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Benjamin Petersonc843a472009-04-15 21:46:14 +00007What's New in Python 2.6.3
Barry Warsaw63a976e2009-04-14 13:16:19 +00008==========================
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Benjamin Petersonc843a472009-04-15 21:46:14 +000010*Release date: XX-XX-XXX*
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12Core and Builtins
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14
Eric Smithf73758f2009-05-23 14:04:31 +000015- Issue #6089: str.format can raise SystemError with certain invalid
16 field specifiers.
17
R. David Murray98c78792009-05-13 13:13:18 +000018- Issue #5994: the marshal module now has docstrings.
19
Mark Dickinsonce057172009-05-11 16:09:39 +000020- Issue #5981: Fix two minor inf/nan issues in float.fromhex: (1) inf
21 and nan strings with trailing whitespace were incorrectly rejected
22 and (2) the interpretation of fromhex('-nan') didn't match that of
23 float('-nan').
24
R. David Murray05afa1a2009-05-05 00:52:14 +000025- Issue #5890: in subclasses of 'property' the __doc__ attribute was
26 shadowed by classtype's, even if it was None. property now
27 inserts the __doc__ into the subclass instance __dict__.
28
Mark Dickinsone05e8402009-05-04 13:30:43 +000029- Issue #5724: (See also issue #4575.) Fix Py_IS_INFINITY macro to
30 work correctly on x87 FPUs: it now forces its argument to double
31 before testing for infinity.
32
Martin v. Löwis2a574ae2009-04-26 01:01:58 +000033- Issue #4971: Fix titlecase for characters that are their own
34 titlecase, but not their own uppercase.
35
Mark Dickinson22999a62009-04-25 13:16:50 +000036- Issue #5829: complex('1e-500') no longer raises an exception
37
Benjamin Peterson4585ca92009-04-18 20:50:24 +000038- Issue #5787: object.__getattribute__(some_type, "__bases__") segfaulted on
39 some builtin types.
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Benjamin Petersonaf75a5f2009-04-25 00:44:44 +000041- Issue #5283: Setting __class__ in __del__ caused a segfault.
42
Benjamin Petersonc843a472009-04-15 21:46:14 +000043- Issue #5759: float() didn't call __float__ on str subclasses.
Barry Warsaw63a976e2009-04-14 13:16:19 +000044
Walter Dörwaldf11232e2009-05-03 22:38:54 +000045- Issue #5108: Handle %s like %S and %R in PyUnicode_FromFormatV(): Call
46 PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8() once, remember the result and output it in a second
47 step. This avoids problems with counting UTF-8 bytes that ignores the effect
48 of using the replace error handler in PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8().
49
Thomas Heller50101de2009-04-24 20:18:22 +000050Library
R. David Murray7cd8f2b2009-04-15 23:00:41 +000051-------
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Martin v. Löwise7e46f82009-05-24 19:42:14 +000053- Issue #6050: Don't fail extracting a directory from a zipfile if
54 the directory already exists.
55
Antoine Pitrou6c3064b2009-05-24 15:41:43 +000056- Issue #1309352: fcntl now converts its third arguments to a C `long` rather
57 than an int, which makes some operations possible under 64-bit Linux (e.g.
58 DN_MULTISHOT with F_NOTIFY).
59
Antoine Pitrou794b3fc2009-05-23 15:47:13 +000060- Issue #1983: Fix functions taking or returning a process identifier to use
61 the dedicated C type ``pid_t`` instead of a C ``int``. Some platforms have
62 a process identifier type wider than the standard C integer type.
63
R. David Murrayeb059b82009-05-23 01:42:42 +000064- Issue #4066: smtplib.SMTP_SSL._get_socket now correctly returns the socket.
65 Patch by Farhan Ahmad, test by Marcin Bachry.
66
Antoine Pitroufe8fb462009-05-15 12:03:56 +000067- Issue #1655: Make imaplib IPv6-capable. Patch by Derek Morr.
68
Antoine Pitrou250bf342009-05-14 21:29:45 +000069- Issue #1664: Make nntplib IPv6-capable. Patch by Derek Morr.
70
Vinay Sajip28274ab2009-05-09 12:11:30 +000071- Issue #5971: StreamHandler.handleError now swallows IOErrors which occur when
72 trying to print a traceback.
73
R. David Murrayd0a45392009-05-07 16:45:44 +000074- Issue 5955: aifc's close method did not close the file it wrapped,
75 now it does. This also means getfp method now returns the real fp.
76
Thomas Heller54e02482009-05-05 18:59:30 +000077- Issue #4875: On win32, ctypes.util.find_library does no longer
78 return directories.
79
Antoine Pitroue199a492009-05-04 21:24:37 +000080- Issue #5692: In :class:`zipfile.Zipfile`, fix wrong path calculation when
81 extracting a file to the root directory.
82
R. David Murraycecc3a02009-04-29 14:54:29 +000083- Issue #2245: aifc now skips chunk types it doesn't recognize, per spec.
84
Thomas Heller01e117f2009-04-28 20:01:18 +000085- Issue #4305: ctypes should now build again on mipsel-linux-gnu
86
Antoine Pitrou7d834a52009-04-27 21:01:13 +000087- Issue #5853: calling a function of the mimetypes module from several threads
88 at once could hit the recursion limit if the mimetypes database hadn't been
89 initialized before.
90
Thomas Heller50101de2009-04-24 20:18:22 +000091- Issue #5041: ctypes does now allow pickling wide character.
92
Vinay Sajip03d327d2009-04-16 19:14:09 +000093- Issue #5768: Fixed bug in Unicode output logic and test case for same.
94
R. David Murray7cd8f2b2009-04-15 23:00:41 +000095- Issue #1161031: fix readwrite select flag handling: POLLPRI now
96 results in a handle_expt_event call, not handle_read_event, and POLLERR
97 and POLLNVAL now call handle_close, not handle_expt_event. Also,
98 dispatcher now has an 'ignore_log_types' attribute for suppressing
99 log messages, which is set to 'warning' by default.
100
Walter Dörwald6c863d12009-04-25 14:05:52 +0000101- Issue #5828 (Invalid behavior of unicode.lower): Fixed bogus logic in
102 makeunicodedata.py and regenerated the Unicode database (This fixes
103 u'\u1d79'.lower() == '\x00').
104
Antoine Pitrou8151da02009-05-01 21:24:56 +0000105Build
106-----
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Benjamin Peterson2eb65452009-05-23 19:35:33 +0000108- Issue #6094: Build correctly with Subversion 1.7.
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Antoine Pitrou8151da02009-05-01 21:24:56 +0000110- Issue #5726: Make Modules/ld_so_aix return the actual exit code of the
111 linker, rather than always exit successfully. Patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
112
Walter Dörwald729df012009-04-25 12:23:49 +0000113Tests
114-----
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116- Issue #5837: Certain sequences of calls to set() and unset() for
117 support.EnvironmentVarGuard objects restored the environment variables
118 incorrectly on __exit__.
119
Barry Warsaw63a976e2009-04-14 13:16:19 +0000120
Barry Warsaw90971e02009-04-07 01:54:02 +0000121What's New in Python 2.6.2 rc 1
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Barry Warsaw6b257f42008-12-05 05:03:06 +0000123
Barry Warsaw90971e02009-04-07 01:54:02 +0000124*Release date: 06-Apr-2009*
Barry Warsaw6b257f42008-12-05 05:03:06 +0000125
126Core and Builtins
127-----------------
128
Raymond Hettinger9293eb92009-02-24 12:25:32 +0000129- xrange() is now registered as a Sequence.
130
Georg Brandle9b91212009-04-05 21:26:31 +0000131- Fix a problem in PyErr_NormalizeException that leads to "undetected errors"
132 when hitting the recursion limit under certain circumstances.
133
134- Issue #1665206: Remove the last eager import in _warnings.c and make it lazy.
135
Barry Warsaw90971e02009-04-07 01:54:02 +0000136- Issue #4034: Fix weird attribute error messages of the traceback object. (As
137 a result traceback.__members__ no longer exists.)
Benjamin Peterson53f098c2009-03-18 21:49:29 +0000138
Eric Smith1718b472009-02-20 14:07:55 +0000139- Issue #5247: Improve error message when unknown format codes are
140 used when using str.format() with str, unicode, long, int, and
141 float arguments.
142
Raymond Hettinger32596522009-02-18 23:12:48 +0000143- Running Python with the -3 option now also warns about classic division
144 for ints and longs.
145
Vinay Sajip6badbe92009-01-20 22:49:13 +0000146- Issue #5013: Fixed a bug in FileHandler which occurred when the delay
147 parameter was set.
148
Raymond Hettinger24e28722009-02-02 22:44:06 +0000149- Issue 1242657: the __len__() and __length_hint__() calls in several tools
150 were suppressing all exceptions. These include list(), filter(), map(),
151 zip(), and bytearray().
152
Antoine Pitroua1b22ce2009-01-13 23:25:47 +0000153- Issue #4935: The overflow checking code in the expandtabs() method common
154 to str, bytes and bytearray could be optimized away by the compiler, letting
155 the interpreter segfault instead of raising an error.
156
Georg Brandl686d53e2009-01-14 00:08:09 +0000157- Issue #4915: Port sysmodule to Windows CE.
158
Antoine Pitrou5b0767c2009-01-06 19:00:59 +0000159- Issue #1180193: When importing a module from a .pyc (or .pyo) file with
160 an existing .py counterpart, override the co_filename attributes of all
161 code objects if the original filename is obsolete (which can happen if the
162 file has been renamed, moved, or if it is accessed through different paths).
163 Patch by Ziga Seilnacht and Jean-Paul Calderone.
164
Georg Brandl734373c2009-01-03 21:55:17 +0000165- Issue #4075: Use OutputDebugStringW in Py_FatalError.
166
167- Issue #4797: IOError.filename was not set when _fileio.FileIO failed to open
168 file with `str' filename on Windows.
169
Georg Brandl47fe9812009-01-01 15:46:10 +0000170- Issue #3680: Reference cycles created through a dict, set or deque iterator
171 did not get collected.
172
Nick Coghland4656402008-12-30 01:36:00 +0000173- Issue #4701: PyObject_Hash now implicitly calls PyType_Ready on types
174 where the tp_hash and tp_dict slots are both NULL.
175
Georg Brandl47fe9812009-01-01 15:46:10 +0000176- Issue #4764: With io.open, IOError.filename is set when trying to open a
177 directory on POSIX systems.
178
179- Issue #4764: IOError.filename is set when trying to open a directory on POSIX
180 systems.
181
182- Issue #4759: None is now allowed as the first argument of
183 bytearray.translate(). It was always allowed for bytes.translate().
184
Georg Brandlef29f862008-12-28 11:55:24 +0000185- Issue #4759: fix a segfault for bytearray.translate(x, None).
186
Skip Montanaro6a00c742008-12-23 03:35:04 +0000187- Added test case to ensure attempts to read from a file opened for writing
188 fail.
189
Jeffrey Yasskin69614982008-12-11 05:21:18 +0000190- Issue #4597: Fixed several opcodes that weren't always propagating
191 exceptions.
192
Benjamin Petersonc6e80eb2008-12-21 17:01:26 +0000193- Issue #2467: gc.DEBUG_STATS reported invalid elapsed times. Also, always
194 print elapsed times, not only when some objects are uncollectable /
195 unreachable. Original patch by Neil Schemenauer.
196
Jeffrey Yasskin69614982008-12-11 05:21:18 +0000197- Issue #4589: Fixed exception handling when the __exit__ function of a
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc79c9f762008-12-10 23:56:33 +0000198 context manager returns a value that cannot be converted to a bool.
199
Vinay Sajip6badbe92009-01-20 22:49:13 +0000200- Issue #4233: Changed semantic of ``_fileio.FileIO``'s ``close()``
Georg Brandld2094602008-12-05 08:51:30 +0000201 method on file objects with closefd=False. The file descriptor is still
202 kept open but the file object behaves like a closed file. The ``FileIO``
203 object also got a new readonly attribute ``closefd``.
204
Georg Brandlfa71a902008-12-05 09:08:28 +0000205- Issue #3689: The list reversed iterator now supports __length_hint__
206 instead of __len__. Behavior now matches other reversed iterators.
207
Antoine Pitrou599db7f2008-12-07 00:07:51 +0000208- Issue #4509: Various issues surrounding resize of bytearray objects to
209 which there are buffer exports.
210
Matthias Klosea8da9e02009-04-04 14:19:56 +0000211- Issue #3845: In PyRun_SimpleFileExFlags avoid invalid memory access with
212 short file names.
213
Gregory P. Smithdd7b6302009-04-06 06:47:37 +0000214- Issue #5705: os.setuid() would not accept values > 2**31-1 but pwd.getpwnam()
215 returned them on 64bit platforms.
216
Barry Warsaw6b257f42008-12-05 05:03:06 +0000217Library
218-------
219
Tarek Ziadé82313d82009-05-19 16:19:15 +0000220- Issue #6062: In distutils, fixed the package option of build_ext. Feedback
221 and tests on pywin32 by Tim Golden.
222
Tarek Ziadé482c2202009-05-18 08:05:17 +0000223- Issue #6046: Fixed the library extension when distutils build_ext is used
224 inplace. Initial patch by Roumen Petrov.
225
Tarek Ziadéb7489a92009-05-14 20:17:32 +0000226- Issue #6022: a test file was created in the current working directory by
227 test_get_outputs in Distutils.
228
Tarek Ziadé8dc07c02009-05-12 17:11:54 +0000229- Issue #5977: distutils build_ext.get_outputs was not taking into account the
230 inplace option. Initial patch by kxroberto.
231
Tarek Ziadéb2b24bb2009-05-10 10:24:16 +0000232- Issue #5984: distutils.command.build_ext.check_extensions_list checks were broken
233 for old-style extensions.
234
Vinay Sajip229bc012009-04-27 13:51:32 +0000235- Issue #5854: Updated __all__ to include some missing names and remove some
236 names which should not be exported.
237
238- Issue #5810: Fixed Distutils test_build_scripts so it uses
Tarek Ziadéde0d5e32009-04-25 12:55:56 +0000239 sysconfig.get_config_vars.
240
Georg Brandldcfed0e2009-04-12 17:26:19 +0000241- Issue #5741: don't disallow "%%" (which is an escape for "%") when setting
242 a value in SafeConfigParser.
243
Vinay Sajip03d327d2009-04-16 19:14:09 +0000244- Issue #5731: Distutils bdist_wininst no longer worked on non-Windows
Tarek Ziadéb9f1a0c2009-04-09 22:48:19 +0000245 platforms. Initial patch by Paul Moore.
246
Tarek Ziadé0daf2f32009-04-05 21:47:02 +0000247- Issue #1491431: Fixed distutils.filelist.glob_to_re for edge cases.
248 Initial fix by Wayne Davison.
249
Georg Brandle9b91212009-04-05 21:26:31 +0000250- Issue 5471: Fix os.path.expanduser() for $HOME set to '/'.
251
Georg Brandlf7a1efc2009-04-05 10:51:10 +0000252- Issue 1726172: fix IndexError in the case of and empty response in ftplib.
253
Georg Brandl9b08e052009-04-05 21:21:05 +0000254- In Pdb, prevent the reassignment of __builtin__._ by sys.displayhook on
255 printing out values.
256
257- Issue #4572: added SEEK_* symbolic constants to io module.
258
259- Issue #1665206 (partially): Move imports in cgitb to the top of the module
260 instead of performing them in functions. Helps prevent import deadlocking in
261 threads.
262
263- Issue #5647: MutableSet.__iand__() no longer mutates self during iteration.
264
265- Actually make the SimpleXMLRPCServer CGI handler work.
266
R. David Murray51c6b212009-04-02 14:09:49 +0000267- Issue 2625: added missing iteritems() call to the for loop in
268 mailbox.MH.get_message().
269
Raymond Hettinger51ac4f42009-04-01 18:57:45 +0000270- Issue #5647: MutableSet.__iand__() no longer mutates self during iteration.
271
Jesse Noller70b11f02009-03-31 22:25:20 +0000272- Issue #5619: Multiprocessing children disobey the debug flag and causes
273 popups on windows buildbots. Patch applied to work around this issue.
274
Barry Warsaw90971e02009-04-07 01:54:02 +0000275- Issue #5632: Thread.ident was None for the main thread and threads not
276 created with the threading module.
Benjamin Peterson61611f82009-03-31 21:40:18 +0000277
Jesse Noller6be88da2009-03-31 18:39:39 +0000278- Issue #5400: Added patch for multiprocessing on netbsd compilation/support
279
Jesse Noller8b56d472009-03-31 15:01:45 +0000280- Fix and properly document the multiprocessing module's logging
281 support, expose the internal levels and provide proper usage
282 examples.
283
Hirokazu Yamamoto60098042009-03-31 13:22:01 +0000284- Issue #5387: Fixed mmap.move crash by integer overflow.
285
Jesse Nollerf0d21c72009-03-30 23:38:36 +0000286- Issue #5261: Patch multiprocessing's semaphore.c to support context
287 manager use: "with multiprocessing.Lock()" works now.
288
Vinay Sajip03d327d2009-04-16 19:14:09 +0000289- Issue #5177: Multiprocessing's SocketListener class now uses
Jesse Nollerb48cfa62009-03-30 16:19:10 +0000290 socket.SO_REUSEADDR on all connections so that the user no longer needs
291 to wait 120 seconds for the socket to expire.
292
293- Adjusted _tkinter to compile without warnings when WITH_THREAD is not
294 defined (part of issue #5035).
295
Marc-André Lemburg152f2222009-03-25 19:52:04 +0000296- Issue #5561: Removed the sys.version_info shortcuts from platform's
297 python_version() and python_version_tuple() since they produced different
298 output compared to previous Python versions.
299
Lars Gustäbel9e2a09a2009-03-22 20:22:29 +0000300- Issue #5068: Fixed the tarfile._BZ2Proxy.read() method that would loop
301 forever on incomplete input. That caused tarfile.open() to hang when used
302 with mode 'r' or 'r:bz2' and a fileobj argument that contained no data or
303 partial bzip2 compressed data.
304
Benjamin Peterson373498f2009-03-22 17:49:21 +0000305- Issue #5536: urllib.urlretrieve makes sure to close the file it's writing to
306 even if an exception occurs.
307
Mark Dickinson71416822009-03-17 18:07:41 +0000308- Fix Decimal.__format__ bug that swapped the meanings of the '<' and
309 '>' alignment characters.
310
Antoine Pitroua099d142009-03-14 00:13:36 +0000311- Issue #1222: locale.format() bug when the thousands separator is a space
312 character.
313
Guilherme Poloc4f54fd2009-03-07 01:51:48 +0000314- Issue #4792: Prevent a segfault in _tkinter by using the
315 guaranteed to be safe interp argument given to the PythonCmd in place of
316 the Tcl interpreter taken from a PythonCmd_ClientData.
317
318- Issue #5193: Guarantee that Tkinter.Text.search returns a string.
319
Hirokazu Yamamotoec5294f2009-03-05 14:30:13 +0000320- Issue #5385: Fixed mmap crash after resize failure on windows.
321
Hirokazu Yamamoto857c00e2009-03-03 22:55:00 +0000322- Issue #5179: Fixed subprocess handle leak on failure on windows.
323
Barry Warsaw90971e02009-04-07 01:54:02 +0000324- Issue #4308: httplib.IncompleteRead's repr doesn't include all of the data
325 all ready received.
Benjamin Petersona97bed92009-03-02 22:46:11 +0000326
Benjamin Petersone392b4f2009-03-02 03:42:39 +0000327- Issue #5401: Fixed a performance problem in mimetypes when ``from mimetypes
328 import guess_extension`` was used.
329
Hirokazu Yamamoto4b27e962009-02-28 12:42:16 +0000330- Issue #1733986: Fixed mmap crash in accessing elements of second map object
331 with same tagname but larger size than first map. (Windows)
332
Hirokazu Yamamotoe363fa02009-02-28 11:39:45 +0000333- Issue #5386: mmap.write_byte didn't check map size, so it could cause buffer
334 overrun.
335
Hirokazu Yamamoto978bacd2009-02-18 15:11:55 +0000336- Issue #5292: Fixed mmap crash on its boundary access m[len(m)].
337
338- Issue #5282: Fixed mmap resize on 32bit windows and unix. When offset > 0,
339 The file was resized to wrong size.
340
Vinay Sajip83470422009-02-17 17:47:15 +0000341- Issue #5287: Add exception handling around findCaller() call in logging to
342 help out IronPython.
343
Tarek Ziadé19fe0c82009-02-13 23:02:44 +0000344- Issue #4524: distutils build_script command failed with --with-suffix=3.
345 Initial patch by Amaury Forgeot d'Arc.
346
Mark Dickinsona84f2652009-02-12 18:05:07 +0000347- Issue #4998: The memory saving effect of __slots__ had been lost on Fractions
348 which inherited from numbers.py which did not have __slots__ defined. The
349 numbers hierarchy now has its own __slots__ declarations.
350
Thomas Heller07750562009-02-10 18:46:11 +0000351- Issue #5203: Fixed ctypes segfaults when passing a unicode string to a
352 function without argtypes (only occurs if HAVE_USABLE_WCHAR_T is false).
353
Jesse Nollere6bab482009-03-30 16:11:16 +0000354- Issue #3321: _multiprocessing.Connection() doesn't check handle; added checks
Barry Warsaw90971e02009-04-07 01:54:02 +0000355 for *nix machines for negative handles and large int handles. Without this
356 check it is possible to segfault the interpreter.
Jesse Nollere6bab482009-03-30 16:11:16 +0000357
Barry Warsaw90971e02009-04-07 01:54:02 +0000358- Issue #4449: AssertionError in mp_benchmarks.py, caused by an underlying
359 issue in sharedctypes.py.
Jesse Nollere6bab482009-03-30 16:11:16 +0000360
Tarek Ziadé436eb082009-02-10 12:33:42 +0000361- Issue #3386: distutils.sysconfig.get_python_lib prefix argument was ignored
362 under NT and OS2. Patch by Philip Jenvey.
363
Guilherme Polo4bf471f2009-02-09 16:43:02 +0000364- Issue #4890: Handle empty text search pattern in Tkinter.Text.search.
365
Vinay Sajip9c786582009-02-08 19:14:41 +0000366- Issue #5170: Fixed Unicode output bug in logging and added test case.
367 This is a regression which did not occur in 2.5.
368
Guilherme Poloc8a20da2009-02-06 22:52:31 +0000369- Partial fix to issue #1731706: memory leak in Tkapp_Call when calling
370 from a thread different than the one that created the Tcl interpreter.
371 Patch by Robert Hancock.
372
Vinay Sajip9c786582009-02-08 19:14:41 +0000373- Issue #5132: Fixed trouble building extensions under Solaris with
Tarek Ziadéf28849a2009-02-05 22:55:00 +0000374 --enabled-shared activated. Initial patch by Dave Peterson.
375
Guilherme Polob2dbd432009-02-02 21:15:41 +0000376- Issue #1581476: Always use the Tcl global namespace when calling into Tcl.
377
Antoine Pitrou4ad77e22009-01-29 20:30:51 +0000378- Issue #2047: shutil.move() could believe that its destination path was
379 inside its source path if it began with the same letters (e.g. "src" vs.
380 "src.new").
381
Raymond Hettingerc9794482009-01-28 23:14:58 +0000382- Issue 4920: Fixed .next() vs .__next__() issues in the ABCs for
383 Iterator and MutableSet.
384
Raymond Hettinger8c0cee82009-01-27 10:30:26 +0000385- Issue 5021: doctest.testfile() did not create __name__ and
386 collections.namedtuple() relied on __name__ being defined.
387
Martin v. Löwise8b471c2009-01-24 15:50:00 +0000388- Issue #3881: Help Tcl to load even when started through the
389 unreadable local symlink to "Program Files" on Vista.
390
Martin v. Löwis3a8071a2009-01-24 14:04:33 +0000391- Issue #4710: Extract directories properly in the zipfile module;
392 allow adding directories to a zipfile.
393
Antoine Pitrou19fec8b2009-01-21 00:56:37 +0000394- Issue #5008: When a file is opened in append mode with the new IO library,
395 do an explicit seek to the end of file (so that e.g. tell() returns the
396 file size rather than 0). This is consistent with the behaviour of the
397 traditional 2.x file object.
398
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc0293c802009-01-17 16:46:35 +0000399- Issue #3997: zipfiles generated with more than 65536 files could not be
400 opened with other applications.
401
Raymond Hettinger825758c2009-01-08 05:20:19 +0000402- Issue 4816: itertools.combinations() and itertools.product were raising
403 a ValueError for values of *r* larger than the input iterable. They now
404 correctly return an empty iterator.
405
Raymond Hettinger8f726922009-01-03 09:27:41 +0000406- Fractions.from_float() no longer loses precision for integers too big to
Raymond Hettinger40188782009-01-03 09:24:18 +0000407 cast as floats.
408
Raymond Hettingerd263bd82008-12-31 04:18:44 +0000409- Issue 4790: The nsmallest() and nlargest() functions in the heapq module
410 did unnecessary work in the common case where no key function was specified.
411
Martin v. Löwis918ae522008-12-29 16:23:43 +0000412- Issue #3767: Convert Tk object to string in tkColorChooser.
413
Martin v. Löwis659bf292008-12-29 15:53:25 +0000414- Issue #3248: Allow placing ScrolledText in a PanedWindow.
415
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc360d8cf2008-12-15 22:16:00 +0000416- Issue #3954: Fix a potential SystemError in _hotshot.logreader error
417 handling.
418
Antoine Pitrouf8638a82008-12-14 18:08:37 +0000419- Issue #4574: fix a crash in io.IncrementalNewlineDecoder when a carriage
420 return encodes to more than one byte in the source encoding (e.g. UTF-16)
421 and gets split on a chunk boundary.
422
Nick Coghlan30327242008-12-14 11:30:16 +0000423- Issue #4223: inspect.getsource() will now correctly display source code
424 for packages loaded via zipimport (or any other conformant PEP 302
425 loader). Original patch by Alexander Belopolsky.
426
427- Issue #4201: pdb can now access and display source code loaded via
428 zipimport (or any other conformant PEP 302 loader). Original patch by
429 Alexander Belopolsky.
430
431- Issue #4197: doctests in modules loaded via zipimport (or any other PEP
432 302 conformant loader) will now work correctly in most cases (they
433 are still subject to the constraints that exist for all code running
434 from inside a module loaded via a PEP 302 loader and attempting to
435 perform IO operations based on __file__). Original patch by
436 Alexander Belopolsky.
437
438- Issues #4082 and #4512: Add runpy support to zipimport in a manner that
439 allows backporting to maintenance branches. Original patch by
440 Alexander Belopolsky.
441
Lars Gustäbel696d6ba2008-12-12 14:14:42 +0000442- Issue #4616: TarFile.utime(): Restore directory times on Windows.
443
Skip Montanarob7387a52008-12-06 17:39:54 +0000444- Issue #4483: _dbm module now builds on systems with gdbm & gdbm_compat
445 libs.
446
Georg Brandlfa71a902008-12-05 09:08:28 +0000447- FileIO's mode attribute now always includes ``"b"``.
448
Matthias Klosee1e6ed12009-01-10 17:11:11 +0000449- Issue #4861: ctypes.util.find_library(): Robustify. Fix library detection on
450 biarch systems. Try to rely on ldconfig only, without using objdump and gcc.
451
Matthias Klosea65e3302009-04-05 21:35:06 +0000452- Issue #2703: SimpleXMLRPCDispatcher.__init__: Provide default values for
453 new arguments introduced in 2.5.
454
Tarek Ziadéf66326f2009-01-26 17:20:15 +0000455- Issue #1885: distutils. When running sdist with --formats=tar,gztar
456 the tar file was overriden by the gztar one.
457
Raymond Hettinger1f4f0812009-02-03 03:44:39 +0000458- Registered Decimal as a numbers.Number so that isinstance(d, Number) works.
Raymond Hettinger45fd4762009-02-03 03:42:07 +0000459
Mark Dickinson3df16922009-01-24 21:30:14 +0000460- Issue #1672332: fix unpickling of subnormal floats, which was
461 producing a ValueError on some platforms.
462
Mark Dickinsonc95c6f12009-01-04 21:30:17 +0000463- Restore Python 2.3 compatibility for decimal.py.
464
Vinay Sajip6badbe92009-01-20 22:49:13 +0000465- Issue #1702551: distutils sdist was not excluding VCS directories under
Tarek Ziadé653cb622009-01-04 00:07:14 +0000466 Windows. Inital solution by Guy Dalberto.
467
Mark Dickinsonfd6032d2009-01-02 23:16:51 +0000468- Issue #4812: add missing underscore prefix to some internal-use-only
469 constants in the decimal module. (Dec_0 becomes _Dec_0, etc.)
470
Georg Brandl47fe9812009-01-01 15:46:10 +0000471- Issue #4795: inspect.isgeneratorfunction() returns False instead of None when
472 the function is not a generator.
473
Vinay Sajip6badbe92009-01-20 22:49:13 +0000474- Issue #4702: Throwing a DistutilsPlatformError instead of IOError in case
475 no MSVC compiler is found under Windows. Original patch by Philip Jenvey.
Tarek Ziadée4ea6bc2008-12-30 23:06:46 +0000476
Georg Brandl47fe9812009-01-01 15:46:10 +0000477 - Issue #4739: Add pydoc help topics for symbols, so that e.g. help('@')
478 works as expected in the interactive environment.
479
480- Issue #4756: zipfile.is_zipfile() now supports file-like objects. Patch by
481 Gabriel Genellina.
482
Vinay Sajip6badbe92009-01-20 22:49:13 +0000483- Issue #4646: distutils was choking on empty options arg in the setup
Tarek Ziadé0edab542008-12-29 22:36:22 +0000484 function. Original patch by Thomas Heller.
485
Tarek Ziadéba486082008-12-27 13:28:42 +0000486- Issue #4400: .pypirc default generated file was broken in distutils.
487
Benjamin Peterson828a7062008-12-27 17:05:29 +0000488- Issue #4736: io.BufferedRWPair's closed property now functions properly.
489
490- Issue #3954: Fix a potential SystemError in _hotshot.logreader error
491 handling.
492
Benjamin Petersonc6e80eb2008-12-21 17:01:26 +0000493- Issue #4163: Use unicode-friendly word splitting in the textwrap functions
494 when given an unicode string.
495
496- Issue #4616: TarFile.utime(): Restore directory times on Windows.
497
Mark Dickinson7c62f892008-12-11 09:17:40 +0000498- Issue #4084: Fix max, min, max_mag and min_mag Decimal methods to
499 give correct results in the case where one argument is a quiet NaN
500 and the other is a finite number that requires rounding.
501
Benjamin Petersonc6e80eb2008-12-21 17:01:26 +0000502- Issue #1030250: Distutils created directories even when run with the
503 --dry-run option.
504
505- Issue #4483: _dbm module now builds on systems with gdbm & gdbm_compat
506 libs.
507
Georg Brandlf3a0b862008-12-07 14:47:12 +0000508- Issue #4529: fix the parser module's validation of try-except-finally
509 statements.
510
511- Issue #4458: getopt.gnu_getopt() now recognizes a single "-" as an argument,
512 not a malformed option.
513
514- Added the subprocess.check_output() convenience function to get output
515 from a subprocess on success or raise an exception on error.
516
Fred Drake0c7dfa32008-12-04 19:01:28 +0000517- Issue #1055234: cgi.parse_header(): Fixed parsing of header parameters to
518 support unusual filenames (such as those containing semi-colons) in
519 Content-Disposition headers.
520
Matthias Klose19f6e212009-04-05 22:12:56 +0000521- Issue #4730: Fixed the cPickle module to handle correctly astral characters
522 when protocol 0 is used.
523
524- Issue #16278952: plat-mac/videoreader.py now correctly imports MediaDescr
525
526- Issue #1737832 : plat-mac/EasyDialog.py no longer uses the broken aepack
527 module.
528
529- Issue #1149804: macostools.mkdirs now even works when another process
530 creates one of the needed subdirectories.
531
532Tools/Demos
533-----------
534
535- Issue #4677: add two list comprehension tests to pybench.
536
537Extension Modules
538-----------------
539
540- Issue #4301: Patch the logging module to add processName support, remove
541 _check_logger_class from multiprocessing.
542
543- Issue #1040026: Fix os.times result on systems where HZ is incorrect.
544
545- Issue #4397: Fix occasional test_socket failure on OS X.
546
547- Issue #4279: Fix build of parsermodule under Cygwin.
548
549- Issue #4051: Prevent conflict of UNICODE macros in cPickle.
550
551- Issue #4228: Pack negative values the same way as 2.4 in struct's L format.
552
553- Issue #1040026: Fix os.times result on systems where HZ is incorrect.
554
555- Issues #3167, #3682: Fix test_math failures for log, log10 on Solaris,
556 OpenBSD.
557
558Build
559-----
560
561- Link the shared python library with $(MODLIBS).
562
563- Issue #5134: Silence compiler warnings when compiling sqlite with VC++.
564
565- Issue #4494: Fix build with Py_NO_ENABLE_SHARED on Windows.
566
567- Issue #4895: Use _strdup on Windows CE.
568
569- Issue #4472: "configure --enable-shared" now works on OSX
570
571- Issues #4728 and #4060: WORDS_BIGEDIAN is now correct in Universal builds.
572
Matthias Klose19f6e212009-04-05 22:12:56 +0000573C-API
574-----
575
576- Issue #4720: The format for PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords can begin with '|'.
577
578- Issue #3632: from the gdb debugger, the 'pyo' macro can now be called when
579 the GIL is released, or owned by another thread.
580
581Tests
582-----
583
584- Issue #5635: Fix running test_sys with tracing enabled.
585
586- regrtest no longer treats ImportError as equivalent to SkipTest. Imports
Vinay Sajip03d327d2009-04-16 19:14:09 +0000587 that should cause a test to be skipped are now done using import_module
Matthias Klose19f6e212009-04-05 22:12:56 +0000588 from test support, which does the conversion.
589
590- Issue #5083: New 'gui' resource for regrtest.
591
592
593What's New in Python 2.6.1
594==========================
595
596*Release date: 04-Dec-2008*
597
598Core and Builtins
599-----------------
600
601- Issue #3996: On Windows, the PyOS_CheckStack function would cause the
602 interpreter to abort ("Fatal Python error: Could not reset the stack!")
603 instead of throwing a MemoryError.
604
605- Issue #4367: Python would segfault during compiling when the unicodedata
606 module couldn't be imported and \N escapes were present.
607
608- Issue #4348: Some bytearray methods returned that didn't cause any change to
609 the bytearray, returned the same bytearray instead of a copy.
610
611- Issue #4317: Fixed a crash in the imageop.rgb2rgb8() function.
612
613- Issue #4230: If ``__getattr__`` is a descriptor, it now functions correctly.
614
615- Issue #4048: The parser module now correctly validates relative imports.
616
617- Issue #4225: ``from __future__ import unicode_literals`` didn't work in an
618 exec statement.
619
620- Issue #4176: Fixed a crash when pickling an object which ``__reduce__``
621 method does not return iterators for the 4th and 5th items.
622
623- Issue #4209: Enabling unicode_literals and the print_function in the same
624 __future__ import didn't work.
625
626- On windows, os.chdir given unicode was not working if GetCurrentDirectoryW
627 returned a path longer than MAX_PATH. (But It's doubtful this code path is
628 really executed because I cannot move to such directory on win2k)
629
630- Issue #4069: When set.remove(element) is used with a set element, the element
631 is temporarily replaced with an equivalent frozenset. But the eventual
632 KeyError would always report the empty frozenset([]) as the missing key. Now
633 it correctly refers to the initial element.
634
635- Fixed C99 style comments in several files. Python is now C89 compatible
636 again.
637
638Library
639-------
640
Christian Heimes268be912008-11-28 11:03:48 +0000641- Issue #3741: DISTUTILS_USE_SDK set causes msvc9compiler.py to raise an
642 exception.
643
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc42491ce2008-11-21 22:08:14 +0000644- Issue #4363: The uuid.uuid1() and uuid.uuid4() functions now work even if
645 the ctypes module is not present.
646
Martin v. Löwisfc1e0ef2008-11-19 09:11:49 +0000647- Issue #4116: Resolve member name conflict in ScrolledCanvas.__init__.
648
Hirokazu Yamamotob2d81422008-11-03 18:10:24 +0000649- Issue #3774: Fixed an error when create a Tkinter menu item without command
650 and then remove it.
651
Thomas Heller68daeb02008-10-30 20:29:54 +0000652- Fixed a modulefinder crash on certain relative imports.
653
Benjamin Petersonaf956f12008-10-22 21:19:41 +0000654- Issue #4150: Pdb's "up" command now works for generator frames in post-mortem
655 debugging.
656
Benjamin Peterson3e808612008-10-21 22:28:54 +0000657- Issue #4092: Return ArgInfo as promised in the documentation from
658 inspect.getargvalues.
659
Georg Brandl4aef7032008-11-07 08:56:27 +0000660- Issue #3935: Properly support list subclasses in bisect's C implementation.
661
Martin v. Löwis74013d62008-10-06 15:17:35 +0000662- Issue #4014: Don't claim that Python has an Alpha release status, in addition
663 to claiming it is Mature.
664
Brett Cannon7e17a762008-10-06 22:47:18 +0000665Build
666-----
667
Matthias Klose5b377472009-04-05 22:20:45 +0000668- Issue #4389: Add icon to the uninstall entry in "add-and-remove-programs".
669
670- Issue #4289: Remove Cancel button from AdvancedDlg.
671
Martin v. Löwis49ae6122008-11-07 18:54:47 +0000672- Issue #1656675: Register a drop handler for .py* files on Windows.
673
Martin v. Löwise55ab5e2008-11-06 17:29:54 +0000674- Issue #4120: Exclude manifest from extension modules in VS2008.
675
Martin v. Löwis3f3ccbe2008-10-17 13:43:58 +0000676- Issue #4091: Install pythonxy.dll in system32 again.
677
Martin v. Löwisa6474662008-10-13 11:28:58 +0000678- Issue #4018: Disable "for me" installations on Vista.
679
Brett Cannon7e17a762008-10-06 22:47:18 +0000680- Issue #3758: Add ``patchcheck`` build target to .PHONY.
681
Martin v. Löwis7f08c1f2008-11-04 20:43:31 +0000682- Issue #4204: Fixed module build errors on FreeBSD 4.
683
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc38e46fc2008-10-14 22:00:06 +0000684C-API
685-----
686
687- Issue #4122: On Windows, fix a compilation error when using the
688 Py_UNICODE_ISSPACE macro in an extension module.
689
Benjamin Peterson9e233a52008-11-24 04:19:49 +0000690Extension Modules
691-----------------
692
Martin v. Löwis1d8592b2008-12-01 04:49:40 +0000693- Issue #4365: Add crtassem.h constants to the msvcrt module.
694
Benjamin Peterson9e233a52008-11-24 04:19:49 +0000695- Issue #4396: The parser module now correctly validates the with statement.
696
Barry Warsawa5a38c52008-10-02 03:08:34 +0000697
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +0000698What's New in Python 2.6 final
699==============================
700
Barry Warsawafa14362008-10-01 21:46:40 +0000701*Release date: 01-Oct-2008*
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +0000702
703Core and Builtins
704-----------------
705
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfc5ea392008-09-26 22:34:08 +0000706- Issue #3967: Fixed a crash in the count() and find() methods of string-like
707 objects, when the "start" parameter is a huge value.
708
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc17617a02008-09-25 20:52:56 +0000709- Issue #3965: Fixed a crash on Windows when open() is given an invalid
710 filename or mode, and the filename is a unicode string.
711
Martin v. Löwise86b07c2008-09-25 04:12:50 +0000712- Bug #3951: Py_USING_MEMORY_DEBUGGER should not be enabled by default.
713
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +0000714Library
715-------
716
Martin v. Löwise563aa42008-09-29 22:09:07 +0000717- Issue #3965: Allow repeated calls to turtle.Screen, by making it a
718 true singleton object.
719
Brett Cannonb2d61bd2008-09-29 03:41:21 +0000720- Issue #3895: It was possible to crash the interpreter when an external timer
721 was used with cProfile that returned an object that could not be converted
722 into a float.
723
Benjamin Peterson22d3c922008-09-25 20:35:45 +0000724- Issue #3950: Made turtle respect scale factors.
725
Thomas Hellera85c95d2008-09-24 18:26:05 +0000726- Issue #3547: Fixed ctypes structures bitfields of varying integer
727 sizes.
728
Benjamin Peterson2c7470d2008-09-21 21:27:51 +0000729- Issue #3879: A regression in urllib.getproxies_enviroment was fixed.
730
Gregory P. Smith08067492008-09-30 20:41:13 +0000731- Issue #3863: Disabled a unit test of fork being called from a thread
732 when running on platforms known to exhibit OS bugs when attempting that.
733
Martin v. Löwis175d0072008-09-19 15:21:07 +0000734Build
735-----
736
Martin v. Löwisd69c9042008-10-01 11:19:50 +0000737- Bug #3989: Package the 2to3 script (as 2to3.py) in the Windows
738 installer.
739
Martin v. Löwis175d0072008-09-19 15:21:07 +0000740- Bug #3887: Package x64 version of CRT for AMD64 Windows binaries.
741
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +0000742
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +0000743What's New in Python 2.6 release candidate 2?
744=============================================
745
Barry Warsaw6af16192008-09-18 04:33:43 +0000746*Release date: 17-Sep-2008*
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +0000747
748Core and Builtins
749-----------------
750
Benjamin Peterson8c2b7dc2008-09-18 01:22:16 +0000751Extension Modules
752-----------------
753
Benjamin Peterson8d77d442008-09-30 01:31:49 +0000754- Security Issue #2: imageop did not validate arguments correctly and could
755 segfault as a result.
756
Benjamin Peterson8c2b7dc2008-09-18 01:22:16 +0000757- Issue #3886: Possible integer overflows in the _hashopenssl module were
758 closed.
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +0000759
Antoine Pitrou3c9f5412008-09-13 20:30:30 +0000760Tools/Demos
761-----------
762
763- Issue #3850: recursion tests in Misc/find_recursion_limit.py can raise
764 AttributeError instead of RuntimeError, depending in which C API call
765 exactly the recursion limit is exceeded. Consequently, both exception types
766 are caught and silenced.
767
Martin v. Löwis4eb18f92008-09-14 20:22:39 +0000768Build
769-----
770
771- Issue #3617: Include a licensing statement regarding the Microsoft
772 C runtime in the Windows installer.
773
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +0000774
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +0000775What's New in Python 2.6 release candidate 1?
776=============================================
777
Barry Warsaw1e62aec2008-09-12 23:25:57 +0000778*Release date: 12-Sep-2008*
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +0000779
780Core and Builtins
781-----------------
782
Martin v. Löwis9fa5a282008-09-11 06:53:30 +0000783- Issue #3642: Suppress warning in obmalloc when size_t is larger than uint.
784
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc05e34492008-09-10 22:04:45 +0000785- Issue #3743: In a few places, PY_FORMAT_SIZE_T was incorrectly used with
786 PyString_FromFormat or PyErr_Format to display size_t values. The macro
787 PY_FORMAT_SIZE_T is designed to select the correct format for the OS
788 ``printf`` function, whereas PyString_FromFormat has an independent
789 implementation and uses "%zd" on all platforms for size_t values.
790 This makes a difference on win64, where ``printf`` needs "%Id" to display
791 64bit values.
792
Benjamin Peterson97179b02008-09-09 20:55:01 +0000793- Issue #3634: _weakref.ref(Exception).__init__() gave invalid return value on
794 error.
795
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd3ffb892008-09-09 07:24:30 +0000796- Issue #3777: long() applied to a float object now always return a long
797 object; previously an int would be returned for small values. the __long__
798 method is allowed to return either an int or a long, but the behaviour of
799 float objects should not change to respect backward compatibility.
800
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc3571fbf2008-09-01 19:52:00 +0000801- Issue #3751: str.rpartition would perform a left-partition when called with
802 a unicode argument.
803
Benjamin Peterson17f03ca2008-09-01 14:18:30 +0000804- Issue #3683: Fix compilation when --without-threads is given.
805
Antoine Pitroud4ae97b2008-08-29 18:39:48 +0000806- Issue #3668: Fix a memory leak with the "s*" argument parser in
Vinay Sajip35e3b032008-09-01 14:33:59 +0000807 PyArg_ParseTuple and friends, which occurred when the argument for "s*"
Antoine Pitroud4ae97b2008-08-29 18:39:48 +0000808 was correctly parsed but parsing of subsequent arguments failed.
809
Vinay Sajip35e3b032008-09-01 14:33:59 +0000810- Issue #2534: speed up isinstance() and issubclass() by 50-70%, so as to
Antoine Pitrou0668c622008-08-26 22:42:08 +0000811 match Python 2.5 speed despite the __instancecheck__ / __subclasscheck__
812 mechanism. In the process, fix a bug where isinstance() and issubclass(),
813 when given a tuple of classes as second argument, were looking up
814 __instancecheck__ / __subclasscheck__ on the tuple rather than on each
815 type object.
816
Neal Norwitz18aa3882008-08-24 05:04:52 +0000817- Fix crashes on memory allocation failure found with failmalloc.
818
819- Fix memory leaks found with valgrind and update suppressions file.
820
821- Fix compiler warnings in opt mode which would lead to invalid memory reads.
822
823- Fix problem using wrong name in decimal module reported by pychecker.
824
Christian Heimes7d4c3172008-08-22 19:47:25 +0000825- Silenced another compiler warning about a used but not defined
826 function 'stringlib_contains_obj'.
827
Benjamin Peterson712ee922008-08-24 18:10:20 +0000828- Added warnings on the use of ``__getslice__``, ``__setslice__``, or
829 ``__delslice__``.
830
Gregory P. Smith2bb25cc2008-09-02 05:29:51 +0000831- Issue #3678: Correctly pass LDFLAGS and LDLAST to the linker on shared
832 library targets in the Makefile.
833
Gregory P. Smith980b99b2008-09-07 05:15:18 +0000834- Issue #1204: The configure script now tests for additional libraries
835 that may be required when linking against readline. This fixes issues
836 with x86_64 builds on some platforms (a few Linux flavors and OpenBSD).
837
Benjamin Peterson14cb6bc2008-08-26 17:08:40 +0000838C-API
839-----
840
841- Aliased PyObject_Bytes to PyObject_Str.
842
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +0000843Library
844-------
845
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc24cb3822008-09-11 20:56:13 +0000846- Issue #3640: Pickling a list or a dict uses less local variables, to reduce
847 stack usage in the case of deeply nested objects.
848
Guido van Rossume3c4fd92008-09-10 14:27:00 +0000849- Issue #3629: Fix sre "bytecode" validator for an end case.
850
Martin v. Löwis24329ba2008-09-10 13:38:12 +0000851- Issue #3811: The Unicode database was updated to 5.1.
852
Nick Coghland2e09382008-09-11 12:11:06 +0000853- Issue #3781: Further warnings.catch_warnings() cleanup to prevent
854 silent misbehaviour when a single instance is nested in multiple
855 with statements, or when the methods are invoked in the wrong order.
856
Vinay Sajip844f7412008-09-09 13:42:08 +0000857- Issue #3809: Fixed spurious 'test.blah' file left behind by test_logging.
858
Nick Coghland2e09382008-09-11 12:11:06 +0000859- Issue #3781: Clean up the API for warnings.catch_warnings() by having it
Brett Cannon672237d2008-09-09 00:49:16 +0000860 return a list or None rather than a custom object.
861
Benjamin Peterson6ac7d7c2008-09-06 19:28:11 +0000862- Issue #1638033: Cookie.Morsel gained the httponly attribute.
863
Antoine Pitrouebcd0ce2008-09-05 23:30:23 +0000864- Issue #3535: zipfile couldn't read some zip files larger than 2GB.
865
866- Issue #3776: Deprecate the bsddb package for removal in 3.0.
Brett Cannon32476fc2008-09-05 18:33:51 +0000867
Hirokazu Yamamoto42e459e2008-09-04 14:25:30 +0000868- Issue #3762: platform.architecture() fails if python is lanched via
869 its symbolic link.
870
Vinay Sajip65d66e12008-09-04 07:31:21 +0000871- Issue #3772: Fixed regression problem in StreamHandler.emit().
872
Facundo Batistac585df92008-09-03 22:35:50 +0000873- Issue 600362: Relocated parse_qs() and parse_qsl(), from the cgi module
874 to the urlparse one. Added a PendingDeprecationWarning in the old
875 module, it will be deprecated in the future.
876
Marc-André Lemburgb339b2a2008-09-03 11:13:56 +0000877- Issue #2562: Fix distutils PKG-INFO writing logic to allow having
878 non-ascii characters and Unicode in setup.py meta-data.
879
880- Issue #3726: Allow spaces in separators in logging configuration files.
Vinay Sajip6a2fd812008-09-03 09:20:05 +0000881
Marc-André Lemburg31a0a142008-09-02 12:11:19 +0000882- Issue #3719: platform.architecture() fails if there are spaces in the
883 path to the Python binary.
884
Brett Cannon1eaf0742008-09-02 01:25:16 +0000885- Issue 3602: Moved test.test_support.catch_warning() to
886 warnings.catch_warnings() along with some API cleanup. Expanding the tests
887 for catch_warnings() also led to an improvement in the raising of a
888 DeprecationWarning related to warnings.warn_explicit().
889
Benjamin Peterson973e6c22008-09-01 23:12:58 +0000890- The deprecation warnings for the old camelCase threading API were removed.
891
Vinay Sajip35e3b032008-09-01 14:33:59 +0000892- logging: fixed lack of use of encoding attribute specified on a stream.
893
Christian Heimesa27a62e2008-08-22 19:55:54 +0000894- Silenced a trivial compiler warning in the sqlite module.
895
Christian Heimes1cc69632008-08-22 20:10:27 +0000896- Fixed two format strings in the _collections module.
897
Benjamin Peterson17f03ca2008-09-01 14:18:30 +0000898- Issue #3703: _fileio.FileIO gave unhelpful error message when trying to open a
899 directory.
Benjamin Petersonf22c26e2008-09-01 14:13:43 +0000900
Gregory P. Smithd7122032008-09-02 05:36:11 +0000901- Issue #3708: os.urandom no longer goes into an infinite loop when passed a
902 non-integer floating point number.
903
Vinay Sajip65d66e12008-09-04 07:31:21 +0000904- Issue #3110: multiprocessing fails to compiel on solaris 10 due to missing
Jesse Nollerb814d6a2008-09-03 18:10:30 +0000905 SEM_VALUE_MAX.
906
Benjamin Peterson37346b22008-08-23 20:27:43 +0000907Extension Modules
908-----------------
909
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc293924b2008-09-02 23:19:56 +0000910- Issue #2975: When compiling several extension modules with Visual Studio 2008
911 from the same python interpreter, some environment variables would grow
912 without limit.
913
Benjamin Peterson37346b22008-08-23 20:27:43 +0000914- Issue #3643: Added a few more checks to _testcapi to prevent segfaults by
915 exploitation of poor argument checking.
916
Gerhard Häringef2276b2008-09-12 13:54:06 +0000917- sqlite3: Changed docstring of iterdump() to mark method as "Non-standard".
918
Gerhard Häring6e1afcf2008-09-12 18:58:57 +0000919- Issue #3103: Reduced globals symbols used by sqlite3 module and made sure all
920 remaining ones have "pysqlite_" prefix.
921
Gerhard Häringe6872eb2008-09-12 22:33:22 +0000922- Issue #3846: Release the GIL during sqlite3_prepare calls. This improves
923 concurrent access to the same SQLite database from multiple
924 threads/processes.
925
Brett Cannona0b74442008-09-03 22:45:11 +0000926Tests
927-----
928
Nick Coghland2e09382008-09-11 12:11:06 +0000929- Issue #3781: Add test.test_support.check_warnings() as a convenience
930 wrapper for warnings.catch_warnings() that makes it easier to check
931 that expected warning messages are being reported.
932
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfeb8cad2008-09-06 20:53:51 +0000933- Issue #3796: Some tests functions were not enabled in test_float.
934
935- Issue #3768: Move test_py3kwarn over to the new API for catch_warnings().
Brett Cannona0b74442008-09-03 22:45:11 +0000936
Brett Cannoncdeb24b2008-09-05 22:59:17 +0000937Build
938-----
939
Martin v. Löwisab0b29b2008-09-13 08:11:57 +0000940- Issue #3833: Use a different upgrade code for Win64 installers.
941
Martin v. Löwis3f5fda82008-09-08 13:50:10 +0000942- Issue #2271: Set SecureCustomProperties so that installation will properly
943 use the TARGETDIR even for unprivileged users.
944
Martin v. Löwis67543a92008-09-08 12:02:45 +0000945- Allow passing the MSI file name to merge.py.
946
Vinay Sajip844f7412008-09-09 13:42:08 +0000947- Issue #3758: Rename the 'check' target to 'patchcheck' so as to not clash
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfeb8cad2008-09-06 20:53:51 +0000948 with GNU build target guidelines.
Brett Cannoncdeb24b2008-09-05 22:59:17 +0000949
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +0000950
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +0000951What's New in Python 2.6 beta 3?
952================================
953
Barry Warsaw07a4a382008-08-21 01:15:08 +0000954*Release date: 20-Aug-2008*
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +0000955
956Core and Builtins
957-----------------
958
Guido van Rossumf8402962008-08-20 15:01:50 +0000959- Issue #1878: Remove Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_VERSION_TAG from
960 Py_TPFLAGS_DEFAULT when not building the core. This means 3rd party
961 extensions do not automatically benefit from the class attribute
962 cache; they will have to explicitly add Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_VERSION_TAG
963 to their tp_flags field if they care. This is a backwards
964 compatibility feature; in 3.0, all types will use the cache by
965 default.
966
Benjamin Petersonf647dc12008-08-20 01:27:30 +0000967- Keyword arguments can now follow starred arguments. (``f(a, *args,
968 keyword=23)`` is now valid syntax.)
969
Thomas Heller0ad5ae02008-08-19 19:25:04 +0000970- ctypes function pointers that are COM methods have a boolean True
971 value again.
972
Martin v. Löwisf91d46a2008-08-12 14:49:50 +0000973- Issue #3139: Make buffer-interface thread-safe wrt. PyArg_ParseTuple,
974 by denying s# to parse objects that have a releasebuffer procedure,
975 and introducing s*.
976
Georg Brandl1e13ea92008-08-11 09:07:59 +0000977- Issue #3537: Fix an assertion failure when an empty but presized dict
978 object was stored in the freelist.
979
Mark Dickinsonb6467572008-08-04 21:30:09 +0000980- Issue #1481296: Make long(float('nan')) and int(float('nan')) raise
981 ValueError consistently across platforms.
982
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc39fd6722008-07-31 21:28:03 +0000983- Issue #3479: On platforms where sizeof(int) is smaller than sizeof(long)
984 (64bit Unix, for example), unichr() would truncate its argument and return
985 u'\x00' for unichr(2**32). Now it properly raises an OverflowError.
986
Neal Norwitze7d8be82008-07-31 17:17:14 +0000987- Apply security patches from Apple.
988
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc246daed2008-07-31 00:42:16 +0000989- Issue #2542: Now that issubclass() may call arbitrary code, ensure that
990 PyErr_ExceptionMatches returns 0 when an exception occurs there.
991
Antoine Pitrou92f82162008-07-25 22:22:08 +0000992- Issue #1819: function calls with several named parameters are now on
993 average 35% faster (as measured by pybench).
994
Amaury Forgeot d'Arce4921fe2008-07-21 22:00:38 +0000995- Issue #2378: An unexpected UnboundLocalError or NameError could appear when
996 the python debugger steps into a class statement: the free variables (local
997 variables defined in an outer scope) would be deleted from the outer scope.
998
Gregory P. Smith0470bab2008-07-22 04:46:32 +0000999- Issue #2620: Overflow checking when allocating or reallocating memory
1000 was not always being done properly in some python types and extension
1001 modules. PyMem_MALLOC, PyMem_REALLOC, PyMem_NEW and PyMem_RESIZE have
1002 all been updated to perform better checks and places in the code that
1003 would previously leak memory on the error path when such an allocation
1004 failed have been fixed.
1005
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00001006Library
1007-------
1008
Hirokazu Yamamoto838c79f2008-08-20 13:14:07 +00001009- Issue #3612: Added some missing basic types in ctypes.wintypes.
1010
Benjamin Petersone977ad42008-08-20 01:42:01 +00001011- The methods ``is_in_tuple()``, ``is_vararg()``, and ``is_keywordarg()`` of
1012 symtable.Symbol have been deprecated for removal in 3.0 and the next release.
1013
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc351ffb82008-08-18 19:23:47 +00001014- Issue #2234: distutils failed for some versions of the cygwin compiler. The
1015 version reported by these tools does not necessarily follow the python
1016 version numbering scheme, so the module is less strict when parsing it.
1017
Nick Coghlanf70385a2008-08-18 12:42:46 +00001018- Issue #2235: Added Py3k warnings for types which will become unhashable
1019 under the stricter __hash__ inheritance rules in 3.0. Several types
1020 which did not meet the rules for hash invariants and were already
1021 unhashable in 3.0 have now been explicitly flagged as unhashable in
1022 2.6 as well (collections.Mapping, collections.Set, unittest.TestSuite,
1023 xml.dom.minidom.NamedNodeMap, numbers.Number, UserList.UserList)
1024
Brett Cannon88f801d2008-08-18 00:46:22 +00001025- Update __all__ for cookielib, csv, os, urllib2, and weakref to include things
1026 imported into the module but exposed as part of the module's API.
1027
Brett Cannon7b96f072008-08-18 00:41:11 +00001028- Remove an unneeded import of abc.ABCMeta from 'inspect'.
1029
Brett Cannon46225e72008-08-18 00:36:52 +00001030- Remove unneeded imports of 'sys' and 'warnings' from 'io'.
1031
Brett Cannon25c9d6a2008-08-17 22:10:11 +00001032- Remove unneeded imports of 'warnings' from shelve, filecmp, and dummy_thread.
1033
Hirokazu Yamamoto41a81eb2008-08-17 13:10:46 +00001034- Issue #3575: Incremental decoder's decode function now takes bytearray
1035 by using 's*' instead of 't#'.
1036
Hirokazu Yamamoto7f30a682008-08-17 09:46:56 +00001037- Issue #2222: Fixed reference leak when occured os.rename()
1038 fails unicode conversion on 2nd parameter. (windows only)
1039
Facundo Batista94f243a2008-08-17 03:38:39 +00001040- Issue 2464. urllib2 now supports a malformation in the URL received
1041 in a redirect.
1042
Brett Cannonabe423e2008-08-16 21:47:07 +00001043- Silence the DeprecationWarning raised when importing mimetools in
Brett Cannon721b1452008-08-16 22:00:27 +00001044 BaseHTTPServer, cgi (and rfc822), httplib.
Brett Cannonabe423e2008-08-16 21:47:07 +00001045
Facundo Batistaeb90b782008-08-16 14:44:07 +00001046- Issue #2776: fixed small issue when handling an URL with double slash
1047 after a 302 response in the case of not going through a proxy.
1048
Antoine Pitroub90a8be2008-08-15 21:03:21 +00001049- Issue #2676: in the email package, content-type parsing was hanging on
1050 pathological input because of quadratic or exponential behaviour of a
1051 regular expression.
1052
Antoine Pitrou11ec65d2008-08-14 21:04:30 +00001053- Issue #3476: binary buffered reading through the new "io" library is now
1054 thread-safe.
1055
Brett Cannonbf3157b2008-08-14 05:00:03 +00001056- Silence the DeprecationWarning of rfc822 when it is imported by mimetools
1057 since mimetools itself is deprecated. Because modules are cached, all
1058 subsequent imports of rfc822 will not raise a visible DeprecationWarning.
1059
Antoine Pitrou9fcd4b32008-08-11 17:21:36 +00001060- Issue #3134: shutil referenced undefined WindowsError symbol.
1061
Robert Schuppenies14646332008-08-10 11:01:53 +00001062- Issue #1342811: Fix leak in Tkinter.Menu.delete. Commands associated to
1063 menu entries were not deleted.
1064
Brett Cannon83e81842008-08-09 23:30:55 +00001065- Copied the implementation of reduce() to _functools.reduce() to have a
1066 version that did not raise a DeprecationWarning under -3.
1067
Antoine Pitrou76b8bee2008-08-09 17:27:23 +00001068- Issue #3205: When iterating over a BZ2File fails allocating memory, raise
1069 a MemoryError rather than silently stop the iteration.
1070
Guido van Rossum59ce9012008-08-09 14:55:34 +00001071- Issue #3487: sre "bytecode" validator. Passing invalid "re-bytecode"
1072 to _sre.compile() will now be rejected. This should not affect anybody
1073 since the re.compile() function never generates invalid re-bytecode.
1074
Skip Montanaroa032bf42008-08-08 22:52:51 +00001075- Issue #3436: Make csv.DictReader's fieldnames attribute a property so that
1076 upon first access it can be automatically initialized from the csv file if
1077 it wasn't initialized during instantiation.
1078
Brett Cannon3aa2a492008-08-06 22:28:09 +00001079- Issue #2338: Create imp.reload() to help with transitioning to Python 3.0 as
1080 the reload() built-in has been removed.
1081
Brett Cannon7e30b672008-08-04 21:52:25 +00001082- Changed code in the following modules/packages to remove warnings raised
Brett Cannonc1b76e42008-08-09 23:06:16 +00001083 while running under the ``-3`` flag: aifc, asynchat, asyncore, bdb, bsddb,
Brett Cannon047e4a92008-08-17 04:16:04 +00001084 ConfigParser, cookielib, csv, difflib, distutils, DocXMLRPCServer, email,
1085 filecmp, fileinput, inspect, logging, modulefinder, pdb, pickle, profile,
1086 pstats, pydoc, re, rlcompleter, SimpleXMLRPCServer, shelve, socket,
1087 subprocess, sqlite3, tarfile, Tkinter, test.test_support, textwrap,
1088 threading, tokenize, traceback, urlparse, wsgiref, xml, xmlrpclib.
Brett Cannon7e30b672008-08-04 21:52:25 +00001089
Lars Gustäbel727bd0b2008-08-02 11:26:39 +00001090- Issue #3039: Fix tarfile.TarFileCompat.writestr() which always
1091 raised an AttributeError.
1092
Benjamin Peterson01a24322008-07-28 23:35:27 +00001093- Issue #2523: Fix quadratic behaviour when read()ing a binary file without
Antoine Pitroude781a42008-08-09 12:43:23 +00001094 asking for a specific length. This problem only affected files opened
1095 using the new "io" module, not the built-in open() function.
Benjamin Peterson01a24322008-07-28 23:35:27 +00001096
Mark Dickinsonfe84cce2008-07-27 06:39:07 +00001097- Issue #3449: Update decimal module to use most recent specification
1098 (v. 1.68) and tests (v. 2.58) from IBM.
1099
Skip Montanarof9ac43f2008-07-27 00:50:41 +00001100- Issue 3437: Bug fix in robotparser parsing of Allow: lines.
1101
Raymond Hettinger8c664e82008-07-25 18:43:33 +00001102- Issue 1592: Improve error reporting when operations are attempted
1103 on a closed shelf.
1104
Georg Brandlf9efabb2008-07-23 15:16:45 +00001105- Deprecate the "ast" parser function aliases.
1106
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00001107- Issue #3120: On 64-bit Windows the subprocess module was truncating handles.
1108
1109- Issue #3303: Fix a crash in locale.strcoll() when calling it with
1110 invalid arguments.
1111
1112- Issue #3302: Fix several crashes when calling locale's gettext functions
1113 with None arguments.
1114
1115- Issue #3389: Allow resolving dotted names for handlers in logging
1116 configuration files.
1117
1118- Deprecate the sunaudio module for removal in Python 3.0.
1119
Antoine Pitrou5fdfa3e2008-07-25 19:42:26 +00001120- Issue #3394: zipfile.writestr sets external attributes when passed a
1121 file name rather than a ZipInfo instance, so files are extracted with
1122 mode 0600 rather than 000 under Unix.
1123
Gregory P. Smitha36f8fe2008-08-04 00:13:29 +00001124- Issue #1857: subprocess.Popen.poll gained an additional _deadstate keyword
1125 argument in python 2.5, this broke code that subclassed Popen to include its
1126 own poll method. Fixed my moving _deadstate to an _internal_poll method.
1127
Martin v. Löwis8dbf3642008-08-01 14:10:26 +00001128Build
1129-----
1130
1131- Generate the PatternGrammar pickle during "make install".
1132
Nick Coghlan2a0c2b12008-08-04 12:47:17 +00001133Documentation
1134-------------
1135
Nick Coghlan6e8fef02008-08-18 13:14:22 +00001136- Issue #2235: the C API function PyObject_HashNotImplemented and its
1137 interaction with the tp_hash slot (added in 2.6b2) are now documented
1138
Nick Coghlan2a0c2b12008-08-04 12:47:17 +00001139- Issue #643841: The language reference now provides more detailed
1140 coverage of the lookup process for special methods. The disclaimers
1141 regarding lack of coverage of new-style classes have also been
1142 removed, since the coverage is now fairly reasonable.
1143
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00001144
Raymond Hettingere3ae6552008-06-20 04:18:15 +00001145What's New in Python 2.6 beta 2?
1146================================
1147
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00001148*Release date: 17-Jul-2008*
1149
Raymond Hettingere3ae6552008-06-20 04:18:15 +00001150Core and Builtins
1151-----------------
1152
Georg Brandl3e483f62008-07-16 22:57:41 +00001153- Issue #3156: Fix inconsistent behavior of the bytearray type: all
1154 its methods now allow for items objects that can be converted to
1155 an integer using operator.index().
1156
Mark Dickinson64b7e502008-07-16 09:40:03 +00001157- Issue #3360: Fix incorrect parsing of '020000000000.0', which
1158 produced a ValueError instead of giving the correct float.
1159
Eric Smitha5fa5a22008-07-16 00:11:49 +00001160- Issue #3083: Add alternate (#) formatting for bin, oct, hex output
1161 for str.format(). This adds the prefix 0b, 0o, or 0x, respectively.
1162
Mark Dickinson7103aa42008-07-15 19:08:33 +00001163- Issue #3008: the float type has a new instance method 'float.hex'
1164 and a new class method 'float.fromhex' to convert floating-point
1165 numbers to and from hexadecimal strings, respectively.
1166
Nick Coghlan6d6bd442008-07-15 15:40:22 +00001167- Issue #2235: __hash__ is once again inherited by default. To allow
1168 collections.Hashable to remain meaningful in the presence of the
1169 default hash implementation (object.__hash__), it is now possible
1170 to explicit block inheritance of hash by setting __hash__=None at
1171 the Python level, or tp_hash=PyObject_HashNotImplemented at the C
1172 level.
1173
Nick Coghlanb028f502008-07-13 14:52:36 +00001174- Issue #3221: Issue a RuntimeWarning instead of raising SystemError if
1175 the parent module cannot be found while performing an absolute import.
1176 This means that an incorrectly defined __package__ attribute will
1177 now only prevent relative imports in that module rather than causing
1178 all imports from that module to fail.
1179
Nick Coghlan14ff9942008-07-08 14:21:42 +00001180- Issue #2517: Allow unicode messages in Exceptions again by correctly
1181 bypassing the instance dictionary when looking up __unicode__ on
1182 new-style classes.
1183
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbdd941f2008-07-01 20:38:04 +00001184- Issue #3242: Fix a crash inside the print statement, if sys.stdout is
1185 set to a custom object whose write() method happens to install
1186 another file in sys.stdout.
1187
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc1f40c8a2008-06-30 22:42:40 +00001188- Issue #3088: Corrected a race condition in classes derived from
1189 threading.local: the first member set by a thread could be saved in
1190 another thread's dictionary.
1191
Mark Dickinson1ec2fcd2008-06-20 14:53:43 +00001192- Issue #3004: Minor change to slice.indices(): the start and stop
1193 arguments are now treated identically, making the behaviour easier
1194 to describe and understand. For example, slice(None, -10,
1195 1).indices(9) now returns (0, 0, 1) instead of (0, -1, 1), and
1196 slice(None, 10, -1).indices(10) returns (9, 9, -1) instead of (9,
1197 10, -1).
1198
Georg Brandl278fc502008-07-19 12:46:12 +00001199- Issue #3219: Calling a function with repeated keyword arguments,
1200 f(a=2, a=23), would not cause a syntax error. This was a regression
1201 from 2.4 caused by the switch to the new compiler.
Benjamin Peterson175e4d92008-07-01 19:34:52 +00001202
Georg Brandl278fc502008-07-19 12:46:12 +00001203- Issue #2862: Make int and float freelist management consistent with
1204 other freelists. Changes their CompactFreeList apis into
1205 ClearFreeList apis and calls them via gc.collect().
Gregory P. Smith2fe77062008-07-06 03:35:58 +00001206
Brett Cannon8bb8fa52008-07-02 01:57:08 +00001207Library
1208-------
1209
Thomas Heller57adf222008-08-14 19:10:48 +00001210- Issue #3554: ctypes.string_at and ctypes.wstring_at did call Python
1211 api functions without holding the GIL, which could lead to a fatal
1212 error when they failed.
1213
Martin v. Löwisaabf4042008-08-02 07:20:25 +00001214- Issue #799428: Fix Tkinter.Misc._nametowidget to unwrap Tcl command objects.
1215
Jesse Noller7fb96402008-07-17 21:01:05 +00001216- Issue #3395: fix reference in test_multiprocessing to old debugInfo method
1217
Georg Brandla24869a2008-07-16 22:33:18 +00001218- Issue #3312: Fix two crashes in sqlite3.
1219
Georg Brandl86cbf812008-07-16 21:31:41 +00001220- Issue #1608818: Fix misbehavior in os.listdir() if readdir() fails.
1221
Jesse Noller13e9d582008-07-16 14:32:36 +00001222- Issue #3125: Remove copy_reg in multiprocessing and replace it with
1223 ForkingPickler.register() to resolve conflict with ctypes.
1224
Vinay Sajip51e65192008-07-18 09:01:10 +00001225- Issue #3090: Fixed ARCHFLAGS parsing on OS/X
Jesse Noller13e9d582008-07-16 14:32:36 +00001226
Thomas Heller880f5292008-07-15 19:39:38 +00001227- Issue #3313: Fixed a crash when a failed dlopen() call does not set
1228 a valid dlerror() message.
1229
Thomas Heller2bad6572008-07-15 17:19:50 +00001230- Issue #3258: Fixed a crash when a ctypes POINTER type to an
1231 incomplete structure was created.
1232
Brett Cannon3d0b9f02008-07-13 01:15:07 +00001233- Issue #3339: dummy_thread.acquire() should not return None.
1234
Raymond Hettingerb01713e2008-07-10 14:34:57 +00001235- Issue #3285: Fractions from_float() and from_decimal() accept Integral arguments.
1236
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00001237- Issue #3301: Bisect module behaved badly when lo was negative.
Raymond Hettinger3cd1e422008-07-10 14:03:19 +00001238
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc0f7cddc2008-07-06 21:34:39 +00001239- Issue #839496: SimpleHTTPServer used to open text files in text mode. This is
1240 both unnecessary (HTTP allows text content to be sent in several forms) and
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00001241 wrong because the actual transmitted size could differ from the
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc0f7cddc2008-07-06 21:34:39 +00001242 content-length. The problem had been corrected in the 2.4 branch, but never
1243 merged into trunk.
1244
Georg Brandle78fbcc2008-07-05 10:13:36 +00001245- Issue #2663: add filtering capability to shutil.copytree().
1246
Martin v. Löwis8c436412008-07-03 12:51:14 +00001247- Issue #1622: Correct interpretation of various ZIP header fields.
1248
1249- Issue #1526: Allow more than 64k files to be added to Zip64 file.
1250
1251- Issue #1746: Correct handling of zipfile archive comments (previously
1252 archives with comments over 4k were flagged as invalid). Allow writing
Vinay Sajip51e65192008-07-18 09:01:10 +00001253 Zip files with archives by setting the 'comment' attribute of a ZipFile.
Martin v. Löwis8c436412008-07-03 12:51:14 +00001254
Vinay Sajip51e65192008-07-18 09:01:10 +00001255- Issue #449227: The rlcompleter module now adds "(" to callable objects
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00001256 when completed.
Facundo Batista66c52772008-07-02 16:52:55 +00001257
Nick Coghlanc060b0e2008-07-02 13:09:19 +00001258- Issue #3190: Pydoc now hides the automatic module attribute __package__ (the
1259 handling is now the same as that of other special attributes like __name__).
1260
Brett Cannon8bb8fa52008-07-02 01:57:08 +00001261- Issue #2885 (partial): The urllib.urlopen() function has been deprecated for
1262 removal in Python 3.0 in favor of urllib2.urlopen().
1263
Gregory P. Smithf4140642008-07-06 07:16:40 +00001264- Issue #2113: Fix error in subprocess.Popen if the select system call is
1265 interrupted by a signal.
1266
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00001267- Issue #3309: Fix bz2.BZFile iterator to release its internal lock
Gregory P. Smith3b1e6b22008-07-07 04:31:58 +00001268 properly when raising an exception due to the bz2file being closed.
1269 Prevents a deadlock.
1270
Gregory P. Smithc4691ec2008-07-07 05:09:12 +00001271- Issue #3094: httplib.HTTPSConnection Host: headers no longer include the
1272 redundant ":443" port number designation when the connection is using the
1273 default https port (443).
1274
Gregory P. Smithdb3409c2008-07-17 03:13:05 +00001275- Issue #874900: after an os.fork() call the threading module state is cleaned
1276 up in the child process to prevent deadlock and report proper thread counts
1277 if the new process uses the threading module.
1278
Nick Coghlan38469e22008-07-13 12:23:47 +00001279Tests
1280-----
1281
1282- test.test_support.catch_warning now keeps track of all warnings it sees
1283 and is now better documented. Explicit unit tests for this context manager
1284 have been added to test_warnings.
1285
Martin v. Löwisd84fd952008-06-30 06:57:39 +00001286Build
1287-----
1288
1289- Issue #3215: Build sqlite3 as sqlite3.dll, not sqlite3.pyd.
1290
Brett Cannon8bb8fa52008-07-02 01:57:08 +00001291
Brett Cannon97aa1ae2008-07-11 00:12:52 +00001292Documentation
1293-------------
1294
Brett Cannonfeef51d2008-07-11 00:50:01 +00001295- Document that robotparser has been renamed to urllib.robotparser in
Brett Cannon963ffdb2008-07-11 00:48:57 +00001296 Python 3.0.
1297
Brett Cannonf6afa332008-07-11 00:16:30 +00001298- Document that urlparse has been renamed to urllib.parse in Python 3.0.
1299
Brett Cannon97aa1ae2008-07-11 00:12:52 +00001300- Document that urllib2 is split across multiple modules and renamed in
1301 Python 3.0.
1302
1303- Document that urllib is split across multiple modules and renamed in
1304 Python 3.0.
1305
1306
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00001307What's New in Python 2.6 beta 1?
1308================================
1309
Barry Warsawb5d17402008-06-19 01:48:07 +00001310*Release date: 18-June-2008*
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00001311
1312Core and Builtins
1313-----------------
1314
Brett Cannondea1b562008-06-27 00:31:13 +00001315- Issue #3211: warnings.warn_explicit() did not guard against its 'registry'
1316 argument being anything other than a dict or None. Also fixed a bug in error
1317 handling when 'message' and 'category' were both set to None, triggering a
1318 bus error.
1319
Amaury Forgeot d'Arca8919fe2008-06-16 19:12:42 +00001320- Issue #3100: Corrected a crash on deallocation of a subclassed weakref which
1321 holds the last (strong) reference to its referent.
1322
Georg Brandl89f48872008-06-11 18:55:38 +00001323- Add future_builtins.ascii().
1324
Raymond Hettinger5c4d3d02008-06-09 13:07:27 +00001325- Several set methods now accept multiple arguments: update(), union(),
Raymond Hettinger4267be62008-06-11 10:30:54 +00001326 intersection(), intersection_update(), difference(), and difference_update().
Raymond Hettingeree4bcad2008-06-09 08:33:37 +00001327
Robert Schuppenies51df0642008-06-01 16:16:17 +00001328- Issue #2898: Added sys.getsizeof() to retrieve size of objects in bytes.
1329
Martin v. Löwis99815892008-06-01 07:20:46 +00001330- New environment variable PYTHONIOENCODING.
1331
Martin v. Löwis4dd019f2008-05-20 08:11:19 +00001332- Patch #2488: Add sys.maxsize.
1333
Georg Brandla9916b52008-05-17 22:11:54 +00001334- Issue #2353: file.xreadlines() now emits a Py3k warning.
1335
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001336- Issue #2863: generators now have a ``gen.__name__`` attribute that
1337 equals ``gen.gi_code.co_name``, like ``func.__name___`` that equals
1338 ``func.func_code.co_name``. The repr() of a generator now also
1339 contains this name.
Georg Brandlc91210c2008-05-15 15:08:32 +00001340
Georg Brandlbd85eb12008-05-14 06:34:15 +00001341- Issue #2831: enumerate() now has a ``start`` argument.
1342
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001343- Issue #2801: fix bug in the float.is_integer method where a
1344 ValueError was sometimes incorrectly raised.
Mark Dickinsone81c3762008-05-09 16:14:15 +00001345
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001346- Issue #2790: sys.flags was not properly exposing its bytes_warning
1347 attribute.
Brett Cannon3c1d50a2008-05-08 20:23:54 +00001348
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001349- Issue #2196: hasattr() now lets exceptions which do not inherit
1350 Exception (KeyboardInterrupt, and SystemExit) propagate instead of
1351 ignoring them.
Benjamin Petersonb9030f42008-05-12 00:41:23 +00001352
Gregory P. Smith9d534572008-06-11 07:41:16 +00001353- Added checks for integer overflows, contributed by Google. Some are
1354 only available if asserts are left in the code, in cases where they
1355 can't be triggered from Python code.
1356
1357
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00001358Extension Modules
1359-----------------
Guido van Rossum84b1e0f2008-08-20 14:57:20 +00001360- Issue #1179: [CVE-2007-4965] Integer overflow in imageop module.
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00001361
Raymond Hettinger305480c2008-06-16 01:42:40 +00001362- Issue #3116: marshal.dumps() had quadratic behavior for strings > 32Mb.
1363
Andrew M. Kuchling2126bab2008-06-22 13:39:11 +00001364- Issue #2138: Add factorial() to the math module.
Raymond Hettingerecbdd2e2008-06-09 06:54:45 +00001365
Raymond Hettinger6d7702e2008-05-31 03:24:31 +00001366- The heapq module does comparisons using LT instead of LE. This
1367 makes its implementation match that used by list.sort().
1368
Mark Dickinson99dfe922008-05-23 01:35:30 +00001369- Issue #2819: add full-precision summation function to math module,
1370 based on Hettinger's ASPN Python Cookbook recipe.
1371
Georg Brandl88659b02008-05-20 08:40:43 +00001372- Issue #2592: delegate nb_index and the floor/truediv slots in
1373 weakref.proxy.
1374
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001375- Support os.O_ASYNC and fcntl.FASYNC if the constants exist on the
1376 platform.
Georg Brandl5049a852008-05-16 13:10:15 +00001377
Brett Cannon044616a2008-05-15 02:33:55 +00001378- Support for Windows 9x has been removed from the winsound module.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcf9b54c22008-05-12 21:30:24 +00001379
Jesus Cea09c01782008-09-28 23:24:19 +00001380- bsddb module updated to version 4.7.3.
Jesus Cea4907d272008-08-31 14:00:51 +00001381 http://www.jcea.es/programacion/pybsddb.htm#bsddb3-4.7.3. This
1382 code should be compatible with Python 3.0.
Jesus Ceaef9764f2008-05-13 18:45:46 +00001383
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001384- Issue #2858: Fix potential memory corruption when
1385 bsddb.db.DBEnv.lock_get and other bsddb.db object constructors
1386 raised an exception.
Gregory P. Smith664782e2008-05-17 06:12:02 +00001387
Gregory P. Smith5d7d6c32008-05-25 08:32:04 +00001388- Issue #2669: bsddb/__init__.py iteration no longer silently fails when
1389 the database has changed size during iteration. It now raises a
1390 RuntimeError in the same manner as a dictionary.
1391
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001392- Issue #2870: cmathmodule.c compile error.
Christian Heimes0bd23c02008-05-16 10:23:31 +00001393
Benjamin Petersond8a89722008-08-18 16:40:03 +00001394- Added a threading.Thread.ident property.
Gregory P. Smith8856dda2008-06-01 23:48:47 +00001395
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00001396Library
1397-------
1398
Vinay Sajip1e022682008-06-29 21:27:15 +00001399- logging.config: Removed out-of-date comment in _install_handlers and
1400 used issubclass in place of equality comparison of classes.
1401
Facundo Batista5596b0c2008-06-22 13:36:20 +00001402- Issue #2722: Now the os.getcwd() supports very long path names.
1403
Facundo Batista2da91c32008-06-21 17:43:56 +00001404- Issue #2888: Fixed the behaviour of pprint when working with nested
1405 structures, to match the behaviour of 2.5 and 3.0 (now follows the common
1406 sense).
1407
Facundo Batistaa6a4d502008-06-21 18:58:04 +00001408- Issue #1817: cgi now correctly handles the querystring on POST requests
1409
Vinay Sajip8dc20fd2008-06-19 22:41:08 +00001410- Issue #3136: fileConfig()'s disabling of old loggers is now conditional via
1411 an optional disable_existing_loggers parameter, but the default value is
1412 such that the old behaviour is preserved. Thanks to Leandro Lucarella for
1413 the patch.
1414
Vinay Sajip9828b7e2008-06-17 11:04:02 +00001415- Issue #3126: StreamHandler and FileHandler check before calling "flush" and
1416 "close" that the stream object has these, using hasattr (thanks to bobf for
1417 the patch).
1418
Benjamin Peterson5c0be322008-06-13 15:11:50 +00001419- Issue #2912: platform.uname now tries to determine unknown information even if
1420 os.uname exists.
1421
Benjamin Peterson26305a02008-06-12 22:33:06 +00001422- The rfc822 module has been deprecated for removal in 3.0.
1423
Benjamin Petersona03722f2008-06-12 14:23:49 +00001424- The mimetools module has been deprecated for removal in 3.0.
1425
Thomas Heller1cec7aa2008-06-10 14:07:12 +00001426- The ctypes.byref function now takes an optional second parameter
1427 which allows to specify an offset in bytes for the constructed
1428 pointer-like object.
1429
Georg Brandl8509db52008-06-10 07:45:28 +00001430- Added the ast module.
1431
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00001432- Added the multiprocessing module, PEP 371.
Benjamin Peterson6f7ae692008-06-11 20:04:30 +00001433
Georg Brandl7be19aa2008-06-07 15:59:10 +00001434- Factored out the indentation cleaning from inspect.getdoc() into
1435 inspect.cleandoc() to ease standalone use.
1436
Thomas Hellerfbb9c0b2008-06-06 08:33:46 +00001437- Issue #1798: Add ctypes calling convention that allows safe access
1438 to errno.
1439
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00001440- Issue #2404: ctypes objects support the new pep3118 buffer interface.
Thomas Heller59475e92008-06-05 17:52:59 +00001441
Vinay Sajip9828b7e2008-06-17 11:04:02 +00001442- Patch #2125: Add GetInteger and GetString methods for
Martin v. Löwisffe62ed2008-06-02 08:40:06 +00001443 msilib.Record objects.
1444
Gregory P. Smith137d8242008-06-02 04:05:52 +00001445- Issue #2782: The datetime module's strftime methods now accept
1446 unicode format strings just as time.strftime always has.
1447
Georg Brandlac19d852008-06-01 21:19:14 +00001448- The sgmllib and htmllib modules have been deprecated for removal
1449 in Python 3.0.
1450
1451- Issue #3011: locale module alias table was updated to the latest
1452 version from the X.org locale.alias file.
Marc-André Lemburgadff65b2008-05-30 20:52:18 +00001453
Thomas Heller9287acf2008-05-29 19:42:34 +00001454- Issue #1797 (partial fix): ctypes NULL function pointers have a
1455 False boolean value now.
1456
Georg Brandld0b592f2008-05-29 07:45:26 +00001457- Issue #2985: Allow 64-bit integer responses (``<i8>``) in XMLRPC
1458 transfers.
1459
1460- Issue #2877: The UserString.MutableString class has been removed in
1461 Python 3.0.
Brett Cannonabb34fe2008-05-29 05:08:50 +00001462
Lars Gustäbelb1a54a32008-05-27 12:39:23 +00001463- Do not close external file objects passed to tarfile.open(mode='w:bz2')
1464 when the TarFile is closed.
1465
Georg Brandle08e3d02008-05-25 08:07:37 +00001466- Issue #2959: For consistency with other file-like objects, gzip's
1467 GzipFile.close() can now be called multiple times without raising
1468 an exception.
1469
Martin v. Löwis27e4a172008-05-23 15:18:28 +00001470- Issue #1390: Raise ValueError in toxml when an invalid comment would
1471 otherwise be produced.
1472
Vinay Sajipc0128832008-05-20 15:37:22 +00001473- Issue #2914: TimedRotatingFileHandler now takes an optional keyword
1474 argument "utc" to use UTC time rather than local time.
1475
1476- Issue #2929: TimedRotatingFileHandler was using the wrong path when
1477 deleting old log files (filename only instead of full path).
1478
Georg Brandl112aa502008-05-20 08:25:48 +00001479- Issue #1775025: You can now specify zipfile members to open(),
1480 read() or extract() via a ZipInfo instance. This allows handling
1481 duplicate filenames in zipfiles.
1482
Georg Brandl28fdfa92008-05-17 17:57:01 +00001483- Issue #961805: Fix Text.edit_modified() in Tkinter.
1484
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001485- Issue #1793: Function ctypes.util.find_msvcrt() added that returns
Thomas Heller95ba13f2008-05-16 20:06:31 +00001486 the name of the C runtime library that Python uses.
1487 ctypes.util.find_library(name) now call this function when name is
1488 'm' or 'c'.
1489
Brett Cannonfa40bbf2008-05-16 00:50:02 +00001490- The statvfs module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
1491
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001492- The sunaudiodev and SUNAUDIODEV modules have been deprecated for
1493 removal in Python 3.0.
1494
1495- The WAIT module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
1496 3.0.
1497
1498- The torgb module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
1499 3.0.
1500
1501- The SV module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
1502 3.0.
1503
1504- The readcd module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
Brett Cannon22248172008-05-16 00:10:24 +00001505 Python 3.0.
1506
Brett Cannon11ae6e72008-05-15 03:49:00 +00001507- The panelparser module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
1508 Python 3.0.
1509
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001510- The panel module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
1511 3.0.
Brett Cannon7e375862008-05-15 03:46:27 +00001512
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001513- The jpeg module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
1514 3.0.
Brett Cannon89f5d9c2008-05-15 03:44:00 +00001515
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001516- The IOCTL module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
1517 3.0.
Brett Cannond8c41ec2008-05-15 03:41:55 +00001518
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001519- The IN module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
1520 3.0.
Brett Cannon6328b292008-05-15 03:36:13 +00001521
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001522- The imgfile module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
Brett Cannon178582e2008-05-15 03:20:36 +00001523 Python 3.0.
1524
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001525- The GLWS module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
1526 3.0.
Brett Cannon72ccc402008-05-15 03:17:24 +00001527
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001528- The GET module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
1529 3.0.
Brett Cannon2773b6f2008-05-15 03:14:57 +00001530
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001531- The fm module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
1532 3.0.
1533
1534- The FL, flp, and fl modules from IRIX have been deprecated for
1535 removal in Python 3.0.
1536
1537- The FILE module on IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
1538 3.0.
1539
1540- The ERRNO module on IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
1541 3.0.
1542
1543- The DEVICE, GL, gl, and cgen modules (which indirectly includes
1544 cgensupport) have been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
Brett Cannon044616a2008-05-15 02:33:55 +00001545
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001546- The CL, CL_old, and cl modules for IRIX have been deprecated for
1547 removal in Python 3.0.
1548
1549- The cdplayer module for IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
Brett Cannon650f5162008-05-14 21:12:12 +00001550 Python 3.0.
1551
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001552- The cddb module for IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
1553 3.0.
Brett Cannon9eebe492008-05-14 20:34:22 +00001554
Brett Cannonddf949f2008-05-14 20:31:38 +00001555- The cd and CD modules for IRIX have been deprecated for removal in
1556 Python 3.0.
1557
Brett Cannon34721d52008-05-14 01:08:21 +00001558- The al and AL modules for IRIX have been deprecated for removal in
1559 Python 3.0.
1560
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001561- Issue #1713041: fix pprint's handling of maximum depth.
Georg Brandl23da6e62008-05-12 16:26:52 +00001562
Brett Cannonbb141bb2008-05-12 03:47:47 +00001563- The timing module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
1564
Brett Cannonac861b52008-05-12 03:45:59 +00001565- The sv module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
1566
Brett Cannon43e5ef42008-05-12 03:19:20 +00001567- The multifile module has been deprecated as per PEP 4.
1568
Brett Cannon42bfa902008-05-12 00:08:34 +00001569- The imageop module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
1570
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001571- Issue #2250: Exceptions raised during evaluation of names in
1572 rlcompleter's ``Completer.complete()`` method are now caught and
1573 ignored.
Georg Brandl627a6662008-05-11 21:03:42 +00001574
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001575- Issue #2659: Added ``break_on_hyphens`` option to textwrap
1576 TextWrapper class.
Georg Brandl6f95ae52008-05-11 10:42:28 +00001577
Brett Cannon2a869132008-05-11 03:01:47 +00001578- The mhlib module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
1579
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001580- The linuxaudiodev module has been deprecated for removal in Python
1581 3.0.
Brett Cannondf0a7172008-05-11 00:50:51 +00001582
Brett Cannon27508d42008-05-10 22:45:07 +00001583- The ihooks module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
1584
Brett Cannonfe598512008-05-10 22:11:45 +00001585- The fpformat module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
1586
Brett Cannone35a3a12008-05-10 21:22:43 +00001587- The dl module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
1588
Brett Cannond5a09852008-05-10 03:14:32 +00001589- The Canvas module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
1590
Brett Cannon6192df12008-05-10 02:58:26 +00001591- The compiler package has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
1592
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001593- The Bastion and rexec modules have been deprecated for removal in
1594 Python 3.0.
Brett Cannoncda73a42008-05-10 02:53:46 +00001595
Brett Cannon768d44f2008-05-10 02:47:54 +00001596- The bsddb185 module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
1597
Brett Cannon9ac39742008-05-09 22:51:58 +00001598- The pure module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
1599
Mark Dickinsonf8476c12008-05-09 17:54:23 +00001600- Issue #2487: change the semantics of math.ldexp(x, n) when n is too
1601 large to fit in a C long. ldexp(x, n) now returns a zero (with
1602 suitable sign) if n is large and negative; previously, it raised
1603 OverflowError.
1604
Brett Cannonfa24d9a2008-05-09 05:32:42 +00001605- The toaiff module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
1606
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001607- The test.testall module has been deprecated for removal in Python
1608 3.0.
Brett Cannon3c759142008-05-09 05:25:37 +00001609
Brett Cannond7265d62008-05-09 05:18:40 +00001610- The new module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
1611
Brett Cannone3b19402008-05-08 20:36:09 +00001612- The user module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
1613
Brett Cannon6071cc82008-05-08 19:52:45 +00001614- The stringold module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
1615
1616- The mutex module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
Brett Cannon9d441822008-05-08 19:26:08 +00001617
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00001618- The imputil module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
1619
Brett Cannoncae4f5f2008-05-08 20:24:43 +00001620- test.test_support.catch_warning() gained a 'record' argument.
1621
Benjamin Peterson0893a0a2008-05-09 00:27:01 +00001622- os.path.walk is deprecated in favor of os.walk.
1623
Georg Brandl9020ff82008-05-11 14:17:13 +00001624- pdb gained the "until" command.
Benjamin Peterson98353942008-05-11 14:13:25 +00001625
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001626- The Mac Modules (including Carbon) have been deprecated for removal
1627 in Python 3.0.
Benjamin Peterson23681932008-05-12 21:42:13 +00001628
Vinay Sajip9828b7e2008-06-17 11:04:02 +00001629- Library: on MacOS X you can now set ``ARCHFLAGS`` in the shell
Ronald Oussoren5640ce22008-06-05 12:58:24 +00001630 environment to control the '-arch' flags that are used to build
1631 an extension. This was added for compatibility with Apple's build
1632 of Python.
1633
1634- The bundled OSX-specific copy of libbffi is now in sync with the version
1635 shipped with PyObjC 2.0 and includes support for x86_64 and ppc64 platforms.
1636
Georg Brandl25c34082008-08-18 23:09:49 +00001637- The threading module gained aliases for names that will be removed in the
1638 3.x series.
Benjamin Peterson0fbcf692008-06-11 17:27:50 +00001639
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00001640Build
1641-----
1642
Martin v. Löwiscc0f2b22008-06-13 18:12:51 +00001643- 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 +00001644
Martin v. Löwis8c255e42008-05-23 15:06:50 +00001645- Patch #1722225: Support QNX 6.
1646
Brett Cannonb61d8012008-05-11 23:39:04 +00001647- ``Lib/lib-old`` is now added to sys.path.
1648
Ronald Oussoren5640ce22008-06-05 12:58:24 +00001649- On MacOS X it is now possible to install the framework in 64-bit
1650 mode or even as a 4-way universal binary (that is, PPC, i386,
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00001651 PPC64 and x86_64 support in one binary).
Ronald Oussoren5640ce22008-06-05 12:58:24 +00001652
1653 This is controlled by the configure argument ``--with-universal-archs``:
1654
1655 - ``--with-universal-archs=all``: install 4-way universal
1656
1657 - ``--with-universal-archs=32-bit``: install 2-way universal, 32-bit (the default)
1658
1659 - ``--with-universal-archs=64-bit``: install 2-way universal, 64-bit
1660
1661 This option should be used in combination with ``--enable-universalsdk=``.
1662
1663 NOTE: 64-bit and 4-way builds are only suppported on Mac OS X 10.5 (or later).
1664
1665
Christian Heimes7a990612008-05-26 13:15:11 +00001666C API
1667-----
1668
Georg Brandl74a1dea2008-05-28 11:21:39 +00001669- Add ``PyType_Modified()`` as a public API to clear the type cache.
1670
1671- The PyBytes functions have been renamed to PyByteArray.
Christian Heimes7a990612008-05-26 13:15:11 +00001672
1673- The PyString functions have been renamed to PyBytes. A batch of
1674 defines were added so that the linker still sees the original
1675 PyString names.
1676
Georg Brandl5e7b1c02008-05-16 17:40:23 +00001677
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00001678What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 3?
Barry Warsaw65475fd2008-03-01 17:11:41 +00001679=================================
1680
Barry Warsaw6cc79402008-05-08 13:16:19 +00001681*Release date: 08-May-2008*
Barry Warsaw65475fd2008-03-01 17:11:41 +00001682
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd21fb4c2008-03-05 01:50:33 +00001683Core and builtins
1684-----------------
Georg Brandl80055f62008-03-25 07:56:27 +00001685
Georg Brandl28e08732008-04-30 19:47:09 +00001686- Issue #2719: backported the ``next()`` builtin from Python 3.
1687
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001688- Issue #2681: The octal literal ``0o8`` was incorrecly acctepted. Now
1689 it properly raises a SyntaxError.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc52167212008-04-24 18:07:05 +00001690
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001691- Issue #2617: Reserved -J and -X arguments for Jython, IronPython and
1692 other implementations of Python.
Christian Heimes7a98d272008-04-12 13:03:03 +00001693
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001694- Implemented PEP 370: Per user site-packages directory.
Christian Heimesaf748c32008-05-06 22:41:46 +00001695
Andrew M. Kuchling46d6b682008-04-30 16:19:55 +00001696Extension Modules
1697-----------------
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00001698
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001699- Issue #2670: Fix a failure in urllib2.build_opener(), when passed
1700 two handlers that derive the same default base class.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc96865852008-04-22 21:14:41 +00001701
Christian Heimese74c8f22008-04-19 02:23:57 +00001702- Added kill, terminate and send_signal(sig) to subprocess.Popen.
1703
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001704- Added phase(z) -> phi, polar(z) -> r, phi and rect(r, phi) -> z to
1705 the cmath module.
Christian Heimes6f341092008-04-18 23:13:07 +00001706
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001707- Four new methods were added to the math and cmath modules: acosh,
1708 asinh, atanh and log1p.
Christian Heimes6f341092008-04-18 23:13:07 +00001709
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001710- zlib.decompressobj().flush(value) no longer crashes the interpreter
1711 when passed a value less than or equal to zero.
Gregory P. Smith671c5d92008-04-09 18:18:43 +00001712
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001713- Issue #1631171: Re-implement the 'warnings' module in C (the
1714 original Python code has been kept as backup). This will allow for
1715 using the 'warning's machinery in such places as the parser where
1716 use of pure Python code is not possible. Both the ``showarning()``
1717 and ``formatwarning()`` gain an optional 'line' argument which is
1718 not called by default for backwards-compatibility reasons. Setting
1719 ``warnings.showwarning()`` to an implementation that lacks support
1720 for the ``line`` argument will raise a DeprecationWarning.
Brett Cannone9746892008-04-12 23:44:07 +00001721
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00001722Library
1723-------
1724
Brett Cannonf8436822008-05-06 23:41:32 +00001725- The audiodev module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
1726
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001727- Issue #2750: Add the 'json' package. Based on simplejson 1.9 and
1728 contributed by Bob Ippolito.
Brett Cannon4b964f92008-05-05 20:21:38 +00001729
Martin v. Löwis471617d2008-05-05 17:16:58 +00001730- Issue #1734346: Support Unicode file names for zipfiles.
1731
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001732- Issue #2581: distutils: Vista UAC/elevation support for
1733 bdist_wininst.
Mark Hammond7c5c8e62008-05-02 12:48:15 +00001734
Mark Dickinsonfe536f52008-04-25 16:59:09 +00001735- Issue #2635: Fix bug in 'fix_sentence_endings' textwrap.fill option,
1736 where an extra space was added after a word containing (but not
1737 ending in) '.', '!' or '?'.
1738
Thomas Heller6ad5fbb2008-04-25 15:44:16 +00001739- Add from_buffer() and from_buffer_copy() class methods to ctypes
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00001740 data types.
Thomas Heller6ad5fbb2008-04-25 15:44:16 +00001741
Neal Norwitz2b0bea52008-04-25 03:40:17 +00001742- Issue #2682: ctypes callback functions no longer contain a cyclic
Thomas Hellerbf027c42008-04-24 18:14:19 +00001743 reference to themselves.
1744
Gregory P. Smithd59fefb2008-04-22 08:11:33 +00001745- The getpass module has been improved on Unix. It now uses /dev/tty
1746 by default and uses stderr instead of stdout. A GetPassWarning is
1747 issued when input echo cannot be controlled.
Gregory P. Smith41e30182008-04-21 21:31:08 +00001748
Skip Montanarob131f042008-04-18 20:35:46 +00001749- Issue #2014: Allow XML-RPC datetime objects to have dates before
1750 1900-01-01.
1751
Nick Coghlan106fc482008-04-15 10:25:31 +00001752- Issue #2439: Added new function pkgutil.get_data(), which is a
1753 convenience wrapper for the PEP 302 get_data() API.
1754
Thomas Heller046e6a42008-04-14 16:10:07 +00001755- Issue #2616: The ctypes.pointer() and ctypes.POINTER() functions are
1756 now implemented in C for better performance.
1757
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001758- Issue #2408: The ``_types`` module, which was used as in
1759 implementation detail of the public ``types`` module, has been
1760 removed and replaced by pure python code.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc02f33b42008-04-08 23:10:07 +00001761
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001762- Issue #2513: distutils on Windows is now capable of cross-compiling
Mark Hammond495cf992008-04-07 01:53:39 +00001763 extension modules between 32 and 64 bit platforms. See the distutls
1764 build documentation for more information.
1765
Gregory P. Smithaa63d0d2008-04-06 23:11:17 +00001766- Issue #815646: Individual file objects may now be used from multiple
1767 threads at once without fear of crashing the Python interpreter. If
1768 file.close() is called while an object is in use by another thread
1769 an IOError exception will be raised and the file will not be closed.
1770
Thomas Hellerf7906482008-04-04 19:43:25 +00001771- The bundled libffi copy is now in sync with the recently released
1772 libffi3.0.5 version, apart from some small changes to
1773 Modules/_ctypes/libffi/configure.ac.
1774
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001775- Issue #2385: distutils.core.run_script() makes __file__ available,
1776 so the controlled environment will more closely mirror the typical
1777 script environment. This supports setup.py scripts that refer to
1778 data files.
Fred Drake46c58c12008-04-04 05:41:30 +00001779
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00001780Tests
1781-----
Trent Nelsone41b0062008-04-08 23:47:30 +00001782
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001783- Issue #2550: The approach used by client/server code for obtaining
1784 ports to listen on in network-oriented tests has been refined in an
1785 effort to facilitate running multiple instances of the entire
1786 regression test suite in parallel without issue.
1787 test_support.bind_port() has been fixed such that it will always
1788 return a unique port -- which wasn't always the case with the
1789 previous implementation, especially if socket options had been set
1790 that affected address reuse (i.e. SO_REUSEADDR, SO_REUSEPORT). The
1791 new implementation of bind_port() will actually raise an exception
1792 if it is passed an AF_INET/SOCK_STREAM socket with either the
1793 SO_REUSEADDR or SO_REUSEPORT socket option set. Furthermore, if
1794 available, bind_port() will set the SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE option on
1795 the socket it's been passed. This currently only applies to
1796 Windows. This option prevents any other sockets from binding to the
1797 host/port we've bound to, thus removing the possibility of the
1798 'non-deterministic' behaviour, as Microsoft puts it, that occurs
1799 when a second SOCK_STREAM socket binds and accepts to a host/port
1800 that's already been bound by another socket. The optional preferred
1801 port parameter to bind_port() has been removed. Under no
1802 circumstances should tests be hard coding ports!
1803
1804 test_support.find_unused_port() has also been introduced, which will
1805 pass a temporary socket object to bind_port() in order to obtain an
1806 unused port. The temporary socket object is then closed and
1807 deleted, and the port is returned. This method should only be used
1808 for obtaining an unused port in order to pass to an external program
1809 (i.e. the -accept [port] argument to openssl's s_server mode) or as
1810 a parameter to a server-oriented class that doesn't give you direct
1811 access to the underlying socket used.
1812
1813 Finally, test_support.HOST has been introduced, which should be used
1814 for the host argument of any relevant socket calls (i.e. bind and
1815 connect).
Trent Nelsone41b0062008-04-08 23:47:30 +00001816
1817 The following tests were updated to following the new conventions:
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001818 test_socket, test_smtplib, test_asyncore, test_ssl, test_httplib,
Trent Nelsone41b0062008-04-08 23:47:30 +00001819 test_poplib, test_ftplib, test_telnetlib, test_socketserver,
1820 test_asynchat and test_socket_ssl.
1821
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001822 It is now possible for multiple instances of the regression test
1823 suite to run in parallel without issue.
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00001824
1825Build
1826-----
1827
Mark Dickinson65134662008-04-25 16:11:04 +00001828- Issue #1496032: On alpha, use -mieee when gcc is the compiler.
1829
Thomas Hellerdc96a772008-04-04 10:07:55 +00001830- Issue #2544: On HP-UX systems, use 'gcc -shared' for linking when
1831 gcc is used as compiler.
1832
Ronald Oussoren580c7fe2008-05-02 19:45:11 +00001833- Issue #2573: On MacOS X it is now possible to install the framework
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001834 with a different name using --with-framework-name=NAME.
Ronald Oussoren580c7fe2008-05-02 19:45:11 +00001835
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00001836C API
1837-----
1838
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001839- Added implementation of copysign, acosh, asinh, atanh and log1p to
1840 the new files Include/pymath.h and Python/pymath.h for platforms
1841 which provide the functions through their libm. The files also
1842 contains several helpers and constants for math.
Christian Heimes6f341092008-04-18 23:13:07 +00001843
Benjamin Petersondacde0d2008-05-26 17:43:53 +00001844- Added a new convenience macro, PyErr_WarnPy3k, for issuing Py3k warnings.
Benjamin Petersona692c4d2008-04-27 02:28:02 +00001845
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00001846
1847What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 2?
1848=================================
1849
1850*Release date: 02-Apr-2008*
1851
1852Core and builtins
1853-----------------
1854
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001855- Issue #1733757: The interpreter would hang on shutdown if the
1856 tracing function set by sys.settrace is still active and happens to
1857 call threading.currentThread().
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd7a26512008-04-03 23:07:55 +00001858
Georg Brandl91e0cda2008-03-29 01:50:06 +00001859- Patch #1442: properly report exceptions when the PYTHONSTARTUP file
1860 cannot be executed.
1861
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc69b747b2008-03-28 20:30:50 +00001862- The compilation of a class nested in another class used to leak one
1863 reference on the outer class name.
1864
Georg Brandlfc8eef32008-03-28 12:11:56 +00001865- Patch #1810: compile() can now compile _ast trees as returned by
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001866 ``compile(..., PyCF_ONLY_AST)``.
Georg Brandlfc8eef32008-03-28 12:11:56 +00001867
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001868- Patch #2426: Added sqlite3.Connection.iterdump method to allow easy
1869 dumping of databases. Contributed by Paul Kippes at PyCon 2008.
Gregory P. Smithb9803422008-03-28 08:32:09 +00001870
Georg Brandldeaf2ca2008-03-27 13:27:31 +00001871- Patch #2477: Added from __future__ import unicode_literals.
Christian Heimes3c608332008-03-26 22:01:37 +00001872
Christian Heimes8c78cc32008-03-26 12:53:58 +00001873- Added backport of bytearray type.
1874
Georg Brandl80055f62008-03-25 07:56:27 +00001875- Issue #2355: add Py3k warning for buffer().
1876
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc9a0d3462008-03-23 09:55:29 +00001877- Issue #1477: With narrow Unicode builds, the unicode escape sequence
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001878 \Uxxxxxxxx did not accept values outside the Basic Multilingual
1879 Plane. This affected raw unicode literals and the
1880 'raw-unicode-escape' codec. Now UTF-16 surrogates are generated in
1881 this case, like normal unicode literals and the 'unicode-escape'
1882 codec.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc9a0d3462008-03-23 09:55:29 +00001883
Georg Brandl65bb42d2008-03-21 20:38:24 +00001884- Issue #2348: add Py3k warning for file.softspace.
1885
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001886- Issue #2346/#2347: add Py3k warnings for __methods__ and
1887 __members__.
Georg Brandl07e56812008-03-21 20:21:46 +00001888
Georg Brandl5a444242008-03-21 20:11:46 +00001889- Issue #2358: Add a Py3k warning on sys.exc_clear() usage.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd21fb4c2008-03-05 01:50:33 +00001890
Martin v. Löwisa4d77892008-03-19 04:39:13 +00001891- Issue #2400: Allow relative imports to "import *".
1892
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001893- Issue #1745: Backport print function with ``from __future__ import
1894 print_function``.
Eric Smith7c478942008-03-18 23:45:49 +00001895
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001896- Issue #2332: add new attribute names for instance method objects.
1897 The two changes are: im_self -> __self__ and im_func -> __func__
Neal Norwitzb1d3d962008-03-18 04:46:00 +00001898
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001899- Issue #2379: Raise a Py3K warning for __getitem__ or __getslice__ on
Guido van Rossum6d91be32008-03-18 04:42:22 +00001900 exception instances.
1901
Guido van Rossum04edb522008-03-18 02:49:46 +00001902- Issue #2371: Add a Py3k warning when catching an exception that
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001903 doesn't derive from BaseException.
1904
1905- Issue #2341: Add a Py3k warning when raising an exception that
1906 doesn't derive from BaseException.
Guido van Rossum04edb522008-03-18 02:49:46 +00001907
Neal Norwitz419fd492008-03-17 20:22:43 +00001908- Issue #2321: use pymalloc for unicode object string data to reduce
1909 memory usage in some circumstances.
1910
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001911- PEP 3127: octal literals now start with "0o". Old-style octal
1912 literals are still valid. There are binary literals with a prefix of
1913 "0b". This also affects int(x, 0).
Eric Smith0aed07a2008-03-17 19:43:40 +00001914
Georg Brandl1e7c3752008-03-25 08:37:23 +00001915- Issue #2359: Adding deprecation warnings for array.{read,write}.
1916
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001917- Issue #1779871: GNU gcc can now build Python on OS X because the
Jeffrey Yasskin1b4e45b2008-03-17 14:40:53 +00001918 flags -Wno-long-double, -no-cpp-precomp, and -mno-fused-madd are no
1919 longer passed.
1920
Neal Norwitz400aeda2008-03-15 22:03:18 +00001921- Add a warning when asserting a non-empty tuple which is always true.
1922
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001923- Issue #2179: speed up with statement execution by storing the exit
1924 method on the stack instead of in a temporary variable (patch by
1925 Jeffrey Yaskin)
Nick Coghlan7af53be2008-03-07 14:13:28 +00001926
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001927- Issue #2238: Some syntax errors in *args and **kwargs expressions
1928 could give bogus error messages.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd21fb4c2008-03-05 01:50:33 +00001929
Sean Reifscheider68fa8e62008-03-20 00:50:07 +00001930- Issue #2143: Fix embedded readline() hang on SSL socket EOF.
1931
Andrew M. Kuchling46d6b682008-04-30 16:19:55 +00001932Extension Modules
1933-----------------
Martin v. Löwisaef18b12008-03-24 13:31:16 +00001934
1935- Patch #2240: Implement signal.setitimer and signal.getitimer.
1936
Thomas Heller78b8f442008-03-05 14:53:39 +00001937Library
1938-------
1939
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001940- Issue #2315: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now accounts
1941 for daylight savings time in calculating the next rollover.
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00001942
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001943- Issue #2316: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now
1944 calculates rollovers correctly even when nothing is logged for a
1945 while.
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00001946
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001947- Issue #2317: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now uses
1948 improved logic for removing old files.
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00001949
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001950- Issue #2495: tokenize.untokenize now inserts a space between two
1951 consecutive string literals; previously, ["" ""] was rendered as
1952 [""""], which is incorrect python code.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcda0c0252008-03-27 23:23:54 +00001953
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001954- Issue #2248: return the result of the QUIT command. from
1955 SMTP.quit().
Georg Brandldeaf2ca2008-03-27 13:27:31 +00001956
Christian Heimes8c78cc32008-03-26 12:53:58 +00001957- Backport of Python 3.0's io module.
1958
Mark Dickinson8e85ffa2008-03-25 18:47:59 +00001959- Issue #2482: Make sure that the coefficient of a Decimal is always
1960 stored as a str instance, not as a unicode instance. This ensures
1961 that str(Decimal) is always an instance of str.
1962
Mark Dickinson3b24ccb2008-03-25 14:33:23 +00001963- Issue #2478: fix failure of decimal.Decimal(0).sqrt()
1964
Georg Brandl77354cf2008-03-21 20:01:51 +00001965- Issue #2432: give DictReader the dialect and line_num attributes
1966 advertised in the docs.
1967
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001968- Issue #2460: Make Ellipsis object copyable.
Raymond Hettingerb72233c2008-03-24 08:17:39 +00001969
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001970- Issue #1681432: Add triangular distribution to the random module
Raymond Hettingerbbc50ea2008-03-23 13:32:32 +00001971
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001972- Issue #2136: urllib2's auth handler now allows single-quoted realms
1973 in the WWW-Authenticate header.
Georg Brandl33124322008-03-21 19:54:00 +00001974
Marc-André Lemburga1867752008-03-20 18:08:00 +00001975- Issue #2434: Enhanced platform.win32_ver() to also work on Python
1976 installation which do not have the win32all package installed.
1977
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001978- Added support to platform.uname() to also report the machine and
1979 processor information on Windows XP and later. As a result,
Marc-André Lemburga1867752008-03-20 18:08:00 +00001980 platform.machine() and platform.processor() will report this
1981 information as well.
1982
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001983- The library implementing the 2to3 conversion, lib2to3, was added to
1984 the standard distribution.
Martin v. Löwis5e37bae2008-03-19 04:43:46 +00001985
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001986- Issue #1747858: Fix chown to work with large uid's and gid's on
1987 64-bit platforms.
Gregory P. Smith37f3f432008-03-18 20:40:01 +00001988
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001989- Issue #1202: zlib.crc32 and zlib.adler32 no longer return different
1990 values on 32-bit vs. 64-bit python interpreters. Both were correct,
1991 but they now both return a signed integer object for consistency.
Gregory P. Smithf48f9d32008-03-17 18:48:05 +00001992
Skip Montanaro32ed8c22008-03-15 16:07:11 +00001993- Issue #1158: add %f format (fractions of a second represented as
1994 microseconds) to datetime objects. Understood by both strptime and
1995 strftime.
1996
Mark Dickinsonc23b8a72008-03-14 14:23:37 +00001997- Issue #705836: struct.pack(">f", x) now raises OverflowError on all
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001998 platforms when x is too large to fit into an IEEE 754 float;
1999 previously it only raised OverflowError on non IEEE 754 platforms.
Mark Dickinsonc23b8a72008-03-14 14:23:37 +00002000
Andrew M. Kuchlingaac5c862008-05-11 14:00:00 +00002001- Issues #2166, #1741 and #1531505: now distutils deals with HOME
2002 correctly under win32
2003
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002004- Patch #1858: distutils: added multiple server support in .pypirc
Andrew M. Kuchlingaac5c862008-05-11 14:00:00 +00002005
Facundo Batistac54aec12008-03-08 16:50:27 +00002006- Issue #1106316: pdb.post_mortem()'s parameter, "traceback", is now
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002007 optional: it defaults to the traceback of the exception that is
2008 currently being handled (is mandatory to be in the middle of an
2009 exception, otherwise it raises ValueError).
Facundo Batistac54aec12008-03-08 16:50:27 +00002010
Jeffrey Yasskine75f59a2008-03-07 06:22:15 +00002011- Issue #1193577: A .shutdown() method has been added to SocketServers
2012 which terminates the .serve_forever() loop.
2013
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002014- Issue #2220: handle rlcompleter attribute match failure more
2015 gracefully.
Georg Brandl98aa8052008-03-06 07:45:52 +00002016
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002017- Issue #2225: py_compile, when executed as a script, now returns a
2018 non- zero status code if not all files could be compiled
2019 successfully.
Georg Brandla7bd27f2008-03-06 07:41:16 +00002020
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002021- Bug #1725737: In distutils' sdist, exclude RCS, CVS etc. also in the
Georg Brandl810ea292008-03-06 07:34:52 +00002022 root directory, and also exclude .hg, .git, .bzr, and _darcs.
2023
Thomas Hellerf3c05592008-03-05 15:34:29 +00002024- Issue #1872: The struct module typecode for _Bool has been changed
2025 from 't' to '?'.
2026
Thomas Heller78b8f442008-03-05 14:53:39 +00002027- The bundled libffi copy is now in sync with the recently released
2028 libffi3.0.4 version, apart from some small changes to
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002029 Modules/_ctypes/libffi/configure.ac. On OS X, preconfigured libffi
2030 files are used. On all linux systems the --with-system-ffi
2031 configure option defaults to "yes".
Thomas Heller78b8f442008-03-05 14:53:39 +00002032
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002033- Issue #1577: shutil.move() now calls os.rename() if the destination
2034 is a directory instead of copying-then-remove-source.
Sean Reifscheider493894c2008-03-18 17:24:12 +00002035
Martin v. Löwisd2bbe522008-03-06 06:55:22 +00002036Tests
2037-----
2038
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002039- test_nis no longer fails when test.test_support.verbose is true and
2040 NIS is not set up on the testing machine.
Brett Cannon7919d982008-03-19 16:50:13 +00002041
Brett Cannona5573b32008-03-18 04:16:06 +00002042- Output comparison tests are no longer supported.
2043
Brett Cannonb7ec8e52008-03-18 03:46:22 +00002044- Rewrite test_errno to use unittest and no longer be a no-op.
2045
Brett Cannon0bb79502008-03-18 01:58:56 +00002046- GHOP 234: Convert test_extcall to doctest.
2047
Brett Cannonba17cfc2008-03-18 01:50:25 +00002048- GHOP 290: Convert test_dbm and test_dummy_threading to unittest.
2049
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002050- GHOP 293: Convert test_strftime, test_getargs, and test_pep247 to
2051 unittest.
Brett Cannon6eeaddc2008-03-18 01:00:07 +00002052
Brett Cannon1f5182b2008-03-13 21:09:28 +00002053- Issue #2055: Convert test_fcntl to unittest.
2054
Brett Cannon4a6e8d62008-03-13 21:02:16 +00002055- Issue 1960: Convert test_gdbm to unittest.
2056
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002057- GHOP 294: Convert test_contains, test_crypt, and test_select to
2058 unittest.
Brett Cannon2e0f9f32008-03-13 20:47:41 +00002059
Brett Cannonb8d37352008-03-13 20:33:10 +00002060- GHOP 238: Convert test_tokenize to use doctest.
2061
Brett Cannon66865d22008-03-13 20:27:00 +00002062- GHOP 237: Rewrite test_thread using unittest.
2063
Martin v. Löwisd2bbe522008-03-06 06:55:22 +00002064- Patch #2232: os.tmpfile might fail on Windows if the user has no
2065 permission to create files in the root directory.
2066
Martin v. Löwisbf7b0b72008-03-14 13:56:09 +00002067Build
2068-----
2069
Martin v. Löwiscdbc9772008-03-24 12:57:53 +00002070- A new script 2to3 is now installed, to run the 2.x to 3.x converter.
2071
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002072- Python/memmove.c and Python/strerror.c have been removed; both
2073 functions are in the C89 standard library.
Brett Cannonaa5778d2008-03-18 04:09:00 +00002074
Martin v. Löwisbf7b0b72008-03-14 13:56:09 +00002075- Patch #2284: Add -x64 option to rt.bat.
Barry Warsaw65475fd2008-03-01 17:11:41 +00002076
Christian Heimes3c608332008-03-26 22:01:37 +00002077C API
2078-----
2079
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00002080- Patch #2477: Added PyParser_ParseFileFlagsEx() and
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002081 PyParser_ParseStringFlagsFilenameEx().
2082
Christian Heimes3c608332008-03-26 22:01:37 +00002083
Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +00002084What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 1?
2085=================================
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00002086
Barry Warsaw7c075232008-03-01 02:53:36 +00002087*Release date: 29-Feb-2008*
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00002088
2089Core and builtins
2090-----------------
2091
Fred Drakea8ee94b2008-03-01 02:45:07 +00002092- Issue #2051: pyc and pyo files are no longer created with permission
Barry Warsaw52973612008-03-01 02:23:38 +00002093 644. The mode is now inherited from the py file.
Christian Heimes40346852008-02-23 17:52:07 +00002094
Georg Brandlad61bc82008-02-23 15:11:18 +00002095- Issue #2067: file.__exit__() now calls subclasses' close() method.
2096
2097- Patch #1759: Backport of PEP 3129 class decorators.
Christian Heimes5224d282008-02-23 15:01:05 +00002098
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00002099- Issue #1881: An internal parser limit has been increased. Also see
Facundo Batistafc2d0102008-02-23 12:01:13 +00002100 issue 215555 for a discussion.
2101
Eric Smitha73fbe72008-02-23 03:09:44 +00002102- Added the future_builtins module, which contains hex() and oct().
2103 These are the PEP 3127 version of these functions, designed to be
2104 compatible with the hex() and oct() builtins from Python 3.0. They
2105 differ slightly in their output formats from the existing, unchanged
2106 Python 2.6 builtins. The expected usage of the future_builtins
2107 module is:
2108 from future_builtins import hex, oct
2109
Eric Smith7ef40bf2008-02-20 23:34:22 +00002110- Issue #1600: Modifed PyOS_ascii_formatd to use at most 2 digit
2111 exponents for exponents with absolute value < 100. Follows C99
2112 standard. This is a change on Windows, which would use 3 digits.
2113 Also, added 'n' to the formats that PyOS_ascii_formatd understands,
2114 so that any alterations it does to the resulting string will be
2115 available in stringlib/formatter.h (for float.__format__).
2116
Eric Smith5a3c1352008-02-19 13:21:56 +00002117- Implemented PEP 3101, Advanced String Formatting. This adds a new
2118 builtin format(); a format() method for str and unicode; a
2119 __format__() method to object, str, unicode, int, long, float, and
2120 datetime; the class string.Formatter; and the C API
2121 PyObject_Format().
2122
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002123- Fixed several potential crashes, all caused by specially crafted
2124 __del__ methods exploiting objects in temporarily inconsistent
2125 state.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc632fad32008-02-16 20:55:24 +00002126
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00002127- Issue #2115: Important speedup in setting __slot__ attributes. Also
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002128 prevent a possible crash: an Abstract Base Class would try to access
2129 a slot on a registered virtual subclass.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc60d6c7f2008-02-15 21:22:45 +00002130
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002131- Fixed repr() and str() of complex numbers with infinity or nan as
2132 real or imaginary part.
Christian Heimes2f0da532008-02-15 06:57:08 +00002133
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002134- Clear all free lists during a gc.collect() of the highest generation
2135 in order to allow pymalloc to free more arenas. Python may give back
2136 memory to the OS earlier.
Christian Heimes3b718a72008-02-14 12:47:33 +00002137
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002138- Issue #2045: Fix an infinite recursion triggered when printing a
2139 subclass of collections.defaultdict, if its default_factory is set
2140 to a bound method.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcb01aa432008-02-08 00:56:02 +00002141
Christian Heimesf75dbef2008-02-08 00:11:31 +00002142- Fixed a minor memory leak in dictobject.c. The content of the free
2143 list was not freed on interpreter shutdown.
2144
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002145- Limit free list of method and builtin function objects to 256
2146 entries each.
Christian Heimes6075a822008-02-06 12:44:34 +00002147
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002148- Patch #1953: Added ``sys._compact_freelists()`` and the C API
2149 functions ``PyInt_CompactFreeList`` and ``PyFloat_CompactFreeList``
Christian Heimes422051a2008-02-04 18:00:12 +00002150 to compact the internal free lists of pre-allocted ints and floats.
2151
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002152- Issue #1983: Fixed return type of fork(), fork1() and forkpty()
2153 calls. Python expected the return type int but the fork familie
2154 returns pi_t.
Christian Heimes951cc0f2008-01-31 23:08:23 +00002155
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002156- Issue #1678380: Fix a bug that identifies 0j and -0j when they
2157 appear in the same code unit.
Mark Dickinson105be772008-01-31 22:17:37 +00002158
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002159- Issue #2025: Add tuple.count() and tuple.index() methods to comply
2160 with the collections.Sequence API.
Raymond Hettinger5b07ebc2008-02-07 00:54:20 +00002161
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002162- Patch #1970 by Antoine Pitrou: Speedup unicode whitespace and
2163 linebreak detection
Christian Heimes4d4f2702008-01-30 11:32:37 +00002164
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002165- Added ``PyType_ClearCache()`` and ``sys._clear_type_cache`` to clear
2166 the internal lookup cache for ref leak tests.
Christian Heimes908caac2008-01-27 23:34:59 +00002167
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002168- Patch #1473257: generator objects gain a gi_code attribute. This is
2169 the same object as the func_code attribute of the function that
2170 produced the generator.
Georg Brandl0cdf9a32008-01-26 14:14:20 +00002171
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002172- Issue #1920: "while 0" statements were completely removed by the
2173 compiler, even in the presence of an "else" clause, which is
2174 supposed to be run when the condition is false. Now the compiler
2175 correctly emits bytecode for the "else" suite.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc31eaafe2008-01-24 22:59:25 +00002176
Guido van Rossumeead05f2008-01-24 18:21:02 +00002177- A few crashers fixed: weakref_in_del.py (issue #1377858);
2178 loosing_dict_ref.py (issue #1303614, test67.py);
2179 borrowed_ref_[34].py (not in tracker).
2180
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +00002181- Issue #1069410: The "can't load dll" message box on Windows is
Christian Heimesb2302ba2008-01-23 17:15:06 +00002182 suppressed while an extension is loaded by calling SetErrorMode in
2183 dynload_win.c. The error is still reported properly.
2184
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002185- Issue #1915: Python compiles with --enable-unicode=no again. However
Christian Heimes082c9b02008-01-23 14:20:50 +00002186 several extension methods and modules do not work without unicode
2187 support.
2188
Georg Brandl26543b12008-01-21 18:36:51 +00002189- Issue #1882: when compiling code from a string, encoding cookies in the
2190 second line of code were not always recognized correctly.
2191
Georg Brandl14404b62008-01-19 19:27:05 +00002192- Issue #1679: "0x" was taken as a valid integer literal.
2193
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00002194- Issue #1865: ``bytes`` as an alias for ``str`` and b"" as an alias "" were
Christian Heimes288e89a2008-01-18 18:24:07 +00002195 added.
2196
Christian Heimesc94e2b52008-01-14 04:13:37 +00002197- sys.float_info / PyFloat_GetInfo: The floating point information
2198 object was converted from a dict to a specialized structseq object.
2199
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002200- Patch #1816: Added sys.flags structseq. It exposes the status of
2201 most command line arguments and PYTHON* environment variables.
Christian Heimesf31b69f2008-01-14 03:42:48 +00002202
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002203- Objects/structseq.c: Implemented new structseq representation. The
2204 patch makes structseqs (e.g. the return value of os.stat) more
2205 readable.
Christian Heimes9c201962008-01-14 03:33:52 +00002206
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002207- Patch #1700288: added a type attribute cache that caches method
2208 accesses, resulting in speedups in heavily object-oriented code.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arce4c270c2008-01-14 00:29:41 +00002209
Neal Norwitz3fc15b82008-01-10 05:42:58 +00002210- Bug #1776: __import__() no longer accepts filenames on any platform.
2211 The first parameter to __import__() must be a valid module name.
Christian Heimes3403f152008-01-09 19:56:33 +00002212
Georg Brandlaed6c662008-01-07 17:25:53 +00002213- Patch #1668: renamed THREADDEBUG envvar to PYTHONTHREADDEBUG.
2214
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002215- Patch #602345: Add -B command line option, PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE
2216 envvar and sys.dont_write_bytecode attribute. All these can be set
2217 to forbid Python to attempt to write compiled bytecode files.
Georg Brandl2da0fce2008-01-07 17:09:35 +00002218
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002219- Improve some exception messages when Windows fails to load an
2220 extension module. Now we get for example '%1 is not a valid Win32
2221 application' instead of 'error code 193'.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arce0b76952008-01-04 02:04:15 +00002222
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002223- Bug #1481296: Fixed long(float('nan')) != 0L.
Christian Heimes8267d1d2008-01-04 00:37:34 +00002224
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002225- Issue #1640: Added math.isinf(x), math.isnan(x) and math.copysign(x,
2226 y) functions.
Christian Heimese2ca4242008-01-03 20:23:15 +00002227
Christian Heimes0a8143f2007-12-18 23:22:54 +00002228- Issue #1635: Platform independent creation and representation of NaN
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002229 and INF. float("nan"), float("inf") and float("-inf") now work on
2230 every platform with IEEE 754 semantics.
Christian Heimes0a8143f2007-12-18 23:22:54 +00002231
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002232- Compiler now generates simpler and faster code for dictionary
2233 literals. The oparg for BUILD_MAP now indicates an estimated
2234 dictionary size. There is a new opcode, STORE_MAP, for adding
2235 entries to the dictionary.
Raymond Hettingerfd7ed402007-12-18 21:24:09 +00002236
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002237- Issue #1638: %zd configure test fails on Linux.
Christian Heimesdb3d6cb2007-12-16 21:39:43 +00002238
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002239- Issue #1620: New property decorator syntax was modifying the
2240 decorator in place instead of creating a new decorator object.
Christian Heimes90e10e72007-12-14 02:35:23 +00002241
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002242- Issue #1538: Avoid copying string in split/rsplit if the split char
2243 is not found.
Skip Montanaro26015492007-12-08 15:33:24 +00002244
Andrew M. Kuchling395fe442007-12-05 13:27:20 +00002245- Issue #1553: An erroneous __length_hint__ can make list() raise a
Christian Heimes7cc1c6f2007-12-05 12:52:34 +00002246 SystemError.
2247
Nick Coghlanef01d822007-12-03 12:55:17 +00002248- PEP 366: Allow explicit relative imports when executing modules
2249 inside packages with the -m switch via a new module level
2250 __package__ attribute.
2251
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002252- Issue #1402: Fix a crash on exit, when another thread is still
2253 running, and if the deallocation of its frames somehow calls the
2254 PyGILState_Ensure() / PyGILState_Release() functions.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbe49a902007-11-30 20:37:22 +00002255
Christian Heimes28104c52007-11-27 23:16:44 +00002256- Expose the Py_Py3kWarningFlag as sys.py3kwarning.
2257
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00002258- Issue #1445: Fix a SystemError when accessing the ``cell_contents``
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcce7d10c2007-11-24 13:44:17 +00002259 attribute of an empty cell object.
2260
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002261- Issue #1460: The utf-7 incremental decoder did not accept truncated
2262 input. It now correctly saves its state between chunks of data.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcf57375a2007-11-21 01:38:26 +00002263
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002264- Patch #1739468: Directories and zipfiles containing a __main__.py
2265 file can now be directly executed by passing their name to the
2266 interpreter. The directory/zipfile is automatically inserted as the
2267 first entry in sys.path.
Nick Coghlan327a39b2007-11-18 11:56:28 +00002268
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002269- Issue #1265: Fix a problem with sys.settrace, if the tracing
2270 function uses a generator expression when at the same time the
2271 executed code is closing a paused generator.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc0d75f092007-11-13 21:54:28 +00002272
Raymond Hettinger1760c8a2007-11-08 02:52:43 +00002273- sets and frozensets now have an isdisjoint() method.
2274
Raymond Hettinger3f8caa32007-10-24 01:28:33 +00002275- optimize the performance of builtin.sum().
2276
Neal Norwitz44f326e2007-10-05 05:29:17 +00002277- Fix warnings found by the new version of the Coverity checker.
2278
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002279- The enumerate() builtin function is no longer bounded to sequences
2280 smaller than LONG_MAX. Formerly, it raised an OverflowError. Now,
2281 automatically shifts from ints to longs.
Raymond Hettinger8f669372007-10-03 21:18:11 +00002282
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002283- Issue #1686386: Tuple's tp_repr did not take into account the
2284 possibility of having a self-referential tuple, which is possible
2285 from C code. Nor did object's tp_str consider that a type's tp_str
2286 could do something that could lead to an inifinite recursion.
2287 Py_ReprEnter() and Py_EnterRecursiveCall(), respectively, fixed the
2288 issues.
Brett Cannon0b14f242007-09-30 19:45:10 +00002289
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002290- Issue #1164: It was possible to trigger deadlock when using the
2291 'print' statement to write to a file since the GIL was not released
2292 as needed. Now PyObject_Print() does the right thing along with
2293 various tp_print implementations of the built-in types and those in
2294 the collections module.
Brett Cannon01531592007-09-17 03:28:34 +00002295
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002296- Issue #1147: Exceptions were directly allowing string exceptions in
2297 their throw() method even though string exceptions no longer
2298 allowed.
Brett Cannon4c20bc42007-09-11 21:02:28 +00002299
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002300- Issue #1096: Prevent a segfault from getting the repr of a very
2301 deeply nested list by using the recursion counter.
Brett Cannona0c05512007-09-10 21:38:27 +00002302
Brett Cannon1e534b52007-09-07 04:18:30 +00002303- Issue #1202533: Fix infinite recursion calls triggered by calls to
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002304 PyObject_Call() never calling back out to Python code to trigger
2305 recursion depth updates/checks. Required the creation of a static
2306 RuntimeError instance in case normalizing an exception put the
2307 recursion check value past its limit. Fixes crashers
2308 infinite_rec_(1|2|4|5).py.
Brett Cannon1e534b52007-09-07 04:18:30 +00002309
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002310- Patch #1031213: Decode source line in SyntaxErrors back to its
2311 original source encoding.
Martin v. Löwisa5136192007-09-04 14:19:28 +00002312
Georg Brandl7c3b50d2007-07-12 08:38:00 +00002313- Patch #1673759: add a missing overflow check when formatting floats
2314 with %G.
2315
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002316- Prevent expandtabs() on string and unicode objects from causing a
2317 segfault when a large width is passed on 32-bit platforms.
Neal Norwitz7dbd2a32007-06-09 03:36:34 +00002318
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002319- Issue #1733488: Fix compilation of bufferobject.c on AIX.
Martin v. Löwisda587ab2007-06-08 17:29:20 +00002320
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002321- Issue #1722485: remove docstrings again when running with -OO.
Georg Brandla5ea6892007-06-01 11:33:33 +00002322
Neal Norwitz0ac60192007-05-27 04:08:54 +00002323- Add new attribute names for function objects. All the func_* become
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002324 __*__ attributes. (Some already existed, e.g., __doc__ and
2325 __name__.)
Neal Norwitz0ac60192007-05-27 04:08:54 +00002326
Neal Norwitz8b2bfbc2007-05-23 06:35:32 +00002327- Add -3 option to the interpreter to warn about features that are
2328 deprecated and will be changed/removed in Python 3.0.
2329
Georg Brandl2134e752007-05-21 20:34:16 +00002330- Patch #1686487: you can now pass any mapping after '**' in function
2331 calls.
2332
Collin Winter62903052007-05-18 23:11:24 +00002333- except clauses may now be spelled either "except E, target:" or
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002334 "except E as target:". This is to provide forwards compatibility
2335 with Python 3.0.
Collin Winter62903052007-05-18 23:11:24 +00002336
Brett Cannon229cee22007-05-05 01:34:02 +00002337- Deprecate BaseException.message as per PEP 352.
2338
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002339- Issue #1303614: don't expose object's __dict__ when the dict is
Armin Rigo9790a272007-05-02 19:23:31 +00002340 inherited from a builtin base.
2341
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00002342- When __slots__ are set to a unicode string, make it work the same as
Neal Norwitzcbd9ee62007-04-14 05:25:50 +00002343 setting a plain string, ie don't expand to single letter identifiers.
2344
Raymond Hettinger13936692007-04-11 18:40:58 +00002345- Request #1191699: Slices can now be pickled.
2346
Raymond Hettinger4db5fe92007-04-12 04:10:00 +00002347- Request #1193128: str.translate() now allows a None argument for
2348 translations that only remove characters without re-mapping the
2349 remaining characters.
2350
Georg Brandl5cb76c12007-03-21 09:00:39 +00002351- Patch #1682205: a TypeError while unpacking an iterable is no longer
2352 masked by a generic one with the message "unpack non-sequence".
2353
Neal Norwitzaa754b72007-03-21 06:39:48 +00002354- Remove unused file Python/fmod.c.
2355
Guido van Rossum143b5642007-03-23 04:58:42 +00002356- Bug #1683368: The object.__init__() and object.__new__() methods are
2357 now stricter in rejecting excess arguments. The only time when
2358 either allows excess arguments is when it is not overridden and the
2359 other one is. For backwards compatibility, when both are
2360 overridden, it is a deprecation warning (for now; maybe a Py3k
Guido van Rossum234b1ff2007-03-23 19:39:01 +00002361 warning later). Also, type.__init__() insists on the same signature
2362 as supported by type.__new__().
Guido van Rossum143b5642007-03-23 04:58:42 +00002363
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002364- Patch #1675423: PyComplex_AsCComplex() now tries to convert an
2365 object to complex using its __complex__() method before falling back
2366 to the __float__() method. Therefore, the functions in the cmath
2367 module now can operate on objects that define a __complex__()
2368 method.
Georg Brandl2b869942007-03-17 16:08:45 +00002369
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002370- Patch #1623563: allow __class__ assignment for classes with
2371 __slots__. The old and the new class are still required to have the
2372 same slot names.
Žiga Seilnacht6f2d09c2007-03-16 11:59:38 +00002373
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002374- Patch #1642547: Fix an error/crash when encountering syntax errors
2375 in complex if statements.
Collin Winter77c67bd2007-03-16 04:11:30 +00002376
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002377- Patch #1462488: Python no longer segfaults when
2378 ``object.__reduce_ex__()`` is called with an object that is faking
2379 its type.
Žiga Seilnacht20f43d32007-03-15 11:44:55 +00002380
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002381- Patch #1680015: Don't modify __slots__ tuple if it contains an
2382 unicode name.
Žiga Seilnacht71436f02007-03-14 12:24:09 +00002383
Georg Brandl5240d742007-03-13 20:46:32 +00002384- Patch #1444529: the builtin compile() now accepts keyword arguments.
2385
Georg Brandl7b9c5552007-03-12 14:30:05 +00002386- Bug #1678647: write a newline after printing an exception in any
2387 case, even when converting the value to a string failed.
2388
Georg Brandl871f1bc2007-03-12 13:17:36 +00002389- The dir() function has been extended to call the __dir__() method on
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002390 its argument, if it exists. If not, it will work like before. This
2391 allows customizing the output of dir() in the presence of a
2392 __getattr__().
Georg Brandl871f1bc2007-03-12 13:17:36 +00002393
Collin Winter276887b2007-03-12 16:11:39 +00002394- Patch #922167: Python no longer segfaults when faced with infinitely
2395 self-recursive reload() calls (as reported by bug #742342).
2396
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002397- Patch #1675981: remove unreachable code from ``type.__new__()``
2398 method.
Žiga Seilnacht89032082007-03-11 15:54:54 +00002399
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002400- Patch #1491866: change the complex() constructor to allow
2401 parthensized forms. This means complex(repr(x)) now works instead of
2402 raising a ValueError.
Collin Wintere38051d2007-03-09 20:33:07 +00002403
Georg Brandlaa2321b2007-03-07 00:40:28 +00002404- Patch #703779: unset __file__ in __main__ after running a file. This
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002405 makes the filenames the warning module prints much more sensible
2406 when a PYTHONSTARTUP file is used.
Georg Brandlaa2321b2007-03-07 00:40:28 +00002407
Georg Brandl49aafc92007-03-07 00:34:46 +00002408- Variant of patch #697613: don't exit the interpreter on a SystemExit
2409 exception if the -i command line option or PYTHONINSPECT environment
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002410 variable is given, but break into the interactive interpreter just
2411 like on other exceptions or normal program exit.
Georg Brandl49aafc92007-03-07 00:34:46 +00002412
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002413- Patch #1638879: don't accept strings with embedded NUL bytes in
2414 long().
Georg Brandl00cd8182007-03-06 18:41:12 +00002415
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002416- Bug #1674503: close the file opened by execfile() in an error
2417 condition.
Georg Brandl098cd692007-03-06 12:17:50 +00002418
Georg Brandl0fca97a2007-03-05 22:28:08 +00002419- Patch #1674228: when assigning a slice (old-style), check for the
2420 sq_ass_slice instead of the sq_slice slot.
2421
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002422- When printing an unraisable error, don't print exceptions. before
2423 the name. This duplicates the behavior whening normally printing
2424 exceptions.
Neal Norwitz88516a62007-02-26 22:41:45 +00002425
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002426- Bug #1653736: Properly discard third argument to
2427 slot_nb_inplace_power.
Martin v. Löwisfd963262007-02-09 12:19:32 +00002428
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002429- PEP 352: Raising a string exception now triggers a TypeError.
2430 Attempting to catch a string exception raises DeprecationWarning.
Brett Cannon129bd522007-01-30 21:34:36 +00002431
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002432- Bug #1377858: Fix the segfaulting of the interpreter when an object
2433 created a weakref on itself during a __del__ call for new-style
2434 classes (classic classes still have the bug).
Brett Cannonf5bee302007-01-23 23:21:22 +00002435
Martin v. Löwis6c5c5022007-01-23 21:11:47 +00002436- Bug #1579370: Make PyTraceBack_Here use the current thread, not the
2437 frame's thread state.
2438
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002439- patch #1630975: Fix crash when replacing sys.stdout in
2440 sitecustomize.py.
Thomas Wouters6ed19652007-01-23 13:50:49 +00002441
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002442- Prevent seg fault on shutdown which could occur if an object raised
2443 a warning.
Neal Norwitz72cd02c2007-01-05 05:25:22 +00002444
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002445- Bug #1566280: Explicitly invoke threading._shutdown from Py_Main, to
2446 avoid relying on atexit.
Martin v. Löwis7b7c9d42007-01-04 21:06:12 +00002447
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002448- Bug #1590891: random.randrange don't return correct value for big
2449 number.
Raymond Hettinger94547f72006-12-20 06:42:06 +00002450
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002451- Patch #1586791: Better exception messages for some operations on
2452 strings, tuples and lists.
Georg Brandl283a1352006-11-19 08:48:30 +00002453
Martin v. Löwis056dac12006-11-12 18:24:26 +00002454- Bug #1067760: Deprecate passing floats to file.seek.
2455
Martin v. Löwisa346c092006-11-08 06:48:36 +00002456- Bug #1591996: Correctly forward exception in instance_contains().
2457
Neal Norwitz85dbec62006-11-04 19:25:22 +00002458- Bug #1588287: fix invalid assertion for `1,2` in debug builds.
2459
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002460- Bug #1576657: when setting a KeyError for a tuple key, make sure
2461 that the tuple isn't used as the "exception arguments tuple".
Georg Brandlb9f4ad32006-10-29 18:31:42 +00002462
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002463- Bug #1565514: SystemError not raised on too many nested blocks.
Neal Norwitz21997af2006-10-28 21:19:07 +00002464
Thomas Hellerdf08f0b2006-10-27 18:31:36 +00002465- Bug #1576174: WindowsError now displays the windows error code
2466 again, no longer the posix error code.
2467
Martin v. Löwisb5bc5372006-10-27 06:16:31 +00002468- Patch #1549049: Support long values in structmember, issue warnings
2469 if the assigned value for structmember fields gets truncated.
2470
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002471- Update the peephole optimizer to remove more dead code (jumps after
2472 returns) and inline unconditional jumps to returns.
Neal Norwitzcbeb6872006-10-14 21:33:38 +00002473
Georg Brandl2c1375c2006-10-12 11:27:59 +00002474- Bug #1545497: when given an explicit base, int() did ignore NULs
2475 embedded in the string to convert.
2476
Georg Brandl846f73a2006-10-08 07:11:54 +00002477- Bug #1569998: break inside a try statement (outside a loop) is now
2478 recognized and rejected.
2479
Armin Rigo7ccbca92006-10-04 12:17:45 +00002480- list.pop(x) accepts any object x following the __index__ protocol.
2481
Armin Rigo7ccbca92006-10-04 12:17:45 +00002482- A number of places, including integer negation and absolute value,
2483 were fixed to not rely on undefined behaviour of the C compiler
2484 anymore.
Martin v. Löwis820d6ac2006-10-04 05:47:34 +00002485
Georg Brandl3267d282006-09-30 09:03:42 +00002486- Bug #1566800: make sure that EnvironmentError can be called with any
2487 number of arguments, as was the case in Python 2.4.
2488
Georg Brandl5d59c092006-09-30 08:43:30 +00002489- Patch #1567691: super() and new.instancemethod() now don't accept
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002490 keyword arguments any more (previously they accepted them, but
2491 didn't use them).
Georg Brandl5d59c092006-09-30 08:43:30 +00002492
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002493- Fix a bug in the parser's future statement handling that led to
2494 "with" not being recognized as a keyword after, e.g., this
2495 statement: from __future__ import division, with_statement
Georg Brandla10d3af2006-09-24 12:35:36 +00002496
Neal Norwitz3a230172006-09-22 08:18:10 +00002497- Bug #1557232: fix seg fault with def f((((x)))) and def f(((x),)).
2498
Neal Norwitz4a8fbdb2006-09-22 08:16:26 +00002499- Fix %zd string formatting on Mac OS X so it prints negative numbers.
2500
Brett Cannonf6aa86e2006-09-20 18:43:13 +00002501- Allow exception instances to be directly sliced again.
2502
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002503- Bug #1551432: Exceptions do not define an explicit __unicode__
2504 method. This allows calling unicode() on exceptions classes
2505 directly to succeed.
Brett Cannon9adeab72006-09-20 18:34:28 +00002506
Georg Brandl4e933132006-09-06 20:05:58 +00002507- Bug #1542051: Exceptions now correctly call PyObject_GC_UnTrack.
2508 Also make sure that every exception class has __module__ set to
2509 'exceptions'.
2510
Georg Brandl98775df2006-09-06 06:09:31 +00002511- Bug #1550983: emit better error messages for erroneous relative
2512 imports (if not in package and if beyond toplevel package).
2513
Tim Petersc10c9d02006-09-05 02:18:09 +00002514- Overflow checking code in integer division ran afoul of new gcc
2515 optimizations. Changed to be more standard-conforming.
2516
Neal Norwitz4f096d92006-08-21 19:47:08 +00002517- Patch #1542451: disallow continue anywhere under a finally.
2518
Neal Norwitza22975f2006-09-05 02:24:03 +00002519- Patch #1546288: fix seg fault in dict_equal due to ref counting bug.
2520
Neal Norwitzd34e4272006-09-05 02:36:20 +00002521- The return tuple from str.rpartition(sep) is (tail, sep, head) where
2522 head is the original string if sep was not found.
2523
Neal Norwitzdac090d2006-09-05 03:53:08 +00002524- Bug #1520864: unpacking singleton tuples in list comprehensions and
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002525 generator expressions (x for x, in ... ) works again. Fixing this
2526 problem required changing the .pyc magic number. This means that
2527 .pyc files generated before 2.5c2 will be regenerated.
Neal Norwitzdac090d2006-09-05 03:53:08 +00002528
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00002529- ``with`` and ``as`` are now keywords.
Neal Norwitzca460d92006-09-06 06:28:06 +00002530
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002531- Bug #1664966: Fix crash in exec if Unicode filename can't be
2532 decoded.
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00002533
Guido van Rossumcad37242008-01-15 17:59:29 +00002534- Issue #1537: Changed GeneratorExit's base class from Exception to
2535 BaseException.
Christian Heimes44eeaec2007-12-03 20:01:02 +00002536
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002537- Issue #1703448: A joined thread could show up in the
Gregory P. Smith95cd5c02008-01-22 01:20:42 +00002538 threading.enumerate() list after the join() for a brief period until
2539 it actually exited.
2540
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00002541
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00002542Library
2543-------
2544
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002545- Patch #2274: Add heapq.heappushpop().
Raymond Hettinger53bdf092008-03-13 19:03:51 +00002546
Christian Heimes608c1d82008-03-03 18:28:04 +00002547- Add inspect.isabstract(object) to fix bug #2223
2548
Mark Dickinson1ddf1d82008-02-29 02:16:37 +00002549- Add a __format__ method to Decimal, to support PEP 3101.
2550
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002551- Add a timing parameter when using trace.Trace to print out
2552 timestamps.
Neal Norwitzca376612008-02-26 08:21:28 +00002553
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002554- Issue #1627: httplib now ignores negative Content-Length headers.
Georg Brandl8c460d52008-02-24 00:14:24 +00002555
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002556- Issue #900744: If an invalid chunked-encoding header is sent by a
2557 server, httplib will now raise IncompleteRead and close the
2558 connection instead of raising ValueError.
Georg Brandl23635032008-02-24 00:03:22 +00002559
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002560- Issue #1492: The content type of BaseHTTPServer error messages can
2561 now be overridden.
Georg Brandl16479232008-02-23 15:02:28 +00002562
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002563- Issue #1781: ConfigParser now does not let you add the "default" section
Facundo Batistab12f0b52008-02-23 12:46:10 +00002564 (ignore-case)
2565
Guido van Rossum8bc09652008-02-21 18:18:37 +00002566- Removed uses of dict.has_key() from distutils, and uses of
2567 callable() from copy_reg.py, so the interpreter now starts up
2568 without warnings when '-3' is given. More work like this needs to
2569 be done in the rest of the stdlib.
2570
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002571- Issue #1916: added isgenerator() and isgeneratorfunction() to
2572 inspect.py.
Facundo Batista759bfc62008-02-18 03:43:43 +00002573
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002574- Issue #1224: Fixed bad url parsing when path begins with double
2575 slash.
Facundo Batistad14600e2008-02-18 12:48:43 +00002576
Thomas Hellera06a1a82008-02-13 20:21:53 +00002577- ctypes instances that are not or do not contain pointers can now be
2578 pickled.
2579
Martin v. Löwisdad88dc2008-02-12 18:47:34 +00002580- Patch #1966: Break infinite loop in httplib when the servers
2581 implements the chunked encoding incorrectly.
2582
Mark Dickinsond058cd22008-02-10 21:29:51 +00002583- Rename rational.py to fractions.py and the rational.Rational class
2584 to fractions.Fraction, to avoid the name clash with the abstract
2585 base class numbers.Rational. See discussion in issue #1682.
2586
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002587- The pickletools module now provides an optimize() function that
2588 eliminates unused PUT opcodes from a pickle string.
Raymond Hettingerda614dc2008-02-10 20:35:16 +00002589
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002590- Patch #2021: Allow tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile and
2591 SpooledTemporaryFile to be used in with statements by correctly
2592 supporting the context management protocol.
Nick Coghlanac094dc2008-02-10 07:32:52 +00002593
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002594- Patch #1979: Add rich comparisons to Decimal, and make Decimal
2595 comparisons involving a NaN follow the IEEE 754 standard.
Mark Dickinson2fc92632008-02-06 22:10:50 +00002596
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002597- Issue #2004: tarfile.py: Use mode 0700 for temporary directories and
2598 default permissions for missing directories.
Lars Gustäbel0192e432008-02-05 11:51:40 +00002599
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002600- Issue #175006: The debugger used to skip the condition of a "while"
2601 statement after the first iteration. Now it correctly steps on the
2602 expression, and breakpoints on the "while" statement are honored on
2603 each loop.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc6fd03bb2008-02-04 21:45:05 +00002604
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002605- Issue #1765140: add an optional delay argument to FileHandler and
2606 its subclasses. Defaults to false (existing behaviour), but if true,
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +00002607 defers opening the file until the first call to emit().
2608
Raymond Hettingerc226c312008-01-23 00:04:40 +00002609- The pprint module now supports sets and frozensets.
2610
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002611- Issue #1221598: add optional callbacks to ftplib.FTP's storbinary()
2612 and storlines() methods. (Contributed by Phil Schwartz)
Gregory P. Smithc64386b2008-01-22 00:19:41 +00002613
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002614- Issue #1715: include sub-extension modules in pydoc's text output.
Georg Brandlf2dae0e2008-01-21 21:05:49 +00002615
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002616- Issue #1836: fix an off-by-one bug in TimedRotatingHandler's
2617 rollover time calculation.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00002618
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002619- Issue #1021: fix a bug to allow basicConfig to accept NOTSET as a
2620 level.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00002621
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002622- Issue #932563: add LoggerAdapter convenience class to make it easier
2623 to add contextual information in logging output.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00002624
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002625- Issue #1760556: fix a bug to avoid FileHandler throwing an exception
2626 in flush().
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00002627
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002628- Bug #1530959: distutils' build command now uses different build
2629 directory when building extension modules against versions of Python
2630 compiled with ``--with-pydebug``.
Georg Brandl50160152008-01-21 17:42:40 +00002631
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002632- Issue #1555501: move plistlib from plat-mac directory to general
2633 library.
Georg Brandl864de822008-01-21 16:34:07 +00002634
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002635- Issue #1269: fix a bug in pstats.add_callers() and add a unit test
2636 file for pstats.
Georg Brandl66e73632008-01-21 10:24:59 +00002637
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002638- Issue #1669: don't allow shutil.rmtree() to be called on a symlink
2639 to a directory.
Georg Brandl52353982008-01-20 14:17:42 +00002640
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002641- Issue #1664522: in urllib, don't read non-existing directories in
2642 ftp mode, returning a 0-byte file -- raise an IOError instead.
Georg Brandld5e6cf22008-01-20 12:18:17 +00002643
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002644- Issue #856047: respect the ``no_proxy`` environment variable when
2645 using the ``http_proxy`` etc. environment variables in urllib.
Georg Brandl22350112008-01-20 12:05:43 +00002646
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002647- Issue #1178141: add a getcode() method to the addinfourls that
2648 urllib.open() returns so that you can retrieve the HTTP status code.
Georg Brandl9b0d46d2008-01-20 11:43:03 +00002649
Gregory P. Smithf25680a2008-01-20 01:26:04 +00002650- Issue #1003: Fix zipfile decryption check, it would fail zip files
2651 with extended local headers.
2652
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002653- Issue #1189216: Fix the zipfile module to work on archives with
2654 headers past the 2**31 byte boundary.
Gregory P. Smith350d03b2008-01-19 23:10:52 +00002655
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002656- Issue #1336: fix a race condition in subprocess.Popen if the garbage
Gregory P. Smithb9ba0752008-01-19 21:00:37 +00002657 collector kicked in at the wrong time that would cause the process
2658 to hang when the child wrote to stderr.
2659
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002660- Issue #1146: fix how textwrap breaks a long word that would start in
2661 the last column of a line.
Georg Brandlc6fde722008-01-19 19:48:19 +00002662
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002663- Issue #1693149: trace.py --ignore-module - accept multiple
2664 comma-separated modules to be given.
Skip Montanaro562133b2008-01-19 18:47:24 +00002665
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002666- Issue #1822: MIMEMultipart.is_multipart() behaves correctly for a
2667 just-created (and empty) instance. Thanks Jonathan Share.
Facundo Batista2b1b1952008-01-19 12:32:27 +00002668
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002669- Issue #1861: Added an attribute to the sched module which returns an
2670 ordered list of upcoming events (displayed as named tuples).
Raymond Hettinger44bd6c02008-01-17 19:31:38 +00002671
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002672- Issue #1837: The queue module now also supports a LIFO queue and a
2673 priority queue.
Raymond Hettinger3ad2acc82008-01-16 23:49:35 +00002674
Andrew M. Kuchling4a2762d2008-01-20 00:00:38 +00002675- Patch #1048820: Add insert-mode editing to curses.textpad.Textbox
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00002676 (patch by Stefan Wehr). Also, fix an off-by-one bug in
Andrew M. Kuchling4a2762d2008-01-20 00:00:38 +00002677 Textbox.gather().
2678
Thomas Heller02ec2892008-01-16 19:37:33 +00002679- Issue #1831: ctypes now raises a TypeError if conflicting positional
2680 and named arguments are passed to a Structure or Union initializer.
Thomas Heller415c1e32008-01-16 19:45:51 +00002681 When too many positional arguments are passed, also a TypeError is
2682 raised instead of a ValueError.
Thomas Heller02ec2892008-01-16 19:37:33 +00002683
Thomas Heller902d3072008-01-16 19:16:27 +00002684- Convert the internal ctypes array type cache to a WeakValueDict so
2685 that array types do not live longer than needed.
2686
Guido van Rossumcad37242008-01-15 17:59:29 +00002687- Issue #1786: pdb should use its own stdin/stdout around an exec call
2688 and when creating a recursive instance.
2689
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002690- Issue #1698398: ZipFile.printdir() crashed because the format string
2691 expected a tuple type of length six instead of time.struct_time
2692 object.
Raymond Hettinger351e1a32008-01-14 22:58:05 +00002693
Mark Dickinson59bc20b2008-01-12 01:56:00 +00002694- Issue #1780: The Decimal constructor now accepts arbitrary leading
2695 and trailing whitespace when constructing from a string.
2696 Context.create_decimal no longer accepts trailing newlines.
2697
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002698- Decimal.as_tuple(), difflib.find_longest_match() and inspect
2699 functions that returned a tuple now return a named tuple.
Georg Brandl2f32c392008-01-11 09:20:58 +00002700
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00002701- Doctest now returns results as a named tuple for readability:
Raymond Hettingerfff4e6e2008-01-11 01:25:54 +00002702 (0, 7) --> TestResults(failed=0, attempted=7)
2703
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002704- Issue #846388:q re.match is interruptible now, which is particularly
Facundo Batista4473d222008-01-08 21:10:12 +00002705 good for long regular expression matches.
2706
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002707- Patch #1137: allow setting buffer_size attribute on pyexpat Parser
2708 objects to set the character data buffer size.
Andrew M. Kuchlinge0a49b62008-01-08 14:30:55 +00002709
Facundo Batista52b25792008-01-08 12:25:20 +00002710- Issue #1757: The hash of a Decimal instance is no longer affected by
2711 the current context.
2712
Georg Brandl62416bc2008-01-07 18:47:44 +00002713- Patch #467924: add ZipFile.extract() and ZipFile.extractall() in the
2714 zipfile module.
2715
Christian Heimesfb2d25a2008-01-07 16:12:44 +00002716- Issue #1646: Make socket support the TIPC protocol.
2717
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002718- Bug #1742: return os.curdir from os.path.relpath() if both arguments
2719 are equal instead of raising an exception.
Georg Brandl183a0842008-01-06 14:27:15 +00002720
Guido van Rossumc6a04c22008-01-05 22:19:06 +00002721- Patch #1637: fix urlparse for URLs like 'http://x.com?arg=/foo'.
2722
Guido van Rossumced4eb02008-01-05 01:21:57 +00002723- Patch #1698: allow '@' in username parsed by urlparse.py.
2724
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002725- Issue #1735: TarFile.extractall() now correctly sets directory
2726 permissions and times.
Lars Gustäbel2ee1c762008-01-04 14:00:33 +00002727
Christian Heimes06875612008-01-04 13:21:07 +00002728- Bug #1713: posixpath.ismount() claims symlink to a mountpoint is a mountpoint.
2729
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002730- Bug #1687: Fxed plistlib.py restricts <integer> to Python int when
2731 writing
Christian Heimes06131882008-01-04 00:04:52 +00002732
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002733- Issue #1700: Regular expression inline flags incorrectly handle
2734 certain unicode characters.
Guido van Rossumae04c332008-01-03 19:12:44 +00002735
Jeffrey Yasskin2f3c16b2008-01-03 02:21:52 +00002736- Issue #1689: PEP 3141, numeric abstract base classes.
2737
Martin v. Löwis84b9aab2008-01-01 21:09:07 +00002738- Tk issue #1851526: Return results from Python callbacks to Tcl as
2739 Tcl objects.
2740
Thomas Heller153038e2007-12-18 19:00:34 +00002741- Issue #1642: Fix segfault in ctypes when trying to delete attributes.
2742
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002743- Issue #1727780: Support loading pickles of random.Random objects
2744 created on 32-bit systems on 64-bit systems, and vice versa. As a
2745 consequence of the change, Random pickles created by Python 2.6
2746 cannot be loaded in Python 2.5.
Martin v. Löwis6b449f42007-12-03 19:20:02 +00002747
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002748- Issue #1455: The distutils package now supports VS 2005 and VS 2008
2749 for both the msvccompiler and cygwincompiler.
Christian Heimesc654fc22007-12-03 13:55:16 +00002750
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002751- Issue #1531: tarfile.py: Read fileobj from the current offset, do
2752 not seek to the start.
Lars Gustäbel77b2d632007-12-01 21:02:12 +00002753
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002754- Issue #1534: Added a dictionary sys.float_info with information
2755 about the internal floating point type to the sys module.
Christian Heimesdfdfaab2007-12-01 11:20:10 +00002756
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002757- Issue #1429818: patch for trace and doctest modules so they play
2758 nicely together.
Skip Montanaro58a6f442007-11-24 14:30:47 +00002759
Brett Cannon43e53f82007-11-21 00:47:36 +00002760- doctest made a bad assumption that a package's __loader__.get_data()
2761 method used universal newlines.
2762
Nick Coghlan90b858e2007-11-07 11:57:51 +00002763- Issue #1705170: contextlib.contextmanager was still swallowing
2764 StopIteration in some cases. This should no longer happen.
2765
Thomas Heller486b1b02007-11-02 19:10:24 +00002766- Issue #1292: On alpha, arm, ppc, and s390 linux systems the
2767 --with-system-ffi configure option defaults to "yes".
2768
Hye-Shik Changa838a802007-10-28 11:19:02 +00002769- IN module for FreeBSD 8 is added and preexisting FreeBSD 6 and 7
2770 files are updated.
2771
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002772- Issues #1181, #1287: unsetenv() is now called when the
2773 os.environ.pop() and os.environ.clear() methods are used.
Georg Brandl1a94ec22007-10-24 21:40:38 +00002774
Thomas Heller91ac4222007-10-19 18:11:41 +00002775- ctypes will now work correctly on 32-bit systems when Python is
2776 configured with --with-system-ffi.
2777
Thomas Heller7fee6dd2007-10-11 19:51:32 +00002778- Patch #1203: ctypes now does work on OS X when Python is built with
Georg Brandl1a94ec22007-10-24 21:40:38 +00002779 --disable-toolbox-glue.
Thomas Heller7fee6dd2007-10-11 19:51:32 +00002780
Raymond Hettingera7fc4b12007-10-05 02:47:07 +00002781- collections.deque() now supports a "maxlen" argument.
2782
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002783- itertools.count() is no longer bounded to LONG_MAX. Formerly, it
2784 raised an OverflowError. Now, automatically shifts from ints to
2785 longs.
Raymond Hettinger50e90e22007-10-04 00:20:27 +00002786
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002787- Added itertools.product() which forms the Cartesian product of the
2788 input iterables.
Raymond Hettingerc5705a82008-02-22 19:50:06 +00002789
Raymond Hettinger66f91ea2008-03-05 20:59:58 +00002790- Added itertools.combinations() and itertools.permutations().
Raymond Hettinger93e804d2008-02-26 23:40:50 +00002791
Georg Brandlaff85e22007-09-20 16:06:07 +00002792- Patch #1541463: optimize performance of cgi.FieldStorage operations.
2793
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002794- Decimal is fully updated to the latest Decimal Specification
2795 (v1.66).
Facundo Batistab67da232007-09-17 16:26:50 +00002796
Georg Brandl8fd3ecf2007-09-12 19:00:07 +00002797- Bug #1153: repr.repr() now doesn't require set and dictionary items
2798 to be orderable to properly represent them.
2799
Thomas Heller2825b2e2007-09-07 06:32:17 +00002800- A 'c_longdouble' type was added to the ctypes module.
2801
Martin v. Löwis7dcb83c2007-08-30 19:04:09 +00002802- Bug #1709599: Run test_1565150 only if the file system is NTFS.
2803
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002804- When encountering a password-protected robots.txt file the
2805 RobotFileParser no longer prompts interactively for a username and
2806 password (bug 813986).
Skip Montanaro3e275362007-08-29 01:33:45 +00002807
Lars Gustäbel0f4a14b2007-08-28 12:31:09 +00002808- TarFile.__init__() no longer fails if no name argument is passed and
2809 the fileobj argument has no usable name attribute (e.g. StringIO).
2810
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002811- The functools module now provides 'reduce', for forward
2812 compatibility with Python 3000.
Guido van Rossum95f1a1b2007-08-27 20:52:10 +00002813
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002814- Server-side SSL support and cert verification added, by Bill
2815 Janssen.
Guido van Rossum4f2c3dd2007-08-25 15:08:43 +00002816
Bill Janssenf413fb02007-08-30 18:08:06 +00002817- socket.ssl deprecated; use new ssl module instead.
2818
Georg Brandl8ec57542007-08-24 06:10:01 +00002819- uuid creation is now threadsafe.
2820
Hye-Shik Chang23901042007-08-20 06:49:18 +00002821- EUC-KR codec now handles the cheot-ga-keut composed make-up hangul
2822 syllables.
2823
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002824- GB18030 codec now can encode additional two-byte characters that are
2825 missing in GBK.
Hye-Shik Changf3e93a02007-08-04 04:10:18 +00002826
Walter Dörwald6e390802007-08-17 16:41:28 +00002827- Add new codecs for UTF-32, UTF-32-LE and UTF-32-BE.
2828
Martin v. Löwisf1e0b3f2007-07-28 07:03:05 +00002829- Bug #1704793: Return UTF-16 pair if unicodedata.lookup cannot
2830 represent the result in a single character.
2831
Martin v. Löwisf25e35b2007-07-27 18:28:22 +00002832- Bug #978833: Close https sockets by releasing the _ssl object.
2833
Martin v. Löwis254b8f92007-07-25 16:24:23 +00002834- Change location of the package index to pypi.python.org/pypi
2835
Thomas Hellerfa704c62007-07-13 17:12:23 +00002836- Bug #1701409: Fix a segfault in printing ctypes.c_char_p and
2837 ctypes.c_wchar_p when they point to an invalid location. As a
2838 sideeffect the representation of these instances has changed.
2839
Lars Gustäbel104490e2007-06-18 11:42:11 +00002840- tarfile.py: Added "exclude" keyword argument to TarFile.add().
2841
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002842- Bug #1734723: Fix repr.Repr() so it doesn't ignore the maxtuple
2843 attribute.
Neal Norwitzc161cb92007-06-11 07:29:43 +00002844
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002845- The urlopen function of urllib2 now has an optional timeout
2846 parameter (note that it actually works with HTTP, HTTPS, FTP and
2847 FTPS connections).
Facundo Batista10951d52007-06-06 17:15:23 +00002848
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002849- In ftplib, the FTP.ntransfercmd method, when in passive mode, now
2850 uses the socket.create_connection function, using the timeout
2851 specified at connection time.
Facundo Batista92493122007-06-06 15:13:37 +00002852
Hye-Shik Chang9b541402007-06-05 18:58:51 +00002853- Bug #1728403: Fix a bug that CJKCodecs StreamReader hangs when it
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002854 reads a file that ends with incomplete sequence and sizehint
2855 argument for .read() is specified.
Hye-Shik Chang9b541402007-06-05 18:58:51 +00002856
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002857- Bug #1730389: Change time.strptime() to use ``\s+`` instead of
2858 ``\s*`` when matching spaces in the specified format argument.
Brett Cannonf7188ce2007-06-03 23:13:41 +00002859
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002860- Bugs #1668596/#1720897: distutils now copies data files even if
2861 package_dir is empty.
Neal Norwitz4a700bb2007-06-01 07:29:12 +00002862
Brett Cannonc2aa09a2007-05-31 19:20:00 +00002863- sha now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
2864
Brett Cannon7eec2172007-05-30 22:24:28 +00002865- md5 now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
2866
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002867- Issue #1385: The hmac module now computes the correct hmac when
2868 using hashes with a block size other than 64 bytes (such as sha384
2869 and sha512).
Gregory P. Smithe1ac4f12007-11-06 00:19:03 +00002870
Brett Cannonc249bda2007-05-30 21:48:58 +00002871- mimify now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
2872
Brett Cannon90134c92007-05-30 20:46:26 +00002873- MimeWriter now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
2874
Lars Gustäbela0fcb932007-05-27 19:49:30 +00002875- tarfile.py: Improved unicode support. Unicode input names are now
2876 officially supported. Added "errors" argument to the TarFile class.
2877
Facundo Batista711a54e2007-05-24 17:50:54 +00002878- urllib.ftpwrapper class now accepts an optional timeout.
2879
Georg Brandlc90bc752007-05-24 16:49:29 +00002880- shlex.split() now has an optional "posix" parameter.
2881
Brett Cannon41bf2fa2007-05-20 23:57:38 +00002882- The posixfile module now raises a DeprecationWarning.
2883
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002884- Remove the gopherlib module. This also leads to the removal of
2885 gopher support in urllib/urllib2.
Brett Cannond75f0432007-05-16 22:42:29 +00002886
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002887- Fix bug in marshal where bad data would cause a segfault due to lack
2888 of an infinite recursion check.
Neal Norwitzb1a9b372007-05-16 20:05:11 +00002889
Neal Norwitze0e70a42007-05-16 05:06:33 +00002890- Removed plat-freebsd2 and plat-freebsd3 directories (and IN.py in
2891 the directories).
2892
Georg Brandla09a96a2007-05-15 20:19:34 +00002893- HTML-escape the plain traceback in cgitb's HTML output, to prevent
2894 the traceback inadvertently or maliciously closing the comment and
2895 injecting HTML into the error page.
2896
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002897- The popen2 module and os.popen* are deprecated. Use the subprocess
2898 module.
Neal Norwitz42dd86b2007-05-11 06:57:33 +00002899
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002900- Added an optional credentials argument to SMTPHandler, for use with
2901 SMTP servers which require authentication.
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00002902
2903- Patch #1695948: Added optional timeout parameter to SocketHandler.
2904
2905- Bug #1652788: Minor fix for currentframe.
2906
2907- Patch #1598415: Added WatchedFileHandler to better support external
2908 log file rotation using e.g. newsyslog or logrotate. This handler is
2909 only useful in Unix/Linux environments.
2910
Georg Brandlfb4b3b72007-04-24 15:27:13 +00002911- Bug #1706381: Specifying the SWIG option "-c++" in the setup.py file
2912 (as opposed to the command line) will now write file names ending in
2913 ".cpp" too.
2914
Facundo Batistad918a652007-04-24 13:54:38 +00002915- As specified in RFC 2616, an HTTP response like 2xx indicates that
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002916 the client's request was successfully received, understood, and
2917 accepted. Now in these cases no error is raised in urllib (issue
2918 #1177) and urllib2.
Facundo Batistad918a652007-04-24 13:54:38 +00002919
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002920- Bug #1290505: time.strptime's internal cache of locale information
2921 is now properly recreated when the locale is changed.
Brett Cannonc6906652007-04-01 18:47:27 +00002922
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002923- Patch #1685563: remove (don't add) duplicate paths in
2924 distutils.MSVCCompiler.
Neal Norwitz8f35f442007-04-01 18:24:22 +00002925
Facundo Batistab6a5c9d2007-03-29 18:22:35 +00002926- Added a timeout parameter to the constructor of other protocols
2927 (telnetlib, ftplib, smtplib and poplib). This is second part of the
2928 work started with create_connection() and timeout in httplib, and
2929 closes patch #723312.
2930
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00002931- Patch #1676823: Added create_connection() to socket.py, which may be
2932 called with a timeout, and use it from httplib (whose HTTPConnection
Facundo Batista70f996b2007-05-21 17:32:32 +00002933 and HTTPSConnection now accept an optional timeout).
Facundo Batista07c78be2007-03-23 18:54:07 +00002934
Martin v. Löwis0af33882007-03-23 13:27:15 +00002935- Bug #978833: Revert r50844, as it broke _socketobject.dup.
2936
Žiga Seilnacht7492e422007-03-21 20:07:56 +00002937- Bug #1675967: re patterns pickled with Python 2.4 and earlier can
2938 now be unpickled with Python 2.5 and newer.
2939
Collin Wintera8785cc2007-03-19 18:52:08 +00002940- Patch #1630118: add a SpooledTemporaryFile class to tempfile.py.
2941
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002942- Patch #1273829: os.walk() now has a "followlinks" parameter. If set
2943 to True (which is not the default), it visits symlinks pointing to
Georg Brandlcae9f3d2007-03-21 09:10:29 +00002944 directories.
2945
Georg Brandl8f06d022007-03-16 07:55:09 +00002946- Bug #1681228: the webbrowser module now correctly uses the default
2947 GNOME or KDE browser, depending on whether there is a session of one
2948 of those present. Also, it tries the Windows default browser before
2949 trying Mozilla variants.
2950
Collin Winter6f187742007-03-16 22:16:08 +00002951- Patch #1339796: add a relpath() function to os.path.
2952
Georg Brandlab1f4672007-03-15 07:41:30 +00002953- Patch #1681153: the wave module now closes a file object it opened if
2954 initialization failed.
2955
Georg Brandlf66b6032007-03-14 08:27:52 +00002956- Bug #767111: fix long-standing bug in urllib which caused an
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002957 AttributeError instead of an IOError when the server's response
2958 didn't contain a valid HTTP status line.
Georg Brandlf66b6032007-03-14 08:27:52 +00002959
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002960- Patch #957650: "%var%" environment variable references are now
2961 properly expanded in ntpath.expandvars(), also "~user" home
2962 directory references are recognized and handled on Windows.
Georg Brandl03b90d82007-03-13 22:07:36 +00002963
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002964- Patch #1429539: pdb now correctly initializes the __main__ module
2965 for the debugged script, which means that imports from __main__ work
Georg Brandlb6ae6aa2007-03-13 21:58:44 +00002966 correctly now.
2967
Georg Brandlbad6f192007-03-13 21:32:56 +00002968- The nonobvious commands.getstatus() function is now deprecated.
2969
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002970- Patch #1393667: pdb now has a "run" command which restarts the
2971 debugged Python program, optionally with different arguments.
Georg Brandl8e84c652007-03-13 21:08:15 +00002972
Thomas Heller5dc4fe02007-03-13 20:42:52 +00002973- Patch #1649190: Adding support for _Bool to ctypes as c_bool.
2974
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002975- Patch #1530482: add pydoc.render_doc() which returns the
2976 documentation for a thing instead of paging it to stdout, which
2977 pydoc.doc() does.
Georg Brandl8441f152007-03-13 20:02:57 +00002978
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002979- Patch #1533909: the timeit module now accepts callables in addition
2980 to strings for the code to time and the setup code. Also added two
2981 convenience functions for instantiating a Timer and calling its
2982 methods.
Georg Brandld9bef352007-03-13 19:32:21 +00002983
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002984- Patch #1537850: tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile now has a "delete"
2985 parameter which can be set to False to prevent the default
2986 delete-on-close behavior.
Georg Brandl35ef9c12007-03-13 18:31:49 +00002987
Georg Brandl9e6b4702007-03-13 18:15:41 +00002988- Patch #1581073: add a flag to textwrap that prevents the dropping of
2989 whitespace while wrapping.
2990
Georg Brandl92a6bae2007-03-13 17:43:32 +00002991- Patch #1603688: ConfigParser.SafeConfigParser now checks values that
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002992 are set for invalid interpolation sequences that would lead to
2993 errors on reading back those values.
Georg Brandl92a6bae2007-03-13 17:43:32 +00002994
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002995- Added support for the POSIX.1-2001 (pax) format to
2996 tarfile.py. Extended and cleaned up the test suite. Added a new
2997 testtar.tar.
Lars Gustäbelc64e4022007-03-13 10:47:19 +00002998
Martin v. Löwisbdd0f392007-03-13 10:24:00 +00002999- Patch #1449244: Support Unicode strings in
3000 email.message.Message.{set_charset,get_content_charset}.
3001
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003002- Patch #1542681: add entries for "with", "as" and "CONTEXTMANAGERS"
3003 to pydoc's help keywords.
Georg Brandlb6a87542007-03-13 10:06:48 +00003004
Georg Brandl4ffc8f52007-03-13 09:41:31 +00003005- Patch #1555098: use str.join() instead of repeated string
3006 concatenation in robotparser.
3007
Georg Brandl94fe3f52007-03-13 09:32:11 +00003008- Patch #1635454: the csv.DictWriter class now includes the offending
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003009 field names in its exception message if you try to write a record
3010 with a dictionary containing fields not in the CSV field names list.
Georg Brandl94fe3f52007-03-13 09:32:11 +00003011
Georg Brandlceede5c2007-03-13 08:14:27 +00003012- Patch #1668100: urllib2 now correctly raises URLError instead of
3013 OSError if accessing a local file via the file:// protocol fails.
3014
Martin v. Löwis2681beb2007-03-12 11:01:10 +00003015- Patch #1677862: Require a space or tab after import in .pth files.
3016
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003017- Patch #1192590: Fix pdb's "ignore" and "condition" commands so they
3018 trap the IndexError caused by passing in an invalid breakpoint
3019 number.
Collin Winter2faa9e12007-03-11 16:00:20 +00003020
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003021- Patch #1599845: Add an option to disable the implicit calls to
3022 server_bind() and server_activate() in the constructors for
3023 TCPServer, SimpleXMLRPCServer and DocXMLRPCServer.
Collin Winterae041062007-03-10 14:41:48 +00003024
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003025- Bug #1531963: Make SocketServer.TCPServer's server_address always be
3026 equal to calling getsockname() on the server's socket. Fixed by
Collin Winterfaaa2042007-03-10 03:35:34 +00003027 patch #1545011.
Collin Winter22c42ba2007-03-10 02:51:26 +00003028
Andrew M. Kuchlinge45a77a2008-01-19 16:26:13 +00003029- Patch #742598: Add .timeout attribute to SocketServer that calls
3030 .handle_timeout() when no requests are received.
3031
Thomas Heller2456a3c2007-03-09 20:39:22 +00003032- Bug #1651235: When a tuple was passed to a ctypes function call,
3033 Python would crash instead of raising an error.
3034
Thomas Hellerc2f77252007-03-09 19:21:28 +00003035- Bug #1646630: ctypes.string_at(buf, 0) and ctypes.wstring_at(buf, 0)
3036 returned string up to the first NUL character.
3037
Martin v. Löwis1190a382007-03-09 15:35:55 +00003038- Patch #957003: Implement smtplib.LMTP.
3039
Collin Winterfb728de2007-03-09 03:26:32 +00003040- Patch #1481079: add support for HTTP_REFERER to CGIHTTPServer.
3041
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003042- Patch #1675424: Added tests for uncovered code in the zipfile
3043 module. The KeyError raised by Zipfile.getinfo for nonexistent
3044 names now has a descriptive message.
Georg Brandl4b3ab6f2007-07-12 09:59:22 +00003045
Martin v. Löwis05c075d2007-03-07 11:04:33 +00003046- Bug #1115886: os.path.splitext('.cshrc') gives now ('.cshrc', '').
3047
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003048- unittest now verifies more of its assumptions. In particular,
3049 TestCase and TestSuite subclasses (not instances) are no longer
3050 accepted in TestSuite.addTest(). This should cause no
3051 incompatibility since it never made sense with ordinary subclasses
3052 -- the failure just occurred later, with a more cumbersome
3053 exception.
Georg Brandl9caadf82007-03-08 18:37:31 +00003054
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003055- Patch #787789: allow to pass custom TestRunner instances to
3056 unittest's main() function.
Georg Brandld0a96252007-03-07 09:21:06 +00003057
Georg Brandl15c5ce92007-03-07 09:09:40 +00003058- Patches #1550273, #1550272: fix a few bugs in unittest and add a
3059 comprehensive test suite for the module.
3060
Georg Brandl71ff6462007-03-07 08:31:51 +00003061- Patch #1001604: glob.glob() now returns unicode filenames if it was
3062 given a unicode argument and os.listdir() returns unicode filenames.
3063
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003064- Patch #1673619: setup.py identifies extension modules it doesn't
3065 know how to build and those it knows how to build but that fail to
3066 build.
Skip Montanarod1287322007-03-06 15:41:38 +00003067
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00003068- Patch #912410: Replace HTML entity references for attribute values
Martin v. Löwisab8a6bb2007-03-06 14:43:00 +00003069 in HTMLParser.
3070
Georg Brandlff432e62007-03-06 13:37:45 +00003071- Patch #1663234: you can now run doctest on test files and modules
3072 using "python -m doctest [-v] filename ...".
3073
Martin v. Löwis3eb76482007-03-06 10:41:24 +00003074- Patch #1121142: Implement ZipFile.open.
3075
Skip Montanarof694b1b2007-03-04 20:54:12 +00003076- Taught setup.py how to locate Berkeley DB on Macs using MacPorts.
3077
Raymond Hettinger00166c52007-02-19 04:08:43 +00003078- Added heapq.merge() for merging sorted input streams.
3079
Raymond Hettingercd3c1082007-10-23 21:23:07 +00003080- Added collections.namedtuple() for assigning field names to tuples.
Raymond Hettingerc37e5e02007-03-01 06:16:43 +00003081
Raymond Hettingerd36862c2007-02-21 05:20:38 +00003082- Added itertools.izip_longest().
3083
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003084- Have the encoding package's search function dynamically import using
3085 absolute import semantics.
Brett Cannon971a0122007-02-15 22:54:39 +00003086
Lars Gustäbel5b1a7852007-02-13 16:09:24 +00003087- Patch #1647484: Renamed GzipFile's filename attribute to name.
3088
Martin v. Löwis84f6de92007-02-13 10:10:39 +00003089- Patch #1517891: Mode 'a' for ZipFile now creates the file if it
3090 doesn't exist.
3091
Martin v. Löwisc6d626e2007-02-13 09:49:38 +00003092- Patch #698833: Support file decryption in zipfile.
3093
Martin v. Löwis07aa3ed2007-02-13 08:34:45 +00003094- Patch #685268: Consider a package's __path__ in imputil.
3095
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003096- Patch #1463026: Support default namespace in XMLGenerator.
Martin v. Löwis2bad58f2007-02-12 12:21:10 +00003097
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003098- Patch #1571379: Make trace's --ignore-dir facility work in the face
3099 of relative directory names.
Skip Montanaro691acf22007-02-11 18:24:37 +00003100
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003101- Bug #1600860: Search for shared python library in LIBDIR, not
3102 lib/python/config, on "linux" and "gnu" systems.
Martin v. Löwis0a203262007-02-09 12:36:48 +00003103
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003104- Patch #1652681: tarfile.py: create nonexistent files in append mode
3105 and allow appending to empty files.
Lars Gustäbel3f8aca12007-02-06 18:38:13 +00003106
Peter Astrand5f9c6ae2007-02-06 15:37:50 +00003107- Bug #1124861: Automatically create pipes if GetStdHandle fails in
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00003108 subprocess.
Peter Astrand5f9c6ae2007-02-06 15:37:50 +00003109
Georg Brandl4ba9e5b2007-01-27 17:59:42 +00003110- Patch #1634778: add missing encoding aliases for iso8859_15 and
3111 iso8859_16.
3112
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003113- Patch #1638243: the compiler package is now able to correctly
3114 compile a with statement; previously, executing code containing a
3115 with statement compiled by the compiler package crashed the
3116 interpreter.
Georg Brandlab496842007-01-27 17:43:02 +00003117
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00003118- Bug #1643943: Fix time.strptime's support for the %U directive.
3119
Lars Gustäbel0713a682007-02-19 09:54:47 +00003120- Patch #1507247: tarfile.py: use current umask for intermediate
3121 directories.
3122
Georg Brandldd7b0522007-01-21 10:35:10 +00003123- Patch #1627441: close sockets properly in urllib2.
3124
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003125- Bug #494589: make ntpath.expandvars behave according to its
3126 docstring.
Sjoerd Mullender33a0a062007-01-16 16:42:38 +00003127
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00003128- Changed platform module API python_version_tuple() to actually
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00003129 return a tuple (it used to return a list).
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00003130
3131- Added new platform module APIs python_branch(), python_revision(),
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00003132 python_implementation() and linux_distribution().
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00003133
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00003134- Added support for IronPython and Jython to the platform module.
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00003135
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003136- The sets module has been deprecated. Use the built-in set/frozenset
3137 types instead.
Brett Cannon093b6702007-01-13 00:29:49 +00003138
Thomas Heller6fd45492007-01-12 20:21:53 +00003139- Bug #1610795: make ctypes.util.find_library work on BSD systems.
3140
Thomas Heller8138c262007-01-11 21:18:56 +00003141- Fixes for 64-bit Windows: In ctypes.wintypes, correct the
3142 definitions of HANDLE, WPARAM, LPARAM data types. Make
3143 parameterless foreign function calls work.
3144
Thomas Hellerfb9d7872007-01-10 20:12:13 +00003145- The version number of the ctypes package changed to "1.1.0".
3146
Vinay Sajipab41c102007-01-09 14:51:36 +00003147- Bug #1627575: logging: Added _open() method to FileHandler which can
3148 be used to reopen files. The FileHandler instance now saves the
3149 encoding (which can be None) in an attribute called "encoding".
3150
Vinay Sajipc9137262007-01-08 18:52:36 +00003151- Bug #411881: logging.handlers: bare except clause removed from
3152 SMTPHandler.emit. Now, only ImportError is trapped.
3153
3154- Bug #411881: logging.handlers: bare except clause removed from
3155 SocketHandler.createSocket. Now, only socket.error is trapped.
3156
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003157- Bug #411881: logging: bare except clause removed from
3158 LogRecord.__init__. Now, only ValueError, TypeError and
3159 AttributeError are trapped.
Vinay Sajipc9137262007-01-08 18:52:36 +00003160
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003161- Patch #1504073: Fix tarfile.open() for mode "r" with a fileobj
3162 argument.
Lars Gustäbela7ba6fc2006-12-27 10:30:46 +00003163
Andrew M. Kuchling71662322006-12-27 03:31:24 +00003164- Patch #1182394 from Shane Holloway: speed up HMAC.hexdigest.
3165
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003166- Patch #1262036: Prevent TarFiles from being added to themselves
3167 under certain conditions.
Lars Gustäbela4b23812006-12-23 17:57:23 +00003168
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003169- Patch #1230446: tarfile.py: fix ExFileObject so that read() and
3170 tell() work correctly together with readline().
Lars Gustäbel6baa5022006-12-23 16:40:13 +00003171
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003172- Patch #1484695: The tarfile module now raises a HeaderError
3173 exception if a buffer given to frombuf() is invalid.
Georg Brandlebbeed72006-12-19 22:06:46 +00003174
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00003175- Bug #1503765: Fix a problem in logging.config with spaces in comma-
3176 separated lists read from logging config files.
3177
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003178- Patch #1604907: Fix problems in logging.handlers caused at logging
3179 shutdown when syslog handlers fail to initialize because of syslogd
3180 problems.
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00003181
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003182- Patch #1608267: fix a race condition in os.makedirs() if the
3183 directory to be created is already there.
Georg Brandlb1307432006-12-09 09:08:29 +00003184
Georg Brandl87fa5592006-12-06 22:21:18 +00003185- Patch #1610437: fix a tarfile bug with long filename headers.
3186
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003187- Patch #1371075: Make ConfigParser accept optional dict type for
3188 ordering, sorting, etc.
Martin v. Löwisa00bcac2006-12-03 12:01:53 +00003189
Thomas Helleref583a42006-11-28 20:21:54 +00003190- Bug #1563807: _ctypes built on AIX fails with ld ffi error.
3191
Thomas Heller25d208b2006-11-24 18:45:39 +00003192- Bug #1598620: A ctypes Structure cannot contain itself.
3193
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003194- Patch #1070046: Marshal new-style objects like InstanceType in
3195 xmlrpclib.
Martin v. Löwis07529352006-11-19 18:51:54 +00003196
Martin v. Löwiscffcc8b2006-11-19 10:41:41 +00003197- cStringIO.truncate(-1) now raises an IOError, like StringIO and
3198 regular files.
3199
Martin v. Löwisbba003e2006-11-18 18:42:11 +00003200- Patch #1472877: Fix Tix subwidget name resolution.
3201
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003202- Patch #1594554: Always close a tkSimpleDialog on ok(), even if an
3203 exception occurs.
Martin v. Löwisef5fd3e2006-11-18 18:05:35 +00003204
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003205- Patch #1538878: Don't make tkSimpleDialog dialogs transient if the
3206 parent window is withdrawn.
Martin v. Löwisc73a4a42006-11-18 18:00:23 +00003207
Georg Brandl54082112006-11-16 16:50:59 +00003208- Bug #1597824: return the registered function from atexit.register()
3209 to facilitate usage as a decorator.
3210
Martin v. Löwis45cd4ff2006-11-12 18:56:03 +00003211- Patch #1360200: Use unmangled_version RPM spec field to deal with
3212 file name mangling.
3213
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003214- Patch #1359217: Process 2xx response in an ftplib transfer that
3215 precedes an 1xx response.
Martin v. Löwis36cbc082006-11-12 18:48:13 +00003216
Martin v. Löwis065f0c82006-11-12 10:41:39 +00003217- Patch #1355023: support whence argument for GzipFile.seek.
3218
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00003219- Patch #1065257: Support passing open files as body in
Martin v. Löwis040a9272006-11-12 10:32:47 +00003220 HTTPConnection.request().
3221
Andrew M. Kuchlinga3e5d372006-11-09 13:27:07 +00003222- Bug #1569790: mailbox.py: Maildir.get_folder() and MH.get_folder()
3223 weren't passing the message factory on to newly created Maildir/MH
3224 objects.
3225
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003226- Patch #1514543: mailbox.py: In the Maildir class, report errors if
3227 there's a filename clash instead of possibly losing a message.
3228 (Patch by David Watson.)
Andrew M. Kuchling978d8282006-11-09 21:16:46 +00003229
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003230- Patch #1514544: Try to ensure that messages/indexes have been
3231 physically written to disk after calling .flush() or
3232 .close(). (Patch by David Watson.)
Andrew M. Kuchlingb5686da2006-11-09 13:51:14 +00003233
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00003234- Patch #1592250: Add elide argument to Tkinter.Text.search.
Martin v. Löwis038cad72006-11-09 11:27:32 +00003235
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00003236- Patch #838546: Make terminal become controlling in pty.fork().
Martin v. Löwisb2bba732006-11-09 11:06:03 +00003237
Martin v. Löwis5361e9a2006-11-08 07:35:55 +00003238- Patch #1351744: Add askyesnocancel helper for tkMessageBox.
3239
Martin v. Löwis5310e502006-11-04 18:14:06 +00003240- Patch #1060577: Extract list of RPM files from spec file in
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00003241 bdist_rpm.
Martin v. Löwis5310e502006-11-04 18:14:06 +00003242
Georg Brandl2c9838e2006-10-29 14:39:09 +00003243- Bug #1586613: fix zlib and bz2 codecs' incremental en/decoders.
3244
Georg Brandl3354f282006-10-29 09:16:12 +00003245- Patch #1583880: fix tarfile's problems with long names and posix/
3246 GNU modes.
3247
Georg Brandl5addf702006-10-29 08:53:06 +00003248- Bug #1586448: the compiler module now emits the same bytecode for
3249 list comprehensions as the builtin compiler, using the LIST_APPEND
3250 opcode.
3251
Georg Brandl8f99f812006-10-29 08:39:22 +00003252- Fix codecs.EncodedFile which did not use file_encoding in 2.5.0, and
3253 fix all codecs file wrappers to work correctly with the "with"
3254 statement (bug #1586513).
3255
Thomas Heller112d1a62006-10-27 19:05:53 +00003256- Lib/modulefinder.py now handles absolute and relative imports
3257 correctly.
3258
Martin v. Löwisee82c0e2006-10-27 07:13:28 +00003259- Patch #1567274: Support SMTP over TLS.
3260
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003261- Patch #1560695: Add .note.GNU-stack to ctypes' sysv.S so that ctypes
3262 isn't considered as requiring executable stacks.
Martin v. Löwis1b2f6272006-10-22 10:55:15 +00003263
Thomas Hellerd2ea4a22006-10-17 19:30:48 +00003264- ctypes callback functions only support 'fundamental' data types as
3265 result type. Raise an error when something else is used. This is a
3266 partial fix for Bug #1574584.
3267
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003268- Fix turtle so that time.sleep is imported for the entire library.
3269 Allows the demo2 function to be executed on its own instead of only
3270 when the module is run as a script.
Brett Cannond80e0c82006-10-16 03:09:52 +00003271
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003272- Bug #813342: Start the IDLE subprocess with -Qnew if the parent is
3273 started with that option.
Georg Brandld0761532006-10-12 07:57:21 +00003274
Martin v. Löwisf43893a2006-10-09 20:44:25 +00003275- Bug #1565150: Fix subsecond processing for os.utime on Windows.
3276
Martin v. Löwis8b274262006-10-04 15:25:28 +00003277- Support for MSVC 8 was added to bdist_wininst.
3278
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003279- Bug #1446043: correctly raise a LookupError if an encoding name
3280 given to encodings.search_function() contains a dot.
Georg Brandla92979a2006-09-30 11:22:28 +00003281
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003282- Bug #1560617: in pyclbr, return full module name not only for
3283 classes, but also for functions.
Georg Brandl154324a2006-09-30 11:06:47 +00003284
Georg Brandl05b3c452006-09-30 10:58:01 +00003285- Bug #1457823: cgi.(Sv)FormContentDict's constructor now takes
3286 keep_blank_values and strict_parsing keyword arguments.
3287
Georg Brandl8d1e5bf2006-09-30 09:13:21 +00003288- Bug #1566602: correct failure of posixpath unittest when $HOME ends
3289 with a slash.
3290
Georg Brandl8c667452006-09-30 07:31:57 +00003291- Bug #1565661: in webbrowser, split() the command for the default
3292 GNOME browser in case it is a command with args.
3293
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003294- Made the error message for time.strptime when the data data and
3295 format do match be more clear.
Brett Cannon11b35352006-09-26 23:38:24 +00003296
Georg Brandlc7986ce2006-09-24 12:50:24 +00003297- Fix a bug in traceback.format_exception_only() that led to an error
3298 being raised when print_exc() was called without an exception set.
3299 In version 2.4, this printed "None", restored that behavior.
3300
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003301- Make webbrowser.BackgroundBrowser usable in Windows (it wasn't
3302 because the close_fds arg to subprocess.Popen is not supported).
Georg Brandl2c94bf72006-09-24 10:36:01 +00003303
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003304- Reverted patch #1504333 to sgmllib because it introduced an infinite
3305 loop.
Neal Norwitzbcc119a2006-09-11 04:24:09 +00003306
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003307- Patch #1553314: Fix the inspect.py slowdown that was hurting IPython
3308 & SAGE by adding smarter caching in inspect.getmodule()
Nick Coghlanb3c18f82006-09-08 10:04:38 +00003309
Georg Brandl4e933132006-09-06 20:05:58 +00003310- Fix missing import of the types module in logging.config.
3311
Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +00003312- Patch #1550886: Fix decimal module context management implementation
Neal Norwitza22975f2006-09-05 02:24:03 +00003313 to match the localcontext() example from PEP 343.
Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +00003314
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003315- Bug #1545341: The 'classifier' keyword argument to the Distutils
3316 setup() function now accepts tuples as well as lists.
Andrew M. Kuchling99994792006-10-09 17:10:12 +00003317
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003318- Bug #1541863: uuid.uuid1 failed to generate unique identifiers on
3319 systems with low clock resolution.
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00003320
Gustavo Niemeyerc36bede2006-09-07 00:48:33 +00003321- Bug #1531862: Do not close standard file descriptors in subprocess.
3322
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003323- idle: Honor the "Cancel" action in the save dialog (Debian bug
3324 #299092).
Matthias Klosea398e2d2007-01-11 11:44:04 +00003325
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003326- Fix utf-8-sig incremental decoder, which didn't recognise a BOM when
3327 the first chunk fed to the decoder started with a BOM, but was
3328 longer than 3 bytes.
Georg Brandl27562782006-10-27 20:39:43 +00003329
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003330- The implementation of UnicodeError objects has been simplified
3331 (start and end attributes are now stored directly as Py_ssize_t
3332 members).
Walter Dörwald84a3efe2007-06-13 16:57:12 +00003333
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003334- Issue #829951: In the smtplib module, SMTP.starttls() now complies
3335 with RFC 3207 and forgets any knowledge obtained from the server not
3336 obtained from the TLS negotiation itself. Patch contributed by Bill
3337 Fenner.
Gregory P. Smith2b3ba582008-01-17 08:03:17 +00003338
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003339- Issue #1339: The smtplib.SMTP class has been refactored a bit such
Gregory P. Smithbde4ae42008-01-17 08:35:49 +00003340 that the SMTP.starttls() caller no longer needs to call ehlo()
3341 beforehand. SMTP.starttls() now raises an exception of the server
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003342 does not claim to support starttls. Adds the
3343 SMTP.ehlo_or_helo_if_needed() method. Patch contributed by Bill
3344 Fenner.
Gregory P. Smithbde4ae42008-01-17 08:35:49 +00003345
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003346- Patch #1089358: Add signal.siginterrupt, a wrapper around
3347 siginterrupt(3).
Georg Brandl29604a12008-01-26 14:03:47 +00003348
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00003349Extension Modules
3350-----------------
3351
Georg Brandl392c6fc2008-05-25 07:25:25 +00003352- Patch #1657: added select.epoll and select.kqueue.
Christian Heimes0e9ab5f2008-03-21 23:49:44 +00003353
Georg Brandlebcfd112008-02-23 23:04:35 +00003354- Patch #1506171: added operator.methodcaller().
3355
Georg Brandle2065c62008-02-23 23:02:23 +00003356- Patch #1826: operator.attrgetter() now supports dotted attribute paths.
3357
Georg Brandl392c6fc2008-05-25 07:25:25 +00003358- Patch #1957: syslogmodule: Release GIL when calling syslog(3).
Christian Heimesf0476e82008-02-23 17:42:31 +00003359
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003360- Bug #2112: mmap.error is now a subclass of EnvironmentError and not
3361 a direct EnvironmentError.
Facundo Batistae1396882008-02-17 18:59:29 +00003362
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003363- Bug #2111: mmap segfaults when trying to write a block opened with
3364 PROT_READ.
Christian Heimes7adfad82008-02-15 08:20:11 +00003365
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003366- Bug #2063: correct order of utime and stime in os.times() result on
3367 Windows.
Georg Brandl0a40ffb2008-02-13 07:20:22 +00003368
Martin v. Löwise0d30ef2008-02-12 13:47:26 +00003369- Patch #1736: Fix file name handling of _msi.FCICreate.
3370
Hye-Shik Chang01612e72008-02-08 17:10:20 +00003371- Updated ``big5hkscs`` codec to the HKSCS revision of 2004.
3372
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003373- Issue #1940: make it possible to use curses.filter() before
3374 curses.initscr() as the documentation says.
Georg Brandl29604a12008-01-26 14:03:47 +00003375
Christian Heimes7f39c9f2008-01-25 12:18:43 +00003376- Backport of _fileio module from Python 3.0.
3377
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003378- Patch #1087741: mmap.mmap is now a class, not a factory function. It
3379 is also subclassable now.
Georg Brandl5ca3fd82008-01-21 14:18:14 +00003380
Georg Brandl56112892008-01-20 13:59:46 +00003381- Patch #1648: added ``sys.getprofile()`` and ``sys.gettrace()``.
3382
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003383- Patch #1663329: added ``os.closerange()`` function to quickly close
3384 a range of file descriptors without considering errors.
Georg Brandl309501a2008-01-19 20:22:13 +00003385
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003386- Patch #976880: ``mmap`` objects now have an ``rfind`` method that
Andrew M. Kuchling5c60bfc2008-01-19 18:18:41 +00003387 works as expected. ``mmap.find`` also takes an optional ``end``
3388 parameter.
3389
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003390- _winreg's HKEY object has gained __enter__ and __exit__ methods to
3391 support the context manager protocol. The _winreg module also
3392 gained a new function ``ExpandEnvironmentStrings`` to expand
3393 REG_EXPAND_SZ keys.
Christian Heimesb39a7562008-01-08 15:46:10 +00003394
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003395- itertools.starmap() now accepts any iterable input. Previously, it
3396 required the function inputs to be tuples.
Raymond Hettinger47317092008-01-17 03:02:14 +00003397
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003398- itertools.chain() now has an alternate constructor,
3399 chain.from_iterable().
Raymond Hettingerb4cbc982008-02-28 22:46:41 +00003400
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003401- Issue #1646: Make socket support TIPC. The socket module now has
3402 support for TIPC under Linux, see http://tipc.sf.net/ for more
3403 information.
Christian Heimesfb2d25a2008-01-07 16:12:44 +00003404
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003405- Added interface for Windows' WSAIoctl to socket object and added an
3406 example for a simple network sniffer.
Christian Heimes04ae9162008-01-04 15:23:30 +00003407
Guido van Rossum076d9ee2008-01-03 23:54:04 +00003408- Bug #1301: Bad assert in _tkinter fixed.
3409
Christian Heimescdaa2cb2007-12-31 14:47:07 +00003410- Added bdist_wininst executable for VS 2008.
3411
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003412- Bug #1604: collections.deque.__init__(iterable) now clears any prior
3413 contents before adding elements from the iterable. This fix brings
3414 the behavior into line with that for list.__init__().
Raymond Hettingeradf9ffd2007-12-13 00:08:37 +00003415
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003416- Added wide char functions to msvcrt module: getwch, getwche, putwch
3417 and ungetwch. The functions accept or return unicode.
Christian Heimes7c7f6af2007-12-10 15:12:41 +00003418
Martin v. Löwis69233e82007-12-04 08:39:16 +00003419- os.access now returns True on Windows for any existing directory.
3420
Christian Heimes28104c52007-11-27 23:16:44 +00003421- Added warnpy3k function to the warnings module.
3422
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003423- Marshal.dumps() now expects exact type matches for int, long, float,
3424 complex, tuple, list, dict, set, and frozenset. Formerly, it would
3425 silently miscode subclasses of those types. Now, it raises a
3426 ValueError instead.
Raymond Hettinger12e94202007-11-07 01:13:09 +00003427
Martin v. Löwis58bd49f2007-09-04 13:13:14 +00003428- Patch #1388440: Add set_completion_display_matches_hook and
3429 get_completion_type to readline.
3430
Thomas Helleref4fff32007-07-13 17:46:54 +00003431- Bug #1649098: Avoid declaration of zero-sized array declaration in
3432 structure.
3433
Brett Cannondc48b742007-05-20 07:09:50 +00003434- Removed the rgbimg module; been deprecated since Python 2.5.
3435
Neal Norwitz59f58aa2007-05-19 03:48:47 +00003436- Bug #1721309: prevent bsddb module from freeing random memory.
3437
Gregory P. Smith82eafe62007-10-18 17:17:57 +00003438- Bug #1233: fix bsddb.dbshelve.DBShelf append method to work as
3439 intended for RECNO databases.
3440
Gregory P. Smithec10a4a2007-11-05 02:32:26 +00003441- pybsddb.sf.net Bug #477182: Load the database flags at database open
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003442 time so that opening a database previously created with the DB_DUP
3443 or DB_DUPSORT flag set will keep the proper behavior on subsequent
3444 opens. Specifically: dictionary assignment to a DB object will
3445 replace all values for a given key when the database allows
3446 duplicate values. DB users should use DB.put(k, v) when they want
3447 to store duplicates; not DB[k] = v.
Gregory P. Smithec10a4a2007-11-05 02:32:26 +00003448
Gregory P. Smithac11e022007-11-05 02:56:31 +00003449- Add the bsddb.db.DBEnv.lock_id_free method.
3450
Martin v. Löwis3bf573f2007-04-04 18:30:36 +00003451- Bug #1686475: Support stat'ing open files on Windows again.
3452
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003453- Patch #1185447: binascii.b2a_qp() now correctly quotes binary
3454 characters with ASCII value less than 32. Also, it correctly quotes
3455 dots only if they occur on a single line, as opposed to the previous
3456 behavior of quoting dots if they are the second character of any
3457 line.
Georg Brandl4aef7272007-03-13 22:49:43 +00003458
Georg Brandla47337f2007-03-13 12:34:25 +00003459- Bug #1622896: fix a rare corner case where the bz2 module raised an
3460 error in spite of a succesful compression.
3461
Georg Brandl40c62612007-03-06 18:59:11 +00003462- Patch #1654417: make operator.{get,set,del}slice use the full range
3463 of Py_ssize_t.
3464
Guido van Rossum2054ee92007-03-06 15:50:01 +00003465- Patch #1646728: datetime.fromtimestamp fails with negative
3466 fractional times. With unittest.
3467
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003468- Patch #1490190: posixmodule now includes os.chflags() and
3469 os.lchflags() functions on platforms where the underlying system
3470 calls are available.
Martin v. Löwis382abef2007-02-19 10:55:19 +00003471
Georg Brandl983d1002007-02-15 11:29:04 +00003472- Patch #1494140: Add documentation for the new struct.Struct object.
3473
Martin v. Löwis45423a72007-02-14 10:07:37 +00003474- Patch #1432399: Support the HCI protocol for bluetooth sockets
3475
Martin v. Löwisb1cc1d42007-02-13 12:14:19 +00003476- Patch #1657276: Make NETLINK_DNRTMSG conditional.
3477
Martin v. Löwis4c11a922007-02-08 09:13:36 +00003478- Bug #1653736: Complain about keyword arguments to time.isoformat.
3479
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003480- Bug #1486663: don't reject keyword arguments for subclasses of
3481 builtin types.
Georg Brandlb84c1372007-01-21 10:28:43 +00003482
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003483- Patch #1610575: The struct module now supports the 't' code, for C99
3484 _Bool.
Martin v. Löwisaef4c6b2007-01-21 09:33:07 +00003485
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003486- Patch #1635058: ensure that htonl and friends never accept or return
3487 negative numbers, per the underlying C implementation.
Guido van Rossumbb2cc692007-01-14 17:03:32 +00003488
Martin v. Löwis046c4d12006-12-03 11:23:45 +00003489- Patch #1544279: Improve thread-safety of the socket module by moving
3490 the sock_addr_t storage out of the socket object.
3491
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003492- Patch #1019808: fix bug that causes an incorrect error to be
3493 returned when a socket timeout is set and a connection attempt
3494 fails.
Andrew M. Kuchling060e6852008-01-19 20:47:59 +00003495
Neal Norwitz45e230a2006-11-19 21:26:53 +00003496- Speed up function calls into the math module.
3497
Georg Brandl25aabf42006-11-16 17:08:45 +00003498- Bug #1588217: don't parse "= " as a soft line break in binascii's
3499 a2b_qp() function, instead leave it in the string as quopri.decode()
3500 does.
3501
Neal Norwitz4fe44232006-11-21 05:26:22 +00003502- Bug #1599782: Fix segfault on bsddb.db.DB().type().
3503
Martin v. Löwis012bc722006-10-15 09:43:39 +00003504- Bug #1567666: Emulate GetFileAttributesExA for Win95.
3505
Martin v. Löwis18aaa562006-10-15 08:43:33 +00003506- Patch #1576166: Support os.utime for directories on Windows NT+.
3507
Georg Brandl412a9ea2006-10-09 19:03:06 +00003508- Patch #1572724: fix typo ('=' instead of '==') in _msi.c.
3509
Hye-Shik Changb7883462006-10-08 13:48:34 +00003510- Bug #1572832: fix a bug in ISO-2022 codecs which may cause segfault
3511 when encoding non-BMP unicode characters.
3512
Georg Brandl4ddfcd32006-09-30 11:17:34 +00003513- Bug #1556784: allow format strings longer than 127 characters in
3514 datetime's strftime function.
3515
Jack Diederichd10a0f72006-09-21 20:34:49 +00003516- Fix itertools.count(n) to work with negative numbers again.
3517
Martin v. Löwis43fd99c2006-09-16 17:36:37 +00003518- RLIMIT_SBSIZE was added to the resource module where available.
3519
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003520- Bug #1551427: fix a wrong NULL pointer check in the win32 version of
3521 os.urandom().
Georg Brandl74bb7832006-09-06 06:03:59 +00003522
Neal Norwitz6aefa912006-09-02 02:50:35 +00003523- Bug #1548092: fix curses.tparm seg fault on invalid input.
3524
Andrew M. Kuchling62182c82008-01-08 14:56:02 +00003525- Patch #1114: fix curses module compilation on 64-bit AIX, & possibly
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003526 other 64-bit LP64 platforms where attr_t is not the same size as a
3527 long. (Contributed by Luke Mewburn.)
Andrew M. Kuchling62182c82008-01-08 14:56:02 +00003528
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003529- Bug #1550714: fix SystemError from itertools.tee on negative value
3530 for n.
Neal Norwitz69e88972006-09-02 02:58:13 +00003531
Hye-Shik Chang199f1db2006-09-05 12:07:09 +00003532- Fixed a few bugs on cjkcodecs:
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003533 - gbk and gb18030 codec now handle U+30FB KATAKANA MIDDLE DOT
3534 correctly.
Hye-Shik Chang199f1db2006-09-05 12:07:09 +00003535 - iso2022_jp_2 codec now encodes into G0 for KS X 1001, GB2312
3536 codepoints to conform the standard.
Hye-Shik Chang2cad3e92006-09-05 12:14:57 +00003537 - iso2022_jp_3 and iso2022_jp_2004 codec can encode JIS X 0213:2
Hye-Shik Chang199f1db2006-09-05 12:07:09 +00003538 codepoints now.
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00003539
Andrew M. Kuchling43889c02006-09-27 16:37:30 +00003540- Bug #1552726: in readline.c, avoid repeatedly polling in interactive
3541 mode by only placing a timeout on the select() if an input hook has
3542 been defined. This prevents an interactive Python from waking up 10
3543 times per second. Patch by Richard Boulton.
3544
Gregory P. Smithf09c6262007-03-17 22:33:35 +00003545- fixed a bug with bsddb.DB.stat: the flags and txn keyword arguments
3546 were transposed.
3547
Jesus Cea4907d272008-08-31 14:00:51 +00003548- Added support for linking the bsddb module against BerkeleyDB 4.5.x,
3549 4.6.x and 4.7.x.
Gregory P. Smith8b96a352007-01-05 01:59:42 +00003550
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003551- Bug #1633621: if curses.resizeterm() or curses.resize_term() is
3552 called, update _curses.LINES, _curses.COLS, curses.LINES and
3553 curses.COLS.
Andrew M. Kuchling43889c02006-09-27 16:37:30 +00003554
Matthias Klosee19e0c22007-04-03 04:35:59 +00003555- Fix an off-by-one bug in locale.strxfrm().
3556
Matthias Klose38336402007-09-04 20:46:02 +00003557- Fix libffi configure for hppa*-*-linux* | parisc*-*-linux*.
3558
Matthias Klose9afb9852007-10-24 20:00:44 +00003559- Build using system ffi library on arm*-linux*.
3560
Christian Heimes3f065a42007-11-21 01:17:28 +00003561- Bug #1372: zlibmodule.c: int overflow in PyZlib_decompress
Matthias Klosee19e0c22007-04-03 04:35:59 +00003562
Gregory P. Smitheeed5b72008-02-03 07:20:53 +00003563- bsddb module: Fix memory leak when using database cursors on
3564 databases without a DBEnv.
3565
Gerhard Häring11ab8072008-03-02 13:12:27 +00003566- The sqlite3 module was updated to pysqlite 2.4.1.
3567
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00003568Tests
3569-----
3570
Brett Cannon56c4deb2008-03-03 00:38:58 +00003571- Refactor test_logging to use unittest.
Brett Cannonf9db8a32008-02-17 01:59:18 +00003572
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003573- Refactor test_profile and test_cprofile to use the same code to
3574 profile.
Georg Brandlb7090772008-02-05 19:58:17 +00003575
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003576- Make test_runpy reentrant by fixing _check_module to clear out any
3577 module being tested. Was causing an error by __import__ doing a
3578 reload on the second run and thus suppressing bytecode recreation.
Brett Cannondbed7a72007-08-23 14:53:17 +00003579
Brett Cannonea2835a2007-03-14 21:44:15 +00003580- Capture socket connection resets and timeouts in test_socket_ssl and
3581 test_urllib2net and raise test.test_support.ResourceDenied.
Brett Cannoned001842007-03-14 21:40:13 +00003582
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003583- Patch #1559413: Fix test_cmd_line if sys.executable contains a
3584 space.
Martin v. Löwiscd1210a2007-03-14 20:02:31 +00003585
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003586- Added test.test_support.TransientResource which is a context manager
3587 to surround calls to resources that are not guaranteed to work even
3588 if test.test_support.requires says that the resource should exist.
Brett Cannona30fcb42007-03-08 23:58:11 +00003589
Brett Cannone05e6b02007-01-29 04:41:44 +00003590- Added a test for slicing of an exception.
3591
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003592- Added test.test_support.EnvironmentVarGuard. It's a class that
3593 provides a context manager so that one can temporarily set or unset
3594 environment variables.
Brett Cannon92d54d52007-01-04 00:23:49 +00003595
Thomas Heller112d1a62006-10-27 19:05:53 +00003596- Added some tests for modulefinder.
3597
Brett Cannon373d90b2006-10-03 23:23:14 +00003598- Converted test_imp to use unittest.
3599
Neal Norwitz919d5cc2006-09-05 02:35:08 +00003600- Fix bsddb test_basics.test06_Transactions to check the version
3601 number properly.
3602
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003603- test.test_support.catch_warning is a new context manager that can be
3604 used to catch the warnings issued by the warning framework.
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00003605
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00003606Tools
3607-----
3608
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003609- Tools/scripts/reindent.py now creates the backup file using
3610 shutil.copy to preserve user/group and permissions. Added also a
3611 --nobackup option to not create the backup if the user is concerned
3612 regarding this. Check issue 1050828 for more details.
Facundo Batistaf88a0772008-02-17 16:21:13 +00003613
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003614- Tools/scripts/win_add2path.py was added. The simple script modifes
3615 the PATH environment var of the HKCU tree and adds the python bin
3616 and script directory.
Christian Heimesbd865db2008-01-18 11:58:50 +00003617
Skip Montanaro3e275362007-08-29 01:33:45 +00003618- Tools/18n/pygettext.py was added to the list of scripts installed by
3619 Tools/scripts/setup.py (tracker item 642309).
3620
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003621- Added IronPython and Jython support to pybench (part of which was
3622 patch #1563844).
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00003623
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003624- Made some minor changes to pybench output to allow the user to see
3625 which Python version is running pybench.
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00003626
3627- Added support for the new platform module feature
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003628 platform.python_implementation(); this will now be saved in the
3629 benchmark pickle.
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00003630
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00003631
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00003632Documentation
3633-------------
3634
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +00003635- RFE #1765140: Updated documentation on FileHandler and subclasses to
3636 include new optional delay argument.
3637
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003638- Bug #932563: Added section on getting contextual information into
3639 logging output, and added documentation for the new LoggerAdapter
3640 class.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00003641
3642- Bug #1295: Added information about caching of formatted exception
3643 information in the LogRecord by Formatter.format().
3644
Georg Brandl9467bc52007-07-12 09:37:49 +00003645- Bug #1637365: add subsection about "__name__ == __main__" to the
3646 Python tutorial.
3647
Georg Brandl3dc6e902007-04-25 06:24:59 +00003648- Patch #1698768: updated the "using Python on the Mac" intro.
3649
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003650- Bug #1569057: Document that calling file.next() when the file is
3651 open for writing is undefined.
Brett Cannon55a18642007-04-08 04:29:32 +00003652
Žiga Seilnachtc64ad482007-03-24 14:24:26 +00003653- Patch #1489771: the syntax rules in Python Reference Manual were
3654 updated to reflect the current Python syntax.
3655
Martin v. Löwis2f401d72007-03-23 10:35:49 +00003656- Patch #1686451: Fix return type for
3657 PySequence_{Count,Index,Fast_GET_SIZE}.
3658
Georg Brandl0692a262007-03-13 07:50:57 +00003659- Patch #1679379: add documentation for fnmatch.translate().
3660
Collin Winterb7b2b4e2007-03-09 18:09:10 +00003661- Bug #1629566: clarify the docs on the return values of parsedate()
3662 and parsedate_tz() in email.utils and rfc822.
3663
Georg Brandld28b9fc2007-03-06 10:02:47 +00003664- Patch #1671450: add a section about subclassing builtin types to the
3665 "extending and embedding" tutorial.
3666
Georg Brandlb26b1c62007-01-17 21:19:58 +00003667- Bug #1629125: fix wrong data type (int -> Py_ssize_t) in PyDict_Next
3668 docs.
3669
Georg Brandla4c8e322006-10-12 08:22:53 +00003670- Bug #1565919: document set types in the Language Reference.
3671
Georg Brandl44a7b3a2006-09-30 12:02:57 +00003672- Bug #1546052: clarify that PyString_FromString(AndSize) copies the
3673 string pointed to by its parameter.
3674
Georg Brandlfb257732006-09-30 09:06:45 +00003675- Bug #1566663: remove obsolete example from datetime docs.
3676
Georg Brandl648c1102006-08-18 07:27:59 +00003677- Bug #1541682: Fix example in the "Refcount details" API docs.
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003678 Additionally, remove a faulty example showing PySequence_SetItem
3679 applied to a newly created list object and add notes that this isn't
3680 a good idea.
Georg Brandl648c1102006-08-18 07:27:59 +00003681
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00003682
Georg Brandl27562782006-10-27 20:39:43 +00003683Tools/Demos
3684-----------
3685
3686- Patch #1552024: add decorator support to unparse.py demo script.
Marc-André Lemburg96148682006-09-06 20:40:22 +00003687
Brett Cannonc8939d22006-09-20 19:28:35 +00003688- Make auto-generated python.vim file list built-ins and exceptions in
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003689 alphatbetical order. Makes output more deterministic and easier to
3690 tell if the file is stale or not.
Brett Cannonc8939d22006-09-20 19:28:35 +00003691
Marc-André Lemburg96148682006-09-06 20:40:22 +00003692- Bug #1546372: Fixed small bugglet in pybench that caused a missing
3693 file not to get reported properly.
3694
3695
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00003696Build
3697-----
3698
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003699- Have the search path for building extensions follow the declared
3700 order in $CPPFLAGS and $LDFLAGS when adding directories from those
3701 environment variables.
Brett Cannon70c0c022008-02-03 09:59:21 +00003702
Christian Heimes951cc0f2008-01-31 23:08:23 +00003703- Bug #1983: Added a check to pyport to verify that sizeof(pid_t) is
3704 smaller or equal sizeof(long).
3705
Christian Heimescba36bb2008-01-30 22:54:18 +00003706- Bug #1234: Fixed semaphore errors on AIX 5.2
3707
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003708- Issue #1726: Remove Python/atof.c from PCBuild/pythoncore.vcproj.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00003709
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003710- Removed PCbuild8/ directory and added a new build directory for VS
3711 2005 based on the VS 2008 build directory to PC/VS8.0. The script
3712 PCbuild/vs8to9.py was added to sync changes from PCbuild to
3713 PC/VS8.0.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00003714
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003715- Moved PCbuild/ directory for VS 2003 to PC/VS7.1 and renamed
3716 PCBuild9/ directory to PCBuild/.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00003717
Martin v. Löwiscb78de62007-12-29 18:49:21 +00003718- Bug #1699: Define _BSD_SOURCE only on OpenBSD.
3719
Guido van Rossum7c862f82007-12-13 20:50:10 +00003720- Bug #1608: use -fwrapv when GCC supports it. This is important,
3721 newer GCC versions may optimize away overflow buffer overflow checks
3722 without this option!
3723
Martin v. Löwis63bf1492007-11-12 05:14:05 +00003724- Patch #1418: Make the AC_REPLACE_FUNCS object files actually work.
3725
Raymond Hettingerdc1d1ba2007-11-07 02:45:46 +00003726- Add a FAST_LOOPS build option that speeds-up looping by trading away
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003727 periodic threadstate and signal checking in tight loops. By
3728 default, this option is turned-off. It should only be enabled in
3729 debugged, performance critical applications.
Raymond Hettingerdc1d1ba2007-11-07 02:45:46 +00003730
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003731- Patch #786737: Allow building in a tree of symlinks pointing to a
3732 readonly source.
Martin v. Löwisd44a4e92007-09-05 11:47:34 +00003733
Martin v. Löwis8bc77e42007-09-01 06:36:03 +00003734- Bug #1737210: Change Manufacturer of Windows installer to PSF.
3735
Martin v. Löwis75c23bd2007-08-30 18:25:47 +00003736- Bug #1746880: Correctly install DLLs into system32 folder on Win64.
3737
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003738- Define _BSD_SOURCE, to get access to POSIX extensions on OpenBSD
3739 4.1+.
Martin v. Löwis76760b02007-07-31 19:57:56 +00003740
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003741- Stop supporting AtheOS and cause a build error in configure for the
3742 platform.
Brett Cannon19fab762007-06-02 03:02:29 +00003743
Georg Brandldb846032007-03-31 18:56:11 +00003744- Bug #1655392: don't add -L/usr/lib/pythonX.Y/config to the LDFLAGS
3745 returned by python-config if Python was built with --enable-shared
3746 because that prevented the shared library from being used.
3747
Georg Brandl18c47f62007-03-13 10:19:22 +00003748- Patch #1569798: fix a bug in distutils when building Python from a
3749 directory within sys.exec_prefix.
3750
Martin v. Löwiseb623572007-03-12 10:50:39 +00003751- Bug #1675511: Use -Kpic instead of -xcode=pic32 on Solaris/x86.
3752
Martin v. Löwis4d542ec2006-11-25 15:39:19 +00003753- Disable _XOPEN_SOURCE on NetBSD 1.x.
3754
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003755- configure now checks whether gcc supports the PyArg_ParseTuple
3756 format attribute.
Martin v. Löwisaac13162006-10-19 10:58:46 +00003757
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00003758- Bug #1578513: Cross compilation was broken by a change to configure.
Martin v. Löwisfefbc202006-10-17 18:59:23 +00003759 Repair so that it's back to how it was in 2.4.3.
3760
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003761- Patch #1576954: Update VC6 build directory; remove redundant files
3762 in VC7.
Martin v. Löwisc9e82f62006-10-15 07:54:40 +00003763
Martin v. Löwisebe26702006-10-02 14:55:51 +00003764- Bug #1568842: Fix test for uintptr_t.
3765
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003766- Patch #1540470: for OpenBSD 4.0.
Neal Norwitz4bc2c092006-09-05 02:57:01 +00003767
Matthias Klosed149d0c2006-12-03 17:16:41 +00003768- Fix build failure on kfreebsd and on the hurd.
3769
Matthias Kloseebde1492006-12-09 12:15:27 +00003770- Fix the build of the library reference in info format.
3771
Matthias Kloseeb8ff672007-08-02 21:33:13 +00003772- Allow Emacs 22 for building the documentation in info format.
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00003773
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003774- Makefile.pre.in(buildbottest): Run an optional script
3775 pybuildbot.identify to include some information about the build
3776 environment.
Matthias Klose642ac852007-09-04 18:17:36 +00003777
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00003778
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00003779C API
3780-----
3781
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003782- Unified naming convention for free lists and their limits. All free
3783 lists in Object/ are named ``free_list``, the counter ``numfree``
3784 and the upper limit is a macro ``PyName_MAXFREELIST`` inside an
3785 #ifndef block.
Christian Heimes5b970ad2008-02-06 13:33:44 +00003786
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003787- ``PySet_Add()`` can now modify a newly created frozenset. Similarly
3788 to ``PyTuple_SetItem``, it can be used to populate a brand new
3789 frozenset; but it does not steal a reference to the added item.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arccab3d982008-02-03 22:51:43 +00003790
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00003791- Added ``PySet_Check()`` and ``PyFrozenSet_Check()`` to the set API.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arccab3d982008-02-03 22:51:43 +00003792
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003793- Backport of PyUnicode_FromString(), _FromStringAndSize(), _Format
3794 and _FormatV from Python 3.0. Made PyLong_AsSsize_t and
3795 PyLong_FromSsize_t public functions.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00003796
3797- Patch #1720595: add T_BOOL to the range of structmember types.
3798
3799- Issue #1534: Added ``PyFloat_GetMax()``, ``PyFloat_GetMin()`` and
3800 ``PyFloat_GetInfo()`` to the float API.
3801
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003802- Issue #1521: On 64bit platforms, using PyArgs_ParseTuple with the t#
3803 of w# format code incorrectly truncated the length to an int, even
3804 when PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN is set. The str.decode method used to return
3805 incorrect results with huge strings.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00003806
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003807- Issue #1629: Renamed Py_Size, Py_Type and Py_Refcnt to Py_SIZE,
3808 Py_TYPE and Py_REFCNT.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00003809
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003810- PEP 3123: Provide forward compatibility with Python 3.0, while
3811 keeping backwards compatibility. Add Py_Refcnt, Py_Type, Py_Size,
3812 and PyVarObject_HEAD_INIT.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00003813
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003814- Py_ssize_t fields work in structmember when HAVE_LONG_LONG is not
3815 defined.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00003816
3817- Patch #1733960: Allow T_LONGLONG to accept ints.
3818
3819- T_PYSSIZET can now be used in PyMemberDef lists for Py_ssize_t members.
3820
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00003821- Added a new API function ``PyImport_ImportModuleNoBlock``.
3822
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00003823- Bug #1637022: Prefix AST symbols with _Py_.
3824
3825- Fix some leftovers from the conversion from int to Py_ssize_t
3826 (relevant to strings and sequences of more than 2**31 items).
3827
3828- Make _PyGILState_NoteThreadState() static, it was not used anywhere
3829 outside of pystate.c and should not be necessary.
3830
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003831- ``PyImport_Import`` and ``PyImport_ImportModule`` now always do
3832 absolute imports. In earlier versions they might have used relative
3833 imports under some conditions.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00003834
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003835- Added case insensitive comparison methods ``PyOS_stricmp(char*,
3836 char*)`` and ``PyOS_strnicmp(char*, char*, Py_ssize_t)``.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00003837
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003838- Bug #1542693: remove semi-colon at end of PyImport_ImportModuleEx
3839 macro so it can be used as an expression.
Neal Norwitz8a267062006-08-19 04:25:29 +00003840
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00003841
Martin v. Löwis2607e6c2006-11-21 18:20:25 +00003842Windows
3843-------
3844
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003845- Patch #1706: Drop support for Win9x, WinME and NT4. Python now
3846 requires Windows 2000 or greater. The _WINVER and NTDDI_VERSION
3847 macros are set to Win2k for x86/32bit builds and WinXP for AMD64
3848 builds.
Christian Heimes95d64472008-02-09 19:55:22 +00003849
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003850- Conditionalize definition of _CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE and
3851 _CRT_NONSTDC_NO_DEPRECATE.
Martin v. Löwis2607e6c2006-11-21 18:20:25 +00003852
Martin v. Löwisd476a402007-10-12 08:56:52 +00003853- Bug #1216: Restore support for Visual Studio 2002.
3854
Martin v. Löwis2607e6c2006-11-21 18:20:25 +00003855
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00003856Mac
3857---
3858
Brett Cannonf0cb1d72007-05-31 20:01:11 +00003859- cfmfile now raises a DeprecationWarning.
3860
Brett Cannon791d56f2007-05-31 19:40:42 +00003861- buildtools now raises a DeprecationWarning.
3862
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003863- Removed the macfs module. It had been deprecated since Python 2.5.
3864 This lead to the deprecation of macostools.touched() as it relied
3865 solely on macfs and was a no-op under OS X.
Brett Cannon5e263512007-05-20 23:17:38 +00003866
Skip Montanaroe5d7f7f2002-09-20 14:16:59 +00003867----
3868
3869**(For information about older versions, consult the HISTORY file.)**