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Anthony Baxter51bcb682006-04-05 14:51:42 +00007What's New in Python 2.5 alpha 2?
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10*Release date: XX-XXX-2006*
11
12Core and builtins
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14
Tim Peters3a5e8b12006-04-11 01:44:07 +000015- Patch #837242: ``id()`` of any Python object always gives a positive
16 number now, which might be a long integer. ``PyLong_FromVoidPtr`` and
17 ``PyLong_AsVoidPtr`` have been changed accordingly. Note that it has
Tim Peters527f6522006-04-11 01:47:17 +000018 never been correct to implement a ``__hash()__`` method that returns the
Tim Peters3a5e8b12006-04-11 01:44:07 +000019 ``id()`` of an object:
Martin v. Löwis0bc2ab92006-04-10 20:28:17 +000020
Tim Peters3a5e8b12006-04-11 01:44:07 +000021 def __hash__(self):
22 return id(self) # WRONG
23
24 because a hash result must be a (short) Python int but it was always
25 possible for ``id()`` to return a Python long. However, because ``id()``
Tim Peters527f6522006-04-11 01:47:17 +000026 could return negative values before, on a 32-bit box an ``id()`` result
Tim Peters3a5e8b12006-04-11 01:44:07 +000027 was always usable as a hash value before this patch. That's no longer
28 necessarily so.
29
30- Python on OS X 10.3 and above now uses dlopen() (via dynload_shlib.c)
Anthony Baxter82201742006-04-09 15:07:40 +000031 to load extension modules and now provides the dl module. As a result,
Tim Peters3a5e8b12006-04-11 01:44:07 +000032 sys.setdlopenflags() now works correctly on these systems. (SF patch
Anthony Baxter82201742006-04-09 15:07:40 +000033 #1454844)
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Phillip J. Eby51dd7d92006-04-11 01:21:31 +000035- Patch #1463867: enhanced garbage collection to allow cleanup of cycles
36 involving generators that have paused outside of any ``try`` or ``with``
37 blocks. (In 2.5a1, a paused generator that was part of a reference
38 cycle could not be garbage collected, regardless of whether it was
39 paused in a ``try`` or ``with`` block.)
Anthony Baxter82201742006-04-09 15:07:40 +000040
Anthony Baxter51bcb682006-04-05 14:51:42 +000041Extension Modules
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43
Georg Brandlbbfe4fa2006-04-11 06:47:43 +000044- Bug #1467952: os.listdir() now correctly raises an error if readdir()
45 fails with an error condition.
46
Gregory P. Smith7f5b6f42006-04-08 07:10:51 +000047- Fix bsddb.db.DBError derived exceptions so they can be unpickled.
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Anthony Baxter51bcb682006-04-05 14:51:42 +000049Library
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51
Phillip J. Eby47032112006-04-11 01:07:43 +000052- The warnings, linecache, inspect, traceback, site, and doctest modules
53 were updated to work correctly with modules imported from zipfiles or
54 via other PEP 302 __loader__ objects.
55
Martin v. Löwis17de8ff2006-04-10 15:55:37 +000056- Patch #1467770: Reduce usage of subprocess._active to processes which
57 the application hasn't waited on.
58
Martin v. Löwisb04dee92006-04-10 08:34:21 +000059- Patch #1462222: Fix Tix.Grid.
60
Neal Norwitza31bf182006-04-09 03:35:43 +000061- Fix exception when doing glob.glob('anything*/')
62
Anthony Baxter51bcb682006-04-05 14:51:42 +000063Build
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65
Martin v. Löwis10acfd02006-04-10 12:39:36 +000066- Patch #1429775: Link extension modules with the shared libpython.
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Anthony Baxter51bcb682006-04-05 14:51:42 +000068C API
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71Tests
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73
Phillip J. Eby51dd7d92006-04-11 01:21:31 +000074- The test_contextlib test in 2.5a1 wasn't actually run unless you ran
75 it separately and by hand. It also wasn't cleaning up its changes to
76 the current Decimal context.
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Anthony Baxter51bcb682006-04-05 14:51:42 +000079Documentation
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Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +000084What's New in Python 2.5 alpha 1?
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86
Anthony Baxterebed3f62006-04-03 15:03:44 +000087*Release date: 05-APR-2006*
Anthony Baxter12b6f6c2005-03-29 13:36:16 +000088
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +000089Core and builtins
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91
Martin v. Löwisea62d252006-04-03 10:56:49 +000092- Bug #1421664: sys.stderr.encoding is now set to the same value as
93 sys.stdout.encoding.
94
Neal Norwitz92e212f2006-04-03 04:48:37 +000095- __import__ accepts keyword arguments.
96
Georg Brandlccadf842006-03-31 18:54:53 +000097- Patch #1460496: round() now accepts keyword arguments.
98
Anthony Baxter262c00a2006-03-30 10:53:17 +000099- Fixed bug #1459029 - unicode reprs were double-escaped.
100
Hye-Shik Changd478f342006-03-23 12:32:36 +0000101- Patch #1396919: The system scope threads are reenabled on FreeBSD
102 5.4 and later versions.
103
Neal Norwitze98ccf62006-03-23 05:39:47 +0000104- Bug #1115379: Compiling a Unicode string with an encoding declaration
105 now gives a SyntaxError.
106
Georg Brandlabd1ff82006-03-18 07:59:59 +0000107- Previously, Python code had no easy way to access the contents of a
108 cell object. Now, a ``cell_contents`` attribute has been added
109 (closes patch #1170323).
110
Tim Peterscf79aac2006-03-16 01:14:46 +0000111- Patch #1123430: Python's small-object allocator now returns an arena to
112 the system ``free()`` when all memory within an arena becomes unused
113 again. Prior to Python 2.5, arenas (256KB chunks of memory) were never
114 freed. Some applications will see a drop in virtual memory size now,
115 especially long-running applications that, from time to time, temporarily
116 use a large number of small objects. Note that when Python returns an
117 arena to the platform C's ``free()``, there's no guarantee that the
118 platform C will in turn return that memory to the operating system. The
119 effect of the patch is to stop making that impossible, and in tests it
120 appears to be effective at least on Microsoft C and gcc-based systems.
121 Thanks to Evan Jones for hard work and patience.
122
Georg Brandl533ff6f2006-03-08 18:09:27 +0000123- Patch #1434038: property() now uses the getter's docstring if there is
124 no "doc" argument given. This makes it possible to legitimately use
125 property() as a decorator to produce a read-only property.
126
Guido van Rossum9aa37ab2006-03-07 18:54:08 +0000127- PEP 357, patch 1436368: add an __index__ method to int/long and a matching
128 nb_index slot to the PyNumberMethods struct. The slot is consulted instead
129 of requiring an int or long in slicing and a few other contexts, enabling
130 other objects (e.g. Numeric Python's integers) to be used as slice indices.
131
Neal Norwitz995acdf2006-03-07 05:01:00 +0000132- Fixed various bugs reported by Coverity's Prevent tool.
133
Brett Cannonbf364092006-03-01 04:25:17 +0000134- PEP 352, patch #1104669: Make exceptions new-style objects. Introduced the
135 new exception base class, BaseException, which has a new message attribute.
136 KeyboardInterrupt and SystemExit to directly inherit from BaseException now.
137 Raising a string exception now raises a DeprecationWarning.
138
Thomas Woutersfb609f42006-02-28 16:37:25 +0000139- Patch #1438387, PEP 328: relative and absolute imports. Imports can now be
140 explicitly relative, using 'from .module import name' to mean 'from the same
141 package as this module is in. Imports without dots still default to the
142 old relative-then-absolute, unless 'from __future__ import
143 absolute_import' is used.
144
Brett Cannona7446e32006-02-27 23:39:10 +0000145- Properly check if 'warnings' raises an exception (usually when a filter set
146 to "error" is triggered) when raising a warning for raising string
147 exceptions.
148
Andrew M. Kuchling7034f6b2006-04-01 10:50:08 +0000149- CO_GENERATOR_ALLOWED is no longer defined. This behavior is the default.
Neal Norwitz0023a2f2006-02-27 23:24:48 +0000150 The name was removed from Include/code.h.
151
Andrew M. Kuchling7034f6b2006-04-01 10:50:08 +0000152- PEP 308: conditional expressions were added: (x if cond else y).
Neal Norwitzeb651252006-02-27 16:47:12 +0000153
Guido van Rossum1968ad32006-02-25 22:38:04 +0000154- Patch 1433928:
155 - The copy module now "copies" function objects (as atomic objects).
156 - dict.__getitem__ now looks for a __missing__ hook before raising
157 KeyError.
158
Tim Peters84ef21c2006-02-28 20:39:06 +0000159- PEP 343: with statement implemented. Needs ``from __future__ import
160 with_statement``. Use of 'with' as a variable will generate a warning.
161 Use of 'as' as a variable will also generate a warning (unless it's
Neal Norwitz055ec242006-02-28 20:06:49 +0000162 part of an import statement).
Guido van Rossum1a5e21e2006-02-28 21:57:43 +0000163 The following objects have __context__ methods:
164 - The built-in file type.
165 - The thread.LockType type.
166 - The following types defined by the threading module:
167 Lock, RLock, Condition, Semaphore, BoundedSemaphore.
168 - The decimal.Context class.
Guido van Rossumc2e20742006-02-27 22:32:47 +0000169
Marc-André Lemburgfe4b34c2006-02-19 15:22:22 +0000170- Fix the encodings package codec search function to only search
171 inside its own package. Fixes problem reported in patch #1433198.
172
173 Note: Codec packages should implement and register their own
174 codec search function. PEP 100 has the details.
175
Martin v. Löwis18e16552006-02-15 17:27:45 +0000176- PEP 353: Using ssize_t as the index type.
177
Neal Norwitzfc76d632006-01-10 06:03:13 +0000178- Patch #1400181, fix unicode string formatting to not use the locale.
179 This is how string objects work. u'%f' could use , instead of .
180 for the decimal point. Now both strings and unicode always use periods.
181
Neal Norwitz671b9e32006-01-09 07:07:12 +0000182- Bug #1244610, #1392915, fix build problem on OpenBSD 3.7 and 3.8.
183 configure would break checking curses.h.
184
Georg Brandlcd4d1e82005-12-27 17:37:07 +0000185- Bug #959576: The pwd module is now builtin. This allows Python to be
186 built on UNIX platforms without $HOME set.
187
Neal Norwitzc10978f2005-12-19 06:07:16 +0000188- Bug #1072182, fix some potential problems if characters are signed.
189
Neal Norwitz5d0ad502005-12-19 04:27:42 +0000190- Bug #889500, fix line number on SyntaxWarning for global declarations.
191
Neal Norwitzdb83eb32005-12-18 05:29:30 +0000192- Bug #1378022, UTF-8 files with a leading BOM crashed the interpreter.
193
Neal Norwitze7214a12005-12-18 05:03:17 +0000194- Support for converting hex strings to floats no longer works.
195 This was not portable. float('0x3') now raises a ValueError.
196
Barry Warsaw2a38a862005-12-18 01:27:35 +0000197- Patch #1382163: Expose Subversion revision number to Python. New C API
Barry Warsawd3c38ff2006-03-07 09:46:03 +0000198 function Py_GetBuildNumber(). New attribute sys.subversion. Build number
Barry Warsaw2a38a862005-12-18 01:27:35 +0000199 is now displayed in interactive prompt banner.
200
Georg Brandlfa166682005-12-17 21:45:17 +0000201- Implementation of PEP 341 - Unification of try/except and try/finally.
202 "except" clauses can now be written together with a "finally" clause in
Neal Norwitz11ca77e2005-12-17 22:24:12 +0000203 one try statement instead of two nested ones. Patch #1355913.
Georg Brandlfa166682005-12-17 21:45:17 +0000204
Hye-Shik Chang835b2432005-12-17 04:38:31 +0000205- Bug #1379994: Builtin unicode_escape and raw_unicode_escape codec
206 now encodes backslash correctly.
207
Martin v. Löwisb45b3152005-11-28 17:34:23 +0000208- Patch #1350409: Work around signal handling bug in Visual Studio 2005.
209
Andrew M. Kuchling7034f6b2006-04-01 10:50:08 +0000210- Bug #1281408: Py_BuildValue now works correctly even with unsigned longs
Georg Brandlf06e30a2005-11-24 15:37:42 +0000211 and long longs.
212
Neal Norwitz67715f02005-11-09 06:59:35 +0000213- SF Bug #1350188, "setdlopenflags" leads to crash upon "import"
Tim Peters3a5e8b12006-04-11 01:44:07 +0000214 It was possible for dlerror() to return a NULL pointer, so
Andrew M. Kuchling7034f6b2006-04-01 10:50:08 +0000215 it will now use a default error message in this case.
Neal Norwitz67715f02005-11-09 06:59:35 +0000216
Marc-André Lemburga5bafc42005-10-23 13:43:40 +0000217- Replaced most Unicode charmap codecs with new ones using the
218 new Unicode translate string feature in the builtin charmap
219 codec; the codecs were created from the mapping tables available
220 at ftp.unicode.org and contain a few updates (e.g. the Mac OS
221 encodings now include a mapping for the Apple logo)
222
Tim Peterse3547fd2005-12-16 23:13:57 +0000223- Added a few more codecs for Mac OS encodings
Marc-André Lemburga5bafc42005-10-23 13:43:40 +0000224
Andrew M. Kuchling7034f6b2006-04-01 10:50:08 +0000225- Sped up some Unicode operations.
Neal Norwitzfed9b3e2005-10-21 06:32:02 +0000226
Martin v. Löwisbd260da2006-02-26 19:42:26 +0000227- A new AST parser implementation was completed. The abstract
228 syntax tree is available for read-only (non-compile) access
Martin v. Löwis577b5b92006-02-27 15:23:19 +0000229 to Python code; an _ast module was added.
Neal Norwitzfed9b3e2005-10-21 06:32:02 +0000230
Andrew M. Kuchling7034f6b2006-04-01 10:50:08 +0000231- SF bug #1167751: fix incorrect code being produced for generator expressions.
Neal Norwitz16af7342005-10-21 06:25:33 +0000232 The following code now raises a SyntaxError: foo(a = i for i in range(10))
233
Neal Norwitz708e51a2005-10-03 04:48:15 +0000234- SF Bug #976608: fix SystemError when mtime of an imported file is -1.
235
Neal Norwitz11bd1192005-10-03 00:54:56 +0000236- SF Bug #887946: fix segfault when redirecting stdin from a directory.
237 Provide a warning when a directory is passed on the command line.
238
Neal Norwitz40d37812005-10-02 01:48:49 +0000239- Fix segfault with invalid coding.
240
241- SF bug #772896: unknown encoding results in MemoryError.
242
Andrew M. Kuchling7034f6b2006-04-01 10:50:08 +0000243- All iterators now have a Boolean value of True. Formerly, some iterators
Raymond Hettinger6b27cda2005-09-24 21:23:05 +0000244 supported a __len__() method which evaluated to False when the iterator
245 was empty.
246
Guido van Rossum630db602005-09-20 18:49:54 +0000247- On 64-bit platforms, when __len__() returns a value that cannot be
248 represented as a C int, raise OverflowError.
249
Skip Montanarof8948ca2005-09-19 03:54:46 +0000250- test__locale is skipped on OS X < 10.4 (only partial locale support is
Walter Dörwald6611a8b2005-10-09 19:28:35 +0000251 present).
Skip Montanarof8948ca2005-09-19 03:54:46 +0000252
Georg Brandl80bbf3f2005-09-14 19:38:29 +0000253- SF bug #893549: parsing keyword arguments was broken with a few format
254 codes.
255
Guido van Rossum8ee3e5a2005-09-14 18:09:42 +0000256- Changes donated by Elemental Security to make it work on AIX 5.3
257 with IBM's 64-bit compiler (SF patch #1284289). This also closes SF
258 bug #105470: test_pwd fails on 64bit system (Opteron).
259
Guido van Rossum539c6622005-09-14 17:49:54 +0000260- Changes donated by Elemental Security to make it work on HP-UX 11 on
261 Itanium2 with HP's 64-bit compiler (SF patch #1225212).
262
Georg Brandl4550b8d2005-08-26 06:43:52 +0000263- Disallow keyword arguments for type constructors that don't use them
Georg Brandl02c42872005-08-26 06:42:30 +0000264 (fixes bug #1119418).
265
Martin v. Löwisd35edda2005-08-24 08:39:24 +0000266- Forward UnicodeDecodeError into SyntaxError for source encoding errors.
267
Barry Warsawe2eca0b2005-08-15 18:14:19 +0000268- SF bug #900092: When tracing (e.g. for hotshot), restore 'return' events for
269 exceptions that cause a function to exit.
270
Raymond Hettinger9f1a6792005-07-31 01:16:36 +0000271- The implementation of set() and frozenset() was revised to use its
272 own internal data structure. Memory consumption is reduced by 1/3
273 and there are modest speed-ups as well. The API is unchanged.
274
Tim Petersde7990b2005-07-17 23:45:23 +0000275- SF bug #1238681: freed pointer is used in longobject.c:long_pow().
276
Michael W. Hudson0edc7a02005-07-12 10:21:19 +0000277- SF bug #1229429: PyObject_CallMethod failed to decrement some
278 reference counts in some error exit cases.
279
Tim Petersecc6e6a2005-07-10 22:30:55 +0000280- SF bug #1185883: Python's small-object memory allocator took over
281 a block managed by the platform C library whenever a realloc specified
282 a small new size. However, there's no portable way to know then how
Andrew M. Kuchling7034f6b2006-04-01 10:50:08 +0000283 much of the address space following the pointer is valid, so there's no
Tim Petersecc6e6a2005-07-10 22:30:55 +0000284 portable way to copy data from the C-managed block into Python's
285 small-object space without risking a memory fault. Python's small-object
286 realloc now leaves such blocks under the control of the platform C
287 realloc.
288
Michael W. Hudsonb8963812005-07-05 15:21:58 +0000289- SF bug #1232517: An overflow error was not detected properly when
290 attempting to convert a large float to an int in os.utime().
291
Raymond Hettinger3296e692005-06-29 23:29:56 +0000292- SF bug #1224347: hex longs now print with lowercase letters just
293 like their int counterparts.
294
Michael W. Hudson188d4362005-06-20 16:52:57 +0000295- SF bug #1163563: the original fix for bug #1010677 ("thread Module
296 Breaks PyGILState_Ensure()") broke badly in the case of multiple
297 interpreter states; back out that fix and do a better job (see
298 http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2005-June/054258.html
299 for a longer write-up of the problem).
300
Michael W. Hudsondf888462005-06-03 14:41:55 +0000301- SF patch #1180995: marshal now uses a binary format by default when
302 serializing floats.
303
Michael W. Hudsonda85a902005-06-01 11:34:22 +0000304- SF patch #1181301: on platforms that appear to use IEEE 754 floats,
305 the routines that promise to produce IEEE 754 binary representations
306 of floats now simply copy bytes around.
307
Skip Montanarobbf12ba2005-05-20 03:07:06 +0000308- bug #967182: disallow opening files with 'wU' or 'aU' as specified by PEP
309 278.
310
Brett Cannonc3647ac2005-04-26 03:45:26 +0000311- patch #1109424: int, long, float, complex, and unicode now check for the
312 proper magic slot for type conversions when subclassed. Previously the
313 magic slot was ignored during conversion. Semantics now match the way
314 subclasses of str always behaved. int/long/float, conversion of an instance
Walter Dörwald78a78b02005-09-01 12:04:29 +0000315 to the base class has been moved to the proper nb_* magic slot and out of
Brett Cannonc3647ac2005-04-26 03:45:26 +0000316 PyNumber_*().
317 Thanks Walter Dörwald.
318
Barry Warsawc8d907c2005-04-19 23:43:40 +0000319- Descriptors defined in C with a PyGetSetDef structure, where the setter is
320 NULL, now raise an AttributeError when attempting to set or delete the
321 attribute. Previously a TypeError was raised, but this was inconsistent
322 with the equivalent pure-Python implementation.
323
Michael W. Hudson774479c2005-04-18 08:46:17 +0000324- It is now safe to call PyGILState_Release() before
325 PyEval_InitThreads() (note that if there is reason to believe there
326 are multiple threads around you still must call PyEval_InitThreads()
327 before using the Python API; this fix is for extension modules that
328 have no way of knowing if Python is multi-threaded yet).
329
Michael W. Hudsone3afc592005-04-07 10:11:19 +0000330- Typing Ctrl-C whilst raw_input() was waiting in a build with threads
331 disabled caused a crash.
332
Michael W. Hudsonb330adf2005-03-31 09:35:44 +0000333- Bug #1165306: instancemethod_new allowed the creation of a method
334 with im_class == im_self == NULL, which caused a crash when called.
335
Tim Petersecc6e6a2005-07-10 22:30:55 +0000336- Move exception finalisation later in the shutdown process - this
Anthony Baxter12b6f6c2005-03-29 13:36:16 +0000337 fixes the crash seen in bug #1165761
338
Raymond Hettinger96229b12005-03-11 06:49:40 +0000339- Added two new builtins, any() and all().
340
Brett Cannon409d8f22005-03-05 06:47:57 +0000341- Defining a class with empty parentheses is now allowed
Brett Cannonf4189912005-04-09 02:30:16 +0000342 (e.g., ``class C(): pass`` is no longer a syntax error).
343 Patch #1176012 added support to the 'parser' module and 'compiler' package
344 (thanks to logistix for that added support).
Brett Cannon409d8f22005-03-05 06:47:57 +0000345
Martin v. Löwis96d743e2005-03-03 23:00:26 +0000346- Patch #1115086: Support PY_LONGLONG in structmember.
347
Raymond Hettingerb67cc802005-03-03 16:45:19 +0000348- Bug #1155938: new style classes did not check that __init__() was
349 returning None.
350
Tim Petersecc6e6a2005-07-10 22:30:55 +0000351- Patch #802188: Report characters after line continuation character
Martin v. Löwis4bf108d2005-03-03 11:45:45 +0000352 ('\') with a specific error message.
353
Martin v. Löwisff232d72005-03-03 09:24:38 +0000354- Bug #723201: Raise a TypeError for passing bad objects to 'L' format.
355
Michael W. Hudson8e1afab2005-02-17 14:55:21 +0000356- Bug #1124295: the __name__ attribute of file objects was
357 inadvertently made inaccessible in restricted mode.
358
Tim Petersecc6e6a2005-07-10 22:30:55 +0000359- Bug #1074011: closing sys.std{out,err} now causes a flush() and
Martin v. Löwis8e3ca8a2005-01-23 09:41:49 +0000360 an ferror() call.
361
Raymond Hettinger3b0c7c22004-12-03 08:30:39 +0000362- min() and max() now support key= arguments with the same meaning as in
363 list.sort().
364
Raymond Hettingerc34f8672005-01-02 06:17:33 +0000365- The peephole optimizer now performs simple constant folding in expressions:
366 (2+3) --> (5).
367
Raymond Hettingera422c342005-01-11 03:03:27 +0000368- set and frozenset objects can now be marshalled. SF #1098985.
369
Michael W. Hudsonfaa76482005-01-31 17:09:25 +0000370- Bug #1077106: Poor argument checking could cause memory corruption
371 in calls to os.read().
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +0000372
Jeremy Hyltonab630502005-02-04 18:44:06 +0000373- The parser did not complain about future statements in illegal
374 positions. It once again reports a syntax error if a future
375 statement occurs after anything other than a doc string.
376
Neil Schemenauercf52c072005-08-12 17:34:58 +0000377- Change the %s format specifier for str objects so that it returns a
378 unicode instance if the argument is not an instance of basestring and
379 calling __str__ on the argument returns a unicode instance.
380
Tim Petersf4e69282006-02-27 17:15:31 +0000381- Patch #1413181: changed ``PyThreadState_Delete()`` to forget about the
382 current thread state when the auto-GIL-state machinery knows about
383 it (since the thread state is being deleted, continuing to remember it
384 can't help, but can hurt if another thread happens to get created with
385 the same thread id).
386
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +0000387Extension Modules
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389
Georg Brandl43f08a82006-03-31 18:01:16 +0000390- Patch #1380952: fix SSL objects timing out on consecutive read()s
391
Neal Norwitz05a45592006-03-20 06:30:08 +0000392- Patch #1309579: wait3 and wait4 were added to the posix module.
393
Anthony Baxterfa869072006-03-20 05:21:58 +0000394- Patch #1231053: The audioop module now supports encoding/decoding of alaw.
395 In addition, the existing ulaw code was updated.
396
Georg Brandlbc45a3f2006-03-17 19:17:34 +0000397- RFE #567972: Socket objects' family, type and proto properties are
Georg Brandl72d7a782006-03-22 06:44:14 +0000398 now exposed via new attributes.
Georg Brandlbc45a3f2006-03-17 19:17:34 +0000399
Neal Norwitz10be10c2006-03-16 06:50:13 +0000400- Everything under lib-old was removed. This includes the following modules:
401 Para, addpack, cmp, cmpcache, codehack, dircmp, dump, find, fmt, grep,
Tim Petersc9d78aa2006-03-26 23:27:58 +0000402 lockfile, newdir, ni, packmail, poly, rand, statcache, tb, tzparse,
Neal Norwitz10be10c2006-03-16 06:50:13 +0000403 util, whatsound, whrandom, zmod
404
405- The following modules were removed: regsub, reconvert, regex, regex_syntax.
406
407- re and sre were swapped, so help(re) provides full help. importing sre
Neal Norwitzefbeaef2006-03-16 06:40:39 +0000408 is deprecated. The undocumented re.engine variable no longer exists.
409
Hye-Shik Changabb903f2006-03-13 10:20:08 +0000410- Bug #1448490: Fixed a bug that ISO-2022 codecs could not handle
411 SS2 (single-shift 2) escape sequences correctly.
412
Martin v. Löwis480f1bb2006-03-09 23:38:20 +0000413- The unicodedata module was updated to the 4.1 version of the Unicode
414 database. The 3.2 version is still available as unicodedata.db_3_2_0
415 for applications that require this specific version (such as IDNA).
416
Neal Norwitzb62c4332006-03-04 18:35:47 +0000417- The timing module is no longer built by default. It was deprecated
418 in PEP 4 in Python 2.0 or earlier.
419
Guido van Rossum1968ad32006-02-25 22:38:04 +0000420- Patch 1433928: Added a new type, defaultdict, to the collections module.
421 This uses the new __missing__ hook behavior added to dict (see above).
422
Georg Brandldbd83392006-02-20 09:42:33 +0000423- Bug #854823: socketmodule now builds on Sun platforms even when
424 INET_ADDRSTRLEN is not defined.
425
Georg Brandlf4f44152006-02-18 22:29:33 +0000426- Patch #1393157: os.startfile() now has an optional argument to specify
427 a "command verb" to invoke on the file.
428
Neal Norwitz082b2df2006-02-07 07:04:46 +0000429- Bug #876637, prevent stack corruption when socket descriptor
430 is larger than FD_SETSIZE.
431
Neal Norwitz0e6bc8c2006-02-05 05:45:43 +0000432- Patch #1407135, bug #1424041: harmonize mmap behavior of anonymous memory.
433 mmap.mmap(-1, size) now returns anonymous memory in both Unix and Windows.
434 mmap.mmap(0, size) should not be used on Windows for anonymous memory.
435
Martin v. Löwis57a34e82006-02-04 19:12:37 +0000436- Patch #1422385: The nis module now supports access to domains other
437 than the system default domain.
438
Martin v. Löwis14694662006-02-03 12:54:16 +0000439- Use Win32 API to implement os.stat/fstat. As a result, subsecond timestamps
440 are reported, the limit on path name lengths is removed, and stat reports
441 WindowsError now (instead of OSError).
442
Gregory P. Smithcfc4a8d2006-01-29 19:46:23 +0000443- Add bsddb.db.DBEnv.set_tx_timestamp allowing time based database recovery.
444
Neal Norwitz62a21122006-01-25 05:21:55 +0000445- Bug #1413192, fix seg fault in bsddb if a transaction was deleted
446 before the env.
447
Martin v. Löwis11017b12006-01-14 18:12:57 +0000448- Patch #1103116: Basic AF_NETLINK support.
449
Neal Norwitz3b4fff82006-01-11 08:54:45 +0000450- Bug #1402308, (possible) segfault when using mmap.mmap(-1, ...)
451
Neal Norwitz88bbd732006-01-10 07:05:44 +0000452- Bug #1400822, _curses over{lay,write} doesn't work when passing 6 ints.
453 Also fix ungetmouse() which did not accept arguments properly.
454 The code now conforms to the documented signature.
455
Neal Norwitz5e3d8622006-01-09 06:24:35 +0000456- Bug #1400115, Fix segfault when calling curses.panel.userptr()
457 without prior setting of the userptr.
458
Neal Norwitz40c6b472006-01-05 05:43:35 +0000459- Fix 64-bit problems in bsddb.
460
Neal Norwitz8856fb72005-12-18 03:34:22 +0000461- Patch #1365916: fix some unsafe 64-bit mmap methods.
462
Hye-Shik Changc5c57e62005-12-12 11:48:32 +0000463- Bug #1290333: Added a workaround for cjkcodecs' _codecs_cn build
464 problem on AIX.
465
Georg Brandla13c2442005-11-22 19:30:31 +0000466- Bug #869197: os.setgroups rejects long integer arguments
467
Neal Norwitz0f46bbf2005-11-03 05:00:25 +0000468- Bug #1346533, select.poll() doesn't raise an error if timeout > sys.maxint
469
Neal Norwitz7b631792005-11-02 05:26:07 +0000470- Bug #1344508, Fix UNIX mmap leaking file descriptors
471
Neal Norwitzf3396542005-10-28 05:52:22 +0000472- Patch #1338314, Bug #1336623: fix tarfile so it can extract
473 REGTYPE directories from tarfiles written by old programs.
474
Gregory P. Smithe101df92006-01-24 20:09:45 +0000475- Patch #1407992, fixes broken bsddb module db associate when using
476 BerkeleyDB 3.3, 4.0 or 4.1.
477
478- Get bsddb module to build with BerkeleyDB version 4.4
479
480- Get bsddb module to build with BerkeleyDB version 3.2
Neal Norwitzfed9b3e2005-10-21 06:32:02 +0000481
Neal Norwitz484d9a42005-09-30 04:46:49 +0000482- Patch #1309009, Fix segfault in pyexpat when the XML document is in latin_1,
483 but Python incorrectly assumes it is in UTF-8 format
484
Georg Brandle677adc2005-09-29 13:40:49 +0000485- Fix parse errors in the readline module when compiling without threads.
486
Hye-Shik Chang9ceebd52005-09-24 14:58:47 +0000487- Patch #1288833: Removed thread lock from socket.getaddrinfo on
488 FreeBSD 5.3 and later versions which got thread-safe getaddrinfo(3).
489
Michael W. Hudson10402a32005-09-22 09:19:01 +0000490- Patches #1298449 and #1298499: Add some missing checks for error
491 returns in cStringIO.c.
492
Neal Norwitz058bde12005-09-21 06:44:25 +0000493- Patch #1297028: fix segfault if call type on MultibyteCodec,
494 MultibyteStreamReader, or MultibyteStreamWriter
495
Neal Norwitzcfe7dd92005-09-19 06:49:27 +0000496- Fix memory leak in posix.access().
497
Martin v. Löwis8b291e22005-09-18 08:17:56 +0000498- Patch #1213831: Fix typo in unicodedata._getcode.
499
Georg Brandlfb1ef852005-09-14 20:53:32 +0000500- Bug #1007046: os.startfile() did not accept unicode strings encoded in
501 the file system encoding.
502
Georg Brandld2e3ba72005-08-26 08:34:00 +0000503- Patch #756021: Special-case socket.inet_aton('255.255.255.255') for
504 platforms that don't have inet_aton().
Georg Brandl02760f92005-08-25 13:10:41 +0000505
Georg Brandld2e3ba72005-08-26 08:34:00 +0000506- Bug #1215928: Fix bz2.BZ2File.seek() for 64-bit file offsets.
507
508- Bug #1191043: Fix bz2.BZ2File.(x)readlines for files containing one
Georg Brandl02760f92005-08-25 13:10:41 +0000509 line without newlines.
510
Georg Brandl38387b82005-08-24 07:17:40 +0000511- Bug #728515: mmap.resize() now resizes the file on Unix as it did
512 on Windows.
513
Walter Dörwalda05834e2005-10-09 19:38:21 +0000514- Patch #1180695: Add nanosecond stat resolution, and st_gen,
Martin v. Löwisebd9d5b2005-08-09 15:00:59 +0000515 st_birthtime for FreeBSD.
516
Michael W. Hudson8137bea2005-07-27 20:24:40 +0000517- Patch #1231069: The fcntl.ioctl function now uses the 'I' code for
518 the request code argument, which results in more C-like behaviour
519 for large or negative values.
520
Tim Petersecc6e6a2005-07-10 22:30:55 +0000521- Bug #1234979: For the argument of thread.Lock.acquire, the Windows
Andrew M. Kuchling88b85822005-08-23 00:57:07 +0000522 implementation treated all integer values except 1 as false.
Georg Brandlaf410b52005-07-08 22:26:13 +0000523
Georg Brandl6b95f1d2005-06-03 19:47:00 +0000524- Bug #1194181: bz2.BZ2File didn't handle mode 'U' correctly.
525
Hye-Shik Chang5f937a72005-06-02 13:09:30 +0000526- Patch #1212117: os.stat().st_flags is now accessible as a attribute
527 if available on the platform.
528
Skip Montanaro5ff14922005-05-16 02:42:22 +0000529- Patch #1103951: Expose O_SHLOCK and O_EXLOCK in the posix module if
530 available on the platform.
531
Michael W. Hudsonb330adf2005-03-31 09:35:44 +0000532- Bug #1166660: The readline module could segfault if hook functions
533 were set in a different thread than that which called readline.
534
Raymond Hettinger4aec61e2005-03-18 21:20:23 +0000535- collections.deque objects now support a remove() method.
536
Raymond Hettinger984f9bb2005-03-09 16:38:48 +0000537- operator.itemgetter() and operator.attrgetter() now support retrieving
538 multiple fields. This provides direct support for sorting on multiple
539 keys (primary, secondary, etc).
540
Martin v. Löwisb60ae992005-03-08 09:10:29 +0000541- os.access now supports Unicode path names on non-Win32 systems.
542
Martin v. Löwisfd78a6f2005-03-04 14:37:01 +0000543- Patches #925152, #1118602: Avoid reading after the end of the buffer
544 in pyexpat.GetInputContext.
545
Tim Petersecc6e6a2005-07-10 22:30:55 +0000546- Patches #749830, #1144555: allow UNIX mmap size to default to current
Martin v. Löwis7fe60c02005-03-03 11:22:44 +0000547 file size.
548
Raymond Hettinger9c323f82005-02-28 19:39:44 +0000549- Added functional.partial(). See PEP309.
550
Martin v. Löwis9533e342005-02-27 20:33:25 +0000551- Patch #1093585: raise a ValueError for negative history items in readline.
552 {remove_history,replace_history}
553
Fred Drake9c131f22005-01-23 15:16:08 +0000554- The spwd module has been added, allowing access to the shadow password
555 database.
Martin v. Löwisc3001752005-01-23 09:27:24 +0000556
Martin v. Löwisfe33d0b2005-01-16 08:57:39 +0000557- stat_float_times is now True.
558
Raymond Hettingerb0900e62004-12-16 16:23:40 +0000559- array.array objects are now picklable.
560
Raymond Hettingera6b45cc2004-12-07 07:05:57 +0000561- the cPickle module no longer accepts the deprecated None option in the
562 args tuple returned by __reduce__().
563
Raymond Hettingerb2594052004-12-05 09:25:51 +0000564- itertools.islice() now accepts None for the start and step arguments.
565 This allows islice() to work more readily with slices:
566 islice(s.start, s.stop, s.step)
567
Skip Montanaro0af3ade2005-01-13 04:12:31 +0000568- datetime.datetime() now has a strptime class method which can be used to
569 create datetime object using a string and format.
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +0000570
Matthias Klosed77f8b32006-04-03 16:34:56 +0000571- Patch #1117961: Replace the MD5 implementation from RSA Data Security Inc
Matthias Klose8e39ec72006-04-03 16:27:50 +0000572 with the implementation from http://sourceforge.net/projects/libmd5-rfc/.
573
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +0000574Library
575-------
576
Anthony Baxter93f5b932006-04-03 08:05:07 +0000577- The email module's parsedate_tz function now sets the daylight savings
578 flag to -1 (unknown) since it can't tell from the date whether it should
579 be set.
580
Fred Drakead5177c2006-04-01 22:14:43 +0000581- Patch #624325: urlparse.urlparse() and urlparse.urlsplit() results
582 now sport attributes that provide access to the parts of the result.
583
Georg Brandl7f6b67c2006-04-01 08:35:18 +0000584- Patch #1462498: sgmllib now handles entity and character references
585 in attribute values.
586
Anthony Baxterc51ee692006-04-01 00:57:31 +0000587- Added the sqlite3 package. This is based on pysqlite2.1.3, and provides
Georg Brandl828fdef2006-04-01 08:59:03 +0000588 a DB-API interface in the standard library. You'll need sqlite 3.0.8 or
Tim Peters3a5e8b12006-04-11 01:44:07 +0000589 later to build this - if you have an earlier version, the C extension
Anthony Baxterc51ee692006-04-01 00:57:31 +0000590 module will not be built.
591
Tim Petersc17976e2006-04-01 00:26:53 +0000592- Bug #1460340: ``random.sample(dict)`` failed in various ways. Dicts
593 aren't officially supported here, and trying to use them will probably
594 raise an exception some day. But dicts have been allowed, and "mostly
595 worked", so support for them won't go away without warning.
596
Georg Brandl338ef7d2006-03-31 18:42:16 +0000597- Bug #1445068: getpass.getpass() can now be given an explicit stream
598 argument to specify where to write the prompt.
599
Georg Brandl22ec80b2006-03-31 18:25:44 +0000600- Patch #1462313, bug #1443328: the pickle modules now can handle classes
601 that have __private names in their __slots__.
602
Neal Norwitz6974a512006-04-10 00:25:01 +0000603- Bug #1250170: mimetools now handles socket.gethostname() failures gracefully.
Georg Brandldd2245f2006-03-31 17:18:06 +0000604
Phillip J. Eby59821cf2006-03-30 02:16:40 +0000605- patch #1457316: "setup.py upload" now supports --identity to select the
606 key to be used for signing the uploaded code.
607
Raymond Hettingerfd3fcf02006-03-24 20:43:29 +0000608- Queue.Queue objects now support .task_done() and .join() methods
609 to make it easier to monitor when daemon threads have completed
610 processing all enqueued tasks. Patch #1455676.
611
Martin v. Löwisbd8dbab2006-03-23 18:18:35 +0000612- popen2.Popen objects now preserve the command in a .cmd attribute.
613
Thomas Hellerc61c0492006-03-22 10:09:27 +0000614- Added the ctypes ffi package.
615
Barry Warsaw4d90bbd2006-03-22 02:45:50 +0000616- email 4.0 package now integrated. This is largely the same as the email 3.0
617 package that was included in Python 2.3, except that PEP 8 module names are
618 now used (e.g. mail.message instead of email.Message). The MIME classes
619 have been moved to a subpackage (e.g. email.mime.text instead of
620 email.MIMEText). The old names are still supported for now. Several
621 deprecated Message methods have been removed and lots of bugs have been
622 fixed. More details can be found in the email package documentation.
623
Walter Dörwald40108c92006-03-27 08:15:44 +0000624- Patches #1436130/#1443155: codecs.lookup() now returns a CodecInfo object
625 (a subclass of tuple) that provides incremental decoders and encoders
626 (a way to use stateful codecs without the stream API). Python functions
627 codecs.getincrementaldecoder() and codecs.getincrementalencoder() as well
628 as C functions PyCodec_IncrementalEncoder() and PyCodec_IncrementalDecoder()
629 have been added.
Walter Dörwaldabb02e52006-03-15 11:35:15 +0000630
Walter Dörwald067db482006-03-15 22:17:27 +0000631- Patch #1359365: Calling next() on a closed StringIO.String object raises
632 a ValueError instead of a StopIteration now (like file and cString.String do).
633 cStringIO.StringIO.isatty() will raise a ValueError now if close() has been
634 called before (like file and StringIO.StringIO do).
Walter Dörwald197e8322006-03-15 22:13:13 +0000635
Martin v. Löwis04824ce2006-03-10 21:26:16 +0000636- A regrtest option -w was added to re-run failed tests in verbose mode.
637
Georg Brandle2b46772006-03-09 23:22:43 +0000638- Patch #1446372: quit and exit can now be called from the interactive
639 interpreter to exit.
640
Barry Warsawd3c38ff2006-03-07 09:46:03 +0000641- The function get_count() has been added to the gc module, and gc.collect()
642 grew an optional 'generation' argument.
643
Martin v. Löwisfbab90e2006-03-05 13:36:04 +0000644- A library msilib to generate Windows Installer files, and a distutils
645 command bdist_msi have been added.
646
Guido van Rossum1a5e21e2006-02-28 21:57:43 +0000647- PEP 343: new module contextlib.py defines decorator @contextmanager
648 and helpful context managers nested() and closing().
649
Martin v. Löwis415ed932006-02-27 19:56:30 +0000650- The compiler package now supports future imports after the module docstring.
651
Georg Brandl8f7c54e2006-02-20 08:40:38 +0000652- Bug #1413790: zipfile now sanitizes absolute archive names that are
653 not allowed by the specs.
654
Georg Brandlc98eeed2006-02-19 14:57:47 +0000655- Patch #1215184: FileInput now can be given an opening hook which can
656 be used to control how files are opened.
657
Georg Brandlc029f872006-02-19 14:12:34 +0000658- Patch #1212287: fileinput.input() now has a mode parameter for
659 specifying the file mode input files should be opened with.
660
Georg Brandl67e9fb92006-02-19 13:56:17 +0000661- Patch #1215184: fileinput now has a fileno() function for getting the
662 current file number.
663
Georg Brandl602b9ba2006-02-19 13:26:36 +0000664- Patch #1349274: gettext.install() now optionally installs additional
665 translation functions other than _() in the builtin namespace.
666
Georg Brandle4662172006-02-19 09:51:27 +0000667- Patch #1337756: fileinput now accepts Unicode filenames.
668
Georg Brandl7b4e7c22006-02-18 21:10:56 +0000669- Patch #1373643: The chunk module can now read chunks larger than
670 two gigabytes.
671
Georg Brandl21dd1af2006-02-17 13:35:13 +0000672- Patch #1417555: SimpleHTTPServer now returns Last-Modified headers.
673
Georg Brandlbd3bc4d2006-02-17 09:52:53 +0000674- Bug #1430298: It is now possible to send a mail with an empty
675 return address using smtplib.
676
Georg Brandl0e1abe22006-02-17 09:48:14 +0000677- Bug #1432260: The names of lambda functions are now properly displayed
678 in pydoc.
Georg Brandl501dd0d2006-02-17 09:45:40 +0000679
Martin v. Löwis00756902006-02-05 17:09:41 +0000680- Patch #1412872: zipfile now sets the creator system to 3 (Unix)
681 unless the system is Win32.
682
Tim Petersda1329b2006-02-27 16:50:01 +0000683- Patch #1349118: urllib now supports user:pass@ style proxy
Martin v. Löwis3e865952006-01-24 15:51:21 +0000684 specifications, raises IOErrors when proxies for unsupported protocols
685 are defined, and uses the https proxy on https redirections.
686
Georg Brandl531ceba2006-01-21 07:20:56 +0000687- Bug #902075: urllib2 now supports 'host:port' style proxy specifications.
688
689- Bug #1407902: Add support for sftp:// URIs to urlparse.
Georg Brandl89f35ac2006-01-20 17:24:23 +0000690
Georg Brandlb709c2c2006-01-20 09:07:35 +0000691- Bug #1371247: Update Windows locale identifiers in locale.py.
692
Neal Norwitzf60cd472006-01-14 07:05:13 +0000693- Bug #1394565: SimpleHTTPServer now doesn't choke on query parameters
Georg Brandl45ab2332006-01-13 17:05:56 +0000694 any more.
Georg Brandlb709c2c2006-01-20 09:07:35 +0000695
Georg Brandl4edd9892006-01-13 16:59:46 +0000696- Bug #1403410: The warnings module now doesn't get confused
697 when it can't find out the module name it generates a warning for.
Georg Brandlb709c2c2006-01-20 09:07:35 +0000698
Martin v. Löwis412ed3b2006-01-08 10:45:39 +0000699- Patch #1177307: Added a new codec utf_8_sig for UTF-8 with a BOM signature.
700
Neal Norwitzab86f8e2005-12-23 21:44:36 +0000701- Patch #1157027: cookielib mishandles RFC 2109 cookies in Netscape mode
702
Neal Norwitz338e7862005-12-23 21:27:46 +0000703- Patch #1117398: cookielib.LWPCookieJar and .MozillaCookieJar now raise
704 LoadError as documented, instead of IOError. For compatibility,
705 LoadError subclasses IOError.
706
Brett Cannon3cbd0382005-12-16 22:49:23 +0000707- Added the hashlib module. It provides secure hash functions for MD5 and
Tim Peterse3547fd2005-12-16 23:13:57 +0000708 SHA1, 224, 256, 384, and 512. Note that recent developments make the
709 historic MD5 and SHA1 unsuitable for cryptographic-strength applications.
710 In <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2005-December/058850.html>
711 Ronald L. Rivest offered this advice for Python:
712
713 "The consensus of researchers in this area (at least as
714 expressed at the NIST Hash Function Workshop 10/31/05),
715 is that SHA-256 is a good choice for the time being, but
716 that research should continue, and other alternatives may
717 arise from this research. The larger SHA's also seem OK."
Brett Cannon3cbd0382005-12-16 22:49:23 +0000718
Fredrik Lundh7e0aef02005-12-12 18:54:55 +0000719- Added a subset of Fredrik Lundh's ElementTree package. Available
720 modules are xml.etree.ElementTree, xml.etree.ElementPath, and
721 xml.etree.ElementInclude, from ElementTree 1.2.6.
722
Martin v. Löwis307021f2005-11-27 16:59:04 +0000723- Patch #1162825: Support non-ASCII characters in IDLE window titles.
724
Georg Brandl1f663572005-11-26 16:50:44 +0000725- Bug #1365984: urllib now opens "data:" URLs again.
726
Brett Cannonad07ff22005-11-23 02:15:50 +0000727- Patch #1314396: prevent deadlock for threading.Thread.join() when an exception
728 is raised within the method itself on a previous call (e.g., passing in an
729 illegal argument)
730
Brett Cannon5d0bf942005-11-02 23:04:26 +0000731- Bug #1340337: change time.strptime() to always return ValueError when there
732 is an error in the format string.
733
Georg Brandle8f24432005-10-03 14:16:44 +0000734- Patch #754022: Greatly enhanced webbrowser.py (by Oleg Broytmann).
735
Walter Dörwalda05834e2005-10-09 19:38:21 +0000736- Bug #729103: pydoc.py: Fix docother() method to accept additional
Georg Brandl8b813db2005-10-01 16:32:31 +0000737 "parent" argument.
738
Georg Brandlaa935172005-09-29 20:49:16 +0000739- Patch #1300515: xdrlib.py: Fix pack_fstring() to really use null bytes
740 for padding.
741
Georg Brandl80ba8e82005-09-29 20:16:07 +0000742- Bug #1296004: httplib.py: Limit maximal amount of data read from the
743 socket to avoid a MemoryError on Windows.
744
Matthias Klosef3f231f2005-09-20 07:02:49 +0000745- Patch #1166948: locale.py: Prefer LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE and LANG over LANGUAGE
746 to get the correct encoding.
747
748- Patch #1166938: locale.py: Parse LANGUAGE as a colon separated list of
749 languages.
750
Martin v. Löwis4ed67382005-09-18 08:34:39 +0000751- Patch #1268314: Cache lines in StreamReader.readlines for performance.
752
Brett Cannona783d062005-09-15 02:34:56 +0000753- Bug #1290505: Fix clearing the regex cache for time.strptime().
754
Martin v. Löwis5dbdc592005-08-27 10:07:56 +0000755- Bug #1167128: Fix size of a symlink in a tarfile to be 0.
756
Georg Brandl5a650a22005-08-26 08:51:34 +0000757- Patch #810023: Fix off-by-one bug in urllib.urlretrieve reporthook
758 functionality.
759
Martin v. Löwis8b595142005-08-25 11:03:38 +0000760- Bug #1163178: Make IDNA return an empty string when the input is empty.
761
Georg Brandl532efab2005-08-24 22:34:21 +0000762- Patch #848017: Make Cookie more RFC-compliant. Use CRLF as default output
Andrew M. Kuchling7034f6b2006-04-01 10:50:08 +0000763 separator and do not output trailing semicolon.
Georg Brandl532efab2005-08-24 22:34:21 +0000764
Georg Brandlb9256022005-08-24 18:46:39 +0000765- Patch #1062060: urllib.urlretrieve() now raises a new exception, named
766 ContentTooShortException, when the actually downloaded size does not
767 match the Content-Length header.
768
Martin v. Löwis0a5d4a22005-08-24 14:55:22 +0000769- Bug #1121494: distutils.dir_utils.mkpath now accepts Unicode strings.
770
Martin v. Löwis56066d22005-08-24 07:38:12 +0000771- Bug #1178484: Return complete lines from codec stream readers
772 even if there is an exception in later lines, resulting in
Walter Dörwalda05834e2005-10-09 19:38:21 +0000773 correct line numbers for decoding errors in source code.
Martin v. Löwis56066d22005-08-24 07:38:12 +0000774
Georg Brandl6d2b3462005-08-24 07:36:17 +0000775- Bug #1192315: Disallow negative arguments to clear() in pdb.
776
Martin v. Löwisb813c532005-08-07 20:51:04 +0000777- Patch #827386: Support absolute source paths in msvccompiler.py.
778
Georg Brandl649f8e72005-08-03 07:30:12 +0000779- Patch #1105730: Apply the new implementation of commonprefix in posixpath
780 to ntpath, macpath, os2emxpath and riscospath.
781
Guido van Rossum755149f2005-07-27 00:00:44 +0000782- Fix a problem in Tkinter introduced by SF patch #869468: delete bogus
783 __hasattr__ and __delattr__ methods on class Tk that were breaking
784 Tkdnd.
785
Georg Brandl5dbda752005-07-17 20:27:41 +0000786- Bug #1015140: disambiguated the term "article id" in nntplib docs and
787 docstrings to either "article number" or "message id".
788
Georg Brandla4a8b822005-07-15 09:13:21 +0000789- Bug #1238170: threading.Thread.__init__ no longer has "kwargs={}" as a
790 parameter, but uses the usual "kwargs=None".
791
Andrew M. Kuchling88b85822005-08-23 00:57:07 +0000792- textwrap now processes text chunks at O(n) speed instead of O(n**2).
Raymond Hettinger8bfa8932005-07-15 06:53:35 +0000793 Patch #1209527 (Contributed by Connelly).
794
Georg Brandl5c5fe2f2005-07-14 06:40:47 +0000795- urllib2 has now an attribute 'httpresponses' mapping from HTTP status code
796 to W3C name (404 -> 'Not Found'). RFE #1216944.
797
Georg Brandl9e43acf2005-07-04 17:16:07 +0000798- Bug #1177468: Don't cache the /dev/urandom file descriptor for os.urandom,
799 as this can cause problems with apps closing all file descriptors.
800
Andrew M. Kuchling7034f6b2006-04-01 10:50:08 +0000801- Bug #839151: Fix an attempt to access sys.argv in the warnings module;
Andrew M. Kuchling88b85822005-08-23 00:57:07 +0000802 it can be missing in embedded interpreters
Georg Brandl5284b532005-06-26 22:54:58 +0000803
Georg Brandl2f210b62005-06-26 22:09:06 +0000804- Bug #1155638: Fix a bug which affected HTTP 0.9 responses in httplib.
805
Georg Brandlfbff1bc2005-06-26 21:36:25 +0000806- Bug #1100201: Cross-site scripting was possible on BaseHTTPServer via
807 error messages.
808
Georg Brandl379f99d2005-06-26 21:09:38 +0000809- Bug #1108948: Cookie.py produced invalid JavaScript code.
810
Raymond Hettingerda99d1c2005-06-21 07:43:58 +0000811- The tokenize module now detects and reports indentation errors.
812 Bug #1224621.
813
Raymond Hettinger68c04532005-06-10 11:05:19 +0000814- The tokenize module has a new untokenize() function to support a full
Andrew M. Kuchling7034f6b2006-04-01 10:50:08 +0000815 roundtrip from lexed tokens back to Python source code. In addition,
Raymond Hettinger68c04532005-06-10 11:05:19 +0000816 the generate_tokens() function now accepts a callable argument that
817 terminates by raising StopIteration.
818
Georg Brandl9166e1a2005-06-04 09:20:03 +0000819- Bug #1196315: fix weakref.WeakValueDictionary constructor.
820
Georg Brandl268e61c2005-06-03 14:28:50 +0000821- Bug #1213894: os.path.realpath didn't resolve symlinks that were the first
822 component of the path.
823
Skip Montanaro174dd222005-05-14 20:54:16 +0000824- Patch #1120353: The xmlrpclib module provides better, more transparent,
825 support for datetime.{datetime,date,time} objects. With use_datetime set
826 to True, applications shouldn't have to fiddle with the DateTime wrapper
827 class at all.
828
Martin v. Löwis55f1bb82005-03-21 20:56:35 +0000829- distutils.commands.upload was added to support uploading distribution
830 files to PyPI.
831
Walter Dörwalda6e8a4a2005-03-31 13:57:38 +0000832- distutils.commands.register now encodes the data as UTF-8 before posting
833 them to PyPI.
834
Raymond Hettinger267b8682005-03-27 10:47:39 +0000835- decimal operator and comparison methods now return NotImplemented
836 instead of raising a TypeError when interacting with other types. This
837 allows other classes to implement __radd__ style methods and have them
838 work as expected.
839
Raymond Hettingerbea3f6f2005-03-15 04:59:17 +0000840- Bug #1163325: Decimal infinities failed to hash. Attempting to
841 hash a NaN raised an InvalidOperation instead of a TypeError.
842
Tim Petersecc6e6a2005-07-10 22:30:55 +0000843- Patch #918101: Add tarfile open mode r|* for auto-detection of the
Martin v. Löwis78be7df2005-03-05 12:47:42 +0000844 stream compression; add, for symmetry reasons, r:* as a synonym of r.
845
Martin v. Löwis00a73e72005-03-04 19:40:34 +0000846- Patch #1043890: Add extractall method to tarfile.
847
Martin v. Löwisc72dd382005-03-04 13:50:17 +0000848- Patch #1075887: Don't require MSVC in distutils if there is nothing
849 to build.
850
Martin v. Löwis637431b2005-03-03 23:12:42 +0000851- Patch #1103407: Properly deal with tarfile iterators when untarring
852 symbolic links on Windows.
853
Tim Petersecc6e6a2005-07-10 22:30:55 +0000854- Patch #645894: Use getrusage for computing the time consumption in
Martin v. Löwisa4dac402005-03-03 11:39:45 +0000855 profile.py if available.
856
Martin v. Löwisdf37c8c2005-03-03 11:08:03 +0000857- Patch #1046831: Use get_python_version where appropriate in sysconfig.py.
858
Martin v. Löwisc5574e82005-03-03 10:57:37 +0000859- Patch #1117454: Remove code to special-case cookies without values
860 in LWPCookieJar.
861
Martin v. Löwis4ea3ead2005-03-03 10:48:12 +0000862- Patch #1117339: Add cookielib special name tests.
863
Martin v. Löwise869eb12005-03-03 09:46:07 +0000864- Patch #1112812: Make bsddb/__init__.py more friendly for modulefinder.
865
Martin v. Löwisf2a8d632005-03-03 08:35:22 +0000866- Patch #1110248: SYNC_FLUSH the zlib buffer for GZipFile.flush.
867
Martin v. Löwisdf241532005-03-03 08:17:42 +0000868- Patch #1107973: Allow to iterate over the lines of a tarfile.ExFileObject.
869
Martin v. Löwis8ed338a2005-03-03 08:12:27 +0000870- Patch #1104111: Alter setup.py --help and --help-commands.
871
Martin v. Löwis4afe1542005-03-01 08:09:28 +0000872- Patch #1121234: Properly cleanup _exit and tkerror commands.
873
Martin v. Löwisc2a0ac22005-02-24 20:22:10 +0000874- Patch #1049151: xdrlib now unpacks booleans as True or False.
875
Raymond Hettingerbab41432005-02-05 01:31:19 +0000876- Fixed bug in a NameError bug in cookielib. Patch #1116583.
877
Guido van Rossumd0641422005-02-03 15:01:24 +0000878- Applied a security fix to SimpleXMLRPCserver (PSF-2005-001). This
879 disables recursive traversal through instance attributes, which can
880 be exploited in various ways.
881
Tim Peterse3547fd2005-12-16 23:13:57 +0000882- Bug #1222790: in SimpleXMLRPCServer, set the reuse-address and close-on-exec
Andrew M. Kuchling3a976052005-12-04 15:07:41 +0000883 flags on the HTTP listening socket.
884
Andrew M. Kuchlinge63fde72005-12-04 15:36:57 +0000885- Bug #792570: SimpleXMLRPCServer had problems if the request grew too large.
886 Fixed by reading the HTTP body in chunks instead of one big socket.read().
887
Tim Peterse3547fd2005-12-16 23:13:57 +0000888- Patches #893642, #1039083: add allow_none, encoding arguments to constructors of
Andrew M. Kuchling10a16de2005-12-04 16:34:40 +0000889 SimpleXMLRPCServer and CGIXMLRPCRequestHandler.
890
Martin v. Löwis1d11de62005-01-29 13:29:23 +0000891- Bug #1110478: Revert os.environ.update to do putenv again.
892
Thomas Hellerd6c6e222005-01-20 19:20:16 +0000893- Bug #1103844: fix distutils.install.dump_dirs() with negated options.
894
Martin v. Löwis22b457e2005-01-16 08:40:58 +0000895- os.{SEEK_SET, SEEK_CUR, SEEK_END} have been added for convenience.
896
Andrew McNamaraa08eecb2005-01-12 03:25:27 +0000897- Enhancements to the csv module:
898
899 + Dialects are now validated by the underlying C code, better
Georg Brandl7eb4b7d2005-07-22 21:49:32 +0000900 reflecting its capabilities, and improving its compliance with
Tim Petersecc6e6a2005-07-10 22:30:55 +0000901 PEP 305.
Andrew McNamaraa08eecb2005-01-12 03:25:27 +0000902 + Dialect parameter parsing has been re-implemented to improve error
903 reporting.
904 + quotechar=None and quoting=QUOTE_NONE now work the way PEP 305
905 dictates.
906 + the parser now removes the escapechar prefix from escaped characters.
Andrew McNamara0f0599d2005-01-12 09:45:18 +0000907 + when quoting=QUOTE_NONNUMERIC, the writer now tests for numeric
Andrew McNamaraf69d94f2005-01-13 11:30:54 +0000908 types, rather than any object than can be represented as a numeric.
Andrew McNamara0f0599d2005-01-12 09:45:18 +0000909 + when quoting=QUOTE_NONNUMERIC, the reader now casts unquoted fields
910 to floats.
Andrew McNamaraf69d94f2005-01-13 11:30:54 +0000911 + reader now allows \r characters to be quoted (previously it only allowed
912 \n to be quoted).
Andrew McNamarac89f2842005-01-12 07:44:42 +0000913 + writer doublequote handling improved.
Andrew McNamaraa08eecb2005-01-12 03:25:27 +0000914 + Dialect classes passed to the module are no longer instantiated by
915 the module before being parsed (the former validation scheme required
916 this, but the mechanism was unreliable).
917 + The dialect registry now contains instances of the internal
918 C-coded dialect type, rather than references to python objects.
919 + the internal c-coded dialect type is now immutable.
920 + register_dialect now accepts the same keyword dialect specifications
921 as the reader and writer, allowing the user to register dialects
922 without first creating a dialect class.
923 + a configurable limit to the size of parsed fields has been added -
924 previously, an unmatched quote character could result in the entire
925 file being read into the field buffer before an error was reported.
Andrew McNamara31d88962005-01-12 03:45:10 +0000926 + A new module method csv.field_size_limit() has been added that sets
Andrew McNamaraa08eecb2005-01-12 03:25:27 +0000927 the parser field size limit (returning the former limit). The initial
928 limit is 128kB.
Andrew McNamara7f2053e2005-01-12 11:17:16 +0000929 + A line_num attribute has been added to the reader object, which tracks
930 the number of lines read from the source iterator. This is not
931 the same as the number of records returned, as records can span
932 multiple lines.
Andrew McNamaraa08eecb2005-01-12 03:25:27 +0000933 + reader and writer objects were not being registered with the cyclic-GC.
934 This has been fixed.
935
Brett Cannone6539c42005-01-08 02:43:53 +0000936- _DummyThread objects in the threading module now delete self.__block that is
937 inherited from _Thread since it uses up a lock allocated by 'thread'. The
938 lock primitives tend to be limited in number and thus should not be wasted on
939 a _DummyThread object. Fixes bug #1089632.
940
Raymond Hettinger97db05d2005-01-07 08:15:41 +0000941- The imghdr module now detects Exif files.
942
Raymond Hettinger6065d322004-12-20 23:51:53 +0000943- StringIO.truncate() now correctly adjusts the size attribute.
944 (Bug #951915).
945
Marc-André Lemburgbb4f1bd2004-12-10 21:58:14 +0000946- locale.py now uses an updated locale alias table (built using
947 Tools/i18n/makelocalealias.py, a tool to parse the X11 locale
948 alias file); the encoding lookup was enhanced to use Python's
Andrew M. Kuchling88b85822005-08-23 00:57:07 +0000949 encoding alias table.
Marc-André Lemburgbb4f1bd2004-12-10 21:58:14 +0000950
Raymond Hettinger3557f422004-12-07 12:02:02 +0000951- moved deprecated modules to Lib/lib-old: whrandom, tzparse, statcache.
952
Raymond Hettingera6b45cc2004-12-07 07:05:57 +0000953- the pickle module no longer accepts the deprecated None option in the
954 args tuple returned by __reduce__().
955
Brett Cannon84667c02004-12-07 03:25:18 +0000956- optparse now optionally imports gettext. This allows its use in setup.py.
957
Raymond Hettinger3489cad2004-12-05 05:20:42 +0000958- the pickle module no longer uses the deprecated bin parameter.
959
Raymond Hettinger1bc82f82004-12-05 03:58:17 +0000960- the shelve module no longer uses the deprecated binary parameter.
961
Raymond Hettinger6c92d762004-12-05 03:28:00 +0000962- the pstats module no longer uses the deprecated ignore() method.
963
Raymond Hettingerf3fa9462004-12-05 01:58:09 +0000964- the filecmp module no longer uses the deprecated use_statcache argument.
965
Raymond Hettinger664347b2004-12-04 21:21:53 +0000966- unittest.TestCase.run() and unittest.TestSuite.run() can now be successfully
967 extended or overridden by subclasses. Formerly, the subclassed method would
968 be ignored by the rest of the module. (Bug #1078905).
969
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +0000970- heapq.nsmallest() and heapq.nlargest() now support key= arguments with
Raymond Hettinger3b0c7c22004-12-03 08:30:39 +0000971 the same meaning as in list.sort().
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +0000972
Walter Dörwald36733692004-12-22 12:50:50 +0000973- Bug #1076985: ``codecs.StreamReader.readline()`` now calls ``read()`` only
974 once when a size argument is given. This prevents a buffer overflow in the
975 tokenizer with very long source lines.
976
Barry Warsaw538561e2006-01-01 21:48:54 +0000977- Bug #1083110: ``zlib.decompress.flush()`` would segfault if called
978 immediately after creating the object, without any intervening
979 ``.decompress()`` calls.
Andrew M. Kuchling3b585b32004-12-28 20:10:48 +0000980
Skip Montanaro05885812005-01-16 20:48:27 +0000981- The reconvert.quote function can now emit triple-quoted strings. The
982 reconvert module now has some simple documentation.
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +0000983
Walter Dörwaldaf3b39a2005-02-18 13:22:43 +0000984- ``UserString.MutableString`` now supports negative indices in
985 ``__setitem__`` and ``__delitem__``
986
Greg Ward40407942005-03-05 02:53:17 +0000987- Bug #1149508: ``textwrap`` now handles hyphenated numbers (eg. "2004-03-05")
988 correctly.
989
Walter Dörwaldbc8e6422005-04-21 21:32:03 +0000990- Partial fixes for SF bugs #1163244 and #1175396: If a chunk read by
991 ``codecs.StreamReader.readline()`` has a trailing "\r", read one more
992 character even if the user has passed a size parameter to get a proper
993 line ending. Remove the special handling of a "\r\n" that has been split
994 between two lines.
995
Walter Dörwalda47d1c02005-08-30 10:23:14 +0000996- Bug #1251300: On UCS-4 builds the "unicode-internal" codec will now complain
997 about illegal code points. The codec now supports PEP 293 style error
998 handlers.
999
Walter Dörwald78a78b02005-09-01 12:04:29 +00001000- Bug #1235646: ``codecs.StreamRecoder.next()`` now reencodes the data it reads
Walter Dörwaldc5238b82005-09-01 11:56:53 +00001001 from the input stream, so that the output is a byte string in the correct
1002 encoding instead of a unicode string.
Greg Ward40407942005-03-05 02:53:17 +00001003
Gustavo Niemeyer6fa0c5a2005-09-14 08:54:39 +00001004- Bug #1202493: Fixing SRE parser to handle '{}' as perl does, rather than
1005 considering it exactly like a '*'.
1006
Walter Dörwald007f8df2005-10-09 19:42:27 +00001007- Bug #1245379: Add "unicode-1-1-utf-7" as an alias for "utf-7" to
1008 ``encodings.aliases``.
Gustavo Niemeyer6fa0c5a2005-09-14 08:54:39 +00001009
Walter Dörwald09f0dd52005-11-21 19:10:07 +00001010- ` uu.encode()`` and ``uu.decode()`` now support unicode filenames.
1011
Gustavo Niemeyer548148812006-01-31 18:34:13 +00001012- Patch #1413711: Certain patterns of differences were making difflib
1013 touch the recursion limit.
1014
Walter Dörwald58917a62006-03-31 15:26:22 +00001015- Bug #947906: An object oriented interface has been added to the calendar
1016 module. It's possible to generate HTML calendar now and the module can be
Walter Dörwald48d5e502006-04-01 07:57:00 +00001017 called as a script (e.g. via ``python -mcalendar``). Localized month and
1018 weekday names can be ouput (even if an exotic encoding is used) using
1019 special classes that use unicode.
Walter Dörwald58917a62006-03-31 15:26:22 +00001020
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +00001021Build
1022-----
1023
Neal Norwitz602d3392006-03-31 08:21:40 +00001024- Fix test_float, test_long, and test_struct failures on Tru64 with gcc
1025 by using -mieee gcc option.
1026
Martin v. Löwis86d66262006-02-17 08:40:11 +00001027- Patch #1432345: Make python compile on DragonFly.
1028
Martin v. Löwis856bf9a2006-02-14 20:42:55 +00001029- Build support for Win64-AMD64 was added.
1030
Martin v. Löwisa55e55e2006-02-11 15:55:14 +00001031- Patch #1428494: Prefer linking against ncursesw over ncurses library.
1032
Martin v. Löwisfd9a72a2006-01-08 10:07:33 +00001033- Patch #881820: look for openpty and forkpty also in libbsd.
1034
Martin v. Löwis64c33dd2006-01-03 07:42:14 +00001035- The sources of zlib are now part of the Python distribution (zlib 1.2.3).
1036 The zlib module is now builtin on Windows.
1037
Martin v. Löwisd5845ec2005-12-30 12:31:38 +00001038- Use -xcode=pic32 for CCSHARED on Solaris with SunPro.
1039
Martin v. Löwis147fbe52005-08-07 21:09:30 +00001040- Bug #1189330: configure did not correctly determine the necessary
1041 value of LINKCC if python was built with GCC 4.0.
1042
Trent Mick8321b422005-07-26 02:29:21 +00001043- Upgrade Windows build to zlib 1.2.3 which eliminates a potential security
1044 vulnerability in zlib 1.2.1 and 1.2.2.
1045
Brett Cannon08cd5982005-04-24 22:26:38 +00001046- EXTRA_CFLAGS has been introduced as an environment variable to hold compiler
1047 flags that change binary compatibility. Changes were also made to
1048 distutils.sysconfig to also use the environment variable when used during
Martin v. Löwisd7c795e2005-04-25 07:14:03 +00001049 compilation of the interpreter and of C extensions through distutils.
Brett Cannon08cd5982005-04-24 22:26:38 +00001050
Bob Ippolitoed233462005-03-29 13:47:59 +00001051- SF patch 1171735: Darwin 8's headers are anal about POSIX compliance,
1052 and linking has changed (prebinding is now deprecated, and libcc_dynamic
1053 no longer exists). This configure patch makes things right.
1054
Martin v. Löwise2713be2005-03-08 15:03:08 +00001055- Bug #1158607: Build with --disable-unicode again.
1056
Brett Cannon46d96232005-02-16 00:07:19 +00001057- spwdmodule.c is built only if either HAVE_GETSPNAM or HAVE_HAVE_GETSPENT is
1058 defined. Discovered as a result of not being able to build on OS X.
1059
Brett Cannon516592f2004-12-07 00:42:59 +00001060- setup.py now uses the directories specified in LDFLAGS using the -L option
1061 and in CPPFLAGS using the -I option for adding library and include
1062 directories, respectively, for compiling extension modules against. This has
1063 led to the core being compiled using the values in CPPFLAGS. It also removes
1064 the need for the special-casing of both DarwinPorts and Fink for darwin since
1065 the proper directories can be specified in LDFLAGS (``-L/sw/lib`` for Fink,
1066 ``-L/opt/local/lib`` for DarwinPorts) and CPPFLAGS (``-I/sw/include`` for
1067 Fink, ``-I/opt/local/include`` for DarwinPorts).
1068
Brett Cannon43802422005-02-10 20:48:03 +00001069- Test in configure.in that checks for tzset no longer dependent on tm->tm_zone
1070 to exist in the struct (not required by either ISO C nor the UNIX 2 spec).
1071 Tests for sanity in tzname when HAVE_TZNAME defined were also defined.
1072 Closes bug #1096244. Thanks Gregory Bond.
1073
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +00001074C API
1075-----
1076
Tim Petersc9d78aa2006-03-26 23:27:58 +00001077- ``PyMem_{Del, DEL}`` and ``PyMem_{Free, FREE}`` no longer map to
1078 ``PyObject_{Free, FREE}``. They map to the system ``free()`` now. If memory
1079 is obtained via the ``PyObject_`` family, it must be released via the
1080 ``PyObject_`` family, and likewise for the ``PyMem_`` family. This has
1081 always been officially true, but when Python's small-object allocator was
1082 introduced, an attempt was made to cater to a few extension modules
1083 discovered at the time that obtained memory via ``PyObject_New`` but
1084 released it via ``PyMem_DEL``. It's years later, and if such code still
1085 exists it will fail now (probably with segfaults, but calling wrong
1086 low-level memory management functions can yield many symptoms).
1087
Raymond Hettingerbeb31012005-08-16 03:47:52 +00001088- Added a C API for set and frozenset objects.
1089
Raymond Hettinger66517482004-12-03 11:45:13 +00001090- Removed PyRange_New().
1091
Walter Dörwaldd1c1e102005-10-06 20:29:57 +00001092- Patch #1313939: PyUnicode_DecodeCharmap() accepts a unicode string as the
1093 mapping argument now. This string is used as a mapping table. Byte values
1094 greater than the length of the string and 0xFFFE are treated as undefined
1095 mappings.
1096
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +00001097
1098Tests
1099-----
1100
Martin v. Löwis4d394df2005-01-23 09:19:22 +00001101- In test_os, st_?time is now truncated before comparing it with ST_?TIME.
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +00001102
Hye-Shik Changaaa2f1d2005-12-10 17:44:27 +00001103- Patch #1276356: New resource "urlfetch" is implemented. This enables
1104 even impatient people to run tests that require remote files.
1105
Brett Cannonced04e02005-02-13 22:53:22 +00001106
1107Documentation
1108-------------
1109
Georg Brandl8cb30772006-01-20 09:34:29 +00001110- Bug #1402224: Add warning to dl docs about crashes.
1111
Georg Brandla3a93ae2006-01-20 09:14:36 +00001112- Bug #1396471: Document that Windows' ftell() can return invalid
1113 values for text files with UNIX-style line endings.
1114
Georg Brandl32252422005-09-14 20:42:00 +00001115- Bug #1274828: Document os.path.splitunc().
1116
Georg Brandl79c122f2005-08-24 07:31:33 +00001117- Bug #1190204: Clarify which directories are searched by site.py.
1118
Georg Brandl6f2bbd32005-08-24 07:26:55 +00001119- Bug #1193849: Clarify os.path.expanduser() documentation.
1120
Georg Brandlf13c4ba2005-08-02 10:28:08 +00001121- Bug #1243192: re.UNICODE and re.LOCALE affect \d, \D, \s and \S.
1122
Georg Brandl150db732005-07-18 08:53:17 +00001123- Bug #755617: Document the effects of os.chown() on Windows.
1124
Georg Brandl379f99d2005-06-26 21:09:38 +00001125- Patch #1180012: The documentation for modulefinder is now in the library reference.
1126
1127- Patch #1213031: Document that os.chown() accepts argument values of -1.
1128
1129- Bug #1190563: Document os.waitpid() return value with WNOHANG flag.
1130
1131- Bug #1175022: Correct the example code for property().
1132
Georg Brandl40c71652005-06-25 21:08:46 +00001133- Document the IterableUserDict class in the UserDict module.
1134 Closes bug #1166582.
1135
Brett Cannonced04e02005-02-13 22:53:22 +00001136- Remove all latent references for "Macintosh" that referred to semantics for
1137 Mac OS 9 and change to reflect the state for OS X.
1138 Closes patch #1095802. Thanks Jack Jansen.
1139
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +00001140Mac
1141---
1142
1143
Hye-Shik Chang4e422812005-07-17 02:36:59 +00001144New platforms
1145-------------
1146
1147- FreeBSD 7 support is added.
1148
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +00001149
1150Tools/Demos
1151-----------
1152
Brett Cannonacde7342006-03-01 04:28:00 +00001153- Created Misc/Vim/vim_syntax.py to auto-generate a python.vim file in that
1154 directory for syntax highlighting in Vim. Vim directory was added and placed
1155 vimrc to it (was previous up a level).
1156
Georg Brandl56897312005-08-24 18:32:30 +00001157- Added two new files to Tools/scripts: pysource.py, which recursively
1158 finds Python source files, and findnocoding.py, which finds Python
1159 source files that need an encoding declaration.
1160 Patch #784089, credits to Oleg Broytmann.
1161
Georg Brandl379f99d2005-06-26 21:09:38 +00001162- Bug #1072853: pindent.py used an uninitialized variable.
1163
Martin v. Löwisab9ec162005-04-09 10:53:34 +00001164- Patch #1177597: Correct Complex.__init__.
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +00001165
Barry Warsaw538561e2006-01-01 21:48:54 +00001166- Fixed a display glitch in Pynche, which could cause the right arrow to
1167 wiggle over by a pixel.
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +00001168
Skip Montanaroe5d7f7f2002-09-20 14:16:59 +00001169----
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