by Hirokazu Yamamoto.
Tarek Ziadé07bbfcc2009-05-18 12:21:26 +00001439
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001440- Issue #6046: Fixed the library extension when distutils build_ext is used in
1441 place. Initial patch by Roumen Petrov.
Tarek Ziadéfcc7f032009-05-18 08:03:37 +00001442
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00001443- Issue #6041: Now distutils `sdist` and `register` commands use `check` as a
Tarek Ziadécb768042009-05-16 16:37:06 +00001444 subcommand.
1445
Antoine Pitrou775fd662009-05-15 16:54:52 +00001446- Issue #2116: Weak references and weak dictionaries now support copy()ing and
1447 deepcopy()ing.
1448
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001449- Issue #1655: Make imaplib IPv6-capable. Patch by Derek Morr.
Antoine Pitrou52035a02009-05-15 11:50:29 +00001450
Antoine Pitrou42b5bcf2009-05-14 21:48:09 +00001451- Issue #5918: Fix a crash in the parser module.
1452
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001453- Issue #1664: Make nntplib IPv6-capable. Patch by Derek Morr.
Antoine Pitroueed30d82009-05-14 21:22:08 +00001454
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001455- Issue #6022: A test file was created in the current working directory by
Tarek Ziadécbb4f9e2009-05-14 20:14:13 +00001456 test_get_outputs in Distutils.
1457
R. David Murray996ba022009-05-13 17:14:11 +00001458- Issue #4050: inspect.findsource/getsource now raise an IOError if the 'source'
1459 file is a binary. Patch by Brodie Rao, tests by Daniel Diniz.
1460
Tarek Ziadé972480d2009-05-12 17:07:14 +00001461- Issue #5977: distutils build_ext.get_outputs was not taking into account the
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001462 inplace option. Initial patch by kxroberto.
Tarek Ziadé972480d2009-05-12 17:07:14 +00001463
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001464- Issue #5984: distutils.command.build_ext.check_extensions_list checks were
1465 broken for old-style extensions.
Tarek Ziadéd5d83422009-05-10 10:12:08 +00001466
Vinay Sajipf9b01fe2009-05-09 12:07:17 +00001467- Issue #5971: StreamHandler.handleError now swallows IOErrors which occur when
1468 trying to print a traceback.
1469
Tarek Ziadé812d7712009-05-09 10:06:00 +00001470- Issue #5976: Fixed Distutils test_check_environ.
1471
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001472- Issue #5900: Ensure RUNPATH is added to extension modules with RPATH if GNU ld
1473 is used. Original patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
Tarek Ziadée2be83d2009-05-09 08:28:53 +00001474
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001475- Issue #5941: Distutils build_clib command was not working anymore because of
1476 an incomplete costumization of the archiver command. Added ARFLAGS in the
1477 Makefile besides AR and make Distutils use it. Original patch by David
Tarek Ziadé99f660a2009-05-07 21:20:34 +00001478 Cournapeau.
1479
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001480- Issue 5955: aifc's close method did not close the file it wrapped, now it
1481 does. This also means getfp method now returns the real fp.
R. David Murrayd3bf34c2009-05-07 16:29:19 +00001482
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001483- Issue #4875: On win32, ctypes.util.find_library does no longer return
1484 directories.
Thomas Hellera57773e2009-05-05 18:55:47 +00001485
Georg Brandl4d4313d2009-05-05 08:54:11 +00001486- Issue #5142: Add the ability to skip modules while stepping to pdb.
1487
Georg Brandle3869c42009-05-05 08:30:28 +00001488- Issue #1309567: Fix linecache behavior of stripping subdirectories when
1489 looking for files given by a relative filename.
1490
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001491- Issue #5692: In ``zipfile.Zipfile``, fix wrong path calculation when
Antoine Pitrou97377bf2009-05-04 21:17:17 +00001492 extracting a file to the root directory.
1493
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001494- Issue #5913: ``os.listdir()`` should fail for empty path on windows.
Hirokazu Yamamoto406d7aa2009-05-04 05:28:39 +00001495
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001496- Issue #5084: Unpickling now interns the attribute names of pickled objects,
1497 saving memory and avoiding growth in size of subsequent pickles. Proposal and
1498 original patch by Jake McGuire.
Antoine Pitrou74309892009-05-02 21:13:23 +00001499
Antoine Pitrou1fc02312009-05-01 20:55:35 +00001500- Issue #3002: ``shutil.copyfile()`` and ``shutil.copytree()`` now raise an
1501 error when a named pipe is encountered, rather than blocking infinitely.
1502
Gregory P. Smith1d499262009-05-01 19:59:52 +00001503- Issue #3959: The ipaddr module has been added to the standard library.
1504 Contributed by Google.
1505
R. David Murray25b4add2009-04-29 13:17:37 +00001506- Issue #2245: aifc now skips chunk types it doesn't recognize, per spec.
1507
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001508- Issue #5874: distutils.tests.test_config_cmd is not locale-sensitive anymore.
Tarek Ziadéa1b91d92009-04-29 08:03:46 +00001509
Thomas Heller90c61a22009-04-28 19:23:41 +00001510- Issue #4305: ctypes should now build again on mipsel-linux-gnu
1511
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001512- Issue #1734234: Massively speedup ``unicodedata.normalize()`` when the string
1513 is already in normalized form, by performing a quick check beforehand.
Antoine Pitroue988e282009-04-27 21:53:26 +00001514 Original patch by Rauli Ruohonen.
1515
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001516- Issue #5853: Calling a function of the mimetypes module from several threads
Antoine Pitrouf2651e12009-04-27 20:50:20 +00001517 at once could hit the recursion limit if the mimetypes database hadn't been
1518 initialized before.
1519
Vinay Sajipe34d6aa2009-04-27 13:44:27 +00001520- Issue #5854: Updated __all__ to include some missing names and remove some
1521 names which should not be exported.
1522
1523- Issue #5810: Fixed Distutils test_build_scripts so it uses
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001524 ``sysconfig.get_config_vars()``.
Tarek Ziadébcddf672009-04-25 12:51:59 +00001525
Tarek Ziadéd567c382009-04-25 12:38:08 +00001526- Issue #4951: Fixed failure in test_httpservers.
1527
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001528- Issue #3102: All global symbols that the _ctypes extension defines are now
1529 prefixed with 'Py' or '_ctypes'.
Thomas Heller5c6af802009-04-24 20:31:47 +00001530
Thomas Hellerec21ccd2009-04-24 20:00:41 +00001531- Issue #5041: ctypes does now allow pickling wide character.
1532
Mark Dickinson4af8e742009-04-24 13:56:07 +00001533- Issue #5812: For the two-argument form of the Fraction constructor,
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001534 ``Fraction(m, n)``, m and n are permitted to be arbitrary Rational instances.
Mark Dickinson4af8e742009-04-24 13:56:07 +00001535
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001536- Issue #5812: Fraction('1e6') is valid: more generally, any string that's valid
1537 for float() is now valid for Fraction(), with the exception of strings
1538 representing NaNs and infinities.
Mark Dickinson8100bd82009-04-22 18:15:25 +00001539
Tarek Ziadé31559b62009-04-20 14:29:42 +00001540- Issue #5795: Fixed test_distutils failure on Debian ppc.
1541
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00001542- Issue #5768: Fixed bug in Unicode output logic and test case for same.
1543
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001544- Issue #1161031: Fix readwrite select flag handling: POLLPRI now results in a
1545 handle_expt_event call, not handle_read_event, and POLLERR and POLLNVAL now
1546 call handle_close, not handle_expt_event. Also, dispatcher now has an
1547 'ignore_log_types' attribute for suppressing log messages, which is set to
1548 'warning' by default.
R. David Murrayabc26602009-04-13 16:56:32 +00001549
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001550- Issue #5607: Fixed Distutils test_get_platform for Mac OS X fat binaries.
Tarek Ziadé156c31a2009-04-13 12:34:01 +00001551
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001552- Issue #5741: Don't disallow "%%" (which is an escape for "%") when setting a
1553 value in SafeConfigParser.
Georg Brandl21cf5ee2009-04-12 17:24:11 +00001554
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001555- Issue #5732: Added a new command in Distutils: check.
Tarek Ziadé942825f2009-04-11 14:55:07 +00001556
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00001557- Issue #5731: Distutils bdist_wininst no longer worked on non-Windows
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001558 platforms. Initial patch by Paul Moore.
Tarek Ziadéad958262009-04-09 21:36:44 +00001559
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001560- Issue #2254: Fix CGIHTTPServer information disclosure. Relative paths are now
1561 collapsed within the url properly before looking in cgi_directories.
Gregory P. Smith923ba362009-04-06 06:33:26 +00001562
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001563- Issue #5095: Added bdist_msi to the list of bdist supported formats. Initial
1564 fix by Steven Bethard.
Tarek Ziadé64408fb2009-04-05 22:51:09 +00001565
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001566- Issue #1491431: Fixed distutils.filelist.glob_to_re for edge cases. Initial
1567 fix by Wayne Davison.
Tarek Ziadéfaa6b122009-04-05 21:44:08 +00001568
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001569- Issue #5693: TestSuite.__iter__ can now be consistently overridden in
1570 subclasses.
Michael Foordf2dfef12009-04-05 19:19:28 +00001571
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001572- Issue #5694: Removed spurious test output in Distutils (test_clean).
Tarek Ziadé453d9532009-04-05 18:31:24 +00001573
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +00001574- Issue #5471: Fix os.path.expanduser() for $HOME set to '/'.
Georg Brandl3f0ef202009-04-05 14:48:49 +00001575
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001576- Issue #1326077: Fix the formatting of SyntaxErrors by the traceback module.
Georg Brandl1956d5c2009-04-05 14:25:41 +00001577
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001578- Issue #1726172: Fix IndexError in the case of and empty response in ftplib.
Georg Brandl50ba6e12009-04-05 10:48:47 +00001579
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001580- Issue #2625: Added missing iteritems() call to the for loop in
R. David Murray52720c52009-04-02 14:05:35 +00001581 mailbox.MH.get_message().
1582
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001583- Issue #5585: Add the ability to call an initializer to
1584 mulitiprocessing.manager so that users can install custom handlers/etc.
Jesse Noller7152f6d2009-04-02 05:17:26 +00001585
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001586- Issue #3551: Patch multiprocessing to raise a proper exception if the size of
1587 the object when writefile is called causes a ERROR_NO_SYSTEM_RESOURCES. Added
1588 docs to note the limitation.
Jesse Noller5053fbb2009-04-02 04:22:09 +00001589
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001590- unittest.assertNotEqual() now uses the inequality operator (!=) instead of the
1591 equality operator.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00001592
1593- Issue #6001: Test discovery for unittest. Implemented in
Michael Foordb4a81c82009-05-29 20:33:46 +00001594 unittest.TestLoader.discover and from the command line.
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00001595
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001596- Issue #5679: The methods unittest.TestCase.addCleanup and doCleanups were
1597 added. addCleanup allows you to add cleanup functions that will be called
Michael Foord07ef4872009-05-02 22:43:34 +00001598 unconditionally (after setUp if setUp fails, otherwise after tearDown). This
1599 allows for much simpler resource allocation and deallocation during tests.
1600
1601- Issue #3379: unittest.main now takes an optional exit argument. If False main
1602 doesn't call sys.exit allowing it to be used from the interactive interpreter.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00001603
1604- Issue #5995: unittest.main now takes an optional verbosity argument allowing
Michael Foord5d31e052009-05-11 17:59:43 +00001605 test modules to be run with a higher than default verbosity.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00001606
1607- Issue #5995: A fix to allow you to run "python -m unittest test_module" or
Michael Foord5d31e052009-05-11 17:59:43 +00001608 "python -m unittest test_module.TestClass" from the command line.
Michael Foord07ef4872009-05-02 22:43:34 +00001609
1610- Issue #5728: unittest.TestResult has new startTestRun and stopTestRun methods;
1611 called immediately before and after a test run.
1612
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001613- Issue #5663: Better failure messages for unittest asserts. Default assertTrue
Michael Foord345b2fe2009-04-02 03:20:38 +00001614 and assertFalse messages are now useful. TestCase has a longMessage attribute.
1615 This defaults to False, but if set to True useful error messages are shown in
1616 addition to explicit messages passed to assert methods.
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00001617
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001618- Issue #3110: Add additional protect around SEM_VALUE_MAX for multiprocessing.
Jesse Nollerb502bc72009-04-02 02:32:55 +00001619
Georg Brandl58b8b952009-04-01 21:54:21 +00001620- In Pdb, prevent the reassignment of __builtin__._ by sys.displayhook on
1621 printing out values.
1622
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001623- Issue #4572: Added SEEK_* symbolic constants to io module.
Georg Brandl5942b912009-04-01 21:05:44 +00001624
Brett Cannonad078a02009-04-01 16:00:34 +00001625- Issue #1665206 (partially): Move imports in cgitb to the top of the module
1626 instead of performing them in functions. Helps prevent import deadlocking in
1627 threads.
1628
Raymond Hettinger66c4a6b2009-04-01 18:50:56 +00001629- Issue #5647: MutableSet.__iand__() no longer mutates self during iteration.
1630
Georg Brandle92d4b62009-04-01 04:21:14 +00001631- Actually make the SimpleXMLRPCServer CGI handler work.
1632
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001633- Issue #2522: locale.format() now checks its first argument to ensure it has
R. David Murraya83da352009-04-01 03:21:43 +00001634 been passed only one pattern, avoiding mysterious errors where it appeared
1635 that it was failing to do localization.
1636
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001637- Issue #5583: Added optional extensions in Distutils. Initial patch by Georg
Tarek Ziadé9e47ce42009-03-31 22:27:23 +00001638 Brandl.
1639
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001640- Issue #5619: Multiprocessing children disobey the debug flag and causes popups
1641 on windows buildbots. Patch applied to work around this issue.
Jesse Noller42f9b4e2009-03-31 22:20:35 +00001642
Benjamin Petersond906ea62009-03-31 21:34:42 +00001643- Issue #5632: Thread.ident was None for the main thread and threads not created
1644 with the threading module.
1645
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001646- Issue #5400: Added patch for multiprocessing on netbsd compilation/support.
Jesse Noller1f0a5552009-03-31 18:27:14 +00001647
Hirokazu Yamamoto9d2ee5d2009-03-31 13:13:05 +00001648- Issue #5387: Fixed mmap.move crash by integer overflow.
1649
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001650- Issue #5261: Patch multiprocessing's semaphore.c to support context manager
1651 use: "with multiprocessing.Lock()" works now.
Jesse Noller82eb5902009-03-30 23:29:31 +00001652
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00001653- Issue #5177: Multiprocessing's SocketListener class now uses
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001654 socket.SO_REUSEADDR on all connections so that the user no longer needs to
1655 wait 120 seconds for the socket to expire.
Jesse Noller459a6482009-03-30 15:50:42 +00001656
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001657- Adjusted _tkinter to compile without warnings when WITH_THREAD is not defined
1658 (part of issue #5035).
Guilherme Polo1972d162009-03-27 21:43:08 +00001659
Marc-André Lemburgcbdf15b2009-03-25 19:45:33 +00001660- Issue #5561: Removed the sys.version_info shortcuts from platform's
1661 python_version() and python_version_tuple() since they produced different
1662 output compared to previous Python versions.
1663
Benjamin Peterson692428e2009-03-23 21:50:21 +00001664- Issue #1034053: unittest now supports skipping tests and expected failures.
1665
Gregory P. Smith28399852009-03-31 16:54:10 +00001666- The unittest.TestCase.assertRaises() method now returns a context manager when
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001667 not given a callable so that code to be tested can be written inline using a
1668 with statement.
Gregory P. Smith28399852009-03-31 16:54:10 +00001669
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001670- Issue #2578: The unittest.TestCase.assertEqual() now displays the differences
1671 in lists, tuples, dicts and sets on failure. Many new handy type and
1672 comparison specific assert* methods have been added that fail with error
1673 messages actually useful for debugging. Contributed in part by Google.
Gregory P. Smith28399852009-03-31 16:54:10 +00001674
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001675- Issue #5068: Fixed the tarfile._BZ2Proxy.read() method that would loop forever
1676 on incomplete input. That caused tarfile.open() to hang when used with mode
1677 'r' or 'r:bz2' and a fileobj argument that contained no data or partial bzip2
1678 compressed data.
Lars Gustäbel2020a592009-03-22 20:09:33 +00001679
Benjamin Petersonb364bfe2009-03-22 17:45:11 +00001680- Issue #5536: urllib.urlretrieve makes sure to close the file it's writing to
1681 even if an exception occurs.
1682
Raymond Hettinger91852ca2009-03-19 19:19:03 +00001683- Issue #5381: Added object_pairs_hook to the json module. This allows
1684 OrderedDicts to be built by the decoder.
1685
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001686- Issue #2110: Add support for thousands separator and 'n' type specifier to
1687 ``Decimal.__format__()``.
Mark Dickinson277859d2009-03-17 23:03:46 +00001688
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001689- Fix Decimal.__format__ bug that swapped the meanings of the '<' and '>'
1690 alignment characters.
Mark Dickinsonb065e522009-03-17 18:01:03 +00001691
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001692- Issue #1222: ``locale.format()`` bug when the thousands separator is a space
Antoine Pitroufeeafff2009-03-14 00:07:21 +00001693 character.
1694
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001695- Issue #5472: Fixed distutils.test_util tear down. Original patch by Tim
1696 Golden.
Tarek Ziadé61585c22009-03-11 12:48:04 +00001697
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001698- collections.deque objects now have a read-only attribute called maxlen.
Raymond Hettinger56411aa2009-03-10 12:50:59 +00001699
Guilherme Polo15d57652009-03-07 02:14:38 +00001700- Issue #2638: Show a window constructed with tkSimpleDialog.Dialog only after
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001701 it is has been populated and properly configured in order to prevent window
1702 flashing.
Guilherme Polo15d57652009-03-07 02:14:38 +00001703
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001704- Issue #4792: Prevent a segfault in _tkinter by using the guaranteed to be safe
1705 interp argument given to the PythonCmd in place of the Tcl interpreter taken
1706 from a PythonCmd_ClientData.
Guilherme Polo3768b2f2009-03-07 01:47:49 +00001707
Guilherme Polo6d6c1fd2009-03-07 01:19:12 +00001708- Issue #5193: Guarantee that Tkinter.Text.search returns a string.
1709
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001710- Issue #5394: Removed > 2.3 syntax from distutils.msvc9compiler.
Tarek Ziadé943b24e2009-03-07 00:32:45 +00001711 Original patch by Akira Kitada.
1712
Hirokazu Yamamoto264fc122009-03-05 14:21:12 +00001713- Issue #5385: Fixed mmap crash after resize failure on windows.
1714
Hirokazu Yamamotoeacbbdf2009-03-03 22:18:14 +00001715- Issue #5179: Fixed subprocess handle leak on failure on windows.
1716
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001717- PEP 372: Added collections.OrderedDict().
Raymond Hettingerbc512d32009-03-03 04:45:34 +00001718
Raymond Hettinger88a91642009-03-03 04:51:24 +00001719- The _asdict() for method for namedtuples now returns an OrderedDict().
1720
Raymond Hettingere89b8e92009-03-03 05:00:37 +00001721- The configparser module now defaults to using an ordered dictionary.
1722
Benjamin Peterson7d49bba2009-03-02 22:41:42 +00001723- Issue #4308: httplib.IncompleteRead's repr doesn't include all of the data all
1724 ready received.
1725
Benjamin Petersonad58b7c2009-03-02 03:35:12 +00001726- Issue #5401: Fixed a performance problem in mimetypes when ``from mimetypes
1727 import guess_extension`` was used.
1728
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001729- Issue #1733986: Fixed mmap crash on Windows in accessing elements of second
1730 map object with same tagname but larger size than first map.
Hirokazu Yamamotob0e10c72009-02-28 12:13:07 +00001731
Hirokazu Yamamotof2dc8852009-02-28 10:31:54 +00001732- Issue #5386: mmap.write_byte didn't check map size, so it could cause buffer
1733 overrun.
1734
Tarek Ziadé73347352009-02-28 10:08:02 +00001735- Issue #1533164: Installed but not listed *.pyo was breaking Distutils
1736 bdist_rpm command.
1737
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001738- Issue #5378: Added --quiet option to Distutils bdist_rpm command.
Tarek Ziadé73347352009-02-28 10:08:02 +00001739
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001740- Issue #5052: Make Distutils compatible with 2.3 again.
Tarek Ziadédda92f72009-02-27 12:53:34 +00001741
Benjamin Petersonb3dd5482009-02-26 19:07:18 +00001742- Deprecated methods of symtable.Symbol have been removed: is_keywordarg(),
1743 is_vararg(), and is_in_tuple().
1744
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001745- Issue #5316: Fixed buildbot failures introduced by multiple inheritance in
1746 Distutils tests.
Tarek Ziadée3bc0ef2009-02-25 22:29:27 +00001747
Vinay Sajip1a0d2be2009-02-19 12:31:32 +00001748- Issue #5287: Add exception handling around findCaller() call to help out
1749 IronPython.
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00001750
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001751- Issue #5282: Fixed mmap resize on 32bit Windows and Unix. When ``offset >
1752 0``, the file was resized to wrong size.
Hirokazu Yamamoto17a837e2009-02-17 13:17:26 +00001753
Hirokazu Yamamotof6bbd0e2009-02-17 10:12:10 +00001754- Issue #5292: Fixed mmap crash on its boundary access m[len(m)].
1755
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001756- Issue #2279: distutils.sdist.add_defaults now add files from the package_data
1757 and the data_files metadata.
Tarek Ziadé7dd53392009-02-16 21:38:01 +00001758
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001759- Issue #5257: Refactored all tests in distutils, so they use
Tarek Ziadé13699002009-02-14 14:10:23 +00001760 support.TempdirManager, to avoid writing in the tests directory.
1761
Tarek Ziadé2432b0b2009-02-13 23:00:43 +00001762- Issue #4524: distutils build_script command failed with --with-suffix=3.
1763 Initial patch by Amaury Forgeot d'Arc.
1764
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001765- Issue #2461: Added tests for distutils.util.
Tarek Ziadé275958a2009-02-13 22:22:03 +00001766
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001767- Issue #1008086: Fixed socket.inet_aton() to always return 4 bytes even on LP64
1768 platforms (most 64-bit Linux, bsd, unix systems).
Gregory P. Smith3605b5c2009-02-11 23:45:25 +00001769
Thomas Heller3689ae22009-02-10 18:43:01 +00001770- Issue #5203: Fixed ctypes segfaults when passing a unicode string to a
1771 function without argtypes (only occurs if HAVE_USABLE_WCHAR_T is false).
1772
Tarek Ziadé74fbf602009-02-10 12:31:09 +00001773- Issue #3386: distutils.sysconfig.get_python_lib prefix argument was ignored
1774 under NT and OS2. Patch by Philip Jenvey.
1775
Brett Cannon28d10882009-02-10 02:07:38 +00001776- Issue #5128: Make compileall properly inspect bytecode to determine if needs
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001777 to be recreated. This avoids a timing hole thanks to the old reliance on the
Brett Cannon28d10882009-02-10 02:07:38 +00001778 ctime of the files involved.
1779
Guilherme Poloa66cf5b2009-02-09 20:50:27 +00001780- Issue #5122: Synchronize tk load failure check to prevent a potential
1781 deadlock.
1782
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001783- Issue #1818: collections.namedtuple() now supports a keyword argument 'rename'
1784 which lets invalid fieldnames be automatically converted to positional names
1785 in the form, _1, _2, ...
Raymond Hettinger322daea2009-02-10 01:24:05 +00001786
Guilherme Polod2ea0332009-02-09 16:41:09 +00001787- Issue #4890: Handle empty text search pattern in Tkinter.Text.search.
1788
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001789- Issue #5170: Fixed Unicode output bug in logging and added test case. This is
1790 a regression which did not occur in 2.5.
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +00001791
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001792- Issue #4512 (part 2): Promote ``ZipImporter._get_filename()`` to be a public
1793 documented method ``ZipImporter.get_filename()``.
Nick Coghlan0194f5b2009-02-08 03:17:00 +00001794
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001795- Issue #4195: The ``runpy`` module (and the ``-m`` switch) now support the
1796 execution of packages by looking for and executing a ``__main__`` submodule
1797 when a package name is supplied. Initial patch by Andi Vajda.
Nick Coghland39600e2009-02-08 01:26:34 +00001798
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001799- Issue #1731706: Call Tcl_ConditionFinalize for Tcl_Conditions that will not be
1800 used again (this requires Tcl/Tk 8.3.1), also fix a memory leak in Tkapp_Call
1801 when calling from a thread different than the one that created the Tcl
1802 interpreter. Patch by Robert Hancock.
Guilherme Polo14ff18d2009-02-06 22:26:22 +00001803
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +00001804- Issue #1520877: Now distutils.sysconfig reads $AR from the
Tarek Ziadé05adf072009-02-06 01:15:51 +00001805 environment/Makefile. Patch by Douglas Greiman.
1806
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001807- Issue #4285: Change sys.version_info to be a named tuple. Patch by Ross
1808 Light.
Eric Smith81fe0932009-02-06 00:48:26 +00001809
Tarek Ziadéd5eb9852009-02-06 00:31:59 +00001810- Issue #1276768: The verbose option was not used in the code of
1811 distutils.file_util and distutils.dir_util.
1812
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +00001813- Issue #5132: Fixed trouble building extensions under Solaris with
Tarek Ziadé0d4fd342009-02-05 22:52:52 +00001814 --enabled-shared activated. Initial patch by Dave Peterson.
1815
Guilherme Polod7bb4d42009-02-02 21:14:14 +00001816- Issue #1581476: Always use the Tcl global namespace when calling into Tcl.
1817
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001818- Issue #2047: shutil.move() could believe that its destination path was inside
1819 its source path if it began with the same letters (e.g. "src" vs. "src.new").
Antoine Pitrou707c5932009-01-29 20:19:34 +00001820
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001821- Issue #4920: Fixed .next() vs .__next__() issues in the ABCs for Iterator and
1822 MutableSet.
Raymond Hettingerf779e6f2009-01-28 23:02:26 +00001823
Guilherme Polocda93aa2009-01-28 13:09:03 +00001824- Added the ttk module. See issue #2983: Ttk support for Tkinter.
1825
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001826- Issue #5021: doctest.testfile() did not create __name__ and
Raymond Hettingerecf252a2009-01-27 10:03:04 +00001827 collections.namedtuple() relied on __name__ being defined.
1828
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001829- Backport importlib from Python 3.1. Only the import_module() function has been
1830 backported to help facilitate transitions from 2.7 to 3.1.
Brett Cannon93881c62009-01-26 01:16:50 +00001831
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001832- Issue #1885: distutils: When running sdist with --formats=tar,gztar the tar
1833 file was overriden by the gztar one.
Tarek Ziadéaaedcef2009-01-25 23:34:00 +00001834
Tarek Ziadéef249b12009-01-25 18:19:25 +00001835- Issue #4863: distutils.mwerkscompiler has been removed.
1836
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001837- Added new itertools functions: combinations_with_replacement() and compress().
Raymond Hettinger2bcb8e92009-01-25 21:04:14 +00001838
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001839- Issue #5032: Added a step argument to itertools.count() and allowed
1840 non-integer arguments.
Raymond Hettinger31c769c2009-02-12 05:39:46 +00001841
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001842- Fix and properly document the multiprocessing module's logging support, expose
1843 the internal levels and provide proper usage examples.
Jesse Nollerb5a4b0a2009-01-25 03:36:13 +00001844
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001845- Issue #1672332: Fix unpickling of subnormal floats, which was
Mark Dickinsona3ecd2c2009-01-24 16:40:29 +00001846 producing a ValueError on some platforms.
1847
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001848- Issue #3881: Help Tcl to load even when started through the unreadable local
1849 symlink to "Program Files" on Vista.
Martin v. Löwisf081e1c2009-01-24 15:47:27 +00001850
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001851- Issue #4710: Extract directories properly in the zipfile module; allow adding
1852 directories to a zipfile.
Martin v. Löwis0dfcfc82009-01-24 14:00:33 +00001853
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +00001854- Issue #3807: _multiprocessing build fails when configure is passed
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001855 --without-threads argument. When this occurs, _multiprocessing will be
1856 disabled, and not compiled.
Jesse Nollerf6da8d12009-01-23 14:04:41 +00001857
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001858- Issue #5008: When a file is opened in append mode with the new IO library, do
1859 an explicit seek to the end of file (so that e.g. tell() returns the file size
1860 rather than 0). This is consistent with the behaviour of the traditional 2.x
1861 file object.
Antoine Pitroue741cc62009-01-21 00:45:36 +00001862
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00001863- Issue #5013: Fixed a bug in FileHandler which occurred when the delay
1864 parameter was set.
1865
Raymond Hettinger933d3a72009-01-20 20:34:19 +00001866- Issue #4998: The memory saving effect of __slots__ had been lost on Fractions
1867 which inherited from numbers.py which did not have __slots__ defined. The
Mark Dickinson39c6f7f2009-02-12 17:55:42 +00001868 numbers hierarchy now has its own __slots__ declarations.
Raymond Hettinger933d3a72009-01-20 20:34:19 +00001869
Jesse Noller9a5b2ad2009-01-19 15:12:22 +00001870- Issue #3321: _multiprocessing.Connection() doesn't check handle; added checks
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001871 for *nix machines for negative handles and large int handles. Without this
1872 check it is possible to segfault the interpreter.
Jesse Noller9a5b2ad2009-01-19 15:12:22 +00001873
Jesse Noller6ab22152009-01-18 02:45:38 +00001874- Issue #4449: AssertionError in mp_benchmarks.py, caused by an underlying issue
1875 in sharedctypes.py.
1876
Benjamin Peterson5e5fbb62009-01-17 22:27:54 +00001877- Issue #1225107: inspect.isclass() returned True for instances with a custom
1878 __getattr__.
1879
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001880- Issue #3997: Zipfiles generated with more than 65536 files could not be opened
1881 with other applications.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd25f87a2009-01-17 16:40:17 +00001882
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001883- Issue #1162154: ``inspect.getmembers()`` now skips attributes that raise
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcb54447f2009-01-13 23:39:22 +00001884 AttributeError, e.g. a __slots__ attribute which has not been set.
1885
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001886- Issue #1696199: Add collections.Counter() for rapid and convenient counting.
Raymond Hettingerf94d7fa2009-01-12 22:58:41 +00001887
Antoine Pitroubd4b5f22009-01-10 16:15:24 +00001888- Issue #3860: GzipFile and BZ2File now support the context manager protocol.
1889
Antoine Pitrouf0d2c3f2009-01-04 21:29:23 +00001890- Issue #4272: Add an optional argument to the GzipFile constructor to override
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001891 the timestamp in the gzip stream. The default value remains the current time.
1892 The information can be used by e.g. gunzip when decompressing. Patch by
Antoine Pitrouf0d2c3f2009-01-04 21:29:23 +00001893 Jacques Frechet.
1894
Mark Dickinson514d4832009-01-04 21:25:40 +00001895- Restore Python 2.3 compatibility for decimal.py.
1896
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00001897- Issue #1702551: distutils sdist was not excluding VCS directories under
Tarek Ziadé85d6fb52009-01-04 00:04:49 +00001898 Windows. Inital solution by Guy Dalberto.
1899
Guilherme Poloe7f14032009-01-03 21:51:09 +00001900- The _tkinter module functions "createfilehandler", "deletefilehandler",
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001901 "createtimerhandler", "mainloop", "dooneevent" and "quit" have been deprecated
1902 for removal in 3.x
Guilherme Poloe7f14032009-01-03 21:51:09 +00001903
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001904- Issue #4796: Added Decimal.from_float() and
1905 Context.create_decimal_from_float() to the decimal module.
Raymond Hettingerf4d85972009-01-03 19:02:23 +00001906
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001907- Issue #4812: Add missing underscore prefix to some internal-use-only constants
1908 in the decimal module. (Dec_0 becomes _Dec_0, etc.)
Mark Dickinsonc5de0962009-01-02 23:07:08 +00001909
Benjamin Peterson8ad09a42008-12-31 23:48:39 +00001910- Issue #4795: inspect.isgeneratorfunction() returns False instead of None when
1911 the function is not a generator.
1912
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001913- Issue #4702: Throwing a DistutilsPlatformError instead of IOError in case no
1914 MSVC compiler is found under Windows. Original patch by Philip Jenvey.
Tarek Ziadéb1a85412008-12-30 23:03:41 +00001915
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001916- Issue #4646: distutils was choking on empty options arg in the setup function.
1917 Original patch by Thomas Heller.
Tarek Ziadéc13acb12008-12-29 22:23:53 +00001918
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001919- Fractions.from_float() no longer loses precision for integers too big to cast
1920 as floats.
Georg Brandlfe427892009-01-03 22:03:11 +00001921
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001922- Issue #4790: The nsmallest() and nlargest() functions in the heapq module did
1923 unnecessary work in the common case where no key function was specified.
Georg Brandlfe427892009-01-03 22:03:11 +00001924
Martin v. Löwis732479f2008-12-29 16:22:25 +00001925- Issue #3767: Convert Tk object to string in tkColorChooser.
1926
Martin v. Löwise2eb2b42008-12-29 15:51:01 +00001927- Issue #3248: Allow placing ScrolledText in a PanedWindow.
1928
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001929- Issue #4444: Allow assertRaises() to be used as a context handler, so that the
1930 code under test can be written inline if more practical.
Antoine Pitrou697ca3d2008-12-28 14:09:36 +00001931
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001932- Issue #4739: Add pydoc help topics for symbols, so that e.g. help('@') works
1933 as expected in the interactive environment.
Georg Brandlc3a98032008-12-27 18:20:04 +00001934
Antoine Pitrou6f193e02008-12-27 15:43:12 +00001935- Issue #4756: zipfile.is_zipfile() now supports file-like objects. Patch by
1936 Gabriel Genellina.
1937
Tarek Ziadée4c75bb2008-12-24 19:10:05 +00001938- Issue #4400: .pypirc default generated file was broken in distutils.
1939
Benjamin Peterson54686e32008-12-24 15:10:27 +00001940- Issue #4736: io.BufferedRWPair's closed property now functions properly.
1941
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001942- Issue #3954: Fix a potential SystemError in _hotshot.logreader error handling.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc31949b92008-12-15 21:47:57 +00001943
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001944- Issue #4574: Fix a crash in io.IncrementalNewlineDecoder when a carriage
1945 return encodes to more than one byte in the source encoding (e.g. UTF-16) and
1946 gets split on a chunk boundary.
Antoine Pitrou655fbf12008-12-14 17:40:51 +00001947
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001948- Issue #4223: inspect.getsource() will now correctly display source code for
1949 packages loaded via zipimport (or any other conformant PEP 302
Nick Coghlana2053472008-12-14 10:54:50 +00001950 loader). Original patch by Alexander Belopolsky.
1951
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001952- Issue #4201: pdb can now access and display source code loaded via zipimport
1953 (or any other conformant PEP 302 loader). Original patch by Alexander
1954 Belopolsky.
Nick Coghlana2053472008-12-14 10:54:50 +00001955
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001956- Issue #4197: Doctests in modules loaded via zipimport (or any other PEP 302
1957 conformant loader) will now work correctly in most cases (they are still
1958 subject to the constraints that exist for all code running from inside a
1959 module loaded via a PEP 302 loader and attempting to perform IO operations
1960 based on __file__). Original patch by Alexander Belopolsky.
Nick Coghlana2053472008-12-14 10:54:50 +00001961
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001962- Issues #4082 and #4512: Add runpy support to zipimport in a manner that allows
1963 backporting to maintenance branches. Original patch by Alexander Belopolsky.
Nick Coghlana2053472008-12-14 10:54:50 +00001964
Antoine Pitrou74af3bb2008-12-13 23:12:30 +00001965- Issue #4163: Use unicode-friendly word splitting in the textwrap functions
1966 when given an unicode string.
1967
Lars Gustäbel3b027422008-12-12 13:58:03 +00001968- Issue #4616: TarFile.utime(): Restore directory times on Windows.
1969
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001970- Issue #4084: Fix max, min, max_mag and min_mag Decimal methods to give correct
1971 results in the case where one argument is a quiet NaN and the other is a
1972 finite number that requires rounding.
Facundo Batistae29d4352008-12-11 04:19:46 +00001973
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001974- Issue #1030250: Distutils created directories even when run with the --dry-run
1975 option.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc240028c2008-12-11 00:03:42 +00001976
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001977- Issue #4483: _dbm module now builds on systems with gdbm & gdbm_compat libs.
Skip Montanaro45313fe2008-12-06 17:43:30 +00001978
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001979- Issue #4529: Fix the parser module's validation of try-except-finally
Georg Brandlfe879e82008-12-05 12:09:41 +00001980 statements.
1981
Georg Brandla07435d2008-12-05 09:23:14 +00001982- Issue #4458: getopt.gnu_getopt() now recognizes a single "-" as an argument,
1983 not a malformed option.
1984
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001985- Added the subprocess.check_output() convenience function to get output from a
1986 subprocess on success or raise an exception on error.
Gregory P. Smith97f49f42008-12-04 20:21:09 +00001987
Fred Drake52481032008-12-04 18:25:17 +00001988- Issue #1055234: cgi.parse_header(): Fixed parsing of header parameters to
1989 support unusual filenames (such as those containing semi-colons) in
1990 Content-Disposition headers.
1991
Vinay Sajip6831d6b2008-12-04 20:32:18 +00001992- Issue #4384: Added logging integration with warnings module using
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001993 captureWarnings(). This change includes a NullHandler which does nothing; it
1994 will be of use to library developers who want to avoid the "No handlers could
1995 be found for logger XXX" message which can appear if the library user doesn't
1996 configure logging.
Vinay Sajip213faca2008-12-03 23:22:58 +00001997
Christian Heimesaa674712008-11-28 11:02:32 +00001998- Issue #3741: DISTUTILS_USE_SDK set causes msvc9compiler.py to raise an
1999 exception.
2000
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002001- Issue #4363: The uuid.uuid1() and uuid.uuid4() functions now work even if the
2002 ctypes module is not present.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd4294172008-11-21 22:05:48 +00002003
Benjamin Petersonbfc51562008-11-22 01:59:15 +00002004- FileIO's mode attribute now always includes ``"b"``.
2005
Martin v. Löwisbb9b1f12008-11-19 09:09:41 +00002006- Issue #4116: Resolve member name conflict in ScrolledCanvas.__init__.
2007
Brett Cannone3d0bf72008-11-15 22:40:44 +00002008- httplib.HTTPConnection.putheader() now accepts an arbitrary number of values
2009 for any header, matching what the documentation has claimed for a while.
2010
Hirokazu Yamamotob9828f62008-11-03 18:03:06 +00002011- Issue #3774: Fixed an error when create a Tkinter menu item without command
2012 and then remove it.
2013
Thomas Heller1fac5a42008-10-30 20:18:13 +00002014- Fixed a modulefinder crash on certain relative imports.
2015
Benjamin Petersonc18574c2008-10-22 21:16:34 +00002016- Issue #4150: Pdb's "up" command now works for generator frames in post-mortem
2017 debugging.
2018
Benjamin Petersone4dc1752008-10-21 22:20:31 +00002019- Issue #4092: Return ArgInfo as promised in the documentation from
2020 inspect.getargvalues.
2021
Georg Brandlf3776a12008-10-08 18:47:17 +00002022- Issue #3935: Properly support list subclasses in bisect's C implementation.
2023
Martin v. Löwis96a9f232008-10-06 15:15:40 +00002024- Issue #4014: Don't claim that Python has an Alpha release status, in addition
2025 to claiming it is Mature.
2026
Alexandre Vassalotti6067f782008-12-27 07:13:01 +00002027- Issue #4730: Fixed the cPickle module to handle correctly astral characters
2028 when protocol 0 is used.
2029
Ronald Oussoren0238497e2009-01-02 14:10:20 +00002030- Issue #1594: MacOS.GetCreatorAndType now always returns a big-endian result,
2031 to be consistent with Apple tools.
2032
Ronald Oussoren63b74fe2009-01-02 14:46:19 +00002033- Issue #900949: plat-mac/videoreader.py no longer relies on a non-existing
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00002034 module.
Ronald Oussoren63b74fe2009-01-02 14:46:19 +00002035
Ronald Oussoren7f8cbf02009-01-02 14:48:17 +00002036- Issue #16278952: plat-mac/videoreader.py now correctly imports MediaDescr
2037
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002038- Issue #1737832: plat-mac/EasyDialog.py no longer uses the broken aepack
Ronald Oussoren919697c2009-01-02 14:52:09 +00002039 module.
2040
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002041- Issue #1149804: macostools.mkdirs now even works when another process creates
2042 one of the needed subdirectories.
Ronald Oussorenabcc1682009-01-02 15:00:05 +00002043
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002044- Issue #900506: added --no-zipimport flag to the bundlebuilder script.
Ronald Oussoren072bb402009-01-02 15:25:36 +00002045
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002046- Issue #841800: bundlebuilder now works with 'python -O'.
Ronald Oussoren072bb402009-01-02 15:25:36 +00002047
Matthias Klose43723e22009-01-10 17:00:42 +00002048- Issue #4861: ctypes.util.find_library(): Robustify. Fix library detection on
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002049 biarch systems. Try to rely on ldconfig only, without using objdump and gcc.
Matthias Klose43723e22009-01-10 17:00:42 +00002050
Gregory P. Smithde1a8b72009-01-31 22:57:30 +00002051- Issue #5104: The socket module now raises OverflowError when 16-bit port and
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002052 protocol numbers are supplied outside the allowed 0-65536 range on bind() and
2053 getservbyport().
Gregory P. Smithde1a8b72009-01-31 22:57:30 +00002054
Neil Schemenauer92c3b212009-02-07 00:54:41 +00002055- Issue #999042: The Python compiler now handles explict global statements
2056 correctly (should be assigned using STORE_GLOBAL opcode).
2057
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002058- Issue #2703: SimpleXMLRPCDispatcher.__init__: Provide default values for new
2059 arguments introduced in 2.5.
Matthias Klosea5d58c82009-04-05 21:00:48 +00002060
Walter Dörwald5d98ec72009-04-25 14:03:16 +00002061- Issue #5828 (Invalid behavior of unicode.lower): Fixed bogus logic in
2062 makeunicodedata.py and regenerated the Unicode database (This fixes
2063 u'\u1d79'.lower() == '\x00').
2064
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Wervenb87b3342009-05-08 14:11:23 +00002065- Windows locale mapping updated to Vista.
2066
Antoine Pitroue555f582008-12-27 20:34:52 +00002067Tools/Demos
2068-----------
2069
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002070- Ttk demos added in Demo/tkinter/ttk/.
Guilherme Polo4eae0782009-01-28 15:56:01 +00002071
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002072- Issue #4677: Add two list comprehension tests to pybench.
Antoine Pitroue555f582008-12-27 20:34:52 +00002073
Brett Cannon60b15d22008-10-06 22:44:37 +00002074Build
2075-----
2076
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002077- Issue #6603: Change READ_TIMESTAMP macro in ceval.c so that it compiles
2078 correctly under gcc on x86-64. This fixes a reported problem with the
2079 --with-tsc build on x86-64.
Mark Dickinson504a1512009-10-31 10:11:28 +00002080
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002081- Add 2 new options to ``--with-universal-archs`` on MacOSX: ``intel`` builds a
2082 distribution with ``i386`` and ``x86_64`` architectures, while ``3-way``
2083 builds a distribution with the ``ppc``, ``i386`` and ``x86_64`` architectures.
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +00002084
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002085- Issue #6802: Fix build issues on MacOSX 10.6.
Ronald Oussoren25967582009-09-06 10:00:26 +00002086
Guilherme Polo1ce2d532009-08-16 14:38:57 +00002087- Issue #6244: Allow detect_tkinter to look for Tcl/Tk 8.6.
2088
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002089- Issue 5390: Add uninstall icon independent of whether file extensions are
2090 installed.
Martin v. Löwisecb4f952009-06-28 09:32:39 +00002091
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002092- Issue 5809: Specifying both --enable-framework and --enable-shared is an
2093 error. Configure now explicity tells you about this.
Ronald Oussoren450d5612009-06-08 21:12:41 +00002094
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002095- Issue #3585: Add pkg-config support. It creates a python-2.7.pc file and a
2096 python.pc symlink in the $(LIBDIR)/pkgconfig directory. Patch by Clinton Roy.
Antoine Pitrouf2caeed2009-05-24 20:23:57 +00002097
Benjamin Petersone5afa3b2009-05-23 19:24:37 +00002098- Issue #6094: Build correctly with Subversion 1.7.
2099
Martin v. Löwis588b54b2009-05-05 16:10:16 +00002100- Issue #5847: Remove -n switch on "Edit with IDLE" menu item.
2101
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002102- Issue #5726: Make Modules/ld_so_aix return the actual exit code of the linker,
2103 rather than always exit successfully. Patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
Antoine Pitrou3fd4ea92009-05-01 21:16:14 +00002104
Matthias Klose10cbe482009-04-29 17:18:19 +00002105- Issue #4587: Add configure option --with-dbmliborder=db1:db2:... to specify
Vinay Sajipf9b01fe2009-05-09 12:07:17 +00002106 the order that backends for the dbm extension are checked.
Matthias Klose10cbe482009-04-29 17:18:19 +00002107
Matthias Klose8ad554f2009-02-22 23:14:26 +00002108- Link the shared python library with $(MODLIBS).
2109
Martin v. Löwisa3e3cb72009-02-10 13:09:19 +00002110- Issue #5134: Silence compiler warnings when compiling sqlite with VC++.
2111
Martin v. Löwisfee1c7f2009-02-02 14:23:16 +00002112- Issue #4494: Fix build with Py_NO_ENABLE_SHARED on Windows.
2113
Martin v. Löwiseefda272009-01-11 09:43:55 +00002114- Issue #4895: Use _strdup on Windows CE.
2115
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002116- Issue #4472: ``configure --enable-shared`` now works on OSX.
Ronald Oussorenf7d54052009-01-02 10:48:31 +00002117
Benjamin Petersonfd9633e2008-12-28 15:37:31 +00002118- Issues #4728 and #4060: WORDS_BIGEDIAN is now correct in Universal builds.
2119
Martin v. Löwiscb6c3592008-11-30 11:08:26 +00002120- Issue #4389: Add icon to the uninstall entry in "add-and-remove-programs".
2121
Martin v. Löwis63470982008-11-19 13:51:44 +00002122- Issue #4289: Remove Cancel button from AdvancedDlg.
2123
Martin v. Löwis3d6f8ff2008-11-07 18:51:50 +00002124- Issue #1656675: Register a drop handler for .py* files on Windows.
2125
Martin v. Löwis692c2f82008-11-06 16:43:00 +00002126- Issue #4120: Exclude manifest from extension modules in VS2008.
2127
Martin v. Löwis0f3e7692008-10-17 13:43:01 +00002128- Issue #4091: Install pythonxy.dll in system32 again.
2129
Martin v. Löwiseba774b2008-10-13 11:23:35 +00002130- Issue #4018: Disable "for me" installations on Vista.
2131
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002132- Issue #3758: Add ``patchcheck`` build target to ``.PHONY``.
Brett Cannon60b15d22008-10-06 22:44:37 +00002133
Martin v. Löwisbb86d832008-11-04 20:40:09 +00002134- Issue #4204: Fixed module build errors on FreeBSD 4.
2135
Tarek Ziadéc4a4aeb2009-08-21 14:28:38 +00002136Documentation
2137-------------
2138
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002139- Issue #6556: Fixed the Distutils configuration files location explanation for
2140 Windows.
Tarek Ziadéc4a4aeb2009-08-21 14:28:38 +00002141
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002142- Issue #6801: symmetric_difference_update also accepts ``|``. Thanks to Carl
2143 Chenet.
Tarek Ziadé3092ed92009-08-29 13:33:21 +00002144
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc07d539d2008-10-14 21:47:22 +00002145C-API
2146-----
2147
Mark Dickinsone31d3002009-12-21 11:21:25 +00002148- Issue #7528: Add PyLong_AsLongAndOverflow (backported from py3k).
2149
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002150- Issue #7228: Add '%lld' and '%llu' support to PyString_FromFormat(V) and
2151 PyErr_Format, on machines with HAVE_LONG_LONG defined.
Mark Dickinson82864d12009-11-15 16:18:58 +00002152
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002153- Add new C-API function PyOS_string_to_double, and deprecated PyOS_ascii_atof
2154 and PyOS_ascii_strtod.
Mark Dickinson09823a22009-10-31 09:42:39 +00002155
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002156- Removed _PyOS_double_to_string. Use PyOS_double_to_string instead. This is in
2157 preparation for (but not strictly related to) issue #7117, short float repr.
Mark Dickinsonba26b392009-10-31 09:28:12 +00002158
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002159- Issue #6624: PyArg_ParseTuple with "s" format when parsing argument with NULL:
2160 Bogus TypeError detail string.
Sean Reifscheider9279e7d2009-08-01 23:54:55 +00002161
Jeffrey Yasskinf7f858d2009-05-08 22:23:21 +00002162- Issue #5954: Add a PyFrame_GetLineNumber() function to replace most uses of
2163 PyCode_Addr2Line().
2164
Jeffrey Yasskin1aa47002009-05-08 21:51:06 +00002165- Issue #5959: Add a PyCode_NewEmpty() function to create a new empty code
2166 object at a specified file, function, and line number.
2167
Brett Cannonc4f90eb2009-04-02 03:17:39 +00002168- Issue #1419652: Change the first argument to PyImport_AppendInittab() to
2169 ``const char *`` as the string is stored beyond the call.
2170
Benjamin Peterson5781f322009-02-16 21:09:09 +00002171- Some PyBytes_* aliases have been removed because they don't exist in 3.x.
2172
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002173- Issue #5175: PyLong_AsUnsignedLongLong now raises OverflowError for negative
2174 arguments. Previously, it raised TypeError.
Mark Dickinson4015f622009-02-10 15:46:50 +00002175
Benjamin Petersoncf2ce242008-12-22 20:52:53 +00002176- Issue #4720: The format for PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords can begin with '|'.
2177
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002178- Issue #3632: From the gdb debugger, the 'pyo' macro can now be called when the
2179 GIL is released, or owned by another thread.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc3538a312008-12-15 22:29:14 +00002180
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc07d539d2008-10-14 21:47:22 +00002181- Issue #4122: On Windows, fix a compilation error when using the
2182 Py_UNICODE_ISSPACE macro in an extension module.
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00002183
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002184- Issue #4293: Py_AddPendingCall() is now thread safe and can be used for
Kristján Valur Jónssonc22ab182009-01-12 09:24:04 +00002185 asynchronous notifications to python from any thread. Documentation added.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc07d539d2008-10-14 21:47:22 +00002186
Benjamin Peterson9dfe6a82008-11-24 04:09:03 +00002187Extension Modules
2188-----------------
2189
Martin v. Löwis50ea4562009-11-27 13:56:01 +00002190- Issue #6508: Add posix.{getresuid,getresgid,setresuid,setresgid}.
2191
Mark Dickinson3d830822009-10-08 15:54:10 +00002192- Issue #7078: Set struct.__doc__ from _struct.__doc__.
2193
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002194- Issue #3366: Add erf, erfc, expm1, gamma, lgamma functions to math module.
Mark Dickinsonb93fff02009-09-28 18:54:55 +00002195
Brett Cannon4d947432009-09-22 00:29:48 +00002196- Issue #6823: Allow time.strftime() to accept a tuple with a isdst field
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002197 outside of the range of [-1, 1] by normalizing the value to within that range.
Brett Cannon4d947432009-09-22 00:29:48 +00002198
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002199- Issue #6877: Make it possible to link the readline extension to libedit on
2200 OSX.
Ronald Oussoren9f20d9d2009-09-20 14:18:15 +00002201
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002202- Issue #6944: Fix a SystemError when socket.getnameinfo() was called with
2203 something other than a tuple as first argument.
Georg Brandlab849892009-09-19 07:35:07 +00002204
Benjamin Peterson7f6d0832009-09-08 23:04:22 +00002205- Issue #6865: Fix reference counting issue in the initialization of the pwd
2206 module.
2207
Mark Dickinson6b3f1ef2009-09-06 21:21:05 +00002208- Issue #6848: Fix curses module build failure on OS X 10.6.
2209
Brett Cannon764465f2009-08-13 19:27:12 +00002210- Fix a segfault in expat when given a specially crafted input lead to the
Matthias Klose3b0f9b02010-01-22 00:34:48 +00002211 tokenizer not stopping. CVE-2009-3720.
Brett Cannon764465f2009-08-13 19:27:12 +00002212
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002213- Issue #6561: '\d' in a regex now matches only characters with Unicode category
2214 'Nd' (Number, Decimal Digit). Previously it also matched characters with
2215 category 'No'.
Mark Dickinsonfe67bd92009-07-28 20:35:03 +00002216
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002217- Issue #1523: Remove deprecated overflow wrapping for struct.pack with an
2218 integer format code ('bBhHiIlLqQ'). Packing an out-of-range integer now
2219 consistently raises struct.error.
Mark Dickinson5fd3af22009-07-07 15:08:28 +00002220
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002221- Issues #1530559, #1741130: Fix various struct.pack inconsistencies for the
2222 integer formats ('bBhHiIlLqQ'). In the following, '*' represents any of '=',
2223 '<', '>'.
Mark Dickinson463dc4b2009-07-05 10:01:24 +00002224
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002225 - Packing a float now always gives a Deprecation Warning. Previously it
2226 only warned for 'I', 'L', '*B', '*H', '*I', '*L'.
Mark Dickinson463dc4b2009-07-05 10:01:24 +00002227
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002228 - If x is not an int, long or float, then packing x will always result in
2229 struct.error. Previously an x with an __int__ method could be packed by
2230 'b', 'B', 'h', 'H', 'i', 'l', '*b', '*h' ,'*i', '*l', and an x with a
2231 __long__ method could be packed by 'q', 'Q', '*q', '*Q'; for x with
2232 neither __int__ nor __long__, TypeError used to be raised (with a
2233 confusing error message) for 'I', 'L', '*B', '*H', '*I', '*L', and
2234 struct.error in other cases.
Mark Dickinson463dc4b2009-07-05 10:01:24 +00002235
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002236 Note: as of Python 2.7 beta 1, the above is out of date. In 2.7 beta 1, any
2237 argument with an __int__ method can be packed, but use of this feature
2238 triggers a DeprecationWarning.
Mark Dickinson154b7ad2010-03-07 16:24:45 +00002239
Martin v. Löwis4f16d3b2009-05-29 15:58:08 +00002240- Issue #4873: Fix resource leaks in error cases of pwd and grp.
2241
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002242- Issue #4751: For hashlib algorithms provided by OpenSSL, the Python GIL is now
2243 released during computation on data lengths >= 2048 bytes.
Gregory P. Smithd02eeda2009-05-04 00:16:49 +00002244
Gregory P. Smithea388262009-02-13 03:00:00 +00002245- Issue #3745: Fix hashlib to always reject unicode and non buffer-api
2246 supporting objects as input no matter how it was compiled (built in
Gregory P. Smithfe32d302010-01-02 22:42:50 +00002247 implementations or external openssl library). NOTE: Undone in 2.7a2.
Gregory P. Smithea388262009-02-13 03:00:00 +00002248
Mark Dickinsona200dd52009-01-15 15:17:43 +00002249- Issue #4397: Fix occasional test_socket failure on OS X.
Mark Dickinsone82cdae2009-01-15 14:54:37 +00002250
Martin v. Löwisb3b7d852009-01-11 09:26:54 +00002251- Issue #4279: Fix build of parsermodule under Cygwin.
2252
Martin v. Löwis9ac49272009-01-02 20:40:14 +00002253- Issue #4051: Prevent conflict of UNICODE macros in cPickle.
2254
Georg Brandl6269fec2009-01-01 12:15:31 +00002255- Issue #4228: Pack negative values the same way as 2.4 in struct's L format.
2256
Martin v. Löwis03824e42008-12-29 18:17:34 +00002257- Issue #1040026: Fix os.times result on systems where HZ is incorrect.
2258
Mark Dickinson4c96fa52008-12-11 19:28:08 +00002259- Issues #3167, #3682: Fix test_math failures for log, log10 on Solaris,
2260 OpenBSD.
2261
Martin v. Löwisbcb017f2008-11-30 19:28:27 +00002262- Issue #4365: Add crtassem.h constants to the msvcrt module.
2263
Benjamin Peterson9dfe6a82008-11-24 04:09:03 +00002264- Issue #4396: The parser module now correctly validates the with statement.
2265
Jack Diederichd60c29e2009-03-31 23:46:48 +00002266- Issue #5228: Make functools.partial objects can now be pickled.
2267
Guilherme Polob1a98de2009-01-28 20:03:26 +00002268Tests
2269-----
2270
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002271- Issue #7431: Use TESTFN in test_linecache instead of trying to create a file
2272 in the Lib/test directory, which might be read-only for the user running the
2273 tests.
R. David Murray820b0ea2009-12-03 23:57:59 +00002274
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002275- Issue #7324: Add a sanity check to regrtest argument parsing to catch the case
2276 of an option with no handler.
R. David Murrayda826892009-11-15 00:04:32 +00002277
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002278- Issue #7312: Add a -F flag to run the selected tests in a loop until a test
2279 fails. Can be combined with -j.
R. David Murray7f7eea62009-11-14 15:18:22 +00002280
Antoine Pitrou310c9fe2009-11-11 20:55:07 +00002281- Issue #7295: Do not use a hardcoded file name in test_tarfile.
2282
Antoine Pitrouc98efe02009-11-06 22:34:35 +00002283- Issue #7270: Add some dedicated unit tests for multi-thread synchronization
2284 primitives such as Lock, RLock, Condition, Event and Semaphore.
2285
Antoine Pitrou59c44f32009-10-30 17:07:08 +00002286- Issue #7222: Make thread "reaping" more reliable so that reference
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002287 leak-chasing test runs give sensible results. The previous method of reaping
2288 threads could return successfully while some Thread objects were still
2289 referenced. This also introduces a new private function: ``thread._count()``.
Antoine Pitrou59c44f32009-10-30 17:07:08 +00002290
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002291- Issue #7151: Fixed regrtest -j so that output to stderr from a test no longer
2292 runs the risk of causing the worker thread to fail.
R. David Murray282396f2009-10-18 21:12:37 +00002293
Antoine Pitrou58d2f262009-10-10 20:52:11 +00002294- Issue #7055: test___all__ now greedily detects all modules which have an
2295 __all__ attribute, rather than using a hardcoded and incomplete list.
2296
R. David Murray14dcd432009-10-14 13:58:07 +00002297- Issue #7058: Added save/restore for things like sys.argv and cwd to
2298 runtest_inner in regrtest, with warnings if the called test modifies them,
2299 and a new section in the summary report at the end.
R. David Murrayabe3d3e2009-10-05 17:03:09 +00002300
Mark Dickinson245d9152009-10-04 18:38:39 +00002301- Issue #7042: Fix test_signal (test_itimer_virtual) failure on OS X 10.6.
2302
Brett Cannone7e941e2009-09-03 21:25:21 +00002303- Issue #6806: test_platform failed under OS X 10.6.0 because ``sw_ver`` leaves
2304 off the trailing 0 in the version number.
2305
Guilherme Polo7f146ab2009-06-21 17:22:50 +00002306- Issue #5450: Moved tests involving loading tk from Lib/test/test_tcl to
2307 Lib/lib-tk/test/test_tkinter/test_loadtk. With this, these tests demonstrate
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002308 the same behaviour as test_ttkguionly (and now also test_tk) which is to skip
2309 the tests if DISPLAY is defined but can't be used.
Guilherme Polo7f146ab2009-06-21 17:22:50 +00002310
Antoine Pitrou4698d992009-05-31 14:20:14 +00002311- Issue #6152: New option '-j'/'--multiprocess' for regrtest allows running
2312 regression tests in parallel, shortening the total runtime.
2313
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002314- Issue #5354: New test support function import_fresh_module() makes it easy to
2315 import both normal and optimised versions of modules. test_heapq and
2316 test_warnings have been adjusted to use it, tests for other modules with both
2317 C and Python implementations in the stdlib can be adjusted to use it over
2318 time.
Nick Coghlan5533ff62009-04-22 15:26:04 +00002319
Brett Cannonce3d2212009-04-01 20:25:48 +00002320- Fix test_warnings to no longer reset the warnings filter.
2321
Brett Cannon2da4d622009-04-01 19:57:10 +00002322- Fix test_logging to no longer reset the warnings filter.
2323
Georg Brandld8fb6ac2009-04-01 00:04:33 +00002324- Issue #5635: Fix running test_sys with tracing enabled.
2325
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002326- regrtest no longer treats ImportError as equivalent to SkipTest. Imports that
2327 should cause a test to be skipped are now done using import_module from test
2328 support, which does the conversion.
R. David Murray41448c52009-03-31 19:57:24 +00002329
Guilherme Polob1a98de2009-01-28 20:03:26 +00002330- Issue #5083: New 'gui' resource for regrtest.
2331
Walter Dörwalda1453172009-04-25 12:15:07 +00002332- Issue #5837: Certain sequences of calls to set() and unset() for
2333 support.EnvironmentVarGuard objects restored the environment variables
2334 incorrectly on __exit__.
2335
Alexandre Vassalotti999ecc02009-07-15 18:19:47 +00002336- Issue #2389: Array objects are now pickled in a portable manner.
2337
Brett Cannon813c43a2009-11-08 21:35:28 +00002338Misc
2339----
2340
2341- Issue #5611: Auto-detect whether a C file uses tabs or spaces in Vim.
2342
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00002343
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00002344What's New in Python 2.6 final
2345==============================
2346
Barry Warsawafa14362008-10-01 21:46:40 +00002347*Release date: 01-Oct-2008*
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00002348
2349Core and Builtins
2350-----------------
2351
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfc5ea392008-09-26 22:34:08 +00002352- Issue #3967: Fixed a crash in the count() and find() methods of string-like
2353 objects, when the "start" parameter is a huge value.
2354
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc17617a02008-09-25 20:52:56 +00002355- Issue #3965: Fixed a crash on Windows when open() is given an invalid
2356 filename or mode, and the filename is a unicode string.
2357
Martin v. Löwise86b07c2008-09-25 04:12:50 +00002358- Bug #3951: Py_USING_MEMORY_DEBUGGER should not be enabled by default.
2359
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00002360Library
2361-------
2362
Martin v. Löwise563aa42008-09-29 22:09:07 +00002363- Issue #3965: Allow repeated calls to turtle.Screen, by making it a
2364 true singleton object.
2365
Brett Cannonb2d61bd2008-09-29 03:41:21 +00002366- Issue #3895: It was possible to crash the interpreter when an external timer
2367 was used with cProfile that returned an object that could not be converted
2368 into a float.
2369
Benjamin Peterson22d3c922008-09-25 20:35:45 +00002370- Issue #3950: Made turtle respect scale factors.
2371
Thomas Hellera85c95d2008-09-24 18:26:05 +00002372- Issue #3547: Fixed ctypes structures bitfields of varying integer
2373 sizes.
2374
Benjamin Peterson2c7470d2008-09-21 21:27:51 +00002375- Issue #3879: A regression in urllib.getproxies_enviroment was fixed.
2376
Gregory P. Smith08067492008-09-30 20:41:13 +00002377- Issue #3863: Disabled a unit test of fork being called from a thread
2378 when running on platforms known to exhibit OS bugs when attempting that.
2379
Martin v. Löwis175d0072008-09-19 15:21:07 +00002380Build
2381-----
2382
Martin v. Löwisd69c9042008-10-01 11:19:50 +00002383- Bug #3989: Package the 2to3 script (as 2to3.py) in the Windows
2384 installer.
2385
Martin v. Löwis175d0072008-09-19 15:21:07 +00002386- Bug #3887: Package x64 version of CRT for AMD64 Windows binaries.
2387
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00002388
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00002389What's New in Python 2.6 release candidate 2?
2390=============================================
2391
Barry Warsaw6af16192008-09-18 04:33:43 +00002392*Release date: 17-Sep-2008*
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00002393
2394Core and Builtins
2395-----------------
2396
Benjamin Peterson8c2b7dc2008-09-18 01:22:16 +00002397Extension Modules
2398-----------------
2399
Benjamin Peterson8d77d442008-09-30 01:31:49 +00002400- Security Issue #2: imageop did not validate arguments correctly and could
2401 segfault as a result.
2402
Benjamin Peterson8c2b7dc2008-09-18 01:22:16 +00002403- Issue #3886: Possible integer overflows in the _hashopenssl module were
2404 closed.
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00002405
Antoine Pitrou3c9f5412008-09-13 20:30:30 +00002406Tools/Demos
2407-----------
2408
Georg Brandl2bd92a52009-10-11 21:10:07 +00002409- Issue #3850: recursion tests in Tools/scripts/find_recursion_limit.py can raise
Antoine Pitrou3c9f5412008-09-13 20:30:30 +00002410 AttributeError instead of RuntimeError, depending in which C API call
2411 exactly the recursion limit is exceeded. Consequently, both exception types
2412 are caught and silenced.
2413
Martin v. Löwis4eb18f92008-09-14 20:22:39 +00002414Build
2415-----
2416
2417- Issue #3617: Include a licensing statement regarding the Microsoft
2418 C runtime in the Windows installer.
2419
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00002420
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00002421What's New in Python 2.6 release candidate 1?
2422=============================================
2423
Barry Warsaw1e62aec2008-09-12 23:25:57 +00002424*Release date: 12-Sep-2008*
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00002425
2426Core and Builtins
2427-----------------
2428
Martin v. Löwis9fa5a282008-09-11 06:53:30 +00002429- Issue #3642: Suppress warning in obmalloc when size_t is larger than uint.
2430
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc05e34492008-09-10 22:04:45 +00002431- Issue #3743: In a few places, PY_FORMAT_SIZE_T was incorrectly used with
2432 PyString_FromFormat or PyErr_Format to display size_t values. The macro
2433 PY_FORMAT_SIZE_T is designed to select the correct format for the OS
2434 ``printf`` function, whereas PyString_FromFormat has an independent
2435 implementation and uses "%zd" on all platforms for size_t values.
2436 This makes a difference on win64, where ``printf`` needs "%Id" to display
2437 64bit values.
2438
Benjamin Peterson97179b02008-09-09 20:55:01 +00002439- Issue #3634: _weakref.ref(Exception).__init__() gave invalid return value on
2440 error.
2441
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd3ffb892008-09-09 07:24:30 +00002442- Issue #3777: long() applied to a float object now always return a long
2443 object; previously an int would be returned for small values. the __long__
2444 method is allowed to return either an int or a long, but the behaviour of
2445 float objects should not change to respect backward compatibility.
2446
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc3571fbf2008-09-01 19:52:00 +00002447- Issue #3751: str.rpartition would perform a left-partition when called with
2448 a unicode argument.
2449
Benjamin Peterson17f03ca2008-09-01 14:18:30 +00002450- Issue #3683: Fix compilation when --without-threads is given.
2451
Antoine Pitroud4ae97b2008-08-29 18:39:48 +00002452- Issue #3668: Fix a memory leak with the "s*" argument parser in
Vinay Sajip35e3b032008-09-01 14:33:59 +00002453 PyArg_ParseTuple and friends, which occurred when the argument for "s*"
Antoine Pitroud4ae97b2008-08-29 18:39:48 +00002454 was correctly parsed but parsing of subsequent arguments failed.
2455
Vinay Sajip35e3b032008-09-01 14:33:59 +00002456- Issue #2534: speed up isinstance() and issubclass() by 50-70%, so as to
Antoine Pitrou0668c622008-08-26 22:42:08 +00002457 match Python 2.5 speed despite the __instancecheck__ / __subclasscheck__
2458 mechanism. In the process, fix a bug where isinstance() and issubclass(),
2459 when given a tuple of classes as second argument, were looking up
2460 __instancecheck__ / __subclasscheck__ on the tuple rather than on each
2461 type object.
2462
Neal Norwitz18aa3882008-08-24 05:04:52 +00002463- Fix crashes on memory allocation failure found with failmalloc.
2464
2465- Fix memory leaks found with valgrind and update suppressions file.
2466
2467- Fix compiler warnings in opt mode which would lead to invalid memory reads.
2468
2469- Fix problem using wrong name in decimal module reported by pychecker.
2470
Christian Heimes7d4c3172008-08-22 19:47:25 +00002471- Silenced another compiler warning about a used but not defined
2472 function 'stringlib_contains_obj'.
2473
Benjamin Peterson712ee922008-08-24 18:10:20 +00002474- Added warnings on the use of ``__getslice__``, ``__setslice__``, or
2475 ``__delslice__``.
2476
Gregory P. Smith2bb25cc2008-09-02 05:29:51 +00002477- Issue #3678: Correctly pass LDFLAGS and LDLAST to the linker on shared
2478 library targets in the Makefile.
2479
Gregory P. Smith980b99b2008-09-07 05:15:18 +00002480- Issue #1204: The configure script now tests for additional libraries
2481 that may be required when linking against readline. This fixes issues
2482 with x86_64 builds on some platforms (a few Linux flavors and OpenBSD).
2483
Benjamin Peterson14cb6bc2008-08-26 17:08:40 +00002484C-API
2485-----
2486
2487- Aliased PyObject_Bytes to PyObject_Str.
2488
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00002489Library
2490-------
2491
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc24cb3822008-09-11 20:56:13 +00002492- Issue #3640: Pickling a list or a dict uses less local variables, to reduce
2493 stack usage in the case of deeply nested objects.
2494
Guido van Rossume3c4fd92008-09-10 14:27:00 +00002495- Issue #3629: Fix sre "bytecode" validator for an end case.
2496
Martin v. Löwis24329ba2008-09-10 13:38:12 +00002497- Issue #3811: The Unicode database was updated to 5.1.
2498
Nick Coghland2e09382008-09-11 12:11:06 +00002499- Issue #3781: Further warnings.catch_warnings() cleanup to prevent
2500 silent misbehaviour when a single instance is nested in multiple
2501 with statements, or when the methods are invoked in the wrong order.
2502
Vinay Sajip844f7412008-09-09 13:42:08 +00002503- Issue #3809: Fixed spurious 'test.blah' file left behind by test_logging.
2504
Nick Coghland2e09382008-09-11 12:11:06 +00002505- Issue #3781: Clean up the API for warnings.catch_warnings() by having it
Brett Cannon672237d2008-09-09 00:49:16 +00002506 return a list or None rather than a custom object.
2507
Benjamin Peterson6ac7d7c2008-09-06 19:28:11 +00002508- Issue #1638033: Cookie.Morsel gained the httponly attribute.
2509
Antoine Pitrouebcd0ce2008-09-05 23:30:23 +00002510- Issue #3535: zipfile couldn't read some zip files larger than 2GB.
2511
2512- Issue #3776: Deprecate the bsddb package for removal in 3.0.
Brett Cannon32476fc2008-09-05 18:33:51 +00002513
Hirokazu Yamamoto42e459e2008-09-04 14:25:30 +00002514- Issue #3762: platform.architecture() fails if python is lanched via
2515 its symbolic link.
2516
Vinay Sajip65d66e12008-09-04 07:31:21 +00002517- Issue #3772: Fixed regression problem in StreamHandler.emit().
2518
Facundo Batistac585df92008-09-03 22:35:50 +00002519- Issue 600362: Relocated parse_qs() and parse_qsl(), from the cgi module
2520 to the urlparse one. Added a PendingDeprecationWarning in the old
2521 module, it will be deprecated in the future.
2522
Marc-André Lemburgb339b2a2008-09-03 11:13:56 +00002523- Issue #2562: Fix distutils PKG-INFO writing logic to allow having
2524 non-ascii characters and Unicode in setup.py meta-data.
2525
2526- Issue #3726: Allow spaces in separators in logging configuration files.
Vinay Sajip6a2fd812008-09-03 09:20:05 +00002527
Marc-André Lemburg31a0a142008-09-02 12:11:19 +00002528- Issue #3719: platform.architecture() fails if there are spaces in the
2529 path to the Python binary.
2530
Brett Cannon1eaf0742008-09-02 01:25:16 +00002531- Issue 3602: Moved test.test_support.catch_warning() to
2532 warnings.catch_warnings() along with some API cleanup. Expanding the tests
2533 for catch_warnings() also led to an improvement in the raising of a
2534 DeprecationWarning related to warnings.warn_explicit().
2535
Benjamin Peterson973e6c22008-09-01 23:12:58 +00002536- The deprecation warnings for the old camelCase threading API were removed.
2537
Vinay Sajip35e3b032008-09-01 14:33:59 +00002538- logging: fixed lack of use of encoding attribute specified on a stream.
2539
Christian Heimesa27a62e2008-08-22 19:55:54 +00002540- Silenced a trivial compiler warning in the sqlite module.
2541
Christian Heimes1cc69632008-08-22 20:10:27 +00002542- Fixed two format strings in the _collections module.
2543
Benjamin Peterson17f03ca2008-09-01 14:18:30 +00002544- Issue #3703: _fileio.FileIO gave unhelpful error message when trying to open a
2545 directory.
Benjamin Petersonf22c26e2008-09-01 14:13:43 +00002546
Gregory P. Smithd7122032008-09-02 05:36:11 +00002547- Issue #3708: os.urandom no longer goes into an infinite loop when passed a
2548 non-integer floating point number.
2549
Vinay Sajip65d66e12008-09-04 07:31:21 +00002550- Issue #3110: multiprocessing fails to compiel on solaris 10 due to missing
Jesse Nollerb814d6a2008-09-03 18:10:30 +00002551 SEM_VALUE_MAX.
2552
Benjamin Peterson37346b22008-08-23 20:27:43 +00002553Extension Modules
2554-----------------
2555
Jesse Noller438195f2009-01-18 21:04:36 +00002556- Issue #4301: Patch the logging module to add processName support, remove
2557 _check_logger_class from multiprocessing.
2558
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc293924b2008-09-02 23:19:56 +00002559- Issue #2975: When compiling several extension modules with Visual Studio 2008
2560 from the same python interpreter, some environment variables would grow
2561 without limit.
2562
Benjamin Peterson37346b22008-08-23 20:27:43 +00002563- Issue #3643: Added a few more checks to _testcapi to prevent segfaults by
2564 exploitation of poor argument checking.
2565
Gerhard Häringef2276b2008-09-12 13:54:06 +00002566- sqlite3: Changed docstring of iterdump() to mark method as "Non-standard".
2567
Gerhard Häring6e1afcf2008-09-12 18:58:57 +00002568- Issue #3103: Reduced globals symbols used by sqlite3 module and made sure all
2569 remaining ones have "pysqlite_" prefix.
2570
Gerhard Häringe6872eb2008-09-12 22:33:22 +00002571- Issue #3846: Release the GIL during sqlite3_prepare calls. This improves
2572 concurrent access to the same SQLite database from multiple
2573 threads/processes.
2574
Brett Cannona0b74442008-09-03 22:45:11 +00002575Tests
2576-----
2577
Nick Coghland2e09382008-09-11 12:11:06 +00002578- Issue #3781: Add test.test_support.check_warnings() as a convenience
2579 wrapper for warnings.catch_warnings() that makes it easier to check
2580 that expected warning messages are being reported.
2581
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfeb8cad2008-09-06 20:53:51 +00002582- Issue #3796: Some tests functions were not enabled in test_float.
2583
2584- Issue #3768: Move test_py3kwarn over to the new API for catch_warnings().
Brett Cannona0b74442008-09-03 22:45:11 +00002585
Brett Cannoncdeb24b2008-09-05 22:59:17 +00002586Build
2587-----
2588
Martin v. Löwisab0b29b2008-09-13 08:11:57 +00002589- Issue #3833: Use a different upgrade code for Win64 installers.
2590
Martin v. Löwis3f5fda82008-09-08 13:50:10 +00002591- Issue #2271: Set SecureCustomProperties so that installation will properly
2592 use the TARGETDIR even for unprivileged users.
2593
Martin v. Löwis67543a92008-09-08 12:02:45 +00002594- Allow passing the MSI file name to merge.py.
2595
Vinay Sajip844f7412008-09-09 13:42:08 +00002596- Issue #3758: Rename the 'check' target to 'patchcheck' so as to not clash
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfeb8cad2008-09-06 20:53:51 +00002597 with GNU build target guidelines.
Brett Cannoncdeb24b2008-09-05 22:59:17 +00002598
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00002599
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00002600What's New in Python 2.6 beta 3?
2601================================
2602
Barry Warsaw07a4a382008-08-21 01:15:08 +00002603*Release date: 20-Aug-2008*
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00002604
2605Core and Builtins
2606-----------------
2607
Guido van Rossumf8402962008-08-20 15:01:50 +00002608- Issue #1878: Remove Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_VERSION_TAG from
2609 Py_TPFLAGS_DEFAULT when not building the core. This means 3rd party
2610 extensions do not automatically benefit from the class attribute
2611 cache; they will have to explicitly add Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_VERSION_TAG
2612 to their tp_flags field if they care. This is a backwards
2613 compatibility feature; in 3.0, all types will use the cache by
2614 default.
2615
Benjamin Petersonf647dc12008-08-20 01:27:30 +00002616- Keyword arguments can now follow starred arguments. (``f(a, *args,
2617 keyword=23)`` is now valid syntax.)
2618
Thomas Heller0ad5ae02008-08-19 19:25:04 +00002619- ctypes function pointers that are COM methods have a boolean True
2620 value again.
2621
Martin v. Löwisf91d46a2008-08-12 14:49:50 +00002622- Issue #3139: Make buffer-interface thread-safe wrt. PyArg_ParseTuple,
2623 by denying s# to parse objects that have a releasebuffer procedure,
2624 and introducing s*.
2625
Georg Brandl1e13ea92008-08-11 09:07:59 +00002626- Issue #3537: Fix an assertion failure when an empty but presized dict
2627 object was stored in the freelist.
2628
Mark Dickinsonb6467572008-08-04 21:30:09 +00002629- Issue #1481296: Make long(float('nan')) and int(float('nan')) raise
2630 ValueError consistently across platforms.
2631
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc39fd6722008-07-31 21:28:03 +00002632- Issue #3479: On platforms where sizeof(int) is smaller than sizeof(long)
2633 (64bit Unix, for example), unichr() would truncate its argument and return
2634 u'\x00' for unichr(2**32). Now it properly raises an OverflowError.
2635
Neal Norwitze7d8be82008-07-31 17:17:14 +00002636- Apply security patches from Apple.
2637
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc246daed2008-07-31 00:42:16 +00002638- Issue #2542: Now that issubclass() may call arbitrary code, ensure that
2639 PyErr_ExceptionMatches returns 0 when an exception occurs there.
2640
Antoine Pitrou92f82162008-07-25 22:22:08 +00002641- Issue #1819: function calls with several named parameters are now on
2642 average 35% faster (as measured by pybench).
2643
Amaury Forgeot d'Arce4921fe2008-07-21 22:00:38 +00002644- Issue #2378: An unexpected UnboundLocalError or NameError could appear when
2645 the python debugger steps into a class statement: the free variables (local
2646 variables defined in an outer scope) would be deleted from the outer scope.
2647
Gregory P. Smith0470bab2008-07-22 04:46:32 +00002648- Issue #2620: Overflow checking when allocating or reallocating memory
2649 was not always being done properly in some python types and extension
2650 modules. PyMem_MALLOC, PyMem_REALLOC, PyMem_NEW and PyMem_RESIZE have
2651 all been updated to perform better checks and places in the code that
2652 would previously leak memory on the error path when such an allocation
2653 failed have been fixed.
2654
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00002655Library
2656-------
2657
Hirokazu Yamamoto838c79f2008-08-20 13:14:07 +00002658- Issue #3612: Added some missing basic types in ctypes.wintypes.
2659
Benjamin Petersone977ad42008-08-20 01:42:01 +00002660- The methods ``is_in_tuple()``, ``is_vararg()``, and ``is_keywordarg()`` of
2661 symtable.Symbol have been deprecated for removal in 3.0 and the next release.
2662
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc351ffb82008-08-18 19:23:47 +00002663- Issue #2234: distutils failed for some versions of the cygwin compiler. The
2664 version reported by these tools does not necessarily follow the python
2665 version numbering scheme, so the module is less strict when parsing it.
2666
Nick Coghlanf70385a2008-08-18 12:42:46 +00002667- Issue #2235: Added Py3k warnings for types which will become unhashable
2668 under the stricter __hash__ inheritance rules in 3.0. Several types
2669 which did not meet the rules for hash invariants and were already
2670 unhashable in 3.0 have now been explicitly flagged as unhashable in
2671 2.6 as well (collections.Mapping, collections.Set, unittest.TestSuite,
2672 xml.dom.minidom.NamedNodeMap, numbers.Number, UserList.UserList)
2673
Brett Cannon88f801d2008-08-18 00:46:22 +00002674- Update __all__ for cookielib, csv, os, urllib2, and weakref to include things
2675 imported into the module but exposed as part of the module's API.
2676
Brett Cannon7b96f072008-08-18 00:41:11 +00002677- Remove an unneeded import of abc.ABCMeta from 'inspect'.
2678
Brett Cannon46225e72008-08-18 00:36:52 +00002679- Remove unneeded imports of 'sys' and 'warnings' from 'io'.
2680
Brett Cannon25c9d6a2008-08-17 22:10:11 +00002681- Remove unneeded imports of 'warnings' from shelve, filecmp, and dummy_thread.
2682
Hirokazu Yamamoto41a81eb2008-08-17 13:10:46 +00002683- Issue #3575: Incremental decoder's decode function now takes bytearray
2684 by using 's*' instead of 't#'.
2685
Mark Dickinson3e4caeb2009-02-21 20:27:01 +00002686- Issue #2222: Fixed reference leak when occurred os.rename()
Hirokazu Yamamoto7f30a682008-08-17 09:46:56 +00002687 fails unicode conversion on 2nd parameter. (windows only)
2688
Facundo Batista94f243a2008-08-17 03:38:39 +00002689- Issue 2464. urllib2 now supports a malformation in the URL received
2690 in a redirect.
2691
Brett Cannonabe423e2008-08-16 21:47:07 +00002692- Silence the DeprecationWarning raised when importing mimetools in
Brett Cannon721b1452008-08-16 22:00:27 +00002693 BaseHTTPServer, cgi (and rfc822), httplib.
Brett Cannonabe423e2008-08-16 21:47:07 +00002694
Facundo Batistaeb90b782008-08-16 14:44:07 +00002695- Issue #2776: fixed small issue when handling an URL with double slash
2696 after a 302 response in the case of not going through a proxy.
2697
Antoine Pitroub90a8be2008-08-15 21:03:21 +00002698- Issue #2676: in the email package, content-type parsing was hanging on
2699 pathological input because of quadratic or exponential behaviour of a
2700 regular expression.
2701
Antoine Pitrou11ec65d2008-08-14 21:04:30 +00002702- Issue #3476: binary buffered reading through the new "io" library is now
2703 thread-safe.
2704
Brett Cannonbf3157b2008-08-14 05:00:03 +00002705- Silence the DeprecationWarning of rfc822 when it is imported by mimetools
2706 since mimetools itself is deprecated. Because modules are cached, all
2707 subsequent imports of rfc822 will not raise a visible DeprecationWarning.
2708
Antoine Pitrou9fcd4b32008-08-11 17:21:36 +00002709- Issue #3134: shutil referenced undefined WindowsError symbol.
2710
Robert Schuppenies14646332008-08-10 11:01:53 +00002711- Issue #1342811: Fix leak in Tkinter.Menu.delete. Commands associated to
2712 menu entries were not deleted.
2713
Brett Cannon83e81842008-08-09 23:30:55 +00002714- Copied the implementation of reduce() to _functools.reduce() to have a
2715 version that did not raise a DeprecationWarning under -3.
2716
Antoine Pitrou76b8bee2008-08-09 17:27:23 +00002717- Issue #3205: When iterating over a BZ2File fails allocating memory, raise
2718 a MemoryError rather than silently stop the iteration.
2719
Guido van Rossum59ce9012008-08-09 14:55:34 +00002720- Issue #3487: sre "bytecode" validator. Passing invalid "re-bytecode"
2721 to _sre.compile() will now be rejected. This should not affect anybody
2722 since the re.compile() function never generates invalid re-bytecode.
2723
Skip Montanaroa032bf42008-08-08 22:52:51 +00002724- Issue #3436: Make csv.DictReader's fieldnames attribute a property so that
2725 upon first access it can be automatically initialized from the csv file if
2726 it wasn't initialized during instantiation.
2727
Brett Cannon3aa2a492008-08-06 22:28:09 +00002728- Issue #2338: Create imp.reload() to help with transitioning to Python 3.0 as
2729 the reload() built-in has been removed.
2730
Brett Cannon7e30b672008-08-04 21:52:25 +00002731- Changed code in the following modules/packages to remove warnings raised
Brett Cannonc1b76e42008-08-09 23:06:16 +00002732 while running under the ``-3`` flag: aifc, asynchat, asyncore, bdb, bsddb,
Brett Cannon047e4a92008-08-17 04:16:04 +00002733 ConfigParser, cookielib, csv, difflib, distutils, DocXMLRPCServer, email,
2734 filecmp, fileinput, inspect, logging, modulefinder, pdb, pickle, profile,
2735 pstats, pydoc, re, rlcompleter, SimpleXMLRPCServer, shelve, socket,
2736 subprocess, sqlite3, tarfile, Tkinter, test.test_support, textwrap,
2737 threading, tokenize, traceback, urlparse, wsgiref, xml, xmlrpclib.
Brett Cannon7e30b672008-08-04 21:52:25 +00002738
Lars Gustäbel727bd0b2008-08-02 11:26:39 +00002739- Issue #3039: Fix tarfile.TarFileCompat.writestr() which always
2740 raised an AttributeError.
2741
Benjamin Peterson01a24322008-07-28 23:35:27 +00002742- Issue #2523: Fix quadratic behaviour when read()ing a binary file without
Antoine Pitroude781a42008-08-09 12:43:23 +00002743 asking for a specific length. This problem only affected files opened
2744 using the new "io" module, not the built-in open() function.
Benjamin Peterson01a24322008-07-28 23:35:27 +00002745
Mark Dickinsonfe84cce2008-07-27 06:39:07 +00002746- Issue #3449: Update decimal module to use most recent specification
2747 (v. 1.68) and tests (v. 2.58) from IBM.
2748
Skip Montanarof9ac43f2008-07-27 00:50:41 +00002749- Issue 3437: Bug fix in robotparser parsing of Allow: lines.
2750
Raymond Hettinger8c664e82008-07-25 18:43:33 +00002751- Issue 1592: Improve error reporting when operations are attempted
2752 on a closed shelf.
2753
Georg Brandlf9efabb2008-07-23 15:16:45 +00002754- Deprecate the "ast" parser function aliases.
2755
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00002756- Issue #3120: On 64-bit Windows the subprocess module was truncating handles.
2757
2758- Issue #3303: Fix a crash in locale.strcoll() when calling it with
2759 invalid arguments.
2760
2761- Issue #3302: Fix several crashes when calling locale's gettext functions
2762 with None arguments.
2763
2764- Issue #3389: Allow resolving dotted names for handlers in logging
2765 configuration files.
2766
2767- Deprecate the sunaudio module for removal in Python 3.0.
2768
Antoine Pitrou5fdfa3e2008-07-25 19:42:26 +00002769- Issue #3394: zipfile.writestr sets external attributes when passed a
2770 file name rather than a ZipInfo instance, so files are extracted with
2771 mode 0600 rather than 000 under Unix.
2772
Gregory P. Smitha36f8fe2008-08-04 00:13:29 +00002773- Issue #1857: subprocess.Popen.poll gained an additional _deadstate keyword
2774 argument in python 2.5, this broke code that subclassed Popen to include its
2775 own poll method. Fixed my moving _deadstate to an _internal_poll method.
2776
Martin v. Löwis8dbf3642008-08-01 14:10:26 +00002777Build
2778-----
2779
2780- Generate the PatternGrammar pickle during "make install".
2781
Nick Coghlan2a0c2b12008-08-04 12:47:17 +00002782Documentation
2783-------------
2784
Nick Coghlan6e8fef02008-08-18 13:14:22 +00002785- Issue #2235: the C API function PyObject_HashNotImplemented and its
2786 interaction with the tp_hash slot (added in 2.6b2) are now documented
2787
Nick Coghlan2a0c2b12008-08-04 12:47:17 +00002788- Issue #643841: The language reference now provides more detailed
2789 coverage of the lookup process for special methods. The disclaimers
2790 regarding lack of coverage of new-style classes have also been
2791 removed, since the coverage is now fairly reasonable.
2792
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00002793
Raymond Hettingere3ae6552008-06-20 04:18:15 +00002794What's New in Python 2.6 beta 2?
2795================================
2796
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00002797*Release date: 17-Jul-2008*
2798
Raymond Hettingere3ae6552008-06-20 04:18:15 +00002799Core and Builtins
2800-----------------
2801
Georg Brandl3e483f62008-07-16 22:57:41 +00002802- Issue #3156: Fix inconsistent behavior of the bytearray type: all
2803 its methods now allow for items objects that can be converted to
2804 an integer using operator.index().
2805
Mark Dickinson64b7e502008-07-16 09:40:03 +00002806- Issue #3360: Fix incorrect parsing of '020000000000.0', which
2807 produced a ValueError instead of giving the correct float.
2808
Eric Smitha5fa5a22008-07-16 00:11:49 +00002809- Issue #3083: Add alternate (#) formatting for bin, oct, hex output
2810 for str.format(). This adds the prefix 0b, 0o, or 0x, respectively.
2811
Mark Dickinson7103aa42008-07-15 19:08:33 +00002812- Issue #3008: the float type has a new instance method 'float.hex'
2813 and a new class method 'float.fromhex' to convert floating-point
2814 numbers to and from hexadecimal strings, respectively.
2815
Nick Coghlan6d6bd442008-07-15 15:40:22 +00002816- Issue #2235: __hash__ is once again inherited by default. To allow
2817 collections.Hashable to remain meaningful in the presence of the
2818 default hash implementation (object.__hash__), it is now possible
2819 to explicit block inheritance of hash by setting __hash__=None at
2820 the Python level, or tp_hash=PyObject_HashNotImplemented at the C
2821 level.
2822
Nick Coghlanb028f502008-07-13 14:52:36 +00002823- Issue #3221: Issue a RuntimeWarning instead of raising SystemError if
2824 the parent module cannot be found while performing an absolute import.
2825 This means that an incorrectly defined __package__ attribute will
2826 now only prevent relative imports in that module rather than causing
2827 all imports from that module to fail.
2828
Nick Coghlan14ff9942008-07-08 14:21:42 +00002829- Issue #2517: Allow unicode messages in Exceptions again by correctly
2830 bypassing the instance dictionary when looking up __unicode__ on
2831 new-style classes.
2832
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbdd941f2008-07-01 20:38:04 +00002833- Issue #3242: Fix a crash inside the print statement, if sys.stdout is
2834 set to a custom object whose write() method happens to install
2835 another file in sys.stdout.
2836
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc1f40c8a2008-06-30 22:42:40 +00002837- Issue #3088: Corrected a race condition in classes derived from
2838 threading.local: the first member set by a thread could be saved in
2839 another thread's dictionary.
2840
Mark Dickinson1ec2fcd2008-06-20 14:53:43 +00002841- Issue #3004: Minor change to slice.indices(): the start and stop
2842 arguments are now treated identically, making the behaviour easier
2843 to describe and understand. For example, slice(None, -10,
2844 1).indices(9) now returns (0, 0, 1) instead of (0, -1, 1), and
2845 slice(None, 10, -1).indices(10) returns (9, 9, -1) instead of (9,
2846 10, -1).
2847
Georg Brandl278fc502008-07-19 12:46:12 +00002848- Issue #3219: Calling a function with repeated keyword arguments,
2849 f(a=2, a=23), would not cause a syntax error. This was a regression
2850 from 2.4 caused by the switch to the new compiler.
Benjamin Peterson175e4d92008-07-01 19:34:52 +00002851
Georg Brandl278fc502008-07-19 12:46:12 +00002852- Issue #2862: Make int and float freelist management consistent with
2853 other freelists. Changes their CompactFreeList apis into
2854 ClearFreeList apis and calls them via gc.collect().
Gregory P. Smith2fe77062008-07-06 03:35:58 +00002855
Brett Cannon8bb8fa52008-07-02 01:57:08 +00002856Library
2857-------
2858
Thomas Heller57adf222008-08-14 19:10:48 +00002859- Issue #3554: ctypes.string_at and ctypes.wstring_at did call Python
2860 api functions without holding the GIL, which could lead to a fatal
2861 error when they failed.
2862
Martin v. Löwisaabf4042008-08-02 07:20:25 +00002863- Issue #799428: Fix Tkinter.Misc._nametowidget to unwrap Tcl command objects.
2864
Jesse Noller7fb96402008-07-17 21:01:05 +00002865- Issue #3395: fix reference in test_multiprocessing to old debugInfo method
2866
Georg Brandla24869a2008-07-16 22:33:18 +00002867- Issue #3312: Fix two crashes in sqlite3.
2868
Georg Brandl86cbf812008-07-16 21:31:41 +00002869- Issue #1608818: Fix misbehavior in os.listdir() if readdir() fails.
2870
Jesse Noller13e9d582008-07-16 14:32:36 +00002871- Issue #3125: Remove copy_reg in multiprocessing and replace it with
2872 ForkingPickler.register() to resolve conflict with ctypes.
2873
Vinay Sajip51e65192008-07-18 09:01:10 +00002874- Issue #3090: Fixed ARCHFLAGS parsing on OS/X
Jesse Noller13e9d582008-07-16 14:32:36 +00002875
Thomas Heller880f5292008-07-15 19:39:38 +00002876- Issue #3313: Fixed a crash when a failed dlopen() call does not set
2877 a valid dlerror() message.
2878
Thomas Heller2bad6572008-07-15 17:19:50 +00002879- Issue #3258: Fixed a crash when a ctypes POINTER type to an
2880 incomplete structure was created.
2881
Brett Cannon3d0b9f02008-07-13 01:15:07 +00002882- Issue #3339: dummy_thread.acquire() should not return None.
2883
Raymond Hettingerb01713e2008-07-10 14:34:57 +00002884- Issue #3285: Fractions from_float() and from_decimal() accept Integral arguments.
2885
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00002886- Issue #3301: Bisect module behaved badly when lo was negative.
Raymond Hettinger3cd1e422008-07-10 14:03:19 +00002887
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc0f7cddc2008-07-06 21:34:39 +00002888- Issue #839496: SimpleHTTPServer used to open text files in text mode. This is
2889 both unnecessary (HTTP allows text content to be sent in several forms) and
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00002890 wrong because the actual transmitted size could differ from the
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc0f7cddc2008-07-06 21:34:39 +00002891 content-length. The problem had been corrected in the 2.4 branch, but never
2892 merged into trunk.
2893
Georg Brandle78fbcc2008-07-05 10:13:36 +00002894- Issue #2663: add filtering capability to shutil.copytree().
2895
Martin v. Löwis8c436412008-07-03 12:51:14 +00002896- Issue #1622: Correct interpretation of various ZIP header fields.
2897
2898- Issue #1526: Allow more than 64k files to be added to Zip64 file.
2899
2900- Issue #1746: Correct handling of zipfile archive comments (previously
2901 archives with comments over 4k were flagged as invalid). Allow writing
Vinay Sajip51e65192008-07-18 09:01:10 +00002902 Zip files with archives by setting the 'comment' attribute of a ZipFile.
Martin v. Löwis8c436412008-07-03 12:51:14 +00002903
Vinay Sajip51e65192008-07-18 09:01:10 +00002904- Issue #449227: The rlcompleter module now adds "(" to callable objects
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00002905 when completed.
Facundo Batista66c52772008-07-02 16:52:55 +00002906
Nick Coghlanc060b0e2008-07-02 13:09:19 +00002907- Issue #3190: Pydoc now hides the automatic module attribute __package__ (the
2908 handling is now the same as that of other special attributes like __name__).
2909
Brett Cannon8bb8fa52008-07-02 01:57:08 +00002910- Issue #2885 (partial): The urllib.urlopen() function has been deprecated for
2911 removal in Python 3.0 in favor of urllib2.urlopen().
2912
Gregory P. Smithf4140642008-07-06 07:16:40 +00002913- Issue #2113: Fix error in subprocess.Popen if the select system call is
2914 interrupted by a signal.
2915
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00002916- Issue #3309: Fix bz2.BZFile iterator to release its internal lock
Gregory P. Smith3b1e6b22008-07-07 04:31:58 +00002917 properly when raising an exception due to the bz2file being closed.
2918 Prevents a deadlock.
2919
Gregory P. Smithc4691ec2008-07-07 05:09:12 +00002920- Issue #3094: httplib.HTTPSConnection Host: headers no longer include the
2921 redundant ":443" port number designation when the connection is using the
2922 default https port (443).
2923
Gregory P. Smithdb3409c2008-07-17 03:13:05 +00002924- Issue #874900: after an os.fork() call the threading module state is cleaned
2925 up in the child process to prevent deadlock and report proper thread counts
2926 if the new process uses the threading module.
2927
Nick Coghlan38469e22008-07-13 12:23:47 +00002928Tests
2929-----
2930
2931- test.test_support.catch_warning now keeps track of all warnings it sees
2932 and is now better documented. Explicit unit tests for this context manager
2933 have been added to test_warnings.
2934
Martin v. Löwisd84fd952008-06-30 06:57:39 +00002935Build
2936-----
2937
2938- Issue #3215: Build sqlite3 as sqlite3.dll, not sqlite3.pyd.
2939
Brett Cannon8bb8fa52008-07-02 01:57:08 +00002940
Brett Cannon97aa1ae2008-07-11 00:12:52 +00002941Documentation
2942-------------
2943
Brett Cannonfeef51d2008-07-11 00:50:01 +00002944- Document that robotparser has been renamed to urllib.robotparser in
Brett Cannon963ffdb2008-07-11 00:48:57 +00002945 Python 3.0.
2946
Brett Cannonf6afa332008-07-11 00:16:30 +00002947- Document that urlparse has been renamed to urllib.parse in Python 3.0.
2948
Brett Cannon97aa1ae2008-07-11 00:12:52 +00002949- Document that urllib2 is split across multiple modules and renamed in
2950 Python 3.0.
2951
2952- Document that urllib is split across multiple modules and renamed in
2953 Python 3.0.
2954
2955
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00002956What's New in Python 2.6 beta 1?
2957================================
2958
Barry Warsawb5d17402008-06-19 01:48:07 +00002959*Release date: 18-June-2008*
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00002960
2961Core and Builtins
2962-----------------
2963
Brett Cannondea1b562008-06-27 00:31:13 +00002964- Issue #3211: warnings.warn_explicit() did not guard against its 'registry'
2965 argument being anything other than a dict or None. Also fixed a bug in error
2966 handling when 'message' and 'category' were both set to None, triggering a
2967 bus error.
2968
Amaury Forgeot d'Arca8919fe2008-06-16 19:12:42 +00002969- Issue #3100: Corrected a crash on deallocation of a subclassed weakref which
2970 holds the last (strong) reference to its referent.
2971
Georg Brandl89f48872008-06-11 18:55:38 +00002972- Add future_builtins.ascii().
2973
Raymond Hettinger5c4d3d02008-06-09 13:07:27 +00002974- Several set methods now accept multiple arguments: update(), union(),
Raymond Hettinger4267be62008-06-11 10:30:54 +00002975 intersection(), intersection_update(), difference(), and difference_update().
Raymond Hettingeree4bcad2008-06-09 08:33:37 +00002976
Robert Schuppenies51df0642008-06-01 16:16:17 +00002977- Issue #2898: Added sys.getsizeof() to retrieve size of objects in bytes.
2978
Martin v. Löwis99815892008-06-01 07:20:46 +00002979- New environment variable PYTHONIOENCODING.
2980
Martin v. Löwis4dd019f2008-05-20 08:11:19 +00002981- Patch #2488: Add sys.maxsize.
2982
Georg Brandla9916b52008-05-17 22:11:54 +00002983- Issue #2353: file.xreadlines() now emits a Py3k warning.
2984
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002985- Issue #2863: generators now have a ``gen.__name__`` attribute that
2986 equals ``gen.gi_code.co_name``, like ``func.__name___`` that equals
2987 ``func.func_code.co_name``. The repr() of a generator now also
2988 contains this name.
Georg Brandlc91210c2008-05-15 15:08:32 +00002989
Georg Brandlbd85eb12008-05-14 06:34:15 +00002990- Issue #2831: enumerate() now has a ``start`` argument.
2991
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002992- Issue #2801: fix bug in the float.is_integer method where a
2993 ValueError was sometimes incorrectly raised.
Mark Dickinsone81c3762008-05-09 16:14:15 +00002994
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002995- Issue #2790: sys.flags was not properly exposing its bytes_warning
2996 attribute.
Brett Cannon3c1d50a2008-05-08 20:23:54 +00002997
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002998- Issue #2196: hasattr() now lets exceptions which do not inherit
2999 Exception (KeyboardInterrupt, and SystemExit) propagate instead of
3000 ignoring them.
Benjamin Petersonb9030f42008-05-12 00:41:23 +00003001
Gregory P. Smith9d534572008-06-11 07:41:16 +00003002- Added checks for integer overflows, contributed by Google. Some are
3003 only available if asserts are left in the code, in cases where they
3004 can't be triggered from Python code.
3005
3006
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00003007Extension Modules
3008-----------------
Guido van Rossum84b1e0f2008-08-20 14:57:20 +00003009- Issue #1179: [CVE-2007-4965] Integer overflow in imageop module.
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00003010
Raymond Hettinger305480c2008-06-16 01:42:40 +00003011- Issue #3116: marshal.dumps() had quadratic behavior for strings > 32Mb.
3012
Andrew M. Kuchling2126bab2008-06-22 13:39:11 +00003013- Issue #2138: Add factorial() to the math module.
Raymond Hettingerecbdd2e2008-06-09 06:54:45 +00003014
Raymond Hettinger6d7702e2008-05-31 03:24:31 +00003015- The heapq module does comparisons using LT instead of LE. This
3016 makes its implementation match that used by list.sort().
3017
Mark Dickinson99dfe922008-05-23 01:35:30 +00003018- Issue #2819: add full-precision summation function to math module,
3019 based on Hettinger's ASPN Python Cookbook recipe.
3020
Georg Brandl88659b02008-05-20 08:40:43 +00003021- Issue #2592: delegate nb_index and the floor/truediv slots in
3022 weakref.proxy.
3023
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003024- Support os.O_ASYNC and fcntl.FASYNC if the constants exist on the
3025 platform.
Georg Brandl5049a852008-05-16 13:10:15 +00003026
Brett Cannon044616a2008-05-15 02:33:55 +00003027- Support for Windows 9x has been removed from the winsound module.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcf9b54c22008-05-12 21:30:24 +00003028
Jesus Cea09c01782008-09-28 23:24:19 +00003029- bsddb module updated to version 4.7.3.
Jesus Cea4907d272008-08-31 14:00:51 +00003030 http://www.jcea.es/programacion/pybsddb.htm#bsddb3-4.7.3. This
3031 code should be compatible with Python 3.0.
Jesus Ceaef9764f2008-05-13 18:45:46 +00003032
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003033- Issue #2858: Fix potential memory corruption when
3034 bsddb.db.DBEnv.lock_get and other bsddb.db object constructors
3035 raised an exception.
Gregory P. Smith664782e2008-05-17 06:12:02 +00003036
Gregory P. Smith5d7d6c32008-05-25 08:32:04 +00003037- Issue #2669: bsddb/__init__.py iteration no longer silently fails when
3038 the database has changed size during iteration. It now raises a
3039 RuntimeError in the same manner as a dictionary.
3040
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003041- Issue #2870: cmathmodule.c compile error.
Christian Heimes0bd23c02008-05-16 10:23:31 +00003042
Benjamin Petersond8a89722008-08-18 16:40:03 +00003043- Added a threading.Thread.ident property.
Gregory P. Smith8856dda2008-06-01 23:48:47 +00003044
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00003045Library
3046-------
3047
Vinay Sajip1e022682008-06-29 21:27:15 +00003048- logging.config: Removed out-of-date comment in _install_handlers and
3049 used issubclass in place of equality comparison of classes.
3050
Facundo Batista5596b0c2008-06-22 13:36:20 +00003051- Issue #2722: Now the os.getcwd() supports very long path names.
3052
Facundo Batista2da91c32008-06-21 17:43:56 +00003053- Issue #2888: Fixed the behaviour of pprint when working with nested
3054 structures, to match the behaviour of 2.5 and 3.0 (now follows the common
3055 sense).
3056
Facundo Batistaa6a4d502008-06-21 18:58:04 +00003057- Issue #1817: cgi now correctly handles the querystring on POST requests
3058
Vinay Sajip8dc20fd2008-06-19 22:41:08 +00003059- Issue #3136: fileConfig()'s disabling of old loggers is now conditional via
3060 an optional disable_existing_loggers parameter, but the default value is
3061 such that the old behaviour is preserved. Thanks to Leandro Lucarella for
3062 the patch.
3063
Vinay Sajip9828b7e2008-06-17 11:04:02 +00003064- Issue #3126: StreamHandler and FileHandler check before calling "flush" and
3065 "close" that the stream object has these, using hasattr (thanks to bobf for
3066 the patch).
3067
Benjamin Peterson5c0be322008-06-13 15:11:50 +00003068- Issue #2912: platform.uname now tries to determine unknown information even if
3069 os.uname exists.
3070
Benjamin Peterson26305a02008-06-12 22:33:06 +00003071- The rfc822 module has been deprecated for removal in 3.0.
3072
Benjamin Petersona03722f2008-06-12 14:23:49 +00003073- The mimetools module has been deprecated for removal in 3.0.
3074
Thomas Heller1cec7aa2008-06-10 14:07:12 +00003075- The ctypes.byref function now takes an optional second parameter
3076 which allows to specify an offset in bytes for the constructed
3077 pointer-like object.
3078
Georg Brandl8509db52008-06-10 07:45:28 +00003079- Added the ast module.
3080
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00003081- Added the multiprocessing module, PEP 371.
Benjamin Peterson6f7ae692008-06-11 20:04:30 +00003082
Georg Brandl7be19aa2008-06-07 15:59:10 +00003083- Factored out the indentation cleaning from inspect.getdoc() into
3084 inspect.cleandoc() to ease standalone use.
3085
Thomas Hellerfbb9c0b2008-06-06 08:33:46 +00003086- Issue #1798: Add ctypes calling convention that allows safe access
3087 to errno.
3088
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00003089- Issue #2404: ctypes objects support the new pep3118 buffer interface.
Thomas Heller59475e92008-06-05 17:52:59 +00003090
Vinay Sajip9828b7e2008-06-17 11:04:02 +00003091- Patch #2125: Add GetInteger and GetString methods for
Martin v. Löwisffe62ed2008-06-02 08:40:06 +00003092 msilib.Record objects.
3093
Gregory P. Smith137d8242008-06-02 04:05:52 +00003094- Issue #2782: The datetime module's strftime methods now accept
3095 unicode format strings just as time.strftime always has.
3096
Georg Brandlac19d852008-06-01 21:19:14 +00003097- The sgmllib and htmllib modules have been deprecated for removal
3098 in Python 3.0.
3099
3100- Issue #3011: locale module alias table was updated to the latest
3101 version from the X.org locale.alias file.
Marc-André Lemburgadff65b2008-05-30 20:52:18 +00003102
Thomas Heller9287acf2008-05-29 19:42:34 +00003103- Issue #1797 (partial fix): ctypes NULL function pointers have a
3104 False boolean value now.
3105
Georg Brandld0b592f2008-05-29 07:45:26 +00003106- Issue #2985: Allow 64-bit integer responses (``<i8>``) in XMLRPC
3107 transfers.
3108
3109- Issue #2877: The UserString.MutableString class has been removed in
3110 Python 3.0.
Brett Cannonabb34fe2008-05-29 05:08:50 +00003111
Lars Gustäbelb1a54a32008-05-27 12:39:23 +00003112- Do not close external file objects passed to tarfile.open(mode='w:bz2')
3113 when the TarFile is closed.
3114
Georg Brandle08e3d02008-05-25 08:07:37 +00003115- Issue #2959: For consistency with other file-like objects, gzip's
3116 GzipFile.close() can now be called multiple times without raising
3117 an exception.
3118
Martin v. Löwis27e4a172008-05-23 15:18:28 +00003119- Issue #1390: Raise ValueError in toxml when an invalid comment would
3120 otherwise be produced.
3121
Vinay Sajipc0128832008-05-20 15:37:22 +00003122- Issue #2914: TimedRotatingFileHandler now takes an optional keyword
3123 argument "utc" to use UTC time rather than local time.
3124
3125- Issue #2929: TimedRotatingFileHandler was using the wrong path when
3126 deleting old log files (filename only instead of full path).
3127
Georg Brandl112aa502008-05-20 08:25:48 +00003128- Issue #1775025: You can now specify zipfile members to open(),
3129 read() or extract() via a ZipInfo instance. This allows handling
3130 duplicate filenames in zipfiles.
3131
Georg Brandl28fdfa92008-05-17 17:57:01 +00003132- Issue #961805: Fix Text.edit_modified() in Tkinter.
3133
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003134- Issue #1793: Function ctypes.util.find_msvcrt() added that returns
Thomas Heller95ba13f2008-05-16 20:06:31 +00003135 the name of the C runtime library that Python uses.
3136 ctypes.util.find_library(name) now call this function when name is
3137 'm' or 'c'.
3138
Brett Cannonfa40bbf2008-05-16 00:50:02 +00003139- The statvfs module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
3140
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003141- The sunaudiodev and SUNAUDIODEV modules have been deprecated for
3142 removal in Python 3.0.
3143
3144- The WAIT module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
3145 3.0.
3146
3147- The torgb module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
3148 3.0.
3149
3150- The SV module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
3151 3.0.
3152
3153- The readcd module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
Brett Cannon22248172008-05-16 00:10:24 +00003154 Python 3.0.
3155
Brett Cannon11ae6e72008-05-15 03:49:00 +00003156- The panelparser module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
3157 Python 3.0.
3158
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003159- The panel module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
3160 3.0.
Brett Cannon7e375862008-05-15 03:46:27 +00003161
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003162- The jpeg module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
3163 3.0.
Brett Cannon89f5d9c2008-05-15 03:44:00 +00003164
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003165- The IOCTL module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
3166 3.0.
Brett Cannond8c41ec2008-05-15 03:41:55 +00003167
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003168- The IN module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
3169 3.0.
Brett Cannon6328b292008-05-15 03:36:13 +00003170
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003171- The imgfile module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
Brett Cannon178582e2008-05-15 03:20:36 +00003172 Python 3.0.
3173
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003174- The GLWS module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
3175 3.0.
Brett Cannon72ccc402008-05-15 03:17:24 +00003176
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003177- The GET module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
3178 3.0.
Brett Cannon2773b6f2008-05-15 03:14:57 +00003179
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003180- The fm module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
3181 3.0.
3182
3183- The FL, flp, and fl modules from IRIX have been deprecated for
3184 removal in Python 3.0.
3185
3186- The FILE module on IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
3187 3.0.
3188
3189- The ERRNO module on IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
3190 3.0.
3191
3192- The DEVICE, GL, gl, and cgen modules (which indirectly includes
3193 cgensupport) have been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
Brett Cannon044616a2008-05-15 02:33:55 +00003194
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003195- The CL, CL_old, and cl modules for IRIX have been deprecated for
3196 removal in Python 3.0.
3197
3198- The cdplayer module for IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
Brett Cannon650f5162008-05-14 21:12:12 +00003199 Python 3.0.
3200
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003201- The cddb module for IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
3202 3.0.
Brett Cannon9eebe492008-05-14 20:34:22 +00003203
Brett Cannonddf949f2008-05-14 20:31:38 +00003204- The cd and CD modules for IRIX have been deprecated for removal in
3205 Python 3.0.
3206
Brett Cannon34721d52008-05-14 01:08:21 +00003207- The al and AL modules for IRIX have been deprecated for removal in
3208 Python 3.0.
3209
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003210- Issue #1713041: fix pprint's handling of maximum depth.
Georg Brandl23da6e62008-05-12 16:26:52 +00003211
Brett Cannonbb141bb2008-05-12 03:47:47 +00003212- The timing module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
3213
Brett Cannonac861b52008-05-12 03:45:59 +00003214- The sv module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
3215
Brett Cannon43e5ef42008-05-12 03:19:20 +00003216- The multifile module has been deprecated as per PEP 4.
3217
Brett Cannon42bfa902008-05-12 00:08:34 +00003218- The imageop module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
3219
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003220- Issue #2250: Exceptions raised during evaluation of names in
3221 rlcompleter's ``Completer.complete()`` method are now caught and
3222 ignored.
Georg Brandl627a6662008-05-11 21:03:42 +00003223
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003224- Issue #2659: Added ``break_on_hyphens`` option to textwrap
3225 TextWrapper class.
Georg Brandl6f95ae52008-05-11 10:42:28 +00003226
Brett Cannon2a869132008-05-11 03:01:47 +00003227- The mhlib module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
3228
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003229- The linuxaudiodev module has been deprecated for removal in Python
3230 3.0.
Brett Cannondf0a7172008-05-11 00:50:51 +00003231
Brett Cannon27508d42008-05-10 22:45:07 +00003232- The ihooks module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
3233
Brett Cannonfe598512008-05-10 22:11:45 +00003234- The fpformat module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
3235
Brett Cannone35a3a12008-05-10 21:22:43 +00003236- The dl module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
3237
Brett Cannond5a09852008-05-10 03:14:32 +00003238- The Canvas module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
3239
Brett Cannon6192df12008-05-10 02:58:26 +00003240- The compiler package has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
3241
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003242- The Bastion and rexec modules have been deprecated for removal in
3243 Python 3.0.
Brett Cannoncda73a42008-05-10 02:53:46 +00003244
Brett Cannon768d44f2008-05-10 02:47:54 +00003245- The bsddb185 module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
3246
Brett Cannon9ac39742008-05-09 22:51:58 +00003247- The pure module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
3248
Mark Dickinsonf8476c12008-05-09 17:54:23 +00003249- Issue #2487: change the semantics of math.ldexp(x, n) when n is too
3250 large to fit in a C long. ldexp(x, n) now returns a zero (with
3251 suitable sign) if n is large and negative; previously, it raised
3252 OverflowError.
3253
Brett Cannonfa24d9a2008-05-09 05:32:42 +00003254- The toaiff module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
3255
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003256- The test.testall module has been deprecated for removal in Python
3257 3.0.
Brett Cannon3c759142008-05-09 05:25:37 +00003258
Brett Cannond7265d62008-05-09 05:18:40 +00003259- The new module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
3260
Brett Cannone3b19402008-05-08 20:36:09 +00003261- The user module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
3262
Brett Cannon6071cc82008-05-08 19:52:45 +00003263- The stringold module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
3264
3265- The mutex module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
Brett Cannon9d441822008-05-08 19:26:08 +00003266
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00003267- The imputil module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
3268
Brett Cannoncae4f5f2008-05-08 20:24:43 +00003269- test.test_support.catch_warning() gained a 'record' argument.
3270
Benjamin Peterson0893a0a2008-05-09 00:27:01 +00003271- os.path.walk is deprecated in favor of os.walk.
3272
Georg Brandl9020ff82008-05-11 14:17:13 +00003273- pdb gained the "until" command.
Benjamin Peterson98353942008-05-11 14:13:25 +00003274
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003275- The Mac Modules (including Carbon) have been deprecated for removal
3276 in Python 3.0.
Benjamin Peterson23681932008-05-12 21:42:13 +00003277
Vinay Sajip9828b7e2008-06-17 11:04:02 +00003278- Library: on MacOS X you can now set ``ARCHFLAGS`` in the shell
Ronald Oussoren5640ce22008-06-05 12:58:24 +00003279 environment to control the '-arch' flags that are used to build
3280 an extension. This was added for compatibility with Apple's build
3281 of Python.
3282
3283- The bundled OSX-specific copy of libbffi is now in sync with the version
3284 shipped with PyObjC 2.0 and includes support for x86_64 and ppc64 platforms.
3285
Georg Brandl25c34082008-08-18 23:09:49 +00003286- The threading module gained aliases for names that will be removed in the
3287 3.x series.
Benjamin Peterson0fbcf692008-06-11 17:27:50 +00003288
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00003289Build
3290-----
3291
Martin v. Löwiscc0f2b22008-06-13 18:12:51 +00003292- 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 +00003293
Martin v. Löwis8c255e42008-05-23 15:06:50 +00003294- Patch #1722225: Support QNX 6.
3295
Brett Cannonb61d8012008-05-11 23:39:04 +00003296- ``Lib/lib-old`` is now added to sys.path.
3297
Ronald Oussoren5640ce22008-06-05 12:58:24 +00003298- On MacOS X it is now possible to install the framework in 64-bit
3299 mode or even as a 4-way universal binary (that is, PPC, i386,
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00003300 PPC64 and x86_64 support in one binary).
Ronald Oussoren5640ce22008-06-05 12:58:24 +00003301
3302 This is controlled by the configure argument ``--with-universal-archs``:
3303
3304 - ``--with-universal-archs=all``: install 4-way universal
3305
3306 - ``--with-universal-archs=32-bit``: install 2-way universal, 32-bit (the default)
3307
3308 - ``--with-universal-archs=64-bit``: install 2-way universal, 64-bit
3309
3310 This option should be used in combination with ``--enable-universalsdk=``.
3311
3312 NOTE: 64-bit and 4-way builds are only suppported on Mac OS X 10.5 (or later).
3313
3314
Christian Heimes7a990612008-05-26 13:15:11 +00003315C API
3316-----
3317
Georg Brandl74a1dea2008-05-28 11:21:39 +00003318- Add ``PyType_Modified()`` as a public API to clear the type cache.
3319
3320- The PyBytes functions have been renamed to PyByteArray.
Christian Heimes7a990612008-05-26 13:15:11 +00003321
3322- The PyString functions have been renamed to PyBytes. A batch of
3323 defines were added so that the linker still sees the original
3324 PyString names.
3325
Georg Brandl5e7b1c02008-05-16 17:40:23 +00003326
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00003327What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 3?
Barry Warsaw65475fd2008-03-01 17:11:41 +00003328=================================
3329
Barry Warsaw6cc79402008-05-08 13:16:19 +00003330*Release date: 08-May-2008*
Barry Warsaw65475fd2008-03-01 17:11:41 +00003331
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd21fb4c2008-03-05 01:50:33 +00003332Core and builtins
3333-----------------
Georg Brandl80055f62008-03-25 07:56:27 +00003334
Georg Brandl28e08732008-04-30 19:47:09 +00003335- Issue #2719: backported the ``next()`` builtin from Python 3.
3336
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003337- Issue #2681: The octal literal ``0o8`` was incorrecly acctepted. Now
3338 it properly raises a SyntaxError.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc52167212008-04-24 18:07:05 +00003339
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003340- Issue #2617: Reserved -J and -X arguments for Jython, IronPython and
3341 other implementations of Python.
Christian Heimes7a98d272008-04-12 13:03:03 +00003342
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003343- Implemented PEP 370: Per user site-packages directory.
Christian Heimesaf748c32008-05-06 22:41:46 +00003344
Andrew M. Kuchling46d6b682008-04-30 16:19:55 +00003345Extension Modules
3346-----------------
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00003347
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003348- Issue #2670: Fix a failure in urllib2.build_opener(), when passed
3349 two handlers that derive the same default base class.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc96865852008-04-22 21:14:41 +00003350
Christian Heimese74c8f22008-04-19 02:23:57 +00003351- Added kill, terminate and send_signal(sig) to subprocess.Popen.
3352
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003353- Added phase(z) -> phi, polar(z) -> r, phi and rect(r, phi) -> z to
3354 the cmath module.
Christian Heimes6f341092008-04-18 23:13:07 +00003355
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003356- Four new methods were added to the math and cmath modules: acosh,
3357 asinh, atanh and log1p.
Christian Heimes6f341092008-04-18 23:13:07 +00003358
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003359- zlib.decompressobj().flush(value) no longer crashes the interpreter
3360 when passed a value less than or equal to zero.
Gregory P. Smith671c5d92008-04-09 18:18:43 +00003361
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003362- Issue #1631171: Re-implement the 'warnings' module in C (the
3363 original Python code has been kept as backup). This will allow for
3364 using the 'warning's machinery in such places as the parser where
3365 use of pure Python code is not possible. Both the ``showarning()``
3366 and ``formatwarning()`` gain an optional 'line' argument which is
3367 not called by default for backwards-compatibility reasons. Setting
3368 ``warnings.showwarning()`` to an implementation that lacks support
3369 for the ``line`` argument will raise a DeprecationWarning.
Brett Cannone9746892008-04-12 23:44:07 +00003370
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00003371Library
3372-------
3373
Brett Cannonf8436822008-05-06 23:41:32 +00003374- The audiodev module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
3375
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003376- Issue #2750: Add the 'json' package. Based on simplejson 1.9 and
3377 contributed by Bob Ippolito.
Brett Cannon4b964f92008-05-05 20:21:38 +00003378
Martin v. Löwis471617d2008-05-05 17:16:58 +00003379- Issue #1734346: Support Unicode file names for zipfiles.
3380
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003381- Issue #2581: distutils: Vista UAC/elevation support for
3382 bdist_wininst.
Mark Hammond7c5c8e62008-05-02 12:48:15 +00003383
Mark Dickinsonfe536f52008-04-25 16:59:09 +00003384- Issue #2635: Fix bug in 'fix_sentence_endings' textwrap.fill option,
3385 where an extra space was added after a word containing (but not
3386 ending in) '.', '!' or '?'.
3387
Thomas Heller6ad5fbb2008-04-25 15:44:16 +00003388- Add from_buffer() and from_buffer_copy() class methods to ctypes
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00003389 data types.
Thomas Heller6ad5fbb2008-04-25 15:44:16 +00003390
Neal Norwitz2b0bea52008-04-25 03:40:17 +00003391- Issue #2682: ctypes callback functions no longer contain a cyclic
Thomas Hellerbf027c42008-04-24 18:14:19 +00003392 reference to themselves.
3393
Gregory P. Smithd59fefb2008-04-22 08:11:33 +00003394- The getpass module has been improved on Unix. It now uses /dev/tty
3395 by default and uses stderr instead of stdout. A GetPassWarning is
3396 issued when input echo cannot be controlled.
Gregory P. Smith41e30182008-04-21 21:31:08 +00003397
Skip Montanarob131f042008-04-18 20:35:46 +00003398- Issue #2014: Allow XML-RPC datetime objects to have dates before
3399 1900-01-01.
3400
Nick Coghlan106fc482008-04-15 10:25:31 +00003401- Issue #2439: Added new function pkgutil.get_data(), which is a
3402 convenience wrapper for the PEP 302 get_data() API.
3403
Thomas Heller046e6a42008-04-14 16:10:07 +00003404- Issue #2616: The ctypes.pointer() and ctypes.POINTER() functions are
3405 now implemented in C for better performance.
3406
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003407- Issue #2408: The ``_types`` module, which was used as in
3408 implementation detail of the public ``types`` module, has been
3409 removed and replaced by pure python code.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc02f33b42008-04-08 23:10:07 +00003410
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003411- Issue #2513: distutils on Windows is now capable of cross-compiling
Mark Hammond495cf992008-04-07 01:53:39 +00003412 extension modules between 32 and 64 bit platforms. See the distutls
3413 build documentation for more information.
3414
Gregory P. Smithaa63d0d2008-04-06 23:11:17 +00003415- Issue #815646: Individual file objects may now be used from multiple
3416 threads at once without fear of crashing the Python interpreter. If
3417 file.close() is called while an object is in use by another thread
3418 an IOError exception will be raised and the file will not be closed.
3419
Thomas Hellerf7906482008-04-04 19:43:25 +00003420- The bundled libffi copy is now in sync with the recently released
3421 libffi3.0.5 version, apart from some small changes to
3422 Modules/_ctypes/libffi/configure.ac.
3423
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003424- Issue #2385: distutils.core.run_script() makes __file__ available,
3425 so the controlled environment will more closely mirror the typical
3426 script environment. This supports setup.py scripts that refer to
3427 data files.
Fred Drake46c58c12008-04-04 05:41:30 +00003428
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00003429Tests
3430-----
Trent Nelsone41b0062008-04-08 23:47:30 +00003431
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003432- Issue #2550: The approach used by client/server code for obtaining
3433 ports to listen on in network-oriented tests has been refined in an
3434 effort to facilitate running multiple instances of the entire
3435 regression test suite in parallel without issue.
3436 test_support.bind_port() has been fixed such that it will always
3437 return a unique port -- which wasn't always the case with the
3438 previous implementation, especially if socket options had been set
3439 that affected address reuse (i.e. SO_REUSEADDR, SO_REUSEPORT). The
3440 new implementation of bind_port() will actually raise an exception
3441 if it is passed an AF_INET/SOCK_STREAM socket with either the
3442 SO_REUSEADDR or SO_REUSEPORT socket option set. Furthermore, if
3443 available, bind_port() will set the SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE option on
3444 the socket it's been passed. This currently only applies to
3445 Windows. This option prevents any other sockets from binding to the
3446 host/port we've bound to, thus removing the possibility of the
3447 'non-deterministic' behaviour, as Microsoft puts it, that occurs
3448 when a second SOCK_STREAM socket binds and accepts to a host/port
3449 that's already been bound by another socket. The optional preferred
3450 port parameter to bind_port() has been removed. Under no
3451 circumstances should tests be hard coding ports!
3452
3453 test_support.find_unused_port() has also been introduced, which will
3454 pass a temporary socket object to bind_port() in order to obtain an
3455 unused port. The temporary socket object is then closed and
3456 deleted, and the port is returned. This method should only be used
3457 for obtaining an unused port in order to pass to an external program
3458 (i.e. the -accept [port] argument to openssl's s_server mode) or as
3459 a parameter to a server-oriented class that doesn't give you direct
3460 access to the underlying socket used.
3461
3462 Finally, test_support.HOST has been introduced, which should be used
3463 for the host argument of any relevant socket calls (i.e. bind and
3464 connect).
Trent Nelsone41b0062008-04-08 23:47:30 +00003465
3466 The following tests were updated to following the new conventions:
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003467 test_socket, test_smtplib, test_asyncore, test_ssl, test_httplib,
Trent Nelsone41b0062008-04-08 23:47:30 +00003468 test_poplib, test_ftplib, test_telnetlib, test_socketserver,
3469 test_asynchat and test_socket_ssl.
3470
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003471 It is now possible for multiple instances of the regression test
3472 suite to run in parallel without issue.
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00003473
3474Build
3475-----
3476
Mark Dickinson65134662008-04-25 16:11:04 +00003477- Issue #1496032: On alpha, use -mieee when gcc is the compiler.
3478
Thomas Hellerdc96a772008-04-04 10:07:55 +00003479- Issue #2544: On HP-UX systems, use 'gcc -shared' for linking when
3480 gcc is used as compiler.
3481
Ronald Oussoren580c7fe2008-05-02 19:45:11 +00003482- Issue #2573: On MacOS X it is now possible to install the framework
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003483 with a different name using --with-framework-name=NAME.
Ronald Oussoren580c7fe2008-05-02 19:45:11 +00003484
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00003485C API
3486-----
3487
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003488- Added implementation of copysign, acosh, asinh, atanh and log1p to
3489 the new files Include/pymath.h and Python/pymath.h for platforms
3490 which provide the functions through their libm. The files also
3491 contains several helpers and constants for math.
Christian Heimes6f341092008-04-18 23:13:07 +00003492
Benjamin Petersondacde0d2008-05-26 17:43:53 +00003493- Added a new convenience macro, PyErr_WarnPy3k, for issuing Py3k warnings.
Benjamin Petersona692c4d2008-04-27 02:28:02 +00003494
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00003495
3496What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 2?
3497=================================
3498
3499*Release date: 02-Apr-2008*
3500
3501Core and builtins
3502-----------------
3503
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003504- Issue #1733757: The interpreter would hang on shutdown if the
3505 tracing function set by sys.settrace is still active and happens to
3506 call threading.currentThread().
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd7a26512008-04-03 23:07:55 +00003507
Georg Brandl91e0cda2008-03-29 01:50:06 +00003508- Patch #1442: properly report exceptions when the PYTHONSTARTUP file
3509 cannot be executed.
3510
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc69b747b2008-03-28 20:30:50 +00003511- The compilation of a class nested in another class used to leak one
3512 reference on the outer class name.
3513
Georg Brandlfc8eef32008-03-28 12:11:56 +00003514- Patch #1810: compile() can now compile _ast trees as returned by
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003515 ``compile(..., PyCF_ONLY_AST)``.
Georg Brandlfc8eef32008-03-28 12:11:56 +00003516
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003517- Patch #2426: Added sqlite3.Connection.iterdump method to allow easy
3518 dumping of databases. Contributed by Paul Kippes at PyCon 2008.
Gregory P. Smithb9803422008-03-28 08:32:09 +00003519
Georg Brandldeaf2ca2008-03-27 13:27:31 +00003520- Patch #2477: Added from __future__ import unicode_literals.
Christian Heimes3c608332008-03-26 22:01:37 +00003521
Christian Heimes8c78cc32008-03-26 12:53:58 +00003522- Added backport of bytearray type.
3523
Georg Brandl80055f62008-03-25 07:56:27 +00003524- Issue #2355: add Py3k warning for buffer().
3525
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc9a0d3462008-03-23 09:55:29 +00003526- Issue #1477: With narrow Unicode builds, the unicode escape sequence
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003527 \Uxxxxxxxx did not accept values outside the Basic Multilingual
3528 Plane. This affected raw unicode literals and the
3529 'raw-unicode-escape' codec. Now UTF-16 surrogates are generated in
3530 this case, like normal unicode literals and the 'unicode-escape'
3531 codec.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc9a0d3462008-03-23 09:55:29 +00003532
Georg Brandl65bb42d2008-03-21 20:38:24 +00003533- Issue #2348: add Py3k warning for file.softspace.
3534
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003535- Issue #2346/#2347: add Py3k warnings for __methods__ and
3536 __members__.
Georg Brandl07e56812008-03-21 20:21:46 +00003537
Georg Brandl5a444242008-03-21 20:11:46 +00003538- Issue #2358: Add a Py3k warning on sys.exc_clear() usage.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd21fb4c2008-03-05 01:50:33 +00003539
Martin v. Löwisa4d77892008-03-19 04:39:13 +00003540- Issue #2400: Allow relative imports to "import *".
3541
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003542- Issue #1745: Backport print function with ``from __future__ import
3543 print_function``.
Eric Smith7c478942008-03-18 23:45:49 +00003544
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003545- Issue #2332: add new attribute names for instance method objects.
3546 The two changes are: im_self -> __self__ and im_func -> __func__
Neal Norwitzb1d3d962008-03-18 04:46:00 +00003547
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003548- Issue #2379: Raise a Py3K warning for __getitem__ or __getslice__ on
Guido van Rossum6d91be32008-03-18 04:42:22 +00003549 exception instances.
3550
Guido van Rossum04edb522008-03-18 02:49:46 +00003551- Issue #2371: Add a Py3k warning when catching an exception that
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003552 doesn't derive from BaseException.
3553
3554- Issue #2341: Add a Py3k warning when raising an exception that
3555 doesn't derive from BaseException.
Guido van Rossum04edb522008-03-18 02:49:46 +00003556
Neal Norwitz419fd492008-03-17 20:22:43 +00003557- Issue #2321: use pymalloc for unicode object string data to reduce
3558 memory usage in some circumstances.
3559
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003560- PEP 3127: octal literals now start with "0o". Old-style octal
3561 literals are still valid. There are binary literals with a prefix of
3562 "0b". This also affects int(x, 0).
Eric Smith0aed07a2008-03-17 19:43:40 +00003563
Georg Brandl1e7c3752008-03-25 08:37:23 +00003564- Issue #2359: Adding deprecation warnings for array.{read,write}.
3565
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003566- Issue #1779871: GNU gcc can now build Python on OS X because the
Jeffrey Yasskin1b4e45b2008-03-17 14:40:53 +00003567 flags -Wno-long-double, -no-cpp-precomp, and -mno-fused-madd are no
3568 longer passed.
3569
Neal Norwitz400aeda2008-03-15 22:03:18 +00003570- Add a warning when asserting a non-empty tuple which is always true.
3571
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003572- Issue #2179: speed up with statement execution by storing the exit
3573 method on the stack instead of in a temporary variable (patch by
3574 Jeffrey Yaskin)
Nick Coghlan7af53be2008-03-07 14:13:28 +00003575
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003576- Issue #2238: Some syntax errors in *args and **kwargs expressions
3577 could give bogus error messages.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd21fb4c2008-03-05 01:50:33 +00003578
Sean Reifscheider68fa8e62008-03-20 00:50:07 +00003579- Issue #2143: Fix embedded readline() hang on SSL socket EOF.
3580
Andrew M. Kuchling46d6b682008-04-30 16:19:55 +00003581Extension Modules
3582-----------------
Martin v. Löwisaef18b12008-03-24 13:31:16 +00003583
3584- Patch #2240: Implement signal.setitimer and signal.getitimer.
3585
Thomas Heller78b8f442008-03-05 14:53:39 +00003586Library
3587-------
3588
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003589- Issue #2315: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now accounts
3590 for daylight savings time in calculating the next rollover.
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00003591
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003592- Issue #2316: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now
3593 calculates rollovers correctly even when nothing is logged for a
3594 while.
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00003595
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003596- Issue #2317: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now uses
3597 improved logic for removing old files.
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00003598
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003599- Issue #2495: tokenize.untokenize now inserts a space between two
3600 consecutive string literals; previously, ["" ""] was rendered as
3601 [""""], which is incorrect python code.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcda0c0252008-03-27 23:23:54 +00003602
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003603- Issue #2248: return the result of the QUIT command. from
3604 SMTP.quit().
Georg Brandldeaf2ca2008-03-27 13:27:31 +00003605
Christian Heimes8c78cc32008-03-26 12:53:58 +00003606- Backport of Python 3.0's io module.
3607
Mark Dickinson8e85ffa2008-03-25 18:47:59 +00003608- Issue #2482: Make sure that the coefficient of a Decimal is always
3609 stored as a str instance, not as a unicode instance. This ensures
3610 that str(Decimal) is always an instance of str.
3611
Mark Dickinson3b24ccb2008-03-25 14:33:23 +00003612- Issue #2478: fix failure of decimal.Decimal(0).sqrt()
3613
Georg Brandl77354cf2008-03-21 20:01:51 +00003614- Issue #2432: give DictReader the dialect and line_num attributes
3615 advertised in the docs.
3616
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003617- Issue #2460: Make Ellipsis object copyable.
Raymond Hettingerb72233c2008-03-24 08:17:39 +00003618
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003619- Issue #1681432: Add triangular distribution to the random module
Raymond Hettingerbbc50ea2008-03-23 13:32:32 +00003620
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003621- Issue #2136: urllib2's auth handler now allows single-quoted realms
3622 in the WWW-Authenticate header.
Georg Brandl33124322008-03-21 19:54:00 +00003623
Marc-André Lemburga1867752008-03-20 18:08:00 +00003624- Issue #2434: Enhanced platform.win32_ver() to also work on Python
3625 installation which do not have the win32all package installed.
3626
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003627- Added support to platform.uname() to also report the machine and
3628 processor information on Windows XP and later. As a result,
Marc-André Lemburga1867752008-03-20 18:08:00 +00003629 platform.machine() and platform.processor() will report this
3630 information as well.
3631
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003632- The library implementing the 2to3 conversion, lib2to3, was added to
3633 the standard distribution.
Martin v. Löwis5e37bae2008-03-19 04:43:46 +00003634
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003635- Issue #1747858: Fix chown to work with large uid's and gid's on
3636 64-bit platforms.
Gregory P. Smith37f3f432008-03-18 20:40:01 +00003637
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003638- Issue #1202: zlib.crc32 and zlib.adler32 no longer return different
3639 values on 32-bit vs. 64-bit python interpreters. Both were correct,
3640 but they now both return a signed integer object for consistency.
Gregory P. Smithf48f9d32008-03-17 18:48:05 +00003641
Skip Montanaro32ed8c22008-03-15 16:07:11 +00003642- Issue #1158: add %f format (fractions of a second represented as
3643 microseconds) to datetime objects. Understood by both strptime and
3644 strftime.
3645
Mark Dickinsonc23b8a72008-03-14 14:23:37 +00003646- Issue #705836: struct.pack(">f", x) now raises OverflowError on all
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003647 platforms when x is too large to fit into an IEEE 754 float;
3648 previously it only raised OverflowError on non IEEE 754 platforms.
Mark Dickinsonc23b8a72008-03-14 14:23:37 +00003649
Andrew M. Kuchlingaac5c862008-05-11 14:00:00 +00003650- Issues #2166, #1741 and #1531505: now distutils deals with HOME
3651 correctly under win32
3652
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003653- Patch #1858: distutils: added multiple server support in .pypirc
Andrew M. Kuchlingaac5c862008-05-11 14:00:00 +00003654
Facundo Batistac54aec12008-03-08 16:50:27 +00003655- Issue #1106316: pdb.post_mortem()'s parameter, "traceback", is now
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003656 optional: it defaults to the traceback of the exception that is
3657 currently being handled (is mandatory to be in the middle of an
3658 exception, otherwise it raises ValueError).
Facundo Batistac54aec12008-03-08 16:50:27 +00003659
Jeffrey Yasskine75f59a2008-03-07 06:22:15 +00003660- Issue #1193577: A .shutdown() method has been added to SocketServers
3661 which terminates the .serve_forever() loop.
3662
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003663- Issue #2220: handle rlcompleter attribute match failure more
3664 gracefully.
Georg Brandl98aa8052008-03-06 07:45:52 +00003665
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003666- Issue #2225: py_compile, when executed as a script, now returns a
3667 non- zero status code if not all files could be compiled
3668 successfully.
Georg Brandla7bd27f2008-03-06 07:41:16 +00003669
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003670- Bug #1725737: In distutils' sdist, exclude RCS, CVS etc. also in the
Georg Brandl810ea292008-03-06 07:34:52 +00003671 root directory, and also exclude .hg, .git, .bzr, and _darcs.
3672
Thomas Hellerf3c05592008-03-05 15:34:29 +00003673- Issue #1872: The struct module typecode for _Bool has been changed
3674 from 't' to '?'.
3675
Thomas Heller78b8f442008-03-05 14:53:39 +00003676- The bundled libffi copy is now in sync with the recently released
3677 libffi3.0.4 version, apart from some small changes to
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003678 Modules/_ctypes/libffi/configure.ac. On OS X, preconfigured libffi
3679 files are used. On all linux systems the --with-system-ffi
3680 configure option defaults to "yes".
Thomas Heller78b8f442008-03-05 14:53:39 +00003681
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003682- Issue #1577: shutil.move() now calls os.rename() if the destination
3683 is a directory instead of copying-then-remove-source.
Sean Reifscheider493894c2008-03-18 17:24:12 +00003684
Martin v. Löwisd2bbe522008-03-06 06:55:22 +00003685Tests
3686-----
3687
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003688- test_nis no longer fails when test.test_support.verbose is true and
3689 NIS is not set up on the testing machine.
Brett Cannon7919d982008-03-19 16:50:13 +00003690
Brett Cannona5573b32008-03-18 04:16:06 +00003691- Output comparison tests are no longer supported.
3692
Brett Cannonb7ec8e52008-03-18 03:46:22 +00003693- Rewrite test_errno to use unittest and no longer be a no-op.
3694
Brett Cannon0bb79502008-03-18 01:58:56 +00003695- GHOP 234: Convert test_extcall to doctest.
3696
Brett Cannonba17cfc2008-03-18 01:50:25 +00003697- GHOP 290: Convert test_dbm and test_dummy_threading to unittest.
3698
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003699- GHOP 293: Convert test_strftime, test_getargs, and test_pep247 to
3700 unittest.
Brett Cannon6eeaddc2008-03-18 01:00:07 +00003701
Brett Cannon1f5182b2008-03-13 21:09:28 +00003702- Issue #2055: Convert test_fcntl to unittest.
3703
Brett Cannon4a6e8d62008-03-13 21:02:16 +00003704- Issue 1960: Convert test_gdbm to unittest.
3705
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003706- GHOP 294: Convert test_contains, test_crypt, and test_select to
3707 unittest.
Brett Cannon2e0f9f32008-03-13 20:47:41 +00003708
Brett Cannonb8d37352008-03-13 20:33:10 +00003709- GHOP 238: Convert test_tokenize to use doctest.
3710
Brett Cannon66865d22008-03-13 20:27:00 +00003711- GHOP 237: Rewrite test_thread using unittest.
3712
Martin v. Löwisd2bbe522008-03-06 06:55:22 +00003713- Patch #2232: os.tmpfile might fail on Windows if the user has no
3714 permission to create files in the root directory.
3715
Martin v. Löwisbf7b0b72008-03-14 13:56:09 +00003716Build
3717-----
3718
Martin v. Löwiscdbc9772008-03-24 12:57:53 +00003719- A new script 2to3 is now installed, to run the 2.x to 3.x converter.
3720
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003721- Python/memmove.c and Python/strerror.c have been removed; both
3722 functions are in the C89 standard library.
Brett Cannonaa5778d2008-03-18 04:09:00 +00003723
Martin v. Löwisbf7b0b72008-03-14 13:56:09 +00003724- Patch #2284: Add -x64 option to rt.bat.
Barry Warsaw65475fd2008-03-01 17:11:41 +00003725
Christian Heimes3c608332008-03-26 22:01:37 +00003726C API
3727-----
3728
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00003729- Patch #2477: Added PyParser_ParseFileFlagsEx() and
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003730 PyParser_ParseStringFlagsFilenameEx().
3731
Christian Heimes3c608332008-03-26 22:01:37 +00003732
Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +00003733What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 1?
3734=================================
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00003735
Barry Warsaw7c075232008-03-01 02:53:36 +00003736*Release date: 29-Feb-2008*
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00003737
3738Core and builtins
3739-----------------
3740
Fred Drakea8ee94b2008-03-01 02:45:07 +00003741- Issue #2051: pyc and pyo files are no longer created with permission
Barry Warsaw52973612008-03-01 02:23:38 +00003742 644. The mode is now inherited from the py file.
Christian Heimes40346852008-02-23 17:52:07 +00003743
Georg Brandlad61bc82008-02-23 15:11:18 +00003744- Issue #2067: file.__exit__() now calls subclasses' close() method.
3745
3746- Patch #1759: Backport of PEP 3129 class decorators.
Christian Heimes5224d282008-02-23 15:01:05 +00003747
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00003748- Issue #1881: An internal parser limit has been increased. Also see
Facundo Batistafc2d0102008-02-23 12:01:13 +00003749 issue 215555 for a discussion.
3750
Eric Smitha73fbe72008-02-23 03:09:44 +00003751- Added the future_builtins module, which contains hex() and oct().
3752 These are the PEP 3127 version of these functions, designed to be
3753 compatible with the hex() and oct() builtins from Python 3.0. They
3754 differ slightly in their output formats from the existing, unchanged
3755 Python 2.6 builtins. The expected usage of the future_builtins
3756 module is:
3757 from future_builtins import hex, oct
3758
Eric Smith7ef40bf2008-02-20 23:34:22 +00003759- Issue #1600: Modifed PyOS_ascii_formatd to use at most 2 digit
3760 exponents for exponents with absolute value < 100. Follows C99
3761 standard. This is a change on Windows, which would use 3 digits.
3762 Also, added 'n' to the formats that PyOS_ascii_formatd understands,
3763 so that any alterations it does to the resulting string will be
3764 available in stringlib/formatter.h (for float.__format__).
3765
Eric Smith5a3c1352008-02-19 13:21:56 +00003766- Implemented PEP 3101, Advanced String Formatting. This adds a new
3767 builtin format(); a format() method for str and unicode; a
3768 __format__() method to object, str, unicode, int, long, float, and
3769 datetime; the class string.Formatter; and the C API
3770 PyObject_Format().
3771
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003772- Fixed several potential crashes, all caused by specially crafted
3773 __del__ methods exploiting objects in temporarily inconsistent
3774 state.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc632fad32008-02-16 20:55:24 +00003775
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00003776- Issue #2115: Important speedup in setting __slot__ attributes. Also
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003777 prevent a possible crash: an Abstract Base Class would try to access
3778 a slot on a registered virtual subclass.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc60d6c7f2008-02-15 21:22:45 +00003779
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003780- Fixed repr() and str() of complex numbers with infinity or nan as
3781 real or imaginary part.
Christian Heimes2f0da532008-02-15 06:57:08 +00003782
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003783- Clear all free lists during a gc.collect() of the highest generation
3784 in order to allow pymalloc to free more arenas. Python may give back
3785 memory to the OS earlier.
Christian Heimes3b718a72008-02-14 12:47:33 +00003786
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003787- Issue #2045: Fix an infinite recursion triggered when printing a
3788 subclass of collections.defaultdict, if its default_factory is set
3789 to a bound method.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcb01aa432008-02-08 00:56:02 +00003790
Christian Heimesf75dbef2008-02-08 00:11:31 +00003791- Fixed a minor memory leak in dictobject.c. The content of the free
3792 list was not freed on interpreter shutdown.
3793
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00003794- Limit free list of method and built-in function objects to 256
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003795 entries each.
Christian Heimes6075a822008-02-06 12:44:34 +00003796
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003797- Patch #1953: Added ``sys._compact_freelists()`` and the C API
3798 functions ``PyInt_CompactFreeList`` and ``PyFloat_CompactFreeList``
Christian Heimes422051a2008-02-04 18:00:12 +00003799 to compact the internal free lists of pre-allocted ints and floats.
3800
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003801- Issue #1983: Fixed return type of fork(), fork1() and forkpty()
3802 calls. Python expected the return type int but the fork familie
3803 returns pi_t.
Christian Heimes951cc0f2008-01-31 23:08:23 +00003804
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003805- Issue #1678380: Fix a bug that identifies 0j and -0j when they
3806 appear in the same code unit.
Mark Dickinson105be772008-01-31 22:17:37 +00003807
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003808- Issue #2025: Add tuple.count() and tuple.index() methods to comply
3809 with the collections.Sequence API.
Raymond Hettinger5b07ebc2008-02-07 00:54:20 +00003810
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003811- Patch #1970 by Antoine Pitrou: Speedup unicode whitespace and
3812 linebreak detection
Christian Heimes4d4f2702008-01-30 11:32:37 +00003813
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003814- Added ``PyType_ClearCache()`` and ``sys._clear_type_cache`` to clear
3815 the internal lookup cache for ref leak tests.
Christian Heimes908caac2008-01-27 23:34:59 +00003816
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003817- Patch #1473257: generator objects gain a gi_code attribute. This is
3818 the same object as the func_code attribute of the function that
3819 produced the generator.
Georg Brandl0cdf9a32008-01-26 14:14:20 +00003820
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003821- Issue #1920: "while 0" statements were completely removed by the
3822 compiler, even in the presence of an "else" clause, which is
3823 supposed to be run when the condition is false. Now the compiler
3824 correctly emits bytecode for the "else" suite.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc31eaafe2008-01-24 22:59:25 +00003825
Guido van Rossumeead05f2008-01-24 18:21:02 +00003826- A few crashers fixed: weakref_in_del.py (issue #1377858);
3827 loosing_dict_ref.py (issue #1303614, test67.py);
3828 borrowed_ref_[34].py (not in tracker).
3829
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +00003830- Issue #1069410: The "can't load dll" message box on Windows is
Christian Heimesb2302ba2008-01-23 17:15:06 +00003831 suppressed while an extension is loaded by calling SetErrorMode in
3832 dynload_win.c. The error is still reported properly.
3833
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003834- Issue #1915: Python compiles with --enable-unicode=no again. However
Christian Heimes082c9b02008-01-23 14:20:50 +00003835 several extension methods and modules do not work without unicode
3836 support.
3837
Georg Brandl26543b12008-01-21 18:36:51 +00003838- Issue #1882: when compiling code from a string, encoding cookies in the
3839 second line of code were not always recognized correctly.
3840
Georg Brandl14404b62008-01-19 19:27:05 +00003841- Issue #1679: "0x" was taken as a valid integer literal.
3842
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00003843- Issue #1865: ``bytes`` as an alias for ``str`` and b"" as an alias "" were
Christian Heimes288e89a2008-01-18 18:24:07 +00003844 added.
3845
Christian Heimesc94e2b52008-01-14 04:13:37 +00003846- sys.float_info / PyFloat_GetInfo: The floating point information
3847 object was converted from a dict to a specialized structseq object.
3848
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003849- Patch #1816: Added sys.flags structseq. It exposes the status of
3850 most command line arguments and PYTHON* environment variables.
Christian Heimesf31b69f2008-01-14 03:42:48 +00003851
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003852- Objects/structseq.c: Implemented new structseq representation. The
3853 patch makes structseqs (e.g. the return value of os.stat) more
3854 readable.
Christian Heimes9c201962008-01-14 03:33:52 +00003855
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003856- Patch #1700288: added a type attribute cache that caches method
3857 accesses, resulting in speedups in heavily object-oriented code.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arce4c270c2008-01-14 00:29:41 +00003858
Neal Norwitz3fc15b82008-01-10 05:42:58 +00003859- Bug #1776: __import__() no longer accepts filenames on any platform.
3860 The first parameter to __import__() must be a valid module name.
Christian Heimes3403f152008-01-09 19:56:33 +00003861
Georg Brandlaed6c662008-01-07 17:25:53 +00003862- Patch #1668: renamed THREADDEBUG envvar to PYTHONTHREADDEBUG.
3863
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003864- Patch #602345: Add -B command line option, PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE
3865 envvar and sys.dont_write_bytecode attribute. All these can be set
3866 to forbid Python to attempt to write compiled bytecode files.
Georg Brandl2da0fce2008-01-07 17:09:35 +00003867
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003868- Improve some exception messages when Windows fails to load an
3869 extension module. Now we get for example '%1 is not a valid Win32
3870 application' instead of 'error code 193'.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arce0b76952008-01-04 02:04:15 +00003871
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003872- Bug #1481296: Fixed long(float('nan')) != 0L.
Christian Heimes8267d1d2008-01-04 00:37:34 +00003873
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003874- Issue #1640: Added math.isinf(x), math.isnan(x) and math.copysign(x,
3875 y) functions.
Christian Heimese2ca4242008-01-03 20:23:15 +00003876
Christian Heimes0a8143f2007-12-18 23:22:54 +00003877- Issue #1635: Platform independent creation and representation of NaN
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003878 and INF. float("nan"), float("inf") and float("-inf") now work on
3879 every platform with IEEE 754 semantics.
Christian Heimes0a8143f2007-12-18 23:22:54 +00003880
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003881- Compiler now generates simpler and faster code for dictionary
3882 literals. The oparg for BUILD_MAP now indicates an estimated
3883 dictionary size. There is a new opcode, STORE_MAP, for adding
3884 entries to the dictionary.
Raymond Hettingerfd7ed402007-12-18 21:24:09 +00003885
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003886- Issue #1638: %zd configure test fails on Linux.
Christian Heimesdb3d6cb2007-12-16 21:39:43 +00003887
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003888- Issue #1620: New property decorator syntax was modifying the
3889 decorator in place instead of creating a new decorator object.
Christian Heimes90e10e72007-12-14 02:35:23 +00003890
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003891- Issue #1538: Avoid copying string in split/rsplit if the split char
3892 is not found.
Skip Montanaro26015492007-12-08 15:33:24 +00003893
Andrew M. Kuchling395fe442007-12-05 13:27:20 +00003894- Issue #1553: An erroneous __length_hint__ can make list() raise a
Christian Heimes7cc1c6f2007-12-05 12:52:34 +00003895 SystemError.
3896
Nick Coghlanef01d822007-12-03 12:55:17 +00003897- PEP 366: Allow explicit relative imports when executing modules
3898 inside packages with the -m switch via a new module level
3899 __package__ attribute.
3900
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003901- Issue #1402: Fix a crash on exit, when another thread is still
3902 running, and if the deallocation of its frames somehow calls the
3903 PyGILState_Ensure() / PyGILState_Release() functions.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbe49a902007-11-30 20:37:22 +00003904
Christian Heimes28104c52007-11-27 23:16:44 +00003905- Expose the Py_Py3kWarningFlag as sys.py3kwarning.
3906
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00003907- Issue #1445: Fix a SystemError when accessing the ``cell_contents``
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcce7d10c2007-11-24 13:44:17 +00003908 attribute of an empty cell object.
3909
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003910- Issue #1460: The utf-7 incremental decoder did not accept truncated
3911 input. It now correctly saves its state between chunks of data.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcf57375a2007-11-21 01:38:26 +00003912
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003913- Patch #1739468: Directories and zipfiles containing a __main__.py
3914 file can now be directly executed by passing their name to the
3915 interpreter. The directory/zipfile is automatically inserted as the
3916 first entry in sys.path.
Nick Coghlan327a39b2007-11-18 11:56:28 +00003917
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003918- Issue #1265: Fix a problem with sys.settrace, if the tracing
3919 function uses a generator expression when at the same time the
3920 executed code is closing a paused generator.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc0d75f092007-11-13 21:54:28 +00003921
Raymond Hettinger1760c8a2007-11-08 02:52:43 +00003922- sets and frozensets now have an isdisjoint() method.
3923
Raymond Hettinger3f8caa32007-10-24 01:28:33 +00003924- optimize the performance of builtin.sum().
3925
Neal Norwitz44f326e2007-10-05 05:29:17 +00003926- Fix warnings found by the new version of the Coverity checker.
3927
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00003928- The enumerate() built-in function is no longer bounded to sequences
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003929 smaller than LONG_MAX. Formerly, it raised an OverflowError. Now,
3930 automatically shifts from ints to longs.
Raymond Hettinger8f669372007-10-03 21:18:11 +00003931
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003932- Issue #1686386: Tuple's tp_repr did not take into account the
3933 possibility of having a self-referential tuple, which is possible
3934 from C code. Nor did object's tp_str consider that a type's tp_str
3935 could do something that could lead to an inifinite recursion.
3936 Py_ReprEnter() and Py_EnterRecursiveCall(), respectively, fixed the
3937 issues.
Brett Cannon0b14f242007-09-30 19:45:10 +00003938
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003939- Issue #1164: It was possible to trigger deadlock when using the
3940 'print' statement to write to a file since the GIL was not released
3941 as needed. Now PyObject_Print() does the right thing along with
3942 various tp_print implementations of the built-in types and those in
3943 the collections module.
Brett Cannon01531592007-09-17 03:28:34 +00003944
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003945- Issue #1147: Exceptions were directly allowing string exceptions in
3946 their throw() method even though string exceptions no longer
3947 allowed.
Brett Cannon4c20bc42007-09-11 21:02:28 +00003948
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003949- Issue #1096: Prevent a segfault from getting the repr of a very
3950 deeply nested list by using the recursion counter.
Brett Cannona0c05512007-09-10 21:38:27 +00003951
Brett Cannon1e534b52007-09-07 04:18:30 +00003952- Issue #1202533: Fix infinite recursion calls triggered by calls to
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003953 PyObject_Call() never calling back out to Python code to trigger
3954 recursion depth updates/checks. Required the creation of a static
3955 RuntimeError instance in case normalizing an exception put the
3956 recursion check value past its limit. Fixes crashers
3957 infinite_rec_(1|2|4|5).py.
Brett Cannon1e534b52007-09-07 04:18:30 +00003958
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003959- Patch #1031213: Decode source line in SyntaxErrors back to its
3960 original source encoding.
Martin v. Löwisa5136192007-09-04 14:19:28 +00003961
Georg Brandl7c3b50d2007-07-12 08:38:00 +00003962- Patch #1673759: add a missing overflow check when formatting floats
3963 with %G.
3964
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003965- Prevent expandtabs() on string and unicode objects from causing a
3966 segfault when a large width is passed on 32-bit platforms.
Neal Norwitz7dbd2a32007-06-09 03:36:34 +00003967
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003968- Issue #1733488: Fix compilation of bufferobject.c on AIX.
Martin v. Löwisda587ab2007-06-08 17:29:20 +00003969
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003970- Issue #1722485: remove docstrings again when running with -OO.
Georg Brandla5ea6892007-06-01 11:33:33 +00003971
Neal Norwitz0ac60192007-05-27 04:08:54 +00003972- Add new attribute names for function objects. All the func_* become
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003973 __*__ attributes. (Some already existed, e.g., __doc__ and
3974 __name__.)
Neal Norwitz0ac60192007-05-27 04:08:54 +00003975
Neal Norwitz8b2bfbc2007-05-23 06:35:32 +00003976- Add -3 option to the interpreter to warn about features that are
3977 deprecated and will be changed/removed in Python 3.0.
3978
Georg Brandl2134e752007-05-21 20:34:16 +00003979- Patch #1686487: you can now pass any mapping after '**' in function
3980 calls.
3981
Collin Winter62903052007-05-18 23:11:24 +00003982- except clauses may now be spelled either "except E, target:" or
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003983 "except E as target:". This is to provide forwards compatibility
3984 with Python 3.0.
Collin Winter62903052007-05-18 23:11:24 +00003985
Brett Cannon229cee22007-05-05 01:34:02 +00003986- Deprecate BaseException.message as per PEP 352.
3987
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003988- Issue #1303614: don't expose object's __dict__ when the dict is
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00003989 inherited from a built-in base.
Armin Rigo9790a272007-05-02 19:23:31 +00003990
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00003991- When __slots__ are set to a unicode string, make it work the same as
Neal Norwitzcbd9ee62007-04-14 05:25:50 +00003992 setting a plain string, ie don't expand to single letter identifiers.
3993
Raymond Hettinger13936692007-04-11 18:40:58 +00003994- Request #1191699: Slices can now be pickled.
3995
Raymond Hettinger4db5fe92007-04-12 04:10:00 +00003996- Request #1193128: str.translate() now allows a None argument for
3997 translations that only remove characters without re-mapping the
3998 remaining characters.
3999
Georg Brandl5cb76c12007-03-21 09:00:39 +00004000- Patch #1682205: a TypeError while unpacking an iterable is no longer
4001 masked by a generic one with the message "unpack non-sequence".
4002
Neal Norwitzaa754b72007-03-21 06:39:48 +00004003- Remove unused file Python/fmod.c.
4004
Guido van Rossum143b5642007-03-23 04:58:42 +00004005- Bug #1683368: The object.__init__() and object.__new__() methods are
4006 now stricter in rejecting excess arguments. The only time when
4007 either allows excess arguments is when it is not overridden and the
4008 other one is. For backwards compatibility, when both are
4009 overridden, it is a deprecation warning (for now; maybe a Py3k
Guido van Rossum234b1ff2007-03-23 19:39:01 +00004010 warning later). Also, type.__init__() insists on the same signature
4011 as supported by type.__new__().
Guido van Rossum143b5642007-03-23 04:58:42 +00004012
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004013- Patch #1675423: PyComplex_AsCComplex() now tries to convert an
4014 object to complex using its __complex__() method before falling back
4015 to the __float__() method. Therefore, the functions in the cmath
4016 module now can operate on objects that define a __complex__()
4017 method.
Georg Brandl2b869942007-03-17 16:08:45 +00004018
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004019- Patch #1623563: allow __class__ assignment for classes with
4020 __slots__. The old and the new class are still required to have the
4021 same slot names.
Žiga Seilnacht6f2d09c2007-03-16 11:59:38 +00004022
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004023- Patch #1642547: Fix an error/crash when encountering syntax errors
4024 in complex if statements.
Collin Winter77c67bd2007-03-16 04:11:30 +00004025
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004026- Patch #1462488: Python no longer segfaults when
4027 ``object.__reduce_ex__()`` is called with an object that is faking
4028 its type.
Žiga Seilnacht20f43d32007-03-15 11:44:55 +00004029
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004030- Patch #1680015: Don't modify __slots__ tuple if it contains an
4031 unicode name.
Žiga Seilnacht71436f02007-03-14 12:24:09 +00004032
Georg Brandl5240d742007-03-13 20:46:32 +00004033- Patch #1444529: the builtin compile() now accepts keyword arguments.
4034
Georg Brandl7b9c5552007-03-12 14:30:05 +00004035- Bug #1678647: write a newline after printing an exception in any
4036 case, even when converting the value to a string failed.
4037
Georg Brandl871f1bc2007-03-12 13:17:36 +00004038- The dir() function has been extended to call the __dir__() method on
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004039 its argument, if it exists. If not, it will work like before. This
4040 allows customizing the output of dir() in the presence of a
4041 __getattr__().
Georg Brandl871f1bc2007-03-12 13:17:36 +00004042
Collin Winter276887b2007-03-12 16:11:39 +00004043- Patch #922167: Python no longer segfaults when faced with infinitely
4044 self-recursive reload() calls (as reported by bug #742342).
4045
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004046- Patch #1675981: remove unreachable code from ``type.__new__()``
4047 method.
Žiga Seilnacht89032082007-03-11 15:54:54 +00004048
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004049- Patch #1491866: change the complex() constructor to allow
4050 parthensized forms. This means complex(repr(x)) now works instead of
4051 raising a ValueError.
Collin Wintere38051d2007-03-09 20:33:07 +00004052
Georg Brandlaa2321b2007-03-07 00:40:28 +00004053- Patch #703779: unset __file__ in __main__ after running a file. This
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004054 makes the filenames the warning module prints much more sensible
4055 when a PYTHONSTARTUP file is used.
Georg Brandlaa2321b2007-03-07 00:40:28 +00004056
Georg Brandl49aafc92007-03-07 00:34:46 +00004057- Variant of patch #697613: don't exit the interpreter on a SystemExit
4058 exception if the -i command line option or PYTHONINSPECT environment
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004059 variable is given, but break into the interactive interpreter just
4060 like on other exceptions or normal program exit.
Georg Brandl49aafc92007-03-07 00:34:46 +00004061
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004062- Patch #1638879: don't accept strings with embedded NUL bytes in
4063 long().
Georg Brandl00cd8182007-03-06 18:41:12 +00004064
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004065- Bug #1674503: close the file opened by execfile() in an error
4066 condition.
Georg Brandl098cd692007-03-06 12:17:50 +00004067
Georg Brandl0fca97a2007-03-05 22:28:08 +00004068- Patch #1674228: when assigning a slice (old-style), check for the
4069 sq_ass_slice instead of the sq_slice slot.
4070
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004071- When printing an unraisable error, don't print exceptions. before
4072 the name. This duplicates the behavior whening normally printing
4073 exceptions.
Neal Norwitz88516a62007-02-26 22:41:45 +00004074
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004075- Bug #1653736: Properly discard third argument to
4076 slot_nb_inplace_power.
Martin v. Löwisfd963262007-02-09 12:19:32 +00004077
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004078- PEP 352: Raising a string exception now triggers a TypeError.
4079 Attempting to catch a string exception raises DeprecationWarning.
Brett Cannon129bd522007-01-30 21:34:36 +00004080
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004081- Bug #1377858: Fix the segfaulting of the interpreter when an object
4082 created a weakref on itself during a __del__ call for new-style
4083 classes (classic classes still have the bug).
Brett Cannonf5bee302007-01-23 23:21:22 +00004084
Martin v. Löwis6c5c5022007-01-23 21:11:47 +00004085- Bug #1579370: Make PyTraceBack_Here use the current thread, not the
4086 frame's thread state.
4087
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004088- patch #1630975: Fix crash when replacing sys.stdout in
4089 sitecustomize.py.
Thomas Wouters6ed19652007-01-23 13:50:49 +00004090
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004091- Prevent seg fault on shutdown which could occur if an object raised
4092 a warning.
Neal Norwitz72cd02c2007-01-05 05:25:22 +00004093
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004094- Bug #1566280: Explicitly invoke threading._shutdown from Py_Main, to
4095 avoid relying on atexit.
Martin v. Löwis7b7c9d42007-01-04 21:06:12 +00004096
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004097- Bug #1590891: random.randrange don't return correct value for big
4098 number.
Raymond Hettinger94547f72006-12-20 06:42:06 +00004099
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004100- Patch #1586791: Better exception messages for some operations on
4101 strings, tuples and lists.
Georg Brandl283a1352006-11-19 08:48:30 +00004102
Martin v. Löwis056dac12006-11-12 18:24:26 +00004103- Bug #1067760: Deprecate passing floats to file.seek.
4104
Martin v. Löwisa346c092006-11-08 06:48:36 +00004105- Bug #1591996: Correctly forward exception in instance_contains().
4106
Neal Norwitz85dbec62006-11-04 19:25:22 +00004107- Bug #1588287: fix invalid assertion for `1,2` in debug builds.
4108
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004109- Bug #1576657: when setting a KeyError for a tuple key, make sure
4110 that the tuple isn't used as the "exception arguments tuple".
Georg Brandlb9f4ad32006-10-29 18:31:42 +00004111
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004112- Bug #1565514: SystemError not raised on too many nested blocks.
Neal Norwitz21997af2006-10-28 21:19:07 +00004113
Thomas Hellerdf08f0b2006-10-27 18:31:36 +00004114- Bug #1576174: WindowsError now displays the windows error code
4115 again, no longer the posix error code.
4116
Martin v. Löwisb5bc5372006-10-27 06:16:31 +00004117- Patch #1549049: Support long values in structmember, issue warnings
4118 if the assigned value for structmember fields gets truncated.
4119
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004120- Update the peephole optimizer to remove more dead code (jumps after
4121 returns) and inline unconditional jumps to returns.
Neal Norwitzcbeb6872006-10-14 21:33:38 +00004122
Georg Brandl2c1375c2006-10-12 11:27:59 +00004123- Bug #1545497: when given an explicit base, int() did ignore NULs
4124 embedded in the string to convert.
4125
Georg Brandl846f73a2006-10-08 07:11:54 +00004126- Bug #1569998: break inside a try statement (outside a loop) is now
4127 recognized and rejected.
4128
Armin Rigo7ccbca92006-10-04 12:17:45 +00004129- list.pop(x) accepts any object x following the __index__ protocol.
4130
Armin Rigo7ccbca92006-10-04 12:17:45 +00004131- A number of places, including integer negation and absolute value,
4132 were fixed to not rely on undefined behaviour of the C compiler
4133 anymore.
Martin v. Löwis820d6ac2006-10-04 05:47:34 +00004134
Georg Brandl3267d282006-09-30 09:03:42 +00004135- Bug #1566800: make sure that EnvironmentError can be called with any
4136 number of arguments, as was the case in Python 2.4.
4137
Georg Brandl5d59c092006-09-30 08:43:30 +00004138- Patch #1567691: super() and new.instancemethod() now don't accept
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004139 keyword arguments any more (previously they accepted them, but
4140 didn't use them).
Georg Brandl5d59c092006-09-30 08:43:30 +00004141
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004142- Fix a bug in the parser's future statement handling that led to
4143 "with" not being recognized as a keyword after, e.g., this
4144 statement: from __future__ import division, with_statement
Georg Brandla10d3af2006-09-24 12:35:36 +00004145
Neal Norwitz3a230172006-09-22 08:18:10 +00004146- Bug #1557232: fix seg fault with def f((((x)))) and def f(((x),)).
4147
Neal Norwitz4a8fbdb2006-09-22 08:16:26 +00004148- Fix %zd string formatting on Mac OS X so it prints negative numbers.
4149
Brett Cannonf6aa86e2006-09-20 18:43:13 +00004150- Allow exception instances to be directly sliced again.
4151
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004152- Bug #1551432: Exceptions do not define an explicit __unicode__
4153 method. This allows calling unicode() on exceptions classes
4154 directly to succeed.
Brett Cannon9adeab72006-09-20 18:34:28 +00004155
Georg Brandl4e933132006-09-06 20:05:58 +00004156- Bug #1542051: Exceptions now correctly call PyObject_GC_UnTrack.
4157 Also make sure that every exception class has __module__ set to
4158 'exceptions'.
4159
Georg Brandl98775df2006-09-06 06:09:31 +00004160- Bug #1550983: emit better error messages for erroneous relative
4161 imports (if not in package and if beyond toplevel package).
4162
Tim Petersc10c9d02006-09-05 02:18:09 +00004163- Overflow checking code in integer division ran afoul of new gcc
4164 optimizations. Changed to be more standard-conforming.
4165
Neal Norwitz4f096d92006-08-21 19:47:08 +00004166- Patch #1542451: disallow continue anywhere under a finally.
4167
Neal Norwitza22975f2006-09-05 02:24:03 +00004168- Patch #1546288: fix seg fault in dict_equal due to ref counting bug.
4169
Neal Norwitzd34e4272006-09-05 02:36:20 +00004170- The return tuple from str.rpartition(sep) is (tail, sep, head) where
4171 head is the original string if sep was not found.
4172
Neal Norwitzdac090d2006-09-05 03:53:08 +00004173- Bug #1520864: unpacking singleton tuples in list comprehensions and
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004174 generator expressions (x for x, in ... ) works again. Fixing this
4175 problem required changing the .pyc magic number. This means that
4176 .pyc files generated before 2.5c2 will be regenerated.
Neal Norwitzdac090d2006-09-05 03:53:08 +00004177
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00004178- ``with`` and ``as`` are now keywords.
Neal Norwitzca460d92006-09-06 06:28:06 +00004179
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004180- Bug #1664966: Fix crash in exec if Unicode filename can't be
4181 decoded.
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00004182
Guido van Rossumcad37242008-01-15 17:59:29 +00004183- Issue #1537: Changed GeneratorExit's base class from Exception to
4184 BaseException.
Christian Heimes44eeaec2007-12-03 20:01:02 +00004185
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004186- Issue #1703448: A joined thread could show up in the
Gregory P. Smith95cd5c02008-01-22 01:20:42 +00004187 threading.enumerate() list after the join() for a brief period until
4188 it actually exited.
4189
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00004190
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00004191Library
4192-------
4193
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004194- Patch #2274: Add heapq.heappushpop().
Raymond Hettinger53bdf092008-03-13 19:03:51 +00004195
Christian Heimes608c1d82008-03-03 18:28:04 +00004196- Add inspect.isabstract(object) to fix bug #2223
4197
Mark Dickinson1ddf1d82008-02-29 02:16:37 +00004198- Add a __format__ method to Decimal, to support PEP 3101.
4199
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004200- Add a timing parameter when using trace.Trace to print out
4201 timestamps.
Neal Norwitzca376612008-02-26 08:21:28 +00004202
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004203- Issue #1627: httplib now ignores negative Content-Length headers.
Georg Brandl8c460d52008-02-24 00:14:24 +00004204
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004205- Issue #900744: If an invalid chunked-encoding header is sent by a
4206 server, httplib will now raise IncompleteRead and close the
4207 connection instead of raising ValueError.
Georg Brandl23635032008-02-24 00:03:22 +00004208
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004209- Issue #1492: The content type of BaseHTTPServer error messages can
4210 now be overridden.
Georg Brandl16479232008-02-23 15:02:28 +00004211
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004212- Issue #1781: ConfigParser now does not let you add the "default" section
Facundo Batistab12f0b52008-02-23 12:46:10 +00004213 (ignore-case)
4214
Guido van Rossum8bc09652008-02-21 18:18:37 +00004215- Removed uses of dict.has_key() from distutils, and uses of
4216 callable() from copy_reg.py, so the interpreter now starts up
4217 without warnings when '-3' is given. More work like this needs to
4218 be done in the rest of the stdlib.
4219
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004220- Issue #1916: added isgenerator() and isgeneratorfunction() to
4221 inspect.py.
Facundo Batista759bfc62008-02-18 03:43:43 +00004222
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004223- Issue #1224: Fixed bad url parsing when path begins with double
4224 slash.
Facundo Batistad14600e2008-02-18 12:48:43 +00004225
Thomas Hellera06a1a82008-02-13 20:21:53 +00004226- ctypes instances that are not or do not contain pointers can now be
4227 pickled.
4228
Martin v. Löwisdad88dc2008-02-12 18:47:34 +00004229- Patch #1966: Break infinite loop in httplib when the servers
4230 implements the chunked encoding incorrectly.
4231
Mark Dickinsond058cd22008-02-10 21:29:51 +00004232- Rename rational.py to fractions.py and the rational.Rational class
4233 to fractions.Fraction, to avoid the name clash with the abstract
4234 base class numbers.Rational. See discussion in issue #1682.
4235
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004236- The pickletools module now provides an optimize() function that
4237 eliminates unused PUT opcodes from a pickle string.
Raymond Hettingerda614dc2008-02-10 20:35:16 +00004238
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004239- Patch #2021: Allow tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile and
4240 SpooledTemporaryFile to be used in with statements by correctly
4241 supporting the context management protocol.
Nick Coghlanac094dc2008-02-10 07:32:52 +00004242
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004243- Patch #1979: Add rich comparisons to Decimal, and make Decimal
4244 comparisons involving a NaN follow the IEEE 754 standard.
Mark Dickinson2fc92632008-02-06 22:10:50 +00004245
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004246- Issue #2004: tarfile.py: Use mode 0700 for temporary directories and
4247 default permissions for missing directories.
Lars Gustäbel0192e432008-02-05 11:51:40 +00004248
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004249- Issue #175006: The debugger used to skip the condition of a "while"
4250 statement after the first iteration. Now it correctly steps on the
4251 expression, and breakpoints on the "while" statement are honored on
4252 each loop.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc6fd03bb2008-02-04 21:45:05 +00004253
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004254- Issue #1765140: add an optional delay argument to FileHandler and
4255 its subclasses. Defaults to false (existing behaviour), but if true,
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +00004256 defers opening the file until the first call to emit().
4257
Raymond Hettingerc226c312008-01-23 00:04:40 +00004258- The pprint module now supports sets and frozensets.
4259
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004260- Issue #1221598: add optional callbacks to ftplib.FTP's storbinary()
4261 and storlines() methods. (Contributed by Phil Schwartz)
Gregory P. Smithc64386b2008-01-22 00:19:41 +00004262
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004263- Issue #1715: include sub-extension modules in pydoc's text output.
Georg Brandlf2dae0e2008-01-21 21:05:49 +00004264
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004265- Issue #1836: fix an off-by-one bug in TimedRotatingHandler's
4266 rollover time calculation.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00004267
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004268- Issue #1021: fix a bug to allow basicConfig to accept NOTSET as a
4269 level.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00004270
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004271- Issue #932563: add LoggerAdapter convenience class to make it easier
4272 to add contextual information in logging output.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00004273
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004274- Issue #1760556: fix a bug to avoid FileHandler throwing an exception
4275 in flush().
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00004276
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004277- Bug #1530959: distutils' build command now uses different build
4278 directory when building extension modules against versions of Python
4279 compiled with ``--with-pydebug``.
Georg Brandl50160152008-01-21 17:42:40 +00004280
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004281- Issue #1555501: move plistlib from plat-mac directory to general
4282 library.
Georg Brandl864de822008-01-21 16:34:07 +00004283
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004284- Issue #1269: fix a bug in pstats.add_callers() and add a unit test
4285 file for pstats.
Georg Brandl66e73632008-01-21 10:24:59 +00004286
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004287- Issue #1669: don't allow shutil.rmtree() to be called on a symlink
4288 to a directory.
Georg Brandl52353982008-01-20 14:17:42 +00004289
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004290- Issue #1664522: in urllib, don't read non-existing directories in
4291 ftp mode, returning a 0-byte file -- raise an IOError instead.
Georg Brandld5e6cf22008-01-20 12:18:17 +00004292
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004293- Issue #856047: respect the ``no_proxy`` environment variable when
4294 using the ``http_proxy`` etc. environment variables in urllib.
Georg Brandl22350112008-01-20 12:05:43 +00004295
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004296- Issue #1178141: add a getcode() method to the addinfourls that
4297 urllib.open() returns so that you can retrieve the HTTP status code.
Georg Brandl9b0d46d2008-01-20 11:43:03 +00004298
Gregory P. Smithf25680a2008-01-20 01:26:04 +00004299- Issue #1003: Fix zipfile decryption check, it would fail zip files
4300 with extended local headers.
4301
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004302- Issue #1189216: Fix the zipfile module to work on archives with
4303 headers past the 2**31 byte boundary.
Gregory P. Smith350d03b2008-01-19 23:10:52 +00004304
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004305- Issue #1336: fix a race condition in subprocess.Popen if the garbage
Gregory P. Smithb9ba0752008-01-19 21:00:37 +00004306 collector kicked in at the wrong time that would cause the process
4307 to hang when the child wrote to stderr.
4308
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004309- Issue #1146: fix how textwrap breaks a long word that would start in
4310 the last column of a line.
Georg Brandlc6fde722008-01-19 19:48:19 +00004311
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004312- Issue #1693149: trace.py --ignore-module - accept multiple
4313 comma-separated modules to be given.
Skip Montanaro562133b2008-01-19 18:47:24 +00004314
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004315- Issue #1822: MIMEMultipart.is_multipart() behaves correctly for a
4316 just-created (and empty) instance. Thanks Jonathan Share.
Facundo Batista2b1b1952008-01-19 12:32:27 +00004317
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004318- Issue #1861: Added an attribute to the sched module which returns an
4319 ordered list of upcoming events (displayed as named tuples).
Raymond Hettinger44bd6c02008-01-17 19:31:38 +00004320
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004321- Issue #1837: The queue module now also supports a LIFO queue and a
4322 priority queue.
Raymond Hettinger3ad2acc82008-01-16 23:49:35 +00004323
Andrew M. Kuchling4a2762d2008-01-20 00:00:38 +00004324- Patch #1048820: Add insert-mode editing to curses.textpad.Textbox
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00004325 (patch by Stefan Wehr). Also, fix an off-by-one bug in
Andrew M. Kuchling4a2762d2008-01-20 00:00:38 +00004326 Textbox.gather().
4327
Thomas Heller02ec2892008-01-16 19:37:33 +00004328- Issue #1831: ctypes now raises a TypeError if conflicting positional
4329 and named arguments are passed to a Structure or Union initializer.
Thomas Heller415c1e32008-01-16 19:45:51 +00004330 When too many positional arguments are passed, also a TypeError is
4331 raised instead of a ValueError.
Thomas Heller02ec2892008-01-16 19:37:33 +00004332
Thomas Heller902d3072008-01-16 19:16:27 +00004333- Convert the internal ctypes array type cache to a WeakValueDict so
4334 that array types do not live longer than needed.
4335
Guido van Rossumcad37242008-01-15 17:59:29 +00004336- Issue #1786: pdb should use its own stdin/stdout around an exec call
4337 and when creating a recursive instance.
4338
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004339- Issue #1698398: ZipFile.printdir() crashed because the format string
4340 expected a tuple type of length six instead of time.struct_time
4341 object.
Raymond Hettinger351e1a32008-01-14 22:58:05 +00004342
Mark Dickinson59bc20b2008-01-12 01:56:00 +00004343- Issue #1780: The Decimal constructor now accepts arbitrary leading
4344 and trailing whitespace when constructing from a string.
4345 Context.create_decimal no longer accepts trailing newlines.
4346
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004347- Decimal.as_tuple(), difflib.find_longest_match() and inspect
4348 functions that returned a tuple now return a named tuple.
Georg Brandl2f32c392008-01-11 09:20:58 +00004349
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00004350- Doctest now returns results as a named tuple for readability:
Raymond Hettingerfff4e6e2008-01-11 01:25:54 +00004351 (0, 7) --> TestResults(failed=0, attempted=7)
4352
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004353- Issue #846388:q re.match is interruptible now, which is particularly
Facundo Batista4473d222008-01-08 21:10:12 +00004354 good for long regular expression matches.
4355
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004356- Patch #1137: allow setting buffer_size attribute on pyexpat Parser
4357 objects to set the character data buffer size.
Andrew M. Kuchlinge0a49b62008-01-08 14:30:55 +00004358
Facundo Batista52b25792008-01-08 12:25:20 +00004359- Issue #1757: The hash of a Decimal instance is no longer affected by
4360 the current context.
4361
Georg Brandl62416bc2008-01-07 18:47:44 +00004362- Patch #467924: add ZipFile.extract() and ZipFile.extractall() in the
4363 zipfile module.
4364
Christian Heimesfb2d25a2008-01-07 16:12:44 +00004365- Issue #1646: Make socket support the TIPC protocol.
4366
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004367- Bug #1742: return os.curdir from os.path.relpath() if both arguments
4368 are equal instead of raising an exception.
Georg Brandl183a0842008-01-06 14:27:15 +00004369
Guido van Rossumc6a04c22008-01-05 22:19:06 +00004370- Patch #1637: fix urlparse for URLs like 'http://x.com?arg=/foo'.
4371
Guido van Rossumced4eb02008-01-05 01:21:57 +00004372- Patch #1698: allow '@' in username parsed by urlparse.py.
4373
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004374- Issue #1735: TarFile.extractall() now correctly sets directory
4375 permissions and times.
Lars Gustäbel2ee1c762008-01-04 14:00:33 +00004376
Christian Heimes06875612008-01-04 13:21:07 +00004377- Bug #1713: posixpath.ismount() claims symlink to a mountpoint is a mountpoint.
4378
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004379- Bug #1687: Fxed plistlib.py restricts <integer> to Python int when
4380 writing
Christian Heimes06131882008-01-04 00:04:52 +00004381
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004382- Issue #1700: Regular expression inline flags incorrectly handle
4383 certain unicode characters.
Guido van Rossumae04c332008-01-03 19:12:44 +00004384
Jeffrey Yasskin2f3c16b2008-01-03 02:21:52 +00004385- Issue #1689: PEP 3141, numeric abstract base classes.
4386
Martin v. Löwis84b9aab2008-01-01 21:09:07 +00004387- Tk issue #1851526: Return results from Python callbacks to Tcl as
4388 Tcl objects.
4389
Thomas Heller153038e2007-12-18 19:00:34 +00004390- Issue #1642: Fix segfault in ctypes when trying to delete attributes.
4391
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004392- Issue #1727780: Support loading pickles of random.Random objects
4393 created on 32-bit systems on 64-bit systems, and vice versa. As a
4394 consequence of the change, Random pickles created by Python 2.6
4395 cannot be loaded in Python 2.5.
Martin v. Löwis6b449f42007-12-03 19:20:02 +00004396
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004397- Issue #1455: The distutils package now supports VS 2005 and VS 2008
4398 for both the msvccompiler and cygwincompiler.
Christian Heimesc654fc22007-12-03 13:55:16 +00004399
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004400- Issue #1531: tarfile.py: Read fileobj from the current offset, do
4401 not seek to the start.
Lars Gustäbel77b2d632007-12-01 21:02:12 +00004402
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004403- Issue #1534: Added a dictionary sys.float_info with information
4404 about the internal floating point type to the sys module.
Christian Heimesdfdfaab2007-12-01 11:20:10 +00004405
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004406- Issue #1429818: patch for trace and doctest modules so they play
4407 nicely together.
Skip Montanaro58a6f442007-11-24 14:30:47 +00004408
Brett Cannon43e53f82007-11-21 00:47:36 +00004409- doctest made a bad assumption that a package's __loader__.get_data()
4410 method used universal newlines.
4411
Nick Coghlan90b858e2007-11-07 11:57:51 +00004412- Issue #1705170: contextlib.contextmanager was still swallowing
4413 StopIteration in some cases. This should no longer happen.
4414
Thomas Heller486b1b02007-11-02 19:10:24 +00004415- Issue #1292: On alpha, arm, ppc, and s390 linux systems the
4416 --with-system-ffi configure option defaults to "yes".
4417
Hye-Shik Changa838a802007-10-28 11:19:02 +00004418- IN module for FreeBSD 8 is added and preexisting FreeBSD 6 and 7
4419 files are updated.
4420
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004421- Issues #1181, #1287: unsetenv() is now called when the
4422 os.environ.pop() and os.environ.clear() methods are used.
Georg Brandl1a94ec22007-10-24 21:40:38 +00004423
Thomas Heller91ac4222007-10-19 18:11:41 +00004424- ctypes will now work correctly on 32-bit systems when Python is
4425 configured with --with-system-ffi.
4426
Thomas Heller7fee6dd2007-10-11 19:51:32 +00004427- Patch #1203: ctypes now does work on OS X when Python is built with
Georg Brandl1a94ec22007-10-24 21:40:38 +00004428 --disable-toolbox-glue.
Thomas Heller7fee6dd2007-10-11 19:51:32 +00004429
Raymond Hettingera7fc4b12007-10-05 02:47:07 +00004430- collections.deque() now supports a "maxlen" argument.
4431
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004432- itertools.count() is no longer bounded to LONG_MAX. Formerly, it
4433 raised an OverflowError. Now, automatically shifts from ints to
4434 longs.
Raymond Hettinger50e90e22007-10-04 00:20:27 +00004435
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004436- Added itertools.product() which forms the Cartesian product of the
4437 input iterables.
Raymond Hettingerc5705a82008-02-22 19:50:06 +00004438
Raymond Hettinger66f91ea2008-03-05 20:59:58 +00004439- Added itertools.combinations() and itertools.permutations().
Raymond Hettinger93e804d2008-02-26 23:40:50 +00004440
Georg Brandlaff85e22007-09-20 16:06:07 +00004441- Patch #1541463: optimize performance of cgi.FieldStorage operations.
4442
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004443- Decimal is fully updated to the latest Decimal Specification
4444 (v1.66).
Facundo Batistab67da232007-09-17 16:26:50 +00004445
Georg Brandl8fd3ecf2007-09-12 19:00:07 +00004446- Bug #1153: repr.repr() now doesn't require set and dictionary items
4447 to be orderable to properly represent them.
4448
Thomas Heller2825b2e2007-09-07 06:32:17 +00004449- A 'c_longdouble' type was added to the ctypes module.
4450
Martin v. Löwis7dcb83c2007-08-30 19:04:09 +00004451- Bug #1709599: Run test_1565150 only if the file system is NTFS.
4452
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004453- When encountering a password-protected robots.txt file the
4454 RobotFileParser no longer prompts interactively for a username and
4455 password (bug 813986).
Skip Montanaro3e275362007-08-29 01:33:45 +00004456
Lars Gustäbel0f4a14b2007-08-28 12:31:09 +00004457- TarFile.__init__() no longer fails if no name argument is passed and
4458 the fileobj argument has no usable name attribute (e.g. StringIO).
4459
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004460- The functools module now provides 'reduce', for forward
4461 compatibility with Python 3000.
Guido van Rossum95f1a1b2007-08-27 20:52:10 +00004462
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004463- Server-side SSL support and cert verification added, by Bill
4464 Janssen.
Guido van Rossum4f2c3dd2007-08-25 15:08:43 +00004465
Bill Janssenf413fb02007-08-30 18:08:06 +00004466- socket.ssl deprecated; use new ssl module instead.
4467
Georg Brandl8ec57542007-08-24 06:10:01 +00004468- uuid creation is now threadsafe.
4469
Hye-Shik Chang23901042007-08-20 06:49:18 +00004470- EUC-KR codec now handles the cheot-ga-keut composed make-up hangul
4471 syllables.
4472
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004473- GB18030 codec now can encode additional two-byte characters that are
4474 missing in GBK.
Hye-Shik Changf3e93a02007-08-04 04:10:18 +00004475
Walter Dörwald6e390802007-08-17 16:41:28 +00004476- Add new codecs for UTF-32, UTF-32-LE and UTF-32-BE.
4477
Martin v. Löwisf1e0b3f2007-07-28 07:03:05 +00004478- Bug #1704793: Return UTF-16 pair if unicodedata.lookup cannot
4479 represent the result in a single character.
4480
Martin v. Löwisf25e35b2007-07-27 18:28:22 +00004481- Bug #978833: Close https sockets by releasing the _ssl object.
4482
Martin v. Löwis254b8f92007-07-25 16:24:23 +00004483- Change location of the package index to pypi.python.org/pypi
4484
Thomas Hellerfa704c62007-07-13 17:12:23 +00004485- Bug #1701409: Fix a segfault in printing ctypes.c_char_p and
4486 ctypes.c_wchar_p when they point to an invalid location. As a
4487 sideeffect the representation of these instances has changed.
4488
Lars Gustäbel104490e2007-06-18 11:42:11 +00004489- tarfile.py: Added "exclude" keyword argument to TarFile.add().
4490
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004491- Bug #1734723: Fix repr.Repr() so it doesn't ignore the maxtuple
4492 attribute.
Neal Norwitzc161cb92007-06-11 07:29:43 +00004493
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004494- The urlopen function of urllib2 now has an optional timeout
4495 parameter (note that it actually works with HTTP, HTTPS, FTP and
4496 FTPS connections).
Facundo Batista10951d52007-06-06 17:15:23 +00004497
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004498- In ftplib, the FTP.ntransfercmd method, when in passive mode, now
4499 uses the socket.create_connection function, using the timeout
4500 specified at connection time.
Facundo Batista92493122007-06-06 15:13:37 +00004501
Hye-Shik Chang9b541402007-06-05 18:58:51 +00004502- Bug #1728403: Fix a bug that CJKCodecs StreamReader hangs when it
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004503 reads a file that ends with incomplete sequence and sizehint
4504 argument for .read() is specified.
Hye-Shik Chang9b541402007-06-05 18:58:51 +00004505
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004506- Bug #1730389: Change time.strptime() to use ``\s+`` instead of
4507 ``\s*`` when matching spaces in the specified format argument.
Brett Cannonf7188ce2007-06-03 23:13:41 +00004508
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004509- Bugs #1668596/#1720897: distutils now copies data files even if
4510 package_dir is empty.
Neal Norwitz4a700bb2007-06-01 07:29:12 +00004511
Brett Cannonc2aa09a2007-05-31 19:20:00 +00004512- sha now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
4513
Brett Cannon7eec2172007-05-30 22:24:28 +00004514- md5 now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
4515
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004516- Issue #1385: The hmac module now computes the correct hmac when
4517 using hashes with a block size other than 64 bytes (such as sha384
4518 and sha512).
Gregory P. Smithe1ac4f12007-11-06 00:19:03 +00004519
Brett Cannonc249bda2007-05-30 21:48:58 +00004520- mimify now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
4521
Brett Cannon90134c92007-05-30 20:46:26 +00004522- MimeWriter now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
4523
Lars Gustäbela0fcb932007-05-27 19:49:30 +00004524- tarfile.py: Improved unicode support. Unicode input names are now
4525 officially supported. Added "errors" argument to the TarFile class.
4526
Facundo Batista711a54e2007-05-24 17:50:54 +00004527- urllib.ftpwrapper class now accepts an optional timeout.
4528
Georg Brandlc90bc752007-05-24 16:49:29 +00004529- shlex.split() now has an optional "posix" parameter.
4530
Brett Cannon41bf2fa2007-05-20 23:57:38 +00004531- The posixfile module now raises a DeprecationWarning.
4532
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004533- Remove the gopherlib module. This also leads to the removal of
4534 gopher support in urllib/urllib2.
Brett Cannond75f0432007-05-16 22:42:29 +00004535
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004536- Fix bug in marshal where bad data would cause a segfault due to lack
4537 of an infinite recursion check.
Neal Norwitzb1a9b372007-05-16 20:05:11 +00004538
Neal Norwitze0e70a42007-05-16 05:06:33 +00004539- Removed plat-freebsd2 and plat-freebsd3 directories (and IN.py in
4540 the directories).
4541
Georg Brandla09a96a2007-05-15 20:19:34 +00004542- HTML-escape the plain traceback in cgitb's HTML output, to prevent
4543 the traceback inadvertently or maliciously closing the comment and
4544 injecting HTML into the error page.
4545
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004546- The popen2 module and os.popen* are deprecated. Use the subprocess
4547 module.
Neal Norwitz42dd86b2007-05-11 06:57:33 +00004548
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004549- Added an optional credentials argument to SMTPHandler, for use with
4550 SMTP servers which require authentication.
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00004551
4552- Patch #1695948: Added optional timeout parameter to SocketHandler.
4553
4554- Bug #1652788: Minor fix for currentframe.
4555
4556- Patch #1598415: Added WatchedFileHandler to better support external
4557 log file rotation using e.g. newsyslog or logrotate. This handler is
4558 only useful in Unix/Linux environments.
4559
Georg Brandlfb4b3b72007-04-24 15:27:13 +00004560- Bug #1706381: Specifying the SWIG option "-c++" in the setup.py file
4561 (as opposed to the command line) will now write file names ending in
4562 ".cpp" too.
4563
Facundo Batistad918a652007-04-24 13:54:38 +00004564- As specified in RFC 2616, an HTTP response like 2xx indicates that
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004565 the client's request was successfully received, understood, and
4566 accepted. Now in these cases no error is raised in urllib (issue
4567 #1177) and urllib2.
Facundo Batistad918a652007-04-24 13:54:38 +00004568
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004569- Bug #1290505: time.strptime's internal cache of locale information
4570 is now properly recreated when the locale is changed.
Brett Cannonc6906652007-04-01 18:47:27 +00004571
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004572- Patch #1685563: remove (don't add) duplicate paths in
4573 distutils.MSVCCompiler.
Neal Norwitz8f35f442007-04-01 18:24:22 +00004574
Facundo Batistab6a5c9d2007-03-29 18:22:35 +00004575- Added a timeout parameter to the constructor of other protocols
4576 (telnetlib, ftplib, smtplib and poplib). This is second part of the
4577 work started with create_connection() and timeout in httplib, and
4578 closes patch #723312.
4579
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00004580- Patch #1676823: Added create_connection() to socket.py, which may be
4581 called with a timeout, and use it from httplib (whose HTTPConnection
Facundo Batista70f996b2007-05-21 17:32:32 +00004582 and HTTPSConnection now accept an optional timeout).
Facundo Batista07c78be2007-03-23 18:54:07 +00004583
Martin v. Löwis0af33882007-03-23 13:27:15 +00004584- Bug #978833: Revert r50844, as it broke _socketobject.dup.
4585
Žiga Seilnacht7492e422007-03-21 20:07:56 +00004586- Bug #1675967: re patterns pickled with Python 2.4 and earlier can
4587 now be unpickled with Python 2.5 and newer.
4588
Collin Wintera8785cc2007-03-19 18:52:08 +00004589- Patch #1630118: add a SpooledTemporaryFile class to tempfile.py.
4590
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004591- Patch #1273829: os.walk() now has a "followlinks" parameter. If set
4592 to True (which is not the default), it visits symlinks pointing to
Georg Brandlcae9f3d2007-03-21 09:10:29 +00004593 directories.
4594
Georg Brandl8f06d022007-03-16 07:55:09 +00004595- Bug #1681228: the webbrowser module now correctly uses the default
4596 GNOME or KDE browser, depending on whether there is a session of one
4597 of those present. Also, it tries the Windows default browser before
4598 trying Mozilla variants.
4599
Collin Winter6f187742007-03-16 22:16:08 +00004600- Patch #1339796: add a relpath() function to os.path.
4601
Georg Brandlab1f4672007-03-15 07:41:30 +00004602- Patch #1681153: the wave module now closes a file object it opened if
4603 initialization failed.
4604
Georg Brandlf66b6032007-03-14 08:27:52 +00004605- Bug #767111: fix long-standing bug in urllib which caused an
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004606 AttributeError instead of an IOError when the server's response
4607 didn't contain a valid HTTP status line.
Georg Brandlf66b6032007-03-14 08:27:52 +00004608
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004609- Patch #957650: "%var%" environment variable references are now
4610 properly expanded in ntpath.expandvars(), also "~user" home
4611 directory references are recognized and handled on Windows.
Georg Brandl03b90d82007-03-13 22:07:36 +00004612
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004613- Patch #1429539: pdb now correctly initializes the __main__ module
4614 for the debugged script, which means that imports from __main__ work
Georg Brandlb6ae6aa2007-03-13 21:58:44 +00004615 correctly now.
4616
Georg Brandlbad6f192007-03-13 21:32:56 +00004617- The nonobvious commands.getstatus() function is now deprecated.
4618
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004619- Patch #1393667: pdb now has a "run" command which restarts the
4620 debugged Python program, optionally with different arguments.
Georg Brandl8e84c652007-03-13 21:08:15 +00004621
Thomas Heller5dc4fe02007-03-13 20:42:52 +00004622- Patch #1649190: Adding support for _Bool to ctypes as c_bool.
4623
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004624- Patch #1530482: add pydoc.render_doc() which returns the
4625 documentation for a thing instead of paging it to stdout, which
4626 pydoc.doc() does.
Georg Brandl8441f152007-03-13 20:02:57 +00004627
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004628- Patch #1533909: the timeit module now accepts callables in addition
4629 to strings for the code to time and the setup code. Also added two
4630 convenience functions for instantiating a Timer and calling its
4631 methods.
Georg Brandld9bef352007-03-13 19:32:21 +00004632
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004633- Patch #1537850: tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile now has a "delete"
4634 parameter which can be set to False to prevent the default
4635 delete-on-close behavior.
Georg Brandl35ef9c12007-03-13 18:31:49 +00004636
Georg Brandl9e6b4702007-03-13 18:15:41 +00004637- Patch #1581073: add a flag to textwrap that prevents the dropping of
4638 whitespace while wrapping.
4639
Georg Brandl92a6bae2007-03-13 17:43:32 +00004640- Patch #1603688: ConfigParser.SafeConfigParser now checks values that
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004641 are set for invalid interpolation sequences that would lead to
4642 errors on reading back those values.
Georg Brandl92a6bae2007-03-13 17:43:32 +00004643
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004644- Added support for the POSIX.1-2001 (pax) format to
4645 tarfile.py. Extended and cleaned up the test suite. Added a new
4646 testtar.tar.
Lars Gustäbelc64e4022007-03-13 10:47:19 +00004647
Martin v. Löwisbdd0f392007-03-13 10:24:00 +00004648- Patch #1449244: Support Unicode strings in
4649 email.message.Message.{set_charset,get_content_charset}.
4650
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004651- Patch #1542681: add entries for "with", "as" and "CONTEXTMANAGERS"
4652 to pydoc's help keywords.
Georg Brandlb6a87542007-03-13 10:06:48 +00004653
Georg Brandl4ffc8f52007-03-13 09:41:31 +00004654- Patch #1555098: use str.join() instead of repeated string
4655 concatenation in robotparser.
4656
Georg Brandl94fe3f52007-03-13 09:32:11 +00004657- Patch #1635454: the csv.DictWriter class now includes the offending
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004658 field names in its exception message if you try to write a record
4659 with a dictionary containing fields not in the CSV field names list.
Georg Brandl94fe3f52007-03-13 09:32:11 +00004660
Georg Brandlceede5c2007-03-13 08:14:27 +00004661- Patch #1668100: urllib2 now correctly raises URLError instead of
4662 OSError if accessing a local file via the file:// protocol fails.
4663
Martin v. Löwis2681beb2007-03-12 11:01:10 +00004664- Patch #1677862: Require a space or tab after import in .pth files.
4665
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004666- Patch #1192590: Fix pdb's "ignore" and "condition" commands so they
4667 trap the IndexError caused by passing in an invalid breakpoint
4668 number.
Collin Winter2faa9e12007-03-11 16:00:20 +00004669
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004670- Patch #1599845: Add an option to disable the implicit calls to
4671 server_bind() and server_activate() in the constructors for
4672 TCPServer, SimpleXMLRPCServer and DocXMLRPCServer.
Collin Winterae041062007-03-10 14:41:48 +00004673
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004674- Bug #1531963: Make SocketServer.TCPServer's server_address always be
4675 equal to calling getsockname() on the server's socket. Fixed by
Collin Winterfaaa2042007-03-10 03:35:34 +00004676 patch #1545011.
Collin Winter22c42ba2007-03-10 02:51:26 +00004677
Andrew M. Kuchlinge45a77a2008-01-19 16:26:13 +00004678- Patch #742598: Add .timeout attribute to SocketServer that calls
4679 .handle_timeout() when no requests are received.
4680
Thomas Heller2456a3c2007-03-09 20:39:22 +00004681- Bug #1651235: When a tuple was passed to a ctypes function call,
4682 Python would crash instead of raising an error.
4683
Thomas Hellerc2f77252007-03-09 19:21:28 +00004684- Bug #1646630: ctypes.string_at(buf, 0) and ctypes.wstring_at(buf, 0)
4685 returned string up to the first NUL character.
4686
Martin v. Löwis1190a382007-03-09 15:35:55 +00004687- Patch #957003: Implement smtplib.LMTP.
4688
Collin Winterfb728de2007-03-09 03:26:32 +00004689- Patch #1481079: add support for HTTP_REFERER to CGIHTTPServer.
4690
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004691- Patch #1675424: Added tests for uncovered code in the zipfile
4692 module. The KeyError raised by Zipfile.getinfo for nonexistent
4693 names now has a descriptive message.
Georg Brandl4b3ab6f2007-07-12 09:59:22 +00004694
Martin v. Löwis05c075d2007-03-07 11:04:33 +00004695- Bug #1115886: os.path.splitext('.cshrc') gives now ('.cshrc', '').
4696
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004697- unittest now verifies more of its assumptions. In particular,
4698 TestCase and TestSuite subclasses (not instances) are no longer
4699 accepted in TestSuite.addTest(). This should cause no
4700 incompatibility since it never made sense with ordinary subclasses
4701 -- the failure just occurred later, with a more cumbersome
4702 exception.
Georg Brandl9caadf82007-03-08 18:37:31 +00004703
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004704- Patch #787789: allow to pass custom TestRunner instances to
4705 unittest's main() function.
Georg Brandld0a96252007-03-07 09:21:06 +00004706
Georg Brandl15c5ce92007-03-07 09:09:40 +00004707- Patches #1550273, #1550272: fix a few bugs in unittest and add a
4708 comprehensive test suite for the module.
4709
Georg Brandl71ff6462007-03-07 08:31:51 +00004710- Patch #1001604: glob.glob() now returns unicode filenames if it was
4711 given a unicode argument and os.listdir() returns unicode filenames.
4712
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004713- Patch #1673619: setup.py identifies extension modules it doesn't
4714 know how to build and those it knows how to build but that fail to
4715 build.
Skip Montanarod1287322007-03-06 15:41:38 +00004716
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00004717- Patch #912410: Replace HTML entity references for attribute values
Martin v. Löwisab8a6bb2007-03-06 14:43:00 +00004718 in HTMLParser.
4719
Georg Brandlff432e62007-03-06 13:37:45 +00004720- Patch #1663234: you can now run doctest on test files and modules
4721 using "python -m doctest [-v] filename ...".
4722
Martin v. Löwis3eb76482007-03-06 10:41:24 +00004723- Patch #1121142: Implement ZipFile.open.
4724
Skip Montanarof694b1b2007-03-04 20:54:12 +00004725- Taught setup.py how to locate Berkeley DB on Macs using MacPorts.
4726
Raymond Hettinger00166c52007-02-19 04:08:43 +00004727- Added heapq.merge() for merging sorted input streams.
4728
Raymond Hettingercd3c1082007-10-23 21:23:07 +00004729- Added collections.namedtuple() for assigning field names to tuples.
Raymond Hettingerc37e5e02007-03-01 06:16:43 +00004730
Raymond Hettingerd36862c2007-02-21 05:20:38 +00004731- Added itertools.izip_longest().
4732
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004733- Have the encoding package's search function dynamically import using
4734 absolute import semantics.
Brett Cannon971a0122007-02-15 22:54:39 +00004735
Lars Gustäbel5b1a7852007-02-13 16:09:24 +00004736- Patch #1647484: Renamed GzipFile's filename attribute to name.
4737
Martin v. Löwis84f6de92007-02-13 10:10:39 +00004738- Patch #1517891: Mode 'a' for ZipFile now creates the file if it
4739 doesn't exist.
4740
Martin v. Löwisc6d626e2007-02-13 09:49:38 +00004741- Patch #698833: Support file decryption in zipfile.
4742
Martin v. Löwis07aa3ed2007-02-13 08:34:45 +00004743- Patch #685268: Consider a package's __path__ in imputil.
4744
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004745- Patch #1463026: Support default namespace in XMLGenerator.
Martin v. Löwis2bad58f2007-02-12 12:21:10 +00004746
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004747- Patch #1571379: Make trace's --ignore-dir facility work in the face
4748 of relative directory names.
Skip Montanaro691acf22007-02-11 18:24:37 +00004749
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004750- Bug #1600860: Search for shared python library in LIBDIR, not
4751 lib/python/config, on "linux" and "gnu" systems.
Martin v. Löwis0a203262007-02-09 12:36:48 +00004752
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004753- Patch #1652681: tarfile.py: create nonexistent files in append mode
4754 and allow appending to empty files.
Lars Gustäbel3f8aca12007-02-06 18:38:13 +00004755
Peter Astrand5f9c6ae2007-02-06 15:37:50 +00004756- Bug #1124861: Automatically create pipes if GetStdHandle fails in
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00004757 subprocess.
Peter Astrand5f9c6ae2007-02-06 15:37:50 +00004758
Georg Brandl4ba9e5b2007-01-27 17:59:42 +00004759- Patch #1634778: add missing encoding aliases for iso8859_15 and
4760 iso8859_16.
4761
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004762- Patch #1638243: the compiler package is now able to correctly
4763 compile a with statement; previously, executing code containing a
4764 with statement compiled by the compiler package crashed the
4765 interpreter.
Georg Brandlab496842007-01-27 17:43:02 +00004766
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00004767- Bug #1643943: Fix time.strptime's support for the %U directive.
4768
Lars Gustäbel0713a682007-02-19 09:54:47 +00004769- Patch #1507247: tarfile.py: use current umask for intermediate
4770 directories.
4771
Georg Brandldd7b0522007-01-21 10:35:10 +00004772- Patch #1627441: close sockets properly in urllib2.
4773
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004774- Bug #494589: make ntpath.expandvars behave according to its
4775 docstring.
Sjoerd Mullender33a0a062007-01-16 16:42:38 +00004776
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00004777- Changed platform module API python_version_tuple() to actually
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00004778 return a tuple (it used to return a list).
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00004779
4780- Added new platform module APIs python_branch(), python_revision(),
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00004781 python_implementation() and linux_distribution().
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00004782
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00004783- Added support for IronPython and Jython to the platform module.
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00004784
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004785- The sets module has been deprecated. Use the built-in set/frozenset
4786 types instead.
Brett Cannon093b6702007-01-13 00:29:49 +00004787
Thomas Heller6fd45492007-01-12 20:21:53 +00004788- Bug #1610795: make ctypes.util.find_library work on BSD systems.
4789
Thomas Heller8138c262007-01-11 21:18:56 +00004790- Fixes for 64-bit Windows: In ctypes.wintypes, correct the
4791 definitions of HANDLE, WPARAM, LPARAM data types. Make
4792 parameterless foreign function calls work.
4793
Thomas Hellerfb9d7872007-01-10 20:12:13 +00004794- The version number of the ctypes package changed to "1.1.0".
4795
Vinay Sajipab41c102007-01-09 14:51:36 +00004796- Bug #1627575: logging: Added _open() method to FileHandler which can
4797 be used to reopen files. The FileHandler instance now saves the
4798 encoding (which can be None) in an attribute called "encoding".
4799
Vinay Sajipc9137262007-01-08 18:52:36 +00004800- Bug #411881: logging.handlers: bare except clause removed from
4801 SMTPHandler.emit. Now, only ImportError is trapped.
4802
4803- Bug #411881: logging.handlers: bare except clause removed from
4804 SocketHandler.createSocket. Now, only socket.error is trapped.
4805
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004806- Bug #411881: logging: bare except clause removed from
4807 LogRecord.__init__. Now, only ValueError, TypeError and
4808 AttributeError are trapped.
Vinay Sajipc9137262007-01-08 18:52:36 +00004809
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004810- Patch #1504073: Fix tarfile.open() for mode "r" with a fileobj
4811 argument.
Lars Gustäbela7ba6fc2006-12-27 10:30:46 +00004812
Andrew M. Kuchling71662322006-12-27 03:31:24 +00004813- Patch #1182394 from Shane Holloway: speed up HMAC.hexdigest.
4814
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004815- Patch #1262036: Prevent TarFiles from being added to themselves
4816 under certain conditions.
Lars Gustäbela4b23812006-12-23 17:57:23 +00004817
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004818- Patch #1230446: tarfile.py: fix ExFileObject so that read() and
4819 tell() work correctly together with readline().
Lars Gustäbel6baa5022006-12-23 16:40:13 +00004820
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004821- Patch #1484695: The tarfile module now raises a HeaderError
4822 exception if a buffer given to frombuf() is invalid.
Georg Brandlebbeed72006-12-19 22:06:46 +00004823
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00004824- Bug #1503765: Fix a problem in logging.config with spaces in comma-
4825 separated lists read from logging config files.
4826
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004827- Patch #1604907: Fix problems in logging.handlers caused at logging
4828 shutdown when syslog handlers fail to initialize because of syslogd
4829 problems.
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00004830
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004831- Patch #1608267: fix a race condition in os.makedirs() if the
4832 directory to be created is already there.
Georg Brandlb1307432006-12-09 09:08:29 +00004833
Georg Brandl87fa5592006-12-06 22:21:18 +00004834- Patch #1610437: fix a tarfile bug with long filename headers.
4835
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004836- Patch #1371075: Make ConfigParser accept optional dict type for
4837 ordering, sorting, etc.
Martin v. Löwisa00bcac2006-12-03 12:01:53 +00004838
Thomas Helleref583a42006-11-28 20:21:54 +00004839- Bug #1563807: _ctypes built on AIX fails with ld ffi error.
4840
Thomas Heller25d208b2006-11-24 18:45:39 +00004841- Bug #1598620: A ctypes Structure cannot contain itself.
4842
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004843- Patch #1070046: Marshal new-style objects like InstanceType in
4844 xmlrpclib.
Martin v. Löwis07529352006-11-19 18:51:54 +00004845
Martin v. Löwiscffcc8b2006-11-19 10:41:41 +00004846- cStringIO.truncate(-1) now raises an IOError, like StringIO and
4847 regular files.
4848
Martin v. Löwisbba003e2006-11-18 18:42:11 +00004849- Patch #1472877: Fix Tix subwidget name resolution.
4850
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004851- Patch #1594554: Always close a tkSimpleDialog on ok(), even if an
4852 exception occurs.
Martin v. Löwisef5fd3e2006-11-18 18:05:35 +00004853
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004854- Patch #1538878: Don't make tkSimpleDialog dialogs transient if the
4855 parent window is withdrawn.
Martin v. Löwisc73a4a42006-11-18 18:00:23 +00004856
Georg Brandl54082112006-11-16 16:50:59 +00004857- Bug #1597824: return the registered function from atexit.register()
4858 to facilitate usage as a decorator.
4859
Martin v. Löwis45cd4ff2006-11-12 18:56:03 +00004860- Patch #1360200: Use unmangled_version RPM spec field to deal with
4861 file name mangling.
4862
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004863- Patch #1359217: Process 2xx response in an ftplib transfer that
4864 precedes an 1xx response.
Martin v. Löwis36cbc082006-11-12 18:48:13 +00004865
Martin v. Löwis065f0c82006-11-12 10:41:39 +00004866- Patch #1355023: support whence argument for GzipFile.seek.
4867
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00004868- Patch #1065257: Support passing open files as body in
Martin v. Löwis040a9272006-11-12 10:32:47 +00004869 HTTPConnection.request().
4870
Andrew M. Kuchlinga3e5d372006-11-09 13:27:07 +00004871- Bug #1569790: mailbox.py: Maildir.get_folder() and MH.get_folder()
4872 weren't passing the message factory on to newly created Maildir/MH
4873 objects.
4874
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004875- Patch #1514543: mailbox.py: In the Maildir class, report errors if
4876 there's a filename clash instead of possibly losing a message.
4877 (Patch by David Watson.)
Andrew M. Kuchling978d8282006-11-09 21:16:46 +00004878
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004879- Patch #1514544: Try to ensure that messages/indexes have been
4880 physically written to disk after calling .flush() or
4881 .close(). (Patch by David Watson.)
Andrew M. Kuchlingb5686da2006-11-09 13:51:14 +00004882
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00004883- Patch #1592250: Add elide argument to Tkinter.Text.search.
Martin v. Löwis038cad72006-11-09 11:27:32 +00004884
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00004885- Patch #838546: Make terminal become controlling in pty.fork().
Martin v. Löwisb2bba732006-11-09 11:06:03 +00004886
Martin v. Löwis5361e9a2006-11-08 07:35:55 +00004887- Patch #1351744: Add askyesnocancel helper for tkMessageBox.
4888
Martin v. Löwis5310e502006-11-04 18:14:06 +00004889- Patch #1060577: Extract list of RPM files from spec file in
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00004890 bdist_rpm.
Martin v. Löwis5310e502006-11-04 18:14:06 +00004891
Georg Brandl2c9838e2006-10-29 14:39:09 +00004892- Bug #1586613: fix zlib and bz2 codecs' incremental en/decoders.
4893
Georg Brandl3354f282006-10-29 09:16:12 +00004894- Patch #1583880: fix tarfile's problems with long names and posix/
4895 GNU modes.
4896
Georg Brandl5addf702006-10-29 08:53:06 +00004897- Bug #1586448: the compiler module now emits the same bytecode for
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00004898 list comprehensions as the built-in compiler, using the LIST_APPEND
Georg Brandl5addf702006-10-29 08:53:06 +00004899 opcode.
4900
Georg Brandl8f99f812006-10-29 08:39:22 +00004901- Fix codecs.EncodedFile which did not use file_encoding in 2.5.0, and
4902 fix all codecs file wrappers to work correctly with the "with"
4903 statement (bug #1586513).
4904
Thomas Heller112d1a62006-10-27 19:05:53 +00004905- Lib/modulefinder.py now handles absolute and relative imports
4906 correctly.
4907
Martin v. Löwisee82c0e2006-10-27 07:13:28 +00004908- Patch #1567274: Support SMTP over TLS.
4909
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004910- Patch #1560695: Add .note.GNU-stack to ctypes' sysv.S so that ctypes
4911 isn't considered as requiring executable stacks.
Martin v. Löwis1b2f6272006-10-22 10:55:15 +00004912
Thomas Hellerd2ea4a22006-10-17 19:30:48 +00004913- ctypes callback functions only support 'fundamental' data types as
4914 result type. Raise an error when something else is used. This is a
4915 partial fix for Bug #1574584.
4916
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004917- Fix turtle so that time.sleep is imported for the entire library.
4918 Allows the demo2 function to be executed on its own instead of only
4919 when the module is run as a script.
Brett Cannond80e0c82006-10-16 03:09:52 +00004920
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004921- Bug #813342: Start the IDLE subprocess with -Qnew if the parent is
4922 started with that option.
Georg Brandld0761532006-10-12 07:57:21 +00004923
Martin v. Löwisf43893a2006-10-09 20:44:25 +00004924- Bug #1565150: Fix subsecond processing for os.utime on Windows.
4925
Martin v. Löwis8b274262006-10-04 15:25:28 +00004926- Support for MSVC 8 was added to bdist_wininst.
4927
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004928- Bug #1446043: correctly raise a LookupError if an encoding name
4929 given to encodings.search_function() contains a dot.
Georg Brandla92979a2006-09-30 11:22:28 +00004930
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004931- Bug #1560617: in pyclbr, return full module name not only for
4932 classes, but also for functions.
Georg Brandl154324a2006-09-30 11:06:47 +00004933
Georg Brandl05b3c452006-09-30 10:58:01 +00004934- Bug #1457823: cgi.(Sv)FormContentDict's constructor now takes
4935 keep_blank_values and strict_parsing keyword arguments.
4936
Georg Brandl8d1e5bf2006-09-30 09:13:21 +00004937- Bug #1566602: correct failure of posixpath unittest when $HOME ends
4938 with a slash.
4939
Georg Brandl8c667452006-09-30 07:31:57 +00004940- Bug #1565661: in webbrowser, split() the command for the default
4941 GNOME browser in case it is a command with args.
4942
Georg Brandl5a85d5c2009-06-24 06:41:19 +00004943- Made the error message for time.strptime when the data and
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004944 format do match be more clear.
Brett Cannon11b35352006-09-26 23:38:24 +00004945
Georg Brandlc7986ce2006-09-24 12:50:24 +00004946- Fix a bug in traceback.format_exception_only() that led to an error
4947 being raised when print_exc() was called without an exception set.
4948 In version 2.4, this printed "None", restored that behavior.
4949
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004950- Make webbrowser.BackgroundBrowser usable in Windows (it wasn't
4951 because the close_fds arg to subprocess.Popen is not supported).
Georg Brandl2c94bf72006-09-24 10:36:01 +00004952
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004953- Reverted patch #1504333 to sgmllib because it introduced an infinite
4954 loop.
Neal Norwitzbcc119a2006-09-11 04:24:09 +00004955
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004956- Patch #1553314: Fix the inspect.py slowdown that was hurting IPython
4957 & SAGE by adding smarter caching in inspect.getmodule()
Nick Coghlanb3c18f82006-09-08 10:04:38 +00004958
Georg Brandl4e933132006-09-06 20:05:58 +00004959- Fix missing import of the types module in logging.config.
4960
Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +00004961- Patch #1550886: Fix decimal module context management implementation
Neal Norwitza22975f2006-09-05 02:24:03 +00004962 to match the localcontext() example from PEP 343.
Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +00004963
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004964- Bug #1545341: The 'classifier' keyword argument to the Distutils
4965 setup() function now accepts tuples as well as lists.
Andrew M. Kuchling99994792006-10-09 17:10:12 +00004966
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004967- Bug #1541863: uuid.uuid1 failed to generate unique identifiers on
4968 systems with low clock resolution.
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00004969
Gustavo Niemeyerc36bede2006-09-07 00:48:33 +00004970- Bug #1531862: Do not close standard file descriptors in subprocess.
4971
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004972- idle: Honor the "Cancel" action in the save dialog (Debian bug
4973 #299092).
Matthias Klosea398e2d2007-01-11 11:44:04 +00004974
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004975- Fix utf-8-sig incremental decoder, which didn't recognise a BOM when
4976 the first chunk fed to the decoder started with a BOM, but was
4977 longer than 3 bytes.
Georg Brandl27562782006-10-27 20:39:43 +00004978
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004979- The implementation of UnicodeError objects has been simplified
4980 (start and end attributes are now stored directly as Py_ssize_t
4981 members).
Walter Dörwald84a3efe2007-06-13 16:57:12 +00004982
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004983- Issue #829951: In the smtplib module, SMTP.starttls() now complies
4984 with RFC 3207 and forgets any knowledge obtained from the server not
4985 obtained from the TLS negotiation itself. Patch contributed by Bill
4986 Fenner.
Gregory P. Smith2b3ba582008-01-17 08:03:17 +00004987
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004988- Issue #1339: The smtplib.SMTP class has been refactored a bit such
Gregory P. Smithbde4ae42008-01-17 08:35:49 +00004989 that the SMTP.starttls() caller no longer needs to call ehlo()
4990 beforehand. SMTP.starttls() now raises an exception of the server
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004991 does not claim to support starttls. Adds the
4992 SMTP.ehlo_or_helo_if_needed() method. Patch contributed by Bill
4993 Fenner.
Gregory P. Smithbde4ae42008-01-17 08:35:49 +00004994
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004995- Patch #1089358: Add signal.siginterrupt, a wrapper around
4996 siginterrupt(3).
Georg Brandl29604a12008-01-26 14:03:47 +00004997
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00004998Extension Modules
4999-----------------
5000
Georg Brandl392c6fc2008-05-25 07:25:25 +00005001- Patch #1657: added select.epoll and select.kqueue.
Christian Heimes0e9ab5f2008-03-21 23:49:44 +00005002
Georg Brandlebcfd112008-02-23 23:04:35 +00005003- Patch #1506171: added operator.methodcaller().
5004
Georg Brandle2065c62008-02-23 23:02:23 +00005005- Patch #1826: operator.attrgetter() now supports dotted attribute paths.
5006
Georg Brandl392c6fc2008-05-25 07:25:25 +00005007- Patch #1957: syslogmodule: Release GIL when calling syslog(3).
Christian Heimesf0476e82008-02-23 17:42:31 +00005008
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005009- Bug #2112: mmap.error is now a subclass of EnvironmentError and not
5010 a direct EnvironmentError.
Facundo Batistae1396882008-02-17 18:59:29 +00005011
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005012- Bug #2111: mmap segfaults when trying to write a block opened with
5013 PROT_READ.
Christian Heimes7adfad82008-02-15 08:20:11 +00005014
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005015- Bug #2063: correct order of utime and stime in os.times() result on
5016 Windows.
Georg Brandl0a40ffb2008-02-13 07:20:22 +00005017
Martin v. Löwise0d30ef2008-02-12 13:47:26 +00005018- Patch #1736: Fix file name handling of _msi.FCICreate.
5019
Hye-Shik Chang01612e72008-02-08 17:10:20 +00005020- Updated ``big5hkscs`` codec to the HKSCS revision of 2004.
5021
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005022- Issue #1940: make it possible to use curses.filter() before
5023 curses.initscr() as the documentation says.
Georg Brandl29604a12008-01-26 14:03:47 +00005024
Christian Heimes7f39c9f2008-01-25 12:18:43 +00005025- Backport of _fileio module from Python 3.0.
5026
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005027- Patch #1087741: mmap.mmap is now a class, not a factory function. It
5028 is also subclassable now.
Georg Brandl5ca3fd82008-01-21 14:18:14 +00005029
Georg Brandl56112892008-01-20 13:59:46 +00005030- Patch #1648: added ``sys.getprofile()`` and ``sys.gettrace()``.
5031
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005032- Patch #1663329: added ``os.closerange()`` function to quickly close
5033 a range of file descriptors without considering errors.
Georg Brandl309501a2008-01-19 20:22:13 +00005034
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005035- Patch #976880: ``mmap`` objects now have an ``rfind`` method that
Andrew M. Kuchling5c60bfc2008-01-19 18:18:41 +00005036 works as expected. ``mmap.find`` also takes an optional ``end``
5037 parameter.
5038
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005039- _winreg's HKEY object has gained __enter__ and __exit__ methods to
5040 support the context manager protocol. The _winreg module also
5041 gained a new function ``ExpandEnvironmentStrings`` to expand
5042 REG_EXPAND_SZ keys.
Christian Heimesb39a7562008-01-08 15:46:10 +00005043
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005044- itertools.starmap() now accepts any iterable input. Previously, it
5045 required the function inputs to be tuples.
Raymond Hettinger47317092008-01-17 03:02:14 +00005046
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005047- itertools.chain() now has an alternate constructor,
5048 chain.from_iterable().
Raymond Hettingerb4cbc982008-02-28 22:46:41 +00005049
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005050- Issue #1646: Make socket support TIPC. The socket module now has
5051 support for TIPC under Linux, see http://tipc.sf.net/ for more
5052 information.
Christian Heimesfb2d25a2008-01-07 16:12:44 +00005053
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005054- Added interface for Windows' WSAIoctl to socket object and added an
5055 example for a simple network sniffer.
Christian Heimes04ae9162008-01-04 15:23:30 +00005056
Guido van Rossum076d9ee2008-01-03 23:54:04 +00005057- Bug #1301: Bad assert in _tkinter fixed.
5058
Christian Heimescdaa2cb2007-12-31 14:47:07 +00005059- Added bdist_wininst executable for VS 2008.
5060
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005061- Bug #1604: collections.deque.__init__(iterable) now clears any prior
5062 contents before adding elements from the iterable. This fix brings
5063 the behavior into line with that for list.__init__().
Raymond Hettingeradf9ffd2007-12-13 00:08:37 +00005064
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005065- Added wide char functions to msvcrt module: getwch, getwche, putwch
5066 and ungetwch. The functions accept or return unicode.
Christian Heimes7c7f6af2007-12-10 15:12:41 +00005067
Martin v. Löwis69233e82007-12-04 08:39:16 +00005068- os.access now returns True on Windows for any existing directory.
5069
Christian Heimes28104c52007-11-27 23:16:44 +00005070- Added warnpy3k function to the warnings module.
5071
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005072- Marshal.dumps() now expects exact type matches for int, long, float,
5073 complex, tuple, list, dict, set, and frozenset. Formerly, it would
5074 silently miscode subclasses of those types. Now, it raises a
5075 ValueError instead.
Raymond Hettinger12e94202007-11-07 01:13:09 +00005076
Martin v. Löwis58bd49f2007-09-04 13:13:14 +00005077- Patch #1388440: Add set_completion_display_matches_hook and
5078 get_completion_type to readline.
5079
Thomas Helleref4fff32007-07-13 17:46:54 +00005080- Bug #1649098: Avoid declaration of zero-sized array declaration in
5081 structure.
5082
Brett Cannondc48b742007-05-20 07:09:50 +00005083- Removed the rgbimg module; been deprecated since Python 2.5.
5084
Neal Norwitz59f58aa2007-05-19 03:48:47 +00005085- Bug #1721309: prevent bsddb module from freeing random memory.
5086
Gregory P. Smith82eafe62007-10-18 17:17:57 +00005087- Bug #1233: fix bsddb.dbshelve.DBShelf append method to work as
5088 intended for RECNO databases.
5089
Gregory P. Smithec10a4a2007-11-05 02:32:26 +00005090- pybsddb.sf.net Bug #477182: Load the database flags at database open
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005091 time so that opening a database previously created with the DB_DUP
5092 or DB_DUPSORT flag set will keep the proper behavior on subsequent
5093 opens. Specifically: dictionary assignment to a DB object will
5094 replace all values for a given key when the database allows
5095 duplicate values. DB users should use DB.put(k, v) when they want
5096 to store duplicates; not DB[k] = v.
Gregory P. Smithec10a4a2007-11-05 02:32:26 +00005097
Gregory P. Smithac11e022007-11-05 02:56:31 +00005098- Add the bsddb.db.DBEnv.lock_id_free method.
5099
Martin v. Löwis3bf573f2007-04-04 18:30:36 +00005100- Bug #1686475: Support stat'ing open files on Windows again.
5101
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005102- Patch #1185447: binascii.b2a_qp() now correctly quotes binary
5103 characters with ASCII value less than 32. Also, it correctly quotes
5104 dots only if they occur on a single line, as opposed to the previous
5105 behavior of quoting dots if they are the second character of any
5106 line.
Georg Brandl4aef7272007-03-13 22:49:43 +00005107
Georg Brandla47337f2007-03-13 12:34:25 +00005108- Bug #1622896: fix a rare corner case where the bz2 module raised an
5109 error in spite of a succesful compression.
5110
Georg Brandl40c62612007-03-06 18:59:11 +00005111- Patch #1654417: make operator.{get,set,del}slice use the full range
5112 of Py_ssize_t.
5113
Guido van Rossum2054ee92007-03-06 15:50:01 +00005114- Patch #1646728: datetime.fromtimestamp fails with negative
5115 fractional times. With unittest.
5116
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005117- Patch #1490190: posixmodule now includes os.chflags() and
5118 os.lchflags() functions on platforms where the underlying system
5119 calls are available.
Martin v. Löwis382abef2007-02-19 10:55:19 +00005120
Georg Brandl983d1002007-02-15 11:29:04 +00005121- Patch #1494140: Add documentation for the new struct.Struct object.
5122
Martin v. Löwis45423a72007-02-14 10:07:37 +00005123- Patch #1432399: Support the HCI protocol for bluetooth sockets
5124
Martin v. Löwisb1cc1d42007-02-13 12:14:19 +00005125- Patch #1657276: Make NETLINK_DNRTMSG conditional.
5126
Martin v. Löwis4c11a922007-02-08 09:13:36 +00005127- Bug #1653736: Complain about keyword arguments to time.isoformat.
5128
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005129- Bug #1486663: don't reject keyword arguments for subclasses of
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00005130 built-in types.
Georg Brandlb84c1372007-01-21 10:28:43 +00005131
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005132- Patch #1610575: The struct module now supports the 't' code, for C99
5133 _Bool.
Martin v. Löwisaef4c6b2007-01-21 09:33:07 +00005134
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005135- Patch #1635058: ensure that htonl and friends never accept or return
5136 negative numbers, per the underlying C implementation.
Guido van Rossumbb2cc692007-01-14 17:03:32 +00005137
Martin v. Löwis046c4d12006-12-03 11:23:45 +00005138- Patch #1544279: Improve thread-safety of the socket module by moving
5139 the sock_addr_t storage out of the socket object.
5140
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005141- Patch #1019808: fix bug that causes an incorrect error to be
5142 returned when a socket timeout is set and a connection attempt
5143 fails.
Andrew M. Kuchling060e6852008-01-19 20:47:59 +00005144
Neal Norwitz45e230a2006-11-19 21:26:53 +00005145- Speed up function calls into the math module.
5146
Georg Brandl25aabf42006-11-16 17:08:45 +00005147- Bug #1588217: don't parse "= " as a soft line break in binascii's
5148 a2b_qp() function, instead leave it in the string as quopri.decode()
5149 does.
5150
Neal Norwitz4fe44232006-11-21 05:26:22 +00005151- Bug #1599782: Fix segfault on bsddb.db.DB().type().
5152
Martin v. Löwis012bc722006-10-15 09:43:39 +00005153- Bug #1567666: Emulate GetFileAttributesExA for Win95.
5154
Martin v. Löwis18aaa562006-10-15 08:43:33 +00005155- Patch #1576166: Support os.utime for directories on Windows NT+.
5156
Georg Brandl412a9ea2006-10-09 19:03:06 +00005157- Patch #1572724: fix typo ('=' instead of '==') in _msi.c.
5158
Hye-Shik Changb7883462006-10-08 13:48:34 +00005159- Bug #1572832: fix a bug in ISO-2022 codecs which may cause segfault
5160 when encoding non-BMP unicode characters.
5161
Georg Brandl4ddfcd32006-09-30 11:17:34 +00005162- Bug #1556784: allow format strings longer than 127 characters in
5163 datetime's strftime function.
5164
Jack Diederichd10a0f72006-09-21 20:34:49 +00005165- Fix itertools.count(n) to work with negative numbers again.
5166
Martin v. Löwis43fd99c2006-09-16 17:36:37 +00005167- RLIMIT_SBSIZE was added to the resource module where available.
5168
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005169- Bug #1551427: fix a wrong NULL pointer check in the win32 version of
5170 os.urandom().
Georg Brandl74bb7832006-09-06 06:03:59 +00005171
Neal Norwitz6aefa912006-09-02 02:50:35 +00005172- Bug #1548092: fix curses.tparm seg fault on invalid input.
5173
Andrew M. Kuchling62182c82008-01-08 14:56:02 +00005174- Patch #1114: fix curses module compilation on 64-bit AIX, & possibly
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005175 other 64-bit LP64 platforms where attr_t is not the same size as a
5176 long. (Contributed by Luke Mewburn.)
Andrew M. Kuchling62182c82008-01-08 14:56:02 +00005177
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005178- Bug #1550714: fix SystemError from itertools.tee on negative value
5179 for n.
Neal Norwitz69e88972006-09-02 02:58:13 +00005180
Hye-Shik Chang199f1db2006-09-05 12:07:09 +00005181- Fixed a few bugs on cjkcodecs:
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005182 - gbk and gb18030 codec now handle U+30FB KATAKANA MIDDLE DOT
5183 correctly.
Hye-Shik Chang199f1db2006-09-05 12:07:09 +00005184 - iso2022_jp_2 codec now encodes into G0 for KS X 1001, GB2312
5185 codepoints to conform the standard.
Hye-Shik Chang2cad3e92006-09-05 12:14:57 +00005186 - iso2022_jp_3 and iso2022_jp_2004 codec can encode JIS X 0213:2
Hye-Shik Chang199f1db2006-09-05 12:07:09 +00005187 codepoints now.
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00005188
Andrew M. Kuchling43889c02006-09-27 16:37:30 +00005189- Bug #1552726: in readline.c, avoid repeatedly polling in interactive
5190 mode by only placing a timeout on the select() if an input hook has
5191 been defined. This prevents an interactive Python from waking up 10
5192 times per second. Patch by Richard Boulton.
5193
Gregory P. Smithf09c6262007-03-17 22:33:35 +00005194- fixed a bug with bsddb.DB.stat: the flags and txn keyword arguments
5195 were transposed.
5196
Jesus Cea4907d272008-08-31 14:00:51 +00005197- Added support for linking the bsddb module against BerkeleyDB 4.5.x,
5198 4.6.x and 4.7.x.
Gregory P. Smith8b96a352007-01-05 01:59:42 +00005199
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005200- Bug #1633621: if curses.resizeterm() or curses.resize_term() is
5201 called, update _curses.LINES, _curses.COLS, curses.LINES and
5202 curses.COLS.
Andrew M. Kuchling43889c02006-09-27 16:37:30 +00005203
Matthias Klosee19e0c22007-04-03 04:35:59 +00005204- Fix an off-by-one bug in locale.strxfrm().
5205
Matthias Klose38336402007-09-04 20:46:02 +00005206- Fix libffi configure for hppa*-*-linux* | parisc*-*-linux*.
5207
Matthias Klose9afb9852007-10-24 20:00:44 +00005208- Build using system ffi library on arm*-linux*.
5209
Christian Heimes3f065a42007-11-21 01:17:28 +00005210- Bug #1372: zlibmodule.c: int overflow in PyZlib_decompress
Matthias Klosee19e0c22007-04-03 04:35:59 +00005211
Gregory P. Smitheeed5b72008-02-03 07:20:53 +00005212- bsddb module: Fix memory leak when using database cursors on
5213 databases without a DBEnv.
5214
Gerhard Häring11ab8072008-03-02 13:12:27 +00005215- The sqlite3 module was updated to pysqlite 2.4.1.
5216
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00005217Tests
5218-----
5219
Brett Cannon56c4deb2008-03-03 00:38:58 +00005220- Refactor test_logging to use unittest.
Brett Cannonf9db8a32008-02-17 01:59:18 +00005221
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005222- Refactor test_profile and test_cprofile to use the same code to
5223 profile.
Georg Brandlb7090772008-02-05 19:58:17 +00005224
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005225- Make test_runpy reentrant by fixing _check_module to clear out any
5226 module being tested. Was causing an error by __import__ doing a
5227 reload on the second run and thus suppressing bytecode recreation.
Brett Cannondbed7a72007-08-23 14:53:17 +00005228
Brett Cannonea2835a2007-03-14 21:44:15 +00005229- Capture socket connection resets and timeouts in test_socket_ssl and
5230 test_urllib2net and raise test.test_support.ResourceDenied.
Brett Cannoned001842007-03-14 21:40:13 +00005231
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005232- Patch #1559413: Fix test_cmd_line if sys.executable contains a
5233 space.
Martin v. Löwiscd1210a2007-03-14 20:02:31 +00005234
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005235- Added test.test_support.TransientResource which is a context manager
5236 to surround calls to resources that are not guaranteed to work even
5237 if test.test_support.requires says that the resource should exist.
Brett Cannona30fcb42007-03-08 23:58:11 +00005238
Brett Cannone05e6b02007-01-29 04:41:44 +00005239- Added a test for slicing of an exception.
5240
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005241- Added test.test_support.EnvironmentVarGuard. It's a class that
5242 provides a context manager so that one can temporarily set or unset
5243 environment variables.
Brett Cannon92d54d52007-01-04 00:23:49 +00005244
Thomas Heller112d1a62006-10-27 19:05:53 +00005245- Added some tests for modulefinder.
5246
Brett Cannon373d90b2006-10-03 23:23:14 +00005247- Converted test_imp to use unittest.
5248
Neal Norwitz919d5cc2006-09-05 02:35:08 +00005249- Fix bsddb test_basics.test06_Transactions to check the version
5250 number properly.
5251
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005252- test.test_support.catch_warning is a new context manager that can be
5253 used to catch the warnings issued by the warning framework.
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00005254
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00005255Tools
5256-----
5257
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005258- Tools/scripts/reindent.py now creates the backup file using
5259 shutil.copy to preserve user/group and permissions. Added also a
5260 --nobackup option to not create the backup if the user is concerned
5261 regarding this. Check issue 1050828 for more details.
Facundo Batistaf88a0772008-02-17 16:21:13 +00005262
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005263- Tools/scripts/win_add2path.py was added. The simple script modifes
5264 the PATH environment var of the HKCU tree and adds the python bin
5265 and script directory.
Christian Heimesbd865db2008-01-18 11:58:50 +00005266
Skip Montanaro3e275362007-08-29 01:33:45 +00005267- Tools/18n/pygettext.py was added to the list of scripts installed by
5268 Tools/scripts/setup.py (tracker item 642309).
5269
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005270- Added IronPython and Jython support to pybench (part of which was
5271 patch #1563844).
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00005272
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005273- Made some minor changes to pybench output to allow the user to see
5274 which Python version is running pybench.
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00005275
5276- Added support for the new platform module feature
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005277 platform.python_implementation(); this will now be saved in the
5278 benchmark pickle.
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00005279
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00005280
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00005281Documentation
5282-------------
5283
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +00005284- RFE #1765140: Updated documentation on FileHandler and subclasses to
5285 include new optional delay argument.
5286
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005287- Bug #932563: Added section on getting contextual information into
5288 logging output, and added documentation for the new LoggerAdapter
5289 class.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00005290
5291- Bug #1295: Added information about caching of formatted exception
5292 information in the LogRecord by Formatter.format().
5293
Georg Brandl9467bc52007-07-12 09:37:49 +00005294- Bug #1637365: add subsection about "__name__ == __main__" to the
5295 Python tutorial.
5296
Georg Brandl3dc6e902007-04-25 06:24:59 +00005297- Patch #1698768: updated the "using Python on the Mac" intro.
5298
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005299- Bug #1569057: Document that calling file.next() when the file is
5300 open for writing is undefined.
Brett Cannon55a18642007-04-08 04:29:32 +00005301
Žiga Seilnachtc64ad482007-03-24 14:24:26 +00005302- Patch #1489771: the syntax rules in Python Reference Manual were
5303 updated to reflect the current Python syntax.
5304
Martin v. Löwis2f401d72007-03-23 10:35:49 +00005305- Patch #1686451: Fix return type for
5306 PySequence_{Count,Index,Fast_GET_SIZE}.
5307
Georg Brandl0692a262007-03-13 07:50:57 +00005308- Patch #1679379: add documentation for fnmatch.translate().
5309
Collin Winterb7b2b4e2007-03-09 18:09:10 +00005310- Bug #1629566: clarify the docs on the return values of parsedate()
5311 and parsedate_tz() in email.utils and rfc822.
5312
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00005313- Patch #1671450: add a section about subclassing built-in types to the
Georg Brandld28b9fc2007-03-06 10:02:47 +00005314 "extending and embedding" tutorial.
5315
Georg Brandlb26b1c62007-01-17 21:19:58 +00005316- Bug #1629125: fix wrong data type (int -> Py_ssize_t) in PyDict_Next
5317 docs.
5318
Georg Brandla4c8e322006-10-12 08:22:53 +00005319- Bug #1565919: document set types in the Language Reference.
5320
Georg Brandl44a7b3a2006-09-30 12:02:57 +00005321- Bug #1546052: clarify that PyString_FromString(AndSize) copies the
5322 string pointed to by its parameter.
5323
Georg Brandlfb257732006-09-30 09:06:45 +00005324- Bug #1566663: remove obsolete example from datetime docs.
5325
Georg Brandl648c1102006-08-18 07:27:59 +00005326- Bug #1541682: Fix example in the "Refcount details" API docs.
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005327 Additionally, remove a faulty example showing PySequence_SetItem
5328 applied to a newly created list object and add notes that this isn't
5329 a good idea.
Georg Brandl648c1102006-08-18 07:27:59 +00005330
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00005331
Georg Brandl27562782006-10-27 20:39:43 +00005332Tools/Demos
5333-----------
5334
5335- Patch #1552024: add decorator support to unparse.py demo script.
Marc-André Lemburg96148682006-09-06 20:40:22 +00005336
Brett Cannonc8939d22006-09-20 19:28:35 +00005337- Make auto-generated python.vim file list built-ins and exceptions in
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005338 alphatbetical order. Makes output more deterministic and easier to
5339 tell if the file is stale or not.
Brett Cannonc8939d22006-09-20 19:28:35 +00005340
Marc-André Lemburg96148682006-09-06 20:40:22 +00005341- Bug #1546372: Fixed small bugglet in pybench that caused a missing
5342 file not to get reported properly.
5343
5344
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00005345Build
5346-----
5347
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005348- Have the search path for building extensions follow the declared
5349 order in $CPPFLAGS and $LDFLAGS when adding directories from those
5350 environment variables.
Brett Cannon70c0c022008-02-03 09:59:21 +00005351
Christian Heimes951cc0f2008-01-31 23:08:23 +00005352- Bug #1983: Added a check to pyport to verify that sizeof(pid_t) is
5353 smaller or equal sizeof(long).
5354
Christian Heimescba36bb2008-01-30 22:54:18 +00005355- Bug #1234: Fixed semaphore errors on AIX 5.2
5356
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005357- Issue #1726: Remove Python/atof.c from PCBuild/pythoncore.vcproj.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00005358
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005359- Removed PCbuild8/ directory and added a new build directory for VS
5360 2005 based on the VS 2008 build directory to PC/VS8.0. The script
5361 PCbuild/vs8to9.py was added to sync changes from PCbuild to
5362 PC/VS8.0.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00005363
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005364- Moved PCbuild/ directory for VS 2003 to PC/VS7.1 and renamed
5365 PCBuild9/ directory to PCBuild/.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00005366
Martin v. Löwiscb78de62007-12-29 18:49:21 +00005367- Bug #1699: Define _BSD_SOURCE only on OpenBSD.
5368
Guido van Rossum7c862f82007-12-13 20:50:10 +00005369- Bug #1608: use -fwrapv when GCC supports it. This is important,
5370 newer GCC versions may optimize away overflow buffer overflow checks
5371 without this option!
5372
Martin v. Löwis63bf1492007-11-12 05:14:05 +00005373- Patch #1418: Make the AC_REPLACE_FUNCS object files actually work.
5374
Raymond Hettingerdc1d1ba2007-11-07 02:45:46 +00005375- Add a FAST_LOOPS build option that speeds-up looping by trading away
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005376 periodic threadstate and signal checking in tight loops. By
5377 default, this option is turned-off. It should only be enabled in
5378 debugged, performance critical applications.
Raymond Hettingerdc1d1ba2007-11-07 02:45:46 +00005379
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005380- Patch #786737: Allow building in a tree of symlinks pointing to a
5381 readonly source.
Martin v. Löwisd44a4e92007-09-05 11:47:34 +00005382
Martin v. Löwis8bc77e42007-09-01 06:36:03 +00005383- Bug #1737210: Change Manufacturer of Windows installer to PSF.
5384
Martin v. Löwis75c23bd2007-08-30 18:25:47 +00005385- Bug #1746880: Correctly install DLLs into system32 folder on Win64.
5386
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005387- Define _BSD_SOURCE, to get access to POSIX extensions on OpenBSD
5388 4.1+.
Martin v. Löwis76760b02007-07-31 19:57:56 +00005389
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005390- Stop supporting AtheOS and cause a build error in configure for the
5391 platform.
Brett Cannon19fab762007-06-02 03:02:29 +00005392
Georg Brandldb846032007-03-31 18:56:11 +00005393- Bug #1655392: don't add -L/usr/lib/pythonX.Y/config to the LDFLAGS
5394 returned by python-config if Python was built with --enable-shared
5395 because that prevented the shared library from being used.
5396
Georg Brandl18c47f62007-03-13 10:19:22 +00005397- Patch #1569798: fix a bug in distutils when building Python from a
5398 directory within sys.exec_prefix.
5399
Martin v. Löwiseb623572007-03-12 10:50:39 +00005400- Bug #1675511: Use -Kpic instead of -xcode=pic32 on Solaris/x86.
5401
Martin v. Löwis4d542ec2006-11-25 15:39:19 +00005402- Disable _XOPEN_SOURCE on NetBSD 1.x.
5403
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005404- configure now checks whether gcc supports the PyArg_ParseTuple
5405 format attribute.
Martin v. Löwisaac13162006-10-19 10:58:46 +00005406
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00005407- Bug #1578513: Cross compilation was broken by a change to configure.
Martin v. Löwisfefbc202006-10-17 18:59:23 +00005408 Repair so that it's back to how it was in 2.4.3.
5409
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005410- Patch #1576954: Update VC6 build directory; remove redundant files
5411 in VC7.
Martin v. Löwisc9e82f62006-10-15 07:54:40 +00005412
Martin v. Löwisebe26702006-10-02 14:55:51 +00005413- Bug #1568842: Fix test for uintptr_t.
5414
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005415- Patch #1540470: for OpenBSD 4.0.
Neal Norwitz4bc2c092006-09-05 02:57:01 +00005416
Matthias Klosed149d0c2006-12-03 17:16:41 +00005417- Fix build failure on kfreebsd and on the hurd.
5418
Matthias Kloseebde1492006-12-09 12:15:27 +00005419- Fix the build of the library reference in info format.
5420
Matthias Kloseeb8ff672007-08-02 21:33:13 +00005421- Allow Emacs 22 for building the documentation in info format.
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00005422
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005423- Makefile.pre.in(buildbottest): Run an optional script
5424 pybuildbot.identify to include some information about the build
5425 environment.
Matthias Klose642ac852007-09-04 18:17:36 +00005426
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00005427
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00005428C API
5429-----
5430
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005431- Unified naming convention for free lists and their limits. All free
5432 lists in Object/ are named ``free_list``, the counter ``numfree``
5433 and the upper limit is a macro ``PyName_MAXFREELIST`` inside an
5434 #ifndef block.
Christian Heimes5b970ad2008-02-06 13:33:44 +00005435
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005436- ``PySet_Add()`` can now modify a newly created frozenset. Similarly
5437 to ``PyTuple_SetItem``, it can be used to populate a brand new
5438 frozenset; but it does not steal a reference to the added item.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arccab3d982008-02-03 22:51:43 +00005439
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00005440- Added ``PySet_Check()`` and ``PyFrozenSet_Check()`` to the set API.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arccab3d982008-02-03 22:51:43 +00005441
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005442- Backport of PyUnicode_FromString(), _FromStringAndSize(), _Format
5443 and _FormatV from Python 3.0. Made PyLong_AsSsize_t and
5444 PyLong_FromSsize_t public functions.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00005445
5446- Patch #1720595: add T_BOOL to the range of structmember types.
5447
5448- Issue #1534: Added ``PyFloat_GetMax()``, ``PyFloat_GetMin()`` and
5449 ``PyFloat_GetInfo()`` to the float API.
5450
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005451- Issue #1521: On 64bit platforms, using PyArgs_ParseTuple with the t#
5452 of w# format code incorrectly truncated the length to an int, even
5453 when PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN is set. The str.decode method used to return
5454 incorrect results with huge strings.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00005455
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005456- Issue #1629: Renamed Py_Size, Py_Type and Py_Refcnt to Py_SIZE,
5457 Py_TYPE and Py_REFCNT.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00005458
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005459- PEP 3123: Provide forward compatibility with Python 3.0, while
5460 keeping backwards compatibility. Add Py_Refcnt, Py_Type, Py_Size,
5461 and PyVarObject_HEAD_INIT.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00005462
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005463- Py_ssize_t fields work in structmember when HAVE_LONG_LONG is not
5464 defined.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00005465
5466- Patch #1733960: Allow T_LONGLONG to accept ints.
5467
5468- T_PYSSIZET can now be used in PyMemberDef lists for Py_ssize_t members.
5469
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00005470- Added a new API function ``PyImport_ImportModuleNoBlock``.
5471
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00005472- Bug #1637022: Prefix AST symbols with _Py_.
5473
5474- Fix some leftovers from the conversion from int to Py_ssize_t
5475 (relevant to strings and sequences of more than 2**31 items).
5476
5477- Make _PyGILState_NoteThreadState() static, it was not used anywhere
5478 outside of pystate.c and should not be necessary.
5479
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005480- ``PyImport_Import`` and ``PyImport_ImportModule`` now always do
5481 absolute imports. In earlier versions they might have used relative
5482 imports under some conditions.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00005483
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005484- Added case insensitive comparison methods ``PyOS_stricmp(char*,
5485 char*)`` and ``PyOS_strnicmp(char*, char*, Py_ssize_t)``.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00005486
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005487- Bug #1542693: remove semi-colon at end of PyImport_ImportModuleEx
5488 macro so it can be used as an expression.
Neal Norwitz8a267062006-08-19 04:25:29 +00005489
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00005490
Martin v. Löwis2607e6c2006-11-21 18:20:25 +00005491Windows
5492-------
5493
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005494- Patch #1706: Drop support for Win9x, WinME and NT4. Python now
5495 requires Windows 2000 or greater. The _WINVER and NTDDI_VERSION
5496 macros are set to Win2k for x86/32bit builds and WinXP for AMD64
5497 builds.
Christian Heimes95d64472008-02-09 19:55:22 +00005498
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005499- Conditionalize definition of _CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE and
5500 _CRT_NONSTDC_NO_DEPRECATE.
Martin v. Löwis2607e6c2006-11-21 18:20:25 +00005501
Martin v. Löwisd476a402007-10-12 08:56:52 +00005502- Bug #1216: Restore support for Visual Studio 2002.
5503
Martin v. Löwis2607e6c2006-11-21 18:20:25 +00005504
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00005505Mac
5506---
5507
Brett Cannonf0cb1d72007-05-31 20:01:11 +00005508- cfmfile now raises a DeprecationWarning.
5509
Brett Cannon791d56f2007-05-31 19:40:42 +00005510- buildtools now raises a DeprecationWarning.
5511
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005512- Removed the macfs module. It had been deprecated since Python 2.5.
5513 This lead to the deprecation of macostools.touched() as it relied
5514 solely on macfs and was a no-op under OS X.
Brett Cannon5e263512007-05-20 23:17:38 +00005515
Skip Montanaroe5d7f7f2002-09-20 14:16:59 +00005516----
5517
5518**(For information about older versions, consult the HISTORY file.)**