Christian Heimes | 7f39c9f | 2008-01-25 12:18:43 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | +++++++++++ |
Skip Montanaro | e5d7f7f | 2002-09-20 14:16:59 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 2 | Python News |
| 3 | +++++++++++ |
| 4 | |
Anthony Baxter | b0c6630 | 2004-11-04 05:23:17 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 5 | (editors: check NEWS.help for information about editing NEWS using ReST.) |
| 6 | |
Brett Cannon | 80bb9d9 | 2008-05-08 18:15:14 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 7 | What's New in Python 2.6 beta 1? |
| 8 | ================================ |
| 9 | |
| 10 | *Release date: XX-June-2008* |
| 11 | |
| 12 | Core and Builtins |
| 13 | ----------------- |
| 14 | |
Mark Dickinson | e81c376 | 2008-05-09 16:14:15 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 15 | - Issue #2801: fix bug in the float.is_integer method where a ValueError |
| 16 | was sometimes incorrectly raised. |
| 17 | |
Brett Cannon | 3c1d50a | 2008-05-08 20:23:54 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 18 | - Issue #2790: sys.flags was not properly exposing its bytes_warning attribute. |
| 19 | |
Brett Cannon | 80bb9d9 | 2008-05-08 18:15:14 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 20 | Extension Modules |
| 21 | ----------------- |
| 22 | |
| 23 | Library |
| 24 | ------- |
| 25 | |
Brett Cannon | e35a3a1 | 2008-05-10 21:22:43 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 26 | - The dl module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0. |
| 27 | |
Brett Cannon | d5a0985 | 2008-05-10 03:14:32 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 28 | - The Canvas module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0. |
| 29 | |
Brett Cannon | 6192df1 | 2008-05-10 02:58:26 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 30 | - The compiler package has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0. |
| 31 | |
Brett Cannon | cda73a4 | 2008-05-10 02:53:46 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 32 | - The Bastion and rexec modules have been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0. |
| 33 | |
Brett Cannon | 768d44f | 2008-05-10 02:47:54 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 34 | - The bsddb185 module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0. |
| 35 | |
Brett Cannon | 9ac3974 | 2008-05-09 22:51:58 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 36 | - The pure module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0. |
| 37 | |
Mark Dickinson | f8476c1 | 2008-05-09 17:54:23 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 38 | - Issue #2487: change the semantics of math.ldexp(x, n) when n is too |
| 39 | large to fit in a C long. ldexp(x, n) now returns a zero (with |
| 40 | suitable sign) if n is large and negative; previously, it raised |
| 41 | OverflowError. |
| 42 | |
Brett Cannon | fa24d9a | 2008-05-09 05:32:42 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 43 | - The toaiff module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0. |
| 44 | |
Brett Cannon | 3c75914 | 2008-05-09 05:25:37 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 45 | - The test.testall module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0. |
| 46 | |
Brett Cannon | d7265d6 | 2008-05-09 05:18:40 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 47 | - The new module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0. |
| 48 | |
Brett Cannon | e3b1940 | 2008-05-08 20:36:09 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 49 | - The user module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0. |
| 50 | |
Brett Cannon | 6071cc8 | 2008-05-08 19:52:45 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 51 | - The stringold module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0. |
| 52 | |
| 53 | - The mutex module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0. |
Brett Cannon | 9d44182 | 2008-05-08 19:26:08 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 54 | |
Brett Cannon | 80bb9d9 | 2008-05-08 18:15:14 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 55 | - The imputil module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0. |
| 56 | |
Brett Cannon | cae4f5f | 2008-05-08 20:24:43 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 57 | - test.test_support.catch_warning() gained a 'record' argument. |
| 58 | |
Benjamin Peterson | 0893a0a | 2008-05-09 00:27:01 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 59 | - os.path.walk is deprecated in favor of os.walk. |
| 60 | |
Brett Cannon | 80bb9d9 | 2008-05-08 18:15:14 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 61 | Build |
| 62 | ----- |
| 63 | |
Barry Warsaw | ba43774 | 2008-04-04 01:34:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 64 | What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 3? |
Barry Warsaw | 65475fd | 2008-03-01 17:11:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 65 | ================================= |
| 66 | |
Barry Warsaw | 6cc7940 | 2008-05-08 13:16:19 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 67 | *Release date: 08-May-2008* |
Barry Warsaw | 65475fd | 2008-03-01 17:11:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 68 | |
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc | d21fb4c | 2008-03-05 01:50:33 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 69 | Core and builtins |
| 70 | ----------------- |
Georg Brandl | 80055f6 | 2008-03-25 07:56:27 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 71 | |
Georg Brandl | 28e0873 | 2008-04-30 19:47:09 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 72 | - Issue #2719: backported the ``next()`` builtin from Python 3. |
| 73 | |
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc | 5216721 | 2008-04-24 18:07:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 74 | - Issue #2681: The octal literal ``0o8`` was incorrecly acctepted. Now it |
| 75 | properly raises a SyntaxError. |
| 76 | |
Christian Heimes | 7a98d27 | 2008-04-12 13:03:03 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 77 | - Patch #2617: Reserved -J and -X arguments for Jython, IronPython and other |
| 78 | implementations of Python. |
| 79 | |
Christian Heimes | af748c3 | 2008-05-06 22:41:46 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 80 | - Implemented PEP 370: Per user site-packages directory |
| 81 | |
Andrew M. Kuchling | 46d6b68 | 2008-04-30 16:19:55 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 82 | Extension Modules |
| 83 | ----------------- |
Barry Warsaw | ba43774 | 2008-04-04 01:34:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 84 | |
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc | 9686585 | 2008-04-22 21:14:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 85 | - Issue #2670: Fix a failure in urllib2.build_opener(), when passed two |
| 86 | handlers that derive the same default base class. |
| 87 | |
Christian Heimes | e74c8f2 | 2008-04-19 02:23:57 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 88 | - Added kill, terminate and send_signal(sig) to subprocess.Popen. |
| 89 | |
Christian Heimes | 6f34109 | 2008-04-18 23:13:07 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 90 | - Added phase(z) -> phi, polar(z) -> r, phi and rect(r, phi) -> z to the cmath |
| 91 | module. |
| 92 | |
| 93 | - Four new methods were added to the math and cmath modules: |
| 94 | acosh, asinh, atanh and log1p. |
| 95 | |
Gregory P. Smith | 671c5d9 | 2008-04-09 18:18:43 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 96 | - zlib.decompressobj().flush(value) no longer crashes the interpreter when |
| 97 | passed a value less than or equal to zero. |
| 98 | |
Brett Cannon | e974689 | 2008-04-12 23:44:07 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 99 | - Issue #1631171: Re-implement the 'warnings' module in C (the original Python |
| 100 | code has been kept as backup). This will allow for using the 'warning's |
| 101 | machinery in such places as the parser where use of pure Python code is not |
Brett Cannon | b457dda | 2008-05-02 02:25:09 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 102 | possible. Both the ``showarning()`` and ``formatwarning()`` gain an |
| 103 | optional 'line' argument which is not called by default for |
Brett Cannon | 8a232cc | 2008-05-05 05:32:07 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 104 | backwards-compatibility reasons. Setting ``warnings.showwarning()`` to |
| 105 | an implementation that lacks support for the ``line`` argument will raise a |
| 106 | DeprecationWarning. |
Brett Cannon | e974689 | 2008-04-12 23:44:07 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 107 | |
Barry Warsaw | ba43774 | 2008-04-04 01:34:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 108 | Library |
| 109 | ------- |
| 110 | |
Brett Cannon | f843682 | 2008-05-06 23:41:32 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 111 | - The audiodev module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0. |
| 112 | |
Brett Cannon | 4b964f9 | 2008-05-05 20:21:38 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 113 | - Issue #2750: Add the 'json' package. Based on simplejson 1.9 and contributed |
| 114 | by Bob Ippolito. |
| 115 | |
Martin v. Löwis | 471617d | 2008-05-05 17:16:58 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 116 | - Issue #1734346: Support Unicode file names for zipfiles. |
| 117 | |
Mark Hammond | 7c5c8e6 | 2008-05-02 12:48:15 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 118 | - Issue #2581: distutils: Vista UAC/elevation support for bdist_wininst |
| 119 | |
Mark Dickinson | fe536f5 | 2008-04-25 16:59:09 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 120 | - Issue #2635: Fix bug in 'fix_sentence_endings' textwrap.fill option, |
| 121 | where an extra space was added after a word containing (but not |
| 122 | ending in) '.', '!' or '?'. |
| 123 | |
Thomas Heller | 6ad5fbb | 2008-04-25 15:44:16 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 124 | - Add from_buffer() and from_buffer_copy() class methods to ctypes |
| 125 | data types |
| 126 | |
Neal Norwitz | 2b0bea5 | 2008-04-25 03:40:17 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 127 | - Issue #2682: ctypes callback functions no longer contain a cyclic |
Thomas Heller | bf027c4 | 2008-04-24 18:14:19 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 128 | reference to themselves. |
| 129 | |
Gregory P. Smith | d59fefb | 2008-04-22 08:11:33 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 130 | - The getpass module has been improved on Unix. It now uses /dev/tty |
| 131 | by default and uses stderr instead of stdout. A GetPassWarning is |
| 132 | issued when input echo cannot be controlled. |
Gregory P. Smith | 41e3018 | 2008-04-21 21:31:08 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 133 | |
Skip Montanaro | b131f04 | 2008-04-18 20:35:46 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 134 | - Issue #2014: Allow XML-RPC datetime objects to have dates before |
| 135 | 1900-01-01. |
| 136 | |
Nick Coghlan | 106fc48 | 2008-04-15 10:25:31 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 137 | - Issue #2439: Added new function pkgutil.get_data(), which is a |
| 138 | convenience wrapper for the PEP 302 get_data() API. |
| 139 | |
Thomas Heller | 046e6a4 | 2008-04-14 16:10:07 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 140 | - Issue #2616: The ctypes.pointer() and ctypes.POINTER() functions are |
| 141 | now implemented in C for better performance. |
| 142 | |
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc | 02f33b4 | 2008-04-08 23:10:07 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 143 | - Issue #2408: The ``_types`` module, which was used as in implementation |
| 144 | detail of the public ``types`` module, has been removed and replaced by pure |
| 145 | python code. |
| 146 | |
Mark Hammond | 495cf99 | 2008-04-07 01:53:39 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 147 | - Issue #2513: distutils on Windows is now capable of cross-compiling |
| 148 | extension modules between 32 and 64 bit platforms. See the distutls |
| 149 | build documentation for more information. |
| 150 | |
Gregory P. Smith | aa63d0d | 2008-04-06 23:11:17 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 151 | - Issue #815646: Individual file objects may now be used from multiple |
| 152 | threads at once without fear of crashing the Python interpreter. If |
| 153 | file.close() is called while an object is in use by another thread |
| 154 | an IOError exception will be raised and the file will not be closed. |
| 155 | |
Thomas Heller | f790648 | 2008-04-04 19:43:25 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 156 | - The bundled libffi copy is now in sync with the recently released |
| 157 | libffi3.0.5 version, apart from some small changes to |
| 158 | Modules/_ctypes/libffi/configure.ac. |
| 159 | |
Fred Drake | 46c58c1 | 2008-04-04 05:41:30 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 160 | - Issue #2385: distutils.core.run_script() makes __file__ available, so the |
| 161 | controlled environment will more closely mirror the typical script |
| 162 | environment. This supports setup.py scripts that refer to data files. |
| 163 | |
Barry Warsaw | ba43774 | 2008-04-04 01:34:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 164 | Tests |
| 165 | ----- |
Trent Nelson | e41b006 | 2008-04-08 23:47:30 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 166 | - Issue #2550: The approach used by client/server code for obtaining ports |
| 167 | to listen on in network-oriented tests has been refined in an effort to |
| 168 | facilitate running multiple instances of the entire regression test suite |
| 169 | in parallel without issue. test_support.bind_port() has been fixed such |
| 170 | that it will always return a unique port -- which wasn't always the case |
| 171 | with the previous implementation, especially if socket options had been |
| 172 | set that affected address reuse (i.e. SO_REUSEADDR, SO_REUSEPORT). The |
| 173 | new implementation of bind_port() will actually raise an exception if it |
| 174 | is passed an AF_INET/SOCK_STREAM socket with either the SO_REUSEADDR or |
| 175 | SO_REUSEPORT socket option set. Furthermore, if available, bind_port() |
| 176 | will set the SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE option on the socket it's been passed. |
| 177 | This currently only applies to Windows. This option prevents any other |
| 178 | sockets from binding to the host/port we've bound to, thus removing the |
| 179 | possibility of the 'non-deterministic' behaviour, as Microsoft puts it, |
| 180 | that occurs when a second SOCK_STREAM socket binds and accepts to a |
| 181 | host/port that's already been bound by another socket. The optional |
| 182 | preferred port parameter to bind_port() has been removed. Under no |
| 183 | circumstances should tests be hard coding ports! |
| 184 | |
| 185 | test_support.find_unused_port() has also been introduced, which will pass |
| 186 | a temporary socket object to bind_port() in order to obtain an unused port. |
| 187 | The temporary socket object is then closed and deleted, and the port is |
| 188 | returned. This method should only be used for obtaining an unused port |
| 189 | in order to pass to an external program (i.e. the -accept [port] argument |
| 190 | to openssl's s_server mode) or as a parameter to a server-oriented class |
| 191 | that doesn't give you direct access to the underlying socket used. |
| 192 | |
| 193 | Finally, test_support.HOST has been introduced, which should be used for |
| 194 | the host argument of any relevant socket calls (i.e. bind and connect). |
| 195 | |
| 196 | The following tests were updated to following the new conventions: |
| 197 | test_socket, test_smtplib, test_asyncore, test_ssl, test_httplib, |
| 198 | test_poplib, test_ftplib, test_telnetlib, test_socketserver, |
| 199 | test_asynchat and test_socket_ssl. |
| 200 | |
| 201 | It is now possible for multiple instances of the regression test suite to |
| 202 | run in parallel without issue. |
Barry Warsaw | ba43774 | 2008-04-04 01:34:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 203 | |
| 204 | Build |
| 205 | ----- |
| 206 | |
Mark Dickinson | 6513466 | 2008-04-25 16:11:04 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 207 | - Issue #1496032: On alpha, use -mieee when gcc is the compiler. |
| 208 | |
Thomas Heller | dc96a77 | 2008-04-04 10:07:55 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 209 | - Issue #2544: On HP-UX systems, use 'gcc -shared' for linking when |
| 210 | gcc is used as compiler. |
| 211 | |
Ronald Oussoren | 580c7fe | 2008-05-02 19:45:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 212 | - Issue #2573: On MacOS X it is now possible to install the framework |
| 213 | with a different name using --with-framework-name=NAME. |
| 214 | |
Barry Warsaw | ba43774 | 2008-04-04 01:34:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 215 | C API |
| 216 | ----- |
| 217 | |
Christian Heimes | 6f34109 | 2008-04-18 23:13:07 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 218 | - Added implementation of copysign, acosh, asinh, atanh and log1p |
| 219 | to the new files Include/pymath.h and Python/pymath.h for |
| 220 | platforms which provide the functions through their libm. The |
| 221 | files also contains several helpers and constants for math. |
| 222 | |
Benjamin Peterson | a692c4d | 2008-04-27 02:28:02 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 223 | - Added a new convenience function, PyErr_WarnPy3k, for issuing Py3k |
| 224 | warnings. |
| 225 | |
Barry Warsaw | ba43774 | 2008-04-04 01:34:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 226 | |
| 227 | What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 2? |
| 228 | ================================= |
| 229 | |
| 230 | *Release date: 02-Apr-2008* |
| 231 | |
| 232 | Core and builtins |
| 233 | ----------------- |
| 234 | |
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc | d7a2651 | 2008-04-03 23:07:55 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 235 | - Issue #1733757: The interpreter would hang on shutdown if the tracing |
| 236 | function set by sys.settrace is still active and happens to call |
| 237 | threading.currentThread(). |
| 238 | |
Georg Brandl | 91e0cda | 2008-03-29 01:50:06 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 239 | - Patch #1442: properly report exceptions when the PYTHONSTARTUP file |
| 240 | cannot be executed. |
| 241 | |
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc | 69b747b | 2008-03-28 20:30:50 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 242 | - The compilation of a class nested in another class used to leak one |
| 243 | reference on the outer class name. |
| 244 | |
Georg Brandl | fc8eef3 | 2008-03-28 12:11:56 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 245 | - Patch #1810: compile() can now compile _ast trees as returned by |
| 246 | compile(..., PyCF_ONLY_AST). |
| 247 | |
Gregory P. Smith | b980342 | 2008-03-28 08:32:09 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 248 | - Patch #2426: Added sqlite3.Connection.iterdump method to allow easy dumping |
| 249 | of databases. Contributed by Paul Kippes at PyCon 2008. |
| 250 | |
Georg Brandl | deaf2ca | 2008-03-27 13:27:31 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 251 | - Patch #2477: Added from __future__ import unicode_literals. |
Christian Heimes | 3c60833 | 2008-03-26 22:01:37 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 252 | |
Christian Heimes | 8c78cc3 | 2008-03-26 12:53:58 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 253 | - Added backport of bytearray type. |
| 254 | |
Georg Brandl | 80055f6 | 2008-03-25 07:56:27 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 255 | - Issue #2355: add Py3k warning for buffer(). |
| 256 | |
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc | 9a0d346 | 2008-03-23 09:55:29 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 257 | - Issue #1477: With narrow Unicode builds, the unicode escape sequence |
| 258 | \Uxxxxxxxx did not accept values outside the Basic Multilingual Plane. This |
| 259 | affected raw unicode literals and the 'raw-unicode-escape' codec. Now |
| 260 | UTF-16 surrogates are generated in this case, like normal unicode literals |
| 261 | and the 'unicode-escape' codec. |
| 262 | |
Georg Brandl | 65bb42d | 2008-03-21 20:38:24 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 263 | - Issue #2348: add Py3k warning for file.softspace. |
| 264 | |
Georg Brandl | 07e5681 | 2008-03-21 20:21:46 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 265 | - Issue #2346/#2347: add Py3k warnings for __methods__ and __members__. |
| 266 | |
Georg Brandl | 5a44424 | 2008-03-21 20:11:46 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 267 | - Issue #2358: Add a Py3k warning on sys.exc_clear() usage. |
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc | d21fb4c | 2008-03-05 01:50:33 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 268 | |
Martin v. Löwis | a4d7789 | 2008-03-19 04:39:13 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 269 | - Issue #2400: Allow relative imports to "import *". |
| 270 | |
Eric Smith | 7c47894 | 2008-03-18 23:45:49 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 271 | - Issue 1745. Backport print function with: |
| 272 | from __future__ import print_function |
| 273 | |
Neal Norwitz | b1d3d96 | 2008-03-18 04:46:00 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 274 | - Issue 2332: add new attribute names for instance method objects. |
| 275 | The two changes are: im_self -> __self__ and im_func -> __func__ |
| 276 | |
Guido van Rossum | 6d91be3 | 2008-03-18 04:42:22 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 277 | - Issue 2379: Raise a Py3K warning for __getitem__ or __getslice__ on |
| 278 | exception instances. |
| 279 | |
Guido van Rossum | 04edb52 | 2008-03-18 02:49:46 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 280 | - Issue #2371: Add a Py3k warning when catching an exception that |
Guido van Rossum | 504153d | 2008-03-18 04:26:48 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 281 | doesn't derive from BaseException. Issue #2341: Add a Py3k warning |
| 282 | when raising an exception that doesn't derive from BaseException. |
Guido van Rossum | 04edb52 | 2008-03-18 02:49:46 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 283 | |
Neal Norwitz | 419fd49 | 2008-03-17 20:22:43 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 284 | - Issue #2321: use pymalloc for unicode object string data to reduce |
| 285 | memory usage in some circumstances. |
| 286 | |
Eric Smith | 0aed07a | 2008-03-17 19:43:40 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 287 | - PEP 3127: octal literals now start with "0o". Old-style octal literals |
| 288 | are still valid. There are binary literals with a prefix of "0b". |
| 289 | This also affects int(x, 0). |
| 290 | |
Georg Brandl | 1e7c375 | 2008-03-25 08:37:23 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 291 | - Issue #2359: Adding deprecation warnings for array.{read,write}. |
| 292 | |
Jeffrey Yasskin | 1b4e45b | 2008-03-17 14:40:53 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 293 | - Issue #1779871: Gnu gcc can now build Python on OS X because the |
| 294 | flags -Wno-long-double, -no-cpp-precomp, and -mno-fused-madd are no |
| 295 | longer passed. |
| 296 | |
Neal Norwitz | 400aeda | 2008-03-15 22:03:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 297 | - Add a warning when asserting a non-empty tuple which is always true. |
| 298 | |
Nick Coghlan | 7af53be | 2008-03-07 14:13:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 299 | - Issue #2179: speed up with statement execution by storing the exit method |
| 300 | on the stack instead of in a temporary variable (patch by Jeffrey Yaskin) |
| 301 | |
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc | d21fb4c | 2008-03-05 01:50:33 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 302 | - Issue #2238: Some syntax errors in *args and **kwargs expressions could give |
| 303 | bogus error messages. |
| 304 | |
Sean Reifscheider | 68fa8e6 | 2008-03-20 00:50:07 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 305 | - Issue #2143: Fix embedded readline() hang on SSL socket EOF. |
| 306 | |
Andrew M. Kuchling | 46d6b68 | 2008-04-30 16:19:55 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 307 | Extension Modules |
| 308 | ----------------- |
Martin v. Löwis | aef18b1 | 2008-03-24 13:31:16 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 309 | |
| 310 | - Patch #2240: Implement signal.setitimer and signal.getitimer. |
| 311 | |
Thomas Heller | 78b8f44 | 2008-03-05 14:53:39 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 312 | Library |
| 313 | ------- |
| 314 | |
Vinay Sajip | b7edfc4 | 2008-04-02 21:10:23 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 315 | - Issue #2315: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now accounts for |
| 316 | daylight savings time in calculating the next rollover. |
| 317 | |
| 318 | - Issue #2316: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now calculates |
| 319 | rollovers correctly even when nothing is logged for a while. |
| 320 | |
| 321 | - Issue #2317: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now uses improved |
| 322 | logic for removing old files. |
| 323 | |
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc | da0c025 | 2008-03-27 23:23:54 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 324 | - Issue #2495: tokenize.untokenize now inserts a space between two consecutive |
| 325 | string literals; previously, ["" ""] was rendered as [""""], which is |
| 326 | incorrect python code. |
| 327 | |
Georg Brandl | deaf2ca | 2008-03-27 13:27:31 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 328 | - Issue #2248: return the result of the QUIT command. from SMTP.quit(). |
| 329 | |
Christian Heimes | 8c78cc3 | 2008-03-26 12:53:58 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 330 | - Backport of Python 3.0's io module. |
| 331 | |
Mark Dickinson | 8e85ffa | 2008-03-25 18:47:59 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 332 | - Issue #2482: Make sure that the coefficient of a Decimal is always |
| 333 | stored as a str instance, not as a unicode instance. This ensures |
| 334 | that str(Decimal) is always an instance of str. |
| 335 | |
Mark Dickinson | 3b24ccb | 2008-03-25 14:33:23 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 336 | - Issue #2478: fix failure of decimal.Decimal(0).sqrt() |
| 337 | |
Georg Brandl | 77354cf | 2008-03-21 20:01:51 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 338 | - Issue #2432: give DictReader the dialect and line_num attributes |
| 339 | advertised in the docs. |
| 340 | |
Raymond Hettinger | b72233c | 2008-03-24 08:17:39 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 341 | - Issue #2460: Make Ellipsis object copyable. |
| 342 | |
Raymond Hettinger | bbc50ea | 2008-03-23 13:32:32 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 343 | - Issue #1681432: Add triangular distribution to the random module |
| 344 | |
Georg Brandl | 3312432 | 2008-03-21 19:54:00 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 345 | - Issue #2136: urllib2's auth handler now allows single-quoted realms in the |
| 346 | WWW-Authenticate header. |
| 347 | |
Marc-André Lemburg | a186775 | 2008-03-20 18:08:00 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 348 | - Issue #2434: Enhanced platform.win32_ver() to also work on Python |
| 349 | installation which do not have the win32all package installed. |
| 350 | |
| 351 | - Added support to platform.uname() to also report the machine |
| 352 | and processor information on Windows XP and later. As a result, |
| 353 | platform.machine() and platform.processor() will report this |
| 354 | information as well. |
| 355 | |
Martin v. Löwis | 5e37bae | 2008-03-19 04:43:46 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 356 | - The library implementing the 2to3 conversion, lib2to3, was added |
| 357 | to the standard distribution. |
| 358 | |
Gregory P. Smith | 37f3f43 | 2008-03-18 20:40:01 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 359 | - Issue #1747858: Fix chown to work with large uid's and gid's on 64-bit |
| 360 | platforms. |
| 361 | |
Gregory P. Smith | f48f9d3 | 2008-03-17 18:48:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 362 | - Issue #1202: zlib.crc32 and zlib.adler32 no longer return different values |
| 363 | on 32-bit vs. 64-bit python interpreters. Both were correct, but they now |
| 364 | both return a signed integer object for consistency. |
| 365 | |
Skip Montanaro | 32ed8c2 | 2008-03-15 16:07:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 366 | - Issue #1158: add %f format (fractions of a second represented as |
| 367 | microseconds) to datetime objects. Understood by both strptime and |
| 368 | strftime. |
| 369 | |
Mark Dickinson | c23b8a7 | 2008-03-14 14:23:37 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 370 | - Issue #705836: struct.pack(">f", x) now raises OverflowError on all |
| 371 | platforms when x is too large to fit into an IEEE 754 float; previously |
| 372 | it only raised OverflowError on non IEEE 754 platforms. |
| 373 | |
Facundo Batista | c54aec1 | 2008-03-08 16:50:27 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 374 | - Issue #1106316: pdb.post_mortem()'s parameter, "traceback", is now |
| 375 | optional: it defaults to the traceback of the exception that is currently |
| 376 | being handled (is mandatory to be in the middle of an exception, otherwise |
| 377 | it raises ValueError). |
| 378 | |
Jeffrey Yasskin | e75f59a | 2008-03-07 06:22:15 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 379 | - Issue #1193577: A .shutdown() method has been added to SocketServers |
| 380 | which terminates the .serve_forever() loop. |
| 381 | |
Georg Brandl | 98aa805 | 2008-03-06 07:45:52 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 382 | - Bug #2220: handle rlcompleter attribute match failure more gracefully. |
| 383 | |
Georg Brandl | a7bd27f | 2008-03-06 07:41:16 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 384 | - Issue #2225: py_compile, when executed as a script, now returns a non- |
| 385 | zero status code if not all files could be compiled successfully. |
| 386 | |
Georg Brandl | 810ea29 | 2008-03-06 07:34:52 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 387 | - Bug #1725737: In distutil's sdist, exclude RCS, CVS etc. also in the |
| 388 | root directory, and also exclude .hg, .git, .bzr, and _darcs. |
| 389 | |
Thomas Heller | f3c0559 | 2008-03-05 15:34:29 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 390 | - Issue #1872: The struct module typecode for _Bool has been changed |
| 391 | from 't' to '?'. |
| 392 | |
Thomas Heller | 78b8f44 | 2008-03-05 14:53:39 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 393 | - The bundled libffi copy is now in sync with the recently released |
| 394 | libffi3.0.4 version, apart from some small changes to |
| 395 | Modules/_ctypes/libffi/configure.ac. |
| 396 | On OS X, preconfigured libffi files are used. |
| 397 | On all linux systems the --with-system-ffi configure option defaults |
| 398 | to "yes". |
| 399 | |
Sean Reifscheider | 493894c | 2008-03-18 17:24:12 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 400 | - Issue 1577: shutil.move() now calls os.rename() if the destination is a |
| 401 | directory instead of copying-then-remove-source. |
| 402 | |
Martin v. Löwis | d2bbe52 | 2008-03-06 06:55:22 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 403 | Tests |
| 404 | ----- |
| 405 | |
Brett Cannon | 7919d98 | 2008-03-19 16:50:13 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 406 | - test_nis no longer fails when test.test_support.verbose is true and NIS is |
| 407 | not set up on the testing machine. |
| 408 | |
Brett Cannon | a5573b3 | 2008-03-18 04:16:06 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 409 | - Output comparison tests are no longer supported. |
| 410 | |
Brett Cannon | b7ec8e5 | 2008-03-18 03:46:22 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 411 | - Rewrite test_errno to use unittest and no longer be a no-op. |
| 412 | |
Brett Cannon | 0bb7950 | 2008-03-18 01:58:56 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 413 | - GHOP 234: Convert test_extcall to doctest. |
| 414 | |
Brett Cannon | ba17cfc | 2008-03-18 01:50:25 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 415 | - GHOP 290: Convert test_dbm and test_dummy_threading to unittest. |
| 416 | |
Brett Cannon | 6eeaddc | 2008-03-18 01:00:07 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 417 | - GHOP 293: Convert test_strftime, test_getargs, and test_pep247 to unittest. |
| 418 | |
Brett Cannon | 1f5182b | 2008-03-13 21:09:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 419 | - Issue #2055: Convert test_fcntl to unittest. |
| 420 | |
Brett Cannon | 4a6e8d6 | 2008-03-13 21:02:16 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 421 | - Issue 1960: Convert test_gdbm to unittest. |
| 422 | |
Brett Cannon | 2e0f9f3 | 2008-03-13 20:47:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 423 | - GHOP 294: Convert test_contains, test_crypt, and test_select to unittest. |
| 424 | |
Brett Cannon | b8d3735 | 2008-03-13 20:33:10 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 425 | - GHOP 238: Convert test_tokenize to use doctest. |
| 426 | |
Brett Cannon | 66865d2 | 2008-03-13 20:27:00 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 427 | - GHOP 237: Rewrite test_thread using unittest. |
| 428 | |
Martin v. Löwis | d2bbe52 | 2008-03-06 06:55:22 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 429 | - Patch #2232: os.tmpfile might fail on Windows if the user has no |
| 430 | permission to create files in the root directory. |
| 431 | |
Martin v. Löwis | bf7b0b7 | 2008-03-14 13:56:09 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 432 | Build |
| 433 | ----- |
| 434 | |
Martin v. Löwis | cdbc977 | 2008-03-24 12:57:53 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 435 | - A new script 2to3 is now installed, to run the 2.x to 3.x converter. |
| 436 | |
Brett Cannon | aa5778d | 2008-03-18 04:09:00 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 437 | - Python/memmove.c and Python/strerror.c have been removed; both functions are |
| 438 | in the C89 standard library. |
| 439 | |
Martin v. Löwis | bf7b0b7 | 2008-03-14 13:56:09 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 440 | - Patch #2284: Add -x64 option to rt.bat. |
Barry Warsaw | 65475fd | 2008-03-01 17:11:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 441 | |
Christian Heimes | 3c60833 | 2008-03-26 22:01:37 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 442 | C API |
| 443 | ----- |
| 444 | |
Vinay Sajip | b7edfc4 | 2008-04-02 21:10:23 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 445 | - Patch #2477: Added PyParser_ParseFileFlagsEx() and |
Christian Heimes | 3c60833 | 2008-03-26 22:01:37 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 446 | PyParser_ParseStringFlagsFilenameEx() |
| 447 | |
Nick Coghlan | bb0996c | 2006-09-03 01:20:46 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 448 | What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 1? |
| 449 | ================================= |
Martin v. Löwis | 2eb8c4f | 2006-08-18 03:47:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 450 | |
Barry Warsaw | 7c07523 | 2008-03-01 02:53:36 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 451 | *Release date: 29-Feb-2008* |
Neal Norwitz | 92422fb | 2006-08-18 03:57:54 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 452 | |
| 453 | Core and builtins |
| 454 | ----------------- |
| 455 | |
Fred Drake | a8ee94b | 2008-03-01 02:45:07 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 456 | - Issue #2051: pyc and pyo files are no longer created with permission |
Barry Warsaw | 5297361 | 2008-03-01 02:23:38 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 457 | 644. The mode is now inherited from the py file. |
Christian Heimes | 4034685 | 2008-02-23 17:52:07 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 458 | |
Georg Brandl | ad61bc8 | 2008-02-23 15:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 459 | - Issue #2067: file.__exit__() now calls subclasses' close() method. |
| 460 | |
| 461 | - Patch #1759: Backport of PEP 3129 class decorators. |
Christian Heimes | 5224d28 | 2008-02-23 15:01:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 462 | |
Vinay Sajip | b7edfc4 | 2008-04-02 21:10:23 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 463 | - Issue #1881: An internal parser limit has been increased. Also see |
Facundo Batista | fc2d010 | 2008-02-23 12:01:13 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 464 | issue 215555 for a discussion. |
| 465 | |
Eric Smith | a73fbe7 | 2008-02-23 03:09:44 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 466 | - Added the future_builtins module, which contains hex() and oct(). |
| 467 | These are the PEP 3127 version of these functions, designed to be |
| 468 | compatible with the hex() and oct() builtins from Python 3.0. They |
| 469 | differ slightly in their output formats from the existing, unchanged |
| 470 | Python 2.6 builtins. The expected usage of the future_builtins |
| 471 | module is: |
| 472 | from future_builtins import hex, oct |
| 473 | |
Eric Smith | 7ef40bf | 2008-02-20 23:34:22 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 474 | - Issue #1600: Modifed PyOS_ascii_formatd to use at most 2 digit |
| 475 | exponents for exponents with absolute value < 100. Follows C99 |
| 476 | standard. This is a change on Windows, which would use 3 digits. |
| 477 | Also, added 'n' to the formats that PyOS_ascii_formatd understands, |
| 478 | so that any alterations it does to the resulting string will be |
| 479 | available in stringlib/formatter.h (for float.__format__). |
| 480 | |
Eric Smith | 5a3c135 | 2008-02-19 13:21:56 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 481 | - Implemented PEP 3101, Advanced String Formatting. This adds a new |
| 482 | builtin format(); a format() method for str and unicode; a |
| 483 | __format__() method to object, str, unicode, int, long, float, and |
| 484 | datetime; the class string.Formatter; and the C API |
| 485 | PyObject_Format(). |
| 486 | |
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc | 632fad3 | 2008-02-16 20:55:24 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 487 | - Fixed several potential crashes, all caused by specially crafted __del__ |
| 488 | methods exploiting objects in temporarily inconsistent state. |
| 489 | |
Vinay Sajip | b7edfc4 | 2008-04-02 21:10:23 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 490 | - Issue #2115: Important speedup in setting __slot__ attributes. Also |
| 491 | prevent a possible crash: an Abstract Base Class would try to access a slot |
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc | 60d6c7f | 2008-02-15 21:22:45 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 492 | on a registered virtual subclass. |
| 493 | |
Christian Heimes | 2f0da53 | 2008-02-15 06:57:08 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 494 | - Fixed repr() and str() of complex numbers with infinity or nan as real or |
| 495 | imaginary part. |
| 496 | |
Andrew M. Kuchling | c6511a8 | 2008-03-04 01:48:26 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 497 | - Clear all free lists during a gc.collect() of the highest generation in order |
Christian Heimes | 3b718a7 | 2008-02-14 12:47:33 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 498 | to allow pymalloc to free more arenas. Python may give back memory to the |
| 499 | OS earlier. |
| 500 | |
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc | b01aa43 | 2008-02-08 00:56:02 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 501 | - Issue #2045: Fix an infinite recursion triggered when printing a subclass of |
| 502 | collections.defaultdict, if its default_factory is set to a bound method. |
| 503 | |
Christian Heimes | f75dbef | 2008-02-08 00:11:31 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 504 | - Fixed a minor memory leak in dictobject.c. The content of the free |
| 505 | list was not freed on interpreter shutdown. |
| 506 | |
Christian Heimes | 6075a82 | 2008-02-06 12:44:34 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 507 | - Limit free list of method and builtin function objects to 256 entries |
| 508 | each. |
| 509 | |
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc | 578a8ca | 2008-02-04 20:53:14 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 510 | - Patch #1953: Added ``sys._compact_freelists()`` and the C API functions |
| 511 | ``PyInt_CompactFreeList`` and ``PyFloat_CompactFreeList`` |
Christian Heimes | 422051a | 2008-02-04 18:00:12 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 512 | to compact the internal free lists of pre-allocted ints and floats. |
| 513 | |
Christian Heimes | 951cc0f | 2008-01-31 23:08:23 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 514 | - Bug #1983: Fixed return type of fork(), fork1() and forkpty() calls. |
| 515 | Python expected the return type int but the fork familie returns pi_t. |
| 516 | |
Mark Dickinson | 105be77 | 2008-01-31 22:17:37 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 517 | - Issue #1678380: Fix a bug that identifies 0j and -0j when they appear |
| 518 | in the same code unit. |
| 519 | |
Raymond Hettinger | 5b07ebc | 2008-02-07 00:54:20 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 520 | - Issue #2025 : Add tuple.count() and tuple.index() methods to comply with |
| 521 | the collections.Sequence API. |
| 522 | |
Christian Heimes | 4d4f270 | 2008-01-30 11:32:37 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 523 | - Patch #1970 by Antoine Pitrou: Speedup unicode whitespace and linebreak |
| 524 | detection |
| 525 | |
Christian Heimes | 422051a | 2008-02-04 18:00:12 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 526 | - Added ``PyType_ClearCache()`` and ``sys._clear_type_cache`` to clear the |
Christian Heimes | 908caac | 2008-01-27 23:34:59 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 527 | internal lookup cache for ref leak tests. |
| 528 | |
Georg Brandl | 0cdf9a3 | 2008-01-26 14:14:20 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 529 | - Patch #1473257: generator objects gain a gi_code attribute. This is the |
| 530 | same object as the func_code attribute of the function that produced the |
| 531 | generator. |
| 532 | |
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc | 31eaafe | 2008-01-24 22:59:25 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 533 | - Issue #1920: "while 0" statements were completely removed by the compiler, |
Vinay Sajip | b7edfc4 | 2008-04-02 21:10:23 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 534 | even in the presence of an "else" clause, which is supposed to be run when |
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc | 31eaafe | 2008-01-24 22:59:25 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 535 | the condition is false. Now the compiler correctly emits bytecode for the |
| 536 | "else" suite. |
| 537 | |
Guido van Rossum | eead05f | 2008-01-24 18:21:02 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 538 | - A few crashers fixed: weakref_in_del.py (issue #1377858); |
| 539 | loosing_dict_ref.py (issue #1303614, test67.py); |
| 540 | borrowed_ref_[34].py (not in tracker). |
| 541 | |
Vinay Sajip | d7cf32e | 2008-01-24 12:43:33 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 542 | - Issue #1069410: The "can't load dll" message box on Windows is |
Christian Heimes | b2302ba | 2008-01-23 17:15:06 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 543 | suppressed while an extension is loaded by calling SetErrorMode in |
| 544 | dynload_win.c. The error is still reported properly. |
| 545 | |
Christian Heimes | 082c9b0 | 2008-01-23 14:20:50 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 546 | - Bug #1915: Python compiles with --enable-unicode=no again. However |
| 547 | several extension methods and modules do not work without unicode |
| 548 | support. |
| 549 | |
Georg Brandl | 26543b1 | 2008-01-21 18:36:51 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 550 | - Issue #1882: when compiling code from a string, encoding cookies in the |
| 551 | second line of code were not always recognized correctly. |
| 552 | |
Georg Brandl | 14404b6 | 2008-01-19 19:27:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 553 | - Issue #1679: "0x" was taken as a valid integer literal. |
| 554 | |
Georg Brandl | 6caad7d | 2008-01-26 14:19:22 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 555 | - Issue #1865: ``bytes`` as an alias for ``str`` and b"" as an alias "" were |
Christian Heimes | 288e89a | 2008-01-18 18:24:07 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 556 | added. |
| 557 | |
Christian Heimes | c94e2b5 | 2008-01-14 04:13:37 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 558 | - sys.float_info / PyFloat_GetInfo: The floating point information |
| 559 | object was converted from a dict to a specialized structseq object. |
| 560 | |
Christian Heimes | f31b69f | 2008-01-14 03:42:48 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 561 | - Patch #1816: Added sys.flags structseq. It exposes the status of most |
Vinay Sajip | 2bdc48c | 2008-01-21 18:16:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 562 | command line arguments and PYTHON* environment variables. |
Christian Heimes | f31b69f | 2008-01-14 03:42:48 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 563 | |
Georg Brandl | 6caad7d | 2008-01-26 14:19:22 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 564 | - Objects/structseq.c: Implemented new structseq representation. The patch |
Christian Heimes | f31b69f | 2008-01-14 03:42:48 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 565 | makes structseqs (e.g. the return value of os.stat) more readable. |
Christian Heimes | 9c20196 | 2008-01-14 03:33:52 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 566 | |
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc | e4c270c | 2008-01-14 00:29:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 567 | - Patch #1700288: added a type attribute cache that caches method accesses, |
| 568 | resulting in speedups in heavily object-oriented code. |
| 569 | |
Neal Norwitz | 3fc15b8 | 2008-01-10 05:42:58 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 570 | - Bug #1776: __import__() no longer accepts filenames on any platform. |
| 571 | The first parameter to __import__() must be a valid module name. |
Christian Heimes | 3403f15 | 2008-01-09 19:56:33 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 572 | |
Georg Brandl | aed6c66 | 2008-01-07 17:25:53 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 573 | - Patch #1668: renamed THREADDEBUG envvar to PYTHONTHREADDEBUG. |
| 574 | |
Georg Brandl | 2da0fce | 2008-01-07 17:09:35 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 575 | - Patch #602345: Add -B command line option, PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE envvar |
| 576 | and sys.dont_write_bytecode attribute. All these can be set to forbid Python |
| 577 | to attempt to write compiled bytecode files. |
| 578 | |
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc | e0b7695 | 2008-01-04 02:04:15 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 579 | - Improve some exception messages when Windows fails to load an extension |
| 580 | module. Now we get for example '%1 is not a valid Win32 application' instead |
| 581 | of 'error code 193'. |
| 582 | |
Christian Heimes | 8267d1d | 2008-01-04 00:37:34 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 583 | - Bug #1481296: Fixed long(float('nan'))!=0L. |
| 584 | |
Christian Heimes | eebb79c | 2008-01-03 22:32:26 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 585 | - Issue #1640: Added math.isinf(x), math.isnan(x) and math.copysign(x, y) |
| 586 | functions. |
Christian Heimes | e2ca424 | 2008-01-03 20:23:15 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 587 | |
Christian Heimes | 0a8143f | 2007-12-18 23:22:54 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 588 | - Issue #1635: Platform independent creation and representation of NaN |
| 589 | and INF. float("nan"), float("inf") and float("-inf") now work on every |
| 590 | platform with IEEE 754 semantics. |
| 591 | |
Raymond Hettinger | fd7ed40 | 2007-12-18 21:24:09 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 592 | - Compiler now generates simpler and faster code for dictionary literals. |
| 593 | The oparg for BUILD_MAP now indicates an estimated dictionary size. |
| 594 | There is a new opcode, STORE_MAP, for adding entries to the dictionary. |
| 595 | |
Christian Heimes | db3d6cb | 2007-12-16 21:39:43 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 596 | - Issue #1638: %zd configure test fails on Linux |
| 597 | |
Christian Heimes | 90e10e7 | 2007-12-14 02:35:23 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 598 | - Issue #1620: New property decorator syntax was modifying the decorator |
| 599 | in place instead of creating a new decorator object. |
| 600 | |
Skip Montanaro | 2601549 | 2007-12-08 15:33:24 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 601 | - Issue #1538: Avoid copying string in split/rsplit if the split |
| 602 | char is not found. |
| 603 | |
Andrew M. Kuchling | 395fe44 | 2007-12-05 13:27:20 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 604 | - Issue #1553: An erroneous __length_hint__ can make list() raise a |
Christian Heimes | 7cc1c6f | 2007-12-05 12:52:34 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 605 | SystemError. |
| 606 | |
Nick Coghlan | ef01d82 | 2007-12-03 12:55:17 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 607 | - PEP 366: Allow explicit relative imports when executing modules |
| 608 | inside packages with the -m switch via a new module level |
| 609 | __package__ attribute. |
| 610 | |
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc | be49a90 | 2007-11-30 20:37:22 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 611 | - Issue #1402: Fix a crash on exit, when another thread is still running, and |
| 612 | if the deallocation of its frames somehow calls the PyGILState_Ensure() / |
| 613 | PyGILState_Release() functions. |
| 614 | |
Christian Heimes | 28104c5 | 2007-11-27 23:16:44 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 615 | - Expose the Py_Py3kWarningFlag as sys.py3kwarning. |
| 616 | |
Vinay Sajip | 2bdc48c | 2008-01-21 18:16:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 617 | - Issue #1445: Fix a SystemError when accessing the ``cell_contents`` |
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc | ce7d10c | 2007-11-24 13:44:17 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 618 | attribute of an empty cell object. |
| 619 | |
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc | f57375a | 2007-11-21 01:38:26 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 620 | - Issue #1460: The utf-7 incremental decoder did not accept truncated input. |
| 621 | It now correctly saves its state between chunks of data. |
| 622 | |
Nick Coghlan | 327a39b | 2007-11-18 11:56:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 623 | - Patch #1739468: Directories and zipfiles containing a __main__.py file can |
| 624 | now be directly executed by passing their name to the interpreter. The |
| 625 | directory/zipfile is automatically inserted as the first entry in sys.path. |
| 626 | |
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc | 0d75f09 | 2007-11-13 21:54:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 627 | - Issue #1265: Fix a problem with sys.settrace, if the tracing function uses a |
| 628 | generator expression when at the same time the executed code is closing a |
| 629 | paused generator. |
| 630 | |
Raymond Hettinger | 1760c8a | 2007-11-08 02:52:43 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 631 | - sets and frozensets now have an isdisjoint() method. |
| 632 | |
Raymond Hettinger | 3f8caa3 | 2007-10-24 01:28:33 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 633 | - optimize the performance of builtin.sum(). |
| 634 | |
Neal Norwitz | 44f326e | 2007-10-05 05:29:17 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 635 | - Fix warnings found by the new version of the Coverity checker. |
| 636 | |
Raymond Hettinger | 8f66937 | 2007-10-03 21:18:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 637 | - The enumerate() builtin function is no longer bounded to sequences smaller |
| 638 | than LONG_MAX. Formerly, it raised an OverflowError. Now, automatically |
| 639 | shifts from ints to longs. |
| 640 | |
Brett Cannon | 0b14f24 | 2007-09-30 19:45:10 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 641 | - Issue #1686386: Tuple's tp_repr did not take into account the possibility of |
| 642 | having a self-referential tuple, which is possible from C code. Nor did |
| 643 | object's tp_str consider that a type's tp_str could do something that could |
| 644 | lead to an inifinite recursion. Py_ReprEnter() and Py_EnterRecursiveCall(), |
| 645 | respectively, fixed the issues. |
| 646 | |
Brett Cannon | 0153159 | 2007-09-17 03:28:34 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 647 | - Issue #1164: It was possible to trigger deadlock when using the 'print' |
| 648 | statement to write to a file since the GIL was not released as needed. Now |
| 649 | PyObject_Print() does the right thing along with various tp_print |
| 650 | implementations of the built-in types and those in the collections module. |
| 651 | |
Brett Cannon | 4c20bc4 | 2007-09-11 21:02:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 652 | - Issue #1147: Exceptions were directly allowing string exceptions in their |
| 653 | throw() method even though string exceptions no longer allowed. |
| 654 | |
Brett Cannon | a0c0551 | 2007-09-10 21:38:27 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 655 | - Issue #1096: Prevent a segfault from getting the repr of a very deeply nested |
| 656 | list by using the recursion counter. |
| 657 | |
Brett Cannon | 1e534b5 | 2007-09-07 04:18:30 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 658 | - Issue #1202533: Fix infinite recursion calls triggered by calls to |
| 659 | PyObject_Call() never calling back out to Python code to trigger recursion |
| 660 | depth updates/checks. Required the creation of a static RuntimeError |
| 661 | instance in case normalizing an exception put the recursion check value past |
| 662 | its limit. Fixes crashers infinite_rec_(1|2|4|5).py. |
| 663 | |
Martin v. Löwis | a513619 | 2007-09-04 14:19:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 664 | - Patch #1031213: Decode source line in SyntaxErrors back to its original source |
| 665 | encoding. |
| 666 | |
Georg Brandl | 7c3b50d | 2007-07-12 08:38:00 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 667 | - Patch #1673759: add a missing overflow check when formatting floats |
| 668 | with %G. |
| 669 | |
Neal Norwitz | db2b1b3 | 2007-06-11 07:36:24 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 670 | - Prevent expandtabs() on string and unicode objects from causing a segfault |
| 671 | when a large width is passed on 32-bit platforms. |
Neal Norwitz | 7dbd2a3 | 2007-06-09 03:36:34 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 672 | |
Martin v. Löwis | da587ab | 2007-06-08 17:29:20 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 673 | - Bug #1733488: Fix compilation of bufferobject.c on AIX. |
| 674 | |
Georg Brandl | 25497a1 | 2007-06-01 19:20:27 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 675 | - Bug #1722485: remove docstrings again when running with -OO. |
Georg Brandl | a5ea689 | 2007-06-01 11:33:33 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 676 | |
Neal Norwitz | 0ac6019 | 2007-05-27 04:08:54 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 677 | - Add new attribute names for function objects. All the func_* become |
| 678 | __*__ attributes. (Some already existed, e.g., __doc__ and __name__.) |
| 679 | |
Neal Norwitz | 8b2bfbc | 2007-05-23 06:35:32 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 680 | - Add -3 option to the interpreter to warn about features that are |
| 681 | deprecated and will be changed/removed in Python 3.0. |
| 682 | |
Georg Brandl | 2134e75 | 2007-05-21 20:34:16 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 683 | - Patch #1686487: you can now pass any mapping after '**' in function |
| 684 | calls. |
| 685 | |
Collin Winter | 6290305 | 2007-05-18 23:11:24 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 686 | - except clauses may now be spelled either "except E, target:" or |
| 687 | "except E as target:". This is to provide forwards compatibility with |
| 688 | Python 3.0. |
| 689 | |
Brett Cannon | 229cee2 | 2007-05-05 01:34:02 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 690 | - Deprecate BaseException.message as per PEP 352. |
| 691 | |
Armin Rigo | 9790a27 | 2007-05-02 19:23:31 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 692 | - Bug #1303614: don't expose object's __dict__ when the dict is |
| 693 | inherited from a builtin base. |
| 694 | |
Vinay Sajip | 8549ce3 | 2007-05-06 17:53:37 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 695 | - When __slots__ are set to a unicode string, make it work the same as |
Neal Norwitz | cbd9ee6 | 2007-04-14 05:25:50 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 696 | setting a plain string, ie don't expand to single letter identifiers. |
| 697 | |
Raymond Hettinger | 1393669 | 2007-04-11 18:40:58 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 698 | - Request #1191699: Slices can now be pickled. |
| 699 | |
Raymond Hettinger | 4db5fe9 | 2007-04-12 04:10:00 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 700 | - Request #1193128: str.translate() now allows a None argument for |
| 701 | translations that only remove characters without re-mapping the |
| 702 | remaining characters. |
| 703 | |
Georg Brandl | 5cb76c1 | 2007-03-21 09:00:39 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 704 | - Patch #1682205: a TypeError while unpacking an iterable is no longer |
| 705 | masked by a generic one with the message "unpack non-sequence". |
| 706 | |
Neal Norwitz | aa754b7 | 2007-03-21 06:39:48 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 707 | - Remove unused file Python/fmod.c. |
| 708 | |
Guido van Rossum | 143b564 | 2007-03-23 04:58:42 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 709 | - Bug #1683368: The object.__init__() and object.__new__() methods are |
| 710 | now stricter in rejecting excess arguments. The only time when |
| 711 | either allows excess arguments is when it is not overridden and the |
| 712 | other one is. For backwards compatibility, when both are |
| 713 | overridden, it is a deprecation warning (for now; maybe a Py3k |
Guido van Rossum | 234b1ff | 2007-03-23 19:39:01 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 714 | warning later). Also, type.__init__() insists on the same signature |
| 715 | as supported by type.__new__(). |
Guido van Rossum | 143b564 | 2007-03-23 04:58:42 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 716 | |
Georg Brandl | 2b86994 | 2007-03-17 16:08:45 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 717 | - Patch #1675423: PyComplex_AsCComplex() now tries to convert an object |
| 718 | to complex using its __complex__() method before falling back to the |
| 719 | __float__() method. Therefore, the functions in the cmath module now |
| 720 | can operate on objects that define a __complex__() method. |
| 721 | |
Žiga Seilnacht | 6f2d09c | 2007-03-16 11:59:38 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 722 | - Patch #1623563: allow __class__ assignment for classes with __slots__. |
| 723 | The old and the new class are still required to have the same slot names. |
| 724 | |
Collin Winter | 77c67bd | 2007-03-16 04:11:30 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 725 | - Patch #1642547: Fix an error/crash when encountering syntax errors in |
| 726 | complex if statements. |
| 727 | |
Žiga Seilnacht | 20f43d3 | 2007-03-15 11:44:55 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 728 | - Patch #1462488: Python no longer segfaults when ``object.__reduce_ex__()`` |
| 729 | is called with an object that is faking its type. |
| 730 | |
Žiga Seilnacht | 71436f0 | 2007-03-14 12:24:09 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 731 | - Patch #1680015: Don't modify __slots__ tuple if it contains an unicode |
| 732 | name. |
| 733 | |
Georg Brandl | 5240d74 | 2007-03-13 20:46:32 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 734 | - Patch #1444529: the builtin compile() now accepts keyword arguments. |
| 735 | |
Georg Brandl | 7b9c555 | 2007-03-12 14:30:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 736 | - Bug #1678647: write a newline after printing an exception in any |
| 737 | case, even when converting the value to a string failed. |
| 738 | |
Georg Brandl | 871f1bc | 2007-03-12 13:17:36 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 739 | - The dir() function has been extended to call the __dir__() method on |
| 740 | its argument, if it exists. If not, it will work like before. This allows |
| 741 | customizing the output of dir() in the presence of a __getattr__(). |
| 742 | |
Collin Winter | 276887b | 2007-03-12 16:11:39 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 743 | - Patch #922167: Python no longer segfaults when faced with infinitely |
| 744 | self-recursive reload() calls (as reported by bug #742342). |
| 745 | |
Žiga Seilnacht | 8903208 | 2007-03-11 15:54:54 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 746 | - Patch #1675981: remove unreachable code from ``type.__new__()`` method. |
| 747 | |
Collin Winter | e38051d | 2007-03-09 20:33:07 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 748 | - Patch #1491866: change the complex() constructor to allow parthensized |
| 749 | forms. This means complex(repr(x)) now works instead of raising a |
| 750 | ValueError. |
| 751 | |
Georg Brandl | aa2321b | 2007-03-07 00:40:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 752 | - Patch #703779: unset __file__ in __main__ after running a file. This |
| 753 | makes the filenames the warning module prints much more sensible when |
| 754 | a PYTHONSTARTUP file is used. |
| 755 | |
Georg Brandl | 49aafc9 | 2007-03-07 00:34:46 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 756 | - Variant of patch #697613: don't exit the interpreter on a SystemExit |
| 757 | exception if the -i command line option or PYTHONINSPECT environment |
| 758 | variable is given, but break into the interactive interpreter just like |
| 759 | on other exceptions or normal program exit. |
| 760 | |
Georg Brandl | 00cd818 | 2007-03-06 18:41:12 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 761 | - Patch #1638879: don't accept strings with embedded NUL bytes in long(). |
| 762 | |
Georg Brandl | 098cd69 | 2007-03-06 12:17:50 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 763 | - Bug #1674503: close the file opened by execfile() in an error condition. |
| 764 | |
Georg Brandl | 0fca97a | 2007-03-05 22:28:08 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 765 | - Patch #1674228: when assigning a slice (old-style), check for the |
| 766 | sq_ass_slice instead of the sq_slice slot. |
| 767 | |
Neal Norwitz | 88516a6 | 2007-02-26 22:41:45 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 768 | - When printing an unraisable error, don't print exceptions. before the name. |
| 769 | This duplicates the behavior whening normally printing exceptions. |
| 770 | |
Martin v. Löwis | fd96326 | 2007-02-09 12:19:32 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 771 | - Bug #1653736: Properly discard third argument to slot_nb_inplace_power. |
| 772 | |
Brett Cannon | 129bd52 | 2007-01-30 21:34:36 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 773 | - PEP 352: Raising a string exception now triggers a TypeError. Attempting to |
| 774 | catch a string exception raises DeprecationWarning. |
| 775 | |
Brett Cannon | f5bee30 | 2007-01-23 23:21:22 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 776 | - Bug #1377858: Fix the segfaulting of the interpreter when an object created |
| 777 | a weakref on itself during a __del__ call for new-style classes (classic |
| 778 | classes still have the bug). |
| 779 | |
Martin v. Löwis | 6c5c502 | 2007-01-23 21:11:47 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 780 | - Bug #1579370: Make PyTraceBack_Here use the current thread, not the |
| 781 | frame's thread state. |
| 782 | |
Thomas Wouters | 6ed1965 | 2007-01-23 13:50:49 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 783 | - patch #1630975: Fix crash when replacing sys.stdout in sitecustomize.py |
| 784 | |
Neal Norwitz | 72cd02c | 2007-01-05 05:25:22 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 785 | - Prevent seg fault on shutdown which could occur if an object |
| 786 | raised a warning. |
| 787 | |
Martin v. Löwis | 7b7c9d4 | 2007-01-04 21:06:12 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 788 | - Bug #1566280: Explicitly invoke threading._shutdown from Py_Main, |
| 789 | to avoid relying on atexit. |
| 790 | |
Raymond Hettinger | 94547f7 | 2006-12-20 06:42:06 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 791 | - Bug #1590891: random.randrange don't return correct value for big number |
| 792 | |
Georg Brandl | 283a135 | 2006-11-19 08:48:30 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 793 | - Patch #1586791: Better exception messages for some operations on strings, |
| 794 | tuples and lists. |
| 795 | |
Martin v. Löwis | 056dac1 | 2006-11-12 18:24:26 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 796 | - Bug #1067760: Deprecate passing floats to file.seek. |
| 797 | |
Martin v. Löwis | a346c09 | 2006-11-08 06:48:36 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 798 | - Bug #1591996: Correctly forward exception in instance_contains(). |
| 799 | |
Neal Norwitz | 85dbec6 | 2006-11-04 19:25:22 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 800 | - Bug #1588287: fix invalid assertion for `1,2` in debug builds. |
| 801 | |
Georg Brandl | b9f4ad3 | 2006-10-29 18:31:42 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 802 | - Bug #1576657: when setting a KeyError for a tuple key, make sure that |
| 803 | the tuple isn't used as the "exception arguments tuple". |
| 804 | |
Neal Norwitz | 21997af | 2006-10-28 21:19:07 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 805 | - Bug #1565514, SystemError not raised on too many nested blocks. |
| 806 | |
Thomas Heller | df08f0b | 2006-10-27 18:31:36 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 807 | - Bug #1576174: WindowsError now displays the windows error code |
| 808 | again, no longer the posix error code. |
| 809 | |
Martin v. Löwis | b5bc537 | 2006-10-27 06:16:31 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 810 | - Patch #1549049: Support long values in structmember, issue warnings |
| 811 | if the assigned value for structmember fields gets truncated. |
| 812 | |
Neal Norwitz | cbeb687 | 2006-10-14 21:33:38 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 813 | - Update the peephole optimizer to remove more dead code (jumps after returns) |
| 814 | and inline unconditional jumps to returns. |
| 815 | |
Georg Brandl | 2c1375c | 2006-10-12 11:27:59 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 816 | - Bug #1545497: when given an explicit base, int() did ignore NULs |
| 817 | embedded in the string to convert. |
| 818 | |
Georg Brandl | 846f73a | 2006-10-08 07:11:54 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 819 | - Bug #1569998: break inside a try statement (outside a loop) is now |
| 820 | recognized and rejected. |
| 821 | |
Armin Rigo | 7ccbca9 | 2006-10-04 12:17:45 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 822 | - list.pop(x) accepts any object x following the __index__ protocol. |
| 823 | |
Armin Rigo | 7ccbca9 | 2006-10-04 12:17:45 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 824 | - A number of places, including integer negation and absolute value, |
| 825 | were fixed to not rely on undefined behaviour of the C compiler |
| 826 | anymore. |
Martin v. Löwis | 820d6ac | 2006-10-04 05:47:34 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 827 | |
Georg Brandl | 3267d28 | 2006-09-30 09:03:42 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 828 | - Bug #1566800: make sure that EnvironmentError can be called with any |
| 829 | number of arguments, as was the case in Python 2.4. |
| 830 | |
Georg Brandl | 5d59c09 | 2006-09-30 08:43:30 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 831 | - Patch #1567691: super() and new.instancemethod() now don't accept |
| 832 | keyword arguments any more (previously they accepted them, but didn't |
| 833 | use them). |
| 834 | |
Georg Brandl | a10d3af | 2006-09-24 12:35:36 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 835 | - Fix a bug in the parser's future statement handling that led to "with" |
| 836 | not being recognized as a keyword after, e.g., this statement: |
| 837 | from __future__ import division, with_statement |
| 838 | |
Neal Norwitz | 3a23017 | 2006-09-22 08:18:10 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 839 | - Bug #1557232: fix seg fault with def f((((x)))) and def f(((x),)). |
| 840 | |
Neal Norwitz | 4a8fbdb | 2006-09-22 08:16:26 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 841 | - Fix %zd string formatting on Mac OS X so it prints negative numbers. |
| 842 | |
Brett Cannon | f6aa86e | 2006-09-20 18:43:13 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 843 | - Allow exception instances to be directly sliced again. |
| 844 | |
Brett Cannon | 9adeab7 | 2006-09-20 18:34:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 845 | - Bug #1551432: Exceptions do not define an explicit __unicode__ method. This |
| 846 | allows calling unicode() on exceptions classes directly to succeed. |
| 847 | |
Georg Brandl | 4e93313 | 2006-09-06 20:05:58 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 848 | - Bug #1542051: Exceptions now correctly call PyObject_GC_UnTrack. |
| 849 | Also make sure that every exception class has __module__ set to |
| 850 | 'exceptions'. |
| 851 | |
Georg Brandl | 98775df | 2006-09-06 06:09:31 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 852 | - Bug #1550983: emit better error messages for erroneous relative |
| 853 | imports (if not in package and if beyond toplevel package). |
| 854 | |
Tim Peters | c10c9d0 | 2006-09-05 02:18:09 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 855 | - Overflow checking code in integer division ran afoul of new gcc |
| 856 | optimizations. Changed to be more standard-conforming. |
| 857 | |
Neal Norwitz | 4f096d9 | 2006-08-21 19:47:08 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 858 | - Patch #1542451: disallow continue anywhere under a finally. |
| 859 | |
Neal Norwitz | a22975f | 2006-09-05 02:24:03 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 860 | - Patch #1546288: fix seg fault in dict_equal due to ref counting bug. |
| 861 | |
Neal Norwitz | d34e427 | 2006-09-05 02:36:20 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 862 | - The return tuple from str.rpartition(sep) is (tail, sep, head) where |
| 863 | head is the original string if sep was not found. |
| 864 | |
Neal Norwitz | dac090d | 2006-09-05 03:53:08 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 865 | - Bug #1520864: unpacking singleton tuples in list comprehensions and |
| 866 | generator expressions (x for x, in ... ) works again. Fixing this problem |
| 867 | required changing the .pyc magic number. This means that .pyc files |
| 868 | generated before 2.5c2 will be regenerated. |
| 869 | |
Georg Brandl | 6caad7d | 2008-01-26 14:19:22 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 870 | - ``with`` and ``as`` are now keywords. |
Neal Norwitz | ca460d9 | 2006-09-06 06:28:06 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 871 | |
Jeremy Hylton | c5ceb25 | 2007-02-25 15:57:45 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 872 | - Bug #1664966: Fix crash in exec if Unicode filename can't be decoded. |
Martin v. Löwis | 2eb8c4f | 2006-08-18 03:47:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 873 | |
Guido van Rossum | cad3724 | 2008-01-15 17:59:29 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 874 | - Issue #1537: Changed GeneratorExit's base class from Exception to |
| 875 | BaseException. |
Christian Heimes | 44eeaec | 2007-12-03 20:01:02 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 876 | |
Gregory P. Smith | 95cd5c0 | 2008-01-22 01:20:42 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 877 | - Fix Issue #1703448: A joined thread could show up in the |
| 878 | threading.enumerate() list after the join() for a brief period until |
| 879 | it actually exited. |
| 880 | |
Georg Brandl | 6caad7d | 2008-01-26 14:19:22 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 881 | |
Martin v. Löwis | 2eb8c4f | 2006-08-18 03:47:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 882 | Library |
| 883 | ------- |
| 884 | |
Raymond Hettinger | 53bdf09 | 2008-03-13 19:03:51 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 885 | - #2274 Add heapq.heappushpop(). |
| 886 | |
Christian Heimes | 608c1d8 | 2008-03-03 18:28:04 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 887 | - Add inspect.isabstract(object) to fix bug #2223 |
| 888 | |
Mark Dickinson | 1ddf1d8 | 2008-02-29 02:16:37 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 889 | - Add a __format__ method to Decimal, to support PEP 3101. |
| 890 | |
Neal Norwitz | ca37661 | 2008-02-26 08:21:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 891 | - Add a timing parameter when using trace.Trace to print out timestamps. |
| 892 | |
Georg Brandl | 8c460d5 | 2008-02-24 00:14:24 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 893 | - #1627: httplib now ignores negative Content-Length headers. |
| 894 | |
Georg Brandl | 2363503 | 2008-02-24 00:03:22 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 895 | - #900744: If an invalid chunked-encoding header is sent by a server, |
| 896 | httplib will now raise IncompleteRead and close the connection instead |
| 897 | of raising ValueError. |
| 898 | |
Georg Brandl | 1647923 | 2008-02-23 15:02:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 899 | - #1492: The content type of BaseHTTPServer error messages can now be |
| 900 | overridden. |
| 901 | |
Facundo Batista | b12f0b5 | 2008-02-23 12:46:10 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 902 | - Issue 1781: ConfigParser now does not let you add the "default" section |
| 903 | (ignore-case) |
| 904 | |
Guido van Rossum | 8bc0965 | 2008-02-21 18:18:37 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 905 | - Removed uses of dict.has_key() from distutils, and uses of |
| 906 | callable() from copy_reg.py, so the interpreter now starts up |
| 907 | without warnings when '-3' is given. More work like this needs to |
| 908 | be done in the rest of the stdlib. |
| 909 | |
Facundo Batista | 759bfc6 | 2008-02-18 03:43:43 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 910 | - Issue #1916. Added isgenerator() and isgeneratorfunction() to inspect.py. |
| 911 | |
Facundo Batista | d14600e | 2008-02-18 12:48:43 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 912 | - #1224: Fixed bad url parsing when path begins with double slash. |
| 913 | |
Thomas Heller | a06a1a8 | 2008-02-13 20:21:53 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 914 | - ctypes instances that are not or do not contain pointers can now be |
| 915 | pickled. |
| 916 | |
Martin v. Löwis | dad88dc | 2008-02-12 18:47:34 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 917 | - Patch #1966: Break infinite loop in httplib when the servers |
| 918 | implements the chunked encoding incorrectly. |
| 919 | |
Mark Dickinson | d058cd2 | 2008-02-10 21:29:51 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 920 | - Rename rational.py to fractions.py and the rational.Rational class |
| 921 | to fractions.Fraction, to avoid the name clash with the abstract |
| 922 | base class numbers.Rational. See discussion in issue #1682. |
| 923 | |
Raymond Hettinger | da614dc | 2008-02-10 20:35:16 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 924 | - The pickletools module now provides an optimize() function |
| 925 | that eliminates unused PUT opcodes from a pickle string. |
| 926 | |
Nick Coghlan | ac094dc | 2008-02-10 07:32:52 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 927 | - #2021: Allow tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile and SpooledTemporaryFile |
| 928 | to be used in with statements by correctly supporting the context |
| 929 | management protocol. |
| 930 | |
Mark Dickinson | 2fc9263 | 2008-02-06 22:10:50 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 931 | - #1979: Add rich comparisons to Decimal, and make Decimal comparisons |
| 932 | involving a NaN follow the IEEE 754 standard. |
| 933 | |
Lars Gustäbel | 0192e43 | 2008-02-05 11:51:40 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 934 | - #2004: tarfile.py: Use mode 0700 for temporary directories and default |
| 935 | permissions for missing directories. |
| 936 | |
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc | 6fd03bb | 2008-02-04 21:45:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 937 | - #175006: The debugger used to skip the condition of a "while" statement |
| 938 | after the first iteration. Now it correctly steps on the expression, and |
| 939 | breakpoints on the "while" statement are honored on each loop. |
| 940 | |
Vinay Sajip | d7cf32e | 2008-01-24 12:43:33 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 941 | - #1765140: add an optional delay argument to FileHandler and its |
| 942 | subclasses. Defaults to false (existing behaviour), but if true, |
| 943 | defers opening the file until the first call to emit(). |
| 944 | |
Raymond Hettinger | c226c31 | 2008-01-23 00:04:40 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 945 | - The pprint module now supports sets and frozensets. |
| 946 | |
Gregory P. Smith | c64386b | 2008-01-22 00:19:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 947 | - #1221598: add optional callbacks to ftplib.FTP's storbinary() and |
| 948 | storlines() methods. (Contributed by Phil Schwartz) |
| 949 | |
Georg Brandl | f2dae0e | 2008-01-21 21:05:49 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 950 | - #1715: include sub-extension modules in pydoc's text output. |
| 951 | |
Vinay Sajip | 2bdc48c | 2008-01-21 18:16:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 952 | - #1836: fix an off-by-one bug in TimedRotatingHandler's rollover |
| 953 | time calculation. |
| 954 | |
| 955 | - #1021: fix a bug to allow basicConfig to accept NOTSET as a level. |
| 956 | |
| 957 | - #932563: add LoggerAdapter convenience class to make it easier to add |
| 958 | contextual information in logging output. |
| 959 | |
| 960 | - #1760556: fix a bug to avoid FileHandler throwing an exception in |
| 961 | flush(). |
| 962 | |
Georg Brandl | 5016015 | 2008-01-21 17:42:40 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 963 | - Bug #1530959: distutils' build command now uses different build directory |
| 964 | when building extension modules against versions of Python compiled |
| 965 | with ``--with-pydebug``. |
| 966 | |
Georg Brandl | 864de82 | 2008-01-21 16:34:07 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 967 | - #1555501: move plistlib from plat-mac directory to general library. |
| 968 | |
Georg Brandl | 66e7363 | 2008-01-21 10:24:59 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 969 | - #1269: fix a bug in pstats.add_callers() and add a unit test file for |
| 970 | pstats. |
| 971 | |
Georg Brandl | 5235398 | 2008-01-20 14:17:42 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 972 | - #1669: don't allow shutil.rmtree() to be called on a symlink to a |
| 973 | directory. |
| 974 | |
Georg Brandl | d5e6cf2 | 2008-01-20 12:18:17 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 975 | - #1664522: in urllib, don't read non-existing directories in ftp mode, |
| 976 | returning a 0-byte file -- raise an IOError instead. |
| 977 | |
Georg Brandl | 2235011 | 2008-01-20 12:05:43 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 978 | - #856047: respect the ``no_proxy`` environment variable when using the |
| 979 | ``http_proxy`` etc. environment variables in urllib. |
| 980 | |
Georg Brandl | 9b0d46d | 2008-01-20 11:43:03 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 981 | - #1178141: add a getcode() method to the addinfourls that urllib.open() |
| 982 | returns so that you can retrieve the HTTP status code. |
| 983 | |
Gregory P. Smith | f25680a | 2008-01-20 01:26:04 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 984 | - Issue #1003: Fix zipfile decryption check, it would fail zip files |
| 985 | with extended local headers. |
| 986 | |
Gregory P. Smith | 350d03b | 2008-01-19 23:10:52 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 987 | - #1189216: Fix the zipfile module to work on archives with headers |
| 988 | past the 2**31 byte boundary. |
| 989 | |
Gregory P. Smith | b9ba075 | 2008-01-19 21:00:37 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 990 | - #1336: fix a race condition in subprocess.Popen if the garbage |
| 991 | collector kicked in at the wrong time that would cause the process |
| 992 | to hang when the child wrote to stderr. |
| 993 | |
Georg Brandl | c6fde72 | 2008-01-19 19:48:19 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 994 | - #1146: fix how textwrap breaks a long word that would start in the |
| 995 | last column of a line. |
| 996 | |
Skip Montanaro | 562133b | 2008-01-19 18:47:24 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 997 | - #1693149: trace.py --ignore-module - accept multiple comma-separated |
| 998 | modules to be given. |
| 999 | |
Facundo Batista | 2b1b195 | 2008-01-19 12:32:27 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1000 | - #1822: MIMEMultipart.is_multipart() behaves correctly for a just-created |
| 1001 | (and empty) instance. Thanks Jonathan Share. |
| 1002 | |
Raymond Hettinger | 44bd6c0 | 2008-01-17 19:31:38 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1003 | - #1861: Added an attribute to the sched module which returns an ordered |
| 1004 | list of upcoming events (displayed as named tuples). |
| 1005 | |
Raymond Hettinger | 3ad2acc8 | 2008-01-16 23:49:35 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1006 | - #1837: The queue module now also supports a LIFO queue and a priority queue. |
| 1007 | |
Andrew M. Kuchling | 4a2762d | 2008-01-20 00:00:38 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1008 | - Patch #1048820: Add insert-mode editing to curses.textpad.Textbox |
Vinay Sajip | 2bdc48c | 2008-01-21 18:16:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1009 | (patch by Stefan Wehr). Also, fix an off-by-one bug in |
Andrew M. Kuchling | 4a2762d | 2008-01-20 00:00:38 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1010 | Textbox.gather(). |
| 1011 | |
Thomas Heller | 02ec289 | 2008-01-16 19:37:33 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1012 | - Issue #1831: ctypes now raises a TypeError if conflicting positional |
| 1013 | and named arguments are passed to a Structure or Union initializer. |
Thomas Heller | 415c1e3 | 2008-01-16 19:45:51 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1014 | When too many positional arguments are passed, also a TypeError is |
| 1015 | raised instead of a ValueError. |
Thomas Heller | 02ec289 | 2008-01-16 19:37:33 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1016 | |
Thomas Heller | 902d307 | 2008-01-16 19:16:27 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1017 | - Convert the internal ctypes array type cache to a WeakValueDict so |
| 1018 | that array types do not live longer than needed. |
| 1019 | |
Guido van Rossum | cad3724 | 2008-01-15 17:59:29 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1020 | - Issue #1786: pdb should use its own stdin/stdout around an exec call |
| 1021 | and when creating a recursive instance. |
| 1022 | |
Raymond Hettinger | 351e1a3 | 2008-01-14 22:58:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1023 | - Issue #1698398 Zipfile.printdir() crashed because the format string |
| 1024 | expected a tuple type of length six instead of time.struct_time object. |
| 1025 | |
Mark Dickinson | 59bc20b | 2008-01-12 01:56:00 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1026 | - Issue #1780: The Decimal constructor now accepts arbitrary leading |
| 1027 | and trailing whitespace when constructing from a string. |
| 1028 | Context.create_decimal no longer accepts trailing newlines. |
| 1029 | |
Georg Brandl | 2f32c39 | 2008-01-11 09:20:58 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1030 | - Decimal.as_tuple(), difflib.find_longest_match() and inspect functions |
| 1031 | that returned a tuple now return a named tuple. |
| 1032 | |
Vinay Sajip | 2bdc48c | 2008-01-21 18:16:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1033 | - Doctest now returns results as a named tuple for readability: |
Raymond Hettinger | fff4e6e | 2008-01-11 01:25:54 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1034 | (0, 7) --> TestResults(failed=0, attempted=7) |
| 1035 | |
Facundo Batista | 4473d22 | 2008-01-08 21:10:12 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1036 | - Issue #846388. re.match is interruptible now, which is particularly |
| 1037 | good for long regular expression matches. |
| 1038 | |
Vinay Sajip | 2bdc48c | 2008-01-21 18:16:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1039 | - pyexpat, patch #1137: allow setting buffer_size attribute |
Andrew M. Kuchling | e0a49b6 | 2008-01-08 14:30:55 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1040 | on Parser objects to set the character data buffer size. |
| 1041 | |
Facundo Batista | 52b2579 | 2008-01-08 12:25:20 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1042 | - Issue #1757: The hash of a Decimal instance is no longer affected by |
| 1043 | the current context. |
| 1044 | |
Georg Brandl | 62416bc | 2008-01-07 18:47:44 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1045 | - Patch #467924: add ZipFile.extract() and ZipFile.extractall() in the |
| 1046 | zipfile module. |
| 1047 | |
Christian Heimes | fb2d25a | 2008-01-07 16:12:44 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1048 | - Issue #1646: Make socket support the TIPC protocol. |
| 1049 | |
Georg Brandl | 183a084 | 2008-01-06 14:27:15 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1050 | - Bug #1742: return os.curdir from os.path.relpath() if both arguments are |
| 1051 | equal instead of raising an exception. |
| 1052 | |
Guido van Rossum | c6a04c2 | 2008-01-05 22:19:06 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1053 | - Patch #1637: fix urlparse for URLs like 'http://x.com?arg=/foo'. |
| 1054 | |
Guido van Rossum | ced4eb0 | 2008-01-05 01:21:57 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1055 | - Patch #1698: allow '@' in username parsed by urlparse.py. |
| 1056 | |
Lars Gustäbel | 2ee1c76 | 2008-01-04 14:00:33 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1057 | - Issue #1735: TarFile.extractall() now correctly sets directory permissions |
| 1058 | and times. |
| 1059 | |
Christian Heimes | 0687561 | 2008-01-04 13:21:07 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1060 | - Bug #1713: posixpath.ismount() claims symlink to a mountpoint is a mountpoint. |
| 1061 | |
Christian Heimes | 0613188 | 2008-01-04 00:04:52 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1062 | - Bug #1687: Fxed plistlib.py restricts <integer> to Python int when writing |
| 1063 | |
Guido van Rossum | ae04c33 | 2008-01-03 19:12:44 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1064 | - Issue #1700: Regular expression inline flags incorrectly handle certain |
| 1065 | unicode characters. |
| 1066 | |
Jeffrey Yasskin | 2f3c16b | 2008-01-03 02:21:52 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1067 | - Issue #1689: PEP 3141, numeric abstract base classes. |
| 1068 | |
Martin v. Löwis | 84b9aab | 2008-01-01 21:09:07 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1069 | - Tk issue #1851526: Return results from Python callbacks to Tcl as |
| 1070 | Tcl objects. |
| 1071 | |
Thomas Heller | 153038e | 2007-12-18 19:00:34 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1072 | - Issue #1642: Fix segfault in ctypes when trying to delete attributes. |
| 1073 | |
Martin v. Löwis | 6b449f4 | 2007-12-03 19:20:02 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1074 | - Issue #1727780: Support loading pickles of random.Random objects created |
| 1075 | on 32-bit systems on 64-bit systems, and vice versa. As a consequence |
| 1076 | of the change, Random pickles created by Python 2.6 cannot be loaded |
| 1077 | in Python 2.5. |
| 1078 | |
Christian Heimes | c654fc2 | 2007-12-03 13:55:16 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1079 | - Issue #1455: The distutils package now supports VS 2005 and VS 2008 for |
| 1080 | both the msvccompiler and cygwincompiler. |
| 1081 | |
Lars Gustäbel | 77b2d63 | 2007-12-01 21:02:12 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1082 | - Issue #1531: tarfile.py: Read fileobj from the current offset, do not |
| 1083 | seek to the start. |
| 1084 | |
Christian Heimes | dfdfaab | 2007-12-01 11:20:10 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1085 | - Issue #1534: Added a dictionary sys.float_info with information about the |
| 1086 | internal floating point type to the sys module. |
| 1087 | |
Skip Montanaro | 58a6f44 | 2007-11-24 14:30:47 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1088 | - Issue 1429818: patch for trace and doctest modules so they play nicely |
| 1089 | together. |
| 1090 | |
Brett Cannon | 43e53f8 | 2007-11-21 00:47:36 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1091 | - doctest made a bad assumption that a package's __loader__.get_data() |
| 1092 | method used universal newlines. |
| 1093 | |
Nick Coghlan | 90b858e | 2007-11-07 11:57:51 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1094 | - Issue #1705170: contextlib.contextmanager was still swallowing |
| 1095 | StopIteration in some cases. This should no longer happen. |
| 1096 | |
Thomas Heller | 486b1b0 | 2007-11-02 19:10:24 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1097 | - Issue #1292: On alpha, arm, ppc, and s390 linux systems the |
| 1098 | --with-system-ffi configure option defaults to "yes". |
| 1099 | |
Hye-Shik Chang | a838a80 | 2007-10-28 11:19:02 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1100 | - IN module for FreeBSD 8 is added and preexisting FreeBSD 6 and 7 |
| 1101 | files are updated. |
| 1102 | |
Georg Brandl | 1a94ec2 | 2007-10-24 21:40:38 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1103 | - Issues #1181, #1287: unsetenv() is now called when the os.environ.pop() |
| 1104 | and os.environ.clear() methods are used. |
| 1105 | |
Thomas Heller | 91ac422 | 2007-10-19 18:11:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1106 | - ctypes will now work correctly on 32-bit systems when Python is |
| 1107 | configured with --with-system-ffi. |
| 1108 | |
Thomas Heller | 7fee6dd | 2007-10-11 19:51:32 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1109 | - Patch #1203: ctypes now does work on OS X when Python is built with |
Georg Brandl | 1a94ec2 | 2007-10-24 21:40:38 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1110 | --disable-toolbox-glue. |
Thomas Heller | 7fee6dd | 2007-10-11 19:51:32 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1111 | |
Raymond Hettinger | a7fc4b1 | 2007-10-05 02:47:07 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1112 | - collections.deque() now supports a "maxlen" argument. |
| 1113 | |
Raymond Hettinger | 50e90e2 | 2007-10-04 00:20:27 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1114 | - itertools.count() is no longer bounded to LONG_MAX. Formerly, it raised |
| 1115 | an OverflowError. Now, automatically shifts from ints to longs. |
| 1116 | |
Raymond Hettinger | c5705a8 | 2008-02-22 19:50:06 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1117 | - Added itertools.product() which forms the Cartesian product of |
| 1118 | the input iterables. |
| 1119 | |
Raymond Hettinger | 66f91ea | 2008-03-05 20:59:58 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1120 | - Added itertools.combinations() and itertools.permutations(). |
Raymond Hettinger | 93e804d | 2008-02-26 23:40:50 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1121 | |
Georg Brandl | aff85e2 | 2007-09-20 16:06:07 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1122 | - Patch #1541463: optimize performance of cgi.FieldStorage operations. |
| 1123 | |
Facundo Batista | b67da23 | 2007-09-17 16:26:50 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1124 | - Decimal is fully updated to the latest Decimal Specification (v1.66). |
| 1125 | |
Georg Brandl | 8fd3ecf | 2007-09-12 19:00:07 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1126 | - Bug #1153: repr.repr() now doesn't require set and dictionary items |
| 1127 | to be orderable to properly represent them. |
| 1128 | |
Thomas Heller | 2825b2e | 2007-09-07 06:32:17 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1129 | - A 'c_longdouble' type was added to the ctypes module. |
| 1130 | |
Martin v. Löwis | 7dcb83c | 2007-08-30 19:04:09 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1131 | - Bug #1709599: Run test_1565150 only if the file system is NTFS. |
| 1132 | |
Skip Montanaro | 3e27536 | 2007-08-29 01:33:45 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1133 | - When encountering a password-protected robots.txt file the RobotFileParser |
| 1134 | no longer prompts interactively for a username and password (bug 813986). |
| 1135 | |
Lars Gustäbel | 0f4a14b | 2007-08-28 12:31:09 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1136 | - TarFile.__init__() no longer fails if no name argument is passed and |
| 1137 | the fileobj argument has no usable name attribute (e.g. StringIO). |
| 1138 | |
Guido van Rossum | 95f1a1b | 2007-08-27 20:52:10 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1139 | - The functools module now provides 'reduce', for forward compatibility |
| 1140 | with Python 3000. |
| 1141 | |
Guido van Rossum | 4f2c3dd | 2007-08-25 15:08:43 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1142 | - Server-side SSL support and cert verification added, by Bill Janssen. |
| 1143 | |
Bill Janssen | f413fb0 | 2007-08-30 18:08:06 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1144 | - socket.ssl deprecated; use new ssl module instead. |
| 1145 | |
Georg Brandl | 8ec5754 | 2007-08-24 06:10:01 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1146 | - uuid creation is now threadsafe. |
| 1147 | |
Hye-Shik Chang | 2390104 | 2007-08-20 06:49:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1148 | - EUC-KR codec now handles the cheot-ga-keut composed make-up hangul |
| 1149 | syllables. |
| 1150 | |
Hye-Shik Chang | f3e93a0 | 2007-08-04 04:10:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1151 | - GB18030 codec now can encode additional two-byte characters that |
| 1152 | are missing in GBK. |
| 1153 | |
Walter Dörwald | 6e39080 | 2007-08-17 16:41:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1154 | - Add new codecs for UTF-32, UTF-32-LE and UTF-32-BE. |
| 1155 | |
Martin v. Löwis | f1e0b3f | 2007-07-28 07:03:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1156 | - Bug #1704793: Return UTF-16 pair if unicodedata.lookup cannot |
| 1157 | represent the result in a single character. |
| 1158 | |
Martin v. Löwis | f25e35b | 2007-07-27 18:28:22 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1159 | - Bug #978833: Close https sockets by releasing the _ssl object. |
| 1160 | |
Martin v. Löwis | 254b8f9 | 2007-07-25 16:24:23 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1161 | - Change location of the package index to pypi.python.org/pypi |
| 1162 | |
Thomas Heller | fa704c6 | 2007-07-13 17:12:23 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1163 | - Bug #1701409: Fix a segfault in printing ctypes.c_char_p and |
| 1164 | ctypes.c_wchar_p when they point to an invalid location. As a |
| 1165 | sideeffect the representation of these instances has changed. |
| 1166 | |
Lars Gustäbel | 104490e | 2007-06-18 11:42:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1167 | - tarfile.py: Added "exclude" keyword argument to TarFile.add(). |
| 1168 | |
Neal Norwitz | c161cb9 | 2007-06-11 07:29:43 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1169 | - Bug #1734723: Fix repr.Repr() so it doesn't ignore the maxtuple attribute. |
| 1170 | |
Vinay Sajip | 2bdc48c | 2008-01-21 18:16:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1171 | - The urlopen function of urllib2 now has an optional timeout parameter (note |
Facundo Batista | 10951d5 | 2007-06-06 17:15:23 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1172 | that it actually works with HTTP, HTTPS, FTP and FTPS connections). |
| 1173 | |
Facundo Batista | 9249312 | 2007-06-06 15:13:37 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1174 | - In ftplib, the FTP.ntransfercmd method, when in passive mode, now uses |
| 1175 | the socket.create_connection function, using the timeout specified at |
| 1176 | connection time. |
| 1177 | |
Hye-Shik Chang | 9b54140 | 2007-06-05 18:58:51 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1178 | - Bug #1728403: Fix a bug that CJKCodecs StreamReader hangs when it |
| 1179 | reads a file that ends with incomplete sequence and sizehint argument |
| 1180 | for .read() is specified. |
| 1181 | |
Brett Cannon | f7188ce | 2007-06-03 23:13:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1182 | - Bug #1730389: Change time.strptime() to use ``\s+`` instead of ``\s*`` when |
| 1183 | matching spaces in the specified format argument. |
| 1184 | |
Neal Norwitz | 4a700bb | 2007-06-01 07:29:12 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1185 | - SF 1668596/1720897: distutils now copies data files |
| 1186 | even if package_dir is empty. |
| 1187 | |
Brett Cannon | c2aa09a | 2007-05-31 19:20:00 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1188 | - sha now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import. |
| 1189 | |
Brett Cannon | 7eec217 | 2007-05-30 22:24:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1190 | - md5 now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import. |
| 1191 | |
Gregory P. Smith | e1ac4f1 | 2007-11-06 00:19:03 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1192 | - Issue1385: The hmac module now computes the correct hmac when using hashes |
| 1193 | with a block size other than 64 bytes (such as sha384 and sha512). |
| 1194 | |
Brett Cannon | c249bda | 2007-05-30 21:48:58 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1195 | - mimify now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import. |
| 1196 | |
Brett Cannon | 90134c9 | 2007-05-30 20:46:26 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1197 | - MimeWriter now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import. |
| 1198 | |
Lars Gustäbel | a0fcb93 | 2007-05-27 19:49:30 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1199 | - tarfile.py: Improved unicode support. Unicode input names are now |
| 1200 | officially supported. Added "errors" argument to the TarFile class. |
| 1201 | |
Facundo Batista | 711a54e | 2007-05-24 17:50:54 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1202 | - urllib.ftpwrapper class now accepts an optional timeout. |
| 1203 | |
Georg Brandl | c90bc75 | 2007-05-24 16:49:29 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1204 | - shlex.split() now has an optional "posix" parameter. |
| 1205 | |
Brett Cannon | 41bf2fa | 2007-05-20 23:57:38 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1206 | - The posixfile module now raises a DeprecationWarning. |
| 1207 | |
Brett Cannon | d75f043 | 2007-05-16 22:42:29 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1208 | - Remove the gopherlib module. This also leads to the removal of gopher |
| 1209 | support in urllib/urllib2. |
| 1210 | |
Neal Norwitz | b1a9b37 | 2007-05-16 20:05:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1211 | - Fix bug in marshal where bad data would cause a segfault due to |
| 1212 | lack of an infinite recursion check. |
| 1213 | |
Neal Norwitz | e0e70a4 | 2007-05-16 05:06:33 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1214 | - Removed plat-freebsd2 and plat-freebsd3 directories (and IN.py in |
| 1215 | the directories). |
| 1216 | |
Georg Brandl | a09a96a | 2007-05-15 20:19:34 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1217 | - HTML-escape the plain traceback in cgitb's HTML output, to prevent |
| 1218 | the traceback inadvertently or maliciously closing the comment and |
| 1219 | injecting HTML into the error page. |
| 1220 | |
Neal Norwitz | 42dd86b | 2007-05-11 06:57:33 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1221 | - The popen2 module and os.popen* are deprecated. Use the subprocess module. |
| 1222 | |
Vinay Sajip | 8549ce3 | 2007-05-06 17:53:37 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1223 | - Added an optional credentials argument to SMTPHandler, for use with SMTP |
| 1224 | servers which require authentication. |
| 1225 | |
| 1226 | - Patch #1695948: Added optional timeout parameter to SocketHandler. |
| 1227 | |
| 1228 | - Bug #1652788: Minor fix for currentframe. |
| 1229 | |
| 1230 | - Patch #1598415: Added WatchedFileHandler to better support external |
| 1231 | log file rotation using e.g. newsyslog or logrotate. This handler is |
| 1232 | only useful in Unix/Linux environments. |
| 1233 | |
Georg Brandl | fb4b3b7 | 2007-04-24 15:27:13 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1234 | - Bug #1706381: Specifying the SWIG option "-c++" in the setup.py file |
| 1235 | (as opposed to the command line) will now write file names ending in |
| 1236 | ".cpp" too. |
| 1237 | |
Facundo Batista | d918a65 | 2007-04-24 13:54:38 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1238 | - As specified in RFC 2616, an HTTP response like 2xx indicates that |
| 1239 | the client's request was successfully received, understood, and accepted. |
Facundo Batista | 673debf | 2007-09-19 14:02:03 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1240 | Now in these cases no error is raised in urllib (issue #1177) and urllib2. |
Facundo Batista | d918a65 | 2007-04-24 13:54:38 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1241 | |
Brett Cannon | c690665 | 2007-04-01 18:47:27 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1242 | - Bug #1290505: time.strptime's internal cache of locale information is now |
| 1243 | properly recreated when the locale is changed. |
| 1244 | |
Neal Norwitz | 8f35f44 | 2007-04-01 18:24:22 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1245 | - Patch #1685563: remove (don't add) duplicate paths in distutils.MSVCCompiler. |
| 1246 | |
Facundo Batista | b6a5c9d | 2007-03-29 18:22:35 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1247 | - Added a timeout parameter to the constructor of other protocols |
| 1248 | (telnetlib, ftplib, smtplib and poplib). This is second part of the |
| 1249 | work started with create_connection() and timeout in httplib, and |
| 1250 | closes patch #723312. |
| 1251 | |
Vinay Sajip | 8549ce3 | 2007-05-06 17:53:37 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1252 | - Patch #1676823: Added create_connection() to socket.py, which may be |
| 1253 | called with a timeout, and use it from httplib (whose HTTPConnection |
Facundo Batista | 70f996b | 2007-05-21 17:32:32 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1254 | and HTTPSConnection now accept an optional timeout). |
Facundo Batista | 07c78be | 2007-03-23 18:54:07 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1255 | |
Martin v. Löwis | 0af3388 | 2007-03-23 13:27:15 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1256 | - Bug #978833: Revert r50844, as it broke _socketobject.dup. |
| 1257 | |
Žiga Seilnacht | 7492e42 | 2007-03-21 20:07:56 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1258 | - Bug #1675967: re patterns pickled with Python 2.4 and earlier can |
| 1259 | now be unpickled with Python 2.5 and newer. |
| 1260 | |
Collin Winter | a8785cc | 2007-03-19 18:52:08 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1261 | - Patch #1630118: add a SpooledTemporaryFile class to tempfile.py. |
| 1262 | |
Georg Brandl | cae9f3d | 2007-03-21 09:10:29 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1263 | - Patch #1273829: os.walk() now has a "followlinks" parameter. If set to |
| 1264 | True (which is not the default), it visits symlinks pointing to |
| 1265 | directories. |
| 1266 | |
Georg Brandl | 8f06d02 | 2007-03-16 07:55:09 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1267 | - Bug #1681228: the webbrowser module now correctly uses the default |
| 1268 | GNOME or KDE browser, depending on whether there is a session of one |
| 1269 | of those present. Also, it tries the Windows default browser before |
| 1270 | trying Mozilla variants. |
| 1271 | |
Collin Winter | 6f18774 | 2007-03-16 22:16:08 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1272 | - Patch #1339796: add a relpath() function to os.path. |
| 1273 | |
Georg Brandl | ab1f467 | 2007-03-15 07:41:30 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1274 | - Patch #1681153: the wave module now closes a file object it opened if |
| 1275 | initialization failed. |
| 1276 | |
Georg Brandl | f66b603 | 2007-03-14 08:27:52 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1277 | - Bug #767111: fix long-standing bug in urllib which caused an |
| 1278 | AttributeError instead of an IOError when the server's response didn't |
| 1279 | contain a valid HTTP status line. |
| 1280 | |
Georg Brandl | 03b90d8 | 2007-03-13 22:07:36 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1281 | - Patch #957650: "%var%" environment variable references are now properly |
| 1282 | expanded in ntpath.expandvars(), also "~user" home directory references |
| 1283 | are recognized and handled on Windows. |
| 1284 | |
Georg Brandl | b6ae6aa | 2007-03-13 21:58:44 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1285 | - Patch #1429539: pdb now correctly initializes the __main__ module for |
| 1286 | the debugged script, which means that imports from __main__ work |
| 1287 | correctly now. |
| 1288 | |
Georg Brandl | bad6f19 | 2007-03-13 21:32:56 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1289 | - The nonobvious commands.getstatus() function is now deprecated. |
| 1290 | |
Georg Brandl | 8e84c65 | 2007-03-13 21:08:15 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1291 | - Patch #1393667: pdb now has a "run" command which restarts the debugged |
| 1292 | Python program, optionally with different arguments. |
| 1293 | |
Thomas Heller | 5dc4fe0 | 2007-03-13 20:42:52 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1294 | - Patch #1649190: Adding support for _Bool to ctypes as c_bool. |
| 1295 | |
Georg Brandl | 8441f15 | 2007-03-13 20:02:57 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1296 | - Patch #1530482: add pydoc.render_doc() which returns the documentation |
| 1297 | for a thing instead of paging it to stdout, which pydoc.doc() does. |
| 1298 | |
Georg Brandl | d9bef35 | 2007-03-13 19:32:21 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1299 | - Patch #1533909: the timeit module now accepts callables in addition to |
| 1300 | strings for the code to time and the setup code. Also added two |
| 1301 | convenience functions for instantiating a Timer and calling its methods. |
| 1302 | |
Georg Brandl | 35ef9c1 | 2007-03-13 18:31:49 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1303 | - Patch #1537850: tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile now has a "delete" parameter |
| 1304 | which can be set to False to prevent the default delete-on-close |
| 1305 | behavior. |
| 1306 | |
Georg Brandl | 9e6b470 | 2007-03-13 18:15:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1307 | - Patch #1581073: add a flag to textwrap that prevents the dropping of |
| 1308 | whitespace while wrapping. |
| 1309 | |
Georg Brandl | 92a6bae | 2007-03-13 17:43:32 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1310 | - Patch #1603688: ConfigParser.SafeConfigParser now checks values that |
| 1311 | are set for invalid interpolation sequences that would lead to errors |
| 1312 | on reading back those values. |
| 1313 | |
Lars Gustäbel | c64e402 | 2007-03-13 10:47:19 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1314 | - Added support for the POSIX.1-2001 (pax) format to tarfile.py. Extended |
| 1315 | and cleaned up the test suite. Added a new testtar.tar. |
| 1316 | |
Martin v. Löwis | bdd0f39 | 2007-03-13 10:24:00 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1317 | - Patch #1449244: Support Unicode strings in |
| 1318 | email.message.Message.{set_charset,get_content_charset}. |
| 1319 | |
Georg Brandl | b6a8754 | 2007-03-13 10:06:48 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1320 | - Patch #1542681: add entries for "with", "as" and "CONTEXTMANAGERS" to |
| 1321 | pydoc's help keywords. |
| 1322 | |
Georg Brandl | 4ffc8f5 | 2007-03-13 09:41:31 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1323 | - Patch #1555098: use str.join() instead of repeated string |
| 1324 | concatenation in robotparser. |
| 1325 | |
Georg Brandl | 94fe3f5 | 2007-03-13 09:32:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1326 | - Patch #1635454: the csv.DictWriter class now includes the offending |
| 1327 | field names in its exception message if you try to write a record with |
| 1328 | a dictionary containing fields not in the CSV field names list. |
| 1329 | |
Georg Brandl | ceede5c | 2007-03-13 08:14:27 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1330 | - Patch #1668100: urllib2 now correctly raises URLError instead of |
| 1331 | OSError if accessing a local file via the file:// protocol fails. |
| 1332 | |
Martin v. Löwis | 2681beb | 2007-03-12 11:01:10 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1333 | - Patch #1677862: Require a space or tab after import in .pth files. |
| 1334 | |
Collin Winter | 2faa9e1 | 2007-03-11 16:00:20 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1335 | - Patch #1192590: Fix pdb's "ignore" and "condition" commands so they trap |
| 1336 | the IndexError caused by passing in an invalid breakpoint number. |
| 1337 | |
Collin Winter | ae04106 | 2007-03-10 14:41:48 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1338 | - Patch #1599845: Add an option to disable the implicit calls to server_bind() |
| 1339 | and server_activate() in the constructors for TCPServer, SimpleXMLRPCServer |
| 1340 | and DocXMLRPCServer. |
| 1341 | |
Collin Winter | 22c42ba | 2007-03-10 02:51:26 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1342 | - Bug #1531963: Make SocketServer.TCPServer's server_address always |
Collin Winter | faaa204 | 2007-03-10 03:35:34 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1343 | be equal to calling getsockname() on the server's socket. Fixed by |
| 1344 | patch #1545011. |
Collin Winter | 22c42ba | 2007-03-10 02:51:26 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1345 | |
Andrew M. Kuchling | e45a77a | 2008-01-19 16:26:13 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1346 | - Patch #742598: Add .timeout attribute to SocketServer that calls |
| 1347 | .handle_timeout() when no requests are received. |
| 1348 | |
Thomas Heller | 2456a3c | 2007-03-09 20:39:22 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1349 | - Bug #1651235: When a tuple was passed to a ctypes function call, |
| 1350 | Python would crash instead of raising an error. |
| 1351 | |
Thomas Heller | c2f7725 | 2007-03-09 19:21:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1352 | - Bug #1646630: ctypes.string_at(buf, 0) and ctypes.wstring_at(buf, 0) |
| 1353 | returned string up to the first NUL character. |
| 1354 | |
Martin v. Löwis | 1190a38 | 2007-03-09 15:35:55 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1355 | - Patch #957003: Implement smtplib.LMTP. |
| 1356 | |
Collin Winter | fb728de | 2007-03-09 03:26:32 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1357 | - Patch #1481079: add support for HTTP_REFERER to CGIHTTPServer. |
| 1358 | |
Vinay Sajip | 2bdc48c | 2008-01-21 18:16:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1359 | - Patch #1675424: Added tests for uncovered code in the zipfile module. |
| 1360 | The KeyError raised by Zipfile.getinfo for nonexistent names now has |
Georg Brandl | 4b3ab6f | 2007-07-12 09:59:22 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1361 | a descriptive message. |
| 1362 | |
Martin v. Löwis | 05c075d | 2007-03-07 11:04:33 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1363 | - Bug #1115886: os.path.splitext('.cshrc') gives now ('.cshrc', ''). |
| 1364 | |
Georg Brandl | 9caadf8 | 2007-03-08 18:37:31 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1365 | - unittest now verifies more of its assumptions. In particular, TestCase |
| 1366 | and TestSuite subclasses (not instances) are no longer accepted in |
| 1367 | TestSuite.addTest(). This should cause no incompatibility since it |
| 1368 | never made sense with ordinary subclasses -- the failure just occurred |
| 1369 | later, with a more cumbersome exception. |
| 1370 | |
Georg Brandl | d0a9625 | 2007-03-07 09:21:06 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1371 | - Patch #787789: allow to pass custom TestRunner instances to unittest's |
| 1372 | main() function. |
| 1373 | |
Georg Brandl | 15c5ce9 | 2007-03-07 09:09:40 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1374 | - Patches #1550273, #1550272: fix a few bugs in unittest and add a |
| 1375 | comprehensive test suite for the module. |
| 1376 | |
Georg Brandl | 71ff646 | 2007-03-07 08:31:51 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1377 | - Patch #1001604: glob.glob() now returns unicode filenames if it was |
| 1378 | given a unicode argument and os.listdir() returns unicode filenames. |
| 1379 | |
Skip Montanaro | d128732 | 2007-03-06 15:41:38 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1380 | - Patch #1673619: setup.py identifies extension modules it doesn't know how |
| 1381 | to build and those it knows how to build but that fail to build. |
| 1382 | |
Vinay Sajip | 8549ce3 | 2007-05-06 17:53:37 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1383 | - Patch #912410: Replace HTML entity references for attribute values |
Martin v. Löwis | ab8a6bb | 2007-03-06 14:43:00 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1384 | in HTMLParser. |
| 1385 | |
Georg Brandl | ff432e6 | 2007-03-06 13:37:45 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1386 | - Patch #1663234: you can now run doctest on test files and modules |
| 1387 | using "python -m doctest [-v] filename ...". |
| 1388 | |
Martin v. Löwis | 3eb7648 | 2007-03-06 10:41:24 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1389 | - Patch #1121142: Implement ZipFile.open. |
| 1390 | |
Skip Montanaro | f694b1b | 2007-03-04 20:54:12 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1391 | - Taught setup.py how to locate Berkeley DB on Macs using MacPorts. |
| 1392 | |
Raymond Hettinger | 00166c5 | 2007-02-19 04:08:43 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1393 | - Added heapq.merge() for merging sorted input streams. |
| 1394 | |
Raymond Hettinger | cd3c108 | 2007-10-23 21:23:07 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1395 | - Added collections.namedtuple() for assigning field names to tuples. |
Raymond Hettinger | c37e5e0 | 2007-03-01 06:16:43 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1396 | |
Raymond Hettinger | d36862c | 2007-02-21 05:20:38 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1397 | - Added itertools.izip_longest(). |
| 1398 | |
Brett Cannon | 971a012 | 2007-02-15 22:54:39 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1399 | - Have the encoding package's search function dynamically import using absolute |
| 1400 | import semantics. |
| 1401 | |
Lars Gustäbel | 5b1a785 | 2007-02-13 16:09:24 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1402 | - Patch #1647484: Renamed GzipFile's filename attribute to name. |
| 1403 | |
Martin v. Löwis | 84f6de9 | 2007-02-13 10:10:39 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1404 | - Patch #1517891: Mode 'a' for ZipFile now creates the file if it |
| 1405 | doesn't exist. |
| 1406 | |
Martin v. Löwis | c6d626e | 2007-02-13 09:49:38 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1407 | - Patch #698833: Support file decryption in zipfile. |
| 1408 | |
Martin v. Löwis | 07aa3ed | 2007-02-13 08:34:45 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1409 | - Patch #685268: Consider a package's __path__ in imputil. |
| 1410 | |
Martin v. Löwis | 2bad58f | 2007-02-12 12:21:10 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1411 | - Patch 1463026: Support default namespace in XMLGenerator. |
| 1412 | |
Skip Montanaro | 691acf2 | 2007-02-11 18:24:37 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1413 | - Patch 1571379: Make trace's --ignore-dir facility work in the face of |
| 1414 | relative directory names. |
| 1415 | |
Neal Norwitz | 72d9eec | 2007-03-15 04:41:20 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1416 | - Bug #1600860: Search for shared python library in LIBDIR, |
| 1417 | not lib/python/config, on "linux" and "gnu" systems. |
Martin v. Löwis | 0a20326 | 2007-02-09 12:36:48 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1418 | |
Lars Gustäbel | 3f8aca1 | 2007-02-06 18:38:13 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1419 | - Patch #1652681: tarfile.py: create nonexistent files in append mode and |
| 1420 | allow appending to empty files. |
| 1421 | |
Peter Astrand | 5f9c6ae | 2007-02-06 15:37:50 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1422 | - Bug #1124861: Automatically create pipes if GetStdHandle fails in |
Vinay Sajip | 8549ce3 | 2007-05-06 17:53:37 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1423 | subprocess. |
Peter Astrand | 5f9c6ae | 2007-02-06 15:37:50 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1424 | |
Georg Brandl | 4ba9e5b | 2007-01-27 17:59:42 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1425 | - Patch #1634778: add missing encoding aliases for iso8859_15 and |
| 1426 | iso8859_16. |
| 1427 | |
Georg Brandl | ab49684 | 2007-01-27 17:43:02 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1428 | - Patch #1638243: the compiler package is now able to correctly compile |
| 1429 | a with statement; previously, executing code containing a with statement |
| 1430 | compiled by the compiler package crashed the interpreter. |
| 1431 | |
Brett Cannon | 07e1db3 | 2007-01-25 20:22:02 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1432 | - Bug #1643943: Fix time.strptime's support for the %U directive. |
| 1433 | |
Lars Gustäbel | 0713a68 | 2007-02-19 09:54:47 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1434 | - Patch #1507247: tarfile.py: use current umask for intermediate |
| 1435 | directories. |
| 1436 | |
Georg Brandl | dd7b052 | 2007-01-21 10:35:10 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1437 | - Patch #1627441: close sockets properly in urllib2. |
| 1438 | |
Sjoerd Mullender | 33a0a06 | 2007-01-16 16:42:38 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1439 | - Bug #494589: make ntpath.expandvars behave according to its docstring. |
| 1440 | |
Marc-André Lemburg | fa3d08b | 2007-01-16 13:03:06 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1441 | - Changed platform module API python_version_tuple() to actually |
Brett Cannon | 07e1db3 | 2007-01-25 20:22:02 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1442 | return a tuple (it used to return a list). |
Marc-André Lemburg | fa3d08b | 2007-01-16 13:03:06 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1443 | |
| 1444 | - Added new platform module APIs python_branch(), python_revision(), |
Brett Cannon | 07e1db3 | 2007-01-25 20:22:02 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1445 | python_implementation() and linux_distribution(). |
Marc-André Lemburg | fa3d08b | 2007-01-16 13:03:06 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1446 | |
Brett Cannon | 07e1db3 | 2007-01-25 20:22:02 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1447 | - Added support for IronPython and Jython to the platform module. |
Marc-André Lemburg | fa3d08b | 2007-01-16 13:03:06 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1448 | |
Brett Cannon | 093b670 | 2007-01-13 00:29:49 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1449 | - The sets module has been deprecated. Use the built-in set/frozenset types |
| 1450 | instead. |
| 1451 | |
Thomas Heller | 6fd4549 | 2007-01-12 20:21:53 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1452 | - Bug #1610795: make ctypes.util.find_library work on BSD systems. |
| 1453 | |
Thomas Heller | 8138c26 | 2007-01-11 21:18:56 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1454 | - Fixes for 64-bit Windows: In ctypes.wintypes, correct the |
| 1455 | definitions of HANDLE, WPARAM, LPARAM data types. Make |
| 1456 | parameterless foreign function calls work. |
| 1457 | |
Thomas Heller | fb9d787 | 2007-01-10 20:12:13 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1458 | - The version number of the ctypes package changed to "1.1.0". |
| 1459 | |
Vinay Sajip | ab41c10 | 2007-01-09 14:51:36 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1460 | - Bug #1627575: logging: Added _open() method to FileHandler which can |
| 1461 | be used to reopen files. The FileHandler instance now saves the |
| 1462 | encoding (which can be None) in an attribute called "encoding". |
| 1463 | |
Vinay Sajip | c913726 | 2007-01-08 18:52:36 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1464 | - Bug #411881: logging.handlers: bare except clause removed from |
| 1465 | SMTPHandler.emit. Now, only ImportError is trapped. |
| 1466 | |
| 1467 | - Bug #411881: logging.handlers: bare except clause removed from |
| 1468 | SocketHandler.createSocket. Now, only socket.error is trapped. |
| 1469 | |
| 1470 | - Bug #411881: logging: bare except clause removed from LogRecord.__init__. |
| 1471 | Now, only ValueError, TypeError and AttributeError are trapped. |
| 1472 | |
Lars Gustäbel | a7ba6fc | 2006-12-27 10:30:46 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1473 | - Patch #1504073: Fix tarfile.open() for mode "r" with a fileobj argument. |
| 1474 | |
Andrew M. Kuchling | 7166232 | 2006-12-27 03:31:24 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1475 | - Patch #1182394 from Shane Holloway: speed up HMAC.hexdigest. |
| 1476 | |
Lars Gustäbel | a4b2381 | 2006-12-23 17:57:23 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1477 | - Patch #1262036: Prevent TarFiles from being added to themselves under |
| 1478 | certain conditions. |
| 1479 | |
Lars Gustäbel | 6baa502 | 2006-12-23 16:40:13 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1480 | - Patch #1230446: tarfile.py: fix ExFileObject so that read() and tell() |
| 1481 | work correctly together with readline(). |
| 1482 | |
Georg Brandl | ebbeed7 | 2006-12-19 22:06:46 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1483 | - Patch #1484695: The tarfile module now raises a HeaderError exception |
| 1484 | if a buffer given to frombuf() is invalid. |
| 1485 | |
Vinay Sajip | 76fdb8c | 2006-12-14 08:53:55 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1486 | - Bug #1503765: Fix a problem in logging.config with spaces in comma- |
| 1487 | separated lists read from logging config files. |
| 1488 | |
| 1489 | - Patch #1604907: Fix problems in logging.handlers caused at logging shutdown |
| 1490 | when syslog handlers fail to initialize because of syslogd problems. |
| 1491 | |
Neal Norwitz | 72d9eec | 2007-03-15 04:41:20 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1492 | - Patch #1608267: fix a race condition in os.makedirs() if the directory |
Georg Brandl | b130743 | 2006-12-09 09:08:29 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1493 | to be created is already there. |
| 1494 | |
Georg Brandl | 87fa559 | 2006-12-06 22:21:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1495 | - Patch #1610437: fix a tarfile bug with long filename headers. |
| 1496 | |
Martin v. Löwis | a00bcac | 2006-12-03 12:01:53 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1497 | - Patch #1371075: Make ConfigParser accept optional dict type |
| 1498 | for ordering, sorting, etc. |
| 1499 | |
Thomas Heller | ef583a4 | 2006-11-28 20:21:54 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1500 | - Bug #1563807: _ctypes built on AIX fails with ld ffi error. |
| 1501 | |
Thomas Heller | 25d208b | 2006-11-24 18:45:39 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1502 | - Bug #1598620: A ctypes Structure cannot contain itself. |
| 1503 | |
Martin v. Löwis | 0752935 | 2006-11-19 18:51:54 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1504 | - Patch #1070046: Marshal new-style objects like InstanceType |
| 1505 | in xmlrpclib. |
| 1506 | |
Martin v. Löwis | cffcc8b | 2006-11-19 10:41:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1507 | - cStringIO.truncate(-1) now raises an IOError, like StringIO and |
| 1508 | regular files. |
| 1509 | |
Martin v. Löwis | bba003e | 2006-11-18 18:42:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1510 | - Patch #1472877: Fix Tix subwidget name resolution. |
| 1511 | |
Martin v. Löwis | ef5fd3e | 2006-11-18 18:05:35 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1512 | - Patch #1594554: Always close a tkSimpleDialog on ok(), even |
| 1513 | if an exception occurs. |
| 1514 | |
Martin v. Löwis | c73a4a4 | 2006-11-18 18:00:23 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1515 | - Patch #1538878: Don't make tkSimpleDialog dialogs transient if |
| 1516 | the parent window is withdrawn. |
| 1517 | |
Georg Brandl | 5408211 | 2006-11-16 16:50:59 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1518 | - Bug #1597824: return the registered function from atexit.register() |
| 1519 | to facilitate usage as a decorator. |
| 1520 | |
Martin v. Löwis | 45cd4ff | 2006-11-12 18:56:03 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1521 | - Patch #1360200: Use unmangled_version RPM spec field to deal with |
| 1522 | file name mangling. |
| 1523 | |
Martin v. Löwis | 36cbc08 | 2006-11-12 18:48:13 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1524 | - Patch #1359217: Process 2xx response in an ftplib transfer |
| 1525 | that precedes an 1xx response. |
| 1526 | |
Martin v. Löwis | 065f0c8 | 2006-11-12 10:41:39 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1527 | - Patch #1355023: support whence argument for GzipFile.seek. |
| 1528 | |
Vinay Sajip | 76fdb8c | 2006-12-14 08:53:55 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1529 | - Patch #1065257: Support passing open files as body in |
Martin v. Löwis | 040a927 | 2006-11-12 10:32:47 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1530 | HTTPConnection.request(). |
| 1531 | |
Andrew M. Kuchling | a3e5d37 | 2006-11-09 13:27:07 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1532 | - Bug #1569790: mailbox.py: Maildir.get_folder() and MH.get_folder() |
| 1533 | weren't passing the message factory on to newly created Maildir/MH |
| 1534 | objects. |
| 1535 | |
Vinay Sajip | 76fdb8c | 2006-12-14 08:53:55 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1536 | - Patch #1514543: mailbox.py: In the Maildir class, report errors if there's |
Andrew M. Kuchling | 77c7ac2 | 2006-11-10 13:14:01 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1537 | a filename clash instead of possibly losing a message. (Patch by David |
Andrew M. Kuchling | 978d828 | 2006-11-09 21:16:46 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1538 | Watson.) |
| 1539 | |
Andrew M. Kuchling | b5686da | 2006-11-09 13:51:14 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1540 | - Patch #1514544: Try to ensure that messages/indexes have been physically |
| 1541 | written to disk after calling .flush() or .close(). (Patch by David |
| 1542 | Watson.) |
| 1543 | |
Guido van Rossum | af16ece | 2008-02-21 19:46:35 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1544 | - Patch #1592250: Add elide argument to Tkinter.Text.search. |
Martin v. Löwis | 038cad7 | 2006-11-09 11:27:32 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1545 | |
Guido van Rossum | af16ece | 2008-02-21 19:46:35 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1546 | - Patch #838546: Make terminal become controlling in pty.fork(). |
Martin v. Löwis | b2bba73 | 2006-11-09 11:06:03 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1547 | |
Martin v. Löwis | 5361e9a | 2006-11-08 07:35:55 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1548 | - Patch #1351744: Add askyesnocancel helper for tkMessageBox. |
| 1549 | |
Martin v. Löwis | 5310e50 | 2006-11-04 18:14:06 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1550 | - Patch #1060577: Extract list of RPM files from spec file in |
Guido van Rossum | af16ece | 2008-02-21 19:46:35 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1551 | bdist_rpm. |
Martin v. Löwis | 5310e50 | 2006-11-04 18:14:06 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1552 | |
Georg Brandl | 2c9838e | 2006-10-29 14:39:09 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1553 | - Bug #1586613: fix zlib and bz2 codecs' incremental en/decoders. |
| 1554 | |
Georg Brandl | 3354f28 | 2006-10-29 09:16:12 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1555 | - Patch #1583880: fix tarfile's problems with long names and posix/ |
| 1556 | GNU modes. |
| 1557 | |
Georg Brandl | 5addf70 | 2006-10-29 08:53:06 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1558 | - Bug #1586448: the compiler module now emits the same bytecode for |
| 1559 | list comprehensions as the builtin compiler, using the LIST_APPEND |
| 1560 | opcode. |
| 1561 | |
Georg Brandl | 8f99f81 | 2006-10-29 08:39:22 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1562 | - Fix codecs.EncodedFile which did not use file_encoding in 2.5.0, and |
| 1563 | fix all codecs file wrappers to work correctly with the "with" |
| 1564 | statement (bug #1586513). |
| 1565 | |
Thomas Heller | 112d1a6 | 2006-10-27 19:05:53 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1566 | - Lib/modulefinder.py now handles absolute and relative imports |
| 1567 | correctly. |
| 1568 | |
Martin v. Löwis | ee82c0e | 2006-10-27 07:13:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1569 | - Patch #1567274: Support SMTP over TLS. |
| 1570 | |
Martin v. Löwis | 1b2f627 | 2006-10-22 10:55:15 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1571 | - Patch #1560695: Add .note.GNU-stack to ctypes' sysv.S so that |
| 1572 | ctypes isn't considered as requiring executable stacks. |
| 1573 | |
Thomas Heller | d2ea4a2 | 2006-10-17 19:30:48 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1574 | - ctypes callback functions only support 'fundamental' data types as |
| 1575 | result type. Raise an error when something else is used. This is a |
| 1576 | partial fix for Bug #1574584. |
| 1577 | |
Brett Cannon | d80e0c8 | 2006-10-16 03:09:52 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1578 | - Fix turtle so that time.sleep is imported for the entire library. Allows |
| 1579 | the demo2 function to be executed on its own instead of only when the |
| 1580 | module is run as a script. |
| 1581 | |
Georg Brandl | d076153 | 2006-10-12 07:57:21 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1582 | - Bug #813342: Start the IDLE subprocess with -Qnew if the parent |
| 1583 | is started with that option. |
| 1584 | |
Martin v. Löwis | f43893a | 2006-10-09 20:44:25 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1585 | - Bug #1565150: Fix subsecond processing for os.utime on Windows. |
| 1586 | |
Martin v. Löwis | 8b27426 | 2006-10-04 15:25:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1587 | - Support for MSVC 8 was added to bdist_wininst. |
| 1588 | |
Georg Brandl | a92979a | 2006-09-30 11:22:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1589 | - Bug #1446043: correctly raise a LookupError if an encoding name given |
| 1590 | to encodings.search_function() contains a dot. |
| 1591 | |
Georg Brandl | 154324a | 2006-09-30 11:06:47 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1592 | - Bug #1560617: in pyclbr, return full module name not only for classes, |
| 1593 | but also for functions. |
| 1594 | |
Georg Brandl | 05b3c45 | 2006-09-30 10:58:01 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1595 | - Bug #1457823: cgi.(Sv)FormContentDict's constructor now takes |
| 1596 | keep_blank_values and strict_parsing keyword arguments. |
| 1597 | |
Georg Brandl | 8d1e5bf | 2006-09-30 09:13:21 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1598 | - Bug #1566602: correct failure of posixpath unittest when $HOME ends |
| 1599 | with a slash. |
| 1600 | |
Georg Brandl | 8c66745 | 2006-09-30 07:31:57 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1601 | - Bug #1565661: in webbrowser, split() the command for the default |
| 1602 | GNOME browser in case it is a command with args. |
| 1603 | |
Brett Cannon | 11b3535 | 2006-09-26 23:38:24 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1604 | - Made the error message for time.strptime when the data data and format do |
| 1605 | match be more clear. |
| 1606 | |
Georg Brandl | c7986ce | 2006-09-24 12:50:24 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1607 | - Fix a bug in traceback.format_exception_only() that led to an error |
| 1608 | being raised when print_exc() was called without an exception set. |
| 1609 | In version 2.4, this printed "None", restored that behavior. |
| 1610 | |
Georg Brandl | 2c94bf7 | 2006-09-24 10:36:01 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1611 | - Make webbrowser.BackgroundBrowser usable in Windows (it wasn't because |
| 1612 | the close_fds arg to subprocess.Popen is not supported). |
| 1613 | |
Neal Norwitz | bcc119a | 2006-09-11 04:24:09 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1614 | - Reverted patch #1504333 to sgmllib because it introduced an infinite loop. |
| 1615 | |
Nick Coghlan | b3c18f8 | 2006-09-08 10:04:38 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1616 | - Patch #1553314: Fix the inspect.py slowdown that was hurting IPython & SAGE |
| 1617 | by adding smarter caching in inspect.getmodule() |
| 1618 | |
Georg Brandl | 4e93313 | 2006-09-06 20:05:58 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1619 | - Fix missing import of the types module in logging.config. |
| 1620 | |
Nick Coghlan | bb0996c | 2006-09-03 01:20:46 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1621 | - Patch #1550886: Fix decimal module context management implementation |
Neal Norwitz | a22975f | 2006-09-05 02:24:03 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1622 | to match the localcontext() example from PEP 343. |
Nick Coghlan | bb0996c | 2006-09-03 01:20:46 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1623 | |
Vinay Sajip | 76fdb8c | 2006-12-14 08:53:55 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1624 | - Bug #1545341: The 'classifier' keyword argument to the Distutils setup() |
Andrew M. Kuchling | 9999479 | 2006-10-09 17:10:12 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1625 | function now accepts tuples as well as lists. |
| 1626 | |
Martin v. Löwis | 2eb8c4f | 2006-08-18 03:47:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1627 | - Bug #1541863: uuid.uuid1 failed to generate unique identifiers |
| 1628 | on systems with low clock resolution. |
| 1629 | |
Gustavo Niemeyer | c36bede | 2006-09-07 00:48:33 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1630 | - Bug #1531862: Do not close standard file descriptors in subprocess. |
| 1631 | |
Matthias Klose | a398e2d | 2007-01-11 11:44:04 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1632 | - idle: Honor the "Cancel" action in the save dialog (Debian bug #299092). |
| 1633 | |
Walter Dörwald | 4234827 | 2007-04-12 10:35:00 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1634 | - Fix utf-8-sig incremental decoder, which didn't recognise a BOM when the |
Guido van Rossum | af16ece | 2008-02-21 19:46:35 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1635 | first chunk fed to the decoder started with a BOM, but was longer than 3 |
| 1636 | bytes. |
Georg Brandl | 2756278 | 2006-10-27 20:39:43 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1637 | |
Walter Dörwald | 84a3efe | 2007-06-13 16:57:12 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1638 | - The implementation of UnicodeError objects has been simplified (start and end |
| 1639 | attributes are now stored directly as Py_ssize_t members). |
| 1640 | |
Vinay Sajip | 2bdc48c | 2008-01-21 18:16:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1641 | - Issue829951: In the smtplib module, SMTP.starttls() now complies with |
Gregory P. Smith | 2b3ba58 | 2008-01-17 08:03:17 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1642 | RFC 3207 and forgets any knowledge obtained from the server not obtained |
| 1643 | from the TLS negotiation itself. Patch contributed by Bill Fenner. |
| 1644 | |
Gregory P. Smith | bde4ae4 | 2008-01-17 08:35:49 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1645 | - Issue1339: The smtplib.SMTP class has been refactored a bit such |
| 1646 | that the SMTP.starttls() caller no longer needs to call ehlo() |
| 1647 | beforehand. SMTP.starttls() now raises an exception of the server |
| 1648 | does not claim to support starttls. Adds the SMTP.ehlo_or_helo_if_needed() |
| 1649 | method. Patch contributed by Bill Fenner. |
| 1650 | |
Facundo Batista | 7e251e8 | 2008-02-23 15:07:35 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1651 | - Patch #1089358: Add signal.siginterrupt, a wrapper around siginterrupt(3). |
Georg Brandl | 29604a1 | 2008-01-26 14:03:47 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1652 | |
Neal Norwitz | 92422fb | 2006-08-18 03:57:54 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1653 | Extension Modules |
| 1654 | ----------------- |
| 1655 | |
Christian Heimes | 0e9ab5f | 2008-03-21 23:49:44 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1656 | - Patch #1657: added select.epoll and select.kqueue |
| 1657 | |
Georg Brandl | ebcfd11 | 2008-02-23 23:04:35 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1658 | - Patch #1506171: added operator.methodcaller(). |
| 1659 | |
Georg Brandl | e2065c6 | 2008-02-23 23:02:23 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1660 | - Patch #1826: operator.attrgetter() now supports dotted attribute paths. |
| 1661 | |
Christian Heimes | f0476e8 | 2008-02-23 17:42:31 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1662 | - Patch #1957: syslogmodule: Release GIL when calling syslog(3) |
| 1663 | |
Facundo Batista | e139688 | 2008-02-17 18:59:29 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1664 | - #2112: mmap.error is now a subclass of EnvironmentError and not a |
| 1665 | direct EnvironmentError |
| 1666 | |
Christian Heimes | 7adfad8 | 2008-02-15 08:20:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1667 | - Bug #2111: mmap segfaults when trying to write a block opened with PROT_READ |
| 1668 | |
Georg Brandl | 0a40ffb | 2008-02-13 07:20:22 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1669 | - #2063: correct order of utime and stime in os.times() result on Windows. |
| 1670 | |
Martin v. Löwis | e0d30ef | 2008-02-12 13:47:26 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1671 | - Patch #1736: Fix file name handling of _msi.FCICreate. |
| 1672 | |
Hye-Shik Chang | 01612e7 | 2008-02-08 17:10:20 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1673 | - Updated ``big5hkscs`` codec to the HKSCS revision of 2004. |
| 1674 | |
Georg Brandl | 29604a1 | 2008-01-26 14:03:47 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1675 | - #1940: make it possible to use curses.filter() before curses.initscr() |
| 1676 | as the documentation says. |
| 1677 | |
Christian Heimes | 7f39c9f | 2008-01-25 12:18:43 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1678 | - Backport of _fileio module from Python 3.0. |
| 1679 | |
Vinay Sajip | 2bdc48c | 2008-01-21 18:16:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1680 | - #1087741: mmap.mmap is now a class, not a factory function. It is also |
Georg Brandl | 5ca3fd8 | 2008-01-21 14:18:14 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1681 | subclassable now. |
| 1682 | |
Georg Brandl | 5611289 | 2008-01-20 13:59:46 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1683 | - Patch #1648: added ``sys.getprofile()`` and ``sys.gettrace()``. |
| 1684 | |
Georg Brandl | 309501a | 2008-01-19 20:22:13 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1685 | - Patch #1663329: added ``os.closerange()`` function to quickly close a range |
| 1686 | of file descriptors without considering errors. |
| 1687 | |
Andrew M. Kuchling | 5c60bfc | 2008-01-19 18:18:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1688 | - Patch 976880: ``mmap`` objects now have an ``rfind`` method that |
| 1689 | works as expected. ``mmap.find`` also takes an optional ``end`` |
| 1690 | parameter. |
| 1691 | |
Fred Drake | d4e5613 | 2008-01-09 03:11:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1692 | - _winreg's HKEY object has gained __enter__ and __exit__ methods to support |
| 1693 | the context manager protocol. The _winreg module also gained a new function |
Christian Heimes | b39a756 | 2008-01-08 15:46:10 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1694 | ``ExpandEnvironmentStrings`` to expand REG_EXPAND_SZ keys. |
| 1695 | |
Raymond Hettinger | 4731709 | 2008-01-17 03:02:14 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1696 | - itertools.starmap() now accepts any iterable input. Previously, it required |
| 1697 | the function inputs to be tuples. |
| 1698 | |
Andrew M. Kuchling | 91ae0c9 | 2008-03-04 00:40:32 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1699 | - itertools.chain() now has an alternate constructor, chain.from_iterable(). |
Raymond Hettinger | b4cbc98 | 2008-02-28 22:46:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1700 | |
Christian Heimes | fb2d25a | 2008-01-07 16:12:44 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1701 | - Issue #1646: Make socket support TIPC. The socket module now has support |
| 1702 | for TIPC under Linux, see http://tipc.sf.net/ for more information. |
| 1703 | |
Christian Heimes | 04ae916 | 2008-01-04 15:23:30 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1704 | - Added interface for Windows' WSAIoctl to socket object and added an example |
| 1705 | for a simple network sniffer. |
| 1706 | |
Guido van Rossum | 076d9ee | 2008-01-03 23:54:04 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1707 | - Bug #1301: Bad assert in _tkinter fixed. |
| 1708 | |
Christian Heimes | cdaa2cb | 2007-12-31 14:47:07 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1709 | - Added bdist_wininst executable for VS 2008. |
| 1710 | |
Raymond Hettinger | adf9ffd | 2007-12-13 00:08:37 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1711 | - Bug #1604: collections.deque.__init__(iterable) now clears any prior contents |
| 1712 | before adding elements from the iterable. This fix brings the behavior into |
| 1713 | line with that for list.__init__(). |
| 1714 | |
Christian Heimes | 7c7f6af | 2007-12-10 15:12:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1715 | - Added wide char functions to msvcrt module: getwch, getwche, putwch and |
| 1716 | ungetwch. The functions accept or return unicode. |
| 1717 | |
Martin v. Löwis | 69233e8 | 2007-12-04 08:39:16 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1718 | - os.access now returns True on Windows for any existing directory. |
| 1719 | |
Christian Heimes | 28104c5 | 2007-11-27 23:16:44 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1720 | - Added warnpy3k function to the warnings module. |
| 1721 | |
Raymond Hettinger | 12e9420 | 2007-11-07 01:13:09 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1722 | - Marshal.dumps() now expects exact type matches for int, long, float, complex, |
| 1723 | tuple, list, dict, set, and frozenset. Formerly, it would silently miscode |
| 1724 | subclasses of those types. Now, it raises a ValueError instead. |
| 1725 | |
Martin v. Löwis | 58bd49f | 2007-09-04 13:13:14 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1726 | - Patch #1388440: Add set_completion_display_matches_hook and |
| 1727 | get_completion_type to readline. |
| 1728 | |
Thomas Heller | ef4fff3 | 2007-07-13 17:46:54 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1729 | - Bug #1649098: Avoid declaration of zero-sized array declaration in |
| 1730 | structure. |
| 1731 | |
Brett Cannon | dc48b74 | 2007-05-20 07:09:50 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1732 | - Removed the rgbimg module; been deprecated since Python 2.5. |
| 1733 | |
Neal Norwitz | 59f58aa | 2007-05-19 03:48:47 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1734 | - Bug #1721309: prevent bsddb module from freeing random memory. |
| 1735 | |
Gregory P. Smith | 82eafe6 | 2007-10-18 17:17:57 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1736 | - Bug #1233: fix bsddb.dbshelve.DBShelf append method to work as |
| 1737 | intended for RECNO databases. |
| 1738 | |
Gregory P. Smith | ec10a4a | 2007-11-05 02:32:26 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1739 | - pybsddb.sf.net Bug #477182: Load the database flags at database open |
| 1740 | time so that opening a database previously created with the DB_DUP or |
| 1741 | DB_DUPSORT flag set will keep the proper behavior on subsequent opens. |
| 1742 | Specifically: dictionary assignment to a DB object will replace all |
| 1743 | values for a given key when the database allows duplicate values. |
| 1744 | DB users should use DB.put(k, v) when they want to store duplicates; not |
| 1745 | DB[k] = v. |
| 1746 | |
Gregory P. Smith | ac11e02 | 2007-11-05 02:56:31 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1747 | - Add the bsddb.db.DBEnv.lock_id_free method. |
| 1748 | |
Martin v. Löwis | 3bf573f | 2007-04-04 18:30:36 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1749 | - Bug #1686475: Support stat'ing open files on Windows again. |
| 1750 | |
Georg Brandl | 4aef727 | 2007-03-13 22:49:43 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1751 | - Patch #1185447: binascii.b2a_qp() now correctly quotes binary characters |
| 1752 | with ASCII value less than 32. Also, it correctly quotes dots only if |
| 1753 | they occur on a single line, as opposed to the previous behavior of |
| 1754 | quoting dots if they are the second character of any line. |
| 1755 | |
Georg Brandl | a47337f | 2007-03-13 12:34:25 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1756 | - Bug #1622896: fix a rare corner case where the bz2 module raised an |
| 1757 | error in spite of a succesful compression. |
| 1758 | |
Georg Brandl | 40c6261 | 2007-03-06 18:59:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1759 | - Patch #1654417: make operator.{get,set,del}slice use the full range |
| 1760 | of Py_ssize_t. |
| 1761 | |
Guido van Rossum | 2054ee9 | 2007-03-06 15:50:01 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1762 | - Patch #1646728: datetime.fromtimestamp fails with negative |
| 1763 | fractional times. With unittest. |
| 1764 | |
Martin v. Löwis | 382abef | 2007-02-19 10:55:19 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1765 | - Patch #1490190: posixmodule now includes os.chflags() and os.lchflags() |
| 1766 | functions on platforms where the underlying system calls are available. |
| 1767 | |
Georg Brandl | 983d100 | 2007-02-15 11:29:04 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1768 | - Patch #1494140: Add documentation for the new struct.Struct object. |
| 1769 | |
Martin v. Löwis | 45423a7 | 2007-02-14 10:07:37 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1770 | - Patch #1432399: Support the HCI protocol for bluetooth sockets |
| 1771 | |
Martin v. Löwis | b1cc1d4 | 2007-02-13 12:14:19 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1772 | - Patch #1657276: Make NETLINK_DNRTMSG conditional. |
| 1773 | |
Martin v. Löwis | 4c11a92 | 2007-02-08 09:13:36 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1774 | - Bug #1653736: Complain about keyword arguments to time.isoformat. |
| 1775 | |
Georg Brandl | b84c137 | 2007-01-21 10:28:43 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1776 | - Bug #1486663: don't reject keyword arguments for subclasses of builtin |
| 1777 | types. |
| 1778 | |
Martin v. Löwis | aef4c6b | 2007-01-21 09:33:07 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1779 | - Patch #1610575: The struct module now supports the 't' code, for |
| 1780 | C99 _Bool. |
| 1781 | |
Guido van Rossum | bb2cc69 | 2007-01-14 17:03:32 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1782 | - Patch #1635058: ensure that htonl and friends never accept or |
| 1783 | return negative numbers, per the underlying C implementation. |
| 1784 | |
Martin v. Löwis | 046c4d1 | 2006-12-03 11:23:45 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1785 | - Patch #1544279: Improve thread-safety of the socket module by moving |
| 1786 | the sock_addr_t storage out of the socket object. |
| 1787 | |
Vinay Sajip | 2bdc48c | 2008-01-21 18:16:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1788 | - Patch #1019808: fix bug that causes an incorrect error to be returned |
Andrew M. Kuchling | 060e685 | 2008-01-19 20:47:59 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1789 | when a socket timeout is set and a connection attempt fails. |
| 1790 | |
Neal Norwitz | 45e230a | 2006-11-19 21:26:53 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1791 | - Speed up function calls into the math module. |
| 1792 | |
Georg Brandl | 25aabf4 | 2006-11-16 17:08:45 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1793 | - Bug #1588217: don't parse "= " as a soft line break in binascii's |
| 1794 | a2b_qp() function, instead leave it in the string as quopri.decode() |
| 1795 | does. |
| 1796 | |
Neal Norwitz | 4fe4423 | 2006-11-21 05:26:22 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1797 | - Bug #1599782: Fix segfault on bsddb.db.DB().type(). |
| 1798 | |
Martin v. Löwis | 012bc72 | 2006-10-15 09:43:39 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1799 | - Bug #1567666: Emulate GetFileAttributesExA for Win95. |
| 1800 | |
Martin v. Löwis | 18aaa56 | 2006-10-15 08:43:33 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1801 | - Patch #1576166: Support os.utime for directories on Windows NT+. |
| 1802 | |
Georg Brandl | 412a9ea | 2006-10-09 19:03:06 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1803 | - Patch #1572724: fix typo ('=' instead of '==') in _msi.c. |
| 1804 | |
Hye-Shik Chang | b788346 | 2006-10-08 13:48:34 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1805 | - Bug #1572832: fix a bug in ISO-2022 codecs which may cause segfault |
| 1806 | when encoding non-BMP unicode characters. |
| 1807 | |
Georg Brandl | 4ddfcd3 | 2006-09-30 11:17:34 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1808 | - Bug #1556784: allow format strings longer than 127 characters in |
| 1809 | datetime's strftime function. |
| 1810 | |
Jack Diederich | d10a0f7 | 2006-09-21 20:34:49 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1811 | - Fix itertools.count(n) to work with negative numbers again. |
| 1812 | |
Martin v. Löwis | 43fd99c | 2006-09-16 17:36:37 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1813 | - RLIMIT_SBSIZE was added to the resource module where available. |
| 1814 | |
Georg Brandl | 74bb783 | 2006-09-06 06:03:59 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1815 | - Bug #1551427: fix a wrong NULL pointer check in the win32 version |
| 1816 | of os.urandom(). |
| 1817 | |
Neal Norwitz | 6aefa91 | 2006-09-02 02:50:35 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1818 | - Bug #1548092: fix curses.tparm seg fault on invalid input. |
| 1819 | |
Andrew M. Kuchling | 62182c8 | 2008-01-08 14:56:02 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1820 | - Patch #1114: fix curses module compilation on 64-bit AIX, & possibly |
Vinay Sajip | 2bdc48c | 2008-01-21 18:16:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1821 | other 64-bit LP64 platforms where attr_t is not the same size as a long. |
Andrew M. Kuchling | 62182c8 | 2008-01-08 14:56:02 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1822 | (Contributed by Luke Mewburn.) |
| 1823 | |
Neal Norwitz | 69e8897 | 2006-09-02 02:58:13 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1824 | - Bug #1550714: fix SystemError from itertools.tee on negative value for n. |
| 1825 | |
Hye-Shik Chang | 199f1db | 2006-09-05 12:07:09 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1826 | - Fixed a few bugs on cjkcodecs: |
| 1827 | - gbk and gb18030 codec now handle U+30FB KATAKANA MIDDLE DOT correctly. |
| 1828 | - iso2022_jp_2 codec now encodes into G0 for KS X 1001, GB2312 |
| 1829 | codepoints to conform the standard. |
Hye-Shik Chang | 2cad3e9 | 2006-09-05 12:14:57 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1830 | - iso2022_jp_3 and iso2022_jp_2004 codec can encode JIS X 0213:2 |
Hye-Shik Chang | 199f1db | 2006-09-05 12:07:09 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1831 | codepoints now. |
Neal Norwitz | 92422fb | 2006-08-18 03:57:54 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1832 | |
Andrew M. Kuchling | 43889c0 | 2006-09-27 16:37:30 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1833 | - Bug #1552726: in readline.c, avoid repeatedly polling in interactive |
| 1834 | mode by only placing a timeout on the select() if an input hook has |
| 1835 | been defined. This prevents an interactive Python from waking up 10 |
| 1836 | times per second. Patch by Richard Boulton. |
| 1837 | |
Gregory P. Smith | f09c626 | 2007-03-17 22:33:35 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1838 | - fixed a bug with bsddb.DB.stat: the flags and txn keyword arguments |
| 1839 | were transposed. |
| 1840 | |
Matthias Klose | 691632f | 2007-09-03 23:33:04 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1841 | - Added support for linking the bsddb module against BerkeleyDB 4.5.x |
| 1842 | and 4.6.x. |
Gregory P. Smith | 8b96a35 | 2007-01-05 01:59:42 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1843 | |
Walter Dörwald | 8537c30 | 2007-03-06 21:15:24 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1844 | - Bug #1633621: if curses.resizeterm() or curses.resize_term() is called, |
| 1845 | update _curses.LINES, _curses.COLS, curses.LINES and curses.COLS. |
Andrew M. Kuchling | 43889c0 | 2006-09-27 16:37:30 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1846 | |
Matthias Klose | e19e0c2 | 2007-04-03 04:35:59 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1847 | - Fix an off-by-one bug in locale.strxfrm(). |
| 1848 | |
Matthias Klose | 3833640 | 2007-09-04 20:46:02 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1849 | - Fix libffi configure for hppa*-*-linux* | parisc*-*-linux*. |
| 1850 | |
Matthias Klose | 9afb985 | 2007-10-24 20:00:44 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1851 | - Build using system ffi library on arm*-linux*. |
| 1852 | |
Christian Heimes | 3f065a4 | 2007-11-21 01:17:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1853 | - Bug #1372: zlibmodule.c: int overflow in PyZlib_decompress |
Matthias Klose | e19e0c2 | 2007-04-03 04:35:59 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1854 | |
Gregory P. Smith | eeed5b7 | 2008-02-03 07:20:53 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1855 | - bsddb module: Fix memory leak when using database cursors on |
| 1856 | databases without a DBEnv. |
| 1857 | |
Gerhard Häring | 11ab807 | 2008-03-02 13:12:27 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1858 | - The sqlite3 module was updated to pysqlite 2.4.1. |
| 1859 | |
Neal Norwitz | 92422fb | 2006-08-18 03:57:54 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1860 | Tests |
| 1861 | ----- |
| 1862 | |
Brett Cannon | 56c4deb | 2008-03-03 00:38:58 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1863 | - Refactor test_logging to use unittest. |
Brett Cannon | f9db8a3 | 2008-02-17 01:59:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1864 | |
Georg Brandl | b709077 | 2008-02-05 19:58:17 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1865 | - Refactor test_profile and test_cprofile to use the same code to profile. |
| 1866 | |
Brett Cannon | dbed7a7 | 2007-08-23 14:53:17 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1867 | - Make test_runpy reentrant by fixing _check_module to clear out any module |
| 1868 | being tested. Was causing an error by __import__ doing a reload on the |
| 1869 | second run and thus suppressing bytecode recreation. |
| 1870 | |
Brett Cannon | ea2835a | 2007-03-14 21:44:15 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1871 | - Capture socket connection resets and timeouts in test_socket_ssl and |
| 1872 | test_urllib2net and raise test.test_support.ResourceDenied. |
Brett Cannon | ed00184 | 2007-03-14 21:40:13 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1873 | |
Martin v. Löwis | cd1210a | 2007-03-14 20:02:31 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1874 | - Patch #1559413: Fix test_cmd_line if sys.executable contains a space. |
| 1875 | |
Brett Cannon | a30fcb4 | 2007-03-08 23:58:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1876 | - Added test.test_support.TransientResource which is a context manager to |
| 1877 | surround calls to resources that are not guaranteed to work even if |
| 1878 | test.test_support.requires says that the resource should exist. |
| 1879 | |
Brett Cannon | e05e6b0 | 2007-01-29 04:41:44 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1880 | - Added a test for slicing of an exception. |
| 1881 | |
Brett Cannon | 92d54d5 | 2007-01-04 00:23:49 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1882 | - Added test.test_support.EnvironmentVarGuard. It's a class that provides a |
| 1883 | context manager so that one can temporarily set or unset environment |
| 1884 | variables. |
| 1885 | |
Thomas Heller | 112d1a6 | 2006-10-27 19:05:53 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1886 | - Added some tests for modulefinder. |
| 1887 | |
Brett Cannon | 373d90b | 2006-10-03 23:23:14 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1888 | - Converted test_imp to use unittest. |
| 1889 | |
Neal Norwitz | 919d5cc | 2006-09-05 02:35:08 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1890 | - Fix bsddb test_basics.test06_Transactions to check the version |
| 1891 | number properly. |
| 1892 | |
Walter Dörwald | e6dae6c | 2007-04-03 18:33:29 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1893 | - test.test_support.catch_warning is a new context manager that can be used |
| 1894 | to catch the warnings issued by the warning framework. |
| 1895 | |
Neal Norwitz | 92422fb | 2006-08-18 03:57:54 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1896 | |
Marc-André Lemburg | fa3d08b | 2007-01-16 13:03:06 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1897 | Tools |
| 1898 | ----- |
| 1899 | |
Facundo Batista | f88a077 | 2008-02-17 16:21:13 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1900 | - Tools/scripts/reindent.py now creates the backup file using shutil.copy |
| 1901 | to preserve user/group and permissions. Added also a --nobackup option |
| 1902 | to not create the backup if the user is concerned regarding this. Check |
| 1903 | issue 1050828 for more details. |
| 1904 | |
Christian Heimes | bd865db | 2008-01-18 11:58:50 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1905 | - Tools/scripts/win_add2path.py was added. The simple script modifes the |
| 1906 | PATH environment var of the HKCU tree and adds the python bin and script |
| 1907 | directory. |
| 1908 | |
Skip Montanaro | 3e27536 | 2007-08-29 01:33:45 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1909 | - Tools/18n/pygettext.py was added to the list of scripts installed by |
| 1910 | Tools/scripts/setup.py (tracker item 642309). |
| 1911 | |
Marc-André Lemburg | fa3d08b | 2007-01-16 13:03:06 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1912 | - Added IronPython and Jython support to pybench (part of which |
| 1913 | was patch #1563844) |
| 1914 | |
| 1915 | - Made some minor changes to pybench output to allow the user |
| 1916 | to see which Python version is running pybench |
| 1917 | |
| 1918 | - Added support for the new platform module feature |
| 1919 | platform.python_implementation(); this will now be saved |
| 1920 | in the benchmark pickle |
| 1921 | |
Georg Brandl | 6caad7d | 2008-01-26 14:19:22 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1922 | |
Neal Norwitz | 92422fb | 2006-08-18 03:57:54 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1923 | Documentation |
| 1924 | ------------- |
| 1925 | |
Vinay Sajip | d7cf32e | 2008-01-24 12:43:33 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1926 | - RFE #1765140: Updated documentation on FileHandler and subclasses to |
| 1927 | include new optional delay argument. |
| 1928 | |
Vinay Sajip | 2bdc48c | 2008-01-21 18:16:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1929 | - Bug #932563: Added section on getting contextual information into logging |
| 1930 | output, and added documentation for the new LoggerAdapter class. |
| 1931 | |
| 1932 | - Bug #1295: Added information about caching of formatted exception |
| 1933 | information in the LogRecord by Formatter.format(). |
| 1934 | |
Georg Brandl | 9467bc5 | 2007-07-12 09:37:49 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1935 | - Bug #1637365: add subsection about "__name__ == __main__" to the |
| 1936 | Python tutorial. |
| 1937 | |
Georg Brandl | 3dc6e90 | 2007-04-25 06:24:59 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1938 | - Patch #1698768: updated the "using Python on the Mac" intro. |
| 1939 | |
Brett Cannon | 55a1864 | 2007-04-08 04:29:32 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1940 | - Bug #1569057: Document that calling file.next() when the file is open for |
| 1941 | writing is undefined. |
| 1942 | |
Žiga Seilnacht | c64ad48 | 2007-03-24 14:24:26 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1943 | - Patch #1489771: the syntax rules in Python Reference Manual were |
| 1944 | updated to reflect the current Python syntax. |
| 1945 | |
Martin v. Löwis | 2f401d7 | 2007-03-23 10:35:49 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1946 | - Patch #1686451: Fix return type for |
| 1947 | PySequence_{Count,Index,Fast_GET_SIZE}. |
| 1948 | |
Georg Brandl | 0692a26 | 2007-03-13 07:50:57 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1949 | - Patch #1679379: add documentation for fnmatch.translate(). |
| 1950 | |
Collin Winter | b7b2b4e | 2007-03-09 18:09:10 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1951 | - Bug #1629566: clarify the docs on the return values of parsedate() |
| 1952 | and parsedate_tz() in email.utils and rfc822. |
| 1953 | |
Georg Brandl | d28b9fc | 2007-03-06 10:02:47 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1954 | - Patch #1671450: add a section about subclassing builtin types to the |
| 1955 | "extending and embedding" tutorial. |
| 1956 | |
Georg Brandl | b26b1c6 | 2007-01-17 21:19:58 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1957 | - Bug #1629125: fix wrong data type (int -> Py_ssize_t) in PyDict_Next |
| 1958 | docs. |
| 1959 | |
Georg Brandl | a4c8e32 | 2006-10-12 08:22:53 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1960 | - Bug #1565919: document set types in the Language Reference. |
| 1961 | |
Georg Brandl | 44a7b3a | 2006-09-30 12:02:57 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1962 | - Bug #1546052: clarify that PyString_FromString(AndSize) copies the |
| 1963 | string pointed to by its parameter. |
| 1964 | |
Georg Brandl | fb25773 | 2006-09-30 09:06:45 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1965 | - Bug #1566663: remove obsolete example from datetime docs. |
| 1966 | |
Georg Brandl | 648c110 | 2006-08-18 07:27:59 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1967 | - Bug #1541682: Fix example in the "Refcount details" API docs. |
| 1968 | Additionally, remove a faulty example showing PySequence_SetItem applied |
| 1969 | to a newly created list object and add notes that this isn't a good idea. |
| 1970 | |
Neal Norwitz | 92422fb | 2006-08-18 03:57:54 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1971 | |
Georg Brandl | 2756278 | 2006-10-27 20:39:43 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1972 | Tools/Demos |
| 1973 | ----------- |
| 1974 | |
| 1975 | - Patch #1552024: add decorator support to unparse.py demo script. |
Marc-André Lemburg | 9614868 | 2006-09-06 20:40:22 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1976 | |
Brett Cannon | c8939d2 | 2006-09-20 19:28:35 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1977 | - Make auto-generated python.vim file list built-ins and exceptions in |
| 1978 | alphatbetical order. Makes output more deterministic and easier to tell if |
| 1979 | the file is stale or not. |
| 1980 | |
Marc-André Lemburg | 9614868 | 2006-09-06 20:40:22 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1981 | - Bug #1546372: Fixed small bugglet in pybench that caused a missing |
| 1982 | file not to get reported properly. |
| 1983 | |
| 1984 | |
Neal Norwitz | 92422fb | 2006-08-18 03:57:54 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1985 | Build |
| 1986 | ----- |
| 1987 | |
Brett Cannon | 70c0c02 | 2008-02-03 09:59:21 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1988 | - Have the search path for building extensions follow the declared order in |
| 1989 | $CPPFLAGS and $LDFLAGS when adding directories from those environment |
| 1990 | variables. |
| 1991 | |
Christian Heimes | 951cc0f | 2008-01-31 23:08:23 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1992 | - Bug #1983: Added a check to pyport to verify that sizeof(pid_t) is |
| 1993 | smaller or equal sizeof(long). |
| 1994 | |
Christian Heimes | cba36bb | 2008-01-30 22:54:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1995 | - Bug #1234: Fixed semaphore errors on AIX 5.2 |
| 1996 | |
Christian Heimes | 000a074 | 2008-01-03 22:16:32 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1997 | - Issue #1726: Remove Python/atof.c from PCBuild/pythoncore.vcproj |
| 1998 | |
| 1999 | - Removed PCbuild8/ directory and added a new build directory for VS 2005 |
Vinay Sajip | 2bdc48c | 2008-01-21 18:16:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 2000 | based on the VS 2008 build directory to PC/VS8.0. The script |
Christian Heimes | 000a074 | 2008-01-03 22:16:32 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 2001 | PCbuild/vs8to9.py was added to sync changes from PCbuild to PC/VS8.0. |
| 2002 | |
| 2003 | - Moved PCbuild/ directory for VS 2003 to PC/VS7.1 and renamed PCBuild9/ |
| 2004 | directory to PCBuild/. |
| 2005 | |
Martin v. Löwis | cb78de6 | 2007-12-29 18:49:21 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 2006 | - Bug #1699: Define _BSD_SOURCE only on OpenBSD. |
| 2007 | |
Guido van Rossum | 7c862f8 | 2007-12-13 20:50:10 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 2008 | - Bug #1608: use -fwrapv when GCC supports it. This is important, |
| 2009 | newer GCC versions may optimize away overflow buffer overflow checks |
| 2010 | without this option! |
| 2011 | |
Martin v. Löwis | 63bf149 | 2007-11-12 05:14:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 2012 | - Patch #1418: Make the AC_REPLACE_FUNCS object files actually work. |
| 2013 | |
Raymond Hettinger | dc1d1ba | 2007-11-07 02:45:46 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 2014 | - Add a FAST_LOOPS build option that speeds-up looping by trading away |
| 2015 | periodic threadstate and signal checking in tight loops. By default, |
| 2016 | this option is turned-off. It should only be enabled in debugged, |
| 2017 | performance critical applications. |
| 2018 | |
Martin v. Löwis | d44a4e9 | 2007-09-05 11:47:34 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 2019 | - Patch #786737: Allow building in a tree of symlinks pointing to |
| 2020 | a readonly source. |
| 2021 | |
Martin v. Löwis | 8bc77e4 | 2007-09-01 06:36:03 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 2022 | - Bug #1737210: Change Manufacturer of Windows installer to PSF. |
| 2023 | |
Martin v. Löwis | 75c23bd | 2007-08-30 18:25:47 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 2024 | - Bug #1746880: Correctly install DLLs into system32 folder on Win64. |
| 2025 | |
Martin v. Löwis | 76760b0 | 2007-07-31 19:57:56 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 2026 | - Define _BSD_SOURCE, to get access to POSIX extensions on OpenBSD 4.1+. |
| 2027 | |
Brett Cannon | 19fab76 | 2007-06-02 03:02:29 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 2028 | - Stop supporting AtheOS and cause a build error in configure for the platform. |
| 2029 | |
Georg Brandl | db84603 | 2007-03-31 18:56:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 2030 | - Bug #1655392: don't add -L/usr/lib/pythonX.Y/config to the LDFLAGS |
| 2031 | returned by python-config if Python was built with --enable-shared |
| 2032 | because that prevented the shared library from being used. |
| 2033 | |
Georg Brandl | 18c47f6 | 2007-03-13 10:19:22 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 2034 | - Patch #1569798: fix a bug in distutils when building Python from a |
| 2035 | directory within sys.exec_prefix. |
| 2036 | |
Martin v. Löwis | eb62357 | 2007-03-12 10:50:39 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 2037 | - Bug #1675511: Use -Kpic instead of -xcode=pic32 on Solaris/x86. |
| 2038 | |
Martin v. Löwis | 4d542ec | 2006-11-25 15:39:19 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 2039 | - Disable _XOPEN_SOURCE on NetBSD 1.x. |
| 2040 | |
Martin v. Löwis | aac1316 | 2006-10-19 10:58:46 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 2041 | - configure now checks whether gcc supports the PyArg_ParseTuple format |
| 2042 | attribute. |
| 2043 | |
Vinay Sajip | 76fdb8c | 2006-12-14 08:53:55 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 2044 | - Bug #1578513: Cross compilation was broken by a change to configure. |
Martin v. Löwis | fefbc20 | 2006-10-17 18:59:23 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 2045 | Repair so that it's back to how it was in 2.4.3. |
| 2046 | |
Martin v. Löwis | c9e82f6 | 2006-10-15 07:54:40 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 2047 | - Patch #1576954: Update VC6 build directory; remove redundant |
| 2048 | files in VC7. |
| 2049 | |
Martin v. Löwis | ebe2670 | 2006-10-02 14:55:51 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 2050 | - Bug #1568842: Fix test for uintptr_t. |
| 2051 | |
Neal Norwitz | 4bc2c09 | 2006-09-05 02:57:01 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 2052 | - Patch #1540470, for OpenBSD 4.0. |
| 2053 | |
Matthias Klose | d149d0c | 2006-12-03 17:16:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 2054 | - Fix build failure on kfreebsd and on the hurd. |
| 2055 | |
Matthias Klose | ebde149 | 2006-12-09 12:15:27 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 2056 | - Fix the build of the library reference in info format. |
| 2057 | |
Matthias Klose | eb8ff67 | 2007-08-02 21:33:13 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 2058 | - Allow Emacs 22 for building the documentation in info format. |
Neal Norwitz | 92422fb | 2006-08-18 03:57:54 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 2059 | |
Matthias Klose | 642ac85 | 2007-09-04 18:17:36 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 2060 | - Makefile.pre.in(buildbottest): Run an optional script pybuildbot.identify |
| 2061 | to include some information about the build environment. |
| 2062 | |
Georg Brandl | 6caad7d | 2008-01-26 14:19:22 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 2063 | |
Neal Norwitz | 92422fb | 2006-08-18 03:57:54 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 2064 | C API |
| 2065 | ----- |
| 2066 | |
Christian Heimes | 5b970ad | 2008-02-06 13:33:44 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 2067 | - Unified naming convention for free lists and their limits. All free lists |
| 2068 | in Object/ are named ``free_list``, the counter ``numfree`` and the upper |
| 2069 | limit is a macro ``PyName_MAXFREELIST`` inside an #ifndef block. |
| 2070 | |
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc | cab3d98 | 2008-02-03 22:51:43 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 2071 | - ``PySet_Add()`` can now modify a newly created frozenset. Similarly to |
Vinay Sajip | b7edfc4 | 2008-04-02 21:10:23 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 2072 | ``PyTuple_SetItem``, it can be used to populate a brand new frozenset; but |
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc | cab3d98 | 2008-02-03 22:51:43 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 2073 | it does not steal a reference to the added item. |
| 2074 | |
Vinay Sajip | b7edfc4 | 2008-04-02 21:10:23 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 2075 | - Added ``PySet_Check()`` and ``PyFrozenSet_Check()`` to the set API. |
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc | cab3d98 | 2008-02-03 22:51:43 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 2076 | |
Georg Brandl | 6caad7d | 2008-01-26 14:19:22 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 2077 | - Backport of PyUnicode_FromString(), _FromStringAndSize(), _Format and |
| 2078 | _FormatV from Python 3.0. Made PyLong_AsSsize_t and PyLong_FromSsize_t |
| 2079 | public functions. |
| 2080 | |
| 2081 | - Patch #1720595: add T_BOOL to the range of structmember types. |
| 2082 | |
| 2083 | - Issue #1534: Added ``PyFloat_GetMax()``, ``PyFloat_GetMin()`` and |
| 2084 | ``PyFloat_GetInfo()`` to the float API. |
| 2085 | |
| 2086 | - Issue #1521: On 64bit platforms, using PyArgs_ParseTuple with the t# of w# |
| 2087 | format code incorrectly truncated the length to an int, even when |
| 2088 | PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN is set. The str.decode method used to return incorrect |
| 2089 | results with huge strings. |
| 2090 | |
| 2091 | - Issue #1629: Renamed Py_Size, Py_Type and Py_Refcnt to Py_SIZE, Py_TYPE |
| 2092 | and Py_REFCNT. |
| 2093 | |
| 2094 | - PEP 3123: Provide forward compatibility with Python 3.0, while keeping |
| 2095 | backwards compatibility. Add Py_Refcnt, Py_Type, Py_Size, and |
| 2096 | PyVarObject_HEAD_INIT. |
| 2097 | |
| 2098 | - Py_ssize_t fields work in structmember when HAVE_LONG_LONG is not defined. |
| 2099 | |
| 2100 | - Patch #1733960: Allow T_LONGLONG to accept ints. |
| 2101 | |
| 2102 | - T_PYSSIZET can now be used in PyMemberDef lists for Py_ssize_t members. |
| 2103 | |
Christian Heimes | 000a074 | 2008-01-03 22:16:32 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 2104 | - Added a new API function ``PyImport_ImportModuleNoBlock``. |
| 2105 | |
Georg Brandl | 6caad7d | 2008-01-26 14:19:22 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 2106 | - Bug #1637022: Prefix AST symbols with _Py_. |
| 2107 | |
| 2108 | - Fix some leftovers from the conversion from int to Py_ssize_t |
| 2109 | (relevant to strings and sequences of more than 2**31 items). |
| 2110 | |
| 2111 | - Make _PyGILState_NoteThreadState() static, it was not used anywhere |
| 2112 | outside of pystate.c and should not be necessary. |
| 2113 | |
Christian Heimes | 000a074 | 2008-01-03 22:16:32 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 2114 | - ``PyImport_Import`` and ``PyImport_ImportModule`` now always do absolute |
| 2115 | imports. In earlier versions they might have used relative imports under |
| 2116 | some conditions. |
| 2117 | |
Andrew M. Kuchling | adc60ab | 2008-01-04 02:26:00 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 2118 | - Added case insensitive comparison methods ``PyOS_stricmp(char*, char*)`` |
Christian Heimes | 000a074 | 2008-01-03 22:16:32 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 2119 | and ``PyOS_strnicmp(char*, char*, Py_ssize_t)``. |
| 2120 | |
Neal Norwitz | 8a26706 | 2006-08-19 04:25:29 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 2121 | - Bug #1542693: remove semi-colon at end of PyImport_ImportModuleEx macro |
| 2122 | so it can be used as an expression. |
| 2123 | |
Neal Norwitz | 92422fb | 2006-08-18 03:57:54 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 2124 | |
Martin v. Löwis | 2607e6c | 2006-11-21 18:20:25 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 2125 | Windows |
| 2126 | ------- |
| 2127 | |
Vinay Sajip | b7edfc4 | 2008-04-02 21:10:23 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 2128 | - Patch #1706: Drop support for Win9x, WinME and NT4. Python now requires |
Christian Heimes | 95d6447 | 2008-02-09 19:55:22 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 2129 | Windows 2000 or greater. The _WINVER and NTDDI_VERSION macros are set to |
| 2130 | Win2k for x86/32bit builds and WinXP for AMD64 builds. |
| 2131 | |
Martin v. Löwis | 2607e6c | 2006-11-21 18:20:25 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 2132 | - Conditionalize definition of _CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE |
| 2133 | and _CRT_NONSTDC_NO_DEPRECATE. |
| 2134 | |
Martin v. Löwis | d476a40 | 2007-10-12 08:56:52 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 2135 | - Bug #1216: Restore support for Visual Studio 2002. |
| 2136 | |
Martin v. Löwis | 2607e6c | 2006-11-21 18:20:25 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 2137 | |
Neal Norwitz | 92422fb | 2006-08-18 03:57:54 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 2138 | Mac |
| 2139 | --- |
| 2140 | |
Brett Cannon | f0cb1d7 | 2007-05-31 20:01:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 2141 | - cfmfile now raises a DeprecationWarning. |
| 2142 | |
Brett Cannon | 791d56f | 2007-05-31 19:40:42 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 2143 | - buildtools now raises a DeprecationWarning. |
| 2144 | |
Brett Cannon | 5e26351 | 2007-05-20 23:17:38 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 2145 | - Removed the macfs module. It had been deprecated since Python 2.5. This |
| 2146 | lead to the deprecation of macostools.touched() as it relied solely on macfs |
| 2147 | and was a no-op under OS X. |
| 2148 | |
Skip Montanaro | e5d7f7f | 2002-09-20 14:16:59 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 2149 | ---- |
| 2150 | |
| 2151 | **(For information about older versions, consult the HISTORY file.)** |