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Georg Brandld33a9be2012-07-21 16:48:16 +02002Python News
Skip Montanaroe5d7f7f2002-09-20 14:16:59 +00003+++++++++++
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Benjamin Peterson8f8ca762013-10-26 15:11:27 -04005What's New in Python 2.7.7?
6===========================
7
8*Release date: XXXX-XX-XX*
9
10Core and Builtins
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12
Serhiy Storchaka98a97222014-02-09 13:14:04 +020013- Issue #20437: Fixed 43 potential bugs when deleting objects references.
14
Benjamin Petersonc4e6e0a2014-04-02 12:15:06 -040015- Issue #21134: Fix segfault when str is called on an uninitialized
16 UnicodeEncodeError, UnicodeDecodeError, or UnicodeTranslateError object.
17
Benjamin Petersond16e01c2014-02-04 10:20:26 -050018- Issue #20494: Ensure that free()d memory arenas are really released on POSIX
19 systems supporting anonymous memory mappings. Patch by Charles-François
20 Natali.
21
Florent Xiclunaedfd9ad2014-01-22 01:33:59 +010022- Issue #17825: Cursor "^" is correctly positioned for SyntaxError and
23 IndentationError.
24
Benjamin Peterson22d9ee72013-12-28 10:33:58 -060025- Raise a better error when non-unicode codecs are used for a file's coding
26 cookie.
27
Serhiy Storchaka6d562312013-12-17 14:40:06 +020028- Issue #17976: Fixed potential problem with file.write() not detecting IO error
29 by inspecting the return value of fwrite(). Based on patches by Jaakko Moisio
30 and Victor Stinner.
31
Victor Stinner66c6e9d2013-12-13 02:37:09 +010032- Issue #14432: Generator now clears the borrowed reference to the thread
33 state. Fix a crash when a generator is created in a C thread that is
34 destroyed while the generator is still used. The issue was that a generator
35 contains a frame, and the frame kept a reference to the Python state of the
36 destroyed C thread. The crash occurs when a trace function is setup.
37
Victor Stinner7821ff32013-12-10 01:23:22 +010038- Issue #19932: Fix typo in import.h, missing whitespaces in function prototypes.
39
Mark Dickinsonc2f8c812013-11-26 16:38:25 +000040- Issue #19638: Fix possible crash / undefined behaviour from huge (more than 2
41 billion characters) input strings in _Py_dg_strtod.
42
Benjamin Peterson8f8ca762013-10-26 15:11:27 -040043Library
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45
Benjamin Peterson02ab7a82014-04-09 15:40:18 -040046- Issue #21191: In os.fdopen, alwyas close the file descriptor when an exception
47 happens.
48
Vinay Sajip66d8dbe2014-04-04 10:47:53 +010049- Issue #21149: Improved thread-safety in logging cleanup during interpreter
50 shutdown. Thanks to Devin Jeanpierre for the patch.
51
Benjamin Petersond42f60e2014-03-30 20:09:44 -040052- Fix possible overflow bug in strop.expandtabs. You shouldn't be using this
53 module!
54
R David Murray6d911762014-03-25 15:29:42 -040055- Issue #20145: `assertRaisesRegex` now raises a TypeError if the second
56 argument is not a string or compiled regex.
57
Victor Stinner367f5d32014-03-25 09:08:16 +010058- Issue #21058: Fix a leak of file descriptor in tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile(),
59 close the file descriptor if os.fdopen() fails
60
Serhiy Storchakae50fe4c2014-03-06 12:24:29 +020061- Issue #20283: RE pattern methods now accept the string keyword parameters
62 as documented. The pattern and source keyword parameters are left as
63 deprecated aliases.
64
Éric Araujo31fe52d2014-03-12 22:19:39 -040065- Issue #11599: When an external command (e.g. compiler) fails, distutils now
66 prints out the whole command line (instead of just the command name) if the
67 environment variable DISTUTILS_DEBUG is set.
68
Éric Araujo3d1134e2014-03-12 03:14:48 -040069- Issue #4931: distutils should not produce unhelpful "error: None" messages
70 anymore. distutils.util.grok_environment_error is kept but doc-deprecated.
71
Raymond Hettinger4c150e02014-03-08 09:56:08 -080072- Improve the random module's default seeding to use 256 bits of entropy
73 from os.urandom(). This was already done for Python 3, mildly improving
74 security with a bigger seed space.
75
Terry Jan Reedy09f4f252014-03-05 23:15:57 -050076- Issue #15618: Make turtle.py compatible with 'from __future__ import
77 unicode_literals'. Initial patch by Juancarlo Añez.
78
Serhiy Storchaka68b8a942014-02-26 20:59:08 +020079- Issue #20501: fileinput module no longer reads whole file into memory when using
80 fileinput.hook_encoded.
81
Serhiy Storchaka2ac9d312014-02-19 23:27:37 +020082- Issue #6815: os.path.expandvars() now supports non-ASCII Unicode environment
83 variables names and values.
84
Serhiy Storchaka3e0cb092014-02-19 18:33:30 +020085- Issue #20635: Fixed grid_columnconfigure() and grid_rowconfigure() methods of
86 Tkinter widgets to work in wantobjects=True mode.
87
Serhiy Storchaka1d19f972014-02-12 10:52:07 +020088- Issue #17671: Fixed a crash when use non-initialized io.BufferedRWPair.
89 Based on patch by Stephen Tu.
90
Terry Jan Reedy6858f002014-02-17 23:12:07 -050091- Issue #8478: Untokenizer.compat processes first token from iterator input.
Terry Jan Reedy09f4f252014-03-05 23:15:57 -050092 Patch based on lines from Georg Brandl, Eric Snow, and Gareth Rees.
Terry Jan Reedy6858f002014-02-17 23:12:07 -050093
Benjamin Peterson2748c5c2014-02-11 10:16:16 -050094- Issue #20594: Avoid name clash with the libc function posix_close.
95
Serhiy Storchakaa4b9c872014-02-11 10:30:06 +020096- Issue #19856: shutil.move() failed to move a directory to other directory
97 on Windows if source name ends with os.altsep.
98
R David Murray2cfae9b2014-02-08 17:54:12 -050099- Issue #14983: email.generator now always adds a line end after each MIME
100 boundary marker, instead of doing so only when there is an epilogue. This
101 fixes an RFC compliance bug and solves an issue with signed MIME parts.
102
R David Murrayca00c6e2014-02-07 13:51:22 -0500103- Issue #20013: Some imap servers disconnect if the current mailbox is
104 deleted, and imaplib did not handle that case gracefully. Now it
105 handles the 'bye' correctly.
106
Antoine Pitrouf5814112014-02-03 20:59:59 +0100107- Issue #20426: When passing the re.DEBUG flag, re.compile() displays the
108 debug output every time it is called, regardless of the compilation cache.
109
Serhiy Storchakaccffb252014-02-03 21:23:46 +0200110- Issue #20368: The null character now correctly passed from Tcl to Python (in
111 unicode strings only). Improved error handling in variables-related commands.
112
Antoine Pitrouc06634a2014-02-02 23:37:29 +0100113- Issue #20435: Fix _pyio.StringIO.getvalue() to take into account newline
114 translation settings.
115
Ezio Melotti5a888532014-02-01 21:20:22 +0200116- Issue #20288: fix handling of invalid numeric charrefs in HTMLParser.
117
Serhiy Storchaka31f51212014-01-27 23:14:51 +0200118- Issue #19456: ntpath.join() now joins relative paths correctly when a drive
119 is present.
120
Serhiy Storchaka2403a782014-01-26 19:20:24 +0200121- Issue #8260: The read(), readline() and readlines() methods of
122 codecs.StreamReader returned incomplete data when were called after
123 readline() or read(size). Based on patch by Amaury Forgeot d'Arc.
124
Benjamin Petersonce751052014-01-24 00:32:12 -0500125- Issue #20374: Fix build with GNU readline >= 6.3.
126
Richard Oudkerke8a57b92014-01-23 00:11:04 +0000127- Issue #14548: Make multiprocessing finalizers check pid before
128 running to cope with possibility of gc running just after fork.
129 (Backport from 3.x.)
130
Serhiy Storchaka49259352014-01-20 21:57:09 +0200131- Issue #20262: Warnings are raised now when duplicate names are added in the
132 ZIP file or too long ZIP file comment is truncated.
133
Serhiy Storchaka326b5ab2014-01-18 18:30:09 +0200134- Issue #20270: urllib and urlparse now support empty ports.
135
Serhiy Storchaka7a278da2014-01-18 16:14:00 +0200136- Issue #20243: TarFile no longer raise ReadError when opened in write mode.
137
Serhiy Storchaka75ba21a2014-01-18 15:35:19 +0200138- Issue #20245: The open functions in the tarfile module now correctly handle
139 empty mode.
140
Zachary Warece46aed2014-01-17 09:29:24 -0600141- Issue #20086: Restored the use of locale-independent mapping instead of
142 locale-dependent str.lower() in locale.normalize().
Serhiy Storchakaaf080872014-01-17 09:27:56 +0200143
Benjamin Peterson28cf3682014-01-13 22:59:38 -0500144- Issue #20246: Fix buffer overflow in socket.recvfrom_into.
145
Senthil Kumaran01109732014-01-12 16:04:08 -0800146- Issue #19082: Working SimpleXMLRPCServer and xmlrpclib examples, both in
147 modules and documentation.
148
Serhiy Storchaka9f8621f2014-01-09 23:13:48 +0200149- Issue #13107: argparse and optparse no longer raises an exception when output
150 a help on environment with too small COLUMNS. Based on patch by
151 Elazar Gershuni.
152
Antoine Pitrou3b2afbb2014-01-09 19:52:12 +0100153- Issue #20207: Always disable SSLv2 except when PROTOCOL_SSLv2 is explicitly
154 asked for.
155
Serhiy Storchaka9be238d2014-01-07 19:32:58 +0200156- Issue #20072: Fixed multiple errors in tkinter with wantobjects is False.
157
R David Murray984f6302014-01-05 12:35:59 -0500158- Issue #1065986: pydoc can now handle unicode strings.
159
R David Murray020d7c32014-01-03 13:59:22 -0500160- Issue #16039: CVE-2013-1752: Change use of readline in imaplib module to
161 limit line length. Patch by Emil Lind.
162
Antoine Pitrou63cc99d2013-12-28 17:26:33 +0100163- Issue #19422: Explicitly disallow non-SOCK_STREAM sockets in the ssl
164 module, rather than silently let them emit clear text data.
165
Serhiy Storchakad551b282013-12-26 21:20:46 +0200166- Issue #20027: Fixed locale aliases for devanagari locales.
167
Serhiy Storchaka5e116552013-12-26 20:05:53 +0200168- Issue #20067: Tkinter variables now work when wantobjects is false.
169
Serhiy Storchakaec773cc2013-12-25 16:35:20 +0200170- Issue #19020: Tkinter now uses splitlist() instead of split() in configure
171 methods.
172
Antoine Pitrou62003242013-12-22 01:35:53 +0100173- Issue #12226: HTTPS is now used by default when connecting to PyPI.
174
Serhiy Storchakad1051962013-12-21 23:51:15 +0200175- Issue #20048: Fixed ZipExtFile.peek() when it is called on the boundary of
176 the uncompress buffer and read() goes through more than one readbuffer.
177
Serhiy Storchaka0e4d8522013-12-20 18:22:38 +0200178- Issue #20034: Updated alias mapping to most recent locale.alias file
179 from X.org distribution using makelocalealias.py.
180
Serhiy Storchakabd789862013-12-19 21:21:06 +0200181- Issue #5815: Fixed support for locales with modifiers. Fixed support for
182 locale encodings with hyphens.
183
Victor Stinner94502192013-12-19 16:44:48 +0100184- Issue #20026: Fix the sqlite module to handle correctly invalid isolation
185 level (wrong type).
186
Serhiy Storchaka0c221be2013-12-19 16:26:56 +0200187- Issue #18829: csv.Dialect() now checks type for delimiter, escapechar and
188 quotechar fields. Original patch by Vajrasky Kok.
189
R David Murray15160392013-12-17 21:27:56 -0500190- Issue #19855: uuid.getnode() on Unix now looks on the PATH for the
191 executables used to find the mac address, with /sbin and /usr/sbin as
192 fallbacks.
193
Serhiy Storchakac97f5ed2013-12-17 21:49:48 +0200194- Issue #20007: HTTPResponse.read(0) no more prematurely closes connection.
195 Original patch by Simon Sapin.
196
Serhiy Storchakadd5a46c2013-12-16 15:15:29 +0200197- Issue #19912: Fixed numerous bugs in ntpath.splitunc().
198
Serhiy Storchakad1a61dc2013-12-14 20:34:33 +0200199- Issue #19623: Fixed writing to unseekable files in the aifc module.
200 Fixed writing 'ulaw' (lower case) compressed AIFC files.
201
Serhiy Storchakaa92cc912013-12-14 19:11:04 +0200202- Issue #17919: select.poll.register() again works with poll.POLLNVAL on AIX.
203 Fixed integer overflow in the eventmask parameter.
Serhiy Storchaka17f22c92013-12-13 12:09:05 +0200204
Gregory P. Smith9ffb1482013-12-10 18:22:03 -0800205- Issue #17200: telnetlib's read_until and expect timeout was broken by the
206 fix to Issue #14635 in Python 2.7.4 to be interpreted as milliseconds
207 instead of seconds when the platform supports select.poll (ie: everywhere).
208 It is now treated as seconds once again.
209
Serhiy Storchaka5493d5e2013-12-08 17:44:50 +0200210- Issue #19099: The struct module now supports Unicode format strings.
211
Nadeem Vawda337c50b2013-12-08 15:31:50 +0100212- Issue #19878: Fix segfault in bz2 module after calling __init__ twice with
213 non-existent filename. Initial patch by Vajrasky Kok.
214
Serhiy Storchaka7c573852013-12-06 23:23:15 +0200215- Issue #16373: Prevent infinite recursion for ABC Set class comparisons.
216
Tim Peters0ee9baa2013-12-03 21:02:05 -0600217- Issue #19138: doctest's IGNORE_EXCEPTION_DETAIL now allows a match when
218 no exception detail exists (no colon following the exception's name, or
219 a colon does follow but no text follows the colon).
220
Alexandre Vassalotti1d3a1732013-11-30 13:24:13 -0800221- Issue #16231: Fixed pickle.Pickler to only fallback to its default pickling
222 behaviour when Pickler.persistent_id returns None, but not for any other
Alexandre Vassalotti34ca0662013-11-30 14:02:47 -0800223 false values. This allows false values other than None to be used as
224 persistent IDs. This behaviour is consistent with cPickle.
Alexandre Vassalotti1d3a1732013-11-30 13:24:13 -0800225
Serhiy Storchaka6d9d30d2013-11-26 22:47:05 +0200226- Issue #11508: Fixed uuid.getnode() and uuid.uuid1() on environment with
227 virtual interface. Original patch by Kent Frazier.
228
Serhiy Storchakadafda9b2013-11-26 21:25:15 +0200229- Issue #11489: JSON decoder now accepts lone surrogates.
230
Gregory P. Smithd82634d2013-11-24 19:42:15 -0800231- Fix test.test_support.bind_port() to not cause an error when Python was
232 compiled on a system with SO_REUSEPORT defined in the headers but run on
233 a system with an OS kernel that does not support that new socket option.
234
Serhiy Storchaka5397c972013-11-21 11:04:37 +0200235- Issue #19633: Fixed writing not compressed 16- and 32-bit wave files on
236 big-endian platforms.
237
R David Murrayeccf9c22013-11-19 13:25:24 -0500238- Issue #19449: in csv's writerow, handle non-string keys when generating the
239 error message that certain keys are not in the 'fieldnames' list.
240
Jason R. Coombs91bf0582013-11-15 20:08:22 -0500241- Issue #12853: Fix NameError in distutils.command.upload.
242
Vinay Sajip47fe4682013-11-15 20:39:33 +0000243- Issue #19523: Closed FileHandler leak which occurred when delay was set.
244
Serhiy Storchakac47d7232013-11-09 23:09:44 +0200245- Issue #1575020: Fixed support of 24-bit wave files on big-endian platforms.
246
Ezio Melottib8147452013-11-07 18:31:36 +0200247- Issue #19480: HTMLParser now accepts all valid start-tag names as defined
248 by the HTML5 standard.
249
Nick Coghlan6a987492013-11-04 20:05:16 +1000250- Issue #17827: Add the missing documentation for ``codecs.encode`` and
Ezio Melottib8147452013-11-07 18:31:36 +0200251 ``codecs.decode``.
Nick Coghlan6a987492013-11-04 20:05:16 +1000252
Serhiy Storchaka31b9c842013-11-03 14:28:29 +0200253- Issue #6157: Fixed Tkinter.Text.debug(). Original patch by Guilherme Polo.
254
Serhiy Storchaka8630f162013-11-03 14:13:08 +0200255- Issue #6160: The bbox() method of tkinter.Spinbox now returns a tuple of
256 integers instead of a string. Based on patch by Guilherme Polo.
257
Jason R. Coombs42fa9ec2013-11-02 11:43:40 -0400258- Issue #19286: Directories in ``package_data`` are no longer added to
259 the filelist, preventing failure outlined in the ticket.
260
Ned Deilyb693e9f2014-03-27 16:38:32 -0700261- Issue #6676: Ensure a meaningful exception is raised when attempting
262 to parse more than one XML document per pyexpat xmlparser instance.
263 (Original patches by Hirokazu Yamamoto and Amaury Forgeot d'Arc, with
264 suggested wording by David Gutteridge)
265
Serhiy Storchakae0ed2d72014-01-16 18:59:17 +0200266Tools/Demos
267-----------
268
Benjamin Petersonda952f32014-04-10 00:12:47 -0400269- Add support for the PEP 465 matrix multiplication operator to 2to3.
270
Serhiy Storchakae0ed2d72014-01-16 18:59:17 +0200271- Issue #19936: Added executable bits or shebang lines to Python scripts which
272 requires them. Disable executable bits and shebang lines in test and
273 benchmark files in order to prevent using a random system python, and in
274 source files of modules which don't provide command line interface.
275
Serhiy Storchaka7057f3f2013-12-10 10:04:41 +0200276IDLE
277----
278
Terry Jan Reedy4ade2d22014-02-08 09:39:51 -0500279- Issue #20406: Use Python application icons for Idle window title bars.
280 Patch mostly by Serhiy Storchaka.
281
Raymond Hettinger40e95df2014-03-29 21:01:50 -0700282- Issue #21029: Occurrences of "print" are now consistently colored as
283 being a keyword (the colorizer doesn't know if print functions are
284 enabled in the source).
285
Terry Jan Reedy1d9b9212014-01-26 22:24:17 -0500286- Issue #17721: Remove non-functional configuration dialog help button until we
287 make it actually gives some help when clicked. Patch by Guilherme Simões.
288
Terry Jan Reedy59243652014-01-23 00:36:37 -0500289- Issue #17390: Add Python version to Idle editor window title bar.
290 Original patches by Edmond Burnett and Kent Johnson.
291
Serhiy Storchaka0b6b3352013-12-25 14:24:17 +0200292- Issue #20058: sys.stdin.readline() in IDLE now always returns only one line.
293
Serhiy Storchaka7057f3f2013-12-10 10:04:41 +0200294- Issue #19481: print() of unicode, str or bytearray subclass instance in IDLE
295 no more hangs.
296
Ned Deily278543d2013-12-10 16:21:58 -0800297- Issue #18270: Prevent possible IDLE AttributeError on OS X when no initial
298 shell window is present.
299
Ned Deily57847df2014-03-27 20:47:04 -0700300- Issue #17654: Ensure IDLE menus are customized properly on OS X for
301 non-framework builds and for all variants of Tk.
302
Serhiy Storchaka1fdc7022013-10-31 17:06:03 +0200303Tests
304-----
305
Benjamin Petersone3af6f02014-03-16 10:07:26 +0100306- Issue #20946: Correct alignment assumptions of some ctypes tests.
307
Antoine Pitrouaa73ea02014-02-23 19:39:06 +0100308- Issue #20743: Fix a reference leak in test_tcl.
309
Zachary Waredd091d72014-02-18 08:36:14 -0600310- Issue #20510: Rewrote test_exit in test_sys to match existing comments,
311 use modern unittest features, and use helpers from test.script_helper
312 instead of using subprocess directly. Initial patch by Gareth Rees.
313
Serhiy Storchaka76249ea2014-02-07 10:06:05 +0200314- Issue #20532: Tests which use _testcapi now are marked as CPython only.
315
Serhiy Storchakacfc2c7b2014-02-05 20:55:13 +0200316- Issue #19920: Added tests for TarFile.list(). Based on patch by Vajrasky Kok.
317
Serhiy Storchaka30d68c62014-01-26 23:48:20 +0200318- Issue #19990: Added tests for the imghdr module. Based on patch by
319 Claudiu Popa.
320
Serhiy Storchaka0f11d0f2014-01-10 15:05:27 +0200321- Issue #19804: The test_find_mac test in test_uuid is now skipped if the
322 ifconfig executable is not available.
323
Serhiy Storchakac9da0892014-01-10 13:36:56 +0200324- Issue #19886: Use better estimated memory requirements for bigmem tests.
325
Serhiy Storchakadbb96302013-12-26 20:08:34 +0200326- Backported tests for Tkinter variables.
327
Serhiy Storchaka5542b152013-12-25 17:28:50 +0200328- Issue #19320: test_tcl no longer fails when wantobjects is false.
329
Zachary Ware18755362013-12-19 13:44:19 -0600330- Issue #19683: Removed empty tests from test_minidom. Initial patch by
331 Ajitesh Gupta.
332
Serhiy Storchaka95d72192013-12-10 10:20:11 +0200333- Issue #19928: Implemented a test for repr() of cell objects.
334
Zachary Ware51e90bc2013-12-16 08:58:10 -0600335- Issue #19595, #19987: Re-enabled a long-disabled test in test_winsound.
Zachary Ware72a01b22013-11-27 23:56:04 -0600336
Zachary Warec0aa2452013-11-26 14:49:42 -0600337- Issue #19588: Fixed tests in test_random that were silently skipped most
338 of the time. Patch by Julian Gindi.
339
Zachary Ware57d35c62013-11-03 22:51:25 -0600340- Issue #17883: Tweak test_tcl testLoadWithUNC to skip the test in the
341 event of a permission error on Windows and to properly report other
342 skip conditions.
343
Zachary Ware14b38f52013-11-03 22:27:04 -0600344- Issue #17883: Backported _is_gui_available() in test.test_support to
345 avoid hanging Windows buildbots on test_ttk_guionly.
346
Zachary Ware1f702212013-12-10 14:09:20 -0600347- Issue #18702, #19572: All skipped tests now reported as skipped.
Serhiy Storchaka32e23e72013-11-03 23:15:46 +0200348
Serhiy Storchakadd808162013-11-02 10:46:21 +0200349- Issue #19085: Added basic tests for all tkinter widget options.
350
Ned Deilye789a1d2014-02-13 22:49:30 -0800351- Issue #20605: Make test_socket getaddrinfo OS X segfault test more robust.
352
Ned Deilyc7275332014-03-26 23:25:02 -0700353- Issue #20939: Avoid various network test failures due to new
354 redirect of http://www.python.org/ to https://www.python.org:
355 use http://www.example.com instead.
Ned Deilya146df82014-03-15 13:14:15 -0700356
Ned Deily3ac86652014-03-29 00:07:42 -0700357- Issue #21093: Prevent failures of ctypes test_macholib on OS X if a
358 copy of libz exists in $HOME/lib or /usr/local/lib.
359
Serhiy Storchaka26d936a2013-11-29 12:16:53 +0200360Documentation
361-------------
362
Zachary Waref583f412014-01-14 16:01:32 -0600363- Issue #20255: Update the about and bugs pages.
364
Zachary Warece46aed2014-01-17 09:29:24 -0600365- Issue #18840: Introduce the json module in the tutorial, and de-emphasize
Antoine Pitrou197e71b2013-12-05 23:46:32 +0100366 the pickle module.
367
Serhiy Storchaka26d936a2013-11-29 12:16:53 +0200368- Issue #19795: Improved markup of True/False constants.
369
Benjamin Peterson5dba9f62013-10-29 15:28:41 -0400370
Benjamin Petersone18b82d2013-10-29 15:27:14 -0400371Whats' New in Python 2.7.6?
372===========================
373
Benjamin Peterson27851952013-11-10 02:36:30 -0500374*Release date: 2013-11-10*
Benjamin Petersone18b82d2013-10-29 15:27:14 -0400375
Benjamin Peterson1ef959a2013-10-30 12:43:09 -0400376Library
377-------
378
379- Issue #19435: Fix directory traversal attack on CGIHttpRequestHandler.
380
Serhiy Storchaka1c760ca2013-10-29 10:15:09 +0200381IDLE
382----
383
384- Issue #19426: Fixed the opening of Python source file with specified encoding.
385
Benjamin Peterson9fa6a8b2013-10-31 20:22:41 -0400386Tests
387-----
388
389- Issue #19457: Fixed xmlcharrefreplace tests on wide build when tests are
390 loaded from .py[co] files.
391
Ned Deily52c48fd2013-11-05 02:40:03 -0800392Build
393-----
394
395- Issue #15663: Revert OS X installer built-in Tcl/Tk support for 2.7.6.
396 Some third-party projects, such as Matplotlib and PIL/Pillow,
397 depended on being able to build with Tcl and Tk frameworks in
398 /Library/Frameworks.
399
Benjamin Peterson8f8ca762013-10-26 15:11:27 -0400400
Benjamin Peterson07ffc782013-10-26 14:57:21 -0400401What's New in Python 2.7.6 release candidate 1?
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Benjamin Peterson988aba32013-05-11 22:36:05 -0500403
Benjamin Peterson07ffc782013-10-26 14:57:21 -0400404*Release date: 2013-10-26*
Benjamin Peterson988aba32013-05-11 22:36:05 -0500405
406Core and Builtins
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408
Christian Heimes51c4d722013-10-22 10:22:29 +0200409- Issue #18603: Ensure that PyOS_mystricmp and PyOS_mystrnicmp are in the
410 Python executable and not removed by the linker's optimizer.
411
Serhiy Storchakaf1056722013-10-19 20:37:49 +0300412- Issue #19279: UTF-7 decoder no more produces illegal unicode strings.
413
Mark Dickinson36f6e2c2013-10-13 10:55:15 +0100414- Issue #18739: Fix an inconsistency between math.log(n) and math.log(long(n));
415 the results could be off from one another by a ulp or two.
416
Serhiy Storchakaa9885e92013-08-20 20:08:53 +0300417- Issue #13461: Fix a crash in the "replace" error handler on 64-bit platforms.
418 Patch by Yogesh Chaudhari.
419
Serhiy Storchakae822b032013-08-06 16:56:26 +0300420- Issue #15866: The xmlcharrefreplace error handler no more produces two XML
421 entities for a non-BMP character on narrow build.
422
Serhiy Storchakaba908c72013-06-23 20:22:09 +0300423- Issue #18184: PyUnicode_FromFormat() and PyUnicode_FromFormatV() now raise
424 OverflowError when an argument of %c format is out of range.
425
Victor Stinner76038812013-06-23 14:56:57 +0200426- Issue #18137: Detect integer overflow on precision in float.__format__()
427 and complex.__format__().
428
Serhiy Storchaka729ad5c2013-06-09 16:54:56 +0300429- Issue #18038: SyntaxError raised during compilation sources with illegal
430 encoding now always contains an encoding name.
431
Benjamin Petersonb91ef002013-05-19 19:38:12 -0700432- Issue #18019: Fix crash in the repr of dictionaries containing their own
433 views.
434
Ronald Oussorena85fa5c2013-07-15 18:35:14 +0200435- Issue #18427: str.replace could crash the interpreter with huge strings.
436
Benjamin Peterson988aba32013-05-11 22:36:05 -0500437Library
438-------
439
Benjamin Peterson657d06b2013-10-26 13:13:51 -0400440- Issue #19393: Fix symtable.symtable function to not be confused when there are
441 functions or classes named "top".
442
Serhiy Storchaka22fb0de2013-10-24 22:02:42 +0300443- Issue #19327: Fixed the working of regular expressions with too big charset.
444
Senthil Kumaran21478572013-10-23 21:45:58 -0700445- Issue #19350: Increasing the test coverage of macurl2path. Patch by Colin
446 Williams.
447
Antoine Pitrou5d791802013-10-23 19:11:29 +0200448- Issue #19352: Fix unittest discovery when a module can be reached
449 through several paths (e.g. under Debian/Ubuntu with virtualenv).
450
Tim Golden17934852013-10-22 20:45:13 +0100451- Issue #15207: Fix mimetypes to read from correct part of Windows registry
452 Original patch by Dave Chambers
453
Ezio Melottibc385482013-10-21 03:03:32 +0300454- Issue #8964: fix platform._sys_version to handle IronPython 2.6+.
455 Patch by Martin Matusiak.
456
Serhiy Storchaka2585e1e2013-10-20 16:57:07 +0300457- Issue #16038: CVE-2013-1752: ftplib: Limit amount of data read by
458 limiting the call to readline(). Original patch by Michał
459 Jastrzębski and Giampaolo Rodola.
460
Serhiy Storchaka71378032013-10-17 23:03:48 +0300461- Issue #19276: Fixed the wave module on 64-bit big-endian platforms.
462
Ned Deily62a19292013-10-12 15:45:25 -0700463- Issue #18458: Prevent crashes with newer versions of libedit. Its readline
464 emulation has changed from 0-based indexing to 1-based like gnu readline.
465 Original patch by Ronald Oussoren.
466
Serhiy Storchaka499d8212013-10-12 21:35:33 +0300467- Issue #18919: If the close() method of a writer in the sunau or wave module
468 failed, second invocation of close() and destructor no more raise an
469 exception. Second invocation of close() on sunau writer now has no effects.
470 The aifc module now accepts lower case of names of the 'ulaw' and 'alaw'
471 codecs.
472
Serhiy Storchaka986b5ee2013-10-12 18:21:12 +0300473- Issue #19131: The aifc module now correctly reads and writes sampwidth of
474 compressed streams.
475
Tim Petersb82300b2013-10-09 13:25:11 -0500476- Issue #19158: a rare race in BoundedSemaphore could allow .release() too
477 often.
478
Serhiy Storchaka0189a462013-10-03 12:08:22 +0300479- Issue #18037: 2to3 now escapes '\u' and '\U' in native strings.
480
Serhiy Storchakafdda2002013-10-02 11:40:26 +0300481- Issue #19137: The pprint module now correctly formats empty set and frozenset
482 and instances of set and frozenset subclasses.
483
Barry Warsaw42faa552013-09-30 18:35:15 -0400484- Issue #16040: CVE-2013-1752: nntplib: Limit maximum line lengths to 2048 to
485 prevent readline() calls from consuming too much memory. Patch by Jyrki
486 Pulliainen.
487
Antoine Pitrou92385282013-09-30 22:13:17 +0200488- Issue #12641: Avoid passing "-mno-cygwin" to the mingw32 compiler, except
489 when necessary. Patch by Oscar Benjamin.
490
Antoine Pitrou87c99a02013-09-29 19:52:45 +0200491- Properly initialize all fields of a SSL object after allocation.
492
Antoine Pitrou0879b162013-09-29 01:48:40 +0200493- Issue #4366: Fix building extensions on all platforms when --enable-shared
494 is used.
495
Serhiy Storchakacfa55742013-09-28 21:31:36 +0300496- Issue #18950: Fix miscellaneous bugs in the sunau module.
497 Au_read.readframes() now updates current file position and reads correct
498 number of frames from multichannel stream. Au_write.writeframesraw() now
499 correctly updates current file position. Au_read and Au_write now correctly
500 work with file object if start file position is not a zero.
501
Serhiy Storchaka60bf0e42013-09-20 21:25:53 +0300502- Issue #18050: Fixed an incompatibility of the re module with Python 2.7.3
503 and older binaries.
504
R David Murrayc64566e2013-09-18 08:35:45 -0400505- Issue #19037: The mailbox module now makes all changes to maildir files
506 before moving them into place, to avoid race conditions with other programs
507 that may be accessing the maildir directory.
508
R David Murray4189b672013-09-16 13:48:44 -0400509- Issue #14984: On POSIX systems, when netrc is called without a filename
510 argument (and therefore is reading the user's $HOME/.netrc file), it now
511 enforces the same security rules as typical ftp clients: the .netrc file must
512 be owned by the user that owns the process and must not be readable by any
513 other user.
514
Senthil Kumarand4fac042013-09-13 00:18:55 -0700515- Issue #17324: Fix http.server's request handling case on trailing '/'. Patch
516 contributed by Vajrasky Kok.
517
Raymond Hettinger39659f22013-09-14 22:17:39 -0700518- Issue #19018: The heapq.merge() function no longer suppresses IndexError
519 in the underlying iterables.
520
Serhiy Storchakab06f5362013-09-13 07:52:00 +0300521- Issue #18784: The uuid module no more attempts to load libc via ctypes.CDLL,
522 if all necessary functions are already found in libuuid.
523 Patch by Evgeny Sologubov.
524
Michael Foord050e9e52013-09-08 15:34:27 +1200525- Issue #14971: unittest test discovery no longer gets confused when a function
526 has a different __name__ than its name in the TestCase class dictionary.
527
Serhiy Storchakacf29ba82013-09-05 18:02:57 +0300528- Issue #18672: Fixed format specifiers for Py_ssize_t in debugging output in
Serhiy Storchaka7d12ca52013-09-08 20:43:16 +0300529 the _sre module.
Serhiy Storchakacf29ba82013-09-05 18:02:57 +0300530
Serhiy Storchaka6db9e882013-09-05 17:28:10 +0300531- Issue #18830: inspect.getclasstree() no more produces duplicated entries even
532 when input list contains duplicates.
533
Victor Stinner930c3c92013-09-05 00:26:15 +0200534- Issue #18909: Fix _tkinter.tkapp.interpaddr() on Windows 64-bit, don't cast
535 64-bit pointer to long (32 bits).
536
Antoine Pitrou213fec42013-09-04 20:46:33 +0200537- Issue #18876: The FileIO.mode attribute now better reflects the actual mode
538 under which the file was opened. Patch by Erik Bray.
539
Antoine Pitrou33fc7442013-08-30 23:38:13 +0200540- Issue #18851: Avoid a double close of subprocess pipes when the child
541 process fails starting.
542
Charles-François Natali30a54452013-08-30 23:30:50 +0200543- Issue #18418: After fork(), reinit all threads states, not only active ones.
544 Patch by A. Jesse Jiryu Davis.
545
Christian Heimes42831fe2013-08-25 14:57:00 +0200546- Issue #11973: Fix a problem in kevent. The flags and fflags fields are now
547 properly handled as unsigned.
548
Serhiy Storchakab4455582013-08-22 17:53:16 +0300549- Issue #16809: Fixed some tkinter incompabilities with Tcl/Tk 8.6.
550
Serhiy Storchaka2ac1c1a2013-08-22 17:42:45 +0300551- Issue #16809: Tkinter's splitlist() and split() methods now accept Tcl_Obj
552 argument.
553
Serhiy Storchaka42035702013-08-21 21:46:12 +0300554- Issue #17119: Fixed integer overflows when processing large Unicode strings
555 and tuples in the tkinter module.
556
Charles-François Natalib817faa2013-08-21 18:25:00 +0200557- Issue #15233: Python now guarantees that callables registered with the atexit
558 module will be called in a deterministic order.
559
Christian Heimes0d604cf2013-08-21 13:26:05 +0200560- Issue #18747: Re-seed OpenSSL's pseudo-random number generator after fork.
Christian Heimes8ee5ffd2013-08-25 14:19:16 +0200561 A pthread_atfork() parent handler is used to seed the PRNG with pid, time
Christian Heimes0d604cf2013-08-21 13:26:05 +0200562 and some stack data.
563
Serhiy Storchakac3603892013-08-20 20:38:21 +0300564- Issue #8865: Concurrent invocation of select.poll.poll() now raises a
565 RuntimeError exception. Patch by Christian Schubert.
566
Serhiy Storchakaa9885e92013-08-20 20:08:53 +0300567- Issue #13461: Fix a crash in the TextIOWrapper.tell method on 64-bit
568 platforms. Patch by Yogesh Chaudhari.
569
Christian Heimes10107812013-08-19 17:36:29 +0200570- Issue #18777: The ssl module now uses the new CRYPTO_THREADID API of
571 OpenSSL 1.0.0+ instead of the deprecated CRYPTO id callback function.
572
Christian Heimesec8c2192013-08-18 03:11:11 +0200573- Issue #18768: Correct doc string of RAND_edg(). Patch by Vajrasky Kok.
Christian Heimesb4ec8422013-08-17 17:25:18 +0200574
Christian Heimes6e0be012013-08-17 15:01:54 +0200575- Issue #18178: Fix ctypes on BSD. dlmalloc.c was compiled twice which broke
576 malloc weak symbols.
577
Christian Heimes88b174c2013-08-17 00:54:47 +0200578- Issue #18709: Fix CVE-2013-4238. The SSL module now handles NULL bytes
579 inside subjectAltName correctly. Formerly the module has used OpenSSL's
580 GENERAL_NAME_print() function to get the string represention of ASN.1
581 strings for ``rfc822Name`` (email), ``dNSName`` (DNS) and
582 ``uniformResourceIdentifier`` (URI).
583
Antoine Pitrouf48a67b2013-08-16 20:44:38 +0200584- Issue #18756: Improve error reporting in os.urandom() when the failure
585 is due to something else than /dev/urandom not existing (for example,
586 exhausting the file descriptor limit).
587
Antoine Pitrou4221b7c2013-08-13 20:23:56 +0200588- Fix tkinter regression introduced by the security fix in issue #16248.
589
Terry Jan Reedybb8114c2013-08-10 18:17:01 -0400590- Issue #18676: Change 'positive' to 'non-negative' in queue.py put and get
591 docstrings and ValueError messages. Patch by Zhongyue Luo
592
Serhiy Storchaka3ade66c2013-08-03 19:26:33 +0300593- Issue #17998: Fix an internal error in regular expression engine.
594
Ned Deily80743642013-08-01 21:19:09 -0700595- Issue #17557: Fix os.getgroups() to work with the modified behavior of
596 getgroups(2) on OS X 10.8. Original patch by Mateusz Lenik.
597
Richard Oudkerkc8ef9bc2013-07-15 18:37:48 +0100598- Issue #18455: multiprocessing should not retry connect() with same socket.
599
Raymond Hettinger69468142013-07-20 10:56:58 -0700600- Issue #18513: Fix behaviour of cmath.rect w.r.t. signed zeros on OS X 10.8 +
601 gcc.
602
Serhiy Storchakafab65422013-07-11 20:32:48 +0300603- Issue #18101: Tcl.split() now process Unicode strings nested in a tuple as it
604 do with byte strings.
605
Christian Heimes20d46692013-07-05 01:41:30 +0200606- Issue #18347: ElementTree's html serializer now preserves the case of
607 closing tags.
608
Richard Oudkerk1e462fe2013-07-02 13:31:43 +0100609- Issue #17261: Ensure multiprocessing's proxies use proper address.
610
Richard Oudkerk41072db2013-07-01 18:45:28 +0100611- Issue #17097: Make multiprocessing ignore EINTR.
612
R David Murray24dc7532013-06-29 18:43:59 -0400613- Issue #18155: The csv module now correctly handles csv files that use
614 a delimiter character that has a special meaning in regexes, instead of
615 throwing an exception.
616
Victor Stinnerc1a44262013-06-25 00:48:02 +0200617- Issue #18135: ssl.SSLSocket.write() now raises an OverflowError if the input
618 string in longer than 2 gigabytes. The ssl module does not support partial
619 write.
Victor Stinner4807df42013-06-23 15:15:10 +0200620
R David Murray24dc7532013-06-29 18:43:59 -0400621- Issue #18167: cgi.FieldStorage no longer fails to handle multipart/form-data
Serhiy Storchakae2cc3412013-06-17 16:33:48 +0300622 when \r\n appears at end of 65535 bytes without other newlines.
623
Senthil Kumaran2c4810e2013-05-29 05:58:47 -0700624- Issue #17403: urllib.parse.robotparser normalizes the urls before adding to
625 ruleline. This helps in handling certain types invalid urls in a conservative
626 manner. Patch contributed by Mher Movsisyan.
627
Benjamin Peterson1cf48b42013-05-22 13:25:41 -0700628- Implement inequality on weakref.WeakSet.
629
Vinay Sajipbb6b51c2013-05-16 22:47:47 +0100630- Issue #17981: Closed socket on error in SysLogHandler.
631
Raymond Hettinger7393c692013-05-27 10:58:55 -0700632- Issue #18015: Fix unpickling of 2.7.3 and 2.7.4 namedtuples.
633
doko@ubuntu.com96645cc2013-05-15 15:46:11 +0200634- Issue #17754: Make ctypes.util.find_library() independent of the locale.
Benjamin Peterson988aba32013-05-11 22:36:05 -0500635
doko@ubuntu.com98552492013-05-15 16:54:16 +0200636- Fix typos in the multiprocessing module.
637
Ronald Oussoren16c52a32013-05-24 13:45:27 +0200638- Issue #17269: Workaround for socket.getaddrinfo crash on MacOS X
639 with port None or "0" and flags AI_NUMERICSERV.
640
Ned Deily1ab29e72013-05-28 16:31:45 -0700641- Issue #18080: When building a C extension module on OS X, if the compiler
642 is overriden with the CC environment variable, use the new compiler as
643 the default for linking if LDSHARED is not also overriden. This restores
644 Distutils behavior introduced in 2.7.3 and inadvertently dropped in 2.7.4.
645
Ned Deilyfb773862013-07-31 00:14:20 -0700646- Issue #18071: C extension module builds on OS X could fail with TypeError
647 if the Xcode command line tools were not installed.
648
Andrew Kuchlinga49dcc52013-06-15 13:53:10 -0400649- Issue #18113: Fixed a refcount leak in the curses.panel module's
650 set_userptr() method. Reported by Atsuo Ishimoto.
651
Eli Bendersky8c7e9252013-09-06 06:17:15 -0700652- Issue #18849: Fixed a Windows-specific tempfile bug where collision with an
653 existing directory caused mkstemp and related APIs to fail instead of
654 retrying. Report and fix by Vlad Shcherbina.
655
Ned Deily7c5ba452013-10-25 16:01:42 -0700656- Issue #19400: Prevent extension module build failures with Xcode 5 on OS X
657 10.8+ when using a universal Python that included a PPC architecture,
658 such as with a python.org 32-bit-only binary installer.
659
Ronald Oussoren51ee6562013-07-06 13:19:58 +0200660Tools/Demos
661-----------
662
Serhiy Storchakae787bce2013-09-17 00:00:46 +0300663- Issue #18873: 2to3 and the findnocoding.py script now detect Python source
664 code encoding only in comment lines.
665
Serhiy Storchaka879a2132013-08-25 19:12:33 +0300666- Issue #18817: Fix a resource warning in Lib/aifc.py demo.
667
Terry Jan Reedy7af16b32013-07-21 21:08:29 -0400668- Issue #18439: Make patchcheck work on Windows for ACKS, NEWS.
669
Serhiy Storchakaf52d5742013-07-16 22:11:28 +0300670- Issue #18448: Fix a typo in Demo/newmetaclasses/Eiffel.py.
671
Ronald Oussoren51ee6562013-07-06 13:19:58 +0200672- Issue #12990: The "Python Launcher" on OSX could not launch python scripts
673 that have paths that include wide characters.
674
Ned Deily8e60f6e2013-05-30 00:14:29 -0700675Build
676-----
677
Martin v. Löwisd5375df2013-08-03 20:24:00 +0200678- Issue #16067: Add description into MSI file to replace installer's temporary name.
679
Antoine Pitrou7e9cec02013-06-18 22:17:48 +0200680- Issue #18256: Compilation fix for recent AIX releases. Patch by
681 David Edelsohn.
682
Ned Deily8e60f6e2013-05-30 00:14:29 -0700683- Issue #18098: The deprecated OS X Build Applet.app fails to build on
684 OS X 10.8 systems because the Apple-deprecated QuickDraw headers have
685 been removed from Xcode 4. Skip building it in this case.
686
Ned Deilya2a9f572013-10-25 00:30:10 -0700687- Issue #1584: Provide options to override default search paths for
688 Tcl and Tk when building _tkinter.
689
Ned Deily0203a802013-10-25 00:40:07 -0700690- Issue #15663: Tcl/Tk 8.5.15 is now included with the OS X 10.6+
691 64-bit/32-bit installer for 10.6+. It is no longer necessary
692 to install a third-party version of Tcl/Tk 8.5 to work around the
693 problems in the Apple-supplied Tcl/Tk 8.5 shipped in OS X 10.6
694 and later releases.
695
Ned Deilyf84b5312013-10-25 00:44:46 -0700696- Issue #19019: Change the OS X installer build script to use CFLAGS instead
697 of OPT for special build options. By setting OPT, some compiler-specific
698 options like -fwrapv were overridden and thus not used, which could result
699 in broken interpreters when building with clang.
700
Roger Serwy02c0ed02013-05-20 22:13:39 -0500701IDLE
702----
703
Serhiy Storchakae787bce2013-09-17 00:00:46 +0300704- Issue #18873: IDLE now detects Python source code encoding only in comment
705 lines.
706
Serhiy Storchakae03c74a2013-09-11 22:49:06 +0300707- Issue #18988: The "Tab" key now works when a word is already autocompleted.
708
Terry Jan Reedy4c427352013-08-31 16:27:08 -0400709- Issue #18489: Add tests for SearchEngine. Original patch by Phil Webster.
710
Terry Jan Reedy0fd11562013-08-10 17:46:16 -0400711- Issue #18429: Format / Format Paragraph, now works when comment blocks
712 are selected. As with text blocks, this works best when the selection
713 only includes complete lines.
714
Terry Jan Reedy3d354892013-08-10 16:56:20 -0400715- Issue #18226: Add docstrings and unittests for FormatParagraph.py.
716 Original patches by Todd Rovito and Phil Webster.
717
Terry Jan Reedyc8a198c2013-07-13 02:34:35 -0400718- Issue #18279: Format - Strip trailing whitespace no longer marks a file as
719 changed when it has not been changed. This fix followed the addition of a
720 test file originally written by Phil Webster (the issue's main goal).
721
Terry Jan Reedy34906552013-07-26 18:21:32 -0400722- Issue #18539: Calltips now work for float default arguments.
723
Terry Jan Reedy44d8b112013-07-01 00:42:44 -0400724- Issue #7136: In the Idle File menu, "New Window" is renamed "New File".
725 Patch by Tal Einat, Roget Serwy, and Todd Rovito.
Ronald Oussoren3687e802013-07-11 13:33:55 +0200726
Terry Jan Reedyb6eeef42013-06-30 19:07:49 -0400727- Issue #8515: Set __file__ when run file in IDLE.
728 Initial patch by Bruce Frederiksen.
729
Roger Serwy16ce43a2013-06-11 22:13:17 -0500730- Issue #5492: Avoid traceback when exiting IDLE caused by a race condition.
731
Roger Serwyfff3f482013-06-10 23:01:20 -0500732- Issue #17511: Keep IDLE find dialog open after clicking "Find Next".
733 Original patch by Sarah K.
734
Terry Jan Reedyb8fd9ca2013-05-30 14:47:33 -0400735- Issue #15392: Create a unittest framework for IDLE.
736 Preliminary patch by Rajagopalasarma Jayakrishnan
Terry Jan Reedyc8a198c2013-07-13 02:34:35 -0400737 See Lib/idlelib/idle_test/README.txt for how to run Idle tests.
Terry Jan Reedyb8fd9ca2013-05-30 14:47:33 -0400738
Roger Serwy02c0ed02013-05-20 22:13:39 -0500739- Issue #14146: Highlight source line while debugging on Windows.
740
Ned Deily674f4fa2013-05-22 15:16:17 -0700741- Issue #17532: Always include Options menu for IDLE on OS X.
742 Patch by Guilherme Simões.
743
Antoine Pitrouf41ffed2013-05-19 15:44:54 +0200744Tests
745-----
746
Serhiy Storchaka0fa01732013-10-13 17:47:22 +0300747- Issue #18919: Added tests for the sunau module. Unified and extended tests
748 for audio modules: aifc, sunau and wave.
749
Antoine Pitrou78254dc2013-08-22 00:39:46 +0200750- Issue #18792: Use "127.0.0.1" or "::1" instead of "localhost" as much as
751 possible, since "localhost" goes through a DNS lookup under recent Windows
752 versions.
753
Ezio Melotti7921b302013-08-08 20:09:19 +0300754- Issue #18357: add tests for dictview set difference.
755 Patch by Fraser Tweedale.
756
Antoine Pitrou0c503c22013-07-04 21:03:10 +0200757- Issue #11185: Fix test_wait4 under AIX. Patch by Sébastien Sablé.
758
Serhiy Storchaka95787fd2013-05-31 22:34:53 +0300759- Issue #18094: test_uuid no more reports skipped tests as passed.
760
Antoine Pitrouf41ffed2013-05-19 15:44:54 +0200761- Issue #11995: test_pydoc doesn't import all sys.path modules anymore.
762
Serhiy Storchaka54f70922013-05-22 15:28:30 +0300763Documentation
764-------------
765
Serhiy Storchakab33336f2013-10-13 23:09:00 +0300766- Issue #18758: Fixed and improved cross-references.
767
David Wolevera80d3a02013-08-14 14:33:54 -0400768- Issue #18718: datetime documentation contradictory on leap second support.
769
David Wolever452dd382013-08-12 15:50:10 -0400770- Issue #17701: Improving strftime documentation.
David Wolevera80d3a02013-08-14 14:33:54 -0400771
Serhiy Storchaka54f70922013-05-22 15:28:30 +0300772- Issue #17844: Refactor a documentation of Python specific encodings.
773 Add links to encoders and decoders for binary-to-binary codecs.
774
Antoine Pitrouf41ffed2013-05-19 15:44:54 +0200775
Benjamin Petersonaec81392013-03-23 15:24:13 -0500776What's New in Python 2.7.5?
777===========================
778
Benjamin Peterson08649442013-05-11 22:29:20 -0500779*Release date: 2013-05-12*
Benjamin Petersonaec81392013-03-23 15:24:13 -0500780
781Core and Builtins
782-----------------
783
Ronald Oussoren16c52a32013-05-24 13:45:27 +0200784- Issue #15535: Fixed regression in the pickling of named tuples by
Raymond Hettinger0801d732013-05-03 00:59:20 -0700785 removing the __dict__ property introduced in 2.7.4.
786
Serhiy Storchaka8493a042013-04-28 14:09:47 +0300787- Issue #17857: Prevent build failures with pre-3.5.0 versions of sqlite3,
788 such as was shipped with Centos 5 and Mac OS X 10.4.
789
Antoine Pitrou108d1b42013-04-15 21:20:14 +0200790- Issue #17703: Fix a regression where an illegal use of Py_DECREF() after
791 interpreter finalization can cause a crash.
792
Mark Dickinsonf794b142013-04-13 15:19:05 +0100793- Issue #16447: Fixed potential segmentation fault when setting __name__ on a
794 class.
795
Benjamin Peterson74001fa2013-04-07 09:52:59 -0400796- Issue #17610: Don't rely on non-standard behavior of the C qsort() function.
797
Benjamin Petersonaec81392013-03-23 15:24:13 -0500798Library
799-------
800
Serhiy Storchakacb1a0282013-05-21 22:53:33 +0300801- Issue #17979: Fixed the re module in build with --disable-unicode.
802
Serhiy Storchaka74239032013-05-12 17:29:34 +0300803- Issue #17606: Fixed support of encoded byte strings in the XMLGenerator
804 .characters() and ignorableWhitespace() methods. Original patch by Sebastian
805 Ortiz Vasquez.
806
Serhiy Storchakace34ba62013-05-09 14:22:05 +0300807- Issue #16601: Restarting iteration over tarfile no more continues from where
808 it left off. Patch by Michael Birtwell.
809
Terry Jan Reedy673770c2013-05-08 23:42:41 -0400810- Issue 16584: in filecomp._cmp, catch IOError as well as os.error.
811 Patch by Till Maas.
812
Antoine Pitrou38f1afe2013-05-08 01:51:37 +0200813- Issue #17926: Fix dbm.__contains__ on 64-bit big-endian machines.
814
Victor Stinnera5cd2552013-10-15 23:36:56 +0200815- Issue #19267: Fix support of multibyte encoding (ex: UTF-16) in the logging
816 module.
817
Antoine Pitrouf16ff7b2013-05-06 22:19:48 +0200818- Issue #17918: When using SSLSocket.accept(), if the SSL handshake failed
819 on the new socket, the socket would linger indefinitely. Thanks to
820 Peter Saveliev for reporting.
821
Antoine Pitrou31bc8be2013-05-06 21:51:03 +0200822- Issue #17289: The readline module now plays nicer with external modules
823 or applications changing the rl_completer_word_break_characters global
824 variable. Initial patch by Bradley Froehle.
825
Charles-Francois Natali880359c2013-05-06 21:21:57 +0200826- Issue #12181: select module: Fix struct kevent definition on OpenBSD 64-bit
827 platforms. Patch by Federico Schwindt.
828
Antoine Pitroud8931c32013-05-04 23:16:59 +0200829- Issue #14173: Avoid crashing when reading a signal handler during
830 interpreter shutdown.
831
Serhiy Storchaka6aca7652013-05-04 15:11:46 +0300832- Issue #16316: mimetypes now recognizes the .xz and .txz (.tar.xz) extensions.
833
Gregory P. Smith4832f342013-04-30 00:56:07 -0700834- Issue #17192: Restore the patch for Issue #10309 which was ommitted
835 in 2.7.4 when updating the bundled version of libffi used by ctypes.
836
Nadeem Vawdac1ea5ec2013-04-28 19:01:31 +0200837- Issue #17843: Removed test data file that was triggering false-positive virus
838 warnings with certain antivirus software.
839
Ronald Oussoren7b0baf02013-04-23 13:47:06 +0200840- Issue #17353: Plistlib emitted empty data tags with deeply nested datastructures
841
Serhiy Storchakad194b302013-04-22 22:51:00 +0300842- Issue #11714: Use 'with' statements to assure a Semaphore releases a
843 condition variable. Original patch by Thomas Rachel.
844
Vinay Sajip4dc385b2013-04-22 09:58:51 +0100845- Issue #17795: Reverted backwards-incompatible change in SysLogHandler with
846 Unix domain sockets.
847
Richard Oudkerk7bdd93c2013-04-17 19:15:52 +0100848- Issue #17555: Fix ForkAwareThreadLock so that size of after fork
849 registry does not grow exponentially with generation of process.
850
Antoine Pitroube929712013-04-15 21:35:25 +0200851- Issue #17710: Fix cPickle raising a SystemError on bogus input.
852
R David Murray60773392013-04-14 13:08:50 -0400853- Issue #17341: Include the invalid name in the error messages from re about
854 invalid group names.
855
Serhiy Storchaka616f2fe2013-04-13 21:15:10 +0300856- Issue #17016: Get rid of possible pointer wraparounds and integer overflows
857 in the re module. Patch by Nickolai Zeldovich.
858
doko@ubuntu.com66da7c52013-04-13 17:05:11 +0200859- Issue #17536: Add to webbrowser's browser list: xdg-open, gvfs-open,
860 www-browser, x-www-browser, chromium browsers, iceweasel, iceape.
861
Serhiy Storchaka6fa83f92013-04-13 12:28:17 +0300862- Issue #17656: Fix extraction of zip files with unicode member paths.
863
Serhiy Storchaka371432b2013-04-08 22:33:55 +0300864- Issue #17666: Fix reading gzip files with an extra field.
865
doko@ubuntu.com6cb43432013-04-08 21:20:09 +0200866- Issue #13150, #17512: sysconfig no longer parses the Makefile and config.h
867 files when imported, instead doing it at build time. This makes importing
868 sysconfig faster and reduces Python startup time by 20%.
869
R David Murrayc993a192013-04-02 12:15:07 -0400870- Issue #13163: Rename operands in smtplib.SMTP._get_socket to correct names;
871 fixes otherwise misleading output in tracebacks and when when debug is on.
872
Ezio Melottie66e7de2013-03-30 05:10:28 +0200873- Issue #17526: fix an IndexError raised while passing code without filename to
874 inspect.findsource(). Initial patch by Tyler Doyle.
875
Antoine Pitrou4ccdc962013-05-08 03:23:10 +0200876Build
877-----
878
Benjamin Petersonc8759662013-05-11 13:00:05 -0500879- Issue #17547: In configure, explicitly pass -Wformat for the benefit for GCC
880 4.8.
881
Antoine Pitrou4ccdc962013-05-08 03:23:10 +0200882- Issue #17682: Add the _io module to Modules/Setup.dist (commented out).
883
884- Issue #17086: Search the include and library directories provided by the
885 compiler.
886
R David Murray5cbff512013-04-21 10:13:43 -0400887Tests
888-----
889
Antoine Pitrou1e181022013-05-08 02:07:13 +0200890- Issue #17928: Fix test_structmembers on 64-bit big-endian machines.
891
Ezio Melotti6a4f3942013-05-05 22:36:09 +0300892- Issue #17883: Fix buildbot testing of Tkinter on Windows.
893 Patch by Zachary Ware.
894
Ezio Melotti5cea09d2013-05-04 17:59:03 +0300895- Issue #7855: Add tests for ctypes/winreg for issues found in IronPython.
896 Initial patch by Dino Viehland.
897
Antoine Pitroub996e042013-05-01 00:15:44 +0200898- Issue #17712: Fix test_gdb failures on Ubuntu 13.04.
899
R David Murray5cbff512013-04-21 10:13:43 -0400900- Issue #17065: Use process-unique key for winreg tests to avoid failures if
901 test is run multiple times in parallel (eg: on a buildbot host).
902
Benjamin Peterson89e2aed2013-04-06 15:19:04 -0400903IDLE
904----
905
Benjamin Peterson5a271682013-05-11 22:24:28 -0500906- Issue #17838: Allow sys.stdin to be reassigned.
907
Roger Serwy90f8b232013-04-17 00:22:50 -0500908- Issue #14735: Update IDLE docs to omit "Control-z on Windows".
909
Roger Serwy53dc4f02013-04-11 19:13:21 -0500910- Issue #17585: Fixed IDLE regression. Now closes when using exit() or quit().
911
Roger Serwy789299f2013-04-08 20:57:13 -0500912- Issue #17657: Show full Tk version in IDLE's about dialog.
913 Patch by Todd Rovito.
914
Roger Serwy4e9a7052013-04-07 12:41:16 -0500915- Issue #17613: Prevent traceback when removing syntax colorizer in IDLE.
916
Roger Serwy231a8fd2013-04-07 12:15:52 -0500917- Issue #1207589: Backwards-compatibility patch for right-click menu in IDLE.
918
Roger Serwy75b249c2013-04-06 20:26:53 -0500919- Issue #16887: IDLE now accepts Cancel in tabify/untabify dialog box.
920
Benjamin Peterson89e2aed2013-04-06 15:19:04 -0400921- Issue #14254: IDLE now handles readline correctly across shell restarts.
922
923- Issue #17614: IDLE no longer raises exception when quickly closing a file.
924
925- Issue #6698: IDLE now opens just an editor window when configured to do so.
926
Roger Serwy08759c72013-04-06 20:21:21 -0500927- Issue #8900: Using keyboard shortcuts in IDLE to open a file no longer
928 raises an exception.
929
930- Issue #6649: Fixed missing exit status in IDLE. Patch by Guilherme Polo.
931
Terry Jan Reedy6e65e992013-04-03 13:24:26 -0400932Documentation
933-------------
934
935- Issue #15940: Specify effect of locale on time functions.
936
Ezio Melotti0ba584c2013-04-12 16:22:24 +0300937- Issue #6696: add documentation for the Profile objects, and improve
938 profile/cProfile docs. Patch by Tom Pinckney.
939
Benjamin Petersonaec81392013-03-23 15:24:13 -0500940
Benjamin Peterson31289232013-03-23 15:22:20 -0500941What's New in Python 2.7.4?
942===========================
943
Benjamin Peterson376dd0e2013-04-06 09:58:51 -0400944*Release date: 2013-04-06*
Benjamin Peterson31289232013-03-23 15:22:20 -0500945
Benjamin Petersonb9be7bb2013-03-26 08:55:37 -0400946Build
947-----
948
949- Issue #17550: Fix the --enable-profiling configure switch.
950
Benjamin Petersonda2c7eb2013-03-23 22:32:00 -0500951Core and Builtins
952-----------------
953
954- Issue #15801 (again): With string % formatting, relax the type check for a
955 mapping such that any type with a __getitem__ can be used on the right hand
956 side.
957
Serhiy Storchakaff99e412013-04-14 18:52:15 +0300958IDLE
959----
Benjamin Peterson31289232013-03-23 15:22:20 -0500960
Benjamin Peterson167a96c2013-04-03 22:35:12 -0400961- Issue #17625: In IDLE, close the replace dialog after it is used.
962
Serhiy Storchakaff99e412013-04-14 18:52:15 +0300963Tests
964-----
965
Antoine Pitrou68915d72013-04-24 23:31:38 +0200966- Issue #17835: Fix test_io when the default OS pipe buffer size is larger
967 than one million bytes.
968
Benjamin Peterson01d9a772013-03-23 15:40:36 -0500969- Issue #17531: Fix tests that thought group and user ids were always the int
Benjamin Peterson7e2f1972013-03-23 16:35:45 -0500970 type. Also, always allow -1 as a valid group and user id.
Benjamin Peterson31289232013-03-23 15:22:20 -0500971
Benjamin Petersond627e122013-03-30 10:36:31 -0400972- Issue #17533: Fix test_xpickle with older versions of Python 2.5.
973
Christian Heimes23790b42013-03-26 17:53:05 +0100974Documentation
975-------------
976
977- Issue 17538: Document XML vulnerabilties
978
Benjamin Peterson31289232013-03-23 15:22:20 -0500979
Benjamin Petersona1f6fab2013-03-23 10:17:29 -0500980What's New in Python 2.7.4 release candidate 1
981==============================================
Victor Stinner08563d92011-05-30 23:44:13 +0200982
Benjamin Petersona1f6fab2013-03-23 10:17:29 -0500983*Release date: 2013-03-23*
Victor Stinner08563d92011-05-30 23:44:13 +0200984
985Core and Builtins
986-----------------
987
Kristján Valur Jónsson9795ca42013-03-19 17:17:47 -0700988- Issue #10211: Buffer objects expose the new buffer interface internally
989
Mark Dickinson7cac1c22013-03-03 11:13:34 +0000990- Issue #16445: Fixed potential segmentation fault when deleting an exception
991 message.
992
R David Murray5b2cf5e2013-02-23 22:11:21 -0500993- Issue #17275: Corrected class name in init error messages of the C version of
994 BufferedWriter and BufferedRandom.
995
R David Murray5aff27a2013-02-18 22:04:59 -0500996- Issue #7963: Fixed misleading error message that issued when object is
997 called without arguments.
998
Serhiy Storchaka34fe1b72013-02-13 12:07:43 +0200999- Issue #5308: Raise ValueError when marshalling too large object (a sequence
1000 with size >= 2**31), instead of producing illegal marshal data.
1001
Serhiy Storchakad5327d92013-02-07 16:23:11 +02001002- Issue #17043: The unicode-internal decoder no longer read past the end of
1003 input buffer.
1004
Serhiy Storchaka64cca122013-01-29 12:04:55 +02001005- Issue #16979: Fix error handling bugs in the unicode-escape-decode decoder.
1006
Serhiy Storchakac59c85c2013-01-26 12:13:40 +02001007- Issue #10156: In the interpreter's initialization phase, unicode globals
1008 are now initialized dynamically as needed.
1009
Serhiy Storchaka01b3a082013-01-25 23:30:50 +02001010- Issue #16975: Fix error handling bug in the escape-decode decoder.
1011
Ezio Melotti302ad8d2013-01-19 19:44:58 +02001012- Issue #14850: Now a charmap decoder treats U+FFFE as "undefined mapping"
1013 in any mapping, not only in a Unicode string.
Serhiy Storchaka95997452013-01-15 14:42:59 +02001014
Serhiy Storchakac4b82c02013-01-08 23:12:00 +02001015- Issue #11461: Fix the incremental UTF-16 decoder. Original patch by
1016 Amaury Forgeot d'Arc.
1017
Victor Stinner23a32ba2013-01-03 03:33:21 +01001018- Issue #16367: Fix FileIO.readall() on Windows for files larger than 2 GB.
1019
Benjamin Petersona708adf2013-01-02 12:21:32 -06001020- Issue #15516: Fix a bug in PyString_FromFormat where it failed to properly
1021 ignore errors from a __int__() method.
1022
Benjamin Peterson6b3f8d32013-01-02 09:36:23 -06001023- Issue #16839: Fix a segfault when calling unicode() on a classic class early
1024 in interpreter initialization.
1025
Serhiy Storchakacf095f82012-12-28 09:31:59 +02001026- Issue #16761: Calling ``int()`` and ``long()`` with *base* argument only
1027 now raises TypeError.
1028
Brian Curtin33e05e72012-12-27 14:37:06 -06001029- Issue #16759: Support the full DWORD (unsigned long) range in Reg2Py
Ezio Melotti302ad8d2013-01-19 19:44:58 +02001030 when retrieving a REG_DWORD value. This corrects functions like
Brian Curtin33e05e72012-12-27 14:37:06 -06001031 winreg.QueryValueEx that may have been returning truncated values.
1032
Brian Curtin0e091b02012-12-27 12:28:51 -06001033- Issue #14420: Support the full DWORD (unsigned long) range in Py2Reg
1034 when passed a REG_DWORD value. Fixes ValueError in winreg.SetValueEx when
1035 given a long.
1036
Mark Dickinson9fade762012-12-24 16:33:18 +00001037- Issue #13863: Work around buggy 'fstat' implementation on Windows / NTFS that
1038 lead to incorrect timestamps (off by one hour) being stored in .pyc files on
1039 some systems.
1040
Antoine Pitroud38c9902012-12-08 21:15:26 +01001041- Issue #16602: When a weakref's target was part of a long deallocation
1042 chain, the object could remain reachable through its weakref even though
1043 its refcount had dropped to zero.
1044
Mark Dickinsonb1cc6aa2012-11-25 17:11:33 +00001045- Issue #9011: Fix hacky AST code that modified the CST when compiling
1046 a negated numeric literal.
1047
Ezio Melottidb5947f2012-11-18 13:46:38 +02001048- Issue #16306: Fix multiple error messages when unknown command line
1049 parameters where passed to the interpreter. Patch by Hieu Nguyen.
1050
Antoine Pitroue3ae3212012-11-17 21:14:58 +01001051- Issue #15379: Fix passing of non-BMP characters as integers for the charmap
1052 decoder (already working as unicode strings). Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
1053
Antoine Pitroub704eab2012-11-11 19:36:51 +01001054- Issue #16453: Fix equality testing of dead weakref objects.
1055
Gregory P. Smithc1ce93a2012-11-10 20:38:17 -08001056- Issue #9535: Fix pending signals that have been received but not yet
1057 handled by Python to not persist after os.fork() in the child process.
1058
Hynek Schlawackb271b3e2012-11-07 09:41:28 +01001059- Issue #15001: fix segfault on "del sys.modules['__main__']". Patch by Victor
1060 Stinner.
1061
Ezio Melotti751a50f2012-11-05 00:06:50 +02001062- Issue #5057: the peepholer no longer optimizes subscription on unicode
Ezio Melottic18cc0e2012-11-05 00:03:21 +02001063 literals (e.g. u'foo'[0]) in order to produce compatible pyc files between
1064 narrow and wide builds.
1065
Ezio Melotti67dc4a82012-11-03 21:10:45 +02001066- Issue #8401: assigning an int to a bytearray slice (e.g. b[3:4] = 5) now
1067 raises an error.
1068
Mark Dickinson75d36002012-10-28 10:00:46 +00001069- Issue #14700: Fix buggy overflow checks for large width and precision
1070 in string formatting operations.
1071
Benjamin Peterson0ec820f2012-10-31 14:05:55 -04001072- Issue #16345: Fix an infinite loop when ``fromkeys`` on a dict subclass
Benjamin Petersonc40ddae2012-10-31 14:16:09 -04001073 received a nonempty dict from the constructor.
Benjamin Peterson0ec820f2012-10-31 14:05:55 -04001074
Nick Coghlanb48c0282012-10-19 21:58:18 +10001075- Issue #6074: Ensure cached bytecode files can always be updated by the
1076 user that created them, even when the source file is read-only.
1077
Chris Jerdonekad4b0002012-10-07 20:37:54 -07001078- Issue #14783: Improve int() and long() docstrings and switch docstrings for
1079 unicode(), slice(), range(), and xrange() to use multi-line signatures.
1080
Mark Dickinson218a8ab2012-09-28 20:36:36 +01001081- Issue #16030: Fix overflow bug in computing the `repr` of an xrange object
1082 with large start, step or length.
1083
1084- Issue #16029: Fix overflow bug occurring when pickling xranges with large
1085 start, step or length.
1086
Christian Heimes671138f2012-09-25 13:29:30 +02001087- Issue #16037: Limit httplib's _read_status() function to work around broken
1088 HTTP servers and reduce memory usage. It's actually a backport of a Python
1089 3.2 fix. Thanks to Adrien Kunysz.
1090
Jesus Cea7ddd9c22012-12-05 14:41:11 +01001091- Issue #16588: Silence unused-but-set warnings in Python/thread_pthread
1092
Antoine Pitrou58098a72012-09-06 00:59:49 +02001093- Issue #13992: The trashcan mechanism is now thread-safe. This eliminates
1094 sporadic crashes in multi-thread programs when several long deallocator
1095 chains ran concurrently and involved subclasses of built-in container
1096 types.
1097
Benjamin Peterson23d49d32012-08-28 17:55:35 -04001098- Issue #15801: Make sure mappings passed to '%' formatting are actually
1099 subscriptable.
1100
Antoine Pitrouc5bef752012-08-15 23:16:51 +02001101- Issue #15604: Update uses of PyObject_IsTrue() to check for and handle
1102 errors correctly. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
1103
Antoine Pitrou715a63b2012-07-21 00:52:06 +02001104- Issue #14579: Fix error handling bug in the utf-16 decoder. Patch by
1105 Serhiy Storchaka.
1106
Meador Inge6642d1f2012-07-18 14:09:04 -05001107- Issue #15368: An issue that caused bytecode generation to be
1108 non-deterministic when using randomized hashing (-R) has been fixed.
1109
Jesus Ceae884be62012-10-03 02:13:05 +02001110- Issue #15897: zipimport.c doesn't check return value of fseek().
1111 Patch by Felipe Cruz.
1112
Jesus Ceabdf1b9e2012-10-31 17:00:19 +01001113- Issue #16369: Global PyTypeObjects not initialized with PyType_Ready(...).
1114
Ezio Melotti50bc66a2012-11-03 21:29:08 +02001115- Issue #15033: Fix the exit status bug when modules invoked using -m switch,
Senthil Kumaran3b30b192012-07-04 19:50:29 -07001116 return the proper failure return value (1). Patch contributed by Jeff Knupp.
1117
Gregory P. Smithb2ac4d62012-06-25 20:57:36 -07001118- Issue #12268: File readline, readlines and read() methods no longer lose
1119 data when an underlying read system call is interrupted. IOError is no
1120 longer raised due to a read system call returning EINTR from within these
1121 methods.
1122
Éric Araujoe5567cc2012-07-03 01:23:46 -04001123- Issue #13512: Create ~/.pypirc securely (CVE-2011-4944). Initial patch by
1124 Philip Jenvey, tested by Mageia and Debian.
1125
Éric Araujo3cf202e2012-07-03 01:12:42 -04001126- Issue #7719: Make distutils ignore ``.nfs*`` files instead of choking later
1127 on. Initial patch by SilentGhost and Jeff Ramnani.
1128
Hynek Schlawack9bd4bf22012-06-21 19:45:19 +02001129- Issue #10053: Don't close FDs when FileIO.__init__ fails. Loosely based on
1130 the work by Hirokazu Yamamoto.
1131
Antoine Pitrouff0e22b2012-05-28 22:22:34 +02001132- Issue #14775: Fix a potential quadratic dict build-up due to the garbage
1133 collector repeatedly trying to untrack dicts.
1134
Petri Lehtinen5f397062012-05-19 18:34:06 +03001135- Issue #14494: Fix __future__.py and its documentation to note that
1136 absolute imports are the default behavior in 3.0 instead of 2.7.
1137 Patch by Sven Marnach.
1138
Antoine Pitrou284fa082012-05-09 13:24:31 +02001139- Issue #14761: Fix potential leak on an error case in the import machinery.
1140
Benjamin Peterson042c47b2012-05-01 09:51:09 -04001141- Issue #14699: Fix calling the classmethod descriptor directly.
1142
Benjamin Petersond157a4c2012-04-24 11:06:25 -04001143- Issue #11603 (again): Setting __repr__ to __str__ now raises a RuntimeError
1144 when repr() or str() is called on such an object.
1145
1146- Issue #14658: Fix binding a special method to a builtin implementation of a
1147 special method with a different name.
1148
Benjamin Peterson76605552012-04-18 11:14:31 -04001149- Issue #14612: Fix jumping around with blocks by setting f_lineno.
1150
Mark Dickinson9c0baf72012-04-15 15:19:06 +01001151- Issue #13889: Check and (if necessary) set FPU control word before calling
1152 any of the dtoa.c string <-> float conversion functions, on MSVC builds of
1153 Python. This fixes issues when embedding Python in a Delphi app.
1154
Antoine Pitrou02a38012012-04-05 14:07:52 +02001155- Issue #14505: Fix file descriptor leak when deallocating file objects
1156 created with PyFile_FromString().
1157
Benjamin Petersonf73813a2012-04-02 11:15:17 -04001158- Issue #14474: Save and restore exception state in thread.start_new_thread()
1159 while writing error message if the thread leaves a unhandled exception.
1160
Antoine Pitroufe941772012-04-01 16:05:46 +02001161- Issue #13019: Fix potential reference leaks in bytearray.extend(). Patch
1162 by Suman Saha.
1163
Benjamin Petersoneff19a12012-03-22 08:19:04 -04001164- Issue #14378: Fix compiling ast.ImportFrom nodes with a "__future__" string as
1165 the module name that was not interned.
1166
Gregory P. Smithfcdf04b2012-03-18 16:07:10 -07001167- Issue #14331: Use significantly less stack space when importing modules by
1168 allocating path buffers on the heap instead of the stack.
1169
Benjamin Peterson6e7832b2012-03-16 09:32:59 -05001170- Issue #14334: Prevent in a segfault in type.__getattribute__ when it was not
Benjamin Petersondbc52f82012-03-16 10:58:46 -05001171 passed strings. Also fix segfaults in the __getattribute__ and __setattr__
1172 methods of old-style classes.
Benjamin Peterson6e7832b2012-03-16 09:32:59 -05001173
Ezio Melotti11f8b682012-03-12 01:17:02 +02001174- Issue #14161: fix the __repr__ of file objects to escape the file name.
1175
Benjamin Petersona8d45852012-03-07 18:41:11 -06001176- Issue #1469629: Allow cycles through an object's __dict__ slot to be
1177 collected. (For example if ``x.__dict__ is x``).
1178
Antoine Pitrou6a1cd1b2012-02-27 00:45:12 +01001179- Issue #13521: dict.setdefault() now does only one lookup for the given key,
1180 making it "atomic" for many purposes. Patch by Filip Gruszczyński.
1181
Ronald Oussoren1c60c7a2013-01-25 17:55:39 +01001182- Issue #1602133: on Mac OS X a shared library build (``--enable-shared``)
1183 now fills the ``os.environ`` variable correctly.
1184
krisvale479c8f82012-03-22 20:17:42 +00001185- Issue #10538: When using the "s*" code with PyArg_ParseTuple() to fill a
1186 Py_buffer structure with data from an object supporting only the old
1187 PyBuffer interface, a reference to the source objects is now properly added
1188 to the Py_buffer.obj member.
1189
Benjamin Petersona84f4682012-03-07 19:17:57 -06001190Library
1191-------
1192
Vinay Sajip1e76e862013-03-25 23:37:41 +00001193- Issue #12718: Fix interaction with winpdb overriding __import__ by setting
1194 importer attribute on BaseConfigurator instance.
Serhiy Storchakaff99e412013-04-14 18:52:15 +03001195
Vinay Sajipbb2dad82013-03-23 11:18:10 +00001196- Issue #17521: Corrected non-enabling of logger following two calls to
1197 fileConfig().
1198
Vinay Sajip0e29f222013-03-23 10:56:39 +00001199- Issue #17508: Corrected MemoryHandler configuration in dictConfig() where
1200 the target handler wasn't configured first.
1201
Kristján Valur Jónsson9795ca42013-03-19 17:17:47 -07001202- Issue #10212: cStringIO and struct.unpack support new buffer objects.
1203
Kristján Valur Jónsson8927e8f2013-03-19 15:07:35 -07001204- Issue #12098: multiprocessing on Windows now starts child processes
1205 using the same sys.flags as the current process. Initial patch by
1206 Sergey Mezentsev.
1207
R David Murraya39c47a2013-03-19 16:26:53 -04001208- Issue #8862: Fixed curses cleanup when getkey is interrputed by a signal.
1209
Kristján Valur Jónsson6ebc8f32013-03-19 10:58:59 -07001210- Issue #9090: When a socket with a timeout fails with EWOULDBLOCK or EAGAIN,
1211 retry the select() loop instead of bailing out. This is because select()
1212 can incorrectly report a socket as ready for reading (for example, if it
1213 received some data with an invalid checksum).
1214
Serhiy Storchaka923baea2013-03-14 21:31:09 +02001215- Issue #1285086: Get rid of the refcounting hack and speed up urllib.unquote().
1216
Ezio Melottifda7a8c2013-03-13 01:49:57 +02001217- Issue #17368: Fix an off-by-one error in the Python JSON decoder that caused
1218 a failure while decoding empty object literals when object_pairs_hook was
1219 specified.
1220
Antoine Pitrou49e4dfe2013-03-04 20:30:01 +01001221- Issue #17278: Fix a crash in heapq.heappush() and heapq.heappop() when
1222 the list is being resized concurrently.
1223
Richard Oudkerkba482642013-02-26 12:37:07 +00001224- Issue #17018: Make Process.join() retry if os.waitpid() fails with EINTR.
1225
Petri Lehtinen9e147552013-02-23 19:05:09 +01001226- Issue #14720: sqlite3: Convert datetime microseconds correctly.
1227 Patch by Lowe Thiderman.
1228
Serhiy Storchaka49d40222013-02-21 20:17:54 +02001229- Issue #17225: JSON decoder now counts columns in the first line starting
1230 with 1, as in other lines.
1231
R David Murrayc32b6782013-02-19 20:00:11 -05001232- Issue #7842: backported fix for py_compile.compile() syntax error handling.
1233
Serhiy Storchaka46764482013-02-18 13:00:08 +02001234- Issue #13153: Tkinter functions now raise TclError instead of ValueError when
1235 a unicode argument contains non-BMP character.
1236
Serhiy Storchaka6a8e2b42013-02-16 21:23:01 +02001237- Issue #9669: Protect re against infinite loops on zero-width matching in
1238 non-greedy repeat. Patch by Matthew Barnett.
1239
Serhiy Storchakae18e05c2013-02-16 16:47:15 +02001240- Issue #13169: The maximal repetition number in a regular expression has been
1241 increased from 65534 to 2147483647 (on 32-bit platform) or 4294967294 (on
1242 64-bit).
1243
Richard Oudkerkf4b65602013-02-13 15:17:47 +00001244- Issue #16743: Fix mmap overflow check on 32 bit Windows.
1245
Serhiy Storchaka8d7d6bc2013-02-13 12:26:58 +02001246- Issue #11311: StringIO.readline(0) now returns an empty string as all other
1247 file-like objects.
1248
Serhiy Storchaka0127de02013-02-13 00:34:46 +02001249- Issue #16800: tempfile.gettempdir() no longer left temporary files when
1250 the disk is full. Original patch by Amir Szekely.
1251
Serhiy Storchakacdc7a912013-02-12 21:36:47 +02001252- Issue #13555: cPickle now supports files larger than 2 GiB.
1253
Michael Foordc36bf992013-02-11 12:53:21 +00001254- Issue #17052: unittest discovery should use self.testLoader.
Michael Foordcb66ee72013-02-10 23:59:46 +00001255
Serhiy Storchakada5c2a02013-02-12 09:27:53 +02001256- Issue #4591: Uid and gid values larger than 2**31 are supported now.
1257
Serhiy Storchaka65d56392013-02-10 19:27:37 +02001258- Issue #17141: random.vonmisesvariate() no more hangs for large kappas.
1259
Mark Dickinson9aaeb5e2013-02-10 14:13:40 +00001260- Issue #17149: Fix random.vonmisesvariate to always return results in
1261 the range [0, 2*math.pi].
1262
Serhiy Storchakaf8980382013-02-10 14:26:08 +02001263- Issue #1470548: XMLGenerator now works with UTF-16 and UTF-32 encodings.
1264
Serhiy Storchaka0dd3d302013-02-10 12:21:49 +02001265- Issue #6975: os.path.realpath() now correctly resolves multiple nested
1266 symlinks on POSIX platforms.
1267
Serhiy Storchaka276f1d52013-02-09 13:47:43 +02001268- Issue #7358: cStringIO.StringIO now supports writing to and reading from
1269 a stream larger than 2 GiB on 64-bit systems.
1270
Serhiy Storchakabeaa3ad2013-02-09 12:20:18 +02001271- Issue #10355: In SpooledTemporaryFile class mode and name properties and
1272 xreadlines method now work for unrolled files. encoding and newlines
1273 properties now removed as they have no sense and always produced
1274 AttributeError.
1275
Serhiy Storchaka62e709c2013-02-09 11:10:30 +02001276- Issue #16686: Fixed a lot of bugs in audioop module. Fixed crashes in
1277 avgpp(), maxpp() and ratecv(). Fixed an integer overflow in add(), bias(),
1278 and ratecv(). reverse(), lin2lin() and ratecv() no more lose precision for
1279 32-bit samples. max() and rms() no more returns a negative result and
1280 various other functions now work correctly with 32-bit sample -0x80000000.
1281
Serhiy Storchaka35c52b62013-02-07 16:59:34 +02001282- Issue #17073: Fix some integer overflows in sqlite3 module.
1283
Serhiy Storchakaa07a8b42013-02-04 12:45:46 +02001284- Issue #6083: Fix multiple segmentation faults occured when PyArg_ParseTuple
1285 parses nested mutating sequence.
1286
Benjamin Petersonf727c312013-02-03 19:25:11 -05001287- Issue #5289: Fix ctypes.util.find_library on Solaris.
1288
Serhiy Storchaka354d50e2013-02-03 17:10:42 +02001289- Issue #17106: Fix a segmentation fault in io.TextIOWrapper when an underlying
1290 stream or a decoder produces data of an unexpected type (i.e. when
1291 io.TextIOWrapper initialized with text stream or use bytes-to-bytes codec).
1292
Éric Araujo3e081c72013-02-03 11:41:19 -05001293- Issue #13994: Add compatibility alias in distutils.ccompiler for
1294 distutils.sysconfig.customize_compiler.
1295
Antoine Pitroud66c0ee2013-02-02 22:49:34 +01001296- Issue #15633: httplib.HTTPResponse is now mark closed when the server
1297 sends less than the advertised Content-Length.
1298
Benjamin Petersoneff492f2013-02-02 11:15:50 -05001299- Issue #15881: Fixed atexit hook in multiprocessing.
1300
Gregory P. Smitha5df2902012-07-14 14:12:35 -07001301- Issue #14340: Upgrade the embedded expat library to version 2.1.0.
1302
Serhiy Storchaka8673ab92013-02-02 10:28:30 +02001303- Issue #11159: SAX parser now supports unicode file names.
1304
Gregory P. Smith608cc452013-02-01 11:40:18 -08001305- Issue #6972: The zipfile module no longer overwrites files outside of
1306 its destination path when extracting malicious zip files.
1307
Serhiy Storchaka8d510cd2013-01-31 15:57:51 +02001308- Issue #17049: Localized calendar methods now return unicode if a locale
1309 includes an encoding and the result string contains month or weekday (was
1310 regression from Python 2.6).
1311
Serhiy Storchaka0be506a2013-01-31 15:26:55 +02001312- Issue #4844: ZipFile now raises BadZipfile when opens a ZIP file with an
1313 incomplete "End of Central Directory" record. Original patch by Guilherme
1314 Polo and Alan McIntyre.
1315
Michael Foord77cd8aa2013-01-29 22:59:02 +00001316- Issue #15505: `unittest.installHandler` no longer assumes SIGINT handler is
1317 set to a callable object.
1318
Serhiy Storchakac12dcd22013-02-08 11:21:32 +02001319- Issue #17051: Fix a memory leak in os.path.isdir() on Windows. Patch by
Serhiy Storchaka46f5b352013-01-28 20:19:50 +02001320 Robert Xiao.
1321
Serhiy Storchakab09ec9b2013-01-25 13:31:05 +02001322- Issue #13454: Fix a crash when deleting an iterator created by itertools.tee()
1323 if all other iterators were very advanced before.
1324
Benjamin Peterson08e153a2013-01-18 00:10:24 -05001325- Issue #16992: On Windows in signal.set_wakeup_fd, validate the file
1326 descriptor argument.
1327
Serhiy Storchakae39ba042013-01-15 18:01:21 +02001328- Issue #15861: tkinter now correctly works with lists and tuples containing
1329 strings with whitespaces, backslashes or unbalanced braces.
1330
Richard Oudkerk90b5d922013-01-14 23:09:14 +00001331- Issue #10527: Use poll() instead of select() for multiprocessing pipes.
1332
Serhiy Storchaka80a9fd72013-01-15 00:29:51 +02001333- Issue #9720: zipfile now writes correct local headers for files larger than
1334 4 GiB.
1335
Ezio Melotti5c4e32b2013-01-11 08:32:01 +02001336- Issue #13899: \A, \Z, and \B now correctly match the A, Z, and B literals
1337 when used inside character classes (e.g. '[\A]'). Patch by Matthew Barnett.
1338
Raymond Hettinger2cdb6432013-01-12 00:05:00 -08001339- Issue #16398: Optimize deque.rotate() so that it only moves pointers
1340 and doesn't touch the underlying data with increfs and decrefs.
1341
R David Murray32851d62013-01-10 21:10:40 -05001342- Issue #15109: Fix regression in sqlite3's iterdump method where it would
1343 die with an encoding error if the database contained string values
1344 containing non-ASCII. (Regression was introduced by fix for 9750).
1345
R David Murrayd6186842013-01-10 11:30:51 -05001346- Issue #15545: Fix regression in sqlite3's iterdump method where it was
1347 failing if the connection used a row factory (such as sqlite3.Row) that
1348 produced unsortable objects. (Regression was introduced by fix for 9750).
1349
Nadeem Vawda895cc222013-01-02 22:59:51 +01001350- Issue #16828: Fix error incorrectly raised by bz2.compress(''). Patch by
1351 Martin Packman.
1352
Richard Oudkerk7450a812013-01-01 17:25:09 +00001353- Issue #9586: Redefine SEM_FAILED on MacOSX to keep compiler happy.
1354
Ezio Melotti302ad8d2013-01-19 19:44:58 +02001355- Issue #10527: make multiprocessing use poll() instead of select() if available.
Giampaolo Rodola'cef20062012-12-31 17:23:09 +01001356
Serhiy Storchakadbaac372013-01-02 11:56:58 +02001357- Issue #16485: Now file descriptors are closed if file header patching failed
1358 on closing an aifc file.
Serhiy Storchaka4ed797e2012-12-29 22:25:59 +02001359
Antoine Pitrou40f12ab2012-12-28 19:03:43 +01001360- Issue #12065: connect_ex() on an SSL socket now returns the original errno
1361 when the socket's timeout expires (it used to return None).
1362
Senthil Kumaran1974baa2012-12-24 13:56:54 -08001363- Issue #16713: Fix the parsing of tel url with params using urlparse module.
1364
Andrew Svetlov1c6c90f2012-12-23 20:09:01 +02001365- Issue #16443: Add docstrings to regular expression match objects.
1366 Patch by Anton Kasyanov.
1367
Petri Lehtinenab7dd182012-12-20 21:06:14 +02001368- Issue #8853: Allow port to be of type long for socket.getaddrinfo().
1369
Benjamin Peterson92014422012-12-20 12:55:52 -06001370- Issue #16597: In buffered and text IO, call close() on the underlying stream
1371 if invoking flush() fails.
1372
Senthil Kumaranf8a6b002012-12-23 09:00:47 -08001373- Issue #15701: Fix HTTPError info method call to return the headers information.
1374
Giampaolo Rodola'c2a81692012-12-17 14:30:48 +01001375- Issue #16646: ftplib.FTP.makeport() might lose socket error details.
1376 (patch by Serhiy Storchaka)
1377
Antoine Pitrou124ee8b2012-12-16 13:55:47 +01001378- Issue #16626: Fix infinite recursion in glob.glob() on Windows when the
1379 pattern contains a wildcard in the drive or UNC path. Patch by Serhiy
1380 Storchaka.
1381
Antoine Pitrou4113d2b2012-12-15 19:11:54 +01001382- Issue #16298: In HTTPResponse.read(), close the socket when there is no
1383 Content-Length and the incoming stream is finished. Patch by Eran
1384 Rundstein.
1385
Antoine Pitrou7dddec42012-12-09 14:46:18 +01001386- Issue #16248: Disable code execution from the user's home directory by
1387 tkinter when the -E flag is passed to Python. Patch by Zachary Ware.
1388
Antoine Pitrou8eeda722012-12-08 11:05:50 +01001389- Issue #16628: Fix a memory leak in ctypes.resize().
1390
Éric Araujo2320fa02012-12-08 22:26:57 -05001391- Issue #13614: Fix setup.py register failure with invalid rst in description.
1392 Patch by Julien Courteau and Pierre Paul Lefebvre.
1393
Antoine Pitroub83575b2012-12-02 12:52:36 +01001394- Issue #10182: The re module doesn't truncate indices to 32 bits anymore.
1395 Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
1396
Benjamin Peterson256aaf72012-11-29 10:57:01 -05001397- Issue #16573: In 2to3, treat enumerate() like a consuming call, so superfluous
1398 list() calls aren't added to filter(), map(), and zip() which are directly
1399 passed enumerate().
1400
Antoine Pitroub83ea142012-11-20 22:30:42 +01001401- Issue #1160: Fix compiling large regular expressions on UCS2 builds.
1402 Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
1403
Ezio Melotti9e949722012-11-18 13:18:06 +02001404- Issue #14313: zipfile now raises NotImplementedError when the compression
1405 type is unknown.
1406
Antoine Pitrou02512fb2012-11-17 23:56:53 +01001407- Issue #16408: Fix file descriptors not being closed in error conditions
1408 in the zipfile module. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
1409
Gregory P. Smith9d3b6e92012-11-10 22:49:03 -08001410- Issue #16327: The subprocess module no longer leaks file descriptors
1411 used for stdin/stdout/stderr pipes to the child when fork() fails.
1412
Gregory P. Smithf2705ae2012-11-10 21:13:20 -08001413- Issue #14396: Handle the odd rare case of waitpid returning 0 when not
1414 expected in subprocess.Popen.wait().
1415
Nadeem Vawda3c309702012-11-11 03:14:56 +01001416- Issue #16411: Fix a bug where zlib.decompressobj().flush() might try to access
1417 previously-freed memory. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
1418
Nadeem Vawda252f4dc2012-11-11 02:14:15 +01001419- Issue #16350: zlib.decompressobj().decompress() now accumulates data from
Nadeem Vawda6cad3712012-11-05 00:55:06 +01001420 successive calls after EOF in unused_data, instead of only saving the argument
Nadeem Vawda252f4dc2012-11-11 02:14:15 +01001421 to the last call. decompressobj().flush() now correctly sets unused_data and
1422 unconsumed_tail. A bug in the handling of MemoryError when setting the
1423 unconsumed_tail attribute has also been fixed. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
Nadeem Vawda6cad3712012-11-05 00:55:06 +01001424
Ezio Melottief317382012-11-03 20:31:12 +02001425- Issue #12759: sre_parse now raises a proper error when the name of the group
1426 is missing. Initial patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
1427
Ezio Melotti7d24b162012-11-03 17:30:51 +02001428- Issue #16152: fix tokenize to ignore whitespace at the end of the code when
1429 no newline is found. Patch by Ned Batchelder.
1430
Antoine Pitrou0552fc22012-11-01 20:13:54 +01001431- Issue #16230: Fix a crash in select.select() when one the lists changes
1432 size while iterated on. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
1433
Antoine Pitroue9e35c32012-11-01 20:07:40 +01001434- Issue #16228: Fix a crash in the json module where a list changes size
1435 while it is being encoded. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
1436
Petri Lehtinen5c89c192012-10-29 21:16:57 +02001437- Issue #14897: Enhance error messages of struct.pack and
1438 struct.pack_into. Patch by Matti Mäki.
1439
R David Murray54eed2e2012-10-27 14:42:36 -04001440- Issue #12890: cgitb no longer prints spurious <p> tags in text
1441 mode when the logdir option is specified.
1442
Nadeem Vawda45dba1d2012-10-21 23:09:08 +02001443- Issue #14398: Fix size truncation and overflow bugs in the bz2 module.
1444
Nadeem Vawdadd72b3f2012-10-21 18:15:05 +02001445- Issue #5148: Ignore 'U' in mode given to gzip.open() and gzip.GzipFile().
1446
Antoine Pitroue97a24d2012-10-21 14:09:05 +02001447- Issue #16220: wsgiref now always calls close() on an iterable response.
1448 Patch by Brent Tubbs.
1449
Jesus Ceaf34e4de2012-11-17 03:38:17 +01001450- Issue #16461: Wave library should be able to deal with 4GB wav files,
1451 and sample rate of 44100 Hz.
1452
Brian Curtinc1924ab2012-10-11 16:16:50 -05001453- Issue #16176: Properly identify Windows 8 via platform.platform()
1454
Gregory P. Smith0798cbc2012-09-29 12:02:48 -07001455- Issue #15756: subprocess.poll() now properly handles errno.ECHILD to
1456 return a returncode of 0 when the child has already exited or cannot
1457 be waited on.
1458
Michael Foordbf2ad342012-09-28 12:54:56 +01001459- Issue #12376: Pass on parameters in TextTestResult.__init__ super call
1460
Petri Lehtinena4fd0dc2012-09-25 21:57:59 +03001461- Issue #15222: Insert blank line after each message in mbox mailboxes
1462
Senthil Kumarand41dc7c2012-09-25 02:48:21 -07001463- Issue #16013: Fix CSV Reader parsing issue with ending quote characters.
1464 Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
1465
Ezio Melotticadff702012-09-21 17:26:35 +03001466- Issue #15421: fix an OverflowError in Calendar.itermonthdates() after
1467 datetime.MAXYEAR. Patch by Cédric Krier.
1468
Ezio Melotti6d6fb3a2012-09-19 08:11:03 +03001469- Issue #15970: xml.etree.ElementTree now serializes correctly the empty HTML
1470 elements 'meta' and 'param'.
1471
Jesus Cea8b54d6d2012-09-10 00:22:39 +02001472- Issue #15676: Now "mmap" check for empty files before doing the
1473 offset check. Patch by Steven Willis.
1474
Antoine Pitroue299cae2012-09-07 23:49:07 +02001475- Issue #15340: Fix importing the random module when /dev/urandom cannot
1476 be opened. This was a regression caused by the hash randomization patch.
1477
Antoine Pitrouc5eec0e2012-09-05 20:11:49 +02001478- Issue #15841: The readable(), writable() and seekable() methods of
1479 io.BytesIO and io.StringIO objects now raise ValueError when the object has
1480 been closed. Patch by Alessandro Moura.
1481
Jesus Cea3e94e142012-10-04 15:06:57 +02001482- Issue #16112: platform.architecture does not correctly escape argument to
1483 /usr/bin/file. Patch by David Benjamin.
1484
R David Murray20101872012-08-31 23:15:28 -04001485- Issue #12776,#11839: call argparse type function (specified by add_argument)
1486 only once. Before, the type function was called twice in the case where the
1487 default was specified and the argument was given as well. This was
1488 especially problematic for the FileType type, as a default file would always
1489 be opened, even if a file argument was specified on the command line.
1490
Barry Warsaw03fcfbe2012-09-11 21:06:29 -04001491- Issue #15906: Fix a regression in argparse caused by the preceding change,
1492 when action='append', type='str' and default=[].
1493
Ronald Oussorena00b1002012-08-25 11:18:48 +02001494- Issue #13370: Ensure that ctypes works on Mac OS X when Python is
1495 compiled using the clang compiler
1496
Mark Dickinson088cec32012-08-24 20:06:30 +01001497- Issue #15544: Fix Decimal.__float__ to work with payload-carrying NaNs.
1498
Petri Lehtinen4efdc092012-08-20 21:05:56 +03001499- Issue #15199: Fix JavaScript's default MIME type to application/javascript.
1500 Patch by Bohuslav Kabrda.
1501
Mark Dickinson2de4be22012-08-18 12:31:34 +01001502- Issue #15477: In cmath and math modules, add workaround for platforms whose
1503 system-supplied log1p function doesn't respect signs of zeros.
1504
Petri Lehtinen2d44cee2012-08-15 14:22:46 +03001505- Issue #11062: Fix adding a message from file to Babyl mailbox.
1506
Richard Oudkerkfaee75c2012-08-14 11:41:19 +01001507- Issue #15646: Prevent equivalent of a fork bomb when using
1508 multiprocessing on Windows without the "if __name__ == '__main__'"
1509 idiom.
1510
Brian Curtina9391052012-08-09 23:04:42 -05001511- Issue #15567: Fix NameError when running threading._test
1512
Meador Inge2d639d52012-08-10 22:05:45 -05001513- Issue #15424: Add a __sizeof__ implementation for array objects.
1514 Patch by Ludwig Hähne.
1515
Antoine Pitrou1fa9f7b2012-08-02 20:37:12 +02001516- Issue #15538: Fix compilation of the getnameinfo() / getaddrinfo()
1517 emulation code. Patch by Philipp Hagemeister.
1518
Andrew Svetlov2d968482012-07-30 20:04:53 +03001519- Issue #12288: Consider '0' and '0.0' as valid initialvalue
1520 for tkinter SimpleDialog.
1521
Antoine Pitroubaee34c2012-07-30 00:01:06 +02001522- Issue #15489: Add a __sizeof__ implementation for BytesIO objects.
1523 Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
1524
Jesus Cead4e58dc2012-08-03 14:48:23 +02001525- Issue #15469: Add a __sizeof__ implementation for deque objects.
1526 Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
1527
Antoine Pitroubff5df02012-07-29 19:02:46 +02001528- Issue #15487: Add a __sizeof__ implementation for buffered I/O objects.
1529 Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
1530
Jesus Cea3e3192d2012-08-03 14:25:53 +02001531- Issue #15512: Add a __sizeof__ implementation for parser.
1532 Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
1533
Meador Inge87c5b942012-07-23 09:27:00 -05001534- Issue #15402: An issue in the struct module that caused sys.getsizeof to
1535 return incorrect results for struct.Struct instances has been fixed.
1536 Initial patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
1537
R David Murray0f111c12012-07-22 21:55:12 -04001538- Issue #15232: when mangle_from is True, email.Generator now correctly mangles
R David Murray70098452012-07-24 14:24:42 -04001539 lines that start with 'From ' that occur in a MIME preamble or epilog.
R David Murray0f111c12012-07-22 21:55:12 -04001540
R David Murray68f555c2012-07-21 22:54:34 -04001541- Issue #13922: argparse no longer incorrectly strips '--'s that appear
1542 after the first one.
1543
R David Murray056c31f2012-07-21 22:35:00 -04001544- Issue #12353: argparse now correctly handles null argument values.
1545
Meador Inge25be3f62012-07-18 23:51:05 -05001546- Issue #6493: An issue in ctypes on Windows that caused structure bitfields
1547 of type ctypes.c_uint32 and width 32 to incorrectly be set has been fixed.
1548
Gregory P. Smithe0c22202012-07-15 22:16:06 -07001549- Issue #14635: telnetlib will use poll() rather than select() when possible
1550 to avoid failing due to the select() file descriptor limit.
1551
Antoine Pitrouc2ec9922012-07-06 18:48:24 +02001552- Issue #15247: FileIO now raises an error when given a file descriptor
1553 pointing to a directory.
1554
Mark Dickinsone0afb722012-06-30 17:19:35 +01001555- Issue #14591: Fix bug in Random.jumpahead that could produce an invalid
1556 Mersenne Twister state on 64-bit machines.
1557
Petri Lehtinend07de402012-06-29 15:09:12 +03001558- Issue #5346: Preserve permissions of mbox, MMDF and Babyl mailbox
1559 files on flush().
1560
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd958cc92012-06-29 01:42:46 +02001561- Issue #15219: Fix a reference leak when hashlib.new() is called with
1562 invalid parameters.
1563
Petri Lehtinen45f0d982012-06-28 13:48:17 +03001564- Issue #9559: If messages were only added, a new file is no longer
1565 created and renamed over the old file when flush() is called on an
1566 mbox, MMDF or Babyl mailbox.
1567
Alexander Belopolskye99d3a12012-06-21 20:57:39 -04001568- Issue #14653: email.utils.mktime_tz() no longer relies on system
1569 mktime() when timezone offest is supplied.
1570
Richard Oudkerke4b99382012-07-27 14:05:46 +01001571- Issue #6056: Make multiprocessing use setblocking(True) on the
1572 sockets it uses. Original patch by J Derek Wilson.
1573
Richard Oudkerk4215d272012-06-18 15:37:31 +01001574- Issue #15101: Make pool finalizer avoid joining current thread.
1575
Meador Inge43f42fc2012-06-16 21:05:50 -05001576- Issue #15054: A bug in tokenize.tokenize that caused string literals
1577 with 'b' and 'br' prefixes to be incorrectly tokenized has been fixed.
1578 Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
1579
Petri Lehtinen48ee6902012-06-18 10:42:05 +03001580- Issue #15036: Mailbox no longer throws an error if a flush is done
1581 between operations when removing or changing multiple items in mbox,
1582 MMDF, or Babyl mailboxes.
Petri Lehtinen7cf66992012-06-15 20:50:51 +03001583
Richard Oudkerk926f58d2012-06-11 15:11:35 +01001584- Issue #10133: Make multiprocessing deallocate buffer if socket read
1585 fails. Patch by Hallvard B Furuseth.
1586
Richard Oudkerk2182e052012-06-06 19:01:14 +01001587- Issue #13854: Make multiprocessing properly handle non-integer
1588 non-string argument to SystemExit.
1589
Richard Oudkerkd44a4a22012-06-06 17:52:18 +01001590- Issue #12157: Make pool.map() empty iterables correctly. Initial
1591 patch by mouad.
1592
Senthil Kumaran37484dc2012-05-24 21:54:34 +08001593- Issue #14036: Add an additional check to validate that port in urlparse does
1594 not go in illegal range and returns None.
1595
Antoine Pitroucd8799f2012-05-23 23:16:14 +02001596- Issue #14888: Fix misbehaviour of the _md5 module when called on data
1597 larger than 2**32 bytes.
1598
Jesus Cea03a9d2a2012-09-10 21:04:42 +02001599- Issue #15908: Fix misbehaviour of the sha1 module when called on data
1600 larger than 2**32 bytes.
1601
Jesus Cea3fb774e2012-09-10 21:39:07 +02001602- Issue #15910: Fix misbehaviour of _md5 and sha1 modules when "updating"
1603 on data larger than 2**32 bytes.
1604
Ezio Melottied8cf7a2012-05-21 17:46:55 -06001605- Issue #14875: Use float('inf') instead of float('1e66666') in the json module.
1606
Ned Deily77e77a12012-05-19 23:35:05 -07001607- Issue #14572: Prevent build failures with pre-3.5.0 versions of
1608 sqlite3, such as was shipped with Centos 5 and Mac OS X 10.4.
1609
Senthil Kumaranf439a362012-05-20 12:02:44 +08001610- Issue #14426: Correct the Date format in Expires attribute of Set-Cookie
1611 Header in Cookie.py.
1612
Senthil Kumaran618802d2012-05-19 16:52:21 +08001613- Issue #14721: Send proper header, Content-length: 0 when the body is an empty
1614 string ''. Initial Patch contributed by Arve Knudsen.
1615
Ezio Melotti6d9c1b12012-05-19 17:12:17 +03001616- Issue #14072: Fix parsing of 'tel' URIs in urlparse by making the check for
1617 ports stricter.
1618
Senthil Kumaranea24dda2012-05-19 08:10:40 +08001619- Issue #9374: Generic parsing of query and fragment portions of url for any
1620 scheme. Supported both by RFC3986 and RFC2396.
1621
Petri Lehtinen280e9f72012-05-18 21:51:11 +03001622- Issue #14798: Fix the functions in pyclbr to raise an ImportError
1623 when the first part of a dotted name is not a package. Patch by
1624 Xavier de Gaye.
1625
R David Murray69493922012-05-16 14:01:03 -04001626- Issue #14832: fixed the order of the argument references in the error
1627 message produced by unittest's assertItemsEqual.
1628
Antoine Pitrou38fbd792012-05-16 15:01:40 +02001629- Issue #14829: Fix bisect issues under 64-bit Windows.
1630
Ned Deily724a55c2012-05-15 18:05:57 -07001631- Issue #14777: tkinter may return undecoded UTF-8 bytes as a string when
1632 accessing the Tk clipboard. Modify clipboad_get() to first request type
1633 UTF8_STRING when no specific type is requested in an X11 windowing
1634 environment, falling back to the current default type STRING if that fails.
1635 Original patch by Thomas Kluyver.
1636
Senthil Kumaran6a2a6c22012-05-15 22:24:10 +08001637- Issue #12541: Be lenient with quotes around Realm field with HTTP Basic
1638 Authentation in urllib2.
1639
Ned Deilyacdc56d2012-05-10 17:45:49 -07001640- Issue #14662: Prevent shutil failures on OS X when destination does not
1641 support chflag operations. Patch by Hynek Schlawack.
1642
Antoine Pitrouc2b714c2012-05-10 20:17:46 +02001643- Issue #14157: Fix time.strptime failing without a year on February 29th.
1644 Patch by Hynek Schlawack.
1645
Jesus Ceaf2011e32012-05-10 05:01:11 +02001646- Issue #14768: os.path.expanduser('~/a') doesn't works correctly when HOME is '/'.
1647
Senthil Kumaran7f6d4e12012-05-01 10:36:28 +08001648- Issue #13183: Fix pdb skipping frames after hitting a breakpoint and running
1649 step. Patch by Xavier de Gaye.
1650
Antoine Pitrou38153162012-04-25 17:31:12 +02001651- Issue #14664: It is now possible to use @unittest.skip{If,Unless} on a
1652 test class that doesn't inherit from TestCase (i.e. a mixin).
1653
Lars Gustäbel231d4742012-04-24 22:42:08 +02001654- Issue #14160: TarFile.extractfile() failed to resolve symbolic links when
1655 the links were not located in an archive subdirectory.
1656
R David Murrayc313b1d2012-04-23 13:27:11 -04001657- Issue #14638: pydoc now treats non-string __name__ values as if they
1658 were missing, instead of raising an error.
1659
Senthil Kumaran4c20c4e2012-04-23 23:52:40 +08001660- Issue #13684: Fix httplib tunnel issue of infinite loops for certain sites
1661 which send EOF without trailing \r\n.
Ezio Melottied8cf7a2012-05-21 17:46:55 -06001662
Antoine Pitrou52849bf2012-04-19 23:55:01 +02001663- Issue #14308: Fix an exception when a "dummy" thread is in the threading
1664 module's active list after a fork().
1665
Ezio Melottic45868e2012-04-18 19:08:41 -06001666- Issue #14538: HTMLParser can now parse correctly start tags that contain
1667 a bare '/'.
1668
Vinay Sajip7e9c9d52012-04-16 14:38:23 +01001669- Issue #14452: SysLogHandler no longer inserts a UTF-8 BOM into the message.
1670
Mark Dickinson0407e962012-04-15 16:43:19 +01001671- Issue #13496: Fix potential overflow in bisect.bisect algorithm when applied
1672 to a collection of size > sys.maxsize / 2.
1673
R David Murray9955ad42012-04-13 21:27:00 -04001674- Issue #14399: zipfile now recognizes that the archive has been modified even
1675 if only the comment is changed. As a consequence of this fix, ZipFile is now
1676 a new style class.
R David Murray3f4ccba2012-04-12 18:42:47 -04001677
Antoine Pitroufa1d8412012-04-09 00:47:24 +02001678- Issue #7978: SocketServer now restarts the select() call when EINTR is
1679 returned. This avoids crashing the server loop when a signal is received.
1680 Patch by Jerzy Kozera.
1681
Giampaolo Rodola'96cb5d12012-03-22 16:06:43 +01001682- Issue #10340: asyncore - properly handle EINVAL in dispatcher constructor on
1683 OSX; avoid to call handle_connect in case of a disconnected socket which
1684 was not meant to connect.
1685
R David Murrayb3f95d72012-03-21 15:02:30 -04001686- Issue #12757: Fix the skipping of doctests when python is run with -OO so
1687 that it works in unittest's verbose mode as well as non-verbose mode.
1688
Giampaolo Rodola'3d3cf482012-03-20 16:46:57 +01001689- Issue #13694: asynchronous connect in asyncore.dispatcher does not set addr
1690 attribute.
1691
Senthil Kumaran51a65c92012-03-16 01:07:16 -07001692- Issue #10484: Fix the CGIHTTPServer's PATH_INFO handling problem.
1693
Senthil Kumaran4c592112012-03-15 13:24:40 -07001694- Issue #11199: Fix the with urllib which hangs on particular ftp urls.
1695
Antoine Pitrouf60845b2012-03-11 19:29:12 +01001696- Issue #14252: Fix subprocess.Popen.terminate() to not raise an error under
1697 Windows when the child process has already exited.
1698
Benjamin Petersona84f4682012-03-07 19:17:57 -06001699- Issue #14195: An issue that caused weakref.WeakSet instances to incorrectly
1700 return True for a WeakSet instance 'a' in both 'a < a' and 'a > a' has been
1701 fixed.
1702
1703- Issue #14159: Fix the len() of weak sets to return a better approximation
1704 when some objects are dead or dying. Moreover, the implementation is now
1705 O(1) rather than O(n).
1706
1707- Issue #2945: Make the distutils upload command aware of bdist_rpm products.
1708
Benjamin Petersona84f4682012-03-07 19:17:57 -06001709- Issue #6884: Fix long-standing bugs with MANIFEST.in parsing in distutils
1710 on Windows.
1711
Chris Withers2cc0b072012-11-09 15:48:17 +00001712- Issue #16441: Avoid excessive memory usage working with large gzip
1713 files using the gzip module.
1714
Ned Deilyec8f8f72013-01-09 22:04:35 -08001715- Issue #15782: Prevent compile errors of OS X Carbon modules _Fm, _Qd, and
1716 _Qdoffs when compiling with an SDK of 10.7 or later. The OS X APIs they
1717 wrap have long been deprecated and have now been removed with 10.7.
1718 These modules were already empty for 64-bit builds and have been removed
1719 in Python 3.
1720
Christian Heimes8112ea22012-09-24 13:17:08 +02001721Extension Modules
1722-----------------
1723
doko@ubuntu.com4950a3b2013-03-19 14:46:29 -07001724- Issue #17477: Update the bsddb module to pybsddb 5.3.0, supporting
1725 db-5.x, and dropping support for db-4.1 and db-4.2.
1726
Gregory P. Smith46ce27a2013-03-18 16:58:50 -07001727- Issue #17192: Update the ctypes module's libffi to v3.0.13. This
1728 specifically addresses a stack misalignment issue on x86 and issues on
1729 some more recent platforms.
1730
Gregory P. Smitha06ad5b2013-02-01 13:07:27 -08001731- Issue #12268: The io module file object write methods no longer abort early
1732 when a write system calls is interrupted (EINTR).
Gregory P. Smitha998ad02013-02-01 13:02:59 -08001733
Gregory P. Smith0d68ab32012-11-27 10:19:29 -08001734- Fix the leak of a dict in the time module when used in an embedded
1735 interpreter that is repeatedly initialized and shutdown and reinitialized.
1736
Gregory P. Smith99716162012-10-12 13:02:06 -07001737- Issue #12268: File readline, readlines and read or readall methods
1738 no longer lose data when an underlying read system call is interrupted
1739 within an io module object. IOError is no longer raised due to a read
1740 system call returning EINTR from within these methods.
1741
Christian Heimes8112ea22012-09-24 13:17:08 +02001742- Issue #16012: Fix a regression in pyexpat. The parser's UseForeignDTD()
1743 method doesn't require an argument again.
1744
Ned Deily18fae3f2013-01-31 01:24:55 -08001745- Issue #13590: OS X Xcode 4 - improve support for universal extension modules
1746 In particular, fix extension module build failures when trying to use
1747 32-bit-only installer Pythons on systems with Xcode 4 (currently
1748 OS X 10.8, 10.7, and optionally 10.6).
1749 * Backport 3.3.0 fixes to 2.7 branch (for release in 2.7.4)
1750 * Since Xcode 4 removes ppc support, extension module builds now
1751 check for ppc compiler support and by default remove ppc and
1752 ppc64 archs when they are not available.
1753 * Extension module builds now revert to using system installed
1754 headers and libs (/usr and /System/Library) if the SDK used
1755 to build the interpreter is not installed or has moved.
1756 * Try to avoid building extension modules with deprecated
1757 and problematic Apple llvm-gcc compiler. If original compiler
1758 is not available, use clang instead by default.
1759
Serhiy Storchakaff99e412013-04-14 18:52:15 +03001760IDLE
1761----
1762
1763- IDLE was displaying spurious SystemExit tracebacks when running scripts
1764 that terminated by raising SystemExit (i.e. unittest and turtledemo).
1765
1766- Issue #9290: In IDLE the sys.std* streams now implement io.TextIOBase
1767 interface and support all mandatory methods and properties.
1768
1769- Issue #16829: IDLE printing no longer fails if there are spaces or other
1770 special characters in the file path.
1771
1772- Issue #16819: IDLE method completion now correctly works for unicode literals.
1773
1774- Issue #16504: IDLE now catches SyntaxErrors raised by tokenizer. Patch by
1775 Roger Serwy.
1776
1777- Issue #1207589: Add Cut/Copy/Paste items to IDLE right click Context Menu
1778 Patch by Todd Rovito.
1779
1780- Issue #13052: Fix IDLE crashing when replace string in Search/Replace dialog
1781 ended with '\'. Patch by Roger Serwy.
1782
1783- Issue #9803: Don't close IDLE on saving if breakpoint is open.
1784 Patch by Roger Serwy.
1785
1786- Issue #14958: Change IDLE systax highlighting to recognize all string and byte
1787 literals currently supported in Python 2.7.
1788
1789- Issue #14962: Update text coloring in IDLE shell window after changing
1790 options. Patch by Roger Serwy.
1791
1792- Issue #10997: Prevent a duplicate entry in IDLE's "Recent Files" menu.
1793
1794- Issue #12510: Attempting to get invalid tooltip no longer closes IDLE.
1795 Original patch by Roger Serwy.
1796
1797- Issue #10365: File open dialog now works instead of crashing
1798 even when parent window is closed. Patch by Roger Serwy.
1799
1800- Issue #14876: Use user-selected font for highlight configuration.
1801 Patch by Roger Serwy.
1802
1803- Issue #14409: IDLE now properly executes commands in the Shell window
1804 when it cannot read the normal config files on startup and
1805 has to use the built-in default key bindings.
1806 There was previously a bug in one of the defaults.
1807
1808- Issue #3573: IDLE hangs when passing invalid command line args
1809 (directory(ies) instead of file(s)) (Patch by Guilherme Polo)
1810
1811- Issue #5219: Prevent event handler cascade in IDLE.
1812
Antoine Pitrou9945a642012-04-16 03:34:44 +02001813Tests
1814-----
1815
Serhiy Storchakaff99e412013-04-14 18:52:15 +03001816- Issue #16702: test_urllib2_localnet tests now correctly ignores proxies for
1817 localhost tests.
1818
1819- Issue #13447: Add a test file to host regression tests for bugs in the
1820 scripts found in the Tools directory.
1821
Ezio Melottie015b6b2013-03-16 20:04:44 +02001822- Issue #11420: make test suite pass with -B/DONTWRITEBYTECODE set.
1823 Initial patch by Thomas Wouters.
1824
Serhiy Storchaka2556c832013-03-14 20:59:09 +02001825- Issue #17299: Add test coverage for cPickle with file objects and general IO
1826 objects. Original patch by Aman Shah.
1827
Ezio Melottiefaad092013-03-11 00:34:33 +02001828- Issue #11963: remove human verification from test_parser and test_subprocess.
1829
Ezio Melotti2fddfd82013-02-23 05:45:37 +02001830- Issue #17249: convert a test in test_capi to use unittest and reap threads.
1831
R David Murraya5e7f8f2013-02-09 12:53:29 -05001832- We now run both test_email.py and test_email_renamed.py when running the
1833 test_email regression test. test_email_renamed contains some tests that
1834 test_email does not.
1835
Serhiy Storchaka72121c62013-01-27 19:45:49 +02001836- Issue #17041: Fix testing when Python is configured with the
1837 --without-doc-strings option.
1838
Serhiy Storchaka8cd7f822013-01-11 11:59:59 +02001839- Issue #15539: Added regression tests for Tools/scripts/pindent.py.
1840
Chris Jerdonek3684c792012-12-27 18:14:01 -08001841- Issue #15324: Fix regrtest parsing of --fromfile and --randomize options.
1842
Hynek Schlawack4a5a4c22012-12-27 10:24:21 +01001843- Issue #16618: Add more regression tests for glob.
1844 Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
1845
Hynek Schlawack646c7b52012-12-16 12:30:57 +01001846- Issue #16664: Add regression tests for glob's behaviour concerning entries
1847 starting with a ".". Patch by Sebastian Kreft.
1848
Victor Stinner8c7c6972012-12-04 10:07:16 +01001849- Issue #15747: ZFS always returns EOPNOTSUPP when attempting to set the
1850 UF_IMMUTABLE flag (via either chflags or lchflags); refactor affected
1851 tests in test_posix.py to account for this.
1852
Ezio Melottid8feba92012-11-29 02:14:52 +02001853- Issue #16549: Add tests for json.tools. Initial patch by Berker Peksag
1854 and Serhiy Storchaka.
1855
Ezio Melotti282d3312012-11-26 19:22:58 +02001856- Issue #16559: Add more tests for the json module, including some from the
1857 official test suite at json.org. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
1858
Trent Nelsone9992292012-10-26 22:21:46 -04001859- Issue #16274: Fix test_asyncore on Solaris. Patch by Giampaolo Rodola'.
1860
Petri Lehtinen9ad6a562012-10-23 14:39:34 +03001861- Issue #15040: Close files in mailbox tests for PyPy compatibility.
1862 Original patch by Matti Picus.
1863
Petri Lehtinen80f45532012-09-01 14:25:48 +03001864- Issue #15802: Fix test logic in TestMaildir.test_create_tmp. Patch
1865 by Serhiy Storchaka.
1866
Trent Nelsonda4277a2012-08-29 09:20:41 -04001867- Issue #15765: Extend a previous fix to Solaris and OpenBSD for quirky
1868 getcwd() behaviour (issue #9185) to NetBSD as well.
1869
Antoine Pitrou0e3a4c82012-08-18 20:51:05 +02001870- Issue #15615: Add some tests for the json module's handling of invalid
1871 input data. Patch by Kushal Das.
1872
Brian Curtinbc77d362012-08-13 17:26:48 -05001873- Issue #15496: Add directory removal helpers for tests on Windows.
1874 Patch by Jeremy Kloth.
1875
Nick Coghlana0933122012-06-17 19:03:39 +10001876- Issue #15043: test_gdb is now skipped entirely if gdb security settings
1877 block loading of the gdb hooks
1878
Antoine Pitrou9945a642012-04-16 03:34:44 +02001879- Issue #14589: Update certificate chain for sha256.tbs-internet.com, fixing
1880 a test failure in test_ssl.
1881
Ned Deilycc23cc62013-02-02 15:06:45 -08001882- Issue #16698: Skip posix test_getgroups when built with OS X
1883 deployment target prior to 10.6.
1884
Ned Deilyaa1e1a22013-02-11 22:10:59 -08001885- Issue #17111: Prevent test_surrogates (test_fileio) failure on OS X 10.4.
1886
Antoine Pitrou4b536d42012-03-31 23:53:07 +02001887Build
1888-----
1889
Martin v. Loewis18613e62013-03-22 22:01:56 +01001890- Issue #17425: Build against openssl 0.9.8y on Windows.
1891
Ezio Melotti617e2c12013-03-11 09:14:09 +02001892- Issue #16004: Add `make touch`.
1893
Petri Lehtinenc23178b2013-02-23 17:05:28 +01001894- Issue #5033: Fix building of the sqlite3 extension module when the
1895 SQLite library version has "beta" in it. Patch by Andreas Pelme.
1896
Benjamin Peterson8e830a02013-02-20 16:54:30 -05001897- Issue #17228: Fix building without pymalloc.
1898
doko@python.orgd65e2ba2013-01-31 23:52:03 +01001899- Issue #17086: Backport the patches from the 3.3 branch to cross-build
1900 the package.
1901
doko@python.orgfa3f9a32013-01-25 15:32:31 +01001902- Issue #3754: fix typo in pthread AC_CACHE_VAL.
1903
doko@python.org4e63fbe2013-01-25 13:08:27 +01001904- Issue #17029: Let h2py search the multiarch system include directory.
1905
Charles-François Natalia41cf292013-01-19 12:15:56 +01001906- Issue #16953: Fix socket module compilation on platforms with
1907 HAVE_BROKEN_POLL. Patch by Jeffrey Armstrong.
1908
Charles-François Natalibe2b9072013-01-08 19:47:00 +01001909- Issue #16836: Enable IPv6 support even if IPv6 is disabled on the build host.
1910
Ezio Melottic820de52012-09-30 22:41:37 +03001911- Issue #15923: fix a mistake in asdl_c.py that resulted in a TypeError after
1912 2801bf875a24 (see #15801).
1913
doko@ubuntu.com3d2fc152012-09-21 13:51:40 +02001914- Issue #11715: Fix multiarch detection without having Debian development
1915 tools (dpkg-dev) installed.
1916
Trent Nelsonf6407a12012-08-30 14:56:13 +00001917- Issue #15819: Make sure we can build Python out-of-tree from a readonly
1918 source directory. (Somewhat related to Issue #9860.)
1919
Ned Deily10fc1042012-09-08 18:47:27 -07001920- Issue #15822: Ensure 2to3 grammar pickles are properly installed.
Ned Deily8622f092012-08-22 23:26:06 -07001921
Ned Deily67028042012-08-05 14:42:45 -07001922- Issue #15560: Fix building _sqlite3 extension on OS X with an SDK.
1923
Martin v. Löwis33f8c3a2012-08-01 10:05:27 +02001924- Issue #8847: Disable COMDAT folding in Windows PGO builds.
1925
Ned Deilyd8ec4642012-07-30 04:07:49 -07001926- Issue #14018: Fix OS X Tcl/Tk framework checking when using OS X SDKs.
1927
Ned Deilyacf7b952013-02-01 13:58:00 -08001928- Issue #16256: OS X installer now sets correct permissions for doc directory.
1929
Martin v. Löwised11a5d2012-05-20 10:42:17 +02001930- Issue #8767: Restore building with --disable-unicode.
1931 Patch by Stefano Taschini.
1932
Martin v. Löwisfd0afed2012-05-15 17:26:31 +02001933- Build against bzip2 1.0.6 and openssl 0.9.8x on Windows.
1934
Charles-François Natali0d3db3a2012-04-12 19:11:54 +02001935- Issue #14557: Fix extensions build on HP-UX. Patch by Adi Roiban.
1936
Antoine Pitrou4b536d42012-03-31 23:53:07 +02001937- Issue #14437: Fix building the _io module under Cygwin.
1938
Ned Deily6e7da152013-02-01 23:10:56 -08001939- Issue #15587: Enable Tk high-resolution text rendering on Macs with
1940 Retina displays. Applies to Tkinter apps, such as IDLE, on OS X
1941 framework builds linked with Cocoa Tk 8.5.
1942
Ned Deilyed1e4382013-02-08 22:51:52 -08001943- Issue #17161: make install now also installs a python2 and python man page.
1944
Ned Deilyeec152d2013-03-04 14:31:04 -08001945- Issue #16848: python-config now returns proper --ldflags values for OS X
1946 framework builds.
1947
Ezio Melottidc118792012-11-09 11:46:19 +01001948Tools/Demos
1949-----------
1950
Serhiy Storchakaff99e412013-04-14 18:52:15 +03001951- Issue #17156: pygettext.py now correctly escapes non-ascii characters.
1952
Serhiy Storchaka8cd7f822013-01-11 11:59:59 +02001953- Issue #15539: Fix a number of bugs in Tools/scripts/pindent.py. Now
1954 pindent.py works with a "with" statement. pindent.py no longer produces
1955 improper indentation. pindent.py now works with continued lines broken after
1956 "class" or "def" keywords and with continuations at the start of line.
1957
Serhiy Storchakaff99e412013-04-14 18:52:15 +03001958- Issue #16476: Fix json.tool to avoid including trailing whitespace.
1959
Ezio Melottidc118792012-11-09 11:46:19 +01001960- Issue #13301: use ast.literal_eval() instead of eval() in Tools/i18n/msgfmt.py
1961 Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
1962
Ezio Melottie48daea2012-05-06 16:15:35 +03001963Documentation
Senthil Kumaran0c472c32012-07-22 19:36:03 -07001964-------------
Terry Jan Reedy45ed0122012-07-08 17:35:26 -04001965
Serhiy Storchakaff99e412013-04-14 18:52:15 +03001966- Issue #15041: Update "see also" list in tkinter documentation.
1967
Terry Jan Reedy0b2173a2013-03-14 19:32:22 -04001968- Issue #17412: update 2.7 Doc/make.bat to also use sphinx-1.0.7.
1969
Terry Jan Reedy21e52aa2013-03-12 02:19:09 -04001970- Issue #17047: remove doubled words in docs and docstrings
Terry Jan Reedyf9d31062013-03-12 01:26:28 -04001971 reported by Serhiy Storchaka and Matthew Barnett.
1972
Chris Jerdonek2277b942013-02-27 09:55:39 -08001973- Issue #16406: combine the pages for uploading and registering to PyPI.
1974
Petri Lehtinenfead3c82013-02-23 21:05:27 +01001975- Issue #16403: Document how distutils uses the maintainer field in
1976 PKG-INFO. Patch by Jyrki Pulliainen.
1977
Petri Lehtinen23427842013-02-23 19:53:03 +01001978- Issue #16695: Document how glob handles filenames starting with a
1979 dot. Initial patch by Jyrki Pulliainen.
1980
Petri Lehtinen0b785032013-02-23 19:24:08 +01001981- Issue #8890: Stop advertising an insecure practice by replacing uses
1982 of the /tmp directory with better alternatives in the documentation.
1983 Patch by Geoff Wilson.
1984
Chris Jerdonek13cee162013-02-21 18:52:12 -08001985- Issue #17203: add long option names to unittest discovery docs.
1986
Ezio Melotti58abc5b2013-01-05 00:49:48 +02001987- Issue #13094: add "Why do lambdas defined in a loop with different values
1988 all return the same result?" programming FAQ.
1989
Brian Curtinbc453ca2012-12-17 00:17:49 -06001990- Issue #14901: Update portions of the Windows FAQ.
1991 Patch by Ashish Nitin Patil.
1992
Chris Jerdonek8da82682012-11-29 19:03:37 -08001993- Issue #15990: Improve argument/parameter documentation.
1994
Chris Jerdonek08012312012-11-14 12:36:53 -08001995- Issue #16400: Update the description of which versions of a given package
1996 PyPI displays.
1997
Nadeem Vawda04050b82012-11-11 13:52:10 +01001998- Issue #15677: Document that zlib and gzip accept a compression level of 0 to
1999 mean 'no compression'. Patch by Brian Brazil.
2000
Ezio Melotti3d072062012-10-27 22:04:56 +03002001- Issue #8040: added a version switcher to the documentation. Patch by
2002 Yury Selivanov.
2003
Chris Jerdonek1906c0c2012-10-08 23:18:17 -07002004- Issue #16115: Improve subprocess.Popen() documentation around args, shell,
2005 and executable arguments.
2006
Ezio Melotti31a9e832012-10-02 05:34:38 +03002007- Issue #15979: Improve timeit documentation.
2008
Chris Jerdonek71d74b02012-09-30 21:07:56 -07002009- Issue #16036: Improve documentation of built-in int()'s signature and
2010 arguments.
2011
Barry Warsaw0dea9362012-09-25 10:32:53 -04002012- Issue #15935: Clarification of argparse docs, re: add_argument() type and
2013 default arguments. Patch contributed by Chris Jerdonek.
2014
Petri Lehtinenf9e1f112012-09-01 07:27:58 +03002015- Issue #13769: Document the effect of ensure_ascii to the return type
2016 of JSON decoding functions.
2017
Hynek Schlawack7d978902012-08-28 12:33:46 +02002018- Issue #14880: Fix kwargs notation in csv.reader, .writer & .register_dialect.
2019 Patch by Chris Rebert.
2020
Antoine Pitrouf3e0a692012-08-24 19:46:17 +02002021- Issue #14674: Add a discussion of the json module's standard compliance.
2022 Patch by Chris Rebert.
2023
Senthil Kumaran2f76f732012-08-12 11:58:53 -07002024- Issue #15630: Add an example for "continue" stmt in the tutorial. Patch by
2025 Daniel Ellis.
2026
Terry Jan Reedy45ed0122012-07-08 17:35:26 -04002027- Issue #13557: Clarify effect of giving two different namespaces to exec or
2028 execfile().
Ezio Melottie48daea2012-05-06 16:15:35 +03002029
2030- Issue #14034: added the argparse tutorial.
2031
Senthil Kumaran0c472c32012-07-22 19:36:03 -07002032- Issue #15250: Document that filecmp.dircmp compares files shallowly. Patch
2033 contributed by Chris Jerdonek.
2034
Ned Deily7045f052013-02-02 00:14:44 -08002035- Issue #15116: Remove references to appscript as it is no longer being
2036 supported.
2037
Benjamin Petersona84f4682012-03-07 19:17:57 -06002038
Gregory P. Smithc8ff4602012-03-14 15:28:10 -07002039What's New in Python 2.7.3 release candidate 2?
2040===============================================
2041
Benjamin Petersonee933ec2012-03-15 12:25:54 -05002042*Release date: 2012-03-17*
Gregory P. Smithc8ff4602012-03-14 15:28:10 -07002043
2044Library
2045-------
2046
2047- Issue #14234: CVE-2012-0876: Randomize hashes of xml attributes in the hash
2048 table internal to the pyexpat module's copy of the expat library to avoid a
2049 denial of service due to hash collisions. Patch by David Malcolm with some
2050 modifications by the expat project.
2051
2052
Benjamin Petersona84f4682012-03-07 19:17:57 -06002053What's New in Python 2.7.3 release candidate 1?
2054===============================================
2055
2056*Release date: 2012-02-23*
2057
2058Core and Builtins
2059-----------------
2060
Antoine Pitrouc66ed452012-02-15 02:51:43 +01002061- Issue #13020: Fix a reference leak when allocating a structsequence object
2062 fails. Patch by Suman Saha.
2063
Barry Warsaw1e13eb02012-02-20 20:42:21 -05002064- Issue #13703: oCERT-2011-003: add -R command-line option and PYTHONHASHSEED
2065 environment variable, to provide an opt-in way to protect against denial of
2066 service attacks due to hash collisions within the dict and set types. Patch
2067 by David Malcolm, based on work by Victor Stinner.
2068
Antoine Pitroud1c818a2012-01-24 17:44:06 +01002069- Issue #11235: Fix OverflowError when trying to import a source file whose
2070 modification time doesn't fit in a 32-bit timestamp.
2071
Jason R. Coombs042370e2011-12-26 10:15:15 -05002072- Issue #11638: Unicode strings in 'name' and 'version' no longer cause
2073 UnicodeDecodeErrors.
2074
Antoine Pitrou5b4b2da2011-12-15 14:15:31 +01002075- Fix the fix for issue #12149: it was incorrect, although it had the side
2076 effect of appearing to resolve the issue. Thanks to Mark Shannon for
2077 noticing.
2078
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc4bf21e22011-12-07 21:46:48 +01002079- Issue #13546: Fixed an overflow issue that could crash the intepreter when
2080 calling sys.setrecursionlimit((1<<31)-1).
2081
Antoine Pitrou30402542011-11-15 01:49:40 +01002082- Issue #13333: The UTF-7 decoder now accepts lone surrogates (the encoder
2083 already accepts them).
2084
Petri Lehtinen8028dc22011-10-30 20:59:10 +02002085- Issue #10519: Avoid unnecessary recursive function calls in
2086 setobject.c.
2087
Benjamin Peterson0c0d7562011-10-27 08:21:59 -04002088- Issue #13268: Fix the assert statement when a tuple is passed as the message.
2089
Petri Lehtinen8ffbab82011-10-24 20:59:29 +03002090- Issue #13018: Fix reference leaks in error paths in dictobject.c.
2091 Patch by Suman Saha.
2092
Senthil Kumaran797b95b2011-10-21 00:32:59 +08002093- Issue #12604: VTRACE macro expanded to no-op in _sre.c to avoid compiler
2094 warnings. Patch by Josh Triplett and Petri Lehtinen.
2095
Mark Hammond323b5da2011-10-17 11:05:36 +11002096- Issue #7833: Extension modules built using distutils on Windows will no
2097 longer include a "manifest" to prevent them failing at import time in some
2098 embedded situations.
2099
Benjamin Petersona7b09762011-10-15 13:43:21 -04002100- Issue #13186: Fix __delitem__ on old-style instances when invoked through
2101 PySequence_DelItem.
2102
Charles-François Natali40ab0022011-10-12 22:29:09 +02002103- Issue #13156: Revert the patch for issue #10517 (reset TLS upon fork()),
2104 which was only relevant for the native pthread TLS implementation.
2105
Victor Stinner63c22fa2011-09-23 19:37:03 +02002106- Issue #7732: Fix a crash on importing a module if a directory has the same
2107 name than a Python module (e.g. "__init__.py"): don't close the file twice.
2108
Mark Dickinsondbbed042011-09-19 16:38:08 +01002109- Issue #12973: Fix overflow checks that invoked undefined behaviour in
2110 int.__pow__. These overflow checks were causing int.__pow__ to produce
2111 incorrect results with recent versions of Clang, as a result of the
Mark Dickinsona96b0d12011-09-24 09:01:16 +01002112 compiler optimizing the check away. Also fix similar overflow checks
2113 in list_repeat (listobject.c) and islice_next (itertoolsmodule.c). These
2114 bugs caused test failures with recent versions of Clang.
Mark Dickinsondbbed042011-09-19 16:38:08 +01002115
Ezio Melotti15d6b652011-08-15 09:22:24 +03002116- Issue #12266: Fix str.capitalize() to correctly uppercase/lowercase
2117 titlecased and cased non-letter characters.
2118
Benjamin Peterson6c18ff02011-07-22 10:41:44 -05002119- Issues #12610 and #12609: Verify that user generated AST has correct string
2120 and identifier types before compiling.
2121
Barry Warsawc5643282011-07-19 17:06:30 -04002122- Issue #11627: Fix segfault when __new__ on a exception returns a
2123 non-exception class.
Benjamin Petersonc3349cd2011-07-15 14:15:40 -05002124
Antoine Pitrou16166452011-07-12 22:04:20 +02002125- Issue #12149: Update the method cache after a type's dictionnary gets
2126 cleared by the garbage collector. This fixes a segfault when an instance
2127 and its type get caught in a reference cycle, and the instance's
2128 deallocator calls one of the methods on the type (e.g. when subclassing
2129 IOBase). Diagnosis and patch by Davide Rizzo.
2130
Florent Xiclunaa1f948b2012-01-24 21:05:10 +01002131- Issue #12501: Remove Py3k warning for callable. callable() is supported
2132 again in Python 3.2.
Victor Stinnerba8b3a22011-07-08 02:07:45 +02002133
Victor Stinner59729ff2011-07-05 11:28:19 +02002134- Issue #9611, #9015: FileIO.read(), FileIO.readinto(), FileIO.write() and
2135 os.write() clamp the length to INT_MAX on Windows.
2136
Victor Stinnerd3c7e172011-05-30 23:49:13 +02002137- Issue #1195: my_fgets() now always clears errors before calling fgets(). Fix
Victor Stinner08563d92011-05-30 23:44:13 +02002138 the following case: sys.stdin.read() stopped with CTRL+d (end of file),
2139 raw_input() interrupted by CTRL+c.
2140
Łukasz Langa7a153902011-10-18 17:16:00 +02002141- Issue #10860: httplib now correctly handles an empty port after port
2142 delimiter in URLs.
2143
Barry Warsawc5643282011-07-19 17:06:30 -04002144- dict_proxy objects now display their contents rather than just the class
2145 name.
Raymond Hettingerbf7a2662011-06-30 00:44:36 +01002146
Victor Stinner08563d92011-05-30 23:44:13 +02002147Library
2148-------
Éric Araujoa13cd392011-09-10 05:39:45 +02002149
Petri Lehtinen4ab701b2012-02-21 13:58:40 +02002150- Issue #8033: sqlite3: Fix 64-bit integer handling in user functions
2151 on 32-bit architectures. Initial patch by Philippe Devalkeneer.
2152
Ezio Melotti36b73612012-02-21 09:22:16 +02002153- HTMLParser is now able to handle slashes in the start tag.
2154
Charles-François Natali66f3cc62012-02-18 14:15:38 +01002155- Issue #14001: CVE-2012-0845: xmlrpc: Fix an endless loop in
2156 SimpleXMLRPCServer upon malformed POST request.
2157
Gregory P. Smith14dc5102012-02-16 00:44:50 -08002158- Issue #2489: pty.spawn could consume 100% cpu when it encountered an EOF.
2159
Antoine Pitroudd7e0712012-02-15 22:25:27 +01002160- Issue #13014: Fix a possible reference leak in SSLSocket.getpeercert().
2161
Ezio Melottid2307cb2012-02-15 12:44:23 +02002162- Issue #13987: HTMLParser is now able to handle EOFs in the middle of a
Ezio Melotti65d36da2012-02-15 13:19:10 +02002163 construct and malformed start tags.
Ezio Melottid2307cb2012-02-15 12:44:23 +02002164
Antoine Pitrouc39cd782012-02-15 02:42:46 +01002165- Issue #13015: Fix a possible reference leak in defaultdict.__repr__.
2166 Patch by Suman Saha.
2167
Meador Ingeff337cc2012-02-13 22:22:06 -06002168- Issue #13979: A bug in ctypes.util.find_library that caused
2169 the wrong library name to be returned has been fixed.
2170
Éric Araujoe897a742012-02-15 16:28:20 +01002171- Issue #1326113: distutils' build_ext command --libraries option now
2172 correctly parses multiple values separated by whitespace or commas.
2173
Ezio Melottif1174432012-02-13 16:28:54 +02002174- Issue #13993: HTMLParser is now able to handle broken end tags.
2175
Ezio Melotti4b92cc32012-02-13 16:10:44 +02002176- Issue #13960: HTMLParser is now able to handle broken comments.
2177
Petri Lehtinen587209f2012-02-12 21:03:02 +02002178- Issue #9750: Fix sqlite3.Connection.iterdump on tables and fields
2179 with a name that is a keyword or contains quotes. Patch by Marko
2180 Kohtala.
2181
Florent Xiclunac2279652012-02-12 14:49:03 +01002182- Issue #13994: Earlier partial revert of Distutils enhancements in 2.7
Ned Deilyc47a4592012-02-11 20:40:24 +01002183 has left two versions of customize_compiler, the original in
2184 distutils.sysconfig and another copy in distutils.ccompiler, with some
2185 parts of distutils calling one and others using the other.
2186 Complete the revert back to only having one in distutils.sysconfig as
2187 is the case in 3.x.
2188
Ned Deily0d0ea482012-02-10 12:59:06 +01002189- Issue #13590: On OS X 10.7 and 10.6 with Xcode 4.2, building
2190 Distutils-based packages with C extension modules may fail because
2191 Apple has removed gcc-4.2, the version used to build python.org
2192 64-bit/32-bit Pythons. If the user does not explicitly override
2193 the default C compiler by setting the CC environment variable,
2194 Distutils will now attempt to compile extension modules with clang
2195 if gcc-4.2 is required but not found. Also as a convenience, if
2196 the user does explicitly set CC, substitute its value as the default
2197 compiler in the Distutils LDSHARED configuration variable for OS X.
2198 (Note, the python.org 32-bit-only Pythons use gcc-4.0 and the 10.4u
2199 SDK, neither of which are available in Xcode 4. This change does not
2200 attempt to override settings to support their use with Xcode 4.)
2201
Senthil Kumaran59e7c8f2012-02-09 18:22:01 +08002202- Issue #9021: Add an introduction to the copy module documentation.
2203
Senthil Kumaran607e31e2012-02-09 17:43:31 +08002204- Issue #6005: Examples in the socket library documentation use sendall, where
2205 relevant, instead send method.
2206
Petri Lehtinenc7fd5232011-05-09 12:24:09 +02002207- Issue #10811: Fix recursive usage of cursors. Instead of crashing,
2208 raise a ProgrammingError now.
2209
Petri Lehtinen0518f472012-02-01 22:20:12 +02002210- Issue #13676: Handle strings with embedded zeros correctly in sqlite3.
2211
Antoine Pitrou88c51e82012-01-28 22:01:59 +01002212- Issue #13806: The size check in audioop decompression functions was too
2213 strict and could reject valid compressed data. Patch by Oleg Plakhotnyuk.
2214
Antoine Pitroud358e052012-01-27 09:42:45 +01002215- Issue #13885: CVE-2011-3389: the _ssl module would always disable the CBC
2216 IV attack countermeasure.
2217
Senthil Kumaranb05f91d2012-01-21 11:45:12 +08002218- Issue #6631: Disallow relative file paths in urllib urlopen methods.
2219
Nadeem Vawdad7664de2012-01-19 00:40:46 +02002220- Issue #13781: Prevent gzip.GzipFile from using the dummy filename provided by
2221 file objects opened with os.fdopen().
2222
Antoine Pitrou3b6a3142012-01-17 17:13:04 +01002223- Issue #13589: Fix some serialization primitives in the aifc module.
2224 Patch by Oleg Plakhotnyuk.
2225
Jesus Cea4a8ba192012-01-18 03:51:38 +01002226- Issue #13803: Under Solaris, distutils doesn't include bitness
2227 in the directory name.
2228
Senthil Kumaranbcd833f2012-01-11 00:09:24 +08002229- Issue #13642: Unquote before b64encoding user:password during Basic
2230 Authentication. Patch contributed by Joonas Kuorilehto and Michele Orrù.
2231
Antoine Pitroud76088d2012-01-03 22:46:48 +01002232- Issue #13636: Weak ciphers are now disabled by default in the ssl module
2233 (except when SSLv2 is explicitly asked for).
2234
Senthil Kumaran84c18aa2011-12-23 11:14:56 +08002235- Issue #12798: Updated the mimetypes documentation.
2236
Lars Gustäbel7d4d0742011-12-21 19:27:50 +01002237- Issue #13639: Accept unicode filenames in tarfile.open(mode="w|gz").
2238
Antoine Pitroub8572a12011-12-21 10:16:14 +01002239- Issue #1785: Fix inspect and pydoc with misbehaving descriptors.
2240
Antoine Pitrou7a3d8ae2011-12-18 19:27:45 +01002241- Issue #7502: Fix equality comparison for DocTestCase instances. Patch by
2242 Cédric Krier.
2243
Charles-François Natali41616302011-12-18 18:22:24 +01002244- Issue #11870: threading: Properly reinitialize threads internal locks and
2245 condition variables to avoid deadlocks in child processes.
2246
Charles-François Natalif3d35f02011-12-18 15:52:48 +01002247- Issue #8035: urllib: Fix a bug where the client could remain stuck after a
2248 redirection or an error.
2249
Lars Gustäbel9a388632011-12-06 13:07:09 +01002250- tarfile.py: Correctly detect bzip2 compressed streams with blocksizes
2251 other than 900k.
2252
Raymond Hettingerf5377022011-12-11 22:31:09 -08002253- Issue #13573: The csv.writer now uses the repr() for floats rather than str().
2254 This allows floats to round-trip without loss of precision.
2255
Petri Lehtinen49e49a22011-12-02 21:09:30 +02002256- Issue #13439: Fix many errors in turtle docstrings.
2257
Antoine Pitroua5d5bb92011-11-25 21:28:15 +01002258- Issue #12856: Ensure child processes do not inherit the parent's random
2259 seed for filename generation in the tempfile module. Patch by Brian
2260 Harring.
2261
Antoine Pitrouaa1c9672011-11-23 01:39:19 +01002262- Issue #13458: Fix a memory leak in the ssl module when decoding a
2263 certificate with a subjectAltName. Patch by Robert Xiao.
2264
Victor Stinner53853c32011-11-22 22:20:13 +01002265- Issue #13415: os.unsetenv() doesn't ignore errors anymore.
2266
Antoine Pitrou5aa7df32011-11-21 20:16:44 +01002267- Issue #13322: Fix BufferedWriter.write() to ensure that BlockingIOError is
2268 raised when the wrapped raw file is non-blocking and the write would block.
2269 Previous code assumed that the raw write() would raise BlockingIOError, but
2270 RawIOBase.write() is defined to returned None when the call would block.
2271 Patch by sbt.
2272
Ezio Melotti00dc60b2011-11-18 18:00:40 +02002273- Issue #13358: HTMLParser now calls handle_data only once for each CDATA.
2274
Ezio Melotti93bbb6a2011-11-18 17:30:28 +02002275- Issue #4147: minidom's toprettyxml no longer adds whitespace around a text
2276 node when it is the only child of an element. Initial patch by Dan
2277 Kenigsberg.
2278
Ezio Melotti0f1571c2011-11-14 18:04:05 +02002279- Issues #1745761, #755670, #13357, #12629, #1200313: HTMLParser now correctly
2280 handles non-valid attributes, including adjacent and unquoted attributes.
2281
Antoine Pitrou6a570d62011-11-10 00:33:50 +01002282- Issue #13373: multiprocessing.Queue.get() could sometimes block indefinitely
2283 when called with a timeout. Patch by Arnaud Ysmal.
2284
Petri Lehtinen416ecff2011-11-05 10:18:50 +02002285- Issue #3067: Enhance the documentation and docstring of
2286 locale.setlocale().
2287
Petri Lehtinen49aa72e2011-11-05 09:50:37 +02002288- Issue #13254: Fix Maildir initialization so that maildir contents
2289 are read correctly.
2290
Florent Xicluna5f761d72011-11-04 10:15:57 +01002291- Issue #13140: Fix the daemon_threads attribute of ThreadingMixIn.
2292
Florent Xiclunac4a11bd2011-11-01 23:47:46 +01002293- Issue #2892: preserve iterparse events in case of SyntaxError.
2294
Ezio Melotti7e82b272011-11-01 14:09:56 +02002295- Issue #670664: Fix HTMLParser to correctly handle the content of
2296 ``<script>...</script>`` and ``<style>...</style>``.
2297
2298- Issue #10817: Fix urlretrieve function to raise ContentTooShortError even
Senthil Kumaran87e58552011-11-01 02:44:45 +08002299 when reporthook is None. Patch by Jyrki Pulliainen.
2300
Florent Xicluna67d5d0e2011-10-29 03:38:56 +02002301- Issue #7334: close source files on ElementTree.parse and iterparse.
2302
Vinay Sajipc515eba2011-10-24 23:26:00 +01002303- Issue #13232: logging: Improved logging of exceptions in the presence of
2304 multiple encodings.
2305
Charles-François Natali46f990e2011-10-24 18:43:51 +02002306- Issue #10332: multiprocessing: fix a race condition when a Pool is closed
2307 before all tasks have completed.
2308
Antoine Pitrou5a77fe92011-10-22 21:26:01 +02002309- Issue #1548891: The cStringIO.StringIO() constructor now encodes unicode
2310 arguments with the system default encoding just like the write() method
Éric Araujob21f51a2011-10-23 04:37:51 +02002311 does, instead of converting it to a raw buffer. This also fixes handling of
2312 unicode input in the shlex module (#6988, #1170).
Antoine Pitrou5a77fe92011-10-22 21:26:01 +02002313
Florent Xicluna47fb1922011-10-20 23:21:58 +02002314- Issue #9168: now smtpd is able to bind privileged port.
2315
Senthil Kumaran797b95b2011-10-21 00:32:59 +08002316- Issue #12529: fix cgi.parse_header issue on strings with double-quotes and
2317 semicolons together. Patch by Ben Darnell and Petri Lehtinen.
2318
Senthil Kumaranddd40312011-10-20 01:38:35 +08002319- Issue #6090: zipfile raises a ValueError when a document with a timestamp
2320 earlier than 1980 is provided. Patch contributed by Petri Lehtinen.
2321
Nadeem Vawdadeb1ce72011-10-17 19:33:38 +02002322- Issue #13194: zlib.compressobj().copy() and zlib.decompressobj().copy() are
2323 now available on Windows.
2324
Éric Araujo017e5352011-10-09 07:11:19 +02002325- Issue #13114: Fix the distutils commands check and register when the
2326 long description is a Unicode string with non-ASCII characters.
2327
Ned Deilybd9d07c2011-10-06 14:29:49 -07002328- Issue #7367: Fix pkgutil.walk_paths to skip directories whose
2329 contents cannot be read.
2330
2331- Issue #7425: Prevent pydoc -k failures due to module import errors.
2332 (Backport to 2.7 of existing 3.x fix)
2333
Antoine Pitrouace2ccf2011-10-04 13:38:04 +02002334- Issue #13099: Fix sqlite3.Cursor.lastrowid under a Turkish locale.
2335 Reported and diagnosed by Thomas Kluyver.
2336
Antoine Pitrou561a8212011-10-04 09:34:48 +02002337- Issue #7689: Allow pickling of dynamically created classes when their
2338 metaclass is registered with copy_reg. Patch by Nicolas M. Thiéry and
2339 Craig Citro.
2340
Charles-François Natali564f8902011-09-29 19:43:01 +02002341- Issue #13058: ossaudiodev: fix a file descriptor leak on error. Patch by
2342 Thomas Jarosch.
2343
Victor Stinner51b71982011-09-23 01:15:32 +02002344- Issue #12931: xmlrpclib now encodes Unicode URI to ISO-8859-1, instead of
2345 failing with a UnicodeDecodeError.
2346
Éric Araujoa13cd392011-09-10 05:39:45 +02002347- Issue #8933: distutils' PKG-INFO files will now correctly report
2348 Metadata-Version: 1.1 instead of 1.0 if a Classifier or Download-URL field is
2349 present.
2350
Éric Araujo0f2dbf32011-09-03 00:47:07 +02002351- Issue #8286: The distutils command sdist will print a warning message instead
2352 of crashing when an invalid path is given in the manifest template.
Victor Stinner08563d92011-05-30 23:44:13 +02002353
Lars Gustäbel8babfdf2011-09-05 17:04:18 +02002354- Issue #12841: tarfile unnecessarily checked the existence of numerical user
2355 and group ids on extraction. If one of them did not exist the respective id
2356 of the current user (i.e. root) was used for the file and ownership
2357 information was lost.
2358
Éric Araujo429b8902011-08-30 01:48:59 +02002359- Issue #10946: The distutils commands bdist_dumb, bdist_wininst and bdist_msi
2360 now respect a --skip-build option given to bdist.
2361
Charles-François Natalifda7b372011-08-28 16:22:33 +02002362- Issue #12287: Fix a stack corruption in ossaudiodev module when the FD is
2363 greater than FD_SETSIZE.
2364
Nadeem Vawdabbabbae2011-08-28 11:23:57 +02002365- Issue #12839: Fix crash in zlib module due to version mismatch.
2366 Fix by Richard M. Tew.
2367
Charles-François Natali2a34eb32011-08-25 21:20:54 +02002368- Issue #12786: Set communication pipes used by subprocess.Popen CLOEXEC to
2369 avoid them being inherited by other subprocesses.
2370
Antoine Pitrou77657e42011-08-24 22:41:05 +02002371- Issue #4106: Fix occasional exceptions printed out by multiprocessing on
2372 interpreter shutdown.
2373
Antoine Pitroua1a8da82011-08-23 19:54:20 +02002374- Issue #11657: Fix sending file descriptors over 255 over a multiprocessing
2375 Pipe.
2376
Antoine Pitrou808cec52011-08-20 15:40:58 +02002377- Issue #12213: Fix a buffering bug with interleaved reads and writes that
2378 could appear on io.BufferedRandom streams.
2379
Victor Stinneracacbaa2011-08-20 14:02:38 +02002380- Issue #12326: sys.platform is now always 'linux2' on Linux, even if Python
2381 is compiled on Linux 3.
2382
Jesus Cead256ca12011-09-19 16:57:18 +02002383- Issue #13007: whichdb should recognize gdbm 1.9 magic numbers.
2384
Éric Araujoe7329f42011-08-19 03:07:39 +02002385- Issue #9173: Let shutil._make_archive work if the logger argument is None.
2386
Charles-François Natalib02302c2011-08-18 17:18:28 +02002387- Issue #12650: Fix a race condition where a subprocess.Popen could leak
2388 resources (FD/zombie) when killed at the wrong time.
2389
Barry Warsaw39935f42011-08-15 19:50:35 -04002390- Issue #12752: Fix regression which prevented locale.normalize() from
2391 accepting unicode strings.
2392
Senthil Kumaranf432aec2011-08-03 18:31:59 +08002393- Issue #12683: urlparse updated to include svn as schemes that uses relative
2394 paths. (svn from 1.5 onwards support relative path).
2395
Éric Araujo33af2632011-08-02 03:16:12 +02002396- Issue #11933: Fix incorrect mtime comparison in distutils.
2397
Éric Araujo560bf852011-07-31 02:04:00 +02002398- Issues #11104, #8688: Fix the behavior of distutils' sdist command with
2399 manually-maintained MANIFEST files.
2400
Éric Araujo9a528302011-07-29 17:34:35 +02002401- Issue #8887: "pydoc somebuiltin.somemethod" (or help('somebuiltin.somemethod')
2402 in Python code) now finds the doc of the method.
2403
Charles-François Natali0cf7e252011-07-27 19:36:40 +02002404- Issue #12603: Fix pydoc.synopsis() on files with non-negative st_mtime.
2405
Raymond Hettinger55e5e272011-07-28 23:56:38 -07002406- Issue #12514: Use try/finally to assure the timeit module restores garbage
2407 collections when it is done.
2408
Ross Lagerwalld8e39012011-07-27 18:54:53 +02002409- Issue #12607: In subprocess, fix issue where if stdin, stdout or stderr is
2410 given as a low fd, it gets overwritten.
2411
Ross Lagerwall528c4ad2011-07-25 07:23:58 +02002412- Issue #12102: Document that buffered files must be flushed before being used
2413 with mmap. Patch by Steffen Daode Nurpmeso.
2414
Charles-François Natali3de8c732011-07-24 22:33:35 +02002415- Issue #12560: Build libpython.so on OpenBSD. Patch by Stefan Sperling.
2416
Antoine Pitrou4cfae022011-07-24 02:51:01 +02002417- Issue #1813: Fix codec lookup and setting/getting locales under Turkish
2418 locales.
2419
Nadeem Vawda0d2889f2011-07-23 16:13:01 +02002420- Issue #10883: Fix socket leaks in urllib when using FTP.
Nadeem Vawdab42c53e2011-07-23 15:51:16 +02002421
Charles-François Natali97781b02011-07-22 23:43:42 +02002422- Issue #12592: Make Python build on OpenBSD 5 (and future major releases).
2423
Charles-François Natali4929eb92011-07-21 19:41:04 +02002424- Issue #12372: POSIX semaphores are broken on AIX: don't use them.
2425
Antoine Pitrou495ee8f2011-07-20 00:26:23 +02002426- Issue #12571: Add a plat-linux3 directory mirroring the plat-linux2
2427 directory, so that "import DLFCN" and other similar imports work on
2428 Linux 3.0.
2429
R David Murray95225952011-07-18 21:34:04 -04002430- Issue #7484: smtplib no longer puts <> around addresses in VRFY and EXPN
2431 commands; they aren't required and in fact postfix doesn't support that form.
2432
Antoine Pitrou304f0f92011-07-15 21:22:50 +02002433- Issue #11603: Fix a crash when __str__ is rebound as __repr__. Patch by
2434 Andreas Stührk.
2435
Charles-François Natali26591402011-07-14 19:49:02 +02002436- Issue #12502: asyncore: fix polling loop with AF_UNIX sockets.
2437
Victor Stinnerbf547fd2011-07-13 21:47:31 +02002438- Issue #4376: ctypes now supports nested structures in a endian different than
2439 the parent structure. Patch by Vlad Riscutia.
2440
Victor Stinnere7901312011-07-05 14:08:01 +02002441- Issue #12493: subprocess: Popen.communicate() now also handles EINTR errors
2442 if the process has only one pipe.
2443
Victor Stinner65c15352011-07-04 03:05:37 +02002444- Issue #12467: warnings: fix a race condition if a warning is emitted at
2445 shutdown, if globals()['__file__'] is None.
2446
Charles-François Natali414d0fa2011-07-02 13:56:19 +02002447- Issue #12352: Fix a deadlock in multiprocessing.Heap when a block is freed by
2448 the garbage collector while the Heap lock is held.
2449
Ned Deily87e82bb2011-06-28 19:52:59 -07002450- Issue #9516: On Mac OS X, change Distutils to no longer globally attempt to
2451 check or set the MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET environment variable for the
2452 interpreter process. This could cause failures in non-Distutils subprocesses
2453 and was unreliable since tests or user programs could modify the interpreter
Ezio Melotti302ad8d2013-01-19 19:44:58 +02002454 environment after Distutils set it. Instead, have Distutils set the
Ned Deily87e82bb2011-06-28 19:52:59 -07002455 deployment target only in the environment of each build subprocess. It is
2456 still possible to globally override the default by setting
2457 MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET before launching the interpreter; its value must be
2458 greater or equal to the default value, the value with which the interpreter
2459 was built.
2460
Raymond Hettinger2c316a32011-06-25 17:14:53 +02002461- Issue #11802: The cache in filecmp now has a maximum size of 100 so that
2462 it won't grow without bound.
2463
Ross Lagerwallffa8e2f2011-06-25 09:55:10 +02002464- Issue #12404: Remove C89 incompatible code from mmap module. Patch by Akira
2465 Kitada.
2466
R David Murrayf1138bb2011-06-17 22:23:04 -04002467- Issue #11700: mailbox proxy object close methods can now be called multiple
2468 times without error, and _ProxyFile now closes the wrapped file.
2469
Victor Stinnerc74a6ba2011-06-17 14:06:27 +02002470- Issue #12133: AbstractHTTPHandler.do_open() of urllib.request closes the HTTP
2471 connection if its getresponse() method fails with a socket error. Patch
2472 written by Ezio Melotti.
2473
Benjamin Peterson0eb4ac42011-06-11 15:53:11 -05002474- Issue #9284: Allow inspect.findsource() to find the source of doctest
2475 functions.
2476
R David Murray873c5832011-06-09 16:01:09 -04002477- Issue #10694: zipfile now ignores garbage at the end of a zipfile.
2478
Brian Curtincaea7e82011-06-08 19:29:53 -05002479- Issue #11583: Speed up os.path.isdir on Windows by using GetFileAttributes
2480 instead of os.stat.
2481
Mark Dickinsona493ca32011-06-04 18:24:15 +01002482- Issue #12080: Fix a performance issue in Decimal._power_exact that caused
2483 some corner-case Decimal.__pow__ calls to take an unreasonably long time.
2484
Raymond Hettinger45b08292011-06-02 20:40:35 -07002485- Named tuples now work correctly with vars().
2486
Barry Warsawc5643282011-07-19 17:06:30 -04002487- sys.setcheckinterval() now updates the current ticker count as well as
2488 updating the check interval, so if the user decreases the check interval,
2489 the ticker doesn't have to wind down to zero from the old starting point
2490 before the new interval takes effect. And if the user increases the
2491 interval, it makes sure the new limit takes effect right away rather have an
2492 early task switch before recognizing the new interval.
Raymond Hettinger19b851d2011-06-01 18:21:42 -07002493
Victor Stinner776e69b2011-06-01 01:03:00 +02002494- Issue #12085: Fix an attribute error in subprocess.Popen destructor if the
2495 constructor has failed, e.g. because of an undeclared keyword argument. Patch
2496 written by Oleg Oshmyan.
2497
Barry Warsawc5643282011-07-19 17:06:30 -04002498Extension Modules
2499-----------------
2500
Meador Ingefe7aa492012-05-28 13:52:59 -05002501- Issue #9041: An issue in ctypes.c_longdouble, ctypes.c_double, and
2502 ctypes.c_float that caused an incorrect exception to be returned in the
2503 case of overflow has been fixed.
2504
Jesus Cea23fbd8c2012-01-17 00:17:10 +01002505- bsddb module: Erratic behaviour of "DBEnv->rep_elect()" because a typo.
2506 Possible crash.
2507
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcdee76e62012-01-13 22:53:25 +01002508- Issue #13774: json: Fix a SystemError when a bogus encoding is passed to
2509 json.loads().
2510
Charles-François Natali3aa59e32012-01-02 15:38:27 +01002511- Issue #9975: socket: Fix incorrect use of flowinfo and scope_id. Patch by
2512 Vilmos Nebehaj.
2513
Nadeem Vawda36248152011-10-13 13:52:46 +02002514- Issue #13159: FileIO, BZ2File, and the built-in file class now use a
2515 linear-time buffer growth strategy instead of a quadratic one.
2516
Charles-François Natali9ffcbf72011-10-06 19:09:45 +02002517- Issue #13070: Fix a crash when a TextIOWrapper caught in a reference cycle
2518 would be finalized after the reference to its underlying BufferedRWPair's
2519 writer got cleared by the GC.
2520
Meador Ingead349a12011-10-03 21:34:04 -05002521- Issue #12881: ctypes: Fix segfault with large structure field names.
2522
Meador Ingefe150032011-09-27 20:35:28 -05002523- Issue #13013: ctypes: Fix a reference leak in PyCArrayType_from_ctype.
2524 Thanks to Suman Saha for finding the bug and providing a patch.
2525
Jesus Ceac23484b2011-09-21 03:47:39 +02002526- Issue #13022: Fix: _multiprocessing.recvfd() doesn't check that
2527 file descriptor was actually received.
2528
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc439c25e2011-09-12 20:12:09 +02002529- Issue #12483: ctypes: Fix a crash when the destruction of a callback
2530 object triggers the garbage collector.
2531
Jesus Cea6ebaca12011-09-10 04:35:18 +02002532- Issue #12950: Fix passing file descriptors in multiprocessing, under
2533 OpenIndiana/Illumos.
2534
Amaury Forgeot d'Arccf316a12011-09-02 20:32:23 +02002535- Issue #12764: Fix a crash in ctypes when the name of a Structure field is not
2536 a string.
2537
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc3d7f2362011-08-30 21:04:35 +02002538- Issue #9651: Fix a crash when ctypes.create_string_buffer(0) was passed to
2539 some functions like file.write().
2540
Barry Warsawc5643282011-07-19 17:06:30 -04002541- Issue #10309: Define _GNU_SOURCE so that mremap() gets the proper
2542 signature. Without this, architectures where sizeof void* != sizeof int are
2543 broken. Patch given by Hallvard B Furuseth.
2544
Serhiy Storchakaff99e412013-04-14 18:52:15 +03002545IDLE
2546----
2547
2548- Issue #964437 Make IDLE help window non-modal.
2549 Patch by Guilherme Polo and Roger Serwy.
2550
2551- Issue #13933: IDLE auto-complete did not work with some imported
2552 module, like hashlib. (Patch by Roger Serwy)
2553
2554- Issue #13506: Add '' to path for IDLE Shell when started and restarted with Restart Shell.
2555 Original patches by Marco Scataglini and Roger Serwy.
2556
2557- Issue #4625: If IDLE cannot write to its recent file or breakpoint
2558 files, display a message popup and continue rather than crash.
2559 (original patch by Roger Serwy)
2560
2561- Issue #8793: Prevent IDLE crash when given strings with invalid hex escape
2562 sequences.
2563
2564- Issue #13296: Fix IDLE to clear compile __future__ flags on shell restart.
2565 (Patch by Roger Serwy)
2566
Ned Deily43e10542011-06-27 23:41:53 -07002567Build
2568-----
2569
Martin v. Löwisa1b2af82012-02-21 18:12:02 +01002570- Issue #6807: Run msisupport.mak earlier.
2571
Martin v. Löwisef281bd2012-02-21 17:07:32 +01002572- Issue #10580: Minor grammar change in Windows installer.
2573
Ned Deilyc5df5632012-02-19 02:19:12 +01002574- Issue #12627: Implement PEP 394 for Python 2.7 ("python2").
2575
Ned Deily43e10542011-06-27 23:41:53 -07002576- Issue #8746: Correct faulty configure checks so that os.chflags() and
2577 os.lchflags() are once again built on systems that support these
2578 functions (*BSD and OS X). Also add new stat file flags for OS X
2579 (UF_HIDDEN and UF_COMPRESSED).
2580
Jason R. Coombsfee77452011-07-27 14:05:37 -04002581Tools/Demos
2582-----------
2583
Nadeem Vawdaf00011a2012-02-22 11:40:09 +02002584- Issue #14053: patchcheck.py ("make patchcheck") now works with MQ patches.
2585 Patch by Francisco Martín Brugué.
2586
Gregory P. Smith12426992012-02-12 15:51:21 -08002587- Issue #13930: 2to3 is now able to write its converted output files to another
2588 directory tree as well as copying unchanged files and altering the file
2589 suffix. See its new -o, -W and --add-suffix options. This makes it more
2590 useful in many automated code translation workflows.
2591
Jason R. Coombsfee77452011-07-27 14:05:37 -04002592- Issue #10639: reindent.py no longer converts newlines and will raise
2593 an error if attempting to convert a file with mixed newlines.
2594
Victor Stinner99cff3f2011-12-19 13:59:58 +01002595- Issue #13628: python-gdb.py is now able to retrieve more frames in the Python
2596 traceback if Python is optimized.
2597
Victor Stinnerd9f52922011-05-30 23:58:21 +02002598Tests
2599-----
2600
Martin v. Löwisc02e1e62012-07-29 16:30:50 +02002601- Issue #15467: Move helpers for __sizeof__ tests into test_support.
2602 Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
2603
Petri Lehtinen437b1492012-02-17 21:34:41 +02002604- Issue #11689: Fix a variable scoping error in an sqlite3 test.
2605 Initial patch by Torsten Landschoff.
2606
Serhiy Storchakaff99e412013-04-14 18:52:15 +03002607- Issue #10881: Fix test_site failures with OS X framework builds.
2608
2609- Issue #13901: Prevent test_distutils failures on OS X with --enable-shared.
2610
Ned Deily1aacd7b2011-10-31 16:14:52 -07002611- Issue #13304: Skip test case if user site-packages disabled (-s or
2612 PYTHONNOUSERSITE). (Patch by Carl Meyer)
2613
Barry Warsawbf0cafa2011-10-28 16:16:58 -04002614- Issue #13218: Fix test_ssl failures on Debian/Ubuntu.
2615
Charles-François Natalicdaafe02011-08-23 19:42:02 +02002616- Issue #12821: Fix test_fcntl failures on OpenBSD 5.
2617
Éric Araujo498da2c2011-07-31 17:59:28 +02002618- Issue #12331: The test suite for lib2to3 can now run from an installed
2619 Python.
2620
Ned Deily0ab67ee2011-07-13 15:05:31 -07002621- Issue #12549: Correct test_platform to not fail when OS X returns 'x86_64'
2622 as the processor type on some Mac systems.
2623
Antoine Pitrou4a4a0fe2011-07-09 02:34:05 +02002624- Skip network tests when getaddrinfo() returns EAI_AGAIN, meaning a temporary
2625 failure in name resolution.
2626
Jesus Ceacb65f322011-11-08 16:06:44 +01002627- Issue #11812: Solve transient socket failure to connect to 'localhost'
2628 in test_telnetlib.py.
2629
Jesus Cea71094b52011-11-08 15:54:42 +01002630- Solved a potential deadlock in test_telnetlib.py. Related to issue #11812.
2631
Antoine Pitrou29603082011-07-08 19:40:15 +02002632- Avoid failing in test_robotparser when mueblesmoraleda.com is flaky and
2633 an overzealous DNS service (e.g. OpenDNS) redirects to a placeholder
2634 Web site.
2635
Antoine Pitroua4d58d22011-07-08 19:14:19 +02002636- Avoid failing in test_urllibnet.test_bad_address when some overzealous
2637 DNS service (e.g. OpenDNS) resolves a non-existent domain name. The test
2638 is now skipped instead.
2639
Ned Deily46268c42011-07-03 21:52:35 -07002640- Issue #8716: Avoid crashes caused by Aqua Tk on OSX when attempting to run
2641 test_tk or test_ttk_guionly under a username that is not currently logged
2642 in to the console windowserver (as may be the case under buildbot or ssh).
2643
Ned Deily63144c62011-06-28 00:39:19 -07002644- Issue #12141: Install a copy of template C module file so that
2645 test_build_ext of test_distutils is no longer silently skipped when
2646 run outside of a build directory.
2647
Ned Deily43e10542011-06-27 23:41:53 -07002648- Issue #8746: Add additional tests for os.chflags() and os.lchflags().
2649 Patch by Garrett Cooper.
2650
Ned Deily64e59952011-06-27 23:09:31 -07002651- Issue #10736: Fix test_ttk test_widgets failures with Cocoa Tk 8.5.9
2652 on Mac OS X. (Patch by Ronald Oussoren)
2653
Victor Stinnerd9f52922011-05-30 23:58:21 +02002654- Issue #12057: Add tests for ISO 2022 codecs (iso2022_jp, iso2022_jp_2,
2655 iso2022_kr).
2656
Florent Xiclunadf10d7c2011-10-23 23:07:22 +02002657Documentation
2658-------------
2659
Petri Lehtinena15a8d22012-03-01 21:28:00 +02002660- Issues #13491 and #13995: Fix many errors in sqlite3 documentation.
2661 Initial patch for #13491 by Johannes Vogel.
Petri Lehtinen002b2022012-02-16 21:42:34 +02002662
Petri Lehtinenfe6f9d02012-02-02 21:11:28 +02002663- Issue #13402: Document absoluteness of sys.executable.
2664
Brett Cannon64b2b6a2012-01-26 18:32:24 -05002665- Issue #13883: PYTHONCASEOK also works on OS X, OS/2, and RiscOS.
2666
Meador Ingeda747c32012-01-19 00:17:44 -06002667- Issue #2134: The tokenize documentation has been clarified to explain why
2668 all operator and delimiter tokens are treated as token.OP tokens.
2669
Meador Inge52957182011-12-03 12:13:42 -06002670- Issue #13513: Fix io.IOBase documentation to correctly link to the
2671 io.IOBase.readline method instead of the readline module.
2672
Nick Coghlan86711572011-10-24 22:19:40 +10002673- Issue #13237: Reorganise subprocess documentation to emphasise convenience
2674 functions and the most commonly needed arguments to Popen.
2675
Florent Xiclunadf10d7c2011-10-23 23:07:22 +02002676- Issue #13141: Demonstrate recommended style for SocketServer examples.
2677
Victor Stinner08563d92011-05-30 23:44:13 +02002678
Benjamin Peterson5ee84482010-11-28 04:49:23 +00002679What's New in Python 2.7.2?
2680===========================
2681
Benjamin Peterson9843ba52011-06-11 09:42:44 -05002682*Release date: 2011-06-11*
Benjamin Petersonf14e4202011-05-31 18:44:55 -05002683
Benjamin Peterson43ee1a52011-06-10 11:32:52 -05002684Library
2685-------
2686
2687- Issue #12009: Fixed regression in netrc file comment handling.
2688
Benjamin Peterson4ba009d2011-05-31 18:59:49 -05002689Extension Modules
2690-----------------
2691
2692- Issue #1221: Make pyexpat.__version__ equal to the Python version.
2693
Benjamin Petersonf14e4202011-05-31 18:44:55 -05002694
2695What's New in Python 2.7.2 release candidate 1?
2696===============================================
2697
Benjamin Petersoncd207052011-05-29 16:50:27 -05002698*Release date: 2011-05-29*
Benjamin Peterson5ee84482010-11-28 04:49:23 +00002699
2700Core and Builtins
2701-----------------
2702
Ned Deily482f9082011-05-28 00:11:54 -07002703- Issue #9670: Increase the default stack size for secondary threads on
2704 Mac OS X and FreeBSD to reduce the chances of a crash instead of a
2705 "maximum recursion depth" RuntimeError exception.
2706 (patch by Ronald Oussoren)
2707
Benjamin Petersonef1122c2011-06-03 16:17:22 -05002708- Correct lookup of __dir__ on objects. This allows old-style classes to have
2709 __dir__. It also causes errors besides AttributeError found on lookup to be
2710 propagated.
Benjamin Peterson8de87a62011-05-23 16:11:05 -05002711
Victor Stinner2c585f62011-05-10 00:22:59 +02002712- Issue #1195: Fix input() if it is interrupted by CTRL+d and then CTRL+c,
2713 clear the end-of-file indicator after CTRL+d.
2714
Victor Stinner0a92d182011-05-03 15:09:24 +02002715- Issue #8651: PyArg_Parse*() functions raise an OverflowError if the file
2716 doesn't have PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN define and the size doesn't fit in an int
2717 (length bigger than 2^31-1 bytes).
2718
Victor Stinner645b9f62011-05-03 15:06:11 +02002719- Issue #8651: Fix "z#" format of PyArg_Parse*() function: the size was not
2720 written if PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN is defined.
2721
Victor Stinnere363ec12011-05-01 23:43:37 +02002722- Issue #9756: When calling a method descriptor or a slot wrapper descriptor,
2723 the check of the object type doesn't read the __class__ attribute anymore.
2724 Fix a crash if a class override its __class__ attribute (e.g. a proxy of the
Victor Stinner97cf5852011-05-01 23:51:11 +02002725 str type). Patch written by Andreas Stührk.
Victor Stinnere363ec12011-05-01 23:43:37 +02002726
Antoine Pitrou1f9eb152011-04-27 19:26:06 +02002727- Issue #10517: After fork(), reinitialize the TLS used by the PyGILState_*
2728 APIs, to avoid a crash with the pthread implementation in RHEL 5. Patch
2729 by Charles-François Natali.
2730
Ezio Melottie3685f62011-04-26 05:12:51 +03002731- Issue #6780: fix starts/endswith error message to mention that tuples are
2732 accepted too.
2733
Ezio Melottic283a852011-04-15 16:14:04 +03002734- Issue #5057: fix a bug in the peepholer that led to non-portable pyc files
2735 between narrow and wide builds while optimizing BINARY_SUBSCR on non-BMP
2736 chars (e.g. u"\U00012345"[0]).
2737
Victor Stinner5de51ac2011-04-09 16:09:08 +02002738- Issue #11650: PyOS_StdioReadline() retries fgets() if it was interrupted
2739 (EINTR), for example if the program is stopped with CTRL+z on Mac OS X. Patch
2740 written by Charles-Francois Natali.
2741
Mark Dickinson874d59e2011-03-26 12:18:00 +00002742- Issue #11144: Ensure that int(a_float) returns an int whenever possible.
2743 Previously, there were some corner cases where a long was returned even
2744 though the result was within the range of an int.
2745
Antoine Pitrou2ddaaff2011-03-09 12:54:00 +01002746- Issue #11450: Don't truncate hg version info in Py_GetBuildInfo() when
2747 there are many tags (e.g. when using mq). Patch by Nadeem Vawda.
2748
Antoine Pitrou3013b162011-01-18 19:06:19 +00002749- Issue #10451: memoryview objects could allow to mutate a readable buffer.
2750 Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall.
2751
Benjamin Peterson9b911ca2011-01-12 15:49:47 +00002752- Issue #10892: Don't segfault when trying to delete __abstractmethods__ from a
2753 class.
2754
Antoine Pitrou5a72e762011-01-07 21:49:44 +00002755- Issue #8020: Avoid a crash where the small objects allocator would read
2756 non-Python managed memory while it is being modified by another thread.
2757 Patch by Matt Bandy.
2758
Raymond Hettinger57a86892011-01-25 21:43:29 +00002759- Issue #11004: Repaired edge case in deque.count().
2760
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcac514c82011-01-03 00:50:57 +00002761- Issue #8278: On Windows and with a NTFS filesystem, os.stat() and os.utime()
2762 can now handle dates after 2038.
2763
R. David Murray64a1e7c2010-12-15 01:36:03 +00002764- Issue #4236: Py_InitModule4 now checks the import machinery directly
2765 rather than the Py_IsInitialized flag, avoiding a Fatal Python
2766 error in certain circumstances when an import is done in __del__.
2767
Ezio Melotti302ad8d2013-01-19 19:44:58 +02002768- Issue #11828: startswith and endswith don't accept None as slice index.
Jesus Cea44e81682011-04-20 16:39:15 +02002769 Patch by Torsten Becker.
2770
Benjamin Peterson07f54512010-12-11 04:25:57 +00002771- Issue #10674: Remove unused 'dictmaker' rule from grammar.
2772
Mark Dickinsonecf8ec62010-12-04 12:30:41 +00002773- Issue #10596: Fix float.__mod__ to have the same behaviour as
2774 float.__divmod__ with respect to signed zeros. -4.0 % 4.0 should be
2775 0.0, not -0.0.
2776
Eli Bendersky680e6eb2011-03-04 06:14:56 +00002777- Issue #11386: bytearray.pop() now throws IndexError when the bytearray is
2778 empty, instead of OverflowError.
2779
Benjamin Peterson5ee84482010-11-28 04:49:23 +00002780Library
2781-------
Antoine Pitrou47900cf2010-12-17 17:45:12 +00002782
Benjamin Peterson4fa68ab2011-05-26 09:56:41 -05002783- Issue #12161: Cause StringIO.getvalue() to raise a ValueError when used on a
2784 closed StringIO instance.
2785
Victor Stinnerdbfba162011-05-26 13:37:25 +02002786- Issue #12182: Fix pydoc.HTMLDoc.multicolumn() if Python uses the new (true)
2787 division (python -Qnew). Patch written by Ralf W. Grosse-Kunstleve.
2788
Victor Stinnerdaf17e92011-05-25 22:52:37 +02002789- Issue #12175: RawIOBase.readall() now returns None if read() returns None.
2790
Victor Stinner5100a402011-05-25 22:15:36 +02002791- Issue #12175: FileIO.readall() now raises a ValueError instead of an IOError
2792 if the file is closed.
2793
Charles-François Natalib94e0cd2011-05-24 23:10:54 +02002794- Issue #1441530: In imaplib, use makefile() to wrap the SSL socket to avoid
2795 heap fragmentation and MemoryError with some malloc implementations.
2796
Victor Stinner40b41e12011-05-24 22:29:13 +02002797- Issue #12100: Don't reset incremental encoders of CJK codecs at each call to
2798 their encode() method anymore, but continue to call the reset() method if the
2799 final argument is True.
2800
Victor Stinnerf58f1c32011-05-21 02:13:22 +02002801- Issue #12124: zipimport doesn't keep a reference to zlib.decompress() anymore
2802 to be able to unload the module.
2803
Ronald Oussoren372954e2011-05-17 13:22:30 +02002804- Issue #10154, #10090: change the normalization of UTF-8 to "UTF-8" instead
2805 of "UTF8" in the locale module as the latter is not supported MacOSX and OpenBSD.
2806
Victor Stinnerf58f1c32011-05-21 02:13:22 +02002807- Issue #9516: avoid errors in sysconfig when MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET is
Ronald Oussoren53b6a5f2011-05-15 16:51:10 +02002808 set in shell.
2809
Nadeem Vawda0cc4fd92011-05-14 14:29:07 +02002810- Issue #12050: zlib.decompressobj().decompress() now clears the unconsumed_tail
2811 attribute when called without a max_length argument.
2812
Antoine Pitrouee46a7b2011-05-13 00:31:52 +02002813- Issue #12062: In the `io` module, fix a flushing bug when doing a certain
2814 type of I/O sequence on a file opened in read+write mode (namely: reading,
2815 seeking a bit forward, writing, then seeking before the previous write but
2816 still within buffered data, and writing again).
2817
Antoine Pitrou47d1d0d2011-05-10 19:16:03 +02002818- Issue #8498: In socket.accept(), allow to specify 0 as a backlog value in
2819 order to accept exactly one connection. Patch by Daniel Evers.
2820
Victor Stinnerb1241f92011-05-10 01:52:03 +02002821- Issue #12012: ssl.PROTOCOL_SSLv2 becomes optional.
2822
Antoine Pitrou21ce8f02011-05-07 19:59:33 +02002823- Issue #11927: SMTP_SSL now uses port 465 by default as documented. Patch
2824 by Kasun Herath.
2825
Ezio Melotti50bc66a2012-11-03 21:29:08 +02002826- Issue #11999: fixed sporadic sync failure mailbox.Maildir due to its trying to
R David Murray8b26c4b2011-05-06 21:56:22 -04002827 detect mtime changes by comparing to the system clock instead of to the
2828 previous value of the mtime.
2829
Ronald Oussoren58d6b1b2011-05-06 11:31:33 +02002830- Issue #10684: shutil.move used to delete a folder on case insensitive
2831 filesystems when the source and destination name where the same except
2832 for the case.
2833
Ezio Melottidf8a8f72011-05-04 14:40:53 +03002834- Issue #11982: fix json.loads('""') to return u'' rather than ''.
2835
Victor Stinner112d48a2011-05-03 14:36:36 +02002836- Issue #11277: mmap.mmap() calls fcntl(fd, F_FULLFSYNC) on Mac OS X to get
2837 around a mmap bug with sparse files. Patch written by Steffen Daode Nurpmeso.
2838
Senthil Kumaran011525e2011-04-28 15:30:31 +08002839- Issue #10761: Fix tarfile.extractall failure when symlinked files are
2840 present. Initial patch by Scott Leerssen.
2841
Ezio Melotti34b32d62011-04-27 09:45:46 +03002842- Issue #11763: don't use difflib in TestCase.assertMultiLineEqual if the
2843 strings are too long.
2844
Senthil Kumaran5dc68682011-04-26 21:17:45 +08002845- Issue #11236: getpass.getpass responds to ctrl-c or ctrl-z on terminal.
2846
Victor Stinner33feeab2011-04-18 16:33:28 +02002847- Issue #11768: The signal handler of the signal module only calls
2848 Py_AddPendingCall() for the first signal to fix a deadlock on reentrant or
2849 parallel calls. PyErr_SetInterrupt() writes also into the wake up file.
2850
Raymond Hettingere0156c42011-04-19 09:48:39 -07002851- Issue #11875: collections.OrderedDict's __reduce__ was temporarily
2852 mutating the object instead of just working on a copy.
2853
Martin v. Löwis2d253dd2011-04-17 22:29:40 +02002854- Issue #11442: Add a charset parameter to the Content-type in SimpleHTTPServer
2855 to avoid XSS attacks.
2856
Senthil Kumaranddaea1c2011-04-15 18:07:33 +08002857- Issue #11467: Fix urlparse behavior when handling urls which contains scheme
2858 specific part only digits. Patch by Santoso Wijaya.
2859
Raymond Hettinger37c0fe52011-04-15 13:12:21 -07002860- collections.Counter().copy() now works correctly for subclasses.
2861
Senthil Kumarana99b7612011-04-14 12:54:35 +08002862- Issue #11474: Fix the bug with url2pathname() handling of '/C|/' on Windows.
2863 Patch by Santoso Wijaya.
2864
Ezio Melotti2b96f092011-04-13 05:37:29 +03002865- Issue #9233: Fix json.loads('{}') to return a dict (instead of a list), when
2866 _json is not available.
2867
2868- Issue #11703: urllib2.geturl() does not return correct url when the original
Senthil Kumaran0531d6f2011-04-13 09:47:20 +08002869 url contains #fragment.
2870
R David Murrayea8b6ef2011-04-12 21:00:26 -04002871- Issue #10019: Fixed regression in json module where an indent of 0 stopped
2872 adding newlines and acted instead like 'None'.
2873
brian.curtin16f98b72011-04-11 18:05:33 -05002874- Issue #5162: Treat services like frozen executables to allow child spawning
2875 from multiprocessing.forking on Windows.
2876
Ezio Melotti8b4367e2011-04-11 03:44:28 +03002877- Issue #4877: Fix a segfault in xml.parsers.expat while attempting to parse
2878 a closed file.
2879
Raymond Hettingere4579c32011-04-11 17:27:42 -07002880- Issue #11830: Remove unnecessary introspection code in the decimal module.
2881 It was causing a failed import in the Turkish locale where the locale
2882 sensitive str.upper() method caused a name mismatch.
2883
Antoine Pitrou7dfc8742011-04-11 00:26:42 +02002884- Issue #8428: Fix a race condition in multiprocessing.Pool when terminating
2885 worker processes: new processes would be spawned while the pool is being
2886 shut down. Patch by Charles-François Natali.
2887
Ezio Melotti8b4367e2011-04-11 03:44:28 +03002888- Issue #7311: Fix HTMLParser to accept non-ASCII attribute values.
Ezio Melotti9f1ffb22011-04-05 20:40:52 +03002889
Ross Lagerwall104c3f12011-04-05 15:24:34 +02002890- Issue #10963: Ensure that subprocess.communicate() never raises EPIPE.
2891
guido@google.com2bc23b82011-03-24 10:44:17 -07002892- Issue #11662: Make urllib and urllib2 ignore redirections if the
guido@google.comdb3080e2011-03-28 13:53:40 -07002893 scheme is not HTTP, HTTPS or FTP (CVE-2011-1521).
Antoine Pitrou47900cf2010-12-17 17:45:12 +00002894
Benjamin Peterson77d46602011-03-28 17:32:31 -05002895- Issue #11256: Fix inspect.getcallargs on functions that take only keyword
2896 arguments.
2897
Martin v. Löwis03f7e232011-03-27 20:58:52 +02002898- Issue #11696: Fix ID generation in msilib.
2899
Mark Dickinsond687be02011-03-27 16:15:24 +01002900- Issue #9696: Fix exception incorrectly raised by xdrlib.Packer.pack_int when
2901 trying to pack a negative (in-range) integer.
2902
Mark Dickinson1829e8f2011-03-27 15:32:05 +01002903- Issue #11675: multiprocessing.[Raw]Array objects created from an integer size
2904 are now zeroed on creation. This matches the behaviour specified by the
2905 documentation.
2906
Martin v. Löwis49b0ce02011-03-27 10:10:46 +02002907- Issue #7639: Fix short file name generation in bdist_msi.
2908
Raymond Hettinger9aa5a342011-03-25 16:00:13 -07002909- Issue #11666: let help() display named tuple attributes and methods
2910 that start with a leading underscore.
2911
Mark Dickinsonf9e9a6f2011-03-25 22:01:06 +00002912- Issue #11673: Fix multiprocessing Array and RawArray constructors to accept a
2913 size of type 'long', rather than only accepting 'int'.
2914
Éric Araujo374274d2011-03-19 04:29:36 +01002915- Issue #10042: Fixed the total_ordering decorator to handle cross-type
2916 comparisons that could lead to infinite recursion.
2917
Michael Foord51368672011-03-17 12:59:38 -04002918- Issue #10979: unittest stdout buffering now works with class and module
2919 setup and teardown.
2920
Ronald Oussoren2ab59942011-03-16 09:47:15 -04002921- Issue #11569: use absolute path to the sysctl command in multiprocessing to
2922 ensure that it will be found regardless of the shell PATH. This ensures
2923 that multiprocessing.cpu_count works on default installs of MacOSX.
2924
Michael Foord51368672011-03-17 12:59:38 -04002925- Issue #11500: Fixed a bug in the os x proxy bypass code for fully qualified
2926 IP addresses in the proxy exception list.
Ronald Oussoren1aa999c2011-03-14 18:53:59 -04002927
Mark Dickinson2c8c62e2011-03-12 11:05:32 +00002928- Issue #11131: Fix sign of zero in plus and minus operations when
2929 the context rounding mode is ROUND_FLOOR.
2930
Ned Deily9d4836e2011-03-09 02:31:55 -08002931- Issue #5622: Fix curses.wrapper to raise correct exception if curses
2932 initialization fails.
2933
Antoine Pitroud6f3a3e2011-03-06 02:03:34 +01002934- Issue #11391: Writing to a mmap object created with
2935 ``mmap.PROT_READ|mmap.PROT_EXEC`` would segfault instead of raising a
2936 TypeError. Patch by Charles-François Natali.
2937
R. David Murray1a337902011-03-03 18:17:40 +00002938- Issue #11306: mailbox in certain cases adapts to an inability to open
2939 certain files in read-write mode. Previously it detected this by
2940 checking for EACCES, now it also checks for EROFS.
2941
Giampaolo Rodolàd65224f2011-03-03 14:17:51 +00002942- Issue #11265: asyncore now correctly handles EPIPE, EBADF and EAGAIN errors
2943 on accept(), send() and recv().
2944
Antoine Pitroud3f6ea12011-02-26 23:35:27 +00002945- Issue #11326: Add the missing connect_ex() implementation for SSL sockets,
2946 and make it work for non-blocking connects.
2947
Antoine Pitrou6439c002011-02-25 21:35:47 +00002948- Issue #10956: Buffered I/O classes retry reading or writing after a signal
2949 has arrived and the handler returned successfully.
2950
Georg Brandl28046022011-02-25 11:01:04 +00002951- Issue #10680: Fix mutually exclusive arguments for argument groups in
2952 argparse.
2953
Antoine Pitrouf4d2b3d2011-02-21 23:59:20 +00002954- Issue #4681: Allow mmap() to work on file sizes and offsets larger than
2955 4GB, even on 32-bit builds. Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall, adapted for
2956 32-bit Windows.
2957
Georg Brandl52f83952011-02-25 10:39:23 +00002958- Issue #10360: In WeakSet, do not raise TypeErrors when testing for
2959 membership of non-weakrefable objects.
2960
2961- Issue #10549: Fix pydoc traceback when text-documenting certain classes.
2962
2963- Issue #940286: pydoc.Helper.help() ignores input/output init parameters.
2964
Barry Warsaw42bb7ca2011-02-14 20:04:00 +00002965- Issue #11171: Fix detection of config/Makefile when --prefix !=
2966 --exec-prefix, which caused Python to not start.
2967
R. David Murray008c0442011-02-11 23:03:13 +00002968- Issue #11116: any error during addition of a message to a mailbox now causes
2969 a rollback, instead of leaving the mailbox partially modified.
2970
Antoine Pitrou820021e2011-01-31 21:47:45 +00002971- Issue #8275: Fix passing of callback arguments with ctypes under Win64.
2972 Patch by Stan Mihai.
2973
Vinay Sajipcdb83882011-01-21 23:35:57 +00002974- Issue #10949: Improved robustness of rotating file handlers.
2975
Antoine Pitrou8a0eede2011-01-20 21:20:18 +00002976- Issue #10955: Fix a potential crash when trying to mmap() a file past its
2977 length. Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall.
2978
Antoine Pitrou63a3f152011-01-19 15:27:24 +00002979- Issue #10898: Allow compiling the posix module when the C library defines
2980 a symbol named FSTAT.
2981
Antoine Pitrou9989d852011-01-15 16:18:57 +00002982- Issue #10916: mmap should not segfault when a file is mapped using 0 as
2983 length and a non-zero offset, and an attempt to read past the end of file
2984 is made (IndexError is raised instead). Patch by Ross Lagerwall.
2985
Terry Reedyf7dd7992011-01-10 22:15:19 +00002986- Issue #10875: Update Regular Expression HOWTO; patch by 'SilentGhost'.
2987
Antoine Pitrou5a72e762011-01-07 21:49:44 +00002988- Issue #10827: Changed the rules for 2-digit years. The time.asctime
2989 function will now format any year when ``time.accept2dyear`` is
2990 false and will accept years >= 1000 otherwise. The year range
2991 accepted by ``time.mktime`` and ``time.strftime`` is still system
2992 dependent, but ``time.mktime`` will now accept full range supported
2993 by the OS. Conversion of 2-digit years to 4-digit is deprecated.
2994
Georg Brandl6adb9792011-01-09 07:53:14 +00002995- Issue #10869: Fixed bug where ast.increment_lineno modified the root
2996 node twice.
2997
Antoine Pitrou1f1613f2011-01-06 18:30:26 +00002998- Issue #7858: Raise an error properly when os.utime() fails under Windows
2999 on an existing file.
3000
Antoine Pitrou77c1b382011-01-06 17:19:05 +00003001- Issue #3839: wsgiref should not override a Content-Length header set by
3002 the application. Initial patch by Clovis Fabricio.
3003
Antoine Pitrou91ce0d92011-01-03 18:45:09 +00003004- Issue #10806, issue #9905: Fix subprocess pipes when some of the standard
3005 file descriptors (0, 1, 2) are closed in the parent process. Initial
3006 patch by Ross Lagerwall.
3007
Antoine Pitroub0614612011-01-02 20:04:52 +00003008- Issue #4662: os.tempnam(), os.tmpfile() and os.tmpnam() now raise a py3k
3009 DeprecationWarning.
3010
Raymond Hettinger8ebebd82011-01-02 01:03:26 +00003011- Subclasses of collections.OrderedDict now work correctly with __missing__.
3012
Éric Araujo86f90742011-03-21 00:15:26 +01003013- Issue #10753 - Characters ';', '=' and ',' in the PATH_INFO environment
Senthil Kumaran559395f2010-12-29 06:30:19 +00003014 variable won't be quoted when the URI is constructed by the wsgiref.util 's
3015 request_uri method. According to RFC 3986, these characters can be a part of
3016 params in PATH component of URI and need not be quoted.
3017
Éric Araujo86f90742011-03-21 00:15:26 +01003018- Issue #10738: Fix webbrowser.Opera.raise_opts
Terry Reedy0df73672010-12-28 19:53:32 +00003019
Éric Araujo86f90742011-03-21 00:15:26 +01003020- Issue #9824: SimpleCookie now encodes , and ; in values to cater to how
R. David Murray08fc7012010-12-28 19:11:03 +00003021 browsers actually parse cookies.
3022
R. David Murray5360d002010-12-27 19:17:17 +00003023- Issue #1379416: eliminated a source of accidental unicode promotion in
3024 email.header.Header.encode.
3025
R. David Murray5874ed62010-12-26 22:29:53 +00003026- Issue #5258/#10642: if site.py encounters a .pth file that generates an error,
3027 it now prints the filename, line number, and traceback to stderr and skips
3028 the rest of that individual file, instead of stopping processing entirely.
3029
Antoine Pitroufc9ead62010-12-21 21:26:55 +00003030- Issue #10750: The ``raw`` attribute of buffered IO objects is now read-only.
3031
Daniel Stutzbach57cf0af2011-01-04 18:47:17 +00003032- Issue #10242: unittest.TestCase.assertItemsEqual makes too many assumptions
Michael Foorde6e0e262010-12-19 15:52:56 +00003033 about input.
3034
Michael Foorda17f0762010-12-19 14:53:19 +00003035- Issue #10611: SystemExit should not cause a unittest test run to exit.
3036
Antoine Pitroud7b6ac62010-12-18 18:18:21 +00003037- Issue #6791: Limit header line length (to 65535 bytes) in http.client,
3038 to avoid denial of services from the other party.
3039
R. David Murray3f752ab2010-12-18 17:22:18 +00003040- Issue #9907: Fix tab handling on OSX when using editline by calling
R. David Murray7a697252010-12-18 03:52:09 +00003041 rl_initialize first, then setting our custom defaults, then reading .editrc.
3042
Antoine Pitrou47900cf2010-12-17 17:45:12 +00003043- Issue #4188: Avoid creating dummy thread objects when logging operations
3044 from the threading module (with the internal verbose flag activated).
3045
Senthil Kumaran5c7fd6e2010-12-17 04:56:02 +00003046- Issue #9721: Fix the behavior of urljoin when the relative url starts with a
3047 ';' character. Patch by Wes Chow.
Benjamin Peterson5ee84482010-11-28 04:49:23 +00003048
Antoine Pitrou47d9b0e2010-12-16 17:11:34 +00003049- Issue #10714: Limit length of incoming request in http.server to 65536 bytes
3050 for security reasons. Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall.
3051
Éric Araujoe04c13c2010-12-15 21:15:25 +00003052- Issue #9558: Fix distutils.command.build_ext with VS 8.0.
3053
R. David Murraydacb8042010-12-14 14:34:16 +00003054- Issue #10695: passing the port as a string value to telnetlib no longer
3055 causes debug mode to fail.
3056
Antoine Pitrou4cb64ad2010-12-03 19:31:52 +00003057- Issue #10478: Reentrant calls inside buffered IO objects (for example by
3058 way of a signal handler) now raise a RuntimeError instead of freezing the
3059 current process.
3060
Éric Araujofb3de6b2010-12-03 19:24:49 +00003061- Issue #10497: Fix incorrect use of gettext in argparse.
3062
R. David Murrayd75cc912010-12-02 03:16:23 +00003063- Issue #10464: netrc now correctly handles lines with embedded '#' characters.
3064
Gregory P. Smith312efbc2010-12-14 15:02:53 +00003065- Issue #1731717: Fixed the problem where subprocess.wait() could cause an
3066 OSError exception when The OS had been told to ignore SIGCLD in our process
3067 or otherwise not wait for exiting child processes.
3068
Steven Bethardf8583ac2011-01-24 20:40:15 +00003069- Issue #9509: argparse now properly handles IOErrors raised by
3070 argparse.FileType.
3071
Steven Bethard3f69a052011-03-26 19:59:02 +01003072- Issue #9348: Raise an early error if argparse nargs and metavar don't match.
3073
3074- Issue #8982: Improve the documentation for the argparse Namespace object.
3075
Steven Bethard5e0062d2011-03-26 21:50:38 +01003076- Issue #9343: Document that argparse parent parsers must be configured before
3077 their children.
3078
Steven Bethardbc3b1042011-03-27 13:57:55 +02003079- Issue #9026: Fix order of argparse sub-commands in help messages.
3080
Steven Betharde3c11b42011-04-04 01:47:52 +02003081- Issue #9347: Fix formatting for tuples in argparse type= error messages.
3082
R. David Murray2a4b3fc2010-12-11 02:13:04 +00003083Extension Modules
3084-----------------
3085
Benjamin Peterson6116d4a2011-05-17 18:31:20 -05003086- Stop using the old interface for providing methods and attributes in the _sre
3087 module. Among other things, this gives these classes ``__class__``
3088 attributes. (See #12099)
3089
Ezio Melotti0639be62011-05-07 19:21:22 +03003090- Issue #10169: Fix argument parsing in socket.sendto() to avoid error masking.
3091
Ezio Melottic1ec7b52011-05-11 00:55:35 +03003092- Issue #12051: Fix segfault in json.dumps() while encoding highly-nested
3093 objects using the C accelerations.
3094
Ezio Melotticec46492011-05-07 17:40:23 +03003095- Issue #12017: Fix segfault in json.loads() while decoding highly-nested
3096 objects using the C accelerations.
3097
Benjamin Petersonf21ad922011-03-26 17:56:28 -05003098- Issue #1838: Prevent segfault in ctypes, when _as_parameter_ on a class is set
3099 to an instance of the class.
3100
R. David Murray2a4b3fc2010-12-11 02:13:04 +00003101- Issue #678250: Make mmap flush a noop on ACCESS_READ and ACCESS_COPY.
3102
Serhiy Storchakaff99e412013-04-14 18:52:15 +03003103IDLE
3104----
3105
3106- Issue #11718: IDLE's open module dialog couldn't find the __init__.py
3107 file in a package.
3108
3109- Issue #12590: IDLE editor window now always displays the first line
3110 when opening a long file. With Tk 8.5, the first line was hidden.
3111
3112- Issue #11088: don't crash when using F5 to run a script in IDLE on MacOSX
3113 with Tk 8.5.
3114
3115- Issue #10940: Workaround an IDLE hang on Mac OS X 10.6 when using the
3116 menu accelerators for Open Module, Go to Line, and New Indent Width.
3117 The accelerators still work but no longer appear in the menu items.
3118
3119- Issue #10907: Warn OS X 10.6 IDLE users to use ActiveState Tcl/Tk 8.5, rather
3120 than the currently problematic Apple-supplied one, when running with the
3121 64-/32-bit installer variant.
3122
3123- Issue #11052: Correct IDLE menu accelerators on Mac OS X for Save
3124 commands.
3125
3126- Issue #6075: IDLE on Mac OS X now works with both Carbon AquaTk and
3127 Cocoa AquaTk.
3128
3129- Issue #10404: Use ctl-button-1 on OSX for the context menu in Idle.
3130
3131- Issue #10107: Warn about unsaved files in IDLE on OSX.
3132
3133- Issue #10406: Enable Rstrip IDLE extension on OSX (just like on other
3134 platforms).
3135
Antoine Pitrouf11d1832011-01-02 19:37:45 +00003136Build
3137-----
3138
Ned Deily22f63b52011-05-28 05:56:14 -07003139- Issue #11217: For 64-bit/32-bit Mac OS X universal framework builds,
3140 ensure "make install" creates symlinks in --prefix bin for the "-32"
3141 files in the framework bin directory like the installer does.
3142
Thomas Wouters5edae7e2011-03-06 11:48:05 -08003143- Issue #11411: Fix 'make DESTDIR=' with a relative destination.
3144
Georg Brandl94800df2011-02-25 11:09:02 +00003145- Issue #10709: Add updated AIX notes in Misc/README.AIX.
3146
3147- Issue #11184: Fix large-file support on AIX.
3148
Georg Brandl71f4fbb2011-02-25 11:04:50 +00003149- Issue #941346: Fix broken shared library build on AIX.
3150
Ned Deilye6cc7d62011-02-21 21:00:09 +00003151- Issue #11268: Prevent Mac OS X Installer failure if Documentation
3152 package had previously been installed.
3153
Ned Deily68adfdc2011-02-07 16:52:25 +00003154- Issue #11079: The /Applications/Python x.x folder created by the Mac
3155 OS X installers now includes a link to the installed documentation.
3156
Ned Deily53c460d2011-01-30 01:43:40 +00003157- Issue #11054: Allow Mac OS X installer builds to again work on 10.5 with
3158 the system-provided Python.
3159
3160- Issue #10843: Update third-party library versions used in OS X
3161 32-bit installer builds: bzip2 1.0.6, readline 6.1.2, SQLite 3.7.4
3162 (with FTS3/FTS4 and RTREE enabled), and ncursesw 5.5 (wide-char
3163 support enabled).
3164
Antoine Pitrou9828b562011-01-03 19:11:32 +00003165- Don't run pgen twice when using make -j.
3166
Antoine Pitrou31e85952011-01-03 18:57:14 +00003167- Issue #7716: Under Solaris, don't assume existence of /usr/xpg4/bin/grep in
3168 the configure script but use $GREP instead. Patch by Fabian Groffen.
3169
Antoine Pitrouf11d1832011-01-02 19:37:45 +00003170- Issue #10475: Don't hardcode compilers for LDSHARED/LDCXXSHARED on NetBSD
3171 and DragonFly BSD. Patch by Nicolas Joly.
3172
David Malcolm4c29e1c2011-01-06 17:39:24 +00003173- Issue #10655: Fix the build on PowerPC on Linux with GCC when building with
3174 timestamp profiling (--with-tsc): the preprocessor test for the PowerPC
3175 support now looks for "__powerpc__" as well as "__ppc__": the latter seems to
3176 only be present on OS X; the former is the correct one for Linux with GCC.
3177
Ronald Oussoren19199832011-03-14 11:57:39 -04003178- Issue #1099: Fix the build on MacOSX when building a framework with pydebug
3179 using GCC 4.0.
3180
R. David Murray0960bc52010-12-04 17:24:46 +00003181Tests
3182-----
3183
Serhiy Storchakaff99e412013-04-14 18:52:15 +03003184- Issue #11164: Remove obsolete allnodes test from minidom test.
3185
Ned Deilyc4f97f42011-05-29 02:36:17 -07003186- Issue #12205: Fix test_subprocess failure due to uninstalled test data.
3187
Ezio Melottie3992eb2011-05-14 06:24:53 +03003188- Issue #5723: Improve json tests to be executed with and without accelerations.
3189
Ezio Melotti5c5d7e22011-05-09 06:54:53 +03003190- Issue #11910: Fix test_heapq to skip the C tests when _heapq is missing.
3191
Nadeem Vawdabafc6a92011-04-19 01:35:58 +02003192- Fix test_startfile to wait for child process to terminate before finishing.
3193
Ross Lagerwallfe2f1ad2011-04-09 20:39:50 +02003194- Issue #11719: Fix message about unexpected test_msilib skip on non-Windows
3195 platforms. Patch by Nadeem Vawda.
3196
Ned Deily5f511822011-04-05 17:16:09 -07003197- Issue #7108: Fix test_commands to not fail when special attributes ('@'
3198 or '.') appear in 'ls -l' output.
3199
R David Murraycdd5fc92011-03-13 22:37:18 -04003200- Issue #11490: test_subprocess:test_leaking_fds_on_error no longer gives a
3201 false positive if the last directory in the path is inaccessible.
3202
Antoine Pitrou8bc59fa2011-01-12 18:56:09 +00003203- Issue #10822: Fix test_posix:test_getgroups failure under Solaris. Patch
3204 by Ross Lagerwall.
3205
Antoine Pitrou8c688be2011-01-03 20:49:01 +00003206- Issue #6293: Have regrtest.py echo back sys.flags. This is done by default
3207 in whole runs and enabled selectively using ``--header`` when running an
3208 explicit list of tests. Original patch by Collin Winter.
3209
R. David Murrayf8a63912010-12-14 16:26:30 +00003210- Issue #775964: test_grp now skips YP/NIS entries instead of failing when
3211 encountering them.
3212
R. David Murray0960bc52010-12-04 17:24:46 +00003213- Issue #7110: regrtest now sends test failure reports and single-failure
3214 tracebacks to stderr rather than stdout.
3215
Benjamin Peterson5ee84482010-11-28 04:49:23 +00003216
Benjamin Petersondb4c3342010-11-13 23:32:58 +00003217What's New in Python 2.7.1?
3218===========================
3219
Benjamin Peterson3e0fa422010-11-27 14:40:29 +00003220*Release date: 2010-11-27*
Benjamin Petersondb4c3342010-11-13 23:32:58 +00003221
3222Library
3223-------
3224
Éric Araujo54274ad2011-02-03 00:12:18 +00003225- Issue #2236: distutils' mkpath ignored the mode parameter.
3226
3227- Fix typo in one sdist option (medata-check).
3228
Raymond Hettinger061bf7a2010-11-30 03:15:35 +00003229- Issue #10323: itertools.islice() now consumes the minimum number of
3230 inputs before stopping. Formerly, the final state of the underlying
3231 iterator was undefined.
3232
Alexander Belopolsky1fea5c42010-11-30 01:18:17 +00003233- Issue #10565: The collections.Iterator ABC now checks for both
3234 ``__iter__`` and ``next``.
3235
Georg Brandl79f096a2010-11-26 07:57:57 +00003236- Issue #10092: Properly reset locale in calendar.Locale*Calendar classes.
3237
Martin v. Löwise03c7782010-11-22 10:53:46 +00003238- Issue #10459: Update CJK character names to Unicode 5.2.
3239
Georg Brandl5ded7912010-11-26 07:35:31 +00003240- Issue #6098: Don't claim DOM level 3 conformance in minidom.
3241
Senthil Kumaran9a5897b2010-11-29 12:41:03 +00003242- Issue #10561: In pdb, clear the breakpoints by the breakpoint number.
3243
Georg Brandl5ded7912010-11-26 07:35:31 +00003244- Issue #5762: Fix AttributeError raised by ``xml.dom.minidom`` when an empty
3245 XML namespace attribute is encountered.
3246
Georg Brandl86e0c892010-11-26 07:22:28 +00003247- Issue #1710703: Write structures for an empty ZIP archive when a ZipFile is
3248 created in modes 'a' or 'w' and then closed without adding any files. Raise
3249 BadZipfile (rather than IOError) when opening small non-ZIP files.
3250
Senthil Kumaran0b7cac12010-11-22 05:04:33 +00003251- Issue #4493: urllib2 adds '/' in front of path components which does not
3252 start with '/. Common behavior exhibited by browsers and other clients.
3253
Éric Araujo4fadd532010-11-20 20:02:41 +00003254- Issue #10407: Fix one NameError in distutils.
3255
Georg Brandl839c1132010-11-20 11:29:38 +00003256- Issue #10198: fix duplicate header written to wave files when writeframes()
3257 is called without data.
3258
Benjamin Peterson4fec9ce2010-11-20 17:31:08 +00003259- Issue #10467: Fix BytesIO.readinto() after seeking into a position after the
3260 end of the file.
3261
Senthil Kumaran501bfd82010-11-14 03:31:52 +00003262- Issue #5111: IPv6 Host in the Header is wrapped inside [ ]. Patch by Chandru.
3263
Serhiy Storchakaff99e412013-04-14 18:52:15 +03003264IDLE
3265----
3266
3267- Issue #6378: idle.bat now runs with the appropriate Python version rather than
3268 the system default. Patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar.
3269
Martin v. Löwiseebd0172010-11-14 18:17:39 +00003270Build
3271-----
3272
Brian Curtin69a106a2010-11-22 02:08:49 +00003273- Backport r83399 to allow test_distutils to pass on installed versions.
3274
Martin v. Löwiseebd0172010-11-14 18:17:39 +00003275- Issue #1303434: Generate ZIP file containing all PDBs.
3276
Ezio Melotti2623a372010-11-21 13:34:58 +00003277Tests
3278-----
3279
3280- Issue #9424: Replace deprecated assert* methods in the Python test suite.
3281
Ezio Melottibf8484e2010-11-24 21:54:47 +00003282Documentation
3283-------------
3284
3285- Issue #10299: List the built-in functions in a table in functions.rst.
3286
Benjamin Petersondb4c3342010-11-13 23:32:58 +00003287
Benjamin Petersoncc214172010-11-13 17:33:04 +00003288What's New in Python 2.7.1 release candidate 1?
3289===============================================
Benjamin Petersone3c10452010-07-03 14:51:25 +00003290
Benjamin Petersoncc214172010-11-13 17:33:04 +00003291*Release date: 2010-11-13*
Benjamin Petersone3c10452010-07-03 14:51:25 +00003292
3293Core and Builtins
3294-----------------
3295
Raymond Hettinger2ad17e12010-10-30 08:17:46 +00003296- Issue #10221: dict.pop(k) now has a key error message that includes the
3297 missing key (same message d[k] returns for missing keys).
3298
Barry Warsawfa658272010-11-02 21:03:09 +00003299- Issue #10125: Don't segfault when the iterator passed to
3300 ``file.writelines()`` closes the file.
Benjamin Petersonbf775542010-10-16 19:20:12 +00003301
Barry Warsawfa658272010-11-02 21:03:09 +00003302- Issue #10186: Fix the SyntaxError caret when the offset is equal to the
3303 length of the offending line.
Benjamin Petersonf99f33d2010-10-24 03:00:35 +00003304
Benjamin Petersonf76942d2010-10-16 03:51:38 +00003305- Issue #9997: Don't let the name "top" have special significance in scope
3306 resolution.
3307
R. David Murray1d9d16e2010-10-16 00:43:13 +00003308- Issue #9862: Compensate for broken PIPE_BUF in AIX by hard coding
3309 its value as the default 512 when compiling on AIX.
3310
Jesus Cea33c722b2010-11-04 21:39:52 +00003311- Issue #9675: CObject use is marked as a Py3k warning, not a deprecation
3312 warning.
3313
Benjamin Petersondc954242010-10-12 23:02:35 +00003314- Issue #10068: Global objects which have reference cycles with their module's
3315 dict are now cleared again. This causes issue #7140 to appear again.
3316
Mark Dickinsoncb61e5d2010-09-26 10:37:12 +00003317- Issue #9869: Make long() and PyNumber_Long return something of type
3318 long for a class whose __long__ method returns a plain int. This
3319 fixes an interpreter crash when initializing an instance of a long
3320 subclass from an object whose __long__ method returns a plain int.
3321
Benjamin Petersona5d5cc42010-10-02 00:08:58 +00003322- Issue #10006: type.__abstractmethods__ now raises an AttributeError.
3323
Antoine Pitrou0a7b65b2010-09-08 12:40:49 +00003324- Issue #9797: pystate.c wrongly assumed that zero couldn't be a valid
3325 thread-local storage key.
3326
Victor Stinnercaafd772010-09-08 10:51:01 +00003327- Issue #4947: The write() method of sys.stdout and sys.stderr uses their
3328 encoding and errors attributes instead of using utf-8 in strict mode, to get
3329 the same behaviour than the print statement.
3330
Antoine Pitrou9cf85f12010-09-01 21:17:34 +00003331- Issue #9737: Fix a crash when trying to delete a slice or an item from
3332 a memoryview object.
3333
Martin v. Löwis6086b0d2010-08-19 09:09:04 +00003334- Restore GIL in nis_cat in case of error.
3335
Benjamin Peterson6f3d6a92010-08-25 23:17:42 +00003336- Issue #9688: __basicsize__ and __itemsize__ must be accessed as Py_ssize_t.
3337
Florent Xicluna172e15f2010-08-09 20:02:00 +00003338- Issue #8530: Prevent stringlib fastsearch from reading beyond the front
3339 of an array.
3340
Raymond Hettinger3ad323e2010-08-06 10:18:56 +00003341- Issue #83755: Implicit set-to-frozenset conversion was not thread-safe.
3342
Mark Dickinsonaad57bd2010-08-01 10:45:15 +00003343- Issue #9416: Fix some issues with complex formatting where the
3344 output with no type specifier failed to match the str output:
3345
3346 - format(complex(-0.0, 2.0), '-') omitted the real part from the output,
3347 - format(complex(0.0, 2.0), '-') included a sign and parentheses.
3348
Antoine Pitrou32669782010-07-11 12:14:05 +00003349- Issue #7616: Fix copying of overlapping memoryview slices with the Intel
3350 compiler.
Benjamin Petersone3c10452010-07-03 14:51:25 +00003351
3352Library
3353-------
3354
Éric Araujo86f90742011-03-21 00:15:26 +01003355- Issue #9926: Wrapped TestSuite subclass does not get __call__ executed
Michael Foord75152ea2010-11-20 17:40:49 +00003356
Antoine Pitrou7eaa4482010-11-09 23:15:18 +00003357- Issue #4471: Properly shutdown socket in IMAP.shutdown(). Patch by
3358 Lorenzo M. Catucci.
3359
Éric Araujo2f0a0402010-11-06 15:46:46 +00003360- Issue #10126: Fix distutils' test_build when Python was built with
3361 --enable-shared.
Michael Foord75152ea2010-11-20 17:40:49 +00003362
Éric Araujo2f0a0402010-11-06 15:46:46 +00003363- Fix typo in one sdist option (medata-check).
3364
3365- Issue #9199: Fix incorrect use of distutils.cmd.Command.announce.
3366
3367- Issue #1718574: Fix options that were supposed to accept arguments but did
3368 not in build_clib.
3369
Éric Araujoe9954b52010-11-06 04:53:42 +00003370- Issue #9281: Prevent race condition with mkdir in distutils. Patch by
3371 Arfrever.
3372
Éric Araujoe28665a2010-11-06 04:36:28 +00003373- Issue #10229: Fix caching error in gettext.
3374
Éric Araujod1feff72010-11-06 04:06:18 +00003375- Issue #10252: Close file objects in a timely manner in distutils code and
3376 tests. Patch by Brian Brazil, completed by Éric Araujo.
3377
Antoine Pitrou6b1167c2010-11-05 19:55:02 +00003378- Issue #10311: The signal module now restores errno before returning from
3379 its low-level signal handler. Patch by Hallvard B Furuseth.
3380
Barry Warsawfa658272010-11-02 21:03:09 +00003381- Issue #10038: json.loads() on str should always return unicode (regression
3382 from Python 2.6). Patch by Walter Dörwald.
Michael Foorde5dc24e2010-11-01 22:11:53 +00003383
Barry Warsawfa658272010-11-02 21:03:09 +00003384- Issue #120176: Wrapped TestSuite subclass does not get __call__ executed.
3385
3386- Issue #6706: asyncore accept() method no longer raises
3387 EWOULDBLOCK/ECONNABORTED on incomplete connection attempt but returns None
3388 instead.
Giampaolo Rodolà19e9fef2010-11-01 15:07:14 +00003389
Antoine Pitrou61d14b72010-10-31 16:17:36 +00003390- Issue #10266: uu.decode didn't close in_file explicitly when it was given
3391 as a filename. Patch by Brian Brazil.
3392
Antoine Pitrou3917c092010-10-31 13:12:48 +00003393- Issue #10246: uu.encode didn't close file objects explicitly when filenames
3394 were given to it. Patch by Brian Brazil.
3395
Antoine Pitrou594a0462010-10-31 13:05:48 +00003396- Issue #10253: FileIO leaks a file descriptor when trying to open a file
3397 for append that isn't seekable. Patch by Brian Brazil.
3398
Raymond Hettingercbba8d42010-10-30 07:29:44 +00003399- Issue #6105: json.dumps now respects OrderedDict's iteration order.
3400
Antoine Pitrou638cee62010-10-28 14:50:57 +00003401- Issue #9295: Fix a crash under Windows when calling close() on a file
3402 object with custom buffering from two threads at once.
3403
Antoine Pitrou7f081022010-10-27 18:43:21 +00003404- Issue #5027: The standard ``xml`` namespace is now understood by
3405 xml.sax.saxutils.XMLGenerator as being bound to
3406 http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace. Patch by Troy J. Farrell.
3407
Brian Curtin4cc54032010-10-21 14:48:22 +00003408- Issue #10163: Skip unreadable registry keys during mimetypes
3409 initialization.
3410
Hirokazu Yamamoto50f7d7e2010-10-18 13:55:29 +00003411- Issue #5117: Fixed root directory related issue on posixpath.relpath() and
3412 ntpath.relpath().
3413
Éric Araujo86f90742011-03-21 00:15:26 +01003414- Issue #9409: Fix the regex to match all kind of filenames, for interactive
Florent Xiclunab67660f2010-10-14 21:10:45 +00003415 debugging in doctests.
3416
Victor Stinnerd2f6ae62010-10-12 22:53:51 +00003417- Issue #6612: Fix site and sysconfig to catch os.getcwd() error, eg. if the
3418 current directory was deleted. Patch written by W. Trevor King.
3419
Fred Drake577acb42010-10-11 19:13:04 +00003420- Issue #10045: Improved performance when writing after seeking past the
3421 end of the "file" in cStringIO.
3422
Vinay Sajip5e8349e2010-10-10 20:36:04 +00003423- Issue #9948: Fixed problem of losing filename case information.
3424
Antoine Pitrou58dab672010-10-10 09:54:59 +00003425- Issue #9437: Fix building C extensions with non-default LDFLAGS.
3426
Antoine Pitrou76a66aa2010-10-06 21:26:52 +00003427- Issue #9759: GzipFile now raises ValueError when an operation is attempted
3428 after the file is closed. Patch by Jeffrey Finkelstein.
3429
Éric Araujoc17776f2010-10-04 23:59:35 +00003430- Issue #9042: Fix interaction of custom translation classes and caching in
3431 gettext.
3432
Lars Gustäbel6aab8d02010-10-04 15:37:53 +00003433- Issue #9065: tarfile no longer uses "root" as the default for the uname and
3434 gname field.
3435
R. David Murray10a86762010-10-02 16:26:05 +00003436- Issue #1050268: parseaddr now correctly quotes double quote and backslash
3437 characters that appear inside quoted strings in email addresses.
3438
R. David Murray20ad3632010-10-01 15:48:49 +00003439- Issue #10004: quoprimime no longer generates a traceback when confronted
3440 with invalid characters after '=' in a Q-encoded word.
3441
Antoine Pitrou66b5df62010-09-27 18:16:46 +00003442- Issue #9950: Fix socket.sendall() crash or misbehaviour when a signal is
3443 received. Now sendall() properly calls signal handlers if necessary,
3444 and retries sending if these returned successfully, including on sockets
3445 with a timeout.
3446
Vinay Sajip3eac5912010-09-25 17:48:25 +00003447- Issue #9947: logging: Fixed locking bug in stopListening.
3448
Vinay Sajip546885e2010-09-25 17:42:36 +00003449- Issue #9945: logging: Fixed locking bugs in addHandler/removeHandler.
3450
Alexander Belopolsky517185e2010-09-24 18:14:18 +00003451- Issue #9936: Fixed executable lines' search in the trace module.
3452
Antoine Pitrou2c7d6852010-09-23 19:55:24 +00003453- Issue #9928: Properly initialize the types exported by the bz2 module.
3454
Antoine Pitrou6391b342010-09-14 18:48:19 +00003455- Issue #9854: The default read() implementation in io.RawIOBase now
3456 handles non-blocking readinto() returning None correctly.
3457
Antoine Pitrouf7f390a2010-09-14 14:37:18 +00003458- Issue #9729: Fix the signature of SSLSocket.recvfrom() and
3459 SSLSocket.sendto() to match the corresponding socket methods. Also,
3460 fix various SSLSocket methods to raise socket.error rather than an
3461 unhelpful TypeError when called on an unconnected socket. Original patch
3462 by Andrew Bennetts.
3463
Raymond Hettinger74f869e2010-09-13 22:14:36 +00003464- Issue #9826: OrderedDict.__repr__ can now handle self-referential
3465 values: d['x'] = d.
3466
Victor Stinner8fc843b2010-09-17 23:35:50 +00003467- Issue #767645: Set os.path.supports_unicode_filenames to True on Mac OS X.
Victor Stinner46287f52010-09-13 20:31:34 +00003468
Antoine Pitroue4195e82010-09-12 14:56:27 +00003469- Issue #9837: The read() method of ZipExtFile objects (as returned by
3470 ZipFile.open()) could return more bytes than requested.
3471
Raymond Hettinger20397532010-09-12 02:11:45 +00003472- Issue #9825: removed __del__ from the definition of collections.OrderedDict.
3473 This prevents user-created self-referencing ordered dictionaries from
3474 becoming permanently uncollectable GC garbage. The downside is that
3475 removing __del__ means that the internal doubly-linked list has to wait for
3476 GC collection rather than freeing memory immediately when the refcnt drops
3477 to zero.
3478
Raymond Hettingerffd2a422010-09-10 10:47:22 +00003479- Issue #9816: random.Random.jumpahead(n) did not produce a sufficiently
Victor Stinnerd2f6ae62010-10-12 22:53:51 +00003480 different internal state for small values of n. Fixed by salting the
Raymond Hettingerffd2a422010-09-10 10:47:22 +00003481 value.
3482
Antoine Pitrouc818ed42010-09-07 21:40:25 +00003483- Issue #9792: In case of connection failure, socket.create_connection()
3484 would swallow the exception and raise a new one, making it impossible
3485 to fetch the original errno, or to filter timeout errors. Now the
3486 original error is re-raised.
3487
Antoine Pitrouf4f61712010-09-07 16:34:47 +00003488- Issue #9758: When fcntl.ioctl() was called with mutable_flag set to True,
3489 and the passed buffer was exactly 1024 bytes long, the buffer wouldn't
3490 be updated back after the system call. Original patch by Brian Brazil.
3491
Antoine Pitroudca9de92010-09-04 17:52:26 +00003492- Issue #1100562: Fix deep-copying of objects derived from the list and
3493 dict types. Patch by Michele Orrù and Björn Lindqvist.
3494
Fred Drakea1e627d2010-09-03 03:55:50 +00003495- Issue #7005: Fixed output of None values for RawConfigParser.write and
3496 ConfigParser.write.
3497
Daniel Stutzbach66c981b2010-08-31 20:29:39 +00003498- Issue #808164: Fixed socket.close to avoid references to globals, to
3499 avoid issues when socket.close is called from a __del__ method.
3500
Terry Reedyd2d2ae92010-11-11 23:22:19 +00003501- Issue #2986: difflib.SequenceMatcher gets a new parameter, autojunk, which
3502 can be set to False to turn off the previously undocumented 'popularity'
3503 heuristic. Patch by Terry Reedy and Eli Bendersky
3504
Senthil Kumaran7e8fd5e2010-08-26 06:20:13 +00003505- Issue #8797: urllib2 does a retry for Basic Authentication failure instead of
3506 falling into recursion.
3507
R. David Murray7c4bf552010-08-25 01:45:57 +00003508- Issue #1194222: email.utils.parsedate now returns RFC2822 compliant four
3509 character years even if the message contains RFC822 two character years.
3510
Daniel Stutzbach91287322010-08-24 21:09:30 +00003511- Issue #8750: Fixed MutableSet's methods to correctly handle
3512 reflexive operations, namely x -= x and x ^= x.
3513
Victor Stinnercaafd772010-09-08 10:51:01 +00003514- Issue #9129: smtpd.py is vulnerable to DoS attacks deriving from missing
Giampaolo Rodolà8664d742010-08-23 22:48:51 +00003515 error handling when accepting a new connection.
3516
Giampaolo Rodolà63308d72010-08-23 21:58:47 +00003517- Issue #658749: asyncore's connect() method now correctly interprets winsock
3518 errors.
3519
Vinay Sajip1ddd51f2010-08-23 17:50:30 +00003520- Issue #9501: Fixed logging regressions in cleanup code.
3521
Raymond Hettinger917bba12010-08-22 08:01:58 +00003522- Issue #9214: Set operations on KeysView or ItemsView in the collections
3523 module now correctly return a set. (Patch by Eli Bendersky.)
3524
Antoine Pitrou3ebaed62010-08-21 19:17:25 +00003525- Issue #9617: Signals received during a low-level write operation aren't
3526 ignored by the buffered IO layer anymore.
3527
Benjamin Peterson52c36052010-08-21 03:03:22 +00003528- Issue #2521: Use weakrefs on for caching in the abc module, so that classes
3529 are not held onto after they are deleted elsewhere.
3530
Raymond Hettingera54b2da2010-08-17 19:03:06 +00003531- Issue #9626: the view methods for collections.OrderedDict() were returning
3532 the unordered versions inherited from dict. Those methods are now
3533 overridden to provide ordered views.
3534
Éric Araujo0389ae62010-08-14 03:07:46 +00003535- Issue #8688: MANIFEST files created by distutils now include a magic
3536 comment indicating they are generated. Manually maintained MANIFESTs
3537 without this marker will not be overwritten or removed.
3538
Antoine Pitroue1436d12010-08-12 15:25:51 +00003539- Issue #7467: when reading a file from a ZIP archive, its CRC is checked
3540 and a BadZipfile error is raised if it doesn't match (as used to be the
3541 case in Python 2.5 and earlier).
3542
Antoine Pitroucb4f47c2010-08-11 13:40:17 +00003543- Issue #9550: a BufferedReader could issue an additional read when the
3544 original read request had been satisfied, which could block indefinitely
3545 when the underlying raw IO channel was e.g. a socket. Report and original
3546 patch by Jason V. Miller.
3547
Fred Drake0a1fa0e2010-08-10 13:09:54 +00003548- Issue #9551: Don't raise TypeError when setting the value to None for
3549 SafeConfigParser instances constructed with allow_no_value == True.
3550
Antoine Pitrou8cdede42010-08-10 00:04:13 +00003551- Issue #6915: Under Windows, os.listdir() didn't release the Global
3552 Interpreter Lock around all system calls. Original patch by Ryan Kelly.
3553
Antoine Pitrou99009162010-08-09 22:51:24 +00003554- Issue #3757: thread-local objects now support cyclic garbage collection.
3555 Thread-local objects involved in reference cycles will be deallocated
3556 timely by the cyclic GC, even if the underlying thread is still running.
3557
Florent Xicluna2f1b1ff2010-08-09 20:46:49 +00003558- Issue #6231: Fix xml.etree.ElementInclude to include the tail of the
3559 current node.
3560
Thomas Heller5c7589c2010-08-08 18:28:59 +00003561- Issue #6869: Fix a refcount problem in the _ctypes extension.
3562
Thomas Heller001d3a12010-08-08 17:56:41 +00003563- Issue5504 - ctypes should now work with systems where mmap can't be
3564 PROT_WRITE and PROT_EXEC.
3565
Senthil Kumarane677ecf2010-08-08 11:56:31 +00003566- Fix Issue8280 - urllib2's Request method will remove fragements in the url.
3567 This is how it is supposed to work, wget and curl do the same. Previous
3568 behavior was wrong.
3569
Giampaolo Rodolà47617ab2010-08-04 08:35:25 +00003570- Issue #2944: asyncore doesn't handle connection refused correctly.
3571
R. David Murray75a292e2010-08-04 00:05:50 +00003572- Issue #3196: email header decoding is now forgiving if an RFC2047
3573 encoded word encoded in base64 is lacking padding.
3574
R. David Murray1cbf78e2010-08-03 18:14:01 +00003575- Issue #9444: Argparse now uses the first element of prefix_chars as
3576 the option character for the added 'h/help' option if prefix_chars
3577 does not contain a '-', instead of raising an error.
3578
Georg Brandl7f0c3ff2010-08-01 21:18:52 +00003579- Issue #9354: Provide getsockopt() in asyncore's file_wrapper.
3580
Florent Xicluna92847452010-09-13 17:36:36 +00003581- Issue #9428: Fix running scripts with the profile/cProfile modules from
3582 the command line.
3583
Georg Brandl9c5efad2010-08-02 21:29:14 +00003584- Issue #7781: Fix restricting stats by entry counts in the pstats
3585 interactive browser.
3586
3587- Issue #9209: Do not crash in the pstats interactive browser on invalid
3588 regular expressions.
3589
Georg Brandla2a92cf2010-08-02 17:34:58 +00003590- Issue #7372: Fix pstats regression when stripping paths from profile
3591 data generated with the profile module.
3592
Georg Brandl2bd953e2010-08-01 20:59:03 +00003593- Issue #4108: In urllib.robotparser, if there are multiple 'User-agent: *'
3594 entries, consider the first one.
3595
Antoine Pitrou39703012010-08-01 20:13:11 +00003596- Issue #8397: Raise an error when attempting to mix iteration and regular
3597 reads on a BZ2File object, rather than returning incorrect results.
3598
Georg Brandl50775992010-08-01 19:33:15 +00003599- Issue #5294: Fix the behavior of pdb's "continue" command when called
3600 in the top-level debugged frame.
3601
3602- Issue #5727: Restore the ability to use readline when calling into pdb
3603 in doctests.
3604
3605- Issue #6719: In pdb, do not stop somewhere in the encodings machinery
3606 if the source file to be debugged is in a non-builtin encoding.
3607
3608- Issue #8048: Prevent doctests from failing when sys.displayhook has
3609 been reassigned.
3610
3611- Issue #8015: In pdb, do not crash when an empty line is entered as
3612 a breakpoint command.
3613
Antoine Pitrou607951d2010-08-01 16:57:17 +00003614- Issue #9448: Fix a leak of OS resources (mutexes or semaphores) when
3615 re-initializing a buffered IO object by calling its ``__init__`` method.
3616
Georg Brandle2773252010-08-01 19:14:56 +00003617- Issue #7909: Do not touch paths with the special prefixes ``\\.\``
3618 or ``\\?\`` in ntpath.normpath().
3619
Georg Brandl004c74d2010-08-01 19:06:51 +00003620- Issue #5146: Handle UID THREAD command correctly in imaplib.
3621
3622- Issue #5147: Fix the header generated for cookie files written by
3623 http.cookiejar.MozillaCookieJar.
3624
3625- Issue #8198: In pydoc, output all help text to the correct stream
3626 when sys.stdout is reassigned.
3627
Georg Brandl0347c712010-08-01 19:02:09 +00003628- Issue #7395: Fix tracebacks in pstats interactive browser.
3629
3630- Issue #8230: Fix Lib/test/sortperf.py.
3631
Georg Brandl78e69572010-08-01 18:52:52 +00003632- Issue #1713: Fix os.path.ismount(), which returned true for symbolic links
3633 across devices.
3634
3635- Issue #8826: Properly load old-style "expires" attribute in http.cookies.
3636
3637- Issue #1690103: Fix initial namespace for code run with trace.main().
3638
Georg Brandl1f05e2e2010-08-01 08:22:05 +00003639- Issue #8471: In doctest, properly reset the output stream to an empty
3640 string when Unicode was previously output.
3641
R. David Murray58f15b62010-08-01 04:04:03 +00003642- Issue #8620: when a Cmd is fed input that reaches EOF without a final
3643 newline, it no longer truncates the last character of the last command line.
3644
Victor Stinner73363e82010-07-28 01:39:45 +00003645- Issue #6213: Implement getstate() and setstate() methods of utf-8-sig and
3646 utf-16 incremental encoders.
3647
Brian Curtinb2ec2322010-07-26 02:40:17 +00003648- Issue #7113: Speed up loading in ConfigParser. Patch by Łukasz Langa.
3649
Gregory P. Smith2a91ce82010-07-25 19:11:36 +00003650- Issue #3704: cookielib was not properly handling URLs with a / in the
3651 parameters.
3652
Victor Stinner8b0d84e2010-07-24 02:51:49 +00003653- Issue #9032: XML-RPC client retries the request on EPIPE error. The EPIPE
3654 error occurs when the server closes the socket and the client sends a big
3655 XML-RPC request.
3656
Victor Stinner2c6aee92010-07-24 02:46:16 +00003657- Issue #5542: Remove special logic that closes HTTPConnection socket on EPIPE.
3658
Victor Stinner4c16d122010-07-24 01:07:52 +00003659- Issue #4629: getopt raises an error if an argument ends with = whereas getopt
3660 doesn't except a value (eg. --help= is rejected if getopt uses ['help='] long
3661 options).
3662
Ronald Oussoren3a04a252010-07-23 12:41:00 +00003663- Issue #7895: platform.mac_ver() no longer crashes after calling os.fork()
3664
Antoine Pitrou7a7013e2010-07-21 16:47:28 +00003665- Issue #5395: array.fromfile() would raise a spurious EOFError when an
3666 I/O error occurred. Now an IOError is raised instead. Patch by chuck
3667 (Jan Hosang).
3668
R. David Murrayf6cbdcb2010-07-09 13:25:56 +00003669- Issue #7646: The fnmatch pattern cache no longer grows without bound.
3670
Mark Dickinson7ea29b02010-07-08 21:28:31 +00003671- Issue #9136: Fix 'dictionary changed size during iteration'
3672 RuntimeError produced when profiling the decimal module. This was
3673 due to a dangerous iteration over 'locals()' in Context.__init__.
3674
3675- Fix extreme speed issue in Decimal.pow when the base is an exact
3676 power of 10 and the exponent is tiny (for example,
3677 Decimal(10) ** Decimal('1e-999999999')).
3678
R. David Murray3caf7b92010-07-05 16:06:05 +00003679- Issue #9161: Fix regression in optparse's acceptance of unicode
3680 strings in add_option calls.
3681
Mark Dickinson75b44b32010-07-04 16:47:56 +00003682- Issue #9130: Fix validation of relative imports in parser module.
3683
Mark Dickinsona7ee59b2010-07-04 16:23:54 +00003684- Issue #9128: Fix validation of class decorators in parser module.
Benjamin Petersone3c10452010-07-03 14:51:25 +00003685
Ronald Oussoren75956202010-07-11 08:52:52 +00003686- Issue #9164: Ensure sysconfig handles dupblice archs while building on OSX
3687
Alexander Belopolsky9d17da32010-09-13 16:45:02 +00003688- Issue #9315: Fix for the trace module to record correct class name
3689 for tracing methods.
3690
Benjamin Petersone3c10452010-07-03 14:51:25 +00003691Extension Modules
3692-----------------
3693
Georg Brandl67c27332010-10-24 14:16:05 +00003694- Issue #9054: Fix a crash occurring when using the pyexpat module
3695 with expat version 2.0.1.
3696
Brian Curtin1390dd72010-10-01 16:44:03 +00003697- Issue #10003: Allow handling of SIGBREAK on Windows. Fixes a regression
Victor Stinnerd2f6ae62010-10-12 22:53:51 +00003698 introduced by issue #9324.
Brian Curtin1390dd72010-10-01 16:44:03 +00003699
Antoine Pitroue6ebcda2010-09-04 21:24:42 +00003700- Issue #8734: Avoid crash in msvcrt.get_osfhandle() when an invalid file
3701 descriptor is provided. Patch by Pascal Chambon.
3702
Antoine Pitrou247e2fd2010-09-04 17:27:10 +00003703- Issue #7736: Release the GIL around calls to opendir() and closedir()
3704 in the posix module. Patch by Marcin Bachry.
3705
Benjamin Peterson52c36052010-08-21 03:03:22 +00003706- As a result of issue #2521, the _weakref module is now compiled into the
3707 interpreter by default.
3708
Brian Curtin24af0e92010-08-06 19:41:01 +00003709- Issue #9324: Add parameter validation to signal.signal on Windows in order
3710 to prevent crashes.
3711
Mark Dickinson5e684332010-08-06 09:44:48 +00003712- Issue #9526: Remove some outdated (int) casts that were preventing
3713 the array module from working correctly with arrays of more than
3714 2**31 elements.
3715
Mark Dickinsonf38d8882010-08-03 18:46:28 +00003716- Fix memory leak in ssl._ssl._test_decode_cert.
3717
Mark Dickinson0f981282010-08-03 16:54:19 +00003718- Issue #8065: Fix memory leak in readline module (from failure to
3719 free the result of history_get_history_state()).
3720
Mark Dickinson4ee98532010-08-03 16:18:39 +00003721- Issue #9450: Fix memory leak in readline.replace_history_item and
3722 readline.remove_history_item for readline version >= 5.0.
3723
Brian Curtinba6c08e2010-08-01 15:47:53 +00003724- Issue #8105: Validate file descriptor passed to mmap.mmap on Windows.
3725
Georg Brandla4917272010-07-31 21:22:36 +00003726- Issue #1019882: Fix IndexError when loading certain hotshot stats.
3727
Mark Dickinson96527c32010-07-29 21:44:47 +00003728- Issue #9422: Fix memory leak when re-initializing a struct.Struct object.
3729
Ronald Oussoren9e7ffae2010-07-24 09:46:41 +00003730- Issue #7900: The getgroups(2) system call on MacOSX behaves rather oddly
3731 compared to other unix systems. In particular, os.getgroups() does
3732 not reflect any changes made using os.setgroups() but basicly always
3733 returns the same information as the id command.
3734
3735 os.getgroups() can now return more than 16 groups on MacOSX.
3736
Mark Dickinsoncac0b832010-07-18 07:55:55 +00003737- Issue #9277: Fix bug in struct.pack for bools in standard mode
3738 (e.g., struct.pack('>?')): if conversion to bool raised an exception
3739 then that exception wasn't properly propagated on machines where
3740 char is unsigned.
3741
Matthias Klose6e86bf72010-07-30 21:27:18 +00003742- Issue #7567: Don't call `setupterm' twice.
3743
Antoine Pitrou2fba0b32010-09-08 21:12:36 +00003744Tools/Demos
3745-----------
3746
Benjamin Peterson4de6b062010-10-13 22:07:17 +00003747- Issue #7287: Demo/imputil/knee.py was removed.
3748
Antoine Pitrou2fba0b32010-09-08 21:12:36 +00003749- Issue #9188: The gdb extension now handles correctly narrow (UCS2) as well
3750 as wide (UCS4) unicode builds for both the host interpreter (embedded
3751 inside gdb) and the interpreter under test.
3752
Benjamin Peterson4082d9b2010-07-17 20:41:16 +00003753Build
3754-----
3755
Antoine Pitroue0c5f3c2010-10-27 20:35:26 +00003756- Issue #8852: Allow the socket module to build on OpenSolaris.
3757
Antoine Pitrou7be5a652010-10-10 08:14:41 +00003758- Issue #10054: Some platforms provide uintptr_t in inttypes.h. Patch by
3759 Akira Kitada.
3760
Antoine Pitrou22ad2452010-10-09 15:28:59 +00003761- Issue #10055: Make json C89-compliant in UCS4 mode.
3762
Antoine Pitrou285cd162010-09-21 15:23:17 +00003763- Issue #1633863: Don't ignore $CC under AIX.
3764
Hirokazu Yamamotoc4caa9c2010-09-18 22:33:33 +00003765- Issue #9810: Compile bzip2 source files in python's project file
3766 directly. It used to be built with bzip2's makefile.
3767
Antoine Pitrouaabdceb2010-09-10 20:03:17 +00003768- Issue #941346: Improve the build process under AIX and allow Python to
3769 be built as a shared library. Patch by Sébastien Sablé.
3770
Antoine Pitrou85729812010-09-07 14:55:24 +00003771- Issue #4026: Make the fcntl extension build under AIX. Patch by Sébastien
3772 Sablé.
3773
Antoine Pitroua74c3342010-09-03 16:15:17 +00003774- Issue #3101: Helper functions _add_one_to_index_C() and
3775 _add_one_to_index_F() become _Py_add_one_to_index_C() and
3776 _Py_add_one_to_index_F(), respectively.
Antoine Pitrou1fcdba82010-09-01 13:02:50 +00003777
3778- Issue #9700: define HAVE_BROKEN_POSIX_SEMAPHORES under AIX 6.x. Patch by
3779 Sébastien Sablé.
3780
Benjamin Peterson4082d9b2010-07-17 20:41:16 +00003781- Issue #9280: Make sharedinstall depend on sharedmods.
3782
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00003783- Issue #9275: The OSX installer once again installs links to binaries in
3784 ``/usr/local/bin``.
Ronald Oussoren8a14db82010-07-23 11:13:03 +00003785
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00003786- Issue #9392: A framework build on OSX will once again use a versioned name
3787 of the ``2to3`` tool, that is you can use ``2to3-2.7`` to select the Python
3788 2.7 edition of 2to3.
Ronald Oussoren0969c672010-07-29 13:18:19 +00003789
Ronald Oussorenec2fe002010-09-28 14:01:49 +00003790- Issue #9701: The MacOSX installer can patch the shell profile to ensure that
3791 the "bin" directory inside the framework is on the shell's search path. This
3792 feature now also supports the ZSH shell.
3793
Ronald Oussoren24215252010-10-20 13:11:46 +00003794- Issue #7473: avoid link errors when building a framework with a different
3795 set of architectures than the one that is currently installed.
Ronald Oussorenec2fe002010-09-28 14:01:49 +00003796
Antoine Pitrou22db7352010-07-08 18:54:04 +00003797Tests
3798-----
3799
Hirokazu Yamamoto1f504f12010-10-08 09:41:13 +00003800- Issue #9978: Wait until subprocess completes initialization. (Win32KillTests
3801 in test_os)
3802
Antoine Pitrou767cbc42010-09-18 18:15:33 +00003803- Issue #9894: Do not hardcode ENOENT in test_subprocess.
3804
Florent Xicluna92847452010-09-13 17:36:36 +00003805- Issue #9323: Make test.regrtest.__file__ absolute, this was not always the
3806 case when running profile or trace, for example.
3807
Alexander Belopolsky9d17da32010-09-13 16:45:02 +00003808- Issue #9315: Added tests for the trace module. Patch by Eli Bendersky.
Florent Xicluna92847452010-09-13 17:36:36 +00003809
Florent Xiclunac0c0b142010-09-13 08:53:00 +00003810- Strengthen test_unicode with explicit type checking for assertEqual tests.
3811
Giampaolo Rodolà633e4742010-08-14 17:04:46 +00003812- Issue #8857: Provide a test case for socket.getaddrinfo.
3813
Florent Xicluna172e15f2010-08-09 20:02:00 +00003814- Issue #7564: Skip test_ioctl if another process is attached to /dev/tty.
3815
Mark Dickinson28669332010-08-07 13:07:11 +00003816- Issue #8433: Fix test_curses failure with newer versions of ncurses.
3817
Antoine Pitrou185fae72010-08-04 15:54:33 +00003818- Issue #9496: Provide a test suite for the rlcompleter module. Patch by
3819 Michele Orrù.
3820
Antoine Pitrou22db7352010-07-08 18:54:04 +00003821- Issue #8605: Skip test_gdb if Python is compiled with optimizations.
3822
Ronald Oussoren8928e322010-09-28 14:43:59 +00003823- Issue #9568: Fix test_urllib2_localnet on OS X 10.3.
3824
Brett Cannon8c4fa112010-07-21 09:52:10 +00003825Documentation
3826-------------
3827
Matthias Klose3e8230d2010-09-12 16:51:29 +00003828- Issue #9817: Add expat COPYING file; add expat, libffi and expat licenses
3829 to Doc/license.rst.
3830
Brian Curtin4d808892010-08-05 19:00:45 +00003831- Issue #9524: Document that two CTRL* signals are meant for use only
3832 with os.kill.
3833
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00003834- Issue #9255: Document that the 'test' package is for internal Python use
3835 only.
Brett Cannon9ae2cb72010-07-23 12:07:27 +00003836
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00003837- Issue #7829: Document in dis that bytecode is an implementation detail.
Brett Cannon8c4fa112010-07-21 09:52:10 +00003838
Benjamin Petersone3c10452010-07-03 14:51:25 +00003839
Benjamin Peterson4f612592010-06-21 17:28:30 +00003840What's New in Python 2.7?
3841=========================
3842
Benjamin Petersonc60082d2010-07-03 13:56:13 +00003843*Release date: 2010-07-03*
Benjamin Peterson4f612592010-06-21 17:28:30 +00003844
3845Core and Builtins
3846-----------------
3847
Benjamin Peterson947ce582010-06-24 00:12:40 +00003848- Prevent assignment to set literals.
3849
Benjamin Peterson4f612592010-06-21 17:28:30 +00003850Library
3851-------
3852
Antoine Pitroua4083502010-08-28 18:29:13 +00003853- Issue #1868: Eliminate subtle timing issues in thread-local objects by
3854 getting rid of the cached copy of thread-local attribute dictionary.
3855
Benjamin Peterson6a336f62010-07-03 13:57:30 +00003856- Issue #9125: Add recognition of 'except ... as ...' syntax to parser module.
3857
3858Extension Modules
3859-----------------
3860
Benjamin Petersonc670b7e2010-07-03 13:49:23 +00003861- Issue #7673: Fix security vulnerability (CVE-2010-2089) in the audioop module,
3862 ensure that the input string length is a multiple of the frame size.
Victor Stinner15e5b1b2010-07-03 13:36:19 +00003863
Antoine Pitrou0dddf602010-06-25 00:03:21 +00003864- Issue #9075: In the ssl module, remove the setting of a ``debug`` flag
3865 on an OpenSSL structure.
3866
Benjamin Peterson00633672010-07-03 13:56:56 +00003867
Michael Foord83d35762010-06-10 16:32:00 +00003868What's New in Python 2.7 release candidate 2?
3869=============================================
Benjamin Peterson2f3d9f92010-06-06 02:09:33 +00003870
Benjamin Petersonbfcedf42010-06-21 15:57:57 +00003871*Release date: 2010-06-20*
Benjamin Peterson2f3d9f92010-06-06 02:09:33 +00003872
3873Core and Builtins
3874-----------------
3875
Benjamin Petersonb9133892010-06-22 19:16:37 +00003876- Issue #9058: Remove assertions about INT_MAX in UnicodeDecodeError.
3877
Nick Coghlan8842c352010-06-13 06:50:39 +00003878- Issue #8202: Previous change to ``sys.argv[0]`` handling for -m command line
3879 option reverted due to unintended side effects on handling of ``sys.path``.
3880 See tracker issue for details.
3881
Antoine Pitroucca3a3f2010-06-11 21:42:26 +00003882- Issue #8941: decoding big endian UTF-32 data in UCS-2 builds could crash
3883 the interpreter with characters outside the Basic Multilingual Plane
3884 (higher than 0x10000).
3885
Benjamin Petersonfa4c59f2010-06-08 14:53:29 +00003886- In the unicode/str.format(), raise a ValueError when indexes to arguments are
3887 too large.
Benjamin Peterson13e934a2010-06-07 22:23:23 +00003888
Benjamin Petersonafa1b302010-06-21 15:27:46 +00003889Build
3890-----
3891
3892- Issue #8854: Fix finding Visual Studio 2008 on Windows x64.
3893
Benjamin Peterson2f3d9f92010-06-06 02:09:33 +00003894Library
3895-------
Mark Dickinsone979ec82010-06-13 10:50:29 +00003896
Victor Stinner15e5b1b2010-07-03 13:36:19 +00003897- Issue #6589: cleanup asyncore.socket_map in case smtpd.SMTPServer constructor
Giampaolo Rodolàe00e2f02010-06-30 17:38:28 +00003898 raises an exception.
3899
Thomas Hellerf1800992010-06-21 14:00:24 +00003900- Issue #8959: fix regression caused by using unmodified libffi
3901 library on Windows. ctypes does now again check the stack before
3902 and after calling foreign functions.
3903
R. David Murraydf1cf302010-06-17 01:36:52 +00003904- Issue #8720: fix regression caused by fix for #4050 by making getsourcefile
3905 smart enough to find source files in the linecache.
3906
Mark Dickinsone979ec82010-06-13 10:50:29 +00003907- Issue #8986: math.erfc was incorrectly raising OverflowError for
3908 values between -27.3 and -30.0 on some platforms.
3909
Vinay Sajip936efc72010-06-11 22:56:50 +00003910- Issue #8924: logging: Improved error handling for Unicode in exception text.
Benjamin Peterson2f3d9f92010-06-06 02:09:33 +00003911
Michael Foord83d35762010-06-10 16:32:00 +00003912- Issue #8948: cleanup functions and class / module setups and teardowns are
3913 now honored in unittest debug methods.
3914
Tarek Ziadé770fd152010-06-06 20:05:20 +00003915Documentation
3916-------------
3917
3918- Issues #8909: Added the size of the bitmap used in the installer created by
3919 distutils' bdist_wininst. Patch by Anatoly Techtonik.
3920
Victor Stinnerb65bd2e2010-06-11 19:22:28 +00003921Misc
3922----
3923
3924- Issue #8362: Add maintainers.rst: list of module maintainers
3925
Benjamin Peterson2f3d9f92010-06-06 02:09:33 +00003926
Antoine Pitrou6001b0b2010-05-09 18:32:48 +00003927What's New in Python 2.7 Release Candidate 1?
3928=============================================
Benjamin Peterson534b8de2010-05-08 18:53:42 +00003929
Benjamin Peterson77d534e2010-06-06 00:22:09 +00003930*Release date: 2010-06-05*
Benjamin Peterson534b8de2010-05-08 18:53:42 +00003931
3932Core and Builtins
3933-----------------
3934
Ezio Melottiab2eb0e2010-06-05 19:21:32 +00003935- Issue #8271: during the decoding of an invalid UTF-8 byte sequence, only the
3936 start byte and the continuation byte(s) are now considered invalid, instead
3937 of the number of bytes specified by the start byte.
3938 E.g.: '\xf1\x80AB'.decode('utf-8', 'replace') now returns u'\ufffdAB' and
3939 replaces with U+FFFD only the start byte ('\xf1') and the continuation byte
3940 ('\x80') even if '\xf1' is the start byte of a 4-bytes sequence.
3941 Previous versions returned a single u'\ufffd'.
3942
Mark Dickinson23f0d6b2010-06-05 11:52:24 +00003943- Issue #8627: Remove bogus "Overriding __cmp__ blocks inheritance of
Mark Dickinsone4b83e02010-06-05 12:14:43 +00003944 __hash__ in 3.x" warning. Also fix "XXX undetected error" that
3945 arises from the "Overriding __eq__ blocks inheritance ..." warning
3946 when turned into an exception: in this case the exception simply
3947 gets ignored.
Mark Dickinson23f0d6b2010-06-05 11:52:24 +00003948
Mark Dickinson4ca7c3c2010-05-30 13:18:10 +00003949- Issue #8748: Fix two issues with comparisons between complex and integer
3950 objects. (1) The comparison could incorrectly return True in some cases
3951 (2**53+1 == complex(2**53) == 2**53), breaking transivity of equality.
3952 (2) The comparison raised an OverflowError for large integers, leading
3953 to unpredictable exceptions when combining integers and complex objects
3954 in sets or dicts.
3955
Mark Dickinson81336372010-05-30 12:12:25 +00003956- Issue #5211: Implicit coercion for the complex type is now completely
3957 removed. (Coercion for arithmetic operations was already removed in 2.7
3958 alpha 4, but coercion for rich comparisons was accidentally left in.)
3959
Victor Stinnerc49dfcc2010-05-25 22:30:32 +00003960- Issue #3798: Write sys.exit() message to sys.stderr to use stderr encoding
3961 and error handler, instead of writing to the C stderr file in utf-8
3962
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003963- Issue #7902: When using explicit relative import syntax, don't try implicit
3964 relative import semantics.
Brett Cannoneb3cd302010-05-20 18:37:55 +00003965
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003966- Issue #7079: Fix a possible crash when closing a file object while using it
3967 from another thread. Patch by Daniel Stutzbach.
Antoine Pitrou83137c22010-05-17 19:56:59 +00003968
Victor Stinnerb65bd2e2010-06-11 19:22:28 +00003969- Issue #8868: Fix that ensures that python scripts have access to the
Ronald Oussoren27c72e92010-06-02 03:47:14 +00003970 Window Server again in a framework build on MacOSX 10.5 or earlier.
3971
Antoine Pitrou6a265602010-05-21 17:12:38 +00003972C-API
3973-----
3974
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003975- Issue #5753: A new C API function, :cfunc:`PySys_SetArgvEx`, allows embedders
3976 of the interpreter to set sys.argv without also modifying sys.path. This
3977 helps fix `CVE-2008-5983
Antoine Pitrou6a265602010-05-21 17:12:38 +00003978 <http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5983>`_.
3979
Benjamin Peterson534b8de2010-05-08 18:53:42 +00003980Library
3981-------
3982
Michael Foordd8918592010-06-05 19:51:38 +00003983- Issue #8302: SkipTest in unittest.TestCase.setUpClass or setUpModule is now
3984 reported as a skip rather than an error.
3985
3986- Issue #8351: Excessively large diffs due to
3987 unittest.TestCase.assertSequenceEqual are no longer included in failure
3988 reports.
3989
Alexander Belopolsky3b818bf2010-06-05 14:54:26 +00003990- Issue #8899: time.struct_time now has class and atribute docstrings.
3991
R. David Murraye7e505b2010-06-04 19:51:06 +00003992- Issue #4487: email now accepts as charset aliases all codec aliases
3993 accepted by the codecs module.
3994
Martin v. Löwiseba67c02010-06-04 19:39:07 +00003995- Issue #6470: Drop UNC prefix in FixTk.
3996
R. David Murray61746d52010-06-03 15:43:20 +00003997- Issue #5610: feedparser no longer eats extra characters at the end of
3998 a body part if the body part ends with a \r\n.
3999
Lars Gustäbel2ee9c6f2010-06-03 09:56:22 +00004000- Issue #8833: tarfile created hard link entries with a size field != 0 by
4001 mistake.
4002
R. David Murray52dcd452010-06-02 22:03:15 +00004003- Issue #1368247: set_charset (and therefore MIMEText) now automatically
4004 encodes a unicode _payload to the output_charset.
4005
Alexander Belopolsky9292ee02010-05-27 20:55:27 +00004006- Issue #7150: Raise OverflowError if the result of adding or subtracting
4007 timedelta from date or datetime falls outside of the MINYEAR:MAXYEAR range.
4008
Victor Stinner04ee3372010-05-24 21:37:28 +00004009- Issue #6662: Fix parsing of malformatted charref (&#bad;), patch written by
4010 Fredrik Håård
Victor Stinner554a3b82010-05-24 21:33:24 +00004011
Georg Brandlf0757a22010-05-24 21:29:07 +00004012- Issue #8016: Add the CP858 codec.
4013
Georg Brandl5d0ca2c2010-05-22 11:29:19 +00004014- Issue #3924: Ignore cookies with invalid "version" field in cookielib.
4015
Victor Stinner7df55da2010-05-22 13:37:56 +00004016- Issue #6268: Fix seek() method of codecs.open(), don't read or write the BOM
4017 twice after seek(0). Fix also reset() method of codecs, UTF-16, UTF-32 and
4018 StreamWriter classes.
Victor Stinner262be5e2010-05-22 02:11:07 +00004019
Victor Stinnerd6703b52010-05-21 22:50:28 +00004020- Issue #5640: Fix Shift-JIS incremental encoder for error handlers different
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00004021 than 'strict'.
Victor Stinnerd6703b52010-05-21 22:50:28 +00004022
Benjamin Peterson266e4542010-05-21 21:31:24 +00004023- Issue #8782: Add a trailing newline in linecache.updatecache to the last line
4024 of files without one.
4025
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00004026- Issue #8729: Return NotImplemented from ``collections.Mapping.__eq__()`` when
Benjamin Petersoneb318d32010-05-21 20:51:45 +00004027 comparing to a non-mapping.
4028
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00004029- Issue #8759: Fix user paths in sysconfig for posix and os2 schemes.
Tarek Ziadé8f692272010-05-19 22:20:14 +00004030
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00004031- Issue #1285086: Speed up ``urllib.quote()`` and urllib.unquote for simple
4032 cases.
Florent Xiclunaaf87f9f2010-05-17 13:35:09 +00004033
Ezio Melotti419e23c2013-08-17 16:56:09 +03004034- Issue #8688: Distutils now recalculates MANIFEST every time.
Tarek Ziadé422545f2010-05-17 10:06:20 +00004035
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00004036- Issue #5099: The ``__del__()`` method of ``subprocess.Popen`` (and the methods
4037 it calls) referenced global objects, causing errors to pop up during
4038 interpreter shutdown.
Brett Cannon42a0ba72010-05-14 00:21:48 +00004039
Mark Dickinson932e1622010-05-10 16:07:42 +00004040Extension Modules
4041-----------------
4042
Stefan Krah449aa862010-06-03 12:39:50 +00004043- Issue #7384: If the system readline library is linked against ncurses,
4044 the curses module must be linked against ncurses as well. Otherwise it
4045 is not safe to load both the readline and curses modules in an application.
4046
Brian Curtinb64c89b2010-05-25 15:06:15 +00004047- Issue #2810: Fix cases where the Windows registry API returns
4048 ERROR_MORE_DATA, requiring a re-try in order to get the complete result.
4049
Mark Dickinson932e1622010-05-10 16:07:42 +00004050- Issue #8674: Fixed a number of incorrect or undefined-behaviour-inducing
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00004051 overflow checks in the ``audioop`` module.
Benjamin Peterson534b8de2010-05-08 18:53:42 +00004052
Brett Cannonda9af752010-05-13 23:59:41 +00004053Tests
4054-----
4055
R. David Murray4653fb52010-06-03 20:19:25 +00004056- Issue #8889: test_support.transient_internet rewritten so that the new
4057 checks also work on FreeBSD, which lacks EAI_NODATA.
4058
4059- Issue #8835: test_support.transient_internet() catches gaierror(EAI_NONAME)
Victor Stinner03883622010-05-27 22:29:48 +00004060 and gaierror(EAI_NODATA)
4061
Victor Stinner708c0722010-05-26 17:25:28 +00004062- Issue #7449: Skip test_socketserver if threading support is disabled
4063
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00004064- On darwin, ``test_site`` assumed that a framework build was being used,
4065 leading to a failure where four directories were expected for site-packages
4066 instead of two in a non-framework build.
Brett Cannonda9af752010-05-13 23:59:41 +00004067
Martin v. Löwisb41afb52010-05-28 15:28:47 +00004068Build
4069-----
4070
Martin v. Löwis16b2a5e2010-06-04 19:15:32 +00004071- Display installer warning that Windows 2000 won't be supported in future
4072 releases.
4073
Victor Stinnerb65bd2e2010-06-11 19:22:28 +00004074- Issues #1759169, #8864: Drop _XOPEN_SOURCE on Solaris, define it for
Martin v. Löwis26eec582010-06-04 17:18:42 +00004075 multiprocessing only.
Brett Cannonda9af752010-05-13 23:59:41 +00004076
Martin v. Löwis5aafc172010-06-04 18:04:42 +00004077Tools/Demos
4078-----------
4079
4080- Issue #5464: Implement plural forms in msgfmt.py.
4081
4082
Antoine Pitrouab5ce722010-04-11 22:45:47 +00004083What's New in Python 2.7 beta 2?
4084================================
Benjamin Peterson12409062010-04-10 18:53:58 +00004085
Benjamin Petersonc2516072010-05-08 17:08:17 +00004086*Release date: 2010-05-08*
Benjamin Peterson12409062010-04-10 18:53:58 +00004087
4088Core and Builtins
4089-----------------
4090
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00004091- Run Clang 2.7's static analyzer for ``Objects/`` and ``Python/``.
Brett Cannon5fb89df2010-05-05 20:54:53 +00004092
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00004093- Issue #1533: Fix inconsistency in range function argument processing: any
4094 non-float non-integer argument is now converted to an integer (if possible)
4095 using its __int__ method. Previously, only small arguments were treated this
4096 way; larger arguments (those whose __int__ was outside the range of a C long)
4097 would produce a TypeError.
Mark Dickinsona8d26682010-05-04 16:18:25 +00004098
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00004099- Issue #8202: ``sys.argv[0]`` is now set to '-m' instead of '-c' when searching
4100 for the module file to be executed with the -m command line option.
Nick Coghlanc5e44852010-04-28 14:51:08 +00004101
Brett Cannon19949692010-04-25 22:33:36 +00004102- Issue #7319: When -Q is used, do not silence DeprecationWarning.
4103
Antoine Pitrou18e63fb2010-04-21 22:53:29 +00004104- Issue #7332: Remove the 16KB stack-based buffer in
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00004105 ``PyMarshal_ReadLastObjectFromFile``, which doesn't bring any noticeable
Antoine Pitrou18e63fb2010-04-21 22:53:29 +00004106 benefit compared to the dynamic memory allocation fallback. Patch by
4107 Charles-François Natali.
4108
Benjamin Peterson821a8ea2010-04-16 22:35:38 +00004109- Issue #8417: Raise an OverflowError when an integer larger than sys.maxsize is
4110 passed to bytearray.
4111
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00004112- Issue #7072: ``isspace(0xa0)`` is true on Mac OS X.
Ronald Oussoren37805e52010-04-18 13:47:49 +00004113
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00004114- Issue #8404: Fix set operations on dictionary views.
Alexandre Vassalotti268e4872010-05-04 03:21:51 +00004115
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00004116- Issue #8084: PEP 370 now conforms to system conventions for framework builds
4117 on MacOS X. That is, ``python setup.py install --user`` will install into
4118 ``~/Library/Python/2.7`` instead of ``~/.local``.
Ronald Oussoren2f88bfd2010-05-08 10:29:06 +00004119
Benjamin Peterson12409062010-04-10 18:53:58 +00004120Library
4121-------
4122
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00004123- Issue #8681: Make the zlib module's error messages more informative when the
4124 zlib itself doesn't give any detailed explanation.
Antoine Pitroufc3bfad2010-05-11 23:42:28 +00004125
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00004126- Issue #8571: Fix an internal error when compressing or decompressing a chunk
4127 larger than 1GB with the zlib module's compressor and decompressor objects.
Antoine Pitrou3843cd82010-05-07 16:50:34 +00004128
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00004129- Issue #8573: asyncore ``_strerror()`` function might throw ValueError.
Giampaolo Rodolàf7454fa2010-05-06 17:57:06 +00004130
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00004131- Issue #8483: asyncore.dispatcher's __getattr__ method produced confusing error
4132 messages when accessing undefined class attributes because of the cheap
4133 inheritance with the underlying socket object. The cheap inheritance has been
4134 deprecated.
Giampaolo Rodolàf7454fa2010-05-06 17:57:06 +00004135
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00004136- Issue #4265: ``shutil.copyfile()`` was leaking file descriptors when disk
4137 fills. Patch by Tres Seaver.
Tarek Ziadé38f81222010-05-05 22:15:31 +00004138
Barry Warsaw8efa8672010-05-05 16:17:22 +00004139- Issue #7755: Use an unencumbered audio file for tests.
4140
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00004141- Issue #8621: ``uuid.uuid4()`` returned the same sequence of values in the
4142 parent and any children created using ``os.fork`` on Mac OS X 10.6.
Ronald Oussoren33206962010-05-05 14:48:37 +00004143
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00004144- Issue #8313: ``traceback.format_exception_only()`` encodes unicode message to
4145 ASCII with backslashreplace error handler if ``str(value)`` failed.
Victor Stinner926fd4e2010-05-05 12:40:49 +00004146
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00004147- Issue #8567: Fix precedence of signals in Decimal module: when a Decimal
4148 operation raises multiple signals and more than one of those signals is
4149 trapped, the specification determines the order in which the signals should be
4150 handled. In many cases this order wasn't being followed, leading to the wrong
4151 Python exception being raised.
Mark Dickinson4f96f5f2010-05-04 14:25:50 +00004152
Antoine Pitrouf7fd8e42010-05-03 16:25:33 +00004153- Issue #7865: The close() method of :mod:`io` objects should not swallow
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00004154 exceptions raised by the implicit flush(). Also ensure that calling close()
4155 several times is supported. Patch by Pascal Chambon.
Antoine Pitrouf7fd8e42010-05-03 16:25:33 +00004156
Vinay Sajip27a13702010-05-03 15:11:53 +00004157- Issue #8576: logging updated to remove usage of find_unused_port().
4158
Antoine Pitrou951919f2010-05-02 19:51:14 +00004159- Issue #4687: Fix accuracy of garbage collection runtimes displayed with
4160 gc.DEBUG_STATS.
4161
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00004162- Issue #8354: The siginterrupt setting is now preserved for all signals, not
4163 just SIGCHLD.
Jean-Paul Calderonee54ddf12010-05-08 20:06:02 +00004164
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00004165- Issue #7192: ``webbrowser.get("firefox")`` now works on Mac OS X, as does
4166 ``webbrowser.get("safari")``.
Ronald Oussoren4ef1c7e2010-05-02 09:48:21 +00004167
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00004168- Issue #8577: ``distutils.sysconfig.get_python_inc()`` now makes a difference
Tarek Ziadéa5cd1822010-04-30 12:15:12 +00004169 between the build dir and the source dir when looking for "python.h" or
4170 "Include".
4171
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00004172- Issue #8464: tarfile no longer creates files with execute permissions set when
4173 mode="w|" is used.
Lars Gustäbel5c4c4612010-04-29 15:23:38 +00004174
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00004175- Issue #7834: Fix connect() of Bluetooth L2CAP sockets with recent versions of
4176 the Linux kernel. Patch by Yaniv Aknin.
Antoine Pitrouf56a2882010-04-29 10:05:40 +00004177
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00004178- Issue #6312: Fix http HEAD request when the transfer encoding is chunked. It
4179 should correctly return an empty response now.
Senthil Kumaraned9204342010-04-28 17:20:43 +00004180
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00004181- Issue #7490: To facilitate sharing of doctests between 2.x and 3.x test
4182 suites, the ``IGNORE_EXCEPTION_DETAIL`` directive now also ignores the module
4183 location of the raised exception. Based on initial patch by Lennart Regebro.
Nick Coghlandfb45df2010-04-28 14:29:06 +00004184
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00004185- Issue #8086: In :func:`ssl.DER_cert_to_PEM_cert()`, fix missing newline before
4186 the certificate footer. Patch by Kyle VanderBeek.
Antoine Pitrou4c7bcf12010-04-27 22:03:37 +00004187
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00004188- Issue #8546: Reject None given as the buffering argument to ``_pyio.open()``.
Benjamin Petersona9bd6d52010-04-27 21:01:54 +00004189
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00004190- Issue #8549: Fix compiling the _ssl extension under AIX. Patch by Sridhar
4191 Ratnakumar.
Antoine Pitrou1dc6b082010-04-27 19:09:59 +00004192
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00004193- Issue #6656: Fix locale.format_string to handle escaped percents and mappings.
R. David Murray3939dcd2010-04-26 21:17:14 +00004194
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00004195- Issue #2302: Fix a race condition in SocketServer.BaseServer.shutdown, where
4196 the method could block indefinitely if called just before the event loop
4197 started running. This also fixes the occasional freezes witnessed in
4198 test_httpservers.
Antoine Pitroua6240402010-04-25 21:40:32 +00004199
Antoine Pitroufc69af12010-04-24 20:04:58 +00004200- Issue #5103: SSL handshake would ignore the socket timeout and block
4201 indefinitely if the other end didn't respond.
4202
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00004203- The do_handshake() method of SSL objects now adjusts the blocking mode of the
4204 SSL structure if necessary (as other methods already do).
Antoine Pitrou4d3e3722010-04-24 19:57:01 +00004205
Georg Brandl4341e542010-04-24 09:08:10 +00004206- Issue #7507: Quote "!" in pipes.quote(); it is special to some shells.
4207
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00004208- Issue #5238: Calling makefile() on an SSL object would prevent the underlying
4209 socket from being closed until all objects get truely destroyed.
Antoine Pitroub558f172010-04-23 23:25:45 +00004210
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00004211- Issue #7943: Fix circular reference created when instantiating an SSL socket.
4212 Initial patch by Péter Szabó.
Antoine Pitroudfb299b2010-04-23 22:54:59 +00004213
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00004214- Issue #8451: Syslog module now uses basename(sys.argv[0]) instead of the
4215 string "python" as the *ident*. openlog() arguments are all optional and
4216 keywords.
Sean Reifscheiderf6ce3cb2010-04-23 08:31:55 +00004217
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00004218- Issue #8108: Fix the unwrap() method of SSL objects when the socket has a
4219 non-infinite timeout. Also make that method friendlier with applications
Antoine Pitroua5c4b552010-04-22 23:33:02 +00004220 wanting to continue using the socket in clear-text mode, by disabling
4221 OpenSSL's internal readahead. Thanks to Darryl Miles for guidance.
4222
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00004223- Issue #8484: Load all ciphers and digest algorithms when initializing the _ssl
4224 extension, such that verification of some SSL certificates doesn't fail
4225 because of an "unknown algorithm".
Antoine Pitrouc715a9e2010-04-21 19:28:03 +00004226
Victor Stinnera92e81b2010-04-20 22:28:31 +00004227- Issue #8437: Fix test_gdb failures, patch written by Dave Malcolm
4228
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00004229- Issue #4814: The timeout parameter is now applied also for connections
4230 resulting from PORT/EPRT commands.
Giampaolo Rodolà607f7c02010-04-19 21:46:28 +00004231
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00004232- Issue #8463: Add missing reference to bztar in shutil's documentation.
Tarek Ziadé8a12f942010-04-19 21:28:21 +00004233
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00004234- Issue #8438: Remove reference to the missing "surrogateescape" encoding error
4235 handler from the new IO library.
Antoine Pitrou7c587bf2010-04-19 18:52:43 +00004236
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00004237- Issue #3817: ftplib.FTP.abort() method now considers 225 a valid response code
4238 as stated in RFC-959 at chapter 5.4.
Giampaolo Rodolàcf445fc2010-04-18 12:55:03 +00004239
Martin v. Löwis24f09fd2010-04-17 22:40:40 +00004240- Issue #8279: Fix test_gdb failures.
4241
Antoine Pitrou0a6373c2010-04-17 17:10:38 +00004242- Issue #8322: Add a *ciphers* argument to SSL sockets, so as to change the
4243 available cipher list. Helps fix test_ssl with OpenSSL 1.0.0.
4244
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00004245- Issue #2987: RFC 2732 support for urlparse (IPv6 addresses). Patch by Tony
Senthil Kumaran8c6d9d72010-04-16 02:46:46 +00004246 Locke and Hans Ulrich Niedermann.
4247
R. David Murray1a14d3d2010-04-12 16:35:19 +00004248- Issue #7585: difflib context and unified diffs now place a tab between
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00004249 filename and date, conforming to the 'standards' they were originally designed
4250 to follow. This improves compatibility with patch tools.
R. David Murray1a14d3d2010-04-12 16:35:19 +00004251
R. David Murray27ef9372010-04-12 14:26:06 +00004252- Issue #7472: Fixed typo in email.encoders module; messages using ISO-2022
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00004253 character sets will now consistently use a Content-Transfer-Encoding of 7bit
4254 rather than sometimes being marked as 8bit.
R. David Murray27ef9372010-04-12 14:26:06 +00004255
Martin v. Löwis7f7765c2010-04-12 05:18:16 +00004256- Issue #8330: Fix expected output in test_gdb.
4257
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00004258- Issue #8374: Update the internal alias table in the :mod:`locale` module to
4259 cover recent locale changes and additions.
Antoine Pitrouab5ce722010-04-11 22:45:47 +00004260
Matthias Klose8a96d202010-04-21 22:18:52 +00004261Extension Modules
4262-----------------
4263
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00004264- Issue #8644: Improved accuracy of ``timedelta.total_seconds()``.
Mark Dickinson7000e9e2010-05-09 09:30:06 +00004265
Brett Cannon945df9a2010-05-04 01:04:53 +00004266- Use Clang 2.7's static analyzer to find places to clean up some code.
4267
Matthias Klose8a96d202010-04-21 22:18:52 +00004268- Build the ossaudio extension on GNU/kFreeBSD.
4269
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00004270- On Windows, ctypes does no longer check the stack before and after calling a
4271 foreign function. This allows to use the unmodified libffi library.
Thomas Heller06a7e202010-05-04 18:44:42 +00004272
Antoine Pitroua5c4b552010-04-22 23:33:02 +00004273Tests
4274-----
4275
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00004276- Issue #8672: Add a zlib test ensuring that an incomplete stream can be handled
4277 by a decompressor object without errors (it returns incomplete uncompressed
4278 data).
Antoine Pitrou37ffc3e2010-05-11 23:32:31 +00004279
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00004280- Issue #8490: asyncore now has a more solid test suite which actually tests its
4281 API.
Giampaolo Rodolàff46d6e2010-05-10 15:33:22 +00004282
Antoine Pitrou54f9f832010-04-30 23:08:48 +00004283- Issue #8576: Remove use of find_unused_port() in test_smtplib and
4284 test_multiprocessing. Patch by Paul Moore.
4285
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00004286- Issue #7449: Fix many tests to support Python compiled without thread support.
4287 Patches written by Jerry Seutter.
Victor Stinnerd9d147b2010-04-27 21:46:03 +00004288
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00004289- Issue #8108: test_ftplib's non-blocking SSL server now has proper handling of
4290 SSL shutdowns.
Antoine Pitroua5c4b552010-04-22 23:33:02 +00004291
Matthias Klose5183ebd2010-04-24 16:38:36 +00004292Build
4293-----
4294
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00004295- Issue #8625: Turn off optimization in ``--with-pydebug`` builds with gcc.
Mark Dickinsond2f3e3f2010-05-05 22:23:58 +00004296 (Optimization was unintentionally turned on in gcc --with-pydebug builds in
4297 2.7 beta1 as a result of the issue #1628484 fix, combined with autoconf's
4298 strange choice of default CFLAGS produced by AC_PROG_CC for gcc.)
4299
Matthias Klose5183ebd2010-04-24 16:38:36 +00004300- Issue #8509: Fix quoting in help strings and code snippets in configure.in.
4301
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00004302- Issue #3646: It is now easily possible to install a Python framework into your
4303 home directory on Mac OS X, see Mac/README for more information.
Ronald Oussoren01d149f2010-04-30 11:20:14 +00004304
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00004305- Issue #8510: Update to autoconf 2.65.
Matthias Klosea0bea5d2010-05-08 10:00:28 +00004306
Brett Cannonc1f5c2f2010-05-02 21:51:23 +00004307Misc
4308----
4309
4310- Update the Vim syntax highlight file.
4311
Benjamin Peterson12409062010-04-10 18:53:58 +00004312
Benjamin Peterson5da7e7c2010-03-06 22:44:07 +00004313What's New in Python 2.7 beta 1?
4314================================
4315
Benjamin Petersonfbac6c12010-04-10 16:22:05 +00004316*Release date: 2010-04-10*
Benjamin Peterson5da7e7c2010-03-06 22:44:07 +00004317
4318Core and Builtins
4319-----------------
4320
Philip Jenveyaebbaeb2010-04-06 23:24:45 +00004321- Issue #7301: Add environment variable $PYTHONWARNINGS.
4322
Benjamin Peterson3a1dfa22010-04-06 21:50:00 +00004323- Issue #8329: Don't return the same lists from select.select when no fds are
4324 changed.
4325
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00004326- Issue #8259: ``1L << (2**31)`` no longer produces an 'outrageous shift error'
Mark Dickinson82791672010-04-06 16:47:55 +00004327 on 64-bit machines. The shift count for either left or right shift is
4328 permitted to be up to sys.maxsize.
4329
Benjamin Peterson4ceeeb02010-04-03 22:48:51 +00004330- Ensure that tokenization of identifiers is not affected by locale.
4331
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00004332- Issue #1222585: Added LDCXXSHARED for C++ support. Patch by Arfrever.
Tarek Ziadé00002952010-04-03 08:37:59 +00004333
Benjamin Peterson1c7c11e2010-04-03 01:28:57 +00004334- Raise a TypeError when trying to delete a T_STRING_INPLACE struct member.
4335
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00004336- Issue #7994: Issue a PendingDeprecationWarning if object.__format__ is called
4337 with a non-empty format string. This is an effort to future-proof user
4338 code. If a derived class does not currently implement __format__ but later
4339 adds its own __format__, it would most likely break user code that had
Antoine Pitrou01a196a2011-01-02 20:05:11 +00004340 supplied a format string. This will be changed to a DeprecationWarning in
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00004341 Python 3.3 and it will be an error in Python 3.4.
Eric Smithd44b2fc2010-04-02 12:30:56 +00004342
Antoine Pitroua57df2c2010-03-31 21:32:15 +00004343- Issue #8268: Old-style classes (not just instances) now support weak
4344 references.
4345
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00004346- Issue #8211: Save/restore CFLAGS around AC_PROG_CC in configure.in, in case it
4347 is set.
Victor Stinner6cbf90f2010-03-25 00:21:53 +00004348
Victor Stinnerc7790ed2010-03-22 12:36:28 +00004349- Issue #1583863: An unicode subclass can now override the __unicode__ method
Victor Stinner95affc42010-03-22 12:24:37 +00004350
Benjamin Peterson96545892010-03-21 20:21:00 +00004351- Issue #6474: Make error message from passing an inadequate number of keyword
4352 arguments to a function correct.
4353
Benjamin Peterson0dee9c12010-03-17 20:41:42 +00004354- Issue #8164: Don't allow lambda functions to have a docstring.
4355
Victor Stinner66644262010-03-10 22:30:19 +00004356- Issue #3137: Don't ignore errors at startup, especially a keyboard interrupt
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004357 (SIGINT). If an error occurs while importing the site module, the error is
4358 printed and Python exits. Initialize the GIL before importing the site
Victor Stinner66644262010-03-10 22:30:19 +00004359 module.
4360
Collin Winter001a3952010-03-18 21:54:01 +00004361- Code objects now support weak references.
4362
Benjamin Peterson5da7e7c2010-03-06 22:44:07 +00004363Library
4364-------
4365
R. David Murray661303f2010-04-13 20:57:40 +00004366- Issue #5277: Fix quote counting when parsing RFC 2231 encoded parameters.
4367
Antoine Pitrouf9de5342010-04-05 21:35:07 +00004368- Issue #8321: Give access to OpenSSL version numbers from the `ssl` module,
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00004369 using the new attributes `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION`, `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION_INFO` and
4370 `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION_NUMBER`.
Antoine Pitrouf9de5342010-04-05 21:35:07 +00004371
Benjamin Peterson76a23c12010-04-04 23:23:22 +00004372- Issue #8310: Allow dis to examine new style classes.
4373
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00004374- Issue #8257: The Decimal construct now accepts a float instance directly,
4375 converting that float to a Decimal of equal value:
Mark Dickinson8a950712010-04-03 15:47:46 +00004376
4377 >>> Decimal(1.1)
4378 Decimal('1.100000000000000088817841970012523233890533447265625')
4379
Raymond Hettinger34c35b22010-04-03 10:22:00 +00004380- collections.Counter() now supports a subtract() method.
4381
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00004382- The functools module now has a total_ordering() class decorator to simplify
4383 the specification of rich comparisons.
Raymond Hettingera551f312010-04-04 18:34:45 +00004384
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00004385- The functools module also adds cmp_to_key() as a tool to transition old-style
4386 comparison functions to new-style key-functions.
Raymond Hettingera551f312010-04-04 18:34:45 +00004387
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00004388- Issue #8294: The Fraction constructor now accepts Decimal and float instances
4389 directly.
Mark Dickinson7c63eee2010-04-02 22:27:36 +00004390
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00004391- Issue #7279: Comparisons involving a Decimal signaling NaN now signal
4392 InvalidOperation instead of returning False. (Comparisons involving a quiet
4393 NaN are unchanged.) Also, Decimal quiet NaNs are now hashable; Decimal
4394 signaling NaNs remain unhashable.
Mark Dickinsone096e822010-04-02 10:17:07 +00004395
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00004396- Issue #2531: Comparison operations between floats and Decimal instances now
4397 return a result based on the numeric values of the operands; previously they
4398 returned an arbitrary result based on the relative ordering of id(float) and
4399 id(Decimal).
Mark Dickinson99d80962010-04-02 08:53:22 +00004400
Barry Warsawf7f2d6f2010-03-31 21:07:16 +00004401- Issue #8233: When run as a script, py_compile.py optionally takes a single
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00004402 argument `-` which tells it to read files to compile from stdin. Each line is
4403 read on demand and the named file is compiled immediately. (Original patch by
4404 Piotr Ożarowski).
Barry Warsawf7f2d6f2010-03-31 21:07:16 +00004405
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00004406- Issue #3135: Add ``inspect.getcallargs()``, which binds arguments to a
4407 function like a normal call.
Benjamin Peterson7e213252010-03-30 17:58:13 +00004408
Florent Xicluna58b65662010-03-30 16:29:03 +00004409- Backwards incompatible change: Unicode codepoints line tabulation (0x0B) and
4410 form feed (0x0C) are now considered linebreaks, as specified in Unicode
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00004411 Standard Annex #14. See issue #7643. http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr14/
Florent Xicluna22b24382010-03-30 08:24:06 +00004412
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00004413- Comparisons using one of <, <=, >, >= between a complex instance and a
4414 Fractions instance now raise TypeError instead of returning True/False. This
4415 makes Fraction <=> complex comparisons consistent with int <=> complex, float
4416 <=> complex, and complex <=> complex comparisons.
Mark Dickinson9588d992010-03-27 11:14:37 +00004417
Michael Foorde6410c52010-03-29 20:04:23 +00004418- Addition of ``WeakSet`` to the ``weakref`` module.
4419
Vinay Sajipb0623d62010-03-24 14:31:21 +00004420- logging: Added LOG_FTP to SysLogHandler and updated documentation.
4421
Florent Xicluna176cda12010-03-22 22:52:11 +00004422- Issue #8205: Remove the "Modules" directory from sys.path when Python is
4423 running from the build directory (POSIX only).
4424
Florent Xiclunae1f4c922010-03-22 22:45:50 +00004425- Issue #7667: Fix doctest failures with non-ASCII paths.
4426
Antoine Pitrou513d9ae2010-03-22 19:59:46 +00004427- Issue #7512: shutil.copystat() could raise an OSError when the filesystem
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00004428 didn't support chflags() (for example ZFS under FreeBSD). The error is now
4429 silenced.
Antoine Pitrou513d9ae2010-03-22 19:59:46 +00004430
Florent Xicluna9e7a4c92010-03-22 16:07:38 +00004431- Issue #7703: ctypes supports both buffer() and memoryview(). The former is
4432 deprecated.
4433
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00004434- Issue #7860: platform.uname now reports the correct 'machine' type when Python
4435 is running in WOW64 mode on 64 bit Windows.
R. David Murrayc9d1a782010-03-22 15:55:09 +00004436
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00004437- logging: Added getChild utility method to Logger and added isEnabledFor method
4438 to LoggerAdapter.
Vinay Sajip804899b2010-03-22 15:29:01 +00004439
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00004440- Issue #8201: logging: Handle situation of non-ASCII and Unicode logger names
4441 existing at the same time, causing a Unicode error when configuration code
4442 attempted to sort the existing loggers.
Vinay Sajip31e928e2010-03-22 13:02:28 +00004443
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00004444- Issue #8200: logging: Handle errors when multiprocessing is not fully loaded
4445 when logging occurs.
Vinay Sajip3017a7b2010-03-22 12:33:08 +00004446
Antoine Pitroueee91cd2010-03-26 19:27:16 +00004447- Issue #3890, #8222: Fix recv() and recv_into() on non-blocking SSL sockets.
4448 Also, enable the SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY flag on SSL sockets, so that blocking
4449 reads and writes are always retried by OpenSSL itself.
Antoine Pitrou448da712010-03-21 19:33:38 +00004450
Florent Xiclunacf82fa62010-03-21 12:27:20 +00004451- Issue #8179: Fix macpath.realpath() on a non-existing path.
4452
Florent Xicluna2e0a53f2010-03-18 21:50:06 +00004453- Issue #8024: Update the Unicode database to 5.2.
4454
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00004455- Issue #8104: socket.recv_into() and socket.recvfrom_into() now support writing
4456 into objects supporting the new buffer API, for example bytearrays or
4457 memoryviews.
Antoine Pitroud7b731d2010-03-17 22:45:39 +00004458
Matthias Klose8b411682010-03-16 10:48:52 +00004459- Issue #4961: Inconsistent/wrong result of askyesno function in tkMessageBox
4460 with Tcl/Tk-8.5.
4461
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00004462- Issue #8140: Extend compileall to compile single files. Add -i option.
Matthias Kloseb13d04c2010-03-15 17:44:12 +00004463
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00004464- Issue #7356: ctypes.util: Make parsing of ldconfig output independent of the
4465 locale.
Matthias Klose358e7ff2010-03-15 13:42:23 +00004466
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00004467- Issue #7774: Set sys.executable to an empty string if ``argv[0]`` has been set
4468 to an non existent program name and Python is unable to retrieve the real
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004469 program name.
Victor Stinner75227342010-03-12 14:30:26 +00004470
Vinay Sajipecfa08f2010-03-12 09:16:10 +00004471- Issue #8117: logging: Improved algorithm for computing initial rollover time
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00004472 for ``TimedRotatingFileHandler`` by using the modification time of an existing
4473 log file to compute the next rollover time. If the log file does not exist,
4474 the current time is used as the basis for the computation.
Vinay Sajip9098ee42010-03-12 06:01:21 +00004475
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004476- Issue #6472: The ``xml.etree`` package is updated to ElementTree 1.3. The
Florent Xicluna3e8c1892010-03-11 14:36:19 +00004477 cElementTree module is updated too.
4478
Florent Xicluna85677612010-03-10 23:58:42 +00004479- Issue #7880: Fix sysconfig when the python executable is a symbolic link.
4480
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004481- Issue #7624: Fix ``isinstance(foo(), collections.Callable)`` for old-style
Florent Xicluna47627d52010-03-08 15:20:28 +00004482 classes.
4483
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004484- Issue #7143: email: ``get_payload()`` used to strip any trailing newline from
4485 a base64 transfer-encoded payload *after* decoding it; it no longer does.
4486 This is a behavior change, so email's minor version number is now bumped, to
4487 version 4.0.2, for the 2.7 release.
R. David Murray4617e502010-03-08 02:04:06 +00004488
Larry Hastings3b958e32010-04-02 11:18:17 +00004489- Issue #8235: _socket: Add the constant ``SO_SETFIB``. SO_SETFIB is
4490 a socket option available on FreeBSD 7.1 and newer.
4491
Michael Foorda04c7a02010-04-02 22:55:59 +00004492- Issue #8038: unittest.TestCase.assertNotRegexpMatches
4493
4494- Addition of -b command line option to unittest for buffering stdout / stderr
4495 during test runs.
4496
Victor Stinnerdb990922010-05-15 21:00:59 +00004497- Issue #1220212: Added os.kill support for Windows, including support for
Brian Curtin85108e62010-04-02 23:31:28 +00004498 sending CTRL+C and CTRL+BREAK events to console subprocesses.
4499
Mark Dickinson154b7ad2010-03-07 16:24:45 +00004500Extension Modules
4501-----------------
4502
Martin v. Löwis16ea5482010-04-07 11:01:46 +00004503- Issue #8314: Fix unsigned long long bug in libffi on Sparc v8.
4504
Matthias Klosee9fbf2b2010-03-19 14:45:06 +00004505- Issue #1039, #8154: Fix os.execlp() crash with missing 2nd argument.
4506
Jesus Cea6557aac2010-03-22 14:22:26 +00004507- Issue #8156: bsddb module updated to version 4.8.4.
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00004508 http://www.jcea.es/programacion/pybsddb.htm#bsddb3-4.8.4. This update drops
4509 support for Berkeley DB 4.0, and adds support for 4.8.
Matthias Klose54cc5392010-03-15 12:46:18 +00004510
Jesus Cea616de772010-04-28 10:32:30 +00004511- Issue #3928: os.mknod() now available in Solaris, also.
4512
Matthias Klose817acef2010-03-15 00:02:36 +00004513- Issue #8142: Update libffi to the 3.0.9 release.
4514
Mark Dickinson4846a8e2010-04-03 14:05:10 +00004515- Issue #8300: When passing a non-integer argument to struct.pack with any
4516 integer format code, struct.pack first attempts to convert the non-integer
4517 using its __index__ method. If that method is non-existent or raises
4518 TypeError it goes on to try the __int__ method, as described below.
4519
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004520- Issue #1530559: When passing a non-integer argument to struct.pack with *any*
4521 integer format code (one of 'bBhHiIlLqQ'), struct.pack attempts to use the
4522 argument's __int__ method to convert to an integer before packing. It also
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00004523 produces a DeprecationWarning in this case. (In Python 2.6, the behaviour was
4524 inconsistent: __int__ was used for some integer codes but not for others, and
4525 the set of integer codes for which it was used differed between native packing
4526 and standard packing.)
Mark Dickinson154b7ad2010-03-07 16:24:45 +00004527
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00004528- Issue #7347: _winreg: Add CreateKeyEx and DeleteKeyEx, as well as fix a bug in
4529 the return value of QueryReflectionKey.
Brian Curtin19479fa2010-04-02 21:51:37 +00004530
Antoine Pitrou02b3f0a2010-03-13 21:21:30 +00004531Tools/Demos
4532-----------
4533
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004534- Issue #7993: Add a test of IO packet processing bandwidth to ccbench. It
4535 measures the number of UDP packets processed per second depending on the
4536 number of background CPU-bound Python threads.
Benjamin Peterson5da7e7c2010-03-06 22:44:07 +00004537
Collin Wintera70f3492010-03-19 00:08:44 +00004538- python-config now supports multiple options on the same command line.
4539
Benjamin Peterson11d93232010-03-14 14:24:31 +00004540Build
4541-----
4542
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00004543- Issue #8032: For gdb7, a python-gdb.py file is added to the build, allowing to
4544 use advanced gdb features when debugging Python.
Martin v. Löwisbf0dfb32010-04-01 07:40:51 +00004545
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00004546- Issue #1628484: The Makefile doesn't ignore the CFLAGS environment variable
4547 anymore. It also forwards the LDFLAGS settings to the linker when building a
4548 shared library.
Antoine Pitrouf83b3082010-03-21 19:19:41 +00004549
Martin v. Löwis24e4e162010-03-15 13:00:17 +00004550- Issue #6716: Quote -x arguments of compileall in MSI installer.
4551
Benjamin Peterson11d93232010-03-14 14:24:31 +00004552- Issue #7705: Fix linking on FreeBSD.
4553
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven6d22cfc2010-04-07 16:34:08 +00004554- Make sure that the FreeBSD build of the included libffi uses the proper
4555 assembly file.
4556
Larry Hastings402b73f2010-03-25 00:54:54 +00004557C-API
4558-----
4559
Antoine Pitrou76c86492010-04-01 16:42:11 +00004560- Issue #8276: PyEval_CallObject() is now only available in macro form. The
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00004561 function declaration, which was kept for backwards compatibility reasons, is
4562 now removed (the macro was introduced in 1997!).
Antoine Pitrou76c86492010-04-01 16:42:11 +00004563
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00004564- Issue #7992: A replacement PyCObject API, PyCapsule, has been backported from
4565 Python 3.1. All existing Python CObjects in the main distribution have been
4566 converted to capsules. To address backwards-compatibility concerns,
4567 PyCObject_AsVoidPtr() was changed to understand capsules.
Larry Hastings402b73f2010-03-25 00:54:54 +00004568
Florent Xicluna3cc8f212010-03-15 18:08:58 +00004569Tests
4570-----
4571
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00004572- Issue #3864: Skip three test_signal tests on freebsd6 because they fail if any
4573 thread was previously started, most likely due to a platform bug.
R. David Murraye0e8a872010-04-17 05:26:26 +00004574
Antoine Pitrouab5ce722010-04-11 22:45:47 +00004575- Issue #8348: Fix test ftp url in test_urllib2net.
4576
4577- Issue #8204: Fix test_ttk notebook test by forcing focus.
4578
4579- Issue #8344: Fix test_ttk bug on FreeBSD.
4580
Antoine Pitrou3b4c9892010-04-06 17:21:09 +00004581- Issue #8193: Fix test_zlib failure with zlib 1.2.4.
4582
Antoine Pitrou6032c252010-03-30 18:49:45 +00004583- Issue #8248: Add some tests for the bool type. Patch by Gregory Nofi.
4584
Florent Xicluna75c66762010-03-30 16:31:14 +00004585- Issue #8263: Now regrtest.py will report a failure if it receives a
4586 KeyboardInterrupt (SIGINT).
4587
Florent Xicluna8aa5a582010-03-25 20:33:49 +00004588- Issue #8180 and #8207: Fix test_pep277 on OS X and add more tests for special
4589 Unicode normalization cases.
Florent Xicluna77a88492010-03-21 18:00:38 +00004590
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00004591- Issue #7783: test.test_support.open_urlresource invalidates the outdated files
4592 from the local cache.
Florent Xicluna3cc8f212010-03-15 18:08:58 +00004593
R. David Murray4617e502010-03-08 02:04:06 +00004594
Benjamin Peterson2d798ac2010-02-06 18:26:27 +00004595What's New in Python 2.7 alpha 4?
4596=================================
4597
Benjamin Peterson8e7c1172010-03-06 20:34:14 +00004598*Release date: 2010-03-06*
Benjamin Peterson2d798ac2010-02-06 18:26:27 +00004599
4600Core and Builtins
4601-----------------
4602
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004603- Issue #7544: Preallocate thread memory before creating the thread to avoid a
4604 fatal error in low memory condition.
Victor Stinner71fb87e2010-03-03 23:20:25 +00004605
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004606- Issue #7820: The parser tokenizer restores all bytes in the right if the BOM
4607 check fails.
Victor Stinnerd23d3932010-03-02 23:20:02 +00004608
Eric Smith2d9856d2010-02-24 14:15:36 +00004609- Issue #7309: Fix unchecked attribute access when converting
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004610 UnicodeEncodeError, UnicodeDecodeError, and UnicodeTranslateError to strings.
Eric Smith2d9856d2010-02-24 14:15:36 +00004611
Ezio Melotti32125152010-02-25 17:36:04 +00004612- Issue #7649: "u'%c' % char" now behaves like "u'%s' % char" and raises a
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004613 UnicodeDecodeError if 'char' is a byte string that can't be decoded using the
4614 default encoding.
Victor Stinnerf20f9c22010-02-23 23:16:07 +00004615
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004616- Issue #6902: Fix problem with built-in types format incorrectly with 0
4617 padding.
Eric Smith87bcb242010-02-23 00:11:16 +00004618
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004619- Issue #2560: Remove an unnecessary 'for' loop from ``my_fgets()`` in
Andrew M. Kuchlingb64d6132010-02-22 22:48:41 +00004620 Parser/myreadline.c.
4621
Eric Smithf32d4ac2010-02-22 18:33:47 +00004622- Issue #7988: Fix default alignment to be right aligned for
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004623 ``complex.__format__``. Now it matches other numeric types.
Eric Smithf32d4ac2010-02-22 18:33:47 +00004624
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004625- Issue #5211: The complex type no longer uses implicit coercion in mixed-type
4626 binary arithmetic operations.
Mark Dickinson82b34c52010-02-21 12:57:35 +00004627
Benjamin Peterson2d798ac2010-02-06 18:26:27 +00004628Library
4629-------
Georg Brandl7f0c3ff2010-08-01 21:18:52 +00004630
Senthil Kumaranc1d0ed22010-12-04 09:58:29 +00004631- Issue #7904: Changes to urllib.parse.urlsplit to handle schemes as defined by
4632 RFC3986. Anything before :// is considered a scheme and is followed by an
4633 authority (or netloc) and by '/' led path, which is optional.
4634
R. David Murray05b76312010-07-17 01:35:16 +00004635- Issue #1555570: email no longer inserts extra blank lines when a \r\n
4636 combo crosses an 8192 byte boundary.
Benjamin Peterson2d798ac2010-02-06 18:26:27 +00004637
Florent Xicluna0b9a18a2010-03-06 11:01:08 +00004638- Issue #6906: Tk should not set Unicode environment variables on Windows.
4639
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004640- Issue #1054943: Fix ``unicodedata.normalize('NFC', text)`` for the Public
Ezio Melotti8122bdd2010-03-14 10:13:49 +00004641 Review Issue #29 (http://unicode.org/review/pr-29.html).
Victor Stinner7c924ec2010-03-04 12:09:33 +00004642
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004643- Issue #7494: Fix a crash in ``_lsprof`` (cProfile) after clearing the profiler,
Victor Stinner56a51532010-03-04 00:10:12 +00004644 reset also the pointer to the current pointer context.
4645
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004646- Issue #7232: Add support for the context manager protocol to the
4647 ``tarfile.TarFile`` class.
Lars Gustäbel64581042010-03-03 11:55:48 +00004648
Barry Warsaw08a8fb32010-03-01 21:46:51 +00004649- Issue #7250: Fix info leak of os.environ across multi-run uses of
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004650 ``wsgiref.handlers.CGIHandler``.
Barry Warsaw08a8fb32010-03-01 21:46:51 +00004651
Florent Xiclunae7901c52010-03-01 20:45:01 +00004652- Issue #1729305: Fix doctest to handle encode error with "backslashreplace".
Florent Xicluna2a903b22010-02-27 13:31:23 +00004653
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004654- Issue #691291: ``codecs.open()`` should not convert end of lines on reading
4655 and writing.
Florent Xicluna82aa01f2010-02-27 11:19:18 +00004656
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004657- Issue #7975: Correct regression in dict methods supported by bsddb.dbshelve.
R. David Murray48605be2010-02-24 02:31:27 +00004658
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004659- Issue #7959: ctypes callback functions are now registered correctly with the
4660 cycle garbage collector.
Thomas Heller92bd0592010-02-23 20:11:44 +00004661
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004662- Issue #7970: ``email.Generator.flatten`` now correctly flattens
4663 message/rfc822 messages parsed by ``email.Parser.HeaderParser``.
R. David Murray51f12042010-02-21 04:23:00 +00004664
Ezio Melotti4cc80ca2010-02-20 08:09:39 +00004665- Issue #3426: ``os.path.abspath`` now returns unicode when its arg is unicode.
4666
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004667- Issue #7633: In the decimal module, ``Context`` class methods (with the
4668 exception of canonical and is_canonical) now accept instances of int and long
4669 wherever a Decimal instance is accepted, and implicitly convert that argument
4670 to Decimal. Previously only some arguments were converted.
Mark Dickinson6d8effb2010-02-18 14:27:02 +00004671
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004672- Issue #6003: Add an argument to ``zipfile.Zipfile.writestr`` to specify the
4673 compression type.
Ezio Melotti8f6a2872010-02-10 21:40:33 +00004674
Michael Foorddb43b5a2010-02-10 14:25:12 +00004675- Issue #7893: ``unittest.TextTestResult`` is made public and a ``resultclass``
4676 argument added to the TextTestRunner constructor allowing a different result
4677 class to be used without having to subclass.
Ezio Melotti8f6a2872010-02-10 21:40:33 +00004678
Ezio Melotti4cc80ca2010-02-20 08:09:39 +00004679- Issue #7588: ``unittest.TextTestResult.getDescription`` now includes the test
Michael Foorddb43b5a2010-02-10 14:25:12 +00004680 name in failure reports even if the test has a docstring.
Ronald Oussorendd25e862010-02-07 20:18:02 +00004681
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004682- Issue #5801: Remove spurious empty lines in wsgiref.
Tarek Ziadéb8708a22010-02-23 05:53:05 +00004683
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004684- Issue #1537721: Add a ``writeheader()`` method to ``csv.DictWriter``.
Dirkjan Ochtman86148172010-02-23 21:09:52 +00004685
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004686- Issue #7427: Improve the representation of httplib.BadStatusLine exceptions.
Dirkjan Ochtmanebc73dc2010-02-24 04:49:00 +00004687
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004688- Issue #7481: When a ``threading.Thread`` failed to start it would leave the
4689 instance stuck in initial state and present in ``threading.enumerate()``.
Gregory P. Smith613c7a52010-02-28 18:36:09 +00004690
Gregory P. Smithcce211f2010-03-01 00:05:08 +00004691- Issue #1068268: The subprocess module now handles EINTR in internal
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004692 ``os.waitpid()`` and ``os.read()`` system calls where appropriate.
Gregory P. Smithcce211f2010-03-01 00:05:08 +00004693
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004694- Issue #6729: Add ``ctypes.c_ssize_t`` to represent ssize_t.
Gregory P. Smith3c699d32010-03-01 04:56:12 +00004695
Steven Betharde9330e72010-03-02 08:38:09 +00004696- Issue #6247: The argparse module has been added to the standard library.
4697
Martin v. Löwis413fabc2010-02-18 09:22:20 +00004698Extension Modules
4699-----------------
4700
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004701- The sqlite3 module was updated to pysqlite 2.6.0. This fixes several obscure
Gerhard Häring3bbb6722010-03-05 09:12:37 +00004702 bugs and allows loading SQLite extensions from shared libraries.
4703
Florent Xiclunae7901c52010-03-01 20:45:01 +00004704- Issue #7808: Fix reference leaks in _bsddb and related tests.
4705
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004706- Issue #6544: Fix a reference leak in the kqueue implementation's error
Georg Brandlea370a92010-02-23 21:48:57 +00004707 handling.
4708
Martin v. Löwis413fabc2010-02-18 09:22:20 +00004709- Stop providing crtassem.h symbols when compiling with Visual Studio 2010, as
4710 msvcr100.dll is not a platform assembly anymore.
Benjamin Peterson2d798ac2010-02-06 18:26:27 +00004711
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004712- Issue #7242: On Solaris 9 and earlier calling ``os.fork()`` from within a
Gregory P. Smith9e5d1322010-03-01 01:22:39 +00004713 thread could raise an incorrect RuntimeError about not holding the import
4714 lock. The import lock is now reinitialized after fork.
4715
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004716- Issue #7999: ``os.setreuid()`` and ``os.setregid()`` would refuse to accept a
4717 -1 parameter on some platforms such as OS X.
Gregory P. Smith6a65f852010-03-01 05:43:43 +00004718
Ezio Melotti8f6a2872010-02-10 21:40:33 +00004719Tests
4720-----
4721
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004722- Issue #7849: The utility ``test.test_support.check_warnings()`` verifies if
4723 warnings are effectively raised. A new utility ``check_py3k_warnings()`` is
4724 available.
Florent Xicluna6de9e932010-03-07 12:18:33 +00004725
Florent Xicluna985478d2010-03-06 18:52:52 +00004726- The four path modules (genericpath, macpath, ntpath, posixpath) share a
4727 common TestCase for some tests: test_genericpath.CommonTest.
4728
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004729- Print platform information when running the whole test suite, or using the
4730 ``--verbose`` flag.
Florent Xicluna58526412010-03-06 17:24:36 +00004731
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004732- Issue #767675: Enable test_pep277 on POSIX platforms with Unicode-friendly
Florent Xiclunac0a9d412010-03-02 22:34:11 +00004733 filesystem encoding.
Florent Xicluna2db61fb2010-03-02 21:34:45 +00004734
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004735- Issue #6292: For the moment at least, the test suite runs cleanly if python
R. David Murrayf28fd242010-02-23 00:24:49 +00004736 is run with the -OO flag. Tests requiring docstrings are skipped.
4737
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004738- Issue #7712: test_support gained a new ``temp_cwd`` context manager which is
4739 now also used by regrtest to run all the tests in a temporary directory. The
4740 original CWD is saved in ``test.test_support.SAVEDCWD``. Thanks to Florent
4741 Xicluna who helped with the patch.
Ezio Melotti8f6a2872010-02-10 21:40:33 +00004742
Martin v. Löwis5e2dd862010-02-15 08:32:00 +00004743Build
4744-----
4745
Martin v. Löwis7875ef62010-02-15 21:41:12 +00004746- Issue #3920, #7903: Define _BSD_SOURCE on OpenBSD 4.4 through 4.9.
Martin v. Löwis5e2dd862010-02-15 08:32:00 +00004747
Ezio Melotti8f6a2872010-02-10 21:40:33 +00004748
Benjamin Petersondd6d92a2010-01-09 17:30:31 +00004749What's New in Python 2.7 alpha 3?
4750=================================
4751
Benjamin Petersona7be9d22010-02-06 16:37:32 +00004752*Release date: 2010-02-06*
Benjamin Petersondd6d92a2010-01-09 17:30:31 +00004753
4754Core and Builtins
4755-----------------
4756
Antoine Pitroubb445a12010-02-05 17:05:54 +00004757- Issue #5677: Explicitly forbid write operations on read-only file objects,
4758 and read operations on write-only file objects. On Windows, the system C
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004759 library would return a bogus result; on Solaris, it was possible to crash the
4760 interpreter. Patch by Stefan Krah.
Antoine Pitroubb445a12010-02-05 17:05:54 +00004761
Barry Warsawb1e66ee2010-02-05 18:45:25 +00004762- Issue #7853: Normalize exceptions before they are passed to a context
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004763 manager's ``__exit__()`` method.
Benjamin Peterson565d7852010-02-05 02:12:14 +00004764
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004765- Issue #7385: Fix a crash in ``PyMemoryView_FromObject()`` when
4766 ``PyObject_GetBuffer()`` fails. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
Antoine Pitrou526e4212010-02-02 22:36:17 +00004767
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004768- Issue #7819: Check ``sys.call_tracing()`` arguments types.
Victor Stinnerb4b0a292010-01-31 22:32:15 +00004769
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004770- Issue #7788: Fix an interpreter crash produced by deleting a list slice with
4771 very large step value.
Mark Dickinson36ecd672010-01-29 17:11:39 +00004772
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004773- Issue #7766: Change ``sys.getwindowsversion()`` return value to a named tuple
4774 and add the additional members returned in an OSVERSIONINFOEX structure. The
4775 new members are service_pack_major, service_pack_minor, suite_mask, and
4776 product_type.
Eric Smithee931b72010-01-27 00:28:29 +00004777
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004778- Issue #7561: Operations on empty bytearrays (such as ``int(bytearray())``)
4779 could crash in many places because of the ``PyByteArray_AS_STRING()`` macro
4780 returning NULL. The macro now returns a statically allocated empty string
4781 instead.
Antoine Pitroue80a6a42010-01-17 12:26:20 +00004782
Antoine Pitrou64672132010-01-13 07:55:48 +00004783- Issue #7622: Improve the split(), rsplit(), splitlines() and replace()
4784 methods of bytes, bytearray and unicode objects by using a common
4785 implementation based on stringlib's fast search. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
4786
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004787- Issue #7632: Fix various str -> float conversion bugs present in 2.7 alpha 2,
4788 including:
Mark Dickinson8efef5c2010-01-12 22:23:56 +00004789
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004790 (1) a serious 'wrong output' bug that could occur for long (> 40 digit) input
4791 strings,
4792 (2) a crash in dtoa.c that occurred in debug builds when parsing certain long
4793 numeric strings corresponding to subnormal values,
4794 (3) a memory leak for some values large enough to cause overflow, and
4795 (4) a number of flaws that could lead to incorrectly rounded results.
4796
4797- Issue #7319, #7770: Silence ``DeprecationWarning`` by default when the -3
4798 option is not used.
Brett Cannon6fdd3dc2010-01-10 02:56:19 +00004799
Alexandre Vassalottiee936a22010-01-09 23:35:54 +00004800- Issue #2335: Backport set literals syntax from Python 3.x.
4801
Alexandre Vassalotti7a8df802010-01-11 23:13:49 +00004802- Issue #2333: Backport set and dict comprehensions syntax from Python 3.x.
4803
Alexandre Vassalotti69eb5162010-01-11 23:17:10 +00004804- Issue #1967: Backport dictionary views from Python 3.x.
4805
Benjamin Petersondd6d92a2010-01-09 17:30:31 +00004806Library
4807-------
4808
Mark Dickinson42add992010-07-11 19:17:28 +00004809- Issue #9137: Fix issue in MutableMapping.update, which incorrectly
4810 treated keyword arguments called 'self' or 'other' specially.
4811
R. David Murray63e4fd72010-02-10 22:42:04 +00004812- Issue #7835: shelve should no longer produce mysterious warnings during
4813 interpreter shutdown.
4814
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004815- Issue #2746: Don't escape ampersands and angle brackets ("&", "<", ">") in
4816 XML processing instructions and comments. These raw characters are allowed
4817 by the XML specification, and are necessary when outputting e.g. PHP code in
4818 a processing instruction. Patch by Neil Muller.
Antoine Pitrou42fb6ab2010-02-09 17:08:05 +00004819
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004820- Issue #7869: logging: Improved diagnostic for format-time errors.
Vinay Sajip64e8b972010-02-07 12:56:54 +00004821
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004822- Issue #7868: logging: Added loggerClass attribute to Manager.
Vinay Sajip657514a2010-02-07 01:37:08 +00004823
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004824- Issue #7851: logging: Clarification on logging configuration files.
Vinay Sajip0e6e97d2010-02-04 20:23:45 +00004825
Antoine Pitroud840e512010-02-04 20:20:18 +00004826- Issue #4772: Raise a ValueError when an unknown Bluetooth protocol is
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004827 specified, rather than fall through to AF_PACKET (in the ``socket`` module).
Antoine Pitroud840e512010-02-04 20:20:18 +00004828 Also, raise ValueError rather than TypeError when an unknown TIPC address
4829 type is specified. Patch by Brian Curtin.
4830
Vinay Sajip28c382f2010-02-04 18:48:53 +00004831- logging: Implemented PEP 391.
4832
Antoine Pitrouf3fa0742010-01-31 22:26:04 +00004833- Issue #6939: Fix file I/O objects in the `io` module to keep the original
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004834 file position when calling `truncate()`. It would previously change the file
4835 position to the given argument, which goes against the tradition of
Antoine Pitrouf3fa0742010-01-31 22:26:04 +00004836 ftruncate() and other truncation APIs. Patch by Pascal Chambon.
4837
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004838- Issue #7610: Reworked implementation of the internal ``zipfile.ZipExtFile``
4839 class used to represent files stored inside an archive. The new
4840 implementation is significantly faster and can be wrapped in a
4841 ``io.BufferedReader`` object for more speedups. It also solves an issue
4842 where interleaved calls to ``read()`` and ``readline()`` give wrong results.
4843 Patch by Nir Aides.
Antoine Pitrou94c33eb2010-01-27 20:59:50 +00004844
Benjamin Peterson2deb5c72010-01-27 02:16:42 +00004845- Issue #7792: Registering non-classes to ABCs raised an obscure error.
4846
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004847- Removed the deprecated functions ``verify()`` and ``vereq()`` from
4848 Lib/test/test_support.py.
Ezio Melotti82230f92010-01-25 12:37:02 +00004849
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004850- Issue #7773: Fix an UnboundLocalError in ``platform.linux_distribution()``
4851 when the release file is empty.
Benjamin Petersona43f34c2010-01-25 03:31:13 +00004852
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004853- Issue #7748: Since unicode values are supported for some metadata options in
4854 Distutils, the DistributionMetadata get_* methods will now return an utf-8
4855 encoded string for them. This ensures that the upload and register commands
4856 send the correct values to PyPI without any error.
Tarek Ziadéf14c7fc2010-01-24 00:33:32 +00004857
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004858- Issue #1670765: Prevent ``email.generator.Generator`` from re-wrapping
R. David Murrayed44dfa2010-01-16 05:15:17 +00004859 headers in multipart/signed MIME parts, which fixes one of the sources of
4860 invalid modifications to such parts by Generator.
4861
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004862- Issue #7701: Fix crash in ``binascii.b2a_uu()`` in debug mode when given a
Antoine Pitrouc391ad02010-01-15 00:18:00 +00004863 1-byte argument. Patch by Victor Stinner.
4864
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004865- Issue #3299: Fix possible crash in the _sre module when given bad argument
4866 values in debug mode. Patch by Victor Stinner.
Antoine Pitrouefdddd32010-01-14 17:25:24 +00004867
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004868- Issue #7703: Add support for the new buffer API to functions of the binascii
4869 module. Backported from py3k by Florent Xicluna, with some additional tests.
Antoine Pitroufd3a60d2010-01-14 16:27:09 +00004870
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004871- Issue #2846: Add support for gzip.GzipFile reading zero-padded files. Patch
4872 by Brian Curtin.
Antoine Pitrou5a9112c2010-01-13 14:32:10 +00004873
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004874- Issue #5827: Make sure that normpath preserves unicode. Initial patch by
4875 Matt Giuca.
Ezio Melottib5689de2010-01-12 03:32:05 +00004876
Tarek Ziadédc0f4872010-01-11 22:50:29 +00004877- Issue #5372: Drop the reuse of .o files in Distutils' ccompiler (since
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004878 Extension extra options may change the output without changing the .c file).
4879 Initial patch by Collin Winter.
Tarek Ziadédc0f4872010-01-11 22:50:29 +00004880
Matthias Klose0d948ac2010-01-22 00:39:04 +00004881Extension Modules
4882-----------------
4883
4884- Expat: Fix DoS via XML document with malformed UTF-8 sequences
4885 (CVE_2009_3560).
4886
Antoine Pitrou8c510e72010-01-13 11:47:49 +00004887Build
4888-----
4889
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004890- Issue #7632: When Py_USING_MEMORY_DEBUGGER is defined, disable the private
4891 memory allocation scheme in dtoa.c and use PyMem_Malloc and PyMem_Free
4892 instead. Also disable caching of powers of 5.
Mark Dickinson9481c572010-01-17 20:57:56 +00004893
Ronald Oussorena55af9a2010-01-17 16:25:57 +00004894- Issue #7658: Ensure that the new pythonw executable works on OSX 10.4
4895
4896- Issue #7714: Use ``gcc -dumpversion`` to detect the version of GCC on
4897 MacOSX.
4898
Antoine Pitrou8c510e72010-01-13 11:47:49 +00004899- Issue #7661: Allow ctypes to be built from a non-ASCII directory path.
4900 Patch by Florent Xicluna.
4901
Antoine Pitrouc07336c2010-01-18 21:15:21 +00004902Tools/Demos
4903-----------
4904
4905- iobench (a file I/O benchmark) and ccbench (a concurrency benchmark) were
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004906 added to the ``Tools`` directory. They were previously living in the
Antoine Pitrouc07336c2010-01-18 21:15:21 +00004907 sandbox.
4908
R. David Murrayce6e4b02010-02-06 04:27:21 +00004909Tests
4910-----
4911
Ezio Melotti302ad8d2013-01-19 19:44:58 +02004912- Issue #7728: test_timeout was changed to use ``test_support.bind_port()``
R. David Murrayce6e4b02010-02-06 04:27:21 +00004913 instead of a hard coded port.
4914
Matthias Klose626d92a2010-01-31 16:05:13 +00004915Documentation
4916-------------
Victor Stinnerf20f9c22010-02-23 23:16:07 +00004917
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004918- Updated "Using Python" documentation to include description of CPython's -J,
4919 -U and -X options.
Barry Warsawb1e66ee2010-02-05 18:45:25 +00004920
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004921- Updated Python manual page (options -B, -O0, -s, environment variables
Matthias Klose626d92a2010-01-31 16:05:13 +00004922 PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE, PYTHONNOUSERSITE).
4923
Benjamin Petersondd6d92a2010-01-09 17:30:31 +00004924
Benjamin Peterson4f51baf2009-12-05 18:40:02 +00004925What's New in Python 2.7 alpha 2?
4926=================================
4927
Benjamin Petersonaa7e51f2010-01-09 16:34:06 +00004928*Release date: 2010-01-09*
Benjamin Peterson4f51baf2009-12-05 18:40:02 +00004929
4930Core and Builtins
4931-----------------
4932
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004933- The ``__complex__()`` method is now looked up on the class of instances to
4934 make it consistent with other special methods.
Benjamin Petersonecdae192010-01-04 00:43:01 +00004935
Antoine Pitrou5b7139a2010-01-02 21:12:58 +00004936- Issue #7462: Implement the stringlib fast search algorithm for the `rfind`,
4937 `rindex`, `rsplit` and `rpartition` methods. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
4938
Mark Dickinson1b34d252010-01-01 17:27:30 +00004939- Issue #5080: A number of functions and methods previously produced a
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004940 DeprecationWarning when passed a float argument where an integer was expected.
4941 These functions and methods now raise TypeError instead. The majority of the
4942 effects of this change are in the extension modules, but some core functions
4943 and methods are affected: notably the 'chr', 'range' and 'xrange' builtins,
4944 and many unicode/str methods.
Mark Dickinson1b34d252010-01-01 17:27:30 +00004945
Benjamin Peterson0f02d392009-12-30 19:34:10 +00004946- Issue #7604: Deleting an unset slotted attribute did not raise an
4947 AttributeError.
4948
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004949- Issue #7534: Fix handling of IEEE specials (infinities, nans, negative zero)
4950 in ** operator. The behaviour now conforms to that described in C99 Annex F.
Mark Dickinson99d652e2009-12-30 12:12:23 +00004951
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004952- Issue #7579: The msvcrt module now has docstrings for all its functions.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcc8a2ce72009-12-29 23:06:17 +00004953
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc8645a5c2009-12-29 22:03:38 +00004954- Issue #7413: Passing '\0' as the separator to datetime.datetime.isoformat()
4955 used to drop the time part of the result.
4956
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004957- Issue #1811: Improve accuracy and cross-platform consistency for true division
4958 of integers: the result of a/b is now correctly rounded for ints a and b (at
4959 least on IEEE 754 platforms), and in particular does not depend on the
4960 internal representation of a long.
Mark Dickinson46572832009-12-27 14:55:57 +00004961
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004962- Issue #6108: ``unicode(exception)`` and ``str(exception)`` should return the
4963 same message when only ``__str__()`` (and not ``__unicode__()``) is overridden
4964 in the subclass.
Ezio Melottif84caf42009-12-24 22:25:17 +00004965
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004966- Issue #6834: Replace the implementation for the 'python' and 'pythonw'
Ronald Oussoren92919a62009-12-24 13:30:58 +00004967 executables on OSX.
4968
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004969 These executables now work properly with the arch(1) command: ``arch -ppc
4970 python`` will start a universal binary version of python in PPC mode (unlike
4971 previous releases).
Ronald Oussoren92919a62009-12-24 13:30:58 +00004972
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004973- Issue #1680159: Unicode coercion during an 'in' operation no longer masks the
4974 underlying error when the coercion fails for the left hand operand.
R. David Murray0a0a1a82009-12-14 16:28:26 +00004975
Benjamin Peterson4895af42009-12-13 16:36:53 +00004976- Issue #7491: Metaclass's __cmp__ method was ignored.
4977
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004978- Issue #7466: Segmentation fault when the garbage collector is called in the
4979 middle of populating a tuple. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
Antoine Pitrou2a08b422009-12-13 16:18:14 +00004980
Benjamin Peterson4f51baf2009-12-05 18:40:02 +00004981Library
4982-------
4983
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004984- Issue #6963: Added "maxtasksperchild" argument to ``multiprocessing.Pool``,
4985 allowing for a maximum number of tasks within the pool to be completed by the
4986 worker before that worker is terminated, and a new one created to replace it.
Jesse Noller654ade32010-01-27 03:05:57 +00004987
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004988- Issue #7617: Make sure distutils.unixccompiler.UnixCCompiler recognizes gcc
4989 when it has a fully qualified configuration prefix. Initial patch by
4990 Arfrever.
Tarek Ziadéc25417f2010-01-08 23:42:23 +00004991
Antoine Pitrou80157252010-01-08 19:20:17 +00004992- Issue #7092: Remove py3k warning when importing cPickle. 2to3 handles
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004993 renaming of `cPickle` to `pickle`. The warning was annoying since there's no
4994 alternative to cPickle if you care about performance. Patch by Florent
Antoine Pitrou80157252010-01-08 19:20:17 +00004995 Xicluna.
4996
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004997- Issue #7455: Fix possible crash in cPickle on invalid input. Patch by Victor
4998 Stinner.
Antoine Pitrou0d423b82010-01-07 17:46:49 +00004999
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005000- Issue #7092: Fix the DeprecationWarnings emitted by the standard library when
5001 using the -3 flag. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
Antoine Pitroub9d49632010-01-04 23:22:44 +00005002
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005003- Issue #7471: Improve the performance of GzipFile's buffering mechanism, and
5004 make it implement the ``io.BufferedIOBase`` ABC to allow for further speedups
5005 by wrapping it in an ``io.BufferedReader``. Patch by Nir Aides.
Antoine Pitrou673ddf92010-01-03 22:29:56 +00005006
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005007- Issue #3972: ``httplib.HTTPConnection`` now accepts an optional source_address
Gregory P. Smith9d325212010-01-03 02:06:07 +00005008 parameter to allow specifying where your connections come from.
5009
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005010- ``socket.create_connection()`` now accepts an optional source_address
5011 parameter.
Gregory P. Smith79a3eb12010-01-03 01:29:44 +00005012
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005013- Issue #5511: ``zipfile.ZipFile`` can now be used as a context manager.
Ezio Melotti569e61f2009-12-30 06:14:51 +00005014 Initial patch by Brian Curtin.
5015
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005016- Distutils now correctly identifies the build architecture as "x86_64" when
5017 building on OSX 10.6 without "-arch" flags.
Ronald Oussorenca8e7ec2009-12-24 14:50:35 +00005018
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005019- Issue #7556: Distutils' msvc9compiler now opens the MSVC Manifest file in text
5020 mode.
Tarek Ziadé0479eb52009-12-21 23:37:44 +00005021
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005022- Issue #7552: Removed line feed in the base64 Authorization header in the
5023 Distutils upload command to avoid an error when PyPI reads it. This occurs on
5024 long passwords. Initial patch by JP St. Pierre.
Tarek Ziadé2421d562009-12-20 23:23:34 +00005025
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005026- Issue #7231: urllib2 cannot handle https with proxy requiring auth. Patch by
5027 Tatsuhiro Tsujikawa.
Senthil Kumaran7713acf2009-12-20 06:05:13 +00005028
Benjamin Petersonddd392c2009-12-13 19:19:07 +00005029- Issue #7349: Make methods of file objects in the io module accept None as an
5030 argument where file-like objects (ie StringIO and BytesIO) accept them to mean
5031 the same as passing no argument.
5032
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005033- Issue #7348: ``StringIO.StringIO.readline(-1)`` now acts as if it got no
5034 argument like other file objects.
Benjamin Petersonc4771d22009-12-13 17:31:31 +00005035
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005036- Issue #7357: tarfile no longer suppresses fatal extraction errors by default.
Lars Gustäbel92ca7562009-12-13 11:32:27 +00005037
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005038- Issue #7470: logging: Fix bug in Unicode encoding fallback.
Vinay Sajip5cc4e2a2009-12-11 09:16:01 +00005039
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005040- Issue #5949: Fixed IMAP4_SSL hang when the IMAP server response is missing
5041 proper end-of-line termination.
R. David Murray93321f32009-12-09 15:15:31 +00005042
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005043- Issue #7457: Added a read_pkg_file method to
5044 ``distutils.dist.DistributionMetadata``.
Benjamin Peterson4f51baf2009-12-05 18:40:02 +00005045
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005046- Issue #3745: Undo the 2.7a1 change to have hashlib to reject unicode and non
5047 buffer API supporting objects as input. That behavior is for 3.x only.
Gregory P. Smithfe32d302010-01-02 22:42:50 +00005048
Georg Brandl740cdc32009-12-28 08:34:58 +00005049C-API
5050-----
5051
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005052- Issue #7767: New function ``PyLong_AsLongLongAndOverflow()`` added, analogous
5053 to ``PyLong_AsLongAndOverflow()``.
Mark Dickinsona36507c2010-01-30 10:08:33 +00005054
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005055- Issue #5080: The argument parsing functions ``PyArg_ParseTuple()``,
5056 ``PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords()``, ``PyArg_VaParse()``,
5057 ``PyArg_VaParseTupleAndKeywords()`` and ``PyArg_Parse()`` no longer accept
5058 float arguments for integer format codes (other than 'L'): previously an
5059 attempt to pass a float resulted in a DeprecationWarning; now it gives a
5060 TypeError. For the 'L' format code (which previously had no warning) there is
5061 now a DeprecationWarning.
Mark Dickinson1b34d252010-01-01 17:27:30 +00005062
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005063- Issue #7033: Function ``PyErr_NewExceptionWithDoc()`` added.
Georg Brandl740cdc32009-12-28 08:34:58 +00005064
Martin v. Löwisb4261d52009-12-21 19:29:59 +00005065Build
5066-----
5067
Benjamin Petersonedfe72f2010-01-01 15:21:13 +00005068- Issue #6491: Allow --with-dbmliborder to specify that no dbms will be built.
5069
Benjamin Petersonb4abef62010-01-01 15:18:38 +00005070- Issue #6943: Use pkg-config to find the libffi headers when the
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005071 ``--with-system-ffi`` flag is used.
Benjamin Petersonb4abef62010-01-01 15:18:38 +00005072
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005073- Issue #7609: Add a ``--with-system-expat`` option that causes the system's
5074 expat library to be used for the pyexpat module instead of the one included
5075 with Python.
Benjamin Peterson2c196742009-12-31 03:17:18 +00005076
Benjamin Peterson500ce232009-12-30 02:58:50 +00005077- Issue #7589: Only build the nis module when the correct header files are
5078 found.
5079
Martin v. Löwisf477b932010-01-02 09:25:21 +00005080- Switch to OpenSSL 0.9.8l and sqlite 3.6.21 on Windows.
R. David Murray93321f32009-12-09 15:15:31 +00005081
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005082- Issue #7541: when using ``python-config`` with a framework install the
5083 compiler might use the wrong library.
Ronald Oussorenb5afe542009-12-24 14:17:19 +00005084
R. David Murrayc7298ff2009-12-14 21:57:39 +00005085Tests
5086-----
5087
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005088- Issue #7376: Instead of running a self-test (which was failing) when called
R. David Murray77e48ba2009-12-20 16:46:06 +00005089 with no arguments, doctest.py now gives a usage message.
5090
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005091- Issue #7396: Fix regrtest -s, which was broken by the -j enhancement.
R. David Murray98e3df32009-12-16 11:49:46 +00005092
R. David Murrayc7298ff2009-12-14 21:57:39 +00005093- Issue #7498: test_multiprocessing now uses test_support.find_unused_port
5094 instead of a hardcoded port number in test_rapid_restart.
5095
5096
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00005097What's New in Python 2.7 alpha 1
5098================================
5099
Benjamin Peterson3513c872009-12-05 18:48:13 +00005100*Release date: 2009-12-05*
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00005101
5102Core and Builtins
5103-----------------
5104
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005105- Issue #7419: ``locale.setlocale()`` could crash the interpreter on Windows
5106 when called with invalid values.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd7288712009-12-01 21:51:04 +00005107
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005108- Issue #3382: 'F' formatting for float and complex now convert the result to
5109 upper case. This only affects 'inf' and 'nan', since 'f' no longer converts
5110 to 'g' for large values.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd7288712009-12-01 21:51:04 +00005111
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005112- Remove switch from "%f" formatting to "%g" formatting for floats larger than
5113 1e50 in absolute value.
Mark Dickinson9dd5e162009-11-23 20:54:09 +00005114
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005115- Remove restrictions on precision when formatting floats. E.g., "%.120g" %
5116 1e-100 used to raise OverflowError, but now gives the requested 120
5117 significant digits instead.
Mark Dickinson18cfada2009-11-23 18:46:41 +00005118
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005119- Add Py3k warnings for parameter names in parentheses.
Benjamin Peterson89b1a5c2009-11-19 22:58:01 +00005120
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005121- Issue #7362: Give a proper error message for ``def f((x)=3): pass``.
Benjamin Peterson89b1a5c2009-11-19 22:58:01 +00005122
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005123- Issue #7085: Fix crash when importing some extensions in a thread on MacOSX
5124 10.6.
Ronald Oussoren315cd0c2009-11-19 16:25:21 +00005125
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005126- Issue #7117: ``repr(x)`` for a float x returns a result based on the shortest
5127 decimal string that's guaranteed to round back to x under correct rounding
5128 (with round-half-to-even rounding mode). Previously it gave a string based on
5129 rounding x to 17 decimal digits. repr(x) for a complex number behaves
5130 similarly. On platforms where the correctly-rounded strtod and dtoa code is
5131 not supported (see below), repr is unchanged.
Mark Dickinsonb678de82009-11-19 18:41:49 +00005132
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005133- Issue #7117: On almost all platforms: float-to-string and string-to-float
5134 conversions within Python are now correctly rounded. Places these conversions
5135 occur include: str for floats and complex numbers; the float and complex
5136 constructors; old-style and new-style numeric formatting; serialization and
5137 deserialization of floats and complex numbers using marshal, pickle and json;
5138 parsing of float and imaginary literals in Python code; Decimal-to-float
5139 conversion.
Mark Dickinsonb678de82009-11-19 18:41:49 +00005140
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005141 The conversions use a Python-adapted version of David Gay's well-known dtoa.c,
5142 providing correctly-rounded strtod and dtoa C functions. This code is
5143 supported on Windows, and on Unix-like platforms using gcc, icc or suncc as
5144 the C compiler. There may be a small number of platforms on which correct
5145 operation of this code cannot be guaranteed, so the code is not used: notably,
5146 this applies to platforms where the C double format is not IEEE 754 binary64,
5147 and to platforms on x86 hardware where the x87 FPU is set to 64-bit precision
5148 and Python's configure script is unable to determine how to change the FPU
5149 precision. On these platforms conversions use the platform strtod and dtoa,
5150 as before.
Mark Dickinsonb678de82009-11-19 18:41:49 +00005151
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005152- Issue #7117: Backport round implementation from Python 3.x. ``round()`` now
5153 uses the correctly-rounded string <-> float conversions described above (when
5154 available), and so produces correctly rounded results that will display nicely
5155 under the float repr. There are two related small changes: (1) round now
5156 accepts any class with an ``__index__()`` method for its second argument (but
5157 no longer accepts floats for the second argument), and (2) an excessively
5158 large second integer argument (e.g., ``round(1.234, 10**100)``) no longer
5159 raises an exception.
Mark Dickinsonbd15a062009-11-18 19:33:35 +00005160
Philip Jenveyfab8be22009-11-17 02:42:26 +00005161- Issue #1757126: Fix the cyrillic-asian alias for the ptcp154 encoding.
5162
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005163- Fix several issues with ``compile()``. The input can now contain Windows and
5164 Mac newlines and is no longer required to end in a newline.
Benjamin Petersone36199b2009-11-12 23:39:44 +00005165
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005166- Remove length limitation when constructing a complex number from a unicode
5167 string.
Mark Dickinsonc04c7c52009-10-26 22:28:14 +00005168
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005169- Issue #7244: ``itertools.izip_longest()`` no longer ignores exceptions raised
5170 during the formation of an output tuple.
Raymond Hettingerfa7dadd2009-11-01 20:45:16 +00005171
Mark Dickinson8d87dc02009-10-25 20:39:06 +00005172- Issue #1087418: Boost performance of bitwise operations for longs.
5173
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005174- Issue #1722344: ``threading._shutdown()`` is now called in ``Py_Finalize()``,
5175 which fixes the problem of some exceptions being thrown at shutdown when the
5176 interpreter is killed. Patch by Adam Olsen.
Antoine Pitrouefb60c02009-10-20 21:29:37 +00005177
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005178- Issue #7168: Document ``PyFloat_AsString()`` and ``PyFloat_AsReprString()``,
5179 and note that they are unsafe and deprecated.
Eric Smithc12781a2009-10-19 14:38:14 +00005180
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005181- Issue #7120: logging: Remove import of multiprocessing which is causing crash
5182 in GAE.
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +00005183
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005184- Issue #7140: The ``__dict__`` of a module should not be cleared unless the
5185 module is the only object holding a reference to it.
Benjamin Peterson196b0922009-10-15 15:44:46 +00005186
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005187- Issue #1754094: Improve the stack depth calculation in the compiler. There
5188 should be no other effect than a small decrease in memory use. Patch by
5189 Christopher Tur Lesniewski-Laas.
Neil Schemenauer7fdd1cb2009-10-14 17:17:14 +00005190
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005191- Issue #7084: Fix a (very unlikely) crash when printing a list from one thread,
5192 and mutating it from another one. Patch by Scott Dial.
Antoine Pitroubeaf6a02009-10-11 21:03:26 +00005193
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd0052d12009-10-06 19:56:32 +00005194- Issue #1571184: The Unicode database contains properties for more characters.
5195 The tables for code points representing numeric values, white spaces or line
5196 breaks are now generated from the official Unicode Character Database files,
5197 and include information from the Unihan.txt file.
5198
Benjamin Peterson7adbb5a2009-10-03 20:23:24 +00005199- Issue #7050: Fix a SystemError when trying to use unpacking and augmented
5200 assignment.
5201
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005202- Issue #5329: Fix ``os.popen*`` regression from 2.5 with commands as a sequence
5203 running through the shell. Patch by Jean-Paul Calderone and Jani Hakala.
Philip Jenvey8b902042009-09-29 19:10:15 +00005204
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005205- Issue #7019: Raise ValueError when unmarshalling bad long data, instead of
5206 producing internally inconsistent Python longs.
Mark Dickinson7e7a3ec2009-09-29 19:01:06 +00005207
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005208- Issue #6990: Fix ``threading.local`` subclasses leaving old state around after
5209 a reference cycle GC which could be recycled by new locals.
Philip Jenveydbf3b252009-09-29 04:32:44 +00005210
Benjamin Peterson9db55402009-09-18 21:47:27 +00005211- Issue #6300: unicode.encode, unicode.decode, str.decode, and str.encode now
Benjamin Peterson332d7212009-09-18 21:14:55 +00005212 take keyword arguments.
5213
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005214- Issue #6922: Fix an infinite loop when trying to decode an invalid UTF-32
5215 stream with a non-raising error handler like "replace" or "ignore".
Georg Brandle9741f32009-09-17 11:28:09 +00005216
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005217- Issue #6713: Improve performance of base 10 int -> string and long -> string
5218 conversions.
Mark Dickinsonaa2adc82009-09-16 22:10:56 +00005219
Thomas Wouters2920adb2009-09-16 20:36:34 +00005220- Issue #1590864: Fix potential deadlock when mixing threads and fork().
5221
Georg Brandl0674d3f2009-09-16 20:30:09 +00005222- Issue #6844: Do not emit DeprecationWarnings when accessing a "message"
5223 attribute on exceptions that was set explicitly.
5224
Mark Dickinsonc8a7c7c2009-09-06 10:03:31 +00005225- Issue #6846: Fix bug where bytearray.pop() returns negative integers.
5226
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005227- ``classmethod()`` no longer checks if its argument is callable.
Benjamin Peterson6fcf9b52009-09-01 22:27:57 +00005228
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005229- Issue #6750: A text file opened with ``io.open()`` could duplicate its output
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfff896b2009-08-29 18:14:40 +00005230 when writing from multiple threads at the same time.
5231
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005232- Issue #6704: Improve the col_offset in AST for "for" statements with a target
5233 of tuple unpacking.
Benjamin Petersonc0ba8282009-08-15 22:59:21 +00005234
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005235- Issue #6707: ``dir()`` on an uninitialized module caused a crash.
Benjamin Peterson4c6e8082009-08-15 13:16:38 +00005236
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005237- Issue #6540: Fixed crash for ``bytearray.translate()`` with invalid parameters.
Georg Brandlec812ca2009-07-22 11:57:15 +00005238
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005239- Issue #6573: ``set.union()`` stopped processing inputs if an instance of self
Raymond Hettingerc2b9e1a2009-07-27 20:32:04 +00005240 occurred in the argument chain.
5241
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc9d11fef2009-07-13 20:03:21 +00005242- Issue #1616979: Added the cp720 (Arabic DOS) encoding.
5243
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005244- Issue #6070: On posix platforms import no longer copies the execute bit from
5245 the .py file to the .pyc file if it is set. Patch by Marco N.
R. David Murray23a736a2009-07-07 01:06:13 +00005246
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005247- Issue #4618: When unicode arguments are passed to ``print()``, the default
Benjamin Peterson753d1622009-07-02 18:16:45 +00005248 separator and end should be unicode also.
5249
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00005250- Issue #6119: Fixed an incorrect Py3k warning about order comparisons of
5251 built-in functions and methods.
Benjamin Peterson1bf47652009-07-02 17:06:17 +00005252
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005253- Issue #6347: Include inttypes.h as well as stdint.h in pyport.h. This fixes a
5254 build failure on HP-UX: int32_t and uint32_t are defined in inttypes.h instead
5255 of stdint.h on that platform.
Mark Dickinson2f865b92009-06-30 15:32:30 +00005256
Hirokazu Yamamotoa3c56092009-06-28 10:23:00 +00005257- Issue #4856: Remove checks for win NT.
5258
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc595f7a52009-06-25 22:29:29 +00005259- Issue #2016: Fixed a crash in a corner case where the dictionary of keyword
5260 arguments could be modified during the function call setup.
5261
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc14fc6732009-06-23 21:09:09 +00005262- Removed the ipaddr module.
5263
Raymond Hettinger62641e92009-06-23 20:59:43 +00005264- Issue #6329: Fixed iteration for memoryview objects (it was being blocked
5265 because it wasn't recognized as a sequence).
5266
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005267- Issue #6289: Encoding errors from ``compile()`` were being masked.
Benjamin Peterson08a0bbc2009-06-16 00:29:31 +00005268
Benjamin Petersona72be3b2009-06-13 20:23:33 +00005269- When no module is given in a relative import, the module field of the
5270 ImportFrom AST node is now None instead of an empty string.
5271
Benjamin Peterson565e1b62009-06-13 03:46:30 +00005272- Assignment to None using import statements now raises a SyntaxError.
5273
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005274- Issue #4547: When debugging a very large function, it was not always possible
5275 to update the lineno attribute of the current frame.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcb02ceda2009-06-01 20:53:18 +00005276
Antoine Pitrou46dbe272009-05-30 21:27:00 +00005277- Issue #5330: C functions called with keyword arguments were not reported by
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005278 the various profiling modules (profile, cProfile). Patch by Hagen Fürstenau.
Antoine Pitrou46dbe272009-05-30 21:27:00 +00005279
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005280- Issue #5982: staticmethod and classmethod now expose the wrapped function with
5281 ``__func__``.
Raymond Hettinger578a2282009-05-29 04:58:52 +00005282
Raymond Hettinger822b87f2009-05-29 01:46:48 +00005283- Added support for multiple context managers in the same with-statement.
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005284 Deprecated ``contextlib.nested()`` which is no longer needed.
Georg Brandl944f6842009-05-25 21:02:56 +00005285
Benjamin Peterson1880d8b2009-05-25 13:13:44 +00005286- Issue #6101: A new opcode, SETUP_WITH, has been added to speed up the with
5287 statement and correctly lookup the __enter__ and __exit__ special methods.
5288
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005289- Issue #5829: complex("1e500") no longer raises OverflowError. This makes it
5290 consistent with float("1e500") and interpretation of real and imaginary
5291 literals.
Mark Dickinsona4e0efa2009-05-20 18:43:07 +00005292
Hirokazu Yamamotoa4f90182009-05-17 02:58:36 +00005293- Issue #3527: Removed Py_WIN_WIDE_FILENAMES which is not used any more.
5294
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005295- ``__instancecheck__()`` and ``__subclasscheck__()`` are now completely ignored
5296 on classic classes and instances.
Benjamin Petersoneb9fb2c2009-05-16 22:46:11 +00005297
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005298- Issue #5994: The marshal module now has docstrings.
R. David Murray525cffc2009-05-13 13:07:14 +00005299
Mark Dickinsonb1d45852009-05-11 15:33:08 +00005300- Issue #5981: Fix three minor inf/nan issues in float.fromhex:
Mark Dickinsonb1d45852009-05-11 15:33:08 +00005301
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005302 (1) inf and nan strings with trailing whitespace were incorrectly rejected;
5303 (2) parsing of strings representing infinities and nans was locale aware; and
5304 (3) the interpretation of fromhex('-nan') didn't match that of float('-nan').
Eric Smitha985a3a2009-05-05 18:26:08 +00005305
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005306- Issue #5920: For ``float.__format__()``, change the behavior with the empty
5307 presentation type (that is, not one of 'e', 'f', 'g', or 'n') to be like 'g'
5308 but with at least one decimal point and with a default precision
5309 of 12. Previously, the behavior the same but with a default precision of 6.
5310 This more closely matches ``str()``, and reduces surprises when adding
5311 alignment flags to the empty presentation type. This also affects the new
5312 complex.__format__ in the same way.
5313
5314- Issue #5890: In subclasses of 'property' the __doc__ attribute was shadowed by
5315 classtype's, even if it was None. property now inserts the __doc__ into the
5316 subclass instance __dict__.
R. David Murray7ba8e1c2009-05-04 22:16:24 +00005317
Antoine Pitrou653dece2009-05-04 18:32:32 +00005318- Issue #4426: The UTF-7 decoder was too strict and didn't accept some legal
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005319 sequences. Patch by Nick Barnes and Victor Stinner.
Antoine Pitrou653dece2009-05-04 18:32:32 +00005320
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005321- Issue #1588: Add complex.__format__. For example, ``format(complex(1, 2./3),
5322 '.5')`` now produces a sensible result.
Eric Smith9139cc62009-04-30 00:58:58 +00005323
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005324- Issue #5864: Fix empty format code formatting for floats so that it never
5325 gives more than the requested number of significant digits.
Mark Dickinson92fcc9c2009-04-29 20:41:00 +00005326
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005327- Issue #5793: Rationalize isdigit / isalpha / tolower, etc. Includes new
5328 Py_ISDIGIT / Py_ISALPHA / Py_TOLOWER, etc. in pctypes.h.
Eric Smithcac7af62009-04-27 19:04:37 +00005329
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005330- Issue #4971: Fix titlecase for characters that are their own titlecase, but
5331 not their own uppercase.
Martin v. Löwis99f27792009-04-26 00:53:18 +00005332
Eric Smith068f0652009-04-25 21:40:15 +00005333- Issue #5835: Deprecate PyOS_ascii_formatd and replace it with
5334 _PyOS_double_to_string or PyOS_double_to_string.
5335
Benjamin Peterson5083dc52009-04-25 00:41:22 +00005336- Issue #5283: Setting __class__ in __del__ caused a segfault.
5337
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005338- Issue #5816: ``complex(repr(z))`` now recovers z exactly, even when z involves
5339 nans, infs or negative zeros.
Mark Dickinson95bc9802009-04-24 12:46:53 +00005340
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005341- Implement PEP 378, Format Specifier for Thousands Separator, for floats, ints,
5342 and longs.
Eric Smithaca19e62009-04-22 13:29:05 +00005343
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005344- Issue #5515: 'n' formatting for ints, longs, and floats handles leading zero
5345 formatting poorly.
Eric Smithaca19e62009-04-22 13:29:05 +00005346
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005347- Issue #5772: For float.__format__, don't add a trailing ".0" if we're using no
5348 type code and we have an exponent.
Eric Smithaca19e62009-04-22 13:29:05 +00005349
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005350- Issue #3166: Make long -> float (and int -> float) conversions correctly
5351 rounded.
Mark Dickinson6736cf82009-04-20 21:13:33 +00005352
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005353- Issue #5787: ``object.__getattribute__(some_type, "__bases__")`` segfaulted on
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00005354 some built-in types.
Benjamin Petersond4d400c2009-04-18 20:12:47 +00005355
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005356- Issue #1869: Fix a couple of minor round() issues. ``round(5e15+1)`` was
5357 giving 5e15+2; ``round(-0.0)`` was losing the sign of the zero.
Mark Dickinson1bdf7e92009-04-18 14:59:42 +00005358
Benjamin Peterson99d36f12009-04-15 21:26:36 +00005359- Issue #5759: float() didn't call __float__ on str subclasses.
5360
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005361- Issue #5704: The "-3" command-line option now implies "-t".
Georg Brandl3c4a5462009-04-12 12:08:12 +00005362
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005363- Issue #2170: Refactored ``xml.dom.minidom.normalize``, increasing both its
5364 clarity and its speed.
R. David Murray0374a822009-04-09 21:54:50 +00005365
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005366- Issue #2396: The memoryview object was backported from Python 3.1.
Antoine Pitrou789be0c2009-04-02 21:18:34 +00005367
Georg Brandld3f03fa2009-04-02 18:09:04 +00005368- Fix a problem in PyErr_NormalizeException that leads to "undetected errors"
5369 when hitting the recursion limit under certain circumstances.
5370
Brett Cannon15ba4da2009-04-01 18:03:59 +00005371- Issue #1665206: Remove the last eager import in _warnings.c and make it lazy.
5372
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005373- Issue #4865: On MacOSX /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages is added to the end
5374 sys.path, for compatibility with the system install of Python.
Ronald Oussorene0154ed2009-03-30 23:10:35 +00005375
Antoine Pitrouf8387af2009-03-23 18:41:45 +00005376- Issue #4688: Add a heuristic so that tuples and dicts containing only
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005377 untrackable objects are not tracked by the garbage collector. This can reduce
5378 the size of collections and therefore the garbage collection overhead on
5379 long-running programs, depending on their particular use of datatypes.
Antoine Pitrouf8387af2009-03-23 18:41:45 +00005380
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005381- Issue #5512: Rewrite PyLong long division algorithm (x_divrem) to improve its
5382 performance. Long divisions and remainder operations are now between 50% and
5383 150% faster.
Mark Dickinson0b666bf2009-03-23 18:25:13 +00005384
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005385- Issue #4258: Make it possible to use base 2**30 instead of base 2**15 for the
5386 internal representation of integers, for performance reasons. Base 2**30 is
5387 enabled by default on 64-bit machines. Add --enable-big-digits option to
5388 configure, which overrides the default. Add sys.long_info structseq to
5389 provide information about the internal format.
Mark Dickinsonefc82f72009-03-20 15:51:55 +00005390
Benjamin Peterson6ffe8522009-03-18 20:52:15 +00005391- Issue #4034: Fix weird attribute error messages of the traceback object. (As a
5392 result traceback.__members__ no longer exists.)
5393
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005394- Issue #4474: PyUnicode_FromWideChar now converts characters outside the BMP to
5395 surrogate pairs, on systems with sizeof(wchar_t) == 4 and sizeof(Py_UNICODE)
5396 == 2.
Mark Dickinson6b265f12009-03-18 16:07:26 +00005397
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005398- Issue #5237: Allow auto-numbered fields in str.format(). For example: ``'{}
5399 {}'.format(1, 2) == '1 2'``.
Eric Smith6f42edb2009-03-14 11:57:26 +00005400
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005401- Issue #3652: Make the 'line' argument for ``warnings.showwarning()`` a
Brett Cannon6c4cff02009-03-11 04:51:06 +00005402 requirement. Means the DeprecationWarning from Python 2.6 can go away.
5403
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005404- Issue #5247: Improve error message when unknown format codes are used when
5405 using ``str.format()`` with str, unicode, long, int, and float arguments.
Eric Smithe9fb6862009-02-20 14:02:36 +00005406
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005407- Running Python with the -3 option now also warns about classic division for
5408 ints and longs.
Raymond Hettinger08259e82009-02-18 23:10:19 +00005409
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005410- Issue #5260: Long integers now consume less memory: average saving is 2 bytes
5411 per long on a 32-bit system and 6 bytes per long on a 64-bit system.
Mark Dickinson2ffb26f2009-02-15 10:13:41 +00005412
Antoine Pitrou76a4b892009-02-13 13:52:33 +00005413- Issue #5186: Reduce hash collisions for objects with no __hash__ method by
5414 rotating the object pointer by 4 bits to the right.
5415
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005416- Issue #4575: Fix Py_IS_INFINITY macro to work correctly on x87 FPUs: it now
5417 forces its argument to double before testing for infinity.
Mark Dickinsonc97c9092009-02-09 14:18:43 +00005418
Benjamin Petersone18ef192009-01-20 14:21:16 +00005419- Issue #4978: Passing keyword arguments as unicode strings is now allowed.
5420
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +00005421- Issue #1242657: the __len__() and __length_hint__() calls in several tools
Raymond Hettingerb5163702009-02-02 21:50:13 +00005422 were suppressing all exceptions. These include list(), filter(), map(),
5423 zip(), and bytearray().
5424
Benjamin Peterson596d3062009-01-19 15:42:23 +00005425- os.ftruncate raises OSErrors instead of IOErrors for consistency with other os
5426 functions.
5427
Benjamin Peterson5848d1f2009-01-19 00:08:08 +00005428- Issue #4991: Passing invalid file descriptors to io.FileIO now raises an
5429 OSError.
5430
Amaury Forgeot d'Arca18392a2009-01-13 23:19:08 +00005431- Issue #4807: Port the _winreg module to Windows CE.
5432
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005433- Issue #4935: The overflow checking code in the expandtabs() method common to
5434 str, bytes and bytearray could be optimized away by the compiler, letting the
5435 interpreter segfault instead of raising an error.
Antoine Pitrouc2f02212009-01-13 23:13:52 +00005436
Amaury Forgeot d'Arca40d5732009-01-12 23:36:55 +00005437- Issue #3720: Fix a crash when an iterator modifies its class and removes its
5438 __next__ method.
5439
Martin v. Löwise3422fa2009-01-12 08:11:24 +00005440- Issue #4893: Use NT threading on CE.
5441
Martin v. Löwis1b3bef22009-01-12 07:57:11 +00005442- Issue #4915: Port sysmodule to Windows CE.
5443
Antoine Pitrou4c5ecb72009-01-09 21:40:55 +00005444- Issue #4074: Change the criteria for doing a full garbage collection (i.e.
5445 collecting the oldest generation) so that allocating lots of objects without
5446 destroying them does not show quadratic performance. Based on a proposal by
Benjamin Petersond50a5d52009-07-13 00:03:20 +00005447 Martin von Löwis at
Antoine Pitrou4c5ecb72009-01-09 21:40:55 +00005448 http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2008-June/080579.html.
5449
Martin v. Löwisb90304a2009-01-07 18:40:40 +00005450- Issue #4850: Change COUNT_ALLOCS variables to Py_ssize_t.
5451
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005452- Issue #1180193: When importing a module from a .pyc (or .pyo) file with an
5453 existing .py counterpart, override the co_filename attributes of all code
5454 objects if the original filename is obsolete (which can happen if the file has
5455 been renamed, moved, or if it is accessed through different paths). Patch by
5456 Ziga Seilnacht and Jean-Paul Calderone.
Antoine Pitroue96d4ea2009-01-06 18:10:47 +00005457
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005458- Issue #4075: Use ``OutputDebugStringW()`` in Py_FatalError.
Martin v. Löwis5344c992009-01-02 20:32:55 +00005459
Hirokazu Yamamoto99a1b202009-01-01 15:45:39 +00005460- Issue #4797: IOError.filename was not set when _fileio.FileIO failed to open
5461 file with `str' filename on Windows.
5462
Antoine Pitrouaa687902009-01-01 14:11:22 +00005463- Issue #3680: Reference cycles created through a dict, set or deque iterator
5464 did not get collected.
5465
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005466- Issue #4701: PyObject_Hash now implicitly calls PyType_Ready on types where
5467 the tp_hash and tp_dict slots are both NULL.
Nick Coghlan180e4002008-12-30 01:18:48 +00005468
Benjamin Peterson7af65562008-12-29 17:56:58 +00005469- Issue #4764: With io.open, IOError.filename is set when trying to open a
5470 directory on POSIX systems.
5471
Benjamin Petersonfe231b02008-12-29 17:47:42 +00005472- Issue #4764: IOError.filename is set when trying to open a directory on POSIX
5473 systems.
5474
Georg Brandl6425a2f2008-12-28 11:54:53 +00005475- Issue #4759: None is now allowed as the first argument of
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005476 ``bytearray.translate()``. It was always allowed for ``bytes.translate()``.
Georg Brandl6425a2f2008-12-28 11:54:53 +00005477
Skip Montanarof205c132008-12-23 03:30:15 +00005478- Added test case to ensure attempts to read from a file opened for writing
5479 fail.
5480
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005481- Issue #2467: gc.DEBUG_STATS reported invalid elapsed times. Also, always print
5482 elapsed times, not only when some objects are uncollectable/unreachable.
5483 Original patch by Neil Schemenauer.
Antoine Pitrou73c0e652008-12-17 22:46:54 +00005484
Mark Dickinson1a707982008-12-17 16:14:37 +00005485- Issue #3439: Add a bit_length method to int and long.
5486
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005487- Issue #2183: Simplify and optimize bytecode for list comprehensions. Original
5488 patch by Neal Norwitz.
Antoine Pitroud0c35152008-12-17 00:38:28 +00005489
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005490- Issue #4597: Fixed exception handling when the __exit__ function of a context
5491 manager returns a value that cannot be converted to a bool.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcad9b5992008-12-10 23:22:49 +00005492
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005493- Issue #4597: Fixed several opcodes that weren't always propagating exceptions.
Jeffrey Yasskinffd42cf2008-12-10 07:35:02 +00005494
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005495- Issue #4445: Replace ``sizeof(PyStringObject)`` with
5496 ``offsetof(PyStringObject, ob_sval) + 1`` when allocating memory for str
5497 instances. On a typical machine this saves 3 bytes of memory (on average) per
5498 string allocation.
Mark Dickinson826f3fe2008-12-05 21:55:28 +00005499
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcdc619012008-11-22 20:01:18 +00005500- Issue #3996: On Windows, the PyOS_CheckStack function would cause the
5501 interpreter to abort ("Fatal Python error: Could not reset the stack!")
5502 instead of throwing a MemoryError.
5503
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005504- Issue #3689: The list reversed iterator now supports __length_hint__ instead
5505 of __len__. Behavior now matches other reversed iterators.
Raymond Hettinger7989a4d2008-12-03 15:42:10 +00005506
Benjamin Petersonc078f922008-11-21 22:27:24 +00005507- Issue #4367: Python would segfault during compiling when the unicodedata
5508 module couldn't be imported and \N escapes were present.
5509
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005510- Issue #4233: Changed semantic of ``_fileio.FileIO``'s ``close()`` method on
5511 file objects with closefd=False. The file descriptor is still kept open but
5512 the file object behaves like a closed file. The ``FileIO`` object also got a
5513 new readonly attribute ``closefd``.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc32265652008-11-20 23:34:31 +00005514
Benjamin Peterson46cc6d12008-11-19 21:49:09 +00005515- Issue #4348: Some bytearray methods returned that didn't cause any change to
5516 the bytearray, returned the same bytearray instead of a copy.
5517
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005518- Issue #4317: Fixed a crash in the ``imageop.rgb2rgb8()`` function.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc7cfe7ea2008-11-18 22:19:37 +00005519
Benjamin Peterson273c2332008-11-17 22:39:09 +00005520- Issue #4230: If ``__getattr__`` is a descriptor, it now functions correctly.
5521
Benjamin Peterson6624a9f2008-11-03 15:14:51 +00005522- Issue #4048: The parser module now correctly validates relative imports.
5523
Benjamin Petersondcee09d2008-10-31 02:16:05 +00005524- Issue #4225: ``from __future__ import unicode_literals`` didn't work in an
5525 exec statement.
5526
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005527- Issue #4176: Fixed a crash when pickling an object which ``__reduce__`` method
5528 does not return iterators for the 4th and 5th items.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc69a9c5b2008-10-30 21:18:34 +00005529
Benjamin Petersonbdca9422008-10-26 20:21:13 +00005530- Issue #4209: Enabling unicode_literals and the print_function in the same
5531 __future__ import didn't work.
5532
Benjamin Peterson399b1fe2008-10-25 02:53:28 +00005533- Using ``nonlocal`` as a variable name will now raise a Py3k SyntaxWarning
Georg Brandl7fb00ad2008-10-25 07:00:52 +00005534 because it is a reserved word in 3.x.
Benjamin Peterson399b1fe2008-10-25 02:53:28 +00005535
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005536- On windows, ``os.chdir()`` given unicode was not working if
5537 GetCurrentDirectoryW returned a path longer than MAX_PATH. (But It's doubtful
5538 this code path is really executed because I cannot move to such directory on
5539 win2k)
Hirokazu Yamamoto10a018c2008-10-09 10:00:30 +00005540
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005541- Issue #4069: When ``set.remove(element)`` is used with a set element, the
5542 element is temporarily replaced with an equivalent frozenset. But the
5543 eventual KeyError would always report the empty ``frozenset()`` as the missing
5544 key. Now it correctly refers to the initial element.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd78b9dc2008-10-07 20:32:10 +00005545
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005546- Issue #4509: Various issues surrounding resize of bytearray objects to which
5547 there are buffer exports.
Antoine Pitrouae5bece2008-12-06 21:29:24 +00005548
Benjamin Peterson8d5934b2008-12-27 18:24:11 +00005549- Issue #4748: Lambda generators no longer return a value.
5550
Kristján Valur Jónsson6220e412009-01-12 09:20:34 +00005551- Issue #3582: Use native TLS functions on Windows
5552
Gregory P. Smithae91d092009-03-02 05:13:57 +00005553- The re.sub(), re.subn() and re.split() functions now accept a flags parameter.
5554
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005555- Issue #3845: In PyRun_SimpleFileExFlags avoid invalid memory access with short
5556 file names.
Matthias Kloseedb5e1e2009-04-04 14:18:13 +00005557
Matthias Klose91a3b9e2009-04-05 21:19:13 +00005558- Issue #1113244: Py_XINCREF, Py_DECREF, Py_XDECREF: Add `do { ... } while (0)'
5559 to avoid compiler warnings.
Matthias Klose0610e082009-04-05 12:43:08 +00005560
Gregory P. Smith2b3eb372009-04-05 23:48:26 +00005561- Issue #5705: os.setuid() would not accept values > 2**31-1 but pwd.getpwnam()
5562 returned them on 64bit platforms.
5563
Walter Dörwalded960ac2009-05-03 22:36:33 +00005564- Issue #5108: Handle %s like %S and %R in PyUnicode_FromFormatV(): Call
5565 PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8() once, remember the result and output it in a second
5566 step. This avoids problems with counting UTF-8 bytes that ignores the effect
5567 of using the replace error handler in PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8().
5568
Walter Dörwald726ba8e2009-05-06 14:32:35 +00005569- Issue #3739: The unicode-internal encoder now reports the number of characters
5570 consumed like any other encoder (instead of the number of bytes).
5571
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005572- Issue #2422: When compiled with the ``--with-valgrind`` option, the pymalloc
5573 allocator will be automatically disabled when running under Valgrind. This
5574 gives improved memory leak detection when running under Valgrind, while taking
5575 advantage of pymalloc at other times.
Benjamin Peterson91c12eb2009-12-03 02:52:39 +00005576
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00005577Library
5578-------
Benjamin Petersonb3dd5482009-02-26 19:07:18 +00005579
Raymond Hettinger5f516ed2010-04-03 18:10:37 +00005580- Add count() and reverse() methods to collections.deque().
Raymond Hettingera5fd24e2009-12-10 06:42:54 +00005581
Raymond Hettinger0b3263b2009-12-10 06:00:33 +00005582- Fix variations of extending deques: d.extend(d) d.extendleft(d) d+=d
5583
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005584- Issue #6986: Fix crash in the JSON C accelerator when called with the wrong
5585 parameter types. Patch by Victor Stinner.
Antoine Pitrou187177f2009-12-08 15:40:51 +00005586
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005587- logging: Added optional "secure" parameter to SMTPHandler, to enable use of
Vinay Sajip48305662009-12-06 17:57:11 +00005588 TLS with authentication credentials.
5589
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005590- Issue #1923: Fixed the removal of meaningful spaces when PKG-INFO is generated
5591 in Distutils. Patch by Stephen Emslie.
Tarek Ziadé4f383172009-12-06 09:22:40 +00005592
Martin v. Löwisc218a2f2009-12-03 20:53:51 +00005593- Issue #4120: Drop reference to CRT from manifest when building extensions with
5594 msvc9compiler.
5595
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005596- Issue #7333: The ``posix`` module gains an ``initgroups()`` function providing
5597 access to the initgroups(3) C library call on Unix systems which implement it.
5598 Patch by Jean-Paul Calderone.
Antoine Pitrou30b3b352009-12-02 20:37:54 +00005599
Tarek Ziadéa5076a22009-11-29 22:20:30 +00005600- Issue #7408: Fixed distutils.tests.sdist so it doesn't check for group
5601 ownership when the group is not forced, because the group may be different
5602 from the user's group and inherit from its container when the test is run.
5603
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005604- Issue #1515: Enable use of deepcopy() with instance methods. Patch by Robert
5605 Collins.
Antoine Pitroud16f57b2009-11-28 15:55:58 +00005606
Vinay Sajip01801d12009-11-27 14:03:36 +00005607- Issue #7403: logging: Fixed possible race condition in lock creation.
5608
Antoine Pitrouacbe3bd2009-11-27 13:18:34 +00005609- Issue #6845: Add restart support for binary upload in ftplib. The
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005610 ``storbinary()`` method of FTP and FTP_TLS objects gains an optional "rest"
Antoine Pitrouacbe3bd2009-11-27 13:18:34 +00005611 argument. Patch by Pablo Mouzo.
5612
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005613- Issue #5788: ``datetime.timedelta`` objects get a new ``total_seconds()``
5614 method returning the total number of seconds in the duration. Patch by Brian
5615 Quinlan.
Antoine Pitroubcfaf802009-11-25 22:59:36 +00005616
Vinay Sajipc470d682009-11-25 09:03:30 +00005617- Issue #6615: logging: Used weakrefs in internal handler list.
5618
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005619- Issue #1488943: ``difflib.Differ`` doesn't always add hints for tab
5620 characters.
Senthil Kumaran5c456e62009-11-23 18:41:31 +00005621
Lars Gustäbeldd866d52009-11-22 18:30:53 +00005622- Issue #6123: tarfile now opens empty archives correctly and consistently
5623 raises ReadError on empty files.
5624
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005625- Issue #7354: distutils.tests.test_msvc9compiler - dragfullwindows can be 2.
Tarek Ziadé39de1fc2009-11-19 05:33:16 +00005626
Ezio Melotti3373a3a2010-01-16 18:38:01 +00005627- Issue #5037: Proxy the __unicode__ special method to __unicode__ instead of
5628 __str__.
Benjamin Petersondc3c2392009-11-19 03:00:02 +00005629
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005630- Issue #7341: Close the internal file object in the TarFile constructor in case
5631 of an error.
Lars Gustäbel355538e2009-11-18 20:24:54 +00005632
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005633- Issue #7293: ``distutils.test_msvc9compiler`` is fixed to work on any fresh
5634 Windows box. Help provided by David Bolen.
Tarek Ziadéacccafc2009-11-18 08:46:56 +00005635
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005636- Issue #7328: pydoc no longer corrupts sys.path when run with the '-m' switch.
Nick Coghlan11db64e2009-11-15 22:36:47 +00005637
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005638- Issue #2054: ftplib now provides an FTP_TLS class to do secure FTP using TLS
5639 or SSL. Patch by Giampaolo Rodola'.
Antoine Pitrouccd5e022009-11-15 17:22:09 +00005640
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005641- Issue #4969: The mimetypes module now reads the MIME database from the
5642 registry under Windows. Patch by Gabriel Genellina.
Antoine Pitroud5b34d42009-11-15 14:10:48 +00005643
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005644- Issue #6816: runpy now provides a run_path function that allows Python code to
5645 execute file paths that refer to source or compiled Python files as well as
5646 zipfiles, directories and other valid sys.path entries that contain a
Nick Coghlan49868cb2009-11-15 07:30:34 +00005647 __main__.py file. This allows applications that run other Python scripts to
5648 support the same flexibility as the CPython command line itself.
5649
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005650- Issue #7318: multiprocessing now uses a timeout when it fails to establish a
5651 connection with another process, rather than looping endlessly. The default
5652 timeout is 20 seconds, which should be amply sufficient for local connections.
Antoine Pitrouc562ca42009-11-13 22:31:18 +00005653
Antoine Pitrou0734c632009-11-10 20:49:30 +00005654- Issue #7197: Allow unittest.TextTestRunner objects to be pickled and
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005655 unpickled. This fixes crashes under Windows when trying to run
Antoine Pitrou0734c632009-11-10 20:49:30 +00005656 test_multiprocessing in verbose mode.
5657
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005658- Issue #7282: Fix a memory leak when an RLock was used in a thread other than
5659 those started through ``threading.Thread`` (for example, using
5660 ``thread.start_new_thread()``.
Antoine Pitroud7158d42009-11-09 16:00:11 +00005661
Antoine Pitrou99c160b2009-11-05 13:42:29 +00005662- Issue #7264: Fix a possible deadlock when deallocating thread-local objects
5663 which are part of a reference cycle.
5664
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005665- Issue #7211: Allow 64-bit values for the ``ident`` and ``data`` fields of
5666 kevent objects on 64-bit systems. Patch by Michael Broghton.
Antoine Pitrou323b9da2009-11-04 19:25:14 +00005667
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005668- Issue #6896: ``mailbox.Maildir`` now invalidates its internal cache each time
Antoine Pitrouaec41242009-11-02 11:34:27 +00005669 a modification is done through it. This fixes inconsistencies and test
5670 failures on systems with slightly bogus mtime behaviour.
5671
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005672- Issue #7246 & Issue #7208: getpass now properly flushes input before reading
5673 from stdin so that existing input does not confuse it and lead to incorrect
5674 entry or an IOError. It also properly flushes it afterwards to avoid the
5675 terminal echoing the input afterwards on OSes such as Solaris.
Gregory P. Smith38f5d8f2009-11-01 18:33:55 +00005676
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005677- Issue #7233: Fix a number of two-argument Decimal methods to make sure that
5678 they accept an int or long as the second argument. Also fix buggy handling of
5679 large arguments (those with coefficient longer than the current precision) in
5680 shift and rotate.
Mark Dickinson0c673122009-10-29 12:04:00 +00005681
Lars Gustäbel8c06ccc2009-10-29 09:15:00 +00005682- Issue #4750: Store the basename of the original filename in the gzip FNAME
5683 header as required by RFC 1952.
5684
Tarek Ziadé40b998b2009-10-27 23:06:10 +00005685- Issue #1180: Added a new global option to ignore ~/.pydistutils.cfg in
5686 Distutils.
5687
Tarek Ziadéd24cab82009-10-27 21:20:27 +00005688- Issue #7218: Fix test_site for win32, the directory comparison was done with
5689 an uppercase.
5690
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005691- Issue #7205: Fix a possible deadlock when using a BZ2File object from several
5692 threads at once.
Antoine Pitroudd629662009-10-27 17:41:58 +00005693
Tarek Ziadéb9c1cfc2009-10-24 15:10:37 +00005694- Issue #7071: byte-compilation in Distutils is now done with respect to
5695 sys.dont_write_bytecode.
5696
Vinay Sajipc470d682009-11-25 09:03:30 +00005697- Issue #7066: archive_util.make_archive now restores the cwd if an error is
Tarek Ziadé672422a2009-10-24 13:29:44 +00005698 raised. Initial patch by Ezio Melotti.
5699
Antoine Pitroufa94e802009-10-24 12:23:18 +00005700- Issue #6218: io.StringIO and io.BytesIO instances are now picklable with
5701 protocol 2.
5702
Vinay Sajip5ac65282009-10-21 20:22:14 +00005703- Issue #7077: logging: SysLogHandler now treats Unicode as per RFC 5424.
5704
Mark Dickinsona7a52ab2009-10-20 13:33:03 +00005705- Issue #7099: Decimal.is_normal now returns True for numbers with exponent
5706 larger than emax.
5707
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005708- Issue #5833: Fix extra space character in readline completion with the GNU
5709 readline library version 6.0.
Antoine Pitroue0899802009-10-19 18:20:21 +00005710
Antoine Pitrou5ba84912009-10-19 17:59:07 +00005711- Issue #7133: SSL objects now support the new buffer API.
5712
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005713- Issue #7149: urllib fails on OSX in the proxy detection code.
Ronald Oussoren31802d02009-10-18 07:07:00 +00005714
Benjamin Petersonc63457b2009-10-15 03:06:55 +00005715- Issue #7069: Make inspect.isabstract() return a boolean.
5716
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005717- Add support to the ``ihooks`` module for relative imports.
Neil Schemenauere6039f02009-10-14 19:23:53 +00005718
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005719- Issue #6894: Fixed the issue urllib2 doesn't respect "no_proxy" environment.
Senthil Kumaran27468662009-10-11 02:00:07 +00005720
Vinay Sajip1c77b7f2009-10-10 20:32:36 +00005721- Issue #7086: Added TCP support to SysLogHandler, and tidied up some
5722 anachronisms in the code which were a relic of 1.5.2 compatibility.
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +00005723
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005724- Issue #7082: When falling back to the MIME 'name' parameter, the correct place
5725 to look for it is the Content-Type header.
R. David Murray0c8bee62009-10-09 21:50:54 +00005726
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005727- Issue #7048: Force Decimal.logb to round its result when that result is too
5728 large to fit in the current precision.
Mark Dickinson15ae41c2009-10-07 19:22:05 +00005729
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +00005730- Issue #6516: Added owner/group support when creating tar archives in
Tarek Ziadé1b486712009-10-02 23:49:48 +00005731 Distutils.
5732
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005733- Issue #7031: Add ``TestCase.assert(Not)IsInstance()`` methods.
Georg Brandl12fafe62009-10-01 21:02:39 +00005734
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005735- Issue #6790: Make it possible again to pass an ``array.array`` to
5736 ``httplib.HTTPConnection.send``. Patch by Kirk McDonald.
Antoine Pitrou72481782009-09-29 17:48:18 +00005737
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005738- Issue #6236, #6348: Fix various failures in the `io` module under AIX and
5739 other platforms, when using a non-gcc compiler. Patch by egreen.
Antoine Pitrou2a466582009-09-21 21:17:48 +00005740
Tarek Ziadé99773352009-09-21 13:41:08 +00005741- Issue #6954: Fixed crash when using DISTUTILS_DEBUG flag in Distutils.
5742
Ronald Oussoren51f06332009-09-20 10:31:22 +00005743- Issue #6851: Fix urllib.urlopen crash on secondairy threads on OSX 10.6
5744
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005745- Issue #4606: Passing 'None' if ctypes argtype is set to POINTER(...) does now
5746 always result in NULL.
Thomas Heller6be522b2009-09-18 20:05:44 +00005747
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005748- Issue #5042: ctypes Structure sub-subclass does now initialize correctly with
5749 base class positional arguments.
Thomas Heller7a352c02009-09-18 18:55:17 +00005750
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005751- Issue #6938: Fix a TypeError in string formatting of a multiprocessing debug
5752 message.
Georg Brandlc40e60e2009-09-18 09:18:27 +00005753
Matthias Klose924eab62009-09-13 15:09:24 +00005754- Issue #6635: Fix profiler printing usage message.
5755
Lars Gustäbel21121e62009-09-12 10:28:15 +00005756- Issue #6856: Add a filter keyword argument to TarFile.add().
5757
Tarek Ziadébed26a32009-09-09 08:14:20 +00005758- Issue #6163: Fixed HP-UX runtime library dir options in
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005759 distutils.unixcompiler. Initial patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar and Michael
5760 Haubenwallner.
Tarek Ziadébed26a32009-09-09 08:14:20 +00005761
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005762- Issue #6857: Default format() alignment should be '>' for Decimal instances.
Mark Dickinson5cfa8042009-09-08 20:20:19 +00005763
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005764- Issue #6795: int(Decimal('nan')) now raises ValueError instead of returning
5765 NaN or raising InvalidContext. Also, fix infinite recursion in
5766 long(Decimal('nan')).
Mark Dickinson968f1692009-09-07 18:04:58 +00005767
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005768- Issue #6850: Fix bug in Decimal._parse_format_specifier for formats with no
5769 type specifier.
Mark Dickinson491ea552009-09-07 16:17:41 +00005770
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005771- Issue #4937: plat-mac/bundlebuilder refers to non-existing version.plist.
Ronald Oussoren626faeb2009-09-06 12:23:18 +00005772
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005773- Issue #6838: Use a list to accumulate the value instead of repeatedly
5774 concatenating strings in httplib's HTTPResponse._read_chunked providing a
5775 significant speed increase when downloading large files servend with a
5776 Transfer-Encoding of 'chunked'.
Chris Withers7f3ea6a2009-09-04 16:32:22 +00005777
Georg Brandld22b9512009-09-04 08:17:04 +00005778- Issue #5275: In Cookie's Cookie.load(), properly handle non-string arguments
5779 as documented.
5780
Georg Brandl2e1308f2009-09-04 06:59:20 +00005781- Issue #2666: Handle BROWSER environment variable properly for unknown browser
5782 names in the webbrowser module.
5783
Lars Gustäbelf7cda522009-08-28 19:23:44 +00005784- Issue #6054: Do not normalize stored pathnames in tarfile.
5785
Mark Dickinson7a7739d2009-08-28 13:25:02 +00005786- Issue #6794: Fix Decimal.compare_total and Decimal.compare_total_mag: NaN
5787 payloads are now ordered by integer value rather than lexicographically.
5788
Tarek Ziadé764fc232009-08-20 21:23:13 +00005789- Issue #6693: New functions in site.py to get user/global site packages paths.
5790
Gregory P. Smith4e63d542009-08-20 09:39:38 +00005791- The thread.lock type now supports weak references.
5792
Guilherme Polo7b50c4f2009-08-18 14:46:57 +00005793- Issue #1356969: Add missing info methods in Tix.HList.
5794
Guilherme Polo6b3c7092009-08-18 14:23:00 +00005795- Issue #1522587: New constants and methods for the Tix.Grid widget.
5796
Guilherme Polo6c823f82009-08-18 13:29:20 +00005797- Issue #1250469: Fix the return value of Tix.PanedWindow.panes.
5798
Guilherme Polod3e6e4b2009-08-18 13:23:08 +00005799- Issue #1119673: Do not override Tkinter.Text methods when creating a
5800 ScrolledText.
5801
Gregory P. Smithb98d6b22009-08-16 18:52:58 +00005802- Issue #6665: Fix fnmatch to properly match filenames with newlines in them.
5803
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005804- Issue #1135: Add the XView and YView mix-ins to avoid duplicating the xview*
5805 and yview* methods.
Guilherme Poloe45f0172009-08-14 14:36:45 +00005806
Antoine Pitrou20e1f932009-08-06 20:18:29 +00005807- Issue #6629: Fix a data corruption issue in the new `io` package, which could
5808 occur when writing to a BufferedRandom object (e.g. a file opened in "rb+" or
5809 "wb+" mode) after having buffered a certain amount of data for reading. This
5810 bug was not present in the pure Python implementation.
5811
Jesse Noller8497efe2009-08-06 02:05:56 +00005812- Issue #4660: If a multiprocessing.JoinableQueue.put() was preempted, it was
5813 possible to get a spurious 'task_done() called too many times' error.
5814
Gregory P. Smithc4ad0342009-08-13 18:54:50 +00005815- Issue #1628205: Socket file objects returned by socket.socket.makefile() now
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005816 properly handles EINTR within the read, readline, write & flush methods. The
5817 socket.sendall() method now properly handles interrupted system calls.
Gregory P. Smithc4ad0342009-08-13 18:54:50 +00005818
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005819- Issue #6595: The Decimal constructor now allows arbitrary Unicode decimal
5820 digits in input, as recommended by the standard. Previously it was restricted
5821 to accepting [0-9].
Mark Dickinson4326ad82009-08-02 10:59:36 +00005822
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc3e5b0272009-07-28 22:15:30 +00005823- Issue #6511: ZipFile now raises BadZipfile (instead of an IOError) when
5824 opening an empty or very small file.
5825
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc74b30162009-07-23 19:26:02 +00005826- Issue #6553: Fixed a crash in cPickle.load(), when given a file-like object
5827 containing incomplete data.
5828
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005829- Issue #6545: Removed assert statements in distutils.Extension, so the behavior
5830 is similar when used with -O.
Tarek Ziadéaf2406f2009-07-22 08:55:19 +00005831
Benjamin Petersond7b0eeb2009-07-19 20:18:21 +00005832- unittest has been split up into a package. All old names should still work.
5833
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005834- Issue #6431: Make Fraction type return NotImplemented when it doesn't know how
5835 to handle a comparison without loss of precision. Also add correct handling
5836 of infinities and nans for comparisons with float.
Mark Dickinson88a0a2e2009-07-18 15:18:18 +00005837
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc74b30162009-07-23 19:26:02 +00005838- Issue #6415: Fixed warnings.warn segfault on bad formatted string.
Hirokazu Yamamoto1a3d0852009-07-17 06:26:54 +00005839
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005840- Issue #6466: Now distutils.cygwinccompiler and distutils.emxccompiler uses the
5841 same refactored function to get gcc/ld/dllwrap versions numbers. It's
5842 ``distutils.util.get_compiler_versions()``. Added deprecation warnings for
5843 the obsolete get_versions() functions.
Tarek Ziadéa99dedf2009-07-16 15:35:45 +00005844
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005845- Issue #6433: Fixed issues with multiprocessing.pool.map hanging on empty list.
Jesse Noller7530e472009-07-16 14:23:04 +00005846
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +00005847- Issue #6314: logging: Extra checks on the "level" argument in more places.
5848
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc74b8d332009-07-11 14:33:51 +00005849- Issue #2622: Fixed an ImportError when importing email.messsage from a
5850 standalone application built with py2exe or py2app.
5851
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +00005852- Issue #6455: Fixed test_build_ext under win32.
Tarek Ziadé8c400012009-07-10 09:10:33 +00005853
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +00005854- Issue #6377: Enabled the compiler option, and deprecate its usage as an
Tarek Ziadée670e5a2009-07-06 12:50:46 +00005855 attribute.
5856
Tarek Ziadé63f17382009-07-04 02:02:41 +00005857- Issue #6413: Fixed the log level in distutils.dist for announce.
5858
Gregory P. Smithc197d0a2009-07-04 01:55:11 +00005859- Issue #3392: The subprocess communicate() method no longer fails in select()
5860 when file descriptors are large; communicate() now uses poll() when possible.
5861
Tarek Ziadé65ec61e2009-07-03 08:22:56 +00005862- Issue #6403: Fixed package path usage in build_ext.
5863
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005864- Issues #5155, #5313, #5331: multiprocessing.Process._bootstrap was
Jesse Noller1b90efb2009-06-30 17:11:52 +00005865 unconditionally calling "os.close(sys.stdin.fileno())" resulting in file
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005866 descriptor errors.
Jesse Noller1b90efb2009-06-30 17:11:52 +00005867
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +00005868- Issue #6365: Distutils build_ext inplace mode was copying the compiled
Tarek Ziadé3fbcc602009-06-29 16:13:39 +00005869 extension in a subdirectory if the extension name had dots.
5870
Hirokazu Yamamoto99ebc632009-06-29 14:29:31 +00005871- Issue #6344: Fixed a crash of mmap.read() when passed a negative argument.
5872
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005873- Issue #5230: pydoc would report no documentation found if a module generated a
5874 'not found' import error when loaded; it now reports the import errors.
R. David Murrayef087da2009-06-23 18:02:46 +00005875 Thanks to Lucas Prado Melo for initial fix and collaboration on the tests.
5876
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005877- Issue #6314: ``logging.basicConfig()`` performs extra checks on the "level"
Vinay Sajip603fb6d2009-06-21 17:37:27 +00005878 argument.
5879
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005880- Issue #6164: Added an AIX specific linker argument in Distutils unixcompiler.
5881 Original patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar.
Tarek Ziadé439bf932009-06-20 13:57:20 +00005882
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005883- Issue #6274: Fixed possible file descriptors leak in subprocess.py.
Facundo Batista8c826b72009-06-19 18:02:28 +00005884
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc5fe420e2009-06-18 22:32:50 +00005885- Issue #6189: Restored compatibility of subprocess.py with Python 2.2.
5886
Tarek Ziadéfdefc0a2009-06-16 07:29:52 +00005887- Issue #6287: Added the license field in Distutils documentation.
5888
Tarek Ziadéa1cc0402009-06-15 23:30:13 +00005889- Issue #6286: Now Distutils upload command is based on urllib2 instead of
5890 httplib, allowing the usage of http_proxy.
5891
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005892- Issue #6271: mmap tried to close invalid file handle (-1) for anonymous maps
5893 on Unix.
Hirokazu Yamamoto983a4652009-06-14 03:53:55 +00005894
Antoine Pitrou19690592009-06-12 20:14:08 +00005895- Issue #6215: All bug fixes and enhancements from the Python 3.1 io library
5896 (including the fast C implementation) have been backported to the standard
5897 ``io`` module.
5898
Martin v. Löwis2dcd7a02009-06-12 17:28:31 +00005899- Issue #6258: Support AMD64 in bdist_msi.
5900
Vinay Sajip334ffe82010-01-15 23:27:05 +00005901- Issue #6252: Fixed bug in next rollover time computation in
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00005902 TimedRotatingFileHandler.
5903
Tarek Ziadéc7498f52009-06-11 09:13:36 +00005904- Issue #6263: Fixed syntax error in distutils.cygwincompiler.
5905
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005906- Issue #5201: distutils.sysconfig.parse_makefile() now understands ``$$`` in
5907 Makefiles. This prevents compile errors when using syntax like:
5908 ``LDFLAGS='-rpath=\$$LIB:/some/other/path'``. Patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
Tarek Ziadé25d2bae2009-06-11 08:12:20 +00005909
Georg Brandle6632b42009-06-04 08:58:32 +00005910- Issue #5767: Removed sgmlop support from xmlrpclib.
5911
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005912- Issue #6131: test_modulefinder leaked when run after test_distutils. Patch by
5913 Hirokazu Yamamoto.
Tarek Ziadé3e3eace2009-05-29 08:08:07 +00005914
Tarek Ziadé9e5d2dc2009-05-28 12:53:54 +00005915- Issue #6048: Now Distutils uses the tarfile module in archive_util.
5916
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005917- Issue #6121: pydoc now ignores leading and trailing spaces in the argument to
5918 the 'help' function.
R. David Murrayd67ea7d2009-05-27 20:07:21 +00005919
Benjamin Peterson176a56c2009-05-25 00:48:58 +00005920- In unittest, using a skipping decorator on a class is now equivalent to
5921 skipping every test on the class. The ClassTestSuite class has been removed.
5922
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005923- Issue #6050: Don't fail extracting a directory from a zipfile if the directory
5924 already exists.
Martin v. Löwis0b09c422009-05-24 19:30:52 +00005925
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005926- Issue #5311: bdist_msi can now build packages that do not depend on a specific
5927 Python version.
Martin v. Löwis53b578e2009-05-24 19:10:52 +00005928
Antoine Pitroud49e3752009-05-24 15:40:09 +00005929- Issue #1309352: fcntl now converts its third arguments to a C `long` rather
5930 than an int, which makes some operations possible under 64-bit Linux (e.g.
5931 DN_MULTISHOT with F_NOTIFY).
5932
Senthil Kumarane266f252009-05-24 09:14:50 +00005933- Issue #1424152: Fix for httplib, urllib2 to support SSL while working through
5934 proxy. Original patch by Christopher Li, changes made by Senthil Kumaran.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00005935
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005936- Issue #1983: Fix functions taking or returning a process identifier to use the
5937 dedicated C type ``pid_t`` instead of a C ``int``. Some platforms have a
5938 process identifier type wider than the standard C integer type.
Antoine Pitrou5e858fe2009-05-23 15:37:45 +00005939
R. David Murrayad3058e2009-05-23 00:48:58 +00005940- Issue #4066: smtplib.SMTP_SSL._get_socket now correctly returns the socket.
5941 Patch by Farhan Ahmad, test by Marcin Bachry.
5942
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005943- Issue #6062: In distutils, fixed the package option of build_ext. Feedback
Tarek Ziadé7d7127d2009-05-19 16:17:21 +00005944 and tests on pywin32 by Tim Golden.
5945
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005946- Issue #6053: Fixed distutils tests on win32. Patch by Hirokazu Yamamoto.
Tarek Ziadé07bbfcc2009-05-18 12:21:26 +00005947
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005948- Issue #6046: Fixed the library extension when distutils build_ext is used in
5949 place. Initial patch by Roumen Petrov.
Tarek Ziadéfcc7f032009-05-18 08:03:37 +00005950
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00005951- Issue #6041: Now distutils `sdist` and `register` commands use `check` as a
Tarek Ziadécb768042009-05-16 16:37:06 +00005952 subcommand.
5953
Antoine Pitrou775fd662009-05-15 16:54:52 +00005954- Issue #2116: Weak references and weak dictionaries now support copy()ing and
5955 deepcopy()ing.
5956
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005957- Issue #1655: Make imaplib IPv6-capable. Patch by Derek Morr.
Antoine Pitrou52035a02009-05-15 11:50:29 +00005958
Antoine Pitrou42b5bcf2009-05-14 21:48:09 +00005959- Issue #5918: Fix a crash in the parser module.
5960
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005961- Issue #1664: Make nntplib IPv6-capable. Patch by Derek Morr.
Antoine Pitroueed30d82009-05-14 21:22:08 +00005962
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005963- Issue #6022: A test file was created in the current working directory by
Tarek Ziadécbb4f9e2009-05-14 20:14:13 +00005964 test_get_outputs in Distutils.
5965
R. David Murray996ba022009-05-13 17:14:11 +00005966- Issue #4050: inspect.findsource/getsource now raise an IOError if the 'source'
5967 file is a binary. Patch by Brodie Rao, tests by Daniel Diniz.
5968
Tarek Ziadé972480d2009-05-12 17:07:14 +00005969- Issue #5977: distutils build_ext.get_outputs was not taking into account the
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005970 inplace option. Initial patch by kxroberto.
Tarek Ziadé972480d2009-05-12 17:07:14 +00005971
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005972- Issue #5984: distutils.command.build_ext.check_extensions_list checks were
5973 broken for old-style extensions.
Tarek Ziadéd5d83422009-05-10 10:12:08 +00005974
Vinay Sajipf9b01fe2009-05-09 12:07:17 +00005975- Issue #5971: StreamHandler.handleError now swallows IOErrors which occur when
5976 trying to print a traceback.
5977
Tarek Ziadé812d7712009-05-09 10:06:00 +00005978- Issue #5976: Fixed Distutils test_check_environ.
5979
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005980- Issue #5900: Ensure RUNPATH is added to extension modules with RPATH if GNU ld
5981 is used. Original patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
Tarek Ziadée2be83d2009-05-09 08:28:53 +00005982
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005983- Issue #5941: Distutils build_clib command was not working anymore because of
5984 an incomplete costumization of the archiver command. Added ARFLAGS in the
5985 Makefile besides AR and make Distutils use it. Original patch by David
Tarek Ziadé99f660a2009-05-07 21:20:34 +00005986 Cournapeau.
5987
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00005988- Issue #5955: aifc's close method did not close the file it wrapped, now it
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005989 does. This also means getfp method now returns the real fp.
R. David Murrayd3bf34c2009-05-07 16:29:19 +00005990
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005991- Issue #4875: On win32, ctypes.util.find_library does no longer return
5992 directories.
Thomas Hellera57773e2009-05-05 18:55:47 +00005993
Georg Brandl4d4313d2009-05-05 08:54:11 +00005994- Issue #5142: Add the ability to skip modules while stepping to pdb.
5995
Georg Brandle3869c42009-05-05 08:30:28 +00005996- Issue #1309567: Fix linecache behavior of stripping subdirectories when
5997 looking for files given by a relative filename.
5998
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005999- Issue #5692: In ``zipfile.Zipfile``, fix wrong path calculation when
Antoine Pitrou97377bf2009-05-04 21:17:17 +00006000 extracting a file to the root directory.
6001
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006002- Issue #5913: ``os.listdir()`` should fail for empty path on windows.
Hirokazu Yamamoto406d7aa2009-05-04 05:28:39 +00006003
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006004- Issue #5084: Unpickling now interns the attribute names of pickled objects,
6005 saving memory and avoiding growth in size of subsequent pickles. Proposal and
6006 original patch by Jake McGuire.
Antoine Pitrou74309892009-05-02 21:13:23 +00006007
Antoine Pitrou1fc02312009-05-01 20:55:35 +00006008- Issue #3002: ``shutil.copyfile()`` and ``shutil.copytree()`` now raise an
6009 error when a named pipe is encountered, rather than blocking infinitely.
6010
Gregory P. Smith1d499262009-05-01 19:59:52 +00006011- Issue #3959: The ipaddr module has been added to the standard library.
6012 Contributed by Google.
6013
R. David Murray25b4add2009-04-29 13:17:37 +00006014- Issue #2245: aifc now skips chunk types it doesn't recognize, per spec.
6015
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006016- Issue #5874: distutils.tests.test_config_cmd is not locale-sensitive anymore.
Tarek Ziadéa1b91d92009-04-29 08:03:46 +00006017
Thomas Heller90c61a22009-04-28 19:23:41 +00006018- Issue #4305: ctypes should now build again on mipsel-linux-gnu
6019
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006020- Issue #1734234: Massively speedup ``unicodedata.normalize()`` when the string
6021 is already in normalized form, by performing a quick check beforehand.
Antoine Pitroue988e282009-04-27 21:53:26 +00006022 Original patch by Rauli Ruohonen.
6023
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006024- Issue #5853: Calling a function of the mimetypes module from several threads
Antoine Pitrouf2651e12009-04-27 20:50:20 +00006025 at once could hit the recursion limit if the mimetypes database hadn't been
6026 initialized before.
6027
Vinay Sajipe34d6aa2009-04-27 13:44:27 +00006028- Issue #5854: Updated __all__ to include some missing names and remove some
6029 names which should not be exported.
6030
6031- Issue #5810: Fixed Distutils test_build_scripts so it uses
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006032 ``sysconfig.get_config_vars()``.
Tarek Ziadébcddf672009-04-25 12:51:59 +00006033
Tarek Ziadéd567c382009-04-25 12:38:08 +00006034- Issue #4951: Fixed failure in test_httpservers.
6035
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006036- Issue #3102: All global symbols that the _ctypes extension defines are now
6037 prefixed with 'Py' or '_ctypes'.
Thomas Heller5c6af802009-04-24 20:31:47 +00006038
Thomas Hellerec21ccd2009-04-24 20:00:41 +00006039- Issue #5041: ctypes does now allow pickling wide character.
6040
Mark Dickinson4af8e742009-04-24 13:56:07 +00006041- Issue #5812: For the two-argument form of the Fraction constructor,
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006042 ``Fraction(m, n)``, m and n are permitted to be arbitrary Rational instances.
Mark Dickinson4af8e742009-04-24 13:56:07 +00006043
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006044- Issue #5812: Fraction('1e6') is valid: more generally, any string that's valid
6045 for float() is now valid for Fraction(), with the exception of strings
6046 representing NaNs and infinities.
Mark Dickinson8100bd82009-04-22 18:15:25 +00006047
Tarek Ziadé31559b62009-04-20 14:29:42 +00006048- Issue #5795: Fixed test_distutils failure on Debian ppc.
6049
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00006050- Issue #5768: Fixed bug in Unicode output logic and test case for same.
6051
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006052- Issue #1161031: Fix readwrite select flag handling: POLLPRI now results in a
6053 handle_expt_event call, not handle_read_event, and POLLERR and POLLNVAL now
6054 call handle_close, not handle_expt_event. Also, dispatcher now has an
6055 'ignore_log_types' attribute for suppressing log messages, which is set to
6056 'warning' by default.
R. David Murrayabc26602009-04-13 16:56:32 +00006057
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006058- Issue #5607: Fixed Distutils test_get_platform for Mac OS X fat binaries.
Tarek Ziadé156c31a2009-04-13 12:34:01 +00006059
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006060- Issue #5741: Don't disallow "%%" (which is an escape for "%") when setting a
6061 value in SafeConfigParser.
Georg Brandl21cf5ee2009-04-12 17:24:11 +00006062
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006063- Issue #5732: Added a new command in Distutils: check.
Tarek Ziadé942825f2009-04-11 14:55:07 +00006064
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00006065- Issue #5731: Distutils bdist_wininst no longer worked on non-Windows
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006066 platforms. Initial patch by Paul Moore.
Tarek Ziadéad958262009-04-09 21:36:44 +00006067
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006068- Issue #2254: Fix CGIHTTPServer information disclosure. Relative paths are now
6069 collapsed within the url properly before looking in cgi_directories.
Gregory P. Smith923ba362009-04-06 06:33:26 +00006070
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006071- Issue #5095: Added bdist_msi to the list of bdist supported formats. Initial
6072 fix by Steven Bethard.
Tarek Ziadé64408fb2009-04-05 22:51:09 +00006073
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006074- Issue #1491431: Fixed distutils.filelist.glob_to_re for edge cases. Initial
6075 fix by Wayne Davison.
Tarek Ziadéfaa6b122009-04-05 21:44:08 +00006076
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006077- Issue #5693: TestSuite.__iter__ can now be consistently overridden in
6078 subclasses.
Michael Foordf2dfef12009-04-05 19:19:28 +00006079
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006080- Issue #5694: Removed spurious test output in Distutils (test_clean).
Tarek Ziadé453d9532009-04-05 18:31:24 +00006081
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +00006082- Issue #5471: Fix os.path.expanduser() for $HOME set to '/'.
Georg Brandl3f0ef202009-04-05 14:48:49 +00006083
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006084- Issue #1326077: Fix the formatting of SyntaxErrors by the traceback module.
Georg Brandl1956d5c2009-04-05 14:25:41 +00006085
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006086- Issue #1726172: Fix IndexError in the case of and empty response in ftplib.
Georg Brandl50ba6e12009-04-05 10:48:47 +00006087
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006088- Issue #2625: Added missing iteritems() call to the for loop in
R. David Murray52720c52009-04-02 14:05:35 +00006089 mailbox.MH.get_message().
6090
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006091- Issue #5585: Add the ability to call an initializer to
6092 mulitiprocessing.manager so that users can install custom handlers/etc.
Jesse Noller7152f6d2009-04-02 05:17:26 +00006093
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006094- Issue #3551: Patch multiprocessing to raise a proper exception if the size of
6095 the object when writefile is called causes a ERROR_NO_SYSTEM_RESOURCES. Added
6096 docs to note the limitation.
Jesse Noller5053fbb2009-04-02 04:22:09 +00006097
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006098- unittest.assertNotEqual() now uses the inequality operator (!=) instead of the
6099 equality operator.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00006100
6101- Issue #6001: Test discovery for unittest. Implemented in
Michael Foordb4a81c82009-05-29 20:33:46 +00006102 unittest.TestLoader.discover and from the command line.
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00006103
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006104- Issue #5679: The methods unittest.TestCase.addCleanup and doCleanups were
6105 added. addCleanup allows you to add cleanup functions that will be called
Michael Foord07ef4872009-05-02 22:43:34 +00006106 unconditionally (after setUp if setUp fails, otherwise after tearDown). This
6107 allows for much simpler resource allocation and deallocation during tests.
6108
6109- Issue #3379: unittest.main now takes an optional exit argument. If False main
6110 doesn't call sys.exit allowing it to be used from the interactive interpreter.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00006111
6112- Issue #5995: unittest.main now takes an optional verbosity argument allowing
Michael Foord5d31e052009-05-11 17:59:43 +00006113 test modules to be run with a higher than default verbosity.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00006114
6115- Issue #5995: A fix to allow you to run "python -m unittest test_module" or
Michael Foord5d31e052009-05-11 17:59:43 +00006116 "python -m unittest test_module.TestClass" from the command line.
Michael Foord07ef4872009-05-02 22:43:34 +00006117
6118- Issue #5728: unittest.TestResult has new startTestRun and stopTestRun methods;
6119 called immediately before and after a test run.
6120
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006121- Issue #5663: Better failure messages for unittest asserts. Default assertTrue
Michael Foord345b2fe2009-04-02 03:20:38 +00006122 and assertFalse messages are now useful. TestCase has a longMessage attribute.
6123 This defaults to False, but if set to True useful error messages are shown in
6124 addition to explicit messages passed to assert methods.
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00006125
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006126- Issue #3110: Add additional protect around SEM_VALUE_MAX for multiprocessing.
Jesse Nollerb502bc72009-04-02 02:32:55 +00006127
Georg Brandl58b8b952009-04-01 21:54:21 +00006128- In Pdb, prevent the reassignment of __builtin__._ by sys.displayhook on
6129 printing out values.
6130
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006131- Issue #4572: Added SEEK_* symbolic constants to io module.
Georg Brandl5942b912009-04-01 21:05:44 +00006132
Brett Cannonad078a02009-04-01 16:00:34 +00006133- Issue #1665206 (partially): Move imports in cgitb to the top of the module
6134 instead of performing them in functions. Helps prevent import deadlocking in
6135 threads.
6136
Raymond Hettinger66c4a6b2009-04-01 18:50:56 +00006137- Issue #5647: MutableSet.__iand__() no longer mutates self during iteration.
6138
Georg Brandle92d4b62009-04-01 04:21:14 +00006139- Actually make the SimpleXMLRPCServer CGI handler work.
6140
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006141- Issue #2522: locale.format() now checks its first argument to ensure it has
R. David Murraya83da352009-04-01 03:21:43 +00006142 been passed only one pattern, avoiding mysterious errors where it appeared
6143 that it was failing to do localization.
6144
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006145- Issue #5583: Added optional extensions in Distutils. Initial patch by Georg
Tarek Ziadé9e47ce42009-03-31 22:27:23 +00006146 Brandl.
6147
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006148- Issue #5619: Multiprocessing children disobey the debug flag and causes popups
6149 on windows buildbots. Patch applied to work around this issue.
Jesse Noller42f9b4e2009-03-31 22:20:35 +00006150
Benjamin Petersond906ea62009-03-31 21:34:42 +00006151- Issue #5632: Thread.ident was None for the main thread and threads not created
6152 with the threading module.
6153
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006154- Issue #5400: Added patch for multiprocessing on netbsd compilation/support.
Jesse Noller1f0a5552009-03-31 18:27:14 +00006155
Hirokazu Yamamoto9d2ee5d2009-03-31 13:13:05 +00006156- Issue #5387: Fixed mmap.move crash by integer overflow.
6157
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006158- Issue #5261: Patch multiprocessing's semaphore.c to support context manager
6159 use: "with multiprocessing.Lock()" works now.
Jesse Noller82eb5902009-03-30 23:29:31 +00006160
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00006161- Issue #5177: Multiprocessing's SocketListener class now uses
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006162 socket.SO_REUSEADDR on all connections so that the user no longer needs to
6163 wait 120 seconds for the socket to expire.
Jesse Noller459a6482009-03-30 15:50:42 +00006164
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006165- Adjusted _tkinter to compile without warnings when WITH_THREAD is not defined
6166 (part of issue #5035).
Guilherme Polo1972d162009-03-27 21:43:08 +00006167
Marc-André Lemburgcbdf15b2009-03-25 19:45:33 +00006168- Issue #5561: Removed the sys.version_info shortcuts from platform's
6169 python_version() and python_version_tuple() since they produced different
6170 output compared to previous Python versions.
6171
Benjamin Peterson692428e2009-03-23 21:50:21 +00006172- Issue #1034053: unittest now supports skipping tests and expected failures.
6173
Gregory P. Smith28399852009-03-31 16:54:10 +00006174- The unittest.TestCase.assertRaises() method now returns a context manager when
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006175 not given a callable so that code to be tested can be written inline using a
6176 with statement.
Gregory P. Smith28399852009-03-31 16:54:10 +00006177
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006178- Issue #2578: The unittest.TestCase.assertEqual() now displays the differences
6179 in lists, tuples, dicts and sets on failure. Many new handy type and
6180 comparison specific assert* methods have been added that fail with error
6181 messages actually useful for debugging. Contributed in part by Google.
Gregory P. Smith28399852009-03-31 16:54:10 +00006182
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006183- Issue #5068: Fixed the tarfile._BZ2Proxy.read() method that would loop forever
6184 on incomplete input. That caused tarfile.open() to hang when used with mode
6185 'r' or 'r:bz2' and a fileobj argument that contained no data or partial bzip2
6186 compressed data.
Lars Gustäbel2020a592009-03-22 20:09:33 +00006187
Benjamin Petersonb364bfe2009-03-22 17:45:11 +00006188- Issue #5536: urllib.urlretrieve makes sure to close the file it's writing to
6189 even if an exception occurs.
6190
Raymond Hettinger91852ca2009-03-19 19:19:03 +00006191- Issue #5381: Added object_pairs_hook to the json module. This allows
6192 OrderedDicts to be built by the decoder.
6193
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006194- Issue #2110: Add support for thousands separator and 'n' type specifier to
6195 ``Decimal.__format__()``.
Mark Dickinson277859d2009-03-17 23:03:46 +00006196
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006197- Fix Decimal.__format__ bug that swapped the meanings of the '<' and '>'
6198 alignment characters.
Mark Dickinsonb065e522009-03-17 18:01:03 +00006199
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006200- Issue #1222: ``locale.format()`` bug when the thousands separator is a space
Antoine Pitroufeeafff2009-03-14 00:07:21 +00006201 character.
6202
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006203- Issue #5472: Fixed distutils.test_util tear down. Original patch by Tim
6204 Golden.
Tarek Ziadé61585c22009-03-11 12:48:04 +00006205
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006206- collections.deque objects now have a read-only attribute called maxlen.
Raymond Hettinger56411aa2009-03-10 12:50:59 +00006207
Guilherme Polo15d57652009-03-07 02:14:38 +00006208- Issue #2638: Show a window constructed with tkSimpleDialog.Dialog only after
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006209 it is has been populated and properly configured in order to prevent window
6210 flashing.
Guilherme Polo15d57652009-03-07 02:14:38 +00006211
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006212- Issue #4792: Prevent a segfault in _tkinter by using the guaranteed to be safe
6213 interp argument given to the PythonCmd in place of the Tcl interpreter taken
6214 from a PythonCmd_ClientData.
Guilherme Polo3768b2f2009-03-07 01:47:49 +00006215
Guilherme Polo6d6c1fd2009-03-07 01:19:12 +00006216- Issue #5193: Guarantee that Tkinter.Text.search returns a string.
6217
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006218- Issue #5394: Removed > 2.3 syntax from distutils.msvc9compiler.
Tarek Ziadé943b24e2009-03-07 00:32:45 +00006219 Original patch by Akira Kitada.
6220
Hirokazu Yamamoto264fc122009-03-05 14:21:12 +00006221- Issue #5385: Fixed mmap crash after resize failure on windows.
6222
Hirokazu Yamamotoeacbbdf2009-03-03 22:18:14 +00006223- Issue #5179: Fixed subprocess handle leak on failure on windows.
6224
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006225- PEP 372: Added collections.OrderedDict().
Raymond Hettingerbc512d32009-03-03 04:45:34 +00006226
Raymond Hettinger88a91642009-03-03 04:51:24 +00006227- The _asdict() for method for namedtuples now returns an OrderedDict().
6228
Raymond Hettingere89b8e92009-03-03 05:00:37 +00006229- The configparser module now defaults to using an ordered dictionary.
6230
Benjamin Peterson7d49bba2009-03-02 22:41:42 +00006231- Issue #4308: httplib.IncompleteRead's repr doesn't include all of the data all
6232 ready received.
6233
Benjamin Petersonad58b7c2009-03-02 03:35:12 +00006234- Issue #5401: Fixed a performance problem in mimetypes when ``from mimetypes
6235 import guess_extension`` was used.
6236
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006237- Issue #1733986: Fixed mmap crash on Windows in accessing elements of second
6238 map object with same tagname but larger size than first map.
Hirokazu Yamamotob0e10c72009-02-28 12:13:07 +00006239
Hirokazu Yamamotof2dc8852009-02-28 10:31:54 +00006240- Issue #5386: mmap.write_byte didn't check map size, so it could cause buffer
6241 overrun.
6242
Tarek Ziadé73347352009-02-28 10:08:02 +00006243- Issue #1533164: Installed but not listed *.pyo was breaking Distutils
6244 bdist_rpm command.
6245
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006246- Issue #5378: Added --quiet option to Distutils bdist_rpm command.
Tarek Ziadé73347352009-02-28 10:08:02 +00006247
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006248- Issue #5052: Make Distutils compatible with 2.3 again.
Tarek Ziadédda92f72009-02-27 12:53:34 +00006249
Benjamin Petersonb3dd5482009-02-26 19:07:18 +00006250- Deprecated methods of symtable.Symbol have been removed: is_keywordarg(),
6251 is_vararg(), and is_in_tuple().
6252
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006253- Issue #5316: Fixed buildbot failures introduced by multiple inheritance in
6254 Distutils tests.
Tarek Ziadée3bc0ef2009-02-25 22:29:27 +00006255
Vinay Sajip1a0d2be2009-02-19 12:31:32 +00006256- Issue #5287: Add exception handling around findCaller() call to help out
6257 IronPython.
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00006258
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006259- Issue #5282: Fixed mmap resize on 32bit Windows and Unix. When ``offset >
6260 0``, the file was resized to wrong size.
Hirokazu Yamamoto17a837e2009-02-17 13:17:26 +00006261
Hirokazu Yamamotof6bbd0e2009-02-17 10:12:10 +00006262- Issue #5292: Fixed mmap crash on its boundary access m[len(m)].
6263
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006264- Issue #2279: distutils.sdist.add_defaults now add files from the package_data
6265 and the data_files metadata.
Tarek Ziadé7dd53392009-02-16 21:38:01 +00006266
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006267- Issue #5257: Refactored all tests in distutils, so they use
Tarek Ziadé13699002009-02-14 14:10:23 +00006268 support.TempdirManager, to avoid writing in the tests directory.
6269
Tarek Ziadé2432b0b2009-02-13 23:00:43 +00006270- Issue #4524: distutils build_script command failed with --with-suffix=3.
6271 Initial patch by Amaury Forgeot d'Arc.
6272
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006273- Issue #2461: Added tests for distutils.util.
Tarek Ziadé275958a2009-02-13 22:22:03 +00006274
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006275- Issue #1008086: Fixed socket.inet_aton() to always return 4 bytes even on LP64
6276 platforms (most 64-bit Linux, bsd, unix systems).
Gregory P. Smith3605b5c2009-02-11 23:45:25 +00006277
Thomas Heller3689ae22009-02-10 18:43:01 +00006278- Issue #5203: Fixed ctypes segfaults when passing a unicode string to a
6279 function without argtypes (only occurs if HAVE_USABLE_WCHAR_T is false).
6280
Tarek Ziadé74fbf602009-02-10 12:31:09 +00006281- Issue #3386: distutils.sysconfig.get_python_lib prefix argument was ignored
6282 under NT and OS2. Patch by Philip Jenvey.
6283
Brett Cannon28d10882009-02-10 02:07:38 +00006284- Issue #5128: Make compileall properly inspect bytecode to determine if needs
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006285 to be recreated. This avoids a timing hole thanks to the old reliance on the
Brett Cannon28d10882009-02-10 02:07:38 +00006286 ctime of the files involved.
6287
Guilherme Poloa66cf5b2009-02-09 20:50:27 +00006288- Issue #5122: Synchronize tk load failure check to prevent a potential
6289 deadlock.
6290
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006291- Issue #1818: collections.namedtuple() now supports a keyword argument 'rename'
6292 which lets invalid fieldnames be automatically converted to positional names
6293 in the form, _1, _2, ...
Raymond Hettinger322daea2009-02-10 01:24:05 +00006294
Guilherme Polod2ea0332009-02-09 16:41:09 +00006295- Issue #4890: Handle empty text search pattern in Tkinter.Text.search.
6296
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006297- Issue #5170: Fixed Unicode output bug in logging and added test case. This is
6298 a regression which did not occur in 2.5.
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +00006299
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006300- Issue #4512 (part 2): Promote ``ZipImporter._get_filename()`` to be a public
6301 documented method ``ZipImporter.get_filename()``.
Nick Coghlan0194f5b2009-02-08 03:17:00 +00006302
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006303- Issue #4195: The ``runpy`` module (and the ``-m`` switch) now support the
6304 execution of packages by looking for and executing a ``__main__`` submodule
6305 when a package name is supplied. Initial patch by Andi Vajda.
Nick Coghland39600e2009-02-08 01:26:34 +00006306
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006307- Issue #1731706: Call Tcl_ConditionFinalize for Tcl_Conditions that will not be
6308 used again (this requires Tcl/Tk 8.3.1), also fix a memory leak in Tkapp_Call
6309 when calling from a thread different than the one that created the Tcl
6310 interpreter. Patch by Robert Hancock.
Guilherme Polo14ff18d2009-02-06 22:26:22 +00006311
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +00006312- Issue #1520877: Now distutils.sysconfig reads $AR from the
Tarek Ziadé05adf072009-02-06 01:15:51 +00006313 environment/Makefile. Patch by Douglas Greiman.
6314
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006315- Issue #4285: Change sys.version_info to be a named tuple. Patch by Ross
6316 Light.
Eric Smith81fe0932009-02-06 00:48:26 +00006317
Tarek Ziadéd5eb9852009-02-06 00:31:59 +00006318- Issue #1276768: The verbose option was not used in the code of
6319 distutils.file_util and distutils.dir_util.
6320
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +00006321- Issue #5132: Fixed trouble building extensions under Solaris with
Tarek Ziadé0d4fd342009-02-05 22:52:52 +00006322 --enabled-shared activated. Initial patch by Dave Peterson.
6323
Guilherme Polod7bb4d42009-02-02 21:14:14 +00006324- Issue #1581476: Always use the Tcl global namespace when calling into Tcl.
6325
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006326- Issue #2047: shutil.move() could believe that its destination path was inside
6327 its source path if it began with the same letters (e.g. "src" vs. "src.new").
Antoine Pitrou707c5932009-01-29 20:19:34 +00006328
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006329- Issue #4920: Fixed .next() vs .__next__() issues in the ABCs for Iterator and
6330 MutableSet.
Raymond Hettingerf779e6f2009-01-28 23:02:26 +00006331
Guilherme Polocda93aa2009-01-28 13:09:03 +00006332- Added the ttk module. See issue #2983: Ttk support for Tkinter.
6333
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006334- Issue #5021: doctest.testfile() did not create __name__ and
Raymond Hettingerecf252a2009-01-27 10:03:04 +00006335 collections.namedtuple() relied on __name__ being defined.
6336
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006337- Backport importlib from Python 3.1. Only the import_module() function has been
6338 backported to help facilitate transitions from 2.7 to 3.1.
Brett Cannon93881c62009-01-26 01:16:50 +00006339
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006340- Issue #1885: distutils: When running sdist with --formats=tar,gztar the tar
6341 file was overriden by the gztar one.
Tarek Ziadéaaedcef2009-01-25 23:34:00 +00006342
Tarek Ziadéef249b12009-01-25 18:19:25 +00006343- Issue #4863: distutils.mwerkscompiler has been removed.
6344
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006345- Added new itertools functions: combinations_with_replacement() and compress().
Raymond Hettinger2bcb8e92009-01-25 21:04:14 +00006346
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006347- Issue #5032: Added a step argument to itertools.count() and allowed
6348 non-integer arguments.
Raymond Hettinger31c769c2009-02-12 05:39:46 +00006349
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006350- Fix and properly document the multiprocessing module's logging support, expose
6351 the internal levels and provide proper usage examples.
Jesse Nollerb5a4b0a2009-01-25 03:36:13 +00006352
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006353- Issue #1672332: Fix unpickling of subnormal floats, which was
Mark Dickinsona3ecd2c2009-01-24 16:40:29 +00006354 producing a ValueError on some platforms.
6355
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006356- Issue #3881: Help Tcl to load even when started through the unreadable local
6357 symlink to "Program Files" on Vista.
Martin v. Löwisf081e1c2009-01-24 15:47:27 +00006358
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006359- Issue #4710: Extract directories properly in the zipfile module; allow adding
6360 directories to a zipfile.
Martin v. Löwis0dfcfc82009-01-24 14:00:33 +00006361
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +00006362- Issue #3807: _multiprocessing build fails when configure is passed
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006363 --without-threads argument. When this occurs, _multiprocessing will be
6364 disabled, and not compiled.
Jesse Nollerf6da8d12009-01-23 14:04:41 +00006365
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006366- Issue #5008: When a file is opened in append mode with the new IO library, do
6367 an explicit seek to the end of file (so that e.g. tell() returns the file size
6368 rather than 0). This is consistent with the behaviour of the traditional 2.x
6369 file object.
Antoine Pitroue741cc62009-01-21 00:45:36 +00006370
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00006371- Issue #5013: Fixed a bug in FileHandler which occurred when the delay
6372 parameter was set.
6373
Raymond Hettinger933d3a72009-01-20 20:34:19 +00006374- Issue #4998: The memory saving effect of __slots__ had been lost on Fractions
6375 which inherited from numbers.py which did not have __slots__ defined. The
Mark Dickinson39c6f7f2009-02-12 17:55:42 +00006376 numbers hierarchy now has its own __slots__ declarations.
Raymond Hettinger933d3a72009-01-20 20:34:19 +00006377
Jesse Noller9a5b2ad2009-01-19 15:12:22 +00006378- Issue #3321: _multiprocessing.Connection() doesn't check handle; added checks
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006379 for *nix machines for negative handles and large int handles. Without this
6380 check it is possible to segfault the interpreter.
Jesse Noller9a5b2ad2009-01-19 15:12:22 +00006381
Jesse Noller6ab22152009-01-18 02:45:38 +00006382- Issue #4449: AssertionError in mp_benchmarks.py, caused by an underlying issue
6383 in sharedctypes.py.
6384
Benjamin Peterson5e5fbb62009-01-17 22:27:54 +00006385- Issue #1225107: inspect.isclass() returned True for instances with a custom
6386 __getattr__.
6387
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006388- Issue #3997: Zipfiles generated with more than 65536 files could not be opened
6389 with other applications.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd25f87a2009-01-17 16:40:17 +00006390
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006391- Issue #1162154: ``inspect.getmembers()`` now skips attributes that raise
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcb54447f2009-01-13 23:39:22 +00006392 AttributeError, e.g. a __slots__ attribute which has not been set.
6393
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006394- Issue #1696199: Add collections.Counter() for rapid and convenient counting.
Raymond Hettingerf94d7fa2009-01-12 22:58:41 +00006395
Antoine Pitroubd4b5f22009-01-10 16:15:24 +00006396- Issue #3860: GzipFile and BZ2File now support the context manager protocol.
6397
Antoine Pitrouf0d2c3f2009-01-04 21:29:23 +00006398- Issue #4272: Add an optional argument to the GzipFile constructor to override
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006399 the timestamp in the gzip stream. The default value remains the current time.
6400 The information can be used by e.g. gunzip when decompressing. Patch by
Antoine Pitrouf0d2c3f2009-01-04 21:29:23 +00006401 Jacques Frechet.
6402
Mark Dickinson514d4832009-01-04 21:25:40 +00006403- Restore Python 2.3 compatibility for decimal.py.
6404
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00006405- Issue #1702551: distutils sdist was not excluding VCS directories under
Ezio Melotti50bc66a2012-11-03 21:29:08 +02006406 Windows. Initial solution by Guy Dalberto.
Tarek Ziadé85d6fb52009-01-04 00:04:49 +00006407
Guilherme Poloe7f14032009-01-03 21:51:09 +00006408- The _tkinter module functions "createfilehandler", "deletefilehandler",
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006409 "createtimerhandler", "mainloop", "dooneevent" and "quit" have been deprecated
6410 for removal in 3.x
Guilherme Poloe7f14032009-01-03 21:51:09 +00006411
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006412- Issue #4796: Added Decimal.from_float() and
6413 Context.create_decimal_from_float() to the decimal module.
Raymond Hettingerf4d85972009-01-03 19:02:23 +00006414
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006415- Issue #4812: Add missing underscore prefix to some internal-use-only constants
6416 in the decimal module. (Dec_0 becomes _Dec_0, etc.)
Mark Dickinsonc5de0962009-01-02 23:07:08 +00006417
Benjamin Peterson8ad09a42008-12-31 23:48:39 +00006418- Issue #4795: inspect.isgeneratorfunction() returns False instead of None when
6419 the function is not a generator.
6420
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006421- Issue #4702: Throwing a DistutilsPlatformError instead of IOError in case no
6422 MSVC compiler is found under Windows. Original patch by Philip Jenvey.
Tarek Ziadéb1a85412008-12-30 23:03:41 +00006423
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006424- Issue #4646: distutils was choking on empty options arg in the setup function.
6425 Original patch by Thomas Heller.
Tarek Ziadéc13acb12008-12-29 22:23:53 +00006426
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006427- Fractions.from_float() no longer loses precision for integers too big to cast
6428 as floats.
Georg Brandlfe427892009-01-03 22:03:11 +00006429
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006430- Issue #4790: The nsmallest() and nlargest() functions in the heapq module did
6431 unnecessary work in the common case where no key function was specified.
Georg Brandlfe427892009-01-03 22:03:11 +00006432
Martin v. Löwis732479f2008-12-29 16:22:25 +00006433- Issue #3767: Convert Tk object to string in tkColorChooser.
6434
Martin v. Löwise2eb2b42008-12-29 15:51:01 +00006435- Issue #3248: Allow placing ScrolledText in a PanedWindow.
6436
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006437- Issue #4444: Allow assertRaises() to be used as a context handler, so that the
6438 code under test can be written inline if more practical.
Antoine Pitrou697ca3d2008-12-28 14:09:36 +00006439
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006440- Issue #4739: Add pydoc help topics for symbols, so that e.g. help('@') works
6441 as expected in the interactive environment.
Georg Brandlc3a98032008-12-27 18:20:04 +00006442
Antoine Pitrou6f193e02008-12-27 15:43:12 +00006443- Issue #4756: zipfile.is_zipfile() now supports file-like objects. Patch by
6444 Gabriel Genellina.
6445
Tarek Ziadée4c75bb2008-12-24 19:10:05 +00006446- Issue #4400: .pypirc default generated file was broken in distutils.
6447
Benjamin Peterson54686e32008-12-24 15:10:27 +00006448- Issue #4736: io.BufferedRWPair's closed property now functions properly.
6449
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006450- Issue #3954: Fix a potential SystemError in _hotshot.logreader error handling.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc31949b92008-12-15 21:47:57 +00006451
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006452- Issue #4574: Fix a crash in io.IncrementalNewlineDecoder when a carriage
6453 return encodes to more than one byte in the source encoding (e.g. UTF-16) and
6454 gets split on a chunk boundary.
Antoine Pitrou655fbf12008-12-14 17:40:51 +00006455
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006456- Issue #4223: inspect.getsource() will now correctly display source code for
6457 packages loaded via zipimport (or any other conformant PEP 302
Nick Coghlana2053472008-12-14 10:54:50 +00006458 loader). Original patch by Alexander Belopolsky.
6459
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006460- Issue #4201: pdb can now access and display source code loaded via zipimport
6461 (or any other conformant PEP 302 loader). Original patch by Alexander
6462 Belopolsky.
Nick Coghlana2053472008-12-14 10:54:50 +00006463
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006464- Issue #4197: Doctests in modules loaded via zipimport (or any other PEP 302
6465 conformant loader) will now work correctly in most cases (they are still
6466 subject to the constraints that exist for all code running from inside a
6467 module loaded via a PEP 302 loader and attempting to perform IO operations
6468 based on __file__). Original patch by Alexander Belopolsky.
Nick Coghlana2053472008-12-14 10:54:50 +00006469
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006470- Issues #4082 and #4512: Add runpy support to zipimport in a manner that allows
6471 backporting to maintenance branches. Original patch by Alexander Belopolsky.
Nick Coghlana2053472008-12-14 10:54:50 +00006472
Antoine Pitrou74af3bb2008-12-13 23:12:30 +00006473- Issue #4163: Use unicode-friendly word splitting in the textwrap functions
Ezio Melotti302ad8d2013-01-19 19:44:58 +02006474 when given a Unicode string.
Antoine Pitrou74af3bb2008-12-13 23:12:30 +00006475
Lars Gustäbel3b027422008-12-12 13:58:03 +00006476- Issue #4616: TarFile.utime(): Restore directory times on Windows.
6477
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006478- Issue #4084: Fix max, min, max_mag and min_mag Decimal methods to give correct
6479 results in the case where one argument is a quiet NaN and the other is a
6480 finite number that requires rounding.
Facundo Batistae29d4352008-12-11 04:19:46 +00006481
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006482- Issue #1030250: Distutils created directories even when run with the --dry-run
6483 option.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc240028c2008-12-11 00:03:42 +00006484
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006485- Issue #4483: _dbm module now builds on systems with gdbm & gdbm_compat libs.
Skip Montanaro45313fe2008-12-06 17:43:30 +00006486
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006487- Issue #4529: Fix the parser module's validation of try-except-finally
Georg Brandlfe879e82008-12-05 12:09:41 +00006488 statements.
6489
Georg Brandla07435d2008-12-05 09:23:14 +00006490- Issue #4458: getopt.gnu_getopt() now recognizes a single "-" as an argument,
6491 not a malformed option.
6492
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006493- Added the subprocess.check_output() convenience function to get output from a
6494 subprocess on success or raise an exception on error.
Gregory P. Smith97f49f42008-12-04 20:21:09 +00006495
Fred Drake52481032008-12-04 18:25:17 +00006496- Issue #1055234: cgi.parse_header(): Fixed parsing of header parameters to
6497 support unusual filenames (such as those containing semi-colons) in
6498 Content-Disposition headers.
6499
Vinay Sajip6831d6b2008-12-04 20:32:18 +00006500- Issue #4384: Added logging integration with warnings module using
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006501 captureWarnings(). This change includes a NullHandler which does nothing; it
6502 will be of use to library developers who want to avoid the "No handlers could
6503 be found for logger XXX" message which can appear if the library user doesn't
6504 configure logging.
Vinay Sajip213faca2008-12-03 23:22:58 +00006505
Christian Heimesaa674712008-11-28 11:02:32 +00006506- Issue #3741: DISTUTILS_USE_SDK set causes msvc9compiler.py to raise an
6507 exception.
6508
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006509- Issue #4363: The uuid.uuid1() and uuid.uuid4() functions now work even if the
6510 ctypes module is not present.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd4294172008-11-21 22:05:48 +00006511
Benjamin Petersonbfc51562008-11-22 01:59:15 +00006512- FileIO's mode attribute now always includes ``"b"``.
6513
Martin v. Löwisbb9b1f12008-11-19 09:09:41 +00006514- Issue #4116: Resolve member name conflict in ScrolledCanvas.__init__.
6515
Brett Cannone3d0bf72008-11-15 22:40:44 +00006516- httplib.HTTPConnection.putheader() now accepts an arbitrary number of values
6517 for any header, matching what the documentation has claimed for a while.
6518
Hirokazu Yamamotob9828f62008-11-03 18:03:06 +00006519- Issue #3774: Fixed an error when create a Tkinter menu item without command
6520 and then remove it.
6521
Thomas Heller1fac5a42008-10-30 20:18:13 +00006522- Fixed a modulefinder crash on certain relative imports.
6523
Benjamin Petersonc18574c2008-10-22 21:16:34 +00006524- Issue #4150: Pdb's "up" command now works for generator frames in post-mortem
6525 debugging.
6526
Benjamin Petersone4dc1752008-10-21 22:20:31 +00006527- Issue #4092: Return ArgInfo as promised in the documentation from
6528 inspect.getargvalues.
6529
Georg Brandlf3776a12008-10-08 18:47:17 +00006530- Issue #3935: Properly support list subclasses in bisect's C implementation.
6531
Martin v. Löwis96a9f232008-10-06 15:15:40 +00006532- Issue #4014: Don't claim that Python has an Alpha release status, in addition
6533 to claiming it is Mature.
6534
Alexandre Vassalotti6067f782008-12-27 07:13:01 +00006535- Issue #4730: Fixed the cPickle module to handle correctly astral characters
6536 when protocol 0 is used.
6537
Ronald Oussoren0238497e2009-01-02 14:10:20 +00006538- Issue #1594: MacOS.GetCreatorAndType now always returns a big-endian result,
6539 to be consistent with Apple tools.
6540
Ronald Oussoren63b74fe2009-01-02 14:46:19 +00006541- Issue #900949: plat-mac/videoreader.py no longer relies on a non-existing
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00006542 module.
Ronald Oussoren63b74fe2009-01-02 14:46:19 +00006543
Ronald Oussoren7f8cbf02009-01-02 14:48:17 +00006544- Issue #16278952: plat-mac/videoreader.py now correctly imports MediaDescr
6545
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006546- Issue #1737832: plat-mac/EasyDialog.py no longer uses the broken aepack
Ronald Oussoren919697c2009-01-02 14:52:09 +00006547 module.
6548
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006549- Issue #1149804: macostools.mkdirs now even works when another process creates
6550 one of the needed subdirectories.
Ronald Oussorenabcc1682009-01-02 15:00:05 +00006551
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006552- Issue #900506: added --no-zipimport flag to the bundlebuilder script.
Ronald Oussoren072bb402009-01-02 15:25:36 +00006553
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006554- Issue #841800: bundlebuilder now works with 'python -O'.
Ronald Oussoren072bb402009-01-02 15:25:36 +00006555
Matthias Klose43723e22009-01-10 17:00:42 +00006556- Issue #4861: ctypes.util.find_library(): Robustify. Fix library detection on
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006557 biarch systems. Try to rely on ldconfig only, without using objdump and gcc.
Matthias Klose43723e22009-01-10 17:00:42 +00006558
Gregory P. Smithde1a8b72009-01-31 22:57:30 +00006559- Issue #5104: The socket module now raises OverflowError when 16-bit port and
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006560 protocol numbers are supplied outside the allowed 0-65536 range on bind() and
6561 getservbyport().
Gregory P. Smithde1a8b72009-01-31 22:57:30 +00006562
Neil Schemenauer92c3b212009-02-07 00:54:41 +00006563- Issue #999042: The Python compiler now handles explict global statements
6564 correctly (should be assigned using STORE_GLOBAL opcode).
6565
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006566- Issue #2703: SimpleXMLRPCDispatcher.__init__: Provide default values for new
6567 arguments introduced in 2.5.
Matthias Klosea5d58c82009-04-05 21:00:48 +00006568
Walter Dörwald5d98ec72009-04-25 14:03:16 +00006569- Issue #5828 (Invalid behavior of unicode.lower): Fixed bogus logic in
6570 makeunicodedata.py and regenerated the Unicode database (This fixes
6571 u'\u1d79'.lower() == '\x00').
6572
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Wervenb87b3342009-05-08 14:11:23 +00006573- Windows locale mapping updated to Vista.
6574
Serhiy Storchakaff99e412013-04-14 18:52:15 +03006575IDLE
6576----
6577
6578- Issue #5150: IDLE's format menu now has an option to strip trailing
6579 whitespace.
6580
6581- Issue #5847: Remove -n switch on "Edit with IDLE" menu item.
6582
Antoine Pitroue555f582008-12-27 20:34:52 +00006583Tools/Demos
6584-----------
6585
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006586- Ttk demos added in Demo/tkinter/ttk/.
Guilherme Polo4eae0782009-01-28 15:56:01 +00006587
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006588- Issue #4677: Add two list comprehension tests to pybench.
Antoine Pitroue555f582008-12-27 20:34:52 +00006589
Brett Cannon60b15d22008-10-06 22:44:37 +00006590Build
6591-----
6592
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006593- Issue #6603: Change READ_TIMESTAMP macro in ceval.c so that it compiles
6594 correctly under gcc on x86-64. This fixes a reported problem with the
6595 --with-tsc build on x86-64.
Mark Dickinson504a1512009-10-31 10:11:28 +00006596
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006597- Add 2 new options to ``--with-universal-archs`` on MacOSX: ``intel`` builds a
6598 distribution with ``i386`` and ``x86_64`` architectures, while ``3-way``
6599 builds a distribution with the ``ppc``, ``i386`` and ``x86_64`` architectures.
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +00006600
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006601- Issue #6802: Fix build issues on MacOSX 10.6.
Ronald Oussoren25967582009-09-06 10:00:26 +00006602
Guilherme Polo1ce2d532009-08-16 14:38:57 +00006603- Issue #6244: Allow detect_tkinter to look for Tcl/Tk 8.6.
6604
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00006605- Issue #5390: Add uninstall icon independent of whether file extensions are
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006606 installed.
Martin v. Löwisecb4f952009-06-28 09:32:39 +00006607
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00006608- Issue #5809: Specifying both --enable-framework and --enable-shared is an
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006609 error. Configure now explicity tells you about this.
Ronald Oussoren450d5612009-06-08 21:12:41 +00006610
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006611- Issue #3585: Add pkg-config support. It creates a python-2.7.pc file and a
6612 python.pc symlink in the $(LIBDIR)/pkgconfig directory. Patch by Clinton Roy.
Antoine Pitrouf2caeed2009-05-24 20:23:57 +00006613
Benjamin Petersone5afa3b2009-05-23 19:24:37 +00006614- Issue #6094: Build correctly with Subversion 1.7.
6615
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006616- Issue #5726: Make Modules/ld_so_aix return the actual exit code of the linker,
6617 rather than always exit successfully. Patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
Antoine Pitrou3fd4ea92009-05-01 21:16:14 +00006618
Matthias Klose10cbe482009-04-29 17:18:19 +00006619- Issue #4587: Add configure option --with-dbmliborder=db1:db2:... to specify
Vinay Sajipf9b01fe2009-05-09 12:07:17 +00006620 the order that backends for the dbm extension are checked.
Matthias Klose10cbe482009-04-29 17:18:19 +00006621
Matthias Klose8ad554f2009-02-22 23:14:26 +00006622- Link the shared python library with $(MODLIBS).
6623
Martin v. Löwisa3e3cb72009-02-10 13:09:19 +00006624- Issue #5134: Silence compiler warnings when compiling sqlite with VC++.
6625
Martin v. Löwisfee1c7f2009-02-02 14:23:16 +00006626- Issue #4494: Fix build with Py_NO_ENABLE_SHARED on Windows.
6627
Martin v. Löwiseefda272009-01-11 09:43:55 +00006628- Issue #4895: Use _strdup on Windows CE.
6629
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006630- Issue #4472: ``configure --enable-shared`` now works on OSX.
Ronald Oussorenf7d54052009-01-02 10:48:31 +00006631
Benjamin Petersonfd9633e2008-12-28 15:37:31 +00006632- Issues #4728 and #4060: WORDS_BIGEDIAN is now correct in Universal builds.
6633
Martin v. Löwiscb6c3592008-11-30 11:08:26 +00006634- Issue #4389: Add icon to the uninstall entry in "add-and-remove-programs".
6635
Martin v. Löwis63470982008-11-19 13:51:44 +00006636- Issue #4289: Remove Cancel button from AdvancedDlg.
6637
Martin v. Löwis3d6f8ff2008-11-07 18:51:50 +00006638- Issue #1656675: Register a drop handler for .py* files on Windows.
6639
Martin v. Löwis692c2f82008-11-06 16:43:00 +00006640- Issue #4120: Exclude manifest from extension modules in VS2008.
6641
Martin v. Löwis0f3e7692008-10-17 13:43:01 +00006642- Issue #4091: Install pythonxy.dll in system32 again.
6643
Martin v. Löwiseba774b2008-10-13 11:23:35 +00006644- Issue #4018: Disable "for me" installations on Vista.
6645
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006646- Issue #3758: Add ``patchcheck`` build target to ``.PHONY``.
Brett Cannon60b15d22008-10-06 22:44:37 +00006647
Martin v. Löwisbb86d832008-11-04 20:40:09 +00006648- Issue #4204: Fixed module build errors on FreeBSD 4.
6649
Tarek Ziadéc4a4aeb2009-08-21 14:28:38 +00006650Documentation
6651-------------
6652
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006653- Issue #6556: Fixed the Distutils configuration files location explanation for
6654 Windows.
Tarek Ziadéc4a4aeb2009-08-21 14:28:38 +00006655
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006656- Issue #6801: symmetric_difference_update also accepts ``|``. Thanks to Carl
6657 Chenet.
Tarek Ziadé3092ed92009-08-29 13:33:21 +00006658
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc07d539d2008-10-14 21:47:22 +00006659C-API
6660-----
6661
Mark Dickinsone31d3002009-12-21 11:21:25 +00006662- Issue #7528: Add PyLong_AsLongAndOverflow (backported from py3k).
6663
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006664- Issue #7228: Add '%lld' and '%llu' support to PyString_FromFormat(V) and
6665 PyErr_Format, on machines with HAVE_LONG_LONG defined.
Mark Dickinson82864d12009-11-15 16:18:58 +00006666
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006667- Add new C-API function PyOS_string_to_double, and deprecated PyOS_ascii_atof
6668 and PyOS_ascii_strtod.
Mark Dickinson09823a22009-10-31 09:42:39 +00006669
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006670- Removed _PyOS_double_to_string. Use PyOS_double_to_string instead. This is in
6671 preparation for (but not strictly related to) issue #7117, short float repr.
Mark Dickinsonba26b392009-10-31 09:28:12 +00006672
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006673- Issue #6624: PyArg_ParseTuple with "s" format when parsing argument with NULL:
6674 Bogus TypeError detail string.
Sean Reifscheider9279e7d2009-08-01 23:54:55 +00006675
Jeffrey Yasskinf7f858d2009-05-08 22:23:21 +00006676- Issue #5954: Add a PyFrame_GetLineNumber() function to replace most uses of
6677 PyCode_Addr2Line().
6678
Jeffrey Yasskin1aa47002009-05-08 21:51:06 +00006679- Issue #5959: Add a PyCode_NewEmpty() function to create a new empty code
6680 object at a specified file, function, and line number.
6681
Brett Cannonc4f90eb2009-04-02 03:17:39 +00006682- Issue #1419652: Change the first argument to PyImport_AppendInittab() to
6683 ``const char *`` as the string is stored beyond the call.
6684
Benjamin Peterson5781f322009-02-16 21:09:09 +00006685- Some PyBytes_* aliases have been removed because they don't exist in 3.x.
6686
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006687- Issue #5175: PyLong_AsUnsignedLongLong now raises OverflowError for negative
6688 arguments. Previously, it raised TypeError.
Mark Dickinson4015f622009-02-10 15:46:50 +00006689
Benjamin Petersoncf2ce242008-12-22 20:52:53 +00006690- Issue #4720: The format for PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords can begin with '|'.
6691
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006692- Issue #3632: From the gdb debugger, the 'pyo' macro can now be called when the
6693 GIL is released, or owned by another thread.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc3538a312008-12-15 22:29:14 +00006694
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc07d539d2008-10-14 21:47:22 +00006695- Issue #4122: On Windows, fix a compilation error when using the
6696 Py_UNICODE_ISSPACE macro in an extension module.
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00006697
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006698- Issue #4293: Py_AddPendingCall() is now thread safe and can be used for
Kristján Valur Jónssonc22ab182009-01-12 09:24:04 +00006699 asynchronous notifications to python from any thread. Documentation added.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc07d539d2008-10-14 21:47:22 +00006700
Benjamin Peterson9dfe6a82008-11-24 04:09:03 +00006701Extension Modules
6702-----------------
6703
Martin v. Löwis50ea4562009-11-27 13:56:01 +00006704- Issue #6508: Add posix.{getresuid,getresgid,setresuid,setresgid}.
6705
Mark Dickinson3d830822009-10-08 15:54:10 +00006706- Issue #7078: Set struct.__doc__ from _struct.__doc__.
6707
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006708- Issue #3366: Add erf, erfc, expm1, gamma, lgamma functions to math module.
Mark Dickinsonb93fff02009-09-28 18:54:55 +00006709
Brett Cannon4d947432009-09-22 00:29:48 +00006710- Issue #6823: Allow time.strftime() to accept a tuple with a isdst field
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006711 outside of the range of [-1, 1] by normalizing the value to within that range.
Brett Cannon4d947432009-09-22 00:29:48 +00006712
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006713- Issue #6877: Make it possible to link the readline extension to libedit on
6714 OSX.
Ronald Oussoren9f20d9d2009-09-20 14:18:15 +00006715
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006716- Issue #6944: Fix a SystemError when socket.getnameinfo() was called with
6717 something other than a tuple as first argument.
Georg Brandlab849892009-09-19 07:35:07 +00006718
Benjamin Peterson7f6d0832009-09-08 23:04:22 +00006719- Issue #6865: Fix reference counting issue in the initialization of the pwd
6720 module.
6721
Mark Dickinson6b3f1ef2009-09-06 21:21:05 +00006722- Issue #6848: Fix curses module build failure on OS X 10.6.
6723
Brett Cannon764465f2009-08-13 19:27:12 +00006724- Fix a segfault in expat when given a specially crafted input lead to the
Matthias Klose3b0f9b02010-01-22 00:34:48 +00006725 tokenizer not stopping. CVE-2009-3720.
Brett Cannon764465f2009-08-13 19:27:12 +00006726
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006727- Issue #6561: '\d' in a regex now matches only characters with Unicode category
6728 'Nd' (Number, Decimal Digit). Previously it also matched characters with
6729 category 'No'.
Mark Dickinsonfe67bd92009-07-28 20:35:03 +00006730
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006731- Issue #1523: Remove deprecated overflow wrapping for struct.pack with an
6732 integer format code ('bBhHiIlLqQ'). Packing an out-of-range integer now
6733 consistently raises struct.error.
Mark Dickinson5fd3af22009-07-07 15:08:28 +00006734
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006735- Issues #1530559, #1741130: Fix various struct.pack inconsistencies for the
6736 integer formats ('bBhHiIlLqQ'). In the following, '*' represents any of '=',
6737 '<', '>'.
Mark Dickinson463dc4b2009-07-05 10:01:24 +00006738
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006739 - Packing a float now always gives a Deprecation Warning. Previously it
6740 only warned for 'I', 'L', '*B', '*H', '*I', '*L'.
Mark Dickinson463dc4b2009-07-05 10:01:24 +00006741
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006742 - If x is not an int, long or float, then packing x will always result in
6743 struct.error. Previously an x with an __int__ method could be packed by
6744 'b', 'B', 'h', 'H', 'i', 'l', '*b', '*h' ,'*i', '*l', and an x with a
6745 __long__ method could be packed by 'q', 'Q', '*q', '*Q'; for x with
6746 neither __int__ nor __long__, TypeError used to be raised (with a
6747 confusing error message) for 'I', 'L', '*B', '*H', '*I', '*L', and
6748 struct.error in other cases.
Mark Dickinson463dc4b2009-07-05 10:01:24 +00006749
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006750 Note: as of Python 2.7 beta 1, the above is out of date. In 2.7 beta 1, any
6751 argument with an __int__ method can be packed, but use of this feature
6752 triggers a DeprecationWarning.
Mark Dickinson154b7ad2010-03-07 16:24:45 +00006753
Martin v. Löwis4f16d3b2009-05-29 15:58:08 +00006754- Issue #4873: Fix resource leaks in error cases of pwd and grp.
6755
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006756- Issue #4751: For hashlib algorithms provided by OpenSSL, the Python GIL is now
6757 released during computation on data lengths >= 2048 bytes.
Gregory P. Smithd02eeda2009-05-04 00:16:49 +00006758
Gregory P. Smithea388262009-02-13 03:00:00 +00006759- Issue #3745: Fix hashlib to always reject unicode and non buffer-api
6760 supporting objects as input no matter how it was compiled (built in
Gregory P. Smithfe32d302010-01-02 22:42:50 +00006761 implementations or external openssl library). NOTE: Undone in 2.7a2.
Gregory P. Smithea388262009-02-13 03:00:00 +00006762
Mark Dickinsona200dd52009-01-15 15:17:43 +00006763- Issue #4397: Fix occasional test_socket failure on OS X.
Mark Dickinsone82cdae2009-01-15 14:54:37 +00006764
Martin v. Löwisb3b7d852009-01-11 09:26:54 +00006765- Issue #4279: Fix build of parsermodule under Cygwin.
6766
Martin v. Löwis9ac49272009-01-02 20:40:14 +00006767- Issue #4051: Prevent conflict of UNICODE macros in cPickle.
6768
Georg Brandl6269fec2009-01-01 12:15:31 +00006769- Issue #4228: Pack negative values the same way as 2.4 in struct's L format.
6770
Martin v. Löwis03824e42008-12-29 18:17:34 +00006771- Issue #1040026: Fix os.times result on systems where HZ is incorrect.
6772
Mark Dickinson4c96fa52008-12-11 19:28:08 +00006773- Issues #3167, #3682: Fix test_math failures for log, log10 on Solaris,
6774 OpenBSD.
6775
Martin v. Löwisbcb017f2008-11-30 19:28:27 +00006776- Issue #4365: Add crtassem.h constants to the msvcrt module.
6777
Benjamin Peterson9dfe6a82008-11-24 04:09:03 +00006778- Issue #4396: The parser module now correctly validates the with statement.
6779
Jack Diederichd60c29e2009-03-31 23:46:48 +00006780- Issue #5228: Make functools.partial objects can now be pickled.
6781
Guilherme Polob1a98de2009-01-28 20:03:26 +00006782Tests
6783-----
6784
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006785- Issue #7431: Use TESTFN in test_linecache instead of trying to create a file
6786 in the Lib/test directory, which might be read-only for the user running the
6787 tests.
R. David Murray820b0ea2009-12-03 23:57:59 +00006788
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006789- Issue #7324: Add a sanity check to regrtest argument parsing to catch the case
6790 of an option with no handler.
R. David Murrayda826892009-11-15 00:04:32 +00006791
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006792- Issue #7312: Add a -F flag to run the selected tests in a loop until a test
6793 fails. Can be combined with -j.
R. David Murray7f7eea62009-11-14 15:18:22 +00006794
Antoine Pitrou310c9fe2009-11-11 20:55:07 +00006795- Issue #7295: Do not use a hardcoded file name in test_tarfile.
6796
Antoine Pitrouc98efe02009-11-06 22:34:35 +00006797- Issue #7270: Add some dedicated unit tests for multi-thread synchronization
6798 primitives such as Lock, RLock, Condition, Event and Semaphore.
6799
Antoine Pitrou59c44f32009-10-30 17:07:08 +00006800- Issue #7222: Make thread "reaping" more reliable so that reference
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006801 leak-chasing test runs give sensible results. The previous method of reaping
6802 threads could return successfully while some Thread objects were still
6803 referenced. This also introduces a new private function: ``thread._count()``.
Antoine Pitrou59c44f32009-10-30 17:07:08 +00006804
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006805- Issue #7151: Fixed regrtest -j so that output to stderr from a test no longer
6806 runs the risk of causing the worker thread to fail.
R. David Murray282396f2009-10-18 21:12:37 +00006807
Antoine Pitrou58d2f262009-10-10 20:52:11 +00006808- Issue #7055: test___all__ now greedily detects all modules which have an
6809 __all__ attribute, rather than using a hardcoded and incomplete list.
6810
R. David Murray14dcd432009-10-14 13:58:07 +00006811- Issue #7058: Added save/restore for things like sys.argv and cwd to
6812 runtest_inner in regrtest, with warnings if the called test modifies them,
6813 and a new section in the summary report at the end.
R. David Murrayabe3d3e2009-10-05 17:03:09 +00006814
Mark Dickinson245d9152009-10-04 18:38:39 +00006815- Issue #7042: Fix test_signal (test_itimer_virtual) failure on OS X 10.6.
6816
Brett Cannone7e941e2009-09-03 21:25:21 +00006817- Issue #6806: test_platform failed under OS X 10.6.0 because ``sw_ver`` leaves
6818 off the trailing 0 in the version number.
6819
Guilherme Polo7f146ab2009-06-21 17:22:50 +00006820- Issue #5450: Moved tests involving loading tk from Lib/test/test_tcl to
6821 Lib/lib-tk/test/test_tkinter/test_loadtk. With this, these tests demonstrate
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006822 the same behaviour as test_ttkguionly (and now also test_tk) which is to skip
6823 the tests if DISPLAY is defined but can't be used.
Guilherme Polo7f146ab2009-06-21 17:22:50 +00006824
Antoine Pitrou4698d992009-05-31 14:20:14 +00006825- Issue #6152: New option '-j'/'--multiprocess' for regrtest allows running
6826 regression tests in parallel, shortening the total runtime.
6827
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006828- Issue #5354: New test support function import_fresh_module() makes it easy to
6829 import both normal and optimised versions of modules. test_heapq and
6830 test_warnings have been adjusted to use it, tests for other modules with both
6831 C and Python implementations in the stdlib can be adjusted to use it over
6832 time.
Nick Coghlan5533ff62009-04-22 15:26:04 +00006833
Brett Cannonce3d2212009-04-01 20:25:48 +00006834- Fix test_warnings to no longer reset the warnings filter.
6835
Brett Cannon2da4d622009-04-01 19:57:10 +00006836- Fix test_logging to no longer reset the warnings filter.
6837
Georg Brandld8fb6ac2009-04-01 00:04:33 +00006838- Issue #5635: Fix running test_sys with tracing enabled.
6839
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00006840- regrtest no longer treats ImportError as equivalent to SkipTest. Imports that
6841 should cause a test to be skipped are now done using import_module from test
6842 support, which does the conversion.
R. David Murray41448c52009-03-31 19:57:24 +00006843
Guilherme Polob1a98de2009-01-28 20:03:26 +00006844- Issue #5083: New 'gui' resource for regrtest.
6845
Walter Dörwalda1453172009-04-25 12:15:07 +00006846- Issue #5837: Certain sequences of calls to set() and unset() for
6847 support.EnvironmentVarGuard objects restored the environment variables
6848 incorrectly on __exit__.
6849
Alexandre Vassalotti999ecc02009-07-15 18:19:47 +00006850- Issue #2389: Array objects are now pickled in a portable manner.
6851
Brett Cannon813c43a2009-11-08 21:35:28 +00006852Misc
6853----
6854
6855- Issue #5611: Auto-detect whether a C file uses tabs or spaces in Vim.
6856
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00006857
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00006858What's New in Python 2.6 final
6859==============================
6860
Barry Warsawafa14362008-10-01 21:46:40 +00006861*Release date: 01-Oct-2008*
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00006862
6863Core and Builtins
6864-----------------
6865
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfc5ea392008-09-26 22:34:08 +00006866- Issue #3967: Fixed a crash in the count() and find() methods of string-like
6867 objects, when the "start" parameter is a huge value.
6868
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc17617a02008-09-25 20:52:56 +00006869- Issue #3965: Fixed a crash on Windows when open() is given an invalid
6870 filename or mode, and the filename is a unicode string.
6871
Martin v. Löwise86b07c2008-09-25 04:12:50 +00006872- Bug #3951: Py_USING_MEMORY_DEBUGGER should not be enabled by default.
6873
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00006874Library
6875-------
6876
Martin v. Löwise563aa42008-09-29 22:09:07 +00006877- Issue #3965: Allow repeated calls to turtle.Screen, by making it a
6878 true singleton object.
6879
Brett Cannonb2d61bd2008-09-29 03:41:21 +00006880- Issue #3895: It was possible to crash the interpreter when an external timer
6881 was used with cProfile that returned an object that could not be converted
6882 into a float.
6883
Benjamin Peterson22d3c922008-09-25 20:35:45 +00006884- Issue #3950: Made turtle respect scale factors.
6885
Thomas Hellera85c95d2008-09-24 18:26:05 +00006886- Issue #3547: Fixed ctypes structures bitfields of varying integer
6887 sizes.
6888
Ezio Melotti419e23c2013-08-17 16:56:09 +03006889- Issue #3879: A regression in urllib.getproxies_environment was fixed.
Benjamin Peterson2c7470d2008-09-21 21:27:51 +00006890
Gregory P. Smith08067492008-09-30 20:41:13 +00006891- Issue #3863: Disabled a unit test of fork being called from a thread
6892 when running on platforms known to exhibit OS bugs when attempting that.
6893
Martin v. Löwis175d0072008-09-19 15:21:07 +00006894Build
6895-----
6896
Martin v. Löwisd69c9042008-10-01 11:19:50 +00006897- Bug #3989: Package the 2to3 script (as 2to3.py) in the Windows
6898 installer.
6899
Martin v. Löwis175d0072008-09-19 15:21:07 +00006900- Bug #3887: Package x64 version of CRT for AMD64 Windows binaries.
6901
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00006902
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00006903What's New in Python 2.6 release candidate 2?
6904=============================================
6905
Barry Warsaw6af16192008-09-18 04:33:43 +00006906*Release date: 17-Sep-2008*
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00006907
6908Core and Builtins
6909-----------------
6910
Benjamin Peterson8c2b7dc2008-09-18 01:22:16 +00006911Extension Modules
6912-----------------
6913
Benjamin Peterson8d77d442008-09-30 01:31:49 +00006914- Security Issue #2: imageop did not validate arguments correctly and could
6915 segfault as a result.
6916
Benjamin Peterson8c2b7dc2008-09-18 01:22:16 +00006917- Issue #3886: Possible integer overflows in the _hashopenssl module were
6918 closed.
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00006919
Antoine Pitrou3c9f5412008-09-13 20:30:30 +00006920Tools/Demos
6921-----------
6922
Georg Brandl2bd92a52009-10-11 21:10:07 +00006923- Issue #3850: recursion tests in Tools/scripts/find_recursion_limit.py can raise
Antoine Pitrou3c9f5412008-09-13 20:30:30 +00006924 AttributeError instead of RuntimeError, depending in which C API call
6925 exactly the recursion limit is exceeded. Consequently, both exception types
6926 are caught and silenced.
6927
Martin v. Löwis4eb18f92008-09-14 20:22:39 +00006928Build
6929-----
6930
6931- Issue #3617: Include a licensing statement regarding the Microsoft
6932 C runtime in the Windows installer.
6933
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00006934
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00006935What's New in Python 2.6 release candidate 1?
6936=============================================
6937
Barry Warsaw1e62aec2008-09-12 23:25:57 +00006938*Release date: 12-Sep-2008*
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00006939
6940Core and Builtins
6941-----------------
6942
Martin v. Löwis9fa5a282008-09-11 06:53:30 +00006943- Issue #3642: Suppress warning in obmalloc when size_t is larger than uint.
6944
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc05e34492008-09-10 22:04:45 +00006945- Issue #3743: In a few places, PY_FORMAT_SIZE_T was incorrectly used with
6946 PyString_FromFormat or PyErr_Format to display size_t values. The macro
6947 PY_FORMAT_SIZE_T is designed to select the correct format for the OS
6948 ``printf`` function, whereas PyString_FromFormat has an independent
6949 implementation and uses "%zd" on all platforms for size_t values.
6950 This makes a difference on win64, where ``printf`` needs "%Id" to display
6951 64bit values.
6952
Benjamin Peterson97179b02008-09-09 20:55:01 +00006953- Issue #3634: _weakref.ref(Exception).__init__() gave invalid return value on
6954 error.
6955
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd3ffb892008-09-09 07:24:30 +00006956- Issue #3777: long() applied to a float object now always return a long
6957 object; previously an int would be returned for small values. the __long__
6958 method is allowed to return either an int or a long, but the behaviour of
6959 float objects should not change to respect backward compatibility.
6960
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc3571fbf2008-09-01 19:52:00 +00006961- Issue #3751: str.rpartition would perform a left-partition when called with
6962 a unicode argument.
6963
Benjamin Peterson17f03ca2008-09-01 14:18:30 +00006964- Issue #3683: Fix compilation when --without-threads is given.
6965
Antoine Pitroud4ae97b2008-08-29 18:39:48 +00006966- Issue #3668: Fix a memory leak with the "s*" argument parser in
Vinay Sajip35e3b032008-09-01 14:33:59 +00006967 PyArg_ParseTuple and friends, which occurred when the argument for "s*"
Antoine Pitroud4ae97b2008-08-29 18:39:48 +00006968 was correctly parsed but parsing of subsequent arguments failed.
6969
Vinay Sajip35e3b032008-09-01 14:33:59 +00006970- Issue #2534: speed up isinstance() and issubclass() by 50-70%, so as to
Antoine Pitrou0668c622008-08-26 22:42:08 +00006971 match Python 2.5 speed despite the __instancecheck__ / __subclasscheck__
6972 mechanism. In the process, fix a bug where isinstance() and issubclass(),
6973 when given a tuple of classes as second argument, were looking up
6974 __instancecheck__ / __subclasscheck__ on the tuple rather than on each
6975 type object.
6976
Neal Norwitz18aa3882008-08-24 05:04:52 +00006977- Fix crashes on memory allocation failure found with failmalloc.
6978
6979- Fix memory leaks found with valgrind and update suppressions file.
6980
6981- Fix compiler warnings in opt mode which would lead to invalid memory reads.
6982
6983- Fix problem using wrong name in decimal module reported by pychecker.
6984
Christian Heimes7d4c3172008-08-22 19:47:25 +00006985- Silenced another compiler warning about a used but not defined
6986 function 'stringlib_contains_obj'.
6987
Benjamin Peterson712ee922008-08-24 18:10:20 +00006988- Added warnings on the use of ``__getslice__``, ``__setslice__``, or
6989 ``__delslice__``.
6990
Gregory P. Smith2bb25cc2008-09-02 05:29:51 +00006991- Issue #3678: Correctly pass LDFLAGS and LDLAST to the linker on shared
6992 library targets in the Makefile.
6993
Gregory P. Smith980b99b2008-09-07 05:15:18 +00006994- Issue #1204: The configure script now tests for additional libraries
6995 that may be required when linking against readline. This fixes issues
6996 with x86_64 builds on some platforms (a few Linux flavors and OpenBSD).
6997
Benjamin Peterson14cb6bc2008-08-26 17:08:40 +00006998C-API
6999-----
7000
7001- Aliased PyObject_Bytes to PyObject_Str.
7002
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00007003Library
7004-------
7005
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc24cb3822008-09-11 20:56:13 +00007006- Issue #3640: Pickling a list or a dict uses less local variables, to reduce
7007 stack usage in the case of deeply nested objects.
7008
Guido van Rossume3c4fd92008-09-10 14:27:00 +00007009- Issue #3629: Fix sre "bytecode" validator for an end case.
7010
Martin v. Löwis24329ba2008-09-10 13:38:12 +00007011- Issue #3811: The Unicode database was updated to 5.1.
7012
Nick Coghland2e09382008-09-11 12:11:06 +00007013- Issue #3781: Further warnings.catch_warnings() cleanup to prevent
7014 silent misbehaviour when a single instance is nested in multiple
7015 with statements, or when the methods are invoked in the wrong order.
7016
Vinay Sajip844f7412008-09-09 13:42:08 +00007017- Issue #3809: Fixed spurious 'test.blah' file left behind by test_logging.
7018
Nick Coghland2e09382008-09-11 12:11:06 +00007019- Issue #3781: Clean up the API for warnings.catch_warnings() by having it
Brett Cannon672237d2008-09-09 00:49:16 +00007020 return a list or None rather than a custom object.
7021
Benjamin Peterson6ac7d7c2008-09-06 19:28:11 +00007022- Issue #1638033: Cookie.Morsel gained the httponly attribute.
7023
Antoine Pitrouebcd0ce2008-09-05 23:30:23 +00007024- Issue #3535: zipfile couldn't read some zip files larger than 2GB.
7025
7026- Issue #3776: Deprecate the bsddb package for removal in 3.0.
Brett Cannon32476fc2008-09-05 18:33:51 +00007027
Hirokazu Yamamoto42e459e2008-09-04 14:25:30 +00007028- Issue #3762: platform.architecture() fails if python is lanched via
7029 its symbolic link.
7030
Vinay Sajip65d66e12008-09-04 07:31:21 +00007031- Issue #3772: Fixed regression problem in StreamHandler.emit().
7032
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00007033- Issue #600362: Relocated parse_qs() and parse_qsl(), from the cgi module
Facundo Batistac585df92008-09-03 22:35:50 +00007034 to the urlparse one. Added a PendingDeprecationWarning in the old
7035 module, it will be deprecated in the future.
7036
Marc-André Lemburgb339b2a2008-09-03 11:13:56 +00007037- Issue #2562: Fix distutils PKG-INFO writing logic to allow having
7038 non-ascii characters and Unicode in setup.py meta-data.
7039
7040- Issue #3726: Allow spaces in separators in logging configuration files.
Vinay Sajip6a2fd812008-09-03 09:20:05 +00007041
Marc-André Lemburg31a0a142008-09-02 12:11:19 +00007042- Issue #3719: platform.architecture() fails if there are spaces in the
7043 path to the Python binary.
7044
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00007045- Issue #3602: Moved test.test_support.catch_warning() to
Brett Cannon1eaf0742008-09-02 01:25:16 +00007046 warnings.catch_warnings() along with some API cleanup. Expanding the tests
7047 for catch_warnings() also led to an improvement in the raising of a
7048 DeprecationWarning related to warnings.warn_explicit().
7049
Benjamin Peterson973e6c22008-09-01 23:12:58 +00007050- The deprecation warnings for the old camelCase threading API were removed.
7051
Vinay Sajip35e3b032008-09-01 14:33:59 +00007052- logging: fixed lack of use of encoding attribute specified on a stream.
7053
Christian Heimesa27a62e2008-08-22 19:55:54 +00007054- Silenced a trivial compiler warning in the sqlite module.
7055
Christian Heimes1cc69632008-08-22 20:10:27 +00007056- Fixed two format strings in the _collections module.
7057
Benjamin Peterson17f03ca2008-09-01 14:18:30 +00007058- Issue #3703: _fileio.FileIO gave unhelpful error message when trying to open a
7059 directory.
Benjamin Petersonf22c26e2008-09-01 14:13:43 +00007060
Gregory P. Smithd7122032008-09-02 05:36:11 +00007061- Issue #3708: os.urandom no longer goes into an infinite loop when passed a
7062 non-integer floating point number.
7063
Vinay Sajip65d66e12008-09-04 07:31:21 +00007064- Issue #3110: multiprocessing fails to compiel on solaris 10 due to missing
Jesse Nollerb814d6a2008-09-03 18:10:30 +00007065 SEM_VALUE_MAX.
7066
Benjamin Peterson37346b22008-08-23 20:27:43 +00007067Extension Modules
7068-----------------
7069
Jesse Noller438195f2009-01-18 21:04:36 +00007070- Issue #4301: Patch the logging module to add processName support, remove
7071 _check_logger_class from multiprocessing.
7072
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc293924b2008-09-02 23:19:56 +00007073- Issue #2975: When compiling several extension modules with Visual Studio 2008
7074 from the same python interpreter, some environment variables would grow
7075 without limit.
7076
Benjamin Peterson37346b22008-08-23 20:27:43 +00007077- Issue #3643: Added a few more checks to _testcapi to prevent segfaults by
7078 exploitation of poor argument checking.
7079
Gerhard Häringef2276b2008-09-12 13:54:06 +00007080- sqlite3: Changed docstring of iterdump() to mark method as "Non-standard".
7081
Gerhard Häring6e1afcf2008-09-12 18:58:57 +00007082- Issue #3103: Reduced globals symbols used by sqlite3 module and made sure all
7083 remaining ones have "pysqlite_" prefix.
7084
Gerhard Häringe6872eb2008-09-12 22:33:22 +00007085- Issue #3846: Release the GIL during sqlite3_prepare calls. This improves
7086 concurrent access to the same SQLite database from multiple
7087 threads/processes.
7088
Brett Cannona0b74442008-09-03 22:45:11 +00007089Tests
7090-----
7091
Nick Coghland2e09382008-09-11 12:11:06 +00007092- Issue #3781: Add test.test_support.check_warnings() as a convenience
7093 wrapper for warnings.catch_warnings() that makes it easier to check
7094 that expected warning messages are being reported.
7095
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfeb8cad2008-09-06 20:53:51 +00007096- Issue #3796: Some tests functions were not enabled in test_float.
7097
7098- Issue #3768: Move test_py3kwarn over to the new API for catch_warnings().
Brett Cannona0b74442008-09-03 22:45:11 +00007099
Brett Cannoncdeb24b2008-09-05 22:59:17 +00007100Build
7101-----
7102
Martin v. Löwisab0b29b2008-09-13 08:11:57 +00007103- Issue #3833: Use a different upgrade code for Win64 installers.
7104
Martin v. Löwis3f5fda82008-09-08 13:50:10 +00007105- Issue #2271: Set SecureCustomProperties so that installation will properly
7106 use the TARGETDIR even for unprivileged users.
7107
Martin v. Löwis67543a92008-09-08 12:02:45 +00007108- Allow passing the MSI file name to merge.py.
7109
Vinay Sajip844f7412008-09-09 13:42:08 +00007110- Issue #3758: Rename the 'check' target to 'patchcheck' so as to not clash
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfeb8cad2008-09-06 20:53:51 +00007111 with GNU build target guidelines.
Brett Cannoncdeb24b2008-09-05 22:59:17 +00007112
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00007113
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00007114What's New in Python 2.6 beta 3?
7115================================
7116
Barry Warsaw07a4a382008-08-21 01:15:08 +00007117*Release date: 20-Aug-2008*
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00007118
7119Core and Builtins
7120-----------------
7121
Guido van Rossumf8402962008-08-20 15:01:50 +00007122- Issue #1878: Remove Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_VERSION_TAG from
7123 Py_TPFLAGS_DEFAULT when not building the core. This means 3rd party
7124 extensions do not automatically benefit from the class attribute
7125 cache; they will have to explicitly add Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_VERSION_TAG
7126 to their tp_flags field if they care. This is a backwards
7127 compatibility feature; in 3.0, all types will use the cache by
7128 default.
7129
Benjamin Petersonf647dc12008-08-20 01:27:30 +00007130- Keyword arguments can now follow starred arguments. (``f(a, *args,
7131 keyword=23)`` is now valid syntax.)
7132
Thomas Heller0ad5ae02008-08-19 19:25:04 +00007133- ctypes function pointers that are COM methods have a boolean True
7134 value again.
7135
Martin v. Löwisf91d46a2008-08-12 14:49:50 +00007136- Issue #3139: Make buffer-interface thread-safe wrt. PyArg_ParseTuple,
7137 by denying s# to parse objects that have a releasebuffer procedure,
7138 and introducing s*.
7139
Georg Brandl1e13ea92008-08-11 09:07:59 +00007140- Issue #3537: Fix an assertion failure when an empty but presized dict
7141 object was stored in the freelist.
7142
Mark Dickinsonb6467572008-08-04 21:30:09 +00007143- Issue #1481296: Make long(float('nan')) and int(float('nan')) raise
7144 ValueError consistently across platforms.
7145
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc39fd6722008-07-31 21:28:03 +00007146- Issue #3479: On platforms where sizeof(int) is smaller than sizeof(long)
7147 (64bit Unix, for example), unichr() would truncate its argument and return
7148 u'\x00' for unichr(2**32). Now it properly raises an OverflowError.
7149
Neal Norwitze7d8be82008-07-31 17:17:14 +00007150- Apply security patches from Apple.
7151
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc246daed2008-07-31 00:42:16 +00007152- Issue #2542: Now that issubclass() may call arbitrary code, ensure that
7153 PyErr_ExceptionMatches returns 0 when an exception occurs there.
7154
Antoine Pitrou92f82162008-07-25 22:22:08 +00007155- Issue #1819: function calls with several named parameters are now on
7156 average 35% faster (as measured by pybench).
7157
Amaury Forgeot d'Arce4921fe2008-07-21 22:00:38 +00007158- Issue #2378: An unexpected UnboundLocalError or NameError could appear when
7159 the python debugger steps into a class statement: the free variables (local
7160 variables defined in an outer scope) would be deleted from the outer scope.
7161
Gregory P. Smith0470bab2008-07-22 04:46:32 +00007162- Issue #2620: Overflow checking when allocating or reallocating memory
7163 was not always being done properly in some python types and extension
7164 modules. PyMem_MALLOC, PyMem_REALLOC, PyMem_NEW and PyMem_RESIZE have
7165 all been updated to perform better checks and places in the code that
7166 would previously leak memory on the error path when such an allocation
7167 failed have been fixed.
7168
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00007169Library
7170-------
7171
Hirokazu Yamamoto838c79f2008-08-20 13:14:07 +00007172- Issue #3612: Added some missing basic types in ctypes.wintypes.
7173
Benjamin Petersone977ad42008-08-20 01:42:01 +00007174- The methods ``is_in_tuple()``, ``is_vararg()``, and ``is_keywordarg()`` of
7175 symtable.Symbol have been deprecated for removal in 3.0 and the next release.
7176
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc351ffb82008-08-18 19:23:47 +00007177- Issue #2234: distutils failed for some versions of the cygwin compiler. The
7178 version reported by these tools does not necessarily follow the python
7179 version numbering scheme, so the module is less strict when parsing it.
7180
Nick Coghlanf70385a2008-08-18 12:42:46 +00007181- Issue #2235: Added Py3k warnings for types which will become unhashable
7182 under the stricter __hash__ inheritance rules in 3.0. Several types
7183 which did not meet the rules for hash invariants and were already
7184 unhashable in 3.0 have now been explicitly flagged as unhashable in
7185 2.6 as well (collections.Mapping, collections.Set, unittest.TestSuite,
7186 xml.dom.minidom.NamedNodeMap, numbers.Number, UserList.UserList)
7187
Brett Cannon88f801d2008-08-18 00:46:22 +00007188- Update __all__ for cookielib, csv, os, urllib2, and weakref to include things
7189 imported into the module but exposed as part of the module's API.
7190
Brett Cannon7b96f072008-08-18 00:41:11 +00007191- Remove an unneeded import of abc.ABCMeta from 'inspect'.
7192
Brett Cannon46225e72008-08-18 00:36:52 +00007193- Remove unneeded imports of 'sys' and 'warnings' from 'io'.
7194
Brett Cannon25c9d6a2008-08-17 22:10:11 +00007195- Remove unneeded imports of 'warnings' from shelve, filecmp, and dummy_thread.
7196
Hirokazu Yamamoto41a81eb2008-08-17 13:10:46 +00007197- Issue #3575: Incremental decoder's decode function now takes bytearray
7198 by using 's*' instead of 't#'.
7199
Mark Dickinson3e4caeb2009-02-21 20:27:01 +00007200- Issue #2222: Fixed reference leak when occurred os.rename()
Hirokazu Yamamoto7f30a682008-08-17 09:46:56 +00007201 fails unicode conversion on 2nd parameter. (windows only)
7202
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00007203- Issue #2464: urllib2 now supports a malformation in the URL received
Facundo Batista94f243a2008-08-17 03:38:39 +00007204 in a redirect.
7205
Brett Cannonabe423e2008-08-16 21:47:07 +00007206- Silence the DeprecationWarning raised when importing mimetools in
Brett Cannon721b1452008-08-16 22:00:27 +00007207 BaseHTTPServer, cgi (and rfc822), httplib.
Brett Cannonabe423e2008-08-16 21:47:07 +00007208
Facundo Batistaeb90b782008-08-16 14:44:07 +00007209- Issue #2776: fixed small issue when handling an URL with double slash
7210 after a 302 response in the case of not going through a proxy.
7211
Antoine Pitroub90a8be2008-08-15 21:03:21 +00007212- Issue #2676: in the email package, content-type parsing was hanging on
7213 pathological input because of quadratic or exponential behaviour of a
7214 regular expression.
7215
Antoine Pitrou11ec65d2008-08-14 21:04:30 +00007216- Issue #3476: binary buffered reading through the new "io" library is now
7217 thread-safe.
7218
Brett Cannonbf3157b2008-08-14 05:00:03 +00007219- Silence the DeprecationWarning of rfc822 when it is imported by mimetools
7220 since mimetools itself is deprecated. Because modules are cached, all
7221 subsequent imports of rfc822 will not raise a visible DeprecationWarning.
7222
Antoine Pitrou9fcd4b32008-08-11 17:21:36 +00007223- Issue #3134: shutil referenced undefined WindowsError symbol.
7224
Robert Schuppenies14646332008-08-10 11:01:53 +00007225- Issue #1342811: Fix leak in Tkinter.Menu.delete. Commands associated to
7226 menu entries were not deleted.
7227
Brett Cannon83e81842008-08-09 23:30:55 +00007228- Copied the implementation of reduce() to _functools.reduce() to have a
7229 version that did not raise a DeprecationWarning under -3.
7230
Antoine Pitrou76b8bee2008-08-09 17:27:23 +00007231- Issue #3205: When iterating over a BZ2File fails allocating memory, raise
7232 a MemoryError rather than silently stop the iteration.
7233
Guido van Rossum59ce9012008-08-09 14:55:34 +00007234- Issue #3487: sre "bytecode" validator. Passing invalid "re-bytecode"
7235 to _sre.compile() will now be rejected. This should not affect anybody
7236 since the re.compile() function never generates invalid re-bytecode.
7237
Skip Montanaroa032bf42008-08-08 22:52:51 +00007238- Issue #3436: Make csv.DictReader's fieldnames attribute a property so that
7239 upon first access it can be automatically initialized from the csv file if
7240 it wasn't initialized during instantiation.
7241
Brett Cannon3aa2a492008-08-06 22:28:09 +00007242- Issue #2338: Create imp.reload() to help with transitioning to Python 3.0 as
7243 the reload() built-in has been removed.
7244
Brett Cannon7e30b672008-08-04 21:52:25 +00007245- Changed code in the following modules/packages to remove warnings raised
Brett Cannonc1b76e42008-08-09 23:06:16 +00007246 while running under the ``-3`` flag: aifc, asynchat, asyncore, bdb, bsddb,
Brett Cannon047e4a92008-08-17 04:16:04 +00007247 ConfigParser, cookielib, csv, difflib, distutils, DocXMLRPCServer, email,
7248 filecmp, fileinput, inspect, logging, modulefinder, pdb, pickle, profile,
7249 pstats, pydoc, re, rlcompleter, SimpleXMLRPCServer, shelve, socket,
7250 subprocess, sqlite3, tarfile, Tkinter, test.test_support, textwrap,
7251 threading, tokenize, traceback, urlparse, wsgiref, xml, xmlrpclib.
Brett Cannon7e30b672008-08-04 21:52:25 +00007252
Lars Gustäbel727bd0b2008-08-02 11:26:39 +00007253- Issue #3039: Fix tarfile.TarFileCompat.writestr() which always
7254 raised an AttributeError.
7255
Benjamin Peterson01a24322008-07-28 23:35:27 +00007256- Issue #2523: Fix quadratic behaviour when read()ing a binary file without
Antoine Pitroude781a42008-08-09 12:43:23 +00007257 asking for a specific length. This problem only affected files opened
7258 using the new "io" module, not the built-in open() function.
Benjamin Peterson01a24322008-07-28 23:35:27 +00007259
Mark Dickinsonfe84cce2008-07-27 06:39:07 +00007260- Issue #3449: Update decimal module to use most recent specification
7261 (v. 1.68) and tests (v. 2.58) from IBM.
7262
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00007263- Issue #3437: Bug fix in robotparser parsing of Allow: lines.
Skip Montanarof9ac43f2008-07-27 00:50:41 +00007264
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00007265- Issue #1592: Improve error reporting when operations are attempted
Raymond Hettinger8c664e82008-07-25 18:43:33 +00007266 on a closed shelf.
7267
Georg Brandlf9efabb2008-07-23 15:16:45 +00007268- Deprecate the "ast" parser function aliases.
7269
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00007270- Issue #3120: On 64-bit Windows the subprocess module was truncating handles.
7271
7272- Issue #3303: Fix a crash in locale.strcoll() when calling it with
7273 invalid arguments.
7274
7275- Issue #3302: Fix several crashes when calling locale's gettext functions
7276 with None arguments.
7277
7278- Issue #3389: Allow resolving dotted names for handlers in logging
7279 configuration files.
7280
7281- Deprecate the sunaudio module for removal in Python 3.0.
7282
Antoine Pitrou5fdfa3e2008-07-25 19:42:26 +00007283- Issue #3394: zipfile.writestr sets external attributes when passed a
7284 file name rather than a ZipInfo instance, so files are extracted with
7285 mode 0600 rather than 000 under Unix.
7286
Gregory P. Smitha36f8fe2008-08-04 00:13:29 +00007287- Issue #1857: subprocess.Popen.poll gained an additional _deadstate keyword
7288 argument in python 2.5, this broke code that subclassed Popen to include its
7289 own poll method. Fixed my moving _deadstate to an _internal_poll method.
7290
Martin v. Löwis8dbf3642008-08-01 14:10:26 +00007291Build
7292-----
7293
7294- Generate the PatternGrammar pickle during "make install".
7295
Nick Coghlan2a0c2b12008-08-04 12:47:17 +00007296Documentation
7297-------------
7298
Nick Coghlan6e8fef02008-08-18 13:14:22 +00007299- Issue #2235: the C API function PyObject_HashNotImplemented and its
7300 interaction with the tp_hash slot (added in 2.6b2) are now documented
7301
Nick Coghlan2a0c2b12008-08-04 12:47:17 +00007302- Issue #643841: The language reference now provides more detailed
7303 coverage of the lookup process for special methods. The disclaimers
7304 regarding lack of coverage of new-style classes have also been
7305 removed, since the coverage is now fairly reasonable.
7306
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00007307
Raymond Hettingere3ae6552008-06-20 04:18:15 +00007308What's New in Python 2.6 beta 2?
7309================================
7310
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00007311*Release date: 17-Jul-2008*
7312
Raymond Hettingere3ae6552008-06-20 04:18:15 +00007313Core and Builtins
7314-----------------
7315
Georg Brandl3e483f62008-07-16 22:57:41 +00007316- Issue #3156: Fix inconsistent behavior of the bytearray type: all
7317 its methods now allow for items objects that can be converted to
7318 an integer using operator.index().
7319
Mark Dickinson64b7e502008-07-16 09:40:03 +00007320- Issue #3360: Fix incorrect parsing of '020000000000.0', which
7321 produced a ValueError instead of giving the correct float.
7322
Eric Smitha5fa5a22008-07-16 00:11:49 +00007323- Issue #3083: Add alternate (#) formatting for bin, oct, hex output
7324 for str.format(). This adds the prefix 0b, 0o, or 0x, respectively.
7325
Mark Dickinson7103aa42008-07-15 19:08:33 +00007326- Issue #3008: the float type has a new instance method 'float.hex'
7327 and a new class method 'float.fromhex' to convert floating-point
7328 numbers to and from hexadecimal strings, respectively.
7329
Nick Coghlan6d6bd442008-07-15 15:40:22 +00007330- Issue #2235: __hash__ is once again inherited by default. To allow
7331 collections.Hashable to remain meaningful in the presence of the
7332 default hash implementation (object.__hash__), it is now possible
7333 to explicit block inheritance of hash by setting __hash__=None at
7334 the Python level, or tp_hash=PyObject_HashNotImplemented at the C
7335 level.
7336
Nick Coghlanb028f502008-07-13 14:52:36 +00007337- Issue #3221: Issue a RuntimeWarning instead of raising SystemError if
7338 the parent module cannot be found while performing an absolute import.
7339 This means that an incorrectly defined __package__ attribute will
7340 now only prevent relative imports in that module rather than causing
7341 all imports from that module to fail.
7342
Nick Coghlan14ff9942008-07-08 14:21:42 +00007343- Issue #2517: Allow unicode messages in Exceptions again by correctly
7344 bypassing the instance dictionary when looking up __unicode__ on
7345 new-style classes.
7346
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbdd941f2008-07-01 20:38:04 +00007347- Issue #3242: Fix a crash inside the print statement, if sys.stdout is
7348 set to a custom object whose write() method happens to install
7349 another file in sys.stdout.
7350
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc1f40c8a2008-06-30 22:42:40 +00007351- Issue #3088: Corrected a race condition in classes derived from
7352 threading.local: the first member set by a thread could be saved in
7353 another thread's dictionary.
7354
Mark Dickinson1ec2fcd2008-06-20 14:53:43 +00007355- Issue #3004: Minor change to slice.indices(): the start and stop
7356 arguments are now treated identically, making the behaviour easier
7357 to describe and understand. For example, slice(None, -10,
7358 1).indices(9) now returns (0, 0, 1) instead of (0, -1, 1), and
7359 slice(None, 10, -1).indices(10) returns (9, 9, -1) instead of (9,
7360 10, -1).
7361
Georg Brandl278fc502008-07-19 12:46:12 +00007362- Issue #3219: Calling a function with repeated keyword arguments,
7363 f(a=2, a=23), would not cause a syntax error. This was a regression
7364 from 2.4 caused by the switch to the new compiler.
Benjamin Peterson175e4d92008-07-01 19:34:52 +00007365
Georg Brandl278fc502008-07-19 12:46:12 +00007366- Issue #2862: Make int and float freelist management consistent with
7367 other freelists. Changes their CompactFreeList apis into
7368 ClearFreeList apis and calls them via gc.collect().
Gregory P. Smith2fe77062008-07-06 03:35:58 +00007369
Brett Cannon8bb8fa52008-07-02 01:57:08 +00007370Library
7371-------
7372
Thomas Heller57adf222008-08-14 19:10:48 +00007373- Issue #3554: ctypes.string_at and ctypes.wstring_at did call Python
7374 api functions without holding the GIL, which could lead to a fatal
7375 error when they failed.
7376
Martin v. Löwisaabf4042008-08-02 07:20:25 +00007377- Issue #799428: Fix Tkinter.Misc._nametowidget to unwrap Tcl command objects.
7378
Jesse Noller7fb96402008-07-17 21:01:05 +00007379- Issue #3395: fix reference in test_multiprocessing to old debugInfo method
7380
Georg Brandla24869a2008-07-16 22:33:18 +00007381- Issue #3312: Fix two crashes in sqlite3.
7382
Georg Brandl86cbf812008-07-16 21:31:41 +00007383- Issue #1608818: Fix misbehavior in os.listdir() if readdir() fails.
7384
Jesse Noller13e9d582008-07-16 14:32:36 +00007385- Issue #3125: Remove copy_reg in multiprocessing and replace it with
7386 ForkingPickler.register() to resolve conflict with ctypes.
7387
Vinay Sajip51e65192008-07-18 09:01:10 +00007388- Issue #3090: Fixed ARCHFLAGS parsing on OS/X
Jesse Noller13e9d582008-07-16 14:32:36 +00007389
Thomas Heller880f5292008-07-15 19:39:38 +00007390- Issue #3313: Fixed a crash when a failed dlopen() call does not set
7391 a valid dlerror() message.
7392
Thomas Heller2bad6572008-07-15 17:19:50 +00007393- Issue #3258: Fixed a crash when a ctypes POINTER type to an
7394 incomplete structure was created.
7395
Brett Cannon3d0b9f02008-07-13 01:15:07 +00007396- Issue #3339: dummy_thread.acquire() should not return None.
7397
Raymond Hettingerb01713e2008-07-10 14:34:57 +00007398- Issue #3285: Fractions from_float() and from_decimal() accept Integral arguments.
7399
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00007400- Issue #3301: Bisect module behaved badly when lo was negative.
Raymond Hettinger3cd1e422008-07-10 14:03:19 +00007401
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc0f7cddc2008-07-06 21:34:39 +00007402- Issue #839496: SimpleHTTPServer used to open text files in text mode. This is
7403 both unnecessary (HTTP allows text content to be sent in several forms) and
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00007404 wrong because the actual transmitted size could differ from the
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc0f7cddc2008-07-06 21:34:39 +00007405 content-length. The problem had been corrected in the 2.4 branch, but never
7406 merged into trunk.
7407
Georg Brandle78fbcc2008-07-05 10:13:36 +00007408- Issue #2663: add filtering capability to shutil.copytree().
7409
Martin v. Löwis8c436412008-07-03 12:51:14 +00007410- Issue #1622: Correct interpretation of various ZIP header fields.
7411
7412- Issue #1526: Allow more than 64k files to be added to Zip64 file.
7413
7414- Issue #1746: Correct handling of zipfile archive comments (previously
7415 archives with comments over 4k were flagged as invalid). Allow writing
Vinay Sajip51e65192008-07-18 09:01:10 +00007416 Zip files with archives by setting the 'comment' attribute of a ZipFile.
Martin v. Löwis8c436412008-07-03 12:51:14 +00007417
Vinay Sajip51e65192008-07-18 09:01:10 +00007418- Issue #449227: The rlcompleter module now adds "(" to callable objects
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00007419 when completed.
Facundo Batista66c52772008-07-02 16:52:55 +00007420
Nick Coghlanc060b0e2008-07-02 13:09:19 +00007421- Issue #3190: Pydoc now hides the automatic module attribute __package__ (the
7422 handling is now the same as that of other special attributes like __name__).
7423
Brett Cannon8bb8fa52008-07-02 01:57:08 +00007424- Issue #2885 (partial): The urllib.urlopen() function has been deprecated for
7425 removal in Python 3.0 in favor of urllib2.urlopen().
7426
Gregory P. Smithf4140642008-07-06 07:16:40 +00007427- Issue #2113: Fix error in subprocess.Popen if the select system call is
7428 interrupted by a signal.
7429
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00007430- Issue #3309: Fix bz2.BZFile iterator to release its internal lock
Gregory P. Smith3b1e6b22008-07-07 04:31:58 +00007431 properly when raising an exception due to the bz2file being closed.
7432 Prevents a deadlock.
7433
Gregory P. Smithc4691ec2008-07-07 05:09:12 +00007434- Issue #3094: httplib.HTTPSConnection Host: headers no longer include the
7435 redundant ":443" port number designation when the connection is using the
7436 default https port (443).
7437
Gregory P. Smithdb3409c2008-07-17 03:13:05 +00007438- Issue #874900: after an os.fork() call the threading module state is cleaned
7439 up in the child process to prevent deadlock and report proper thread counts
7440 if the new process uses the threading module.
7441
Nick Coghlan38469e22008-07-13 12:23:47 +00007442Tests
7443-----
7444
7445- test.test_support.catch_warning now keeps track of all warnings it sees
7446 and is now better documented. Explicit unit tests for this context manager
7447 have been added to test_warnings.
7448
Martin v. Löwisd84fd952008-06-30 06:57:39 +00007449Build
7450-----
7451
7452- Issue #3215: Build sqlite3 as sqlite3.dll, not sqlite3.pyd.
7453
Brett Cannon97aa1ae2008-07-11 00:12:52 +00007454Documentation
7455-------------
7456
Brett Cannonfeef51d2008-07-11 00:50:01 +00007457- Document that robotparser has been renamed to urllib.robotparser in
Brett Cannon963ffdb2008-07-11 00:48:57 +00007458 Python 3.0.
7459
Brett Cannonf6afa332008-07-11 00:16:30 +00007460- Document that urlparse has been renamed to urllib.parse in Python 3.0.
7461
Brett Cannon97aa1ae2008-07-11 00:12:52 +00007462- Document that urllib2 is split across multiple modules and renamed in
7463 Python 3.0.
7464
7465- Document that urllib is split across multiple modules and renamed in
7466 Python 3.0.
7467
7468
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00007469What's New in Python 2.6 beta 1?
7470================================
7471
Barry Warsawb5d17402008-06-19 01:48:07 +00007472*Release date: 18-June-2008*
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00007473
7474Core and Builtins
7475-----------------
7476
Brett Cannondea1b562008-06-27 00:31:13 +00007477- Issue #3211: warnings.warn_explicit() did not guard against its 'registry'
7478 argument being anything other than a dict or None. Also fixed a bug in error
7479 handling when 'message' and 'category' were both set to None, triggering a
7480 bus error.
7481
Amaury Forgeot d'Arca8919fe2008-06-16 19:12:42 +00007482- Issue #3100: Corrected a crash on deallocation of a subclassed weakref which
7483 holds the last (strong) reference to its referent.
7484
Georg Brandl89f48872008-06-11 18:55:38 +00007485- Add future_builtins.ascii().
7486
Raymond Hettinger5c4d3d02008-06-09 13:07:27 +00007487- Several set methods now accept multiple arguments: update(), union(),
Raymond Hettinger4267be62008-06-11 10:30:54 +00007488 intersection(), intersection_update(), difference(), and difference_update().
Raymond Hettingeree4bcad2008-06-09 08:33:37 +00007489
Robert Schuppenies51df0642008-06-01 16:16:17 +00007490- Issue #2898: Added sys.getsizeof() to retrieve size of objects in bytes.
7491
Martin v. Löwis99815892008-06-01 07:20:46 +00007492- New environment variable PYTHONIOENCODING.
7493
Martin v. Löwis4dd019f2008-05-20 08:11:19 +00007494- Patch #2488: Add sys.maxsize.
7495
Georg Brandla9916b52008-05-17 22:11:54 +00007496- Issue #2353: file.xreadlines() now emits a Py3k warning.
7497
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007498- Issue #2863: generators now have a ``gen.__name__`` attribute that
7499 equals ``gen.gi_code.co_name``, like ``func.__name___`` that equals
7500 ``func.func_code.co_name``. The repr() of a generator now also
7501 contains this name.
Georg Brandlc91210c2008-05-15 15:08:32 +00007502
Georg Brandlbd85eb12008-05-14 06:34:15 +00007503- Issue #2831: enumerate() now has a ``start`` argument.
7504
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007505- Issue #2801: fix bug in the float.is_integer method where a
7506 ValueError was sometimes incorrectly raised.
Mark Dickinsone81c3762008-05-09 16:14:15 +00007507
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007508- Issue #2790: sys.flags was not properly exposing its bytes_warning
7509 attribute.
Brett Cannon3c1d50a2008-05-08 20:23:54 +00007510
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007511- Issue #2196: hasattr() now lets exceptions which do not inherit
7512 Exception (KeyboardInterrupt, and SystemExit) propagate instead of
7513 ignoring them.
Benjamin Petersonb9030f42008-05-12 00:41:23 +00007514
Gregory P. Smith9d534572008-06-11 07:41:16 +00007515- Added checks for integer overflows, contributed by Google. Some are
7516 only available if asserts are left in the code, in cases where they
7517 can't be triggered from Python code.
7518
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00007519Extension Modules
7520-----------------
Guido van Rossum84b1e0f2008-08-20 14:57:20 +00007521- Issue #1179: [CVE-2007-4965] Integer overflow in imageop module.
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00007522
Raymond Hettinger305480c2008-06-16 01:42:40 +00007523- Issue #3116: marshal.dumps() had quadratic behavior for strings > 32Mb.
7524
Andrew M. Kuchling2126bab2008-06-22 13:39:11 +00007525- Issue #2138: Add factorial() to the math module.
Raymond Hettingerecbdd2e2008-06-09 06:54:45 +00007526
Raymond Hettinger6d7702e2008-05-31 03:24:31 +00007527- The heapq module does comparisons using LT instead of LE. This
7528 makes its implementation match that used by list.sort().
7529
Mark Dickinson99dfe922008-05-23 01:35:30 +00007530- Issue #2819: add full-precision summation function to math module,
7531 based on Hettinger's ASPN Python Cookbook recipe.
7532
Georg Brandl88659b02008-05-20 08:40:43 +00007533- Issue #2592: delegate nb_index and the floor/truediv slots in
7534 weakref.proxy.
7535
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007536- Support os.O_ASYNC and fcntl.FASYNC if the constants exist on the
7537 platform.
Georg Brandl5049a852008-05-16 13:10:15 +00007538
Brett Cannon044616a2008-05-15 02:33:55 +00007539- Support for Windows 9x has been removed from the winsound module.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcf9b54c22008-05-12 21:30:24 +00007540
Jesus Cea09c01782008-09-28 23:24:19 +00007541- bsddb module updated to version 4.7.3.
Jesus Cea4907d272008-08-31 14:00:51 +00007542 http://www.jcea.es/programacion/pybsddb.htm#bsddb3-4.7.3. This
7543 code should be compatible with Python 3.0.
Jesus Ceaef9764f2008-05-13 18:45:46 +00007544
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007545- Issue #2858: Fix potential memory corruption when
7546 bsddb.db.DBEnv.lock_get and other bsddb.db object constructors
7547 raised an exception.
Gregory P. Smith664782e2008-05-17 06:12:02 +00007548
Gregory P. Smith5d7d6c32008-05-25 08:32:04 +00007549- Issue #2669: bsddb/__init__.py iteration no longer silently fails when
7550 the database has changed size during iteration. It now raises a
7551 RuntimeError in the same manner as a dictionary.
7552
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007553- Issue #2870: cmathmodule.c compile error.
Christian Heimes0bd23c02008-05-16 10:23:31 +00007554
Benjamin Petersond8a89722008-08-18 16:40:03 +00007555- Added a threading.Thread.ident property.
Gregory P. Smith8856dda2008-06-01 23:48:47 +00007556
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00007557Library
7558-------
7559
Vinay Sajip1e022682008-06-29 21:27:15 +00007560- logging.config: Removed out-of-date comment in _install_handlers and
7561 used issubclass in place of equality comparison of classes.
7562
Facundo Batista5596b0c2008-06-22 13:36:20 +00007563- Issue #2722: Now the os.getcwd() supports very long path names.
7564
Facundo Batista2da91c32008-06-21 17:43:56 +00007565- Issue #2888: Fixed the behaviour of pprint when working with nested
7566 structures, to match the behaviour of 2.5 and 3.0 (now follows the common
7567 sense).
7568
Facundo Batistaa6a4d502008-06-21 18:58:04 +00007569- Issue #1817: cgi now correctly handles the querystring on POST requests
7570
Vinay Sajip8dc20fd2008-06-19 22:41:08 +00007571- Issue #3136: fileConfig()'s disabling of old loggers is now conditional via
7572 an optional disable_existing_loggers parameter, but the default value is
7573 such that the old behaviour is preserved. Thanks to Leandro Lucarella for
7574 the patch.
7575
Vinay Sajip9828b7e2008-06-17 11:04:02 +00007576- Issue #3126: StreamHandler and FileHandler check before calling "flush" and
7577 "close" that the stream object has these, using hasattr (thanks to bobf for
7578 the patch).
7579
Benjamin Peterson5c0be322008-06-13 15:11:50 +00007580- Issue #2912: platform.uname now tries to determine unknown information even if
7581 os.uname exists.
7582
Benjamin Peterson26305a02008-06-12 22:33:06 +00007583- The rfc822 module has been deprecated for removal in 3.0.
7584
Benjamin Petersona03722f2008-06-12 14:23:49 +00007585- The mimetools module has been deprecated for removal in 3.0.
7586
Thomas Heller1cec7aa2008-06-10 14:07:12 +00007587- The ctypes.byref function now takes an optional second parameter
7588 which allows to specify an offset in bytes for the constructed
7589 pointer-like object.
7590
Georg Brandl8509db52008-06-10 07:45:28 +00007591- Added the ast module.
7592
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00007593- Added the multiprocessing module, PEP 371.
Benjamin Peterson6f7ae692008-06-11 20:04:30 +00007594
Georg Brandl7be19aa2008-06-07 15:59:10 +00007595- Factored out the indentation cleaning from inspect.getdoc() into
7596 inspect.cleandoc() to ease standalone use.
7597
Thomas Hellerfbb9c0b2008-06-06 08:33:46 +00007598- Issue #1798: Add ctypes calling convention that allows safe access
7599 to errno.
7600
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00007601- Issue #2404: ctypes objects support the new pep3118 buffer interface.
Thomas Heller59475e92008-06-05 17:52:59 +00007602
Vinay Sajip9828b7e2008-06-17 11:04:02 +00007603- Patch #2125: Add GetInteger and GetString methods for
Martin v. Löwisffe62ed2008-06-02 08:40:06 +00007604 msilib.Record objects.
7605
Gregory P. Smith137d8242008-06-02 04:05:52 +00007606- Issue #2782: The datetime module's strftime methods now accept
7607 unicode format strings just as time.strftime always has.
7608
Georg Brandlac19d852008-06-01 21:19:14 +00007609- The sgmllib and htmllib modules have been deprecated for removal
7610 in Python 3.0.
7611
7612- Issue #3011: locale module alias table was updated to the latest
7613 version from the X.org locale.alias file.
Marc-André Lemburgadff65b2008-05-30 20:52:18 +00007614
Thomas Heller9287acf2008-05-29 19:42:34 +00007615- Issue #1797 (partial fix): ctypes NULL function pointers have a
7616 False boolean value now.
7617
Georg Brandld0b592f2008-05-29 07:45:26 +00007618- Issue #2985: Allow 64-bit integer responses (``<i8>``) in XMLRPC
7619 transfers.
7620
7621- Issue #2877: The UserString.MutableString class has been removed in
7622 Python 3.0.
Brett Cannonabb34fe2008-05-29 05:08:50 +00007623
Lars Gustäbelb1a54a32008-05-27 12:39:23 +00007624- Do not close external file objects passed to tarfile.open(mode='w:bz2')
7625 when the TarFile is closed.
7626
Georg Brandle08e3d02008-05-25 08:07:37 +00007627- Issue #2959: For consistency with other file-like objects, gzip's
7628 GzipFile.close() can now be called multiple times without raising
7629 an exception.
7630
Martin v. Löwis27e4a172008-05-23 15:18:28 +00007631- Issue #1390: Raise ValueError in toxml when an invalid comment would
7632 otherwise be produced.
7633
Vinay Sajipc0128832008-05-20 15:37:22 +00007634- Issue #2914: TimedRotatingFileHandler now takes an optional keyword
7635 argument "utc" to use UTC time rather than local time.
7636
7637- Issue #2929: TimedRotatingFileHandler was using the wrong path when
7638 deleting old log files (filename only instead of full path).
7639
Georg Brandl112aa502008-05-20 08:25:48 +00007640- Issue #1775025: You can now specify zipfile members to open(),
7641 read() or extract() via a ZipInfo instance. This allows handling
7642 duplicate filenames in zipfiles.
7643
Georg Brandl28fdfa92008-05-17 17:57:01 +00007644- Issue #961805: Fix Text.edit_modified() in Tkinter.
7645
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007646- Issue #1793: Function ctypes.util.find_msvcrt() added that returns
Thomas Heller95ba13f2008-05-16 20:06:31 +00007647 the name of the C runtime library that Python uses.
7648 ctypes.util.find_library(name) now call this function when name is
7649 'm' or 'c'.
7650
Brett Cannonfa40bbf2008-05-16 00:50:02 +00007651- The statvfs module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
7652
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007653- The sunaudiodev and SUNAUDIODEV modules have been deprecated for
7654 removal in Python 3.0.
7655
7656- The WAIT module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
7657 3.0.
7658
7659- The torgb module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
7660 3.0.
7661
7662- The SV module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
7663 3.0.
7664
7665- The readcd module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
Brett Cannon22248172008-05-16 00:10:24 +00007666 Python 3.0.
7667
Brett Cannon11ae6e72008-05-15 03:49:00 +00007668- The panelparser module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
7669 Python 3.0.
7670
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007671- The panel module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
7672 3.0.
Brett Cannon7e375862008-05-15 03:46:27 +00007673
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007674- The jpeg module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
7675 3.0.
Brett Cannon89f5d9c2008-05-15 03:44:00 +00007676
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007677- The IOCTL module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
7678 3.0.
Brett Cannond8c41ec2008-05-15 03:41:55 +00007679
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007680- The IN module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
7681 3.0.
Brett Cannon6328b292008-05-15 03:36:13 +00007682
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007683- The imgfile module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
Brett Cannon178582e2008-05-15 03:20:36 +00007684 Python 3.0.
7685
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007686- The GLWS module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
7687 3.0.
Brett Cannon72ccc402008-05-15 03:17:24 +00007688
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007689- The GET module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
7690 3.0.
Brett Cannon2773b6f2008-05-15 03:14:57 +00007691
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007692- The fm module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
7693 3.0.
7694
7695- The FL, flp, and fl modules from IRIX have been deprecated for
7696 removal in Python 3.0.
7697
7698- The FILE module on IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
7699 3.0.
7700
7701- The ERRNO module on IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
7702 3.0.
7703
7704- The DEVICE, GL, gl, and cgen modules (which indirectly includes
7705 cgensupport) have been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
Brett Cannon044616a2008-05-15 02:33:55 +00007706
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007707- The CL, CL_old, and cl modules for IRIX have been deprecated for
7708 removal in Python 3.0.
7709
7710- The cdplayer module for IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
Brett Cannon650f5162008-05-14 21:12:12 +00007711 Python 3.0.
7712
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007713- The cddb module for IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
7714 3.0.
Brett Cannon9eebe492008-05-14 20:34:22 +00007715
Brett Cannonddf949f2008-05-14 20:31:38 +00007716- The cd and CD modules for IRIX have been deprecated for removal in
7717 Python 3.0.
7718
Brett Cannon34721d52008-05-14 01:08:21 +00007719- The al and AL modules for IRIX have been deprecated for removal in
7720 Python 3.0.
7721
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007722- Issue #1713041: fix pprint's handling of maximum depth.
Georg Brandl23da6e62008-05-12 16:26:52 +00007723
Brett Cannonbb141bb2008-05-12 03:47:47 +00007724- The timing module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
7725
Brett Cannonac861b52008-05-12 03:45:59 +00007726- The sv module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
7727
Brett Cannon43e5ef42008-05-12 03:19:20 +00007728- The multifile module has been deprecated as per PEP 4.
7729
Brett Cannon42bfa902008-05-12 00:08:34 +00007730- The imageop module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
7731
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007732- Issue #2250: Exceptions raised during evaluation of names in
7733 rlcompleter's ``Completer.complete()`` method are now caught and
7734 ignored.
Georg Brandl627a6662008-05-11 21:03:42 +00007735
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007736- Issue #2659: Added ``break_on_hyphens`` option to textwrap
7737 TextWrapper class.
Georg Brandl6f95ae52008-05-11 10:42:28 +00007738
Brett Cannon2a869132008-05-11 03:01:47 +00007739- The mhlib module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
7740
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007741- The linuxaudiodev module has been deprecated for removal in Python
7742 3.0.
Brett Cannondf0a7172008-05-11 00:50:51 +00007743
Brett Cannon27508d42008-05-10 22:45:07 +00007744- The ihooks module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
7745
Brett Cannonfe598512008-05-10 22:11:45 +00007746- The fpformat module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
7747
Brett Cannone35a3a12008-05-10 21:22:43 +00007748- The dl module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
7749
Brett Cannond5a09852008-05-10 03:14:32 +00007750- The Canvas module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
7751
Brett Cannon6192df12008-05-10 02:58:26 +00007752- The compiler package has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
7753
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007754- The Bastion and rexec modules have been deprecated for removal in
7755 Python 3.0.
Brett Cannoncda73a42008-05-10 02:53:46 +00007756
Brett Cannon768d44f2008-05-10 02:47:54 +00007757- The bsddb185 module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
7758
Brett Cannon9ac39742008-05-09 22:51:58 +00007759- The pure module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
7760
Mark Dickinsonf8476c12008-05-09 17:54:23 +00007761- Issue #2487: change the semantics of math.ldexp(x, n) when n is too
7762 large to fit in a C long. ldexp(x, n) now returns a zero (with
7763 suitable sign) if n is large and negative; previously, it raised
7764 OverflowError.
7765
Brett Cannonfa24d9a2008-05-09 05:32:42 +00007766- The toaiff module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
7767
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007768- The test.testall module has been deprecated for removal in Python
7769 3.0.
Brett Cannon3c759142008-05-09 05:25:37 +00007770
Brett Cannond7265d62008-05-09 05:18:40 +00007771- The new module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
7772
Brett Cannone3b19402008-05-08 20:36:09 +00007773- The user module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
7774
Brett Cannon6071cc82008-05-08 19:52:45 +00007775- The stringold module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
7776
7777- The mutex module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
Brett Cannon9d441822008-05-08 19:26:08 +00007778
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00007779- The imputil module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
7780
Brett Cannoncae4f5f2008-05-08 20:24:43 +00007781- test.test_support.catch_warning() gained a 'record' argument.
7782
Benjamin Peterson0893a0a2008-05-09 00:27:01 +00007783- os.path.walk is deprecated in favor of os.walk.
7784
Georg Brandl9020ff82008-05-11 14:17:13 +00007785- pdb gained the "until" command.
Benjamin Peterson98353942008-05-11 14:13:25 +00007786
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007787- The Mac Modules (including Carbon) have been deprecated for removal
7788 in Python 3.0.
Benjamin Peterson23681932008-05-12 21:42:13 +00007789
Vinay Sajip9828b7e2008-06-17 11:04:02 +00007790- Library: on MacOS X you can now set ``ARCHFLAGS`` in the shell
Ronald Oussoren5640ce22008-06-05 12:58:24 +00007791 environment to control the '-arch' flags that are used to build
7792 an extension. This was added for compatibility with Apple's build
7793 of Python.
7794
7795- The bundled OSX-specific copy of libbffi is now in sync with the version
7796 shipped with PyObjC 2.0 and includes support for x86_64 and ppc64 platforms.
7797
Georg Brandl25c34082008-08-18 23:09:49 +00007798- The threading module gained aliases for names that will be removed in the
7799 3.x series.
Benjamin Peterson0fbcf692008-06-11 17:27:50 +00007800
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00007801Build
7802-----
7803
Martin v. Löwiscc0f2b22008-06-13 18:12:51 +00007804- 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 +00007805
Martin v. Löwis8c255e42008-05-23 15:06:50 +00007806- Patch #1722225: Support QNX 6.
7807
Brett Cannonb61d8012008-05-11 23:39:04 +00007808- ``Lib/lib-old`` is now added to sys.path.
7809
Ronald Oussoren5640ce22008-06-05 12:58:24 +00007810- On MacOS X it is now possible to install the framework in 64-bit
7811 mode or even as a 4-way universal binary (that is, PPC, i386,
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00007812 PPC64 and x86_64 support in one binary).
Ronald Oussoren5640ce22008-06-05 12:58:24 +00007813
7814 This is controlled by the configure argument ``--with-universal-archs``:
7815
7816 - ``--with-universal-archs=all``: install 4-way universal
7817
7818 - ``--with-universal-archs=32-bit``: install 2-way universal, 32-bit (the default)
7819
7820 - ``--with-universal-archs=64-bit``: install 2-way universal, 64-bit
7821
7822 This option should be used in combination with ``--enable-universalsdk=``.
7823
7824 NOTE: 64-bit and 4-way builds are only suppported on Mac OS X 10.5 (or later).
7825
Christian Heimes7a990612008-05-26 13:15:11 +00007826C API
7827-----
7828
Georg Brandl74a1dea2008-05-28 11:21:39 +00007829- Add ``PyType_Modified()`` as a public API to clear the type cache.
7830
7831- The PyBytes functions have been renamed to PyByteArray.
Christian Heimes7a990612008-05-26 13:15:11 +00007832
7833- The PyString functions have been renamed to PyBytes. A batch of
7834 defines were added so that the linker still sees the original
7835 PyString names.
7836
Georg Brandl5e7b1c02008-05-16 17:40:23 +00007837
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00007838What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 3?
Barry Warsaw65475fd2008-03-01 17:11:41 +00007839=================================
7840
Barry Warsaw6cc79402008-05-08 13:16:19 +00007841*Release date: 08-May-2008*
Barry Warsaw65475fd2008-03-01 17:11:41 +00007842
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd21fb4c2008-03-05 01:50:33 +00007843Core and builtins
7844-----------------
Georg Brandl80055f62008-03-25 07:56:27 +00007845
Georg Brandl28e08732008-04-30 19:47:09 +00007846- Issue #2719: backported the ``next()`` builtin from Python 3.
7847
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007848- Issue #2681: The octal literal ``0o8`` was incorrecly acctepted. Now
7849 it properly raises a SyntaxError.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc52167212008-04-24 18:07:05 +00007850
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007851- Issue #2617: Reserved -J and -X arguments for Jython, IronPython and
7852 other implementations of Python.
Christian Heimes7a98d272008-04-12 13:03:03 +00007853
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007854- Implemented PEP 370: Per user site-packages directory.
Christian Heimesaf748c32008-05-06 22:41:46 +00007855
Andrew M. Kuchling46d6b682008-04-30 16:19:55 +00007856Extension Modules
7857-----------------
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00007858
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007859- Issue #2670: Fix a failure in urllib2.build_opener(), when passed
7860 two handlers that derive the same default base class.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc96865852008-04-22 21:14:41 +00007861
Christian Heimese74c8f22008-04-19 02:23:57 +00007862- Added kill, terminate and send_signal(sig) to subprocess.Popen.
7863
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007864- Added phase(z) -> phi, polar(z) -> r, phi and rect(r, phi) -> z to
7865 the cmath module.
Christian Heimes6f341092008-04-18 23:13:07 +00007866
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007867- Four new methods were added to the math and cmath modules: acosh,
7868 asinh, atanh and log1p.
Christian Heimes6f341092008-04-18 23:13:07 +00007869
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007870- zlib.decompressobj().flush(value) no longer crashes the interpreter
7871 when passed a value less than or equal to zero.
Gregory P. Smith671c5d92008-04-09 18:18:43 +00007872
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007873- Issue #1631171: Re-implement the 'warnings' module in C (the
7874 original Python code has been kept as backup). This will allow for
7875 using the 'warning's machinery in such places as the parser where
7876 use of pure Python code is not possible. Both the ``showarning()``
7877 and ``formatwarning()`` gain an optional 'line' argument which is
7878 not called by default for backwards-compatibility reasons. Setting
7879 ``warnings.showwarning()`` to an implementation that lacks support
7880 for the ``line`` argument will raise a DeprecationWarning.
Brett Cannone9746892008-04-12 23:44:07 +00007881
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00007882Library
7883-------
7884
Brett Cannonf8436822008-05-06 23:41:32 +00007885- The audiodev module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
7886
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007887- Issue #2750: Add the 'json' package. Based on simplejson 1.9 and
7888 contributed by Bob Ippolito.
Brett Cannon4b964f92008-05-05 20:21:38 +00007889
Martin v. Löwis471617d2008-05-05 17:16:58 +00007890- Issue #1734346: Support Unicode file names for zipfiles.
7891
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007892- Issue #2581: distutils: Vista UAC/elevation support for
7893 bdist_wininst.
Mark Hammond7c5c8e62008-05-02 12:48:15 +00007894
Mark Dickinsonfe536f52008-04-25 16:59:09 +00007895- Issue #2635: Fix bug in 'fix_sentence_endings' textwrap.fill option,
7896 where an extra space was added after a word containing (but not
7897 ending in) '.', '!' or '?'.
7898
Thomas Heller6ad5fbb2008-04-25 15:44:16 +00007899- Add from_buffer() and from_buffer_copy() class methods to ctypes
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00007900 data types.
Thomas Heller6ad5fbb2008-04-25 15:44:16 +00007901
Neal Norwitz2b0bea52008-04-25 03:40:17 +00007902- Issue #2682: ctypes callback functions no longer contain a cyclic
Thomas Hellerbf027c42008-04-24 18:14:19 +00007903 reference to themselves.
7904
Gregory P. Smithd59fefb2008-04-22 08:11:33 +00007905- The getpass module has been improved on Unix. It now uses /dev/tty
7906 by default and uses stderr instead of stdout. A GetPassWarning is
7907 issued when input echo cannot be controlled.
Gregory P. Smith41e30182008-04-21 21:31:08 +00007908
Skip Montanarob131f042008-04-18 20:35:46 +00007909- Issue #2014: Allow XML-RPC datetime objects to have dates before
7910 1900-01-01.
7911
Nick Coghlan106fc482008-04-15 10:25:31 +00007912- Issue #2439: Added new function pkgutil.get_data(), which is a
7913 convenience wrapper for the PEP 302 get_data() API.
7914
Thomas Heller046e6a42008-04-14 16:10:07 +00007915- Issue #2616: The ctypes.pointer() and ctypes.POINTER() functions are
7916 now implemented in C for better performance.
7917
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007918- Issue #2408: The ``_types`` module, which was used as in
7919 implementation detail of the public ``types`` module, has been
7920 removed and replaced by pure python code.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc02f33b42008-04-08 23:10:07 +00007921
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007922- Issue #2513: distutils on Windows is now capable of cross-compiling
Mark Hammond495cf992008-04-07 01:53:39 +00007923 extension modules between 32 and 64 bit platforms. See the distutls
7924 build documentation for more information.
7925
Gregory P. Smithaa63d0d2008-04-06 23:11:17 +00007926- Issue #815646: Individual file objects may now be used from multiple
7927 threads at once without fear of crashing the Python interpreter. If
7928 file.close() is called while an object is in use by another thread
7929 an IOError exception will be raised and the file will not be closed.
7930
Thomas Hellerf7906482008-04-04 19:43:25 +00007931- The bundled libffi copy is now in sync with the recently released
7932 libffi3.0.5 version, apart from some small changes to
7933 Modules/_ctypes/libffi/configure.ac.
7934
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007935- Issue #2385: distutils.core.run_script() makes __file__ available,
7936 so the controlled environment will more closely mirror the typical
7937 script environment. This supports setup.py scripts that refer to
7938 data files.
Fred Drake46c58c12008-04-04 05:41:30 +00007939
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00007940Tests
7941-----
Trent Nelsone41b0062008-04-08 23:47:30 +00007942
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007943- Issue #2550: The approach used by client/server code for obtaining
7944 ports to listen on in network-oriented tests has been refined in an
7945 effort to facilitate running multiple instances of the entire
7946 regression test suite in parallel without issue.
7947 test_support.bind_port() has been fixed such that it will always
7948 return a unique port -- which wasn't always the case with the
7949 previous implementation, especially if socket options had been set
7950 that affected address reuse (i.e. SO_REUSEADDR, SO_REUSEPORT). The
7951 new implementation of bind_port() will actually raise an exception
7952 if it is passed an AF_INET/SOCK_STREAM socket with either the
7953 SO_REUSEADDR or SO_REUSEPORT socket option set. Furthermore, if
7954 available, bind_port() will set the SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE option on
7955 the socket it's been passed. This currently only applies to
7956 Windows. This option prevents any other sockets from binding to the
7957 host/port we've bound to, thus removing the possibility of the
7958 'non-deterministic' behaviour, as Microsoft puts it, that occurs
7959 when a second SOCK_STREAM socket binds and accepts to a host/port
7960 that's already been bound by another socket. The optional preferred
7961 port parameter to bind_port() has been removed. Under no
7962 circumstances should tests be hard coding ports!
7963
7964 test_support.find_unused_port() has also been introduced, which will
7965 pass a temporary socket object to bind_port() in order to obtain an
7966 unused port. The temporary socket object is then closed and
7967 deleted, and the port is returned. This method should only be used
7968 for obtaining an unused port in order to pass to an external program
7969 (i.e. the -accept [port] argument to openssl's s_server mode) or as
7970 a parameter to a server-oriented class that doesn't give you direct
7971 access to the underlying socket used.
7972
7973 Finally, test_support.HOST has been introduced, which should be used
7974 for the host argument of any relevant socket calls (i.e. bind and
7975 connect).
Trent Nelsone41b0062008-04-08 23:47:30 +00007976
7977 The following tests were updated to following the new conventions:
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007978 test_socket, test_smtplib, test_asyncore, test_ssl, test_httplib,
Trent Nelsone41b0062008-04-08 23:47:30 +00007979 test_poplib, test_ftplib, test_telnetlib, test_socketserver,
7980 test_asynchat and test_socket_ssl.
7981
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007982 It is now possible for multiple instances of the regression test
7983 suite to run in parallel without issue.
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00007984
7985Build
7986-----
7987
Mark Dickinson65134662008-04-25 16:11:04 +00007988- Issue #1496032: On alpha, use -mieee when gcc is the compiler.
7989
Thomas Hellerdc96a772008-04-04 10:07:55 +00007990- Issue #2544: On HP-UX systems, use 'gcc -shared' for linking when
7991 gcc is used as compiler.
7992
Ronald Oussoren580c7fe2008-05-02 19:45:11 +00007993- Issue #2573: On MacOS X it is now possible to install the framework
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007994 with a different name using --with-framework-name=NAME.
Ronald Oussoren580c7fe2008-05-02 19:45:11 +00007995
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00007996C API
7997-----
7998
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007999- Added implementation of copysign, acosh, asinh, atanh and log1p to
8000 the new files Include/pymath.h and Python/pymath.h for platforms
8001 which provide the functions through their libm. The files also
8002 contains several helpers and constants for math.
Christian Heimes6f341092008-04-18 23:13:07 +00008003
Benjamin Petersondacde0d2008-05-26 17:43:53 +00008004- Added a new convenience macro, PyErr_WarnPy3k, for issuing Py3k warnings.
Benjamin Petersona692c4d2008-04-27 02:28:02 +00008005
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00008006
8007What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 2?
8008=================================
8009
8010*Release date: 02-Apr-2008*
8011
8012Core and builtins
8013-----------------
8014
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008015- Issue #1733757: The interpreter would hang on shutdown if the
8016 tracing function set by sys.settrace is still active and happens to
8017 call threading.currentThread().
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd7a26512008-04-03 23:07:55 +00008018
Georg Brandl91e0cda2008-03-29 01:50:06 +00008019- Patch #1442: properly report exceptions when the PYTHONSTARTUP file
8020 cannot be executed.
8021
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc69b747b2008-03-28 20:30:50 +00008022- The compilation of a class nested in another class used to leak one
8023 reference on the outer class name.
8024
Georg Brandlfc8eef32008-03-28 12:11:56 +00008025- Patch #1810: compile() can now compile _ast trees as returned by
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008026 ``compile(..., PyCF_ONLY_AST)``.
Georg Brandlfc8eef32008-03-28 12:11:56 +00008027
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008028- Patch #2426: Added sqlite3.Connection.iterdump method to allow easy
8029 dumping of databases. Contributed by Paul Kippes at PyCon 2008.
Gregory P. Smithb9803422008-03-28 08:32:09 +00008030
Georg Brandldeaf2ca2008-03-27 13:27:31 +00008031- Patch #2477: Added from __future__ import unicode_literals.
Christian Heimes3c608332008-03-26 22:01:37 +00008032
Christian Heimes8c78cc32008-03-26 12:53:58 +00008033- Added backport of bytearray type.
8034
Georg Brandl80055f62008-03-25 07:56:27 +00008035- Issue #2355: add Py3k warning for buffer().
8036
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc9a0d3462008-03-23 09:55:29 +00008037- Issue #1477: With narrow Unicode builds, the unicode escape sequence
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008038 \Uxxxxxxxx did not accept values outside the Basic Multilingual
8039 Plane. This affected raw unicode literals and the
8040 'raw-unicode-escape' codec. Now UTF-16 surrogates are generated in
8041 this case, like normal unicode literals and the 'unicode-escape'
8042 codec.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc9a0d3462008-03-23 09:55:29 +00008043
Georg Brandl65bb42d2008-03-21 20:38:24 +00008044- Issue #2348: add Py3k warning for file.softspace.
8045
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008046- Issue #2346/#2347: add Py3k warnings for __methods__ and
8047 __members__.
Georg Brandl07e56812008-03-21 20:21:46 +00008048
Georg Brandl5a444242008-03-21 20:11:46 +00008049- Issue #2358: Add a Py3k warning on sys.exc_clear() usage.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd21fb4c2008-03-05 01:50:33 +00008050
Martin v. Löwisa4d77892008-03-19 04:39:13 +00008051- Issue #2400: Allow relative imports to "import *".
8052
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008053- Issue #1745: Backport print function with ``from __future__ import
8054 print_function``.
Eric Smith7c478942008-03-18 23:45:49 +00008055
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008056- Issue #2332: add new attribute names for instance method objects.
8057 The two changes are: im_self -> __self__ and im_func -> __func__
Neal Norwitzb1d3d962008-03-18 04:46:00 +00008058
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008059- Issue #2379: Raise a Py3K warning for __getitem__ or __getslice__ on
Guido van Rossum6d91be32008-03-18 04:42:22 +00008060 exception instances.
8061
Guido van Rossum04edb522008-03-18 02:49:46 +00008062- Issue #2371: Add a Py3k warning when catching an exception that
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008063 doesn't derive from BaseException.
8064
8065- Issue #2341: Add a Py3k warning when raising an exception that
8066 doesn't derive from BaseException.
Guido van Rossum04edb522008-03-18 02:49:46 +00008067
Neal Norwitz419fd492008-03-17 20:22:43 +00008068- Issue #2321: use pymalloc for unicode object string data to reduce
8069 memory usage in some circumstances.
8070
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008071- PEP 3127: octal literals now start with "0o". Old-style octal
8072 literals are still valid. There are binary literals with a prefix of
8073 "0b". This also affects int(x, 0).
Eric Smith0aed07a2008-03-17 19:43:40 +00008074
Georg Brandl1e7c3752008-03-25 08:37:23 +00008075- Issue #2359: Adding deprecation warnings for array.{read,write}.
8076
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008077- Issue #1779871: GNU gcc can now build Python on OS X because the
Jeffrey Yasskin1b4e45b2008-03-17 14:40:53 +00008078 flags -Wno-long-double, -no-cpp-precomp, and -mno-fused-madd are no
8079 longer passed.
8080
Neal Norwitz400aeda2008-03-15 22:03:18 +00008081- Add a warning when asserting a non-empty tuple which is always true.
8082
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008083- Issue #2179: speed up with statement execution by storing the exit
8084 method on the stack instead of in a temporary variable (patch by
8085 Jeffrey Yaskin)
Nick Coghlan7af53be2008-03-07 14:13:28 +00008086
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008087- Issue #2238: Some syntax errors in *args and **kwargs expressions
8088 could give bogus error messages.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd21fb4c2008-03-05 01:50:33 +00008089
Sean Reifscheider68fa8e62008-03-20 00:50:07 +00008090- Issue #2143: Fix embedded readline() hang on SSL socket EOF.
8091
Andrew M. Kuchling46d6b682008-04-30 16:19:55 +00008092Extension Modules
8093-----------------
Martin v. Löwisaef18b12008-03-24 13:31:16 +00008094
8095- Patch #2240: Implement signal.setitimer and signal.getitimer.
8096
Thomas Heller78b8f442008-03-05 14:53:39 +00008097Library
8098-------
8099
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008100- Issue #2315: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now accounts
8101 for daylight savings time in calculating the next rollover.
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00008102
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008103- Issue #2316: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now
8104 calculates rollovers correctly even when nothing is logged for a
8105 while.
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00008106
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008107- Issue #2317: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now uses
8108 improved logic for removing old files.
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00008109
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008110- Issue #2495: tokenize.untokenize now inserts a space between two
8111 consecutive string literals; previously, ["" ""] was rendered as
8112 [""""], which is incorrect python code.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcda0c0252008-03-27 23:23:54 +00008113
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008114- Issue #2248: return the result of the QUIT command. from
8115 SMTP.quit().
Georg Brandldeaf2ca2008-03-27 13:27:31 +00008116
Christian Heimes8c78cc32008-03-26 12:53:58 +00008117- Backport of Python 3.0's io module.
8118
Mark Dickinson8e85ffa2008-03-25 18:47:59 +00008119- Issue #2482: Make sure that the coefficient of a Decimal is always
8120 stored as a str instance, not as a unicode instance. This ensures
8121 that str(Decimal) is always an instance of str.
8122
Mark Dickinson3b24ccb2008-03-25 14:33:23 +00008123- Issue #2478: fix failure of decimal.Decimal(0).sqrt()
8124
Georg Brandl77354cf2008-03-21 20:01:51 +00008125- Issue #2432: give DictReader the dialect and line_num attributes
8126 advertised in the docs.
8127
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008128- Issue #2460: Make Ellipsis object copyable.
Raymond Hettingerb72233c2008-03-24 08:17:39 +00008129
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008130- Issue #1681432: Add triangular distribution to the random module
Raymond Hettingerbbc50ea2008-03-23 13:32:32 +00008131
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008132- Issue #2136: urllib2's auth handler now allows single-quoted realms
8133 in the WWW-Authenticate header.
Georg Brandl33124322008-03-21 19:54:00 +00008134
Marc-André Lemburga1867752008-03-20 18:08:00 +00008135- Issue #2434: Enhanced platform.win32_ver() to also work on Python
8136 installation which do not have the win32all package installed.
8137
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008138- Added support to platform.uname() to also report the machine and
8139 processor information on Windows XP and later. As a result,
Marc-André Lemburga1867752008-03-20 18:08:00 +00008140 platform.machine() and platform.processor() will report this
8141 information as well.
8142
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008143- The library implementing the 2to3 conversion, lib2to3, was added to
8144 the standard distribution.
Martin v. Löwis5e37bae2008-03-19 04:43:46 +00008145
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008146- Issue #1747858: Fix chown to work with large uid's and gid's on
8147 64-bit platforms.
Gregory P. Smith37f3f432008-03-18 20:40:01 +00008148
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008149- Issue #1202: zlib.crc32 and zlib.adler32 no longer return different
8150 values on 32-bit vs. 64-bit python interpreters. Both were correct,
8151 but they now both return a signed integer object for consistency.
Gregory P. Smithf48f9d32008-03-17 18:48:05 +00008152
Skip Montanaro32ed8c22008-03-15 16:07:11 +00008153- Issue #1158: add %f format (fractions of a second represented as
8154 microseconds) to datetime objects. Understood by both strptime and
8155 strftime.
8156
Mark Dickinsonc23b8a72008-03-14 14:23:37 +00008157- Issue #705836: struct.pack(">f", x) now raises OverflowError on all
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008158 platforms when x is too large to fit into an IEEE 754 float;
8159 previously it only raised OverflowError on non IEEE 754 platforms.
Mark Dickinsonc23b8a72008-03-14 14:23:37 +00008160
Andrew M. Kuchlingaac5c862008-05-11 14:00:00 +00008161- Issues #2166, #1741 and #1531505: now distutils deals with HOME
8162 correctly under win32
8163
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008164- Patch #1858: distutils: added multiple server support in .pypirc
Andrew M. Kuchlingaac5c862008-05-11 14:00:00 +00008165
Facundo Batistac54aec12008-03-08 16:50:27 +00008166- Issue #1106316: pdb.post_mortem()'s parameter, "traceback", is now
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008167 optional: it defaults to the traceback of the exception that is
8168 currently being handled (is mandatory to be in the middle of an
8169 exception, otherwise it raises ValueError).
Facundo Batistac54aec12008-03-08 16:50:27 +00008170
Jeffrey Yasskine75f59a2008-03-07 06:22:15 +00008171- Issue #1193577: A .shutdown() method has been added to SocketServers
8172 which terminates the .serve_forever() loop.
8173
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008174- Issue #2220: handle rlcompleter attribute match failure more
8175 gracefully.
Georg Brandl98aa8052008-03-06 07:45:52 +00008176
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008177- Issue #2225: py_compile, when executed as a script, now returns a
8178 non- zero status code if not all files could be compiled
8179 successfully.
Georg Brandla7bd27f2008-03-06 07:41:16 +00008180
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008181- Bug #1725737: In distutils' sdist, exclude RCS, CVS etc. also in the
Georg Brandl810ea292008-03-06 07:34:52 +00008182 root directory, and also exclude .hg, .git, .bzr, and _darcs.
8183
Thomas Hellerf3c05592008-03-05 15:34:29 +00008184- Issue #1872: The struct module typecode for _Bool has been changed
8185 from 't' to '?'.
8186
Thomas Heller78b8f442008-03-05 14:53:39 +00008187- The bundled libffi copy is now in sync with the recently released
8188 libffi3.0.4 version, apart from some small changes to
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008189 Modules/_ctypes/libffi/configure.ac. On OS X, preconfigured libffi
8190 files are used. On all linux systems the --with-system-ffi
8191 configure option defaults to "yes".
Thomas Heller78b8f442008-03-05 14:53:39 +00008192
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008193- Issue #1577: shutil.move() now calls os.rename() if the destination
8194 is a directory instead of copying-then-remove-source.
Sean Reifscheider493894c2008-03-18 17:24:12 +00008195
Martin v. Löwisd2bbe522008-03-06 06:55:22 +00008196Tests
8197-----
8198
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008199- test_nis no longer fails when test.test_support.verbose is true and
8200 NIS is not set up on the testing machine.
Brett Cannon7919d982008-03-19 16:50:13 +00008201
Brett Cannona5573b32008-03-18 04:16:06 +00008202- Output comparison tests are no longer supported.
8203
Brett Cannonb7ec8e52008-03-18 03:46:22 +00008204- Rewrite test_errno to use unittest and no longer be a no-op.
8205
Brett Cannon0bb79502008-03-18 01:58:56 +00008206- GHOP 234: Convert test_extcall to doctest.
8207
Brett Cannonba17cfc2008-03-18 01:50:25 +00008208- GHOP 290: Convert test_dbm and test_dummy_threading to unittest.
8209
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008210- GHOP 293: Convert test_strftime, test_getargs, and test_pep247 to
8211 unittest.
Brett Cannon6eeaddc2008-03-18 01:00:07 +00008212
Brett Cannon1f5182b2008-03-13 21:09:28 +00008213- Issue #2055: Convert test_fcntl to unittest.
8214
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00008215- Issue #1960: Convert test_gdbm to unittest.
Brett Cannon4a6e8d62008-03-13 21:02:16 +00008216
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008217- GHOP 294: Convert test_contains, test_crypt, and test_select to
8218 unittest.
Brett Cannon2e0f9f32008-03-13 20:47:41 +00008219
Brett Cannonb8d37352008-03-13 20:33:10 +00008220- GHOP 238: Convert test_tokenize to use doctest.
8221
Brett Cannon66865d22008-03-13 20:27:00 +00008222- GHOP 237: Rewrite test_thread using unittest.
8223
Martin v. Löwisd2bbe522008-03-06 06:55:22 +00008224- Patch #2232: os.tmpfile might fail on Windows if the user has no
8225 permission to create files in the root directory.
8226
Martin v. Löwisbf7b0b72008-03-14 13:56:09 +00008227Build
8228-----
8229
Martin v. Löwiscdbc9772008-03-24 12:57:53 +00008230- A new script 2to3 is now installed, to run the 2.x to 3.x converter.
8231
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008232- Python/memmove.c and Python/strerror.c have been removed; both
8233 functions are in the C89 standard library.
Brett Cannonaa5778d2008-03-18 04:09:00 +00008234
Martin v. Löwisbf7b0b72008-03-14 13:56:09 +00008235- Patch #2284: Add -x64 option to rt.bat.
Barry Warsaw65475fd2008-03-01 17:11:41 +00008236
Christian Heimes3c608332008-03-26 22:01:37 +00008237C API
8238-----
8239
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00008240- Patch #2477: Added PyParser_ParseFileFlagsEx() and
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008241 PyParser_ParseStringFlagsFilenameEx().
8242
Christian Heimes3c608332008-03-26 22:01:37 +00008243
Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +00008244What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 1?
8245=================================
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00008246
Barry Warsaw7c075232008-03-01 02:53:36 +00008247*Release date: 29-Feb-2008*
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00008248
8249Core and builtins
8250-----------------
8251
Fred Drakea8ee94b2008-03-01 02:45:07 +00008252- Issue #2051: pyc and pyo files are no longer created with permission
Barry Warsaw52973612008-03-01 02:23:38 +00008253 644. The mode is now inherited from the py file.
Christian Heimes40346852008-02-23 17:52:07 +00008254
Georg Brandlad61bc82008-02-23 15:11:18 +00008255- Issue #2067: file.__exit__() now calls subclasses' close() method.
8256
8257- Patch #1759: Backport of PEP 3129 class decorators.
Christian Heimes5224d282008-02-23 15:01:05 +00008258
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00008259- Issue #1881: An internal parser limit has been increased. Also see
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00008260 issue #215555 for a discussion.
Facundo Batistafc2d0102008-02-23 12:01:13 +00008261
Eric Smitha73fbe72008-02-23 03:09:44 +00008262- Added the future_builtins module, which contains hex() and oct().
8263 These are the PEP 3127 version of these functions, designed to be
8264 compatible with the hex() and oct() builtins from Python 3.0. They
8265 differ slightly in their output formats from the existing, unchanged
8266 Python 2.6 builtins. The expected usage of the future_builtins
8267 module is:
8268 from future_builtins import hex, oct
8269
Eric Smith7ef40bf2008-02-20 23:34:22 +00008270- Issue #1600: Modifed PyOS_ascii_formatd to use at most 2 digit
8271 exponents for exponents with absolute value < 100. Follows C99
8272 standard. This is a change on Windows, which would use 3 digits.
8273 Also, added 'n' to the formats that PyOS_ascii_formatd understands,
8274 so that any alterations it does to the resulting string will be
8275 available in stringlib/formatter.h (for float.__format__).
8276
Eric Smith5a3c1352008-02-19 13:21:56 +00008277- Implemented PEP 3101, Advanced String Formatting. This adds a new
8278 builtin format(); a format() method for str and unicode; a
8279 __format__() method to object, str, unicode, int, long, float, and
8280 datetime; the class string.Formatter; and the C API
8281 PyObject_Format().
8282
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008283- Fixed several potential crashes, all caused by specially crafted
8284 __del__ methods exploiting objects in temporarily inconsistent
8285 state.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc632fad32008-02-16 20:55:24 +00008286
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00008287- Issue #2115: Important speedup in setting __slot__ attributes. Also
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008288 prevent a possible crash: an Abstract Base Class would try to access
8289 a slot on a registered virtual subclass.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc60d6c7f2008-02-15 21:22:45 +00008290
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008291- Fixed repr() and str() of complex numbers with infinity or nan as
8292 real or imaginary part.
Christian Heimes2f0da532008-02-15 06:57:08 +00008293
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008294- Clear all free lists during a gc.collect() of the highest generation
8295 in order to allow pymalloc to free more arenas. Python may give back
8296 memory to the OS earlier.
Christian Heimes3b718a72008-02-14 12:47:33 +00008297
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008298- Issue #2045: Fix an infinite recursion triggered when printing a
8299 subclass of collections.defaultdict, if its default_factory is set
8300 to a bound method.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcb01aa432008-02-08 00:56:02 +00008301
Christian Heimesf75dbef2008-02-08 00:11:31 +00008302- Fixed a minor memory leak in dictobject.c. The content of the free
8303 list was not freed on interpreter shutdown.
8304
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00008305- Limit free list of method and built-in function objects to 256
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008306 entries each.
Christian Heimes6075a822008-02-06 12:44:34 +00008307
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008308- Patch #1953: Added ``sys._compact_freelists()`` and the C API
8309 functions ``PyInt_CompactFreeList`` and ``PyFloat_CompactFreeList``
Christian Heimes422051a2008-02-04 18:00:12 +00008310 to compact the internal free lists of pre-allocted ints and floats.
8311
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008312- Issue #1983: Fixed return type of fork(), fork1() and forkpty()
8313 calls. Python expected the return type int but the fork familie
8314 returns pi_t.
Christian Heimes951cc0f2008-01-31 23:08:23 +00008315
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008316- Issue #1678380: Fix a bug that identifies 0j and -0j when they
8317 appear in the same code unit.
Mark Dickinson105be772008-01-31 22:17:37 +00008318
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008319- Issue #2025: Add tuple.count() and tuple.index() methods to comply
8320 with the collections.Sequence API.
Raymond Hettinger5b07ebc2008-02-07 00:54:20 +00008321
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008322- Patch #1970 by Antoine Pitrou: Speedup unicode whitespace and
8323 linebreak detection
Christian Heimes4d4f2702008-01-30 11:32:37 +00008324
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008325- Added ``PyType_ClearCache()`` and ``sys._clear_type_cache`` to clear
8326 the internal lookup cache for ref leak tests.
Christian Heimes908caac2008-01-27 23:34:59 +00008327
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008328- Patch #1473257: generator objects gain a gi_code attribute. This is
8329 the same object as the func_code attribute of the function that
8330 produced the generator.
Georg Brandl0cdf9a32008-01-26 14:14:20 +00008331
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008332- Issue #1920: "while 0" statements were completely removed by the
8333 compiler, even in the presence of an "else" clause, which is
8334 supposed to be run when the condition is false. Now the compiler
8335 correctly emits bytecode for the "else" suite.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc31eaafe2008-01-24 22:59:25 +00008336
Guido van Rossumeead05f2008-01-24 18:21:02 +00008337- A few crashers fixed: weakref_in_del.py (issue #1377858);
8338 loosing_dict_ref.py (issue #1303614, test67.py);
8339 borrowed_ref_[34].py (not in tracker).
8340
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +00008341- Issue #1069410: The "can't load dll" message box on Windows is
Christian Heimesb2302ba2008-01-23 17:15:06 +00008342 suppressed while an extension is loaded by calling SetErrorMode in
8343 dynload_win.c. The error is still reported properly.
8344
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008345- Issue #1915: Python compiles with --enable-unicode=no again. However
Christian Heimes082c9b02008-01-23 14:20:50 +00008346 several extension methods and modules do not work without unicode
8347 support.
8348
Georg Brandl26543b12008-01-21 18:36:51 +00008349- Issue #1882: when compiling code from a string, encoding cookies in the
8350 second line of code were not always recognized correctly.
8351
Georg Brandl14404b62008-01-19 19:27:05 +00008352- Issue #1679: "0x" was taken as a valid integer literal.
8353
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00008354- Issue #1865: ``bytes`` as an alias for ``str`` and b"" as an alias "" were
Christian Heimes288e89a2008-01-18 18:24:07 +00008355 added.
8356
Christian Heimesc94e2b52008-01-14 04:13:37 +00008357- sys.float_info / PyFloat_GetInfo: The floating point information
8358 object was converted from a dict to a specialized structseq object.
8359
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008360- Patch #1816: Added sys.flags structseq. It exposes the status of
8361 most command line arguments and PYTHON* environment variables.
Christian Heimesf31b69f2008-01-14 03:42:48 +00008362
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008363- Objects/structseq.c: Implemented new structseq representation. The
8364 patch makes structseqs (e.g. the return value of os.stat) more
8365 readable.
Christian Heimes9c201962008-01-14 03:33:52 +00008366
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008367- Patch #1700288: added a type attribute cache that caches method
8368 accesses, resulting in speedups in heavily object-oriented code.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arce4c270c2008-01-14 00:29:41 +00008369
Neal Norwitz3fc15b82008-01-10 05:42:58 +00008370- Bug #1776: __import__() no longer accepts filenames on any platform.
8371 The first parameter to __import__() must be a valid module name.
Christian Heimes3403f152008-01-09 19:56:33 +00008372
Georg Brandlaed6c662008-01-07 17:25:53 +00008373- Patch #1668: renamed THREADDEBUG envvar to PYTHONTHREADDEBUG.
8374
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008375- Patch #602345: Add -B command line option, PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE
8376 envvar and sys.dont_write_bytecode attribute. All these can be set
8377 to forbid Python to attempt to write compiled bytecode files.
Georg Brandl2da0fce2008-01-07 17:09:35 +00008378
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008379- Improve some exception messages when Windows fails to load an
8380 extension module. Now we get for example '%1 is not a valid Win32
8381 application' instead of 'error code 193'.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arce0b76952008-01-04 02:04:15 +00008382
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008383- Bug #1481296: Fixed long(float('nan')) != 0L.
Christian Heimes8267d1d2008-01-04 00:37:34 +00008384
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008385- Issue #1640: Added math.isinf(x), math.isnan(x) and math.copysign(x,
8386 y) functions.
Christian Heimese2ca4242008-01-03 20:23:15 +00008387
Christian Heimes0a8143f2007-12-18 23:22:54 +00008388- Issue #1635: Platform independent creation and representation of NaN
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008389 and INF. float("nan"), float("inf") and float("-inf") now work on
8390 every platform with IEEE 754 semantics.
Christian Heimes0a8143f2007-12-18 23:22:54 +00008391
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008392- Compiler now generates simpler and faster code for dictionary
8393 literals. The oparg for BUILD_MAP now indicates an estimated
8394 dictionary size. There is a new opcode, STORE_MAP, for adding
8395 entries to the dictionary.
Raymond Hettingerfd7ed402007-12-18 21:24:09 +00008396
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008397- Issue #1638: %zd configure test fails on Linux.
Christian Heimesdb3d6cb2007-12-16 21:39:43 +00008398
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008399- Issue #1620: New property decorator syntax was modifying the
8400 decorator in place instead of creating a new decorator object.
Christian Heimes90e10e72007-12-14 02:35:23 +00008401
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008402- Issue #1538: Avoid copying string in split/rsplit if the split char
8403 is not found.
Skip Montanaro26015492007-12-08 15:33:24 +00008404
Andrew M. Kuchling395fe442007-12-05 13:27:20 +00008405- Issue #1553: An erroneous __length_hint__ can make list() raise a
Christian Heimes7cc1c6f2007-12-05 12:52:34 +00008406 SystemError.
8407
Nick Coghlanef01d822007-12-03 12:55:17 +00008408- PEP 366: Allow explicit relative imports when executing modules
8409 inside packages with the -m switch via a new module level
8410 __package__ attribute.
8411
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008412- Issue #1402: Fix a crash on exit, when another thread is still
8413 running, and if the deallocation of its frames somehow calls the
8414 PyGILState_Ensure() / PyGILState_Release() functions.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbe49a902007-11-30 20:37:22 +00008415
Christian Heimes28104c52007-11-27 23:16:44 +00008416- Expose the Py_Py3kWarningFlag as sys.py3kwarning.
8417
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00008418- Issue #1445: Fix a SystemError when accessing the ``cell_contents``
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcce7d10c2007-11-24 13:44:17 +00008419 attribute of an empty cell object.
8420
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008421- Issue #1460: The utf-7 incremental decoder did not accept truncated
8422 input. It now correctly saves its state between chunks of data.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcf57375a2007-11-21 01:38:26 +00008423
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008424- Patch #1739468: Directories and zipfiles containing a __main__.py
8425 file can now be directly executed by passing their name to the
8426 interpreter. The directory/zipfile is automatically inserted as the
8427 first entry in sys.path.
Nick Coghlan327a39b2007-11-18 11:56:28 +00008428
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008429- Issue #1265: Fix a problem with sys.settrace, if the tracing
8430 function uses a generator expression when at the same time the
8431 executed code is closing a paused generator.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc0d75f092007-11-13 21:54:28 +00008432
Raymond Hettinger1760c8a2007-11-08 02:52:43 +00008433- sets and frozensets now have an isdisjoint() method.
8434
Raymond Hettinger3f8caa32007-10-24 01:28:33 +00008435- optimize the performance of builtin.sum().
8436
Neal Norwitz44f326e2007-10-05 05:29:17 +00008437- Fix warnings found by the new version of the Coverity checker.
8438
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00008439- The enumerate() built-in function is no longer bounded to sequences
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008440 smaller than LONG_MAX. Formerly, it raised an OverflowError. Now,
8441 automatically shifts from ints to longs.
Raymond Hettinger8f669372007-10-03 21:18:11 +00008442
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008443- Issue #1686386: Tuple's tp_repr did not take into account the
8444 possibility of having a self-referential tuple, which is possible
8445 from C code. Nor did object's tp_str consider that a type's tp_str
8446 could do something that could lead to an inifinite recursion.
8447 Py_ReprEnter() and Py_EnterRecursiveCall(), respectively, fixed the
8448 issues.
Brett Cannon0b14f242007-09-30 19:45:10 +00008449
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008450- Issue #1164: It was possible to trigger deadlock when using the
8451 'print' statement to write to a file since the GIL was not released
8452 as needed. Now PyObject_Print() does the right thing along with
8453 various tp_print implementations of the built-in types and those in
8454 the collections module.
Brett Cannon01531592007-09-17 03:28:34 +00008455
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008456- Issue #1147: Exceptions were directly allowing string exceptions in
8457 their throw() method even though string exceptions no longer
8458 allowed.
Brett Cannon4c20bc42007-09-11 21:02:28 +00008459
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008460- Issue #1096: Prevent a segfault from getting the repr of a very
8461 deeply nested list by using the recursion counter.
Brett Cannona0c05512007-09-10 21:38:27 +00008462
Brett Cannon1e534b52007-09-07 04:18:30 +00008463- Issue #1202533: Fix infinite recursion calls triggered by calls to
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008464 PyObject_Call() never calling back out to Python code to trigger
8465 recursion depth updates/checks. Required the creation of a static
8466 RuntimeError instance in case normalizing an exception put the
8467 recursion check value past its limit. Fixes crashers
8468 infinite_rec_(1|2|4|5).py.
Brett Cannon1e534b52007-09-07 04:18:30 +00008469
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008470- Patch #1031213: Decode source line in SyntaxErrors back to its
8471 original source encoding.
Martin v. Löwisa5136192007-09-04 14:19:28 +00008472
Georg Brandl7c3b50d2007-07-12 08:38:00 +00008473- Patch #1673759: add a missing overflow check when formatting floats
8474 with %G.
8475
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008476- Prevent expandtabs() on string and unicode objects from causing a
8477 segfault when a large width is passed on 32-bit platforms.
Neal Norwitz7dbd2a32007-06-09 03:36:34 +00008478
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008479- Issue #1733488: Fix compilation of bufferobject.c on AIX.
Martin v. Löwisda587ab2007-06-08 17:29:20 +00008480
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008481- Issue #1722485: remove docstrings again when running with -OO.
Georg Brandla5ea6892007-06-01 11:33:33 +00008482
Neal Norwitz0ac60192007-05-27 04:08:54 +00008483- Add new attribute names for function objects. All the func_* become
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008484 __*__ attributes. (Some already existed, e.g., __doc__ and
8485 __name__.)
Neal Norwitz0ac60192007-05-27 04:08:54 +00008486
Neal Norwitz8b2bfbc2007-05-23 06:35:32 +00008487- Add -3 option to the interpreter to warn about features that are
8488 deprecated and will be changed/removed in Python 3.0.
8489
Georg Brandl2134e752007-05-21 20:34:16 +00008490- Patch #1686487: you can now pass any mapping after '**' in function
8491 calls.
8492
Collin Winter62903052007-05-18 23:11:24 +00008493- except clauses may now be spelled either "except E, target:" or
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008494 "except E as target:". This is to provide forwards compatibility
8495 with Python 3.0.
Collin Winter62903052007-05-18 23:11:24 +00008496
Brett Cannon229cee22007-05-05 01:34:02 +00008497- Deprecate BaseException.message as per PEP 352.
8498
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008499- Issue #1303614: don't expose object's __dict__ when the dict is
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00008500 inherited from a built-in base.
Armin Rigo9790a272007-05-02 19:23:31 +00008501
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00008502- When __slots__ are set to a unicode string, make it work the same as
Neal Norwitzcbd9ee62007-04-14 05:25:50 +00008503 setting a plain string, ie don't expand to single letter identifiers.
8504
Raymond Hettinger13936692007-04-11 18:40:58 +00008505- Request #1191699: Slices can now be pickled.
8506
Raymond Hettinger4db5fe92007-04-12 04:10:00 +00008507- Request #1193128: str.translate() now allows a None argument for
8508 translations that only remove characters without re-mapping the
8509 remaining characters.
8510
Georg Brandl5cb76c12007-03-21 09:00:39 +00008511- Patch #1682205: a TypeError while unpacking an iterable is no longer
8512 masked by a generic one with the message "unpack non-sequence".
8513
Neal Norwitzaa754b72007-03-21 06:39:48 +00008514- Remove unused file Python/fmod.c.
8515
Guido van Rossum143b5642007-03-23 04:58:42 +00008516- Bug #1683368: The object.__init__() and object.__new__() methods are
8517 now stricter in rejecting excess arguments. The only time when
8518 either allows excess arguments is when it is not overridden and the
8519 other one is. For backwards compatibility, when both are
8520 overridden, it is a deprecation warning (for now; maybe a Py3k
Guido van Rossum234b1ff2007-03-23 19:39:01 +00008521 warning later). Also, type.__init__() insists on the same signature
8522 as supported by type.__new__().
Guido van Rossum143b5642007-03-23 04:58:42 +00008523
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008524- Patch #1675423: PyComplex_AsCComplex() now tries to convert an
8525 object to complex using its __complex__() method before falling back
8526 to the __float__() method. Therefore, the functions in the cmath
8527 module now can operate on objects that define a __complex__()
8528 method.
Georg Brandl2b869942007-03-17 16:08:45 +00008529
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008530- Patch #1623563: allow __class__ assignment for classes with
8531 __slots__. The old and the new class are still required to have the
8532 same slot names.
Žiga Seilnacht6f2d09c2007-03-16 11:59:38 +00008533
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008534- Patch #1642547: Fix an error/crash when encountering syntax errors
8535 in complex if statements.
Collin Winter77c67bd2007-03-16 04:11:30 +00008536
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008537- Patch #1462488: Python no longer segfaults when
8538 ``object.__reduce_ex__()`` is called with an object that is faking
8539 its type.
Žiga Seilnacht20f43d32007-03-15 11:44:55 +00008540
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008541- Patch #1680015: Don't modify __slots__ tuple if it contains an
8542 unicode name.
Žiga Seilnacht71436f02007-03-14 12:24:09 +00008543
Georg Brandl5240d742007-03-13 20:46:32 +00008544- Patch #1444529: the builtin compile() now accepts keyword arguments.
8545
Georg Brandl7b9c5552007-03-12 14:30:05 +00008546- Bug #1678647: write a newline after printing an exception in any
8547 case, even when converting the value to a string failed.
8548
Georg Brandl871f1bc2007-03-12 13:17:36 +00008549- The dir() function has been extended to call the __dir__() method on
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008550 its argument, if it exists. If not, it will work like before. This
8551 allows customizing the output of dir() in the presence of a
8552 __getattr__().
Georg Brandl871f1bc2007-03-12 13:17:36 +00008553
Collin Winter276887b2007-03-12 16:11:39 +00008554- Patch #922167: Python no longer segfaults when faced with infinitely
8555 self-recursive reload() calls (as reported by bug #742342).
8556
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008557- Patch #1675981: remove unreachable code from ``type.__new__()``
8558 method.
Žiga Seilnacht89032082007-03-11 15:54:54 +00008559
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008560- Patch #1491866: change the complex() constructor to allow
8561 parthensized forms. This means complex(repr(x)) now works instead of
8562 raising a ValueError.
Collin Wintere38051d2007-03-09 20:33:07 +00008563
Georg Brandlaa2321b2007-03-07 00:40:28 +00008564- Patch #703779: unset __file__ in __main__ after running a file. This
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008565 makes the filenames the warning module prints much more sensible
8566 when a PYTHONSTARTUP file is used.
Georg Brandlaa2321b2007-03-07 00:40:28 +00008567
Georg Brandl49aafc92007-03-07 00:34:46 +00008568- Variant of patch #697613: don't exit the interpreter on a SystemExit
8569 exception if the -i command line option or PYTHONINSPECT environment
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008570 variable is given, but break into the interactive interpreter just
8571 like on other exceptions or normal program exit.
Georg Brandl49aafc92007-03-07 00:34:46 +00008572
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008573- Patch #1638879: don't accept strings with embedded NUL bytes in
8574 long().
Georg Brandl00cd8182007-03-06 18:41:12 +00008575
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008576- Bug #1674503: close the file opened by execfile() in an error
8577 condition.
Georg Brandl098cd692007-03-06 12:17:50 +00008578
Georg Brandl0fca97a2007-03-05 22:28:08 +00008579- Patch #1674228: when assigning a slice (old-style), check for the
8580 sq_ass_slice instead of the sq_slice slot.
8581
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008582- When printing an unraisable error, don't print exceptions. before
8583 the name. This duplicates the behavior whening normally printing
8584 exceptions.
Neal Norwitz88516a62007-02-26 22:41:45 +00008585
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008586- Bug #1653736: Properly discard third argument to
8587 slot_nb_inplace_power.
Martin v. Löwisfd963262007-02-09 12:19:32 +00008588
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008589- PEP 352: Raising a string exception now triggers a TypeError.
8590 Attempting to catch a string exception raises DeprecationWarning.
Brett Cannon129bd522007-01-30 21:34:36 +00008591
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008592- Bug #1377858: Fix the segfaulting of the interpreter when an object
8593 created a weakref on itself during a __del__ call for new-style
8594 classes (classic classes still have the bug).
Brett Cannonf5bee302007-01-23 23:21:22 +00008595
Martin v. Löwis6c5c5022007-01-23 21:11:47 +00008596- Bug #1579370: Make PyTraceBack_Here use the current thread, not the
8597 frame's thread state.
8598
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008599- patch #1630975: Fix crash when replacing sys.stdout in
8600 sitecustomize.py.
Thomas Wouters6ed19652007-01-23 13:50:49 +00008601
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008602- Prevent seg fault on shutdown which could occur if an object raised
8603 a warning.
Neal Norwitz72cd02c2007-01-05 05:25:22 +00008604
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008605- Bug #1566280: Explicitly invoke threading._shutdown from Py_Main, to
8606 avoid relying on atexit.
Martin v. Löwis7b7c9d42007-01-04 21:06:12 +00008607
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008608- Bug #1590891: random.randrange don't return correct value for big
8609 number.
Raymond Hettinger94547f72006-12-20 06:42:06 +00008610
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008611- Patch #1586791: Better exception messages for some operations on
8612 strings, tuples and lists.
Georg Brandl283a1352006-11-19 08:48:30 +00008613
Martin v. Löwis056dac12006-11-12 18:24:26 +00008614- Bug #1067760: Deprecate passing floats to file.seek.
8615
Martin v. Löwisa346c092006-11-08 06:48:36 +00008616- Bug #1591996: Correctly forward exception in instance_contains().
8617
Neal Norwitz85dbec62006-11-04 19:25:22 +00008618- Bug #1588287: fix invalid assertion for `1,2` in debug builds.
8619
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008620- Bug #1576657: when setting a KeyError for a tuple key, make sure
8621 that the tuple isn't used as the "exception arguments tuple".
Georg Brandlb9f4ad32006-10-29 18:31:42 +00008622
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008623- Bug #1565514: SystemError not raised on too many nested blocks.
Neal Norwitz21997af2006-10-28 21:19:07 +00008624
Thomas Hellerdf08f0b2006-10-27 18:31:36 +00008625- Bug #1576174: WindowsError now displays the windows error code
8626 again, no longer the posix error code.
8627
Martin v. Löwisb5bc5372006-10-27 06:16:31 +00008628- Patch #1549049: Support long values in structmember, issue warnings
8629 if the assigned value for structmember fields gets truncated.
8630
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008631- Update the peephole optimizer to remove more dead code (jumps after
8632 returns) and inline unconditional jumps to returns.
Neal Norwitzcbeb6872006-10-14 21:33:38 +00008633
Georg Brandl2c1375c2006-10-12 11:27:59 +00008634- Bug #1545497: when given an explicit base, int() did ignore NULs
8635 embedded in the string to convert.
8636
Georg Brandl846f73a2006-10-08 07:11:54 +00008637- Bug #1569998: break inside a try statement (outside a loop) is now
8638 recognized and rejected.
8639
Armin Rigo7ccbca92006-10-04 12:17:45 +00008640- list.pop(x) accepts any object x following the __index__ protocol.
8641
Armin Rigo7ccbca92006-10-04 12:17:45 +00008642- A number of places, including integer negation and absolute value,
8643 were fixed to not rely on undefined behaviour of the C compiler
8644 anymore.
Martin v. Löwis820d6ac2006-10-04 05:47:34 +00008645
Georg Brandl3267d282006-09-30 09:03:42 +00008646- Bug #1566800: make sure that EnvironmentError can be called with any
8647 number of arguments, as was the case in Python 2.4.
8648
Georg Brandl5d59c092006-09-30 08:43:30 +00008649- Patch #1567691: super() and new.instancemethod() now don't accept
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008650 keyword arguments any more (previously they accepted them, but
8651 didn't use them).
Georg Brandl5d59c092006-09-30 08:43:30 +00008652
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008653- Fix a bug in the parser's future statement handling that led to
8654 "with" not being recognized as a keyword after, e.g., this
8655 statement: from __future__ import division, with_statement
Georg Brandla10d3af2006-09-24 12:35:36 +00008656
Neal Norwitz3a230172006-09-22 08:18:10 +00008657- Bug #1557232: fix seg fault with def f((((x)))) and def f(((x),)).
8658
Neal Norwitz4a8fbdb2006-09-22 08:16:26 +00008659- Fix %zd string formatting on Mac OS X so it prints negative numbers.
8660
Brett Cannonf6aa86e2006-09-20 18:43:13 +00008661- Allow exception instances to be directly sliced again.
8662
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008663- Bug #1551432: Exceptions do not define an explicit __unicode__
8664 method. This allows calling unicode() on exceptions classes
8665 directly to succeed.
Brett Cannon9adeab72006-09-20 18:34:28 +00008666
Georg Brandl4e933132006-09-06 20:05:58 +00008667- Bug #1542051: Exceptions now correctly call PyObject_GC_UnTrack.
8668 Also make sure that every exception class has __module__ set to
8669 'exceptions'.
8670
Georg Brandl98775df2006-09-06 06:09:31 +00008671- Bug #1550983: emit better error messages for erroneous relative
8672 imports (if not in package and if beyond toplevel package).
8673
Tim Petersc10c9d02006-09-05 02:18:09 +00008674- Overflow checking code in integer division ran afoul of new gcc
8675 optimizations. Changed to be more standard-conforming.
8676
Neal Norwitz4f096d92006-08-21 19:47:08 +00008677- Patch #1542451: disallow continue anywhere under a finally.
8678
Neal Norwitza22975f2006-09-05 02:24:03 +00008679- Patch #1546288: fix seg fault in dict_equal due to ref counting bug.
8680
Neal Norwitzd34e4272006-09-05 02:36:20 +00008681- The return tuple from str.rpartition(sep) is (tail, sep, head) where
8682 head is the original string if sep was not found.
8683
Neal Norwitzdac090d2006-09-05 03:53:08 +00008684- Bug #1520864: unpacking singleton tuples in list comprehensions and
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008685 generator expressions (x for x, in ... ) works again. Fixing this
8686 problem required changing the .pyc magic number. This means that
8687 .pyc files generated before 2.5c2 will be regenerated.
Neal Norwitzdac090d2006-09-05 03:53:08 +00008688
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00008689- ``with`` and ``as`` are now keywords.
Neal Norwitzca460d92006-09-06 06:28:06 +00008690
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008691- Bug #1664966: Fix crash in exec if Unicode filename can't be
8692 decoded.
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00008693
Guido van Rossumcad37242008-01-15 17:59:29 +00008694- Issue #1537: Changed GeneratorExit's base class from Exception to
8695 BaseException.
Christian Heimes44eeaec2007-12-03 20:01:02 +00008696
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008697- Issue #1703448: A joined thread could show up in the
Gregory P. Smith95cd5c02008-01-22 01:20:42 +00008698 threading.enumerate() list after the join() for a brief period until
8699 it actually exited.
8700
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00008701Library
8702-------
8703
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008704- Patch #2274: Add heapq.heappushpop().
Raymond Hettinger53bdf092008-03-13 19:03:51 +00008705
Christian Heimes608c1d82008-03-03 18:28:04 +00008706- Add inspect.isabstract(object) to fix bug #2223
8707
Mark Dickinson1ddf1d82008-02-29 02:16:37 +00008708- Add a __format__ method to Decimal, to support PEP 3101.
8709
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008710- Add a timing parameter when using trace.Trace to print out
8711 timestamps.
Neal Norwitzca376612008-02-26 08:21:28 +00008712
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008713- Issue #1627: httplib now ignores negative Content-Length headers.
Georg Brandl8c460d52008-02-24 00:14:24 +00008714
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008715- Issue #900744: If an invalid chunked-encoding header is sent by a
8716 server, httplib will now raise IncompleteRead and close the
8717 connection instead of raising ValueError.
Georg Brandl23635032008-02-24 00:03:22 +00008718
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008719- Issue #1492: The content type of BaseHTTPServer error messages can
8720 now be overridden.
Georg Brandl16479232008-02-23 15:02:28 +00008721
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008722- Issue #1781: ConfigParser now does not let you add the "default" section
Facundo Batistab12f0b52008-02-23 12:46:10 +00008723 (ignore-case)
8724
Guido van Rossum8bc09652008-02-21 18:18:37 +00008725- Removed uses of dict.has_key() from distutils, and uses of
8726 callable() from copy_reg.py, so the interpreter now starts up
8727 without warnings when '-3' is given. More work like this needs to
8728 be done in the rest of the stdlib.
8729
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008730- Issue #1916: added isgenerator() and isgeneratorfunction() to
8731 inspect.py.
Facundo Batista759bfc62008-02-18 03:43:43 +00008732
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008733- Issue #1224: Fixed bad url parsing when path begins with double
8734 slash.
Facundo Batistad14600e2008-02-18 12:48:43 +00008735
Thomas Hellera06a1a82008-02-13 20:21:53 +00008736- ctypes instances that are not or do not contain pointers can now be
8737 pickled.
8738
Martin v. Löwisdad88dc2008-02-12 18:47:34 +00008739- Patch #1966: Break infinite loop in httplib when the servers
8740 implements the chunked encoding incorrectly.
8741
Mark Dickinsond058cd22008-02-10 21:29:51 +00008742- Rename rational.py to fractions.py and the rational.Rational class
8743 to fractions.Fraction, to avoid the name clash with the abstract
8744 base class numbers.Rational. See discussion in issue #1682.
8745
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008746- The pickletools module now provides an optimize() function that
8747 eliminates unused PUT opcodes from a pickle string.
Raymond Hettingerda614dc2008-02-10 20:35:16 +00008748
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008749- Patch #2021: Allow tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile and
8750 SpooledTemporaryFile to be used in with statements by correctly
8751 supporting the context management protocol.
Nick Coghlanac094dc2008-02-10 07:32:52 +00008752
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008753- Patch #1979: Add rich comparisons to Decimal, and make Decimal
8754 comparisons involving a NaN follow the IEEE 754 standard.
Mark Dickinson2fc92632008-02-06 22:10:50 +00008755
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008756- Issue #2004: tarfile.py: Use mode 0700 for temporary directories and
8757 default permissions for missing directories.
Lars Gustäbel0192e432008-02-05 11:51:40 +00008758
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008759- Issue #175006: The debugger used to skip the condition of a "while"
8760 statement after the first iteration. Now it correctly steps on the
8761 expression, and breakpoints on the "while" statement are honored on
8762 each loop.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc6fd03bb2008-02-04 21:45:05 +00008763
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008764- Issue #1765140: add an optional delay argument to FileHandler and
8765 its subclasses. Defaults to false (existing behaviour), but if true,
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +00008766 defers opening the file until the first call to emit().
8767
Raymond Hettingerc226c312008-01-23 00:04:40 +00008768- The pprint module now supports sets and frozensets.
8769
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008770- Issue #1221598: add optional callbacks to ftplib.FTP's storbinary()
8771 and storlines() methods. (Contributed by Phil Schwartz)
Gregory P. Smithc64386b2008-01-22 00:19:41 +00008772
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008773- Issue #1715: include sub-extension modules in pydoc's text output.
Georg Brandlf2dae0e2008-01-21 21:05:49 +00008774
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008775- Issue #1836: fix an off-by-one bug in TimedRotatingHandler's
8776 rollover time calculation.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00008777
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008778- Issue #1021: fix a bug to allow basicConfig to accept NOTSET as a
8779 level.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00008780
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008781- Issue #932563: add LoggerAdapter convenience class to make it easier
8782 to add contextual information in logging output.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00008783
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008784- Issue #1760556: fix a bug to avoid FileHandler throwing an exception
8785 in flush().
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00008786
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008787- Bug #1530959: distutils' build command now uses different build
8788 directory when building extension modules against versions of Python
8789 compiled with ``--with-pydebug``.
Georg Brandl50160152008-01-21 17:42:40 +00008790
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008791- Issue #1555501: move plistlib from plat-mac directory to general
8792 library.
Georg Brandl864de822008-01-21 16:34:07 +00008793
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008794- Issue #1269: fix a bug in pstats.add_callers() and add a unit test
8795 file for pstats.
Georg Brandl66e73632008-01-21 10:24:59 +00008796
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008797- Issue #1669: don't allow shutil.rmtree() to be called on a symlink
8798 to a directory.
Georg Brandl52353982008-01-20 14:17:42 +00008799
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008800- Issue #1664522: in urllib, don't read non-existing directories in
8801 ftp mode, returning a 0-byte file -- raise an IOError instead.
Georg Brandld5e6cf22008-01-20 12:18:17 +00008802
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008803- Issue #856047: respect the ``no_proxy`` environment variable when
8804 using the ``http_proxy`` etc. environment variables in urllib.
Georg Brandl22350112008-01-20 12:05:43 +00008805
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008806- Issue #1178141: add a getcode() method to the addinfourls that
8807 urllib.open() returns so that you can retrieve the HTTP status code.
Georg Brandl9b0d46d2008-01-20 11:43:03 +00008808
Gregory P. Smithf25680a2008-01-20 01:26:04 +00008809- Issue #1003: Fix zipfile decryption check, it would fail zip files
8810 with extended local headers.
8811
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008812- Issue #1189216: Fix the zipfile module to work on archives with
8813 headers past the 2**31 byte boundary.
Gregory P. Smith350d03b2008-01-19 23:10:52 +00008814
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008815- Issue #1336: fix a race condition in subprocess.Popen if the garbage
Gregory P. Smithb9ba0752008-01-19 21:00:37 +00008816 collector kicked in at the wrong time that would cause the process
8817 to hang when the child wrote to stderr.
8818
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008819- Issue #1146: fix how textwrap breaks a long word that would start in
8820 the last column of a line.
Georg Brandlc6fde722008-01-19 19:48:19 +00008821
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008822- Issue #1693149: trace.py --ignore-module - accept multiple
8823 comma-separated modules to be given.
Skip Montanaro562133b2008-01-19 18:47:24 +00008824
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008825- Issue #1822: MIMEMultipart.is_multipart() behaves correctly for a
8826 just-created (and empty) instance. Thanks Jonathan Share.
Facundo Batista2b1b1952008-01-19 12:32:27 +00008827
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008828- Issue #1861: Added an attribute to the sched module which returns an
8829 ordered list of upcoming events (displayed as named tuples).
Raymond Hettinger44bd6c02008-01-17 19:31:38 +00008830
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008831- Issue #1837: The queue module now also supports a LIFO queue and a
8832 priority queue.
Raymond Hettinger3ad2acc82008-01-16 23:49:35 +00008833
Andrew M. Kuchling4a2762d2008-01-20 00:00:38 +00008834- Patch #1048820: Add insert-mode editing to curses.textpad.Textbox
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00008835 (patch by Stefan Wehr). Also, fix an off-by-one bug in
Andrew M. Kuchling4a2762d2008-01-20 00:00:38 +00008836 Textbox.gather().
8837
Thomas Heller02ec2892008-01-16 19:37:33 +00008838- Issue #1831: ctypes now raises a TypeError if conflicting positional
8839 and named arguments are passed to a Structure or Union initializer.
Thomas Heller415c1e32008-01-16 19:45:51 +00008840 When too many positional arguments are passed, also a TypeError is
8841 raised instead of a ValueError.
Thomas Heller02ec2892008-01-16 19:37:33 +00008842
Thomas Heller902d3072008-01-16 19:16:27 +00008843- Convert the internal ctypes array type cache to a WeakValueDict so
8844 that array types do not live longer than needed.
8845
Guido van Rossumcad37242008-01-15 17:59:29 +00008846- Issue #1786: pdb should use its own stdin/stdout around an exec call
8847 and when creating a recursive instance.
8848
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008849- Issue #1698398: ZipFile.printdir() crashed because the format string
8850 expected a tuple type of length six instead of time.struct_time
8851 object.
Raymond Hettinger351e1a32008-01-14 22:58:05 +00008852
Mark Dickinson59bc20b2008-01-12 01:56:00 +00008853- Issue #1780: The Decimal constructor now accepts arbitrary leading
8854 and trailing whitespace when constructing from a string.
8855 Context.create_decimal no longer accepts trailing newlines.
8856
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008857- Decimal.as_tuple(), difflib.find_longest_match() and inspect
8858 functions that returned a tuple now return a named tuple.
Georg Brandl2f32c392008-01-11 09:20:58 +00008859
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00008860- Doctest now returns results as a named tuple for readability:
Raymond Hettingerfff4e6e2008-01-11 01:25:54 +00008861 (0, 7) --> TestResults(failed=0, attempted=7)
8862
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008863- Issue #846388:q re.match is interruptible now, which is particularly
Facundo Batista4473d222008-01-08 21:10:12 +00008864 good for long regular expression matches.
8865
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008866- Patch #1137: allow setting buffer_size attribute on pyexpat Parser
8867 objects to set the character data buffer size.
Andrew M. Kuchlinge0a49b62008-01-08 14:30:55 +00008868
Facundo Batista52b25792008-01-08 12:25:20 +00008869- Issue #1757: The hash of a Decimal instance is no longer affected by
8870 the current context.
8871
Georg Brandl62416bc2008-01-07 18:47:44 +00008872- Patch #467924: add ZipFile.extract() and ZipFile.extractall() in the
8873 zipfile module.
8874
Christian Heimesfb2d25a2008-01-07 16:12:44 +00008875- Issue #1646: Make socket support the TIPC protocol.
8876
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008877- Bug #1742: return os.curdir from os.path.relpath() if both arguments
8878 are equal instead of raising an exception.
Georg Brandl183a0842008-01-06 14:27:15 +00008879
Guido van Rossumc6a04c22008-01-05 22:19:06 +00008880- Patch #1637: fix urlparse for URLs like 'http://x.com?arg=/foo'.
8881
Guido van Rossumced4eb02008-01-05 01:21:57 +00008882- Patch #1698: allow '@' in username parsed by urlparse.py.
8883
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008884- Issue #1735: TarFile.extractall() now correctly sets directory
8885 permissions and times.
Lars Gustäbel2ee1c762008-01-04 14:00:33 +00008886
Christian Heimes06875612008-01-04 13:21:07 +00008887- Bug #1713: posixpath.ismount() claims symlink to a mountpoint is a mountpoint.
8888
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008889- Bug #1687: Fxed plistlib.py restricts <integer> to Python int when
8890 writing
Christian Heimes06131882008-01-04 00:04:52 +00008891
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008892- Issue #1700: Regular expression inline flags incorrectly handle
8893 certain unicode characters.
Guido van Rossumae04c332008-01-03 19:12:44 +00008894
Jeffrey Yasskin2f3c16b2008-01-03 02:21:52 +00008895- Issue #1689: PEP 3141, numeric abstract base classes.
8896
Martin v. Löwis84b9aab2008-01-01 21:09:07 +00008897- Tk issue #1851526: Return results from Python callbacks to Tcl as
8898 Tcl objects.
8899
Thomas Heller153038e2007-12-18 19:00:34 +00008900- Issue #1642: Fix segfault in ctypes when trying to delete attributes.
8901
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008902- Issue #1727780: Support loading pickles of random.Random objects
8903 created on 32-bit systems on 64-bit systems, and vice versa. As a
8904 consequence of the change, Random pickles created by Python 2.6
8905 cannot be loaded in Python 2.5.
Martin v. Löwis6b449f42007-12-03 19:20:02 +00008906
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008907- Issue #1455: The distutils package now supports VS 2005 and VS 2008
8908 for both the msvccompiler and cygwincompiler.
Christian Heimesc654fc22007-12-03 13:55:16 +00008909
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008910- Issue #1531: tarfile.py: Read fileobj from the current offset, do
8911 not seek to the start.
Lars Gustäbel77b2d632007-12-01 21:02:12 +00008912
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008913- Issue #1534: Added a dictionary sys.float_info with information
8914 about the internal floating point type to the sys module.
Christian Heimesdfdfaab2007-12-01 11:20:10 +00008915
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008916- Issue #1429818: patch for trace and doctest modules so they play
8917 nicely together.
Skip Montanaro58a6f442007-11-24 14:30:47 +00008918
Brett Cannon43e53f82007-11-21 00:47:36 +00008919- doctest made a bad assumption that a package's __loader__.get_data()
8920 method used universal newlines.
8921
Nick Coghlan90b858e2007-11-07 11:57:51 +00008922- Issue #1705170: contextlib.contextmanager was still swallowing
8923 StopIteration in some cases. This should no longer happen.
8924
Thomas Heller486b1b02007-11-02 19:10:24 +00008925- Issue #1292: On alpha, arm, ppc, and s390 linux systems the
8926 --with-system-ffi configure option defaults to "yes".
8927
Hye-Shik Changa838a802007-10-28 11:19:02 +00008928- IN module for FreeBSD 8 is added and preexisting FreeBSD 6 and 7
8929 files are updated.
8930
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008931- Issues #1181, #1287: unsetenv() is now called when the
8932 os.environ.pop() and os.environ.clear() methods are used.
Georg Brandl1a94ec22007-10-24 21:40:38 +00008933
Thomas Heller91ac4222007-10-19 18:11:41 +00008934- ctypes will now work correctly on 32-bit systems when Python is
8935 configured with --with-system-ffi.
8936
Thomas Heller7fee6dd2007-10-11 19:51:32 +00008937- Patch #1203: ctypes now does work on OS X when Python is built with
Georg Brandl1a94ec22007-10-24 21:40:38 +00008938 --disable-toolbox-glue.
Thomas Heller7fee6dd2007-10-11 19:51:32 +00008939
Raymond Hettingera7fc4b12007-10-05 02:47:07 +00008940- collections.deque() now supports a "maxlen" argument.
8941
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008942- itertools.count() is no longer bounded to LONG_MAX. Formerly, it
8943 raised an OverflowError. Now, automatically shifts from ints to
8944 longs.
Raymond Hettinger50e90e22007-10-04 00:20:27 +00008945
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008946- Added itertools.product() which forms the Cartesian product of the
8947 input iterables.
Raymond Hettingerc5705a82008-02-22 19:50:06 +00008948
Raymond Hettinger66f91ea2008-03-05 20:59:58 +00008949- Added itertools.combinations() and itertools.permutations().
Raymond Hettinger93e804d2008-02-26 23:40:50 +00008950
Georg Brandlaff85e22007-09-20 16:06:07 +00008951- Patch #1541463: optimize performance of cgi.FieldStorage operations.
8952
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008953- Decimal is fully updated to the latest Decimal Specification
8954 (v1.66).
Facundo Batistab67da232007-09-17 16:26:50 +00008955
Georg Brandl8fd3ecf2007-09-12 19:00:07 +00008956- Bug #1153: repr.repr() now doesn't require set and dictionary items
8957 to be orderable to properly represent them.
8958
Thomas Heller2825b2e2007-09-07 06:32:17 +00008959- A 'c_longdouble' type was added to the ctypes module.
8960
Martin v. Löwis7dcb83c2007-08-30 19:04:09 +00008961- Bug #1709599: Run test_1565150 only if the file system is NTFS.
8962
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008963- When encountering a password-protected robots.txt file the
8964 RobotFileParser no longer prompts interactively for a username and
8965 password (bug 813986).
Skip Montanaro3e275362007-08-29 01:33:45 +00008966
Lars Gustäbel0f4a14b2007-08-28 12:31:09 +00008967- TarFile.__init__() no longer fails if no name argument is passed and
8968 the fileobj argument has no usable name attribute (e.g. StringIO).
8969
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008970- The functools module now provides 'reduce', for forward
8971 compatibility with Python 3000.
Guido van Rossum95f1a1b2007-08-27 20:52:10 +00008972
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008973- Server-side SSL support and cert verification added, by Bill
8974 Janssen.
Guido van Rossum4f2c3dd2007-08-25 15:08:43 +00008975
Bill Janssenf413fb02007-08-30 18:08:06 +00008976- socket.ssl deprecated; use new ssl module instead.
8977
Georg Brandl8ec57542007-08-24 06:10:01 +00008978- uuid creation is now threadsafe.
8979
Hye-Shik Chang23901042007-08-20 06:49:18 +00008980- EUC-KR codec now handles the cheot-ga-keut composed make-up hangul
8981 syllables.
8982
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008983- GB18030 codec now can encode additional two-byte characters that are
8984 missing in GBK.
Hye-Shik Changf3e93a02007-08-04 04:10:18 +00008985
Walter Dörwald6e390802007-08-17 16:41:28 +00008986- Add new codecs for UTF-32, UTF-32-LE and UTF-32-BE.
8987
Martin v. Löwisf1e0b3f2007-07-28 07:03:05 +00008988- Bug #1704793: Return UTF-16 pair if unicodedata.lookup cannot
8989 represent the result in a single character.
8990
Martin v. Löwisf25e35b2007-07-27 18:28:22 +00008991- Bug #978833: Close https sockets by releasing the _ssl object.
8992
Martin v. Löwis254b8f92007-07-25 16:24:23 +00008993- Change location of the package index to pypi.python.org/pypi
8994
Thomas Hellerfa704c62007-07-13 17:12:23 +00008995- Bug #1701409: Fix a segfault in printing ctypes.c_char_p and
8996 ctypes.c_wchar_p when they point to an invalid location. As a
8997 sideeffect the representation of these instances has changed.
8998
Lars Gustäbel104490e2007-06-18 11:42:11 +00008999- tarfile.py: Added "exclude" keyword argument to TarFile.add().
9000
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009001- Bug #1734723: Fix repr.Repr() so it doesn't ignore the maxtuple
9002 attribute.
Neal Norwitzc161cb92007-06-11 07:29:43 +00009003
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009004- The urlopen function of urllib2 now has an optional timeout
9005 parameter (note that it actually works with HTTP, HTTPS, FTP and
9006 FTPS connections).
Facundo Batista10951d52007-06-06 17:15:23 +00009007
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009008- In ftplib, the FTP.ntransfercmd method, when in passive mode, now
9009 uses the socket.create_connection function, using the timeout
9010 specified at connection time.
Facundo Batista92493122007-06-06 15:13:37 +00009011
Hye-Shik Chang9b541402007-06-05 18:58:51 +00009012- Bug #1728403: Fix a bug that CJKCodecs StreamReader hangs when it
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009013 reads a file that ends with incomplete sequence and sizehint
9014 argument for .read() is specified.
Hye-Shik Chang9b541402007-06-05 18:58:51 +00009015
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009016- Bug #1730389: Change time.strptime() to use ``\s+`` instead of
9017 ``\s*`` when matching spaces in the specified format argument.
Brett Cannonf7188ce2007-06-03 23:13:41 +00009018
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009019- Bugs #1668596/#1720897: distutils now copies data files even if
9020 package_dir is empty.
Neal Norwitz4a700bb2007-06-01 07:29:12 +00009021
Brett Cannonc2aa09a2007-05-31 19:20:00 +00009022- sha now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
9023
Brett Cannon7eec2172007-05-30 22:24:28 +00009024- md5 now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
9025
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009026- Issue #1385: The hmac module now computes the correct hmac when
9027 using hashes with a block size other than 64 bytes (such as sha384
9028 and sha512).
Gregory P. Smithe1ac4f12007-11-06 00:19:03 +00009029
Brett Cannonc249bda2007-05-30 21:48:58 +00009030- mimify now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
9031
Brett Cannon90134c92007-05-30 20:46:26 +00009032- MimeWriter now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
9033
Lars Gustäbela0fcb932007-05-27 19:49:30 +00009034- tarfile.py: Improved unicode support. Unicode input names are now
9035 officially supported. Added "errors" argument to the TarFile class.
9036
Facundo Batista711a54e2007-05-24 17:50:54 +00009037- urllib.ftpwrapper class now accepts an optional timeout.
9038
Georg Brandlc90bc752007-05-24 16:49:29 +00009039- shlex.split() now has an optional "posix" parameter.
9040
Brett Cannon41bf2fa2007-05-20 23:57:38 +00009041- The posixfile module now raises a DeprecationWarning.
9042
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009043- Remove the gopherlib module. This also leads to the removal of
9044 gopher support in urllib/urllib2.
Brett Cannond75f0432007-05-16 22:42:29 +00009045
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009046- Fix bug in marshal where bad data would cause a segfault due to lack
9047 of an infinite recursion check.
Neal Norwitzb1a9b372007-05-16 20:05:11 +00009048
Neal Norwitze0e70a42007-05-16 05:06:33 +00009049- Removed plat-freebsd2 and plat-freebsd3 directories (and IN.py in
9050 the directories).
9051
Georg Brandla09a96a2007-05-15 20:19:34 +00009052- HTML-escape the plain traceback in cgitb's HTML output, to prevent
9053 the traceback inadvertently or maliciously closing the comment and
9054 injecting HTML into the error page.
9055
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009056- The popen2 module and os.popen* are deprecated. Use the subprocess
9057 module.
Neal Norwitz42dd86b2007-05-11 06:57:33 +00009058
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009059- Added an optional credentials argument to SMTPHandler, for use with
9060 SMTP servers which require authentication.
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00009061
9062- Patch #1695948: Added optional timeout parameter to SocketHandler.
9063
9064- Bug #1652788: Minor fix for currentframe.
9065
9066- Patch #1598415: Added WatchedFileHandler to better support external
9067 log file rotation using e.g. newsyslog or logrotate. This handler is
9068 only useful in Unix/Linux environments.
9069
Georg Brandlfb4b3b72007-04-24 15:27:13 +00009070- Bug #1706381: Specifying the SWIG option "-c++" in the setup.py file
9071 (as opposed to the command line) will now write file names ending in
9072 ".cpp" too.
9073
Facundo Batistad918a652007-04-24 13:54:38 +00009074- As specified in RFC 2616, an HTTP response like 2xx indicates that
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009075 the client's request was successfully received, understood, and
9076 accepted. Now in these cases no error is raised in urllib (issue
9077 #1177) and urllib2.
Facundo Batistad918a652007-04-24 13:54:38 +00009078
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009079- Bug #1290505: time.strptime's internal cache of locale information
9080 is now properly recreated when the locale is changed.
Brett Cannonc6906652007-04-01 18:47:27 +00009081
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009082- Patch #1685563: remove (don't add) duplicate paths in
9083 distutils.MSVCCompiler.
Neal Norwitz8f35f442007-04-01 18:24:22 +00009084
Facundo Batistab6a5c9d2007-03-29 18:22:35 +00009085- Added a timeout parameter to the constructor of other protocols
9086 (telnetlib, ftplib, smtplib and poplib). This is second part of the
9087 work started with create_connection() and timeout in httplib, and
9088 closes patch #723312.
9089
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00009090- Patch #1676823: Added create_connection() to socket.py, which may be
9091 called with a timeout, and use it from httplib (whose HTTPConnection
Facundo Batista70f996b2007-05-21 17:32:32 +00009092 and HTTPSConnection now accept an optional timeout).
Facundo Batista07c78be2007-03-23 18:54:07 +00009093
Martin v. Löwis0af33882007-03-23 13:27:15 +00009094- Bug #978833: Revert r50844, as it broke _socketobject.dup.
9095
Žiga Seilnacht7492e422007-03-21 20:07:56 +00009096- Bug #1675967: re patterns pickled with Python 2.4 and earlier can
9097 now be unpickled with Python 2.5 and newer.
9098
Collin Wintera8785cc2007-03-19 18:52:08 +00009099- Patch #1630118: add a SpooledTemporaryFile class to tempfile.py.
9100
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009101- Patch #1273829: os.walk() now has a "followlinks" parameter. If set
9102 to True (which is not the default), it visits symlinks pointing to
Georg Brandlcae9f3d2007-03-21 09:10:29 +00009103 directories.
9104
Georg Brandl8f06d022007-03-16 07:55:09 +00009105- Bug #1681228: the webbrowser module now correctly uses the default
9106 GNOME or KDE browser, depending on whether there is a session of one
9107 of those present. Also, it tries the Windows default browser before
9108 trying Mozilla variants.
9109
Collin Winter6f187742007-03-16 22:16:08 +00009110- Patch #1339796: add a relpath() function to os.path.
9111
Georg Brandlab1f4672007-03-15 07:41:30 +00009112- Patch #1681153: the wave module now closes a file object it opened if
9113 initialization failed.
9114
Georg Brandlf66b6032007-03-14 08:27:52 +00009115- Bug #767111: fix long-standing bug in urllib which caused an
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009116 AttributeError instead of an IOError when the server's response
9117 didn't contain a valid HTTP status line.
Georg Brandlf66b6032007-03-14 08:27:52 +00009118
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009119- Patch #957650: "%var%" environment variable references are now
9120 properly expanded in ntpath.expandvars(), also "~user" home
9121 directory references are recognized and handled on Windows.
Georg Brandl03b90d82007-03-13 22:07:36 +00009122
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009123- Patch #1429539: pdb now correctly initializes the __main__ module
9124 for the debugged script, which means that imports from __main__ work
Georg Brandlb6ae6aa2007-03-13 21:58:44 +00009125 correctly now.
9126
Georg Brandlbad6f192007-03-13 21:32:56 +00009127- The nonobvious commands.getstatus() function is now deprecated.
9128
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009129- Patch #1393667: pdb now has a "run" command which restarts the
9130 debugged Python program, optionally with different arguments.
Georg Brandl8e84c652007-03-13 21:08:15 +00009131
Thomas Heller5dc4fe02007-03-13 20:42:52 +00009132- Patch #1649190: Adding support for _Bool to ctypes as c_bool.
9133
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009134- Patch #1530482: add pydoc.render_doc() which returns the
9135 documentation for a thing instead of paging it to stdout, which
9136 pydoc.doc() does.
Georg Brandl8441f152007-03-13 20:02:57 +00009137
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009138- Patch #1533909: the timeit module now accepts callables in addition
9139 to strings for the code to time and the setup code. Also added two
9140 convenience functions for instantiating a Timer and calling its
9141 methods.
Georg Brandld9bef352007-03-13 19:32:21 +00009142
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009143- Patch #1537850: tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile now has a "delete"
9144 parameter which can be set to False to prevent the default
9145 delete-on-close behavior.
Georg Brandl35ef9c12007-03-13 18:31:49 +00009146
Georg Brandl9e6b4702007-03-13 18:15:41 +00009147- Patch #1581073: add a flag to textwrap that prevents the dropping of
9148 whitespace while wrapping.
9149
Georg Brandl92a6bae2007-03-13 17:43:32 +00009150- Patch #1603688: ConfigParser.SafeConfigParser now checks values that
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009151 are set for invalid interpolation sequences that would lead to
9152 errors on reading back those values.
Georg Brandl92a6bae2007-03-13 17:43:32 +00009153
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009154- Added support for the POSIX.1-2001 (pax) format to
9155 tarfile.py. Extended and cleaned up the test suite. Added a new
9156 testtar.tar.
Lars Gustäbelc64e4022007-03-13 10:47:19 +00009157
Martin v. Löwisbdd0f392007-03-13 10:24:00 +00009158- Patch #1449244: Support Unicode strings in
9159 email.message.Message.{set_charset,get_content_charset}.
9160
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009161- Patch #1542681: add entries for "with", "as" and "CONTEXTMANAGERS"
9162 to pydoc's help keywords.
Georg Brandlb6a87542007-03-13 10:06:48 +00009163
Georg Brandl4ffc8f52007-03-13 09:41:31 +00009164- Patch #1555098: use str.join() instead of repeated string
9165 concatenation in robotparser.
9166
Georg Brandl94fe3f52007-03-13 09:32:11 +00009167- Patch #1635454: the csv.DictWriter class now includes the offending
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009168 field names in its exception message if you try to write a record
9169 with a dictionary containing fields not in the CSV field names list.
Georg Brandl94fe3f52007-03-13 09:32:11 +00009170
Georg Brandlceede5c2007-03-13 08:14:27 +00009171- Patch #1668100: urllib2 now correctly raises URLError instead of
9172 OSError if accessing a local file via the file:// protocol fails.
9173
Martin v. Löwis2681beb2007-03-12 11:01:10 +00009174- Patch #1677862: Require a space or tab after import in .pth files.
9175
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009176- Patch #1192590: Fix pdb's "ignore" and "condition" commands so they
9177 trap the IndexError caused by passing in an invalid breakpoint
9178 number.
Collin Winter2faa9e12007-03-11 16:00:20 +00009179
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009180- Patch #1599845: Add an option to disable the implicit calls to
9181 server_bind() and server_activate() in the constructors for
9182 TCPServer, SimpleXMLRPCServer and DocXMLRPCServer.
Collin Winterae041062007-03-10 14:41:48 +00009183
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009184- Bug #1531963: Make SocketServer.TCPServer's server_address always be
9185 equal to calling getsockname() on the server's socket. Fixed by
Collin Winterfaaa2042007-03-10 03:35:34 +00009186 patch #1545011.
Collin Winter22c42ba2007-03-10 02:51:26 +00009187
Andrew M. Kuchlinge45a77a2008-01-19 16:26:13 +00009188- Patch #742598: Add .timeout attribute to SocketServer that calls
9189 .handle_timeout() when no requests are received.
9190
Thomas Heller2456a3c2007-03-09 20:39:22 +00009191- Bug #1651235: When a tuple was passed to a ctypes function call,
9192 Python would crash instead of raising an error.
9193
Thomas Hellerc2f77252007-03-09 19:21:28 +00009194- Bug #1646630: ctypes.string_at(buf, 0) and ctypes.wstring_at(buf, 0)
9195 returned string up to the first NUL character.
9196
Martin v. Löwis1190a382007-03-09 15:35:55 +00009197- Patch #957003: Implement smtplib.LMTP.
9198
Collin Winterfb728de2007-03-09 03:26:32 +00009199- Patch #1481079: add support for HTTP_REFERER to CGIHTTPServer.
9200
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009201- Patch #1675424: Added tests for uncovered code in the zipfile
9202 module. The KeyError raised by Zipfile.getinfo for nonexistent
9203 names now has a descriptive message.
Georg Brandl4b3ab6f2007-07-12 09:59:22 +00009204
Martin v. Löwis05c075d2007-03-07 11:04:33 +00009205- Bug #1115886: os.path.splitext('.cshrc') gives now ('.cshrc', '').
9206
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009207- unittest now verifies more of its assumptions. In particular,
9208 TestCase and TestSuite subclasses (not instances) are no longer
9209 accepted in TestSuite.addTest(). This should cause no
9210 incompatibility since it never made sense with ordinary subclasses
9211 -- the failure just occurred later, with a more cumbersome
9212 exception.
Georg Brandl9caadf82007-03-08 18:37:31 +00009213
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009214- Patch #787789: allow to pass custom TestRunner instances to
9215 unittest's main() function.
Georg Brandld0a96252007-03-07 09:21:06 +00009216
Georg Brandl15c5ce92007-03-07 09:09:40 +00009217- Patches #1550273, #1550272: fix a few bugs in unittest and add a
9218 comprehensive test suite for the module.
9219
Georg Brandl71ff6462007-03-07 08:31:51 +00009220- Patch #1001604: glob.glob() now returns unicode filenames if it was
9221 given a unicode argument and os.listdir() returns unicode filenames.
9222
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009223- Patch #1673619: setup.py identifies extension modules it doesn't
9224 know how to build and those it knows how to build but that fail to
9225 build.
Skip Montanarod1287322007-03-06 15:41:38 +00009226
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00009227- Patch #912410: Replace HTML entity references for attribute values
Martin v. Löwisab8a6bb2007-03-06 14:43:00 +00009228 in HTMLParser.
9229
Georg Brandlff432e62007-03-06 13:37:45 +00009230- Patch #1663234: you can now run doctest on test files and modules
9231 using "python -m doctest [-v] filename ...".
9232
Martin v. Löwis3eb76482007-03-06 10:41:24 +00009233- Patch #1121142: Implement ZipFile.open.
9234
Skip Montanarof694b1b2007-03-04 20:54:12 +00009235- Taught setup.py how to locate Berkeley DB on Macs using MacPorts.
9236
Raymond Hettinger00166c52007-02-19 04:08:43 +00009237- Added heapq.merge() for merging sorted input streams.
9238
Raymond Hettingercd3c1082007-10-23 21:23:07 +00009239- Added collections.namedtuple() for assigning field names to tuples.
Raymond Hettingerc37e5e02007-03-01 06:16:43 +00009240
Raymond Hettingerd36862c2007-02-21 05:20:38 +00009241- Added itertools.izip_longest().
9242
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009243- Have the encoding package's search function dynamically import using
9244 absolute import semantics.
Brett Cannon971a0122007-02-15 22:54:39 +00009245
Lars Gustäbel5b1a7852007-02-13 16:09:24 +00009246- Patch #1647484: Renamed GzipFile's filename attribute to name.
9247
Martin v. Löwis84f6de92007-02-13 10:10:39 +00009248- Patch #1517891: Mode 'a' for ZipFile now creates the file if it
9249 doesn't exist.
9250
Martin v. Löwisc6d626e2007-02-13 09:49:38 +00009251- Patch #698833: Support file decryption in zipfile.
9252
Martin v. Löwis07aa3ed2007-02-13 08:34:45 +00009253- Patch #685268: Consider a package's __path__ in imputil.
9254
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009255- Patch #1463026: Support default namespace in XMLGenerator.
Martin v. Löwis2bad58f2007-02-12 12:21:10 +00009256
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009257- Patch #1571379: Make trace's --ignore-dir facility work in the face
9258 of relative directory names.
Skip Montanaro691acf22007-02-11 18:24:37 +00009259
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009260- Bug #1600860: Search for shared python library in LIBDIR, not
9261 lib/python/config, on "linux" and "gnu" systems.
Martin v. Löwis0a203262007-02-09 12:36:48 +00009262
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009263- Patch #1652681: tarfile.py: create nonexistent files in append mode
9264 and allow appending to empty files.
Lars Gustäbel3f8aca12007-02-06 18:38:13 +00009265
Peter Astrand5f9c6ae2007-02-06 15:37:50 +00009266- Bug #1124861: Automatically create pipes if GetStdHandle fails in
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00009267 subprocess.
Peter Astrand5f9c6ae2007-02-06 15:37:50 +00009268
Georg Brandl4ba9e5b2007-01-27 17:59:42 +00009269- Patch #1634778: add missing encoding aliases for iso8859_15 and
9270 iso8859_16.
9271
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009272- Patch #1638243: the compiler package is now able to correctly
9273 compile a with statement; previously, executing code containing a
9274 with statement compiled by the compiler package crashed the
9275 interpreter.
Georg Brandlab496842007-01-27 17:43:02 +00009276
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00009277- Bug #1643943: Fix time.strptime's support for the %U directive.
9278
Lars Gustäbel0713a682007-02-19 09:54:47 +00009279- Patch #1507247: tarfile.py: use current umask for intermediate
9280 directories.
9281
Georg Brandldd7b0522007-01-21 10:35:10 +00009282- Patch #1627441: close sockets properly in urllib2.
9283
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009284- Bug #494589: make ntpath.expandvars behave according to its
9285 docstring.
Sjoerd Mullender33a0a062007-01-16 16:42:38 +00009286
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00009287- Changed platform module API python_version_tuple() to actually
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00009288 return a tuple (it used to return a list).
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00009289
9290- Added new platform module APIs python_branch(), python_revision(),
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00009291 python_implementation() and linux_distribution().
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00009292
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00009293- Added support for IronPython and Jython to the platform module.
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00009294
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009295- The sets module has been deprecated. Use the built-in set/frozenset
9296 types instead.
Brett Cannon093b6702007-01-13 00:29:49 +00009297
Thomas Heller6fd45492007-01-12 20:21:53 +00009298- Bug #1610795: make ctypes.util.find_library work on BSD systems.
9299
Thomas Heller8138c262007-01-11 21:18:56 +00009300- Fixes for 64-bit Windows: In ctypes.wintypes, correct the
9301 definitions of HANDLE, WPARAM, LPARAM data types. Make
9302 parameterless foreign function calls work.
9303
Thomas Hellerfb9d7872007-01-10 20:12:13 +00009304- The version number of the ctypes package changed to "1.1.0".
9305
Vinay Sajipab41c102007-01-09 14:51:36 +00009306- Bug #1627575: logging: Added _open() method to FileHandler which can
9307 be used to reopen files. The FileHandler instance now saves the
9308 encoding (which can be None) in an attribute called "encoding".
9309
Vinay Sajipc9137262007-01-08 18:52:36 +00009310- Bug #411881: logging.handlers: bare except clause removed from
9311 SMTPHandler.emit. Now, only ImportError is trapped.
9312
9313- Bug #411881: logging.handlers: bare except clause removed from
9314 SocketHandler.createSocket. Now, only socket.error is trapped.
9315
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009316- Bug #411881: logging: bare except clause removed from
9317 LogRecord.__init__. Now, only ValueError, TypeError and
9318 AttributeError are trapped.
Vinay Sajipc9137262007-01-08 18:52:36 +00009319
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009320- Patch #1504073: Fix tarfile.open() for mode "r" with a fileobj
9321 argument.
Lars Gustäbela7ba6fc2006-12-27 10:30:46 +00009322
Andrew M. Kuchling71662322006-12-27 03:31:24 +00009323- Patch #1182394 from Shane Holloway: speed up HMAC.hexdigest.
9324
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009325- Patch #1262036: Prevent TarFiles from being added to themselves
9326 under certain conditions.
Lars Gustäbela4b23812006-12-23 17:57:23 +00009327
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009328- Patch #1230446: tarfile.py: fix ExFileObject so that read() and
9329 tell() work correctly together with readline().
Lars Gustäbel6baa5022006-12-23 16:40:13 +00009330
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009331- Patch #1484695: The tarfile module now raises a HeaderError
9332 exception if a buffer given to frombuf() is invalid.
Georg Brandlebbeed72006-12-19 22:06:46 +00009333
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00009334- Bug #1503765: Fix a problem in logging.config with spaces in comma-
9335 separated lists read from logging config files.
9336
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009337- Patch #1604907: Fix problems in logging.handlers caused at logging
9338 shutdown when syslog handlers fail to initialize because of syslogd
9339 problems.
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00009340
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009341- Patch #1608267: fix a race condition in os.makedirs() if the
9342 directory to be created is already there.
Georg Brandlb1307432006-12-09 09:08:29 +00009343
Georg Brandl87fa5592006-12-06 22:21:18 +00009344- Patch #1610437: fix a tarfile bug with long filename headers.
9345
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009346- Patch #1371075: Make ConfigParser accept optional dict type for
9347 ordering, sorting, etc.
Martin v. Löwisa00bcac2006-12-03 12:01:53 +00009348
Thomas Helleref583a42006-11-28 20:21:54 +00009349- Bug #1563807: _ctypes built on AIX fails with ld ffi error.
9350
Thomas Heller25d208b2006-11-24 18:45:39 +00009351- Bug #1598620: A ctypes Structure cannot contain itself.
9352
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009353- Patch #1070046: Marshal new-style objects like InstanceType in
9354 xmlrpclib.
Martin v. Löwis07529352006-11-19 18:51:54 +00009355
Martin v. Löwiscffcc8b2006-11-19 10:41:41 +00009356- cStringIO.truncate(-1) now raises an IOError, like StringIO and
9357 regular files.
9358
Martin v. Löwisbba003e2006-11-18 18:42:11 +00009359- Patch #1472877: Fix Tix subwidget name resolution.
9360
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009361- Patch #1594554: Always close a tkSimpleDialog on ok(), even if an
9362 exception occurs.
Martin v. Löwisef5fd3e2006-11-18 18:05:35 +00009363
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009364- Patch #1538878: Don't make tkSimpleDialog dialogs transient if the
9365 parent window is withdrawn.
Martin v. Löwisc73a4a42006-11-18 18:00:23 +00009366
Georg Brandl54082112006-11-16 16:50:59 +00009367- Bug #1597824: return the registered function from atexit.register()
9368 to facilitate usage as a decorator.
9369
Martin v. Löwis45cd4ff2006-11-12 18:56:03 +00009370- Patch #1360200: Use unmangled_version RPM spec field to deal with
9371 file name mangling.
9372
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009373- Patch #1359217: Process 2xx response in an ftplib transfer that
9374 precedes an 1xx response.
Martin v. Löwis36cbc082006-11-12 18:48:13 +00009375
Martin v. Löwis065f0c82006-11-12 10:41:39 +00009376- Patch #1355023: support whence argument for GzipFile.seek.
9377
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00009378- Patch #1065257: Support passing open files as body in
Martin v. Löwis040a9272006-11-12 10:32:47 +00009379 HTTPConnection.request().
9380
Andrew M. Kuchlinga3e5d372006-11-09 13:27:07 +00009381- Bug #1569790: mailbox.py: Maildir.get_folder() and MH.get_folder()
9382 weren't passing the message factory on to newly created Maildir/MH
9383 objects.
9384
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009385- Patch #1514543: mailbox.py: In the Maildir class, report errors if
9386 there's a filename clash instead of possibly losing a message.
9387 (Patch by David Watson.)
Andrew M. Kuchling978d8282006-11-09 21:16:46 +00009388
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009389- Patch #1514544: Try to ensure that messages/indexes have been
9390 physically written to disk after calling .flush() or
9391 .close(). (Patch by David Watson.)
Andrew M. Kuchlingb5686da2006-11-09 13:51:14 +00009392
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00009393- Patch #1592250: Add elide argument to Tkinter.Text.search.
Martin v. Löwis038cad72006-11-09 11:27:32 +00009394
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00009395- Patch #838546: Make terminal become controlling in pty.fork().
Martin v. Löwisb2bba732006-11-09 11:06:03 +00009396
Martin v. Löwis5361e9a2006-11-08 07:35:55 +00009397- Patch #1351744: Add askyesnocancel helper for tkMessageBox.
9398
Martin v. Löwis5310e502006-11-04 18:14:06 +00009399- Patch #1060577: Extract list of RPM files from spec file in
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00009400 bdist_rpm.
Martin v. Löwis5310e502006-11-04 18:14:06 +00009401
Georg Brandl2c9838e2006-10-29 14:39:09 +00009402- Bug #1586613: fix zlib and bz2 codecs' incremental en/decoders.
9403
Georg Brandl3354f282006-10-29 09:16:12 +00009404- Patch #1583880: fix tarfile's problems with long names and posix/
9405 GNU modes.
9406
Georg Brandl5addf702006-10-29 08:53:06 +00009407- Bug #1586448: the compiler module now emits the same bytecode for
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00009408 list comprehensions as the built-in compiler, using the LIST_APPEND
Georg Brandl5addf702006-10-29 08:53:06 +00009409 opcode.
9410
Georg Brandl8f99f812006-10-29 08:39:22 +00009411- Fix codecs.EncodedFile which did not use file_encoding in 2.5.0, and
9412 fix all codecs file wrappers to work correctly with the "with"
9413 statement (bug #1586513).
9414
Thomas Heller112d1a62006-10-27 19:05:53 +00009415- Lib/modulefinder.py now handles absolute and relative imports
9416 correctly.
9417
Martin v. Löwisee82c0e2006-10-27 07:13:28 +00009418- Patch #1567274: Support SMTP over TLS.
9419
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009420- Patch #1560695: Add .note.GNU-stack to ctypes' sysv.S so that ctypes
9421 isn't considered as requiring executable stacks.
Martin v. Löwis1b2f6272006-10-22 10:55:15 +00009422
Thomas Hellerd2ea4a22006-10-17 19:30:48 +00009423- ctypes callback functions only support 'fundamental' data types as
9424 result type. Raise an error when something else is used. This is a
9425 partial fix for Bug #1574584.
9426
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009427- Fix turtle so that time.sleep is imported for the entire library.
9428 Allows the demo2 function to be executed on its own instead of only
9429 when the module is run as a script.
Brett Cannond80e0c82006-10-16 03:09:52 +00009430
Martin v. Löwisf43893a2006-10-09 20:44:25 +00009431- Bug #1565150: Fix subsecond processing for os.utime on Windows.
9432
Martin v. Löwis8b274262006-10-04 15:25:28 +00009433- Support for MSVC 8 was added to bdist_wininst.
9434
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009435- Bug #1446043: correctly raise a LookupError if an encoding name
9436 given to encodings.search_function() contains a dot.
Georg Brandla92979a2006-09-30 11:22:28 +00009437
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009438- Bug #1560617: in pyclbr, return full module name not only for
9439 classes, but also for functions.
Georg Brandl154324a2006-09-30 11:06:47 +00009440
Georg Brandl05b3c452006-09-30 10:58:01 +00009441- Bug #1457823: cgi.(Sv)FormContentDict's constructor now takes
9442 keep_blank_values and strict_parsing keyword arguments.
9443
Georg Brandl8d1e5bf2006-09-30 09:13:21 +00009444- Bug #1566602: correct failure of posixpath unittest when $HOME ends
9445 with a slash.
9446
Georg Brandl8c667452006-09-30 07:31:57 +00009447- Bug #1565661: in webbrowser, split() the command for the default
9448 GNOME browser in case it is a command with args.
9449
Georg Brandl5a85d5c2009-06-24 06:41:19 +00009450- Made the error message for time.strptime when the data and
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009451 format do match be more clear.
Brett Cannon11b35352006-09-26 23:38:24 +00009452
Georg Brandlc7986ce2006-09-24 12:50:24 +00009453- Fix a bug in traceback.format_exception_only() that led to an error
9454 being raised when print_exc() was called without an exception set.
9455 In version 2.4, this printed "None", restored that behavior.
9456
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009457- Make webbrowser.BackgroundBrowser usable in Windows (it wasn't
9458 because the close_fds arg to subprocess.Popen is not supported).
Georg Brandl2c94bf72006-09-24 10:36:01 +00009459
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009460- Reverted patch #1504333 to sgmllib because it introduced an infinite
9461 loop.
Neal Norwitzbcc119a2006-09-11 04:24:09 +00009462
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009463- Patch #1553314: Fix the inspect.py slowdown that was hurting IPython
9464 & SAGE by adding smarter caching in inspect.getmodule()
Nick Coghlanb3c18f82006-09-08 10:04:38 +00009465
Georg Brandl4e933132006-09-06 20:05:58 +00009466- Fix missing import of the types module in logging.config.
9467
Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +00009468- Patch #1550886: Fix decimal module context management implementation
Neal Norwitza22975f2006-09-05 02:24:03 +00009469 to match the localcontext() example from PEP 343.
Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +00009470
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009471- Bug #1545341: The 'classifier' keyword argument to the Distutils
9472 setup() function now accepts tuples as well as lists.
Andrew M. Kuchling99994792006-10-09 17:10:12 +00009473
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009474- Bug #1541863: uuid.uuid1 failed to generate unique identifiers on
9475 systems with low clock resolution.
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00009476
Gustavo Niemeyerc36bede2006-09-07 00:48:33 +00009477- Bug #1531862: Do not close standard file descriptors in subprocess.
9478
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009479- Fix utf-8-sig incremental decoder, which didn't recognise a BOM when
9480 the first chunk fed to the decoder started with a BOM, but was
9481 longer than 3 bytes.
Georg Brandl27562782006-10-27 20:39:43 +00009482
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009483- The implementation of UnicodeError objects has been simplified
9484 (start and end attributes are now stored directly as Py_ssize_t
9485 members).
Walter Dörwald84a3efe2007-06-13 16:57:12 +00009486
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009487- Issue #829951: In the smtplib module, SMTP.starttls() now complies
9488 with RFC 3207 and forgets any knowledge obtained from the server not
9489 obtained from the TLS negotiation itself. Patch contributed by Bill
9490 Fenner.
Gregory P. Smith2b3ba582008-01-17 08:03:17 +00009491
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009492- Issue #1339: The smtplib.SMTP class has been refactored a bit such
Gregory P. Smithbde4ae42008-01-17 08:35:49 +00009493 that the SMTP.starttls() caller no longer needs to call ehlo()
9494 beforehand. SMTP.starttls() now raises an exception of the server
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009495 does not claim to support starttls. Adds the
9496 SMTP.ehlo_or_helo_if_needed() method. Patch contributed by Bill
9497 Fenner.
Gregory P. Smithbde4ae42008-01-17 08:35:49 +00009498
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009499- Patch #1089358: Add signal.siginterrupt, a wrapper around
9500 siginterrupt(3).
Georg Brandl29604a12008-01-26 14:03:47 +00009501
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00009502Extension Modules
9503-----------------
9504
Georg Brandl392c6fc2008-05-25 07:25:25 +00009505- Patch #1657: added select.epoll and select.kqueue.
Christian Heimes0e9ab5f2008-03-21 23:49:44 +00009506
Georg Brandlebcfd112008-02-23 23:04:35 +00009507- Patch #1506171: added operator.methodcaller().
9508
Georg Brandle2065c62008-02-23 23:02:23 +00009509- Patch #1826: operator.attrgetter() now supports dotted attribute paths.
9510
Georg Brandl392c6fc2008-05-25 07:25:25 +00009511- Patch #1957: syslogmodule: Release GIL when calling syslog(3).
Christian Heimesf0476e82008-02-23 17:42:31 +00009512
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009513- Bug #2112: mmap.error is now a subclass of EnvironmentError and not
9514 a direct EnvironmentError.
Facundo Batistae1396882008-02-17 18:59:29 +00009515
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009516- Bug #2111: mmap segfaults when trying to write a block opened with
9517 PROT_READ.
Christian Heimes7adfad82008-02-15 08:20:11 +00009518
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009519- Bug #2063: correct order of utime and stime in os.times() result on
9520 Windows.
Georg Brandl0a40ffb2008-02-13 07:20:22 +00009521
Martin v. Löwise0d30ef2008-02-12 13:47:26 +00009522- Patch #1736: Fix file name handling of _msi.FCICreate.
9523
Hye-Shik Chang01612e72008-02-08 17:10:20 +00009524- Updated ``big5hkscs`` codec to the HKSCS revision of 2004.
9525
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009526- Issue #1940: make it possible to use curses.filter() before
9527 curses.initscr() as the documentation says.
Georg Brandl29604a12008-01-26 14:03:47 +00009528
Christian Heimes7f39c9f2008-01-25 12:18:43 +00009529- Backport of _fileio module from Python 3.0.
9530
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009531- Patch #1087741: mmap.mmap is now a class, not a factory function. It
9532 is also subclassable now.
Georg Brandl5ca3fd82008-01-21 14:18:14 +00009533
Georg Brandl56112892008-01-20 13:59:46 +00009534- Patch #1648: added ``sys.getprofile()`` and ``sys.gettrace()``.
9535
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009536- Patch #1663329: added ``os.closerange()`` function to quickly close
9537 a range of file descriptors without considering errors.
Georg Brandl309501a2008-01-19 20:22:13 +00009538
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009539- Patch #976880: ``mmap`` objects now have an ``rfind`` method that
Andrew M. Kuchling5c60bfc2008-01-19 18:18:41 +00009540 works as expected. ``mmap.find`` also takes an optional ``end``
9541 parameter.
9542
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009543- _winreg's HKEY object has gained __enter__ and __exit__ methods to
9544 support the context manager protocol. The _winreg module also
9545 gained a new function ``ExpandEnvironmentStrings`` to expand
9546 REG_EXPAND_SZ keys.
Christian Heimesb39a7562008-01-08 15:46:10 +00009547
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009548- itertools.starmap() now accepts any iterable input. Previously, it
9549 required the function inputs to be tuples.
Raymond Hettinger47317092008-01-17 03:02:14 +00009550
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009551- itertools.chain() now has an alternate constructor,
9552 chain.from_iterable().
Raymond Hettingerb4cbc982008-02-28 22:46:41 +00009553
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009554- Issue #1646: Make socket support TIPC. The socket module now has
9555 support for TIPC under Linux, see http://tipc.sf.net/ for more
9556 information.
Christian Heimesfb2d25a2008-01-07 16:12:44 +00009557
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009558- Added interface for Windows' WSAIoctl to socket object and added an
9559 example for a simple network sniffer.
Christian Heimes04ae9162008-01-04 15:23:30 +00009560
Guido van Rossum076d9ee2008-01-03 23:54:04 +00009561- Bug #1301: Bad assert in _tkinter fixed.
9562
Christian Heimescdaa2cb2007-12-31 14:47:07 +00009563- Added bdist_wininst executable for VS 2008.
9564
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009565- Bug #1604: collections.deque.__init__(iterable) now clears any prior
9566 contents before adding elements from the iterable. This fix brings
9567 the behavior into line with that for list.__init__().
Raymond Hettingeradf9ffd2007-12-13 00:08:37 +00009568
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009569- Added wide char functions to msvcrt module: getwch, getwche, putwch
9570 and ungetwch. The functions accept or return unicode.
Christian Heimes7c7f6af2007-12-10 15:12:41 +00009571
Martin v. Löwis69233e82007-12-04 08:39:16 +00009572- os.access now returns True on Windows for any existing directory.
9573
Christian Heimes28104c52007-11-27 23:16:44 +00009574- Added warnpy3k function to the warnings module.
9575
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009576- Marshal.dumps() now expects exact type matches for int, long, float,
9577 complex, tuple, list, dict, set, and frozenset. Formerly, it would
9578 silently miscode subclasses of those types. Now, it raises a
9579 ValueError instead.
Raymond Hettinger12e94202007-11-07 01:13:09 +00009580
Martin v. Löwis58bd49f2007-09-04 13:13:14 +00009581- Patch #1388440: Add set_completion_display_matches_hook and
9582 get_completion_type to readline.
9583
Thomas Helleref4fff32007-07-13 17:46:54 +00009584- Bug #1649098: Avoid declaration of zero-sized array declaration in
9585 structure.
9586
Brett Cannondc48b742007-05-20 07:09:50 +00009587- Removed the rgbimg module; been deprecated since Python 2.5.
9588
Neal Norwitz59f58aa2007-05-19 03:48:47 +00009589- Bug #1721309: prevent bsddb module from freeing random memory.
9590
Gregory P. Smith82eafe62007-10-18 17:17:57 +00009591- Bug #1233: fix bsddb.dbshelve.DBShelf append method to work as
9592 intended for RECNO databases.
9593
Gregory P. Smithec10a4a2007-11-05 02:32:26 +00009594- pybsddb.sf.net Bug #477182: Load the database flags at database open
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009595 time so that opening a database previously created with the DB_DUP
9596 or DB_DUPSORT flag set will keep the proper behavior on subsequent
9597 opens. Specifically: dictionary assignment to a DB object will
9598 replace all values for a given key when the database allows
9599 duplicate values. DB users should use DB.put(k, v) when they want
9600 to store duplicates; not DB[k] = v.
Gregory P. Smithec10a4a2007-11-05 02:32:26 +00009601
Gregory P. Smithac11e022007-11-05 02:56:31 +00009602- Add the bsddb.db.DBEnv.lock_id_free method.
9603
Martin v. Löwis3bf573f2007-04-04 18:30:36 +00009604- Bug #1686475: Support stat'ing open files on Windows again.
9605
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009606- Patch #1185447: binascii.b2a_qp() now correctly quotes binary
9607 characters with ASCII value less than 32. Also, it correctly quotes
9608 dots only if they occur on a single line, as opposed to the previous
9609 behavior of quoting dots if they are the second character of any
9610 line.
Georg Brandl4aef7272007-03-13 22:49:43 +00009611
Georg Brandla47337f2007-03-13 12:34:25 +00009612- Bug #1622896: fix a rare corner case where the bz2 module raised an
9613 error in spite of a succesful compression.
9614
Georg Brandl40c62612007-03-06 18:59:11 +00009615- Patch #1654417: make operator.{get,set,del}slice use the full range
9616 of Py_ssize_t.
9617
Guido van Rossum2054ee92007-03-06 15:50:01 +00009618- Patch #1646728: datetime.fromtimestamp fails with negative
9619 fractional times. With unittest.
9620
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009621- Patch #1490190: posixmodule now includes os.chflags() and
9622 os.lchflags() functions on platforms where the underlying system
9623 calls are available.
Martin v. Löwis382abef2007-02-19 10:55:19 +00009624
Georg Brandl983d1002007-02-15 11:29:04 +00009625- Patch #1494140: Add documentation for the new struct.Struct object.
9626
Martin v. Löwis45423a72007-02-14 10:07:37 +00009627- Patch #1432399: Support the HCI protocol for bluetooth sockets
9628
Martin v. Löwisb1cc1d42007-02-13 12:14:19 +00009629- Patch #1657276: Make NETLINK_DNRTMSG conditional.
9630
Martin v. Löwis4c11a922007-02-08 09:13:36 +00009631- Bug #1653736: Complain about keyword arguments to time.isoformat.
9632
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009633- Bug #1486663: don't reject keyword arguments for subclasses of
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00009634 built-in types.
Georg Brandlb84c1372007-01-21 10:28:43 +00009635
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009636- Patch #1610575: The struct module now supports the 't' code, for C99
9637 _Bool.
Martin v. Löwisaef4c6b2007-01-21 09:33:07 +00009638
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009639- Patch #1635058: ensure that htonl and friends never accept or return
9640 negative numbers, per the underlying C implementation.
Guido van Rossumbb2cc692007-01-14 17:03:32 +00009641
Martin v. Löwis046c4d12006-12-03 11:23:45 +00009642- Patch #1544279: Improve thread-safety of the socket module by moving
9643 the sock_addr_t storage out of the socket object.
9644
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009645- Patch #1019808: fix bug that causes an incorrect error to be
9646 returned when a socket timeout is set and a connection attempt
9647 fails.
Andrew M. Kuchling060e6852008-01-19 20:47:59 +00009648
Neal Norwitz45e230a2006-11-19 21:26:53 +00009649- Speed up function calls into the math module.
9650
Georg Brandl25aabf42006-11-16 17:08:45 +00009651- Bug #1588217: don't parse "= " as a soft line break in binascii's
9652 a2b_qp() function, instead leave it in the string as quopri.decode()
9653 does.
9654
Neal Norwitz4fe44232006-11-21 05:26:22 +00009655- Bug #1599782: Fix segfault on bsddb.db.DB().type().
9656
Martin v. Löwis012bc722006-10-15 09:43:39 +00009657- Bug #1567666: Emulate GetFileAttributesExA for Win95.
9658
Martin v. Löwis18aaa562006-10-15 08:43:33 +00009659- Patch #1576166: Support os.utime for directories on Windows NT+.
9660
Georg Brandl412a9ea2006-10-09 19:03:06 +00009661- Patch #1572724: fix typo ('=' instead of '==') in _msi.c.
9662
Hye-Shik Changb7883462006-10-08 13:48:34 +00009663- Bug #1572832: fix a bug in ISO-2022 codecs which may cause segfault
9664 when encoding non-BMP unicode characters.
9665
Georg Brandl4ddfcd32006-09-30 11:17:34 +00009666- Bug #1556784: allow format strings longer than 127 characters in
9667 datetime's strftime function.
9668
Jack Diederichd10a0f72006-09-21 20:34:49 +00009669- Fix itertools.count(n) to work with negative numbers again.
9670
Martin v. Löwis43fd99c2006-09-16 17:36:37 +00009671- RLIMIT_SBSIZE was added to the resource module where available.
9672
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009673- Bug #1551427: fix a wrong NULL pointer check in the win32 version of
9674 os.urandom().
Georg Brandl74bb7832006-09-06 06:03:59 +00009675
Neal Norwitz6aefa912006-09-02 02:50:35 +00009676- Bug #1548092: fix curses.tparm seg fault on invalid input.
9677
Andrew M. Kuchling62182c82008-01-08 14:56:02 +00009678- Patch #1114: fix curses module compilation on 64-bit AIX, & possibly
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009679 other 64-bit LP64 platforms where attr_t is not the same size as a
9680 long. (Contributed by Luke Mewburn.)
Andrew M. Kuchling62182c82008-01-08 14:56:02 +00009681
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009682- Bug #1550714: fix SystemError from itertools.tee on negative value
9683 for n.
Neal Norwitz69e88972006-09-02 02:58:13 +00009684
Hye-Shik Chang199f1db2006-09-05 12:07:09 +00009685- Fixed a few bugs on cjkcodecs:
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009686 - gbk and gb18030 codec now handle U+30FB KATAKANA MIDDLE DOT
9687 correctly.
Hye-Shik Chang199f1db2006-09-05 12:07:09 +00009688 - iso2022_jp_2 codec now encodes into G0 for KS X 1001, GB2312
9689 codepoints to conform the standard.
Hye-Shik Chang2cad3e92006-09-05 12:14:57 +00009690 - iso2022_jp_3 and iso2022_jp_2004 codec can encode JIS X 0213:2
Hye-Shik Chang199f1db2006-09-05 12:07:09 +00009691 codepoints now.
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00009692
Andrew M. Kuchling43889c02006-09-27 16:37:30 +00009693- Bug #1552726: in readline.c, avoid repeatedly polling in interactive
9694 mode by only placing a timeout on the select() if an input hook has
9695 been defined. This prevents an interactive Python from waking up 10
9696 times per second. Patch by Richard Boulton.
9697
Gregory P. Smithf09c6262007-03-17 22:33:35 +00009698- fixed a bug with bsddb.DB.stat: the flags and txn keyword arguments
9699 were transposed.
9700
Jesus Cea4907d272008-08-31 14:00:51 +00009701- Added support for linking the bsddb module against BerkeleyDB 4.5.x,
9702 4.6.x and 4.7.x.
Gregory P. Smith8b96a352007-01-05 01:59:42 +00009703
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009704- Bug #1633621: if curses.resizeterm() or curses.resize_term() is
9705 called, update _curses.LINES, _curses.COLS, curses.LINES and
9706 curses.COLS.
Andrew M. Kuchling43889c02006-09-27 16:37:30 +00009707
Matthias Klosee19e0c22007-04-03 04:35:59 +00009708- Fix an off-by-one bug in locale.strxfrm().
9709
Matthias Klose38336402007-09-04 20:46:02 +00009710- Fix libffi configure for hppa*-*-linux* | parisc*-*-linux*.
9711
Matthias Klose9afb9852007-10-24 20:00:44 +00009712- Build using system ffi library on arm*-linux*.
9713
Christian Heimes3f065a42007-11-21 01:17:28 +00009714- Bug #1372: zlibmodule.c: int overflow in PyZlib_decompress
Matthias Klosee19e0c22007-04-03 04:35:59 +00009715
Gregory P. Smitheeed5b72008-02-03 07:20:53 +00009716- bsddb module: Fix memory leak when using database cursors on
9717 databases without a DBEnv.
9718
Gerhard Häring11ab8072008-03-02 13:12:27 +00009719- The sqlite3 module was updated to pysqlite 2.4.1.
9720
Serhiy Storchakaff99e412013-04-14 18:52:15 +03009721IDLE
9722----
9723
9724- Bug #813342: Start the IDLE subprocess with -Qnew if the parent is
9725 started with that option.
9726
9727- IDLE: Honor the "Cancel" action in the save dialog (Debian bug
9728 #299092).
9729
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00009730Tests
9731-----
9732
Brett Cannon56c4deb2008-03-03 00:38:58 +00009733- Refactor test_logging to use unittest.
Brett Cannonf9db8a32008-02-17 01:59:18 +00009734
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009735- Refactor test_profile and test_cprofile to use the same code to
9736 profile.
Georg Brandlb7090772008-02-05 19:58:17 +00009737
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009738- Make test_runpy reentrant by fixing _check_module to clear out any
9739 module being tested. Was causing an error by __import__ doing a
9740 reload on the second run and thus suppressing bytecode recreation.
Brett Cannondbed7a72007-08-23 14:53:17 +00009741
Brett Cannonea2835a2007-03-14 21:44:15 +00009742- Capture socket connection resets and timeouts in test_socket_ssl and
9743 test_urllib2net and raise test.test_support.ResourceDenied.
Brett Cannoned001842007-03-14 21:40:13 +00009744
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009745- Patch #1559413: Fix test_cmd_line if sys.executable contains a
9746 space.
Martin v. Löwiscd1210a2007-03-14 20:02:31 +00009747
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009748- Added test.test_support.TransientResource which is a context manager
9749 to surround calls to resources that are not guaranteed to work even
9750 if test.test_support.requires says that the resource should exist.
Brett Cannona30fcb42007-03-08 23:58:11 +00009751
Brett Cannone05e6b02007-01-29 04:41:44 +00009752- Added a test for slicing of an exception.
9753
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009754- Added test.test_support.EnvironmentVarGuard. It's a class that
9755 provides a context manager so that one can temporarily set or unset
9756 environment variables.
Brett Cannon92d54d52007-01-04 00:23:49 +00009757
Thomas Heller112d1a62006-10-27 19:05:53 +00009758- Added some tests for modulefinder.
9759
Brett Cannon373d90b2006-10-03 23:23:14 +00009760- Converted test_imp to use unittest.
9761
Neal Norwitz919d5cc2006-09-05 02:35:08 +00009762- Fix bsddb test_basics.test06_Transactions to check the version
9763 number properly.
9764
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009765- test.test_support.catch_warning is a new context manager that can be
9766 used to catch the warnings issued by the warning framework.
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00009767
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00009768Tools
9769-----
9770
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009771- Tools/scripts/reindent.py now creates the backup file using
9772 shutil.copy to preserve user/group and permissions. Added also a
9773 --nobackup option to not create the backup if the user is concerned
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00009774 regarding this. Check issue #1050828 for more details.
Facundo Batistaf88a0772008-02-17 16:21:13 +00009775
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009776- Tools/scripts/win_add2path.py was added. The simple script modifes
9777 the PATH environment var of the HKCU tree and adds the python bin
9778 and script directory.
Christian Heimesbd865db2008-01-18 11:58:50 +00009779
Skip Montanaro3e275362007-08-29 01:33:45 +00009780- Tools/18n/pygettext.py was added to the list of scripts installed by
9781 Tools/scripts/setup.py (tracker item 642309).
9782
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009783- Added IronPython and Jython support to pybench (part of which was
9784 patch #1563844).
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00009785
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009786- Made some minor changes to pybench output to allow the user to see
9787 which Python version is running pybench.
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00009788
9789- Added support for the new platform module feature
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009790 platform.python_implementation(); this will now be saved in the
9791 benchmark pickle.
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00009792
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00009793Documentation
9794-------------
9795
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +00009796- RFE #1765140: Updated documentation on FileHandler and subclasses to
9797 include new optional delay argument.
9798
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009799- Bug #932563: Added section on getting contextual information into
9800 logging output, and added documentation for the new LoggerAdapter
9801 class.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00009802
9803- Bug #1295: Added information about caching of formatted exception
9804 information in the LogRecord by Formatter.format().
9805
Georg Brandl9467bc52007-07-12 09:37:49 +00009806- Bug #1637365: add subsection about "__name__ == __main__" to the
9807 Python tutorial.
9808
Georg Brandl3dc6e902007-04-25 06:24:59 +00009809- Patch #1698768: updated the "using Python on the Mac" intro.
9810
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009811- Bug #1569057: Document that calling file.next() when the file is
9812 open for writing is undefined.
Brett Cannon55a18642007-04-08 04:29:32 +00009813
Žiga Seilnachtc64ad482007-03-24 14:24:26 +00009814- Patch #1489771: the syntax rules in Python Reference Manual were
9815 updated to reflect the current Python syntax.
9816
Martin v. Löwis2f401d72007-03-23 10:35:49 +00009817- Patch #1686451: Fix return type for
9818 PySequence_{Count,Index,Fast_GET_SIZE}.
9819
Georg Brandl0692a262007-03-13 07:50:57 +00009820- Patch #1679379: add documentation for fnmatch.translate().
9821
Collin Winterb7b2b4e2007-03-09 18:09:10 +00009822- Bug #1629566: clarify the docs on the return values of parsedate()
9823 and parsedate_tz() in email.utils and rfc822.
9824
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00009825- Patch #1671450: add a section about subclassing built-in types to the
Georg Brandld28b9fc2007-03-06 10:02:47 +00009826 "extending and embedding" tutorial.
9827
Georg Brandlb26b1c62007-01-17 21:19:58 +00009828- Bug #1629125: fix wrong data type (int -> Py_ssize_t) in PyDict_Next
9829 docs.
9830
Georg Brandla4c8e322006-10-12 08:22:53 +00009831- Bug #1565919: document set types in the Language Reference.
9832
Georg Brandl44a7b3a2006-09-30 12:02:57 +00009833- Bug #1546052: clarify that PyString_FromString(AndSize) copies the
9834 string pointed to by its parameter.
9835
Georg Brandlfb257732006-09-30 09:06:45 +00009836- Bug #1566663: remove obsolete example from datetime docs.
9837
Georg Brandl648c1102006-08-18 07:27:59 +00009838- Bug #1541682: Fix example in the "Refcount details" API docs.
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009839 Additionally, remove a faulty example showing PySequence_SetItem
9840 applied to a newly created list object and add notes that this isn't
9841 a good idea.
Georg Brandl648c1102006-08-18 07:27:59 +00009842
Georg Brandl27562782006-10-27 20:39:43 +00009843Tools/Demos
9844-----------
9845
9846- Patch #1552024: add decorator support to unparse.py demo script.
Marc-André Lemburg96148682006-09-06 20:40:22 +00009847
Brett Cannonc8939d22006-09-20 19:28:35 +00009848- Make auto-generated python.vim file list built-ins and exceptions in
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009849 alphatbetical order. Makes output more deterministic and easier to
9850 tell if the file is stale or not.
Brett Cannonc8939d22006-09-20 19:28:35 +00009851
Marc-André Lemburg96148682006-09-06 20:40:22 +00009852- Bug #1546372: Fixed small bugglet in pybench that caused a missing
9853 file not to get reported properly.
9854
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00009855Build
9856-----
9857
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009858- Have the search path for building extensions follow the declared
9859 order in $CPPFLAGS and $LDFLAGS when adding directories from those
9860 environment variables.
Brett Cannon70c0c022008-02-03 09:59:21 +00009861
Christian Heimes951cc0f2008-01-31 23:08:23 +00009862- Bug #1983: Added a check to pyport to verify that sizeof(pid_t) is
9863 smaller or equal sizeof(long).
9864
Christian Heimescba36bb2008-01-30 22:54:18 +00009865- Bug #1234: Fixed semaphore errors on AIX 5.2
9866
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009867- Issue #1726: Remove Python/atof.c from PCBuild/pythoncore.vcproj.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00009868
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009869- Removed PCbuild8/ directory and added a new build directory for VS
9870 2005 based on the VS 2008 build directory to PC/VS8.0. The script
9871 PCbuild/vs8to9.py was added to sync changes from PCbuild to
9872 PC/VS8.0.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00009873
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009874- Moved PCbuild/ directory for VS 2003 to PC/VS7.1 and renamed
9875 PCBuild9/ directory to PCBuild/.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00009876
Martin v. Löwiscb78de62007-12-29 18:49:21 +00009877- Bug #1699: Define _BSD_SOURCE only on OpenBSD.
9878
Guido van Rossum7c862f82007-12-13 20:50:10 +00009879- Bug #1608: use -fwrapv when GCC supports it. This is important,
9880 newer GCC versions may optimize away overflow buffer overflow checks
9881 without this option!
9882
Martin v. Löwis63bf1492007-11-12 05:14:05 +00009883- Patch #1418: Make the AC_REPLACE_FUNCS object files actually work.
9884
Raymond Hettingerdc1d1ba2007-11-07 02:45:46 +00009885- Add a FAST_LOOPS build option that speeds-up looping by trading away
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009886 periodic threadstate and signal checking in tight loops. By
9887 default, this option is turned-off. It should only be enabled in
9888 debugged, performance critical applications.
Raymond Hettingerdc1d1ba2007-11-07 02:45:46 +00009889
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009890- Patch #786737: Allow building in a tree of symlinks pointing to a
9891 readonly source.
Martin v. Löwisd44a4e92007-09-05 11:47:34 +00009892
Martin v. Löwis8bc77e42007-09-01 06:36:03 +00009893- Bug #1737210: Change Manufacturer of Windows installer to PSF.
9894
Martin v. Löwis75c23bd2007-08-30 18:25:47 +00009895- Bug #1746880: Correctly install DLLs into system32 folder on Win64.
9896
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009897- Define _BSD_SOURCE, to get access to POSIX extensions on OpenBSD
9898 4.1+.
Martin v. Löwis76760b02007-07-31 19:57:56 +00009899
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009900- Stop supporting AtheOS and cause a build error in configure for the
9901 platform.
Brett Cannon19fab762007-06-02 03:02:29 +00009902
Georg Brandldb846032007-03-31 18:56:11 +00009903- Bug #1655392: don't add -L/usr/lib/pythonX.Y/config to the LDFLAGS
9904 returned by python-config if Python was built with --enable-shared
9905 because that prevented the shared library from being used.
9906
Georg Brandl18c47f62007-03-13 10:19:22 +00009907- Patch #1569798: fix a bug in distutils when building Python from a
9908 directory within sys.exec_prefix.
9909
Martin v. Löwiseb623572007-03-12 10:50:39 +00009910- Bug #1675511: Use -Kpic instead of -xcode=pic32 on Solaris/x86.
9911
Martin v. Löwis4d542ec2006-11-25 15:39:19 +00009912- Disable _XOPEN_SOURCE on NetBSD 1.x.
9913
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009914- configure now checks whether gcc supports the PyArg_ParseTuple
9915 format attribute.
Martin v. Löwisaac13162006-10-19 10:58:46 +00009916
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00009917- Bug #1578513: Cross compilation was broken by a change to configure.
Martin v. Löwisfefbc202006-10-17 18:59:23 +00009918 Repair so that it's back to how it was in 2.4.3.
9919
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009920- Patch #1576954: Update VC6 build directory; remove redundant files
9921 in VC7.
Martin v. Löwisc9e82f62006-10-15 07:54:40 +00009922
Martin v. Löwisebe26702006-10-02 14:55:51 +00009923- Bug #1568842: Fix test for uintptr_t.
9924
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009925- Patch #1540470: for OpenBSD 4.0.
Neal Norwitz4bc2c092006-09-05 02:57:01 +00009926
Matthias Klosed149d0c2006-12-03 17:16:41 +00009927- Fix build failure on kfreebsd and on the hurd.
9928
Matthias Kloseebde1492006-12-09 12:15:27 +00009929- Fix the build of the library reference in info format.
9930
Matthias Kloseeb8ff672007-08-02 21:33:13 +00009931- Allow Emacs 22 for building the documentation in info format.
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00009932
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009933- Makefile.pre.in(buildbottest): Run an optional script
9934 pybuildbot.identify to include some information about the build
9935 environment.
Matthias Klose642ac852007-09-04 18:17:36 +00009936
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00009937C API
9938-----
9939
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009940- Unified naming convention for free lists and their limits. All free
9941 lists in Object/ are named ``free_list``, the counter ``numfree``
9942 and the upper limit is a macro ``PyName_MAXFREELIST`` inside an
9943 #ifndef block.
Christian Heimes5b970ad2008-02-06 13:33:44 +00009944
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009945- ``PySet_Add()`` can now modify a newly created frozenset. Similarly
9946 to ``PyTuple_SetItem``, it can be used to populate a brand new
9947 frozenset; but it does not steal a reference to the added item.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arccab3d982008-02-03 22:51:43 +00009948
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00009949- Added ``PySet_Check()`` and ``PyFrozenSet_Check()`` to the set API.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arccab3d982008-02-03 22:51:43 +00009950
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009951- Backport of PyUnicode_FromString(), _FromStringAndSize(), _Format
9952 and _FormatV from Python 3.0. Made PyLong_AsSsize_t and
9953 PyLong_FromSsize_t public functions.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00009954
9955- Patch #1720595: add T_BOOL to the range of structmember types.
9956
9957- Issue #1534: Added ``PyFloat_GetMax()``, ``PyFloat_GetMin()`` and
9958 ``PyFloat_GetInfo()`` to the float API.
9959
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009960- Issue #1521: On 64bit platforms, using PyArgs_ParseTuple with the t#
9961 of w# format code incorrectly truncated the length to an int, even
9962 when PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN is set. The str.decode method used to return
9963 incorrect results with huge strings.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00009964
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009965- Issue #1629: Renamed Py_Size, Py_Type and Py_Refcnt to Py_SIZE,
9966 Py_TYPE and Py_REFCNT.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00009967
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009968- PEP 3123: Provide forward compatibility with Python 3.0, while
9969 keeping backwards compatibility. Add Py_Refcnt, Py_Type, Py_Size,
9970 and PyVarObject_HEAD_INIT.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00009971
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009972- Py_ssize_t fields work in structmember when HAVE_LONG_LONG is not
9973 defined.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00009974
9975- Patch #1733960: Allow T_LONGLONG to accept ints.
9976
9977- T_PYSSIZET can now be used in PyMemberDef lists for Py_ssize_t members.
9978
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00009979- Added a new API function ``PyImport_ImportModuleNoBlock``.
9980
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00009981- Bug #1637022: Prefix AST symbols with _Py_.
9982
9983- Fix some leftovers from the conversion from int to Py_ssize_t
9984 (relevant to strings and sequences of more than 2**31 items).
9985
9986- Make _PyGILState_NoteThreadState() static, it was not used anywhere
9987 outside of pystate.c and should not be necessary.
9988
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009989- ``PyImport_Import`` and ``PyImport_ImportModule`` now always do
9990 absolute imports. In earlier versions they might have used relative
9991 imports under some conditions.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00009992
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009993- Added case insensitive comparison methods ``PyOS_stricmp(char*,
9994 char*)`` and ``PyOS_strnicmp(char*, char*, Py_ssize_t)``.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00009995
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00009996- Bug #1542693: remove semi-colon at end of PyImport_ImportModuleEx
9997 macro so it can be used as an expression.
Neal Norwitz8a267062006-08-19 04:25:29 +00009998
Martin v. Löwis2607e6c2006-11-21 18:20:25 +00009999Windows
10000-------
10001
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +000010002- Patch #1706: Drop support for Win9x, WinME and NT4. Python now
10003 requires Windows 2000 or greater. The _WINVER and NTDDI_VERSION
10004 macros are set to Win2k for x86/32bit builds and WinXP for AMD64
10005 builds.
Christian Heimes95d64472008-02-09 19:55:22 +000010006
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +000010007- Conditionalize definition of _CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE and
10008 _CRT_NONSTDC_NO_DEPRECATE.
Martin v. Löwis2607e6c2006-11-21 18:20:25 +000010009
Martin v. Löwisd476a402007-10-12 08:56:52 +000010010- Bug #1216: Restore support for Visual Studio 2002.
10011
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +000010012Mac
10013---
10014
Brett Cannonf0cb1d72007-05-31 20:01:11 +000010015- cfmfile now raises a DeprecationWarning.
10016
Brett Cannon791d56f2007-05-31 19:40:42 +000010017- buildtools now raises a DeprecationWarning.
10018
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +000010019- Removed the macfs module. It had been deprecated since Python 2.5.
10020 This lead to the deprecation of macostools.touched() as it relied
10021 solely on macfs and was a no-op under OS X.
Brett Cannon5e263512007-05-20 23:17:38 +000010022
Skip Montanaroe5d7f7f2002-09-20 14:16:59 +000010023----
10024
10025**(For information about older versions, consult the HISTORY file.)**