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Lars Gustäbeld2201442007-04-20 14:49:02 +00007What's New in Python 2.5.2c1?
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10*Release date: XX-XXX-XXXX*
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Martin v. Löwis897704d2007-06-08 17:29:40 +000012Core and builtins
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14
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc3e5f8a62008-02-08 01:05:21 +000015- Issue #2045: Fix an infinite recursion triggered when printing a subclass of
16 collections.defaultdict, if its default_factory is set to a bound method.
17
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcf1a71782008-01-24 23:42:08 +000018- Issue #1920: "while 0" statements were completely removed by the compiler,
19 even in the presence of an "else" clause, which is supposed to be run when
20 the condition is false. Now the compiler correctly emits bytecode for the
21 "else" suite.
22
Guido van Rossumd933e0a2008-01-24 18:28:37 +000023- A few crashers fixed: weakref_in_del.py (issue #1377858);
24 loosing_dict_ref.py (issue #1303614, test67.py);
25 borrowed_ref_[34].py (not in tracker).
26
27- Fix for #1303614 and #1174712 backported from the trunk:
28 __dict__ descriptor abuse for subclasses of built-in types;
29 subclassing from both ModuleType and another built-in types.
30
Christian Heimesd2f4cb82008-01-23 14:20:41 +000031- Bug #1915: Python compiles with --enable-unicode=no again. However
32 several extension methods and modules do not work without unicode
33 support.
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Mark Dickinson2bebadf2008-01-21 21:54:47 +000035- Issue #1678380: distinction between 0.0 and -0.0 was lost during constant
36 folding optimization. This was a regression from Python 2.4.
37
Georg Brandl78d50cc2008-01-21 18:36:54 +000038- Issue #1882: when compiling code from a string, encoding cookies in the
39 second line of code were not always recognized correctly.
40
Guido van Rossum309e2412008-01-03 18:57:40 +000041- Bug #1517: Possible segfault in lookup().
42
43- Issue #1638: %zd configure test fails on Linux.
Christian Heimes60d96cd2007-12-18 21:14:54 +000044
Christian Heimes60d96cd2007-12-18 21:14:54 +000045- Issue #1553: An erroneous __length_hint__ can make list() raise a
Christian Heimes03acd852007-12-05 12:51:23 +000046 SystemError.
47
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc8334a4f2007-11-30 21:53:17 +000048- Issue #1521: On 64bit platforms, using PyArgs_ParseTuple with the t# of w#
49 format code incorrectly truncated the length to an int, even when
50 PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN is set. The str.decode method used to return incorrect
51 results with huge strings.
52
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc30f61cb2007-11-24 13:53:29 +000053- Issue #1445: Fix a SystemError when accessing the ``cell_contents``
54 attribute of an empty cell object.
55
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcc572dc32007-11-13 22:43:05 +000056- Issue #1265: Fix a problem with sys.settrace, if the tracing function uses a
57 generator expression when at the same time the executed code is closing a
58 paused generator.
59
Guido van Rossumf5ccd452007-11-13 05:23:21 +000060- Issue 1704621: Fix segfaults in list_repeat() and list_inplace_repeat().
61
Brett Cannon13bfa3a2007-09-11 21:12:14 +000062- Issue #1147: Generators were not raising a DeprecationWarning when a string
63 was passed into throw().
64
Martin v. Löwisfc787d52007-09-04 14:20:25 +000065- Patch #1031213: Decode source line in SyntaxErrors back to its original source
66 encoding.
67
Georg Brandlc5db9232007-07-12 08:38:04 +000068- Patch #1673759: add a missing overflow check when formatting floats
69 with %G.
70
Martin v. Löwis22768852007-06-09 08:01:33 +000071- Patch #1733960: Allow T_LONGLONG to accept ints.
72
Neal Norwitze99cb232007-06-11 07:34:07 +000073- Prevent expandtabs() on string and unicode objects from causing a segfault
74 when a large width is passed on 32-bit platforms.
Neal Norwitz66e64e22007-06-09 04:06:30 +000075
Martin v. Löwis897704d2007-06-08 17:29:40 +000076- Bug #1733488: Fix compilation of bufferobject.c on AIX.
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Gregory P. Smith8f034d92008-01-22 01:29:11 +000078- Fix Issue #1703448: A joined thread could show up in the
79 threading.enumerate() list after the join() for a brief period until
80 it actually exited.
81
Martin v. Löwis897704d2007-06-08 17:29:40 +000082
Lars Gustäbeld2201442007-04-20 14:49:02 +000083Library
84-------
85
Martin v. Löwise9c996c2008-02-12 18:48:23 +000086- Patch #1966: Break infinite loop in httplib when the servers
87 implements the chunked encoding incorrectly.
88
Lars Gustäbel08303db2008-02-11 18:36:07 +000089- tarfile.py: Fix reading of xstar archives.
90
Nick Coghlan5ca1cba2008-02-11 12:53:42 +000091- #2021: Allow tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile to be used in with statements
92 by correctly supporting the context management protocol.
93
Thomas Heller527bf3a2008-02-06 19:58:46 +000094- Fixed _ctypes.COMError so that it must be called with exactly three
95 arguments, instances now have the hresult, text, and details
96 instance variables.
97
Lars Gustäbel42993fe2008-02-05 12:00:20 +000098- #1507247, #2004: tarfile.py: Use mode 0700 for temporary directories and
99 default permissions for missing directories.
100
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc316f8a82008-02-04 22:34:57 +0000101- #175006: The debugger used to skip the condition of a "while" statement
102 after the first iteration. Now it correctly steps on the expression, and
103 breakpoints on the "while" statement are honored on each loop.
104
Thomas Hellerfe528eb2008-01-24 13:08:54 +0000105- The ctypes int types did not accept objects implementing
106 __int__() in the constructor.
107
Gregory P. Smith1cc98af2008-01-19 23:16:01 +0000108- #1189216: Fix the zipfile module to work on archives with headers
109 past the 2**31 byte boundary.
110
Gregory P. Smithc223c6c2008-01-19 22:29:41 +0000111- Issue #1336: fix a race condition in subprocess.Popen if the garbage
112 collector kicked in at the wrong time that would cause the process
113 to hang when the child wrote to stderr.
114
Georg Brandl7829d602008-01-19 20:34:19 +0000115- Bug #1687: Fixed plistlib.py restricts <integer> to Python int when writing.
116
Mark Dickinson4a3c7c72008-01-09 01:02:07 +0000117- Issue #1182: many arithmetic bugs in the decimal module have been
118 fixed, and the decimal module has been updated to comply with the
119 latest IBM Decimal Arithmetic specification (version 1.66) and
120 testsuite (version 2.57). (Backported from Python 2.6a0.)
121
Guido van Rossum6e3e6e02008-01-06 02:40:07 +0000122- Patch #1637: fix urlparse for URLs like 'http://x.com?arg=/foo'.
123
Lars Gustäbele5f9e582008-01-04 14:44:23 +0000124- Issue #1735: TarFile.extractall() now correctly sets directory permissions
125 and times.
126
Christian Heimes12f03cc2008-01-04 13:22:36 +0000127- Bug #1713: posixpath.ismount() claims symlink to a mountpoint is a mountpoint.
128
Guido van Rossum6df9a822008-01-03 19:08:15 +0000129- Issue #1700: Regular expression inline flags incorrectly handle certain
130 unicode characters.
131
Guido van Rossum309e2412008-01-03 18:57:40 +0000132- Change ctypes version number to 1.0.3 (when Python 2.5.2 is released,
133 ctypes 1.0.3 will be also be released).
134
Brett Cannon35b84b42007-12-24 20:00:42 +0000135- Issue #1695: Fixed typo in the docstrings for time.localtime() and gmtime().
136
Thomas Heller8e9e4d82007-12-18 19:00:59 +0000137- Issue #1642: Fix segfault in ctypes when trying to delete attributes.
138
Martin v. Löwisc8dbc922007-12-03 22:39:10 +0000139- os.access now returns True on Windows for any existing directory.
140
Lars Gustäbel7cc9c8b2007-12-01 21:06:06 +0000141- Issue #1531: tarfile.py: Read fileobj from the current offset, do not
142 seek to the start.
143
Skip Montanaro664ad762007-11-24 14:31:16 +0000144- Issue 1429818: patch for trace and doctest modules so they play nicely
145 together.
146
Brett Cannond3a81df2007-11-21 00:58:54 +0000147- doctest mis-used __loader__.get_data(), assuming universal newlines was used.
148
Nick Coghlane53fcfd2007-11-07 12:26:40 +0000149- Issue #1705170: contextlib.contextmanager was still swallowing
150 StopIteration in some cases. This should no longer happen.
151
Neal Norwitz1046af62007-10-23 05:35:11 +0000152- Bug #1307: Fix smtpd so it doesn't raise an exception when there is no arg.
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Thomas Hellerd6f63812007-10-12 06:53:32 +0000154- ctypes will now work correctly on 32-bit systems when Python is
155 configured with --with-system-ffi.
156
Thomas Heller5cf6ef82007-09-14 20:05:26 +0000157- Bug #1777530: ctypes.util.find_library uses dump(1) instead of
158 objdump(1) on Solaris.
159
Georg Brandlfed6bb72007-09-12 19:00:10 +0000160- Bug #1153: repr.repr() now doesn't require set and dictionary items
161 to be orderable to properly represent them.
162
Martin v. Löwis39f1f452007-08-30 18:58:29 +0000163- Bug #1709599: Run test_1565150 only if the file system is NTFS.
164
Skip Montanarod4c09692007-08-29 01:34:15 +0000165- When encountering a password-protected robots.txt file the RobotFileParser
166 no longer prompts interactively for a username and password (bug 813986).
167
Lars Gustäbela9bad982007-08-28 12:33:15 +0000168- TarFile.__init__() no longer fails if no name argument is passed and
169 the fileobj argument has no usable name attribute (e.g. StringIO).
170
Georg Brandleb4b7382007-08-08 13:03:45 +0000171- Reverted the fix for bug #1548891 because it broke compatibility with
172 arbitrary read buffers. Added a note in the documentation.
173
Hye-Shik Chang36fe3c02007-08-04 04:15:04 +0000174- GB18030 codec now can encode additional two-byte characters that
175 are missing in GBK.
176
Martin v. Löwisbd28ca62007-07-28 07:01:43 +0000177- Bug #1704793: Raise KeyError if unicodedata.lookup cannot
178 represent the result in a single character.
179
Martin v. Löwis088277f2007-07-25 16:24:08 +0000180- Change location of the package index to pypi.python.org/pypi
181
Thomas Heller6f4155d2007-07-13 17:07:55 +0000182- Bug #1701409: Fix a segfault in printing ctypes.c_char_p and
183 ctypes.c_wchar_p when they point to an invalid location. As a
184 sideeffect the representation of these instances has changed.
185
Neal Norwitze99cb232007-06-11 07:34:07 +0000186- Bug #1734723: Fix repr.Repr() so it doesn't ignore the maxtuple attribute.
187
Hye-Shik Chang60111e02007-06-05 19:14:33 +0000188- Bug #1728403: Fix a bug that CJKCodecs StreamReader hangs when it
189 reads a file that ends with incomplete sequence and sizehint argument
190 for .read() is specified.
191
Brett Cannonc9490e22007-06-04 00:14:06 +0000192- Bug #1730389: Have time.strptime() match spaces in a format argument with
193 ``\s+`` instead of ``\s*``.
194
Neal Norwitz2413e032007-06-02 18:53:07 +0000195- SF 1668596/1720897: distutils now copies data files
196 even if package_dir is empty.
197
Neal Norwitzdc78cc62007-05-16 20:09:36 +0000198- Fix bug in marshal where bad data would cause a segfault due to
199 lack of an infinite recursion check.
200
Andrew M. Kuchling6ecd4a02007-07-14 22:06:30 +0000201- mailbox.py: Ignore stray directories found in Maildir's cur/new/tmp
202 subdirectories.
203
Georg Brandl4c875812007-05-15 20:19:39 +0000204- HTML-escape the plain traceback in cgitb's HTML output, to prevent
205 the traceback inadvertently or maliciously closing the comment and
206 injecting HTML into the error page.
207
Brett Cannondaa2e582007-04-27 23:17:43 +0000208- Bug #1290505: Properly clear time.strptime's locale cache when the locale
209 changes between calls. Backport of r54646 and r54647.
210
Georg Brandlf784d912007-04-24 15:27:25 +0000211- Bug #1706381: Specifying the SWIG option "-c++" in the setup.py file
212 (as opposed to the command line) will now write file names ending in
213 ".cpp" too.
214
Lars Gustäbel9319e432007-04-20 20:10:59 +0000215- Patch #1695229: Fix a regression with tarfile.open() and a missing name
216 argument.
217
Lars Gustäbeld2201442007-04-20 14:49:02 +0000218- tarfile.py: Fix directory names to have only one trailing slash.
219
Barry Warsaw2f131d82007-04-23 01:58:33 +0000220- Fix test_pty.py to not hang on OS X (and theoretically other *nixes) when
221 run in verbose mode.
222
Ronald Oussorenc0f800d2007-07-09 08:40:34 +0000223- Bug #1693258: IDLE would show two "Preferences" menu's with some versions
224 of Tcl/Tk
225
Gregory P. Smitha1e53872007-11-06 00:32:04 +0000226- Issue1385: The hmac module now computes the correct hmac when using hashes
227 with a block size other than 64 bytes (such as sha384 and sha512).
228
Gregory P. Smith0f99b712008-01-17 07:54:47 +0000229- Issue829951: In the smtplib module, SMTP.starttls() now complies with
230 RFC 3207 and forgets any knowledge obtained from the server not obtained
231 from the TLS negotiation itself. Patch contributed by Bill Fenner.
232
Lars Gustäbeld2201442007-04-20 14:49:02 +0000233
Neal Norwitzf86ae692007-05-19 03:53:33 +0000234Extension Modules
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236
Martin v. Löwiscab74c82008-02-12 13:48:06 +0000237- Patch #1736: Fix file name handling of _msi.FCICreate.
238
Guido van Rossumd66e94d2008-02-04 22:00:35 +0000239- Backport r59862 (issue #712900): make long regexp matches interruptable.
240
Georg Brandlee50e3c2008-01-26 14:03:51 +0000241- #1940: make it possible to use curses.filter() before curses.initscr()
242 as the documentation says.
243
Thomas Hellerf43a86b2008-01-16 19:24:20 +0000244- Fix a potential 'SystemError: NULL result without error' in _ctypes.
245
Guido van Rossum3b4a5bd2008-01-03 23:52:04 +0000246- Bug #1301: Bad assert in _tkinter fixed.
247
Andrew M. Kuchling7a062c62008-01-08 14:58:52 +0000248- Patch #1114: fix curses module compilation on 64-bit AIX, & possibly
249 other 64-bit LP64 platforms where attr_t is not the same size as a long.
250 (Contributed by Luke Mewburn.)
251
Thomas Heller8b6a17b2007-07-13 17:36:01 +0000252- Bug #1649098: Avoid declaration of zero-sized array declaration in
253 structure.
254
Thomas Heller11c58c42007-06-08 19:39:31 +0000255- Bug #1703286: ctypes no longer truncates 64-bit pointers.
256
Neal Norwitzf86ae692007-05-19 03:53:33 +0000257- Bug #1721309: prevent bsddb module from freeing random memory.
258
Gregory P. Smith137bdfa2007-10-12 18:49:36 +0000259- Bug #1233: fix bsddb.dbshelve.DBShelf append method to work as
260 intended for RECNO databases.
261
Thomas Hellerb40092b2007-05-30 07:07:34 +0000262- Bug #1726026: Correct the field names of WIN32_FIND_DATAA and
263 WIN32_FIND_DATAW structures in the ctypes.wintypes module.
Neal Norwitzf86ae692007-05-19 03:53:33 +0000264
Matthias Klosecf754ba2007-09-03 22:13:48 +0000265- Added support for linking the bsddb module against BerkeleyDB 4.6.x.
266
Matthias Kloseb0844022007-09-04 23:47:16 +0000267- Fix libffi configure for hppa*-*-linux* | parisc*-*-linux*.
268
Matthias Klosee467dbc2007-10-24 20:34:07 +0000269- Build using system ffi library on arm*-linux*.
270
Christian Heimes946a51c2007-11-21 00:44:57 +0000271- Bug #1372: zlibmodule.c: int overflow in PyZlib_decompress
272
Gregory P. Smith946de922008-02-03 07:26:23 +0000273- bsddb module: Fix memory leak when using database cursors on
274 databases without a DBEnv.
275
Matthias Klosee467dbc2007-10-24 20:34:07 +0000276
Brett Cannona801b6a2007-04-27 22:35:57 +0000277Documentation
278-------------
279
Georg Brandl78d59d62007-07-12 09:37:53 +0000280- Bug #1637365: add subsection about "__name__ == __main__" to the
281 Python tutorial.
282
Brett Cannona801b6a2007-04-27 22:35:57 +0000283- Bug #1569057: Document that calling file.next() on a file open for writing
284 has undefined behaviour. Backport of r54712.
285
Ronald Oussorenc0f800d2007-07-09 08:40:34 +0000286Build
287-----
288
Brett Cannon912ba542008-02-03 09:58:02 +0000289- Have the search path for building extensions follow the declared order in
290 $CPPFLAGS and $LDFLAGS.
291
Christian Heimesab8fe4e2008-01-30 22:54:27 +0000292- Bug #1234: Fixed semaphore errors on AIX 5.2
293
Martin v. Löwisff36b2c2007-12-29 18:48:57 +0000294- Bug #1699: Define _BSD_SOURCE only on OpenBSD.
295
Guido van Rossumd4029c82007-12-13 20:42:33 +0000296- Bug #1608: use -fwrapv when GCC supports it. This is important,
297 newer GCC versions may optimize away overflow buffer overflow checks
298 without this option!
299
Martin v. Löwis3903f502007-11-22 06:47:17 +0000300- Allow simultaneous installation of 32-bit and 64-bit versions
301 on 64-bit Windows systems.
302
Martin v. Löwisa326ab22007-09-05 11:47:22 +0000303- Patch #786737: Allow building in a tree of symlinks pointing to
304 a readonly source.
305
Martin v. Löwisfe2cb592007-09-01 06:36:38 +0000306- Bug #1737210: Change Manufacturer of Windows installer to PSF.
307
Martin v. Löwisaa1e0052007-08-30 18:37:41 +0000308- Bug #1746880: Correctly install DLLs into system32 folder on Win64.
309
Martin v. Löwis858c8092007-07-31 19:54:20 +0000310- Define _BSD_SOURCE, to get access to POSIX extensions on OpenBSD 4.1+.
311
Ronald Oussorenc0f800d2007-07-09 08:40:34 +0000312- Patch #1673122: Use an explicit path to libtool when building a framework.
313 This avoids picking up GNU libtool from a users PATH.
314
Matthias Klose979f5cd2007-08-02 21:28:57 +0000315- Allow Emacs 22 for building the documentation in info format.
316
Matthias Klose5cb86a22007-09-05 06:45:57 +0000317- Makefile.pre.in(buildbottest): Run an optional script pybuildbot.identify
318 to include some information about the build environment.
Brett Cannona801b6a2007-04-27 22:35:57 +0000319
Martin v. Löwisd79fa9e2007-10-12 08:58:48 +0000320Windows
321-------
322
323- Bug #1216: Restore support for Visual Studio 2002.
324
Neal Norwitze6e383f2007-04-16 06:59:13 +0000325What's New in Python 2.5.1?
326=============================
327
Anthony Baxteref57abd2007-04-18 03:35:45 +0000328*Release date: 18-APR-2007*
Neal Norwitze6e383f2007-04-16 06:59:13 +0000329
330Core and builtins
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332
Georg Brandl2e23bb72007-06-01 19:20:52 +0000333- Bug #1722485: remove docstrings again when running with -OO.
Georg Brandlba871a02007-06-01 11:33:45 +0000334
Neal Norwitze6e383f2007-04-16 06:59:13 +0000335- Revert SF #1615701: dict.update() does *not* call __getitem__() or keys()
336 if subclassed. This is to remain consistent with 2.5.
Raymond Hettinger87b5d912007-04-18 02:02:15 +0000337 Also revert revision 53667 with made a similar change to set.update().
Neal Norwitze6e383f2007-04-16 06:59:13 +0000338
339
Brett Cannonc70e0032006-09-21 18:12:15 +0000340What's New in Python 2.5.1c1?
341=============================
342
Anthony Baxter9515c962007-04-05 04:52:06 +0000343*Release date: 05-APR-2007*
Brett Cannonc70e0032006-09-21 18:12:15 +0000344
345Core and builtins
346-----------------
347
Georg Brandl8a10ea42007-03-21 09:00:55 +0000348- Patch #1682205: a TypeError while unpacking an iterable is no longer
349 masked by a generic one with the message "unpack non-sequence".
350
Collin Winter7d9ac782007-03-16 04:12:48 +0000351- Patch #1642547: Fix an error/crash when encountering syntax errors in
352 complex if statements.
353
Žiga Seilnachtc1b4e8e2007-03-15 11:47:59 +0000354- Patch #1462488: Python no longer segfaults when ``object.__reduce_ex__()``
355 is called with an object that is faking its type.
356
Žiga Seilnacht94c88722007-03-14 12:34:30 +0000357- Patch #1680015: Don't modify __slots__ tuple if it contains an unicode
358 name.
359
Collin Wintere19d7a32007-03-12 16:49:23 +0000360- Patch #922167: Python no longer segfaults when faced with infinitely
361 self-recursive reload() calls (as reported by bug #742342).
362
Žiga Seilnachtad3d2c22007-03-11 16:01:51 +0000363- Patch #1675981: remove unreachable code from ``type.__new__()`` method.
364
Georg Brandlffb0a802007-03-06 18:44:35 +0000365- Patch #1638879: don't accept strings with embedded NUL bytes in long().
366
Georg Brandl15e138a2007-03-06 12:16:52 +0000367- Bug #1674503: close the file opened by execfile() in an error condition.
368
Georg Brandl0ea89162007-03-05 22:28:13 +0000369- Patch #1674228: when assigning a slice (old-style), check for the
370 sq_ass_slice instead of the sq_slice slot.
371
Neal Norwitz036b3be2007-02-26 23:46:51 +0000372- Bug #1669182: prevent crash when trying to print an unraisable error
373 from a string exception.
374
Raymond Hettingerd882e362007-03-02 19:19:05 +0000375- The peephole optimizer left None as a global in functions with a docstring
376 and an explicit return value.
377
Martin v. Löwisb4af42a2007-02-09 12:19:46 +0000378- Bug #1653736: Properly discard third argument to slot_nb_inplace_power.
379
Raymond Hettinger9f0e1ea2007-02-07 23:57:05 +0000380- SF #151204: enumerate() now raises an Overflow error at sys.maxint items.
381
Brett Cannon75ba0752007-01-23 22:41:20 +0000382- Bug #1377858: Fix the segfaulting of the interpreter when an object created
Brett Cannonba2ec052007-01-23 22:46:12 +0000383 a weakref on itself during a __del__ call for new-style classes (classic
384 classes still have the bug).
Brett Cannon75ba0752007-01-23 22:41:20 +0000385
Raymond Hettinger21191f42007-02-01 21:01:21 +0000386- Bug #1648179: set.update() did not recognize an overridden __iter__
387 method in subclasses of dict.
388
Martin v. Löwis601d03a2007-01-23 21:11:58 +0000389- Bug #1579370: Make PyTraceBack_Here use the current thread, not the
390 frame's thread state.
391
Thomas Wouterse4713172007-01-23 13:54:30 +0000392- patch #1630975: Fix crash when replacing sys.stdout in sitecustomize.py
393
Martin v. Löwis9d179ce2007-01-19 06:42:33 +0000394- Bug #1637022: Prefix AST symbols with _Py_.
395
Neal Norwitz7770f9f2007-01-05 05:28:50 +0000396- Prevent seg fault on shutdown which could occur if an object
397 raised a warning.
398
Martin v. Löwisbea1c702007-01-04 21:06:57 +0000399- Bug #1566280: Explicitly invoke threading._shutdown from Py_Main,
400 to avoid relying on atexit.
401
Raymond Hettinger5425a672006-12-20 07:43:59 +0000402- Bug #1590891: random.randrange don't return correct value for big number
403
Raymond Hettinger775ebe22006-12-08 18:12:24 +0000404- Bug #1456209: In some obscure cases it was possible for a class with a
405 custom ``__eq__()`` method to confuse set internals when class instances
406 were used as a set's elements and the ``__eq__()`` method mutated the set.
407
Raymond Hettinger9cdf7032006-12-29 18:49:13 +0000408- The repr for self-referential sets and fronzensets now shows "..." instead
409 of falling into infinite recursion.
410
Raymond Hettinger775ebe22006-12-08 18:12:24 +0000411- Eliminated unnecessary repeated calls to hash() by set.intersection() and
412 set.symmetric_difference_update().
413
Martin v. Löwisa1e34222006-11-08 06:46:49 +0000414- Bug #1591996: Correctly forward exception in instance_contains().
415
Neal Norwitza3ce6aa2006-11-04 19:32:54 +0000416- Bug #1588287: fix invalid assertion for `1,2` in debug builds.
417
Georg Brandl5e9f94a2006-10-29 18:31:45 +0000418- Bug #1576657: when setting a KeyError for a tuple key, make sure that
Raymond Hettinger775ebe22006-12-08 18:12:24 +0000419 the tuple isn't used as the "exception arguments tuple". Applied to
420 both sets and dictionaries.
Georg Brandl5e9f94a2006-10-29 18:31:45 +0000421
Neal Norwitz2f0940b2006-10-28 21:38:43 +0000422- Bug #1565514, SystemError not raised on too many nested blocks.
423
Thomas Hellera0a50fe2006-10-27 18:47:29 +0000424- Bug #1576174: WindowsError now displays the windows error code
425 again, no longer the posix error code.
426
Martin v. Löwis62e58042006-10-27 06:17:21 +0000427- Patch #1549049: Support long values in structmember.
428
Andrew M. Kuchling5f958702006-10-27 13:29:41 +0000429- Bug #1542016: make sys.callstats() match its docstring and return an
430 11-tuple (only relevant when Python is compiled with -DCALL_PROFILE).
431
Georg Brandldd4c3982006-10-12 11:28:04 +0000432- Bug #1545497: when given an explicit base, int() did ignore NULs
433 embedded in the string to convert.
434
Georg Brandla5fe3ef2006-10-08 07:12:23 +0000435- Bug #1569998: break inside a try statement (outside a loop) is now
436 recognized and rejected.
437
Georg Brandl74284b92006-10-08 07:06:29 +0000438- Patch #1542451: disallow continue anywhere under a finally.
439
Armin Rigo4b63c212006-10-04 11:44:06 +0000440- list.pop(x) accepts any object x following the __index__ protocol.
441
442- Fix some leftovers from the conversion from int to Py_ssize_t
443 (relevant to strings and sequences of more than 2**31 items).
444
445- A number of places, including integer negation and absolute value,
446 were fixed to not rely on undefined behaviour of the C compiler
447 anymore.
Martin v. Löwis10525ad2006-10-04 05:47:47 +0000448
Georg Brandl506cc182006-09-30 09:03:45 +0000449- Bug #1566800: make sure that EnvironmentError can be called with any
450 number of arguments, as was the case in Python 2.4.
451
Georg Brandlaf4337a2006-09-30 08:43:50 +0000452- Patch #1567691: super() and new.instancemethod() now don't accept
453 keyword arguments any more (previously they accepted them, but didn't
454 use them).
455
Georg Brandla6b9ce12006-09-24 12:35:40 +0000456- Fix a bug in the parser's future statement handling that led to "with"
457 not being recognized as a keyword after, e.g., this statement:
458 from __future__ import division, with_statement
459
Georg Brandlc57221e2006-09-25 07:04:10 +0000460- Bug #1557232: fix seg fault with def f((((x)))) and def f(((x),)).
461
Georg Brandl934c90d2006-09-25 06:58:00 +0000462- Fix %zd string formatting on Mac OS X so it prints negative numbers.
463
Brett Cannonc70e0032006-09-21 18:12:15 +0000464- Allow exception instances to be directly sliced again.
465
Georg Brandla35f8e02006-10-27 20:39:47 +0000466
Jack Diederich6cc16be2006-09-21 20:38:39 +0000467Extension Modules
468-----------------
469
Guido van Rossum309e2412008-01-03 18:57:40 +0000470- Patch #1643738: Problem with signals in a single-threaded application.
471
472- Bug #1563759: struct.unpack doens't support buffer protocol objects.
Raymond Hettinger3608f052007-04-04 20:32:03 +0000473
Martin v. Löwis88635442007-04-04 18:30:56 +0000474- Bug #1686475: Support stat'ing open files on Windows again.
475
Raymond Hettingerd6030ac2007-04-02 22:39:08 +0000476- Bug #1647541: Array module's buffer interface can now handle empty arrays.
477
Raymond Hettinger4bbcb642007-04-02 17:03:46 +0000478- Bug #1693079: The array module can now successfully pickle empty arrays.
479
Neal Norwitz65407fb2007-03-31 18:56:11 +0000480- Bug #1688393: Prevent crash in socket.recvfrom if length is negative.
481
Georg Brandld6e73c12007-03-13 12:34:35 +0000482- Bug #1622896: fix a rare corner case where the bz2 module raised an
483 error in spite of a succesful compression.
484
Georg Brandl62b1b002007-03-06 19:00:09 +0000485- Patch #1654417: make operator.{get,set,del}slice use the full range
486 of Py_ssize_t.
487
Georg Brandl02d7cff2007-03-06 17:46:17 +0000488- Patch #1646728: datetime.fromtimestamp fails with negative
489 fractional times. With unittest.
490
Georg Brandlee467d02007-02-15 11:29:08 +0000491- Patch #1494140: Add documentation for the new struct.Struct object.
492
Martin v. Löwis1e335b22007-02-13 12:14:29 +0000493- Patch #1657276: Make NETLINK_DNRTMSG conditional.
494
Martin v. Löwisb8d661b2007-02-18 08:50:38 +0000495- Bug #1653736: Fix signature of time_isoformat.
Martin v. Löwis2e8b6022007-02-08 09:13:51 +0000496
Raymond Hettinger665ddc92008-01-14 23:02:51 +0000497- Issue #1698398 Zipfile.printdir() crashed because the format string
498 expected a tuple type of length six instead of time.struct_time object.
499
Raymond Hettinger9f0e1ea2007-02-07 23:57:05 +0000500- operator.count() now raises an OverflowError when the count reaches sys.maxint.
501
Raymond Hettinger127ef442007-02-07 22:12:01 +0000502- Bug #1575169: operator.isSequenceType() now returns False for subclasses of dict.
503
Raymond Hettinger113776c2007-02-07 21:40:49 +0000504- collections.defaultdict() now verifies that the factory function is callable.
505
Georg Brandl8e932e72007-01-21 10:28:56 +0000506- Bug #1486663: don't reject keyword arguments for subclasses of builtin
507 types.
508
Thomas Heller51319252007-01-10 20:07:29 +0000509- The version number of the ctypes package was changed to "1.0.2".
510
Neal Norwitza5f5f142007-02-25 16:19:21 +0000511- Bug #1664966: Fix crash in exec if Unicode filename can't be decoded.
512
Martin v. Löwis95b744c2006-12-03 11:24:00 +0000513- Patch #1544279: Improve thread-safety of the socket module by moving
514 the sock_addr_t storage out of the socket object.
515
Andrew M. Kuchlinge6acc872006-12-18 20:27:30 +0000516- Patch #1615868: make bz2.BZFile.seek() work for offsets >2GiB.
517
Thomas Heller84a90ca2006-11-28 20:43:11 +0000518- Bug #1563807: _ctypes built on AIX fails with ld ffi error.
519
Thomas Heller558e56d2006-11-24 19:00:39 +0000520- Bug #1598620: A ctypes Structure cannot contain itself.
521
Georg Brandldd3bffb2006-11-16 17:08:48 +0000522- Bug #1588217: don't parse "= " as a soft line break in binascii's
523 a2b_qp() function, instead leave it in the string as quopri.decode()
524 does.
525
Martin v. Löwis3f634542006-11-09 11:06:30 +0000526- Patch #838546: Make terminal become controlling in pty.fork()
527
Martin v. Löwis63a9b8b2006-10-22 10:55:25 +0000528- Patch #1560695: Add .note.GNU-stack to ctypes' sysv.S so that
529 ctypes isn't considered as requiring executable stacks.
530
Martin v. Löwis2c7aa632006-10-15 09:44:02 +0000531- Bug #1567666: Emulate GetFileAttributesExA for Win95.
532
Georg Brandl3c487092006-10-12 09:47:17 +0000533- Bug #1548891: The cStringIO.StringIO() constructor now encodes unicode
534 arguments with the system default encoding just like the write()
535 method does, instead of converting it to a raw buffer.
536
Martin v. Löwis463a42b2006-10-09 20:44:50 +0000537- Bug #1565150: Fix subsecond processing for os.utime on Windows.
538
Georg Brandl7444eda2006-10-09 19:03:12 +0000539- Patch #1572724: fix typo ('=' instead of '==') in _msi.c.
540
Hye-Shik Changf4fe46d2006-10-08 14:01:45 +0000541- Bug #1572832: fix a bug in ISO-2022 codecs which may cause segfault
542 when encoding non-BMP unicode characters.
543
Georg Brandl6d7c3632006-09-30 11:17:43 +0000544- Bug #1556784: allow format strings longer than 127 characters in
545 datetime's strftime function.
546
Jack Diederich6cc16be2006-09-21 20:38:39 +0000547- Fix itertools.count(n) to work with negative numbers again.
548
Andrew M. Kuchlingd79524a2006-10-05 17:26:33 +0000549- Make regex engine raise MemoryError if allocating memory fails.
Brett Cannonc70e0032006-09-21 18:12:15 +0000550
Gregory P. Smith8e92dd02007-03-17 22:32:49 +0000551- fixed a bug with bsddb.DB.stat: the flags and txn keyword arguments
552 were transposed.
553
Gregory P. Smith1a050f52007-01-05 02:09:06 +0000554- Added support for linking the bsddb module against BerkeleyDB 4.5.x.
555
Raymond Hettinger5b44cbe2007-01-08 18:05:53 +0000556- Modifying an empty deque during iteration now raises RuntimeError
557 instead of StopIteration.
558
Andrew M. Kuchlingb8c6e1f2007-01-22 16:10:27 +0000559- Bug #1552726: fix polling at the interpreter prompt when certain
560 versions of the readline library are in use.
Georg Brandla35f8e02006-10-27 20:39:47 +0000561
Walter Dörwald6a9c7802007-03-06 21:16:32 +0000562- Bug #1633621: if curses.resizeterm() or curses.resize_term() is called,
563 update _curses.LINES, _curses.COLS, curses.LINES and curses.COLS.
564
Matthias Klose5d2d2ef2007-04-03 04:39:34 +0000565- Fix an off-by-one bug in locale.strxfrm().
566
Georg Brandl1f215782006-09-24 10:36:08 +0000567Library
568-------
Collin Winter86d8d352007-03-10 03:31:44 +0000569
Neal Norwitz93e93842007-04-01 18:29:47 +0000570- Patch #1685563: remove (don't add) duplicate paths in distutils.MSVCCompiler.
571
Martin v. Löwisa8ddae62007-03-23 13:27:29 +0000572- Bug #978833: Revert r50844, as it broke _socketobject.dup.
573
Žiga Seilnachte5df8572007-03-21 20:37:39 +0000574- Bug #1675967: re patterns pickled with Python 2.4 and earlier can
575 now be unpickled with Python 2.5.
576
Georg Brandl9225f222007-03-21 11:52:38 +0000577- Bug #1684254: webbrowser now uses shlex to split any command lines
578 given to get(). It also detects when you use '&' as the last argument
579 and creates a BackgroundBrowser then.
580
Georg Brandl385cd402007-03-15 07:42:22 +0000581- Patch #1681153: the wave module now closes a file object it opened if
582 initialization failed.
583
Georg Brandl027ac242007-03-14 08:27:57 +0000584- Bug #767111: fix long-standing bug in urllib which caused an
585 AttributeError instead of an IOError when the server's response didn't
586 contain a valid HTTP status line.
587
Barry Warsaw1a5fe582007-03-14 18:19:07 +0000588- Bug #1629369: Correctly parse multiline comment in address field.
589
590- Bug #1582282: Fix email.header.decode_header() to properly treat encoded
591 words with no delimiting whitespace as a single word.
592
Martin v. Löwis13008312007-03-13 10:24:14 +0000593- Patch #1449244: Support Unicode strings in
594 email.message.Message.{set_charset,get_content_charset}.
595
Georg Brandl6cdcdbc2007-03-13 10:07:01 +0000596- Patch #1542681: add entries for "with", "as" and "CONTEXTMANAGERS" to
597 pydoc's help keywords.
598
Collin Winter3e43bcc2007-03-11 16:04:01 +0000599- Patch #1192590: Fix pdb's "ignore" and "condition" commands so they trap
600 the IndexError caused by passing in an invalid breakpoint number.
601
Collin Winter86d8d352007-03-10 03:31:44 +0000602- Bug #1531963: Make SocketServer.TCPServer's server_address always
603 be equal to calling getsockname() on the server's socket. Fixed by patch
604 #1545011.
605
Thomas Heller8bf469d2007-03-09 20:48:57 +0000606- Bug #1651235: When a tuple was passed to a ctypes function call,
607 Python would crash instead of raising an error.
Georg Brandl1f215782006-09-24 10:36:08 +0000608
Thomas Hellerf7eed5e2007-03-09 20:21:16 +0000609- Fix bug #1646630: ctypes.string_at(buf, 0) and ctypes.wstring_at(buf, 0)
610 returned string up to the first NUL character.
611
Raymond Hettinger1622d822007-03-08 21:30:55 +0000612- Bug #1637850: make_table in difflib did not work with unicode
613
Raymond Hettinger154bc7c2007-03-08 19:23:25 +0000614- Bugs #1676321: the empty() function in sched.py returned the wrong result
615
Georg Brandld59ea472007-03-08 18:37:35 +0000616- unittest now verifies more of its assumptions. In particular, TestCase
617 and TestSuite subclasses (not instances) are no longer accepted in
618 TestSuite.addTest(). This should cause no incompatibility since it
619 never made sense with ordinary subclasses -- the failure just occurred
620 later, with a more cumbersome exception.
621
Martin v. Löwisef676902007-02-13 08:35:01 +0000622- Patch #685268: Consider a package's __path__ in imputil.
623
Martin v. Löwis626b2e92007-02-12 12:21:41 +0000624- Patch 1463026: Support default namespace in XMLGenerator.
625
Skip Montanaro4a67a672007-02-11 18:41:56 +0000626- Patch 1571379: Make trace's --ignore-dir facility work in the face of
627 relative directory names.
628
Martin v. Löwis523539d2007-02-09 12:37:12 +0000629- Bug #1600860: Search for shared python library in LIBDIR, not lib/python/config,
630 on "linux" and "gnu" systems.
631
Peter Astrand39e23b22007-02-06 15:41:46 +0000632- Bug #1124861: Automatically create pipes if GetStdHandle fails in
633 subprocess.
634
Georg Brandlcd7a78e2007-01-31 07:48:49 +0000635- Patch #783050: the pty.fork() function now closes the slave fd
636 correctly.
637
Georg Brandl20aa4772007-01-27 17:43:07 +0000638- Patch #1638243: the compiler package is now able to correctly compile
639 a with statement; previously, executing code containing a with statement
640 compiled by the compiler package crashed the interpreter.
641
Brett Cannon6d8e5ad2007-01-25 23:22:24 +0000642- Bug #1643943: Fix %U handling for time.strptime.
643
Peter Astrandbb6a0ed2007-01-21 15:45:25 +0000644- Bug #1598181: Avoid O(N**2) bottleneck in subprocess communicate().
645
Georg Brandl962e9162007-01-21 10:35:14 +0000646- Patch #1627441: close sockets properly in urllib2.
647
Thomas Hellerdcb6eba2007-01-17 19:55:40 +0000648- Bug #1610795: ctypes.util.find_library works now on BSD systems.
649
Raymond Hettingerca516d22007-01-04 17:53:16 +0000650- Fix sort stability in heapq.nlargest() and nsmallest().
651
Lars Gustäbelf9a2c632006-12-27 10:36:58 +0000652- Patch #1504073: Fix tarfile.open() for mode "r" with a fileobj argument.
653
Lars Gustäbel12e087a2006-12-23 18:13:57 +0000654- Patch #1262036: Prevent TarFiles from being added to themselves under
655 certain conditions.
656
657- Patch #1230446: tarfile.py: fix ExFileObject so that read() and tell()
658 work correctly together with readline().
659
Andrew M. Kuchlingbbad84b2006-12-22 13:28:43 +0000660- Bug #737202: Make CGIHTTPServer work for scripts in subdirectories.
661 Fix by Titus Brown.
662
Andrew M. Kuchling60775f22006-12-22 19:08:41 +0000663- Patch #827559: Make SimpleHTTPServer redirect when a directory URL
664 is missing the trailing slash, so that relative links work correctly.
665 Patch by Chris Gonnerman.
666
Georg Brandl2bcf0152006-12-09 09:10:18 +0000667- Patch #1608267: fix a race condition in os.makedirs() is the directory
668 to be created is already there.
669
Georg Brandl25f58f62006-12-06 22:21:23 +0000670- Patch #1610437: fix a tarfile bug with long filename headers.
671
Martin v. Löwis0e642022006-11-18 18:42:22 +0000672- Patch #1472877: Fix Tix subwidget name resolution.
673
Martin v. Löwise350c842006-11-18 18:05:57 +0000674- Patch #1594554: Always close a tkSimpleDialog on ok(), even
675 if an exception occurs.
676
Martin v. Löwisce9212f2006-11-18 18:00:34 +0000677- Patch #1538878: Don't make tkSimpleDialog dialogs transient if
678 the parent window is withdrawn.
679
Martin v. Löwis962e4312006-11-12 18:56:18 +0000680- Patch #1360200: Use unmangled_version RPM spec field to deal with
681 file name mangling.
682
Martin v. Löwis867ef132006-11-12 18:48:30 +0000683- Patch #1359217: Process 2xx response in an ftplib transfer
684 that precedes an 1xx response.
685
Martin v. Löwis56602a12006-11-04 18:14:22 +0000686- Patch #1060577: Extract list of RPM files from spec file in
687 bdist_rpm
688
Georg Brandlc68d2cc2006-10-29 14:39:13 +0000689- Bug #1586613: fix zlib and bz2 codecs' incremental en/decoders.
690
Georg Brandl2527f7f2006-10-29 09:16:15 +0000691- Patch #1583880: fix tarfile's problems with long names and posix/
692 GNU modes.
693
Georg Brandl2a5a3022006-10-29 08:39:27 +0000694- Fix codecs.EncodedFile which did not use file_encoding in 2.5.0, and
695 fix all codecs file wrappers to work correctly with the "with"
696 statement (bug #1586513).
697
Thomas Hellerdcbf64d2006-10-17 19:41:10 +0000698- ctypes callback functions only support 'fundamental' data types as
699 result type. Raise an error when something else is used. This is a
700 partial fix for Bug #1574584.
701
Georg Brandlf0db92a2006-10-12 07:57:24 +0000702- Bug #813342: Start the IDLE subprocess with -Qnew if the parent
703 is started with that option.
704
Georg Brandl1206a932006-09-30 11:22:35 +0000705- Bug #1446043: correctly raise a LookupError if an encoding name given
706 to encodings.search_function() contains a dot.
707
Andrew M. Kuchling00373002006-10-09 17:13:26 +0000708- Bug #1545341: The 'classifier' keyword argument to the Distutils setup()
709 function now accepts tuples as well as lists.
710
Georg Brandl70377452006-09-30 11:06:55 +0000711- Bug #1560617: in pyclbr, return full module name not only for classes,
712 but also for functions.
713
Georg Brandl9c9a9ab2006-09-30 09:13:29 +0000714- Bug #1566602: correct failure of posixpath unittest when $HOME ends
715 with a slash.
716
Georg Brandlbbcb2812006-09-30 07:32:00 +0000717- Bug #1565661: in webbrowser, split() the command for the default
718 GNOME browser in case it is a command with args.
719
Andrew M. Kuchlingd52a0b82006-11-09 13:33:53 +0000720- Bug #1569790: mailbox.py: Maildir.get_folder() and MH.get_folder()
721 weren't passing the message factory on to newly created Maildir/MH
722 objects.
723
Andrew M. Kuchlingbb876b92006-11-10 13:08:03 +0000724- Bug #1575506: mailbox.py: Single-file mailboxes didn't re-lock
725 properly in their flush() method.
726
Andrew M. Kuchling7ea928c2006-11-10 13:15:58 +0000727- Patch #1514543: mailbox.py: In the Maildir class, report errors if there's
728 a filename clash instead of possibly losing a message. (Patch by David
729 Watson.)
730
Andrew M. Kuchlingbb876b92006-11-10 13:08:03 +0000731- Patch #1514544: mailbox.py: Try to ensure that messages/indexes have
732 been physically written to disk after calling .flush() or
733 .close(). (Patch by David Watson.)
Andrew M. Kuchling7d1d5402006-10-27 16:57:44 +0000734
Andrew M. Kuchling830358a2006-11-17 16:16:28 +0000735- mailbox.py: Change MH.pack() to not lock individual message files; this
736 wasn't consistent with existing implementations of message packing, and
737 was buggy on some platforms.
Andrew M. Kuchlinge1b4a7e2007-03-21 16:52:51 +0000738
739- Bug #1633678: change old mailbox.UnixMailbox class to parse
740 'From' lines less strictly.
741
Andrew M. Kuchling3d6a8342006-10-27 16:42:19 +0000742- Bug #1576241: fix functools.wraps() to work on built-in functions.
743
Andrew M. Kuchlingff9e7ab2006-10-27 17:13:33 +0000744- Patch #1574068: fix urllib/urllib2 to not insert line breaks when
745 HTTP authentication data was very long.
746
Andrew M. Kuchlingfcb75132006-12-19 15:13:44 +0000747- Patch #1617413: fix urllib's support for HTTP Basic authentication via HTTPS
748 (patch by Dug Song).
749
Georg Brandledd81b22006-09-24 12:50:28 +0000750- Fix a bug in traceback.format_exception_only() that led to an error
751 being raised when print_exc() was called without an exception set.
752 In version 2.4, this printed "None", restored that behavior.
753
Georg Brandl1f215782006-09-24 10:36:08 +0000754- Make webbrowser.BackgroundBrowser usable in Windows (it wasn't because
755 the close_fds arg to subprocess.Popen is not supported).
756
757
Georg Brandla35f8e02006-10-27 20:39:47 +0000758Tools/Demos
759-----------
760
761- Patch #1552024: add decorator support to unparse.py demo script.
762
Matthias Klose9e031c72007-01-11 11:42:43 +0000763- idle: Honor the "Cancel" action in the save dialog (Debian bug #299092).
764
Georg Brandla35f8e02006-10-27 20:39:47 +0000765
Martin v. Löwis920fa6a2006-10-22 13:46:23 +0000766Tests
767-----
768
Brett Cannonafd9b2b2007-03-09 04:57:00 +0000769- Cause test.test_socket_ssl:test_basic to raise
770 test.test_support.ResourceDenied when an HTTPS connection times out.
771
Martin v. Löwis920fa6a2006-10-22 13:46:23 +0000772- Remove passwd.adjunct.byname from list of maps
773 for test_nis.
774
775
Martin v. Löwis6abebb22006-10-15 07:55:42 +0000776Build
777-----
778
Georg Brandl48642d42007-03-31 18:58:21 +0000779- Bug #1655392: don't add -L/usr/lib/pythonX.Y/config to the LDFLAGS
780 returned by python-config if Python was built with --enable-shared
781 because that prevented the shared library from being used.
782
Georg Brandl74fb2112007-03-13 10:19:35 +0000783- Patch #1569798: fix a bug in distutils when building Python from a
784 directory within sys.exec_prefix.
785
Martin v. Löwisa8cfa2a2007-03-12 10:50:51 +0000786- Bug #1675511: Use -Kpic instead of -xcode=pic32 on Solaris/x86.
787
Martin v. Löwis9147f7e2006-11-25 15:39:28 +0000788- Disable _XOPEN_SOURCE on NetBSD 1.x.
789
Martin v. Löwisca362b62006-10-17 18:59:06 +0000790- Bug #1578513: Cross compilation was broken by a change to configure.
791 Repair so that it's back to how it was in 2.4.3.
792
Martin v. Löwis6abebb22006-10-15 07:55:42 +0000793- Patch #1576954: Update VC6 build directory; remove redundant
794 files in VC7.
795
Matthias Klosefa713e12006-12-03 17:13:54 +0000796- Fix build failure on kfreebsd and on the hurd.
797
Matthias Klosef877b252006-12-09 12:13:02 +0000798- Fix the build of the library reference in info format.
799
Georg Brandl1f215782006-09-24 10:36:08 +0000800
Martin v. Löwis2396f4c2006-11-21 18:21:34 +0000801Windows
802-------
803
804- Conditionalize definition of _CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE
805 and _CRT_NONSTDC_NO_DEPRECATE.
806
807
Martin v. Löwisfe048e82007-03-23 10:35:57 +0000808Documentation
809-------------
810
Georg Brandld1e3f6d2007-04-25 06:25:07 +0000811- Patch #1698768: updated the "using Python on the Mac" intro.
812
Žiga Seilnacht65245732007-03-24 14:27:21 +0000813- Patch #1489771: the syntax rules in Python Reference Manual were
814 updated to reflect the current Python syntax.
815
Martin v. Löwisfe048e82007-03-23 10:35:57 +0000816- Patch #1686451: Fix return type for
817 PySequence_{Count,Index,Fast_GET_SIZE}.
818
819
Anthony Baxter2d8697f2006-09-18 06:51:50 +0000820What's New in Python 2.5 (final)
821================================
822
823*Release date: 19-SEP-2006*
824
825No changes since release candidate 2.
826
Georg Brandl1f215782006-09-24 10:36:08 +0000827
Neal Norwitzd3da7d32006-09-05 01:54:06 +0000828What's New in Python 2.5 release candidate 2?
829=============================================
830
Anthony Baxter2d4183c2006-09-11 15:30:13 +0000831*Release date: 12-SEP-2006*
Neal Norwitzd3da7d32006-09-05 01:54:06 +0000832
Neal Norwitz19c35bb2006-08-21 22:13:11 +0000833Core and builtins
834-----------------
835
Neal Norwitz0bcafac2006-09-11 08:51:17 +0000836- Make _PyGILState_NoteThreadState() static, it was not used anywhere
837 outside of pystate.c and should not be necessary.
838
Brett Cannon19d76c52006-09-09 07:18:44 +0000839- Bug #1551432: Exceptions do not define an explicit __unicode__ method. This
840 allows calling unicode() on exceptions classes directly to succeed.
841
Georg Brandlecab6232006-09-06 06:47:02 +0000842- Bug #1542051: Exceptions now correctly call PyObject_GC_UnTrack.
843 Also make sure that every exception class has __module__ set to
844 'exceptions'.
845
Georg Brandl37a9e572006-09-06 06:09:34 +0000846- Bug #1550983: emit better error messages for erroneous relative
847 imports (if not in package and if beyond toplevel package).
848
Tim Peterscbdd3502006-09-05 01:47:53 +0000849- Overflow checking code in integer division ran afoul of new gcc
850 optimizations. Changed to be more standard-conforming.
851
Neal Norwitz19c35bb2006-08-21 22:13:11 +0000852- Patch #1541585: fix buffer overrun when performing repr() on
853 a unicode string in a build with wide unicode (UCS-4) support.
854
Neal Norwitzd3da7d32006-09-05 01:54:06 +0000855- Patch #1546288: fix seg fault in dict_equal due to ref counting bug.
856
Neal Norwitz29a5fdb2006-09-05 02:21:38 +0000857- The return tuple from str.rpartition(sep) is (tail, sep, head) where
858 head is the original string if sep was not found.
859
Neal Norwitz3b3aae02006-09-05 03:56:01 +0000860- Bug #1520864: unpacking singleton tuples in list comprehensions and
861 generator expressions (x for x, in ... ) works again. Fixing this problem
862 required changing the .pyc magic number. This means that .pyc files
863 generated before 2.5c2 will be regenerated.
864
Neal Norwitz19c35bb2006-08-21 22:13:11 +0000865
Martin v. Löwis2c3a2562006-08-18 03:40:13 +0000866Library
867-------
868
Neal Norwitz48829ba2006-09-11 04:05:18 +0000869- Reverted patch #1504333 because it introduced an infinite loop.
870
Nick Coghlan62f19e42006-09-08 10:01:23 +0000871- Patch #1553314: Fix the inspect.py slowdown that was hurting IPython & SAGE
Neal Norwitz2e488fd2006-09-11 04:03:07 +0000872 by adding smarter caching in inspect.getmodule().
Nick Coghlan62f19e42006-09-08 10:01:23 +0000873
Georg Brandl4dc09522006-09-06 20:06:27 +0000874- Fix missing import of the types module in logging.config.
875
Nick Coghlan08c496d2006-09-03 01:13:06 +0000876- Patch #1550886: Fix decimal module context management implementation
Neal Norwitzd3da7d32006-09-05 01:54:06 +0000877 to match the localcontext() example from PEP 343.
Nick Coghlan08c496d2006-09-03 01:13:06 +0000878
Martin v. Löwis2c3a2562006-08-18 03:40:13 +0000879- Bug #1541863: uuid.uuid1 failed to generate unique identifiers
880 on systems with low clock resolution.
881
Neal Norwitz7443b802006-08-21 18:43:51 +0000882- Bug #1543303, patch #1543897: remove NUL padding from tarfiles.
883
Gustavo Niemeyerd1b1b8c2006-09-06 22:44:51 +0000884- Bug #1531862: Do not close standard file descriptors in subprocess.
885
Georg Brandl595d9b62006-08-18 07:28:03 +0000886
Neal Norwitz7ae5f292006-09-05 02:30:10 +0000887Extension Modules
888-----------------
889
Neal Norwitz5890a6a2006-11-21 05:29:34 +0000890- Bug #1599782: fix segfault on bsddb.db.DB().type().
891
Neal Norwitz2e488fd2006-09-11 04:03:07 +0000892- Fix bugs in ctypes:
893 - anonymous structure fields that have a bit-width specified did not work
894 - cast function did not accept c_char_p or c_wchar_p instances as first arg
895
Georg Brandlb20cb332006-09-06 06:04:06 +0000896- Bug #1551427: fix a wrong NULL pointer check in the win32 version
897 of os.urandom().
898
Neal Norwitz716692f2006-09-05 02:33:44 +0000899- Bug #1548092: fix curses.tparm seg fault on invalid input.
900
Neal Norwitz7ae5f292006-09-05 02:30:10 +0000901- Bug #1550714: fix SystemError from itertools.tee on negative value for n.
902
Hye-Shik Chang137ae0c2006-09-07 12:50:38 +0000903- Fixed a few bugs on cjkcodecs:
904 - gbk and gb18030 codec now handle U+30FB KATAKANA MIDDLE DOT correctly.
905 - iso2022_jp_2 codec now encodes into G0 for KS X 1001, GB2312
906 codepoints to conform the standard.
907 - iso2022_jp_3 and iso2022_jp_2004 codec can encode JIS X 0213:2
908 codepoints now.
Neal Norwitz7ae5f292006-09-05 02:30:10 +0000909
Neal Norwitz8dc71f22006-09-05 02:00:21 +0000910Tests
911-----
912
Martin v. Löwis7520df42007-03-14 20:02:38 +0000913- Patch #1559413: Fix test_cmd_line if sys.executable contains a space.
914
Neal Norwitz8dc71f22006-09-05 02:00:21 +0000915- Fix bsddb test_basics.test06_Transactions to check the version
916 number properly.
917
Walter Dörwald93a36032007-04-21 10:31:43 +0000918- Fix utf-8-sig incremental decoder, which didn't recognise a BOM when the
919 first chunk fed to the decoder started with a BOM, but was longer than 3 bytes.
Neal Norwitz8dc71f22006-09-05 02:00:21 +0000920
Georg Brandl595d9b62006-08-18 07:28:03 +0000921Documentation
922-------------
923
Georg Brandl0a24d102007-03-13 07:51:04 +0000924- Patch #1679379: add documentation for fnmatch.translate().
925
Georg Brandl1d56c2f2007-03-06 10:02:59 +0000926- Patch #1671450: add a section about subclassing builtin types to the
927 "extending and embedding" tutorial.
928
Georg Brandleb681882007-01-17 21:20:01 +0000929- Bug #1629125: fix wrong data type (int -> Py_ssize_t) in PyDict_Next
930 docs.
931
Georg Brandl89843702006-10-12 08:22:57 +0000932- Bug #1565919: document set types in the Language Reference.
933
Georg Brandl09889042006-09-30 12:03:02 +0000934- Bug #1546052: clarify that PyString_FromString(AndSize) copies the
935 string pointed to by its parameter.
936
Georg Brandlad4e11e2006-09-30 09:06:49 +0000937- Bug #1566663: remove obsolete example from datetime docs.
938
Georg Brandl595d9b62006-08-18 07:28:03 +0000939- Bug #1541682: Fix example in the "Refcount details" API docs.
940 Additionally, remove a faulty example showing PySequence_SetItem applied
941 to a newly created list object and add notes that this isn't a good idea.
942
943
Marc-André Lemburg8a230b52006-09-06 20:38:50 +0000944Tools
945-----
946
947- Bug #1546372: Fixed small bugglet in pybench that caused a missing
948 file not to get reported properly.
949
950
Martin v. Löwis55226242006-08-17 18:54:43 +0000951Build
952-----
953
Martin v. Löwisda70fd12006-10-02 14:56:15 +0000954- Bug #1568842: Fix test for uintptr_t.
955
Neal Norwitz541a48b2006-09-05 02:54:42 +0000956- Patch #1540470, for OpenBSD 4.0.
957
Martin v. Löwis58af7ef2006-08-25 00:11:38 +0000958- Patch #1545507: Exclude ctypes package in Win64 MSI file.
959
Martin v. Löwis55226242006-08-17 18:54:43 +0000960- Fix OpenSSL debug build process.
961
Georg Brandl595d9b62006-08-18 07:28:03 +0000962
Neal Norwitzd6f86292006-08-19 04:19:43 +0000963C API
964-----
965
966- Bug #1542693: remove semi-colon at end of PyImport_ImportModuleEx macro
967 so it can be used as an expression.
968
969
Guido van Rossumc69ac252006-08-10 18:09:25 +0000970What's New in Python 2.5 release candidate 1?
971=============================================
Neal Norwitzff4b63b2006-08-04 04:50:21 +0000972
Anthony Baxterb4096662006-08-16 03:42:26 +0000973*Release date: 17-AUG-2006*
Neal Norwitzff4b63b2006-08-04 04:50:21 +0000974
975Core and builtins
976-----------------
977
Neal Norwitz24b6f202006-09-05 04:43:56 +0000978- Fix infinite recursion when subclassing long and overriding __hash__.
979
980- Fix concatenation (+=) of long strings.
981
Marc-André Lemburg040f76b2006-08-14 10:55:19 +0000982- Unicode objects will no longer raise an exception when being
Andrew M. Kuchlingf9b5b8e2006-08-16 14:21:14 +0000983 compared equal or unequal to a string and a UnicodeDecodeError
984 exception occurs, e.g. as result of a decoding failure.
Neal Norwitz56423e52006-08-13 18:11:08 +0000985
Marc-André Lemburg040f76b2006-08-14 10:55:19 +0000986 Instead, the equal (==) and unequal (!=) comparison operators will
987 now issue a UnicodeWarning and interpret the two objects as
988 unequal. The UnicodeWarning can be filtered as desired using
989 the warning framework, e.g. silenced completely, turned into an
990 exception, logged, etc.
991
992 Note that compare operators other than equal and unequal will still
993 raise UnicodeDecodeError exceptions as they've always done.
Neal Norwitz8a87f5d2006-08-12 17:03:09 +0000994
Marc-André Lemburg757ea272006-08-14 11:44:34 +0000995- Fix segfault when doing string formatting on subclasses of long.
996
997- Fix bug related to __len__ functions using values > 2**32 on 64-bit machines
998 with new-style classes.
999
1000- Fix bug related to __len__ functions returning negative values with
1001 classic classes.
1002
1003- Patch #1538606, Fix __index__() clipping. There were some problems
1004 discovered with the API and how integers that didn't fit into Py_ssize_t
1005 were handled. This patch attempts to provide enough alternatives
1006 to effectively use __index__.
1007
Martin v. Löwisab2f8f72006-08-09 07:57:39 +00001008- Bug #1536021: __hash__ may now return long int; the final hash
1009 value is obtained by invoking hash on the long int.
1010
Thomas Hellerab1049c2006-08-08 17:37:00 +00001011- Bug #1536786: buffer comparison could emit a RuntimeWarning.
1012
Georg Brandl7e3ba2a2006-08-06 08:23:54 +00001013- Bug #1535165: fixed a segfault in input() and raw_input() when
1014 sys.stdin is closed.
1015
Thomas Heller74d36f02006-08-04 18:17:40 +00001016- On Windows, the PyErr_Warn function is now exported from
1017 the Python dll again.
1018
Neal Norwitz4ffedad2006-08-04 04:58:47 +00001019- Bug #1191458: tracing over for loops now produces a line event
1020 on each iteration. Fixing this problem required changing the .pyc
1021 magic number. This means that .pyc files generated before 2.5c1
1022 will be regenerated.
1023
Neal Norwitz0cbd8052006-08-04 05:09:28 +00001024- Bug #1333982: string/number constants were inappropriately stored
1025 in the byte code and co_consts even if they were not used, ie
1026 immediately popped off the stack.
1027
Georg Brandle9462c72006-08-04 18:03:37 +00001028- Fixed a reference-counting problem in property().
1029
Neal Norwitzff4b63b2006-08-04 04:50:21 +00001030
1031Library
1032-------
1033
Neil Schemenauer4c6b0d52006-08-16 23:38:05 +00001034- Fix a bug in the ``compiler`` package that caused invalid code to be
1035 generated for generator expressions.
1036
Marc-André Lemburg574cfea2006-08-16 16:11:01 +00001037- The distutils version has been changed to 2.5.0. The change to
1038 keep it programmatically in sync with the Python version running
1039 the code (introduced in 2.5b3) has been reverted. It will continue
1040 to be maintained manually as static string literal.
1041
Andrew M. Kuchlingc13324e2006-08-16 17:11:18 +00001042- If the Python part of a ctypes callback function returns None,
Thomas Hellerb4a0cf12006-08-16 15:10:12 +00001043 and this cannot be converted to the required C type, an exception is
1044 printed with PyErr_WriteUnraisable. Before this change, the C
Andrew M. Kuchlingc13324e2006-08-16 17:11:18 +00001045 callback returned arbitrary values to the calling code.
Thomas Hellerb4a0cf12006-08-16 15:10:12 +00001046
Andrew M. Kuchlingf9b5b8e2006-08-16 14:21:14 +00001047- The __repr__ method of a NULL ctypes.py_object() no longer raises
Thomas Hellerb0aa98f2006-08-16 14:07:44 +00001048 an exception.
1049
Tim Peterscbdd3502006-09-05 01:47:53 +00001050- uuid.UUID now has a bytes_le attribute. This returns the UUID in
Andrew M. Kuchlingf9b5b8e2006-08-16 14:21:14 +00001051 little-endian byte order for Windows. In addition, uuid.py gained some
Anthony Baxter58179592006-08-16 13:08:25 +00001052 workarounds for clocks with low resolution, to stop the code yielding
1053 duplicate UUIDs.
1054
Kurt B. Kaiserd112bc72006-08-16 05:01:42 +00001055- Patch #1540892: site.py Quitter() class attempts to close sys.stdin
1056 before raising SystemExit, allowing IDLE to honor quit() and exit().
1057
Neal Norwitzbf8c1952006-08-15 04:14:57 +00001058- Bug #1224621: make tabnanny recognize IndentationErrors raised by tokenize.
1059
Georg Brandl7a1af772006-08-14 21:55:28 +00001060- Patch #1536071: trace.py should now find the full module name of a
1061 file correctly even on Windows.
1062
Georg Brandl0a7d1bb2006-08-11 07:26:10 +00001063- logging's atexit hook now runs even if the rest of the module has
1064 already been cleaned up.
1065
Andrew M. Kuchlingf9b5b8e2006-08-16 14:21:14 +00001066- Bug #1112549, fix DoS attack on cgi.FieldStorage.
Guido van Rossum133f4e42006-08-10 17:42:50 +00001067
Neal Norwitzff4b63b2006-08-04 04:50:21 +00001068- Bug #1531405, format_exception no longer raises an exception if
1069 str(exception) raised an exception.
1070
Neil Schemenauer06ded092006-08-04 16:20:30 +00001071- Fix a bug in the ``compiler`` package that caused invalid code to be
1072 generated for nested functions.
1073
Neal Norwitzff4b63b2006-08-04 04:50:21 +00001074
1075Extension Modules
1076-----------------
1077
Neal Norwitz9a244792006-09-05 04:49:45 +00001078- Ignore data that arrives before the opening start tag in C etree.
1079
Neal Norwitzbf8c1952006-08-15 04:14:57 +00001080- Patch #1511317: don't crash on invalid hostname (alias) info.
1081
Georg Brandl3335a7a2006-08-14 21:42:55 +00001082- Patch #1535500: fix segfault in BZ2File.writelines and make sure it
1083 raises the correct exceptions.
1084
Thomas Heller1ce433e2006-08-14 16:20:04 +00001085- Patch # 1536908: enable building ctypes on OpenBSD/AMD64. The
1086 '-no-stack-protector' compiler flag for OpenBSD has been removed.
1087
Thomas Heller86720042006-08-14 11:17:48 +00001088- Patch #1532975 was applied, which fixes Bug #1533481: ctypes now
1089 uses the _as_parameter_ attribute when objects are passed to foreign
1090 function calls. The ctypes version number was changed to 1.0.1.
1091
Bob Ippolitoe6c9f982006-08-04 23:59:21 +00001092- Bug #1530559, struct.pack raises TypeError where it used to convert.
1093 Passing float arguments to struct.pack when integers are expected
1094 now triggers a DeprecationWarning.
1095
Neal Norwitzff4b63b2006-08-04 04:50:21 +00001096
1097Tests
1098-----
1099
Neal Norwitzb476fdf2006-08-15 04:58:28 +00001100- test_socketserver should now work on cygwin and not fail sporadically
1101 on other platforms.
1102
Neal Norwitz003c9e22006-08-11 06:09:41 +00001103- test_mailbox should now work on cygwin versions 2006-08-10 and later.
1104
Georg Brandl9908d162006-08-06 07:06:33 +00001105- Bug #1535182: really test the xreadlines() method of bz2 objects.
1106
Andrew MacIntyre16ee33a2006-08-06 12:37:03 +00001107- test_threading now skips testing alternate thread stack sizes on
1108 platforms that don't support changing thread stack size.
1109
Neal Norwitzff4b63b2006-08-04 04:50:21 +00001110
Georg Brandl212b5872006-08-05 06:10:54 +00001111Documentation
1112-------------
1113
1114- Patch #1534922: unittest docs were corrected and enhanced.
1115
1116
Neal Norwitzff4b63b2006-08-04 04:50:21 +00001117Build
1118-----
1119
Martin v. Löwisa09fd6e2006-08-16 12:55:10 +00001120- Bug #1535502, build _hashlib on Windows, and use masm assembler
1121 code in OpenSSL.
1122
Thomas Hellerdb7b4432006-08-04 19:49:31 +00001123- Bug #1534738, win32 debug version of _msi should be _msi_d.pyd.
1124
Andrew M. Kuchlingf9b5b8e2006-08-16 14:21:14 +00001125- Bug #1530448, ctypes build failure on Solaris 10 was fixed.
Thomas Heller17984892006-08-04 18:57:34 +00001126
Neal Norwitzff4b63b2006-08-04 04:50:21 +00001127
Tim Peters4643c2f2006-08-10 22:45:34 +00001128C API
1129-----
1130
Marc-André Lemburg040f76b2006-08-14 10:55:19 +00001131- New API for Unicode rich comparisons: PyUnicode_RichCompare()
1132
Tim Peters4643c2f2006-08-10 22:45:34 +00001133- Bug #1069160. Internal correctness changes were made to
1134 ``PyThreadState_SetAsyncExc()``. A test case was added, and
1135 the documentation was changed to state that the return value
1136 is always 1 (normal) or 0 (if the specified thread wasn't found).
1137
1138
Fred Drake53912162006-07-29 13:22:49 +00001139What's New in Python 2.5 beta 3?
1140================================
Neal Norwitza1f10902006-07-12 07:28:29 +00001141
Anthony Baxter5d32a9f2006-08-02 07:43:09 +00001142*Release date: 03-AUG-2006*
Neal Norwitza1f10902006-07-12 07:28:29 +00001143
1144Core and builtins
1145-----------------
1146
Andrew M. Kuchlingf9b5b8e2006-08-16 14:21:14 +00001147- _PyWeakref_GetWeakrefCount() now returns a Py_ssize_t; it previously
Neal Norwitzc5e060d2006-08-02 06:14:22 +00001148 returned a long (see PEP 353).
1149
Neal Norwitzf71ec5a2006-07-30 06:57:04 +00001150- Bug #1515471: string.replace() accepts character buffers again.
1151
Neal Norwitz07aadb12006-07-30 06:55:48 +00001152- Add PyErr_WarnEx() so C code can pass the stacklevel to warnings.warn().
1153 This provides the proper warning for struct.pack().
1154 PyErr_Warn() is now deprecated in favor of PyErr_WarnEx().
1155
Neal Norwitz0d62a062006-07-30 06:53:31 +00001156- Patch #1531113: Fix augmented assignment with yield expressions.
1157 Also fix a SystemError when trying to assign to yield expressions.
1158
Phillip J. Ebyf7575d02006-07-28 21:12:07 +00001159- Bug #1529871: The speed enhancement patch #921466 broke Python's compliance
1160 with PEP 302. This was fixed by adding an ``imp.NullImporter`` type that is
1161 used in ``sys.path_importer_cache`` to cache non-directory paths and avoid
1162 excessive filesystem operations during imports.
1163
Tim Petersbc24eee2006-07-27 01:14:53 +00001164- Bug #1521947: When checking for overflow, ``PyOS_strtol()`` used some
1165 operations on signed longs that are formally undefined by C.
1166 Unfortunately, at least one compiler now cares about that, so complicated
1167 the code to make that compiler happy again.
1168
Martin v. Löwis982e9fe2006-07-24 12:54:17 +00001169- Bug #1524310: Properly report errors from FindNextFile in os.listdir.
1170
Martin v. Löwisd22968a2006-07-24 11:54:53 +00001171- Patch #1232023: Stop including current directory in search
1172 path on Windows.
1173
Neal Norwitze1fdb322006-07-21 05:32:28 +00001174- Fix some potential crashes found with failmalloc.
1175
Neal Norwitze7563102006-07-17 01:00:16 +00001176- Fix warnings reported by Klocwork's static analysis tool.
1177
Neal Norwitz84be93b2006-07-16 01:50:38 +00001178- Bug #1512814, Fix incorrect lineno's when code within a function
1179 had more than 255 blank lines.
1180
Georg Brandl9dceedb2006-07-12 15:31:17 +00001181- Patch #1521179: Python now accepts the standard options ``--help`` and
1182 ``--version`` as well as ``/?`` on Windows.
1183
Andrew M. Kuchling93c928e2006-07-26 17:19:39 +00001184- Bug #1520864: unpacking singleton tuples in a 'for' loop (for x, in) works
Neal Norwitza1f10902006-07-12 07:28:29 +00001185 again. Fixing this problem required changing the .pyc magic number.
Neal Norwitz4ffedad2006-08-04 04:58:47 +00001186 This means that .pyc files generated before 2.5b3 will be regenerated.
Neal Norwitza1f10902006-07-12 07:28:29 +00001187
Tim Peters112aad32006-07-19 00:03:19 +00001188- Bug #1524317: Compiling Python ``--without-threads`` failed.
Andrew M. Kuchlingf9b5b8e2006-08-16 14:21:14 +00001189 The Python core compiles again, and, in a build without threads, the
Tim Peters112aad32006-07-19 00:03:19 +00001190 new ``sys._current_frames()`` returns a dictionary with one entry,
1191 mapping the faux "thread id" 0 to the current frame.
1192
Ronald Oussoren3075e162006-07-25 20:28:55 +00001193- Bug #1525447: build on MacOS X on a case-sensitive filesystem.
Tim Petersbc24eee2006-07-27 01:14:53 +00001194
Ronald Oussoren3075e162006-07-25 20:28:55 +00001195
Neal Norwitza1f10902006-07-12 07:28:29 +00001196Library
1197-------
1198
Martin v. Löwis961b91b2006-08-02 13:53:55 +00001199- Correction of patch #1455898: In the mbcs decoder, set final=False
1200 for stream decoder, but final=True for the decode function.
1201
Georg Brandl07fec3a2006-08-01 18:49:24 +00001202- os.urandom no longer masks unrelated exceptions like SystemExit or
1203 KeyboardInterrupt.
1204
Tim Peters4643c2f2006-08-10 22:45:34 +00001205- Bug #1525866: Don't copy directory stat times in
Martin v. Löwis4e678382006-07-30 13:00:31 +00001206 shutil.copytree on Windows
1207
Georg Brandle34ac7c2006-07-30 11:07:23 +00001208- Bug #1002398: The documentation for os.path.sameopenfile now correctly
1209 refers to file descriptors, not file objects.
1210
Tim Peterscbdd3502006-09-05 01:47:53 +00001211- The renaming of the xml package to xmlcore, and the import hackery done
Andrew M. Kuchlingf9b5b8e2006-08-16 14:21:14 +00001212 to make it appear at both names, has been removed. Bug #1511497,
Fred Drakefbdeaad2006-07-29 16:56:15 +00001213 #1513611, and probably others.
1214
Georg Brandledd9b0d2006-07-29 09:33:26 +00001215- Bug #1441397: The compiler module now recognizes module and function
1216 docstrings correctly as it did in Python 2.4.
1217
Tim Peters6f681472006-07-27 23:44:37 +00001218- Bug #1529297: The rewrite of doctest for Python 2.4 unintentionally
1219 lost that tests are sorted by name before being run. This rarely
1220 matters for well-written tests, but can create baffling symptoms if
1221 side effects from one test to the next affect outcomes. ``DocTestFinder``
1222 has been changed to sort the list of tests it returns.
1223
Andrew M. Kuchlingf9b5b8e2006-08-16 14:21:14 +00001224- The distutils version has been changed to 2.5.0, and is now kept
Martin v. Löwis1f30c372006-07-30 13:14:05 +00001225 in sync with sys.version_info[:3].
Martin v. Löwis997ceff2006-07-27 06:38:16 +00001226
Martin v. Löwis9298eff2006-07-26 12:12:56 +00001227- Bug #978833: Really close underlying socket in _socketobject.close.
1228
Georg Brandldb232dc2006-08-20 13:15:43 +00001229- Bug #1459963: urllib and urllib2 now normalize HTTP header names with
1230 title().
Georg Brandl0619a322006-07-26 07:40:17 +00001231
Georg Brandlcf0c1722006-07-26 07:23:32 +00001232- Patch #1525766: In pkgutil.walk_packages, correctly pass the onerror callback
1233 to recursive calls and call it with the failing package name.
1234
Martin v. Löwis0b483032006-07-25 09:53:12 +00001235- Bug #1525817: Don't truncate short lines in IDLE's tool tips.
1236
Georg Brandlc13c34c2006-07-24 14:09:56 +00001237- Patch #1515343: Fix printing of deprecated string exceptions with a
1238 value in the traceback module.
1239
Greg Ward48fae7a2006-07-23 16:05:51 +00001240- Resync optparse with Optik 1.5.3: minor tweaks for/to tests.
1241
Martin v. Löwis426f4a12006-07-18 17:46:31 +00001242- Patch #1524429: Use repr() instead of backticks in Tkinter again.
1243
Brett Cannoncaebe222006-07-18 04:41:36 +00001244- Bug #1520914: Change time.strftime() to accept a zero for any position in its
1245 argument tuple. For arguments where zero is illegal, the value is forced to
1246 the minimum value that is correct. This is to support an undocumented but
1247 common way people used to fill in inconsequential information in the time
1248 tuple pre-2.4.
1249
Bob Ippolito5ea4bf12006-07-15 16:53:15 +00001250- Patch #1220874: Update the binhex module for Mach-O.
1251
Barry Warsawb110bad2006-07-21 14:51:07 +00001252- The email package has improved RFC 2231 support, specifically for
1253 recognizing the difference between encoded (name*0*=<blah>) and non-encoded
1254 (name*0=<blah>) parameter continuations. This may change the types of
1255 values returned from email.message.Message.get_param() and friends.
1256 Specifically in some cases where non-encoded continuations were used,
1257 get_param() used to return a 3-tuple of (None, None, string) whereas now it
1258 will just return the string (since non-encoded continuations don't have
1259 charset and language parts).
1260
1261 Also, whereas % values were decoded in all parameter continuations, they are
1262 now only decoded in encoded parameter parts.
1263
Ronald Oussoren3075e162006-07-25 20:28:55 +00001264- Bug #1517990: IDLE keybindings on MacOS X now work correctly
1265
1266- Bug #1517996: IDLE now longer shows the default Tk menu when a
1267 path browser, class browser or debugger is the frontmost window on MacOS X
1268
Barry Warsaw00decd72006-07-27 23:43:15 +00001269- Patch #1520294: Support for getset and member descriptors in types.py,
1270 inspect.py, and pydoc.py. Specifically, this allows for querying the type
1271 of an object against these built-in types and more importantly, for getting
1272 their docstrings printed in the interactive interpreter's help() function.
1273
Ronald Oussoren3075e162006-07-25 20:28:55 +00001274
Neal Norwitza1f10902006-07-12 07:28:29 +00001275Extension Modules
1276-----------------
1277
Neal Norwitz9b0ca792006-08-02 06:46:21 +00001278- Patch #1519025 and bug #926423: If a KeyboardInterrupt occurs during
1279 a socket operation on a socket with a timeout, the exception will be
1280 caught correctly. Previously, the exception was not caught.
1281
Thomas Heller1393d6a2006-07-28 21:43:20 +00001282- Patch #1529514: The _ctypes extension is now compiled on more
1283 openbsd target platforms.
1284
Tim Peters9cab5932006-07-28 00:30:00 +00001285- The ``__reduce__()`` method of the new ``collections.defaultdict`` had
1286 a memory leak, affecting pickles and deep copies.
1287
Tim Petersbc24eee2006-07-27 01:14:53 +00001288- Bug #1471938: Fix curses module build problem on Solaris 8; patch by
Andrew M. Kuchling10c2b552006-07-26 17:22:21 +00001289 Paul Eggert.
1290
Martin v. Löwisbda0dde2006-07-24 10:26:33 +00001291- Patch #1448199: Release interpreter lock in _winreg.ConnectRegistry.
1292
Thomas Hellerce049a02006-07-14 17:51:14 +00001293- Patch #1521817: Index range checking on ctypes arrays containing
1294 exactly one element enabled again. This allows iterating over these
1295 arrays, without the need to check the array size before.
1296
Thomas Heller6e1ad2e2006-07-13 17:05:13 +00001297- Bug #1521375: When the code in ctypes.util.find_library was
Andrew M. Kuchlingb7eca832006-07-13 17:37:26 +00001298 run with root privileges, it could overwrite or delete
Thomas Heller2bdf29e2006-07-13 17:01:14 +00001299 /dev/null in certain cases; this is now fixed.
1300
Thomas Heller47d7a062006-07-12 08:43:47 +00001301- Bug #1467450: On Mac OS X 10.3, RTLD_GLOBAL is now used as the
1302 default mode for loading shared libraries in ctypes.
Neal Norwitza1f10902006-07-12 07:28:29 +00001303
Thomas Hellerb4dc2ef2006-07-13 09:53:47 +00001304- Because of a misspelled preprocessor symbol, ctypes was always
1305 compiled without thread support; this is now fixed.
1306
Gregory P. Smith641cddf2006-07-28 01:35:25 +00001307- pybsddb Bug #1527939: bsddb module DBEnv dbremove and dbrename
1308 methods now allow their database parameter to be None as the
1309 sleepycat API allows.
1310
Matt Flemingec926502006-07-28 11:27:27 +00001311- Bug #1526460: Fix socketmodule compile on NetBSD as it has a different
1312 bluetooth API compared with Linux and FreeBSD.
1313
Brett Cannonf23ad3d2006-07-25 17:32:20 +00001314Tests
1315-----
1316
1317- Bug #1501330: Change test_ossaudiodev to be much more tolerant in terms of
1318 how long the test file should take to play. Now accepts taking 2.93 secs
1319 (exact time) +/- 10% instead of the hard-coded 3.1 sec.
1320
Georg Brandl4793aa32006-07-28 18:31:39 +00001321- Patch #1529686: The standard tests ``test_defaultdict``, ``test_iterlen``,
1322 ``test_uuid`` and ``test_email_codecs`` didn't actually run any tests when
1323 run via ``regrtest.py``. Now they do.
Tim Peters3e246a82006-07-27 15:09:20 +00001324
Martin v. Löwis0907f4d2006-07-30 14:09:47 +00001325Build
1326-----
1327
1328- Bug #1439538: Drop usage of test -e in configure as it is not portable.
1329
Ronald Oussoren26cad082006-08-01 21:00:57 +00001330Mac
1331---
1332
1333- PythonLauncher now works correctly when the path to the script contains
1334 characters that are treated specially by the shell (such as quotes).
1335
1336- Bug #1527397: PythonLauncher now launches scripts with the working directory
1337 set to the directory that contains the script instead of the user home
Tim Peters4643c2f2006-08-10 22:45:34 +00001338 directory. That latter was an implementation accident and not what users
Ronald Oussoren26cad082006-08-01 21:00:57 +00001339 expect.
1340
Brett Cannonf23ad3d2006-07-25 17:32:20 +00001341
Georg Brandlad29e632006-06-21 17:45:17 +00001342What's New in Python 2.5 beta 2?
1343================================
1344
Anthony Baxter70e8e872006-07-10 07:41:04 +00001345*Release date: 11-JUL-2006*
Georg Brandlad29e632006-06-21 17:45:17 +00001346
1347Core and builtins
1348-----------------
1349
Neil Schemenauer6ec6ab02006-07-09 21:19:29 +00001350- Bug #1441486: The literal representation of -(sys.maxint - 1)
1351 again evaluates to a int object, not a long.
1352
Neil Schemenauer0e07b602006-07-09 16:16:34 +00001353- Bug #1501934: The scope of global variables that are locally assigned
1354 using augmented assignment is now correctly determined.
1355
Martin v. Löwisd5cfa542006-07-03 13:47:40 +00001356- Bug #927248: Recursive method-wrapper objects can now safely
1357 be released.
1358
Martin v. Löwisfcfff0a2006-07-03 12:19:50 +00001359- Bug #1417699: Reject locale-specific decimal point in float()
1360 and atof().
1361
Hye-Shik Change6a1cb92006-06-23 21:16:18 +00001362- Bug #1511381: codec_getstreamcodec() in codec.c is corrected to
1363 omit a default "error" argument for NULL pointer. This allows
1364 the parser to take a codec from cjkcodecs again.
Georg Brandlad29e632006-06-21 17:45:17 +00001365
Neal Norwitzfb48afa2006-07-08 05:31:37 +00001366- Bug #1519018: 'as' is now validated properly in import statements.
1367
Neal Norwitz28746ab2006-07-09 22:14:42 +00001368- On 64 bit systems, int literals that use less than 64 bits are
1369 now ints rather than longs.
1370
Neal Norwitzed657552006-07-10 00:04:44 +00001371- Bug #1512814, Fix incorrect lineno's when code at module scope
1372 started after line 256.
1373
Tim Peters32a83612006-07-10 21:08:24 +00001374- New function ``sys._current_frames()`` returns a dict mapping thread
1375 id to topmost thread stack frame. This is for expert use, and is
1376 especially useful for debugging application deadlocks. The functionality
1377 was previously available in Fazal Majid's ``threadframe`` extension
1378 module, but it wasn't possible to do this in a wholly threadsafe way from
1379 an extension.
1380
Georg Brandlad29e632006-06-21 17:45:17 +00001381Library
1382-------
1383
Martin v. Löwis77621582006-07-30 13:27:31 +00001384- Bug #1257728: Mention Cygwin in distutils error message about a missing
1385 VS 2003.
1386
Martin v. Löwis06c68b82006-07-10 22:11:28 +00001387- Patch #1519566: Update turtle demo, make begin_fill idempotent.
1388
Tim Peters32a83612006-07-10 21:08:24 +00001389- Bug #1508010: msvccompiler now requires the DISTUTILS_USE_SDK
Martin v. Löwis8d656812006-07-10 07:23:48 +00001390 environment variable to be set in order to the SDK environment
1391 for finding the compiler, include files, etc.
1392
Martin v. Löwis388a8c22006-07-06 19:28:03 +00001393- Bug #1515998: Properly generate logical ids for files in bdist_msi.
1394
Nick Coghlan2d792252006-07-06 13:47:18 +00001395- warnings.py now ignores ImportWarning by default
1396
Thomas Woutersadd19112006-07-05 11:03:49 +00001397- string.Template() now correctly handles tuple-values. Previously,
1398 multi-value tuples would raise an exception and single-value tuples would
1399 be treated as the value they contain, instead.
1400
Martin v. Löwisede77f52006-07-03 13:01:35 +00001401- Bug #822974: Honor timeout in telnetlib.{expect,read_until}
1402 even if some data are received.
1403
Martin v. Löwis45482392006-07-03 12:28:58 +00001404- Bug #1267547: Put proper recursive setup.py call into the
1405 spec file generated by bdist_rpm.
1406
Martin v. Löwis2b88f632006-07-03 10:19:49 +00001407- Bug #1514693: Update turtle's heading when switching between
1408 degrees and radians.
1409
Martin v. Löwis4c4300d2006-07-03 10:05:30 +00001410- Reimplement turtle.circle using a polyline, to allow correct
Martin v. Löwis2b88f632006-07-03 10:19:49 +00001411 filling of arcs.
Martin v. Löwis4c4300d2006-07-03 10:05:30 +00001412
Martin v. Löwisbd39c032006-07-03 09:44:00 +00001413- Bug #1514703: Only setup canvas window in turtle when the canvas
1414 is created.
1415
Martin v. Löwis7596e832006-07-01 15:33:37 +00001416- Bug #1513223: .close() of a _socketobj now releases the underlying
1417 socket again, which then gets closed as it becomes unreferenced.
1418
Fred Drake10497c82006-06-29 02:57:48 +00001419- Bug #1504333: Make sgmllib support angle brackets in quoted
1420 attribute values.
1421
1422- Bug #853506: Fix IPv6 address parsing in unquoted attributes in
1423 sgmllib ('[' and ']' were not accepted).
1424
Georg Brandl1be63af2006-06-28 20:23:25 +00001425- Fix a bug in the turtle module's end_fill function.
1426
Brett Cannon53ab5b72006-06-22 16:49:14 +00001427- Bug #1510580: The 'warnings' module improperly required that a Warning
1428 category be either a types.ClassType and a subclass of Warning. The proper
1429 check is just that it is a subclass with Warning as the documentation states.
1430
Georg Brandlad29e632006-06-21 17:45:17 +00001431- The compiler module now correctly compiles the new try-except-finally
1432 statement (bug #1509132).
1433
Neal Norwitz60373cd2006-06-22 06:30:50 +00001434- The wsgiref package is now installed properly on Unix.
1435
Vinay Sajip28e57612006-07-01 10:45:20 +00001436- A bug was fixed in logging.config.fileConfig() which caused a crash on
1437 shutdown when fileConfig() was called multiple times.
1438
Gerhard Häring762fbd32006-07-02 17:48:30 +00001439- The sqlite3 module did cut off data from the SQLite database at the first
1440 null character before sending it to a custom converter. This has been fixed
1441 now.
1442
Neal Norwitz0f8b31a2006-06-28 06:28:31 +00001443Extension Modules
1444-----------------
1445
Tim Peters112aad32006-07-19 00:03:19 +00001446- #1494314: Fix a regression with high-numbered sockets in 2.4.3. This
1447 means that select() on sockets > FD_SETSIZE (typically 1024) work again.
1448 The patch makes sockets use poll() internally where available.
Anthony Baxter93ab5fa2006-07-11 02:04:09 +00001449
Thomas Hellerb9cb84f2006-07-10 11:17:37 +00001450- Assigning None to pointer type fields in ctypes structures possible
1451 overwrote the wrong fields, this is fixed now.
1452
1453- Fixed a segfault in _ctypes when ctypes.wintypes were imported
1454 on non-Windows platforms.
1455
1456- Bug #1518190: The ctypes.c_void_p constructor now accepts any
1457 integer or long, without range checking.
1458
1459- Patch #1517790: It is now possible to use custom objects in the ctypes
1460 foreign function argtypes sequence as long as they provide a from_param
1461 method, no longer is it required that the object is a ctypes type.
1462
1463- The '_ctypes' extension module now works when Python is configured
1464 with the --without-threads option.
1465
Martin v. Löwisee1e06d2006-07-02 18:44:00 +00001466- Bug #1513646: os.access on Windows now correctly determines write
1467 access, again.
1468
Neal Norwitz0f8b31a2006-06-28 06:28:31 +00001469- Bug #1512695: cPickle.loads could crash if it was interrupted with
1470 a KeyboardInterrupt.
1471
Neal Norwitza12aa882006-07-06 06:45:08 +00001472- Bug #1296433: parsing XML with a non-default encoding and
1473 a CharacterDataHandler could crash the interpreter in pyexpat.
1474
Neal Norwitz2a30cd02006-07-10 01:18:57 +00001475- Patch #1516912: improve Modules support for OpenVMS.
1476
Neal Norwitz3b6b8012006-06-27 04:12:58 +00001477Build
1478-----
1479
Martin v. Löwisd73168d2006-07-14 09:58:55 +00001480- Automate Windows build process for the Win64 SSL module.
1481
Tim Peters32a83612006-07-10 21:08:24 +00001482- 'configure' now detects the zlib library the same way as distutils.
Thomas Woutersfc34f6c2006-07-06 10:48:28 +00001483 Previously, the slight difference could cause compilation errors of the
1484 'zlib' module on systems with more than one version of zlib.
1485
Martin v. Löwis4cbd05c2006-07-06 07:05:21 +00001486- The MSI compileall step was fixed to also support a TARGETDIR
1487 with spaces in it.
1488
Martin v. Löwis88ef6372006-07-06 06:55:58 +00001489- Bug #1517388: sqlite3.dll is now installed on Windows independent
1490 of Tcl/Tk.
1491
Neal Norwitzc315a0f2006-06-27 04:28:56 +00001492- Bug #1513032: 'make install' failed on FreeBSD 5.3 due to lib-old
Neal Norwitz3b6b8012006-06-27 04:12:58 +00001493 trying to be installed even though it's empty.
Georg Brandlad29e632006-06-21 17:45:17 +00001494
Neal Norwitzb15ac312006-06-29 04:10:08 +00001495Tests
1496-----
1497
1498- Call os.waitpid() at the end of tests that spawn child processes in order
1499 to minimize resources (zombies).
1500
Martin v. Löwis1bf59592006-06-29 18:58:44 +00001501Documentation
1502-------------
1503
Nick Coghlan2d792252006-07-06 13:47:18 +00001504- Cover ImportWarning, PendingDeprecationWarning and simplefilter() in the
1505 documentation for the warnings module.
1506
Martin v. Löwis1bf59592006-06-29 18:58:44 +00001507- Patch #1509163: MS Toolkit Compiler no longer available.
1508
Neal Norwitz56640df2006-07-10 02:36:41 +00001509- Patch #1504046: Add documentation for xml.etree.
Georg Brandlad29e632006-06-21 17:45:17 +00001510
Georg Brandl212b5872006-08-05 06:10:54 +00001511
Nick Coghlanc649ec52006-05-29 12:43:05 +00001512What's New in Python 2.5 beta 1?
Georg Brandlad29e632006-06-21 17:45:17 +00001513================================
Anthony Baxter51bcb682006-04-05 14:51:42 +00001514
Anthony Baxterd1136802006-06-19 12:04:15 +00001515*Release date: 20-JUN-2006*
Anthony Baxter51bcb682006-04-05 14:51:42 +00001516
1517Core and builtins
1518-----------------
1519
Georg Brandla56b9152006-06-19 06:35:54 +00001520- Patch #1507676: Error messages returned by invalid abstract object operations
1521 (such as iterating over an integer) have been improved and now include the
1522 type of the offending object to help with debugging.
1523
Brett Cannonea3912b2006-06-13 21:46:41 +00001524- Bug #992017: A classic class that defined a __coerce__() method that returned
1525 its arguments swapped would infinitely recurse and segfault the interpreter.
1526
Neal Norwitz909eb122006-06-12 02:13:21 +00001527- Fix the socket tests so they can be run concurrently.
1528
Neal Norwitzb9845e72006-06-12 02:11:18 +00001529- Removed 5 integers from C frame objects (PyFrameObject).
Vinay Sajip28e57612006-07-01 10:45:20 +00001530 f_nlocals, f_ncells, f_nfreevars, f_stack_size, f_restricted.
Neal Norwitzb9845e72006-06-12 02:11:18 +00001531
Brett Cannon22565aa2006-06-09 22:31:23 +00001532- Bug #532646: object.__call__() will continue looking for the __call__
1533 attribute on objects until one without one is found. This leads to recursion
1534 when you take a class and set its __call__ attribute to an instance of the
1535 class. Originally fixed for classic classes, but this fix is for new-style.
1536 Removes the infinite_rec_3 crasher.
1537
Georg Brandl24250812006-06-09 18:45:48 +00001538- The string and unicode methods startswith() and endswith() now accept
1539 a tuple of prefixes/suffixes to look for. Implements RFE #1491485.
1540
Brett Cannonde3b0522006-06-08 17:00:45 +00001541- Buffer objects, at the C level, never used the char buffer
1542 implementation even when the char buffer for the wrapped object was
1543 explicitly requested (originally returned the read or write buffer).
1544 Now a TypeError is raised if the char buffer is not present but is
1545 requested.
1546
Georg Brandlddbaa662006-06-04 21:56:52 +00001547- Patch #1346214: Statements like "if 0: suite" are now again optimized
1548 away like they were in Python 2.4.
1549
Georg Brandlb7c8f542006-05-27 12:30:25 +00001550- Builtin exceptions are now full-blown new-style classes instead of
1551 instances pretending to be classes, which speeds up exception handling
1552 by about 80% in comparison to 2.5a2.
1553
Martin v. Löwisd004fc82006-05-27 08:36:52 +00001554- Patch #1494554: Update unicodedata.numeric and unicode.isnumeric to
1555 Unicode 4.1.
1556
Georg Brandlf4ef1162006-05-26 18:03:31 +00001557- Patch #921466: sys.path_importer_cache is now used to cache valid and
1558 invalid file paths for the built-in import machinery which leads to
1559 fewer open calls on startup.
1560
Tim Peters696cf432006-05-24 21:10:40 +00001561- Patch #1442927: ``long(str, base)`` is now up to 6x faster for non-power-
1562 of-2 bases. The largest speedup is for inputs with about 1000 decimal
1563 digits. Conversion from non-power-of-2 bases remains quadratic-time in
1564 the number of input digits (it was and remains linear-time for bases
1565 2, 4, 8, 16 and 32).
1566
Tim Petersb713ec22006-05-23 18:45:30 +00001567- Bug #1334662: ``int(string, base)`` could deliver a wrong answer
1568 when ``base`` was not 2, 4, 8, 10, 16 or 32, and ``string`` represented
1569 an integer close to ``sys.maxint``. This was repaired by patch
1570 #1335972, which also gives a nice speedup.
1571
Richard Jonescebbefc2006-05-23 18:28:17 +00001572- Patch #1337051: reduced size of frame objects.
1573
1574- PyErr_NewException now accepts a tuple of base classes as its
1575 "base" parameter.
1576
Richard Jones7c88dcc2006-05-23 10:37:38 +00001577- Patch #876206: function call speedup by retaining allocated frame
1578 objects.
1579
Georg Brandl7b90e162006-05-18 07:01:27 +00001580- Bug #1462152: file() now checks more thoroughly for invalid mode
1581 strings and removes a possible "U" before passing the mode to the
1582 C library function.
1583
Neal Norwitz1004a532006-05-15 07:17:23 +00001584- Patch #1488312, Fix memory alignment problem on SPARC in unicode
1585
Neal Norwitz373f0a72006-05-15 07:04:36 +00001586- Bug #1487966: Fix SystemError with conditional expression in assignment
1587
Martin v. Löwis879768d2006-05-11 13:28:43 +00001588- WindowsError now has two error code attributes: errno, which carries
1589 the error values from errno.h, and winerror, which carries the error
1590 values from winerror.h. Previous versions put the winerror.h values
1591 (from GetLastError()) into the errno attribute.
1592
Martin v. Löwis77736712006-05-04 05:51:03 +00001593- Patch #1475845: Raise IndentationError for unexpected indent.
1594
Neal Norwitzc4edb0e2006-05-02 04:43:14 +00001595- Patch #1479181: split open() and file() from being aliases for each other.
1596
Tim Peters44bd9862006-06-01 13:49:23 +00001597- Patch #1497053 & bug #1275608: Exceptions occurring in ``__eq__()``
1598 methods were always silently ignored by dictionaries when comparing keys.
1599 They are now passed through (except when using the C API function
1600 ``PyDict_GetItem()``, whose semantics did not change).
1601
1602- Bug #1456209: In some obscure cases it was possible for a class with a
1603 custom ``__eq__()`` method to confuse dict internals when class instances
1604 were used as a dict's keys and the ``__eq__()`` method mutated the dict.
1605 No, you don't have any code that did this ;-)
Armin Rigo35f6d362006-06-01 13:19:12 +00001606
Neal Norwitz7a5fc282006-05-15 06:48:14 +00001607Extension Modules
1608-----------------
1609
Trent Mick960a3f82006-06-28 20:30:41 +00001610- Bug #1295808: expat symbols should be namespaced in pyexpat
1611
1612- Patch #1462338: Upgrade pyexpat to expat 2.0.0
1613
Brett Cannon6ee7d012006-06-08 16:23:04 +00001614- Change binascii.hexlify to accept a read-only buffer instead of only a char
1615 buffer and actually follow its documentation.
1616
Hye-Shik Chang58ce5bc2006-06-05 00:59:54 +00001617- Fixed a potentially invalid memory access of CJKCodecs' shift-jis decoder.
1618
Nick Coghlanc649ec52006-05-29 12:43:05 +00001619- Patch #1478788 (modified version): The functional extension module has
1620 been renamed to _functools and a functools Python wrapper module added.
1621 This provides a home for additional function related utilities that are
1622 not specifically about functional programming. See PEP 309.
1623
Bob Ippolito7ccc95a2006-05-23 19:11:34 +00001624- Patch #1493701: performance enhancements for struct module.
1625
Georg Brandl378d5922006-05-17 14:26:50 +00001626- Patch #1490224: time.altzone is now set correctly on Cygwin.
1627
Georg Brandl8d3342b2006-05-16 07:38:27 +00001628- Patch #1435422: zlib's compress and decompress objects now have a
1629 copy() method.
1630
Andrew MacIntyre92913322006-06-13 15:04:24 +00001631- Patch #1454481: thread stack size is now tunable at runtime for thread
1632 enabled builds on Windows and systems with Posix threads support.
1633
Neal Norwitz7a5fc282006-05-15 06:48:14 +00001634- On Win32, os.listdir now supports arbitrarily-long Unicode path names
1635 (up to the system limit of 32K characters).
1636
1637- Use Win32 API to implement os.{access,chdir,chmod,mkdir,remove,rename,rmdir,utime}.
1638 As a result, these functions now raise WindowsError instead of OSError.
1639
Tim Peters7a822da2006-05-25 21:50:17 +00001640- ``time.clock()`` on Win64 should use the high-performance Windows
1641 ``QueryPerformanceCounter()`` now (as was already the case on 32-bit
1642 Windows platforms).
1643
Neal Norwitz7a5fc282006-05-15 06:48:14 +00001644- Calling Tk_Init twice is refused if the first call failed as that
1645 may deadlock.
1646
Gregory P. Smith0459e4d2006-06-05 02:02:25 +00001647- bsddb: added the DB_ARCH_REMOVE flag and fixed db.DBEnv.log_archive() to
1648 accept it without potentially using an uninitialized pointer.
1649
1650- bsddb: added support for the DBEnv.log_stat() and DBEnv.lsn_reset() methods
1651 assuming BerkeleyDB >= 4.0 and 4.4 respectively. [pybsddb project SF
1652 patch numbers 1494885 and 1494902]
Nick Coghlanc649ec52006-05-29 12:43:05 +00001653
Gregory P. Smith372b5832006-06-05 18:48:21 +00001654- bsddb: added an interface for the BerkeleyDB >= 4.3 DBSequence class.
Gregory P. Smithf0547d02006-06-05 17:38:04 +00001655 [pybsddb project SF patch number 1466734]
1656
Gregory P. Smith372b5832006-06-05 18:48:21 +00001657- bsddb: fix DBCursor.pget() bug with keyword argument names when no data
1658 parameter is supplied. [SF pybsddb bug #1477863]
1659
Gregory P. Smith3c228b12006-06-05 23:59:37 +00001660- bsddb: the __len__ method of a DB object has been fixed to return correct
1661 results. It could previously incorrectly return 0 in some cases.
1662 Fixes SF bug 1493322 (pybsddb bug 1184012).
1663
Gregory P. Smithff7d9912006-06-08 05:17:08 +00001664- bsddb: the bsddb.dbtables Modify method now raises the proper error and
1665 aborts the db transaction safely when a modifier callback fails.
1666 Fixes SF python patch/bug #1408584.
1667
Gregory P. Smith506f7b52006-06-15 08:52:32 +00001668- bsddb: multithreaded DB access using the simple bsddb module interface
Vinay Sajip28e57612006-07-01 10:45:20 +00001669 now works reliably. It has been updated to use automatic BerkeleyDB
Gregory P. Smith506f7b52006-06-15 08:52:32 +00001670 deadlock detection and the bsddb.dbutils.DeadlockWrap wrapper to retry
1671 database calls that would previously deadlock. [SF python bug #775414]
1672
Vinay Sajip28e57612006-07-01 10:45:20 +00001673- Patch #1446489: add support for the ZIP64 extensions to zipfile.
Gregory P. Smith372b5832006-06-05 18:48:21 +00001674
Walter Dörwald4994d952006-06-19 08:07:50 +00001675- Patch #1506645: add Python wrappers for the curses functions
1676 is_term_resized, resize_term and resizeterm.
Gregory P. Smith506f7b52006-06-15 08:52:32 +00001677
Neal Norwitz7a5fc282006-05-15 06:48:14 +00001678Library
1679-------
1680
Martin v. Löwis6fb20aa2006-06-17 19:03:26 +00001681- Patch #815924: Restore ability to pass type= and icon= in tkMessageBox
1682 functions.
1683
Martin v. Löwis3798da02006-06-17 18:44:27 +00001684- Patch #812986: Update turtle output even if not tracing.
1685
Vinay Sajip28e57612006-07-01 10:45:20 +00001686- Patch #1494750: Destroy master after deleting children in
Martin v. Löwis92733be2006-06-17 09:25:15 +00001687 Tkinter.BaseWidget.
1688
Martin v. Löwis5ecad9c2006-06-17 09:20:41 +00001689- Patch #1096231: Add ``default`` argument to Tkinter.Wm.wm_iconbitmap.
1690
Martin v. Löwis337487e2006-06-17 09:15:14 +00001691- Patch #763580: Add name and value arguments to Tkinter variable
1692 classes.
1693
Georg Brandl83cc0d02006-06-14 08:50:03 +00001694- Bug #1117556: SimpleHTTPServer now tries to find and use the system's
1695 mime.types file for determining MIME types.
1696
Georg Brandl2605ca82006-06-14 06:08:31 +00001697- Bug #1339007: Shelf objects now don't raise an exception in their
1698 __del__ method when initialization failed.
1699
Martin v. Löwisd8251432006-06-14 05:21:04 +00001700- Patch #1455898: The MBCS codec now supports the incremental mode for
1701 double-byte encodings.
1702
Tim Peters43898b42006-06-14 04:09:25 +00001703- ``difflib``'s ``SequenceMatcher.get_matching_blocks()`` was changed to
1704 guarantee that adjacent triples in the return list always describe
1705 non-adjacent blocks. Previously, a pair of matching blocks could end
1706 up being described by multiple adjacent triples that formed a partition
1707 of the matching pair.
1708
Greg Ward0e0c9f42006-06-11 16:24:11 +00001709- Bug #1498146: fix optparse to handle Unicode strings in option help,
1710 description, and epilog.
1711
Greg Wardd1c797e2006-06-11 14:42:41 +00001712- Bug #1366250: minor optparse documentation error.
1713
Greg Ward7f547402006-06-11 00:40:49 +00001714- Bug #1361643: fix textwrap.dedent() so it handles tabs appropriately;
1715 clarify docs.
1716
Andrew M. Kuchling0873b112006-06-09 16:46:51 +00001717- The wsgiref package has been added to the standard library.
1718
Nick Coghlan676725d2006-06-08 13:54:49 +00001719- The functions update_wrapper() and wraps() have been added to the functools
1720 module. These make it easier to copy relevant metadata from the original
1721 function when writing wrapper functions.
1722
Tim Petersd6a9eef2006-06-05 01:48:21 +00001723- The optional ``isprivate`` argument to ``doctest.testmod()``, and the
1724 ``doctest.is_private()`` function, both deprecated in 2.4, were removed.
Tim Petersbf0400a2006-06-05 01:43:03 +00001725
Martin v. Löwis3f767792006-06-04 19:36:28 +00001726- Patch #1359618: Speed up charmap encoder by using a trie structure
1727 for lookup.
1728
Tim Petersd609b1a2006-06-02 23:22:51 +00001729- The functions in the ``pprint`` module now sort dictionaries by key
1730 before computing the display. Before 2.5, ``pprint`` sorted a dictionary
1731 if and only if its display required more than one line, although that
1732 wasn't documented. The new behavior increases predictability; e.g.,
1733 using ``pprint.pprint(a_dict)`` in a doctest is now reliable.
1734
Georg Brandlfd9a4b12006-05-29 20:57:01 +00001735- Patch #1497027: try HTTP digest auth before basic auth in urllib2
1736 (thanks for J. J. Lee).
1737
Georg Brandl2b330372006-05-28 20:23:12 +00001738- Patch #1496206: improve urllib2 handling of passwords with respect to
1739 default HTTP and HTTPS ports.
1740
George Yoshidaf3c65de2006-05-28 16:39:09 +00001741- Patch #1080727: add "encoding" parameter to doctest.DocFileSuite.
1742
Bob Ippolito7298f272006-05-23 18:43:47 +00001743- Patch #1281707: speed up gzip.readline.
1744
Georg Brandlb89316f2006-05-17 15:51:16 +00001745- Patch #1180296: Two new functions were added to the locale module:
1746 format_string() to get the effect of "format % items" but locale-aware,
1747 and currency() to format a monetary number with currency sign.
1748
Georg Brandle3a25832006-05-17 14:56:04 +00001749- Patch #1486962: Several bugs in the turtle Tk demo module were fixed
1750 and several features added, such as speed and geometry control.
1751
Georg Brandl49c8f4c2006-05-15 19:30:35 +00001752- Patch #1488881: add support for external file objects in bz2 compressed
1753 tarfiles.
1754
Neal Norwitz7a5fc282006-05-15 06:48:14 +00001755- Patch #721464: pdb.Pdb instances can now be given explicit stdin and
1756 stdout arguments, making it possible to redirect input and output
1757 for remote debugging.
1758
1759- Patch #1484695: Update the tarfile module to version 0.8. This fixes
1760 a couple of issues, notably handling of long file names using the
1761 GNU LONGNAME extension.
1762
1763- Patch #1478292. ``doctest.register_optionflag(name)`` shouldn't create a
1764 new flag when ``name`` is already the name of an option flag.
1765
1766- Bug #1385040: don't allow "def foo(a=1, b): pass" in the compiler
1767 package.
1768
1769- Patch #1472854: make the rlcompleter.Completer class usable on non-
1770 UNIX platforms.
1771
1772- Patch #1470846: fix urllib2 ProxyBasicAuthHandler.
1773
Andrew M. Kuchling3fed2eb2006-06-09 16:44:40 +00001774- Bug #1472827: correctly escape newlines and tabs in attribute values in
1775 the saxutils.XMLGenerator class.
1776
1777
Neal Norwitz7a5fc282006-05-15 06:48:14 +00001778Build
1779-----
1780
Georg Brandl66a0dbb2006-06-08 12:54:13 +00001781- Bug #1502728: Correctly link against librt library on HP-UX.
1782
Martin v. Löwis222c5152006-06-03 07:37:13 +00001783- OpenBSD 3.9 is supported now.
1784
Martin v. Löwisa43190b2006-05-22 09:15:18 +00001785- Patch #1492356: Port to Windows CE.
1786
Neal Norwitz58e28882006-05-19 07:00:58 +00001787- Bug/Patch #1481770: Use .so extension for shared libraries on HP-UX for ia64.
1788
Neal Norwitz7a5fc282006-05-15 06:48:14 +00001789- Patch #1471883: Add --enable-universalsdk.
1790
1791C API
1792-----
1793
1794Tests
1795-----
1796
1797Tools
1798-----
1799
1800Documentation
1801-------------
1802
Nick Coghlanc649ec52006-05-29 12:43:05 +00001803
1804
Neal Norwitz7a5fc282006-05-15 06:48:14 +00001805What's New in Python 2.5 alpha 2?
1806=================================
1807
1808*Release date: 27-APR-2006*
1809
1810Core and builtins
1811-----------------
1812
Thomas Heller1b046642006-04-18 18:51:06 +00001813- Bug #1465834: 'bdist_wininst preinstall script support' was fixed
1814 by converting these apis from macros into exported functions again:
1815
1816 PyParser_SimpleParseFile PyParser_SimpleParseString PyRun_AnyFile
1817 PyRun_AnyFileEx PyRun_AnyFileFlags PyRun_File PyRun_FileEx
1818 PyRun_FileFlags PyRun_InteractiveLoop PyRun_InteractiveOne
1819 PyRun_SimpleFile PyRun_SimpleFileEx PyRun_SimpleString
1820 PyRun_String Py_CompileString
1821
Martin v. Löwis45294a92006-04-18 06:24:08 +00001822- Under COUNT_ALLOCS, types are not necessarily immortal anymore.
1823
Martin v. Löwis19ab6c92006-04-16 18:55:50 +00001824- All uses of PyStructSequence_InitType have been changed to initialize
1825 the type objects only once, even if the interpreter is initialized
1826 multiple times.
1827
Neal Norwitz61546162006-04-14 05:20:28 +00001828- Bug #1454485, array.array('u') could crash the interpreter. This was
1829 due to PyArgs_ParseTuple(args, 'u#', ...) trying to convert buffers (strings)
1830 to unicode when it didn't make sense. 'u#' now requires a unicode string.
1831
1832- Py_UNICODE is unsigned. It was always documented as unsigned, but
1833 due to a bug had a signed value in previous versions.
1834
Tim Peters3a5e8b12006-04-11 01:44:07 +00001835- Patch #837242: ``id()`` of any Python object always gives a positive
1836 number now, which might be a long integer. ``PyLong_FromVoidPtr`` and
1837 ``PyLong_AsVoidPtr`` have been changed accordingly. Note that it has
Tim Peters527f6522006-04-11 01:47:17 +00001838 never been correct to implement a ``__hash()__`` method that returns the
Tim Peters3a5e8b12006-04-11 01:44:07 +00001839 ``id()`` of an object:
Martin v. Löwis0bc2ab92006-04-10 20:28:17 +00001840
Tim Peters3a5e8b12006-04-11 01:44:07 +00001841 def __hash__(self):
1842 return id(self) # WRONG
1843
1844 because a hash result must be a (short) Python int but it was always
1845 possible for ``id()`` to return a Python long. However, because ``id()``
Tim Peters527f6522006-04-11 01:47:17 +00001846 could return negative values before, on a 32-bit box an ``id()`` result
Tim Peters3a5e8b12006-04-11 01:44:07 +00001847 was always usable as a hash value before this patch. That's no longer
1848 necessarily so.
1849
1850- Python on OS X 10.3 and above now uses dlopen() (via dynload_shlib.c)
Anthony Baxter82201742006-04-09 15:07:40 +00001851 to load extension modules and now provides the dl module. As a result,
Tim Peters3a5e8b12006-04-11 01:44:07 +00001852 sys.setdlopenflags() now works correctly on these systems. (SF patch
Anthony Baxter82201742006-04-09 15:07:40 +00001853 #1454844)
1854
Phillip J. Eby51dd7d92006-04-11 01:21:31 +00001855- Patch #1463867: enhanced garbage collection to allow cleanup of cycles
1856 involving generators that have paused outside of any ``try`` or ``with``
1857 blocks. (In 2.5a1, a paused generator that was part of a reference
1858 cycle could not be garbage collected, regardless of whether it was
1859 paused in a ``try`` or ``with`` block.)
Anthony Baxter82201742006-04-09 15:07:40 +00001860
Anthony Baxter51bcb682006-04-05 14:51:42 +00001861Extension Modules
1862-----------------
1863
Martin v. Löwis7e75f1a2006-04-15 08:35:59 +00001864- Patch #1191065: Fix preprocessor problems on systems where recvfrom
1865 is a macro.
1866
Georg Brandlbbfe4fa2006-04-11 06:47:43 +00001867- Bug #1467952: os.listdir() now correctly raises an error if readdir()
1868 fails with an error condition.
1869
Gregory P. Smith3adc4aa2006-04-13 19:19:01 +00001870- Fixed bsddb.db.DBError derived exceptions so they can be unpickled.
1871
1872- Bug #1117761: bsddb.*open() no longer raises an exception when using
1873 the cachesize parameter.
1874
1875- Bug #1149413: bsddb.*open() no longer raises an exception when using
1876 a temporary db (file=None) with the 'n' flag to truncate on open.
1877
1878- Bug #1332852: bsddb module minimum BerkeleyDB version raised to 3.3
1879 as older versions cause excessive test failures.
Gregory P. Smith7f5b6f42006-04-08 07:10:51 +00001880
Armin Rigoa9017c32006-04-19 11:50:27 +00001881- Patch #1062014: AF_UNIX sockets under Linux have a special
1882 abstract namespace that is now fully supported.
1883
Anthony Baxter51bcb682006-04-05 14:51:42 +00001884Library
1885-------
1886
Peter Astrand7d1d4362006-07-14 14:04:45 +00001887- Bug #1223937: subprocess.CalledProcessError reports the exit status
1888 of the process using the returncode attribute, instead of
1889 abusing errno.
1890
Tim Peters711bf302006-04-25 03:31:36 +00001891- Patch #1475231: ``doctest`` has a new ``SKIP`` option, which causes
1892 a doctest to be skipped (the code is not run, and the expected output
1893 or exception is ignored).
1894
Nick Coghlanda2268f2006-04-24 04:37:15 +00001895- Fixed contextlib.nested to cope with exceptions being raised and
1896 caught inside exit handlers.
1897
Greg Wardab05edc2006-04-23 03:47:58 +00001898- Updated optparse module to Optik 1.5.1 (allow numeric constants in
1899 hex, octal, or binary; add ``append_const`` action; keep going if
1900 gettext cannot be imported; added ``OptionParser.destroy()`` method;
1901 added ``epilog`` for better help generation).
1902
Tim Peters21fbd572006-04-21 21:18:10 +00001903- Bug #1473760: ``tempfile.TemporaryFile()`` could hang on Windows, when
1904 called from a thread spawned as a side effect of importing a module.
1905
Phillip J. Eby17a35f92006-04-18 16:45:14 +00001906- The pydoc module now supports documenting packages contained in
1907 .zip or .egg files.
1908
1909- The pkgutil module now has several new utility functions, such
1910 as ``walk_packages()`` to support working with packages that are either
1911 in the filesystem or zip files.
1912
Andrew M. Kuchling1da4a942006-04-22 02:32:43 +00001913- The mailbox module can now modify and delete messages from
1914 mailboxes, in addition to simply reading them. Thanks to Gregory
1915 K. Johnson for writing the code, and to the 2005 Google Summer of
1916 Code for funding his work.
Phillip J. Eby17a35f92006-04-18 16:45:14 +00001917
Tim Petersc7605f22006-04-17 21:12:33 +00001918- The ``__del__`` method of class ``local`` in module ``_threading_local``
1919 returned before accomplishing any of its intended cleanup.
1920
Martin v. Löwisbd30f522006-04-17 17:08:37 +00001921- Patch #790710: Add breakpoint command lists in pdb.
1922
Martin v. Löwis0db2a982006-04-16 20:55:38 +00001923- Patch #1063914: Add Tkinter.Misc.clipboard_get().
1924
Martin v. Löwis4b501e62006-04-15 08:41:11 +00001925- Patch #1191700: Adjust column alignment in bdb breakpoint lists.
1926
Anthony Baxtere29002c2006-04-12 12:07:31 +00001927- SimpleXMLRPCServer relied on the fcntl module, which is unavailable on
1928 Windows. Bug #1469163.
1929
Phillip J. Eby47032112006-04-11 01:07:43 +00001930- The warnings, linecache, inspect, traceback, site, and doctest modules
1931 were updated to work correctly with modules imported from zipfiles or
1932 via other PEP 302 __loader__ objects.
1933
Martin v. Löwis17de8ff2006-04-10 15:55:37 +00001934- Patch #1467770: Reduce usage of subprocess._active to processes which
1935 the application hasn't waited on.
1936
Martin v. Löwisb04dee92006-04-10 08:34:21 +00001937- Patch #1462222: Fix Tix.Grid.
1938
Neal Norwitza31bf182006-04-09 03:35:43 +00001939- Fix exception when doing glob.glob('anything*/')
1940
Skip Montanaro262fb922006-04-21 02:31:07 +00001941- The pstats.Stats class accepts an optional stream keyword argument to
1942 direct output to an alternate file-like object.
1943
Anthony Baxter51bcb682006-04-05 14:51:42 +00001944Build
1945-----
1946
Martin v. Löwis4be4e652006-04-17 19:25:49 +00001947- The Makefile now has a reindent target, which runs reindent.py on
1948 the library.
1949
Martin v. Löwis48bbaf22006-04-15 18:06:54 +00001950- Patch #1470875: Building Python with MS Free Compiler
1951
Martin v. Löwisc90b17e2006-04-15 08:13:05 +00001952- Patch #1161914: Add a python-config script.
Martin v. Löwis48bbaf22006-04-15 18:06:54 +00001953
Martin v. Löwis0f48d982006-04-14 14:34:26 +00001954- Patch #1324762:Remove ccpython.cc; replace --with-cxx with
1955 --with-cxx-main. Link with C++ compiler only if --with-cxx-main was
Andrew M. Kuchlingdb4018f2006-04-14 14:54:18 +00001956 specified. (Can be overridden by explicitly setting LINKCC.) Decouple
Martin v. Löwis0f48d982006-04-14 14:34:26 +00001957 CXX from --with-cxx-main, see description in README.
1958
Martin v. Löwis10acfd02006-04-10 12:39:36 +00001959- Patch #1429775: Link extension modules with the shared libpython.
1960
Hye-Shik Changf4795c82006-04-26 19:20:26 +00001961- Fixed a libffi build problem on MIPS systems.
1962
Tim Peters8931ff12006-05-13 23:28:20 +00001963- ``PyString_FromFormat``, ``PyErr_Format``, and ``PyString_FromFormatV``
1964 now accept formats "%u" for unsigned ints, "%lu" for unsigned longs,
1965 and "%zu" for unsigned integers of type ``size_t``.
1966
Anthony Baxter51bcb682006-04-05 14:51:42 +00001967Tests
1968-----
1969
Nick Coghlanda2268f2006-04-24 04:37:15 +00001970- test_contextlib now checks contextlib.nested can cope with exceptions
1971 being raised and caught inside exit handlers.
1972
Nick Coghlan27ec1a72006-04-24 04:32:47 +00001973- test_cmd_line now checks operation of the -m and -c command switches
1974
Phillip J. Eby51dd7d92006-04-11 01:21:31 +00001975- The test_contextlib test in 2.5a1 wasn't actually run unless you ran
1976 it separately and by hand. It also wasn't cleaning up its changes to
1977 the current Decimal context.
1978
Thomas Woutersabd08882006-04-26 15:53:30 +00001979- regrtest.py now has a -M option to run tests that test the new limits of
1980 containers, on 64-bit architectures. Running these tests is only sensible
1981 on 64-bit machines with more than two gigabytes of memory. The argument
1982 passed is the maximum amount of memory for the tests to use.
1983
Marc-André Lemburgd0b8e832006-04-19 15:48:59 +00001984Tools
1985-----
1986
1987- Added the Python benchmark suite pybench to the Tools/ directory;
1988 contributed by Marc-Andre Lemburg.
Phillip J. Eby51dd7d92006-04-11 01:21:31 +00001989
Anthony Baxter51bcb682006-04-05 14:51:42 +00001990Documentation
1991-------------
1992
Tim Petersb06d28c2006-05-12 01:57:59 +00001993- Patch #1473132: Improve docs for ``tp_clear`` and ``tp_traverse``.
1994
Nick Coghlanc195d8a2006-04-24 03:04:43 +00001995- PEP 343: Added Context Types section to the library reference
1996 and attempted to bring other PEP 343 related documentation into
1997 line with the implementation and/or python-dev discussions.
1998
Tim Peters8dc73d22006-04-24 02:03:16 +00001999- Bug #1337990: clarified that ``doctest`` does not support examples
2000 requiring both expected output and an exception.
Anthony Baxter51bcb682006-04-05 14:51:42 +00002001
2002
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +00002003What's New in Python 2.5 alpha 1?
2004=================================
2005
Anthony Baxterebed3f62006-04-03 15:03:44 +00002006*Release date: 05-APR-2006*
Anthony Baxter12b6f6c2005-03-29 13:36:16 +00002007
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +00002008Core and builtins
2009-----------------
2010
Nick Coghlan43832302006-04-23 17:04:07 +00002011- PEP 338: -m command line switch now delegates to runpy.run_module
2012 allowing it to support modules in packages and zipfiles
2013
Martin v. Löwisc661b882006-04-20 04:54:23 +00002014- On Windows, .DLL is not an accepted file name extension for
2015 extension modules anymore; extensions are only found if they
2016 end in .PYD.
2017
Martin v. Löwisea62d252006-04-03 10:56:49 +00002018- Bug #1421664: sys.stderr.encoding is now set to the same value as
2019 sys.stdout.encoding.
2020
Neal Norwitz92e212f2006-04-03 04:48:37 +00002021- __import__ accepts keyword arguments.
2022
Georg Brandlccadf842006-03-31 18:54:53 +00002023- Patch #1460496: round() now accepts keyword arguments.
2024
Anthony Baxter262c00a2006-03-30 10:53:17 +00002025- Fixed bug #1459029 - unicode reprs were double-escaped.
2026
Hye-Shik Changd478f342006-03-23 12:32:36 +00002027- Patch #1396919: The system scope threads are reenabled on FreeBSD
2028 5.4 and later versions.
2029
Neal Norwitze98ccf62006-03-23 05:39:47 +00002030- Bug #1115379: Compiling a Unicode string with an encoding declaration
2031 now gives a SyntaxError.
2032
Georg Brandlabd1ff82006-03-18 07:59:59 +00002033- Previously, Python code had no easy way to access the contents of a
2034 cell object. Now, a ``cell_contents`` attribute has been added
2035 (closes patch #1170323).
2036
Tim Peterscf79aac2006-03-16 01:14:46 +00002037- Patch #1123430: Python's small-object allocator now returns an arena to
2038 the system ``free()`` when all memory within an arena becomes unused
2039 again. Prior to Python 2.5, arenas (256KB chunks of memory) were never
2040 freed. Some applications will see a drop in virtual memory size now,
2041 especially long-running applications that, from time to time, temporarily
2042 use a large number of small objects. Note that when Python returns an
2043 arena to the platform C's ``free()``, there's no guarantee that the
Andrew M. Kuchling1da4a942006-04-22 02:32:43 +00002044 platform C library will in turn return that memory to the operating system.
2045 The effect of the patch is to stop making that impossible, and in tests it
Tim Peterscf79aac2006-03-16 01:14:46 +00002046 appears to be effective at least on Microsoft C and gcc-based systems.
2047 Thanks to Evan Jones for hard work and patience.
2048
Georg Brandl533ff6f2006-03-08 18:09:27 +00002049- Patch #1434038: property() now uses the getter's docstring if there is
2050 no "doc" argument given. This makes it possible to legitimately use
2051 property() as a decorator to produce a read-only property.
2052
Guido van Rossum9aa37ab2006-03-07 18:54:08 +00002053- PEP 357, patch 1436368: add an __index__ method to int/long and a matching
2054 nb_index slot to the PyNumberMethods struct. The slot is consulted instead
2055 of requiring an int or long in slicing and a few other contexts, enabling
2056 other objects (e.g. Numeric Python's integers) to be used as slice indices.
2057
Neal Norwitz995acdf2006-03-07 05:01:00 +00002058- Fixed various bugs reported by Coverity's Prevent tool.
2059
Brett Cannonbf364092006-03-01 04:25:17 +00002060- PEP 352, patch #1104669: Make exceptions new-style objects. Introduced the
2061 new exception base class, BaseException, which has a new message attribute.
2062 KeyboardInterrupt and SystemExit to directly inherit from BaseException now.
2063 Raising a string exception now raises a DeprecationWarning.
2064
Thomas Woutersfb609f42006-02-28 16:37:25 +00002065- Patch #1438387, PEP 328: relative and absolute imports. Imports can now be
2066 explicitly relative, using 'from .module import name' to mean 'from the same
2067 package as this module is in. Imports without dots still default to the
2068 old relative-then-absolute, unless 'from __future__ import
2069 absolute_import' is used.
2070
Brett Cannona7446e32006-02-27 23:39:10 +00002071- Properly check if 'warnings' raises an exception (usually when a filter set
2072 to "error" is triggered) when raising a warning for raising string
2073 exceptions.
2074
Andrew M. Kuchling7034f6b2006-04-01 10:50:08 +00002075- CO_GENERATOR_ALLOWED is no longer defined. This behavior is the default.
Neal Norwitz0023a2f2006-02-27 23:24:48 +00002076 The name was removed from Include/code.h.
2077
Andrew M. Kuchling7034f6b2006-04-01 10:50:08 +00002078- PEP 308: conditional expressions were added: (x if cond else y).
Neal Norwitzeb651252006-02-27 16:47:12 +00002079
Guido van Rossum1968ad32006-02-25 22:38:04 +00002080- Patch 1433928:
2081 - The copy module now "copies" function objects (as atomic objects).
2082 - dict.__getitem__ now looks for a __missing__ hook before raising
2083 KeyError.
2084
Tim Peters84ef21c2006-02-28 20:39:06 +00002085- PEP 343: with statement implemented. Needs ``from __future__ import
2086 with_statement``. Use of 'with' as a variable will generate a warning.
2087 Use of 'as' as a variable will also generate a warning (unless it's
Neal Norwitz055ec242006-02-28 20:06:49 +00002088 part of an import statement).
Guido van Rossum1a5e21e2006-02-28 21:57:43 +00002089 The following objects have __context__ methods:
2090 - The built-in file type.
2091 - The thread.LockType type.
2092 - The following types defined by the threading module:
2093 Lock, RLock, Condition, Semaphore, BoundedSemaphore.
2094 - The decimal.Context class.
Guido van Rossumc2e20742006-02-27 22:32:47 +00002095
Marc-André Lemburgfe4b34c2006-02-19 15:22:22 +00002096- Fix the encodings package codec search function to only search
2097 inside its own package. Fixes problem reported in patch #1433198.
2098
2099 Note: Codec packages should implement and register their own
2100 codec search function. PEP 100 has the details.
2101
Tim Peters9ea89d22006-06-04 03:26:02 +00002102- PEP 353: Using ``Py_ssize_t`` as the index type.
2103
2104- ``PYMALLOC_DEBUG`` builds now add ``4*sizeof(size_t)`` bytes of debugging
2105 info to each allocated block, since the ``Py_ssize_t`` changes (PEP 353)
2106 now allow Python to make use of memory blocks exceeding 2**32 bytes for
2107 some purposes on 64-bit boxes. A ``PYMALLOC_DEBUG`` build was limited
2108 to 4-byte allocations before.
Martin v. Löwis18e16552006-02-15 17:27:45 +00002109
Neal Norwitzfc76d632006-01-10 06:03:13 +00002110- Patch #1400181, fix unicode string formatting to not use the locale.
2111 This is how string objects work. u'%f' could use , instead of .
2112 for the decimal point. Now both strings and unicode always use periods.
2113
Neal Norwitz671b9e32006-01-09 07:07:12 +00002114- Bug #1244610, #1392915, fix build problem on OpenBSD 3.7 and 3.8.
2115 configure would break checking curses.h.
2116
Georg Brandlcd4d1e82005-12-27 17:37:07 +00002117- Bug #959576: The pwd module is now builtin. This allows Python to be
2118 built on UNIX platforms without $HOME set.
2119
Neal Norwitzc10978f2005-12-19 06:07:16 +00002120- Bug #1072182, fix some potential problems if characters are signed.
2121
Neal Norwitz5d0ad502005-12-19 04:27:42 +00002122- Bug #889500, fix line number on SyntaxWarning for global declarations.
2123
Neal Norwitzdb83eb32005-12-18 05:29:30 +00002124- Bug #1378022, UTF-8 files with a leading BOM crashed the interpreter.
2125
Neal Norwitze7214a12005-12-18 05:03:17 +00002126- Support for converting hex strings to floats no longer works.
2127 This was not portable. float('0x3') now raises a ValueError.
2128
Barry Warsaw2a38a862005-12-18 01:27:35 +00002129- Patch #1382163: Expose Subversion revision number to Python. New C API
Barry Warsawd3c38ff2006-03-07 09:46:03 +00002130 function Py_GetBuildNumber(). New attribute sys.subversion. Build number
Barry Warsaw2a38a862005-12-18 01:27:35 +00002131 is now displayed in interactive prompt banner.
2132
Georg Brandlfa166682005-12-17 21:45:17 +00002133- Implementation of PEP 341 - Unification of try/except and try/finally.
2134 "except" clauses can now be written together with a "finally" clause in
Neal Norwitz11ca77e2005-12-17 22:24:12 +00002135 one try statement instead of two nested ones. Patch #1355913.
Georg Brandlfa166682005-12-17 21:45:17 +00002136
Hye-Shik Chang835b2432005-12-17 04:38:31 +00002137- Bug #1379994: Builtin unicode_escape and raw_unicode_escape codec
2138 now encodes backslash correctly.
2139
Martin v. Löwisb45b3152005-11-28 17:34:23 +00002140- Patch #1350409: Work around signal handling bug in Visual Studio 2005.
2141
Andrew M. Kuchling7034f6b2006-04-01 10:50:08 +00002142- Bug #1281408: Py_BuildValue now works correctly even with unsigned longs
Georg Brandlf06e30a2005-11-24 15:37:42 +00002143 and long longs.
2144
Neal Norwitz67715f02005-11-09 06:59:35 +00002145- SF Bug #1350188, "setdlopenflags" leads to crash upon "import"
Tim Peters3a5e8b12006-04-11 01:44:07 +00002146 It was possible for dlerror() to return a NULL pointer, so
Andrew M. Kuchling7034f6b2006-04-01 10:50:08 +00002147 it will now use a default error message in this case.
Neal Norwitz67715f02005-11-09 06:59:35 +00002148
Marc-André Lemburga5bafc42005-10-23 13:43:40 +00002149- Replaced most Unicode charmap codecs with new ones using the
2150 new Unicode translate string feature in the builtin charmap
2151 codec; the codecs were created from the mapping tables available
2152 at ftp.unicode.org and contain a few updates (e.g. the Mac OS
2153 encodings now include a mapping for the Apple logo)
2154
Tim Peterse3547fd2005-12-16 23:13:57 +00002155- Added a few more codecs for Mac OS encodings
Marc-André Lemburga5bafc42005-10-23 13:43:40 +00002156
Andrew M. Kuchling7034f6b2006-04-01 10:50:08 +00002157- Sped up some Unicode operations.
Neal Norwitzfed9b3e2005-10-21 06:32:02 +00002158
Martin v. Löwisbd260da2006-02-26 19:42:26 +00002159- A new AST parser implementation was completed. The abstract
2160 syntax tree is available for read-only (non-compile) access
Martin v. Löwis577b5b92006-02-27 15:23:19 +00002161 to Python code; an _ast module was added.
Neal Norwitzfed9b3e2005-10-21 06:32:02 +00002162
Andrew M. Kuchling7034f6b2006-04-01 10:50:08 +00002163- SF bug #1167751: fix incorrect code being produced for generator expressions.
Neal Norwitz16af7342005-10-21 06:25:33 +00002164 The following code now raises a SyntaxError: foo(a = i for i in range(10))
2165
Neal Norwitz708e51a2005-10-03 04:48:15 +00002166- SF Bug #976608: fix SystemError when mtime of an imported file is -1.
2167
Neal Norwitz11bd1192005-10-03 00:54:56 +00002168- SF Bug #887946: fix segfault when redirecting stdin from a directory.
2169 Provide a warning when a directory is passed on the command line.
2170
Neal Norwitz40d37812005-10-02 01:48:49 +00002171- Fix segfault with invalid coding.
2172
2173- SF bug #772896: unknown encoding results in MemoryError.
2174
Andrew M. Kuchling7034f6b2006-04-01 10:50:08 +00002175- All iterators now have a Boolean value of True. Formerly, some iterators
Raymond Hettinger6b27cda2005-09-24 21:23:05 +00002176 supported a __len__() method which evaluated to False when the iterator
2177 was empty.
2178
Guido van Rossum630db602005-09-20 18:49:54 +00002179- On 64-bit platforms, when __len__() returns a value that cannot be
2180 represented as a C int, raise OverflowError.
2181
Skip Montanarof8948ca2005-09-19 03:54:46 +00002182- test__locale is skipped on OS X < 10.4 (only partial locale support is
Walter Dörwald6611a8b2005-10-09 19:28:35 +00002183 present).
Skip Montanarof8948ca2005-09-19 03:54:46 +00002184
Georg Brandl80bbf3f2005-09-14 19:38:29 +00002185- SF bug #893549: parsing keyword arguments was broken with a few format
2186 codes.
2187
Guido van Rossum8ee3e5a2005-09-14 18:09:42 +00002188- Changes donated by Elemental Security to make it work on AIX 5.3
2189 with IBM's 64-bit compiler (SF patch #1284289). This also closes SF
2190 bug #105470: test_pwd fails on 64bit system (Opteron).
2191
Guido van Rossum539c6622005-09-14 17:49:54 +00002192- Changes donated by Elemental Security to make it work on HP-UX 11 on
2193 Itanium2 with HP's 64-bit compiler (SF patch #1225212).
2194
Georg Brandl4550b8d2005-08-26 06:43:52 +00002195- Disallow keyword arguments for type constructors that don't use them
Georg Brandl02c42872005-08-26 06:42:30 +00002196 (fixes bug #1119418).
2197
Martin v. Löwisd35edda2005-08-24 08:39:24 +00002198- Forward UnicodeDecodeError into SyntaxError for source encoding errors.
2199
Barry Warsawe2eca0b2005-08-15 18:14:19 +00002200- SF bug #900092: When tracing (e.g. for hotshot), restore 'return' events for
2201 exceptions that cause a function to exit.
2202
Raymond Hettinger9f1a6792005-07-31 01:16:36 +00002203- The implementation of set() and frozenset() was revised to use its
2204 own internal data structure. Memory consumption is reduced by 1/3
2205 and there are modest speed-ups as well. The API is unchanged.
2206
Tim Petersde7990b2005-07-17 23:45:23 +00002207- SF bug #1238681: freed pointer is used in longobject.c:long_pow().
2208
Michael W. Hudson0edc7a02005-07-12 10:21:19 +00002209- SF bug #1229429: PyObject_CallMethod failed to decrement some
2210 reference counts in some error exit cases.
2211
Tim Petersecc6e6a2005-07-10 22:30:55 +00002212- SF bug #1185883: Python's small-object memory allocator took over
2213 a block managed by the platform C library whenever a realloc specified
2214 a small new size. However, there's no portable way to know then how
Andrew M. Kuchling7034f6b2006-04-01 10:50:08 +00002215 much of the address space following the pointer is valid, so there's no
Tim Petersecc6e6a2005-07-10 22:30:55 +00002216 portable way to copy data from the C-managed block into Python's
2217 small-object space without risking a memory fault. Python's small-object
2218 realloc now leaves such blocks under the control of the platform C
2219 realloc.
2220
Michael W. Hudsonb8963812005-07-05 15:21:58 +00002221- SF bug #1232517: An overflow error was not detected properly when
2222 attempting to convert a large float to an int in os.utime().
2223
Raymond Hettinger3296e692005-06-29 23:29:56 +00002224- SF bug #1224347: hex longs now print with lowercase letters just
2225 like their int counterparts.
2226
Michael W. Hudson188d4362005-06-20 16:52:57 +00002227- SF bug #1163563: the original fix for bug #1010677 ("thread Module
2228 Breaks PyGILState_Ensure()") broke badly in the case of multiple
2229 interpreter states; back out that fix and do a better job (see
2230 http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2005-June/054258.html
2231 for a longer write-up of the problem).
2232
Michael W. Hudsondf888462005-06-03 14:41:55 +00002233- SF patch #1180995: marshal now uses a binary format by default when
2234 serializing floats.
2235
Michael W. Hudsonda85a902005-06-01 11:34:22 +00002236- SF patch #1181301: on platforms that appear to use IEEE 754 floats,
2237 the routines that promise to produce IEEE 754 binary representations
2238 of floats now simply copy bytes around.
2239
Skip Montanarobbf12ba2005-05-20 03:07:06 +00002240- bug #967182: disallow opening files with 'wU' or 'aU' as specified by PEP
2241 278.
2242
Brett Cannonc3647ac2005-04-26 03:45:26 +00002243- patch #1109424: int, long, float, complex, and unicode now check for the
2244 proper magic slot for type conversions when subclassed. Previously the
2245 magic slot was ignored during conversion. Semantics now match the way
2246 subclasses of str always behaved. int/long/float, conversion of an instance
Walter Dörwald78a78b02005-09-01 12:04:29 +00002247 to the base class has been moved to the proper nb_* magic slot and out of
Brett Cannonc3647ac2005-04-26 03:45:26 +00002248 PyNumber_*().
Neal Norwitzcfba5f82006-04-25 05:05:03 +00002249 Thanks Walter D�rwald.
Brett Cannonc3647ac2005-04-26 03:45:26 +00002250
Barry Warsawc8d907c2005-04-19 23:43:40 +00002251- Descriptors defined in C with a PyGetSetDef structure, where the setter is
2252 NULL, now raise an AttributeError when attempting to set or delete the
2253 attribute. Previously a TypeError was raised, but this was inconsistent
2254 with the equivalent pure-Python implementation.
2255
Michael W. Hudson774479c2005-04-18 08:46:17 +00002256- It is now safe to call PyGILState_Release() before
2257 PyEval_InitThreads() (note that if there is reason to believe there
2258 are multiple threads around you still must call PyEval_InitThreads()
2259 before using the Python API; this fix is for extension modules that
2260 have no way of knowing if Python is multi-threaded yet).
2261
Michael W. Hudsone3afc592005-04-07 10:11:19 +00002262- Typing Ctrl-C whilst raw_input() was waiting in a build with threads
2263 disabled caused a crash.
2264
Michael W. Hudsonb330adf2005-03-31 09:35:44 +00002265- Bug #1165306: instancemethod_new allowed the creation of a method
2266 with im_class == im_self == NULL, which caused a crash when called.
2267
Tim Petersecc6e6a2005-07-10 22:30:55 +00002268- Move exception finalisation later in the shutdown process - this
Anthony Baxter12b6f6c2005-03-29 13:36:16 +00002269 fixes the crash seen in bug #1165761
2270
Raymond Hettinger96229b12005-03-11 06:49:40 +00002271- Added two new builtins, any() and all().
2272
Brett Cannon409d8f22005-03-05 06:47:57 +00002273- Defining a class with empty parentheses is now allowed
Brett Cannonf4189912005-04-09 02:30:16 +00002274 (e.g., ``class C(): pass`` is no longer a syntax error).
2275 Patch #1176012 added support to the 'parser' module and 'compiler' package
2276 (thanks to logistix for that added support).
Brett Cannon409d8f22005-03-05 06:47:57 +00002277
Martin v. Löwis96d743e2005-03-03 23:00:26 +00002278- Patch #1115086: Support PY_LONGLONG in structmember.
2279
Raymond Hettingerb67cc802005-03-03 16:45:19 +00002280- Bug #1155938: new style classes did not check that __init__() was
2281 returning None.
2282
Tim Petersecc6e6a2005-07-10 22:30:55 +00002283- Patch #802188: Report characters after line continuation character
Martin v. Löwis4bf108d2005-03-03 11:45:45 +00002284 ('\') with a specific error message.
2285
Martin v. Löwisff232d72005-03-03 09:24:38 +00002286- Bug #723201: Raise a TypeError for passing bad objects to 'L' format.
2287
Michael W. Hudson8e1afab2005-02-17 14:55:21 +00002288- Bug #1124295: the __name__ attribute of file objects was
2289 inadvertently made inaccessible in restricted mode.
2290
Tim Petersecc6e6a2005-07-10 22:30:55 +00002291- Bug #1074011: closing sys.std{out,err} now causes a flush() and
Martin v. Löwis8e3ca8a2005-01-23 09:41:49 +00002292 an ferror() call.
2293
Raymond Hettinger3b0c7c22004-12-03 08:30:39 +00002294- min() and max() now support key= arguments with the same meaning as in
2295 list.sort().
2296
Raymond Hettingerc34f8672005-01-02 06:17:33 +00002297- The peephole optimizer now performs simple constant folding in expressions:
2298 (2+3) --> (5).
2299
Raymond Hettingera422c342005-01-11 03:03:27 +00002300- set and frozenset objects can now be marshalled. SF #1098985.
2301
Michael W. Hudsonfaa76482005-01-31 17:09:25 +00002302- Bug #1077106: Poor argument checking could cause memory corruption
2303 in calls to os.read().
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +00002304
Jeremy Hyltonab630502005-02-04 18:44:06 +00002305- The parser did not complain about future statements in illegal
2306 positions. It once again reports a syntax error if a future
2307 statement occurs after anything other than a doc string.
2308
Neil Schemenauercf52c072005-08-12 17:34:58 +00002309- Change the %s format specifier for str objects so that it returns a
2310 unicode instance if the argument is not an instance of basestring and
2311 calling __str__ on the argument returns a unicode instance.
2312
Tim Petersf4e69282006-02-27 17:15:31 +00002313- Patch #1413181: changed ``PyThreadState_Delete()`` to forget about the
2314 current thread state when the auto-GIL-state machinery knows about
2315 it (since the thread state is being deleted, continuing to remember it
2316 can't help, but can hurt if another thread happens to get created with
2317 the same thread id).
2318
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +00002319Extension Modules
2320-----------------
2321
Georg Brandl43f08a82006-03-31 18:01:16 +00002322- Patch #1380952: fix SSL objects timing out on consecutive read()s
2323
Neal Norwitz05a45592006-03-20 06:30:08 +00002324- Patch #1309579: wait3 and wait4 were added to the posix module.
2325
Anthony Baxterfa869072006-03-20 05:21:58 +00002326- Patch #1231053: The audioop module now supports encoding/decoding of alaw.
2327 In addition, the existing ulaw code was updated.
2328
Georg Brandlbc45a3f2006-03-17 19:17:34 +00002329- RFE #567972: Socket objects' family, type and proto properties are
Georg Brandl72d7a782006-03-22 06:44:14 +00002330 now exposed via new attributes.
Georg Brandlbc45a3f2006-03-17 19:17:34 +00002331
Neal Norwitz10be10c2006-03-16 06:50:13 +00002332- Everything under lib-old was removed. This includes the following modules:
2333 Para, addpack, cmp, cmpcache, codehack, dircmp, dump, find, fmt, grep,
Tim Petersc9d78aa2006-03-26 23:27:58 +00002334 lockfile, newdir, ni, packmail, poly, rand, statcache, tb, tzparse,
Neal Norwitz10be10c2006-03-16 06:50:13 +00002335 util, whatsound, whrandom, zmod
2336
2337- The following modules were removed: regsub, reconvert, regex, regex_syntax.
2338
2339- re and sre were swapped, so help(re) provides full help. importing sre
Neal Norwitzefbeaef2006-03-16 06:40:39 +00002340 is deprecated. The undocumented re.engine variable no longer exists.
2341
Hye-Shik Changabb903f2006-03-13 10:20:08 +00002342- Bug #1448490: Fixed a bug that ISO-2022 codecs could not handle
2343 SS2 (single-shift 2) escape sequences correctly.
2344
Martin v. Löwis480f1bb2006-03-09 23:38:20 +00002345- The unicodedata module was updated to the 4.1 version of the Unicode
2346 database. The 3.2 version is still available as unicodedata.db_3_2_0
2347 for applications that require this specific version (such as IDNA).
2348
Neal Norwitzb62c4332006-03-04 18:35:47 +00002349- The timing module is no longer built by default. It was deprecated
2350 in PEP 4 in Python 2.0 or earlier.
2351
Guido van Rossum1968ad32006-02-25 22:38:04 +00002352- Patch 1433928: Added a new type, defaultdict, to the collections module.
2353 This uses the new __missing__ hook behavior added to dict (see above).
2354
Georg Brandldbd83392006-02-20 09:42:33 +00002355- Bug #854823: socketmodule now builds on Sun platforms even when
2356 INET_ADDRSTRLEN is not defined.
2357
Georg Brandlf4f44152006-02-18 22:29:33 +00002358- Patch #1393157: os.startfile() now has an optional argument to specify
2359 a "command verb" to invoke on the file.
2360
Neal Norwitz082b2df2006-02-07 07:04:46 +00002361- Bug #876637, prevent stack corruption when socket descriptor
2362 is larger than FD_SETSIZE.
2363
Neal Norwitz0e6bc8c2006-02-05 05:45:43 +00002364- Patch #1407135, bug #1424041: harmonize mmap behavior of anonymous memory.
2365 mmap.mmap(-1, size) now returns anonymous memory in both Unix and Windows.
2366 mmap.mmap(0, size) should not be used on Windows for anonymous memory.
2367
Martin v. Löwis57a34e82006-02-04 19:12:37 +00002368- Patch #1422385: The nis module now supports access to domains other
2369 than the system default domain.
2370
Martin v. Löwis14694662006-02-03 12:54:16 +00002371- Use Win32 API to implement os.stat/fstat. As a result, subsecond timestamps
2372 are reported, the limit on path name lengths is removed, and stat reports
2373 WindowsError now (instead of OSError).
2374
Gregory P. Smithcfc4a8d2006-01-29 19:46:23 +00002375- Add bsddb.db.DBEnv.set_tx_timestamp allowing time based database recovery.
2376
Neal Norwitz62a21122006-01-25 05:21:55 +00002377- Bug #1413192, fix seg fault in bsddb if a transaction was deleted
2378 before the env.
2379
Martin v. Löwis11017b12006-01-14 18:12:57 +00002380- Patch #1103116: Basic AF_NETLINK support.
2381
Neal Norwitz3b4fff82006-01-11 08:54:45 +00002382- Bug #1402308, (possible) segfault when using mmap.mmap(-1, ...)
2383
Neal Norwitz88bbd732006-01-10 07:05:44 +00002384- Bug #1400822, _curses over{lay,write} doesn't work when passing 6 ints.
2385 Also fix ungetmouse() which did not accept arguments properly.
2386 The code now conforms to the documented signature.
2387
Neal Norwitz5e3d8622006-01-09 06:24:35 +00002388- Bug #1400115, Fix segfault when calling curses.panel.userptr()
2389 without prior setting of the userptr.
2390
Neal Norwitz40c6b472006-01-05 05:43:35 +00002391- Fix 64-bit problems in bsddb.
2392
Neal Norwitz8856fb72005-12-18 03:34:22 +00002393- Patch #1365916: fix some unsafe 64-bit mmap methods.
2394
Hye-Shik Changc5c57e62005-12-12 11:48:32 +00002395- Bug #1290333: Added a workaround for cjkcodecs' _codecs_cn build
2396 problem on AIX.
2397
Georg Brandla13c2442005-11-22 19:30:31 +00002398- Bug #869197: os.setgroups rejects long integer arguments
2399
Neal Norwitz0f46bbf2005-11-03 05:00:25 +00002400- Bug #1346533, select.poll() doesn't raise an error if timeout > sys.maxint
2401
Neal Norwitz7b631792005-11-02 05:26:07 +00002402- Bug #1344508, Fix UNIX mmap leaking file descriptors
2403
Neal Norwitzf3396542005-10-28 05:52:22 +00002404- Patch #1338314, Bug #1336623: fix tarfile so it can extract
2405 REGTYPE directories from tarfiles written by old programs.
2406
Gregory P. Smithe101df92006-01-24 20:09:45 +00002407- Patch #1407992, fixes broken bsddb module db associate when using
2408 BerkeleyDB 3.3, 4.0 or 4.1.
2409
2410- Get bsddb module to build with BerkeleyDB version 4.4
2411
2412- Get bsddb module to build with BerkeleyDB version 3.2
Neal Norwitzfed9b3e2005-10-21 06:32:02 +00002413
Neal Norwitz484d9a42005-09-30 04:46:49 +00002414- Patch #1309009, Fix segfault in pyexpat when the XML document is in latin_1,
2415 but Python incorrectly assumes it is in UTF-8 format
2416
Georg Brandle677adc2005-09-29 13:40:49 +00002417- Fix parse errors in the readline module when compiling without threads.
2418
Hye-Shik Chang9ceebd52005-09-24 14:58:47 +00002419- Patch #1288833: Removed thread lock from socket.getaddrinfo on
2420 FreeBSD 5.3 and later versions which got thread-safe getaddrinfo(3).
2421
Michael W. Hudson10402a32005-09-22 09:19:01 +00002422- Patches #1298449 and #1298499: Add some missing checks for error
2423 returns in cStringIO.c.
2424
Neal Norwitz058bde12005-09-21 06:44:25 +00002425- Patch #1297028: fix segfault if call type on MultibyteCodec,
2426 MultibyteStreamReader, or MultibyteStreamWriter
2427
Neal Norwitzcfe7dd92005-09-19 06:49:27 +00002428- Fix memory leak in posix.access().
2429
Martin v. Löwis8b291e22005-09-18 08:17:56 +00002430- Patch #1213831: Fix typo in unicodedata._getcode.
2431
Georg Brandlfb1ef852005-09-14 20:53:32 +00002432- Bug #1007046: os.startfile() did not accept unicode strings encoded in
2433 the file system encoding.
2434
Georg Brandld2e3ba72005-08-26 08:34:00 +00002435- Patch #756021: Special-case socket.inet_aton('255.255.255.255') for
2436 platforms that don't have inet_aton().
Georg Brandl02760f92005-08-25 13:10:41 +00002437
Georg Brandld2e3ba72005-08-26 08:34:00 +00002438- Bug #1215928: Fix bz2.BZ2File.seek() for 64-bit file offsets.
2439
2440- Bug #1191043: Fix bz2.BZ2File.(x)readlines for files containing one
Georg Brandl02760f92005-08-25 13:10:41 +00002441 line without newlines.
2442
Georg Brandl38387b82005-08-24 07:17:40 +00002443- Bug #728515: mmap.resize() now resizes the file on Unix as it did
2444 on Windows.
2445
Walter Dörwalda05834e2005-10-09 19:38:21 +00002446- Patch #1180695: Add nanosecond stat resolution, and st_gen,
Martin v. Löwisebd9d5b2005-08-09 15:00:59 +00002447 st_birthtime for FreeBSD.
2448
Michael W. Hudson8137bea2005-07-27 20:24:40 +00002449- Patch #1231069: The fcntl.ioctl function now uses the 'I' code for
2450 the request code argument, which results in more C-like behaviour
2451 for large or negative values.
2452
Tim Petersecc6e6a2005-07-10 22:30:55 +00002453- Bug #1234979: For the argument of thread.Lock.acquire, the Windows
Andrew M. Kuchling88b85822005-08-23 00:57:07 +00002454 implementation treated all integer values except 1 as false.
Georg Brandlaf410b52005-07-08 22:26:13 +00002455
Georg Brandl6b95f1d2005-06-03 19:47:00 +00002456- Bug #1194181: bz2.BZ2File didn't handle mode 'U' correctly.
2457
Hye-Shik Chang5f937a72005-06-02 13:09:30 +00002458- Patch #1212117: os.stat().st_flags is now accessible as a attribute
2459 if available on the platform.
2460
Skip Montanaro5ff14922005-05-16 02:42:22 +00002461- Patch #1103951: Expose O_SHLOCK and O_EXLOCK in the posix module if
2462 available on the platform.
2463
Michael W. Hudsonb330adf2005-03-31 09:35:44 +00002464- Bug #1166660: The readline module could segfault if hook functions
2465 were set in a different thread than that which called readline.
2466
Raymond Hettinger4aec61e2005-03-18 21:20:23 +00002467- collections.deque objects now support a remove() method.
2468
Raymond Hettinger984f9bb2005-03-09 16:38:48 +00002469- operator.itemgetter() and operator.attrgetter() now support retrieving
2470 multiple fields. This provides direct support for sorting on multiple
2471 keys (primary, secondary, etc).
2472
Martin v. Löwisb60ae992005-03-08 09:10:29 +00002473- os.access now supports Unicode path names on non-Win32 systems.
2474
Martin v. Löwisfd78a6f2005-03-04 14:37:01 +00002475- Patches #925152, #1118602: Avoid reading after the end of the buffer
2476 in pyexpat.GetInputContext.
2477
Tim Petersecc6e6a2005-07-10 22:30:55 +00002478- Patches #749830, #1144555: allow UNIX mmap size to default to current
Martin v. Löwis7fe60c02005-03-03 11:22:44 +00002479 file size.
2480
Raymond Hettinger9c323f82005-02-28 19:39:44 +00002481- Added functional.partial(). See PEP309.
2482
Martin v. Löwis9533e342005-02-27 20:33:25 +00002483- Patch #1093585: raise a ValueError for negative history items in readline.
2484 {remove_history,replace_history}
2485
Fred Drake9c131f22005-01-23 15:16:08 +00002486- The spwd module has been added, allowing access to the shadow password
2487 database.
Martin v. Löwisc3001752005-01-23 09:27:24 +00002488
Martin v. Löwisfe33d0b2005-01-16 08:57:39 +00002489- stat_float_times is now True.
2490
Raymond Hettingerb0900e62004-12-16 16:23:40 +00002491- array.array objects are now picklable.
2492
Raymond Hettingera6b45cc2004-12-07 07:05:57 +00002493- the cPickle module no longer accepts the deprecated None option in the
2494 args tuple returned by __reduce__().
2495
Raymond Hettingerb2594052004-12-05 09:25:51 +00002496- itertools.islice() now accepts None for the start and step arguments.
2497 This allows islice() to work more readily with slices:
2498 islice(s.start, s.stop, s.step)
2499
Skip Montanaro0af3ade2005-01-13 04:12:31 +00002500- datetime.datetime() now has a strptime class method which can be used to
2501 create datetime object using a string and format.
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +00002502
Matthias Klosed77f8b32006-04-03 16:34:56 +00002503- Patch #1117961: Replace the MD5 implementation from RSA Data Security Inc
Matthias Klose8e39ec72006-04-03 16:27:50 +00002504 with the implementation from http://sourceforge.net/projects/libmd5-rfc/.
2505
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +00002506Library
2507-------
Tim Peters112aad32006-07-19 00:03:19 +00002508
Georg Brandlc5e3d8a2006-07-17 13:26:33 +00002509- Patch #1388073: Numerous __-prefixed attributes of unittest.TestCase have
2510 been renamed to have only a single underscore prefix. This was done to
2511 make subclassing easier.
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +00002512
Nick Coghlan43832302006-04-23 17:04:07 +00002513- PEP 338: new module runpy defines a run_module function to support
2514 executing modules which provide access to source code or a code object
2515 via the PEP 302 import mechanisms.
2516
Anthony Baxter93f5b932006-04-03 08:05:07 +00002517- The email module's parsedate_tz function now sets the daylight savings
2518 flag to -1 (unknown) since it can't tell from the date whether it should
2519 be set.
2520
Fred Drakead5177c2006-04-01 22:14:43 +00002521- Patch #624325: urlparse.urlparse() and urlparse.urlsplit() results
2522 now sport attributes that provide access to the parts of the result.
2523
Georg Brandl7f6b67c2006-04-01 08:35:18 +00002524- Patch #1462498: sgmllib now handles entity and character references
2525 in attribute values.
2526
Anthony Baxterc51ee692006-04-01 00:57:31 +00002527- Added the sqlite3 package. This is based on pysqlite2.1.3, and provides
Georg Brandl828fdef2006-04-01 08:59:03 +00002528 a DB-API interface in the standard library. You'll need sqlite 3.0.8 or
Tim Peters3a5e8b12006-04-11 01:44:07 +00002529 later to build this - if you have an earlier version, the C extension
Anthony Baxterc51ee692006-04-01 00:57:31 +00002530 module will not be built.
2531
Tim Petersc17976e2006-04-01 00:26:53 +00002532- Bug #1460340: ``random.sample(dict)`` failed in various ways. Dicts
2533 aren't officially supported here, and trying to use them will probably
2534 raise an exception some day. But dicts have been allowed, and "mostly
2535 worked", so support for them won't go away without warning.
2536
Georg Brandl338ef7d2006-03-31 18:42:16 +00002537- Bug #1445068: getpass.getpass() can now be given an explicit stream
2538 argument to specify where to write the prompt.
2539
Georg Brandl22ec80b2006-03-31 18:25:44 +00002540- Patch #1462313, bug #1443328: the pickle modules now can handle classes
2541 that have __private names in their __slots__.
2542
Neal Norwitz6974a512006-04-10 00:25:01 +00002543- Bug #1250170: mimetools now handles socket.gethostname() failures gracefully.
Georg Brandldd2245f2006-03-31 17:18:06 +00002544
Phillip J. Eby59821cf2006-03-30 02:16:40 +00002545- patch #1457316: "setup.py upload" now supports --identity to select the
2546 key to be used for signing the uploaded code.
2547
Raymond Hettingerfd3fcf02006-03-24 20:43:29 +00002548- Queue.Queue objects now support .task_done() and .join() methods
2549 to make it easier to monitor when daemon threads have completed
2550 processing all enqueued tasks. Patch #1455676.
2551
Martin v. Löwisbd8dbab2006-03-23 18:18:35 +00002552- popen2.Popen objects now preserve the command in a .cmd attribute.
2553
Thomas Hellerc61c0492006-03-22 10:09:27 +00002554- Added the ctypes ffi package.
2555
Barry Warsaw4d90bbd2006-03-22 02:45:50 +00002556- email 4.0 package now integrated. This is largely the same as the email 3.0
2557 package that was included in Python 2.3, except that PEP 8 module names are
2558 now used (e.g. mail.message instead of email.Message). The MIME classes
2559 have been moved to a subpackage (e.g. email.mime.text instead of
2560 email.MIMEText). The old names are still supported for now. Several
2561 deprecated Message methods have been removed and lots of bugs have been
2562 fixed. More details can be found in the email package documentation.
2563
Walter Dörwald40108c92006-03-27 08:15:44 +00002564- Patches #1436130/#1443155: codecs.lookup() now returns a CodecInfo object
2565 (a subclass of tuple) that provides incremental decoders and encoders
2566 (a way to use stateful codecs without the stream API). Python functions
2567 codecs.getincrementaldecoder() and codecs.getincrementalencoder() as well
2568 as C functions PyCodec_IncrementalEncoder() and PyCodec_IncrementalDecoder()
2569 have been added.
Walter Dörwaldabb02e52006-03-15 11:35:15 +00002570
Walter Dörwald067db482006-03-15 22:17:27 +00002571- Patch #1359365: Calling next() on a closed StringIO.String object raises
2572 a ValueError instead of a StopIteration now (like file and cString.String do).
2573 cStringIO.StringIO.isatty() will raise a ValueError now if close() has been
2574 called before (like file and StringIO.StringIO do).
Walter Dörwald197e8322006-03-15 22:13:13 +00002575
Martin v. Löwis04824ce2006-03-10 21:26:16 +00002576- A regrtest option -w was added to re-run failed tests in verbose mode.
2577
Georg Brandle2b46772006-03-09 23:22:43 +00002578- Patch #1446372: quit and exit can now be called from the interactive
2579 interpreter to exit.
2580
Barry Warsawd3c38ff2006-03-07 09:46:03 +00002581- The function get_count() has been added to the gc module, and gc.collect()
2582 grew an optional 'generation' argument.
2583
Martin v. Löwisfbab90e2006-03-05 13:36:04 +00002584- A library msilib to generate Windows Installer files, and a distutils
2585 command bdist_msi have been added.
2586
Guido van Rossum1a5e21e2006-02-28 21:57:43 +00002587- PEP 343: new module contextlib.py defines decorator @contextmanager
2588 and helpful context managers nested() and closing().
2589
Martin v. Löwis415ed932006-02-27 19:56:30 +00002590- The compiler package now supports future imports after the module docstring.
2591
Georg Brandl8f7c54e2006-02-20 08:40:38 +00002592- Bug #1413790: zipfile now sanitizes absolute archive names that are
2593 not allowed by the specs.
2594
Georg Brandlc98eeed2006-02-19 14:57:47 +00002595- Patch #1215184: FileInput now can be given an opening hook which can
2596 be used to control how files are opened.
2597
Georg Brandlc029f872006-02-19 14:12:34 +00002598- Patch #1212287: fileinput.input() now has a mode parameter for
2599 specifying the file mode input files should be opened with.
2600
Georg Brandl67e9fb92006-02-19 13:56:17 +00002601- Patch #1215184: fileinput now has a fileno() function for getting the
2602 current file number.
2603
Georg Brandl602b9ba2006-02-19 13:26:36 +00002604- Patch #1349274: gettext.install() now optionally installs additional
2605 translation functions other than _() in the builtin namespace.
2606
Georg Brandle4662172006-02-19 09:51:27 +00002607- Patch #1337756: fileinput now accepts Unicode filenames.
2608
Georg Brandl7b4e7c22006-02-18 21:10:56 +00002609- Patch #1373643: The chunk module can now read chunks larger than
2610 two gigabytes.
2611
Georg Brandl21dd1af2006-02-17 13:35:13 +00002612- Patch #1417555: SimpleHTTPServer now returns Last-Modified headers.
2613
Georg Brandlbd3bc4d2006-02-17 09:52:53 +00002614- Bug #1430298: It is now possible to send a mail with an empty
2615 return address using smtplib.
2616
Georg Brandl0e1abe22006-02-17 09:48:14 +00002617- Bug #1432260: The names of lambda functions are now properly displayed
2618 in pydoc.
Georg Brandl501dd0d2006-02-17 09:45:40 +00002619
Martin v. Löwis00756902006-02-05 17:09:41 +00002620- Patch #1412872: zipfile now sets the creator system to 3 (Unix)
2621 unless the system is Win32.
2622
Tim Petersda1329b2006-02-27 16:50:01 +00002623- Patch #1349118: urllib now supports user:pass@ style proxy
Martin v. Löwis3e865952006-01-24 15:51:21 +00002624 specifications, raises IOErrors when proxies for unsupported protocols
2625 are defined, and uses the https proxy on https redirections.
2626
Georg Brandl531ceba2006-01-21 07:20:56 +00002627- Bug #902075: urllib2 now supports 'host:port' style proxy specifications.
2628
2629- Bug #1407902: Add support for sftp:// URIs to urlparse.
Georg Brandl89f35ac2006-01-20 17:24:23 +00002630
Georg Brandlb709c2c2006-01-20 09:07:35 +00002631- Bug #1371247: Update Windows locale identifiers in locale.py.
2632
Neal Norwitzf60cd472006-01-14 07:05:13 +00002633- Bug #1394565: SimpleHTTPServer now doesn't choke on query parameters
Georg Brandl45ab2332006-01-13 17:05:56 +00002634 any more.
Georg Brandlb709c2c2006-01-20 09:07:35 +00002635
Georg Brandl4edd9892006-01-13 16:59:46 +00002636- Bug #1403410: The warnings module now doesn't get confused
2637 when it can't find out the module name it generates a warning for.
Georg Brandlb709c2c2006-01-20 09:07:35 +00002638
Martin v. Löwis412ed3b2006-01-08 10:45:39 +00002639- Patch #1177307: Added a new codec utf_8_sig for UTF-8 with a BOM signature.
2640
Neal Norwitzab86f8e2005-12-23 21:44:36 +00002641- Patch #1157027: cookielib mishandles RFC 2109 cookies in Netscape mode
2642
Neal Norwitz338e7862005-12-23 21:27:46 +00002643- Patch #1117398: cookielib.LWPCookieJar and .MozillaCookieJar now raise
2644 LoadError as documented, instead of IOError. For compatibility,
2645 LoadError subclasses IOError.
2646
Brett Cannon3cbd0382005-12-16 22:49:23 +00002647- Added the hashlib module. It provides secure hash functions for MD5 and
Tim Peterse3547fd2005-12-16 23:13:57 +00002648 SHA1, 224, 256, 384, and 512. Note that recent developments make the
2649 historic MD5 and SHA1 unsuitable for cryptographic-strength applications.
2650 In <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2005-December/058850.html>
2651 Ronald L. Rivest offered this advice for Python:
2652
2653 "The consensus of researchers in this area (at least as
2654 expressed at the NIST Hash Function Workshop 10/31/05),
2655 is that SHA-256 is a good choice for the time being, but
2656 that research should continue, and other alternatives may
2657 arise from this research. The larger SHA's also seem OK."
Brett Cannon3cbd0382005-12-16 22:49:23 +00002658
Fredrik Lundh7e0aef02005-12-12 18:54:55 +00002659- Added a subset of Fredrik Lundh's ElementTree package. Available
2660 modules are xml.etree.ElementTree, xml.etree.ElementPath, and
2661 xml.etree.ElementInclude, from ElementTree 1.2.6.
2662
Martin v. Löwis307021f2005-11-27 16:59:04 +00002663- Patch #1162825: Support non-ASCII characters in IDLE window titles.
2664
Georg Brandl1f663572005-11-26 16:50:44 +00002665- Bug #1365984: urllib now opens "data:" URLs again.
2666
Brett Cannonad07ff22005-11-23 02:15:50 +00002667- Patch #1314396: prevent deadlock for threading.Thread.join() when an exception
2668 is raised within the method itself on a previous call (e.g., passing in an
2669 illegal argument)
2670
Brett Cannon5d0bf942005-11-02 23:04:26 +00002671- Bug #1340337: change time.strptime() to always return ValueError when there
2672 is an error in the format string.
2673
Georg Brandle8f24432005-10-03 14:16:44 +00002674- Patch #754022: Greatly enhanced webbrowser.py (by Oleg Broytmann).
2675
Walter Dörwalda05834e2005-10-09 19:38:21 +00002676- Bug #729103: pydoc.py: Fix docother() method to accept additional
Georg Brandl8b813db2005-10-01 16:32:31 +00002677 "parent" argument.
2678
Georg Brandlaa935172005-09-29 20:49:16 +00002679- Patch #1300515: xdrlib.py: Fix pack_fstring() to really use null bytes
2680 for padding.
2681
Georg Brandl80ba8e82005-09-29 20:16:07 +00002682- Bug #1296004: httplib.py: Limit maximal amount of data read from the
2683 socket to avoid a MemoryError on Windows.
2684
Matthias Klosef3f231f2005-09-20 07:02:49 +00002685- Patch #1166948: locale.py: Prefer LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE and LANG over LANGUAGE
2686 to get the correct encoding.
2687
2688- Patch #1166938: locale.py: Parse LANGUAGE as a colon separated list of
2689 languages.
2690
Martin v. Löwis4ed67382005-09-18 08:34:39 +00002691- Patch #1268314: Cache lines in StreamReader.readlines for performance.
2692
Brett Cannona783d062005-09-15 02:34:56 +00002693- Bug #1290505: Fix clearing the regex cache for time.strptime().
2694
Martin v. Löwis5dbdc592005-08-27 10:07:56 +00002695- Bug #1167128: Fix size of a symlink in a tarfile to be 0.
2696
Georg Brandl5a650a22005-08-26 08:51:34 +00002697- Patch #810023: Fix off-by-one bug in urllib.urlretrieve reporthook
2698 functionality.
2699
Martin v. Löwis8b595142005-08-25 11:03:38 +00002700- Bug #1163178: Make IDNA return an empty string when the input is empty.
2701
Georg Brandl532efab2005-08-24 22:34:21 +00002702- Patch #848017: Make Cookie more RFC-compliant. Use CRLF as default output
Andrew M. Kuchling7034f6b2006-04-01 10:50:08 +00002703 separator and do not output trailing semicolon.
Georg Brandl532efab2005-08-24 22:34:21 +00002704
Georg Brandlb9256022005-08-24 18:46:39 +00002705- Patch #1062060: urllib.urlretrieve() now raises a new exception, named
2706 ContentTooShortException, when the actually downloaded size does not
2707 match the Content-Length header.
2708
Martin v. Löwis0a5d4a22005-08-24 14:55:22 +00002709- Bug #1121494: distutils.dir_utils.mkpath now accepts Unicode strings.
2710
Martin v. Löwis56066d22005-08-24 07:38:12 +00002711- Bug #1178484: Return complete lines from codec stream readers
2712 even if there is an exception in later lines, resulting in
Walter Dörwalda05834e2005-10-09 19:38:21 +00002713 correct line numbers for decoding errors in source code.
Martin v. Löwis56066d22005-08-24 07:38:12 +00002714
Georg Brandl6d2b3462005-08-24 07:36:17 +00002715- Bug #1192315: Disallow negative arguments to clear() in pdb.
2716
Martin v. Löwisb813c532005-08-07 20:51:04 +00002717- Patch #827386: Support absolute source paths in msvccompiler.py.
2718
Georg Brandl649f8e72005-08-03 07:30:12 +00002719- Patch #1105730: Apply the new implementation of commonprefix in posixpath
2720 to ntpath, macpath, os2emxpath and riscospath.
2721
Guido van Rossum755149f2005-07-27 00:00:44 +00002722- Fix a problem in Tkinter introduced by SF patch #869468: delete bogus
2723 __hasattr__ and __delattr__ methods on class Tk that were breaking
2724 Tkdnd.
2725
Georg Brandl5dbda752005-07-17 20:27:41 +00002726- Bug #1015140: disambiguated the term "article id" in nntplib docs and
2727 docstrings to either "article number" or "message id".
2728
Georg Brandla4a8b822005-07-15 09:13:21 +00002729- Bug #1238170: threading.Thread.__init__ no longer has "kwargs={}" as a
2730 parameter, but uses the usual "kwargs=None".
2731
Andrew M. Kuchling88b85822005-08-23 00:57:07 +00002732- textwrap now processes text chunks at O(n) speed instead of O(n**2).
Raymond Hettinger8bfa8932005-07-15 06:53:35 +00002733 Patch #1209527 (Contributed by Connelly).
2734
Georg Brandl5c5fe2f2005-07-14 06:40:47 +00002735- urllib2 has now an attribute 'httpresponses' mapping from HTTP status code
2736 to W3C name (404 -> 'Not Found'). RFE #1216944.
2737
Georg Brandl9e43acf2005-07-04 17:16:07 +00002738- Bug #1177468: Don't cache the /dev/urandom file descriptor for os.urandom,
2739 as this can cause problems with apps closing all file descriptors.
2740
Andrew M. Kuchling7034f6b2006-04-01 10:50:08 +00002741- Bug #839151: Fix an attempt to access sys.argv in the warnings module;
Andrew M. Kuchling88b85822005-08-23 00:57:07 +00002742 it can be missing in embedded interpreters
Georg Brandl5284b532005-06-26 22:54:58 +00002743
Georg Brandl2f210b62005-06-26 22:09:06 +00002744- Bug #1155638: Fix a bug which affected HTTP 0.9 responses in httplib.
2745
Georg Brandlfbff1bc2005-06-26 21:36:25 +00002746- Bug #1100201: Cross-site scripting was possible on BaseHTTPServer via
2747 error messages.
2748
Georg Brandl379f99d2005-06-26 21:09:38 +00002749- Bug #1108948: Cookie.py produced invalid JavaScript code.
2750
Raymond Hettingerda99d1c2005-06-21 07:43:58 +00002751- The tokenize module now detects and reports indentation errors.
2752 Bug #1224621.
2753
Raymond Hettinger68c04532005-06-10 11:05:19 +00002754- The tokenize module has a new untokenize() function to support a full
Andrew M. Kuchling7034f6b2006-04-01 10:50:08 +00002755 roundtrip from lexed tokens back to Python source code. In addition,
Raymond Hettinger68c04532005-06-10 11:05:19 +00002756 the generate_tokens() function now accepts a callable argument that
2757 terminates by raising StopIteration.
2758
Georg Brandl9166e1a2005-06-04 09:20:03 +00002759- Bug #1196315: fix weakref.WeakValueDictionary constructor.
2760
Georg Brandl268e61c2005-06-03 14:28:50 +00002761- Bug #1213894: os.path.realpath didn't resolve symlinks that were the first
2762 component of the path.
2763
Skip Montanaro174dd222005-05-14 20:54:16 +00002764- Patch #1120353: The xmlrpclib module provides better, more transparent,
2765 support for datetime.{datetime,date,time} objects. With use_datetime set
2766 to True, applications shouldn't have to fiddle with the DateTime wrapper
2767 class at all.
2768
Martin v. Löwis55f1bb82005-03-21 20:56:35 +00002769- distutils.commands.upload was added to support uploading distribution
2770 files to PyPI.
2771
Walter Dörwalda6e8a4a2005-03-31 13:57:38 +00002772- distutils.commands.register now encodes the data as UTF-8 before posting
2773 them to PyPI.
2774
Raymond Hettinger267b8682005-03-27 10:47:39 +00002775- decimal operator and comparison methods now return NotImplemented
2776 instead of raising a TypeError when interacting with other types. This
2777 allows other classes to implement __radd__ style methods and have them
2778 work as expected.
2779
Raymond Hettingerbea3f6f2005-03-15 04:59:17 +00002780- Bug #1163325: Decimal infinities failed to hash. Attempting to
2781 hash a NaN raised an InvalidOperation instead of a TypeError.
2782
Tim Petersecc6e6a2005-07-10 22:30:55 +00002783- Patch #918101: Add tarfile open mode r|* for auto-detection of the
Martin v. Löwis78be7df2005-03-05 12:47:42 +00002784 stream compression; add, for symmetry reasons, r:* as a synonym of r.
2785
Martin v. Löwis00a73e72005-03-04 19:40:34 +00002786- Patch #1043890: Add extractall method to tarfile.
2787
Martin v. Löwisc72dd382005-03-04 13:50:17 +00002788- Patch #1075887: Don't require MSVC in distutils if there is nothing
2789 to build.
2790
Martin v. Löwis637431b2005-03-03 23:12:42 +00002791- Patch #1103407: Properly deal with tarfile iterators when untarring
2792 symbolic links on Windows.
2793
Tim Petersecc6e6a2005-07-10 22:30:55 +00002794- Patch #645894: Use getrusage for computing the time consumption in
Martin v. Löwisa4dac402005-03-03 11:39:45 +00002795 profile.py if available.
2796
Martin v. Löwisdf37c8c2005-03-03 11:08:03 +00002797- Patch #1046831: Use get_python_version where appropriate in sysconfig.py.
2798
Martin v. Löwisc5574e82005-03-03 10:57:37 +00002799- Patch #1117454: Remove code to special-case cookies without values
2800 in LWPCookieJar.
2801
Martin v. Löwis4ea3ead2005-03-03 10:48:12 +00002802- Patch #1117339: Add cookielib special name tests.
2803
Martin v. Löwise869eb12005-03-03 09:46:07 +00002804- Patch #1112812: Make bsddb/__init__.py more friendly for modulefinder.
2805
Martin v. Löwisf2a8d632005-03-03 08:35:22 +00002806- Patch #1110248: SYNC_FLUSH the zlib buffer for GZipFile.flush.
2807
Martin v. Löwisdf241532005-03-03 08:17:42 +00002808- Patch #1107973: Allow to iterate over the lines of a tarfile.ExFileObject.
2809
Martin v. Löwis8ed338a2005-03-03 08:12:27 +00002810- Patch #1104111: Alter setup.py --help and --help-commands.
2811
Martin v. Löwis4afe1542005-03-01 08:09:28 +00002812- Patch #1121234: Properly cleanup _exit and tkerror commands.
2813
Martin v. Löwisc2a0ac22005-02-24 20:22:10 +00002814- Patch #1049151: xdrlib now unpacks booleans as True or False.
2815
Raymond Hettingerbab41432005-02-05 01:31:19 +00002816- Fixed bug in a NameError bug in cookielib. Patch #1116583.
2817
Guido van Rossumd0641422005-02-03 15:01:24 +00002818- Applied a security fix to SimpleXMLRPCserver (PSF-2005-001). This
2819 disables recursive traversal through instance attributes, which can
2820 be exploited in various ways.
2821
Tim Peterse3547fd2005-12-16 23:13:57 +00002822- Bug #1222790: in SimpleXMLRPCServer, set the reuse-address and close-on-exec
Andrew M. Kuchling3a976052005-12-04 15:07:41 +00002823 flags on the HTTP listening socket.
2824
Andrew M. Kuchlinge63fde72005-12-04 15:36:57 +00002825- Bug #792570: SimpleXMLRPCServer had problems if the request grew too large.
2826 Fixed by reading the HTTP body in chunks instead of one big socket.read().
2827
Fred Drakefbdeaad2006-07-29 16:56:15 +00002828- Patches #893642, #1039083: add allow_none, encoding arguments to
2829 constructors of SimpleXMLRPCServer and CGIXMLRPCRequestHandler.
Andrew M. Kuchling10a16de2005-12-04 16:34:40 +00002830
Martin v. Löwis1d11de62005-01-29 13:29:23 +00002831- Bug #1110478: Revert os.environ.update to do putenv again.
2832
Thomas Hellerd6c6e222005-01-20 19:20:16 +00002833- Bug #1103844: fix distutils.install.dump_dirs() with negated options.
2834
Martin v. Löwis22b457e2005-01-16 08:40:58 +00002835- os.{SEEK_SET, SEEK_CUR, SEEK_END} have been added for convenience.
2836
Andrew McNamaraa08eecb2005-01-12 03:25:27 +00002837- Enhancements to the csv module:
2838
2839 + Dialects are now validated by the underlying C code, better
Georg Brandl7eb4b7d2005-07-22 21:49:32 +00002840 reflecting its capabilities, and improving its compliance with
Tim Petersecc6e6a2005-07-10 22:30:55 +00002841 PEP 305.
Andrew McNamaraa08eecb2005-01-12 03:25:27 +00002842 + Dialect parameter parsing has been re-implemented to improve error
2843 reporting.
2844 + quotechar=None and quoting=QUOTE_NONE now work the way PEP 305
2845 dictates.
2846 + the parser now removes the escapechar prefix from escaped characters.
Andrew McNamara0f0599d2005-01-12 09:45:18 +00002847 + when quoting=QUOTE_NONNUMERIC, the writer now tests for numeric
Andrew M. Kuchling6db67822006-04-18 14:04:57 +00002848 types, rather than any object that can be represented as a numeric.
Andrew McNamara0f0599d2005-01-12 09:45:18 +00002849 + when quoting=QUOTE_NONNUMERIC, the reader now casts unquoted fields
2850 to floats.
Andrew McNamaraf69d94f2005-01-13 11:30:54 +00002851 + reader now allows \r characters to be quoted (previously it only allowed
2852 \n to be quoted).
Andrew McNamarac89f2842005-01-12 07:44:42 +00002853 + writer doublequote handling improved.
Andrew McNamaraa08eecb2005-01-12 03:25:27 +00002854 + Dialect classes passed to the module are no longer instantiated by
2855 the module before being parsed (the former validation scheme required
2856 this, but the mechanism was unreliable).
2857 + The dialect registry now contains instances of the internal
2858 C-coded dialect type, rather than references to python objects.
2859 + the internal c-coded dialect type is now immutable.
2860 + register_dialect now accepts the same keyword dialect specifications
2861 as the reader and writer, allowing the user to register dialects
2862 without first creating a dialect class.
2863 + a configurable limit to the size of parsed fields has been added -
2864 previously, an unmatched quote character could result in the entire
2865 file being read into the field buffer before an error was reported.
Andrew McNamara31d88962005-01-12 03:45:10 +00002866 + A new module method csv.field_size_limit() has been added that sets
Andrew McNamaraa08eecb2005-01-12 03:25:27 +00002867 the parser field size limit (returning the former limit). The initial
2868 limit is 128kB.
Andrew McNamara7f2053e2005-01-12 11:17:16 +00002869 + A line_num attribute has been added to the reader object, which tracks
2870 the number of lines read from the source iterator. This is not
2871 the same as the number of records returned, as records can span
2872 multiple lines.
Andrew McNamaraa08eecb2005-01-12 03:25:27 +00002873 + reader and writer objects were not being registered with the cyclic-GC.
2874 This has been fixed.
2875
Brett Cannone6539c42005-01-08 02:43:53 +00002876- _DummyThread objects in the threading module now delete self.__block that is
2877 inherited from _Thread since it uses up a lock allocated by 'thread'. The
2878 lock primitives tend to be limited in number and thus should not be wasted on
2879 a _DummyThread object. Fixes bug #1089632.
2880
Raymond Hettinger97db05d2005-01-07 08:15:41 +00002881- The imghdr module now detects Exif files.
2882
Raymond Hettinger6065d322004-12-20 23:51:53 +00002883- StringIO.truncate() now correctly adjusts the size attribute.
2884 (Bug #951915).
2885
Marc-André Lemburgbb4f1bd2004-12-10 21:58:14 +00002886- locale.py now uses an updated locale alias table (built using
2887 Tools/i18n/makelocalealias.py, a tool to parse the X11 locale
2888 alias file); the encoding lookup was enhanced to use Python's
Andrew M. Kuchling88b85822005-08-23 00:57:07 +00002889 encoding alias table.
Marc-André Lemburgbb4f1bd2004-12-10 21:58:14 +00002890
Raymond Hettinger3557f422004-12-07 12:02:02 +00002891- moved deprecated modules to Lib/lib-old: whrandom, tzparse, statcache.
2892
Raymond Hettingera6b45cc2004-12-07 07:05:57 +00002893- the pickle module no longer accepts the deprecated None option in the
2894 args tuple returned by __reduce__().
2895
Brett Cannon84667c02004-12-07 03:25:18 +00002896- optparse now optionally imports gettext. This allows its use in setup.py.
2897
Raymond Hettinger3489cad2004-12-05 05:20:42 +00002898- the pickle module no longer uses the deprecated bin parameter.
2899
Raymond Hettinger1bc82f82004-12-05 03:58:17 +00002900- the shelve module no longer uses the deprecated binary parameter.
2901
Raymond Hettinger6c92d762004-12-05 03:28:00 +00002902- the pstats module no longer uses the deprecated ignore() method.
2903
Raymond Hettingerf3fa9462004-12-05 01:58:09 +00002904- the filecmp module no longer uses the deprecated use_statcache argument.
2905
Raymond Hettinger664347b2004-12-04 21:21:53 +00002906- unittest.TestCase.run() and unittest.TestSuite.run() can now be successfully
2907 extended or overridden by subclasses. Formerly, the subclassed method would
2908 be ignored by the rest of the module. (Bug #1078905).
2909
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +00002910- heapq.nsmallest() and heapq.nlargest() now support key= arguments with
Raymond Hettinger3b0c7c22004-12-03 08:30:39 +00002911 the same meaning as in list.sort().
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +00002912
Walter Dörwald36733692004-12-22 12:50:50 +00002913- Bug #1076985: ``codecs.StreamReader.readline()`` now calls ``read()`` only
2914 once when a size argument is given. This prevents a buffer overflow in the
2915 tokenizer with very long source lines.
2916
Barry Warsaw538561e2006-01-01 21:48:54 +00002917- Bug #1083110: ``zlib.decompress.flush()`` would segfault if called
2918 immediately after creating the object, without any intervening
2919 ``.decompress()`` calls.
Andrew M. Kuchling3b585b32004-12-28 20:10:48 +00002920
Skip Montanaro05885812005-01-16 20:48:27 +00002921- The reconvert.quote function can now emit triple-quoted strings. The
2922 reconvert module now has some simple documentation.
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +00002923
Walter Dörwaldaf3b39a2005-02-18 13:22:43 +00002924- ``UserString.MutableString`` now supports negative indices in
2925 ``__setitem__`` and ``__delitem__``
2926
Greg Ward40407942005-03-05 02:53:17 +00002927- Bug #1149508: ``textwrap`` now handles hyphenated numbers (eg. "2004-03-05")
2928 correctly.
2929
Walter Dörwaldbc8e6422005-04-21 21:32:03 +00002930- Partial fixes for SF bugs #1163244 and #1175396: If a chunk read by
2931 ``codecs.StreamReader.readline()`` has a trailing "\r", read one more
2932 character even if the user has passed a size parameter to get a proper
2933 line ending. Remove the special handling of a "\r\n" that has been split
2934 between two lines.
2935
Walter Dörwalda47d1c02005-08-30 10:23:14 +00002936- Bug #1251300: On UCS-4 builds the "unicode-internal" codec will now complain
2937 about illegal code points. The codec now supports PEP 293 style error
2938 handlers.
2939
Walter Dörwald78a78b02005-09-01 12:04:29 +00002940- Bug #1235646: ``codecs.StreamRecoder.next()`` now reencodes the data it reads
Walter Dörwaldc5238b82005-09-01 11:56:53 +00002941 from the input stream, so that the output is a byte string in the correct
2942 encoding instead of a unicode string.
Greg Ward40407942005-03-05 02:53:17 +00002943
Gustavo Niemeyer6fa0c5a2005-09-14 08:54:39 +00002944- Bug #1202493: Fixing SRE parser to handle '{}' as perl does, rather than
2945 considering it exactly like a '*'.
2946
Walter Dörwald007f8df2005-10-09 19:42:27 +00002947- Bug #1245379: Add "unicode-1-1-utf-7" as an alias for "utf-7" to
2948 ``encodings.aliases``.
Gustavo Niemeyer6fa0c5a2005-09-14 08:54:39 +00002949
Walter Dörwald09f0dd52005-11-21 19:10:07 +00002950- ` uu.encode()`` and ``uu.decode()`` now support unicode filenames.
2951
Gustavo Niemeyer548148812006-01-31 18:34:13 +00002952- Patch #1413711: Certain patterns of differences were making difflib
2953 touch the recursion limit.
2954
Walter Dörwald58917a62006-03-31 15:26:22 +00002955- Bug #947906: An object oriented interface has been added to the calendar
2956 module. It's possible to generate HTML calendar now and the module can be
Walter Dörwald48d5e502006-04-01 07:57:00 +00002957 called as a script (e.g. via ``python -mcalendar``). Localized month and
2958 weekday names can be ouput (even if an exotic encoding is used) using
2959 special classes that use unicode.
Walter Dörwald58917a62006-03-31 15:26:22 +00002960
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +00002961Build
2962-----
2963
Neal Norwitz602d3392006-03-31 08:21:40 +00002964- Fix test_float, test_long, and test_struct failures on Tru64 with gcc
2965 by using -mieee gcc option.
2966
Martin v. Löwis86d66262006-02-17 08:40:11 +00002967- Patch #1432345: Make python compile on DragonFly.
2968
Martin v. Löwis856bf9a2006-02-14 20:42:55 +00002969- Build support for Win64-AMD64 was added.
2970
Martin v. Löwisa55e55e2006-02-11 15:55:14 +00002971- Patch #1428494: Prefer linking against ncursesw over ncurses library.
2972
Martin v. Löwisfd9a72a2006-01-08 10:07:33 +00002973- Patch #881820: look for openpty and forkpty also in libbsd.
2974
Martin v. Löwis64c33dd2006-01-03 07:42:14 +00002975- The sources of zlib are now part of the Python distribution (zlib 1.2.3).
2976 The zlib module is now builtin on Windows.
2977
Martin v. Löwisd5845ec2005-12-30 12:31:38 +00002978- Use -xcode=pic32 for CCSHARED on Solaris with SunPro.
2979
Martin v. Löwis147fbe52005-08-07 21:09:30 +00002980- Bug #1189330: configure did not correctly determine the necessary
2981 value of LINKCC if python was built with GCC 4.0.
2982
Trent Mick8321b422005-07-26 02:29:21 +00002983- Upgrade Windows build to zlib 1.2.3 which eliminates a potential security
2984 vulnerability in zlib 1.2.1 and 1.2.2.
2985
Brett Cannon08cd5982005-04-24 22:26:38 +00002986- EXTRA_CFLAGS has been introduced as an environment variable to hold compiler
2987 flags that change binary compatibility. Changes were also made to
2988 distutils.sysconfig to also use the environment variable when used during
Martin v. Löwisd7c795e2005-04-25 07:14:03 +00002989 compilation of the interpreter and of C extensions through distutils.
Brett Cannon08cd5982005-04-24 22:26:38 +00002990
Bob Ippolitoed233462005-03-29 13:47:59 +00002991- SF patch 1171735: Darwin 8's headers are anal about POSIX compliance,
2992 and linking has changed (prebinding is now deprecated, and libcc_dynamic
2993 no longer exists). This configure patch makes things right.
2994
Martin v. Löwise2713be2005-03-08 15:03:08 +00002995- Bug #1158607: Build with --disable-unicode again.
2996
Brett Cannon46d96232005-02-16 00:07:19 +00002997- spwdmodule.c is built only if either HAVE_GETSPNAM or HAVE_HAVE_GETSPENT is
2998 defined. Discovered as a result of not being able to build on OS X.
2999
Brett Cannon516592f2004-12-07 00:42:59 +00003000- setup.py now uses the directories specified in LDFLAGS using the -L option
3001 and in CPPFLAGS using the -I option for adding library and include
3002 directories, respectively, for compiling extension modules against. This has
3003 led to the core being compiled using the values in CPPFLAGS. It also removes
3004 the need for the special-casing of both DarwinPorts and Fink for darwin since
3005 the proper directories can be specified in LDFLAGS (``-L/sw/lib`` for Fink,
3006 ``-L/opt/local/lib`` for DarwinPorts) and CPPFLAGS (``-I/sw/include`` for
3007 Fink, ``-I/opt/local/include`` for DarwinPorts).
3008
Brett Cannon43802422005-02-10 20:48:03 +00003009- Test in configure.in that checks for tzset no longer dependent on tm->tm_zone
3010 to exist in the struct (not required by either ISO C nor the UNIX 2 spec).
3011 Tests for sanity in tzname when HAVE_TZNAME defined were also defined.
3012 Closes bug #1096244. Thanks Gregory Bond.
3013
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +00003014C API
3015-----
3016
Tim Petersc9d78aa2006-03-26 23:27:58 +00003017- ``PyMem_{Del, DEL}`` and ``PyMem_{Free, FREE}`` no longer map to
3018 ``PyObject_{Free, FREE}``. They map to the system ``free()`` now. If memory
3019 is obtained via the ``PyObject_`` family, it must be released via the
3020 ``PyObject_`` family, and likewise for the ``PyMem_`` family. This has
3021 always been officially true, but when Python's small-object allocator was
3022 introduced, an attempt was made to cater to a few extension modules
3023 discovered at the time that obtained memory via ``PyObject_New`` but
3024 released it via ``PyMem_DEL``. It's years later, and if such code still
3025 exists it will fail now (probably with segfaults, but calling wrong
3026 low-level memory management functions can yield many symptoms).
3027
Raymond Hettingerbeb31012005-08-16 03:47:52 +00003028- Added a C API for set and frozenset objects.
3029
Raymond Hettinger66517482004-12-03 11:45:13 +00003030- Removed PyRange_New().
3031
Walter Dörwaldd1c1e102005-10-06 20:29:57 +00003032- Patch #1313939: PyUnicode_DecodeCharmap() accepts a unicode string as the
3033 mapping argument now. This string is used as a mapping table. Byte values
3034 greater than the length of the string and 0xFFFE are treated as undefined
3035 mappings.
3036
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +00003037
3038Tests
3039-----
3040
Martin v. Löwis4d394df2005-01-23 09:19:22 +00003041- In test_os, st_?time is now truncated before comparing it with ST_?TIME.
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +00003042
Hye-Shik Changaaa2f1d2005-12-10 17:44:27 +00003043- Patch #1276356: New resource "urlfetch" is implemented. This enables
3044 even impatient people to run tests that require remote files.
3045
Brett Cannonced04e02005-02-13 22:53:22 +00003046
3047Documentation
3048-------------
3049
Georg Brandl8cb30772006-01-20 09:34:29 +00003050- Bug #1402224: Add warning to dl docs about crashes.
3051
Georg Brandla3a93ae2006-01-20 09:14:36 +00003052- Bug #1396471: Document that Windows' ftell() can return invalid
3053 values for text files with UNIX-style line endings.
3054
Georg Brandl32252422005-09-14 20:42:00 +00003055- Bug #1274828: Document os.path.splitunc().
3056
Georg Brandl79c122f2005-08-24 07:31:33 +00003057- Bug #1190204: Clarify which directories are searched by site.py.
3058
Georg Brandl6f2bbd32005-08-24 07:26:55 +00003059- Bug #1193849: Clarify os.path.expanduser() documentation.
3060
Georg Brandlf13c4ba2005-08-02 10:28:08 +00003061- Bug #1243192: re.UNICODE and re.LOCALE affect \d, \D, \s and \S.
3062
Georg Brandl150db732005-07-18 08:53:17 +00003063- Bug #755617: Document the effects of os.chown() on Windows.
3064
Georg Brandl379f99d2005-06-26 21:09:38 +00003065- Patch #1180012: The documentation for modulefinder is now in the library reference.
3066
3067- Patch #1213031: Document that os.chown() accepts argument values of -1.
3068
3069- Bug #1190563: Document os.waitpid() return value with WNOHANG flag.
3070
3071- Bug #1175022: Correct the example code for property().
3072
Georg Brandl40c71652005-06-25 21:08:46 +00003073- Document the IterableUserDict class in the UserDict module.
3074 Closes bug #1166582.
3075
Brett Cannonced04e02005-02-13 22:53:22 +00003076- Remove all latent references for "Macintosh" that referred to semantics for
3077 Mac OS 9 and change to reflect the state for OS X.
3078 Closes patch #1095802. Thanks Jack Jansen.
3079
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +00003080Mac
3081---
3082
3083
Hye-Shik Chang4e422812005-07-17 02:36:59 +00003084New platforms
3085-------------
3086
3087- FreeBSD 7 support is added.
3088
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +00003089
3090Tools/Demos
3091-----------
3092
Brett Cannonacde7342006-03-01 04:28:00 +00003093- Created Misc/Vim/vim_syntax.py to auto-generate a python.vim file in that
3094 directory for syntax highlighting in Vim. Vim directory was added and placed
3095 vimrc to it (was previous up a level).
3096
Georg Brandl56897312005-08-24 18:32:30 +00003097- Added two new files to Tools/scripts: pysource.py, which recursively
3098 finds Python source files, and findnocoding.py, which finds Python
3099 source files that need an encoding declaration.
3100 Patch #784089, credits to Oleg Broytmann.
3101
Georg Brandl379f99d2005-06-26 21:09:38 +00003102- Bug #1072853: pindent.py used an uninitialized variable.
3103
Martin v. Löwisab9ec162005-04-09 10:53:34 +00003104- Patch #1177597: Correct Complex.__init__.
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +00003105
Barry Warsaw538561e2006-01-01 21:48:54 +00003106- Fixed a display glitch in Pynche, which could cause the right arrow to
3107 wiggle over by a pixel.
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +00003108
Skip Montanaroe5d7f7f2002-09-20 14:16:59 +00003109----
3110
3111**(For information about older versions, consult the HISTORY file.)**