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Skip Montanaroe5d7f7f2002-09-20 14:16:59 +00003+++++++++++
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Antoine Pitrou6001b0b2010-05-09 18:32:48 +00007What's New in Python 2.7 Release Candidate 1?
8=============================================
Benjamin Peterson534b8de2010-05-08 18:53:42 +00009
10*Release date: XXXX-XX-XX*
11
12Core and Builtins
13-----------------
14
Brett Cannoneb3cd302010-05-20 18:37:55 +000015- Issue #7902: When using explicit relative import syntax, don't try
16 implicit relative import semantics.
17
Antoine Pitrou83137c22010-05-17 19:56:59 +000018- Issue #7079: Fix a possible crash when closing a file object while using
19 it from another thread. Patch by Daniel Stutzbach.
20
Benjamin Peterson534b8de2010-05-08 18:53:42 +000021Library
22-------
23
Tarek Ziadé8f692272010-05-19 22:20:14 +000024- Issue #8759: Fixed user paths in sysconfig for posix and os2 schemes.
25
Florent Xiclunaaf87f9f2010-05-17 13:35:09 +000026- Issue #1285086: Speed up urllib.quote and urllib.unquote for simple cases.
27
Tarek Ziadé422545f2010-05-17 10:06:20 +000028- Issue #8688: Distutils now recalculates MANIFEST everytime.
29
Brett Cannon42a0ba72010-05-14 00:21:48 +000030- Issue #5099: subprocess.Popen's __del__ method (and the methods it calls)
31 referenced global objects, causing errors to pop up during interpreter
32 shutdown.
33
Mark Dickinson932e1622010-05-10 16:07:42 +000034Extension Modules
35-----------------
36
37- Issue #8674: Fixed a number of incorrect or undefined-behaviour-inducing
38 overflow checks in the audioop module.
Benjamin Peterson534b8de2010-05-08 18:53:42 +000039
Brett Cannonda9af752010-05-13 23:59:41 +000040Tests
41-----
42
43- On darwin, test_site assumed that a framework build was being used, leading
44 to a failure where four directories were expected for site-packages instead
45 of two in a non-framework build.
46
47
Antoine Pitrouab5ce722010-04-11 22:45:47 +000048What's New in Python 2.7 beta 2?
49================================
Benjamin Peterson12409062010-04-10 18:53:58 +000050
Benjamin Petersonc2516072010-05-08 17:08:17 +000051*Release date: 2010-05-08*
Benjamin Peterson12409062010-04-10 18:53:58 +000052
53Core and Builtins
54-----------------
55
Brett Cannon5fb89df2010-05-05 20:54:53 +000056- Run Clang 2.7's static analyzer for Objects/ and Python/ .
57
Mark Dickinsona8d26682010-05-04 16:18:25 +000058- Issue #1533: fix inconsistency in range function argument
59 processing: any non-float non-integer argument is now converted to
60 an integer (if possible) using its __int__ method. Previously, only
61 small arguments were treated this way; larger arguments (those whose
62 __int__ was outside the range of a C long) would produce a TypeError.
63
Nick Coghlanc5e44852010-04-28 14:51:08 +000064- Issue #8202: sys.argv[0] is now set to '-m' instead of '-c' when
65 searching for the module file to be executed with the -m command
66 line option
67
Brett Cannon19949692010-04-25 22:33:36 +000068- Issue #7319: When -Q is used, do not silence DeprecationWarning.
69
Antoine Pitrou18e63fb2010-04-21 22:53:29 +000070- Issue #7332: Remove the 16KB stack-based buffer in
71 PyMarshal_ReadLastObjectFromFile, which doesn't bring any noticeable
72 benefit compared to the dynamic memory allocation fallback. Patch by
73 Charles-François Natali.
74
Benjamin Peterson821a8ea2010-04-16 22:35:38 +000075- Issue #8417: Raise an OverflowError when an integer larger than sys.maxsize is
76 passed to bytearray.
77
Ronald Oussoren37805e52010-04-18 13:47:49 +000078- Issue #7072: isspace(0xa0) is true on Mac OS X
79
Alexandre Vassalotti268e4872010-05-04 03:21:51 +000080- Issue #8404: Fixed set operations on dictionary views.
81
Ronald Oussoren2f88bfd2010-05-08 10:29:06 +000082- Issue #8084: PEP 370 now conforms to system conventions for framework
83 builds on MacOS X. That is, "python setup.py install --user" will install
84 into "~/Library/Python/2.7" instead of "~/.local".
85
Benjamin Peterson12409062010-04-10 18:53:58 +000086Library
87-------
88
Antoine Pitroufc3bfad2010-05-11 23:42:28 +000089- Issue #8681: Make the zlib module's error messages more informative when
90 the zlib itself doesn't give any detailed explanation.
91
Antoine Pitrou3843cd82010-05-07 16:50:34 +000092- Issue #8571: Fix an internal error when compressing or decompressing a
93 chunk larger than 1GB with the zlib module's compressor and decompressor
94 objects.
95
Giampaolo Rodolàf7454fa2010-05-06 17:57:06 +000096- Issue #8573: asyncore _strerror() function might throw ValueError.
97
Victor Stinnerdb990922010-05-15 21:00:59 +000098- Issue #8483: asyncore.dispatcher's __getattr__ method produced confusing
99 error messages when accessing undefined class attributes because of the cheap
100 inheritance with the underlying socket object.
Giampaolo Rodolàf7454fa2010-05-06 17:57:06 +0000101 The cheap inheritance has been deprecated.
102
Tarek Ziadé38f81222010-05-05 22:15:31 +0000103- Issue #4265: shutil.copyfile() was leaking file descriptors when disk fills.
104 Patch by Tres Seaver.
105
Barry Warsaw8efa8672010-05-05 16:17:22 +0000106- Issue #7755: Use an unencumbered audio file for tests.
107
Ronald Oussoren33206962010-05-05 14:48:37 +0000108- Issue #8621: uuid.uuid4() returned the same sequence of values in the
109 parent and any children created using ``os.fork`` on MacOS X 10.6.
110
Victor Stinner926fd4e2010-05-05 12:40:49 +0000111- Issue #8313: traceback.format_exception_only() encodes unicode message to
112 ASCII with backslashreplace error handler if str(value) failed
113
Mark Dickinson4f96f5f2010-05-04 14:25:50 +0000114- Issue #8567: Fix precedence of signals in Decimal module: when a
115 Decimal operation raises multiple signals and more than one of those
116 signals is trapped, the specification determines the order in which
117 the signals should be handled. In many cases this order wasn't
118 being followed, leading to the wrong Python exception being raised.
119
Antoine Pitrouf7fd8e42010-05-03 16:25:33 +0000120- Issue #7865: The close() method of :mod:`io` objects should not swallow
121 exceptions raised by the implicit flush(). Also ensure that calling
122 close() several times is supported. Patch by Pascal Chambon.
123
Vinay Sajip27a13702010-05-03 15:11:53 +0000124- Issue #8576: logging updated to remove usage of find_unused_port().
125
Antoine Pitrou951919f2010-05-02 19:51:14 +0000126- Issue #4687: Fix accuracy of garbage collection runtimes displayed with
127 gc.DEBUG_STATS.
128
Jean-Paul Calderonee54ddf12010-05-08 20:06:02 +0000129- Issue #8354: The siginterrupt setting is now preserved for all signals,
130 not just SIGCHLD.
131
Ronald Oussoren4ef1c7e2010-05-02 09:48:21 +0000132- Issue #7192: webbrowser.get("firefox") now wors on Mac OS X, as does
133 webbrowser.get("safari").
134
Victor Stinnerdb990922010-05-15 21:00:59 +0000135- Issue #8577: distutils.sysconfig.get_python_inc() now makes a difference
Tarek Ziadéa5cd1822010-04-30 12:15:12 +0000136 between the build dir and the source dir when looking for "python.h" or
137 "Include".
138
Lars Gustäbel5c4c4612010-04-29 15:23:38 +0000139- Issue #8464: tarfile no longer creates files with execute permissions set
140 when mode="w|" is used.
141
Antoine Pitrouf56a2882010-04-29 10:05:40 +0000142- Issue #7834: Fix connect() of Bluetooth L2CAP sockets with recent versions
143 of the Linux kernel. Patch by Yaniv Aknin.
144
Senthil Kumaraned9204342010-04-28 17:20:43 +0000145- Issue #6312: Fixed http HEAD request when the transfer encoding is chunked.
146 It should correctly return an empty response now.
147
Nick Coghlandfb45df2010-04-28 14:29:06 +0000148- Issue #7490: to facilitate sharing of doctests between 2.x and 3.x test
149 suites, the IGNORE_EXCEPTION_DETAIL directive now also ignores the module
Nick Coghlan54677da2010-04-28 14:34:30 +0000150 location of the raised exception. Based on initial patch by Lennart
151 Regebro.
Nick Coghlandfb45df2010-04-28 14:29:06 +0000152
Antoine Pitrou4c7bcf12010-04-27 22:03:37 +0000153- Issue #8086: In :func:`ssl.DER_cert_to_PEM_cert()`, fix missing newline
154 before the certificate footer. Patch by Kyle VanderBeek.
155
Benjamin Petersona9bd6d52010-04-27 21:01:54 +0000156- Issue #8546: Reject None given as the buffering argument to _pyio.open.
157
Antoine Pitrou1dc6b082010-04-27 19:09:59 +0000158- Issue #8549: Fix compiling the _ssl extension under AIX. Patch by
159 Sridhar Ratnakumar.
160
R. David Murray3939dcd2010-04-26 21:17:14 +0000161- Issue #6656: fix locale.format_string to handle escaped percents
162 and mappings.
163
Antoine Pitroua6240402010-04-25 21:40:32 +0000164- Issue #2302: Fix a race condition in SocketServer.BaseServer.shutdown,
165 where the method could block indefinitely if called just before the
166 event loop started running. This also fixes the occasional freezes
167 witnessed in test_httpservers.
168
Antoine Pitroufc69af12010-04-24 20:04:58 +0000169- Issue #5103: SSL handshake would ignore the socket timeout and block
170 indefinitely if the other end didn't respond.
171
Antoine Pitrou4d3e3722010-04-24 19:57:01 +0000172- The do_handshake() method of SSL objects now adjusts the blocking mode of
173 the SSL structure if necessary (as other methods already do).
174
Georg Brandl4341e542010-04-24 09:08:10 +0000175- Issue #7507: Quote "!" in pipes.quote(); it is special to some shells.
176
Antoine Pitroub558f172010-04-23 23:25:45 +0000177- Issue #5238: Calling makefile() on an SSL object would prevent the
178 underlying socket from being closed until all objects get truely destroyed.
179
Antoine Pitroudfb299b2010-04-23 22:54:59 +0000180- Issue #7943: Fix circular reference created when instantiating an SSL
181 socket. Initial patch by Péter Szabó.
182
Sean Reifscheiderf6ce3cb2010-04-23 08:31:55 +0000183- Issue #8451: Syslog module now uses basename(sys.argv[0]) instead of
184 the string "python" as the *ident*. openlog() arguments are all optional
185 and keywords.
186
Antoine Pitroua5c4b552010-04-22 23:33:02 +0000187- Issue #8108: Fix the unwrap() method of SSL objects when the socket has
188 a non-infinite timeout. Also make that method friendlier with applications
189 wanting to continue using the socket in clear-text mode, by disabling
190 OpenSSL's internal readahead. Thanks to Darryl Miles for guidance.
191
Antoine Pitrouc715a9e2010-04-21 19:28:03 +0000192- Issue #8484: Load all ciphers and digest algorithms when initializing
193 the _ssl extension, such that verification of some SSL certificates
194 doesn't fail because of an "unknown algorithm".
195
Victor Stinnera92e81b2010-04-20 22:28:31 +0000196- Issue #8437: Fix test_gdb failures, patch written by Dave Malcolm
197
Giampaolo Rodolà607f7c02010-04-19 21:46:28 +0000198- Issue #4814: timeout parameter is now applied also for connections resulting
199 from PORT/EPRT commands.
200
Tarek Ziadé8a12f942010-04-19 21:28:21 +0000201- Issue #8463: added missing reference to bztar in shutil's documentation.
202
Antoine Pitrou7c587bf2010-04-19 18:52:43 +0000203- Issue #8438: Remove reference to the missing "surrogateescape" encoding
204 error handler from the new IO library.
205
Giampaolo Rodolàcf445fc2010-04-18 12:55:03 +0000206- Issue #3817: ftplib.FTP.abort() method now considers 225 a valid response
207 code as stated in RFC-959 at chapter 5.4.
208
Martin v. Löwis24f09fd2010-04-17 22:40:40 +0000209- Issue #8279: Fix test_gdb failures.
210
Antoine Pitrou0a6373c2010-04-17 17:10:38 +0000211- Issue #8322: Add a *ciphers* argument to SSL sockets, so as to change the
212 available cipher list. Helps fix test_ssl with OpenSSL 1.0.0.
213
Senthil Kumaran8c6d9d72010-04-16 02:46:46 +0000214- Issue #2987: RFC2732 support for urlparse (IPv6 addresses). Patch by Tony
215 Locke and Hans Ulrich Niedermann.
216
R. David Murray1a14d3d2010-04-12 16:35:19 +0000217- Issue #7585: difflib context and unified diffs now place a tab between
218 filename and date, conforming to the 'standards' they were originally
219 designed to follow. This improves compatibility with patch tools.
220
R. David Murray27ef9372010-04-12 14:26:06 +0000221- Issue #7472: Fixed typo in email.encoders module; messages using ISO-2022
222 character sets will now consistently use a Content-Transfer-Encoding of
223 7bit rather than sometimes being marked as 8bit.
224
Martin v. Löwis7f7765c2010-04-12 05:18:16 +0000225- Issue #8330: Fix expected output in test_gdb.
226
Antoine Pitrouab5ce722010-04-11 22:45:47 +0000227- Issue #8374: Update the internal alias table in the :mod:`locale` module
228 to cover recent locale changes and additions.
229
Matthias Klose8a96d202010-04-21 22:18:52 +0000230Extension Modules
231-----------------
232
Mark Dickinson7000e9e2010-05-09 09:30:06 +0000233- Issue #8644: Improved accuracy of timedelta.total_seconds().
234
Brett Cannon945df9a2010-05-04 01:04:53 +0000235- Use Clang 2.7's static analyzer to find places to clean up some code.
236
Matthias Klose8a96d202010-04-21 22:18:52 +0000237- Build the ossaudio extension on GNU/kFreeBSD.
238
Thomas Heller06a7e202010-05-04 18:44:42 +0000239- On Windows, ctypes does no longer check the stack before and after
240 calling a foreign function. This allows to use the unmodified
241 libffi library.
242
Antoine Pitroua5c4b552010-04-22 23:33:02 +0000243Tests
244-----
245
Antoine Pitrou37ffc3e2010-05-11 23:32:31 +0000246- Issue #8672: Add a zlib test ensuring that an incomplete stream can be
247 handled by a decompressor object without errors (it returns incomplete
248 uncompressed data).
249
Victor Stinnerdb990922010-05-15 21:00:59 +0000250- Issue #8490: asyncore now has a more solid test suite which actually tests
Giampaolo Rodolàff46d6e2010-05-10 15:33:22 +0000251 its API.
252
Antoine Pitrou54f9f832010-04-30 23:08:48 +0000253- Issue #8576: Remove use of find_unused_port() in test_smtplib and
254 test_multiprocessing. Patch by Paul Moore.
255
Victor Stinner6a102812010-04-27 23:55:59 +0000256- Issue #7449: Fix many tests to support Python compiled without thread
257 support. Patches written by Jerry Seutter.
Victor Stinnerd9d147b2010-04-27 21:46:03 +0000258
Antoine Pitroua5c4b552010-04-22 23:33:02 +0000259- Issue #8108: test_ftplib's non-blocking SSL server now has proper handling
260 of SSL shutdowns.
261
Matthias Klose5183ebd2010-04-24 16:38:36 +0000262Build
263-----
264
Mark Dickinsond2f3e3f2010-05-05 22:23:58 +0000265- Issue #8625: Turn off optimization in --with-pydebug builds with gcc.
266 (Optimization was unintentionally turned on in gcc --with-pydebug builds in
267 2.7 beta1 as a result of the issue #1628484 fix, combined with autoconf's
268 strange choice of default CFLAGS produced by AC_PROG_CC for gcc.)
269
Matthias Klose5183ebd2010-04-24 16:38:36 +0000270- Issue #8509: Fix quoting in help strings and code snippets in configure.in.
271
Ronald Oussoren01d149f2010-04-30 11:20:14 +0000272- Issue #3646: It is now easily possible to install a Python framework into
273 your home directory on MacOSX, see Mac/README for more information.
274
Matthias Klosea0bea5d2010-05-08 10:00:28 +0000275- Issue #8510: Update to autoconf2.65.
276
Brett Cannonc1f5c2f2010-05-02 21:51:23 +0000277Misc
278----
279
280- Update the Vim syntax highlight file.
281
Benjamin Peterson12409062010-04-10 18:53:58 +0000282
Benjamin Peterson5da7e7c2010-03-06 22:44:07 +0000283What's New in Python 2.7 beta 1?
284================================
285
Benjamin Petersonfbac6c12010-04-10 16:22:05 +0000286*Release date: 2010-04-10*
Benjamin Peterson5da7e7c2010-03-06 22:44:07 +0000287
288Core and Builtins
289-----------------
290
Philip Jenveyaebbaeb2010-04-06 23:24:45 +0000291- Issue #7301: Add environment variable $PYTHONWARNINGS.
292
Benjamin Peterson3a1dfa22010-04-06 21:50:00 +0000293- Issue #8329: Don't return the same lists from select.select when no fds are
294 changed.
295
Mark Dickinson82791672010-04-06 16:47:55 +0000296- Issue #8259: 1L << (2**31) no longer produces an 'outrageous shift error'
297 on 64-bit machines. The shift count for either left or right shift is
298 permitted to be up to sys.maxsize.
299
Benjamin Peterson4ceeeb02010-04-03 22:48:51 +0000300- Ensure that tokenization of identifiers is not affected by locale.
301
Tarek Ziadé00002952010-04-03 08:37:59 +0000302- Issue #1222585: Added LDCXXSHARED for C++ support. Patch by Arfrever.
303
Benjamin Peterson1c7c11e2010-04-03 01:28:57 +0000304- Raise a TypeError when trying to delete a T_STRING_INPLACE struct member.
305
Eric Smithd44b2fc2010-04-02 12:30:56 +0000306- Issue #7994: Issue a PendingDeprecationWarning if object.__format__
307 is called with a non-empty format string. This is an effort to
308 future-proof user code. If a derived class does not currently
309 implement __format__ but later adds its own __format__, it would
310 most likely break user code that had supplied a format string. This
311 will be changed to a DeprecationWaring in Python 3.3 and it will be
312 an error in Python 3.4.
313
Antoine Pitroua57df2c2010-03-31 21:32:15 +0000314- Issue #8268: Old-style classes (not just instances) now support weak
315 references.
316
Marc-André Lemburg9b90f7a2010-05-05 13:30:01 +0000317- Issue #8211: Save/restore CFLAGS around AC_PROG_CC in configure.in, in
318 case it is set.
Victor Stinner6cbf90f2010-03-25 00:21:53 +0000319
Victor Stinnerc7790ed2010-03-22 12:36:28 +0000320- Issue #1583863: An unicode subclass can now override the __unicode__ method
Victor Stinner95affc42010-03-22 12:24:37 +0000321
Benjamin Peterson96545892010-03-21 20:21:00 +0000322- Issue #6474: Make error message from passing an inadequate number of keyword
323 arguments to a function correct.
324
Benjamin Peterson0dee9c12010-03-17 20:41:42 +0000325- Issue #8164: Don't allow lambda functions to have a docstring.
326
Victor Stinner66644262010-03-10 22:30:19 +0000327- Issue #3137: Don't ignore errors at startup, especially a keyboard interrupt
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000328 (SIGINT). If an error occurs while importing the site module, the error is
329 printed and Python exits. Initialize the GIL before importing the site
Victor Stinner66644262010-03-10 22:30:19 +0000330 module.
331
Collin Winter001a3952010-03-18 21:54:01 +0000332- Code objects now support weak references.
333
Benjamin Peterson5da7e7c2010-03-06 22:44:07 +0000334Library
335-------
336
R. David Murray661303f2010-04-13 20:57:40 +0000337- Issue #5277: Fix quote counting when parsing RFC 2231 encoded parameters.
338
Antoine Pitrouf9de5342010-04-05 21:35:07 +0000339- Issue #8321: Give access to OpenSSL version numbers from the `ssl` module,
340 using the new attributes `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION`, `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION_INFO`
341 and `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION_NUMBER`.
342
Benjamin Peterson76a23c12010-04-04 23:23:22 +0000343- Issue #8310: Allow dis to examine new style classes.
344
Mark Dickinson8a950712010-04-03 15:47:46 +0000345- Issue #8257: The Decimal construct now accepts a float instance
346 directly, converting that float to a Decimal of equal value:
347
348 >>> Decimal(1.1)
349 Decimal('1.100000000000000088817841970012523233890533447265625')
350
Raymond Hettinger34c35b22010-04-03 10:22:00 +0000351- collections.Counter() now supports a subtract() method.
352
Raymond Hettingera551f312010-04-04 18:34:45 +0000353- the functools module now has a total_ordering() class decorator
Georg Brandl4fabac52010-04-14 08:53:38 +0000354 to simplify the specification of rich comparisons.
Raymond Hettingera551f312010-04-04 18:34:45 +0000355
Raymond Hettingerbb006cf2010-04-04 21:45:01 +0000356- The functools module also adds cmp_to_key() as a tool to transition
Raymond Hettingera551f312010-04-04 18:34:45 +0000357 old-style comparison functions to new-style key-functions.
358
Mark Dickinson7c63eee2010-04-02 22:27:36 +0000359- Issue #8294: The Fraction constructor now accepts Decimal and float
360 instances directly.
361
Mark Dickinsone096e822010-04-02 10:17:07 +0000362- Issue #7279: Comparisons involving a Decimal signaling NaN now
363 signal InvalidOperation instead of returning False. (Comparisons
Mark Dickinsonf3eeca12010-04-02 10:35:12 +0000364 involving a quiet NaN are unchanged.) Also, Decimal quiet NaNs
365 are now hashable; Decimal signaling NaNs remain unhashable.
Mark Dickinsone096e822010-04-02 10:17:07 +0000366
Mark Dickinson99d80962010-04-02 08:53:22 +0000367- Issue #2531: Comparison operations between floats and Decimal
368 instances now return a result based on the numeric values of the
369 operands; previously they returned an arbitrary result based on
370 the relative ordering of id(float) and id(Decimal).
371
Barry Warsawf7f2d6f2010-03-31 21:07:16 +0000372- Issue #8233: When run as a script, py_compile.py optionally takes a single
373 argument `-` which tells it to read files to compile from stdin. Each line
374 is read on demand and the named file is compiled immediately. (Original
375 patch by Piotr Ożarowski).
376
377- Issue #3135: Add inspect.getcallargs, which binds arguments to a function
378 like a normal call.
Benjamin Peterson7e213252010-03-30 17:58:13 +0000379
Florent Xicluna58b65662010-03-30 16:29:03 +0000380- Backwards incompatible change: Unicode codepoints line tabulation (0x0B) and
381 form feed (0x0C) are now considered linebreaks, as specified in Unicode
382 Standard Annex #14. See issue #7643.
Florent Xicluna22b24382010-03-30 08:24:06 +0000383 http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr14/
384
Mark Dickinson9588d992010-03-27 11:14:37 +0000385- Comparisons using one of <, <=, >, >= between a complex instance and
386 a Fractions instance now raise TypeError instead of returning
387 True/False. This makes Fraction <=> complex comparisons consistent with
388 int <=> complex, float <=> complex, and complex <=> complex comparisons.
389
Michael Foorde6410c52010-03-29 20:04:23 +0000390- Addition of ``WeakSet`` to the ``weakref`` module.
391
Vinay Sajipb0623d62010-03-24 14:31:21 +0000392- logging: Added LOG_FTP to SysLogHandler and updated documentation.
393
Florent Xicluna176cda12010-03-22 22:52:11 +0000394- Issue #8205: Remove the "Modules" directory from sys.path when Python is
395 running from the build directory (POSIX only).
396
Florent Xiclunae1f4c922010-03-22 22:45:50 +0000397- Issue #7667: Fix doctest failures with non-ASCII paths.
398
Antoine Pitrou513d9ae2010-03-22 19:59:46 +0000399- Issue #7512: shutil.copystat() could raise an OSError when the filesystem
400 didn't support chflags() (for example ZFS under FreeBSD). The error is
401 now silenced.
402
Florent Xicluna9e7a4c92010-03-22 16:07:38 +0000403- Issue #7703: ctypes supports both buffer() and memoryview(). The former is
404 deprecated.
405
R. David Murrayc9d1a782010-03-22 15:55:09 +0000406- Issue #7860: platform.uname now reports the correct 'machine' type
407 when Python is running in WOW64 mode on 64 bit Windows.
408
Vinay Sajip804899b2010-03-22 15:29:01 +0000409- logging: Added getChild utility method to Logger and added isEnabledFor
410 method to LoggerAdapter.
411
Vinay Sajip31e928e2010-03-22 13:02:28 +0000412- Issue #8201: logging: Handle situation of non-ASCII and Unicode
413 logger names existing at the same time, causing a Unicode error
414 when configuration code attempted to sort the existing loggers.
415
Vinay Sajip3017a7b2010-03-22 12:33:08 +0000416- Issue #8200: logging: Handle errors when multiprocessing is not
417 fully loaded when logging occurs.
418
Antoine Pitroueee91cd2010-03-26 19:27:16 +0000419- Issue #3890, #8222: Fix recv() and recv_into() on non-blocking SSL sockets.
420 Also, enable the SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY flag on SSL sockets, so that blocking
421 reads and writes are always retried by OpenSSL itself.
Antoine Pitrou448da712010-03-21 19:33:38 +0000422
Florent Xiclunacf82fa62010-03-21 12:27:20 +0000423- Issue #8179: Fix macpath.realpath() on a non-existing path.
424
Florent Xicluna2e0a53f2010-03-18 21:50:06 +0000425- Issue #8024: Update the Unicode database to 5.2.
426
Antoine Pitroud7b731d2010-03-17 22:45:39 +0000427- Issue #8104: socket.recv_into() and socket.recvfrom_into() now support
428 writing into objects supporting the new buffer API, for example bytearrays
429 or memoryviews.
430
Matthias Klose8b411682010-03-16 10:48:52 +0000431- Issue #4961: Inconsistent/wrong result of askyesno function in tkMessageBox
432 with Tcl/Tk-8.5.
433
Matthias Kloseb13d04c2010-03-15 17:44:12 +0000434- Issue #8140: extend compileall to compile single files. Add -i option.
435
Matthias Klose358e7ff2010-03-15 13:42:23 +0000436- Issue #7356: ctypes.util: Make parsing of ldconfig output independent of
437 the locale.
438
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000439- Issue #7774: Set sys.executable to an empty string if ``argv[0]`` has been
Victor Stinner75227342010-03-12 14:30:26 +0000440 set to an non existent program name and Python is unable to retrieve the real
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000441 program name.
Victor Stinner75227342010-03-12 14:30:26 +0000442
Vinay Sajipecfa08f2010-03-12 09:16:10 +0000443- Issue #8117: logging: Improved algorithm for computing initial rollover time
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000444 for ``TimedRotatingFileHandler`` by using the modification time of an
445 existing log file to compute the next rollover time. If the log file does
446 not exist, the current time is used as the basis for the computation.
Vinay Sajip9098ee42010-03-12 06:01:21 +0000447
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000448- Issue #6472: The ``xml.etree`` package is updated to ElementTree 1.3. The
Florent Xicluna3e8c1892010-03-11 14:36:19 +0000449 cElementTree module is updated too.
450
Florent Xicluna85677612010-03-10 23:58:42 +0000451- Issue #7880: Fix sysconfig when the python executable is a symbolic link.
452
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000453- Issue #7624: Fix ``isinstance(foo(), collections.Callable)`` for old-style
Florent Xicluna47627d52010-03-08 15:20:28 +0000454 classes.
455
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000456- Issue #7143: email: ``get_payload()`` used to strip any trailing newline from
457 a base64 transfer-encoded payload *after* decoding it; it no longer does.
458 This is a behavior change, so email's minor version number is now bumped, to
459 version 4.0.2, for the 2.7 release.
R. David Murray4617e502010-03-08 02:04:06 +0000460
Larry Hastings3b958e32010-04-02 11:18:17 +0000461- Issue #8235: _socket: Add the constant ``SO_SETFIB``. SO_SETFIB is
462 a socket option available on FreeBSD 7.1 and newer.
463
Michael Foorda04c7a02010-04-02 22:55:59 +0000464- Issue #8038: unittest.TestCase.assertNotRegexpMatches
465
466- Addition of -b command line option to unittest for buffering stdout / stderr
467 during test runs.
468
Victor Stinnerdb990922010-05-15 21:00:59 +0000469- Issue #1220212: Added os.kill support for Windows, including support for
Brian Curtin85108e62010-04-02 23:31:28 +0000470 sending CTRL+C and CTRL+BREAK events to console subprocesses.
471
Mark Dickinson154b7ad2010-03-07 16:24:45 +0000472Extension Modules
473-----------------
474
Martin v. Löwis16ea5482010-04-07 11:01:46 +0000475- Issue #8314: Fix unsigned long long bug in libffi on Sparc v8.
476
Matthias Klosee9fbf2b2010-03-19 14:45:06 +0000477- Issue #1039, #8154: Fix os.execlp() crash with missing 2nd argument.
478
Jesus Cea6557aac2010-03-22 14:22:26 +0000479- Issue #8156: bsddb module updated to version 4.8.4.
480 http://www.jcea.es/programacion/pybsddb.htm#bsddb3-4.8.4.
481 This update drops support for Berkeley DB 4.0, and adds support for 4.8.
Matthias Klose54cc5392010-03-15 12:46:18 +0000482
Jesus Cea616de772010-04-28 10:32:30 +0000483- Issue #3928: os.mknod() now available in Solaris, also.
484
Matthias Klose817acef2010-03-15 00:02:36 +0000485- Issue #8142: Update libffi to the 3.0.9 release.
486
Mark Dickinson4846a8e2010-04-03 14:05:10 +0000487- Issue #8300: When passing a non-integer argument to struct.pack with any
488 integer format code, struct.pack first attempts to convert the non-integer
489 using its __index__ method. If that method is non-existent or raises
490 TypeError it goes on to try the __int__ method, as described below.
491
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000492- Issue #1530559: When passing a non-integer argument to struct.pack with *any*
493 integer format code (one of 'bBhHiIlLqQ'), struct.pack attempts to use the
494 argument's __int__ method to convert to an integer before packing. It also
495 produces a DeprecationWarning in this case. (In Python 2.6, the behaviour
496 was inconsistent: __int__ was used for some integer codes but not for others,
497 and the set of integer codes for which it was used differed between native
498 packing and standard packing.)
Mark Dickinson154b7ad2010-03-07 16:24:45 +0000499
Victor Stinnerdb990922010-05-15 21:00:59 +0000500- Issue #7347: _winreg: Add CreateKeyEx and DeleteKeyEx, as well as fix a
Brian Curtin19479fa2010-04-02 21:51:37 +0000501 bug in the return value of QueryReflectionKey.
502
Antoine Pitrou02b3f0a2010-03-13 21:21:30 +0000503Tools/Demos
504-----------
505
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000506- Issue #7993: Add a test of IO packet processing bandwidth to ccbench. It
507 measures the number of UDP packets processed per second depending on the
508 number of background CPU-bound Python threads.
Benjamin Peterson5da7e7c2010-03-06 22:44:07 +0000509
Collin Wintera70f3492010-03-19 00:08:44 +0000510- python-config now supports multiple options on the same command line.
511
Benjamin Peterson11d93232010-03-14 14:24:31 +0000512Build
513-----
514
Martin v. Löwisbf0dfb32010-04-01 07:40:51 +0000515- Issue #8032: For gdb7, a python-gdb.py file is added to the build,
516 allowing to use advanced gdb features when debugging Python.
517
Antoine Pitrouf83b3082010-03-21 19:19:41 +0000518- Issue #1628484: The Makefile doesn't ignore the CFLAGS environment
519 variable anymore. It also forwards the LDFLAGS settings to the linker
520 when building a shared library.
521
Martin v. Löwis24e4e162010-03-15 13:00:17 +0000522- Issue #6716: Quote -x arguments of compileall in MSI installer.
523
Benjamin Peterson11d93232010-03-14 14:24:31 +0000524- Issue #7705: Fix linking on FreeBSD.
525
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven6d22cfc2010-04-07 16:34:08 +0000526- Make sure that the FreeBSD build of the included libffi uses the proper
527 assembly file.
528
Larry Hastings402b73f2010-03-25 00:54:54 +0000529C-API
530-----
531
Antoine Pitrou76c86492010-04-01 16:42:11 +0000532- Issue #8276: PyEval_CallObject() is now only available in macro form. The
533 function declaration, which was kept for backwards compatibility reasons,
534 is now removed (the macro was introduced in 1997!).
535
Larry Hastings402b73f2010-03-25 00:54:54 +0000536- Issue #7992: A replacement PyCObject API, PyCapsule, has been backported
Larry Hastings5ac006d2010-04-02 11:01:35 +0000537 from Python 3.1. All existing Python CObjects in the main distribution
538 have been converted to capsules. To address backwards-compatibility
539 concerns, PyCObject_AsVoidPtr() was changed to understand capsules.
Larry Hastings402b73f2010-03-25 00:54:54 +0000540
Florent Xicluna3cc8f212010-03-15 18:08:58 +0000541Tests
542-----
543
R. David Murraye0e8a872010-04-17 05:26:26 +0000544- Issue #3864: Skip three test_signal tests on freebsd6 because they fail
545 if any thread was previously started, most likely due to a platform bug.
546
Antoine Pitrouab5ce722010-04-11 22:45:47 +0000547- Issue #8348: Fix test ftp url in test_urllib2net.
548
549- Issue #8204: Fix test_ttk notebook test by forcing focus.
550
551- Issue #8344: Fix test_ttk bug on FreeBSD.
552
Antoine Pitrou3b4c9892010-04-06 17:21:09 +0000553- Issue #8193: Fix test_zlib failure with zlib 1.2.4.
554
Antoine Pitrou6032c252010-03-30 18:49:45 +0000555- Issue #8248: Add some tests for the bool type. Patch by Gregory Nofi.
556
Florent Xicluna75c66762010-03-30 16:31:14 +0000557- Issue #8263: Now regrtest.py will report a failure if it receives a
558 KeyboardInterrupt (SIGINT).
559
Florent Xicluna8aa5a582010-03-25 20:33:49 +0000560- Issue #8180 and #8207: Fix test_pep277 on OS X and add more tests for special
561 Unicode normalization cases.
Florent Xicluna77a88492010-03-21 18:00:38 +0000562
Florent Xicluna3cc8f212010-03-15 18:08:58 +0000563- Issue #7783: test.test_support.open_urlresource invalidates the outdated
564 files from the local cache.
565
R. David Murray4617e502010-03-08 02:04:06 +0000566
Benjamin Peterson2d798ac2010-02-06 18:26:27 +0000567What's New in Python 2.7 alpha 4?
568=================================
569
Benjamin Peterson8e7c1172010-03-06 20:34:14 +0000570*Release date: 2010-03-06*
Benjamin Peterson2d798ac2010-02-06 18:26:27 +0000571
572Core and Builtins
573-----------------
574
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000575- Issue #7544: Preallocate thread memory before creating the thread to avoid a
576 fatal error in low memory condition.
Victor Stinner71fb87e2010-03-03 23:20:25 +0000577
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000578- Issue #7820: The parser tokenizer restores all bytes in the right if the BOM
579 check fails.
Victor Stinnerd23d3932010-03-02 23:20:02 +0000580
Eric Smith2d9856d2010-02-24 14:15:36 +0000581- Issue #7309: Fix unchecked attribute access when converting
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000582 UnicodeEncodeError, UnicodeDecodeError, and UnicodeTranslateError to strings.
Eric Smith2d9856d2010-02-24 14:15:36 +0000583
Ezio Melotti32125152010-02-25 17:36:04 +0000584- Issue #7649: "u'%c' % char" now behaves like "u'%s' % char" and raises a
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000585 UnicodeDecodeError if 'char' is a byte string that can't be decoded using the
586 default encoding.
Victor Stinnerf20f9c22010-02-23 23:16:07 +0000587
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000588- Issue #6902: Fix problem with built-in types format incorrectly with 0
589 padding.
Eric Smith87bcb242010-02-23 00:11:16 +0000590
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000591- Issue #2560: Remove an unnecessary 'for' loop from ``my_fgets()`` in
Andrew M. Kuchlingb64d6132010-02-22 22:48:41 +0000592 Parser/myreadline.c.
593
Eric Smithf32d4ac2010-02-22 18:33:47 +0000594- Issue #7988: Fix default alignment to be right aligned for
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000595 ``complex.__format__``. Now it matches other numeric types.
Eric Smithf32d4ac2010-02-22 18:33:47 +0000596
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000597- Issue #5211: The complex type no longer uses implicit coercion in mixed-type
598 binary arithmetic operations.
Mark Dickinson82b34c52010-02-21 12:57:35 +0000599
Benjamin Peterson2d798ac2010-02-06 18:26:27 +0000600Library
601-------
602
Florent Xicluna0b9a18a2010-03-06 11:01:08 +0000603- Issue #6906: Tk should not set Unicode environment variables on Windows.
604
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000605- Issue #1054943: Fix ``unicodedata.normalize('NFC', text)`` for the Public
Ezio Melotti8122bdd2010-03-14 10:13:49 +0000606 Review Issue #29 (http://unicode.org/review/pr-29.html).
Victor Stinner7c924ec2010-03-04 12:09:33 +0000607
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000608- Issue #7494: Fix a crash in ``_lsprof`` (cProfile) after clearing the profiler,
Victor Stinner56a51532010-03-04 00:10:12 +0000609 reset also the pointer to the current pointer context.
610
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000611- Issue #7232: Add support for the context manager protocol to the
612 ``tarfile.TarFile`` class.
Lars Gustäbel64581042010-03-03 11:55:48 +0000613
Barry Warsaw08a8fb32010-03-01 21:46:51 +0000614- Issue #7250: Fix info leak of os.environ across multi-run uses of
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000615 ``wsgiref.handlers.CGIHandler``.
Barry Warsaw08a8fb32010-03-01 21:46:51 +0000616
Florent Xiclunae7901c52010-03-01 20:45:01 +0000617- Issue #1729305: Fix doctest to handle encode error with "backslashreplace".
Florent Xicluna2a903b22010-02-27 13:31:23 +0000618
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000619- Issue #691291: ``codecs.open()`` should not convert end of lines on reading
620 and writing.
Florent Xicluna82aa01f2010-02-27 11:19:18 +0000621
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000622- Issue #7975: Correct regression in dict methods supported by bsddb.dbshelve.
R. David Murray48605be2010-02-24 02:31:27 +0000623
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000624- Issue #7959: ctypes callback functions are now registered correctly with the
625 cycle garbage collector.
Thomas Heller92bd0592010-02-23 20:11:44 +0000626
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000627- Issue #7970: ``email.Generator.flatten`` now correctly flattens
628 message/rfc822 messages parsed by ``email.Parser.HeaderParser``.
R. David Murray51f12042010-02-21 04:23:00 +0000629
Ezio Melotti4cc80ca2010-02-20 08:09:39 +0000630- Issue #3426: ``os.path.abspath`` now returns unicode when its arg is unicode.
631
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000632- Issue #7633: In the decimal module, ``Context`` class methods (with the
633 exception of canonical and is_canonical) now accept instances of int and long
634 wherever a Decimal instance is accepted, and implicitly convert that argument
635 to Decimal. Previously only some arguments were converted.
Mark Dickinson6d8effb2010-02-18 14:27:02 +0000636
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000637- Issue #6003: Add an argument to ``zipfile.Zipfile.writestr`` to specify the
638 compression type.
Ezio Melotti8f6a2872010-02-10 21:40:33 +0000639
Michael Foorddb43b5a2010-02-10 14:25:12 +0000640- Issue #7893: ``unittest.TextTestResult`` is made public and a ``resultclass``
641 argument added to the TextTestRunner constructor allowing a different result
642 class to be used without having to subclass.
Ezio Melotti8f6a2872010-02-10 21:40:33 +0000643
Ezio Melotti4cc80ca2010-02-20 08:09:39 +0000644- Issue #7588: ``unittest.TextTestResult.getDescription`` now includes the test
Michael Foorddb43b5a2010-02-10 14:25:12 +0000645 name in failure reports even if the test has a docstring.
Ronald Oussorendd25e862010-02-07 20:18:02 +0000646
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000647- Issue #5801: Remove spurious empty lines in wsgiref.
Tarek Ziadéb8708a22010-02-23 05:53:05 +0000648
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000649- Issue #1537721: Add a ``writeheader()`` method to ``csv.DictWriter``.
Dirkjan Ochtman86148172010-02-23 21:09:52 +0000650
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000651- Issue #7427: Improve the representation of httplib.BadStatusLine exceptions.
Dirkjan Ochtmanebc73dc2010-02-24 04:49:00 +0000652
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000653- Issue #7481: When a ``threading.Thread`` failed to start it would leave the
654 instance stuck in initial state and present in ``threading.enumerate()``.
Gregory P. Smith613c7a52010-02-28 18:36:09 +0000655
Gregory P. Smithcce211f2010-03-01 00:05:08 +0000656- Issue #1068268: The subprocess module now handles EINTR in internal
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000657 ``os.waitpid()`` and ``os.read()`` system calls where appropriate.
Gregory P. Smithcce211f2010-03-01 00:05:08 +0000658
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000659- Issue #6729: Add ``ctypes.c_ssize_t`` to represent ssize_t.
Gregory P. Smith3c699d32010-03-01 04:56:12 +0000660
Steven Betharde9330e72010-03-02 08:38:09 +0000661- Issue #6247: The argparse module has been added to the standard library.
662
Martin v. Löwis413fabc2010-02-18 09:22:20 +0000663Extension Modules
664-----------------
665
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000666- The sqlite3 module was updated to pysqlite 2.6.0. This fixes several obscure
Gerhard Häring3bbb6722010-03-05 09:12:37 +0000667 bugs and allows loading SQLite extensions from shared libraries.
668
Florent Xiclunae7901c52010-03-01 20:45:01 +0000669- Issue #7808: Fix reference leaks in _bsddb and related tests.
670
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000671- Issue #6544: Fix a reference leak in the kqueue implementation's error
Georg Brandlea370a92010-02-23 21:48:57 +0000672 handling.
673
Martin v. Löwis413fabc2010-02-18 09:22:20 +0000674- Stop providing crtassem.h symbols when compiling with Visual Studio 2010, as
675 msvcr100.dll is not a platform assembly anymore.
Benjamin Peterson2d798ac2010-02-06 18:26:27 +0000676
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000677- Issue #7242: On Solaris 9 and earlier calling ``os.fork()`` from within a
Gregory P. Smith9e5d1322010-03-01 01:22:39 +0000678 thread could raise an incorrect RuntimeError about not holding the import
679 lock. The import lock is now reinitialized after fork.
680
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000681- Issue #7999: ``os.setreuid()`` and ``os.setregid()`` would refuse to accept a
682 -1 parameter on some platforms such as OS X.
Gregory P. Smith6a65f852010-03-01 05:43:43 +0000683
Ezio Melotti8f6a2872010-02-10 21:40:33 +0000684Tests
685-----
686
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000687- Issue #7849: The utility ``test.test_support.check_warnings()`` verifies if
688 warnings are effectively raised. A new utility ``check_py3k_warnings()`` is
689 available.
Florent Xicluna6de9e932010-03-07 12:18:33 +0000690
Florent Xicluna985478d2010-03-06 18:52:52 +0000691- The four path modules (genericpath, macpath, ntpath, posixpath) share a
692 common TestCase for some tests: test_genericpath.CommonTest.
693
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000694- Print platform information when running the whole test suite, or using the
695 ``--verbose`` flag.
Florent Xicluna58526412010-03-06 17:24:36 +0000696
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000697- Issue #767675: Enable test_pep277 on POSIX platforms with Unicode-friendly
Florent Xiclunac0a9d412010-03-02 22:34:11 +0000698 filesystem encoding.
Florent Xicluna2db61fb2010-03-02 21:34:45 +0000699
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000700- Issue #6292: For the moment at least, the test suite runs cleanly if python
R. David Murrayf28fd242010-02-23 00:24:49 +0000701 is run with the -OO flag. Tests requiring docstrings are skipped.
702
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000703- Issue #7712: test_support gained a new ``temp_cwd`` context manager which is
704 now also used by regrtest to run all the tests in a temporary directory. The
705 original CWD is saved in ``test.test_support.SAVEDCWD``. Thanks to Florent
706 Xicluna who helped with the patch.
Ezio Melotti8f6a2872010-02-10 21:40:33 +0000707
Martin v. Löwis5e2dd862010-02-15 08:32:00 +0000708Build
709-----
710
Martin v. Löwis7875ef62010-02-15 21:41:12 +0000711- Issue #3920, #7903: Define _BSD_SOURCE on OpenBSD 4.4 through 4.9.
Martin v. Löwis5e2dd862010-02-15 08:32:00 +0000712
Ezio Melotti8f6a2872010-02-10 21:40:33 +0000713
Benjamin Petersondd6d92a2010-01-09 17:30:31 +0000714What's New in Python 2.7 alpha 3?
715=================================
716
Benjamin Petersona7be9d22010-02-06 16:37:32 +0000717*Release date: 2010-02-06*
Benjamin Petersondd6d92a2010-01-09 17:30:31 +0000718
719Core and Builtins
720-----------------
721
Antoine Pitroubb445a12010-02-05 17:05:54 +0000722- Issue #5677: Explicitly forbid write operations on read-only file objects,
723 and read operations on write-only file objects. On Windows, the system C
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000724 library would return a bogus result; on Solaris, it was possible to crash the
725 interpreter. Patch by Stefan Krah.
Antoine Pitroubb445a12010-02-05 17:05:54 +0000726
Barry Warsawb1e66ee2010-02-05 18:45:25 +0000727- Issue #7853: Normalize exceptions before they are passed to a context
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000728 manager's ``__exit__()`` method.
Benjamin Peterson565d7852010-02-05 02:12:14 +0000729
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000730- Issue #7385: Fix a crash in ``PyMemoryView_FromObject()`` when
731 ``PyObject_GetBuffer()`` fails. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
Antoine Pitrou526e4212010-02-02 22:36:17 +0000732
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000733- Issue #7819: Check ``sys.call_tracing()`` arguments types.
Victor Stinnerb4b0a292010-01-31 22:32:15 +0000734
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000735- Issue #7788: Fix an interpreter crash produced by deleting a list slice with
736 very large step value.
Mark Dickinson36ecd672010-01-29 17:11:39 +0000737
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000738- Issue #7766: Change ``sys.getwindowsversion()`` return value to a named tuple
739 and add the additional members returned in an OSVERSIONINFOEX structure. The
740 new members are service_pack_major, service_pack_minor, suite_mask, and
741 product_type.
Eric Smithee931b72010-01-27 00:28:29 +0000742
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000743- Issue #7561: Operations on empty bytearrays (such as ``int(bytearray())``)
744 could crash in many places because of the ``PyByteArray_AS_STRING()`` macro
745 returning NULL. The macro now returns a statically allocated empty string
746 instead.
Antoine Pitroue80a6a42010-01-17 12:26:20 +0000747
Antoine Pitrou64672132010-01-13 07:55:48 +0000748- Issue #7622: Improve the split(), rsplit(), splitlines() and replace()
749 methods of bytes, bytearray and unicode objects by using a common
750 implementation based on stringlib's fast search. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
751
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000752- Issue #7632: Fix various str -> float conversion bugs present in 2.7 alpha 2,
753 including:
Mark Dickinson8efef5c2010-01-12 22:23:56 +0000754
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000755 (1) a serious 'wrong output' bug that could occur for long (> 40 digit) input
756 strings,
757 (2) a crash in dtoa.c that occurred in debug builds when parsing certain long
758 numeric strings corresponding to subnormal values,
759 (3) a memory leak for some values large enough to cause overflow, and
760 (4) a number of flaws that could lead to incorrectly rounded results.
761
762- Issue #7319, #7770: Silence ``DeprecationWarning`` by default when the -3
763 option is not used.
Brett Cannon6fdd3dc2010-01-10 02:56:19 +0000764
Alexandre Vassalottiee936a22010-01-09 23:35:54 +0000765- Issue #2335: Backport set literals syntax from Python 3.x.
766
Alexandre Vassalotti7a8df802010-01-11 23:13:49 +0000767- Issue #2333: Backport set and dict comprehensions syntax from Python 3.x.
768
Alexandre Vassalotti69eb5162010-01-11 23:17:10 +0000769- Issue #1967: Backport dictionary views from Python 3.x.
770
Benjamin Petersondd6d92a2010-01-09 17:30:31 +0000771Library
772-------
773
R. David Murray63e4fd72010-02-10 22:42:04 +0000774- Issue #7835: shelve should no longer produce mysterious warnings during
775 interpreter shutdown.
776
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000777- Issue #2746: Don't escape ampersands and angle brackets ("&", "<", ">") in
778 XML processing instructions and comments. These raw characters are allowed
779 by the XML specification, and are necessary when outputting e.g. PHP code in
780 a processing instruction. Patch by Neil Muller.
Antoine Pitrou42fb6ab2010-02-09 17:08:05 +0000781
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000782- Issue #7869: logging: Improved diagnostic for format-time errors.
Vinay Sajip64e8b972010-02-07 12:56:54 +0000783
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000784- Issue #7868: logging: Added loggerClass attribute to Manager.
Vinay Sajip657514a2010-02-07 01:37:08 +0000785
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000786- Issue #7851: logging: Clarification on logging configuration files.
Vinay Sajip0e6e97d2010-02-04 20:23:45 +0000787
Antoine Pitroud840e512010-02-04 20:20:18 +0000788- Issue #4772: Raise a ValueError when an unknown Bluetooth protocol is
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000789 specified, rather than fall through to AF_PACKET (in the ``socket`` module).
Antoine Pitroud840e512010-02-04 20:20:18 +0000790 Also, raise ValueError rather than TypeError when an unknown TIPC address
791 type is specified. Patch by Brian Curtin.
792
Vinay Sajip28c382f2010-02-04 18:48:53 +0000793- logging: Implemented PEP 391.
794
Antoine Pitrouf3fa0742010-01-31 22:26:04 +0000795- Issue #6939: Fix file I/O objects in the `io` module to keep the original
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000796 file position when calling `truncate()`. It would previously change the file
797 position to the given argument, which goes against the tradition of
Antoine Pitrouf3fa0742010-01-31 22:26:04 +0000798 ftruncate() and other truncation APIs. Patch by Pascal Chambon.
799
Benjamin Petersone06f7112010-01-28 02:15:02 +0000800- UserDict is now a new-style class.
801
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000802- Issue #7610: Reworked implementation of the internal ``zipfile.ZipExtFile``
803 class used to represent files stored inside an archive. The new
804 implementation is significantly faster and can be wrapped in a
805 ``io.BufferedReader`` object for more speedups. It also solves an issue
806 where interleaved calls to ``read()`` and ``readline()`` give wrong results.
807 Patch by Nir Aides.
Antoine Pitrou94c33eb2010-01-27 20:59:50 +0000808
Benjamin Peterson2deb5c72010-01-27 02:16:42 +0000809- Issue #7792: Registering non-classes to ABCs raised an obscure error.
810
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000811- Removed the deprecated functions ``verify()`` and ``vereq()`` from
812 Lib/test/test_support.py.
Ezio Melotti82230f92010-01-25 12:37:02 +0000813
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000814- Issue #7773: Fix an UnboundLocalError in ``platform.linux_distribution()``
815 when the release file is empty.
Benjamin Petersona43f34c2010-01-25 03:31:13 +0000816
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000817- Issue #7748: Since unicode values are supported for some metadata options in
818 Distutils, the DistributionMetadata get_* methods will now return an utf-8
819 encoded string for them. This ensures that the upload and register commands
820 send the correct values to PyPI without any error.
Tarek Ziadéf14c7fc2010-01-24 00:33:32 +0000821
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000822- Issue #1670765: Prevent ``email.generator.Generator`` from re-wrapping
R. David Murrayed44dfa2010-01-16 05:15:17 +0000823 headers in multipart/signed MIME parts, which fixes one of the sources of
824 invalid modifications to such parts by Generator.
825
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000826- Issue #7701: Fix crash in ``binascii.b2a_uu()`` in debug mode when given a
Antoine Pitrouc391ad02010-01-15 00:18:00 +0000827 1-byte argument. Patch by Victor Stinner.
828
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000829- Issue #3299: Fix possible crash in the _sre module when given bad argument
830 values in debug mode. Patch by Victor Stinner.
Antoine Pitrouefdddd32010-01-14 17:25:24 +0000831
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000832- Issue #7703: Add support for the new buffer API to functions of the binascii
833 module. Backported from py3k by Florent Xicluna, with some additional tests.
Antoine Pitroufd3a60d2010-01-14 16:27:09 +0000834
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000835- Issue #2846: Add support for gzip.GzipFile reading zero-padded files. Patch
836 by Brian Curtin.
Antoine Pitrou5a9112c2010-01-13 14:32:10 +0000837
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000838- Issue #5827: Make sure that normpath preserves unicode. Initial patch by
839 Matt Giuca.
Ezio Melottib5689de2010-01-12 03:32:05 +0000840
Tarek Ziadédc0f4872010-01-11 22:50:29 +0000841- Issue #5372: Drop the reuse of .o files in Distutils' ccompiler (since
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000842 Extension extra options may change the output without changing the .c file).
843 Initial patch by Collin Winter.
Tarek Ziadédc0f4872010-01-11 22:50:29 +0000844
Matthias Klose0d948ac2010-01-22 00:39:04 +0000845Extension Modules
846-----------------
847
848- Expat: Fix DoS via XML document with malformed UTF-8 sequences
849 (CVE_2009_3560).
850
Antoine Pitrou8c510e72010-01-13 11:47:49 +0000851Build
852-----
853
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000854- Issue #7632: When Py_USING_MEMORY_DEBUGGER is defined, disable the private
855 memory allocation scheme in dtoa.c and use PyMem_Malloc and PyMem_Free
856 instead. Also disable caching of powers of 5.
Mark Dickinson9481c572010-01-17 20:57:56 +0000857
Ronald Oussorena55af9a2010-01-17 16:25:57 +0000858- Issue #7658: Ensure that the new pythonw executable works on OSX 10.4
859
860- Issue #7714: Use ``gcc -dumpversion`` to detect the version of GCC on
861 MacOSX.
862
Antoine Pitrou8c510e72010-01-13 11:47:49 +0000863- Issue #7661: Allow ctypes to be built from a non-ASCII directory path.
864 Patch by Florent Xicluna.
865
Antoine Pitrouc07336c2010-01-18 21:15:21 +0000866Tools/Demos
867-----------
868
869- iobench (a file I/O benchmark) and ccbench (a concurrency benchmark) were
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000870 added to the ``Tools`` directory. They were previously living in the
Antoine Pitrouc07336c2010-01-18 21:15:21 +0000871 sandbox.
872
R. David Murrayce6e4b02010-02-06 04:27:21 +0000873Tests
874-----
875
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000876- issue #7728: test_timeout was changed to use ``test_support.bind_port()``
R. David Murrayce6e4b02010-02-06 04:27:21 +0000877 instead of a hard coded port.
878
Matthias Klose626d92a2010-01-31 16:05:13 +0000879Documentation
880-------------
Victor Stinnerf20f9c22010-02-23 23:16:07 +0000881
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000882- Updated "Using Python" documentation to include description of CPython's -J,
883 -U and -X options.
Barry Warsawb1e66ee2010-02-05 18:45:25 +0000884
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000885- Updated Python manual page (options -B, -O0, -s, environment variables
Matthias Klose626d92a2010-01-31 16:05:13 +0000886 PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE, PYTHONNOUSERSITE).
887
Benjamin Petersondd6d92a2010-01-09 17:30:31 +0000888
Benjamin Peterson4f51baf2009-12-05 18:40:02 +0000889What's New in Python 2.7 alpha 2?
890=================================
891
Benjamin Petersonaa7e51f2010-01-09 16:34:06 +0000892*Release date: 2010-01-09*
Benjamin Peterson4f51baf2009-12-05 18:40:02 +0000893
894Core and Builtins
895-----------------
896
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000897- The ``__complex__()`` method is now looked up on the class of instances to
898 make it consistent with other special methods.
Benjamin Petersonecdae192010-01-04 00:43:01 +0000899
Antoine Pitrou5b7139a2010-01-02 21:12:58 +0000900- Issue #7462: Implement the stringlib fast search algorithm for the `rfind`,
901 `rindex`, `rsplit` and `rpartition` methods. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
902
Mark Dickinson1b34d252010-01-01 17:27:30 +0000903- Issue #5080: A number of functions and methods previously produced a
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000904 DeprecationWarning when passed a float argument where an integer was expected.
905 These functions and methods now raise TypeError instead. The majority of the
906 effects of this change are in the extension modules, but some core functions
907 and methods are affected: notably the 'chr', 'range' and 'xrange' builtins,
908 and many unicode/str methods.
Mark Dickinson1b34d252010-01-01 17:27:30 +0000909
Benjamin Peterson0f02d392009-12-30 19:34:10 +0000910- Issue #7604: Deleting an unset slotted attribute did not raise an
911 AttributeError.
912
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000913- Issue #7534: Fix handling of IEEE specials (infinities, nans, negative zero)
914 in ** operator. The behaviour now conforms to that described in C99 Annex F.
Mark Dickinson99d652e2009-12-30 12:12:23 +0000915
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000916- Issue #7579: The msvcrt module now has docstrings for all its functions.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcc8a2ce72009-12-29 23:06:17 +0000917
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc8645a5c2009-12-29 22:03:38 +0000918- Issue #7413: Passing '\0' as the separator to datetime.datetime.isoformat()
919 used to drop the time part of the result.
920
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000921- Issue #1811: Improve accuracy and cross-platform consistency for true division
922 of integers: the result of a/b is now correctly rounded for ints a and b (at
923 least on IEEE 754 platforms), and in particular does not depend on the
924 internal representation of a long.
Mark Dickinson46572832009-12-27 14:55:57 +0000925
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000926- Issue #6108: ``unicode(exception)`` and ``str(exception)`` should return the
927 same message when only ``__str__()`` (and not ``__unicode__()``) is overridden
928 in the subclass.
Ezio Melottif84caf42009-12-24 22:25:17 +0000929
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000930- Issue #6834: Replace the implementation for the 'python' and 'pythonw'
Ronald Oussoren92919a62009-12-24 13:30:58 +0000931 executables on OSX.
932
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000933 These executables now work properly with the arch(1) command: ``arch -ppc
934 python`` will start a universal binary version of python in PPC mode (unlike
935 previous releases).
Ronald Oussoren92919a62009-12-24 13:30:58 +0000936
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000937- Issue #1680159: Unicode coercion during an 'in' operation no longer masks the
938 underlying error when the coercion fails for the left hand operand.
R. David Murray0a0a1a82009-12-14 16:28:26 +0000939
Benjamin Peterson4895af42009-12-13 16:36:53 +0000940- Issue #7491: Metaclass's __cmp__ method was ignored.
941
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000942- Issue #7466: Segmentation fault when the garbage collector is called in the
943 middle of populating a tuple. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
Antoine Pitrou2a08b422009-12-13 16:18:14 +0000944
R. David Murrayc7298ff2009-12-14 21:57:39 +0000945
Benjamin Peterson4f51baf2009-12-05 18:40:02 +0000946Library
947-------
948
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000949- Issue #6963: Added "maxtasksperchild" argument to ``multiprocessing.Pool``,
950 allowing for a maximum number of tasks within the pool to be completed by the
951 worker before that worker is terminated, and a new one created to replace it.
Jesse Noller654ade32010-01-27 03:05:57 +0000952
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000953- Issue #7617: Make sure distutils.unixccompiler.UnixCCompiler recognizes gcc
954 when it has a fully qualified configuration prefix. Initial patch by
955 Arfrever.
Tarek Ziadéc25417f2010-01-08 23:42:23 +0000956
Antoine Pitrou80157252010-01-08 19:20:17 +0000957- Issue #7092: Remove py3k warning when importing cPickle. 2to3 handles
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000958 renaming of `cPickle` to `pickle`. The warning was annoying since there's no
959 alternative to cPickle if you care about performance. Patch by Florent
Antoine Pitrou80157252010-01-08 19:20:17 +0000960 Xicluna.
961
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000962- Issue #7455: Fix possible crash in cPickle on invalid input. Patch by Victor
963 Stinner.
Antoine Pitrou0d423b82010-01-07 17:46:49 +0000964
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000965- Issue #7092: Fix the DeprecationWarnings emitted by the standard library when
966 using the -3 flag. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
Antoine Pitroub9d49632010-01-04 23:22:44 +0000967
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000968- Issue #7471: Improve the performance of GzipFile's buffering mechanism, and
969 make it implement the ``io.BufferedIOBase`` ABC to allow for further speedups
970 by wrapping it in an ``io.BufferedReader``. Patch by Nir Aides.
Antoine Pitrou673ddf92010-01-03 22:29:56 +0000971
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000972- Issue #3972: ``httplib.HTTPConnection`` now accepts an optional source_address
Gregory P. Smith9d325212010-01-03 02:06:07 +0000973 parameter to allow specifying where your connections come from.
974
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000975- ``socket.create_connection()`` now accepts an optional source_address
976 parameter.
Gregory P. Smith79a3eb12010-01-03 01:29:44 +0000977
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000978- Issue #5511: ``zipfile.ZipFile`` can now be used as a context manager.
Ezio Melotti569e61f2009-12-30 06:14:51 +0000979 Initial patch by Brian Curtin.
980
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000981- Distutils now correctly identifies the build architecture as "x86_64" when
982 building on OSX 10.6 without "-arch" flags.
Ronald Oussorenca8e7ec2009-12-24 14:50:35 +0000983
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000984- Issue #7556: Distutils' msvc9compiler now opens the MSVC Manifest file in text
985 mode.
Tarek Ziadé0479eb52009-12-21 23:37:44 +0000986
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000987- Issue #7552: Removed line feed in the base64 Authorization header in the
988 Distutils upload command to avoid an error when PyPI reads it. This occurs on
989 long passwords. Initial patch by JP St. Pierre.
Tarek Ziadé2421d562009-12-20 23:23:34 +0000990
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000991- Issue #7231: urllib2 cannot handle https with proxy requiring auth. Patch by
992 Tatsuhiro Tsujikawa.
Senthil Kumaran7713acf2009-12-20 06:05:13 +0000993
Benjamin Petersonddd392c2009-12-13 19:19:07 +0000994- Issue #7349: Make methods of file objects in the io module accept None as an
995 argument where file-like objects (ie StringIO and BytesIO) accept them to mean
996 the same as passing no argument.
997
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000998- Issue #7348: ``StringIO.StringIO.readline(-1)`` now acts as if it got no
999 argument like other file objects.
Benjamin Petersonc4771d22009-12-13 17:31:31 +00001000
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001001- Issue #7357: tarfile no longer suppresses fatal extraction errors by default.
Lars Gustäbel92ca7562009-12-13 11:32:27 +00001002
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001003- Issue #7470: logging: Fix bug in Unicode encoding fallback.
Vinay Sajip5cc4e2a2009-12-11 09:16:01 +00001004
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001005- Issue #5949: Fixed IMAP4_SSL hang when the IMAP server response is missing
1006 proper end-of-line termination.
R. David Murray93321f32009-12-09 15:15:31 +00001007
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001008- Issue #7457: Added a read_pkg_file method to
1009 ``distutils.dist.DistributionMetadata``.
Benjamin Peterson4f51baf2009-12-05 18:40:02 +00001010
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001011- Issue #3745: Undo the 2.7a1 change to have hashlib to reject unicode and non
1012 buffer API supporting objects as input. That behavior is for 3.x only.
Gregory P. Smithfe32d302010-01-02 22:42:50 +00001013
Georg Brandl740cdc32009-12-28 08:34:58 +00001014C-API
1015-----
1016
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001017- Issue #7767: New function ``PyLong_AsLongLongAndOverflow()`` added, analogous
1018 to ``PyLong_AsLongAndOverflow()``.
Mark Dickinsona36507c2010-01-30 10:08:33 +00001019
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001020- Issue #5080: The argument parsing functions ``PyArg_ParseTuple()``,
1021 ``PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords()``, ``PyArg_VaParse()``,
1022 ``PyArg_VaParseTupleAndKeywords()`` and ``PyArg_Parse()`` no longer accept
1023 float arguments for integer format codes (other than 'L'): previously an
1024 attempt to pass a float resulted in a DeprecationWarning; now it gives a
1025 TypeError. For the 'L' format code (which previously had no warning) there is
1026 now a DeprecationWarning.
Mark Dickinson1b34d252010-01-01 17:27:30 +00001027
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001028- Issue #7033: Function ``PyErr_NewExceptionWithDoc()`` added.
Georg Brandl740cdc32009-12-28 08:34:58 +00001029
Martin v. Löwisb4261d52009-12-21 19:29:59 +00001030Build
1031-----
1032
Benjamin Petersonedfe72f2010-01-01 15:21:13 +00001033- Issue #6491: Allow --with-dbmliborder to specify that no dbms will be built.
1034
Benjamin Petersonb4abef62010-01-01 15:18:38 +00001035- Issue #6943: Use pkg-config to find the libffi headers when the
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001036 ``--with-system-ffi`` flag is used.
Benjamin Petersonb4abef62010-01-01 15:18:38 +00001037
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001038- Issue #7609: Add a ``--with-system-expat`` option that causes the system's
1039 expat library to be used for the pyexpat module instead of the one included
1040 with Python.
Benjamin Peterson2c196742009-12-31 03:17:18 +00001041
Benjamin Peterson500ce232009-12-30 02:58:50 +00001042- Issue #7589: Only build the nis module when the correct header files are
1043 found.
1044
Martin v. Löwisf477b932010-01-02 09:25:21 +00001045- Switch to OpenSSL 0.9.8l and sqlite 3.6.21 on Windows.
R. David Murray93321f32009-12-09 15:15:31 +00001046
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001047- Issue #7541: when using ``python-config`` with a framework install the
1048 compiler might use the wrong library.
Ronald Oussorenb5afe542009-12-24 14:17:19 +00001049
R. David Murrayc7298ff2009-12-14 21:57:39 +00001050Tests
1051-----
1052
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001053- Issue #7376: Instead of running a self-test (which was failing) when called
R. David Murray77e48ba2009-12-20 16:46:06 +00001054 with no arguments, doctest.py now gives a usage message.
1055
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001056- Issue #7396: Fix regrtest -s, which was broken by the -j enhancement.
R. David Murray98e3df32009-12-16 11:49:46 +00001057
R. David Murrayc7298ff2009-12-14 21:57:39 +00001058- Issue #7498: test_multiprocessing now uses test_support.find_unused_port
1059 instead of a hardcoded port number in test_rapid_restart.
1060
1061
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00001062What's New in Python 2.7 alpha 1
1063================================
1064
Benjamin Peterson3513c872009-12-05 18:48:13 +00001065*Release date: 2009-12-05*
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00001066
1067Core and Builtins
1068-----------------
1069
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001070- Issue #7419: ``locale.setlocale()`` could crash the interpreter on Windows
1071 when called with invalid values.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd7288712009-12-01 21:51:04 +00001072
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001073- Issue #3382: 'F' formatting for float and complex now convert the result to
1074 upper case. This only affects 'inf' and 'nan', since 'f' no longer converts
1075 to 'g' for large values.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd7288712009-12-01 21:51:04 +00001076
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001077- Remove switch from "%f" formatting to "%g" formatting for floats larger than
1078 1e50 in absolute value.
Mark Dickinson9dd5e162009-11-23 20:54:09 +00001079
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001080- Remove restrictions on precision when formatting floats. E.g., "%.120g" %
1081 1e-100 used to raise OverflowError, but now gives the requested 120
1082 significant digits instead.
Mark Dickinson18cfada2009-11-23 18:46:41 +00001083
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001084- Add Py3k warnings for parameter names in parentheses.
Benjamin Peterson89b1a5c2009-11-19 22:58:01 +00001085
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001086- Issue #7362: Give a proper error message for ``def f((x)=3): pass``.
Benjamin Peterson89b1a5c2009-11-19 22:58:01 +00001087
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001088- Issue #7085: Fix crash when importing some extensions in a thread on MacOSX
1089 10.6.
Ronald Oussoren315cd0c2009-11-19 16:25:21 +00001090
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001091- Issue #7117: ``repr(x)`` for a float x returns a result based on the shortest
1092 decimal string that's guaranteed to round back to x under correct rounding
1093 (with round-half-to-even rounding mode). Previously it gave a string based on
1094 rounding x to 17 decimal digits. repr(x) for a complex number behaves
1095 similarly. On platforms where the correctly-rounded strtod and dtoa code is
1096 not supported (see below), repr is unchanged.
Mark Dickinsonb678de82009-11-19 18:41:49 +00001097
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001098- Issue #7117: On almost all platforms: float-to-string and string-to-float
1099 conversions within Python are now correctly rounded. Places these conversions
1100 occur include: str for floats and complex numbers; the float and complex
1101 constructors; old-style and new-style numeric formatting; serialization and
1102 deserialization of floats and complex numbers using marshal, pickle and json;
1103 parsing of float and imaginary literals in Python code; Decimal-to-float
1104 conversion.
Mark Dickinsonb678de82009-11-19 18:41:49 +00001105
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001106 The conversions use a Python-adapted version of David Gay's well-known dtoa.c,
1107 providing correctly-rounded strtod and dtoa C functions. This code is
1108 supported on Windows, and on Unix-like platforms using gcc, icc or suncc as
1109 the C compiler. There may be a small number of platforms on which correct
1110 operation of this code cannot be guaranteed, so the code is not used: notably,
1111 this applies to platforms where the C double format is not IEEE 754 binary64,
1112 and to platforms on x86 hardware where the x87 FPU is set to 64-bit precision
1113 and Python's configure script is unable to determine how to change the FPU
1114 precision. On these platforms conversions use the platform strtod and dtoa,
1115 as before.
Mark Dickinsonb678de82009-11-19 18:41:49 +00001116
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001117- Issue #7117: Backport round implementation from Python 3.x. ``round()`` now
1118 uses the correctly-rounded string <-> float conversions described above (when
1119 available), and so produces correctly rounded results that will display nicely
1120 under the float repr. There are two related small changes: (1) round now
1121 accepts any class with an ``__index__()`` method for its second argument (but
1122 no longer accepts floats for the second argument), and (2) an excessively
1123 large second integer argument (e.g., ``round(1.234, 10**100)``) no longer
1124 raises an exception.
Mark Dickinsonbd15a062009-11-18 19:33:35 +00001125
Philip Jenveyfab8be22009-11-17 02:42:26 +00001126- Issue #1757126: Fix the cyrillic-asian alias for the ptcp154 encoding.
1127
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001128- Fix several issues with ``compile()``. The input can now contain Windows and
1129 Mac newlines and is no longer required to end in a newline.
Benjamin Petersone36199b2009-11-12 23:39:44 +00001130
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001131- Remove length limitation when constructing a complex number from a unicode
1132 string.
Mark Dickinsonc04c7c52009-10-26 22:28:14 +00001133
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001134- Issue #7244: ``itertools.izip_longest()`` no longer ignores exceptions raised
1135 during the formation of an output tuple.
Raymond Hettingerfa7dadd2009-11-01 20:45:16 +00001136
Mark Dickinson8d87dc02009-10-25 20:39:06 +00001137- Issue #1087418: Boost performance of bitwise operations for longs.
1138
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001139- Issue #1722344: ``threading._shutdown()`` is now called in ``Py_Finalize()``,
1140 which fixes the problem of some exceptions being thrown at shutdown when the
1141 interpreter is killed. Patch by Adam Olsen.
Antoine Pitrouefb60c02009-10-20 21:29:37 +00001142
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001143- Issue #7168: Document ``PyFloat_AsString()`` and ``PyFloat_AsReprString()``,
1144 and note that they are unsafe and deprecated.
Eric Smithc12781a2009-10-19 14:38:14 +00001145
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001146- Issue #7120: logging: Remove import of multiprocessing which is causing crash
1147 in GAE.
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +00001148
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001149- Issue #7140: The ``__dict__`` of a module should not be cleared unless the
1150 module is the only object holding a reference to it.
Benjamin Peterson196b0922009-10-15 15:44:46 +00001151
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001152- Issue #1754094: Improve the stack depth calculation in the compiler. There
1153 should be no other effect than a small decrease in memory use. Patch by
1154 Christopher Tur Lesniewski-Laas.
Neil Schemenauer7fdd1cb2009-10-14 17:17:14 +00001155
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001156- Issue #7084: Fix a (very unlikely) crash when printing a list from one thread,
1157 and mutating it from another one. Patch by Scott Dial.
Antoine Pitroubeaf6a02009-10-11 21:03:26 +00001158
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd0052d12009-10-06 19:56:32 +00001159- Issue #1571184: The Unicode database contains properties for more characters.
1160 The tables for code points representing numeric values, white spaces or line
1161 breaks are now generated from the official Unicode Character Database files,
1162 and include information from the Unihan.txt file.
1163
Benjamin Peterson7adbb5a2009-10-03 20:23:24 +00001164- Issue #7050: Fix a SystemError when trying to use unpacking and augmented
1165 assignment.
1166
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001167- Issue #5329: Fix ``os.popen*`` regression from 2.5 with commands as a sequence
1168 running through the shell. Patch by Jean-Paul Calderone and Jani Hakala.
Philip Jenvey8b902042009-09-29 19:10:15 +00001169
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001170- Issue #7019: Raise ValueError when unmarshalling bad long data, instead of
1171 producing internally inconsistent Python longs.
Mark Dickinson7e7a3ec2009-09-29 19:01:06 +00001172
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001173- Issue #6990: Fix ``threading.local`` subclasses leaving old state around after
1174 a reference cycle GC which could be recycled by new locals.
Philip Jenveydbf3b252009-09-29 04:32:44 +00001175
Benjamin Peterson9db55402009-09-18 21:47:27 +00001176- Issue #6300: unicode.encode, unicode.decode, str.decode, and str.encode now
Benjamin Peterson332d7212009-09-18 21:14:55 +00001177 take keyword arguments.
1178
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001179- Issue #6922: Fix an infinite loop when trying to decode an invalid UTF-32
1180 stream with a non-raising error handler like "replace" or "ignore".
Georg Brandle9741f32009-09-17 11:28:09 +00001181
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001182- Issue #6713: Improve performance of base 10 int -> string and long -> string
1183 conversions.
Mark Dickinsonaa2adc82009-09-16 22:10:56 +00001184
Thomas Wouters2920adb2009-09-16 20:36:34 +00001185- Issue #1590864: Fix potential deadlock when mixing threads and fork().
1186
Georg Brandl0674d3f2009-09-16 20:30:09 +00001187- Issue #6844: Do not emit DeprecationWarnings when accessing a "message"
1188 attribute on exceptions that was set explicitly.
1189
Mark Dickinsonc8a7c7c2009-09-06 10:03:31 +00001190- Issue #6846: Fix bug where bytearray.pop() returns negative integers.
1191
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001192- ``classmethod()`` no longer checks if its argument is callable.
Benjamin Peterson6fcf9b52009-09-01 22:27:57 +00001193
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001194- Issue #6750: A text file opened with ``io.open()`` could duplicate its output
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfff896b2009-08-29 18:14:40 +00001195 when writing from multiple threads at the same time.
1196
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001197- Issue #6704: Improve the col_offset in AST for "for" statements with a target
1198 of tuple unpacking.
Benjamin Petersonc0ba8282009-08-15 22:59:21 +00001199
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001200- Issue #6707: ``dir()`` on an uninitialized module caused a crash.
Benjamin Peterson4c6e8082009-08-15 13:16:38 +00001201
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001202- Issue #6540: Fixed crash for ``bytearray.translate()`` with invalid parameters.
Georg Brandlec812ca2009-07-22 11:57:15 +00001203
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001204- Issue #6573: ``set.union()`` stopped processing inputs if an instance of self
Raymond Hettingerc2b9e1a2009-07-27 20:32:04 +00001205 occurred in the argument chain.
1206
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc9d11fef2009-07-13 20:03:21 +00001207- Issue #1616979: Added the cp720 (Arabic DOS) encoding.
1208
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001209- Issue #6070: On posix platforms import no longer copies the execute bit from
1210 the .py file to the .pyc file if it is set. Patch by Marco N.
R. David Murray23a736a2009-07-07 01:06:13 +00001211
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001212- Issue #4618: When unicode arguments are passed to ``print()``, the default
Benjamin Peterson753d1622009-07-02 18:16:45 +00001213 separator and end should be unicode also.
1214
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00001215- Issue #6119: Fixed an incorrect Py3k warning about order comparisons of
1216 built-in functions and methods.
Benjamin Peterson1bf47652009-07-02 17:06:17 +00001217
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001218- Issue #6347: Include inttypes.h as well as stdint.h in pyport.h. This fixes a
1219 build failure on HP-UX: int32_t and uint32_t are defined in inttypes.h instead
1220 of stdint.h on that platform.
Mark Dickinson2f865b92009-06-30 15:32:30 +00001221
Hirokazu Yamamotoa3c56092009-06-28 10:23:00 +00001222- Issue #4856: Remove checks for win NT.
1223
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc595f7a52009-06-25 22:29:29 +00001224- Issue #2016: Fixed a crash in a corner case where the dictionary of keyword
1225 arguments could be modified during the function call setup.
1226
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc14fc6732009-06-23 21:09:09 +00001227- Removed the ipaddr module.
1228
Raymond Hettinger62641e92009-06-23 20:59:43 +00001229- Issue #6329: Fixed iteration for memoryview objects (it was being blocked
1230 because it wasn't recognized as a sequence).
1231
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001232- Issue #6289: Encoding errors from ``compile()`` were being masked.
Benjamin Peterson08a0bbc2009-06-16 00:29:31 +00001233
Benjamin Petersona72be3b2009-06-13 20:23:33 +00001234- When no module is given in a relative import, the module field of the
1235 ImportFrom AST node is now None instead of an empty string.
1236
Benjamin Peterson565e1b62009-06-13 03:46:30 +00001237- Assignment to None using import statements now raises a SyntaxError.
1238
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001239- Issue #4547: When debugging a very large function, it was not always possible
1240 to update the lineno attribute of the current frame.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcb02ceda2009-06-01 20:53:18 +00001241
Antoine Pitrou46dbe272009-05-30 21:27:00 +00001242- Issue #5330: C functions called with keyword arguments were not reported by
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001243 the various profiling modules (profile, cProfile). Patch by Hagen Fürstenau.
Antoine Pitrou46dbe272009-05-30 21:27:00 +00001244
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001245- Issue #5982: staticmethod and classmethod now expose the wrapped function with
1246 ``__func__``.
Raymond Hettinger578a2282009-05-29 04:58:52 +00001247
Raymond Hettinger822b87f2009-05-29 01:46:48 +00001248- Added support for multiple context managers in the same with-statement.
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001249 Deprecated ``contextlib.nested()`` which is no longer needed.
Georg Brandl944f6842009-05-25 21:02:56 +00001250
Benjamin Peterson1880d8b2009-05-25 13:13:44 +00001251- Issue #6101: A new opcode, SETUP_WITH, has been added to speed up the with
1252 statement and correctly lookup the __enter__ and __exit__ special methods.
1253
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001254- Issue #5829: complex("1e500") no longer raises OverflowError. This makes it
1255 consistent with float("1e500") and interpretation of real and imaginary
1256 literals.
Mark Dickinsona4e0efa2009-05-20 18:43:07 +00001257
Hirokazu Yamamotoa4f90182009-05-17 02:58:36 +00001258- Issue #3527: Removed Py_WIN_WIDE_FILENAMES which is not used any more.
1259
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001260- ``__instancecheck__()`` and ``__subclasscheck__()`` are now completely ignored
1261 on classic classes and instances.
Benjamin Petersoneb9fb2c2009-05-16 22:46:11 +00001262
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001263- Issue #5994: The marshal module now has docstrings.
R. David Murray525cffc2009-05-13 13:07:14 +00001264
Mark Dickinsonb1d45852009-05-11 15:33:08 +00001265- Issue #5981: Fix three minor inf/nan issues in float.fromhex:
Mark Dickinsonb1d45852009-05-11 15:33:08 +00001266
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001267 (1) inf and nan strings with trailing whitespace were incorrectly rejected;
1268 (2) parsing of strings representing infinities and nans was locale aware; and
1269 (3) the interpretation of fromhex('-nan') didn't match that of float('-nan').
Eric Smitha985a3a2009-05-05 18:26:08 +00001270
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001271- Issue #5920: For ``float.__format__()``, change the behavior with the empty
1272 presentation type (that is, not one of 'e', 'f', 'g', or 'n') to be like 'g'
1273 but with at least one decimal point and with a default precision
1274 of 12. Previously, the behavior the same but with a default precision of 6.
1275 This more closely matches ``str()``, and reduces surprises when adding
1276 alignment flags to the empty presentation type. This also affects the new
1277 complex.__format__ in the same way.
1278
1279- Issue #5890: In subclasses of 'property' the __doc__ attribute was shadowed by
1280 classtype's, even if it was None. property now inserts the __doc__ into the
1281 subclass instance __dict__.
R. David Murray7ba8e1c2009-05-04 22:16:24 +00001282
Antoine Pitrou653dece2009-05-04 18:32:32 +00001283- Issue #4426: The UTF-7 decoder was too strict and didn't accept some legal
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001284 sequences. Patch by Nick Barnes and Victor Stinner.
Antoine Pitrou653dece2009-05-04 18:32:32 +00001285
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001286- Issue #1588: Add complex.__format__. For example, ``format(complex(1, 2./3),
1287 '.5')`` now produces a sensible result.
Eric Smith9139cc62009-04-30 00:58:58 +00001288
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001289- Issue #5864: Fix empty format code formatting for floats so that it never
1290 gives more than the requested number of significant digits.
Mark Dickinson92fcc9c2009-04-29 20:41:00 +00001291
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001292- Issue #5793: Rationalize isdigit / isalpha / tolower, etc. Includes new
1293 Py_ISDIGIT / Py_ISALPHA / Py_TOLOWER, etc. in pctypes.h.
Eric Smithcac7af62009-04-27 19:04:37 +00001294
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001295- Issue #4971: Fix titlecase for characters that are their own titlecase, but
1296 not their own uppercase.
Martin v. Löwis99f27792009-04-26 00:53:18 +00001297
Eric Smith068f0652009-04-25 21:40:15 +00001298- Issue #5835: Deprecate PyOS_ascii_formatd and replace it with
1299 _PyOS_double_to_string or PyOS_double_to_string.
1300
Benjamin Peterson5083dc52009-04-25 00:41:22 +00001301- Issue #5283: Setting __class__ in __del__ caused a segfault.
1302
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001303- Issue #5816: ``complex(repr(z))`` now recovers z exactly, even when z involves
1304 nans, infs or negative zeros.
Mark Dickinson95bc9802009-04-24 12:46:53 +00001305
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001306- Implement PEP 378, Format Specifier for Thousands Separator, for floats, ints,
1307 and longs.
Eric Smithaca19e62009-04-22 13:29:05 +00001308
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001309- Issue #5515: 'n' formatting for ints, longs, and floats handles leading zero
1310 formatting poorly.
Eric Smithaca19e62009-04-22 13:29:05 +00001311
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001312- Issue #5772: For float.__format__, don't add a trailing ".0" if we're using no
1313 type code and we have an exponent.
Eric Smithaca19e62009-04-22 13:29:05 +00001314
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001315- Issue #3166: Make long -> float (and int -> float) conversions correctly
1316 rounded.
Mark Dickinson6736cf82009-04-20 21:13:33 +00001317
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001318- Issue #5787: ``object.__getattribute__(some_type, "__bases__")`` segfaulted on
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00001319 some built-in types.
Benjamin Petersond4d400c2009-04-18 20:12:47 +00001320
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001321- Issue #1869: Fix a couple of minor round() issues. ``round(5e15+1)`` was
1322 giving 5e15+2; ``round(-0.0)`` was losing the sign of the zero.
Mark Dickinson1bdf7e92009-04-18 14:59:42 +00001323
Benjamin Peterson99d36f12009-04-15 21:26:36 +00001324- Issue #5759: float() didn't call __float__ on str subclasses.
1325
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001326- Issue #5704: The "-3" command-line option now implies "-t".
Georg Brandl3c4a5462009-04-12 12:08:12 +00001327
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001328- Issue #2170: Refactored ``xml.dom.minidom.normalize``, increasing both its
1329 clarity and its speed.
R. David Murray0374a822009-04-09 21:54:50 +00001330
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001331- Issue #2396: The memoryview object was backported from Python 3.1.
Antoine Pitrou789be0c2009-04-02 21:18:34 +00001332
Georg Brandld3f03fa2009-04-02 18:09:04 +00001333- Fix a problem in PyErr_NormalizeException that leads to "undetected errors"
1334 when hitting the recursion limit under certain circumstances.
1335
Brett Cannon15ba4da2009-04-01 18:03:59 +00001336- Issue #1665206: Remove the last eager import in _warnings.c and make it lazy.
1337
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001338- Issue #4865: On MacOSX /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages is added to the end
1339 sys.path, for compatibility with the system install of Python.
Ronald Oussorene0154ed2009-03-30 23:10:35 +00001340
Antoine Pitrouf8387af2009-03-23 18:41:45 +00001341- Issue #4688: Add a heuristic so that tuples and dicts containing only
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001342 untrackable objects are not tracked by the garbage collector. This can reduce
1343 the size of collections and therefore the garbage collection overhead on
1344 long-running programs, depending on their particular use of datatypes.
Antoine Pitrouf8387af2009-03-23 18:41:45 +00001345
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001346- Issue #5512: Rewrite PyLong long division algorithm (x_divrem) to improve its
1347 performance. Long divisions and remainder operations are now between 50% and
1348 150% faster.
Mark Dickinson0b666bf2009-03-23 18:25:13 +00001349
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001350- Issue #4258: Make it possible to use base 2**30 instead of base 2**15 for the
1351 internal representation of integers, for performance reasons. Base 2**30 is
1352 enabled by default on 64-bit machines. Add --enable-big-digits option to
1353 configure, which overrides the default. Add sys.long_info structseq to
1354 provide information about the internal format.
Mark Dickinsonefc82f72009-03-20 15:51:55 +00001355
Benjamin Peterson6ffe8522009-03-18 20:52:15 +00001356- Issue #4034: Fix weird attribute error messages of the traceback object. (As a
1357 result traceback.__members__ no longer exists.)
1358
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001359- Issue #4474: PyUnicode_FromWideChar now converts characters outside the BMP to
1360 surrogate pairs, on systems with sizeof(wchar_t) == 4 and sizeof(Py_UNICODE)
1361 == 2.
Mark Dickinson6b265f12009-03-18 16:07:26 +00001362
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001363- Issue #5237: Allow auto-numbered fields in str.format(). For example: ``'{}
1364 {}'.format(1, 2) == '1 2'``.
Eric Smith6f42edb2009-03-14 11:57:26 +00001365
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001366- Issue #3652: Make the 'line' argument for ``warnings.showwarning()`` a
Brett Cannon6c4cff02009-03-11 04:51:06 +00001367 requirement. Means the DeprecationWarning from Python 2.6 can go away.
1368
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001369- Issue #5247: Improve error message when unknown format codes are used when
1370 using ``str.format()`` with str, unicode, long, int, and float arguments.
Eric Smithe9fb6862009-02-20 14:02:36 +00001371
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001372- Running Python with the -3 option now also warns about classic division for
1373 ints and longs.
Raymond Hettinger08259e82009-02-18 23:10:19 +00001374
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001375- Issue #5260: Long integers now consume less memory: average saving is 2 bytes
1376 per long on a 32-bit system and 6 bytes per long on a 64-bit system.
Mark Dickinson2ffb26f2009-02-15 10:13:41 +00001377
Antoine Pitrou76a4b892009-02-13 13:52:33 +00001378- Issue #5186: Reduce hash collisions for objects with no __hash__ method by
1379 rotating the object pointer by 4 bits to the right.
1380
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001381- Issue #4575: Fix Py_IS_INFINITY macro to work correctly on x87 FPUs: it now
1382 forces its argument to double before testing for infinity.
Mark Dickinsonc97c9092009-02-09 14:18:43 +00001383
Benjamin Petersone18ef192009-01-20 14:21:16 +00001384- Issue #4978: Passing keyword arguments as unicode strings is now allowed.
1385
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +00001386- Issue #1242657: the __len__() and __length_hint__() calls in several tools
Raymond Hettingerb5163702009-02-02 21:50:13 +00001387 were suppressing all exceptions. These include list(), filter(), map(),
1388 zip(), and bytearray().
1389
Benjamin Peterson596d3062009-01-19 15:42:23 +00001390- os.ftruncate raises OSErrors instead of IOErrors for consistency with other os
1391 functions.
1392
Benjamin Peterson5848d1f2009-01-19 00:08:08 +00001393- Issue #4991: Passing invalid file descriptors to io.FileIO now raises an
1394 OSError.
1395
Amaury Forgeot d'Arca18392a2009-01-13 23:19:08 +00001396- Issue #4807: Port the _winreg module to Windows CE.
1397
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001398- Issue #4935: The overflow checking code in the expandtabs() method common to
1399 str, bytes and bytearray could be optimized away by the compiler, letting the
1400 interpreter segfault instead of raising an error.
Antoine Pitrouc2f02212009-01-13 23:13:52 +00001401
Amaury Forgeot d'Arca40d5732009-01-12 23:36:55 +00001402- Issue #3720: Fix a crash when an iterator modifies its class and removes its
1403 __next__ method.
1404
Martin v. Löwise3422fa2009-01-12 08:11:24 +00001405- Issue #4893: Use NT threading on CE.
1406
Martin v. Löwis1b3bef22009-01-12 07:57:11 +00001407- Issue #4915: Port sysmodule to Windows CE.
1408
Antoine Pitrou4c5ecb72009-01-09 21:40:55 +00001409- Issue #4074: Change the criteria for doing a full garbage collection (i.e.
1410 collecting the oldest generation) so that allocating lots of objects without
1411 destroying them does not show quadratic performance. Based on a proposal by
Benjamin Petersond50a5d52009-07-13 00:03:20 +00001412 Martin von Löwis at
Antoine Pitrou4c5ecb72009-01-09 21:40:55 +00001413 http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2008-June/080579.html.
1414
Martin v. Löwisb90304a2009-01-07 18:40:40 +00001415- Issue #4850: Change COUNT_ALLOCS variables to Py_ssize_t.
1416
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001417- Issue #1180193: When importing a module from a .pyc (or .pyo) file with an
1418 existing .py counterpart, override the co_filename attributes of all code
1419 objects if the original filename is obsolete (which can happen if the file has
1420 been renamed, moved, or if it is accessed through different paths). Patch by
1421 Ziga Seilnacht and Jean-Paul Calderone.
Antoine Pitroue96d4ea2009-01-06 18:10:47 +00001422
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001423- Issue #4075: Use ``OutputDebugStringW()`` in Py_FatalError.
Martin v. Löwis5344c992009-01-02 20:32:55 +00001424
Hirokazu Yamamoto99a1b202009-01-01 15:45:39 +00001425- Issue #4797: IOError.filename was not set when _fileio.FileIO failed to open
1426 file with `str' filename on Windows.
1427
Antoine Pitrouaa687902009-01-01 14:11:22 +00001428- Issue #3680: Reference cycles created through a dict, set or deque iterator
1429 did not get collected.
1430
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001431- Issue #4701: PyObject_Hash now implicitly calls PyType_Ready on types where
1432 the tp_hash and tp_dict slots are both NULL.
Nick Coghlan180e4002008-12-30 01:18:48 +00001433
Benjamin Peterson7af65562008-12-29 17:56:58 +00001434- Issue #4764: With io.open, IOError.filename is set when trying to open a
1435 directory on POSIX systems.
1436
Benjamin Petersonfe231b02008-12-29 17:47:42 +00001437- Issue #4764: IOError.filename is set when trying to open a directory on POSIX
1438 systems.
1439
Georg Brandl6425a2f2008-12-28 11:54:53 +00001440- Issue #4759: None is now allowed as the first argument of
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001441 ``bytearray.translate()``. It was always allowed for ``bytes.translate()``.
Georg Brandl6425a2f2008-12-28 11:54:53 +00001442
Skip Montanarof205c132008-12-23 03:30:15 +00001443- Added test case to ensure attempts to read from a file opened for writing
1444 fail.
1445
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001446- Issue #2467: gc.DEBUG_STATS reported invalid elapsed times. Also, always print
1447 elapsed times, not only when some objects are uncollectable/unreachable.
1448 Original patch by Neil Schemenauer.
Antoine Pitrou73c0e652008-12-17 22:46:54 +00001449
Mark Dickinson1a707982008-12-17 16:14:37 +00001450- Issue #3439: Add a bit_length method to int and long.
1451
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001452- Issue #2183: Simplify and optimize bytecode for list comprehensions. Original
1453 patch by Neal Norwitz.
Antoine Pitroud0c35152008-12-17 00:38:28 +00001454
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001455- Issue #4597: Fixed exception handling when the __exit__ function of a context
1456 manager returns a value that cannot be converted to a bool.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcad9b5992008-12-10 23:22:49 +00001457
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001458- Issue #4597: Fixed several opcodes that weren't always propagating exceptions.
Jeffrey Yasskinffd42cf2008-12-10 07:35:02 +00001459
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001460- Issue #4445: Replace ``sizeof(PyStringObject)`` with
1461 ``offsetof(PyStringObject, ob_sval) + 1`` when allocating memory for str
1462 instances. On a typical machine this saves 3 bytes of memory (on average) per
1463 string allocation.
Mark Dickinson826f3fe2008-12-05 21:55:28 +00001464
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcdc619012008-11-22 20:01:18 +00001465- Issue #3996: On Windows, the PyOS_CheckStack function would cause the
1466 interpreter to abort ("Fatal Python error: Could not reset the stack!")
1467 instead of throwing a MemoryError.
1468
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001469- Issue #3689: The list reversed iterator now supports __length_hint__ instead
1470 of __len__. Behavior now matches other reversed iterators.
Raymond Hettinger7989a4d2008-12-03 15:42:10 +00001471
Benjamin Petersonc078f922008-11-21 22:27:24 +00001472- Issue #4367: Python would segfault during compiling when the unicodedata
1473 module couldn't be imported and \N escapes were present.
1474
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001475- Issue #4233: Changed semantic of ``_fileio.FileIO``'s ``close()`` method on
1476 file objects with closefd=False. The file descriptor is still kept open but
1477 the file object behaves like a closed file. The ``FileIO`` object also got a
1478 new readonly attribute ``closefd``.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc32265652008-11-20 23:34:31 +00001479
Benjamin Peterson46cc6d12008-11-19 21:49:09 +00001480- Issue #4348: Some bytearray methods returned that didn't cause any change to
1481 the bytearray, returned the same bytearray instead of a copy.
1482
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001483- Issue #4317: Fixed a crash in the ``imageop.rgb2rgb8()`` function.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc7cfe7ea2008-11-18 22:19:37 +00001484
Benjamin Peterson273c2332008-11-17 22:39:09 +00001485- Issue #4230: If ``__getattr__`` is a descriptor, it now functions correctly.
1486
Benjamin Peterson6624a9f2008-11-03 15:14:51 +00001487- Issue #4048: The parser module now correctly validates relative imports.
1488
Benjamin Petersondcee09d2008-10-31 02:16:05 +00001489- Issue #4225: ``from __future__ import unicode_literals`` didn't work in an
1490 exec statement.
1491
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001492- Issue #4176: Fixed a crash when pickling an object which ``__reduce__`` method
1493 does not return iterators for the 4th and 5th items.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc69a9c5b2008-10-30 21:18:34 +00001494
Benjamin Petersonbdca9422008-10-26 20:21:13 +00001495- Issue #4209: Enabling unicode_literals and the print_function in the same
1496 __future__ import didn't work.
1497
Benjamin Peterson399b1fe2008-10-25 02:53:28 +00001498- Using ``nonlocal`` as a variable name will now raise a Py3k SyntaxWarning
Georg Brandl7fb00ad2008-10-25 07:00:52 +00001499 because it is a reserved word in 3.x.
Benjamin Peterson399b1fe2008-10-25 02:53:28 +00001500
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001501- On windows, ``os.chdir()`` given unicode was not working if
1502 GetCurrentDirectoryW returned a path longer than MAX_PATH. (But It's doubtful
1503 this code path is really executed because I cannot move to such directory on
1504 win2k)
Hirokazu Yamamoto10a018c2008-10-09 10:00:30 +00001505
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001506- Issue #4069: When ``set.remove(element)`` is used with a set element, the
1507 element is temporarily replaced with an equivalent frozenset. But the
1508 eventual KeyError would always report the empty ``frozenset()`` as the missing
1509 key. Now it correctly refers to the initial element.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd78b9dc2008-10-07 20:32:10 +00001510
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001511- Issue #4509: Various issues surrounding resize of bytearray objects to which
1512 there are buffer exports.
Antoine Pitrouae5bece2008-12-06 21:29:24 +00001513
Benjamin Peterson8d5934b2008-12-27 18:24:11 +00001514- Issue #4748: Lambda generators no longer return a value.
1515
Kristján Valur Jónsson6220e412009-01-12 09:20:34 +00001516- Issue #3582: Use native TLS functions on Windows
1517
Gregory P. Smithae91d092009-03-02 05:13:57 +00001518- The re.sub(), re.subn() and re.split() functions now accept a flags parameter.
1519
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001520- Issue #3845: In PyRun_SimpleFileExFlags avoid invalid memory access with short
1521 file names.
Matthias Kloseedb5e1e2009-04-04 14:18:13 +00001522
Matthias Klose91a3b9e2009-04-05 21:19:13 +00001523- Issue #1113244: Py_XINCREF, Py_DECREF, Py_XDECREF: Add `do { ... } while (0)'
1524 to avoid compiler warnings.
Matthias Klose0610e082009-04-05 12:43:08 +00001525
Gregory P. Smith2b3eb372009-04-05 23:48:26 +00001526- Issue #5705: os.setuid() would not accept values > 2**31-1 but pwd.getpwnam()
1527 returned them on 64bit platforms.
1528
Walter Dörwalded960ac2009-05-03 22:36:33 +00001529- Issue #5108: Handle %s like %S and %R in PyUnicode_FromFormatV(): Call
1530 PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8() once, remember the result and output it in a second
1531 step. This avoids problems with counting UTF-8 bytes that ignores the effect
1532 of using the replace error handler in PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8().
1533
Walter Dörwald726ba8e2009-05-06 14:32:35 +00001534- Issue #3739: The unicode-internal encoder now reports the number of characters
1535 consumed like any other encoder (instead of the number of bytes).
1536
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001537- Issue #2422: When compiled with the ``--with-valgrind`` option, the pymalloc
1538 allocator will be automatically disabled when running under Valgrind. This
1539 gives improved memory leak detection when running under Valgrind, while taking
1540 advantage of pymalloc at other times.
Benjamin Peterson91c12eb2009-12-03 02:52:39 +00001541
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00001542Library
1543-------
Benjamin Petersonb3dd5482009-02-26 19:07:18 +00001544
Raymond Hettinger5f516ed2010-04-03 18:10:37 +00001545- Add count() and reverse() methods to collections.deque().
Raymond Hettingera5fd24e2009-12-10 06:42:54 +00001546
Raymond Hettinger0b3263b2009-12-10 06:00:33 +00001547- Fix variations of extending deques: d.extend(d) d.extendleft(d) d+=d
1548
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001549- Issue #6986: Fix crash in the JSON C accelerator when called with the wrong
1550 parameter types. Patch by Victor Stinner.
Antoine Pitrou187177f2009-12-08 15:40:51 +00001551
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001552- logging: Added optional "secure" parameter to SMTPHandler, to enable use of
Vinay Sajip48305662009-12-06 17:57:11 +00001553 TLS with authentication credentials.
1554
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001555- Issue #1923: Fixed the removal of meaningful spaces when PKG-INFO is generated
1556 in Distutils. Patch by Stephen Emslie.
Tarek Ziadé4f383172009-12-06 09:22:40 +00001557
Martin v. Löwisc218a2f2009-12-03 20:53:51 +00001558- Issue #4120: Drop reference to CRT from manifest when building extensions with
1559 msvc9compiler.
1560
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001561- Issue #7333: The ``posix`` module gains an ``initgroups()`` function providing
1562 access to the initgroups(3) C library call on Unix systems which implement it.
1563 Patch by Jean-Paul Calderone.
Antoine Pitrou30b3b352009-12-02 20:37:54 +00001564
Tarek Ziadéa5076a22009-11-29 22:20:30 +00001565- Issue #7408: Fixed distutils.tests.sdist so it doesn't check for group
1566 ownership when the group is not forced, because the group may be different
1567 from the user's group and inherit from its container when the test is run.
1568
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001569- Issue #1515: Enable use of deepcopy() with instance methods. Patch by Robert
1570 Collins.
Antoine Pitroud16f57b2009-11-28 15:55:58 +00001571
Vinay Sajip01801d12009-11-27 14:03:36 +00001572- Issue #7403: logging: Fixed possible race condition in lock creation.
1573
Antoine Pitrouacbe3bd2009-11-27 13:18:34 +00001574- Issue #6845: Add restart support for binary upload in ftplib. The
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001575 ``storbinary()`` method of FTP and FTP_TLS objects gains an optional "rest"
Antoine Pitrouacbe3bd2009-11-27 13:18:34 +00001576 argument. Patch by Pablo Mouzo.
1577
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001578- Issue #5788: ``datetime.timedelta`` objects get a new ``total_seconds()``
1579 method returning the total number of seconds in the duration. Patch by Brian
1580 Quinlan.
Antoine Pitroubcfaf802009-11-25 22:59:36 +00001581
Vinay Sajipc470d682009-11-25 09:03:30 +00001582- Issue #6615: logging: Used weakrefs in internal handler list.
1583
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001584- Issue #1488943: ``difflib.Differ`` doesn't always add hints for tab
1585 characters.
Senthil Kumaran5c456e62009-11-23 18:41:31 +00001586
Lars Gustäbeldd866d52009-11-22 18:30:53 +00001587- Issue #6123: tarfile now opens empty archives correctly and consistently
1588 raises ReadError on empty files.
1589
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001590- Issue #7354: distutils.tests.test_msvc9compiler - dragfullwindows can be 2.
Tarek Ziadé39de1fc2009-11-19 05:33:16 +00001591
Ezio Melotti3373a3a2010-01-16 18:38:01 +00001592- Issue #5037: Proxy the __unicode__ special method to __unicode__ instead of
1593 __str__.
Benjamin Petersondc3c2392009-11-19 03:00:02 +00001594
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001595- Issue #7341: Close the internal file object in the TarFile constructor in case
1596 of an error.
Lars Gustäbel355538e2009-11-18 20:24:54 +00001597
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001598- Issue #7293: ``distutils.test_msvc9compiler`` is fixed to work on any fresh
1599 Windows box. Help provided by David Bolen.
Tarek Ziadéacccafc2009-11-18 08:46:56 +00001600
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001601- Issue #7328: pydoc no longer corrupts sys.path when run with the '-m' switch.
Nick Coghlan11db64e2009-11-15 22:36:47 +00001602
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001603- Issue #2054: ftplib now provides an FTP_TLS class to do secure FTP using TLS
1604 or SSL. Patch by Giampaolo Rodola'.
Antoine Pitrouccd5e022009-11-15 17:22:09 +00001605
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001606- Issue #4969: The mimetypes module now reads the MIME database from the
1607 registry under Windows. Patch by Gabriel Genellina.
Antoine Pitroud5b34d42009-11-15 14:10:48 +00001608
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001609- Issue #6816: runpy now provides a run_path function that allows Python code to
1610 execute file paths that refer to source or compiled Python files as well as
1611 zipfiles, directories and other valid sys.path entries that contain a
Nick Coghlan49868cb2009-11-15 07:30:34 +00001612 __main__.py file. This allows applications that run other Python scripts to
1613 support the same flexibility as the CPython command line itself.
1614
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001615- Issue #7318: multiprocessing now uses a timeout when it fails to establish a
1616 connection with another process, rather than looping endlessly. The default
1617 timeout is 20 seconds, which should be amply sufficient for local connections.
Antoine Pitrouc562ca42009-11-13 22:31:18 +00001618
Antoine Pitrou0734c632009-11-10 20:49:30 +00001619- Issue #7197: Allow unittest.TextTestRunner objects to be pickled and
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001620 unpickled. This fixes crashes under Windows when trying to run
Antoine Pitrou0734c632009-11-10 20:49:30 +00001621 test_multiprocessing in verbose mode.
1622
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001623- Issue #7282: Fix a memory leak when an RLock was used in a thread other than
1624 those started through ``threading.Thread`` (for example, using
1625 ``thread.start_new_thread()``.
Antoine Pitroud7158d42009-11-09 16:00:11 +00001626
Antoine Pitrou99c160b2009-11-05 13:42:29 +00001627- Issue #7264: Fix a possible deadlock when deallocating thread-local objects
1628 which are part of a reference cycle.
1629
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001630- Issue #7211: Allow 64-bit values for the ``ident`` and ``data`` fields of
1631 kevent objects on 64-bit systems. Patch by Michael Broghton.
Antoine Pitrou323b9da2009-11-04 19:25:14 +00001632
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001633- Issue #6896: ``mailbox.Maildir`` now invalidates its internal cache each time
Antoine Pitrouaec41242009-11-02 11:34:27 +00001634 a modification is done through it. This fixes inconsistencies and test
1635 failures on systems with slightly bogus mtime behaviour.
1636
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001637- Issue #7246 & Issue #7208: getpass now properly flushes input before reading
1638 from stdin so that existing input does not confuse it and lead to incorrect
1639 entry or an IOError. It also properly flushes it afterwards to avoid the
1640 terminal echoing the input afterwards on OSes such as Solaris.
Gregory P. Smith38f5d8f2009-11-01 18:33:55 +00001641
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001642- Issue #7233: Fix a number of two-argument Decimal methods to make sure that
1643 they accept an int or long as the second argument. Also fix buggy handling of
1644 large arguments (those with coefficient longer than the current precision) in
1645 shift and rotate.
Mark Dickinson0c673122009-10-29 12:04:00 +00001646
Lars Gustäbel8c06ccc2009-10-29 09:15:00 +00001647- Issue #4750: Store the basename of the original filename in the gzip FNAME
1648 header as required by RFC 1952.
1649
Tarek Ziadé40b998b2009-10-27 23:06:10 +00001650- Issue #1180: Added a new global option to ignore ~/.pydistutils.cfg in
1651 Distutils.
1652
Tarek Ziadéd24cab82009-10-27 21:20:27 +00001653- Issue #7218: Fix test_site for win32, the directory comparison was done with
1654 an uppercase.
1655
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001656- Issue #7205: Fix a possible deadlock when using a BZ2File object from several
1657 threads at once.
Antoine Pitroudd629662009-10-27 17:41:58 +00001658
Tarek Ziadéb9c1cfc2009-10-24 15:10:37 +00001659- Issue #7071: byte-compilation in Distutils is now done with respect to
1660 sys.dont_write_bytecode.
1661
Vinay Sajipc470d682009-11-25 09:03:30 +00001662- Issue #7066: archive_util.make_archive now restores the cwd if an error is
Tarek Ziadé672422a2009-10-24 13:29:44 +00001663 raised. Initial patch by Ezio Melotti.
1664
Antoine Pitroufa94e802009-10-24 12:23:18 +00001665- Issue #6218: io.StringIO and io.BytesIO instances are now picklable with
1666 protocol 2.
1667
Vinay Sajip5ac65282009-10-21 20:22:14 +00001668- Issue #7077: logging: SysLogHandler now treats Unicode as per RFC 5424.
1669
Mark Dickinsona7a52ab2009-10-20 13:33:03 +00001670- Issue #7099: Decimal.is_normal now returns True for numbers with exponent
1671 larger than emax.
1672
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001673- Issue #5833: Fix extra space character in readline completion with the GNU
1674 readline library version 6.0.
Antoine Pitroue0899802009-10-19 18:20:21 +00001675
Antoine Pitrou5ba84912009-10-19 17:59:07 +00001676- Issue #7133: SSL objects now support the new buffer API.
1677
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001678- Issue #7149: urllib fails on OSX in the proxy detection code.
Ronald Oussoren31802d02009-10-18 07:07:00 +00001679
Benjamin Petersonc63457b2009-10-15 03:06:55 +00001680- Issue #7069: Make inspect.isabstract() return a boolean.
1681
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001682- Add support to the ``ihooks`` module for relative imports.
Neil Schemenauere6039f02009-10-14 19:23:53 +00001683
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001684- Issue #6894: Fixed the issue urllib2 doesn't respect "no_proxy" environment.
Senthil Kumaran27468662009-10-11 02:00:07 +00001685
Vinay Sajip1c77b7f2009-10-10 20:32:36 +00001686- Issue #7086: Added TCP support to SysLogHandler, and tidied up some
1687 anachronisms in the code which were a relic of 1.5.2 compatibility.
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +00001688
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001689- Issue #7082: When falling back to the MIME 'name' parameter, the correct place
1690 to look for it is the Content-Type header.
R. David Murray0c8bee62009-10-09 21:50:54 +00001691
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001692- Issue #7048: Force Decimal.logb to round its result when that result is too
1693 large to fit in the current precision.
Mark Dickinson15ae41c2009-10-07 19:22:05 +00001694
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +00001695- Issue #6516: Added owner/group support when creating tar archives in
Tarek Ziadé1b486712009-10-02 23:49:48 +00001696 Distutils.
1697
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001698- Issue #7031: Add ``TestCase.assert(Not)IsInstance()`` methods.
Georg Brandl12fafe62009-10-01 21:02:39 +00001699
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001700- Issue #6790: Make it possible again to pass an ``array.array`` to
1701 ``httplib.HTTPConnection.send``. Patch by Kirk McDonald.
Antoine Pitrou72481782009-09-29 17:48:18 +00001702
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001703- Issue #6236, #6348: Fix various failures in the `io` module under AIX and
1704 other platforms, when using a non-gcc compiler. Patch by egreen.
Antoine Pitrou2a466582009-09-21 21:17:48 +00001705
Tarek Ziadé99773352009-09-21 13:41:08 +00001706- Issue #6954: Fixed crash when using DISTUTILS_DEBUG flag in Distutils.
1707
Ronald Oussoren51f06332009-09-20 10:31:22 +00001708- Issue #6851: Fix urllib.urlopen crash on secondairy threads on OSX 10.6
1709
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001710- Issue #4606: Passing 'None' if ctypes argtype is set to POINTER(...) does now
1711 always result in NULL.
Thomas Heller6be522b2009-09-18 20:05:44 +00001712
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001713- Issue #5042: ctypes Structure sub-subclass does now initialize correctly with
1714 base class positional arguments.
Thomas Heller7a352c02009-09-18 18:55:17 +00001715
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001716- Issue #6938: Fix a TypeError in string formatting of a multiprocessing debug
1717 message.
Georg Brandlc40e60e2009-09-18 09:18:27 +00001718
Matthias Klose924eab62009-09-13 15:09:24 +00001719- Issue #6635: Fix profiler printing usage message.
1720
Lars Gustäbel21121e62009-09-12 10:28:15 +00001721- Issue #6856: Add a filter keyword argument to TarFile.add().
1722
Tarek Ziadébed26a32009-09-09 08:14:20 +00001723- Issue #6163: Fixed HP-UX runtime library dir options in
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001724 distutils.unixcompiler. Initial patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar and Michael
1725 Haubenwallner.
Tarek Ziadébed26a32009-09-09 08:14:20 +00001726
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001727- Issue #6857: Default format() alignment should be '>' for Decimal instances.
Mark Dickinson5cfa8042009-09-08 20:20:19 +00001728
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001729- Issue #6795: int(Decimal('nan')) now raises ValueError instead of returning
1730 NaN or raising InvalidContext. Also, fix infinite recursion in
1731 long(Decimal('nan')).
Mark Dickinson968f1692009-09-07 18:04:58 +00001732
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001733- Issue #6850: Fix bug in Decimal._parse_format_specifier for formats with no
1734 type specifier.
Mark Dickinson491ea552009-09-07 16:17:41 +00001735
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001736- Issue #4937: plat-mac/bundlebuilder refers to non-existing version.plist.
Ronald Oussoren626faeb2009-09-06 12:23:18 +00001737
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001738- Issue #6838: Use a list to accumulate the value instead of repeatedly
1739 concatenating strings in httplib's HTTPResponse._read_chunked providing a
1740 significant speed increase when downloading large files servend with a
1741 Transfer-Encoding of 'chunked'.
Chris Withers7f3ea6a2009-09-04 16:32:22 +00001742
Georg Brandld22b9512009-09-04 08:17:04 +00001743- Issue #5275: In Cookie's Cookie.load(), properly handle non-string arguments
1744 as documented.
1745
Georg Brandl2e1308f2009-09-04 06:59:20 +00001746- Issue #2666: Handle BROWSER environment variable properly for unknown browser
1747 names in the webbrowser module.
1748
Lars Gustäbelf7cda522009-08-28 19:23:44 +00001749- Issue #6054: Do not normalize stored pathnames in tarfile.
1750
Mark Dickinson7a7739d2009-08-28 13:25:02 +00001751- Issue #6794: Fix Decimal.compare_total and Decimal.compare_total_mag: NaN
1752 payloads are now ordered by integer value rather than lexicographically.
1753
Tarek Ziadé764fc232009-08-20 21:23:13 +00001754- Issue #6693: New functions in site.py to get user/global site packages paths.
1755
Gregory P. Smith4e63d542009-08-20 09:39:38 +00001756- The thread.lock type now supports weak references.
1757
Guilherme Polo7b50c4f2009-08-18 14:46:57 +00001758- Issue #1356969: Add missing info methods in Tix.HList.
1759
Guilherme Polo6b3c7092009-08-18 14:23:00 +00001760- Issue #1522587: New constants and methods for the Tix.Grid widget.
1761
Guilherme Polo6c823f82009-08-18 13:29:20 +00001762- Issue #1250469: Fix the return value of Tix.PanedWindow.panes.
1763
Guilherme Polod3e6e4b2009-08-18 13:23:08 +00001764- Issue #1119673: Do not override Tkinter.Text methods when creating a
1765 ScrolledText.
1766
Gregory P. Smithb98d6b22009-08-16 18:52:58 +00001767- Issue #6665: Fix fnmatch to properly match filenames with newlines in them.
1768
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001769- Issue #1135: Add the XView and YView mix-ins to avoid duplicating the xview*
1770 and yview* methods.
Guilherme Poloe45f0172009-08-14 14:36:45 +00001771
Antoine Pitrou20e1f932009-08-06 20:18:29 +00001772- Issue #6629: Fix a data corruption issue in the new `io` package, which could
1773 occur when writing to a BufferedRandom object (e.g. a file opened in "rb+" or
1774 "wb+" mode) after having buffered a certain amount of data for reading. This
1775 bug was not present in the pure Python implementation.
1776
Jesse Noller8497efe2009-08-06 02:05:56 +00001777- Issue #4660: If a multiprocessing.JoinableQueue.put() was preempted, it was
1778 possible to get a spurious 'task_done() called too many times' error.
1779
Gregory P. Smithc4ad0342009-08-13 18:54:50 +00001780- Issue #1628205: Socket file objects returned by socket.socket.makefile() now
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001781 properly handles EINTR within the read, readline, write & flush methods. The
1782 socket.sendall() method now properly handles interrupted system calls.
Gregory P. Smithc4ad0342009-08-13 18:54:50 +00001783
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001784- Issue #6595: The Decimal constructor now allows arbitrary Unicode decimal
1785 digits in input, as recommended by the standard. Previously it was restricted
1786 to accepting [0-9].
Mark Dickinson4326ad82009-08-02 10:59:36 +00001787
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc3e5b0272009-07-28 22:15:30 +00001788- Issue #6511: ZipFile now raises BadZipfile (instead of an IOError) when
1789 opening an empty or very small file.
1790
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc74b30162009-07-23 19:26:02 +00001791- Issue #6553: Fixed a crash in cPickle.load(), when given a file-like object
1792 containing incomplete data.
1793
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001794- Issue #6545: Removed assert statements in distutils.Extension, so the behavior
1795 is similar when used with -O.
Tarek Ziadéaf2406f2009-07-22 08:55:19 +00001796
Benjamin Petersond7b0eeb2009-07-19 20:18:21 +00001797- unittest has been split up into a package. All old names should still work.
1798
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001799- Issue #6431: Make Fraction type return NotImplemented when it doesn't know how
1800 to handle a comparison without loss of precision. Also add correct handling
1801 of infinities and nans for comparisons with float.
Mark Dickinson88a0a2e2009-07-18 15:18:18 +00001802
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc74b30162009-07-23 19:26:02 +00001803- Issue #6415: Fixed warnings.warn segfault on bad formatted string.
Hirokazu Yamamoto1a3d0852009-07-17 06:26:54 +00001804
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001805- Issue #6466: Now distutils.cygwinccompiler and distutils.emxccompiler uses the
1806 same refactored function to get gcc/ld/dllwrap versions numbers. It's
1807 ``distutils.util.get_compiler_versions()``. Added deprecation warnings for
1808 the obsolete get_versions() functions.
Tarek Ziadéa99dedf2009-07-16 15:35:45 +00001809
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001810- Issue #6433: Fixed issues with multiprocessing.pool.map hanging on empty list.
Jesse Noller7530e472009-07-16 14:23:04 +00001811
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +00001812- Issue #6314: logging: Extra checks on the "level" argument in more places.
1813
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc74b8d332009-07-11 14:33:51 +00001814- Issue #2622: Fixed an ImportError when importing email.messsage from a
1815 standalone application built with py2exe or py2app.
1816
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +00001817- Issue #6455: Fixed test_build_ext under win32.
Tarek Ziadé8c400012009-07-10 09:10:33 +00001818
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +00001819- Issue #6377: Enabled the compiler option, and deprecate its usage as an
Tarek Ziadée670e5a2009-07-06 12:50:46 +00001820 attribute.
1821
Tarek Ziadé63f17382009-07-04 02:02:41 +00001822- Issue #6413: Fixed the log level in distutils.dist for announce.
1823
Gregory P. Smithc197d0a2009-07-04 01:55:11 +00001824- Issue #3392: The subprocess communicate() method no longer fails in select()
1825 when file descriptors are large; communicate() now uses poll() when possible.
1826
Tarek Ziadé65ec61e2009-07-03 08:22:56 +00001827- Issue #6403: Fixed package path usage in build_ext.
1828
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001829- Issues #5155, #5313, #5331: multiprocessing.Process._bootstrap was
Jesse Noller1b90efb2009-06-30 17:11:52 +00001830 unconditionally calling "os.close(sys.stdin.fileno())" resulting in file
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001831 descriptor errors.
Jesse Noller1b90efb2009-06-30 17:11:52 +00001832
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +00001833- Issue #6365: Distutils build_ext inplace mode was copying the compiled
Tarek Ziadé3fbcc602009-06-29 16:13:39 +00001834 extension in a subdirectory if the extension name had dots.
1835
Hirokazu Yamamoto99ebc632009-06-29 14:29:31 +00001836- Issue #6344: Fixed a crash of mmap.read() when passed a negative argument.
1837
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001838- Issue #5230: pydoc would report no documentation found if a module generated a
1839 'not found' import error when loaded; it now reports the import errors.
R. David Murrayef087da2009-06-23 18:02:46 +00001840 Thanks to Lucas Prado Melo for initial fix and collaboration on the tests.
1841
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001842- Issue #6314: ``logging.basicConfig()`` performs extra checks on the "level"
Vinay Sajip603fb6d2009-06-21 17:37:27 +00001843 argument.
1844
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001845- Issue #6164: Added an AIX specific linker argument in Distutils unixcompiler.
1846 Original patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar.
Tarek Ziadé439bf932009-06-20 13:57:20 +00001847
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001848- Issue #6274: Fixed possible file descriptors leak in subprocess.py.
Facundo Batista8c826b72009-06-19 18:02:28 +00001849
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc5fe420e2009-06-18 22:32:50 +00001850- Issue #6189: Restored compatibility of subprocess.py with Python 2.2.
1851
Tarek Ziadéfdefc0a2009-06-16 07:29:52 +00001852- Issue #6287: Added the license field in Distutils documentation.
1853
Tarek Ziadéa1cc0402009-06-15 23:30:13 +00001854- Issue #6286: Now Distutils upload command is based on urllib2 instead of
1855 httplib, allowing the usage of http_proxy.
1856
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001857- Issue #6271: mmap tried to close invalid file handle (-1) for anonymous maps
1858 on Unix.
Hirokazu Yamamoto983a4652009-06-14 03:53:55 +00001859
Antoine Pitrou19690592009-06-12 20:14:08 +00001860- Issue #6215: All bug fixes and enhancements from the Python 3.1 io library
1861 (including the fast C implementation) have been backported to the standard
1862 ``io`` module.
1863
Martin v. Löwis2dcd7a02009-06-12 17:28:31 +00001864- Issue #6258: Support AMD64 in bdist_msi.
1865
Vinay Sajip334ffe82010-01-15 23:27:05 +00001866- Issue #6252: Fixed bug in next rollover time computation in
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00001867 TimedRotatingFileHandler.
1868
Tarek Ziadéc7498f52009-06-11 09:13:36 +00001869- Issue #6263: Fixed syntax error in distutils.cygwincompiler.
1870
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001871- Issue #5201: distutils.sysconfig.parse_makefile() now understands ``$$`` in
1872 Makefiles. This prevents compile errors when using syntax like:
1873 ``LDFLAGS='-rpath=\$$LIB:/some/other/path'``. Patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
Tarek Ziadé25d2bae2009-06-11 08:12:20 +00001874
Georg Brandle6632b42009-06-04 08:58:32 +00001875- Issue #5767: Removed sgmlop support from xmlrpclib.
1876
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001877- Issue #6131: test_modulefinder leaked when run after test_distutils. Patch by
1878 Hirokazu Yamamoto.
Tarek Ziadé3e3eace2009-05-29 08:08:07 +00001879
Tarek Ziadé9e5d2dc2009-05-28 12:53:54 +00001880- Issue #6048: Now Distutils uses the tarfile module in archive_util.
1881
Raymond Hettingerb4d2d312009-05-29 01:36:26 +00001882- Issue #5150: IDLE's format menu now has an option to strip trailing
1883 whitespace.
1884
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001885- Issue #6121: pydoc now ignores leading and trailing spaces in the argument to
1886 the 'help' function.
R. David Murrayd67ea7d2009-05-27 20:07:21 +00001887
Benjamin Peterson176a56c2009-05-25 00:48:58 +00001888- In unittest, using a skipping decorator on a class is now equivalent to
1889 skipping every test on the class. The ClassTestSuite class has been removed.
1890
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001891- Issue #6050: Don't fail extracting a directory from a zipfile if the directory
1892 already exists.
Martin v. Löwis0b09c422009-05-24 19:30:52 +00001893
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001894- Issue #5311: bdist_msi can now build packages that do not depend on a specific
1895 Python version.
Martin v. Löwis53b578e2009-05-24 19:10:52 +00001896
Antoine Pitroud49e3752009-05-24 15:40:09 +00001897- Issue #1309352: fcntl now converts its third arguments to a C `long` rather
1898 than an int, which makes some operations possible under 64-bit Linux (e.g.
1899 DN_MULTISHOT with F_NOTIFY).
1900
Senthil Kumarane266f252009-05-24 09:14:50 +00001901- Issue #1424152: Fix for httplib, urllib2 to support SSL while working through
1902 proxy. Original patch by Christopher Li, changes made by Senthil Kumaran.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00001903
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001904- Issue #1983: Fix functions taking or returning a process identifier to use the
1905 dedicated C type ``pid_t`` instead of a C ``int``. Some platforms have a
1906 process identifier type wider than the standard C integer type.
Antoine Pitrou5e858fe2009-05-23 15:37:45 +00001907
R. David Murrayad3058e2009-05-23 00:48:58 +00001908- Issue #4066: smtplib.SMTP_SSL._get_socket now correctly returns the socket.
1909 Patch by Farhan Ahmad, test by Marcin Bachry.
1910
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001911- Issue #6062: In distutils, fixed the package option of build_ext. Feedback
Tarek Ziadé7d7127d2009-05-19 16:17:21 +00001912 and tests on pywin32 by Tim Golden.
1913
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001914- Issue #6053: Fixed distutils tests on win32. Patch by Hirokazu Yamamoto.
Tarek Ziadé07bbfcc2009-05-18 12:21:26 +00001915
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001916- Issue #6046: Fixed the library extension when distutils build_ext is used in
1917 place. Initial patch by Roumen Petrov.
Tarek Ziadéfcc7f032009-05-18 08:03:37 +00001918
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00001919- Issue #6041: Now distutils `sdist` and `register` commands use `check` as a
Tarek Ziadécb768042009-05-16 16:37:06 +00001920 subcommand.
1921
Antoine Pitrou775fd662009-05-15 16:54:52 +00001922- Issue #2116: Weak references and weak dictionaries now support copy()ing and
1923 deepcopy()ing.
1924
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001925- Issue #1655: Make imaplib IPv6-capable. Patch by Derek Morr.
Antoine Pitrou52035a02009-05-15 11:50:29 +00001926
Antoine Pitrou42b5bcf2009-05-14 21:48:09 +00001927- Issue #5918: Fix a crash in the parser module.
1928
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001929- Issue #1664: Make nntplib IPv6-capable. Patch by Derek Morr.
Antoine Pitroueed30d82009-05-14 21:22:08 +00001930
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001931- Issue #6022: A test file was created in the current working directory by
Tarek Ziadécbb4f9e2009-05-14 20:14:13 +00001932 test_get_outputs in Distutils.
1933
R. David Murray996ba022009-05-13 17:14:11 +00001934- Issue #4050: inspect.findsource/getsource now raise an IOError if the 'source'
1935 file is a binary. Patch by Brodie Rao, tests by Daniel Diniz.
1936
Tarek Ziadé972480d2009-05-12 17:07:14 +00001937- Issue #5977: distutils build_ext.get_outputs was not taking into account the
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001938 inplace option. Initial patch by kxroberto.
Tarek Ziadé972480d2009-05-12 17:07:14 +00001939
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001940- Issue #5984: distutils.command.build_ext.check_extensions_list checks were
1941 broken for old-style extensions.
Tarek Ziadéd5d83422009-05-10 10:12:08 +00001942
Vinay Sajipf9b01fe2009-05-09 12:07:17 +00001943- Issue #5971: StreamHandler.handleError now swallows IOErrors which occur when
1944 trying to print a traceback.
1945
Tarek Ziadé812d7712009-05-09 10:06:00 +00001946- Issue #5976: Fixed Distutils test_check_environ.
1947
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001948- Issue #5900: Ensure RUNPATH is added to extension modules with RPATH if GNU ld
1949 is used. Original patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
Tarek Ziadée2be83d2009-05-09 08:28:53 +00001950
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001951- Issue #5941: Distutils build_clib command was not working anymore because of
1952 an incomplete costumization of the archiver command. Added ARFLAGS in the
1953 Makefile besides AR and make Distutils use it. Original patch by David
Tarek Ziadé99f660a2009-05-07 21:20:34 +00001954 Cournapeau.
1955
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001956- Issue 5955: aifc's close method did not close the file it wrapped, now it
1957 does. This also means getfp method now returns the real fp.
R. David Murrayd3bf34c2009-05-07 16:29:19 +00001958
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001959- Issue #4875: On win32, ctypes.util.find_library does no longer return
1960 directories.
Thomas Hellera57773e2009-05-05 18:55:47 +00001961
Georg Brandl4d4313d2009-05-05 08:54:11 +00001962- Issue #5142: Add the ability to skip modules while stepping to pdb.
1963
Georg Brandle3869c42009-05-05 08:30:28 +00001964- Issue #1309567: Fix linecache behavior of stripping subdirectories when
1965 looking for files given by a relative filename.
1966
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001967- Issue #5692: In ``zipfile.Zipfile``, fix wrong path calculation when
Antoine Pitrou97377bf2009-05-04 21:17:17 +00001968 extracting a file to the root directory.
1969
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001970- Issue #5913: ``os.listdir()`` should fail for empty path on windows.
Hirokazu Yamamoto406d7aa2009-05-04 05:28:39 +00001971
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001972- Issue #5084: Unpickling now interns the attribute names of pickled objects,
1973 saving memory and avoiding growth in size of subsequent pickles. Proposal and
1974 original patch by Jake McGuire.
Antoine Pitrou74309892009-05-02 21:13:23 +00001975
Antoine Pitrou1fc02312009-05-01 20:55:35 +00001976- Issue #3002: ``shutil.copyfile()`` and ``shutil.copytree()`` now raise an
1977 error when a named pipe is encountered, rather than blocking infinitely.
1978
Gregory P. Smith1d499262009-05-01 19:59:52 +00001979- Issue #3959: The ipaddr module has been added to the standard library.
1980 Contributed by Google.
1981
R. David Murray25b4add2009-04-29 13:17:37 +00001982- Issue #2245: aifc now skips chunk types it doesn't recognize, per spec.
1983
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001984- Issue #5874: distutils.tests.test_config_cmd is not locale-sensitive anymore.
Tarek Ziadéa1b91d92009-04-29 08:03:46 +00001985
Thomas Heller90c61a22009-04-28 19:23:41 +00001986- Issue #4305: ctypes should now build again on mipsel-linux-gnu
1987
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001988- Issue #1734234: Massively speedup ``unicodedata.normalize()`` when the string
1989 is already in normalized form, by performing a quick check beforehand.
Antoine Pitroue988e282009-04-27 21:53:26 +00001990 Original patch by Rauli Ruohonen.
1991
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001992- Issue #5853: Calling a function of the mimetypes module from several threads
Antoine Pitrouf2651e12009-04-27 20:50:20 +00001993 at once could hit the recursion limit if the mimetypes database hadn't been
1994 initialized before.
1995
Vinay Sajipe34d6aa2009-04-27 13:44:27 +00001996- Issue #5854: Updated __all__ to include some missing names and remove some
1997 names which should not be exported.
1998
1999- Issue #5810: Fixed Distutils test_build_scripts so it uses
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002000 ``sysconfig.get_config_vars()``.
Tarek Ziadébcddf672009-04-25 12:51:59 +00002001
Tarek Ziadéd567c382009-04-25 12:38:08 +00002002- Issue #4951: Fixed failure in test_httpservers.
2003
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002004- Issue #3102: All global symbols that the _ctypes extension defines are now
2005 prefixed with 'Py' or '_ctypes'.
Thomas Heller5c6af802009-04-24 20:31:47 +00002006
Thomas Hellerec21ccd2009-04-24 20:00:41 +00002007- Issue #5041: ctypes does now allow pickling wide character.
2008
Mark Dickinson4af8e742009-04-24 13:56:07 +00002009- Issue #5812: For the two-argument form of the Fraction constructor,
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002010 ``Fraction(m, n)``, m and n are permitted to be arbitrary Rational instances.
Mark Dickinson4af8e742009-04-24 13:56:07 +00002011
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002012- Issue #5812: Fraction('1e6') is valid: more generally, any string that's valid
2013 for float() is now valid for Fraction(), with the exception of strings
2014 representing NaNs and infinities.
Mark Dickinson8100bd82009-04-22 18:15:25 +00002015
Tarek Ziadé31559b62009-04-20 14:29:42 +00002016- Issue #5795: Fixed test_distutils failure on Debian ppc.
2017
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00002018- Issue #5768: Fixed bug in Unicode output logic and test case for same.
2019
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002020- Issue #1161031: Fix readwrite select flag handling: POLLPRI now results in a
2021 handle_expt_event call, not handle_read_event, and POLLERR and POLLNVAL now
2022 call handle_close, not handle_expt_event. Also, dispatcher now has an
2023 'ignore_log_types' attribute for suppressing log messages, which is set to
2024 'warning' by default.
R. David Murrayabc26602009-04-13 16:56:32 +00002025
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002026- Issue #5607: Fixed Distutils test_get_platform for Mac OS X fat binaries.
Tarek Ziadé156c31a2009-04-13 12:34:01 +00002027
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002028- Issue #5741: Don't disallow "%%" (which is an escape for "%") when setting a
2029 value in SafeConfigParser.
Georg Brandl21cf5ee2009-04-12 17:24:11 +00002030
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002031- Issue #5732: Added a new command in Distutils: check.
Tarek Ziadé942825f2009-04-11 14:55:07 +00002032
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00002033- Issue #5731: Distutils bdist_wininst no longer worked on non-Windows
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002034 platforms. Initial patch by Paul Moore.
Tarek Ziadéad958262009-04-09 21:36:44 +00002035
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002036- Issue #2254: Fix CGIHTTPServer information disclosure. Relative paths are now
2037 collapsed within the url properly before looking in cgi_directories.
Gregory P. Smith923ba362009-04-06 06:33:26 +00002038
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002039- Issue #5095: Added bdist_msi to the list of bdist supported formats. Initial
2040 fix by Steven Bethard.
Tarek Ziadé64408fb2009-04-05 22:51:09 +00002041
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002042- Issue #1491431: Fixed distutils.filelist.glob_to_re for edge cases. Initial
2043 fix by Wayne Davison.
Tarek Ziadéfaa6b122009-04-05 21:44:08 +00002044
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002045- Issue #5693: TestSuite.__iter__ can now be consistently overridden in
2046 subclasses.
Michael Foordf2dfef12009-04-05 19:19:28 +00002047
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002048- Issue #5694: Removed spurious test output in Distutils (test_clean).
Tarek Ziadé453d9532009-04-05 18:31:24 +00002049
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +00002050- Issue #5471: Fix os.path.expanduser() for $HOME set to '/'.
Georg Brandl3f0ef202009-04-05 14:48:49 +00002051
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002052- Issue #1326077: Fix the formatting of SyntaxErrors by the traceback module.
Georg Brandl1956d5c2009-04-05 14:25:41 +00002053
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002054- Issue #1726172: Fix IndexError in the case of and empty response in ftplib.
Georg Brandl50ba6e12009-04-05 10:48:47 +00002055
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002056- Issue #2625: Added missing iteritems() call to the for loop in
R. David Murray52720c52009-04-02 14:05:35 +00002057 mailbox.MH.get_message().
2058
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002059- Issue #5585: Add the ability to call an initializer to
2060 mulitiprocessing.manager so that users can install custom handlers/etc.
Jesse Noller7152f6d2009-04-02 05:17:26 +00002061
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002062- Issue #3551: Patch multiprocessing to raise a proper exception if the size of
2063 the object when writefile is called causes a ERROR_NO_SYSTEM_RESOURCES. Added
2064 docs to note the limitation.
Jesse Noller5053fbb2009-04-02 04:22:09 +00002065
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002066- unittest.assertNotEqual() now uses the inequality operator (!=) instead of the
2067 equality operator.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00002068
2069- Issue #6001: Test discovery for unittest. Implemented in
Michael Foordb4a81c82009-05-29 20:33:46 +00002070 unittest.TestLoader.discover and from the command line.
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00002071
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002072- Issue #5679: The methods unittest.TestCase.addCleanup and doCleanups were
2073 added. addCleanup allows you to add cleanup functions that will be called
Michael Foord07ef4872009-05-02 22:43:34 +00002074 unconditionally (after setUp if setUp fails, otherwise after tearDown). This
2075 allows for much simpler resource allocation and deallocation during tests.
2076
2077- Issue #3379: unittest.main now takes an optional exit argument. If False main
2078 doesn't call sys.exit allowing it to be used from the interactive interpreter.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00002079
2080- Issue #5995: unittest.main now takes an optional verbosity argument allowing
Michael Foord5d31e052009-05-11 17:59:43 +00002081 test modules to be run with a higher than default verbosity.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00002082
2083- Issue #5995: A fix to allow you to run "python -m unittest test_module" or
Michael Foord5d31e052009-05-11 17:59:43 +00002084 "python -m unittest test_module.TestClass" from the command line.
Michael Foord07ef4872009-05-02 22:43:34 +00002085
2086- Issue #5728: unittest.TestResult has new startTestRun and stopTestRun methods;
2087 called immediately before and after a test run.
2088
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002089- Issue #5663: Better failure messages for unittest asserts. Default assertTrue
Michael Foord345b2fe2009-04-02 03:20:38 +00002090 and assertFalse messages are now useful. TestCase has a longMessage attribute.
2091 This defaults to False, but if set to True useful error messages are shown in
2092 addition to explicit messages passed to assert methods.
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00002093
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002094- Issue #3110: Add additional protect around SEM_VALUE_MAX for multiprocessing.
Jesse Nollerb502bc72009-04-02 02:32:55 +00002095
Georg Brandl58b8b952009-04-01 21:54:21 +00002096- In Pdb, prevent the reassignment of __builtin__._ by sys.displayhook on
2097 printing out values.
2098
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002099- Issue #4572: Added SEEK_* symbolic constants to io module.
Georg Brandl5942b912009-04-01 21:05:44 +00002100
Brett Cannonad078a02009-04-01 16:00:34 +00002101- Issue #1665206 (partially): Move imports in cgitb to the top of the module
2102 instead of performing them in functions. Helps prevent import deadlocking in
2103 threads.
2104
Raymond Hettinger66c4a6b2009-04-01 18:50:56 +00002105- Issue #5647: MutableSet.__iand__() no longer mutates self during iteration.
2106
Georg Brandle92d4b62009-04-01 04:21:14 +00002107- Actually make the SimpleXMLRPCServer CGI handler work.
2108
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002109- Issue #2522: locale.format() now checks its first argument to ensure it has
R. David Murraya83da352009-04-01 03:21:43 +00002110 been passed only one pattern, avoiding mysterious errors where it appeared
2111 that it was failing to do localization.
2112
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002113- Issue #5583: Added optional extensions in Distutils. Initial patch by Georg
Tarek Ziadé9e47ce42009-03-31 22:27:23 +00002114 Brandl.
2115
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002116- Issue #5619: Multiprocessing children disobey the debug flag and causes popups
2117 on windows buildbots. Patch applied to work around this issue.
Jesse Noller42f9b4e2009-03-31 22:20:35 +00002118
Benjamin Petersond906ea62009-03-31 21:34:42 +00002119- Issue #5632: Thread.ident was None for the main thread and threads not created
2120 with the threading module.
2121
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002122- Issue #5400: Added patch for multiprocessing on netbsd compilation/support.
Jesse Noller1f0a5552009-03-31 18:27:14 +00002123
Hirokazu Yamamoto9d2ee5d2009-03-31 13:13:05 +00002124- Issue #5387: Fixed mmap.move crash by integer overflow.
2125
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002126- Issue #5261: Patch multiprocessing's semaphore.c to support context manager
2127 use: "with multiprocessing.Lock()" works now.
Jesse Noller82eb5902009-03-30 23:29:31 +00002128
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00002129- Issue #5177: Multiprocessing's SocketListener class now uses
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002130 socket.SO_REUSEADDR on all connections so that the user no longer needs to
2131 wait 120 seconds for the socket to expire.
Jesse Noller459a6482009-03-30 15:50:42 +00002132
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002133- Adjusted _tkinter to compile without warnings when WITH_THREAD is not defined
2134 (part of issue #5035).
Guilherme Polo1972d162009-03-27 21:43:08 +00002135
Marc-André Lemburgcbdf15b2009-03-25 19:45:33 +00002136- Issue #5561: Removed the sys.version_info shortcuts from platform's
2137 python_version() and python_version_tuple() since they produced different
2138 output compared to previous Python versions.
2139
Benjamin Peterson692428e2009-03-23 21:50:21 +00002140- Issue #1034053: unittest now supports skipping tests and expected failures.
2141
Gregory P. Smith28399852009-03-31 16:54:10 +00002142- The unittest.TestCase.assertRaises() method now returns a context manager when
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002143 not given a callable so that code to be tested can be written inline using a
2144 with statement.
Gregory P. Smith28399852009-03-31 16:54:10 +00002145
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002146- Issue #2578: The unittest.TestCase.assertEqual() now displays the differences
2147 in lists, tuples, dicts and sets on failure. Many new handy type and
2148 comparison specific assert* methods have been added that fail with error
2149 messages actually useful for debugging. Contributed in part by Google.
Gregory P. Smith28399852009-03-31 16:54:10 +00002150
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002151- Issue #5068: Fixed the tarfile._BZ2Proxy.read() method that would loop forever
2152 on incomplete input. That caused tarfile.open() to hang when used with mode
2153 'r' or 'r:bz2' and a fileobj argument that contained no data or partial bzip2
2154 compressed data.
Lars Gustäbel2020a592009-03-22 20:09:33 +00002155
Benjamin Petersonb364bfe2009-03-22 17:45:11 +00002156- Issue #5536: urllib.urlretrieve makes sure to close the file it's writing to
2157 even if an exception occurs.
2158
Raymond Hettinger91852ca2009-03-19 19:19:03 +00002159- Issue #5381: Added object_pairs_hook to the json module. This allows
2160 OrderedDicts to be built by the decoder.
2161
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002162- Issue #2110: Add support for thousands separator and 'n' type specifier to
2163 ``Decimal.__format__()``.
Mark Dickinson277859d2009-03-17 23:03:46 +00002164
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002165- Fix Decimal.__format__ bug that swapped the meanings of the '<' and '>'
2166 alignment characters.
Mark Dickinsonb065e522009-03-17 18:01:03 +00002167
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002168- Issue #1222: ``locale.format()`` bug when the thousands separator is a space
Antoine Pitroufeeafff2009-03-14 00:07:21 +00002169 character.
2170
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002171- Issue #5472: Fixed distutils.test_util tear down. Original patch by Tim
2172 Golden.
Tarek Ziadé61585c22009-03-11 12:48:04 +00002173
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002174- collections.deque objects now have a read-only attribute called maxlen.
Raymond Hettinger56411aa2009-03-10 12:50:59 +00002175
Guilherme Polo15d57652009-03-07 02:14:38 +00002176- Issue #2638: Show a window constructed with tkSimpleDialog.Dialog only after
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002177 it is has been populated and properly configured in order to prevent window
2178 flashing.
Guilherme Polo15d57652009-03-07 02:14:38 +00002179
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002180- Issue #4792: Prevent a segfault in _tkinter by using the guaranteed to be safe
2181 interp argument given to the PythonCmd in place of the Tcl interpreter taken
2182 from a PythonCmd_ClientData.
Guilherme Polo3768b2f2009-03-07 01:47:49 +00002183
Guilherme Polo6d6c1fd2009-03-07 01:19:12 +00002184- Issue #5193: Guarantee that Tkinter.Text.search returns a string.
2185
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002186- Issue #5394: Removed > 2.3 syntax from distutils.msvc9compiler.
Tarek Ziadé943b24e2009-03-07 00:32:45 +00002187 Original patch by Akira Kitada.
2188
Hirokazu Yamamoto264fc122009-03-05 14:21:12 +00002189- Issue #5385: Fixed mmap crash after resize failure on windows.
2190
Hirokazu Yamamotoeacbbdf2009-03-03 22:18:14 +00002191- Issue #5179: Fixed subprocess handle leak on failure on windows.
2192
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002193- PEP 372: Added collections.OrderedDict().
Raymond Hettingerbc512d32009-03-03 04:45:34 +00002194
Raymond Hettinger88a91642009-03-03 04:51:24 +00002195- The _asdict() for method for namedtuples now returns an OrderedDict().
2196
Raymond Hettingere89b8e92009-03-03 05:00:37 +00002197- The configparser module now defaults to using an ordered dictionary.
2198
Benjamin Peterson7d49bba2009-03-02 22:41:42 +00002199- Issue #4308: httplib.IncompleteRead's repr doesn't include all of the data all
2200 ready received.
2201
Benjamin Petersonad58b7c2009-03-02 03:35:12 +00002202- Issue #5401: Fixed a performance problem in mimetypes when ``from mimetypes
2203 import guess_extension`` was used.
2204
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002205- Issue #1733986: Fixed mmap crash on Windows in accessing elements of second
2206 map object with same tagname but larger size than first map.
Hirokazu Yamamotob0e10c72009-02-28 12:13:07 +00002207
Hirokazu Yamamotof2dc8852009-02-28 10:31:54 +00002208- Issue #5386: mmap.write_byte didn't check map size, so it could cause buffer
2209 overrun.
2210
Tarek Ziadé73347352009-02-28 10:08:02 +00002211- Issue #1533164: Installed but not listed *.pyo was breaking Distutils
2212 bdist_rpm command.
2213
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002214- Issue #5378: Added --quiet option to Distutils bdist_rpm command.
Tarek Ziadé73347352009-02-28 10:08:02 +00002215
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002216- Issue #5052: Make Distutils compatible with 2.3 again.
Tarek Ziadédda92f72009-02-27 12:53:34 +00002217
Benjamin Petersonb3dd5482009-02-26 19:07:18 +00002218- Deprecated methods of symtable.Symbol have been removed: is_keywordarg(),
2219 is_vararg(), and is_in_tuple().
2220
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002221- Issue #5316: Fixed buildbot failures introduced by multiple inheritance in
2222 Distutils tests.
Tarek Ziadée3bc0ef2009-02-25 22:29:27 +00002223
Vinay Sajip1a0d2be2009-02-19 12:31:32 +00002224- Issue #5287: Add exception handling around findCaller() call to help out
2225 IronPython.
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00002226
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002227- Issue #5282: Fixed mmap resize on 32bit Windows and Unix. When ``offset >
2228 0``, the file was resized to wrong size.
Hirokazu Yamamoto17a837e2009-02-17 13:17:26 +00002229
Hirokazu Yamamotof6bbd0e2009-02-17 10:12:10 +00002230- Issue #5292: Fixed mmap crash on its boundary access m[len(m)].
2231
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002232- Issue #2279: distutils.sdist.add_defaults now add files from the package_data
2233 and the data_files metadata.
Tarek Ziadé7dd53392009-02-16 21:38:01 +00002234
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002235- Issue #5257: Refactored all tests in distutils, so they use
Tarek Ziadé13699002009-02-14 14:10:23 +00002236 support.TempdirManager, to avoid writing in the tests directory.
2237
Tarek Ziadé2432b0b2009-02-13 23:00:43 +00002238- Issue #4524: distutils build_script command failed with --with-suffix=3.
2239 Initial patch by Amaury Forgeot d'Arc.
2240
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002241- Issue #2461: Added tests for distutils.util.
Tarek Ziadé275958a2009-02-13 22:22:03 +00002242
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002243- Issue #1008086: Fixed socket.inet_aton() to always return 4 bytes even on LP64
2244 platforms (most 64-bit Linux, bsd, unix systems).
Gregory P. Smith3605b5c2009-02-11 23:45:25 +00002245
Thomas Heller3689ae22009-02-10 18:43:01 +00002246- Issue #5203: Fixed ctypes segfaults when passing a unicode string to a
2247 function without argtypes (only occurs if HAVE_USABLE_WCHAR_T is false).
2248
Tarek Ziadé74fbf602009-02-10 12:31:09 +00002249- Issue #3386: distutils.sysconfig.get_python_lib prefix argument was ignored
2250 under NT and OS2. Patch by Philip Jenvey.
2251
Brett Cannon28d10882009-02-10 02:07:38 +00002252- Issue #5128: Make compileall properly inspect bytecode to determine if needs
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002253 to be recreated. This avoids a timing hole thanks to the old reliance on the
Brett Cannon28d10882009-02-10 02:07:38 +00002254 ctime of the files involved.
2255
Guilherme Poloa66cf5b2009-02-09 20:50:27 +00002256- Issue #5122: Synchronize tk load failure check to prevent a potential
2257 deadlock.
2258
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002259- Issue #1818: collections.namedtuple() now supports a keyword argument 'rename'
2260 which lets invalid fieldnames be automatically converted to positional names
2261 in the form, _1, _2, ...
Raymond Hettinger322daea2009-02-10 01:24:05 +00002262
Guilherme Polod2ea0332009-02-09 16:41:09 +00002263- Issue #4890: Handle empty text search pattern in Tkinter.Text.search.
2264
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002265- Issue #5170: Fixed Unicode output bug in logging and added test case. This is
2266 a regression which did not occur in 2.5.
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +00002267
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002268- Issue #4512 (part 2): Promote ``ZipImporter._get_filename()`` to be a public
2269 documented method ``ZipImporter.get_filename()``.
Nick Coghlan0194f5b2009-02-08 03:17:00 +00002270
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002271- Issue #4195: The ``runpy`` module (and the ``-m`` switch) now support the
2272 execution of packages by looking for and executing a ``__main__`` submodule
2273 when a package name is supplied. Initial patch by Andi Vajda.
Nick Coghland39600e2009-02-08 01:26:34 +00002274
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002275- Issue #1731706: Call Tcl_ConditionFinalize for Tcl_Conditions that will not be
2276 used again (this requires Tcl/Tk 8.3.1), also fix a memory leak in Tkapp_Call
2277 when calling from a thread different than the one that created the Tcl
2278 interpreter. Patch by Robert Hancock.
Guilherme Polo14ff18d2009-02-06 22:26:22 +00002279
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +00002280- Issue #1520877: Now distutils.sysconfig reads $AR from the
Tarek Ziadé05adf072009-02-06 01:15:51 +00002281 environment/Makefile. Patch by Douglas Greiman.
2282
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002283- Issue #4285: Change sys.version_info to be a named tuple. Patch by Ross
2284 Light.
Eric Smith81fe0932009-02-06 00:48:26 +00002285
Tarek Ziadéd5eb9852009-02-06 00:31:59 +00002286- Issue #1276768: The verbose option was not used in the code of
2287 distutils.file_util and distutils.dir_util.
2288
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +00002289- Issue #5132: Fixed trouble building extensions under Solaris with
Tarek Ziadé0d4fd342009-02-05 22:52:52 +00002290 --enabled-shared activated. Initial patch by Dave Peterson.
2291
Guilherme Polod7bb4d42009-02-02 21:14:14 +00002292- Issue #1581476: Always use the Tcl global namespace when calling into Tcl.
2293
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002294- Issue #2047: shutil.move() could believe that its destination path was inside
2295 its source path if it began with the same letters (e.g. "src" vs. "src.new").
Antoine Pitrou707c5932009-01-29 20:19:34 +00002296
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002297- Issue #4920: Fixed .next() vs .__next__() issues in the ABCs for Iterator and
2298 MutableSet.
Raymond Hettingerf779e6f2009-01-28 23:02:26 +00002299
Guilherme Polocda93aa2009-01-28 13:09:03 +00002300- Added the ttk module. See issue #2983: Ttk support for Tkinter.
2301
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002302- Issue #5021: doctest.testfile() did not create __name__ and
Raymond Hettingerecf252a2009-01-27 10:03:04 +00002303 collections.namedtuple() relied on __name__ being defined.
2304
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002305- Backport importlib from Python 3.1. Only the import_module() function has been
2306 backported to help facilitate transitions from 2.7 to 3.1.
Brett Cannon93881c62009-01-26 01:16:50 +00002307
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002308- Issue #1885: distutils: When running sdist with --formats=tar,gztar the tar
2309 file was overriden by the gztar one.
Tarek Ziadéaaedcef2009-01-25 23:34:00 +00002310
Tarek Ziadéef249b12009-01-25 18:19:25 +00002311- Issue #4863: distutils.mwerkscompiler has been removed.
2312
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002313- Added new itertools functions: combinations_with_replacement() and compress().
Raymond Hettinger2bcb8e92009-01-25 21:04:14 +00002314
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002315- Issue #5032: Added a step argument to itertools.count() and allowed
2316 non-integer arguments.
Raymond Hettinger31c769c2009-02-12 05:39:46 +00002317
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002318- Fix and properly document the multiprocessing module's logging support, expose
2319 the internal levels and provide proper usage examples.
Jesse Nollerb5a4b0a2009-01-25 03:36:13 +00002320
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002321- Issue #1672332: Fix unpickling of subnormal floats, which was
Mark Dickinsona3ecd2c2009-01-24 16:40:29 +00002322 producing a ValueError on some platforms.
2323
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002324- Issue #3881: Help Tcl to load even when started through the unreadable local
2325 symlink to "Program Files" on Vista.
Martin v. Löwisf081e1c2009-01-24 15:47:27 +00002326
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002327- Issue #4710: Extract directories properly in the zipfile module; allow adding
2328 directories to a zipfile.
Martin v. Löwis0dfcfc82009-01-24 14:00:33 +00002329
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +00002330- Issue #3807: _multiprocessing build fails when configure is passed
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002331 --without-threads argument. When this occurs, _multiprocessing will be
2332 disabled, and not compiled.
Jesse Nollerf6da8d12009-01-23 14:04:41 +00002333
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002334- Issue #5008: When a file is opened in append mode with the new IO library, do
2335 an explicit seek to the end of file (so that e.g. tell() returns the file size
2336 rather than 0). This is consistent with the behaviour of the traditional 2.x
2337 file object.
Antoine Pitroue741cc62009-01-21 00:45:36 +00002338
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00002339- Issue #5013: Fixed a bug in FileHandler which occurred when the delay
2340 parameter was set.
2341
Raymond Hettinger933d3a72009-01-20 20:34:19 +00002342- Issue #4998: The memory saving effect of __slots__ had been lost on Fractions
2343 which inherited from numbers.py which did not have __slots__ defined. The
Mark Dickinson39c6f7f2009-02-12 17:55:42 +00002344 numbers hierarchy now has its own __slots__ declarations.
Raymond Hettinger933d3a72009-01-20 20:34:19 +00002345
Jesse Noller9a5b2ad2009-01-19 15:12:22 +00002346- Issue #3321: _multiprocessing.Connection() doesn't check handle; added checks
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002347 for *nix machines for negative handles and large int handles. Without this
2348 check it is possible to segfault the interpreter.
Jesse Noller9a5b2ad2009-01-19 15:12:22 +00002349
Jesse Noller6ab22152009-01-18 02:45:38 +00002350- Issue #4449: AssertionError in mp_benchmarks.py, caused by an underlying issue
2351 in sharedctypes.py.
2352
Benjamin Peterson5e5fbb62009-01-17 22:27:54 +00002353- Issue #1225107: inspect.isclass() returned True for instances with a custom
2354 __getattr__.
2355
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002356- Issue #3997: Zipfiles generated with more than 65536 files could not be opened
2357 with other applications.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd25f87a2009-01-17 16:40:17 +00002358
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002359- Issue #1162154: ``inspect.getmembers()`` now skips attributes that raise
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcb54447f2009-01-13 23:39:22 +00002360 AttributeError, e.g. a __slots__ attribute which has not been set.
2361
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002362- Issue #1696199: Add collections.Counter() for rapid and convenient counting.
Raymond Hettingerf94d7fa2009-01-12 22:58:41 +00002363
Antoine Pitroubd4b5f22009-01-10 16:15:24 +00002364- Issue #3860: GzipFile and BZ2File now support the context manager protocol.
2365
Antoine Pitrouf0d2c3f2009-01-04 21:29:23 +00002366- Issue #4272: Add an optional argument to the GzipFile constructor to override
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002367 the timestamp in the gzip stream. The default value remains the current time.
2368 The information can be used by e.g. gunzip when decompressing. Patch by
Antoine Pitrouf0d2c3f2009-01-04 21:29:23 +00002369 Jacques Frechet.
2370
Mark Dickinson514d4832009-01-04 21:25:40 +00002371- Restore Python 2.3 compatibility for decimal.py.
2372
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00002373- Issue #1702551: distutils sdist was not excluding VCS directories under
Tarek Ziadé85d6fb52009-01-04 00:04:49 +00002374 Windows. Inital solution by Guy Dalberto.
2375
Guilherme Poloe7f14032009-01-03 21:51:09 +00002376- The _tkinter module functions "createfilehandler", "deletefilehandler",
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002377 "createtimerhandler", "mainloop", "dooneevent" and "quit" have been deprecated
2378 for removal in 3.x
Guilherme Poloe7f14032009-01-03 21:51:09 +00002379
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002380- Issue #4796: Added Decimal.from_float() and
2381 Context.create_decimal_from_float() to the decimal module.
Raymond Hettingerf4d85972009-01-03 19:02:23 +00002382
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002383- Issue #4812: Add missing underscore prefix to some internal-use-only constants
2384 in the decimal module. (Dec_0 becomes _Dec_0, etc.)
Mark Dickinsonc5de0962009-01-02 23:07:08 +00002385
Benjamin Peterson8ad09a42008-12-31 23:48:39 +00002386- Issue #4795: inspect.isgeneratorfunction() returns False instead of None when
2387 the function is not a generator.
2388
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002389- Issue #4702: Throwing a DistutilsPlatformError instead of IOError in case no
2390 MSVC compiler is found under Windows. Original patch by Philip Jenvey.
Tarek Ziadéb1a85412008-12-30 23:03:41 +00002391
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002392- Issue #4646: distutils was choking on empty options arg in the setup function.
2393 Original patch by Thomas Heller.
Tarek Ziadéc13acb12008-12-29 22:23:53 +00002394
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002395- Fractions.from_float() no longer loses precision for integers too big to cast
2396 as floats.
Georg Brandlfe427892009-01-03 22:03:11 +00002397
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002398- Issue #4790: The nsmallest() and nlargest() functions in the heapq module did
2399 unnecessary work in the common case where no key function was specified.
Georg Brandlfe427892009-01-03 22:03:11 +00002400
Martin v. Löwis732479f2008-12-29 16:22:25 +00002401- Issue #3767: Convert Tk object to string in tkColorChooser.
2402
Martin v. Löwise2eb2b42008-12-29 15:51:01 +00002403- Issue #3248: Allow placing ScrolledText in a PanedWindow.
2404
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002405- Issue #4444: Allow assertRaises() to be used as a context handler, so that the
2406 code under test can be written inline if more practical.
Antoine Pitrou697ca3d2008-12-28 14:09:36 +00002407
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002408- Issue #4739: Add pydoc help topics for symbols, so that e.g. help('@') works
2409 as expected in the interactive environment.
Georg Brandlc3a98032008-12-27 18:20:04 +00002410
Antoine Pitrou6f193e02008-12-27 15:43:12 +00002411- Issue #4756: zipfile.is_zipfile() now supports file-like objects. Patch by
2412 Gabriel Genellina.
2413
Tarek Ziadée4c75bb2008-12-24 19:10:05 +00002414- Issue #4400: .pypirc default generated file was broken in distutils.
2415
Benjamin Peterson54686e32008-12-24 15:10:27 +00002416- Issue #4736: io.BufferedRWPair's closed property now functions properly.
2417
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002418- Issue #3954: Fix a potential SystemError in _hotshot.logreader error handling.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc31949b92008-12-15 21:47:57 +00002419
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002420- Issue #4574: Fix a crash in io.IncrementalNewlineDecoder when a carriage
2421 return encodes to more than one byte in the source encoding (e.g. UTF-16) and
2422 gets split on a chunk boundary.
Antoine Pitrou655fbf12008-12-14 17:40:51 +00002423
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002424- Issue #4223: inspect.getsource() will now correctly display source code for
2425 packages loaded via zipimport (or any other conformant PEP 302
Nick Coghlana2053472008-12-14 10:54:50 +00002426 loader). Original patch by Alexander Belopolsky.
2427
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002428- Issue #4201: pdb can now access and display source code loaded via zipimport
2429 (or any other conformant PEP 302 loader). Original patch by Alexander
2430 Belopolsky.
Nick Coghlana2053472008-12-14 10:54:50 +00002431
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002432- Issue #4197: Doctests in modules loaded via zipimport (or any other PEP 302
2433 conformant loader) will now work correctly in most cases (they are still
2434 subject to the constraints that exist for all code running from inside a
2435 module loaded via a PEP 302 loader and attempting to perform IO operations
2436 based on __file__). Original patch by Alexander Belopolsky.
Nick Coghlana2053472008-12-14 10:54:50 +00002437
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002438- Issues #4082 and #4512: Add runpy support to zipimport in a manner that allows
2439 backporting to maintenance branches. Original patch by Alexander Belopolsky.
Nick Coghlana2053472008-12-14 10:54:50 +00002440
Antoine Pitrou74af3bb2008-12-13 23:12:30 +00002441- Issue #4163: Use unicode-friendly word splitting in the textwrap functions
2442 when given an unicode string.
2443
Lars Gustäbel3b027422008-12-12 13:58:03 +00002444- Issue #4616: TarFile.utime(): Restore directory times on Windows.
2445
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002446- Issue #4084: Fix max, min, max_mag and min_mag Decimal methods to give correct
2447 results in the case where one argument is a quiet NaN and the other is a
2448 finite number that requires rounding.
Facundo Batistae29d4352008-12-11 04:19:46 +00002449
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002450- Issue #1030250: Distutils created directories even when run with the --dry-run
2451 option.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc240028c2008-12-11 00:03:42 +00002452
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002453- Issue #4483: _dbm module now builds on systems with gdbm & gdbm_compat libs.
Skip Montanaro45313fe2008-12-06 17:43:30 +00002454
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002455- Issue #4529: Fix the parser module's validation of try-except-finally
Georg Brandlfe879e82008-12-05 12:09:41 +00002456 statements.
2457
Georg Brandla07435d2008-12-05 09:23:14 +00002458- Issue #4458: getopt.gnu_getopt() now recognizes a single "-" as an argument,
2459 not a malformed option.
2460
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002461- Added the subprocess.check_output() convenience function to get output from a
2462 subprocess on success or raise an exception on error.
Gregory P. Smith97f49f42008-12-04 20:21:09 +00002463
Fred Drake52481032008-12-04 18:25:17 +00002464- Issue #1055234: cgi.parse_header(): Fixed parsing of header parameters to
2465 support unusual filenames (such as those containing semi-colons) in
2466 Content-Disposition headers.
2467
Vinay Sajip6831d6b2008-12-04 20:32:18 +00002468- Issue #4384: Added logging integration with warnings module using
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002469 captureWarnings(). This change includes a NullHandler which does nothing; it
2470 will be of use to library developers who want to avoid the "No handlers could
2471 be found for logger XXX" message which can appear if the library user doesn't
2472 configure logging.
Vinay Sajip213faca2008-12-03 23:22:58 +00002473
Christian Heimesaa674712008-11-28 11:02:32 +00002474- Issue #3741: DISTUTILS_USE_SDK set causes msvc9compiler.py to raise an
2475 exception.
2476
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002477- Issue #4363: The uuid.uuid1() and uuid.uuid4() functions now work even if the
2478 ctypes module is not present.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd4294172008-11-21 22:05:48 +00002479
Benjamin Petersonbfc51562008-11-22 01:59:15 +00002480- FileIO's mode attribute now always includes ``"b"``.
2481
Martin v. Löwisbb9b1f12008-11-19 09:09:41 +00002482- Issue #4116: Resolve member name conflict in ScrolledCanvas.__init__.
2483
Brett Cannone3d0bf72008-11-15 22:40:44 +00002484- httplib.HTTPConnection.putheader() now accepts an arbitrary number of values
2485 for any header, matching what the documentation has claimed for a while.
2486
Hirokazu Yamamotob9828f62008-11-03 18:03:06 +00002487- Issue #3774: Fixed an error when create a Tkinter menu item without command
2488 and then remove it.
2489
Thomas Heller1fac5a42008-10-30 20:18:13 +00002490- Fixed a modulefinder crash on certain relative imports.
2491
Benjamin Petersonc18574c2008-10-22 21:16:34 +00002492- Issue #4150: Pdb's "up" command now works for generator frames in post-mortem
2493 debugging.
2494
Benjamin Petersone4dc1752008-10-21 22:20:31 +00002495- Issue #4092: Return ArgInfo as promised in the documentation from
2496 inspect.getargvalues.
2497
Georg Brandlf3776a12008-10-08 18:47:17 +00002498- Issue #3935: Properly support list subclasses in bisect's C implementation.
2499
Martin v. Löwis96a9f232008-10-06 15:15:40 +00002500- Issue #4014: Don't claim that Python has an Alpha release status, in addition
2501 to claiming it is Mature.
2502
Alexandre Vassalotti6067f782008-12-27 07:13:01 +00002503- Issue #4730: Fixed the cPickle module to handle correctly astral characters
2504 when protocol 0 is used.
2505
Ronald Oussoren0238497e2009-01-02 14:10:20 +00002506- Issue #1594: MacOS.GetCreatorAndType now always returns a big-endian result,
2507 to be consistent with Apple tools.
2508
Ronald Oussoren63b74fe2009-01-02 14:46:19 +00002509- Issue #900949: plat-mac/videoreader.py no longer relies on a non-existing
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00002510 module.
Ronald Oussoren63b74fe2009-01-02 14:46:19 +00002511
Ronald Oussoren7f8cbf02009-01-02 14:48:17 +00002512- Issue #16278952: plat-mac/videoreader.py now correctly imports MediaDescr
2513
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002514- Issue #1737832: plat-mac/EasyDialog.py no longer uses the broken aepack
Ronald Oussoren919697c2009-01-02 14:52:09 +00002515 module.
2516
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002517- Issue #1149804: macostools.mkdirs now even works when another process creates
2518 one of the needed subdirectories.
Ronald Oussorenabcc1682009-01-02 15:00:05 +00002519
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002520- Issue #900506: added --no-zipimport flag to the bundlebuilder script.
Ronald Oussoren072bb402009-01-02 15:25:36 +00002521
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002522- Issue #841800: bundlebuilder now works with 'python -O'.
Ronald Oussoren072bb402009-01-02 15:25:36 +00002523
Matthias Klose43723e22009-01-10 17:00:42 +00002524- Issue #4861: ctypes.util.find_library(): Robustify. Fix library detection on
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002525 biarch systems. Try to rely on ldconfig only, without using objdump and gcc.
Matthias Klose43723e22009-01-10 17:00:42 +00002526
Gregory P. Smithde1a8b72009-01-31 22:57:30 +00002527- Issue #5104: The socket module now raises OverflowError when 16-bit port and
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002528 protocol numbers are supplied outside the allowed 0-65536 range on bind() and
2529 getservbyport().
Gregory P. Smithde1a8b72009-01-31 22:57:30 +00002530
Neil Schemenauer92c3b212009-02-07 00:54:41 +00002531- Issue #999042: The Python compiler now handles explict global statements
2532 correctly (should be assigned using STORE_GLOBAL opcode).
2533
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002534- Issue #2703: SimpleXMLRPCDispatcher.__init__: Provide default values for new
2535 arguments introduced in 2.5.
Matthias Klosea5d58c82009-04-05 21:00:48 +00002536
Walter Dörwald5d98ec72009-04-25 14:03:16 +00002537- Issue #5828 (Invalid behavior of unicode.lower): Fixed bogus logic in
2538 makeunicodedata.py and regenerated the Unicode database (This fixes
2539 u'\u1d79'.lower() == '\x00').
2540
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Wervenb87b3342009-05-08 14:11:23 +00002541- Windows locale mapping updated to Vista.
2542
Antoine Pitroue555f582008-12-27 20:34:52 +00002543Tools/Demos
2544-----------
2545
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002546- Ttk demos added in Demo/tkinter/ttk/.
Guilherme Polo4eae0782009-01-28 15:56:01 +00002547
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002548- Issue #4677: Add two list comprehension tests to pybench.
Antoine Pitroue555f582008-12-27 20:34:52 +00002549
Brett Cannon60b15d22008-10-06 22:44:37 +00002550Build
2551-----
2552
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002553- Issue #6603: Change READ_TIMESTAMP macro in ceval.c so that it compiles
2554 correctly under gcc on x86-64. This fixes a reported problem with the
2555 --with-tsc build on x86-64.
Mark Dickinson504a1512009-10-31 10:11:28 +00002556
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002557- Add 2 new options to ``--with-universal-archs`` on MacOSX: ``intel`` builds a
2558 distribution with ``i386`` and ``x86_64`` architectures, while ``3-way``
2559 builds a distribution with the ``ppc``, ``i386`` and ``x86_64`` architectures.
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +00002560
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002561- Issue #6802: Fix build issues on MacOSX 10.6.
Ronald Oussoren25967582009-09-06 10:00:26 +00002562
Guilherme Polo1ce2d532009-08-16 14:38:57 +00002563- Issue #6244: Allow detect_tkinter to look for Tcl/Tk 8.6.
2564
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002565- Issue 5390: Add uninstall icon independent of whether file extensions are
2566 installed.
Martin v. Löwisecb4f952009-06-28 09:32:39 +00002567
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002568- Issue 5809: Specifying both --enable-framework and --enable-shared is an
2569 error. Configure now explicity tells you about this.
Ronald Oussoren450d5612009-06-08 21:12:41 +00002570
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002571- Issue #3585: Add pkg-config support. It creates a python-2.7.pc file and a
2572 python.pc symlink in the $(LIBDIR)/pkgconfig directory. Patch by Clinton Roy.
Antoine Pitrouf2caeed2009-05-24 20:23:57 +00002573
Benjamin Petersone5afa3b2009-05-23 19:24:37 +00002574- Issue #6094: Build correctly with Subversion 1.7.
2575
Martin v. Löwis588b54b2009-05-05 16:10:16 +00002576- Issue #5847: Remove -n switch on "Edit with IDLE" menu item.
2577
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002578- Issue #5726: Make Modules/ld_so_aix return the actual exit code of the linker,
2579 rather than always exit successfully. Patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
Antoine Pitrou3fd4ea92009-05-01 21:16:14 +00002580
Matthias Klose10cbe482009-04-29 17:18:19 +00002581- Issue #4587: Add configure option --with-dbmliborder=db1:db2:... to specify
Vinay Sajipf9b01fe2009-05-09 12:07:17 +00002582 the order that backends for the dbm extension are checked.
Matthias Klose10cbe482009-04-29 17:18:19 +00002583
Matthias Klose8ad554f2009-02-22 23:14:26 +00002584- Link the shared python library with $(MODLIBS).
2585
Martin v. Löwisa3e3cb72009-02-10 13:09:19 +00002586- Issue #5134: Silence compiler warnings when compiling sqlite with VC++.
2587
Martin v. Löwisfee1c7f2009-02-02 14:23:16 +00002588- Issue #4494: Fix build with Py_NO_ENABLE_SHARED on Windows.
2589
Martin v. Löwiseefda272009-01-11 09:43:55 +00002590- Issue #4895: Use _strdup on Windows CE.
2591
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002592- Issue #4472: ``configure --enable-shared`` now works on OSX.
Ronald Oussorenf7d54052009-01-02 10:48:31 +00002593
Benjamin Petersonfd9633e2008-12-28 15:37:31 +00002594- Issues #4728 and #4060: WORDS_BIGEDIAN is now correct in Universal builds.
2595
Martin v. Löwiscb6c3592008-11-30 11:08:26 +00002596- Issue #4389: Add icon to the uninstall entry in "add-and-remove-programs".
2597
Martin v. Löwis63470982008-11-19 13:51:44 +00002598- Issue #4289: Remove Cancel button from AdvancedDlg.
2599
Martin v. Löwis3d6f8ff2008-11-07 18:51:50 +00002600- Issue #1656675: Register a drop handler for .py* files on Windows.
2601
Martin v. Löwis692c2f82008-11-06 16:43:00 +00002602- Issue #4120: Exclude manifest from extension modules in VS2008.
2603
Martin v. Löwis0f3e7692008-10-17 13:43:01 +00002604- Issue #4091: Install pythonxy.dll in system32 again.
2605
Martin v. Löwiseba774b2008-10-13 11:23:35 +00002606- Issue #4018: Disable "for me" installations on Vista.
2607
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002608- Issue #3758: Add ``patchcheck`` build target to ``.PHONY``.
Brett Cannon60b15d22008-10-06 22:44:37 +00002609
Martin v. Löwisbb86d832008-11-04 20:40:09 +00002610- Issue #4204: Fixed module build errors on FreeBSD 4.
2611
Tarek Ziadéc4a4aeb2009-08-21 14:28:38 +00002612Documentation
2613-------------
2614
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002615- Issue #6556: Fixed the Distutils configuration files location explanation for
2616 Windows.
Tarek Ziadéc4a4aeb2009-08-21 14:28:38 +00002617
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002618- Issue #6801: symmetric_difference_update also accepts ``|``. Thanks to Carl
2619 Chenet.
Tarek Ziadé3092ed92009-08-29 13:33:21 +00002620
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc07d539d2008-10-14 21:47:22 +00002621C-API
2622-----
2623
Mark Dickinsone31d3002009-12-21 11:21:25 +00002624- Issue #7528: Add PyLong_AsLongAndOverflow (backported from py3k).
2625
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002626- Issue #7228: Add '%lld' and '%llu' support to PyString_FromFormat(V) and
2627 PyErr_Format, on machines with HAVE_LONG_LONG defined.
Mark Dickinson82864d12009-11-15 16:18:58 +00002628
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002629- Add new C-API function PyOS_string_to_double, and deprecated PyOS_ascii_atof
2630 and PyOS_ascii_strtod.
Mark Dickinson09823a22009-10-31 09:42:39 +00002631
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002632- Removed _PyOS_double_to_string. Use PyOS_double_to_string instead. This is in
2633 preparation for (but not strictly related to) issue #7117, short float repr.
Mark Dickinsonba26b392009-10-31 09:28:12 +00002634
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002635- Issue #6624: PyArg_ParseTuple with "s" format when parsing argument with NULL:
2636 Bogus TypeError detail string.
Sean Reifscheider9279e7d2009-08-01 23:54:55 +00002637
Jeffrey Yasskinf7f858d2009-05-08 22:23:21 +00002638- Issue #5954: Add a PyFrame_GetLineNumber() function to replace most uses of
2639 PyCode_Addr2Line().
2640
Jeffrey Yasskin1aa47002009-05-08 21:51:06 +00002641- Issue #5959: Add a PyCode_NewEmpty() function to create a new empty code
2642 object at a specified file, function, and line number.
2643
Brett Cannonc4f90eb2009-04-02 03:17:39 +00002644- Issue #1419652: Change the first argument to PyImport_AppendInittab() to
2645 ``const char *`` as the string is stored beyond the call.
2646
Benjamin Peterson5781f322009-02-16 21:09:09 +00002647- Some PyBytes_* aliases have been removed because they don't exist in 3.x.
2648
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002649- Issue #5175: PyLong_AsUnsignedLongLong now raises OverflowError for negative
2650 arguments. Previously, it raised TypeError.
Mark Dickinson4015f622009-02-10 15:46:50 +00002651
Benjamin Petersoncf2ce242008-12-22 20:52:53 +00002652- Issue #4720: The format for PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords can begin with '|'.
2653
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002654- Issue #3632: From the gdb debugger, the 'pyo' macro can now be called when the
2655 GIL is released, or owned by another thread.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc3538a312008-12-15 22:29:14 +00002656
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc07d539d2008-10-14 21:47:22 +00002657- Issue #4122: On Windows, fix a compilation error when using the
2658 Py_UNICODE_ISSPACE macro in an extension module.
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00002659
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002660- Issue #4293: Py_AddPendingCall() is now thread safe and can be used for
Kristján Valur Jónssonc22ab182009-01-12 09:24:04 +00002661 asynchronous notifications to python from any thread. Documentation added.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc07d539d2008-10-14 21:47:22 +00002662
Benjamin Peterson9dfe6a82008-11-24 04:09:03 +00002663Extension Modules
2664-----------------
2665
Martin v. Löwis50ea4562009-11-27 13:56:01 +00002666- Issue #6508: Add posix.{getresuid,getresgid,setresuid,setresgid}.
2667
Mark Dickinson3d830822009-10-08 15:54:10 +00002668- Issue #7078: Set struct.__doc__ from _struct.__doc__.
2669
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002670- Issue #3366: Add erf, erfc, expm1, gamma, lgamma functions to math module.
Mark Dickinsonb93fff02009-09-28 18:54:55 +00002671
Brett Cannon4d947432009-09-22 00:29:48 +00002672- Issue #6823: Allow time.strftime() to accept a tuple with a isdst field
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002673 outside of the range of [-1, 1] by normalizing the value to within that range.
Brett Cannon4d947432009-09-22 00:29:48 +00002674
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002675- Issue #6877: Make it possible to link the readline extension to libedit on
2676 OSX.
Ronald Oussoren9f20d9d2009-09-20 14:18:15 +00002677
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002678- Issue #6944: Fix a SystemError when socket.getnameinfo() was called with
2679 something other than a tuple as first argument.
Georg Brandlab849892009-09-19 07:35:07 +00002680
Benjamin Peterson7f6d0832009-09-08 23:04:22 +00002681- Issue #6865: Fix reference counting issue in the initialization of the pwd
2682 module.
2683
Mark Dickinson6b3f1ef2009-09-06 21:21:05 +00002684- Issue #6848: Fix curses module build failure on OS X 10.6.
2685
Brett Cannon764465f2009-08-13 19:27:12 +00002686- Fix a segfault in expat when given a specially crafted input lead to the
Matthias Klose3b0f9b02010-01-22 00:34:48 +00002687 tokenizer not stopping. CVE-2009-3720.
Brett Cannon764465f2009-08-13 19:27:12 +00002688
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002689- Issue #6561: '\d' in a regex now matches only characters with Unicode category
2690 'Nd' (Number, Decimal Digit). Previously it also matched characters with
2691 category 'No'.
Mark Dickinsonfe67bd92009-07-28 20:35:03 +00002692
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002693- Issue #1523: Remove deprecated overflow wrapping for struct.pack with an
2694 integer format code ('bBhHiIlLqQ'). Packing an out-of-range integer now
2695 consistently raises struct.error.
Mark Dickinson5fd3af22009-07-07 15:08:28 +00002696
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002697- Issues #1530559, #1741130: Fix various struct.pack inconsistencies for the
2698 integer formats ('bBhHiIlLqQ'). In the following, '*' represents any of '=',
2699 '<', '>'.
Mark Dickinson463dc4b2009-07-05 10:01:24 +00002700
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002701 - Packing a float now always gives a Deprecation Warning. Previously it
2702 only warned for 'I', 'L', '*B', '*H', '*I', '*L'.
Mark Dickinson463dc4b2009-07-05 10:01:24 +00002703
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002704 - If x is not an int, long or float, then packing x will always result in
2705 struct.error. Previously an x with an __int__ method could be packed by
2706 'b', 'B', 'h', 'H', 'i', 'l', '*b', '*h' ,'*i', '*l', and an x with a
2707 __long__ method could be packed by 'q', 'Q', '*q', '*Q'; for x with
2708 neither __int__ nor __long__, TypeError used to be raised (with a
2709 confusing error message) for 'I', 'L', '*B', '*H', '*I', '*L', and
2710 struct.error in other cases.
Mark Dickinson463dc4b2009-07-05 10:01:24 +00002711
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002712 Note: as of Python 2.7 beta 1, the above is out of date. In 2.7 beta 1, any
2713 argument with an __int__ method can be packed, but use of this feature
2714 triggers a DeprecationWarning.
Mark Dickinson154b7ad2010-03-07 16:24:45 +00002715
Martin v. Löwis4f16d3b2009-05-29 15:58:08 +00002716- Issue #4873: Fix resource leaks in error cases of pwd and grp.
2717
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002718- Issue #4751: For hashlib algorithms provided by OpenSSL, the Python GIL is now
2719 released during computation on data lengths >= 2048 bytes.
Gregory P. Smithd02eeda2009-05-04 00:16:49 +00002720
Gregory P. Smithea388262009-02-13 03:00:00 +00002721- Issue #3745: Fix hashlib to always reject unicode and non buffer-api
2722 supporting objects as input no matter how it was compiled (built in
Gregory P. Smithfe32d302010-01-02 22:42:50 +00002723 implementations or external openssl library). NOTE: Undone in 2.7a2.
Gregory P. Smithea388262009-02-13 03:00:00 +00002724
Mark Dickinsona200dd52009-01-15 15:17:43 +00002725- Issue #4397: Fix occasional test_socket failure on OS X.
Mark Dickinsone82cdae2009-01-15 14:54:37 +00002726
Martin v. Löwisb3b7d852009-01-11 09:26:54 +00002727- Issue #4279: Fix build of parsermodule under Cygwin.
2728
Martin v. Löwis9ac49272009-01-02 20:40:14 +00002729- Issue #4051: Prevent conflict of UNICODE macros in cPickle.
2730
Georg Brandl6269fec2009-01-01 12:15:31 +00002731- Issue #4228: Pack negative values the same way as 2.4 in struct's L format.
2732
Martin v. Löwis03824e42008-12-29 18:17:34 +00002733- Issue #1040026: Fix os.times result on systems where HZ is incorrect.
2734
Mark Dickinson4c96fa52008-12-11 19:28:08 +00002735- Issues #3167, #3682: Fix test_math failures for log, log10 on Solaris,
2736 OpenBSD.
2737
Martin v. Löwisbcb017f2008-11-30 19:28:27 +00002738- Issue #4365: Add crtassem.h constants to the msvcrt module.
2739
Benjamin Peterson9dfe6a82008-11-24 04:09:03 +00002740- Issue #4396: The parser module now correctly validates the with statement.
2741
Jack Diederichd60c29e2009-03-31 23:46:48 +00002742- Issue #5228: Make functools.partial objects can now be pickled.
2743
Guilherme Polob1a98de2009-01-28 20:03:26 +00002744Tests
2745-----
2746
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002747- Issue #7431: Use TESTFN in test_linecache instead of trying to create a file
2748 in the Lib/test directory, which might be read-only for the user running the
2749 tests.
R. David Murray820b0ea2009-12-03 23:57:59 +00002750
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002751- Issue #7324: Add a sanity check to regrtest argument parsing to catch the case
2752 of an option with no handler.
R. David Murrayda826892009-11-15 00:04:32 +00002753
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002754- Issue #7312: Add a -F flag to run the selected tests in a loop until a test
2755 fails. Can be combined with -j.
R. David Murray7f7eea62009-11-14 15:18:22 +00002756
Antoine Pitrou310c9fe2009-11-11 20:55:07 +00002757- Issue #7295: Do not use a hardcoded file name in test_tarfile.
2758
Antoine Pitrouc98efe02009-11-06 22:34:35 +00002759- Issue #7270: Add some dedicated unit tests for multi-thread synchronization
2760 primitives such as Lock, RLock, Condition, Event and Semaphore.
2761
Antoine Pitrou59c44f32009-10-30 17:07:08 +00002762- Issue #7222: Make thread "reaping" more reliable so that reference
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002763 leak-chasing test runs give sensible results. The previous method of reaping
2764 threads could return successfully while some Thread objects were still
2765 referenced. This also introduces a new private function: ``thread._count()``.
Antoine Pitrou59c44f32009-10-30 17:07:08 +00002766
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002767- Issue #7151: Fixed regrtest -j so that output to stderr from a test no longer
2768 runs the risk of causing the worker thread to fail.
R. David Murray282396f2009-10-18 21:12:37 +00002769
Antoine Pitrou58d2f262009-10-10 20:52:11 +00002770- Issue #7055: test___all__ now greedily detects all modules which have an
2771 __all__ attribute, rather than using a hardcoded and incomplete list.
2772
R. David Murray14dcd432009-10-14 13:58:07 +00002773- Issue #7058: Added save/restore for things like sys.argv and cwd to
2774 runtest_inner in regrtest, with warnings if the called test modifies them,
2775 and a new section in the summary report at the end.
R. David Murrayabe3d3e2009-10-05 17:03:09 +00002776
Mark Dickinson245d9152009-10-04 18:38:39 +00002777- Issue #7042: Fix test_signal (test_itimer_virtual) failure on OS X 10.6.
2778
Brett Cannone7e941e2009-09-03 21:25:21 +00002779- Issue #6806: test_platform failed under OS X 10.6.0 because ``sw_ver`` leaves
2780 off the trailing 0 in the version number.
2781
Guilherme Polo7f146ab2009-06-21 17:22:50 +00002782- Issue #5450: Moved tests involving loading tk from Lib/test/test_tcl to
2783 Lib/lib-tk/test/test_tkinter/test_loadtk. With this, these tests demonstrate
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002784 the same behaviour as test_ttkguionly (and now also test_tk) which is to skip
2785 the tests if DISPLAY is defined but can't be used.
Guilherme Polo7f146ab2009-06-21 17:22:50 +00002786
Antoine Pitrou4698d992009-05-31 14:20:14 +00002787- Issue #6152: New option '-j'/'--multiprocess' for regrtest allows running
2788 regression tests in parallel, shortening the total runtime.
2789
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002790- Issue #5354: New test support function import_fresh_module() makes it easy to
2791 import both normal and optimised versions of modules. test_heapq and
2792 test_warnings have been adjusted to use it, tests for other modules with both
2793 C and Python implementations in the stdlib can be adjusted to use it over
2794 time.
Nick Coghlan5533ff62009-04-22 15:26:04 +00002795
Brett Cannonce3d2212009-04-01 20:25:48 +00002796- Fix test_warnings to no longer reset the warnings filter.
2797
Brett Cannon2da4d622009-04-01 19:57:10 +00002798- Fix test_logging to no longer reset the warnings filter.
2799
Georg Brandld8fb6ac2009-04-01 00:04:33 +00002800- Issue #5635: Fix running test_sys with tracing enabled.
2801
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002802- regrtest no longer treats ImportError as equivalent to SkipTest. Imports that
2803 should cause a test to be skipped are now done using import_module from test
2804 support, which does the conversion.
R. David Murray41448c52009-03-31 19:57:24 +00002805
Guilherme Polob1a98de2009-01-28 20:03:26 +00002806- Issue #5083: New 'gui' resource for regrtest.
2807
Walter Dörwalda1453172009-04-25 12:15:07 +00002808- Issue #5837: Certain sequences of calls to set() and unset() for
2809 support.EnvironmentVarGuard objects restored the environment variables
2810 incorrectly on __exit__.
2811
Alexandre Vassalotti999ecc02009-07-15 18:19:47 +00002812- Issue #2389: Array objects are now pickled in a portable manner.
2813
Brett Cannon813c43a2009-11-08 21:35:28 +00002814Misc
2815----
2816
2817- Issue #5611: Auto-detect whether a C file uses tabs or spaces in Vim.
2818
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00002819
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00002820What's New in Python 2.6 final
2821==============================
2822
Barry Warsawafa14362008-10-01 21:46:40 +00002823*Release date: 01-Oct-2008*
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00002824
2825Core and Builtins
2826-----------------
2827
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfc5ea392008-09-26 22:34:08 +00002828- Issue #3967: Fixed a crash in the count() and find() methods of string-like
2829 objects, when the "start" parameter is a huge value.
2830
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc17617a02008-09-25 20:52:56 +00002831- Issue #3965: Fixed a crash on Windows when open() is given an invalid
2832 filename or mode, and the filename is a unicode string.
2833
Martin v. Löwise86b07c2008-09-25 04:12:50 +00002834- Bug #3951: Py_USING_MEMORY_DEBUGGER should not be enabled by default.
2835
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00002836Library
2837-------
2838
Martin v. Löwise563aa42008-09-29 22:09:07 +00002839- Issue #3965: Allow repeated calls to turtle.Screen, by making it a
2840 true singleton object.
2841
Brett Cannonb2d61bd2008-09-29 03:41:21 +00002842- Issue #3895: It was possible to crash the interpreter when an external timer
2843 was used with cProfile that returned an object that could not be converted
2844 into a float.
2845
Benjamin Peterson22d3c922008-09-25 20:35:45 +00002846- Issue #3950: Made turtle respect scale factors.
2847
Thomas Hellera85c95d2008-09-24 18:26:05 +00002848- Issue #3547: Fixed ctypes structures bitfields of varying integer
2849 sizes.
2850
Benjamin Peterson2c7470d2008-09-21 21:27:51 +00002851- Issue #3879: A regression in urllib.getproxies_enviroment was fixed.
2852
Gregory P. Smith08067492008-09-30 20:41:13 +00002853- Issue #3863: Disabled a unit test of fork being called from a thread
2854 when running on platforms known to exhibit OS bugs when attempting that.
2855
Martin v. Löwis175d0072008-09-19 15:21:07 +00002856Build
2857-----
2858
Martin v. Löwisd69c9042008-10-01 11:19:50 +00002859- Bug #3989: Package the 2to3 script (as 2to3.py) in the Windows
2860 installer.
2861
Martin v. Löwis175d0072008-09-19 15:21:07 +00002862- Bug #3887: Package x64 version of CRT for AMD64 Windows binaries.
2863
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00002864
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00002865What's New in Python 2.6 release candidate 2?
2866=============================================
2867
Barry Warsaw6af16192008-09-18 04:33:43 +00002868*Release date: 17-Sep-2008*
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00002869
2870Core and Builtins
2871-----------------
2872
Benjamin Peterson8c2b7dc2008-09-18 01:22:16 +00002873Extension Modules
2874-----------------
2875
Benjamin Peterson8d77d442008-09-30 01:31:49 +00002876- Security Issue #2: imageop did not validate arguments correctly and could
2877 segfault as a result.
2878
Benjamin Peterson8c2b7dc2008-09-18 01:22:16 +00002879- Issue #3886: Possible integer overflows in the _hashopenssl module were
2880 closed.
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00002881
Antoine Pitrou3c9f5412008-09-13 20:30:30 +00002882Tools/Demos
2883-----------
2884
Georg Brandl2bd92a52009-10-11 21:10:07 +00002885- Issue #3850: recursion tests in Tools/scripts/find_recursion_limit.py can raise
Antoine Pitrou3c9f5412008-09-13 20:30:30 +00002886 AttributeError instead of RuntimeError, depending in which C API call
2887 exactly the recursion limit is exceeded. Consequently, both exception types
2888 are caught and silenced.
2889
Martin v. Löwis4eb18f92008-09-14 20:22:39 +00002890Build
2891-----
2892
2893- Issue #3617: Include a licensing statement regarding the Microsoft
2894 C runtime in the Windows installer.
2895
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00002896
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00002897What's New in Python 2.6 release candidate 1?
2898=============================================
2899
Barry Warsaw1e62aec2008-09-12 23:25:57 +00002900*Release date: 12-Sep-2008*
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00002901
2902Core and Builtins
2903-----------------
2904
Martin v. Löwis9fa5a282008-09-11 06:53:30 +00002905- Issue #3642: Suppress warning in obmalloc when size_t is larger than uint.
2906
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc05e34492008-09-10 22:04:45 +00002907- Issue #3743: In a few places, PY_FORMAT_SIZE_T was incorrectly used with
2908 PyString_FromFormat or PyErr_Format to display size_t values. The macro
2909 PY_FORMAT_SIZE_T is designed to select the correct format for the OS
2910 ``printf`` function, whereas PyString_FromFormat has an independent
2911 implementation and uses "%zd" on all platforms for size_t values.
2912 This makes a difference on win64, where ``printf`` needs "%Id" to display
2913 64bit values.
2914
Benjamin Peterson97179b02008-09-09 20:55:01 +00002915- Issue #3634: _weakref.ref(Exception).__init__() gave invalid return value on
2916 error.
2917
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd3ffb892008-09-09 07:24:30 +00002918- Issue #3777: long() applied to a float object now always return a long
2919 object; previously an int would be returned for small values. the __long__
2920 method is allowed to return either an int or a long, but the behaviour of
2921 float objects should not change to respect backward compatibility.
2922
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc3571fbf2008-09-01 19:52:00 +00002923- Issue #3751: str.rpartition would perform a left-partition when called with
2924 a unicode argument.
2925
Benjamin Peterson17f03ca2008-09-01 14:18:30 +00002926- Issue #3683: Fix compilation when --without-threads is given.
2927
Antoine Pitroud4ae97b2008-08-29 18:39:48 +00002928- Issue #3668: Fix a memory leak with the "s*" argument parser in
Vinay Sajip35e3b032008-09-01 14:33:59 +00002929 PyArg_ParseTuple and friends, which occurred when the argument for "s*"
Antoine Pitroud4ae97b2008-08-29 18:39:48 +00002930 was correctly parsed but parsing of subsequent arguments failed.
2931
Vinay Sajip35e3b032008-09-01 14:33:59 +00002932- Issue #2534: speed up isinstance() and issubclass() by 50-70%, so as to
Antoine Pitrou0668c622008-08-26 22:42:08 +00002933 match Python 2.5 speed despite the __instancecheck__ / __subclasscheck__
2934 mechanism. In the process, fix a bug where isinstance() and issubclass(),
2935 when given a tuple of classes as second argument, were looking up
2936 __instancecheck__ / __subclasscheck__ on the tuple rather than on each
2937 type object.
2938
Neal Norwitz18aa3882008-08-24 05:04:52 +00002939- Fix crashes on memory allocation failure found with failmalloc.
2940
2941- Fix memory leaks found with valgrind and update suppressions file.
2942
2943- Fix compiler warnings in opt mode which would lead to invalid memory reads.
2944
2945- Fix problem using wrong name in decimal module reported by pychecker.
2946
Christian Heimes7d4c3172008-08-22 19:47:25 +00002947- Silenced another compiler warning about a used but not defined
2948 function 'stringlib_contains_obj'.
2949
Benjamin Peterson712ee922008-08-24 18:10:20 +00002950- Added warnings on the use of ``__getslice__``, ``__setslice__``, or
2951 ``__delslice__``.
2952
Gregory P. Smith2bb25cc2008-09-02 05:29:51 +00002953- Issue #3678: Correctly pass LDFLAGS and LDLAST to the linker on shared
2954 library targets in the Makefile.
2955
Gregory P. Smith980b99b2008-09-07 05:15:18 +00002956- Issue #1204: The configure script now tests for additional libraries
2957 that may be required when linking against readline. This fixes issues
2958 with x86_64 builds on some platforms (a few Linux flavors and OpenBSD).
2959
Benjamin Peterson14cb6bc2008-08-26 17:08:40 +00002960C-API
2961-----
2962
2963- Aliased PyObject_Bytes to PyObject_Str.
2964
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00002965Library
2966-------
2967
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc24cb3822008-09-11 20:56:13 +00002968- Issue #3640: Pickling a list or a dict uses less local variables, to reduce
2969 stack usage in the case of deeply nested objects.
2970
Guido van Rossume3c4fd92008-09-10 14:27:00 +00002971- Issue #3629: Fix sre "bytecode" validator for an end case.
2972
Martin v. Löwis24329ba2008-09-10 13:38:12 +00002973- Issue #3811: The Unicode database was updated to 5.1.
2974
Nick Coghland2e09382008-09-11 12:11:06 +00002975- Issue #3781: Further warnings.catch_warnings() cleanup to prevent
2976 silent misbehaviour when a single instance is nested in multiple
2977 with statements, or when the methods are invoked in the wrong order.
2978
Vinay Sajip844f7412008-09-09 13:42:08 +00002979- Issue #3809: Fixed spurious 'test.blah' file left behind by test_logging.
2980
Nick Coghland2e09382008-09-11 12:11:06 +00002981- Issue #3781: Clean up the API for warnings.catch_warnings() by having it
Brett Cannon672237d2008-09-09 00:49:16 +00002982 return a list or None rather than a custom object.
2983
Benjamin Peterson6ac7d7c2008-09-06 19:28:11 +00002984- Issue #1638033: Cookie.Morsel gained the httponly attribute.
2985
Antoine Pitrouebcd0ce2008-09-05 23:30:23 +00002986- Issue #3535: zipfile couldn't read some zip files larger than 2GB.
2987
2988- Issue #3776: Deprecate the bsddb package for removal in 3.0.
Brett Cannon32476fc2008-09-05 18:33:51 +00002989
Hirokazu Yamamoto42e459e2008-09-04 14:25:30 +00002990- Issue #3762: platform.architecture() fails if python is lanched via
2991 its symbolic link.
2992
Vinay Sajip65d66e12008-09-04 07:31:21 +00002993- Issue #3772: Fixed regression problem in StreamHandler.emit().
2994
Facundo Batistac585df92008-09-03 22:35:50 +00002995- Issue 600362: Relocated parse_qs() and parse_qsl(), from the cgi module
2996 to the urlparse one. Added a PendingDeprecationWarning in the old
2997 module, it will be deprecated in the future.
2998
Marc-André Lemburgb339b2a2008-09-03 11:13:56 +00002999- Issue #2562: Fix distutils PKG-INFO writing logic to allow having
3000 non-ascii characters and Unicode in setup.py meta-data.
3001
3002- Issue #3726: Allow spaces in separators in logging configuration files.
Vinay Sajip6a2fd812008-09-03 09:20:05 +00003003
Marc-André Lemburg31a0a142008-09-02 12:11:19 +00003004- Issue #3719: platform.architecture() fails if there are spaces in the
3005 path to the Python binary.
3006
Brett Cannon1eaf0742008-09-02 01:25:16 +00003007- Issue 3602: Moved test.test_support.catch_warning() to
3008 warnings.catch_warnings() along with some API cleanup. Expanding the tests
3009 for catch_warnings() also led to an improvement in the raising of a
3010 DeprecationWarning related to warnings.warn_explicit().
3011
Benjamin Peterson973e6c22008-09-01 23:12:58 +00003012- The deprecation warnings for the old camelCase threading API were removed.
3013
Vinay Sajip35e3b032008-09-01 14:33:59 +00003014- logging: fixed lack of use of encoding attribute specified on a stream.
3015
Christian Heimesa27a62e2008-08-22 19:55:54 +00003016- Silenced a trivial compiler warning in the sqlite module.
3017
Christian Heimes1cc69632008-08-22 20:10:27 +00003018- Fixed two format strings in the _collections module.
3019
Benjamin Peterson17f03ca2008-09-01 14:18:30 +00003020- Issue #3703: _fileio.FileIO gave unhelpful error message when trying to open a
3021 directory.
Benjamin Petersonf22c26e2008-09-01 14:13:43 +00003022
Gregory P. Smithd7122032008-09-02 05:36:11 +00003023- Issue #3708: os.urandom no longer goes into an infinite loop when passed a
3024 non-integer floating point number.
3025
Vinay Sajip65d66e12008-09-04 07:31:21 +00003026- Issue #3110: multiprocessing fails to compiel on solaris 10 due to missing
Jesse Nollerb814d6a2008-09-03 18:10:30 +00003027 SEM_VALUE_MAX.
3028
Benjamin Peterson37346b22008-08-23 20:27:43 +00003029Extension Modules
3030-----------------
3031
Jesse Noller438195f2009-01-18 21:04:36 +00003032- Issue #4301: Patch the logging module to add processName support, remove
3033 _check_logger_class from multiprocessing.
3034
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc293924b2008-09-02 23:19:56 +00003035- Issue #2975: When compiling several extension modules with Visual Studio 2008
3036 from the same python interpreter, some environment variables would grow
3037 without limit.
3038
Benjamin Peterson37346b22008-08-23 20:27:43 +00003039- Issue #3643: Added a few more checks to _testcapi to prevent segfaults by
3040 exploitation of poor argument checking.
3041
Gerhard Häringef2276b2008-09-12 13:54:06 +00003042- sqlite3: Changed docstring of iterdump() to mark method as "Non-standard".
3043
Gerhard Häring6e1afcf2008-09-12 18:58:57 +00003044- Issue #3103: Reduced globals symbols used by sqlite3 module and made sure all
3045 remaining ones have "pysqlite_" prefix.
3046
Gerhard Häringe6872eb2008-09-12 22:33:22 +00003047- Issue #3846: Release the GIL during sqlite3_prepare calls. This improves
3048 concurrent access to the same SQLite database from multiple
3049 threads/processes.
3050
Brett Cannona0b74442008-09-03 22:45:11 +00003051Tests
3052-----
3053
Nick Coghland2e09382008-09-11 12:11:06 +00003054- Issue #3781: Add test.test_support.check_warnings() as a convenience
3055 wrapper for warnings.catch_warnings() that makes it easier to check
3056 that expected warning messages are being reported.
3057
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfeb8cad2008-09-06 20:53:51 +00003058- Issue #3796: Some tests functions were not enabled in test_float.
3059
3060- Issue #3768: Move test_py3kwarn over to the new API for catch_warnings().
Brett Cannona0b74442008-09-03 22:45:11 +00003061
Brett Cannoncdeb24b2008-09-05 22:59:17 +00003062Build
3063-----
3064
Martin v. Löwisab0b29b2008-09-13 08:11:57 +00003065- Issue #3833: Use a different upgrade code for Win64 installers.
3066
Martin v. Löwis3f5fda82008-09-08 13:50:10 +00003067- Issue #2271: Set SecureCustomProperties so that installation will properly
3068 use the TARGETDIR even for unprivileged users.
3069
Martin v. Löwis67543a92008-09-08 12:02:45 +00003070- Allow passing the MSI file name to merge.py.
3071
Vinay Sajip844f7412008-09-09 13:42:08 +00003072- Issue #3758: Rename the 'check' target to 'patchcheck' so as to not clash
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfeb8cad2008-09-06 20:53:51 +00003073 with GNU build target guidelines.
Brett Cannoncdeb24b2008-09-05 22:59:17 +00003074
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00003075
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00003076What's New in Python 2.6 beta 3?
3077================================
3078
Barry Warsaw07a4a382008-08-21 01:15:08 +00003079*Release date: 20-Aug-2008*
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00003080
3081Core and Builtins
3082-----------------
3083
Guido van Rossumf8402962008-08-20 15:01:50 +00003084- Issue #1878: Remove Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_VERSION_TAG from
3085 Py_TPFLAGS_DEFAULT when not building the core. This means 3rd party
3086 extensions do not automatically benefit from the class attribute
3087 cache; they will have to explicitly add Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_VERSION_TAG
3088 to their tp_flags field if they care. This is a backwards
3089 compatibility feature; in 3.0, all types will use the cache by
3090 default.
3091
Benjamin Petersonf647dc12008-08-20 01:27:30 +00003092- Keyword arguments can now follow starred arguments. (``f(a, *args,
3093 keyword=23)`` is now valid syntax.)
3094
Thomas Heller0ad5ae02008-08-19 19:25:04 +00003095- ctypes function pointers that are COM methods have a boolean True
3096 value again.
3097
Martin v. Löwisf91d46a2008-08-12 14:49:50 +00003098- Issue #3139: Make buffer-interface thread-safe wrt. PyArg_ParseTuple,
3099 by denying s# to parse objects that have a releasebuffer procedure,
3100 and introducing s*.
3101
Georg Brandl1e13ea92008-08-11 09:07:59 +00003102- Issue #3537: Fix an assertion failure when an empty but presized dict
3103 object was stored in the freelist.
3104
Mark Dickinsonb6467572008-08-04 21:30:09 +00003105- Issue #1481296: Make long(float('nan')) and int(float('nan')) raise
3106 ValueError consistently across platforms.
3107
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc39fd6722008-07-31 21:28:03 +00003108- Issue #3479: On platforms where sizeof(int) is smaller than sizeof(long)
3109 (64bit Unix, for example), unichr() would truncate its argument and return
3110 u'\x00' for unichr(2**32). Now it properly raises an OverflowError.
3111
Neal Norwitze7d8be82008-07-31 17:17:14 +00003112- Apply security patches from Apple.
3113
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc246daed2008-07-31 00:42:16 +00003114- Issue #2542: Now that issubclass() may call arbitrary code, ensure that
3115 PyErr_ExceptionMatches returns 0 when an exception occurs there.
3116
Antoine Pitrou92f82162008-07-25 22:22:08 +00003117- Issue #1819: function calls with several named parameters are now on
3118 average 35% faster (as measured by pybench).
3119
Amaury Forgeot d'Arce4921fe2008-07-21 22:00:38 +00003120- Issue #2378: An unexpected UnboundLocalError or NameError could appear when
3121 the python debugger steps into a class statement: the free variables (local
3122 variables defined in an outer scope) would be deleted from the outer scope.
3123
Gregory P. Smith0470bab2008-07-22 04:46:32 +00003124- Issue #2620: Overflow checking when allocating or reallocating memory
3125 was not always being done properly in some python types and extension
3126 modules. PyMem_MALLOC, PyMem_REALLOC, PyMem_NEW and PyMem_RESIZE have
3127 all been updated to perform better checks and places in the code that
3128 would previously leak memory on the error path when such an allocation
3129 failed have been fixed.
3130
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00003131Library
3132-------
3133
Hirokazu Yamamoto838c79f2008-08-20 13:14:07 +00003134- Issue #3612: Added some missing basic types in ctypes.wintypes.
3135
Benjamin Petersone977ad42008-08-20 01:42:01 +00003136- The methods ``is_in_tuple()``, ``is_vararg()``, and ``is_keywordarg()`` of
3137 symtable.Symbol have been deprecated for removal in 3.0 and the next release.
3138
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc351ffb82008-08-18 19:23:47 +00003139- Issue #2234: distutils failed for some versions of the cygwin compiler. The
3140 version reported by these tools does not necessarily follow the python
3141 version numbering scheme, so the module is less strict when parsing it.
3142
Nick Coghlanf70385a2008-08-18 12:42:46 +00003143- Issue #2235: Added Py3k warnings for types which will become unhashable
3144 under the stricter __hash__ inheritance rules in 3.0. Several types
3145 which did not meet the rules for hash invariants and were already
3146 unhashable in 3.0 have now been explicitly flagged as unhashable in
3147 2.6 as well (collections.Mapping, collections.Set, unittest.TestSuite,
3148 xml.dom.minidom.NamedNodeMap, numbers.Number, UserList.UserList)
3149
Brett Cannon88f801d2008-08-18 00:46:22 +00003150- Update __all__ for cookielib, csv, os, urllib2, and weakref to include things
3151 imported into the module but exposed as part of the module's API.
3152
Brett Cannon7b96f072008-08-18 00:41:11 +00003153- Remove an unneeded import of abc.ABCMeta from 'inspect'.
3154
Brett Cannon46225e72008-08-18 00:36:52 +00003155- Remove unneeded imports of 'sys' and 'warnings' from 'io'.
3156
Brett Cannon25c9d6a2008-08-17 22:10:11 +00003157- Remove unneeded imports of 'warnings' from shelve, filecmp, and dummy_thread.
3158
Hirokazu Yamamoto41a81eb2008-08-17 13:10:46 +00003159- Issue #3575: Incremental decoder's decode function now takes bytearray
3160 by using 's*' instead of 't#'.
3161
Mark Dickinson3e4caeb2009-02-21 20:27:01 +00003162- Issue #2222: Fixed reference leak when occurred os.rename()
Hirokazu Yamamoto7f30a682008-08-17 09:46:56 +00003163 fails unicode conversion on 2nd parameter. (windows only)
3164
Facundo Batista94f243a2008-08-17 03:38:39 +00003165- Issue 2464. urllib2 now supports a malformation in the URL received
3166 in a redirect.
3167
Brett Cannonabe423e2008-08-16 21:47:07 +00003168- Silence the DeprecationWarning raised when importing mimetools in
Brett Cannon721b1452008-08-16 22:00:27 +00003169 BaseHTTPServer, cgi (and rfc822), httplib.
Brett Cannonabe423e2008-08-16 21:47:07 +00003170
Facundo Batistaeb90b782008-08-16 14:44:07 +00003171- Issue #2776: fixed small issue when handling an URL with double slash
3172 after a 302 response in the case of not going through a proxy.
3173
Antoine Pitroub90a8be2008-08-15 21:03:21 +00003174- Issue #2676: in the email package, content-type parsing was hanging on
3175 pathological input because of quadratic or exponential behaviour of a
3176 regular expression.
3177
Antoine Pitrou11ec65d2008-08-14 21:04:30 +00003178- Issue #3476: binary buffered reading through the new "io" library is now
3179 thread-safe.
3180
Brett Cannonbf3157b2008-08-14 05:00:03 +00003181- Silence the DeprecationWarning of rfc822 when it is imported by mimetools
3182 since mimetools itself is deprecated. Because modules are cached, all
3183 subsequent imports of rfc822 will not raise a visible DeprecationWarning.
3184
Antoine Pitrou9fcd4b32008-08-11 17:21:36 +00003185- Issue #3134: shutil referenced undefined WindowsError symbol.
3186
Robert Schuppenies14646332008-08-10 11:01:53 +00003187- Issue #1342811: Fix leak in Tkinter.Menu.delete. Commands associated to
3188 menu entries were not deleted.
3189
Brett Cannon83e81842008-08-09 23:30:55 +00003190- Copied the implementation of reduce() to _functools.reduce() to have a
3191 version that did not raise a DeprecationWarning under -3.
3192
Antoine Pitrou76b8bee2008-08-09 17:27:23 +00003193- Issue #3205: When iterating over a BZ2File fails allocating memory, raise
3194 a MemoryError rather than silently stop the iteration.
3195
Guido van Rossum59ce9012008-08-09 14:55:34 +00003196- Issue #3487: sre "bytecode" validator. Passing invalid "re-bytecode"
3197 to _sre.compile() will now be rejected. This should not affect anybody
3198 since the re.compile() function never generates invalid re-bytecode.
3199
Skip Montanaroa032bf42008-08-08 22:52:51 +00003200- Issue #3436: Make csv.DictReader's fieldnames attribute a property so that
3201 upon first access it can be automatically initialized from the csv file if
3202 it wasn't initialized during instantiation.
3203
Brett Cannon3aa2a492008-08-06 22:28:09 +00003204- Issue #2338: Create imp.reload() to help with transitioning to Python 3.0 as
3205 the reload() built-in has been removed.
3206
Brett Cannon7e30b672008-08-04 21:52:25 +00003207- Changed code in the following modules/packages to remove warnings raised
Brett Cannonc1b76e42008-08-09 23:06:16 +00003208 while running under the ``-3`` flag: aifc, asynchat, asyncore, bdb, bsddb,
Brett Cannon047e4a92008-08-17 04:16:04 +00003209 ConfigParser, cookielib, csv, difflib, distutils, DocXMLRPCServer, email,
3210 filecmp, fileinput, inspect, logging, modulefinder, pdb, pickle, profile,
3211 pstats, pydoc, re, rlcompleter, SimpleXMLRPCServer, shelve, socket,
3212 subprocess, sqlite3, tarfile, Tkinter, test.test_support, textwrap,
3213 threading, tokenize, traceback, urlparse, wsgiref, xml, xmlrpclib.
Brett Cannon7e30b672008-08-04 21:52:25 +00003214
Lars Gustäbel727bd0b2008-08-02 11:26:39 +00003215- Issue #3039: Fix tarfile.TarFileCompat.writestr() which always
3216 raised an AttributeError.
3217
Benjamin Peterson01a24322008-07-28 23:35:27 +00003218- Issue #2523: Fix quadratic behaviour when read()ing a binary file without
Antoine Pitroude781a42008-08-09 12:43:23 +00003219 asking for a specific length. This problem only affected files opened
3220 using the new "io" module, not the built-in open() function.
Benjamin Peterson01a24322008-07-28 23:35:27 +00003221
Mark Dickinsonfe84cce2008-07-27 06:39:07 +00003222- Issue #3449: Update decimal module to use most recent specification
3223 (v. 1.68) and tests (v. 2.58) from IBM.
3224
Skip Montanarof9ac43f2008-07-27 00:50:41 +00003225- Issue 3437: Bug fix in robotparser parsing of Allow: lines.
3226
Raymond Hettinger8c664e82008-07-25 18:43:33 +00003227- Issue 1592: Improve error reporting when operations are attempted
3228 on a closed shelf.
3229
Georg Brandlf9efabb2008-07-23 15:16:45 +00003230- Deprecate the "ast" parser function aliases.
3231
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00003232- Issue #3120: On 64-bit Windows the subprocess module was truncating handles.
3233
3234- Issue #3303: Fix a crash in locale.strcoll() when calling it with
3235 invalid arguments.
3236
3237- Issue #3302: Fix several crashes when calling locale's gettext functions
3238 with None arguments.
3239
3240- Issue #3389: Allow resolving dotted names for handlers in logging
3241 configuration files.
3242
3243- Deprecate the sunaudio module for removal in Python 3.0.
3244
Antoine Pitrou5fdfa3e2008-07-25 19:42:26 +00003245- Issue #3394: zipfile.writestr sets external attributes when passed a
3246 file name rather than a ZipInfo instance, so files are extracted with
3247 mode 0600 rather than 000 under Unix.
3248
Gregory P. Smitha36f8fe2008-08-04 00:13:29 +00003249- Issue #1857: subprocess.Popen.poll gained an additional _deadstate keyword
3250 argument in python 2.5, this broke code that subclassed Popen to include its
3251 own poll method. Fixed my moving _deadstate to an _internal_poll method.
3252
Martin v. Löwis8dbf3642008-08-01 14:10:26 +00003253Build
3254-----
3255
3256- Generate the PatternGrammar pickle during "make install".
3257
Nick Coghlan2a0c2b12008-08-04 12:47:17 +00003258Documentation
3259-------------
3260
Nick Coghlan6e8fef02008-08-18 13:14:22 +00003261- Issue #2235: the C API function PyObject_HashNotImplemented and its
3262 interaction with the tp_hash slot (added in 2.6b2) are now documented
3263
Nick Coghlan2a0c2b12008-08-04 12:47:17 +00003264- Issue #643841: The language reference now provides more detailed
3265 coverage of the lookup process for special methods. The disclaimers
3266 regarding lack of coverage of new-style classes have also been
3267 removed, since the coverage is now fairly reasonable.
3268
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00003269
Raymond Hettingere3ae6552008-06-20 04:18:15 +00003270What's New in Python 2.6 beta 2?
3271================================
3272
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00003273*Release date: 17-Jul-2008*
3274
Raymond Hettingere3ae6552008-06-20 04:18:15 +00003275Core and Builtins
3276-----------------
3277
Georg Brandl3e483f62008-07-16 22:57:41 +00003278- Issue #3156: Fix inconsistent behavior of the bytearray type: all
3279 its methods now allow for items objects that can be converted to
3280 an integer using operator.index().
3281
Mark Dickinson64b7e502008-07-16 09:40:03 +00003282- Issue #3360: Fix incorrect parsing of '020000000000.0', which
3283 produced a ValueError instead of giving the correct float.
3284
Eric Smitha5fa5a22008-07-16 00:11:49 +00003285- Issue #3083: Add alternate (#) formatting for bin, oct, hex output
3286 for str.format(). This adds the prefix 0b, 0o, or 0x, respectively.
3287
Mark Dickinson7103aa42008-07-15 19:08:33 +00003288- Issue #3008: the float type has a new instance method 'float.hex'
3289 and a new class method 'float.fromhex' to convert floating-point
3290 numbers to and from hexadecimal strings, respectively.
3291
Nick Coghlan6d6bd442008-07-15 15:40:22 +00003292- Issue #2235: __hash__ is once again inherited by default. To allow
3293 collections.Hashable to remain meaningful in the presence of the
3294 default hash implementation (object.__hash__), it is now possible
3295 to explicit block inheritance of hash by setting __hash__=None at
3296 the Python level, or tp_hash=PyObject_HashNotImplemented at the C
3297 level.
3298
Nick Coghlanb028f502008-07-13 14:52:36 +00003299- Issue #3221: Issue a RuntimeWarning instead of raising SystemError if
3300 the parent module cannot be found while performing an absolute import.
3301 This means that an incorrectly defined __package__ attribute will
3302 now only prevent relative imports in that module rather than causing
3303 all imports from that module to fail.
3304
Nick Coghlan14ff9942008-07-08 14:21:42 +00003305- Issue #2517: Allow unicode messages in Exceptions again by correctly
3306 bypassing the instance dictionary when looking up __unicode__ on
3307 new-style classes.
3308
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbdd941f2008-07-01 20:38:04 +00003309- Issue #3242: Fix a crash inside the print statement, if sys.stdout is
3310 set to a custom object whose write() method happens to install
3311 another file in sys.stdout.
3312
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc1f40c8a2008-06-30 22:42:40 +00003313- Issue #3088: Corrected a race condition in classes derived from
3314 threading.local: the first member set by a thread could be saved in
3315 another thread's dictionary.
3316
Mark Dickinson1ec2fcd2008-06-20 14:53:43 +00003317- Issue #3004: Minor change to slice.indices(): the start and stop
3318 arguments are now treated identically, making the behaviour easier
3319 to describe and understand. For example, slice(None, -10,
3320 1).indices(9) now returns (0, 0, 1) instead of (0, -1, 1), and
3321 slice(None, 10, -1).indices(10) returns (9, 9, -1) instead of (9,
3322 10, -1).
3323
Georg Brandl278fc502008-07-19 12:46:12 +00003324- Issue #3219: Calling a function with repeated keyword arguments,
3325 f(a=2, a=23), would not cause a syntax error. This was a regression
3326 from 2.4 caused by the switch to the new compiler.
Benjamin Peterson175e4d92008-07-01 19:34:52 +00003327
Georg Brandl278fc502008-07-19 12:46:12 +00003328- Issue #2862: Make int and float freelist management consistent with
3329 other freelists. Changes their CompactFreeList apis into
3330 ClearFreeList apis and calls them via gc.collect().
Gregory P. Smith2fe77062008-07-06 03:35:58 +00003331
Brett Cannon8bb8fa52008-07-02 01:57:08 +00003332Library
3333-------
3334
Thomas Heller57adf222008-08-14 19:10:48 +00003335- Issue #3554: ctypes.string_at and ctypes.wstring_at did call Python
3336 api functions without holding the GIL, which could lead to a fatal
3337 error when they failed.
3338
Martin v. Löwisaabf4042008-08-02 07:20:25 +00003339- Issue #799428: Fix Tkinter.Misc._nametowidget to unwrap Tcl command objects.
3340
Jesse Noller7fb96402008-07-17 21:01:05 +00003341- Issue #3395: fix reference in test_multiprocessing to old debugInfo method
3342
Georg Brandla24869a2008-07-16 22:33:18 +00003343- Issue #3312: Fix two crashes in sqlite3.
3344
Georg Brandl86cbf812008-07-16 21:31:41 +00003345- Issue #1608818: Fix misbehavior in os.listdir() if readdir() fails.
3346
Jesse Noller13e9d582008-07-16 14:32:36 +00003347- Issue #3125: Remove copy_reg in multiprocessing and replace it with
3348 ForkingPickler.register() to resolve conflict with ctypes.
3349
Vinay Sajip51e65192008-07-18 09:01:10 +00003350- Issue #3090: Fixed ARCHFLAGS parsing on OS/X
Jesse Noller13e9d582008-07-16 14:32:36 +00003351
Thomas Heller880f5292008-07-15 19:39:38 +00003352- Issue #3313: Fixed a crash when a failed dlopen() call does not set
3353 a valid dlerror() message.
3354
Thomas Heller2bad6572008-07-15 17:19:50 +00003355- Issue #3258: Fixed a crash when a ctypes POINTER type to an
3356 incomplete structure was created.
3357
Brett Cannon3d0b9f02008-07-13 01:15:07 +00003358- Issue #3339: dummy_thread.acquire() should not return None.
3359
Raymond Hettingerb01713e2008-07-10 14:34:57 +00003360- Issue #3285: Fractions from_float() and from_decimal() accept Integral arguments.
3361
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00003362- Issue #3301: Bisect module behaved badly when lo was negative.
Raymond Hettinger3cd1e422008-07-10 14:03:19 +00003363
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc0f7cddc2008-07-06 21:34:39 +00003364- Issue #839496: SimpleHTTPServer used to open text files in text mode. This is
3365 both unnecessary (HTTP allows text content to be sent in several forms) and
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00003366 wrong because the actual transmitted size could differ from the
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc0f7cddc2008-07-06 21:34:39 +00003367 content-length. The problem had been corrected in the 2.4 branch, but never
3368 merged into trunk.
3369
Georg Brandle78fbcc2008-07-05 10:13:36 +00003370- Issue #2663: add filtering capability to shutil.copytree().
3371
Martin v. Löwis8c436412008-07-03 12:51:14 +00003372- Issue #1622: Correct interpretation of various ZIP header fields.
3373
3374- Issue #1526: Allow more than 64k files to be added to Zip64 file.
3375
3376- Issue #1746: Correct handling of zipfile archive comments (previously
3377 archives with comments over 4k were flagged as invalid). Allow writing
Vinay Sajip51e65192008-07-18 09:01:10 +00003378 Zip files with archives by setting the 'comment' attribute of a ZipFile.
Martin v. Löwis8c436412008-07-03 12:51:14 +00003379
Vinay Sajip51e65192008-07-18 09:01:10 +00003380- Issue #449227: The rlcompleter module now adds "(" to callable objects
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00003381 when completed.
Facundo Batista66c52772008-07-02 16:52:55 +00003382
Nick Coghlanc060b0e2008-07-02 13:09:19 +00003383- Issue #3190: Pydoc now hides the automatic module attribute __package__ (the
3384 handling is now the same as that of other special attributes like __name__).
3385
Brett Cannon8bb8fa52008-07-02 01:57:08 +00003386- Issue #2885 (partial): The urllib.urlopen() function has been deprecated for
3387 removal in Python 3.0 in favor of urllib2.urlopen().
3388
Gregory P. Smithf4140642008-07-06 07:16:40 +00003389- Issue #2113: Fix error in subprocess.Popen if the select system call is
3390 interrupted by a signal.
3391
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00003392- Issue #3309: Fix bz2.BZFile iterator to release its internal lock
Gregory P. Smith3b1e6b22008-07-07 04:31:58 +00003393 properly when raising an exception due to the bz2file being closed.
3394 Prevents a deadlock.
3395
Gregory P. Smithc4691ec2008-07-07 05:09:12 +00003396- Issue #3094: httplib.HTTPSConnection Host: headers no longer include the
3397 redundant ":443" port number designation when the connection is using the
3398 default https port (443).
3399
Gregory P. Smithdb3409c2008-07-17 03:13:05 +00003400- Issue #874900: after an os.fork() call the threading module state is cleaned
3401 up in the child process to prevent deadlock and report proper thread counts
3402 if the new process uses the threading module.
3403
Nick Coghlan38469e22008-07-13 12:23:47 +00003404Tests
3405-----
3406
3407- test.test_support.catch_warning now keeps track of all warnings it sees
3408 and is now better documented. Explicit unit tests for this context manager
3409 have been added to test_warnings.
3410
Martin v. Löwisd84fd952008-06-30 06:57:39 +00003411Build
3412-----
3413
3414- Issue #3215: Build sqlite3 as sqlite3.dll, not sqlite3.pyd.
3415
Brett Cannon8bb8fa52008-07-02 01:57:08 +00003416
Brett Cannon97aa1ae2008-07-11 00:12:52 +00003417Documentation
3418-------------
3419
Brett Cannonfeef51d2008-07-11 00:50:01 +00003420- Document that robotparser has been renamed to urllib.robotparser in
Brett Cannon963ffdb2008-07-11 00:48:57 +00003421 Python 3.0.
3422
Brett Cannonf6afa332008-07-11 00:16:30 +00003423- Document that urlparse has been renamed to urllib.parse in Python 3.0.
3424
Brett Cannon97aa1ae2008-07-11 00:12:52 +00003425- Document that urllib2 is split across multiple modules and renamed in
3426 Python 3.0.
3427
3428- Document that urllib is split across multiple modules and renamed in
3429 Python 3.0.
3430
3431
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00003432What's New in Python 2.6 beta 1?
3433================================
3434
Barry Warsawb5d17402008-06-19 01:48:07 +00003435*Release date: 18-June-2008*
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00003436
3437Core and Builtins
3438-----------------
3439
Brett Cannondea1b562008-06-27 00:31:13 +00003440- Issue #3211: warnings.warn_explicit() did not guard against its 'registry'
3441 argument being anything other than a dict or None. Also fixed a bug in error
3442 handling when 'message' and 'category' were both set to None, triggering a
3443 bus error.
3444
Amaury Forgeot d'Arca8919fe2008-06-16 19:12:42 +00003445- Issue #3100: Corrected a crash on deallocation of a subclassed weakref which
3446 holds the last (strong) reference to its referent.
3447
Georg Brandl89f48872008-06-11 18:55:38 +00003448- Add future_builtins.ascii().
3449
Raymond Hettinger5c4d3d02008-06-09 13:07:27 +00003450- Several set methods now accept multiple arguments: update(), union(),
Raymond Hettinger4267be62008-06-11 10:30:54 +00003451 intersection(), intersection_update(), difference(), and difference_update().
Raymond Hettingeree4bcad2008-06-09 08:33:37 +00003452
Robert Schuppenies51df0642008-06-01 16:16:17 +00003453- Issue #2898: Added sys.getsizeof() to retrieve size of objects in bytes.
3454
Martin v. Löwis99815892008-06-01 07:20:46 +00003455- New environment variable PYTHONIOENCODING.
3456
Martin v. Löwis4dd019f2008-05-20 08:11:19 +00003457- Patch #2488: Add sys.maxsize.
3458
Georg Brandla9916b52008-05-17 22:11:54 +00003459- Issue #2353: file.xreadlines() now emits a Py3k warning.
3460
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003461- Issue #2863: generators now have a ``gen.__name__`` attribute that
3462 equals ``gen.gi_code.co_name``, like ``func.__name___`` that equals
3463 ``func.func_code.co_name``. The repr() of a generator now also
3464 contains this name.
Georg Brandlc91210c2008-05-15 15:08:32 +00003465
Georg Brandlbd85eb12008-05-14 06:34:15 +00003466- Issue #2831: enumerate() now has a ``start`` argument.
3467
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003468- Issue #2801: fix bug in the float.is_integer method where a
3469 ValueError was sometimes incorrectly raised.
Mark Dickinsone81c3762008-05-09 16:14:15 +00003470
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003471- Issue #2790: sys.flags was not properly exposing its bytes_warning
3472 attribute.
Brett Cannon3c1d50a2008-05-08 20:23:54 +00003473
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003474- Issue #2196: hasattr() now lets exceptions which do not inherit
3475 Exception (KeyboardInterrupt, and SystemExit) propagate instead of
3476 ignoring them.
Benjamin Petersonb9030f42008-05-12 00:41:23 +00003477
Gregory P. Smith9d534572008-06-11 07:41:16 +00003478- Added checks for integer overflows, contributed by Google. Some are
3479 only available if asserts are left in the code, in cases where they
3480 can't be triggered from Python code.
3481
3482
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00003483Extension Modules
3484-----------------
Guido van Rossum84b1e0f2008-08-20 14:57:20 +00003485- Issue #1179: [CVE-2007-4965] Integer overflow in imageop module.
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00003486
Raymond Hettinger305480c2008-06-16 01:42:40 +00003487- Issue #3116: marshal.dumps() had quadratic behavior for strings > 32Mb.
3488
Andrew M. Kuchling2126bab2008-06-22 13:39:11 +00003489- Issue #2138: Add factorial() to the math module.
Raymond Hettingerecbdd2e2008-06-09 06:54:45 +00003490
Raymond Hettinger6d7702e2008-05-31 03:24:31 +00003491- The heapq module does comparisons using LT instead of LE. This
3492 makes its implementation match that used by list.sort().
3493
Mark Dickinson99dfe922008-05-23 01:35:30 +00003494- Issue #2819: add full-precision summation function to math module,
3495 based on Hettinger's ASPN Python Cookbook recipe.
3496
Georg Brandl88659b02008-05-20 08:40:43 +00003497- Issue #2592: delegate nb_index and the floor/truediv slots in
3498 weakref.proxy.
3499
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003500- Support os.O_ASYNC and fcntl.FASYNC if the constants exist on the
3501 platform.
Georg Brandl5049a852008-05-16 13:10:15 +00003502
Brett Cannon044616a2008-05-15 02:33:55 +00003503- Support for Windows 9x has been removed from the winsound module.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcf9b54c22008-05-12 21:30:24 +00003504
Jesus Cea09c01782008-09-28 23:24:19 +00003505- bsddb module updated to version 4.7.3.
Jesus Cea4907d272008-08-31 14:00:51 +00003506 http://www.jcea.es/programacion/pybsddb.htm#bsddb3-4.7.3. This
3507 code should be compatible with Python 3.0.
Jesus Ceaef9764f2008-05-13 18:45:46 +00003508
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003509- Issue #2858: Fix potential memory corruption when
3510 bsddb.db.DBEnv.lock_get and other bsddb.db object constructors
3511 raised an exception.
Gregory P. Smith664782e2008-05-17 06:12:02 +00003512
Gregory P. Smith5d7d6c32008-05-25 08:32:04 +00003513- Issue #2669: bsddb/__init__.py iteration no longer silently fails when
3514 the database has changed size during iteration. It now raises a
3515 RuntimeError in the same manner as a dictionary.
3516
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003517- Issue #2870: cmathmodule.c compile error.
Christian Heimes0bd23c02008-05-16 10:23:31 +00003518
Benjamin Petersond8a89722008-08-18 16:40:03 +00003519- Added a threading.Thread.ident property.
Gregory P. Smith8856dda2008-06-01 23:48:47 +00003520
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00003521Library
3522-------
3523
Vinay Sajip1e022682008-06-29 21:27:15 +00003524- logging.config: Removed out-of-date comment in _install_handlers and
3525 used issubclass in place of equality comparison of classes.
3526
Facundo Batista5596b0c2008-06-22 13:36:20 +00003527- Issue #2722: Now the os.getcwd() supports very long path names.
3528
Facundo Batista2da91c32008-06-21 17:43:56 +00003529- Issue #2888: Fixed the behaviour of pprint when working with nested
3530 structures, to match the behaviour of 2.5 and 3.0 (now follows the common
3531 sense).
3532
Facundo Batistaa6a4d502008-06-21 18:58:04 +00003533- Issue #1817: cgi now correctly handles the querystring on POST requests
3534
Vinay Sajip8dc20fd2008-06-19 22:41:08 +00003535- Issue #3136: fileConfig()'s disabling of old loggers is now conditional via
3536 an optional disable_existing_loggers parameter, but the default value is
3537 such that the old behaviour is preserved. Thanks to Leandro Lucarella for
3538 the patch.
3539
Vinay Sajip9828b7e2008-06-17 11:04:02 +00003540- Issue #3126: StreamHandler and FileHandler check before calling "flush" and
3541 "close" that the stream object has these, using hasattr (thanks to bobf for
3542 the patch).
3543
Benjamin Peterson5c0be322008-06-13 15:11:50 +00003544- Issue #2912: platform.uname now tries to determine unknown information even if
3545 os.uname exists.
3546
Benjamin Peterson26305a02008-06-12 22:33:06 +00003547- The rfc822 module has been deprecated for removal in 3.0.
3548
Benjamin Petersona03722f2008-06-12 14:23:49 +00003549- The mimetools module has been deprecated for removal in 3.0.
3550
Thomas Heller1cec7aa2008-06-10 14:07:12 +00003551- The ctypes.byref function now takes an optional second parameter
3552 which allows to specify an offset in bytes for the constructed
3553 pointer-like object.
3554
Georg Brandl8509db52008-06-10 07:45:28 +00003555- Added the ast module.
3556
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00003557- Added the multiprocessing module, PEP 371.
Benjamin Peterson6f7ae692008-06-11 20:04:30 +00003558
Georg Brandl7be19aa2008-06-07 15:59:10 +00003559- Factored out the indentation cleaning from inspect.getdoc() into
3560 inspect.cleandoc() to ease standalone use.
3561
Thomas Hellerfbb9c0b2008-06-06 08:33:46 +00003562- Issue #1798: Add ctypes calling convention that allows safe access
3563 to errno.
3564
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00003565- Issue #2404: ctypes objects support the new pep3118 buffer interface.
Thomas Heller59475e92008-06-05 17:52:59 +00003566
Vinay Sajip9828b7e2008-06-17 11:04:02 +00003567- Patch #2125: Add GetInteger and GetString methods for
Martin v. Löwisffe62ed2008-06-02 08:40:06 +00003568 msilib.Record objects.
3569
Gregory P. Smith137d8242008-06-02 04:05:52 +00003570- Issue #2782: The datetime module's strftime methods now accept
3571 unicode format strings just as time.strftime always has.
3572
Georg Brandlac19d852008-06-01 21:19:14 +00003573- The sgmllib and htmllib modules have been deprecated for removal
3574 in Python 3.0.
3575
3576- Issue #3011: locale module alias table was updated to the latest
3577 version from the X.org locale.alias file.
Marc-André Lemburgadff65b2008-05-30 20:52:18 +00003578
Thomas Heller9287acf2008-05-29 19:42:34 +00003579- Issue #1797 (partial fix): ctypes NULL function pointers have a
3580 False boolean value now.
3581
Georg Brandld0b592f2008-05-29 07:45:26 +00003582- Issue #2985: Allow 64-bit integer responses (``<i8>``) in XMLRPC
3583 transfers.
3584
3585- Issue #2877: The UserString.MutableString class has been removed in
3586 Python 3.0.
Brett Cannonabb34fe2008-05-29 05:08:50 +00003587
Lars Gustäbelb1a54a32008-05-27 12:39:23 +00003588- Do not close external file objects passed to tarfile.open(mode='w:bz2')
3589 when the TarFile is closed.
3590
Georg Brandle08e3d02008-05-25 08:07:37 +00003591- Issue #2959: For consistency with other file-like objects, gzip's
3592 GzipFile.close() can now be called multiple times without raising
3593 an exception.
3594
Martin v. Löwis27e4a172008-05-23 15:18:28 +00003595- Issue #1390: Raise ValueError in toxml when an invalid comment would
3596 otherwise be produced.
3597
Vinay Sajipc0128832008-05-20 15:37:22 +00003598- Issue #2914: TimedRotatingFileHandler now takes an optional keyword
3599 argument "utc" to use UTC time rather than local time.
3600
3601- Issue #2929: TimedRotatingFileHandler was using the wrong path when
3602 deleting old log files (filename only instead of full path).
3603
Georg Brandl112aa502008-05-20 08:25:48 +00003604- Issue #1775025: You can now specify zipfile members to open(),
3605 read() or extract() via a ZipInfo instance. This allows handling
3606 duplicate filenames in zipfiles.
3607
Georg Brandl28fdfa92008-05-17 17:57:01 +00003608- Issue #961805: Fix Text.edit_modified() in Tkinter.
3609
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003610- Issue #1793: Function ctypes.util.find_msvcrt() added that returns
Thomas Heller95ba13f2008-05-16 20:06:31 +00003611 the name of the C runtime library that Python uses.
3612 ctypes.util.find_library(name) now call this function when name is
3613 'm' or 'c'.
3614
Brett Cannonfa40bbf2008-05-16 00:50:02 +00003615- The statvfs module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
3616
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003617- The sunaudiodev and SUNAUDIODEV modules have been deprecated for
3618 removal in Python 3.0.
3619
3620- The WAIT module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
3621 3.0.
3622
3623- The torgb module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
3624 3.0.
3625
3626- The SV module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
3627 3.0.
3628
3629- The readcd module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
Brett Cannon22248172008-05-16 00:10:24 +00003630 Python 3.0.
3631
Brett Cannon11ae6e72008-05-15 03:49:00 +00003632- The panelparser module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
3633 Python 3.0.
3634
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003635- The panel module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
3636 3.0.
Brett Cannon7e375862008-05-15 03:46:27 +00003637
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003638- The jpeg module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
3639 3.0.
Brett Cannon89f5d9c2008-05-15 03:44:00 +00003640
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003641- The IOCTL module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
3642 3.0.
Brett Cannond8c41ec2008-05-15 03:41:55 +00003643
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003644- The IN module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
3645 3.0.
Brett Cannon6328b292008-05-15 03:36:13 +00003646
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003647- The imgfile module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
Brett Cannon178582e2008-05-15 03:20:36 +00003648 Python 3.0.
3649
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003650- The GLWS module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
3651 3.0.
Brett Cannon72ccc402008-05-15 03:17:24 +00003652
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003653- The GET module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
3654 3.0.
Brett Cannon2773b6f2008-05-15 03:14:57 +00003655
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003656- The fm module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
3657 3.0.
3658
3659- The FL, flp, and fl modules from IRIX have been deprecated for
3660 removal in Python 3.0.
3661
3662- The FILE module on IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
3663 3.0.
3664
3665- The ERRNO module on IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
3666 3.0.
3667
3668- The DEVICE, GL, gl, and cgen modules (which indirectly includes
3669 cgensupport) have been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
Brett Cannon044616a2008-05-15 02:33:55 +00003670
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003671- The CL, CL_old, and cl modules for IRIX have been deprecated for
3672 removal in Python 3.0.
3673
3674- The cdplayer module for IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
Brett Cannon650f5162008-05-14 21:12:12 +00003675 Python 3.0.
3676
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003677- The cddb module for IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
3678 3.0.
Brett Cannon9eebe492008-05-14 20:34:22 +00003679
Brett Cannonddf949f2008-05-14 20:31:38 +00003680- The cd and CD modules for IRIX have been deprecated for removal in
3681 Python 3.0.
3682
Brett Cannon34721d52008-05-14 01:08:21 +00003683- The al and AL modules for IRIX have been deprecated for removal in
3684 Python 3.0.
3685
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003686- Issue #1713041: fix pprint's handling of maximum depth.
Georg Brandl23da6e62008-05-12 16:26:52 +00003687
Brett Cannonbb141bb2008-05-12 03:47:47 +00003688- The timing module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
3689
Brett Cannonac861b52008-05-12 03:45:59 +00003690- The sv module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
3691
Brett Cannon43e5ef42008-05-12 03:19:20 +00003692- The multifile module has been deprecated as per PEP 4.
3693
Brett Cannon42bfa902008-05-12 00:08:34 +00003694- The imageop module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
3695
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003696- Issue #2250: Exceptions raised during evaluation of names in
3697 rlcompleter's ``Completer.complete()`` method are now caught and
3698 ignored.
Georg Brandl627a6662008-05-11 21:03:42 +00003699
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003700- Issue #2659: Added ``break_on_hyphens`` option to textwrap
3701 TextWrapper class.
Georg Brandl6f95ae52008-05-11 10:42:28 +00003702
Brett Cannon2a869132008-05-11 03:01:47 +00003703- The mhlib module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
3704
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003705- The linuxaudiodev module has been deprecated for removal in Python
3706 3.0.
Brett Cannondf0a7172008-05-11 00:50:51 +00003707
Brett Cannon27508d42008-05-10 22:45:07 +00003708- The ihooks module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
3709
Brett Cannonfe598512008-05-10 22:11:45 +00003710- The fpformat module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
3711
Brett Cannone35a3a12008-05-10 21:22:43 +00003712- The dl module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
3713
Brett Cannond5a09852008-05-10 03:14:32 +00003714- The Canvas module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
3715
Brett Cannon6192df12008-05-10 02:58:26 +00003716- The compiler package has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
3717
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003718- The Bastion and rexec modules have been deprecated for removal in
3719 Python 3.0.
Brett Cannoncda73a42008-05-10 02:53:46 +00003720
Brett Cannon768d44f2008-05-10 02:47:54 +00003721- The bsddb185 module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
3722
Brett Cannon9ac39742008-05-09 22:51:58 +00003723- The pure module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
3724
Mark Dickinsonf8476c12008-05-09 17:54:23 +00003725- Issue #2487: change the semantics of math.ldexp(x, n) when n is too
3726 large to fit in a C long. ldexp(x, n) now returns a zero (with
3727 suitable sign) if n is large and negative; previously, it raised
3728 OverflowError.
3729
Brett Cannonfa24d9a2008-05-09 05:32:42 +00003730- The toaiff module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
3731
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003732- The test.testall module has been deprecated for removal in Python
3733 3.0.
Brett Cannon3c759142008-05-09 05:25:37 +00003734
Brett Cannond7265d62008-05-09 05:18:40 +00003735- The new module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
3736
Brett Cannone3b19402008-05-08 20:36:09 +00003737- The user module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
3738
Brett Cannon6071cc82008-05-08 19:52:45 +00003739- The stringold module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
3740
3741- The mutex module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
Brett Cannon9d441822008-05-08 19:26:08 +00003742
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00003743- The imputil module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
3744
Brett Cannoncae4f5f2008-05-08 20:24:43 +00003745- test.test_support.catch_warning() gained a 'record' argument.
3746
Benjamin Peterson0893a0a2008-05-09 00:27:01 +00003747- os.path.walk is deprecated in favor of os.walk.
3748
Georg Brandl9020ff82008-05-11 14:17:13 +00003749- pdb gained the "until" command.
Benjamin Peterson98353942008-05-11 14:13:25 +00003750
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003751- The Mac Modules (including Carbon) have been deprecated for removal
3752 in Python 3.0.
Benjamin Peterson23681932008-05-12 21:42:13 +00003753
Vinay Sajip9828b7e2008-06-17 11:04:02 +00003754- Library: on MacOS X you can now set ``ARCHFLAGS`` in the shell
Ronald Oussoren5640ce22008-06-05 12:58:24 +00003755 environment to control the '-arch' flags that are used to build
3756 an extension. This was added for compatibility with Apple's build
3757 of Python.
3758
3759- The bundled OSX-specific copy of libbffi is now in sync with the version
3760 shipped with PyObjC 2.0 and includes support for x86_64 and ppc64 platforms.
3761
Georg Brandl25c34082008-08-18 23:09:49 +00003762- The threading module gained aliases for names that will be removed in the
3763 3.x series.
Benjamin Peterson0fbcf692008-06-11 17:27:50 +00003764
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00003765Build
3766-----
3767
Martin v. Löwiscc0f2b22008-06-13 18:12:51 +00003768- The Windows installer now includes Tk 8.5, bzip2 1.0.5, and SQLite 3.5.9.
Martin v. Löwis76307312008-06-12 18:52:00 +00003769
Martin v. Löwis8c255e42008-05-23 15:06:50 +00003770- Patch #1722225: Support QNX 6.
3771
Brett Cannonb61d8012008-05-11 23:39:04 +00003772- ``Lib/lib-old`` is now added to sys.path.
3773
Ronald Oussoren5640ce22008-06-05 12:58:24 +00003774- On MacOS X it is now possible to install the framework in 64-bit
3775 mode or even as a 4-way universal binary (that is, PPC, i386,
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00003776 PPC64 and x86_64 support in one binary).
Ronald Oussoren5640ce22008-06-05 12:58:24 +00003777
3778 This is controlled by the configure argument ``--with-universal-archs``:
3779
3780 - ``--with-universal-archs=all``: install 4-way universal
3781
3782 - ``--with-universal-archs=32-bit``: install 2-way universal, 32-bit (the default)
3783
3784 - ``--with-universal-archs=64-bit``: install 2-way universal, 64-bit
3785
3786 This option should be used in combination with ``--enable-universalsdk=``.
3787
3788 NOTE: 64-bit and 4-way builds are only suppported on Mac OS X 10.5 (or later).
3789
3790
Christian Heimes7a990612008-05-26 13:15:11 +00003791C API
3792-----
3793
Georg Brandl74a1dea2008-05-28 11:21:39 +00003794- Add ``PyType_Modified()`` as a public API to clear the type cache.
3795
3796- The PyBytes functions have been renamed to PyByteArray.
Christian Heimes7a990612008-05-26 13:15:11 +00003797
3798- The PyString functions have been renamed to PyBytes. A batch of
3799 defines were added so that the linker still sees the original
3800 PyString names.
3801
Georg Brandl5e7b1c02008-05-16 17:40:23 +00003802
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00003803What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 3?
Barry Warsaw65475fd2008-03-01 17:11:41 +00003804=================================
3805
Barry Warsaw6cc79402008-05-08 13:16:19 +00003806*Release date: 08-May-2008*
Barry Warsaw65475fd2008-03-01 17:11:41 +00003807
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd21fb4c2008-03-05 01:50:33 +00003808Core and builtins
3809-----------------
Georg Brandl80055f62008-03-25 07:56:27 +00003810
Georg Brandl28e08732008-04-30 19:47:09 +00003811- Issue #2719: backported the ``next()`` builtin from Python 3.
3812
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003813- Issue #2681: The octal literal ``0o8`` was incorrecly acctepted. Now
3814 it properly raises a SyntaxError.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc52167212008-04-24 18:07:05 +00003815
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003816- Issue #2617: Reserved -J and -X arguments for Jython, IronPython and
3817 other implementations of Python.
Christian Heimes7a98d272008-04-12 13:03:03 +00003818
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003819- Implemented PEP 370: Per user site-packages directory.
Christian Heimesaf748c32008-05-06 22:41:46 +00003820
Andrew M. Kuchling46d6b682008-04-30 16:19:55 +00003821Extension Modules
3822-----------------
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00003823
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003824- Issue #2670: Fix a failure in urllib2.build_opener(), when passed
3825 two handlers that derive the same default base class.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc96865852008-04-22 21:14:41 +00003826
Christian Heimese74c8f22008-04-19 02:23:57 +00003827- Added kill, terminate and send_signal(sig) to subprocess.Popen.
3828
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003829- Added phase(z) -> phi, polar(z) -> r, phi and rect(r, phi) -> z to
3830 the cmath module.
Christian Heimes6f341092008-04-18 23:13:07 +00003831
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003832- Four new methods were added to the math and cmath modules: acosh,
3833 asinh, atanh and log1p.
Christian Heimes6f341092008-04-18 23:13:07 +00003834
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003835- zlib.decompressobj().flush(value) no longer crashes the interpreter
3836 when passed a value less than or equal to zero.
Gregory P. Smith671c5d92008-04-09 18:18:43 +00003837
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003838- Issue #1631171: Re-implement the 'warnings' module in C (the
3839 original Python code has been kept as backup). This will allow for
3840 using the 'warning's machinery in such places as the parser where
3841 use of pure Python code is not possible. Both the ``showarning()``
3842 and ``formatwarning()`` gain an optional 'line' argument which is
3843 not called by default for backwards-compatibility reasons. Setting
3844 ``warnings.showwarning()`` to an implementation that lacks support
3845 for the ``line`` argument will raise a DeprecationWarning.
Brett Cannone9746892008-04-12 23:44:07 +00003846
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00003847Library
3848-------
3849
Brett Cannonf8436822008-05-06 23:41:32 +00003850- The audiodev module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
3851
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003852- Issue #2750: Add the 'json' package. Based on simplejson 1.9 and
3853 contributed by Bob Ippolito.
Brett Cannon4b964f92008-05-05 20:21:38 +00003854
Martin v. Löwis471617d2008-05-05 17:16:58 +00003855- Issue #1734346: Support Unicode file names for zipfiles.
3856
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003857- Issue #2581: distutils: Vista UAC/elevation support for
3858 bdist_wininst.
Mark Hammond7c5c8e62008-05-02 12:48:15 +00003859
Mark Dickinsonfe536f52008-04-25 16:59:09 +00003860- Issue #2635: Fix bug in 'fix_sentence_endings' textwrap.fill option,
3861 where an extra space was added after a word containing (but not
3862 ending in) '.', '!' or '?'.
3863
Thomas Heller6ad5fbb2008-04-25 15:44:16 +00003864- Add from_buffer() and from_buffer_copy() class methods to ctypes
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00003865 data types.
Thomas Heller6ad5fbb2008-04-25 15:44:16 +00003866
Neal Norwitz2b0bea52008-04-25 03:40:17 +00003867- Issue #2682: ctypes callback functions no longer contain a cyclic
Thomas Hellerbf027c42008-04-24 18:14:19 +00003868 reference to themselves.
3869
Gregory P. Smithd59fefb2008-04-22 08:11:33 +00003870- The getpass module has been improved on Unix. It now uses /dev/tty
3871 by default and uses stderr instead of stdout. A GetPassWarning is
3872 issued when input echo cannot be controlled.
Gregory P. Smith41e30182008-04-21 21:31:08 +00003873
Skip Montanarob131f042008-04-18 20:35:46 +00003874- Issue #2014: Allow XML-RPC datetime objects to have dates before
3875 1900-01-01.
3876
Nick Coghlan106fc482008-04-15 10:25:31 +00003877- Issue #2439: Added new function pkgutil.get_data(), which is a
3878 convenience wrapper for the PEP 302 get_data() API.
3879
Thomas Heller046e6a42008-04-14 16:10:07 +00003880- Issue #2616: The ctypes.pointer() and ctypes.POINTER() functions are
3881 now implemented in C for better performance.
3882
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003883- Issue #2408: The ``_types`` module, which was used as in
3884 implementation detail of the public ``types`` module, has been
3885 removed and replaced by pure python code.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc02f33b42008-04-08 23:10:07 +00003886
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003887- Issue #2513: distutils on Windows is now capable of cross-compiling
Mark Hammond495cf992008-04-07 01:53:39 +00003888 extension modules between 32 and 64 bit platforms. See the distutls
3889 build documentation for more information.
3890
Gregory P. Smithaa63d0d2008-04-06 23:11:17 +00003891- Issue #815646: Individual file objects may now be used from multiple
3892 threads at once without fear of crashing the Python interpreter. If
3893 file.close() is called while an object is in use by another thread
3894 an IOError exception will be raised and the file will not be closed.
3895
Thomas Hellerf7906482008-04-04 19:43:25 +00003896- The bundled libffi copy is now in sync with the recently released
3897 libffi3.0.5 version, apart from some small changes to
3898 Modules/_ctypes/libffi/configure.ac.
3899
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003900- Issue #2385: distutils.core.run_script() makes __file__ available,
3901 so the controlled environment will more closely mirror the typical
3902 script environment. This supports setup.py scripts that refer to
3903 data files.
Fred Drake46c58c12008-04-04 05:41:30 +00003904
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00003905Tests
3906-----
Trent Nelsone41b0062008-04-08 23:47:30 +00003907
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003908- Issue #2550: The approach used by client/server code for obtaining
3909 ports to listen on in network-oriented tests has been refined in an
3910 effort to facilitate running multiple instances of the entire
3911 regression test suite in parallel without issue.
3912 test_support.bind_port() has been fixed such that it will always
3913 return a unique port -- which wasn't always the case with the
3914 previous implementation, especially if socket options had been set
3915 that affected address reuse (i.e. SO_REUSEADDR, SO_REUSEPORT). The
3916 new implementation of bind_port() will actually raise an exception
3917 if it is passed an AF_INET/SOCK_STREAM socket with either the
3918 SO_REUSEADDR or SO_REUSEPORT socket option set. Furthermore, if
3919 available, bind_port() will set the SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE option on
3920 the socket it's been passed. This currently only applies to
3921 Windows. This option prevents any other sockets from binding to the
3922 host/port we've bound to, thus removing the possibility of the
3923 'non-deterministic' behaviour, as Microsoft puts it, that occurs
3924 when a second SOCK_STREAM socket binds and accepts to a host/port
3925 that's already been bound by another socket. The optional preferred
3926 port parameter to bind_port() has been removed. Under no
3927 circumstances should tests be hard coding ports!
3928
3929 test_support.find_unused_port() has also been introduced, which will
3930 pass a temporary socket object to bind_port() in order to obtain an
3931 unused port. The temporary socket object is then closed and
3932 deleted, and the port is returned. This method should only be used
3933 for obtaining an unused port in order to pass to an external program
3934 (i.e. the -accept [port] argument to openssl's s_server mode) or as
3935 a parameter to a server-oriented class that doesn't give you direct
3936 access to the underlying socket used.
3937
3938 Finally, test_support.HOST has been introduced, which should be used
3939 for the host argument of any relevant socket calls (i.e. bind and
3940 connect).
Trent Nelsone41b0062008-04-08 23:47:30 +00003941
3942 The following tests were updated to following the new conventions:
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003943 test_socket, test_smtplib, test_asyncore, test_ssl, test_httplib,
Trent Nelsone41b0062008-04-08 23:47:30 +00003944 test_poplib, test_ftplib, test_telnetlib, test_socketserver,
3945 test_asynchat and test_socket_ssl.
3946
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003947 It is now possible for multiple instances of the regression test
3948 suite to run in parallel without issue.
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00003949
3950Build
3951-----
3952
Mark Dickinson65134662008-04-25 16:11:04 +00003953- Issue #1496032: On alpha, use -mieee when gcc is the compiler.
3954
Thomas Hellerdc96a772008-04-04 10:07:55 +00003955- Issue #2544: On HP-UX systems, use 'gcc -shared' for linking when
3956 gcc is used as compiler.
3957
Ronald Oussoren580c7fe2008-05-02 19:45:11 +00003958- Issue #2573: On MacOS X it is now possible to install the framework
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003959 with a different name using --with-framework-name=NAME.
Ronald Oussoren580c7fe2008-05-02 19:45:11 +00003960
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00003961C API
3962-----
3963
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003964- Added implementation of copysign, acosh, asinh, atanh and log1p to
3965 the new files Include/pymath.h and Python/pymath.h for platforms
3966 which provide the functions through their libm. The files also
3967 contains several helpers and constants for math.
Christian Heimes6f341092008-04-18 23:13:07 +00003968
Benjamin Petersondacde0d2008-05-26 17:43:53 +00003969- Added a new convenience macro, PyErr_WarnPy3k, for issuing Py3k warnings.
Benjamin Petersona692c4d2008-04-27 02:28:02 +00003970
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00003971
3972What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 2?
3973=================================
3974
3975*Release date: 02-Apr-2008*
3976
3977Core and builtins
3978-----------------
3979
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003980- Issue #1733757: The interpreter would hang on shutdown if the
3981 tracing function set by sys.settrace is still active and happens to
3982 call threading.currentThread().
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd7a26512008-04-03 23:07:55 +00003983
Georg Brandl91e0cda2008-03-29 01:50:06 +00003984- Patch #1442: properly report exceptions when the PYTHONSTARTUP file
3985 cannot be executed.
3986
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc69b747b2008-03-28 20:30:50 +00003987- The compilation of a class nested in another class used to leak one
3988 reference on the outer class name.
3989
Georg Brandlfc8eef32008-03-28 12:11:56 +00003990- Patch #1810: compile() can now compile _ast trees as returned by
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003991 ``compile(..., PyCF_ONLY_AST)``.
Georg Brandlfc8eef32008-03-28 12:11:56 +00003992
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003993- Patch #2426: Added sqlite3.Connection.iterdump method to allow easy
3994 dumping of databases. Contributed by Paul Kippes at PyCon 2008.
Gregory P. Smithb9803422008-03-28 08:32:09 +00003995
Georg Brandldeaf2ca2008-03-27 13:27:31 +00003996- Patch #2477: Added from __future__ import unicode_literals.
Christian Heimes3c608332008-03-26 22:01:37 +00003997
Christian Heimes8c78cc32008-03-26 12:53:58 +00003998- Added backport of bytearray type.
3999
Georg Brandl80055f62008-03-25 07:56:27 +00004000- Issue #2355: add Py3k warning for buffer().
4001
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc9a0d3462008-03-23 09:55:29 +00004002- Issue #1477: With narrow Unicode builds, the unicode escape sequence
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004003 \Uxxxxxxxx did not accept values outside the Basic Multilingual
4004 Plane. This affected raw unicode literals and the
4005 'raw-unicode-escape' codec. Now UTF-16 surrogates are generated in
4006 this case, like normal unicode literals and the 'unicode-escape'
4007 codec.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc9a0d3462008-03-23 09:55:29 +00004008
Georg Brandl65bb42d2008-03-21 20:38:24 +00004009- Issue #2348: add Py3k warning for file.softspace.
4010
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004011- Issue #2346/#2347: add Py3k warnings for __methods__ and
4012 __members__.
Georg Brandl07e56812008-03-21 20:21:46 +00004013
Georg Brandl5a444242008-03-21 20:11:46 +00004014- Issue #2358: Add a Py3k warning on sys.exc_clear() usage.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd21fb4c2008-03-05 01:50:33 +00004015
Martin v. Löwisa4d77892008-03-19 04:39:13 +00004016- Issue #2400: Allow relative imports to "import *".
4017
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004018- Issue #1745: Backport print function with ``from __future__ import
4019 print_function``.
Eric Smith7c478942008-03-18 23:45:49 +00004020
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004021- Issue #2332: add new attribute names for instance method objects.
4022 The two changes are: im_self -> __self__ and im_func -> __func__
Neal Norwitzb1d3d962008-03-18 04:46:00 +00004023
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004024- Issue #2379: Raise a Py3K warning for __getitem__ or __getslice__ on
Guido van Rossum6d91be32008-03-18 04:42:22 +00004025 exception instances.
4026
Guido van Rossum04edb522008-03-18 02:49:46 +00004027- Issue #2371: Add a Py3k warning when catching an exception that
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004028 doesn't derive from BaseException.
4029
4030- Issue #2341: Add a Py3k warning when raising an exception that
4031 doesn't derive from BaseException.
Guido van Rossum04edb522008-03-18 02:49:46 +00004032
Neal Norwitz419fd492008-03-17 20:22:43 +00004033- Issue #2321: use pymalloc for unicode object string data to reduce
4034 memory usage in some circumstances.
4035
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004036- PEP 3127: octal literals now start with "0o". Old-style octal
4037 literals are still valid. There are binary literals with a prefix of
4038 "0b". This also affects int(x, 0).
Eric Smith0aed07a2008-03-17 19:43:40 +00004039
Georg Brandl1e7c3752008-03-25 08:37:23 +00004040- Issue #2359: Adding deprecation warnings for array.{read,write}.
4041
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004042- Issue #1779871: GNU gcc can now build Python on OS X because the
Jeffrey Yasskin1b4e45b2008-03-17 14:40:53 +00004043 flags -Wno-long-double, -no-cpp-precomp, and -mno-fused-madd are no
4044 longer passed.
4045
Neal Norwitz400aeda2008-03-15 22:03:18 +00004046- Add a warning when asserting a non-empty tuple which is always true.
4047
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004048- Issue #2179: speed up with statement execution by storing the exit
4049 method on the stack instead of in a temporary variable (patch by
4050 Jeffrey Yaskin)
Nick Coghlan7af53be2008-03-07 14:13:28 +00004051
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004052- Issue #2238: Some syntax errors in *args and **kwargs expressions
4053 could give bogus error messages.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd21fb4c2008-03-05 01:50:33 +00004054
Sean Reifscheider68fa8e62008-03-20 00:50:07 +00004055- Issue #2143: Fix embedded readline() hang on SSL socket EOF.
4056
Andrew M. Kuchling46d6b682008-04-30 16:19:55 +00004057Extension Modules
4058-----------------
Martin v. Löwisaef18b12008-03-24 13:31:16 +00004059
4060- Patch #2240: Implement signal.setitimer and signal.getitimer.
4061
Thomas Heller78b8f442008-03-05 14:53:39 +00004062Library
4063-------
4064
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004065- Issue #2315: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now accounts
4066 for daylight savings time in calculating the next rollover.
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00004067
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004068- Issue #2316: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now
4069 calculates rollovers correctly even when nothing is logged for a
4070 while.
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00004071
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004072- Issue #2317: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now uses
4073 improved logic for removing old files.
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00004074
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004075- Issue #2495: tokenize.untokenize now inserts a space between two
4076 consecutive string literals; previously, ["" ""] was rendered as
4077 [""""], which is incorrect python code.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcda0c0252008-03-27 23:23:54 +00004078
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004079- Issue #2248: return the result of the QUIT command. from
4080 SMTP.quit().
Georg Brandldeaf2ca2008-03-27 13:27:31 +00004081
Christian Heimes8c78cc32008-03-26 12:53:58 +00004082- Backport of Python 3.0's io module.
4083
Mark Dickinson8e85ffa2008-03-25 18:47:59 +00004084- Issue #2482: Make sure that the coefficient of a Decimal is always
4085 stored as a str instance, not as a unicode instance. This ensures
4086 that str(Decimal) is always an instance of str.
4087
Mark Dickinson3b24ccb2008-03-25 14:33:23 +00004088- Issue #2478: fix failure of decimal.Decimal(0).sqrt()
4089
Georg Brandl77354cf2008-03-21 20:01:51 +00004090- Issue #2432: give DictReader the dialect and line_num attributes
4091 advertised in the docs.
4092
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004093- Issue #2460: Make Ellipsis object copyable.
Raymond Hettingerb72233c2008-03-24 08:17:39 +00004094
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004095- Issue #1681432: Add triangular distribution to the random module
Raymond Hettingerbbc50ea2008-03-23 13:32:32 +00004096
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004097- Issue #2136: urllib2's auth handler now allows single-quoted realms
4098 in the WWW-Authenticate header.
Georg Brandl33124322008-03-21 19:54:00 +00004099
Marc-André Lemburga1867752008-03-20 18:08:00 +00004100- Issue #2434: Enhanced platform.win32_ver() to also work on Python
4101 installation which do not have the win32all package installed.
4102
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004103- Added support to platform.uname() to also report the machine and
4104 processor information on Windows XP and later. As a result,
Marc-André Lemburga1867752008-03-20 18:08:00 +00004105 platform.machine() and platform.processor() will report this
4106 information as well.
4107
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004108- The library implementing the 2to3 conversion, lib2to3, was added to
4109 the standard distribution.
Martin v. Löwis5e37bae2008-03-19 04:43:46 +00004110
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004111- Issue #1747858: Fix chown to work with large uid's and gid's on
4112 64-bit platforms.
Gregory P. Smith37f3f432008-03-18 20:40:01 +00004113
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004114- Issue #1202: zlib.crc32 and zlib.adler32 no longer return different
4115 values on 32-bit vs. 64-bit python interpreters. Both were correct,
4116 but they now both return a signed integer object for consistency.
Gregory P. Smithf48f9d32008-03-17 18:48:05 +00004117
Skip Montanaro32ed8c22008-03-15 16:07:11 +00004118- Issue #1158: add %f format (fractions of a second represented as
4119 microseconds) to datetime objects. Understood by both strptime and
4120 strftime.
4121
Mark Dickinsonc23b8a72008-03-14 14:23:37 +00004122- Issue #705836: struct.pack(">f", x) now raises OverflowError on all
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004123 platforms when x is too large to fit into an IEEE 754 float;
4124 previously it only raised OverflowError on non IEEE 754 platforms.
Mark Dickinsonc23b8a72008-03-14 14:23:37 +00004125
Andrew M. Kuchlingaac5c862008-05-11 14:00:00 +00004126- Issues #2166, #1741 and #1531505: now distutils deals with HOME
4127 correctly under win32
4128
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004129- Patch #1858: distutils: added multiple server support in .pypirc
Andrew M. Kuchlingaac5c862008-05-11 14:00:00 +00004130
Facundo Batistac54aec12008-03-08 16:50:27 +00004131- Issue #1106316: pdb.post_mortem()'s parameter, "traceback", is now
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004132 optional: it defaults to the traceback of the exception that is
4133 currently being handled (is mandatory to be in the middle of an
4134 exception, otherwise it raises ValueError).
Facundo Batistac54aec12008-03-08 16:50:27 +00004135
Jeffrey Yasskine75f59a2008-03-07 06:22:15 +00004136- Issue #1193577: A .shutdown() method has been added to SocketServers
4137 which terminates the .serve_forever() loop.
4138
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004139- Issue #2220: handle rlcompleter attribute match failure more
4140 gracefully.
Georg Brandl98aa8052008-03-06 07:45:52 +00004141
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004142- Issue #2225: py_compile, when executed as a script, now returns a
4143 non- zero status code if not all files could be compiled
4144 successfully.
Georg Brandla7bd27f2008-03-06 07:41:16 +00004145
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004146- Bug #1725737: In distutils' sdist, exclude RCS, CVS etc. also in the
Georg Brandl810ea292008-03-06 07:34:52 +00004147 root directory, and also exclude .hg, .git, .bzr, and _darcs.
4148
Thomas Hellerf3c05592008-03-05 15:34:29 +00004149- Issue #1872: The struct module typecode for _Bool has been changed
4150 from 't' to '?'.
4151
Thomas Heller78b8f442008-03-05 14:53:39 +00004152- The bundled libffi copy is now in sync with the recently released
4153 libffi3.0.4 version, apart from some small changes to
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004154 Modules/_ctypes/libffi/configure.ac. On OS X, preconfigured libffi
4155 files are used. On all linux systems the --with-system-ffi
4156 configure option defaults to "yes".
Thomas Heller78b8f442008-03-05 14:53:39 +00004157
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004158- Issue #1577: shutil.move() now calls os.rename() if the destination
4159 is a directory instead of copying-then-remove-source.
Sean Reifscheider493894c2008-03-18 17:24:12 +00004160
Martin v. Löwisd2bbe522008-03-06 06:55:22 +00004161Tests
4162-----
4163
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004164- test_nis no longer fails when test.test_support.verbose is true and
4165 NIS is not set up on the testing machine.
Brett Cannon7919d982008-03-19 16:50:13 +00004166
Brett Cannona5573b32008-03-18 04:16:06 +00004167- Output comparison tests are no longer supported.
4168
Brett Cannonb7ec8e52008-03-18 03:46:22 +00004169- Rewrite test_errno to use unittest and no longer be a no-op.
4170
Brett Cannon0bb79502008-03-18 01:58:56 +00004171- GHOP 234: Convert test_extcall to doctest.
4172
Brett Cannonba17cfc2008-03-18 01:50:25 +00004173- GHOP 290: Convert test_dbm and test_dummy_threading to unittest.
4174
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004175- GHOP 293: Convert test_strftime, test_getargs, and test_pep247 to
4176 unittest.
Brett Cannon6eeaddc2008-03-18 01:00:07 +00004177
Brett Cannon1f5182b2008-03-13 21:09:28 +00004178- Issue #2055: Convert test_fcntl to unittest.
4179
Brett Cannon4a6e8d62008-03-13 21:02:16 +00004180- Issue 1960: Convert test_gdbm to unittest.
4181
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004182- GHOP 294: Convert test_contains, test_crypt, and test_select to
4183 unittest.
Brett Cannon2e0f9f32008-03-13 20:47:41 +00004184
Brett Cannonb8d37352008-03-13 20:33:10 +00004185- GHOP 238: Convert test_tokenize to use doctest.
4186
Brett Cannon66865d22008-03-13 20:27:00 +00004187- GHOP 237: Rewrite test_thread using unittest.
4188
Martin v. Löwisd2bbe522008-03-06 06:55:22 +00004189- Patch #2232: os.tmpfile might fail on Windows if the user has no
4190 permission to create files in the root directory.
4191
Martin v. Löwisbf7b0b72008-03-14 13:56:09 +00004192Build
4193-----
4194
Martin v. Löwiscdbc9772008-03-24 12:57:53 +00004195- A new script 2to3 is now installed, to run the 2.x to 3.x converter.
4196
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004197- Python/memmove.c and Python/strerror.c have been removed; both
4198 functions are in the C89 standard library.
Brett Cannonaa5778d2008-03-18 04:09:00 +00004199
Martin v. Löwisbf7b0b72008-03-14 13:56:09 +00004200- Patch #2284: Add -x64 option to rt.bat.
Barry Warsaw65475fd2008-03-01 17:11:41 +00004201
Christian Heimes3c608332008-03-26 22:01:37 +00004202C API
4203-----
4204
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00004205- Patch #2477: Added PyParser_ParseFileFlagsEx() and
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004206 PyParser_ParseStringFlagsFilenameEx().
4207
Christian Heimes3c608332008-03-26 22:01:37 +00004208
Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +00004209What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 1?
4210=================================
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00004211
Barry Warsaw7c075232008-03-01 02:53:36 +00004212*Release date: 29-Feb-2008*
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00004213
4214Core and builtins
4215-----------------
4216
Fred Drakea8ee94b2008-03-01 02:45:07 +00004217- Issue #2051: pyc and pyo files are no longer created with permission
Barry Warsaw52973612008-03-01 02:23:38 +00004218 644. The mode is now inherited from the py file.
Christian Heimes40346852008-02-23 17:52:07 +00004219
Georg Brandlad61bc82008-02-23 15:11:18 +00004220- Issue #2067: file.__exit__() now calls subclasses' close() method.
4221
4222- Patch #1759: Backport of PEP 3129 class decorators.
Christian Heimes5224d282008-02-23 15:01:05 +00004223
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00004224- Issue #1881: An internal parser limit has been increased. Also see
Facundo Batistafc2d0102008-02-23 12:01:13 +00004225 issue 215555 for a discussion.
4226
Eric Smitha73fbe72008-02-23 03:09:44 +00004227- Added the future_builtins module, which contains hex() and oct().
4228 These are the PEP 3127 version of these functions, designed to be
4229 compatible with the hex() and oct() builtins from Python 3.0. They
4230 differ slightly in their output formats from the existing, unchanged
4231 Python 2.6 builtins. The expected usage of the future_builtins
4232 module is:
4233 from future_builtins import hex, oct
4234
Eric Smith7ef40bf2008-02-20 23:34:22 +00004235- Issue #1600: Modifed PyOS_ascii_formatd to use at most 2 digit
4236 exponents for exponents with absolute value < 100. Follows C99
4237 standard. This is a change on Windows, which would use 3 digits.
4238 Also, added 'n' to the formats that PyOS_ascii_formatd understands,
4239 so that any alterations it does to the resulting string will be
4240 available in stringlib/formatter.h (for float.__format__).
4241
Eric Smith5a3c1352008-02-19 13:21:56 +00004242- Implemented PEP 3101, Advanced String Formatting. This adds a new
4243 builtin format(); a format() method for str and unicode; a
4244 __format__() method to object, str, unicode, int, long, float, and
4245 datetime; the class string.Formatter; and the C API
4246 PyObject_Format().
4247
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004248- Fixed several potential crashes, all caused by specially crafted
4249 __del__ methods exploiting objects in temporarily inconsistent
4250 state.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc632fad32008-02-16 20:55:24 +00004251
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00004252- Issue #2115: Important speedup in setting __slot__ attributes. Also
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004253 prevent a possible crash: an Abstract Base Class would try to access
4254 a slot on a registered virtual subclass.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc60d6c7f2008-02-15 21:22:45 +00004255
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004256- Fixed repr() and str() of complex numbers with infinity or nan as
4257 real or imaginary part.
Christian Heimes2f0da532008-02-15 06:57:08 +00004258
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004259- Clear all free lists during a gc.collect() of the highest generation
4260 in order to allow pymalloc to free more arenas. Python may give back
4261 memory to the OS earlier.
Christian Heimes3b718a72008-02-14 12:47:33 +00004262
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004263- Issue #2045: Fix an infinite recursion triggered when printing a
4264 subclass of collections.defaultdict, if its default_factory is set
4265 to a bound method.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcb01aa432008-02-08 00:56:02 +00004266
Christian Heimesf75dbef2008-02-08 00:11:31 +00004267- Fixed a minor memory leak in dictobject.c. The content of the free
4268 list was not freed on interpreter shutdown.
4269
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00004270- Limit free list of method and built-in function objects to 256
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004271 entries each.
Christian Heimes6075a822008-02-06 12:44:34 +00004272
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004273- Patch #1953: Added ``sys._compact_freelists()`` and the C API
4274 functions ``PyInt_CompactFreeList`` and ``PyFloat_CompactFreeList``
Christian Heimes422051a2008-02-04 18:00:12 +00004275 to compact the internal free lists of pre-allocted ints and floats.
4276
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004277- Issue #1983: Fixed return type of fork(), fork1() and forkpty()
4278 calls. Python expected the return type int but the fork familie
4279 returns pi_t.
Christian Heimes951cc0f2008-01-31 23:08:23 +00004280
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004281- Issue #1678380: Fix a bug that identifies 0j and -0j when they
4282 appear in the same code unit.
Mark Dickinson105be772008-01-31 22:17:37 +00004283
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004284- Issue #2025: Add tuple.count() and tuple.index() methods to comply
4285 with the collections.Sequence API.
Raymond Hettinger5b07ebc2008-02-07 00:54:20 +00004286
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004287- Patch #1970 by Antoine Pitrou: Speedup unicode whitespace and
4288 linebreak detection
Christian Heimes4d4f2702008-01-30 11:32:37 +00004289
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004290- Added ``PyType_ClearCache()`` and ``sys._clear_type_cache`` to clear
4291 the internal lookup cache for ref leak tests.
Christian Heimes908caac2008-01-27 23:34:59 +00004292
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004293- Patch #1473257: generator objects gain a gi_code attribute. This is
4294 the same object as the func_code attribute of the function that
4295 produced the generator.
Georg Brandl0cdf9a32008-01-26 14:14:20 +00004296
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004297- Issue #1920: "while 0" statements were completely removed by the
4298 compiler, even in the presence of an "else" clause, which is
4299 supposed to be run when the condition is false. Now the compiler
4300 correctly emits bytecode for the "else" suite.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc31eaafe2008-01-24 22:59:25 +00004301
Guido van Rossumeead05f2008-01-24 18:21:02 +00004302- A few crashers fixed: weakref_in_del.py (issue #1377858);
4303 loosing_dict_ref.py (issue #1303614, test67.py);
4304 borrowed_ref_[34].py (not in tracker).
4305
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +00004306- Issue #1069410: The "can't load dll" message box on Windows is
Christian Heimesb2302ba2008-01-23 17:15:06 +00004307 suppressed while an extension is loaded by calling SetErrorMode in
4308 dynload_win.c. The error is still reported properly.
4309
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004310- Issue #1915: Python compiles with --enable-unicode=no again. However
Christian Heimes082c9b02008-01-23 14:20:50 +00004311 several extension methods and modules do not work without unicode
4312 support.
4313
Georg Brandl26543b12008-01-21 18:36:51 +00004314- Issue #1882: when compiling code from a string, encoding cookies in the
4315 second line of code were not always recognized correctly.
4316
Georg Brandl14404b62008-01-19 19:27:05 +00004317- Issue #1679: "0x" was taken as a valid integer literal.
4318
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00004319- Issue #1865: ``bytes`` as an alias for ``str`` and b"" as an alias "" were
Christian Heimes288e89a2008-01-18 18:24:07 +00004320 added.
4321
Christian Heimesc94e2b52008-01-14 04:13:37 +00004322- sys.float_info / PyFloat_GetInfo: The floating point information
4323 object was converted from a dict to a specialized structseq object.
4324
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004325- Patch #1816: Added sys.flags structseq. It exposes the status of
4326 most command line arguments and PYTHON* environment variables.
Christian Heimesf31b69f2008-01-14 03:42:48 +00004327
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004328- Objects/structseq.c: Implemented new structseq representation. The
4329 patch makes structseqs (e.g. the return value of os.stat) more
4330 readable.
Christian Heimes9c201962008-01-14 03:33:52 +00004331
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004332- Patch #1700288: added a type attribute cache that caches method
4333 accesses, resulting in speedups in heavily object-oriented code.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arce4c270c2008-01-14 00:29:41 +00004334
Neal Norwitz3fc15b82008-01-10 05:42:58 +00004335- Bug #1776: __import__() no longer accepts filenames on any platform.
4336 The first parameter to __import__() must be a valid module name.
Christian Heimes3403f152008-01-09 19:56:33 +00004337
Georg Brandlaed6c662008-01-07 17:25:53 +00004338- Patch #1668: renamed THREADDEBUG envvar to PYTHONTHREADDEBUG.
4339
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004340- Patch #602345: Add -B command line option, PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE
4341 envvar and sys.dont_write_bytecode attribute. All these can be set
4342 to forbid Python to attempt to write compiled bytecode files.
Georg Brandl2da0fce2008-01-07 17:09:35 +00004343
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004344- Improve some exception messages when Windows fails to load an
4345 extension module. Now we get for example '%1 is not a valid Win32
4346 application' instead of 'error code 193'.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arce0b76952008-01-04 02:04:15 +00004347
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004348- Bug #1481296: Fixed long(float('nan')) != 0L.
Christian Heimes8267d1d2008-01-04 00:37:34 +00004349
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004350- Issue #1640: Added math.isinf(x), math.isnan(x) and math.copysign(x,
4351 y) functions.
Christian Heimese2ca4242008-01-03 20:23:15 +00004352
Christian Heimes0a8143f2007-12-18 23:22:54 +00004353- Issue #1635: Platform independent creation and representation of NaN
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004354 and INF. float("nan"), float("inf") and float("-inf") now work on
4355 every platform with IEEE 754 semantics.
Christian Heimes0a8143f2007-12-18 23:22:54 +00004356
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004357- Compiler now generates simpler and faster code for dictionary
4358 literals. The oparg for BUILD_MAP now indicates an estimated
4359 dictionary size. There is a new opcode, STORE_MAP, for adding
4360 entries to the dictionary.
Raymond Hettingerfd7ed402007-12-18 21:24:09 +00004361
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004362- Issue #1638: %zd configure test fails on Linux.
Christian Heimesdb3d6cb2007-12-16 21:39:43 +00004363
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004364- Issue #1620: New property decorator syntax was modifying the
4365 decorator in place instead of creating a new decorator object.
Christian Heimes90e10e72007-12-14 02:35:23 +00004366
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004367- Issue #1538: Avoid copying string in split/rsplit if the split char
4368 is not found.
Skip Montanaro26015492007-12-08 15:33:24 +00004369
Andrew M. Kuchling395fe442007-12-05 13:27:20 +00004370- Issue #1553: An erroneous __length_hint__ can make list() raise a
Christian Heimes7cc1c6f2007-12-05 12:52:34 +00004371 SystemError.
4372
Nick Coghlanef01d822007-12-03 12:55:17 +00004373- PEP 366: Allow explicit relative imports when executing modules
4374 inside packages with the -m switch via a new module level
4375 __package__ attribute.
4376
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004377- Issue #1402: Fix a crash on exit, when another thread is still
4378 running, and if the deallocation of its frames somehow calls the
4379 PyGILState_Ensure() / PyGILState_Release() functions.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbe49a902007-11-30 20:37:22 +00004380
Christian Heimes28104c52007-11-27 23:16:44 +00004381- Expose the Py_Py3kWarningFlag as sys.py3kwarning.
4382
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00004383- Issue #1445: Fix a SystemError when accessing the ``cell_contents``
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcce7d10c2007-11-24 13:44:17 +00004384 attribute of an empty cell object.
4385
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004386- Issue #1460: The utf-7 incremental decoder did not accept truncated
4387 input. It now correctly saves its state between chunks of data.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcf57375a2007-11-21 01:38:26 +00004388
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004389- Patch #1739468: Directories and zipfiles containing a __main__.py
4390 file can now be directly executed by passing their name to the
4391 interpreter. The directory/zipfile is automatically inserted as the
4392 first entry in sys.path.
Nick Coghlan327a39b2007-11-18 11:56:28 +00004393
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004394- Issue #1265: Fix a problem with sys.settrace, if the tracing
4395 function uses a generator expression when at the same time the
4396 executed code is closing a paused generator.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc0d75f092007-11-13 21:54:28 +00004397
Raymond Hettinger1760c8a2007-11-08 02:52:43 +00004398- sets and frozensets now have an isdisjoint() method.
4399
Raymond Hettinger3f8caa32007-10-24 01:28:33 +00004400- optimize the performance of builtin.sum().
4401
Neal Norwitz44f326e2007-10-05 05:29:17 +00004402- Fix warnings found by the new version of the Coverity checker.
4403
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00004404- The enumerate() built-in function is no longer bounded to sequences
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004405 smaller than LONG_MAX. Formerly, it raised an OverflowError. Now,
4406 automatically shifts from ints to longs.
Raymond Hettinger8f669372007-10-03 21:18:11 +00004407
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004408- Issue #1686386: Tuple's tp_repr did not take into account the
4409 possibility of having a self-referential tuple, which is possible
4410 from C code. Nor did object's tp_str consider that a type's tp_str
4411 could do something that could lead to an inifinite recursion.
4412 Py_ReprEnter() and Py_EnterRecursiveCall(), respectively, fixed the
4413 issues.
Brett Cannon0b14f242007-09-30 19:45:10 +00004414
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004415- Issue #1164: It was possible to trigger deadlock when using the
4416 'print' statement to write to a file since the GIL was not released
4417 as needed. Now PyObject_Print() does the right thing along with
4418 various tp_print implementations of the built-in types and those in
4419 the collections module.
Brett Cannon01531592007-09-17 03:28:34 +00004420
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004421- Issue #1147: Exceptions were directly allowing string exceptions in
4422 their throw() method even though string exceptions no longer
4423 allowed.
Brett Cannon4c20bc42007-09-11 21:02:28 +00004424
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004425- Issue #1096: Prevent a segfault from getting the repr of a very
4426 deeply nested list by using the recursion counter.
Brett Cannona0c05512007-09-10 21:38:27 +00004427
Brett Cannon1e534b52007-09-07 04:18:30 +00004428- Issue #1202533: Fix infinite recursion calls triggered by calls to
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004429 PyObject_Call() never calling back out to Python code to trigger
4430 recursion depth updates/checks. Required the creation of a static
4431 RuntimeError instance in case normalizing an exception put the
4432 recursion check value past its limit. Fixes crashers
4433 infinite_rec_(1|2|4|5).py.
Brett Cannon1e534b52007-09-07 04:18:30 +00004434
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004435- Patch #1031213: Decode source line in SyntaxErrors back to its
4436 original source encoding.
Martin v. Löwisa5136192007-09-04 14:19:28 +00004437
Georg Brandl7c3b50d2007-07-12 08:38:00 +00004438- Patch #1673759: add a missing overflow check when formatting floats
4439 with %G.
4440
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004441- Prevent expandtabs() on string and unicode objects from causing a
4442 segfault when a large width is passed on 32-bit platforms.
Neal Norwitz7dbd2a32007-06-09 03:36:34 +00004443
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004444- Issue #1733488: Fix compilation of bufferobject.c on AIX.
Martin v. Löwisda587ab2007-06-08 17:29:20 +00004445
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004446- Issue #1722485: remove docstrings again when running with -OO.
Georg Brandla5ea6892007-06-01 11:33:33 +00004447
Neal Norwitz0ac60192007-05-27 04:08:54 +00004448- Add new attribute names for function objects. All the func_* become
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004449 __*__ attributes. (Some already existed, e.g., __doc__ and
4450 __name__.)
Neal Norwitz0ac60192007-05-27 04:08:54 +00004451
Neal Norwitz8b2bfbc2007-05-23 06:35:32 +00004452- Add -3 option to the interpreter to warn about features that are
4453 deprecated and will be changed/removed in Python 3.0.
4454
Georg Brandl2134e752007-05-21 20:34:16 +00004455- Patch #1686487: you can now pass any mapping after '**' in function
4456 calls.
4457
Collin Winter62903052007-05-18 23:11:24 +00004458- except clauses may now be spelled either "except E, target:" or
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004459 "except E as target:". This is to provide forwards compatibility
4460 with Python 3.0.
Collin Winter62903052007-05-18 23:11:24 +00004461
Brett Cannon229cee22007-05-05 01:34:02 +00004462- Deprecate BaseException.message as per PEP 352.
4463
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004464- Issue #1303614: don't expose object's __dict__ when the dict is
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00004465 inherited from a built-in base.
Armin Rigo9790a272007-05-02 19:23:31 +00004466
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00004467- When __slots__ are set to a unicode string, make it work the same as
Neal Norwitzcbd9ee62007-04-14 05:25:50 +00004468 setting a plain string, ie don't expand to single letter identifiers.
4469
Raymond Hettinger13936692007-04-11 18:40:58 +00004470- Request #1191699: Slices can now be pickled.
4471
Raymond Hettinger4db5fe92007-04-12 04:10:00 +00004472- Request #1193128: str.translate() now allows a None argument for
4473 translations that only remove characters without re-mapping the
4474 remaining characters.
4475
Georg Brandl5cb76c12007-03-21 09:00:39 +00004476- Patch #1682205: a TypeError while unpacking an iterable is no longer
4477 masked by a generic one with the message "unpack non-sequence".
4478
Neal Norwitzaa754b72007-03-21 06:39:48 +00004479- Remove unused file Python/fmod.c.
4480
Guido van Rossum143b5642007-03-23 04:58:42 +00004481- Bug #1683368: The object.__init__() and object.__new__() methods are
4482 now stricter in rejecting excess arguments. The only time when
4483 either allows excess arguments is when it is not overridden and the
4484 other one is. For backwards compatibility, when both are
4485 overridden, it is a deprecation warning (for now; maybe a Py3k
Guido van Rossum234b1ff2007-03-23 19:39:01 +00004486 warning later). Also, type.__init__() insists on the same signature
4487 as supported by type.__new__().
Guido van Rossum143b5642007-03-23 04:58:42 +00004488
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004489- Patch #1675423: PyComplex_AsCComplex() now tries to convert an
4490 object to complex using its __complex__() method before falling back
4491 to the __float__() method. Therefore, the functions in the cmath
4492 module now can operate on objects that define a __complex__()
4493 method.
Georg Brandl2b869942007-03-17 16:08:45 +00004494
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004495- Patch #1623563: allow __class__ assignment for classes with
4496 __slots__. The old and the new class are still required to have the
4497 same slot names.
Žiga Seilnacht6f2d09c2007-03-16 11:59:38 +00004498
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004499- Patch #1642547: Fix an error/crash when encountering syntax errors
4500 in complex if statements.
Collin Winter77c67bd2007-03-16 04:11:30 +00004501
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004502- Patch #1462488: Python no longer segfaults when
4503 ``object.__reduce_ex__()`` is called with an object that is faking
4504 its type.
Žiga Seilnacht20f43d32007-03-15 11:44:55 +00004505
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004506- Patch #1680015: Don't modify __slots__ tuple if it contains an
4507 unicode name.
Žiga Seilnacht71436f02007-03-14 12:24:09 +00004508
Georg Brandl5240d742007-03-13 20:46:32 +00004509- Patch #1444529: the builtin compile() now accepts keyword arguments.
4510
Georg Brandl7b9c5552007-03-12 14:30:05 +00004511- Bug #1678647: write a newline after printing an exception in any
4512 case, even when converting the value to a string failed.
4513
Georg Brandl871f1bc2007-03-12 13:17:36 +00004514- The dir() function has been extended to call the __dir__() method on
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004515 its argument, if it exists. If not, it will work like before. This
4516 allows customizing the output of dir() in the presence of a
4517 __getattr__().
Georg Brandl871f1bc2007-03-12 13:17:36 +00004518
Collin Winter276887b2007-03-12 16:11:39 +00004519- Patch #922167: Python no longer segfaults when faced with infinitely
4520 self-recursive reload() calls (as reported by bug #742342).
4521
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004522- Patch #1675981: remove unreachable code from ``type.__new__()``
4523 method.
Žiga Seilnacht89032082007-03-11 15:54:54 +00004524
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004525- Patch #1491866: change the complex() constructor to allow
4526 parthensized forms. This means complex(repr(x)) now works instead of
4527 raising a ValueError.
Collin Wintere38051d2007-03-09 20:33:07 +00004528
Georg Brandlaa2321b2007-03-07 00:40:28 +00004529- Patch #703779: unset __file__ in __main__ after running a file. This
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004530 makes the filenames the warning module prints much more sensible
4531 when a PYTHONSTARTUP file is used.
Georg Brandlaa2321b2007-03-07 00:40:28 +00004532
Georg Brandl49aafc92007-03-07 00:34:46 +00004533- Variant of patch #697613: don't exit the interpreter on a SystemExit
4534 exception if the -i command line option or PYTHONINSPECT environment
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004535 variable is given, but break into the interactive interpreter just
4536 like on other exceptions or normal program exit.
Georg Brandl49aafc92007-03-07 00:34:46 +00004537
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004538- Patch #1638879: don't accept strings with embedded NUL bytes in
4539 long().
Georg Brandl00cd8182007-03-06 18:41:12 +00004540
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004541- Bug #1674503: close the file opened by execfile() in an error
4542 condition.
Georg Brandl098cd692007-03-06 12:17:50 +00004543
Georg Brandl0fca97a2007-03-05 22:28:08 +00004544- Patch #1674228: when assigning a slice (old-style), check for the
4545 sq_ass_slice instead of the sq_slice slot.
4546
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004547- When printing an unraisable error, don't print exceptions. before
4548 the name. This duplicates the behavior whening normally printing
4549 exceptions.
Neal Norwitz88516a62007-02-26 22:41:45 +00004550
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004551- Bug #1653736: Properly discard third argument to
4552 slot_nb_inplace_power.
Martin v. Löwisfd963262007-02-09 12:19:32 +00004553
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004554- PEP 352: Raising a string exception now triggers a TypeError.
4555 Attempting to catch a string exception raises DeprecationWarning.
Brett Cannon129bd522007-01-30 21:34:36 +00004556
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004557- Bug #1377858: Fix the segfaulting of the interpreter when an object
4558 created a weakref on itself during a __del__ call for new-style
4559 classes (classic classes still have the bug).
Brett Cannonf5bee302007-01-23 23:21:22 +00004560
Martin v. Löwis6c5c5022007-01-23 21:11:47 +00004561- Bug #1579370: Make PyTraceBack_Here use the current thread, not the
4562 frame's thread state.
4563
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004564- patch #1630975: Fix crash when replacing sys.stdout in
4565 sitecustomize.py.
Thomas Wouters6ed19652007-01-23 13:50:49 +00004566
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004567- Prevent seg fault on shutdown which could occur if an object raised
4568 a warning.
Neal Norwitz72cd02c2007-01-05 05:25:22 +00004569
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004570- Bug #1566280: Explicitly invoke threading._shutdown from Py_Main, to
4571 avoid relying on atexit.
Martin v. Löwis7b7c9d42007-01-04 21:06:12 +00004572
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004573- Bug #1590891: random.randrange don't return correct value for big
4574 number.
Raymond Hettinger94547f72006-12-20 06:42:06 +00004575
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004576- Patch #1586791: Better exception messages for some operations on
4577 strings, tuples and lists.
Georg Brandl283a1352006-11-19 08:48:30 +00004578
Martin v. Löwis056dac12006-11-12 18:24:26 +00004579- Bug #1067760: Deprecate passing floats to file.seek.
4580
Martin v. Löwisa346c092006-11-08 06:48:36 +00004581- Bug #1591996: Correctly forward exception in instance_contains().
4582
Neal Norwitz85dbec62006-11-04 19:25:22 +00004583- Bug #1588287: fix invalid assertion for `1,2` in debug builds.
4584
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004585- Bug #1576657: when setting a KeyError for a tuple key, make sure
4586 that the tuple isn't used as the "exception arguments tuple".
Georg Brandlb9f4ad32006-10-29 18:31:42 +00004587
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004588- Bug #1565514: SystemError not raised on too many nested blocks.
Neal Norwitz21997af2006-10-28 21:19:07 +00004589
Thomas Hellerdf08f0b2006-10-27 18:31:36 +00004590- Bug #1576174: WindowsError now displays the windows error code
4591 again, no longer the posix error code.
4592
Martin v. Löwisb5bc5372006-10-27 06:16:31 +00004593- Patch #1549049: Support long values in structmember, issue warnings
4594 if the assigned value for structmember fields gets truncated.
4595
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004596- Update the peephole optimizer to remove more dead code (jumps after
4597 returns) and inline unconditional jumps to returns.
Neal Norwitzcbeb6872006-10-14 21:33:38 +00004598
Georg Brandl2c1375c2006-10-12 11:27:59 +00004599- Bug #1545497: when given an explicit base, int() did ignore NULs
4600 embedded in the string to convert.
4601
Georg Brandl846f73a2006-10-08 07:11:54 +00004602- Bug #1569998: break inside a try statement (outside a loop) is now
4603 recognized and rejected.
4604
Armin Rigo7ccbca92006-10-04 12:17:45 +00004605- list.pop(x) accepts any object x following the __index__ protocol.
4606
Armin Rigo7ccbca92006-10-04 12:17:45 +00004607- A number of places, including integer negation and absolute value,
4608 were fixed to not rely on undefined behaviour of the C compiler
4609 anymore.
Martin v. Löwis820d6ac2006-10-04 05:47:34 +00004610
Georg Brandl3267d282006-09-30 09:03:42 +00004611- Bug #1566800: make sure that EnvironmentError can be called with any
4612 number of arguments, as was the case in Python 2.4.
4613
Georg Brandl5d59c092006-09-30 08:43:30 +00004614- Patch #1567691: super() and new.instancemethod() now don't accept
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004615 keyword arguments any more (previously they accepted them, but
4616 didn't use them).
Georg Brandl5d59c092006-09-30 08:43:30 +00004617
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004618- Fix a bug in the parser's future statement handling that led to
4619 "with" not being recognized as a keyword after, e.g., this
4620 statement: from __future__ import division, with_statement
Georg Brandla10d3af2006-09-24 12:35:36 +00004621
Neal Norwitz3a230172006-09-22 08:18:10 +00004622- Bug #1557232: fix seg fault with def f((((x)))) and def f(((x),)).
4623
Neal Norwitz4a8fbdb2006-09-22 08:16:26 +00004624- Fix %zd string formatting on Mac OS X so it prints negative numbers.
4625
Brett Cannonf6aa86e2006-09-20 18:43:13 +00004626- Allow exception instances to be directly sliced again.
4627
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004628- Bug #1551432: Exceptions do not define an explicit __unicode__
4629 method. This allows calling unicode() on exceptions classes
4630 directly to succeed.
Brett Cannon9adeab72006-09-20 18:34:28 +00004631
Georg Brandl4e933132006-09-06 20:05:58 +00004632- Bug #1542051: Exceptions now correctly call PyObject_GC_UnTrack.
4633 Also make sure that every exception class has __module__ set to
4634 'exceptions'.
4635
Georg Brandl98775df2006-09-06 06:09:31 +00004636- Bug #1550983: emit better error messages for erroneous relative
4637 imports (if not in package and if beyond toplevel package).
4638
Tim Petersc10c9d02006-09-05 02:18:09 +00004639- Overflow checking code in integer division ran afoul of new gcc
4640 optimizations. Changed to be more standard-conforming.
4641
Neal Norwitz4f096d92006-08-21 19:47:08 +00004642- Patch #1542451: disallow continue anywhere under a finally.
4643
Neal Norwitza22975f2006-09-05 02:24:03 +00004644- Patch #1546288: fix seg fault in dict_equal due to ref counting bug.
4645
Neal Norwitzd34e4272006-09-05 02:36:20 +00004646- The return tuple from str.rpartition(sep) is (tail, sep, head) where
4647 head is the original string if sep was not found.
4648
Neal Norwitzdac090d2006-09-05 03:53:08 +00004649- Bug #1520864: unpacking singleton tuples in list comprehensions and
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004650 generator expressions (x for x, in ... ) works again. Fixing this
4651 problem required changing the .pyc magic number. This means that
4652 .pyc files generated before 2.5c2 will be regenerated.
Neal Norwitzdac090d2006-09-05 03:53:08 +00004653
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00004654- ``with`` and ``as`` are now keywords.
Neal Norwitzca460d92006-09-06 06:28:06 +00004655
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004656- Bug #1664966: Fix crash in exec if Unicode filename can't be
4657 decoded.
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00004658
Guido van Rossumcad37242008-01-15 17:59:29 +00004659- Issue #1537: Changed GeneratorExit's base class from Exception to
4660 BaseException.
Christian Heimes44eeaec2007-12-03 20:01:02 +00004661
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004662- Issue #1703448: A joined thread could show up in the
Gregory P. Smith95cd5c02008-01-22 01:20:42 +00004663 threading.enumerate() list after the join() for a brief period until
4664 it actually exited.
4665
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00004666
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00004667Library
4668-------
4669
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004670- Patch #2274: Add heapq.heappushpop().
Raymond Hettinger53bdf092008-03-13 19:03:51 +00004671
Christian Heimes608c1d82008-03-03 18:28:04 +00004672- Add inspect.isabstract(object) to fix bug #2223
4673
Mark Dickinson1ddf1d82008-02-29 02:16:37 +00004674- Add a __format__ method to Decimal, to support PEP 3101.
4675
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004676- Add a timing parameter when using trace.Trace to print out
4677 timestamps.
Neal Norwitzca376612008-02-26 08:21:28 +00004678
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004679- Issue #1627: httplib now ignores negative Content-Length headers.
Georg Brandl8c460d52008-02-24 00:14:24 +00004680
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004681- Issue #900744: If an invalid chunked-encoding header is sent by a
4682 server, httplib will now raise IncompleteRead and close the
4683 connection instead of raising ValueError.
Georg Brandl23635032008-02-24 00:03:22 +00004684
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004685- Issue #1492: The content type of BaseHTTPServer error messages can
4686 now be overridden.
Georg Brandl16479232008-02-23 15:02:28 +00004687
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004688- Issue #1781: ConfigParser now does not let you add the "default" section
Facundo Batistab12f0b52008-02-23 12:46:10 +00004689 (ignore-case)
4690
Guido van Rossum8bc09652008-02-21 18:18:37 +00004691- Removed uses of dict.has_key() from distutils, and uses of
4692 callable() from copy_reg.py, so the interpreter now starts up
4693 without warnings when '-3' is given. More work like this needs to
4694 be done in the rest of the stdlib.
4695
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004696- Issue #1916: added isgenerator() and isgeneratorfunction() to
4697 inspect.py.
Facundo Batista759bfc62008-02-18 03:43:43 +00004698
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004699- Issue #1224: Fixed bad url parsing when path begins with double
4700 slash.
Facundo Batistad14600e2008-02-18 12:48:43 +00004701
Thomas Hellera06a1a82008-02-13 20:21:53 +00004702- ctypes instances that are not or do not contain pointers can now be
4703 pickled.
4704
Martin v. Löwisdad88dc2008-02-12 18:47:34 +00004705- Patch #1966: Break infinite loop in httplib when the servers
4706 implements the chunked encoding incorrectly.
4707
Mark Dickinsond058cd22008-02-10 21:29:51 +00004708- Rename rational.py to fractions.py and the rational.Rational class
4709 to fractions.Fraction, to avoid the name clash with the abstract
4710 base class numbers.Rational. See discussion in issue #1682.
4711
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004712- The pickletools module now provides an optimize() function that
4713 eliminates unused PUT opcodes from a pickle string.
Raymond Hettingerda614dc2008-02-10 20:35:16 +00004714
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004715- Patch #2021: Allow tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile and
4716 SpooledTemporaryFile to be used in with statements by correctly
4717 supporting the context management protocol.
Nick Coghlanac094dc2008-02-10 07:32:52 +00004718
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004719- Patch #1979: Add rich comparisons to Decimal, and make Decimal
4720 comparisons involving a NaN follow the IEEE 754 standard.
Mark Dickinson2fc92632008-02-06 22:10:50 +00004721
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004722- Issue #2004: tarfile.py: Use mode 0700 for temporary directories and
4723 default permissions for missing directories.
Lars Gustäbel0192e432008-02-05 11:51:40 +00004724
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004725- Issue #175006: The debugger used to skip the condition of a "while"
4726 statement after the first iteration. Now it correctly steps on the
4727 expression, and breakpoints on the "while" statement are honored on
4728 each loop.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc6fd03bb2008-02-04 21:45:05 +00004729
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004730- Issue #1765140: add an optional delay argument to FileHandler and
4731 its subclasses. Defaults to false (existing behaviour), but if true,
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +00004732 defers opening the file until the first call to emit().
4733
Raymond Hettingerc226c312008-01-23 00:04:40 +00004734- The pprint module now supports sets and frozensets.
4735
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004736- Issue #1221598: add optional callbacks to ftplib.FTP's storbinary()
4737 and storlines() methods. (Contributed by Phil Schwartz)
Gregory P. Smithc64386b2008-01-22 00:19:41 +00004738
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004739- Issue #1715: include sub-extension modules in pydoc's text output.
Georg Brandlf2dae0e2008-01-21 21:05:49 +00004740
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004741- Issue #1836: fix an off-by-one bug in TimedRotatingHandler's
4742 rollover time calculation.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00004743
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004744- Issue #1021: fix a bug to allow basicConfig to accept NOTSET as a
4745 level.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00004746
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004747- Issue #932563: add LoggerAdapter convenience class to make it easier
4748 to add contextual information in logging output.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00004749
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004750- Issue #1760556: fix a bug to avoid FileHandler throwing an exception
4751 in flush().
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00004752
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004753- Bug #1530959: distutils' build command now uses different build
4754 directory when building extension modules against versions of Python
4755 compiled with ``--with-pydebug``.
Georg Brandl50160152008-01-21 17:42:40 +00004756
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004757- Issue #1555501: move plistlib from plat-mac directory to general
4758 library.
Georg Brandl864de822008-01-21 16:34:07 +00004759
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004760- Issue #1269: fix a bug in pstats.add_callers() and add a unit test
4761 file for pstats.
Georg Brandl66e73632008-01-21 10:24:59 +00004762
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004763- Issue #1669: don't allow shutil.rmtree() to be called on a symlink
4764 to a directory.
Georg Brandl52353982008-01-20 14:17:42 +00004765
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004766- Issue #1664522: in urllib, don't read non-existing directories in
4767 ftp mode, returning a 0-byte file -- raise an IOError instead.
Georg Brandld5e6cf22008-01-20 12:18:17 +00004768
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004769- Issue #856047: respect the ``no_proxy`` environment variable when
4770 using the ``http_proxy`` etc. environment variables in urllib.
Georg Brandl22350112008-01-20 12:05:43 +00004771
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004772- Issue #1178141: add a getcode() method to the addinfourls that
4773 urllib.open() returns so that you can retrieve the HTTP status code.
Georg Brandl9b0d46d2008-01-20 11:43:03 +00004774
Gregory P. Smithf25680a2008-01-20 01:26:04 +00004775- Issue #1003: Fix zipfile decryption check, it would fail zip files
4776 with extended local headers.
4777
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004778- Issue #1189216: Fix the zipfile module to work on archives with
4779 headers past the 2**31 byte boundary.
Gregory P. Smith350d03b2008-01-19 23:10:52 +00004780
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004781- Issue #1336: fix a race condition in subprocess.Popen if the garbage
Gregory P. Smithb9ba0752008-01-19 21:00:37 +00004782 collector kicked in at the wrong time that would cause the process
4783 to hang when the child wrote to stderr.
4784
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004785- Issue #1146: fix how textwrap breaks a long word that would start in
4786 the last column of a line.
Georg Brandlc6fde722008-01-19 19:48:19 +00004787
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004788- Issue #1693149: trace.py --ignore-module - accept multiple
4789 comma-separated modules to be given.
Skip Montanaro562133b2008-01-19 18:47:24 +00004790
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004791- Issue #1822: MIMEMultipart.is_multipart() behaves correctly for a
4792 just-created (and empty) instance. Thanks Jonathan Share.
Facundo Batista2b1b1952008-01-19 12:32:27 +00004793
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004794- Issue #1861: Added an attribute to the sched module which returns an
4795 ordered list of upcoming events (displayed as named tuples).
Raymond Hettinger44bd6c02008-01-17 19:31:38 +00004796
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004797- Issue #1837: The queue module now also supports a LIFO queue and a
4798 priority queue.
Raymond Hettinger3ad2acc82008-01-16 23:49:35 +00004799
Andrew M. Kuchling4a2762d2008-01-20 00:00:38 +00004800- Patch #1048820: Add insert-mode editing to curses.textpad.Textbox
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00004801 (patch by Stefan Wehr). Also, fix an off-by-one bug in
Andrew M. Kuchling4a2762d2008-01-20 00:00:38 +00004802 Textbox.gather().
4803
Thomas Heller02ec2892008-01-16 19:37:33 +00004804- Issue #1831: ctypes now raises a TypeError if conflicting positional
4805 and named arguments are passed to a Structure or Union initializer.
Thomas Heller415c1e32008-01-16 19:45:51 +00004806 When too many positional arguments are passed, also a TypeError is
4807 raised instead of a ValueError.
Thomas Heller02ec2892008-01-16 19:37:33 +00004808
Thomas Heller902d3072008-01-16 19:16:27 +00004809- Convert the internal ctypes array type cache to a WeakValueDict so
4810 that array types do not live longer than needed.
4811
Guido van Rossumcad37242008-01-15 17:59:29 +00004812- Issue #1786: pdb should use its own stdin/stdout around an exec call
4813 and when creating a recursive instance.
4814
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004815- Issue #1698398: ZipFile.printdir() crashed because the format string
4816 expected a tuple type of length six instead of time.struct_time
4817 object.
Raymond Hettinger351e1a32008-01-14 22:58:05 +00004818
Mark Dickinson59bc20b2008-01-12 01:56:00 +00004819- Issue #1780: The Decimal constructor now accepts arbitrary leading
4820 and trailing whitespace when constructing from a string.
4821 Context.create_decimal no longer accepts trailing newlines.
4822
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004823- Decimal.as_tuple(), difflib.find_longest_match() and inspect
4824 functions that returned a tuple now return a named tuple.
Georg Brandl2f32c392008-01-11 09:20:58 +00004825
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00004826- Doctest now returns results as a named tuple for readability:
Raymond Hettingerfff4e6e2008-01-11 01:25:54 +00004827 (0, 7) --> TestResults(failed=0, attempted=7)
4828
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004829- Issue #846388:q re.match is interruptible now, which is particularly
Facundo Batista4473d222008-01-08 21:10:12 +00004830 good for long regular expression matches.
4831
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004832- Patch #1137: allow setting buffer_size attribute on pyexpat Parser
4833 objects to set the character data buffer size.
Andrew M. Kuchlinge0a49b62008-01-08 14:30:55 +00004834
Facundo Batista52b25792008-01-08 12:25:20 +00004835- Issue #1757: The hash of a Decimal instance is no longer affected by
4836 the current context.
4837
Georg Brandl62416bc2008-01-07 18:47:44 +00004838- Patch #467924: add ZipFile.extract() and ZipFile.extractall() in the
4839 zipfile module.
4840
Christian Heimesfb2d25a2008-01-07 16:12:44 +00004841- Issue #1646: Make socket support the TIPC protocol.
4842
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004843- Bug #1742: return os.curdir from os.path.relpath() if both arguments
4844 are equal instead of raising an exception.
Georg Brandl183a0842008-01-06 14:27:15 +00004845
Guido van Rossumc6a04c22008-01-05 22:19:06 +00004846- Patch #1637: fix urlparse for URLs like 'http://x.com?arg=/foo'.
4847
Guido van Rossumced4eb02008-01-05 01:21:57 +00004848- Patch #1698: allow '@' in username parsed by urlparse.py.
4849
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004850- Issue #1735: TarFile.extractall() now correctly sets directory
4851 permissions and times.
Lars Gustäbel2ee1c762008-01-04 14:00:33 +00004852
Christian Heimes06875612008-01-04 13:21:07 +00004853- Bug #1713: posixpath.ismount() claims symlink to a mountpoint is a mountpoint.
4854
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004855- Bug #1687: Fxed plistlib.py restricts <integer> to Python int when
4856 writing
Christian Heimes06131882008-01-04 00:04:52 +00004857
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004858- Issue #1700: Regular expression inline flags incorrectly handle
4859 certain unicode characters.
Guido van Rossumae04c332008-01-03 19:12:44 +00004860
Jeffrey Yasskin2f3c16b2008-01-03 02:21:52 +00004861- Issue #1689: PEP 3141, numeric abstract base classes.
4862
Martin v. Löwis84b9aab2008-01-01 21:09:07 +00004863- Tk issue #1851526: Return results from Python callbacks to Tcl as
4864 Tcl objects.
4865
Thomas Heller153038e2007-12-18 19:00:34 +00004866- Issue #1642: Fix segfault in ctypes when trying to delete attributes.
4867
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004868- Issue #1727780: Support loading pickles of random.Random objects
4869 created on 32-bit systems on 64-bit systems, and vice versa. As a
4870 consequence of the change, Random pickles created by Python 2.6
4871 cannot be loaded in Python 2.5.
Martin v. Löwis6b449f42007-12-03 19:20:02 +00004872
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004873- Issue #1455: The distutils package now supports VS 2005 and VS 2008
4874 for both the msvccompiler and cygwincompiler.
Christian Heimesc654fc22007-12-03 13:55:16 +00004875
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004876- Issue #1531: tarfile.py: Read fileobj from the current offset, do
4877 not seek to the start.
Lars Gustäbel77b2d632007-12-01 21:02:12 +00004878
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004879- Issue #1534: Added a dictionary sys.float_info with information
4880 about the internal floating point type to the sys module.
Christian Heimesdfdfaab2007-12-01 11:20:10 +00004881
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004882- Issue #1429818: patch for trace and doctest modules so they play
4883 nicely together.
Skip Montanaro58a6f442007-11-24 14:30:47 +00004884
Brett Cannon43e53f82007-11-21 00:47:36 +00004885- doctest made a bad assumption that a package's __loader__.get_data()
4886 method used universal newlines.
4887
Nick Coghlan90b858e2007-11-07 11:57:51 +00004888- Issue #1705170: contextlib.contextmanager was still swallowing
4889 StopIteration in some cases. This should no longer happen.
4890
Thomas Heller486b1b02007-11-02 19:10:24 +00004891- Issue #1292: On alpha, arm, ppc, and s390 linux systems the
4892 --with-system-ffi configure option defaults to "yes".
4893
Hye-Shik Changa838a802007-10-28 11:19:02 +00004894- IN module for FreeBSD 8 is added and preexisting FreeBSD 6 and 7
4895 files are updated.
4896
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004897- Issues #1181, #1287: unsetenv() is now called when the
4898 os.environ.pop() and os.environ.clear() methods are used.
Georg Brandl1a94ec22007-10-24 21:40:38 +00004899
Thomas Heller91ac4222007-10-19 18:11:41 +00004900- ctypes will now work correctly on 32-bit systems when Python is
4901 configured with --with-system-ffi.
4902
Thomas Heller7fee6dd2007-10-11 19:51:32 +00004903- Patch #1203: ctypes now does work on OS X when Python is built with
Georg Brandl1a94ec22007-10-24 21:40:38 +00004904 --disable-toolbox-glue.
Thomas Heller7fee6dd2007-10-11 19:51:32 +00004905
Raymond Hettingera7fc4b12007-10-05 02:47:07 +00004906- collections.deque() now supports a "maxlen" argument.
4907
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004908- itertools.count() is no longer bounded to LONG_MAX. Formerly, it
4909 raised an OverflowError. Now, automatically shifts from ints to
4910 longs.
Raymond Hettinger50e90e22007-10-04 00:20:27 +00004911
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004912- Added itertools.product() which forms the Cartesian product of the
4913 input iterables.
Raymond Hettingerc5705a82008-02-22 19:50:06 +00004914
Raymond Hettinger66f91ea2008-03-05 20:59:58 +00004915- Added itertools.combinations() and itertools.permutations().
Raymond Hettinger93e804d2008-02-26 23:40:50 +00004916
Georg Brandlaff85e22007-09-20 16:06:07 +00004917- Patch #1541463: optimize performance of cgi.FieldStorage operations.
4918
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004919- Decimal is fully updated to the latest Decimal Specification
4920 (v1.66).
Facundo Batistab67da232007-09-17 16:26:50 +00004921
Georg Brandl8fd3ecf2007-09-12 19:00:07 +00004922- Bug #1153: repr.repr() now doesn't require set and dictionary items
4923 to be orderable to properly represent them.
4924
Thomas Heller2825b2e2007-09-07 06:32:17 +00004925- A 'c_longdouble' type was added to the ctypes module.
4926
Martin v. Löwis7dcb83c2007-08-30 19:04:09 +00004927- Bug #1709599: Run test_1565150 only if the file system is NTFS.
4928
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004929- When encountering a password-protected robots.txt file the
4930 RobotFileParser no longer prompts interactively for a username and
4931 password (bug 813986).
Skip Montanaro3e275362007-08-29 01:33:45 +00004932
Lars Gustäbel0f4a14b2007-08-28 12:31:09 +00004933- TarFile.__init__() no longer fails if no name argument is passed and
4934 the fileobj argument has no usable name attribute (e.g. StringIO).
4935
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004936- The functools module now provides 'reduce', for forward
4937 compatibility with Python 3000.
Guido van Rossum95f1a1b2007-08-27 20:52:10 +00004938
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004939- Server-side SSL support and cert verification added, by Bill
4940 Janssen.
Guido van Rossum4f2c3dd2007-08-25 15:08:43 +00004941
Bill Janssenf413fb02007-08-30 18:08:06 +00004942- socket.ssl deprecated; use new ssl module instead.
4943
Georg Brandl8ec57542007-08-24 06:10:01 +00004944- uuid creation is now threadsafe.
4945
Hye-Shik Chang23901042007-08-20 06:49:18 +00004946- EUC-KR codec now handles the cheot-ga-keut composed make-up hangul
4947 syllables.
4948
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004949- GB18030 codec now can encode additional two-byte characters that are
4950 missing in GBK.
Hye-Shik Changf3e93a02007-08-04 04:10:18 +00004951
Walter Dörwald6e390802007-08-17 16:41:28 +00004952- Add new codecs for UTF-32, UTF-32-LE and UTF-32-BE.
4953
Martin v. Löwisf1e0b3f2007-07-28 07:03:05 +00004954- Bug #1704793: Return UTF-16 pair if unicodedata.lookup cannot
4955 represent the result in a single character.
4956
Martin v. Löwisf25e35b2007-07-27 18:28:22 +00004957- Bug #978833: Close https sockets by releasing the _ssl object.
4958
Martin v. Löwis254b8f92007-07-25 16:24:23 +00004959- Change location of the package index to pypi.python.org/pypi
4960
Thomas Hellerfa704c62007-07-13 17:12:23 +00004961- Bug #1701409: Fix a segfault in printing ctypes.c_char_p and
4962 ctypes.c_wchar_p when they point to an invalid location. As a
4963 sideeffect the representation of these instances has changed.
4964
Lars Gustäbel104490e2007-06-18 11:42:11 +00004965- tarfile.py: Added "exclude" keyword argument to TarFile.add().
4966
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004967- Bug #1734723: Fix repr.Repr() so it doesn't ignore the maxtuple
4968 attribute.
Neal Norwitzc161cb92007-06-11 07:29:43 +00004969
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004970- The urlopen function of urllib2 now has an optional timeout
4971 parameter (note that it actually works with HTTP, HTTPS, FTP and
4972 FTPS connections).
Facundo Batista10951d52007-06-06 17:15:23 +00004973
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004974- In ftplib, the FTP.ntransfercmd method, when in passive mode, now
4975 uses the socket.create_connection function, using the timeout
4976 specified at connection time.
Facundo Batista92493122007-06-06 15:13:37 +00004977
Hye-Shik Chang9b541402007-06-05 18:58:51 +00004978- Bug #1728403: Fix a bug that CJKCodecs StreamReader hangs when it
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004979 reads a file that ends with incomplete sequence and sizehint
4980 argument for .read() is specified.
Hye-Shik Chang9b541402007-06-05 18:58:51 +00004981
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004982- Bug #1730389: Change time.strptime() to use ``\s+`` instead of
4983 ``\s*`` when matching spaces in the specified format argument.
Brett Cannonf7188ce2007-06-03 23:13:41 +00004984
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004985- Bugs #1668596/#1720897: distutils now copies data files even if
4986 package_dir is empty.
Neal Norwitz4a700bb2007-06-01 07:29:12 +00004987
Brett Cannonc2aa09a2007-05-31 19:20:00 +00004988- sha now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
4989
Brett Cannon7eec2172007-05-30 22:24:28 +00004990- md5 now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
4991
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004992- Issue #1385: The hmac module now computes the correct hmac when
4993 using hashes with a block size other than 64 bytes (such as sha384
4994 and sha512).
Gregory P. Smithe1ac4f12007-11-06 00:19:03 +00004995
Brett Cannonc249bda2007-05-30 21:48:58 +00004996- mimify now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
4997
Brett Cannon90134c92007-05-30 20:46:26 +00004998- MimeWriter now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
4999
Lars Gustäbela0fcb932007-05-27 19:49:30 +00005000- tarfile.py: Improved unicode support. Unicode input names are now
5001 officially supported. Added "errors" argument to the TarFile class.
5002
Facundo Batista711a54e2007-05-24 17:50:54 +00005003- urllib.ftpwrapper class now accepts an optional timeout.
5004
Georg Brandlc90bc752007-05-24 16:49:29 +00005005- shlex.split() now has an optional "posix" parameter.
5006
Brett Cannon41bf2fa2007-05-20 23:57:38 +00005007- The posixfile module now raises a DeprecationWarning.
5008
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005009- Remove the gopherlib module. This also leads to the removal of
5010 gopher support in urllib/urllib2.
Brett Cannond75f0432007-05-16 22:42:29 +00005011
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005012- Fix bug in marshal where bad data would cause a segfault due to lack
5013 of an infinite recursion check.
Neal Norwitzb1a9b372007-05-16 20:05:11 +00005014
Neal Norwitze0e70a42007-05-16 05:06:33 +00005015- Removed plat-freebsd2 and plat-freebsd3 directories (and IN.py in
5016 the directories).
5017
Georg Brandla09a96a2007-05-15 20:19:34 +00005018- HTML-escape the plain traceback in cgitb's HTML output, to prevent
5019 the traceback inadvertently or maliciously closing the comment and
5020 injecting HTML into the error page.
5021
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005022- The popen2 module and os.popen* are deprecated. Use the subprocess
5023 module.
Neal Norwitz42dd86b2007-05-11 06:57:33 +00005024
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005025- Added an optional credentials argument to SMTPHandler, for use with
5026 SMTP servers which require authentication.
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00005027
5028- Patch #1695948: Added optional timeout parameter to SocketHandler.
5029
5030- Bug #1652788: Minor fix for currentframe.
5031
5032- Patch #1598415: Added WatchedFileHandler to better support external
5033 log file rotation using e.g. newsyslog or logrotate. This handler is
5034 only useful in Unix/Linux environments.
5035
Georg Brandlfb4b3b72007-04-24 15:27:13 +00005036- Bug #1706381: Specifying the SWIG option "-c++" in the setup.py file
5037 (as opposed to the command line) will now write file names ending in
5038 ".cpp" too.
5039
Facundo Batistad918a652007-04-24 13:54:38 +00005040- As specified in RFC 2616, an HTTP response like 2xx indicates that
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005041 the client's request was successfully received, understood, and
5042 accepted. Now in these cases no error is raised in urllib (issue
5043 #1177) and urllib2.
Facundo Batistad918a652007-04-24 13:54:38 +00005044
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005045- Bug #1290505: time.strptime's internal cache of locale information
5046 is now properly recreated when the locale is changed.
Brett Cannonc6906652007-04-01 18:47:27 +00005047
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005048- Patch #1685563: remove (don't add) duplicate paths in
5049 distutils.MSVCCompiler.
Neal Norwitz8f35f442007-04-01 18:24:22 +00005050
Facundo Batistab6a5c9d2007-03-29 18:22:35 +00005051- Added a timeout parameter to the constructor of other protocols
5052 (telnetlib, ftplib, smtplib and poplib). This is second part of the
5053 work started with create_connection() and timeout in httplib, and
5054 closes patch #723312.
5055
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00005056- Patch #1676823: Added create_connection() to socket.py, which may be
5057 called with a timeout, and use it from httplib (whose HTTPConnection
Facundo Batista70f996b2007-05-21 17:32:32 +00005058 and HTTPSConnection now accept an optional timeout).
Facundo Batista07c78be2007-03-23 18:54:07 +00005059
Martin v. Löwis0af33882007-03-23 13:27:15 +00005060- Bug #978833: Revert r50844, as it broke _socketobject.dup.
5061
Žiga Seilnacht7492e422007-03-21 20:07:56 +00005062- Bug #1675967: re patterns pickled with Python 2.4 and earlier can
5063 now be unpickled with Python 2.5 and newer.
5064
Collin Wintera8785cc2007-03-19 18:52:08 +00005065- Patch #1630118: add a SpooledTemporaryFile class to tempfile.py.
5066
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005067- Patch #1273829: os.walk() now has a "followlinks" parameter. If set
5068 to True (which is not the default), it visits symlinks pointing to
Georg Brandlcae9f3d2007-03-21 09:10:29 +00005069 directories.
5070
Georg Brandl8f06d022007-03-16 07:55:09 +00005071- Bug #1681228: the webbrowser module now correctly uses the default
5072 GNOME or KDE browser, depending on whether there is a session of one
5073 of those present. Also, it tries the Windows default browser before
5074 trying Mozilla variants.
5075
Collin Winter6f187742007-03-16 22:16:08 +00005076- Patch #1339796: add a relpath() function to os.path.
5077
Georg Brandlab1f4672007-03-15 07:41:30 +00005078- Patch #1681153: the wave module now closes a file object it opened if
5079 initialization failed.
5080
Georg Brandlf66b6032007-03-14 08:27:52 +00005081- Bug #767111: fix long-standing bug in urllib which caused an
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005082 AttributeError instead of an IOError when the server's response
5083 didn't contain a valid HTTP status line.
Georg Brandlf66b6032007-03-14 08:27:52 +00005084
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005085- Patch #957650: "%var%" environment variable references are now
5086 properly expanded in ntpath.expandvars(), also "~user" home
5087 directory references are recognized and handled on Windows.
Georg Brandl03b90d82007-03-13 22:07:36 +00005088
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005089- Patch #1429539: pdb now correctly initializes the __main__ module
5090 for the debugged script, which means that imports from __main__ work
Georg Brandlb6ae6aa2007-03-13 21:58:44 +00005091 correctly now.
5092
Georg Brandlbad6f192007-03-13 21:32:56 +00005093- The nonobvious commands.getstatus() function is now deprecated.
5094
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005095- Patch #1393667: pdb now has a "run" command which restarts the
5096 debugged Python program, optionally with different arguments.
Georg Brandl8e84c652007-03-13 21:08:15 +00005097
Thomas Heller5dc4fe02007-03-13 20:42:52 +00005098- Patch #1649190: Adding support for _Bool to ctypes as c_bool.
5099
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005100- Patch #1530482: add pydoc.render_doc() which returns the
5101 documentation for a thing instead of paging it to stdout, which
5102 pydoc.doc() does.
Georg Brandl8441f152007-03-13 20:02:57 +00005103
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005104- Patch #1533909: the timeit module now accepts callables in addition
5105 to strings for the code to time and the setup code. Also added two
5106 convenience functions for instantiating a Timer and calling its
5107 methods.
Georg Brandld9bef352007-03-13 19:32:21 +00005108
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005109- Patch #1537850: tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile now has a "delete"
5110 parameter which can be set to False to prevent the default
5111 delete-on-close behavior.
Georg Brandl35ef9c12007-03-13 18:31:49 +00005112
Georg Brandl9e6b4702007-03-13 18:15:41 +00005113- Patch #1581073: add a flag to textwrap that prevents the dropping of
5114 whitespace while wrapping.
5115
Georg Brandl92a6bae2007-03-13 17:43:32 +00005116- Patch #1603688: ConfigParser.SafeConfigParser now checks values that
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005117 are set for invalid interpolation sequences that would lead to
5118 errors on reading back those values.
Georg Brandl92a6bae2007-03-13 17:43:32 +00005119
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005120- Added support for the POSIX.1-2001 (pax) format to
5121 tarfile.py. Extended and cleaned up the test suite. Added a new
5122 testtar.tar.
Lars Gustäbelc64e4022007-03-13 10:47:19 +00005123
Martin v. Löwisbdd0f392007-03-13 10:24:00 +00005124- Patch #1449244: Support Unicode strings in
5125 email.message.Message.{set_charset,get_content_charset}.
5126
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005127- Patch #1542681: add entries for "with", "as" and "CONTEXTMANAGERS"
5128 to pydoc's help keywords.
Georg Brandlb6a87542007-03-13 10:06:48 +00005129
Georg Brandl4ffc8f52007-03-13 09:41:31 +00005130- Patch #1555098: use str.join() instead of repeated string
5131 concatenation in robotparser.
5132
Georg Brandl94fe3f52007-03-13 09:32:11 +00005133- Patch #1635454: the csv.DictWriter class now includes the offending
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005134 field names in its exception message if you try to write a record
5135 with a dictionary containing fields not in the CSV field names list.
Georg Brandl94fe3f52007-03-13 09:32:11 +00005136
Georg Brandlceede5c2007-03-13 08:14:27 +00005137- Patch #1668100: urllib2 now correctly raises URLError instead of
5138 OSError if accessing a local file via the file:// protocol fails.
5139
Martin v. Löwis2681beb2007-03-12 11:01:10 +00005140- Patch #1677862: Require a space or tab after import in .pth files.
5141
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005142- Patch #1192590: Fix pdb's "ignore" and "condition" commands so they
5143 trap the IndexError caused by passing in an invalid breakpoint
5144 number.
Collin Winter2faa9e12007-03-11 16:00:20 +00005145
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005146- Patch #1599845: Add an option to disable the implicit calls to
5147 server_bind() and server_activate() in the constructors for
5148 TCPServer, SimpleXMLRPCServer and DocXMLRPCServer.
Collin Winterae041062007-03-10 14:41:48 +00005149
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005150- Bug #1531963: Make SocketServer.TCPServer's server_address always be
5151 equal to calling getsockname() on the server's socket. Fixed by
Collin Winterfaaa2042007-03-10 03:35:34 +00005152 patch #1545011.
Collin Winter22c42ba2007-03-10 02:51:26 +00005153
Andrew M. Kuchlinge45a77a2008-01-19 16:26:13 +00005154- Patch #742598: Add .timeout attribute to SocketServer that calls
5155 .handle_timeout() when no requests are received.
5156
Thomas Heller2456a3c2007-03-09 20:39:22 +00005157- Bug #1651235: When a tuple was passed to a ctypes function call,
5158 Python would crash instead of raising an error.
5159
Thomas Hellerc2f77252007-03-09 19:21:28 +00005160- Bug #1646630: ctypes.string_at(buf, 0) and ctypes.wstring_at(buf, 0)
5161 returned string up to the first NUL character.
5162
Martin v. Löwis1190a382007-03-09 15:35:55 +00005163- Patch #957003: Implement smtplib.LMTP.
5164
Collin Winterfb728de2007-03-09 03:26:32 +00005165- Patch #1481079: add support for HTTP_REFERER to CGIHTTPServer.
5166
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005167- Patch #1675424: Added tests for uncovered code in the zipfile
5168 module. The KeyError raised by Zipfile.getinfo for nonexistent
5169 names now has a descriptive message.
Georg Brandl4b3ab6f2007-07-12 09:59:22 +00005170
Martin v. Löwis05c075d2007-03-07 11:04:33 +00005171- Bug #1115886: os.path.splitext('.cshrc') gives now ('.cshrc', '').
5172
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005173- unittest now verifies more of its assumptions. In particular,
5174 TestCase and TestSuite subclasses (not instances) are no longer
5175 accepted in TestSuite.addTest(). This should cause no
5176 incompatibility since it never made sense with ordinary subclasses
5177 -- the failure just occurred later, with a more cumbersome
5178 exception.
Georg Brandl9caadf82007-03-08 18:37:31 +00005179
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005180- Patch #787789: allow to pass custom TestRunner instances to
5181 unittest's main() function.
Georg Brandld0a96252007-03-07 09:21:06 +00005182
Georg Brandl15c5ce92007-03-07 09:09:40 +00005183- Patches #1550273, #1550272: fix a few bugs in unittest and add a
5184 comprehensive test suite for the module.
5185
Georg Brandl71ff6462007-03-07 08:31:51 +00005186- Patch #1001604: glob.glob() now returns unicode filenames if it was
5187 given a unicode argument and os.listdir() returns unicode filenames.
5188
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005189- Patch #1673619: setup.py identifies extension modules it doesn't
5190 know how to build and those it knows how to build but that fail to
5191 build.
Skip Montanarod1287322007-03-06 15:41:38 +00005192
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00005193- Patch #912410: Replace HTML entity references for attribute values
Martin v. Löwisab8a6bb2007-03-06 14:43:00 +00005194 in HTMLParser.
5195
Georg Brandlff432e62007-03-06 13:37:45 +00005196- Patch #1663234: you can now run doctest on test files and modules
5197 using "python -m doctest [-v] filename ...".
5198
Martin v. Löwis3eb76482007-03-06 10:41:24 +00005199- Patch #1121142: Implement ZipFile.open.
5200
Skip Montanarof694b1b2007-03-04 20:54:12 +00005201- Taught setup.py how to locate Berkeley DB on Macs using MacPorts.
5202
Raymond Hettinger00166c52007-02-19 04:08:43 +00005203- Added heapq.merge() for merging sorted input streams.
5204
Raymond Hettingercd3c1082007-10-23 21:23:07 +00005205- Added collections.namedtuple() for assigning field names to tuples.
Raymond Hettingerc37e5e02007-03-01 06:16:43 +00005206
Raymond Hettingerd36862c2007-02-21 05:20:38 +00005207- Added itertools.izip_longest().
5208
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005209- Have the encoding package's search function dynamically import using
5210 absolute import semantics.
Brett Cannon971a0122007-02-15 22:54:39 +00005211
Lars Gustäbel5b1a7852007-02-13 16:09:24 +00005212- Patch #1647484: Renamed GzipFile's filename attribute to name.
5213
Martin v. Löwis84f6de92007-02-13 10:10:39 +00005214- Patch #1517891: Mode 'a' for ZipFile now creates the file if it
5215 doesn't exist.
5216
Martin v. Löwisc6d626e2007-02-13 09:49:38 +00005217- Patch #698833: Support file decryption in zipfile.
5218
Martin v. Löwis07aa3ed2007-02-13 08:34:45 +00005219- Patch #685268: Consider a package's __path__ in imputil.
5220
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005221- Patch #1463026: Support default namespace in XMLGenerator.
Martin v. Löwis2bad58f2007-02-12 12:21:10 +00005222
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005223- Patch #1571379: Make trace's --ignore-dir facility work in the face
5224 of relative directory names.
Skip Montanaro691acf22007-02-11 18:24:37 +00005225
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005226- Bug #1600860: Search for shared python library in LIBDIR, not
5227 lib/python/config, on "linux" and "gnu" systems.
Martin v. Löwis0a203262007-02-09 12:36:48 +00005228
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005229- Patch #1652681: tarfile.py: create nonexistent files in append mode
5230 and allow appending to empty files.
Lars Gustäbel3f8aca12007-02-06 18:38:13 +00005231
Peter Astrand5f9c6ae2007-02-06 15:37:50 +00005232- Bug #1124861: Automatically create pipes if GetStdHandle fails in
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00005233 subprocess.
Peter Astrand5f9c6ae2007-02-06 15:37:50 +00005234
Georg Brandl4ba9e5b2007-01-27 17:59:42 +00005235- Patch #1634778: add missing encoding aliases for iso8859_15 and
5236 iso8859_16.
5237
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005238- Patch #1638243: the compiler package is now able to correctly
5239 compile a with statement; previously, executing code containing a
5240 with statement compiled by the compiler package crashed the
5241 interpreter.
Georg Brandlab496842007-01-27 17:43:02 +00005242
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00005243- Bug #1643943: Fix time.strptime's support for the %U directive.
5244
Lars Gustäbel0713a682007-02-19 09:54:47 +00005245- Patch #1507247: tarfile.py: use current umask for intermediate
5246 directories.
5247
Georg Brandldd7b0522007-01-21 10:35:10 +00005248- Patch #1627441: close sockets properly in urllib2.
5249
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005250- Bug #494589: make ntpath.expandvars behave according to its
5251 docstring.
Sjoerd Mullender33a0a062007-01-16 16:42:38 +00005252
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00005253- Changed platform module API python_version_tuple() to actually
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00005254 return a tuple (it used to return a list).
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00005255
5256- Added new platform module APIs python_branch(), python_revision(),
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00005257 python_implementation() and linux_distribution().
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00005258
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00005259- Added support for IronPython and Jython to the platform module.
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00005260
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005261- The sets module has been deprecated. Use the built-in set/frozenset
5262 types instead.
Brett Cannon093b6702007-01-13 00:29:49 +00005263
Thomas Heller6fd45492007-01-12 20:21:53 +00005264- Bug #1610795: make ctypes.util.find_library work on BSD systems.
5265
Thomas Heller8138c262007-01-11 21:18:56 +00005266- Fixes for 64-bit Windows: In ctypes.wintypes, correct the
5267 definitions of HANDLE, WPARAM, LPARAM data types. Make
5268 parameterless foreign function calls work.
5269
Thomas Hellerfb9d7872007-01-10 20:12:13 +00005270- The version number of the ctypes package changed to "1.1.0".
5271
Vinay Sajipab41c102007-01-09 14:51:36 +00005272- Bug #1627575: logging: Added _open() method to FileHandler which can
5273 be used to reopen files. The FileHandler instance now saves the
5274 encoding (which can be None) in an attribute called "encoding".
5275
Vinay Sajipc9137262007-01-08 18:52:36 +00005276- Bug #411881: logging.handlers: bare except clause removed from
5277 SMTPHandler.emit. Now, only ImportError is trapped.
5278
5279- Bug #411881: logging.handlers: bare except clause removed from
5280 SocketHandler.createSocket. Now, only socket.error is trapped.
5281
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005282- Bug #411881: logging: bare except clause removed from
5283 LogRecord.__init__. Now, only ValueError, TypeError and
5284 AttributeError are trapped.
Vinay Sajipc9137262007-01-08 18:52:36 +00005285
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005286- Patch #1504073: Fix tarfile.open() for mode "r" with a fileobj
5287 argument.
Lars Gustäbela7ba6fc2006-12-27 10:30:46 +00005288
Andrew M. Kuchling71662322006-12-27 03:31:24 +00005289- Patch #1182394 from Shane Holloway: speed up HMAC.hexdigest.
5290
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005291- Patch #1262036: Prevent TarFiles from being added to themselves
5292 under certain conditions.
Lars Gustäbela4b23812006-12-23 17:57:23 +00005293
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005294- Patch #1230446: tarfile.py: fix ExFileObject so that read() and
5295 tell() work correctly together with readline().
Lars Gustäbel6baa5022006-12-23 16:40:13 +00005296
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005297- Patch #1484695: The tarfile module now raises a HeaderError
5298 exception if a buffer given to frombuf() is invalid.
Georg Brandlebbeed72006-12-19 22:06:46 +00005299
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00005300- Bug #1503765: Fix a problem in logging.config with spaces in comma-
5301 separated lists read from logging config files.
5302
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005303- Patch #1604907: Fix problems in logging.handlers caused at logging
5304 shutdown when syslog handlers fail to initialize because of syslogd
5305 problems.
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00005306
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005307- Patch #1608267: fix a race condition in os.makedirs() if the
5308 directory to be created is already there.
Georg Brandlb1307432006-12-09 09:08:29 +00005309
Georg Brandl87fa5592006-12-06 22:21:18 +00005310- Patch #1610437: fix a tarfile bug with long filename headers.
5311
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005312- Patch #1371075: Make ConfigParser accept optional dict type for
5313 ordering, sorting, etc.
Martin v. Löwisa00bcac2006-12-03 12:01:53 +00005314
Thomas Helleref583a42006-11-28 20:21:54 +00005315- Bug #1563807: _ctypes built on AIX fails with ld ffi error.
5316
Thomas Heller25d208b2006-11-24 18:45:39 +00005317- Bug #1598620: A ctypes Structure cannot contain itself.
5318
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005319- Patch #1070046: Marshal new-style objects like InstanceType in
5320 xmlrpclib.
Martin v. Löwis07529352006-11-19 18:51:54 +00005321
Martin v. Löwiscffcc8b2006-11-19 10:41:41 +00005322- cStringIO.truncate(-1) now raises an IOError, like StringIO and
5323 regular files.
5324
Martin v. Löwisbba003e2006-11-18 18:42:11 +00005325- Patch #1472877: Fix Tix subwidget name resolution.
5326
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005327- Patch #1594554: Always close a tkSimpleDialog on ok(), even if an
5328 exception occurs.
Martin v. Löwisef5fd3e2006-11-18 18:05:35 +00005329
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005330- Patch #1538878: Don't make tkSimpleDialog dialogs transient if the
5331 parent window is withdrawn.
Martin v. Löwisc73a4a42006-11-18 18:00:23 +00005332
Georg Brandl54082112006-11-16 16:50:59 +00005333- Bug #1597824: return the registered function from atexit.register()
5334 to facilitate usage as a decorator.
5335
Martin v. Löwis45cd4ff2006-11-12 18:56:03 +00005336- Patch #1360200: Use unmangled_version RPM spec field to deal with
5337 file name mangling.
5338
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005339- Patch #1359217: Process 2xx response in an ftplib transfer that
5340 precedes an 1xx response.
Martin v. Löwis36cbc082006-11-12 18:48:13 +00005341
Martin v. Löwis065f0c82006-11-12 10:41:39 +00005342- Patch #1355023: support whence argument for GzipFile.seek.
5343
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00005344- Patch #1065257: Support passing open files as body in
Martin v. Löwis040a9272006-11-12 10:32:47 +00005345 HTTPConnection.request().
5346
Andrew M. Kuchlinga3e5d372006-11-09 13:27:07 +00005347- Bug #1569790: mailbox.py: Maildir.get_folder() and MH.get_folder()
5348 weren't passing the message factory on to newly created Maildir/MH
5349 objects.
5350
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005351- Patch #1514543: mailbox.py: In the Maildir class, report errors if
5352 there's a filename clash instead of possibly losing a message.
5353 (Patch by David Watson.)
Andrew M. Kuchling978d8282006-11-09 21:16:46 +00005354
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005355- Patch #1514544: Try to ensure that messages/indexes have been
5356 physically written to disk after calling .flush() or
5357 .close(). (Patch by David Watson.)
Andrew M. Kuchlingb5686da2006-11-09 13:51:14 +00005358
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00005359- Patch #1592250: Add elide argument to Tkinter.Text.search.
Martin v. Löwis038cad72006-11-09 11:27:32 +00005360
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00005361- Patch #838546: Make terminal become controlling in pty.fork().
Martin v. Löwisb2bba732006-11-09 11:06:03 +00005362
Martin v. Löwis5361e9a2006-11-08 07:35:55 +00005363- Patch #1351744: Add askyesnocancel helper for tkMessageBox.
5364
Martin v. Löwis5310e502006-11-04 18:14:06 +00005365- Patch #1060577: Extract list of RPM files from spec file in
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00005366 bdist_rpm.
Martin v. Löwis5310e502006-11-04 18:14:06 +00005367
Georg Brandl2c9838e2006-10-29 14:39:09 +00005368- Bug #1586613: fix zlib and bz2 codecs' incremental en/decoders.
5369
Georg Brandl3354f282006-10-29 09:16:12 +00005370- Patch #1583880: fix tarfile's problems with long names and posix/
5371 GNU modes.
5372
Georg Brandl5addf702006-10-29 08:53:06 +00005373- Bug #1586448: the compiler module now emits the same bytecode for
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00005374 list comprehensions as the built-in compiler, using the LIST_APPEND
Georg Brandl5addf702006-10-29 08:53:06 +00005375 opcode.
5376
Georg Brandl8f99f812006-10-29 08:39:22 +00005377- Fix codecs.EncodedFile which did not use file_encoding in 2.5.0, and
5378 fix all codecs file wrappers to work correctly with the "with"
5379 statement (bug #1586513).
5380
Thomas Heller112d1a62006-10-27 19:05:53 +00005381- Lib/modulefinder.py now handles absolute and relative imports
5382 correctly.
5383
Martin v. Löwisee82c0e2006-10-27 07:13:28 +00005384- Patch #1567274: Support SMTP over TLS.
5385
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005386- Patch #1560695: Add .note.GNU-stack to ctypes' sysv.S so that ctypes
5387 isn't considered as requiring executable stacks.
Martin v. Löwis1b2f6272006-10-22 10:55:15 +00005388
Thomas Hellerd2ea4a22006-10-17 19:30:48 +00005389- ctypes callback functions only support 'fundamental' data types as
5390 result type. Raise an error when something else is used. This is a
5391 partial fix for Bug #1574584.
5392
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005393- Fix turtle so that time.sleep is imported for the entire library.
5394 Allows the demo2 function to be executed on its own instead of only
5395 when the module is run as a script.
Brett Cannond80e0c82006-10-16 03:09:52 +00005396
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005397- Bug #813342: Start the IDLE subprocess with -Qnew if the parent is
5398 started with that option.
Georg Brandld0761532006-10-12 07:57:21 +00005399
Martin v. Löwisf43893a2006-10-09 20:44:25 +00005400- Bug #1565150: Fix subsecond processing for os.utime on Windows.
5401
Martin v. Löwis8b274262006-10-04 15:25:28 +00005402- Support for MSVC 8 was added to bdist_wininst.
5403
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005404- Bug #1446043: correctly raise a LookupError if an encoding name
5405 given to encodings.search_function() contains a dot.
Georg Brandla92979a2006-09-30 11:22:28 +00005406
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005407- Bug #1560617: in pyclbr, return full module name not only for
5408 classes, but also for functions.
Georg Brandl154324a2006-09-30 11:06:47 +00005409
Georg Brandl05b3c452006-09-30 10:58:01 +00005410- Bug #1457823: cgi.(Sv)FormContentDict's constructor now takes
5411 keep_blank_values and strict_parsing keyword arguments.
5412
Georg Brandl8d1e5bf2006-09-30 09:13:21 +00005413- Bug #1566602: correct failure of posixpath unittest when $HOME ends
5414 with a slash.
5415
Georg Brandl8c667452006-09-30 07:31:57 +00005416- Bug #1565661: in webbrowser, split() the command for the default
5417 GNOME browser in case it is a command with args.
5418
Georg Brandl5a85d5c2009-06-24 06:41:19 +00005419- Made the error message for time.strptime when the data and
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005420 format do match be more clear.
Brett Cannon11b35352006-09-26 23:38:24 +00005421
Georg Brandlc7986ce2006-09-24 12:50:24 +00005422- Fix a bug in traceback.format_exception_only() that led to an error
5423 being raised when print_exc() was called without an exception set.
5424 In version 2.4, this printed "None", restored that behavior.
5425
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005426- Make webbrowser.BackgroundBrowser usable in Windows (it wasn't
5427 because the close_fds arg to subprocess.Popen is not supported).
Georg Brandl2c94bf72006-09-24 10:36:01 +00005428
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005429- Reverted patch #1504333 to sgmllib because it introduced an infinite
5430 loop.
Neal Norwitzbcc119a2006-09-11 04:24:09 +00005431
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005432- Patch #1553314: Fix the inspect.py slowdown that was hurting IPython
5433 & SAGE by adding smarter caching in inspect.getmodule()
Nick Coghlanb3c18f82006-09-08 10:04:38 +00005434
Georg Brandl4e933132006-09-06 20:05:58 +00005435- Fix missing import of the types module in logging.config.
5436
Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +00005437- Patch #1550886: Fix decimal module context management implementation
Neal Norwitza22975f2006-09-05 02:24:03 +00005438 to match the localcontext() example from PEP 343.
Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +00005439
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005440- Bug #1545341: The 'classifier' keyword argument to the Distutils
5441 setup() function now accepts tuples as well as lists.
Andrew M. Kuchling99994792006-10-09 17:10:12 +00005442
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005443- Bug #1541863: uuid.uuid1 failed to generate unique identifiers on
5444 systems with low clock resolution.
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00005445
Gustavo Niemeyerc36bede2006-09-07 00:48:33 +00005446- Bug #1531862: Do not close standard file descriptors in subprocess.
5447
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005448- idle: Honor the "Cancel" action in the save dialog (Debian bug
5449 #299092).
Matthias Klosea398e2d2007-01-11 11:44:04 +00005450
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005451- Fix utf-8-sig incremental decoder, which didn't recognise a BOM when
5452 the first chunk fed to the decoder started with a BOM, but was
5453 longer than 3 bytes.
Georg Brandl27562782006-10-27 20:39:43 +00005454
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005455- The implementation of UnicodeError objects has been simplified
5456 (start and end attributes are now stored directly as Py_ssize_t
5457 members).
Walter Dörwald84a3efe2007-06-13 16:57:12 +00005458
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005459- Issue #829951: In the smtplib module, SMTP.starttls() now complies
5460 with RFC 3207 and forgets any knowledge obtained from the server not
5461 obtained from the TLS negotiation itself. Patch contributed by Bill
5462 Fenner.
Gregory P. Smith2b3ba582008-01-17 08:03:17 +00005463
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005464- Issue #1339: The smtplib.SMTP class has been refactored a bit such
Gregory P. Smithbde4ae42008-01-17 08:35:49 +00005465 that the SMTP.starttls() caller no longer needs to call ehlo()
5466 beforehand. SMTP.starttls() now raises an exception of the server
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005467 does not claim to support starttls. Adds the
5468 SMTP.ehlo_or_helo_if_needed() method. Patch contributed by Bill
5469 Fenner.
Gregory P. Smithbde4ae42008-01-17 08:35:49 +00005470
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005471- Patch #1089358: Add signal.siginterrupt, a wrapper around
5472 siginterrupt(3).
Georg Brandl29604a12008-01-26 14:03:47 +00005473
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00005474Extension Modules
5475-----------------
5476
Georg Brandl392c6fc2008-05-25 07:25:25 +00005477- Patch #1657: added select.epoll and select.kqueue.
Christian Heimes0e9ab5f2008-03-21 23:49:44 +00005478
Georg Brandlebcfd112008-02-23 23:04:35 +00005479- Patch #1506171: added operator.methodcaller().
5480
Georg Brandle2065c62008-02-23 23:02:23 +00005481- Patch #1826: operator.attrgetter() now supports dotted attribute paths.
5482
Georg Brandl392c6fc2008-05-25 07:25:25 +00005483- Patch #1957: syslogmodule: Release GIL when calling syslog(3).
Christian Heimesf0476e82008-02-23 17:42:31 +00005484
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005485- Bug #2112: mmap.error is now a subclass of EnvironmentError and not
5486 a direct EnvironmentError.
Facundo Batistae1396882008-02-17 18:59:29 +00005487
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005488- Bug #2111: mmap segfaults when trying to write a block opened with
5489 PROT_READ.
Christian Heimes7adfad82008-02-15 08:20:11 +00005490
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005491- Bug #2063: correct order of utime and stime in os.times() result on
5492 Windows.
Georg Brandl0a40ffb2008-02-13 07:20:22 +00005493
Martin v. Löwise0d30ef2008-02-12 13:47:26 +00005494- Patch #1736: Fix file name handling of _msi.FCICreate.
5495
Hye-Shik Chang01612e72008-02-08 17:10:20 +00005496- Updated ``big5hkscs`` codec to the HKSCS revision of 2004.
5497
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005498- Issue #1940: make it possible to use curses.filter() before
5499 curses.initscr() as the documentation says.
Georg Brandl29604a12008-01-26 14:03:47 +00005500
Christian Heimes7f39c9f2008-01-25 12:18:43 +00005501- Backport of _fileio module from Python 3.0.
5502
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005503- Patch #1087741: mmap.mmap is now a class, not a factory function. It
5504 is also subclassable now.
Georg Brandl5ca3fd82008-01-21 14:18:14 +00005505
Georg Brandl56112892008-01-20 13:59:46 +00005506- Patch #1648: added ``sys.getprofile()`` and ``sys.gettrace()``.
5507
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005508- Patch #1663329: added ``os.closerange()`` function to quickly close
5509 a range of file descriptors without considering errors.
Georg Brandl309501a2008-01-19 20:22:13 +00005510
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005511- Patch #976880: ``mmap`` objects now have an ``rfind`` method that
Andrew M. Kuchling5c60bfc2008-01-19 18:18:41 +00005512 works as expected. ``mmap.find`` also takes an optional ``end``
5513 parameter.
5514
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005515- _winreg's HKEY object has gained __enter__ and __exit__ methods to
5516 support the context manager protocol. The _winreg module also
5517 gained a new function ``ExpandEnvironmentStrings`` to expand
5518 REG_EXPAND_SZ keys.
Christian Heimesb39a7562008-01-08 15:46:10 +00005519
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005520- itertools.starmap() now accepts any iterable input. Previously, it
5521 required the function inputs to be tuples.
Raymond Hettinger47317092008-01-17 03:02:14 +00005522
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005523- itertools.chain() now has an alternate constructor,
5524 chain.from_iterable().
Raymond Hettingerb4cbc982008-02-28 22:46:41 +00005525
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005526- Issue #1646: Make socket support TIPC. The socket module now has
5527 support for TIPC under Linux, see http://tipc.sf.net/ for more
5528 information.
Christian Heimesfb2d25a2008-01-07 16:12:44 +00005529
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005530- Added interface for Windows' WSAIoctl to socket object and added an
5531 example for a simple network sniffer.
Christian Heimes04ae9162008-01-04 15:23:30 +00005532
Guido van Rossum076d9ee2008-01-03 23:54:04 +00005533- Bug #1301: Bad assert in _tkinter fixed.
5534
Christian Heimescdaa2cb2007-12-31 14:47:07 +00005535- Added bdist_wininst executable for VS 2008.
5536
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005537- Bug #1604: collections.deque.__init__(iterable) now clears any prior
5538 contents before adding elements from the iterable. This fix brings
5539 the behavior into line with that for list.__init__().
Raymond Hettingeradf9ffd2007-12-13 00:08:37 +00005540
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005541- Added wide char functions to msvcrt module: getwch, getwche, putwch
5542 and ungetwch. The functions accept or return unicode.
Christian Heimes7c7f6af2007-12-10 15:12:41 +00005543
Martin v. Löwis69233e82007-12-04 08:39:16 +00005544- os.access now returns True on Windows for any existing directory.
5545
Christian Heimes28104c52007-11-27 23:16:44 +00005546- Added warnpy3k function to the warnings module.
5547
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005548- Marshal.dumps() now expects exact type matches for int, long, float,
5549 complex, tuple, list, dict, set, and frozenset. Formerly, it would
5550 silently miscode subclasses of those types. Now, it raises a
5551 ValueError instead.
Raymond Hettinger12e94202007-11-07 01:13:09 +00005552
Martin v. Löwis58bd49f2007-09-04 13:13:14 +00005553- Patch #1388440: Add set_completion_display_matches_hook and
5554 get_completion_type to readline.
5555
Thomas Helleref4fff32007-07-13 17:46:54 +00005556- Bug #1649098: Avoid declaration of zero-sized array declaration in
5557 structure.
5558
Brett Cannondc48b742007-05-20 07:09:50 +00005559- Removed the rgbimg module; been deprecated since Python 2.5.
5560
Neal Norwitz59f58aa2007-05-19 03:48:47 +00005561- Bug #1721309: prevent bsddb module from freeing random memory.
5562
Gregory P. Smith82eafe62007-10-18 17:17:57 +00005563- Bug #1233: fix bsddb.dbshelve.DBShelf append method to work as
5564 intended for RECNO databases.
5565
Gregory P. Smithec10a4a2007-11-05 02:32:26 +00005566- pybsddb.sf.net Bug #477182: Load the database flags at database open
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005567 time so that opening a database previously created with the DB_DUP
5568 or DB_DUPSORT flag set will keep the proper behavior on subsequent
5569 opens. Specifically: dictionary assignment to a DB object will
5570 replace all values for a given key when the database allows
5571 duplicate values. DB users should use DB.put(k, v) when they want
5572 to store duplicates; not DB[k] = v.
Gregory P. Smithec10a4a2007-11-05 02:32:26 +00005573
Gregory P. Smithac11e022007-11-05 02:56:31 +00005574- Add the bsddb.db.DBEnv.lock_id_free method.
5575
Martin v. Löwis3bf573f2007-04-04 18:30:36 +00005576- Bug #1686475: Support stat'ing open files on Windows again.
5577
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005578- Patch #1185447: binascii.b2a_qp() now correctly quotes binary
5579 characters with ASCII value less than 32. Also, it correctly quotes
5580 dots only if they occur on a single line, as opposed to the previous
5581 behavior of quoting dots if they are the second character of any
5582 line.
Georg Brandl4aef7272007-03-13 22:49:43 +00005583
Georg Brandla47337f2007-03-13 12:34:25 +00005584- Bug #1622896: fix a rare corner case where the bz2 module raised an
5585 error in spite of a succesful compression.
5586
Georg Brandl40c62612007-03-06 18:59:11 +00005587- Patch #1654417: make operator.{get,set,del}slice use the full range
5588 of Py_ssize_t.
5589
Guido van Rossum2054ee92007-03-06 15:50:01 +00005590- Patch #1646728: datetime.fromtimestamp fails with negative
5591 fractional times. With unittest.
5592
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005593- Patch #1490190: posixmodule now includes os.chflags() and
5594 os.lchflags() functions on platforms where the underlying system
5595 calls are available.
Martin v. Löwis382abef2007-02-19 10:55:19 +00005596
Georg Brandl983d1002007-02-15 11:29:04 +00005597- Patch #1494140: Add documentation for the new struct.Struct object.
5598
Martin v. Löwis45423a72007-02-14 10:07:37 +00005599- Patch #1432399: Support the HCI protocol for bluetooth sockets
5600
Martin v. Löwisb1cc1d42007-02-13 12:14:19 +00005601- Patch #1657276: Make NETLINK_DNRTMSG conditional.
5602
Martin v. Löwis4c11a922007-02-08 09:13:36 +00005603- Bug #1653736: Complain about keyword arguments to time.isoformat.
5604
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005605- Bug #1486663: don't reject keyword arguments for subclasses of
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00005606 built-in types.
Georg Brandlb84c1372007-01-21 10:28:43 +00005607
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005608- Patch #1610575: The struct module now supports the 't' code, for C99
5609 _Bool.
Martin v. Löwisaef4c6b2007-01-21 09:33:07 +00005610
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005611- Patch #1635058: ensure that htonl and friends never accept or return
5612 negative numbers, per the underlying C implementation.
Guido van Rossumbb2cc692007-01-14 17:03:32 +00005613
Martin v. Löwis046c4d12006-12-03 11:23:45 +00005614- Patch #1544279: Improve thread-safety of the socket module by moving
5615 the sock_addr_t storage out of the socket object.
5616
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005617- Patch #1019808: fix bug that causes an incorrect error to be
5618 returned when a socket timeout is set and a connection attempt
5619 fails.
Andrew M. Kuchling060e6852008-01-19 20:47:59 +00005620
Neal Norwitz45e230a2006-11-19 21:26:53 +00005621- Speed up function calls into the math module.
5622
Georg Brandl25aabf42006-11-16 17:08:45 +00005623- Bug #1588217: don't parse "= " as a soft line break in binascii's
5624 a2b_qp() function, instead leave it in the string as quopri.decode()
5625 does.
5626
Neal Norwitz4fe44232006-11-21 05:26:22 +00005627- Bug #1599782: Fix segfault on bsddb.db.DB().type().
5628
Martin v. Löwis012bc722006-10-15 09:43:39 +00005629- Bug #1567666: Emulate GetFileAttributesExA for Win95.
5630
Martin v. Löwis18aaa562006-10-15 08:43:33 +00005631- Patch #1576166: Support os.utime for directories on Windows NT+.
5632
Georg Brandl412a9ea2006-10-09 19:03:06 +00005633- Patch #1572724: fix typo ('=' instead of '==') in _msi.c.
5634
Hye-Shik Changb7883462006-10-08 13:48:34 +00005635- Bug #1572832: fix a bug in ISO-2022 codecs which may cause segfault
5636 when encoding non-BMP unicode characters.
5637
Georg Brandl4ddfcd32006-09-30 11:17:34 +00005638- Bug #1556784: allow format strings longer than 127 characters in
5639 datetime's strftime function.
5640
Jack Diederichd10a0f72006-09-21 20:34:49 +00005641- Fix itertools.count(n) to work with negative numbers again.
5642
Martin v. Löwis43fd99c2006-09-16 17:36:37 +00005643- RLIMIT_SBSIZE was added to the resource module where available.
5644
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005645- Bug #1551427: fix a wrong NULL pointer check in the win32 version of
5646 os.urandom().
Georg Brandl74bb7832006-09-06 06:03:59 +00005647
Neal Norwitz6aefa912006-09-02 02:50:35 +00005648- Bug #1548092: fix curses.tparm seg fault on invalid input.
5649
Andrew M. Kuchling62182c82008-01-08 14:56:02 +00005650- Patch #1114: fix curses module compilation on 64-bit AIX, & possibly
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005651 other 64-bit LP64 platforms where attr_t is not the same size as a
5652 long. (Contributed by Luke Mewburn.)
Andrew M. Kuchling62182c82008-01-08 14:56:02 +00005653
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005654- Bug #1550714: fix SystemError from itertools.tee on negative value
5655 for n.
Neal Norwitz69e88972006-09-02 02:58:13 +00005656
Hye-Shik Chang199f1db2006-09-05 12:07:09 +00005657- Fixed a few bugs on cjkcodecs:
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005658 - gbk and gb18030 codec now handle U+30FB KATAKANA MIDDLE DOT
5659 correctly.
Hye-Shik Chang199f1db2006-09-05 12:07:09 +00005660 - iso2022_jp_2 codec now encodes into G0 for KS X 1001, GB2312
5661 codepoints to conform the standard.
Hye-Shik Chang2cad3e92006-09-05 12:14:57 +00005662 - iso2022_jp_3 and iso2022_jp_2004 codec can encode JIS X 0213:2
Hye-Shik Chang199f1db2006-09-05 12:07:09 +00005663 codepoints now.
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00005664
Andrew M. Kuchling43889c02006-09-27 16:37:30 +00005665- Bug #1552726: in readline.c, avoid repeatedly polling in interactive
5666 mode by only placing a timeout on the select() if an input hook has
5667 been defined. This prevents an interactive Python from waking up 10
5668 times per second. Patch by Richard Boulton.
5669
Gregory P. Smithf09c6262007-03-17 22:33:35 +00005670- fixed a bug with bsddb.DB.stat: the flags and txn keyword arguments
5671 were transposed.
5672
Jesus Cea4907d272008-08-31 14:00:51 +00005673- Added support for linking the bsddb module against BerkeleyDB 4.5.x,
5674 4.6.x and 4.7.x.
Gregory P. Smith8b96a352007-01-05 01:59:42 +00005675
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005676- Bug #1633621: if curses.resizeterm() or curses.resize_term() is
5677 called, update _curses.LINES, _curses.COLS, curses.LINES and
5678 curses.COLS.
Andrew M. Kuchling43889c02006-09-27 16:37:30 +00005679
Matthias Klosee19e0c22007-04-03 04:35:59 +00005680- Fix an off-by-one bug in locale.strxfrm().
5681
Matthias Klose38336402007-09-04 20:46:02 +00005682- Fix libffi configure for hppa*-*-linux* | parisc*-*-linux*.
5683
Matthias Klose9afb9852007-10-24 20:00:44 +00005684- Build using system ffi library on arm*-linux*.
5685
Christian Heimes3f065a42007-11-21 01:17:28 +00005686- Bug #1372: zlibmodule.c: int overflow in PyZlib_decompress
Matthias Klosee19e0c22007-04-03 04:35:59 +00005687
Gregory P. Smitheeed5b72008-02-03 07:20:53 +00005688- bsddb module: Fix memory leak when using database cursors on
5689 databases without a DBEnv.
5690
Gerhard Häring11ab8072008-03-02 13:12:27 +00005691- The sqlite3 module was updated to pysqlite 2.4.1.
5692
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00005693Tests
5694-----
5695
Brett Cannon56c4deb2008-03-03 00:38:58 +00005696- Refactor test_logging to use unittest.
Brett Cannonf9db8a32008-02-17 01:59:18 +00005697
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005698- Refactor test_profile and test_cprofile to use the same code to
5699 profile.
Georg Brandlb7090772008-02-05 19:58:17 +00005700
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005701- Make test_runpy reentrant by fixing _check_module to clear out any
5702 module being tested. Was causing an error by __import__ doing a
5703 reload on the second run and thus suppressing bytecode recreation.
Brett Cannondbed7a72007-08-23 14:53:17 +00005704
Brett Cannonea2835a2007-03-14 21:44:15 +00005705- Capture socket connection resets and timeouts in test_socket_ssl and
5706 test_urllib2net and raise test.test_support.ResourceDenied.
Brett Cannoned001842007-03-14 21:40:13 +00005707
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005708- Patch #1559413: Fix test_cmd_line if sys.executable contains a
5709 space.
Martin v. Löwiscd1210a2007-03-14 20:02:31 +00005710
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005711- Added test.test_support.TransientResource which is a context manager
5712 to surround calls to resources that are not guaranteed to work even
5713 if test.test_support.requires says that the resource should exist.
Brett Cannona30fcb42007-03-08 23:58:11 +00005714
Brett Cannone05e6b02007-01-29 04:41:44 +00005715- Added a test for slicing of an exception.
5716
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005717- Added test.test_support.EnvironmentVarGuard. It's a class that
5718 provides a context manager so that one can temporarily set or unset
5719 environment variables.
Brett Cannon92d54d52007-01-04 00:23:49 +00005720
Thomas Heller112d1a62006-10-27 19:05:53 +00005721- Added some tests for modulefinder.
5722
Brett Cannon373d90b2006-10-03 23:23:14 +00005723- Converted test_imp to use unittest.
5724
Neal Norwitz919d5cc2006-09-05 02:35:08 +00005725- Fix bsddb test_basics.test06_Transactions to check the version
5726 number properly.
5727
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005728- test.test_support.catch_warning is a new context manager that can be
5729 used to catch the warnings issued by the warning framework.
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00005730
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00005731Tools
5732-----
5733
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005734- Tools/scripts/reindent.py now creates the backup file using
5735 shutil.copy to preserve user/group and permissions. Added also a
5736 --nobackup option to not create the backup if the user is concerned
5737 regarding this. Check issue 1050828 for more details.
Facundo Batistaf88a0772008-02-17 16:21:13 +00005738
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005739- Tools/scripts/win_add2path.py was added. The simple script modifes
5740 the PATH environment var of the HKCU tree and adds the python bin
5741 and script directory.
Christian Heimesbd865db2008-01-18 11:58:50 +00005742
Skip Montanaro3e275362007-08-29 01:33:45 +00005743- Tools/18n/pygettext.py was added to the list of scripts installed by
5744 Tools/scripts/setup.py (tracker item 642309).
5745
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005746- Added IronPython and Jython support to pybench (part of which was
5747 patch #1563844).
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00005748
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005749- Made some minor changes to pybench output to allow the user to see
5750 which Python version is running pybench.
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00005751
5752- Added support for the new platform module feature
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005753 platform.python_implementation(); this will now be saved in the
5754 benchmark pickle.
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00005755
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00005756
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00005757Documentation
5758-------------
5759
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +00005760- RFE #1765140: Updated documentation on FileHandler and subclasses to
5761 include new optional delay argument.
5762
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005763- Bug #932563: Added section on getting contextual information into
5764 logging output, and added documentation for the new LoggerAdapter
5765 class.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00005766
5767- Bug #1295: Added information about caching of formatted exception
5768 information in the LogRecord by Formatter.format().
5769
Georg Brandl9467bc52007-07-12 09:37:49 +00005770- Bug #1637365: add subsection about "__name__ == __main__" to the
5771 Python tutorial.
5772
Georg Brandl3dc6e902007-04-25 06:24:59 +00005773- Patch #1698768: updated the "using Python on the Mac" intro.
5774
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005775- Bug #1569057: Document that calling file.next() when the file is
5776 open for writing is undefined.
Brett Cannon55a18642007-04-08 04:29:32 +00005777
Žiga Seilnachtc64ad482007-03-24 14:24:26 +00005778- Patch #1489771: the syntax rules in Python Reference Manual were
5779 updated to reflect the current Python syntax.
5780
Martin v. Löwis2f401d72007-03-23 10:35:49 +00005781- Patch #1686451: Fix return type for
5782 PySequence_{Count,Index,Fast_GET_SIZE}.
5783
Georg Brandl0692a262007-03-13 07:50:57 +00005784- Patch #1679379: add documentation for fnmatch.translate().
5785
Collin Winterb7b2b4e2007-03-09 18:09:10 +00005786- Bug #1629566: clarify the docs on the return values of parsedate()
5787 and parsedate_tz() in email.utils and rfc822.
5788
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00005789- Patch #1671450: add a section about subclassing built-in types to the
Georg Brandld28b9fc2007-03-06 10:02:47 +00005790 "extending and embedding" tutorial.
5791
Georg Brandlb26b1c62007-01-17 21:19:58 +00005792- Bug #1629125: fix wrong data type (int -> Py_ssize_t) in PyDict_Next
5793 docs.
5794
Georg Brandla4c8e322006-10-12 08:22:53 +00005795- Bug #1565919: document set types in the Language Reference.
5796
Georg Brandl44a7b3a2006-09-30 12:02:57 +00005797- Bug #1546052: clarify that PyString_FromString(AndSize) copies the
5798 string pointed to by its parameter.
5799
Georg Brandlfb257732006-09-30 09:06:45 +00005800- Bug #1566663: remove obsolete example from datetime docs.
5801
Georg Brandl648c1102006-08-18 07:27:59 +00005802- Bug #1541682: Fix example in the "Refcount details" API docs.
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005803 Additionally, remove a faulty example showing PySequence_SetItem
5804 applied to a newly created list object and add notes that this isn't
5805 a good idea.
Georg Brandl648c1102006-08-18 07:27:59 +00005806
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00005807
Georg Brandl27562782006-10-27 20:39:43 +00005808Tools/Demos
5809-----------
5810
5811- Patch #1552024: add decorator support to unparse.py demo script.
Marc-André Lemburg96148682006-09-06 20:40:22 +00005812
Brett Cannonc8939d22006-09-20 19:28:35 +00005813- Make auto-generated python.vim file list built-ins and exceptions in
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005814 alphatbetical order. Makes output more deterministic and easier to
5815 tell if the file is stale or not.
Brett Cannonc8939d22006-09-20 19:28:35 +00005816
Marc-André Lemburg96148682006-09-06 20:40:22 +00005817- Bug #1546372: Fixed small bugglet in pybench that caused a missing
5818 file not to get reported properly.
5819
5820
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00005821Build
5822-----
5823
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005824- Have the search path for building extensions follow the declared
5825 order in $CPPFLAGS and $LDFLAGS when adding directories from those
5826 environment variables.
Brett Cannon70c0c022008-02-03 09:59:21 +00005827
Christian Heimes951cc0f2008-01-31 23:08:23 +00005828- Bug #1983: Added a check to pyport to verify that sizeof(pid_t) is
5829 smaller or equal sizeof(long).
5830
Christian Heimescba36bb2008-01-30 22:54:18 +00005831- Bug #1234: Fixed semaphore errors on AIX 5.2
5832
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005833- Issue #1726: Remove Python/atof.c from PCBuild/pythoncore.vcproj.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00005834
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005835- Removed PCbuild8/ directory and added a new build directory for VS
5836 2005 based on the VS 2008 build directory to PC/VS8.0. The script
5837 PCbuild/vs8to9.py was added to sync changes from PCbuild to
5838 PC/VS8.0.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00005839
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005840- Moved PCbuild/ directory for VS 2003 to PC/VS7.1 and renamed
5841 PCBuild9/ directory to PCBuild/.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00005842
Martin v. Löwiscb78de62007-12-29 18:49:21 +00005843- Bug #1699: Define _BSD_SOURCE only on OpenBSD.
5844
Guido van Rossum7c862f82007-12-13 20:50:10 +00005845- Bug #1608: use -fwrapv when GCC supports it. This is important,
5846 newer GCC versions may optimize away overflow buffer overflow checks
5847 without this option!
5848
Martin v. Löwis63bf1492007-11-12 05:14:05 +00005849- Patch #1418: Make the AC_REPLACE_FUNCS object files actually work.
5850
Raymond Hettingerdc1d1ba2007-11-07 02:45:46 +00005851- Add a FAST_LOOPS build option that speeds-up looping by trading away
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005852 periodic threadstate and signal checking in tight loops. By
5853 default, this option is turned-off. It should only be enabled in
5854 debugged, performance critical applications.
Raymond Hettingerdc1d1ba2007-11-07 02:45:46 +00005855
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005856- Patch #786737: Allow building in a tree of symlinks pointing to a
5857 readonly source.
Martin v. Löwisd44a4e92007-09-05 11:47:34 +00005858
Martin v. Löwis8bc77e42007-09-01 06:36:03 +00005859- Bug #1737210: Change Manufacturer of Windows installer to PSF.
5860
Martin v. Löwis75c23bd2007-08-30 18:25:47 +00005861- Bug #1746880: Correctly install DLLs into system32 folder on Win64.
5862
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005863- Define _BSD_SOURCE, to get access to POSIX extensions on OpenBSD
5864 4.1+.
Martin v. Löwis76760b02007-07-31 19:57:56 +00005865
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005866- Stop supporting AtheOS and cause a build error in configure for the
5867 platform.
Brett Cannon19fab762007-06-02 03:02:29 +00005868
Georg Brandldb846032007-03-31 18:56:11 +00005869- Bug #1655392: don't add -L/usr/lib/pythonX.Y/config to the LDFLAGS
5870 returned by python-config if Python was built with --enable-shared
5871 because that prevented the shared library from being used.
5872
Georg Brandl18c47f62007-03-13 10:19:22 +00005873- Patch #1569798: fix a bug in distutils when building Python from a
5874 directory within sys.exec_prefix.
5875
Martin v. Löwiseb623572007-03-12 10:50:39 +00005876- Bug #1675511: Use -Kpic instead of -xcode=pic32 on Solaris/x86.
5877
Martin v. Löwis4d542ec2006-11-25 15:39:19 +00005878- Disable _XOPEN_SOURCE on NetBSD 1.x.
5879
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005880- configure now checks whether gcc supports the PyArg_ParseTuple
5881 format attribute.
Martin v. Löwisaac13162006-10-19 10:58:46 +00005882
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00005883- Bug #1578513: Cross compilation was broken by a change to configure.
Martin v. Löwisfefbc202006-10-17 18:59:23 +00005884 Repair so that it's back to how it was in 2.4.3.
5885
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005886- Patch #1576954: Update VC6 build directory; remove redundant files
5887 in VC7.
Martin v. Löwisc9e82f62006-10-15 07:54:40 +00005888
Martin v. Löwisebe26702006-10-02 14:55:51 +00005889- Bug #1568842: Fix test for uintptr_t.
5890
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005891- Patch #1540470: for OpenBSD 4.0.
Neal Norwitz4bc2c092006-09-05 02:57:01 +00005892
Matthias Klosed149d0c2006-12-03 17:16:41 +00005893- Fix build failure on kfreebsd and on the hurd.
5894
Matthias Kloseebde1492006-12-09 12:15:27 +00005895- Fix the build of the library reference in info format.
5896
Matthias Kloseeb8ff672007-08-02 21:33:13 +00005897- Allow Emacs 22 for building the documentation in info format.
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00005898
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005899- Makefile.pre.in(buildbottest): Run an optional script
5900 pybuildbot.identify to include some information about the build
5901 environment.
Matthias Klose642ac852007-09-04 18:17:36 +00005902
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00005903
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00005904C API
5905-----
5906
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005907- Unified naming convention for free lists and their limits. All free
5908 lists in Object/ are named ``free_list``, the counter ``numfree``
5909 and the upper limit is a macro ``PyName_MAXFREELIST`` inside an
5910 #ifndef block.
Christian Heimes5b970ad2008-02-06 13:33:44 +00005911
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005912- ``PySet_Add()`` can now modify a newly created frozenset. Similarly
5913 to ``PyTuple_SetItem``, it can be used to populate a brand new
5914 frozenset; but it does not steal a reference to the added item.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arccab3d982008-02-03 22:51:43 +00005915
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00005916- Added ``PySet_Check()`` and ``PyFrozenSet_Check()`` to the set API.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arccab3d982008-02-03 22:51:43 +00005917
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005918- Backport of PyUnicode_FromString(), _FromStringAndSize(), _Format
5919 and _FormatV from Python 3.0. Made PyLong_AsSsize_t and
5920 PyLong_FromSsize_t public functions.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00005921
5922- Patch #1720595: add T_BOOL to the range of structmember types.
5923
5924- Issue #1534: Added ``PyFloat_GetMax()``, ``PyFloat_GetMin()`` and
5925 ``PyFloat_GetInfo()`` to the float API.
5926
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005927- Issue #1521: On 64bit platforms, using PyArgs_ParseTuple with the t#
5928 of w# format code incorrectly truncated the length to an int, even
5929 when PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN is set. The str.decode method used to return
5930 incorrect results with huge strings.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00005931
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005932- Issue #1629: Renamed Py_Size, Py_Type and Py_Refcnt to Py_SIZE,
5933 Py_TYPE and Py_REFCNT.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00005934
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005935- PEP 3123: Provide forward compatibility with Python 3.0, while
5936 keeping backwards compatibility. Add Py_Refcnt, Py_Type, Py_Size,
5937 and PyVarObject_HEAD_INIT.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00005938
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005939- Py_ssize_t fields work in structmember when HAVE_LONG_LONG is not
5940 defined.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00005941
5942- Patch #1733960: Allow T_LONGLONG to accept ints.
5943
5944- T_PYSSIZET can now be used in PyMemberDef lists for Py_ssize_t members.
5945
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00005946- Added a new API function ``PyImport_ImportModuleNoBlock``.
5947
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00005948- Bug #1637022: Prefix AST symbols with _Py_.
5949
5950- Fix some leftovers from the conversion from int to Py_ssize_t
5951 (relevant to strings and sequences of more than 2**31 items).
5952
5953- Make _PyGILState_NoteThreadState() static, it was not used anywhere
5954 outside of pystate.c and should not be necessary.
5955
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005956- ``PyImport_Import`` and ``PyImport_ImportModule`` now always do
5957 absolute imports. In earlier versions they might have used relative
5958 imports under some conditions.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00005959
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005960- Added case insensitive comparison methods ``PyOS_stricmp(char*,
5961 char*)`` and ``PyOS_strnicmp(char*, char*, Py_ssize_t)``.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00005962
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005963- Bug #1542693: remove semi-colon at end of PyImport_ImportModuleEx
5964 macro so it can be used as an expression.
Neal Norwitz8a267062006-08-19 04:25:29 +00005965
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00005966
Martin v. Löwis2607e6c2006-11-21 18:20:25 +00005967Windows
5968-------
5969
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005970- Patch #1706: Drop support for Win9x, WinME and NT4. Python now
5971 requires Windows 2000 or greater. The _WINVER and NTDDI_VERSION
5972 macros are set to Win2k for x86/32bit builds and WinXP for AMD64
5973 builds.
Christian Heimes95d64472008-02-09 19:55:22 +00005974
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005975- Conditionalize definition of _CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE and
5976 _CRT_NONSTDC_NO_DEPRECATE.
Martin v. Löwis2607e6c2006-11-21 18:20:25 +00005977
Martin v. Löwisd476a402007-10-12 08:56:52 +00005978- Bug #1216: Restore support for Visual Studio 2002.
5979
Martin v. Löwis2607e6c2006-11-21 18:20:25 +00005980
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00005981Mac
5982---
5983
Brett Cannonf0cb1d72007-05-31 20:01:11 +00005984- cfmfile now raises a DeprecationWarning.
5985
Brett Cannon791d56f2007-05-31 19:40:42 +00005986- buildtools now raises a DeprecationWarning.
5987
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005988- Removed the macfs module. It had been deprecated since Python 2.5.
5989 This lead to the deprecation of macostools.touched() as it relied
5990 solely on macfs and was a no-op under OS X.
Brett Cannon5e263512007-05-20 23:17:38 +00005991
Skip Montanaroe5d7f7f2002-09-20 14:16:59 +00005992----
5993
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