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Georg Brandld33a9be2012-07-21 16:48:16 +02001Python News
Skip Montanaroe5d7f7f2002-09-20 14:16:59 +00002+++++++++++
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Benjamin Petersona84f4682012-03-07 19:17:57 -06004What's New in Python 2.7.4
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Victor Stinner08563d92011-05-30 23:44:13 +02006
Benjamin Petersona84f4682012-03-07 19:17:57 -06007*Release date: XXXX-XX-XX*
Victor Stinner08563d92011-05-30 23:44:13 +02008
9Core and Builtins
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Antoine Pitroue3ae3212012-11-17 21:14:58 +010012- Issue #15379: Fix passing of non-BMP characters as integers for the charmap
13 decoder (already working as unicode strings). Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
14
Antoine Pitroub704eab2012-11-11 19:36:51 +010015- Issue #16453: Fix equality testing of dead weakref objects.
16
Gregory P. Smithc1ce93a2012-11-10 20:38:17 -080017- Issue #9535: Fix pending signals that have been received but not yet
18 handled by Python to not persist after os.fork() in the child process.
19
Hynek Schlawackb271b3e2012-11-07 09:41:28 +010020- Issue #15001: fix segfault on "del sys.modules['__main__']". Patch by Victor
21 Stinner.
22
Ezio Melotti751a50f2012-11-05 00:06:50 +020023- Issue #5057: the peepholer no longer optimizes subscription on unicode
Ezio Melottic18cc0e2012-11-05 00:03:21 +020024 literals (e.g. u'foo'[0]) in order to produce compatible pyc files between
25 narrow and wide builds.
26
Ezio Melotti67dc4a82012-11-03 21:10:45 +020027- Issue #8401: assigning an int to a bytearray slice (e.g. b[3:4] = 5) now
28 raises an error.
29
Mark Dickinson75d36002012-10-28 10:00:46 +000030- Issue #14700: Fix buggy overflow checks for large width and precision
31 in string formatting operations.
32
Benjamin Peterson0ec820f2012-10-31 14:05:55 -040033- Issue #16345: Fix an infinite loop when ``fromkeys`` on a dict subclass
Benjamin Petersonc40ddae2012-10-31 14:16:09 -040034 received a nonempty dict from the constructor.
Benjamin Peterson0ec820f2012-10-31 14:05:55 -040035
Nick Coghlanb48c0282012-10-19 21:58:18 +100036- Issue #6074: Ensure cached bytecode files can always be updated by the
37 user that created them, even when the source file is read-only.
38
Chris Jerdonekad4b0002012-10-07 20:37:54 -070039- Issue #14783: Improve int() and long() docstrings and switch docstrings for
40 unicode(), slice(), range(), and xrange() to use multi-line signatures.
41
Mark Dickinson218a8ab2012-09-28 20:36:36 +010042- Issue #16030: Fix overflow bug in computing the `repr` of an xrange object
43 with large start, step or length.
44
45- Issue #16029: Fix overflow bug occurring when pickling xranges with large
46 start, step or length.
47
Christian Heimes671138f2012-09-25 13:29:30 +020048- Issue #16037: Limit httplib's _read_status() function to work around broken
49 HTTP servers and reduce memory usage. It's actually a backport of a Python
50 3.2 fix. Thanks to Adrien Kunysz.
51
Antoine Pitrou58098a72012-09-06 00:59:49 +020052- Issue #13992: The trashcan mechanism is now thread-safe. This eliminates
53 sporadic crashes in multi-thread programs when several long deallocator
54 chains ran concurrently and involved subclasses of built-in container
55 types.
56
Benjamin Peterson23d49d32012-08-28 17:55:35 -040057- Issue #15801: Make sure mappings passed to '%' formatting are actually
58 subscriptable.
59
Antoine Pitrouc5bef752012-08-15 23:16:51 +020060- Issue #15604: Update uses of PyObject_IsTrue() to check for and handle
61 errors correctly. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
62
Andrew Svetlov15fc2202012-07-26 17:19:40 +030063- Issue #15041: Update "see also" list in tkinter documentation.
64
Antoine Pitrou715a63b2012-07-21 00:52:06 +020065- Issue #14579: Fix error handling bug in the utf-16 decoder. Patch by
66 Serhiy Storchaka.
67
Meador Inge6642d1f2012-07-18 14:09:04 -050068- Issue #15368: An issue that caused bytecode generation to be
69 non-deterministic when using randomized hashing (-R) has been fixed.
70
Jesus Ceae884be62012-10-03 02:13:05 +020071- Issue #15897: zipimport.c doesn't check return value of fseek().
72 Patch by Felipe Cruz.
73
Jesus Ceabdf1b9e2012-10-31 17:00:19 +010074- Issue #16369: Global PyTypeObjects not initialized with PyType_Ready(...).
75
Ezio Melotti50bc66a2012-11-03 21:29:08 +020076- Issue #15033: Fix the exit status bug when modules invoked using -m switch,
Senthil Kumaran3b30b192012-07-04 19:50:29 -070077 return the proper failure return value (1). Patch contributed by Jeff Knupp.
78
Gregory P. Smithb2ac4d62012-06-25 20:57:36 -070079- Issue #12268: File readline, readlines and read() methods no longer lose
80 data when an underlying read system call is interrupted. IOError is no
81 longer raised due to a read system call returning EINTR from within these
82 methods.
83
Éric Araujoe5567cc2012-07-03 01:23:46 -040084- Issue #13512: Create ~/.pypirc securely (CVE-2011-4944). Initial patch by
85 Philip Jenvey, tested by Mageia and Debian.
86
Éric Araujo3cf202e2012-07-03 01:12:42 -040087- Issue #7719: Make distutils ignore ``.nfs*`` files instead of choking later
88 on. Initial patch by SilentGhost and Jeff Ramnani.
89
Hynek Schlawack9bd4bf22012-06-21 19:45:19 +020090- Issue #10053: Don't close FDs when FileIO.__init__ fails. Loosely based on
91 the work by Hirokazu Yamamoto.
92
Antoine Pitrouff0e22b2012-05-28 22:22:34 +020093- Issue #14775: Fix a potential quadratic dict build-up due to the garbage
94 collector repeatedly trying to untrack dicts.
95
Petri Lehtinen5f397062012-05-19 18:34:06 +030096- Issue #14494: Fix __future__.py and its documentation to note that
97 absolute imports are the default behavior in 3.0 instead of 2.7.
98 Patch by Sven Marnach.
99
Antoine Pitrou284fa082012-05-09 13:24:31 +0200100- Issue #14761: Fix potential leak on an error case in the import machinery.
101
Benjamin Peterson042c47b2012-05-01 09:51:09 -0400102- Issue #14699: Fix calling the classmethod descriptor directly.
103
Benjamin Petersond157a4c2012-04-24 11:06:25 -0400104- Issue #11603 (again): Setting __repr__ to __str__ now raises a RuntimeError
105 when repr() or str() is called on such an object.
106
107- Issue #14658: Fix binding a special method to a builtin implementation of a
108 special method with a different name.
109
Benjamin Peterson76605552012-04-18 11:14:31 -0400110- Issue #14612: Fix jumping around with blocks by setting f_lineno.
111
Mark Dickinson9c0baf72012-04-15 15:19:06 +0100112- Issue #13889: Check and (if necessary) set FPU control word before calling
113 any of the dtoa.c string <-> float conversion functions, on MSVC builds of
114 Python. This fixes issues when embedding Python in a Delphi app.
115
Antoine Pitrou02a38012012-04-05 14:07:52 +0200116- Issue #14505: Fix file descriptor leak when deallocating file objects
117 created with PyFile_FromString().
118
Benjamin Petersonf73813a2012-04-02 11:15:17 -0400119- Issue #14474: Save and restore exception state in thread.start_new_thread()
120 while writing error message if the thread leaves a unhandled exception.
121
Antoine Pitroufe941772012-04-01 16:05:46 +0200122- Issue #13019: Fix potential reference leaks in bytearray.extend(). Patch
123 by Suman Saha.
124
Benjamin Petersoneff19a12012-03-22 08:19:04 -0400125- Issue #14378: Fix compiling ast.ImportFrom nodes with a "__future__" string as
126 the module name that was not interned.
127
Gregory P. Smithfcdf04b2012-03-18 16:07:10 -0700128- Issue #14331: Use significantly less stack space when importing modules by
129 allocating path buffers on the heap instead of the stack.
130
Benjamin Peterson6e7832b2012-03-16 09:32:59 -0500131- Issue #14334: Prevent in a segfault in type.__getattribute__ when it was not
Benjamin Petersondbc52f82012-03-16 10:58:46 -0500132 passed strings. Also fix segfaults in the __getattribute__ and __setattr__
133 methods of old-style classes.
Benjamin Peterson6e7832b2012-03-16 09:32:59 -0500134
Ezio Melotti11f8b682012-03-12 01:17:02 +0200135- Issue #14161: fix the __repr__ of file objects to escape the file name.
136
Benjamin Petersona8d45852012-03-07 18:41:11 -0600137- Issue #1469629: Allow cycles through an object's __dict__ slot to be
138 collected. (For example if ``x.__dict__ is x``).
139
Antoine Pitrou6a1cd1b2012-02-27 00:45:12 +0100140- Issue #13521: dict.setdefault() now does only one lookup for the given key,
141 making it "atomic" for many purposes. Patch by Filip Gruszczyński.
142
krisvale479c8f82012-03-22 20:17:42 +0000143- Issue #10538: When using the "s*" code with PyArg_ParseTuple() to fill a
144 Py_buffer structure with data from an object supporting only the old
145 PyBuffer interface, a reference to the source objects is now properly added
146 to the Py_buffer.obj member.
147
Benjamin Petersona84f4682012-03-07 19:17:57 -0600148Library
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Gregory P. Smith9d3b6e92012-11-10 22:49:03 -0800151- Issue #16327: The subprocess module no longer leaks file descriptors
152 used for stdin/stdout/stderr pipes to the child when fork() fails.
153
Gregory P. Smithf2705ae2012-11-10 21:13:20 -0800154- Issue #14396: Handle the odd rare case of waitpid returning 0 when not
155 expected in subprocess.Popen.wait().
156
Nadeem Vawda3c309702012-11-11 03:14:56 +0100157- Issue #16411: Fix a bug where zlib.decompressobj().flush() might try to access
158 previously-freed memory. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
159
Nadeem Vawda252f4dc2012-11-11 02:14:15 +0100160- Issue #16350: zlib.decompressobj().decompress() now accumulates data from
Nadeem Vawda6cad3712012-11-05 00:55:06 +0100161 successive calls after EOF in unused_data, instead of only saving the argument
Nadeem Vawda252f4dc2012-11-11 02:14:15 +0100162 to the last call. decompressobj().flush() now correctly sets unused_data and
163 unconsumed_tail. A bug in the handling of MemoryError when setting the
164 unconsumed_tail attribute has also been fixed. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
Nadeem Vawda6cad3712012-11-05 00:55:06 +0100165
Ezio Melottief317382012-11-03 20:31:12 +0200166- Issue #12759: sre_parse now raises a proper error when the name of the group
167 is missing. Initial patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
168
Ezio Melotti7d24b162012-11-03 17:30:51 +0200169- Issue #16152: fix tokenize to ignore whitespace at the end of the code when
170 no newline is found. Patch by Ned Batchelder.
171
Andrew Svetlov5018db72012-11-01 22:39:14 +0200172- Issue #1207589: Add Cut/Copy/Paste items to IDLE right click Context Menu
173 Patch by Todd Rovito.
174
Antoine Pitrou0552fc22012-11-01 20:13:54 +0100175- Issue #16230: Fix a crash in select.select() when one the lists changes
176 size while iterated on. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
177
Antoine Pitroue9e35c32012-11-01 20:07:40 +0100178- Issue #16228: Fix a crash in the json module where a list changes size
179 while it is being encoded. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
180
Petri Lehtinen5c89c192012-10-29 21:16:57 +0200181- Issue #14897: Enhance error messages of struct.pack and
182 struct.pack_into. Patch by Matti Mäki.
183
R David Murray54eed2e2012-10-27 14:42:36 -0400184- Issue #12890: cgitb no longer prints spurious <p> tags in text
185 mode when the logdir option is specified.
186
Nadeem Vawda45dba1d2012-10-21 23:09:08 +0200187- Issue #14398: Fix size truncation and overflow bugs in the bz2 module.
188
Nadeem Vawdadd72b3f2012-10-21 18:15:05 +0200189- Issue #5148: Ignore 'U' in mode given to gzip.open() and gzip.GzipFile().
190
Antoine Pitroue97a24d2012-10-21 14:09:05 +0200191- Issue #16220: wsgiref now always calls close() on an iterable response.
192 Patch by Brent Tubbs.
193
Jesus Ceaf34e4de2012-11-17 03:38:17 +0100194- Issue #16461: Wave library should be able to deal with 4GB wav files,
195 and sample rate of 44100 Hz.
196
Brian Curtinc1924ab2012-10-11 16:16:50 -0500197- Issue #16176: Properly identify Windows 8 via platform.platform()
198
Gregory P. Smith0798cbc2012-09-29 12:02:48 -0700199- Issue #15756: subprocess.poll() now properly handles errno.ECHILD to
200 return a returncode of 0 when the child has already exited or cannot
201 be waited on.
202
Michael Foordbf2ad342012-09-28 12:54:56 +0100203- Issue #12376: Pass on parameters in TextTestResult.__init__ super call
204
Petri Lehtinena4fd0dc2012-09-25 21:57:59 +0300205- Issue #15222: Insert blank line after each message in mbox mailboxes
206
Senthil Kumarand41dc7c2012-09-25 02:48:21 -0700207- Issue #16013: Fix CSV Reader parsing issue with ending quote characters.
208 Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
209
Ezio Melotticadff702012-09-21 17:26:35 +0300210- Issue #15421: fix an OverflowError in Calendar.itermonthdates() after
211 datetime.MAXYEAR. Patch by Cédric Krier.
212
Ezio Melotti6d6fb3a2012-09-19 08:11:03 +0300213- Issue #15970: xml.etree.ElementTree now serializes correctly the empty HTML
214 elements 'meta' and 'param'.
215
Jesus Cea8b54d6d2012-09-10 00:22:39 +0200216- Issue #15676: Now "mmap" check for empty files before doing the
217 offset check. Patch by Steven Willis.
218
Antoine Pitroue299cae2012-09-07 23:49:07 +0200219- Issue #15340: Fix importing the random module when /dev/urandom cannot
220 be opened. This was a regression caused by the hash randomization patch.
221
Antoine Pitrouc5eec0e2012-09-05 20:11:49 +0200222- Issue #15841: The readable(), writable() and seekable() methods of
223 io.BytesIO and io.StringIO objects now raise ValueError when the object has
224 been closed. Patch by Alessandro Moura.
225
Jesus Cea3e94e142012-10-04 15:06:57 +0200226- Issue #16112: platform.architecture does not correctly escape argument to
227 /usr/bin/file. Patch by David Benjamin.
228
R David Murray20101872012-08-31 23:15:28 -0400229- Issue #12776,#11839: call argparse type function (specified by add_argument)
230 only once. Before, the type function was called twice in the case where the
231 default was specified and the argument was given as well. This was
232 especially problematic for the FileType type, as a default file would always
233 be opened, even if a file argument was specified on the command line.
234
Barry Warsaw03fcfbe2012-09-11 21:06:29 -0400235- Issue #15906: Fix a regression in argparse caused by the preceding change,
236 when action='append', type='str' and default=[].
237
Ronald Oussorena00b1002012-08-25 11:18:48 +0200238- Issue #13370: Ensure that ctypes works on Mac OS X when Python is
239 compiled using the clang compiler
240
Mark Dickinson088cec32012-08-24 20:06:30 +0100241- Issue #15544: Fix Decimal.__float__ to work with payload-carrying NaNs.
242
Petri Lehtinen4efdc092012-08-20 21:05:56 +0300243- Issue #15199: Fix JavaScript's default MIME type to application/javascript.
244 Patch by Bohuslav Kabrda.
245
Mark Dickinson2de4be22012-08-18 12:31:34 +0100246- Issue #15477: In cmath and math modules, add workaround for platforms whose
247 system-supplied log1p function doesn't respect signs of zeros.
248
Petri Lehtinen2d44cee2012-08-15 14:22:46 +0300249- Issue #11062: Fix adding a message from file to Babyl mailbox.
250
Richard Oudkerkfaee75c2012-08-14 11:41:19 +0100251- Issue #15646: Prevent equivalent of a fork bomb when using
252 multiprocessing on Windows without the "if __name__ == '__main__'"
253 idiom.
254
Brian Curtina9391052012-08-09 23:04:42 -0500255- Issue #15567: Fix NameError when running threading._test
256
Meador Inge2d639d52012-08-10 22:05:45 -0500257- Issue #15424: Add a __sizeof__ implementation for array objects.
258 Patch by Ludwig Hähne.
259
Andrew Svetlov8ba844a2012-08-04 21:45:23 +0300260- Issue #13052: Fix IDLE crashing when replace string in Search/Replace dialog
261 ended with '\'. Patch by Roger Serwy.
262
Antoine Pitrou1fa9f7b2012-08-02 20:37:12 +0200263- Issue #15538: Fix compilation of the getnameinfo() / getaddrinfo()
264 emulation code. Patch by Philipp Hagemeister.
265
Andrew Svetlov8a15c372012-07-31 19:51:27 +0300266- Issue #9803: Don't close IDLE on saving if breakpoint is open.
267 Patch by Roger Serwy.
268
Andrew Svetlov2d968482012-07-30 20:04:53 +0300269- Issue #12288: Consider '0' and '0.0' as valid initialvalue
270 for tkinter SimpleDialog.
271
Antoine Pitroubaee34c2012-07-30 00:01:06 +0200272- Issue #15489: Add a __sizeof__ implementation for BytesIO objects.
273 Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
274
Jesus Cead4e58dc2012-08-03 14:48:23 +0200275- Issue #15469: Add a __sizeof__ implementation for deque objects.
276 Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
277
Antoine Pitroubff5df02012-07-29 19:02:46 +0200278- Issue #15487: Add a __sizeof__ implementation for buffered I/O objects.
279 Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
280
Jesus Cea3e3192d2012-08-03 14:25:53 +0200281- Issue #15512: Add a __sizeof__ implementation for parser.
282 Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
283
Meador Inge87c5b942012-07-23 09:27:00 -0500284- Issue #15402: An issue in the struct module that caused sys.getsizeof to
285 return incorrect results for struct.Struct instances has been fixed.
286 Initial patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
287
R David Murray0f111c12012-07-22 21:55:12 -0400288- Issue #15232: when mangle_from is True, email.Generator now correctly mangles
R David Murray70098452012-07-24 14:24:42 -0400289 lines that start with 'From ' that occur in a MIME preamble or epilog.
R David Murray0f111c12012-07-22 21:55:12 -0400290
R David Murray68f555c2012-07-21 22:54:34 -0400291- Issue #13922: argparse no longer incorrectly strips '--'s that appear
292 after the first one.
293
R David Murray056c31f2012-07-21 22:35:00 -0400294- Issue #12353: argparse now correctly handles null argument values.
295
Meador Inge25be3f62012-07-18 23:51:05 -0500296- Issue #6493: An issue in ctypes on Windows that caused structure bitfields
297 of type ctypes.c_uint32 and width 32 to incorrectly be set has been fixed.
298
Gregory P. Smithe0c22202012-07-15 22:16:06 -0700299- Issue #14635: telnetlib will use poll() rather than select() when possible
300 to avoid failing due to the select() file descriptor limit.
301
Antoine Pitrouc2ec9922012-07-06 18:48:24 +0200302- Issue #15247: FileIO now raises an error when given a file descriptor
303 pointing to a directory.
304
Mark Dickinsone0afb722012-06-30 17:19:35 +0100305- Issue #14591: Fix bug in Random.jumpahead that could produce an invalid
306 Mersenne Twister state on 64-bit machines.
307
Petri Lehtinend07de402012-06-29 15:09:12 +0300308- Issue #5346: Preserve permissions of mbox, MMDF and Babyl mailbox
309 files on flush().
310
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd958cc92012-06-29 01:42:46 +0200311- Issue #15219: Fix a reference leak when hashlib.new() is called with
312 invalid parameters.
313
Petri Lehtinen45f0d982012-06-28 13:48:17 +0300314- Issue #9559: If messages were only added, a new file is no longer
315 created and renamed over the old file when flush() is called on an
316 mbox, MMDF or Babyl mailbox.
317
Alexander Belopolskye99d3a12012-06-21 20:57:39 -0400318- Issue #14653: email.utils.mktime_tz() no longer relies on system
319 mktime() when timezone offest is supplied.
320
Richard Oudkerke4b99382012-07-27 14:05:46 +0100321- Issue #6056: Make multiprocessing use setblocking(True) on the
322 sockets it uses. Original patch by J Derek Wilson.
323
Richard Oudkerk4215d272012-06-18 15:37:31 +0100324- Issue #15101: Make pool finalizer avoid joining current thread.
325
Meador Inge43f42fc2012-06-16 21:05:50 -0500326- Issue #15054: A bug in tokenize.tokenize that caused string literals
327 with 'b' and 'br' prefixes to be incorrectly tokenized has been fixed.
328 Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
329
Petri Lehtinen48ee6902012-06-18 10:42:05 +0300330- Issue #15036: Mailbox no longer throws an error if a flush is done
331 between operations when removing or changing multiple items in mbox,
332 MMDF, or Babyl mailboxes.
Petri Lehtinen7cf66992012-06-15 20:50:51 +0300333
Richard Oudkerk926f58d2012-06-11 15:11:35 +0100334- Issue #10133: Make multiprocessing deallocate buffer if socket read
335 fails. Patch by Hallvard B Furuseth.
336
Richard Oudkerk2182e052012-06-06 19:01:14 +0100337- Issue #13854: Make multiprocessing properly handle non-integer
338 non-string argument to SystemExit.
339
Richard Oudkerkd44a4a22012-06-06 17:52:18 +0100340- Issue #12157: Make pool.map() empty iterables correctly. Initial
341 patch by mouad.
342
Ned Deily5e247b72012-05-31 09:17:29 -0700343- Issue #14962: Update text coloring in IDLE shell window after changing
344 options. Patch by Roger Serwy.
345
Ned Deily71489842012-05-29 10:42:34 -0700346- Issue #10997: Prevent a duplicate entry in IDLE's "Recent Files" menu.
347
Terry Jan Reedy5525eb72012-06-07 19:50:30 -0400348- Issue #12510: Attempting to get invalid tooltip no longer closes Idle.
Terry Jan Reedyd9d276b2012-05-27 21:28:42 -0400349 Original patch by Roger Serwy.
350
Terry Jan Reedyeaa7e782012-05-26 20:33:32 -0400351- Issue #10365: File open dialog now works instead of crashing
352 even when parent window is closed. Patch by Roger Serwy.
353
Terry Jan Reedy42f7b7e2012-05-26 16:55:43 -0400354- Issue #14876: Use user-selected font for highlight configuration.
355 Patch by Roger Serwy.
356
Senthil Kumaran37484dc2012-05-24 21:54:34 +0800357- Issue #14036: Add an additional check to validate that port in urlparse does
358 not go in illegal range and returns None.
359
Antoine Pitroucd8799f2012-05-23 23:16:14 +0200360- Issue #14888: Fix misbehaviour of the _md5 module when called on data
361 larger than 2**32 bytes.
362
Jesus Cea03a9d2a2012-09-10 21:04:42 +0200363- Issue #15908: Fix misbehaviour of the sha1 module when called on data
364 larger than 2**32 bytes.
365
Jesus Cea3fb774e2012-09-10 21:39:07 +0200366- Issue #15910: Fix misbehaviour of _md5 and sha1 modules when "updating"
367 on data larger than 2**32 bytes.
368
Ezio Melottied8cf7a2012-05-21 17:46:55 -0600369- Issue #14875: Use float('inf') instead of float('1e66666') in the json module.
370
Ned Deily77e77a12012-05-19 23:35:05 -0700371- Issue #14572: Prevent build failures with pre-3.5.0 versions of
372 sqlite3, such as was shipped with Centos 5 and Mac OS X 10.4.
373
Senthil Kumaranf439a362012-05-20 12:02:44 +0800374- Issue #14426: Correct the Date format in Expires attribute of Set-Cookie
375 Header in Cookie.py.
376
Senthil Kumaran618802d2012-05-19 16:52:21 +0800377- Issue #14721: Send proper header, Content-length: 0 when the body is an empty
378 string ''. Initial Patch contributed by Arve Knudsen.
379
Ezio Melotti6d9c1b12012-05-19 17:12:17 +0300380- Issue #14072: Fix parsing of 'tel' URIs in urlparse by making the check for
381 ports stricter.
382
Senthil Kumaranea24dda2012-05-19 08:10:40 +0800383- Issue #9374: Generic parsing of query and fragment portions of url for any
384 scheme. Supported both by RFC3986 and RFC2396.
385
Petri Lehtinen280e9f72012-05-18 21:51:11 +0300386- Issue #14798: Fix the functions in pyclbr to raise an ImportError
387 when the first part of a dotted name is not a package. Patch by
388 Xavier de Gaye.
389
R David Murray69493922012-05-16 14:01:03 -0400390- Issue #14832: fixed the order of the argument references in the error
391 message produced by unittest's assertItemsEqual.
392
Antoine Pitrou38fbd792012-05-16 15:01:40 +0200393- Issue #14829: Fix bisect issues under 64-bit Windows.
394
Ned Deily724a55c2012-05-15 18:05:57 -0700395- Issue #14777: tkinter may return undecoded UTF-8 bytes as a string when
396 accessing the Tk clipboard. Modify clipboad_get() to first request type
397 UTF8_STRING when no specific type is requested in an X11 windowing
398 environment, falling back to the current default type STRING if that fails.
399 Original patch by Thomas Kluyver.
400
Senthil Kumaran6a2a6c22012-05-15 22:24:10 +0800401- Issue #12541: Be lenient with quotes around Realm field with HTTP Basic
402 Authentation in urllib2.
403
Ned Deilyacdc56d2012-05-10 17:45:49 -0700404- Issue #14662: Prevent shutil failures on OS X when destination does not
405 support chflag operations. Patch by Hynek Schlawack.
406
Antoine Pitrouc2b714c2012-05-10 20:17:46 +0200407- Issue #14157: Fix time.strptime failing without a year on February 29th.
408 Patch by Hynek Schlawack.
409
Jesus Ceaf2011e32012-05-10 05:01:11 +0200410- Issue #14768: os.path.expanduser('~/a') doesn't works correctly when HOME is '/'.
411
Senthil Kumaran7f6d4e12012-05-01 10:36:28 +0800412- Issue #13183: Fix pdb skipping frames after hitting a breakpoint and running
413 step. Patch by Xavier de Gaye.
414
Antoine Pitrou38153162012-04-25 17:31:12 +0200415- Issue #14664: It is now possible to use @unittest.skip{If,Unless} on a
416 test class that doesn't inherit from TestCase (i.e. a mixin).
417
Lars Gustäbel231d4742012-04-24 22:42:08 +0200418- Issue #14160: TarFile.extractfile() failed to resolve symbolic links when
419 the links were not located in an archive subdirectory.
420
R David Murrayc313b1d2012-04-23 13:27:11 -0400421- Issue #14638: pydoc now treats non-string __name__ values as if they
422 were missing, instead of raising an error.
423
Senthil Kumaran4c20c4e2012-04-23 23:52:40 +0800424- Issue #13684: Fix httplib tunnel issue of infinite loops for certain sites
425 which send EOF without trailing \r\n.
Ezio Melottied8cf7a2012-05-21 17:46:55 -0600426
Antoine Pitrou52849bf2012-04-19 23:55:01 +0200427- Issue #14308: Fix an exception when a "dummy" thread is in the threading
428 module's active list after a fork().
429
Ezio Melottic45868e2012-04-18 19:08:41 -0600430- Issue #14538: HTMLParser can now parse correctly start tags that contain
431 a bare '/'.
432
Vinay Sajip7e9c9d52012-04-16 14:38:23 +0100433- Issue #14452: SysLogHandler no longer inserts a UTF-8 BOM into the message.
434
Mark Dickinson0407e962012-04-15 16:43:19 +0100435- Issue #13496: Fix potential overflow in bisect.bisect algorithm when applied
436 to a collection of size > sys.maxsize / 2.
437
R David Murray9955ad42012-04-13 21:27:00 -0400438- Issue #14399: zipfile now recognizes that the archive has been modified even
439 if only the comment is changed. As a consequence of this fix, ZipFile is now
440 a new style class.
R David Murray3f4ccba2012-04-12 18:42:47 -0400441
Antoine Pitroufa1d8412012-04-09 00:47:24 +0200442- Issue #7978: SocketServer now restarts the select() call when EINTR is
443 returned. This avoids crashing the server loop when a signal is received.
444 Patch by Jerzy Kozera.
445
Andrew Svetlov8af87292012-03-31 14:34:16 +0300446- Issue #14409: IDLE now properly executes commands in the Shell window
447 when it cannot read the normal config files on startup and
448 has to use the built-in default key bindings.
449 There was previously a bug in one of the defaults.
Andrew Svetlovc37db102012-03-29 19:54:58 +0300450
Giampaolo Rodola'96cb5d12012-03-22 16:06:43 +0100451- Issue #10340: asyncore - properly handle EINVAL in dispatcher constructor on
452 OSX; avoid to call handle_connect in case of a disconnected socket which
453 was not meant to connect.
454
R David Murrayb3f95d72012-03-21 15:02:30 -0400455- Issue #12757: Fix the skipping of doctests when python is run with -OO so
456 that it works in unittest's verbose mode as well as non-verbose mode.
457
Andrew Svetlov7c010ee2012-03-21 13:35:08 +0200458- Issue #3573: IDLE hangs when passing invalid command line args
459 (directory(ies) instead of file(s)) (Patch by Guilherme Polo)
460
Giampaolo Rodola'3d3cf482012-03-20 16:46:57 +0100461- Issue #13694: asynchronous connect in asyncore.dispatcher does not set addr
462 attribute.
463
Senthil Kumaran51a65c92012-03-16 01:07:16 -0700464- Issue #10484: Fix the CGIHTTPServer's PATH_INFO handling problem.
465
Senthil Kumaran4c592112012-03-15 13:24:40 -0700466- Issue #11199: Fix the with urllib which hangs on particular ftp urls.
467
Martin v. Löwisf163efd2012-03-13 14:46:22 -0700468- Issue #5219: Prevent event handler cascade in IDLE.
469
Antoine Pitrouf60845b2012-03-11 19:29:12 +0100470- Issue #14252: Fix subprocess.Popen.terminate() to not raise an error under
471 Windows when the child process has already exited.
472
Benjamin Petersona84f4682012-03-07 19:17:57 -0600473- Issue #14195: An issue that caused weakref.WeakSet instances to incorrectly
474 return True for a WeakSet instance 'a' in both 'a < a' and 'a > a' has been
475 fixed.
476
477- Issue #14159: Fix the len() of weak sets to return a better approximation
478 when some objects are dead or dying. Moreover, the implementation is now
479 O(1) rather than O(n).
480
481- Issue #2945: Make the distutils upload command aware of bdist_rpm products.
482
483- Issue #13447: Add a test file to host regression tests for bugs in the
484 scripts found in the Tools directory.
485
486- Issue #6884: Fix long-standing bugs with MANIFEST.in parsing in distutils
487 on Windows.
488
Chris Withers2cc0b072012-11-09 15:48:17 +0000489- Issue #16441: Avoid excessive memory usage working with large gzip
490 files using the gzip module.
491
Christian Heimes8112ea22012-09-24 13:17:08 +0200492Extension Modules
493-----------------
494
Gregory P. Smith99716162012-10-12 13:02:06 -0700495- Issue #12268: File readline, readlines and read or readall methods
496 no longer lose data when an underlying read system call is interrupted
497 within an io module object. IOError is no longer raised due to a read
498 system call returning EINTR from within these methods.
499
Christian Heimes8112ea22012-09-24 13:17:08 +0200500- Issue #16012: Fix a regression in pyexpat. The parser's UseForeignDTD()
501 method doesn't require an argument again.
502
Antoine Pitrou9945a642012-04-16 03:34:44 +0200503Tests
504-----
505
Trent Nelsone9992292012-10-26 22:21:46 -0400506- Issue #16274: Fix test_asyncore on Solaris. Patch by Giampaolo Rodola'.
507
Petri Lehtinen9ad6a562012-10-23 14:39:34 +0300508- Issue #15040: Close files in mailbox tests for PyPy compatibility.
509 Original patch by Matti Picus.
510
Petri Lehtinen80f45532012-09-01 14:25:48 +0300511- Issue #15802: Fix test logic in TestMaildir.test_create_tmp. Patch
512 by Serhiy Storchaka.
513
Trent Nelsonda4277a2012-08-29 09:20:41 -0400514- Issue #15765: Extend a previous fix to Solaris and OpenBSD for quirky
515 getcwd() behaviour (issue #9185) to NetBSD as well.
516
Antoine Pitrou0e3a4c82012-08-18 20:51:05 +0200517- Issue #15615: Add some tests for the json module's handling of invalid
518 input data. Patch by Kushal Das.
519
Brian Curtinbc77d362012-08-13 17:26:48 -0500520- Issue #15496: Add directory removal helpers for tests on Windows.
521 Patch by Jeremy Kloth.
522
Nick Coghlana0933122012-06-17 19:03:39 +1000523- Issue #15043: test_gdb is now skipped entirely if gdb security settings
524 block loading of the gdb hooks
525
Antoine Pitrou9945a642012-04-16 03:34:44 +0200526- Issue #14589: Update certificate chain for sha256.tbs-internet.com, fixing
527 a test failure in test_ssl.
528
Antoine Pitrou4b536d42012-03-31 23:53:07 +0200529Build
530-----
531
Ezio Melottic820de52012-09-30 22:41:37 +0300532- Issue #15923: fix a mistake in asdl_c.py that resulted in a TypeError after
533 2801bf875a24 (see #15801).
534
doko@ubuntu.com3d2fc152012-09-21 13:51:40 +0200535- Issue #11715: Fix multiarch detection without having Debian development
536 tools (dpkg-dev) installed.
537
Trent Nelsonf6407a12012-08-30 14:56:13 +0000538- Issue #15819: Make sure we can build Python out-of-tree from a readonly
539 source directory. (Somewhat related to Issue #9860.)
540
Ned Deily10fc1042012-09-08 18:47:27 -0700541- Issue #15822: Ensure 2to3 grammar pickles are properly installed.
Ned Deily8622f092012-08-22 23:26:06 -0700542
Ned Deily67028042012-08-05 14:42:45 -0700543- Issue #15560: Fix building _sqlite3 extension on OS X with an SDK.
544
Martin v. Löwis33f8c3a2012-08-01 10:05:27 +0200545- Issue #8847: Disable COMDAT folding in Windows PGO builds.
546
Ned Deilyd8ec4642012-07-30 04:07:49 -0700547- Issue #14018: Fix OS X Tcl/Tk framework checking when using OS X SDKs.
548
Martin v. Löwised11a5d2012-05-20 10:42:17 +0200549- Issue #8767: Restore building with --disable-unicode.
550 Patch by Stefano Taschini.
551
Martin v. Löwisfd0afed2012-05-15 17:26:31 +0200552- Build against bzip2 1.0.6 and openssl 0.9.8x on Windows.
553
Charles-François Natali0d3db3a2012-04-12 19:11:54 +0200554- Issue #14557: Fix extensions build on HP-UX. Patch by Adi Roiban.
555
Antoine Pitrou4b536d42012-03-31 23:53:07 +0200556- Issue #14437: Fix building the _io module under Cygwin.
557
Ezio Melottidc118792012-11-09 11:46:19 +0100558Tools/Demos
559-----------
560
561- Issue #13301: use ast.literal_eval() instead of eval() in Tools/i18n/msgfmt.py
562 Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
563
Ezio Melottie48daea2012-05-06 16:15:35 +0300564Documentation
Senthil Kumaran0c472c32012-07-22 19:36:03 -0700565-------------
Terry Jan Reedy45ed0122012-07-08 17:35:26 -0400566
Chris Jerdonek08012312012-11-14 12:36:53 -0800567- Issue #16400: Update the description of which versions of a given package
568 PyPI displays.
569
Nadeem Vawda04050b82012-11-11 13:52:10 +0100570- Issue #15677: Document that zlib and gzip accept a compression level of 0 to
571 mean 'no compression'. Patch by Brian Brazil.
572
Ezio Melotti3d072062012-10-27 22:04:56 +0300573- Issue #8040: added a version switcher to the documentation. Patch by
574 Yury Selivanov.
575
Chris Jerdonek1906c0c2012-10-08 23:18:17 -0700576- Issue #16115: Improve subprocess.Popen() documentation around args, shell,
577 and executable arguments.
578
Ezio Melotti31a9e832012-10-02 05:34:38 +0300579- Issue #15979: Improve timeit documentation.
580
Chris Jerdonek71d74b02012-09-30 21:07:56 -0700581- Issue #16036: Improve documentation of built-in int()'s signature and
582 arguments.
583
Barry Warsaw0dea9362012-09-25 10:32:53 -0400584- Issue #15935: Clarification of argparse docs, re: add_argument() type and
585 default arguments. Patch contributed by Chris Jerdonek.
586
Petri Lehtinenf9e1f112012-09-01 07:27:58 +0300587- Issue #13769: Document the effect of ensure_ascii to the return type
588 of JSON decoding functions.
589
Hynek Schlawack7d978902012-08-28 12:33:46 +0200590- Issue #14880: Fix kwargs notation in csv.reader, .writer & .register_dialect.
591 Patch by Chris Rebert.
592
Antoine Pitrouf3e0a692012-08-24 19:46:17 +0200593- Issue #14674: Add a discussion of the json module's standard compliance.
594 Patch by Chris Rebert.
595
Senthil Kumaran2f76f732012-08-12 11:58:53 -0700596- Issue #15630: Add an example for "continue" stmt in the tutorial. Patch by
597 Daniel Ellis.
598
Terry Jan Reedy45ed0122012-07-08 17:35:26 -0400599- Issue #13557: Clarify effect of giving two different namespaces to exec or
600 execfile().
Ezio Melottie48daea2012-05-06 16:15:35 +0300601
602- Issue #14034: added the argparse tutorial.
603
Senthil Kumaran0c472c32012-07-22 19:36:03 -0700604- Issue #15250: Document that filecmp.dircmp compares files shallowly. Patch
605 contributed by Chris Jerdonek.
606
Benjamin Petersona84f4682012-03-07 19:17:57 -0600607
Gregory P. Smithc8ff4602012-03-14 15:28:10 -0700608What's New in Python 2.7.3 release candidate 2?
609===============================================
610
Benjamin Petersonee933ec2012-03-15 12:25:54 -0500611*Release date: 2012-03-17*
Gregory P. Smithc8ff4602012-03-14 15:28:10 -0700612
613Library
614-------
615
616- Issue #14234: CVE-2012-0876: Randomize hashes of xml attributes in the hash
617 table internal to the pyexpat module's copy of the expat library to avoid a
618 denial of service due to hash collisions. Patch by David Malcolm with some
619 modifications by the expat project.
620
621
Benjamin Petersona84f4682012-03-07 19:17:57 -0600622What's New in Python 2.7.3 release candidate 1?
623===============================================
624
625*Release date: 2012-02-23*
626
627Core and Builtins
628-----------------
629
Antoine Pitrouc66ed452012-02-15 02:51:43 +0100630- Issue #13020: Fix a reference leak when allocating a structsequence object
631 fails. Patch by Suman Saha.
632
Barry Warsaw1e13eb02012-02-20 20:42:21 -0500633- Issue #13703: oCERT-2011-003: add -R command-line option and PYTHONHASHSEED
634 environment variable, to provide an opt-in way to protect against denial of
635 service attacks due to hash collisions within the dict and set types. Patch
636 by David Malcolm, based on work by Victor Stinner.
637
Antoine Pitroud1c818a2012-01-24 17:44:06 +0100638- Issue #11235: Fix OverflowError when trying to import a source file whose
639 modification time doesn't fit in a 32-bit timestamp.
640
Jason R. Coombs042370e2011-12-26 10:15:15 -0500641- Issue #11638: Unicode strings in 'name' and 'version' no longer cause
642 UnicodeDecodeErrors.
643
Antoine Pitrou5b4b2da2011-12-15 14:15:31 +0100644- Fix the fix for issue #12149: it was incorrect, although it had the side
645 effect of appearing to resolve the issue. Thanks to Mark Shannon for
646 noticing.
647
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc4bf21e22011-12-07 21:46:48 +0100648- Issue #13546: Fixed an overflow issue that could crash the intepreter when
649 calling sys.setrecursionlimit((1<<31)-1).
650
Antoine Pitrou30402542011-11-15 01:49:40 +0100651- Issue #13333: The UTF-7 decoder now accepts lone surrogates (the encoder
652 already accepts them).
653
Petri Lehtinen8028dc22011-10-30 20:59:10 +0200654- Issue #10519: Avoid unnecessary recursive function calls in
655 setobject.c.
656
Benjamin Peterson0c0d7562011-10-27 08:21:59 -0400657- Issue #13268: Fix the assert statement when a tuple is passed as the message.
658
Petri Lehtinen8ffbab82011-10-24 20:59:29 +0300659- Issue #13018: Fix reference leaks in error paths in dictobject.c.
660 Patch by Suman Saha.
661
Senthil Kumaran797b95b2011-10-21 00:32:59 +0800662- Issue #12604: VTRACE macro expanded to no-op in _sre.c to avoid compiler
663 warnings. Patch by Josh Triplett and Petri Lehtinen.
664
Mark Hammond323b5da2011-10-17 11:05:36 +1100665- Issue #7833: Extension modules built using distutils on Windows will no
666 longer include a "manifest" to prevent them failing at import time in some
667 embedded situations.
668
Benjamin Petersona7b09762011-10-15 13:43:21 -0400669- Issue #13186: Fix __delitem__ on old-style instances when invoked through
670 PySequence_DelItem.
671
Charles-François Natali40ab0022011-10-12 22:29:09 +0200672- Issue #13156: Revert the patch for issue #10517 (reset TLS upon fork()),
673 which was only relevant for the native pthread TLS implementation.
674
Victor Stinner63c22fa2011-09-23 19:37:03 +0200675- Issue #7732: Fix a crash on importing a module if a directory has the same
676 name than a Python module (e.g. "__init__.py"): don't close the file twice.
677
Mark Dickinsondbbed042011-09-19 16:38:08 +0100678- Issue #12973: Fix overflow checks that invoked undefined behaviour in
679 int.__pow__. These overflow checks were causing int.__pow__ to produce
680 incorrect results with recent versions of Clang, as a result of the
Mark Dickinsona96b0d12011-09-24 09:01:16 +0100681 compiler optimizing the check away. Also fix similar overflow checks
682 in list_repeat (listobject.c) and islice_next (itertoolsmodule.c). These
683 bugs caused test failures with recent versions of Clang.
Mark Dickinsondbbed042011-09-19 16:38:08 +0100684
Ezio Melotti15d6b652011-08-15 09:22:24 +0300685- Issue #12266: Fix str.capitalize() to correctly uppercase/lowercase
686 titlecased and cased non-letter characters.
687
Benjamin Peterson6c18ff02011-07-22 10:41:44 -0500688- Issues #12610 and #12609: Verify that user generated AST has correct string
689 and identifier types before compiling.
690
Barry Warsawc5643282011-07-19 17:06:30 -0400691- Issue #11627: Fix segfault when __new__ on a exception returns a
692 non-exception class.
Benjamin Petersonc3349cd2011-07-15 14:15:40 -0500693
Antoine Pitrou16166452011-07-12 22:04:20 +0200694- Issue #12149: Update the method cache after a type's dictionnary gets
695 cleared by the garbage collector. This fixes a segfault when an instance
696 and its type get caught in a reference cycle, and the instance's
697 deallocator calls one of the methods on the type (e.g. when subclassing
698 IOBase). Diagnosis and patch by Davide Rizzo.
699
Florent Xiclunaa1f948b2012-01-24 21:05:10 +0100700- Issue #12501: Remove Py3k warning for callable. callable() is supported
701 again in Python 3.2.
Victor Stinnerba8b3a22011-07-08 02:07:45 +0200702
Victor Stinner59729ff2011-07-05 11:28:19 +0200703- Issue #9611, #9015: FileIO.read(), FileIO.readinto(), FileIO.write() and
704 os.write() clamp the length to INT_MAX on Windows.
705
Victor Stinnerd3c7e172011-05-30 23:49:13 +0200706- Issue #1195: my_fgets() now always clears errors before calling fgets(). Fix
Victor Stinner08563d92011-05-30 23:44:13 +0200707 the following case: sys.stdin.read() stopped with CTRL+d (end of file),
708 raw_input() interrupted by CTRL+c.
709
Łukasz Langa7a153902011-10-18 17:16:00 +0200710- Issue #10860: httplib now correctly handles an empty port after port
711 delimiter in URLs.
712
Barry Warsawc5643282011-07-19 17:06:30 -0400713- dict_proxy objects now display their contents rather than just the class
714 name.
Raymond Hettingerbf7a2662011-06-30 00:44:36 +0100715
Victor Stinner08563d92011-05-30 23:44:13 +0200716Library
717-------
Éric Araujoa13cd392011-09-10 05:39:45 +0200718
Petri Lehtinen4ab701b2012-02-21 13:58:40 +0200719- Issue #8033: sqlite3: Fix 64-bit integer handling in user functions
720 on 32-bit architectures. Initial patch by Philippe Devalkeneer.
721
Ezio Melotti36b73612012-02-21 09:22:16 +0200722- HTMLParser is now able to handle slashes in the start tag.
723
Charles-François Natali66f3cc62012-02-18 14:15:38 +0100724- Issue #14001: CVE-2012-0845: xmlrpc: Fix an endless loop in
725 SimpleXMLRPCServer upon malformed POST request.
726
Gregory P. Smith14dc5102012-02-16 00:44:50 -0800727- Issue #2489: pty.spawn could consume 100% cpu when it encountered an EOF.
728
Antoine Pitroudd7e0712012-02-15 22:25:27 +0100729- Issue #13014: Fix a possible reference leak in SSLSocket.getpeercert().
730
Ezio Melottid2307cb2012-02-15 12:44:23 +0200731- Issue #13987: HTMLParser is now able to handle EOFs in the middle of a
Ezio Melotti65d36da2012-02-15 13:19:10 +0200732 construct and malformed start tags.
Ezio Melottid2307cb2012-02-15 12:44:23 +0200733
Antoine Pitrouc39cd782012-02-15 02:42:46 +0100734- Issue #13015: Fix a possible reference leak in defaultdict.__repr__.
735 Patch by Suman Saha.
736
Meador Ingeff337cc2012-02-13 22:22:06 -0600737- Issue #13979: A bug in ctypes.util.find_library that caused
738 the wrong library name to be returned has been fixed.
739
Éric Araujoe897a742012-02-15 16:28:20 +0100740- Issue #1326113: distutils' build_ext command --libraries option now
741 correctly parses multiple values separated by whitespace or commas.
742
Ezio Melottif1174432012-02-13 16:28:54 +0200743- Issue #13993: HTMLParser is now able to handle broken end tags.
744
Ezio Melotti4b92cc32012-02-13 16:10:44 +0200745- Issue #13960: HTMLParser is now able to handle broken comments.
746
Petri Lehtinen587209f2012-02-12 21:03:02 +0200747- Issue #9750: Fix sqlite3.Connection.iterdump on tables and fields
748 with a name that is a keyword or contains quotes. Patch by Marko
749 Kohtala.
750
Florent Xiclunac2279652012-02-12 14:49:03 +0100751- Issue #13994: Earlier partial revert of Distutils enhancements in 2.7
Ned Deilyc47a4592012-02-11 20:40:24 +0100752 has left two versions of customize_compiler, the original in
753 distutils.sysconfig and another copy in distutils.ccompiler, with some
754 parts of distutils calling one and others using the other.
755 Complete the revert back to only having one in distutils.sysconfig as
756 is the case in 3.x.
757
Ned Deily0d0ea482012-02-10 12:59:06 +0100758- Issue #13590: On OS X 10.7 and 10.6 with Xcode 4.2, building
759 Distutils-based packages with C extension modules may fail because
760 Apple has removed gcc-4.2, the version used to build python.org
761 64-bit/32-bit Pythons. If the user does not explicitly override
762 the default C compiler by setting the CC environment variable,
763 Distutils will now attempt to compile extension modules with clang
764 if gcc-4.2 is required but not found. Also as a convenience, if
765 the user does explicitly set CC, substitute its value as the default
766 compiler in the Distutils LDSHARED configuration variable for OS X.
767 (Note, the python.org 32-bit-only Pythons use gcc-4.0 and the 10.4u
768 SDK, neither of which are available in Xcode 4. This change does not
769 attempt to override settings to support their use with Xcode 4.)
770
Senthil Kumaran59e7c8f2012-02-09 18:22:01 +0800771- Issue #9021: Add an introduction to the copy module documentation.
772
Senthil Kumaran607e31e2012-02-09 17:43:31 +0800773- Issue #6005: Examples in the socket library documentation use sendall, where
774 relevant, instead send method.
775
Petri Lehtinenc7fd5232011-05-09 12:24:09 +0200776- Issue #10811: Fix recursive usage of cursors. Instead of crashing,
777 raise a ProgrammingError now.
778
Ned Deily2c8bf042012-02-06 00:55:50 +0100779- Issue #10881: Fix test_site failures with OS X framework builds.
780
Terry Jan Reedyadb87e22012-02-05 15:10:55 -0500781- Issue #964437 Make IDLE help window non-modal.
782 Patch by Guilherme Polo and Roger Serwy.
783
Ned Deily61c95342012-02-04 18:35:23 +0100784- Issue #13933: IDLE auto-complete did not work with some imported
785 module, like hashlib. (Patch by Roger Serwy)
786
Ned Deilyfbc56fd2012-02-03 02:39:49 +0100787- Issue #13901: Prevent test_distutils failures on OS X with --enable-shared.
788
Petri Lehtinen0518f472012-02-01 22:20:12 +0200789- Issue #13676: Handle strings with embedded zeros correctly in sqlite3.
790
Terry Jan Reedyb98000a2012-01-31 02:09:25 -0500791- Issue #13506: Add '' to path for IDLE Shell when started and restarted with Restart Shell.
792 Original patches by Marco Scataglini and Roger Serwy.
793
Antoine Pitrou88c51e82012-01-28 22:01:59 +0100794- Issue #13806: The size check in audioop decompression functions was too
795 strict and could reject valid compressed data. Patch by Oleg Plakhotnyuk.
796
Antoine Pitroud358e052012-01-27 09:42:45 +0100797- Issue #13885: CVE-2011-3389: the _ssl module would always disable the CBC
798 IV attack countermeasure.
799
Senthil Kumaranb05f91d2012-01-21 11:45:12 +0800800- Issue #6631: Disallow relative file paths in urllib urlopen methods.
801
Nadeem Vawdad7664de2012-01-19 00:40:46 +0200802- Issue #13781: Prevent gzip.GzipFile from using the dummy filename provided by
803 file objects opened with os.fdopen().
804
Antoine Pitrou3b6a3142012-01-17 17:13:04 +0100805- Issue #13589: Fix some serialization primitives in the aifc module.
806 Patch by Oleg Plakhotnyuk.
807
Jesus Cea4a8ba192012-01-18 03:51:38 +0100808- Issue #13803: Under Solaris, distutils doesn't include bitness
809 in the directory name.
810
Senthil Kumaranbcd833f2012-01-11 00:09:24 +0800811- Issue #13642: Unquote before b64encoding user:password during Basic
812 Authentication. Patch contributed by Joonas Kuorilehto and Michele Orrù.
813
Antoine Pitroud76088d2012-01-03 22:46:48 +0100814- Issue #13636: Weak ciphers are now disabled by default in the ssl module
815 (except when SSLv2 is explicitly asked for).
816
Senthil Kumaran84c18aa2011-12-23 11:14:56 +0800817- Issue #12798: Updated the mimetypes documentation.
818
Lars Gustäbel7d4d0742011-12-21 19:27:50 +0100819- Issue #13639: Accept unicode filenames in tarfile.open(mode="w|gz").
820
Antoine Pitroub8572a12011-12-21 10:16:14 +0100821- Issue #1785: Fix inspect and pydoc with misbehaving descriptors.
822
Antoine Pitrou7a3d8ae2011-12-18 19:27:45 +0100823- Issue #7502: Fix equality comparison for DocTestCase instances. Patch by
824 Cédric Krier.
825
Charles-François Natali41616302011-12-18 18:22:24 +0100826- Issue #11870: threading: Properly reinitialize threads internal locks and
827 condition variables to avoid deadlocks in child processes.
828
Charles-François Natalif3d35f02011-12-18 15:52:48 +0100829- Issue #8035: urllib: Fix a bug where the client could remain stuck after a
830 redirection or an error.
831
Ned Deilyd8fdbad2011-12-14 15:05:42 -0800832- Issue #4625: If IDLE cannot write to its recent file or breakpoint
833 files, display a message popup and continue rather than crash.
834 (original patch by Roger Serwy)
835
Lars Gustäbel9a388632011-12-06 13:07:09 +0100836- tarfile.py: Correctly detect bzip2 compressed streams with blocksizes
837 other than 900k.
838
Raymond Hettingerf5377022011-12-11 22:31:09 -0800839- Issue #13573: The csv.writer now uses the repr() for floats rather than str().
840 This allows floats to round-trip without loss of precision.
841
Petri Lehtinen49e49a22011-12-02 21:09:30 +0200842- Issue #13439: Fix many errors in turtle docstrings.
843
Antoine Pitroua5d5bb92011-11-25 21:28:15 +0100844- Issue #12856: Ensure child processes do not inherit the parent's random
845 seed for filename generation in the tempfile module. Patch by Brian
846 Harring.
847
Antoine Pitrouaa1c9672011-11-23 01:39:19 +0100848- Issue #13458: Fix a memory leak in the ssl module when decoding a
849 certificate with a subjectAltName. Patch by Robert Xiao.
850
Victor Stinner53853c32011-11-22 22:20:13 +0100851- Issue #13415: os.unsetenv() doesn't ignore errors anymore.
852
Antoine Pitrou5aa7df32011-11-21 20:16:44 +0100853- Issue #13322: Fix BufferedWriter.write() to ensure that BlockingIOError is
854 raised when the wrapped raw file is non-blocking and the write would block.
855 Previous code assumed that the raw write() would raise BlockingIOError, but
856 RawIOBase.write() is defined to returned None when the call would block.
857 Patch by sbt.
858
Ezio Melotti00dc60b2011-11-18 18:00:40 +0200859- Issue #13358: HTMLParser now calls handle_data only once for each CDATA.
860
Ezio Melotti93bbb6a2011-11-18 17:30:28 +0200861- Issue #4147: minidom's toprettyxml no longer adds whitespace around a text
862 node when it is the only child of an element. Initial patch by Dan
863 Kenigsberg.
864
Ned Deily174c4f82011-11-15 18:29:02 -0800865- Issue #8793: Prevent IDLE crash when given strings with invalid hex escape
866 sequences.
867
Ezio Melotti0f1571c2011-11-14 18:04:05 +0200868- Issues #1745761, #755670, #13357, #12629, #1200313: HTMLParser now correctly
869 handles non-valid attributes, including adjacent and unquoted attributes.
870
Antoine Pitrou6a570d62011-11-10 00:33:50 +0100871- Issue #13373: multiprocessing.Queue.get() could sometimes block indefinitely
872 when called with a timeout. Patch by Arnaud Ysmal.
873
Petri Lehtinen416ecff2011-11-05 10:18:50 +0200874- Issue #3067: Enhance the documentation and docstring of
875 locale.setlocale().
876
Petri Lehtinen49aa72e2011-11-05 09:50:37 +0200877- Issue #13254: Fix Maildir initialization so that maildir contents
878 are read correctly.
879
Florent Xicluna5f761d72011-11-04 10:15:57 +0100880- Issue #13140: Fix the daemon_threads attribute of ThreadingMixIn.
881
Florent Xiclunac4a11bd2011-11-01 23:47:46 +0100882- Issue #2892: preserve iterparse events in case of SyntaxError.
883
Ezio Melotti7e82b272011-11-01 14:09:56 +0200884- Issue #670664: Fix HTMLParser to correctly handle the content of
885 ``<script>...</script>`` and ``<style>...</style>``.
886
887- Issue #10817: Fix urlretrieve function to raise ContentTooShortError even
Senthil Kumaran87e58552011-11-01 02:44:45 +0800888 when reporthook is None. Patch by Jyrki Pulliainen.
889
Ezio Melotti7e82b272011-11-01 14:09:56 +0200890- Issue #13296: Fix IDLE to clear compile __future__ flags on shell restart.
Ned Deily86d669b2011-10-30 19:58:04 -0700891 (Patch by Roger Serwy)
892
Florent Xicluna67d5d0e2011-10-29 03:38:56 +0200893- Issue #7334: close source files on ElementTree.parse and iterparse.
894
Vinay Sajipc515eba2011-10-24 23:26:00 +0100895- Issue #13232: logging: Improved logging of exceptions in the presence of
896 multiple encodings.
897
Charles-François Natali46f990e2011-10-24 18:43:51 +0200898- Issue #10332: multiprocessing: fix a race condition when a Pool is closed
899 before all tasks have completed.
900
Antoine Pitrou5a77fe92011-10-22 21:26:01 +0200901- Issue #1548891: The cStringIO.StringIO() constructor now encodes unicode
902 arguments with the system default encoding just like the write() method
Éric Araujob21f51a2011-10-23 04:37:51 +0200903 does, instead of converting it to a raw buffer. This also fixes handling of
904 unicode input in the shlex module (#6988, #1170).
Antoine Pitrou5a77fe92011-10-22 21:26:01 +0200905
Florent Xicluna47fb1922011-10-20 23:21:58 +0200906- Issue #9168: now smtpd is able to bind privileged port.
907
Senthil Kumaran797b95b2011-10-21 00:32:59 +0800908- Issue #12529: fix cgi.parse_header issue on strings with double-quotes and
909 semicolons together. Patch by Ben Darnell and Petri Lehtinen.
910
Senthil Kumaranddd40312011-10-20 01:38:35 +0800911- Issue #6090: zipfile raises a ValueError when a document with a timestamp
912 earlier than 1980 is provided. Patch contributed by Petri Lehtinen.
913
Nadeem Vawdadeb1ce72011-10-17 19:33:38 +0200914- Issue #13194: zlib.compressobj().copy() and zlib.decompressobj().copy() are
915 now available on Windows.
916
Éric Araujo017e5352011-10-09 07:11:19 +0200917- Issue #13114: Fix the distutils commands check and register when the
918 long description is a Unicode string with non-ASCII characters.
919
Ned Deilybd9d07c2011-10-06 14:29:49 -0700920- Issue #7367: Fix pkgutil.walk_paths to skip directories whose
921 contents cannot be read.
922
923- Issue #7425: Prevent pydoc -k failures due to module import errors.
924 (Backport to 2.7 of existing 3.x fix)
925
Antoine Pitrouace2ccf2011-10-04 13:38:04 +0200926- Issue #13099: Fix sqlite3.Cursor.lastrowid under a Turkish locale.
927 Reported and diagnosed by Thomas Kluyver.
928
Antoine Pitrou561a8212011-10-04 09:34:48 +0200929- Issue #7689: Allow pickling of dynamically created classes when their
930 metaclass is registered with copy_reg. Patch by Nicolas M. Thiéry and
931 Craig Citro.
932
Charles-François Natali564f8902011-09-29 19:43:01 +0200933- Issue #13058: ossaudiodev: fix a file descriptor leak on error. Patch by
934 Thomas Jarosch.
935
Victor Stinner51b71982011-09-23 01:15:32 +0200936- Issue #12931: xmlrpclib now encodes Unicode URI to ISO-8859-1, instead of
937 failing with a UnicodeDecodeError.
938
Éric Araujoa13cd392011-09-10 05:39:45 +0200939- Issue #8933: distutils' PKG-INFO files will now correctly report
940 Metadata-Version: 1.1 instead of 1.0 if a Classifier or Download-URL field is
941 present.
942
Éric Araujo0f2dbf32011-09-03 00:47:07 +0200943- Issue #8286: The distutils command sdist will print a warning message instead
944 of crashing when an invalid path is given in the manifest template.
Victor Stinner08563d92011-05-30 23:44:13 +0200945
Lars Gustäbel8babfdf2011-09-05 17:04:18 +0200946- Issue #12841: tarfile unnecessarily checked the existence of numerical user
947 and group ids on extraction. If one of them did not exist the respective id
948 of the current user (i.e. root) was used for the file and ownership
949 information was lost.
950
Éric Araujo429b8902011-08-30 01:48:59 +0200951- Issue #10946: The distutils commands bdist_dumb, bdist_wininst and bdist_msi
952 now respect a --skip-build option given to bdist.
953
Charles-François Natalifda7b372011-08-28 16:22:33 +0200954- Issue #12287: Fix a stack corruption in ossaudiodev module when the FD is
955 greater than FD_SETSIZE.
956
Nadeem Vawdabbabbae2011-08-28 11:23:57 +0200957- Issue #12839: Fix crash in zlib module due to version mismatch.
958 Fix by Richard M. Tew.
959
Charles-François Natali2a34eb32011-08-25 21:20:54 +0200960- Issue #12786: Set communication pipes used by subprocess.Popen CLOEXEC to
961 avoid them being inherited by other subprocesses.
962
Antoine Pitrou77657e42011-08-24 22:41:05 +0200963- Issue #4106: Fix occasional exceptions printed out by multiprocessing on
964 interpreter shutdown.
965
Antoine Pitroua1a8da82011-08-23 19:54:20 +0200966- Issue #11657: Fix sending file descriptors over 255 over a multiprocessing
967 Pipe.
968
Antoine Pitrou808cec52011-08-20 15:40:58 +0200969- Issue #12213: Fix a buffering bug with interleaved reads and writes that
970 could appear on io.BufferedRandom streams.
971
Victor Stinneracacbaa2011-08-20 14:02:38 +0200972- Issue #12326: sys.platform is now always 'linux2' on Linux, even if Python
973 is compiled on Linux 3.
974
Jesus Cead256ca12011-09-19 16:57:18 +0200975- Issue #13007: whichdb should recognize gdbm 1.9 magic numbers.
976
Éric Araujoe7329f42011-08-19 03:07:39 +0200977- Issue #9173: Let shutil._make_archive work if the logger argument is None.
978
Charles-François Natalib02302c2011-08-18 17:18:28 +0200979- Issue #12650: Fix a race condition where a subprocess.Popen could leak
980 resources (FD/zombie) when killed at the wrong time.
981
Barry Warsaw39935f42011-08-15 19:50:35 -0400982- Issue #12752: Fix regression which prevented locale.normalize() from
983 accepting unicode strings.
984
Senthil Kumaranf432aec2011-08-03 18:31:59 +0800985- Issue #12683: urlparse updated to include svn as schemes that uses relative
986 paths. (svn from 1.5 onwards support relative path).
987
Éric Araujo33af2632011-08-02 03:16:12 +0200988- Issue #11933: Fix incorrect mtime comparison in distutils.
989
Éric Araujo560bf852011-07-31 02:04:00 +0200990- Issues #11104, #8688: Fix the behavior of distutils' sdist command with
991 manually-maintained MANIFEST files.
992
Éric Araujo9a528302011-07-29 17:34:35 +0200993- Issue #8887: "pydoc somebuiltin.somemethod" (or help('somebuiltin.somemethod')
994 in Python code) now finds the doc of the method.
995
Charles-François Natali0cf7e252011-07-27 19:36:40 +0200996- Issue #12603: Fix pydoc.synopsis() on files with non-negative st_mtime.
997
Raymond Hettinger55e5e272011-07-28 23:56:38 -0700998- Issue #12514: Use try/finally to assure the timeit module restores garbage
999 collections when it is done.
1000
Ross Lagerwalld8e39012011-07-27 18:54:53 +02001001- Issue #12607: In subprocess, fix issue where if stdin, stdout or stderr is
1002 given as a low fd, it gets overwritten.
1003
Ross Lagerwall528c4ad2011-07-25 07:23:58 +02001004- Issue #12102: Document that buffered files must be flushed before being used
1005 with mmap. Patch by Steffen Daode Nurpmeso.
1006
Charles-François Natali3de8c732011-07-24 22:33:35 +02001007- Issue #12560: Build libpython.so on OpenBSD. Patch by Stefan Sperling.
1008
Antoine Pitrou4cfae022011-07-24 02:51:01 +02001009- Issue #1813: Fix codec lookup and setting/getting locales under Turkish
1010 locales.
1011
Nadeem Vawda0d2889f2011-07-23 16:13:01 +02001012- Issue #10883: Fix socket leaks in urllib when using FTP.
Nadeem Vawdab42c53e2011-07-23 15:51:16 +02001013
Charles-François Natali97781b02011-07-22 23:43:42 +02001014- Issue #12592: Make Python build on OpenBSD 5 (and future major releases).
1015
Charles-François Natali4929eb92011-07-21 19:41:04 +02001016- Issue #12372: POSIX semaphores are broken on AIX: don't use them.
1017
Antoine Pitrou495ee8f2011-07-20 00:26:23 +02001018- Issue #12571: Add a plat-linux3 directory mirroring the plat-linux2
1019 directory, so that "import DLFCN" and other similar imports work on
1020 Linux 3.0.
1021
R David Murray95225952011-07-18 21:34:04 -04001022- Issue #7484: smtplib no longer puts <> around addresses in VRFY and EXPN
1023 commands; they aren't required and in fact postfix doesn't support that form.
1024
Antoine Pitrou304f0f92011-07-15 21:22:50 +02001025- Issue #11603: Fix a crash when __str__ is rebound as __repr__. Patch by
1026 Andreas Stührk.
1027
Charles-François Natali26591402011-07-14 19:49:02 +02001028- Issue #12502: asyncore: fix polling loop with AF_UNIX sockets.
1029
Victor Stinnerbf547fd2011-07-13 21:47:31 +02001030- Issue #4376: ctypes now supports nested structures in a endian different than
1031 the parent structure. Patch by Vlad Riscutia.
1032
Victor Stinnere7901312011-07-05 14:08:01 +02001033- Issue #12493: subprocess: Popen.communicate() now also handles EINTR errors
1034 if the process has only one pipe.
1035
Victor Stinner65c15352011-07-04 03:05:37 +02001036- Issue #12467: warnings: fix a race condition if a warning is emitted at
1037 shutdown, if globals()['__file__'] is None.
1038
Charles-François Natali414d0fa2011-07-02 13:56:19 +02001039- Issue #12352: Fix a deadlock in multiprocessing.Heap when a block is freed by
1040 the garbage collector while the Heap lock is held.
1041
Ned Deily87e82bb2011-06-28 19:52:59 -07001042- Issue #9516: On Mac OS X, change Distutils to no longer globally attempt to
1043 check or set the MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET environment variable for the
1044 interpreter process. This could cause failures in non-Distutils subprocesses
1045 and was unreliable since tests or user programs could modify the interpreter
1046 environment after Distutils set it. Instead, have Distutils set the the
1047 deployment target only in the environment of each build subprocess. It is
1048 still possible to globally override the default by setting
1049 MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET before launching the interpreter; its value must be
1050 greater or equal to the default value, the value with which the interpreter
1051 was built.
1052
Raymond Hettinger2c316a32011-06-25 17:14:53 +02001053- Issue #11802: The cache in filecmp now has a maximum size of 100 so that
1054 it won't grow without bound.
1055
Ross Lagerwallffa8e2f2011-06-25 09:55:10 +02001056- Issue #12404: Remove C89 incompatible code from mmap module. Patch by Akira
1057 Kitada.
1058
R David Murrayf1138bb2011-06-17 22:23:04 -04001059- Issue #11700: mailbox proxy object close methods can now be called multiple
1060 times without error, and _ProxyFile now closes the wrapped file.
1061
Victor Stinnerc74a6ba2011-06-17 14:06:27 +02001062- Issue #12133: AbstractHTTPHandler.do_open() of urllib.request closes the HTTP
1063 connection if its getresponse() method fails with a socket error. Patch
1064 written by Ezio Melotti.
1065
Benjamin Peterson0eb4ac42011-06-11 15:53:11 -05001066- Issue #9284: Allow inspect.findsource() to find the source of doctest
1067 functions.
1068
R David Murray873c5832011-06-09 16:01:09 -04001069- Issue #10694: zipfile now ignores garbage at the end of a zipfile.
1070
Brian Curtincaea7e82011-06-08 19:29:53 -05001071- Issue #11583: Speed up os.path.isdir on Windows by using GetFileAttributes
1072 instead of os.stat.
1073
Mark Dickinsona493ca32011-06-04 18:24:15 +01001074- Issue #12080: Fix a performance issue in Decimal._power_exact that caused
1075 some corner-case Decimal.__pow__ calls to take an unreasonably long time.
1076
Raymond Hettinger45b08292011-06-02 20:40:35 -07001077- Named tuples now work correctly with vars().
1078
Barry Warsawc5643282011-07-19 17:06:30 -04001079- sys.setcheckinterval() now updates the current ticker count as well as
1080 updating the check interval, so if the user decreases the check interval,
1081 the ticker doesn't have to wind down to zero from the old starting point
1082 before the new interval takes effect. And if the user increases the
1083 interval, it makes sure the new limit takes effect right away rather have an
1084 early task switch before recognizing the new interval.
Raymond Hettinger19b851d2011-06-01 18:21:42 -07001085
Victor Stinner776e69b2011-06-01 01:03:00 +02001086- Issue #12085: Fix an attribute error in subprocess.Popen destructor if the
1087 constructor has failed, e.g. because of an undeclared keyword argument. Patch
1088 written by Oleg Oshmyan.
1089
Barry Warsawc5643282011-07-19 17:06:30 -04001090Extension Modules
1091-----------------
1092
Meador Ingefe7aa492012-05-28 13:52:59 -05001093- Issue #9041: An issue in ctypes.c_longdouble, ctypes.c_double, and
1094 ctypes.c_float that caused an incorrect exception to be returned in the
1095 case of overflow has been fixed.
1096
Jesus Cea23fbd8c2012-01-17 00:17:10 +01001097- bsddb module: Erratic behaviour of "DBEnv->rep_elect()" because a typo.
1098 Possible crash.
1099
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcdee76e62012-01-13 22:53:25 +01001100- Issue #13774: json: Fix a SystemError when a bogus encoding is passed to
1101 json.loads().
1102
Charles-François Natali3aa59e32012-01-02 15:38:27 +01001103- Issue #9975: socket: Fix incorrect use of flowinfo and scope_id. Patch by
1104 Vilmos Nebehaj.
1105
Nadeem Vawda36248152011-10-13 13:52:46 +02001106- Issue #13159: FileIO, BZ2File, and the built-in file class now use a
1107 linear-time buffer growth strategy instead of a quadratic one.
1108
Charles-François Natali9ffcbf72011-10-06 19:09:45 +02001109- Issue #13070: Fix a crash when a TextIOWrapper caught in a reference cycle
1110 would be finalized after the reference to its underlying BufferedRWPair's
1111 writer got cleared by the GC.
1112
Meador Ingead349a12011-10-03 21:34:04 -05001113- Issue #12881: ctypes: Fix segfault with large structure field names.
1114
Meador Ingefe150032011-09-27 20:35:28 -05001115- Issue #13013: ctypes: Fix a reference leak in PyCArrayType_from_ctype.
1116 Thanks to Suman Saha for finding the bug and providing a patch.
1117
Jesus Ceac23484b2011-09-21 03:47:39 +02001118- Issue #13022: Fix: _multiprocessing.recvfd() doesn't check that
1119 file descriptor was actually received.
1120
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc439c25e2011-09-12 20:12:09 +02001121- Issue #12483: ctypes: Fix a crash when the destruction of a callback
1122 object triggers the garbage collector.
1123
Jesus Cea6ebaca12011-09-10 04:35:18 +02001124- Issue #12950: Fix passing file descriptors in multiprocessing, under
1125 OpenIndiana/Illumos.
1126
Amaury Forgeot d'Arccf316a12011-09-02 20:32:23 +02001127- Issue #12764: Fix a crash in ctypes when the name of a Structure field is not
1128 a string.
1129
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc3d7f2362011-08-30 21:04:35 +02001130- Issue #9651: Fix a crash when ctypes.create_string_buffer(0) was passed to
1131 some functions like file.write().
1132
Barry Warsawc5643282011-07-19 17:06:30 -04001133- Issue #10309: Define _GNU_SOURCE so that mremap() gets the proper
1134 signature. Without this, architectures where sizeof void* != sizeof int are
1135 broken. Patch given by Hallvard B Furuseth.
1136
Ned Deily43e10542011-06-27 23:41:53 -07001137Build
1138-----
1139
Martin v. Löwisa1b2af82012-02-21 18:12:02 +01001140- Issue #6807: Run msisupport.mak earlier.
1141
Martin v. Löwisef281bd2012-02-21 17:07:32 +01001142- Issue #10580: Minor grammar change in Windows installer.
1143
Ned Deilyc5df5632012-02-19 02:19:12 +01001144- Issue #12627: Implement PEP 394 for Python 2.7 ("python2").
1145
Ned Deily43e10542011-06-27 23:41:53 -07001146- Issue #8746: Correct faulty configure checks so that os.chflags() and
1147 os.lchflags() are once again built on systems that support these
1148 functions (*BSD and OS X). Also add new stat file flags for OS X
1149 (UF_HIDDEN and UF_COMPRESSED).
1150
Jason R. Coombsfee77452011-07-27 14:05:37 -04001151Tools/Demos
1152-----------
1153
Nadeem Vawdaf00011a2012-02-22 11:40:09 +02001154- Issue #14053: patchcheck.py ("make patchcheck") now works with MQ patches.
1155 Patch by Francisco Martín Brugué.
1156
Gregory P. Smith12426992012-02-12 15:51:21 -08001157- Issue #13930: 2to3 is now able to write its converted output files to another
1158 directory tree as well as copying unchanged files and altering the file
1159 suffix. See its new -o, -W and --add-suffix options. This makes it more
1160 useful in many automated code translation workflows.
1161
Jason R. Coombsfee77452011-07-27 14:05:37 -04001162- Issue #10639: reindent.py no longer converts newlines and will raise
1163 an error if attempting to convert a file with mixed newlines.
1164
Victor Stinner99cff3f2011-12-19 13:59:58 +01001165- Issue #13628: python-gdb.py is now able to retrieve more frames in the Python
1166 traceback if Python is optimized.
1167
Victor Stinnerd9f52922011-05-30 23:58:21 +02001168Tests
1169-----
1170
Martin v. Löwisc02e1e62012-07-29 16:30:50 +02001171- Issue #15467: Move helpers for __sizeof__ tests into test_support.
1172 Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
1173
Petri Lehtinen437b1492012-02-17 21:34:41 +02001174- Issue #11689: Fix a variable scoping error in an sqlite3 test.
1175 Initial patch by Torsten Landschoff.
1176
Ned Deily1aacd7b2011-10-31 16:14:52 -07001177- Issue #13304: Skip test case if user site-packages disabled (-s or
1178 PYTHONNOUSERSITE). (Patch by Carl Meyer)
1179
Barry Warsawbf0cafa2011-10-28 16:16:58 -04001180- Issue #13218: Fix test_ssl failures on Debian/Ubuntu.
1181
Charles-François Natalicdaafe02011-08-23 19:42:02 +02001182- Issue #12821: Fix test_fcntl failures on OpenBSD 5.
1183
Éric Araujo498da2c2011-07-31 17:59:28 +02001184- Issue #12331: The test suite for lib2to3 can now run from an installed
1185 Python.
1186
Ned Deily0ab67ee2011-07-13 15:05:31 -07001187- Issue #12549: Correct test_platform to not fail when OS X returns 'x86_64'
1188 as the processor type on some Mac systems.
1189
Antoine Pitrou4a4a0fe2011-07-09 02:34:05 +02001190- Skip network tests when getaddrinfo() returns EAI_AGAIN, meaning a temporary
1191 failure in name resolution.
1192
Jesus Ceacb65f322011-11-08 16:06:44 +01001193- Issue #11812: Solve transient socket failure to connect to 'localhost'
1194 in test_telnetlib.py.
1195
Jesus Cea71094b52011-11-08 15:54:42 +01001196- Solved a potential deadlock in test_telnetlib.py. Related to issue #11812.
1197
Antoine Pitrou29603082011-07-08 19:40:15 +02001198- Avoid failing in test_robotparser when mueblesmoraleda.com is flaky and
1199 an overzealous DNS service (e.g. OpenDNS) redirects to a placeholder
1200 Web site.
1201
Antoine Pitroua4d58d22011-07-08 19:14:19 +02001202- Avoid failing in test_urllibnet.test_bad_address when some overzealous
1203 DNS service (e.g. OpenDNS) resolves a non-existent domain name. The test
1204 is now skipped instead.
1205
Ned Deily46268c42011-07-03 21:52:35 -07001206- Issue #8716: Avoid crashes caused by Aqua Tk on OSX when attempting to run
1207 test_tk or test_ttk_guionly under a username that is not currently logged
1208 in to the console windowserver (as may be the case under buildbot or ssh).
1209
Ned Deily63144c62011-06-28 00:39:19 -07001210- Issue #12141: Install a copy of template C module file so that
1211 test_build_ext of test_distutils is no longer silently skipped when
1212 run outside of a build directory.
1213
Ned Deily43e10542011-06-27 23:41:53 -07001214- Issue #8746: Add additional tests for os.chflags() and os.lchflags().
1215 Patch by Garrett Cooper.
1216
Ned Deily64e59952011-06-27 23:09:31 -07001217- Issue #10736: Fix test_ttk test_widgets failures with Cocoa Tk 8.5.9
1218 on Mac OS X. (Patch by Ronald Oussoren)
1219
Victor Stinnerd9f52922011-05-30 23:58:21 +02001220- Issue #12057: Add tests for ISO 2022 codecs (iso2022_jp, iso2022_jp_2,
1221 iso2022_kr).
1222
Florent Xiclunadf10d7c2011-10-23 23:07:22 +02001223Documentation
1224-------------
1225
Petri Lehtinena15a8d22012-03-01 21:28:00 +02001226- Issues #13491 and #13995: Fix many errors in sqlite3 documentation.
1227 Initial patch for #13491 by Johannes Vogel.
Petri Lehtinen002b2022012-02-16 21:42:34 +02001228
Petri Lehtinenfe6f9d02012-02-02 21:11:28 +02001229- Issue #13402: Document absoluteness of sys.executable.
1230
Brett Cannon64b2b6a2012-01-26 18:32:24 -05001231- Issue #13883: PYTHONCASEOK also works on OS X, OS/2, and RiscOS.
1232
Meador Ingeda747c32012-01-19 00:17:44 -06001233- Issue #2134: The tokenize documentation has been clarified to explain why
1234 all operator and delimiter tokens are treated as token.OP tokens.
1235
Meador Inge52957182011-12-03 12:13:42 -06001236- Issue #13513: Fix io.IOBase documentation to correctly link to the
1237 io.IOBase.readline method instead of the readline module.
1238
Nick Coghlan86711572011-10-24 22:19:40 +10001239- Issue #13237: Reorganise subprocess documentation to emphasise convenience
1240 functions and the most commonly needed arguments to Popen.
1241
Florent Xiclunadf10d7c2011-10-23 23:07:22 +02001242- Issue #13141: Demonstrate recommended style for SocketServer examples.
1243
Victor Stinner08563d92011-05-30 23:44:13 +02001244
Benjamin Peterson5ee84482010-11-28 04:49:23 +00001245What's New in Python 2.7.2?
1246===========================
1247
Benjamin Peterson9843ba52011-06-11 09:42:44 -05001248*Release date: 2011-06-11*
Benjamin Petersonf14e4202011-05-31 18:44:55 -05001249
Benjamin Peterson43ee1a52011-06-10 11:32:52 -05001250Library
1251-------
1252
1253- Issue #12009: Fixed regression in netrc file comment handling.
1254
Benjamin Peterson4ba009d2011-05-31 18:59:49 -05001255Extension Modules
1256-----------------
1257
1258- Issue #1221: Make pyexpat.__version__ equal to the Python version.
1259
Benjamin Petersonf14e4202011-05-31 18:44:55 -05001260
1261What's New in Python 2.7.2 release candidate 1?
1262===============================================
1263
Benjamin Petersoncd207052011-05-29 16:50:27 -05001264*Release date: 2011-05-29*
Benjamin Peterson5ee84482010-11-28 04:49:23 +00001265
1266Core and Builtins
1267-----------------
1268
Ned Deily482f9082011-05-28 00:11:54 -07001269- Issue #9670: Increase the default stack size for secondary threads on
1270 Mac OS X and FreeBSD to reduce the chances of a crash instead of a
1271 "maximum recursion depth" RuntimeError exception.
1272 (patch by Ronald Oussoren)
1273
Benjamin Petersonef1122c2011-06-03 16:17:22 -05001274- Correct lookup of __dir__ on objects. This allows old-style classes to have
1275 __dir__. It also causes errors besides AttributeError found on lookup to be
1276 propagated.
Benjamin Peterson8de87a62011-05-23 16:11:05 -05001277
Victor Stinner2c585f62011-05-10 00:22:59 +02001278- Issue #1195: Fix input() if it is interrupted by CTRL+d and then CTRL+c,
1279 clear the end-of-file indicator after CTRL+d.
1280
Victor Stinner0a92d182011-05-03 15:09:24 +02001281- Issue #8651: PyArg_Parse*() functions raise an OverflowError if the file
1282 doesn't have PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN define and the size doesn't fit in an int
1283 (length bigger than 2^31-1 bytes).
1284
Victor Stinner645b9f62011-05-03 15:06:11 +02001285- Issue #8651: Fix "z#" format of PyArg_Parse*() function: the size was not
1286 written if PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN is defined.
1287
Victor Stinnere363ec12011-05-01 23:43:37 +02001288- Issue #9756: When calling a method descriptor or a slot wrapper descriptor,
1289 the check of the object type doesn't read the __class__ attribute anymore.
1290 Fix a crash if a class override its __class__ attribute (e.g. a proxy of the
Victor Stinner97cf5852011-05-01 23:51:11 +02001291 str type). Patch written by Andreas Stührk.
Victor Stinnere363ec12011-05-01 23:43:37 +02001292
Antoine Pitrou1f9eb152011-04-27 19:26:06 +02001293- Issue #10517: After fork(), reinitialize the TLS used by the PyGILState_*
1294 APIs, to avoid a crash with the pthread implementation in RHEL 5. Patch
1295 by Charles-François Natali.
1296
Ezio Melottie3685f62011-04-26 05:12:51 +03001297- Issue #6780: fix starts/endswith error message to mention that tuples are
1298 accepted too.
1299
Ezio Melottic283a852011-04-15 16:14:04 +03001300- Issue #5057: fix a bug in the peepholer that led to non-portable pyc files
1301 between narrow and wide builds while optimizing BINARY_SUBSCR on non-BMP
1302 chars (e.g. u"\U00012345"[0]).
1303
Victor Stinner5de51ac2011-04-09 16:09:08 +02001304- Issue #11650: PyOS_StdioReadline() retries fgets() if it was interrupted
1305 (EINTR), for example if the program is stopped with CTRL+z on Mac OS X. Patch
1306 written by Charles-Francois Natali.
1307
Mark Dickinson874d59e2011-03-26 12:18:00 +00001308- Issue #11144: Ensure that int(a_float) returns an int whenever possible.
1309 Previously, there were some corner cases where a long was returned even
1310 though the result was within the range of an int.
1311
Antoine Pitrou2ddaaff2011-03-09 12:54:00 +01001312- Issue #11450: Don't truncate hg version info in Py_GetBuildInfo() when
1313 there are many tags (e.g. when using mq). Patch by Nadeem Vawda.
1314
Antoine Pitrou3013b162011-01-18 19:06:19 +00001315- Issue #10451: memoryview objects could allow to mutate a readable buffer.
1316 Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall.
1317
Benjamin Peterson9b911ca2011-01-12 15:49:47 +00001318- Issue #10892: Don't segfault when trying to delete __abstractmethods__ from a
1319 class.
1320
Antoine Pitrou5a72e762011-01-07 21:49:44 +00001321- Issue #8020: Avoid a crash where the small objects allocator would read
1322 non-Python managed memory while it is being modified by another thread.
1323 Patch by Matt Bandy.
1324
Raymond Hettinger57a86892011-01-25 21:43:29 +00001325- Issue #11004: Repaired edge case in deque.count().
1326
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcac514c82011-01-03 00:50:57 +00001327- Issue #8278: On Windows and with a NTFS filesystem, os.stat() and os.utime()
1328 can now handle dates after 2038.
1329
R. David Murray64a1e7c2010-12-15 01:36:03 +00001330- Issue #4236: Py_InitModule4 now checks the import machinery directly
1331 rather than the Py_IsInitialized flag, avoiding a Fatal Python
1332 error in certain circumstances when an import is done in __del__.
1333
Jesus Cea44e81682011-04-20 16:39:15 +02001334- issue #11828: startswith and endswith don't accept None as slice index.
1335 Patch by Torsten Becker.
1336
Benjamin Peterson07f54512010-12-11 04:25:57 +00001337- Issue #10674: Remove unused 'dictmaker' rule from grammar.
1338
Mark Dickinsonecf8ec62010-12-04 12:30:41 +00001339- Issue #10596: Fix float.__mod__ to have the same behaviour as
1340 float.__divmod__ with respect to signed zeros. -4.0 % 4.0 should be
1341 0.0, not -0.0.
1342
Eli Bendersky680e6eb2011-03-04 06:14:56 +00001343- Issue #11386: bytearray.pop() now throws IndexError when the bytearray is
1344 empty, instead of OverflowError.
1345
Benjamin Peterson5ee84482010-11-28 04:49:23 +00001346Library
1347-------
Antoine Pitrou47900cf2010-12-17 17:45:12 +00001348
Ned Deilyd8b17232011-07-26 18:16:08 -07001349- Issue #12590: IDLE editor window now always displays the first line
1350 when opening a long file. With Tk 8.5, the first line was hidden.
1351
Benjamin Peterson4fa68ab2011-05-26 09:56:41 -05001352- Issue #12161: Cause StringIO.getvalue() to raise a ValueError when used on a
1353 closed StringIO instance.
1354
Victor Stinnerdbfba162011-05-26 13:37:25 +02001355- Issue #12182: Fix pydoc.HTMLDoc.multicolumn() if Python uses the new (true)
1356 division (python -Qnew). Patch written by Ralf W. Grosse-Kunstleve.
1357
Victor Stinnerdaf17e92011-05-25 22:52:37 +02001358- Issue #12175: RawIOBase.readall() now returns None if read() returns None.
1359
Victor Stinner5100a402011-05-25 22:15:36 +02001360- Issue #12175: FileIO.readall() now raises a ValueError instead of an IOError
1361 if the file is closed.
1362
Charles-François Natalib94e0cd2011-05-24 23:10:54 +02001363- Issue #1441530: In imaplib, use makefile() to wrap the SSL socket to avoid
1364 heap fragmentation and MemoryError with some malloc implementations.
1365
Victor Stinner40b41e12011-05-24 22:29:13 +02001366- Issue #12100: Don't reset incremental encoders of CJK codecs at each call to
1367 their encode() method anymore, but continue to call the reset() method if the
1368 final argument is True.
1369
Victor Stinnerf58f1c32011-05-21 02:13:22 +02001370- Issue #12124: zipimport doesn't keep a reference to zlib.decompress() anymore
1371 to be able to unload the module.
1372
Ronald Oussorenb13cacf2011-05-17 15:13:46 +02001373- Issue #11088: don't crash when using F5 to run a script in IDLE on MacOSX
1374 with Tk 8.5.
1375
Ronald Oussoren372954e2011-05-17 13:22:30 +02001376- Issue #10154, #10090: change the normalization of UTF-8 to "UTF-8" instead
1377 of "UTF8" in the locale module as the latter is not supported MacOSX and OpenBSD.
1378
Victor Stinnerf58f1c32011-05-21 02:13:22 +02001379- Issue #9516: avoid errors in sysconfig when MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET is
Ronald Oussoren53b6a5f2011-05-15 16:51:10 +02001380 set in shell.
1381
Nadeem Vawda0cc4fd92011-05-14 14:29:07 +02001382- Issue #12050: zlib.decompressobj().decompress() now clears the unconsumed_tail
1383 attribute when called without a max_length argument.
1384
Antoine Pitrouee46a7b2011-05-13 00:31:52 +02001385- Issue #12062: In the `io` module, fix a flushing bug when doing a certain
1386 type of I/O sequence on a file opened in read+write mode (namely: reading,
1387 seeking a bit forward, writing, then seeking before the previous write but
1388 still within buffered data, and writing again).
1389
Antoine Pitrou47d1d0d2011-05-10 19:16:03 +02001390- Issue #8498: In socket.accept(), allow to specify 0 as a backlog value in
1391 order to accept exactly one connection. Patch by Daniel Evers.
1392
Victor Stinnerb1241f92011-05-10 01:52:03 +02001393- Issue #12012: ssl.PROTOCOL_SSLv2 becomes optional.
1394
Martin v. Löwis591c2df2011-05-09 08:19:13 +02001395- Issue #11164: Remove obsolete allnodes test from minidom test.
1396
Antoine Pitrou21ce8f02011-05-07 19:59:33 +02001397- Issue #11927: SMTP_SSL now uses port 465 by default as documented. Patch
1398 by Kasun Herath.
1399
Ezio Melotti50bc66a2012-11-03 21:29:08 +02001400- Issue #11999: fixed sporadic sync failure mailbox.Maildir due to its trying to
R David Murray8b26c4b2011-05-06 21:56:22 -04001401 detect mtime changes by comparing to the system clock instead of to the
1402 previous value of the mtime.
1403
Ronald Oussoren58d6b1b2011-05-06 11:31:33 +02001404- Issue #10684: shutil.move used to delete a folder on case insensitive
1405 filesystems when the source and destination name where the same except
1406 for the case.
1407
Ezio Melottidf8a8f72011-05-04 14:40:53 +03001408- Issue #11982: fix json.loads('""') to return u'' rather than ''.
1409
Victor Stinner112d48a2011-05-03 14:36:36 +02001410- Issue #11277: mmap.mmap() calls fcntl(fd, F_FULLFSYNC) on Mac OS X to get
1411 around a mmap bug with sparse files. Patch written by Steffen Daode Nurpmeso.
1412
Senthil Kumaran011525e2011-04-28 15:30:31 +08001413- Issue #10761: Fix tarfile.extractall failure when symlinked files are
1414 present. Initial patch by Scott Leerssen.
1415
Ezio Melotti34b32d62011-04-27 09:45:46 +03001416- Issue #11763: don't use difflib in TestCase.assertMultiLineEqual if the
1417 strings are too long.
1418
Senthil Kumaran5dc68682011-04-26 21:17:45 +08001419- Issue #11236: getpass.getpass responds to ctrl-c or ctrl-z on terminal.
1420
Victor Stinner33feeab2011-04-18 16:33:28 +02001421- Issue #11768: The signal handler of the signal module only calls
1422 Py_AddPendingCall() for the first signal to fix a deadlock on reentrant or
1423 parallel calls. PyErr_SetInterrupt() writes also into the wake up file.
1424
Raymond Hettingere0156c42011-04-19 09:48:39 -07001425- Issue #11875: collections.OrderedDict's __reduce__ was temporarily
1426 mutating the object instead of just working on a copy.
1427
Martin v. Löwis2d253dd2011-04-17 22:29:40 +02001428- Issue #11442: Add a charset parameter to the Content-type in SimpleHTTPServer
1429 to avoid XSS attacks.
1430
Senthil Kumaranddaea1c2011-04-15 18:07:33 +08001431- Issue #11467: Fix urlparse behavior when handling urls which contains scheme
1432 specific part only digits. Patch by Santoso Wijaya.
1433
Raymond Hettinger37c0fe52011-04-15 13:12:21 -07001434- collections.Counter().copy() now works correctly for subclasses.
1435
Senthil Kumarana99b7612011-04-14 12:54:35 +08001436- Issue #11474: Fix the bug with url2pathname() handling of '/C|/' on Windows.
1437 Patch by Santoso Wijaya.
1438
Ezio Melotti2b96f092011-04-13 05:37:29 +03001439- Issue #9233: Fix json.loads('{}') to return a dict (instead of a list), when
1440 _json is not available.
1441
1442- Issue #11703: urllib2.geturl() does not return correct url when the original
Senthil Kumaran0531d6f2011-04-13 09:47:20 +08001443 url contains #fragment.
1444
R David Murrayea8b6ef2011-04-12 21:00:26 -04001445- Issue #10019: Fixed regression in json module where an indent of 0 stopped
1446 adding newlines and acted instead like 'None'.
1447
brian.curtin16f98b72011-04-11 18:05:33 -05001448- Issue #5162: Treat services like frozen executables to allow child spawning
1449 from multiprocessing.forking on Windows.
1450
Ezio Melotti8b4367e2011-04-11 03:44:28 +03001451- Issue #4877: Fix a segfault in xml.parsers.expat while attempting to parse
1452 a closed file.
1453
Raymond Hettingere4579c32011-04-11 17:27:42 -07001454- Issue #11830: Remove unnecessary introspection code in the decimal module.
1455 It was causing a failed import in the Turkish locale where the locale
1456 sensitive str.upper() method caused a name mismatch.
1457
Antoine Pitrou7dfc8742011-04-11 00:26:42 +02001458- Issue #8428: Fix a race condition in multiprocessing.Pool when terminating
1459 worker processes: new processes would be spawned while the pool is being
1460 shut down. Patch by Charles-François Natali.
1461
Ezio Melotti8b4367e2011-04-11 03:44:28 +03001462- Issue #7311: Fix HTMLParser to accept non-ASCII attribute values.
Ezio Melotti9f1ffb22011-04-05 20:40:52 +03001463
Ross Lagerwall104c3f12011-04-05 15:24:34 +02001464- Issue #10963: Ensure that subprocess.communicate() never raises EPIPE.
1465
guido@google.com2bc23b82011-03-24 10:44:17 -07001466- Issue #11662: Make urllib and urllib2 ignore redirections if the
guido@google.comdb3080e2011-03-28 13:53:40 -07001467 scheme is not HTTP, HTTPS or FTP (CVE-2011-1521).
Antoine Pitrou47900cf2010-12-17 17:45:12 +00001468
Benjamin Peterson77d46602011-03-28 17:32:31 -05001469- Issue #11256: Fix inspect.getcallargs on functions that take only keyword
1470 arguments.
1471
Martin v. Löwis03f7e232011-03-27 20:58:52 +02001472- Issue #11696: Fix ID generation in msilib.
1473
Mark Dickinsond687be02011-03-27 16:15:24 +01001474- Issue #9696: Fix exception incorrectly raised by xdrlib.Packer.pack_int when
1475 trying to pack a negative (in-range) integer.
1476
Mark Dickinson1829e8f2011-03-27 15:32:05 +01001477- Issue #11675: multiprocessing.[Raw]Array objects created from an integer size
1478 are now zeroed on creation. This matches the behaviour specified by the
1479 documentation.
1480
Martin v. Löwis49b0ce02011-03-27 10:10:46 +02001481- Issue #7639: Fix short file name generation in bdist_msi.
1482
Raymond Hettinger9aa5a342011-03-25 16:00:13 -07001483- Issue #11666: let help() display named tuple attributes and methods
1484 that start with a leading underscore.
1485
Mark Dickinsonf9e9a6f2011-03-25 22:01:06 +00001486- Issue #11673: Fix multiprocessing Array and RawArray constructors to accept a
1487 size of type 'long', rather than only accepting 'int'.
1488
Éric Araujo374274d2011-03-19 04:29:36 +01001489- Issue #10042: Fixed the total_ordering decorator to handle cross-type
1490 comparisons that could lead to infinite recursion.
1491
Michael Foord51368672011-03-17 12:59:38 -04001492- Issue #10979: unittest stdout buffering now works with class and module
1493 setup and teardown.
1494
Ronald Oussoren2ab59942011-03-16 09:47:15 -04001495- Issue #11569: use absolute path to the sysctl command in multiprocessing to
1496 ensure that it will be found regardless of the shell PATH. This ensures
1497 that multiprocessing.cpu_count works on default installs of MacOSX.
1498
Michael Foord51368672011-03-17 12:59:38 -04001499- Issue #11500: Fixed a bug in the os x proxy bypass code for fully qualified
1500 IP addresses in the proxy exception list.
Ronald Oussoren1aa999c2011-03-14 18:53:59 -04001501
Mark Dickinson2c8c62e2011-03-12 11:05:32 +00001502- Issue #11131: Fix sign of zero in plus and minus operations when
1503 the context rounding mode is ROUND_FLOOR.
1504
Ned Deily9d4836e2011-03-09 02:31:55 -08001505- Issue #5622: Fix curses.wrapper to raise correct exception if curses
1506 initialization fails.
1507
Antoine Pitroud6f3a3e2011-03-06 02:03:34 +01001508- Issue #11391: Writing to a mmap object created with
1509 ``mmap.PROT_READ|mmap.PROT_EXEC`` would segfault instead of raising a
1510 TypeError. Patch by Charles-François Natali.
1511
R. David Murray1a337902011-03-03 18:17:40 +00001512- Issue #11306: mailbox in certain cases adapts to an inability to open
1513 certain files in read-write mode. Previously it detected this by
1514 checking for EACCES, now it also checks for EROFS.
1515
Giampaolo Rodolàd65224f2011-03-03 14:17:51 +00001516- Issue #11265: asyncore now correctly handles EPIPE, EBADF and EAGAIN errors
1517 on accept(), send() and recv().
1518
Antoine Pitroud3f6ea12011-02-26 23:35:27 +00001519- Issue #11326: Add the missing connect_ex() implementation for SSL sockets,
1520 and make it work for non-blocking connects.
1521
Antoine Pitrou6439c002011-02-25 21:35:47 +00001522- Issue #10956: Buffered I/O classes retry reading or writing after a signal
1523 has arrived and the handler returned successfully.
1524
Georg Brandl28046022011-02-25 11:01:04 +00001525- Issue #10680: Fix mutually exclusive arguments for argument groups in
1526 argparse.
1527
Antoine Pitrouf4d2b3d2011-02-21 23:59:20 +00001528- Issue #4681: Allow mmap() to work on file sizes and offsets larger than
1529 4GB, even on 32-bit builds. Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall, adapted for
1530 32-bit Windows.
1531
Georg Brandl52f83952011-02-25 10:39:23 +00001532- Issue #10360: In WeakSet, do not raise TypeErrors when testing for
1533 membership of non-weakrefable objects.
1534
1535- Issue #10549: Fix pydoc traceback when text-documenting certain classes.
1536
1537- Issue #940286: pydoc.Helper.help() ignores input/output init parameters.
1538
Barry Warsaw42bb7ca2011-02-14 20:04:00 +00001539- Issue #11171: Fix detection of config/Makefile when --prefix !=
1540 --exec-prefix, which caused Python to not start.
1541
R. David Murray008c0442011-02-11 23:03:13 +00001542- Issue #11116: any error during addition of a message to a mailbox now causes
1543 a rollback, instead of leaving the mailbox partially modified.
1544
Antoine Pitrou820021e2011-01-31 21:47:45 +00001545- Issue #8275: Fix passing of callback arguments with ctypes under Win64.
1546 Patch by Stan Mihai.
1547
Ned Deily60651532011-01-31 00:52:49 +00001548- Issue #10940: Workaround an IDLE hang on Mac OS X 10.6 when using the
1549 menu accelerators for Open Module, Go to Line, and New Indent Width.
1550 The accelerators still work but no longer appear in the menu items.
1551
Ned Deily2a6f4b32011-01-30 00:18:47 +00001552- Issue #10907: Warn OS X 10.6 IDLE users to use ActiveState Tcl/Tk 8.5, rather
1553 than the currently problematic Apple-supplied one, when running with the
1554 64-/32-bit installer variant.
1555
Ned Deilyefc527a2011-01-29 19:30:39 +00001556- Issue #11052: Correct IDLE menu accelerators on Mac OS X for Save
1557 commands.
1558
Vinay Sajipcdb83882011-01-21 23:35:57 +00001559- Issue #10949: Improved robustness of rotating file handlers.
1560
Antoine Pitrou8a0eede2011-01-20 21:20:18 +00001561- Issue #10955: Fix a potential crash when trying to mmap() a file past its
1562 length. Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall.
1563
Antoine Pitrou63a3f152011-01-19 15:27:24 +00001564- Issue #10898: Allow compiling the posix module when the C library defines
1565 a symbol named FSTAT.
1566
Ned Deily4a705502011-01-18 04:33:22 +00001567- Issue #6075: IDLE on Mac OS X now works with both Carbon AquaTk and
1568 Cocoa AquaTk.
1569
Antoine Pitrou9989d852011-01-15 16:18:57 +00001570- Issue #10916: mmap should not segfault when a file is mapped using 0 as
1571 length and a non-zero offset, and an attempt to read past the end of file
1572 is made (IndexError is raised instead). Patch by Ross Lagerwall.
1573
Terry Reedyf7dd7992011-01-10 22:15:19 +00001574- Issue #10875: Update Regular Expression HOWTO; patch by 'SilentGhost'.
1575
Antoine Pitrou5a72e762011-01-07 21:49:44 +00001576- Issue #10827: Changed the rules for 2-digit years. The time.asctime
1577 function will now format any year when ``time.accept2dyear`` is
1578 false and will accept years >= 1000 otherwise. The year range
1579 accepted by ``time.mktime`` and ``time.strftime`` is still system
1580 dependent, but ``time.mktime`` will now accept full range supported
1581 by the OS. Conversion of 2-digit years to 4-digit is deprecated.
1582
Georg Brandl6adb9792011-01-09 07:53:14 +00001583- Issue #10869: Fixed bug where ast.increment_lineno modified the root
1584 node twice.
1585
Antoine Pitrou1f1613f2011-01-06 18:30:26 +00001586- Issue #7858: Raise an error properly when os.utime() fails under Windows
1587 on an existing file.
1588
Antoine Pitrou77c1b382011-01-06 17:19:05 +00001589- Issue #3839: wsgiref should not override a Content-Length header set by
1590 the application. Initial patch by Clovis Fabricio.
1591
Antoine Pitrou91ce0d92011-01-03 18:45:09 +00001592- Issue #10806, issue #9905: Fix subprocess pipes when some of the standard
1593 file descriptors (0, 1, 2) are closed in the parent process. Initial
1594 patch by Ross Lagerwall.
1595
Antoine Pitroub0614612011-01-02 20:04:52 +00001596- Issue #4662: os.tempnam(), os.tmpfile() and os.tmpnam() now raise a py3k
1597 DeprecationWarning.
1598
Raymond Hettinger8ebebd82011-01-02 01:03:26 +00001599- Subclasses of collections.OrderedDict now work correctly with __missing__.
1600
Éric Araujo86f90742011-03-21 00:15:26 +01001601- Issue #10753 - Characters ';', '=' and ',' in the PATH_INFO environment
Senthil Kumaran559395f2010-12-29 06:30:19 +00001602 variable won't be quoted when the URI is constructed by the wsgiref.util 's
1603 request_uri method. According to RFC 3986, these characters can be a part of
1604 params in PATH component of URI and need not be quoted.
1605
Éric Araujo86f90742011-03-21 00:15:26 +01001606- Issue #10738: Fix webbrowser.Opera.raise_opts
Terry Reedy0df73672010-12-28 19:53:32 +00001607
Éric Araujo86f90742011-03-21 00:15:26 +01001608- Issue #9824: SimpleCookie now encodes , and ; in values to cater to how
R. David Murray08fc7012010-12-28 19:11:03 +00001609 browsers actually parse cookies.
1610
R. David Murray5360d002010-12-27 19:17:17 +00001611- Issue #1379416: eliminated a source of accidental unicode promotion in
1612 email.header.Header.encode.
1613
R. David Murray5874ed62010-12-26 22:29:53 +00001614- Issue #5258/#10642: if site.py encounters a .pth file that generates an error,
1615 it now prints the filename, line number, and traceback to stderr and skips
1616 the rest of that individual file, instead of stopping processing entirely.
1617
Antoine Pitroufc9ead62010-12-21 21:26:55 +00001618- Issue #10750: The ``raw`` attribute of buffered IO objects is now read-only.
1619
Daniel Stutzbach57cf0af2011-01-04 18:47:17 +00001620- Issue #10242: unittest.TestCase.assertItemsEqual makes too many assumptions
Michael Foorde6e0e262010-12-19 15:52:56 +00001621 about input.
1622
Michael Foorda17f0762010-12-19 14:53:19 +00001623- Issue #10611: SystemExit should not cause a unittest test run to exit.
1624
Antoine Pitroud7b6ac62010-12-18 18:18:21 +00001625- Issue #6791: Limit header line length (to 65535 bytes) in http.client,
1626 to avoid denial of services from the other party.
1627
R. David Murray3f752ab2010-12-18 17:22:18 +00001628- Issue #10404: Use ctl-button-1 on OSX for the context menu in Idle.
1629
1630- Issue #9907: Fix tab handling on OSX when using editline by calling
R. David Murray7a697252010-12-18 03:52:09 +00001631 rl_initialize first, then setting our custom defaults, then reading .editrc.
1632
Antoine Pitrou47900cf2010-12-17 17:45:12 +00001633- Issue #4188: Avoid creating dummy thread objects when logging operations
1634 from the threading module (with the internal verbose flag activated).
1635
Senthil Kumaran5c7fd6e2010-12-17 04:56:02 +00001636- Issue #9721: Fix the behavior of urljoin when the relative url starts with a
1637 ';' character. Patch by Wes Chow.
Benjamin Peterson5ee84482010-11-28 04:49:23 +00001638
Antoine Pitrou47d9b0e2010-12-16 17:11:34 +00001639- Issue #10714: Limit length of incoming request in http.server to 65536 bytes
1640 for security reasons. Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall.
1641
Éric Araujoe04c13c2010-12-15 21:15:25 +00001642- Issue #9558: Fix distutils.command.build_ext with VS 8.0.
1643
R. David Murraydacb8042010-12-14 14:34:16 +00001644- Issue #10695: passing the port as a string value to telnetlib no longer
1645 causes debug mode to fail.
1646
Ronald Oussoren8ec374c2010-12-07 16:02:59 +00001647- Issue #10107: Warn about unsaved files in IDLE on OSX.
1648
Ronald Oussoren517858a2010-12-07 16:13:17 +00001649- Issue #10406: Enable Rstrip IDLE extension on OSX (just like on other
1650 platforms).
1651
Antoine Pitrou4cb64ad2010-12-03 19:31:52 +00001652- Issue #10478: Reentrant calls inside buffered IO objects (for example by
1653 way of a signal handler) now raise a RuntimeError instead of freezing the
1654 current process.
1655
Éric Araujofb3de6b2010-12-03 19:24:49 +00001656- Issue #10497: Fix incorrect use of gettext in argparse.
1657
R. David Murrayd75cc912010-12-02 03:16:23 +00001658- Issue #10464: netrc now correctly handles lines with embedded '#' characters.
1659
Gregory P. Smith312efbc2010-12-14 15:02:53 +00001660- Issue #1731717: Fixed the problem where subprocess.wait() could cause an
1661 OSError exception when The OS had been told to ignore SIGCLD in our process
1662 or otherwise not wait for exiting child processes.
1663
Steven Bethardf8583ac2011-01-24 20:40:15 +00001664- Issue #9509: argparse now properly handles IOErrors raised by
1665 argparse.FileType.
1666
Steven Bethard3f69a052011-03-26 19:59:02 +01001667- Issue #9348: Raise an early error if argparse nargs and metavar don't match.
1668
1669- Issue #8982: Improve the documentation for the argparse Namespace object.
1670
Steven Bethard5e0062d2011-03-26 21:50:38 +01001671- Issue #9343: Document that argparse parent parsers must be configured before
1672 their children.
1673
Steven Bethardbc3b1042011-03-27 13:57:55 +02001674- Issue #9026: Fix order of argparse sub-commands in help messages.
1675
Steven Betharde3c11b42011-04-04 01:47:52 +02001676- Issue #9347: Fix formatting for tuples in argparse type= error messages.
1677
R. David Murray2a4b3fc2010-12-11 02:13:04 +00001678Extension Modules
1679-----------------
1680
Benjamin Peterson6116d4a2011-05-17 18:31:20 -05001681- Stop using the old interface for providing methods and attributes in the _sre
1682 module. Among other things, this gives these classes ``__class__``
1683 attributes. (See #12099)
1684
Ezio Melotti0639be62011-05-07 19:21:22 +03001685- Issue #10169: Fix argument parsing in socket.sendto() to avoid error masking.
1686
Ezio Melottic1ec7b52011-05-11 00:55:35 +03001687- Issue #12051: Fix segfault in json.dumps() while encoding highly-nested
1688 objects using the C accelerations.
1689
Ezio Melotticec46492011-05-07 17:40:23 +03001690- Issue #12017: Fix segfault in json.loads() while decoding highly-nested
1691 objects using the C accelerations.
1692
Benjamin Petersonf21ad922011-03-26 17:56:28 -05001693- Issue #1838: Prevent segfault in ctypes, when _as_parameter_ on a class is set
1694 to an instance of the class.
1695
R. David Murray2a4b3fc2010-12-11 02:13:04 +00001696- Issue #678250: Make mmap flush a noop on ACCESS_READ and ACCESS_COPY.
1697
Antoine Pitrouf11d1832011-01-02 19:37:45 +00001698Build
1699-----
1700
Ned Deily22f63b52011-05-28 05:56:14 -07001701- Issue #11217: For 64-bit/32-bit Mac OS X universal framework builds,
1702 ensure "make install" creates symlinks in --prefix bin for the "-32"
1703 files in the framework bin directory like the installer does.
1704
Thomas Wouters5edae7e2011-03-06 11:48:05 -08001705- Issue #11411: Fix 'make DESTDIR=' with a relative destination.
1706
Georg Brandl94800df2011-02-25 11:09:02 +00001707- Issue #10709: Add updated AIX notes in Misc/README.AIX.
1708
1709- Issue #11184: Fix large-file support on AIX.
1710
Georg Brandl71f4fbb2011-02-25 11:04:50 +00001711- Issue #941346: Fix broken shared library build on AIX.
1712
Ned Deilye6cc7d62011-02-21 21:00:09 +00001713- Issue #11268: Prevent Mac OS X Installer failure if Documentation
1714 package had previously been installed.
1715
Ned Deily68adfdc2011-02-07 16:52:25 +00001716- Issue #11079: The /Applications/Python x.x folder created by the Mac
1717 OS X installers now includes a link to the installed documentation.
1718
Ned Deily53c460d2011-01-30 01:43:40 +00001719- Issue #11054: Allow Mac OS X installer builds to again work on 10.5 with
1720 the system-provided Python.
1721
1722- Issue #10843: Update third-party library versions used in OS X
1723 32-bit installer builds: bzip2 1.0.6, readline 6.1.2, SQLite 3.7.4
1724 (with FTS3/FTS4 and RTREE enabled), and ncursesw 5.5 (wide-char
1725 support enabled).
1726
Antoine Pitrou9828b562011-01-03 19:11:32 +00001727- Don't run pgen twice when using make -j.
1728
Antoine Pitrou31e85952011-01-03 18:57:14 +00001729- Issue #7716: Under Solaris, don't assume existence of /usr/xpg4/bin/grep in
1730 the configure script but use $GREP instead. Patch by Fabian Groffen.
1731
Antoine Pitrouf11d1832011-01-02 19:37:45 +00001732- Issue #10475: Don't hardcode compilers for LDSHARED/LDCXXSHARED on NetBSD
1733 and DragonFly BSD. Patch by Nicolas Joly.
1734
David Malcolm4c29e1c2011-01-06 17:39:24 +00001735- Issue #10655: Fix the build on PowerPC on Linux with GCC when building with
1736 timestamp profiling (--with-tsc): the preprocessor test for the PowerPC
1737 support now looks for "__powerpc__" as well as "__ppc__": the latter seems to
1738 only be present on OS X; the former is the correct one for Linux with GCC.
1739
Ronald Oussoren19199832011-03-14 11:57:39 -04001740- Issue #1099: Fix the build on MacOSX when building a framework with pydebug
1741 using GCC 4.0.
1742
Raymond Hettinger179816d2011-04-12 18:54:46 -07001743IDLE
1744----
1745
1746- Issue #11718: IDLE's open module dialog couldn't find the __init__.py
1747 file in a package.
1748
R. David Murray0960bc52010-12-04 17:24:46 +00001749Tests
1750-----
1751
Ned Deilyc4f97f42011-05-29 02:36:17 -07001752- Issue #12205: Fix test_subprocess failure due to uninstalled test data.
1753
Ezio Melottie3992eb2011-05-14 06:24:53 +03001754- Issue #5723: Improve json tests to be executed with and without accelerations.
1755
Ezio Melotti5c5d7e22011-05-09 06:54:53 +03001756- Issue #11910: Fix test_heapq to skip the C tests when _heapq is missing.
1757
Nadeem Vawdabafc6a92011-04-19 01:35:58 +02001758- Fix test_startfile to wait for child process to terminate before finishing.
1759
Ross Lagerwallfe2f1ad2011-04-09 20:39:50 +02001760- Issue #11719: Fix message about unexpected test_msilib skip on non-Windows
1761 platforms. Patch by Nadeem Vawda.
1762
Ned Deily5f511822011-04-05 17:16:09 -07001763- Issue #7108: Fix test_commands to not fail when special attributes ('@'
1764 or '.') appear in 'ls -l' output.
1765
R David Murraycdd5fc92011-03-13 22:37:18 -04001766- Issue #11490: test_subprocess:test_leaking_fds_on_error no longer gives a
1767 false positive if the last directory in the path is inaccessible.
1768
Antoine Pitrou8bc59fa2011-01-12 18:56:09 +00001769- Issue #10822: Fix test_posix:test_getgroups failure under Solaris. Patch
1770 by Ross Lagerwall.
1771
Antoine Pitrou8c688be2011-01-03 20:49:01 +00001772- Issue #6293: Have regrtest.py echo back sys.flags. This is done by default
1773 in whole runs and enabled selectively using ``--header`` when running an
1774 explicit list of tests. Original patch by Collin Winter.
1775
R. David Murrayf8a63912010-12-14 16:26:30 +00001776- Issue #775964: test_grp now skips YP/NIS entries instead of failing when
1777 encountering them.
1778
R. David Murray0960bc52010-12-04 17:24:46 +00001779- Issue #7110: regrtest now sends test failure reports and single-failure
1780 tracebacks to stderr rather than stdout.
1781
Benjamin Peterson5ee84482010-11-28 04:49:23 +00001782
Benjamin Petersondb4c3342010-11-13 23:32:58 +00001783What's New in Python 2.7.1?
1784===========================
1785
Benjamin Peterson3e0fa422010-11-27 14:40:29 +00001786*Release date: 2010-11-27*
Benjamin Petersondb4c3342010-11-13 23:32:58 +00001787
1788Library
1789-------
1790
Éric Araujo54274ad2011-02-03 00:12:18 +00001791- Issue #2236: distutils' mkpath ignored the mode parameter.
1792
1793- Fix typo in one sdist option (medata-check).
1794
Raymond Hettinger061bf7a2010-11-30 03:15:35 +00001795- Issue #10323: itertools.islice() now consumes the minimum number of
1796 inputs before stopping. Formerly, the final state of the underlying
1797 iterator was undefined.
1798
Alexander Belopolsky1fea5c42010-11-30 01:18:17 +00001799- Issue #10565: The collections.Iterator ABC now checks for both
1800 ``__iter__`` and ``next``.
1801
Georg Brandl79f096a2010-11-26 07:57:57 +00001802- Issue #10092: Properly reset locale in calendar.Locale*Calendar classes.
1803
Martin v. Löwise03c7782010-11-22 10:53:46 +00001804- Issue #10459: Update CJK character names to Unicode 5.2.
1805
Georg Brandl5ded7912010-11-26 07:35:31 +00001806- Issue #6098: Don't claim DOM level 3 conformance in minidom.
1807
Senthil Kumaran9a5897b2010-11-29 12:41:03 +00001808- Issue #10561: In pdb, clear the breakpoints by the breakpoint number.
1809
Georg Brandl5ded7912010-11-26 07:35:31 +00001810- Issue #5762: Fix AttributeError raised by ``xml.dom.minidom`` when an empty
1811 XML namespace attribute is encountered.
1812
Georg Brandl86e0c892010-11-26 07:22:28 +00001813- Issue #1710703: Write structures for an empty ZIP archive when a ZipFile is
1814 created in modes 'a' or 'w' and then closed without adding any files. Raise
1815 BadZipfile (rather than IOError) when opening small non-ZIP files.
1816
Senthil Kumaran0b7cac12010-11-22 05:04:33 +00001817- Issue #4493: urllib2 adds '/' in front of path components which does not
1818 start with '/. Common behavior exhibited by browsers and other clients.
1819
Brian Curtin2d011ed2010-11-21 23:50:51 +00001820- Issue #6378: idle.bat now runs with the appropriate Python version rather than
1821 the system default. Patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar.
1822
Éric Araujo4fadd532010-11-20 20:02:41 +00001823- Issue #10407: Fix one NameError in distutils.
1824
Georg Brandl839c1132010-11-20 11:29:38 +00001825- Issue #10198: fix duplicate header written to wave files when writeframes()
1826 is called without data.
1827
Benjamin Peterson4fec9ce2010-11-20 17:31:08 +00001828- Issue #10467: Fix BytesIO.readinto() after seeking into a position after the
1829 end of the file.
1830
Senthil Kumaran501bfd82010-11-14 03:31:52 +00001831- Issue #5111: IPv6 Host in the Header is wrapped inside [ ]. Patch by Chandru.
1832
Martin v. Löwiseebd0172010-11-14 18:17:39 +00001833Build
1834-----
1835
Brian Curtin69a106a2010-11-22 02:08:49 +00001836- Backport r83399 to allow test_distutils to pass on installed versions.
1837
Martin v. Löwiseebd0172010-11-14 18:17:39 +00001838- Issue #1303434: Generate ZIP file containing all PDBs.
1839
Ezio Melotti2623a372010-11-21 13:34:58 +00001840Tests
1841-----
1842
1843- Issue #9424: Replace deprecated assert* methods in the Python test suite.
1844
Ezio Melottibf8484e2010-11-24 21:54:47 +00001845Documentation
1846-------------
1847
1848- Issue #10299: List the built-in functions in a table in functions.rst.
1849
Benjamin Petersondb4c3342010-11-13 23:32:58 +00001850
Benjamin Petersoncc214172010-11-13 17:33:04 +00001851What's New in Python 2.7.1 release candidate 1?
1852===============================================
Benjamin Petersone3c10452010-07-03 14:51:25 +00001853
Benjamin Petersoncc214172010-11-13 17:33:04 +00001854*Release date: 2010-11-13*
Benjamin Petersone3c10452010-07-03 14:51:25 +00001855
1856Core and Builtins
1857-----------------
1858
Raymond Hettinger2ad17e12010-10-30 08:17:46 +00001859- Issue #10221: dict.pop(k) now has a key error message that includes the
1860 missing key (same message d[k] returns for missing keys).
1861
Barry Warsawfa658272010-11-02 21:03:09 +00001862- Issue #10125: Don't segfault when the iterator passed to
1863 ``file.writelines()`` closes the file.
Benjamin Petersonbf775542010-10-16 19:20:12 +00001864
Barry Warsawfa658272010-11-02 21:03:09 +00001865- Issue #10186: Fix the SyntaxError caret when the offset is equal to the
1866 length of the offending line.
Benjamin Petersonf99f33d2010-10-24 03:00:35 +00001867
Benjamin Petersonf76942d2010-10-16 03:51:38 +00001868- Issue #9997: Don't let the name "top" have special significance in scope
1869 resolution.
1870
R. David Murray1d9d16e2010-10-16 00:43:13 +00001871- Issue #9862: Compensate for broken PIPE_BUF in AIX by hard coding
1872 its value as the default 512 when compiling on AIX.
1873
Jesus Cea33c722b2010-11-04 21:39:52 +00001874- Issue #9675: CObject use is marked as a Py3k warning, not a deprecation
1875 warning.
1876
Benjamin Petersondc954242010-10-12 23:02:35 +00001877- Issue #10068: Global objects which have reference cycles with their module's
1878 dict are now cleared again. This causes issue #7140 to appear again.
1879
Mark Dickinsoncb61e5d2010-09-26 10:37:12 +00001880- Issue #9869: Make long() and PyNumber_Long return something of type
1881 long for a class whose __long__ method returns a plain int. This
1882 fixes an interpreter crash when initializing an instance of a long
1883 subclass from an object whose __long__ method returns a plain int.
1884
Benjamin Petersona5d5cc42010-10-02 00:08:58 +00001885- Issue #10006: type.__abstractmethods__ now raises an AttributeError.
1886
Antoine Pitrou0a7b65b2010-09-08 12:40:49 +00001887- Issue #9797: pystate.c wrongly assumed that zero couldn't be a valid
1888 thread-local storage key.
1889
Victor Stinnercaafd772010-09-08 10:51:01 +00001890- Issue #4947: The write() method of sys.stdout and sys.stderr uses their
1891 encoding and errors attributes instead of using utf-8 in strict mode, to get
1892 the same behaviour than the print statement.
1893
Antoine Pitrou9cf85f12010-09-01 21:17:34 +00001894- Issue #9737: Fix a crash when trying to delete a slice or an item from
1895 a memoryview object.
1896
Martin v. Löwis6086b0d2010-08-19 09:09:04 +00001897- Restore GIL in nis_cat in case of error.
1898
Benjamin Peterson6f3d6a92010-08-25 23:17:42 +00001899- Issue #9688: __basicsize__ and __itemsize__ must be accessed as Py_ssize_t.
1900
Florent Xicluna172e15f2010-08-09 20:02:00 +00001901- Issue #8530: Prevent stringlib fastsearch from reading beyond the front
1902 of an array.
1903
Raymond Hettinger3ad323e2010-08-06 10:18:56 +00001904- Issue #83755: Implicit set-to-frozenset conversion was not thread-safe.
1905
Mark Dickinsonaad57bd2010-08-01 10:45:15 +00001906- Issue #9416: Fix some issues with complex formatting where the
1907 output with no type specifier failed to match the str output:
1908
1909 - format(complex(-0.0, 2.0), '-') omitted the real part from the output,
1910 - format(complex(0.0, 2.0), '-') included a sign and parentheses.
1911
Antoine Pitrou32669782010-07-11 12:14:05 +00001912- Issue #7616: Fix copying of overlapping memoryview slices with the Intel
1913 compiler.
Benjamin Petersone3c10452010-07-03 14:51:25 +00001914
1915Library
1916-------
1917
Éric Araujo86f90742011-03-21 00:15:26 +01001918- Issue #9926: Wrapped TestSuite subclass does not get __call__ executed
Michael Foord75152ea2010-11-20 17:40:49 +00001919
Antoine Pitrou7eaa4482010-11-09 23:15:18 +00001920- Issue #4471: Properly shutdown socket in IMAP.shutdown(). Patch by
1921 Lorenzo M. Catucci.
1922
Éric Araujo2f0a0402010-11-06 15:46:46 +00001923- Issue #10126: Fix distutils' test_build when Python was built with
1924 --enable-shared.
Michael Foord75152ea2010-11-20 17:40:49 +00001925
Éric Araujo2f0a0402010-11-06 15:46:46 +00001926- Fix typo in one sdist option (medata-check).
1927
1928- Issue #9199: Fix incorrect use of distutils.cmd.Command.announce.
1929
1930- Issue #1718574: Fix options that were supposed to accept arguments but did
1931 not in build_clib.
1932
Éric Araujoe9954b52010-11-06 04:53:42 +00001933- Issue #9281: Prevent race condition with mkdir in distutils. Patch by
1934 Arfrever.
1935
Éric Araujoe28665a2010-11-06 04:36:28 +00001936- Issue #10229: Fix caching error in gettext.
1937
Éric Araujod1feff72010-11-06 04:06:18 +00001938- Issue #10252: Close file objects in a timely manner in distutils code and
1939 tests. Patch by Brian Brazil, completed by Éric Araujo.
1940
Antoine Pitrou6b1167c2010-11-05 19:55:02 +00001941- Issue #10311: The signal module now restores errno before returning from
1942 its low-level signal handler. Patch by Hallvard B Furuseth.
1943
Barry Warsawfa658272010-11-02 21:03:09 +00001944- Issue #10038: json.loads() on str should always return unicode (regression
1945 from Python 2.6). Patch by Walter Dörwald.
Michael Foorde5dc24e2010-11-01 22:11:53 +00001946
Barry Warsawfa658272010-11-02 21:03:09 +00001947- Issue #120176: Wrapped TestSuite subclass does not get __call__ executed.
1948
1949- Issue #6706: asyncore accept() method no longer raises
1950 EWOULDBLOCK/ECONNABORTED on incomplete connection attempt but returns None
1951 instead.
Giampaolo Rodolà19e9fef2010-11-01 15:07:14 +00001952
Antoine Pitrou61d14b72010-10-31 16:17:36 +00001953- Issue #10266: uu.decode didn't close in_file explicitly when it was given
1954 as a filename. Patch by Brian Brazil.
1955
Antoine Pitrou3917c092010-10-31 13:12:48 +00001956- Issue #10246: uu.encode didn't close file objects explicitly when filenames
1957 were given to it. Patch by Brian Brazil.
1958
Antoine Pitrou594a0462010-10-31 13:05:48 +00001959- Issue #10253: FileIO leaks a file descriptor when trying to open a file
1960 for append that isn't seekable. Patch by Brian Brazil.
1961
Raymond Hettingercbba8d42010-10-30 07:29:44 +00001962- Issue #6105: json.dumps now respects OrderedDict's iteration order.
1963
Antoine Pitrou638cee62010-10-28 14:50:57 +00001964- Issue #9295: Fix a crash under Windows when calling close() on a file
1965 object with custom buffering from two threads at once.
1966
Antoine Pitrou7f081022010-10-27 18:43:21 +00001967- Issue #5027: The standard ``xml`` namespace is now understood by
1968 xml.sax.saxutils.XMLGenerator as being bound to
1969 http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace. Patch by Troy J. Farrell.
1970
Brian Curtin4cc54032010-10-21 14:48:22 +00001971- Issue #10163: Skip unreadable registry keys during mimetypes
1972 initialization.
1973
Hirokazu Yamamoto50f7d7e2010-10-18 13:55:29 +00001974- Issue #5117: Fixed root directory related issue on posixpath.relpath() and
1975 ntpath.relpath().
1976
Éric Araujo86f90742011-03-21 00:15:26 +01001977- Issue #9409: Fix the regex to match all kind of filenames, for interactive
Florent Xiclunab67660f2010-10-14 21:10:45 +00001978 debugging in doctests.
1979
Victor Stinnerd2f6ae62010-10-12 22:53:51 +00001980- Issue #6612: Fix site and sysconfig to catch os.getcwd() error, eg. if the
1981 current directory was deleted. Patch written by W. Trevor King.
1982
Fred Drake577acb42010-10-11 19:13:04 +00001983- Issue #10045: Improved performance when writing after seeking past the
1984 end of the "file" in cStringIO.
1985
Vinay Sajip5e8349e2010-10-10 20:36:04 +00001986- Issue #9948: Fixed problem of losing filename case information.
1987
Antoine Pitrou58dab672010-10-10 09:54:59 +00001988- Issue #9437: Fix building C extensions with non-default LDFLAGS.
1989
Antoine Pitrou76a66aa2010-10-06 21:26:52 +00001990- Issue #9759: GzipFile now raises ValueError when an operation is attempted
1991 after the file is closed. Patch by Jeffrey Finkelstein.
1992
Éric Araujoc17776f2010-10-04 23:59:35 +00001993- Issue #9042: Fix interaction of custom translation classes and caching in
1994 gettext.
1995
Lars Gustäbel6aab8d02010-10-04 15:37:53 +00001996- Issue #9065: tarfile no longer uses "root" as the default for the uname and
1997 gname field.
1998
R. David Murray10a86762010-10-02 16:26:05 +00001999- Issue #1050268: parseaddr now correctly quotes double quote and backslash
2000 characters that appear inside quoted strings in email addresses.
2001
R. David Murray20ad3632010-10-01 15:48:49 +00002002- Issue #10004: quoprimime no longer generates a traceback when confronted
2003 with invalid characters after '=' in a Q-encoded word.
2004
Antoine Pitrou66b5df62010-09-27 18:16:46 +00002005- Issue #9950: Fix socket.sendall() crash or misbehaviour when a signal is
2006 received. Now sendall() properly calls signal handlers if necessary,
2007 and retries sending if these returned successfully, including on sockets
2008 with a timeout.
2009
Vinay Sajip3eac5912010-09-25 17:48:25 +00002010- Issue #9947: logging: Fixed locking bug in stopListening.
2011
Vinay Sajip546885e2010-09-25 17:42:36 +00002012- Issue #9945: logging: Fixed locking bugs in addHandler/removeHandler.
2013
Alexander Belopolsky517185e2010-09-24 18:14:18 +00002014- Issue #9936: Fixed executable lines' search in the trace module.
2015
Antoine Pitrou2c7d6852010-09-23 19:55:24 +00002016- Issue #9928: Properly initialize the types exported by the bz2 module.
2017
Antoine Pitrou6391b342010-09-14 18:48:19 +00002018- Issue #9854: The default read() implementation in io.RawIOBase now
2019 handles non-blocking readinto() returning None correctly.
2020
Antoine Pitrouf7f390a2010-09-14 14:37:18 +00002021- Issue #9729: Fix the signature of SSLSocket.recvfrom() and
2022 SSLSocket.sendto() to match the corresponding socket methods. Also,
2023 fix various SSLSocket methods to raise socket.error rather than an
2024 unhelpful TypeError when called on an unconnected socket. Original patch
2025 by Andrew Bennetts.
2026
Raymond Hettinger74f869e2010-09-13 22:14:36 +00002027- Issue #9826: OrderedDict.__repr__ can now handle self-referential
2028 values: d['x'] = d.
2029
Victor Stinner8fc843b2010-09-17 23:35:50 +00002030- Issue #767645: Set os.path.supports_unicode_filenames to True on Mac OS X.
Victor Stinner46287f52010-09-13 20:31:34 +00002031
Antoine Pitroue4195e82010-09-12 14:56:27 +00002032- Issue #9837: The read() method of ZipExtFile objects (as returned by
2033 ZipFile.open()) could return more bytes than requested.
2034
Raymond Hettinger20397532010-09-12 02:11:45 +00002035- Issue #9825: removed __del__ from the definition of collections.OrderedDict.
2036 This prevents user-created self-referencing ordered dictionaries from
2037 becoming permanently uncollectable GC garbage. The downside is that
2038 removing __del__ means that the internal doubly-linked list has to wait for
2039 GC collection rather than freeing memory immediately when the refcnt drops
2040 to zero.
2041
Raymond Hettingerffd2a422010-09-10 10:47:22 +00002042- Issue #9816: random.Random.jumpahead(n) did not produce a sufficiently
Victor Stinnerd2f6ae62010-10-12 22:53:51 +00002043 different internal state for small values of n. Fixed by salting the
Raymond Hettingerffd2a422010-09-10 10:47:22 +00002044 value.
2045
Antoine Pitrouc818ed42010-09-07 21:40:25 +00002046- Issue #9792: In case of connection failure, socket.create_connection()
2047 would swallow the exception and raise a new one, making it impossible
2048 to fetch the original errno, or to filter timeout errors. Now the
2049 original error is re-raised.
2050
Antoine Pitrouf4f61712010-09-07 16:34:47 +00002051- Issue #9758: When fcntl.ioctl() was called with mutable_flag set to True,
2052 and the passed buffer was exactly 1024 bytes long, the buffer wouldn't
2053 be updated back after the system call. Original patch by Brian Brazil.
2054
Antoine Pitroudca9de92010-09-04 17:52:26 +00002055- Issue #1100562: Fix deep-copying of objects derived from the list and
2056 dict types. Patch by Michele Orrù and Björn Lindqvist.
2057
Fred Drakea1e627d2010-09-03 03:55:50 +00002058- Issue #7005: Fixed output of None values for RawConfigParser.write and
2059 ConfigParser.write.
2060
Daniel Stutzbach66c981b2010-08-31 20:29:39 +00002061- Issue #808164: Fixed socket.close to avoid references to globals, to
2062 avoid issues when socket.close is called from a __del__ method.
2063
Terry Reedyd2d2ae92010-11-11 23:22:19 +00002064- Issue #2986: difflib.SequenceMatcher gets a new parameter, autojunk, which
2065 can be set to False to turn off the previously undocumented 'popularity'
2066 heuristic. Patch by Terry Reedy and Eli Bendersky
2067
Senthil Kumaran7e8fd5e2010-08-26 06:20:13 +00002068- Issue #8797: urllib2 does a retry for Basic Authentication failure instead of
2069 falling into recursion.
2070
R. David Murray7c4bf552010-08-25 01:45:57 +00002071- Issue #1194222: email.utils.parsedate now returns RFC2822 compliant four
2072 character years even if the message contains RFC822 two character years.
2073
Daniel Stutzbach91287322010-08-24 21:09:30 +00002074- Issue #8750: Fixed MutableSet's methods to correctly handle
2075 reflexive operations, namely x -= x and x ^= x.
2076
Victor Stinnercaafd772010-09-08 10:51:01 +00002077- Issue #9129: smtpd.py is vulnerable to DoS attacks deriving from missing
Giampaolo Rodolà8664d742010-08-23 22:48:51 +00002078 error handling when accepting a new connection.
2079
Giampaolo Rodolà63308d72010-08-23 21:58:47 +00002080- Issue #658749: asyncore's connect() method now correctly interprets winsock
2081 errors.
2082
Vinay Sajip1ddd51f2010-08-23 17:50:30 +00002083- Issue #9501: Fixed logging regressions in cleanup code.
2084
Raymond Hettinger917bba12010-08-22 08:01:58 +00002085- Issue #9214: Set operations on KeysView or ItemsView in the collections
2086 module now correctly return a set. (Patch by Eli Bendersky.)
2087
Antoine Pitrou3ebaed62010-08-21 19:17:25 +00002088- Issue #9617: Signals received during a low-level write operation aren't
2089 ignored by the buffered IO layer anymore.
2090
Benjamin Peterson52c36052010-08-21 03:03:22 +00002091- Issue #2521: Use weakrefs on for caching in the abc module, so that classes
2092 are not held onto after they are deleted elsewhere.
2093
Raymond Hettingera54b2da2010-08-17 19:03:06 +00002094- Issue #9626: the view methods for collections.OrderedDict() were returning
2095 the unordered versions inherited from dict. Those methods are now
2096 overridden to provide ordered views.
2097
Éric Araujo0389ae62010-08-14 03:07:46 +00002098- Issue #8688: MANIFEST files created by distutils now include a magic
2099 comment indicating they are generated. Manually maintained MANIFESTs
2100 without this marker will not be overwritten or removed.
2101
Antoine Pitroue1436d12010-08-12 15:25:51 +00002102- Issue #7467: when reading a file from a ZIP archive, its CRC is checked
2103 and a BadZipfile error is raised if it doesn't match (as used to be the
2104 case in Python 2.5 and earlier).
2105
Antoine Pitroucb4f47c2010-08-11 13:40:17 +00002106- Issue #9550: a BufferedReader could issue an additional read when the
2107 original read request had been satisfied, which could block indefinitely
2108 when the underlying raw IO channel was e.g. a socket. Report and original
2109 patch by Jason V. Miller.
2110
Fred Drake0a1fa0e2010-08-10 13:09:54 +00002111- Issue #9551: Don't raise TypeError when setting the value to None for
2112 SafeConfigParser instances constructed with allow_no_value == True.
2113
Antoine Pitrou8cdede42010-08-10 00:04:13 +00002114- Issue #6915: Under Windows, os.listdir() didn't release the Global
2115 Interpreter Lock around all system calls. Original patch by Ryan Kelly.
2116
Antoine Pitrou99009162010-08-09 22:51:24 +00002117- Issue #3757: thread-local objects now support cyclic garbage collection.
2118 Thread-local objects involved in reference cycles will be deallocated
2119 timely by the cyclic GC, even if the underlying thread is still running.
2120
Florent Xicluna2f1b1ff2010-08-09 20:46:49 +00002121- Issue #6231: Fix xml.etree.ElementInclude to include the tail of the
2122 current node.
2123
Thomas Heller5c7589c2010-08-08 18:28:59 +00002124- Issue #6869: Fix a refcount problem in the _ctypes extension.
2125
Thomas Heller001d3a12010-08-08 17:56:41 +00002126- Issue5504 - ctypes should now work with systems where mmap can't be
2127 PROT_WRITE and PROT_EXEC.
2128
Senthil Kumarane677ecf2010-08-08 11:56:31 +00002129- Fix Issue8280 - urllib2's Request method will remove fragements in the url.
2130 This is how it is supposed to work, wget and curl do the same. Previous
2131 behavior was wrong.
2132
Giampaolo Rodolà47617ab2010-08-04 08:35:25 +00002133- Issue #2944: asyncore doesn't handle connection refused correctly.
2134
R. David Murray75a292e2010-08-04 00:05:50 +00002135- Issue #3196: email header decoding is now forgiving if an RFC2047
2136 encoded word encoded in base64 is lacking padding.
2137
R. David Murray1cbf78e2010-08-03 18:14:01 +00002138- Issue #9444: Argparse now uses the first element of prefix_chars as
2139 the option character for the added 'h/help' option if prefix_chars
2140 does not contain a '-', instead of raising an error.
2141
Georg Brandl7f0c3ff2010-08-01 21:18:52 +00002142- Issue #9354: Provide getsockopt() in asyncore's file_wrapper.
2143
Florent Xicluna92847452010-09-13 17:36:36 +00002144- Issue #9428: Fix running scripts with the profile/cProfile modules from
2145 the command line.
2146
Georg Brandl9c5efad2010-08-02 21:29:14 +00002147- Issue #7781: Fix restricting stats by entry counts in the pstats
2148 interactive browser.
2149
2150- Issue #9209: Do not crash in the pstats interactive browser on invalid
2151 regular expressions.
2152
Georg Brandla2a92cf2010-08-02 17:34:58 +00002153- Issue #7372: Fix pstats regression when stripping paths from profile
2154 data generated with the profile module.
2155
Georg Brandl2bd953e2010-08-01 20:59:03 +00002156- Issue #4108: In urllib.robotparser, if there are multiple 'User-agent: *'
2157 entries, consider the first one.
2158
Antoine Pitrou39703012010-08-01 20:13:11 +00002159- Issue #8397: Raise an error when attempting to mix iteration and regular
2160 reads on a BZ2File object, rather than returning incorrect results.
2161
Georg Brandl50775992010-08-01 19:33:15 +00002162- Issue #5294: Fix the behavior of pdb's "continue" command when called
2163 in the top-level debugged frame.
2164
2165- Issue #5727: Restore the ability to use readline when calling into pdb
2166 in doctests.
2167
2168- Issue #6719: In pdb, do not stop somewhere in the encodings machinery
2169 if the source file to be debugged is in a non-builtin encoding.
2170
2171- Issue #8048: Prevent doctests from failing when sys.displayhook has
2172 been reassigned.
2173
2174- Issue #8015: In pdb, do not crash when an empty line is entered as
2175 a breakpoint command.
2176
Antoine Pitrou607951d2010-08-01 16:57:17 +00002177- Issue #9448: Fix a leak of OS resources (mutexes or semaphores) when
2178 re-initializing a buffered IO object by calling its ``__init__`` method.
2179
Georg Brandle2773252010-08-01 19:14:56 +00002180- Issue #7909: Do not touch paths with the special prefixes ``\\.\``
2181 or ``\\?\`` in ntpath.normpath().
2182
Georg Brandl004c74d2010-08-01 19:06:51 +00002183- Issue #5146: Handle UID THREAD command correctly in imaplib.
2184
2185- Issue #5147: Fix the header generated for cookie files written by
2186 http.cookiejar.MozillaCookieJar.
2187
2188- Issue #8198: In pydoc, output all help text to the correct stream
2189 when sys.stdout is reassigned.
2190
Georg Brandl0347c712010-08-01 19:02:09 +00002191- Issue #7395: Fix tracebacks in pstats interactive browser.
2192
2193- Issue #8230: Fix Lib/test/sortperf.py.
2194
Georg Brandl78e69572010-08-01 18:52:52 +00002195- Issue #1713: Fix os.path.ismount(), which returned true for symbolic links
2196 across devices.
2197
2198- Issue #8826: Properly load old-style "expires" attribute in http.cookies.
2199
2200- Issue #1690103: Fix initial namespace for code run with trace.main().
2201
Georg Brandl1f05e2e2010-08-01 08:22:05 +00002202- Issue #8471: In doctest, properly reset the output stream to an empty
2203 string when Unicode was previously output.
2204
R. David Murray58f15b62010-08-01 04:04:03 +00002205- Issue #8620: when a Cmd is fed input that reaches EOF without a final
2206 newline, it no longer truncates the last character of the last command line.
2207
Victor Stinner73363e82010-07-28 01:39:45 +00002208- Issue #6213: Implement getstate() and setstate() methods of utf-8-sig and
2209 utf-16 incremental encoders.
2210
Brian Curtinb2ec2322010-07-26 02:40:17 +00002211- Issue #7113: Speed up loading in ConfigParser. Patch by Łukasz Langa.
2212
Gregory P. Smith2a91ce82010-07-25 19:11:36 +00002213- Issue #3704: cookielib was not properly handling URLs with a / in the
2214 parameters.
2215
Victor Stinner8b0d84e2010-07-24 02:51:49 +00002216- Issue #9032: XML-RPC client retries the request on EPIPE error. The EPIPE
2217 error occurs when the server closes the socket and the client sends a big
2218 XML-RPC request.
2219
Victor Stinner2c6aee92010-07-24 02:46:16 +00002220- Issue #5542: Remove special logic that closes HTTPConnection socket on EPIPE.
2221
Victor Stinner4c16d122010-07-24 01:07:52 +00002222- Issue #4629: getopt raises an error if an argument ends with = whereas getopt
2223 doesn't except a value (eg. --help= is rejected if getopt uses ['help='] long
2224 options).
2225
Ronald Oussoren3a04a252010-07-23 12:41:00 +00002226- Issue #7895: platform.mac_ver() no longer crashes after calling os.fork()
2227
Antoine Pitrou7a7013e2010-07-21 16:47:28 +00002228- Issue #5395: array.fromfile() would raise a spurious EOFError when an
2229 I/O error occurred. Now an IOError is raised instead. Patch by chuck
2230 (Jan Hosang).
2231
R. David Murrayf6cbdcb2010-07-09 13:25:56 +00002232- Issue #7646: The fnmatch pattern cache no longer grows without bound.
2233
Mark Dickinson7ea29b02010-07-08 21:28:31 +00002234- Issue #9136: Fix 'dictionary changed size during iteration'
2235 RuntimeError produced when profiling the decimal module. This was
2236 due to a dangerous iteration over 'locals()' in Context.__init__.
2237
2238- Fix extreme speed issue in Decimal.pow when the base is an exact
2239 power of 10 and the exponent is tiny (for example,
2240 Decimal(10) ** Decimal('1e-999999999')).
2241
R. David Murray3caf7b92010-07-05 16:06:05 +00002242- Issue #9161: Fix regression in optparse's acceptance of unicode
2243 strings in add_option calls.
2244
Mark Dickinson75b44b32010-07-04 16:47:56 +00002245- Issue #9130: Fix validation of relative imports in parser module.
2246
Mark Dickinsona7ee59b2010-07-04 16:23:54 +00002247- Issue #9128: Fix validation of class decorators in parser module.
Benjamin Petersone3c10452010-07-03 14:51:25 +00002248
Ronald Oussoren75956202010-07-11 08:52:52 +00002249- Issue #9164: Ensure sysconfig handles dupblice archs while building on OSX
2250
Alexander Belopolsky9d17da32010-09-13 16:45:02 +00002251- Issue #9315: Fix for the trace module to record correct class name
2252 for tracing methods.
2253
Benjamin Petersone3c10452010-07-03 14:51:25 +00002254Extension Modules
2255-----------------
2256
Georg Brandl67c27332010-10-24 14:16:05 +00002257- Issue #9054: Fix a crash occurring when using the pyexpat module
2258 with expat version 2.0.1.
2259
Brian Curtin1390dd72010-10-01 16:44:03 +00002260- Issue #10003: Allow handling of SIGBREAK on Windows. Fixes a regression
Victor Stinnerd2f6ae62010-10-12 22:53:51 +00002261 introduced by issue #9324.
Brian Curtin1390dd72010-10-01 16:44:03 +00002262
Antoine Pitroue6ebcda2010-09-04 21:24:42 +00002263- Issue #8734: Avoid crash in msvcrt.get_osfhandle() when an invalid file
2264 descriptor is provided. Patch by Pascal Chambon.
2265
Antoine Pitrou247e2fd2010-09-04 17:27:10 +00002266- Issue #7736: Release the GIL around calls to opendir() and closedir()
2267 in the posix module. Patch by Marcin Bachry.
2268
Benjamin Peterson52c36052010-08-21 03:03:22 +00002269- As a result of issue #2521, the _weakref module is now compiled into the
2270 interpreter by default.
2271
Brian Curtin24af0e92010-08-06 19:41:01 +00002272- Issue #9324: Add parameter validation to signal.signal on Windows in order
2273 to prevent crashes.
2274
Mark Dickinson5e684332010-08-06 09:44:48 +00002275- Issue #9526: Remove some outdated (int) casts that were preventing
2276 the array module from working correctly with arrays of more than
2277 2**31 elements.
2278
Mark Dickinsonf38d8882010-08-03 18:46:28 +00002279- Fix memory leak in ssl._ssl._test_decode_cert.
2280
Mark Dickinson0f981282010-08-03 16:54:19 +00002281- Issue #8065: Fix memory leak in readline module (from failure to
2282 free the result of history_get_history_state()).
2283
Mark Dickinson4ee98532010-08-03 16:18:39 +00002284- Issue #9450: Fix memory leak in readline.replace_history_item and
2285 readline.remove_history_item for readline version >= 5.0.
2286
Brian Curtinba6c08e2010-08-01 15:47:53 +00002287- Issue #8105: Validate file descriptor passed to mmap.mmap on Windows.
2288
Georg Brandla4917272010-07-31 21:22:36 +00002289- Issue #1019882: Fix IndexError when loading certain hotshot stats.
2290
Mark Dickinson96527c32010-07-29 21:44:47 +00002291- Issue #9422: Fix memory leak when re-initializing a struct.Struct object.
2292
Ronald Oussoren9e7ffae2010-07-24 09:46:41 +00002293- Issue #7900: The getgroups(2) system call on MacOSX behaves rather oddly
2294 compared to other unix systems. In particular, os.getgroups() does
2295 not reflect any changes made using os.setgroups() but basicly always
2296 returns the same information as the id command.
2297
2298 os.getgroups() can now return more than 16 groups on MacOSX.
2299
Mark Dickinsoncac0b832010-07-18 07:55:55 +00002300- Issue #9277: Fix bug in struct.pack for bools in standard mode
2301 (e.g., struct.pack('>?')): if conversion to bool raised an exception
2302 then that exception wasn't properly propagated on machines where
2303 char is unsigned.
2304
Matthias Klose6e86bf72010-07-30 21:27:18 +00002305- Issue #7567: Don't call `setupterm' twice.
2306
Ronald Oussoren19199832011-03-14 11:57:39 -04002307
Antoine Pitrou2fba0b32010-09-08 21:12:36 +00002308Tools/Demos
2309-----------
2310
Benjamin Peterson4de6b062010-10-13 22:07:17 +00002311- Issue #7287: Demo/imputil/knee.py was removed.
2312
Antoine Pitrou2fba0b32010-09-08 21:12:36 +00002313- Issue #9188: The gdb extension now handles correctly narrow (UCS2) as well
2314 as wide (UCS4) unicode builds for both the host interpreter (embedded
2315 inside gdb) and the interpreter under test.
2316
Benjamin Peterson4082d9b2010-07-17 20:41:16 +00002317Build
2318-----
2319
Antoine Pitroue0c5f3c2010-10-27 20:35:26 +00002320- Issue #8852: Allow the socket module to build on OpenSolaris.
2321
Antoine Pitrou7be5a652010-10-10 08:14:41 +00002322- Issue #10054: Some platforms provide uintptr_t in inttypes.h. Patch by
2323 Akira Kitada.
2324
Antoine Pitrou22ad2452010-10-09 15:28:59 +00002325- Issue #10055: Make json C89-compliant in UCS4 mode.
2326
Antoine Pitrou285cd162010-09-21 15:23:17 +00002327- Issue #1633863: Don't ignore $CC under AIX.
2328
Hirokazu Yamamotoc4caa9c2010-09-18 22:33:33 +00002329- Issue #9810: Compile bzip2 source files in python's project file
2330 directly. It used to be built with bzip2's makefile.
2331
Antoine Pitrouaabdceb2010-09-10 20:03:17 +00002332- Issue #941346: Improve the build process under AIX and allow Python to
2333 be built as a shared library. Patch by Sébastien Sablé.
2334
Antoine Pitrou85729812010-09-07 14:55:24 +00002335- Issue #4026: Make the fcntl extension build under AIX. Patch by Sébastien
2336 Sablé.
2337
Antoine Pitroua74c3342010-09-03 16:15:17 +00002338- Issue #3101: Helper functions _add_one_to_index_C() and
2339 _add_one_to_index_F() become _Py_add_one_to_index_C() and
2340 _Py_add_one_to_index_F(), respectively.
Antoine Pitrou1fcdba82010-09-01 13:02:50 +00002341
2342- Issue #9700: define HAVE_BROKEN_POSIX_SEMAPHORES under AIX 6.x. Patch by
2343 Sébastien Sablé.
2344
Benjamin Peterson4082d9b2010-07-17 20:41:16 +00002345- Issue #9280: Make sharedinstall depend on sharedmods.
2346
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00002347- Issue #9275: The OSX installer once again installs links to binaries in
2348 ``/usr/local/bin``.
Ronald Oussoren8a14db82010-07-23 11:13:03 +00002349
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00002350- Issue #9392: A framework build on OSX will once again use a versioned name
2351 of the ``2to3`` tool, that is you can use ``2to3-2.7`` to select the Python
2352 2.7 edition of 2to3.
Ronald Oussoren0969c672010-07-29 13:18:19 +00002353
Ronald Oussorenec2fe002010-09-28 14:01:49 +00002354- Issue #9701: The MacOSX installer can patch the shell profile to ensure that
2355 the "bin" directory inside the framework is on the shell's search path. This
2356 feature now also supports the ZSH shell.
2357
Ronald Oussoren24215252010-10-20 13:11:46 +00002358- Issue #7473: avoid link errors when building a framework with a different
2359 set of architectures than the one that is currently installed.
Ronald Oussorenec2fe002010-09-28 14:01:49 +00002360
Antoine Pitrou22db7352010-07-08 18:54:04 +00002361Tests
2362-----
2363
Hirokazu Yamamoto1f504f12010-10-08 09:41:13 +00002364- Issue #9978: Wait until subprocess completes initialization. (Win32KillTests
2365 in test_os)
2366
Antoine Pitrou767cbc42010-09-18 18:15:33 +00002367- Issue #9894: Do not hardcode ENOENT in test_subprocess.
2368
Florent Xicluna92847452010-09-13 17:36:36 +00002369- Issue #9323: Make test.regrtest.__file__ absolute, this was not always the
2370 case when running profile or trace, for example.
2371
Alexander Belopolsky9d17da32010-09-13 16:45:02 +00002372- Issue #9315: Added tests for the trace module. Patch by Eli Bendersky.
Florent Xicluna92847452010-09-13 17:36:36 +00002373
Florent Xiclunac0c0b142010-09-13 08:53:00 +00002374- Strengthen test_unicode with explicit type checking for assertEqual tests.
2375
Giampaolo Rodolà633e4742010-08-14 17:04:46 +00002376- Issue #8857: Provide a test case for socket.getaddrinfo.
2377
Florent Xicluna172e15f2010-08-09 20:02:00 +00002378- Issue #7564: Skip test_ioctl if another process is attached to /dev/tty.
2379
Mark Dickinson28669332010-08-07 13:07:11 +00002380- Issue #8433: Fix test_curses failure with newer versions of ncurses.
2381
Antoine Pitrou185fae72010-08-04 15:54:33 +00002382- Issue #9496: Provide a test suite for the rlcompleter module. Patch by
2383 Michele Orrù.
2384
Antoine Pitrou22db7352010-07-08 18:54:04 +00002385- Issue #8605: Skip test_gdb if Python is compiled with optimizations.
2386
Ronald Oussoren8928e322010-09-28 14:43:59 +00002387- Issue #9568: Fix test_urllib2_localnet on OS X 10.3.
2388
Brett Cannon8c4fa112010-07-21 09:52:10 +00002389Documentation
2390-------------
2391
Matthias Klose3e8230d2010-09-12 16:51:29 +00002392- Issue #9817: Add expat COPYING file; add expat, libffi and expat licenses
2393 to Doc/license.rst.
2394
Brian Curtin4d808892010-08-05 19:00:45 +00002395- Issue #9524: Document that two CTRL* signals are meant for use only
2396 with os.kill.
2397
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00002398- Issue #9255: Document that the 'test' package is for internal Python use
2399 only.
Brett Cannon9ae2cb72010-07-23 12:07:27 +00002400
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00002401- Issue #7829: Document in dis that bytecode is an implementation detail.
Brett Cannon8c4fa112010-07-21 09:52:10 +00002402
Benjamin Petersone3c10452010-07-03 14:51:25 +00002403
Benjamin Peterson4f612592010-06-21 17:28:30 +00002404What's New in Python 2.7?
2405=========================
2406
Benjamin Petersonc60082d2010-07-03 13:56:13 +00002407*Release date: 2010-07-03*
Benjamin Peterson4f612592010-06-21 17:28:30 +00002408
2409Core and Builtins
2410-----------------
2411
Benjamin Peterson947ce582010-06-24 00:12:40 +00002412- Prevent assignment to set literals.
2413
Benjamin Peterson4f612592010-06-21 17:28:30 +00002414Library
2415-------
2416
Antoine Pitroua4083502010-08-28 18:29:13 +00002417- Issue #1868: Eliminate subtle timing issues in thread-local objects by
2418 getting rid of the cached copy of thread-local attribute dictionary.
2419
Benjamin Peterson6a336f62010-07-03 13:57:30 +00002420- Issue #9125: Add recognition of 'except ... as ...' syntax to parser module.
2421
2422Extension Modules
2423-----------------
2424
Benjamin Petersonc670b7e2010-07-03 13:49:23 +00002425- Issue #7673: Fix security vulnerability (CVE-2010-2089) in the audioop module,
2426 ensure that the input string length is a multiple of the frame size.
Victor Stinner15e5b1b2010-07-03 13:36:19 +00002427
Antoine Pitrou0dddf602010-06-25 00:03:21 +00002428- Issue #9075: In the ssl module, remove the setting of a ``debug`` flag
2429 on an OpenSSL structure.
2430
Benjamin Peterson00633672010-07-03 13:56:56 +00002431
Michael Foord83d35762010-06-10 16:32:00 +00002432What's New in Python 2.7 release candidate 2?
2433=============================================
Benjamin Peterson2f3d9f92010-06-06 02:09:33 +00002434
Benjamin Petersonbfcedf42010-06-21 15:57:57 +00002435*Release date: 2010-06-20*
Benjamin Peterson2f3d9f92010-06-06 02:09:33 +00002436
2437Core and Builtins
2438-----------------
2439
Benjamin Petersonb9133892010-06-22 19:16:37 +00002440- Issue #9058: Remove assertions about INT_MAX in UnicodeDecodeError.
2441
Nick Coghlan8842c352010-06-13 06:50:39 +00002442- Issue #8202: Previous change to ``sys.argv[0]`` handling for -m command line
2443 option reverted due to unintended side effects on handling of ``sys.path``.
2444 See tracker issue for details.
2445
Antoine Pitroucca3a3f2010-06-11 21:42:26 +00002446- Issue #8941: decoding big endian UTF-32 data in UCS-2 builds could crash
2447 the interpreter with characters outside the Basic Multilingual Plane
2448 (higher than 0x10000).
2449
Benjamin Petersonfa4c59f2010-06-08 14:53:29 +00002450- In the unicode/str.format(), raise a ValueError when indexes to arguments are
2451 too large.
Benjamin Peterson13e934a2010-06-07 22:23:23 +00002452
Benjamin Petersonafa1b302010-06-21 15:27:46 +00002453Build
2454-----
2455
2456- Issue #8854: Fix finding Visual Studio 2008 on Windows x64.
2457
Benjamin Peterson2f3d9f92010-06-06 02:09:33 +00002458Library
2459-------
Mark Dickinsone979ec82010-06-13 10:50:29 +00002460
Victor Stinner15e5b1b2010-07-03 13:36:19 +00002461- Issue #6589: cleanup asyncore.socket_map in case smtpd.SMTPServer constructor
Giampaolo Rodolàe00e2f02010-06-30 17:38:28 +00002462 raises an exception.
2463
Thomas Hellerf1800992010-06-21 14:00:24 +00002464- Issue #8959: fix regression caused by using unmodified libffi
2465 library on Windows. ctypes does now again check the stack before
2466 and after calling foreign functions.
2467
R. David Murraydf1cf302010-06-17 01:36:52 +00002468- Issue #8720: fix regression caused by fix for #4050 by making getsourcefile
2469 smart enough to find source files in the linecache.
2470
Mark Dickinsone979ec82010-06-13 10:50:29 +00002471- Issue #8986: math.erfc was incorrectly raising OverflowError for
2472 values between -27.3 and -30.0 on some platforms.
2473
Vinay Sajip936efc72010-06-11 22:56:50 +00002474- Issue #8924: logging: Improved error handling for Unicode in exception text.
Benjamin Peterson2f3d9f92010-06-06 02:09:33 +00002475
Michael Foord83d35762010-06-10 16:32:00 +00002476- Issue #8948: cleanup functions and class / module setups and teardowns are
2477 now honored in unittest debug methods.
2478
Tarek Ziadé770fd152010-06-06 20:05:20 +00002479Documentation
2480-------------
2481
2482- Issues #8909: Added the size of the bitmap used in the installer created by
2483 distutils' bdist_wininst. Patch by Anatoly Techtonik.
2484
Victor Stinnerb65bd2e2010-06-11 19:22:28 +00002485Misc
2486----
2487
2488- Issue #8362: Add maintainers.rst: list of module maintainers
2489
Benjamin Peterson2f3d9f92010-06-06 02:09:33 +00002490
Antoine Pitrou6001b0b2010-05-09 18:32:48 +00002491What's New in Python 2.7 Release Candidate 1?
2492=============================================
Benjamin Peterson534b8de2010-05-08 18:53:42 +00002493
Benjamin Peterson77d534e2010-06-06 00:22:09 +00002494*Release date: 2010-06-05*
Benjamin Peterson534b8de2010-05-08 18:53:42 +00002495
2496Core and Builtins
2497-----------------
2498
Ezio Melottiab2eb0e2010-06-05 19:21:32 +00002499- Issue #8271: during the decoding of an invalid UTF-8 byte sequence, only the
2500 start byte and the continuation byte(s) are now considered invalid, instead
2501 of the number of bytes specified by the start byte.
2502 E.g.: '\xf1\x80AB'.decode('utf-8', 'replace') now returns u'\ufffdAB' and
2503 replaces with U+FFFD only the start byte ('\xf1') and the continuation byte
2504 ('\x80') even if '\xf1' is the start byte of a 4-bytes sequence.
2505 Previous versions returned a single u'\ufffd'.
2506
Mark Dickinson23f0d6b2010-06-05 11:52:24 +00002507- Issue #8627: Remove bogus "Overriding __cmp__ blocks inheritance of
Mark Dickinsone4b83e02010-06-05 12:14:43 +00002508 __hash__ in 3.x" warning. Also fix "XXX undetected error" that
2509 arises from the "Overriding __eq__ blocks inheritance ..." warning
2510 when turned into an exception: in this case the exception simply
2511 gets ignored.
Mark Dickinson23f0d6b2010-06-05 11:52:24 +00002512
Mark Dickinson4ca7c3c2010-05-30 13:18:10 +00002513- Issue #8748: Fix two issues with comparisons between complex and integer
2514 objects. (1) The comparison could incorrectly return True in some cases
2515 (2**53+1 == complex(2**53) == 2**53), breaking transivity of equality.
2516 (2) The comparison raised an OverflowError for large integers, leading
2517 to unpredictable exceptions when combining integers and complex objects
2518 in sets or dicts.
2519
Mark Dickinson81336372010-05-30 12:12:25 +00002520- Issue #5211: Implicit coercion for the complex type is now completely
2521 removed. (Coercion for arithmetic operations was already removed in 2.7
2522 alpha 4, but coercion for rich comparisons was accidentally left in.)
2523
Victor Stinnerc49dfcc2010-05-25 22:30:32 +00002524- Issue #3798: Write sys.exit() message to sys.stderr to use stderr encoding
2525 and error handler, instead of writing to the C stderr file in utf-8
2526
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002527- Issue #7902: When using explicit relative import syntax, don't try implicit
2528 relative import semantics.
Brett Cannoneb3cd302010-05-20 18:37:55 +00002529
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002530- Issue #7079: Fix a possible crash when closing a file object while using it
2531 from another thread. Patch by Daniel Stutzbach.
Antoine Pitrou83137c22010-05-17 19:56:59 +00002532
Victor Stinnerb65bd2e2010-06-11 19:22:28 +00002533- Issue #8868: Fix that ensures that python scripts have access to the
Ronald Oussoren27c72e92010-06-02 03:47:14 +00002534 Window Server again in a framework build on MacOSX 10.5 or earlier.
2535
Antoine Pitrou6a265602010-05-21 17:12:38 +00002536C-API
2537-----
2538
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002539- Issue #5753: A new C API function, :cfunc:`PySys_SetArgvEx`, allows embedders
2540 of the interpreter to set sys.argv without also modifying sys.path. This
2541 helps fix `CVE-2008-5983
Antoine Pitrou6a265602010-05-21 17:12:38 +00002542 <http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5983>`_.
2543
Benjamin Peterson534b8de2010-05-08 18:53:42 +00002544Library
2545-------
2546
Michael Foordd8918592010-06-05 19:51:38 +00002547- Issue #8302: SkipTest in unittest.TestCase.setUpClass or setUpModule is now
2548 reported as a skip rather than an error.
2549
2550- Issue #8351: Excessively large diffs due to
2551 unittest.TestCase.assertSequenceEqual are no longer included in failure
2552 reports.
2553
Alexander Belopolsky3b818bf2010-06-05 14:54:26 +00002554- Issue #8899: time.struct_time now has class and atribute docstrings.
2555
R. David Murraye7e505b2010-06-04 19:51:06 +00002556- Issue #4487: email now accepts as charset aliases all codec aliases
2557 accepted by the codecs module.
2558
Martin v. Löwiseba67c02010-06-04 19:39:07 +00002559- Issue #6470: Drop UNC prefix in FixTk.
2560
R. David Murray61746d52010-06-03 15:43:20 +00002561- Issue #5610: feedparser no longer eats extra characters at the end of
2562 a body part if the body part ends with a \r\n.
2563
Lars Gustäbel2ee9c6f2010-06-03 09:56:22 +00002564- Issue #8833: tarfile created hard link entries with a size field != 0 by
2565 mistake.
2566
R. David Murray52dcd452010-06-02 22:03:15 +00002567- Issue #1368247: set_charset (and therefore MIMEText) now automatically
2568 encodes a unicode _payload to the output_charset.
2569
Alexander Belopolsky9292ee02010-05-27 20:55:27 +00002570- Issue #7150: Raise OverflowError if the result of adding or subtracting
2571 timedelta from date or datetime falls outside of the MINYEAR:MAXYEAR range.
2572
Victor Stinner04ee3372010-05-24 21:37:28 +00002573- Issue #6662: Fix parsing of malformatted charref (&#bad;), patch written by
2574 Fredrik Håård
Victor Stinner554a3b82010-05-24 21:33:24 +00002575
Georg Brandlf0757a22010-05-24 21:29:07 +00002576- Issue #8016: Add the CP858 codec.
2577
Georg Brandl5d0ca2c2010-05-22 11:29:19 +00002578- Issue #3924: Ignore cookies with invalid "version" field in cookielib.
2579
Victor Stinner7df55da2010-05-22 13:37:56 +00002580- Issue #6268: Fix seek() method of codecs.open(), don't read or write the BOM
2581 twice after seek(0). Fix also reset() method of codecs, UTF-16, UTF-32 and
2582 StreamWriter classes.
Victor Stinner262be5e2010-05-22 02:11:07 +00002583
Victor Stinnerd6703b52010-05-21 22:50:28 +00002584- Issue #5640: Fix Shift-JIS incremental encoder for error handlers different
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002585 than 'strict'.
Victor Stinnerd6703b52010-05-21 22:50:28 +00002586
Benjamin Peterson266e4542010-05-21 21:31:24 +00002587- Issue #8782: Add a trailing newline in linecache.updatecache to the last line
2588 of files without one.
2589
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002590- Issue #8729: Return NotImplemented from ``collections.Mapping.__eq__()`` when
Benjamin Petersoneb318d32010-05-21 20:51:45 +00002591 comparing to a non-mapping.
2592
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002593- Issue #8759: Fix user paths in sysconfig for posix and os2 schemes.
Tarek Ziadé8f692272010-05-19 22:20:14 +00002594
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002595- Issue #1285086: Speed up ``urllib.quote()`` and urllib.unquote for simple
2596 cases.
Florent Xiclunaaf87f9f2010-05-17 13:35:09 +00002597
Tarek Ziadé422545f2010-05-17 10:06:20 +00002598- Issue #8688: Distutils now recalculates MANIFEST everytime.
2599
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002600- Issue #5099: The ``__del__()`` method of ``subprocess.Popen`` (and the methods
2601 it calls) referenced global objects, causing errors to pop up during
2602 interpreter shutdown.
Brett Cannon42a0ba72010-05-14 00:21:48 +00002603
Mark Dickinson932e1622010-05-10 16:07:42 +00002604Extension Modules
2605-----------------
2606
Stefan Krah449aa862010-06-03 12:39:50 +00002607- Issue #7384: If the system readline library is linked against ncurses,
2608 the curses module must be linked against ncurses as well. Otherwise it
2609 is not safe to load both the readline and curses modules in an application.
2610
Brian Curtinb64c89b2010-05-25 15:06:15 +00002611- Issue #2810: Fix cases where the Windows registry API returns
2612 ERROR_MORE_DATA, requiring a re-try in order to get the complete result.
2613
Mark Dickinson932e1622010-05-10 16:07:42 +00002614- Issue #8674: Fixed a number of incorrect or undefined-behaviour-inducing
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002615 overflow checks in the ``audioop`` module.
Benjamin Peterson534b8de2010-05-08 18:53:42 +00002616
Brett Cannonda9af752010-05-13 23:59:41 +00002617Tests
2618-----
2619
R. David Murray4653fb52010-06-03 20:19:25 +00002620- Issue #8889: test_support.transient_internet rewritten so that the new
2621 checks also work on FreeBSD, which lacks EAI_NODATA.
2622
2623- Issue #8835: test_support.transient_internet() catches gaierror(EAI_NONAME)
Victor Stinner03883622010-05-27 22:29:48 +00002624 and gaierror(EAI_NODATA)
2625
Victor Stinner708c0722010-05-26 17:25:28 +00002626- Issue #7449: Skip test_socketserver if threading support is disabled
2627
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002628- On darwin, ``test_site`` assumed that a framework build was being used,
2629 leading to a failure where four directories were expected for site-packages
2630 instead of two in a non-framework build.
Brett Cannonda9af752010-05-13 23:59:41 +00002631
Martin v. Löwisb41afb52010-05-28 15:28:47 +00002632Build
2633-----
2634
Martin v. Löwis16b2a5e2010-06-04 19:15:32 +00002635- Display installer warning that Windows 2000 won't be supported in future
2636 releases.
2637
Victor Stinnerb65bd2e2010-06-11 19:22:28 +00002638- Issues #1759169, #8864: Drop _XOPEN_SOURCE on Solaris, define it for
Martin v. Löwis26eec582010-06-04 17:18:42 +00002639 multiprocessing only.
Brett Cannonda9af752010-05-13 23:59:41 +00002640
Martin v. Löwis5aafc172010-06-04 18:04:42 +00002641Tools/Demos
2642-----------
2643
2644- Issue #5464: Implement plural forms in msgfmt.py.
2645
2646
Antoine Pitrouab5ce722010-04-11 22:45:47 +00002647What's New in Python 2.7 beta 2?
2648================================
Benjamin Peterson12409062010-04-10 18:53:58 +00002649
Benjamin Petersonc2516072010-05-08 17:08:17 +00002650*Release date: 2010-05-08*
Benjamin Peterson12409062010-04-10 18:53:58 +00002651
2652Core and Builtins
2653-----------------
2654
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002655- Run Clang 2.7's static analyzer for ``Objects/`` and ``Python/``.
Brett Cannon5fb89df2010-05-05 20:54:53 +00002656
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002657- Issue #1533: Fix inconsistency in range function argument processing: any
2658 non-float non-integer argument is now converted to an integer (if possible)
2659 using its __int__ method. Previously, only small arguments were treated this
2660 way; larger arguments (those whose __int__ was outside the range of a C long)
2661 would produce a TypeError.
Mark Dickinsona8d26682010-05-04 16:18:25 +00002662
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002663- Issue #8202: ``sys.argv[0]`` is now set to '-m' instead of '-c' when searching
2664 for the module file to be executed with the -m command line option.
Nick Coghlanc5e44852010-04-28 14:51:08 +00002665
Brett Cannon19949692010-04-25 22:33:36 +00002666- Issue #7319: When -Q is used, do not silence DeprecationWarning.
2667
Antoine Pitrou18e63fb2010-04-21 22:53:29 +00002668- Issue #7332: Remove the 16KB stack-based buffer in
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002669 ``PyMarshal_ReadLastObjectFromFile``, which doesn't bring any noticeable
Antoine Pitrou18e63fb2010-04-21 22:53:29 +00002670 benefit compared to the dynamic memory allocation fallback. Patch by
2671 Charles-François Natali.
2672
Benjamin Peterson821a8ea2010-04-16 22:35:38 +00002673- Issue #8417: Raise an OverflowError when an integer larger than sys.maxsize is
2674 passed to bytearray.
2675
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002676- Issue #7072: ``isspace(0xa0)`` is true on Mac OS X.
Ronald Oussoren37805e52010-04-18 13:47:49 +00002677
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002678- Issue #8404: Fix set operations on dictionary views.
Alexandre Vassalotti268e4872010-05-04 03:21:51 +00002679
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002680- Issue #8084: PEP 370 now conforms to system conventions for framework builds
2681 on MacOS X. That is, ``python setup.py install --user`` will install into
2682 ``~/Library/Python/2.7`` instead of ``~/.local``.
Ronald Oussoren2f88bfd2010-05-08 10:29:06 +00002683
Benjamin Peterson12409062010-04-10 18:53:58 +00002684Library
2685-------
2686
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002687- Issue #8681: Make the zlib module's error messages more informative when the
2688 zlib itself doesn't give any detailed explanation.
Antoine Pitroufc3bfad2010-05-11 23:42:28 +00002689
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002690- Issue #8571: Fix an internal error when compressing or decompressing a chunk
2691 larger than 1GB with the zlib module's compressor and decompressor objects.
Antoine Pitrou3843cd82010-05-07 16:50:34 +00002692
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002693- Issue #8573: asyncore ``_strerror()`` function might throw ValueError.
Giampaolo Rodolàf7454fa2010-05-06 17:57:06 +00002694
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002695- Issue #8483: asyncore.dispatcher's __getattr__ method produced confusing error
2696 messages when accessing undefined class attributes because of the cheap
2697 inheritance with the underlying socket object. The cheap inheritance has been
2698 deprecated.
Giampaolo Rodolàf7454fa2010-05-06 17:57:06 +00002699
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002700- Issue #4265: ``shutil.copyfile()`` was leaking file descriptors when disk
2701 fills. Patch by Tres Seaver.
Tarek Ziadé38f81222010-05-05 22:15:31 +00002702
Barry Warsaw8efa8672010-05-05 16:17:22 +00002703- Issue #7755: Use an unencumbered audio file for tests.
2704
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002705- Issue #8621: ``uuid.uuid4()`` returned the same sequence of values in the
2706 parent and any children created using ``os.fork`` on Mac OS X 10.6.
Ronald Oussoren33206962010-05-05 14:48:37 +00002707
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002708- Issue #8313: ``traceback.format_exception_only()`` encodes unicode message to
2709 ASCII with backslashreplace error handler if ``str(value)`` failed.
Victor Stinner926fd4e2010-05-05 12:40:49 +00002710
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002711- Issue #8567: Fix precedence of signals in Decimal module: when a Decimal
2712 operation raises multiple signals and more than one of those signals is
2713 trapped, the specification determines the order in which the signals should be
2714 handled. In many cases this order wasn't being followed, leading to the wrong
2715 Python exception being raised.
Mark Dickinson4f96f5f2010-05-04 14:25:50 +00002716
Antoine Pitrouf7fd8e42010-05-03 16:25:33 +00002717- Issue #7865: The close() method of :mod:`io` objects should not swallow
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002718 exceptions raised by the implicit flush(). Also ensure that calling close()
2719 several times is supported. Patch by Pascal Chambon.
Antoine Pitrouf7fd8e42010-05-03 16:25:33 +00002720
Vinay Sajip27a13702010-05-03 15:11:53 +00002721- Issue #8576: logging updated to remove usage of find_unused_port().
2722
Antoine Pitrou951919f2010-05-02 19:51:14 +00002723- Issue #4687: Fix accuracy of garbage collection runtimes displayed with
2724 gc.DEBUG_STATS.
2725
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002726- Issue #8354: The siginterrupt setting is now preserved for all signals, not
2727 just SIGCHLD.
Jean-Paul Calderonee54ddf12010-05-08 20:06:02 +00002728
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002729- Issue #7192: ``webbrowser.get("firefox")`` now works on Mac OS X, as does
2730 ``webbrowser.get("safari")``.
Ronald Oussoren4ef1c7e2010-05-02 09:48:21 +00002731
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002732- Issue #8577: ``distutils.sysconfig.get_python_inc()`` now makes a difference
Tarek Ziadéa5cd1822010-04-30 12:15:12 +00002733 between the build dir and the source dir when looking for "python.h" or
2734 "Include".
2735
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002736- Issue #8464: tarfile no longer creates files with execute permissions set when
2737 mode="w|" is used.
Lars Gustäbel5c4c4612010-04-29 15:23:38 +00002738
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002739- Issue #7834: Fix connect() of Bluetooth L2CAP sockets with recent versions of
2740 the Linux kernel. Patch by Yaniv Aknin.
Antoine Pitrouf56a2882010-04-29 10:05:40 +00002741
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002742- Issue #6312: Fix http HEAD request when the transfer encoding is chunked. It
2743 should correctly return an empty response now.
Senthil Kumaraned9204342010-04-28 17:20:43 +00002744
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002745- Issue #7490: To facilitate sharing of doctests between 2.x and 3.x test
2746 suites, the ``IGNORE_EXCEPTION_DETAIL`` directive now also ignores the module
2747 location of the raised exception. Based on initial patch by Lennart Regebro.
Nick Coghlandfb45df2010-04-28 14:29:06 +00002748
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002749- Issue #8086: In :func:`ssl.DER_cert_to_PEM_cert()`, fix missing newline before
2750 the certificate footer. Patch by Kyle VanderBeek.
Antoine Pitrou4c7bcf12010-04-27 22:03:37 +00002751
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002752- Issue #8546: Reject None given as the buffering argument to ``_pyio.open()``.
Benjamin Petersona9bd6d52010-04-27 21:01:54 +00002753
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002754- Issue #8549: Fix compiling the _ssl extension under AIX. Patch by Sridhar
2755 Ratnakumar.
Antoine Pitrou1dc6b082010-04-27 19:09:59 +00002756
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002757- Issue #6656: Fix locale.format_string to handle escaped percents and mappings.
R. David Murray3939dcd2010-04-26 21:17:14 +00002758
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002759- Issue #2302: Fix a race condition in SocketServer.BaseServer.shutdown, where
2760 the method could block indefinitely if called just before the event loop
2761 started running. This also fixes the occasional freezes witnessed in
2762 test_httpservers.
Antoine Pitroua6240402010-04-25 21:40:32 +00002763
Antoine Pitroufc69af12010-04-24 20:04:58 +00002764- Issue #5103: SSL handshake would ignore the socket timeout and block
2765 indefinitely if the other end didn't respond.
2766
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002767- The do_handshake() method of SSL objects now adjusts the blocking mode of the
2768 SSL structure if necessary (as other methods already do).
Antoine Pitrou4d3e3722010-04-24 19:57:01 +00002769
Georg Brandl4341e542010-04-24 09:08:10 +00002770- Issue #7507: Quote "!" in pipes.quote(); it is special to some shells.
2771
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002772- Issue #5238: Calling makefile() on an SSL object would prevent the underlying
2773 socket from being closed until all objects get truely destroyed.
Antoine Pitroub558f172010-04-23 23:25:45 +00002774
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002775- Issue #7943: Fix circular reference created when instantiating an SSL socket.
2776 Initial patch by Péter Szabó.
Antoine Pitroudfb299b2010-04-23 22:54:59 +00002777
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002778- Issue #8451: Syslog module now uses basename(sys.argv[0]) instead of the
2779 string "python" as the *ident*. openlog() arguments are all optional and
2780 keywords.
Sean Reifscheiderf6ce3cb2010-04-23 08:31:55 +00002781
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002782- Issue #8108: Fix the unwrap() method of SSL objects when the socket has a
2783 non-infinite timeout. Also make that method friendlier with applications
Antoine Pitroua5c4b552010-04-22 23:33:02 +00002784 wanting to continue using the socket in clear-text mode, by disabling
2785 OpenSSL's internal readahead. Thanks to Darryl Miles for guidance.
2786
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002787- Issue #8484: Load all ciphers and digest algorithms when initializing the _ssl
2788 extension, such that verification of some SSL certificates doesn't fail
2789 because of an "unknown algorithm".
Antoine Pitrouc715a9e2010-04-21 19:28:03 +00002790
Victor Stinnera92e81b2010-04-20 22:28:31 +00002791- Issue #8437: Fix test_gdb failures, patch written by Dave Malcolm
2792
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002793- Issue #4814: The timeout parameter is now applied also for connections
2794 resulting from PORT/EPRT commands.
Giampaolo Rodolà607f7c02010-04-19 21:46:28 +00002795
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002796- Issue #8463: Add missing reference to bztar in shutil's documentation.
Tarek Ziadé8a12f942010-04-19 21:28:21 +00002797
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002798- Issue #8438: Remove reference to the missing "surrogateescape" encoding error
2799 handler from the new IO library.
Antoine Pitrou7c587bf2010-04-19 18:52:43 +00002800
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002801- Issue #3817: ftplib.FTP.abort() method now considers 225 a valid response code
2802 as stated in RFC-959 at chapter 5.4.
Giampaolo Rodolàcf445fc2010-04-18 12:55:03 +00002803
Martin v. Löwis24f09fd2010-04-17 22:40:40 +00002804- Issue #8279: Fix test_gdb failures.
2805
Antoine Pitrou0a6373c2010-04-17 17:10:38 +00002806- Issue #8322: Add a *ciphers* argument to SSL sockets, so as to change the
2807 available cipher list. Helps fix test_ssl with OpenSSL 1.0.0.
2808
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002809- Issue #2987: RFC 2732 support for urlparse (IPv6 addresses). Patch by Tony
Senthil Kumaran8c6d9d72010-04-16 02:46:46 +00002810 Locke and Hans Ulrich Niedermann.
2811
R. David Murray1a14d3d2010-04-12 16:35:19 +00002812- Issue #7585: difflib context and unified diffs now place a tab between
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002813 filename and date, conforming to the 'standards' they were originally designed
2814 to follow. This improves compatibility with patch tools.
R. David Murray1a14d3d2010-04-12 16:35:19 +00002815
R. David Murray27ef9372010-04-12 14:26:06 +00002816- Issue #7472: Fixed typo in email.encoders module; messages using ISO-2022
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002817 character sets will now consistently use a Content-Transfer-Encoding of 7bit
2818 rather than sometimes being marked as 8bit.
R. David Murray27ef9372010-04-12 14:26:06 +00002819
Martin v. Löwis7f7765c2010-04-12 05:18:16 +00002820- Issue #8330: Fix expected output in test_gdb.
2821
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002822- Issue #8374: Update the internal alias table in the :mod:`locale` module to
2823 cover recent locale changes and additions.
Antoine Pitrouab5ce722010-04-11 22:45:47 +00002824
Matthias Klose8a96d202010-04-21 22:18:52 +00002825Extension Modules
2826-----------------
2827
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002828- Issue #8644: Improved accuracy of ``timedelta.total_seconds()``.
Mark Dickinson7000e9e2010-05-09 09:30:06 +00002829
Brett Cannon945df9a2010-05-04 01:04:53 +00002830- Use Clang 2.7's static analyzer to find places to clean up some code.
2831
Matthias Klose8a96d202010-04-21 22:18:52 +00002832- Build the ossaudio extension on GNU/kFreeBSD.
2833
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002834- On Windows, ctypes does no longer check the stack before and after calling a
2835 foreign function. This allows to use the unmodified libffi library.
Thomas Heller06a7e202010-05-04 18:44:42 +00002836
Antoine Pitroua5c4b552010-04-22 23:33:02 +00002837Tests
2838-----
2839
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002840- Issue #8672: Add a zlib test ensuring that an incomplete stream can be handled
2841 by a decompressor object without errors (it returns incomplete uncompressed
2842 data).
Antoine Pitrou37ffc3e2010-05-11 23:32:31 +00002843
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002844- Issue #8490: asyncore now has a more solid test suite which actually tests its
2845 API.
Giampaolo Rodolàff46d6e2010-05-10 15:33:22 +00002846
Antoine Pitrou54f9f832010-04-30 23:08:48 +00002847- Issue #8576: Remove use of find_unused_port() in test_smtplib and
2848 test_multiprocessing. Patch by Paul Moore.
2849
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002850- Issue #7449: Fix many tests to support Python compiled without thread support.
2851 Patches written by Jerry Seutter.
Victor Stinnerd9d147b2010-04-27 21:46:03 +00002852
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002853- Issue #8108: test_ftplib's non-blocking SSL server now has proper handling of
2854 SSL shutdowns.
Antoine Pitroua5c4b552010-04-22 23:33:02 +00002855
Matthias Klose5183ebd2010-04-24 16:38:36 +00002856Build
2857-----
2858
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002859- Issue #8625: Turn off optimization in ``--with-pydebug`` builds with gcc.
Mark Dickinsond2f3e3f2010-05-05 22:23:58 +00002860 (Optimization was unintentionally turned on in gcc --with-pydebug builds in
2861 2.7 beta1 as a result of the issue #1628484 fix, combined with autoconf's
2862 strange choice of default CFLAGS produced by AC_PROG_CC for gcc.)
2863
Matthias Klose5183ebd2010-04-24 16:38:36 +00002864- Issue #8509: Fix quoting in help strings and code snippets in configure.in.
2865
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002866- Issue #3646: It is now easily possible to install a Python framework into your
2867 home directory on Mac OS X, see Mac/README for more information.
Ronald Oussoren01d149f2010-04-30 11:20:14 +00002868
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002869- Issue #8510: Update to autoconf 2.65.
Matthias Klosea0bea5d2010-05-08 10:00:28 +00002870
Brett Cannonc1f5c2f2010-05-02 21:51:23 +00002871Misc
2872----
2873
2874- Update the Vim syntax highlight file.
2875
Benjamin Peterson12409062010-04-10 18:53:58 +00002876
Benjamin Peterson5da7e7c2010-03-06 22:44:07 +00002877What's New in Python 2.7 beta 1?
2878================================
2879
Benjamin Petersonfbac6c12010-04-10 16:22:05 +00002880*Release date: 2010-04-10*
Benjamin Peterson5da7e7c2010-03-06 22:44:07 +00002881
2882Core and Builtins
2883-----------------
2884
Philip Jenveyaebbaeb2010-04-06 23:24:45 +00002885- Issue #7301: Add environment variable $PYTHONWARNINGS.
2886
Benjamin Peterson3a1dfa22010-04-06 21:50:00 +00002887- Issue #8329: Don't return the same lists from select.select when no fds are
2888 changed.
2889
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002890- Issue #8259: ``1L << (2**31)`` no longer produces an 'outrageous shift error'
Mark Dickinson82791672010-04-06 16:47:55 +00002891 on 64-bit machines. The shift count for either left or right shift is
2892 permitted to be up to sys.maxsize.
2893
Benjamin Peterson4ceeeb02010-04-03 22:48:51 +00002894- Ensure that tokenization of identifiers is not affected by locale.
2895
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002896- Issue #1222585: Added LDCXXSHARED for C++ support. Patch by Arfrever.
Tarek Ziadé00002952010-04-03 08:37:59 +00002897
Benjamin Peterson1c7c11e2010-04-03 01:28:57 +00002898- Raise a TypeError when trying to delete a T_STRING_INPLACE struct member.
2899
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002900- Issue #7994: Issue a PendingDeprecationWarning if object.__format__ is called
2901 with a non-empty format string. This is an effort to future-proof user
2902 code. If a derived class does not currently implement __format__ but later
2903 adds its own __format__, it would most likely break user code that had
Antoine Pitrou01a196a2011-01-02 20:05:11 +00002904 supplied a format string. This will be changed to a DeprecationWarning in
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002905 Python 3.3 and it will be an error in Python 3.4.
Eric Smithd44b2fc2010-04-02 12:30:56 +00002906
Antoine Pitroua57df2c2010-03-31 21:32:15 +00002907- Issue #8268: Old-style classes (not just instances) now support weak
2908 references.
2909
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002910- Issue #8211: Save/restore CFLAGS around AC_PROG_CC in configure.in, in case it
2911 is set.
Victor Stinner6cbf90f2010-03-25 00:21:53 +00002912
Victor Stinnerc7790ed2010-03-22 12:36:28 +00002913- Issue #1583863: An unicode subclass can now override the __unicode__ method
Victor Stinner95affc42010-03-22 12:24:37 +00002914
Benjamin Peterson96545892010-03-21 20:21:00 +00002915- Issue #6474: Make error message from passing an inadequate number of keyword
2916 arguments to a function correct.
2917
Benjamin Peterson0dee9c12010-03-17 20:41:42 +00002918- Issue #8164: Don't allow lambda functions to have a docstring.
2919
Victor Stinner66644262010-03-10 22:30:19 +00002920- Issue #3137: Don't ignore errors at startup, especially a keyboard interrupt
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002921 (SIGINT). If an error occurs while importing the site module, the error is
2922 printed and Python exits. Initialize the GIL before importing the site
Victor Stinner66644262010-03-10 22:30:19 +00002923 module.
2924
Collin Winter001a3952010-03-18 21:54:01 +00002925- Code objects now support weak references.
2926
Benjamin Peterson5da7e7c2010-03-06 22:44:07 +00002927Library
2928-------
2929
R. David Murray661303f2010-04-13 20:57:40 +00002930- Issue #5277: Fix quote counting when parsing RFC 2231 encoded parameters.
2931
Antoine Pitrouf9de5342010-04-05 21:35:07 +00002932- Issue #8321: Give access to OpenSSL version numbers from the `ssl` module,
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002933 using the new attributes `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION`, `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION_INFO` and
2934 `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION_NUMBER`.
Antoine Pitrouf9de5342010-04-05 21:35:07 +00002935
Benjamin Peterson76a23c12010-04-04 23:23:22 +00002936- Issue #8310: Allow dis to examine new style classes.
2937
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002938- Issue #8257: The Decimal construct now accepts a float instance directly,
2939 converting that float to a Decimal of equal value:
Mark Dickinson8a950712010-04-03 15:47:46 +00002940
2941 >>> Decimal(1.1)
2942 Decimal('1.100000000000000088817841970012523233890533447265625')
2943
Raymond Hettinger34c35b22010-04-03 10:22:00 +00002944- collections.Counter() now supports a subtract() method.
2945
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002946- The functools module now has a total_ordering() class decorator to simplify
2947 the specification of rich comparisons.
Raymond Hettingera551f312010-04-04 18:34:45 +00002948
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002949- The functools module also adds cmp_to_key() as a tool to transition old-style
2950 comparison functions to new-style key-functions.
Raymond Hettingera551f312010-04-04 18:34:45 +00002951
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002952- Issue #8294: The Fraction constructor now accepts Decimal and float instances
2953 directly.
Mark Dickinson7c63eee2010-04-02 22:27:36 +00002954
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002955- Issue #7279: Comparisons involving a Decimal signaling NaN now signal
2956 InvalidOperation instead of returning False. (Comparisons involving a quiet
2957 NaN are unchanged.) Also, Decimal quiet NaNs are now hashable; Decimal
2958 signaling NaNs remain unhashable.
Mark Dickinsone096e822010-04-02 10:17:07 +00002959
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002960- Issue #2531: Comparison operations between floats and Decimal instances now
2961 return a result based on the numeric values of the operands; previously they
2962 returned an arbitrary result based on the relative ordering of id(float) and
2963 id(Decimal).
Mark Dickinson99d80962010-04-02 08:53:22 +00002964
Barry Warsawf7f2d6f2010-03-31 21:07:16 +00002965- Issue #8233: When run as a script, py_compile.py optionally takes a single
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002966 argument `-` which tells it to read files to compile from stdin. Each line is
2967 read on demand and the named file is compiled immediately. (Original patch by
2968 Piotr Ożarowski).
Barry Warsawf7f2d6f2010-03-31 21:07:16 +00002969
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002970- Issue #3135: Add ``inspect.getcallargs()``, which binds arguments to a
2971 function like a normal call.
Benjamin Peterson7e213252010-03-30 17:58:13 +00002972
Florent Xicluna58b65662010-03-30 16:29:03 +00002973- Backwards incompatible change: Unicode codepoints line tabulation (0x0B) and
2974 form feed (0x0C) are now considered linebreaks, as specified in Unicode
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002975 Standard Annex #14. See issue #7643. http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr14/
Florent Xicluna22b24382010-03-30 08:24:06 +00002976
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002977- Comparisons using one of <, <=, >, >= between a complex instance and a
2978 Fractions instance now raise TypeError instead of returning True/False. This
2979 makes Fraction <=> complex comparisons consistent with int <=> complex, float
2980 <=> complex, and complex <=> complex comparisons.
Mark Dickinson9588d992010-03-27 11:14:37 +00002981
Michael Foorde6410c52010-03-29 20:04:23 +00002982- Addition of ``WeakSet`` to the ``weakref`` module.
2983
Vinay Sajipb0623d62010-03-24 14:31:21 +00002984- logging: Added LOG_FTP to SysLogHandler and updated documentation.
2985
Florent Xicluna176cda12010-03-22 22:52:11 +00002986- Issue #8205: Remove the "Modules" directory from sys.path when Python is
2987 running from the build directory (POSIX only).
2988
Florent Xiclunae1f4c922010-03-22 22:45:50 +00002989- Issue #7667: Fix doctest failures with non-ASCII paths.
2990
Antoine Pitrou513d9ae2010-03-22 19:59:46 +00002991- Issue #7512: shutil.copystat() could raise an OSError when the filesystem
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002992 didn't support chflags() (for example ZFS under FreeBSD). The error is now
2993 silenced.
Antoine Pitrou513d9ae2010-03-22 19:59:46 +00002994
Florent Xicluna9e7a4c92010-03-22 16:07:38 +00002995- Issue #7703: ctypes supports both buffer() and memoryview(). The former is
2996 deprecated.
2997
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002998- Issue #7860: platform.uname now reports the correct 'machine' type when Python
2999 is running in WOW64 mode on 64 bit Windows.
R. David Murrayc9d1a782010-03-22 15:55:09 +00003000
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003001- logging: Added getChild utility method to Logger and added isEnabledFor method
3002 to LoggerAdapter.
Vinay Sajip804899b2010-03-22 15:29:01 +00003003
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003004- Issue #8201: logging: Handle situation of non-ASCII and Unicode logger names
3005 existing at the same time, causing a Unicode error when configuration code
3006 attempted to sort the existing loggers.
Vinay Sajip31e928e2010-03-22 13:02:28 +00003007
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003008- Issue #8200: logging: Handle errors when multiprocessing is not fully loaded
3009 when logging occurs.
Vinay Sajip3017a7b2010-03-22 12:33:08 +00003010
Antoine Pitroueee91cd2010-03-26 19:27:16 +00003011- Issue #3890, #8222: Fix recv() and recv_into() on non-blocking SSL sockets.
3012 Also, enable the SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY flag on SSL sockets, so that blocking
3013 reads and writes are always retried by OpenSSL itself.
Antoine Pitrou448da712010-03-21 19:33:38 +00003014
Florent Xiclunacf82fa62010-03-21 12:27:20 +00003015- Issue #8179: Fix macpath.realpath() on a non-existing path.
3016
Florent Xicluna2e0a53f2010-03-18 21:50:06 +00003017- Issue #8024: Update the Unicode database to 5.2.
3018
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003019- Issue #8104: socket.recv_into() and socket.recvfrom_into() now support writing
3020 into objects supporting the new buffer API, for example bytearrays or
3021 memoryviews.
Antoine Pitroud7b731d2010-03-17 22:45:39 +00003022
Matthias Klose8b411682010-03-16 10:48:52 +00003023- Issue #4961: Inconsistent/wrong result of askyesno function in tkMessageBox
3024 with Tcl/Tk-8.5.
3025
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003026- Issue #8140: Extend compileall to compile single files. Add -i option.
Matthias Kloseb13d04c2010-03-15 17:44:12 +00003027
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003028- Issue #7356: ctypes.util: Make parsing of ldconfig output independent of the
3029 locale.
Matthias Klose358e7ff2010-03-15 13:42:23 +00003030
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003031- Issue #7774: Set sys.executable to an empty string if ``argv[0]`` has been set
3032 to an non existent program name and Python is unable to retrieve the real
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003033 program name.
Victor Stinner75227342010-03-12 14:30:26 +00003034
Vinay Sajipecfa08f2010-03-12 09:16:10 +00003035- Issue #8117: logging: Improved algorithm for computing initial rollover time
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003036 for ``TimedRotatingFileHandler`` by using the modification time of an existing
3037 log file to compute the next rollover time. If the log file does not exist,
3038 the current time is used as the basis for the computation.
Vinay Sajip9098ee42010-03-12 06:01:21 +00003039
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003040- Issue #6472: The ``xml.etree`` package is updated to ElementTree 1.3. The
Florent Xicluna3e8c1892010-03-11 14:36:19 +00003041 cElementTree module is updated too.
3042
Florent Xicluna85677612010-03-10 23:58:42 +00003043- Issue #7880: Fix sysconfig when the python executable is a symbolic link.
3044
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003045- Issue #7624: Fix ``isinstance(foo(), collections.Callable)`` for old-style
Florent Xicluna47627d52010-03-08 15:20:28 +00003046 classes.
3047
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003048- Issue #7143: email: ``get_payload()`` used to strip any trailing newline from
3049 a base64 transfer-encoded payload *after* decoding it; it no longer does.
3050 This is a behavior change, so email's minor version number is now bumped, to
3051 version 4.0.2, for the 2.7 release.
R. David Murray4617e502010-03-08 02:04:06 +00003052
Larry Hastings3b958e32010-04-02 11:18:17 +00003053- Issue #8235: _socket: Add the constant ``SO_SETFIB``. SO_SETFIB is
3054 a socket option available on FreeBSD 7.1 and newer.
3055
Michael Foorda04c7a02010-04-02 22:55:59 +00003056- Issue #8038: unittest.TestCase.assertNotRegexpMatches
3057
3058- Addition of -b command line option to unittest for buffering stdout / stderr
3059 during test runs.
3060
Victor Stinnerdb990922010-05-15 21:00:59 +00003061- Issue #1220212: Added os.kill support for Windows, including support for
Brian Curtin85108e62010-04-02 23:31:28 +00003062 sending CTRL+C and CTRL+BREAK events to console subprocesses.
3063
Mark Dickinson154b7ad2010-03-07 16:24:45 +00003064Extension Modules
3065-----------------
3066
Martin v. Löwis16ea5482010-04-07 11:01:46 +00003067- Issue #8314: Fix unsigned long long bug in libffi on Sparc v8.
3068
Matthias Klosee9fbf2b2010-03-19 14:45:06 +00003069- Issue #1039, #8154: Fix os.execlp() crash with missing 2nd argument.
3070
Jesus Cea6557aac2010-03-22 14:22:26 +00003071- Issue #8156: bsddb module updated to version 4.8.4.
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003072 http://www.jcea.es/programacion/pybsddb.htm#bsddb3-4.8.4. This update drops
3073 support for Berkeley DB 4.0, and adds support for 4.8.
Matthias Klose54cc5392010-03-15 12:46:18 +00003074
Jesus Cea616de772010-04-28 10:32:30 +00003075- Issue #3928: os.mknod() now available in Solaris, also.
3076
Matthias Klose817acef2010-03-15 00:02:36 +00003077- Issue #8142: Update libffi to the 3.0.9 release.
3078
Mark Dickinson4846a8e2010-04-03 14:05:10 +00003079- Issue #8300: When passing a non-integer argument to struct.pack with any
3080 integer format code, struct.pack first attempts to convert the non-integer
3081 using its __index__ method. If that method is non-existent or raises
3082 TypeError it goes on to try the __int__ method, as described below.
3083
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003084- Issue #1530559: When passing a non-integer argument to struct.pack with *any*
3085 integer format code (one of 'bBhHiIlLqQ'), struct.pack attempts to use the
3086 argument's __int__ method to convert to an integer before packing. It also
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003087 produces a DeprecationWarning in this case. (In Python 2.6, the behaviour was
3088 inconsistent: __int__ was used for some integer codes but not for others, and
3089 the set of integer codes for which it was used differed between native packing
3090 and standard packing.)
Mark Dickinson154b7ad2010-03-07 16:24:45 +00003091
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003092- Issue #7347: _winreg: Add CreateKeyEx and DeleteKeyEx, as well as fix a bug in
3093 the return value of QueryReflectionKey.
Brian Curtin19479fa2010-04-02 21:51:37 +00003094
Antoine Pitrou02b3f0a2010-03-13 21:21:30 +00003095Tools/Demos
3096-----------
3097
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003098- Issue #7993: Add a test of IO packet processing bandwidth to ccbench. It
3099 measures the number of UDP packets processed per second depending on the
3100 number of background CPU-bound Python threads.
Benjamin Peterson5da7e7c2010-03-06 22:44:07 +00003101
Collin Wintera70f3492010-03-19 00:08:44 +00003102- python-config now supports multiple options on the same command line.
3103
Benjamin Peterson11d93232010-03-14 14:24:31 +00003104Build
3105-----
3106
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003107- Issue #8032: For gdb7, a python-gdb.py file is added to the build, allowing to
3108 use advanced gdb features when debugging Python.
Martin v. Löwisbf0dfb32010-04-01 07:40:51 +00003109
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003110- Issue #1628484: The Makefile doesn't ignore the CFLAGS environment variable
3111 anymore. It also forwards the LDFLAGS settings to the linker when building a
3112 shared library.
Antoine Pitrouf83b3082010-03-21 19:19:41 +00003113
Martin v. Löwis24e4e162010-03-15 13:00:17 +00003114- Issue #6716: Quote -x arguments of compileall in MSI installer.
3115
Benjamin Peterson11d93232010-03-14 14:24:31 +00003116- Issue #7705: Fix linking on FreeBSD.
3117
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven6d22cfc2010-04-07 16:34:08 +00003118- Make sure that the FreeBSD build of the included libffi uses the proper
3119 assembly file.
3120
Larry Hastings402b73f2010-03-25 00:54:54 +00003121C-API
3122-----
3123
Antoine Pitrou76c86492010-04-01 16:42:11 +00003124- Issue #8276: PyEval_CallObject() is now only available in macro form. The
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003125 function declaration, which was kept for backwards compatibility reasons, is
3126 now removed (the macro was introduced in 1997!).
Antoine Pitrou76c86492010-04-01 16:42:11 +00003127
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003128- Issue #7992: A replacement PyCObject API, PyCapsule, has been backported from
3129 Python 3.1. All existing Python CObjects in the main distribution have been
3130 converted to capsules. To address backwards-compatibility concerns,
3131 PyCObject_AsVoidPtr() was changed to understand capsules.
Larry Hastings402b73f2010-03-25 00:54:54 +00003132
Florent Xicluna3cc8f212010-03-15 18:08:58 +00003133Tests
3134-----
3135
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003136- Issue #3864: Skip three test_signal tests on freebsd6 because they fail if any
3137 thread was previously started, most likely due to a platform bug.
R. David Murraye0e8a872010-04-17 05:26:26 +00003138
Antoine Pitrouab5ce722010-04-11 22:45:47 +00003139- Issue #8348: Fix test ftp url in test_urllib2net.
3140
3141- Issue #8204: Fix test_ttk notebook test by forcing focus.
3142
3143- Issue #8344: Fix test_ttk bug on FreeBSD.
3144
Antoine Pitrou3b4c9892010-04-06 17:21:09 +00003145- Issue #8193: Fix test_zlib failure with zlib 1.2.4.
3146
Antoine Pitrou6032c252010-03-30 18:49:45 +00003147- Issue #8248: Add some tests for the bool type. Patch by Gregory Nofi.
3148
Florent Xicluna75c66762010-03-30 16:31:14 +00003149- Issue #8263: Now regrtest.py will report a failure if it receives a
3150 KeyboardInterrupt (SIGINT).
3151
Florent Xicluna8aa5a582010-03-25 20:33:49 +00003152- Issue #8180 and #8207: Fix test_pep277 on OS X and add more tests for special
3153 Unicode normalization cases.
Florent Xicluna77a88492010-03-21 18:00:38 +00003154
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003155- Issue #7783: test.test_support.open_urlresource invalidates the outdated files
3156 from the local cache.
Florent Xicluna3cc8f212010-03-15 18:08:58 +00003157
R. David Murray4617e502010-03-08 02:04:06 +00003158
Benjamin Peterson2d798ac2010-02-06 18:26:27 +00003159What's New in Python 2.7 alpha 4?
3160=================================
3161
Benjamin Peterson8e7c1172010-03-06 20:34:14 +00003162*Release date: 2010-03-06*
Benjamin Peterson2d798ac2010-02-06 18:26:27 +00003163
3164Core and Builtins
3165-----------------
3166
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003167- Issue #7544: Preallocate thread memory before creating the thread to avoid a
3168 fatal error in low memory condition.
Victor Stinner71fb87e2010-03-03 23:20:25 +00003169
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003170- Issue #7820: The parser tokenizer restores all bytes in the right if the BOM
3171 check fails.
Victor Stinnerd23d3932010-03-02 23:20:02 +00003172
Eric Smith2d9856d2010-02-24 14:15:36 +00003173- Issue #7309: Fix unchecked attribute access when converting
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003174 UnicodeEncodeError, UnicodeDecodeError, and UnicodeTranslateError to strings.
Eric Smith2d9856d2010-02-24 14:15:36 +00003175
Ezio Melotti32125152010-02-25 17:36:04 +00003176- Issue #7649: "u'%c' % char" now behaves like "u'%s' % char" and raises a
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003177 UnicodeDecodeError if 'char' is a byte string that can't be decoded using the
3178 default encoding.
Victor Stinnerf20f9c22010-02-23 23:16:07 +00003179
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003180- Issue #6902: Fix problem with built-in types format incorrectly with 0
3181 padding.
Eric Smith87bcb242010-02-23 00:11:16 +00003182
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003183- Issue #2560: Remove an unnecessary 'for' loop from ``my_fgets()`` in
Andrew M. Kuchlingb64d6132010-02-22 22:48:41 +00003184 Parser/myreadline.c.
3185
Eric Smithf32d4ac2010-02-22 18:33:47 +00003186- Issue #7988: Fix default alignment to be right aligned for
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003187 ``complex.__format__``. Now it matches other numeric types.
Eric Smithf32d4ac2010-02-22 18:33:47 +00003188
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003189- Issue #5211: The complex type no longer uses implicit coercion in mixed-type
3190 binary arithmetic operations.
Mark Dickinson82b34c52010-02-21 12:57:35 +00003191
Benjamin Peterson2d798ac2010-02-06 18:26:27 +00003192Library
3193-------
Georg Brandl7f0c3ff2010-08-01 21:18:52 +00003194
Senthil Kumaranc1d0ed22010-12-04 09:58:29 +00003195- Issue #7904: Changes to urllib.parse.urlsplit to handle schemes as defined by
3196 RFC3986. Anything before :// is considered a scheme and is followed by an
3197 authority (or netloc) and by '/' led path, which is optional.
3198
R. David Murray05b76312010-07-17 01:35:16 +00003199- Issue #1555570: email no longer inserts extra blank lines when a \r\n
3200 combo crosses an 8192 byte boundary.
Benjamin Peterson2d798ac2010-02-06 18:26:27 +00003201
Florent Xicluna0b9a18a2010-03-06 11:01:08 +00003202- Issue #6906: Tk should not set Unicode environment variables on Windows.
3203
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003204- Issue #1054943: Fix ``unicodedata.normalize('NFC', text)`` for the Public
Ezio Melotti8122bdd2010-03-14 10:13:49 +00003205 Review Issue #29 (http://unicode.org/review/pr-29.html).
Victor Stinner7c924ec2010-03-04 12:09:33 +00003206
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003207- Issue #7494: Fix a crash in ``_lsprof`` (cProfile) after clearing the profiler,
Victor Stinner56a51532010-03-04 00:10:12 +00003208 reset also the pointer to the current pointer context.
3209
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003210- Issue #7232: Add support for the context manager protocol to the
3211 ``tarfile.TarFile`` class.
Lars Gustäbel64581042010-03-03 11:55:48 +00003212
Barry Warsaw08a8fb32010-03-01 21:46:51 +00003213- Issue #7250: Fix info leak of os.environ across multi-run uses of
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003214 ``wsgiref.handlers.CGIHandler``.
Barry Warsaw08a8fb32010-03-01 21:46:51 +00003215
Florent Xiclunae7901c52010-03-01 20:45:01 +00003216- Issue #1729305: Fix doctest to handle encode error with "backslashreplace".
Florent Xicluna2a903b22010-02-27 13:31:23 +00003217
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003218- Issue #691291: ``codecs.open()`` should not convert end of lines on reading
3219 and writing.
Florent Xicluna82aa01f2010-02-27 11:19:18 +00003220
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003221- Issue #7975: Correct regression in dict methods supported by bsddb.dbshelve.
R. David Murray48605be2010-02-24 02:31:27 +00003222
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003223- Issue #7959: ctypes callback functions are now registered correctly with the
3224 cycle garbage collector.
Thomas Heller92bd0592010-02-23 20:11:44 +00003225
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003226- Issue #7970: ``email.Generator.flatten`` now correctly flattens
3227 message/rfc822 messages parsed by ``email.Parser.HeaderParser``.
R. David Murray51f12042010-02-21 04:23:00 +00003228
Ezio Melotti4cc80ca2010-02-20 08:09:39 +00003229- Issue #3426: ``os.path.abspath`` now returns unicode when its arg is unicode.
3230
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003231- Issue #7633: In the decimal module, ``Context`` class methods (with the
3232 exception of canonical and is_canonical) now accept instances of int and long
3233 wherever a Decimal instance is accepted, and implicitly convert that argument
3234 to Decimal. Previously only some arguments were converted.
Mark Dickinson6d8effb2010-02-18 14:27:02 +00003235
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003236- Issue #6003: Add an argument to ``zipfile.Zipfile.writestr`` to specify the
3237 compression type.
Ezio Melotti8f6a2872010-02-10 21:40:33 +00003238
Michael Foorddb43b5a2010-02-10 14:25:12 +00003239- Issue #7893: ``unittest.TextTestResult`` is made public and a ``resultclass``
3240 argument added to the TextTestRunner constructor allowing a different result
3241 class to be used without having to subclass.
Ezio Melotti8f6a2872010-02-10 21:40:33 +00003242
Ezio Melotti4cc80ca2010-02-20 08:09:39 +00003243- Issue #7588: ``unittest.TextTestResult.getDescription`` now includes the test
Michael Foorddb43b5a2010-02-10 14:25:12 +00003244 name in failure reports even if the test has a docstring.
Ronald Oussorendd25e862010-02-07 20:18:02 +00003245
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003246- Issue #5801: Remove spurious empty lines in wsgiref.
Tarek Ziadéb8708a22010-02-23 05:53:05 +00003247
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003248- Issue #1537721: Add a ``writeheader()`` method to ``csv.DictWriter``.
Dirkjan Ochtman86148172010-02-23 21:09:52 +00003249
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003250- Issue #7427: Improve the representation of httplib.BadStatusLine exceptions.
Dirkjan Ochtmanebc73dc2010-02-24 04:49:00 +00003251
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003252- Issue #7481: When a ``threading.Thread`` failed to start it would leave the
3253 instance stuck in initial state and present in ``threading.enumerate()``.
Gregory P. Smith613c7a52010-02-28 18:36:09 +00003254
Gregory P. Smithcce211f2010-03-01 00:05:08 +00003255- Issue #1068268: The subprocess module now handles EINTR in internal
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003256 ``os.waitpid()`` and ``os.read()`` system calls where appropriate.
Gregory P. Smithcce211f2010-03-01 00:05:08 +00003257
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003258- Issue #6729: Add ``ctypes.c_ssize_t`` to represent ssize_t.
Gregory P. Smith3c699d32010-03-01 04:56:12 +00003259
Steven Betharde9330e72010-03-02 08:38:09 +00003260- Issue #6247: The argparse module has been added to the standard library.
3261
Martin v. Löwis413fabc2010-02-18 09:22:20 +00003262Extension Modules
3263-----------------
3264
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003265- The sqlite3 module was updated to pysqlite 2.6.0. This fixes several obscure
Gerhard Häring3bbb6722010-03-05 09:12:37 +00003266 bugs and allows loading SQLite extensions from shared libraries.
3267
Florent Xiclunae7901c52010-03-01 20:45:01 +00003268- Issue #7808: Fix reference leaks in _bsddb and related tests.
3269
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003270- Issue #6544: Fix a reference leak in the kqueue implementation's error
Georg Brandlea370a92010-02-23 21:48:57 +00003271 handling.
3272
Martin v. Löwis413fabc2010-02-18 09:22:20 +00003273- Stop providing crtassem.h symbols when compiling with Visual Studio 2010, as
3274 msvcr100.dll is not a platform assembly anymore.
Benjamin Peterson2d798ac2010-02-06 18:26:27 +00003275
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003276- Issue #7242: On Solaris 9 and earlier calling ``os.fork()`` from within a
Gregory P. Smith9e5d1322010-03-01 01:22:39 +00003277 thread could raise an incorrect RuntimeError about not holding the import
3278 lock. The import lock is now reinitialized after fork.
3279
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003280- Issue #7999: ``os.setreuid()`` and ``os.setregid()`` would refuse to accept a
3281 -1 parameter on some platforms such as OS X.
Gregory P. Smith6a65f852010-03-01 05:43:43 +00003282
Ezio Melotti8f6a2872010-02-10 21:40:33 +00003283Tests
3284-----
3285
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003286- Issue #7849: The utility ``test.test_support.check_warnings()`` verifies if
3287 warnings are effectively raised. A new utility ``check_py3k_warnings()`` is
3288 available.
Florent Xicluna6de9e932010-03-07 12:18:33 +00003289
Florent Xicluna985478d2010-03-06 18:52:52 +00003290- The four path modules (genericpath, macpath, ntpath, posixpath) share a
3291 common TestCase for some tests: test_genericpath.CommonTest.
3292
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003293- Print platform information when running the whole test suite, or using the
3294 ``--verbose`` flag.
Florent Xicluna58526412010-03-06 17:24:36 +00003295
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003296- Issue #767675: Enable test_pep277 on POSIX platforms with Unicode-friendly
Florent Xiclunac0a9d412010-03-02 22:34:11 +00003297 filesystem encoding.
Florent Xicluna2db61fb2010-03-02 21:34:45 +00003298
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003299- Issue #6292: For the moment at least, the test suite runs cleanly if python
R. David Murrayf28fd242010-02-23 00:24:49 +00003300 is run with the -OO flag. Tests requiring docstrings are skipped.
3301
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003302- Issue #7712: test_support gained a new ``temp_cwd`` context manager which is
3303 now also used by regrtest to run all the tests in a temporary directory. The
3304 original CWD is saved in ``test.test_support.SAVEDCWD``. Thanks to Florent
3305 Xicluna who helped with the patch.
Ezio Melotti8f6a2872010-02-10 21:40:33 +00003306
Martin v. Löwis5e2dd862010-02-15 08:32:00 +00003307Build
3308-----
3309
Martin v. Löwis7875ef62010-02-15 21:41:12 +00003310- Issue #3920, #7903: Define _BSD_SOURCE on OpenBSD 4.4 through 4.9.
Martin v. Löwis5e2dd862010-02-15 08:32:00 +00003311
Ezio Melotti8f6a2872010-02-10 21:40:33 +00003312
Benjamin Petersondd6d92a2010-01-09 17:30:31 +00003313What's New in Python 2.7 alpha 3?
3314=================================
3315
Benjamin Petersona7be9d22010-02-06 16:37:32 +00003316*Release date: 2010-02-06*
Benjamin Petersondd6d92a2010-01-09 17:30:31 +00003317
3318Core and Builtins
3319-----------------
3320
Antoine Pitroubb445a12010-02-05 17:05:54 +00003321- Issue #5677: Explicitly forbid write operations on read-only file objects,
3322 and read operations on write-only file objects. On Windows, the system C
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003323 library would return a bogus result; on Solaris, it was possible to crash the
3324 interpreter. Patch by Stefan Krah.
Antoine Pitroubb445a12010-02-05 17:05:54 +00003325
Barry Warsawb1e66ee2010-02-05 18:45:25 +00003326- Issue #7853: Normalize exceptions before they are passed to a context
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003327 manager's ``__exit__()`` method.
Benjamin Peterson565d7852010-02-05 02:12:14 +00003328
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003329- Issue #7385: Fix a crash in ``PyMemoryView_FromObject()`` when
3330 ``PyObject_GetBuffer()`` fails. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
Antoine Pitrou526e4212010-02-02 22:36:17 +00003331
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003332- Issue #7819: Check ``sys.call_tracing()`` arguments types.
Victor Stinnerb4b0a292010-01-31 22:32:15 +00003333
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003334- Issue #7788: Fix an interpreter crash produced by deleting a list slice with
3335 very large step value.
Mark Dickinson36ecd672010-01-29 17:11:39 +00003336
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003337- Issue #7766: Change ``sys.getwindowsversion()`` return value to a named tuple
3338 and add the additional members returned in an OSVERSIONINFOEX structure. The
3339 new members are service_pack_major, service_pack_minor, suite_mask, and
3340 product_type.
Eric Smithee931b72010-01-27 00:28:29 +00003341
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003342- Issue #7561: Operations on empty bytearrays (such as ``int(bytearray())``)
3343 could crash in many places because of the ``PyByteArray_AS_STRING()`` macro
3344 returning NULL. The macro now returns a statically allocated empty string
3345 instead.
Antoine Pitroue80a6a42010-01-17 12:26:20 +00003346
Antoine Pitrou64672132010-01-13 07:55:48 +00003347- Issue #7622: Improve the split(), rsplit(), splitlines() and replace()
3348 methods of bytes, bytearray and unicode objects by using a common
3349 implementation based on stringlib's fast search. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
3350
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003351- Issue #7632: Fix various str -> float conversion bugs present in 2.7 alpha 2,
3352 including:
Mark Dickinson8efef5c2010-01-12 22:23:56 +00003353
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003354 (1) a serious 'wrong output' bug that could occur for long (> 40 digit) input
3355 strings,
3356 (2) a crash in dtoa.c that occurred in debug builds when parsing certain long
3357 numeric strings corresponding to subnormal values,
3358 (3) a memory leak for some values large enough to cause overflow, and
3359 (4) a number of flaws that could lead to incorrectly rounded results.
3360
3361- Issue #7319, #7770: Silence ``DeprecationWarning`` by default when the -3
3362 option is not used.
Brett Cannon6fdd3dc2010-01-10 02:56:19 +00003363
Alexandre Vassalottiee936a22010-01-09 23:35:54 +00003364- Issue #2335: Backport set literals syntax from Python 3.x.
3365
Alexandre Vassalotti7a8df802010-01-11 23:13:49 +00003366- Issue #2333: Backport set and dict comprehensions syntax from Python 3.x.
3367
Alexandre Vassalotti69eb5162010-01-11 23:17:10 +00003368- Issue #1967: Backport dictionary views from Python 3.x.
3369
Benjamin Petersondd6d92a2010-01-09 17:30:31 +00003370Library
3371-------
3372
Mark Dickinson42add992010-07-11 19:17:28 +00003373- Issue #9137: Fix issue in MutableMapping.update, which incorrectly
3374 treated keyword arguments called 'self' or 'other' specially.
3375
R. David Murray63e4fd72010-02-10 22:42:04 +00003376- Issue #7835: shelve should no longer produce mysterious warnings during
3377 interpreter shutdown.
3378
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003379- Issue #2746: Don't escape ampersands and angle brackets ("&", "<", ">") in
3380 XML processing instructions and comments. These raw characters are allowed
3381 by the XML specification, and are necessary when outputting e.g. PHP code in
3382 a processing instruction. Patch by Neil Muller.
Antoine Pitrou42fb6ab2010-02-09 17:08:05 +00003383
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003384- Issue #7869: logging: Improved diagnostic for format-time errors.
Vinay Sajip64e8b972010-02-07 12:56:54 +00003385
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003386- Issue #7868: logging: Added loggerClass attribute to Manager.
Vinay Sajip657514a2010-02-07 01:37:08 +00003387
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003388- Issue #7851: logging: Clarification on logging configuration files.
Vinay Sajip0e6e97d2010-02-04 20:23:45 +00003389
Antoine Pitroud840e512010-02-04 20:20:18 +00003390- Issue #4772: Raise a ValueError when an unknown Bluetooth protocol is
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003391 specified, rather than fall through to AF_PACKET (in the ``socket`` module).
Antoine Pitroud840e512010-02-04 20:20:18 +00003392 Also, raise ValueError rather than TypeError when an unknown TIPC address
3393 type is specified. Patch by Brian Curtin.
3394
Vinay Sajip28c382f2010-02-04 18:48:53 +00003395- logging: Implemented PEP 391.
3396
Antoine Pitrouf3fa0742010-01-31 22:26:04 +00003397- Issue #6939: Fix file I/O objects in the `io` module to keep the original
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003398 file position when calling `truncate()`. It would previously change the file
3399 position to the given argument, which goes against the tradition of
Antoine Pitrouf3fa0742010-01-31 22:26:04 +00003400 ftruncate() and other truncation APIs. Patch by Pascal Chambon.
3401
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003402- Issue #7610: Reworked implementation of the internal ``zipfile.ZipExtFile``
3403 class used to represent files stored inside an archive. The new
3404 implementation is significantly faster and can be wrapped in a
3405 ``io.BufferedReader`` object for more speedups. It also solves an issue
3406 where interleaved calls to ``read()`` and ``readline()`` give wrong results.
3407 Patch by Nir Aides.
Antoine Pitrou94c33eb2010-01-27 20:59:50 +00003408
Benjamin Peterson2deb5c72010-01-27 02:16:42 +00003409- Issue #7792: Registering non-classes to ABCs raised an obscure error.
3410
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003411- Removed the deprecated functions ``verify()`` and ``vereq()`` from
3412 Lib/test/test_support.py.
Ezio Melotti82230f92010-01-25 12:37:02 +00003413
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003414- Issue #7773: Fix an UnboundLocalError in ``platform.linux_distribution()``
3415 when the release file is empty.
Benjamin Petersona43f34c2010-01-25 03:31:13 +00003416
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003417- Issue #7748: Since unicode values are supported for some metadata options in
3418 Distutils, the DistributionMetadata get_* methods will now return an utf-8
3419 encoded string for them. This ensures that the upload and register commands
3420 send the correct values to PyPI without any error.
Tarek Ziadéf14c7fc2010-01-24 00:33:32 +00003421
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003422- Issue #1670765: Prevent ``email.generator.Generator`` from re-wrapping
R. David Murrayed44dfa2010-01-16 05:15:17 +00003423 headers in multipart/signed MIME parts, which fixes one of the sources of
3424 invalid modifications to such parts by Generator.
3425
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003426- Issue #7701: Fix crash in ``binascii.b2a_uu()`` in debug mode when given a
Antoine Pitrouc391ad02010-01-15 00:18:00 +00003427 1-byte argument. Patch by Victor Stinner.
3428
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003429- Issue #3299: Fix possible crash in the _sre module when given bad argument
3430 values in debug mode. Patch by Victor Stinner.
Antoine Pitrouefdddd32010-01-14 17:25:24 +00003431
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003432- Issue #7703: Add support for the new buffer API to functions of the binascii
3433 module. Backported from py3k by Florent Xicluna, with some additional tests.
Antoine Pitroufd3a60d2010-01-14 16:27:09 +00003434
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003435- Issue #2846: Add support for gzip.GzipFile reading zero-padded files. Patch
3436 by Brian Curtin.
Antoine Pitrou5a9112c2010-01-13 14:32:10 +00003437
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003438- Issue #5827: Make sure that normpath preserves unicode. Initial patch by
3439 Matt Giuca.
Ezio Melottib5689de2010-01-12 03:32:05 +00003440
Tarek Ziadédc0f4872010-01-11 22:50:29 +00003441- Issue #5372: Drop the reuse of .o files in Distutils' ccompiler (since
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003442 Extension extra options may change the output without changing the .c file).
3443 Initial patch by Collin Winter.
Tarek Ziadédc0f4872010-01-11 22:50:29 +00003444
Matthias Klose0d948ac2010-01-22 00:39:04 +00003445Extension Modules
3446-----------------
3447
3448- Expat: Fix DoS via XML document with malformed UTF-8 sequences
3449 (CVE_2009_3560).
3450
Antoine Pitrou8c510e72010-01-13 11:47:49 +00003451Build
3452-----
3453
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003454- Issue #7632: When Py_USING_MEMORY_DEBUGGER is defined, disable the private
3455 memory allocation scheme in dtoa.c and use PyMem_Malloc and PyMem_Free
3456 instead. Also disable caching of powers of 5.
Mark Dickinson9481c572010-01-17 20:57:56 +00003457
Ronald Oussorena55af9a2010-01-17 16:25:57 +00003458- Issue #7658: Ensure that the new pythonw executable works on OSX 10.4
3459
3460- Issue #7714: Use ``gcc -dumpversion`` to detect the version of GCC on
3461 MacOSX.
3462
Antoine Pitrou8c510e72010-01-13 11:47:49 +00003463- Issue #7661: Allow ctypes to be built from a non-ASCII directory path.
3464 Patch by Florent Xicluna.
3465
Antoine Pitrouc07336c2010-01-18 21:15:21 +00003466Tools/Demos
3467-----------
3468
3469- iobench (a file I/O benchmark) and ccbench (a concurrency benchmark) were
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003470 added to the ``Tools`` directory. They were previously living in the
Antoine Pitrouc07336c2010-01-18 21:15:21 +00003471 sandbox.
3472
R. David Murrayce6e4b02010-02-06 04:27:21 +00003473Tests
3474-----
3475
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003476- issue #7728: test_timeout was changed to use ``test_support.bind_port()``
R. David Murrayce6e4b02010-02-06 04:27:21 +00003477 instead of a hard coded port.
3478
Matthias Klose626d92a2010-01-31 16:05:13 +00003479Documentation
3480-------------
Victor Stinnerf20f9c22010-02-23 23:16:07 +00003481
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003482- Updated "Using Python" documentation to include description of CPython's -J,
3483 -U and -X options.
Barry Warsawb1e66ee2010-02-05 18:45:25 +00003484
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003485- Updated Python manual page (options -B, -O0, -s, environment variables
Matthias Klose626d92a2010-01-31 16:05:13 +00003486 PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE, PYTHONNOUSERSITE).
3487
Benjamin Petersondd6d92a2010-01-09 17:30:31 +00003488
Benjamin Peterson4f51baf2009-12-05 18:40:02 +00003489What's New in Python 2.7 alpha 2?
3490=================================
3491
Benjamin Petersonaa7e51f2010-01-09 16:34:06 +00003492*Release date: 2010-01-09*
Benjamin Peterson4f51baf2009-12-05 18:40:02 +00003493
3494Core and Builtins
3495-----------------
3496
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003497- The ``__complex__()`` method is now looked up on the class of instances to
3498 make it consistent with other special methods.
Benjamin Petersonecdae192010-01-04 00:43:01 +00003499
Antoine Pitrou5b7139a2010-01-02 21:12:58 +00003500- Issue #7462: Implement the stringlib fast search algorithm for the `rfind`,
3501 `rindex`, `rsplit` and `rpartition` methods. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
3502
Mark Dickinson1b34d252010-01-01 17:27:30 +00003503- Issue #5080: A number of functions and methods previously produced a
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003504 DeprecationWarning when passed a float argument where an integer was expected.
3505 These functions and methods now raise TypeError instead. The majority of the
3506 effects of this change are in the extension modules, but some core functions
3507 and methods are affected: notably the 'chr', 'range' and 'xrange' builtins,
3508 and many unicode/str methods.
Mark Dickinson1b34d252010-01-01 17:27:30 +00003509
Benjamin Peterson0f02d392009-12-30 19:34:10 +00003510- Issue #7604: Deleting an unset slotted attribute did not raise an
3511 AttributeError.
3512
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003513- Issue #7534: Fix handling of IEEE specials (infinities, nans, negative zero)
3514 in ** operator. The behaviour now conforms to that described in C99 Annex F.
Mark Dickinson99d652e2009-12-30 12:12:23 +00003515
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003516- Issue #7579: The msvcrt module now has docstrings for all its functions.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcc8a2ce72009-12-29 23:06:17 +00003517
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc8645a5c2009-12-29 22:03:38 +00003518- Issue #7413: Passing '\0' as the separator to datetime.datetime.isoformat()
3519 used to drop the time part of the result.
3520
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003521- Issue #1811: Improve accuracy and cross-platform consistency for true division
3522 of integers: the result of a/b is now correctly rounded for ints a and b (at
3523 least on IEEE 754 platforms), and in particular does not depend on the
3524 internal representation of a long.
Mark Dickinson46572832009-12-27 14:55:57 +00003525
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003526- Issue #6108: ``unicode(exception)`` and ``str(exception)`` should return the
3527 same message when only ``__str__()`` (and not ``__unicode__()``) is overridden
3528 in the subclass.
Ezio Melottif84caf42009-12-24 22:25:17 +00003529
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003530- Issue #6834: Replace the implementation for the 'python' and 'pythonw'
Ronald Oussoren92919a62009-12-24 13:30:58 +00003531 executables on OSX.
3532
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003533 These executables now work properly with the arch(1) command: ``arch -ppc
3534 python`` will start a universal binary version of python in PPC mode (unlike
3535 previous releases).
Ronald Oussoren92919a62009-12-24 13:30:58 +00003536
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003537- Issue #1680159: Unicode coercion during an 'in' operation no longer masks the
3538 underlying error when the coercion fails for the left hand operand.
R. David Murray0a0a1a82009-12-14 16:28:26 +00003539
Benjamin Peterson4895af42009-12-13 16:36:53 +00003540- Issue #7491: Metaclass's __cmp__ method was ignored.
3541
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003542- Issue #7466: Segmentation fault when the garbage collector is called in the
3543 middle of populating a tuple. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
Antoine Pitrou2a08b422009-12-13 16:18:14 +00003544
R. David Murrayc7298ff2009-12-14 21:57:39 +00003545
Benjamin Peterson4f51baf2009-12-05 18:40:02 +00003546Library
3547-------
3548
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003549- Issue #6963: Added "maxtasksperchild" argument to ``multiprocessing.Pool``,
3550 allowing for a maximum number of tasks within the pool to be completed by the
3551 worker before that worker is terminated, and a new one created to replace it.
Jesse Noller654ade32010-01-27 03:05:57 +00003552
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003553- Issue #7617: Make sure distutils.unixccompiler.UnixCCompiler recognizes gcc
3554 when it has a fully qualified configuration prefix. Initial patch by
3555 Arfrever.
Tarek Ziadéc25417f2010-01-08 23:42:23 +00003556
Antoine Pitrou80157252010-01-08 19:20:17 +00003557- Issue #7092: Remove py3k warning when importing cPickle. 2to3 handles
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003558 renaming of `cPickle` to `pickle`. The warning was annoying since there's no
3559 alternative to cPickle if you care about performance. Patch by Florent
Antoine Pitrou80157252010-01-08 19:20:17 +00003560 Xicluna.
3561
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003562- Issue #7455: Fix possible crash in cPickle on invalid input. Patch by Victor
3563 Stinner.
Antoine Pitrou0d423b82010-01-07 17:46:49 +00003564
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003565- Issue #7092: Fix the DeprecationWarnings emitted by the standard library when
3566 using the -3 flag. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
Antoine Pitroub9d49632010-01-04 23:22:44 +00003567
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003568- Issue #7471: Improve the performance of GzipFile's buffering mechanism, and
3569 make it implement the ``io.BufferedIOBase`` ABC to allow for further speedups
3570 by wrapping it in an ``io.BufferedReader``. Patch by Nir Aides.
Antoine Pitrou673ddf92010-01-03 22:29:56 +00003571
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003572- Issue #3972: ``httplib.HTTPConnection`` now accepts an optional source_address
Gregory P. Smith9d325212010-01-03 02:06:07 +00003573 parameter to allow specifying where your connections come from.
3574
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003575- ``socket.create_connection()`` now accepts an optional source_address
3576 parameter.
Gregory P. Smith79a3eb12010-01-03 01:29:44 +00003577
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003578- Issue #5511: ``zipfile.ZipFile`` can now be used as a context manager.
Ezio Melotti569e61f2009-12-30 06:14:51 +00003579 Initial patch by Brian Curtin.
3580
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003581- Distutils now correctly identifies the build architecture as "x86_64" when
3582 building on OSX 10.6 without "-arch" flags.
Ronald Oussorenca8e7ec2009-12-24 14:50:35 +00003583
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003584- Issue #7556: Distutils' msvc9compiler now opens the MSVC Manifest file in text
3585 mode.
Tarek Ziadé0479eb52009-12-21 23:37:44 +00003586
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003587- Issue #7552: Removed line feed in the base64 Authorization header in the
3588 Distutils upload command to avoid an error when PyPI reads it. This occurs on
3589 long passwords. Initial patch by JP St. Pierre.
Tarek Ziadé2421d562009-12-20 23:23:34 +00003590
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003591- Issue #7231: urllib2 cannot handle https with proxy requiring auth. Patch by
3592 Tatsuhiro Tsujikawa.
Senthil Kumaran7713acf2009-12-20 06:05:13 +00003593
Benjamin Petersonddd392c2009-12-13 19:19:07 +00003594- Issue #7349: Make methods of file objects in the io module accept None as an
3595 argument where file-like objects (ie StringIO and BytesIO) accept them to mean
3596 the same as passing no argument.
3597
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003598- Issue #7348: ``StringIO.StringIO.readline(-1)`` now acts as if it got no
3599 argument like other file objects.
Benjamin Petersonc4771d22009-12-13 17:31:31 +00003600
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003601- Issue #7357: tarfile no longer suppresses fatal extraction errors by default.
Lars Gustäbel92ca7562009-12-13 11:32:27 +00003602
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003603- Issue #7470: logging: Fix bug in Unicode encoding fallback.
Vinay Sajip5cc4e2a2009-12-11 09:16:01 +00003604
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003605- Issue #5949: Fixed IMAP4_SSL hang when the IMAP server response is missing
3606 proper end-of-line termination.
R. David Murray93321f32009-12-09 15:15:31 +00003607
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003608- Issue #7457: Added a read_pkg_file method to
3609 ``distutils.dist.DistributionMetadata``.
Benjamin Peterson4f51baf2009-12-05 18:40:02 +00003610
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003611- Issue #3745: Undo the 2.7a1 change to have hashlib to reject unicode and non
3612 buffer API supporting objects as input. That behavior is for 3.x only.
Gregory P. Smithfe32d302010-01-02 22:42:50 +00003613
Georg Brandl740cdc32009-12-28 08:34:58 +00003614C-API
3615-----
3616
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003617- Issue #7767: New function ``PyLong_AsLongLongAndOverflow()`` added, analogous
3618 to ``PyLong_AsLongAndOverflow()``.
Mark Dickinsona36507c2010-01-30 10:08:33 +00003619
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003620- Issue #5080: The argument parsing functions ``PyArg_ParseTuple()``,
3621 ``PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords()``, ``PyArg_VaParse()``,
3622 ``PyArg_VaParseTupleAndKeywords()`` and ``PyArg_Parse()`` no longer accept
3623 float arguments for integer format codes (other than 'L'): previously an
3624 attempt to pass a float resulted in a DeprecationWarning; now it gives a
3625 TypeError. For the 'L' format code (which previously had no warning) there is
3626 now a DeprecationWarning.
Mark Dickinson1b34d252010-01-01 17:27:30 +00003627
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003628- Issue #7033: Function ``PyErr_NewExceptionWithDoc()`` added.
Georg Brandl740cdc32009-12-28 08:34:58 +00003629
Martin v. Löwisb4261d52009-12-21 19:29:59 +00003630Build
3631-----
3632
Benjamin Petersonedfe72f2010-01-01 15:21:13 +00003633- Issue #6491: Allow --with-dbmliborder to specify that no dbms will be built.
3634
Benjamin Petersonb4abef62010-01-01 15:18:38 +00003635- Issue #6943: Use pkg-config to find the libffi headers when the
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003636 ``--with-system-ffi`` flag is used.
Benjamin Petersonb4abef62010-01-01 15:18:38 +00003637
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003638- Issue #7609: Add a ``--with-system-expat`` option that causes the system's
3639 expat library to be used for the pyexpat module instead of the one included
3640 with Python.
Benjamin Peterson2c196742009-12-31 03:17:18 +00003641
Benjamin Peterson500ce232009-12-30 02:58:50 +00003642- Issue #7589: Only build the nis module when the correct header files are
3643 found.
3644
Martin v. Löwisf477b932010-01-02 09:25:21 +00003645- Switch to OpenSSL 0.9.8l and sqlite 3.6.21 on Windows.
R. David Murray93321f32009-12-09 15:15:31 +00003646
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003647- Issue #7541: when using ``python-config`` with a framework install the
3648 compiler might use the wrong library.
Ronald Oussorenb5afe542009-12-24 14:17:19 +00003649
R. David Murrayc7298ff2009-12-14 21:57:39 +00003650Tests
3651-----
3652
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003653- Issue #7376: Instead of running a self-test (which was failing) when called
R. David Murray77e48ba2009-12-20 16:46:06 +00003654 with no arguments, doctest.py now gives a usage message.
3655
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003656- Issue #7396: Fix regrtest -s, which was broken by the -j enhancement.
R. David Murray98e3df32009-12-16 11:49:46 +00003657
R. David Murrayc7298ff2009-12-14 21:57:39 +00003658- Issue #7498: test_multiprocessing now uses test_support.find_unused_port
3659 instead of a hardcoded port number in test_rapid_restart.
3660
3661
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00003662What's New in Python 2.7 alpha 1
3663================================
3664
Benjamin Peterson3513c872009-12-05 18:48:13 +00003665*Release date: 2009-12-05*
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00003666
3667Core and Builtins
3668-----------------
3669
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003670- Issue #7419: ``locale.setlocale()`` could crash the interpreter on Windows
3671 when called with invalid values.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd7288712009-12-01 21:51:04 +00003672
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003673- Issue #3382: 'F' formatting for float and complex now convert the result to
3674 upper case. This only affects 'inf' and 'nan', since 'f' no longer converts
3675 to 'g' for large values.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd7288712009-12-01 21:51:04 +00003676
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003677- Remove switch from "%f" formatting to "%g" formatting for floats larger than
3678 1e50 in absolute value.
Mark Dickinson9dd5e162009-11-23 20:54:09 +00003679
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003680- Remove restrictions on precision when formatting floats. E.g., "%.120g" %
3681 1e-100 used to raise OverflowError, but now gives the requested 120
3682 significant digits instead.
Mark Dickinson18cfada2009-11-23 18:46:41 +00003683
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003684- Add Py3k warnings for parameter names in parentheses.
Benjamin Peterson89b1a5c2009-11-19 22:58:01 +00003685
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003686- Issue #7362: Give a proper error message for ``def f((x)=3): pass``.
Benjamin Peterson89b1a5c2009-11-19 22:58:01 +00003687
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003688- Issue #7085: Fix crash when importing some extensions in a thread on MacOSX
3689 10.6.
Ronald Oussoren315cd0c2009-11-19 16:25:21 +00003690
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003691- Issue #7117: ``repr(x)`` for a float x returns a result based on the shortest
3692 decimal string that's guaranteed to round back to x under correct rounding
3693 (with round-half-to-even rounding mode). Previously it gave a string based on
3694 rounding x to 17 decimal digits. repr(x) for a complex number behaves
3695 similarly. On platforms where the correctly-rounded strtod and dtoa code is
3696 not supported (see below), repr is unchanged.
Mark Dickinsonb678de82009-11-19 18:41:49 +00003697
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003698- Issue #7117: On almost all platforms: float-to-string and string-to-float
3699 conversions within Python are now correctly rounded. Places these conversions
3700 occur include: str for floats and complex numbers; the float and complex
3701 constructors; old-style and new-style numeric formatting; serialization and
3702 deserialization of floats and complex numbers using marshal, pickle and json;
3703 parsing of float and imaginary literals in Python code; Decimal-to-float
3704 conversion.
Mark Dickinsonb678de82009-11-19 18:41:49 +00003705
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003706 The conversions use a Python-adapted version of David Gay's well-known dtoa.c,
3707 providing correctly-rounded strtod and dtoa C functions. This code is
3708 supported on Windows, and on Unix-like platforms using gcc, icc or suncc as
3709 the C compiler. There may be a small number of platforms on which correct
3710 operation of this code cannot be guaranteed, so the code is not used: notably,
3711 this applies to platforms where the C double format is not IEEE 754 binary64,
3712 and to platforms on x86 hardware where the x87 FPU is set to 64-bit precision
3713 and Python's configure script is unable to determine how to change the FPU
3714 precision. On these platforms conversions use the platform strtod and dtoa,
3715 as before.
Mark Dickinsonb678de82009-11-19 18:41:49 +00003716
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003717- Issue #7117: Backport round implementation from Python 3.x. ``round()`` now
3718 uses the correctly-rounded string <-> float conversions described above (when
3719 available), and so produces correctly rounded results that will display nicely
3720 under the float repr. There are two related small changes: (1) round now
3721 accepts any class with an ``__index__()`` method for its second argument (but
3722 no longer accepts floats for the second argument), and (2) an excessively
3723 large second integer argument (e.g., ``round(1.234, 10**100)``) no longer
3724 raises an exception.
Mark Dickinsonbd15a062009-11-18 19:33:35 +00003725
Philip Jenveyfab8be22009-11-17 02:42:26 +00003726- Issue #1757126: Fix the cyrillic-asian alias for the ptcp154 encoding.
3727
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003728- Fix several issues with ``compile()``. The input can now contain Windows and
3729 Mac newlines and is no longer required to end in a newline.
Benjamin Petersone36199b2009-11-12 23:39:44 +00003730
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003731- Remove length limitation when constructing a complex number from a unicode
3732 string.
Mark Dickinsonc04c7c52009-10-26 22:28:14 +00003733
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003734- Issue #7244: ``itertools.izip_longest()`` no longer ignores exceptions raised
3735 during the formation of an output tuple.
Raymond Hettingerfa7dadd2009-11-01 20:45:16 +00003736
Mark Dickinson8d87dc02009-10-25 20:39:06 +00003737- Issue #1087418: Boost performance of bitwise operations for longs.
3738
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003739- Issue #1722344: ``threading._shutdown()`` is now called in ``Py_Finalize()``,
3740 which fixes the problem of some exceptions being thrown at shutdown when the
3741 interpreter is killed. Patch by Adam Olsen.
Antoine Pitrouefb60c02009-10-20 21:29:37 +00003742
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003743- Issue #7168: Document ``PyFloat_AsString()`` and ``PyFloat_AsReprString()``,
3744 and note that they are unsafe and deprecated.
Eric Smithc12781a2009-10-19 14:38:14 +00003745
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003746- Issue #7120: logging: Remove import of multiprocessing which is causing crash
3747 in GAE.
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +00003748
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003749- Issue #7140: The ``__dict__`` of a module should not be cleared unless the
3750 module is the only object holding a reference to it.
Benjamin Peterson196b0922009-10-15 15:44:46 +00003751
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003752- Issue #1754094: Improve the stack depth calculation in the compiler. There
3753 should be no other effect than a small decrease in memory use. Patch by
3754 Christopher Tur Lesniewski-Laas.
Neil Schemenauer7fdd1cb2009-10-14 17:17:14 +00003755
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003756- Issue #7084: Fix a (very unlikely) crash when printing a list from one thread,
3757 and mutating it from another one. Patch by Scott Dial.
Antoine Pitroubeaf6a02009-10-11 21:03:26 +00003758
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd0052d12009-10-06 19:56:32 +00003759- Issue #1571184: The Unicode database contains properties for more characters.
3760 The tables for code points representing numeric values, white spaces or line
3761 breaks are now generated from the official Unicode Character Database files,
3762 and include information from the Unihan.txt file.
3763
Benjamin Peterson7adbb5a2009-10-03 20:23:24 +00003764- Issue #7050: Fix a SystemError when trying to use unpacking and augmented
3765 assignment.
3766
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003767- Issue #5329: Fix ``os.popen*`` regression from 2.5 with commands as a sequence
3768 running through the shell. Patch by Jean-Paul Calderone and Jani Hakala.
Philip Jenvey8b902042009-09-29 19:10:15 +00003769
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003770- Issue #7019: Raise ValueError when unmarshalling bad long data, instead of
3771 producing internally inconsistent Python longs.
Mark Dickinson7e7a3ec2009-09-29 19:01:06 +00003772
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003773- Issue #6990: Fix ``threading.local`` subclasses leaving old state around after
3774 a reference cycle GC which could be recycled by new locals.
Philip Jenveydbf3b252009-09-29 04:32:44 +00003775
Benjamin Peterson9db55402009-09-18 21:47:27 +00003776- Issue #6300: unicode.encode, unicode.decode, str.decode, and str.encode now
Benjamin Peterson332d7212009-09-18 21:14:55 +00003777 take keyword arguments.
3778
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003779- Issue #6922: Fix an infinite loop when trying to decode an invalid UTF-32
3780 stream with a non-raising error handler like "replace" or "ignore".
Georg Brandle9741f32009-09-17 11:28:09 +00003781
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003782- Issue #6713: Improve performance of base 10 int -> string and long -> string
3783 conversions.
Mark Dickinsonaa2adc82009-09-16 22:10:56 +00003784
Thomas Wouters2920adb2009-09-16 20:36:34 +00003785- Issue #1590864: Fix potential deadlock when mixing threads and fork().
3786
Georg Brandl0674d3f2009-09-16 20:30:09 +00003787- Issue #6844: Do not emit DeprecationWarnings when accessing a "message"
3788 attribute on exceptions that was set explicitly.
3789
Mark Dickinsonc8a7c7c2009-09-06 10:03:31 +00003790- Issue #6846: Fix bug where bytearray.pop() returns negative integers.
3791
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003792- ``classmethod()`` no longer checks if its argument is callable.
Benjamin Peterson6fcf9b52009-09-01 22:27:57 +00003793
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003794- Issue #6750: A text file opened with ``io.open()`` could duplicate its output
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfff896b2009-08-29 18:14:40 +00003795 when writing from multiple threads at the same time.
3796
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003797- Issue #6704: Improve the col_offset in AST for "for" statements with a target
3798 of tuple unpacking.
Benjamin Petersonc0ba8282009-08-15 22:59:21 +00003799
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003800- Issue #6707: ``dir()`` on an uninitialized module caused a crash.
Benjamin Peterson4c6e8082009-08-15 13:16:38 +00003801
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003802- Issue #6540: Fixed crash for ``bytearray.translate()`` with invalid parameters.
Georg Brandlec812ca2009-07-22 11:57:15 +00003803
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003804- Issue #6573: ``set.union()`` stopped processing inputs if an instance of self
Raymond Hettingerc2b9e1a2009-07-27 20:32:04 +00003805 occurred in the argument chain.
3806
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc9d11fef2009-07-13 20:03:21 +00003807- Issue #1616979: Added the cp720 (Arabic DOS) encoding.
3808
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003809- Issue #6070: On posix platforms import no longer copies the execute bit from
3810 the .py file to the .pyc file if it is set. Patch by Marco N.
R. David Murray23a736a2009-07-07 01:06:13 +00003811
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003812- Issue #4618: When unicode arguments are passed to ``print()``, the default
Benjamin Peterson753d1622009-07-02 18:16:45 +00003813 separator and end should be unicode also.
3814
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00003815- Issue #6119: Fixed an incorrect Py3k warning about order comparisons of
3816 built-in functions and methods.
Benjamin Peterson1bf47652009-07-02 17:06:17 +00003817
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003818- Issue #6347: Include inttypes.h as well as stdint.h in pyport.h. This fixes a
3819 build failure on HP-UX: int32_t and uint32_t are defined in inttypes.h instead
3820 of stdint.h on that platform.
Mark Dickinson2f865b92009-06-30 15:32:30 +00003821
Hirokazu Yamamotoa3c56092009-06-28 10:23:00 +00003822- Issue #4856: Remove checks for win NT.
3823
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc595f7a52009-06-25 22:29:29 +00003824- Issue #2016: Fixed a crash in a corner case where the dictionary of keyword
3825 arguments could be modified during the function call setup.
3826
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc14fc6732009-06-23 21:09:09 +00003827- Removed the ipaddr module.
3828
Raymond Hettinger62641e92009-06-23 20:59:43 +00003829- Issue #6329: Fixed iteration for memoryview objects (it was being blocked
3830 because it wasn't recognized as a sequence).
3831
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003832- Issue #6289: Encoding errors from ``compile()`` were being masked.
Benjamin Peterson08a0bbc2009-06-16 00:29:31 +00003833
Benjamin Petersona72be3b2009-06-13 20:23:33 +00003834- When no module is given in a relative import, the module field of the
3835 ImportFrom AST node is now None instead of an empty string.
3836
Benjamin Peterson565e1b62009-06-13 03:46:30 +00003837- Assignment to None using import statements now raises a SyntaxError.
3838
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003839- Issue #4547: When debugging a very large function, it was not always possible
3840 to update the lineno attribute of the current frame.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcb02ceda2009-06-01 20:53:18 +00003841
Antoine Pitrou46dbe272009-05-30 21:27:00 +00003842- Issue #5330: C functions called with keyword arguments were not reported by
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003843 the various profiling modules (profile, cProfile). Patch by Hagen Fürstenau.
Antoine Pitrou46dbe272009-05-30 21:27:00 +00003844
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003845- Issue #5982: staticmethod and classmethod now expose the wrapped function with
3846 ``__func__``.
Raymond Hettinger578a2282009-05-29 04:58:52 +00003847
Raymond Hettinger822b87f2009-05-29 01:46:48 +00003848- Added support for multiple context managers in the same with-statement.
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003849 Deprecated ``contextlib.nested()`` which is no longer needed.
Georg Brandl944f6842009-05-25 21:02:56 +00003850
Benjamin Peterson1880d8b2009-05-25 13:13:44 +00003851- Issue #6101: A new opcode, SETUP_WITH, has been added to speed up the with
3852 statement and correctly lookup the __enter__ and __exit__ special methods.
3853
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003854- Issue #5829: complex("1e500") no longer raises OverflowError. This makes it
3855 consistent with float("1e500") and interpretation of real and imaginary
3856 literals.
Mark Dickinsona4e0efa2009-05-20 18:43:07 +00003857
Hirokazu Yamamotoa4f90182009-05-17 02:58:36 +00003858- Issue #3527: Removed Py_WIN_WIDE_FILENAMES which is not used any more.
3859
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003860- ``__instancecheck__()`` and ``__subclasscheck__()`` are now completely ignored
3861 on classic classes and instances.
Benjamin Petersoneb9fb2c2009-05-16 22:46:11 +00003862
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003863- Issue #5994: The marshal module now has docstrings.
R. David Murray525cffc2009-05-13 13:07:14 +00003864
Mark Dickinsonb1d45852009-05-11 15:33:08 +00003865- Issue #5981: Fix three minor inf/nan issues in float.fromhex:
Mark Dickinsonb1d45852009-05-11 15:33:08 +00003866
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003867 (1) inf and nan strings with trailing whitespace were incorrectly rejected;
3868 (2) parsing of strings representing infinities and nans was locale aware; and
3869 (3) the interpretation of fromhex('-nan') didn't match that of float('-nan').
Eric Smitha985a3a2009-05-05 18:26:08 +00003870
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003871- Issue #5920: For ``float.__format__()``, change the behavior with the empty
3872 presentation type (that is, not one of 'e', 'f', 'g', or 'n') to be like 'g'
3873 but with at least one decimal point and with a default precision
3874 of 12. Previously, the behavior the same but with a default precision of 6.
3875 This more closely matches ``str()``, and reduces surprises when adding
3876 alignment flags to the empty presentation type. This also affects the new
3877 complex.__format__ in the same way.
3878
3879- Issue #5890: In subclasses of 'property' the __doc__ attribute was shadowed by
3880 classtype's, even if it was None. property now inserts the __doc__ into the
3881 subclass instance __dict__.
R. David Murray7ba8e1c2009-05-04 22:16:24 +00003882
Antoine Pitrou653dece2009-05-04 18:32:32 +00003883- Issue #4426: The UTF-7 decoder was too strict and didn't accept some legal
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003884 sequences. Patch by Nick Barnes and Victor Stinner.
Antoine Pitrou653dece2009-05-04 18:32:32 +00003885
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003886- Issue #1588: Add complex.__format__. For example, ``format(complex(1, 2./3),
3887 '.5')`` now produces a sensible result.
Eric Smith9139cc62009-04-30 00:58:58 +00003888
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003889- Issue #5864: Fix empty format code formatting for floats so that it never
3890 gives more than the requested number of significant digits.
Mark Dickinson92fcc9c2009-04-29 20:41:00 +00003891
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003892- Issue #5793: Rationalize isdigit / isalpha / tolower, etc. Includes new
3893 Py_ISDIGIT / Py_ISALPHA / Py_TOLOWER, etc. in pctypes.h.
Eric Smithcac7af62009-04-27 19:04:37 +00003894
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003895- Issue #4971: Fix titlecase for characters that are their own titlecase, but
3896 not their own uppercase.
Martin v. Löwis99f27792009-04-26 00:53:18 +00003897
Eric Smith068f0652009-04-25 21:40:15 +00003898- Issue #5835: Deprecate PyOS_ascii_formatd and replace it with
3899 _PyOS_double_to_string or PyOS_double_to_string.
3900
Benjamin Peterson5083dc52009-04-25 00:41:22 +00003901- Issue #5283: Setting __class__ in __del__ caused a segfault.
3902
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003903- Issue #5816: ``complex(repr(z))`` now recovers z exactly, even when z involves
3904 nans, infs or negative zeros.
Mark Dickinson95bc9802009-04-24 12:46:53 +00003905
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003906- Implement PEP 378, Format Specifier for Thousands Separator, for floats, ints,
3907 and longs.
Eric Smithaca19e62009-04-22 13:29:05 +00003908
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003909- Issue #5515: 'n' formatting for ints, longs, and floats handles leading zero
3910 formatting poorly.
Eric Smithaca19e62009-04-22 13:29:05 +00003911
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003912- Issue #5772: For float.__format__, don't add a trailing ".0" if we're using no
3913 type code and we have an exponent.
Eric Smithaca19e62009-04-22 13:29:05 +00003914
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003915- Issue #3166: Make long -> float (and int -> float) conversions correctly
3916 rounded.
Mark Dickinson6736cf82009-04-20 21:13:33 +00003917
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003918- Issue #5787: ``object.__getattribute__(some_type, "__bases__")`` segfaulted on
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00003919 some built-in types.
Benjamin Petersond4d400c2009-04-18 20:12:47 +00003920
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003921- Issue #1869: Fix a couple of minor round() issues. ``round(5e15+1)`` was
3922 giving 5e15+2; ``round(-0.0)`` was losing the sign of the zero.
Mark Dickinson1bdf7e92009-04-18 14:59:42 +00003923
Benjamin Peterson99d36f12009-04-15 21:26:36 +00003924- Issue #5759: float() didn't call __float__ on str subclasses.
3925
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003926- Issue #5704: The "-3" command-line option now implies "-t".
Georg Brandl3c4a5462009-04-12 12:08:12 +00003927
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003928- Issue #2170: Refactored ``xml.dom.minidom.normalize``, increasing both its
3929 clarity and its speed.
R. David Murray0374a822009-04-09 21:54:50 +00003930
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003931- Issue #2396: The memoryview object was backported from Python 3.1.
Antoine Pitrou789be0c2009-04-02 21:18:34 +00003932
Georg Brandld3f03fa2009-04-02 18:09:04 +00003933- Fix a problem in PyErr_NormalizeException that leads to "undetected errors"
3934 when hitting the recursion limit under certain circumstances.
3935
Brett Cannon15ba4da2009-04-01 18:03:59 +00003936- Issue #1665206: Remove the last eager import in _warnings.c and make it lazy.
3937
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003938- Issue #4865: On MacOSX /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages is added to the end
3939 sys.path, for compatibility with the system install of Python.
Ronald Oussorene0154ed2009-03-30 23:10:35 +00003940
Antoine Pitrouf8387af2009-03-23 18:41:45 +00003941- Issue #4688: Add a heuristic so that tuples and dicts containing only
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003942 untrackable objects are not tracked by the garbage collector. This can reduce
3943 the size of collections and therefore the garbage collection overhead on
3944 long-running programs, depending on their particular use of datatypes.
Antoine Pitrouf8387af2009-03-23 18:41:45 +00003945
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003946- Issue #5512: Rewrite PyLong long division algorithm (x_divrem) to improve its
3947 performance. Long divisions and remainder operations are now between 50% and
3948 150% faster.
Mark Dickinson0b666bf2009-03-23 18:25:13 +00003949
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003950- Issue #4258: Make it possible to use base 2**30 instead of base 2**15 for the
3951 internal representation of integers, for performance reasons. Base 2**30 is
3952 enabled by default on 64-bit machines. Add --enable-big-digits option to
3953 configure, which overrides the default. Add sys.long_info structseq to
3954 provide information about the internal format.
Mark Dickinsonefc82f72009-03-20 15:51:55 +00003955
Benjamin Peterson6ffe8522009-03-18 20:52:15 +00003956- Issue #4034: Fix weird attribute error messages of the traceback object. (As a
3957 result traceback.__members__ no longer exists.)
3958
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003959- Issue #4474: PyUnicode_FromWideChar now converts characters outside the BMP to
3960 surrogate pairs, on systems with sizeof(wchar_t) == 4 and sizeof(Py_UNICODE)
3961 == 2.
Mark Dickinson6b265f12009-03-18 16:07:26 +00003962
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003963- Issue #5237: Allow auto-numbered fields in str.format(). For example: ``'{}
3964 {}'.format(1, 2) == '1 2'``.
Eric Smith6f42edb2009-03-14 11:57:26 +00003965
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003966- Issue #3652: Make the 'line' argument for ``warnings.showwarning()`` a
Brett Cannon6c4cff02009-03-11 04:51:06 +00003967 requirement. Means the DeprecationWarning from Python 2.6 can go away.
3968
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003969- Issue #5247: Improve error message when unknown format codes are used when
3970 using ``str.format()`` with str, unicode, long, int, and float arguments.
Eric Smithe9fb6862009-02-20 14:02:36 +00003971
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003972- Running Python with the -3 option now also warns about classic division for
3973 ints and longs.
Raymond Hettinger08259e82009-02-18 23:10:19 +00003974
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003975- Issue #5260: Long integers now consume less memory: average saving is 2 bytes
3976 per long on a 32-bit system and 6 bytes per long on a 64-bit system.
Mark Dickinson2ffb26f2009-02-15 10:13:41 +00003977
Antoine Pitrou76a4b892009-02-13 13:52:33 +00003978- Issue #5186: Reduce hash collisions for objects with no __hash__ method by
3979 rotating the object pointer by 4 bits to the right.
3980
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003981- Issue #4575: Fix Py_IS_INFINITY macro to work correctly on x87 FPUs: it now
3982 forces its argument to double before testing for infinity.
Mark Dickinsonc97c9092009-02-09 14:18:43 +00003983
Benjamin Petersone18ef192009-01-20 14:21:16 +00003984- Issue #4978: Passing keyword arguments as unicode strings is now allowed.
3985
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +00003986- Issue #1242657: the __len__() and __length_hint__() calls in several tools
Raymond Hettingerb5163702009-02-02 21:50:13 +00003987 were suppressing all exceptions. These include list(), filter(), map(),
3988 zip(), and bytearray().
3989
Benjamin Peterson596d3062009-01-19 15:42:23 +00003990- os.ftruncate raises OSErrors instead of IOErrors for consistency with other os
3991 functions.
3992
Benjamin Peterson5848d1f2009-01-19 00:08:08 +00003993- Issue #4991: Passing invalid file descriptors to io.FileIO now raises an
3994 OSError.
3995
Amaury Forgeot d'Arca18392a2009-01-13 23:19:08 +00003996- Issue #4807: Port the _winreg module to Windows CE.
3997
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003998- Issue #4935: The overflow checking code in the expandtabs() method common to
3999 str, bytes and bytearray could be optimized away by the compiler, letting the
4000 interpreter segfault instead of raising an error.
Antoine Pitrouc2f02212009-01-13 23:13:52 +00004001
Amaury Forgeot d'Arca40d5732009-01-12 23:36:55 +00004002- Issue #3720: Fix a crash when an iterator modifies its class and removes its
4003 __next__ method.
4004
Martin v. Löwise3422fa2009-01-12 08:11:24 +00004005- Issue #4893: Use NT threading on CE.
4006
Martin v. Löwis1b3bef22009-01-12 07:57:11 +00004007- Issue #4915: Port sysmodule to Windows CE.
4008
Antoine Pitrou4c5ecb72009-01-09 21:40:55 +00004009- Issue #4074: Change the criteria for doing a full garbage collection (i.e.
4010 collecting the oldest generation) so that allocating lots of objects without
4011 destroying them does not show quadratic performance. Based on a proposal by
Benjamin Petersond50a5d52009-07-13 00:03:20 +00004012 Martin von Löwis at
Antoine Pitrou4c5ecb72009-01-09 21:40:55 +00004013 http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2008-June/080579.html.
4014
Martin v. Löwisb90304a2009-01-07 18:40:40 +00004015- Issue #4850: Change COUNT_ALLOCS variables to Py_ssize_t.
4016
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004017- Issue #1180193: When importing a module from a .pyc (or .pyo) file with an
4018 existing .py counterpart, override the co_filename attributes of all code
4019 objects if the original filename is obsolete (which can happen if the file has
4020 been renamed, moved, or if it is accessed through different paths). Patch by
4021 Ziga Seilnacht and Jean-Paul Calderone.
Antoine Pitroue96d4ea2009-01-06 18:10:47 +00004022
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004023- Issue #4075: Use ``OutputDebugStringW()`` in Py_FatalError.
Martin v. Löwis5344c992009-01-02 20:32:55 +00004024
Hirokazu Yamamoto99a1b202009-01-01 15:45:39 +00004025- Issue #4797: IOError.filename was not set when _fileio.FileIO failed to open
4026 file with `str' filename on Windows.
4027
Antoine Pitrouaa687902009-01-01 14:11:22 +00004028- Issue #3680: Reference cycles created through a dict, set or deque iterator
4029 did not get collected.
4030
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004031- Issue #4701: PyObject_Hash now implicitly calls PyType_Ready on types where
4032 the tp_hash and tp_dict slots are both NULL.
Nick Coghlan180e4002008-12-30 01:18:48 +00004033
Benjamin Peterson7af65562008-12-29 17:56:58 +00004034- Issue #4764: With io.open, IOError.filename is set when trying to open a
4035 directory on POSIX systems.
4036
Benjamin Petersonfe231b02008-12-29 17:47:42 +00004037- Issue #4764: IOError.filename is set when trying to open a directory on POSIX
4038 systems.
4039
Georg Brandl6425a2f2008-12-28 11:54:53 +00004040- Issue #4759: None is now allowed as the first argument of
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004041 ``bytearray.translate()``. It was always allowed for ``bytes.translate()``.
Georg Brandl6425a2f2008-12-28 11:54:53 +00004042
Skip Montanarof205c132008-12-23 03:30:15 +00004043- Added test case to ensure attempts to read from a file opened for writing
4044 fail.
4045
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004046- Issue #2467: gc.DEBUG_STATS reported invalid elapsed times. Also, always print
4047 elapsed times, not only when some objects are uncollectable/unreachable.
4048 Original patch by Neil Schemenauer.
Antoine Pitrou73c0e652008-12-17 22:46:54 +00004049
Mark Dickinson1a707982008-12-17 16:14:37 +00004050- Issue #3439: Add a bit_length method to int and long.
4051
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004052- Issue #2183: Simplify and optimize bytecode for list comprehensions. Original
4053 patch by Neal Norwitz.
Antoine Pitroud0c35152008-12-17 00:38:28 +00004054
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004055- Issue #4597: Fixed exception handling when the __exit__ function of a context
4056 manager returns a value that cannot be converted to a bool.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcad9b5992008-12-10 23:22:49 +00004057
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004058- Issue #4597: Fixed several opcodes that weren't always propagating exceptions.
Jeffrey Yasskinffd42cf2008-12-10 07:35:02 +00004059
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004060- Issue #4445: Replace ``sizeof(PyStringObject)`` with
4061 ``offsetof(PyStringObject, ob_sval) + 1`` when allocating memory for str
4062 instances. On a typical machine this saves 3 bytes of memory (on average) per
4063 string allocation.
Mark Dickinson826f3fe2008-12-05 21:55:28 +00004064
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcdc619012008-11-22 20:01:18 +00004065- Issue #3996: On Windows, the PyOS_CheckStack function would cause the
4066 interpreter to abort ("Fatal Python error: Could not reset the stack!")
4067 instead of throwing a MemoryError.
4068
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004069- Issue #3689: The list reversed iterator now supports __length_hint__ instead
4070 of __len__. Behavior now matches other reversed iterators.
Raymond Hettinger7989a4d2008-12-03 15:42:10 +00004071
Benjamin Petersonc078f922008-11-21 22:27:24 +00004072- Issue #4367: Python would segfault during compiling when the unicodedata
4073 module couldn't be imported and \N escapes were present.
4074
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004075- Issue #4233: Changed semantic of ``_fileio.FileIO``'s ``close()`` method on
4076 file objects with closefd=False. The file descriptor is still kept open but
4077 the file object behaves like a closed file. The ``FileIO`` object also got a
4078 new readonly attribute ``closefd``.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc32265652008-11-20 23:34:31 +00004079
Benjamin Peterson46cc6d12008-11-19 21:49:09 +00004080- Issue #4348: Some bytearray methods returned that didn't cause any change to
4081 the bytearray, returned the same bytearray instead of a copy.
4082
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004083- Issue #4317: Fixed a crash in the ``imageop.rgb2rgb8()`` function.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc7cfe7ea2008-11-18 22:19:37 +00004084
Benjamin Peterson273c2332008-11-17 22:39:09 +00004085- Issue #4230: If ``__getattr__`` is a descriptor, it now functions correctly.
4086
Benjamin Peterson6624a9f2008-11-03 15:14:51 +00004087- Issue #4048: The parser module now correctly validates relative imports.
4088
Benjamin Petersondcee09d2008-10-31 02:16:05 +00004089- Issue #4225: ``from __future__ import unicode_literals`` didn't work in an
4090 exec statement.
4091
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004092- Issue #4176: Fixed a crash when pickling an object which ``__reduce__`` method
4093 does not return iterators for the 4th and 5th items.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc69a9c5b2008-10-30 21:18:34 +00004094
Benjamin Petersonbdca9422008-10-26 20:21:13 +00004095- Issue #4209: Enabling unicode_literals and the print_function in the same
4096 __future__ import didn't work.
4097
Benjamin Peterson399b1fe2008-10-25 02:53:28 +00004098- Using ``nonlocal`` as a variable name will now raise a Py3k SyntaxWarning
Georg Brandl7fb00ad2008-10-25 07:00:52 +00004099 because it is a reserved word in 3.x.
Benjamin Peterson399b1fe2008-10-25 02:53:28 +00004100
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004101- On windows, ``os.chdir()`` given unicode was not working if
4102 GetCurrentDirectoryW returned a path longer than MAX_PATH. (But It's doubtful
4103 this code path is really executed because I cannot move to such directory on
4104 win2k)
Hirokazu Yamamoto10a018c2008-10-09 10:00:30 +00004105
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004106- Issue #4069: When ``set.remove(element)`` is used with a set element, the
4107 element is temporarily replaced with an equivalent frozenset. But the
4108 eventual KeyError would always report the empty ``frozenset()`` as the missing
4109 key. Now it correctly refers to the initial element.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd78b9dc2008-10-07 20:32:10 +00004110
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004111- Issue #4509: Various issues surrounding resize of bytearray objects to which
4112 there are buffer exports.
Antoine Pitrouae5bece2008-12-06 21:29:24 +00004113
Benjamin Peterson8d5934b2008-12-27 18:24:11 +00004114- Issue #4748: Lambda generators no longer return a value.
4115
Kristján Valur Jónsson6220e412009-01-12 09:20:34 +00004116- Issue #3582: Use native TLS functions on Windows
4117
Gregory P. Smithae91d092009-03-02 05:13:57 +00004118- The re.sub(), re.subn() and re.split() functions now accept a flags parameter.
4119
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004120- Issue #3845: In PyRun_SimpleFileExFlags avoid invalid memory access with short
4121 file names.
Matthias Kloseedb5e1e2009-04-04 14:18:13 +00004122
Matthias Klose91a3b9e2009-04-05 21:19:13 +00004123- Issue #1113244: Py_XINCREF, Py_DECREF, Py_XDECREF: Add `do { ... } while (0)'
4124 to avoid compiler warnings.
Matthias Klose0610e082009-04-05 12:43:08 +00004125
Gregory P. Smith2b3eb372009-04-05 23:48:26 +00004126- Issue #5705: os.setuid() would not accept values > 2**31-1 but pwd.getpwnam()
4127 returned them on 64bit platforms.
4128
Walter Dörwalded960ac2009-05-03 22:36:33 +00004129- Issue #5108: Handle %s like %S and %R in PyUnicode_FromFormatV(): Call
4130 PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8() once, remember the result and output it in a second
4131 step. This avoids problems with counting UTF-8 bytes that ignores the effect
4132 of using the replace error handler in PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8().
4133
Walter Dörwald726ba8e2009-05-06 14:32:35 +00004134- Issue #3739: The unicode-internal encoder now reports the number of characters
4135 consumed like any other encoder (instead of the number of bytes).
4136
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004137- Issue #2422: When compiled with the ``--with-valgrind`` option, the pymalloc
4138 allocator will be automatically disabled when running under Valgrind. This
4139 gives improved memory leak detection when running under Valgrind, while taking
4140 advantage of pymalloc at other times.
Benjamin Peterson91c12eb2009-12-03 02:52:39 +00004141
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00004142Library
4143-------
Benjamin Petersonb3dd5482009-02-26 19:07:18 +00004144
Raymond Hettinger5f516ed2010-04-03 18:10:37 +00004145- Add count() and reverse() methods to collections.deque().
Raymond Hettingera5fd24e2009-12-10 06:42:54 +00004146
Raymond Hettinger0b3263b2009-12-10 06:00:33 +00004147- Fix variations of extending deques: d.extend(d) d.extendleft(d) d+=d
4148
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004149- Issue #6986: Fix crash in the JSON C accelerator when called with the wrong
4150 parameter types. Patch by Victor Stinner.
Antoine Pitrou187177f2009-12-08 15:40:51 +00004151
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004152- logging: Added optional "secure" parameter to SMTPHandler, to enable use of
Vinay Sajip48305662009-12-06 17:57:11 +00004153 TLS with authentication credentials.
4154
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004155- Issue #1923: Fixed the removal of meaningful spaces when PKG-INFO is generated
4156 in Distutils. Patch by Stephen Emslie.
Tarek Ziadé4f383172009-12-06 09:22:40 +00004157
Martin v. Löwisc218a2f2009-12-03 20:53:51 +00004158- Issue #4120: Drop reference to CRT from manifest when building extensions with
4159 msvc9compiler.
4160
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004161- Issue #7333: The ``posix`` module gains an ``initgroups()`` function providing
4162 access to the initgroups(3) C library call on Unix systems which implement it.
4163 Patch by Jean-Paul Calderone.
Antoine Pitrou30b3b352009-12-02 20:37:54 +00004164
Tarek Ziadéa5076a22009-11-29 22:20:30 +00004165- Issue #7408: Fixed distutils.tests.sdist so it doesn't check for group
4166 ownership when the group is not forced, because the group may be different
4167 from the user's group and inherit from its container when the test is run.
4168
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004169- Issue #1515: Enable use of deepcopy() with instance methods. Patch by Robert
4170 Collins.
Antoine Pitroud16f57b2009-11-28 15:55:58 +00004171
Vinay Sajip01801d12009-11-27 14:03:36 +00004172- Issue #7403: logging: Fixed possible race condition in lock creation.
4173
Antoine Pitrouacbe3bd2009-11-27 13:18:34 +00004174- Issue #6845: Add restart support for binary upload in ftplib. The
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004175 ``storbinary()`` method of FTP and FTP_TLS objects gains an optional "rest"
Antoine Pitrouacbe3bd2009-11-27 13:18:34 +00004176 argument. Patch by Pablo Mouzo.
4177
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004178- Issue #5788: ``datetime.timedelta`` objects get a new ``total_seconds()``
4179 method returning the total number of seconds in the duration. Patch by Brian
4180 Quinlan.
Antoine Pitroubcfaf802009-11-25 22:59:36 +00004181
Vinay Sajipc470d682009-11-25 09:03:30 +00004182- Issue #6615: logging: Used weakrefs in internal handler list.
4183
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004184- Issue #1488943: ``difflib.Differ`` doesn't always add hints for tab
4185 characters.
Senthil Kumaran5c456e62009-11-23 18:41:31 +00004186
Lars Gustäbeldd866d52009-11-22 18:30:53 +00004187- Issue #6123: tarfile now opens empty archives correctly and consistently
4188 raises ReadError on empty files.
4189
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004190- Issue #7354: distutils.tests.test_msvc9compiler - dragfullwindows can be 2.
Tarek Ziadé39de1fc2009-11-19 05:33:16 +00004191
Ezio Melotti3373a3a2010-01-16 18:38:01 +00004192- Issue #5037: Proxy the __unicode__ special method to __unicode__ instead of
4193 __str__.
Benjamin Petersondc3c2392009-11-19 03:00:02 +00004194
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004195- Issue #7341: Close the internal file object in the TarFile constructor in case
4196 of an error.
Lars Gustäbel355538e2009-11-18 20:24:54 +00004197
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004198- Issue #7293: ``distutils.test_msvc9compiler`` is fixed to work on any fresh
4199 Windows box. Help provided by David Bolen.
Tarek Ziadéacccafc2009-11-18 08:46:56 +00004200
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004201- Issue #7328: pydoc no longer corrupts sys.path when run with the '-m' switch.
Nick Coghlan11db64e2009-11-15 22:36:47 +00004202
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004203- Issue #2054: ftplib now provides an FTP_TLS class to do secure FTP using TLS
4204 or SSL. Patch by Giampaolo Rodola'.
Antoine Pitrouccd5e022009-11-15 17:22:09 +00004205
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004206- Issue #4969: The mimetypes module now reads the MIME database from the
4207 registry under Windows. Patch by Gabriel Genellina.
Antoine Pitroud5b34d42009-11-15 14:10:48 +00004208
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004209- Issue #6816: runpy now provides a run_path function that allows Python code to
4210 execute file paths that refer to source or compiled Python files as well as
4211 zipfiles, directories and other valid sys.path entries that contain a
Nick Coghlan49868cb2009-11-15 07:30:34 +00004212 __main__.py file. This allows applications that run other Python scripts to
4213 support the same flexibility as the CPython command line itself.
4214
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004215- Issue #7318: multiprocessing now uses a timeout when it fails to establish a
4216 connection with another process, rather than looping endlessly. The default
4217 timeout is 20 seconds, which should be amply sufficient for local connections.
Antoine Pitrouc562ca42009-11-13 22:31:18 +00004218
Antoine Pitrou0734c632009-11-10 20:49:30 +00004219- Issue #7197: Allow unittest.TextTestRunner objects to be pickled and
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004220 unpickled. This fixes crashes under Windows when trying to run
Antoine Pitrou0734c632009-11-10 20:49:30 +00004221 test_multiprocessing in verbose mode.
4222
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004223- Issue #7282: Fix a memory leak when an RLock was used in a thread other than
4224 those started through ``threading.Thread`` (for example, using
4225 ``thread.start_new_thread()``.
Antoine Pitroud7158d42009-11-09 16:00:11 +00004226
Antoine Pitrou99c160b2009-11-05 13:42:29 +00004227- Issue #7264: Fix a possible deadlock when deallocating thread-local objects
4228 which are part of a reference cycle.
4229
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004230- Issue #7211: Allow 64-bit values for the ``ident`` and ``data`` fields of
4231 kevent objects on 64-bit systems. Patch by Michael Broghton.
Antoine Pitrou323b9da2009-11-04 19:25:14 +00004232
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004233- Issue #6896: ``mailbox.Maildir`` now invalidates its internal cache each time
Antoine Pitrouaec41242009-11-02 11:34:27 +00004234 a modification is done through it. This fixes inconsistencies and test
4235 failures on systems with slightly bogus mtime behaviour.
4236
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004237- Issue #7246 & Issue #7208: getpass now properly flushes input before reading
4238 from stdin so that existing input does not confuse it and lead to incorrect
4239 entry or an IOError. It also properly flushes it afterwards to avoid the
4240 terminal echoing the input afterwards on OSes such as Solaris.
Gregory P. Smith38f5d8f2009-11-01 18:33:55 +00004241
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004242- Issue #7233: Fix a number of two-argument Decimal methods to make sure that
4243 they accept an int or long as the second argument. Also fix buggy handling of
4244 large arguments (those with coefficient longer than the current precision) in
4245 shift and rotate.
Mark Dickinson0c673122009-10-29 12:04:00 +00004246
Lars Gustäbel8c06ccc2009-10-29 09:15:00 +00004247- Issue #4750: Store the basename of the original filename in the gzip FNAME
4248 header as required by RFC 1952.
4249
Tarek Ziadé40b998b2009-10-27 23:06:10 +00004250- Issue #1180: Added a new global option to ignore ~/.pydistutils.cfg in
4251 Distutils.
4252
Tarek Ziadéd24cab82009-10-27 21:20:27 +00004253- Issue #7218: Fix test_site for win32, the directory comparison was done with
4254 an uppercase.
4255
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004256- Issue #7205: Fix a possible deadlock when using a BZ2File object from several
4257 threads at once.
Antoine Pitroudd629662009-10-27 17:41:58 +00004258
Tarek Ziadéb9c1cfc2009-10-24 15:10:37 +00004259- Issue #7071: byte-compilation in Distutils is now done with respect to
4260 sys.dont_write_bytecode.
4261
Vinay Sajipc470d682009-11-25 09:03:30 +00004262- Issue #7066: archive_util.make_archive now restores the cwd if an error is
Tarek Ziadé672422a2009-10-24 13:29:44 +00004263 raised. Initial patch by Ezio Melotti.
4264
Antoine Pitroufa94e802009-10-24 12:23:18 +00004265- Issue #6218: io.StringIO and io.BytesIO instances are now picklable with
4266 protocol 2.
4267
Vinay Sajip5ac65282009-10-21 20:22:14 +00004268- Issue #7077: logging: SysLogHandler now treats Unicode as per RFC 5424.
4269
Mark Dickinsona7a52ab2009-10-20 13:33:03 +00004270- Issue #7099: Decimal.is_normal now returns True for numbers with exponent
4271 larger than emax.
4272
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004273- Issue #5833: Fix extra space character in readline completion with the GNU
4274 readline library version 6.0.
Antoine Pitroue0899802009-10-19 18:20:21 +00004275
Antoine Pitrou5ba84912009-10-19 17:59:07 +00004276- Issue #7133: SSL objects now support the new buffer API.
4277
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004278- Issue #7149: urllib fails on OSX in the proxy detection code.
Ronald Oussoren31802d02009-10-18 07:07:00 +00004279
Benjamin Petersonc63457b2009-10-15 03:06:55 +00004280- Issue #7069: Make inspect.isabstract() return a boolean.
4281
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004282- Add support to the ``ihooks`` module for relative imports.
Neil Schemenauere6039f02009-10-14 19:23:53 +00004283
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004284- Issue #6894: Fixed the issue urllib2 doesn't respect "no_proxy" environment.
Senthil Kumaran27468662009-10-11 02:00:07 +00004285
Vinay Sajip1c77b7f2009-10-10 20:32:36 +00004286- Issue #7086: Added TCP support to SysLogHandler, and tidied up some
4287 anachronisms in the code which were a relic of 1.5.2 compatibility.
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +00004288
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004289- Issue #7082: When falling back to the MIME 'name' parameter, the correct place
4290 to look for it is the Content-Type header.
R. David Murray0c8bee62009-10-09 21:50:54 +00004291
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004292- Issue #7048: Force Decimal.logb to round its result when that result is too
4293 large to fit in the current precision.
Mark Dickinson15ae41c2009-10-07 19:22:05 +00004294
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +00004295- Issue #6516: Added owner/group support when creating tar archives in
Tarek Ziadé1b486712009-10-02 23:49:48 +00004296 Distutils.
4297
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004298- Issue #7031: Add ``TestCase.assert(Not)IsInstance()`` methods.
Georg Brandl12fafe62009-10-01 21:02:39 +00004299
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004300- Issue #6790: Make it possible again to pass an ``array.array`` to
4301 ``httplib.HTTPConnection.send``. Patch by Kirk McDonald.
Antoine Pitrou72481782009-09-29 17:48:18 +00004302
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004303- Issue #6236, #6348: Fix various failures in the `io` module under AIX and
4304 other platforms, when using a non-gcc compiler. Patch by egreen.
Antoine Pitrou2a466582009-09-21 21:17:48 +00004305
Tarek Ziadé99773352009-09-21 13:41:08 +00004306- Issue #6954: Fixed crash when using DISTUTILS_DEBUG flag in Distutils.
4307
Ronald Oussoren51f06332009-09-20 10:31:22 +00004308- Issue #6851: Fix urllib.urlopen crash on secondairy threads on OSX 10.6
4309
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004310- Issue #4606: Passing 'None' if ctypes argtype is set to POINTER(...) does now
4311 always result in NULL.
Thomas Heller6be522b2009-09-18 20:05:44 +00004312
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004313- Issue #5042: ctypes Structure sub-subclass does now initialize correctly with
4314 base class positional arguments.
Thomas Heller7a352c02009-09-18 18:55:17 +00004315
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004316- Issue #6938: Fix a TypeError in string formatting of a multiprocessing debug
4317 message.
Georg Brandlc40e60e2009-09-18 09:18:27 +00004318
Matthias Klose924eab62009-09-13 15:09:24 +00004319- Issue #6635: Fix profiler printing usage message.
4320
Lars Gustäbel21121e62009-09-12 10:28:15 +00004321- Issue #6856: Add a filter keyword argument to TarFile.add().
4322
Tarek Ziadébed26a32009-09-09 08:14:20 +00004323- Issue #6163: Fixed HP-UX runtime library dir options in
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004324 distutils.unixcompiler. Initial patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar and Michael
4325 Haubenwallner.
Tarek Ziadébed26a32009-09-09 08:14:20 +00004326
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004327- Issue #6857: Default format() alignment should be '>' for Decimal instances.
Mark Dickinson5cfa8042009-09-08 20:20:19 +00004328
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004329- Issue #6795: int(Decimal('nan')) now raises ValueError instead of returning
4330 NaN or raising InvalidContext. Also, fix infinite recursion in
4331 long(Decimal('nan')).
Mark Dickinson968f1692009-09-07 18:04:58 +00004332
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004333- Issue #6850: Fix bug in Decimal._parse_format_specifier for formats with no
4334 type specifier.
Mark Dickinson491ea552009-09-07 16:17:41 +00004335
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004336- Issue #4937: plat-mac/bundlebuilder refers to non-existing version.plist.
Ronald Oussoren626faeb2009-09-06 12:23:18 +00004337
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004338- Issue #6838: Use a list to accumulate the value instead of repeatedly
4339 concatenating strings in httplib's HTTPResponse._read_chunked providing a
4340 significant speed increase when downloading large files servend with a
4341 Transfer-Encoding of 'chunked'.
Chris Withers7f3ea6a2009-09-04 16:32:22 +00004342
Georg Brandld22b9512009-09-04 08:17:04 +00004343- Issue #5275: In Cookie's Cookie.load(), properly handle non-string arguments
4344 as documented.
4345
Georg Brandl2e1308f2009-09-04 06:59:20 +00004346- Issue #2666: Handle BROWSER environment variable properly for unknown browser
4347 names in the webbrowser module.
4348
Lars Gustäbelf7cda522009-08-28 19:23:44 +00004349- Issue #6054: Do not normalize stored pathnames in tarfile.
4350
Mark Dickinson7a7739d2009-08-28 13:25:02 +00004351- Issue #6794: Fix Decimal.compare_total and Decimal.compare_total_mag: NaN
4352 payloads are now ordered by integer value rather than lexicographically.
4353
Tarek Ziadé764fc232009-08-20 21:23:13 +00004354- Issue #6693: New functions in site.py to get user/global site packages paths.
4355
Gregory P. Smith4e63d542009-08-20 09:39:38 +00004356- The thread.lock type now supports weak references.
4357
Guilherme Polo7b50c4f2009-08-18 14:46:57 +00004358- Issue #1356969: Add missing info methods in Tix.HList.
4359
Guilherme Polo6b3c7092009-08-18 14:23:00 +00004360- Issue #1522587: New constants and methods for the Tix.Grid widget.
4361
Guilherme Polo6c823f82009-08-18 13:29:20 +00004362- Issue #1250469: Fix the return value of Tix.PanedWindow.panes.
4363
Guilherme Polod3e6e4b2009-08-18 13:23:08 +00004364- Issue #1119673: Do not override Tkinter.Text methods when creating a
4365 ScrolledText.
4366
Gregory P. Smithb98d6b22009-08-16 18:52:58 +00004367- Issue #6665: Fix fnmatch to properly match filenames with newlines in them.
4368
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004369- Issue #1135: Add the XView and YView mix-ins to avoid duplicating the xview*
4370 and yview* methods.
Guilherme Poloe45f0172009-08-14 14:36:45 +00004371
Antoine Pitrou20e1f932009-08-06 20:18:29 +00004372- Issue #6629: Fix a data corruption issue in the new `io` package, which could
4373 occur when writing to a BufferedRandom object (e.g. a file opened in "rb+" or
4374 "wb+" mode) after having buffered a certain amount of data for reading. This
4375 bug was not present in the pure Python implementation.
4376
Jesse Noller8497efe2009-08-06 02:05:56 +00004377- Issue #4660: If a multiprocessing.JoinableQueue.put() was preempted, it was
4378 possible to get a spurious 'task_done() called too many times' error.
4379
Gregory P. Smithc4ad0342009-08-13 18:54:50 +00004380- Issue #1628205: Socket file objects returned by socket.socket.makefile() now
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004381 properly handles EINTR within the read, readline, write & flush methods. The
4382 socket.sendall() method now properly handles interrupted system calls.
Gregory P. Smithc4ad0342009-08-13 18:54:50 +00004383
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004384- Issue #6595: The Decimal constructor now allows arbitrary Unicode decimal
4385 digits in input, as recommended by the standard. Previously it was restricted
4386 to accepting [0-9].
Mark Dickinson4326ad82009-08-02 10:59:36 +00004387
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc3e5b0272009-07-28 22:15:30 +00004388- Issue #6511: ZipFile now raises BadZipfile (instead of an IOError) when
4389 opening an empty or very small file.
4390
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc74b30162009-07-23 19:26:02 +00004391- Issue #6553: Fixed a crash in cPickle.load(), when given a file-like object
4392 containing incomplete data.
4393
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004394- Issue #6545: Removed assert statements in distutils.Extension, so the behavior
4395 is similar when used with -O.
Tarek Ziadéaf2406f2009-07-22 08:55:19 +00004396
Benjamin Petersond7b0eeb2009-07-19 20:18:21 +00004397- unittest has been split up into a package. All old names should still work.
4398
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004399- Issue #6431: Make Fraction type return NotImplemented when it doesn't know how
4400 to handle a comparison without loss of precision. Also add correct handling
4401 of infinities and nans for comparisons with float.
Mark Dickinson88a0a2e2009-07-18 15:18:18 +00004402
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc74b30162009-07-23 19:26:02 +00004403- Issue #6415: Fixed warnings.warn segfault on bad formatted string.
Hirokazu Yamamoto1a3d0852009-07-17 06:26:54 +00004404
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004405- Issue #6466: Now distutils.cygwinccompiler and distutils.emxccompiler uses the
4406 same refactored function to get gcc/ld/dllwrap versions numbers. It's
4407 ``distutils.util.get_compiler_versions()``. Added deprecation warnings for
4408 the obsolete get_versions() functions.
Tarek Ziadéa99dedf2009-07-16 15:35:45 +00004409
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004410- Issue #6433: Fixed issues with multiprocessing.pool.map hanging on empty list.
Jesse Noller7530e472009-07-16 14:23:04 +00004411
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +00004412- Issue #6314: logging: Extra checks on the "level" argument in more places.
4413
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc74b8d332009-07-11 14:33:51 +00004414- Issue #2622: Fixed an ImportError when importing email.messsage from a
4415 standalone application built with py2exe or py2app.
4416
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +00004417- Issue #6455: Fixed test_build_ext under win32.
Tarek Ziadé8c400012009-07-10 09:10:33 +00004418
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +00004419- Issue #6377: Enabled the compiler option, and deprecate its usage as an
Tarek Ziadée670e5a2009-07-06 12:50:46 +00004420 attribute.
4421
Tarek Ziadé63f17382009-07-04 02:02:41 +00004422- Issue #6413: Fixed the log level in distutils.dist for announce.
4423
Gregory P. Smithc197d0a2009-07-04 01:55:11 +00004424- Issue #3392: The subprocess communicate() method no longer fails in select()
4425 when file descriptors are large; communicate() now uses poll() when possible.
4426
Tarek Ziadé65ec61e2009-07-03 08:22:56 +00004427- Issue #6403: Fixed package path usage in build_ext.
4428
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004429- Issues #5155, #5313, #5331: multiprocessing.Process._bootstrap was
Jesse Noller1b90efb2009-06-30 17:11:52 +00004430 unconditionally calling "os.close(sys.stdin.fileno())" resulting in file
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004431 descriptor errors.
Jesse Noller1b90efb2009-06-30 17:11:52 +00004432
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +00004433- Issue #6365: Distutils build_ext inplace mode was copying the compiled
Tarek Ziadé3fbcc602009-06-29 16:13:39 +00004434 extension in a subdirectory if the extension name had dots.
4435
Hirokazu Yamamoto99ebc632009-06-29 14:29:31 +00004436- Issue #6344: Fixed a crash of mmap.read() when passed a negative argument.
4437
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004438- Issue #5230: pydoc would report no documentation found if a module generated a
4439 'not found' import error when loaded; it now reports the import errors.
R. David Murrayef087da2009-06-23 18:02:46 +00004440 Thanks to Lucas Prado Melo for initial fix and collaboration on the tests.
4441
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004442- Issue #6314: ``logging.basicConfig()`` performs extra checks on the "level"
Vinay Sajip603fb6d2009-06-21 17:37:27 +00004443 argument.
4444
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004445- Issue #6164: Added an AIX specific linker argument in Distutils unixcompiler.
4446 Original patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar.
Tarek Ziadé439bf932009-06-20 13:57:20 +00004447
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004448- Issue #6274: Fixed possible file descriptors leak in subprocess.py.
Facundo Batista8c826b72009-06-19 18:02:28 +00004449
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc5fe420e2009-06-18 22:32:50 +00004450- Issue #6189: Restored compatibility of subprocess.py with Python 2.2.
4451
Tarek Ziadéfdefc0a2009-06-16 07:29:52 +00004452- Issue #6287: Added the license field in Distutils documentation.
4453
Tarek Ziadéa1cc0402009-06-15 23:30:13 +00004454- Issue #6286: Now Distutils upload command is based on urllib2 instead of
4455 httplib, allowing the usage of http_proxy.
4456
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004457- Issue #6271: mmap tried to close invalid file handle (-1) for anonymous maps
4458 on Unix.
Hirokazu Yamamoto983a4652009-06-14 03:53:55 +00004459
Antoine Pitrou19690592009-06-12 20:14:08 +00004460- Issue #6215: All bug fixes and enhancements from the Python 3.1 io library
4461 (including the fast C implementation) have been backported to the standard
4462 ``io`` module.
4463
Martin v. Löwis2dcd7a02009-06-12 17:28:31 +00004464- Issue #6258: Support AMD64 in bdist_msi.
4465
Vinay Sajip334ffe82010-01-15 23:27:05 +00004466- Issue #6252: Fixed bug in next rollover time computation in
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00004467 TimedRotatingFileHandler.
4468
Tarek Ziadéc7498f52009-06-11 09:13:36 +00004469- Issue #6263: Fixed syntax error in distutils.cygwincompiler.
4470
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004471- Issue #5201: distutils.sysconfig.parse_makefile() now understands ``$$`` in
4472 Makefiles. This prevents compile errors when using syntax like:
4473 ``LDFLAGS='-rpath=\$$LIB:/some/other/path'``. Patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
Tarek Ziadé25d2bae2009-06-11 08:12:20 +00004474
Georg Brandle6632b42009-06-04 08:58:32 +00004475- Issue #5767: Removed sgmlop support from xmlrpclib.
4476
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004477- Issue #6131: test_modulefinder leaked when run after test_distutils. Patch by
4478 Hirokazu Yamamoto.
Tarek Ziadé3e3eace2009-05-29 08:08:07 +00004479
Tarek Ziadé9e5d2dc2009-05-28 12:53:54 +00004480- Issue #6048: Now Distutils uses the tarfile module in archive_util.
4481
Raymond Hettingerb4d2d312009-05-29 01:36:26 +00004482- Issue #5150: IDLE's format menu now has an option to strip trailing
4483 whitespace.
4484
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004485- Issue #6121: pydoc now ignores leading and trailing spaces in the argument to
4486 the 'help' function.
R. David Murrayd67ea7d2009-05-27 20:07:21 +00004487
Benjamin Peterson176a56c2009-05-25 00:48:58 +00004488- In unittest, using a skipping decorator on a class is now equivalent to
4489 skipping every test on the class. The ClassTestSuite class has been removed.
4490
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004491- Issue #6050: Don't fail extracting a directory from a zipfile if the directory
4492 already exists.
Martin v. Löwis0b09c422009-05-24 19:30:52 +00004493
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004494- Issue #5311: bdist_msi can now build packages that do not depend on a specific
4495 Python version.
Martin v. Löwis53b578e2009-05-24 19:10:52 +00004496
Antoine Pitroud49e3752009-05-24 15:40:09 +00004497- Issue #1309352: fcntl now converts its third arguments to a C `long` rather
4498 than an int, which makes some operations possible under 64-bit Linux (e.g.
4499 DN_MULTISHOT with F_NOTIFY).
4500
Senthil Kumarane266f252009-05-24 09:14:50 +00004501- Issue #1424152: Fix for httplib, urllib2 to support SSL while working through
4502 proxy. Original patch by Christopher Li, changes made by Senthil Kumaran.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00004503
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004504- Issue #1983: Fix functions taking or returning a process identifier to use the
4505 dedicated C type ``pid_t`` instead of a C ``int``. Some platforms have a
4506 process identifier type wider than the standard C integer type.
Antoine Pitrou5e858fe2009-05-23 15:37:45 +00004507
R. David Murrayad3058e2009-05-23 00:48:58 +00004508- Issue #4066: smtplib.SMTP_SSL._get_socket now correctly returns the socket.
4509 Patch by Farhan Ahmad, test by Marcin Bachry.
4510
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004511- Issue #6062: In distutils, fixed the package option of build_ext. Feedback
Tarek Ziadé7d7127d2009-05-19 16:17:21 +00004512 and tests on pywin32 by Tim Golden.
4513
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004514- Issue #6053: Fixed distutils tests on win32. Patch by Hirokazu Yamamoto.
Tarek Ziadé07bbfcc2009-05-18 12:21:26 +00004515
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004516- Issue #6046: Fixed the library extension when distutils build_ext is used in
4517 place. Initial patch by Roumen Petrov.
Tarek Ziadéfcc7f032009-05-18 08:03:37 +00004518
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00004519- Issue #6041: Now distutils `sdist` and `register` commands use `check` as a
Tarek Ziadécb768042009-05-16 16:37:06 +00004520 subcommand.
4521
Antoine Pitrou775fd662009-05-15 16:54:52 +00004522- Issue #2116: Weak references and weak dictionaries now support copy()ing and
4523 deepcopy()ing.
4524
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004525- Issue #1655: Make imaplib IPv6-capable. Patch by Derek Morr.
Antoine Pitrou52035a02009-05-15 11:50:29 +00004526
Antoine Pitrou42b5bcf2009-05-14 21:48:09 +00004527- Issue #5918: Fix a crash in the parser module.
4528
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004529- Issue #1664: Make nntplib IPv6-capable. Patch by Derek Morr.
Antoine Pitroueed30d82009-05-14 21:22:08 +00004530
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004531- Issue #6022: A test file was created in the current working directory by
Tarek Ziadécbb4f9e2009-05-14 20:14:13 +00004532 test_get_outputs in Distutils.
4533
R. David Murray996ba022009-05-13 17:14:11 +00004534- Issue #4050: inspect.findsource/getsource now raise an IOError if the 'source'
4535 file is a binary. Patch by Brodie Rao, tests by Daniel Diniz.
4536
Tarek Ziadé972480d2009-05-12 17:07:14 +00004537- Issue #5977: distutils build_ext.get_outputs was not taking into account the
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004538 inplace option. Initial patch by kxroberto.
Tarek Ziadé972480d2009-05-12 17:07:14 +00004539
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004540- Issue #5984: distutils.command.build_ext.check_extensions_list checks were
4541 broken for old-style extensions.
Tarek Ziadéd5d83422009-05-10 10:12:08 +00004542
Vinay Sajipf9b01fe2009-05-09 12:07:17 +00004543- Issue #5971: StreamHandler.handleError now swallows IOErrors which occur when
4544 trying to print a traceback.
4545
Tarek Ziadé812d7712009-05-09 10:06:00 +00004546- Issue #5976: Fixed Distutils test_check_environ.
4547
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004548- Issue #5900: Ensure RUNPATH is added to extension modules with RPATH if GNU ld
4549 is used. Original patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
Tarek Ziadée2be83d2009-05-09 08:28:53 +00004550
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004551- Issue #5941: Distutils build_clib command was not working anymore because of
4552 an incomplete costumization of the archiver command. Added ARFLAGS in the
4553 Makefile besides AR and make Distutils use it. Original patch by David
Tarek Ziadé99f660a2009-05-07 21:20:34 +00004554 Cournapeau.
4555
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00004556- Issue #5955: aifc's close method did not close the file it wrapped, now it
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004557 does. This also means getfp method now returns the real fp.
R. David Murrayd3bf34c2009-05-07 16:29:19 +00004558
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004559- Issue #4875: On win32, ctypes.util.find_library does no longer return
4560 directories.
Thomas Hellera57773e2009-05-05 18:55:47 +00004561
Georg Brandl4d4313d2009-05-05 08:54:11 +00004562- Issue #5142: Add the ability to skip modules while stepping to pdb.
4563
Georg Brandle3869c42009-05-05 08:30:28 +00004564- Issue #1309567: Fix linecache behavior of stripping subdirectories when
4565 looking for files given by a relative filename.
4566
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004567- Issue #5692: In ``zipfile.Zipfile``, fix wrong path calculation when
Antoine Pitrou97377bf2009-05-04 21:17:17 +00004568 extracting a file to the root directory.
4569
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004570- Issue #5913: ``os.listdir()`` should fail for empty path on windows.
Hirokazu Yamamoto406d7aa2009-05-04 05:28:39 +00004571
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004572- Issue #5084: Unpickling now interns the attribute names of pickled objects,
4573 saving memory and avoiding growth in size of subsequent pickles. Proposal and
4574 original patch by Jake McGuire.
Antoine Pitrou74309892009-05-02 21:13:23 +00004575
Antoine Pitrou1fc02312009-05-01 20:55:35 +00004576- Issue #3002: ``shutil.copyfile()`` and ``shutil.copytree()`` now raise an
4577 error when a named pipe is encountered, rather than blocking infinitely.
4578
Gregory P. Smith1d499262009-05-01 19:59:52 +00004579- Issue #3959: The ipaddr module has been added to the standard library.
4580 Contributed by Google.
4581
R. David Murray25b4add2009-04-29 13:17:37 +00004582- Issue #2245: aifc now skips chunk types it doesn't recognize, per spec.
4583
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004584- Issue #5874: distutils.tests.test_config_cmd is not locale-sensitive anymore.
Tarek Ziadéa1b91d92009-04-29 08:03:46 +00004585
Thomas Heller90c61a22009-04-28 19:23:41 +00004586- Issue #4305: ctypes should now build again on mipsel-linux-gnu
4587
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004588- Issue #1734234: Massively speedup ``unicodedata.normalize()`` when the string
4589 is already in normalized form, by performing a quick check beforehand.
Antoine Pitroue988e282009-04-27 21:53:26 +00004590 Original patch by Rauli Ruohonen.
4591
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004592- Issue #5853: Calling a function of the mimetypes module from several threads
Antoine Pitrouf2651e12009-04-27 20:50:20 +00004593 at once could hit the recursion limit if the mimetypes database hadn't been
4594 initialized before.
4595
Vinay Sajipe34d6aa2009-04-27 13:44:27 +00004596- Issue #5854: Updated __all__ to include some missing names and remove some
4597 names which should not be exported.
4598
4599- Issue #5810: Fixed Distutils test_build_scripts so it uses
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004600 ``sysconfig.get_config_vars()``.
Tarek Ziadébcddf672009-04-25 12:51:59 +00004601
Tarek Ziadéd567c382009-04-25 12:38:08 +00004602- Issue #4951: Fixed failure in test_httpservers.
4603
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004604- Issue #3102: All global symbols that the _ctypes extension defines are now
4605 prefixed with 'Py' or '_ctypes'.
Thomas Heller5c6af802009-04-24 20:31:47 +00004606
Thomas Hellerec21ccd2009-04-24 20:00:41 +00004607- Issue #5041: ctypes does now allow pickling wide character.
4608
Mark Dickinson4af8e742009-04-24 13:56:07 +00004609- Issue #5812: For the two-argument form of the Fraction constructor,
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004610 ``Fraction(m, n)``, m and n are permitted to be arbitrary Rational instances.
Mark Dickinson4af8e742009-04-24 13:56:07 +00004611
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004612- Issue #5812: Fraction('1e6') is valid: more generally, any string that's valid
4613 for float() is now valid for Fraction(), with the exception of strings
4614 representing NaNs and infinities.
Mark Dickinson8100bd82009-04-22 18:15:25 +00004615
Tarek Ziadé31559b62009-04-20 14:29:42 +00004616- Issue #5795: Fixed test_distutils failure on Debian ppc.
4617
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00004618- Issue #5768: Fixed bug in Unicode output logic and test case for same.
4619
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004620- Issue #1161031: Fix readwrite select flag handling: POLLPRI now results in a
4621 handle_expt_event call, not handle_read_event, and POLLERR and POLLNVAL now
4622 call handle_close, not handle_expt_event. Also, dispatcher now has an
4623 'ignore_log_types' attribute for suppressing log messages, which is set to
4624 'warning' by default.
R. David Murrayabc26602009-04-13 16:56:32 +00004625
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004626- Issue #5607: Fixed Distutils test_get_platform for Mac OS X fat binaries.
Tarek Ziadé156c31a2009-04-13 12:34:01 +00004627
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004628- Issue #5741: Don't disallow "%%" (which is an escape for "%") when setting a
4629 value in SafeConfigParser.
Georg Brandl21cf5ee2009-04-12 17:24:11 +00004630
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004631- Issue #5732: Added a new command in Distutils: check.
Tarek Ziadé942825f2009-04-11 14:55:07 +00004632
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00004633- Issue #5731: Distutils bdist_wininst no longer worked on non-Windows
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004634 platforms. Initial patch by Paul Moore.
Tarek Ziadéad958262009-04-09 21:36:44 +00004635
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004636- Issue #2254: Fix CGIHTTPServer information disclosure. Relative paths are now
4637 collapsed within the url properly before looking in cgi_directories.
Gregory P. Smith923ba362009-04-06 06:33:26 +00004638
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004639- Issue #5095: Added bdist_msi to the list of bdist supported formats. Initial
4640 fix by Steven Bethard.
Tarek Ziadé64408fb2009-04-05 22:51:09 +00004641
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004642- Issue #1491431: Fixed distutils.filelist.glob_to_re for edge cases. Initial
4643 fix by Wayne Davison.
Tarek Ziadéfaa6b122009-04-05 21:44:08 +00004644
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004645- Issue #5693: TestSuite.__iter__ can now be consistently overridden in
4646 subclasses.
Michael Foordf2dfef12009-04-05 19:19:28 +00004647
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004648- Issue #5694: Removed spurious test output in Distutils (test_clean).
Tarek Ziadé453d9532009-04-05 18:31:24 +00004649
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +00004650- Issue #5471: Fix os.path.expanduser() for $HOME set to '/'.
Georg Brandl3f0ef202009-04-05 14:48:49 +00004651
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004652- Issue #1326077: Fix the formatting of SyntaxErrors by the traceback module.
Georg Brandl1956d5c2009-04-05 14:25:41 +00004653
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004654- Issue #1726172: Fix IndexError in the case of and empty response in ftplib.
Georg Brandl50ba6e12009-04-05 10:48:47 +00004655
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004656- Issue #2625: Added missing iteritems() call to the for loop in
R. David Murray52720c52009-04-02 14:05:35 +00004657 mailbox.MH.get_message().
4658
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004659- Issue #5585: Add the ability to call an initializer to
4660 mulitiprocessing.manager so that users can install custom handlers/etc.
Jesse Noller7152f6d2009-04-02 05:17:26 +00004661
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004662- Issue #3551: Patch multiprocessing to raise a proper exception if the size of
4663 the object when writefile is called causes a ERROR_NO_SYSTEM_RESOURCES. Added
4664 docs to note the limitation.
Jesse Noller5053fbb2009-04-02 04:22:09 +00004665
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004666- unittest.assertNotEqual() now uses the inequality operator (!=) instead of the
4667 equality operator.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00004668
4669- Issue #6001: Test discovery for unittest. Implemented in
Michael Foordb4a81c82009-05-29 20:33:46 +00004670 unittest.TestLoader.discover and from the command line.
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00004671
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004672- Issue #5679: The methods unittest.TestCase.addCleanup and doCleanups were
4673 added. addCleanup allows you to add cleanup functions that will be called
Michael Foord07ef4872009-05-02 22:43:34 +00004674 unconditionally (after setUp if setUp fails, otherwise after tearDown). This
4675 allows for much simpler resource allocation and deallocation during tests.
4676
4677- Issue #3379: unittest.main now takes an optional exit argument. If False main
4678 doesn't call sys.exit allowing it to be used from the interactive interpreter.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00004679
4680- Issue #5995: unittest.main now takes an optional verbosity argument allowing
Michael Foord5d31e052009-05-11 17:59:43 +00004681 test modules to be run with a higher than default verbosity.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00004682
4683- Issue #5995: A fix to allow you to run "python -m unittest test_module" or
Michael Foord5d31e052009-05-11 17:59:43 +00004684 "python -m unittest test_module.TestClass" from the command line.
Michael Foord07ef4872009-05-02 22:43:34 +00004685
4686- Issue #5728: unittest.TestResult has new startTestRun and stopTestRun methods;
4687 called immediately before and after a test run.
4688
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004689- Issue #5663: Better failure messages for unittest asserts. Default assertTrue
Michael Foord345b2fe2009-04-02 03:20:38 +00004690 and assertFalse messages are now useful. TestCase has a longMessage attribute.
4691 This defaults to False, but if set to True useful error messages are shown in
4692 addition to explicit messages passed to assert methods.
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00004693
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004694- Issue #3110: Add additional protect around SEM_VALUE_MAX for multiprocessing.
Jesse Nollerb502bc72009-04-02 02:32:55 +00004695
Georg Brandl58b8b952009-04-01 21:54:21 +00004696- In Pdb, prevent the reassignment of __builtin__._ by sys.displayhook on
4697 printing out values.
4698
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004699- Issue #4572: Added SEEK_* symbolic constants to io module.
Georg Brandl5942b912009-04-01 21:05:44 +00004700
Brett Cannonad078a02009-04-01 16:00:34 +00004701- Issue #1665206 (partially): Move imports in cgitb to the top of the module
4702 instead of performing them in functions. Helps prevent import deadlocking in
4703 threads.
4704
Raymond Hettinger66c4a6b2009-04-01 18:50:56 +00004705- Issue #5647: MutableSet.__iand__() no longer mutates self during iteration.
4706
Georg Brandle92d4b62009-04-01 04:21:14 +00004707- Actually make the SimpleXMLRPCServer CGI handler work.
4708
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004709- Issue #2522: locale.format() now checks its first argument to ensure it has
R. David Murraya83da352009-04-01 03:21:43 +00004710 been passed only one pattern, avoiding mysterious errors where it appeared
4711 that it was failing to do localization.
4712
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004713- Issue #5583: Added optional extensions in Distutils. Initial patch by Georg
Tarek Ziadé9e47ce42009-03-31 22:27:23 +00004714 Brandl.
4715
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004716- Issue #5619: Multiprocessing children disobey the debug flag and causes popups
4717 on windows buildbots. Patch applied to work around this issue.
Jesse Noller42f9b4e2009-03-31 22:20:35 +00004718
Benjamin Petersond906ea62009-03-31 21:34:42 +00004719- Issue #5632: Thread.ident was None for the main thread and threads not created
4720 with the threading module.
4721
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004722- Issue #5400: Added patch for multiprocessing on netbsd compilation/support.
Jesse Noller1f0a5552009-03-31 18:27:14 +00004723
Hirokazu Yamamoto9d2ee5d2009-03-31 13:13:05 +00004724- Issue #5387: Fixed mmap.move crash by integer overflow.
4725
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004726- Issue #5261: Patch multiprocessing's semaphore.c to support context manager
4727 use: "with multiprocessing.Lock()" works now.
Jesse Noller82eb5902009-03-30 23:29:31 +00004728
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00004729- Issue #5177: Multiprocessing's SocketListener class now uses
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004730 socket.SO_REUSEADDR on all connections so that the user no longer needs to
4731 wait 120 seconds for the socket to expire.
Jesse Noller459a6482009-03-30 15:50:42 +00004732
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004733- Adjusted _tkinter to compile without warnings when WITH_THREAD is not defined
4734 (part of issue #5035).
Guilherme Polo1972d162009-03-27 21:43:08 +00004735
Marc-André Lemburgcbdf15b2009-03-25 19:45:33 +00004736- Issue #5561: Removed the sys.version_info shortcuts from platform's
4737 python_version() and python_version_tuple() since they produced different
4738 output compared to previous Python versions.
4739
Benjamin Peterson692428e2009-03-23 21:50:21 +00004740- Issue #1034053: unittest now supports skipping tests and expected failures.
4741
Gregory P. Smith28399852009-03-31 16:54:10 +00004742- The unittest.TestCase.assertRaises() method now returns a context manager when
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004743 not given a callable so that code to be tested can be written inline using a
4744 with statement.
Gregory P. Smith28399852009-03-31 16:54:10 +00004745
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004746- Issue #2578: The unittest.TestCase.assertEqual() now displays the differences
4747 in lists, tuples, dicts and sets on failure. Many new handy type and
4748 comparison specific assert* methods have been added that fail with error
4749 messages actually useful for debugging. Contributed in part by Google.
Gregory P. Smith28399852009-03-31 16:54:10 +00004750
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004751- Issue #5068: Fixed the tarfile._BZ2Proxy.read() method that would loop forever
4752 on incomplete input. That caused tarfile.open() to hang when used with mode
4753 'r' or 'r:bz2' and a fileobj argument that contained no data or partial bzip2
4754 compressed data.
Lars Gustäbel2020a592009-03-22 20:09:33 +00004755
Benjamin Petersonb364bfe2009-03-22 17:45:11 +00004756- Issue #5536: urllib.urlretrieve makes sure to close the file it's writing to
4757 even if an exception occurs.
4758
Raymond Hettinger91852ca2009-03-19 19:19:03 +00004759- Issue #5381: Added object_pairs_hook to the json module. This allows
4760 OrderedDicts to be built by the decoder.
4761
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004762- Issue #2110: Add support for thousands separator and 'n' type specifier to
4763 ``Decimal.__format__()``.
Mark Dickinson277859d2009-03-17 23:03:46 +00004764
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004765- Fix Decimal.__format__ bug that swapped the meanings of the '<' and '>'
4766 alignment characters.
Mark Dickinsonb065e522009-03-17 18:01:03 +00004767
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004768- Issue #1222: ``locale.format()`` bug when the thousands separator is a space
Antoine Pitroufeeafff2009-03-14 00:07:21 +00004769 character.
4770
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004771- Issue #5472: Fixed distutils.test_util tear down. Original patch by Tim
4772 Golden.
Tarek Ziadé61585c22009-03-11 12:48:04 +00004773
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004774- collections.deque objects now have a read-only attribute called maxlen.
Raymond Hettinger56411aa2009-03-10 12:50:59 +00004775
Guilherme Polo15d57652009-03-07 02:14:38 +00004776- Issue #2638: Show a window constructed with tkSimpleDialog.Dialog only after
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004777 it is has been populated and properly configured in order to prevent window
4778 flashing.
Guilherme Polo15d57652009-03-07 02:14:38 +00004779
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004780- Issue #4792: Prevent a segfault in _tkinter by using the guaranteed to be safe
4781 interp argument given to the PythonCmd in place of the Tcl interpreter taken
4782 from a PythonCmd_ClientData.
Guilherme Polo3768b2f2009-03-07 01:47:49 +00004783
Guilherme Polo6d6c1fd2009-03-07 01:19:12 +00004784- Issue #5193: Guarantee that Tkinter.Text.search returns a string.
4785
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004786- Issue #5394: Removed > 2.3 syntax from distutils.msvc9compiler.
Tarek Ziadé943b24e2009-03-07 00:32:45 +00004787 Original patch by Akira Kitada.
4788
Hirokazu Yamamoto264fc122009-03-05 14:21:12 +00004789- Issue #5385: Fixed mmap crash after resize failure on windows.
4790
Hirokazu Yamamotoeacbbdf2009-03-03 22:18:14 +00004791- Issue #5179: Fixed subprocess handle leak on failure on windows.
4792
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004793- PEP 372: Added collections.OrderedDict().
Raymond Hettingerbc512d32009-03-03 04:45:34 +00004794
Raymond Hettinger88a91642009-03-03 04:51:24 +00004795- The _asdict() for method for namedtuples now returns an OrderedDict().
4796
Raymond Hettingere89b8e92009-03-03 05:00:37 +00004797- The configparser module now defaults to using an ordered dictionary.
4798
Benjamin Peterson7d49bba2009-03-02 22:41:42 +00004799- Issue #4308: httplib.IncompleteRead's repr doesn't include all of the data all
4800 ready received.
4801
Benjamin Petersonad58b7c2009-03-02 03:35:12 +00004802- Issue #5401: Fixed a performance problem in mimetypes when ``from mimetypes
4803 import guess_extension`` was used.
4804
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004805- Issue #1733986: Fixed mmap crash on Windows in accessing elements of second
4806 map object with same tagname but larger size than first map.
Hirokazu Yamamotob0e10c72009-02-28 12:13:07 +00004807
Hirokazu Yamamotof2dc8852009-02-28 10:31:54 +00004808- Issue #5386: mmap.write_byte didn't check map size, so it could cause buffer
4809 overrun.
4810
Tarek Ziadé73347352009-02-28 10:08:02 +00004811- Issue #1533164: Installed but not listed *.pyo was breaking Distutils
4812 bdist_rpm command.
4813
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004814- Issue #5378: Added --quiet option to Distutils bdist_rpm command.
Tarek Ziadé73347352009-02-28 10:08:02 +00004815
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004816- Issue #5052: Make Distutils compatible with 2.3 again.
Tarek Ziadédda92f72009-02-27 12:53:34 +00004817
Benjamin Petersonb3dd5482009-02-26 19:07:18 +00004818- Deprecated methods of symtable.Symbol have been removed: is_keywordarg(),
4819 is_vararg(), and is_in_tuple().
4820
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004821- Issue #5316: Fixed buildbot failures introduced by multiple inheritance in
4822 Distutils tests.
Tarek Ziadée3bc0ef2009-02-25 22:29:27 +00004823
Vinay Sajip1a0d2be2009-02-19 12:31:32 +00004824- Issue #5287: Add exception handling around findCaller() call to help out
4825 IronPython.
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00004826
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004827- Issue #5282: Fixed mmap resize on 32bit Windows and Unix. When ``offset >
4828 0``, the file was resized to wrong size.
Hirokazu Yamamoto17a837e2009-02-17 13:17:26 +00004829
Hirokazu Yamamotof6bbd0e2009-02-17 10:12:10 +00004830- Issue #5292: Fixed mmap crash on its boundary access m[len(m)].
4831
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004832- Issue #2279: distutils.sdist.add_defaults now add files from the package_data
4833 and the data_files metadata.
Tarek Ziadé7dd53392009-02-16 21:38:01 +00004834
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004835- Issue #5257: Refactored all tests in distutils, so they use
Tarek Ziadé13699002009-02-14 14:10:23 +00004836 support.TempdirManager, to avoid writing in the tests directory.
4837
Tarek Ziadé2432b0b2009-02-13 23:00:43 +00004838- Issue #4524: distutils build_script command failed with --with-suffix=3.
4839 Initial patch by Amaury Forgeot d'Arc.
4840
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004841- Issue #2461: Added tests for distutils.util.
Tarek Ziadé275958a2009-02-13 22:22:03 +00004842
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004843- Issue #1008086: Fixed socket.inet_aton() to always return 4 bytes even on LP64
4844 platforms (most 64-bit Linux, bsd, unix systems).
Gregory P. Smith3605b5c2009-02-11 23:45:25 +00004845
Thomas Heller3689ae22009-02-10 18:43:01 +00004846- Issue #5203: Fixed ctypes segfaults when passing a unicode string to a
4847 function without argtypes (only occurs if HAVE_USABLE_WCHAR_T is false).
4848
Tarek Ziadé74fbf602009-02-10 12:31:09 +00004849- Issue #3386: distutils.sysconfig.get_python_lib prefix argument was ignored
4850 under NT and OS2. Patch by Philip Jenvey.
4851
Brett Cannon28d10882009-02-10 02:07:38 +00004852- Issue #5128: Make compileall properly inspect bytecode to determine if needs
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004853 to be recreated. This avoids a timing hole thanks to the old reliance on the
Brett Cannon28d10882009-02-10 02:07:38 +00004854 ctime of the files involved.
4855
Guilherme Poloa66cf5b2009-02-09 20:50:27 +00004856- Issue #5122: Synchronize tk load failure check to prevent a potential
4857 deadlock.
4858
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004859- Issue #1818: collections.namedtuple() now supports a keyword argument 'rename'
4860 which lets invalid fieldnames be automatically converted to positional names
4861 in the form, _1, _2, ...
Raymond Hettinger322daea2009-02-10 01:24:05 +00004862
Guilherme Polod2ea0332009-02-09 16:41:09 +00004863- Issue #4890: Handle empty text search pattern in Tkinter.Text.search.
4864
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004865- Issue #5170: Fixed Unicode output bug in logging and added test case. This is
4866 a regression which did not occur in 2.5.
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +00004867
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004868- Issue #4512 (part 2): Promote ``ZipImporter._get_filename()`` to be a public
4869 documented method ``ZipImporter.get_filename()``.
Nick Coghlan0194f5b2009-02-08 03:17:00 +00004870
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004871- Issue #4195: The ``runpy`` module (and the ``-m`` switch) now support the
4872 execution of packages by looking for and executing a ``__main__`` submodule
4873 when a package name is supplied. Initial patch by Andi Vajda.
Nick Coghland39600e2009-02-08 01:26:34 +00004874
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004875- Issue #1731706: Call Tcl_ConditionFinalize for Tcl_Conditions that will not be
4876 used again (this requires Tcl/Tk 8.3.1), also fix a memory leak in Tkapp_Call
4877 when calling from a thread different than the one that created the Tcl
4878 interpreter. Patch by Robert Hancock.
Guilherme Polo14ff18d2009-02-06 22:26:22 +00004879
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +00004880- Issue #1520877: Now distutils.sysconfig reads $AR from the
Tarek Ziadé05adf072009-02-06 01:15:51 +00004881 environment/Makefile. Patch by Douglas Greiman.
4882
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004883- Issue #4285: Change sys.version_info to be a named tuple. Patch by Ross
4884 Light.
Eric Smith81fe0932009-02-06 00:48:26 +00004885
Tarek Ziadéd5eb9852009-02-06 00:31:59 +00004886- Issue #1276768: The verbose option was not used in the code of
4887 distutils.file_util and distutils.dir_util.
4888
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +00004889- Issue #5132: Fixed trouble building extensions under Solaris with
Tarek Ziadé0d4fd342009-02-05 22:52:52 +00004890 --enabled-shared activated. Initial patch by Dave Peterson.
4891
Guilherme Polod7bb4d42009-02-02 21:14:14 +00004892- Issue #1581476: Always use the Tcl global namespace when calling into Tcl.
4893
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004894- Issue #2047: shutil.move() could believe that its destination path was inside
4895 its source path if it began with the same letters (e.g. "src" vs. "src.new").
Antoine Pitrou707c5932009-01-29 20:19:34 +00004896
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004897- Issue #4920: Fixed .next() vs .__next__() issues in the ABCs for Iterator and
4898 MutableSet.
Raymond Hettingerf779e6f2009-01-28 23:02:26 +00004899
Guilherme Polocda93aa2009-01-28 13:09:03 +00004900- Added the ttk module. See issue #2983: Ttk support for Tkinter.
4901
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004902- Issue #5021: doctest.testfile() did not create __name__ and
Raymond Hettingerecf252a2009-01-27 10:03:04 +00004903 collections.namedtuple() relied on __name__ being defined.
4904
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004905- Backport importlib from Python 3.1. Only the import_module() function has been
4906 backported to help facilitate transitions from 2.7 to 3.1.
Brett Cannon93881c62009-01-26 01:16:50 +00004907
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004908- Issue #1885: distutils: When running sdist with --formats=tar,gztar the tar
4909 file was overriden by the gztar one.
Tarek Ziadéaaedcef2009-01-25 23:34:00 +00004910
Tarek Ziadéef249b12009-01-25 18:19:25 +00004911- Issue #4863: distutils.mwerkscompiler has been removed.
4912
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004913- Added new itertools functions: combinations_with_replacement() and compress().
Raymond Hettinger2bcb8e92009-01-25 21:04:14 +00004914
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004915- Issue #5032: Added a step argument to itertools.count() and allowed
4916 non-integer arguments.
Raymond Hettinger31c769c2009-02-12 05:39:46 +00004917
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004918- Fix and properly document the multiprocessing module's logging support, expose
4919 the internal levels and provide proper usage examples.
Jesse Nollerb5a4b0a2009-01-25 03:36:13 +00004920
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004921- Issue #1672332: Fix unpickling of subnormal floats, which was
Mark Dickinsona3ecd2c2009-01-24 16:40:29 +00004922 producing a ValueError on some platforms.
4923
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004924- Issue #3881: Help Tcl to load even when started through the unreadable local
4925 symlink to "Program Files" on Vista.
Martin v. Löwisf081e1c2009-01-24 15:47:27 +00004926
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004927- Issue #4710: Extract directories properly in the zipfile module; allow adding
4928 directories to a zipfile.
Martin v. Löwis0dfcfc82009-01-24 14:00:33 +00004929
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +00004930- Issue #3807: _multiprocessing build fails when configure is passed
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004931 --without-threads argument. When this occurs, _multiprocessing will be
4932 disabled, and not compiled.
Jesse Nollerf6da8d12009-01-23 14:04:41 +00004933
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004934- Issue #5008: When a file is opened in append mode with the new IO library, do
4935 an explicit seek to the end of file (so that e.g. tell() returns the file size
4936 rather than 0). This is consistent with the behaviour of the traditional 2.x
4937 file object.
Antoine Pitroue741cc62009-01-21 00:45:36 +00004938
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00004939- Issue #5013: Fixed a bug in FileHandler which occurred when the delay
4940 parameter was set.
4941
Raymond Hettinger933d3a72009-01-20 20:34:19 +00004942- Issue #4998: The memory saving effect of __slots__ had been lost on Fractions
4943 which inherited from numbers.py which did not have __slots__ defined. The
Mark Dickinson39c6f7f2009-02-12 17:55:42 +00004944 numbers hierarchy now has its own __slots__ declarations.
Raymond Hettinger933d3a72009-01-20 20:34:19 +00004945
Jesse Noller9a5b2ad2009-01-19 15:12:22 +00004946- Issue #3321: _multiprocessing.Connection() doesn't check handle; added checks
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004947 for *nix machines for negative handles and large int handles. Without this
4948 check it is possible to segfault the interpreter.
Jesse Noller9a5b2ad2009-01-19 15:12:22 +00004949
Jesse Noller6ab22152009-01-18 02:45:38 +00004950- Issue #4449: AssertionError in mp_benchmarks.py, caused by an underlying issue
4951 in sharedctypes.py.
4952
Benjamin Peterson5e5fbb62009-01-17 22:27:54 +00004953- Issue #1225107: inspect.isclass() returned True for instances with a custom
4954 __getattr__.
4955
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004956- Issue #3997: Zipfiles generated with more than 65536 files could not be opened
4957 with other applications.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd25f87a2009-01-17 16:40:17 +00004958
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004959- Issue #1162154: ``inspect.getmembers()`` now skips attributes that raise
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcb54447f2009-01-13 23:39:22 +00004960 AttributeError, e.g. a __slots__ attribute which has not been set.
4961
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004962- Issue #1696199: Add collections.Counter() for rapid and convenient counting.
Raymond Hettingerf94d7fa2009-01-12 22:58:41 +00004963
Antoine Pitroubd4b5f22009-01-10 16:15:24 +00004964- Issue #3860: GzipFile and BZ2File now support the context manager protocol.
4965
Antoine Pitrouf0d2c3f2009-01-04 21:29:23 +00004966- Issue #4272: Add an optional argument to the GzipFile constructor to override
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004967 the timestamp in the gzip stream. The default value remains the current time.
4968 The information can be used by e.g. gunzip when decompressing. Patch by
Antoine Pitrouf0d2c3f2009-01-04 21:29:23 +00004969 Jacques Frechet.
4970
Mark Dickinson514d4832009-01-04 21:25:40 +00004971- Restore Python 2.3 compatibility for decimal.py.
4972
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00004973- Issue #1702551: distutils sdist was not excluding VCS directories under
Ezio Melotti50bc66a2012-11-03 21:29:08 +02004974 Windows. Initial solution by Guy Dalberto.
Tarek Ziadé85d6fb52009-01-04 00:04:49 +00004975
Guilherme Poloe7f14032009-01-03 21:51:09 +00004976- The _tkinter module functions "createfilehandler", "deletefilehandler",
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004977 "createtimerhandler", "mainloop", "dooneevent" and "quit" have been deprecated
4978 for removal in 3.x
Guilherme Poloe7f14032009-01-03 21:51:09 +00004979
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004980- Issue #4796: Added Decimal.from_float() and
4981 Context.create_decimal_from_float() to the decimal module.
Raymond Hettingerf4d85972009-01-03 19:02:23 +00004982
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004983- Issue #4812: Add missing underscore prefix to some internal-use-only constants
4984 in the decimal module. (Dec_0 becomes _Dec_0, etc.)
Mark Dickinsonc5de0962009-01-02 23:07:08 +00004985
Benjamin Peterson8ad09a42008-12-31 23:48:39 +00004986- Issue #4795: inspect.isgeneratorfunction() returns False instead of None when
4987 the function is not a generator.
4988
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004989- Issue #4702: Throwing a DistutilsPlatformError instead of IOError in case no
4990 MSVC compiler is found under Windows. Original patch by Philip Jenvey.
Tarek Ziadéb1a85412008-12-30 23:03:41 +00004991
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004992- Issue #4646: distutils was choking on empty options arg in the setup function.
4993 Original patch by Thomas Heller.
Tarek Ziadéc13acb12008-12-29 22:23:53 +00004994
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004995- Fractions.from_float() no longer loses precision for integers too big to cast
4996 as floats.
Georg Brandlfe427892009-01-03 22:03:11 +00004997
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004998- Issue #4790: The nsmallest() and nlargest() functions in the heapq module did
4999 unnecessary work in the common case where no key function was specified.
Georg Brandlfe427892009-01-03 22:03:11 +00005000
Martin v. Löwis732479f2008-12-29 16:22:25 +00005001- Issue #3767: Convert Tk object to string in tkColorChooser.
5002
Martin v. Löwise2eb2b42008-12-29 15:51:01 +00005003- Issue #3248: Allow placing ScrolledText in a PanedWindow.
5004
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005005- Issue #4444: Allow assertRaises() to be used as a context handler, so that the
5006 code under test can be written inline if more practical.
Antoine Pitrou697ca3d2008-12-28 14:09:36 +00005007
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005008- Issue #4739: Add pydoc help topics for symbols, so that e.g. help('@') works
5009 as expected in the interactive environment.
Georg Brandlc3a98032008-12-27 18:20:04 +00005010
Antoine Pitrou6f193e02008-12-27 15:43:12 +00005011- Issue #4756: zipfile.is_zipfile() now supports file-like objects. Patch by
5012 Gabriel Genellina.
5013
Tarek Ziadée4c75bb2008-12-24 19:10:05 +00005014- Issue #4400: .pypirc default generated file was broken in distutils.
5015
Benjamin Peterson54686e32008-12-24 15:10:27 +00005016- Issue #4736: io.BufferedRWPair's closed property now functions properly.
5017
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005018- Issue #3954: Fix a potential SystemError in _hotshot.logreader error handling.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc31949b92008-12-15 21:47:57 +00005019
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005020- Issue #4574: Fix a crash in io.IncrementalNewlineDecoder when a carriage
5021 return encodes to more than one byte in the source encoding (e.g. UTF-16) and
5022 gets split on a chunk boundary.
Antoine Pitrou655fbf12008-12-14 17:40:51 +00005023
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005024- Issue #4223: inspect.getsource() will now correctly display source code for
5025 packages loaded via zipimport (or any other conformant PEP 302
Nick Coghlana2053472008-12-14 10:54:50 +00005026 loader). Original patch by Alexander Belopolsky.
5027
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005028- Issue #4201: pdb can now access and display source code loaded via zipimport
5029 (or any other conformant PEP 302 loader). Original patch by Alexander
5030 Belopolsky.
Nick Coghlana2053472008-12-14 10:54:50 +00005031
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005032- Issue #4197: Doctests in modules loaded via zipimport (or any other PEP 302
5033 conformant loader) will now work correctly in most cases (they are still
5034 subject to the constraints that exist for all code running from inside a
5035 module loaded via a PEP 302 loader and attempting to perform IO operations
5036 based on __file__). Original patch by Alexander Belopolsky.
Nick Coghlana2053472008-12-14 10:54:50 +00005037
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005038- Issues #4082 and #4512: Add runpy support to zipimport in a manner that allows
5039 backporting to maintenance branches. Original patch by Alexander Belopolsky.
Nick Coghlana2053472008-12-14 10:54:50 +00005040
Antoine Pitrou74af3bb2008-12-13 23:12:30 +00005041- Issue #4163: Use unicode-friendly word splitting in the textwrap functions
5042 when given an unicode string.
5043
Lars Gustäbel3b027422008-12-12 13:58:03 +00005044- Issue #4616: TarFile.utime(): Restore directory times on Windows.
5045
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005046- Issue #4084: Fix max, min, max_mag and min_mag Decimal methods to give correct
5047 results in the case where one argument is a quiet NaN and the other is a
5048 finite number that requires rounding.
Facundo Batistae29d4352008-12-11 04:19:46 +00005049
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005050- Issue #1030250: Distutils created directories even when run with the --dry-run
5051 option.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc240028c2008-12-11 00:03:42 +00005052
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005053- Issue #4483: _dbm module now builds on systems with gdbm & gdbm_compat libs.
Skip Montanaro45313fe2008-12-06 17:43:30 +00005054
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005055- Issue #4529: Fix the parser module's validation of try-except-finally
Georg Brandlfe879e82008-12-05 12:09:41 +00005056 statements.
5057
Georg Brandla07435d2008-12-05 09:23:14 +00005058- Issue #4458: getopt.gnu_getopt() now recognizes a single "-" as an argument,
5059 not a malformed option.
5060
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005061- Added the subprocess.check_output() convenience function to get output from a
5062 subprocess on success or raise an exception on error.
Gregory P. Smith97f49f42008-12-04 20:21:09 +00005063
Fred Drake52481032008-12-04 18:25:17 +00005064- Issue #1055234: cgi.parse_header(): Fixed parsing of header parameters to
5065 support unusual filenames (such as those containing semi-colons) in
5066 Content-Disposition headers.
5067
Vinay Sajip6831d6b2008-12-04 20:32:18 +00005068- Issue #4384: Added logging integration with warnings module using
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005069 captureWarnings(). This change includes a NullHandler which does nothing; it
5070 will be of use to library developers who want to avoid the "No handlers could
5071 be found for logger XXX" message which can appear if the library user doesn't
5072 configure logging.
Vinay Sajip213faca2008-12-03 23:22:58 +00005073
Christian Heimesaa674712008-11-28 11:02:32 +00005074- Issue #3741: DISTUTILS_USE_SDK set causes msvc9compiler.py to raise an
5075 exception.
5076
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005077- Issue #4363: The uuid.uuid1() and uuid.uuid4() functions now work even if the
5078 ctypes module is not present.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd4294172008-11-21 22:05:48 +00005079
Benjamin Petersonbfc51562008-11-22 01:59:15 +00005080- FileIO's mode attribute now always includes ``"b"``.
5081
Martin v. Löwisbb9b1f12008-11-19 09:09:41 +00005082- Issue #4116: Resolve member name conflict in ScrolledCanvas.__init__.
5083
Brett Cannone3d0bf72008-11-15 22:40:44 +00005084- httplib.HTTPConnection.putheader() now accepts an arbitrary number of values
5085 for any header, matching what the documentation has claimed for a while.
5086
Hirokazu Yamamotob9828f62008-11-03 18:03:06 +00005087- Issue #3774: Fixed an error when create a Tkinter menu item without command
5088 and then remove it.
5089
Thomas Heller1fac5a42008-10-30 20:18:13 +00005090- Fixed a modulefinder crash on certain relative imports.
5091
Benjamin Petersonc18574c2008-10-22 21:16:34 +00005092- Issue #4150: Pdb's "up" command now works for generator frames in post-mortem
5093 debugging.
5094
Benjamin Petersone4dc1752008-10-21 22:20:31 +00005095- Issue #4092: Return ArgInfo as promised in the documentation from
5096 inspect.getargvalues.
5097
Georg Brandlf3776a12008-10-08 18:47:17 +00005098- Issue #3935: Properly support list subclasses in bisect's C implementation.
5099
Martin v. Löwis96a9f232008-10-06 15:15:40 +00005100- Issue #4014: Don't claim that Python has an Alpha release status, in addition
5101 to claiming it is Mature.
5102
Alexandre Vassalotti6067f782008-12-27 07:13:01 +00005103- Issue #4730: Fixed the cPickle module to handle correctly astral characters
5104 when protocol 0 is used.
5105
Ronald Oussoren0238497e2009-01-02 14:10:20 +00005106- Issue #1594: MacOS.GetCreatorAndType now always returns a big-endian result,
5107 to be consistent with Apple tools.
5108
Ronald Oussoren63b74fe2009-01-02 14:46:19 +00005109- Issue #900949: plat-mac/videoreader.py no longer relies on a non-existing
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00005110 module.
Ronald Oussoren63b74fe2009-01-02 14:46:19 +00005111
Ronald Oussoren7f8cbf02009-01-02 14:48:17 +00005112- Issue #16278952: plat-mac/videoreader.py now correctly imports MediaDescr
5113
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005114- Issue #1737832: plat-mac/EasyDialog.py no longer uses the broken aepack
Ronald Oussoren919697c2009-01-02 14:52:09 +00005115 module.
5116
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005117- Issue #1149804: macostools.mkdirs now even works when another process creates
5118 one of the needed subdirectories.
Ronald Oussorenabcc1682009-01-02 15:00:05 +00005119
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005120- Issue #900506: added --no-zipimport flag to the bundlebuilder script.
Ronald Oussoren072bb402009-01-02 15:25:36 +00005121
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005122- Issue #841800: bundlebuilder now works with 'python -O'.
Ronald Oussoren072bb402009-01-02 15:25:36 +00005123
Matthias Klose43723e22009-01-10 17:00:42 +00005124- Issue #4861: ctypes.util.find_library(): Robustify. Fix library detection on
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005125 biarch systems. Try to rely on ldconfig only, without using objdump and gcc.
Matthias Klose43723e22009-01-10 17:00:42 +00005126
Gregory P. Smithde1a8b72009-01-31 22:57:30 +00005127- Issue #5104: The socket module now raises OverflowError when 16-bit port and
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005128 protocol numbers are supplied outside the allowed 0-65536 range on bind() and
5129 getservbyport().
Gregory P. Smithde1a8b72009-01-31 22:57:30 +00005130
Neil Schemenauer92c3b212009-02-07 00:54:41 +00005131- Issue #999042: The Python compiler now handles explict global statements
5132 correctly (should be assigned using STORE_GLOBAL opcode).
5133
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005134- Issue #2703: SimpleXMLRPCDispatcher.__init__: Provide default values for new
5135 arguments introduced in 2.5.
Matthias Klosea5d58c82009-04-05 21:00:48 +00005136
Walter Dörwald5d98ec72009-04-25 14:03:16 +00005137- Issue #5828 (Invalid behavior of unicode.lower): Fixed bogus logic in
5138 makeunicodedata.py and regenerated the Unicode database (This fixes
5139 u'\u1d79'.lower() == '\x00').
5140
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Wervenb87b3342009-05-08 14:11:23 +00005141- Windows locale mapping updated to Vista.
5142
Antoine Pitroue555f582008-12-27 20:34:52 +00005143Tools/Demos
5144-----------
5145
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005146- Ttk demos added in Demo/tkinter/ttk/.
Guilherme Polo4eae0782009-01-28 15:56:01 +00005147
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005148- Issue #4677: Add two list comprehension tests to pybench.
Antoine Pitroue555f582008-12-27 20:34:52 +00005149
Brett Cannon60b15d22008-10-06 22:44:37 +00005150Build
5151-----
5152
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005153- Issue #6603: Change READ_TIMESTAMP macro in ceval.c so that it compiles
5154 correctly under gcc on x86-64. This fixes a reported problem with the
5155 --with-tsc build on x86-64.
Mark Dickinson504a1512009-10-31 10:11:28 +00005156
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005157- Add 2 new options to ``--with-universal-archs`` on MacOSX: ``intel`` builds a
5158 distribution with ``i386`` and ``x86_64`` architectures, while ``3-way``
5159 builds a distribution with the ``ppc``, ``i386`` and ``x86_64`` architectures.
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +00005160
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005161- Issue #6802: Fix build issues on MacOSX 10.6.
Ronald Oussoren25967582009-09-06 10:00:26 +00005162
Guilherme Polo1ce2d532009-08-16 14:38:57 +00005163- Issue #6244: Allow detect_tkinter to look for Tcl/Tk 8.6.
5164
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00005165- Issue #5390: Add uninstall icon independent of whether file extensions are
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005166 installed.
Martin v. Löwisecb4f952009-06-28 09:32:39 +00005167
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00005168- Issue #5809: Specifying both --enable-framework and --enable-shared is an
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005169 error. Configure now explicity tells you about this.
Ronald Oussoren450d5612009-06-08 21:12:41 +00005170
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005171- Issue #3585: Add pkg-config support. It creates a python-2.7.pc file and a
5172 python.pc symlink in the $(LIBDIR)/pkgconfig directory. Patch by Clinton Roy.
Antoine Pitrouf2caeed2009-05-24 20:23:57 +00005173
Benjamin Petersone5afa3b2009-05-23 19:24:37 +00005174- Issue #6094: Build correctly with Subversion 1.7.
5175
Martin v. Löwis588b54b2009-05-05 16:10:16 +00005176- Issue #5847: Remove -n switch on "Edit with IDLE" menu item.
5177
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005178- Issue #5726: Make Modules/ld_so_aix return the actual exit code of the linker,
5179 rather than always exit successfully. Patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
Antoine Pitrou3fd4ea92009-05-01 21:16:14 +00005180
Matthias Klose10cbe482009-04-29 17:18:19 +00005181- Issue #4587: Add configure option --with-dbmliborder=db1:db2:... to specify
Vinay Sajipf9b01fe2009-05-09 12:07:17 +00005182 the order that backends for the dbm extension are checked.
Matthias Klose10cbe482009-04-29 17:18:19 +00005183
Matthias Klose8ad554f2009-02-22 23:14:26 +00005184- Link the shared python library with $(MODLIBS).
5185
Martin v. Löwisa3e3cb72009-02-10 13:09:19 +00005186- Issue #5134: Silence compiler warnings when compiling sqlite with VC++.
5187
Martin v. Löwisfee1c7f2009-02-02 14:23:16 +00005188- Issue #4494: Fix build with Py_NO_ENABLE_SHARED on Windows.
5189
Martin v. Löwiseefda272009-01-11 09:43:55 +00005190- Issue #4895: Use _strdup on Windows CE.
5191
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005192- Issue #4472: ``configure --enable-shared`` now works on OSX.
Ronald Oussorenf7d54052009-01-02 10:48:31 +00005193
Benjamin Petersonfd9633e2008-12-28 15:37:31 +00005194- Issues #4728 and #4060: WORDS_BIGEDIAN is now correct in Universal builds.
5195
Martin v. Löwiscb6c3592008-11-30 11:08:26 +00005196- Issue #4389: Add icon to the uninstall entry in "add-and-remove-programs".
5197
Martin v. Löwis63470982008-11-19 13:51:44 +00005198- Issue #4289: Remove Cancel button from AdvancedDlg.
5199
Martin v. Löwis3d6f8ff2008-11-07 18:51:50 +00005200- Issue #1656675: Register a drop handler for .py* files on Windows.
5201
Martin v. Löwis692c2f82008-11-06 16:43:00 +00005202- Issue #4120: Exclude manifest from extension modules in VS2008.
5203
Martin v. Löwis0f3e7692008-10-17 13:43:01 +00005204- Issue #4091: Install pythonxy.dll in system32 again.
5205
Martin v. Löwiseba774b2008-10-13 11:23:35 +00005206- Issue #4018: Disable "for me" installations on Vista.
5207
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005208- Issue #3758: Add ``patchcheck`` build target to ``.PHONY``.
Brett Cannon60b15d22008-10-06 22:44:37 +00005209
Martin v. Löwisbb86d832008-11-04 20:40:09 +00005210- Issue #4204: Fixed module build errors on FreeBSD 4.
5211
Tarek Ziadéc4a4aeb2009-08-21 14:28:38 +00005212Documentation
5213-------------
5214
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005215- Issue #6556: Fixed the Distutils configuration files location explanation for
5216 Windows.
Tarek Ziadéc4a4aeb2009-08-21 14:28:38 +00005217
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005218- Issue #6801: symmetric_difference_update also accepts ``|``. Thanks to Carl
5219 Chenet.
Tarek Ziadé3092ed92009-08-29 13:33:21 +00005220
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc07d539d2008-10-14 21:47:22 +00005221C-API
5222-----
5223
Mark Dickinsone31d3002009-12-21 11:21:25 +00005224- Issue #7528: Add PyLong_AsLongAndOverflow (backported from py3k).
5225
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005226- Issue #7228: Add '%lld' and '%llu' support to PyString_FromFormat(V) and
5227 PyErr_Format, on machines with HAVE_LONG_LONG defined.
Mark Dickinson82864d12009-11-15 16:18:58 +00005228
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005229- Add new C-API function PyOS_string_to_double, and deprecated PyOS_ascii_atof
5230 and PyOS_ascii_strtod.
Mark Dickinson09823a22009-10-31 09:42:39 +00005231
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005232- Removed _PyOS_double_to_string. Use PyOS_double_to_string instead. This is in
5233 preparation for (but not strictly related to) issue #7117, short float repr.
Mark Dickinsonba26b392009-10-31 09:28:12 +00005234
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005235- Issue #6624: PyArg_ParseTuple with "s" format when parsing argument with NULL:
5236 Bogus TypeError detail string.
Sean Reifscheider9279e7d2009-08-01 23:54:55 +00005237
Jeffrey Yasskinf7f858d2009-05-08 22:23:21 +00005238- Issue #5954: Add a PyFrame_GetLineNumber() function to replace most uses of
5239 PyCode_Addr2Line().
5240
Jeffrey Yasskin1aa47002009-05-08 21:51:06 +00005241- Issue #5959: Add a PyCode_NewEmpty() function to create a new empty code
5242 object at a specified file, function, and line number.
5243
Brett Cannonc4f90eb2009-04-02 03:17:39 +00005244- Issue #1419652: Change the first argument to PyImport_AppendInittab() to
5245 ``const char *`` as the string is stored beyond the call.
5246
Benjamin Peterson5781f322009-02-16 21:09:09 +00005247- Some PyBytes_* aliases have been removed because they don't exist in 3.x.
5248
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005249- Issue #5175: PyLong_AsUnsignedLongLong now raises OverflowError for negative
5250 arguments. Previously, it raised TypeError.
Mark Dickinson4015f622009-02-10 15:46:50 +00005251
Benjamin Petersoncf2ce242008-12-22 20:52:53 +00005252- Issue #4720: The format for PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords can begin with '|'.
5253
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005254- Issue #3632: From the gdb debugger, the 'pyo' macro can now be called when the
5255 GIL is released, or owned by another thread.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc3538a312008-12-15 22:29:14 +00005256
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc07d539d2008-10-14 21:47:22 +00005257- Issue #4122: On Windows, fix a compilation error when using the
5258 Py_UNICODE_ISSPACE macro in an extension module.
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00005259
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005260- Issue #4293: Py_AddPendingCall() is now thread safe and can be used for
Kristján Valur Jónssonc22ab182009-01-12 09:24:04 +00005261 asynchronous notifications to python from any thread. Documentation added.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc07d539d2008-10-14 21:47:22 +00005262
Benjamin Peterson9dfe6a82008-11-24 04:09:03 +00005263Extension Modules
5264-----------------
5265
Martin v. Löwis50ea4562009-11-27 13:56:01 +00005266- Issue #6508: Add posix.{getresuid,getresgid,setresuid,setresgid}.
5267
Mark Dickinson3d830822009-10-08 15:54:10 +00005268- Issue #7078: Set struct.__doc__ from _struct.__doc__.
5269
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005270- Issue #3366: Add erf, erfc, expm1, gamma, lgamma functions to math module.
Mark Dickinsonb93fff02009-09-28 18:54:55 +00005271
Brett Cannon4d947432009-09-22 00:29:48 +00005272- Issue #6823: Allow time.strftime() to accept a tuple with a isdst field
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005273 outside of the range of [-1, 1] by normalizing the value to within that range.
Brett Cannon4d947432009-09-22 00:29:48 +00005274
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005275- Issue #6877: Make it possible to link the readline extension to libedit on
5276 OSX.
Ronald Oussoren9f20d9d2009-09-20 14:18:15 +00005277
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005278- Issue #6944: Fix a SystemError when socket.getnameinfo() was called with
5279 something other than a tuple as first argument.
Georg Brandlab849892009-09-19 07:35:07 +00005280
Benjamin Peterson7f6d0832009-09-08 23:04:22 +00005281- Issue #6865: Fix reference counting issue in the initialization of the pwd
5282 module.
5283
Mark Dickinson6b3f1ef2009-09-06 21:21:05 +00005284- Issue #6848: Fix curses module build failure on OS X 10.6.
5285
Brett Cannon764465f2009-08-13 19:27:12 +00005286- Fix a segfault in expat when given a specially crafted input lead to the
Matthias Klose3b0f9b02010-01-22 00:34:48 +00005287 tokenizer not stopping. CVE-2009-3720.
Brett Cannon764465f2009-08-13 19:27:12 +00005288
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005289- Issue #6561: '\d' in a regex now matches only characters with Unicode category
5290 'Nd' (Number, Decimal Digit). Previously it also matched characters with
5291 category 'No'.
Mark Dickinsonfe67bd92009-07-28 20:35:03 +00005292
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005293- Issue #1523: Remove deprecated overflow wrapping for struct.pack with an
5294 integer format code ('bBhHiIlLqQ'). Packing an out-of-range integer now
5295 consistently raises struct.error.
Mark Dickinson5fd3af22009-07-07 15:08:28 +00005296
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005297- Issues #1530559, #1741130: Fix various struct.pack inconsistencies for the
5298 integer formats ('bBhHiIlLqQ'). In the following, '*' represents any of '=',
5299 '<', '>'.
Mark Dickinson463dc4b2009-07-05 10:01:24 +00005300
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005301 - Packing a float now always gives a Deprecation Warning. Previously it
5302 only warned for 'I', 'L', '*B', '*H', '*I', '*L'.
Mark Dickinson463dc4b2009-07-05 10:01:24 +00005303
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005304 - If x is not an int, long or float, then packing x will always result in
5305 struct.error. Previously an x with an __int__ method could be packed by
5306 'b', 'B', 'h', 'H', 'i', 'l', '*b', '*h' ,'*i', '*l', and an x with a
5307 __long__ method could be packed by 'q', 'Q', '*q', '*Q'; for x with
5308 neither __int__ nor __long__, TypeError used to be raised (with a
5309 confusing error message) for 'I', 'L', '*B', '*H', '*I', '*L', and
5310 struct.error in other cases.
Mark Dickinson463dc4b2009-07-05 10:01:24 +00005311
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005312 Note: as of Python 2.7 beta 1, the above is out of date. In 2.7 beta 1, any
5313 argument with an __int__ method can be packed, but use of this feature
5314 triggers a DeprecationWarning.
Mark Dickinson154b7ad2010-03-07 16:24:45 +00005315
Martin v. Löwis4f16d3b2009-05-29 15:58:08 +00005316- Issue #4873: Fix resource leaks in error cases of pwd and grp.
5317
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005318- Issue #4751: For hashlib algorithms provided by OpenSSL, the Python GIL is now
5319 released during computation on data lengths >= 2048 bytes.
Gregory P. Smithd02eeda2009-05-04 00:16:49 +00005320
Gregory P. Smithea388262009-02-13 03:00:00 +00005321- Issue #3745: Fix hashlib to always reject unicode and non buffer-api
5322 supporting objects as input no matter how it was compiled (built in
Gregory P. Smithfe32d302010-01-02 22:42:50 +00005323 implementations or external openssl library). NOTE: Undone in 2.7a2.
Gregory P. Smithea388262009-02-13 03:00:00 +00005324
Mark Dickinsona200dd52009-01-15 15:17:43 +00005325- Issue #4397: Fix occasional test_socket failure on OS X.
Mark Dickinsone82cdae2009-01-15 14:54:37 +00005326
Martin v. Löwisb3b7d852009-01-11 09:26:54 +00005327- Issue #4279: Fix build of parsermodule under Cygwin.
5328
Martin v. Löwis9ac49272009-01-02 20:40:14 +00005329- Issue #4051: Prevent conflict of UNICODE macros in cPickle.
5330
Georg Brandl6269fec2009-01-01 12:15:31 +00005331- Issue #4228: Pack negative values the same way as 2.4 in struct's L format.
5332
Martin v. Löwis03824e42008-12-29 18:17:34 +00005333- Issue #1040026: Fix os.times result on systems where HZ is incorrect.
5334
Mark Dickinson4c96fa52008-12-11 19:28:08 +00005335- Issues #3167, #3682: Fix test_math failures for log, log10 on Solaris,
5336 OpenBSD.
5337
Martin v. Löwisbcb017f2008-11-30 19:28:27 +00005338- Issue #4365: Add crtassem.h constants to the msvcrt module.
5339
Benjamin Peterson9dfe6a82008-11-24 04:09:03 +00005340- Issue #4396: The parser module now correctly validates the with statement.
5341
Jack Diederichd60c29e2009-03-31 23:46:48 +00005342- Issue #5228: Make functools.partial objects can now be pickled.
5343
Guilherme Polob1a98de2009-01-28 20:03:26 +00005344Tests
5345-----
5346
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005347- Issue #7431: Use TESTFN in test_linecache instead of trying to create a file
5348 in the Lib/test directory, which might be read-only for the user running the
5349 tests.
R. David Murray820b0ea2009-12-03 23:57:59 +00005350
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005351- Issue #7324: Add a sanity check to regrtest argument parsing to catch the case
5352 of an option with no handler.
R. David Murrayda826892009-11-15 00:04:32 +00005353
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005354- Issue #7312: Add a -F flag to run the selected tests in a loop until a test
5355 fails. Can be combined with -j.
R. David Murray7f7eea62009-11-14 15:18:22 +00005356
Antoine Pitrou310c9fe2009-11-11 20:55:07 +00005357- Issue #7295: Do not use a hardcoded file name in test_tarfile.
5358
Antoine Pitrouc98efe02009-11-06 22:34:35 +00005359- Issue #7270: Add some dedicated unit tests for multi-thread synchronization
5360 primitives such as Lock, RLock, Condition, Event and Semaphore.
5361
Antoine Pitrou59c44f32009-10-30 17:07:08 +00005362- Issue #7222: Make thread "reaping" more reliable so that reference
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005363 leak-chasing test runs give sensible results. The previous method of reaping
5364 threads could return successfully while some Thread objects were still
5365 referenced. This also introduces a new private function: ``thread._count()``.
Antoine Pitrou59c44f32009-10-30 17:07:08 +00005366
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005367- Issue #7151: Fixed regrtest -j so that output to stderr from a test no longer
5368 runs the risk of causing the worker thread to fail.
R. David Murray282396f2009-10-18 21:12:37 +00005369
Antoine Pitrou58d2f262009-10-10 20:52:11 +00005370- Issue #7055: test___all__ now greedily detects all modules which have an
5371 __all__ attribute, rather than using a hardcoded and incomplete list.
5372
R. David Murray14dcd432009-10-14 13:58:07 +00005373- Issue #7058: Added save/restore for things like sys.argv and cwd to
5374 runtest_inner in regrtest, with warnings if the called test modifies them,
5375 and a new section in the summary report at the end.
R. David Murrayabe3d3e2009-10-05 17:03:09 +00005376
Mark Dickinson245d9152009-10-04 18:38:39 +00005377- Issue #7042: Fix test_signal (test_itimer_virtual) failure on OS X 10.6.
5378
Brett Cannone7e941e2009-09-03 21:25:21 +00005379- Issue #6806: test_platform failed under OS X 10.6.0 because ``sw_ver`` leaves
5380 off the trailing 0 in the version number.
5381
Guilherme Polo7f146ab2009-06-21 17:22:50 +00005382- Issue #5450: Moved tests involving loading tk from Lib/test/test_tcl to
5383 Lib/lib-tk/test/test_tkinter/test_loadtk. With this, these tests demonstrate
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005384 the same behaviour as test_ttkguionly (and now also test_tk) which is to skip
5385 the tests if DISPLAY is defined but can't be used.
Guilherme Polo7f146ab2009-06-21 17:22:50 +00005386
Antoine Pitrou4698d992009-05-31 14:20:14 +00005387- Issue #6152: New option '-j'/'--multiprocess' for regrtest allows running
5388 regression tests in parallel, shortening the total runtime.
5389
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005390- Issue #5354: New test support function import_fresh_module() makes it easy to
5391 import both normal and optimised versions of modules. test_heapq and
5392 test_warnings have been adjusted to use it, tests for other modules with both
5393 C and Python implementations in the stdlib can be adjusted to use it over
5394 time.
Nick Coghlan5533ff62009-04-22 15:26:04 +00005395
Brett Cannonce3d2212009-04-01 20:25:48 +00005396- Fix test_warnings to no longer reset the warnings filter.
5397
Brett Cannon2da4d622009-04-01 19:57:10 +00005398- Fix test_logging to no longer reset the warnings filter.
5399
Georg Brandld8fb6ac2009-04-01 00:04:33 +00005400- Issue #5635: Fix running test_sys with tracing enabled.
5401
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005402- regrtest no longer treats ImportError as equivalent to SkipTest. Imports that
5403 should cause a test to be skipped are now done using import_module from test
5404 support, which does the conversion.
R. David Murray41448c52009-03-31 19:57:24 +00005405
Guilherme Polob1a98de2009-01-28 20:03:26 +00005406- Issue #5083: New 'gui' resource for regrtest.
5407
Walter Dörwalda1453172009-04-25 12:15:07 +00005408- Issue #5837: Certain sequences of calls to set() and unset() for
5409 support.EnvironmentVarGuard objects restored the environment variables
5410 incorrectly on __exit__.
5411
Alexandre Vassalotti999ecc02009-07-15 18:19:47 +00005412- Issue #2389: Array objects are now pickled in a portable manner.
5413
Brett Cannon813c43a2009-11-08 21:35:28 +00005414Misc
5415----
5416
5417- Issue #5611: Auto-detect whether a C file uses tabs or spaces in Vim.
5418
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00005419
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00005420What's New in Python 2.6 final
5421==============================
5422
Barry Warsawafa14362008-10-01 21:46:40 +00005423*Release date: 01-Oct-2008*
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00005424
5425Core and Builtins
5426-----------------
5427
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfc5ea392008-09-26 22:34:08 +00005428- Issue #3967: Fixed a crash in the count() and find() methods of string-like
5429 objects, when the "start" parameter is a huge value.
5430
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc17617a02008-09-25 20:52:56 +00005431- Issue #3965: Fixed a crash on Windows when open() is given an invalid
5432 filename or mode, and the filename is a unicode string.
5433
Martin v. Löwise86b07c2008-09-25 04:12:50 +00005434- Bug #3951: Py_USING_MEMORY_DEBUGGER should not be enabled by default.
5435
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00005436Library
5437-------
5438
Martin v. Löwise563aa42008-09-29 22:09:07 +00005439- Issue #3965: Allow repeated calls to turtle.Screen, by making it a
5440 true singleton object.
5441
Brett Cannonb2d61bd2008-09-29 03:41:21 +00005442- Issue #3895: It was possible to crash the interpreter when an external timer
5443 was used with cProfile that returned an object that could not be converted
5444 into a float.
5445
Benjamin Peterson22d3c922008-09-25 20:35:45 +00005446- Issue #3950: Made turtle respect scale factors.
5447
Thomas Hellera85c95d2008-09-24 18:26:05 +00005448- Issue #3547: Fixed ctypes structures bitfields of varying integer
5449 sizes.
5450
Benjamin Peterson2c7470d2008-09-21 21:27:51 +00005451- Issue #3879: A regression in urllib.getproxies_enviroment was fixed.
5452
Gregory P. Smith08067492008-09-30 20:41:13 +00005453- Issue #3863: Disabled a unit test of fork being called from a thread
5454 when running on platforms known to exhibit OS bugs when attempting that.
5455
Martin v. Löwis175d0072008-09-19 15:21:07 +00005456Build
5457-----
5458
Martin v. Löwisd69c9042008-10-01 11:19:50 +00005459- Bug #3989: Package the 2to3 script (as 2to3.py) in the Windows
5460 installer.
5461
Martin v. Löwis175d0072008-09-19 15:21:07 +00005462- Bug #3887: Package x64 version of CRT for AMD64 Windows binaries.
5463
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00005464
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00005465What's New in Python 2.6 release candidate 2?
5466=============================================
5467
Barry Warsaw6af16192008-09-18 04:33:43 +00005468*Release date: 17-Sep-2008*
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00005469
5470Core and Builtins
5471-----------------
5472
Benjamin Peterson8c2b7dc2008-09-18 01:22:16 +00005473Extension Modules
5474-----------------
5475
Benjamin Peterson8d77d442008-09-30 01:31:49 +00005476- Security Issue #2: imageop did not validate arguments correctly and could
5477 segfault as a result.
5478
Benjamin Peterson8c2b7dc2008-09-18 01:22:16 +00005479- Issue #3886: Possible integer overflows in the _hashopenssl module were
5480 closed.
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00005481
Antoine Pitrou3c9f5412008-09-13 20:30:30 +00005482Tools/Demos
5483-----------
5484
Georg Brandl2bd92a52009-10-11 21:10:07 +00005485- Issue #3850: recursion tests in Tools/scripts/find_recursion_limit.py can raise
Antoine Pitrou3c9f5412008-09-13 20:30:30 +00005486 AttributeError instead of RuntimeError, depending in which C API call
5487 exactly the recursion limit is exceeded. Consequently, both exception types
5488 are caught and silenced.
5489
Martin v. Löwis4eb18f92008-09-14 20:22:39 +00005490Build
5491-----
5492
5493- Issue #3617: Include a licensing statement regarding the Microsoft
5494 C runtime in the Windows installer.
5495
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00005496
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00005497What's New in Python 2.6 release candidate 1?
5498=============================================
5499
Barry Warsaw1e62aec2008-09-12 23:25:57 +00005500*Release date: 12-Sep-2008*
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00005501
5502Core and Builtins
5503-----------------
5504
Martin v. Löwis9fa5a282008-09-11 06:53:30 +00005505- Issue #3642: Suppress warning in obmalloc when size_t is larger than uint.
5506
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc05e34492008-09-10 22:04:45 +00005507- Issue #3743: In a few places, PY_FORMAT_SIZE_T was incorrectly used with
5508 PyString_FromFormat or PyErr_Format to display size_t values. The macro
5509 PY_FORMAT_SIZE_T is designed to select the correct format for the OS
5510 ``printf`` function, whereas PyString_FromFormat has an independent
5511 implementation and uses "%zd" on all platforms for size_t values.
5512 This makes a difference on win64, where ``printf`` needs "%Id" to display
5513 64bit values.
5514
Benjamin Peterson97179b02008-09-09 20:55:01 +00005515- Issue #3634: _weakref.ref(Exception).__init__() gave invalid return value on
5516 error.
5517
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd3ffb892008-09-09 07:24:30 +00005518- Issue #3777: long() applied to a float object now always return a long
5519 object; previously an int would be returned for small values. the __long__
5520 method is allowed to return either an int or a long, but the behaviour of
5521 float objects should not change to respect backward compatibility.
5522
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc3571fbf2008-09-01 19:52:00 +00005523- Issue #3751: str.rpartition would perform a left-partition when called with
5524 a unicode argument.
5525
Benjamin Peterson17f03ca2008-09-01 14:18:30 +00005526- Issue #3683: Fix compilation when --without-threads is given.
5527
Antoine Pitroud4ae97b2008-08-29 18:39:48 +00005528- Issue #3668: Fix a memory leak with the "s*" argument parser in
Vinay Sajip35e3b032008-09-01 14:33:59 +00005529 PyArg_ParseTuple and friends, which occurred when the argument for "s*"
Antoine Pitroud4ae97b2008-08-29 18:39:48 +00005530 was correctly parsed but parsing of subsequent arguments failed.
5531
Vinay Sajip35e3b032008-09-01 14:33:59 +00005532- Issue #2534: speed up isinstance() and issubclass() by 50-70%, so as to
Antoine Pitrou0668c622008-08-26 22:42:08 +00005533 match Python 2.5 speed despite the __instancecheck__ / __subclasscheck__
5534 mechanism. In the process, fix a bug where isinstance() and issubclass(),
5535 when given a tuple of classes as second argument, were looking up
5536 __instancecheck__ / __subclasscheck__ on the tuple rather than on each
5537 type object.
5538
Neal Norwitz18aa3882008-08-24 05:04:52 +00005539- Fix crashes on memory allocation failure found with failmalloc.
5540
5541- Fix memory leaks found with valgrind and update suppressions file.
5542
5543- Fix compiler warnings in opt mode which would lead to invalid memory reads.
5544
5545- Fix problem using wrong name in decimal module reported by pychecker.
5546
Christian Heimes7d4c3172008-08-22 19:47:25 +00005547- Silenced another compiler warning about a used but not defined
5548 function 'stringlib_contains_obj'.
5549
Benjamin Peterson712ee922008-08-24 18:10:20 +00005550- Added warnings on the use of ``__getslice__``, ``__setslice__``, or
5551 ``__delslice__``.
5552
Gregory P. Smith2bb25cc2008-09-02 05:29:51 +00005553- Issue #3678: Correctly pass LDFLAGS and LDLAST to the linker on shared
5554 library targets in the Makefile.
5555
Gregory P. Smith980b99b2008-09-07 05:15:18 +00005556- Issue #1204: The configure script now tests for additional libraries
5557 that may be required when linking against readline. This fixes issues
5558 with x86_64 builds on some platforms (a few Linux flavors and OpenBSD).
5559
Benjamin Peterson14cb6bc2008-08-26 17:08:40 +00005560C-API
5561-----
5562
5563- Aliased PyObject_Bytes to PyObject_Str.
5564
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00005565Library
5566-------
5567
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc24cb3822008-09-11 20:56:13 +00005568- Issue #3640: Pickling a list or a dict uses less local variables, to reduce
5569 stack usage in the case of deeply nested objects.
5570
Guido van Rossume3c4fd92008-09-10 14:27:00 +00005571- Issue #3629: Fix sre "bytecode" validator for an end case.
5572
Martin v. Löwis24329ba2008-09-10 13:38:12 +00005573- Issue #3811: The Unicode database was updated to 5.1.
5574
Nick Coghland2e09382008-09-11 12:11:06 +00005575- Issue #3781: Further warnings.catch_warnings() cleanup to prevent
5576 silent misbehaviour when a single instance is nested in multiple
5577 with statements, or when the methods are invoked in the wrong order.
5578
Vinay Sajip844f7412008-09-09 13:42:08 +00005579- Issue #3809: Fixed spurious 'test.blah' file left behind by test_logging.
5580
Nick Coghland2e09382008-09-11 12:11:06 +00005581- Issue #3781: Clean up the API for warnings.catch_warnings() by having it
Brett Cannon672237d2008-09-09 00:49:16 +00005582 return a list or None rather than a custom object.
5583
Benjamin Peterson6ac7d7c2008-09-06 19:28:11 +00005584- Issue #1638033: Cookie.Morsel gained the httponly attribute.
5585
Antoine Pitrouebcd0ce2008-09-05 23:30:23 +00005586- Issue #3535: zipfile couldn't read some zip files larger than 2GB.
5587
5588- Issue #3776: Deprecate the bsddb package for removal in 3.0.
Brett Cannon32476fc2008-09-05 18:33:51 +00005589
Hirokazu Yamamoto42e459e2008-09-04 14:25:30 +00005590- Issue #3762: platform.architecture() fails if python is lanched via
5591 its symbolic link.
5592
Vinay Sajip65d66e12008-09-04 07:31:21 +00005593- Issue #3772: Fixed regression problem in StreamHandler.emit().
5594
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00005595- Issue #600362: Relocated parse_qs() and parse_qsl(), from the cgi module
Facundo Batistac585df92008-09-03 22:35:50 +00005596 to the urlparse one. Added a PendingDeprecationWarning in the old
5597 module, it will be deprecated in the future.
5598
Marc-André Lemburgb339b2a2008-09-03 11:13:56 +00005599- Issue #2562: Fix distutils PKG-INFO writing logic to allow having
5600 non-ascii characters and Unicode in setup.py meta-data.
5601
5602- Issue #3726: Allow spaces in separators in logging configuration files.
Vinay Sajip6a2fd812008-09-03 09:20:05 +00005603
Marc-André Lemburg31a0a142008-09-02 12:11:19 +00005604- Issue #3719: platform.architecture() fails if there are spaces in the
5605 path to the Python binary.
5606
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00005607- Issue #3602: Moved test.test_support.catch_warning() to
Brett Cannon1eaf0742008-09-02 01:25:16 +00005608 warnings.catch_warnings() along with some API cleanup. Expanding the tests
5609 for catch_warnings() also led to an improvement in the raising of a
5610 DeprecationWarning related to warnings.warn_explicit().
5611
Benjamin Peterson973e6c22008-09-01 23:12:58 +00005612- The deprecation warnings for the old camelCase threading API were removed.
5613
Vinay Sajip35e3b032008-09-01 14:33:59 +00005614- logging: fixed lack of use of encoding attribute specified on a stream.
5615
Christian Heimesa27a62e2008-08-22 19:55:54 +00005616- Silenced a trivial compiler warning in the sqlite module.
5617
Christian Heimes1cc69632008-08-22 20:10:27 +00005618- Fixed two format strings in the _collections module.
5619
Benjamin Peterson17f03ca2008-09-01 14:18:30 +00005620- Issue #3703: _fileio.FileIO gave unhelpful error message when trying to open a
5621 directory.
Benjamin Petersonf22c26e2008-09-01 14:13:43 +00005622
Gregory P. Smithd7122032008-09-02 05:36:11 +00005623- Issue #3708: os.urandom no longer goes into an infinite loop when passed a
5624 non-integer floating point number.
5625
Vinay Sajip65d66e12008-09-04 07:31:21 +00005626- Issue #3110: multiprocessing fails to compiel on solaris 10 due to missing
Jesse Nollerb814d6a2008-09-03 18:10:30 +00005627 SEM_VALUE_MAX.
5628
Benjamin Peterson37346b22008-08-23 20:27:43 +00005629Extension Modules
5630-----------------
5631
Jesse Noller438195f2009-01-18 21:04:36 +00005632- Issue #4301: Patch the logging module to add processName support, remove
5633 _check_logger_class from multiprocessing.
5634
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc293924b2008-09-02 23:19:56 +00005635- Issue #2975: When compiling several extension modules with Visual Studio 2008
5636 from the same python interpreter, some environment variables would grow
5637 without limit.
5638
Benjamin Peterson37346b22008-08-23 20:27:43 +00005639- Issue #3643: Added a few more checks to _testcapi to prevent segfaults by
5640 exploitation of poor argument checking.
5641
Gerhard Häringef2276b2008-09-12 13:54:06 +00005642- sqlite3: Changed docstring of iterdump() to mark method as "Non-standard".
5643
Gerhard Häring6e1afcf2008-09-12 18:58:57 +00005644- Issue #3103: Reduced globals symbols used by sqlite3 module and made sure all
5645 remaining ones have "pysqlite_" prefix.
5646
Gerhard Häringe6872eb2008-09-12 22:33:22 +00005647- Issue #3846: Release the GIL during sqlite3_prepare calls. This improves
5648 concurrent access to the same SQLite database from multiple
5649 threads/processes.
5650
Brett Cannona0b74442008-09-03 22:45:11 +00005651Tests
5652-----
5653
Nick Coghland2e09382008-09-11 12:11:06 +00005654- Issue #3781: Add test.test_support.check_warnings() as a convenience
5655 wrapper for warnings.catch_warnings() that makes it easier to check
5656 that expected warning messages are being reported.
5657
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfeb8cad2008-09-06 20:53:51 +00005658- Issue #3796: Some tests functions were not enabled in test_float.
5659
5660- Issue #3768: Move test_py3kwarn over to the new API for catch_warnings().
Brett Cannona0b74442008-09-03 22:45:11 +00005661
Brett Cannoncdeb24b2008-09-05 22:59:17 +00005662Build
5663-----
5664
Martin v. Löwisab0b29b2008-09-13 08:11:57 +00005665- Issue #3833: Use a different upgrade code for Win64 installers.
5666
Martin v. Löwis3f5fda82008-09-08 13:50:10 +00005667- Issue #2271: Set SecureCustomProperties so that installation will properly
5668 use the TARGETDIR even for unprivileged users.
5669
Martin v. Löwis67543a92008-09-08 12:02:45 +00005670- Allow passing the MSI file name to merge.py.
5671
Vinay Sajip844f7412008-09-09 13:42:08 +00005672- Issue #3758: Rename the 'check' target to 'patchcheck' so as to not clash
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfeb8cad2008-09-06 20:53:51 +00005673 with GNU build target guidelines.
Brett Cannoncdeb24b2008-09-05 22:59:17 +00005674
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00005675
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00005676What's New in Python 2.6 beta 3?
5677================================
5678
Barry Warsaw07a4a382008-08-21 01:15:08 +00005679*Release date: 20-Aug-2008*
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00005680
5681Core and Builtins
5682-----------------
5683
Guido van Rossumf8402962008-08-20 15:01:50 +00005684- Issue #1878: Remove Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_VERSION_TAG from
5685 Py_TPFLAGS_DEFAULT when not building the core. This means 3rd party
5686 extensions do not automatically benefit from the class attribute
5687 cache; they will have to explicitly add Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_VERSION_TAG
5688 to their tp_flags field if they care. This is a backwards
5689 compatibility feature; in 3.0, all types will use the cache by
5690 default.
5691
Benjamin Petersonf647dc12008-08-20 01:27:30 +00005692- Keyword arguments can now follow starred arguments. (``f(a, *args,
5693 keyword=23)`` is now valid syntax.)
5694
Thomas Heller0ad5ae02008-08-19 19:25:04 +00005695- ctypes function pointers that are COM methods have a boolean True
5696 value again.
5697
Martin v. Löwisf91d46a2008-08-12 14:49:50 +00005698- Issue #3139: Make buffer-interface thread-safe wrt. PyArg_ParseTuple,
5699 by denying s# to parse objects that have a releasebuffer procedure,
5700 and introducing s*.
5701
Georg Brandl1e13ea92008-08-11 09:07:59 +00005702- Issue #3537: Fix an assertion failure when an empty but presized dict
5703 object was stored in the freelist.
5704
Mark Dickinsonb6467572008-08-04 21:30:09 +00005705- Issue #1481296: Make long(float('nan')) and int(float('nan')) raise
5706 ValueError consistently across platforms.
5707
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc39fd6722008-07-31 21:28:03 +00005708- Issue #3479: On platforms where sizeof(int) is smaller than sizeof(long)
5709 (64bit Unix, for example), unichr() would truncate its argument and return
5710 u'\x00' for unichr(2**32). Now it properly raises an OverflowError.
5711
Neal Norwitze7d8be82008-07-31 17:17:14 +00005712- Apply security patches from Apple.
5713
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc246daed2008-07-31 00:42:16 +00005714- Issue #2542: Now that issubclass() may call arbitrary code, ensure that
5715 PyErr_ExceptionMatches returns 0 when an exception occurs there.
5716
Antoine Pitrou92f82162008-07-25 22:22:08 +00005717- Issue #1819: function calls with several named parameters are now on
5718 average 35% faster (as measured by pybench).
5719
Amaury Forgeot d'Arce4921fe2008-07-21 22:00:38 +00005720- Issue #2378: An unexpected UnboundLocalError or NameError could appear when
5721 the python debugger steps into a class statement: the free variables (local
5722 variables defined in an outer scope) would be deleted from the outer scope.
5723
Gregory P. Smith0470bab2008-07-22 04:46:32 +00005724- Issue #2620: Overflow checking when allocating or reallocating memory
5725 was not always being done properly in some python types and extension
5726 modules. PyMem_MALLOC, PyMem_REALLOC, PyMem_NEW and PyMem_RESIZE have
5727 all been updated to perform better checks and places in the code that
5728 would previously leak memory on the error path when such an allocation
5729 failed have been fixed.
5730
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00005731Library
5732-------
5733
Hirokazu Yamamoto838c79f2008-08-20 13:14:07 +00005734- Issue #3612: Added some missing basic types in ctypes.wintypes.
5735
Benjamin Petersone977ad42008-08-20 01:42:01 +00005736- The methods ``is_in_tuple()``, ``is_vararg()``, and ``is_keywordarg()`` of
5737 symtable.Symbol have been deprecated for removal in 3.0 and the next release.
5738
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc351ffb82008-08-18 19:23:47 +00005739- Issue #2234: distutils failed for some versions of the cygwin compiler. The
5740 version reported by these tools does not necessarily follow the python
5741 version numbering scheme, so the module is less strict when parsing it.
5742
Nick Coghlanf70385a2008-08-18 12:42:46 +00005743- Issue #2235: Added Py3k warnings for types which will become unhashable
5744 under the stricter __hash__ inheritance rules in 3.0. Several types
5745 which did not meet the rules for hash invariants and were already
5746 unhashable in 3.0 have now been explicitly flagged as unhashable in
5747 2.6 as well (collections.Mapping, collections.Set, unittest.TestSuite,
5748 xml.dom.minidom.NamedNodeMap, numbers.Number, UserList.UserList)
5749
Brett Cannon88f801d2008-08-18 00:46:22 +00005750- Update __all__ for cookielib, csv, os, urllib2, and weakref to include things
5751 imported into the module but exposed as part of the module's API.
5752
Brett Cannon7b96f072008-08-18 00:41:11 +00005753- Remove an unneeded import of abc.ABCMeta from 'inspect'.
5754
Brett Cannon46225e72008-08-18 00:36:52 +00005755- Remove unneeded imports of 'sys' and 'warnings' from 'io'.
5756
Brett Cannon25c9d6a2008-08-17 22:10:11 +00005757- Remove unneeded imports of 'warnings' from shelve, filecmp, and dummy_thread.
5758
Hirokazu Yamamoto41a81eb2008-08-17 13:10:46 +00005759- Issue #3575: Incremental decoder's decode function now takes bytearray
5760 by using 's*' instead of 't#'.
5761
Mark Dickinson3e4caeb2009-02-21 20:27:01 +00005762- Issue #2222: Fixed reference leak when occurred os.rename()
Hirokazu Yamamoto7f30a682008-08-17 09:46:56 +00005763 fails unicode conversion on 2nd parameter. (windows only)
5764
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00005765- Issue #2464: urllib2 now supports a malformation in the URL received
Facundo Batista94f243a2008-08-17 03:38:39 +00005766 in a redirect.
5767
Brett Cannonabe423e2008-08-16 21:47:07 +00005768- Silence the DeprecationWarning raised when importing mimetools in
Brett Cannon721b1452008-08-16 22:00:27 +00005769 BaseHTTPServer, cgi (and rfc822), httplib.
Brett Cannonabe423e2008-08-16 21:47:07 +00005770
Facundo Batistaeb90b782008-08-16 14:44:07 +00005771- Issue #2776: fixed small issue when handling an URL with double slash
5772 after a 302 response in the case of not going through a proxy.
5773
Antoine Pitroub90a8be2008-08-15 21:03:21 +00005774- Issue #2676: in the email package, content-type parsing was hanging on
5775 pathological input because of quadratic or exponential behaviour of a
5776 regular expression.
5777
Antoine Pitrou11ec65d2008-08-14 21:04:30 +00005778- Issue #3476: binary buffered reading through the new "io" library is now
5779 thread-safe.
5780
Brett Cannonbf3157b2008-08-14 05:00:03 +00005781- Silence the DeprecationWarning of rfc822 when it is imported by mimetools
5782 since mimetools itself is deprecated. Because modules are cached, all
5783 subsequent imports of rfc822 will not raise a visible DeprecationWarning.
5784
Antoine Pitrou9fcd4b32008-08-11 17:21:36 +00005785- Issue #3134: shutil referenced undefined WindowsError symbol.
5786
Robert Schuppenies14646332008-08-10 11:01:53 +00005787- Issue #1342811: Fix leak in Tkinter.Menu.delete. Commands associated to
5788 menu entries were not deleted.
5789
Brett Cannon83e81842008-08-09 23:30:55 +00005790- Copied the implementation of reduce() to _functools.reduce() to have a
5791 version that did not raise a DeprecationWarning under -3.
5792
Antoine Pitrou76b8bee2008-08-09 17:27:23 +00005793- Issue #3205: When iterating over a BZ2File fails allocating memory, raise
5794 a MemoryError rather than silently stop the iteration.
5795
Guido van Rossum59ce9012008-08-09 14:55:34 +00005796- Issue #3487: sre "bytecode" validator. Passing invalid "re-bytecode"
5797 to _sre.compile() will now be rejected. This should not affect anybody
5798 since the re.compile() function never generates invalid re-bytecode.
5799
Skip Montanaroa032bf42008-08-08 22:52:51 +00005800- Issue #3436: Make csv.DictReader's fieldnames attribute a property so that
5801 upon first access it can be automatically initialized from the csv file if
5802 it wasn't initialized during instantiation.
5803
Brett Cannon3aa2a492008-08-06 22:28:09 +00005804- Issue #2338: Create imp.reload() to help with transitioning to Python 3.0 as
5805 the reload() built-in has been removed.
5806
Brett Cannon7e30b672008-08-04 21:52:25 +00005807- Changed code in the following modules/packages to remove warnings raised
Brett Cannonc1b76e42008-08-09 23:06:16 +00005808 while running under the ``-3`` flag: aifc, asynchat, asyncore, bdb, bsddb,
Brett Cannon047e4a92008-08-17 04:16:04 +00005809 ConfigParser, cookielib, csv, difflib, distutils, DocXMLRPCServer, email,
5810 filecmp, fileinput, inspect, logging, modulefinder, pdb, pickle, profile,
5811 pstats, pydoc, re, rlcompleter, SimpleXMLRPCServer, shelve, socket,
5812 subprocess, sqlite3, tarfile, Tkinter, test.test_support, textwrap,
5813 threading, tokenize, traceback, urlparse, wsgiref, xml, xmlrpclib.
Brett Cannon7e30b672008-08-04 21:52:25 +00005814
Lars Gustäbel727bd0b2008-08-02 11:26:39 +00005815- Issue #3039: Fix tarfile.TarFileCompat.writestr() which always
5816 raised an AttributeError.
5817
Benjamin Peterson01a24322008-07-28 23:35:27 +00005818- Issue #2523: Fix quadratic behaviour when read()ing a binary file without
Antoine Pitroude781a42008-08-09 12:43:23 +00005819 asking for a specific length. This problem only affected files opened
5820 using the new "io" module, not the built-in open() function.
Benjamin Peterson01a24322008-07-28 23:35:27 +00005821
Mark Dickinsonfe84cce2008-07-27 06:39:07 +00005822- Issue #3449: Update decimal module to use most recent specification
5823 (v. 1.68) and tests (v. 2.58) from IBM.
5824
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00005825- Issue #3437: Bug fix in robotparser parsing of Allow: lines.
Skip Montanarof9ac43f2008-07-27 00:50:41 +00005826
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00005827- Issue #1592: Improve error reporting when operations are attempted
Raymond Hettinger8c664e82008-07-25 18:43:33 +00005828 on a closed shelf.
5829
Georg Brandlf9efabb2008-07-23 15:16:45 +00005830- Deprecate the "ast" parser function aliases.
5831
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00005832- Issue #3120: On 64-bit Windows the subprocess module was truncating handles.
5833
5834- Issue #3303: Fix a crash in locale.strcoll() when calling it with
5835 invalid arguments.
5836
5837- Issue #3302: Fix several crashes when calling locale's gettext functions
5838 with None arguments.
5839
5840- Issue #3389: Allow resolving dotted names for handlers in logging
5841 configuration files.
5842
5843- Deprecate the sunaudio module for removal in Python 3.0.
5844
Antoine Pitrou5fdfa3e2008-07-25 19:42:26 +00005845- Issue #3394: zipfile.writestr sets external attributes when passed a
5846 file name rather than a ZipInfo instance, so files are extracted with
5847 mode 0600 rather than 000 under Unix.
5848
Gregory P. Smitha36f8fe2008-08-04 00:13:29 +00005849- Issue #1857: subprocess.Popen.poll gained an additional _deadstate keyword
5850 argument in python 2.5, this broke code that subclassed Popen to include its
5851 own poll method. Fixed my moving _deadstate to an _internal_poll method.
5852
Martin v. Löwis8dbf3642008-08-01 14:10:26 +00005853Build
5854-----
5855
5856- Generate the PatternGrammar pickle during "make install".
5857
Nick Coghlan2a0c2b12008-08-04 12:47:17 +00005858Documentation
5859-------------
5860
Nick Coghlan6e8fef02008-08-18 13:14:22 +00005861- Issue #2235: the C API function PyObject_HashNotImplemented and its
5862 interaction with the tp_hash slot (added in 2.6b2) are now documented
5863
Nick Coghlan2a0c2b12008-08-04 12:47:17 +00005864- Issue #643841: The language reference now provides more detailed
5865 coverage of the lookup process for special methods. The disclaimers
5866 regarding lack of coverage of new-style classes have also been
5867 removed, since the coverage is now fairly reasonable.
5868
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00005869
Raymond Hettingere3ae6552008-06-20 04:18:15 +00005870What's New in Python 2.6 beta 2?
5871================================
5872
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00005873*Release date: 17-Jul-2008*
5874
Raymond Hettingere3ae6552008-06-20 04:18:15 +00005875Core and Builtins
5876-----------------
5877
Georg Brandl3e483f62008-07-16 22:57:41 +00005878- Issue #3156: Fix inconsistent behavior of the bytearray type: all
5879 its methods now allow for items objects that can be converted to
5880 an integer using operator.index().
5881
Mark Dickinson64b7e502008-07-16 09:40:03 +00005882- Issue #3360: Fix incorrect parsing of '020000000000.0', which
5883 produced a ValueError instead of giving the correct float.
5884
Eric Smitha5fa5a22008-07-16 00:11:49 +00005885- Issue #3083: Add alternate (#) formatting for bin, oct, hex output
5886 for str.format(). This adds the prefix 0b, 0o, or 0x, respectively.
5887
Mark Dickinson7103aa42008-07-15 19:08:33 +00005888- Issue #3008: the float type has a new instance method 'float.hex'
5889 and a new class method 'float.fromhex' to convert floating-point
5890 numbers to and from hexadecimal strings, respectively.
5891
Nick Coghlan6d6bd442008-07-15 15:40:22 +00005892- Issue #2235: __hash__ is once again inherited by default. To allow
5893 collections.Hashable to remain meaningful in the presence of the
5894 default hash implementation (object.__hash__), it is now possible
5895 to explicit block inheritance of hash by setting __hash__=None at
5896 the Python level, or tp_hash=PyObject_HashNotImplemented at the C
5897 level.
5898
Nick Coghlanb028f502008-07-13 14:52:36 +00005899- Issue #3221: Issue a RuntimeWarning instead of raising SystemError if
5900 the parent module cannot be found while performing an absolute import.
5901 This means that an incorrectly defined __package__ attribute will
5902 now only prevent relative imports in that module rather than causing
5903 all imports from that module to fail.
5904
Nick Coghlan14ff9942008-07-08 14:21:42 +00005905- Issue #2517: Allow unicode messages in Exceptions again by correctly
5906 bypassing the instance dictionary when looking up __unicode__ on
5907 new-style classes.
5908
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbdd941f2008-07-01 20:38:04 +00005909- Issue #3242: Fix a crash inside the print statement, if sys.stdout is
5910 set to a custom object whose write() method happens to install
5911 another file in sys.stdout.
5912
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc1f40c8a2008-06-30 22:42:40 +00005913- Issue #3088: Corrected a race condition in classes derived from
5914 threading.local: the first member set by a thread could be saved in
5915 another thread's dictionary.
5916
Mark Dickinson1ec2fcd2008-06-20 14:53:43 +00005917- Issue #3004: Minor change to slice.indices(): the start and stop
5918 arguments are now treated identically, making the behaviour easier
5919 to describe and understand. For example, slice(None, -10,
5920 1).indices(9) now returns (0, 0, 1) instead of (0, -1, 1), and
5921 slice(None, 10, -1).indices(10) returns (9, 9, -1) instead of (9,
5922 10, -1).
5923
Georg Brandl278fc502008-07-19 12:46:12 +00005924- Issue #3219: Calling a function with repeated keyword arguments,
5925 f(a=2, a=23), would not cause a syntax error. This was a regression
5926 from 2.4 caused by the switch to the new compiler.
Benjamin Peterson175e4d92008-07-01 19:34:52 +00005927
Georg Brandl278fc502008-07-19 12:46:12 +00005928- Issue #2862: Make int and float freelist management consistent with
5929 other freelists. Changes their CompactFreeList apis into
5930 ClearFreeList apis and calls them via gc.collect().
Gregory P. Smith2fe77062008-07-06 03:35:58 +00005931
Brett Cannon8bb8fa52008-07-02 01:57:08 +00005932Library
5933-------
5934
Thomas Heller57adf222008-08-14 19:10:48 +00005935- Issue #3554: ctypes.string_at and ctypes.wstring_at did call Python
5936 api functions without holding the GIL, which could lead to a fatal
5937 error when they failed.
5938
Martin v. Löwisaabf4042008-08-02 07:20:25 +00005939- Issue #799428: Fix Tkinter.Misc._nametowidget to unwrap Tcl command objects.
5940
Jesse Noller7fb96402008-07-17 21:01:05 +00005941- Issue #3395: fix reference in test_multiprocessing to old debugInfo method
5942
Georg Brandla24869a2008-07-16 22:33:18 +00005943- Issue #3312: Fix two crashes in sqlite3.
5944
Georg Brandl86cbf812008-07-16 21:31:41 +00005945- Issue #1608818: Fix misbehavior in os.listdir() if readdir() fails.
5946
Jesse Noller13e9d582008-07-16 14:32:36 +00005947- Issue #3125: Remove copy_reg in multiprocessing and replace it with
5948 ForkingPickler.register() to resolve conflict with ctypes.
5949
Vinay Sajip51e65192008-07-18 09:01:10 +00005950- Issue #3090: Fixed ARCHFLAGS parsing on OS/X
Jesse Noller13e9d582008-07-16 14:32:36 +00005951
Thomas Heller880f5292008-07-15 19:39:38 +00005952- Issue #3313: Fixed a crash when a failed dlopen() call does not set
5953 a valid dlerror() message.
5954
Thomas Heller2bad6572008-07-15 17:19:50 +00005955- Issue #3258: Fixed a crash when a ctypes POINTER type to an
5956 incomplete structure was created.
5957
Brett Cannon3d0b9f02008-07-13 01:15:07 +00005958- Issue #3339: dummy_thread.acquire() should not return None.
5959
Raymond Hettingerb01713e2008-07-10 14:34:57 +00005960- Issue #3285: Fractions from_float() and from_decimal() accept Integral arguments.
5961
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00005962- Issue #3301: Bisect module behaved badly when lo was negative.
Raymond Hettinger3cd1e422008-07-10 14:03:19 +00005963
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc0f7cddc2008-07-06 21:34:39 +00005964- Issue #839496: SimpleHTTPServer used to open text files in text mode. This is
5965 both unnecessary (HTTP allows text content to be sent in several forms) and
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00005966 wrong because the actual transmitted size could differ from the
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc0f7cddc2008-07-06 21:34:39 +00005967 content-length. The problem had been corrected in the 2.4 branch, but never
5968 merged into trunk.
5969
Georg Brandle78fbcc2008-07-05 10:13:36 +00005970- Issue #2663: add filtering capability to shutil.copytree().
5971
Martin v. Löwis8c436412008-07-03 12:51:14 +00005972- Issue #1622: Correct interpretation of various ZIP header fields.
5973
5974- Issue #1526: Allow more than 64k files to be added to Zip64 file.
5975
5976- Issue #1746: Correct handling of zipfile archive comments (previously
5977 archives with comments over 4k were flagged as invalid). Allow writing
Vinay Sajip51e65192008-07-18 09:01:10 +00005978 Zip files with archives by setting the 'comment' attribute of a ZipFile.
Martin v. Löwis8c436412008-07-03 12:51:14 +00005979
Vinay Sajip51e65192008-07-18 09:01:10 +00005980- Issue #449227: The rlcompleter module now adds "(" to callable objects
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00005981 when completed.
Facundo Batista66c52772008-07-02 16:52:55 +00005982
Nick Coghlanc060b0e2008-07-02 13:09:19 +00005983- Issue #3190: Pydoc now hides the automatic module attribute __package__ (the
5984 handling is now the same as that of other special attributes like __name__).
5985
Brett Cannon8bb8fa52008-07-02 01:57:08 +00005986- Issue #2885 (partial): The urllib.urlopen() function has been deprecated for
5987 removal in Python 3.0 in favor of urllib2.urlopen().
5988
Gregory P. Smithf4140642008-07-06 07:16:40 +00005989- Issue #2113: Fix error in subprocess.Popen if the select system call is
5990 interrupted by a signal.
5991
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00005992- Issue #3309: Fix bz2.BZFile iterator to release its internal lock
Gregory P. Smith3b1e6b22008-07-07 04:31:58 +00005993 properly when raising an exception due to the bz2file being closed.
5994 Prevents a deadlock.
5995
Gregory P. Smithc4691ec2008-07-07 05:09:12 +00005996- Issue #3094: httplib.HTTPSConnection Host: headers no longer include the
5997 redundant ":443" port number designation when the connection is using the
5998 default https port (443).
5999
Gregory P. Smithdb3409c2008-07-17 03:13:05 +00006000- Issue #874900: after an os.fork() call the threading module state is cleaned
6001 up in the child process to prevent deadlock and report proper thread counts
6002 if the new process uses the threading module.
6003
Nick Coghlan38469e22008-07-13 12:23:47 +00006004Tests
6005-----
6006
6007- test.test_support.catch_warning now keeps track of all warnings it sees
6008 and is now better documented. Explicit unit tests for this context manager
6009 have been added to test_warnings.
6010
Martin v. Löwisd84fd952008-06-30 06:57:39 +00006011Build
6012-----
6013
6014- Issue #3215: Build sqlite3 as sqlite3.dll, not sqlite3.pyd.
6015
Brett Cannon8bb8fa52008-07-02 01:57:08 +00006016
Brett Cannon97aa1ae2008-07-11 00:12:52 +00006017Documentation
6018-------------
6019
Brett Cannonfeef51d2008-07-11 00:50:01 +00006020- Document that robotparser has been renamed to urllib.robotparser in
Brett Cannon963ffdb2008-07-11 00:48:57 +00006021 Python 3.0.
6022
Brett Cannonf6afa332008-07-11 00:16:30 +00006023- Document that urlparse has been renamed to urllib.parse in Python 3.0.
6024
Brett Cannon97aa1ae2008-07-11 00:12:52 +00006025- Document that urllib2 is split across multiple modules and renamed in
6026 Python 3.0.
6027
6028- Document that urllib is split across multiple modules and renamed in
6029 Python 3.0.
6030
6031
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00006032What's New in Python 2.6 beta 1?
6033================================
6034
Barry Warsawb5d17402008-06-19 01:48:07 +00006035*Release date: 18-June-2008*
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00006036
6037Core and Builtins
6038-----------------
6039
Brett Cannondea1b562008-06-27 00:31:13 +00006040- Issue #3211: warnings.warn_explicit() did not guard against its 'registry'
6041 argument being anything other than a dict or None. Also fixed a bug in error
6042 handling when 'message' and 'category' were both set to None, triggering a
6043 bus error.
6044
Amaury Forgeot d'Arca8919fe2008-06-16 19:12:42 +00006045- Issue #3100: Corrected a crash on deallocation of a subclassed weakref which
6046 holds the last (strong) reference to its referent.
6047
Georg Brandl89f48872008-06-11 18:55:38 +00006048- Add future_builtins.ascii().
6049
Raymond Hettinger5c4d3d02008-06-09 13:07:27 +00006050- Several set methods now accept multiple arguments: update(), union(),
Raymond Hettinger4267be62008-06-11 10:30:54 +00006051 intersection(), intersection_update(), difference(), and difference_update().
Raymond Hettingeree4bcad2008-06-09 08:33:37 +00006052
Robert Schuppenies51df0642008-06-01 16:16:17 +00006053- Issue #2898: Added sys.getsizeof() to retrieve size of objects in bytes.
6054
Martin v. Löwis99815892008-06-01 07:20:46 +00006055- New environment variable PYTHONIOENCODING.
6056
Martin v. Löwis4dd019f2008-05-20 08:11:19 +00006057- Patch #2488: Add sys.maxsize.
6058
Georg Brandla9916b52008-05-17 22:11:54 +00006059- Issue #2353: file.xreadlines() now emits a Py3k warning.
6060
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006061- Issue #2863: generators now have a ``gen.__name__`` attribute that
6062 equals ``gen.gi_code.co_name``, like ``func.__name___`` that equals
6063 ``func.func_code.co_name``. The repr() of a generator now also
6064 contains this name.
Georg Brandlc91210c2008-05-15 15:08:32 +00006065
Georg Brandlbd85eb12008-05-14 06:34:15 +00006066- Issue #2831: enumerate() now has a ``start`` argument.
6067
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006068- Issue #2801: fix bug in the float.is_integer method where a
6069 ValueError was sometimes incorrectly raised.
Mark Dickinsone81c3762008-05-09 16:14:15 +00006070
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006071- Issue #2790: sys.flags was not properly exposing its bytes_warning
6072 attribute.
Brett Cannon3c1d50a2008-05-08 20:23:54 +00006073
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006074- Issue #2196: hasattr() now lets exceptions which do not inherit
6075 Exception (KeyboardInterrupt, and SystemExit) propagate instead of
6076 ignoring them.
Benjamin Petersonb9030f42008-05-12 00:41:23 +00006077
Gregory P. Smith9d534572008-06-11 07:41:16 +00006078- Added checks for integer overflows, contributed by Google. Some are
6079 only available if asserts are left in the code, in cases where they
6080 can't be triggered from Python code.
6081
6082
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00006083Extension Modules
6084-----------------
Guido van Rossum84b1e0f2008-08-20 14:57:20 +00006085- Issue #1179: [CVE-2007-4965] Integer overflow in imageop module.
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00006086
Raymond Hettinger305480c2008-06-16 01:42:40 +00006087- Issue #3116: marshal.dumps() had quadratic behavior for strings > 32Mb.
6088
Andrew M. Kuchling2126bab2008-06-22 13:39:11 +00006089- Issue #2138: Add factorial() to the math module.
Raymond Hettingerecbdd2e2008-06-09 06:54:45 +00006090
Raymond Hettinger6d7702e2008-05-31 03:24:31 +00006091- The heapq module does comparisons using LT instead of LE. This
6092 makes its implementation match that used by list.sort().
6093
Mark Dickinson99dfe922008-05-23 01:35:30 +00006094- Issue #2819: add full-precision summation function to math module,
6095 based on Hettinger's ASPN Python Cookbook recipe.
6096
Georg Brandl88659b02008-05-20 08:40:43 +00006097- Issue #2592: delegate nb_index and the floor/truediv slots in
6098 weakref.proxy.
6099
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006100- Support os.O_ASYNC and fcntl.FASYNC if the constants exist on the
6101 platform.
Georg Brandl5049a852008-05-16 13:10:15 +00006102
Brett Cannon044616a2008-05-15 02:33:55 +00006103- Support for Windows 9x has been removed from the winsound module.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcf9b54c22008-05-12 21:30:24 +00006104
Jesus Cea09c01782008-09-28 23:24:19 +00006105- bsddb module updated to version 4.7.3.
Jesus Cea4907d272008-08-31 14:00:51 +00006106 http://www.jcea.es/programacion/pybsddb.htm#bsddb3-4.7.3. This
6107 code should be compatible with Python 3.0.
Jesus Ceaef9764f2008-05-13 18:45:46 +00006108
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006109- Issue #2858: Fix potential memory corruption when
6110 bsddb.db.DBEnv.lock_get and other bsddb.db object constructors
6111 raised an exception.
Gregory P. Smith664782e2008-05-17 06:12:02 +00006112
Gregory P. Smith5d7d6c32008-05-25 08:32:04 +00006113- Issue #2669: bsddb/__init__.py iteration no longer silently fails when
6114 the database has changed size during iteration. It now raises a
6115 RuntimeError in the same manner as a dictionary.
6116
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006117- Issue #2870: cmathmodule.c compile error.
Christian Heimes0bd23c02008-05-16 10:23:31 +00006118
Benjamin Petersond8a89722008-08-18 16:40:03 +00006119- Added a threading.Thread.ident property.
Gregory P. Smith8856dda2008-06-01 23:48:47 +00006120
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00006121Library
6122-------
6123
Vinay Sajip1e022682008-06-29 21:27:15 +00006124- logging.config: Removed out-of-date comment in _install_handlers and
6125 used issubclass in place of equality comparison of classes.
6126
Facundo Batista5596b0c2008-06-22 13:36:20 +00006127- Issue #2722: Now the os.getcwd() supports very long path names.
6128
Facundo Batista2da91c32008-06-21 17:43:56 +00006129- Issue #2888: Fixed the behaviour of pprint when working with nested
6130 structures, to match the behaviour of 2.5 and 3.0 (now follows the common
6131 sense).
6132
Facundo Batistaa6a4d502008-06-21 18:58:04 +00006133- Issue #1817: cgi now correctly handles the querystring on POST requests
6134
Vinay Sajip8dc20fd2008-06-19 22:41:08 +00006135- Issue #3136: fileConfig()'s disabling of old loggers is now conditional via
6136 an optional disable_existing_loggers parameter, but the default value is
6137 such that the old behaviour is preserved. Thanks to Leandro Lucarella for
6138 the patch.
6139
Vinay Sajip9828b7e2008-06-17 11:04:02 +00006140- Issue #3126: StreamHandler and FileHandler check before calling "flush" and
6141 "close" that the stream object has these, using hasattr (thanks to bobf for
6142 the patch).
6143
Benjamin Peterson5c0be322008-06-13 15:11:50 +00006144- Issue #2912: platform.uname now tries to determine unknown information even if
6145 os.uname exists.
6146
Benjamin Peterson26305a02008-06-12 22:33:06 +00006147- The rfc822 module has been deprecated for removal in 3.0.
6148
Benjamin Petersona03722f2008-06-12 14:23:49 +00006149- The mimetools module has been deprecated for removal in 3.0.
6150
Thomas Heller1cec7aa2008-06-10 14:07:12 +00006151- The ctypes.byref function now takes an optional second parameter
6152 which allows to specify an offset in bytes for the constructed
6153 pointer-like object.
6154
Georg Brandl8509db52008-06-10 07:45:28 +00006155- Added the ast module.
6156
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00006157- Added the multiprocessing module, PEP 371.
Benjamin Peterson6f7ae692008-06-11 20:04:30 +00006158
Georg Brandl7be19aa2008-06-07 15:59:10 +00006159- Factored out the indentation cleaning from inspect.getdoc() into
6160 inspect.cleandoc() to ease standalone use.
6161
Thomas Hellerfbb9c0b2008-06-06 08:33:46 +00006162- Issue #1798: Add ctypes calling convention that allows safe access
6163 to errno.
6164
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00006165- Issue #2404: ctypes objects support the new pep3118 buffer interface.
Thomas Heller59475e92008-06-05 17:52:59 +00006166
Vinay Sajip9828b7e2008-06-17 11:04:02 +00006167- Patch #2125: Add GetInteger and GetString methods for
Martin v. Löwisffe62ed2008-06-02 08:40:06 +00006168 msilib.Record objects.
6169
Gregory P. Smith137d8242008-06-02 04:05:52 +00006170- Issue #2782: The datetime module's strftime methods now accept
6171 unicode format strings just as time.strftime always has.
6172
Georg Brandlac19d852008-06-01 21:19:14 +00006173- The sgmllib and htmllib modules have been deprecated for removal
6174 in Python 3.0.
6175
6176- Issue #3011: locale module alias table was updated to the latest
6177 version from the X.org locale.alias file.
Marc-André Lemburgadff65b2008-05-30 20:52:18 +00006178
Thomas Heller9287acf2008-05-29 19:42:34 +00006179- Issue #1797 (partial fix): ctypes NULL function pointers have a
6180 False boolean value now.
6181
Georg Brandld0b592f2008-05-29 07:45:26 +00006182- Issue #2985: Allow 64-bit integer responses (``<i8>``) in XMLRPC
6183 transfers.
6184
6185- Issue #2877: The UserString.MutableString class has been removed in
6186 Python 3.0.
Brett Cannonabb34fe2008-05-29 05:08:50 +00006187
Lars Gustäbelb1a54a32008-05-27 12:39:23 +00006188- Do not close external file objects passed to tarfile.open(mode='w:bz2')
6189 when the TarFile is closed.
6190
Georg Brandle08e3d02008-05-25 08:07:37 +00006191- Issue #2959: For consistency with other file-like objects, gzip's
6192 GzipFile.close() can now be called multiple times without raising
6193 an exception.
6194
Martin v. Löwis27e4a172008-05-23 15:18:28 +00006195- Issue #1390: Raise ValueError in toxml when an invalid comment would
6196 otherwise be produced.
6197
Vinay Sajipc0128832008-05-20 15:37:22 +00006198- Issue #2914: TimedRotatingFileHandler now takes an optional keyword
6199 argument "utc" to use UTC time rather than local time.
6200
6201- Issue #2929: TimedRotatingFileHandler was using the wrong path when
6202 deleting old log files (filename only instead of full path).
6203
Georg Brandl112aa502008-05-20 08:25:48 +00006204- Issue #1775025: You can now specify zipfile members to open(),
6205 read() or extract() via a ZipInfo instance. This allows handling
6206 duplicate filenames in zipfiles.
6207
Georg Brandl28fdfa92008-05-17 17:57:01 +00006208- Issue #961805: Fix Text.edit_modified() in Tkinter.
6209
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006210- Issue #1793: Function ctypes.util.find_msvcrt() added that returns
Thomas Heller95ba13f2008-05-16 20:06:31 +00006211 the name of the C runtime library that Python uses.
6212 ctypes.util.find_library(name) now call this function when name is
6213 'm' or 'c'.
6214
Brett Cannonfa40bbf2008-05-16 00:50:02 +00006215- The statvfs module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
6216
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006217- The sunaudiodev and SUNAUDIODEV modules have been deprecated for
6218 removal in Python 3.0.
6219
6220- The WAIT module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
6221 3.0.
6222
6223- The torgb module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
6224 3.0.
6225
6226- The SV module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
6227 3.0.
6228
6229- The readcd module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
Brett Cannon22248172008-05-16 00:10:24 +00006230 Python 3.0.
6231
Brett Cannon11ae6e72008-05-15 03:49:00 +00006232- The panelparser module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
6233 Python 3.0.
6234
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006235- The panel module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
6236 3.0.
Brett Cannon7e375862008-05-15 03:46:27 +00006237
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006238- The jpeg module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
6239 3.0.
Brett Cannon89f5d9c2008-05-15 03:44:00 +00006240
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006241- The IOCTL module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
6242 3.0.
Brett Cannond8c41ec2008-05-15 03:41:55 +00006243
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006244- The IN module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
6245 3.0.
Brett Cannon6328b292008-05-15 03:36:13 +00006246
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006247- The imgfile module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
Brett Cannon178582e2008-05-15 03:20:36 +00006248 Python 3.0.
6249
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006250- The GLWS module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
6251 3.0.
Brett Cannon72ccc402008-05-15 03:17:24 +00006252
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006253- The GET module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
6254 3.0.
Brett Cannon2773b6f2008-05-15 03:14:57 +00006255
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006256- The fm module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
6257 3.0.
6258
6259- The FL, flp, and fl modules from IRIX have been deprecated for
6260 removal in Python 3.0.
6261
6262- The FILE module on IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
6263 3.0.
6264
6265- The ERRNO module on IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
6266 3.0.
6267
6268- The DEVICE, GL, gl, and cgen modules (which indirectly includes
6269 cgensupport) have been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
Brett Cannon044616a2008-05-15 02:33:55 +00006270
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006271- The CL, CL_old, and cl modules for IRIX have been deprecated for
6272 removal in Python 3.0.
6273
6274- The cdplayer module for IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
Brett Cannon650f5162008-05-14 21:12:12 +00006275 Python 3.0.
6276
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006277- The cddb module for IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
6278 3.0.
Brett Cannon9eebe492008-05-14 20:34:22 +00006279
Brett Cannonddf949f2008-05-14 20:31:38 +00006280- The cd and CD modules for IRIX have been deprecated for removal in
6281 Python 3.0.
6282
Brett Cannon34721d52008-05-14 01:08:21 +00006283- The al and AL modules for IRIX have been deprecated for removal in
6284 Python 3.0.
6285
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006286- Issue #1713041: fix pprint's handling of maximum depth.
Georg Brandl23da6e62008-05-12 16:26:52 +00006287
Brett Cannonbb141bb2008-05-12 03:47:47 +00006288- The timing module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
6289
Brett Cannonac861b52008-05-12 03:45:59 +00006290- The sv module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
6291
Brett Cannon43e5ef42008-05-12 03:19:20 +00006292- The multifile module has been deprecated as per PEP 4.
6293
Brett Cannon42bfa902008-05-12 00:08:34 +00006294- The imageop module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
6295
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006296- Issue #2250: Exceptions raised during evaluation of names in
6297 rlcompleter's ``Completer.complete()`` method are now caught and
6298 ignored.
Georg Brandl627a6662008-05-11 21:03:42 +00006299
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006300- Issue #2659: Added ``break_on_hyphens`` option to textwrap
6301 TextWrapper class.
Georg Brandl6f95ae52008-05-11 10:42:28 +00006302
Brett Cannon2a869132008-05-11 03:01:47 +00006303- The mhlib module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
6304
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006305- The linuxaudiodev module has been deprecated for removal in Python
6306 3.0.
Brett Cannondf0a7172008-05-11 00:50:51 +00006307
Brett Cannon27508d42008-05-10 22:45:07 +00006308- The ihooks module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
6309
Brett Cannonfe598512008-05-10 22:11:45 +00006310- The fpformat module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
6311
Brett Cannone35a3a12008-05-10 21:22:43 +00006312- The dl module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
6313
Brett Cannond5a09852008-05-10 03:14:32 +00006314- The Canvas module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
6315
Brett Cannon6192df12008-05-10 02:58:26 +00006316- The compiler package has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
6317
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006318- The Bastion and rexec modules have been deprecated for removal in
6319 Python 3.0.
Brett Cannoncda73a42008-05-10 02:53:46 +00006320
Brett Cannon768d44f2008-05-10 02:47:54 +00006321- The bsddb185 module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
6322
Brett Cannon9ac39742008-05-09 22:51:58 +00006323- The pure module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
6324
Mark Dickinsonf8476c12008-05-09 17:54:23 +00006325- Issue #2487: change the semantics of math.ldexp(x, n) when n is too
6326 large to fit in a C long. ldexp(x, n) now returns a zero (with
6327 suitable sign) if n is large and negative; previously, it raised
6328 OverflowError.
6329
Brett Cannonfa24d9a2008-05-09 05:32:42 +00006330- The toaiff module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
6331
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006332- The test.testall module has been deprecated for removal in Python
6333 3.0.
Brett Cannon3c759142008-05-09 05:25:37 +00006334
Brett Cannond7265d62008-05-09 05:18:40 +00006335- The new module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
6336
Brett Cannone3b19402008-05-08 20:36:09 +00006337- The user module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
6338
Brett Cannon6071cc82008-05-08 19:52:45 +00006339- The stringold module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
6340
6341- The mutex module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
Brett Cannon9d441822008-05-08 19:26:08 +00006342
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00006343- The imputil module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
6344
Brett Cannoncae4f5f2008-05-08 20:24:43 +00006345- test.test_support.catch_warning() gained a 'record' argument.
6346
Benjamin Peterson0893a0a2008-05-09 00:27:01 +00006347- os.path.walk is deprecated in favor of os.walk.
6348
Georg Brandl9020ff82008-05-11 14:17:13 +00006349- pdb gained the "until" command.
Benjamin Peterson98353942008-05-11 14:13:25 +00006350
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006351- The Mac Modules (including Carbon) have been deprecated for removal
6352 in Python 3.0.
Benjamin Peterson23681932008-05-12 21:42:13 +00006353
Vinay Sajip9828b7e2008-06-17 11:04:02 +00006354- Library: on MacOS X you can now set ``ARCHFLAGS`` in the shell
Ronald Oussoren5640ce22008-06-05 12:58:24 +00006355 environment to control the '-arch' flags that are used to build
6356 an extension. This was added for compatibility with Apple's build
6357 of Python.
6358
6359- The bundled OSX-specific copy of libbffi is now in sync with the version
6360 shipped with PyObjC 2.0 and includes support for x86_64 and ppc64 platforms.
6361
Georg Brandl25c34082008-08-18 23:09:49 +00006362- The threading module gained aliases for names that will be removed in the
6363 3.x series.
Benjamin Peterson0fbcf692008-06-11 17:27:50 +00006364
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00006365Build
6366-----
6367
Martin v. Löwiscc0f2b22008-06-13 18:12:51 +00006368- The Windows installer now includes Tk 8.5, bzip2 1.0.5, and SQLite 3.5.9.
Martin v. Löwis76307312008-06-12 18:52:00 +00006369
Martin v. Löwis8c255e42008-05-23 15:06:50 +00006370- Patch #1722225: Support QNX 6.
6371
Brett Cannonb61d8012008-05-11 23:39:04 +00006372- ``Lib/lib-old`` is now added to sys.path.
6373
Ronald Oussoren5640ce22008-06-05 12:58:24 +00006374- On MacOS X it is now possible to install the framework in 64-bit
6375 mode or even as a 4-way universal binary (that is, PPC, i386,
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00006376 PPC64 and x86_64 support in one binary).
Ronald Oussoren5640ce22008-06-05 12:58:24 +00006377
6378 This is controlled by the configure argument ``--with-universal-archs``:
6379
6380 - ``--with-universal-archs=all``: install 4-way universal
6381
6382 - ``--with-universal-archs=32-bit``: install 2-way universal, 32-bit (the default)
6383
6384 - ``--with-universal-archs=64-bit``: install 2-way universal, 64-bit
6385
6386 This option should be used in combination with ``--enable-universalsdk=``.
6387
6388 NOTE: 64-bit and 4-way builds are only suppported on Mac OS X 10.5 (or later).
6389
6390
Christian Heimes7a990612008-05-26 13:15:11 +00006391C API
6392-----
6393
Georg Brandl74a1dea2008-05-28 11:21:39 +00006394- Add ``PyType_Modified()`` as a public API to clear the type cache.
6395
6396- The PyBytes functions have been renamed to PyByteArray.
Christian Heimes7a990612008-05-26 13:15:11 +00006397
6398- The PyString functions have been renamed to PyBytes. A batch of
6399 defines were added so that the linker still sees the original
6400 PyString names.
6401
Georg Brandl5e7b1c02008-05-16 17:40:23 +00006402
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00006403What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 3?
Barry Warsaw65475fd2008-03-01 17:11:41 +00006404=================================
6405
Barry Warsaw6cc79402008-05-08 13:16:19 +00006406*Release date: 08-May-2008*
Barry Warsaw65475fd2008-03-01 17:11:41 +00006407
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd21fb4c2008-03-05 01:50:33 +00006408Core and builtins
6409-----------------
Georg Brandl80055f62008-03-25 07:56:27 +00006410
Georg Brandl28e08732008-04-30 19:47:09 +00006411- Issue #2719: backported the ``next()`` builtin from Python 3.
6412
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006413- Issue #2681: The octal literal ``0o8`` was incorrecly acctepted. Now
6414 it properly raises a SyntaxError.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc52167212008-04-24 18:07:05 +00006415
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006416- Issue #2617: Reserved -J and -X arguments for Jython, IronPython and
6417 other implementations of Python.
Christian Heimes7a98d272008-04-12 13:03:03 +00006418
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006419- Implemented PEP 370: Per user site-packages directory.
Christian Heimesaf748c32008-05-06 22:41:46 +00006420
Andrew M. Kuchling46d6b682008-04-30 16:19:55 +00006421Extension Modules
6422-----------------
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00006423
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006424- Issue #2670: Fix a failure in urllib2.build_opener(), when passed
6425 two handlers that derive the same default base class.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc96865852008-04-22 21:14:41 +00006426
Christian Heimese74c8f22008-04-19 02:23:57 +00006427- Added kill, terminate and send_signal(sig) to subprocess.Popen.
6428
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006429- Added phase(z) -> phi, polar(z) -> r, phi and rect(r, phi) -> z to
6430 the cmath module.
Christian Heimes6f341092008-04-18 23:13:07 +00006431
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006432- Four new methods were added to the math and cmath modules: acosh,
6433 asinh, atanh and log1p.
Christian Heimes6f341092008-04-18 23:13:07 +00006434
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006435- zlib.decompressobj().flush(value) no longer crashes the interpreter
6436 when passed a value less than or equal to zero.
Gregory P. Smith671c5d92008-04-09 18:18:43 +00006437
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006438- Issue #1631171: Re-implement the 'warnings' module in C (the
6439 original Python code has been kept as backup). This will allow for
6440 using the 'warning's machinery in such places as the parser where
6441 use of pure Python code is not possible. Both the ``showarning()``
6442 and ``formatwarning()`` gain an optional 'line' argument which is
6443 not called by default for backwards-compatibility reasons. Setting
6444 ``warnings.showwarning()`` to an implementation that lacks support
6445 for the ``line`` argument will raise a DeprecationWarning.
Brett Cannone9746892008-04-12 23:44:07 +00006446
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00006447Library
6448-------
6449
Brett Cannonf8436822008-05-06 23:41:32 +00006450- The audiodev module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
6451
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006452- Issue #2750: Add the 'json' package. Based on simplejson 1.9 and
6453 contributed by Bob Ippolito.
Brett Cannon4b964f92008-05-05 20:21:38 +00006454
Martin v. Löwis471617d2008-05-05 17:16:58 +00006455- Issue #1734346: Support Unicode file names for zipfiles.
6456
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006457- Issue #2581: distutils: Vista UAC/elevation support for
6458 bdist_wininst.
Mark Hammond7c5c8e62008-05-02 12:48:15 +00006459
Mark Dickinsonfe536f52008-04-25 16:59:09 +00006460- Issue #2635: Fix bug in 'fix_sentence_endings' textwrap.fill option,
6461 where an extra space was added after a word containing (but not
6462 ending in) '.', '!' or '?'.
6463
Thomas Heller6ad5fbb2008-04-25 15:44:16 +00006464- Add from_buffer() and from_buffer_copy() class methods to ctypes
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00006465 data types.
Thomas Heller6ad5fbb2008-04-25 15:44:16 +00006466
Neal Norwitz2b0bea52008-04-25 03:40:17 +00006467- Issue #2682: ctypes callback functions no longer contain a cyclic
Thomas Hellerbf027c42008-04-24 18:14:19 +00006468 reference to themselves.
6469
Gregory P. Smithd59fefb2008-04-22 08:11:33 +00006470- The getpass module has been improved on Unix. It now uses /dev/tty
6471 by default and uses stderr instead of stdout. A GetPassWarning is
6472 issued when input echo cannot be controlled.
Gregory P. Smith41e30182008-04-21 21:31:08 +00006473
Skip Montanarob131f042008-04-18 20:35:46 +00006474- Issue #2014: Allow XML-RPC datetime objects to have dates before
6475 1900-01-01.
6476
Nick Coghlan106fc482008-04-15 10:25:31 +00006477- Issue #2439: Added new function pkgutil.get_data(), which is a
6478 convenience wrapper for the PEP 302 get_data() API.
6479
Thomas Heller046e6a42008-04-14 16:10:07 +00006480- Issue #2616: The ctypes.pointer() and ctypes.POINTER() functions are
6481 now implemented in C for better performance.
6482
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006483- Issue #2408: The ``_types`` module, which was used as in
6484 implementation detail of the public ``types`` module, has been
6485 removed and replaced by pure python code.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc02f33b42008-04-08 23:10:07 +00006486
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006487- Issue #2513: distutils on Windows is now capable of cross-compiling
Mark Hammond495cf992008-04-07 01:53:39 +00006488 extension modules between 32 and 64 bit platforms. See the distutls
6489 build documentation for more information.
6490
Gregory P. Smithaa63d0d2008-04-06 23:11:17 +00006491- Issue #815646: Individual file objects may now be used from multiple
6492 threads at once without fear of crashing the Python interpreter. If
6493 file.close() is called while an object is in use by another thread
6494 an IOError exception will be raised and the file will not be closed.
6495
Thomas Hellerf7906482008-04-04 19:43:25 +00006496- The bundled libffi copy is now in sync with the recently released
6497 libffi3.0.5 version, apart from some small changes to
6498 Modules/_ctypes/libffi/configure.ac.
6499
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006500- Issue #2385: distutils.core.run_script() makes __file__ available,
6501 so the controlled environment will more closely mirror the typical
6502 script environment. This supports setup.py scripts that refer to
6503 data files.
Fred Drake46c58c12008-04-04 05:41:30 +00006504
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00006505Tests
6506-----
Trent Nelsone41b0062008-04-08 23:47:30 +00006507
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006508- Issue #2550: The approach used by client/server code for obtaining
6509 ports to listen on in network-oriented tests has been refined in an
6510 effort to facilitate running multiple instances of the entire
6511 regression test suite in parallel without issue.
6512 test_support.bind_port() has been fixed such that it will always
6513 return a unique port -- which wasn't always the case with the
6514 previous implementation, especially if socket options had been set
6515 that affected address reuse (i.e. SO_REUSEADDR, SO_REUSEPORT). The
6516 new implementation of bind_port() will actually raise an exception
6517 if it is passed an AF_INET/SOCK_STREAM socket with either the
6518 SO_REUSEADDR or SO_REUSEPORT socket option set. Furthermore, if
6519 available, bind_port() will set the SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE option on
6520 the socket it's been passed. This currently only applies to
6521 Windows. This option prevents any other sockets from binding to the
6522 host/port we've bound to, thus removing the possibility of the
6523 'non-deterministic' behaviour, as Microsoft puts it, that occurs
6524 when a second SOCK_STREAM socket binds and accepts to a host/port
6525 that's already been bound by another socket. The optional preferred
6526 port parameter to bind_port() has been removed. Under no
6527 circumstances should tests be hard coding ports!
6528
6529 test_support.find_unused_port() has also been introduced, which will
6530 pass a temporary socket object to bind_port() in order to obtain an
6531 unused port. The temporary socket object is then closed and
6532 deleted, and the port is returned. This method should only be used
6533 for obtaining an unused port in order to pass to an external program
6534 (i.e. the -accept [port] argument to openssl's s_server mode) or as
6535 a parameter to a server-oriented class that doesn't give you direct
6536 access to the underlying socket used.
6537
6538 Finally, test_support.HOST has been introduced, which should be used
6539 for the host argument of any relevant socket calls (i.e. bind and
6540 connect).
Trent Nelsone41b0062008-04-08 23:47:30 +00006541
6542 The following tests were updated to following the new conventions:
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006543 test_socket, test_smtplib, test_asyncore, test_ssl, test_httplib,
Trent Nelsone41b0062008-04-08 23:47:30 +00006544 test_poplib, test_ftplib, test_telnetlib, test_socketserver,
6545 test_asynchat and test_socket_ssl.
6546
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006547 It is now possible for multiple instances of the regression test
6548 suite to run in parallel without issue.
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00006549
6550Build
6551-----
6552
Mark Dickinson65134662008-04-25 16:11:04 +00006553- Issue #1496032: On alpha, use -mieee when gcc is the compiler.
6554
Thomas Hellerdc96a772008-04-04 10:07:55 +00006555- Issue #2544: On HP-UX systems, use 'gcc -shared' for linking when
6556 gcc is used as compiler.
6557
Ronald Oussoren580c7fe2008-05-02 19:45:11 +00006558- Issue #2573: On MacOS X it is now possible to install the framework
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006559 with a different name using --with-framework-name=NAME.
Ronald Oussoren580c7fe2008-05-02 19:45:11 +00006560
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00006561C API
6562-----
6563
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006564- Added implementation of copysign, acosh, asinh, atanh and log1p to
6565 the new files Include/pymath.h and Python/pymath.h for platforms
6566 which provide the functions through their libm. The files also
6567 contains several helpers and constants for math.
Christian Heimes6f341092008-04-18 23:13:07 +00006568
Benjamin Petersondacde0d2008-05-26 17:43:53 +00006569- Added a new convenience macro, PyErr_WarnPy3k, for issuing Py3k warnings.
Benjamin Petersona692c4d2008-04-27 02:28:02 +00006570
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00006571
6572What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 2?
6573=================================
6574
6575*Release date: 02-Apr-2008*
6576
6577Core and builtins
6578-----------------
6579
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006580- Issue #1733757: The interpreter would hang on shutdown if the
6581 tracing function set by sys.settrace is still active and happens to
6582 call threading.currentThread().
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd7a26512008-04-03 23:07:55 +00006583
Georg Brandl91e0cda2008-03-29 01:50:06 +00006584- Patch #1442: properly report exceptions when the PYTHONSTARTUP file
6585 cannot be executed.
6586
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc69b747b2008-03-28 20:30:50 +00006587- The compilation of a class nested in another class used to leak one
6588 reference on the outer class name.
6589
Georg Brandlfc8eef32008-03-28 12:11:56 +00006590- Patch #1810: compile() can now compile _ast trees as returned by
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006591 ``compile(..., PyCF_ONLY_AST)``.
Georg Brandlfc8eef32008-03-28 12:11:56 +00006592
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006593- Patch #2426: Added sqlite3.Connection.iterdump method to allow easy
6594 dumping of databases. Contributed by Paul Kippes at PyCon 2008.
Gregory P. Smithb9803422008-03-28 08:32:09 +00006595
Georg Brandldeaf2ca2008-03-27 13:27:31 +00006596- Patch #2477: Added from __future__ import unicode_literals.
Christian Heimes3c608332008-03-26 22:01:37 +00006597
Christian Heimes8c78cc32008-03-26 12:53:58 +00006598- Added backport of bytearray type.
6599
Georg Brandl80055f62008-03-25 07:56:27 +00006600- Issue #2355: add Py3k warning for buffer().
6601
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc9a0d3462008-03-23 09:55:29 +00006602- Issue #1477: With narrow Unicode builds, the unicode escape sequence
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006603 \Uxxxxxxxx did not accept values outside the Basic Multilingual
6604 Plane. This affected raw unicode literals and the
6605 'raw-unicode-escape' codec. Now UTF-16 surrogates are generated in
6606 this case, like normal unicode literals and the 'unicode-escape'
6607 codec.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc9a0d3462008-03-23 09:55:29 +00006608
Georg Brandl65bb42d2008-03-21 20:38:24 +00006609- Issue #2348: add Py3k warning for file.softspace.
6610
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006611- Issue #2346/#2347: add Py3k warnings for __methods__ and
6612 __members__.
Georg Brandl07e56812008-03-21 20:21:46 +00006613
Georg Brandl5a444242008-03-21 20:11:46 +00006614- Issue #2358: Add a Py3k warning on sys.exc_clear() usage.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd21fb4c2008-03-05 01:50:33 +00006615
Martin v. Löwisa4d77892008-03-19 04:39:13 +00006616- Issue #2400: Allow relative imports to "import *".
6617
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006618- Issue #1745: Backport print function with ``from __future__ import
6619 print_function``.
Eric Smith7c478942008-03-18 23:45:49 +00006620
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006621- Issue #2332: add new attribute names for instance method objects.
6622 The two changes are: im_self -> __self__ and im_func -> __func__
Neal Norwitzb1d3d962008-03-18 04:46:00 +00006623
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006624- Issue #2379: Raise a Py3K warning for __getitem__ or __getslice__ on
Guido van Rossum6d91be32008-03-18 04:42:22 +00006625 exception instances.
6626
Guido van Rossum04edb522008-03-18 02:49:46 +00006627- Issue #2371: Add a Py3k warning when catching an exception that
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006628 doesn't derive from BaseException.
6629
6630- Issue #2341: Add a Py3k warning when raising an exception that
6631 doesn't derive from BaseException.
Guido van Rossum04edb522008-03-18 02:49:46 +00006632
Neal Norwitz419fd492008-03-17 20:22:43 +00006633- Issue #2321: use pymalloc for unicode object string data to reduce
6634 memory usage in some circumstances.
6635
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006636- PEP 3127: octal literals now start with "0o". Old-style octal
6637 literals are still valid. There are binary literals with a prefix of
6638 "0b". This also affects int(x, 0).
Eric Smith0aed07a2008-03-17 19:43:40 +00006639
Georg Brandl1e7c3752008-03-25 08:37:23 +00006640- Issue #2359: Adding deprecation warnings for array.{read,write}.
6641
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006642- Issue #1779871: GNU gcc can now build Python on OS X because the
Jeffrey Yasskin1b4e45b2008-03-17 14:40:53 +00006643 flags -Wno-long-double, -no-cpp-precomp, and -mno-fused-madd are no
6644 longer passed.
6645
Neal Norwitz400aeda2008-03-15 22:03:18 +00006646- Add a warning when asserting a non-empty tuple which is always true.
6647
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006648- Issue #2179: speed up with statement execution by storing the exit
6649 method on the stack instead of in a temporary variable (patch by
6650 Jeffrey Yaskin)
Nick Coghlan7af53be2008-03-07 14:13:28 +00006651
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006652- Issue #2238: Some syntax errors in *args and **kwargs expressions
6653 could give bogus error messages.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd21fb4c2008-03-05 01:50:33 +00006654
Sean Reifscheider68fa8e62008-03-20 00:50:07 +00006655- Issue #2143: Fix embedded readline() hang on SSL socket EOF.
6656
Andrew M. Kuchling46d6b682008-04-30 16:19:55 +00006657Extension Modules
6658-----------------
Martin v. Löwisaef18b12008-03-24 13:31:16 +00006659
6660- Patch #2240: Implement signal.setitimer and signal.getitimer.
6661
Thomas Heller78b8f442008-03-05 14:53:39 +00006662Library
6663-------
6664
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006665- Issue #2315: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now accounts
6666 for daylight savings time in calculating the next rollover.
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00006667
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006668- Issue #2316: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now
6669 calculates rollovers correctly even when nothing is logged for a
6670 while.
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00006671
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006672- Issue #2317: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now uses
6673 improved logic for removing old files.
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00006674
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006675- Issue #2495: tokenize.untokenize now inserts a space between two
6676 consecutive string literals; previously, ["" ""] was rendered as
6677 [""""], which is incorrect python code.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcda0c0252008-03-27 23:23:54 +00006678
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006679- Issue #2248: return the result of the QUIT command. from
6680 SMTP.quit().
Georg Brandldeaf2ca2008-03-27 13:27:31 +00006681
Christian Heimes8c78cc32008-03-26 12:53:58 +00006682- Backport of Python 3.0's io module.
6683
Mark Dickinson8e85ffa2008-03-25 18:47:59 +00006684- Issue #2482: Make sure that the coefficient of a Decimal is always
6685 stored as a str instance, not as a unicode instance. This ensures
6686 that str(Decimal) is always an instance of str.
6687
Mark Dickinson3b24ccb2008-03-25 14:33:23 +00006688- Issue #2478: fix failure of decimal.Decimal(0).sqrt()
6689
Georg Brandl77354cf2008-03-21 20:01:51 +00006690- Issue #2432: give DictReader the dialect and line_num attributes
6691 advertised in the docs.
6692
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006693- Issue #2460: Make Ellipsis object copyable.
Raymond Hettingerb72233c2008-03-24 08:17:39 +00006694
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006695- Issue #1681432: Add triangular distribution to the random module
Raymond Hettingerbbc50ea2008-03-23 13:32:32 +00006696
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006697- Issue #2136: urllib2's auth handler now allows single-quoted realms
6698 in the WWW-Authenticate header.
Georg Brandl33124322008-03-21 19:54:00 +00006699
Marc-André Lemburga1867752008-03-20 18:08:00 +00006700- Issue #2434: Enhanced platform.win32_ver() to also work on Python
6701 installation which do not have the win32all package installed.
6702
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006703- Added support to platform.uname() to also report the machine and
6704 processor information on Windows XP and later. As a result,
Marc-André Lemburga1867752008-03-20 18:08:00 +00006705 platform.machine() and platform.processor() will report this
6706 information as well.
6707
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006708- The library implementing the 2to3 conversion, lib2to3, was added to
6709 the standard distribution.
Martin v. Löwis5e37bae2008-03-19 04:43:46 +00006710
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006711- Issue #1747858: Fix chown to work with large uid's and gid's on
6712 64-bit platforms.
Gregory P. Smith37f3f432008-03-18 20:40:01 +00006713
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006714- Issue #1202: zlib.crc32 and zlib.adler32 no longer return different
6715 values on 32-bit vs. 64-bit python interpreters. Both were correct,
6716 but they now both return a signed integer object for consistency.
Gregory P. Smithf48f9d32008-03-17 18:48:05 +00006717
Skip Montanaro32ed8c22008-03-15 16:07:11 +00006718- Issue #1158: add %f format (fractions of a second represented as
6719 microseconds) to datetime objects. Understood by both strptime and
6720 strftime.
6721
Mark Dickinsonc23b8a72008-03-14 14:23:37 +00006722- Issue #705836: struct.pack(">f", x) now raises OverflowError on all
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006723 platforms when x is too large to fit into an IEEE 754 float;
6724 previously it only raised OverflowError on non IEEE 754 platforms.
Mark Dickinsonc23b8a72008-03-14 14:23:37 +00006725
Andrew M. Kuchlingaac5c862008-05-11 14:00:00 +00006726- Issues #2166, #1741 and #1531505: now distutils deals with HOME
6727 correctly under win32
6728
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006729- Patch #1858: distutils: added multiple server support in .pypirc
Andrew M. Kuchlingaac5c862008-05-11 14:00:00 +00006730
Facundo Batistac54aec12008-03-08 16:50:27 +00006731- Issue #1106316: pdb.post_mortem()'s parameter, "traceback", is now
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006732 optional: it defaults to the traceback of the exception that is
6733 currently being handled (is mandatory to be in the middle of an
6734 exception, otherwise it raises ValueError).
Facundo Batistac54aec12008-03-08 16:50:27 +00006735
Jeffrey Yasskine75f59a2008-03-07 06:22:15 +00006736- Issue #1193577: A .shutdown() method has been added to SocketServers
6737 which terminates the .serve_forever() loop.
6738
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006739- Issue #2220: handle rlcompleter attribute match failure more
6740 gracefully.
Georg Brandl98aa8052008-03-06 07:45:52 +00006741
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006742- Issue #2225: py_compile, when executed as a script, now returns a
6743 non- zero status code if not all files could be compiled
6744 successfully.
Georg Brandla7bd27f2008-03-06 07:41:16 +00006745
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006746- Bug #1725737: In distutils' sdist, exclude RCS, CVS etc. also in the
Georg Brandl810ea292008-03-06 07:34:52 +00006747 root directory, and also exclude .hg, .git, .bzr, and _darcs.
6748
Thomas Hellerf3c05592008-03-05 15:34:29 +00006749- Issue #1872: The struct module typecode for _Bool has been changed
6750 from 't' to '?'.
6751
Thomas Heller78b8f442008-03-05 14:53:39 +00006752- The bundled libffi copy is now in sync with the recently released
6753 libffi3.0.4 version, apart from some small changes to
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006754 Modules/_ctypes/libffi/configure.ac. On OS X, preconfigured libffi
6755 files are used. On all linux systems the --with-system-ffi
6756 configure option defaults to "yes".
Thomas Heller78b8f442008-03-05 14:53:39 +00006757
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006758- Issue #1577: shutil.move() now calls os.rename() if the destination
6759 is a directory instead of copying-then-remove-source.
Sean Reifscheider493894c2008-03-18 17:24:12 +00006760
Martin v. Löwisd2bbe522008-03-06 06:55:22 +00006761Tests
6762-----
6763
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006764- test_nis no longer fails when test.test_support.verbose is true and
6765 NIS is not set up on the testing machine.
Brett Cannon7919d982008-03-19 16:50:13 +00006766
Brett Cannona5573b32008-03-18 04:16:06 +00006767- Output comparison tests are no longer supported.
6768
Brett Cannonb7ec8e52008-03-18 03:46:22 +00006769- Rewrite test_errno to use unittest and no longer be a no-op.
6770
Brett Cannon0bb79502008-03-18 01:58:56 +00006771- GHOP 234: Convert test_extcall to doctest.
6772
Brett Cannonba17cfc2008-03-18 01:50:25 +00006773- GHOP 290: Convert test_dbm and test_dummy_threading to unittest.
6774
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006775- GHOP 293: Convert test_strftime, test_getargs, and test_pep247 to
6776 unittest.
Brett Cannon6eeaddc2008-03-18 01:00:07 +00006777
Brett Cannon1f5182b2008-03-13 21:09:28 +00006778- Issue #2055: Convert test_fcntl to unittest.
6779
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00006780- Issue #1960: Convert test_gdbm to unittest.
Brett Cannon4a6e8d62008-03-13 21:02:16 +00006781
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006782- GHOP 294: Convert test_contains, test_crypt, and test_select to
6783 unittest.
Brett Cannon2e0f9f32008-03-13 20:47:41 +00006784
Brett Cannonb8d37352008-03-13 20:33:10 +00006785- GHOP 238: Convert test_tokenize to use doctest.
6786
Brett Cannon66865d22008-03-13 20:27:00 +00006787- GHOP 237: Rewrite test_thread using unittest.
6788
Martin v. Löwisd2bbe522008-03-06 06:55:22 +00006789- Patch #2232: os.tmpfile might fail on Windows if the user has no
6790 permission to create files in the root directory.
6791
Martin v. Löwisbf7b0b72008-03-14 13:56:09 +00006792Build
6793-----
6794
Martin v. Löwiscdbc9772008-03-24 12:57:53 +00006795- A new script 2to3 is now installed, to run the 2.x to 3.x converter.
6796
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006797- Python/memmove.c and Python/strerror.c have been removed; both
6798 functions are in the C89 standard library.
Brett Cannonaa5778d2008-03-18 04:09:00 +00006799
Martin v. Löwisbf7b0b72008-03-14 13:56:09 +00006800- Patch #2284: Add -x64 option to rt.bat.
Barry Warsaw65475fd2008-03-01 17:11:41 +00006801
Christian Heimes3c608332008-03-26 22:01:37 +00006802C API
6803-----
6804
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00006805- Patch #2477: Added PyParser_ParseFileFlagsEx() and
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006806 PyParser_ParseStringFlagsFilenameEx().
6807
Christian Heimes3c608332008-03-26 22:01:37 +00006808
Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +00006809What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 1?
6810=================================
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00006811
Barry Warsaw7c075232008-03-01 02:53:36 +00006812*Release date: 29-Feb-2008*
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00006813
6814Core and builtins
6815-----------------
6816
Fred Drakea8ee94b2008-03-01 02:45:07 +00006817- Issue #2051: pyc and pyo files are no longer created with permission
Barry Warsaw52973612008-03-01 02:23:38 +00006818 644. The mode is now inherited from the py file.
Christian Heimes40346852008-02-23 17:52:07 +00006819
Georg Brandlad61bc82008-02-23 15:11:18 +00006820- Issue #2067: file.__exit__() now calls subclasses' close() method.
6821
6822- Patch #1759: Backport of PEP 3129 class decorators.
Christian Heimes5224d282008-02-23 15:01:05 +00006823
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00006824- Issue #1881: An internal parser limit has been increased. Also see
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00006825 issue #215555 for a discussion.
Facundo Batistafc2d0102008-02-23 12:01:13 +00006826
Eric Smitha73fbe72008-02-23 03:09:44 +00006827- Added the future_builtins module, which contains hex() and oct().
6828 These are the PEP 3127 version of these functions, designed to be
6829 compatible with the hex() and oct() builtins from Python 3.0. They
6830 differ slightly in their output formats from the existing, unchanged
6831 Python 2.6 builtins. The expected usage of the future_builtins
6832 module is:
6833 from future_builtins import hex, oct
6834
Eric Smith7ef40bf2008-02-20 23:34:22 +00006835- Issue #1600: Modifed PyOS_ascii_formatd to use at most 2 digit
6836 exponents for exponents with absolute value < 100. Follows C99
6837 standard. This is a change on Windows, which would use 3 digits.
6838 Also, added 'n' to the formats that PyOS_ascii_formatd understands,
6839 so that any alterations it does to the resulting string will be
6840 available in stringlib/formatter.h (for float.__format__).
6841
Eric Smith5a3c1352008-02-19 13:21:56 +00006842- Implemented PEP 3101, Advanced String Formatting. This adds a new
6843 builtin format(); a format() method for str and unicode; a
6844 __format__() method to object, str, unicode, int, long, float, and
6845 datetime; the class string.Formatter; and the C API
6846 PyObject_Format().
6847
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006848- Fixed several potential crashes, all caused by specially crafted
6849 __del__ methods exploiting objects in temporarily inconsistent
6850 state.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc632fad32008-02-16 20:55:24 +00006851
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00006852- Issue #2115: Important speedup in setting __slot__ attributes. Also
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006853 prevent a possible crash: an Abstract Base Class would try to access
6854 a slot on a registered virtual subclass.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc60d6c7f2008-02-15 21:22:45 +00006855
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006856- Fixed repr() and str() of complex numbers with infinity or nan as
6857 real or imaginary part.
Christian Heimes2f0da532008-02-15 06:57:08 +00006858
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006859- Clear all free lists during a gc.collect() of the highest generation
6860 in order to allow pymalloc to free more arenas. Python may give back
6861 memory to the OS earlier.
Christian Heimes3b718a72008-02-14 12:47:33 +00006862
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006863- Issue #2045: Fix an infinite recursion triggered when printing a
6864 subclass of collections.defaultdict, if its default_factory is set
6865 to a bound method.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcb01aa432008-02-08 00:56:02 +00006866
Christian Heimesf75dbef2008-02-08 00:11:31 +00006867- Fixed a minor memory leak in dictobject.c. The content of the free
6868 list was not freed on interpreter shutdown.
6869
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00006870- Limit free list of method and built-in function objects to 256
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006871 entries each.
Christian Heimes6075a822008-02-06 12:44:34 +00006872
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006873- Patch #1953: Added ``sys._compact_freelists()`` and the C API
6874 functions ``PyInt_CompactFreeList`` and ``PyFloat_CompactFreeList``
Christian Heimes422051a2008-02-04 18:00:12 +00006875 to compact the internal free lists of pre-allocted ints and floats.
6876
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006877- Issue #1983: Fixed return type of fork(), fork1() and forkpty()
6878 calls. Python expected the return type int but the fork familie
6879 returns pi_t.
Christian Heimes951cc0f2008-01-31 23:08:23 +00006880
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006881- Issue #1678380: Fix a bug that identifies 0j and -0j when they
6882 appear in the same code unit.
Mark Dickinson105be772008-01-31 22:17:37 +00006883
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006884- Issue #2025: Add tuple.count() and tuple.index() methods to comply
6885 with the collections.Sequence API.
Raymond Hettinger5b07ebc2008-02-07 00:54:20 +00006886
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006887- Patch #1970 by Antoine Pitrou: Speedup unicode whitespace and
6888 linebreak detection
Christian Heimes4d4f2702008-01-30 11:32:37 +00006889
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006890- Added ``PyType_ClearCache()`` and ``sys._clear_type_cache`` to clear
6891 the internal lookup cache for ref leak tests.
Christian Heimes908caac2008-01-27 23:34:59 +00006892
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006893- Patch #1473257: generator objects gain a gi_code attribute. This is
6894 the same object as the func_code attribute of the function that
6895 produced the generator.
Georg Brandl0cdf9a32008-01-26 14:14:20 +00006896
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006897- Issue #1920: "while 0" statements were completely removed by the
6898 compiler, even in the presence of an "else" clause, which is
6899 supposed to be run when the condition is false. Now the compiler
6900 correctly emits bytecode for the "else" suite.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc31eaafe2008-01-24 22:59:25 +00006901
Guido van Rossumeead05f2008-01-24 18:21:02 +00006902- A few crashers fixed: weakref_in_del.py (issue #1377858);
6903 loosing_dict_ref.py (issue #1303614, test67.py);
6904 borrowed_ref_[34].py (not in tracker).
6905
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +00006906- Issue #1069410: The "can't load dll" message box on Windows is
Christian Heimesb2302ba2008-01-23 17:15:06 +00006907 suppressed while an extension is loaded by calling SetErrorMode in
6908 dynload_win.c. The error is still reported properly.
6909
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006910- Issue #1915: Python compiles with --enable-unicode=no again. However
Christian Heimes082c9b02008-01-23 14:20:50 +00006911 several extension methods and modules do not work without unicode
6912 support.
6913
Georg Brandl26543b12008-01-21 18:36:51 +00006914- Issue #1882: when compiling code from a string, encoding cookies in the
6915 second line of code were not always recognized correctly.
6916
Georg Brandl14404b62008-01-19 19:27:05 +00006917- Issue #1679: "0x" was taken as a valid integer literal.
6918
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00006919- Issue #1865: ``bytes`` as an alias for ``str`` and b"" as an alias "" were
Christian Heimes288e89a2008-01-18 18:24:07 +00006920 added.
6921
Christian Heimesc94e2b52008-01-14 04:13:37 +00006922- sys.float_info / PyFloat_GetInfo: The floating point information
6923 object was converted from a dict to a specialized structseq object.
6924
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006925- Patch #1816: Added sys.flags structseq. It exposes the status of
6926 most command line arguments and PYTHON* environment variables.
Christian Heimesf31b69f2008-01-14 03:42:48 +00006927
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006928- Objects/structseq.c: Implemented new structseq representation. The
6929 patch makes structseqs (e.g. the return value of os.stat) more
6930 readable.
Christian Heimes9c201962008-01-14 03:33:52 +00006931
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006932- Patch #1700288: added a type attribute cache that caches method
6933 accesses, resulting in speedups in heavily object-oriented code.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arce4c270c2008-01-14 00:29:41 +00006934
Neal Norwitz3fc15b82008-01-10 05:42:58 +00006935- Bug #1776: __import__() no longer accepts filenames on any platform.
6936 The first parameter to __import__() must be a valid module name.
Christian Heimes3403f152008-01-09 19:56:33 +00006937
Georg Brandlaed6c662008-01-07 17:25:53 +00006938- Patch #1668: renamed THREADDEBUG envvar to PYTHONTHREADDEBUG.
6939
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006940- Patch #602345: Add -B command line option, PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE
6941 envvar and sys.dont_write_bytecode attribute. All these can be set
6942 to forbid Python to attempt to write compiled bytecode files.
Georg Brandl2da0fce2008-01-07 17:09:35 +00006943
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006944- Improve some exception messages when Windows fails to load an
6945 extension module. Now we get for example '%1 is not a valid Win32
6946 application' instead of 'error code 193'.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arce0b76952008-01-04 02:04:15 +00006947
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006948- Bug #1481296: Fixed long(float('nan')) != 0L.
Christian Heimes8267d1d2008-01-04 00:37:34 +00006949
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006950- Issue #1640: Added math.isinf(x), math.isnan(x) and math.copysign(x,
6951 y) functions.
Christian Heimese2ca4242008-01-03 20:23:15 +00006952
Christian Heimes0a8143f2007-12-18 23:22:54 +00006953- Issue #1635: Platform independent creation and representation of NaN
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006954 and INF. float("nan"), float("inf") and float("-inf") now work on
6955 every platform with IEEE 754 semantics.
Christian Heimes0a8143f2007-12-18 23:22:54 +00006956
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006957- Compiler now generates simpler and faster code for dictionary
6958 literals. The oparg for BUILD_MAP now indicates an estimated
6959 dictionary size. There is a new opcode, STORE_MAP, for adding
6960 entries to the dictionary.
Raymond Hettingerfd7ed402007-12-18 21:24:09 +00006961
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006962- Issue #1638: %zd configure test fails on Linux.
Christian Heimesdb3d6cb2007-12-16 21:39:43 +00006963
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006964- Issue #1620: New property decorator syntax was modifying the
6965 decorator in place instead of creating a new decorator object.
Christian Heimes90e10e72007-12-14 02:35:23 +00006966
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006967- Issue #1538: Avoid copying string in split/rsplit if the split char
6968 is not found.
Skip Montanaro26015492007-12-08 15:33:24 +00006969
Andrew M. Kuchling395fe442007-12-05 13:27:20 +00006970- Issue #1553: An erroneous __length_hint__ can make list() raise a
Christian Heimes7cc1c6f2007-12-05 12:52:34 +00006971 SystemError.
6972
Nick Coghlanef01d822007-12-03 12:55:17 +00006973- PEP 366: Allow explicit relative imports when executing modules
6974 inside packages with the -m switch via a new module level
6975 __package__ attribute.
6976
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006977- Issue #1402: Fix a crash on exit, when another thread is still
6978 running, and if the deallocation of its frames somehow calls the
6979 PyGILState_Ensure() / PyGILState_Release() functions.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbe49a902007-11-30 20:37:22 +00006980
Christian Heimes28104c52007-11-27 23:16:44 +00006981- Expose the Py_Py3kWarningFlag as sys.py3kwarning.
6982
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00006983- Issue #1445: Fix a SystemError when accessing the ``cell_contents``
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcce7d10c2007-11-24 13:44:17 +00006984 attribute of an empty cell object.
6985
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006986- Issue #1460: The utf-7 incremental decoder did not accept truncated
6987 input. It now correctly saves its state between chunks of data.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcf57375a2007-11-21 01:38:26 +00006988
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006989- Patch #1739468: Directories and zipfiles containing a __main__.py
6990 file can now be directly executed by passing their name to the
6991 interpreter. The directory/zipfile is automatically inserted as the
6992 first entry in sys.path.
Nick Coghlan327a39b2007-11-18 11:56:28 +00006993
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006994- Issue #1265: Fix a problem with sys.settrace, if the tracing
6995 function uses a generator expression when at the same time the
6996 executed code is closing a paused generator.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc0d75f092007-11-13 21:54:28 +00006997
Raymond Hettinger1760c8a2007-11-08 02:52:43 +00006998- sets and frozensets now have an isdisjoint() method.
6999
Raymond Hettinger3f8caa32007-10-24 01:28:33 +00007000- optimize the performance of builtin.sum().
7001
Neal Norwitz44f326e2007-10-05 05:29:17 +00007002- Fix warnings found by the new version of the Coverity checker.
7003
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00007004- The enumerate() built-in function is no longer bounded to sequences
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007005 smaller than LONG_MAX. Formerly, it raised an OverflowError. Now,
7006 automatically shifts from ints to longs.
Raymond Hettinger8f669372007-10-03 21:18:11 +00007007
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007008- Issue #1686386: Tuple's tp_repr did not take into account the
7009 possibility of having a self-referential tuple, which is possible
7010 from C code. Nor did object's tp_str consider that a type's tp_str
7011 could do something that could lead to an inifinite recursion.
7012 Py_ReprEnter() and Py_EnterRecursiveCall(), respectively, fixed the
7013 issues.
Brett Cannon0b14f242007-09-30 19:45:10 +00007014
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007015- Issue #1164: It was possible to trigger deadlock when using the
7016 'print' statement to write to a file since the GIL was not released
7017 as needed. Now PyObject_Print() does the right thing along with
7018 various tp_print implementations of the built-in types and those in
7019 the collections module.
Brett Cannon01531592007-09-17 03:28:34 +00007020
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007021- Issue #1147: Exceptions were directly allowing string exceptions in
7022 their throw() method even though string exceptions no longer
7023 allowed.
Brett Cannon4c20bc42007-09-11 21:02:28 +00007024
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007025- Issue #1096: Prevent a segfault from getting the repr of a very
7026 deeply nested list by using the recursion counter.
Brett Cannona0c05512007-09-10 21:38:27 +00007027
Brett Cannon1e534b52007-09-07 04:18:30 +00007028- Issue #1202533: Fix infinite recursion calls triggered by calls to
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007029 PyObject_Call() never calling back out to Python code to trigger
7030 recursion depth updates/checks. Required the creation of a static
7031 RuntimeError instance in case normalizing an exception put the
7032 recursion check value past its limit. Fixes crashers
7033 infinite_rec_(1|2|4|5).py.
Brett Cannon1e534b52007-09-07 04:18:30 +00007034
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007035- Patch #1031213: Decode source line in SyntaxErrors back to its
7036 original source encoding.
Martin v. Löwisa5136192007-09-04 14:19:28 +00007037
Georg Brandl7c3b50d2007-07-12 08:38:00 +00007038- Patch #1673759: add a missing overflow check when formatting floats
7039 with %G.
7040
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007041- Prevent expandtabs() on string and unicode objects from causing a
7042 segfault when a large width is passed on 32-bit platforms.
Neal Norwitz7dbd2a32007-06-09 03:36:34 +00007043
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007044- Issue #1733488: Fix compilation of bufferobject.c on AIX.
Martin v. Löwisda587ab2007-06-08 17:29:20 +00007045
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007046- Issue #1722485: remove docstrings again when running with -OO.
Georg Brandla5ea6892007-06-01 11:33:33 +00007047
Neal Norwitz0ac60192007-05-27 04:08:54 +00007048- Add new attribute names for function objects. All the func_* become
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007049 __*__ attributes. (Some already existed, e.g., __doc__ and
7050 __name__.)
Neal Norwitz0ac60192007-05-27 04:08:54 +00007051
Neal Norwitz8b2bfbc2007-05-23 06:35:32 +00007052- Add -3 option to the interpreter to warn about features that are
7053 deprecated and will be changed/removed in Python 3.0.
7054
Georg Brandl2134e752007-05-21 20:34:16 +00007055- Patch #1686487: you can now pass any mapping after '**' in function
7056 calls.
7057
Collin Winter62903052007-05-18 23:11:24 +00007058- except clauses may now be spelled either "except E, target:" or
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007059 "except E as target:". This is to provide forwards compatibility
7060 with Python 3.0.
Collin Winter62903052007-05-18 23:11:24 +00007061
Brett Cannon229cee22007-05-05 01:34:02 +00007062- Deprecate BaseException.message as per PEP 352.
7063
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007064- Issue #1303614: don't expose object's __dict__ when the dict is
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00007065 inherited from a built-in base.
Armin Rigo9790a272007-05-02 19:23:31 +00007066
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00007067- When __slots__ are set to a unicode string, make it work the same as
Neal Norwitzcbd9ee62007-04-14 05:25:50 +00007068 setting a plain string, ie don't expand to single letter identifiers.
7069
Raymond Hettinger13936692007-04-11 18:40:58 +00007070- Request #1191699: Slices can now be pickled.
7071
Raymond Hettinger4db5fe92007-04-12 04:10:00 +00007072- Request #1193128: str.translate() now allows a None argument for
7073 translations that only remove characters without re-mapping the
7074 remaining characters.
7075
Georg Brandl5cb76c12007-03-21 09:00:39 +00007076- Patch #1682205: a TypeError while unpacking an iterable is no longer
7077 masked by a generic one with the message "unpack non-sequence".
7078
Neal Norwitzaa754b72007-03-21 06:39:48 +00007079- Remove unused file Python/fmod.c.
7080
Guido van Rossum143b5642007-03-23 04:58:42 +00007081- Bug #1683368: The object.__init__() and object.__new__() methods are
7082 now stricter in rejecting excess arguments. The only time when
7083 either allows excess arguments is when it is not overridden and the
7084 other one is. For backwards compatibility, when both are
7085 overridden, it is a deprecation warning (for now; maybe a Py3k
Guido van Rossum234b1ff2007-03-23 19:39:01 +00007086 warning later). Also, type.__init__() insists on the same signature
7087 as supported by type.__new__().
Guido van Rossum143b5642007-03-23 04:58:42 +00007088
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007089- Patch #1675423: PyComplex_AsCComplex() now tries to convert an
7090 object to complex using its __complex__() method before falling back
7091 to the __float__() method. Therefore, the functions in the cmath
7092 module now can operate on objects that define a __complex__()
7093 method.
Georg Brandl2b869942007-03-17 16:08:45 +00007094
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007095- Patch #1623563: allow __class__ assignment for classes with
7096 __slots__. The old and the new class are still required to have the
7097 same slot names.
Žiga Seilnacht6f2d09c2007-03-16 11:59:38 +00007098
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007099- Patch #1642547: Fix an error/crash when encountering syntax errors
7100 in complex if statements.
Collin Winter77c67bd2007-03-16 04:11:30 +00007101
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007102- Patch #1462488: Python no longer segfaults when
7103 ``object.__reduce_ex__()`` is called with an object that is faking
7104 its type.
Žiga Seilnacht20f43d32007-03-15 11:44:55 +00007105
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007106- Patch #1680015: Don't modify __slots__ tuple if it contains an
7107 unicode name.
Žiga Seilnacht71436f02007-03-14 12:24:09 +00007108
Georg Brandl5240d742007-03-13 20:46:32 +00007109- Patch #1444529: the builtin compile() now accepts keyword arguments.
7110
Georg Brandl7b9c5552007-03-12 14:30:05 +00007111- Bug #1678647: write a newline after printing an exception in any
7112 case, even when converting the value to a string failed.
7113
Georg Brandl871f1bc2007-03-12 13:17:36 +00007114- The dir() function has been extended to call the __dir__() method on
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007115 its argument, if it exists. If not, it will work like before. This
7116 allows customizing the output of dir() in the presence of a
7117 __getattr__().
Georg Brandl871f1bc2007-03-12 13:17:36 +00007118
Collin Winter276887b2007-03-12 16:11:39 +00007119- Patch #922167: Python no longer segfaults when faced with infinitely
7120 self-recursive reload() calls (as reported by bug #742342).
7121
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007122- Patch #1675981: remove unreachable code from ``type.__new__()``
7123 method.
Žiga Seilnacht89032082007-03-11 15:54:54 +00007124
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007125- Patch #1491866: change the complex() constructor to allow
7126 parthensized forms. This means complex(repr(x)) now works instead of
7127 raising a ValueError.
Collin Wintere38051d2007-03-09 20:33:07 +00007128
Georg Brandlaa2321b2007-03-07 00:40:28 +00007129- Patch #703779: unset __file__ in __main__ after running a file. This
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007130 makes the filenames the warning module prints much more sensible
7131 when a PYTHONSTARTUP file is used.
Georg Brandlaa2321b2007-03-07 00:40:28 +00007132
Georg Brandl49aafc92007-03-07 00:34:46 +00007133- Variant of patch #697613: don't exit the interpreter on a SystemExit
7134 exception if the -i command line option or PYTHONINSPECT environment
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007135 variable is given, but break into the interactive interpreter just
7136 like on other exceptions or normal program exit.
Georg Brandl49aafc92007-03-07 00:34:46 +00007137
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007138- Patch #1638879: don't accept strings with embedded NUL bytes in
7139 long().
Georg Brandl00cd8182007-03-06 18:41:12 +00007140
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007141- Bug #1674503: close the file opened by execfile() in an error
7142 condition.
Georg Brandl098cd692007-03-06 12:17:50 +00007143
Georg Brandl0fca97a2007-03-05 22:28:08 +00007144- Patch #1674228: when assigning a slice (old-style), check for the
7145 sq_ass_slice instead of the sq_slice slot.
7146
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007147- When printing an unraisable error, don't print exceptions. before
7148 the name. This duplicates the behavior whening normally printing
7149 exceptions.
Neal Norwitz88516a62007-02-26 22:41:45 +00007150
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007151- Bug #1653736: Properly discard third argument to
7152 slot_nb_inplace_power.
Martin v. Löwisfd963262007-02-09 12:19:32 +00007153
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007154- PEP 352: Raising a string exception now triggers a TypeError.
7155 Attempting to catch a string exception raises DeprecationWarning.
Brett Cannon129bd522007-01-30 21:34:36 +00007156
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007157- Bug #1377858: Fix the segfaulting of the interpreter when an object
7158 created a weakref on itself during a __del__ call for new-style
7159 classes (classic classes still have the bug).
Brett Cannonf5bee302007-01-23 23:21:22 +00007160
Martin v. Löwis6c5c5022007-01-23 21:11:47 +00007161- Bug #1579370: Make PyTraceBack_Here use the current thread, not the
7162 frame's thread state.
7163
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007164- patch #1630975: Fix crash when replacing sys.stdout in
7165 sitecustomize.py.
Thomas Wouters6ed19652007-01-23 13:50:49 +00007166
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007167- Prevent seg fault on shutdown which could occur if an object raised
7168 a warning.
Neal Norwitz72cd02c2007-01-05 05:25:22 +00007169
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007170- Bug #1566280: Explicitly invoke threading._shutdown from Py_Main, to
7171 avoid relying on atexit.
Martin v. Löwis7b7c9d42007-01-04 21:06:12 +00007172
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007173- Bug #1590891: random.randrange don't return correct value for big
7174 number.
Raymond Hettinger94547f72006-12-20 06:42:06 +00007175
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007176- Patch #1586791: Better exception messages for some operations on
7177 strings, tuples and lists.
Georg Brandl283a1352006-11-19 08:48:30 +00007178
Martin v. Löwis056dac12006-11-12 18:24:26 +00007179- Bug #1067760: Deprecate passing floats to file.seek.
7180
Martin v. Löwisa346c092006-11-08 06:48:36 +00007181- Bug #1591996: Correctly forward exception in instance_contains().
7182
Neal Norwitz85dbec62006-11-04 19:25:22 +00007183- Bug #1588287: fix invalid assertion for `1,2` in debug builds.
7184
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007185- Bug #1576657: when setting a KeyError for a tuple key, make sure
7186 that the tuple isn't used as the "exception arguments tuple".
Georg Brandlb9f4ad32006-10-29 18:31:42 +00007187
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007188- Bug #1565514: SystemError not raised on too many nested blocks.
Neal Norwitz21997af2006-10-28 21:19:07 +00007189
Thomas Hellerdf08f0b2006-10-27 18:31:36 +00007190- Bug #1576174: WindowsError now displays the windows error code
7191 again, no longer the posix error code.
7192
Martin v. Löwisb5bc5372006-10-27 06:16:31 +00007193- Patch #1549049: Support long values in structmember, issue warnings
7194 if the assigned value for structmember fields gets truncated.
7195
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007196- Update the peephole optimizer to remove more dead code (jumps after
7197 returns) and inline unconditional jumps to returns.
Neal Norwitzcbeb6872006-10-14 21:33:38 +00007198
Georg Brandl2c1375c2006-10-12 11:27:59 +00007199- Bug #1545497: when given an explicit base, int() did ignore NULs
7200 embedded in the string to convert.
7201
Georg Brandl846f73a2006-10-08 07:11:54 +00007202- Bug #1569998: break inside a try statement (outside a loop) is now
7203 recognized and rejected.
7204
Armin Rigo7ccbca92006-10-04 12:17:45 +00007205- list.pop(x) accepts any object x following the __index__ protocol.
7206
Armin Rigo7ccbca92006-10-04 12:17:45 +00007207- A number of places, including integer negation and absolute value,
7208 were fixed to not rely on undefined behaviour of the C compiler
7209 anymore.
Martin v. Löwis820d6ac2006-10-04 05:47:34 +00007210
Georg Brandl3267d282006-09-30 09:03:42 +00007211- Bug #1566800: make sure that EnvironmentError can be called with any
7212 number of arguments, as was the case in Python 2.4.
7213
Georg Brandl5d59c092006-09-30 08:43:30 +00007214- Patch #1567691: super() and new.instancemethod() now don't accept
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007215 keyword arguments any more (previously they accepted them, but
7216 didn't use them).
Georg Brandl5d59c092006-09-30 08:43:30 +00007217
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007218- Fix a bug in the parser's future statement handling that led to
7219 "with" not being recognized as a keyword after, e.g., this
7220 statement: from __future__ import division, with_statement
Georg Brandla10d3af2006-09-24 12:35:36 +00007221
Neal Norwitz3a230172006-09-22 08:18:10 +00007222- Bug #1557232: fix seg fault with def f((((x)))) and def f(((x),)).
7223
Neal Norwitz4a8fbdb2006-09-22 08:16:26 +00007224- Fix %zd string formatting on Mac OS X so it prints negative numbers.
7225
Brett Cannonf6aa86e2006-09-20 18:43:13 +00007226- Allow exception instances to be directly sliced again.
7227
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007228- Bug #1551432: Exceptions do not define an explicit __unicode__
7229 method. This allows calling unicode() on exceptions classes
7230 directly to succeed.
Brett Cannon9adeab72006-09-20 18:34:28 +00007231
Georg Brandl4e933132006-09-06 20:05:58 +00007232- Bug #1542051: Exceptions now correctly call PyObject_GC_UnTrack.
7233 Also make sure that every exception class has __module__ set to
7234 'exceptions'.
7235
Georg Brandl98775df2006-09-06 06:09:31 +00007236- Bug #1550983: emit better error messages for erroneous relative
7237 imports (if not in package and if beyond toplevel package).
7238
Tim Petersc10c9d02006-09-05 02:18:09 +00007239- Overflow checking code in integer division ran afoul of new gcc
7240 optimizations. Changed to be more standard-conforming.
7241
Neal Norwitz4f096d92006-08-21 19:47:08 +00007242- Patch #1542451: disallow continue anywhere under a finally.
7243
Neal Norwitza22975f2006-09-05 02:24:03 +00007244- Patch #1546288: fix seg fault in dict_equal due to ref counting bug.
7245
Neal Norwitzd34e4272006-09-05 02:36:20 +00007246- The return tuple from str.rpartition(sep) is (tail, sep, head) where
7247 head is the original string if sep was not found.
7248
Neal Norwitzdac090d2006-09-05 03:53:08 +00007249- Bug #1520864: unpacking singleton tuples in list comprehensions and
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007250 generator expressions (x for x, in ... ) works again. Fixing this
7251 problem required changing the .pyc magic number. This means that
7252 .pyc files generated before 2.5c2 will be regenerated.
Neal Norwitzdac090d2006-09-05 03:53:08 +00007253
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00007254- ``with`` and ``as`` are now keywords.
Neal Norwitzca460d92006-09-06 06:28:06 +00007255
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007256- Bug #1664966: Fix crash in exec if Unicode filename can't be
7257 decoded.
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00007258
Guido van Rossumcad37242008-01-15 17:59:29 +00007259- Issue #1537: Changed GeneratorExit's base class from Exception to
7260 BaseException.
Christian Heimes44eeaec2007-12-03 20:01:02 +00007261
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007262- Issue #1703448: A joined thread could show up in the
Gregory P. Smith95cd5c02008-01-22 01:20:42 +00007263 threading.enumerate() list after the join() for a brief period until
7264 it actually exited.
7265
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00007266
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00007267Library
7268-------
7269
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007270- Patch #2274: Add heapq.heappushpop().
Raymond Hettinger53bdf092008-03-13 19:03:51 +00007271
Christian Heimes608c1d82008-03-03 18:28:04 +00007272- Add inspect.isabstract(object) to fix bug #2223
7273
Mark Dickinson1ddf1d82008-02-29 02:16:37 +00007274- Add a __format__ method to Decimal, to support PEP 3101.
7275
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007276- Add a timing parameter when using trace.Trace to print out
7277 timestamps.
Neal Norwitzca376612008-02-26 08:21:28 +00007278
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007279- Issue #1627: httplib now ignores negative Content-Length headers.
Georg Brandl8c460d52008-02-24 00:14:24 +00007280
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007281- Issue #900744: If an invalid chunked-encoding header is sent by a
7282 server, httplib will now raise IncompleteRead and close the
7283 connection instead of raising ValueError.
Georg Brandl23635032008-02-24 00:03:22 +00007284
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007285- Issue #1492: The content type of BaseHTTPServer error messages can
7286 now be overridden.
Georg Brandl16479232008-02-23 15:02:28 +00007287
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007288- Issue #1781: ConfigParser now does not let you add the "default" section
Facundo Batistab12f0b52008-02-23 12:46:10 +00007289 (ignore-case)
7290
Guido van Rossum8bc09652008-02-21 18:18:37 +00007291- Removed uses of dict.has_key() from distutils, and uses of
7292 callable() from copy_reg.py, so the interpreter now starts up
7293 without warnings when '-3' is given. More work like this needs to
7294 be done in the rest of the stdlib.
7295
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007296- Issue #1916: added isgenerator() and isgeneratorfunction() to
7297 inspect.py.
Facundo Batista759bfc62008-02-18 03:43:43 +00007298
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007299- Issue #1224: Fixed bad url parsing when path begins with double
7300 slash.
Facundo Batistad14600e2008-02-18 12:48:43 +00007301
Thomas Hellera06a1a82008-02-13 20:21:53 +00007302- ctypes instances that are not or do not contain pointers can now be
7303 pickled.
7304
Martin v. Löwisdad88dc2008-02-12 18:47:34 +00007305- Patch #1966: Break infinite loop in httplib when the servers
7306 implements the chunked encoding incorrectly.
7307
Mark Dickinsond058cd22008-02-10 21:29:51 +00007308- Rename rational.py to fractions.py and the rational.Rational class
7309 to fractions.Fraction, to avoid the name clash with the abstract
7310 base class numbers.Rational. See discussion in issue #1682.
7311
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007312- The pickletools module now provides an optimize() function that
7313 eliminates unused PUT opcodes from a pickle string.
Raymond Hettingerda614dc2008-02-10 20:35:16 +00007314
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007315- Patch #2021: Allow tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile and
7316 SpooledTemporaryFile to be used in with statements by correctly
7317 supporting the context management protocol.
Nick Coghlanac094dc2008-02-10 07:32:52 +00007318
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007319- Patch #1979: Add rich comparisons to Decimal, and make Decimal
7320 comparisons involving a NaN follow the IEEE 754 standard.
Mark Dickinson2fc92632008-02-06 22:10:50 +00007321
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007322- Issue #2004: tarfile.py: Use mode 0700 for temporary directories and
7323 default permissions for missing directories.
Lars Gustäbel0192e432008-02-05 11:51:40 +00007324
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007325- Issue #175006: The debugger used to skip the condition of a "while"
7326 statement after the first iteration. Now it correctly steps on the
7327 expression, and breakpoints on the "while" statement are honored on
7328 each loop.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc6fd03bb2008-02-04 21:45:05 +00007329
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007330- Issue #1765140: add an optional delay argument to FileHandler and
7331 its subclasses. Defaults to false (existing behaviour), but if true,
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +00007332 defers opening the file until the first call to emit().
7333
Raymond Hettingerc226c312008-01-23 00:04:40 +00007334- The pprint module now supports sets and frozensets.
7335
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007336- Issue #1221598: add optional callbacks to ftplib.FTP's storbinary()
7337 and storlines() methods. (Contributed by Phil Schwartz)
Gregory P. Smithc64386b2008-01-22 00:19:41 +00007338
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007339- Issue #1715: include sub-extension modules in pydoc's text output.
Georg Brandlf2dae0e2008-01-21 21:05:49 +00007340
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007341- Issue #1836: fix an off-by-one bug in TimedRotatingHandler's
7342 rollover time calculation.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00007343
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007344- Issue #1021: fix a bug to allow basicConfig to accept NOTSET as a
7345 level.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00007346
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007347- Issue #932563: add LoggerAdapter convenience class to make it easier
7348 to add contextual information in logging output.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00007349
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007350- Issue #1760556: fix a bug to avoid FileHandler throwing an exception
7351 in flush().
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00007352
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007353- Bug #1530959: distutils' build command now uses different build
7354 directory when building extension modules against versions of Python
7355 compiled with ``--with-pydebug``.
Georg Brandl50160152008-01-21 17:42:40 +00007356
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007357- Issue #1555501: move plistlib from plat-mac directory to general
7358 library.
Georg Brandl864de822008-01-21 16:34:07 +00007359
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007360- Issue #1269: fix a bug in pstats.add_callers() and add a unit test
7361 file for pstats.
Georg Brandl66e73632008-01-21 10:24:59 +00007362
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007363- Issue #1669: don't allow shutil.rmtree() to be called on a symlink
7364 to a directory.
Georg Brandl52353982008-01-20 14:17:42 +00007365
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007366- Issue #1664522: in urllib, don't read non-existing directories in
7367 ftp mode, returning a 0-byte file -- raise an IOError instead.
Georg Brandld5e6cf22008-01-20 12:18:17 +00007368
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007369- Issue #856047: respect the ``no_proxy`` environment variable when
7370 using the ``http_proxy`` etc. environment variables in urllib.
Georg Brandl22350112008-01-20 12:05:43 +00007371
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007372- Issue #1178141: add a getcode() method to the addinfourls that
7373 urllib.open() returns so that you can retrieve the HTTP status code.
Georg Brandl9b0d46d2008-01-20 11:43:03 +00007374
Gregory P. Smithf25680a2008-01-20 01:26:04 +00007375- Issue #1003: Fix zipfile decryption check, it would fail zip files
7376 with extended local headers.
7377
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007378- Issue #1189216: Fix the zipfile module to work on archives with
7379 headers past the 2**31 byte boundary.
Gregory P. Smith350d03b2008-01-19 23:10:52 +00007380
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007381- Issue #1336: fix a race condition in subprocess.Popen if the garbage
Gregory P. Smithb9ba0752008-01-19 21:00:37 +00007382 collector kicked in at the wrong time that would cause the process
7383 to hang when the child wrote to stderr.
7384
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007385- Issue #1146: fix how textwrap breaks a long word that would start in
7386 the last column of a line.
Georg Brandlc6fde722008-01-19 19:48:19 +00007387
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007388- Issue #1693149: trace.py --ignore-module - accept multiple
7389 comma-separated modules to be given.
Skip Montanaro562133b2008-01-19 18:47:24 +00007390
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007391- Issue #1822: MIMEMultipart.is_multipart() behaves correctly for a
7392 just-created (and empty) instance. Thanks Jonathan Share.
Facundo Batista2b1b1952008-01-19 12:32:27 +00007393
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007394- Issue #1861: Added an attribute to the sched module which returns an
7395 ordered list of upcoming events (displayed as named tuples).
Raymond Hettinger44bd6c02008-01-17 19:31:38 +00007396
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007397- Issue #1837: The queue module now also supports a LIFO queue and a
7398 priority queue.
Raymond Hettinger3ad2acc82008-01-16 23:49:35 +00007399
Andrew M. Kuchling4a2762d2008-01-20 00:00:38 +00007400- Patch #1048820: Add insert-mode editing to curses.textpad.Textbox
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00007401 (patch by Stefan Wehr). Also, fix an off-by-one bug in
Andrew M. Kuchling4a2762d2008-01-20 00:00:38 +00007402 Textbox.gather().
7403
Thomas Heller02ec2892008-01-16 19:37:33 +00007404- Issue #1831: ctypes now raises a TypeError if conflicting positional
7405 and named arguments are passed to a Structure or Union initializer.
Thomas Heller415c1e32008-01-16 19:45:51 +00007406 When too many positional arguments are passed, also a TypeError is
7407 raised instead of a ValueError.
Thomas Heller02ec2892008-01-16 19:37:33 +00007408
Thomas Heller902d3072008-01-16 19:16:27 +00007409- Convert the internal ctypes array type cache to a WeakValueDict so
7410 that array types do not live longer than needed.
7411
Guido van Rossumcad37242008-01-15 17:59:29 +00007412- Issue #1786: pdb should use its own stdin/stdout around an exec call
7413 and when creating a recursive instance.
7414
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007415- Issue #1698398: ZipFile.printdir() crashed because the format string
7416 expected a tuple type of length six instead of time.struct_time
7417 object.
Raymond Hettinger351e1a32008-01-14 22:58:05 +00007418
Mark Dickinson59bc20b2008-01-12 01:56:00 +00007419- Issue #1780: The Decimal constructor now accepts arbitrary leading
7420 and trailing whitespace when constructing from a string.
7421 Context.create_decimal no longer accepts trailing newlines.
7422
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007423- Decimal.as_tuple(), difflib.find_longest_match() and inspect
7424 functions that returned a tuple now return a named tuple.
Georg Brandl2f32c392008-01-11 09:20:58 +00007425
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00007426- Doctest now returns results as a named tuple for readability:
Raymond Hettingerfff4e6e2008-01-11 01:25:54 +00007427 (0, 7) --> TestResults(failed=0, attempted=7)
7428
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007429- Issue #846388:q re.match is interruptible now, which is particularly
Facundo Batista4473d222008-01-08 21:10:12 +00007430 good for long regular expression matches.
7431
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007432- Patch #1137: allow setting buffer_size attribute on pyexpat Parser
7433 objects to set the character data buffer size.
Andrew M. Kuchlinge0a49b62008-01-08 14:30:55 +00007434
Facundo Batista52b25792008-01-08 12:25:20 +00007435- Issue #1757: The hash of a Decimal instance is no longer affected by
7436 the current context.
7437
Georg Brandl62416bc2008-01-07 18:47:44 +00007438- Patch #467924: add ZipFile.extract() and ZipFile.extractall() in the
7439 zipfile module.
7440
Christian Heimesfb2d25a2008-01-07 16:12:44 +00007441- Issue #1646: Make socket support the TIPC protocol.
7442
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007443- Bug #1742: return os.curdir from os.path.relpath() if both arguments
7444 are equal instead of raising an exception.
Georg Brandl183a0842008-01-06 14:27:15 +00007445
Guido van Rossumc6a04c22008-01-05 22:19:06 +00007446- Patch #1637: fix urlparse for URLs like 'http://x.com?arg=/foo'.
7447
Guido van Rossumced4eb02008-01-05 01:21:57 +00007448- Patch #1698: allow '@' in username parsed by urlparse.py.
7449
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007450- Issue #1735: TarFile.extractall() now correctly sets directory
7451 permissions and times.
Lars Gustäbel2ee1c762008-01-04 14:00:33 +00007452
Christian Heimes06875612008-01-04 13:21:07 +00007453- Bug #1713: posixpath.ismount() claims symlink to a mountpoint is a mountpoint.
7454
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007455- Bug #1687: Fxed plistlib.py restricts <integer> to Python int when
7456 writing
Christian Heimes06131882008-01-04 00:04:52 +00007457
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007458- Issue #1700: Regular expression inline flags incorrectly handle
7459 certain unicode characters.
Guido van Rossumae04c332008-01-03 19:12:44 +00007460
Jeffrey Yasskin2f3c16b2008-01-03 02:21:52 +00007461- Issue #1689: PEP 3141, numeric abstract base classes.
7462
Martin v. Löwis84b9aab2008-01-01 21:09:07 +00007463- Tk issue #1851526: Return results from Python callbacks to Tcl as
7464 Tcl objects.
7465
Thomas Heller153038e2007-12-18 19:00:34 +00007466- Issue #1642: Fix segfault in ctypes when trying to delete attributes.
7467
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007468- Issue #1727780: Support loading pickles of random.Random objects
7469 created on 32-bit systems on 64-bit systems, and vice versa. As a
7470 consequence of the change, Random pickles created by Python 2.6
7471 cannot be loaded in Python 2.5.
Martin v. Löwis6b449f42007-12-03 19:20:02 +00007472
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007473- Issue #1455: The distutils package now supports VS 2005 and VS 2008
7474 for both the msvccompiler and cygwincompiler.
Christian Heimesc654fc22007-12-03 13:55:16 +00007475
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007476- Issue #1531: tarfile.py: Read fileobj from the current offset, do
7477 not seek to the start.
Lars Gustäbel77b2d632007-12-01 21:02:12 +00007478
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007479- Issue #1534: Added a dictionary sys.float_info with information
7480 about the internal floating point type to the sys module.
Christian Heimesdfdfaab2007-12-01 11:20:10 +00007481
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007482- Issue #1429818: patch for trace and doctest modules so they play
7483 nicely together.
Skip Montanaro58a6f442007-11-24 14:30:47 +00007484
Brett Cannon43e53f82007-11-21 00:47:36 +00007485- doctest made a bad assumption that a package's __loader__.get_data()
7486 method used universal newlines.
7487
Nick Coghlan90b858e2007-11-07 11:57:51 +00007488- Issue #1705170: contextlib.contextmanager was still swallowing
7489 StopIteration in some cases. This should no longer happen.
7490
Thomas Heller486b1b02007-11-02 19:10:24 +00007491- Issue #1292: On alpha, arm, ppc, and s390 linux systems the
7492 --with-system-ffi configure option defaults to "yes".
7493
Hye-Shik Changa838a802007-10-28 11:19:02 +00007494- IN module for FreeBSD 8 is added and preexisting FreeBSD 6 and 7
7495 files are updated.
7496
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007497- Issues #1181, #1287: unsetenv() is now called when the
7498 os.environ.pop() and os.environ.clear() methods are used.
Georg Brandl1a94ec22007-10-24 21:40:38 +00007499
Thomas Heller91ac4222007-10-19 18:11:41 +00007500- ctypes will now work correctly on 32-bit systems when Python is
7501 configured with --with-system-ffi.
7502
Thomas Heller7fee6dd2007-10-11 19:51:32 +00007503- Patch #1203: ctypes now does work on OS X when Python is built with
Georg Brandl1a94ec22007-10-24 21:40:38 +00007504 --disable-toolbox-glue.
Thomas Heller7fee6dd2007-10-11 19:51:32 +00007505
Raymond Hettingera7fc4b12007-10-05 02:47:07 +00007506- collections.deque() now supports a "maxlen" argument.
7507
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007508- itertools.count() is no longer bounded to LONG_MAX. Formerly, it
7509 raised an OverflowError. Now, automatically shifts from ints to
7510 longs.
Raymond Hettinger50e90e22007-10-04 00:20:27 +00007511
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007512- Added itertools.product() which forms the Cartesian product of the
7513 input iterables.
Raymond Hettingerc5705a82008-02-22 19:50:06 +00007514
Raymond Hettinger66f91ea2008-03-05 20:59:58 +00007515- Added itertools.combinations() and itertools.permutations().
Raymond Hettinger93e804d2008-02-26 23:40:50 +00007516
Georg Brandlaff85e22007-09-20 16:06:07 +00007517- Patch #1541463: optimize performance of cgi.FieldStorage operations.
7518
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007519- Decimal is fully updated to the latest Decimal Specification
7520 (v1.66).
Facundo Batistab67da232007-09-17 16:26:50 +00007521
Georg Brandl8fd3ecf2007-09-12 19:00:07 +00007522- Bug #1153: repr.repr() now doesn't require set and dictionary items
7523 to be orderable to properly represent them.
7524
Thomas Heller2825b2e2007-09-07 06:32:17 +00007525- A 'c_longdouble' type was added to the ctypes module.
7526
Martin v. Löwis7dcb83c2007-08-30 19:04:09 +00007527- Bug #1709599: Run test_1565150 only if the file system is NTFS.
7528
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007529- When encountering a password-protected robots.txt file the
7530 RobotFileParser no longer prompts interactively for a username and
7531 password (bug 813986).
Skip Montanaro3e275362007-08-29 01:33:45 +00007532
Lars Gustäbel0f4a14b2007-08-28 12:31:09 +00007533- TarFile.__init__() no longer fails if no name argument is passed and
7534 the fileobj argument has no usable name attribute (e.g. StringIO).
7535
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007536- The functools module now provides 'reduce', for forward
7537 compatibility with Python 3000.
Guido van Rossum95f1a1b2007-08-27 20:52:10 +00007538
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007539- Server-side SSL support and cert verification added, by Bill
7540 Janssen.
Guido van Rossum4f2c3dd2007-08-25 15:08:43 +00007541
Bill Janssenf413fb02007-08-30 18:08:06 +00007542- socket.ssl deprecated; use new ssl module instead.
7543
Georg Brandl8ec57542007-08-24 06:10:01 +00007544- uuid creation is now threadsafe.
7545
Hye-Shik Chang23901042007-08-20 06:49:18 +00007546- EUC-KR codec now handles the cheot-ga-keut composed make-up hangul
7547 syllables.
7548
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007549- GB18030 codec now can encode additional two-byte characters that are
7550 missing in GBK.
Hye-Shik Changf3e93a02007-08-04 04:10:18 +00007551
Walter Dörwald6e390802007-08-17 16:41:28 +00007552- Add new codecs for UTF-32, UTF-32-LE and UTF-32-BE.
7553
Martin v. Löwisf1e0b3f2007-07-28 07:03:05 +00007554- Bug #1704793: Return UTF-16 pair if unicodedata.lookup cannot
7555 represent the result in a single character.
7556
Martin v. Löwisf25e35b2007-07-27 18:28:22 +00007557- Bug #978833: Close https sockets by releasing the _ssl object.
7558
Martin v. Löwis254b8f92007-07-25 16:24:23 +00007559- Change location of the package index to pypi.python.org/pypi
7560
Thomas Hellerfa704c62007-07-13 17:12:23 +00007561- Bug #1701409: Fix a segfault in printing ctypes.c_char_p and
7562 ctypes.c_wchar_p when they point to an invalid location. As a
7563 sideeffect the representation of these instances has changed.
7564
Lars Gustäbel104490e2007-06-18 11:42:11 +00007565- tarfile.py: Added "exclude" keyword argument to TarFile.add().
7566
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007567- Bug #1734723: Fix repr.Repr() so it doesn't ignore the maxtuple
7568 attribute.
Neal Norwitzc161cb92007-06-11 07:29:43 +00007569
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007570- The urlopen function of urllib2 now has an optional timeout
7571 parameter (note that it actually works with HTTP, HTTPS, FTP and
7572 FTPS connections).
Facundo Batista10951d52007-06-06 17:15:23 +00007573
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007574- In ftplib, the FTP.ntransfercmd method, when in passive mode, now
7575 uses the socket.create_connection function, using the timeout
7576 specified at connection time.
Facundo Batista92493122007-06-06 15:13:37 +00007577
Hye-Shik Chang9b541402007-06-05 18:58:51 +00007578- Bug #1728403: Fix a bug that CJKCodecs StreamReader hangs when it
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007579 reads a file that ends with incomplete sequence and sizehint
7580 argument for .read() is specified.
Hye-Shik Chang9b541402007-06-05 18:58:51 +00007581
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007582- Bug #1730389: Change time.strptime() to use ``\s+`` instead of
7583 ``\s*`` when matching spaces in the specified format argument.
Brett Cannonf7188ce2007-06-03 23:13:41 +00007584
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007585- Bugs #1668596/#1720897: distutils now copies data files even if
7586 package_dir is empty.
Neal Norwitz4a700bb2007-06-01 07:29:12 +00007587
Brett Cannonc2aa09a2007-05-31 19:20:00 +00007588- sha now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
7589
Brett Cannon7eec2172007-05-30 22:24:28 +00007590- md5 now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
7591
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007592- Issue #1385: The hmac module now computes the correct hmac when
7593 using hashes with a block size other than 64 bytes (such as sha384
7594 and sha512).
Gregory P. Smithe1ac4f12007-11-06 00:19:03 +00007595
Brett Cannonc249bda2007-05-30 21:48:58 +00007596- mimify now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
7597
Brett Cannon90134c92007-05-30 20:46:26 +00007598- MimeWriter now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
7599
Lars Gustäbela0fcb932007-05-27 19:49:30 +00007600- tarfile.py: Improved unicode support. Unicode input names are now
7601 officially supported. Added "errors" argument to the TarFile class.
7602
Facundo Batista711a54e2007-05-24 17:50:54 +00007603- urllib.ftpwrapper class now accepts an optional timeout.
7604
Georg Brandlc90bc752007-05-24 16:49:29 +00007605- shlex.split() now has an optional "posix" parameter.
7606
Brett Cannon41bf2fa2007-05-20 23:57:38 +00007607- The posixfile module now raises a DeprecationWarning.
7608
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007609- Remove the gopherlib module. This also leads to the removal of
7610 gopher support in urllib/urllib2.
Brett Cannond75f0432007-05-16 22:42:29 +00007611
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007612- Fix bug in marshal where bad data would cause a segfault due to lack
7613 of an infinite recursion check.
Neal Norwitzb1a9b372007-05-16 20:05:11 +00007614
Neal Norwitze0e70a42007-05-16 05:06:33 +00007615- Removed plat-freebsd2 and plat-freebsd3 directories (and IN.py in
7616 the directories).
7617
Georg Brandla09a96a2007-05-15 20:19:34 +00007618- HTML-escape the plain traceback in cgitb's HTML output, to prevent
7619 the traceback inadvertently or maliciously closing the comment and
7620 injecting HTML into the error page.
7621
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007622- The popen2 module and os.popen* are deprecated. Use the subprocess
7623 module.
Neal Norwitz42dd86b2007-05-11 06:57:33 +00007624
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007625- Added an optional credentials argument to SMTPHandler, for use with
7626 SMTP servers which require authentication.
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00007627
7628- Patch #1695948: Added optional timeout parameter to SocketHandler.
7629
7630- Bug #1652788: Minor fix for currentframe.
7631
7632- Patch #1598415: Added WatchedFileHandler to better support external
7633 log file rotation using e.g. newsyslog or logrotate. This handler is
7634 only useful in Unix/Linux environments.
7635
Georg Brandlfb4b3b72007-04-24 15:27:13 +00007636- Bug #1706381: Specifying the SWIG option "-c++" in the setup.py file
7637 (as opposed to the command line) will now write file names ending in
7638 ".cpp" too.
7639
Facundo Batistad918a652007-04-24 13:54:38 +00007640- As specified in RFC 2616, an HTTP response like 2xx indicates that
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007641 the client's request was successfully received, understood, and
7642 accepted. Now in these cases no error is raised in urllib (issue
7643 #1177) and urllib2.
Facundo Batistad918a652007-04-24 13:54:38 +00007644
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007645- Bug #1290505: time.strptime's internal cache of locale information
7646 is now properly recreated when the locale is changed.
Brett Cannonc6906652007-04-01 18:47:27 +00007647
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007648- Patch #1685563: remove (don't add) duplicate paths in
7649 distutils.MSVCCompiler.
Neal Norwitz8f35f442007-04-01 18:24:22 +00007650
Facundo Batistab6a5c9d2007-03-29 18:22:35 +00007651- Added a timeout parameter to the constructor of other protocols
7652 (telnetlib, ftplib, smtplib and poplib). This is second part of the
7653 work started with create_connection() and timeout in httplib, and
7654 closes patch #723312.
7655
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00007656- Patch #1676823: Added create_connection() to socket.py, which may be
7657 called with a timeout, and use it from httplib (whose HTTPConnection
Facundo Batista70f996b2007-05-21 17:32:32 +00007658 and HTTPSConnection now accept an optional timeout).
Facundo Batista07c78be2007-03-23 18:54:07 +00007659
Martin v. Löwis0af33882007-03-23 13:27:15 +00007660- Bug #978833: Revert r50844, as it broke _socketobject.dup.
7661
Žiga Seilnacht7492e422007-03-21 20:07:56 +00007662- Bug #1675967: re patterns pickled with Python 2.4 and earlier can
7663 now be unpickled with Python 2.5 and newer.
7664
Collin Wintera8785cc2007-03-19 18:52:08 +00007665- Patch #1630118: add a SpooledTemporaryFile class to tempfile.py.
7666
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007667- Patch #1273829: os.walk() now has a "followlinks" parameter. If set
7668 to True (which is not the default), it visits symlinks pointing to
Georg Brandlcae9f3d2007-03-21 09:10:29 +00007669 directories.
7670
Georg Brandl8f06d022007-03-16 07:55:09 +00007671- Bug #1681228: the webbrowser module now correctly uses the default
7672 GNOME or KDE browser, depending on whether there is a session of one
7673 of those present. Also, it tries the Windows default browser before
7674 trying Mozilla variants.
7675
Collin Winter6f187742007-03-16 22:16:08 +00007676- Patch #1339796: add a relpath() function to os.path.
7677
Georg Brandlab1f4672007-03-15 07:41:30 +00007678- Patch #1681153: the wave module now closes a file object it opened if
7679 initialization failed.
7680
Georg Brandlf66b6032007-03-14 08:27:52 +00007681- Bug #767111: fix long-standing bug in urllib which caused an
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007682 AttributeError instead of an IOError when the server's response
7683 didn't contain a valid HTTP status line.
Georg Brandlf66b6032007-03-14 08:27:52 +00007684
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007685- Patch #957650: "%var%" environment variable references are now
7686 properly expanded in ntpath.expandvars(), also "~user" home
7687 directory references are recognized and handled on Windows.
Georg Brandl03b90d82007-03-13 22:07:36 +00007688
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007689- Patch #1429539: pdb now correctly initializes the __main__ module
7690 for the debugged script, which means that imports from __main__ work
Georg Brandlb6ae6aa2007-03-13 21:58:44 +00007691 correctly now.
7692
Georg Brandlbad6f192007-03-13 21:32:56 +00007693- The nonobvious commands.getstatus() function is now deprecated.
7694
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007695- Patch #1393667: pdb now has a "run" command which restarts the
7696 debugged Python program, optionally with different arguments.
Georg Brandl8e84c652007-03-13 21:08:15 +00007697
Thomas Heller5dc4fe02007-03-13 20:42:52 +00007698- Patch #1649190: Adding support for _Bool to ctypes as c_bool.
7699
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007700- Patch #1530482: add pydoc.render_doc() which returns the
7701 documentation for a thing instead of paging it to stdout, which
7702 pydoc.doc() does.
Georg Brandl8441f152007-03-13 20:02:57 +00007703
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007704- Patch #1533909: the timeit module now accepts callables in addition
7705 to strings for the code to time and the setup code. Also added two
7706 convenience functions for instantiating a Timer and calling its
7707 methods.
Georg Brandld9bef352007-03-13 19:32:21 +00007708
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007709- Patch #1537850: tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile now has a "delete"
7710 parameter which can be set to False to prevent the default
7711 delete-on-close behavior.
Georg Brandl35ef9c12007-03-13 18:31:49 +00007712
Georg Brandl9e6b4702007-03-13 18:15:41 +00007713- Patch #1581073: add a flag to textwrap that prevents the dropping of
7714 whitespace while wrapping.
7715
Georg Brandl92a6bae2007-03-13 17:43:32 +00007716- Patch #1603688: ConfigParser.SafeConfigParser now checks values that
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007717 are set for invalid interpolation sequences that would lead to
7718 errors on reading back those values.
Georg Brandl92a6bae2007-03-13 17:43:32 +00007719
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007720- Added support for the POSIX.1-2001 (pax) format to
7721 tarfile.py. Extended and cleaned up the test suite. Added a new
7722 testtar.tar.
Lars Gustäbelc64e4022007-03-13 10:47:19 +00007723
Martin v. Löwisbdd0f392007-03-13 10:24:00 +00007724- Patch #1449244: Support Unicode strings in
7725 email.message.Message.{set_charset,get_content_charset}.
7726
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007727- Patch #1542681: add entries for "with", "as" and "CONTEXTMANAGERS"
7728 to pydoc's help keywords.
Georg Brandlb6a87542007-03-13 10:06:48 +00007729
Georg Brandl4ffc8f52007-03-13 09:41:31 +00007730- Patch #1555098: use str.join() instead of repeated string
7731 concatenation in robotparser.
7732
Georg Brandl94fe3f52007-03-13 09:32:11 +00007733- Patch #1635454: the csv.DictWriter class now includes the offending
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007734 field names in its exception message if you try to write a record
7735 with a dictionary containing fields not in the CSV field names list.
Georg Brandl94fe3f52007-03-13 09:32:11 +00007736
Georg Brandlceede5c2007-03-13 08:14:27 +00007737- Patch #1668100: urllib2 now correctly raises URLError instead of
7738 OSError if accessing a local file via the file:// protocol fails.
7739
Martin v. Löwis2681beb2007-03-12 11:01:10 +00007740- Patch #1677862: Require a space or tab after import in .pth files.
7741
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007742- Patch #1192590: Fix pdb's "ignore" and "condition" commands so they
7743 trap the IndexError caused by passing in an invalid breakpoint
7744 number.
Collin Winter2faa9e12007-03-11 16:00:20 +00007745
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007746- Patch #1599845: Add an option to disable the implicit calls to
7747 server_bind() and server_activate() in the constructors for
7748 TCPServer, SimpleXMLRPCServer and DocXMLRPCServer.
Collin Winterae041062007-03-10 14:41:48 +00007749
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007750- Bug #1531963: Make SocketServer.TCPServer's server_address always be
7751 equal to calling getsockname() on the server's socket. Fixed by
Collin Winterfaaa2042007-03-10 03:35:34 +00007752 patch #1545011.
Collin Winter22c42ba2007-03-10 02:51:26 +00007753
Andrew M. Kuchlinge45a77a2008-01-19 16:26:13 +00007754- Patch #742598: Add .timeout attribute to SocketServer that calls
7755 .handle_timeout() when no requests are received.
7756
Thomas Heller2456a3c2007-03-09 20:39:22 +00007757- Bug #1651235: When a tuple was passed to a ctypes function call,
7758 Python would crash instead of raising an error.
7759
Thomas Hellerc2f77252007-03-09 19:21:28 +00007760- Bug #1646630: ctypes.string_at(buf, 0) and ctypes.wstring_at(buf, 0)
7761 returned string up to the first NUL character.
7762
Martin v. Löwis1190a382007-03-09 15:35:55 +00007763- Patch #957003: Implement smtplib.LMTP.
7764
Collin Winterfb728de2007-03-09 03:26:32 +00007765- Patch #1481079: add support for HTTP_REFERER to CGIHTTPServer.
7766
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007767- Patch #1675424: Added tests for uncovered code in the zipfile
7768 module. The KeyError raised by Zipfile.getinfo for nonexistent
7769 names now has a descriptive message.
Georg Brandl4b3ab6f2007-07-12 09:59:22 +00007770
Martin v. Löwis05c075d2007-03-07 11:04:33 +00007771- Bug #1115886: os.path.splitext('.cshrc') gives now ('.cshrc', '').
7772
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007773- unittest now verifies more of its assumptions. In particular,
7774 TestCase and TestSuite subclasses (not instances) are no longer
7775 accepted in TestSuite.addTest(). This should cause no
7776 incompatibility since it never made sense with ordinary subclasses
7777 -- the failure just occurred later, with a more cumbersome
7778 exception.
Georg Brandl9caadf82007-03-08 18:37:31 +00007779
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007780- Patch #787789: allow to pass custom TestRunner instances to
7781 unittest's main() function.
Georg Brandld0a96252007-03-07 09:21:06 +00007782
Georg Brandl15c5ce92007-03-07 09:09:40 +00007783- Patches #1550273, #1550272: fix a few bugs in unittest and add a
7784 comprehensive test suite for the module.
7785
Georg Brandl71ff6462007-03-07 08:31:51 +00007786- Patch #1001604: glob.glob() now returns unicode filenames if it was
7787 given a unicode argument and os.listdir() returns unicode filenames.
7788
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007789- Patch #1673619: setup.py identifies extension modules it doesn't
7790 know how to build and those it knows how to build but that fail to
7791 build.
Skip Montanarod1287322007-03-06 15:41:38 +00007792
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00007793- Patch #912410: Replace HTML entity references for attribute values
Martin v. Löwisab8a6bb2007-03-06 14:43:00 +00007794 in HTMLParser.
7795
Georg Brandlff432e62007-03-06 13:37:45 +00007796- Patch #1663234: you can now run doctest on test files and modules
7797 using "python -m doctest [-v] filename ...".
7798
Martin v. Löwis3eb76482007-03-06 10:41:24 +00007799- Patch #1121142: Implement ZipFile.open.
7800
Skip Montanarof694b1b2007-03-04 20:54:12 +00007801- Taught setup.py how to locate Berkeley DB on Macs using MacPorts.
7802
Raymond Hettinger00166c52007-02-19 04:08:43 +00007803- Added heapq.merge() for merging sorted input streams.
7804
Raymond Hettingercd3c1082007-10-23 21:23:07 +00007805- Added collections.namedtuple() for assigning field names to tuples.
Raymond Hettingerc37e5e02007-03-01 06:16:43 +00007806
Raymond Hettingerd36862c2007-02-21 05:20:38 +00007807- Added itertools.izip_longest().
7808
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007809- Have the encoding package's search function dynamically import using
7810 absolute import semantics.
Brett Cannon971a0122007-02-15 22:54:39 +00007811
Lars Gustäbel5b1a7852007-02-13 16:09:24 +00007812- Patch #1647484: Renamed GzipFile's filename attribute to name.
7813
Martin v. Löwis84f6de92007-02-13 10:10:39 +00007814- Patch #1517891: Mode 'a' for ZipFile now creates the file if it
7815 doesn't exist.
7816
Martin v. Löwisc6d626e2007-02-13 09:49:38 +00007817- Patch #698833: Support file decryption in zipfile.
7818
Martin v. Löwis07aa3ed2007-02-13 08:34:45 +00007819- Patch #685268: Consider a package's __path__ in imputil.
7820
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007821- Patch #1463026: Support default namespace in XMLGenerator.
Martin v. Löwis2bad58f2007-02-12 12:21:10 +00007822
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007823- Patch #1571379: Make trace's --ignore-dir facility work in the face
7824 of relative directory names.
Skip Montanaro691acf22007-02-11 18:24:37 +00007825
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007826- Bug #1600860: Search for shared python library in LIBDIR, not
7827 lib/python/config, on "linux" and "gnu" systems.
Martin v. Löwis0a203262007-02-09 12:36:48 +00007828
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007829- Patch #1652681: tarfile.py: create nonexistent files in append mode
7830 and allow appending to empty files.
Lars Gustäbel3f8aca12007-02-06 18:38:13 +00007831
Peter Astrand5f9c6ae2007-02-06 15:37:50 +00007832- Bug #1124861: Automatically create pipes if GetStdHandle fails in
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00007833 subprocess.
Peter Astrand5f9c6ae2007-02-06 15:37:50 +00007834
Georg Brandl4ba9e5b2007-01-27 17:59:42 +00007835- Patch #1634778: add missing encoding aliases for iso8859_15 and
7836 iso8859_16.
7837
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007838- Patch #1638243: the compiler package is now able to correctly
7839 compile a with statement; previously, executing code containing a
7840 with statement compiled by the compiler package crashed the
7841 interpreter.
Georg Brandlab496842007-01-27 17:43:02 +00007842
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00007843- Bug #1643943: Fix time.strptime's support for the %U directive.
7844
Lars Gustäbel0713a682007-02-19 09:54:47 +00007845- Patch #1507247: tarfile.py: use current umask for intermediate
7846 directories.
7847
Georg Brandldd7b0522007-01-21 10:35:10 +00007848- Patch #1627441: close sockets properly in urllib2.
7849
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007850- Bug #494589: make ntpath.expandvars behave according to its
7851 docstring.
Sjoerd Mullender33a0a062007-01-16 16:42:38 +00007852
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00007853- Changed platform module API python_version_tuple() to actually
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00007854 return a tuple (it used to return a list).
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00007855
7856- Added new platform module APIs python_branch(), python_revision(),
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00007857 python_implementation() and linux_distribution().
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00007858
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00007859- Added support for IronPython and Jython to the platform module.
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00007860
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007861- The sets module has been deprecated. Use the built-in set/frozenset
7862 types instead.
Brett Cannon093b6702007-01-13 00:29:49 +00007863
Thomas Heller6fd45492007-01-12 20:21:53 +00007864- Bug #1610795: make ctypes.util.find_library work on BSD systems.
7865
Thomas Heller8138c262007-01-11 21:18:56 +00007866- Fixes for 64-bit Windows: In ctypes.wintypes, correct the
7867 definitions of HANDLE, WPARAM, LPARAM data types. Make
7868 parameterless foreign function calls work.
7869
Thomas Hellerfb9d7872007-01-10 20:12:13 +00007870- The version number of the ctypes package changed to "1.1.0".
7871
Vinay Sajipab41c102007-01-09 14:51:36 +00007872- Bug #1627575: logging: Added _open() method to FileHandler which can
7873 be used to reopen files. The FileHandler instance now saves the
7874 encoding (which can be None) in an attribute called "encoding".
7875
Vinay Sajipc9137262007-01-08 18:52:36 +00007876- Bug #411881: logging.handlers: bare except clause removed from
7877 SMTPHandler.emit. Now, only ImportError is trapped.
7878
7879- Bug #411881: logging.handlers: bare except clause removed from
7880 SocketHandler.createSocket. Now, only socket.error is trapped.
7881
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007882- Bug #411881: logging: bare except clause removed from
7883 LogRecord.__init__. Now, only ValueError, TypeError and
7884 AttributeError are trapped.
Vinay Sajipc9137262007-01-08 18:52:36 +00007885
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007886- Patch #1504073: Fix tarfile.open() for mode "r" with a fileobj
7887 argument.
Lars Gustäbela7ba6fc2006-12-27 10:30:46 +00007888
Andrew M. Kuchling71662322006-12-27 03:31:24 +00007889- Patch #1182394 from Shane Holloway: speed up HMAC.hexdigest.
7890
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007891- Patch #1262036: Prevent TarFiles from being added to themselves
7892 under certain conditions.
Lars Gustäbela4b23812006-12-23 17:57:23 +00007893
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007894- Patch #1230446: tarfile.py: fix ExFileObject so that read() and
7895 tell() work correctly together with readline().
Lars Gustäbel6baa5022006-12-23 16:40:13 +00007896
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007897- Patch #1484695: The tarfile module now raises a HeaderError
7898 exception if a buffer given to frombuf() is invalid.
Georg Brandlebbeed72006-12-19 22:06:46 +00007899
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00007900- Bug #1503765: Fix a problem in logging.config with spaces in comma-
7901 separated lists read from logging config files.
7902
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007903- Patch #1604907: Fix problems in logging.handlers caused at logging
7904 shutdown when syslog handlers fail to initialize because of syslogd
7905 problems.
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00007906
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007907- Patch #1608267: fix a race condition in os.makedirs() if the
7908 directory to be created is already there.
Georg Brandlb1307432006-12-09 09:08:29 +00007909
Georg Brandl87fa5592006-12-06 22:21:18 +00007910- Patch #1610437: fix a tarfile bug with long filename headers.
7911
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007912- Patch #1371075: Make ConfigParser accept optional dict type for
7913 ordering, sorting, etc.
Martin v. Löwisa00bcac2006-12-03 12:01:53 +00007914
Thomas Helleref583a42006-11-28 20:21:54 +00007915- Bug #1563807: _ctypes built on AIX fails with ld ffi error.
7916
Thomas Heller25d208b2006-11-24 18:45:39 +00007917- Bug #1598620: A ctypes Structure cannot contain itself.
7918
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007919- Patch #1070046: Marshal new-style objects like InstanceType in
7920 xmlrpclib.
Martin v. Löwis07529352006-11-19 18:51:54 +00007921
Martin v. Löwiscffcc8b2006-11-19 10:41:41 +00007922- cStringIO.truncate(-1) now raises an IOError, like StringIO and
7923 regular files.
7924
Martin v. Löwisbba003e2006-11-18 18:42:11 +00007925- Patch #1472877: Fix Tix subwidget name resolution.
7926
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007927- Patch #1594554: Always close a tkSimpleDialog on ok(), even if an
7928 exception occurs.
Martin v. Löwisef5fd3e2006-11-18 18:05:35 +00007929
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007930- Patch #1538878: Don't make tkSimpleDialog dialogs transient if the
7931 parent window is withdrawn.
Martin v. Löwisc73a4a42006-11-18 18:00:23 +00007932
Georg Brandl54082112006-11-16 16:50:59 +00007933- Bug #1597824: return the registered function from atexit.register()
7934 to facilitate usage as a decorator.
7935
Martin v. Löwis45cd4ff2006-11-12 18:56:03 +00007936- Patch #1360200: Use unmangled_version RPM spec field to deal with
7937 file name mangling.
7938
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007939- Patch #1359217: Process 2xx response in an ftplib transfer that
7940 precedes an 1xx response.
Martin v. Löwis36cbc082006-11-12 18:48:13 +00007941
Martin v. Löwis065f0c82006-11-12 10:41:39 +00007942- Patch #1355023: support whence argument for GzipFile.seek.
7943
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00007944- Patch #1065257: Support passing open files as body in
Martin v. Löwis040a9272006-11-12 10:32:47 +00007945 HTTPConnection.request().
7946
Andrew M. Kuchlinga3e5d372006-11-09 13:27:07 +00007947- Bug #1569790: mailbox.py: Maildir.get_folder() and MH.get_folder()
7948 weren't passing the message factory on to newly created Maildir/MH
7949 objects.
7950
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007951- Patch #1514543: mailbox.py: In the Maildir class, report errors if
7952 there's a filename clash instead of possibly losing a message.
7953 (Patch by David Watson.)
Andrew M. Kuchling978d8282006-11-09 21:16:46 +00007954
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007955- Patch #1514544: Try to ensure that messages/indexes have been
7956 physically written to disk after calling .flush() or
7957 .close(). (Patch by David Watson.)
Andrew M. Kuchlingb5686da2006-11-09 13:51:14 +00007958
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00007959- Patch #1592250: Add elide argument to Tkinter.Text.search.
Martin v. Löwis038cad72006-11-09 11:27:32 +00007960
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00007961- Patch #838546: Make terminal become controlling in pty.fork().
Martin v. Löwisb2bba732006-11-09 11:06:03 +00007962
Martin v. Löwis5361e9a2006-11-08 07:35:55 +00007963- Patch #1351744: Add askyesnocancel helper for tkMessageBox.
7964
Martin v. Löwis5310e502006-11-04 18:14:06 +00007965- Patch #1060577: Extract list of RPM files from spec file in
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00007966 bdist_rpm.
Martin v. Löwis5310e502006-11-04 18:14:06 +00007967
Georg Brandl2c9838e2006-10-29 14:39:09 +00007968- Bug #1586613: fix zlib and bz2 codecs' incremental en/decoders.
7969
Georg Brandl3354f282006-10-29 09:16:12 +00007970- Patch #1583880: fix tarfile's problems with long names and posix/
7971 GNU modes.
7972
Georg Brandl5addf702006-10-29 08:53:06 +00007973- Bug #1586448: the compiler module now emits the same bytecode for
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00007974 list comprehensions as the built-in compiler, using the LIST_APPEND
Georg Brandl5addf702006-10-29 08:53:06 +00007975 opcode.
7976
Georg Brandl8f99f812006-10-29 08:39:22 +00007977- Fix codecs.EncodedFile which did not use file_encoding in 2.5.0, and
7978 fix all codecs file wrappers to work correctly with the "with"
7979 statement (bug #1586513).
7980
Thomas Heller112d1a62006-10-27 19:05:53 +00007981- Lib/modulefinder.py now handles absolute and relative imports
7982 correctly.
7983
Martin v. Löwisee82c0e2006-10-27 07:13:28 +00007984- Patch #1567274: Support SMTP over TLS.
7985
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007986- Patch #1560695: Add .note.GNU-stack to ctypes' sysv.S so that ctypes
7987 isn't considered as requiring executable stacks.
Martin v. Löwis1b2f6272006-10-22 10:55:15 +00007988
Thomas Hellerd2ea4a22006-10-17 19:30:48 +00007989- ctypes callback functions only support 'fundamental' data types as
7990 result type. Raise an error when something else is used. This is a
7991 partial fix for Bug #1574584.
7992
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007993- Fix turtle so that time.sleep is imported for the entire library.
7994 Allows the demo2 function to be executed on its own instead of only
7995 when the module is run as a script.
Brett Cannond80e0c82006-10-16 03:09:52 +00007996
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007997- Bug #813342: Start the IDLE subprocess with -Qnew if the parent is
7998 started with that option.
Georg Brandld0761532006-10-12 07:57:21 +00007999
Martin v. Löwisf43893a2006-10-09 20:44:25 +00008000- Bug #1565150: Fix subsecond processing for os.utime on Windows.
8001
Martin v. Löwis8b274262006-10-04 15:25:28 +00008002- Support for MSVC 8 was added to bdist_wininst.
8003
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008004- Bug #1446043: correctly raise a LookupError if an encoding name
8005 given to encodings.search_function() contains a dot.
Georg Brandla92979a2006-09-30 11:22:28 +00008006
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008007- Bug #1560617: in pyclbr, return full module name not only for
8008 classes, but also for functions.
Georg Brandl154324a2006-09-30 11:06:47 +00008009
Georg Brandl05b3c452006-09-30 10:58:01 +00008010- Bug #1457823: cgi.(Sv)FormContentDict's constructor now takes
8011 keep_blank_values and strict_parsing keyword arguments.
8012
Georg Brandl8d1e5bf2006-09-30 09:13:21 +00008013- Bug #1566602: correct failure of posixpath unittest when $HOME ends
8014 with a slash.
8015
Georg Brandl8c667452006-09-30 07:31:57 +00008016- Bug #1565661: in webbrowser, split() the command for the default
8017 GNOME browser in case it is a command with args.
8018
Georg Brandl5a85d5c2009-06-24 06:41:19 +00008019- Made the error message for time.strptime when the data and
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008020 format do match be more clear.
Brett Cannon11b35352006-09-26 23:38:24 +00008021
Georg Brandlc7986ce2006-09-24 12:50:24 +00008022- Fix a bug in traceback.format_exception_only() that led to an error
8023 being raised when print_exc() was called without an exception set.
8024 In version 2.4, this printed "None", restored that behavior.
8025
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008026- Make webbrowser.BackgroundBrowser usable in Windows (it wasn't
8027 because the close_fds arg to subprocess.Popen is not supported).
Georg Brandl2c94bf72006-09-24 10:36:01 +00008028
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008029- Reverted patch #1504333 to sgmllib because it introduced an infinite
8030 loop.
Neal Norwitzbcc119a2006-09-11 04:24:09 +00008031
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008032- Patch #1553314: Fix the inspect.py slowdown that was hurting IPython
8033 & SAGE by adding smarter caching in inspect.getmodule()
Nick Coghlanb3c18f82006-09-08 10:04:38 +00008034
Georg Brandl4e933132006-09-06 20:05:58 +00008035- Fix missing import of the types module in logging.config.
8036
Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +00008037- Patch #1550886: Fix decimal module context management implementation
Neal Norwitza22975f2006-09-05 02:24:03 +00008038 to match the localcontext() example from PEP 343.
Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +00008039
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008040- Bug #1545341: The 'classifier' keyword argument to the Distutils
8041 setup() function now accepts tuples as well as lists.
Andrew M. Kuchling99994792006-10-09 17:10:12 +00008042
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008043- Bug #1541863: uuid.uuid1 failed to generate unique identifiers on
8044 systems with low clock resolution.
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00008045
Gustavo Niemeyerc36bede2006-09-07 00:48:33 +00008046- Bug #1531862: Do not close standard file descriptors in subprocess.
8047
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008048- idle: Honor the "Cancel" action in the save dialog (Debian bug
8049 #299092).
Matthias Klosea398e2d2007-01-11 11:44:04 +00008050
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008051- Fix utf-8-sig incremental decoder, which didn't recognise a BOM when
8052 the first chunk fed to the decoder started with a BOM, but was
8053 longer than 3 bytes.
Georg Brandl27562782006-10-27 20:39:43 +00008054
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008055- The implementation of UnicodeError objects has been simplified
8056 (start and end attributes are now stored directly as Py_ssize_t
8057 members).
Walter Dörwald84a3efe2007-06-13 16:57:12 +00008058
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008059- Issue #829951: In the smtplib module, SMTP.starttls() now complies
8060 with RFC 3207 and forgets any knowledge obtained from the server not
8061 obtained from the TLS negotiation itself. Patch contributed by Bill
8062 Fenner.
Gregory P. Smith2b3ba582008-01-17 08:03:17 +00008063
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008064- Issue #1339: The smtplib.SMTP class has been refactored a bit such
Gregory P. Smithbde4ae42008-01-17 08:35:49 +00008065 that the SMTP.starttls() caller no longer needs to call ehlo()
8066 beforehand. SMTP.starttls() now raises an exception of the server
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008067 does not claim to support starttls. Adds the
8068 SMTP.ehlo_or_helo_if_needed() method. Patch contributed by Bill
8069 Fenner.
Gregory P. Smithbde4ae42008-01-17 08:35:49 +00008070
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008071- Patch #1089358: Add signal.siginterrupt, a wrapper around
8072 siginterrupt(3).
Georg Brandl29604a12008-01-26 14:03:47 +00008073
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00008074Extension Modules
8075-----------------
8076
Georg Brandl392c6fc2008-05-25 07:25:25 +00008077- Patch #1657: added select.epoll and select.kqueue.
Christian Heimes0e9ab5f2008-03-21 23:49:44 +00008078
Georg Brandlebcfd112008-02-23 23:04:35 +00008079- Patch #1506171: added operator.methodcaller().
8080
Georg Brandle2065c62008-02-23 23:02:23 +00008081- Patch #1826: operator.attrgetter() now supports dotted attribute paths.
8082
Georg Brandl392c6fc2008-05-25 07:25:25 +00008083- Patch #1957: syslogmodule: Release GIL when calling syslog(3).
Christian Heimesf0476e82008-02-23 17:42:31 +00008084
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008085- Bug #2112: mmap.error is now a subclass of EnvironmentError and not
8086 a direct EnvironmentError.
Facundo Batistae1396882008-02-17 18:59:29 +00008087
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008088- Bug #2111: mmap segfaults when trying to write a block opened with
8089 PROT_READ.
Christian Heimes7adfad82008-02-15 08:20:11 +00008090
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008091- Bug #2063: correct order of utime and stime in os.times() result on
8092 Windows.
Georg Brandl0a40ffb2008-02-13 07:20:22 +00008093
Martin v. Löwise0d30ef2008-02-12 13:47:26 +00008094- Patch #1736: Fix file name handling of _msi.FCICreate.
8095
Hye-Shik Chang01612e72008-02-08 17:10:20 +00008096- Updated ``big5hkscs`` codec to the HKSCS revision of 2004.
8097
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008098- Issue #1940: make it possible to use curses.filter() before
8099 curses.initscr() as the documentation says.
Georg Brandl29604a12008-01-26 14:03:47 +00008100
Christian Heimes7f39c9f2008-01-25 12:18:43 +00008101- Backport of _fileio module from Python 3.0.
8102
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008103- Patch #1087741: mmap.mmap is now a class, not a factory function. It
8104 is also subclassable now.
Georg Brandl5ca3fd82008-01-21 14:18:14 +00008105
Georg Brandl56112892008-01-20 13:59:46 +00008106- Patch #1648: added ``sys.getprofile()`` and ``sys.gettrace()``.
8107
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008108- Patch #1663329: added ``os.closerange()`` function to quickly close
8109 a range of file descriptors without considering errors.
Georg Brandl309501a2008-01-19 20:22:13 +00008110
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008111- Patch #976880: ``mmap`` objects now have an ``rfind`` method that
Andrew M. Kuchling5c60bfc2008-01-19 18:18:41 +00008112 works as expected. ``mmap.find`` also takes an optional ``end``
8113 parameter.
8114
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008115- _winreg's HKEY object has gained __enter__ and __exit__ methods to
8116 support the context manager protocol. The _winreg module also
8117 gained a new function ``ExpandEnvironmentStrings`` to expand
8118 REG_EXPAND_SZ keys.
Christian Heimesb39a7562008-01-08 15:46:10 +00008119
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008120- itertools.starmap() now accepts any iterable input. Previously, it
8121 required the function inputs to be tuples.
Raymond Hettinger47317092008-01-17 03:02:14 +00008122
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008123- itertools.chain() now has an alternate constructor,
8124 chain.from_iterable().
Raymond Hettingerb4cbc982008-02-28 22:46:41 +00008125
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008126- Issue #1646: Make socket support TIPC. The socket module now has
8127 support for TIPC under Linux, see http://tipc.sf.net/ for more
8128 information.
Christian Heimesfb2d25a2008-01-07 16:12:44 +00008129
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008130- Added interface for Windows' WSAIoctl to socket object and added an
8131 example for a simple network sniffer.
Christian Heimes04ae9162008-01-04 15:23:30 +00008132
Guido van Rossum076d9ee2008-01-03 23:54:04 +00008133- Bug #1301: Bad assert in _tkinter fixed.
8134
Christian Heimescdaa2cb2007-12-31 14:47:07 +00008135- Added bdist_wininst executable for VS 2008.
8136
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008137- Bug #1604: collections.deque.__init__(iterable) now clears any prior
8138 contents before adding elements from the iterable. This fix brings
8139 the behavior into line with that for list.__init__().
Raymond Hettingeradf9ffd2007-12-13 00:08:37 +00008140
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008141- Added wide char functions to msvcrt module: getwch, getwche, putwch
8142 and ungetwch. The functions accept or return unicode.
Christian Heimes7c7f6af2007-12-10 15:12:41 +00008143
Martin v. Löwis69233e82007-12-04 08:39:16 +00008144- os.access now returns True on Windows for any existing directory.
8145
Christian Heimes28104c52007-11-27 23:16:44 +00008146- Added warnpy3k function to the warnings module.
8147
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008148- Marshal.dumps() now expects exact type matches for int, long, float,
8149 complex, tuple, list, dict, set, and frozenset. Formerly, it would
8150 silently miscode subclasses of those types. Now, it raises a
8151 ValueError instead.
Raymond Hettinger12e94202007-11-07 01:13:09 +00008152
Martin v. Löwis58bd49f2007-09-04 13:13:14 +00008153- Patch #1388440: Add set_completion_display_matches_hook and
8154 get_completion_type to readline.
8155
Thomas Helleref4fff32007-07-13 17:46:54 +00008156- Bug #1649098: Avoid declaration of zero-sized array declaration in
8157 structure.
8158
Brett Cannondc48b742007-05-20 07:09:50 +00008159- Removed the rgbimg module; been deprecated since Python 2.5.
8160
Neal Norwitz59f58aa2007-05-19 03:48:47 +00008161- Bug #1721309: prevent bsddb module from freeing random memory.
8162
Gregory P. Smith82eafe62007-10-18 17:17:57 +00008163- Bug #1233: fix bsddb.dbshelve.DBShelf append method to work as
8164 intended for RECNO databases.
8165
Gregory P. Smithec10a4a2007-11-05 02:32:26 +00008166- pybsddb.sf.net Bug #477182: Load the database flags at database open
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008167 time so that opening a database previously created with the DB_DUP
8168 or DB_DUPSORT flag set will keep the proper behavior on subsequent
8169 opens. Specifically: dictionary assignment to a DB object will
8170 replace all values for a given key when the database allows
8171 duplicate values. DB users should use DB.put(k, v) when they want
8172 to store duplicates; not DB[k] = v.
Gregory P. Smithec10a4a2007-11-05 02:32:26 +00008173
Gregory P. Smithac11e022007-11-05 02:56:31 +00008174- Add the bsddb.db.DBEnv.lock_id_free method.
8175
Martin v. Löwis3bf573f2007-04-04 18:30:36 +00008176- Bug #1686475: Support stat'ing open files on Windows again.
8177
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008178- Patch #1185447: binascii.b2a_qp() now correctly quotes binary
8179 characters with ASCII value less than 32. Also, it correctly quotes
8180 dots only if they occur on a single line, as opposed to the previous
8181 behavior of quoting dots if they are the second character of any
8182 line.
Georg Brandl4aef7272007-03-13 22:49:43 +00008183
Georg Brandla47337f2007-03-13 12:34:25 +00008184- Bug #1622896: fix a rare corner case where the bz2 module raised an
8185 error in spite of a succesful compression.
8186
Georg Brandl40c62612007-03-06 18:59:11 +00008187- Patch #1654417: make operator.{get,set,del}slice use the full range
8188 of Py_ssize_t.
8189
Guido van Rossum2054ee92007-03-06 15:50:01 +00008190- Patch #1646728: datetime.fromtimestamp fails with negative
8191 fractional times. With unittest.
8192
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008193- Patch #1490190: posixmodule now includes os.chflags() and
8194 os.lchflags() functions on platforms where the underlying system
8195 calls are available.
Martin v. Löwis382abef2007-02-19 10:55:19 +00008196
Georg Brandl983d1002007-02-15 11:29:04 +00008197- Patch #1494140: Add documentation for the new struct.Struct object.
8198
Martin v. Löwis45423a72007-02-14 10:07:37 +00008199- Patch #1432399: Support the HCI protocol for bluetooth sockets
8200
Martin v. Löwisb1cc1d42007-02-13 12:14:19 +00008201- Patch #1657276: Make NETLINK_DNRTMSG conditional.
8202
Martin v. Löwis4c11a922007-02-08 09:13:36 +00008203- Bug #1653736: Complain about keyword arguments to time.isoformat.
8204
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008205- Bug #1486663: don't reject keyword arguments for subclasses of
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00008206 built-in types.
Georg Brandlb84c1372007-01-21 10:28:43 +00008207
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008208- Patch #1610575: The struct module now supports the 't' code, for C99
8209 _Bool.
Martin v. Löwisaef4c6b2007-01-21 09:33:07 +00008210
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008211- Patch #1635058: ensure that htonl and friends never accept or return
8212 negative numbers, per the underlying C implementation.
Guido van Rossumbb2cc692007-01-14 17:03:32 +00008213
Martin v. Löwis046c4d12006-12-03 11:23:45 +00008214- Patch #1544279: Improve thread-safety of the socket module by moving
8215 the sock_addr_t storage out of the socket object.
8216
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008217- Patch #1019808: fix bug that causes an incorrect error to be
8218 returned when a socket timeout is set and a connection attempt
8219 fails.
Andrew M. Kuchling060e6852008-01-19 20:47:59 +00008220
Neal Norwitz45e230a2006-11-19 21:26:53 +00008221- Speed up function calls into the math module.
8222
Georg Brandl25aabf42006-11-16 17:08:45 +00008223- Bug #1588217: don't parse "= " as a soft line break in binascii's
8224 a2b_qp() function, instead leave it in the string as quopri.decode()
8225 does.
8226
Neal Norwitz4fe44232006-11-21 05:26:22 +00008227- Bug #1599782: Fix segfault on bsddb.db.DB().type().
8228
Martin v. Löwis012bc722006-10-15 09:43:39 +00008229- Bug #1567666: Emulate GetFileAttributesExA for Win95.
8230
Martin v. Löwis18aaa562006-10-15 08:43:33 +00008231- Patch #1576166: Support os.utime for directories on Windows NT+.
8232
Georg Brandl412a9ea2006-10-09 19:03:06 +00008233- Patch #1572724: fix typo ('=' instead of '==') in _msi.c.
8234
Hye-Shik Changb7883462006-10-08 13:48:34 +00008235- Bug #1572832: fix a bug in ISO-2022 codecs which may cause segfault
8236 when encoding non-BMP unicode characters.
8237
Georg Brandl4ddfcd32006-09-30 11:17:34 +00008238- Bug #1556784: allow format strings longer than 127 characters in
8239 datetime's strftime function.
8240
Jack Diederichd10a0f72006-09-21 20:34:49 +00008241- Fix itertools.count(n) to work with negative numbers again.
8242
Martin v. Löwis43fd99c2006-09-16 17:36:37 +00008243- RLIMIT_SBSIZE was added to the resource module where available.
8244
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008245- Bug #1551427: fix a wrong NULL pointer check in the win32 version of
8246 os.urandom().
Georg Brandl74bb7832006-09-06 06:03:59 +00008247
Neal Norwitz6aefa912006-09-02 02:50:35 +00008248- Bug #1548092: fix curses.tparm seg fault on invalid input.
8249
Andrew M. Kuchling62182c82008-01-08 14:56:02 +00008250- Patch #1114: fix curses module compilation on 64-bit AIX, & possibly
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008251 other 64-bit LP64 platforms where attr_t is not the same size as a
8252 long. (Contributed by Luke Mewburn.)
Andrew M. Kuchling62182c82008-01-08 14:56:02 +00008253
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008254- Bug #1550714: fix SystemError from itertools.tee on negative value
8255 for n.
Neal Norwitz69e88972006-09-02 02:58:13 +00008256
Hye-Shik Chang199f1db2006-09-05 12:07:09 +00008257- Fixed a few bugs on cjkcodecs:
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008258 - gbk and gb18030 codec now handle U+30FB KATAKANA MIDDLE DOT
8259 correctly.
Hye-Shik Chang199f1db2006-09-05 12:07:09 +00008260 - iso2022_jp_2 codec now encodes into G0 for KS X 1001, GB2312
8261 codepoints to conform the standard.
Hye-Shik Chang2cad3e92006-09-05 12:14:57 +00008262 - iso2022_jp_3 and iso2022_jp_2004 codec can encode JIS X 0213:2
Hye-Shik Chang199f1db2006-09-05 12:07:09 +00008263 codepoints now.
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00008264
Andrew M. Kuchling43889c02006-09-27 16:37:30 +00008265- Bug #1552726: in readline.c, avoid repeatedly polling in interactive
8266 mode by only placing a timeout on the select() if an input hook has
8267 been defined. This prevents an interactive Python from waking up 10
8268 times per second. Patch by Richard Boulton.
8269
Gregory P. Smithf09c6262007-03-17 22:33:35 +00008270- fixed a bug with bsddb.DB.stat: the flags and txn keyword arguments
8271 were transposed.
8272
Jesus Cea4907d272008-08-31 14:00:51 +00008273- Added support for linking the bsddb module against BerkeleyDB 4.5.x,
8274 4.6.x and 4.7.x.
Gregory P. Smith8b96a352007-01-05 01:59:42 +00008275
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008276- Bug #1633621: if curses.resizeterm() or curses.resize_term() is
8277 called, update _curses.LINES, _curses.COLS, curses.LINES and
8278 curses.COLS.
Andrew M. Kuchling43889c02006-09-27 16:37:30 +00008279
Matthias Klosee19e0c22007-04-03 04:35:59 +00008280- Fix an off-by-one bug in locale.strxfrm().
8281
Matthias Klose38336402007-09-04 20:46:02 +00008282- Fix libffi configure for hppa*-*-linux* | parisc*-*-linux*.
8283
Matthias Klose9afb9852007-10-24 20:00:44 +00008284- Build using system ffi library on arm*-linux*.
8285
Christian Heimes3f065a42007-11-21 01:17:28 +00008286- Bug #1372: zlibmodule.c: int overflow in PyZlib_decompress
Matthias Klosee19e0c22007-04-03 04:35:59 +00008287
Gregory P. Smitheeed5b72008-02-03 07:20:53 +00008288- bsddb module: Fix memory leak when using database cursors on
8289 databases without a DBEnv.
8290
Gerhard Häring11ab8072008-03-02 13:12:27 +00008291- The sqlite3 module was updated to pysqlite 2.4.1.
8292
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00008293Tests
8294-----
8295
Brett Cannon56c4deb2008-03-03 00:38:58 +00008296- Refactor test_logging to use unittest.
Brett Cannonf9db8a32008-02-17 01:59:18 +00008297
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008298- Refactor test_profile and test_cprofile to use the same code to
8299 profile.
Georg Brandlb7090772008-02-05 19:58:17 +00008300
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008301- Make test_runpy reentrant by fixing _check_module to clear out any
8302 module being tested. Was causing an error by __import__ doing a
8303 reload on the second run and thus suppressing bytecode recreation.
Brett Cannondbed7a72007-08-23 14:53:17 +00008304
Brett Cannonea2835a2007-03-14 21:44:15 +00008305- Capture socket connection resets and timeouts in test_socket_ssl and
8306 test_urllib2net and raise test.test_support.ResourceDenied.
Brett Cannoned001842007-03-14 21:40:13 +00008307
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008308- Patch #1559413: Fix test_cmd_line if sys.executable contains a
8309 space.
Martin v. Löwiscd1210a2007-03-14 20:02:31 +00008310
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008311- Added test.test_support.TransientResource which is a context manager
8312 to surround calls to resources that are not guaranteed to work even
8313 if test.test_support.requires says that the resource should exist.
Brett Cannona30fcb42007-03-08 23:58:11 +00008314
Brett Cannone05e6b02007-01-29 04:41:44 +00008315- Added a test for slicing of an exception.
8316
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008317- Added test.test_support.EnvironmentVarGuard. It's a class that
8318 provides a context manager so that one can temporarily set or unset
8319 environment variables.
Brett Cannon92d54d52007-01-04 00:23:49 +00008320
Thomas Heller112d1a62006-10-27 19:05:53 +00008321- Added some tests for modulefinder.
8322
Brett Cannon373d90b2006-10-03 23:23:14 +00008323- Converted test_imp to use unittest.
8324
Neal Norwitz919d5cc2006-09-05 02:35:08 +00008325- Fix bsddb test_basics.test06_Transactions to check the version
8326 number properly.
8327
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008328- test.test_support.catch_warning is a new context manager that can be
8329 used to catch the warnings issued by the warning framework.
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00008330
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00008331Tools
8332-----
8333
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008334- Tools/scripts/reindent.py now creates the backup file using
8335 shutil.copy to preserve user/group and permissions. Added also a
8336 --nobackup option to not create the backup if the user is concerned
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00008337 regarding this. Check issue #1050828 for more details.
Facundo Batistaf88a0772008-02-17 16:21:13 +00008338
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008339- Tools/scripts/win_add2path.py was added. The simple script modifes
8340 the PATH environment var of the HKCU tree and adds the python bin
8341 and script directory.
Christian Heimesbd865db2008-01-18 11:58:50 +00008342
Skip Montanaro3e275362007-08-29 01:33:45 +00008343- Tools/18n/pygettext.py was added to the list of scripts installed by
8344 Tools/scripts/setup.py (tracker item 642309).
8345
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008346- Added IronPython and Jython support to pybench (part of which was
8347 patch #1563844).
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00008348
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008349- Made some minor changes to pybench output to allow the user to see
8350 which Python version is running pybench.
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00008351
8352- Added support for the new platform module feature
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008353 platform.python_implementation(); this will now be saved in the
8354 benchmark pickle.
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00008355
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00008356
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00008357Documentation
8358-------------
8359
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +00008360- RFE #1765140: Updated documentation on FileHandler and subclasses to
8361 include new optional delay argument.
8362
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008363- Bug #932563: Added section on getting contextual information into
8364 logging output, and added documentation for the new LoggerAdapter
8365 class.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00008366
8367- Bug #1295: Added information about caching of formatted exception
8368 information in the LogRecord by Formatter.format().
8369
Georg Brandl9467bc52007-07-12 09:37:49 +00008370- Bug #1637365: add subsection about "__name__ == __main__" to the
8371 Python tutorial.
8372
Georg Brandl3dc6e902007-04-25 06:24:59 +00008373- Patch #1698768: updated the "using Python on the Mac" intro.
8374
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008375- Bug #1569057: Document that calling file.next() when the file is
8376 open for writing is undefined.
Brett Cannon55a18642007-04-08 04:29:32 +00008377
Žiga Seilnachtc64ad482007-03-24 14:24:26 +00008378- Patch #1489771: the syntax rules in Python Reference Manual were
8379 updated to reflect the current Python syntax.
8380
Martin v. Löwis2f401d72007-03-23 10:35:49 +00008381- Patch #1686451: Fix return type for
8382 PySequence_{Count,Index,Fast_GET_SIZE}.
8383
Georg Brandl0692a262007-03-13 07:50:57 +00008384- Patch #1679379: add documentation for fnmatch.translate().
8385
Collin Winterb7b2b4e2007-03-09 18:09:10 +00008386- Bug #1629566: clarify the docs on the return values of parsedate()
8387 and parsedate_tz() in email.utils and rfc822.
8388
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00008389- Patch #1671450: add a section about subclassing built-in types to the
Georg Brandld28b9fc2007-03-06 10:02:47 +00008390 "extending and embedding" tutorial.
8391
Georg Brandlb26b1c62007-01-17 21:19:58 +00008392- Bug #1629125: fix wrong data type (int -> Py_ssize_t) in PyDict_Next
8393 docs.
8394
Georg Brandla4c8e322006-10-12 08:22:53 +00008395- Bug #1565919: document set types in the Language Reference.
8396
Georg Brandl44a7b3a2006-09-30 12:02:57 +00008397- Bug #1546052: clarify that PyString_FromString(AndSize) copies the
8398 string pointed to by its parameter.
8399
Georg Brandlfb257732006-09-30 09:06:45 +00008400- Bug #1566663: remove obsolete example from datetime docs.
8401
Georg Brandl648c1102006-08-18 07:27:59 +00008402- Bug #1541682: Fix example in the "Refcount details" API docs.
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008403 Additionally, remove a faulty example showing PySequence_SetItem
8404 applied to a newly created list object and add notes that this isn't
8405 a good idea.
Georg Brandl648c1102006-08-18 07:27:59 +00008406
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00008407
Georg Brandl27562782006-10-27 20:39:43 +00008408Tools/Demos
8409-----------
8410
8411- Patch #1552024: add decorator support to unparse.py demo script.
Marc-André Lemburg96148682006-09-06 20:40:22 +00008412
Brett Cannonc8939d22006-09-20 19:28:35 +00008413- Make auto-generated python.vim file list built-ins and exceptions in
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008414 alphatbetical order. Makes output more deterministic and easier to
8415 tell if the file is stale or not.
Brett Cannonc8939d22006-09-20 19:28:35 +00008416
Marc-André Lemburg96148682006-09-06 20:40:22 +00008417- Bug #1546372: Fixed small bugglet in pybench that caused a missing
8418 file not to get reported properly.
8419
8420
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00008421Build
8422-----
8423
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008424- Have the search path for building extensions follow the declared
8425 order in $CPPFLAGS and $LDFLAGS when adding directories from those
8426 environment variables.
Brett Cannon70c0c022008-02-03 09:59:21 +00008427
Christian Heimes951cc0f2008-01-31 23:08:23 +00008428- Bug #1983: Added a check to pyport to verify that sizeof(pid_t) is
8429 smaller or equal sizeof(long).
8430
Christian Heimescba36bb2008-01-30 22:54:18 +00008431- Bug #1234: Fixed semaphore errors on AIX 5.2
8432
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008433- Issue #1726: Remove Python/atof.c from PCBuild/pythoncore.vcproj.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00008434
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008435- Removed PCbuild8/ directory and added a new build directory for VS
8436 2005 based on the VS 2008 build directory to PC/VS8.0. The script
8437 PCbuild/vs8to9.py was added to sync changes from PCbuild to
8438 PC/VS8.0.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00008439
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008440- Moved PCbuild/ directory for VS 2003 to PC/VS7.1 and renamed
8441 PCBuild9/ directory to PCBuild/.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00008442
Martin v. Löwiscb78de62007-12-29 18:49:21 +00008443- Bug #1699: Define _BSD_SOURCE only on OpenBSD.
8444
Guido van Rossum7c862f82007-12-13 20:50:10 +00008445- Bug #1608: use -fwrapv when GCC supports it. This is important,
8446 newer GCC versions may optimize away overflow buffer overflow checks
8447 without this option!
8448
Martin v. Löwis63bf1492007-11-12 05:14:05 +00008449- Patch #1418: Make the AC_REPLACE_FUNCS object files actually work.
8450
Raymond Hettingerdc1d1ba2007-11-07 02:45:46 +00008451- Add a FAST_LOOPS build option that speeds-up looping by trading away
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008452 periodic threadstate and signal checking in tight loops. By
8453 default, this option is turned-off. It should only be enabled in
8454 debugged, performance critical applications.
Raymond Hettingerdc1d1ba2007-11-07 02:45:46 +00008455
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008456- Patch #786737: Allow building in a tree of symlinks pointing to a
8457 readonly source.
Martin v. Löwisd44a4e92007-09-05 11:47:34 +00008458
Martin v. Löwis8bc77e42007-09-01 06:36:03 +00008459- Bug #1737210: Change Manufacturer of Windows installer to PSF.
8460
Martin v. Löwis75c23bd2007-08-30 18:25:47 +00008461- Bug #1746880: Correctly install DLLs into system32 folder on Win64.
8462
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008463- Define _BSD_SOURCE, to get access to POSIX extensions on OpenBSD
8464 4.1+.
Martin v. Löwis76760b02007-07-31 19:57:56 +00008465
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008466- Stop supporting AtheOS and cause a build error in configure for the
8467 platform.
Brett Cannon19fab762007-06-02 03:02:29 +00008468
Georg Brandldb846032007-03-31 18:56:11 +00008469- Bug #1655392: don't add -L/usr/lib/pythonX.Y/config to the LDFLAGS
8470 returned by python-config if Python was built with --enable-shared
8471 because that prevented the shared library from being used.
8472
Georg Brandl18c47f62007-03-13 10:19:22 +00008473- Patch #1569798: fix a bug in distutils when building Python from a
8474 directory within sys.exec_prefix.
8475
Martin v. Löwiseb623572007-03-12 10:50:39 +00008476- Bug #1675511: Use -Kpic instead of -xcode=pic32 on Solaris/x86.
8477
Martin v. Löwis4d542ec2006-11-25 15:39:19 +00008478- Disable _XOPEN_SOURCE on NetBSD 1.x.
8479
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008480- configure now checks whether gcc supports the PyArg_ParseTuple
8481 format attribute.
Martin v. Löwisaac13162006-10-19 10:58:46 +00008482
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00008483- Bug #1578513: Cross compilation was broken by a change to configure.
Martin v. Löwisfefbc202006-10-17 18:59:23 +00008484 Repair so that it's back to how it was in 2.4.3.
8485
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008486- Patch #1576954: Update VC6 build directory; remove redundant files
8487 in VC7.
Martin v. Löwisc9e82f62006-10-15 07:54:40 +00008488
Martin v. Löwisebe26702006-10-02 14:55:51 +00008489- Bug #1568842: Fix test for uintptr_t.
8490
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008491- Patch #1540470: for OpenBSD 4.0.
Neal Norwitz4bc2c092006-09-05 02:57:01 +00008492
Matthias Klosed149d0c2006-12-03 17:16:41 +00008493- Fix build failure on kfreebsd and on the hurd.
8494
Matthias Kloseebde1492006-12-09 12:15:27 +00008495- Fix the build of the library reference in info format.
8496
Matthias Kloseeb8ff672007-08-02 21:33:13 +00008497- Allow Emacs 22 for building the documentation in info format.
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00008498
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008499- Makefile.pre.in(buildbottest): Run an optional script
8500 pybuildbot.identify to include some information about the build
8501 environment.
Matthias Klose642ac852007-09-04 18:17:36 +00008502
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00008503
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00008504C API
8505-----
8506
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008507- Unified naming convention for free lists and their limits. All free
8508 lists in Object/ are named ``free_list``, the counter ``numfree``
8509 and the upper limit is a macro ``PyName_MAXFREELIST`` inside an
8510 #ifndef block.
Christian Heimes5b970ad2008-02-06 13:33:44 +00008511
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008512- ``PySet_Add()`` can now modify a newly created frozenset. Similarly
8513 to ``PyTuple_SetItem``, it can be used to populate a brand new
8514 frozenset; but it does not steal a reference to the added item.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arccab3d982008-02-03 22:51:43 +00008515
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00008516- Added ``PySet_Check()`` and ``PyFrozenSet_Check()`` to the set API.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arccab3d982008-02-03 22:51:43 +00008517
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008518- Backport of PyUnicode_FromString(), _FromStringAndSize(), _Format
8519 and _FormatV from Python 3.0. Made PyLong_AsSsize_t and
8520 PyLong_FromSsize_t public functions.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00008521
8522- Patch #1720595: add T_BOOL to the range of structmember types.
8523
8524- Issue #1534: Added ``PyFloat_GetMax()``, ``PyFloat_GetMin()`` and
8525 ``PyFloat_GetInfo()`` to the float API.
8526
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008527- Issue #1521: On 64bit platforms, using PyArgs_ParseTuple with the t#
8528 of w# format code incorrectly truncated the length to an int, even
8529 when PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN is set. The str.decode method used to return
8530 incorrect results with huge strings.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00008531
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008532- Issue #1629: Renamed Py_Size, Py_Type and Py_Refcnt to Py_SIZE,
8533 Py_TYPE and Py_REFCNT.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00008534
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008535- PEP 3123: Provide forward compatibility with Python 3.0, while
8536 keeping backwards compatibility. Add Py_Refcnt, Py_Type, Py_Size,
8537 and PyVarObject_HEAD_INIT.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00008538
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008539- Py_ssize_t fields work in structmember when HAVE_LONG_LONG is not
8540 defined.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00008541
8542- Patch #1733960: Allow T_LONGLONG to accept ints.
8543
8544- T_PYSSIZET can now be used in PyMemberDef lists for Py_ssize_t members.
8545
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00008546- Added a new API function ``PyImport_ImportModuleNoBlock``.
8547
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00008548- Bug #1637022: Prefix AST symbols with _Py_.
8549
8550- Fix some leftovers from the conversion from int to Py_ssize_t
8551 (relevant to strings and sequences of more than 2**31 items).
8552
8553- Make _PyGILState_NoteThreadState() static, it was not used anywhere
8554 outside of pystate.c and should not be necessary.
8555
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008556- ``PyImport_Import`` and ``PyImport_ImportModule`` now always do
8557 absolute imports. In earlier versions they might have used relative
8558 imports under some conditions.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00008559
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008560- Added case insensitive comparison methods ``PyOS_stricmp(char*,
8561 char*)`` and ``PyOS_strnicmp(char*, char*, Py_ssize_t)``.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00008562
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008563- Bug #1542693: remove semi-colon at end of PyImport_ImportModuleEx
8564 macro so it can be used as an expression.
Neal Norwitz8a267062006-08-19 04:25:29 +00008565
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00008566
Martin v. Löwis2607e6c2006-11-21 18:20:25 +00008567Windows
8568-------
8569
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008570- Patch #1706: Drop support for Win9x, WinME and NT4. Python now
8571 requires Windows 2000 or greater. The _WINVER and NTDDI_VERSION
8572 macros are set to Win2k for x86/32bit builds and WinXP for AMD64
8573 builds.
Christian Heimes95d64472008-02-09 19:55:22 +00008574
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008575- Conditionalize definition of _CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE and
8576 _CRT_NONSTDC_NO_DEPRECATE.
Martin v. Löwis2607e6c2006-11-21 18:20:25 +00008577
Martin v. Löwisd476a402007-10-12 08:56:52 +00008578- Bug #1216: Restore support for Visual Studio 2002.
8579
Martin v. Löwis2607e6c2006-11-21 18:20:25 +00008580
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00008581Mac
8582---
8583
Brett Cannonf0cb1d72007-05-31 20:01:11 +00008584- cfmfile now raises a DeprecationWarning.
8585
Brett Cannon791d56f2007-05-31 19:40:42 +00008586- buildtools now raises a DeprecationWarning.
8587
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008588- Removed the macfs module. It had been deprecated since Python 2.5.
8589 This lead to the deprecation of macostools.touched() as it relied
8590 solely on macfs and was a no-op under OS X.
Brett Cannon5e263512007-05-20 23:17:38 +00008591
Skip Montanaroe5d7f7f2002-09-20 14:16:59 +00008592----
8593
8594**(For information about older versions, consult the HISTORY file.)**