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Georg Brandld8fb6ac2009-04-01 00:04:33 +00001Python News
Skip Montanaroe5d7f7f2002-09-20 14:16:59 +00002+++++++++++
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Benjamin Peterson5ee84482010-11-28 04:49:23 +00004What's New in Python 2.7.2?
5===========================
6
7*Release date: XXXX-XX-XX*
8
9Core and Builtins
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11
Victor Stinner5de51ac2011-04-09 16:09:08 +020012- Issue #11650: PyOS_StdioReadline() retries fgets() if it was interrupted
13 (EINTR), for example if the program is stopped with CTRL+z on Mac OS X. Patch
14 written by Charles-Francois Natali.
15
Mark Dickinson874d59e2011-03-26 12:18:00 +000016- Issue #11144: Ensure that int(a_float) returns an int whenever possible.
17 Previously, there were some corner cases where a long was returned even
18 though the result was within the range of an int.
19
Antoine Pitrou2ddaaff2011-03-09 12:54:00 +010020- Issue #11450: Don't truncate hg version info in Py_GetBuildInfo() when
21 there are many tags (e.g. when using mq). Patch by Nadeem Vawda.
22
Antoine Pitrou3013b162011-01-18 19:06:19 +000023- Issue #10451: memoryview objects could allow to mutate a readable buffer.
24 Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall.
25
Benjamin Peterson9b911ca2011-01-12 15:49:47 +000026- Issue #10892: Don't segfault when trying to delete __abstractmethods__ from a
27 class.
28
Antoine Pitrou5a72e762011-01-07 21:49:44 +000029- Issue #8020: Avoid a crash where the small objects allocator would read
30 non-Python managed memory while it is being modified by another thread.
31 Patch by Matt Bandy.
32
Raymond Hettinger57a86892011-01-25 21:43:29 +000033- Issue #11004: Repaired edge case in deque.count().
34
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcac514c82011-01-03 00:50:57 +000035- Issue #8278: On Windows and with a NTFS filesystem, os.stat() and os.utime()
36 can now handle dates after 2038.
37
R. David Murray64a1e7c2010-12-15 01:36:03 +000038- Issue #4236: Py_InitModule4 now checks the import machinery directly
39 rather than the Py_IsInitialized flag, avoiding a Fatal Python
40 error in certain circumstances when an import is done in __del__.
41
Benjamin Peterson07f54512010-12-11 04:25:57 +000042- Issue #10674: Remove unused 'dictmaker' rule from grammar.
43
Mark Dickinsonecf8ec62010-12-04 12:30:41 +000044- Issue #10596: Fix float.__mod__ to have the same behaviour as
45 float.__divmod__ with respect to signed zeros. -4.0 % 4.0 should be
46 0.0, not -0.0.
47
Eli Bendersky680e6eb2011-03-04 06:14:56 +000048- Issue #11386: bytearray.pop() now throws IndexError when the bytearray is
49 empty, instead of OverflowError.
50
Benjamin Peterson5ee84482010-11-28 04:49:23 +000051Library
52-------
Antoine Pitrou47900cf2010-12-17 17:45:12 +000053
Senthil Kumaranddaea1c2011-04-15 18:07:33 +080054- Issue #11467: Fix urlparse behavior when handling urls which contains scheme
55 specific part only digits. Patch by Santoso Wijaya.
56
Senthil Kumarana99b7612011-04-14 12:54:35 +080057- Issue #11474: Fix the bug with url2pathname() handling of '/C|/' on Windows.
58 Patch by Santoso Wijaya.
59
Ezio Melotti2b96f092011-04-13 05:37:29 +030060- Issue #9233: Fix json.loads('{}') to return a dict (instead of a list), when
61 _json is not available.
62
63- Issue #11703: urllib2.geturl() does not return correct url when the original
Senthil Kumaran0531d6f2011-04-13 09:47:20 +080064 url contains #fragment.
65
R David Murrayea8b6ef2011-04-12 21:00:26 -040066- Issue #10019: Fixed regression in json module where an indent of 0 stopped
67 adding newlines and acted instead like 'None'.
68
brian.curtin16f98b72011-04-11 18:05:33 -050069- Issue #5162: Treat services like frozen executables to allow child spawning
70 from multiprocessing.forking on Windows.
71
Ezio Melotti8b4367e2011-04-11 03:44:28 +030072- Issue #4877: Fix a segfault in xml.parsers.expat while attempting to parse
73 a closed file.
74
Raymond Hettingere4579c32011-04-11 17:27:42 -070075- Issue #11830: Remove unnecessary introspection code in the decimal module.
76 It was causing a failed import in the Turkish locale where the locale
77 sensitive str.upper() method caused a name mismatch.
78
Antoine Pitrou7dfc8742011-04-11 00:26:42 +020079- Issue #8428: Fix a race condition in multiprocessing.Pool when terminating
80 worker processes: new processes would be spawned while the pool is being
81 shut down. Patch by Charles-François Natali.
82
Ezio Melotti8b4367e2011-04-11 03:44:28 +030083- Issue #7311: Fix HTMLParser to accept non-ASCII attribute values.
Ezio Melotti9f1ffb22011-04-05 20:40:52 +030084
Ross Lagerwall104c3f12011-04-05 15:24:34 +020085- Issue #10963: Ensure that subprocess.communicate() never raises EPIPE.
86
guido@google.com2bc23b82011-03-24 10:44:17 -070087- Issue #11662: Make urllib and urllib2 ignore redirections if the
guido@google.comdb3080e2011-03-28 13:53:40 -070088 scheme is not HTTP, HTTPS or FTP (CVE-2011-1521).
Antoine Pitrou47900cf2010-12-17 17:45:12 +000089
Benjamin Peterson77d46602011-03-28 17:32:31 -050090- Issue #11256: Fix inspect.getcallargs on functions that take only keyword
91 arguments.
92
Martin v. Löwis03f7e232011-03-27 20:58:52 +020093- Issue #11696: Fix ID generation in msilib.
94
Mark Dickinsond687be02011-03-27 16:15:24 +010095- Issue #9696: Fix exception incorrectly raised by xdrlib.Packer.pack_int when
96 trying to pack a negative (in-range) integer.
97
Mark Dickinson1829e8f2011-03-27 15:32:05 +010098- Issue #11675: multiprocessing.[Raw]Array objects created from an integer size
99 are now zeroed on creation. This matches the behaviour specified by the
100 documentation.
101
Martin v. Löwis49b0ce02011-03-27 10:10:46 +0200102- Issue #7639: Fix short file name generation in bdist_msi.
103
Raymond Hettinger9aa5a342011-03-25 16:00:13 -0700104- Issue #11666: let help() display named tuple attributes and methods
105 that start with a leading underscore.
106
Mark Dickinsonf9e9a6f2011-03-25 22:01:06 +0000107- Issue #11673: Fix multiprocessing Array and RawArray constructors to accept a
108 size of type 'long', rather than only accepting 'int'.
109
Éric Araujo374274d2011-03-19 04:29:36 +0100110- Issue #10042: Fixed the total_ordering decorator to handle cross-type
111 comparisons that could lead to infinite recursion.
112
Michael Foord51368672011-03-17 12:59:38 -0400113- Issue #10979: unittest stdout buffering now works with class and module
114 setup and teardown.
115
Ronald Oussoren2ab59942011-03-16 09:47:15 -0400116- Issue #11569: use absolute path to the sysctl command in multiprocessing to
117 ensure that it will be found regardless of the shell PATH. This ensures
118 that multiprocessing.cpu_count works on default installs of MacOSX.
119
Michael Foord51368672011-03-17 12:59:38 -0400120- Issue #11500: Fixed a bug in the os x proxy bypass code for fully qualified
121 IP addresses in the proxy exception list.
Ronald Oussoren1aa999c2011-03-14 18:53:59 -0400122
Mark Dickinson2c8c62e2011-03-12 11:05:32 +0000123- Issue #11131: Fix sign of zero in plus and minus operations when
124 the context rounding mode is ROUND_FLOOR.
125
Ned Deily9d4836e2011-03-09 02:31:55 -0800126- Issue #5622: Fix curses.wrapper to raise correct exception if curses
127 initialization fails.
128
Antoine Pitroud6f3a3e2011-03-06 02:03:34 +0100129- Issue #11391: Writing to a mmap object created with
130 ``mmap.PROT_READ|mmap.PROT_EXEC`` would segfault instead of raising a
131 TypeError. Patch by Charles-François Natali.
132
R. David Murray1a337902011-03-03 18:17:40 +0000133- Issue #11306: mailbox in certain cases adapts to an inability to open
134 certain files in read-write mode. Previously it detected this by
135 checking for EACCES, now it also checks for EROFS.
136
Giampaolo Rodolàd65224f2011-03-03 14:17:51 +0000137- Issue #11265: asyncore now correctly handles EPIPE, EBADF and EAGAIN errors
138 on accept(), send() and recv().
139
Antoine Pitroud3f6ea12011-02-26 23:35:27 +0000140- Issue #11326: Add the missing connect_ex() implementation for SSL sockets,
141 and make it work for non-blocking connects.
142
Antoine Pitrou6439c002011-02-25 21:35:47 +0000143- Issue #10956: Buffered I/O classes retry reading or writing after a signal
144 has arrived and the handler returned successfully.
145
Georg Brandl28046022011-02-25 11:01:04 +0000146- Issue #10680: Fix mutually exclusive arguments for argument groups in
147 argparse.
148
Antoine Pitrouf4d2b3d2011-02-21 23:59:20 +0000149- Issue #4681: Allow mmap() to work on file sizes and offsets larger than
150 4GB, even on 32-bit builds. Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall, adapted for
151 32-bit Windows.
152
Georg Brandl52f83952011-02-25 10:39:23 +0000153- Issue #10360: In WeakSet, do not raise TypeErrors when testing for
154 membership of non-weakrefable objects.
155
156- Issue #10549: Fix pydoc traceback when text-documenting certain classes.
157
158- Issue #940286: pydoc.Helper.help() ignores input/output init parameters.
159
Barry Warsaw42bb7ca2011-02-14 20:04:00 +0000160- Issue #11171: Fix detection of config/Makefile when --prefix !=
161 --exec-prefix, which caused Python to not start.
162
R. David Murray008c0442011-02-11 23:03:13 +0000163- Issue #11116: any error during addition of a message to a mailbox now causes
164 a rollback, instead of leaving the mailbox partially modified.
165
Antoine Pitrou820021e2011-01-31 21:47:45 +0000166- Issue #8275: Fix passing of callback arguments with ctypes under Win64.
167 Patch by Stan Mihai.
168
Ned Deily60651532011-01-31 00:52:49 +0000169- Issue #10940: Workaround an IDLE hang on Mac OS X 10.6 when using the
170 menu accelerators for Open Module, Go to Line, and New Indent Width.
171 The accelerators still work but no longer appear in the menu items.
172
Ned Deily2a6f4b32011-01-30 00:18:47 +0000173- Issue #10907: Warn OS X 10.6 IDLE users to use ActiveState Tcl/Tk 8.5, rather
174 than the currently problematic Apple-supplied one, when running with the
175 64-/32-bit installer variant.
176
Ned Deilyefc527a2011-01-29 19:30:39 +0000177- Issue #11052: Correct IDLE menu accelerators on Mac OS X for Save
178 commands.
179
Vinay Sajipcdb83882011-01-21 23:35:57 +0000180- Issue #10949: Improved robustness of rotating file handlers.
181
Antoine Pitrou8a0eede2011-01-20 21:20:18 +0000182- Issue #10955: Fix a potential crash when trying to mmap() a file past its
183 length. Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall.
184
Antoine Pitrou63a3f152011-01-19 15:27:24 +0000185- Issue #10898: Allow compiling the posix module when the C library defines
186 a symbol named FSTAT.
187
Ned Deily4a705502011-01-18 04:33:22 +0000188- Issue #6075: IDLE on Mac OS X now works with both Carbon AquaTk and
189 Cocoa AquaTk.
190
Antoine Pitrou9989d852011-01-15 16:18:57 +0000191- Issue #10916: mmap should not segfault when a file is mapped using 0 as
192 length and a non-zero offset, and an attempt to read past the end of file
193 is made (IndexError is raised instead). Patch by Ross Lagerwall.
194
Terry Reedyf7dd7992011-01-10 22:15:19 +0000195- Issue #10875: Update Regular Expression HOWTO; patch by 'SilentGhost'.
196
Antoine Pitrou5a72e762011-01-07 21:49:44 +0000197- Issue #10827: Changed the rules for 2-digit years. The time.asctime
198 function will now format any year when ``time.accept2dyear`` is
199 false and will accept years >= 1000 otherwise. The year range
200 accepted by ``time.mktime`` and ``time.strftime`` is still system
201 dependent, but ``time.mktime`` will now accept full range supported
202 by the OS. Conversion of 2-digit years to 4-digit is deprecated.
203
Georg Brandl6adb9792011-01-09 07:53:14 +0000204- Issue #10869: Fixed bug where ast.increment_lineno modified the root
205 node twice.
206
Antoine Pitrou1f1613f2011-01-06 18:30:26 +0000207- Issue #7858: Raise an error properly when os.utime() fails under Windows
208 on an existing file.
209
Antoine Pitrou77c1b382011-01-06 17:19:05 +0000210- Issue #3839: wsgiref should not override a Content-Length header set by
211 the application. Initial patch by Clovis Fabricio.
212
Antoine Pitrou91ce0d92011-01-03 18:45:09 +0000213- Issue #10806, issue #9905: Fix subprocess pipes when some of the standard
214 file descriptors (0, 1, 2) are closed in the parent process. Initial
215 patch by Ross Lagerwall.
216
Antoine Pitroub0614612011-01-02 20:04:52 +0000217- Issue #4662: os.tempnam(), os.tmpfile() and os.tmpnam() now raise a py3k
218 DeprecationWarning.
219
Raymond Hettinger8ebebd82011-01-02 01:03:26 +0000220- Subclasses of collections.OrderedDict now work correctly with __missing__.
221
Éric Araujo86f90742011-03-21 00:15:26 +0100222- Issue #10753 - Characters ';', '=' and ',' in the PATH_INFO environment
Senthil Kumaran559395f2010-12-29 06:30:19 +0000223 variable won't be quoted when the URI is constructed by the wsgiref.util 's
224 request_uri method. According to RFC 3986, these characters can be a part of
225 params in PATH component of URI and need not be quoted.
226
Éric Araujo86f90742011-03-21 00:15:26 +0100227- Issue #10738: Fix webbrowser.Opera.raise_opts
Terry Reedy0df73672010-12-28 19:53:32 +0000228
Éric Araujo86f90742011-03-21 00:15:26 +0100229- Issue #9824: SimpleCookie now encodes , and ; in values to cater to how
R. David Murray08fc7012010-12-28 19:11:03 +0000230 browsers actually parse cookies.
231
R. David Murray5360d002010-12-27 19:17:17 +0000232- Issue #1379416: eliminated a source of accidental unicode promotion in
233 email.header.Header.encode.
234
R. David Murray5874ed62010-12-26 22:29:53 +0000235- Issue #5258/#10642: if site.py encounters a .pth file that generates an error,
236 it now prints the filename, line number, and traceback to stderr and skips
237 the rest of that individual file, instead of stopping processing entirely.
238
Antoine Pitroufc9ead62010-12-21 21:26:55 +0000239- Issue #10750: The ``raw`` attribute of buffered IO objects is now read-only.
240
Daniel Stutzbach57cf0af2011-01-04 18:47:17 +0000241- Issue #10242: unittest.TestCase.assertItemsEqual makes too many assumptions
Michael Foorde6e0e262010-12-19 15:52:56 +0000242 about input.
243
Michael Foorda17f0762010-12-19 14:53:19 +0000244- Issue #10611: SystemExit should not cause a unittest test run to exit.
245
Antoine Pitroud7b6ac62010-12-18 18:18:21 +0000246- Issue #6791: Limit header line length (to 65535 bytes) in http.client,
247 to avoid denial of services from the other party.
248
R. David Murray3f752ab2010-12-18 17:22:18 +0000249- Issue #10404: Use ctl-button-1 on OSX for the context menu in Idle.
250
251- Issue #9907: Fix tab handling on OSX when using editline by calling
R. David Murray7a697252010-12-18 03:52:09 +0000252 rl_initialize first, then setting our custom defaults, then reading .editrc.
253
Antoine Pitrou47900cf2010-12-17 17:45:12 +0000254- Issue #4188: Avoid creating dummy thread objects when logging operations
255 from the threading module (with the internal verbose flag activated).
256
Senthil Kumaran5c7fd6e2010-12-17 04:56:02 +0000257- Issue #9721: Fix the behavior of urljoin when the relative url starts with a
258 ';' character. Patch by Wes Chow.
Benjamin Peterson5ee84482010-11-28 04:49:23 +0000259
Antoine Pitrou47d9b0e2010-12-16 17:11:34 +0000260- Issue #10714: Limit length of incoming request in http.server to 65536 bytes
261 for security reasons. Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall.
262
Éric Araujoe04c13c2010-12-15 21:15:25 +0000263- Issue #9558: Fix distutils.command.build_ext with VS 8.0.
264
R. David Murraydacb8042010-12-14 14:34:16 +0000265- Issue #10695: passing the port as a string value to telnetlib no longer
266 causes debug mode to fail.
267
Ronald Oussoren8ec374c2010-12-07 16:02:59 +0000268- Issue #10107: Warn about unsaved files in IDLE on OSX.
269
Ronald Oussoren517858a2010-12-07 16:13:17 +0000270- Issue #10406: Enable Rstrip IDLE extension on OSX (just like on other
271 platforms).
272
Antoine Pitrou4cb64ad2010-12-03 19:31:52 +0000273- Issue #10478: Reentrant calls inside buffered IO objects (for example by
274 way of a signal handler) now raise a RuntimeError instead of freezing the
275 current process.
276
Éric Araujofb3de6b2010-12-03 19:24:49 +0000277- Issue #10497: Fix incorrect use of gettext in argparse.
278
R. David Murrayd75cc912010-12-02 03:16:23 +0000279- Issue #10464: netrc now correctly handles lines with embedded '#' characters.
280
Gregory P. Smith312efbc2010-12-14 15:02:53 +0000281- Issue #1731717: Fixed the problem where subprocess.wait() could cause an
282 OSError exception when The OS had been told to ignore SIGCLD in our process
283 or otherwise not wait for exiting child processes.
284
Steven Bethardf8583ac2011-01-24 20:40:15 +0000285- Issue #9509: argparse now properly handles IOErrors raised by
286 argparse.FileType.
287
Steven Bethard3f69a052011-03-26 19:59:02 +0100288- Issue #9348: Raise an early error if argparse nargs and metavar don't match.
289
290- Issue #8982: Improve the documentation for the argparse Namespace object.
291
Steven Bethard5e0062d2011-03-26 21:50:38 +0100292- Issue #9343: Document that argparse parent parsers must be configured before
293 their children.
294
Steven Bethardbc3b1042011-03-27 13:57:55 +0200295- Issue #9026: Fix order of argparse sub-commands in help messages.
296
Steven Betharde3c11b42011-04-04 01:47:52 +0200297- Issue #9347: Fix formatting for tuples in argparse type= error messages.
298
R. David Murray2a4b3fc2010-12-11 02:13:04 +0000299Extension Modules
300-----------------
301
Benjamin Petersonf21ad922011-03-26 17:56:28 -0500302- Issue #1838: Prevent segfault in ctypes, when _as_parameter_ on a class is set
303 to an instance of the class.
304
R. David Murray2a4b3fc2010-12-11 02:13:04 +0000305- Issue #678250: Make mmap flush a noop on ACCESS_READ and ACCESS_COPY.
306
Antoine Pitrouf11d1832011-01-02 19:37:45 +0000307Build
308-----
309
Thomas Wouters5edae7e2011-03-06 11:48:05 -0800310- Issue #11411: Fix 'make DESTDIR=' with a relative destination.
311
Georg Brandl94800df2011-02-25 11:09:02 +0000312- Issue #10709: Add updated AIX notes in Misc/README.AIX.
313
314- Issue #11184: Fix large-file support on AIX.
315
Georg Brandl71f4fbb2011-02-25 11:04:50 +0000316- Issue #941346: Fix broken shared library build on AIX.
317
Ned Deilye6cc7d62011-02-21 21:00:09 +0000318- Issue #11268: Prevent Mac OS X Installer failure if Documentation
319 package had previously been installed.
320
Ned Deily68adfdc2011-02-07 16:52:25 +0000321- Issue #11079: The /Applications/Python x.x folder created by the Mac
322 OS X installers now includes a link to the installed documentation.
323
Ned Deily53c460d2011-01-30 01:43:40 +0000324- Issue #11054: Allow Mac OS X installer builds to again work on 10.5 with
325 the system-provided Python.
326
327- Issue #10843: Update third-party library versions used in OS X
328 32-bit installer builds: bzip2 1.0.6, readline 6.1.2, SQLite 3.7.4
329 (with FTS3/FTS4 and RTREE enabled), and ncursesw 5.5 (wide-char
330 support enabled).
331
Antoine Pitrou9828b562011-01-03 19:11:32 +0000332- Don't run pgen twice when using make -j.
333
Antoine Pitrou31e85952011-01-03 18:57:14 +0000334- Issue #7716: Under Solaris, don't assume existence of /usr/xpg4/bin/grep in
335 the configure script but use $GREP instead. Patch by Fabian Groffen.
336
Antoine Pitrouf11d1832011-01-02 19:37:45 +0000337- Issue #10475: Don't hardcode compilers for LDSHARED/LDCXXSHARED on NetBSD
338 and DragonFly BSD. Patch by Nicolas Joly.
339
David Malcolm4c29e1c2011-01-06 17:39:24 +0000340- Issue #10655: Fix the build on PowerPC on Linux with GCC when building with
341 timestamp profiling (--with-tsc): the preprocessor test for the PowerPC
342 support now looks for "__powerpc__" as well as "__ppc__": the latter seems to
343 only be present on OS X; the former is the correct one for Linux with GCC.
344
Ronald Oussoren19199832011-03-14 11:57:39 -0400345- Issue #1099: Fix the build on MacOSX when building a framework with pydebug
346 using GCC 4.0.
347
Raymond Hettinger179816d2011-04-12 18:54:46 -0700348IDLE
349----
350
351- Issue #11718: IDLE's open module dialog couldn't find the __init__.py
352 file in a package.
353
R. David Murray0960bc52010-12-04 17:24:46 +0000354Tests
355-----
356
Ross Lagerwallfe2f1ad2011-04-09 20:39:50 +0200357- Issue #11719: Fix message about unexpected test_msilib skip on non-Windows
358 platforms. Patch by Nadeem Vawda.
359
Ned Deily5f511822011-04-05 17:16:09 -0700360- Issue #7108: Fix test_commands to not fail when special attributes ('@'
361 or '.') appear in 'ls -l' output.
362
R David Murraycdd5fc92011-03-13 22:37:18 -0400363- Issue #11490: test_subprocess:test_leaking_fds_on_error no longer gives a
364 false positive if the last directory in the path is inaccessible.
365
Antoine Pitrou8bc59fa2011-01-12 18:56:09 +0000366- Issue #10822: Fix test_posix:test_getgroups failure under Solaris. Patch
367 by Ross Lagerwall.
368
Antoine Pitrou8c688be2011-01-03 20:49:01 +0000369- Issue #6293: Have regrtest.py echo back sys.flags. This is done by default
370 in whole runs and enabled selectively using ``--header`` when running an
371 explicit list of tests. Original patch by Collin Winter.
372
R. David Murrayf8a63912010-12-14 16:26:30 +0000373- Issue #775964: test_grp now skips YP/NIS entries instead of failing when
374 encountering them.
375
R. David Murray0960bc52010-12-04 17:24:46 +0000376- Issue #7110: regrtest now sends test failure reports and single-failure
377 tracebacks to stderr rather than stdout.
378
Benjamin Peterson5ee84482010-11-28 04:49:23 +0000379
Benjamin Petersondb4c3342010-11-13 23:32:58 +0000380What's New in Python 2.7.1?
381===========================
382
Benjamin Peterson3e0fa422010-11-27 14:40:29 +0000383*Release date: 2010-11-27*
Benjamin Petersondb4c3342010-11-13 23:32:58 +0000384
385Library
386-------
387
Éric Araujo54274ad2011-02-03 00:12:18 +0000388- Issue #2236: distutils' mkpath ignored the mode parameter.
389
390- Fix typo in one sdist option (medata-check).
391
Raymond Hettinger061bf7a2010-11-30 03:15:35 +0000392- Issue #10323: itertools.islice() now consumes the minimum number of
393 inputs before stopping. Formerly, the final state of the underlying
394 iterator was undefined.
395
Alexander Belopolsky1fea5c42010-11-30 01:18:17 +0000396- Issue #10565: The collections.Iterator ABC now checks for both
397 ``__iter__`` and ``next``.
398
Georg Brandl79f096a2010-11-26 07:57:57 +0000399- Issue #10092: Properly reset locale in calendar.Locale*Calendar classes.
400
Martin v. Löwise03c7782010-11-22 10:53:46 +0000401- Issue #10459: Update CJK character names to Unicode 5.2.
402
Georg Brandl5ded7912010-11-26 07:35:31 +0000403- Issue #6098: Don't claim DOM level 3 conformance in minidom.
404
Senthil Kumaran9a5897b2010-11-29 12:41:03 +0000405- Issue #10561: In pdb, clear the breakpoints by the breakpoint number.
406
Georg Brandl5ded7912010-11-26 07:35:31 +0000407- Issue #5762: Fix AttributeError raised by ``xml.dom.minidom`` when an empty
408 XML namespace attribute is encountered.
409
Georg Brandl86e0c892010-11-26 07:22:28 +0000410- Issue #1710703: Write structures for an empty ZIP archive when a ZipFile is
411 created in modes 'a' or 'w' and then closed without adding any files. Raise
412 BadZipfile (rather than IOError) when opening small non-ZIP files.
413
Senthil Kumaran0b7cac12010-11-22 05:04:33 +0000414- Issue #4493: urllib2 adds '/' in front of path components which does not
415 start with '/. Common behavior exhibited by browsers and other clients.
416
Brian Curtin2d011ed2010-11-21 23:50:51 +0000417- Issue #6378: idle.bat now runs with the appropriate Python version rather than
418 the system default. Patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar.
419
Éric Araujo4fadd532010-11-20 20:02:41 +0000420- Issue #10407: Fix one NameError in distutils.
421
Georg Brandl839c1132010-11-20 11:29:38 +0000422- Issue #10198: fix duplicate header written to wave files when writeframes()
423 is called without data.
424
Benjamin Peterson4fec9ce2010-11-20 17:31:08 +0000425- Issue #10467: Fix BytesIO.readinto() after seeking into a position after the
426 end of the file.
427
Senthil Kumaran501bfd82010-11-14 03:31:52 +0000428- Issue #5111: IPv6 Host in the Header is wrapped inside [ ]. Patch by Chandru.
429
Martin v. Löwiseebd0172010-11-14 18:17:39 +0000430Build
431-----
432
Brian Curtin69a106a2010-11-22 02:08:49 +0000433- Backport r83399 to allow test_distutils to pass on installed versions.
434
Martin v. Löwiseebd0172010-11-14 18:17:39 +0000435- Issue #1303434: Generate ZIP file containing all PDBs.
436
Ezio Melotti2623a372010-11-21 13:34:58 +0000437Tests
438-----
439
440- Issue #9424: Replace deprecated assert* methods in the Python test suite.
441
Ezio Melottibf8484e2010-11-24 21:54:47 +0000442Documentation
443-------------
444
445- Issue #10299: List the built-in functions in a table in functions.rst.
446
Benjamin Petersondb4c3342010-11-13 23:32:58 +0000447
Benjamin Petersoncc214172010-11-13 17:33:04 +0000448What's New in Python 2.7.1 release candidate 1?
449===============================================
Benjamin Petersone3c10452010-07-03 14:51:25 +0000450
Benjamin Petersoncc214172010-11-13 17:33:04 +0000451*Release date: 2010-11-13*
Benjamin Petersone3c10452010-07-03 14:51:25 +0000452
453Core and Builtins
454-----------------
455
Raymond Hettinger2ad17e12010-10-30 08:17:46 +0000456- Issue #10221: dict.pop(k) now has a key error message that includes the
457 missing key (same message d[k] returns for missing keys).
458
Barry Warsawfa658272010-11-02 21:03:09 +0000459- Issue #10125: Don't segfault when the iterator passed to
460 ``file.writelines()`` closes the file.
Benjamin Petersonbf775542010-10-16 19:20:12 +0000461
Barry Warsawfa658272010-11-02 21:03:09 +0000462- Issue #10186: Fix the SyntaxError caret when the offset is equal to the
463 length of the offending line.
Benjamin Petersonf99f33d2010-10-24 03:00:35 +0000464
Benjamin Petersonf76942d2010-10-16 03:51:38 +0000465- Issue #9997: Don't let the name "top" have special significance in scope
466 resolution.
467
R. David Murray1d9d16e2010-10-16 00:43:13 +0000468- Issue #9862: Compensate for broken PIPE_BUF in AIX by hard coding
469 its value as the default 512 when compiling on AIX.
470
Jesus Cea33c722b2010-11-04 21:39:52 +0000471- Issue #9675: CObject use is marked as a Py3k warning, not a deprecation
472 warning.
473
Benjamin Petersondc954242010-10-12 23:02:35 +0000474- Issue #10068: Global objects which have reference cycles with their module's
475 dict are now cleared again. This causes issue #7140 to appear again.
476
Mark Dickinsoncb61e5d2010-09-26 10:37:12 +0000477- Issue #9869: Make long() and PyNumber_Long return something of type
478 long for a class whose __long__ method returns a plain int. This
479 fixes an interpreter crash when initializing an instance of a long
480 subclass from an object whose __long__ method returns a plain int.
481
Benjamin Petersona5d5cc42010-10-02 00:08:58 +0000482- Issue #10006: type.__abstractmethods__ now raises an AttributeError.
483
Antoine Pitrou0a7b65b2010-09-08 12:40:49 +0000484- Issue #9797: pystate.c wrongly assumed that zero couldn't be a valid
485 thread-local storage key.
486
Victor Stinnercaafd772010-09-08 10:51:01 +0000487- Issue #4947: The write() method of sys.stdout and sys.stderr uses their
488 encoding and errors attributes instead of using utf-8 in strict mode, to get
489 the same behaviour than the print statement.
490
Antoine Pitrou9cf85f12010-09-01 21:17:34 +0000491- Issue #9737: Fix a crash when trying to delete a slice or an item from
492 a memoryview object.
493
Martin v. Löwis6086b0d2010-08-19 09:09:04 +0000494- Restore GIL in nis_cat in case of error.
495
Benjamin Peterson6f3d6a92010-08-25 23:17:42 +0000496- Issue #9688: __basicsize__ and __itemsize__ must be accessed as Py_ssize_t.
497
Florent Xicluna172e15f2010-08-09 20:02:00 +0000498- Issue #8530: Prevent stringlib fastsearch from reading beyond the front
499 of an array.
500
Raymond Hettinger3ad323e2010-08-06 10:18:56 +0000501- Issue #83755: Implicit set-to-frozenset conversion was not thread-safe.
502
Mark Dickinsonaad57bd2010-08-01 10:45:15 +0000503- Issue #9416: Fix some issues with complex formatting where the
504 output with no type specifier failed to match the str output:
505
506 - format(complex(-0.0, 2.0), '-') omitted the real part from the output,
507 - format(complex(0.0, 2.0), '-') included a sign and parentheses.
508
Antoine Pitrou32669782010-07-11 12:14:05 +0000509- Issue #7616: Fix copying of overlapping memoryview slices with the Intel
510 compiler.
Benjamin Petersone3c10452010-07-03 14:51:25 +0000511
512Library
513-------
514
Éric Araujo86f90742011-03-21 00:15:26 +0100515- Issue #9926: Wrapped TestSuite subclass does not get __call__ executed
Michael Foord75152ea2010-11-20 17:40:49 +0000516
Antoine Pitrou7eaa4482010-11-09 23:15:18 +0000517- Issue #4471: Properly shutdown socket in IMAP.shutdown(). Patch by
518 Lorenzo M. Catucci.
519
Éric Araujo2f0a0402010-11-06 15:46:46 +0000520- Issue #10126: Fix distutils' test_build when Python was built with
521 --enable-shared.
Michael Foord75152ea2010-11-20 17:40:49 +0000522
Éric Araujo2f0a0402010-11-06 15:46:46 +0000523- Fix typo in one sdist option (medata-check).
524
525- Issue #9199: Fix incorrect use of distutils.cmd.Command.announce.
526
527- Issue #1718574: Fix options that were supposed to accept arguments but did
528 not in build_clib.
529
Éric Araujoe9954b52010-11-06 04:53:42 +0000530- Issue #9281: Prevent race condition with mkdir in distutils. Patch by
531 Arfrever.
532
Éric Araujoe28665a2010-11-06 04:36:28 +0000533- Issue #10229: Fix caching error in gettext.
534
Éric Araujod1feff72010-11-06 04:06:18 +0000535- Issue #10252: Close file objects in a timely manner in distutils code and
536 tests. Patch by Brian Brazil, completed by Éric Araujo.
537
Antoine Pitrou6b1167c2010-11-05 19:55:02 +0000538- Issue #10311: The signal module now restores errno before returning from
539 its low-level signal handler. Patch by Hallvard B Furuseth.
540
Barry Warsawfa658272010-11-02 21:03:09 +0000541- Issue #10038: json.loads() on str should always return unicode (regression
542 from Python 2.6). Patch by Walter Dörwald.
Michael Foorde5dc24e2010-11-01 22:11:53 +0000543
Barry Warsawfa658272010-11-02 21:03:09 +0000544- Issue #120176: Wrapped TestSuite subclass does not get __call__ executed.
545
546- Issue #6706: asyncore accept() method no longer raises
547 EWOULDBLOCK/ECONNABORTED on incomplete connection attempt but returns None
548 instead.
Giampaolo Rodolà19e9fef2010-11-01 15:07:14 +0000549
Antoine Pitrou61d14b72010-10-31 16:17:36 +0000550- Issue #10266: uu.decode didn't close in_file explicitly when it was given
551 as a filename. Patch by Brian Brazil.
552
Antoine Pitrou3917c092010-10-31 13:12:48 +0000553- Issue #10246: uu.encode didn't close file objects explicitly when filenames
554 were given to it. Patch by Brian Brazil.
555
Antoine Pitrou594a0462010-10-31 13:05:48 +0000556- Issue #10253: FileIO leaks a file descriptor when trying to open a file
557 for append that isn't seekable. Patch by Brian Brazil.
558
Raymond Hettingercbba8d42010-10-30 07:29:44 +0000559- Issue #6105: json.dumps now respects OrderedDict's iteration order.
560
Antoine Pitrou638cee62010-10-28 14:50:57 +0000561- Issue #9295: Fix a crash under Windows when calling close() on a file
562 object with custom buffering from two threads at once.
563
Antoine Pitrou7f081022010-10-27 18:43:21 +0000564- Issue #5027: The standard ``xml`` namespace is now understood by
565 xml.sax.saxutils.XMLGenerator as being bound to
566 http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace. Patch by Troy J. Farrell.
567
Brian Curtin4cc54032010-10-21 14:48:22 +0000568- Issue #10163: Skip unreadable registry keys during mimetypes
569 initialization.
570
Hirokazu Yamamoto50f7d7e2010-10-18 13:55:29 +0000571- Issue #5117: Fixed root directory related issue on posixpath.relpath() and
572 ntpath.relpath().
573
Éric Araujo86f90742011-03-21 00:15:26 +0100574- Issue #9409: Fix the regex to match all kind of filenames, for interactive
Florent Xiclunab67660f2010-10-14 21:10:45 +0000575 debugging in doctests.
576
Victor Stinnerd2f6ae62010-10-12 22:53:51 +0000577- Issue #6612: Fix site and sysconfig to catch os.getcwd() error, eg. if the
578 current directory was deleted. Patch written by W. Trevor King.
579
Fred Drake577acb42010-10-11 19:13:04 +0000580- Issue #10045: Improved performance when writing after seeking past the
581 end of the "file" in cStringIO.
582
Vinay Sajip5e8349e2010-10-10 20:36:04 +0000583- Issue #9948: Fixed problem of losing filename case information.
584
Antoine Pitrou58dab672010-10-10 09:54:59 +0000585- Issue #9437: Fix building C extensions with non-default LDFLAGS.
586
Antoine Pitrou76a66aa2010-10-06 21:26:52 +0000587- Issue #9759: GzipFile now raises ValueError when an operation is attempted
588 after the file is closed. Patch by Jeffrey Finkelstein.
589
Éric Araujoc17776f2010-10-04 23:59:35 +0000590- Issue #9042: Fix interaction of custom translation classes and caching in
591 gettext.
592
Lars Gustäbel6aab8d02010-10-04 15:37:53 +0000593- Issue #9065: tarfile no longer uses "root" as the default for the uname and
594 gname field.
595
R. David Murray10a86762010-10-02 16:26:05 +0000596- Issue #1050268: parseaddr now correctly quotes double quote and backslash
597 characters that appear inside quoted strings in email addresses.
598
R. David Murray20ad3632010-10-01 15:48:49 +0000599- Issue #10004: quoprimime no longer generates a traceback when confronted
600 with invalid characters after '=' in a Q-encoded word.
601
Antoine Pitrou66b5df62010-09-27 18:16:46 +0000602- Issue #9950: Fix socket.sendall() crash or misbehaviour when a signal is
603 received. Now sendall() properly calls signal handlers if necessary,
604 and retries sending if these returned successfully, including on sockets
605 with a timeout.
606
Vinay Sajip3eac5912010-09-25 17:48:25 +0000607- Issue #9947: logging: Fixed locking bug in stopListening.
608
Vinay Sajip546885e2010-09-25 17:42:36 +0000609- Issue #9945: logging: Fixed locking bugs in addHandler/removeHandler.
610
Alexander Belopolsky517185e2010-09-24 18:14:18 +0000611- Issue #9936: Fixed executable lines' search in the trace module.
612
Antoine Pitrou2c7d6852010-09-23 19:55:24 +0000613- Issue #9928: Properly initialize the types exported by the bz2 module.
614
Antoine Pitrou6391b342010-09-14 18:48:19 +0000615- Issue #9854: The default read() implementation in io.RawIOBase now
616 handles non-blocking readinto() returning None correctly.
617
Antoine Pitrouf7f390a2010-09-14 14:37:18 +0000618- Issue #9729: Fix the signature of SSLSocket.recvfrom() and
619 SSLSocket.sendto() to match the corresponding socket methods. Also,
620 fix various SSLSocket methods to raise socket.error rather than an
621 unhelpful TypeError when called on an unconnected socket. Original patch
622 by Andrew Bennetts.
623
Raymond Hettinger74f869e2010-09-13 22:14:36 +0000624- Issue #9826: OrderedDict.__repr__ can now handle self-referential
625 values: d['x'] = d.
626
Victor Stinner8fc843b2010-09-17 23:35:50 +0000627- Issue #767645: Set os.path.supports_unicode_filenames to True on Mac OS X.
Victor Stinner46287f52010-09-13 20:31:34 +0000628
Antoine Pitroue4195e82010-09-12 14:56:27 +0000629- Issue #9837: The read() method of ZipExtFile objects (as returned by
630 ZipFile.open()) could return more bytes than requested.
631
Raymond Hettinger20397532010-09-12 02:11:45 +0000632- Issue #9825: removed __del__ from the definition of collections.OrderedDict.
633 This prevents user-created self-referencing ordered dictionaries from
634 becoming permanently uncollectable GC garbage. The downside is that
635 removing __del__ means that the internal doubly-linked list has to wait for
636 GC collection rather than freeing memory immediately when the refcnt drops
637 to zero.
638
Raymond Hettingerffd2a422010-09-10 10:47:22 +0000639- Issue #9816: random.Random.jumpahead(n) did not produce a sufficiently
Victor Stinnerd2f6ae62010-10-12 22:53:51 +0000640 different internal state for small values of n. Fixed by salting the
Raymond Hettingerffd2a422010-09-10 10:47:22 +0000641 value.
642
Antoine Pitrouc818ed42010-09-07 21:40:25 +0000643- Issue #9792: In case of connection failure, socket.create_connection()
644 would swallow the exception and raise a new one, making it impossible
645 to fetch the original errno, or to filter timeout errors. Now the
646 original error is re-raised.
647
Antoine Pitrouf4f61712010-09-07 16:34:47 +0000648- Issue #9758: When fcntl.ioctl() was called with mutable_flag set to True,
649 and the passed buffer was exactly 1024 bytes long, the buffer wouldn't
650 be updated back after the system call. Original patch by Brian Brazil.
651
Antoine Pitroudca9de92010-09-04 17:52:26 +0000652- Issue #1100562: Fix deep-copying of objects derived from the list and
653 dict types. Patch by Michele Orrù and Björn Lindqvist.
654
Fred Drakea1e627d2010-09-03 03:55:50 +0000655- Issue #7005: Fixed output of None values for RawConfigParser.write and
656 ConfigParser.write.
657
Daniel Stutzbach66c981b2010-08-31 20:29:39 +0000658- Issue #808164: Fixed socket.close to avoid references to globals, to
659 avoid issues when socket.close is called from a __del__ method.
660
Terry Reedyd2d2ae92010-11-11 23:22:19 +0000661- Issue #2986: difflib.SequenceMatcher gets a new parameter, autojunk, which
662 can be set to False to turn off the previously undocumented 'popularity'
663 heuristic. Patch by Terry Reedy and Eli Bendersky
664
Senthil Kumaran7e8fd5e2010-08-26 06:20:13 +0000665- Issue #8797: urllib2 does a retry for Basic Authentication failure instead of
666 falling into recursion.
667
R. David Murray7c4bf552010-08-25 01:45:57 +0000668- Issue #1194222: email.utils.parsedate now returns RFC2822 compliant four
669 character years even if the message contains RFC822 two character years.
670
Daniel Stutzbach91287322010-08-24 21:09:30 +0000671- Issue #8750: Fixed MutableSet's methods to correctly handle
672 reflexive operations, namely x -= x and x ^= x.
673
Victor Stinnercaafd772010-09-08 10:51:01 +0000674- Issue #9129: smtpd.py is vulnerable to DoS attacks deriving from missing
Giampaolo Rodolà8664d742010-08-23 22:48:51 +0000675 error handling when accepting a new connection.
676
Giampaolo Rodolà63308d72010-08-23 21:58:47 +0000677- Issue #658749: asyncore's connect() method now correctly interprets winsock
678 errors.
679
Vinay Sajip1ddd51f2010-08-23 17:50:30 +0000680- Issue #9501: Fixed logging regressions in cleanup code.
681
Raymond Hettinger917bba12010-08-22 08:01:58 +0000682- Issue #9214: Set operations on KeysView or ItemsView in the collections
683 module now correctly return a set. (Patch by Eli Bendersky.)
684
Antoine Pitrou3ebaed62010-08-21 19:17:25 +0000685- Issue #9617: Signals received during a low-level write operation aren't
686 ignored by the buffered IO layer anymore.
687
Benjamin Peterson52c36052010-08-21 03:03:22 +0000688- Issue #2521: Use weakrefs on for caching in the abc module, so that classes
689 are not held onto after they are deleted elsewhere.
690
Raymond Hettingera54b2da2010-08-17 19:03:06 +0000691- Issue #9626: the view methods for collections.OrderedDict() were returning
692 the unordered versions inherited from dict. Those methods are now
693 overridden to provide ordered views.
694
Éric Araujo0389ae62010-08-14 03:07:46 +0000695- Issue #8688: MANIFEST files created by distutils now include a magic
696 comment indicating they are generated. Manually maintained MANIFESTs
697 without this marker will not be overwritten or removed.
698
Antoine Pitroue1436d12010-08-12 15:25:51 +0000699- Issue #7467: when reading a file from a ZIP archive, its CRC is checked
700 and a BadZipfile error is raised if it doesn't match (as used to be the
701 case in Python 2.5 and earlier).
702
Antoine Pitroucb4f47c2010-08-11 13:40:17 +0000703- Issue #9550: a BufferedReader could issue an additional read when the
704 original read request had been satisfied, which could block indefinitely
705 when the underlying raw IO channel was e.g. a socket. Report and original
706 patch by Jason V. Miller.
707
Fred Drake0a1fa0e2010-08-10 13:09:54 +0000708- Issue #9551: Don't raise TypeError when setting the value to None for
709 SafeConfigParser instances constructed with allow_no_value == True.
710
Antoine Pitrou8cdede42010-08-10 00:04:13 +0000711- Issue #6915: Under Windows, os.listdir() didn't release the Global
712 Interpreter Lock around all system calls. Original patch by Ryan Kelly.
713
Antoine Pitrou99009162010-08-09 22:51:24 +0000714- Issue #3757: thread-local objects now support cyclic garbage collection.
715 Thread-local objects involved in reference cycles will be deallocated
716 timely by the cyclic GC, even if the underlying thread is still running.
717
Florent Xicluna2f1b1ff2010-08-09 20:46:49 +0000718- Issue #6231: Fix xml.etree.ElementInclude to include the tail of the
719 current node.
720
Thomas Heller5c7589c2010-08-08 18:28:59 +0000721- Issue #6869: Fix a refcount problem in the _ctypes extension.
722
Thomas Heller001d3a12010-08-08 17:56:41 +0000723- Issue5504 - ctypes should now work with systems where mmap can't be
724 PROT_WRITE and PROT_EXEC.
725
Senthil Kumarane677ecf2010-08-08 11:56:31 +0000726- Fix Issue8280 - urllib2's Request method will remove fragements in the url.
727 This is how it is supposed to work, wget and curl do the same. Previous
728 behavior was wrong.
729
Giampaolo Rodolà47617ab2010-08-04 08:35:25 +0000730- Issue #2944: asyncore doesn't handle connection refused correctly.
731
R. David Murray75a292e2010-08-04 00:05:50 +0000732- Issue #3196: email header decoding is now forgiving if an RFC2047
733 encoded word encoded in base64 is lacking padding.
734
R. David Murray1cbf78e2010-08-03 18:14:01 +0000735- Issue #9444: Argparse now uses the first element of prefix_chars as
736 the option character for the added 'h/help' option if prefix_chars
737 does not contain a '-', instead of raising an error.
738
Georg Brandl7f0c3ff2010-08-01 21:18:52 +0000739- Issue #9354: Provide getsockopt() in asyncore's file_wrapper.
740
Florent Xicluna92847452010-09-13 17:36:36 +0000741- Issue #9428: Fix running scripts with the profile/cProfile modules from
742 the command line.
743
Georg Brandl9c5efad2010-08-02 21:29:14 +0000744- Issue #7781: Fix restricting stats by entry counts in the pstats
745 interactive browser.
746
747- Issue #9209: Do not crash in the pstats interactive browser on invalid
748 regular expressions.
749
Georg Brandla2a92cf2010-08-02 17:34:58 +0000750- Issue #7372: Fix pstats regression when stripping paths from profile
751 data generated with the profile module.
752
Georg Brandl2bd953e2010-08-01 20:59:03 +0000753- Issue #4108: In urllib.robotparser, if there are multiple 'User-agent: *'
754 entries, consider the first one.
755
Antoine Pitrou39703012010-08-01 20:13:11 +0000756- Issue #8397: Raise an error when attempting to mix iteration and regular
757 reads on a BZ2File object, rather than returning incorrect results.
758
Georg Brandl50775992010-08-01 19:33:15 +0000759- Issue #5294: Fix the behavior of pdb's "continue" command when called
760 in the top-level debugged frame.
761
762- Issue #5727: Restore the ability to use readline when calling into pdb
763 in doctests.
764
765- Issue #6719: In pdb, do not stop somewhere in the encodings machinery
766 if the source file to be debugged is in a non-builtin encoding.
767
768- Issue #8048: Prevent doctests from failing when sys.displayhook has
769 been reassigned.
770
771- Issue #8015: In pdb, do not crash when an empty line is entered as
772 a breakpoint command.
773
Antoine Pitrou607951d2010-08-01 16:57:17 +0000774- Issue #9448: Fix a leak of OS resources (mutexes or semaphores) when
775 re-initializing a buffered IO object by calling its ``__init__`` method.
776
Georg Brandle2773252010-08-01 19:14:56 +0000777- Issue #7909: Do not touch paths with the special prefixes ``\\.\``
778 or ``\\?\`` in ntpath.normpath().
779
Georg Brandl004c74d2010-08-01 19:06:51 +0000780- Issue #5146: Handle UID THREAD command correctly in imaplib.
781
782- Issue #5147: Fix the header generated for cookie files written by
783 http.cookiejar.MozillaCookieJar.
784
785- Issue #8198: In pydoc, output all help text to the correct stream
786 when sys.stdout is reassigned.
787
Georg Brandl0347c712010-08-01 19:02:09 +0000788- Issue #7395: Fix tracebacks in pstats interactive browser.
789
790- Issue #8230: Fix Lib/test/sortperf.py.
791
Georg Brandl78e69572010-08-01 18:52:52 +0000792- Issue #1713: Fix os.path.ismount(), which returned true for symbolic links
793 across devices.
794
795- Issue #8826: Properly load old-style "expires" attribute in http.cookies.
796
797- Issue #1690103: Fix initial namespace for code run with trace.main().
798
Georg Brandl1f05e2e2010-08-01 08:22:05 +0000799- Issue #8471: In doctest, properly reset the output stream to an empty
800 string when Unicode was previously output.
801
R. David Murray58f15b62010-08-01 04:04:03 +0000802- Issue #8620: when a Cmd is fed input that reaches EOF without a final
803 newline, it no longer truncates the last character of the last command line.
804
Victor Stinner73363e82010-07-28 01:39:45 +0000805- Issue #6213: Implement getstate() and setstate() methods of utf-8-sig and
806 utf-16 incremental encoders.
807
Brian Curtinb2ec2322010-07-26 02:40:17 +0000808- Issue #7113: Speed up loading in ConfigParser. Patch by Łukasz Langa.
809
Gregory P. Smith2a91ce82010-07-25 19:11:36 +0000810- Issue #3704: cookielib was not properly handling URLs with a / in the
811 parameters.
812
Victor Stinner8b0d84e2010-07-24 02:51:49 +0000813- Issue #9032: XML-RPC client retries the request on EPIPE error. The EPIPE
814 error occurs when the server closes the socket and the client sends a big
815 XML-RPC request.
816
Victor Stinner2c6aee92010-07-24 02:46:16 +0000817- Issue #5542: Remove special logic that closes HTTPConnection socket on EPIPE.
818
Victor Stinner4c16d122010-07-24 01:07:52 +0000819- Issue #4629: getopt raises an error if an argument ends with = whereas getopt
820 doesn't except a value (eg. --help= is rejected if getopt uses ['help='] long
821 options).
822
Ronald Oussoren3a04a252010-07-23 12:41:00 +0000823- Issue #7895: platform.mac_ver() no longer crashes after calling os.fork()
824
Antoine Pitrou7a7013e2010-07-21 16:47:28 +0000825- Issue #5395: array.fromfile() would raise a spurious EOFError when an
826 I/O error occurred. Now an IOError is raised instead. Patch by chuck
827 (Jan Hosang).
828
R. David Murrayf6cbdcb2010-07-09 13:25:56 +0000829- Issue #7646: The fnmatch pattern cache no longer grows without bound.
830
Mark Dickinson7ea29b02010-07-08 21:28:31 +0000831- Issue #9136: Fix 'dictionary changed size during iteration'
832 RuntimeError produced when profiling the decimal module. This was
833 due to a dangerous iteration over 'locals()' in Context.__init__.
834
835- Fix extreme speed issue in Decimal.pow when the base is an exact
836 power of 10 and the exponent is tiny (for example,
837 Decimal(10) ** Decimal('1e-999999999')).
838
R. David Murray3caf7b92010-07-05 16:06:05 +0000839- Issue #9161: Fix regression in optparse's acceptance of unicode
840 strings in add_option calls.
841
Mark Dickinson75b44b32010-07-04 16:47:56 +0000842- Issue #9130: Fix validation of relative imports in parser module.
843
Mark Dickinsona7ee59b2010-07-04 16:23:54 +0000844- Issue #9128: Fix validation of class decorators in parser module.
Benjamin Petersone3c10452010-07-03 14:51:25 +0000845
Ronald Oussoren75956202010-07-11 08:52:52 +0000846- Issue #9164: Ensure sysconfig handles dupblice archs while building on OSX
847
Alexander Belopolsky9d17da32010-09-13 16:45:02 +0000848- Issue #9315: Fix for the trace module to record correct class name
849 for tracing methods.
850
Benjamin Petersone3c10452010-07-03 14:51:25 +0000851Extension Modules
852-----------------
853
Georg Brandl67c27332010-10-24 14:16:05 +0000854- Issue #9054: Fix a crash occurring when using the pyexpat module
855 with expat version 2.0.1.
856
Brian Curtin1390dd72010-10-01 16:44:03 +0000857- Issue #10003: Allow handling of SIGBREAK on Windows. Fixes a regression
Victor Stinnerd2f6ae62010-10-12 22:53:51 +0000858 introduced by issue #9324.
Brian Curtin1390dd72010-10-01 16:44:03 +0000859
Antoine Pitroue6ebcda2010-09-04 21:24:42 +0000860- Issue #8734: Avoid crash in msvcrt.get_osfhandle() when an invalid file
861 descriptor is provided. Patch by Pascal Chambon.
862
Antoine Pitrou247e2fd2010-09-04 17:27:10 +0000863- Issue #7736: Release the GIL around calls to opendir() and closedir()
864 in the posix module. Patch by Marcin Bachry.
865
Benjamin Peterson52c36052010-08-21 03:03:22 +0000866- As a result of issue #2521, the _weakref module is now compiled into the
867 interpreter by default.
868
Brian Curtin24af0e92010-08-06 19:41:01 +0000869- Issue #9324: Add parameter validation to signal.signal on Windows in order
870 to prevent crashes.
871
Mark Dickinson5e684332010-08-06 09:44:48 +0000872- Issue #9526: Remove some outdated (int) casts that were preventing
873 the array module from working correctly with arrays of more than
874 2**31 elements.
875
Mark Dickinsonf38d8882010-08-03 18:46:28 +0000876- Fix memory leak in ssl._ssl._test_decode_cert.
877
Mark Dickinson0f981282010-08-03 16:54:19 +0000878- Issue #8065: Fix memory leak in readline module (from failure to
879 free the result of history_get_history_state()).
880
Mark Dickinson4ee98532010-08-03 16:18:39 +0000881- Issue #9450: Fix memory leak in readline.replace_history_item and
882 readline.remove_history_item for readline version >= 5.0.
883
Brian Curtinba6c08e2010-08-01 15:47:53 +0000884- Issue #8105: Validate file descriptor passed to mmap.mmap on Windows.
885
Georg Brandla4917272010-07-31 21:22:36 +0000886- Issue #1019882: Fix IndexError when loading certain hotshot stats.
887
Mark Dickinson96527c32010-07-29 21:44:47 +0000888- Issue #9422: Fix memory leak when re-initializing a struct.Struct object.
889
Ronald Oussoren9e7ffae2010-07-24 09:46:41 +0000890- Issue #7900: The getgroups(2) system call on MacOSX behaves rather oddly
891 compared to other unix systems. In particular, os.getgroups() does
892 not reflect any changes made using os.setgroups() but basicly always
893 returns the same information as the id command.
894
895 os.getgroups() can now return more than 16 groups on MacOSX.
896
Mark Dickinsoncac0b832010-07-18 07:55:55 +0000897- Issue #9277: Fix bug in struct.pack for bools in standard mode
898 (e.g., struct.pack('>?')): if conversion to bool raised an exception
899 then that exception wasn't properly propagated on machines where
900 char is unsigned.
901
Matthias Klose6e86bf72010-07-30 21:27:18 +0000902- Issue #7567: Don't call `setupterm' twice.
903
Ronald Oussoren19199832011-03-14 11:57:39 -0400904
Antoine Pitrou2fba0b32010-09-08 21:12:36 +0000905Tools/Demos
906-----------
907
Benjamin Peterson4de6b062010-10-13 22:07:17 +0000908- Issue #7287: Demo/imputil/knee.py was removed.
909
Antoine Pitrou2fba0b32010-09-08 21:12:36 +0000910- Issue #9188: The gdb extension now handles correctly narrow (UCS2) as well
911 as wide (UCS4) unicode builds for both the host interpreter (embedded
912 inside gdb) and the interpreter under test.
913
Benjamin Peterson4082d9b2010-07-17 20:41:16 +0000914Build
915-----
916
Antoine Pitroue0c5f3c2010-10-27 20:35:26 +0000917- Issue #8852: Allow the socket module to build on OpenSolaris.
918
Antoine Pitrou7be5a652010-10-10 08:14:41 +0000919- Issue #10054: Some platforms provide uintptr_t in inttypes.h. Patch by
920 Akira Kitada.
921
Antoine Pitrou22ad2452010-10-09 15:28:59 +0000922- Issue #10055: Make json C89-compliant in UCS4 mode.
923
Antoine Pitrou285cd162010-09-21 15:23:17 +0000924- Issue #1633863: Don't ignore $CC under AIX.
925
Hirokazu Yamamotoc4caa9c2010-09-18 22:33:33 +0000926- Issue #9810: Compile bzip2 source files in python's project file
927 directly. It used to be built with bzip2's makefile.
928
Antoine Pitrouaabdceb2010-09-10 20:03:17 +0000929- Issue #941346: Improve the build process under AIX and allow Python to
930 be built as a shared library. Patch by Sébastien Sablé.
931
Antoine Pitrou85729812010-09-07 14:55:24 +0000932- Issue #4026: Make the fcntl extension build under AIX. Patch by Sébastien
933 Sablé.
934
Antoine Pitroua74c3342010-09-03 16:15:17 +0000935- Issue #3101: Helper functions _add_one_to_index_C() and
936 _add_one_to_index_F() become _Py_add_one_to_index_C() and
937 _Py_add_one_to_index_F(), respectively.
Antoine Pitrou1fcdba82010-09-01 13:02:50 +0000938
939- Issue #9700: define HAVE_BROKEN_POSIX_SEMAPHORES under AIX 6.x. Patch by
940 Sébastien Sablé.
941
Benjamin Peterson4082d9b2010-07-17 20:41:16 +0000942- Issue #9280: Make sharedinstall depend on sharedmods.
943
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +0000944- Issue #9275: The OSX installer once again installs links to binaries in
945 ``/usr/local/bin``.
Ronald Oussoren8a14db82010-07-23 11:13:03 +0000946
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +0000947- Issue #9392: A framework build on OSX will once again use a versioned name
948 of the ``2to3`` tool, that is you can use ``2to3-2.7`` to select the Python
949 2.7 edition of 2to3.
Ronald Oussoren0969c672010-07-29 13:18:19 +0000950
Ronald Oussorenec2fe002010-09-28 14:01:49 +0000951- Issue #9701: The MacOSX installer can patch the shell profile to ensure that
952 the "bin" directory inside the framework is on the shell's search path. This
953 feature now also supports the ZSH shell.
954
Ronald Oussoren24215252010-10-20 13:11:46 +0000955- Issue #7473: avoid link errors when building a framework with a different
956 set of architectures than the one that is currently installed.
Ronald Oussorenec2fe002010-09-28 14:01:49 +0000957
Antoine Pitrou22db7352010-07-08 18:54:04 +0000958Tests
959-----
960
Hirokazu Yamamoto1f504f12010-10-08 09:41:13 +0000961- Issue #9978: Wait until subprocess completes initialization. (Win32KillTests
962 in test_os)
963
Antoine Pitrou767cbc42010-09-18 18:15:33 +0000964- Issue #9894: Do not hardcode ENOENT in test_subprocess.
965
Florent Xicluna92847452010-09-13 17:36:36 +0000966- Issue #9323: Make test.regrtest.__file__ absolute, this was not always the
967 case when running profile or trace, for example.
968
Alexander Belopolsky9d17da32010-09-13 16:45:02 +0000969- Issue #9315: Added tests for the trace module. Patch by Eli Bendersky.
Florent Xicluna92847452010-09-13 17:36:36 +0000970
Florent Xiclunac0c0b142010-09-13 08:53:00 +0000971- Strengthen test_unicode with explicit type checking for assertEqual tests.
972
Giampaolo Rodolà633e4742010-08-14 17:04:46 +0000973- Issue #8857: Provide a test case for socket.getaddrinfo.
974
Florent Xicluna172e15f2010-08-09 20:02:00 +0000975- Issue #7564: Skip test_ioctl if another process is attached to /dev/tty.
976
Mark Dickinson28669332010-08-07 13:07:11 +0000977- Issue #8433: Fix test_curses failure with newer versions of ncurses.
978
Antoine Pitrou185fae72010-08-04 15:54:33 +0000979- Issue #9496: Provide a test suite for the rlcompleter module. Patch by
980 Michele Orrù.
981
Antoine Pitrou22db7352010-07-08 18:54:04 +0000982- Issue #8605: Skip test_gdb if Python is compiled with optimizations.
983
Ronald Oussoren8928e322010-09-28 14:43:59 +0000984- Issue #9568: Fix test_urllib2_localnet on OS X 10.3.
985
Brett Cannon8c4fa112010-07-21 09:52:10 +0000986Documentation
987-------------
988
Matthias Klose3e8230d2010-09-12 16:51:29 +0000989- Issue #9817: Add expat COPYING file; add expat, libffi and expat licenses
990 to Doc/license.rst.
991
Brian Curtin4d808892010-08-05 19:00:45 +0000992- Issue #9524: Document that two CTRL* signals are meant for use only
993 with os.kill.
994
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +0000995- Issue #9255: Document that the 'test' package is for internal Python use
996 only.
Brett Cannon9ae2cb72010-07-23 12:07:27 +0000997
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +0000998- Issue #7829: Document in dis that bytecode is an implementation detail.
Brett Cannon8c4fa112010-07-21 09:52:10 +0000999
Benjamin Petersone3c10452010-07-03 14:51:25 +00001000
Benjamin Peterson4f612592010-06-21 17:28:30 +00001001What's New in Python 2.7?
1002=========================
1003
Benjamin Petersonc60082d2010-07-03 13:56:13 +00001004*Release date: 2010-07-03*
Benjamin Peterson4f612592010-06-21 17:28:30 +00001005
1006Core and Builtins
1007-----------------
1008
Benjamin Peterson947ce582010-06-24 00:12:40 +00001009- Prevent assignment to set literals.
1010
Benjamin Peterson4f612592010-06-21 17:28:30 +00001011Library
1012-------
1013
Antoine Pitroua4083502010-08-28 18:29:13 +00001014- Issue #1868: Eliminate subtle timing issues in thread-local objects by
1015 getting rid of the cached copy of thread-local attribute dictionary.
1016
Benjamin Peterson6a336f62010-07-03 13:57:30 +00001017- Issue #9125: Add recognition of 'except ... as ...' syntax to parser module.
1018
1019Extension Modules
1020-----------------
1021
Benjamin Petersonc670b7e2010-07-03 13:49:23 +00001022- Issue #7673: Fix security vulnerability (CVE-2010-2089) in the audioop module,
1023 ensure that the input string length is a multiple of the frame size.
Victor Stinner15e5b1b2010-07-03 13:36:19 +00001024
Antoine Pitrou0dddf602010-06-25 00:03:21 +00001025- Issue #9075: In the ssl module, remove the setting of a ``debug`` flag
1026 on an OpenSSL structure.
1027
Benjamin Peterson00633672010-07-03 13:56:56 +00001028
Michael Foord83d35762010-06-10 16:32:00 +00001029What's New in Python 2.7 release candidate 2?
1030=============================================
Benjamin Peterson2f3d9f92010-06-06 02:09:33 +00001031
Benjamin Petersonbfcedf42010-06-21 15:57:57 +00001032*Release date: 2010-06-20*
Benjamin Peterson2f3d9f92010-06-06 02:09:33 +00001033
1034Core and Builtins
1035-----------------
1036
Benjamin Petersonb9133892010-06-22 19:16:37 +00001037- Issue #9058: Remove assertions about INT_MAX in UnicodeDecodeError.
1038
Nick Coghlan8842c352010-06-13 06:50:39 +00001039- Issue #8202: Previous change to ``sys.argv[0]`` handling for -m command line
1040 option reverted due to unintended side effects on handling of ``sys.path``.
1041 See tracker issue for details.
1042
Antoine Pitroucca3a3f2010-06-11 21:42:26 +00001043- Issue #8941: decoding big endian UTF-32 data in UCS-2 builds could crash
1044 the interpreter with characters outside the Basic Multilingual Plane
1045 (higher than 0x10000).
1046
Benjamin Petersonfa4c59f2010-06-08 14:53:29 +00001047- In the unicode/str.format(), raise a ValueError when indexes to arguments are
1048 too large.
Benjamin Peterson13e934a2010-06-07 22:23:23 +00001049
Benjamin Petersonafa1b302010-06-21 15:27:46 +00001050Build
1051-----
1052
1053- Issue #8854: Fix finding Visual Studio 2008 on Windows x64.
1054
Benjamin Peterson2f3d9f92010-06-06 02:09:33 +00001055Library
1056-------
Mark Dickinsone979ec82010-06-13 10:50:29 +00001057
Victor Stinner15e5b1b2010-07-03 13:36:19 +00001058- Issue #6589: cleanup asyncore.socket_map in case smtpd.SMTPServer constructor
Giampaolo Rodolàe00e2f02010-06-30 17:38:28 +00001059 raises an exception.
1060
Thomas Hellerf1800992010-06-21 14:00:24 +00001061- Issue #8959: fix regression caused by using unmodified libffi
1062 library on Windows. ctypes does now again check the stack before
1063 and after calling foreign functions.
1064
R. David Murraydf1cf302010-06-17 01:36:52 +00001065- Issue #8720: fix regression caused by fix for #4050 by making getsourcefile
1066 smart enough to find source files in the linecache.
1067
Mark Dickinsone979ec82010-06-13 10:50:29 +00001068- Issue #8986: math.erfc was incorrectly raising OverflowError for
1069 values between -27.3 and -30.0 on some platforms.
1070
Vinay Sajip936efc72010-06-11 22:56:50 +00001071- Issue #8924: logging: Improved error handling for Unicode in exception text.
Benjamin Peterson2f3d9f92010-06-06 02:09:33 +00001072
Michael Foord83d35762010-06-10 16:32:00 +00001073- Issue #8948: cleanup functions and class / module setups and teardowns are
1074 now honored in unittest debug methods.
1075
Tarek Ziadé770fd152010-06-06 20:05:20 +00001076Documentation
1077-------------
1078
1079- Issues #8909: Added the size of the bitmap used in the installer created by
1080 distutils' bdist_wininst. Patch by Anatoly Techtonik.
1081
Victor Stinnerb65bd2e2010-06-11 19:22:28 +00001082Misc
1083----
1084
1085- Issue #8362: Add maintainers.rst: list of module maintainers
1086
Benjamin Peterson2f3d9f92010-06-06 02:09:33 +00001087
Antoine Pitrou6001b0b2010-05-09 18:32:48 +00001088What's New in Python 2.7 Release Candidate 1?
1089=============================================
Benjamin Peterson534b8de2010-05-08 18:53:42 +00001090
Benjamin Peterson77d534e2010-06-06 00:22:09 +00001091*Release date: 2010-06-05*
Benjamin Peterson534b8de2010-05-08 18:53:42 +00001092
1093Core and Builtins
1094-----------------
1095
Ezio Melottiab2eb0e2010-06-05 19:21:32 +00001096- Issue #8271: during the decoding of an invalid UTF-8 byte sequence, only the
1097 start byte and the continuation byte(s) are now considered invalid, instead
1098 of the number of bytes specified by the start byte.
1099 E.g.: '\xf1\x80AB'.decode('utf-8', 'replace') now returns u'\ufffdAB' and
1100 replaces with U+FFFD only the start byte ('\xf1') and the continuation byte
1101 ('\x80') even if '\xf1' is the start byte of a 4-bytes sequence.
1102 Previous versions returned a single u'\ufffd'.
1103
Mark Dickinson23f0d6b2010-06-05 11:52:24 +00001104- Issue #8627: Remove bogus "Overriding __cmp__ blocks inheritance of
Mark Dickinsone4b83e02010-06-05 12:14:43 +00001105 __hash__ in 3.x" warning. Also fix "XXX undetected error" that
1106 arises from the "Overriding __eq__ blocks inheritance ..." warning
1107 when turned into an exception: in this case the exception simply
1108 gets ignored.
Mark Dickinson23f0d6b2010-06-05 11:52:24 +00001109
Mark Dickinson4ca7c3c2010-05-30 13:18:10 +00001110- Issue #8748: Fix two issues with comparisons between complex and integer
1111 objects. (1) The comparison could incorrectly return True in some cases
1112 (2**53+1 == complex(2**53) == 2**53), breaking transivity of equality.
1113 (2) The comparison raised an OverflowError for large integers, leading
1114 to unpredictable exceptions when combining integers and complex objects
1115 in sets or dicts.
1116
Mark Dickinson81336372010-05-30 12:12:25 +00001117- Issue #5211: Implicit coercion for the complex type is now completely
1118 removed. (Coercion for arithmetic operations was already removed in 2.7
1119 alpha 4, but coercion for rich comparisons was accidentally left in.)
1120
Victor Stinnerc49dfcc2010-05-25 22:30:32 +00001121- Issue #3798: Write sys.exit() message to sys.stderr to use stderr encoding
1122 and error handler, instead of writing to the C stderr file in utf-8
1123
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001124- Issue #7902: When using explicit relative import syntax, don't try implicit
1125 relative import semantics.
Brett Cannoneb3cd302010-05-20 18:37:55 +00001126
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001127- Issue #7079: Fix a possible crash when closing a file object while using it
1128 from another thread. Patch by Daniel Stutzbach.
Antoine Pitrou83137c22010-05-17 19:56:59 +00001129
Victor Stinnerb65bd2e2010-06-11 19:22:28 +00001130- Issue #8868: Fix that ensures that python scripts have access to the
Ronald Oussoren27c72e92010-06-02 03:47:14 +00001131 Window Server again in a framework build on MacOSX 10.5 or earlier.
1132
Antoine Pitrou6a265602010-05-21 17:12:38 +00001133C-API
1134-----
1135
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001136- Issue #5753: A new C API function, :cfunc:`PySys_SetArgvEx`, allows embedders
1137 of the interpreter to set sys.argv without also modifying sys.path. This
1138 helps fix `CVE-2008-5983
Antoine Pitrou6a265602010-05-21 17:12:38 +00001139 <http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5983>`_.
1140
Benjamin Peterson534b8de2010-05-08 18:53:42 +00001141Library
1142-------
1143
Michael Foordd8918592010-06-05 19:51:38 +00001144- Issue #8302: SkipTest in unittest.TestCase.setUpClass or setUpModule is now
1145 reported as a skip rather than an error.
1146
1147- Issue #8351: Excessively large diffs due to
1148 unittest.TestCase.assertSequenceEqual are no longer included in failure
1149 reports.
1150
Alexander Belopolsky3b818bf2010-06-05 14:54:26 +00001151- Issue #8899: time.struct_time now has class and atribute docstrings.
1152
R. David Murraye7e505b2010-06-04 19:51:06 +00001153- Issue #4487: email now accepts as charset aliases all codec aliases
1154 accepted by the codecs module.
1155
Martin v. Löwiseba67c02010-06-04 19:39:07 +00001156- Issue #6470: Drop UNC prefix in FixTk.
1157
R. David Murray61746d52010-06-03 15:43:20 +00001158- Issue #5610: feedparser no longer eats extra characters at the end of
1159 a body part if the body part ends with a \r\n.
1160
Lars Gustäbel2ee9c6f2010-06-03 09:56:22 +00001161- Issue #8833: tarfile created hard link entries with a size field != 0 by
1162 mistake.
1163
R. David Murray52dcd452010-06-02 22:03:15 +00001164- Issue #1368247: set_charset (and therefore MIMEText) now automatically
1165 encodes a unicode _payload to the output_charset.
1166
Alexander Belopolsky9292ee02010-05-27 20:55:27 +00001167- Issue #7150: Raise OverflowError if the result of adding or subtracting
1168 timedelta from date or datetime falls outside of the MINYEAR:MAXYEAR range.
1169
Victor Stinner04ee3372010-05-24 21:37:28 +00001170- Issue #6662: Fix parsing of malformatted charref (&#bad;), patch written by
1171 Fredrik Håård
Victor Stinner554a3b82010-05-24 21:33:24 +00001172
Georg Brandlf0757a22010-05-24 21:29:07 +00001173- Issue #8016: Add the CP858 codec.
1174
Georg Brandl5d0ca2c2010-05-22 11:29:19 +00001175- Issue #3924: Ignore cookies with invalid "version" field in cookielib.
1176
Victor Stinner7df55da2010-05-22 13:37:56 +00001177- Issue #6268: Fix seek() method of codecs.open(), don't read or write the BOM
1178 twice after seek(0). Fix also reset() method of codecs, UTF-16, UTF-32 and
1179 StreamWriter classes.
Victor Stinner262be5e2010-05-22 02:11:07 +00001180
Victor Stinnerd6703b52010-05-21 22:50:28 +00001181- Issue #5640: Fix Shift-JIS incremental encoder for error handlers different
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001182 than 'strict'.
Victor Stinnerd6703b52010-05-21 22:50:28 +00001183
Benjamin Peterson266e4542010-05-21 21:31:24 +00001184- Issue #8782: Add a trailing newline in linecache.updatecache to the last line
1185 of files without one.
1186
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001187- Issue #8729: Return NotImplemented from ``collections.Mapping.__eq__()`` when
Benjamin Petersoneb318d32010-05-21 20:51:45 +00001188 comparing to a non-mapping.
1189
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001190- Issue #8759: Fix user paths in sysconfig for posix and os2 schemes.
Tarek Ziadé8f692272010-05-19 22:20:14 +00001191
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001192- Issue #1285086: Speed up ``urllib.quote()`` and urllib.unquote for simple
1193 cases.
Florent Xiclunaaf87f9f2010-05-17 13:35:09 +00001194
Tarek Ziadé422545f2010-05-17 10:06:20 +00001195- Issue #8688: Distutils now recalculates MANIFEST everytime.
1196
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001197- Issue #5099: The ``__del__()`` method of ``subprocess.Popen`` (and the methods
1198 it calls) referenced global objects, causing errors to pop up during
1199 interpreter shutdown.
Brett Cannon42a0ba72010-05-14 00:21:48 +00001200
Mark Dickinson932e1622010-05-10 16:07:42 +00001201Extension Modules
1202-----------------
1203
Stefan Krah449aa862010-06-03 12:39:50 +00001204- Issue #7384: If the system readline library is linked against ncurses,
1205 the curses module must be linked against ncurses as well. Otherwise it
1206 is not safe to load both the readline and curses modules in an application.
1207
Brian Curtinb64c89b2010-05-25 15:06:15 +00001208- Issue #2810: Fix cases where the Windows registry API returns
1209 ERROR_MORE_DATA, requiring a re-try in order to get the complete result.
1210
Mark Dickinson932e1622010-05-10 16:07:42 +00001211- Issue #8674: Fixed a number of incorrect or undefined-behaviour-inducing
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001212 overflow checks in the ``audioop`` module.
Benjamin Peterson534b8de2010-05-08 18:53:42 +00001213
Brett Cannonda9af752010-05-13 23:59:41 +00001214Tests
1215-----
1216
R. David Murray4653fb52010-06-03 20:19:25 +00001217- Issue #8889: test_support.transient_internet rewritten so that the new
1218 checks also work on FreeBSD, which lacks EAI_NODATA.
1219
1220- Issue #8835: test_support.transient_internet() catches gaierror(EAI_NONAME)
Victor Stinner03883622010-05-27 22:29:48 +00001221 and gaierror(EAI_NODATA)
1222
Victor Stinner708c0722010-05-26 17:25:28 +00001223- Issue #7449: Skip test_socketserver if threading support is disabled
1224
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001225- On darwin, ``test_site`` assumed that a framework build was being used,
1226 leading to a failure where four directories were expected for site-packages
1227 instead of two in a non-framework build.
Brett Cannonda9af752010-05-13 23:59:41 +00001228
Martin v. Löwisb41afb52010-05-28 15:28:47 +00001229Build
1230-----
1231
Martin v. Löwis16b2a5e2010-06-04 19:15:32 +00001232- Display installer warning that Windows 2000 won't be supported in future
1233 releases.
1234
Victor Stinnerb65bd2e2010-06-11 19:22:28 +00001235- Issues #1759169, #8864: Drop _XOPEN_SOURCE on Solaris, define it for
Martin v. Löwis26eec582010-06-04 17:18:42 +00001236 multiprocessing only.
Brett Cannonda9af752010-05-13 23:59:41 +00001237
Martin v. Löwis5aafc172010-06-04 18:04:42 +00001238Tools/Demos
1239-----------
1240
1241- Issue #5464: Implement plural forms in msgfmt.py.
1242
1243
Antoine Pitrouab5ce722010-04-11 22:45:47 +00001244What's New in Python 2.7 beta 2?
1245================================
Benjamin Peterson12409062010-04-10 18:53:58 +00001246
Benjamin Petersonc2516072010-05-08 17:08:17 +00001247*Release date: 2010-05-08*
Benjamin Peterson12409062010-04-10 18:53:58 +00001248
1249Core and Builtins
1250-----------------
1251
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001252- Run Clang 2.7's static analyzer for ``Objects/`` and ``Python/``.
Brett Cannon5fb89df2010-05-05 20:54:53 +00001253
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001254- Issue #1533: Fix inconsistency in range function argument processing: any
1255 non-float non-integer argument is now converted to an integer (if possible)
1256 using its __int__ method. Previously, only small arguments were treated this
1257 way; larger arguments (those whose __int__ was outside the range of a C long)
1258 would produce a TypeError.
Mark Dickinsona8d26682010-05-04 16:18:25 +00001259
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001260- Issue #8202: ``sys.argv[0]`` is now set to '-m' instead of '-c' when searching
1261 for the module file to be executed with the -m command line option.
Nick Coghlanc5e44852010-04-28 14:51:08 +00001262
Brett Cannon19949692010-04-25 22:33:36 +00001263- Issue #7319: When -Q is used, do not silence DeprecationWarning.
1264
Antoine Pitrou18e63fb2010-04-21 22:53:29 +00001265- Issue #7332: Remove the 16KB stack-based buffer in
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001266 ``PyMarshal_ReadLastObjectFromFile``, which doesn't bring any noticeable
Antoine Pitrou18e63fb2010-04-21 22:53:29 +00001267 benefit compared to the dynamic memory allocation fallback. Patch by
1268 Charles-François Natali.
1269
Benjamin Peterson821a8ea2010-04-16 22:35:38 +00001270- Issue #8417: Raise an OverflowError when an integer larger than sys.maxsize is
1271 passed to bytearray.
1272
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001273- Issue #7072: ``isspace(0xa0)`` is true on Mac OS X.
Ronald Oussoren37805e52010-04-18 13:47:49 +00001274
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001275- Issue #8404: Fix set operations on dictionary views.
Alexandre Vassalotti268e4872010-05-04 03:21:51 +00001276
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001277- Issue #8084: PEP 370 now conforms to system conventions for framework builds
1278 on MacOS X. That is, ``python setup.py install --user`` will install into
1279 ``~/Library/Python/2.7`` instead of ``~/.local``.
Ronald Oussoren2f88bfd2010-05-08 10:29:06 +00001280
Benjamin Peterson12409062010-04-10 18:53:58 +00001281Library
1282-------
1283
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001284- Issue #8681: Make the zlib module's error messages more informative when the
1285 zlib itself doesn't give any detailed explanation.
Antoine Pitroufc3bfad2010-05-11 23:42:28 +00001286
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001287- Issue #8571: Fix an internal error when compressing or decompressing a chunk
1288 larger than 1GB with the zlib module's compressor and decompressor objects.
Antoine Pitrou3843cd82010-05-07 16:50:34 +00001289
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001290- Issue #8573: asyncore ``_strerror()`` function might throw ValueError.
Giampaolo Rodolàf7454fa2010-05-06 17:57:06 +00001291
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001292- Issue #8483: asyncore.dispatcher's __getattr__ method produced confusing error
1293 messages when accessing undefined class attributes because of the cheap
1294 inheritance with the underlying socket object. The cheap inheritance has been
1295 deprecated.
Giampaolo Rodolàf7454fa2010-05-06 17:57:06 +00001296
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001297- Issue #4265: ``shutil.copyfile()`` was leaking file descriptors when disk
1298 fills. Patch by Tres Seaver.
Tarek Ziadé38f81222010-05-05 22:15:31 +00001299
Barry Warsaw8efa8672010-05-05 16:17:22 +00001300- Issue #7755: Use an unencumbered audio file for tests.
1301
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001302- Issue #8621: ``uuid.uuid4()`` returned the same sequence of values in the
1303 parent and any children created using ``os.fork`` on Mac OS X 10.6.
Ronald Oussoren33206962010-05-05 14:48:37 +00001304
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001305- Issue #8313: ``traceback.format_exception_only()`` encodes unicode message to
1306 ASCII with backslashreplace error handler if ``str(value)`` failed.
Victor Stinner926fd4e2010-05-05 12:40:49 +00001307
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001308- Issue #8567: Fix precedence of signals in Decimal module: when a Decimal
1309 operation raises multiple signals and more than one of those signals is
1310 trapped, the specification determines the order in which the signals should be
1311 handled. In many cases this order wasn't being followed, leading to the wrong
1312 Python exception being raised.
Mark Dickinson4f96f5f2010-05-04 14:25:50 +00001313
Antoine Pitrouf7fd8e42010-05-03 16:25:33 +00001314- Issue #7865: The close() method of :mod:`io` objects should not swallow
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001315 exceptions raised by the implicit flush(). Also ensure that calling close()
1316 several times is supported. Patch by Pascal Chambon.
Antoine Pitrouf7fd8e42010-05-03 16:25:33 +00001317
Vinay Sajip27a13702010-05-03 15:11:53 +00001318- Issue #8576: logging updated to remove usage of find_unused_port().
1319
Antoine Pitrou951919f2010-05-02 19:51:14 +00001320- Issue #4687: Fix accuracy of garbage collection runtimes displayed with
1321 gc.DEBUG_STATS.
1322
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001323- Issue #8354: The siginterrupt setting is now preserved for all signals, not
1324 just SIGCHLD.
Jean-Paul Calderonee54ddf12010-05-08 20:06:02 +00001325
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001326- Issue #7192: ``webbrowser.get("firefox")`` now works on Mac OS X, as does
1327 ``webbrowser.get("safari")``.
Ronald Oussoren4ef1c7e2010-05-02 09:48:21 +00001328
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001329- Issue #8577: ``distutils.sysconfig.get_python_inc()`` now makes a difference
Tarek Ziadéa5cd1822010-04-30 12:15:12 +00001330 between the build dir and the source dir when looking for "python.h" or
1331 "Include".
1332
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001333- Issue #8464: tarfile no longer creates files with execute permissions set when
1334 mode="w|" is used.
Lars Gustäbel5c4c4612010-04-29 15:23:38 +00001335
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001336- Issue #7834: Fix connect() of Bluetooth L2CAP sockets with recent versions of
1337 the Linux kernel. Patch by Yaniv Aknin.
Antoine Pitrouf56a2882010-04-29 10:05:40 +00001338
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001339- Issue #6312: Fix http HEAD request when the transfer encoding is chunked. It
1340 should correctly return an empty response now.
Senthil Kumaraned9204342010-04-28 17:20:43 +00001341
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001342- Issue #7490: To facilitate sharing of doctests between 2.x and 3.x test
1343 suites, the ``IGNORE_EXCEPTION_DETAIL`` directive now also ignores the module
1344 location of the raised exception. Based on initial patch by Lennart Regebro.
Nick Coghlandfb45df2010-04-28 14:29:06 +00001345
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001346- Issue #8086: In :func:`ssl.DER_cert_to_PEM_cert()`, fix missing newline before
1347 the certificate footer. Patch by Kyle VanderBeek.
Antoine Pitrou4c7bcf12010-04-27 22:03:37 +00001348
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001349- Issue #8546: Reject None given as the buffering argument to ``_pyio.open()``.
Benjamin Petersona9bd6d52010-04-27 21:01:54 +00001350
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001351- Issue #8549: Fix compiling the _ssl extension under AIX. Patch by Sridhar
1352 Ratnakumar.
Antoine Pitrou1dc6b082010-04-27 19:09:59 +00001353
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001354- Issue #6656: Fix locale.format_string to handle escaped percents and mappings.
R. David Murray3939dcd2010-04-26 21:17:14 +00001355
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001356- Issue #2302: Fix a race condition in SocketServer.BaseServer.shutdown, where
1357 the method could block indefinitely if called just before the event loop
1358 started running. This also fixes the occasional freezes witnessed in
1359 test_httpservers.
Antoine Pitroua6240402010-04-25 21:40:32 +00001360
Antoine Pitroufc69af12010-04-24 20:04:58 +00001361- Issue #5103: SSL handshake would ignore the socket timeout and block
1362 indefinitely if the other end didn't respond.
1363
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001364- The do_handshake() method of SSL objects now adjusts the blocking mode of the
1365 SSL structure if necessary (as other methods already do).
Antoine Pitrou4d3e3722010-04-24 19:57:01 +00001366
Georg Brandl4341e542010-04-24 09:08:10 +00001367- Issue #7507: Quote "!" in pipes.quote(); it is special to some shells.
1368
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001369- Issue #5238: Calling makefile() on an SSL object would prevent the underlying
1370 socket from being closed until all objects get truely destroyed.
Antoine Pitroub558f172010-04-23 23:25:45 +00001371
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001372- Issue #7943: Fix circular reference created when instantiating an SSL socket.
1373 Initial patch by Péter Szabó.
Antoine Pitroudfb299b2010-04-23 22:54:59 +00001374
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001375- Issue #8451: Syslog module now uses basename(sys.argv[0]) instead of the
1376 string "python" as the *ident*. openlog() arguments are all optional and
1377 keywords.
Sean Reifscheiderf6ce3cb2010-04-23 08:31:55 +00001378
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001379- Issue #8108: Fix the unwrap() method of SSL objects when the socket has a
1380 non-infinite timeout. Also make that method friendlier with applications
Antoine Pitroua5c4b552010-04-22 23:33:02 +00001381 wanting to continue using the socket in clear-text mode, by disabling
1382 OpenSSL's internal readahead. Thanks to Darryl Miles for guidance.
1383
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001384- Issue #8484: Load all ciphers and digest algorithms when initializing the _ssl
1385 extension, such that verification of some SSL certificates doesn't fail
1386 because of an "unknown algorithm".
Antoine Pitrouc715a9e2010-04-21 19:28:03 +00001387
Victor Stinnera92e81b2010-04-20 22:28:31 +00001388- Issue #8437: Fix test_gdb failures, patch written by Dave Malcolm
1389
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001390- Issue #4814: The timeout parameter is now applied also for connections
1391 resulting from PORT/EPRT commands.
Giampaolo Rodolà607f7c02010-04-19 21:46:28 +00001392
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001393- Issue #8463: Add missing reference to bztar in shutil's documentation.
Tarek Ziadé8a12f942010-04-19 21:28:21 +00001394
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001395- Issue #8438: Remove reference to the missing "surrogateescape" encoding error
1396 handler from the new IO library.
Antoine Pitrou7c587bf2010-04-19 18:52:43 +00001397
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001398- Issue #3817: ftplib.FTP.abort() method now considers 225 a valid response code
1399 as stated in RFC-959 at chapter 5.4.
Giampaolo Rodolàcf445fc2010-04-18 12:55:03 +00001400
Martin v. Löwis24f09fd2010-04-17 22:40:40 +00001401- Issue #8279: Fix test_gdb failures.
1402
Antoine Pitrou0a6373c2010-04-17 17:10:38 +00001403- Issue #8322: Add a *ciphers* argument to SSL sockets, so as to change the
1404 available cipher list. Helps fix test_ssl with OpenSSL 1.0.0.
1405
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001406- Issue #2987: RFC 2732 support for urlparse (IPv6 addresses). Patch by Tony
Senthil Kumaran8c6d9d72010-04-16 02:46:46 +00001407 Locke and Hans Ulrich Niedermann.
1408
R. David Murray1a14d3d2010-04-12 16:35:19 +00001409- Issue #7585: difflib context and unified diffs now place a tab between
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001410 filename and date, conforming to the 'standards' they were originally designed
1411 to follow. This improves compatibility with patch tools.
R. David Murray1a14d3d2010-04-12 16:35:19 +00001412
R. David Murray27ef9372010-04-12 14:26:06 +00001413- Issue #7472: Fixed typo in email.encoders module; messages using ISO-2022
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001414 character sets will now consistently use a Content-Transfer-Encoding of 7bit
1415 rather than sometimes being marked as 8bit.
R. David Murray27ef9372010-04-12 14:26:06 +00001416
Martin v. Löwis7f7765c2010-04-12 05:18:16 +00001417- Issue #8330: Fix expected output in test_gdb.
1418
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001419- Issue #8374: Update the internal alias table in the :mod:`locale` module to
1420 cover recent locale changes and additions.
Antoine Pitrouab5ce722010-04-11 22:45:47 +00001421
Matthias Klose8a96d202010-04-21 22:18:52 +00001422Extension Modules
1423-----------------
1424
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001425- Issue #8644: Improved accuracy of ``timedelta.total_seconds()``.
Mark Dickinson7000e9e2010-05-09 09:30:06 +00001426
Brett Cannon945df9a2010-05-04 01:04:53 +00001427- Use Clang 2.7's static analyzer to find places to clean up some code.
1428
Matthias Klose8a96d202010-04-21 22:18:52 +00001429- Build the ossaudio extension on GNU/kFreeBSD.
1430
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001431- On Windows, ctypes does no longer check the stack before and after calling a
1432 foreign function. This allows to use the unmodified libffi library.
Thomas Heller06a7e202010-05-04 18:44:42 +00001433
Antoine Pitroua5c4b552010-04-22 23:33:02 +00001434Tests
1435-----
1436
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001437- Issue #8672: Add a zlib test ensuring that an incomplete stream can be handled
1438 by a decompressor object without errors (it returns incomplete uncompressed
1439 data).
Antoine Pitrou37ffc3e2010-05-11 23:32:31 +00001440
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001441- Issue #8490: asyncore now has a more solid test suite which actually tests its
1442 API.
Giampaolo Rodolàff46d6e2010-05-10 15:33:22 +00001443
Antoine Pitrou54f9f832010-04-30 23:08:48 +00001444- Issue #8576: Remove use of find_unused_port() in test_smtplib and
1445 test_multiprocessing. Patch by Paul Moore.
1446
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001447- Issue #7449: Fix many tests to support Python compiled without thread support.
1448 Patches written by Jerry Seutter.
Victor Stinnerd9d147b2010-04-27 21:46:03 +00001449
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001450- Issue #8108: test_ftplib's non-blocking SSL server now has proper handling of
1451 SSL shutdowns.
Antoine Pitroua5c4b552010-04-22 23:33:02 +00001452
Matthias Klose5183ebd2010-04-24 16:38:36 +00001453Build
1454-----
1455
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001456- Issue #8625: Turn off optimization in ``--with-pydebug`` builds with gcc.
Mark Dickinsond2f3e3f2010-05-05 22:23:58 +00001457 (Optimization was unintentionally turned on in gcc --with-pydebug builds in
1458 2.7 beta1 as a result of the issue #1628484 fix, combined with autoconf's
1459 strange choice of default CFLAGS produced by AC_PROG_CC for gcc.)
1460
Matthias Klose5183ebd2010-04-24 16:38:36 +00001461- Issue #8509: Fix quoting in help strings and code snippets in configure.in.
1462
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001463- Issue #3646: It is now easily possible to install a Python framework into your
1464 home directory on Mac OS X, see Mac/README for more information.
Ronald Oussoren01d149f2010-04-30 11:20:14 +00001465
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001466- Issue #8510: Update to autoconf 2.65.
Matthias Klosea0bea5d2010-05-08 10:00:28 +00001467
Brett Cannonc1f5c2f2010-05-02 21:51:23 +00001468Misc
1469----
1470
1471- Update the Vim syntax highlight file.
1472
Benjamin Peterson12409062010-04-10 18:53:58 +00001473
Benjamin Peterson5da7e7c2010-03-06 22:44:07 +00001474What's New in Python 2.7 beta 1?
1475================================
1476
Benjamin Petersonfbac6c12010-04-10 16:22:05 +00001477*Release date: 2010-04-10*
Benjamin Peterson5da7e7c2010-03-06 22:44:07 +00001478
1479Core and Builtins
1480-----------------
1481
Philip Jenveyaebbaeb2010-04-06 23:24:45 +00001482- Issue #7301: Add environment variable $PYTHONWARNINGS.
1483
Benjamin Peterson3a1dfa22010-04-06 21:50:00 +00001484- Issue #8329: Don't return the same lists from select.select when no fds are
1485 changed.
1486
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001487- Issue #8259: ``1L << (2**31)`` no longer produces an 'outrageous shift error'
Mark Dickinson82791672010-04-06 16:47:55 +00001488 on 64-bit machines. The shift count for either left or right shift is
1489 permitted to be up to sys.maxsize.
1490
Benjamin Peterson4ceeeb02010-04-03 22:48:51 +00001491- Ensure that tokenization of identifiers is not affected by locale.
1492
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001493- Issue #1222585: Added LDCXXSHARED for C++ support. Patch by Arfrever.
Tarek Ziadé00002952010-04-03 08:37:59 +00001494
Benjamin Peterson1c7c11e2010-04-03 01:28:57 +00001495- Raise a TypeError when trying to delete a T_STRING_INPLACE struct member.
1496
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001497- Issue #7994: Issue a PendingDeprecationWarning if object.__format__ is called
1498 with a non-empty format string. This is an effort to future-proof user
1499 code. If a derived class does not currently implement __format__ but later
1500 adds its own __format__, it would most likely break user code that had
Antoine Pitrou01a196a2011-01-02 20:05:11 +00001501 supplied a format string. This will be changed to a DeprecationWarning in
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001502 Python 3.3 and it will be an error in Python 3.4.
Eric Smithd44b2fc2010-04-02 12:30:56 +00001503
Antoine Pitroua57df2c2010-03-31 21:32:15 +00001504- Issue #8268: Old-style classes (not just instances) now support weak
1505 references.
1506
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001507- Issue #8211: Save/restore CFLAGS around AC_PROG_CC in configure.in, in case it
1508 is set.
Victor Stinner6cbf90f2010-03-25 00:21:53 +00001509
Victor Stinnerc7790ed2010-03-22 12:36:28 +00001510- Issue #1583863: An unicode subclass can now override the __unicode__ method
Victor Stinner95affc42010-03-22 12:24:37 +00001511
Benjamin Peterson96545892010-03-21 20:21:00 +00001512- Issue #6474: Make error message from passing an inadequate number of keyword
1513 arguments to a function correct.
1514
Benjamin Peterson0dee9c12010-03-17 20:41:42 +00001515- Issue #8164: Don't allow lambda functions to have a docstring.
1516
Victor Stinner66644262010-03-10 22:30:19 +00001517- Issue #3137: Don't ignore errors at startup, especially a keyboard interrupt
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001518 (SIGINT). If an error occurs while importing the site module, the error is
1519 printed and Python exits. Initialize the GIL before importing the site
Victor Stinner66644262010-03-10 22:30:19 +00001520 module.
1521
Collin Winter001a3952010-03-18 21:54:01 +00001522- Code objects now support weak references.
1523
Benjamin Peterson5da7e7c2010-03-06 22:44:07 +00001524Library
1525-------
1526
R. David Murray661303f2010-04-13 20:57:40 +00001527- Issue #5277: Fix quote counting when parsing RFC 2231 encoded parameters.
1528
Antoine Pitrouf9de5342010-04-05 21:35:07 +00001529- Issue #8321: Give access to OpenSSL version numbers from the `ssl` module,
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001530 using the new attributes `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION`, `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION_INFO` and
1531 `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION_NUMBER`.
Antoine Pitrouf9de5342010-04-05 21:35:07 +00001532
Benjamin Peterson76a23c12010-04-04 23:23:22 +00001533- Issue #8310: Allow dis to examine new style classes.
1534
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001535- Issue #8257: The Decimal construct now accepts a float instance directly,
1536 converting that float to a Decimal of equal value:
Mark Dickinson8a950712010-04-03 15:47:46 +00001537
1538 >>> Decimal(1.1)
1539 Decimal('1.100000000000000088817841970012523233890533447265625')
1540
Raymond Hettinger34c35b22010-04-03 10:22:00 +00001541- collections.Counter() now supports a subtract() method.
1542
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001543- The functools module now has a total_ordering() class decorator to simplify
1544 the specification of rich comparisons.
Raymond Hettingera551f312010-04-04 18:34:45 +00001545
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001546- The functools module also adds cmp_to_key() as a tool to transition old-style
1547 comparison functions to new-style key-functions.
Raymond Hettingera551f312010-04-04 18:34:45 +00001548
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001549- Issue #8294: The Fraction constructor now accepts Decimal and float instances
1550 directly.
Mark Dickinson7c63eee2010-04-02 22:27:36 +00001551
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001552- Issue #7279: Comparisons involving a Decimal signaling NaN now signal
1553 InvalidOperation instead of returning False. (Comparisons involving a quiet
1554 NaN are unchanged.) Also, Decimal quiet NaNs are now hashable; Decimal
1555 signaling NaNs remain unhashable.
Mark Dickinsone096e822010-04-02 10:17:07 +00001556
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001557- Issue #2531: Comparison operations between floats and Decimal instances now
1558 return a result based on the numeric values of the operands; previously they
1559 returned an arbitrary result based on the relative ordering of id(float) and
1560 id(Decimal).
Mark Dickinson99d80962010-04-02 08:53:22 +00001561
Barry Warsawf7f2d6f2010-03-31 21:07:16 +00001562- Issue #8233: When run as a script, py_compile.py optionally takes a single
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001563 argument `-` which tells it to read files to compile from stdin. Each line is
1564 read on demand and the named file is compiled immediately. (Original patch by
1565 Piotr Ożarowski).
Barry Warsawf7f2d6f2010-03-31 21:07:16 +00001566
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001567- Issue #3135: Add ``inspect.getcallargs()``, which binds arguments to a
1568 function like a normal call.
Benjamin Peterson7e213252010-03-30 17:58:13 +00001569
Florent Xicluna58b65662010-03-30 16:29:03 +00001570- Backwards incompatible change: Unicode codepoints line tabulation (0x0B) and
1571 form feed (0x0C) are now considered linebreaks, as specified in Unicode
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001572 Standard Annex #14. See issue #7643. http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr14/
Florent Xicluna22b24382010-03-30 08:24:06 +00001573
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001574- Comparisons using one of <, <=, >, >= between a complex instance and a
1575 Fractions instance now raise TypeError instead of returning True/False. This
1576 makes Fraction <=> complex comparisons consistent with int <=> complex, float
1577 <=> complex, and complex <=> complex comparisons.
Mark Dickinson9588d992010-03-27 11:14:37 +00001578
Michael Foorde6410c52010-03-29 20:04:23 +00001579- Addition of ``WeakSet`` to the ``weakref`` module.
1580
Vinay Sajipb0623d62010-03-24 14:31:21 +00001581- logging: Added LOG_FTP to SysLogHandler and updated documentation.
1582
Florent Xicluna176cda12010-03-22 22:52:11 +00001583- Issue #8205: Remove the "Modules" directory from sys.path when Python is
1584 running from the build directory (POSIX only).
1585
Florent Xiclunae1f4c922010-03-22 22:45:50 +00001586- Issue #7667: Fix doctest failures with non-ASCII paths.
1587
Antoine Pitrou513d9ae2010-03-22 19:59:46 +00001588- Issue #7512: shutil.copystat() could raise an OSError when the filesystem
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001589 didn't support chflags() (for example ZFS under FreeBSD). The error is now
1590 silenced.
Antoine Pitrou513d9ae2010-03-22 19:59:46 +00001591
Florent Xicluna9e7a4c92010-03-22 16:07:38 +00001592- Issue #7703: ctypes supports both buffer() and memoryview(). The former is
1593 deprecated.
1594
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001595- Issue #7860: platform.uname now reports the correct 'machine' type when Python
1596 is running in WOW64 mode on 64 bit Windows.
R. David Murrayc9d1a782010-03-22 15:55:09 +00001597
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001598- logging: Added getChild utility method to Logger and added isEnabledFor method
1599 to LoggerAdapter.
Vinay Sajip804899b2010-03-22 15:29:01 +00001600
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001601- Issue #8201: logging: Handle situation of non-ASCII and Unicode logger names
1602 existing at the same time, causing a Unicode error when configuration code
1603 attempted to sort the existing loggers.
Vinay Sajip31e928e2010-03-22 13:02:28 +00001604
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001605- Issue #8200: logging: Handle errors when multiprocessing is not fully loaded
1606 when logging occurs.
Vinay Sajip3017a7b2010-03-22 12:33:08 +00001607
Antoine Pitroueee91cd2010-03-26 19:27:16 +00001608- Issue #3890, #8222: Fix recv() and recv_into() on non-blocking SSL sockets.
1609 Also, enable the SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY flag on SSL sockets, so that blocking
1610 reads and writes are always retried by OpenSSL itself.
Antoine Pitrou448da712010-03-21 19:33:38 +00001611
Florent Xiclunacf82fa62010-03-21 12:27:20 +00001612- Issue #8179: Fix macpath.realpath() on a non-existing path.
1613
Florent Xicluna2e0a53f2010-03-18 21:50:06 +00001614- Issue #8024: Update the Unicode database to 5.2.
1615
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001616- Issue #8104: socket.recv_into() and socket.recvfrom_into() now support writing
1617 into objects supporting the new buffer API, for example bytearrays or
1618 memoryviews.
Antoine Pitroud7b731d2010-03-17 22:45:39 +00001619
Matthias Klose8b411682010-03-16 10:48:52 +00001620- Issue #4961: Inconsistent/wrong result of askyesno function in tkMessageBox
1621 with Tcl/Tk-8.5.
1622
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001623- Issue #8140: Extend compileall to compile single files. Add -i option.
Matthias Kloseb13d04c2010-03-15 17:44:12 +00001624
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001625- Issue #7356: ctypes.util: Make parsing of ldconfig output independent of the
1626 locale.
Matthias Klose358e7ff2010-03-15 13:42:23 +00001627
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001628- Issue #7774: Set sys.executable to an empty string if ``argv[0]`` has been set
1629 to an non existent program name and Python is unable to retrieve the real
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001630 program name.
Victor Stinner75227342010-03-12 14:30:26 +00001631
Vinay Sajipecfa08f2010-03-12 09:16:10 +00001632- Issue #8117: logging: Improved algorithm for computing initial rollover time
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001633 for ``TimedRotatingFileHandler`` by using the modification time of an existing
1634 log file to compute the next rollover time. If the log file does not exist,
1635 the current time is used as the basis for the computation.
Vinay Sajip9098ee42010-03-12 06:01:21 +00001636
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001637- Issue #6472: The ``xml.etree`` package is updated to ElementTree 1.3. The
Florent Xicluna3e8c1892010-03-11 14:36:19 +00001638 cElementTree module is updated too.
1639
Florent Xicluna85677612010-03-10 23:58:42 +00001640- Issue #7880: Fix sysconfig when the python executable is a symbolic link.
1641
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001642- Issue #7624: Fix ``isinstance(foo(), collections.Callable)`` for old-style
Florent Xicluna47627d52010-03-08 15:20:28 +00001643 classes.
1644
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001645- Issue #7143: email: ``get_payload()`` used to strip any trailing newline from
1646 a base64 transfer-encoded payload *after* decoding it; it no longer does.
1647 This is a behavior change, so email's minor version number is now bumped, to
1648 version 4.0.2, for the 2.7 release.
R. David Murray4617e502010-03-08 02:04:06 +00001649
Larry Hastings3b958e32010-04-02 11:18:17 +00001650- Issue #8235: _socket: Add the constant ``SO_SETFIB``. SO_SETFIB is
1651 a socket option available on FreeBSD 7.1 and newer.
1652
Michael Foorda04c7a02010-04-02 22:55:59 +00001653- Issue #8038: unittest.TestCase.assertNotRegexpMatches
1654
1655- Addition of -b command line option to unittest for buffering stdout / stderr
1656 during test runs.
1657
Victor Stinnerdb990922010-05-15 21:00:59 +00001658- Issue #1220212: Added os.kill support for Windows, including support for
Brian Curtin85108e62010-04-02 23:31:28 +00001659 sending CTRL+C and CTRL+BREAK events to console subprocesses.
1660
Mark Dickinson154b7ad2010-03-07 16:24:45 +00001661Extension Modules
1662-----------------
1663
Martin v. Löwis16ea5482010-04-07 11:01:46 +00001664- Issue #8314: Fix unsigned long long bug in libffi on Sparc v8.
1665
Matthias Klosee9fbf2b2010-03-19 14:45:06 +00001666- Issue #1039, #8154: Fix os.execlp() crash with missing 2nd argument.
1667
Jesus Cea6557aac2010-03-22 14:22:26 +00001668- Issue #8156: bsddb module updated to version 4.8.4.
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001669 http://www.jcea.es/programacion/pybsddb.htm#bsddb3-4.8.4. This update drops
1670 support for Berkeley DB 4.0, and adds support for 4.8.
Matthias Klose54cc5392010-03-15 12:46:18 +00001671
Jesus Cea616de772010-04-28 10:32:30 +00001672- Issue #3928: os.mknod() now available in Solaris, also.
1673
Matthias Klose817acef2010-03-15 00:02:36 +00001674- Issue #8142: Update libffi to the 3.0.9 release.
1675
Mark Dickinson4846a8e2010-04-03 14:05:10 +00001676- Issue #8300: When passing a non-integer argument to struct.pack with any
1677 integer format code, struct.pack first attempts to convert the non-integer
1678 using its __index__ method. If that method is non-existent or raises
1679 TypeError it goes on to try the __int__ method, as described below.
1680
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001681- Issue #1530559: When passing a non-integer argument to struct.pack with *any*
1682 integer format code (one of 'bBhHiIlLqQ'), struct.pack attempts to use the
1683 argument's __int__ method to convert to an integer before packing. It also
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001684 produces a DeprecationWarning in this case. (In Python 2.6, the behaviour was
1685 inconsistent: __int__ was used for some integer codes but not for others, and
1686 the set of integer codes for which it was used differed between native packing
1687 and standard packing.)
Mark Dickinson154b7ad2010-03-07 16:24:45 +00001688
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001689- Issue #7347: _winreg: Add CreateKeyEx and DeleteKeyEx, as well as fix a bug in
1690 the return value of QueryReflectionKey.
Brian Curtin19479fa2010-04-02 21:51:37 +00001691
Antoine Pitrou02b3f0a2010-03-13 21:21:30 +00001692Tools/Demos
1693-----------
1694
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001695- Issue #7993: Add a test of IO packet processing bandwidth to ccbench. It
1696 measures the number of UDP packets processed per second depending on the
1697 number of background CPU-bound Python threads.
Benjamin Peterson5da7e7c2010-03-06 22:44:07 +00001698
Collin Wintera70f3492010-03-19 00:08:44 +00001699- python-config now supports multiple options on the same command line.
1700
Benjamin Peterson11d93232010-03-14 14:24:31 +00001701Build
1702-----
1703
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001704- Issue #8032: For gdb7, a python-gdb.py file is added to the build, allowing to
1705 use advanced gdb features when debugging Python.
Martin v. Löwisbf0dfb32010-04-01 07:40:51 +00001706
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001707- Issue #1628484: The Makefile doesn't ignore the CFLAGS environment variable
1708 anymore. It also forwards the LDFLAGS settings to the linker when building a
1709 shared library.
Antoine Pitrouf83b3082010-03-21 19:19:41 +00001710
Martin v. Löwis24e4e162010-03-15 13:00:17 +00001711- Issue #6716: Quote -x arguments of compileall in MSI installer.
1712
Benjamin Peterson11d93232010-03-14 14:24:31 +00001713- Issue #7705: Fix linking on FreeBSD.
1714
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven6d22cfc2010-04-07 16:34:08 +00001715- Make sure that the FreeBSD build of the included libffi uses the proper
1716 assembly file.
1717
Larry Hastings402b73f2010-03-25 00:54:54 +00001718C-API
1719-----
1720
Antoine Pitrou76c86492010-04-01 16:42:11 +00001721- Issue #8276: PyEval_CallObject() is now only available in macro form. The
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001722 function declaration, which was kept for backwards compatibility reasons, is
1723 now removed (the macro was introduced in 1997!).
Antoine Pitrou76c86492010-04-01 16:42:11 +00001724
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001725- Issue #7992: A replacement PyCObject API, PyCapsule, has been backported from
1726 Python 3.1. All existing Python CObjects in the main distribution have been
1727 converted to capsules. To address backwards-compatibility concerns,
1728 PyCObject_AsVoidPtr() was changed to understand capsules.
Larry Hastings402b73f2010-03-25 00:54:54 +00001729
Florent Xicluna3cc8f212010-03-15 18:08:58 +00001730Tests
1731-----
1732
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001733- Issue #3864: Skip three test_signal tests on freebsd6 because they fail if any
1734 thread was previously started, most likely due to a platform bug.
R. David Murraye0e8a872010-04-17 05:26:26 +00001735
Antoine Pitrouab5ce722010-04-11 22:45:47 +00001736- Issue #8348: Fix test ftp url in test_urllib2net.
1737
1738- Issue #8204: Fix test_ttk notebook test by forcing focus.
1739
1740- Issue #8344: Fix test_ttk bug on FreeBSD.
1741
Antoine Pitrou3b4c9892010-04-06 17:21:09 +00001742- Issue #8193: Fix test_zlib failure with zlib 1.2.4.
1743
Antoine Pitrou6032c252010-03-30 18:49:45 +00001744- Issue #8248: Add some tests for the bool type. Patch by Gregory Nofi.
1745
Florent Xicluna75c66762010-03-30 16:31:14 +00001746- Issue #8263: Now regrtest.py will report a failure if it receives a
1747 KeyboardInterrupt (SIGINT).
1748
Florent Xicluna8aa5a582010-03-25 20:33:49 +00001749- Issue #8180 and #8207: Fix test_pep277 on OS X and add more tests for special
1750 Unicode normalization cases.
Florent Xicluna77a88492010-03-21 18:00:38 +00001751
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001752- Issue #7783: test.test_support.open_urlresource invalidates the outdated files
1753 from the local cache.
Florent Xicluna3cc8f212010-03-15 18:08:58 +00001754
R. David Murray4617e502010-03-08 02:04:06 +00001755
Benjamin Peterson2d798ac2010-02-06 18:26:27 +00001756What's New in Python 2.7 alpha 4?
1757=================================
1758
Benjamin Peterson8e7c1172010-03-06 20:34:14 +00001759*Release date: 2010-03-06*
Benjamin Peterson2d798ac2010-02-06 18:26:27 +00001760
1761Core and Builtins
1762-----------------
1763
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001764- Issue #7544: Preallocate thread memory before creating the thread to avoid a
1765 fatal error in low memory condition.
Victor Stinner71fb87e2010-03-03 23:20:25 +00001766
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001767- Issue #7820: The parser tokenizer restores all bytes in the right if the BOM
1768 check fails.
Victor Stinnerd23d3932010-03-02 23:20:02 +00001769
Eric Smith2d9856d2010-02-24 14:15:36 +00001770- Issue #7309: Fix unchecked attribute access when converting
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001771 UnicodeEncodeError, UnicodeDecodeError, and UnicodeTranslateError to strings.
Eric Smith2d9856d2010-02-24 14:15:36 +00001772
Ezio Melotti32125152010-02-25 17:36:04 +00001773- Issue #7649: "u'%c' % char" now behaves like "u'%s' % char" and raises a
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001774 UnicodeDecodeError if 'char' is a byte string that can't be decoded using the
1775 default encoding.
Victor Stinnerf20f9c22010-02-23 23:16:07 +00001776
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001777- Issue #6902: Fix problem with built-in types format incorrectly with 0
1778 padding.
Eric Smith87bcb242010-02-23 00:11:16 +00001779
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001780- Issue #2560: Remove an unnecessary 'for' loop from ``my_fgets()`` in
Andrew M. Kuchlingb64d6132010-02-22 22:48:41 +00001781 Parser/myreadline.c.
1782
Eric Smithf32d4ac2010-02-22 18:33:47 +00001783- Issue #7988: Fix default alignment to be right aligned for
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001784 ``complex.__format__``. Now it matches other numeric types.
Eric Smithf32d4ac2010-02-22 18:33:47 +00001785
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001786- Issue #5211: The complex type no longer uses implicit coercion in mixed-type
1787 binary arithmetic operations.
Mark Dickinson82b34c52010-02-21 12:57:35 +00001788
Benjamin Peterson2d798ac2010-02-06 18:26:27 +00001789Library
1790-------
Georg Brandl7f0c3ff2010-08-01 21:18:52 +00001791
Senthil Kumaranc1d0ed22010-12-04 09:58:29 +00001792- Issue #7904: Changes to urllib.parse.urlsplit to handle schemes as defined by
1793 RFC3986. Anything before :// is considered a scheme and is followed by an
1794 authority (or netloc) and by '/' led path, which is optional.
1795
R. David Murray05b76312010-07-17 01:35:16 +00001796- Issue #1555570: email no longer inserts extra blank lines when a \r\n
1797 combo crosses an 8192 byte boundary.
Benjamin Peterson2d798ac2010-02-06 18:26:27 +00001798
Florent Xicluna0b9a18a2010-03-06 11:01:08 +00001799- Issue #6906: Tk should not set Unicode environment variables on Windows.
1800
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001801- Issue #1054943: Fix ``unicodedata.normalize('NFC', text)`` for the Public
Ezio Melotti8122bdd2010-03-14 10:13:49 +00001802 Review Issue #29 (http://unicode.org/review/pr-29.html).
Victor Stinner7c924ec2010-03-04 12:09:33 +00001803
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001804- Issue #7494: Fix a crash in ``_lsprof`` (cProfile) after clearing the profiler,
Victor Stinner56a51532010-03-04 00:10:12 +00001805 reset also the pointer to the current pointer context.
1806
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001807- Issue #7232: Add support for the context manager protocol to the
1808 ``tarfile.TarFile`` class.
Lars Gustäbel64581042010-03-03 11:55:48 +00001809
Barry Warsaw08a8fb32010-03-01 21:46:51 +00001810- Issue #7250: Fix info leak of os.environ across multi-run uses of
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001811 ``wsgiref.handlers.CGIHandler``.
Barry Warsaw08a8fb32010-03-01 21:46:51 +00001812
Florent Xiclunae7901c52010-03-01 20:45:01 +00001813- Issue #1729305: Fix doctest to handle encode error with "backslashreplace".
Florent Xicluna2a903b22010-02-27 13:31:23 +00001814
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001815- Issue #691291: ``codecs.open()`` should not convert end of lines on reading
1816 and writing.
Florent Xicluna82aa01f2010-02-27 11:19:18 +00001817
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001818- Issue #7975: Correct regression in dict methods supported by bsddb.dbshelve.
R. David Murray48605be2010-02-24 02:31:27 +00001819
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001820- Issue #7959: ctypes callback functions are now registered correctly with the
1821 cycle garbage collector.
Thomas Heller92bd0592010-02-23 20:11:44 +00001822
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001823- Issue #7970: ``email.Generator.flatten`` now correctly flattens
1824 message/rfc822 messages parsed by ``email.Parser.HeaderParser``.
R. David Murray51f12042010-02-21 04:23:00 +00001825
Ezio Melotti4cc80ca2010-02-20 08:09:39 +00001826- Issue #3426: ``os.path.abspath`` now returns unicode when its arg is unicode.
1827
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001828- Issue #7633: In the decimal module, ``Context`` class methods (with the
1829 exception of canonical and is_canonical) now accept instances of int and long
1830 wherever a Decimal instance is accepted, and implicitly convert that argument
1831 to Decimal. Previously only some arguments were converted.
Mark Dickinson6d8effb2010-02-18 14:27:02 +00001832
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001833- Issue #6003: Add an argument to ``zipfile.Zipfile.writestr`` to specify the
1834 compression type.
Ezio Melotti8f6a2872010-02-10 21:40:33 +00001835
Michael Foorddb43b5a2010-02-10 14:25:12 +00001836- Issue #7893: ``unittest.TextTestResult`` is made public and a ``resultclass``
1837 argument added to the TextTestRunner constructor allowing a different result
1838 class to be used without having to subclass.
Ezio Melotti8f6a2872010-02-10 21:40:33 +00001839
Ezio Melotti4cc80ca2010-02-20 08:09:39 +00001840- Issue #7588: ``unittest.TextTestResult.getDescription`` now includes the test
Michael Foorddb43b5a2010-02-10 14:25:12 +00001841 name in failure reports even if the test has a docstring.
Ronald Oussorendd25e862010-02-07 20:18:02 +00001842
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001843- Issue #5801: Remove spurious empty lines in wsgiref.
Tarek Ziadéb8708a22010-02-23 05:53:05 +00001844
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001845- Issue #1537721: Add a ``writeheader()`` method to ``csv.DictWriter``.
Dirkjan Ochtman86148172010-02-23 21:09:52 +00001846
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001847- Issue #7427: Improve the representation of httplib.BadStatusLine exceptions.
Dirkjan Ochtmanebc73dc2010-02-24 04:49:00 +00001848
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001849- Issue #7481: When a ``threading.Thread`` failed to start it would leave the
1850 instance stuck in initial state and present in ``threading.enumerate()``.
Gregory P. Smith613c7a52010-02-28 18:36:09 +00001851
Gregory P. Smithcce211f2010-03-01 00:05:08 +00001852- Issue #1068268: The subprocess module now handles EINTR in internal
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001853 ``os.waitpid()`` and ``os.read()`` system calls where appropriate.
Gregory P. Smithcce211f2010-03-01 00:05:08 +00001854
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001855- Issue #6729: Add ``ctypes.c_ssize_t`` to represent ssize_t.
Gregory P. Smith3c699d32010-03-01 04:56:12 +00001856
Steven Betharde9330e72010-03-02 08:38:09 +00001857- Issue #6247: The argparse module has been added to the standard library.
1858
Martin v. Löwis413fabc2010-02-18 09:22:20 +00001859Extension Modules
1860-----------------
1861
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001862- The sqlite3 module was updated to pysqlite 2.6.0. This fixes several obscure
Gerhard Häring3bbb6722010-03-05 09:12:37 +00001863 bugs and allows loading SQLite extensions from shared libraries.
1864
Florent Xiclunae7901c52010-03-01 20:45:01 +00001865- Issue #7808: Fix reference leaks in _bsddb and related tests.
1866
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001867- Issue #6544: Fix a reference leak in the kqueue implementation's error
Georg Brandlea370a92010-02-23 21:48:57 +00001868 handling.
1869
Martin v. Löwis413fabc2010-02-18 09:22:20 +00001870- Stop providing crtassem.h symbols when compiling with Visual Studio 2010, as
1871 msvcr100.dll is not a platform assembly anymore.
Benjamin Peterson2d798ac2010-02-06 18:26:27 +00001872
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001873- Issue #7242: On Solaris 9 and earlier calling ``os.fork()`` from within a
Gregory P. Smith9e5d1322010-03-01 01:22:39 +00001874 thread could raise an incorrect RuntimeError about not holding the import
1875 lock. The import lock is now reinitialized after fork.
1876
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001877- Issue #7999: ``os.setreuid()`` and ``os.setregid()`` would refuse to accept a
1878 -1 parameter on some platforms such as OS X.
Gregory P. Smith6a65f852010-03-01 05:43:43 +00001879
Ezio Melotti8f6a2872010-02-10 21:40:33 +00001880Tests
1881-----
1882
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001883- Issue #7849: The utility ``test.test_support.check_warnings()`` verifies if
1884 warnings are effectively raised. A new utility ``check_py3k_warnings()`` is
1885 available.
Florent Xicluna6de9e932010-03-07 12:18:33 +00001886
Florent Xicluna985478d2010-03-06 18:52:52 +00001887- The four path modules (genericpath, macpath, ntpath, posixpath) share a
1888 common TestCase for some tests: test_genericpath.CommonTest.
1889
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001890- Print platform information when running the whole test suite, or using the
1891 ``--verbose`` flag.
Florent Xicluna58526412010-03-06 17:24:36 +00001892
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001893- Issue #767675: Enable test_pep277 on POSIX platforms with Unicode-friendly
Florent Xiclunac0a9d412010-03-02 22:34:11 +00001894 filesystem encoding.
Florent Xicluna2db61fb2010-03-02 21:34:45 +00001895
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001896- Issue #6292: For the moment at least, the test suite runs cleanly if python
R. David Murrayf28fd242010-02-23 00:24:49 +00001897 is run with the -OO flag. Tests requiring docstrings are skipped.
1898
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001899- Issue #7712: test_support gained a new ``temp_cwd`` context manager which is
1900 now also used by regrtest to run all the tests in a temporary directory. The
1901 original CWD is saved in ``test.test_support.SAVEDCWD``. Thanks to Florent
1902 Xicluna who helped with the patch.
Ezio Melotti8f6a2872010-02-10 21:40:33 +00001903
Martin v. Löwis5e2dd862010-02-15 08:32:00 +00001904Build
1905-----
1906
Martin v. Löwis7875ef62010-02-15 21:41:12 +00001907- Issue #3920, #7903: Define _BSD_SOURCE on OpenBSD 4.4 through 4.9.
Martin v. Löwis5e2dd862010-02-15 08:32:00 +00001908
Ezio Melotti8f6a2872010-02-10 21:40:33 +00001909
Benjamin Petersondd6d92a2010-01-09 17:30:31 +00001910What's New in Python 2.7 alpha 3?
1911=================================
1912
Benjamin Petersona7be9d22010-02-06 16:37:32 +00001913*Release date: 2010-02-06*
Benjamin Petersondd6d92a2010-01-09 17:30:31 +00001914
1915Core and Builtins
1916-----------------
1917
Antoine Pitroubb445a12010-02-05 17:05:54 +00001918- Issue #5677: Explicitly forbid write operations on read-only file objects,
1919 and read operations on write-only file objects. On Windows, the system C
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001920 library would return a bogus result; on Solaris, it was possible to crash the
1921 interpreter. Patch by Stefan Krah.
Antoine Pitroubb445a12010-02-05 17:05:54 +00001922
Barry Warsawb1e66ee2010-02-05 18:45:25 +00001923- Issue #7853: Normalize exceptions before they are passed to a context
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001924 manager's ``__exit__()`` method.
Benjamin Peterson565d7852010-02-05 02:12:14 +00001925
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001926- Issue #7385: Fix a crash in ``PyMemoryView_FromObject()`` when
1927 ``PyObject_GetBuffer()`` fails. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
Antoine Pitrou526e4212010-02-02 22:36:17 +00001928
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001929- Issue #7819: Check ``sys.call_tracing()`` arguments types.
Victor Stinnerb4b0a292010-01-31 22:32:15 +00001930
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001931- Issue #7788: Fix an interpreter crash produced by deleting a list slice with
1932 very large step value.
Mark Dickinson36ecd672010-01-29 17:11:39 +00001933
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001934- Issue #7766: Change ``sys.getwindowsversion()`` return value to a named tuple
1935 and add the additional members returned in an OSVERSIONINFOEX structure. The
1936 new members are service_pack_major, service_pack_minor, suite_mask, and
1937 product_type.
Eric Smithee931b72010-01-27 00:28:29 +00001938
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001939- Issue #7561: Operations on empty bytearrays (such as ``int(bytearray())``)
1940 could crash in many places because of the ``PyByteArray_AS_STRING()`` macro
1941 returning NULL. The macro now returns a statically allocated empty string
1942 instead.
Antoine Pitroue80a6a42010-01-17 12:26:20 +00001943
Antoine Pitrou64672132010-01-13 07:55:48 +00001944- Issue #7622: Improve the split(), rsplit(), splitlines() and replace()
1945 methods of bytes, bytearray and unicode objects by using a common
1946 implementation based on stringlib's fast search. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
1947
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001948- Issue #7632: Fix various str -> float conversion bugs present in 2.7 alpha 2,
1949 including:
Mark Dickinson8efef5c2010-01-12 22:23:56 +00001950
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001951 (1) a serious 'wrong output' bug that could occur for long (> 40 digit) input
1952 strings,
1953 (2) a crash in dtoa.c that occurred in debug builds when parsing certain long
1954 numeric strings corresponding to subnormal values,
1955 (3) a memory leak for some values large enough to cause overflow, and
1956 (4) a number of flaws that could lead to incorrectly rounded results.
1957
1958- Issue #7319, #7770: Silence ``DeprecationWarning`` by default when the -3
1959 option is not used.
Brett Cannon6fdd3dc2010-01-10 02:56:19 +00001960
Alexandre Vassalottiee936a22010-01-09 23:35:54 +00001961- Issue #2335: Backport set literals syntax from Python 3.x.
1962
Alexandre Vassalotti7a8df802010-01-11 23:13:49 +00001963- Issue #2333: Backport set and dict comprehensions syntax from Python 3.x.
1964
Alexandre Vassalotti69eb5162010-01-11 23:17:10 +00001965- Issue #1967: Backport dictionary views from Python 3.x.
1966
Benjamin Petersondd6d92a2010-01-09 17:30:31 +00001967Library
1968-------
1969
Mark Dickinson42add992010-07-11 19:17:28 +00001970- Issue #9137: Fix issue in MutableMapping.update, which incorrectly
1971 treated keyword arguments called 'self' or 'other' specially.
1972
R. David Murray63e4fd72010-02-10 22:42:04 +00001973- Issue #7835: shelve should no longer produce mysterious warnings during
1974 interpreter shutdown.
1975
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001976- Issue #2746: Don't escape ampersands and angle brackets ("&", "<", ">") in
1977 XML processing instructions and comments. These raw characters are allowed
1978 by the XML specification, and are necessary when outputting e.g. PHP code in
1979 a processing instruction. Patch by Neil Muller.
Antoine Pitrou42fb6ab2010-02-09 17:08:05 +00001980
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001981- Issue #7869: logging: Improved diagnostic for format-time errors.
Vinay Sajip64e8b972010-02-07 12:56:54 +00001982
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001983- Issue #7868: logging: Added loggerClass attribute to Manager.
Vinay Sajip657514a2010-02-07 01:37:08 +00001984
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001985- Issue #7851: logging: Clarification on logging configuration files.
Vinay Sajip0e6e97d2010-02-04 20:23:45 +00001986
Antoine Pitroud840e512010-02-04 20:20:18 +00001987- Issue #4772: Raise a ValueError when an unknown Bluetooth protocol is
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001988 specified, rather than fall through to AF_PACKET (in the ``socket`` module).
Antoine Pitroud840e512010-02-04 20:20:18 +00001989 Also, raise ValueError rather than TypeError when an unknown TIPC address
1990 type is specified. Patch by Brian Curtin.
1991
Vinay Sajip28c382f2010-02-04 18:48:53 +00001992- logging: Implemented PEP 391.
1993
Antoine Pitrouf3fa0742010-01-31 22:26:04 +00001994- Issue #6939: Fix file I/O objects in the `io` module to keep the original
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001995 file position when calling `truncate()`. It would previously change the file
1996 position to the given argument, which goes against the tradition of
Antoine Pitrouf3fa0742010-01-31 22:26:04 +00001997 ftruncate() and other truncation APIs. Patch by Pascal Chambon.
1998
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001999- Issue #7610: Reworked implementation of the internal ``zipfile.ZipExtFile``
2000 class used to represent files stored inside an archive. The new
2001 implementation is significantly faster and can be wrapped in a
2002 ``io.BufferedReader`` object for more speedups. It also solves an issue
2003 where interleaved calls to ``read()`` and ``readline()`` give wrong results.
2004 Patch by Nir Aides.
Antoine Pitrou94c33eb2010-01-27 20:59:50 +00002005
Benjamin Peterson2deb5c72010-01-27 02:16:42 +00002006- Issue #7792: Registering non-classes to ABCs raised an obscure error.
2007
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002008- Removed the deprecated functions ``verify()`` and ``vereq()`` from
2009 Lib/test/test_support.py.
Ezio Melotti82230f92010-01-25 12:37:02 +00002010
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002011- Issue #7773: Fix an UnboundLocalError in ``platform.linux_distribution()``
2012 when the release file is empty.
Benjamin Petersona43f34c2010-01-25 03:31:13 +00002013
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002014- Issue #7748: Since unicode values are supported for some metadata options in
2015 Distutils, the DistributionMetadata get_* methods will now return an utf-8
2016 encoded string for them. This ensures that the upload and register commands
2017 send the correct values to PyPI without any error.
Tarek Ziadéf14c7fc2010-01-24 00:33:32 +00002018
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002019- Issue #1670765: Prevent ``email.generator.Generator`` from re-wrapping
R. David Murrayed44dfa2010-01-16 05:15:17 +00002020 headers in multipart/signed MIME parts, which fixes one of the sources of
2021 invalid modifications to such parts by Generator.
2022
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002023- Issue #7701: Fix crash in ``binascii.b2a_uu()`` in debug mode when given a
Antoine Pitrouc391ad02010-01-15 00:18:00 +00002024 1-byte argument. Patch by Victor Stinner.
2025
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002026- Issue #3299: Fix possible crash in the _sre module when given bad argument
2027 values in debug mode. Patch by Victor Stinner.
Antoine Pitrouefdddd32010-01-14 17:25:24 +00002028
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002029- Issue #7703: Add support for the new buffer API to functions of the binascii
2030 module. Backported from py3k by Florent Xicluna, with some additional tests.
Antoine Pitroufd3a60d2010-01-14 16:27:09 +00002031
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002032- Issue #2846: Add support for gzip.GzipFile reading zero-padded files. Patch
2033 by Brian Curtin.
Antoine Pitrou5a9112c2010-01-13 14:32:10 +00002034
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002035- Issue #5827: Make sure that normpath preserves unicode. Initial patch by
2036 Matt Giuca.
Ezio Melottib5689de2010-01-12 03:32:05 +00002037
Tarek Ziadédc0f4872010-01-11 22:50:29 +00002038- Issue #5372: Drop the reuse of .o files in Distutils' ccompiler (since
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002039 Extension extra options may change the output without changing the .c file).
2040 Initial patch by Collin Winter.
Tarek Ziadédc0f4872010-01-11 22:50:29 +00002041
Matthias Klose0d948ac2010-01-22 00:39:04 +00002042Extension Modules
2043-----------------
2044
2045- Expat: Fix DoS via XML document with malformed UTF-8 sequences
2046 (CVE_2009_3560).
2047
Antoine Pitrou8c510e72010-01-13 11:47:49 +00002048Build
2049-----
2050
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002051- Issue #7632: When Py_USING_MEMORY_DEBUGGER is defined, disable the private
2052 memory allocation scheme in dtoa.c and use PyMem_Malloc and PyMem_Free
2053 instead. Also disable caching of powers of 5.
Mark Dickinson9481c572010-01-17 20:57:56 +00002054
Ronald Oussorena55af9a2010-01-17 16:25:57 +00002055- Issue #7658: Ensure that the new pythonw executable works on OSX 10.4
2056
2057- Issue #7714: Use ``gcc -dumpversion`` to detect the version of GCC on
2058 MacOSX.
2059
Antoine Pitrou8c510e72010-01-13 11:47:49 +00002060- Issue #7661: Allow ctypes to be built from a non-ASCII directory path.
2061 Patch by Florent Xicluna.
2062
Antoine Pitrouc07336c2010-01-18 21:15:21 +00002063Tools/Demos
2064-----------
2065
2066- iobench (a file I/O benchmark) and ccbench (a concurrency benchmark) were
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002067 added to the ``Tools`` directory. They were previously living in the
Antoine Pitrouc07336c2010-01-18 21:15:21 +00002068 sandbox.
2069
R. David Murrayce6e4b02010-02-06 04:27:21 +00002070Tests
2071-----
2072
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002073- issue #7728: test_timeout was changed to use ``test_support.bind_port()``
R. David Murrayce6e4b02010-02-06 04:27:21 +00002074 instead of a hard coded port.
2075
Matthias Klose626d92a2010-01-31 16:05:13 +00002076Documentation
2077-------------
Victor Stinnerf20f9c22010-02-23 23:16:07 +00002078
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002079- Updated "Using Python" documentation to include description of CPython's -J,
2080 -U and -X options.
Barry Warsawb1e66ee2010-02-05 18:45:25 +00002081
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002082- Updated Python manual page (options -B, -O0, -s, environment variables
Matthias Klose626d92a2010-01-31 16:05:13 +00002083 PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE, PYTHONNOUSERSITE).
2084
Benjamin Petersondd6d92a2010-01-09 17:30:31 +00002085
Benjamin Peterson4f51baf2009-12-05 18:40:02 +00002086What's New in Python 2.7 alpha 2?
2087=================================
2088
Benjamin Petersonaa7e51f2010-01-09 16:34:06 +00002089*Release date: 2010-01-09*
Benjamin Peterson4f51baf2009-12-05 18:40:02 +00002090
2091Core and Builtins
2092-----------------
2093
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002094- The ``__complex__()`` method is now looked up on the class of instances to
2095 make it consistent with other special methods.
Benjamin Petersonecdae192010-01-04 00:43:01 +00002096
Antoine Pitrou5b7139a2010-01-02 21:12:58 +00002097- Issue #7462: Implement the stringlib fast search algorithm for the `rfind`,
2098 `rindex`, `rsplit` and `rpartition` methods. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
2099
Mark Dickinson1b34d252010-01-01 17:27:30 +00002100- Issue #5080: A number of functions and methods previously produced a
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002101 DeprecationWarning when passed a float argument where an integer was expected.
2102 These functions and methods now raise TypeError instead. The majority of the
2103 effects of this change are in the extension modules, but some core functions
2104 and methods are affected: notably the 'chr', 'range' and 'xrange' builtins,
2105 and many unicode/str methods.
Mark Dickinson1b34d252010-01-01 17:27:30 +00002106
Benjamin Peterson0f02d392009-12-30 19:34:10 +00002107- Issue #7604: Deleting an unset slotted attribute did not raise an
2108 AttributeError.
2109
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002110- Issue #7534: Fix handling of IEEE specials (infinities, nans, negative zero)
2111 in ** operator. The behaviour now conforms to that described in C99 Annex F.
Mark Dickinson99d652e2009-12-30 12:12:23 +00002112
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002113- Issue #7579: The msvcrt module now has docstrings for all its functions.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcc8a2ce72009-12-29 23:06:17 +00002114
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc8645a5c2009-12-29 22:03:38 +00002115- Issue #7413: Passing '\0' as the separator to datetime.datetime.isoformat()
2116 used to drop the time part of the result.
2117
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002118- Issue #1811: Improve accuracy and cross-platform consistency for true division
2119 of integers: the result of a/b is now correctly rounded for ints a and b (at
2120 least on IEEE 754 platforms), and in particular does not depend on the
2121 internal representation of a long.
Mark Dickinson46572832009-12-27 14:55:57 +00002122
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002123- Issue #6108: ``unicode(exception)`` and ``str(exception)`` should return the
2124 same message when only ``__str__()`` (and not ``__unicode__()``) is overridden
2125 in the subclass.
Ezio Melottif84caf42009-12-24 22:25:17 +00002126
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002127- Issue #6834: Replace the implementation for the 'python' and 'pythonw'
Ronald Oussoren92919a62009-12-24 13:30:58 +00002128 executables on OSX.
2129
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002130 These executables now work properly with the arch(1) command: ``arch -ppc
2131 python`` will start a universal binary version of python in PPC mode (unlike
2132 previous releases).
Ronald Oussoren92919a62009-12-24 13:30:58 +00002133
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002134- Issue #1680159: Unicode coercion during an 'in' operation no longer masks the
2135 underlying error when the coercion fails for the left hand operand.
R. David Murray0a0a1a82009-12-14 16:28:26 +00002136
Benjamin Peterson4895af42009-12-13 16:36:53 +00002137- Issue #7491: Metaclass's __cmp__ method was ignored.
2138
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002139- Issue #7466: Segmentation fault when the garbage collector is called in the
2140 middle of populating a tuple. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
Antoine Pitrou2a08b422009-12-13 16:18:14 +00002141
R. David Murrayc7298ff2009-12-14 21:57:39 +00002142
Benjamin Peterson4f51baf2009-12-05 18:40:02 +00002143Library
2144-------
2145
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002146- Issue #6963: Added "maxtasksperchild" argument to ``multiprocessing.Pool``,
2147 allowing for a maximum number of tasks within the pool to be completed by the
2148 worker before that worker is terminated, and a new one created to replace it.
Jesse Noller654ade32010-01-27 03:05:57 +00002149
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002150- Issue #7617: Make sure distutils.unixccompiler.UnixCCompiler recognizes gcc
2151 when it has a fully qualified configuration prefix. Initial patch by
2152 Arfrever.
Tarek Ziadéc25417f2010-01-08 23:42:23 +00002153
Antoine Pitrou80157252010-01-08 19:20:17 +00002154- Issue #7092: Remove py3k warning when importing cPickle. 2to3 handles
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002155 renaming of `cPickle` to `pickle`. The warning was annoying since there's no
2156 alternative to cPickle if you care about performance. Patch by Florent
Antoine Pitrou80157252010-01-08 19:20:17 +00002157 Xicluna.
2158
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002159- Issue #7455: Fix possible crash in cPickle on invalid input. Patch by Victor
2160 Stinner.
Antoine Pitrou0d423b82010-01-07 17:46:49 +00002161
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002162- Issue #7092: Fix the DeprecationWarnings emitted by the standard library when
2163 using the -3 flag. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
Antoine Pitroub9d49632010-01-04 23:22:44 +00002164
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002165- Issue #7471: Improve the performance of GzipFile's buffering mechanism, and
2166 make it implement the ``io.BufferedIOBase`` ABC to allow for further speedups
2167 by wrapping it in an ``io.BufferedReader``. Patch by Nir Aides.
Antoine Pitrou673ddf92010-01-03 22:29:56 +00002168
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002169- Issue #3972: ``httplib.HTTPConnection`` now accepts an optional source_address
Gregory P. Smith9d325212010-01-03 02:06:07 +00002170 parameter to allow specifying where your connections come from.
2171
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002172- ``socket.create_connection()`` now accepts an optional source_address
2173 parameter.
Gregory P. Smith79a3eb12010-01-03 01:29:44 +00002174
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002175- Issue #5511: ``zipfile.ZipFile`` can now be used as a context manager.
Ezio Melotti569e61f2009-12-30 06:14:51 +00002176 Initial patch by Brian Curtin.
2177
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002178- Distutils now correctly identifies the build architecture as "x86_64" when
2179 building on OSX 10.6 without "-arch" flags.
Ronald Oussorenca8e7ec2009-12-24 14:50:35 +00002180
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002181- Issue #7556: Distutils' msvc9compiler now opens the MSVC Manifest file in text
2182 mode.
Tarek Ziadé0479eb52009-12-21 23:37:44 +00002183
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002184- Issue #7552: Removed line feed in the base64 Authorization header in the
2185 Distutils upload command to avoid an error when PyPI reads it. This occurs on
2186 long passwords. Initial patch by JP St. Pierre.
Tarek Ziadé2421d562009-12-20 23:23:34 +00002187
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002188- Issue #7231: urllib2 cannot handle https with proxy requiring auth. Patch by
2189 Tatsuhiro Tsujikawa.
Senthil Kumaran7713acf2009-12-20 06:05:13 +00002190
Benjamin Petersonddd392c2009-12-13 19:19:07 +00002191- Issue #7349: Make methods of file objects in the io module accept None as an
2192 argument where file-like objects (ie StringIO and BytesIO) accept them to mean
2193 the same as passing no argument.
2194
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002195- Issue #7348: ``StringIO.StringIO.readline(-1)`` now acts as if it got no
2196 argument like other file objects.
Benjamin Petersonc4771d22009-12-13 17:31:31 +00002197
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002198- Issue #7357: tarfile no longer suppresses fatal extraction errors by default.
Lars Gustäbel92ca7562009-12-13 11:32:27 +00002199
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002200- Issue #7470: logging: Fix bug in Unicode encoding fallback.
Vinay Sajip5cc4e2a2009-12-11 09:16:01 +00002201
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002202- Issue #5949: Fixed IMAP4_SSL hang when the IMAP server response is missing
2203 proper end-of-line termination.
R. David Murray93321f32009-12-09 15:15:31 +00002204
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002205- Issue #7457: Added a read_pkg_file method to
2206 ``distutils.dist.DistributionMetadata``.
Benjamin Peterson4f51baf2009-12-05 18:40:02 +00002207
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002208- Issue #3745: Undo the 2.7a1 change to have hashlib to reject unicode and non
2209 buffer API supporting objects as input. That behavior is for 3.x only.
Gregory P. Smithfe32d302010-01-02 22:42:50 +00002210
Georg Brandl740cdc32009-12-28 08:34:58 +00002211C-API
2212-----
2213
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002214- Issue #7767: New function ``PyLong_AsLongLongAndOverflow()`` added, analogous
2215 to ``PyLong_AsLongAndOverflow()``.
Mark Dickinsona36507c2010-01-30 10:08:33 +00002216
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002217- Issue #5080: The argument parsing functions ``PyArg_ParseTuple()``,
2218 ``PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords()``, ``PyArg_VaParse()``,
2219 ``PyArg_VaParseTupleAndKeywords()`` and ``PyArg_Parse()`` no longer accept
2220 float arguments for integer format codes (other than 'L'): previously an
2221 attempt to pass a float resulted in a DeprecationWarning; now it gives a
2222 TypeError. For the 'L' format code (which previously had no warning) there is
2223 now a DeprecationWarning.
Mark Dickinson1b34d252010-01-01 17:27:30 +00002224
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002225- Issue #7033: Function ``PyErr_NewExceptionWithDoc()`` added.
Georg Brandl740cdc32009-12-28 08:34:58 +00002226
Martin v. Löwisb4261d52009-12-21 19:29:59 +00002227Build
2228-----
2229
Benjamin Petersonedfe72f2010-01-01 15:21:13 +00002230- Issue #6491: Allow --with-dbmliborder to specify that no dbms will be built.
2231
Benjamin Petersonb4abef62010-01-01 15:18:38 +00002232- Issue #6943: Use pkg-config to find the libffi headers when the
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002233 ``--with-system-ffi`` flag is used.
Benjamin Petersonb4abef62010-01-01 15:18:38 +00002234
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002235- Issue #7609: Add a ``--with-system-expat`` option that causes the system's
2236 expat library to be used for the pyexpat module instead of the one included
2237 with Python.
Benjamin Peterson2c196742009-12-31 03:17:18 +00002238
Benjamin Peterson500ce232009-12-30 02:58:50 +00002239- Issue #7589: Only build the nis module when the correct header files are
2240 found.
2241
Martin v. Löwisf477b932010-01-02 09:25:21 +00002242- Switch to OpenSSL 0.9.8l and sqlite 3.6.21 on Windows.
R. David Murray93321f32009-12-09 15:15:31 +00002243
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002244- Issue #7541: when using ``python-config`` with a framework install the
2245 compiler might use the wrong library.
Ronald Oussorenb5afe542009-12-24 14:17:19 +00002246
R. David Murrayc7298ff2009-12-14 21:57:39 +00002247Tests
2248-----
2249
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002250- Issue #7376: Instead of running a self-test (which was failing) when called
R. David Murray77e48ba2009-12-20 16:46:06 +00002251 with no arguments, doctest.py now gives a usage message.
2252
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002253- Issue #7396: Fix regrtest -s, which was broken by the -j enhancement.
R. David Murray98e3df32009-12-16 11:49:46 +00002254
R. David Murrayc7298ff2009-12-14 21:57:39 +00002255- Issue #7498: test_multiprocessing now uses test_support.find_unused_port
2256 instead of a hardcoded port number in test_rapid_restart.
2257
2258
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00002259What's New in Python 2.7 alpha 1
2260================================
2261
Benjamin Peterson3513c872009-12-05 18:48:13 +00002262*Release date: 2009-12-05*
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00002263
2264Core and Builtins
2265-----------------
2266
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002267- Issue #7419: ``locale.setlocale()`` could crash the interpreter on Windows
2268 when called with invalid values.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd7288712009-12-01 21:51:04 +00002269
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002270- Issue #3382: 'F' formatting for float and complex now convert the result to
2271 upper case. This only affects 'inf' and 'nan', since 'f' no longer converts
2272 to 'g' for large values.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd7288712009-12-01 21:51:04 +00002273
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002274- Remove switch from "%f" formatting to "%g" formatting for floats larger than
2275 1e50 in absolute value.
Mark Dickinson9dd5e162009-11-23 20:54:09 +00002276
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002277- Remove restrictions on precision when formatting floats. E.g., "%.120g" %
2278 1e-100 used to raise OverflowError, but now gives the requested 120
2279 significant digits instead.
Mark Dickinson18cfada2009-11-23 18:46:41 +00002280
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002281- Add Py3k warnings for parameter names in parentheses.
Benjamin Peterson89b1a5c2009-11-19 22:58:01 +00002282
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002283- Issue #7362: Give a proper error message for ``def f((x)=3): pass``.
Benjamin Peterson89b1a5c2009-11-19 22:58:01 +00002284
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002285- Issue #7085: Fix crash when importing some extensions in a thread on MacOSX
2286 10.6.
Ronald Oussoren315cd0c2009-11-19 16:25:21 +00002287
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002288- Issue #7117: ``repr(x)`` for a float x returns a result based on the shortest
2289 decimal string that's guaranteed to round back to x under correct rounding
2290 (with round-half-to-even rounding mode). Previously it gave a string based on
2291 rounding x to 17 decimal digits. repr(x) for a complex number behaves
2292 similarly. On platforms where the correctly-rounded strtod and dtoa code is
2293 not supported (see below), repr is unchanged.
Mark Dickinsonb678de82009-11-19 18:41:49 +00002294
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002295- Issue #7117: On almost all platforms: float-to-string and string-to-float
2296 conversions within Python are now correctly rounded. Places these conversions
2297 occur include: str for floats and complex numbers; the float and complex
2298 constructors; old-style and new-style numeric formatting; serialization and
2299 deserialization of floats and complex numbers using marshal, pickle and json;
2300 parsing of float and imaginary literals in Python code; Decimal-to-float
2301 conversion.
Mark Dickinsonb678de82009-11-19 18:41:49 +00002302
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002303 The conversions use a Python-adapted version of David Gay's well-known dtoa.c,
2304 providing correctly-rounded strtod and dtoa C functions. This code is
2305 supported on Windows, and on Unix-like platforms using gcc, icc or suncc as
2306 the C compiler. There may be a small number of platforms on which correct
2307 operation of this code cannot be guaranteed, so the code is not used: notably,
2308 this applies to platforms where the C double format is not IEEE 754 binary64,
2309 and to platforms on x86 hardware where the x87 FPU is set to 64-bit precision
2310 and Python's configure script is unable to determine how to change the FPU
2311 precision. On these platforms conversions use the platform strtod and dtoa,
2312 as before.
Mark Dickinsonb678de82009-11-19 18:41:49 +00002313
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002314- Issue #7117: Backport round implementation from Python 3.x. ``round()`` now
2315 uses the correctly-rounded string <-> float conversions described above (when
2316 available), and so produces correctly rounded results that will display nicely
2317 under the float repr. There are two related small changes: (1) round now
2318 accepts any class with an ``__index__()`` method for its second argument (but
2319 no longer accepts floats for the second argument), and (2) an excessively
2320 large second integer argument (e.g., ``round(1.234, 10**100)``) no longer
2321 raises an exception.
Mark Dickinsonbd15a062009-11-18 19:33:35 +00002322
Philip Jenveyfab8be22009-11-17 02:42:26 +00002323- Issue #1757126: Fix the cyrillic-asian alias for the ptcp154 encoding.
2324
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002325- Fix several issues with ``compile()``. The input can now contain Windows and
2326 Mac newlines and is no longer required to end in a newline.
Benjamin Petersone36199b2009-11-12 23:39:44 +00002327
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002328- Remove length limitation when constructing a complex number from a unicode
2329 string.
Mark Dickinsonc04c7c52009-10-26 22:28:14 +00002330
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002331- Issue #7244: ``itertools.izip_longest()`` no longer ignores exceptions raised
2332 during the formation of an output tuple.
Raymond Hettingerfa7dadd2009-11-01 20:45:16 +00002333
Mark Dickinson8d87dc02009-10-25 20:39:06 +00002334- Issue #1087418: Boost performance of bitwise operations for longs.
2335
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002336- Issue #1722344: ``threading._shutdown()`` is now called in ``Py_Finalize()``,
2337 which fixes the problem of some exceptions being thrown at shutdown when the
2338 interpreter is killed. Patch by Adam Olsen.
Antoine Pitrouefb60c02009-10-20 21:29:37 +00002339
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002340- Issue #7168: Document ``PyFloat_AsString()`` and ``PyFloat_AsReprString()``,
2341 and note that they are unsafe and deprecated.
Eric Smithc12781a2009-10-19 14:38:14 +00002342
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002343- Issue #7120: logging: Remove import of multiprocessing which is causing crash
2344 in GAE.
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +00002345
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002346- Issue #7140: The ``__dict__`` of a module should not be cleared unless the
2347 module is the only object holding a reference to it.
Benjamin Peterson196b0922009-10-15 15:44:46 +00002348
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002349- Issue #1754094: Improve the stack depth calculation in the compiler. There
2350 should be no other effect than a small decrease in memory use. Patch by
2351 Christopher Tur Lesniewski-Laas.
Neil Schemenauer7fdd1cb2009-10-14 17:17:14 +00002352
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002353- Issue #7084: Fix a (very unlikely) crash when printing a list from one thread,
2354 and mutating it from another one. Patch by Scott Dial.
Antoine Pitroubeaf6a02009-10-11 21:03:26 +00002355
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd0052d12009-10-06 19:56:32 +00002356- Issue #1571184: The Unicode database contains properties for more characters.
2357 The tables for code points representing numeric values, white spaces or line
2358 breaks are now generated from the official Unicode Character Database files,
2359 and include information from the Unihan.txt file.
2360
Benjamin Peterson7adbb5a2009-10-03 20:23:24 +00002361- Issue #7050: Fix a SystemError when trying to use unpacking and augmented
2362 assignment.
2363
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002364- Issue #5329: Fix ``os.popen*`` regression from 2.5 with commands as a sequence
2365 running through the shell. Patch by Jean-Paul Calderone and Jani Hakala.
Philip Jenvey8b902042009-09-29 19:10:15 +00002366
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002367- Issue #7019: Raise ValueError when unmarshalling bad long data, instead of
2368 producing internally inconsistent Python longs.
Mark Dickinson7e7a3ec2009-09-29 19:01:06 +00002369
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002370- Issue #6990: Fix ``threading.local`` subclasses leaving old state around after
2371 a reference cycle GC which could be recycled by new locals.
Philip Jenveydbf3b252009-09-29 04:32:44 +00002372
Benjamin Peterson9db55402009-09-18 21:47:27 +00002373- Issue #6300: unicode.encode, unicode.decode, str.decode, and str.encode now
Benjamin Peterson332d7212009-09-18 21:14:55 +00002374 take keyword arguments.
2375
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002376- Issue #6922: Fix an infinite loop when trying to decode an invalid UTF-32
2377 stream with a non-raising error handler like "replace" or "ignore".
Georg Brandle9741f32009-09-17 11:28:09 +00002378
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002379- Issue #6713: Improve performance of base 10 int -> string and long -> string
2380 conversions.
Mark Dickinsonaa2adc82009-09-16 22:10:56 +00002381
Thomas Wouters2920adb2009-09-16 20:36:34 +00002382- Issue #1590864: Fix potential deadlock when mixing threads and fork().
2383
Georg Brandl0674d3f2009-09-16 20:30:09 +00002384- Issue #6844: Do not emit DeprecationWarnings when accessing a "message"
2385 attribute on exceptions that was set explicitly.
2386
Mark Dickinsonc8a7c7c2009-09-06 10:03:31 +00002387- Issue #6846: Fix bug where bytearray.pop() returns negative integers.
2388
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002389- ``classmethod()`` no longer checks if its argument is callable.
Benjamin Peterson6fcf9b52009-09-01 22:27:57 +00002390
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002391- Issue #6750: A text file opened with ``io.open()`` could duplicate its output
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfff896b2009-08-29 18:14:40 +00002392 when writing from multiple threads at the same time.
2393
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002394- Issue #6704: Improve the col_offset in AST for "for" statements with a target
2395 of tuple unpacking.
Benjamin Petersonc0ba8282009-08-15 22:59:21 +00002396
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002397- Issue #6707: ``dir()`` on an uninitialized module caused a crash.
Benjamin Peterson4c6e8082009-08-15 13:16:38 +00002398
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002399- Issue #6540: Fixed crash for ``bytearray.translate()`` with invalid parameters.
Georg Brandlec812ca2009-07-22 11:57:15 +00002400
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002401- Issue #6573: ``set.union()`` stopped processing inputs if an instance of self
Raymond Hettingerc2b9e1a2009-07-27 20:32:04 +00002402 occurred in the argument chain.
2403
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc9d11fef2009-07-13 20:03:21 +00002404- Issue #1616979: Added the cp720 (Arabic DOS) encoding.
2405
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002406- Issue #6070: On posix platforms import no longer copies the execute bit from
2407 the .py file to the .pyc file if it is set. Patch by Marco N.
R. David Murray23a736a2009-07-07 01:06:13 +00002408
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002409- Issue #4618: When unicode arguments are passed to ``print()``, the default
Benjamin Peterson753d1622009-07-02 18:16:45 +00002410 separator and end should be unicode also.
2411
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00002412- Issue #6119: Fixed an incorrect Py3k warning about order comparisons of
2413 built-in functions and methods.
Benjamin Peterson1bf47652009-07-02 17:06:17 +00002414
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002415- Issue #6347: Include inttypes.h as well as stdint.h in pyport.h. This fixes a
2416 build failure on HP-UX: int32_t and uint32_t are defined in inttypes.h instead
2417 of stdint.h on that platform.
Mark Dickinson2f865b92009-06-30 15:32:30 +00002418
Hirokazu Yamamotoa3c56092009-06-28 10:23:00 +00002419- Issue #4856: Remove checks for win NT.
2420
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc595f7a52009-06-25 22:29:29 +00002421- Issue #2016: Fixed a crash in a corner case where the dictionary of keyword
2422 arguments could be modified during the function call setup.
2423
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc14fc6732009-06-23 21:09:09 +00002424- Removed the ipaddr module.
2425
Raymond Hettinger62641e92009-06-23 20:59:43 +00002426- Issue #6329: Fixed iteration for memoryview objects (it was being blocked
2427 because it wasn't recognized as a sequence).
2428
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002429- Issue #6289: Encoding errors from ``compile()`` were being masked.
Benjamin Peterson08a0bbc2009-06-16 00:29:31 +00002430
Benjamin Petersona72be3b2009-06-13 20:23:33 +00002431- When no module is given in a relative import, the module field of the
2432 ImportFrom AST node is now None instead of an empty string.
2433
Benjamin Peterson565e1b62009-06-13 03:46:30 +00002434- Assignment to None using import statements now raises a SyntaxError.
2435
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002436- Issue #4547: When debugging a very large function, it was not always possible
2437 to update the lineno attribute of the current frame.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcb02ceda2009-06-01 20:53:18 +00002438
Antoine Pitrou46dbe272009-05-30 21:27:00 +00002439- Issue #5330: C functions called with keyword arguments were not reported by
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002440 the various profiling modules (profile, cProfile). Patch by Hagen Fürstenau.
Antoine Pitrou46dbe272009-05-30 21:27:00 +00002441
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002442- Issue #5982: staticmethod and classmethod now expose the wrapped function with
2443 ``__func__``.
Raymond Hettinger578a2282009-05-29 04:58:52 +00002444
Raymond Hettinger822b87f2009-05-29 01:46:48 +00002445- Added support for multiple context managers in the same with-statement.
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002446 Deprecated ``contextlib.nested()`` which is no longer needed.
Georg Brandl944f6842009-05-25 21:02:56 +00002447
Benjamin Peterson1880d8b2009-05-25 13:13:44 +00002448- Issue #6101: A new opcode, SETUP_WITH, has been added to speed up the with
2449 statement and correctly lookup the __enter__ and __exit__ special methods.
2450
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002451- Issue #5829: complex("1e500") no longer raises OverflowError. This makes it
2452 consistent with float("1e500") and interpretation of real and imaginary
2453 literals.
Mark Dickinsona4e0efa2009-05-20 18:43:07 +00002454
Hirokazu Yamamotoa4f90182009-05-17 02:58:36 +00002455- Issue #3527: Removed Py_WIN_WIDE_FILENAMES which is not used any more.
2456
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002457- ``__instancecheck__()`` and ``__subclasscheck__()`` are now completely ignored
2458 on classic classes and instances.
Benjamin Petersoneb9fb2c2009-05-16 22:46:11 +00002459
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002460- Issue #5994: The marshal module now has docstrings.
R. David Murray525cffc2009-05-13 13:07:14 +00002461
Mark Dickinsonb1d45852009-05-11 15:33:08 +00002462- Issue #5981: Fix three minor inf/nan issues in float.fromhex:
Mark Dickinsonb1d45852009-05-11 15:33:08 +00002463
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002464 (1) inf and nan strings with trailing whitespace were incorrectly rejected;
2465 (2) parsing of strings representing infinities and nans was locale aware; and
2466 (3) the interpretation of fromhex('-nan') didn't match that of float('-nan').
Eric Smitha985a3a2009-05-05 18:26:08 +00002467
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002468- Issue #5920: For ``float.__format__()``, change the behavior with the empty
2469 presentation type (that is, not one of 'e', 'f', 'g', or 'n') to be like 'g'
2470 but with at least one decimal point and with a default precision
2471 of 12. Previously, the behavior the same but with a default precision of 6.
2472 This more closely matches ``str()``, and reduces surprises when adding
2473 alignment flags to the empty presentation type. This also affects the new
2474 complex.__format__ in the same way.
2475
2476- Issue #5890: In subclasses of 'property' the __doc__ attribute was shadowed by
2477 classtype's, even if it was None. property now inserts the __doc__ into the
2478 subclass instance __dict__.
R. David Murray7ba8e1c2009-05-04 22:16:24 +00002479
Antoine Pitrou653dece2009-05-04 18:32:32 +00002480- Issue #4426: The UTF-7 decoder was too strict and didn't accept some legal
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002481 sequences. Patch by Nick Barnes and Victor Stinner.
Antoine Pitrou653dece2009-05-04 18:32:32 +00002482
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002483- Issue #1588: Add complex.__format__. For example, ``format(complex(1, 2./3),
2484 '.5')`` now produces a sensible result.
Eric Smith9139cc62009-04-30 00:58:58 +00002485
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002486- Issue #5864: Fix empty format code formatting for floats so that it never
2487 gives more than the requested number of significant digits.
Mark Dickinson92fcc9c2009-04-29 20:41:00 +00002488
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002489- Issue #5793: Rationalize isdigit / isalpha / tolower, etc. Includes new
2490 Py_ISDIGIT / Py_ISALPHA / Py_TOLOWER, etc. in pctypes.h.
Eric Smithcac7af62009-04-27 19:04:37 +00002491
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002492- Issue #4971: Fix titlecase for characters that are their own titlecase, but
2493 not their own uppercase.
Martin v. Löwis99f27792009-04-26 00:53:18 +00002494
Eric Smith068f0652009-04-25 21:40:15 +00002495- Issue #5835: Deprecate PyOS_ascii_formatd and replace it with
2496 _PyOS_double_to_string or PyOS_double_to_string.
2497
Benjamin Peterson5083dc52009-04-25 00:41:22 +00002498- Issue #5283: Setting __class__ in __del__ caused a segfault.
2499
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002500- Issue #5816: ``complex(repr(z))`` now recovers z exactly, even when z involves
2501 nans, infs or negative zeros.
Mark Dickinson95bc9802009-04-24 12:46:53 +00002502
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002503- Implement PEP 378, Format Specifier for Thousands Separator, for floats, ints,
2504 and longs.
Eric Smithaca19e62009-04-22 13:29:05 +00002505
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002506- Issue #5515: 'n' formatting for ints, longs, and floats handles leading zero
2507 formatting poorly.
Eric Smithaca19e62009-04-22 13:29:05 +00002508
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002509- Issue #5772: For float.__format__, don't add a trailing ".0" if we're using no
2510 type code and we have an exponent.
Eric Smithaca19e62009-04-22 13:29:05 +00002511
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002512- Issue #3166: Make long -> float (and int -> float) conversions correctly
2513 rounded.
Mark Dickinson6736cf82009-04-20 21:13:33 +00002514
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002515- Issue #5787: ``object.__getattribute__(some_type, "__bases__")`` segfaulted on
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00002516 some built-in types.
Benjamin Petersond4d400c2009-04-18 20:12:47 +00002517
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002518- Issue #1869: Fix a couple of minor round() issues. ``round(5e15+1)`` was
2519 giving 5e15+2; ``round(-0.0)`` was losing the sign of the zero.
Mark Dickinson1bdf7e92009-04-18 14:59:42 +00002520
Benjamin Peterson99d36f12009-04-15 21:26:36 +00002521- Issue #5759: float() didn't call __float__ on str subclasses.
2522
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002523- Issue #5704: The "-3" command-line option now implies "-t".
Georg Brandl3c4a5462009-04-12 12:08:12 +00002524
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002525- Issue #2170: Refactored ``xml.dom.minidom.normalize``, increasing both its
2526 clarity and its speed.
R. David Murray0374a822009-04-09 21:54:50 +00002527
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002528- Issue #2396: The memoryview object was backported from Python 3.1.
Antoine Pitrou789be0c2009-04-02 21:18:34 +00002529
Georg Brandld3f03fa2009-04-02 18:09:04 +00002530- Fix a problem in PyErr_NormalizeException that leads to "undetected errors"
2531 when hitting the recursion limit under certain circumstances.
2532
Brett Cannon15ba4da2009-04-01 18:03:59 +00002533- Issue #1665206: Remove the last eager import in _warnings.c and make it lazy.
2534
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002535- Issue #4865: On MacOSX /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages is added to the end
2536 sys.path, for compatibility with the system install of Python.
Ronald Oussorene0154ed2009-03-30 23:10:35 +00002537
Antoine Pitrouf8387af2009-03-23 18:41:45 +00002538- Issue #4688: Add a heuristic so that tuples and dicts containing only
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002539 untrackable objects are not tracked by the garbage collector. This can reduce
2540 the size of collections and therefore the garbage collection overhead on
2541 long-running programs, depending on their particular use of datatypes.
Antoine Pitrouf8387af2009-03-23 18:41:45 +00002542
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002543- Issue #5512: Rewrite PyLong long division algorithm (x_divrem) to improve its
2544 performance. Long divisions and remainder operations are now between 50% and
2545 150% faster.
Mark Dickinson0b666bf2009-03-23 18:25:13 +00002546
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002547- Issue #4258: Make it possible to use base 2**30 instead of base 2**15 for the
2548 internal representation of integers, for performance reasons. Base 2**30 is
2549 enabled by default on 64-bit machines. Add --enable-big-digits option to
2550 configure, which overrides the default. Add sys.long_info structseq to
2551 provide information about the internal format.
Mark Dickinsonefc82f72009-03-20 15:51:55 +00002552
Benjamin Peterson6ffe8522009-03-18 20:52:15 +00002553- Issue #4034: Fix weird attribute error messages of the traceback object. (As a
2554 result traceback.__members__ no longer exists.)
2555
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002556- Issue #4474: PyUnicode_FromWideChar now converts characters outside the BMP to
2557 surrogate pairs, on systems with sizeof(wchar_t) == 4 and sizeof(Py_UNICODE)
2558 == 2.
Mark Dickinson6b265f12009-03-18 16:07:26 +00002559
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002560- Issue #5237: Allow auto-numbered fields in str.format(). For example: ``'{}
2561 {}'.format(1, 2) == '1 2'``.
Eric Smith6f42edb2009-03-14 11:57:26 +00002562
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002563- Issue #3652: Make the 'line' argument for ``warnings.showwarning()`` a
Brett Cannon6c4cff02009-03-11 04:51:06 +00002564 requirement. Means the DeprecationWarning from Python 2.6 can go away.
2565
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002566- Issue #5247: Improve error message when unknown format codes are used when
2567 using ``str.format()`` with str, unicode, long, int, and float arguments.
Eric Smithe9fb6862009-02-20 14:02:36 +00002568
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002569- Running Python with the -3 option now also warns about classic division for
2570 ints and longs.
Raymond Hettinger08259e82009-02-18 23:10:19 +00002571
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002572- Issue #5260: Long integers now consume less memory: average saving is 2 bytes
2573 per long on a 32-bit system and 6 bytes per long on a 64-bit system.
Mark Dickinson2ffb26f2009-02-15 10:13:41 +00002574
Antoine Pitrou76a4b892009-02-13 13:52:33 +00002575- Issue #5186: Reduce hash collisions for objects with no __hash__ method by
2576 rotating the object pointer by 4 bits to the right.
2577
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002578- Issue #4575: Fix Py_IS_INFINITY macro to work correctly on x87 FPUs: it now
2579 forces its argument to double before testing for infinity.
Mark Dickinsonc97c9092009-02-09 14:18:43 +00002580
Benjamin Petersone18ef192009-01-20 14:21:16 +00002581- Issue #4978: Passing keyword arguments as unicode strings is now allowed.
2582
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +00002583- Issue #1242657: the __len__() and __length_hint__() calls in several tools
Raymond Hettingerb5163702009-02-02 21:50:13 +00002584 were suppressing all exceptions. These include list(), filter(), map(),
2585 zip(), and bytearray().
2586
Benjamin Peterson596d3062009-01-19 15:42:23 +00002587- os.ftruncate raises OSErrors instead of IOErrors for consistency with other os
2588 functions.
2589
Benjamin Peterson5848d1f2009-01-19 00:08:08 +00002590- Issue #4991: Passing invalid file descriptors to io.FileIO now raises an
2591 OSError.
2592
Amaury Forgeot d'Arca18392a2009-01-13 23:19:08 +00002593- Issue #4807: Port the _winreg module to Windows CE.
2594
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002595- Issue #4935: The overflow checking code in the expandtabs() method common to
2596 str, bytes and bytearray could be optimized away by the compiler, letting the
2597 interpreter segfault instead of raising an error.
Antoine Pitrouc2f02212009-01-13 23:13:52 +00002598
Amaury Forgeot d'Arca40d5732009-01-12 23:36:55 +00002599- Issue #3720: Fix a crash when an iterator modifies its class and removes its
2600 __next__ method.
2601
Martin v. Löwise3422fa2009-01-12 08:11:24 +00002602- Issue #4893: Use NT threading on CE.
2603
Martin v. Löwis1b3bef22009-01-12 07:57:11 +00002604- Issue #4915: Port sysmodule to Windows CE.
2605
Antoine Pitrou4c5ecb72009-01-09 21:40:55 +00002606- Issue #4074: Change the criteria for doing a full garbage collection (i.e.
2607 collecting the oldest generation) so that allocating lots of objects without
2608 destroying them does not show quadratic performance. Based on a proposal by
Benjamin Petersond50a5d52009-07-13 00:03:20 +00002609 Martin von Löwis at
Antoine Pitrou4c5ecb72009-01-09 21:40:55 +00002610 http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2008-June/080579.html.
2611
Martin v. Löwisb90304a2009-01-07 18:40:40 +00002612- Issue #4850: Change COUNT_ALLOCS variables to Py_ssize_t.
2613
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002614- Issue #1180193: When importing a module from a .pyc (or .pyo) file with an
2615 existing .py counterpart, override the co_filename attributes of all code
2616 objects if the original filename is obsolete (which can happen if the file has
2617 been renamed, moved, or if it is accessed through different paths). Patch by
2618 Ziga Seilnacht and Jean-Paul Calderone.
Antoine Pitroue96d4ea2009-01-06 18:10:47 +00002619
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002620- Issue #4075: Use ``OutputDebugStringW()`` in Py_FatalError.
Martin v. Löwis5344c992009-01-02 20:32:55 +00002621
Hirokazu Yamamoto99a1b202009-01-01 15:45:39 +00002622- Issue #4797: IOError.filename was not set when _fileio.FileIO failed to open
2623 file with `str' filename on Windows.
2624
Antoine Pitrouaa687902009-01-01 14:11:22 +00002625- Issue #3680: Reference cycles created through a dict, set or deque iterator
2626 did not get collected.
2627
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002628- Issue #4701: PyObject_Hash now implicitly calls PyType_Ready on types where
2629 the tp_hash and tp_dict slots are both NULL.
Nick Coghlan180e4002008-12-30 01:18:48 +00002630
Benjamin Peterson7af65562008-12-29 17:56:58 +00002631- Issue #4764: With io.open, IOError.filename is set when trying to open a
2632 directory on POSIX systems.
2633
Benjamin Petersonfe231b02008-12-29 17:47:42 +00002634- Issue #4764: IOError.filename is set when trying to open a directory on POSIX
2635 systems.
2636
Georg Brandl6425a2f2008-12-28 11:54:53 +00002637- Issue #4759: None is now allowed as the first argument of
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002638 ``bytearray.translate()``. It was always allowed for ``bytes.translate()``.
Georg Brandl6425a2f2008-12-28 11:54:53 +00002639
Skip Montanarof205c132008-12-23 03:30:15 +00002640- Added test case to ensure attempts to read from a file opened for writing
2641 fail.
2642
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002643- Issue #2467: gc.DEBUG_STATS reported invalid elapsed times. Also, always print
2644 elapsed times, not only when some objects are uncollectable/unreachable.
2645 Original patch by Neil Schemenauer.
Antoine Pitrou73c0e652008-12-17 22:46:54 +00002646
Mark Dickinson1a707982008-12-17 16:14:37 +00002647- Issue #3439: Add a bit_length method to int and long.
2648
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002649- Issue #2183: Simplify and optimize bytecode for list comprehensions. Original
2650 patch by Neal Norwitz.
Antoine Pitroud0c35152008-12-17 00:38:28 +00002651
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002652- Issue #4597: Fixed exception handling when the __exit__ function of a context
2653 manager returns a value that cannot be converted to a bool.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcad9b5992008-12-10 23:22:49 +00002654
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002655- Issue #4597: Fixed several opcodes that weren't always propagating exceptions.
Jeffrey Yasskinffd42cf2008-12-10 07:35:02 +00002656
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002657- Issue #4445: Replace ``sizeof(PyStringObject)`` with
2658 ``offsetof(PyStringObject, ob_sval) + 1`` when allocating memory for str
2659 instances. On a typical machine this saves 3 bytes of memory (on average) per
2660 string allocation.
Mark Dickinson826f3fe2008-12-05 21:55:28 +00002661
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcdc619012008-11-22 20:01:18 +00002662- Issue #3996: On Windows, the PyOS_CheckStack function would cause the
2663 interpreter to abort ("Fatal Python error: Could not reset the stack!")
2664 instead of throwing a MemoryError.
2665
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002666- Issue #3689: The list reversed iterator now supports __length_hint__ instead
2667 of __len__. Behavior now matches other reversed iterators.
Raymond Hettinger7989a4d2008-12-03 15:42:10 +00002668
Benjamin Petersonc078f922008-11-21 22:27:24 +00002669- Issue #4367: Python would segfault during compiling when the unicodedata
2670 module couldn't be imported and \N escapes were present.
2671
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002672- Issue #4233: Changed semantic of ``_fileio.FileIO``'s ``close()`` method on
2673 file objects with closefd=False. The file descriptor is still kept open but
2674 the file object behaves like a closed file. The ``FileIO`` object also got a
2675 new readonly attribute ``closefd``.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc32265652008-11-20 23:34:31 +00002676
Benjamin Peterson46cc6d12008-11-19 21:49:09 +00002677- Issue #4348: Some bytearray methods returned that didn't cause any change to
2678 the bytearray, returned the same bytearray instead of a copy.
2679
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002680- Issue #4317: Fixed a crash in the ``imageop.rgb2rgb8()`` function.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc7cfe7ea2008-11-18 22:19:37 +00002681
Benjamin Peterson273c2332008-11-17 22:39:09 +00002682- Issue #4230: If ``__getattr__`` is a descriptor, it now functions correctly.
2683
Benjamin Peterson6624a9f2008-11-03 15:14:51 +00002684- Issue #4048: The parser module now correctly validates relative imports.
2685
Benjamin Petersondcee09d2008-10-31 02:16:05 +00002686- Issue #4225: ``from __future__ import unicode_literals`` didn't work in an
2687 exec statement.
2688
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002689- Issue #4176: Fixed a crash when pickling an object which ``__reduce__`` method
2690 does not return iterators for the 4th and 5th items.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc69a9c5b2008-10-30 21:18:34 +00002691
Benjamin Petersonbdca9422008-10-26 20:21:13 +00002692- Issue #4209: Enabling unicode_literals and the print_function in the same
2693 __future__ import didn't work.
2694
Benjamin Peterson399b1fe2008-10-25 02:53:28 +00002695- Using ``nonlocal`` as a variable name will now raise a Py3k SyntaxWarning
Georg Brandl7fb00ad2008-10-25 07:00:52 +00002696 because it is a reserved word in 3.x.
Benjamin Peterson399b1fe2008-10-25 02:53:28 +00002697
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002698- On windows, ``os.chdir()`` given unicode was not working if
2699 GetCurrentDirectoryW returned a path longer than MAX_PATH. (But It's doubtful
2700 this code path is really executed because I cannot move to such directory on
2701 win2k)
Hirokazu Yamamoto10a018c2008-10-09 10:00:30 +00002702
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002703- Issue #4069: When ``set.remove(element)`` is used with a set element, the
2704 element is temporarily replaced with an equivalent frozenset. But the
2705 eventual KeyError would always report the empty ``frozenset()`` as the missing
2706 key. Now it correctly refers to the initial element.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd78b9dc2008-10-07 20:32:10 +00002707
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002708- Issue #4509: Various issues surrounding resize of bytearray objects to which
2709 there are buffer exports.
Antoine Pitrouae5bece2008-12-06 21:29:24 +00002710
Benjamin Peterson8d5934b2008-12-27 18:24:11 +00002711- Issue #4748: Lambda generators no longer return a value.
2712
Kristján Valur Jónsson6220e412009-01-12 09:20:34 +00002713- Issue #3582: Use native TLS functions on Windows
2714
Gregory P. Smithae91d092009-03-02 05:13:57 +00002715- The re.sub(), re.subn() and re.split() functions now accept a flags parameter.
2716
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002717- Issue #3845: In PyRun_SimpleFileExFlags avoid invalid memory access with short
2718 file names.
Matthias Kloseedb5e1e2009-04-04 14:18:13 +00002719
Matthias Klose91a3b9e2009-04-05 21:19:13 +00002720- Issue #1113244: Py_XINCREF, Py_DECREF, Py_XDECREF: Add `do { ... } while (0)'
2721 to avoid compiler warnings.
Matthias Klose0610e082009-04-05 12:43:08 +00002722
Gregory P. Smith2b3eb372009-04-05 23:48:26 +00002723- Issue #5705: os.setuid() would not accept values > 2**31-1 but pwd.getpwnam()
2724 returned them on 64bit platforms.
2725
Walter Dörwalded960ac2009-05-03 22:36:33 +00002726- Issue #5108: Handle %s like %S and %R in PyUnicode_FromFormatV(): Call
2727 PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8() once, remember the result and output it in a second
2728 step. This avoids problems with counting UTF-8 bytes that ignores the effect
2729 of using the replace error handler in PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8().
2730
Walter Dörwald726ba8e2009-05-06 14:32:35 +00002731- Issue #3739: The unicode-internal encoder now reports the number of characters
2732 consumed like any other encoder (instead of the number of bytes).
2733
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002734- Issue #2422: When compiled with the ``--with-valgrind`` option, the pymalloc
2735 allocator will be automatically disabled when running under Valgrind. This
2736 gives improved memory leak detection when running under Valgrind, while taking
2737 advantage of pymalloc at other times.
Benjamin Peterson91c12eb2009-12-03 02:52:39 +00002738
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00002739Library
2740-------
Benjamin Petersonb3dd5482009-02-26 19:07:18 +00002741
Raymond Hettinger5f516ed2010-04-03 18:10:37 +00002742- Add count() and reverse() methods to collections.deque().
Raymond Hettingera5fd24e2009-12-10 06:42:54 +00002743
Raymond Hettinger0b3263b2009-12-10 06:00:33 +00002744- Fix variations of extending deques: d.extend(d) d.extendleft(d) d+=d
2745
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002746- Issue #6986: Fix crash in the JSON C accelerator when called with the wrong
2747 parameter types. Patch by Victor Stinner.
Antoine Pitrou187177f2009-12-08 15:40:51 +00002748
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002749- logging: Added optional "secure" parameter to SMTPHandler, to enable use of
Vinay Sajip48305662009-12-06 17:57:11 +00002750 TLS with authentication credentials.
2751
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002752- Issue #1923: Fixed the removal of meaningful spaces when PKG-INFO is generated
2753 in Distutils. Patch by Stephen Emslie.
Tarek Ziadé4f383172009-12-06 09:22:40 +00002754
Martin v. Löwisc218a2f2009-12-03 20:53:51 +00002755- Issue #4120: Drop reference to CRT from manifest when building extensions with
2756 msvc9compiler.
2757
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002758- Issue #7333: The ``posix`` module gains an ``initgroups()`` function providing
2759 access to the initgroups(3) C library call on Unix systems which implement it.
2760 Patch by Jean-Paul Calderone.
Antoine Pitrou30b3b352009-12-02 20:37:54 +00002761
Tarek Ziadéa5076a22009-11-29 22:20:30 +00002762- Issue #7408: Fixed distutils.tests.sdist so it doesn't check for group
2763 ownership when the group is not forced, because the group may be different
2764 from the user's group and inherit from its container when the test is run.
2765
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002766- Issue #1515: Enable use of deepcopy() with instance methods. Patch by Robert
2767 Collins.
Antoine Pitroud16f57b2009-11-28 15:55:58 +00002768
Vinay Sajip01801d12009-11-27 14:03:36 +00002769- Issue #7403: logging: Fixed possible race condition in lock creation.
2770
Antoine Pitrouacbe3bd2009-11-27 13:18:34 +00002771- Issue #6845: Add restart support for binary upload in ftplib. The
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002772 ``storbinary()`` method of FTP and FTP_TLS objects gains an optional "rest"
Antoine Pitrouacbe3bd2009-11-27 13:18:34 +00002773 argument. Patch by Pablo Mouzo.
2774
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002775- Issue #5788: ``datetime.timedelta`` objects get a new ``total_seconds()``
2776 method returning the total number of seconds in the duration. Patch by Brian
2777 Quinlan.
Antoine Pitroubcfaf802009-11-25 22:59:36 +00002778
Vinay Sajipc470d682009-11-25 09:03:30 +00002779- Issue #6615: logging: Used weakrefs in internal handler list.
2780
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002781- Issue #1488943: ``difflib.Differ`` doesn't always add hints for tab
2782 characters.
Senthil Kumaran5c456e62009-11-23 18:41:31 +00002783
Lars Gustäbeldd866d52009-11-22 18:30:53 +00002784- Issue #6123: tarfile now opens empty archives correctly and consistently
2785 raises ReadError on empty files.
2786
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002787- Issue #7354: distutils.tests.test_msvc9compiler - dragfullwindows can be 2.
Tarek Ziadé39de1fc2009-11-19 05:33:16 +00002788
Ezio Melotti3373a3a2010-01-16 18:38:01 +00002789- Issue #5037: Proxy the __unicode__ special method to __unicode__ instead of
2790 __str__.
Benjamin Petersondc3c2392009-11-19 03:00:02 +00002791
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002792- Issue #7341: Close the internal file object in the TarFile constructor in case
2793 of an error.
Lars Gustäbel355538e2009-11-18 20:24:54 +00002794
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002795- Issue #7293: ``distutils.test_msvc9compiler`` is fixed to work on any fresh
2796 Windows box. Help provided by David Bolen.
Tarek Ziadéacccafc2009-11-18 08:46:56 +00002797
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002798- Issue #7328: pydoc no longer corrupts sys.path when run with the '-m' switch.
Nick Coghlan11db64e2009-11-15 22:36:47 +00002799
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002800- Issue #2054: ftplib now provides an FTP_TLS class to do secure FTP using TLS
2801 or SSL. Patch by Giampaolo Rodola'.
Antoine Pitrouccd5e022009-11-15 17:22:09 +00002802
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002803- Issue #4969: The mimetypes module now reads the MIME database from the
2804 registry under Windows. Patch by Gabriel Genellina.
Antoine Pitroud5b34d42009-11-15 14:10:48 +00002805
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002806- Issue #6816: runpy now provides a run_path function that allows Python code to
2807 execute file paths that refer to source or compiled Python files as well as
2808 zipfiles, directories and other valid sys.path entries that contain a
Nick Coghlan49868cb2009-11-15 07:30:34 +00002809 __main__.py file. This allows applications that run other Python scripts to
2810 support the same flexibility as the CPython command line itself.
2811
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002812- Issue #7318: multiprocessing now uses a timeout when it fails to establish a
2813 connection with another process, rather than looping endlessly. The default
2814 timeout is 20 seconds, which should be amply sufficient for local connections.
Antoine Pitrouc562ca42009-11-13 22:31:18 +00002815
Antoine Pitrou0734c632009-11-10 20:49:30 +00002816- Issue #7197: Allow unittest.TextTestRunner objects to be pickled and
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002817 unpickled. This fixes crashes under Windows when trying to run
Antoine Pitrou0734c632009-11-10 20:49:30 +00002818 test_multiprocessing in verbose mode.
2819
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002820- Issue #7282: Fix a memory leak when an RLock was used in a thread other than
2821 those started through ``threading.Thread`` (for example, using
2822 ``thread.start_new_thread()``.
Antoine Pitroud7158d42009-11-09 16:00:11 +00002823
Antoine Pitrou99c160b2009-11-05 13:42:29 +00002824- Issue #7264: Fix a possible deadlock when deallocating thread-local objects
2825 which are part of a reference cycle.
2826
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002827- Issue #7211: Allow 64-bit values for the ``ident`` and ``data`` fields of
2828 kevent objects on 64-bit systems. Patch by Michael Broghton.
Antoine Pitrou323b9da2009-11-04 19:25:14 +00002829
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002830- Issue #6896: ``mailbox.Maildir`` now invalidates its internal cache each time
Antoine Pitrouaec41242009-11-02 11:34:27 +00002831 a modification is done through it. This fixes inconsistencies and test
2832 failures on systems with slightly bogus mtime behaviour.
2833
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002834- Issue #7246 & Issue #7208: getpass now properly flushes input before reading
2835 from stdin so that existing input does not confuse it and lead to incorrect
2836 entry or an IOError. It also properly flushes it afterwards to avoid the
2837 terminal echoing the input afterwards on OSes such as Solaris.
Gregory P. Smith38f5d8f2009-11-01 18:33:55 +00002838
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002839- Issue #7233: Fix a number of two-argument Decimal methods to make sure that
2840 they accept an int or long as the second argument. Also fix buggy handling of
2841 large arguments (those with coefficient longer than the current precision) in
2842 shift and rotate.
Mark Dickinson0c673122009-10-29 12:04:00 +00002843
Lars Gustäbel8c06ccc2009-10-29 09:15:00 +00002844- Issue #4750: Store the basename of the original filename in the gzip FNAME
2845 header as required by RFC 1952.
2846
Tarek Ziadé40b998b2009-10-27 23:06:10 +00002847- Issue #1180: Added a new global option to ignore ~/.pydistutils.cfg in
2848 Distutils.
2849
Tarek Ziadéd24cab82009-10-27 21:20:27 +00002850- Issue #7218: Fix test_site for win32, the directory comparison was done with
2851 an uppercase.
2852
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002853- Issue #7205: Fix a possible deadlock when using a BZ2File object from several
2854 threads at once.
Antoine Pitroudd629662009-10-27 17:41:58 +00002855
Tarek Ziadéb9c1cfc2009-10-24 15:10:37 +00002856- Issue #7071: byte-compilation in Distutils is now done with respect to
2857 sys.dont_write_bytecode.
2858
Vinay Sajipc470d682009-11-25 09:03:30 +00002859- Issue #7066: archive_util.make_archive now restores the cwd if an error is
Tarek Ziadé672422a2009-10-24 13:29:44 +00002860 raised. Initial patch by Ezio Melotti.
2861
Antoine Pitroufa94e802009-10-24 12:23:18 +00002862- Issue #6218: io.StringIO and io.BytesIO instances are now picklable with
2863 protocol 2.
2864
Vinay Sajip5ac65282009-10-21 20:22:14 +00002865- Issue #7077: logging: SysLogHandler now treats Unicode as per RFC 5424.
2866
Mark Dickinsona7a52ab2009-10-20 13:33:03 +00002867- Issue #7099: Decimal.is_normal now returns True for numbers with exponent
2868 larger than emax.
2869
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002870- Issue #5833: Fix extra space character in readline completion with the GNU
2871 readline library version 6.0.
Antoine Pitroue0899802009-10-19 18:20:21 +00002872
Antoine Pitrou5ba84912009-10-19 17:59:07 +00002873- Issue #7133: SSL objects now support the new buffer API.
2874
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002875- Issue #7149: urllib fails on OSX in the proxy detection code.
Ronald Oussoren31802d02009-10-18 07:07:00 +00002876
Benjamin Petersonc63457b2009-10-15 03:06:55 +00002877- Issue #7069: Make inspect.isabstract() return a boolean.
2878
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002879- Add support to the ``ihooks`` module for relative imports.
Neil Schemenauere6039f02009-10-14 19:23:53 +00002880
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002881- Issue #6894: Fixed the issue urllib2 doesn't respect "no_proxy" environment.
Senthil Kumaran27468662009-10-11 02:00:07 +00002882
Vinay Sajip1c77b7f2009-10-10 20:32:36 +00002883- Issue #7086: Added TCP support to SysLogHandler, and tidied up some
2884 anachronisms in the code which were a relic of 1.5.2 compatibility.
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +00002885
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002886- Issue #7082: When falling back to the MIME 'name' parameter, the correct place
2887 to look for it is the Content-Type header.
R. David Murray0c8bee62009-10-09 21:50:54 +00002888
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002889- Issue #7048: Force Decimal.logb to round its result when that result is too
2890 large to fit in the current precision.
Mark Dickinson15ae41c2009-10-07 19:22:05 +00002891
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +00002892- Issue #6516: Added owner/group support when creating tar archives in
Tarek Ziadé1b486712009-10-02 23:49:48 +00002893 Distutils.
2894
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002895- Issue #7031: Add ``TestCase.assert(Not)IsInstance()`` methods.
Georg Brandl12fafe62009-10-01 21:02:39 +00002896
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002897- Issue #6790: Make it possible again to pass an ``array.array`` to
2898 ``httplib.HTTPConnection.send``. Patch by Kirk McDonald.
Antoine Pitrou72481782009-09-29 17:48:18 +00002899
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002900- Issue #6236, #6348: Fix various failures in the `io` module under AIX and
2901 other platforms, when using a non-gcc compiler. Patch by egreen.
Antoine Pitrou2a466582009-09-21 21:17:48 +00002902
Tarek Ziadé99773352009-09-21 13:41:08 +00002903- Issue #6954: Fixed crash when using DISTUTILS_DEBUG flag in Distutils.
2904
Ronald Oussoren51f06332009-09-20 10:31:22 +00002905- Issue #6851: Fix urllib.urlopen crash on secondairy threads on OSX 10.6
2906
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002907- Issue #4606: Passing 'None' if ctypes argtype is set to POINTER(...) does now
2908 always result in NULL.
Thomas Heller6be522b2009-09-18 20:05:44 +00002909
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002910- Issue #5042: ctypes Structure sub-subclass does now initialize correctly with
2911 base class positional arguments.
Thomas Heller7a352c02009-09-18 18:55:17 +00002912
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002913- Issue #6938: Fix a TypeError in string formatting of a multiprocessing debug
2914 message.
Georg Brandlc40e60e2009-09-18 09:18:27 +00002915
Matthias Klose924eab62009-09-13 15:09:24 +00002916- Issue #6635: Fix profiler printing usage message.
2917
Lars Gustäbel21121e62009-09-12 10:28:15 +00002918- Issue #6856: Add a filter keyword argument to TarFile.add().
2919
Tarek Ziadébed26a32009-09-09 08:14:20 +00002920- Issue #6163: Fixed HP-UX runtime library dir options in
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002921 distutils.unixcompiler. Initial patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar and Michael
2922 Haubenwallner.
Tarek Ziadébed26a32009-09-09 08:14:20 +00002923
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002924- Issue #6857: Default format() alignment should be '>' for Decimal instances.
Mark Dickinson5cfa8042009-09-08 20:20:19 +00002925
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002926- Issue #6795: int(Decimal('nan')) now raises ValueError instead of returning
2927 NaN or raising InvalidContext. Also, fix infinite recursion in
2928 long(Decimal('nan')).
Mark Dickinson968f1692009-09-07 18:04:58 +00002929
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002930- Issue #6850: Fix bug in Decimal._parse_format_specifier for formats with no
2931 type specifier.
Mark Dickinson491ea552009-09-07 16:17:41 +00002932
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002933- Issue #4937: plat-mac/bundlebuilder refers to non-existing version.plist.
Ronald Oussoren626faeb2009-09-06 12:23:18 +00002934
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002935- Issue #6838: Use a list to accumulate the value instead of repeatedly
2936 concatenating strings in httplib's HTTPResponse._read_chunked providing a
2937 significant speed increase when downloading large files servend with a
2938 Transfer-Encoding of 'chunked'.
Chris Withers7f3ea6a2009-09-04 16:32:22 +00002939
Georg Brandld22b9512009-09-04 08:17:04 +00002940- Issue #5275: In Cookie's Cookie.load(), properly handle non-string arguments
2941 as documented.
2942
Georg Brandl2e1308f2009-09-04 06:59:20 +00002943- Issue #2666: Handle BROWSER environment variable properly for unknown browser
2944 names in the webbrowser module.
2945
Lars Gustäbelf7cda522009-08-28 19:23:44 +00002946- Issue #6054: Do not normalize stored pathnames in tarfile.
2947
Mark Dickinson7a7739d2009-08-28 13:25:02 +00002948- Issue #6794: Fix Decimal.compare_total and Decimal.compare_total_mag: NaN
2949 payloads are now ordered by integer value rather than lexicographically.
2950
Tarek Ziadé764fc232009-08-20 21:23:13 +00002951- Issue #6693: New functions in site.py to get user/global site packages paths.
2952
Gregory P. Smith4e63d542009-08-20 09:39:38 +00002953- The thread.lock type now supports weak references.
2954
Guilherme Polo7b50c4f2009-08-18 14:46:57 +00002955- Issue #1356969: Add missing info methods in Tix.HList.
2956
Guilherme Polo6b3c7092009-08-18 14:23:00 +00002957- Issue #1522587: New constants and methods for the Tix.Grid widget.
2958
Guilherme Polo6c823f82009-08-18 13:29:20 +00002959- Issue #1250469: Fix the return value of Tix.PanedWindow.panes.
2960
Guilherme Polod3e6e4b2009-08-18 13:23:08 +00002961- Issue #1119673: Do not override Tkinter.Text methods when creating a
2962 ScrolledText.
2963
Gregory P. Smithb98d6b22009-08-16 18:52:58 +00002964- Issue #6665: Fix fnmatch to properly match filenames with newlines in them.
2965
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002966- Issue #1135: Add the XView and YView mix-ins to avoid duplicating the xview*
2967 and yview* methods.
Guilherme Poloe45f0172009-08-14 14:36:45 +00002968
Antoine Pitrou20e1f932009-08-06 20:18:29 +00002969- Issue #6629: Fix a data corruption issue in the new `io` package, which could
2970 occur when writing to a BufferedRandom object (e.g. a file opened in "rb+" or
2971 "wb+" mode) after having buffered a certain amount of data for reading. This
2972 bug was not present in the pure Python implementation.
2973
Jesse Noller8497efe2009-08-06 02:05:56 +00002974- Issue #4660: If a multiprocessing.JoinableQueue.put() was preempted, it was
2975 possible to get a spurious 'task_done() called too many times' error.
2976
Gregory P. Smithc4ad0342009-08-13 18:54:50 +00002977- Issue #1628205: Socket file objects returned by socket.socket.makefile() now
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002978 properly handles EINTR within the read, readline, write & flush methods. The
2979 socket.sendall() method now properly handles interrupted system calls.
Gregory P. Smithc4ad0342009-08-13 18:54:50 +00002980
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002981- Issue #6595: The Decimal constructor now allows arbitrary Unicode decimal
2982 digits in input, as recommended by the standard. Previously it was restricted
2983 to accepting [0-9].
Mark Dickinson4326ad82009-08-02 10:59:36 +00002984
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc3e5b0272009-07-28 22:15:30 +00002985- Issue #6511: ZipFile now raises BadZipfile (instead of an IOError) when
2986 opening an empty or very small file.
2987
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc74b30162009-07-23 19:26:02 +00002988- Issue #6553: Fixed a crash in cPickle.load(), when given a file-like object
2989 containing incomplete data.
2990
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002991- Issue #6545: Removed assert statements in distutils.Extension, so the behavior
2992 is similar when used with -O.
Tarek Ziadéaf2406f2009-07-22 08:55:19 +00002993
Benjamin Petersond7b0eeb2009-07-19 20:18:21 +00002994- unittest has been split up into a package. All old names should still work.
2995
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002996- Issue #6431: Make Fraction type return NotImplemented when it doesn't know how
2997 to handle a comparison without loss of precision. Also add correct handling
2998 of infinities and nans for comparisons with float.
Mark Dickinson88a0a2e2009-07-18 15:18:18 +00002999
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc74b30162009-07-23 19:26:02 +00003000- Issue #6415: Fixed warnings.warn segfault on bad formatted string.
Hirokazu Yamamoto1a3d0852009-07-17 06:26:54 +00003001
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003002- Issue #6466: Now distutils.cygwinccompiler and distutils.emxccompiler uses the
3003 same refactored function to get gcc/ld/dllwrap versions numbers. It's
3004 ``distutils.util.get_compiler_versions()``. Added deprecation warnings for
3005 the obsolete get_versions() functions.
Tarek Ziadéa99dedf2009-07-16 15:35:45 +00003006
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003007- Issue #6433: Fixed issues with multiprocessing.pool.map hanging on empty list.
Jesse Noller7530e472009-07-16 14:23:04 +00003008
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +00003009- Issue #6314: logging: Extra checks on the "level" argument in more places.
3010
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc74b8d332009-07-11 14:33:51 +00003011- Issue #2622: Fixed an ImportError when importing email.messsage from a
3012 standalone application built with py2exe or py2app.
3013
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +00003014- Issue #6455: Fixed test_build_ext under win32.
Tarek Ziadé8c400012009-07-10 09:10:33 +00003015
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +00003016- Issue #6377: Enabled the compiler option, and deprecate its usage as an
Tarek Ziadée670e5a2009-07-06 12:50:46 +00003017 attribute.
3018
Tarek Ziadé63f17382009-07-04 02:02:41 +00003019- Issue #6413: Fixed the log level in distutils.dist for announce.
3020
Gregory P. Smithc197d0a2009-07-04 01:55:11 +00003021- Issue #3392: The subprocess communicate() method no longer fails in select()
3022 when file descriptors are large; communicate() now uses poll() when possible.
3023
Tarek Ziadé65ec61e2009-07-03 08:22:56 +00003024- Issue #6403: Fixed package path usage in build_ext.
3025
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003026- Issues #5155, #5313, #5331: multiprocessing.Process._bootstrap was
Jesse Noller1b90efb2009-06-30 17:11:52 +00003027 unconditionally calling "os.close(sys.stdin.fileno())" resulting in file
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003028 descriptor errors.
Jesse Noller1b90efb2009-06-30 17:11:52 +00003029
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +00003030- Issue #6365: Distutils build_ext inplace mode was copying the compiled
Tarek Ziadé3fbcc602009-06-29 16:13:39 +00003031 extension in a subdirectory if the extension name had dots.
3032
Hirokazu Yamamoto99ebc632009-06-29 14:29:31 +00003033- Issue #6344: Fixed a crash of mmap.read() when passed a negative argument.
3034
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003035- Issue #5230: pydoc would report no documentation found if a module generated a
3036 'not found' import error when loaded; it now reports the import errors.
R. David Murrayef087da2009-06-23 18:02:46 +00003037 Thanks to Lucas Prado Melo for initial fix and collaboration on the tests.
3038
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003039- Issue #6314: ``logging.basicConfig()`` performs extra checks on the "level"
Vinay Sajip603fb6d2009-06-21 17:37:27 +00003040 argument.
3041
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003042- Issue #6164: Added an AIX specific linker argument in Distutils unixcompiler.
3043 Original patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar.
Tarek Ziadé439bf932009-06-20 13:57:20 +00003044
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003045- Issue #6274: Fixed possible file descriptors leak in subprocess.py.
Facundo Batista8c826b72009-06-19 18:02:28 +00003046
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc5fe420e2009-06-18 22:32:50 +00003047- Issue #6189: Restored compatibility of subprocess.py with Python 2.2.
3048
Tarek Ziadéfdefc0a2009-06-16 07:29:52 +00003049- Issue #6287: Added the license field in Distutils documentation.
3050
Tarek Ziadéa1cc0402009-06-15 23:30:13 +00003051- Issue #6286: Now Distutils upload command is based on urllib2 instead of
3052 httplib, allowing the usage of http_proxy.
3053
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003054- Issue #6271: mmap tried to close invalid file handle (-1) for anonymous maps
3055 on Unix.
Hirokazu Yamamoto983a4652009-06-14 03:53:55 +00003056
Antoine Pitrou19690592009-06-12 20:14:08 +00003057- Issue #6215: All bug fixes and enhancements from the Python 3.1 io library
3058 (including the fast C implementation) have been backported to the standard
3059 ``io`` module.
3060
Martin v. Löwis2dcd7a02009-06-12 17:28:31 +00003061- Issue #6258: Support AMD64 in bdist_msi.
3062
Vinay Sajip334ffe82010-01-15 23:27:05 +00003063- Issue #6252: Fixed bug in next rollover time computation in
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00003064 TimedRotatingFileHandler.
3065
Tarek Ziadéc7498f52009-06-11 09:13:36 +00003066- Issue #6263: Fixed syntax error in distutils.cygwincompiler.
3067
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003068- Issue #5201: distutils.sysconfig.parse_makefile() now understands ``$$`` in
3069 Makefiles. This prevents compile errors when using syntax like:
3070 ``LDFLAGS='-rpath=\$$LIB:/some/other/path'``. Patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
Tarek Ziadé25d2bae2009-06-11 08:12:20 +00003071
Georg Brandle6632b42009-06-04 08:58:32 +00003072- Issue #5767: Removed sgmlop support from xmlrpclib.
3073
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003074- Issue #6131: test_modulefinder leaked when run after test_distutils. Patch by
3075 Hirokazu Yamamoto.
Tarek Ziadé3e3eace2009-05-29 08:08:07 +00003076
Tarek Ziadé9e5d2dc2009-05-28 12:53:54 +00003077- Issue #6048: Now Distutils uses the tarfile module in archive_util.
3078
Raymond Hettingerb4d2d312009-05-29 01:36:26 +00003079- Issue #5150: IDLE's format menu now has an option to strip trailing
3080 whitespace.
3081
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003082- Issue #6121: pydoc now ignores leading and trailing spaces in the argument to
3083 the 'help' function.
R. David Murrayd67ea7d2009-05-27 20:07:21 +00003084
Benjamin Peterson176a56c2009-05-25 00:48:58 +00003085- In unittest, using a skipping decorator on a class is now equivalent to
3086 skipping every test on the class. The ClassTestSuite class has been removed.
3087
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003088- Issue #6050: Don't fail extracting a directory from a zipfile if the directory
3089 already exists.
Martin v. Löwis0b09c422009-05-24 19:30:52 +00003090
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003091- Issue #5311: bdist_msi can now build packages that do not depend on a specific
3092 Python version.
Martin v. Löwis53b578e2009-05-24 19:10:52 +00003093
Antoine Pitroud49e3752009-05-24 15:40:09 +00003094- Issue #1309352: fcntl now converts its third arguments to a C `long` rather
3095 than an int, which makes some operations possible under 64-bit Linux (e.g.
3096 DN_MULTISHOT with F_NOTIFY).
3097
Senthil Kumarane266f252009-05-24 09:14:50 +00003098- Issue #1424152: Fix for httplib, urllib2 to support SSL while working through
3099 proxy. Original patch by Christopher Li, changes made by Senthil Kumaran.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00003100
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003101- Issue #1983: Fix functions taking or returning a process identifier to use the
3102 dedicated C type ``pid_t`` instead of a C ``int``. Some platforms have a
3103 process identifier type wider than the standard C integer type.
Antoine Pitrou5e858fe2009-05-23 15:37:45 +00003104
R. David Murrayad3058e2009-05-23 00:48:58 +00003105- Issue #4066: smtplib.SMTP_SSL._get_socket now correctly returns the socket.
3106 Patch by Farhan Ahmad, test by Marcin Bachry.
3107
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003108- Issue #6062: In distutils, fixed the package option of build_ext. Feedback
Tarek Ziadé7d7127d2009-05-19 16:17:21 +00003109 and tests on pywin32 by Tim Golden.
3110
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003111- Issue #6053: Fixed distutils tests on win32. Patch by Hirokazu Yamamoto.
Tarek Ziadé07bbfcc2009-05-18 12:21:26 +00003112
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003113- Issue #6046: Fixed the library extension when distutils build_ext is used in
3114 place. Initial patch by Roumen Petrov.
Tarek Ziadéfcc7f032009-05-18 08:03:37 +00003115
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00003116- Issue #6041: Now distutils `sdist` and `register` commands use `check` as a
Tarek Ziadécb768042009-05-16 16:37:06 +00003117 subcommand.
3118
Antoine Pitrou775fd662009-05-15 16:54:52 +00003119- Issue #2116: Weak references and weak dictionaries now support copy()ing and
3120 deepcopy()ing.
3121
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003122- Issue #1655: Make imaplib IPv6-capable. Patch by Derek Morr.
Antoine Pitrou52035a02009-05-15 11:50:29 +00003123
Antoine Pitrou42b5bcf2009-05-14 21:48:09 +00003124- Issue #5918: Fix a crash in the parser module.
3125
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003126- Issue #1664: Make nntplib IPv6-capable. Patch by Derek Morr.
Antoine Pitroueed30d82009-05-14 21:22:08 +00003127
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003128- Issue #6022: A test file was created in the current working directory by
Tarek Ziadécbb4f9e2009-05-14 20:14:13 +00003129 test_get_outputs in Distutils.
3130
R. David Murray996ba022009-05-13 17:14:11 +00003131- Issue #4050: inspect.findsource/getsource now raise an IOError if the 'source'
3132 file is a binary. Patch by Brodie Rao, tests by Daniel Diniz.
3133
Tarek Ziadé972480d2009-05-12 17:07:14 +00003134- Issue #5977: distutils build_ext.get_outputs was not taking into account the
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003135 inplace option. Initial patch by kxroberto.
Tarek Ziadé972480d2009-05-12 17:07:14 +00003136
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003137- Issue #5984: distutils.command.build_ext.check_extensions_list checks were
3138 broken for old-style extensions.
Tarek Ziadéd5d83422009-05-10 10:12:08 +00003139
Vinay Sajipf9b01fe2009-05-09 12:07:17 +00003140- Issue #5971: StreamHandler.handleError now swallows IOErrors which occur when
3141 trying to print a traceback.
3142
Tarek Ziadé812d7712009-05-09 10:06:00 +00003143- Issue #5976: Fixed Distutils test_check_environ.
3144
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003145- Issue #5900: Ensure RUNPATH is added to extension modules with RPATH if GNU ld
3146 is used. Original patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
Tarek Ziadée2be83d2009-05-09 08:28:53 +00003147
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003148- Issue #5941: Distutils build_clib command was not working anymore because of
3149 an incomplete costumization of the archiver command. Added ARFLAGS in the
3150 Makefile besides AR and make Distutils use it. Original patch by David
Tarek Ziadé99f660a2009-05-07 21:20:34 +00003151 Cournapeau.
3152
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00003153- Issue #5955: aifc's close method did not close the file it wrapped, now it
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003154 does. This also means getfp method now returns the real fp.
R. David Murrayd3bf34c2009-05-07 16:29:19 +00003155
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003156- Issue #4875: On win32, ctypes.util.find_library does no longer return
3157 directories.
Thomas Hellera57773e2009-05-05 18:55:47 +00003158
Georg Brandl4d4313d2009-05-05 08:54:11 +00003159- Issue #5142: Add the ability to skip modules while stepping to pdb.
3160
Georg Brandle3869c42009-05-05 08:30:28 +00003161- Issue #1309567: Fix linecache behavior of stripping subdirectories when
3162 looking for files given by a relative filename.
3163
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003164- Issue #5692: In ``zipfile.Zipfile``, fix wrong path calculation when
Antoine Pitrou97377bf2009-05-04 21:17:17 +00003165 extracting a file to the root directory.
3166
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003167- Issue #5913: ``os.listdir()`` should fail for empty path on windows.
Hirokazu Yamamoto406d7aa2009-05-04 05:28:39 +00003168
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003169- Issue #5084: Unpickling now interns the attribute names of pickled objects,
3170 saving memory and avoiding growth in size of subsequent pickles. Proposal and
3171 original patch by Jake McGuire.
Antoine Pitrou74309892009-05-02 21:13:23 +00003172
Antoine Pitrou1fc02312009-05-01 20:55:35 +00003173- Issue #3002: ``shutil.copyfile()`` and ``shutil.copytree()`` now raise an
3174 error when a named pipe is encountered, rather than blocking infinitely.
3175
Gregory P. Smith1d499262009-05-01 19:59:52 +00003176- Issue #3959: The ipaddr module has been added to the standard library.
3177 Contributed by Google.
3178
R. David Murray25b4add2009-04-29 13:17:37 +00003179- Issue #2245: aifc now skips chunk types it doesn't recognize, per spec.
3180
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003181- Issue #5874: distutils.tests.test_config_cmd is not locale-sensitive anymore.
Tarek Ziadéa1b91d92009-04-29 08:03:46 +00003182
Thomas Heller90c61a22009-04-28 19:23:41 +00003183- Issue #4305: ctypes should now build again on mipsel-linux-gnu
3184
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003185- Issue #1734234: Massively speedup ``unicodedata.normalize()`` when the string
3186 is already in normalized form, by performing a quick check beforehand.
Antoine Pitroue988e282009-04-27 21:53:26 +00003187 Original patch by Rauli Ruohonen.
3188
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003189- Issue #5853: Calling a function of the mimetypes module from several threads
Antoine Pitrouf2651e12009-04-27 20:50:20 +00003190 at once could hit the recursion limit if the mimetypes database hadn't been
3191 initialized before.
3192
Vinay Sajipe34d6aa2009-04-27 13:44:27 +00003193- Issue #5854: Updated __all__ to include some missing names and remove some
3194 names which should not be exported.
3195
3196- Issue #5810: Fixed Distutils test_build_scripts so it uses
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003197 ``sysconfig.get_config_vars()``.
Tarek Ziadébcddf672009-04-25 12:51:59 +00003198
Tarek Ziadéd567c382009-04-25 12:38:08 +00003199- Issue #4951: Fixed failure in test_httpservers.
3200
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003201- Issue #3102: All global symbols that the _ctypes extension defines are now
3202 prefixed with 'Py' or '_ctypes'.
Thomas Heller5c6af802009-04-24 20:31:47 +00003203
Thomas Hellerec21ccd2009-04-24 20:00:41 +00003204- Issue #5041: ctypes does now allow pickling wide character.
3205
Mark Dickinson4af8e742009-04-24 13:56:07 +00003206- Issue #5812: For the two-argument form of the Fraction constructor,
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003207 ``Fraction(m, n)``, m and n are permitted to be arbitrary Rational instances.
Mark Dickinson4af8e742009-04-24 13:56:07 +00003208
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003209- Issue #5812: Fraction('1e6') is valid: more generally, any string that's valid
3210 for float() is now valid for Fraction(), with the exception of strings
3211 representing NaNs and infinities.
Mark Dickinson8100bd82009-04-22 18:15:25 +00003212
Tarek Ziadé31559b62009-04-20 14:29:42 +00003213- Issue #5795: Fixed test_distutils failure on Debian ppc.
3214
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00003215- Issue #5768: Fixed bug in Unicode output logic and test case for same.
3216
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003217- Issue #1161031: Fix readwrite select flag handling: POLLPRI now results in a
3218 handle_expt_event call, not handle_read_event, and POLLERR and POLLNVAL now
3219 call handle_close, not handle_expt_event. Also, dispatcher now has an
3220 'ignore_log_types' attribute for suppressing log messages, which is set to
3221 'warning' by default.
R. David Murrayabc26602009-04-13 16:56:32 +00003222
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003223- Issue #5607: Fixed Distutils test_get_platform for Mac OS X fat binaries.
Tarek Ziadé156c31a2009-04-13 12:34:01 +00003224
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003225- Issue #5741: Don't disallow "%%" (which is an escape for "%") when setting a
3226 value in SafeConfigParser.
Georg Brandl21cf5ee2009-04-12 17:24:11 +00003227
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003228- Issue #5732: Added a new command in Distutils: check.
Tarek Ziadé942825f2009-04-11 14:55:07 +00003229
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00003230- Issue #5731: Distutils bdist_wininst no longer worked on non-Windows
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003231 platforms. Initial patch by Paul Moore.
Tarek Ziadéad958262009-04-09 21:36:44 +00003232
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003233- Issue #2254: Fix CGIHTTPServer information disclosure. Relative paths are now
3234 collapsed within the url properly before looking in cgi_directories.
Gregory P. Smith923ba362009-04-06 06:33:26 +00003235
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003236- Issue #5095: Added bdist_msi to the list of bdist supported formats. Initial
3237 fix by Steven Bethard.
Tarek Ziadé64408fb2009-04-05 22:51:09 +00003238
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003239- Issue #1491431: Fixed distutils.filelist.glob_to_re for edge cases. Initial
3240 fix by Wayne Davison.
Tarek Ziadéfaa6b122009-04-05 21:44:08 +00003241
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003242- Issue #5693: TestSuite.__iter__ can now be consistently overridden in
3243 subclasses.
Michael Foordf2dfef12009-04-05 19:19:28 +00003244
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003245- Issue #5694: Removed spurious test output in Distutils (test_clean).
Tarek Ziadé453d9532009-04-05 18:31:24 +00003246
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +00003247- Issue #5471: Fix os.path.expanduser() for $HOME set to '/'.
Georg Brandl3f0ef202009-04-05 14:48:49 +00003248
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003249- Issue #1326077: Fix the formatting of SyntaxErrors by the traceback module.
Georg Brandl1956d5c2009-04-05 14:25:41 +00003250
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003251- Issue #1726172: Fix IndexError in the case of and empty response in ftplib.
Georg Brandl50ba6e12009-04-05 10:48:47 +00003252
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003253- Issue #2625: Added missing iteritems() call to the for loop in
R. David Murray52720c52009-04-02 14:05:35 +00003254 mailbox.MH.get_message().
3255
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003256- Issue #5585: Add the ability to call an initializer to
3257 mulitiprocessing.manager so that users can install custom handlers/etc.
Jesse Noller7152f6d2009-04-02 05:17:26 +00003258
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003259- Issue #3551: Patch multiprocessing to raise a proper exception if the size of
3260 the object when writefile is called causes a ERROR_NO_SYSTEM_RESOURCES. Added
3261 docs to note the limitation.
Jesse Noller5053fbb2009-04-02 04:22:09 +00003262
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003263- unittest.assertNotEqual() now uses the inequality operator (!=) instead of the
3264 equality operator.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00003265
3266- Issue #6001: Test discovery for unittest. Implemented in
Michael Foordb4a81c82009-05-29 20:33:46 +00003267 unittest.TestLoader.discover and from the command line.
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00003268
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003269- Issue #5679: The methods unittest.TestCase.addCleanup and doCleanups were
3270 added. addCleanup allows you to add cleanup functions that will be called
Michael Foord07ef4872009-05-02 22:43:34 +00003271 unconditionally (after setUp if setUp fails, otherwise after tearDown). This
3272 allows for much simpler resource allocation and deallocation during tests.
3273
3274- Issue #3379: unittest.main now takes an optional exit argument. If False main
3275 doesn't call sys.exit allowing it to be used from the interactive interpreter.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00003276
3277- Issue #5995: unittest.main now takes an optional verbosity argument allowing
Michael Foord5d31e052009-05-11 17:59:43 +00003278 test modules to be run with a higher than default verbosity.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00003279
3280- Issue #5995: A fix to allow you to run "python -m unittest test_module" or
Michael Foord5d31e052009-05-11 17:59:43 +00003281 "python -m unittest test_module.TestClass" from the command line.
Michael Foord07ef4872009-05-02 22:43:34 +00003282
3283- Issue #5728: unittest.TestResult has new startTestRun and stopTestRun methods;
3284 called immediately before and after a test run.
3285
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003286- Issue #5663: Better failure messages for unittest asserts. Default assertTrue
Michael Foord345b2fe2009-04-02 03:20:38 +00003287 and assertFalse messages are now useful. TestCase has a longMessage attribute.
3288 This defaults to False, but if set to True useful error messages are shown in
3289 addition to explicit messages passed to assert methods.
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00003290
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003291- Issue #3110: Add additional protect around SEM_VALUE_MAX for multiprocessing.
Jesse Nollerb502bc72009-04-02 02:32:55 +00003292
Georg Brandl58b8b952009-04-01 21:54:21 +00003293- In Pdb, prevent the reassignment of __builtin__._ by sys.displayhook on
3294 printing out values.
3295
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003296- Issue #4572: Added SEEK_* symbolic constants to io module.
Georg Brandl5942b912009-04-01 21:05:44 +00003297
Brett Cannonad078a02009-04-01 16:00:34 +00003298- Issue #1665206 (partially): Move imports in cgitb to the top of the module
3299 instead of performing them in functions. Helps prevent import deadlocking in
3300 threads.
3301
Raymond Hettinger66c4a6b2009-04-01 18:50:56 +00003302- Issue #5647: MutableSet.__iand__() no longer mutates self during iteration.
3303
Georg Brandle92d4b62009-04-01 04:21:14 +00003304- Actually make the SimpleXMLRPCServer CGI handler work.
3305
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003306- Issue #2522: locale.format() now checks its first argument to ensure it has
R. David Murraya83da352009-04-01 03:21:43 +00003307 been passed only one pattern, avoiding mysterious errors where it appeared
3308 that it was failing to do localization.
3309
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003310- Issue #5583: Added optional extensions in Distutils. Initial patch by Georg
Tarek Ziadé9e47ce42009-03-31 22:27:23 +00003311 Brandl.
3312
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003313- Issue #5619: Multiprocessing children disobey the debug flag and causes popups
3314 on windows buildbots. Patch applied to work around this issue.
Jesse Noller42f9b4e2009-03-31 22:20:35 +00003315
Benjamin Petersond906ea62009-03-31 21:34:42 +00003316- Issue #5632: Thread.ident was None for the main thread and threads not created
3317 with the threading module.
3318
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003319- Issue #5400: Added patch for multiprocessing on netbsd compilation/support.
Jesse Noller1f0a5552009-03-31 18:27:14 +00003320
Hirokazu Yamamoto9d2ee5d2009-03-31 13:13:05 +00003321- Issue #5387: Fixed mmap.move crash by integer overflow.
3322
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003323- Issue #5261: Patch multiprocessing's semaphore.c to support context manager
3324 use: "with multiprocessing.Lock()" works now.
Jesse Noller82eb5902009-03-30 23:29:31 +00003325
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00003326- Issue #5177: Multiprocessing's SocketListener class now uses
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003327 socket.SO_REUSEADDR on all connections so that the user no longer needs to
3328 wait 120 seconds for the socket to expire.
Jesse Noller459a6482009-03-30 15:50:42 +00003329
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003330- Adjusted _tkinter to compile without warnings when WITH_THREAD is not defined
3331 (part of issue #5035).
Guilherme Polo1972d162009-03-27 21:43:08 +00003332
Marc-André Lemburgcbdf15b2009-03-25 19:45:33 +00003333- Issue #5561: Removed the sys.version_info shortcuts from platform's
3334 python_version() and python_version_tuple() since they produced different
3335 output compared to previous Python versions.
3336
Benjamin Peterson692428e2009-03-23 21:50:21 +00003337- Issue #1034053: unittest now supports skipping tests and expected failures.
3338
Gregory P. Smith28399852009-03-31 16:54:10 +00003339- The unittest.TestCase.assertRaises() method now returns a context manager when
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003340 not given a callable so that code to be tested can be written inline using a
3341 with statement.
Gregory P. Smith28399852009-03-31 16:54:10 +00003342
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003343- Issue #2578: The unittest.TestCase.assertEqual() now displays the differences
3344 in lists, tuples, dicts and sets on failure. Many new handy type and
3345 comparison specific assert* methods have been added that fail with error
3346 messages actually useful for debugging. Contributed in part by Google.
Gregory P. Smith28399852009-03-31 16:54:10 +00003347
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003348- Issue #5068: Fixed the tarfile._BZ2Proxy.read() method that would loop forever
3349 on incomplete input. That caused tarfile.open() to hang when used with mode
3350 'r' or 'r:bz2' and a fileobj argument that contained no data or partial bzip2
3351 compressed data.
Lars Gustäbel2020a592009-03-22 20:09:33 +00003352
Benjamin Petersonb364bfe2009-03-22 17:45:11 +00003353- Issue #5536: urllib.urlretrieve makes sure to close the file it's writing to
3354 even if an exception occurs.
3355
Raymond Hettinger91852ca2009-03-19 19:19:03 +00003356- Issue #5381: Added object_pairs_hook to the json module. This allows
3357 OrderedDicts to be built by the decoder.
3358
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003359- Issue #2110: Add support for thousands separator and 'n' type specifier to
3360 ``Decimal.__format__()``.
Mark Dickinson277859d2009-03-17 23:03:46 +00003361
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003362- Fix Decimal.__format__ bug that swapped the meanings of the '<' and '>'
3363 alignment characters.
Mark Dickinsonb065e522009-03-17 18:01:03 +00003364
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003365- Issue #1222: ``locale.format()`` bug when the thousands separator is a space
Antoine Pitroufeeafff2009-03-14 00:07:21 +00003366 character.
3367
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003368- Issue #5472: Fixed distutils.test_util tear down. Original patch by Tim
3369 Golden.
Tarek Ziadé61585c22009-03-11 12:48:04 +00003370
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003371- collections.deque objects now have a read-only attribute called maxlen.
Raymond Hettinger56411aa2009-03-10 12:50:59 +00003372
Guilherme Polo15d57652009-03-07 02:14:38 +00003373- Issue #2638: Show a window constructed with tkSimpleDialog.Dialog only after
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003374 it is has been populated and properly configured in order to prevent window
3375 flashing.
Guilherme Polo15d57652009-03-07 02:14:38 +00003376
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003377- Issue #4792: Prevent a segfault in _tkinter by using the guaranteed to be safe
3378 interp argument given to the PythonCmd in place of the Tcl interpreter taken
3379 from a PythonCmd_ClientData.
Guilherme Polo3768b2f2009-03-07 01:47:49 +00003380
Guilherme Polo6d6c1fd2009-03-07 01:19:12 +00003381- Issue #5193: Guarantee that Tkinter.Text.search returns a string.
3382
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003383- Issue #5394: Removed > 2.3 syntax from distutils.msvc9compiler.
Tarek Ziadé943b24e2009-03-07 00:32:45 +00003384 Original patch by Akira Kitada.
3385
Hirokazu Yamamoto264fc122009-03-05 14:21:12 +00003386- Issue #5385: Fixed mmap crash after resize failure on windows.
3387
Hirokazu Yamamotoeacbbdf2009-03-03 22:18:14 +00003388- Issue #5179: Fixed subprocess handle leak on failure on windows.
3389
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003390- PEP 372: Added collections.OrderedDict().
Raymond Hettingerbc512d32009-03-03 04:45:34 +00003391
Raymond Hettinger88a91642009-03-03 04:51:24 +00003392- The _asdict() for method for namedtuples now returns an OrderedDict().
3393
Raymond Hettingere89b8e92009-03-03 05:00:37 +00003394- The configparser module now defaults to using an ordered dictionary.
3395
Benjamin Peterson7d49bba2009-03-02 22:41:42 +00003396- Issue #4308: httplib.IncompleteRead's repr doesn't include all of the data all
3397 ready received.
3398
Benjamin Petersonad58b7c2009-03-02 03:35:12 +00003399- Issue #5401: Fixed a performance problem in mimetypes when ``from mimetypes
3400 import guess_extension`` was used.
3401
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003402- Issue #1733986: Fixed mmap crash on Windows in accessing elements of second
3403 map object with same tagname but larger size than first map.
Hirokazu Yamamotob0e10c72009-02-28 12:13:07 +00003404
Hirokazu Yamamotof2dc8852009-02-28 10:31:54 +00003405- Issue #5386: mmap.write_byte didn't check map size, so it could cause buffer
3406 overrun.
3407
Tarek Ziadé73347352009-02-28 10:08:02 +00003408- Issue #1533164: Installed but not listed *.pyo was breaking Distutils
3409 bdist_rpm command.
3410
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003411- Issue #5378: Added --quiet option to Distutils bdist_rpm command.
Tarek Ziadé73347352009-02-28 10:08:02 +00003412
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003413- Issue #5052: Make Distutils compatible with 2.3 again.
Tarek Ziadédda92f72009-02-27 12:53:34 +00003414
Benjamin Petersonb3dd5482009-02-26 19:07:18 +00003415- Deprecated methods of symtable.Symbol have been removed: is_keywordarg(),
3416 is_vararg(), and is_in_tuple().
3417
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003418- Issue #5316: Fixed buildbot failures introduced by multiple inheritance in
3419 Distutils tests.
Tarek Ziadée3bc0ef2009-02-25 22:29:27 +00003420
Vinay Sajip1a0d2be2009-02-19 12:31:32 +00003421- Issue #5287: Add exception handling around findCaller() call to help out
3422 IronPython.
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00003423
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003424- Issue #5282: Fixed mmap resize on 32bit Windows and Unix. When ``offset >
3425 0``, the file was resized to wrong size.
Hirokazu Yamamoto17a837e2009-02-17 13:17:26 +00003426
Hirokazu Yamamotof6bbd0e2009-02-17 10:12:10 +00003427- Issue #5292: Fixed mmap crash on its boundary access m[len(m)].
3428
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003429- Issue #2279: distutils.sdist.add_defaults now add files from the package_data
3430 and the data_files metadata.
Tarek Ziadé7dd53392009-02-16 21:38:01 +00003431
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003432- Issue #5257: Refactored all tests in distutils, so they use
Tarek Ziadé13699002009-02-14 14:10:23 +00003433 support.TempdirManager, to avoid writing in the tests directory.
3434
Tarek Ziadé2432b0b2009-02-13 23:00:43 +00003435- Issue #4524: distutils build_script command failed with --with-suffix=3.
3436 Initial patch by Amaury Forgeot d'Arc.
3437
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003438- Issue #2461: Added tests for distutils.util.
Tarek Ziadé275958a2009-02-13 22:22:03 +00003439
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003440- Issue #1008086: Fixed socket.inet_aton() to always return 4 bytes even on LP64
3441 platforms (most 64-bit Linux, bsd, unix systems).
Gregory P. Smith3605b5c2009-02-11 23:45:25 +00003442
Thomas Heller3689ae22009-02-10 18:43:01 +00003443- Issue #5203: Fixed ctypes segfaults when passing a unicode string to a
3444 function without argtypes (only occurs if HAVE_USABLE_WCHAR_T is false).
3445
Tarek Ziadé74fbf602009-02-10 12:31:09 +00003446- Issue #3386: distutils.sysconfig.get_python_lib prefix argument was ignored
3447 under NT and OS2. Patch by Philip Jenvey.
3448
Brett Cannon28d10882009-02-10 02:07:38 +00003449- Issue #5128: Make compileall properly inspect bytecode to determine if needs
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003450 to be recreated. This avoids a timing hole thanks to the old reliance on the
Brett Cannon28d10882009-02-10 02:07:38 +00003451 ctime of the files involved.
3452
Guilherme Poloa66cf5b2009-02-09 20:50:27 +00003453- Issue #5122: Synchronize tk load failure check to prevent a potential
3454 deadlock.
3455
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003456- Issue #1818: collections.namedtuple() now supports a keyword argument 'rename'
3457 which lets invalid fieldnames be automatically converted to positional names
3458 in the form, _1, _2, ...
Raymond Hettinger322daea2009-02-10 01:24:05 +00003459
Guilherme Polod2ea0332009-02-09 16:41:09 +00003460- Issue #4890: Handle empty text search pattern in Tkinter.Text.search.
3461
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003462- Issue #5170: Fixed Unicode output bug in logging and added test case. This is
3463 a regression which did not occur in 2.5.
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +00003464
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003465- Issue #4512 (part 2): Promote ``ZipImporter._get_filename()`` to be a public
3466 documented method ``ZipImporter.get_filename()``.
Nick Coghlan0194f5b2009-02-08 03:17:00 +00003467
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003468- Issue #4195: The ``runpy`` module (and the ``-m`` switch) now support the
3469 execution of packages by looking for and executing a ``__main__`` submodule
3470 when a package name is supplied. Initial patch by Andi Vajda.
Nick Coghland39600e2009-02-08 01:26:34 +00003471
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003472- Issue #1731706: Call Tcl_ConditionFinalize for Tcl_Conditions that will not be
3473 used again (this requires Tcl/Tk 8.3.1), also fix a memory leak in Tkapp_Call
3474 when calling from a thread different than the one that created the Tcl
3475 interpreter. Patch by Robert Hancock.
Guilherme Polo14ff18d2009-02-06 22:26:22 +00003476
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +00003477- Issue #1520877: Now distutils.sysconfig reads $AR from the
Tarek Ziadé05adf072009-02-06 01:15:51 +00003478 environment/Makefile. Patch by Douglas Greiman.
3479
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003480- Issue #4285: Change sys.version_info to be a named tuple. Patch by Ross
3481 Light.
Eric Smith81fe0932009-02-06 00:48:26 +00003482
Tarek Ziadéd5eb9852009-02-06 00:31:59 +00003483- Issue #1276768: The verbose option was not used in the code of
3484 distutils.file_util and distutils.dir_util.
3485
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +00003486- Issue #5132: Fixed trouble building extensions under Solaris with
Tarek Ziadé0d4fd342009-02-05 22:52:52 +00003487 --enabled-shared activated. Initial patch by Dave Peterson.
3488
Guilherme Polod7bb4d42009-02-02 21:14:14 +00003489- Issue #1581476: Always use the Tcl global namespace when calling into Tcl.
3490
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003491- Issue #2047: shutil.move() could believe that its destination path was inside
3492 its source path if it began with the same letters (e.g. "src" vs. "src.new").
Antoine Pitrou707c5932009-01-29 20:19:34 +00003493
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003494- Issue #4920: Fixed .next() vs .__next__() issues in the ABCs for Iterator and
3495 MutableSet.
Raymond Hettingerf779e6f2009-01-28 23:02:26 +00003496
Guilherme Polocda93aa2009-01-28 13:09:03 +00003497- Added the ttk module. See issue #2983: Ttk support for Tkinter.
3498
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003499- Issue #5021: doctest.testfile() did not create __name__ and
Raymond Hettingerecf252a2009-01-27 10:03:04 +00003500 collections.namedtuple() relied on __name__ being defined.
3501
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003502- Backport importlib from Python 3.1. Only the import_module() function has been
3503 backported to help facilitate transitions from 2.7 to 3.1.
Brett Cannon93881c62009-01-26 01:16:50 +00003504
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003505- Issue #1885: distutils: When running sdist with --formats=tar,gztar the tar
3506 file was overriden by the gztar one.
Tarek Ziadéaaedcef2009-01-25 23:34:00 +00003507
Tarek Ziadéef249b12009-01-25 18:19:25 +00003508- Issue #4863: distutils.mwerkscompiler has been removed.
3509
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003510- Added new itertools functions: combinations_with_replacement() and compress().
Raymond Hettinger2bcb8e92009-01-25 21:04:14 +00003511
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003512- Issue #5032: Added a step argument to itertools.count() and allowed
3513 non-integer arguments.
Raymond Hettinger31c769c2009-02-12 05:39:46 +00003514
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003515- Fix and properly document the multiprocessing module's logging support, expose
3516 the internal levels and provide proper usage examples.
Jesse Nollerb5a4b0a2009-01-25 03:36:13 +00003517
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003518- Issue #1672332: Fix unpickling of subnormal floats, which was
Mark Dickinsona3ecd2c2009-01-24 16:40:29 +00003519 producing a ValueError on some platforms.
3520
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003521- Issue #3881: Help Tcl to load even when started through the unreadable local
3522 symlink to "Program Files" on Vista.
Martin v. Löwisf081e1c2009-01-24 15:47:27 +00003523
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003524- Issue #4710: Extract directories properly in the zipfile module; allow adding
3525 directories to a zipfile.
Martin v. Löwis0dfcfc82009-01-24 14:00:33 +00003526
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +00003527- Issue #3807: _multiprocessing build fails when configure is passed
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003528 --without-threads argument. When this occurs, _multiprocessing will be
3529 disabled, and not compiled.
Jesse Nollerf6da8d12009-01-23 14:04:41 +00003530
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003531- Issue #5008: When a file is opened in append mode with the new IO library, do
3532 an explicit seek to the end of file (so that e.g. tell() returns the file size
3533 rather than 0). This is consistent with the behaviour of the traditional 2.x
3534 file object.
Antoine Pitroue741cc62009-01-21 00:45:36 +00003535
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00003536- Issue #5013: Fixed a bug in FileHandler which occurred when the delay
3537 parameter was set.
3538
Raymond Hettinger933d3a72009-01-20 20:34:19 +00003539- Issue #4998: The memory saving effect of __slots__ had been lost on Fractions
3540 which inherited from numbers.py which did not have __slots__ defined. The
Mark Dickinson39c6f7f2009-02-12 17:55:42 +00003541 numbers hierarchy now has its own __slots__ declarations.
Raymond Hettinger933d3a72009-01-20 20:34:19 +00003542
Jesse Noller9a5b2ad2009-01-19 15:12:22 +00003543- Issue #3321: _multiprocessing.Connection() doesn't check handle; added checks
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003544 for *nix machines for negative handles and large int handles. Without this
3545 check it is possible to segfault the interpreter.
Jesse Noller9a5b2ad2009-01-19 15:12:22 +00003546
Jesse Noller6ab22152009-01-18 02:45:38 +00003547- Issue #4449: AssertionError in mp_benchmarks.py, caused by an underlying issue
3548 in sharedctypes.py.
3549
Benjamin Peterson5e5fbb62009-01-17 22:27:54 +00003550- Issue #1225107: inspect.isclass() returned True for instances with a custom
3551 __getattr__.
3552
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003553- Issue #3997: Zipfiles generated with more than 65536 files could not be opened
3554 with other applications.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd25f87a2009-01-17 16:40:17 +00003555
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003556- Issue #1162154: ``inspect.getmembers()`` now skips attributes that raise
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcb54447f2009-01-13 23:39:22 +00003557 AttributeError, e.g. a __slots__ attribute which has not been set.
3558
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003559- Issue #1696199: Add collections.Counter() for rapid and convenient counting.
Raymond Hettingerf94d7fa2009-01-12 22:58:41 +00003560
Antoine Pitroubd4b5f22009-01-10 16:15:24 +00003561- Issue #3860: GzipFile and BZ2File now support the context manager protocol.
3562
Antoine Pitrouf0d2c3f2009-01-04 21:29:23 +00003563- Issue #4272: Add an optional argument to the GzipFile constructor to override
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003564 the timestamp in the gzip stream. The default value remains the current time.
3565 The information can be used by e.g. gunzip when decompressing. Patch by
Antoine Pitrouf0d2c3f2009-01-04 21:29:23 +00003566 Jacques Frechet.
3567
Mark Dickinson514d4832009-01-04 21:25:40 +00003568- Restore Python 2.3 compatibility for decimal.py.
3569
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00003570- Issue #1702551: distutils sdist was not excluding VCS directories under
Tarek Ziadé85d6fb52009-01-04 00:04:49 +00003571 Windows. Inital solution by Guy Dalberto.
3572
Guilherme Poloe7f14032009-01-03 21:51:09 +00003573- The _tkinter module functions "createfilehandler", "deletefilehandler",
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003574 "createtimerhandler", "mainloop", "dooneevent" and "quit" have been deprecated
3575 for removal in 3.x
Guilherme Poloe7f14032009-01-03 21:51:09 +00003576
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003577- Issue #4796: Added Decimal.from_float() and
3578 Context.create_decimal_from_float() to the decimal module.
Raymond Hettingerf4d85972009-01-03 19:02:23 +00003579
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003580- Issue #4812: Add missing underscore prefix to some internal-use-only constants
3581 in the decimal module. (Dec_0 becomes _Dec_0, etc.)
Mark Dickinsonc5de0962009-01-02 23:07:08 +00003582
Benjamin Peterson8ad09a42008-12-31 23:48:39 +00003583- Issue #4795: inspect.isgeneratorfunction() returns False instead of None when
3584 the function is not a generator.
3585
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003586- Issue #4702: Throwing a DistutilsPlatformError instead of IOError in case no
3587 MSVC compiler is found under Windows. Original patch by Philip Jenvey.
Tarek Ziadéb1a85412008-12-30 23:03:41 +00003588
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003589- Issue #4646: distutils was choking on empty options arg in the setup function.
3590 Original patch by Thomas Heller.
Tarek Ziadéc13acb12008-12-29 22:23:53 +00003591
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003592- Fractions.from_float() no longer loses precision for integers too big to cast
3593 as floats.
Georg Brandlfe427892009-01-03 22:03:11 +00003594
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003595- Issue #4790: The nsmallest() and nlargest() functions in the heapq module did
3596 unnecessary work in the common case where no key function was specified.
Georg Brandlfe427892009-01-03 22:03:11 +00003597
Martin v. Löwis732479f2008-12-29 16:22:25 +00003598- Issue #3767: Convert Tk object to string in tkColorChooser.
3599
Martin v. Löwise2eb2b42008-12-29 15:51:01 +00003600- Issue #3248: Allow placing ScrolledText in a PanedWindow.
3601
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003602- Issue #4444: Allow assertRaises() to be used as a context handler, so that the
3603 code under test can be written inline if more practical.
Antoine Pitrou697ca3d2008-12-28 14:09:36 +00003604
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003605- Issue #4739: Add pydoc help topics for symbols, so that e.g. help('@') works
3606 as expected in the interactive environment.
Georg Brandlc3a98032008-12-27 18:20:04 +00003607
Antoine Pitrou6f193e02008-12-27 15:43:12 +00003608- Issue #4756: zipfile.is_zipfile() now supports file-like objects. Patch by
3609 Gabriel Genellina.
3610
Tarek Ziadée4c75bb2008-12-24 19:10:05 +00003611- Issue #4400: .pypirc default generated file was broken in distutils.
3612
Benjamin Peterson54686e32008-12-24 15:10:27 +00003613- Issue #4736: io.BufferedRWPair's closed property now functions properly.
3614
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003615- Issue #3954: Fix a potential SystemError in _hotshot.logreader error handling.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc31949b92008-12-15 21:47:57 +00003616
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003617- Issue #4574: Fix a crash in io.IncrementalNewlineDecoder when a carriage
3618 return encodes to more than one byte in the source encoding (e.g. UTF-16) and
3619 gets split on a chunk boundary.
Antoine Pitrou655fbf12008-12-14 17:40:51 +00003620
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003621- Issue #4223: inspect.getsource() will now correctly display source code for
3622 packages loaded via zipimport (or any other conformant PEP 302
Nick Coghlana2053472008-12-14 10:54:50 +00003623 loader). Original patch by Alexander Belopolsky.
3624
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003625- Issue #4201: pdb can now access and display source code loaded via zipimport
3626 (or any other conformant PEP 302 loader). Original patch by Alexander
3627 Belopolsky.
Nick Coghlana2053472008-12-14 10:54:50 +00003628
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003629- Issue #4197: Doctests in modules loaded via zipimport (or any other PEP 302
3630 conformant loader) will now work correctly in most cases (they are still
3631 subject to the constraints that exist for all code running from inside a
3632 module loaded via a PEP 302 loader and attempting to perform IO operations
3633 based on __file__). Original patch by Alexander Belopolsky.
Nick Coghlana2053472008-12-14 10:54:50 +00003634
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003635- Issues #4082 and #4512: Add runpy support to zipimport in a manner that allows
3636 backporting to maintenance branches. Original patch by Alexander Belopolsky.
Nick Coghlana2053472008-12-14 10:54:50 +00003637
Antoine Pitrou74af3bb2008-12-13 23:12:30 +00003638- Issue #4163: Use unicode-friendly word splitting in the textwrap functions
3639 when given an unicode string.
3640
Lars Gustäbel3b027422008-12-12 13:58:03 +00003641- Issue #4616: TarFile.utime(): Restore directory times on Windows.
3642
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003643- Issue #4084: Fix max, min, max_mag and min_mag Decimal methods to give correct
3644 results in the case where one argument is a quiet NaN and the other is a
3645 finite number that requires rounding.
Facundo Batistae29d4352008-12-11 04:19:46 +00003646
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003647- Issue #1030250: Distutils created directories even when run with the --dry-run
3648 option.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc240028c2008-12-11 00:03:42 +00003649
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003650- Issue #4483: _dbm module now builds on systems with gdbm & gdbm_compat libs.
Skip Montanaro45313fe2008-12-06 17:43:30 +00003651
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003652- Issue #4529: Fix the parser module's validation of try-except-finally
Georg Brandlfe879e82008-12-05 12:09:41 +00003653 statements.
3654
Georg Brandla07435d2008-12-05 09:23:14 +00003655- Issue #4458: getopt.gnu_getopt() now recognizes a single "-" as an argument,
3656 not a malformed option.
3657
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003658- Added the subprocess.check_output() convenience function to get output from a
3659 subprocess on success or raise an exception on error.
Gregory P. Smith97f49f42008-12-04 20:21:09 +00003660
Fred Drake52481032008-12-04 18:25:17 +00003661- Issue #1055234: cgi.parse_header(): Fixed parsing of header parameters to
3662 support unusual filenames (such as those containing semi-colons) in
3663 Content-Disposition headers.
3664
Vinay Sajip6831d6b2008-12-04 20:32:18 +00003665- Issue #4384: Added logging integration with warnings module using
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003666 captureWarnings(). This change includes a NullHandler which does nothing; it
3667 will be of use to library developers who want to avoid the "No handlers could
3668 be found for logger XXX" message which can appear if the library user doesn't
3669 configure logging.
Vinay Sajip213faca2008-12-03 23:22:58 +00003670
Christian Heimesaa674712008-11-28 11:02:32 +00003671- Issue #3741: DISTUTILS_USE_SDK set causes msvc9compiler.py to raise an
3672 exception.
3673
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003674- Issue #4363: The uuid.uuid1() and uuid.uuid4() functions now work even if the
3675 ctypes module is not present.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd4294172008-11-21 22:05:48 +00003676
Benjamin Petersonbfc51562008-11-22 01:59:15 +00003677- FileIO's mode attribute now always includes ``"b"``.
3678
Martin v. Löwisbb9b1f12008-11-19 09:09:41 +00003679- Issue #4116: Resolve member name conflict in ScrolledCanvas.__init__.
3680
Brett Cannone3d0bf72008-11-15 22:40:44 +00003681- httplib.HTTPConnection.putheader() now accepts an arbitrary number of values
3682 for any header, matching what the documentation has claimed for a while.
3683
Hirokazu Yamamotob9828f62008-11-03 18:03:06 +00003684- Issue #3774: Fixed an error when create a Tkinter menu item without command
3685 and then remove it.
3686
Thomas Heller1fac5a42008-10-30 20:18:13 +00003687- Fixed a modulefinder crash on certain relative imports.
3688
Benjamin Petersonc18574c2008-10-22 21:16:34 +00003689- Issue #4150: Pdb's "up" command now works for generator frames in post-mortem
3690 debugging.
3691
Benjamin Petersone4dc1752008-10-21 22:20:31 +00003692- Issue #4092: Return ArgInfo as promised in the documentation from
3693 inspect.getargvalues.
3694
Georg Brandlf3776a12008-10-08 18:47:17 +00003695- Issue #3935: Properly support list subclasses in bisect's C implementation.
3696
Martin v. Löwis96a9f232008-10-06 15:15:40 +00003697- Issue #4014: Don't claim that Python has an Alpha release status, in addition
3698 to claiming it is Mature.
3699
Alexandre Vassalotti6067f782008-12-27 07:13:01 +00003700- Issue #4730: Fixed the cPickle module to handle correctly astral characters
3701 when protocol 0 is used.
3702
Ronald Oussoren0238497e2009-01-02 14:10:20 +00003703- Issue #1594: MacOS.GetCreatorAndType now always returns a big-endian result,
3704 to be consistent with Apple tools.
3705
Ronald Oussoren63b74fe2009-01-02 14:46:19 +00003706- Issue #900949: plat-mac/videoreader.py no longer relies on a non-existing
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00003707 module.
Ronald Oussoren63b74fe2009-01-02 14:46:19 +00003708
Ronald Oussoren7f8cbf02009-01-02 14:48:17 +00003709- Issue #16278952: plat-mac/videoreader.py now correctly imports MediaDescr
3710
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003711- Issue #1737832: plat-mac/EasyDialog.py no longer uses the broken aepack
Ronald Oussoren919697c2009-01-02 14:52:09 +00003712 module.
3713
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003714- Issue #1149804: macostools.mkdirs now even works when another process creates
3715 one of the needed subdirectories.
Ronald Oussorenabcc1682009-01-02 15:00:05 +00003716
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003717- Issue #900506: added --no-zipimport flag to the bundlebuilder script.
Ronald Oussoren072bb402009-01-02 15:25:36 +00003718
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003719- Issue #841800: bundlebuilder now works with 'python -O'.
Ronald Oussoren072bb402009-01-02 15:25:36 +00003720
Matthias Klose43723e22009-01-10 17:00:42 +00003721- Issue #4861: ctypes.util.find_library(): Robustify. Fix library detection on
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003722 biarch systems. Try to rely on ldconfig only, without using objdump and gcc.
Matthias Klose43723e22009-01-10 17:00:42 +00003723
Gregory P. Smithde1a8b72009-01-31 22:57:30 +00003724- Issue #5104: The socket module now raises OverflowError when 16-bit port and
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003725 protocol numbers are supplied outside the allowed 0-65536 range on bind() and
3726 getservbyport().
Gregory P. Smithde1a8b72009-01-31 22:57:30 +00003727
Neil Schemenauer92c3b212009-02-07 00:54:41 +00003728- Issue #999042: The Python compiler now handles explict global statements
3729 correctly (should be assigned using STORE_GLOBAL opcode).
3730
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003731- Issue #2703: SimpleXMLRPCDispatcher.__init__: Provide default values for new
3732 arguments introduced in 2.5.
Matthias Klosea5d58c82009-04-05 21:00:48 +00003733
Walter Dörwald5d98ec72009-04-25 14:03:16 +00003734- Issue #5828 (Invalid behavior of unicode.lower): Fixed bogus logic in
3735 makeunicodedata.py and regenerated the Unicode database (This fixes
3736 u'\u1d79'.lower() == '\x00').
3737
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Wervenb87b3342009-05-08 14:11:23 +00003738- Windows locale mapping updated to Vista.
3739
Antoine Pitroue555f582008-12-27 20:34:52 +00003740Tools/Demos
3741-----------
3742
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003743- Ttk demos added in Demo/tkinter/ttk/.
Guilherme Polo4eae0782009-01-28 15:56:01 +00003744
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003745- Issue #4677: Add two list comprehension tests to pybench.
Antoine Pitroue555f582008-12-27 20:34:52 +00003746
Brett Cannon60b15d22008-10-06 22:44:37 +00003747Build
3748-----
3749
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003750- Issue #6603: Change READ_TIMESTAMP macro in ceval.c so that it compiles
3751 correctly under gcc on x86-64. This fixes a reported problem with the
3752 --with-tsc build on x86-64.
Mark Dickinson504a1512009-10-31 10:11:28 +00003753
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003754- Add 2 new options to ``--with-universal-archs`` on MacOSX: ``intel`` builds a
3755 distribution with ``i386`` and ``x86_64`` architectures, while ``3-way``
3756 builds a distribution with the ``ppc``, ``i386`` and ``x86_64`` architectures.
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +00003757
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003758- Issue #6802: Fix build issues on MacOSX 10.6.
Ronald Oussoren25967582009-09-06 10:00:26 +00003759
Guilherme Polo1ce2d532009-08-16 14:38:57 +00003760- Issue #6244: Allow detect_tkinter to look for Tcl/Tk 8.6.
3761
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00003762- Issue #5390: Add uninstall icon independent of whether file extensions are
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003763 installed.
Martin v. Löwisecb4f952009-06-28 09:32:39 +00003764
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00003765- Issue #5809: Specifying both --enable-framework and --enable-shared is an
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003766 error. Configure now explicity tells you about this.
Ronald Oussoren450d5612009-06-08 21:12:41 +00003767
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003768- Issue #3585: Add pkg-config support. It creates a python-2.7.pc file and a
3769 python.pc symlink in the $(LIBDIR)/pkgconfig directory. Patch by Clinton Roy.
Antoine Pitrouf2caeed2009-05-24 20:23:57 +00003770
Benjamin Petersone5afa3b2009-05-23 19:24:37 +00003771- Issue #6094: Build correctly with Subversion 1.7.
3772
Martin v. Löwis588b54b2009-05-05 16:10:16 +00003773- Issue #5847: Remove -n switch on "Edit with IDLE" menu item.
3774
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003775- Issue #5726: Make Modules/ld_so_aix return the actual exit code of the linker,
3776 rather than always exit successfully. Patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
Antoine Pitrou3fd4ea92009-05-01 21:16:14 +00003777
Matthias Klose10cbe482009-04-29 17:18:19 +00003778- Issue #4587: Add configure option --with-dbmliborder=db1:db2:... to specify
Vinay Sajipf9b01fe2009-05-09 12:07:17 +00003779 the order that backends for the dbm extension are checked.
Matthias Klose10cbe482009-04-29 17:18:19 +00003780
Matthias Klose8ad554f2009-02-22 23:14:26 +00003781- Link the shared python library with $(MODLIBS).
3782
Martin v. Löwisa3e3cb72009-02-10 13:09:19 +00003783- Issue #5134: Silence compiler warnings when compiling sqlite with VC++.
3784
Martin v. Löwisfee1c7f2009-02-02 14:23:16 +00003785- Issue #4494: Fix build with Py_NO_ENABLE_SHARED on Windows.
3786
Martin v. Löwiseefda272009-01-11 09:43:55 +00003787- Issue #4895: Use _strdup on Windows CE.
3788
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003789- Issue #4472: ``configure --enable-shared`` now works on OSX.
Ronald Oussorenf7d54052009-01-02 10:48:31 +00003790
Benjamin Petersonfd9633e2008-12-28 15:37:31 +00003791- Issues #4728 and #4060: WORDS_BIGEDIAN is now correct in Universal builds.
3792
Martin v. Löwiscb6c3592008-11-30 11:08:26 +00003793- Issue #4389: Add icon to the uninstall entry in "add-and-remove-programs".
3794
Martin v. Löwis63470982008-11-19 13:51:44 +00003795- Issue #4289: Remove Cancel button from AdvancedDlg.
3796
Martin v. Löwis3d6f8ff2008-11-07 18:51:50 +00003797- Issue #1656675: Register a drop handler for .py* files on Windows.
3798
Martin v. Löwis692c2f82008-11-06 16:43:00 +00003799- Issue #4120: Exclude manifest from extension modules in VS2008.
3800
Martin v. Löwis0f3e7692008-10-17 13:43:01 +00003801- Issue #4091: Install pythonxy.dll in system32 again.
3802
Martin v. Löwiseba774b2008-10-13 11:23:35 +00003803- Issue #4018: Disable "for me" installations on Vista.
3804
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003805- Issue #3758: Add ``patchcheck`` build target to ``.PHONY``.
Brett Cannon60b15d22008-10-06 22:44:37 +00003806
Martin v. Löwisbb86d832008-11-04 20:40:09 +00003807- Issue #4204: Fixed module build errors on FreeBSD 4.
3808
Tarek Ziadéc4a4aeb2009-08-21 14:28:38 +00003809Documentation
3810-------------
3811
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003812- Issue #6556: Fixed the Distutils configuration files location explanation for
3813 Windows.
Tarek Ziadéc4a4aeb2009-08-21 14:28:38 +00003814
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003815- Issue #6801: symmetric_difference_update also accepts ``|``. Thanks to Carl
3816 Chenet.
Tarek Ziadé3092ed92009-08-29 13:33:21 +00003817
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc07d539d2008-10-14 21:47:22 +00003818C-API
3819-----
3820
Mark Dickinsone31d3002009-12-21 11:21:25 +00003821- Issue #7528: Add PyLong_AsLongAndOverflow (backported from py3k).
3822
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003823- Issue #7228: Add '%lld' and '%llu' support to PyString_FromFormat(V) and
3824 PyErr_Format, on machines with HAVE_LONG_LONG defined.
Mark Dickinson82864d12009-11-15 16:18:58 +00003825
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003826- Add new C-API function PyOS_string_to_double, and deprecated PyOS_ascii_atof
3827 and PyOS_ascii_strtod.
Mark Dickinson09823a22009-10-31 09:42:39 +00003828
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003829- Removed _PyOS_double_to_string. Use PyOS_double_to_string instead. This is in
3830 preparation for (but not strictly related to) issue #7117, short float repr.
Mark Dickinsonba26b392009-10-31 09:28:12 +00003831
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003832- Issue #6624: PyArg_ParseTuple with "s" format when parsing argument with NULL:
3833 Bogus TypeError detail string.
Sean Reifscheider9279e7d2009-08-01 23:54:55 +00003834
Jeffrey Yasskinf7f858d2009-05-08 22:23:21 +00003835- Issue #5954: Add a PyFrame_GetLineNumber() function to replace most uses of
3836 PyCode_Addr2Line().
3837
Jeffrey Yasskin1aa47002009-05-08 21:51:06 +00003838- Issue #5959: Add a PyCode_NewEmpty() function to create a new empty code
3839 object at a specified file, function, and line number.
3840
Brett Cannonc4f90eb2009-04-02 03:17:39 +00003841- Issue #1419652: Change the first argument to PyImport_AppendInittab() to
3842 ``const char *`` as the string is stored beyond the call.
3843
Benjamin Peterson5781f322009-02-16 21:09:09 +00003844- Some PyBytes_* aliases have been removed because they don't exist in 3.x.
3845
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003846- Issue #5175: PyLong_AsUnsignedLongLong now raises OverflowError for negative
3847 arguments. Previously, it raised TypeError.
Mark Dickinson4015f622009-02-10 15:46:50 +00003848
Benjamin Petersoncf2ce242008-12-22 20:52:53 +00003849- Issue #4720: The format for PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords can begin with '|'.
3850
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003851- Issue #3632: From the gdb debugger, the 'pyo' macro can now be called when the
3852 GIL is released, or owned by another thread.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc3538a312008-12-15 22:29:14 +00003853
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc07d539d2008-10-14 21:47:22 +00003854- Issue #4122: On Windows, fix a compilation error when using the
3855 Py_UNICODE_ISSPACE macro in an extension module.
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00003856
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003857- Issue #4293: Py_AddPendingCall() is now thread safe and can be used for
Kristján Valur Jónssonc22ab182009-01-12 09:24:04 +00003858 asynchronous notifications to python from any thread. Documentation added.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc07d539d2008-10-14 21:47:22 +00003859
Benjamin Peterson9dfe6a82008-11-24 04:09:03 +00003860Extension Modules
3861-----------------
3862
Martin v. Löwis50ea4562009-11-27 13:56:01 +00003863- Issue #6508: Add posix.{getresuid,getresgid,setresuid,setresgid}.
3864
Mark Dickinson3d830822009-10-08 15:54:10 +00003865- Issue #7078: Set struct.__doc__ from _struct.__doc__.
3866
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003867- Issue #3366: Add erf, erfc, expm1, gamma, lgamma functions to math module.
Mark Dickinsonb93fff02009-09-28 18:54:55 +00003868
Brett Cannon4d947432009-09-22 00:29:48 +00003869- Issue #6823: Allow time.strftime() to accept a tuple with a isdst field
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003870 outside of the range of [-1, 1] by normalizing the value to within that range.
Brett Cannon4d947432009-09-22 00:29:48 +00003871
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003872- Issue #6877: Make it possible to link the readline extension to libedit on
3873 OSX.
Ronald Oussoren9f20d9d2009-09-20 14:18:15 +00003874
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003875- Issue #6944: Fix a SystemError when socket.getnameinfo() was called with
3876 something other than a tuple as first argument.
Georg Brandlab849892009-09-19 07:35:07 +00003877
Benjamin Peterson7f6d0832009-09-08 23:04:22 +00003878- Issue #6865: Fix reference counting issue in the initialization of the pwd
3879 module.
3880
Mark Dickinson6b3f1ef2009-09-06 21:21:05 +00003881- Issue #6848: Fix curses module build failure on OS X 10.6.
3882
Brett Cannon764465f2009-08-13 19:27:12 +00003883- Fix a segfault in expat when given a specially crafted input lead to the
Matthias Klose3b0f9b02010-01-22 00:34:48 +00003884 tokenizer not stopping. CVE-2009-3720.
Brett Cannon764465f2009-08-13 19:27:12 +00003885
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003886- Issue #6561: '\d' in a regex now matches only characters with Unicode category
3887 'Nd' (Number, Decimal Digit). Previously it also matched characters with
3888 category 'No'.
Mark Dickinsonfe67bd92009-07-28 20:35:03 +00003889
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003890- Issue #1523: Remove deprecated overflow wrapping for struct.pack with an
3891 integer format code ('bBhHiIlLqQ'). Packing an out-of-range integer now
3892 consistently raises struct.error.
Mark Dickinson5fd3af22009-07-07 15:08:28 +00003893
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003894- Issues #1530559, #1741130: Fix various struct.pack inconsistencies for the
3895 integer formats ('bBhHiIlLqQ'). In the following, '*' represents any of '=',
3896 '<', '>'.
Mark Dickinson463dc4b2009-07-05 10:01:24 +00003897
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003898 - Packing a float now always gives a Deprecation Warning. Previously it
3899 only warned for 'I', 'L', '*B', '*H', '*I', '*L'.
Mark Dickinson463dc4b2009-07-05 10:01:24 +00003900
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003901 - If x is not an int, long or float, then packing x will always result in
3902 struct.error. Previously an x with an __int__ method could be packed by
3903 'b', 'B', 'h', 'H', 'i', 'l', '*b', '*h' ,'*i', '*l', and an x with a
3904 __long__ method could be packed by 'q', 'Q', '*q', '*Q'; for x with
3905 neither __int__ nor __long__, TypeError used to be raised (with a
3906 confusing error message) for 'I', 'L', '*B', '*H', '*I', '*L', and
3907 struct.error in other cases.
Mark Dickinson463dc4b2009-07-05 10:01:24 +00003908
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003909 Note: as of Python 2.7 beta 1, the above is out of date. In 2.7 beta 1, any
3910 argument with an __int__ method can be packed, but use of this feature
3911 triggers a DeprecationWarning.
Mark Dickinson154b7ad2010-03-07 16:24:45 +00003912
Martin v. Löwis4f16d3b2009-05-29 15:58:08 +00003913- Issue #4873: Fix resource leaks in error cases of pwd and grp.
3914
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003915- Issue #4751: For hashlib algorithms provided by OpenSSL, the Python GIL is now
3916 released during computation on data lengths >= 2048 bytes.
Gregory P. Smithd02eeda2009-05-04 00:16:49 +00003917
Gregory P. Smithea388262009-02-13 03:00:00 +00003918- Issue #3745: Fix hashlib to always reject unicode and non buffer-api
3919 supporting objects as input no matter how it was compiled (built in
Gregory P. Smithfe32d302010-01-02 22:42:50 +00003920 implementations or external openssl library). NOTE: Undone in 2.7a2.
Gregory P. Smithea388262009-02-13 03:00:00 +00003921
Mark Dickinsona200dd52009-01-15 15:17:43 +00003922- Issue #4397: Fix occasional test_socket failure on OS X.
Mark Dickinsone82cdae2009-01-15 14:54:37 +00003923
Martin v. Löwisb3b7d852009-01-11 09:26:54 +00003924- Issue #4279: Fix build of parsermodule under Cygwin.
3925
Martin v. Löwis9ac49272009-01-02 20:40:14 +00003926- Issue #4051: Prevent conflict of UNICODE macros in cPickle.
3927
Georg Brandl6269fec2009-01-01 12:15:31 +00003928- Issue #4228: Pack negative values the same way as 2.4 in struct's L format.
3929
Martin v. Löwis03824e42008-12-29 18:17:34 +00003930- Issue #1040026: Fix os.times result on systems where HZ is incorrect.
3931
Mark Dickinson4c96fa52008-12-11 19:28:08 +00003932- Issues #3167, #3682: Fix test_math failures for log, log10 on Solaris,
3933 OpenBSD.
3934
Martin v. Löwisbcb017f2008-11-30 19:28:27 +00003935- Issue #4365: Add crtassem.h constants to the msvcrt module.
3936
Benjamin Peterson9dfe6a82008-11-24 04:09:03 +00003937- Issue #4396: The parser module now correctly validates the with statement.
3938
Jack Diederichd60c29e2009-03-31 23:46:48 +00003939- Issue #5228: Make functools.partial objects can now be pickled.
3940
Guilherme Polob1a98de2009-01-28 20:03:26 +00003941Tests
3942-----
3943
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003944- Issue #7431: Use TESTFN in test_linecache instead of trying to create a file
3945 in the Lib/test directory, which might be read-only for the user running the
3946 tests.
R. David Murray820b0ea2009-12-03 23:57:59 +00003947
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003948- Issue #7324: Add a sanity check to regrtest argument parsing to catch the case
3949 of an option with no handler.
R. David Murrayda826892009-11-15 00:04:32 +00003950
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003951- Issue #7312: Add a -F flag to run the selected tests in a loop until a test
3952 fails. Can be combined with -j.
R. David Murray7f7eea62009-11-14 15:18:22 +00003953
Antoine Pitrou310c9fe2009-11-11 20:55:07 +00003954- Issue #7295: Do not use a hardcoded file name in test_tarfile.
3955
Antoine Pitrouc98efe02009-11-06 22:34:35 +00003956- Issue #7270: Add some dedicated unit tests for multi-thread synchronization
3957 primitives such as Lock, RLock, Condition, Event and Semaphore.
3958
Antoine Pitrou59c44f32009-10-30 17:07:08 +00003959- Issue #7222: Make thread "reaping" more reliable so that reference
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003960 leak-chasing test runs give sensible results. The previous method of reaping
3961 threads could return successfully while some Thread objects were still
3962 referenced. This also introduces a new private function: ``thread._count()``.
Antoine Pitrou59c44f32009-10-30 17:07:08 +00003963
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003964- Issue #7151: Fixed regrtest -j so that output to stderr from a test no longer
3965 runs the risk of causing the worker thread to fail.
R. David Murray282396f2009-10-18 21:12:37 +00003966
Antoine Pitrou58d2f262009-10-10 20:52:11 +00003967- Issue #7055: test___all__ now greedily detects all modules which have an
3968 __all__ attribute, rather than using a hardcoded and incomplete list.
3969
R. David Murray14dcd432009-10-14 13:58:07 +00003970- Issue #7058: Added save/restore for things like sys.argv and cwd to
3971 runtest_inner in regrtest, with warnings if the called test modifies them,
3972 and a new section in the summary report at the end.
R. David Murrayabe3d3e2009-10-05 17:03:09 +00003973
Mark Dickinson245d9152009-10-04 18:38:39 +00003974- Issue #7042: Fix test_signal (test_itimer_virtual) failure on OS X 10.6.
3975
Brett Cannone7e941e2009-09-03 21:25:21 +00003976- Issue #6806: test_platform failed under OS X 10.6.0 because ``sw_ver`` leaves
3977 off the trailing 0 in the version number.
3978
Guilherme Polo7f146ab2009-06-21 17:22:50 +00003979- Issue #5450: Moved tests involving loading tk from Lib/test/test_tcl to
3980 Lib/lib-tk/test/test_tkinter/test_loadtk. With this, these tests demonstrate
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003981 the same behaviour as test_ttkguionly (and now also test_tk) which is to skip
3982 the tests if DISPLAY is defined but can't be used.
Guilherme Polo7f146ab2009-06-21 17:22:50 +00003983
Antoine Pitrou4698d992009-05-31 14:20:14 +00003984- Issue #6152: New option '-j'/'--multiprocess' for regrtest allows running
3985 regression tests in parallel, shortening the total runtime.
3986
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003987- Issue #5354: New test support function import_fresh_module() makes it easy to
3988 import both normal and optimised versions of modules. test_heapq and
3989 test_warnings have been adjusted to use it, tests for other modules with both
3990 C and Python implementations in the stdlib can be adjusted to use it over
3991 time.
Nick Coghlan5533ff62009-04-22 15:26:04 +00003992
Brett Cannonce3d2212009-04-01 20:25:48 +00003993- Fix test_warnings to no longer reset the warnings filter.
3994
Brett Cannon2da4d622009-04-01 19:57:10 +00003995- Fix test_logging to no longer reset the warnings filter.
3996
Georg Brandld8fb6ac2009-04-01 00:04:33 +00003997- Issue #5635: Fix running test_sys with tracing enabled.
3998
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003999- regrtest no longer treats ImportError as equivalent to SkipTest. Imports that
4000 should cause a test to be skipped are now done using import_module from test
4001 support, which does the conversion.
R. David Murray41448c52009-03-31 19:57:24 +00004002
Guilherme Polob1a98de2009-01-28 20:03:26 +00004003- Issue #5083: New 'gui' resource for regrtest.
4004
Walter Dörwalda1453172009-04-25 12:15:07 +00004005- Issue #5837: Certain sequences of calls to set() and unset() for
4006 support.EnvironmentVarGuard objects restored the environment variables
4007 incorrectly on __exit__.
4008
Alexandre Vassalotti999ecc02009-07-15 18:19:47 +00004009- Issue #2389: Array objects are now pickled in a portable manner.
4010
Brett Cannon813c43a2009-11-08 21:35:28 +00004011Misc
4012----
4013
4014- Issue #5611: Auto-detect whether a C file uses tabs or spaces in Vim.
4015
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00004016
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00004017What's New in Python 2.6 final
4018==============================
4019
Barry Warsawafa14362008-10-01 21:46:40 +00004020*Release date: 01-Oct-2008*
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00004021
4022Core and Builtins
4023-----------------
4024
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfc5ea392008-09-26 22:34:08 +00004025- Issue #3967: Fixed a crash in the count() and find() methods of string-like
4026 objects, when the "start" parameter is a huge value.
4027
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc17617a02008-09-25 20:52:56 +00004028- Issue #3965: Fixed a crash on Windows when open() is given an invalid
4029 filename or mode, and the filename is a unicode string.
4030
Martin v. Löwise86b07c2008-09-25 04:12:50 +00004031- Bug #3951: Py_USING_MEMORY_DEBUGGER should not be enabled by default.
4032
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00004033Library
4034-------
4035
Martin v. Löwise563aa42008-09-29 22:09:07 +00004036- Issue #3965: Allow repeated calls to turtle.Screen, by making it a
4037 true singleton object.
4038
Brett Cannonb2d61bd2008-09-29 03:41:21 +00004039- Issue #3895: It was possible to crash the interpreter when an external timer
4040 was used with cProfile that returned an object that could not be converted
4041 into a float.
4042
Benjamin Peterson22d3c922008-09-25 20:35:45 +00004043- Issue #3950: Made turtle respect scale factors.
4044
Thomas Hellera85c95d2008-09-24 18:26:05 +00004045- Issue #3547: Fixed ctypes structures bitfields of varying integer
4046 sizes.
4047
Benjamin Peterson2c7470d2008-09-21 21:27:51 +00004048- Issue #3879: A regression in urllib.getproxies_enviroment was fixed.
4049
Gregory P. Smith08067492008-09-30 20:41:13 +00004050- Issue #3863: Disabled a unit test of fork being called from a thread
4051 when running on platforms known to exhibit OS bugs when attempting that.
4052
Martin v. Löwis175d0072008-09-19 15:21:07 +00004053Build
4054-----
4055
Martin v. Löwisd69c9042008-10-01 11:19:50 +00004056- Bug #3989: Package the 2to3 script (as 2to3.py) in the Windows
4057 installer.
4058
Martin v. Löwis175d0072008-09-19 15:21:07 +00004059- Bug #3887: Package x64 version of CRT for AMD64 Windows binaries.
4060
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00004061
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00004062What's New in Python 2.6 release candidate 2?
4063=============================================
4064
Barry Warsaw6af16192008-09-18 04:33:43 +00004065*Release date: 17-Sep-2008*
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00004066
4067Core and Builtins
4068-----------------
4069
Benjamin Peterson8c2b7dc2008-09-18 01:22:16 +00004070Extension Modules
4071-----------------
4072
Benjamin Peterson8d77d442008-09-30 01:31:49 +00004073- Security Issue #2: imageop did not validate arguments correctly and could
4074 segfault as a result.
4075
Benjamin Peterson8c2b7dc2008-09-18 01:22:16 +00004076- Issue #3886: Possible integer overflows in the _hashopenssl module were
4077 closed.
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00004078
Antoine Pitrou3c9f5412008-09-13 20:30:30 +00004079Tools/Demos
4080-----------
4081
Georg Brandl2bd92a52009-10-11 21:10:07 +00004082- Issue #3850: recursion tests in Tools/scripts/find_recursion_limit.py can raise
Antoine Pitrou3c9f5412008-09-13 20:30:30 +00004083 AttributeError instead of RuntimeError, depending in which C API call
4084 exactly the recursion limit is exceeded. Consequently, both exception types
4085 are caught and silenced.
4086
Martin v. Löwis4eb18f92008-09-14 20:22:39 +00004087Build
4088-----
4089
4090- Issue #3617: Include a licensing statement regarding the Microsoft
4091 C runtime in the Windows installer.
4092
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00004093
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00004094What's New in Python 2.6 release candidate 1?
4095=============================================
4096
Barry Warsaw1e62aec2008-09-12 23:25:57 +00004097*Release date: 12-Sep-2008*
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00004098
4099Core and Builtins
4100-----------------
4101
Martin v. Löwis9fa5a282008-09-11 06:53:30 +00004102- Issue #3642: Suppress warning in obmalloc when size_t is larger than uint.
4103
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc05e34492008-09-10 22:04:45 +00004104- Issue #3743: In a few places, PY_FORMAT_SIZE_T was incorrectly used with
4105 PyString_FromFormat or PyErr_Format to display size_t values. The macro
4106 PY_FORMAT_SIZE_T is designed to select the correct format for the OS
4107 ``printf`` function, whereas PyString_FromFormat has an independent
4108 implementation and uses "%zd" on all platforms for size_t values.
4109 This makes a difference on win64, where ``printf`` needs "%Id" to display
4110 64bit values.
4111
Benjamin Peterson97179b02008-09-09 20:55:01 +00004112- Issue #3634: _weakref.ref(Exception).__init__() gave invalid return value on
4113 error.
4114
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd3ffb892008-09-09 07:24:30 +00004115- Issue #3777: long() applied to a float object now always return a long
4116 object; previously an int would be returned for small values. the __long__
4117 method is allowed to return either an int or a long, but the behaviour of
4118 float objects should not change to respect backward compatibility.
4119
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc3571fbf2008-09-01 19:52:00 +00004120- Issue #3751: str.rpartition would perform a left-partition when called with
4121 a unicode argument.
4122
Benjamin Peterson17f03ca2008-09-01 14:18:30 +00004123- Issue #3683: Fix compilation when --without-threads is given.
4124
Antoine Pitroud4ae97b2008-08-29 18:39:48 +00004125- Issue #3668: Fix a memory leak with the "s*" argument parser in
Vinay Sajip35e3b032008-09-01 14:33:59 +00004126 PyArg_ParseTuple and friends, which occurred when the argument for "s*"
Antoine Pitroud4ae97b2008-08-29 18:39:48 +00004127 was correctly parsed but parsing of subsequent arguments failed.
4128
Vinay Sajip35e3b032008-09-01 14:33:59 +00004129- Issue #2534: speed up isinstance() and issubclass() by 50-70%, so as to
Antoine Pitrou0668c622008-08-26 22:42:08 +00004130 match Python 2.5 speed despite the __instancecheck__ / __subclasscheck__
4131 mechanism. In the process, fix a bug where isinstance() and issubclass(),
4132 when given a tuple of classes as second argument, were looking up
4133 __instancecheck__ / __subclasscheck__ on the tuple rather than on each
4134 type object.
4135
Neal Norwitz18aa3882008-08-24 05:04:52 +00004136- Fix crashes on memory allocation failure found with failmalloc.
4137
4138- Fix memory leaks found with valgrind and update suppressions file.
4139
4140- Fix compiler warnings in opt mode which would lead to invalid memory reads.
4141
4142- Fix problem using wrong name in decimal module reported by pychecker.
4143
Christian Heimes7d4c3172008-08-22 19:47:25 +00004144- Silenced another compiler warning about a used but not defined
4145 function 'stringlib_contains_obj'.
4146
Benjamin Peterson712ee922008-08-24 18:10:20 +00004147- Added warnings on the use of ``__getslice__``, ``__setslice__``, or
4148 ``__delslice__``.
4149
Gregory P. Smith2bb25cc2008-09-02 05:29:51 +00004150- Issue #3678: Correctly pass LDFLAGS and LDLAST to the linker on shared
4151 library targets in the Makefile.
4152
Gregory P. Smith980b99b2008-09-07 05:15:18 +00004153- Issue #1204: The configure script now tests for additional libraries
4154 that may be required when linking against readline. This fixes issues
4155 with x86_64 builds on some platforms (a few Linux flavors and OpenBSD).
4156
Benjamin Peterson14cb6bc2008-08-26 17:08:40 +00004157C-API
4158-----
4159
4160- Aliased PyObject_Bytes to PyObject_Str.
4161
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00004162Library
4163-------
4164
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc24cb3822008-09-11 20:56:13 +00004165- Issue #3640: Pickling a list or a dict uses less local variables, to reduce
4166 stack usage in the case of deeply nested objects.
4167
Guido van Rossume3c4fd92008-09-10 14:27:00 +00004168- Issue #3629: Fix sre "bytecode" validator for an end case.
4169
Martin v. Löwis24329ba2008-09-10 13:38:12 +00004170- Issue #3811: The Unicode database was updated to 5.1.
4171
Nick Coghland2e09382008-09-11 12:11:06 +00004172- Issue #3781: Further warnings.catch_warnings() cleanup to prevent
4173 silent misbehaviour when a single instance is nested in multiple
4174 with statements, or when the methods are invoked in the wrong order.
4175
Vinay Sajip844f7412008-09-09 13:42:08 +00004176- Issue #3809: Fixed spurious 'test.blah' file left behind by test_logging.
4177
Nick Coghland2e09382008-09-11 12:11:06 +00004178- Issue #3781: Clean up the API for warnings.catch_warnings() by having it
Brett Cannon672237d2008-09-09 00:49:16 +00004179 return a list or None rather than a custom object.
4180
Benjamin Peterson6ac7d7c2008-09-06 19:28:11 +00004181- Issue #1638033: Cookie.Morsel gained the httponly attribute.
4182
Antoine Pitrouebcd0ce2008-09-05 23:30:23 +00004183- Issue #3535: zipfile couldn't read some zip files larger than 2GB.
4184
4185- Issue #3776: Deprecate the bsddb package for removal in 3.0.
Brett Cannon32476fc2008-09-05 18:33:51 +00004186
Hirokazu Yamamoto42e459e2008-09-04 14:25:30 +00004187- Issue #3762: platform.architecture() fails if python is lanched via
4188 its symbolic link.
4189
Vinay Sajip65d66e12008-09-04 07:31:21 +00004190- Issue #3772: Fixed regression problem in StreamHandler.emit().
4191
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00004192- Issue #600362: Relocated parse_qs() and parse_qsl(), from the cgi module
Facundo Batistac585df92008-09-03 22:35:50 +00004193 to the urlparse one. Added a PendingDeprecationWarning in the old
4194 module, it will be deprecated in the future.
4195
Marc-André Lemburgb339b2a2008-09-03 11:13:56 +00004196- Issue #2562: Fix distutils PKG-INFO writing logic to allow having
4197 non-ascii characters and Unicode in setup.py meta-data.
4198
4199- Issue #3726: Allow spaces in separators in logging configuration files.
Vinay Sajip6a2fd812008-09-03 09:20:05 +00004200
Marc-André Lemburg31a0a142008-09-02 12:11:19 +00004201- Issue #3719: platform.architecture() fails if there are spaces in the
4202 path to the Python binary.
4203
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00004204- Issue #3602: Moved test.test_support.catch_warning() to
Brett Cannon1eaf0742008-09-02 01:25:16 +00004205 warnings.catch_warnings() along with some API cleanup. Expanding the tests
4206 for catch_warnings() also led to an improvement in the raising of a
4207 DeprecationWarning related to warnings.warn_explicit().
4208
Benjamin Peterson973e6c22008-09-01 23:12:58 +00004209- The deprecation warnings for the old camelCase threading API were removed.
4210
Vinay Sajip35e3b032008-09-01 14:33:59 +00004211- logging: fixed lack of use of encoding attribute specified on a stream.
4212
Christian Heimesa27a62e2008-08-22 19:55:54 +00004213- Silenced a trivial compiler warning in the sqlite module.
4214
Christian Heimes1cc69632008-08-22 20:10:27 +00004215- Fixed two format strings in the _collections module.
4216
Benjamin Peterson17f03ca2008-09-01 14:18:30 +00004217- Issue #3703: _fileio.FileIO gave unhelpful error message when trying to open a
4218 directory.
Benjamin Petersonf22c26e2008-09-01 14:13:43 +00004219
Gregory P. Smithd7122032008-09-02 05:36:11 +00004220- Issue #3708: os.urandom no longer goes into an infinite loop when passed a
4221 non-integer floating point number.
4222
Vinay Sajip65d66e12008-09-04 07:31:21 +00004223- Issue #3110: multiprocessing fails to compiel on solaris 10 due to missing
Jesse Nollerb814d6a2008-09-03 18:10:30 +00004224 SEM_VALUE_MAX.
4225
Benjamin Peterson37346b22008-08-23 20:27:43 +00004226Extension Modules
4227-----------------
4228
Jesse Noller438195f2009-01-18 21:04:36 +00004229- Issue #4301: Patch the logging module to add processName support, remove
4230 _check_logger_class from multiprocessing.
4231
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc293924b2008-09-02 23:19:56 +00004232- Issue #2975: When compiling several extension modules with Visual Studio 2008
4233 from the same python interpreter, some environment variables would grow
4234 without limit.
4235
Benjamin Peterson37346b22008-08-23 20:27:43 +00004236- Issue #3643: Added a few more checks to _testcapi to prevent segfaults by
4237 exploitation of poor argument checking.
4238
Gerhard Häringef2276b2008-09-12 13:54:06 +00004239- sqlite3: Changed docstring of iterdump() to mark method as "Non-standard".
4240
Gerhard Häring6e1afcf2008-09-12 18:58:57 +00004241- Issue #3103: Reduced globals symbols used by sqlite3 module and made sure all
4242 remaining ones have "pysqlite_" prefix.
4243
Gerhard Häringe6872eb2008-09-12 22:33:22 +00004244- Issue #3846: Release the GIL during sqlite3_prepare calls. This improves
4245 concurrent access to the same SQLite database from multiple
4246 threads/processes.
4247
Brett Cannona0b74442008-09-03 22:45:11 +00004248Tests
4249-----
4250
Nick Coghland2e09382008-09-11 12:11:06 +00004251- Issue #3781: Add test.test_support.check_warnings() as a convenience
4252 wrapper for warnings.catch_warnings() that makes it easier to check
4253 that expected warning messages are being reported.
4254
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfeb8cad2008-09-06 20:53:51 +00004255- Issue #3796: Some tests functions were not enabled in test_float.
4256
4257- Issue #3768: Move test_py3kwarn over to the new API for catch_warnings().
Brett Cannona0b74442008-09-03 22:45:11 +00004258
Brett Cannoncdeb24b2008-09-05 22:59:17 +00004259Build
4260-----
4261
Martin v. Löwisab0b29b2008-09-13 08:11:57 +00004262- Issue #3833: Use a different upgrade code for Win64 installers.
4263
Martin v. Löwis3f5fda82008-09-08 13:50:10 +00004264- Issue #2271: Set SecureCustomProperties so that installation will properly
4265 use the TARGETDIR even for unprivileged users.
4266
Martin v. Löwis67543a92008-09-08 12:02:45 +00004267- Allow passing the MSI file name to merge.py.
4268
Vinay Sajip844f7412008-09-09 13:42:08 +00004269- Issue #3758: Rename the 'check' target to 'patchcheck' so as to not clash
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfeb8cad2008-09-06 20:53:51 +00004270 with GNU build target guidelines.
Brett Cannoncdeb24b2008-09-05 22:59:17 +00004271
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00004272
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00004273What's New in Python 2.6 beta 3?
4274================================
4275
Barry Warsaw07a4a382008-08-21 01:15:08 +00004276*Release date: 20-Aug-2008*
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00004277
4278Core and Builtins
4279-----------------
4280
Guido van Rossumf8402962008-08-20 15:01:50 +00004281- Issue #1878: Remove Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_VERSION_TAG from
4282 Py_TPFLAGS_DEFAULT when not building the core. This means 3rd party
4283 extensions do not automatically benefit from the class attribute
4284 cache; they will have to explicitly add Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_VERSION_TAG
4285 to their tp_flags field if they care. This is a backwards
4286 compatibility feature; in 3.0, all types will use the cache by
4287 default.
4288
Benjamin Petersonf647dc12008-08-20 01:27:30 +00004289- Keyword arguments can now follow starred arguments. (``f(a, *args,
4290 keyword=23)`` is now valid syntax.)
4291
Thomas Heller0ad5ae02008-08-19 19:25:04 +00004292- ctypes function pointers that are COM methods have a boolean True
4293 value again.
4294
Martin v. Löwisf91d46a2008-08-12 14:49:50 +00004295- Issue #3139: Make buffer-interface thread-safe wrt. PyArg_ParseTuple,
4296 by denying s# to parse objects that have a releasebuffer procedure,
4297 and introducing s*.
4298
Georg Brandl1e13ea92008-08-11 09:07:59 +00004299- Issue #3537: Fix an assertion failure when an empty but presized dict
4300 object was stored in the freelist.
4301
Mark Dickinsonb6467572008-08-04 21:30:09 +00004302- Issue #1481296: Make long(float('nan')) and int(float('nan')) raise
4303 ValueError consistently across platforms.
4304
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc39fd6722008-07-31 21:28:03 +00004305- Issue #3479: On platforms where sizeof(int) is smaller than sizeof(long)
4306 (64bit Unix, for example), unichr() would truncate its argument and return
4307 u'\x00' for unichr(2**32). Now it properly raises an OverflowError.
4308
Neal Norwitze7d8be82008-07-31 17:17:14 +00004309- Apply security patches from Apple.
4310
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc246daed2008-07-31 00:42:16 +00004311- Issue #2542: Now that issubclass() may call arbitrary code, ensure that
4312 PyErr_ExceptionMatches returns 0 when an exception occurs there.
4313
Antoine Pitrou92f82162008-07-25 22:22:08 +00004314- Issue #1819: function calls with several named parameters are now on
4315 average 35% faster (as measured by pybench).
4316
Amaury Forgeot d'Arce4921fe2008-07-21 22:00:38 +00004317- Issue #2378: An unexpected UnboundLocalError or NameError could appear when
4318 the python debugger steps into a class statement: the free variables (local
4319 variables defined in an outer scope) would be deleted from the outer scope.
4320
Gregory P. Smith0470bab2008-07-22 04:46:32 +00004321- Issue #2620: Overflow checking when allocating or reallocating memory
4322 was not always being done properly in some python types and extension
4323 modules. PyMem_MALLOC, PyMem_REALLOC, PyMem_NEW and PyMem_RESIZE have
4324 all been updated to perform better checks and places in the code that
4325 would previously leak memory on the error path when such an allocation
4326 failed have been fixed.
4327
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00004328Library
4329-------
4330
Hirokazu Yamamoto838c79f2008-08-20 13:14:07 +00004331- Issue #3612: Added some missing basic types in ctypes.wintypes.
4332
Benjamin Petersone977ad42008-08-20 01:42:01 +00004333- The methods ``is_in_tuple()``, ``is_vararg()``, and ``is_keywordarg()`` of
4334 symtable.Symbol have been deprecated for removal in 3.0 and the next release.
4335
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc351ffb82008-08-18 19:23:47 +00004336- Issue #2234: distutils failed for some versions of the cygwin compiler. The
4337 version reported by these tools does not necessarily follow the python
4338 version numbering scheme, so the module is less strict when parsing it.
4339
Nick Coghlanf70385a2008-08-18 12:42:46 +00004340- Issue #2235: Added Py3k warnings for types which will become unhashable
4341 under the stricter __hash__ inheritance rules in 3.0. Several types
4342 which did not meet the rules for hash invariants and were already
4343 unhashable in 3.0 have now been explicitly flagged as unhashable in
4344 2.6 as well (collections.Mapping, collections.Set, unittest.TestSuite,
4345 xml.dom.minidom.NamedNodeMap, numbers.Number, UserList.UserList)
4346
Brett Cannon88f801d2008-08-18 00:46:22 +00004347- Update __all__ for cookielib, csv, os, urllib2, and weakref to include things
4348 imported into the module but exposed as part of the module's API.
4349
Brett Cannon7b96f072008-08-18 00:41:11 +00004350- Remove an unneeded import of abc.ABCMeta from 'inspect'.
4351
Brett Cannon46225e72008-08-18 00:36:52 +00004352- Remove unneeded imports of 'sys' and 'warnings' from 'io'.
4353
Brett Cannon25c9d6a2008-08-17 22:10:11 +00004354- Remove unneeded imports of 'warnings' from shelve, filecmp, and dummy_thread.
4355
Hirokazu Yamamoto41a81eb2008-08-17 13:10:46 +00004356- Issue #3575: Incremental decoder's decode function now takes bytearray
4357 by using 's*' instead of 't#'.
4358
Mark Dickinson3e4caeb2009-02-21 20:27:01 +00004359- Issue #2222: Fixed reference leak when occurred os.rename()
Hirokazu Yamamoto7f30a682008-08-17 09:46:56 +00004360 fails unicode conversion on 2nd parameter. (windows only)
4361
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00004362- Issue #2464: urllib2 now supports a malformation in the URL received
Facundo Batista94f243a2008-08-17 03:38:39 +00004363 in a redirect.
4364
Brett Cannonabe423e2008-08-16 21:47:07 +00004365- Silence the DeprecationWarning raised when importing mimetools in
Brett Cannon721b1452008-08-16 22:00:27 +00004366 BaseHTTPServer, cgi (and rfc822), httplib.
Brett Cannonabe423e2008-08-16 21:47:07 +00004367
Facundo Batistaeb90b782008-08-16 14:44:07 +00004368- Issue #2776: fixed small issue when handling an URL with double slash
4369 after a 302 response in the case of not going through a proxy.
4370
Antoine Pitroub90a8be2008-08-15 21:03:21 +00004371- Issue #2676: in the email package, content-type parsing was hanging on
4372 pathological input because of quadratic or exponential behaviour of a
4373 regular expression.
4374
Antoine Pitrou11ec65d2008-08-14 21:04:30 +00004375- Issue #3476: binary buffered reading through the new "io" library is now
4376 thread-safe.
4377
Brett Cannonbf3157b2008-08-14 05:00:03 +00004378- Silence the DeprecationWarning of rfc822 when it is imported by mimetools
4379 since mimetools itself is deprecated. Because modules are cached, all
4380 subsequent imports of rfc822 will not raise a visible DeprecationWarning.
4381
Antoine Pitrou9fcd4b32008-08-11 17:21:36 +00004382- Issue #3134: shutil referenced undefined WindowsError symbol.
4383
Robert Schuppenies14646332008-08-10 11:01:53 +00004384- Issue #1342811: Fix leak in Tkinter.Menu.delete. Commands associated to
4385 menu entries were not deleted.
4386
Brett Cannon83e81842008-08-09 23:30:55 +00004387- Copied the implementation of reduce() to _functools.reduce() to have a
4388 version that did not raise a DeprecationWarning under -3.
4389
Antoine Pitrou76b8bee2008-08-09 17:27:23 +00004390- Issue #3205: When iterating over a BZ2File fails allocating memory, raise
4391 a MemoryError rather than silently stop the iteration.
4392
Guido van Rossum59ce9012008-08-09 14:55:34 +00004393- Issue #3487: sre "bytecode" validator. Passing invalid "re-bytecode"
4394 to _sre.compile() will now be rejected. This should not affect anybody
4395 since the re.compile() function never generates invalid re-bytecode.
4396
Skip Montanaroa032bf42008-08-08 22:52:51 +00004397- Issue #3436: Make csv.DictReader's fieldnames attribute a property so that
4398 upon first access it can be automatically initialized from the csv file if
4399 it wasn't initialized during instantiation.
4400
Brett Cannon3aa2a492008-08-06 22:28:09 +00004401- Issue #2338: Create imp.reload() to help with transitioning to Python 3.0 as
4402 the reload() built-in has been removed.
4403
Brett Cannon7e30b672008-08-04 21:52:25 +00004404- Changed code in the following modules/packages to remove warnings raised
Brett Cannonc1b76e42008-08-09 23:06:16 +00004405 while running under the ``-3`` flag: aifc, asynchat, asyncore, bdb, bsddb,
Brett Cannon047e4a92008-08-17 04:16:04 +00004406 ConfigParser, cookielib, csv, difflib, distutils, DocXMLRPCServer, email,
4407 filecmp, fileinput, inspect, logging, modulefinder, pdb, pickle, profile,
4408 pstats, pydoc, re, rlcompleter, SimpleXMLRPCServer, shelve, socket,
4409 subprocess, sqlite3, tarfile, Tkinter, test.test_support, textwrap,
4410 threading, tokenize, traceback, urlparse, wsgiref, xml, xmlrpclib.
Brett Cannon7e30b672008-08-04 21:52:25 +00004411
Lars Gustäbel727bd0b2008-08-02 11:26:39 +00004412- Issue #3039: Fix tarfile.TarFileCompat.writestr() which always
4413 raised an AttributeError.
4414
Benjamin Peterson01a24322008-07-28 23:35:27 +00004415- Issue #2523: Fix quadratic behaviour when read()ing a binary file without
Antoine Pitroude781a42008-08-09 12:43:23 +00004416 asking for a specific length. This problem only affected files opened
4417 using the new "io" module, not the built-in open() function.
Benjamin Peterson01a24322008-07-28 23:35:27 +00004418
Mark Dickinsonfe84cce2008-07-27 06:39:07 +00004419- Issue #3449: Update decimal module to use most recent specification
4420 (v. 1.68) and tests (v. 2.58) from IBM.
4421
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00004422- Issue #3437: Bug fix in robotparser parsing of Allow: lines.
Skip Montanarof9ac43f2008-07-27 00:50:41 +00004423
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00004424- Issue #1592: Improve error reporting when operations are attempted
Raymond Hettinger8c664e82008-07-25 18:43:33 +00004425 on a closed shelf.
4426
Georg Brandlf9efabb2008-07-23 15:16:45 +00004427- Deprecate the "ast" parser function aliases.
4428
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00004429- Issue #3120: On 64-bit Windows the subprocess module was truncating handles.
4430
4431- Issue #3303: Fix a crash in locale.strcoll() when calling it with
4432 invalid arguments.
4433
4434- Issue #3302: Fix several crashes when calling locale's gettext functions
4435 with None arguments.
4436
4437- Issue #3389: Allow resolving dotted names for handlers in logging
4438 configuration files.
4439
4440- Deprecate the sunaudio module for removal in Python 3.0.
4441
Antoine Pitrou5fdfa3e2008-07-25 19:42:26 +00004442- Issue #3394: zipfile.writestr sets external attributes when passed a
4443 file name rather than a ZipInfo instance, so files are extracted with
4444 mode 0600 rather than 000 under Unix.
4445
Gregory P. Smitha36f8fe2008-08-04 00:13:29 +00004446- Issue #1857: subprocess.Popen.poll gained an additional _deadstate keyword
4447 argument in python 2.5, this broke code that subclassed Popen to include its
4448 own poll method. Fixed my moving _deadstate to an _internal_poll method.
4449
Martin v. Löwis8dbf3642008-08-01 14:10:26 +00004450Build
4451-----
4452
4453- Generate the PatternGrammar pickle during "make install".
4454
Nick Coghlan2a0c2b12008-08-04 12:47:17 +00004455Documentation
4456-------------
4457
Nick Coghlan6e8fef02008-08-18 13:14:22 +00004458- Issue #2235: the C API function PyObject_HashNotImplemented and its
4459 interaction with the tp_hash slot (added in 2.6b2) are now documented
4460
Nick Coghlan2a0c2b12008-08-04 12:47:17 +00004461- Issue #643841: The language reference now provides more detailed
4462 coverage of the lookup process for special methods. The disclaimers
4463 regarding lack of coverage of new-style classes have also been
4464 removed, since the coverage is now fairly reasonable.
4465
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00004466
Raymond Hettingere3ae6552008-06-20 04:18:15 +00004467What's New in Python 2.6 beta 2?
4468================================
4469
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00004470*Release date: 17-Jul-2008*
4471
Raymond Hettingere3ae6552008-06-20 04:18:15 +00004472Core and Builtins
4473-----------------
4474
Georg Brandl3e483f62008-07-16 22:57:41 +00004475- Issue #3156: Fix inconsistent behavior of the bytearray type: all
4476 its methods now allow for items objects that can be converted to
4477 an integer using operator.index().
4478
Mark Dickinson64b7e502008-07-16 09:40:03 +00004479- Issue #3360: Fix incorrect parsing of '020000000000.0', which
4480 produced a ValueError instead of giving the correct float.
4481
Eric Smitha5fa5a22008-07-16 00:11:49 +00004482- Issue #3083: Add alternate (#) formatting for bin, oct, hex output
4483 for str.format(). This adds the prefix 0b, 0o, or 0x, respectively.
4484
Mark Dickinson7103aa42008-07-15 19:08:33 +00004485- Issue #3008: the float type has a new instance method 'float.hex'
4486 and a new class method 'float.fromhex' to convert floating-point
4487 numbers to and from hexadecimal strings, respectively.
4488
Nick Coghlan6d6bd442008-07-15 15:40:22 +00004489- Issue #2235: __hash__ is once again inherited by default. To allow
4490 collections.Hashable to remain meaningful in the presence of the
4491 default hash implementation (object.__hash__), it is now possible
4492 to explicit block inheritance of hash by setting __hash__=None at
4493 the Python level, or tp_hash=PyObject_HashNotImplemented at the C
4494 level.
4495
Nick Coghlanb028f502008-07-13 14:52:36 +00004496- Issue #3221: Issue a RuntimeWarning instead of raising SystemError if
4497 the parent module cannot be found while performing an absolute import.
4498 This means that an incorrectly defined __package__ attribute will
4499 now only prevent relative imports in that module rather than causing
4500 all imports from that module to fail.
4501
Nick Coghlan14ff9942008-07-08 14:21:42 +00004502- Issue #2517: Allow unicode messages in Exceptions again by correctly
4503 bypassing the instance dictionary when looking up __unicode__ on
4504 new-style classes.
4505
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbdd941f2008-07-01 20:38:04 +00004506- Issue #3242: Fix a crash inside the print statement, if sys.stdout is
4507 set to a custom object whose write() method happens to install
4508 another file in sys.stdout.
4509
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc1f40c8a2008-06-30 22:42:40 +00004510- Issue #3088: Corrected a race condition in classes derived from
4511 threading.local: the first member set by a thread could be saved in
4512 another thread's dictionary.
4513
Mark Dickinson1ec2fcd2008-06-20 14:53:43 +00004514- Issue #3004: Minor change to slice.indices(): the start and stop
4515 arguments are now treated identically, making the behaviour easier
4516 to describe and understand. For example, slice(None, -10,
4517 1).indices(9) now returns (0, 0, 1) instead of (0, -1, 1), and
4518 slice(None, 10, -1).indices(10) returns (9, 9, -1) instead of (9,
4519 10, -1).
4520
Georg Brandl278fc502008-07-19 12:46:12 +00004521- Issue #3219: Calling a function with repeated keyword arguments,
4522 f(a=2, a=23), would not cause a syntax error. This was a regression
4523 from 2.4 caused by the switch to the new compiler.
Benjamin Peterson175e4d92008-07-01 19:34:52 +00004524
Georg Brandl278fc502008-07-19 12:46:12 +00004525- Issue #2862: Make int and float freelist management consistent with
4526 other freelists. Changes their CompactFreeList apis into
4527 ClearFreeList apis and calls them via gc.collect().
Gregory P. Smith2fe77062008-07-06 03:35:58 +00004528
Brett Cannon8bb8fa52008-07-02 01:57:08 +00004529Library
4530-------
4531
Thomas Heller57adf222008-08-14 19:10:48 +00004532- Issue #3554: ctypes.string_at and ctypes.wstring_at did call Python
4533 api functions without holding the GIL, which could lead to a fatal
4534 error when they failed.
4535
Martin v. Löwisaabf4042008-08-02 07:20:25 +00004536- Issue #799428: Fix Tkinter.Misc._nametowidget to unwrap Tcl command objects.
4537
Jesse Noller7fb96402008-07-17 21:01:05 +00004538- Issue #3395: fix reference in test_multiprocessing to old debugInfo method
4539
Georg Brandla24869a2008-07-16 22:33:18 +00004540- Issue #3312: Fix two crashes in sqlite3.
4541
Georg Brandl86cbf812008-07-16 21:31:41 +00004542- Issue #1608818: Fix misbehavior in os.listdir() if readdir() fails.
4543
Jesse Noller13e9d582008-07-16 14:32:36 +00004544- Issue #3125: Remove copy_reg in multiprocessing and replace it with
4545 ForkingPickler.register() to resolve conflict with ctypes.
4546
Vinay Sajip51e65192008-07-18 09:01:10 +00004547- Issue #3090: Fixed ARCHFLAGS parsing on OS/X
Jesse Noller13e9d582008-07-16 14:32:36 +00004548
Thomas Heller880f5292008-07-15 19:39:38 +00004549- Issue #3313: Fixed a crash when a failed dlopen() call does not set
4550 a valid dlerror() message.
4551
Thomas Heller2bad6572008-07-15 17:19:50 +00004552- Issue #3258: Fixed a crash when a ctypes POINTER type to an
4553 incomplete structure was created.
4554
Brett Cannon3d0b9f02008-07-13 01:15:07 +00004555- Issue #3339: dummy_thread.acquire() should not return None.
4556
Raymond Hettingerb01713e2008-07-10 14:34:57 +00004557- Issue #3285: Fractions from_float() and from_decimal() accept Integral arguments.
4558
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00004559- Issue #3301: Bisect module behaved badly when lo was negative.
Raymond Hettinger3cd1e422008-07-10 14:03:19 +00004560
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc0f7cddc2008-07-06 21:34:39 +00004561- Issue #839496: SimpleHTTPServer used to open text files in text mode. This is
4562 both unnecessary (HTTP allows text content to be sent in several forms) and
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00004563 wrong because the actual transmitted size could differ from the
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc0f7cddc2008-07-06 21:34:39 +00004564 content-length. The problem had been corrected in the 2.4 branch, but never
4565 merged into trunk.
4566
Georg Brandle78fbcc2008-07-05 10:13:36 +00004567- Issue #2663: add filtering capability to shutil.copytree().
4568
Martin v. Löwis8c436412008-07-03 12:51:14 +00004569- Issue #1622: Correct interpretation of various ZIP header fields.
4570
4571- Issue #1526: Allow more than 64k files to be added to Zip64 file.
4572
4573- Issue #1746: Correct handling of zipfile archive comments (previously
4574 archives with comments over 4k were flagged as invalid). Allow writing
Vinay Sajip51e65192008-07-18 09:01:10 +00004575 Zip files with archives by setting the 'comment' attribute of a ZipFile.
Martin v. Löwis8c436412008-07-03 12:51:14 +00004576
Vinay Sajip51e65192008-07-18 09:01:10 +00004577- Issue #449227: The rlcompleter module now adds "(" to callable objects
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00004578 when completed.
Facundo Batista66c52772008-07-02 16:52:55 +00004579
Nick Coghlanc060b0e2008-07-02 13:09:19 +00004580- Issue #3190: Pydoc now hides the automatic module attribute __package__ (the
4581 handling is now the same as that of other special attributes like __name__).
4582
Brett Cannon8bb8fa52008-07-02 01:57:08 +00004583- Issue #2885 (partial): The urllib.urlopen() function has been deprecated for
4584 removal in Python 3.0 in favor of urllib2.urlopen().
4585
Gregory P. Smithf4140642008-07-06 07:16:40 +00004586- Issue #2113: Fix error in subprocess.Popen if the select system call is
4587 interrupted by a signal.
4588
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00004589- Issue #3309: Fix bz2.BZFile iterator to release its internal lock
Gregory P. Smith3b1e6b22008-07-07 04:31:58 +00004590 properly when raising an exception due to the bz2file being closed.
4591 Prevents a deadlock.
4592
Gregory P. Smithc4691ec2008-07-07 05:09:12 +00004593- Issue #3094: httplib.HTTPSConnection Host: headers no longer include the
4594 redundant ":443" port number designation when the connection is using the
4595 default https port (443).
4596
Gregory P. Smithdb3409c2008-07-17 03:13:05 +00004597- Issue #874900: after an os.fork() call the threading module state is cleaned
4598 up in the child process to prevent deadlock and report proper thread counts
4599 if the new process uses the threading module.
4600
Nick Coghlan38469e22008-07-13 12:23:47 +00004601Tests
4602-----
4603
4604- test.test_support.catch_warning now keeps track of all warnings it sees
4605 and is now better documented. Explicit unit tests for this context manager
4606 have been added to test_warnings.
4607
Martin v. Löwisd84fd952008-06-30 06:57:39 +00004608Build
4609-----
4610
4611- Issue #3215: Build sqlite3 as sqlite3.dll, not sqlite3.pyd.
4612
Brett Cannon8bb8fa52008-07-02 01:57:08 +00004613
Brett Cannon97aa1ae2008-07-11 00:12:52 +00004614Documentation
4615-------------
4616
Brett Cannonfeef51d2008-07-11 00:50:01 +00004617- Document that robotparser has been renamed to urllib.robotparser in
Brett Cannon963ffdb2008-07-11 00:48:57 +00004618 Python 3.0.
4619
Brett Cannonf6afa332008-07-11 00:16:30 +00004620- Document that urlparse has been renamed to urllib.parse in Python 3.0.
4621
Brett Cannon97aa1ae2008-07-11 00:12:52 +00004622- Document that urllib2 is split across multiple modules and renamed in
4623 Python 3.0.
4624
4625- Document that urllib is split across multiple modules and renamed in
4626 Python 3.0.
4627
4628
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00004629What's New in Python 2.6 beta 1?
4630================================
4631
Barry Warsawb5d17402008-06-19 01:48:07 +00004632*Release date: 18-June-2008*
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00004633
4634Core and Builtins
4635-----------------
4636
Brett Cannondea1b562008-06-27 00:31:13 +00004637- Issue #3211: warnings.warn_explicit() did not guard against its 'registry'
4638 argument being anything other than a dict or None. Also fixed a bug in error
4639 handling when 'message' and 'category' were both set to None, triggering a
4640 bus error.
4641
Amaury Forgeot d'Arca8919fe2008-06-16 19:12:42 +00004642- Issue #3100: Corrected a crash on deallocation of a subclassed weakref which
4643 holds the last (strong) reference to its referent.
4644
Georg Brandl89f48872008-06-11 18:55:38 +00004645- Add future_builtins.ascii().
4646
Raymond Hettinger5c4d3d02008-06-09 13:07:27 +00004647- Several set methods now accept multiple arguments: update(), union(),
Raymond Hettinger4267be62008-06-11 10:30:54 +00004648 intersection(), intersection_update(), difference(), and difference_update().
Raymond Hettingeree4bcad2008-06-09 08:33:37 +00004649
Robert Schuppenies51df0642008-06-01 16:16:17 +00004650- Issue #2898: Added sys.getsizeof() to retrieve size of objects in bytes.
4651
Martin v. Löwis99815892008-06-01 07:20:46 +00004652- New environment variable PYTHONIOENCODING.
4653
Martin v. Löwis4dd019f2008-05-20 08:11:19 +00004654- Patch #2488: Add sys.maxsize.
4655
Georg Brandla9916b52008-05-17 22:11:54 +00004656- Issue #2353: file.xreadlines() now emits a Py3k warning.
4657
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004658- Issue #2863: generators now have a ``gen.__name__`` attribute that
4659 equals ``gen.gi_code.co_name``, like ``func.__name___`` that equals
4660 ``func.func_code.co_name``. The repr() of a generator now also
4661 contains this name.
Georg Brandlc91210c2008-05-15 15:08:32 +00004662
Georg Brandlbd85eb12008-05-14 06:34:15 +00004663- Issue #2831: enumerate() now has a ``start`` argument.
4664
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004665- Issue #2801: fix bug in the float.is_integer method where a
4666 ValueError was sometimes incorrectly raised.
Mark Dickinsone81c3762008-05-09 16:14:15 +00004667
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004668- Issue #2790: sys.flags was not properly exposing its bytes_warning
4669 attribute.
Brett Cannon3c1d50a2008-05-08 20:23:54 +00004670
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004671- Issue #2196: hasattr() now lets exceptions which do not inherit
4672 Exception (KeyboardInterrupt, and SystemExit) propagate instead of
4673 ignoring them.
Benjamin Petersonb9030f42008-05-12 00:41:23 +00004674
Gregory P. Smith9d534572008-06-11 07:41:16 +00004675- Added checks for integer overflows, contributed by Google. Some are
4676 only available if asserts are left in the code, in cases where they
4677 can't be triggered from Python code.
4678
4679
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00004680Extension Modules
4681-----------------
Guido van Rossum84b1e0f2008-08-20 14:57:20 +00004682- Issue #1179: [CVE-2007-4965] Integer overflow in imageop module.
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00004683
Raymond Hettinger305480c2008-06-16 01:42:40 +00004684- Issue #3116: marshal.dumps() had quadratic behavior for strings > 32Mb.
4685
Andrew M. Kuchling2126bab2008-06-22 13:39:11 +00004686- Issue #2138: Add factorial() to the math module.
Raymond Hettingerecbdd2e2008-06-09 06:54:45 +00004687
Raymond Hettinger6d7702e2008-05-31 03:24:31 +00004688- The heapq module does comparisons using LT instead of LE. This
4689 makes its implementation match that used by list.sort().
4690
Mark Dickinson99dfe922008-05-23 01:35:30 +00004691- Issue #2819: add full-precision summation function to math module,
4692 based on Hettinger's ASPN Python Cookbook recipe.
4693
Georg Brandl88659b02008-05-20 08:40:43 +00004694- Issue #2592: delegate nb_index and the floor/truediv slots in
4695 weakref.proxy.
4696
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004697- Support os.O_ASYNC and fcntl.FASYNC if the constants exist on the
4698 platform.
Georg Brandl5049a852008-05-16 13:10:15 +00004699
Brett Cannon044616a2008-05-15 02:33:55 +00004700- Support for Windows 9x has been removed from the winsound module.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcf9b54c22008-05-12 21:30:24 +00004701
Jesus Cea09c01782008-09-28 23:24:19 +00004702- bsddb module updated to version 4.7.3.
Jesus Cea4907d272008-08-31 14:00:51 +00004703 http://www.jcea.es/programacion/pybsddb.htm#bsddb3-4.7.3. This
4704 code should be compatible with Python 3.0.
Jesus Ceaef9764f2008-05-13 18:45:46 +00004705
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004706- Issue #2858: Fix potential memory corruption when
4707 bsddb.db.DBEnv.lock_get and other bsddb.db object constructors
4708 raised an exception.
Gregory P. Smith664782e2008-05-17 06:12:02 +00004709
Gregory P. Smith5d7d6c32008-05-25 08:32:04 +00004710- Issue #2669: bsddb/__init__.py iteration no longer silently fails when
4711 the database has changed size during iteration. It now raises a
4712 RuntimeError in the same manner as a dictionary.
4713
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004714- Issue #2870: cmathmodule.c compile error.
Christian Heimes0bd23c02008-05-16 10:23:31 +00004715
Benjamin Petersond8a89722008-08-18 16:40:03 +00004716- Added a threading.Thread.ident property.
Gregory P. Smith8856dda2008-06-01 23:48:47 +00004717
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00004718Library
4719-------
4720
Vinay Sajip1e022682008-06-29 21:27:15 +00004721- logging.config: Removed out-of-date comment in _install_handlers and
4722 used issubclass in place of equality comparison of classes.
4723
Facundo Batista5596b0c2008-06-22 13:36:20 +00004724- Issue #2722: Now the os.getcwd() supports very long path names.
4725
Facundo Batista2da91c32008-06-21 17:43:56 +00004726- Issue #2888: Fixed the behaviour of pprint when working with nested
4727 structures, to match the behaviour of 2.5 and 3.0 (now follows the common
4728 sense).
4729
Facundo Batistaa6a4d502008-06-21 18:58:04 +00004730- Issue #1817: cgi now correctly handles the querystring on POST requests
4731
Vinay Sajip8dc20fd2008-06-19 22:41:08 +00004732- Issue #3136: fileConfig()'s disabling of old loggers is now conditional via
4733 an optional disable_existing_loggers parameter, but the default value is
4734 such that the old behaviour is preserved. Thanks to Leandro Lucarella for
4735 the patch.
4736
Vinay Sajip9828b7e2008-06-17 11:04:02 +00004737- Issue #3126: StreamHandler and FileHandler check before calling "flush" and
4738 "close" that the stream object has these, using hasattr (thanks to bobf for
4739 the patch).
4740
Benjamin Peterson5c0be322008-06-13 15:11:50 +00004741- Issue #2912: platform.uname now tries to determine unknown information even if
4742 os.uname exists.
4743
Benjamin Peterson26305a02008-06-12 22:33:06 +00004744- The rfc822 module has been deprecated for removal in 3.0.
4745
Benjamin Petersona03722f2008-06-12 14:23:49 +00004746- The mimetools module has been deprecated for removal in 3.0.
4747
Thomas Heller1cec7aa2008-06-10 14:07:12 +00004748- The ctypes.byref function now takes an optional second parameter
4749 which allows to specify an offset in bytes for the constructed
4750 pointer-like object.
4751
Georg Brandl8509db52008-06-10 07:45:28 +00004752- Added the ast module.
4753
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00004754- Added the multiprocessing module, PEP 371.
Benjamin Peterson6f7ae692008-06-11 20:04:30 +00004755
Georg Brandl7be19aa2008-06-07 15:59:10 +00004756- Factored out the indentation cleaning from inspect.getdoc() into
4757 inspect.cleandoc() to ease standalone use.
4758
Thomas Hellerfbb9c0b2008-06-06 08:33:46 +00004759- Issue #1798: Add ctypes calling convention that allows safe access
4760 to errno.
4761
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00004762- Issue #2404: ctypes objects support the new pep3118 buffer interface.
Thomas Heller59475e92008-06-05 17:52:59 +00004763
Vinay Sajip9828b7e2008-06-17 11:04:02 +00004764- Patch #2125: Add GetInteger and GetString methods for
Martin v. Löwisffe62ed2008-06-02 08:40:06 +00004765 msilib.Record objects.
4766
Gregory P. Smith137d8242008-06-02 04:05:52 +00004767- Issue #2782: The datetime module's strftime methods now accept
4768 unicode format strings just as time.strftime always has.
4769
Georg Brandlac19d852008-06-01 21:19:14 +00004770- The sgmllib and htmllib modules have been deprecated for removal
4771 in Python 3.0.
4772
4773- Issue #3011: locale module alias table was updated to the latest
4774 version from the X.org locale.alias file.
Marc-André Lemburgadff65b2008-05-30 20:52:18 +00004775
Thomas Heller9287acf2008-05-29 19:42:34 +00004776- Issue #1797 (partial fix): ctypes NULL function pointers have a
4777 False boolean value now.
4778
Georg Brandld0b592f2008-05-29 07:45:26 +00004779- Issue #2985: Allow 64-bit integer responses (``<i8>``) in XMLRPC
4780 transfers.
4781
4782- Issue #2877: The UserString.MutableString class has been removed in
4783 Python 3.0.
Brett Cannonabb34fe2008-05-29 05:08:50 +00004784
Lars Gustäbelb1a54a32008-05-27 12:39:23 +00004785- Do not close external file objects passed to tarfile.open(mode='w:bz2')
4786 when the TarFile is closed.
4787
Georg Brandle08e3d02008-05-25 08:07:37 +00004788- Issue #2959: For consistency with other file-like objects, gzip's
4789 GzipFile.close() can now be called multiple times without raising
4790 an exception.
4791
Martin v. Löwis27e4a172008-05-23 15:18:28 +00004792- Issue #1390: Raise ValueError in toxml when an invalid comment would
4793 otherwise be produced.
4794
Vinay Sajipc0128832008-05-20 15:37:22 +00004795- Issue #2914: TimedRotatingFileHandler now takes an optional keyword
4796 argument "utc" to use UTC time rather than local time.
4797
4798- Issue #2929: TimedRotatingFileHandler was using the wrong path when
4799 deleting old log files (filename only instead of full path).
4800
Georg Brandl112aa502008-05-20 08:25:48 +00004801- Issue #1775025: You can now specify zipfile members to open(),
4802 read() or extract() via a ZipInfo instance. This allows handling
4803 duplicate filenames in zipfiles.
4804
Georg Brandl28fdfa92008-05-17 17:57:01 +00004805- Issue #961805: Fix Text.edit_modified() in Tkinter.
4806
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004807- Issue #1793: Function ctypes.util.find_msvcrt() added that returns
Thomas Heller95ba13f2008-05-16 20:06:31 +00004808 the name of the C runtime library that Python uses.
4809 ctypes.util.find_library(name) now call this function when name is
4810 'm' or 'c'.
4811
Brett Cannonfa40bbf2008-05-16 00:50:02 +00004812- The statvfs module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
4813
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004814- The sunaudiodev and SUNAUDIODEV modules have been deprecated for
4815 removal in Python 3.0.
4816
4817- The WAIT module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
4818 3.0.
4819
4820- The torgb module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
4821 3.0.
4822
4823- The SV module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
4824 3.0.
4825
4826- The readcd module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
Brett Cannon22248172008-05-16 00:10:24 +00004827 Python 3.0.
4828
Brett Cannon11ae6e72008-05-15 03:49:00 +00004829- The panelparser module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
4830 Python 3.0.
4831
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004832- The panel module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
4833 3.0.
Brett Cannon7e375862008-05-15 03:46:27 +00004834
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004835- The jpeg module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
4836 3.0.
Brett Cannon89f5d9c2008-05-15 03:44:00 +00004837
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004838- The IOCTL module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
4839 3.0.
Brett Cannond8c41ec2008-05-15 03:41:55 +00004840
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004841- The IN module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
4842 3.0.
Brett Cannon6328b292008-05-15 03:36:13 +00004843
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004844- The imgfile module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
Brett Cannon178582e2008-05-15 03:20:36 +00004845 Python 3.0.
4846
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004847- The GLWS module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
4848 3.0.
Brett Cannon72ccc402008-05-15 03:17:24 +00004849
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004850- The GET module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
4851 3.0.
Brett Cannon2773b6f2008-05-15 03:14:57 +00004852
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004853- The fm module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
4854 3.0.
4855
4856- The FL, flp, and fl modules from IRIX have been deprecated for
4857 removal in Python 3.0.
4858
4859- The FILE module on IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
4860 3.0.
4861
4862- The ERRNO module on IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
4863 3.0.
4864
4865- The DEVICE, GL, gl, and cgen modules (which indirectly includes
4866 cgensupport) have been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
Brett Cannon044616a2008-05-15 02:33:55 +00004867
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004868- The CL, CL_old, and cl modules for IRIX have been deprecated for
4869 removal in Python 3.0.
4870
4871- The cdplayer module for IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
Brett Cannon650f5162008-05-14 21:12:12 +00004872 Python 3.0.
4873
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004874- The cddb module for IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
4875 3.0.
Brett Cannon9eebe492008-05-14 20:34:22 +00004876
Brett Cannonddf949f2008-05-14 20:31:38 +00004877- The cd and CD modules for IRIX have been deprecated for removal in
4878 Python 3.0.
4879
Brett Cannon34721d52008-05-14 01:08:21 +00004880- The al and AL modules for IRIX have been deprecated for removal in
4881 Python 3.0.
4882
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004883- Issue #1713041: fix pprint's handling of maximum depth.
Georg Brandl23da6e62008-05-12 16:26:52 +00004884
Brett Cannonbb141bb2008-05-12 03:47:47 +00004885- The timing module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
4886
Brett Cannonac861b52008-05-12 03:45:59 +00004887- The sv module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
4888
Brett Cannon43e5ef42008-05-12 03:19:20 +00004889- The multifile module has been deprecated as per PEP 4.
4890
Brett Cannon42bfa902008-05-12 00:08:34 +00004891- The imageop module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
4892
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004893- Issue #2250: Exceptions raised during evaluation of names in
4894 rlcompleter's ``Completer.complete()`` method are now caught and
4895 ignored.
Georg Brandl627a6662008-05-11 21:03:42 +00004896
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004897- Issue #2659: Added ``break_on_hyphens`` option to textwrap
4898 TextWrapper class.
Georg Brandl6f95ae52008-05-11 10:42:28 +00004899
Brett Cannon2a869132008-05-11 03:01:47 +00004900- The mhlib module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
4901
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004902- The linuxaudiodev module has been deprecated for removal in Python
4903 3.0.
Brett Cannondf0a7172008-05-11 00:50:51 +00004904
Brett Cannon27508d42008-05-10 22:45:07 +00004905- The ihooks module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
4906
Brett Cannonfe598512008-05-10 22:11:45 +00004907- The fpformat module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
4908
Brett Cannone35a3a12008-05-10 21:22:43 +00004909- The dl module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
4910
Brett Cannond5a09852008-05-10 03:14:32 +00004911- The Canvas module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
4912
Brett Cannon6192df12008-05-10 02:58:26 +00004913- The compiler package has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
4914
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004915- The Bastion and rexec modules have been deprecated for removal in
4916 Python 3.0.
Brett Cannoncda73a42008-05-10 02:53:46 +00004917
Brett Cannon768d44f2008-05-10 02:47:54 +00004918- The bsddb185 module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
4919
Brett Cannon9ac39742008-05-09 22:51:58 +00004920- The pure module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
4921
Mark Dickinsonf8476c12008-05-09 17:54:23 +00004922- Issue #2487: change the semantics of math.ldexp(x, n) when n is too
4923 large to fit in a C long. ldexp(x, n) now returns a zero (with
4924 suitable sign) if n is large and negative; previously, it raised
4925 OverflowError.
4926
Brett Cannonfa24d9a2008-05-09 05:32:42 +00004927- The toaiff module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
4928
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004929- The test.testall module has been deprecated for removal in Python
4930 3.0.
Brett Cannon3c759142008-05-09 05:25:37 +00004931
Brett Cannond7265d62008-05-09 05:18:40 +00004932- The new module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
4933
Brett Cannone3b19402008-05-08 20:36:09 +00004934- The user module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
4935
Brett Cannon6071cc82008-05-08 19:52:45 +00004936- The stringold module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
4937
4938- The mutex module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
Brett Cannon9d441822008-05-08 19:26:08 +00004939
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00004940- The imputil module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
4941
Brett Cannoncae4f5f2008-05-08 20:24:43 +00004942- test.test_support.catch_warning() gained a 'record' argument.
4943
Benjamin Peterson0893a0a2008-05-09 00:27:01 +00004944- os.path.walk is deprecated in favor of os.walk.
4945
Georg Brandl9020ff82008-05-11 14:17:13 +00004946- pdb gained the "until" command.
Benjamin Peterson98353942008-05-11 14:13:25 +00004947
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004948- The Mac Modules (including Carbon) have been deprecated for removal
4949 in Python 3.0.
Benjamin Peterson23681932008-05-12 21:42:13 +00004950
Vinay Sajip9828b7e2008-06-17 11:04:02 +00004951- Library: on MacOS X you can now set ``ARCHFLAGS`` in the shell
Ronald Oussoren5640ce22008-06-05 12:58:24 +00004952 environment to control the '-arch' flags that are used to build
4953 an extension. This was added for compatibility with Apple's build
4954 of Python.
4955
4956- The bundled OSX-specific copy of libbffi is now in sync with the version
4957 shipped with PyObjC 2.0 and includes support for x86_64 and ppc64 platforms.
4958
Georg Brandl25c34082008-08-18 23:09:49 +00004959- The threading module gained aliases for names that will be removed in the
4960 3.x series.
Benjamin Peterson0fbcf692008-06-11 17:27:50 +00004961
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00004962Build
4963-----
4964
Martin v. Löwiscc0f2b22008-06-13 18:12:51 +00004965- 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 +00004966
Martin v. Löwis8c255e42008-05-23 15:06:50 +00004967- Patch #1722225: Support QNX 6.
4968
Brett Cannonb61d8012008-05-11 23:39:04 +00004969- ``Lib/lib-old`` is now added to sys.path.
4970
Ronald Oussoren5640ce22008-06-05 12:58:24 +00004971- On MacOS X it is now possible to install the framework in 64-bit
4972 mode or even as a 4-way universal binary (that is, PPC, i386,
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00004973 PPC64 and x86_64 support in one binary).
Ronald Oussoren5640ce22008-06-05 12:58:24 +00004974
4975 This is controlled by the configure argument ``--with-universal-archs``:
4976
4977 - ``--with-universal-archs=all``: install 4-way universal
4978
4979 - ``--with-universal-archs=32-bit``: install 2-way universal, 32-bit (the default)
4980
4981 - ``--with-universal-archs=64-bit``: install 2-way universal, 64-bit
4982
4983 This option should be used in combination with ``--enable-universalsdk=``.
4984
4985 NOTE: 64-bit and 4-way builds are only suppported on Mac OS X 10.5 (or later).
4986
4987
Christian Heimes7a990612008-05-26 13:15:11 +00004988C API
4989-----
4990
Georg Brandl74a1dea2008-05-28 11:21:39 +00004991- Add ``PyType_Modified()`` as a public API to clear the type cache.
4992
4993- The PyBytes functions have been renamed to PyByteArray.
Christian Heimes7a990612008-05-26 13:15:11 +00004994
4995- The PyString functions have been renamed to PyBytes. A batch of
4996 defines were added so that the linker still sees the original
4997 PyString names.
4998
Georg Brandl5e7b1c02008-05-16 17:40:23 +00004999
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00005000What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 3?
Barry Warsaw65475fd2008-03-01 17:11:41 +00005001=================================
5002
Barry Warsaw6cc79402008-05-08 13:16:19 +00005003*Release date: 08-May-2008*
Barry Warsaw65475fd2008-03-01 17:11:41 +00005004
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd21fb4c2008-03-05 01:50:33 +00005005Core and builtins
5006-----------------
Georg Brandl80055f62008-03-25 07:56:27 +00005007
Georg Brandl28e08732008-04-30 19:47:09 +00005008- Issue #2719: backported the ``next()`` builtin from Python 3.
5009
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005010- Issue #2681: The octal literal ``0o8`` was incorrecly acctepted. Now
5011 it properly raises a SyntaxError.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc52167212008-04-24 18:07:05 +00005012
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005013- Issue #2617: Reserved -J and -X arguments for Jython, IronPython and
5014 other implementations of Python.
Christian Heimes7a98d272008-04-12 13:03:03 +00005015
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005016- Implemented PEP 370: Per user site-packages directory.
Christian Heimesaf748c32008-05-06 22:41:46 +00005017
Andrew M. Kuchling46d6b682008-04-30 16:19:55 +00005018Extension Modules
5019-----------------
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00005020
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005021- Issue #2670: Fix a failure in urllib2.build_opener(), when passed
5022 two handlers that derive the same default base class.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc96865852008-04-22 21:14:41 +00005023
Christian Heimese74c8f22008-04-19 02:23:57 +00005024- Added kill, terminate and send_signal(sig) to subprocess.Popen.
5025
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005026- Added phase(z) -> phi, polar(z) -> r, phi and rect(r, phi) -> z to
5027 the cmath module.
Christian Heimes6f341092008-04-18 23:13:07 +00005028
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005029- Four new methods were added to the math and cmath modules: acosh,
5030 asinh, atanh and log1p.
Christian Heimes6f341092008-04-18 23:13:07 +00005031
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005032- zlib.decompressobj().flush(value) no longer crashes the interpreter
5033 when passed a value less than or equal to zero.
Gregory P. Smith671c5d92008-04-09 18:18:43 +00005034
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005035- Issue #1631171: Re-implement the 'warnings' module in C (the
5036 original Python code has been kept as backup). This will allow for
5037 using the 'warning's machinery in such places as the parser where
5038 use of pure Python code is not possible. Both the ``showarning()``
5039 and ``formatwarning()`` gain an optional 'line' argument which is
5040 not called by default for backwards-compatibility reasons. Setting
5041 ``warnings.showwarning()`` to an implementation that lacks support
5042 for the ``line`` argument will raise a DeprecationWarning.
Brett Cannone9746892008-04-12 23:44:07 +00005043
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00005044Library
5045-------
5046
Brett Cannonf8436822008-05-06 23:41:32 +00005047- The audiodev module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
5048
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005049- Issue #2750: Add the 'json' package. Based on simplejson 1.9 and
5050 contributed by Bob Ippolito.
Brett Cannon4b964f92008-05-05 20:21:38 +00005051
Martin v. Löwis471617d2008-05-05 17:16:58 +00005052- Issue #1734346: Support Unicode file names for zipfiles.
5053
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005054- Issue #2581: distutils: Vista UAC/elevation support for
5055 bdist_wininst.
Mark Hammond7c5c8e62008-05-02 12:48:15 +00005056
Mark Dickinsonfe536f52008-04-25 16:59:09 +00005057- Issue #2635: Fix bug in 'fix_sentence_endings' textwrap.fill option,
5058 where an extra space was added after a word containing (but not
5059 ending in) '.', '!' or '?'.
5060
Thomas Heller6ad5fbb2008-04-25 15:44:16 +00005061- Add from_buffer() and from_buffer_copy() class methods to ctypes
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00005062 data types.
Thomas Heller6ad5fbb2008-04-25 15:44:16 +00005063
Neal Norwitz2b0bea52008-04-25 03:40:17 +00005064- Issue #2682: ctypes callback functions no longer contain a cyclic
Thomas Hellerbf027c42008-04-24 18:14:19 +00005065 reference to themselves.
5066
Gregory P. Smithd59fefb2008-04-22 08:11:33 +00005067- The getpass module has been improved on Unix. It now uses /dev/tty
5068 by default and uses stderr instead of stdout. A GetPassWarning is
5069 issued when input echo cannot be controlled.
Gregory P. Smith41e30182008-04-21 21:31:08 +00005070
Skip Montanarob131f042008-04-18 20:35:46 +00005071- Issue #2014: Allow XML-RPC datetime objects to have dates before
5072 1900-01-01.
5073
Nick Coghlan106fc482008-04-15 10:25:31 +00005074- Issue #2439: Added new function pkgutil.get_data(), which is a
5075 convenience wrapper for the PEP 302 get_data() API.
5076
Thomas Heller046e6a42008-04-14 16:10:07 +00005077- Issue #2616: The ctypes.pointer() and ctypes.POINTER() functions are
5078 now implemented in C for better performance.
5079
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005080- Issue #2408: The ``_types`` module, which was used as in
5081 implementation detail of the public ``types`` module, has been
5082 removed and replaced by pure python code.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc02f33b42008-04-08 23:10:07 +00005083
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005084- Issue #2513: distutils on Windows is now capable of cross-compiling
Mark Hammond495cf992008-04-07 01:53:39 +00005085 extension modules between 32 and 64 bit platforms. See the distutls
5086 build documentation for more information.
5087
Gregory P. Smithaa63d0d2008-04-06 23:11:17 +00005088- Issue #815646: Individual file objects may now be used from multiple
5089 threads at once without fear of crashing the Python interpreter. If
5090 file.close() is called while an object is in use by another thread
5091 an IOError exception will be raised and the file will not be closed.
5092
Thomas Hellerf7906482008-04-04 19:43:25 +00005093- The bundled libffi copy is now in sync with the recently released
5094 libffi3.0.5 version, apart from some small changes to
5095 Modules/_ctypes/libffi/configure.ac.
5096
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005097- Issue #2385: distutils.core.run_script() makes __file__ available,
5098 so the controlled environment will more closely mirror the typical
5099 script environment. This supports setup.py scripts that refer to
5100 data files.
Fred Drake46c58c12008-04-04 05:41:30 +00005101
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00005102Tests
5103-----
Trent Nelsone41b0062008-04-08 23:47:30 +00005104
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005105- Issue #2550: The approach used by client/server code for obtaining
5106 ports to listen on in network-oriented tests has been refined in an
5107 effort to facilitate running multiple instances of the entire
5108 regression test suite in parallel without issue.
5109 test_support.bind_port() has been fixed such that it will always
5110 return a unique port -- which wasn't always the case with the
5111 previous implementation, especially if socket options had been set
5112 that affected address reuse (i.e. SO_REUSEADDR, SO_REUSEPORT). The
5113 new implementation of bind_port() will actually raise an exception
5114 if it is passed an AF_INET/SOCK_STREAM socket with either the
5115 SO_REUSEADDR or SO_REUSEPORT socket option set. Furthermore, if
5116 available, bind_port() will set the SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE option on
5117 the socket it's been passed. This currently only applies to
5118 Windows. This option prevents any other sockets from binding to the
5119 host/port we've bound to, thus removing the possibility of the
5120 'non-deterministic' behaviour, as Microsoft puts it, that occurs
5121 when a second SOCK_STREAM socket binds and accepts to a host/port
5122 that's already been bound by another socket. The optional preferred
5123 port parameter to bind_port() has been removed. Under no
5124 circumstances should tests be hard coding ports!
5125
5126 test_support.find_unused_port() has also been introduced, which will
5127 pass a temporary socket object to bind_port() in order to obtain an
5128 unused port. The temporary socket object is then closed and
5129 deleted, and the port is returned. This method should only be used
5130 for obtaining an unused port in order to pass to an external program
5131 (i.e. the -accept [port] argument to openssl's s_server mode) or as
5132 a parameter to a server-oriented class that doesn't give you direct
5133 access to the underlying socket used.
5134
5135 Finally, test_support.HOST has been introduced, which should be used
5136 for the host argument of any relevant socket calls (i.e. bind and
5137 connect).
Trent Nelsone41b0062008-04-08 23:47:30 +00005138
5139 The following tests were updated to following the new conventions:
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005140 test_socket, test_smtplib, test_asyncore, test_ssl, test_httplib,
Trent Nelsone41b0062008-04-08 23:47:30 +00005141 test_poplib, test_ftplib, test_telnetlib, test_socketserver,
5142 test_asynchat and test_socket_ssl.
5143
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005144 It is now possible for multiple instances of the regression test
5145 suite to run in parallel without issue.
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00005146
5147Build
5148-----
5149
Mark Dickinson65134662008-04-25 16:11:04 +00005150- Issue #1496032: On alpha, use -mieee when gcc is the compiler.
5151
Thomas Hellerdc96a772008-04-04 10:07:55 +00005152- Issue #2544: On HP-UX systems, use 'gcc -shared' for linking when
5153 gcc is used as compiler.
5154
Ronald Oussoren580c7fe2008-05-02 19:45:11 +00005155- Issue #2573: On MacOS X it is now possible to install the framework
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005156 with a different name using --with-framework-name=NAME.
Ronald Oussoren580c7fe2008-05-02 19:45:11 +00005157
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00005158C API
5159-----
5160
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005161- Added implementation of copysign, acosh, asinh, atanh and log1p to
5162 the new files Include/pymath.h and Python/pymath.h for platforms
5163 which provide the functions through their libm. The files also
5164 contains several helpers and constants for math.
Christian Heimes6f341092008-04-18 23:13:07 +00005165
Benjamin Petersondacde0d2008-05-26 17:43:53 +00005166- Added a new convenience macro, PyErr_WarnPy3k, for issuing Py3k warnings.
Benjamin Petersona692c4d2008-04-27 02:28:02 +00005167
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00005168
5169What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 2?
5170=================================
5171
5172*Release date: 02-Apr-2008*
5173
5174Core and builtins
5175-----------------
5176
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005177- Issue #1733757: The interpreter would hang on shutdown if the
5178 tracing function set by sys.settrace is still active and happens to
5179 call threading.currentThread().
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd7a26512008-04-03 23:07:55 +00005180
Georg Brandl91e0cda2008-03-29 01:50:06 +00005181- Patch #1442: properly report exceptions when the PYTHONSTARTUP file
5182 cannot be executed.
5183
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc69b747b2008-03-28 20:30:50 +00005184- The compilation of a class nested in another class used to leak one
5185 reference on the outer class name.
5186
Georg Brandlfc8eef32008-03-28 12:11:56 +00005187- Patch #1810: compile() can now compile _ast trees as returned by
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005188 ``compile(..., PyCF_ONLY_AST)``.
Georg Brandlfc8eef32008-03-28 12:11:56 +00005189
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005190- Patch #2426: Added sqlite3.Connection.iterdump method to allow easy
5191 dumping of databases. Contributed by Paul Kippes at PyCon 2008.
Gregory P. Smithb9803422008-03-28 08:32:09 +00005192
Georg Brandldeaf2ca2008-03-27 13:27:31 +00005193- Patch #2477: Added from __future__ import unicode_literals.
Christian Heimes3c608332008-03-26 22:01:37 +00005194
Christian Heimes8c78cc32008-03-26 12:53:58 +00005195- Added backport of bytearray type.
5196
Georg Brandl80055f62008-03-25 07:56:27 +00005197- Issue #2355: add Py3k warning for buffer().
5198
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc9a0d3462008-03-23 09:55:29 +00005199- Issue #1477: With narrow Unicode builds, the unicode escape sequence
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005200 \Uxxxxxxxx did not accept values outside the Basic Multilingual
5201 Plane. This affected raw unicode literals and the
5202 'raw-unicode-escape' codec. Now UTF-16 surrogates are generated in
5203 this case, like normal unicode literals and the 'unicode-escape'
5204 codec.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc9a0d3462008-03-23 09:55:29 +00005205
Georg Brandl65bb42d2008-03-21 20:38:24 +00005206- Issue #2348: add Py3k warning for file.softspace.
5207
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005208- Issue #2346/#2347: add Py3k warnings for __methods__ and
5209 __members__.
Georg Brandl07e56812008-03-21 20:21:46 +00005210
Georg Brandl5a444242008-03-21 20:11:46 +00005211- Issue #2358: Add a Py3k warning on sys.exc_clear() usage.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd21fb4c2008-03-05 01:50:33 +00005212
Martin v. Löwisa4d77892008-03-19 04:39:13 +00005213- Issue #2400: Allow relative imports to "import *".
5214
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005215- Issue #1745: Backport print function with ``from __future__ import
5216 print_function``.
Eric Smith7c478942008-03-18 23:45:49 +00005217
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005218- Issue #2332: add new attribute names for instance method objects.
5219 The two changes are: im_self -> __self__ and im_func -> __func__
Neal Norwitzb1d3d962008-03-18 04:46:00 +00005220
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005221- Issue #2379: Raise a Py3K warning for __getitem__ or __getslice__ on
Guido van Rossum6d91be32008-03-18 04:42:22 +00005222 exception instances.
5223
Guido van Rossum04edb522008-03-18 02:49:46 +00005224- Issue #2371: Add a Py3k warning when catching an exception that
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005225 doesn't derive from BaseException.
5226
5227- Issue #2341: Add a Py3k warning when raising an exception that
5228 doesn't derive from BaseException.
Guido van Rossum04edb522008-03-18 02:49:46 +00005229
Neal Norwitz419fd492008-03-17 20:22:43 +00005230- Issue #2321: use pymalloc for unicode object string data to reduce
5231 memory usage in some circumstances.
5232
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005233- PEP 3127: octal literals now start with "0o". Old-style octal
5234 literals are still valid. There are binary literals with a prefix of
5235 "0b". This also affects int(x, 0).
Eric Smith0aed07a2008-03-17 19:43:40 +00005236
Georg Brandl1e7c3752008-03-25 08:37:23 +00005237- Issue #2359: Adding deprecation warnings for array.{read,write}.
5238
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005239- Issue #1779871: GNU gcc can now build Python on OS X because the
Jeffrey Yasskin1b4e45b2008-03-17 14:40:53 +00005240 flags -Wno-long-double, -no-cpp-precomp, and -mno-fused-madd are no
5241 longer passed.
5242
Neal Norwitz400aeda2008-03-15 22:03:18 +00005243- Add a warning when asserting a non-empty tuple which is always true.
5244
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005245- Issue #2179: speed up with statement execution by storing the exit
5246 method on the stack instead of in a temporary variable (patch by
5247 Jeffrey Yaskin)
Nick Coghlan7af53be2008-03-07 14:13:28 +00005248
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005249- Issue #2238: Some syntax errors in *args and **kwargs expressions
5250 could give bogus error messages.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd21fb4c2008-03-05 01:50:33 +00005251
Sean Reifscheider68fa8e62008-03-20 00:50:07 +00005252- Issue #2143: Fix embedded readline() hang on SSL socket EOF.
5253
Andrew M. Kuchling46d6b682008-04-30 16:19:55 +00005254Extension Modules
5255-----------------
Martin v. Löwisaef18b12008-03-24 13:31:16 +00005256
5257- Patch #2240: Implement signal.setitimer and signal.getitimer.
5258
Thomas Heller78b8f442008-03-05 14:53:39 +00005259Library
5260-------
5261
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005262- Issue #2315: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now accounts
5263 for daylight savings time in calculating the next rollover.
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00005264
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005265- Issue #2316: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now
5266 calculates rollovers correctly even when nothing is logged for a
5267 while.
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00005268
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005269- Issue #2317: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now uses
5270 improved logic for removing old files.
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00005271
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005272- Issue #2495: tokenize.untokenize now inserts a space between two
5273 consecutive string literals; previously, ["" ""] was rendered as
5274 [""""], which is incorrect python code.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcda0c0252008-03-27 23:23:54 +00005275
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005276- Issue #2248: return the result of the QUIT command. from
5277 SMTP.quit().
Georg Brandldeaf2ca2008-03-27 13:27:31 +00005278
Christian Heimes8c78cc32008-03-26 12:53:58 +00005279- Backport of Python 3.0's io module.
5280
Mark Dickinson8e85ffa2008-03-25 18:47:59 +00005281- Issue #2482: Make sure that the coefficient of a Decimal is always
5282 stored as a str instance, not as a unicode instance. This ensures
5283 that str(Decimal) is always an instance of str.
5284
Mark Dickinson3b24ccb2008-03-25 14:33:23 +00005285- Issue #2478: fix failure of decimal.Decimal(0).sqrt()
5286
Georg Brandl77354cf2008-03-21 20:01:51 +00005287- Issue #2432: give DictReader the dialect and line_num attributes
5288 advertised in the docs.
5289
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005290- Issue #2460: Make Ellipsis object copyable.
Raymond Hettingerb72233c2008-03-24 08:17:39 +00005291
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005292- Issue #1681432: Add triangular distribution to the random module
Raymond Hettingerbbc50ea2008-03-23 13:32:32 +00005293
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005294- Issue #2136: urllib2's auth handler now allows single-quoted realms
5295 in the WWW-Authenticate header.
Georg Brandl33124322008-03-21 19:54:00 +00005296
Marc-André Lemburga1867752008-03-20 18:08:00 +00005297- Issue #2434: Enhanced platform.win32_ver() to also work on Python
5298 installation which do not have the win32all package installed.
5299
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005300- Added support to platform.uname() to also report the machine and
5301 processor information on Windows XP and later. As a result,
Marc-André Lemburga1867752008-03-20 18:08:00 +00005302 platform.machine() and platform.processor() will report this
5303 information as well.
5304
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005305- The library implementing the 2to3 conversion, lib2to3, was added to
5306 the standard distribution.
Martin v. Löwis5e37bae2008-03-19 04:43:46 +00005307
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005308- Issue #1747858: Fix chown to work with large uid's and gid's on
5309 64-bit platforms.
Gregory P. Smith37f3f432008-03-18 20:40:01 +00005310
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005311- Issue #1202: zlib.crc32 and zlib.adler32 no longer return different
5312 values on 32-bit vs. 64-bit python interpreters. Both were correct,
5313 but they now both return a signed integer object for consistency.
Gregory P. Smithf48f9d32008-03-17 18:48:05 +00005314
Skip Montanaro32ed8c22008-03-15 16:07:11 +00005315- Issue #1158: add %f format (fractions of a second represented as
5316 microseconds) to datetime objects. Understood by both strptime and
5317 strftime.
5318
Mark Dickinsonc23b8a72008-03-14 14:23:37 +00005319- Issue #705836: struct.pack(">f", x) now raises OverflowError on all
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005320 platforms when x is too large to fit into an IEEE 754 float;
5321 previously it only raised OverflowError on non IEEE 754 platforms.
Mark Dickinsonc23b8a72008-03-14 14:23:37 +00005322
Andrew M. Kuchlingaac5c862008-05-11 14:00:00 +00005323- Issues #2166, #1741 and #1531505: now distutils deals with HOME
5324 correctly under win32
5325
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005326- Patch #1858: distutils: added multiple server support in .pypirc
Andrew M. Kuchlingaac5c862008-05-11 14:00:00 +00005327
Facundo Batistac54aec12008-03-08 16:50:27 +00005328- Issue #1106316: pdb.post_mortem()'s parameter, "traceback", is now
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005329 optional: it defaults to the traceback of the exception that is
5330 currently being handled (is mandatory to be in the middle of an
5331 exception, otherwise it raises ValueError).
Facundo Batistac54aec12008-03-08 16:50:27 +00005332
Jeffrey Yasskine75f59a2008-03-07 06:22:15 +00005333- Issue #1193577: A .shutdown() method has been added to SocketServers
5334 which terminates the .serve_forever() loop.
5335
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005336- Issue #2220: handle rlcompleter attribute match failure more
5337 gracefully.
Georg Brandl98aa8052008-03-06 07:45:52 +00005338
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005339- Issue #2225: py_compile, when executed as a script, now returns a
5340 non- zero status code if not all files could be compiled
5341 successfully.
Georg Brandla7bd27f2008-03-06 07:41:16 +00005342
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005343- Bug #1725737: In distutils' sdist, exclude RCS, CVS etc. also in the
Georg Brandl810ea292008-03-06 07:34:52 +00005344 root directory, and also exclude .hg, .git, .bzr, and _darcs.
5345
Thomas Hellerf3c05592008-03-05 15:34:29 +00005346- Issue #1872: The struct module typecode for _Bool has been changed
5347 from 't' to '?'.
5348
Thomas Heller78b8f442008-03-05 14:53:39 +00005349- The bundled libffi copy is now in sync with the recently released
5350 libffi3.0.4 version, apart from some small changes to
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005351 Modules/_ctypes/libffi/configure.ac. On OS X, preconfigured libffi
5352 files are used. On all linux systems the --with-system-ffi
5353 configure option defaults to "yes".
Thomas Heller78b8f442008-03-05 14:53:39 +00005354
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005355- Issue #1577: shutil.move() now calls os.rename() if the destination
5356 is a directory instead of copying-then-remove-source.
Sean Reifscheider493894c2008-03-18 17:24:12 +00005357
Martin v. Löwisd2bbe522008-03-06 06:55:22 +00005358Tests
5359-----
5360
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005361- test_nis no longer fails when test.test_support.verbose is true and
5362 NIS is not set up on the testing machine.
Brett Cannon7919d982008-03-19 16:50:13 +00005363
Brett Cannona5573b32008-03-18 04:16:06 +00005364- Output comparison tests are no longer supported.
5365
Brett Cannonb7ec8e52008-03-18 03:46:22 +00005366- Rewrite test_errno to use unittest and no longer be a no-op.
5367
Brett Cannon0bb79502008-03-18 01:58:56 +00005368- GHOP 234: Convert test_extcall to doctest.
5369
Brett Cannonba17cfc2008-03-18 01:50:25 +00005370- GHOP 290: Convert test_dbm and test_dummy_threading to unittest.
5371
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005372- GHOP 293: Convert test_strftime, test_getargs, and test_pep247 to
5373 unittest.
Brett Cannon6eeaddc2008-03-18 01:00:07 +00005374
Brett Cannon1f5182b2008-03-13 21:09:28 +00005375- Issue #2055: Convert test_fcntl to unittest.
5376
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00005377- Issue #1960: Convert test_gdbm to unittest.
Brett Cannon4a6e8d62008-03-13 21:02:16 +00005378
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005379- GHOP 294: Convert test_contains, test_crypt, and test_select to
5380 unittest.
Brett Cannon2e0f9f32008-03-13 20:47:41 +00005381
Brett Cannonb8d37352008-03-13 20:33:10 +00005382- GHOP 238: Convert test_tokenize to use doctest.
5383
Brett Cannon66865d22008-03-13 20:27:00 +00005384- GHOP 237: Rewrite test_thread using unittest.
5385
Martin v. Löwisd2bbe522008-03-06 06:55:22 +00005386- Patch #2232: os.tmpfile might fail on Windows if the user has no
5387 permission to create files in the root directory.
5388
Martin v. Löwisbf7b0b72008-03-14 13:56:09 +00005389Build
5390-----
5391
Martin v. Löwiscdbc9772008-03-24 12:57:53 +00005392- A new script 2to3 is now installed, to run the 2.x to 3.x converter.
5393
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005394- Python/memmove.c and Python/strerror.c have been removed; both
5395 functions are in the C89 standard library.
Brett Cannonaa5778d2008-03-18 04:09:00 +00005396
Martin v. Löwisbf7b0b72008-03-14 13:56:09 +00005397- Patch #2284: Add -x64 option to rt.bat.
Barry Warsaw65475fd2008-03-01 17:11:41 +00005398
Christian Heimes3c608332008-03-26 22:01:37 +00005399C API
5400-----
5401
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00005402- Patch #2477: Added PyParser_ParseFileFlagsEx() and
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005403 PyParser_ParseStringFlagsFilenameEx().
5404
Christian Heimes3c608332008-03-26 22:01:37 +00005405
Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +00005406What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 1?
5407=================================
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00005408
Barry Warsaw7c075232008-03-01 02:53:36 +00005409*Release date: 29-Feb-2008*
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00005410
5411Core and builtins
5412-----------------
5413
Fred Drakea8ee94b2008-03-01 02:45:07 +00005414- Issue #2051: pyc and pyo files are no longer created with permission
Barry Warsaw52973612008-03-01 02:23:38 +00005415 644. The mode is now inherited from the py file.
Christian Heimes40346852008-02-23 17:52:07 +00005416
Georg Brandlad61bc82008-02-23 15:11:18 +00005417- Issue #2067: file.__exit__() now calls subclasses' close() method.
5418
5419- Patch #1759: Backport of PEP 3129 class decorators.
Christian Heimes5224d282008-02-23 15:01:05 +00005420
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00005421- Issue #1881: An internal parser limit has been increased. Also see
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00005422 issue #215555 for a discussion.
Facundo Batistafc2d0102008-02-23 12:01:13 +00005423
Eric Smitha73fbe72008-02-23 03:09:44 +00005424- Added the future_builtins module, which contains hex() and oct().
5425 These are the PEP 3127 version of these functions, designed to be
5426 compatible with the hex() and oct() builtins from Python 3.0. They
5427 differ slightly in their output formats from the existing, unchanged
5428 Python 2.6 builtins. The expected usage of the future_builtins
5429 module is:
5430 from future_builtins import hex, oct
5431
Eric Smith7ef40bf2008-02-20 23:34:22 +00005432- Issue #1600: Modifed PyOS_ascii_formatd to use at most 2 digit
5433 exponents for exponents with absolute value < 100. Follows C99
5434 standard. This is a change on Windows, which would use 3 digits.
5435 Also, added 'n' to the formats that PyOS_ascii_formatd understands,
5436 so that any alterations it does to the resulting string will be
5437 available in stringlib/formatter.h (for float.__format__).
5438
Eric Smith5a3c1352008-02-19 13:21:56 +00005439- Implemented PEP 3101, Advanced String Formatting. This adds a new
5440 builtin format(); a format() method for str and unicode; a
5441 __format__() method to object, str, unicode, int, long, float, and
5442 datetime; the class string.Formatter; and the C API
5443 PyObject_Format().
5444
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005445- Fixed several potential crashes, all caused by specially crafted
5446 __del__ methods exploiting objects in temporarily inconsistent
5447 state.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc632fad32008-02-16 20:55:24 +00005448
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00005449- Issue #2115: Important speedup in setting __slot__ attributes. Also
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005450 prevent a possible crash: an Abstract Base Class would try to access
5451 a slot on a registered virtual subclass.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc60d6c7f2008-02-15 21:22:45 +00005452
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005453- Fixed repr() and str() of complex numbers with infinity or nan as
5454 real or imaginary part.
Christian Heimes2f0da532008-02-15 06:57:08 +00005455
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005456- Clear all free lists during a gc.collect() of the highest generation
5457 in order to allow pymalloc to free more arenas. Python may give back
5458 memory to the OS earlier.
Christian Heimes3b718a72008-02-14 12:47:33 +00005459
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005460- Issue #2045: Fix an infinite recursion triggered when printing a
5461 subclass of collections.defaultdict, if its default_factory is set
5462 to a bound method.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcb01aa432008-02-08 00:56:02 +00005463
Christian Heimesf75dbef2008-02-08 00:11:31 +00005464- Fixed a minor memory leak in dictobject.c. The content of the free
5465 list was not freed on interpreter shutdown.
5466
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00005467- Limit free list of method and built-in function objects to 256
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005468 entries each.
Christian Heimes6075a822008-02-06 12:44:34 +00005469
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005470- Patch #1953: Added ``sys._compact_freelists()`` and the C API
5471 functions ``PyInt_CompactFreeList`` and ``PyFloat_CompactFreeList``
Christian Heimes422051a2008-02-04 18:00:12 +00005472 to compact the internal free lists of pre-allocted ints and floats.
5473
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005474- Issue #1983: Fixed return type of fork(), fork1() and forkpty()
5475 calls. Python expected the return type int but the fork familie
5476 returns pi_t.
Christian Heimes951cc0f2008-01-31 23:08:23 +00005477
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005478- Issue #1678380: Fix a bug that identifies 0j and -0j when they
5479 appear in the same code unit.
Mark Dickinson105be772008-01-31 22:17:37 +00005480
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005481- Issue #2025: Add tuple.count() and tuple.index() methods to comply
5482 with the collections.Sequence API.
Raymond Hettinger5b07ebc2008-02-07 00:54:20 +00005483
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005484- Patch #1970 by Antoine Pitrou: Speedup unicode whitespace and
5485 linebreak detection
Christian Heimes4d4f2702008-01-30 11:32:37 +00005486
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005487- Added ``PyType_ClearCache()`` and ``sys._clear_type_cache`` to clear
5488 the internal lookup cache for ref leak tests.
Christian Heimes908caac2008-01-27 23:34:59 +00005489
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005490- Patch #1473257: generator objects gain a gi_code attribute. This is
5491 the same object as the func_code attribute of the function that
5492 produced the generator.
Georg Brandl0cdf9a32008-01-26 14:14:20 +00005493
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005494- Issue #1920: "while 0" statements were completely removed by the
5495 compiler, even in the presence of an "else" clause, which is
5496 supposed to be run when the condition is false. Now the compiler
5497 correctly emits bytecode for the "else" suite.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc31eaafe2008-01-24 22:59:25 +00005498
Guido van Rossumeead05f2008-01-24 18:21:02 +00005499- A few crashers fixed: weakref_in_del.py (issue #1377858);
5500 loosing_dict_ref.py (issue #1303614, test67.py);
5501 borrowed_ref_[34].py (not in tracker).
5502
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +00005503- Issue #1069410: The "can't load dll" message box on Windows is
Christian Heimesb2302ba2008-01-23 17:15:06 +00005504 suppressed while an extension is loaded by calling SetErrorMode in
5505 dynload_win.c. The error is still reported properly.
5506
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005507- Issue #1915: Python compiles with --enable-unicode=no again. However
Christian Heimes082c9b02008-01-23 14:20:50 +00005508 several extension methods and modules do not work without unicode
5509 support.
5510
Georg Brandl26543b12008-01-21 18:36:51 +00005511- Issue #1882: when compiling code from a string, encoding cookies in the
5512 second line of code were not always recognized correctly.
5513
Georg Brandl14404b62008-01-19 19:27:05 +00005514- Issue #1679: "0x" was taken as a valid integer literal.
5515
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00005516- Issue #1865: ``bytes`` as an alias for ``str`` and b"" as an alias "" were
Christian Heimes288e89a2008-01-18 18:24:07 +00005517 added.
5518
Christian Heimesc94e2b52008-01-14 04:13:37 +00005519- sys.float_info / PyFloat_GetInfo: The floating point information
5520 object was converted from a dict to a specialized structseq object.
5521
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005522- Patch #1816: Added sys.flags structseq. It exposes the status of
5523 most command line arguments and PYTHON* environment variables.
Christian Heimesf31b69f2008-01-14 03:42:48 +00005524
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005525- Objects/structseq.c: Implemented new structseq representation. The
5526 patch makes structseqs (e.g. the return value of os.stat) more
5527 readable.
Christian Heimes9c201962008-01-14 03:33:52 +00005528
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005529- Patch #1700288: added a type attribute cache that caches method
5530 accesses, resulting in speedups in heavily object-oriented code.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arce4c270c2008-01-14 00:29:41 +00005531
Neal Norwitz3fc15b82008-01-10 05:42:58 +00005532- Bug #1776: __import__() no longer accepts filenames on any platform.
5533 The first parameter to __import__() must be a valid module name.
Christian Heimes3403f152008-01-09 19:56:33 +00005534
Georg Brandlaed6c662008-01-07 17:25:53 +00005535- Patch #1668: renamed THREADDEBUG envvar to PYTHONTHREADDEBUG.
5536
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005537- Patch #602345: Add -B command line option, PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE
5538 envvar and sys.dont_write_bytecode attribute. All these can be set
5539 to forbid Python to attempt to write compiled bytecode files.
Georg Brandl2da0fce2008-01-07 17:09:35 +00005540
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005541- Improve some exception messages when Windows fails to load an
5542 extension module. Now we get for example '%1 is not a valid Win32
5543 application' instead of 'error code 193'.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arce0b76952008-01-04 02:04:15 +00005544
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005545- Bug #1481296: Fixed long(float('nan')) != 0L.
Christian Heimes8267d1d2008-01-04 00:37:34 +00005546
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005547- Issue #1640: Added math.isinf(x), math.isnan(x) and math.copysign(x,
5548 y) functions.
Christian Heimese2ca4242008-01-03 20:23:15 +00005549
Christian Heimes0a8143f2007-12-18 23:22:54 +00005550- Issue #1635: Platform independent creation and representation of NaN
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005551 and INF. float("nan"), float("inf") and float("-inf") now work on
5552 every platform with IEEE 754 semantics.
Christian Heimes0a8143f2007-12-18 23:22:54 +00005553
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005554- Compiler now generates simpler and faster code for dictionary
5555 literals. The oparg for BUILD_MAP now indicates an estimated
5556 dictionary size. There is a new opcode, STORE_MAP, for adding
5557 entries to the dictionary.
Raymond Hettingerfd7ed402007-12-18 21:24:09 +00005558
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005559- Issue #1638: %zd configure test fails on Linux.
Christian Heimesdb3d6cb2007-12-16 21:39:43 +00005560
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005561- Issue #1620: New property decorator syntax was modifying the
5562 decorator in place instead of creating a new decorator object.
Christian Heimes90e10e72007-12-14 02:35:23 +00005563
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005564- Issue #1538: Avoid copying string in split/rsplit if the split char
5565 is not found.
Skip Montanaro26015492007-12-08 15:33:24 +00005566
Andrew M. Kuchling395fe442007-12-05 13:27:20 +00005567- Issue #1553: An erroneous __length_hint__ can make list() raise a
Christian Heimes7cc1c6f2007-12-05 12:52:34 +00005568 SystemError.
5569
Nick Coghlanef01d822007-12-03 12:55:17 +00005570- PEP 366: Allow explicit relative imports when executing modules
5571 inside packages with the -m switch via a new module level
5572 __package__ attribute.
5573
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005574- Issue #1402: Fix a crash on exit, when another thread is still
5575 running, and if the deallocation of its frames somehow calls the
5576 PyGILState_Ensure() / PyGILState_Release() functions.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbe49a902007-11-30 20:37:22 +00005577
Christian Heimes28104c52007-11-27 23:16:44 +00005578- Expose the Py_Py3kWarningFlag as sys.py3kwarning.
5579
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00005580- Issue #1445: Fix a SystemError when accessing the ``cell_contents``
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcce7d10c2007-11-24 13:44:17 +00005581 attribute of an empty cell object.
5582
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005583- Issue #1460: The utf-7 incremental decoder did not accept truncated
5584 input. It now correctly saves its state between chunks of data.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcf57375a2007-11-21 01:38:26 +00005585
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005586- Patch #1739468: Directories and zipfiles containing a __main__.py
5587 file can now be directly executed by passing their name to the
5588 interpreter. The directory/zipfile is automatically inserted as the
5589 first entry in sys.path.
Nick Coghlan327a39b2007-11-18 11:56:28 +00005590
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005591- Issue #1265: Fix a problem with sys.settrace, if the tracing
5592 function uses a generator expression when at the same time the
5593 executed code is closing a paused generator.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc0d75f092007-11-13 21:54:28 +00005594
Raymond Hettinger1760c8a2007-11-08 02:52:43 +00005595- sets and frozensets now have an isdisjoint() method.
5596
Raymond Hettinger3f8caa32007-10-24 01:28:33 +00005597- optimize the performance of builtin.sum().
5598
Neal Norwitz44f326e2007-10-05 05:29:17 +00005599- Fix warnings found by the new version of the Coverity checker.
5600
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00005601- The enumerate() built-in function is no longer bounded to sequences
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005602 smaller than LONG_MAX. Formerly, it raised an OverflowError. Now,
5603 automatically shifts from ints to longs.
Raymond Hettinger8f669372007-10-03 21:18:11 +00005604
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005605- Issue #1686386: Tuple's tp_repr did not take into account the
5606 possibility of having a self-referential tuple, which is possible
5607 from C code. Nor did object's tp_str consider that a type's tp_str
5608 could do something that could lead to an inifinite recursion.
5609 Py_ReprEnter() and Py_EnterRecursiveCall(), respectively, fixed the
5610 issues.
Brett Cannon0b14f242007-09-30 19:45:10 +00005611
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005612- Issue #1164: It was possible to trigger deadlock when using the
5613 'print' statement to write to a file since the GIL was not released
5614 as needed. Now PyObject_Print() does the right thing along with
5615 various tp_print implementations of the built-in types and those in
5616 the collections module.
Brett Cannon01531592007-09-17 03:28:34 +00005617
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005618- Issue #1147: Exceptions were directly allowing string exceptions in
5619 their throw() method even though string exceptions no longer
5620 allowed.
Brett Cannon4c20bc42007-09-11 21:02:28 +00005621
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005622- Issue #1096: Prevent a segfault from getting the repr of a very
5623 deeply nested list by using the recursion counter.
Brett Cannona0c05512007-09-10 21:38:27 +00005624
Brett Cannon1e534b52007-09-07 04:18:30 +00005625- Issue #1202533: Fix infinite recursion calls triggered by calls to
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005626 PyObject_Call() never calling back out to Python code to trigger
5627 recursion depth updates/checks. Required the creation of a static
5628 RuntimeError instance in case normalizing an exception put the
5629 recursion check value past its limit. Fixes crashers
5630 infinite_rec_(1|2|4|5).py.
Brett Cannon1e534b52007-09-07 04:18:30 +00005631
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005632- Patch #1031213: Decode source line in SyntaxErrors back to its
5633 original source encoding.
Martin v. Löwisa5136192007-09-04 14:19:28 +00005634
Georg Brandl7c3b50d2007-07-12 08:38:00 +00005635- Patch #1673759: add a missing overflow check when formatting floats
5636 with %G.
5637
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005638- Prevent expandtabs() on string and unicode objects from causing a
5639 segfault when a large width is passed on 32-bit platforms.
Neal Norwitz7dbd2a32007-06-09 03:36:34 +00005640
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005641- Issue #1733488: Fix compilation of bufferobject.c on AIX.
Martin v. Löwisda587ab2007-06-08 17:29:20 +00005642
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005643- Issue #1722485: remove docstrings again when running with -OO.
Georg Brandla5ea6892007-06-01 11:33:33 +00005644
Neal Norwitz0ac60192007-05-27 04:08:54 +00005645- Add new attribute names for function objects. All the func_* become
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005646 __*__ attributes. (Some already existed, e.g., __doc__ and
5647 __name__.)
Neal Norwitz0ac60192007-05-27 04:08:54 +00005648
Neal Norwitz8b2bfbc2007-05-23 06:35:32 +00005649- Add -3 option to the interpreter to warn about features that are
5650 deprecated and will be changed/removed in Python 3.0.
5651
Georg Brandl2134e752007-05-21 20:34:16 +00005652- Patch #1686487: you can now pass any mapping after '**' in function
5653 calls.
5654
Collin Winter62903052007-05-18 23:11:24 +00005655- except clauses may now be spelled either "except E, target:" or
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005656 "except E as target:". This is to provide forwards compatibility
5657 with Python 3.0.
Collin Winter62903052007-05-18 23:11:24 +00005658
Brett Cannon229cee22007-05-05 01:34:02 +00005659- Deprecate BaseException.message as per PEP 352.
5660
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005661- Issue #1303614: don't expose object's __dict__ when the dict is
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00005662 inherited from a built-in base.
Armin Rigo9790a272007-05-02 19:23:31 +00005663
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00005664- When __slots__ are set to a unicode string, make it work the same as
Neal Norwitzcbd9ee62007-04-14 05:25:50 +00005665 setting a plain string, ie don't expand to single letter identifiers.
5666
Raymond Hettinger13936692007-04-11 18:40:58 +00005667- Request #1191699: Slices can now be pickled.
5668
Raymond Hettinger4db5fe92007-04-12 04:10:00 +00005669- Request #1193128: str.translate() now allows a None argument for
5670 translations that only remove characters without re-mapping the
5671 remaining characters.
5672
Georg Brandl5cb76c12007-03-21 09:00:39 +00005673- Patch #1682205: a TypeError while unpacking an iterable is no longer
5674 masked by a generic one with the message "unpack non-sequence".
5675
Neal Norwitzaa754b72007-03-21 06:39:48 +00005676- Remove unused file Python/fmod.c.
5677
Guido van Rossum143b5642007-03-23 04:58:42 +00005678- Bug #1683368: The object.__init__() and object.__new__() methods are
5679 now stricter in rejecting excess arguments. The only time when
5680 either allows excess arguments is when it is not overridden and the
5681 other one is. For backwards compatibility, when both are
5682 overridden, it is a deprecation warning (for now; maybe a Py3k
Guido van Rossum234b1ff2007-03-23 19:39:01 +00005683 warning later). Also, type.__init__() insists on the same signature
5684 as supported by type.__new__().
Guido van Rossum143b5642007-03-23 04:58:42 +00005685
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005686- Patch #1675423: PyComplex_AsCComplex() now tries to convert an
5687 object to complex using its __complex__() method before falling back
5688 to the __float__() method. Therefore, the functions in the cmath
5689 module now can operate on objects that define a __complex__()
5690 method.
Georg Brandl2b869942007-03-17 16:08:45 +00005691
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005692- Patch #1623563: allow __class__ assignment for classes with
5693 __slots__. The old and the new class are still required to have the
5694 same slot names.
Žiga Seilnacht6f2d09c2007-03-16 11:59:38 +00005695
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005696- Patch #1642547: Fix an error/crash when encountering syntax errors
5697 in complex if statements.
Collin Winter77c67bd2007-03-16 04:11:30 +00005698
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005699- Patch #1462488: Python no longer segfaults when
5700 ``object.__reduce_ex__()`` is called with an object that is faking
5701 its type.
Žiga Seilnacht20f43d32007-03-15 11:44:55 +00005702
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005703- Patch #1680015: Don't modify __slots__ tuple if it contains an
5704 unicode name.
Žiga Seilnacht71436f02007-03-14 12:24:09 +00005705
Georg Brandl5240d742007-03-13 20:46:32 +00005706- Patch #1444529: the builtin compile() now accepts keyword arguments.
5707
Georg Brandl7b9c5552007-03-12 14:30:05 +00005708- Bug #1678647: write a newline after printing an exception in any
5709 case, even when converting the value to a string failed.
5710
Georg Brandl871f1bc2007-03-12 13:17:36 +00005711- The dir() function has been extended to call the __dir__() method on
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005712 its argument, if it exists. If not, it will work like before. This
5713 allows customizing the output of dir() in the presence of a
5714 __getattr__().
Georg Brandl871f1bc2007-03-12 13:17:36 +00005715
Collin Winter276887b2007-03-12 16:11:39 +00005716- Patch #922167: Python no longer segfaults when faced with infinitely
5717 self-recursive reload() calls (as reported by bug #742342).
5718
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005719- Patch #1675981: remove unreachable code from ``type.__new__()``
5720 method.
Žiga Seilnacht89032082007-03-11 15:54:54 +00005721
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005722- Patch #1491866: change the complex() constructor to allow
5723 parthensized forms. This means complex(repr(x)) now works instead of
5724 raising a ValueError.
Collin Wintere38051d2007-03-09 20:33:07 +00005725
Georg Brandlaa2321b2007-03-07 00:40:28 +00005726- Patch #703779: unset __file__ in __main__ after running a file. This
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005727 makes the filenames the warning module prints much more sensible
5728 when a PYTHONSTARTUP file is used.
Georg Brandlaa2321b2007-03-07 00:40:28 +00005729
Georg Brandl49aafc92007-03-07 00:34:46 +00005730- Variant of patch #697613: don't exit the interpreter on a SystemExit
5731 exception if the -i command line option or PYTHONINSPECT environment
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005732 variable is given, but break into the interactive interpreter just
5733 like on other exceptions or normal program exit.
Georg Brandl49aafc92007-03-07 00:34:46 +00005734
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005735- Patch #1638879: don't accept strings with embedded NUL bytes in
5736 long().
Georg Brandl00cd8182007-03-06 18:41:12 +00005737
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005738- Bug #1674503: close the file opened by execfile() in an error
5739 condition.
Georg Brandl098cd692007-03-06 12:17:50 +00005740
Georg Brandl0fca97a2007-03-05 22:28:08 +00005741- Patch #1674228: when assigning a slice (old-style), check for the
5742 sq_ass_slice instead of the sq_slice slot.
5743
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005744- When printing an unraisable error, don't print exceptions. before
5745 the name. This duplicates the behavior whening normally printing
5746 exceptions.
Neal Norwitz88516a62007-02-26 22:41:45 +00005747
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005748- Bug #1653736: Properly discard third argument to
5749 slot_nb_inplace_power.
Martin v. Löwisfd963262007-02-09 12:19:32 +00005750
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005751- PEP 352: Raising a string exception now triggers a TypeError.
5752 Attempting to catch a string exception raises DeprecationWarning.
Brett Cannon129bd522007-01-30 21:34:36 +00005753
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005754- Bug #1377858: Fix the segfaulting of the interpreter when an object
5755 created a weakref on itself during a __del__ call for new-style
5756 classes (classic classes still have the bug).
Brett Cannonf5bee302007-01-23 23:21:22 +00005757
Martin v. Löwis6c5c5022007-01-23 21:11:47 +00005758- Bug #1579370: Make PyTraceBack_Here use the current thread, not the
5759 frame's thread state.
5760
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005761- patch #1630975: Fix crash when replacing sys.stdout in
5762 sitecustomize.py.
Thomas Wouters6ed19652007-01-23 13:50:49 +00005763
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005764- Prevent seg fault on shutdown which could occur if an object raised
5765 a warning.
Neal Norwitz72cd02c2007-01-05 05:25:22 +00005766
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005767- Bug #1566280: Explicitly invoke threading._shutdown from Py_Main, to
5768 avoid relying on atexit.
Martin v. Löwis7b7c9d42007-01-04 21:06:12 +00005769
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005770- Bug #1590891: random.randrange don't return correct value for big
5771 number.
Raymond Hettinger94547f72006-12-20 06:42:06 +00005772
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005773- Patch #1586791: Better exception messages for some operations on
5774 strings, tuples and lists.
Georg Brandl283a1352006-11-19 08:48:30 +00005775
Martin v. Löwis056dac12006-11-12 18:24:26 +00005776- Bug #1067760: Deprecate passing floats to file.seek.
5777
Martin v. Löwisa346c092006-11-08 06:48:36 +00005778- Bug #1591996: Correctly forward exception in instance_contains().
5779
Neal Norwitz85dbec62006-11-04 19:25:22 +00005780- Bug #1588287: fix invalid assertion for `1,2` in debug builds.
5781
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005782- Bug #1576657: when setting a KeyError for a tuple key, make sure
5783 that the tuple isn't used as the "exception arguments tuple".
Georg Brandlb9f4ad32006-10-29 18:31:42 +00005784
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005785- Bug #1565514: SystemError not raised on too many nested blocks.
Neal Norwitz21997af2006-10-28 21:19:07 +00005786
Thomas Hellerdf08f0b2006-10-27 18:31:36 +00005787- Bug #1576174: WindowsError now displays the windows error code
5788 again, no longer the posix error code.
5789
Martin v. Löwisb5bc5372006-10-27 06:16:31 +00005790- Patch #1549049: Support long values in structmember, issue warnings
5791 if the assigned value for structmember fields gets truncated.
5792
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005793- Update the peephole optimizer to remove more dead code (jumps after
5794 returns) and inline unconditional jumps to returns.
Neal Norwitzcbeb6872006-10-14 21:33:38 +00005795
Georg Brandl2c1375c2006-10-12 11:27:59 +00005796- Bug #1545497: when given an explicit base, int() did ignore NULs
5797 embedded in the string to convert.
5798
Georg Brandl846f73a2006-10-08 07:11:54 +00005799- Bug #1569998: break inside a try statement (outside a loop) is now
5800 recognized and rejected.
5801
Armin Rigo7ccbca92006-10-04 12:17:45 +00005802- list.pop(x) accepts any object x following the __index__ protocol.
5803
Armin Rigo7ccbca92006-10-04 12:17:45 +00005804- A number of places, including integer negation and absolute value,
5805 were fixed to not rely on undefined behaviour of the C compiler
5806 anymore.
Martin v. Löwis820d6ac2006-10-04 05:47:34 +00005807
Georg Brandl3267d282006-09-30 09:03:42 +00005808- Bug #1566800: make sure that EnvironmentError can be called with any
5809 number of arguments, as was the case in Python 2.4.
5810
Georg Brandl5d59c092006-09-30 08:43:30 +00005811- Patch #1567691: super() and new.instancemethod() now don't accept
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005812 keyword arguments any more (previously they accepted them, but
5813 didn't use them).
Georg Brandl5d59c092006-09-30 08:43:30 +00005814
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005815- Fix a bug in the parser's future statement handling that led to
5816 "with" not being recognized as a keyword after, e.g., this
5817 statement: from __future__ import division, with_statement
Georg Brandla10d3af2006-09-24 12:35:36 +00005818
Neal Norwitz3a230172006-09-22 08:18:10 +00005819- Bug #1557232: fix seg fault with def f((((x)))) and def f(((x),)).
5820
Neal Norwitz4a8fbdb2006-09-22 08:16:26 +00005821- Fix %zd string formatting on Mac OS X so it prints negative numbers.
5822
Brett Cannonf6aa86e2006-09-20 18:43:13 +00005823- Allow exception instances to be directly sliced again.
5824
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005825- Bug #1551432: Exceptions do not define an explicit __unicode__
5826 method. This allows calling unicode() on exceptions classes
5827 directly to succeed.
Brett Cannon9adeab72006-09-20 18:34:28 +00005828
Georg Brandl4e933132006-09-06 20:05:58 +00005829- Bug #1542051: Exceptions now correctly call PyObject_GC_UnTrack.
5830 Also make sure that every exception class has __module__ set to
5831 'exceptions'.
5832
Georg Brandl98775df2006-09-06 06:09:31 +00005833- Bug #1550983: emit better error messages for erroneous relative
5834 imports (if not in package and if beyond toplevel package).
5835
Tim Petersc10c9d02006-09-05 02:18:09 +00005836- Overflow checking code in integer division ran afoul of new gcc
5837 optimizations. Changed to be more standard-conforming.
5838
Neal Norwitz4f096d92006-08-21 19:47:08 +00005839- Patch #1542451: disallow continue anywhere under a finally.
5840
Neal Norwitza22975f2006-09-05 02:24:03 +00005841- Patch #1546288: fix seg fault in dict_equal due to ref counting bug.
5842
Neal Norwitzd34e4272006-09-05 02:36:20 +00005843- The return tuple from str.rpartition(sep) is (tail, sep, head) where
5844 head is the original string if sep was not found.
5845
Neal Norwitzdac090d2006-09-05 03:53:08 +00005846- Bug #1520864: unpacking singleton tuples in list comprehensions and
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005847 generator expressions (x for x, in ... ) works again. Fixing this
5848 problem required changing the .pyc magic number. This means that
5849 .pyc files generated before 2.5c2 will be regenerated.
Neal Norwitzdac090d2006-09-05 03:53:08 +00005850
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00005851- ``with`` and ``as`` are now keywords.
Neal Norwitzca460d92006-09-06 06:28:06 +00005852
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005853- Bug #1664966: Fix crash in exec if Unicode filename can't be
5854 decoded.
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00005855
Guido van Rossumcad37242008-01-15 17:59:29 +00005856- Issue #1537: Changed GeneratorExit's base class from Exception to
5857 BaseException.
Christian Heimes44eeaec2007-12-03 20:01:02 +00005858
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005859- Issue #1703448: A joined thread could show up in the
Gregory P. Smith95cd5c02008-01-22 01:20:42 +00005860 threading.enumerate() list after the join() for a brief period until
5861 it actually exited.
5862
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00005863
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00005864Library
5865-------
5866
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005867- Patch #2274: Add heapq.heappushpop().
Raymond Hettinger53bdf092008-03-13 19:03:51 +00005868
Christian Heimes608c1d82008-03-03 18:28:04 +00005869- Add inspect.isabstract(object) to fix bug #2223
5870
Mark Dickinson1ddf1d82008-02-29 02:16:37 +00005871- Add a __format__ method to Decimal, to support PEP 3101.
5872
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005873- Add a timing parameter when using trace.Trace to print out
5874 timestamps.
Neal Norwitzca376612008-02-26 08:21:28 +00005875
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005876- Issue #1627: httplib now ignores negative Content-Length headers.
Georg Brandl8c460d52008-02-24 00:14:24 +00005877
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005878- Issue #900744: If an invalid chunked-encoding header is sent by a
5879 server, httplib will now raise IncompleteRead and close the
5880 connection instead of raising ValueError.
Georg Brandl23635032008-02-24 00:03:22 +00005881
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005882- Issue #1492: The content type of BaseHTTPServer error messages can
5883 now be overridden.
Georg Brandl16479232008-02-23 15:02:28 +00005884
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005885- Issue #1781: ConfigParser now does not let you add the "default" section
Facundo Batistab12f0b52008-02-23 12:46:10 +00005886 (ignore-case)
5887
Guido van Rossum8bc09652008-02-21 18:18:37 +00005888- Removed uses of dict.has_key() from distutils, and uses of
5889 callable() from copy_reg.py, so the interpreter now starts up
5890 without warnings when '-3' is given. More work like this needs to
5891 be done in the rest of the stdlib.
5892
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005893- Issue #1916: added isgenerator() and isgeneratorfunction() to
5894 inspect.py.
Facundo Batista759bfc62008-02-18 03:43:43 +00005895
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005896- Issue #1224: Fixed bad url parsing when path begins with double
5897 slash.
Facundo Batistad14600e2008-02-18 12:48:43 +00005898
Thomas Hellera06a1a82008-02-13 20:21:53 +00005899- ctypes instances that are not or do not contain pointers can now be
5900 pickled.
5901
Martin v. Löwisdad88dc2008-02-12 18:47:34 +00005902- Patch #1966: Break infinite loop in httplib when the servers
5903 implements the chunked encoding incorrectly.
5904
Mark Dickinsond058cd22008-02-10 21:29:51 +00005905- Rename rational.py to fractions.py and the rational.Rational class
5906 to fractions.Fraction, to avoid the name clash with the abstract
5907 base class numbers.Rational. See discussion in issue #1682.
5908
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005909- The pickletools module now provides an optimize() function that
5910 eliminates unused PUT opcodes from a pickle string.
Raymond Hettingerda614dc2008-02-10 20:35:16 +00005911
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005912- Patch #2021: Allow tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile and
5913 SpooledTemporaryFile to be used in with statements by correctly
5914 supporting the context management protocol.
Nick Coghlanac094dc2008-02-10 07:32:52 +00005915
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005916- Patch #1979: Add rich comparisons to Decimal, and make Decimal
5917 comparisons involving a NaN follow the IEEE 754 standard.
Mark Dickinson2fc92632008-02-06 22:10:50 +00005918
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005919- Issue #2004: tarfile.py: Use mode 0700 for temporary directories and
5920 default permissions for missing directories.
Lars Gustäbel0192e432008-02-05 11:51:40 +00005921
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005922- Issue #175006: The debugger used to skip the condition of a "while"
5923 statement after the first iteration. Now it correctly steps on the
5924 expression, and breakpoints on the "while" statement are honored on
5925 each loop.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc6fd03bb2008-02-04 21:45:05 +00005926
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005927- Issue #1765140: add an optional delay argument to FileHandler and
5928 its subclasses. Defaults to false (existing behaviour), but if true,
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +00005929 defers opening the file until the first call to emit().
5930
Raymond Hettingerc226c312008-01-23 00:04:40 +00005931- The pprint module now supports sets and frozensets.
5932
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005933- Issue #1221598: add optional callbacks to ftplib.FTP's storbinary()
5934 and storlines() methods. (Contributed by Phil Schwartz)
Gregory P. Smithc64386b2008-01-22 00:19:41 +00005935
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005936- Issue #1715: include sub-extension modules in pydoc's text output.
Georg Brandlf2dae0e2008-01-21 21:05:49 +00005937
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005938- Issue #1836: fix an off-by-one bug in TimedRotatingHandler's
5939 rollover time calculation.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00005940
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005941- Issue #1021: fix a bug to allow basicConfig to accept NOTSET as a
5942 level.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00005943
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005944- Issue #932563: add LoggerAdapter convenience class to make it easier
5945 to add contextual information in logging output.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00005946
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005947- Issue #1760556: fix a bug to avoid FileHandler throwing an exception
5948 in flush().
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00005949
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005950- Bug #1530959: distutils' build command now uses different build
5951 directory when building extension modules against versions of Python
5952 compiled with ``--with-pydebug``.
Georg Brandl50160152008-01-21 17:42:40 +00005953
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005954- Issue #1555501: move plistlib from plat-mac directory to general
5955 library.
Georg Brandl864de822008-01-21 16:34:07 +00005956
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005957- Issue #1269: fix a bug in pstats.add_callers() and add a unit test
5958 file for pstats.
Georg Brandl66e73632008-01-21 10:24:59 +00005959
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005960- Issue #1669: don't allow shutil.rmtree() to be called on a symlink
5961 to a directory.
Georg Brandl52353982008-01-20 14:17:42 +00005962
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005963- Issue #1664522: in urllib, don't read non-existing directories in
5964 ftp mode, returning a 0-byte file -- raise an IOError instead.
Georg Brandld5e6cf22008-01-20 12:18:17 +00005965
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005966- Issue #856047: respect the ``no_proxy`` environment variable when
5967 using the ``http_proxy`` etc. environment variables in urllib.
Georg Brandl22350112008-01-20 12:05:43 +00005968
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005969- Issue #1178141: add a getcode() method to the addinfourls that
5970 urllib.open() returns so that you can retrieve the HTTP status code.
Georg Brandl9b0d46d2008-01-20 11:43:03 +00005971
Gregory P. Smithf25680a2008-01-20 01:26:04 +00005972- Issue #1003: Fix zipfile decryption check, it would fail zip files
5973 with extended local headers.
5974
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005975- Issue #1189216: Fix the zipfile module to work on archives with
5976 headers past the 2**31 byte boundary.
Gregory P. Smith350d03b2008-01-19 23:10:52 +00005977
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005978- Issue #1336: fix a race condition in subprocess.Popen if the garbage
Gregory P. Smithb9ba0752008-01-19 21:00:37 +00005979 collector kicked in at the wrong time that would cause the process
5980 to hang when the child wrote to stderr.
5981
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005982- Issue #1146: fix how textwrap breaks a long word that would start in
5983 the last column of a line.
Georg Brandlc6fde722008-01-19 19:48:19 +00005984
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005985- Issue #1693149: trace.py --ignore-module - accept multiple
5986 comma-separated modules to be given.
Skip Montanaro562133b2008-01-19 18:47:24 +00005987
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005988- Issue #1822: MIMEMultipart.is_multipart() behaves correctly for a
5989 just-created (and empty) instance. Thanks Jonathan Share.
Facundo Batista2b1b1952008-01-19 12:32:27 +00005990
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005991- Issue #1861: Added an attribute to the sched module which returns an
5992 ordered list of upcoming events (displayed as named tuples).
Raymond Hettinger44bd6c02008-01-17 19:31:38 +00005993
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005994- Issue #1837: The queue module now also supports a LIFO queue and a
5995 priority queue.
Raymond Hettinger3ad2acc82008-01-16 23:49:35 +00005996
Andrew M. Kuchling4a2762d2008-01-20 00:00:38 +00005997- Patch #1048820: Add insert-mode editing to curses.textpad.Textbox
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00005998 (patch by Stefan Wehr). Also, fix an off-by-one bug in
Andrew M. Kuchling4a2762d2008-01-20 00:00:38 +00005999 Textbox.gather().
6000
Thomas Heller02ec2892008-01-16 19:37:33 +00006001- Issue #1831: ctypes now raises a TypeError if conflicting positional
6002 and named arguments are passed to a Structure or Union initializer.
Thomas Heller415c1e32008-01-16 19:45:51 +00006003 When too many positional arguments are passed, also a TypeError is
6004 raised instead of a ValueError.
Thomas Heller02ec2892008-01-16 19:37:33 +00006005
Thomas Heller902d3072008-01-16 19:16:27 +00006006- Convert the internal ctypes array type cache to a WeakValueDict so
6007 that array types do not live longer than needed.
6008
Guido van Rossumcad37242008-01-15 17:59:29 +00006009- Issue #1786: pdb should use its own stdin/stdout around an exec call
6010 and when creating a recursive instance.
6011
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006012- Issue #1698398: ZipFile.printdir() crashed because the format string
6013 expected a tuple type of length six instead of time.struct_time
6014 object.
Raymond Hettinger351e1a32008-01-14 22:58:05 +00006015
Mark Dickinson59bc20b2008-01-12 01:56:00 +00006016- Issue #1780: The Decimal constructor now accepts arbitrary leading
6017 and trailing whitespace when constructing from a string.
6018 Context.create_decimal no longer accepts trailing newlines.
6019
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006020- Decimal.as_tuple(), difflib.find_longest_match() and inspect
6021 functions that returned a tuple now return a named tuple.
Georg Brandl2f32c392008-01-11 09:20:58 +00006022
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00006023- Doctest now returns results as a named tuple for readability:
Raymond Hettingerfff4e6e2008-01-11 01:25:54 +00006024 (0, 7) --> TestResults(failed=0, attempted=7)
6025
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006026- Issue #846388:q re.match is interruptible now, which is particularly
Facundo Batista4473d222008-01-08 21:10:12 +00006027 good for long regular expression matches.
6028
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006029- Patch #1137: allow setting buffer_size attribute on pyexpat Parser
6030 objects to set the character data buffer size.
Andrew M. Kuchlinge0a49b62008-01-08 14:30:55 +00006031
Facundo Batista52b25792008-01-08 12:25:20 +00006032- Issue #1757: The hash of a Decimal instance is no longer affected by
6033 the current context.
6034
Georg Brandl62416bc2008-01-07 18:47:44 +00006035- Patch #467924: add ZipFile.extract() and ZipFile.extractall() in the
6036 zipfile module.
6037
Christian Heimesfb2d25a2008-01-07 16:12:44 +00006038- Issue #1646: Make socket support the TIPC protocol.
6039
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006040- Bug #1742: return os.curdir from os.path.relpath() if both arguments
6041 are equal instead of raising an exception.
Georg Brandl183a0842008-01-06 14:27:15 +00006042
Guido van Rossumc6a04c22008-01-05 22:19:06 +00006043- Patch #1637: fix urlparse for URLs like 'http://x.com?arg=/foo'.
6044
Guido van Rossumced4eb02008-01-05 01:21:57 +00006045- Patch #1698: allow '@' in username parsed by urlparse.py.
6046
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006047- Issue #1735: TarFile.extractall() now correctly sets directory
6048 permissions and times.
Lars Gustäbel2ee1c762008-01-04 14:00:33 +00006049
Christian Heimes06875612008-01-04 13:21:07 +00006050- Bug #1713: posixpath.ismount() claims symlink to a mountpoint is a mountpoint.
6051
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006052- Bug #1687: Fxed plistlib.py restricts <integer> to Python int when
6053 writing
Christian Heimes06131882008-01-04 00:04:52 +00006054
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006055- Issue #1700: Regular expression inline flags incorrectly handle
6056 certain unicode characters.
Guido van Rossumae04c332008-01-03 19:12:44 +00006057
Jeffrey Yasskin2f3c16b2008-01-03 02:21:52 +00006058- Issue #1689: PEP 3141, numeric abstract base classes.
6059
Martin v. Löwis84b9aab2008-01-01 21:09:07 +00006060- Tk issue #1851526: Return results from Python callbacks to Tcl as
6061 Tcl objects.
6062
Thomas Heller153038e2007-12-18 19:00:34 +00006063- Issue #1642: Fix segfault in ctypes when trying to delete attributes.
6064
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006065- Issue #1727780: Support loading pickles of random.Random objects
6066 created on 32-bit systems on 64-bit systems, and vice versa. As a
6067 consequence of the change, Random pickles created by Python 2.6
6068 cannot be loaded in Python 2.5.
Martin v. Löwis6b449f42007-12-03 19:20:02 +00006069
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006070- Issue #1455: The distutils package now supports VS 2005 and VS 2008
6071 for both the msvccompiler and cygwincompiler.
Christian Heimesc654fc22007-12-03 13:55:16 +00006072
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006073- Issue #1531: tarfile.py: Read fileobj from the current offset, do
6074 not seek to the start.
Lars Gustäbel77b2d632007-12-01 21:02:12 +00006075
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006076- Issue #1534: Added a dictionary sys.float_info with information
6077 about the internal floating point type to the sys module.
Christian Heimesdfdfaab2007-12-01 11:20:10 +00006078
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006079- Issue #1429818: patch for trace and doctest modules so they play
6080 nicely together.
Skip Montanaro58a6f442007-11-24 14:30:47 +00006081
Brett Cannon43e53f82007-11-21 00:47:36 +00006082- doctest made a bad assumption that a package's __loader__.get_data()
6083 method used universal newlines.
6084
Nick Coghlan90b858e2007-11-07 11:57:51 +00006085- Issue #1705170: contextlib.contextmanager was still swallowing
6086 StopIteration in some cases. This should no longer happen.
6087
Thomas Heller486b1b02007-11-02 19:10:24 +00006088- Issue #1292: On alpha, arm, ppc, and s390 linux systems the
6089 --with-system-ffi configure option defaults to "yes".
6090
Hye-Shik Changa838a802007-10-28 11:19:02 +00006091- IN module for FreeBSD 8 is added and preexisting FreeBSD 6 and 7
6092 files are updated.
6093
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006094- Issues #1181, #1287: unsetenv() is now called when the
6095 os.environ.pop() and os.environ.clear() methods are used.
Georg Brandl1a94ec22007-10-24 21:40:38 +00006096
Thomas Heller91ac4222007-10-19 18:11:41 +00006097- ctypes will now work correctly on 32-bit systems when Python is
6098 configured with --with-system-ffi.
6099
Thomas Heller7fee6dd2007-10-11 19:51:32 +00006100- Patch #1203: ctypes now does work on OS X when Python is built with
Georg Brandl1a94ec22007-10-24 21:40:38 +00006101 --disable-toolbox-glue.
Thomas Heller7fee6dd2007-10-11 19:51:32 +00006102
Raymond Hettingera7fc4b12007-10-05 02:47:07 +00006103- collections.deque() now supports a "maxlen" argument.
6104
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006105- itertools.count() is no longer bounded to LONG_MAX. Formerly, it
6106 raised an OverflowError. Now, automatically shifts from ints to
6107 longs.
Raymond Hettinger50e90e22007-10-04 00:20:27 +00006108
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006109- Added itertools.product() which forms the Cartesian product of the
6110 input iterables.
Raymond Hettingerc5705a82008-02-22 19:50:06 +00006111
Raymond Hettinger66f91ea2008-03-05 20:59:58 +00006112- Added itertools.combinations() and itertools.permutations().
Raymond Hettinger93e804d2008-02-26 23:40:50 +00006113
Georg Brandlaff85e22007-09-20 16:06:07 +00006114- Patch #1541463: optimize performance of cgi.FieldStorage operations.
6115
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006116- Decimal is fully updated to the latest Decimal Specification
6117 (v1.66).
Facundo Batistab67da232007-09-17 16:26:50 +00006118
Georg Brandl8fd3ecf2007-09-12 19:00:07 +00006119- Bug #1153: repr.repr() now doesn't require set and dictionary items
6120 to be orderable to properly represent them.
6121
Thomas Heller2825b2e2007-09-07 06:32:17 +00006122- A 'c_longdouble' type was added to the ctypes module.
6123
Martin v. Löwis7dcb83c2007-08-30 19:04:09 +00006124- Bug #1709599: Run test_1565150 only if the file system is NTFS.
6125
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006126- When encountering a password-protected robots.txt file the
6127 RobotFileParser no longer prompts interactively for a username and
6128 password (bug 813986).
Skip Montanaro3e275362007-08-29 01:33:45 +00006129
Lars Gustäbel0f4a14b2007-08-28 12:31:09 +00006130- TarFile.__init__() no longer fails if no name argument is passed and
6131 the fileobj argument has no usable name attribute (e.g. StringIO).
6132
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006133- The functools module now provides 'reduce', for forward
6134 compatibility with Python 3000.
Guido van Rossum95f1a1b2007-08-27 20:52:10 +00006135
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006136- Server-side SSL support and cert verification added, by Bill
6137 Janssen.
Guido van Rossum4f2c3dd2007-08-25 15:08:43 +00006138
Bill Janssenf413fb02007-08-30 18:08:06 +00006139- socket.ssl deprecated; use new ssl module instead.
6140
Georg Brandl8ec57542007-08-24 06:10:01 +00006141- uuid creation is now threadsafe.
6142
Hye-Shik Chang23901042007-08-20 06:49:18 +00006143- EUC-KR codec now handles the cheot-ga-keut composed make-up hangul
6144 syllables.
6145
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006146- GB18030 codec now can encode additional two-byte characters that are
6147 missing in GBK.
Hye-Shik Changf3e93a02007-08-04 04:10:18 +00006148
Walter Dörwald6e390802007-08-17 16:41:28 +00006149- Add new codecs for UTF-32, UTF-32-LE and UTF-32-BE.
6150
Martin v. Löwisf1e0b3f2007-07-28 07:03:05 +00006151- Bug #1704793: Return UTF-16 pair if unicodedata.lookup cannot
6152 represent the result in a single character.
6153
Martin v. Löwisf25e35b2007-07-27 18:28:22 +00006154- Bug #978833: Close https sockets by releasing the _ssl object.
6155
Martin v. Löwis254b8f92007-07-25 16:24:23 +00006156- Change location of the package index to pypi.python.org/pypi
6157
Thomas Hellerfa704c62007-07-13 17:12:23 +00006158- Bug #1701409: Fix a segfault in printing ctypes.c_char_p and
6159 ctypes.c_wchar_p when they point to an invalid location. As a
6160 sideeffect the representation of these instances has changed.
6161
Lars Gustäbel104490e2007-06-18 11:42:11 +00006162- tarfile.py: Added "exclude" keyword argument to TarFile.add().
6163
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006164- Bug #1734723: Fix repr.Repr() so it doesn't ignore the maxtuple
6165 attribute.
Neal Norwitzc161cb92007-06-11 07:29:43 +00006166
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006167- The urlopen function of urllib2 now has an optional timeout
6168 parameter (note that it actually works with HTTP, HTTPS, FTP and
6169 FTPS connections).
Facundo Batista10951d52007-06-06 17:15:23 +00006170
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006171- In ftplib, the FTP.ntransfercmd method, when in passive mode, now
6172 uses the socket.create_connection function, using the timeout
6173 specified at connection time.
Facundo Batista92493122007-06-06 15:13:37 +00006174
Hye-Shik Chang9b541402007-06-05 18:58:51 +00006175- Bug #1728403: Fix a bug that CJKCodecs StreamReader hangs when it
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006176 reads a file that ends with incomplete sequence and sizehint
6177 argument for .read() is specified.
Hye-Shik Chang9b541402007-06-05 18:58:51 +00006178
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006179- Bug #1730389: Change time.strptime() to use ``\s+`` instead of
6180 ``\s*`` when matching spaces in the specified format argument.
Brett Cannonf7188ce2007-06-03 23:13:41 +00006181
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006182- Bugs #1668596/#1720897: distutils now copies data files even if
6183 package_dir is empty.
Neal Norwitz4a700bb2007-06-01 07:29:12 +00006184
Brett Cannonc2aa09a2007-05-31 19:20:00 +00006185- sha now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
6186
Brett Cannon7eec2172007-05-30 22:24:28 +00006187- md5 now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
6188
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006189- Issue #1385: The hmac module now computes the correct hmac when
6190 using hashes with a block size other than 64 bytes (such as sha384
6191 and sha512).
Gregory P. Smithe1ac4f12007-11-06 00:19:03 +00006192
Brett Cannonc249bda2007-05-30 21:48:58 +00006193- mimify now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
6194
Brett Cannon90134c92007-05-30 20:46:26 +00006195- MimeWriter now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
6196
Lars Gustäbela0fcb932007-05-27 19:49:30 +00006197- tarfile.py: Improved unicode support. Unicode input names are now
6198 officially supported. Added "errors" argument to the TarFile class.
6199
Facundo Batista711a54e2007-05-24 17:50:54 +00006200- urllib.ftpwrapper class now accepts an optional timeout.
6201
Georg Brandlc90bc752007-05-24 16:49:29 +00006202- shlex.split() now has an optional "posix" parameter.
6203
Brett Cannon41bf2fa2007-05-20 23:57:38 +00006204- The posixfile module now raises a DeprecationWarning.
6205
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006206- Remove the gopherlib module. This also leads to the removal of
6207 gopher support in urllib/urllib2.
Brett Cannond75f0432007-05-16 22:42:29 +00006208
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006209- Fix bug in marshal where bad data would cause a segfault due to lack
6210 of an infinite recursion check.
Neal Norwitzb1a9b372007-05-16 20:05:11 +00006211
Neal Norwitze0e70a42007-05-16 05:06:33 +00006212- Removed plat-freebsd2 and plat-freebsd3 directories (and IN.py in
6213 the directories).
6214
Georg Brandla09a96a2007-05-15 20:19:34 +00006215- HTML-escape the plain traceback in cgitb's HTML output, to prevent
6216 the traceback inadvertently or maliciously closing the comment and
6217 injecting HTML into the error page.
6218
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006219- The popen2 module and os.popen* are deprecated. Use the subprocess
6220 module.
Neal Norwitz42dd86b2007-05-11 06:57:33 +00006221
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006222- Added an optional credentials argument to SMTPHandler, for use with
6223 SMTP servers which require authentication.
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00006224
6225- Patch #1695948: Added optional timeout parameter to SocketHandler.
6226
6227- Bug #1652788: Minor fix for currentframe.
6228
6229- Patch #1598415: Added WatchedFileHandler to better support external
6230 log file rotation using e.g. newsyslog or logrotate. This handler is
6231 only useful in Unix/Linux environments.
6232
Georg Brandlfb4b3b72007-04-24 15:27:13 +00006233- Bug #1706381: Specifying the SWIG option "-c++" in the setup.py file
6234 (as opposed to the command line) will now write file names ending in
6235 ".cpp" too.
6236
Facundo Batistad918a652007-04-24 13:54:38 +00006237- As specified in RFC 2616, an HTTP response like 2xx indicates that
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006238 the client's request was successfully received, understood, and
6239 accepted. Now in these cases no error is raised in urllib (issue
6240 #1177) and urllib2.
Facundo Batistad918a652007-04-24 13:54:38 +00006241
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006242- Bug #1290505: time.strptime's internal cache of locale information
6243 is now properly recreated when the locale is changed.
Brett Cannonc6906652007-04-01 18:47:27 +00006244
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006245- Patch #1685563: remove (don't add) duplicate paths in
6246 distutils.MSVCCompiler.
Neal Norwitz8f35f442007-04-01 18:24:22 +00006247
Facundo Batistab6a5c9d2007-03-29 18:22:35 +00006248- Added a timeout parameter to the constructor of other protocols
6249 (telnetlib, ftplib, smtplib and poplib). This is second part of the
6250 work started with create_connection() and timeout in httplib, and
6251 closes patch #723312.
6252
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00006253- Patch #1676823: Added create_connection() to socket.py, which may be
6254 called with a timeout, and use it from httplib (whose HTTPConnection
Facundo Batista70f996b2007-05-21 17:32:32 +00006255 and HTTPSConnection now accept an optional timeout).
Facundo Batista07c78be2007-03-23 18:54:07 +00006256
Martin v. Löwis0af33882007-03-23 13:27:15 +00006257- Bug #978833: Revert r50844, as it broke _socketobject.dup.
6258
Žiga Seilnacht7492e422007-03-21 20:07:56 +00006259- Bug #1675967: re patterns pickled with Python 2.4 and earlier can
6260 now be unpickled with Python 2.5 and newer.
6261
Collin Wintera8785cc2007-03-19 18:52:08 +00006262- Patch #1630118: add a SpooledTemporaryFile class to tempfile.py.
6263
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006264- Patch #1273829: os.walk() now has a "followlinks" parameter. If set
6265 to True (which is not the default), it visits symlinks pointing to
Georg Brandlcae9f3d2007-03-21 09:10:29 +00006266 directories.
6267
Georg Brandl8f06d022007-03-16 07:55:09 +00006268- Bug #1681228: the webbrowser module now correctly uses the default
6269 GNOME or KDE browser, depending on whether there is a session of one
6270 of those present. Also, it tries the Windows default browser before
6271 trying Mozilla variants.
6272
Collin Winter6f187742007-03-16 22:16:08 +00006273- Patch #1339796: add a relpath() function to os.path.
6274
Georg Brandlab1f4672007-03-15 07:41:30 +00006275- Patch #1681153: the wave module now closes a file object it opened if
6276 initialization failed.
6277
Georg Brandlf66b6032007-03-14 08:27:52 +00006278- Bug #767111: fix long-standing bug in urllib which caused an
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006279 AttributeError instead of an IOError when the server's response
6280 didn't contain a valid HTTP status line.
Georg Brandlf66b6032007-03-14 08:27:52 +00006281
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006282- Patch #957650: "%var%" environment variable references are now
6283 properly expanded in ntpath.expandvars(), also "~user" home
6284 directory references are recognized and handled on Windows.
Georg Brandl03b90d82007-03-13 22:07:36 +00006285
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006286- Patch #1429539: pdb now correctly initializes the __main__ module
6287 for the debugged script, which means that imports from __main__ work
Georg Brandlb6ae6aa2007-03-13 21:58:44 +00006288 correctly now.
6289
Georg Brandlbad6f192007-03-13 21:32:56 +00006290- The nonobvious commands.getstatus() function is now deprecated.
6291
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006292- Patch #1393667: pdb now has a "run" command which restarts the
6293 debugged Python program, optionally with different arguments.
Georg Brandl8e84c652007-03-13 21:08:15 +00006294
Thomas Heller5dc4fe02007-03-13 20:42:52 +00006295- Patch #1649190: Adding support for _Bool to ctypes as c_bool.
6296
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006297- Patch #1530482: add pydoc.render_doc() which returns the
6298 documentation for a thing instead of paging it to stdout, which
6299 pydoc.doc() does.
Georg Brandl8441f152007-03-13 20:02:57 +00006300
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006301- Patch #1533909: the timeit module now accepts callables in addition
6302 to strings for the code to time and the setup code. Also added two
6303 convenience functions for instantiating a Timer and calling its
6304 methods.
Georg Brandld9bef352007-03-13 19:32:21 +00006305
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006306- Patch #1537850: tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile now has a "delete"
6307 parameter which can be set to False to prevent the default
6308 delete-on-close behavior.
Georg Brandl35ef9c12007-03-13 18:31:49 +00006309
Georg Brandl9e6b4702007-03-13 18:15:41 +00006310- Patch #1581073: add a flag to textwrap that prevents the dropping of
6311 whitespace while wrapping.
6312
Georg Brandl92a6bae2007-03-13 17:43:32 +00006313- Patch #1603688: ConfigParser.SafeConfigParser now checks values that
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006314 are set for invalid interpolation sequences that would lead to
6315 errors on reading back those values.
Georg Brandl92a6bae2007-03-13 17:43:32 +00006316
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006317- Added support for the POSIX.1-2001 (pax) format to
6318 tarfile.py. Extended and cleaned up the test suite. Added a new
6319 testtar.tar.
Lars Gustäbelc64e4022007-03-13 10:47:19 +00006320
Martin v. Löwisbdd0f392007-03-13 10:24:00 +00006321- Patch #1449244: Support Unicode strings in
6322 email.message.Message.{set_charset,get_content_charset}.
6323
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006324- Patch #1542681: add entries for "with", "as" and "CONTEXTMANAGERS"
6325 to pydoc's help keywords.
Georg Brandlb6a87542007-03-13 10:06:48 +00006326
Georg Brandl4ffc8f52007-03-13 09:41:31 +00006327- Patch #1555098: use str.join() instead of repeated string
6328 concatenation in robotparser.
6329
Georg Brandl94fe3f52007-03-13 09:32:11 +00006330- Patch #1635454: the csv.DictWriter class now includes the offending
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006331 field names in its exception message if you try to write a record
6332 with a dictionary containing fields not in the CSV field names list.
Georg Brandl94fe3f52007-03-13 09:32:11 +00006333
Georg Brandlceede5c2007-03-13 08:14:27 +00006334- Patch #1668100: urllib2 now correctly raises URLError instead of
6335 OSError if accessing a local file via the file:// protocol fails.
6336
Martin v. Löwis2681beb2007-03-12 11:01:10 +00006337- Patch #1677862: Require a space or tab after import in .pth files.
6338
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006339- Patch #1192590: Fix pdb's "ignore" and "condition" commands so they
6340 trap the IndexError caused by passing in an invalid breakpoint
6341 number.
Collin Winter2faa9e12007-03-11 16:00:20 +00006342
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006343- Patch #1599845: Add an option to disable the implicit calls to
6344 server_bind() and server_activate() in the constructors for
6345 TCPServer, SimpleXMLRPCServer and DocXMLRPCServer.
Collin Winterae041062007-03-10 14:41:48 +00006346
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006347- Bug #1531963: Make SocketServer.TCPServer's server_address always be
6348 equal to calling getsockname() on the server's socket. Fixed by
Collin Winterfaaa2042007-03-10 03:35:34 +00006349 patch #1545011.
Collin Winter22c42ba2007-03-10 02:51:26 +00006350
Andrew M. Kuchlinge45a77a2008-01-19 16:26:13 +00006351- Patch #742598: Add .timeout attribute to SocketServer that calls
6352 .handle_timeout() when no requests are received.
6353
Thomas Heller2456a3c2007-03-09 20:39:22 +00006354- Bug #1651235: When a tuple was passed to a ctypes function call,
6355 Python would crash instead of raising an error.
6356
Thomas Hellerc2f77252007-03-09 19:21:28 +00006357- Bug #1646630: ctypes.string_at(buf, 0) and ctypes.wstring_at(buf, 0)
6358 returned string up to the first NUL character.
6359
Martin v. Löwis1190a382007-03-09 15:35:55 +00006360- Patch #957003: Implement smtplib.LMTP.
6361
Collin Winterfb728de2007-03-09 03:26:32 +00006362- Patch #1481079: add support for HTTP_REFERER to CGIHTTPServer.
6363
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006364- Patch #1675424: Added tests for uncovered code in the zipfile
6365 module. The KeyError raised by Zipfile.getinfo for nonexistent
6366 names now has a descriptive message.
Georg Brandl4b3ab6f2007-07-12 09:59:22 +00006367
Martin v. Löwis05c075d2007-03-07 11:04:33 +00006368- Bug #1115886: os.path.splitext('.cshrc') gives now ('.cshrc', '').
6369
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006370- unittest now verifies more of its assumptions. In particular,
6371 TestCase and TestSuite subclasses (not instances) are no longer
6372 accepted in TestSuite.addTest(). This should cause no
6373 incompatibility since it never made sense with ordinary subclasses
6374 -- the failure just occurred later, with a more cumbersome
6375 exception.
Georg Brandl9caadf82007-03-08 18:37:31 +00006376
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006377- Patch #787789: allow to pass custom TestRunner instances to
6378 unittest's main() function.
Georg Brandld0a96252007-03-07 09:21:06 +00006379
Georg Brandl15c5ce92007-03-07 09:09:40 +00006380- Patches #1550273, #1550272: fix a few bugs in unittest and add a
6381 comprehensive test suite for the module.
6382
Georg Brandl71ff6462007-03-07 08:31:51 +00006383- Patch #1001604: glob.glob() now returns unicode filenames if it was
6384 given a unicode argument and os.listdir() returns unicode filenames.
6385
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006386- Patch #1673619: setup.py identifies extension modules it doesn't
6387 know how to build and those it knows how to build but that fail to
6388 build.
Skip Montanarod1287322007-03-06 15:41:38 +00006389
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00006390- Patch #912410: Replace HTML entity references for attribute values
Martin v. Löwisab8a6bb2007-03-06 14:43:00 +00006391 in HTMLParser.
6392
Georg Brandlff432e62007-03-06 13:37:45 +00006393- Patch #1663234: you can now run doctest on test files and modules
6394 using "python -m doctest [-v] filename ...".
6395
Martin v. Löwis3eb76482007-03-06 10:41:24 +00006396- Patch #1121142: Implement ZipFile.open.
6397
Skip Montanarof694b1b2007-03-04 20:54:12 +00006398- Taught setup.py how to locate Berkeley DB on Macs using MacPorts.
6399
Raymond Hettinger00166c52007-02-19 04:08:43 +00006400- Added heapq.merge() for merging sorted input streams.
6401
Raymond Hettingercd3c1082007-10-23 21:23:07 +00006402- Added collections.namedtuple() for assigning field names to tuples.
Raymond Hettingerc37e5e02007-03-01 06:16:43 +00006403
Raymond Hettingerd36862c2007-02-21 05:20:38 +00006404- Added itertools.izip_longest().
6405
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006406- Have the encoding package's search function dynamically import using
6407 absolute import semantics.
Brett Cannon971a0122007-02-15 22:54:39 +00006408
Lars Gustäbel5b1a7852007-02-13 16:09:24 +00006409- Patch #1647484: Renamed GzipFile's filename attribute to name.
6410
Martin v. Löwis84f6de92007-02-13 10:10:39 +00006411- Patch #1517891: Mode 'a' for ZipFile now creates the file if it
6412 doesn't exist.
6413
Martin v. Löwisc6d626e2007-02-13 09:49:38 +00006414- Patch #698833: Support file decryption in zipfile.
6415
Martin v. Löwis07aa3ed2007-02-13 08:34:45 +00006416- Patch #685268: Consider a package's __path__ in imputil.
6417
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006418- Patch #1463026: Support default namespace in XMLGenerator.
Martin v. Löwis2bad58f2007-02-12 12:21:10 +00006419
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006420- Patch #1571379: Make trace's --ignore-dir facility work in the face
6421 of relative directory names.
Skip Montanaro691acf22007-02-11 18:24:37 +00006422
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006423- Bug #1600860: Search for shared python library in LIBDIR, not
6424 lib/python/config, on "linux" and "gnu" systems.
Martin v. Löwis0a203262007-02-09 12:36:48 +00006425
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006426- Patch #1652681: tarfile.py: create nonexistent files in append mode
6427 and allow appending to empty files.
Lars Gustäbel3f8aca12007-02-06 18:38:13 +00006428
Peter Astrand5f9c6ae2007-02-06 15:37:50 +00006429- Bug #1124861: Automatically create pipes if GetStdHandle fails in
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00006430 subprocess.
Peter Astrand5f9c6ae2007-02-06 15:37:50 +00006431
Georg Brandl4ba9e5b2007-01-27 17:59:42 +00006432- Patch #1634778: add missing encoding aliases for iso8859_15 and
6433 iso8859_16.
6434
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006435- Patch #1638243: the compiler package is now able to correctly
6436 compile a with statement; previously, executing code containing a
6437 with statement compiled by the compiler package crashed the
6438 interpreter.
Georg Brandlab496842007-01-27 17:43:02 +00006439
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00006440- Bug #1643943: Fix time.strptime's support for the %U directive.
6441
Lars Gustäbel0713a682007-02-19 09:54:47 +00006442- Patch #1507247: tarfile.py: use current umask for intermediate
6443 directories.
6444
Georg Brandldd7b0522007-01-21 10:35:10 +00006445- Patch #1627441: close sockets properly in urllib2.
6446
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006447- Bug #494589: make ntpath.expandvars behave according to its
6448 docstring.
Sjoerd Mullender33a0a062007-01-16 16:42:38 +00006449
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00006450- Changed platform module API python_version_tuple() to actually
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00006451 return a tuple (it used to return a list).
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00006452
6453- Added new platform module APIs python_branch(), python_revision(),
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00006454 python_implementation() and linux_distribution().
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00006455
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00006456- Added support for IronPython and Jython to the platform module.
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00006457
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006458- The sets module has been deprecated. Use the built-in set/frozenset
6459 types instead.
Brett Cannon093b6702007-01-13 00:29:49 +00006460
Thomas Heller6fd45492007-01-12 20:21:53 +00006461- Bug #1610795: make ctypes.util.find_library work on BSD systems.
6462
Thomas Heller8138c262007-01-11 21:18:56 +00006463- Fixes for 64-bit Windows: In ctypes.wintypes, correct the
6464 definitions of HANDLE, WPARAM, LPARAM data types. Make
6465 parameterless foreign function calls work.
6466
Thomas Hellerfb9d7872007-01-10 20:12:13 +00006467- The version number of the ctypes package changed to "1.1.0".
6468
Vinay Sajipab41c102007-01-09 14:51:36 +00006469- Bug #1627575: logging: Added _open() method to FileHandler which can
6470 be used to reopen files. The FileHandler instance now saves the
6471 encoding (which can be None) in an attribute called "encoding".
6472
Vinay Sajipc9137262007-01-08 18:52:36 +00006473- Bug #411881: logging.handlers: bare except clause removed from
6474 SMTPHandler.emit. Now, only ImportError is trapped.
6475
6476- Bug #411881: logging.handlers: bare except clause removed from
6477 SocketHandler.createSocket. Now, only socket.error is trapped.
6478
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006479- Bug #411881: logging: bare except clause removed from
6480 LogRecord.__init__. Now, only ValueError, TypeError and
6481 AttributeError are trapped.
Vinay Sajipc9137262007-01-08 18:52:36 +00006482
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006483- Patch #1504073: Fix tarfile.open() for mode "r" with a fileobj
6484 argument.
Lars Gustäbela7ba6fc2006-12-27 10:30:46 +00006485
Andrew M. Kuchling71662322006-12-27 03:31:24 +00006486- Patch #1182394 from Shane Holloway: speed up HMAC.hexdigest.
6487
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006488- Patch #1262036: Prevent TarFiles from being added to themselves
6489 under certain conditions.
Lars Gustäbela4b23812006-12-23 17:57:23 +00006490
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006491- Patch #1230446: tarfile.py: fix ExFileObject so that read() and
6492 tell() work correctly together with readline().
Lars Gustäbel6baa5022006-12-23 16:40:13 +00006493
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006494- Patch #1484695: The tarfile module now raises a HeaderError
6495 exception if a buffer given to frombuf() is invalid.
Georg Brandlebbeed72006-12-19 22:06:46 +00006496
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00006497- Bug #1503765: Fix a problem in logging.config with spaces in comma-
6498 separated lists read from logging config files.
6499
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006500- Patch #1604907: Fix problems in logging.handlers caused at logging
6501 shutdown when syslog handlers fail to initialize because of syslogd
6502 problems.
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00006503
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006504- Patch #1608267: fix a race condition in os.makedirs() if the
6505 directory to be created is already there.
Georg Brandlb1307432006-12-09 09:08:29 +00006506
Georg Brandl87fa5592006-12-06 22:21:18 +00006507- Patch #1610437: fix a tarfile bug with long filename headers.
6508
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006509- Patch #1371075: Make ConfigParser accept optional dict type for
6510 ordering, sorting, etc.
Martin v. Löwisa00bcac2006-12-03 12:01:53 +00006511
Thomas Helleref583a42006-11-28 20:21:54 +00006512- Bug #1563807: _ctypes built on AIX fails with ld ffi error.
6513
Thomas Heller25d208b2006-11-24 18:45:39 +00006514- Bug #1598620: A ctypes Structure cannot contain itself.
6515
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006516- Patch #1070046: Marshal new-style objects like InstanceType in
6517 xmlrpclib.
Martin v. Löwis07529352006-11-19 18:51:54 +00006518
Martin v. Löwiscffcc8b2006-11-19 10:41:41 +00006519- cStringIO.truncate(-1) now raises an IOError, like StringIO and
6520 regular files.
6521
Martin v. Löwisbba003e2006-11-18 18:42:11 +00006522- Patch #1472877: Fix Tix subwidget name resolution.
6523
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006524- Patch #1594554: Always close a tkSimpleDialog on ok(), even if an
6525 exception occurs.
Martin v. Löwisef5fd3e2006-11-18 18:05:35 +00006526
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006527- Patch #1538878: Don't make tkSimpleDialog dialogs transient if the
6528 parent window is withdrawn.
Martin v. Löwisc73a4a42006-11-18 18:00:23 +00006529
Georg Brandl54082112006-11-16 16:50:59 +00006530- Bug #1597824: return the registered function from atexit.register()
6531 to facilitate usage as a decorator.
6532
Martin v. Löwis45cd4ff2006-11-12 18:56:03 +00006533- Patch #1360200: Use unmangled_version RPM spec field to deal with
6534 file name mangling.
6535
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006536- Patch #1359217: Process 2xx response in an ftplib transfer that
6537 precedes an 1xx response.
Martin v. Löwis36cbc082006-11-12 18:48:13 +00006538
Martin v. Löwis065f0c82006-11-12 10:41:39 +00006539- Patch #1355023: support whence argument for GzipFile.seek.
6540
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00006541- Patch #1065257: Support passing open files as body in
Martin v. Löwis040a9272006-11-12 10:32:47 +00006542 HTTPConnection.request().
6543
Andrew M. Kuchlinga3e5d372006-11-09 13:27:07 +00006544- Bug #1569790: mailbox.py: Maildir.get_folder() and MH.get_folder()
6545 weren't passing the message factory on to newly created Maildir/MH
6546 objects.
6547
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006548- Patch #1514543: mailbox.py: In the Maildir class, report errors if
6549 there's a filename clash instead of possibly losing a message.
6550 (Patch by David Watson.)
Andrew M. Kuchling978d8282006-11-09 21:16:46 +00006551
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006552- Patch #1514544: Try to ensure that messages/indexes have been
6553 physically written to disk after calling .flush() or
6554 .close(). (Patch by David Watson.)
Andrew M. Kuchlingb5686da2006-11-09 13:51:14 +00006555
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00006556- Patch #1592250: Add elide argument to Tkinter.Text.search.
Martin v. Löwis038cad72006-11-09 11:27:32 +00006557
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00006558- Patch #838546: Make terminal become controlling in pty.fork().
Martin v. Löwisb2bba732006-11-09 11:06:03 +00006559
Martin v. Löwis5361e9a2006-11-08 07:35:55 +00006560- Patch #1351744: Add askyesnocancel helper for tkMessageBox.
6561
Martin v. Löwis5310e502006-11-04 18:14:06 +00006562- Patch #1060577: Extract list of RPM files from spec file in
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00006563 bdist_rpm.
Martin v. Löwis5310e502006-11-04 18:14:06 +00006564
Georg Brandl2c9838e2006-10-29 14:39:09 +00006565- Bug #1586613: fix zlib and bz2 codecs' incremental en/decoders.
6566
Georg Brandl3354f282006-10-29 09:16:12 +00006567- Patch #1583880: fix tarfile's problems with long names and posix/
6568 GNU modes.
6569
Georg Brandl5addf702006-10-29 08:53:06 +00006570- Bug #1586448: the compiler module now emits the same bytecode for
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00006571 list comprehensions as the built-in compiler, using the LIST_APPEND
Georg Brandl5addf702006-10-29 08:53:06 +00006572 opcode.
6573
Georg Brandl8f99f812006-10-29 08:39:22 +00006574- Fix codecs.EncodedFile which did not use file_encoding in 2.5.0, and
6575 fix all codecs file wrappers to work correctly with the "with"
6576 statement (bug #1586513).
6577
Thomas Heller112d1a62006-10-27 19:05:53 +00006578- Lib/modulefinder.py now handles absolute and relative imports
6579 correctly.
6580
Martin v. Löwisee82c0e2006-10-27 07:13:28 +00006581- Patch #1567274: Support SMTP over TLS.
6582
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006583- Patch #1560695: Add .note.GNU-stack to ctypes' sysv.S so that ctypes
6584 isn't considered as requiring executable stacks.
Martin v. Löwis1b2f6272006-10-22 10:55:15 +00006585
Thomas Hellerd2ea4a22006-10-17 19:30:48 +00006586- ctypes callback functions only support 'fundamental' data types as
6587 result type. Raise an error when something else is used. This is a
6588 partial fix for Bug #1574584.
6589
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006590- Fix turtle so that time.sleep is imported for the entire library.
6591 Allows the demo2 function to be executed on its own instead of only
6592 when the module is run as a script.
Brett Cannond80e0c82006-10-16 03:09:52 +00006593
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006594- Bug #813342: Start the IDLE subprocess with -Qnew if the parent is
6595 started with that option.
Georg Brandld0761532006-10-12 07:57:21 +00006596
Martin v. Löwisf43893a2006-10-09 20:44:25 +00006597- Bug #1565150: Fix subsecond processing for os.utime on Windows.
6598
Martin v. Löwis8b274262006-10-04 15:25:28 +00006599- Support for MSVC 8 was added to bdist_wininst.
6600
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006601- Bug #1446043: correctly raise a LookupError if an encoding name
6602 given to encodings.search_function() contains a dot.
Georg Brandla92979a2006-09-30 11:22:28 +00006603
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006604- Bug #1560617: in pyclbr, return full module name not only for
6605 classes, but also for functions.
Georg Brandl154324a2006-09-30 11:06:47 +00006606
Georg Brandl05b3c452006-09-30 10:58:01 +00006607- Bug #1457823: cgi.(Sv)FormContentDict's constructor now takes
6608 keep_blank_values and strict_parsing keyword arguments.
6609
Georg Brandl8d1e5bf2006-09-30 09:13:21 +00006610- Bug #1566602: correct failure of posixpath unittest when $HOME ends
6611 with a slash.
6612
Georg Brandl8c667452006-09-30 07:31:57 +00006613- Bug #1565661: in webbrowser, split() the command for the default
6614 GNOME browser in case it is a command with args.
6615
Georg Brandl5a85d5c2009-06-24 06:41:19 +00006616- Made the error message for time.strptime when the data and
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006617 format do match be more clear.
Brett Cannon11b35352006-09-26 23:38:24 +00006618
Georg Brandlc7986ce2006-09-24 12:50:24 +00006619- Fix a bug in traceback.format_exception_only() that led to an error
6620 being raised when print_exc() was called without an exception set.
6621 In version 2.4, this printed "None", restored that behavior.
6622
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006623- Make webbrowser.BackgroundBrowser usable in Windows (it wasn't
6624 because the close_fds arg to subprocess.Popen is not supported).
Georg Brandl2c94bf72006-09-24 10:36:01 +00006625
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006626- Reverted patch #1504333 to sgmllib because it introduced an infinite
6627 loop.
Neal Norwitzbcc119a2006-09-11 04:24:09 +00006628
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006629- Patch #1553314: Fix the inspect.py slowdown that was hurting IPython
6630 & SAGE by adding smarter caching in inspect.getmodule()
Nick Coghlanb3c18f82006-09-08 10:04:38 +00006631
Georg Brandl4e933132006-09-06 20:05:58 +00006632- Fix missing import of the types module in logging.config.
6633
Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +00006634- Patch #1550886: Fix decimal module context management implementation
Neal Norwitza22975f2006-09-05 02:24:03 +00006635 to match the localcontext() example from PEP 343.
Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +00006636
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006637- Bug #1545341: The 'classifier' keyword argument to the Distutils
6638 setup() function now accepts tuples as well as lists.
Andrew M. Kuchling99994792006-10-09 17:10:12 +00006639
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006640- Bug #1541863: uuid.uuid1 failed to generate unique identifiers on
6641 systems with low clock resolution.
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00006642
Gustavo Niemeyerc36bede2006-09-07 00:48:33 +00006643- Bug #1531862: Do not close standard file descriptors in subprocess.
6644
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006645- idle: Honor the "Cancel" action in the save dialog (Debian bug
6646 #299092).
Matthias Klosea398e2d2007-01-11 11:44:04 +00006647
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006648- Fix utf-8-sig incremental decoder, which didn't recognise a BOM when
6649 the first chunk fed to the decoder started with a BOM, but was
6650 longer than 3 bytes.
Georg Brandl27562782006-10-27 20:39:43 +00006651
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006652- The implementation of UnicodeError objects has been simplified
6653 (start and end attributes are now stored directly as Py_ssize_t
6654 members).
Walter Dörwald84a3efe2007-06-13 16:57:12 +00006655
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006656- Issue #829951: In the smtplib module, SMTP.starttls() now complies
6657 with RFC 3207 and forgets any knowledge obtained from the server not
6658 obtained from the TLS negotiation itself. Patch contributed by Bill
6659 Fenner.
Gregory P. Smith2b3ba582008-01-17 08:03:17 +00006660
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006661- Issue #1339: The smtplib.SMTP class has been refactored a bit such
Gregory P. Smithbde4ae42008-01-17 08:35:49 +00006662 that the SMTP.starttls() caller no longer needs to call ehlo()
6663 beforehand. SMTP.starttls() now raises an exception of the server
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006664 does not claim to support starttls. Adds the
6665 SMTP.ehlo_or_helo_if_needed() method. Patch contributed by Bill
6666 Fenner.
Gregory P. Smithbde4ae42008-01-17 08:35:49 +00006667
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006668- Patch #1089358: Add signal.siginterrupt, a wrapper around
6669 siginterrupt(3).
Georg Brandl29604a12008-01-26 14:03:47 +00006670
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00006671Extension Modules
6672-----------------
6673
Georg Brandl392c6fc2008-05-25 07:25:25 +00006674- Patch #1657: added select.epoll and select.kqueue.
Christian Heimes0e9ab5f2008-03-21 23:49:44 +00006675
Georg Brandlebcfd112008-02-23 23:04:35 +00006676- Patch #1506171: added operator.methodcaller().
6677
Georg Brandle2065c62008-02-23 23:02:23 +00006678- Patch #1826: operator.attrgetter() now supports dotted attribute paths.
6679
Georg Brandl392c6fc2008-05-25 07:25:25 +00006680- Patch #1957: syslogmodule: Release GIL when calling syslog(3).
Christian Heimesf0476e82008-02-23 17:42:31 +00006681
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006682- Bug #2112: mmap.error is now a subclass of EnvironmentError and not
6683 a direct EnvironmentError.
Facundo Batistae1396882008-02-17 18:59:29 +00006684
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006685- Bug #2111: mmap segfaults when trying to write a block opened with
6686 PROT_READ.
Christian Heimes7adfad82008-02-15 08:20:11 +00006687
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006688- Bug #2063: correct order of utime and stime in os.times() result on
6689 Windows.
Georg Brandl0a40ffb2008-02-13 07:20:22 +00006690
Martin v. Löwise0d30ef2008-02-12 13:47:26 +00006691- Patch #1736: Fix file name handling of _msi.FCICreate.
6692
Hye-Shik Chang01612e72008-02-08 17:10:20 +00006693- Updated ``big5hkscs`` codec to the HKSCS revision of 2004.
6694
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006695- Issue #1940: make it possible to use curses.filter() before
6696 curses.initscr() as the documentation says.
Georg Brandl29604a12008-01-26 14:03:47 +00006697
Christian Heimes7f39c9f2008-01-25 12:18:43 +00006698- Backport of _fileio module from Python 3.0.
6699
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006700- Patch #1087741: mmap.mmap is now a class, not a factory function. It
6701 is also subclassable now.
Georg Brandl5ca3fd82008-01-21 14:18:14 +00006702
Georg Brandl56112892008-01-20 13:59:46 +00006703- Patch #1648: added ``sys.getprofile()`` and ``sys.gettrace()``.
6704
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006705- Patch #1663329: added ``os.closerange()`` function to quickly close
6706 a range of file descriptors without considering errors.
Georg Brandl309501a2008-01-19 20:22:13 +00006707
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006708- Patch #976880: ``mmap`` objects now have an ``rfind`` method that
Andrew M. Kuchling5c60bfc2008-01-19 18:18:41 +00006709 works as expected. ``mmap.find`` also takes an optional ``end``
6710 parameter.
6711
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006712- _winreg's HKEY object has gained __enter__ and __exit__ methods to
6713 support the context manager protocol. The _winreg module also
6714 gained a new function ``ExpandEnvironmentStrings`` to expand
6715 REG_EXPAND_SZ keys.
Christian Heimesb39a7562008-01-08 15:46:10 +00006716
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006717- itertools.starmap() now accepts any iterable input. Previously, it
6718 required the function inputs to be tuples.
Raymond Hettinger47317092008-01-17 03:02:14 +00006719
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006720- itertools.chain() now has an alternate constructor,
6721 chain.from_iterable().
Raymond Hettingerb4cbc982008-02-28 22:46:41 +00006722
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006723- Issue #1646: Make socket support TIPC. The socket module now has
6724 support for TIPC under Linux, see http://tipc.sf.net/ for more
6725 information.
Christian Heimesfb2d25a2008-01-07 16:12:44 +00006726
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006727- Added interface for Windows' WSAIoctl to socket object and added an
6728 example for a simple network sniffer.
Christian Heimes04ae9162008-01-04 15:23:30 +00006729
Guido van Rossum076d9ee2008-01-03 23:54:04 +00006730- Bug #1301: Bad assert in _tkinter fixed.
6731
Christian Heimescdaa2cb2007-12-31 14:47:07 +00006732- Added bdist_wininst executable for VS 2008.
6733
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006734- Bug #1604: collections.deque.__init__(iterable) now clears any prior
6735 contents before adding elements from the iterable. This fix brings
6736 the behavior into line with that for list.__init__().
Raymond Hettingeradf9ffd2007-12-13 00:08:37 +00006737
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006738- Added wide char functions to msvcrt module: getwch, getwche, putwch
6739 and ungetwch. The functions accept or return unicode.
Christian Heimes7c7f6af2007-12-10 15:12:41 +00006740
Martin v. Löwis69233e82007-12-04 08:39:16 +00006741- os.access now returns True on Windows for any existing directory.
6742
Christian Heimes28104c52007-11-27 23:16:44 +00006743- Added warnpy3k function to the warnings module.
6744
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006745- Marshal.dumps() now expects exact type matches for int, long, float,
6746 complex, tuple, list, dict, set, and frozenset. Formerly, it would
6747 silently miscode subclasses of those types. Now, it raises a
6748 ValueError instead.
Raymond Hettinger12e94202007-11-07 01:13:09 +00006749
Martin v. Löwis58bd49f2007-09-04 13:13:14 +00006750- Patch #1388440: Add set_completion_display_matches_hook and
6751 get_completion_type to readline.
6752
Thomas Helleref4fff32007-07-13 17:46:54 +00006753- Bug #1649098: Avoid declaration of zero-sized array declaration in
6754 structure.
6755
Brett Cannondc48b742007-05-20 07:09:50 +00006756- Removed the rgbimg module; been deprecated since Python 2.5.
6757
Neal Norwitz59f58aa2007-05-19 03:48:47 +00006758- Bug #1721309: prevent bsddb module from freeing random memory.
6759
Gregory P. Smith82eafe62007-10-18 17:17:57 +00006760- Bug #1233: fix bsddb.dbshelve.DBShelf append method to work as
6761 intended for RECNO databases.
6762
Gregory P. Smithec10a4a2007-11-05 02:32:26 +00006763- pybsddb.sf.net Bug #477182: Load the database flags at database open
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006764 time so that opening a database previously created with the DB_DUP
6765 or DB_DUPSORT flag set will keep the proper behavior on subsequent
6766 opens. Specifically: dictionary assignment to a DB object will
6767 replace all values for a given key when the database allows
6768 duplicate values. DB users should use DB.put(k, v) when they want
6769 to store duplicates; not DB[k] = v.
Gregory P. Smithec10a4a2007-11-05 02:32:26 +00006770
Gregory P. Smithac11e022007-11-05 02:56:31 +00006771- Add the bsddb.db.DBEnv.lock_id_free method.
6772
Martin v. Löwis3bf573f2007-04-04 18:30:36 +00006773- Bug #1686475: Support stat'ing open files on Windows again.
6774
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006775- Patch #1185447: binascii.b2a_qp() now correctly quotes binary
6776 characters with ASCII value less than 32. Also, it correctly quotes
6777 dots only if they occur on a single line, as opposed to the previous
6778 behavior of quoting dots if they are the second character of any
6779 line.
Georg Brandl4aef7272007-03-13 22:49:43 +00006780
Georg Brandla47337f2007-03-13 12:34:25 +00006781- Bug #1622896: fix a rare corner case where the bz2 module raised an
6782 error in spite of a succesful compression.
6783
Georg Brandl40c62612007-03-06 18:59:11 +00006784- Patch #1654417: make operator.{get,set,del}slice use the full range
6785 of Py_ssize_t.
6786
Guido van Rossum2054ee92007-03-06 15:50:01 +00006787- Patch #1646728: datetime.fromtimestamp fails with negative
6788 fractional times. With unittest.
6789
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006790- Patch #1490190: posixmodule now includes os.chflags() and
6791 os.lchflags() functions on platforms where the underlying system
6792 calls are available.
Martin v. Löwis382abef2007-02-19 10:55:19 +00006793
Georg Brandl983d1002007-02-15 11:29:04 +00006794- Patch #1494140: Add documentation for the new struct.Struct object.
6795
Martin v. Löwis45423a72007-02-14 10:07:37 +00006796- Patch #1432399: Support the HCI protocol for bluetooth sockets
6797
Martin v. Löwisb1cc1d42007-02-13 12:14:19 +00006798- Patch #1657276: Make NETLINK_DNRTMSG conditional.
6799
Martin v. Löwis4c11a922007-02-08 09:13:36 +00006800- Bug #1653736: Complain about keyword arguments to time.isoformat.
6801
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006802- Bug #1486663: don't reject keyword arguments for subclasses of
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00006803 built-in types.
Georg Brandlb84c1372007-01-21 10:28:43 +00006804
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006805- Patch #1610575: The struct module now supports the 't' code, for C99
6806 _Bool.
Martin v. Löwisaef4c6b2007-01-21 09:33:07 +00006807
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006808- Patch #1635058: ensure that htonl and friends never accept or return
6809 negative numbers, per the underlying C implementation.
Guido van Rossumbb2cc692007-01-14 17:03:32 +00006810
Martin v. Löwis046c4d12006-12-03 11:23:45 +00006811- Patch #1544279: Improve thread-safety of the socket module by moving
6812 the sock_addr_t storage out of the socket object.
6813
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006814- Patch #1019808: fix bug that causes an incorrect error to be
6815 returned when a socket timeout is set and a connection attempt
6816 fails.
Andrew M. Kuchling060e6852008-01-19 20:47:59 +00006817
Neal Norwitz45e230a2006-11-19 21:26:53 +00006818- Speed up function calls into the math module.
6819
Georg Brandl25aabf42006-11-16 17:08:45 +00006820- Bug #1588217: don't parse "= " as a soft line break in binascii's
6821 a2b_qp() function, instead leave it in the string as quopri.decode()
6822 does.
6823
Neal Norwitz4fe44232006-11-21 05:26:22 +00006824- Bug #1599782: Fix segfault on bsddb.db.DB().type().
6825
Martin v. Löwis012bc722006-10-15 09:43:39 +00006826- Bug #1567666: Emulate GetFileAttributesExA for Win95.
6827
Martin v. Löwis18aaa562006-10-15 08:43:33 +00006828- Patch #1576166: Support os.utime for directories on Windows NT+.
6829
Georg Brandl412a9ea2006-10-09 19:03:06 +00006830- Patch #1572724: fix typo ('=' instead of '==') in _msi.c.
6831
Hye-Shik Changb7883462006-10-08 13:48:34 +00006832- Bug #1572832: fix a bug in ISO-2022 codecs which may cause segfault
6833 when encoding non-BMP unicode characters.
6834
Georg Brandl4ddfcd32006-09-30 11:17:34 +00006835- Bug #1556784: allow format strings longer than 127 characters in
6836 datetime's strftime function.
6837
Jack Diederichd10a0f72006-09-21 20:34:49 +00006838- Fix itertools.count(n) to work with negative numbers again.
6839
Martin v. Löwis43fd99c2006-09-16 17:36:37 +00006840- RLIMIT_SBSIZE was added to the resource module where available.
6841
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006842- Bug #1551427: fix a wrong NULL pointer check in the win32 version of
6843 os.urandom().
Georg Brandl74bb7832006-09-06 06:03:59 +00006844
Neal Norwitz6aefa912006-09-02 02:50:35 +00006845- Bug #1548092: fix curses.tparm seg fault on invalid input.
6846
Andrew M. Kuchling62182c82008-01-08 14:56:02 +00006847- Patch #1114: fix curses module compilation on 64-bit AIX, & possibly
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006848 other 64-bit LP64 platforms where attr_t is not the same size as a
6849 long. (Contributed by Luke Mewburn.)
Andrew M. Kuchling62182c82008-01-08 14:56:02 +00006850
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006851- Bug #1550714: fix SystemError from itertools.tee on negative value
6852 for n.
Neal Norwitz69e88972006-09-02 02:58:13 +00006853
Hye-Shik Chang199f1db2006-09-05 12:07:09 +00006854- Fixed a few bugs on cjkcodecs:
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006855 - gbk and gb18030 codec now handle U+30FB KATAKANA MIDDLE DOT
6856 correctly.
Hye-Shik Chang199f1db2006-09-05 12:07:09 +00006857 - iso2022_jp_2 codec now encodes into G0 for KS X 1001, GB2312
6858 codepoints to conform the standard.
Hye-Shik Chang2cad3e92006-09-05 12:14:57 +00006859 - iso2022_jp_3 and iso2022_jp_2004 codec can encode JIS X 0213:2
Hye-Shik Chang199f1db2006-09-05 12:07:09 +00006860 codepoints now.
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00006861
Andrew M. Kuchling43889c02006-09-27 16:37:30 +00006862- Bug #1552726: in readline.c, avoid repeatedly polling in interactive
6863 mode by only placing a timeout on the select() if an input hook has
6864 been defined. This prevents an interactive Python from waking up 10
6865 times per second. Patch by Richard Boulton.
6866
Gregory P. Smithf09c6262007-03-17 22:33:35 +00006867- fixed a bug with bsddb.DB.stat: the flags and txn keyword arguments
6868 were transposed.
6869
Jesus Cea4907d272008-08-31 14:00:51 +00006870- Added support for linking the bsddb module against BerkeleyDB 4.5.x,
6871 4.6.x and 4.7.x.
Gregory P. Smith8b96a352007-01-05 01:59:42 +00006872
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006873- Bug #1633621: if curses.resizeterm() or curses.resize_term() is
6874 called, update _curses.LINES, _curses.COLS, curses.LINES and
6875 curses.COLS.
Andrew M. Kuchling43889c02006-09-27 16:37:30 +00006876
Matthias Klosee19e0c22007-04-03 04:35:59 +00006877- Fix an off-by-one bug in locale.strxfrm().
6878
Matthias Klose38336402007-09-04 20:46:02 +00006879- Fix libffi configure for hppa*-*-linux* | parisc*-*-linux*.
6880
Matthias Klose9afb9852007-10-24 20:00:44 +00006881- Build using system ffi library on arm*-linux*.
6882
Christian Heimes3f065a42007-11-21 01:17:28 +00006883- Bug #1372: zlibmodule.c: int overflow in PyZlib_decompress
Matthias Klosee19e0c22007-04-03 04:35:59 +00006884
Gregory P. Smitheeed5b72008-02-03 07:20:53 +00006885- bsddb module: Fix memory leak when using database cursors on
6886 databases without a DBEnv.
6887
Gerhard Häring11ab8072008-03-02 13:12:27 +00006888- The sqlite3 module was updated to pysqlite 2.4.1.
6889
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00006890Tests
6891-----
6892
Brett Cannon56c4deb2008-03-03 00:38:58 +00006893- Refactor test_logging to use unittest.
Brett Cannonf9db8a32008-02-17 01:59:18 +00006894
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006895- Refactor test_profile and test_cprofile to use the same code to
6896 profile.
Georg Brandlb7090772008-02-05 19:58:17 +00006897
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006898- Make test_runpy reentrant by fixing _check_module to clear out any
6899 module being tested. Was causing an error by __import__ doing a
6900 reload on the second run and thus suppressing bytecode recreation.
Brett Cannondbed7a72007-08-23 14:53:17 +00006901
Brett Cannonea2835a2007-03-14 21:44:15 +00006902- Capture socket connection resets and timeouts in test_socket_ssl and
6903 test_urllib2net and raise test.test_support.ResourceDenied.
Brett Cannoned001842007-03-14 21:40:13 +00006904
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006905- Patch #1559413: Fix test_cmd_line if sys.executable contains a
6906 space.
Martin v. Löwiscd1210a2007-03-14 20:02:31 +00006907
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006908- Added test.test_support.TransientResource which is a context manager
6909 to surround calls to resources that are not guaranteed to work even
6910 if test.test_support.requires says that the resource should exist.
Brett Cannona30fcb42007-03-08 23:58:11 +00006911
Brett Cannone05e6b02007-01-29 04:41:44 +00006912- Added a test for slicing of an exception.
6913
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006914- Added test.test_support.EnvironmentVarGuard. It's a class that
6915 provides a context manager so that one can temporarily set or unset
6916 environment variables.
Brett Cannon92d54d52007-01-04 00:23:49 +00006917
Thomas Heller112d1a62006-10-27 19:05:53 +00006918- Added some tests for modulefinder.
6919
Brett Cannon373d90b2006-10-03 23:23:14 +00006920- Converted test_imp to use unittest.
6921
Neal Norwitz919d5cc2006-09-05 02:35:08 +00006922- Fix bsddb test_basics.test06_Transactions to check the version
6923 number properly.
6924
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006925- test.test_support.catch_warning is a new context manager that can be
6926 used to catch the warnings issued by the warning framework.
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00006927
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00006928Tools
6929-----
6930
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006931- Tools/scripts/reindent.py now creates the backup file using
6932 shutil.copy to preserve user/group and permissions. Added also a
6933 --nobackup option to not create the backup if the user is concerned
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00006934 regarding this. Check issue #1050828 for more details.
Facundo Batistaf88a0772008-02-17 16:21:13 +00006935
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006936- Tools/scripts/win_add2path.py was added. The simple script modifes
6937 the PATH environment var of the HKCU tree and adds the python bin
6938 and script directory.
Christian Heimesbd865db2008-01-18 11:58:50 +00006939
Skip Montanaro3e275362007-08-29 01:33:45 +00006940- Tools/18n/pygettext.py was added to the list of scripts installed by
6941 Tools/scripts/setup.py (tracker item 642309).
6942
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006943- Added IronPython and Jython support to pybench (part of which was
6944 patch #1563844).
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00006945
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006946- Made some minor changes to pybench output to allow the user to see
6947 which Python version is running pybench.
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00006948
6949- Added support for the new platform module feature
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006950 platform.python_implementation(); this will now be saved in the
6951 benchmark pickle.
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00006952
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00006953
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00006954Documentation
6955-------------
6956
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +00006957- RFE #1765140: Updated documentation on FileHandler and subclasses to
6958 include new optional delay argument.
6959
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006960- Bug #932563: Added section on getting contextual information into
6961 logging output, and added documentation for the new LoggerAdapter
6962 class.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00006963
6964- Bug #1295: Added information about caching of formatted exception
6965 information in the LogRecord by Formatter.format().
6966
Georg Brandl9467bc52007-07-12 09:37:49 +00006967- Bug #1637365: add subsection about "__name__ == __main__" to the
6968 Python tutorial.
6969
Georg Brandl3dc6e902007-04-25 06:24:59 +00006970- Patch #1698768: updated the "using Python on the Mac" intro.
6971
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006972- Bug #1569057: Document that calling file.next() when the file is
6973 open for writing is undefined.
Brett Cannon55a18642007-04-08 04:29:32 +00006974
Žiga Seilnachtc64ad482007-03-24 14:24:26 +00006975- Patch #1489771: the syntax rules in Python Reference Manual were
6976 updated to reflect the current Python syntax.
6977
Martin v. Löwis2f401d72007-03-23 10:35:49 +00006978- Patch #1686451: Fix return type for
6979 PySequence_{Count,Index,Fast_GET_SIZE}.
6980
Georg Brandl0692a262007-03-13 07:50:57 +00006981- Patch #1679379: add documentation for fnmatch.translate().
6982
Collin Winterb7b2b4e2007-03-09 18:09:10 +00006983- Bug #1629566: clarify the docs on the return values of parsedate()
6984 and parsedate_tz() in email.utils and rfc822.
6985
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00006986- Patch #1671450: add a section about subclassing built-in types to the
Georg Brandld28b9fc2007-03-06 10:02:47 +00006987 "extending and embedding" tutorial.
6988
Georg Brandlb26b1c62007-01-17 21:19:58 +00006989- Bug #1629125: fix wrong data type (int -> Py_ssize_t) in PyDict_Next
6990 docs.
6991
Georg Brandla4c8e322006-10-12 08:22:53 +00006992- Bug #1565919: document set types in the Language Reference.
6993
Georg Brandl44a7b3a2006-09-30 12:02:57 +00006994- Bug #1546052: clarify that PyString_FromString(AndSize) copies the
6995 string pointed to by its parameter.
6996
Georg Brandlfb257732006-09-30 09:06:45 +00006997- Bug #1566663: remove obsolete example from datetime docs.
6998
Georg Brandl648c1102006-08-18 07:27:59 +00006999- Bug #1541682: Fix example in the "Refcount details" API docs.
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007000 Additionally, remove a faulty example showing PySequence_SetItem
7001 applied to a newly created list object and add notes that this isn't
7002 a good idea.
Georg Brandl648c1102006-08-18 07:27:59 +00007003
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00007004
Georg Brandl27562782006-10-27 20:39:43 +00007005Tools/Demos
7006-----------
7007
7008- Patch #1552024: add decorator support to unparse.py demo script.
Marc-André Lemburg96148682006-09-06 20:40:22 +00007009
Brett Cannonc8939d22006-09-20 19:28:35 +00007010- Make auto-generated python.vim file list built-ins and exceptions in
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007011 alphatbetical order. Makes output more deterministic and easier to
7012 tell if the file is stale or not.
Brett Cannonc8939d22006-09-20 19:28:35 +00007013
Marc-André Lemburg96148682006-09-06 20:40:22 +00007014- Bug #1546372: Fixed small bugglet in pybench that caused a missing
7015 file not to get reported properly.
7016
7017
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00007018Build
7019-----
7020
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007021- Have the search path for building extensions follow the declared
7022 order in $CPPFLAGS and $LDFLAGS when adding directories from those
7023 environment variables.
Brett Cannon70c0c022008-02-03 09:59:21 +00007024
Christian Heimes951cc0f2008-01-31 23:08:23 +00007025- Bug #1983: Added a check to pyport to verify that sizeof(pid_t) is
7026 smaller or equal sizeof(long).
7027
Christian Heimescba36bb2008-01-30 22:54:18 +00007028- Bug #1234: Fixed semaphore errors on AIX 5.2
7029
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007030- Issue #1726: Remove Python/atof.c from PCBuild/pythoncore.vcproj.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00007031
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007032- Removed PCbuild8/ directory and added a new build directory for VS
7033 2005 based on the VS 2008 build directory to PC/VS8.0. The script
7034 PCbuild/vs8to9.py was added to sync changes from PCbuild to
7035 PC/VS8.0.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00007036
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007037- Moved PCbuild/ directory for VS 2003 to PC/VS7.1 and renamed
7038 PCBuild9/ directory to PCBuild/.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00007039
Martin v. Löwiscb78de62007-12-29 18:49:21 +00007040- Bug #1699: Define _BSD_SOURCE only on OpenBSD.
7041
Guido van Rossum7c862f82007-12-13 20:50:10 +00007042- Bug #1608: use -fwrapv when GCC supports it. This is important,
7043 newer GCC versions may optimize away overflow buffer overflow checks
7044 without this option!
7045
Martin v. Löwis63bf1492007-11-12 05:14:05 +00007046- Patch #1418: Make the AC_REPLACE_FUNCS object files actually work.
7047
Raymond Hettingerdc1d1ba2007-11-07 02:45:46 +00007048- Add a FAST_LOOPS build option that speeds-up looping by trading away
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007049 periodic threadstate and signal checking in tight loops. By
7050 default, this option is turned-off. It should only be enabled in
7051 debugged, performance critical applications.
Raymond Hettingerdc1d1ba2007-11-07 02:45:46 +00007052
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007053- Patch #786737: Allow building in a tree of symlinks pointing to a
7054 readonly source.
Martin v. Löwisd44a4e92007-09-05 11:47:34 +00007055
Martin v. Löwis8bc77e42007-09-01 06:36:03 +00007056- Bug #1737210: Change Manufacturer of Windows installer to PSF.
7057
Martin v. Löwis75c23bd2007-08-30 18:25:47 +00007058- Bug #1746880: Correctly install DLLs into system32 folder on Win64.
7059
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007060- Define _BSD_SOURCE, to get access to POSIX extensions on OpenBSD
7061 4.1+.
Martin v. Löwis76760b02007-07-31 19:57:56 +00007062
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007063- Stop supporting AtheOS and cause a build error in configure for the
7064 platform.
Brett Cannon19fab762007-06-02 03:02:29 +00007065
Georg Brandldb846032007-03-31 18:56:11 +00007066- Bug #1655392: don't add -L/usr/lib/pythonX.Y/config to the LDFLAGS
7067 returned by python-config if Python was built with --enable-shared
7068 because that prevented the shared library from being used.
7069
Georg Brandl18c47f62007-03-13 10:19:22 +00007070- Patch #1569798: fix a bug in distutils when building Python from a
7071 directory within sys.exec_prefix.
7072
Martin v. Löwiseb623572007-03-12 10:50:39 +00007073- Bug #1675511: Use -Kpic instead of -xcode=pic32 on Solaris/x86.
7074
Martin v. Löwis4d542ec2006-11-25 15:39:19 +00007075- Disable _XOPEN_SOURCE on NetBSD 1.x.
7076
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007077- configure now checks whether gcc supports the PyArg_ParseTuple
7078 format attribute.
Martin v. Löwisaac13162006-10-19 10:58:46 +00007079
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00007080- Bug #1578513: Cross compilation was broken by a change to configure.
Martin v. Löwisfefbc202006-10-17 18:59:23 +00007081 Repair so that it's back to how it was in 2.4.3.
7082
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007083- Patch #1576954: Update VC6 build directory; remove redundant files
7084 in VC7.
Martin v. Löwisc9e82f62006-10-15 07:54:40 +00007085
Martin v. Löwisebe26702006-10-02 14:55:51 +00007086- Bug #1568842: Fix test for uintptr_t.
7087
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007088- Patch #1540470: for OpenBSD 4.0.
Neal Norwitz4bc2c092006-09-05 02:57:01 +00007089
Matthias Klosed149d0c2006-12-03 17:16:41 +00007090- Fix build failure on kfreebsd and on the hurd.
7091
Matthias Kloseebde1492006-12-09 12:15:27 +00007092- Fix the build of the library reference in info format.
7093
Matthias Kloseeb8ff672007-08-02 21:33:13 +00007094- Allow Emacs 22 for building the documentation in info format.
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00007095
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007096- Makefile.pre.in(buildbottest): Run an optional script
7097 pybuildbot.identify to include some information about the build
7098 environment.
Matthias Klose642ac852007-09-04 18:17:36 +00007099
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00007100
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00007101C API
7102-----
7103
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007104- Unified naming convention for free lists and their limits. All free
7105 lists in Object/ are named ``free_list``, the counter ``numfree``
7106 and the upper limit is a macro ``PyName_MAXFREELIST`` inside an
7107 #ifndef block.
Christian Heimes5b970ad2008-02-06 13:33:44 +00007108
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007109- ``PySet_Add()`` can now modify a newly created frozenset. Similarly
7110 to ``PyTuple_SetItem``, it can be used to populate a brand new
7111 frozenset; but it does not steal a reference to the added item.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arccab3d982008-02-03 22:51:43 +00007112
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00007113- Added ``PySet_Check()`` and ``PyFrozenSet_Check()`` to the set API.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arccab3d982008-02-03 22:51:43 +00007114
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007115- Backport of PyUnicode_FromString(), _FromStringAndSize(), _Format
7116 and _FormatV from Python 3.0. Made PyLong_AsSsize_t and
7117 PyLong_FromSsize_t public functions.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00007118
7119- Patch #1720595: add T_BOOL to the range of structmember types.
7120
7121- Issue #1534: Added ``PyFloat_GetMax()``, ``PyFloat_GetMin()`` and
7122 ``PyFloat_GetInfo()`` to the float API.
7123
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007124- Issue #1521: On 64bit platforms, using PyArgs_ParseTuple with the t#
7125 of w# format code incorrectly truncated the length to an int, even
7126 when PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN is set. The str.decode method used to return
7127 incorrect results with huge strings.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00007128
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007129- Issue #1629: Renamed Py_Size, Py_Type and Py_Refcnt to Py_SIZE,
7130 Py_TYPE and Py_REFCNT.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00007131
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007132- PEP 3123: Provide forward compatibility with Python 3.0, while
7133 keeping backwards compatibility. Add Py_Refcnt, Py_Type, Py_Size,
7134 and PyVarObject_HEAD_INIT.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00007135
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007136- Py_ssize_t fields work in structmember when HAVE_LONG_LONG is not
7137 defined.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00007138
7139- Patch #1733960: Allow T_LONGLONG to accept ints.
7140
7141- T_PYSSIZET can now be used in PyMemberDef lists for Py_ssize_t members.
7142
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00007143- Added a new API function ``PyImport_ImportModuleNoBlock``.
7144
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00007145- Bug #1637022: Prefix AST symbols with _Py_.
7146
7147- Fix some leftovers from the conversion from int to Py_ssize_t
7148 (relevant to strings and sequences of more than 2**31 items).
7149
7150- Make _PyGILState_NoteThreadState() static, it was not used anywhere
7151 outside of pystate.c and should not be necessary.
7152
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007153- ``PyImport_Import`` and ``PyImport_ImportModule`` now always do
7154 absolute imports. In earlier versions they might have used relative
7155 imports under some conditions.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00007156
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007157- Added case insensitive comparison methods ``PyOS_stricmp(char*,
7158 char*)`` and ``PyOS_strnicmp(char*, char*, Py_ssize_t)``.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00007159
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007160- Bug #1542693: remove semi-colon at end of PyImport_ImportModuleEx
7161 macro so it can be used as an expression.
Neal Norwitz8a267062006-08-19 04:25:29 +00007162
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00007163
Martin v. Löwis2607e6c2006-11-21 18:20:25 +00007164Windows
7165-------
7166
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007167- Patch #1706: Drop support for Win9x, WinME and NT4. Python now
7168 requires Windows 2000 or greater. The _WINVER and NTDDI_VERSION
7169 macros are set to Win2k for x86/32bit builds and WinXP for AMD64
7170 builds.
Christian Heimes95d64472008-02-09 19:55:22 +00007171
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007172- Conditionalize definition of _CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE and
7173 _CRT_NONSTDC_NO_DEPRECATE.
Martin v. Löwis2607e6c2006-11-21 18:20:25 +00007174
Martin v. Löwisd476a402007-10-12 08:56:52 +00007175- Bug #1216: Restore support for Visual Studio 2002.
7176
Martin v. Löwis2607e6c2006-11-21 18:20:25 +00007177
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00007178Mac
7179---
7180
Brett Cannonf0cb1d72007-05-31 20:01:11 +00007181- cfmfile now raises a DeprecationWarning.
7182
Brett Cannon791d56f2007-05-31 19:40:42 +00007183- buildtools now raises a DeprecationWarning.
7184
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007185- Removed the macfs module. It had been deprecated since Python 2.5.
7186 This lead to the deprecation of macostools.touched() as it relied
7187 solely on macfs and was a no-op under OS X.
Brett Cannon5e263512007-05-20 23:17:38 +00007188
Skip Montanaroe5d7f7f2002-09-20 14:16:59 +00007189----
7190
7191**(For information about older versions, consult the HISTORY file.)**